FOSDEM 2017

On Saturday 4th February 2017 and Sunday 5th February 2017, the Free and Open Source Software Developers' European Meeting FOSDEM 2017 will take place in Brussels, Belgium.

Naturally a Gentoo crowd will be there; this page is intended to collect public information about our presence and help organizing stuff.

Users and Developers available at FOSDEM
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Gentoo stand
Gentoo has a stand at FOSDEM 2017, following up last year's successful stand. We are located at K (level 1, group B) 2 between ReactOS/Haiku and CoreOS.

As last year we expect to announce a new livecd during FOSDEM 2017

The following is an hour-by-hour schedule of who is running the stand. The plan is to have always two devs present, with overlapping two-hour slots (i.e., 10h-12h, 12h-14h, ... and 9h-11h, 11h-13h, 13h-15h, ...) (At start and end there are shorter slots, but these obviously also involve build-up and teardown.)

Gentoo dinner
We'll meet (as every year) for the traditional Gentoo dinner on saturday evening. This year, we don't have the chance to go again to the nice Thai restaurant near the FOSDEM. We will go the Centre of Brussels and improvisate, or find something else before saturday (sorry); we will meet and leave together after the Distributions devroom closes at 18:55, in front of the lecture hall K.4.601 of that devroom.

In case of organization questions, contact.

Gentoo OpenPGP Web of Trust
Gentoo will not host a key signing party this year, but participants are encouraged to exchange and verify OpenPGP key data to build the Gentoo Web of Trust. Please bring printed information of the fingerprint and various UIDs you want certified along with a valid governmental ID matching the UID. You can use a service like to generate such a key slip.

A graph of the curent WoT and keyblock statistics