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FreeCAD, Ondsel and Prusa Save FOSDEM!

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Jo Hinchliffe

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With cred­it to xkcd for the orig­i­nal “Depen­den­cy” car­toon https://xkcd.com/2347/

FOSDEM is an organ­i­sa­tion­al mas­ter­piece. The infra­struc­ture and logis­tics of thou­sands of open­source peo­ple amass­ing around 59 stands and 951 speak­ers is astound­ing. From main­tain­ing WiFi, through all the talks being per­fect­ly record­ed and uploaded, to feed­ing every­one, FOSDEM is breathtaking.

How­ev­er this year there was near­ly a big issue… toi­let paper!

Whilst there was enough toi­let paper, there was an issue in deploy­ing it. We were approached at the FreeCAD/Ondsel, KiCad booth by a FOSDEM vol­un­teer who was wor­ried. The team only had one key that unlocked the toi­let paper dis­pensers and they were strug­gling to keep the flow of paper steady. A cri­sis was emerging!

Quick as a flash Brad from Ond­sel stepped up, whilst he didn’t don a super­hero cape, he quick­ly whipped out the calipers and flu­id­ly made a fan­tas­tic mod­el of the key. Bare­ly miss­ing a beat our bold hero uploaded the design to Ond­sel Lens, the amaz­ing add-on for project shar­ing and collaboration. 

Our next mighty hero stepped into the sto­ry, Pavel from Prusa 3D who were just one booth away. Some quick print­ing ensued on the fan­tas­tic Prusa XL and sud­den­ly the toi­lets of FOSDEM were safe once more!

The keys were passed back to the team and the FOSDEM expe­ri­ence was back on track. Phew!

On a more seri­ous note, we’ll share more about FreeCAD at FOSDEM and the FreeCAD day in the com­ing weeks. In the mean time thank you to every­one who came and said hel­lo at the FreeCAD stand and for all the inter­est and sup­port at FOSDEM.

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