Call for speakers

We’re looking for real-world case studies, deep technical dives, and lessons learned from the trenches. The community wants to hear about the challenges and opportunities facing developers, software architects, and DevOps engineers in the AI-obsessed world today.

We want sessions that deliver actionable insights and spark great conversations.

🔥 Topics We’re Excited About

We are seeking talks and hands-on workshops across these main tracks:

Track 1: Modern Development & Architecture

• Cloud-Native Development: Private and public cloud topics, distributed systems, microservices, function-as-a-service, large scale deployments, cloud architecture patterns.
• Languages & Frameworks: Advanced topics, performance tuning, and new features in popular programming languages (e.g., Python, Go, Rust, Java, JavaScript/TypeScript, Erlang etc.).
• System Design: Designing for scale, resilience, distributed systems, and modern message queues.
• Data Engineering: Data storage, manipulation, streaming, and large-scale data processing.
• AI & ML: real-world examples of AI integration, development, model development, locally running models and agents, etc.
• FLOSS: projects that successfully applied or contributed to free and open source software and frameworks

Track 2: DevOps, Infrastructure & Security

• Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Real-world usage of Terraform, Ansible, Pulumi, Saltstack, etc.
• Kubernetes & Container Orchestration: Production deployment strategies, advanced networking, and cost optimization.
• CI/CD Automation: Building robust, secure, and fast deployment pipelines.
• Observability & Monitoring: Techniques and open-source tools for logging, metrics, tracing, and effective alerting (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana).
• DevSecOps: Shifting security left, vulnerability management in CI/CD, and open-source security tools.
• Cybersecurity and compliance: Securing services, infrastructure, software; challenges in designing secure software; policy compliance etc.

Track 3: Community, Policy, Projects, and Free Software

This track focuses on the broader ecosystem, governance, and the human element of open technology. It’s the core that drives everything else.

• FOSS Governance and Licensing: Policy discussions, legal frameworks, and best practices for license compliance.
• Community Building & Sustainability: How to start, grow, and maintain a healthy, welcoming open-source project or community.
• Open Hardware & Ethical Tech: Projects, case studies, and discussions about technology outside the pure software stack.
• FLOSS in the Public Sector: Case studies on government or education migrations and implementation of open standards.
• Project Showcase: In-depth talks on the architecture, challenges, and roadmaps of significant local or global Free Software projects.
• Everything else: If you have a topic in mind, and can’t relate to any of the above but think it would be a good fit for the DORS/CLUC community, please let us know. We are open!

Track 4: OpenStreetMap Track

OpenStreetMap topics we are interested in are mapping, cartography, development, data analysis, use of OpenStreetMap data, OpenStreetMap user experiences, OpenData usage and liberating spatial data.

If you can think of anything else that is OpenStreetMap related, it definitely falls within this track.

Rules

• Your talk can mention your employer (or your company) on one slide only. It should not be an advert for them however.
• The talk should be on an open source topic: hardware, software, policy, or philosophy.
• If covering an open source software with a paid component (support, or extensions) you are free to mention them however you can not use this as an advertising platform.
  
  To change the above, please contact us on sponsorship packages.
  
• You are free to use any slides template as you wish (16:9 will be the aspect ratio of the projectors)
• Your talk can not use copyrighted material (music, video, photos).
• The slides themselves need to be licensed correctly (you will be able to select the correct license).
• The talk can be recorded and will be shared under CC BY-SA 4.0 license.
• The conference can’t cover your cost of travel or stay, unless specified otherwise.