Swift DevRoom at FOSDEM 2025
The Swift open source community will be participating in this year's FOSDEM with a DevRoom.
FOSDEM 2025 takes place in Brussels, Belgium on February 1st-2nd, 2025.
Join us to discuss, share, and build with Swift at FOSDEM.
This page contains information about the Call For Proposals (CFP) process and other information you might find useful for planning participation in the Swift DevRoom.
What is FOSDEM?
FOSDEM is a free event for software developers to meet, share ideas, and collaborate.
- Get in touch with other developers and projects.
- Be informed about the latest developments in the free software world.
- Attend interesting talks and presentations on various topics.
- Promote the development and benefits of free software and open source solutions.
To learn more about FOSDEM and Developer Rooms, check out FOSDEM's About page.
Call for Proposals
Call for proposals runs until November 30th.
Format and topics
The Swift DevRoom is inviting proposals for two presentation types: 20 minute talks or 5 minute lightning talks.
We are interested in hosting a wide variety of topics where Swift shines. Great topics for presentations might include:
- Demos and experience reports using Swift on Linux, embedded systems, with WebAssembly, or other use cases.
- Interoperability between Swift and other languages or tools.
- Interesting projects, use cases, and open source packages that involve Swift.
- Type system and language design.
- High-performance networking.
- Asynchronous programming patterns and techniques.
- Performance profiling and debugging techniques.
- Large-scale distributed systems and observability.
- Swift as a tool for scientific research and in academia.
- Teaching programming concepts with Swift.
- Growing diversity and accessibility to the Swift ecosystem for new contributors.
How to submit a proposal?
- Submissions must be made through the FOSDEM C4P system. Select Swift as the track for your submission.
- Include the length of the talk in the Submission notes field.
- Feel free to include any supporting links or information in Submission notes.
- If you have additional needs or accommodations, mention them in the Submission notes field.
Schedule
The track schedule will be published on the FOSDEM website: Schedule / Track / Swift.
Code of Conduct
This event is governed by the FOSDEM Code of Conduct. The Swift project also adheres to the Swift Code of Conduct.
We aim to make Swift, FOSDEM, and all interactions an open and welcoming environment. If you have any questions or concerns, reach out using the channels explained on those pages.
Contact
If you have any questions, the best way to get in touch is the Swift @ FOSDEM thread or emailing the devroom organizers at swift-devroom-managers@fosdem.org.