Brussels / 31 January & 1 February 2026

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Lightning lightning talks 2


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!).

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?

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.

Selected speakers line up and present in one continuous automated stream, with an SLO of 99% talk uptime.

Presenters who attempt to speak for longer than 256 seconds risk being swept off the stage by our Lightning Lightning Talk Cleanup Crew.

Featuring:

  1. Salve J. Nilsen & Piotr P. Karwasz (CONTRIBUTING.yaml)
  2. Aki (Falsehoods FOSDEM attendees believe about the CRA)
  3. Richard "RichiH" Hartmann (Gitify your life - 14 years later)
  4. Twinkle (Dumb Guide to Smart TVs - watch your TV before it watches you)
  5. Dieter Plaetinck (body.build personal fitness)
  6. Mayuresh Bagayatkar (PostgreSQL Compatibility Index)
  7. Jelle van der Waa (Sharing your pacman cache on the LAN)
  8. Benjamin Henrion (EU Software Patents v3.0 via the Unified Patent Court)
  9. dextero (GUI vs TUI - why not both?)
  10. Martin Randa (My Grandma Needed a New Computer?)
  11. Runxi Yu (Symig: a more Unixy way of dealing with mail, in Git)
  12. Ruud van Asseldonk (The RCL configuration language and json query tool)

Speakers

Photo of Richard Richard "RichiH" Hartmann
Photo of Jelle van der Waa Jelle van der Waa
Photo of Salve J. Nilsen Salve J. Nilsen
Photo of Benjamin Henrion Benjamin Henrion
Photo of Piotr P. Karwasz Piotr P. Karwasz
Runxi Yu
Photo of Mayuresh Bagayatkar Mayuresh Bagayatkar
Photo of Ruud van Asseldonk Ruud van Asseldonk
Photo of Martin Randa Martin Randa
Twinkle
dextero
Dieter Plaetinck
Aki

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