Network is of course IPv6 only (NAT64 to reach old and broken sites of the 20th century)
933 speakers, 67 tracks/devrooms, 62 stands.
"If there is a sign saying 'This room is full', it means the room is full."
Now, the feminist talk "Where have the women of tech history gone?" by Laura Durieux
The room empties.
Side note: according to an unscientific survey done by an amateur observer, there are not many women at FOSDEM.
"Computer was a job" (once upon a time, computations were done by hand).
Nicole-Reine Lepaute, an astronomer, did calculations that way.
"She wrote the first algorithm" (Ada Lovelace)
Clearly false, algorithms are known from Antiquity.
I did not know Grete Hermann https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grete_Hermann
#FOSDEM
@bortzmeyer Grete Hermann sounds like the kind of biography @herstorypod could be very interested in.
