Call for Participation - FOSDEM 2026 - Social Web Devroom

(Originally posted at
https://socialwebfoundation.org/2025/10/31/fosdem-2026-social-web-devroom-call-for-participation/
)

The Social Web Foundation (https://socialwebfoundation.org/) is pleased to
announce the Social Web Devroom at FOSDEM 2026, and invite participants to
submit proposals for talks for the event.

FOSDEM (https://fosdem.org/2026/) is an exciting free and open source
software event in Brussels, Belgium that brings together thousands of
enthusiasts from around the world. The event spans the weekend of January
31 to February 1, 2026 and features discussion tracks (“devrooms”) for
scores of different technology topics.

The Social Web Devroom will take place in the afternoon of Saturday,
January 31.

## Format

There will be three available talk formats:

* 50 minutes – for bigger projects, followed by 10 minutes of questions.
* 25 minutes – for bigger projects, followed by 5 minutes of questions.
* 8 minutes – micro-talks on smaller or newer projects, in groups of 3,
followed by 6 minutes of combined questions for the group.

## Topics

The Social Web Devroom is open to talks all about the Social Web AKA the
Fediverse, including:

* Implementations of the ActivityPub protocol or ActivityPub API
* Clients for ActivityPub-enabled software like Mastodon
* Supporting services for the Fediverse, like search or onboarding
* ActivityPub-related libraries, toolkits, and frameworks
* Tools, bots, platforms, and related topics
* Advocacy, organization and social activity in deploying Open Source
ActivityPub applications

## Important dates

* Submission open: 1 Nov 2025
* Submission deadline: 1 Dec 2025
* Acceptance notifications: 10 Dec 2025
* Final schedule announcement: 15 Dec 2025
* Devroom: 31 Jan 2026

## Submissions

Submit talk proposals to https://pretalx.fosdem.org/fosdem-2026/cfp. Select
“Social Web” from the “Track” dropdown, and include the length of your talk
(8/25/50) in the submission notes. (Note that the “Lightning Talks” track
is a separate event-wide track; if you’re proposing a Social Web
micro-talk, please choose the “Social Web” track!)

## Code of Conduct

All attendees and speakers must be familiar with and agree to the FOSDEM
Code of Conduct (https://fosdem.org/2026/practical/conduct/).

## Contact

Questions about topics, formats, or the Social Web in general should go to
contact@socialwebfoundation.org.