This was the 24th edition of the South Tyrol Free Software Conference (SFSCON) in Bolzano. I is a free event that attracts visitors mostly from Northern Italy, Austria and Switzerland. This year, there were about 1000 registered attendees.

All the sessions at the conference are 15-minute long lighting talks happening simultaneously in four session rooms. This means that there are lots of sessions during the day. In addition to my talk, I also presented Carmen’s talk since she wasn’t able to make it to the conference. First, I presented A Journey of Contribution and Collaboration in Open Source. This is a talk I have done a number of times before, but usually as a 30- or 45-minute session, but it also fits as a fast-paced 15-minute lightning talk.

Directly after my talk, Tanja presented Jakarta EE: Why and how to get involved in Open Source Software? Since Juan had his talk Enabling global interoperability among smart devices is only possible through Open Source, Eclipse Foundation were already well represented before I entered the stage for my last talk about Nurturing OpenJDK Distribution in Adoptium.

SFSCon is a nice conference and the format with only lightning talks fits it well. Due to to proximity to the University of Bolzano and the free tickets, there were lots of students among the attendees.