FOSDEM 2025, 2026
A few more weeks to the next FOSDEM conference in Brussels, an annual gathering of thousands of open source developers and users. Time to finally finish some of my notes from last year, and look ahead.
My focus is on socio-technical discussions: how do technologies and society interact with respect to access, representation, and autonomy? Two perspectives:
- On an individual and community level: how can we reclaim "social media" to be the public space we intended it to be?
- On a societal and global level: how can we reclaim "open source" as a technical driver for a better society?
Those perspectives touch on a tension between "free" and "open".