Having ended 2023 with attending 37C3 the new years starts with planning and booking for conferences and events I want to attend in 2024.

My Events in 2024

FOSDEM

FOSDEM 2024

February 3-4 in Brussels, Belgium. I’ll be speaking about semantic data extraction in KMail and Nextcloud Mail in the Modern Email devroom.

There’s also going to be a Railways and Open Transport devroom again which I’m particularly looking forward to, and of course the KDE stand.

OSM Hack Weekend

February 24-25 in Karlruhe, Germany (wiki).

Based on historical patterns another such weekend can probably be expected for autumn, and a similar pair of events might also happen in Berlin again. As time permits I’ll try to join those as well.

FOSSGIS Konferenz

FOSSGIS-Konferenz 2023

March 20-23 in Hamburg, Germany. Together with Tobias Knerr I’ll be hosting a session about OSM indoor mapping.

KDE Akademy

KDE Akademy 2024

September 07-12 in Würzburg, Germany. It would need a pandemic for me to miss that one.

38C3

And for concluding 2024 there’s then going to be the 38th Chaos Communication Congress (38C3), December 27-30, presumably in Hamburg, Germany again. Ticket supply permitting I’d love to go there and hope we’ll have a KDE presence there again.

What’s (still) missing

Some events aren’t on the list (yet), for various reasons:

  • Linux App Summit (LAS) 2024: No official date and location yet. Obviously something I’d attend again as well, however there’s indications it might not be in Europe this time, and intercontinental travel for a three day event is hard to justify for me.
  • State of the Map (SotM) 2024: OSM’s global yearly conference I so far have failed to attend in person. Overlaps with Akademy this year though, and also would require intercontinental travel.
  • KDE sprints: None scheduled yet, although there have been first discussion for another KDE PIM sprint at least. Time permitting I’ll of course try to attend anything I’m involved with.

Even with all of that it’s still likely incomplete, typically more things come up during the year or I discover new events to attend along the way. I also haven’t seen anything scheduled from Wikidata or the Open Transport community yet.

Events in KDE Itinerary

For planning travel to events it’s helpful to have the event time and location data in Itineray, without having to enter all that manually. Besides supporting some commonly encountered registration/ticketing systems (e.g. Indico, Pretix) it has also been possible to import events by opening, pasting or dropping URLs to a corresponding Mobilizon or other ActivityPub-compatible source, as well as the URL of the event website directly.

For the latter to work, the website needs schema.org semantic annotations describing the event, as e.g. found on the Akademy website. Since a week ago the FOSS event aggregation site // foss.events also has such annotations, so you can easily import any event from there now as well.

Event details page in Itinerary showing time and location of FOSDEM 2024.
FOSDEM 2024 event data imported from foss.events in Itinerary.

Looking forward to an exciting year and meeting many of you at events :)