Hi gophers,

The Go community has been represented at FOSDEM every year since 2014. The year 2027 won't be any different. FOSDEM is an annual conference about free and open source software held in Brussels, attended by over 5000 developers and open-source enthusiasts from all over the world.

This year again the Go devroom will be in-person in Brussels on Saturday January 30th 2027 and we are now looking for speakers. The format will be 25 minutes talk with 5 minutes for Q&A at the end.

This is a great opportunity for new speakers, and we will have people helping you craft your talk and slides if so you wish. So if you, or someone you know, are working on something cool that might be good on stage, submit a proposal!

Do you want to be one of our speakers? Please submit your proposal using the new FOSDEM Pretalx site. The deadline for submission is December 1st 2026 (00:00 Brussels Time). If you want us to check whether your proposal came through correctly, you can always contact us at [email protected].

Do you want to help organize the devroom? We need people to help on the day itself (doors, microphone handover, camera, allaround). But we are also especially looking for many people to help with reviewing the proposals and help with mentoring. Please send us an email to [email protected] if you’d like to help out with this.

Any topics related to Go are welcome, with a preference for open source projects rather than product pitches. We value talks about how a given project uses Go rather than how a project written in Go is used.

The room will follow Go’s Code of Conduct and as part of FOSDEM, the FOSDEM Code of Conduct also applies.

Cheers,
Maartje Eyskens