Brussels / 31 January & 1 February 2026

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FOSDEM 2026
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Open Source & EU Policy

Open Source & EU Policy

Room: UA2.118 (Henriot)
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Sunday		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		Public Procurement for Digital Sovereignty								EU Cloud Sovereignty Framework explained				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									HowTheyVote.eu - how we make European Parliament roll-call votes more accessible			Solving Europe's problems with Open Source							CRA Compliance for projects and small 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
	Global collaboration and Europe's digital sovereignty goals: debate	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
	Public Procurement for Digital Sovereignty	Sebastian Raible	10:30	11:05
	EU Cloud Sovereignty Framework explained	Emiel Brok	11:10	11:20
	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	Ella Jakubowska	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
	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@mozillafoundation.org	14:00	14:30
	CRA Compliance for projects and small organisations	Ciarán O'Riordan	14:35	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