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The Social Web Foundation is pleased to announce the Social Web Devroom at FOSDEM 2027, and invite participants to submit proposals for talks for the event.

FOSDEM is an exciting free and open source software event in Brussels, Belgium that brings together thousands of enthusiasts from around the world. The event spans the weekend of January 30 to January 31, 2027 and features discussion tracks (“devrooms”) for scores of different technology topics. This is the third FOSDEM Social Web Devroom.

The Social Web Devroom will be a 5 hour track.

FormatThere will be two available talk formats:

25 minutes – for bigger projects, followed by 5 minutes of questions.

8 minutes – micro-talks on smaller or newer projects, in groups of 3, followed by 6 minutes of combined questions for the group.

TopicsThe Social Web Devroom is open to talks all about the Social Web, AKA the Fediverse, including:

Implementations of the ActivityPub protocol or ActivityPub API

Clients for ActivityPub-enabled software like Mastodon

Supporting services for the Fediverse, like search or onboarding

ActivityPub-related libraries, toolkits, and frameworks

Tools, bots, platforms, and related topics

Advocacy, organization and social activity in deploying Open Source ActivityPub applications

Important datesSubmission open: 27 Oct 2026

Submission deadline: 27 Nov 2026

Acceptance notifications: 1 Dec 2026

Final schedule announcement: 7 Dec 2026

Devroom: 31 Jan 2026

SubmissionsSubmit talk proposals to https://pretalx.fosdem.org/fosdem-2027/cfp. Select “Social Web” from the “Track” dropdown, and include the length of your talk (8/25) in the submission notes. (Note that the “Lightning Talks” track is a separate event-wide track; if you’re proposing a Social Web micro-talk, please choose the “Social Web” track!)

Code of ConductAll attendees and speakers must be familiar with and agree to the FOSDEM Code of Conduct.

ContactQuestions about topics, formats, or the Social Web in general should go to contact@socialwebfoundation.org.

#EU_OS will have a talk at the #OpenSource #Conference #Luxembourg @oscl@mastodon.opencloud.lu Wednesday next week 7th October about:

"From European Vision to Local Reality: Making EU OS Work for Public Administrations"

Entire agenda: https://conference.opensource.lu/agenda/

Pascal from https://c-smart.be and @rriemann@chaos.social will be around. Talk to us if you are also in Luxembourg!

#OSCL26 #FOSS #DigitalSovereignty #Endof10

I'm so excited about my 'The Future is Decentralized and Federated' talk that I will give at the @oscl@mastodon.opencloud.lu conference on Oct 7th in Luxembourg 🥳

📢 Tickets are still available!! 📢

For a sneak peak: https://pretalx.com/open-source-conference-luxembourg-2026/talk/review/CHKGS7FZ9QPHSFV7YZNA8REAXAHHRPTV

#OSCL26 #opensource #conference #luxembourg #FOSS #digitalsovereignty #eupolicy