Main Track
Lightning lightning talks 2
February 1, 2026
4:00 PM – 4:50 PM Add to calendar
4:00 PM – 4:50 PM Add to calendar
Janson
<p>The regular FOSDEM lightning talk track isn't chaotic enough, so this year we're doubling down on Lightning Lightning Talks (now with added lightning!).</p>
<p>Thought of a last minute topic you want to share? Got your interesting talk rejected? Has something exciting happened in the last few weeks you want to talk about?</p>
<p><strong>Submissions are closed</strong></p>
<p>This is the second of two sessions for participants to speak about subjects which are interesting, amusing, or just something the FOSDEM audience would appreciate.</p>
<p>Selected speakers line up and present in one continuous automated stream, with an SLO of 99% talk uptime.</p>
<p>Presenters who attempt to speak for longer than 256 seconds risk being swept off the stage by our Lightning Lightning Talk Cleanup Crew.</p>
<p>Featuring:</p>
<ol>
<li><strong>Salve J. Nilsen & Piotr P. Karwasz</strong> (CONTRIBUTING.yaml)</li>
<li><strong>Aki</strong> (Falsehoods FOSDEM attendees believe about the CRA)</li>
<li><strong>Richard "RichiH" Hartmann</strong> (Gitify your life - 14 years later)</li>
<li><strong>Twinkle</strong> (Dumb Guide to Smart TVs - watch your TV before it watches you)</li>
<li><strong>Dieter Plaetinck</strong> (body.build personal fitness)</li>
<li><strong>Mayuresh Bagayatkar</strong> (PostgreSQL Compatibility Index)</li>
<li><strong>Jelle van der Waa</strong> (Sharing your pacman cache on the LAN)</li>
<li><strong>Benjamin Henrion</strong> (EU Software Patents v3.0 via the Unified Patent Court)</li>
<li><strong>dextero</strong> (GUI vs TUI - why not both?)</li>
<li><strong>Martin Randa</strong> (My Grandma Needed a New Computer?)</li>
<li><strong>Runxi Yu</strong> (Symig: a more Unixy way of dealing with mail, in Git)</li>
<li><strong>Ruud van Asseldonk</strong> (The RCL configuration language and json query tool)</li>
</ol>
Additional information
| Live Stream | https://live.fosdem.org/watch/janson |
|---|---|
| Type | maintrack |
| Language | English |
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