FOSDEM 2026, Call for Participation

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The CfP has been issued! FOSDEM 2026 - FOSDEM 2026 Call for Participation

I am creating a thread quickly to track our submission and submission message :slight_smile:

Best regards and talk to you soon,
Fer

IMPORTANT EDIT: if you would like to participate as a co-organiser, please, please, please, let us know ASAP!!!

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And today the Call for Stands is up.

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FYI, I am going to try to write the proposal tomorrow.

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Feel free to post the draft to the AdaFOSDEM mailing list for review and comments.

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Dear all,

here is a draft for the submission. Please, read it and give any feedback that you may like Ada :: FOSDEM 2026 Call for devrooms :: pretalx

Best regards,
Fer

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Dear all,

the proposal to have an Ada Devroom for FOSDEM 2026 has not been accepted. We will look now into getting a stand, just like a few years ago. Though I dont have high hopes with this as last couple of years the competition has been great for the available spots.

Nevertheless, there are some other accepted DevRooms that could accept Ada related topics. A few of those examples are:

  • Browser and web platform devroom: someone could showcase fully verified Ada/SPARK code running on the browser using WASM.
  • Security Devroom: self explanatory
  • GCC (GNU Toolchain): self explanatory
  • LLVM: GNAT-LLVM frontend anybody??
  • Embedded, Mobile and Automotive: someone could talk about the guide released by NVIDIA on how to get SIL-4 certified using Ada/SPARK and present the language.
  • Software Performance: Ada has some unique properties when it comes to performance, maybe you would like to showcase those? (To be honest I have had an idea about this for soooo long…)
  • Confidential Computing devroom
  • Microkernel and Component-Based OS

Additionally, FOSDEM has indicated that they have given preference to rooms that were shared and not about a single topic, which does not bode well for Ada… They have also given more prominence to larger format talks, so this has also had an impact on the number of accepted DevRooms…

Talk to you,
Fer

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Very unfortunate, but indeed, the competition for DevRooms was fierce.

The FOSDEM team wrote among others:

“Note we received far more proposals (137) than we can accommodate, so unfortunately we had to leave out a number of good proposals, including from some teams who had a well organized devroom in one of the previous editions. Note that this only means we skip those rooms this year, and we will definitely schedule some of them again in a next edition.”

So, we shouldn’t despair for the future, with 12 well organized Ada DevRooms in previous editions.

They also mentioned:

“Compared to previous editions, we have chosen to avoid most devrooms that were about a single project.”

Note: they did not say they avoided DevRooms “about a single *topic*” but “about a single *project*”. I don’t interpret that as not boding well for Ada, quite to the contrary, as the program of our DevRooms has never been about a single project, but the available time was always shared over various different projects (and even different topics as well one might say).

Anyway, no Ada DevRoom at FOSDEM 2026…

Let’s hope we manage to get an Ada stand, though there as well there will be much competition for the available slots.

As Fer wrote there are several other DevRooms where Ada related topics would fit well. Please consider submitting there. And if your proposal is accepted, please keep us all informed, and we’ll maintain a list of Ada-related presentations at FOSDEM 2026…

Dirk

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I noticed there were only three language specific devrooms this year: Go, Python, and Rust. The dozen+ that were available last year are gone too.

I wouldn’t be surprised if they were trying to move away from specific language oriented rooms in the long term