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FOSDEM CD & Testing Devroom – Call for Proposals Open

By November 5, 2026Blog, Community

Contributed by the Testing and CD Devroom Organizers, Originally posted here

FOSDEM CICD 2027 CFP (2)

⚠️ Call for Papers is open and will close on December 1, 2026

Why

Testing and Continuous Delivery devroom is coming again to FOSDEM. This room is about building better software through a focus on testing and continuous delivery practices across all layers of the stack. The purpose of this devroom is to share good and bad examples around the question “how to improve quality of our software by automating tests, deliveries or deployments” and to showcase new open source tools and practices.

Where

FOSDEM 2027 will be hosted in person at ULB Solbosch Campus, Brussels, Belgium.

Call for Proposals

Since this devroom has been a regular at FOSDEM, here are some ideas of what we would like to see, and what worked in prior years, they’re just ideas though. Check out the Archive for inspiration.

Testing in the real, open source world

  • War stories/strategies for testing large scale or complex projects
  • Tools that extend the ability to test low-level code, e.g. bootloaders, init systems, etc.
  • Projects that are introducing new/interesting ways of testing “systems”
  • Address the automated testing frameworks fragmentation
  • Stories from end-users (e.g. success/failure)
  • Continuous Integration
  • Continuous Delivery
  • Continuous Deployment
  • Security in Software Supply Chain
  • Pipeline standardization
  • Interoperability in CI/CD
  • Lessons learned

Cool Tools (good candidates for lightning talks)

  • Project showcases, modern tooling
  • How your open source tool made developing quality software better
  • What tools do you use to setup your CI/CD
  • Combining projects/plugins/tools to build amazing things “Not enough people in the open source community know how to use $X, but here’s a tutorial on how to use $X to make your project better.”

Important Dates

  • CFP Submission Deadline: Tuesday, December 1, 2026 at 23:59 CET
  • Schedule Announced: Monday, December 7, 2026
  • Presentations: Saturday, January, 30 2027

How

  • The reference time will be Brussels local time (CET)
  • Talks will be delivered live, no pre-recorded talks
  • Q/A session will be live
  • Talks will be streamed

Please submit one (or more) 25 minute talk proposal(s) OR one (or more) 10 minute lightning talk proposal(s) by 23:59 CET on December 1, 2026. We will notify all those submitting proposals about their acceptance by December 07th 2026.

To submit a talk proposal (you can submit multiple proposals if you’d like) use Pretalx, the FOSDEM paper submission system. Be sure to select Testing and Continuous delivery otherwise we won’t see it!

You can create an account, or use an existing account if you already have one.

Please note: FOSDEM is a FLOSS community event, by and for the community, please ensure your topic is appropriate (i.e. this isn’t the right forum for commercial product presentations)

WARNING: DO NOT EMAIL individual team members directly. Send your inquiries to testing-devroom-manager [at] fosdem.org or contact us via the official FOSDEM Matrix chat!

Invitation Letters

IMPORTANT: Devroom managers cannot issue invitation letter for you! For Belgian VISA & invitation letter: See FOSDEM’s FAQ page!

Organizers