Brussels / 31 January & 1 February 2026

schedule

H.2215 (Ferrer)


Day Start (UTC+1) End (UTC+1) Track(s)
Saturday 10:40 19:00 Social Web
Sunday 09:00 16:35 /dev/random
09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18
Saturday Democratise the Fediverse
Tending the Herd: Community at Mastodon
Amplify Our Voices: Building Digital Sovereignty on the Fediverse
Reaching out to the wider society: Why the open social web needs to matter to more people – and how we can achieve that goal
tags.pub - following hashtags globally
Increasing Long Term Stability of Relations Between Fediverse Identities using SSI
Unlocking development with ActivityPub Client to Server API
Federated Bookmark Sharing
The Social Web and Digital Sovereignty: Building Social Advocacy Networks in and for Europe.
Building a sustainable italian fediverse: overcoming technical, adoption and moderation challenges
How to level up the fediverse
Fediverse Integration into (EU) Public Administration - A Fantastic FediVariety Circus
The needs of civil institutions for The Next Socials
A wild FASP appears! Integrating your app with Fediverse Auxiliary Service Providers
Decentralised Badges with BadgeFed: Implementing ActivityPub-based Credentials for Non Profits
Splinter - Split long articles into Mastodon threads
Bonfire: Building Modular, Consentful, and Federated Social Networks
Fedify: Building ActivityPub servers without the pain
Friendica - Hidden in plain sight since 2025
Fedi legacy
Mobilizon - share events on the fediverse
Emissary and the Fediverse
Sunday Why Open Source Looks Different in China: When Vendor Strategies, Policy Signals, and Market Pressure Converge
Four Year Bus
Okular: The Universal Document Viewer
SucréLA: open source usb 3.0 logic analyzer based on FPGA
graffito: pretty cellular automata devoid of meaning
PerlOnJava: A Perl Distribution for the JVM
Why I Volunteer at FOSDEM and You Should Too!
The v4 tape in the Unix history repo
Open Food Facts : Getting together to reduce health and environmental impacts of consumption
AtomVM: Elixir, Erlang, and Gleam on Microcontrollers
Physics in Julia: combining Unitful.jl with DifferentialEquations.jl
Trust the Math, Fear the Compiler: How Optimizations Undermine Cryptographic Software
os-test: Measuring POSIX compliance on every single OS
Securing time with NTS
Self-hosting a student radio station
Free Software, Computer Reuse, and Digital Product Passports: Experiences from eReuse.org
From Prototype to Production: Crowdfunding and Shipping the Modos Paper Dev Kit
git blame for your dependencies
Amber Lang - Easily write Bash with a transpiler
Youth Hacking 4 Freedom 2026 a programming competition for teenagers
Open sourcing democracy: using FLOSS and Access To Information to surface bugs in your government
Signed, Sealed, Stolen: How We Patched Critical Vulnerabilities Under Fire
FOSDEM infrastructure review

Events

Title Speakers Track Start (UTC+1) End (UTC+1)

Saturday

  Democratise the Fediverse
Matthias Pfefferle Social Web 10:40 11:10
  Tending the Herd: Community at Mastodon
Hannah Aubry Social Web 11:10 11:40
  Amplify Our Voices: Building Digital Sovereignty on the Fediverse
Benjamin Bellamy Social Web 11:40 12:10
  Reaching out to the wider society: Why the open social web needs to matter to more people – and how we can achieve that goal
Björn Staschen Social Web 12:20 12:50
  tags.pub - following hashtags globally
Evan Prodromou Social Web 12:50 13:00
  Increasing Long Term Stability of Relations Between Fediverse Identities using SSI
Paul Fuxjäger Social Web 13:00 13:10
  Unlocking development with ActivityPub Client to Server API
Django Doucet Social Web 13:10 13:20
  Federated Bookmark Sharing
Rafael Epplée Social Web 14:00 14:10
  The Social Web and Digital Sovereignty: Building Social Advocacy Networks in and for Europe.
Sandra Barthel Social Web 14:10 14:30
  Building a sustainable italian fediverse: overcoming technical, adoption and moderation challenges
Fra - OpenForFuture, Filippo Della Bianca, Michele Agostinelli Social Web 14:30 15:00
  How to level up the fediverse
Christine Lemmer-Webber, Jessica Tallon Social Web 15:10 15:40
  Fediverse Integration into (EU) Public Administration - A Fantastic FediVariety Circus
Peter Mechels [zzepposs], Victoria Neumann [vishnee] Social Web 15:40 16:00
  The needs of civil institutions for The Next Socials
Pepijn Lemmens Social Web 16:10 16:20
  A wild FASP appears! Integrating your app with Fediverse Auxiliary Service Providers
James Smith Social Web 16:20 16:30
  Decentralised Badges with BadgeFed: Implementing ActivityPub-based Credentials for Non Profits
Maho Pacheco Social Web 16:30 16:50
  Splinter - Split long articles into Mastodon threads
Eyal Ron (Neiman) Social Web 16:50 17:00
  Bonfire: Building Modular, Consentful, and Federated Social Networks
Mayel de Borniol, ivan minutillo Social Web 17:10 17:30
  Fedify: Building ActivityPub servers without the pain
Hong Minhee Social Web 17:30 17:50
  Friendica - Hidden in plain sight since 2025
Tobias Diekershoff Social Web 17:50 18:10
  Fedi legacy
Ian Forrester, Samuel Margerison Social Web 18:10 18:20
  Mobilizon - share events on the fediverse
Stéphane, Alexandra Social Web 18:20 18:30
  Emissary and the Fediverse
Ben Pate Social Web 18:30 19:00

Sunday

  Why Open Source Looks Different in China: When Vendor Strategies, Policy Signals, and Market Pressure Converge
Richard Lin /dev/random 09:00 09:15
  Four Year Bus
Ruán Murgatroyd /dev/random 09:20 09:35
  Okular: The Universal Document Viewer
Albert Astals Cid /dev/random 09:40 09:55
  SucréLA: open source usb 3.0 logic analyzer based on FPGA
Yann Sionneau /dev/random 10:00 10:15
  graffito: pretty cellular automata devoid of meaning
Niels G. W. Serup /dev/random 10:20 10:35
  PerlOnJava: A Perl Distribution for the JVM
Flavio Soibelmann Glock /dev/random 10:40 10:55
  Why I Volunteer at FOSDEM and You Should Too!
Imma Valls /dev/random 11:00 11:15
  The v4 tape in the Unix history repo
Diomidis Spinellis /dev/random 11:20 11:35
  Open Food Facts : Getting together to reduce health and environmental impacts of consumption
Pierre Slamich /dev/random 11:40 11:55
  AtomVM: Elixir, Erlang, and Gleam on Microcontrollers
Davide Bettio /dev/random 12:00 12:15
  Physics in Julia: combining Unitful.jl with DifferentialEquations.jl
Daria Klimaszewska /dev/random 12:20 12:35
  Trust the Math, Fear the Compiler: How Optimizations Undermine Cryptographic Software
René Meusel /dev/random 12:40 12:55
  os-test: Measuring POSIX compliance on every single OS
Jonas 'Sortie' Termansen /dev/random 13:00 13:15
  Securing time with NTS
Ruben Nijveld /dev/random 13:20 13:35
  Self-hosting a student radio station
Ari Carmody /dev/random 13:40 13:55
  Free Software, Computer Reuse, and Digital Product Passports: Experiences from eReuse.org
Felix Freitag, Leandro, Pedro Vílchez-Blanco /dev/random 14:00 14:15
  From Prototype to Production: Crowdfunding and Shipping the Modos Paper Dev Kit
Alexander Soto /dev/random 14:20 14:35
  git blame for your dependencies
Andrew Nesbitt /dev/random 14:40 14:55
  Amber Lang - Easily write Bash with a transpiler
Daniele Scasciafratte /dev/random 15:00 15:15
  Youth Hacking 4 Freedom 2026 a programming competition for teenagers
Bonnie Mehring, Sofía Aritz /dev/random 15:20 15:35
  Open sourcing democracy: using FLOSS and Access To Information to surface bugs in your government
Laurent Savaete /dev/random 15:40 15:55
  Signed, Sealed, Stolen: How We Patched Critical Vulnerabilities Under Fire
Jade, nex /dev/random 16:00 16:15
  FOSDEM infrastructure review
FOSDEM Staff, Richard "RichiH" Hartmann, Sebastian Schubert /dev/random 16:20 16:35