Akashdeep Dhar

This is a talk proposal for the FOSDEM 2025 edition of Community Devroom titled "From Critique To Chaos - A Masterclass In Terrible Feedback Practices" submitted by Akashdeep Dhar, targeting community managers, community leaders, product teams and enthusiastic users contributing with their feedback.

After closing my moderation duties, I explored FOSDEM booths before meeting folks at Building K. With the train booked for Amsterdam to attend the Fedora Council F2F meeting, I helped wrap up the Distribution Devroom venue before joining the CentOS HyperScale folks for dinner in the evening.

Sleeping in on FOSDEM 2024’s second day gave me much-needed respite after the Fedora & CentOS Contributor dinner from the previous night. I joined colleagues at ULB Solbosch, handled Distributions Devroom tasks with the organizers, attended presentations, and helped with the audience's questions.

During the first day at FOSDEM 2024, Michal Konecny and I made donations and collected swags while interacting with our friends in free and open source software. After wrapping up the dinner of Fedora Project and CentOS Project folks, we looked forward to seeing what the second day had in store.

On the first day of FOSDEM 2024, we headed to the event with the Foreman team and CERN collective where we set up the CentOS Project and Fedora Project booths while mingling with friends of other communities, collecting some interesting swags and promoting distributions across multiple booths.

Leaving Kolkata, India in the morning, Saheli Das Mukherjee, Sumantro Mukherjee and I set off for Brussels, Belgium to attend CHAOSScon EU24, CentOS Connect 2024, and FOSDEM 2024. With one layover in Dubai, UAE, an odd immigration encounter and a train ride, we were able to make it to our hotels.