What we put in motion

Patrik Hübner

Creative agency and The Generative Mind — or: how to create meaningful work in a world of noise, tools, and constant change In his inspiration talk, Patrik Hübner explores The Generative Mind as a practical, empowering approach to treating technology as creative material. Drawing on over two decades across design, technology, research, and teaching, he looks beyond AI hype to frame generative design through code, data, systems, and context. Connecting with the spirit of creative coding, open culture, and hacking, the talk invites designers, developers, technologists, artists, and curious minds to build flexible systems, reveal hidden patterns, and create meaningful work in a world increasingly shaped by automation.

The Cathedral and the Bizarre

K. Mike Merrill

I incorporated myself in 2008 and got pulled toward the bazaar

I modeled my life on a publicly traded company and eighteen years later I have something closer to an open source project. I should have recognized the idea was too bizarre to be a cathedral.

Software freedom and beyond through democratic workplace organizing

Stjepan Horvat

In this talk I will teach you how find the common interests within a group and then act together to compel the formal leadership to follow the will of the whole group. Rather than accepting the existing power structures, we can organize democratic workplaces and thus form the structure of a new free society within the shell of the old.

European Commission’s Open Source Observatory: Findings from the 2025 Paper on Progress and Trends in the Western Balkans

Éléonore Daxhelet

This presentation gives an overview of the European Commission’s Open Source Observatory’s (OSOR) activities and latest Paper on Progress and Trends. The report examines how open source software has evolved within public administrations, based on the country reports published in 2025.

It covers 18 EU member states and includes for the first time five candidate countries from the Western Balkan region, namely Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Serbia and North Macedonia. The session provides insights into the state of open source adoption and regulation in Europe, with a particular focus on findings from the Balkan countries, providing insights into how EU integration shapes digital policy in candidate countries. The presentation will conclude by looking at the preliminary findings of the 2026 Report on Progress and Trends.

Open Sourcing Shqip: The Architecture Behind the Albanian Voice

Edon Sekiraqa

Get ready to hear how we are giving our language a digital life as I take the SFK stage to reveal the behind-the-scenes journey of open-sourcing the Albanian Voice!

Break - Networking

HACKING FOR SURVIVAL - Fragments of SIGINT, Cryptography and Electronic Resistance in Kosova

Visar Hoti

At SFK 2026, Visar brings a story from a time before SDRs, smartphones, GitHub, or cheap RF modules—when “hacking” meant understanding the hardware in front of you, improvising under life-threatening situtations, and using know-how to help people survive.

TBC

Marcus Estes

Microscopy for Everyone: The OpenFlexure Microscope

Dr Julian Stirling

Microscopy is an essential technology. Microscopy supports medical diagnostics, public health, soil analysis, biodiversity monitoring, scientific research, quality control for food and drink production. We ask the question: "What if everyone had access to microscopy?" Not just to use a microscope they can buy, but a microscope they can build, hack, improve, and deploy for any purpose they need. The OpenFlexure Microscope is just that, it is a fully open-source, automated, digital, robotic microscope. All custom mechanical components for OpenFlexure are 3D printed, which has enabled our community to build and use the microscope in over 70 countries. This talk will explore the open source project, our future goals, and incredible project from our diverse community.

GitOps in the Real World: Lessons from Operating Kubernetes with Argo CD

Dugi Selmanaj

Modern Kubernetes platforms are highly automated, but production environments can still become difficult to control as teams, applications, and infrastructure grow. This talk explores GitOps as an operating model for managing Kubernetes environments with greater consistency, visibility, and control. Using Argo CD as the central example, the session will look at how Git can become the source of truth for production configuration, how teams can detect configuration drift, improve auditability, manage changes through pull requests, and reduce unnecessary direct access to clusters. The focus will be on architecture and real-world operational lessons rather than a hands-on tutorial. The session will also cover common challenges around repository structure, secrets, RBAC, automation boundaries, and multi-environment setups, as well as situations where GitOps can introduce unnecessary complexity.

25 years of FSFE - A long way to software freedom

Dario Presutti

What does it take to keep technology in the hands of its users? At the Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE), it means litigating against Apple before the European Court of Justice, building sustainable long-term funding for Free Software across the EU and its member states, and advancing "Public Money? Public Code!" within public administrations. It means advocating for Device Neutrality and Router Freedom, freeing Android devices through Free Your Android, and supporting developers with Free Software licensing questions. It means cultivating the next generation of contributors through Youth Hacking 4 Freedom. And includes, among its many chapters, a story involving skateboards and raspberry ice cream. Since 2001, the FSFE has worked to empower users to control technology. This talk traces the many fronts of that effort: legal, political, technical, and community-based.

How the Consumer Rights Wiki helps fight the world's anti-ownership laws

Keith Yardley

Keith Yardley, from the FULU Foundation, provides an introduction to the Consumer Rights Wiki and its purpose, along with an explanation of how it aims to fight back against the laws that stop us really owning what we've bought and paid for.

Exploring Quantum Computing with Python

Behare Konjuvca

In this beginner-friendly workshop, participants will explore what quantum computing is, how it differs from classical computing, and why it may be useful for certain problems. The workshop will introduce qubits and some of the key ideas behind quantum computation. We will then bring these ideas into Python and work through a small computational problem using a quantum computing framework, giving participants a chance to see these ideas in practice. Basic Python knowledge is helpful, but no background in quantum computing or physics is required. Please bring a laptop for the hands-on part!

Design and simulation a rocket using open source tools.

Jo Hinchliffe

In this fun and engaging workshop facilitator Jo Hinchliffe will outline model, mid power and high power/ research rocket design techniques. We’ll dive in to designing a small rocket in Openrocket and we’ll also simulate the rocket in flight using the virtual profile of real world commercial small rocket motors. Finally we’ll dive into how other open tools can help you realise your design. This workshop requires no prior knowledge whatsoever and is sutiable for all. Please bring a laptop and download and install Openrocket prior to the workshop if possible.

Translating Wikipedia through LLMs

Arianit Dobroshi

I have a dream: to translate into Albanian 1,000, and eventually 10,000, Articles Every Wikipedia Should Have. Wikipedia has over 65 million articles across more than 340 languages. Albanian has only 100k. Editions like English and several others are of high quality. There is huge potential for translation into Albanian Wikipedia. LLMs can make this easier. During this workshop we will vibe code a Wikipedia articles translation pipeline and skill to semi-automate this process. Along the way we'll look at the state of Albanian-language LLM models, including local options, cost optimizations, and avenues for contributing to their development.

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Introduction to Mercury: live coding algorithmic electronic music in the browser

Timo Hoogland

Join this crash-course into the world of live coding electronic music. No previous knowledge of programming is required, only an interest to express yourself musically! During this workshop you will learn to create electronic music with computercode and algorithms. For this we use the programming environment Mercury. You will program the instructions and the computer will translate that to beats and synthesizers. You can adjust the code in real time while the music is playing and hear it change. That is what live coding is about. At the end of the workshop you have been introduced to technologies used in electronic music production and you will have experienced what it means to use algorithms to compose music and sound.

Nobody Likes Timesheets, So Build an AI Google Calendar Add-on and Set It Free

Jasper Duizendstra

Build a Google Calendar add-on that turns "spent two hours on a slow query" into a proper calendar entry, and run it how you want: as Apps Script in the browser or as a portable Apache-2.0 Go service on any host. Bring a laptop and a Gmail account.

Introduction to SDR with RTL-SDR and GNU Radio

Visar Hoti

Key concepts of Software Defined Radio (SDR), how RTL-SDR works, and an overview of the main software tools used for SDR. Build an FM receiver from scratch using RTL-SDR and GNU Radio, focusing on the main components and signal-processing workflow. Use GNU Radio and RTL-SDR to receive and decode ADS-B signals from aircraft, with the possibility of visualizing the data through a GUI/server with maps on a laptop.

A two hour workshop covering hand drawn frame by frame animation process using Krita

Ari Zharku

This two-hour workshop covers the use of the free and open source software Krita for hand drawn frame by frame animation production. The workshop focuses on explaining how to set up an animation workspace, making your custom commands and using the default ones, and how to build layer and folder hierarchy inside the software and out. During the workshop a simplified version of the animation pipeline will be demonstrated including the rough animation, the clean-up (line art) and coloring. This workshop is intended for anyone who is interested in the process of how animation is made and or for anyone who wants to try free and open-source software opposed to subscription based programs.

The Generative Design Lab

Patrik Hübner

LazyBear

Timo Hoogland

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