Online / 5 & 6 February 2022

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Sponsors

FOSDEM would not be possible without the generous help of our sponsors. Thank you very much!

If you are interested in sponsoring FOSDEM, send us an email at sponsors@fosdem.org or see our contact page for more information.

While FOSDEM is primarily funded by sponsors and the sale of t-shirts, we also gratefully accept voluntary donations. See our donations page for more information.


Cornerstone sponsor

Google

Google believes that open source is good for everyone. By being open and freely available, it enables and encourages collaboration and the development of technology.

For more information, visit https://opensource.google/.

Google supports the event financially.


Main sponsors

(in alphabetical order)

Back Market

Founded in 2014 in France, Back Market is the world’s first online marketplace dedicated exclusively to second-hand devices.

We provide a platform that allows the consumer to enjoy a shopping experience with the associated advantages one has when buying new, but at a cheaper price. It also enables the merchants to market their product in the fastest and most efficient manner. By bringing range, transparency and quality standards to the industry.

Spurred into action by the megatons of e-waste we produce each year thanks to our collective obsession with new tech, Back Market is challenging people to rethink their tech consumption.
And our team continues to grow.. We have over 600 people in New York, Prague, Paris, Bordeaux, Berlin, Barcelona and remote.
We have a Culture Team ensuring “work” is a fun place to be, and a D&I team ensuring everyone feels included and heard.

As a growing tech company, most of our products rely on open source technologies and tools (Django, Vue.js, Go and many more). For us, promoting and contributing back to an open source community is one step closer to our ideal of society.

Back Market supports the event financially.

Cisco

Cisco enables people to make powerful connections - whether in business, education, philanthropy, or creativity. Cisco hardware, software, and service offerings are used to create the Internet solutions that make networks possible - providing easy access to information anywhere, at any time.

Cisco was founded in 1984 by a small group of computer scientists from Stanford University. Since the company’s inception, Cisco engineers have been leaders in the development of Internet Protocol (IP)-based networking technologies.

Today, with more than 67,000 employees worldwide, this tradition of innovation continues with industry-leading products and solutions in the company’s core development areas of routing and switching, as well as in advanced technologies such as Application Networking, Data Center, Digital Media, IPICS, Mobility, Security, Storage Networking, TelePresence, Unified Communications, Video and Virtualization

While the 2022 event takes place online, Cisco still supports the event by providing the on-site equipment year-round.

Colt

Colt provides network, voice, and data centre services to thousands of businesses around the world, allowing them to focus on delivering their business goals instead of the underlying infrastructure. Customers include 18 of the top 25 banks and diversified financial groups and 19 out of the top 25 companies in both global media and telecoms industries (Forbes 2000 list, 2014). In addition, Colt works with over 50 exchange venues and 13 European central banks.

Colt operates across Europe, Asia and North America with connections into over 200 cities globally. It completed the acquisition of KVH in 2014, an integrated managed communications and IT infrastructure services business, with headquarters in Tokyo and operations in Hong Kong, Seoul and Singapore.

While the 2022 event takes place online, Colt still supports the event by providing the on-site internet uplink year-round.

Element

Element is an open source messaging and collaboration platform.

We give people and organisations back their digital sovereignty by decentralising conversations, letting you host yourself or through a hosting provider such as Element Matrix Services.

Element is built on Matrix - an open network for secure, decentralised communication - for easy connectivity with any of the 44M addressable users on the public Matrix network. Additional privacy is provided by end-to-end encryption, protecting instant messaging, 1:1 voice and video calls, and file sharing.

Element was founded by the team behind Matrix as a way to bring it to the mainstream.

Element provides the chat infrastructure.

Huawei

Huawei is a leading global provider of information and communications technology (ICT) infrastructure and smart devices. Through open collaboration and innovation, we help promote and protect unified global standards, establish industry and ecosystem alliances, support global open source projects, and drive breakthroughs in key technologies. We need to pool, create, and share resources across the entire industry. Together with industry partners worldwide, we are building an open, global ecosystem that will help the ICT sector to develop more sustainably.

Huawei’s mission is to bring digital to every person, home and organization for a fully connected, intelligent world. We have approximately 197,000 employees and we operate in over 170 countries and regions, serving more than three billion people around the world.

For more information, please visit https://www.huawei.com/.

Huawei supports the event financially.

OpenTAP

We are OpenTAP. A growing community of test developers dedicated to effortless automation.

The core of OpenTAP is an open-source test sequencer, and our community is continuously adding plugins and solutions that support faster development, execution and optimization of test and measurement software that excels — now, and next time.

Join us as we contribute, collaborate and create — together.

OpenTAP supports the event financially.

Red Hat

Red Hat is the world’s leading provider of enterprise open source software solutions, using a community-powered approach to deliver reliable and high-performing Linux, hybrid cloud, container, and Kubernetes technologies.

Red Hat helps customers integrate new and existing IT applications, develop cloud-native applications, standardize on our industry-leading operating system, and automate, secure, and manage complex environments.

Award-winning support, training, and consulting services make Red Hat a trusted adviser to the Fortune 500. As a strategic partner to cloud providers, system integrators, application vendors, customers, and open source communities, Red Hat can help organizations prepare for the digital future.

Red Hat supports the event financially.

The Linux Foundation & Cloud Native Computing Foundation

The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) is an open source software foundation dedicated to making cloud native computing universal and sustainable. Cloud native computing uses an open source software stack to deploy applications as microservices, packaging each part into its own container, and dynamically orchestrating those containers to optimize resource utilization. We host and nurture components of cloud native software stacks, including Kubernetes, Envoy and Prometheus.

The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) supports the event financially.

Université Libre de Bruxelles

The Université Libre de Bruxelles (or ULB) is a French-speaking university in Brussels, Belgium. It has about 20,000 students.

While the 2022 event takes place online, the ULB continues their commitment to support the event.


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