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On 2026-01-31 and 2026-02-01, the Free and Open Source Software Developers' European Meeting
FOSDEM 2026
will take place in Brussels, Belgium.
Naturally a Gentoo crowd will be there.
Contents
People coming to FOSDEM
1.1
Gentoo Developers
1.2
Users, Friends, Guests, ...
Gentoo Stand
Gentoo dinner and other social events
3.1
Friday
3.2
Saturday
Information on Public Transportation
4.1
From Brussels airport (Zaventem) to city centre
4.2
How to avoid the FOSDEM crowds during commuting
4.3
Tickets
Resources
People coming to FOSDEM
Please add yourself if you're not listed yet!
Gentoo Developers
Nick
Arrival
Departure
Will be at Dinner (TBD)
Signed up for stand
Talk
Comments
Sam James (Sam)
Friday afternoon
Monday afternoon
Yes
No
The saga of official binary packages for Gentoo Linux
Andreas K. Hüttel (Dilfridge)
Thursday late night
Monday afternoon
Yes
Yes
The saga of official binary packages for Gentoo Linux
Fabian Groffen (grobian)
Friday late afternoon
Sunday afternoon
Yes
No
No
Viorel Munteanu (Viorel)
Friday
Monday
Yes
Yes
No
Arsen Arsenović (Arsen)
Friday
Sunday
Yes
No
No
Ulrich Müller (ulm)
Friday afternoon
Sunday evening
Yes
Yes
No
David Seifert (soap)
Friday afternoon
Sunday evening
Yes
No
No
Users, Friends, Guests, ...
Nick
Arrival
Departure
Will be at Dinner (TBD)
Talk
Comments
Lucio Sauer (Antecrescent)
Friday afternoon
Sunday afternoon
Yes, with a friend
No
DarthGandalf
Friday evening
Monday morning
Yes
No
Leah (Doasu)
Friday afternoon
Monday dawn
Yes, with three friends
No
Coming with my student club.
Filip Kobierski (FKobi)
Friday afternoon?
Monday morning?
No?
No
Coming as FSFE staffer: probably will spend most time working
1vybridge
Friday evening
Sunday evening
Yes
No
Marcos (neutroniak)
Friday afternoon
Yes
No
navi
Monday morning
Yes, with spouse
No
Terin Stock (terinjokes)
Friday afternoon
Monday morning
Yes
No
akpall
Friday evening
Monday evening
Yes (+3 friends)
No
Axkn
Friday afternoon
Sunday evening
Yes
No
Vadorovsky
Friday evening
Monday afternoon
Yes
Yes
Lanodan
Friday noon
Monday afternoon
Yes
No
Vegetarian
Chiron8
Friday Evening
Sunday Afternoon
Yes, with a friend
No
Friend is vegetarian
Pescu
Saturday morning
Sunday Afternoon
No
No
Raiku
Friday evening
Monday morning
Yes (+2 friends)
No
Nils Freydank (holgersson)
Friday evening
Monday morning
Yes
No
might bring pre-printed GPG keys for signing rituals ;)
negril
Friday evening
Monday noon
Yes
No
wants to talk about pbins ;)
ferringb
Friday evening
Sometime the next week
Unlikely
No
likely will be mostly in EU digital sovereignty tracks
Wrenne
Friday evening
Monday dawn
Yes
No
Vegetarian
Raffaele (rafspiny)
Friday evening
Sunday evening
Likely
No
Mostly in the python and database tracks. Would like to help at the stand.
Gentoo Stand
Gentoo will have a stand in building H (
overview of all stands
The following is an hour-by-hour schedule of who is running the stand. The plan is to have always two devs present, with overlapping two-hour slots (i.e., 10h-12h, 12h-14h, ... and 9h-11h, 11h-13h, 13h-15h, ...) (At start and end there are shorter slots, but these obviously also involve build-up and teardown.)
Saturday
Sunday
Hours
Developer 1
Developer 2
Developer 1
Developer 2
0900
TODO
Andreas K. Hüttel (dilfridge)
TODO
TODO
1000
Ulrich Müller (ulm)
TODO
1100
Viorel Munteanu (Viorel)
TODO
1200
TODO
TODO
1300
TODO
TODO
1400
TODO
TODO
1500
TODO
Viorel Munteanu (Viorel)
1600
TODO
Ulrich Müller (ulm)
1700
TODO
Andreas K. Hüttel (dilfridge)
1800
TODO
TODO
Gentoo dinner and other social events
We recommend you join
#gentoo-fosdem
webchat
) for last minute notices.
Friday
Unfortunately the official beer event on Friday is history (thanks COVID).
We may meet up informally for dinner, join the IRC channel for last minute information.
Saturday
There will be a
Gentoo dinner on Saturday, January 31 at 19h30
at the
Chez Leon
restaurant,
located
a couple of blocks to the north of the Grand Place. The reservation reference is "Gentoo dinner". We order and pay individually with cash or card.
Please try to be there on time: We asked to be seated at one (or a couple) big table(s) to avoid having people feel isolated. However, if (most?) people are not there by 19h45, they may start assigning our table(s) to others and we might end up dispersed in smaller tables.
Please add yourself to the participant list above
until Wednesday 28.1., 18:00 CET
so we know how many places to reserve.
Information on Public Transportation
From Brussels airport (Zaventem) to city centre
From Brussels airport (Zaventem) you can take the
train
to the city centre. However, Belgian rail unions have announced a strike until Friday, 30 January 2026 at 10:00 pm during which train frequencies will be reduced.
An alternative, which is also
cheaper than the train
, would be to use the
bus
operated by STIB/MIVB, the public transportation provider for the city of Brussels, as they do not participate in this strike. At the airport, follow the signs to the bus stop, and take
bus 12
which has a stop located directly in front of the airport exit. From the airport to the city the ticket costs €7,90 if you
pay by bank/credit card
inside the bus, which is already cheaper than train. Better yet,
for the inverse trip from the city to the airport there is no special fare,
you pay the same fare that you would pay for a trip inside the city, making this by far the lowest-cost option even though the bus can be less comfortable than the train.
Check the STIB page for more details on the Airport line
Bus 12 connections are shown on the
map of the line
. Of particular interest may be the following stops:
Meiser, connecting to
tram 25
which stops at ULB, right in front of FOSDEM. Some
walking
is involved between the bus and tram stop at Meiser.
Schuman
, offering a connection to
metro lines
1 and 5 (e.g., towards the city centre).
Trône
(terminus), offering connections to
metro lines
2 and 6 (e.g., towards
Louise square
and the South railroad station/Gare du Midi) but also to bus lines 71 and 95 connecting the city centre with ULB/FOSDEM.
How to avoid the FOSDEM crowds during commuting
The most direct line from the city centre to ULB/FOSDEM is
bus 71
but for this reason it becomes very crowded. A more pleasant option would be to take
metro line 5
, direction
Hermann-Debroux
, and get off at
Delta station
attention:
metro line 1 shares the same platforms with metro line 5 in many stations; make sure to board line 5 and not 1). From Delta you can then take bus 71 in the
opposite
direction (
De Brouckère
) and get off at the ULB stop (no crowds and much shorter ride). Despite the connection, this option is usually faster as well.
The same course in reverse can be followed on the way back from FOSDEM to the city centre, when bus 71 is even more crowded. From ULB, take bus 71 in the direction
Delta
all the way to the terminus, and from there
walk to Delta metro station
Tram 25
can also be used to make a connection with metro line 5 at
Thieffry
, while
tram 8
makes a connection with metro lines 2 and 6 at
Louise
. However, both tram lines can also get crowded (tram 8 more than 25), especially at the end of the FOSDEM day, though usually not as badly as bus 71.
Another option is to use
bus 95
. Like bus 71, it also starts in the city centre, near
Grand'Place
. You get off at the Cimitière d'Ixelles stop, which is 1 stop away from ULB: You can either
make the 600-metre walk
or take bus 71 for 1 stop (the same one coming from Delta). Therefore, this option is actually less optimal than bus 71 (requiring an extra connection or walking) but maybe for this reason, and also because perhaps fewer FOSDEMers know about it, it is less crowded.
Tickets
You can find the various ticket options
here
. For the typical FOSDEM participant, the best option is
using a bank or credit card to purchase a ticket inside the vehicle
for €2.30 per 60-minute journey up to a maximum of €8.40 per day. Make sure to use the same card every time.
However, if you move together with others, it may be worth sharing a 10-journey
MOBIB card
that can be purchased at one of the vending machines located at metro stations and many bus stops (including ULB). The MOBIB card costs €6 but you can buy a 10-journey ticket (
"Brupass 10 journeys"
) for €18.90 which starts saving you money from the 15th trip onwards (the card is rechargeable). Unlike the bank/credit card, the same MOBIB card can be used to pay for multiple passengers: the first time you board, validate
within one minute
the card as many times as there are passengers; afterwards, if you make any connections, it's enough to validate just once every time for all passengers. And, if you intend to return to FOSDEM in the future, the card is valid for 5 years (or maybe even longer if it still works) although
the ticket itself is only valid for 18 months
The ticket (either charged on a bank/credit card or a MOBIB card) remains valid for 60 minutes after first validation, and you can use it to jump between busses, trams, metro and even train (within Brussels). You cannot use it to go to the airport by train but you
can
use it to go to the airport with
bus 12
. However,
you must validate the ticket every time you make a connection
(unless you connect inside the metro system). If you
pay with a bank/credit card inside the vehicle
, make sure to use the same card every time.
Resources
FOSDEM 2025
FOSDEM 2024
FOSDEM 2023
FOSDEM 2020
Retrieved from "
Category
Events