Being present in Brussels one day before the FOSDEM 2025 fringe events began helped me recover from the deteriorating sleep cycle due to the large timezone shift and explore the adjacent areas on foot for some incessant shopping, community conversations, landscape explorations and unavoidable beers.

The journey toward FOSDEM 2025 took me from Kolkata to Brussels through Dubai, where we got a free upgrade to business class on the first flight and a relatively empty flight on the second flight. After meeting with Matthew Miller and Justin W. Flory, we ended the day with some McDonald's takeaways.

This is a talk proposal for the FOSDEM 2025 edition of Distributions Devroom titled "Introducing SyncStar - Create Bootable Media At Conference Kiosks" submitted by Akashdeep Dhar, targeting software engineers, budding enthusiasts, software developers and community managers at a FOSS conference.

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.