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We are excited to announce the Call for Presentations for the BSD, illumos, OpenZFS, bhyve Devroom.

This Devroom aims to provide a dedicated space for presentations covering four project sharing roots, code and philosophy :

• The BSD family of OSes: NetBSD, FreeBSD, OpenBSD and all derivated projects
• illumos, the successor to OpenSolaris, and its various distributions such as OpenIndiana, OmniOS, SmartOS/Triton, and Tribblix
• ZFS, the filesystem originally developed by Sun, open-sourced in OpenSolaris, and integrated in FreeBSD and NetBSD
• bhyve, the BSD hypervisor, available in FreeBSD and illumos

Key dates

• Submission deadline : 1st December 2025 Brussels time
• Announcement of selected talks : 15th of December 2025
• Conference dates : 31 January & 1 February 2026
• BSD devroom date :
  Saturday January 31th, 2026 afternoon (second half)

Practical

General details

• The default duration for talks is from 15 to 30 minutes including discussion.
• If you plan to register your proposal in several tracks to increase your chances, don't ! Register your talk once, in the most accurate track.
  If the BSD devroom is not your first choice, just let us know, and give us a chance to save you a slot in case of rejection by the primary track.

For accepted talks

• You will receive an email to tell you that we accept your proposal
• Expect additional emails with more instructions

Desirable topics

We aims to host talks covering one of many of those topics : BSD and illumos operating systems, bhyve hypervisor, OpenZFS

The talks can cover the following subjects:

• internal hacker discussion
• real-world examples
• presentations about new and shiny features
• community discussion or presentations

Submit a talk

The Pretalx system is now open for applications.

Visit the FOSDEM 2026 Pretalx website.

Your submission must include the following information :

• The title and subtitle of your talk (please be descriptive, as titles will be listed with ~500 from other projects)
• Select "BSD" as the track
• Select "Talk" event type
• A short abstract of one paragraph
• A longer description if you wish to do so
• Links to related websites / blogs / ...

Contact Us

• Follow us on Mastodon: @fosdembsd
• By Email:
  • Rodrigo Osorio: rodrigo@FreeBSD.org
  • Benny Siegert : bsiegert@NetBSD.org

About FOSDEM

FOSDEM is a free event for software developers to meet, share ideas and collaborate.

• FOSDEM is free to attend. There is no registration.
• FOSDEM website
• FOSDEM code of conduct

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