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=== FOSDEM 2025 === Source:<ref name="auto">{{Cite web |date=2025-02-01 |title=FOSDEM 2025 {{!}} Interoperable Europe Portal |url=https://interoperable-europe.ec.europa.eu/collection/open-source-observatory-osor/event/fosdem-2025 |access-date=2025-01-19 |website=interoperable-europe.ec.europa.eu |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2024-07-17 |title=FOSDEM 2025 |url=https://www.apc.org/en/event/fosdem-2025 |access-date=2025-01-19 |website=www.apc.org |language=en}}</ref> [[File:FOSDEM 2025 Opening Talk from the speaker perspective.jpg|thumb|FOSDEM 2025 Opening Talk from the speaker perspective]] As usual, it took place in Brussels with 1118 speakers spread over 1074 events and 78 tracks, showing that the size of the event is growing steadily. As usual beyond BoF,<ref>{{Cite web |title=NLnet; Let's meet at FOSDEM 2025 |url=https://nlnet.nl/events/20250201/FOSDEM/index.html |access-date=2025-01-18 |website=nlnet.nl}}</ref> also FOSDEM Fringe<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://fosdem.org/2025/fringe/|title=Fringe|website=fosdem.org}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2025-01-31 |title=FOSDEM 2025 Fringe: FOSS license and security compliance tools workshop |url=https://workshop.aboutcode.org/ |access-date=2025-01-18 |website=workshop.aboutcode.org |language=en}}</ref> and FOSDEM Junior<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/track/junior/|title=FOSDEM Junior|website=fosdem.org}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2024-10-28 |title=FOSDEM and FOSDEM junior 2025 |url=https://community.appinventor.mit.edu/t/fosdem-and-fosdem-junior-2025/130521 |access-date=2025-01-18 |website=MIT App Inventor Community |language=en}}</ref> has been organized. The number of keynotes at this edition has increased compared to 2023 and 2024. [[Jack Dorsey]]'s scheduled talk representing [[Block, Inc.]]<ref>{{Cite web |title=Infusing Open Source Culture into Company DNA: A Conversation with Jack Dorsey and Manik Surtani, Block's head of Open Source |url=https://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/event/fosdem-2025-4507-infusing-open-source-culture-into-company-dna-a-conversation-with-jack-dorsey-and-manik-surtani-block-s-head-of-open-source/ |access-date=2025-01-18 |website=fosdem.org |language=en |archive-date=2025-01-18 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250118080131/https://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/event/fosdem-2025-4507-infusing-open-source-culture-into-company-dna-a-conversation-with-jack-dorsey-and-manik-surtani-block-s-head-of-open-source/ |url-status=dead}}</ref> caused controversy due to Dorsey's involvement in [[Acquisition of Twitter by Elon Musk|selling Twitter to Elon Musk]],<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |last=Brockmeier |first=Joe |date=2025-01-28 |title=FOSDEM keynote causes concerns [LWN.net] |url=https://lwn.net/Articles/1006351/ |access-date=2025-02-06 |website=lwn.net}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Statement on planned protests during the upcoming FOSDEM 2025 |url=https://fosdem.org/2025/news/2025-01-16-protests/ |access-date=2025-01-18 |website=fosdem.org |language=en}}</ref> together with doubts about the actual background of the speaker in open-source activities,<ref name=":0" /> as well as, the ethical concerns of [[Block, Inc.]] current business.<ref>Mentioned in the original FOSDEM '25 protest statement by Drew Devault (https://drewdevault.com/2025/01/16/2025-01-16-No-Billionares-at-FOSDEM-please.html)</ref> The [[Open Source Observatory and Repository|Open Source Observatory]] (OSOR) of the European Commission<ref>{{Cite web |date=2025-02-21 |title=Open Source Observatory (OSOR) {{!}} Interoperable Europe Portal |url=https://interoperable-europe.ec.europa.eu/collection/open-source-observatory-osor |access-date=2025-01-19 |website=interoperable-europe.ec.europa.eu |language=en}}</ref> participates in several developer rooms dedicated to policy and public use of open source.<ref name="auto"/>
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