As part of FOSDEM 2026, which will take place on 31 January & 1 February 2026, our partners OpenForum Europe and Linux Foundation are organising a devroom on Open Source & EU Policy. The devroom will take place on Sunday, 1st February 2026, and will run all day. The devroom is organised in collaboration with APELL, Eclipse Foundation, Mozilla, OpenSSF, and the Open Source Initiative.
The devroom will continue the tradition started at FOSDEM 2024, bringing together developers and EU lawmakers from the European institutions to discuss the impact of past, ongoing, and upcoming EU laws affecting the Open Source community. The day will feature interventions from lawmakers from the European Commission and Parliament, as well as from the community, and will include presentations, workshops, short talks and Q&As.
For those interested, we invite you to submit your proposals for talks by 1st December 2025 at noon CET at the latest. Kindly note that this deadline reflects the FOSDEM organisers’ timeline, so we will be unable to accept any submissions after it. We plan to publish the complete schedule for our developer room by 15 December (or earlier).
We are looking for proposals to talk about:
- Open Source & Digital Sovereignty
- Open Source & Digital Policy
- Open Source & Democracy
- CRA & Standardisation
One of the goals of the DevRoom is to bring together legislators and affected citizens and organisations. We are particularly looking to hear from:
- OSS project managers and committers;
- OSPO team members;
- Open Source micro-enterprises and SMEs;
- Product security managers and cybersecurity team members;
- Open Source standards professionals;
- Open Source foundations (e.g. compliance officers, cyber team members etc.);
- Private sector and civil society government affairs staff;
- Public sector, public policy staff (civil servants, MEP assistants etc.).
Talks must be submitted through the FOSDEM Pretalx system and will be open for applications starting from October 30th, 2025. Please keep in mind that you may be invited to talk in a different format or duration to the one you initially propose, at the discretion of the organisers. Keep in mind that all talks will be streamed and recorded, so by applying, you give permission to be filmed as part of the event.
To submit a talk, go to the FOSDEM 2026 Pretalx website, select Open Source & EU Policy as the track, and remember to include all the information requested when submitting your proposal, including a title, short abstract (a few paragraphs), as well as some information about yourself (name, bio, photo).
Following the closure of the call on the 1st December, we will evaluate the proposals for talks and prepare a draft program. We will notify you as rapidly as possible of your acceptance in early December, with a final deadline for you to confirm attendance if accepted on the 12th December, and the publication of the finalised schedule by the 15th December.
We look forward to your proposals!
