Anyway, welcome to Faustem, 2026.
For who here is the first Faustem?
Okay?
So, for the recording purposes, probably 40% I would say ish.
For those who is not the first time with there are some slight changes to these slides,
because normally we keep them very factual.
Welcome to the center.
And the center is meant in several different ways.
A, the center of open source.
This is the biggest open source conference,
like pure open source conference, which we have on earth.
It is the thing in open source.
But also, welcome to the center of Belgium.
And to the center of the European Union.
And also, the center of the free world as of a few weeks ago.
Some people claim open source is not political.
They have always been wrong.
The idea of democratizing the means of production,
and giving it to everyone for free or at a charge,
but for their own use is radically different from anything you see in it.
Open source has always been political.
There is a lot of talk about sovereignty at the moment,
and it is insanely important.
It is really important.
For everyone in this room to take this back with you,
and there is a few reasons.
If we lose our democracies, all of this is for shit.
Thank you very much.
It will be okay.
Maybe.
I'm drumming, I paid attention to history class.
It is fucking scary.
But there is a lot of good people, and actually there is more good people than bad people.
We are at a decision point for western style democracies.
You can choose very, very wisely what you do in the future.
Because you are at the center, both of the free world at the moment, and of open source.
There is a lot of choice you can make good or bad, and they will influence the future.
The time to be nice about a few things, it is finally over.
Thank you very much.
So, now that I am on a few more lists, let's go back to normal slides.
Thank you.
So, for people who want to volunteer, but maybe not go into the front and center of a few people with lists.
You can still volunteer.
At least as of yesterday, we actually had a pretty fast buildup.
It might have been the fastest buildup ever.
As such, there is no huge need, but we would appreciate if you have time to sign up.
If we need anything, we can send you email.
But this year, it is probably going to be okay because we have even more people helping us.
Also, on Sunday, if you stay long enough, we will have a really big group dinner, which is always super nice.
Because you meet all the really good people.
I am not implying the rest is not good, but like you meet a lot of nice people who really like to help.
And it is always a really good time to help and clean up in particular on Sunday night.
If you need help, yellow shirts, yellow jackets are for us.
They are supposed to know pretty much everything.
We don't really, but most things we do.
Blue shirts are the Deafroom managers.
They are basically running the conference in a conference with in the Deafrooms.
They are there for all purposes for the specific Deafroom.
Green shirts are video teams.
If there is anything with audio or the video boxes or anything, those are the people.
And orange shirts are the all purpose volunteers, which basically get random assignments.
Like for example, door duty and whatever.
Yeah, so this is roughly it.
If anything really bad happens, find a person with.
That's my mom calling.
Probably got a visit from the police.
Joking.
Joking yet causes a serious and it's really serious.
And we all of us need to do something about the fucking things which happen.
Anyway, yeah, orange shirts are the all purpose volunteers.
This is you will be campus.
You can go to NEF, foster org.
There's also going to be a car code on the thing next slide.
And of course, it can be a little bit opaque.
How to get around.
We have info desks.
Both in K and in H building.
There's also link to the main info desk.
If you need map information.
If you have anything.
View it and random come to info desk.
We can help you.
Also if you want to make donations.
You have any questions at all.
Just come to info desk.
Or you can reach on matrix.
Or you can send us email.
And this is step.
You can send us email.
If you lose anything.
We have the lost info desk in K.
Or you just email.
Network.
I was actually informed yesterday.
For ten years.
I've been telling people where the second conference ever to run a default IPv6 only network.
We were actually the first.
For ten years.
I was wrong about this.
For all the software engineers in here.
There are very few bugs.
Like ten years ago.
A lot of those stuff broke on a IPv6 only network.
These days it is largely okay.
But still if you find bugs.
Fix them.
We also have to do a stat network.
In case you need it.
Some people have heard us.
But at least try the default network.
It tends to just work.
Also they are open networks.
This is all you will be.
Infrastructure.
We don't have a lot of influence on how things are done.
So please encrypt your traffic.
Social interaction.
A lot of the rooms are over full anyway.
As you can probably guess.
So I highly encourage you to also talk to people.
It is.
Yeah, I know introverts talking to people kind of weird.
But now it is actually worth it.
Like this is one of the best things about forced them.
Because for any non-trivial project you have one person on sight at least.
It is the thing.
Talk to people.
You can always watch recordings and most of the rooms are full anyway.
Talk to people.
We also allow you to talk without face-to-face interaction over matrix.
The ones who care probably already talk a picture of the QR code.
Yeah.
We are.
For weird reasons we have massively reduced the amount of exposure.
We have on on various commercial social media sites.
The main thing which we use is a our own website.
And also message on and you can find us on Fossidon on Fossidon on Fossidon.
Yeah.
Good reminder.
I need to take a photo of this.
And then we will.
Just as a way to get you to more people to.
To join.
I'm only going to share this photo on.
You'll find this photo in a bit.
I'm just going to babble a little.
Okay.
Just checking.
Let's check in.
Okay.
Schedule.
Reason why you're here.
This is schedule.
It is massive.
Do take a read.
But again, if you cannot get in any of the rooms.
Don't over index on it.
It is fine.
Everything is recorded.
Anyway.
Talking to people is your priority.
Sorry.
Can you.
Sorry.
Well.
Okay.
These are some stats about the schedule.
I removed the more detailed stuff.
Of course, I need a time for the intro and be.
We will go through this in the in the closing.
Speaking of buffs.
We are still open for signups.
For those who don't know, both stands for birds of a feather.
You have a topic you're interested in.
And we just give you a space and the time and other people can come and you can talk about stuff.
Highly recommended.
It is basically a hallway track where you set a topic.
You will have so many interesting discussions in the buffs.
Highly encourage you to intent them.
And also, again, we still have some space left.
So I encourage you to.
If you have a topic.
Just submitted.
And please don't use a trailing slash.
There's currently a bug on the website.
Um, etiquette.
It's about being nice to each other.
So if anything, you have to wait or anything form an orderly queue.
Don't skip the queue.
Just wait.
If you get instructions by staff or by volunteers.
Um, please follow them because it is, uh, there's a reason.
If any of us are in a hurry, please make way.
This also includes the food cues.
We will skip food cues a few times during lunch to just do food runs for
Infotace for the knock for everything.
Um, so in this case, please just let us pass.
Um, yeah.
Stats.
We have a public dashboard where we share a scarially large amount of internal data about
operations.
And we keep adding more overtime.
So, um, yeah, if you want.
Have a look.
Also, for.
Sorry, volunteer over there.
Can you just tell him to not talk because it's super loud.
Yeah.
If they can be quiet because it's super loud.
Thank you.
Uh, we have a treasure hunt.
Uh, I have been informed.
It is not impossible to solve.
Contrary to the one last year.
I actually did consider not updating the QR code and just pointing you to the old one.
So I increased the treasure hunt level.
But no, that's actually the current one.
Um, no, it should be solveable.
Uh, but also please give feedback on the treasure hunt if you have any.
Um, again, to etiquette.
If this sign is outside a room.
You don't do the Garfield of hum, I wonder who does this for.
This is for you.
Um, we don't put those signs out lightly.
Uh, we would like ideally to have a hundred rooms with
unlimited seats, but we don't.
We record things.
So just watch the streaming on your cell phone or whatever or watch the recording.
But if the room is full, the room is full.
If you really want to attend this one talk in person.
I encourage you to basically go to talks earlier.
And already get a seat.
That's the only way to really be certain that you will have a seat.
Feedback.
Please send email to feedbackatfastem.org.
Health and safety.
Um, yes.
Uh, you're here less coughing this year than last year, but still, um, a large fraction of the people in this room will go home sick.
That is just how CCC, how foster them, how you can, how any major conference works.
Um, yeah.
Personally speaking, I've been ill roughly 50% of the time after foster.
Then I started doing this and it just works.
It's optional.
It's recommended.
We have three masks at the info desk.
And if you really feel sick, uh, please get tested and or just stay at the hotel and watch the streaming.
First eight.
We have first eight in K on the second level.
Uh, I'm going to leave this one up a little bit longer because we've had an offside accident just today.
But this reminded me of of how important this is.
Anything happens.
Uh, yeah.
Also, we have, um, the building responsible people.
Again, people with yellow, um, they have first eight kids in all, in all buildings.
So if you cut yourself or whatever you can also just talk to someone in yellow.
Call of conduct.
We take this very seriously as you can probably tell by the opening statement.
Um, any questions go there.
Email us.
Uh, call us.
This number is actually 24 seven.
So please don't abuse it.
And ask any staff.
Ideally ask staff.
But it push comes to shove ask anyone in one of the color charts.
Um, and again, reminder, we do take this seriously.
Uh, then around the things to all the volunteers.
To all the deferral managers.
To all speakers.
And to all staff.
Also, thank you to all our sponsors.
When not if hopefully you join method, then you're going to see this questions about this sponsor.
So if you want us to have fewer sponsors, you can also donate.
Um, that is actually a good way to.
To reduce our dependency on sponsorship.
Uh, we also sell t-shirts and and and and sweaters and such.
Um, yeah, you can go to the info desk at k or h or you can just follow the QR code and such.
Um, this is a really good way to, um, yeah, to reduce our dependency.
Um, just random thing.
If anyone from the European Union is here and they actually have sponsorship money for.
Obviously positive, uh, open source things.
Um, come find me.
Maybe as a follow up to that one.
Anyone who is on an European Union level.
First them is actually interested in becoming more political for obvious reasons.
I'm going to be more than welcome to approach me and talk about this because we will be trying to.
To use our our visibility for some for some good stuff.
And finally, thank you.
Thank all of you for attending.
And with this, have fun and be excellent to each other.
Thank you.