[FOSDEM] CfP BSD, illumos, OpenZFS, bhyve Devroom @ Fosdem 2026

[Rodrigo Osorio]

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
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*   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
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### 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
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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
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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
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*   Follow us on Mastodon: 
[@fosdembsd](https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/@fosdembsd)
*   By Email:
     *   Rodrigo Osorio: rodrigo at FreeBSD.org
     *   Benny Siegert : bsiegert at netbsd.org

About the FOSDEM
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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/)