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28 Jan – 4 Feb, Brussels

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Your guide to navigate the EU Open Source Week!

Your guide to navigate the EU Open Source Week!

Joining the EU Open Source Week this year? With this guide you won’t miss out on any of the open technology events and activities during your visit in Brussels!

Every year, at the end of January and the beginning of February, thousands of people from Europe and around the world gather in Brussels to discuss open source and open technologies. The main attraction is FOSDEM, Europe’s largest open source conference, which has inspired a range of side events, social activities, and workshops. For those interested in open technology, digital policy, and EU developments, OpenForum Europe’s EU Open Source Policy Summit brings together open source leaders and policymakers. Together, these events make up the EU Open Source Week.

Event
Listing

Interested in a workshop, hackathon, social, or high-level conference? Use the guide below to find all the events happening during the EU Open Source Week.

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The next edition of the Software Heritage Symposium & Summit will take place on January 29th, 2025, at the UNESCO headquarters in Paris, a short 1h25  train ride from Brussels, where FOSDEM will take place on February 1st and 2nd. The date of the UNESCO event has been chosen to avoid superposition with the growing number of pre and post FOSDEM events that will crowd the Belgian capital.

Save the date and join us for a day dedicated to exploring the evolving role of software in our digital future. Building on the success of previous editions, this year’s event will focus on:

  • Cybersecurity: Unveiling how software preservation enhances digital resilience.
  • Artificial Intelligence: Delving into the synergy between AI advancements and software heritage.
  • Open Science: Showcasing progress in constructing the software pillar for open and reproducible science.

What to Expect:

  • Expert Panels: Learn from leading voices in industry, academia, and public administration.
  • Deep Tech Presentations: Dive into cutting-edge developments within the Software Heritage infrastructure.
  • Networking Opportunities: Connect with innovators, thought leaders, and key stakeholders.
You can get an idea by looking at the last edition, held on February 1st 2024, see the 2024 event page online.

Stay tuned for more details on the program, speakers, and registration coming soon.

Type of event:
Conference

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Registration:
Invitation Only
Type of event:
Awards Ceremony
Topic:
European Open Source Policy

Join us for the inaugural ceremony of the European Open Source Awards, marking the launch of the European Open Source Academy.

The European Open Source Academy celebrates and encourages excellence in Open Source in Europe, promoting existing projects and actors and fostering training and awareness.

To mark the launch of the Academy, three awards will be presented for this inaugural ceremony, followed-up by a gala cocktail.

This event is invitation only.

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Type of event:
Conference
Topic:
Open Source & Health
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CHAOSScon is about open source project health metrics and tools used by open source projects, communities, and engineering teams to track and analyze their community work. This conference will provide a venue for discussing open source project health, CHAOSS updates, use cases, and hands-on workshops for developers, community managers, project managers, and anyone interested in measuring open source project health. We will also share insights from the CHAOSS context working groups including OSPOs, University Open Source, and Open Source in Science and Research.

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Registration:
Invitation only
Type of event:
Conference
Topic:
Open Source Policy
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The EU Open Source Policy Summit is Europe’s premier event for high-level open source policy discussions. This Summit provides a platform for the new EU administration to engage in meaningful dialogue with the European open source community. As authorities on the innovation model powering the digital domain, our speakers will explore ways to harness open source and global collaborative innovation to establish a competitive and sovereign digital environment. The event will feature insights from leading policymakers, OSS business leaders, software stewards, advocates, and academics. Together, they will share their perspectives and propose strategies for shaping the digital policy framework over the next five years.

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Registration:
Registration required
Type of event:
Workshop
Topic:
Open source software
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Interested in open source license and security compliance? Join us for a one-day workshop for developers and users of open source compliance tools on Friday, January 31st, 2025 in Brussels just before FOSDEM 2025.

Our goal is for open source developers, users, and contributors to exchange requirements, plans, and collaboration opportunities around FOSS tools for software provenance detection, vulnerability management, license detection and regulatory compliance like CRA, code scanning, package dependency analysis, container analysis, SBOM creation and consumption, and license or vulnerability databases – basically, all the tools you need to figure out which FOSS code you use, where it is from, what is its license, how to comply with the license, and whether it contains vulnerable code.

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Registration:
Open access
Type of event:
Conference
Topic:
Open Source Development
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This edition will be the 25th anniversary of FOSDEM!

FOSDEM is a free event for software developers to meet, share ideas and collaborate. Every year, thousands of developers of free and open source software from all over the world gather at the event in Brussels. You don’t need to register. Just turn up and join in!

 

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Registration:
Open access
Type of event:
Conference
Topic:
Open Source Development
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This edition will be the 25th anniversary of FOSDEM!

FOSDEM is a free event for software developers to meet, share ideas and collaborate. Every year, thousands of developers of free and open source software from all over the world gather at the event in Brussels. You don’t need to register. Just turn up and join in!

 

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EU FOSS Policy Meeting

**This is a closed meeting for a specific group.** If you are thinking about organising an event on Monday 2nd February 2025 in the AM, please consider that many EU Policy People will be required for the OFE Policy Meeting.

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The event is for users and developers of OpenEmbedded and The Yocto Project. The focus is building Linux distributions for embedded devices, but we also see users in bigger systems and containers.

Now it’s Your Turn to
Submit Your Event

Are you organising an event during the EU Open Source Week? You can submit it here to be added to the virtual guide. 

Event submission guidelines 

This guide is for all organisers and participants to the EU Open Source Week to promote and find open technology events and activities. 

To ensure that all the events included in the guide are relevant to the EU Open Source Week and foster an open and inclusive exchange, all submissions will be reviewed against the following guidelines:

  • The principal topic of the event should be related to open technologies and related policies in Europe, including but not limited to open source softwares and hardwares, open standards, open source policy, open data. 
  • The event should be happening in Brussels during the EU Open Source Week in January-February 2025. 
  • For events happening solely online, there should be a direct relevance to open technologies in Europe and/or to EU digital policies. 
  • All events, in particular speakers-focused events, should ensure gender diversity.

We reserve the right to refuse events that do not align with the aforementioned guidelines. Should you have any questions about the guidelines please feel free to contact us.

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About OpenForum Europe

OpenForum Europe (OFE) is a not-for-profit, Brussels-based independent think tank which explains the merits of openness in computing to policy makers and communities across Europe.

For the last 20 years, OFE has been a leading organisation in discussing the future and impact of open technologies. As a not-for-profit, Brussels-based independent think tank, we bring together people, companies and organisations who are passionate about a digital society where user centricity, competition, flexibility, sustainability, and community form the core.

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