Accepted developer rooms
21 October 2026
We are pleased to announce the developer rooms that will be organised at FOSDEM 2026.
Developer rooms are assigned to self-organising groups to work together on open source projects, to discuss topics relevant to a broader subset of the community, etc. The individual developer room organisers will issue their calls for participation in the next few days. The list below will be updated accordingly.
- /dev/random
- AI Plumbers/Local-First AI
- AT Protocol
- Accessibility
- Amateur Radio Devroom
- Archives, Libraries, and Digital Memory
- Audio, Video, Graphics and Podcast
- BSD, illumos, bhyve, OpenZFS
- Beyond the CRA - Building Secure and Resilient Open Source
- Bioinformatics & Computational Biology
- Browser and web platform
- C evolution
- Collaboration and content management
- Community
- Containers
- DNS
- Decentralised Messaging
- Decentralized Internet and Privacy
- Digital Dissident
- Distributions
- eBPF
- Educational
- Embedded & Resource-Constrained OS
- Embedded, Mobile and Automotive
- Emulator Development
- Erlang, Elixir, Gleam and Friends
- FOSS Office
- FOSS on Mobile
- Free Java
- GCC (GNU Toolchain)
- Gaming and VR devroom
- Geospatial
- Go
- Graphics DevRoom
- Green & Ethical Tech
- HPC, Big Data, and Data Science
- Identity and Access Management Devroom
- Image-Based Linux and Boot Integrity
- Kernel
- LLVM
- Legal & Policy
- Linux Apps DevRoom
- Local-First, Sync engines, CRDTs
- MLIR
- Mainline Linux on mobile
- Microkernel and Component-based OS
- Modern Email
- Monitoring and Observability
- Network Devroom
- Nix and NixOS Devroom
- Open Hardware and CAD/CAM
- Open Media
- Open Research
- Open Source & EU Policy Devroom
- Open Source Design & Open User Research
- Open Source Healthcare
- Open Source Science
- Open Source Systems Languages
- PHP
- Package Management
- Perl & Raku
- PostgreSQL
- Production Operations
- RISC-V
- Radio-Frequency Digital Signal Processing (RF DSP)
- Railways and Open Transport
- Retrocomputing
- Robotics and Simulation
- Ruby
- Rust
- Security Devroom
- Smart Homes
- Social Web Devroom
- Software Defined Storage
- Testing and Continuous Delivery
- The M-ecosystem
- Tool the Docs
- Virtualization and Cloud Infrastructure
We accepted 77 out of 128 proposals. This means unfortunately some good proposals were rejected (or asked to be merged with other rooms). These topics and projects are welcome to submit for a stand, main track. and /dev/random talks or bird of a feather (bof) submissions (when their CFPs open).