FOSDEM 2025: Brussels, Belgium
“FOSDEM is a free event for software developers to meet, share ideas and collaborate. Every year, thousands of developers of free and open source software from all over the world gather at the event in Brussels.”
Links
GIMP team minutes
People present
GIMP team members present:
- Aryeom
- Jehan
- Michael Schumacher / schumaml
- Simon / nomis
Three musicians (Pelin, Adrien, ORL) from the AMMD non-profit of Libre Art musicians were invited as part of our group.
We met an old timer at FOSDEM, i.e. a developer from before my time, Raphaël Quinet.
Here is a photo of the whole bunch at the end of the event:
From left to right: Michael, Jehan, Pelin, Adrien, Aryeom, ORL, Simon, Raphaël
The “Media Creation devroom” which never happened
The reason why we initially planned to go was because Blender had invited us for a “Media Creation devroom” they had requested to FOSDEM organizers. Unfortunately their room request got rejected, so this turned short.
In the meantime, I (Jehan) had also submitted on the side 2 talks, one for GIMP 3.0 release, one for a ZeMarmot early screening, and both were accepted. This is why we ended up going anyway with a few available core members.
The huge good surprise was that our movie screening was not just selected as a main track talk (which is the case of the GIMP 3 talk), but even as a keynote!
Some people did consider this as their “highlight of FOSDEM this year”. 💌
Conferences/Talks
- Jehan (backed with the full team) presented the then-upcoming GIMP 3, as well as other topics around GIMP community: “GIMP 3 and beyond” (with video recording)
- Aryeom, Jehan and the AMMD presented Early Screening of “ZeMarmot” animation film (work-in-progress) with live music (unfortunately the video was never published for some technical reason)