We are excited to announce the Call for Presentations for the BSD, illumos, OpenZFS, bhyve Devroom. This CfP is also available and updated online at this address : https://people.freebsd.org/~rodrigo/fosdem26/ This Devroom aims to provide a dedicated space for presentations covering four project sharing roots, code and philosophy : * The BSD family of OSes: NetBSD, FreeBSD, OpenBSD and all derivated projects * illumos, the successor to OpenSolaris, and its various distributions such as OpenIndiana, OmniOS, SmartOS/Triton, and Tribblix * ZFS, the filesystem originally developed by Sun, open-sourced in OpenSolaris, and integrated in FreeBSD and NetBSD * bhyve, the BSD hypervisor, available in FreeBSD and illumos Key dates --------- * Submission deadline : **1st December 2025 Brussels time** * Announcement of selected talks : 15th of December 2025 * Conference dates : 31 January & 1 February 2026 * BSD devroom date : Saturday January 31th, 2026 afternoon (second half) Practical --------- ### General details * The default duration for talks is from 15 to 30 minutes including discussion. * If you plan to register your proposal in several tracks to increase your chances, _don't_ ! **Register your talk once, in the most accurate track**. If the BSD devroom is not your first choice, just let us know, and give us a chance to save you a slot in case of rejection by the primary track. ### For accepted talks * You will receive an email to tell you that we accept your proposal * Expect additional emails with more instructions Desirable topics ---------------- We aims to host talks covering one of many of those topics : BSD and illumos operating systems, bhyve hypervisor, OpenZFS The talks can cover the following subjects: * internal hacker discussion * real-world examples * presentations about new and shiny features * community discussion or presentations Submit a talk ------------- The Pretalx system is now open for applications. Visit the [FOSDEM 2026 Pretalx](https://pretalx.fosdem.org/fosdem-2026/cfp) website (see account creation below). Your submission must include the following information : * The title and subtitle of your talk (please be descriptive, as titles will be listed with ~500 from other projects) * Select "BSD" as the track * Select "Talk" event type * A short abstract of one paragraph * A longer description if you wish to do so * Links to related websites / blogs / ... Contact Us ---------- * Follow us on Mastodon: [@fosdembsd](https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/@fosdembsd) * By Email: * Rodrigo Osorio: rodrigo@FreeBSD.org * Benny Siegert : bsiegert@netbsd.org About the FOSDEM ---------------- FOSDEM is a free event for software developers to meet, share ideas and collaborate. * FOSDEM is free to attend. There is no registration. * FOSDEM [website](https://fosdem.org/2026/) * FOSDEM [code of conduct](https://fosdem.org/2026/practical/conduct/)