FOSDEM'27 Rust Devroom
31 January 2027 (Sunday)
Brussels, Belgium.
Overview
Welcome to the 8th edition of the Rust devroom, organized as part of FOSDEM 2027. FOSDEM is an annual conference about free and open source software, attended by over 5000 developers and open-source enthusiasts from all over the world.
This devroom is a conference-within-a-conference that gives us the opportunity to come together and chat, hack, and share stories about Rust usage in FLOSS ecosystems.
FOSDEM 2027 will take place on the weekend of 30 and 31 January 2027, at ULB (Campus Solbosch), in Brussels, Belgium.
The Rust devroom is scheduled on Sunday 31 January 2027, from 09:00 CET to 17:00 CET.
Join us to enjoy a full day of talks, demos and interesting discussions on Rust.
Sounds interesting? Submit your talk proposal below and see you in Brussels!
Topics
We welcome talk proposals about Rust-related FOSS and community projects.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Rust as a modern and evolving language
- New features and language initiatives
- Architecting large projects
- Rust usage across FOSS user space projects (Tor, VLC, Gnome, Firefox, etc.)
- Rust usage in FOSS (Linux, Redox, Android, etc.)
- Projects written in Rust (show and tell)
- Tooling
- Build tools (cargo, clippy, rustfmt, etc)
- Packaging libraries and executables written in Rust
- Profiling, FFI, etc.
- Documentation and education initiatives
- Community initiatives
- How to contribute
- RFC process
- Promoting inclusiveness for minority or underrepresented groups
Due to the nature of the devroom, we discourage submissions about closed-source software or LLM-centered solo projects, as the goal is to foster Rust usage and build bridges across FOSS communities.
Slots will be allocated with a fixed duration of 25 minutes (roughly 20 minutes for presentation followed by 5 minutes for Q&A).
Depending on number of submissions and topics, submitters could be asked for a different format instead.
Submission
We invite authors to submit original, high-quality work with sufficient background material to be clear to the Rust community.
Please be aware of the fact that all talks will be recorded. By submitting a proposal you agree to being recorded and to have your talk made available online.
Submissions must include:
- The title of your talk
- A short abstract of one paragraph
- A longer description (optional)
- In the submission notes:
- The talk duration
- Expected prior knowledge / intended audience
- Links to code / slides / material for the talk (optional)
- Speaker bio including
- Links to previous talks by the speaker (optional)
When submitting your talk in pretalx, make sure to select the ‘Rust’ as the ‘Track’.
Dates
Call for presentations open until: 20 November 2026 at 23:59 CET
Devroom schedule available: 7 December 2026
Devroom day: 31 January 2027 (Sunday, full day)
Organizers
Devroom Organizers
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