Italian Axe Throwers for Free Software 🪓 FOSDEM 2026 Fringe (#fosdem_axe)

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The Italian Linux Society, non-profit association, promoting Free and Open Source Software since 1994 and with 400+ voting members, is glad to present AGAIN the…

Italian Axe Throwers :axe: :penguin: FOSDEM 2026 Fringe \o/

What:

Collaborative “Axe Throwing” (yes! literally! it’s a positive sport! Axe throwing - Wikipedia )

Are you able to defeat “PROPRIETARY SOFTWARE”? Uh?

Join this SAFE SPACE where everyone can finally throw an axe (provided by us) to hit proprietary targets (provided by us) and make the year of GNU/Linux on desktop with your hands :penguin:

When:

Friday 30th January @ 5:50 P.M

Where:

Bruxelles \o/

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    ↑ open in OsmAnd, OrganicMaps, from F-Droid …
  • GEO coordinates:
    Planet: Earth
    50.843 4.350
  • Complete street address:
    Woodcutter Brussels
    rue des Alexiens, 37
    1000 Bruxelles

PRICE

The participation fee is €21.00 (P.S. our association does NOT get this money) and includes one hour to spend trying to throw an axe at a target as many times as possible and a drink to consume AFTERWARDS…

Thanks to the contribution of the Italian Linux Society, the cost of the T-shirt is only €1.00 (one euro) instead of €10.00; the T-shirts are already available at the Woodcutter in Brussels;
the cost of the bottle opener is €5.00 each, extra.

CONTACT

Join this Telegram group:

P.S. please avoid Telegram from Play Store. Install from F-Droid.

Best photos will be shared there under a Free/Libre license (CC Zero, CC BY-SA, or CC BY-SA)!

DIRECT CONTACT

Direct Contact: Marcello “The Viking” - noble Master of FLOSS and Axes from Palermo (Free Circle user group).

:chair: IMPORTANT: LIMITED SEATS

Everybody can join the Telegram group but - sadly - not everybody would be able to attend and throw the axes! Mandatory registration! See updates in the footer. Contact the group.

LANGUAGE

Most people speak Italian here. But if you don’t know Italian, you can just join, throw axes, smile, and throw axes again in your native language and everything will be OK. As soon as you do not endorse proprietary software on pizza, or pineapple on pizza, or similar illegal activities.

HOW TO JOIN

Contact Marcello “The Viking” ASAP! LIMITED SEATS!

Telegram: Contact @Vichingux (or email: ilvichingo linux it)

UPDATES

Still 50 48 40 34 19 18 11 5 3 1 0 seat available anymore :new_moon_face:

PHOTOS

The event is now concluded! Here some pictures!

Please share photos on social networks! (Mastodon / ActivityPub)
Hashtags: #fosdem_axe #AxeThrowing #fosdem26