[FOSDEM] Call for Participation : Collaboration and Content Management Devroom

[Clément Aubin]

Hi,

This is the call for participation in the FOSDEM 2026 devroom on
Collaboration and Content Management, to be held on January 31st, 2026
at the ULB Solbosch Campus, in Brussels, Belgium.

The main goal of this devroom is to discuss and present new software,
tools, techniques, and methods when it comes to building Open Source
software for collaboration. Over the past years, with challenges on EU
digital sovereignty, the ecosystem of Open Source collaborative tools
has seen a significant growth. This has uncovered new areas of
discussion and challenges :

* Protocols for interoperability between collaboration platforms
* Empowering users with new ways to collaborate securely (zero
knowledge collaboration, sovereignty)
* Technical solutions to provide support for multiple collaboration
platforms to work together

This year, we are looking for contributions under the form of
conferences, talks, or discussions covering one of the topics above,
or any of the following :

* New collaborative projects
* Libraries or protocols used for collaboration
* Collaborative applications
* Connectors & Integrations
* Knowledge management techniques
* …

We hope to provide an opportunity for everyone to meet and exchange
about collaborative issues encountered while using Open Source
solutions ; present some tools used for content management and discuss
global solutions for incentivizing collaboration.

= Submission process =

Please submit your proposals at https://fosdem.org/submit before
December 4th, 2025.

When submitting your proposal, make sure you choose the “Collaboration
and Content Management” in the track drop-down menu. Otherwise, your
proposal might go unnoticed. Don't hesitate to include an estimate of
the time needed for your talk in the speaker notes.

Once the schedule of the devroom is finalized, we will contact you in
order to help you prepare your talk.

= Important dates =

* December 4th, 2025: deadline for submission of proposals
* December 15th, 2025 or before: announcement of final schedule
* January 31st, 2026: devroom day

= Recordings =

As previous years, the talks and Q/A sessions will be recorded. The
recordings will be published under the same license as all FOSDEM
content (CC-BY). By agreeing to present at FOSDEM, you automatically
give permission to be recorded. The organizers will agree to make
exceptions but only for exceptional and well-reasoned cases.

Thank you,
Clément