Programme 2025

Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) and Linux User Group Bozen-Bolzano-Bulsan assign the “European SFS Award”

Linux User Group Bozen-Bolzano-Bulsan assigns the “South Tyrol Free Software Award”

How and Why VLC came to life, and how it grew so big, with a small team

How Debian is rethinking its guidelines for AI

panel

Can Open Source Software contribute to direct and indirect compliance?

A Cyborg's Look at Medical Device Freedom

How Your Digital Footprint Can Be Weaponized

Plea for an extended "social economy" paradigm as a new social contract

Control, clarity, and responsibility in the age of copilots

Using Machine Learning and Self-Tracking to Deepen Self-Awareness

Aligning transparency, accountability and digital sovereignty

What AI means for junior and senior developers – risks, opportunities, roles, and the road ahead

The PowerPC Open Hardware Desktop, first step before the laptop version

panel

Reflecting on the Global Cross-Community Initiative to Bring Linux to Windows Users

The Track4BIO Case

Sustainability, digital sovereignty, and creation of public value for schools

Assess the FAIRness of your dataset

Steps towards integrating Minority and Regional Languages in Free Software & Open Technologies

Machine readable Open Source licenses to develop a license incompatibility calculator

This talk is about timestamping, blockchain, opentimestamps and proofmode

Supporting the decision makers, who are under attack from the Big Tech

Tackling the Cyber Resilience Act through Open Collaboration

How we build Uyuni with the Open Build Service

An expedition into the Fediverse to discover uncharted services

All you may wish to know about NGI, its funding opportunities and community.

Why AI coding tools aren’t ready for production yet

Open is better, not just an alternative — that's what teachers have taught us

How the CRA will help strenghten the sustainability of Open Source projects.

Java OOP practitioner vs. structured 2D game programming

Simplified Approach

panel

A model proposal for South Tyrol and other European regions, a pathway to digital sovereignty and social inclusion

Informal status and updates to gather feedback from the community

How the past year of upheaval has impacted perspectives of NGI participants

The Fediverse and the Future of Public Digital Infrastructure

Historical Data sets, Networks, and the Unknown

The OSPO's New Mandate for AI Governance

What if we could turn SFSCON talks into a story anyone can understand?

open data and solutions to support environmental policies implementation in cities

Libre, multilanguage and offline assistant for Android

Use cases and practical application

Deepdive in the norm with an opensouce perspective

How Catch Solve, with support from AtomHR, is transforming data and image validation across APIs and data systems with an open-source approach

When Robotics Is Educative

Data, Dignity, and Digital Sovereignty

The Cognitive Sciences of Programming

a plan for community-owned social media

Building Ethical AI with Free Software Principles

towards the digital freedom to subscribe, communicate and interact across the entire web

European Regulation with Open Source in focus: is it all bad? And how did it come about?

Annual Meeting of the FSFE Italian Community

Leveraging AI to Combat Flaky Tests with CANNIER

A cultural call to action — with real-world examples — to bring open values beyond software and into the foundations of business and society.

Never too late to reduce e-waste, close Windows, and open the door to Free Software

Reflecting on the barries for an inclusive future

How an ACS can simplify appliances delivery and monitoring

An Open-Source Pipeline to Measure and Improve Software Consumption

How to use public tenders strategically to prevent openwashing while fostering Free Software

Why We Need Open Source Approaches for Transparent and Fair Marketing

A gathering of the Fediverse community to plan what’s next

Building Customer Trust Through Transparent Algorithms and Behavioral Science

How to configure and manage the LibreOffice font replacement feature

Always asking why AI should be used,for what and for who

Lessons learned over the past 21 years

99 Managers Futsal Edition

Over two decades of experience in Open Source and Archaeology

Empowering Educators with DIY AIoT Tools for Smart, Open, and Scalable Learning Environments

TLDR: use locust and Jaeger to understand why your software is slow.

Supporting Repair Cafes Offering Linux Support

Embracing the power of a thank you

The great success in schools: Free, highly appreciated by children and teachers, easy and ready to use.

Let's map NOI Techpark with the OSM Community

Opportunity to talk about Nextcloud and meet the developers