This post contains the notes that I took during FOSDEM 2026. The big new topics this year seemed to be on AI & digital sovereignty. But off course the main subject matter of the conference will always be beer open source. The following notes are some ramblings combining what the speakers said and thoughts I had while listening. I took them for future references and decide to publish them because 🤷 why not. ...
Notes on day 1 Identity and Access Management Devroom This room is cursed. – The video volunteer when entering the room in the morning. Day two stared of great with a some great presentations in the IAM devroom. I woke up early so I could get a seat on the front row and was happy that I did. Thomas Darimont giving a presentation on OpenID’s shared signals framework. ...
FOSDEM 2026 Main track Free as in Burned Out: Who Really Pays for Open Source? FOSS in times of war, scarcity and (adversarial) AI DEFCON 33 All your keyboards are belong to us! Cosic PQCSA Workshop Brussels 2026 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLcyN2SM1Tk NDC Copenhagen 2025 (Azure) Modern Architecture 101 for New Engineers & Forgetful Experts - Jerry Nixon - NDC Copenhagen 2025