Local First Devroom at FOSDEM 2026

FOSDEM 2026 new devroom: Local First, sync engine & CRDTs

We are very excited to share with you the Call for Participation of the new Local First devroom at FOSDEM 2026, which upcoming edition will be held on Saturday 31st of January and Sunday 1st of February, at the ULB Solbosch Campus, in Brussels, Belgium. Our devroom will be held on Saturday afternoon, from 15:00 to 19:00.

https://openlocalfirst.org/

Local First

Local-First is a new paradigm for developing decentralized applications and software, following the motto "You own your data, in spite of the cloud". In the last years, it gained increasing adoption among programmers for its interesting properties: real-time collaboration that can also go offline temporarily and will then sync and merge without conflicts; data ownership for users, as all data is available on their devices; getting rid of cloud services and surveillance capitalism; increased security, resilience and privacy; and more.

Old challenges

In the context of a much needed digital sovereignty in Europe, and elsewhere in the world, Free and Open Source collaborative and decentralized solutions are in strong demand. We believe that Local-First is a good answer to many of those challenges.

New solutions

Multiple frameworks, sync protocols, P2P protocols, sync engines, libraries for Conflict-Free Replicated Data Types (CRDTs), collaborative editors and apps, are coming to life and the developer experience is getting better by the day. We also feel the need, as members of those communities, to gather forces, exchange, and cooperate on various subjects. This devroom is also an opportunity for all developers curious and interested in Local-First, to learn more about the topic and the progress recently made.