A place to discuss the creation and use of Free Libre Open Source Software in research context: science, investigative journalism, activism, OSINT...
👉 Deadline 1st December 2024
We invite developers and users of open tools and technologies used in a research and investigation context to contribute to the 2025 edition of FOSDEM, the largest open-source conference in Europe. We understand research as the general process of knowledge production and inquiry. This includes scientific research, investigative journalism, data journalism, OSINT, as well as research and investigations undertaken by NGOs, civil society, community and activist groups, etc.
We seek talks about:
We welcome talks from various research and investigative contexts: research labs, libraries, newsrooms, museums, hackerspaces, maker labs, community and activist groups. We welcome your experience on various topics: open science, open data, commons, research on research, sustainability… Any subjects related to open source technologies in research contexts are welcome even if not in this list.
Our official devroom consists of 6 hours of talks held physically in Bruxelles. In addition, we will hold an unofficial session consisting of about 4h of online talks.
Note: The online session will not be appearing on the FOSDEM website; that’s why it’s unofficial.
Talks have to be in English and will be recorded and later on published under Creative Commons CC-BY licence on the FOSDEM video recordings archive. The unofficial, online talks will also be recorded and published, but somewhere else (more on this soon).
The FOSDEM will be entirely physical this year (in Bruxelles), and our online session will be held unofficially a few weeks later. All the talks can be seen online via a stream.
Must include:
Can include:
Please make sure to add links to relevant online materials (such as website, publications, code repository…) to either abstract or extra review material.
To get inspired on possible abstracts style, length and format, you can read previous edition talks on FOSDEM archives:
For the official, physical session, the submission process is managed in the Pretalx system used by the FOSDEM conference. You must create an account in the system to submit (Pretalx replaces the previous pentabarf system you need to create a new user account). Once logged in, select “submit a CFP” and select the “Open research” track.
Apply for a physical talk: https://pretalx.fosdem.org/fosdem-2025/cfp
If you have any issues with Pretalx, do not despair: contact us at open-research-devroom-manager@fosdem.org.
Follow us on Mastodon (@FosdemResearch@fosstodon.org) for updates and announcements.
Send an email to us with your submission. Just write in the email the necessary information (see point 2. above).
Apply for an online talk: open-research-devroom-manager@fosdem.org !
The Open Research devroom addresses FLOSS developers in a broad community concerned with research production and curation: scientists, engineers, journalists, archivists, curators, activists. The tools and technologies targeted are typically creating, handling or sharing knowledge artifacts: data, academic papers, books, collections, web contents, algorithms, artworks. This devroom provides a place and time to discuss the issues related to the creation and usage of open research technologies, with the ambition to foster discussions between designers, developers and users, bridging multiple knowledge-based communities together, and with the broader FLOSS community.
The Open Research devroom aims to:
For more content information, you can also read about the state of the conversation in the devroom in 2020-2021.
The FOSDEM (Free and Open source Software Developers’ European Meeting) is a non-commercial, volunteer-organized European event centered on free and open-source software development. It is aimed at developers and anyone interested in the free and open-source software movement. It aims to enable developers to meet and to promote the awareness and use of free and open-source software.
https://fosdem.org/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FOSDEM
Your proposal will be assessed by our committee:
Contact us: open-research-devroom-manager@fosdem.org
Want to view the schedule for the online talks? Use this link!