Neo4j at FOSDEM 2015

I just returned from this year’s FOSDEM conference in Brussels, Belgium and except for the weather, it was an awesome experience! Spending two days with thousands of passionate developers working on Open Source Software is just amazing.

The GraphDevRoom, well organized by Achim and Pere, was a blast too.

We ran the Twitter Graph Viz again to visualize the invisible connections between people and tags tweeting about the event.

As graph theory spans centuries to Leonard Euler it was only fitting that we occupied a room in the oldest building on the campus. The room was way too small to fit all people that were interested in graphs and graph databases. For all talks it was standing room only, you can see the activity on Twitter.

After the exhausing day with too little fresh air, we met at the “La Becasse” for a relaxed, long awaited but delicious dinner talking about all things graphs with FOSDEM attendees and local Neo4j meetup members.

Our own graph rockstar Max de Marzi accompanied his partner Helene Astier who presented a talk titled It’s not a bug, it’s an environment problem. One of her slides made our developer Mark Needham immediately famous:

Thanks so much to everyone who made this a great event, especially the organizers, speakers and attendees!

See you next year at FOSDEM 2016!

Michael Caretaker General of the Neo4j Community