Joining the #fosdem translations room today was fun, also spontaneously taking over A/V duty for the room was a nice experience. @orangesunny brought a great energy into the room despite the very hot air and the locked windows. Thank you!
#fosdem2026 was another awesome success for the open source community this year. I had a blast showing off what all we do at BlissLabs and what all is possible for the Android community. Got to finally put a face to so many of the people I have collaborated with over the years, and I can't wait to come back!! Special shout out to @IzzyOnDroid , @shiftphones and @bene64 for helping show what an Open and Sustainable Ecosystem for Android could look like - From Hardware to Apps. You all rocked!!
Some great and weird beers tonight at the GNOME social event. Time for bed, I have a talk about a new Open Source @roost.tools project at 10 AM! Good night, Brussels!#FOSDEM #FOSDEM2026 #FOSDEM26 #GNOME
Good morning Brussels! I’m on my way to the campus to give a talk about how @roost.tools is bringing open source to trust & safety (and vice versa). We’ll be in AW at 10 AM!
I didn’t get a chance to ask the question during the panel, so I’ll ask it out-loud here :)
I tend to have a mental model of behaviour that I think about on social media: interaction level and collective level.
If you want to moderate interaction level content, then that’s things like “is this image problematic” or “is this person harassing someone else” and so on. That seems to be what the DSA mostly addresses? Which is great! We need more protection there
But the collective level is something I’m curious about: what happens when attacks are designed to be “harmless” or “not violating” at the interaction-level, yet deeply harmful at the collective level? How does one defend against a synthetic threat carefully designed to target a vulnerable collective in a way that no interaction level defense is really capable of handeling?
Do we have regulations around this yet? Is it a problem we’re trying to address at the governance level? (I know the tooling is nearly non existent, but slowly starting to emerge. It would be encouraging to see similar momentum in governance)
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Together with @Mastodon@mastodon.social director @mellifluousbox@mastodon.social , Open Networks advocate @samvie@chaos.social and EU MP @alexandrageese@bonn.social , @jmaris@eupolicy.
we managed to prepare our #VHSky #PeerTube instance channel for 3 #FOSDEM rooms, so feel free to subscribe them or use #federation feature if you are instance admin.
fosdem@makertube.net
fosdem@vhsky.cz
If any other instance admin would like to join our effort, feel free to contact me, there are still quite a few rooms left for sharing 😀
All bags are packed, ready for take-off: Meet us this weekend at #FOSDEM – our stand is UD2-02 (where you can grab stickers, flyers, & more)! And make sure you don't miss the lightning talk (10 min) on our download statistics, by the fantastic Cat Ima @SylvieLorxu (14:00 at UB4.132). And if you're bored, be also welcome to my half-hour-long about Reproducible Builds for Android Apps (12:30 at UB4.132; that's the FOSS on Mobile devroom).
If you’re going to FOSDEM, please wear masks. The venue is stuffy and con crud was a thing before the virus that can take away your ability to concentrate enough to make software.
For those attending #FOSDEM and interested in the topic: make sure to attend Marc's talk "Fear and Loathing in the App Stores: when FLOSS principles collide with the Gatekeeper interests" (fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event…), which covers this topic. We will be there, and also be ready to answer questions.
Of course we can also be found at our stand in UD2-02 😉
Big thanks to @marcprux from the @fdroidorg board for picking this up!
Meet @debian at @fosdem2026 next weekend! Our booth will be at building H level 1. And Andreas Tille, the current Debian Project Leader, will give a talk titled 32 years of Debian: how a do-ocracy keeps evolving fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event… #debian #fosdem #fosdem2026 #01
We’ll be out in force at @fosdem '26 at the end of this week, with eight talks on a wide variety of topics—the latest on @servo, GStreamer work, graphics stacks, MathML interop, WebAssembly runtimes, handing out Servo stickers, and more! #FOSDEM2026igalia.com/2026/01/26/Igalia-a…
Codeberg and Forgejo will have a stand (K5) at FOSDEM 2026 in Brussels. Come by and chat with Codeberg and Forgejo contributors.
There'll also be Codeberg and Forgejo stickers. If your Codeberg or Forgejo hosted project has stickers and you're looking for a way to distribute them: Get in touch and we can organise it!
We are @fdroidorg (#fdroid) Meet us at #fosdem #fosdem2026 Our stand will be at UD1 (Building U, Entrance D, Floor 1). We are also close to Saturday's FOSS on Mobile devroom (located at UB4.132, just on the opposite side of the Group G Square).
Something I'd really like to see from @fosdem - a graph of which social media addresses speakers have on their profile / presentations over the years. Last year it was still quite disappointing that the number of people with Mastodon on their slides was quite low. Maybe something for the stats session at the end? #FOSDEM #fosdem2026
* Noise cancellation headphones * Public transport app * Add the hotel and the campus to favorites * FOSDEM schedule app * Bookmark the sessions of interest
Still open: what to take for a snack, to avoid the crowd at the food court.
Also, do I need EUR cash for the merchandise? Or everyone's accepting cards and Paypal?
Although there won't be any dedicated devroom for #accessibility electronics at #fosdem , nothing prevents us from hooking up in the cafeteria or something. Anyone interested in adaptive technology for the disabled, it will be great to meet you.
Movim will be at the @fosdem 2026 in Brussels ✨ This year we will also have a conference! 😽
📢 Movim: Building a Decentralized Social Network on XMPP 📍 Room: AW1.126 📅 Day: Sunday 1st of February 🕛 Start: 13:45
In this conference we'll discuss the technical challenges of building a rich web frontend on top of XMPP, showcase the exciting features recently added to the project, and introduce the upcoming planned ones.
Should you attend FOSDEM this year, make sure to drop by our stand – and maybe also listen to our talks I've just updated the news post at our OpenCollective with details for you, see opencollective.com/izzyondroid…
At our stand, you will find us (with stickers), @SylvieLorxu (the Cat Ima!) also with Catima stickers, @electrikjesus with Bliss goodies, and our friends from @shiftphones with their goodies.
#39c3 .ending .. quite an enjoyable blast, and thanks to all the wonderful people just dropping by to say "thank you, it all works very nice for us"! 🥰 Certainly raised team spirits :)
This year around, apart from one #chatmail relay setup workshop we didn't do any registered events at congress. Pushing out releases, Illnesses and engagements in various other organizing prevented more public sessions. Next ones will be around #fosdem2026 where also several of us will be around. Cheers!
We are currently planning the route(s) for this trip, so it is the best time to join in – regardless of: - where you would like to start your train journey - whether you’d like to help or just tag along
Hey, all. One thing that’s different this year about the Social Web Devroom at FOSDEM 2026 is that we’re going to include talks about the organizational and social aspects of rolling out Open Source Fediverse software for individuals and communities. Last year, we focused pretty heavily on technical talks from the principle developers of FLOSS packages. This year, we want to make sure the other aspects of Fediverse growth and improvement are covered, too.
Consequently, the guidance for last year’s event, which was focused on how to make a great technical presentation, might seem a little outdated. But on reviewing it, I’ve found that it still has good advice for social and organizational talks. Just like software developers, community builders see problems and construct solutions for them. The solutions aren’t just about writing code, though; more often they involve bringing people together, assembling off-the-shelf tools, and making processes and rules for interaction.
Talks about Open Source software to implement ActivityPub and build the social web are still welcome, of course. We’re just expanding a bit to cover the human aspects of the Fediverse as well.
I’m looking forward to having the interesting discussions about bringing people together to make the Social Web. If you haven’t already, please consider submitting a talk to pretalx.fosdem.org/fosdem-2026…. Select “Social Web” from the “Track” dropdown, and include the length of your talk (8/25/50) in the submission notes. The deadline is December 1, 2025, so get them in as soon as possible!
I've just updated the news post at our OpenCollective with details for you, see opencollective.com/izzyondroid…
