Software Freedom Day 2026

, 11:30 to

Price: Free

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Software Freedom Day 2026

Introduction

Every year, somewhere around the third Saturday of September, hackers, free software users and open source adepts celebrate Software Freedom Day. For this event, HSBXL organises a day of interesting talks on the merits, uses and principles of free and open source software, as well as adjacent topics such as privacy, open data and security. Join us for a great day of talks with a nice meal at the end and drinks and snacks throughout the day. The event is free as in freedom, so please pay your drinks, but we can flash a Linux ISO on your USB flashdrive if you’d like!

Talks

We have of course some interesting talks planned , cause without that we would just be some people staring at eatch other

Talks will start at 13:00

the talks , in no paticular order, are as follows

  • Organising awareness about digital sovereignty - Jurgen (45 min)
  • OpenStreetMap: how to help map your surroundings - Kai (25 min)
  • Own your router, ditch the Proximus Internet Box - Alexander Mikhailian (45 min)
  • eID - AltF4
  • Framasoft as a framework for FOSS alternatives - Luna (45 min)
  • How to organise a power grid - Stephan
  • Show and tell - you?

Food

After the talks we will have a comunal meal, with of course vegetarian/vegan options. The contribution for the meal will be 15 euro/person please check back here for the registration, since it helps with the planning of the food.

Stream

We highly recomend comming in person , but if you can’t make it, you will be able to follow the live stream (for the speakers who agree). The link to the stream will be here.

Come back later - save the date for now.

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Contact us

For any questions you can reach out to us over Matrix at #hsbxl:matrix.org.