Events/FOSDEM/2026
Coordinates: 50°48′48.14″N 4°22′51.88″E
FOSDEM (Brussels, Belgium) is probably the best community driven FOSS event in Europe. It's massive, chaotic and fun.
Like previous years, FOSDEM is organised at the Université Libre de Bruxelles.
FOSDEM is free to attend. There is no registration. Just turn up!
Date
[edit]31 January–1 February 2026
All information at https://fosdem.org/2026/.
Lectures & lightning talks about MediaWiki or Wikimedia
[edit]On Wikimedia projects and related:
- Terence Eden, A crowd-sourced open data site for memorial benches! (OpenBenches and Wikipedia)
- Effie Mouzeli, Running Wikipedia on Bare Metal, Open Source, and a Healthy Dose of Caching
- Iolanda Pensa, Visualizing Wikipedia
- Suzanne Wood, Making the best of partially translated pages
Wikimedian-adjacent:
- Caroline Sinders, Designing For Trust and Safety In the Age of Predatory Technology
Blog posts
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Participants at FOSDEM
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Who plans to be there?
- taavi (talk!) 07:57, 24 September 2025 (UTC)
- Pintoch (talk) 11:56, 24 September 2025 (UTC)
- Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) (talk) 13:38, 24 September 2025 (UTC)
- Malyacko (talk) 12:35, 25 September 2025 (UTC)
Still have to book trains though!All booked. Nemo 09:03, 26 October 2025 (UTC)- Krinkle (talk) 17:51, 25 November 2025 (UTC)
- CGoubert-WMF (talk) 12:16, 26 November 2025 (UTC)
- GModena (WMF) (talk) 11:58, 17 December 2025 (UTC)
- Margott (talk) 11:52, 19 January 2026 (UTC)
- Everton137 (talk) 17:18, 31 January 2026 (UTC)