FOSDEM22

We now invite proposals for developer rooms for FOSDEM 2022. Invitations to submit proposals for other elements of the event will follow in the next couple of weeks.

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 twenty-second edition will take place Saturday 5th and Sunday 6th February 2022, online.

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.

For obvious reasons, unfortunately we will be unable to run a physical conference in Brussels this year, but we would still like to give communities a place to meet online.

We are using Matrix, an online platform (streaming and chat) allowing devroom organizers to run the conference primarily using pre-recorded talks with some live content including Q&A sessions and discussion panels, with streaming and archiving. The recordings will be published under the same licence as all FOSDEM content (CC-BY). Note that the demand for devrooms may exceed the supply - even for an online event!

Devroom managers must enter a complete schedule into our conference system by 31st December. They will also be responsible for recruiting sufficient volunteers to work with the speakers to create pre-recordings during January and to carry out various new roles necessary to product a smooth online event. We think a typical devroom will need to find a pool of at least five volunteers this year.

Developer room proposals should be submitted through the form at https://fosdem.org/devroom which contains further information. When applying, please indicate your preferred devroom duration and any preferred split between the two days.

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

Key dates:

• 15 November
  • deadline for developer room proposals
• 20 November
  • accepted developer rooms announced
• 30 November (or earlier)
  • developer rooms issue Calls for Participation
• 31 December (or earlier)
  • developer rooms publish complete schedules

All deadlines are at 23:59 UTC.

FOSDEM 2022 will take place on Saturday 5 and Sunday 6 February 2022. It will be an online event.

After several long and passionate debates, we have decided to make FOSDEM 2022 an online event.

There are a lot of good arguments in favor of physical, hybrid, and online events each. We do not wish to rehash all of them in public, so please understand if we do not engage in public debates on their relative merits.

This was not an easy decision, but at least it's a decision. Similar to CCC, we would prefer something else, but it is what it is.

On a positive note, we can now plan. Expect a timeline for the usual submissions within the next 1-2 weeks.

FOSDEM 2022 will take place on Saturday 5 and Sunday 6 February 2022. The exact format is yet to be decided.

As every year, we have started planning for real in August. As evident from our lack of updates since then, it's a bit harder this year.

There are a lot of strong opinions about what the best, or least bad, FOSDEM 2022 could look like. Finding consensus is harder than we would like it to be. Going forward, we will do a better job of keeping you informed going forward. Apologies; we're also burned out and just want our old lives back.

We are painfully aware that we're not only compressing our schedules, but yours as well.