So, short announcements, as I was actually informed on Friday, so for over decade, we have had IPv6
with Netflix for as the default network, and for over 10 years I thought we were the second
conference to do this, as I learned on Friday we were actually the first ever to do this.
So that's nice.
And we also, like, I have it on good authority and from a good, a few good friends and
in places that we measure, we pushed IPv6 forward when we did this, and we fixed a lot
of bugs by doing this.
This was the result of me having a really stupid idea, and then people telling me, no,
no, no, do it.
So, I had another stupid idea.
Next year, we are going to be V6 only on the default network, so a lot of stuff is going
to break.
And a lot of people are going to ask a lot of other people to break stuff.
I asked people on MasterDone earlier about examples of what websites are still using before,
so we got a few examples.
One of them is BlueSky.
You will note that I mentioned I asked on MasterDone, not on BlueSky, also AI is cool now,
so blockchain stuff isn't cool anymore, so that's another reason.
Also, it's not fully distributed or not really, and also it's based on US, so maybe
you're a masterDone instead of that one.
The other one, which is notable, is GitHub, which is still on V4 only.
If anyone from GitHub is listening next year, everything will break.
If push comes to shelf, we can do your favorite, just put a scene, which goes to code
burgundy instead.
And just to tell you that we know as people coming in, as you come in just be quiet.
And also just to show you that we are actually being honest with ourselves, there is also
one more website, which is currently V4 only, and that is chat.fastem.org.
We are going to have this fixed by next year.
There is more, so for those who are here during the opening talk, I had this slide and apparently
this was a slide which people like, so I'm going to give you a chance to take a photo of
this if you so choose.
If you didn't see the opening talk, just watch recording, it's online already.
We are serious, like, fastem as an organization has decided to become political, because
obvious, also as of roughly an hour ago, we now have policy at fastem.org.
So lawmakers, people from other institutions, whatever, like if you're in the target demographic
or group to reach out to this email address, you probably are aware that you are a part
of this.
So policy people, politicians who want to do good, other organizations, this is where we
will start finding a voice of some sort.
We don't know yet what that will be exactly, but you have a chance to help us shape this.
And with this, I'm handing over to Johan to the rest of the closing.
Okay, everyone, so this was fastem 2026.
If you want to share messages about us, please do so using the hashtag fastem.
We are taking, as of now, a picture of this auditorium if you don't want to be on it, hide
yourself.
Okay, we'll do another.
So if you don't want to be on it, hide yourself.
We will pass it on Masadon for next year, follow the hashtag, or you can even follow the
RSS on our website, we're a bit old-fashioned, but that's good.
And, okay, next, some things, lost and found.
If you lost something, or if you found something, bring it to the info desk in K, and
if you lose something after the conference, write mail to info at fastem.org, and hopefully
it will be returned.
Now I want to give some statistics on fastem this year.
The first thing I will talk about is devrooms, because I happen to be in the program team,
and I find it quite interesting.
For devrooms, we got 138 proposals.
We had 65 happening that actually means that about half of them didn't happen.
These were good proposals, and so honestly, if there's anyone in the room here who proposed
most of them were good, we had quite a bit fewer, like one or three, not too many, fewer
than last year, but this was like a conscious choice.
We wanted to give longer tracks, because we saw a lot of lightning talks, pushed into devrooms,
and we thought it was like a bit too packed, the schedule.
The other thing with it is, we gave some niche projects, smaller projects that don't really
have the resources to organize our own conference, the place on fastem.
Some of them made very good use of it, so I think that's very nice.
The last one is encourage cross project collaboration.
You might have seen project oriented devrooms, which were only on one project in the past.
This year, most of them were baited a bit broader, and the hope there is to have more
collaboration between projects.
Some statistics, we had, well, you can read it, 1,200 speakers.
We had a lot of people reviewing it.
We had a lot of sessions, and one of the things that we expanded for this year were buff sessions.
And now, who doesn't know what buff means?
We're not looking at the slide.
Okay, so when I was here in my first fastem, I also didn't know it, so don't worry.
So what we did, it is just a room, which you can book with a number of people.
You give it a proposal, you say, we want to sit together and talk about this.
I don't know, CI system or about environmental applications or whatever.
And there is no projector, there's not one person speaking, or at least that's not what we want.
We want people to talk within each other.
It was a success.
Next year, we want to be, to grow it, maybe even bigger.
So think about it.
Some statistics about video, yeah.
Is there another?
Oh, yeah, that's better.
You can see that we have a maximum number of 1,000 people watching the streams, but mostly
people were looking on separate occasions, so you can see the numbers there.
An important thing about video is video review.
Everyone who was a speaker here, you will get a mail saying you're fastem 2026 talk titled.
It's coming from no reply at fastem.org, so make sure you don't miss it.
What will happen, people have to cut their talk, and then it will be published on the website.
The sooner you do that, the sooner you talk will be on our website, and I know from experience
people they want to see your talk like one hour ago, or now, but they don't want to
see it in two weeks, so do it quickly.
Swack, oh, it's maybe not as clear, but we sold everything we had.
That was about, well, I've removed the numbers, so I don't know anymore.
So apart from selling swag, which helps fastem, there's a second option, it's donations.
Here you can see how to donate, you can still, I think, go to the info desk, but preferably
next year, do it a bit earlier.
Now there's a series of people we want to thank.
The first people we want to thank are the Matrix teams.
They have supported us with a chat, and also the chat with the livestream embedded.
Next thank you for our sponsors, we still need to run this conference, to have free entrance,
to make sure we don't need to put people at doors checking your ticket, then we have
a whole list of deafroom managers, 177 to be correct.
You see there's a comma, so it means it can be expanded later.
We had about 1,200 speakers, I wouldn't want to bother you with putting them all on slides,
but if you go to the website you can see them, I was also very surprised that this thing
renders in our website and didn't break things, so I'm really happy.
We also had about, well, I think also 170 something volunteers.
You see them in orange, you've seen them throughout the conference, you have seen them
in green for the video, and you can register on that website.
If you do it all together at my crash as we noticed today, but still try it, then you
will get an invitation, maybe you think about it's doing it next year.
Then we have our staff members, actually they're also just volunteers, and for this
year, for this year there's actually a unique thing, and that is that we were able
to make a picture, so we didn't have to stay inside to fix any issues, so we had some time
for that.
That's actually a good sign, that was thanks to the volunteers and other preparation
which happened.
Final or one of the final things I want to tell you is send feedback.
You can send feedback by mailing feedback at fozem.org.
I just give a few ideas, you can say send feedback about program, about accessibility,
you can praise people, you can tell things which are bad, but also praise if you do that,
it's nicer for us.
And the last thing which I want to mention, if you go to the website and you go to a
talk, there's always a link, submit feedback.
It is not used a lot, you should do it more often, it's really useful for the speakers to
get feedback, it's useful for us to see which talks for popular, which we're not, so I hope
that we see more people giving feedback.
Okay, then, the first time I do this by closing talk, but it's a habit here at fozem,
we have a small fozem dance and I would like to invite all staff members, I see some yellow
there, Mikael, Richie, I think I can invite volunteers as well, I will explain a bit how it goes,
yeah?
Steffen volunteers are required and everyone else is invited.
One stage, please come, come, come, it's the last thing.
Domdi Shae, we're all nerds, domdi Shae.
So I heard the history of this is that we are like running the whole time to get this
conference going, so the dance is going a bit like you're running, you're standing on one
leg and then you go like you're running.
Yes, so I think that was fozem for 2022, I want to repeat if we lose all democracies, open
sources relevant and it will go away, there's a policy email and there's a feedback
email, please go and do that, I think I lost a slight, there is one thing I wanted to tell
you more and that is if you go out, look around and see if there's any threshold, take
it with you when you go out, we would also very much appreciate it if people go to one
of the info desk and spend some of their time, even if it's just 20 minutes to help
tear down everything, well not everything, the things from fuzzem.
And we have a gift for all of you, thanks to visit Brussels, we have received a lot of tickets
so maybe the volunteers should come back.
We have received a lot of tickets for the public transport and we have not distributed
all of them, so if you are coming with public transport, if you're going back with public
transport, so for the buses, the transit metro and Brussels, you can come and grab a ticket
but with one of these volunteers, okay, that was it!