postmarketOS conference debuts at RWTH Aachen this September

What’s happening

The inaugural postmarketOS conference will run 25–27 September 2026 at RWTH Aachen University in Germany. Expect a weekend of talks, workshops and hacking sessions aimed squarely at postmarketOS and the wider Linux Mobile ecosystem. Excited? You should be — this is the project bringing GNU/Linux back into phones and it’s finally getting its own stage.

Call for proposals and program

The Call for Proposals is open now and closes on June 30th — so don’t sit on your hands. Organizers are soliciting presentations, workshops and roundtable discussions and say they’ll try to record (and possibly live-stream) sessions. Who should pitch? Kernel hackers, desktop environment maintainers, upstream contributors, activists and curious end users — the audience will be a mixed bag, which means niche talks can find a welcome crowd. Participation is free, but space is limited; registration details will be announced on the project’s Fediverse and Matrix channels.

Logistics and travel

The conference takes place in building E2 (rooms B-IT 5053.1 and 5053.2) at RWTH’s Informatikzentrum, Ahornstraße 55, 52074 Aachen. Aachen sits at the tripoint of Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands, and it’s well connected by regional and international trains — ICE and Eurostar services from Brussels, frequent RE connections from across Germany, and cross-border regional trains from the Netherlands. Nearest airports are Cologne/Bonn, Düsseldorf and Brussels, each roughly an hour away by rail.

Register when the form goes live, polish that talk proposal, and get ready to dive into Linux on the move. Think of it as a focused, hands-on FOSDEM for phones — intimate, technical, and maybe a little rowdy in the best open-source way.

Sources: postmarketos.org, Lobsters