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MySQL Devroom - CfP
by Frédéric Descamps 04 Nov '24

04 Nov '24

Hello, I may have missed how to include the MySQL Devrom CfP link to https://fosdem.org/2025/news/2024-10-28-devrooms-announced/ I sent the CfP announcement some time ago. Here is the link: https://www.mysqlandfriends.eu/post/fosdem-2025-mysql-devroom-call-for-part… Cheers, -- <http://www.mysql.com/><http://www.mysql.com/><http://www.mysql.com/><http://www.mysql.com/><http://www.mysql.com/> <http://www.mysql.com/>*Frédéric Descamps*| *MySQL* Community Manager Phone: +32 (0)495 69.86.68(CEST) | Email: frederic.descamps(a)oracle.com Twitter: @lefred ORACLE Belgium BVBA, Medialaan 50, 1800 Vilvoorde https://about.me/lefred

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# FOSDEM 2025 - Retrocomputing Devroom - Call for papers #
by Sebas Devroom manager FOSDEM 2024 Retrocomputing 02 Nov '24

02 Nov '24

*************************************************************************** * * * # FOSDEM 2025 - Retrocomputing Devroom - Call for papers # * * * * * **************************************************************************** * Retrocomputing Devroom - WHAT 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 8500+ participants from all over the world. The twenty-fourth edition will take place Saturday 01st and Sunday 02nd February 2025 in Brussels, Belgium. The Retrocomputing DevRoom will welcome your talks about usage of older computing hardware and software in modern times. * Presentation topics may include, but are not limited to: - Emulation of old systems (i.e. to run videogames, legacy software, etc.); - New software, hardware or related to be used with classic systems; - Open source software emulation/simulation; - Open hardware; - Operating systems for retrocomputers & retrosystems; - Uses of retrocomputing today; - Other retrocomputing topics; FOSDEM is an open source conference, therefore commercial and/or marketing presentations are not allowed. * Timeline - WHEN - Deadline submission of your talk proposal: December 01st 2024; - Accepted talks to be notified by December 15th, 2024; - FOSDEM dates 01st & 02nd February 2025; - Retrocomputing devroom: February 02nd, 2025 (afternoon). * Submission of proposal - practicalities - HOW We are accepting talks of 20-30 minutes, with time for Q&A's afterwards. Should you need less or more time, please let us know in your submission. The conference language is English. Talks will be delivered live, no pre-recorded talks!! All submissions have to be made in the pretalx event planning tool: https://fosdem.org/submit While creating your proposal, please provide the title of your talk, a short abstract (one or two paragraphs), and some information about yourself (name, bio, and photo). If you used Pentabarf for a previous FOSDEM edition, we are sorry to inform you the data wasn't migrated. Make sure you select "Retrocomoputing" Devroom!! * Recording Permission - CONSENT All FOSDEM talks will be recorded; this requires speakers to consent to being recorded and streamed. Therefore, should you wish to be a speaker, please note you implicitly give consent for your talk to be recorded and streamed. The recordings will be published under the same license as all FOSDEM content (CC-BY). * Volunteering - SUPPORT A couple of volunteers would be welcome to support during the afternoon session, ie.: pass the mic. around the room; control room attendance capacity; technical setup; etc. Please reach out if you want to contribute in that sense. * Contact retrocomputing-devroom-manager(a)fosdem.org * See you at FOSDEM! FOSDEM is a free event for software developers to meet, share ideas and collaborate. Every year, thousands of developers of free and open source software from all over the world gather at the event in Brussels. https://fosdem.org/2024/ By participating to the FOSDEM, you are required to adhere to the Code of Conduct: https://fosdem.org/2025/practical/conduct/

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Call for Participation: Social Web Devroom
by Evan Prodromou 02 Nov '24

02 Nov '24

The Social Web Foundation is pleased to announce the Social Web Devroom at FOSDEM 2025, 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 February 1-2, 2025 and features discussion tracks (“devrooms”) for over 140 different technology topics. The Social Web Devroom will take place in the afternoon of Saturday, February 1. # Format There will be two available talk formats: - 25 minutes – for bigger projects, followed by 5 minutes of questions. - 8 minutes – lightning talks on smaller or newer projects, in groups of 3, followed by 6 minutes of combined questions for the group. # Topics The 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 # Important dates Submission open: 1 Nov 2024 Submission deadline: 1 Dec 2024 Acceptance notifications: 10 Dec 2024 Final schedule announcement: 15 Dec 2024 Devroom: 1 Feb 2025 # Submissions Submit talk proposals to https://pretalx.fosdem.org/fosdem-2025/cfp . Select “Social Web” from the “Track” dropdown, and include the length of your talk (8/25) in the submission notes. # Code of Conduct All attendees and speakers must be familiar with and agree to the FOSDEM Code of Conduct https://fosdem.org/2025/practical/conduct/. # Contact Questions about topics, formats, or the Social Web in general should go to contact(a)socialwebfoundation.org.

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PostgreSQL Devroom & FOSDEM PGDay 2025 - dates announced and call for papers open
by Andreas 'ads' Scherbaum 01 Nov '24

01 Nov '24

Link to CfP: https://www.postgresql.eu/events/fosdem2025/news/fosdem-pgday-2025-call-for… FOSDEM PGDay 2025 is a one-day conference that will be held ahead of the main FOSDEM event in Brussels, Belgium, on Friday, January 31st, 2025. This will be a PostgreSQL-focused event with a single track of talks. This conference day will be for-charge with a registration of EUR 70, and will be held at the Brussels Marriott Hotel. Registration is required to attend and since we have a limited number of seats available for this event, we urge everybody to register as soon as possible once open. PostgreSQL Europe will also have our regular devroom at the main FOSDEM event on Sunday morning (February 2, 2025). This time we have a half day devroom, with 4 talks in total. This event will, of course, continue to be free of charge and open to all FOSDEM attendees. No registration is required to attend the devroom. For full details about the conference, venue and hotel, see the event website[1]. The call for papers is now open for both FOSDEM PGDay and our devroom. We are looking for talks to fill both these days with content for both insiders and new users. The CfP page on our website[2] has all the details including a link to submit talk or FOSDEM PGDay 2025. Please note that submissions for the FOSDEM devroom must be submitted in the FOSDEM system and not the PostgreSQL Europe system! For submissions to the FOSDEM devroom, please use this link[3]. If you plan to submit to both the PGDay on Friday and the Devroom on Sunday, you must submit your talk twice, once in each system. Unfortunately, we haven’t found a way to keep the talk submissions synchronised. The deadline for submissions is midnight Central European Time, November 29th, 2024, so get your submissions in soon! We will aim to notify speakers if their talks were selected or not by December 6th. We also have a special negotiated room rate with the Brussels Marriott Hotel. For details, see the venue page[4]. We hope to see you in Brussels! 1: https://2025.fosdempgday.org/ 2: https://2025.fosdempgday.org/callforpapers/ 3: https://pretalx.fosdem.org/fosdem-2025/cfp 4: https://2025.fosdempgday.org/venue/ -- Andreas 'ads' Scherbaum German PostgreSQL User Group European PostgreSQL User Group - Board of Directors Volunteer Regional Contact, Germany - PostgreSQL Project

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[devroom-managers] Call for participation/talks: Open Source Design at FOSDEM 2025
by Eriol Fox 01 Nov '24

01 Nov '24

*Please kindly share with your networks :)* *https://opensourcedesign.net/2024/10/23/fosdem-cfp-2025 <https://opensourcedesign.net/2024/10/23/fosdem-cfp-2025>* *We invite you to give a talk about contributing design to open source projects!* “Design” can mean anything including typography, graphic design, interaction design, user experience, human-computer interaction, accessibility, information architecture, content strategy, service design, user research, design research and more. You don’t have to be an expert in the field – you could have been involved in a project for as little as a year or as long as a decade. As long as you have been involved with design in any respect in an open source project, we’re interested to hear what you think! Here are some topics that may inspire your talk: - Your experiences contributing to design in an open source project - How you use FLOSS tools to design - An open source project which is an example of great design - Your design process, research methods, and go-to resources while working with open source projects - Your ideas on fostering diversity and inclusion in design and open source - Anything else related to design and FLOSS! https://opensourcedesign.net/2024/10/23/fosdem-cfp-2025 -- Eriol Fox: Human-rights centred designer & PhD researcher at Newcastle Universities Open Lab <https://openlab.ncl.ac.uk/people/eriol-fox/>. *My PGP fingerprint: *B3D3 999E ED86 C728 CEE6 AE98 CE53 01E6 97C1 283A Website: https://erioldoesdesign.github.io/ <https://erioldoesdesign.com/> Github: https://github.com/Erioldoesdesign Twitter: https://twitter.com/EriolDoesDesign Linked In: https://www.linkedin.com/in/eriolfox/

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Call for Participation: Geospatial devroom at FOSDEM 2025
by Edward Betts 01 Nov '24

01 Nov '24

After three years, the Geospatial devroom is back at FOSDEM. We need your expertise. Submit a talk proposal for the 2025 devroom at FOSDEM, happening 1-2 February in Brussels, Belgium. Help us spread the word by sharing this Call for Participation with your geospatial FOSS community. ## Suggested topics The Geospatial devroom welcomes all things geo-related. Here are some ideas: * FOSS GIS software and toolchains * Geodata visualisation * JavaScript libraries for web-based geo applications * Mobile and field data collection * Machine learning and AI in geospatial * Standards, interoperability, and data sharing * OpenStreetMap and collaborative mapping * Climate and environmental applications * Urban planning and smart cities * Geospatial and Internet of Things (IoT) * Real-world case studies and success stories ## Important dates - Sunday, 1 December 2024: Submission deadline (midnight Brussels time) - Sunday, 15 December 2024: Notification of selected talks - Saturday, 1 February 2025: Geospatial devroom takes place (morning) ## Submissions To submit a proposal, visit https://fosdem.org/submit and select "Geospatial devroom" as the track. We're planning for 25-minute talks, including time for Q&A. We'll also have some 10-minute lightning talk slots available, please indicate your preference when submitting. ## Code of conduct Please review the FOSDEM code of conduct: https://fosdem.org/2025/practical/conduct/ Thanks!

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Call for Participation: "Modern Email" devroom
by Damian Poddebniak 01 Nov '24

01 Nov '24

Email is the workhorse of digital communication. It's one of the oldest decentralized messaging platforms, and we must keep implementations up to date with new standards/techniques/programming languages. # Call for Participation The "Modern Email" developer room seeks speakers, volunteers, and participants! We want to get together as email developers/users, learn about each other's projects, have technical discussions, exchange implementation/operational experiences, and share plans and visions for the future of email. The Devroom will be held on Saturday, February 1 2025, a full day, with primarily talks on the schedule. The submission deadline for talks is December 1st, 2024. * Speaker: As a speaker, you're invited to present your work in the developer room. * Volunteer: As a volunteer, you would be helping us out during the sessions. * Participant: As a participant, whether introverted or extroverted, you are excellent to everyone and make the day! Please distribute this CfP as widely as possible to interested parties! # Topics Some suggestions for talks: * Overview of the current state of email (as a keynote) * Your free/open source software project(s) related to email. From demo to details. * Current developments, upcoming standards, e.g. JMAP (https://jmap.io) structured email (https://structured.email) ... * Efforts to modernize our email ecosystem, e.g., through implementations in modern languages. * Integrating email with other software, e.g., through APIs. * Message/transport security/authenticity. * Experiences with deliverability, email operations, anti-spam, hosting, ... * Related technologies such as calendaring/PIM. * Visionary talks * Where should email be in 10 years? * Can we add end-to-end encryption (to the masses) through, e.g., MLS? * Can we provide simple solutions for on-prem (private) hosting? * ... # Submission We ask for a short talk abstract (+ proposed duration) and a speaker biography (+ contact info). Any material that shows your affinity to the field is also appreciated, e.g., a collection of links to your work, talks, projects, blog posts, etc. Submissions must be made through Pretalx (https://pretalx.fosdem.org/fosdem-2025/cfp) no later than December 1st (23:55 CET). The suggested duration for a talk is 25 minutes (20 minutes presentation + 5 minutes Q&A). However, we explicitly invite you to propose the best duration for your talk. If the best way to present your project is a 5-minute lightning talk, we'll happily arrange a lightning session! Depending on the proposals, we may contact you to adapt the time of the session to fit the devroom schedule. Important: Choose "Modern Email" in the track drop-down menu when submitting your proposal. Once the devroom schedule is finalized, we will contact you to help you prepare your talk. # Side events ## Pre-FOSDEM Hackathon (Friday) Upon frequent request, we'd like to organize an informal pre-FOSDEM email hackathon on Friday (31st of January). Please add your name and ideas to https://hackmd.io/@ndFSGqY1SC6Cc0DEpHHU1w/r1dkwOAeyx if you're interested and if you have ideas/proposals. It would also be great if someone could provide/recommend a meeting space for the event (we'd expect some 10-20 people probably?). ## Friends-of-Email Dinner (Saturday) Following last year's good practice, we'd like to reserve a table for an informal "friends of email" dinner/drinks session either on FRI or SAT evening. Add your name to https://hackmd.io/@ndFSGqY1SC6Cc0DEpHHU1w/HyMUuORxye) or email us if you'd like to join, so we can guess the group size (we were some 20+ people last time! Venue proposals welcome as well. # Recordings Talks and Q&A sessions at FOSDEM will be recorded. The recordings will be published under the same license as all FOSDEM content (CC-BY). By agreeing to present at FOSDEM, you automatically give permission to be recorded. The organizers will agree to make exceptions only for exceptional and well-reasoned cases. # Important dates * October 30th, 2024: Modern Email DevRoom open for submissions * December 1st, 2024: Modern Email DevRoom submission deadline * December 15th, 2024: Announcement of final schedule * January 31st, 2025: Modern Email Hackathon (TBD) * February 1st, 2025: FOSDEM Day 1 - "Modern Email" DevRoom day! and Dinner in the evening # Contact For the latest details, see: https://github.com/modern-email/FOSDEM-25 Join the matrix room (also for coordination during FOSDEM): https://matrix.to/#/#modern-email-fosdem-25:matrix.org Contact the organizers: * Benoit Tellier, btellier(a)linagora.com * Damian Poddebniak, poddebniak(a)mailbox.org * Hans-Jörg Happel, happel(a)audriga.com * Mechiel Lukkien, mechiel(a)ueber.net We are looking forward to a great day at FOSDEM with you!

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Call for participation: Network Devroom at FOSDEM 2025
by Luca Deri 31 Oct '24

31 Oct '24

We are pleased to announce the Call for Participation for the FOSDEM 2025 (On-campus) Network Devroom The FOSDEM Network devroom hosts a diversity of talks covering open source networking projects and technologies. The scope of the Network devroom is broad and targets those software developers engaged in network design, monitoring, management and software development with open source tools. We typically host a variety of talks on networking topics including: - Network monitoring (inventory, discovery and telemetry) - Network management (enterprise, carrier-grade, cloud, IoT) - Networking protocols (the full alphabet soup) - Cybersecurity (IPS, IDS, Deep-Packet Inspection) - Development tools (libraries, SDKs, plugins) - Network stacks Suggested Topics ================ If it moves network packets, monitors, or interacts with, or supervises entities that move network packets, it is likely a topic the devroom is interested in. A very /non-exhaustive/ list of the projects and topics we would love to see on the schedule are: Monitoring CheckMK, collectd, Icinga2, Naemon, ntopng Frameworks DPDK, eBPF, FD.io/VPP, PF_RING, XDP Switching FastClick, Open vSwitch, Snabb Stacks BSD, F-Stack, Linux Container CNI, Cilium, Docker, Falco, Kubernetes Routing BIRD, FRRouting, Go-BGP Security nDPI, OPNsense, Snort, Suricata, Wazuh, Zeek Scanning nmap, OpenVAS, zmap Peer-to-peer DHTs, Gossip, hole punching Tooling Moongen, Scapy, TRex, VSPerf, Warp17 Telcos free5GC, Kamailio, Magma Core, Nephio, Osmocom Talks should be aimed at a technical audience, but should not assume that attendees are already familiar with your project or how it solves a given problem. Talk proposals may cover very specific solutions to a problem, or may be a higher-level project overview for lesser-known projects. Important Dates =============== Submission deadline: 1st December 2024 Acceptance notifications: 6th December Final schedule announcement: 15th December 2024 Devroom: Sunday, February 2nd 2025 Proposals ========= To submit a talk, please visit the [FOSDEM 2025 Pretalx website](https://pretalx.fosdem.org/fosdem-2025/cfp). Please select the "Network" as the *track* and ensure you include all the requested information when submitting a proposal including: - name - short bio - contact info - title (funny titles are ~~required~~/appreciated) - abstract (what you're gonna talk about) - duration Code of Conduct =============== We'd like to remind all speakers and attendees that all of the presentations and discussions in our devroom are held under the guidelines set in the CoC and we expect attendees, speakers, and volunteers to follow the CoC at all times. If you submit a proposal and it is accepted, you will be required to confirm that you accept the FOSDEM CoC. If you have any questions about the CoC or wish to have one of the devroom organisers review your presentation slides or any other content for CoC compliance, please email us and we will do our best to assist you. [FOSDEM Code of Conduct] https://fosdem.org/2025/practical/conduct/ Contact Us ========= You can send a mail to network-devroom-manager(a)fosdem.org Alexander Biehl <ab(a)zatroa.net> Alfredo Cardigliano <cardigliano(a)ntop.org> Luca Deri <deri(a)ntop.org> "Charles Eckel (eckelcu)" <eckelcu(a)cisco.com> Alessandro Improta <aimprota(a)catchpoint.com> Max Inden <mail(a)max-inden.de> Vincent Jardin <vjardin(a)free.fr> Samuele Pilleri <pillerisamuele(a)gmail.com> Luca Sani <lsani(a)catchpoint.com> Stephan Schmidt <stephan(a)lostboi.net>

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Call for Participation: Web Performance Devroom 2025
by Dave Hunt 31 Oct '24

31 Oct '24

Hello everyone, We are excited to announce that the Web Performance devroom will be returning for FOSDEM 2025! The web performance devroom will focus on ongoing open standards development and FLOSS projects that support performance of the world wide web. The web performance field is driven by open standards (browser APIs, internet protocols), and relies on many FLOSS tools to monitor, analyze and improve performance. Most conferences about this topic tend to focus on best practices and standards once they’ve been finalized, while the ongoing creation of standards and FLOSS tooling development is rarely talked about. The objective of this devroom is to bring focus to the future of web performance through open standards, and open source developer tools. Here are some topic suggestions: FLOSS tools to monitor, measure, analyze, optimize backend or frontend web performance Open standards (eg. HTTP/3, upcoming JS/HTML/CSS standards) Academic research on web performance Share your web performance story: Share your challenges and your solutions and what you learned Ethical web performance: Address the balance between performance optimization and user privacy, especially in the context of increasing concerns about data collection practices by large corporations. Please submit your talk proposal by December 1st. We will let you know if your call has been accepted by December 15th. All talks will be in person, and can be 30 to 45 minutes in duration (including Q&A). You can submit your talk proposal at https://fosdem.org/submit making sure to select Web Performance as the track. Best of luck! Dave Hunt (Mozilla) & Peter Hedenskog (Wikimedia Foundation)

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Call for Participation; EU Policy Devroom
by Simon Phipps 31 Oct '24

31 Oct '24

As part of FOSDEM 2025, which will take place on the 1st and 2nd of February 2025, we will be organising a devroom on *Open Source In The European Legislative Landscape and Beyond. *The devroom will take place on Sunday 2nd February 2025 for the full day. The devroom will continue the tradition started at FOSDEM 2024, bringing together developers and EU lawmakers from the European institutions to discuss the impact of past, ongoing, and upcoming EU laws affecting the Open Source community. Once again we plan to run this in a non-traditional way, as a series of collaborations or workshops featuring a scene-setting presentation, short talks from developers to set context, engagement from institutional representatives and then audience participation. Accepted talks will be deployed in this framework, and not as a free-standing session. We acknowledge as complementary the DevRooms with overlapping topics and hope to find ways to collaborate! For those interested, we invite you to submit your proposals for talks by 1st December 2024 at 11:59 CET at the latest. Please note that this deadline is managed by the FOSDEM team, and outside of our control, meaning that submissions beyond that deadline cannot be accepted. We are looking for proposals to talk about: - The EU’s ongoing and upcoming legislative work where it affects Open Source, in particular: - The implementation of the Artificial Intelligence Act - The implementation of the Cyber Resilience Act - The implementation of the Data Act - The implementation of the Digital Markets Act - The Implementation of the Chips Act - The implementation of the Interoperable Europe Act - Standardisation with Open Source in mind - In the implementation of legislation - Reform of the European standards sector (Regulation 1025/2012) - Standard-essential patents Regulation - Relations between the Open Source community and the European Institutions - Funding and procurement of Open Source software - Policies promoting Public Sector Open Source software: - Policies around Open Source Programme Offices (OSPOs) - Policies for collaboration projects such as OpenDesk/La Suite Numerique - Policies to build open source projects for governments and administrations (e.g. eID, eSignature, Digital Wallet, etc.) - Policies for international collaboration on Open Source - Interoperability of digital public services - Policies on technological sovereignty - How can we increase the EU’s technological sovereignty, competitiveness, and resilience through Open Source - How do we increase Open Source uptake and awareness by companies - How do we build a European Open Source Industrial strategy - How do we remove existing barriers for Open Source uptake in the EU One of the goals of the DevRoom is to bring together legislators and affected citizens and organisations. We are particularly looking to hear from: - OSS project managers and committers; - OSPO team members; - Open Source micro-enterprises and SMEs; - Product security managers and cybersecurity team members; - Open Source standards professionals; - Open Source foundations (e.g. compliance officers, cyber team members etc.); - Private sector and civil society government affairs staff; - Public sector, public policy staff (civil servants, MEP assistants etc.) Talks must be submitted through the FOSDEM Pretalx system. Please keep in mind that you may be invited to talk in a different format or duration to the one you initially propose, at the discretion of the organisers. Keep in mind that all talks will be streamed and recorded, so by applying, you give permission to be filmed as part of the event. To submit a talk, go to the FOSDEM 2025 Pretalx website <https://pretalx.fosdem.org/fosdem-2025/cfp>, select *Open Source In The European Legislative Landscape and Beyond* as the track, and remember to include all the information requested when submitting your proposal, including a title, short abstract (a few paragraphs), as well as some information about yourself (name, bio, photo). Following the closure of the call on the 1st December, we will evaluate the proposals for talks and prepare a draft program. We will notify you as rapidly as possible of your acceptance in early December, with a final deadline for you to confirm attendance if accepted on the 12th December, and the publication of the finalised schedule by the 15th December. We look forward to your proposals! DATE RECAP: 30th October 2024: Submissions Open 1st December 2024 (11:59 CET): Submission deadline 12th December 2024: Final confirmation deadline 15th December 2024: Final schedule announcement 2nd February 2025: Devroom CONTACTS To reach the devroom managers please e-mail *eu-policy-devroom-manager(a)fosdem.org <eu-policy-devroom-manager(a)fosdem.org>* which comprises: Axel THÉVENET, Open Forum Europe Enzo RIBAGNAC, Eclipse Foundation Sebastian RAIBLE, APELL – The European Open Source Software Business Association Simon PHIPPS, Open Source Initiative Jordan MARIS, Open Source Initiative Gijs HILLENIUS, European Commission Open Source Programme Office Benjamin BÖGEL, European Commission Please do not submit your proposals to the contact address. Remember to use the Pretalx system. This CfP can also be found at https://softwarefreedom.net/fosdem-25-cfp <https://softwarefreedom.net/fosdem-25-cfp>

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