fosdem-2024

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-fourth edition will take place on Saturday 3rd and Sunday 4th February 2024 at the usual location, ULB Campus Solbosch in Brussels.

Developer Rooms

For more details about the Developer Rooms, please refer to the Calls for Papers at https://fosdem.org/2024/news/2023-11-08-devrooms-announced.

Main Tracks

Main track presentations cover topics of interest to a significant part of our audience that do not fit into any of the developer rooms, perhaps because of the topic or the large size of the anticipated audience. Presentations should be 50 minutes long including audience questions. Where necessary, FOSDEM covers reasonable travel expenses agreed in advance and arranges accommodation for accepted main track speakers.

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

Lightning talks

Lightning talks are short talks on a wide variety of topics. Traditionally at FOSDEM these have been 15 minutes long but this year we also intend to accept some 5 minute talks. Anyone who has something interesting to say about a free software or open source project or topic can apply. We particularly encourage topics that do not fit into any of the other tracks. When submitting this year, please set the Duration field to either 5 minutes or 15 minutes. (If you request 15 minutes but would be willing to accept a 5 minute slot instead, mention this in the Submission Notes field.)

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

Submission

All proposals for presentations at the event should be submitted through pretalx: https://fosdem.org/submit. 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 the separate Lightning Talks track outside the developer rooms (but not for lightning talks inside devrooms).

Submissions will be reviewed as they are received on an ongoing basis. The default deadline this year is 8th December but some developer rooms have specified a slightly different date which could be a few days earlier or later so do check the Call for Papers for your track carefully!

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 recordings, slides and other content provided under the same licence as all FOSDEM content (CC-BY). You also accept the FOSDEM Code of Conduct.

All deadlines are at 23:59 UTC.

With great pleasure we can announce the following projects will have a stand at FOSDEM 2024 (3 & 4th of February).

This is the list of stands (in alphabetic order):

• AlmaLinux
• Ansible
• Automotive Grade Linux
• Badge.Team
• CentOS, RDO and OKD
• CERN Open Source
• Checkmk
• CiviCRM
• Code your Future
• Codeberg
• coreboot / flashrom / EDKII / OpenBMC
• Debian
• CalyxOS + Droidian Linux
• Fedora Project
• FOSSASIA
• Free Software Foundation Europe
• FreeCAD
• GNOME
• GNU HEALTH PROJECT
• GNU Radio with IQEngine
• Google Summer of Code 20th year stand
• Grafana
• Homebrew
• Infostand on amateur radio
• ISRG - Let's Encrypt, Prossimo & Divi Up
• Jenkins
• Joplin
• KDE
• Kodi
• La Contre-Voie
• Libreoffice
• Linux Foundation Europe
• Linux on Mobilei (Mobian, Sailfish OS, PureOS, UBports, MNT Research, postmarketOS) + Ubports
• MariaDB Server
• Mastodon
• Matrix.org Foundation
• Mautic
• Minetest
• Mozilla
• Nextcloud: Self-hosted, open file sync & communication platform
• Nix and NIxOS
• NLnet Foundation
• Open Culture Foundation + Taiwan open source community
• Open Source Design
• Open-source fitness: wger + Feel
• openHAB
• OpenTofu
• Percona LLC
• PINE64
• PostgreSQL
• Proxmox Virtual Environment
• Prusa Research
• Realtime Lounge
• Rocky Linux / Rocky Enterprise Software Foundation
• Software Freedom Conservancy
• The OpenSSL Project
• Thunderbird
• wolfSSL

We will announce the location of every stand closer to the event.

We are pleased to announce the developer rooms that will be organised at FOSDEM 2024.

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 believe that the former dates of the stands cfp would create logistical problems.

Therefore we are going to switch the dates as follow:

• Submission deadline 10th November instead of 20th of November
• Publication date on 20th November instead of 4th December

We now invite proposals for developer rooms for FOSDEM 2024.

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-fourth edition will take place Saturday 3th and Sunday 4th February 2024 in Brussels, Belgium.

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.

This edition will take place in person only, we will not offer the option for virtual/hybrid devrooms with remote presentations. We wil however still stream and record sessions, with a live chat for remote participants.

Devroom managers must enter a complete schedule into our conference system by 15th December.

Developer room proposals should be submitted through the form at https://fosdem.org/devroom which contains further information.

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

Key dates:

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

FOSDEM 2024 will take place at the ULB on the 3th and 4th of February 2024. As has become traditional, we offer free and open source projects a stand to display their work "in real life" to the audience.

You can share information, demo software, interact with your users and developers, give away goodies, sell merchandise or accept donations. Anything is possible!

We offer you:

• One table (180x80cm) with a set of chairs and a power socket.
• Fast wireless internet access.
• A spot on stands.fosdem.org.

You can choose whether you want the spot for the entire conference, or simply for one day. Joint submissions (sharing a table) will be favoured in the process.

Submit your application at stands.fosdem.org/submission! Deadline closes the 8th of December; accepted stands will be announced the 20th of December.