Hello everyone,

The Open Media devroom returns at FOSDEM 2026, and we are looking for talk proposals.
FOSDEM is one of the largest gatherings of Free and Open Source Software contributors in the world and happens every February in Brussels (Belgium, Europe).

This year, the Open Media devroom will take place (in-person) on: Saturday (morning), January 31st, 2026.

The Open Media room will focus on all Free & Open Source media projects, including software and hardware, spanning from building audio & video applications, through standards, formats, codecs, video analytics and search to Web video, IPTV, broadcasting- and radio-related subjects and much more. If you're interested in video, image or audio technologies, and the breadth of available open source technologies and communities for media - the Open Media devroom is for you!

We will accept proposals until at least December 1st, 2025 and selected talks will be notified on or before December 15th, 2025.
Take a look at previous year's sessions here to get a feel for if you'd fit in: https://archive.fosdem.org/2025/schedule/track/media/

You can submit proposals here: https://fosdem.org/submit
Make sure you select "Open media devroom" as the track when you submit your proposal.
The title of your talk should be descriptive.
The abstract is a short text detailing what the talk will discuss, and why attendees should attend it. It will show up on the schedule later if your talk is selected.
Feel free to put anything you think might be important for us to know when considering your talk in "Submission notes". In particular, it would be useful for us to know what possible durations your talk could fit (e.g. 10m? 15m? 25m?) and if you're doing a demo if you'll need any unusual setup (time or equipment) to make it work.

Since we've only been allocated half a day this year, we will likely try to do more shorter talks rather than less longer talks.
Your talk must be presented in Brussels in-person on Saturday (morning), January 31st, 2026 (speaker substitutions are possible if/as needed, contact us). All sessions will be recorded and be made available under CC-BY license by FOSDEM at https://video.fosdem.org/ .

Please don't hesitate to reach out for more information or if you have any questions or worries!
You can find us on IRC at #fosdem-open-media on libera.chat (ping "Thulinma" if you get no response), or send an email to open-media-devroom-devroom-manager@fosdem.org .

Kind regards,
Jaron
On behalf of the Open Media devroom