Every year, FOSDEM hosts a wide variety of activities. This page gives an overview with links to further information about scheduled events.
FOSDEM is a very busy conference. This edition features 587 speakers, 649 events, and 51 tracks. We do our best to provide you with as much information and navigation options about the schedule as we can.
Activities take place in
27
rooms spread across several buildings ofthe Solbosch campus
of the ULB (Université Libre de Bruxelles).
An overview of the room
occupation by track is available, too.
There are essentially five different categories of sessions and activities:keynotes,main tracks,developer rooms,lightning talks andcertification exams.
For a complete (but crowded) overview, there is also apage that lists all events.
A list of all speakers is available, too.
During the event, the live streaming page is also updated every few minutes to show you what is currently scheduled in each room.
Keynotes
Like almost every other conference, FOSDEM invites speakers to gently start the day with talks concerning slightly less technical, but nevertheless interesting topics from the Open Source realm. The closing keynote at the end of the conference helps everyone digest the vast amount of insightful information collected over the weekend.
For this edition, the keynotes are as follows:
Main tracks
The main tracks
consist of series of talks that are organised by topic,
where the FOSDEM program committee selects suggestions and actively invites
speakers on those topics.
For this edition the main tracks are:
Developer rooms
The vast majority of events (talks, hacking sessions, open discussions) are
held in so-called developer rooms
(devrooms
), which are
organized and managed by open source projects themselves, or even
associations between several such projects on a common topic in order to
foster collaboration.
Here is the list of the devrooms that are present at this edition of FOSDEM, in alphabetical order:
Lightning talks
The lightning talk is a very popular format, used at many conferences, where speakers have a mere 15 minutes at their disposal to showcase an open source project, an idea, or a concept thereof.
While that brief lapse of time may seem awkward, it almost always leads the presenters to concentrate on the absolute essence and what is really important, which is why it is often a much appreciated approach, as is the wide variety of the topics.
There are currently 38 lightning talks in the schedule.
Certification Exams
Several certification organizations provide FOSDEM visitors with the opportunity of taking certification exams during the conference.
Further details are available on the certification page.
The following types of exams are available at FOSDEM 2017, in alphabetical order:
The FOSDEM Fringe
The FOSDEM Fringe consists of independent events involving free and open source software taking place in the days around the FOSDEM weekend. Why not extend your trip?
Further details are available on the FOSDEM Fringe page.
Mobile Apps
People have submitted a variety of apps for mobile devices that display the FOSDEM schedule.
Raw schedule data
The schedule data is available in: