Railways and Open Transport devroom @ FOSDEM

This repository collects information and resources in the scope of the Railways and Open Transport devroom at FOSDEM 2026 (previous editions in 2023, 2024 and 2025). You are welcome to extend and improve it!

The hosts of this year's edition are:

• Brede Dammen (@BredeD)
• Cornelius Schumacher (@cornelius)
• Felix Gündling (@felixguendling)
• Loïc Hamelin (@loic-hamelin)
• Max Mehl (@mxmehl)
• Peter Keller (@KellerPeter)
• Simon Clavier (@SimonClavier)
• Tu-Tho Thai

Call for Presentations

The Call for Participation is open! We are looking forward to receiving your proposals for presentations. Deadline for submissions is 30 November 2025 23:59 CET.

Attendee information

We composed an exciting program for everyone interested railways, mapping, routing, ticketing, and connected topics:

Date: Saturday, 31 January 2026
Time: 15:00 - 19:00 CET
Location: TBD
Schedule: See the devroom's page

How to get there?

The devroom will take place in room TBD. It is in the TBD building TBD floors above ground level:

You will find information about how to get to the venue here.

Speaker information

Timing:

• Please be in the devroom at least 5 minutes before the start of your talk so we can connect your equipment and wire you up.
• We will have to cut you off 5 minutes before the scheduled end of your talk to allow the audience to switch rooms and set up the next speaker.
• There is no fixed Q&A time, but we would appreciate if you planned some minutes for the audience to ask questions.
• Please note that FOSDEM hallways are very crowded and rooms sometimes hard to find, so plan for extra minutes to get from A to B.

Presentation:

• You don't have to send us your slides beforehand, but of course you can so we have them as back-up.
• Please use your own device to present. On-site you will typically find a HDMI cable and some adapters, but please bring your own adapter to be sure.
• The presentation can be in the typical 16:10 format and should also be readable in lower resolutions and from a larger distance.

How can I contact you?

You can reach the devroom's organizers by starting a discussion in this repository. Or look up one of the co-organizers and contact them directly. They are listed at the top of this file.