UPDATE: The CFP is closed. We got about 5x the number of submissions than we can handle in the time slot. Should be a great event!
The Social Web Foundation is pleased to announce the Social Web Devroom at FOSDEM 2025, 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 February 1-2, 2025 and features discussion tracks (“devrooms”) for scores of different technology topics.
The Social Web Devroom will take place in the afternoon of Saturday, February 1.
Format
There will be two available talk formats:
- 25 minutes – for bigger projects, followed by 5 minutes of questions.
- 8 minutes – lightning 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
Important dates
Submission open: 1 Nov 2024
Submission deadline: 1 Dec 2024
Acceptance notifications: 10 Dec 2024
Final schedule announcement: 15 Dec 2024
Devroom: 1 Feb 2025
Submissions
Submit talk proposals to FOSDEM 2025 :: pretalx . Select “Social Web” from the “Track” dropdown, and include the length of your talk (8/25) in the submission notes.
Code of Conduct
All attendees and speakers must be familiar with and agree to the FOSDEM Code of Conduct FOSDEM 2025 - Code of Conduct.
Contact
Questions about topics, formats, or the Social Web in general should go to contact@socialwebfoundation.org.