Brussels / 31 January & 1 February 2026

schedule

Funding the FOSS Ecosystem


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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

Read the Call for Papers at https://lists.fosdem.org/pipermail/fosdem/2025q4/003656.html.

Event Speakers Start End

Saturday

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