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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.

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

The publication of the EU Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) in the Official Journal of the European Union on November 20, 2024, has started a three-year race for compliance for the global tech industry and the open source community. Join us to better understand how this upcoming legislation will impact you, how the Eclipse Foundation’s Open Regulatory Compliance Working Group (ORC WG) is collaborating with open source foundations, maintainers, SMEs, and industry to address this challenge, and how you too can get involved.

The Eclipse Foundation’s newly formed ORC WG will also host its first in-person meeting (ORC WG Workshop) focused on the implementation of the Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) on 30 January 2025.

These events will take place in Brussels, Belgium in conjunction with the EU Open Source Week and FOSDEM. – The exact event venue will be announced shortly.

Free – No registration fee.

Refreshments will be provided.

Audience: open source maintainers, OSPOs, open source vendors, open source foundations, CIOs, CSOs, CISOs, CTOs, software developers, IT professionals, Compliance officers, …

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, four awards will be presented for this inaugural ceremony, The ceremony will be followed-up by a gala cocktail reception.

This event is invitation only.

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.

Europe is in a perfect storm. Draghi Report, new US administration, China Second Shock incoming. Trade, industrial policy, green transition and competition need to finally speak to one another. Focus on growth not just regulation. Will Europe rise to the challenge, affirming its values and regaining initiative – or will it spiral down further to vassalage and economic decline? This is the hour.

Join us for a big transatlantic conversation in a moment of confusion and transition.

The Perfect Storm: A Time of Truth for Europe hosted, organized and chaired by Cristina Caffarra with support from The Capitol Forum, is back at the Steigenberger Wiltcher’s in Brussels.

Come join the Eclipse Foundation’s newly formed Open Regulatory Compliance Working Group for its first in-person meeting focused on the implementation of the EU Cyber Resilience Act (CRA). This hands-on workshop will address different topics throughout the day with sessions specifically focused on vulnerability management, the CRA’s attestation program and its potential to help make open source more sustainable, and the collaboration with the NSBs and ESOs on the development of the harmonized standards. This workshop is open to everyone who is focused on the implementation of the CRA (security, standardization, and compliance experts, members of the institutions, open source maintainers, OSPO and foundation staff, etc.). There are limited seats and preference will be given to working group participants.

In addition, a meet-up (“The EU Cyber Resilience Act is Here! Now What?“) where you can find out how the CRA will impact you, and how you can get involved with the Open Regulatory Compliance Working Group (ORC WG), will take place on 29 January 2025.

These events will take place in Brussels, Belgium in conjunction with the EU Open Source Week and FOSDEM. – The exact event venue will be announced shortly.

Refreshments and lunch will be provided.

Audience: open source maintainers, OSPOs, open source vendors, open source foundations, CTOs, Compliance officers, security, standardization, and compliance experts, members of the institutions, open source maintainers, OSPO and foundation staff, etc.

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.

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.

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!

Linux Foundation is celebrating all open source projects, developer communities and contributors during FOSDEM. Join us for a relaxed evening at Au Bassin during one the most interesting weekends for open source.

This event is proudly sponsored by CNCF, OpenSSF, LF Education, Sovereign Tech Agency and LF Europe.

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!

EU FOSS Policy Meeting

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.