Brussels / 31 January & 1 February 2026

schedule

UD2.218A


Day Start End Track(s)
Saturday 10:30 18:50 Funding the FOSS Ecosystem
Sunday 09:00 17:00 Decentralized Internet and Privacy
09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18
Saturday The Buyout: How the Open Source Community liberated its own platform
Procurement Is the Biggest Form of Fundraising for FLOSS
Funding Europe’s Open Digital Infrastructure: A Detailed Case for an EU Sovereign Tech Fund
Funding Lessons Learned Panel
Nominet DNS Fund – what can we learn?
Understanding and advancing research software grant funding models
Securing the Next Grant: Early Insights on Aligning FOSS and Funders
Build your funding toolkit
The Funding Gap in FOSS: What We Learned and How to Close It
Ecosystems, Not Projects: Rethinking Open Source Foundation Funding
OSS funding in industry and large enterprises
Accelerating the open source flywheel in Europe with private sector & VC funding
Sunday Intro to the Decentralized Internet & Privacy devroom
Bringing Decentralization to Your Doorstep: 5 Years in Browsers
Re-decentralizing the web platform with Wasm GC
In defence of GnuPG: Key Sovereignty in an Age of Digital Feudalism
The GNU Name System, its applications and roadmap
Namecoin and Tor as a Public Key Infrastructure
Half-time recap & precap for Decentralized Internet devroom
Peergos: Capability-Based Access Control for an Encrypted Web
OCapN: The secure, decentralized protocol of the future
iroh p2p connections
NextGraph: E2EE decentralized platform & framework
Walkaway Stack: Radical, infrastructure-independent peer-to-peer systems
Reticulum-rs: Porting the Trustless Mesh from Python to Rust
qaul.net - Internet Independent Wireless Mesh Communication App
Multi-transport chat messaging & cryptographic identities with Delta Chat and Chatmail relays

Events

Title Speakers Track Start End

Saturday

  The Buyout: How the Open Source Community liberated its own platform
Shannon Wray Funding the FOSS Ecosystem 10:30 11:00
  Procurement Is the Biggest Form of Fundraising for FLOSS
Mike Gifford Funding the FOSS Ecosystem 11:10 11:40
  Funding Europe’s Open Digital Infrastructure: A Detailed Case for an EU Sovereign Tech Fund
Nicholas Gates, Felix Reda, Jennifer Tridgell Funding the FOSS Ecosystem 11:50 12:20
  Funding Lessons Learned Panel
Maria Majadas, Guillaume Monnet, Sriram Ramkrishna, Hannes Mühleisen, Lucie Anglade, Guillaume Ayoub Funding the FOSS Ecosystem 12:30 13:30
  Nominet DNS Fund – what can we learn?
Amy O'Donnell Funding the FOSS Ecosystem 13:40 14:10
  Understanding and advancing research software grant funding models
Daniel S. Katz Funding the FOSS Ecosystem 14:20 14:50
  Securing the Next Grant: Early Insights on Aligning FOSS and Funders
Georg Link, Johan Linåker, Kevin Lumbard Funding the FOSS Ecosystem 15:00 15:30
  Build your funding toolkit
DanJ Funding the FOSS Ecosystem 15:40 16:10
  The Funding Gap in FOSS: What We Learned and How to Close It
F-Droid Team Members Funding the FOSS Ecosystem 16:20 16:50
  Ecosystems, Not Projects: Rethinking Open Source Foundation Funding
Bill Mulligan, Patrick Masson Funding the FOSS Ecosystem 17:00 17:30
  OSS funding in industry and large enterprises
Funding the FOSS Ecosystem 17:40 18:10
  Accelerating the open source flywheel in Europe with private sector & VC funding
Gabriele Columbro, Abel Samot Funding the FOSS Ecosystem 18:20 18:50

Sunday

  Intro to the Decentralized Internet & Privacy devroom
Diego Salazar Decentralized Internet and Privacy 09:00 09:05
  Bringing Decentralization to Your Doorstep: 5 Years in Browsers
Mosh Lee Decentralized Internet and Privacy 09:05 09:30
  Re-decentralizing the web platform with Wasm GC
David Thompson Decentralized Internet and Privacy 09:30 09:55
  In defence of GnuPG: Key Sovereignty in an Age of Digital Feudalism
Özcan Oğuz Decentralized Internet and Privacy 10:25 10:50
  The GNU Name System, its applications and roadmap
Martin Schanzenbach Decentralized Internet and Privacy 10:50 11:20
  Namecoin and Tor as a Public Key Infrastructure
Jeremy Rand Decentralized Internet and Privacy 11:45 12:15
  Half-time recap & precap for Decentralized Internet devroom
Diego Salazar Decentralized Internet and Privacy 12:40 12:45
  Peergos: Capability-Based Access Control for an Encrypted Web
Ian Preston Decentralized Internet and Privacy 13:15 13:45
  OCapN: The secure, decentralized protocol of the future
Jessica Tallon Decentralized Internet and Privacy 13:45 14:10
  iroh p2p connections
Floris Bruynooghe Decentralized Internet and Privacy 14:10 14:35
  NextGraph: E2EE decentralized platform & framework
Niko Bonnieure Decentralized Internet and Privacy 14:35 15:05
  Walkaway Stack: Radical, infrastructure-independent peer-to-peer systems
adz Decentralized Internet and Privacy 15:05 15:35
  Reticulum-rs: Porting the Trustless Mesh from Python to Rust
Shane Pearman Decentralized Internet and Privacy 15:35 16:05
  qaul.net - Internet Independent Wireless Mesh Communication App
Mathias Jud Decentralized Internet and Privacy 16:05 16:35
  Multi-transport chat messaging & cryptographic identities with Delta Chat and Chatmail relays
missytake Decentralized Internet and Privacy 16:35 17:00