Call for Participation: Software Defined Storage Devroom at FOSDEM 2027 FOSDEM is a free event where open source communities meet, share ideas, and collaborate. FOSDEM 2027 takes place on Saturday 30 and Sunday 31 January at the ULB Solbosch campus in Brussels, Belgium. The Software Defined Storage devroom returns for its 11th edition, with talks about open source storage projects, tools, and real-world deployments. Topics could include, but are not limited to: - Work on storage projects such as Ceph, Gluster, Garage, SeaweedFS, OpenEBS, Longhorn, JuiceFS, and DAOS - Storage integrations and related projects, including Samba, OpenStack Swift, Rook, and Kubernetes CSI drivers - Linux kernel and userspace storage stack - Storage deployment, management, and monitoring tools - Architecture, performance, scalability, reliability, data protection, and operational experience Important dates - November 30, 2026: deadline for talk proposals - December 2, 2026: notification emails - December 7, 2026: complete schedule published - January 31, 2027: Software Defined Storage Devroom Talk proposals will be reviewed by: - Niels de Vos (IBM) - Jan Fajerski (Red Hat) - Richard Bachmann (CERN) We also welcome additional volunteers to help make this Devroom a success. Please submit talks at <https://fosdem.org/submit> and select the Software Defined Storage Devroom track. We look forward to hearing from you! Please forward this announcement. Please not that before submitting you should ensure that you will be able to attend FOSDEM and deliver your presentation if your talk is accepted. Due to the usual tight timing, cancellations due to lack of travel funding can cause empty slots in our schedule when we at the same time have to reject many good proposals. Unfortunately, we are not able to offer travel funding for prospective speakers.