Events in room K.4.401

The OpenEmbedded/Yocto Project is a powerful open-source collaboration that provides a framework for creating custom embedded Linux distributions. It has become a key tool for developers building highly tailored, minimal, and efficient Linux systems across a wide range of devices, from IoT to automotive, robotics, and beyond.

Join us for this Birds of a Feather (BoF) session where OE/Yocto users, developers, and maintainers can gather to share their experiences, challenges, and best practices. Whether you’re a seasoned user or just starting to explore its capabilities, this session will provide an opportunity for lively discussion, collaboration, and networking.

This BOF will present the topics open for applicants in Horizon Europe Work Programme in relation to the Open Internet Stack successor programme to Next Generation Internet (NGI) for a total of 41.3M€. The agenda covers the results from the 2025 calls, the 3 new topics involved as well as Q/A and free interactions with Commission staff.

The NGI Zero consortium offers funding and support services to projects that help fix the internet through open software, open hardware and open standards. This gathering is a meet-and-greet for people who are part of, or interested in the NGI Zero ecosystem. Feel free to join! https://nlnet.nl/NGI0/

Reproducible builds are a set of software development practices that create an independently-verifiable path from source to binary code.

There will be a Q&A session with members of the Reproducible builds team & community.

The vulnerability management world is in a bit of turmoil. With the DoS-type attack AI slop is putting on Open Source projects at the same time as the funding of core systems is unsure, we need to agree on requirements for the future, ways of working and how we can handle the shift forced by the Cyber Resilience Act. Let's spend an hour talking about this and discuss ways forward.

The Global Vulnerability Intelligence Platform is a project that aims at working on a long term solution, a cooperation between OWASP, OpenSSF, Eclipse/ORCWG, OpenForum Europe and with support from the Sovereign Tech Resilience project.

https://www.gvip-project.org

What's going on in the Perl, CPAN, Raku and Raku.land communities and ecosystems?

Come, get to know some of the people, and learn (or share!) what's going on. We might have news from different Perl Mongers, upcoming events, CPAN Security Group, the Perl Foundation, the Raku Foundation, and more! It depends on who shows up.

And if you are new and unfamiliar with these communities, then come and ask questions! Lots of helpful people around.

Hope to see you there!

Special-Purpose Operating Systems are purpose-built Linux distributions for fufilling one specific function. We are a collaborative initiative, bringing together developers, maintainers, and adopters focused on operating systems designed for specific workloads—cloud-native, edge, embedded systems.

In this Birds of a Feather (BoF) session, we aim to connect in person for the third time at FOSDEM, a pivotal event for the open-source operating system community. This meetup will provide a space for SPOS enthusiasts, contributors, and representatives from major Linux distributions to exchange insights, share experiences, and discuss the future direction of specialized operating systems.

VideoLAN https://www.videolan.org/ tech meeting for VLC.

We will speak about the upcoming VLC 4.0 milestone.

With internet shutdowns, censorship, and fragile infrastructure becoming a fact of life, communities need communications that keep working. Reticulum is a practical, open networking stack for resilient, decentralised communication across very different links, from Wi-Fi and Bluetooth to LoRa and packet radio.

Project: https://reticulum.community/

This BoF brings together people building with Reticulum (and those curious about it) to share what's working and align on what comes next. Reticulum is at an inflection point: as the original lead developer steps back from public coordination, this is our moment to turn Reticulum into a community-run project that can realise it’s potential as an alternative communication system.

This is a discussion-led working session with people actively deploying and experimenting, including:

• a draft formal protocol specification (reviewers and contributors welcome)
• lessons from a real-world community mesh in Aruba
• members of the Amsterdam Reticulum community

We'll focus on: agreeing priorities for the next 3-12 months, defining a lightweight coordination model (triage/reviews/releases) and turning interoperability learnings into a shared protocol spec scope and an initial conformance/test-vector plan that enables independent implementations.

Outcome: leave with a short set of priorities, named owners for follow-ups, an agreed spec/outline and test-vector plan and a scheduled next check-in.

NLnet foundation offers financial support to free and open source technologies. Everybody is welcome to drop by this Birds of a Feather meetup. If you have questions about funding possibilities, are a grantee with ideas or remarks, or just want to come by and say hi. Many of the NLnet team will be there and we are looking forward to meet you. https://nlnet.nl/

Come and chat with a GIMP developer about the current and future state of GIMP. Share your experiences, art created with GIMP and just have a nice time meeting each other. Also get a GIMP sticker!

Let's see if we can exchange some ideas and/or collaborate together on open source real time video mixing! Represented / present should be some of the people behind https://github.com/FOSDEM/video-fazantix and https://github.com/ddvtech/mistserver and perhaps more!