tl;dr: FOSDEM 2027 will host a new "Digital Dissident" devroom focused on the end-to-end toolchain protecting users under authoritarian regimes, bridging censorship circumvention, metadata-resistant messaging, secure publishing, and operational security projects that are currently scattered across separate tracks. Organizers argue that individual tools (Tor, Nym, Delta Chat, SimpleX, etc.) are only as strong as their weakest integration point, and want developers, researchers, and activists to collaborate on shared threat models and interoperability. CfP runs October 24 to November 30, 2026; the conference is January 30-31, 2027 in Brussels.