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Distribution Community meeting at FOSDEM - what venue and day?

JR Jaroslav Reznik Wed 12 Nov 2025 11:42AM Public Seen by 32

Hi community!

During the OpenSSL Conference in Prague, we agreed to organize a longer meeting at FOSDEM, which we believe most of the distro community will be attedning.

We started looking into options we have and CentOS Connect seems to be like a good venue. However, the meetups can be scheduled only on Thursday, 29 January. Would this be ok? Are you aware of any other venue we could use for example on Friday? Or even during FOSDEM?

CentOS Connect has the submission deadline on 2025-12-15.

Please comment about your availability, or suggestions. With no responses, we will try to aim for CentOS Connect on Jan-29.

TM

Tomas Mraz Wed 17 Dec 2025 5:44PM

Would it make sense for the Distribution Community to have an OpenSSL Foundation and/or OpenSSL Corporation representative on the meeting? Unfortunately we (at OpenSSL Foundation) have already started booking our flights to Brussels and are arriving on Thursday (not sure if everyone has booked already though).

AB

Alexander Bokovoy Thu 18 Dec 2025 6:30AM

I think it would be good to have someone from the OpenSSL Foundation or Corporation side at least at one of these meetings.

JR

Jaroslav Reznik Thu 18 Dec 2025 8:26AM

Anton will join us on Friday.

Currently the plan is that we will have two community meetings:

  1. Thursday, CentOS Connect - this will primarily aim on CentOS based distributions but everyone is welcome.

  2. The main distribution community meeting on Friday afternoon. I'll provide more details later today.