Every year, at the end of January and the beginning of February, thousands of people from Europe and around the world gather in Brussels to discuss open source and open technologies. The main attraction is FOSDEM, Europe’s largest open source conference, which has inspired a range of side events, social activities, and workshops. For those interested...

NGI Commons webinar: Digital Commons towards digital sovereignty in Europe Join us for an insightful webinar that delves into the vibrant landscape of Digital Commons initiatives across Europe and their role in increasing the continent’s digital autonomy. This first edition of a series of webinars, which will be held between January 2025 and December 2026....

Learn about open source project health metrics and tools used by open source projects, communities, and engineering teams to track and analyze their community work. This conference will provide a venue for discussing open source project health, CHAOSS updates, use cases, and hands-on workshops for developers, community managers, project managers, and anyone interested in measuring...

What Can Open Source do for Europe? The EU Open Source Policy Summit is Europe’s premier event for high-level open source policy discussions. This Summit provides a platform for the new EU administration to engage in meaningful dialogue with the European open source community. As authorities on the innovation model powering the digital domain, our speakers...

FOSDEM is a free event for software developers to meet, share ideas and collaborate. Every year, thousands of developers of free and open source software from all over the world gather at the event in Brussels. You don't need to register. Just turn up and join in!

As part of FOSDEM 2025, which will take place on the 1st and 2nd of February 2025, there will be a devroom on Open Source In The European Legislative Landscape and Beyond. The devroom will take place on Sunday 2nd February 2025 for the full day. The devroom will continue the tradition started at FOSDEM 2024, bringing together developers...

Join us for this second webinar; here we aims to provide a comprehensive overview of Public Policies for Digital Commons in 90 minutes.

Behind the scenes of Open Source projects Encourage more discourse about the non-coding aspects of successful open source projects. Join the event to learn more about what makes Free and Open Source Software projects flourish! The seventh edition of FOSS Backstage will take place in Berlin (and online) on 10th and 11th March 2025.

The European Commission and the 2025 Polish Presidency of the Council of the EU are organising a conference on governance for web 4.0 and virtual worlds. Web 4.0 and Virtual Worlds are the next technological frontiers. They will fundamentally affect the internet as we know it today and will require a forward-looking approach to governance...

The European Dialogue on Internet Governance (EuroDIG) is an open multi-stakeholder platform to exchange views about the Internet and how it is governed. First organised in 2008 by several organisations, government representatives and experts, it fosters dialogue and collaboration with the Internet community on public policy for the Internet – culminating in an annual conference...