{"id":95111,"date":"2025-10-07T12:14:53","date_gmt":"2025-10-07T10:14:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.blender.org\/?p=95111"},"modified":"2025-10-07T12:45:28","modified_gmt":"2025-10-07T10:45:28","slug":"media-creation-tools-at-fosdem-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blender.org\/events\/media-creation-tools-at-fosdem-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Media Creation Tools at FOSDEM 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<?xml encoding=\"utf-8\"?><html><body><p>Welcome to the FOSDEM 2026 Media Creation Tools Devroom Call For Participation. The contributor communities of Blender, Godot, Krita, and other popular media creation tools are gathering at the <a href=\"https:\/\/fosdem.org\/2026\/\">largest open source software event of the year<\/a> to discuss roadmaps, ongoing and upcoming projects, challenges. If you are running an open source project in the media creation space: connect, join, and share your story!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<a href=\"#dates\" class=\"is-heading-anchor\"><h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"dates\">Key dates<\/h2><\/a>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Submission deadline:&nbsp;<strong>Dec. 1, 2025<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Announcement of selected talks: Dec 15, 2025<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Conference dates: Jan 31 and Feb 1, 2026<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Media Creation Tools devroom date:&nbsp;TBC<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<a href=\"#practical\" class=\"is-heading-anchor\"><h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"practical\">Practical information<\/h2><\/a>\n\n\n\n<p>The default duration for talks is from 15 to 30 minutes, including discussion. If your proposal is selected, you will receive an email confirmation with further instructions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<a href=\"#topics\" class=\"is-heading-anchor\"><h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"topics\">Desirable topics<\/h2><\/a>\n\n\n\n<p>The devroom focuses on media creation software and tools. From well-established to new, up-and-coming projects, everyone is welcome. The talks can cover the following subjects:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Product design discussions<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Development and engineering of media-focused application<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>User stories<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Roadmaps<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Community discussion or presentations<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<a href=\"#submit\" class=\"is-heading-anchor\"><h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"submit\">Submit a talk<\/h2><\/a>\n\n\n\n<p>Submit your presentation idea via the <a href=\"https:\/\/pretalx.fosdem.org\/fosdem-2026\/cfp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">FOSDEM 2026 Pretalx<\/a> system, from&nbsp;<strong>November the 15th, 2025<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Your submission must include the following information :<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The title and subtitle of your talk (please be descriptive, as titles will be listed with ~500 from other projects)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Select &ldquo;Media Creation Tools&rdquo; as the track<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Select &ldquo;Talk&rdquo; event type<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>A short abstract of one paragraph<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>A longer description if you wish to do so<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Links to related websites \/ blogs \/ &hellip;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<a href=\"#contact\" class=\"is-heading-anchor\"><h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"contact\">Get in touch<\/h2><\/a>\n\n\n\n<p>If you have any question about participating to the media creation tools track, please get in touch with Francesco Siddi: francesco at blender.org.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<a href=\"#fosdem\" class=\"is-heading-anchor\"><h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"fosdem\">About FOSDEM<\/h2><\/a>\n\n\n\n<p>FOSDEM is a free event for software developers to meet, share ideas and collaborate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>FOSDEM is free to attend. There is no registration.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>FOSDEM&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/fosdem.org\/2026\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">website<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to the FOSDEM 2026 Media Creation Tools Devroom Call For Participation. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":95112,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[140],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blender.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blender.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blender.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blender.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blender.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95111"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.blender.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95111\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":95120,"href":"https:\/\/www.blender.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95111\/revisions\/95120"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blender.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/95112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blender.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blender.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blender.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}