Presentations - Call for Participation
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.