Practical
Venue & location
Address
Commons Hub BrusselsRue de la Madeleine 51
1000 Brussels, Belgium
From FOSDEM
- Bus 71 — 20 minutes
- Bike — 22 minutes
- Taxi — 15 minutes
January 25 - February 5
A pop-up village for the open source community alongside FOSDEM.
The perfect place to land, cowork, offer or attend workshops, and build relationships in the community.
Daily activities, workshops, and community gatherings
Comfortable workspace with refreshments and high-speed internet.
A mix of open space for workshops, talks and discussions, alongside pre-organised sessions.
Happy hours and networking events to build connections.
Meeting rooms can be booked by the villagers.
Close to Brussels Central Station and 20 minutes to FOSDEM.
Application process to ensure quality connections and diversity.
Alongside open coworking every day of the village.
A full conference day with the CHAOSS community on open source health and metrics.
A day on what it takes to keep communities alive offline as well as online.
A day on building AI that gives back more than it takes.
The day-by-day program for 2027 is still coming together. Want to host a session, a workshop or an evening meetup during the village?
The village is invitation only. Applications are reviewed by the core contributors so the room stays diverse and everyone gets a real chance to meet each other.
Applications for 2027 are not open yet. Leave us a note and we will get in touch as soon as they are.
Limited capacity — 100 villagers per day.
The village runs on companies and foundations giving back to the people who maintain the open source they depend on. Sponsor slots for 2027 are open.
Interested in sponsoring Open Source Village? See the slidedeck, the media kit, and contact us for more details.
Communities co-creating the village with us.
The Open Source Village is a co-created pop-up village alongside FOSDEM 2027. We co-create a welcoming environment for open source communities to connect, collaborate, and build lasting relationships.
Whether you are arriving early or staying late, our village offers coworking spaces, workshops, evening socials, and a hub for connecting with the open source community.
This is an opportunity to give back to the people that contribute all year long to the open source projects that we rely on — and to take good care of them.
The village is put together by a small crew of volunteers, currently Leen and Miriam. Want to help build it? Come and say hello — the village is co-created, and there is always room for another pair of hands.
A recap of the pop-up village we co-created at the Commons Hub Brussels in July 2023.
