Brussels / 1 & 2 February 2020

schedule

Call for participation

We now invite proposals for main track presentations, developer rooms, stands and lightning talks.

FOSDEM offers open source and free software developers a place to meet, share ideas and collaborate. Renowned for being highly developer-oriented, the event brings together some 8000+ geeks from all over the world.

The twentieth edition will take place on Saturday 1st and Sunday 2nd February 2020 at the usual location: ULB Campus Solbosch in Brussels.

We will record and stream all main tracks, devrooms and lightning talks live. The recordings will be published under the same licence as all FOSDEM content (CC-BY). If, exceptionally, you believe there is a legitimate reason why your presentation should not be streamed or recorded, you must seek our agreement via e-mail to program@fosdem.org before submitting it.

Main Tracks

Previous editions have featured main tracks centered around security, operating system development, community building, and many other topics. Presentations are expected to be 50 minutes long (including audience questions) and should cater to a varied technical audience. The conference covers reasonable travel expenses agreed in advance and arranges accommodation for accepted main track speakers if needed.

Proposals for main track presentations should be submitted using Pentabarf: https://fosdem.org/submit. If you already created an account in the system for a previous edition, please reuse it rather than re-registering. You can reset your password here: https://penta.fosdem.org/user/forgot_password

Submissions will be reviewed in two batches, beginning with those received by 11 October. The final deadline is 8 November.

Questions or remarks? Contact us at program@fosdem.org.

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Developer Rooms

Developer rooms are assigned to self-organising groups to work together on open source and free software projects, to discuss topics relevant to a broader subset of the community, etc. Most content should take the form of presentations. Proposals involving collaboration across project or domain boundaries are strongly encouraged.

Developer room proposals should be submitted through the form at https://fosdem.org/devroom which contains further information.

Questions or remarks? Contact us at devrooms@fosdem.org.

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Stands

FOSDEM offers open source and free software projects the opportunity to display their work during the event. At its stand, a project can share information, demo software, sell merchandise, give away goodies, and so on, and personally interact with the visitors.

What we offer

To apply, please fill out the form at: https://fosdem.org/stand which contains further information.

Questions or remarks? Contact us at stands@fosdem.org.

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Lightning talks

Lighting talks are short — 15 minute long — talks on a wide variety of topics. Anyone who has something interesting to say about an open source or free software topic can apply. We particularly encourage topics that do not fit in any of the developer rooms.

Proposals for lightning talks should be submitted using Pentabarf: https://fosdem.org/submit. Please select "lightning Talks" in the "track" field. If you already created an account in the system for a previous edition, please reuse it rather than re-registering.

Questions or remarks? Contact us at lightningtalks@fosdem.org.

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All deadlines are at 23:59 UTC.