Brussels / 31 January & 1 February 2026

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FOSDEM 2026
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Sunday	Welcome to the Community Devroom!	There are No Adults in the Room: Learning how to Grow Up as a Team						Accessible Sovereignty: Why the Four Freedoms Depend on Inclusion						Neurodiversity in tech: how to build, mentor and motivate every mind					Companies vs. Foundations: Who Should Steer Your Open Source Project?					A decade of lessons from Apache Incubator release votes						Downstream Mindset vs Upstream Communities					The CRA isn't coming for your open source community					The Synthetic Senior: Rethinking Free Software Mentorship in the AI Era					Partnerships That Power Communities: How Collaborations Help Open Source Projects Grow and Thrive						From Vibrant to Silent: Has the Community Lost Its Voice?						Headscale & Tailscale: The complementary open source clone						How the OpenSSL community was built on Heartbleed						What happens if someone breaks the rules?					Self-Raising Lazarus: All Contributors and how Open Source can Rise Again						Building on Success: Sustainability of Open Source						Burnout in Open Source: A Structural Problem We Can Fix Together						The AI Shockwave in Open Source Communities: How AI Is Reshaping the Foundations of Open Source Communities

Read the Call for Papers at https://lists.fosdem.org/pipermail/fosdem/2025q4/003686.html.

Event		Speakers	Start	End
Sunday
	Welcome to the Community Devroom!	Laura Czajkowski, Shirley Bailes	09:00	09:05
	There are No Adults in the Room: Learning how to Grow Up as a Team	Oren Klopfer, A. Salt, Elisabeth Wenger-Stickel	09:05	09:30
	Accessible Sovereignty: Why the Four Freedoms Depend on Inclusion	Mike Gifford	09:35	10:00
	Neurodiversity in tech: how to build, mentor and motivate every mind	Diana Todea	10:05	10:25
	Companies vs. Foundations: Who Should Steer Your Open Source Project?	Ray Paik, Fatih Degirmenci	10:30	10:50
	A decade of lessons from Apache Incubator release votes	Justin Mclean	10:55	11:20
	Downstream Mindset vs Upstream Communities	Ildiko Vancsa	11:25	11:45
	The CRA isn't coming for your open source community	Tobie Langel	11:50	12:10
	The Synthetic Senior: Rethinking Free Software Mentorship in the AI Era	Abigail Cabunoc Mayes	12:15	12:35
	Partnerships That Power Communities: How Collaborations Help Open Source Projects Grow and Thrive	Oluwaseun Oladeji	12:40	13:05
	From Vibrant to Silent: Has the Community Lost Its Voice?	Prithvi Raj	13:10	13:35
	Headscale & Tailscale: The complementary open source clone	Kristoffer Dalby	13:40	14:05
	How the OpenSSL community was built on Heartbleed	Jon Ericson	14:10	14:35
	What happens if someone breaks the rules?	Floor Drees, Jos van Schouten	14:40	15:00
	Self-Raising Lazarus: All Contributors and how Open Source can Rise Again	Jim Madge	15:05	15:30
	Building on Success: Sustainability of Open Source	Ruth Suehle	15:35	16:00
	Burnout in Open Source: A Structural Problem We Can Fix Together	Miranda Heath	16:05	16:30
	The AI Shockwave in Open Source Communities: How AI Is Reshaping the Foundations of Open Source Communities	David Allen, Amanda Victoria Wagner	16:35	17:00