FOSDEM22

An important part of our programme: the T-shirts and hoodies. They are (again) available, and contrary to normal practices, you won't have to stand in line to get them and they won't run out!

For the online edition, we partnered with a print-on-demand provider, which means that they won't run out at Saturday noon, as they normally do.

Two batches will be produced, one before FOSDEM and one after. The order cut-off dates are Sunday 16th January 2022 and Sunday 13th February 2022.

Visitors from the EU can go to treasure.fosdem.org, offering shipping to the EU.

If you want to ship to a destnnation outside of the EU, go to row.treasure.fosdem.org.

If you can't find your country in either of the shops, send an e-mail to treasure-at-fosdem-dot-org with how many hoodies/T-shirts you wish to order and the country and we can find out if it is possible.

Find more information on our T-shirts and hoodies page.

We now invite proposals for presentations.

FOSDEM offers open source and free software developers a place to meet, share ideas and collaborate. Renowned for being highly developer-oriented, the event brings together some 8000+ geeks from all over the world.

The twenty-second edition will take place online on Saturday 5th and Sunday 6th February 2022 using the same underlying technology as the twenty-first edition. We will be running a variety of streams including Developer Rooms, Main Tracks and Lightning Talks.

Proposals

All proposals for presentations should be submitted using Pentabarf: https://fosdem.org/submit. If you already created an account in the system for a previous edition, please reuse it rather than re-registering. You can reset your password here: https://penta.fosdem.org/user/forgot_password

When making a proposal, please select the appropriate track.

If the topic fits into a Developer Room, then please refer to that room's call for papers, listed here and select that room as the "track".

Select Lightning Talks for a 15-minute Lightning Talk outside the developer rooms.

For the main tracks, please choose from the following topics: Community (Main Tracks), Real Time Communications (Main Tracks), Security (Main Tracks) or, alternatively, pick Other Topics (Main Tracks and Keynotes) for anything that doesn't fit into any of the other categorisations.

Main track presentations will be allocated slots of either 45 or 60 minutes, which includes some time for live Q&A after the video presentation. Please set the Duration field to one of those two values. Your pre-recording should then be between 5 and 10 minutes shorter than the duration you chose.

Deadlines

Submission deadlines vary according to the track.

For Developer Rooms, check the relevant Call for Papers. The final deadline for Main Tracks and Lightning Talks is Tuesday 28th December 2021. Accepted speakers will be notified by Tuesday 4th January 2022.

Please note that some programme committees may be reviewing proposals and making decisions on an ongoing basis before the published deadlines. This means that, for the most popular tracks, submitting early may increase your chance of acceptance as later submissions may be competing for fewer remaining places in the schedule, and particular themes for sections of the programme might already have been chosen based upon the range of submissions received earlier.

Requirements

Accepted speakers will need to prepare, record and upload their presentation during the first three weeks of January, no later than Friday 21st January. Guidance will be provided. Speakers will need to be in a place with a computer with a reliable internet connection and working camera and microphone when their presentation is scheduled so they can join a video room and take questions and engage in discussion after their pre-recorded presentation is played.

The conference language is English. All content must relate to Free and Open Source Software. By participating in the event you agree to the publication of your recordings, slides and other content provided under the same licence as all FOSDEM content (CC-BY).

All participation is subject to the FOSDEM Code of Conduct.

Questions or remarks? Contact us at devrooms@fosdem.org, lightningtalks@fosdem.org or program@fosdem.org.

All deadlines are at 23:59 UTC.

We are pleased to announce the developer rooms that will be organised at FOSDEM 2022.

Developer rooms are assigned to self-organising groups to work together on open source projects, to discuss topics relevant to a broader subset of the community, etc. The individual developer room organisers will issue their calls for participation in the next few days. The list below will be updated accordingly.

We now invite proposals for developer rooms for FOSDEM 2022. Invitations to submit proposals for other elements of the event will follow in the next couple of weeks.

FOSDEM offers open source and free software developers a place to meet, share ideas and collaborate. Renowned for being highly developer-oriented, the event brings together some 8000+ geeks from all over the world.

The twenty-second edition will take place Saturday 5th and Sunday 6th February 2022, online.

Developer rooms are assigned to self-organising groups to work together on open source and free software projects, to discuss topics relevant to a broader subset of the community, etc. Most content should take the form of presentations. Proposals involving collaboration across project or domain boundaries are strongly encouraged.

For obvious reasons, unfortunately we will be unable to run a physical conference in Brussels this year, but we would still like to give communities a place to meet online.

We are using Matrix, an online platform (streaming and chat) allowing devroom organizers to run the conference primarily using pre-recorded talks with some live content including Q&A sessions and discussion panels, with streaming and archiving. The recordings will be published under the same licence as all FOSDEM content (CC-BY). Note that the demand for devrooms may exceed the supply - even for an online event!

Devroom managers must enter a complete schedule into our conference system by 31st December. They will also be responsible for recruiting sufficient volunteers to work with the speakers to create pre-recordings during January and to carry out various new roles necessary to product a smooth online event. We think a typical devroom will need to find a pool of at least five volunteers this year.

Developer room proposals should be submitted through the form at https://fosdem.org/devroom which contains further information. When applying, please indicate your preferred devroom duration and any preferred split between the two days.

Questions or remarks? Contact us at devrooms@fosdem.org.

Key dates:

• 15 November
  • deadline for developer room proposals
• 20 November
  • accepted developer rooms announced
• 30 November (or earlier)
  • developer rooms issue Calls for Participation
• 31 December (or earlier)
  • developer rooms publish complete schedules

All deadlines are at 23:59 UTC.

FOSDEM 2022 will take place on Saturday 5 and Sunday 6 February 2022. It will be an online event.

After several long and passionate debates, we have decided to make FOSDEM 2022 an online event.

There are a lot of good arguments in favor of physical, hybrid, and online events each. We do not wish to rehash all of them in public, so please understand if we do not engage in public debates on their relative merits.

This was not an easy decision, but at least it's a decision. Similar to CCC, we would prefer something else, but it is what it is.

On a positive note, we can now plan. Expect a timeline for the usual submissions within the next 1-2 weeks.

FOSDEM 2022 will take place on Saturday 5 and Sunday 6 February 2022. The exact format is yet to be decided.

As every year, we have started planning for real in August. As evident from our lack of updates since then, it's a bit harder this year.

There are a lot of strong opinions about what the best, or least bad, FOSDEM 2022 could look like. Finding consensus is harder than we would like it to be. Going forward, we will do a better job of keeping you informed going forward. Apologies; we're also burned out and just want our old lives back.

We are painfully aware that we're not only compressing our schedules, but yours as well.