Conferences on Sumner Evans

FOSDEM 2026

Sun, 01 Feb 2026 06:25:00 -0600

The purpose of this trip was (ostensibly) to attend the FOSDEM 2026 conference. Since I’m no longer working at Beeper, there is not really any work-related reason for me to attend the conference. But I wanted to do it to give myself an excuse to go to Europe, and as an opportunity to catch up with former Beeper coworkers, and meet up with a few other friends as well.

FOSDEM 2025

Sun, 02 Feb 2025 06:25:00 -0600

For the third year in a row, I attended FOSDEM, a Free and Open Source Software conference. I enjoyed the previous two years, and Automattic paid for me to attend, so I decided to make the hop across the pond to attend again. FOSDEM is one of the main gatherings of the Matrix community every year (probably second only to the Matrix Conference), and there is also a sizeable Go presence at the conference as well.

NixCon + SCaLE 2024

Sun, 17 Mar 2024 06:25:00 -0600

I attended NixCon and SCaLE in Pasadena, California for the first time this year. I went with my friend Addison, and while I was there I also met up with some other friends, and made some new friends as well!

I flew out very early on Thursday morning from Denver to LAX. It was raining on the way out of Denver, and the approach into LAX was quite windy. It was the most turbulent flight I’ve been on in a very long time. Getting from LAX to Pasadena was quite a journey. I had to take the Metro Connector from LAX over to the Metro and then I took two metro lines up to Pasadena. It probably took an hour and a half just on the metro to get there.

FOSDEM 2024

Mon, 05 Feb 2024 06:25:00 -0600

The primary purpose of my trip was to attend FOSDEM, a Free and Open Source Software conference. I attended last year as well and enjoyed it, so I decided to make the trip to attend again. FOSDEM is the biggest meeting of people in the Matrix community every year, and there is also a sizeable Go presence at the conference as well.

FOSDEM 2023

Sun, 05 Feb 2023 06:25:00 -0600

For the first time since 2020, FOSDEM was held in-person in Brussels. FOSDEM is one of the largest gatherings of open source enthusiasts in the world every year. My employer, Beeper, funded my flight, and I decided to attend. It was a great experience! I learned a lot and have a long to-do list of projects to try out. I also really enjoyed interacting with the Matrix community and reconnect with many of the people who I’d met at the Matrix Community Summit in Berlin last year and meet a bunch new people as well.

Berlin Matrix Community Summit

Sun, 28 Aug 2022 12:00:00 -0600

The main purpose of my trip this week was for the Berlin Matrix Community Summit, an event organized by members of the Matrix community in Berlin. Matrix is the chat protocol that Beeper (the company I work for) is building our chat app on top of. The protocol is developed openly, and has a large community of open source developers, projects, and businesses all building on top of Matrix. This summit was the first Matrix-only event. There have been other events at which Matrix had a large presence such as FOSDEM, but this was the first ever Matrix-only event.