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<title>Join us at FOSDEM 2025!</title>
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<h1>Join us at FOSDEM 2025!</h1>
<p>FOSDEM 2025 is almost here, and guess what? We want you to be, once
again, part of it! Mark your calendars for 1 and 2 February 2025. The
Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) will be there with a keynote on
our Apple court case, talks, devrooms, workshops, and of course, a booth
where you can meet us, chat and share ideas. Stop by and say hello!</p>
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<img src="https://pics.fsfe.org/uploads/original/f4/77/c0dc9a85f12e912c90380098daaa.jpg"
alt="FSFE Booth during FOSDEM 2024: FSFE team and volunteers, male and female, posing behind the FSFE booth full of stickers and info material. One person, male, is also posing before the booth, with one of this arms on the booth table."/>
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<p>As one of the most established Free Software conferences in Europe,
FOSDEM hosts thousands of developers and Free Software enthusiasts every
year, on the first weekend of February to meet, discuss the latest news
and updates about Free Software, and collaborate. As always, the FSFE
will be there with a booth, co-organizing two devrooms, and giving talks, like the
one from our Legal Programme Manager, Lucas Lasota, at the main FOSDEM
stage about ongoing legal battle to defend software freedom in the
European Union. Come around and check out our latest merchandising,
including hoodies, t-shirts, socks and get some stickers for your
devices! </p>
<p>We are organising social gatherings throughout the weekend—stay in
the loop, come by for a relaxed evening and great discussion while
making interesting connections! Join our <a
href="https://matrix.to/#/%23fosdem25:fsfe.org">FOSDEM Matrix Chat
Room</a> and be up to date with all the information.</p>
<h3>Friday, 31 January: Pre FOSDEM warming- up</h3>
<p>We will start starting the party early! If you are already in
Brussels on Friday, you can give us an extra hand in our booth set-up
(please, if you can make it, contact us beforehand). </p>
<p>Once our booth is ready for Saturday, we will meet at <strong>La Mazzette</strong> at
19:00h., where we can have some drinks and some small treats. <a
href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/1196935388">See in
OpenStreetMap</a>. </p>
<h3>Saturday, 1 February: Legal &amp; Policy Issues, fediverse and more!</h3>
<p>We are early birds. From the moment the doors open, you will us at
our booth, ready to welcome everyone. Come chat with our team about Free
Software, learn more about our activities, and grab some stickers and
postcards! Our booth is the best place to connect with us. You will find
us in <strong>Building K, Level 2, Group A – Community Advocacy,
Room 5</strong>. We look forward to seeing you there!</p>
<p>Saturday will feature <a href="/news/2024/news-20240130-01.html">the
Legal and Policy Issues DevRoom</a>, which we've been co-hosting since
2020. The devroom will take place <strong>from 10:30h., H.1301
Cornil</strong>. Once again, Matthias Kirschner (FSFE’s president) and
Alexander Sander (FSFE Senior
Policy Consultant), together with Karen Sandler and Bradley Kuhn
(Software Freedom Conservancy), Tom Marble (Informatique, Inc.), and
Richard Fontana (Red Hat) will be addressing
key legal and policy issues related to Free Software. We anticipate an engaging and insightful discussion! </p>
<p>Lucas Lasota, FSFE Legal Programme Manager, will participate in the
fireside chat titled <a
href="https://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/event/fosdem-2025-5432-breaking-tech-monopolies-in-europe-a-fireside-chat-with-the-european-commission/">“Breaking
Tech Monopolies in Europe: A Fireside Chat with the European
Commission”</a>. Later, Alexander Sander, FSFE Senior Policy Consultant,
will also participate with two talks: <a
href="https://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/event/fosdem-2025-5325-legislative-overlay-anticipating-and-navigating-through-regulatory-vectors/">Legislative
overlay: anticipating and navigating through regulatory vectors</a> and <a href="https://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/event/fosdem-2025-6638-cra-q-a-on-open-source-stewards-under-the-cyber-resilience-act/">
CRA Q&amp;A on Open Source Stewards under the Cyber Resilience Act</a>.</p>
<p>Additionally, Tobias Diekershoff, FSFE’s System Hacker and core
developer of the Friendica project, along with Michael Vogel, also a
core member of the Friendica development team, will provide an <a
href="https://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/event/fosdem-2025-5289-friendica-under-the-radar-since-2010/">concise
introduction to Friendica</a> that late afternoon. </p>
<ul>
<li>09:00h - 19:00h. FSFE Booth
Building K level 2. Group A - Community advocacy, 5.</li>
<li><p>10:30h - 19:00h. <a
href="https://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/track/legal-and-policy/">Legal
&amp; Policy Devroom</a>: H.1301 (Cornil)</p>
<ul>
<li>10:30h - 10:35h. <strong><a
href="https://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/event/fosdem-2025-6602-welcome-to-the-legal-and-policy-issues-devroom/">Welcome
to the Legal and Policy Issues
DevRoom</a></strong></li>
<li>15:30h - 15:55h. <strong><a
href="https://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/event/fosdem-2025-5432-breaking-tech-monopolies-in-europe-a-fireside-chat-with-the-european-commission/">Breaking
tech monopolies in Europe: A fireside chat
with the European Commission</a></strong></li>
<li>17:00h - 17:25h. <strong><a
href="https://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/event/fosdem-2025-5325-legislative-overlay-anticipating-and-navigating-through-regulatory-vectors/">Legislative
overlay: anticipating and navigating
through regulatory vectors</a></strong></li>
<li>17:30h - 17:55h. <strong><a
href="https://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/event/fosdem-2025-6638-cra-q-a-on-open-source-stewards-under-the-cyber-resilience-act/">CRA
Q&amp;A on Open Source Stewards under the
Cyber Resilience Act</a></strong></li>
<li>18:00h - 19:00h. <strong><a
href="https://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/event/fosdem-2025-6607-organizer-s-panel/">Organizer's
Panel</a></strong></li>
</ul></li>
<li>
18:00h - 18:30h. <strong><a
href="https://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/event/fosdem-2025-5289-friendica-under-the-radar-since-2010/">Friendica
- under the radar since 2010</a></strong>. UA2.118 (Henriot)
</li>
</ul>
<p>After a long day, it is time to relax and continue our interesting
discussions in an informal environment. Join us for dinner at <strong>L’Horloge
du Sud</strong> at 19:00h. <a
href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/5110746338#map=19/50.835840/4.371252">See
in OpenStreetMap</a>.
</p>
<h3>Sunday, 2 February: Join us for the keynote speech, Upcycling your Android workshop, YH4F...!</h3>
<p>We are starting the day with an informal breakfast to meet and
connect other QWLINTA*s (Queer, women, lesbians, intersex, non-binary,
trans and agender) before kicking off another full day at FOSDEM. If you
wish to join, please <a
href="https://share.fsfe.org/apps/forms/s/c5Pk6iNB482fJZ76mHDsDenz">fill
in this form</a>.</p>
<p>While we prepare for keynote speech later this day, by our
staffer Lucas Lasota who will talk about the FSFE intervention in the
Apple vs. European Commission case, we have several talks and events
beforehand.</p>
<p>One way is to start with the “<a
href="https://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/event/fosdem-2025-4277-fsfe-upcycling-android-workshop-bof/">FSFE’s
Upcycling Android Workshop</a>”, organized by Darragh Elliot, a former
FSFE working student. If you ever wanted to try installing custom
Android ROM’s, this workshop is for you! Demonstration phones will be available.</p>
<p>Also in the morning, Bonnie Mehring, FSFE’s Project Manager will
explain our programming competition, <a
href="https://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/event/fosdem-2025-4164-youth-hacking-4-freedom-2025/">Youth
Hacking 4 Freedom</a>, whose fourth edition is now open for
registration! <a href="https://yh4f.org">Youth Hacking 4 Freedom</a> invites European teenagers aged 14
to 18 to showcase their creativity and programming skills. Participants
will have the opportunity to bring their project ideas to life.</p>
<p>Sunday is also the day of the second devroom that the FSFE is
co-organizing, a debuting one on <a
href="https://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/track/funding/">funding the FOSS
Ecosystem</a>. Its
aim? To bring together developers, maintainers, policymakers,
entrepreneurs, donors and funders to explore various models and
mechanisms for funding that ensure longevity and security of FOSS
projects. <a href="https://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/track/funding/">Find
the schedule here</a>.
</p>
<p>Just right after the closing of the Funding the FOSS Ecosystem
devroom, run to FOSDEM main stage, <strong>Room Janson</strong>, where at
<strong>16:00h.</strong> Lucas Lasota, FSFE's Legal Programme Manager,
will give a key speech about <em><strong><a
href="https://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/event/fosdem-2025-5084-how-we-are-defending-software-freedom-against-apple-at-the-eu-s-highest-court/">“How
we are defending
Software Freedom against Apple at the EU's highest
court”</a></strong></em>. In this keynote, Lucas Lasota will explain why
this case is pivotal for Free Software in Europe, and why we should all
care.</p>
<p></p>
<blockquote>The FSFE has been granted the right to intervene in the <a
href="/activities/apple-litigation/apple-litigation.html">Apple
vs European Commission</a> case at the Court of Justice of the European
Union, where Apple is trying to dodge its obligations as gatekeeper
under the Digital Markets Act. </blockquote><p></p>
<ul>
<li>09:00h - 17:00h. <strong>FSFE Booth</strong>. Building K level 2. Group A - Community advocacy, 5</li>
<li>
09:00h - 10:00h. <strong><a
href="https://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/event/fosdem-2025-4277-fsfe-upcycling-android-workshop-bof">FSFE
Upcycling Android Workshop BOF</a></strong>. AW1.121
</li>
<li>
09:10h - 09:35h. <strong><a
href="https://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/event/fosdem-2025-4164-youth-hacking-4-freedom-2025/">Youth
Hacking 4 Freedom 2025</a></strong>. UD6.215
</li>
<li>
09:10h - 16:00h. <strong><a
href="https://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/track/funding/">Funding the FOSS
Ecosystem</a></strong>. K.3.601
</li>
<li>
16:00h - 16:50h. <strong>Keynote Speech: <a
href="https://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/event/fosdem-2025-5084-how-we-are-defending-software-freedom-against-apple-at-the-eu-s-highest-court/">How
we are defending Software Freedom against Apple at the EU's highest
court</a></strong>. Janson
</li>
</ul>
<p>There will be many more interesting talks going on! You can check the
schedule of the two-day conference in the <a
href="https://fosdem.org/2025/">FOSDEM website. </a></p>
<p>As the weekend wraps up, join us for the final community gathering to
say goodbye to FOSDEM 2025 in style.But first...<strong> after party
packing!</strong> We hope to leave FOSDEM with as little merchandising
as possible, but we’ll need some extra hands to help pack everything up
on Sunday. If you can help us with booth tear down, please get in touch
with our Office Assistant, Francesca, <email mailto="yes">fi@fsfe.or</email>.
It’s always a challenge, but with a bit of teamwork, we’ll get it done
in no time!</p>
<p>Once all is packed and tidy, it is time to meet at <strong>L'Ermitage
Saint-Gilles</strong> at 19:00h. for a laid-back evening of
conversation, drinks, and celebration. It’s a chance to unwind, meet new
people, and reflect on the amazing time we’ve had. Here’s the <a
href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/7041630137">OpenStreetMap
link</a> to find us!</p>
<h3>See you there!</h3>
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<tag key="fosdem">FOSDEM</tag>
<tag key="policy">European Public Policy</tag>
<tag key="legal">Legal</tag>
<tag key="deviceneutrality">Device Neutrality</tag>
<tag key="yh4f">Youth Hacking 4 Freedom</tag>
<tag key="upcyclingandroid">Upcycing Android</tag>
<tag key="merchandise">Merchandise</tag>
<tag key="dma">DMA</tag>
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<discussion href="https://mastodon.social/deck/@fsfe/"/>
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alt="FSFE Booth during FOSDEM 2024: FSFE team and volunteers, male and female, posing behind the FSFE booth full of stickers and info material. One person, male, is also posing before the booth, with one of this arms on the booth table." />
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