EuroBSDCon 2025, Zagreb, September 2025

The Call for Talk and Presentation proposals for EuroBSDCon 2025 is now open.

EuroBSDCon is the European technical conference for users and developers of BSD-based systems. The conference is scheduled to take place September 25-28 2025 in Zagreb, Croatia or as an all-online event if COVID-19 developments dictate. The tutorials will be held on Thursday and Friday to registered participants and the talks are presented to conference attendees on Saturday and Sunday.

The Call for Talk and Presentation proposals period will close on June 21st, 2025.
Prospective speakers will be notified of acceptance or otherwise by June 30th, 2025.

This document is available at https://2025.eurobsdcon.org/cfp/.

Call for Talk and Presentation Proposals (CfP)

The EuroBSDCon program committee is inviting BSD developers and users to submit innovative and original talk proposals not previously presented at other European conferences. Topics of interest to the conference include, but are not limited to applications, architecture, implementation, performance and security of BSD-based operating systems, as well as topics concerning the economic or organizational aspects of BSD use. Presentations are expected to be 45 minutes and are to be delivered in English.

Call for Tutorial Proposals

The EuroBSDCon program committee is also inviting qualified practitioners in their field to submit proposals for half or full day tutorials on topics relevant to development, implementation and use of BSD-based systems.

Half-day tutorials are expected to be 2.5 to 3 hours and full-day tutorials 5 to 6 hours. The tutorials and talks are to be held in English.

Submissions

Proposals should be sent through the registration system at https://events.eurobsdcon.org.

Proposals should contain a short and concise text description in about 100 words as well as a short speaker bio.

Accepted papers and presentations will be published on the conference web site as soon as feasible during or after the conference. We encourage the submitter to consider writing up a formal paper for this purpose in addition to making a presentation.

While we urge prospective speakers to seek funding from employers or other benevolent sources, the conference does have a budget for covering reasonable travel and accommodation expenses for speakers, with accommodation to the extent possible provided at the primary speaker hotel (see the Travel page on the conference website). Speakers who will be applying for travel funding should also submit an estimate of expected travel expenses. Please see the Speaker Reimbursement Policy for details.

Please also note that due to visa issues in the past, we would like to know as early as possible of any visa requirements for speakers. Please check the Croatia visa application requirements site at https://gov.hr/en/visas/1216 for guidance.

NOTE: If conditions dictate that the conference move to an all-online format, further instructions on how to access the conference for both speakers and attendees will be forwarded by email and posted on the conference website. As such we are especially interested in proposals that would work well in a virtual format, such as panel discussions. Please also include your timezone and expected available times with your proposals. Due to known and unknown unknowns, the format of the conference has not yet been decided at this writing. If the format of the conference, on-site versus online has consequences for your ability to present, please let us know in the notes on your submission.

Reimbursement

While we urge prospective speakers to seek funding from employers or other benevolent sources,
the conference does have a budget for covering reasonable travel and accommodation expenses.

Accommodation

Accommodation will be provided in the "Speaker Hotel" and includes breakfast. It's
possible to bring your partner whereas we would charge the cost of the upsell (typically the
price of the additional breakfast) - please tell us in advance if you plan to bring anybody.
Unless otherwise stated or requested we book the room for a check-in on Friday and check-out
on Monday. Extending the stay is possible within a couple of days and at your cost.

Speakers coming from places with a timezone outside UTC-2..UTC+6 will get a room with an
earlier check-in on Wednesday. The same applies to tutorial givers.

In any case do not contact the hotel directly to make monetary relevant changes to booking/
reservation and other gimmicks. If you have special needs, please contact us upfront.

Travel

The conference covers non-flexible economy class travel. This includes any required bus, train or air travel.

Travel should be booked as soon as practical after your talk or tutorial is accepted, to minimise the expense.

Visa requirements: Submitters from outside the EU may be subject to visa requirements in order to enter the EU. Please check what requirements apply to you at the earliest possible time.

If you prefer a different travel class please include evidence (e.g. a screenshot of a booking page) of the equivalent routing on the date of our actual booking in non-flexible economy travel class and submit this together with your receipt when prompted. The conference will reimburse you the amount written of the non-flexible economy ticket.

Speakers are expected to submit an estimate of their travel expenses when they submit their presentation proposal.

Social Event

Every speaker/tutor will get free entrance (and some drink vouchers) to the social event.
If you want to bring partner/guests, you've to book that as an add-on upfront.

Other

The conference will provide food and drinks at the venue. Other expenses like room-service,
food delivery, non-travel taxi, bus tickets and so on will not be reimbursed.

Contact

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us by sending an email to pc@eurobscon.org

You can enter proposals until 2025-06-15 23:59 (Europe/Zagreb), 3 months, 1 week from now.