Events

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...

Foresighting the Technologies and Co-Factors that May Shape the Future of Virtual Worlds and the Web 4.0 This is the fourth and final instalment of our workshop sequence dedicated to the Technological Foresight of the Virtual Worlds, held online since January 2025. The events are organised by OPENVERSE partner Inspiring Futures – with the assistance...

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...

The DCPC is an international think tank, founded in 2021. The DCPC aims to increase the recognition of the benefits of digital commons such as free and open source software and Wikipedia, and of the volunteer labour which produces these common goods. It does so by producing evidence-based public reports and other resources. The DCPC...

The Next Generation Internet (NGI) initiative continues to evolve, building on past successes while addressing new challenges in Europe’s digital landscape. As emerging technologies reshape the way we interact online, NGI remains committed to ensuring that the Internet of the future is open, inclusive, trustworthy, and sustainable. To advance this vision, the NGI Forum 2025...

Internet Governance Forum - 2025 The 20th annual Internet Governance Forum (IGF) meeting is scheduled to take place from 23 to 27 June 2025 in Lillestrom, Norway.  As the 20th annual anniversary meeting will be shaping the future of IGF with the coming WSIS+ 20 meeting in December 2025, Norway strives to show a wide...

The Crossroads of Code, Community, and Corporate Open Source Open Source Summit is the premier event for open source developers, technologists, and community leaders to collaborate, share information, solve problems, and gain knowledge, furthering open source innovation and ensuring a sustainable open source ecosystem. It is the gathering place for open-source code and community contributors....