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Software Freedom Kosova

1 – 4 October 2026 · Salla e Kuqe, Palace of Youth and Sports

Kosovo's open source conference, eleventh edition. A day of talks, eleven workshops at once, the country's first FPV drone race and a lockpicking village. Free, 1 to 4 October.

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Kosovo's open source conference, run by FLOSSK since 2009. Four days in the Red Hall of the Palace of Youth, free once you have a ticket. This edition goes under the name A M*rder of Crows.

Friday is talks. Julian Stirling's open source robotic microscope, 3D printed and built in seventy countries. Marcus Estes on the legal agent he made with Claude Code to represent himself in federal court, and win. K. Mike Merrill, a publicly traded person since 2008, shareholders voting on his life ever since. Visar Hoti on hacking in Kosova before software defined radio, under fire.

The Palace of Youth and Sports. Salla e Kuqe is the low white wing on the plateau.
The Palace of Youth and Sports. Salla e Kuqe is the low white wing on the plateau.FLOSSK

Saturday is the day to clear. Eleven workshops running at once: animation in Krita, a rocket in OpenRocket, quantum computing in Python, live coding music in the browser. Alongside them the country's first FPV drone race, a full day capture the flag, a lockpicking village. It ends with LazyBear, Timo Hoogland and Pandaudio.

Sunday leaves one thing, at noon, and it is the right one. Lis Luci brings Glitchy, an open hardware device that listens to a room's air and turns what it hears into sound and light.

The hall filling up at the tenth edition, 2025
The hall filling up at the tenth edition, 2025FLOSSK

2026 · Prishtina

The programme

Talks, workshops and public activities, day by day. Linked rows open the festival's own announcement post.

Thu 1Fri 2Sat 3Sun 4All week

Thursday 1 October

Reception, Red Hall

Friday 2 October

Talks

  • Registration12:00
  • Opening13:00
  • Patrik Hübner13:20 · What we put in motion
  • Nicoleta Lazar14:00 · How open source enabled Fresha to become a better product company
  • Dr Julian Stirling14:30 · Microscopy for everyone: the OpenFlexure Microscope
  • Marcus Estes15:00 · Code your own lawyer: building a legal agent with Claude Code, and winning in federal court
  • Éléonore Daxhelet15:30 · The European Commission's Open Source Observatory: findings on the Western Balkans
  • Dario Presutti16:00 · 25 years of FSFE, a long way to software freedom
  • Break and networking16:30 – 17:30
  • K. Mike Merrill17:30 · The Cathedral and the Bizarre
  • Visar Hoti18:00 · Hacking for survival: SIGINT, cryptography and electronic resistance in Kosova
  • Stjepan Horvat18:30 · Software freedom and beyond through democratic workplace organizing
  • Dugi Selmanaj19:00 · GitOps in the real world: operating Kubernetes with Argo CD
  • Edon Sekiraqa19:30 · Open sourcing Shqip: the architecture behind the Albanian voice
  • Closing20:00

Saturday 3 October

Workshops

  • Keith Yardley10:00 · How the Consumer Rights Wiki fights the world's anti-ownership laws
  • Penguin Selectah10:00 · Leaving big tech: audit your stack, plan the migration, start it
  • Ari Zharku10:00 · Hand drawn frame by frame animation in Krita
  • Jasper Duizendstra10:00 · Nobody likes timesheets, so build an AI Calendar add-on and set it free
  • Arianit Dobroshi12:00 · Translating Wikipedia through LLMs
  • Marcus Estes12:00 · Durable agents, malleable software: agent memory on an open standard, wired to a web app with WebMCP
  • Visar Hoti12:00 · Introduction to SDR with RTL-SDR and GNU Radio
  • Timo Hoogland15:00 · Introduction to Mercury: live coding music in the browser
  • Jo Hinchliffe15:00 · Design and simulate a rocket with open source tools
  • Behare Konjuvca15:00 · Exploring quantum computing with Python
  • Patrik Hübner15:00 · The Generative Design Lab

Side A

SFK Night

Sunday 4 October

Closing session

  • Lis Luci12:00 – 13:00 · Meet Glitchy: can a room tell you how it feels?

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