[FOSDEM] Fosdem Junior experience

[Matthias Kirschner]

* Andriy Utkin <andriy_utkin at fastmail.com> [2025-09-26 14:49:23 +0100]:

> On Thu, Sep 25, 2025 at 02:51:45PM +0200, Giovanni Bechis wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I would like to come to Fosdem next year (with my son maybe) and I would like to know how "Fosdem Junior" was organized last year.
> > is it organized as a workshop ? is there a maximum limit for booking ? Any personal experience ?
> 
> Yes, it was two days full of different workshops, in two rooms at the same time.
> No talks/lectures - kids would be bored, obviously.
> You had to book seats for specific workshops here https://codeclub.org/en/clubs/c0468f47-a1a4-43b6-b7f0-170a7d98b30c
> This was the schedule: https://archive.fosdem.org/2025/schedule/track/junior/
> 
> Expect changes, because Junior is growing as the concept.
> 
> It was great to see as a parent, and my small one was overjoyed and
> didn't want FOSDEM to end :)

If you want to help children understand why they should go there, you can also
show them this movie https://fsfe.org/activities/ada-zangemann/movie
(available in different languages) or read the book with them (several
translations here
https://hosted.weblate.org/projects/fsfe/ada-zangemann/ ) :) 

Best regards,
Matthias 
 
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