<p><a href="https://fosdem.org">FOSDEM</a> is the biggest Free and Open Source conference in the world and on its 20<sup>th</sup> anniversary I decided to attend for the first time. By a good turn of fate, and some well-judged pitching, Ken Fallon secured a stand for the <a href="https://freeculturepodcasts.org/">Free Culture Podcasts project</a> which is an umbrella group that covers HPR, many of the shows on <a href="https://otherside.network/">The Other Side Network</a> and many more excellent podcasts that are released under creative commons licenses.</p>

<p>This audio is recorded in snippets in between manning the stand and gives some off-the-cuff observations from a FOSDEM noob. I was surprised to find that relatively few visitors to our stand had heard of HPR, which we quickly rectified of course, and I give a brief summary of the feedback we received. Also mentioned in this show, but not actually appearing, are my co-conspirators at FOSDEM, <a href="https://hackerpublicradio.org/correspondents/0030.html">Ken</a>, <a href="https://hackerpublicradio.org/correspondents/0288.html">Beni</a>, <a href="https://hackerpublicradio.org/correspondents/0129.html">JWP</a> as well as <a href="https://hackerpublicradio.org/correspondents/0225.html">Dave Morriss</a> who unfortunately wasn't able to join us in person but was very much there in spirit.</p>

