Let's meet at FOSDEM 2025

We are looking forward to go to FOSDEM 2025 and we hope to run into you there. We'll have our own stand, where you'll be able to find us throughout the event. We'll bring a large batch of hexagon stickers — and might even do a hexdrop — so come by to pick up a few and have a chat. We love to hear your questions, remarks, ideas and plans.

Together with a.o. some of our peer funders and partners, we also have a new element we bring to FOSDEM which is the devroom on Funding the FOSS Ecosystem (and yes, funding is not static but develops and evolves continuously). Have ideas for a talk on this topic? Look no further: we have a Call for Proposals out, let us know today!

FOSDEM is the world’s largest gathering of free and open source software enthusiasts and open to everyone and free of charge. You don't even need to register. It takes place in at the ULB Solbosch Campus in Brussels in the weekend of February 1-2, 2025.

Presentations and talks

The schedule of FOSDEM 2025 hasn't been released yet. If previous years are anything to go be, we can expect quite a few presentations from our grantees from NGI Zero and other programmes to show up in the programme. As soon as the schedule is announced, we'll update this page with an overview — and we'll keep doing that until the event happens, because there are always last minute changes.

Devrooms

While of course you should be in all dev rooms simultaneously for a total information overload, the density of NGI Zero related talks in the following rooms might be higher than elsewhere.

• Collaboration and Content Management
• Declarative and Minimalistic Computing
• DNS
• FOSS on Mobile Devices
• Funding the FOSS Ecosystem
• Geospatial
• Identity and Access Management
• Legal and Policy
• LibreOffice
• Modern Email
• Nix and NixOS
• Open Hardware and CAD/CAM
• Open Source In The European Legislative Landscape and Beyond
• Social Web
• Software Bill of Materials (SBOM)
• Open Source Firmware, BMC and Bootloader

If you are also a grantee and involved with a devroom we have not listed, let us know and we will happily add it!

Stands

During FOSDEM the university is filled to the brim with stands where you can meet the people behind many FOSS organisations, communities and projects (and collect stickers). Here is FOSDEM's overview of all the stands and their place on the map. Below is an overview of some NLnet/NGI Zero related stands.

• AlekSIS and Teckids
• CalyxOS
• Codeberg and Forgejo
• coreboot / flashprog / EDKII / OpenBMC
• Free Software Foundation Europe
• FreeCAD and KiCAD
• GNOME (home of a.o. Fractal)
• KDE (Plasma Wayland, Connect)
• Let's Encrypt
• LibreOffice Community (LO Accessible, LO Online, P2P, CRDT, Typography, Bookproject, Follow-Me Slideshow, etc)
• Linux on Mobile
• Luanti (formerly Minetest)
• MariaDB Foundation
• Mastodon
• Open Food Facts
• openSUSE Project
• Overte
• Panoramax
• postmarketOS
• Prossimo
• Qubes OS and Genode OS
• Realtime Lounge
• Software Heritage
• WireGuard and Linux Kernel RNG
• XWiki & CryptPad

FOSDEM Fringe

Coming to Brussels and want to have an early start? There are also events in the FOSDEM Fringe organised by or featuring projects we support, like the FOSS license and security compliance tools developers and users workshop organised by AboutCode, and the GUIX Days.