Hi, in the last couple weeks the Call for Participations for the various FOSDEM[1] devrooms have been published. In case not everyone knows FOSDEM: FOSDEM is _the_ yearly European free and open source software event where people from around the globe meet and discuss. Aside from the main track FOSDEM consists mainly of many devrooms which focus on certain topics. I wanted to quickly highlight a few of the relevant devrooms for the OpenStack audience and would like to encourage to submit talks :) An overview of the devrooms can be seen here: https://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/ The CfP for the room is linked from the details page of each devroom. Virtualization and Cloud Infrastructure: https://lists.fosdem.org/pipermail/fosdem/2024q4/003574.html Confidential Computing: https://falder.org/fosdem25-cfp Software Defined Storage: https://lists.fosdem.org/pipermail/fosdem/2024q4/003563.html Monitoring and Observability: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1KQmNqzN3cO29ZZUSpd83REvJY_QhbvxIYr4IRBru... The SCS projects organizes, together with the german ZenDiS and the french DINUM, a room with the topic ‘Government Collaboration’. As part of the room we would love to receive proposals that cover: - Standardization and certification of digital sovereign solutions and infrastructure - Automating deployment and operations of such solutions on sovereign infrastructure - Examples and success stories of digital sovereign cloud computing by the public sector The CfP for this room is here: https://lists.fosdem.org/pipermail/fosdem/2024q4/003608.html Am sure there are more relevant devrooms :) An easy overview is also the mailing list archive: https://lists.fosdem.org/pipermail/fosdem/2024q4/thread.html regards felix [1] <url: https://fosdem.org/2025/>