FOSDEM happens every year in February-ish in Brussels, Belgium as a large gathering of free and open source developers.
For the 2025 edition Dietrich did a short talk and there was a community gathering at a restaurant.
For 2026, when the forms are available in the fall, we’ve had some discussions around requesting a developer room or otherwise planning ahead to attend and gather with some talks and community meetups.
If you’re interested in getting involved in planning and organize, please leave a comment!
Thanks Eli for noticing that the FOSDEM call for dev rooms is now up
The need here is to schedule two days worth of content.
Deadline is 3 weeks from now.
- 12 October: deadline for developer room proposals
- 26 October: accepted developer rooms announced
- 30 October (or earlier): developer rooms issue Calls for Participation
- 15 December (or earlier): developer rooms publish complete schedules
Still need someone to take the lead on dev room application.
If individual apps - maybe Tangled? - want to have booths (called stands by FOSDEM), the call for that is open now too FOSDEM 2026 - FOSDEM 2026 Call for Stands
We’ve now missed the call for devrooms, sadly. Here’s the present draft list:
Saturday
AI Plumbers
Browser and web platform devroom
Collaboration and content management devroom
Database
Energy
Funding the FOSS Ecosystem
Geospatial
Legal & Policy Devroom
Modern Email
RISC-V devroom
Robotics and Simulation
Security Devroom
Social Web Devroom
Software Defined Storage
Saturday (morning)
Building Europe’s Public Digital Infrastructure
Containers
eBPF
FOSS on Mobile
GCC (GNU Toolchain)
Libre-Chip, FPGA and VLSI devroom
Network Devroom
Open Media devroom
Package Management
Virtualization and Cloud Infrastructure
Saturday (afternoon)
Bioinformatics & Computational Biology
BSD, illumos, bhyve, OpenZFS
LLVM
Local-First, sync engines, CRDTs
Nix and NixOS Devroom
Python
Tool the Docs
Translations
Sunday
Community Devroom
Decentralized Internet and Privacy
Distributions
Embedded, Mobile and Automotive
Go
Graphics DevRoom
HPC, Big Data & Data Science
Identity and Access Management devroom
Kernel
Open Hardware and CAD/CAM
Open Research
Open Source & EU Policy Devroom
Rust
Software Defined Radio(SDR)/Digital Signal Processing(DSP) devroom
Software Performance
Testing and Continuous Delivery
Sunday morning
Audio, Video & Graphics Devroom (AVG)
Confidential Computing devroom
CRA/SBOM
Decentralised Communication Devroom
Declarative and Minimalistic Computing
DNS
Educational
Gaming and VR devroom
Open Source Digital Forensics
Plan 9
Sunday afternoon
Microkernel and Component-Based OS
Music Production
Open Source Design
Railways and Open Transport
Retrocomputing
Search
Me/the rest of Streamplace are still planning on being around and I’ll be proposing a talk for the Open Media devroom. The Social Web devroom appears to be very ActivityPub centric.
@alex.bsky.team mentioned he’s planning to go.
I put a main track talk in because I joined a little too late for the call for devrooms, and will definitely go if it gets accepted. I know Bryan is interested as well. I do take the point that this is likely to be a much more ActivityPub-centric audience, though.
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