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So, short announcements, as I was actually informed on Friday, so for over decade, we have had IPv6

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with Netflix for as the default network, and for over 10 years I thought we were the second

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conference to do this, as I learned on Friday we were actually the first ever to do this.

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So that's nice.

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And we also, like, I have it on good authority and from a good, a few good friends and

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in places that we measure, we pushed IPv6 forward when we did this, and we fixed a lot

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of bugs by doing this.

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This was the result of me having a really stupid idea, and then people telling me, no,

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no, no, do it.

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So, I had another stupid idea.

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Next year, we are going to be V6 only on the default network, so a lot of stuff is going

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to break.

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And a lot of people are going to ask a lot of other people to break stuff.

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I asked people on MasterDone earlier about examples of what websites are still using before,

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so we got a few examples.

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One of them is BlueSky.

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You will note that I mentioned I asked on MasterDone, not on BlueSky, also AI is cool now,

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so blockchain stuff isn't cool anymore, so that's another reason.

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Also, it's not fully distributed or not really, and also it's based on US, so maybe

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you're a masterDone instead of that one.

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The other one, which is notable, is GitHub, which is still on V4 only.

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If anyone from GitHub is listening next year, everything will break.

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If push comes to shelf, we can do your favorite, just put a scene, which goes to code

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burgundy instead.

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And just to tell you that we know as people coming in, as you come in just be quiet.

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And also just to show you that we are actually being honest with ourselves, there is also

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one more website, which is currently V4 only, and that is chat.fastem.org.

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We are going to have this fixed by next year.

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There is more, so for those who are here during the opening talk, I had this slide and apparently

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this was a slide which people like, so I'm going to give you a chance to take a photo of

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this if you so choose.

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If you didn't see the opening talk, just watch recording, it's online already.

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We are serious, like, fastem as an organization has decided to become political, because

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obvious, also as of roughly an hour ago, we now have policy at fastem.org.

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So lawmakers, people from other institutions, whatever, like if you're in the target demographic

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or group to reach out to this email address, you probably are aware that you are a part

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of this.

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So policy people, politicians who want to do good, other organizations, this is where we

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will start finding a voice of some sort.

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We don't know yet what that will be exactly, but you have a chance to help us shape this.

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And with this, I'm handing over to Johan to the rest of the closing.

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Okay, everyone, so this was fastem 2026.

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If you want to share messages about us, please do so using the hashtag fastem.

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We are taking, as of now, a picture of this auditorium if you don't want to be on it, hide

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yourself.

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Okay, we'll do another.

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So if you don't want to be on it, hide yourself.

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We will pass it on Masadon for next year, follow the hashtag, or you can even follow the

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RSS on our website, we're a bit old-fashioned, but that's good.

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And, okay, next, some things, lost and found.

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If you lost something, or if you found something, bring it to the info desk in K, and

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if you lose something after the conference, write mail to info at fastem.org, and hopefully

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it will be returned.

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Now I want to give some statistics on fastem this year.

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The first thing I will talk about is devrooms, because I happen to be in the program team,

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and I find it quite interesting.

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For devrooms, we got 138 proposals.

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We had 65 happening that actually means that about half of them didn't happen.

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These were good proposals, and so honestly, if there's anyone in the room here who proposed

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most of them were good, we had quite a bit fewer, like one or three, not too many, fewer

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than last year, but this was like a conscious choice.

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We wanted to give longer tracks, because we saw a lot of lightning talks, pushed into devrooms,

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and we thought it was like a bit too packed, the schedule.

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The other thing with it is, we gave some niche projects, smaller projects that don't really

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have the resources to organize our own conference, the place on fastem.

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Some of them made very good use of it, so I think that's very nice.

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The last one is encourage cross project collaboration.

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You might have seen project oriented devrooms, which were only on one project in the past.

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This year, most of them were baited a bit broader, and the hope there is to have more

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collaboration between projects.

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Some statistics, we had, well, you can read it, 1,200 speakers.

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We had a lot of people reviewing it.

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We had a lot of sessions, and one of the things that we expanded for this year were buff sessions.

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And now, who doesn't know what buff means?

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We're not looking at the slide.

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Okay, so when I was here in my first fastem, I also didn't know it, so don't worry.

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So what we did, it is just a room, which you can book with a number of people.

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You give it a proposal, you say, we want to sit together and talk about this.

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I don't know, CI system or about environmental applications or whatever.

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And there is no projector, there's not one person speaking, or at least that's not what we want.

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We want people to talk within each other.

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It was a success.

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Next year, we want to be, to grow it, maybe even bigger.

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So think about it.

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Some statistics about video, yeah.

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Is there another?

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Oh, yeah, that's better.

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You can see that we have a maximum number of 1,000 people watching the streams, but mostly

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people were looking on separate occasions, so you can see the numbers there.

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An important thing about video is video review.

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Everyone who was a speaker here, you will get a mail saying you're fastem 2026 talk titled.

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It's coming from no reply at fastem.org, so make sure you don't miss it.

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What will happen, people have to cut their talk, and then it will be published on the website.

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The sooner you do that, the sooner you talk will be on our website, and I know from experience

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people they want to see your talk like one hour ago, or now, but they don't want to

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see it in two weeks, so do it quickly.

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Swack, oh, it's maybe not as clear, but we sold everything we had.

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That was about, well, I've removed the numbers, so I don't know anymore.

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So apart from selling swag, which helps fastem, there's a second option, it's donations.

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Here you can see how to donate, you can still, I think, go to the info desk, but preferably

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next year, do it a bit earlier.

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Now there's a series of people we want to thank.

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The first people we want to thank are the Matrix teams.

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They have supported us with a chat, and also the chat with the livestream embedded.

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Next thank you for our sponsors, we still need to run this conference, to have free entrance,

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to make sure we don't need to put people at doors checking your ticket, then we have

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a whole list of deafroom managers, 177 to be correct.

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You see there's a comma, so it means it can be expanded later.

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We had about 1,200 speakers, I wouldn't want to bother you with putting them all on slides,

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but if you go to the website you can see them, I was also very surprised that this thing

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renders in our website and didn't break things, so I'm really happy.

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We also had about, well, I think also 170 something volunteers.

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You see them in orange, you've seen them throughout the conference, you have seen them

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in green for the video, and you can register on that website.

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If you do it all together at my crash as we noticed today, but still try it, then you

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will get an invitation, maybe you think about it's doing it next year.

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Then we have our staff members, actually they're also just volunteers, and for this

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year, for this year there's actually a unique thing, and that is that we were able

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to make a picture, so we didn't have to stay inside to fix any issues, so we had some time

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for that.

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That's actually a good sign, that was thanks to the volunteers and other preparation

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which happened.

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Final or one of the final things I want to tell you is send feedback.

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You can send feedback by mailing feedback at fozem.org.

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I just give a few ideas, you can say send feedback about program, about accessibility,

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you can praise people, you can tell things which are bad, but also praise if you do that,

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it's nicer for us.

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And the last thing which I want to mention, if you go to the website and you go to a

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talk, there's always a link, submit feedback.

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It is not used a lot, you should do it more often, it's really useful for the speakers to

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get feedback, it's useful for us to see which talks for popular, which we're not, so I hope

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that we see more people giving feedback.

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Okay, then, the first time I do this by closing talk, but it's a habit here at fozem,

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we have a small fozem dance and I would like to invite all staff members, I see some yellow

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there, Mikael, Richie, I think I can invite volunteers as well, I will explain a bit how it goes,

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yeah?

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Steffen volunteers are required and everyone else is invited.

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One stage, please come, come, come, it's the last thing.

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Domdi Shae, we're all nerds, domdi Shae.

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So I heard the history of this is that we are like running the whole time to get this

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conference going, so the dance is going a bit like you're running, you're standing on one

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leg and then you go like you're running.

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Yes, so I think that was fozem for 2022, I want to repeat if we lose all democracies, open

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sources relevant and it will go away, there's a policy email and there's a feedback

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email, please go and do that, I think I lost a slight, there is one thing I wanted to tell

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you more and that is if you go out, look around and see if there's any threshold, take

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it with you when you go out, we would also very much appreciate it if people go to one

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of the info desk and spend some of their time, even if it's just 20 minutes to help

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tear down everything, well not everything, the things from fuzzem.

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And we have a gift for all of you, thanks to visit Brussels, we have received a lot of tickets

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so maybe the volunteers should come back.

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We have received a lot of tickets for the public transport and we have not distributed

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all of them, so if you are coming with public transport, if you're going back with public

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transport, so for the buses, the transit metro and Brussels, you can come and grab a ticket

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but with one of these volunteers, okay, that was it!

