Several members of the GIMP team will be present next weekend (1^st and 2^nd of February 2025) at FOSDEM, a conference in Brussels, Belgium. This event describes itself this way:

FOSDEM is a free event for software developers to meet, share ideas and collaborate. Every year, thousands of developers of free and open source software from all over the world gather at the event in Brussels. You don’t need to register. Just turn up and join in!

Needless to say, with over 8000 people expected, it is one of the biggest event in the Free Software ecosystem.

On Sunday morning, from 10 to 11:50 AM, we have 2 talks lined up, in the main track and biggest room (Janson in building J, with over 1400 people of capacity!), and one of these talks is in fact a keynote:

• “GIMP 3 and beyond”
  Date/Time: Sunday, February 2, from 10 to 10:50 AM
  Main track talk
  Speakers: Jehan (maintainer) and other GIMP team members
  Room: Janson, building J
  Streaming: live.fosdem.org/watch/janson
• “Early Screening of “ZeMarmot” animation film (work-in-progress) with live music”
  Date/Time: Sunday, February 2, from 11 to 11:50 AM
  Keynote
  Speakers: Aryeom (film director), Jehan (scenarist, technical) and ORL (composer)
  Musicians: Pelin, Adrien, ORL
  Room: Janson, building J
  Streaming: live.fosdem.org/watch/janson

The keynote in particular will be a work-in-progress screening of ZeMarmot short animation film, which is worked on by 2 major contributors of GIMP (Jehan, maintainer, and Aryeom, designer for GIMP, and film director of ZeMarmot) within the non-profit production LILA which produces Libre Art movies.

Not only this, you may notice the presence of musicians, since the music will be played live by 3 musicians from the AMMD non-profit, producing Libre Art music, concerts and recording. The film is a short (about 10 minutes), then it will be followed by a talk presenting our work.

As for the GIMP talk, we will showcase the soon-to-be-released GIMP 3!

In the end of both talks, you will be able to ask questions.

We hope to see many people there. See you soon! 🤗