Ever messed up an update? We got you covered! Simply restore your Snapshot!

You can now also manage (create, delete, restore) a snapshot of your Box! If you ever messed up your application, OS update or anything else - simply go back to your last snapshot and try again! This way, you can test and learn #BSD even better and easier!

cc: @gyptazy

#education #opensource #FreeBSD #OpenBSD #NetBSD #RUNBSD #learning #ipv6 #freevm #freevps #community #fosdem #hosting #selfhosting #snapshot

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BoxyBSD allows you to manage snapshots of your Boxes, now!

You want to share knowledge about #policy or #legal topics around #SoftwareFreedom? Please submit your proposal for the #FOSDEM #Legal and #Policy Devroom asap: https://lists.fosdem.org/pipermail/fosdem/2025q4/003703.html

Last minute talk to #FOSDEM Distributions Devroom ✅

Submitted a proposal for #FOSDEM 2026 for the Music Production devroom called "Get the most out of Linux for music production". Let's hope I'm still on time!

#LinuxAudio

Dear geeks with huge #respirator I saw at previous #FOSDEM ! Would you be kind to make a BOF session or a hallway track on respirators?

- Why are there no transparent masks (with real health protection) which don't obstruct face?
- What are the best masks for speakers?
- Are the cartridge respirators better?
- Where's the sweet spot between protection and public engagement (not making wearer look like biohazard liquidator or specops)
- When open hardware respirators, produced at hackerspaces?

if my count is correct, this will become my 16th #FOSDEM talk...

I have submitted a talk proposal for #FOSDEM, to the legal and policy devroom.

I wasn't going to do so, but there we go...

#OnlineSafetyAct stuff :)

"We are happy to tell you that we accept your proposal:
Open Source Security in spite of AI
in the track Main Track at #FOSDEM 2026."

See you there!

I've submitted three talks to #FOSDEM. All #mgmtconfig related of course, but entirely different topics.

Devrooms for: Containers, Virtualization, and Minimalistic Languages!

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Three proposals: * A small container scheduler written in mcl * Completely automatic virtualization clusters with mcl * How far and fast can a declarative FRP DSL really go?

Ready for #FOSDEM! ✅

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the window for participation in the #osgeo devroom at #fosdem2026 is open for a few more days; if you're able to share in a fossy geo space but are unsure, I can assist - it's easy and fun to get involved. #fosdem #foss4g #geo #brussels #foss https://pretalx.fosdem.org/fosdem-2026/cfp

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booked train & hotel for the annual bruxelles visit! does anyone know if au bon vieux temps opened again?

#fosdem

Someone kindly reached out to ask if I would consider speaking about Gaza Verified (https://gaza-verified.org/) at the Social Web Devroom being organised by the Social Web Foundation at FOSDEM.

My answer is no.

And I feel it’s important for those of us who care about such things to understand why:

• Social Web Foundation (https://socialwebfoundation.org) partners with, and thereby whitewashes and legitimises Meta

• FOSDEM (https://fosdem.org/2026) allows itself to be sponsored by, and thereby whitewashes and legitimises, Google and IBM (Red Hat)

Meta and Google are both surveillance capitalists with strong ties to the Trump regime that is arming and financing Israel’s genocide in Gaza. IBM, apart from having helped Nazi Germany carry out the Holocaust, is also singled out by name, alongside Google (Alphabet, Inc.), as complicit in Israel’s ongoing genocide of the Palestinian people (‪https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/7/1/un-report-lists-companies-complicit-in-israels-genocide-who-are-they).

It shouldn’t be hard for organisations that purport to be alternatives to toxic Big Tech to not be sponsored and affiliated with them. But apparently it is.

Personally, I have no trouble saying no to having my name and legitimacy being used to whitewash these corporations and I have been doing so since the beginning.

• ‪ https://ar.al/2019/01/11/i-was-wrong-about-google-and-facebook-theres-nothing-wrong-with-them-so-say-we-all/

• ‪ https://ar.al/notes/rightscon-or-a-right-con/

I will not stand – literally or metaphorically – in front of their banners and talk about an initiative that tries to help the very people victimised by these corporations in their sociopathic quest for profit at any cost.

I hope more people start doing the same if we are to have any chance of making these corporations with their toxic business models and their complicity in genocide socially unacceptable. If we cannot even meet that already-very-low bar – as long as those of us with legitimacy allow ourselves to be used to normalise them – nothing will change.

#FOSDEM #SocialWebFoundation #BigTech #sponsorship #whitewashing #legitimisation #institutionalCorruption #israel #genocide #Gaza #Palestine #GazaVerified

• hot dog maison, avec oignons frits maisons...
• réservations d'un logement pour le #fosdem
• faire une proposition de présentation pour le fosdem
• envoyé un mail à #lasource pour le programme de 2025.
• allez voir #wallyDia à lens ce soir !

1337 proposals have been submitted for #FOSDEM 2026 so far. This is not a drill.

Do you guys think I'm too early for #FOSDEM?

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If I were to hold a #SecureBoot talk in the #Distributions devroom at #FOSDEM.
What would you like to know?

Only a few more days to submit a proposal for the FOSS on Mobile devroom for #FOSDEM 2026!

We are having a full day and a broader scope this time around .

Check the CfP
https://lists.fosdem.org/pipermail/fosdem/2025q4/003687.html

The deadline for submissions is 2025-12-01

#LinuxMobile #MobileLinux #FOSSonMobile #fosdem2026 #mobian #postmarketOS #phosh #GNOME #KDE #PlasmaMobile #UbuntuTouch #AOSP

I have an idea for a cool #FOSDEM paper/presentation. Do I have the energy to commit writing one?

Directly after #fosdem in Brussels, #CfgMgmtCamp (Config Management Camp) will take place in #Ghent. #EU_OS just had its talk accepted. We gonna tell you more about:

EU OS use case study: #bootc based laptop fleet management with #foreman.

Most of the EU OS partners will also send their experts. Don't miss out!

https://eu-os.eu/#partnerships

In the last few months I've decided I want to make more effort on meeting people with interests like me so I don't feel completely alone and isolated when I get excited while reverse engineering a game or explore some cool tech.

I was thinking maybe to partecipate to the next #fosdem, looking for cool talks and maybe meeting people. Could be a good idea? I don't know what to expect.

Please boost if you think it could help me obtain more answers.

The deadline for submitting to the FOSS on Mobile devroom, #FOSDEM26, is Monday 1st December.

Just a few more days! Don't forget to get your submission in 📮

It was a brilliant event last year, this year is a full day and even more topics.

https://lists.fosdem.org/pipermail/fosdem/2025q4/003687.html

#fosdem #FossOnMobile #LinuxOnMoble #MobileLinux #AsteroidOS #postmarketOS #nemomobile #aosp #pureos #phosh #mobian #calyxos #SailfishOS #ubports #PlasmaMobile

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I just submitted our talk proposal for @roost.tools to FOSDEM! If it’s accepted, you should come to hear about how we’re bringing the open source model to trust and safety, starting with the open source Osprey project that’s already being used in production across multiple large, well-known platforms. 👀

#TrustAndSafety #OpenSource #FOSDEM #FOSDEM2026 #FOSDEM26

Excited to co-lead the AVG Creation Devroom at #FOSDEM 2026 with @pscherbaum !

Open-source creative tools are powerful, but they still need better onboarding, visibility, and docs.
If you work with #Blender, #GIMP, #Inkscape, #Krita, #Darktable, #Audacity or any OSS creative tool—
👉 CFP is open! https://lnkd.in/dJHG7qTD

#OpenSource #FOSDEM #AVG #CreativeCoding #LinuxDesktop #FOSS #Graphics #Audio #Video #CFP #DevRoom

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FOSDEM CfP Open!

I'm confused....🫤

I believe ZFS is an amazing file system with endless capabilities 🤩 , and nobody did a #Fosdem talk - except Alan Jude - to introduce real word examples of it.

And you know what, you have now a dedicate place for it: https://people.freebsd.org/~rodrigo/fosdem26/

The only flavour of decentralisation there’s no room for at FOSDEM is the kind that won’t speak at a conference that allows itself to be sponsored by, and thereby whitewashes, a surveillance capitalist like Google that is complicit in Israel’s ongoing genocide of the Palestinian people.

https://progressive.international/wire/2025-08-26-un-calls-out-google-and-amazon-for-abetting-gaza-genocide/en

#FOSDEM #Google #israel #genocide #Gaza #Palestine #UN #BigTech #complicity #whitewashing #institutionalCorruption #PR #freeAsInGenocide https://mastodon.matrix.org/@matrix/115603969911396223

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Si vous savez pas quoi faire en février y'a le #fosdem à #Bruxelles qui a lancé l'appel à conférences

https://archive.fosdem.org/2025/news/2024-10-28-devrooms-announced

Bon spa tout ca va falloir réfléchir à venir au #fosdem

Spam on #FOSDEM #Matrix rooms. No "report this user" on #Nheko ?

🚨 ATTENTION INHABITANTS OF THE FEDEVERSE 🚨

We are producing a new T-shirt in time for @fosdem, so of course we’re invoking the ancient tradition of THE POLL.

Please vote below so we know what to proudly sell, and wear, at FOSDEM 2026.

Choose wisely: future generations may judge us…🔥

1️⃣ Public Money, Public Code!
2️⃣ Cool kids
3️⃣ i ❤️ Free Software
4️⃣ Other — leave your cursed blessed suggestions in the comments

If this goes wrong, we blame the algorithm 😉

#FOSDEM #FreeSoftware #TShirt

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The FOSS on Mobile devroom is returning to FOSDEM in 2026! Always an amazing experience: great talks and a brilliant audience.

This year it's grown to a full day and all FOSS on Mobile topics, including AOSP.

Got an interesting mobile project or topic? It's a great place to share. Submission deadline 1st December.

https://lists.fosdem.org/pipermail/fosdem/2025q4/003687.html

#fosdem #fosdem26 #FossOnMobile #LinuxOnMoble #MobileLinux #AsteroidOS #postmarketOS #nemomobile #aosp #pureos #phosh #mobian #calyxos #SailfishOS #ubports

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#today I (just) sketched out a talk proposal for the #Energy track at #FOSDEM and will get on with some other admin while waiting for comments...

Hello #FOSDEM crowd. If you know someone attending 2026 who creates some form of an #openart - under a free license, let them know that there could be a small community gathering for them. Theater producers, visual artists, actors, musicians, painters, photographers and more and more are welcomed.

https://codeberg.org/bogomil/FOSSArt

#Foss

A.E.S. is going to @fosdem !

Due to the @Luanti booth being approved, A.E.S. will be one the featured games (or server, in this case!) that people will be able to try during the biggest European convention about free software.

If you're interested in games and free software, you can't miss the date! See you there 🌼

📆 31 January - 1 February
🗺️ Brussels, Belgium

#Luanti #Events #FOSDEM #Gaming #Videogames

Zut, j'ai une idée de conf pour le #fosdem 😅

FOSDEM has selected the booths for 2026 (Jan 31-Feb 1, Brussels). And our joint booth of OpenPrinting and OpenPrinter is accepted!

I will, together with Akarshan Kapoor, Léonard Hartmann, Laurent Berthuel, Nicolas Schurando show everything about printing with FOSS, and we will have ...

... a repairable, sustainable printer!

And we welcome everybody who wants to join the OpenPrinting community

https://fosdem.org/2026/news/2025-11-16-accepted-stands/

#FOSDEM #FOSDEM2026 #OpenPrinting #OpenPrinter #OpenTools #OpenHardware

Together with @forgejo, we will have a presence at #FOSDEM 2026! (Thanks @fosdem!)

FOSDEM will take place in Brussels between 2026-01-31 and 2026-02-01—it is the largest European conference on free and open-source software and the admission is free (as in beer).

Just like last year's FOSDEM, we will be running a stand, exchanging stickers and having delightful conversations. If you find anyone wearing a badge of either project's logo, feel free to say hi. :D

https://fosdem.org/2026/news/2025-11-16-accepted-stands/

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#Luanti is going to be at #FOSDEM 2026!

FOSDEM is the largest free and open source software conference in Europe. The conference will be held on 31st Jan-1st Feb in Brussels. We'll be running a stall, showing off Luanti, giving out stickers and goodies, and talking to visitors about the project.

We need your help to make this happen. Contribute to our collective here: https://opencollective.com/luanti/projects/fosdem-26

#OpenSource #FreeSoftware #Minetest

Are you involved in an open source project that is related to energy, green IT or climate change? Please submit a proposal to the #FOSDEM #EnergyDevroom in Brussels on the 31st of January 2026. it is an opportunity to engage with like-minded people that care about the energy transition, climate change and community. Submission deadline 1st of December: https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/track/energy/

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FOSDEM '26 Call for Participation: Energy Devroom at FOSDEM 2026

See you at #Fosdem :3

F*** ,I submitted 5 talk for #FOSDEM to the rooms i can add value to. Let's see how much will be approved.

Want to share something cool about Debian? Maybe it's something that is brand new and will help inspire other distros, or maybe something that is in Debian for a long time but people don't know or tend to forget, or maybe something in between?! The FOSDEM's Call For Proposals for the distros devroom is now open: https://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2025/11/msg00004.html #debian #distros #FOSDEM #11

Honoured to be leading with @pscherbaum the #AVG Creation Devroom at #FOSDEM 2026.

My open-source roots are Linux/BSD + Postgres/MySQL, but I’ve spent years ranting (lovingly!) about the Linux desktop + open-source Audio/Visual/Graphics tools.

Amazing projects — but they need better docs, better marketing, and easier onboarding.

So excited to help push things forward.

#Blender #GIMP #Inkscape #Darktable, #Audacity and much much more!

#cfp now open: https://lists.fosdem.org/pipermail/fosdem/2025q4/003700.html

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As more and more people write about #FOSDEM I have the usual question:

Does this post require any updates? I did some edits during last months but maybe there is something missed.

https://marcin.juszkiewicz.com.pl/2019/10/15/how-to-survive-fosdem/

CfP for the #FOSDEM #Legal and #Policy devroom is out. The DevRoom invites hackers, developers, contributors,
lawyers, and decision-makers alike to share their knowledge with the community. Deadline is 7 December:

https://lists.fosdem.org/pipermail/fosdem/2025q4/003703.html

(Transparency: I am one of the organisers together with @karen @tmarble @bkuhn @richardfontana @lexelas )

Logistics status for @fosdem

☑️ Hotel
☑️ Train

I’ll see you in Brussels between Jan 29 and Monday 2!

#fosdem #conference

Excited to announce that the FOSS on Mobile devroom returns for #fosdem 2026! 🥳

Communities from multiple Linux Mobile projects come together there and hold talks about what was achieved, what challenges lie ahead, how we can collaborate to solve them, as well as random interesting things happening when replacing Google's Android on our phones.

If you have been doing cool stuff in this ecosystem, we want to hear from you - consider submitting a talk!

https://lists.fosdem.org/pipermail/fosdem/2025q4/003687.html

Thanks to @flypig from the Sailfish OS community for organizing the CfP and thanks to @fosdem for having us again!

#FossOnMobile #linuxmobile #postmarketos #mobian #sailfish #ubports #DanctNIX #furios #phosh #sxmo #plasmamobile #gnomemobile #lomiri

Call for Participation in the #osgeo devroom at #fosdem during #fosdem2026 : https://edwardbetts.com/fosdem-2026-geospatial-devroom/ please spread the word @edward @zverik @cquest @ciupava @soporificoctopus @grischard @underdarkGIS @SkyTG24 @SK53 @oguyot_c2c @maximvdw @harry_wood @trigpoint @mbess @russss @LisaHornung @geomob

The CfP for the Databases devroom at FOSDEM is available https://fosdem-cloud-native-databases-devroom.github.io/

The devroom doesn't seem to be that much cloud native after all, but more of a bridge between MySQL and PostgreSQL communities.

This looks interesting from an open source DBA managing a fleet of half MySQL and half PostgreSQL instances.

#fosdem #postgresql #mysql #databases #community #devroom

#FOSDEM devrooms announced! Many of them already have a call for contributions ready

https://fosdem.org/2026/news/2025-10-31-devrooms-announced/

(in fact, they were announced like one week ago, but I hadn't noticed)

#freeSoftware

The open source FOSDEM event for 2026 will have a Gaming and VR devroom https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/11/the-open-source-fosdem-event-for-2026-will-have-a-gaming-and-vr-devroom/

#FOSDEM #Linux #OpenSource #VR #LinuxGaming

@fosdem Are you involved in #FreeSoftware #OpenSource #FOSS in the area of #Energy or #ClimateChange please submit your presentation to the #FOSDEM energy devroom: https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/track/energy/ and put it in your calendar for the 31st of January.

Excited to be supporting the Fediverse / Social Web track at #FOSDEM again this year! Here's the CfP -> https://socialwebfoundation.org/2025/10/31/fosdem-2026-social-web-devroom-call-for-participation/

If you're interested in #HackerTrain, you can register your interest in various routes! https://dev.frangez.me/hackertrain/

What is HackerTrain?

Sign up and we can see about getting discounts on trains to #FOSDEM or similar events, or just socializing on the way!

Join the Matrix Room or the IRC Channel (ircs://irc.libera.chat/#hackertrain) if you want to chat!

#Train #Trains #FOSS #Event

@hrw just found an option around 50€ by train in 6h30 in total with a change in Cologne. Looks like a good deal. I did this on April this year and everything went smoothly. I checked on SNCB international, the belgian website. See you at #FOSDEM!

Checked flights to #FOSDEM and looks like there are no cheap airlines between Berlin and Brussels (neither BRU nor CRL).

Shite.

CfP for the #RetroComputing devroom @ #FOSDEM: https://lists.fosdem.org/pipermail/fosdem/2025q4/003685.html

#FOSDEM2026

@fabi1cazenave @jesse @NuclearSquid

Purée faudrait que je vienne au @capitoledulibre

Après tout, je vais bien au #fosdem 😉

The new @BoxyBSD platform gained some new features for a better #BSD experience!

* The new portal now also finally supports VNC access to your BSD based VPS instances!
* You can finally select ISO files which offers you even to install any BSD or #OpenSolaris version from scratch or to install your VPS instance based on your personal needs without relying on a ready2use image. More images can be added upon request quickly. Simply get in touch with @gyptazy
* You can now get up to 2 free VPS instances to test and evaluate HA setups, multi-region setups etc.
* Extended DN42 peering (where you can also use your DN42 IPv4 addresses)

This is created by @gyptazy and if you're interested into more information, just come to the FOSDEM 2026 for a chat!

#FreeBSD #OpenBSD #NetBSD #SmolBSD #MidnightBSD #DragonflyBSD #RUNBSD #FreeVPS #Hosting #IPv6 #DN42 #community #opensource #fosdem

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Once again I met some ULB students in a sauna in #Helsinki and they were shocked to learn what happens at their campus every first weekend of February. #FOSDEM

We're so happy to annouce that we have an open source design devroom and we're now accepting calls for talks via the FOSDEM pretalx system.

Open Source Design has been part of FOSDEM for over a decade now, making sure designers who work with, or contribute to free, libre and open source software (FLOSS) a platform to share their ideas.

Call for participation details and link here:
https://opensourcedesign.net/2025/10/01/fosdem-cfp-2026​

#opensource #fosdem26 #opensourcedesign #design #oss #fosdem #cfp

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Once again FOSDEM will have a Security Devroom, please submit your talk! #fosdem #security https://lists.fosdem.org/pipermail/security-devroom/2025/000210.html

I just submitted talk proposals for @fosdem and @FOSSBackstage. It goes beyond my usual ramblings on what privacy #foss tools we must use and it covers the "how" to convince people to start using them.

If you have encouraged someone to switch to say Signal, or Sessions, or #XMPP or some other tool/protocol, please reach out to me via *direct message* I need as much success stories as possible. Anonymity is guaranteed if requested.

Please also boost to your network. Thanks!
#privacy #FOSDEM

Billets de trains achetés (via @12train bien sûr) pour le #fosdem
Et comme l'année dernière, ce sera la #CriticalMassBrussels le vendredi !

I have booked my #FOSDEM 2026 flights and hotel

I’ve just requested a #KDE stand for #FOSDEM. If we’re lucky, you’ll be able to see us there again this year :)

https://fosdem.org/2026/news/2025-10-03-call-for-stands/

@abstractcode #FOSDEM ?

See you all again at least at the #FOSDEM 2026

Yesterday we had an awesome meeting for the planing of the next #FOSDEM and it was really again a pleasure to see almost the entire staff in real life in one place.

Many thanks to all and @fosdem @kgz @smeagol @bastischubert @wouter @johanvdw @thibaultmol

So #FOSDEM26 is coming 🤘🏻