Call for Participation

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 1st, 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 1st, 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.