On the 28th and 29th of August 2025, Thom Vaughan, Pedro Ortiz Suarez, and Thijs Dalhuijsen attended the Linux Foundation’s AI_dev event in Amsterdam. We caught up with many familiar faces and made friends with plenty of new ones.

‍We talked with the folks from OpenSearch, Neo4j, LFAI & Data (and we staffed their booth for a few hours on Friday).  The Neo4j developer relations team are very eager to help us with our initiative to use Neo4j with our Web Graphs.

We heard from people working in the AI world who use our data regularly, amongst whom Sammy Sidhu and Colin Ho from Eventual.Inc (who are authors of Daft) who reached out to us to tell us that our dataset was amongst the most popular in their user-base.

We met once again with Stefano Maffuli of the Open Source Initiative, and Brewster Kahle (Internet Archive), and on day two we were invited to the opening celebration of the Internet Archive’s new Amsterdam address, where we had a chance to hang out with Brewster, his wife Mary Austin, Stefano Maffuli, Beatrice Murch, Ben Cerveny, and several others.

We are grateful to our collaborators and friends across the open source and AI communities for their ongoing support and encouragement. Over the course of two days we shared ideas, compared notes on challenges, and discovered new ways our work is being used in research and industry.

A big thank you to the Linux Foundation for hosting an excellent event, and to everyone who stopped to talk with us, share feedback, or suggest ways to work together. We are already looking forward to next year’s edition.