It’s been a while since we did a monthly Events post, but it’s been a while since we had a month quite like October 2026! Just in the first full week of the month, Igalia will be present at three events and present at least fourteen talks in the city of Prague alone—and that’s just the start.

Linux Plumbers Conference (October 5–7)

The beginning of Prague Week will see us at this event for developers working at all levels of the plumbing layer and beyond.

• John Harrison will lead off the Igalia parade with “Unified collection of kernel bug reports” on October 5 at 10:20am, where he’ll propose an automated approach to bug logging whereby developers can see how many times a given bug has really occurred, what platforms/hardware/kernels are affected, and more.
• André Almeida will be presenting “Emulating x86 atomics on arm64 ” on October 5 at 5:00pm. He’ll describe an implementation design for emulating atomics, benchmark results, and how other OSes have approached the same issue.
• Changwoo Min will share “Taming latency spikes caused by lock holder and lock waiter preemption on October 7 at 3:46pm, where he’ll present lock holder preemption (LHP) and lock waiter preemption (LWP) measurements in production settings and a prototype LHP/LWP mitigation built in a production sched_ext scheduler, then open three challenges for community discussion.
• Gavin Guo will present a talk titled “Stickiness: Keeping tasks cache-warm in work-conserving LAVD scheduler” on October 7 at 5:00pm, where he’ll cover topics like warmth estimation, the wait-or-migrate decision, and the scheduler/userspace interface.

We also have a couple of the LPC microconferences under our stewardship, with André organizing “Gaming on Linux” on October 5 and Changwoo heading up “sched_ext: The BPF extensible scheduler class” on October 7.

Open Source Summit Europe (October 7–9)

Prague Week continues at this mammoth gathering of open source developers, where Mario Sánchez will dig into the new WPEPlatform API in his talk “WPE Hands-On: Writing a Launcher for Embedded Devices With the New WPEPlatform API” on October 8 at 3:50pm. He’ll show how simple it has become to write a custom launcher to run Web-based applications on embedded devices, and offer practical guidance for migrating existing integrations to WPEPlatform.

We’ll also have a booth on site where we’ll be showing off WPE WebKit, the benefits of the LAVD scheduler, and much more; and we’re proud to once again be official sponsors of the event.

GStreamer Conference and Hackfest (October 10–11)

We’ll wrap up Prague Week with this gathering at Impact Hub Prague, where there are enough Igalians speaking that we have to compact it into a list just to make it workable:

• “Color, tracing and WebAssembly: a year of GStreamer for video editing” (Thibault Saunier) — an update on the work done over the last year in GStreamer and GStreamer Editing Services (GES), most of it now upstream
• “GStreamer 20 years of fun” (Stéphane Cerveau) — a personal retrospective on two decades of building with GStreamer
• “GStreamer highlights in Servo” (Xabier Rodríguez) — a quick look at the current status and plans for the near future
• “GstVA and GstVulkan updates” (Víctor Jáquez) — just like the title says
• “How GStreamer is used in WebKit” (Enrique Ocaña) — digs into Regular and Media Source Extensions video playback, Encrypted Media Extensions using the Thunder/OpenCDM framework, and WebAudio
• “Let’s solve our long standing issues: time for GStreamer 2.0 ?” (Thibault Saunier) — a starting point for discussion, feedback, and hacking toward a new core for GStreamer
• “Multithreading in GStreamer: how do flushes work” (Alicia Boya) — an overview of the synchronization primitives used in GStreamer 1.0 pipelines
• “Restream and GStreamer, a success story.” (Loïc Le Page) — challenges and lessons learnt from using GStreamer in a highly-scalable streaming application
• “Rock, paper, scissors” (Xabier Rodríguez) — a quick bit of playing around

The conference is followed by a Gstreamer Hackfest, and we’ll be there in force as well.

Fair Tech Summit Europe (October 6)

Even while Prague Week is underway, we’ll also have Igalians at this one-day conference held in Luxemborg. There, Manuel Rego will give a quick introduction to Igalia and Wolvic, and Simon Sapin will do the same for Servo.

WebKit Contributors Meeting (October 20–21)

Developers from all over the world will gather in Cupertino, California for the annual WebKit Contributors Meeting. As the top contributor to WebKit (other than Apple itself), we’ll be sharing the latest on our work on WebKit and WPE WebKit, the WebKit port for embedded devices.

TPAC (October 26–30)

The last week of the month will be devoted to TPAC, the W3C’s annual gathering, this year to be held in Dublin, Ireland. That week won’t be a matter of presenting talks—though we’ll likely do a few of those as well, depending on how the schedule shakes out—so much as participating in a wide array of Working Group meetings, the Advisory Committee meeting, and the Technical Architecture Group. There will be a lot of us on site for this event, and we look forward to talking with many, many people that week.

And that’s it (so far)! If you’ll be at any of the above events, please make sure to say hi to one (or more) of us. And if you have any questions regarding any of our talks, are interested in having an Igalian bring a talk to an upcoming event, or you’d just like to learn more about Igalia, please reach out to us.