Hacker News with Generative AI: Conferences

The Perl Toolchain Summit 2025 Needs You (perl.com)
This year in particular, the organizers have had difficulty reaching our fundraising targets for the Perl Toolchain Summit.
Why Choose to Use the BSDs in 2025 (dragas.net)
This is the text underlying my presentation at OSDay 2025, held on 21 March 2025 in Florence, Italy. There was limited time, so I couldn't go into much detail and had to keep things more general and structured than usual. You can watch the video of my talk on YouTube.
Why Choose to Use the BSDs in 2025 (dragas.net)
This is the text underlying my presentation at OSDay 2025, held on 21 March 2025 in Florence, Italy. There was limited time, so I couldn't go into much detail and had to keep things more general and structured than usual. Still, you can watch the video of my talk on YouTube.
Ask HN: Are you afraid to travel to US to tech conferences? (ycombinator.com)
I am not a U.S. citizen, and I have to say that even before this year, I was beginning to have some second thoughts about traveling to the U.S.
Rules for Crafting Products That Stand Out (figma.com)
Linear’s CEO shares his approach to quality at a time when “move fast and break things” no longer cuts it—catch him at Config 2025 alongside a lineup of makers redefining tech’s future.
Canadian Devs Are Backing Out of Attending GDC (wired.com)
Amid deteriorating relations between the US and Canada, many Canadian video game developers are opting not to travel to San Francisco for next week’s Game Developers Conference.
SUSE Displays Enhanced Enterprise Linux at Susecon (thenewstack.io)
SUSE Unveils Cloud Native Innovations at Susecon 2025 (thenewstack.io)
The cultural divide between mathematics and AI (sugaku.net)
This January, I attended the Joint Mathematics Meeting (JMM), themed "We Decide Our Future: Mathematics in the Age of AI." It was a veritable buffet of talks and connections, and I found myself rushing across the convention hall to go between sessions in fields I'm close to (eg: modular forms), new areas I was delighted to dig into (eg: knowledge graphs), and the many talks on AI for math.
Sovereign Lumber (plainopen.com)
Two talks that stood out for me at 2024 Open Source Experience conference in December were by Emily Omier, with the software analogy to lumber and chairs, and by Jutta Horstmann on software sovereignty in Europe being more urgent than ever. These connected strongly in my mind, and hit at the essence of what’s missing in the open source ecosystem today.
Other Kinds of Talks (scattered-thoughts.net)
Almost all of the talks I see at any conference fall into one of two archetypes:
HYTRADBOI 2025 Conference Postmortem (scattered-thoughts.net)
I ran a conference. It went better than last time.
What I Saw at the Evolution of Plan 9 (Geoff Collyer) [pdf] (adi.onl)
Oh no, don't look – it's Developer Marketing (2024) (permit.substack.com)
How we went to WeAreDevelopers Berlin, and scanned zero badges.
Most-Watched Software Engineering Talks of 2024 (techtalksweekly.io)
Following tradition, I put together a complete list of the top 100 most watched Software Engineering talks presented in 2024 across almost every Software Engineering conference around the world.
14 Years of Systemd (theregister.com)
FOSDEM 2025 FOSDEM returned to Brussels for the first weekend in February – not without some controversial people.
FOSDEM – The Good Parts and the Not-So-Good Parts (shkspr.mobi)
I'm just back from my first ever FOSDEM - a megaconference dedicated to Free and Open Source technology and culture. It was epic. I'm still ruminating on the experience, but here are my first impressions of what did and didn't work.
FOSDEM 2025 has exceeded my expectations (valatka.dev)
This weekend, I participated in FOSDEM 2025, which impressed me more than I had imagined. Boy, was it big—over 1,000 talks! Here are a few notable takeaways:
Join Mozilla at FOSDEM'25 (mozilla.org)
Mozilla will be at FOSDEM'25 in Brussels this year. If you're around, come and join us! We will have presence in a few areas:
FOSDEM 2025: Streaming Schedule (fosdem.org)
Links to the live streaming in each room will appear on this page during the conference.
Linux Mobile at FOSDEM 2025 (linmob.net)
With FOSDEM, a free event for software developers to meet, share ideas and collaborate in Brussels, Belgium, approaching (1st & 2nd February 2025), let's have a little preview on the talks and other things that are particularly exciting for #LinuxMobile.
Seven things I know after 25 years of development (zverok.space)
This is a loose transcript of a keynote I gave at the EuRuKo conference in September 2024. The video of the talk is here. Unfortunately, I only could talk in recording, but it was a great honor nevertheless. The topic is pretty important to me, so I decided to share a slightly edited transcript for those who prefer text form.
FOSDEM Hospitality Tips from a Local (ycombinator.com)
The Future of Microprocessors • Sophie Wilson • Goto 2024 [video] (youtube.com)
Halliday AR(Not?)/AI Glasses (kguttag.com)
I’m in the process of organizing all the information I collected at CES and want to combine it with things I see at SPIE’s AR/VR/MR next week. Many companies showed AR glasses with AI capability at CES, and many more are in the works. Next Wednesday at 4:05PM, I am going to be on a Panel at SPIE’s AR/VR/MR to discuss the subject.
The past, present, and future of UI at GitHub (hawksley.org)
Slides from my 2025 talk, as presented at Boulder Ruby. I also presented a variant of this talk at Vancouver Ruby.
Statement on planned protests during the upcoming FOSDEM 2025 (fosdem.org)
We were made aware of planned protests during the upcoming FOSDEM 2025 in response to a scheduled talk which is causing controversy. The talk in question is claimed to be on the schedule for sponsorship reasons; additionally, some of the speakers scheduled to speak during this talk are controversial to some of our attendees.
Statement on planned protests during the upcoming FOSDEM 2025 (fosdem.org)
We were made aware of planned protests during the upcoming FOSDEM 2025 in response to a scheduled talk which is causing controversy.
No Billionares at FOSDEM (drewdevault.com)
Jack Dorsey, former CEO of Twitter, ousted board member of BlueSky, and grifter extraordinaire to the tune of a $5.6B net worth, is giving a keynote at FOSDEM.
Chatham House Rule is suddenly everywhere in the Bay Area (sfstandard.com)
At the J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference, starting Monday in San Francisco, 8,000 insurance providers, pharma investors, and execs from Open AI, Amazon, and Meta will announce mergers, discuss advances in AI diagnostics and gene therapies, and puzzle over FDA scrutiny and compliance issues. But many of the sessions and “what’s next” debates will follow the Chatham House Rule — a gag order that prevents attendees from attributing information to speakers or sharing names or affiliations of other guests.