Wrapping up Pre-FOSDEM Community Event 2026, and Photos!

Hello everyone!

I have the pleasure to write a small thanks post after the event we organized around FOSDEM. First and foremost, I'd like to thank @karenchu, @svanimpe and @Joannis_Orlandos for being part of the program committee and helping shape the track! Karen did an incredible job with the venue and related logistics. We'd also like to thank our volunteers: Mona, Theo, Sam and Manolo.

Last but not least, @sebsto did an amazing job recording and posting all the talks to the community meetups YouTube channel so you can check all the talks out if you'd like! You can also find the other Swift talks from FOSDEM linked to from the pre-event site over here ( Containerization, the future, Dancing with Daemons: Porting Swift to FreeBSD, WebAssembly Debugging with LLDB, Enhancing Swift's Supply Chain Security: Build-time SBOM Generation in Swift Package Manager).

Thank you everyone for attending and being such a great community to meet and work with. We've seen plenty Swift hats walking around at FOSDEM and loved that. Thanks for supporting Swift and we hope to see you again!

And finally, the thing you've been waiting for -- the group photo!

You can view all the other events I took at the event in this album Swift Pre-FOSDEM Community Event Photos. The event had a photo policy visible and agreed to by participants entering the venue, so feel free to use them for your profile pics or anything else. If you need a specific license for the photos let me know via DM.

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Was a great event - thanks very much to all who helped organize. Was so great to meet so many members of the community in person!

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Thanks for sharing the group photo! Hopefully everyone who joined us in person had a memorable time :slight_smile:

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