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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 projects that share roots, code and philosophy:

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

Key dates

• Submission deadline: 7 December 2026, Brussels time
• Announcement of selected talks: 15 December 2026
• Conference dates: 30 & 31 January 2027
• BSD devroom date: Saturday 30 January 2027, afternoon (second half)

Desirable topics

We aim to host talks covering one or more of these 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 submissions.

Visit the FOSDEM 2027 Pretalx website.

Your submission must include the following information:

• The title and subtitle of your talk (please be descriptive, as titles will be listed alongside ~500 talks 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 / ...

You can also consult the list of talks given in 2026.

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 appropriate 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

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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