FOSDEM 2027 Call for Devrooms

Mon, 07 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0200

Proposals for developer rooms for FOSDEM 2027 can now be submitted!

Developer rooms are assigned to self-organizing groups to work together on open source and free software projects, to discuss topics relevant to a broader subset of the community, etc. Most content should take the form of presentations. Proposals involving collaboration across project or domain boundaries are strongly encouraged.

We want to continue to focus on promoting collaboration and community between different projects in niches which don’t normally have their own spaces, rather than large projects with significant corporate backing.

For inspiration, some example rooms along these lines from recent years: Modern Email, Package Management, and Music Production.

As usual, we unfortunately have a very hard limit on the number of devrooms we accept due to the realities of the physical space available to us. Every year we must make difficult decisions about which great proposals must be rejected (in the past we could have filled the entire conference with every devroom about a different programming language!). If you submitted a proposal for a devroom in the last few years and got rejected, don’t be disheartened and submit anyway!

Devroom coordinators must enter a complete schedule into our conference system by 7th December. It is particularly important to be available and to respond promptly to emails about the schedule for about a week either side of this date. We also require all proposals to be submitted directly by the speakers into our system.

Saturday devroom schedules should contain between 7.5 and 8.5 hours of content, beginning at 10.30 and running until between 18.00 and 19.00.
Sunday schedules should contain between 7 and 8 hours of content and start between 09.00 and 10.00 and run through until 17.00.
No lunch breaks should be scheduled for devrooms.

If you don’t think you can fill a full day, please try to join up with another project and submit a joint devroom application or indicate on the submission form that you are requesting only half-a-day and would like FOSDEM to try to pair you up with another similar request for half-a-day.

Because our room capacity is limited, we will record and stream all devrooms live. The recordings will be published under the same licence as all FOSDEM content (CC-BY).

Devroom submissions will only be accepted with at least two named managers who are responsible for the room.

If you have questions or need help crafting a good submission, contact us at program@fosdem.org.

The deadline for submissions is 4th October.

Key dates:

04 October: deadline for developer room proposals
20 October: accepted developer rooms announced
27 October (or earlier): developer rooms issue Calls for Participation
07 December (or earlier): developer rooms publish complete schedules

Note that the submission form should only be used by organisers of devrooms. If you want to submit a talk to a main track or devroom, keep an eye on the website until their Call for participation opens around October 27.

FOSDEM 2027 will take place on 30 & 31 January 2027

Sun, 30 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0200

FOSDEM 2027 will take place on Saturday 30 and Sunday 31 January 2027, at the ULB Solbosch campus in Brussels, Belgium.

As always, attendance is free and registration is not required. The call for participation, the schedule and travel information will follow here.