Hi all, I hope everyone is ready for this year's microkernel devroom and putting together a great presentation. Please let us know immediately, if for some reason you cannot give your talk as planned. Below is some general information to make things go smoothly: 1) Please try to upload your final slides in PDF format to pretalx well before your talk begins, unless you have some gimmick in there that you don't want the audience to see before. Once the slides are linked on the devroom website, people watching the FOSDEM live stream from afar will be able to look at the slides offline and follow your talk better. 2) History has shown that a laptop with HDMI connector works best for interfacing with the FOSDEM projection and slide-capturing system. If your laptop has something else, then don't forget to bring a whatever-to-HDMI converter that works. Also bring a clicker/pointer if you need one. 3) We will use the 5 minutes in between talks to let the audience leave or enter the room. Within these 5 minutes, the next speaker should get their laptop connected, obtain the mic from the previous speaker and get ready to start on time. If you don't participate in the developer room for its entire duration, then please be in the room at least 5 minutes before your talk is scheduled to begin. 4) We will signal each speaker 5 minutes and 2 minutes before the end of your talk. The latter is a strong hint from the scheduler that you should wrap up your talk with some Q&A, before a timer interrupt preempts you. 5) There is a Matrix chatroom for our devroom. You should have gotten an invitation from the system to join that chatroom. You might get questions from the audience and remote participants in that chatroom, especially if you did not leave much time for Q&A. It would be great if you answer those questions in the chatroom after your talk. Finally, have a look at the speaker manual: https://fosdem.org/2025/manuals/program/speaker/ Please let us know if you have any further questions. Looking forward to a great devroom and seeing everyone in Brussels soon! Cheers, Udo & Alexander