--- title: "Funding, AI and Politics Take Center Stage at FOSDEM 2026" url: https://daily.dev/posts/funding-ai-and-politics-take-center-stage-at-fosdem-2026-azadj1sqd source_url: https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/01/fosdem-2026-open-source-funding-ai-talks type: article source: "omg! ubuntu!" published: 2026-01-25T18:05:16.966Z updated: 2026-02-28T04:39:22.162Z tags: ["ai", "open-source", "linux"] reading_time: 3 upvotes: 0 comments: 0 language: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Funding, AI and Politics Take Center Stage at FOSDEM 2026 **[omg\! ubuntu\!](https://daily.dev/sources/omgub)** · 3 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary FOSDEM 2026 takes place January 31 to February 1 in Brussels with over 1000 speakers and 10,000 attendees. Key themes include AI's impact on open source, funding sustainability, and digital sovereignty in Europe. Notable talks cover open source burnout, geopolitics of code, KDE's 30th anniversary, Libreboot demos, and the new Rust-based NVIDIA driver. The free event features 71 tracks spanning topics from graphics development to the Fediverse, with many talks available via livestream. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [FOSDEM 2026 – Open Source, Digital Sovereignty, and Europes Future](https://daily.dev/posts/fosdem-2026-open-source-digital-sovereignty-and-europes-future-vbvjli5ek) · Hacker News · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#ai](https://daily.dev/tags/ai), [#open-source](https://daily.dev/tags/open-source), [#linux](https://daily.dev/tags/linux) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/funding-ai-and-politics-take-center-stage-at-fosdem-2026-azadj1sqd)