Social Web Community Events 2025
FediForum and other Open Social Web community events that took place in 2025. See upcoming events for what is still to come.
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WebSocialBR
3 December 2025
Alquimídia, coordinated by Thiago Skárnio, member of the FediForum advisory board, will hold the 1st WebSocialBR – Brazilian Fediverse Forum on December 3rd in Brasília (Brazil’s capital). The event will bring together community administrators, managers, parliamentarians, researchers, and communicators to exchange experiences and strengthen decentralized networks in the country. It is supported by the Brazilian Internet Steering Committee (CGI.br), the Brazilian Institute of Museums (Ibram), POP Solutions, the MCTI — Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation, and FediForum.
The program includes discussion panels about the Fediverse, and the meeting will be held in the auditorium of the MCTI — Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation. Among the confirmed participants are Renata Mielli, Coordinator of the Brazilian Internet Steering Committee (CGI.br); Marco Konopacki from the Social Communication Secretariat (SECOM); José Murilo from the Brazilian Institute of Museums (Ibram), and virtual participation from Evan Prodromou, co-creator of ActivityPub and the Social Web Foundation, and Johannes Ernst, Open Social Web innovator and co-founder of FediForum.
The full program can be accessed here: https://websocial.org.br/ and the event can be followed on the Fediverse via @WebSocialBR@websocial.org.br.
FediForum at SFSCON
7–8 November 2025
FediForum is partnering with SFSCON, a free software conference in Bolzano, in the Italian alps, on a Fediverse track with 12 confirmed talks spanning technology, policy and community, plus a BOF session and an exhibit.
FediForum Fall 2025
7–8 October 2025
FediForum Fall 2025 again brought together the global community of people who move the Open Social Web forward, for two half-days of online connecting, learning, teaching, debating and building. And starting new projects.
2. Berliner Fediverse Tag
4 October 2025
This will be the first-ever FediForum book tour event! Come to hear excerpts from the book, and bring your questions about the Fediverse and, as he says, “the struggle for democratic social media”!
Fediverse Village at HOPE
15–17 August 2025
FediCon Vancouver
1–2 August 2025
FediForum June 2025
5–7 June 2025
FediForum June 2025 will again bring together the global community of people who move the Open Social Web forward,
for two three half-days of connecting, learning, teaching, debating and building. And starting
new projects. With a new advisory board, reconstituted
organizing team and an updated format that includes keynotes.
re:publica
26–28 May 2025
Open Social Web sessions at this festival for the digital society in Berlin, Germany:
1st National Meeting of the Sacix Network
21–23 May 2025
Das Fediverse und seine sozialen Medien
6 May 2025
IndieWebCamp Düsseldorf
3–4 May 2025
AHOY! European Social Web Day
24 April 2025
ATmosphere Conference
22–23 March 2025
Fediverse House at SXSW
9–10 March 2025
DWeb Meetup Seattle
28 February 2025
Social Web at FOSDEM
1–2 February 2025
Organized by the Social Web Foundation, several events will take place at or in the proximity of this conference in Brussels, Belgium:
- Social Web Devroom: Saturday February 1, 15:00-19:00, with talks by open-source Social Web developers.
- Social Web BOF: Sunday February 2, 12:00-13:00.
- Social Web After-Hours: Sunday February 2, 19:00-21:00, at Hackerspace Brussels (HSBXL).