FOSDEM being the biggest and most exciting open-source conference in Europe, it is a must-go every year for a large number of open-source developers, including engineers at Bootlin, and the upcoming 2026 edition on Jan 31 and Feb 1 will be no exception.
Indeed, no less than 9 Bootlin engineers will be attending: Luca Ceresoli, Louis Chauvet, Jérémie Dautheribes, Thomas Perrot, Thomas Petazzoni, Mathieu Dubois-Briand, Alexis Lothoré, Benjamin Robin and Hervé Codina.
We’re not just attending FOSDEM, we’re also contributing to it, and participating to co-located events:
- Bootlin engineers will be giving 3 talks: Alexis Lothoré will give a talk titled From C to Rust on the ESP32: A Developer’s Journey into no_std, Benjamin Robin will present sbom-cve-check: Lightweight open-source CVE analysis tool for your embedded systems, and Thomas Petazzoni will present Snagboot: vendor-agnostic, open-source and developer-friendly recovery and reflashing tool
- Bootlin engineer Luca Ceresoli has contributed by being a member of the program committee for the Embedded, Mobile and Automotive devroom
- Bootlin engineer Mathieu Dubois-Briand, who is a core member of the Yocto SWAT team will be attending the OpenEmbedded Workshop 2026 on Feb 2 after FOSDEM
- Bootlin engineer Thomas Petazzoni, a co-maintainer of Buildroot, will be attending the Buildroot Developers Days, the Buildroot project hackathon that takes place on Feb 2, 3, 4, after FOSDEM
If you’re attending FOSDEM, don’t hesitate to get in touch!
