FOSDEM and AI Plumbers

I’ve attended FOSDEM for the very first time this February. It’s the biggest open-source conference in the world, and completely free. It occupies the campus of Brussels Free University. Because there are no tickets, there are also no badges. You don’t know where anybody is from until you hear them speak. Most languages of Europe are represented. Little gangs of nerds arrive from Germany or Slovakia. French is spoken in abundance and from all French-speaking corners of the Earth. I spent the mo