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FOSDEM 2026

FOSDEM is one of the largest gatherings of Free and Open Source Software developers in the world. The 2026 conference was held on January 31 and February 1 in Brussels, Belgium. PURL and VERS were a major part of many discussions and there were two devroom talks about PURL:

• On Saturday, January 31, Philippe Ombredanne, the original creator of PURL, traced the history of PURL from its debut at FOSDEM 2018 to its recent recognition as the ECMA-427 standard.

  • Track: Package Management
  • Title: PURL: From FOSDEM 2018 to international standard
  • Video recordings available at: https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/P8AAT3-purl/

• On Sunday, February 1, Philippe Ombredanne and Steve Springett, Chair of the OWASP Global Board of Directors and leader of CycloneDX, explained how and why PURL is the essential software identifier for any SBOM use case.

  • Track: SBOMS and supply chains
  • Title: Forget SBOMs, use PURLs
  • Video recordings available at: https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/DRGX73-purl/