Back from Fosdem

Coming back from hashtag#fosdem means two things : you can redesign your whole interior with the bunch of stickers you're bringing back, and you've met the most involved people from the hashtag#opensource world 😃

Thanks a lot for all the thrilling conversations we started or followed up about open source funding alternatives, and all the initiatives you're putting your energy in :

• Pierre-Yves Gibello (OW2 / NGI Search)
• Michiel Leenars & Lwenn Bussière (NLnet foundation)
• Benjamin Piouffle (Open Collective)
• Mikael Barbero (Eclipse Foundation)
• Marie Kreil (Prototype Fund)
• Adriana Groh (Sovereign Tech Agency)
• Philip Boontje (MAXQ Analytics)
• Serkan Holat
• Mike Gifford, CPWA (CivicActions)
• David Higgins (Mifos Initiative) & Bolaji Ayodeji (Digital Public Goods Alliance )
• Roberto J. Garcia Navarro (Facephi)
• Nicholas Gates (OpenForum Europe)

Another big thx to all the extended team advocating and innovating for decentralized / free techs Niko Bonnieure (NextGraph), Sébastien Rosset (ActivityPods), Xavier von Aarburg & Tim Izzo (Octree - digital commons), Jaime Arredondo (BoldAndOpen), and friends !

I hope we'll also be able to engage new conversations with a new network of people we heard of at the stands !

• Jan Krewer (Open Future Foundation)
• Robin Riley (The Matrix.org Foundation)
• Roberto Di Cosmo (Software Heritage)
• Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE)
• Jonathan Starr (NumFOCUS)