fosdem-2025

With great pleasure we can announce that the following projects will have a stand at FOSDEM 2025 (1st & 2nd February).

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

• 0 A.D. Empires Ascendant
• AlekSIS and Teckids
• AlmaLinux OS
• CalyxOS
• Ceph
• Chamilo
• CISO Assistant
• Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF)
• Codeberg and Forgejo
• coreboot / flashprog / EDKII / OpenBMC
• Debian
• DeepComputing's DC-ROMA RISC-V Mainboard with Framework Laptop 13
• DevPod
• Digital Public Goods
• Dolibarr ERP CRM
• Drupal
• Eclipse Foundation
• Fedora Project
• FerretDB
• Firefly Zero
• FOSSASIA
• Free Software Foundation Europe
• FreeBSD Project
• FreeCAD and KiCAD
• Furi Labs
• Gentoo Linux & Flatcar Container Linux
• GitLab
• GNOME
• GNU Radio
• Grafana
• GraphQL and Graphile
• GÉANT & NRENs - the Research and Education community
• Haiku
• Hex sticker booth by NLnet Foundation
• Homebrew
• Immich
• Infostand on amateur radio
• Jenkins
• Joplin
• KDE
• Kotlin community stand
• Let's Encrypt
• Libre Space Foundation
• LibreOffice Community
• Linphone
• Linux on Mobile
• Luanti (formerly Minetest)
• MariaDB Foundation
• Mastodon
• Mattermost
• Meshtastic
• metal-stack
• MicroPython & Espruino
• Mozilla
• MySQL
• Nostr
• Open Culture Foundation and Taiwan Open Source community
• Open Food Facts
• Open Source Analytics Community
• Open Source at CERN
• OpenFlexure Microscope
• openHAB
• OpenRemote (Call for Stands)
• openSUSE Project
• Overte
• Panoramax
• Percona
• Perl and Raku Stand
• PostgreSQL
• postmarketOS
• privacyIDEA
• Prossimo
• Proxmox Virtual Environment
• Prusa Research
• Qt Project
• Qubes OS and Genode OS
• Realtime Lounge
• Rocky Linux
• Software Freedom Conservancy
• Software Heritage
• SOGo Webmail
• The Matrix.org Foundation
• The Zephyr Project
• Thunderbird
• TinyGo, Mechanoid & WasmVision
• Ubuntu Community
• Vates Virtualization and Management Stack
• VideoLAN
• WHY2025 (hacker camp) & badge.team (hacker event badges)
• WireGuard and Linux Kernel RNG
• Wireshark
• XWiki & CryptPad

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

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-fifth edition will take place on Saturday 1st and Sunday 2nd February 2025 at the usual location, ULB Campus Solbosch in Brussels.

Developer Rooms

For more details about submission to Developer Rooms, please refer to each devroom's Call for Participation listed here.

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 (15 minute) talks on a wide variety of topics. 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.

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 main Lightning Talks track outside the developer rooms (but not for lightning talks inside devrooms).

The deadline for submissions is 1st December.

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.

We are pleased to announce the developer rooms that will be organised at FOSDEM 2025.

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.

FOSDEM 2025 will take place at the ULB on the 1st and 2nd of February 2025. 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.

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 https://pretalx.fosdem.org/fosdem-2025-call-for-stands/! Deadline closes the 7th of November; accepted stands will be announced the 16th of November.

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

We now invite proposals for developer rooms for FOSDEM 2025.

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-fifth edition will take place Saturday 1st and Sunday 2nd February 2025 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.

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:

• 10 October
  • deadline for developer room proposals
• 21 October
  • accepted developer rooms announced
• 30 October (or earlier)
  • developer rooms issue Calls for Participation
• 15 December (or earlier)
  • developer rooms publish complete schedules

FOSDEM 2025 will take place on Saturday 1st and Sunday 2nd of February 2025. This will be our 25th anniversary.

Further details and calls for participation will be announced in the coming days and weeks.