# FOSDEM 2024 + Hackathon

DevFeed: [FOSDEM 2024 + Hackathon](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/fosdem-2024-hackathon-41728.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://postmarketos.org/blog/2024/02/14/fosdem-and-hackathon/>)

Published: 2024-02-14T00:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [postmarketOS Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/postmarketos-blog.md>)

Topics: [FOSDEM](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/fosdem.md>), [Hackathon](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/hackathon.md>), [foss](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/foss.md>), [Mobile](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/mobile.md>), [Linux](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/linux.md>), [legacy](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/legacy.md>), [Sailfish OS](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/sailfishos.md>), [Ubuntu](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ubuntu.md>)

Tags: [fosdem](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/fosdem.md>), [foss](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/foss.md>), [hackathon](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/hackathon.md>), [infrastructure](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/infrastructure.md>), [legacy](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/legacy.md>), [linux](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/linux.md>), [matrix](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/matrix.md>), [mobile](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/mobile.md>), [postmarketos](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/postmarketos.md>)

## AI overview

The postmarketOS team recounts attending FOSDEM 2024 and spending three additional days on focused planning, difficult tasks, new code, legacy-code removal, and infrastructure work. It also describes participation in the Linux on Mobile stand and the FOSS on Mobile Devices devroom.

## Source excerpt

As is quickly becoming tradition, the postmarketOS team made their way to FOSDEM at the beginning of February again. We rarely get the chance to have the entire core team in the same place (unfortunately we still had Dylan missing). As such we took the chance to not only take part in this wonderful conference in Brussels, but also spend three additional days hacking away in a nice distraction-free apartment that we booked, powered by the donations we receive on OpenCollective. It was extraordinary, we had so much focus, did an enormous amount of planning and tackling of hard tasks, wrote new code, removed legacy code, worked on infrastructure and just had a good time. There is a lot coming up, you can expect to read more in blog posts and merge requests in the next weeks and months. That being said, we wanted to share some of the highlights, especially for the people supporting us. Without you, this would have been significantly harder to organise. FOSDEM Saturday By the fact that Clayton lost his voice on Saturday, you can tell it was busy. Compared to a typical Saturday morning, some of us got up really early to prepare our corner of the Linux on Mobile stand, together with all the other amazing projects. It involved some last minute flashing, placing stickers on the table, configuring the phones to not blank their screen and so on. Some of us stayed at the table for more or less the whole day and had incredible conversations with all the people coming by. Compared to last year where we were in the H building, being in Aw (awwww!) seemed a bit more remote (map) and one might think that this would lead to less people coming by. But far from it! FOSDEM is known for many things taking place in parallel and so did, in addition to the countless stands, an incredible amount of devrooms have talks going on at the same time. One of these devrooms was FOSS on Mobile Devices. Again a collaboration with our friends from projects such as Mobian, Sailfish OS, Ubuntu Touch, Pur