Okay, so, this is the closing of the 25th custom.
Some of you have been here before, so you know the joke, but I will keep making it because
those are my slides.
So for those who like free systems and free software, that's the main communication channel
and also we are going to turn down a few of the more non-free or fescious communication
channels over the next few days.
So if you want to keep updated with fast them, that's the way to do it, or to just subscribe
to the website we have an RSS, but this is the main way to do it, oh yeah, I almost forgot.
I'm going to take the traditional picture and if you don't want to be in the picture, just
put something in front of you face, if you want to be in the picture, if you free to smile
or put your hand up or something, it is going to take some time because it's not very, very light
in here, but I'm going to try and give you that photo basically a few minutes after the closing
talk already and also this gives you some time to scan the QR code.
Thank you.
If you lost anything, we still have the lost and found in building K at the info desk, if
you don't know where K is, A, NAFTAD4STEM.org, and also it's just straight across the parking
lot, the only new building that is where you can find the info desk and we have the
lost and found there.
Also if you have anything which you realize you have lost after or maybe you just whatever,
you can also send us email and we will try our best to reunite you with your property.
If you have feedback, please do send feedback, the good, the bad, the ugly, the whatever,
you will also find feedback links sprinkled throughout our website, but here you have it.
As per usual, we also like good stuff, because we mainly get the bad stuff, but we do
read everything even if we don't always reply.
We have the 25 years and we had photos for all the different shirts which we had.
We are going to make them public at some point in the future, in the soon future.
So you can see all the different t-shirts and everything.
This is just a small portion of that photo.
Our program, again for those who might have not seen this in the opening talk, this is actually
the largest open source conference on Earth.
It takes a lot of work behind the scenes.
There's a lot of numbers, they are just fun, like do with them what they want, they accurate,
but not always useful.
We actually had a little bit of a lower peak for the video, because we now have better
encoding for the video streams, so we actually saved quite a bit of bandwidth.
Usually we have lots more statistics for all the video stuff, but we read it the video
boxes and we didn't have time to do a lot of things this year.
If you are a speaker or a deafroom manager, your inbox will already be full with or depending
on if you're a deafroom manager or a speaker, you will have email from us titled your
first time 25 talk, titled blah, blah, blah, blah, from no replied first of all.
If you have any of those emails, please do click on them and please do review the talks,
you gave or you the speakers in your deafroom gave, anything you do not review as a speaker.
The deafroom managers have to review anything you do not review as a speaker or a deafroom
manager, staff have to review.
We have over a thousand talks, it's a lot of work, so please crowdsource this one.
Matrix, just a usual number, we have more people in Matrix than last year, which kind
of makes sense, because for last year we were roughly at pre-pandemic levels and this
first time is most certainly the largest we ever had.
We sold out with our 25 year swag very, very quickly and we are sincerely sorry, we had
a major mess up where we just ordered the numbers from last year instead of increasing them.
We already had to fuse stuff last year when we had few visitors that's on us.
We will have more stuff next year, also because this marketly improves all finances and
we are going to talk finance in a second as well.
You guys are hungry, you guys are also hungry.
We stopped tracking the magnets, it's kind of useless at this point, because of privacy
extensions and everything and having different timings on everything, but we did have
almost 9,000 parallel devices just on the IPv6 only network with also plenty on the
dual stack, but no one cares about IPv4 anymore, so you're only seeing the IPv4 a few six
ones. If you want to make donations, the info desk can make this happen, also this is where
you can donate under the year if you so choose. We sometimes hear that it's not great if you're
being sponsored by large corporations or anything and some of us would even agree, yet the point
is we have to pay you will be for those premises, even though they give us a major discount,
we have to pay for other things like staff and volunteers are completely unpaid, but we have a lot of
costs and the only way to really make this work is to donate or to get your company to sponsor.
I think I have another sponsor slide later, if not, I'm just going to add lip. We have something new
and potentially exciting, we are giving you the ability to nominate speakers and topics, so you see
this one really awesome talk, the one thing you really like provoked thoughts in you very well
like, oh, this is something which a wider audience should be aware of. So now you have the ability
to basically under the year, even already send us suggestions and recommendations of stuff we can
look at. We can talk to people, we have lots more time than we usually do when it's basically
a month or two. So yeah, please do give us recommendation and suggestions of what you would like
to see on the main stage at Foster. So there's a round of thank yous. First, let's start with
the matrix or you can element teams. Then all our sponsors. Speaking of sponsors, we could use more
of them. We have a brightly flashing red zero under the budget line this year. It would be good
if, in particular, those who complain about mega cooperation sponsoring for them would put
money where their mouth is and either donate or also consider talking to your companies internally.
For those who don't know marketing departments usually close the funding planning for sponsorships
for the next year in the middle of the current year. So wherever you're working at,
at the latest, in June this year, your marketing department will have closed all funding planning
for 2026. So if you consider to do this, do it now or maybe in a week or two, don't wait too long,
because by summer it is too late. We had this happen a few times where people tried to like make this
work and then it didn't. So if you're considering this, please do it more or less now in summer,
it's too late. We had a total of 217 deafroom managers. Thank you.
We also had 1,184 speakers.
We had 174 volunteers.
We also have a staffer who use a set list in the end for got to un-set list before copying this list.
That's the dollar sign.
We have the staff.
Yeah, and we have yourself.
We also still need help. Notwithstanding donations and giving talks and everything,
a lot of uncounted volunteers ours also help us. If you see trash around you,
welcome or congratulations. It is yours now. There are trash bins.
They used to be one here, but there are some very outside, I'm certain.
If you see something, please just take it with you and dispose of it.
Anything which you do not like pick up as in trash lying around, some volunteer will have to do.
If you have time to help with cleanup and with tear down and with everything,
just come on stage after everything is over and we will assign you a group and also there's a great
way to make friends and maybe you even volunteer by name next year and you have even more friends
and we feed you on Friday and on Sunday. Speaking of, we are going to feed the
the tear down volunteers tonight. So if you're hungry and you have some time,
perfect combination. Also as a tradition, any network cable which you remove under our guidance,
you can just keep if you want. Last year I had my kidneys on this year, I have my car accident.
So I hope we have someone who does the dance. I don't see a voucher. I don't see a raffle. I don't
see a z-show. Is there any stiffer who feels, and anyone else who wants to join the dance? It's
not very hard. It's very silly. It's a little bit exhausting, but it's fun amongst above all.
So while I'm just trying to guilt and shame my my co-staffers into coming on stage,
I am down to hold that. I can take nine practices. Any volunteer is on or bound,
more or less, unless they do the camera, but also like we used to have like 50 or more people on
stage, and now everyone just looks as me totally afraid. It's really easy. Just come up and
have a little bit of fun. No? No? Okay. So the history of the dance is very silly. Yeah there's.
The history of the dance is very simple and silly. I mean,
first of all, there's a lot of work. It's a lot less leap than one would hope for it. Everything,
but also it should be fun. During the first, first of all, someone was like, oh, I've been running
around all the time and basically showed how they're running around looks like, and that's what he,
what he showed the others and this developed into the dance. Can you do it yourself without my guidance?
You can. So just do it.
That's it. Again, if you want to help, come up front and you will get something assigned,
and if not, hopefully see you next year.