Sustainability at FOSDEM 2025

Following on my Sustainability at FOSDEM 2024 post from last year. I am repeating the same content for FOSDEM 2025. Only this time, I’m anticipating, and creating this list of sustainability-related talks before the event starts.

By sustainability, I mean the ecological sense of the term, as opposed to the economic growth of projects.

If you’re not familiar with FOSDEM, it’s a hybrid event. All talks are presented both in person and online. What’s more, all talks are recorded, so if you find this post after February 2, 2025, it’s not too late.

The list is grouped by developer rooms, in no particular order.

Lightning

• Kites for Future - Airborne Wind Energy for everyone
• Disrupting the destruction of our natural world with openness

Energy: Accelerating the Transition through Open Source

For this track, see a selection below. But, since the topic of the room is sustainability. All the talks are relevant.

• Kubernetes Emissions Insights: Turning Cloud-Native Green (Without Recycling Pods)
• Software Licensing For A Circular Economy – How FOSS Reduces The Energy Consumption And Carbon Footprint Of ICT
• Measure what you manage: Transparent Energy consumption of cloud infrastructure
• PowerLetrics: Democratizing Energy Metrics for Linux
• CityCatalyst: Open Source Helps Cities Start Their Climate Journey

Inclusive Web

• How do we work out the environmental savings from accessibility?

Data Analytics

• A Business Intelligence architecture for Social and Solidarity Economy

Open Research

• Applying the “Do No Harm” Principle to Open* Practices and Technology
• Serving a Sustainable Coding Community: The INBO Coding Club Story

Open Source In The European Legislative Landscape and Beyond

• OSS 4 ALL: What can policymakers do to increase the uptake of OSS in the EU?

Geospatial

• Unlocking Open-Source Capabilities in the Copernicus Data Space Ecosystem

This is great to see so many talks related to sustainability at FOSDEM!