Brussels / 31 January & 1 February 2026

schedule

Open Source & EU Policy


09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18
Sunday The Euroshack
The Missing Level: Why EU Open Source Fails Locally
Public Procurement for Digital Sovereignty
From policy to practice: implementing the EU AI Act for open-source software
Digital Omnibus: is the EU's tech simplification a Risk or Opportunity for Open Source?
The Fediverse and the EU's Digital Services Act: solving the challenges of modern social media?
HowTheyVote.eu - how we make European Parliament roll-call votes more accessible
How to engage with policymakers as civil society
Could Compliance Costs Sustain FOSS? A Theory of Voluntary Attestations
Could Compliance Costs Sustain FOSS? A Panel With The Public Sector
Participating in Standardisation around the CRA
Effective standard-setting

Read the Call for Papers at https://softwarefreedom.net/fosdem-2026-cfp.

Event Speakers Start End

Sunday

  The Euroshack
André Rebentisch 10:10 10:20
  The Missing Level: Why EU Open Source Fails Locally
Rasmus Frey 10:20 10:30
  Public Procurement for Digital Sovereignty
Sebastian Raible 10:30 11:10
  From policy to practice: implementing the EU AI Act for open-source software
Daphne Muller 11:30 11:45
  Digital Omnibus: is the EU's tech simplification a Risk or Opportunity for Open Source?
Denise R. S. Almeida 11:45 12:00
  The Fediverse and the EU's Digital Services Act: solving the challenges of modern social media?
Jordan Maris 12:00 12:30
  HowTheyVote.eu - how we make European Parliament roll-call votes more accessible
Linus Hagemann, Till Prochaska 13:10 13:20
  How to engage with policymakers as civil society
Jordan Maris, Sebastian Raible 13:20 14:00
  Could Compliance Costs Sustain FOSS? A Theory of Voluntary Attestations
Æva Black 15:20 15:40
  Could Compliance Costs Sustain FOSS? A Panel With The Public Sector
Æva Black, Michael Schuster, Tommaso Bernabo' 15:40 16:20
  Participating in Standardisation around the CRA
Simon Phipps, Jordan Maris 16:20 16:30
  Effective standard-setting
Tobie Langel 16:30 17:00