You are aware that Nostr was there previous (the 2025) edition?
https://nostrver.se/blog/fosdem-nostr-php-updates-week-5-and-6
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#FOSDEM2026 has no NOSTR stage this year, we are still early but it feels like the organisers failed to recognise the potential.
Have we not pitched them enough with the ideas, what needs to be done better to make it happen for the 2027? #asknostr
There is however one NOSTR talk by nostr:npub1qe3e5wrvnsgpggtkytxteaqfprz0rgxr8c3l34kk3a9t7e2l3acslezefe and many presenters have their NOSTR profiles, just click on hashtags above
8000 attendees, free entry, no registration required
// Brussels / 31 January & 1 February 2026
Here is the list of the devrooms that are present at this edition of #FOSDEM, in alphabetical order:
AI Plumbers
Audio, Video & Graphics Creation
Bioinformatics & Computational Biology
Browser and web platform
BSD, illumos, bhyve, OpenZFS
Building Europe’s Public Digital Infrastructure
Collaboration and content management
Community
Confidential Computing
Containers
CRA in practice
Databases
Decentralised Communication
Decentralized Internet and Privacy
Declarative and Minimalistic Computing
Distributions
DNS
eBPF
Educational
Embedded, Mobile and Automotive
Energy
FOSS on Mobile
FPGA and VLSI
Funding the FOSS Ecosystem
Gaming and VR devroom
GCC (GNU Toolchain)
Geospatial
Go
Graphics
HPC, Big Data & Data Science
Identity and Access Management
Kernel
Legal & Policy
LLVM
Local-First, sync engines, CRDTs
Microkernel and Component-Based OS
Modern Email
Music Production
Network
Nix and NixOS
Open Hardware and CAD/CAM
Open Media devroom
Open Research
Open Source Design
Open Source Digital Forensics
Open Source & EU Policy
Package Management
Plan 9
Python
Railways and Open Transport
Retrocomputing
RISC-V
Robotics and Simulation
Rust
SBOMS and supply chains
Search
Security
Social Web
Software Defined Radio(SDR)/Digital Signal Processing(DSP)
Software Defined Storage
Software Performance
Testing and Continuous Delivery
Tool the Docs
Translations
Virtualization and Cloud Infrastructure
Discussion
Brilliant.
For the future crowd-funding consider using nostr:npub1wrzguj625auyeysfuuxzf7ywhzlwfz9gm3fml2lul72gwqxw8n9swtcm02 next to nostr:npub1kmwdmhuxvafg05dyap3qmy42jpwztrv9p0uvey3a8803ahlwtmnsnhxqk9 both can be donation based.
I'm considering visiting at the end of January, maybe to do a NOSTR meetup inside the Open Source Village - this looks good.
If I decide to go I will volunteer for one or two half-day shifts.
Team up for the meetup with nostr:npub1l77twp5l02jadkcjn6eeulv2j7y5vmf9tf3hhtq7h7rp0vzhgpzqz0swft and nostr:npub1xsp9fcq340dzaqjctjl7unu3k0c82jdxc350uqym70k8vedzuvdst562dr 🤙