FOSDEM is a free software event that offers open source communities a place to meet, share ideas and collaborate. It is well known for being highly developer-oriented and in the past brought together 8000+ participants from all over the world. Its home is in the city of Brussels (Belgium). FOSDEM 2026 will take place as an in-person event during the weekend of January 31/February 1 2026. More details about the event can be found at http://fosdem.org/ ** Call For Participation The Software Defined Storage devroom will go into its 10. round for talks around Open Source Software Defined Storage projects, management tools and real world deployments. Presentation topics could include but are not limited too: - Your work on a SDS project like Ceph, Gluster, Garage, OpenEBS, CORTX or Longhorn - Your work on or with SDS related projects like Samba, OpenStack SWIFT or Container Storage Interface - Management tools for SDS deployments - Monitoring tools for SDS clusters ** Important dates: - Dec 7, 2025: submission deadline for talk proposals - Dec 10, 2026 acceptance emails - Dec 15, 2025: announcement of the final schedule - Jan 31, 2026: Software Defined Storage dev room Talk proposals will be reviewed by a steering committee: - Niels de Vos (IBM) - Jan Fajerski (Red Hat) - Hugo Gonzalez Labrador (CERN) - Richard Bachmann (CERN) We also welcome additional volunteers to help with making this devroom a success. Please submit talks at https://fosdem.org/submit - Important! Select the "Software Defined Storage devroom" track. Hope to hear from you soon! And please forward this announcement. If you have any further questions, please write to the mailing list at storage-devroom@lists.fosdem.org and we will try to answer as soon as possible. See you soon!