Local First Devroom at FOSDEM 2026

FOSDEM 2026 - Local-First, sync engines, CRDTs

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Open Local First

For the first time this year, the FOSDEM conference will host a devroom for Local First, CRDTs and sync protocols and sync engines. FOSDEM is the biggest Free and Open Source conference in Europe. This is a great opportunity to learn from the best speakers, and meet other developers interested in Local First software. Checkout the program of the whole devroom, on Sunday 1st of February 2026.

FOSDEM 2026 - FOSDEM 2026 Call for Participation

Proposals for developer rooms and main track talks for FOSDEM 2026 can now be submitted!

Schedule – Local-First Conf 2026

The world's first and best event dedicated to local-first software.

[FOSDEM] Browser and Web Platform Devroom at FOSDEM 2026: Call for Participation

Proposal for a CRDTs on At Proto Working Group

There’s been some work done on using the PDS / At Proto as a to store and transmit CRDT operations. There is a general feeling that if we can figure out the right approach for this it will enable a number of new experiences on At Proto, specifically a collaborative editing approach that is localfirst. We hope that as a working group we can come up with some of the following: A set of best practices and recommendations that apps can adopt to enable collaborative, localfirst, editing via crdts ...

FOSDEM 2027 Call for Main Track talks

Proposals for main track talks for FOSDEM 2027 can now be submitted!

FOSDEM 2026 - Teamtype: multiplayer mode for your text editor – towards a Collaborative Editing Protocol

Files on your hard drive are the ultimate local-first storage. But to allow real-time collaboration from within text editors, developers currently have to reinvent the wheel each time: Figure out how to hook into buffer changes correctly, implement displaying remote cursors, finding a way to get the required events in and out of the editor.

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FOSDEM 2026 - Schedule

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