Events

Supported by Systematic Paris-Region, Open Source Experience is the Tech – Usage – Business event dedicated to Open Source IT solutions, bringing together over 6,000 professionals and players in the digital sector over 2 days! Open Source Experience focuses on open source technologies, solutions and challenges in France and Europe, and highlights the driving role of open source...

Indo-French Workshop on Data Spaces, Digital Public Infrastructures and AI Regulation An Indo-French contribution to the AI ACTION Summit, where France will host Heads of State and Government, gathering leaders of international organizations, CEOs of small and large companies, representatives of academia, non-governmental organizations, artists and members of civil society. The event will take place...

Open Source for Responsible and Trustworthy AI : ''decoding'' the potential of European Open Source Community This webinar marks the launch of a series dedicated to exploring and highlighting the contributions of open source to European digital sovereignty and competitiveness.  The webinar is taking place on 15 January 2025, from 14:00 to 15:00 (CET), via Zoom. The link...

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...