FOSDEM 2025 - Welcome to FOSDEM 2025

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class="event-description"></div> </div> <div class="video"> <video preload="none" controls="controls" width="75%"> <source src="https://video.fosdem.org/2025/janson/fosdem-2025-6712-welcome-to-fosdem-2025.av1.webm" type='video/webm; codecs="av01.0.08M.08.0.110.01.01.01.0"' /> <source src="https://video.fosdem.org/2025/janson/fosdem-2025-6712-welcome-to-fosdem-2025.mp4" type='video/mp4' /> </video> </div> <h3>Speakers</h3> <table> <tbody> <tr> <td><a href="/2025/schedule/speaker/fosdem_staff/"><img class="thumb" height="32" width="32" src="/2025/schedule/speaker/fosdem_staff/c661e7f2c5ed6420b1f0581c1e555a8897d643b93aafea6a9797fbfe8d602f3e.svg" alt="Photo of FOSDEM Staff"/></a></td> <td><a href="/2025/schedule/speaker/fosdem_staff/">FOSDEM Staff</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/2025/schedule/speaker/richard_richih_hartmann/"><img class="thumb" height="32" width="32" src="/2025/schedule/speaker/richard_richih_hartmann/8c4ac917616f29132976f3199b0483b3af9f526c261101d989d0ae19828be8a3.jpeg" alt="Photo of Richard "RichiH" Hartmann"/></a></td> <td><a href="/2025/schedule/speaker/richard_richih_hartmann/">Richard "RichiH" Hartmann</a></td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <h3>Attachments</h3> <ul class="event-attachments unstyled"> <li><i class="icon-download"></i> <a href="/2025/events/attachments/fosdem-2025-6712-welcome-to-fosdem-2025/slides/237789/2025-02-0_6CcRbRi.pdf">Talk slides</a></li> </ul> <h3>Links</h3> <ul> <li><a href="https://video.fosdem.org/2025/janson/fosdem-2025-6712-welcome-to-fosdem-2025.av1.webm">Video recording (AV1/WebM) - 56.3 MB</a></li> <li><a href="https://video.fosdem.org/2025/janson/fosdem-2025-6712-welcome-to-fosdem-2025.mp4">Video recording (MP4) - 357.1 MB</a></li> <li><a href="https://video.fosdem.org/2025/janson/fosdem-2025-6712-welcome-to-fosdem-2025.vtt">Video recording subtitle file (VTT)</a></li> <li><a href="https://chat.fosdem.org/#/room/#2025-keynote:fosdem.org">Chat room(web)</a></li> <li><a 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