This year, Flock will be held **from Sunday, June 14th to Tuesday, June 16th at the Vienna House by Wyndham, Anděl in Prague, Czech Republic.

At-a-glance details about the Flock 2026 CfP:

• CfP Opens: December 8th 2025
• CfP Closes: February 2nd 2026
• Formats: Sessions, workshops, and panels are acceptable. Extra preference is given to workshops with audience participation and engagement.
• Topics: See the tracks and themes below!
• Openness to alternative topics: If your idea does not fit into the themes but you feel that it belongs at Flock, submit it and the reviewers will give it fair consideration.
• Our audience: Flock is the Fedora contributor conference. These are people who help with contributions to our project. Sales pitches and commercial products are not well-received.
• Code of Conduct: The Fedora Code of Conduct applies to both our in-person and virtual spaces. Speakers are expected to accept the Fedora Code of Conduct as a condition making a proposal.
• Financial assistance: If you cannot afford the cost of travel to Flock, Fedora may be able to help. See the questions toward the end of the CfP about financial assistance.

All submissions will choose from the following Tracks & Themes highlighted below:

Tracks

1. General: The usual main track of Flock. Everything and anything to do with the Fedora contributor community. Presentations, talks, workshops, and more.
2. CentOS & Friends: A dedicated track for the CentOS community and other downstream friends. This focuses more to an Enterprise Linux audience, including topics about EPEL.
3. Mentor Summit: Mentor Summit programming focuses on workshops and sessions to promote mentorship best practices and to connect mentors and mentees across the Fedora community.

Themes

1. Freedom: The Open Frontier — This theme explores how Fedora pushes the boundaries of technological freedom. We invite proposals on FOSS approaches to Artificial Intelligence, the advancement of open hardware like RISC-V, the development of open standards, and the protection of data privacy. Sessions should focus on how our work in the Fedora Project creates a more free and collaborative technological world for everyone.
2. Friends: Our Fedora Story — This theme celebrates the people and practices that make our community unique. We seek proposals that share stories of mentorship, successful team collaboration, and effective onboarding within Fedora. Collaboration is key to our success, so sessions about our partnerships with other FOSS communities should center on the mutual benefits and the positive impact these relationships have on the Fedora Project.
3. Features: Engineering Fedora's Core — As a contributor conference, this theme dives deep into the craft of building our distribution and other Fedora outputs. We welcome sessions on improvements to our infrastructure, release engineering processes, quality assurance, packaging, and community tooling. This is the place for technical talks that showcase our engineering excellence and the collaborative work that makes Fedora's deliverables possible, from code to final artifact.
4. First: Blueprint for the Future: Fedora Linux 45 & 46 — This theme focuses on the near-term innovations that will define the next generation of Linux. With the next few Fedora Linux releases serving as the foundation for RHEL 11 and EPEL 11, this is a critical time. We are looking for forward-looking technical talks on the changes, features, and architectural decisions in F45 and F46 that will shape the future of the operating system, from the community desktop to the core of the enterprise platforms.

If you are not sure whether your talk topic fits with the above themes, please do submit it anyway! We love to hear about all the ways people are working in Fedora. You can also email the flock-staff@fedoraproject.org for assistance on your submission

See the Flock 2026 announcement for more details about the venue and registration. The website will be updated soon with additional details about the location and hotel reservation block.

Need help? Email flock-staff@fedoraproject.org for questions or other help about the CFP.

Submissions close on 2026-02-02 00:00 (UTC), 1 week from now.