TLDR; Please try to submit talk proposals by Fri May 22 if possible to help coordination with other FOSSY tracks. Final toolchain track peoposal deadline is end of day Mon June 1st. See https://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/fossy2026 And https://sfconservancy.org/news/2026/apr/23/fossy26-cfp/
We are excited to announce that there will be a toolchain track at FOSSY 2026 https://fossy.ca the fourth Free and Open Source Software Yearly conference. GNU Toolchain and friends meeting in Vancouver, Canada August 6-9 2026 at the University of British Columbia Talks by developers of core toolchain and developer tools. Compilers like GCC, the GNU Compiler Collection, assemblers and linkers like Binutils, debuggers and profilers like GDB, Systemtap and Valgrind, binary tools like libabigail, elfutils and GNU Poke, C libraries, like glibc and newlib and other language runtimes and utilities, including discussions of standards like ELF and DWARF. FOSSY has several tracks with talks over three days and an unconference the last day. Besides the toolchain track there are ~12 other tracks https://2026.fossy.ca/pages/tracks/ Submit a talk proposal at https://2026.fossy.ca/call-for-proposals/ by first creating a speaker profile. Talks can be long presentations (40 min), short presentations (20 min) or lightning talks (5 to 10 min). For either beginner, intermediate or advanced audiences, being oriented at developers, community, end users or business. Talks may be recorded and published after the conference, but the conference itself is in-person only (no online presentations during the conference). Talk proposals should be submitted before end of day June 1st. Accepted talks will get a confirmation before June 15th 2026. You can register for FOSSY by creating an account at https://2026.fossy.ca/account/signup Program Committee Andrea Pinski Bradley Kuhn Elena Zannoni Indu Bhagat Jose Marchesi Mark Wielaard
