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<p>Hi y'all,</p>
<p>You can find our CfP on on <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://research-fosdem.github.io/">website</a>.</p>
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<h3 id="call-for-presentations">Open Research: Call for
presentations</h3>
<p>We invite <strong>developers and users of open tools and
technologies</strong> used in a research and investigation
context to contribute to the 2026 edition of <a
href="https://fosdem.org">FOSDEM</a>, the largest
open-source conference in Europe.
We understand research as the general process of knowledge
production and inquiry. This includes <strong>scientific
research, investigative journalism, data journalism,
OSINT, as well as research and investigations undertaken
by NGOs, civil society, community and activist groups</strong>,
etc.</p>
<p>We seek talks about:</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>New releases of open source software</strong>.
Introduce a new tool or infrastructure about knowledge
production or management. We appreciate context about the
project, at the crossroads of open source software and
open science.</li>
<li>Present and/or ask for feedback on <strong>open
technology stacks</strong> used in a knowledge creation
or production project (research, journalistic inquiry,
archive creation or publication…) which collects,
analyses, treats, documents, visualizes, and/or shares
data.</li>
<li>Discuss <strong>tool design and implementation</strong>
that enhance the understanding and literacy of inquiry
outputs: data visualisation techniques and issues,
knowledge access and exploration means. E.g., how to hold
an algorithm accountable to social scientists; how to
foster better reproducibility and interoperability thanks
to FLOSS; or how to cope with biases of a chart for a data
journalist.</li>
<li>Contribute to the debate about <strong>bridging tech
culture with research and investigative environments</strong>
(data journalism, investigative journalism, activism and
academia), including tips and best practices for
navigating tensions, as well as the contribution of the
open source movement to research and investigations
sustainability through organizational hosting, funding for
projects, support and maintenance, etc.</li>
<li>Share your experience about building open source devices
or communities across a variety of research and
investigative contexts.</li>
</ul>
<p>We welcome talks from various research and investigative
contexts: research labs, libraries, newsrooms, museums,
hackerspaces, maker labs, community and activist groups. We
welcome your experience on various topics: open science,
open data, commons, research on research, sustainability…
Any subjects related to open source technologies in research
contexts are welcome even if not in this list.</p>
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<h2 class="title">Event and talks format</h2>
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<p>The Open Research devroom consists of 6 hours of talks held
physically in Bruxelles on Sunday 1st of February 2026</p>
<h4 id="time-slots">1. Time slots</h4>
<ul>
<li><em>Lecture</em> talks will last <strong>20 minutes</strong>
followed by <strong>10 minutes</strong> for questions
(and changing speaker)</li>
<li><em>Lightning</em> talks will last <strong>10 minutes</strong>
followed by <strong>5 minutes</strong> for questions (and
changing speaker)</li>
</ul>
<h4 id="language-and-publication">2. Language and publication</h4>
<p>Talks have to be <em>in English</em> and will be recorded.
All FOSDEM talks are published under Creative Commons CC-BY
licence on the <a href="https://video.fosdem.org/">FOSDEM
video recordings archive</a>.</p>
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<h1 id="how-to-submit">HOW TO SUBMIT</h1>
<h4 id="important-dates">1. Important dates:</h4>
<ul>
<li><strong>Proposal Deadline: <span style="color: #900;">1
Dec</span> 2025 AOE</strong></li>
<li><strong>Accepted talk announced: 2025-12-15</strong></li>
<li><strong>FOSDEM Conference: Sunday February 1st 2026</strong>
morning + afternoon at Université libre de Bruxelles,
Solbosch campus.</li>
<li>Submit early if you can!</li>
</ul>
<h4 id="submissions">2. Submissions</h4>
<p>Must include:</p>
<ul>
<li>Title</li>
<li>Abstract</li>
<li>Description</li>
<li>Talk licence: FOSDEM is an open-source software
conference, please specify which OSI approved license your
proposal uses.</li>
<li>Speaker name, contact, biography and availability</li>
</ul>
<p>Can include:</p>
<ul>
<li>Submission notes: write if you want to give a <strong>Lightning
talk or Lecture</strong> here. Add any other details as
needed (visible only to devrooms managers)</li>
<li>Session Image: Use this if you want an illustration to
go with your proposal. Please do not upload files larger
than 10.0 MB.</li>
<li>Additional speaker: you can add co-authors here.</li>
<li>Extra review material: private materials you want to
show to reviewers</li>
</ul>
<p>Please make sure to add links to relevant online materials
(such as website, publications, code repository…) to either
abstract or extra review material.</p>
<p>To get inspired on possible abstract styles, length and
format, you can read previous edition talks on FOSDEM
archives:</p>
<ul>
<li><a
href="https://archive.fosdem.org/2025/schedule/track/research/">Open
Research @ FOSDEM 2025</a></li>
<li><a
href="https://archive.fosdem.org/2024/schedule/track/open-research/">Open
Research @ FOSDEM 2024</a></li>
<li><a
href="https://archive.fosdem.org/2023/schedule/track/open_research_tools_and_technology/">Open
Research @ FOSDEM 2023</a></li>
<li><a
href="https://archive.fosdem.org/2022/schedule/track/open_research_tools_and_technologies/">Open
Research @ FOSDEM 2022</a></li>
<li><a
href="https://archive.fosdem.org/2021/schedule/track/open_research_tools_and_technologies/">Open
Research @ FOSDEM 2021</a></li>
<li><a
href="https://archive.fosdem.org/2020/schedule/track/open_research_tools_and_technologies/">Open
Research @ FOSDEM 2020</a></li>
</ul>
<h4 id="submitting-your-talk-through-pretalx">3. Submitting
your talk through Pretalx</h4>
<p>The submission process is managed in the Pretalx system
used by the FOSDEM conference.
You must create an account in the system to submit.
Once logged in, select “submit a proposal” and select the
“Open Research” track.</p>
<p><span style="background-color: #7dff9d;"><strong>Apply
here: <a
href="https://pretalx.fosdem.org/fosdem-2026/cfp"
class="moz-txt-link-freetext">https://pretalx.fosdem.org/fosdem-2026/cfp</a></strong></span></p>
<p>If you have any issues with Pretalx, do not despair:
contact us at <a
href="mailto:open-research-devroom-manager@fosdem.org"
class="moz-txt-link-freetext">open-research-devroom-manager@fosdem.org</a>.</p>
<p>Follow us <a
href="https://fosstodon.org/web/@FosdemResearch">on
Mastodon (@FosdemResearch@fosstodon.org)</a> for updates
and announcements.</p>
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<h1 id="about-the-open-research-devroom">About the Open
Research devroom</h1>
<p>The Open Research devroom addresses <a
href="https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/floss-and-foss.en.html">FLOSS</a>
developers in a broad community concerned with research
production and curation: scientists, engineers, journalists,
archivists, curators, activists.
The tools and technologies targeted are typically creating,
handling or sharing knowledge artifacts: data, academic
papers, books, collections, web contents, algorithms,
artworks.
This devroom provides a place and time to discuss the issues
related to the creation and usage of open research
technologies, with the ambition to foster discussions
between designers, developers and users, bridging multiple
knowledge-based communities together, and with the broader
FLOSS community.</p>
<p>The Open Research devroom aims to:</p>
<ul>
<li>Allow knowledge-based tool developers to publicize their
effort and become aware of other FLOSS projects.</li>
<li>Facilitate the pooling of coding efforts on (often
poorly funded) tools.</li>
<li>Create a network where otherwise isolated developers,
research engineers can share common FLOSS concerns.</li>
<li>Provide social recognition for people who work in fields
where designing and developing tools is less considered
than usual outcomes (e.g. not publishing papers in
research, not writing investigation in data journalism,
etc).</li>
</ul>
<p>For more contextual information, you can also read about
the <a href="https://reticular.hypotheses.org/1825">state
of the conversation</a> in the devroom in 2020-2021.</p>
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<h1 id="committee">Committee</h1>
<p>Your proposal will be assessed by our committee:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://aleesteele.com">Anne Lee Steele</a></li>
<li>Célya Gruson-Daniel <a href="https://inno3.fr/">Inno3</a>
and <a href="https://costech.utc.fr/Le-COSTECH">COSTECH
Lab</a> (Université de Technologie de Compiègne)</li>
<li>Deborah Udoh</li>
<li>Diego Antolinos-Basso, research software engineer at
the <a href="https://www.unine.ch/ajm">Académie du
journalisme et des médias, University of Neuchâtel, CH</a>.</li>
<li>Émilien Schultz</li>
<li><a href="https://blog.jmadge.com">Jim Madge</a></li>
<li>Mathieu Jacomy, assistant professor at the <a
href="https://www.en.culture.aau.dk/research/research-groups/tantlab">Tantlab</a>
in Copenhagen and designer of <a
href="https://gephi.org/">Gephi</a>.</li>
<li>Paul Girard, Human Data Interfaces engineer at <a
href="https://ouestware.com">OuestWare</a></li>
<li>Sara Petti</li>
<li>Victor Daussy-Renaudin</li>
<li><a href="https://violetamenendez.github.io/">Violeta
Menéndez González</a>, Senior Research Software
Engineer at <a
href="https://www.ukri.org/councils/ahrc/remit-programmes-and-priorities/convergent-screen-technologies-and-performance-in-realtime-costar/costar-national-lab/">CoSTAR
National Lab</a>.</li>
<li>Yo Yehudi</li>
</ul>
<p>Contact us: <a
href="mailto:open-research-devroom-manager@fosdem.org"
class="moz-txt-link-freetext">open-research-devroom-manager@fosdem.org</a></p>
<p>We post updates about the devroom at FOSDEM and our
online event on <a
href="https://fosstodon.org/@FosdemResearch">Mastodon</a>
and <a
href="https://bsky.app/profile/fosdemresearch.bsky.social">Bluesky</a>.</p>
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