FOSDEM 2026 Call for Participation
Proposals for developer rooms and main track talks for FOSDEM 2026 can now be submitted!
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-sixth edition will take place on Saturday 31st January and Sunday 1st February 2026 at the usual location, ULB Campus Solbosch in Brussels.
Developer Rooms
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.
As usual, we unfortunately have a very hard limit on the number of devrooms we accept due to the realities of the physical space available to us. Every year we must make difficult decisions about which great proposals must be rejected (in the past we could have filled the entire conference with every devroom about a different programming language!). If you submitted a proposal for a devroom in the last few years and got rejected, don’t be disheartened and submit anyway!
This year we are slightly changing the way we make the choices of which devrooms we select. We want to focus a little more on promoting collaboration and community between different projects in niches which don’t normally have their own spaces, rather than large projects with significant corporate backing.
As an example, we want some more weird and wonderful Plan9 ecosystem devrooms.
If you have questions or need help crafting a good submission, contact us at program@fosdem.org.
The deadline for submissions is 12th October.
Key dates:
- 12 October: deadline for developer room proposals
- 26 October: accepted developer rooms announced
- 30 October (or earlier): developer rooms issue Calls for Participation
- 15 December (or earlier): developer rooms publish complete schedules
Main Track Talks
Main track presentations cover topics of interest to a significant part of our audience that do not fit into any of the usual developer rooms, perhaps because of the topic or the large size of the anticipated audience.
This year presentations are either 25 or 50 minutes long including audience questions.
Submission for talks in devrooms will open after devrooms are selected and announced.
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.
The deadline for submissions is 16th November.
TL;DR
- To submit a devroom, go to https://fosdem.org/devroom
- To submit a main track talk, go to https://fosdem.org/submit