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 sponsors
(in alphabetical order)
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.
Google 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 develop cloud-native applications, integrate existing and new IT applications, and automate and manage complex environments. A trusted adviser to the Fortune 500, Red Hat provides award-winning support, training, and consulting services that bring the benefits of open innovation to any industry. Red Hat is a connective hub in a global network of enterprises, partners, and communities, helping organizations grow, transform, and prepare for the digital future.
Red Hat supports the event financially.
Main sponsors
(in alphabetical order)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.
Colt sponsors an internet uplink at FOSDEM.
Dstny
We at Dstny are a European leader and innovator in secure cloud communications, based on our powerful UCaaS offer and technology. Over 2 million business users are empowered to communicate, collaborate, and provide excellent customer service with our tools at hand. We enable service providers, partners, and end-users as well as 3rd party services to thrive in our ecosystem. With headquarters in Brussels, we have more than 700 employees in 7 European countries and an annual turnover of close to €190 million in 2021.
Dstny sponsors an internet uplink at FOSDEM.
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.
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.
The ULB substantially supports the event by providing us with the location at cost, as well as allowing the use of infrastructure on-site.