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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 @Sebastix and many presenters have their NOSTR profiles, just click on hashtags above View quoted note β†’ 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

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You are aware that Nostr was there previous (the 2025) edition?
Sebastix's avatar Sebastix
FOSDEM & Nostr-PHP updates from week 5 and 6
What started as an idea during Bitcoin 2024 Amsterdam, we accomplished it on February 1 & 2: be there with Nostr at FOSDEM! FOSDEM is one of the worlds biggest conferences for free and open-source minded people & communities held since 2000 in Brussels (Belgium).
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