[FOSDEM] Call For Participation: Legal and Policy Issues DevRoom

[Tom Marble]

Call For Participation
Legal and Policy Issues DevRoom at FOSDEM 2026

CONFERENCE DATES: Saturday & Sunday 31 January - 1 February, 2026
  in person in Brussels, Belgium
DEVROOM DATE: Saturday 31 January 2026
CfP DEADLINE: Sunday 7 December 2025 at 23:59 AoE (Anywhere on Earth)
SPEAKERS NOTIFIED: Friday 12 December 2025
FINALIZED SCHEDULE: Sunday 19 December 2025

The Legal and Policy DevRoom invites hackers, developers, contributors,
lawyers, and decision-makers alike to share their knowledge with the
community. We invite you to contribute to our DevRoom by submitting
proposals for 25 or 50 minutes talks or panels about FOSS-related legal
or policy topics on intermediate to advanced level (due to the expected
audience please do not submit introductory talks). In case you have any
questions about how to contribute to the sharing of knowledge in our
DevRoom, please do not hesitate to contact us at
<fosdem-legal-policy at faif.us>

You can respond to this CfP by going to:
https://pretalx.fosdem.org/fosdem-2026/cfp
on or before December 7, 2025.

Look at past talks in our DevRoom for inspiration:

https://archive.fosdem.org/2025/schedule/track/legal-and-policy/
https://archive.fosdem.org/2024/schedule/track/legal/
https://archive.fosdem.org/2023/schedule/track/legal_and_policy_issues/
https://archive.fosdem.org/2022/schedule/track/legal_and_policy_issues/
https://archive.fosdem.org/2021/schedule/track/legal_and_policy_issues/
https://archive.fosdem.org/2020/schedule/track/legal_and_policy_issues/

INCLUSION STATEMENT

The organizers of this DevRoom are committed to increasing the
diversity of the free software movement. To that end, our CfP process
takes demographic information into account in order to build a program
that features as many different voices and perspectives as possible.
If you are comfortable doing so, please share any demographic
information about yourself in the "Submission Notes". Such disclosure
is not mandatory by any means.

NO ASSURANCE OF ACCEPTANCE

The organizers (listed below) realize many of our friends and
colleagues will respond to this CfP. We welcome submissions from all,
but an invitation from any of us to submit is _not_ an assurance of
acceptance. We typically must make hard decisions. We appreciate
the effort you put into crafting your submission to give yourself the
best chance of acceptance.

SUBMITTING A PROPOSAL

        * Select the track "Legal and Policy"
        * Include a title. Shorter and more concise is better!
        * Include an Abstract of about 500 characters and a full description
of any length you wish, but please be concise, clear and descriptive.
        * Indicate a 25 or 50 minute time slot. We will likely reserve 50
minute time slots for panels.

State that you agree to CC BY-SA-4.0 or CC BY-4.0 licensing of
your talk in the "Submission Notes" field. Add a statement such
as this:

"Should my presentation be scheduled for FOSDEM 2025, I hereby
agree to license all recordings, slides and any other
materials presented under the Creative Commons Attribution
ShareAlike 4.0 International license."

ABOUT THE DEVROOM ORGANIZERS

The co-organizers of the FOSDEM 2025 Legal and Policy Issues DevRoom
are (in alphabetical order by surname):

        * Richard Fontana - Principal Commercial Counsel, Red Hat
        * Matthias Kirschner, President, Free Software Foundation Europe
        * Bradley M. Kuhn, Policy Fellow and Hacker-in-Residence at Software
Freedom Conservancy
        * Tom Marble, Chief Technology Officer, Informatique, Inc.
        * Alexander Sander, FSFE Senior Policy Consultant
        * Karen M. Sandler, Executive Director of the Software Freedom
Conservancy, Lecturer-In-Law, Columbia Law School

You are welcome to contact us all at <fosdem-legal-policy at faif.us>
with questions about this CFP
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