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title: "CentOS @ FOSDEM 2025"
title_lead: "February 1 – 2, 2025 • Brussels, Belgium"
talks:
  - title: "Fedora and CentOS stand"
    thumb: /events/fosdem-2025-booth.png
    desc: |
      Find Fedora and CentOS contributors at the stand in the K building.
  - title: "CentOS Stream and the Power of SIGs: KDE, Hyperscale, and Beyond"
    thumb: /events/fosdem-2025-stream.png
    slides: "https://fosdem.org/2025/events/attachments/fosdem-2025-5616-centos-stream-and-the-power-of-sigs-kde-hyperscale-and-beyond/slides/237378/2025-FOSD_BxjmNaw.pdf"
    link: "https://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/event/fosdem-2025-5616-centos-stream-and-the-power-of-sigs-kde-hyperscale-and-beyond/"
    speakers:
      - name: Troy Dawson
    desc: |
      <p>CentOS Stream is a unique Linux distribution built by Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) engineers,
      serving as a preview of the next minor version of RHEL and a contribution path to RHEL itself.
      But CentOS Stream is much more than just a stepping stone to RHEL.
      CentOS Project's Special Interest Groups (SIGs) are expanding the platform in all sorts of
      interesting ways, including live KDE images, tweaks for hyperscale deployments, immutable
      CoreOS builds, and so much more.</p>
      <p>Come and learn how CentOS relates to Fedora, how it's built, how it's tested and released,
      the new CentOS Stream 10 release (yay!), and how you can get involved!</p>
  - title: "The Road to EPEL 10"
    thumb: /events/fosdem-2025-epel.png
    slides: "https://fosdem.org/2025/events/attachments/fosdem-2025-6844-the-road-to-epel-10/slides/237476/the-road-_Ny3Et4L.pdf"
    link: "https://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/event/fosdem-2025-6844-the-road-to-epel-10/"
    speakers:
      - name: Carl George
    desc: |
      Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux (EPEL) is a yum repository of community maintained
      packages for use on CentOS Stream and Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL).
      For most of its history, each version of EPEL was made available after the corresponding
      major version of RHEL.
      This slowed down package availability, which then slowed down adoption of new RHEL major versions.
      In EPEL 9, package maintainers were able to build against CentOS Stream 9 early to have
      a large number of packages ready before the RHEL 9.0 launch.
      For EPEL 10, the EPEL Steering Committee is expanding that strategy to all minor versions of RHEL 10.
      This will improve support for CentOS Stream and for specific minor versions of RHEL,
      resolving several key pain points of users and maintainers.
      Attend this talk to learn more about this bold initiative and the results achieved so far.
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<p class="lead mb-6">FOSDEM is a free event for software developers to meet,
share ideas and collaborate.
Every year, thousands of developers of free and open source software from all
over the world gather at the event in Brussels.
CentOS participates in <a href="https://fosdem.org/2025/">FOSDEM 2025</a> and helps to run the
<a href="https://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/track/distributions/">Distributions Devroom</a>.</p>
 
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