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About
FOSDEM is a free event for software developers to meet, share ideas, and collaborate. Every year, thousands of developers of free and open source software from all over the world gather at the event in Brussels. You don't need to register. Just turn up and join in! FOSDEM 2025 will be held on 1-2 February 2025.
- Website: fosdem.org/2025/
- Location: ULB Campus Solbosch, Avenue Franklin D. Roosevelt, 50, 1050 Bruxelles
- Time Zone: Central European Time (CET), or UTC+1
- Schedule: fosdem.org/2025/schedule/
- Fedora Talks & Speakers: see below
- Format: In-person participation only, live-streaming available
First time at FOSDEM? Read the FOSDEM practical info guide to learn more.
Duration and Location
ULB Campus Solbosch
Avenue Franklin D. Roosevelt, 50
1050 Bruxelles
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The event is easily reachable by public transportation. For details, see below. If you are afraid of getting lost, the following links might help you:
Fedora-approved hotel
The approved Fedora hotel is the Moxy Brussels City Center. It is about a 10-20 minute drive or 45 minute walk to the event venue from the approved hotel. See the directions below:
Visas
Belgium is a Schengen Zone member state. Any person who needs a visa for the European Schengen Zone will also require a visa for Belgium.
Schedule at a glance
Saturday, 1 February
- 09:30 - 10:00 // Fedora team arrival on-site
- 10:30 - 19:00 // Conference Programming
Sunday, 2 February
- 08:30 - 09:00 // Fedora team arrival on-site
- 09:00 - 17:00 // Conference Programming
Fedora presence
Are you a Fedora contributor attending FOSDEM 2025? Add yourself to the table below. Please use the "Comments" column to specify your role in the Fedora community.
| No | Name | FAS | Thu, 30 Jan | Fri, 31 Jan | Sat, 1 Feb | Sun, 2 Feb | Travel itinerary | Languages | Comments |
| 1 | Fernando F. Mancera | ffmancera |  |
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SVQ <=> BRU | en, es | Packaging, networking and mentoring. |
| 2 | Daniel Milnes | thebeanogamer | |
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QQS (London) <=> BRU | en | Package maintainer. |
| 3 | Seddik Alaoui Ismaili | seddik (saibug) | |
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FRA (Paris) <=> BRU | en,fr | Fedora Infrastructure. |
| 4 | Christopher Klooz | py0xc3 | |
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London or Zurich <=> BRU | en,de | security SIG, confined users SIG, UK SIG, Discourse mod, kernel & selinux(-policy) tester. |
| 5 | Greg Sutcliffe | gwmngilfen | |
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home -> BRU (wed), BRU -> LON (mon), LON -> home (thu) | en | CommOps & community data |
| 6 | Daniel Mellado | dmellado | |
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LCG <=> MAD <=> BRU | en,es | ebpf SIG, rust SIG, Package Maintainer. |
| 7 | Artur Frenszek-Iwicki | suve | |
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MUC <=> BRU | en,pl,de | Package Maintainer |
| 8 | Samyak Jain | jnsamyak | |
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DEL <=> BRU | en,hi | Fedora Release Engineer |
| 9 | Justin W. Flory | jflory7 | |
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BER => BRU | en (native), es (intermediate) | Fedora Community Architect |
| 10 | Akashdeep Dhar | t0xic0der / gridhead | |
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CCU <=> BRU | en,hi,bn | Advanced Reconnaissance Crew, Fedora Infrastructure, SyncStar |
| 11 | Petr Šabata | psabata | |
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ZRH <=> BRU | en,cs | Mostly an observer nowadays. |
| 12 | Jess Chitas | jesschitas | |
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DUB <=> BRU | en | Formerly worked with the Design Team, hoping to rekindle that spark! |
| 13 | David Cantrell | dcantrell | |
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BOS <=> AMS <=> BRU | en | FESCo member, Fedora Council member, package maintainer, upstream developer on many projects |
| 14 | Amy Marrich | spotz | |
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AUS <=> LHR <=> BRU | en | CentOS Board, DEI, RDO, OpenStack, OKD |
| 15 | Aurélien Bompard | abompard | |
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FRA (Nantes) <=> BRU | en,fr | Fedora Infrastructure. |
| 16 | Sumantro Mukherjee | sumantrom | |
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CCU <=> BRU | en,hi,bn_in | Fedora QA, mentoring, Mindshare member |
| 17 | Luis Bazan | lbazan | |
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PTY <=> BRU | en,es | Fedora Ambassador, mentoring, Mindshare member, Packager Sponsor/maintainer |
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Budget proposal
This table represents the proposed budget to the Fedora Mindshare Committee. Note that the amount proposed below is final, i.e. you would not be reimbursed for more than what is proposed here.
Please estimate all prices in USD. Use latest market rates for approximate conversions from EUR to USD on xe.com.
| No | Name | FAS | Airfare and/or rail ($USD) | Hotel ($USD) | Incidentals¹ ($USD) | Total ($USD) | Comments |
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| 1 | Samyak Jain | jnsamyak | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | Estimating |
| 2 | Akashdeep Dhar | t0xic0der | $1400 | $1300 | $0 | $2700 | Prices mentioned with a headroom and rates are subjected to change with time. $300 in incidentals covered by Red Hat. |
| 3 | Sumantro Mukhherjee | sumantrom | $1677 | $1300 | $0 | $2977 | |
| 4 | Luis Bazan | lbazan | $1350 | $1300 | $0 | $2650 | I want to use the approved hotel Moxy Brussels City Center If it's cheaper, perfect! |
| Total | -- | -- | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | -- |
¹ — Taxi, meals, visas, travel insurance, other minor incidentals. Confirm other expense types with Community Architect before proposing here.
Speakers
The following is a list of presentations, birds of feathers, workshops, talks and discussions organized by the community members of the Fedora Project. If you are a part of the community and have a subevent that is selected for the event, please feel free to edit the table below to add an entry with all the related details.
| Order | Name | Date | Time (CET) | Speaker(s) | Track/DevRoom | Description | URL |
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| 1 | TBD | Sat, 1 Feb | 15:40 – 16:10 | TBD | TBD | TBD | TBD |
Goals & messaging
Fedora 2028 Strategy: “Double the number of Fedora contributors active every week.”
- Find it, use it, change it: Linux accessibility (Fedora Docs, Fedora Linux, release engineering tools).
- Be a mentor, have a mentor: Empower a culture of mentoring in Fedora and scale it.
- Release stories: Fedora releases should have a story behind changes in each release.
- Open collaboration: More partnership with peer communities and upstream projects.
Open Source Values messaging: Freedom, Friends, Features, First
- Freedom: We are dedicated to free software and content. (🔗 more)
- Friends: We are a strong, caring community. (🔗 more)
- Features: We care about excellent software. (🔗 more)
- First: We are committed to innovation. (🔗 more)
Fedora Linux 41 Changes and talking points
TBD