Brussels / 31 January & 1 February 2026

schedule

Open Source & EU Policy


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Sunday Introduction the Open Source & EU Policy devroom
Global collaboration and Europe's digital sovereignty goals: debate
Power to the Public Stack: Governing Europe’s Digital Commons
The Euroshack
The Missing Level: Why EU Open Source Fails Locally
Panel: Public Procurement for Digital Sovereignty
EU Cloud Sovereignty Framework explained
Simpl: data spaces implemented in open source
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?
Age verification: a threat to the open-source ecosystem
How Is the European Commission Planning to Break Cryptography This Time?
How to engage with policymakers as civil society
Building a Democracy Data Space: open interoperability for participatory platforms
HowTheyVote.eu - how we make European Parliament roll-call votes more accessible
Solving Europe's problems with Open Source
CRA overview for everyone, including projects and smaller organisations
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

  Introduction the Open Source & EU Policy devroom
Simon Phipps, Jordan Maris, Sebastian Raible, Tasos Stampelos, Madalin Neag, Paula Grzegorzewska, Claire Pershan, Ciarán O'Riordan 09:00 09:05
  Global collaboration and Europe's digital sovereignty goals: debate
Thierry Carrez, Vittorio Bertola, Gabriele Columbro, Paula Grzegorzewska 09:05 09:35
  Power to the Public Stack: Governing Europe’s Digital Commons
Lea Beiermann, Aditya Singh 09:35 10:10
  The Euroshack
André Rebentisch 10:10 10:20
  The Missing Level: Why EU Open Source Fails Locally
Rasmus Frey 10:20 10:30
  Panel: Public Procurement for Digital Sovereignty
Sebastian Raible, Maurice Hendriks, André Rebentisch, Rasmus Frey, Julian Schauder, Emma Ghariani 10:30 11:05
  EU Cloud Sovereignty Framework explained
Emiel Brok 11:05 11:15
  Simpl: data spaces implemented in open source
Ciarán O'Riordan, Valentina STAVERIS 11:15 11:30
  Digital Omnibus: is the EU's tech simplification a Risk or Opportunity for Open Source?
Denise R. S. Almeida 11:30 11:45
  The Fediverse and the EU's Digital Services Act: solving the challenges of modern social media?
Jordan Maris, Sandra Barthel, Hannah Aubry, Alexandra Geese 11:50 12:20
  Age verification: a threat to the open-source ecosystem
Felix Reda, Ella Jakubowska, Elina Eickstädt, khaleesi 12:20 12:40
  How Is the European Commission Planning to Break Cryptography This Time?
Marcel Kolaja 12:40 13:00
  How to engage with policymakers as civil society
Jordan Maris, Sebastian Raible 13:00 13:30
  Building a Democracy Data Space: open interoperability for participatory platforms
Bertille Mazari 13:35 13:45
  HowTheyVote.eu - how we make European Parliament roll-call votes more accessible
Linus Hagemann, Till Prochaska 13:45 13:55
  Solving Europe's problems with Open Source
Boris DOLLEY, Christopher Brewster, Paula Grzegorzewska, Tobias Augspurger, Claire Pershan 13:55 14:30
  CRA overview for everyone, including projects and smaller organisations
Ciarán O'Riordan 14:30 15:20
  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, Greg Wallace, 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 16:55