FOSDEM'26 is my grand premiere as a speaker at the conference.
I presented "Pixel on life-support, upgrading from Android 12 to Android 16", a talk on the relevance of custom ROMs (in 2026 still...) and a quick recap of my journey upgrading my Pixel 4a all the way up to Android 16.
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It was a very nice experience and even though I've been going to FOSDEM for many years now, this time felt special and personal.
Apart from my obvious involvement with the presentation, I was also fortunate to meet with a fellow Evolution X maintainer and a few people from the custom ROM community : LineageOS, CalyxOS and /e/OS among others.
Meeting people In-Real-Life is the main purpose of this kind of events ; the nature of free and open-source projects makes it so that people are often contributing remotely, from different countries, in different timezones and as their schedule allows them to.
I was very pleased to meet another developer from Evolution X and we got to spend some quality time together.
Along with the people from other Android distribution projects, we spend the week-end together during the conference at the ULB, discussing what we do and sharing some insight on things we haven't get the chance to touch on before.
I am very happy to be part of a welcoming community, and I hope this will become the occasion for recurring reunions.
Until we meet again, cheers.
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