Hello everyone, We are excited to announce that for the third time there will be an Energy devroom at FOSDEM: Energy: Accelerating the Transition through Open Source! This dedicated Energy devroom will foster the broad collaboration that is needed to successfully transform global energy systems though open source. Representatives of open source project communities working in the energy space are encouraged to apply to present to the community at FOSDEM by sharing your project, experiences, and thought leadership. ## Call for participation Energy: Accelerating the Transition through Open Source We are seeking presentations related to energy systems and energy usage. Project overview presentations are welcome, however tangible applications and use-cases are preferred, as are stories and lessons for community building in the energy industry. We anticipate topics such as scheduling energy consumption, electric vehicle charging infrastructure, metering and measurement systems, microgrid controls, applications for going off-grid, and more. If you are unsure about what direction to take a topic, please reach out so we can assist you. 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, particularly for lesser known projects. Recordings of the 2023 and 2024 Energy devroom sessions can be viewed at https://archive.fosdem.org/2023/schedule/track/energy/ and https://archive.fosdem.org/2024/schedule/track/energy/, which may be useful examples for preparing your proposal. Please feel free to suggest a duration between 20 minutes and 55 minutes (making sure to account for time for questions) but note that the final decision on talk durations will be made by the devroom managers based on the number of received proposals. We may decide to schedule shorter slots so that more speakers can participate. ## Key dates * 1st December: CfP submission deadline * 15th December: Announcement of selected talks * 2nd February: Energy devroom at FOSDEM, you must be available onsite to present your talk. All deadlines are at 00:00 UTC+1. ## Submission process Please submit your proposals at https://fosdem.org/submit before the 1st of December 2024, 00:00 (Europe/Brussels UTC+1). If you already have an account from a previous year, you should reuse it so all recorded FOSDEM contributions are associated with your profile. When submitting your proposal, select 'Energy: Accelerating the Transition through Open Source' from the track drop-down menu. Write the desired duration (between 20 minutes and 55 minutes) including question and answer into the proposal so we can take that into account when planning. We may decide to give shorter slots so that more speakers can participate. We will not be accepting proposals from anyone who cannot attend the event in person nor video-recorded talks. If you run into issues with your submission, please reach out to us so we can assist you, or contact the program committee at program@fosdem.org. Please note that the submission deadline is managed by the FOSDEM team and not by the devroom managers, meaning that after the expiration of the deadline nothing can be accepted. ## Requirements The conference language is English. All content must relate to Free and Open Source Software. By participating in the event you agree to the publication of your recordings, slides and other content provided under the same licence as all FOSDEM content (CC-BY). By participating in FOSDEM you are required to adhere to the Code of Conduct: https://fosdem.org/2025/practical/conduct/ ## Please consider volunteering Regardless if you submit a talk, please consider volunteering if you plan on attending the devroom. Every small contribution counts, even just half an hour, so if you want to help make our devroom a success, please let us know so we can stay in touch and plan. ## Devroom managers Current Devroom managers are: Kai-Uwe Hermann Boris Dolley Anna-Lina Helsen Dan Brown Rachel Tipton Sebastian Grüner Erwann Roussy Nicolas Höning Nico Rikken You can use the dedicated email address to contact us: energy-devroom-manager@fosdem.org Hope to see you at the Energy Devroom!