(Originally posted at https://socialwebfoundation.org/2025/10/31/fosdem-2026-social-web-devroom-call-for-participation/)
The Social Web Foundation is pleased to announce the Social Web Devroom at FOSDEM 2026, and invite participants to submit proposals for talks for the event.
FOSDEM is an exciting free and open source software event in Brussels, Belgium that brings together thousands of enthusiasts from around the world. The event spans the weekend of January 31 to February 1, 2026 and features discussion tracks (“devrooms”) for scores of different technology topics.
The Social Web Devroom will take place on Saturday, January 31.
Format
There will be three available talk formats:
- 50 minutes – for bigger projects, followed by 10 minutes of questions.
- 25 minutes – for bigger projects, followed by 5 minutes of questions.
- 8 minutes – micro-talks on smaller or newer projects, in groups of 3, followed by 6 minutes of combined questions for the group.
Topics
The Social Web Devroom is open to talks all about the Social Web AKA the Fediverse, including:
- Implementations of the ActivityPub protocol or ActivityPub API
- Clients for ActivityPub-enabled software like Mastodon
- Supporting services for the Fediverse, like search or onboarding
- ActivityPub-related libraries, toolkits, and frameworks
- Tools, bots, platforms, and related topics
- Advocacy, organization and social activity in deploying Open Source ActivityPub applications
Important dates
- Submission open: 1 Nov 2025
- Submission deadline: 1 Dec 2025
- Acceptance notifications: 10 Dec 2025
- Final schedule announcement: 15 Dec 2025
- Devroom: 31 Jan 2026
Submissions
Submit talk proposals to FOSDEM 2026 :: pretalx. Select “Social Web” from the “Track” dropdown, and include the length of your talk (8/25/50) in the submission notes. (Note that the “Lightning Talks” track is a separate event-wide track; if you’re proposing a Social Web micro-talk, please choose the “Social Web” track!)
Code of Conduct
All attendees and speakers must be familiar with and agree to the FOSDEM Code of Conduct.
Contact
Questions about topics, formats, or the Social Web in general should go to contact@socialwebfoundation.org.