ok, finally got a roadmap for the new #SparkleShare UI written down and will discuss with @nlnet next week.

fingers crossed we'll get a modern libadwaita release back on #Flathub before #FOSDEM. :)

You know you're submitting to #FOSDEM when .. the only obvious way to get the "make sure you read" links is to fish them out of the HTML source. (No shade, just found it amusing.)

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A dropdown from the FOSDEM submission screen where you can see the track descriptions, many of which include a link to a mailing list post that is not clickable.

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The HTML source of the page where the URL of the mailing list post you are meant to read can be found, with a URL highlighted.

A może by tak rzucić wszystko i pod koniec stycznia wybrać się na #FOSDEM?

#fosdem2027

📢 The @fosdem 2027 call for participation is open, and the Collaboration and Content Management devroom is back!

Together with CryptPad, @nextcloud and Tiki, we're organizing the devroom again on Saturday, January 30, at ULB Solbosch in Brussels.

📅 Submission deadline: November 27, 2026
🎤 Talks: 15–25 minutes

👉 Submit your proposal and select the Collaboration and Content Management track: https://pretalx.fosdem.org/fosdem-2027/cfp

See you in Brussels!

#FOSDEM #OpenSource #news #Collaboration

Calling all chatmail, Delta Chat and webxdc hackers and communities! FOSDEM happens in Brussels end January 2027, and together with our friends from XMPP and Matrix we are co-organizing a "Decentralized Messaging Devroom". There also will be a stand and stickers, and then starting monday "Delta Community day(s)". See the full announcement and also a channel you can subscribe to for fosdem related news.

https://delta.chat/en/2026-11-11-fosdem27-and-community-days

#deltachat #chatmail #webxdc #fosdem #xmpp #matrix

@delta Please edit your post and add hashtags in front of keywords like:

#FOSDEM #DeltaChat #Community #Stickers #2027 #Dev #News

@_elena @samvie

Note also that there will be an #OFFDEM in 2027, so there may be opportunity to organize a #DEIB track there. See @natacha post on the matter here:

https://ps.s10y.eu/@natacha/117583653377116359

#FOSDEM #DEI

Social coding commons boosted

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@scips @smallcircles @nik @riverpunk @iris_meredith

Yes certainly OFFDEM will happen this year again.
The place is secured and what is important is redundancy and participation on the forum. OFFDEM is what we make out of it, it is not only an event but we look for sustainability and longer developments. Join the existing working groups and help us shape this year's event.

https://offdem.net/

I'll be back to #FOSDEM in January, with a different hat on this time. The Matrix.org Foundation @matrix has a stand, and is co-hosting a devroom (and we have various other things cooking for the week, as well 🤐)

Nice to see the list of accepted stands - it includes a list of projects I'm excited to catch up with (if I can make it around to any of them 🙈) https://fosdem.org/2027/news/accepted-stands/

Who is going to the FOSDEM ? Would you be interested to have a little Movim group-up 😸 ?

#fosdem #xmpp #movim

At first I was bummed with the #FOSDEM accepted stands announcement because I didn't see #FreeCAD in the listing when scanning alphabetically, but that's because we're teaming up with the wonderful #KiCad folks! See you all again in a few months at FOSDEM 2027! @freecad

Another good news for the #Fosdem '27, The #FreeBSD project also have a stand.

See you at #FOSDEM27!

#FOSDEM

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#Luanti will be returning for #FOSDEM2027! It'll be our 4th year, see you there!

#FOSDEM

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FOSDEM Accepted Stands

This year, we’ve received 256 submissions, and the number of high-quality projects is steadily increasing.
Attached is the first batch of booths that have been accepted.
A few more booths will be added in the coming days; another post will follow regarding this.

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AlmaLinux OS Foundation
Apache Software Foundation
Ariel OS
Automotive Grade Linux, OpenEmbedded, & The Yocto Project
Bareos
BeWelcome: The Open-Source, Non-Profit Ho...
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https://fosdem.org/2027/news/accepted-stands/

@smallcircles @riverpunk @iris_meredith it's not the first time #fosdem changed its name... #sosdem 🤔

FOSDEM, Open Hardware CAD/CAM Room CFP

Once again the exciting prospect of FOSDEM (ULB Brussels Jan 30th 31st 2027) draws ever nearer. It’s such an amazing chance for the broad open source and open culture communities to draw together and share stories, ideas and expertise....

#CAD #CAM #BIM #OSHW #Hardware #FOSDEM #opensource

https://blog.freecad.org/2026/10/29/fosdem-open-hardware-cad-cam-room-cfp/

25 years of personal failure in linux proselitism

I'm going to be in Europe before, during, and after #FOSDEM. If you'd like to schedule an #mgmtconfig meetup or engineering session around town or in your office, please reach out soon.

And now the waiting begins...

#fosdem #fosdem2027 #retrocomputing

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A screenshot of an email received from FOSDEM 2027: FOSDEM 2027 Your proposal: Write once, run anywhere, in 1990: Win16. Hi! We have received your proposal "Write once, run anywhere, in 1990: Win16." to FOSDEM 2027. We will notify you once we have had time to consider all

FOSDEM 2027 DNS Devroom Call For Presentations

https://blog.powerdns.com/fosdem-2027-dns-devroom-call-for-presentations

#fosdem #fosdem27 #fosdem2027

The #CfP for the #Legal & #Policy DevRoom at #FOSDEM is out.
No matter if you are a hackers, developer, contributor, lawyer, or decision-maker, if you want to share your knowledge with the #FreeSoftware #OpenSource community we ask you to join the Call for Presentations:

https://lists.fosdem.org/hyperkitty/list/fosdem@lists.fosdem.org/thread/K3M66GD7Z4MJDSBT4HEBO2CFHJ6OGKUT/

(We = @richardfontana @tmarble @conservancy 's @bkuhn @karen and @fsfe 's @lexelas & myself)

We are delighted to announce the devroom 'Archives, Libraries and Digital Memory' (Sat, 2027-01-30, afternoon) at #FOSDEM27 🎉

Spearheaded by @swheritage and together with @ecosystems, we're going to focus on the radical notion of preserving information and digital resources for the public good into the future.
FOSS is both content and means, so #FOSDEM is a very fitting place for such a discussion.

We're looking for your contribution as well, see our CfP: https://aldm-devroom.github.io/cfp/
(until Nov 24)

XMPP has always played a role at FOSDEM. For 2027, the XMPP Standards Foundation (@xmpp) is, for the first time in a while, going to take a more active role in co-running a devroom and curating talks together with our friends at @matrix and @delta.

The Call for Papers is now open! Submit your talk proposals by November 20th:

https://xmpp.org/2026/10/fosdem-2027-decentralised-messaging-devroom/

#XMPP #Jabber #Matrix #DeltaChat #FOSDEM #FOSDEM27

Looks like I’ll be co-hosting the Decentralised Messaging devroom at FOSDEM 2027 on behalf of the XMPP Standards Foundation and the SCAM team (Summits, Conferences and Meetups).

With the summit on Thursday and Friday, and the devroom on Sunday, maybe I should just schedule a spa day for Saturday.

https://xmpp.org/2026/10/fosdem-2027-decentralised-messaging-devroom/

#FOSDEM #FOSDEM27 #XMPP

The CfP for the #RetroComputing devroom at next #FOSDEM is out:

https://lists.fosdem.org/hyperkitty/list/fosdem@lists.fosdem.org/thread/J3CEFHMKY64LZTCW573KQV7VWRDDHP5N/

#FOSDEM2027

My #FOSDEM 2027 talk proposal. What do you think I should add/change ? (before I submit it)

https://gist.github.com/bagder/0a47acb9e8ffb7d14a2e05a41edf4b9b

2027 will be my first #FOSDEM & I'm delighted to be part of the devroom "Archives, Libraries, and Digital Memory", spearheaded by Software Heritage 🎉
(@SafeguardingResearch got invited & we gladly joined forces)
https://fosdem.org/2027/news/accepted-developer-rooms/

And to be clear, 'preserving what for whom' is on the forefront of my mind - in this sense, I would have talked about so called DEI topics regardless.
But I gladly take the FOSDEM pledge @janl proposed: https://writing.jan.io/2026/10/22/the-fosdem-pledge.html

Stay tuned for our CfP :)

Total honest question to my dear Fedi friends, I need a genuine answer, please do not sugarcoat things. I need Dutch bluntness here!

So you have been following #MySoCalledSudoLife adventures for almost two years now.

I'm not sure how to define myself anymore because I'm not an expert at this stuff, but I am no longer a newbie either. Yesterday I updated all my systems using CLI (in tmux)!

Now, my main point after my long preamble:

I want to create custom apparel for the next #FOSDEM, as an act of rebellion against the rejection for our proposal of a DEIB room.

I used to make sweatshirts and t-shirts to promote the visibility of women in film, like: "this is what a film director looks like" or just t-shirts that read "film director". I gifted them to prominent women in film, who LOVED them and wore them on set!

I'd like to do something similar but for FOSDEM / tech.

Is it too much to say: "this is what a sysadmin looks like"? Can I call myself a sysadmin, or would you find it sacrilegious?

Anything else? Like, other suggestions along the lines of "this is what a ----- looks like" or "sysadmin"?

Thanks! 🙏​

Total honest question to my dear Fedi friends, I need a genuine answer, please do not sugarcoat things. I need Dutch bluntness here!

So you have been following #MySoCalledSudoLife adventures for almost two years now.

I'm not sure how to define myself anymore because I'm not an expert at this stuff, but I am no longer a newbie either. Yesterday I updated all my systems using CLI (in tmux)!

Now, my main point after my long preamble:

I want to create custom apparel for the next #FOSDEM, as an act of rebellion against the rejection for our proposal of a DEIB room.

I used to make sweatshirts and t-shirts to promote the visibility of women in film, like: "this is what a film director looks like" or just t-shirts that read "film director". I gifted them to prominent women in film, who LOVED them and wore them on set!

I'd like to do something similar but for FOSDEM / tech.

Is it too much to say: "this is what a sysadmin looks like"? Can I call myself a sysadmin, or would you find it sacrilegious?

Anything else? Like, other suggestions along the lines of "this is what a ----- looks like" or "sysadmin"?

Thanks! 🙏​

Dear future #FOSDEM speakers / devroom organizers / attendees, will you take the #FOSDEMPledge ?

🔗: https://writing.jan.io/2026/10/22/the-fosdem-pledge.html

HUGE thanks to @janl for this brilliant initiative! ❤️

#FOSDEM2027 #DEIB

The FOSDEM organising team has rejected a proposal for a DEI room at FOSDEM 2027.

I am proposing the FOSDEM Pledge to make up for it.

Will you take the pledge?

https://writing.jan.io/2026/10/22/the-fosdem-pledge.html

#fosdem #fosdem2027

Every year the Values of #FOSDEM are put on display. The resistance to having a CoC. The complete lack of health policy or health precautions. The overcrowding and lack of disabled accommodations. The choice of corporate sponsors. The lack of financial transparency. The decision to platform Jack Dorsey etc.

It's not a safe space, and likely never will be for a whole bunch of reasons.

Yeah, it took me a while to see it too. Do you see it yet?

Anywho, after Capgemini I joined Mama Cash which, as a feminist fund, was a breath of fresh air. I got to build their open source stack and started going to #FOSDEM.

"A sea of white men" would be an understatement. It was intimidating. I felt like such an imposter. Barely anyone looked like me. I remember being super impressed by a talk by @onepict 🫶

I really liked the #FOSS ecosystem. Sure, there were a few awkward encounters, but overall @fosdem always has a great vibe.

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A Mastodon post from 2020 of me at FOSDEM with a coffee at the Mozilla devroom

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A mastodon post of us submitting a proposal to talk about our fully foss environment at Mama Cash

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A Mastodon post from 2020 from me about Esther Payne's talk, and how cool it was

And btw, I do have to note that I consider 99% of the white men that I usually work with to be well intended allies. I'm sure that many of #FOSDEM 's visitors would have proudly stuck our cool 'not a tech bro' stickers to their laptops. ❤️

Not to sound overdramatic but with each passing hour I’m getting more and more saddened by the rejection of the DEIB devroom that we proposed at #FOSDEM (an initiative driven by @RosannaSibora and @Gina)

It would have been so powerful to have a DEIB (Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging) track - to promote the visibility of a different kind of folks in tech AND celebrate them at Europe’s largest open source gathering.

A mini 🧵🥲

RE: https://fosstodon.org/@RosannaSibora/117475238625142335

Wait, a conference whose main sponsor is genocide-complicit surveillance capitalist Google who abandoned its own DEI hiring policies to appease Trump* rejected a devroom on Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging in FOSS.

I wonder why?

* https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3rw3e5je5po

#FOSDEM #FOSDEM27 #BigTech #Google #fascism #surveillance #capitalism

RE: https://fosstodon.org/@RosannaSibora/117475238625142335

Wait, a conference whose main sponsor is genocide-complicit surveillance capitalist Google who abandoned its own DEI hiring policies to appease Trump* rejected a devroom on Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging in FOSS…

I wonder why?

* https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3rw3e5je5po

#FOSDEM #FOSDEM27 #BigTech #Google #fascism #surveillance #capitalism

In honor of #FOSDEM rejecting our Diversity, Equity, Inclusivity, and Belonging (DEIB) track, and time permitting, I will be posting numbers about diversity in tech and my personal experiences in IT today.

Feel encouraged to share numbers and experiences as well ❤️

@RosannaSibora @Gina @_elena oh no, that sucks! Sorry to hear. I was hoping that the #FOSDEM organizers would do better than this.

I hope you’re not too discouraged to try again!

RE: https://fosstodon.org/@RosannaSibora/117475238625142335

I'm sooo disappointed by this news. I was absolutely convinced the devroom would be accepted: there is always such a lack of diversity at #FOSDEM and this track would have brought a breath of fresh air 🥲

Huge thanks to @RosannaSibora and @Gina for spearheading the initiative. Let's try again in 2028!

Onwards and upwards 🌈

We had an inclusive coalition of organisations willing to sponsor speakers, we were designing cool "not a techbro" stickers, and just lots of cool ideas to platform #FOSS people we generally don't see at #FOSDEM.

At a time where female representation in #opensource is at 9.8% (let alone any other intersectionalities), tech bro culture is infiltrating open source projects, and marginalized communities increasingly rely on these FOSS alternatives, we thought this track would be a no brainer.

Last year at #FOSDEM I did a talk on writing a Microsoft Bob application. See here if you're interested! https://archive.fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/XHSRAF-microsoft-bob-adversarial-interoperability/

I'm thinking of submitting a talk this year: "Win16: Write once, run anywhere." A history on the length #unix vendors in the early 90s went to to make Microsoft Office work on their platform.

A story of why compatibility is not necessarily a recipe for success.

Would y'all watch that?

#retrocomputing

Democracy is open source. It needs contributions. 🇪🇺💻

That’s our proposed topic for #FOSDEM

Like #floss, democracy needs maintainers, contributors and a community that makes participation easy.

At our stand, we want to show the open-source tools behind Volt Europa -and “We are the 1 Million”, our project to hack democracy by building a community able to launch European Citizens’ Initiatives at scale.

Fingers crossed we get a stand to see you on #Fosdem2027 🤞

👉 https://wearethe1million.eu/

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We've applied for a stand to show how to hack democracy and why it's more open-source than you think. Fingers crossed we get selected.

Should I propose a #FOSDEM 2027 main track talk about the current state of the high volume AI-supported vulnerability reporting race?

Should I propose a #FOSDEM 2027 main track talk about the current state of the high volume AI-supported vulnerability reporting race?

Going to book my #FOSDEM accommodation well in advance.

What's your favourite hotel in Brussels for FOSDEM?

(Looking for personal recommendations from people who have gone to the conference recently.)

The #FOSDEM call for stands is now open for submission

https://fosdem.org/2027/news/call-for-stands/

#FOSDEM2027 @fosdem

As the #FOSDEM 2027 weekend is confirmed, It might be time to check out my FOSDEM guide and help me polish it further: https://github.com/bagder/FOSDEM

If you intend to invite people (like me for example) to events in Brussels the crazy week before #FOSDEM in 2027 - do that many months ahead of time please.

Here we go, the next #FOSDEM dates for #FOSDEM27 are live at https://fosdem.org/2027/ 🎉🤘🏻 @fosdem