FOSDEM 2025 – Social Web Devroom – Call For Participation
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The Social Web Foundation is pleased to announce the Social Web Devroom at FOSDEM 2025, and invite participants to submit proposals for talks for the event.
FOSDEM is an exciting free and open source software event in Brussels, Belgium that brings together thousands of enthusiasts from around the world. The event spans the weekend of February 1-2, 2025 and features discussion tracks (“devrooms”) for over 140 different technology topics.
The Social Web Devroom will take place in the afternoon of Saturday, February 1.
Format
There will be two available talk formats:
- 25 minutes – for bigger projects, followed by 5 minutes of questions.
- 8 minutes – lightning talks on smaller or newer projects, in groups of 3, followed by 6 minutes of combined questions for the group.
Topics
The Social Web Devroom is open to talks all about the Social Web AKA the Fediverse, including:
- Implementations of the ActivityPub protocol or ActivityPub API
- Clients for ActivityPub-enabled software like Mastodon
- Supporting services for the Fediverse, like search or onboarding
- ActivityPub-related libraries, toolkits, and frameworks
- Tools, bots, platforms, and related topics
Important dates
- Submission open: 1 Nov 2024
- Submission deadline: 1 Dec 2024
- Acceptance notifications: 10 Dec 2024
- Final schedule announcement: 15 Dec 2024
- Devroom: 1 Feb 2025
Submissions
Submit talk proposals to https://pretalx.fosdem.org/fosdem-2025/cfp . Select “Social Web” from the “Track” dropdown, and include the length of your talk (8/25) in the submission notes.
Code of Conduct
All attendees and speakers must be familiar with and agree to the FOSDEM Code of Conduct https://fosdem.org/2025/practical/conduct/.
Contact
Questions about topics, formats, or the Social Web in general should go to [email protected].
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@evanprodromou Only one protocol allowed? Why is it not called the ActivityPub devroom or at least fediverse dev room then?
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"The Fediverse, also known as the social web, is a network of independent social platforms connected by the open standard protocol ActivityPub."
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@raucao Is there a project that you're working on that you think should be in the Social Web Devroom that doesn't use ActivityPub?
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@evan So you do claim the term Social Web for a single protocol (and its non-standard add-ons enabling us to talk right now) then. Thanks for being honest about it! However, I'm certainly not the only one to fundamentally disagree with that notion.
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@raucao that's fine; agree to disagree.
Will you submit a talk?
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