FOSS COMM /26
- When
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Oct 31 - Nov 1, 2026Saturday & Sunday at 09:00
- Where
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University of West AtticaAthens, Greece
- How much
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Free, as in freedom(...and beer)
A meeting of communities, not a conference of brands.
FOSSCOMM is the annual physical summit for Greece’s free and open-source ecosystem. Running since 2008 as a completely free, 100% volunteer-driven initiative, our mission is to protect and uphold digital freedom, privacy, and decentralized and open technology. We advocate for digital equality and the fundamental right to free knowledge.
Every year, we ditch the marketing pitches and gather across talks, workshops and community booths. Our community is a welcoming mix of seasoned professionals, academics, and curious beginners. At its core, this event survives entirely because you show up. You are the one keeping it alive.
Some people holding microphones.
Currently bribing industry experts with free beer, eternal glory and goodie bags. (Please imagine someone cool standing on stage).
Two days. Three rooms. Zero chance we stay on schedule.
We are currently playing Tetris with time slots and speaker egos. (Please assume everything starts at 10 AM until further notice).
Mildly important announcements.
Insert profound, life-changing content that will alter the course of tech history here. (Please check back when we figure out what that is).
Where you will inevitably get lost.
University of West Attica
Thivon 250 Egaleo 122 44 Athens, Greece
- Capacity
- ~700
- Main auditorium
- 500
- Rooms
- 3
- Accessibility
- Fully Equipped for PwD
- Parking
- Yes (Good luck)
If you consider physical exertion to be an extreme sport, take Metro Line 3 (Blue Line) to "Egaleo" station. From there, hop on bus 829. It literally drives inside the campus, saving you from the ultimate developer nightmare of having to walk for more than five minutes.
If you enjoy questionable walking paths, walking from "Egaleo" Metro station takes about 20 minutes. It serves as a great introduction to Athens' legacy pedestrian infrastructure where you'll learn that in Athenian urban planning, missing sidewalks aren't a bug, they're a feature.
If you feel brave enough to challenge the Athenian urban infrastructure and actually survive, you will be welcomed by the free campus parking lot. Official sources cite the parking's capacity as "a large number", which is just architectural shorthand for nobody actually counted.
If your spatial awareness is limited to the physical borders of your monitor, do not panic. The Conference Center is located directly in the middle of the campus. Since we know that nobody actually reads directions anymore, here are the excact coordinates.
The people who make ‘free’ possible. (beer)
We created the repo. You make the commits.
FOSSCOMM isn’t a conference in the traditional sense. It’s a living repository of the Greek open-source community. We provide the infrastructure, but the content, the code, and the community spirit are entirely yours to define.
Submit a talk. Or a workshop. Or both.
We are currently accepting submissions for talks (30 minutes) and workshops (90 minutes).
Have strong opinions about a dying programming language? Want to live-code on stage and watch it fail in real-time? The microphone is yours. If public speaking makes you break into a cold sweat, you can also just grab a desk and showcase your project in a booth.
We accept all levels of expertise, whether you build flawless architectures or write code held together by duct tape and hope (...but we heavily encourage new speakers to take the stage).
Step up to the mic and deliver a talk, or run a hands-on workshop and pray to the live-demo gods that your code actually compiles.
Grab a desk, tape up a banner, and bribe people with free stickers to star your GitHub repo.
Join the organizing team to plan the chaos months in advance, or sign up as a day-of volunteer to just move some chairs (...and get a free T-shirt).
Reasonable questions, plain answers.
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[+] Is the conference really free?
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[+] Do I need to register?
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[+] Can I attend remotely?
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[+] I want to volunteer.
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[+] Is there a Code of Conduct