Cloudillo at FOSDEM 2026

We’re thrilled to share some exciting news: our talk proposal has been accepted at FOSDEM 2026! We’ll be presenting in Brussels this January, and we’d love to see you there.

What is FOSDEM?

If you’re not familiar with it, FOSDEM is Europe’s largest free and open source software conference. Every year, thousands of developers gather in Brussels for a weekend packed with talks, workshops, and hallway conversations about everything from kernel development to collaborative tools.

For an open-source project like Cloudillo, presenting at FOSDEM is a meaningful opportunity to connect with the community that shares our values: transparency, user freedom, and building technology that serves people rather than exploiting them.

Our Talk: Beyond Self-Hosting

Cloudillo — Beyond Self-Hosting: Building a New Generation of Collaborative Applications

Self-hosting gives you control over your data, but it traditionally comes with a trade-off: isolation. Your NextCloud instance can’t easily collaborate with someone else’s. Your self-hosted documents stay on your server.

In this talk, we’ll explore how Cloudillo addresses this challenge. We’ll cover:

• The isolation problem — why traditional self-hosting limits collaboration
• DNS-based identity — how we enable global collaboration while keeping data decentralized
• Building federated apps — how developers can create applications that work across independent Cloudillo instances
• The vision — cloud convenience with self-hosting freedom

Whether you’re a privacy advocate, a developer interested in decentralized systems, or someone frustrated with big tech’s hold on collaboration tools, this talk offers a practical look at an alternative approach.

Talk Details

• When: Saturday, January 31, 2026 at 11:30 AM CET
• Where: Room K.3.401, Collaboration and Content Management devroom
• Duration: 10 minutes + 5 min Q&A

The talk will also be livestreamed for those who can’t make it to Brussels.

See You There?

FOSDEM is free to attend — no registration required. Just show up. If you’re planning to be there, we’d love to meet you. Find us after the talk, or reach out beforehand through our community channels.

This is our first FOSDEM presentation, and we’re looking forward to sharing what we’ve been building. See you in Brussels!

View the talk on FOSDEM’s schedule →