Omni Open Con

14/11/2025

We’re grateful to NXP Semiconductors (Oamenii NXP România) for sponsoring and helping us celebrate the power of open collaboration.

Your support plays a key role in fostering dialogue and innovation across open source, open data, and beyond.

Here’s to building a more open future together!

19/10/2025

2025 has officially come to a close.

Big thanks to the speakers for their extraordinary contributions, our sponsors, Keysight Technologies Romania, NXP Semiconductors Oamenii NXP România and Stripe, for supporting the event, and to the participants who joined us in great numbers.

Last but not least, Facultatea de Automatică și Calculatoare, UPB and Universitatea POLITEHNICA din București for being with us all the way!

Thank you again, and we look forward to seeing you next year!🔥

19/10/2025

Having Daniel Băluță on our side is one of the most extraordinary things! We are grateful for all his contributions to our events and, of course, in his classes at faculty.

Thanks to Oamenii NXP România for supporting this edition of !

13/10/2025

📣 Did anyone say workshops?

Dive into a full day of hands-on sessions led by inspiring experts across open source, open science, and emerging tech. Whether you’re into coding, virtual environments, AI futures, or biology-meets-technology, there’s something for everyone!

💻 Workshop Highlights:
👉 Git Good – An Essential Guide to Git w/ Andreia-Irina Ocanoaia
👉 LED Badge Programming Fun w/ Alexandru Ardelean
👉 Virtualization using the Command Line w/ Stefan Dorin Jumarea
👉 Unikraft: A Fast, Secure, and Open-Source Unikernel Development Kit w/ Stefan Dorin Jumarea & Răzvan Deaconescu
👉 How to Create, Deploy, and Run Decentralized Code w/ Costin Carabas
👉 Integrating Collabora Online into a Web Application w/ Masei Gabriel
👉 Prototyping Futures: The Open Governance of AI w/ Paul Bricman
👉 Build a peer to peer content delivery network using iroh connections and the iroh-blobs protocol w/ Rüdiger Klaehn
👉 From zero to website in 100 minutes w/ Mircea Anton
👉 Hacking Biology: Building Bio-Agents with MCP w/ Anton Kulaga & Livia Zaharia

Plus, thought-provoking roundtables on Digital Twins and Education in the Digital Era w/ Emil Slusanschi & Dumitru Cristian Tranca!

🕙 Sessions run throughout the day — come experiment, code, and collaborate with the open community!

🔗 Free and open to all. Learn, share, and create at hashtag — where openness drives innovation!

09/10/2025

Join us at Omni Open Con!

We’re excited to have NXP Semiconductors - Oamenii NXP România, a global leader in secure and intelligent edge solutions, supporting Omni Open Con again, for the second year in a row 🤘

This free-to-attend event celebrates everything open, from open source and open data to open education and open science.

Register now!

01/10/2025

🚀 OmniOpenCon 2025 is just around the corner! 🚀

📅 October 17–19
📍 Central Library, POLITEHNICA Bucharest

Join us for three inspiring days dedicated to openness in technology and education:
✨ Open Science
✨ Open Data
✨ Open Source
✨ Open Hardware
✨ Open Education

🎤 Expect talks and workshops, where curious minds, passionate developers, educators, and innovators come together to learn, share, and build.

🔗 Details & registration 👉 https://omniopencon.org

💡 Whether you’re a student, researcher, developer, or simply an enthusiast of openness, OmniOpenCon is the place to connect, collaborate, and create impact.

🙏 Big thanks to our partners and sponsors: Keysight Technologies Romania, NXP Semiconductors (Oamenii NXP România), Stripe

07/03/2025

GSoC 2025 is here 🚀

Apply by April 8, 2025 📅

GSoC 2025 is here! 185 organizations await future contributors to apply ⏰

You can now get in touch with organizations, make yourself known and then apply. Application period is March 24 - April 8, 2025. Actual work happens during the summer, June 2 - September 1, 2025 ☀️

See more on the GSoC website and the timeline website (see comments below) 👇

For details, discussion with other GSoC participants and support of all kind, join the ROSEdu Slack, the "gsoc" channel, link below 👇

Good luck with your application! And have fun working on open source! 🛠️🤩

20/10/2024

🗳️OmniOpenCon 2024: Post-event feedback 🗳️

Thank you so much for being part of OmniOpenCon 2024. It was a great way to connect a lot of people from the all-thing-open world. We plan to organize the next event in 2025, with timely announcements, better logistics and at least the same amount of energy.

We would appreciate your feedback on the event. Please access the feedback form[1] and spend 5-7 minutes to provide us your input, to make use of it for the future OmniOpenCon 2025

Thanks a lot 🙏

[1] https://forms.gle/CG7T8f26kmhrNRQw6