Each year on the first weekend in February afficionados of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) and open culture gather in Brussels to meet each other, talk about their projects, and spread a cocktail of pathogens known as the FOSDEM Flu.
FluConf is intended as an alternative, online venue for those in these communities who still care about public health.
The format
FluConf is an online event. It is free to participate, and no advanced registration is required.
Submit an abstract of whatever you want to share. We welcome blog posts, videos, podcasts, interactive websites, art projects, whatever, as long as they match at least one of our broad themes.
Publish on your own website, linking back to FluConf.online.
We'll link back to participants' sites once the event starts,
and highlight different contributions on social media throughout the weekend using the #fluConf2025
hashtag.
Themes
- Solidarity networks and community health
- Inclusivity and accessibility in tech
- Luddism
- Community-operated social networks, governance, and moderation
- Privacy and surveillance
- Security and reverse-engineering
- Scaling down technology's climate impact
- Offline-first software
- Independent publishing and archival
- Hardware-hacking and permacomputing
- Open licensing and business models
Learn more
More details about the event and what is expected of participants can be found on our about page and code of conduct.
Getting updates
This website is a work in progress. Future updates will be posted to a dedicated account on the Fediverse:
@fluconf@social.cryptography.dog
IRC users can find us in the #flu-conf
channel on
Libera.chat,
which can be accessed without registration through their web interface.