Events in room H.3244

Come discuss Bevy Engine !

Bevy is a thriving permissively-licensed open source game engine written in Rust. It focuses on modularity, performance and developer ergonomics, using a modern GPU-driven rendering architecture and an ECS-first approach to engine and game logic. Check it out at https://bevy.org/.

As an ice-breaker, we'll start with a short demonstration of a mobile game built with Bevy, followed by an open chat about its inner workings or any other topic about bevy, come if you're curious!

SURF is the IT cooperative of education and research in the Netherlands. SURF Research Cloud is one of SURF's services. Since 2020, we provide thousands of Researchers from all Dutch Institutes with powerful, easy to use infrastructure and tools. SURF Research Cloud is a portal that can serve resources from a variety of cloud providers. Our main cloud provider is our own private data center, running OpenStack. We have also provided resources of other European OpenStack clusters (Ireland, Switzerland, Sweden) and commercial clouds like AWS, Azure and Oracle. Our software will go Open Source. Get in contact with us if you are interested in the adventure.

This Zabbix Community Meetup is an interactive session focused on open discussion, questions, and peer-to-peer knowledge sharing. Rather than formal presentations, the meetup encourages open dialogue around real-world use cases, challenges, and best practices when working with Zabbix. Participants are invited to share experiences, ask questions, exchange ideas, and connect with fellow community members in an informal setting, fostering collaboration and strengthening the Zabbix open-source community.

Meet and chat about open source in automotive !

This Birds of a Feather (BoF) session at FOSDEM will focus on the growing intersection of open source and the automotive industry, highlighting the latest advancements, challenges, and opportunities for collaboration. As the automotive sector increasingly adopts open-source software, it is driving innovation in areas such as in-vehicle systems, autonomous driving, and vehicle connectivity. Key projects like Automotive Grade Linux (AGL) and the ELISA (Enabling Linux in Safety Applications) initiative are at the forefront of this transformation, providing open-source frameworks for developing scalable, secure, and reliable automotive software. This session will bring together developers, engineers, and enthusiasts to discuss how these initiatives are shaping the future of mobility and explore how open-source communities can work together to solve the unique challenges of the automotive domain.

Attendees will have the opportunity to share experiences, discuss key technical topics such as real-time operating systems, safety-critical systems, and compliance with automotive standards (e.g., ISO 26262), and explore potential new collaborations. The session will delve into the importance of open standards, the growing need for security in connected vehicles, and how projects like AGL and ELISA enable safer, more efficient automotive software development. By fostering cross-industry dialogue and strengthening the automotive open-source ecosystem, this session aims to inspire future collaborations that can help define the next generation of smart, connected, and autonomous vehicles.

BoF dedicated to introduce newcomers on how to make their first contribution to GNOME.

Join the Zephyr RTOS community for an informal BoF session where maintainers, contributiors, and and anyone interested in hearing more about Zephyr will be discussing:

• Roadmap -- As Zephyr turns 10 this year, where should the community be focusing for the next 10 years?
• Feedback from product makers -- If you are building actual products with Zephyr (yes, even as a hobby!) come and share your experience, both positive and... less positive.
• General Project Health -- BoFs are always a good "reality check" and participants are encouraged to bring their feedback with regards to things we could be doing better in our community.

A space for DevOpsDays and Cloud Native Days conference organizers to share experiences, swap tips and connect with peers building community events.

Whether you're experienced or just curious about getting involved, this BoF is a space to connect, collaborate, and support each other.

The common thread is working on building building locally rooted conferences, meeting each other and sharing experiences.

Passbolt is an open source credential manager designed for collaboration. This Birds of a Feather session is an opportunity for the Passbolt community to come together in person to openly discuss the future of the project. This BOF is designed as an informal, interactive discussion.

The session will focus on three main goals: - Collecting feedback on existing features, workflows, and pain points - Shaping and discussing the Passbolt 2026 roadmap with end users - Creating direct space for technical questions with maintainers

Format - Short intro and framing from moderators - Open floor discussion guided by community questions - Notes and key takeaways will be collected to inform future roadmap work

We had so munch fun at last year's BOF that we're back for more!

Come hang with us to talk about Hachyderm, hear stories about running one of the larger Mastodon sites, learn more about of infra, talk trust & safety, and hear what's going on with the Nivenly Foundation.

We'll have several current maintainers on hand. All are welcome!

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Hachyderm (https://hachyderm.io) is a curated network of tech industry professionals from around the globe, focused on building a respectful community. We're a safe space for LGBTQIA+ folks, we support Black Lives Matter, and we welcome anyone who follows the rules and needs a home or fresh start.

We're hackers, professionals, enthusiasts, and we're passionate about life, respect, and digital freedom. We believe in peace and balance.

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The Nivenly Foundation (https://nivenly.org) is a democratically run nonprofit on a mission to bring sustainable governance and autonomy to open source projects and communities around the globe, founded on the principle that project maintainers should share in their projects’ success.

Events in the Fediverse are gaining momentum. As an appendix to the Social Web track on Saturday, this BoF offers an open discussion space to shape the future of federated event publishing and calendars.

Several free and open-source projects in this area are already collaborating across the Fediverse. An in-person meeting creates space to deepen that cooperation, welcome users, operators, developers, and all interested participants, and to build trust between communities and projects. Together, we aim to refine shared goals, discuss challenges, and explore how social and technical aspects of federation come together to support a healthy, interoperable open social web for event management and calendars.

https://event-federation.eu https://gancio.org https://lauti.org https://mobilizon.org https://bonfirenetworks.org

Learn the essential skills of Chinese calligraphy and chopsticks in a fun, hands-on session! Start by creating your own Spring Festival couplets, mastering the brush and forming meaningful characters. Then, switch to chopsticks as you practice savoring dim sum, noodles, rice, beans, and tofu with precision and ease.

Along the way, you’ll also explore Taiwan’s vibrant open-source communities, discover exciting conferences, and pick up insider tips for sightseeing around the island. Whether you’re a beginner or a cultural explorer, this session promises a unique, immersive, and enriching experience!

Welcome to the Official FOSDEM Tor Relay Operator Meetup. This BOF is for current or up-and-coming Tor Relay or Bridge operators interested in meeting like-minded people for an hour-long session with the Tor community. We start with a quick update from the official Tor Project, followed by a longer discussion/Q&A to explore what is happening in our community right now.

We have no agenda for the meeting, so that everybody can bring up questions or topics related to the Tor ecosystem here.

Spend some time with members of the Community team at Mozilla along with Mozilla Contributors. This is a great opportunity to learn about contribution opportunities across all Mozilla—for both developers and non-developers (user support, localization, documentation, ideas and product feedback). Newcomers are welcome (encouraged!) to ask questions and for old timers to have a casual chat with other contributors about their works; or help newcomers to get started. We'll also brainstorm on ways for the community to get more involved moving forward. Hope to see ya there!

Open source can be legally open yet practically closed.

We can all read the code and reuse the licence. But who gets heard, who gets funded, who sets direction, and who feels welcome? This is still shaped by time zones, language, access to money and mentoring, and project governance.

This BoF is a structured, friendly discussion for maintainers, contributors, newcomers, community folks, designers, docs writers, translators, researchers, event organisers, and anyone affected by open-source decisions (even if you've never opened a PR).

We'll map the points where openness breaks, share approaches that have worked, and leave with 2-3 concrete actions we can try in the next few months: small, testable steps that make participation wider and influence more fairly distributed.