⚠️ Spoiler Alert ⚠️ One day, you are going to die.

You may not get a blue plaque on the side of a building, or a statue, or even a Wikipedia entry. But perhaps you’ll get a memorial bench?

We built https://openbenches.org where anyone can add to a collection of open data.

We’ll show you why & how we built this collection of >39,000 memorial benches from around the world, how it integrates with OSM, and what we learned along the way.

https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/TFFDM8-openbenches/

Note: Original video was corrupted. This uses my audio recording. Photos from @[email protected]