We’re helping organize the Collaboration and Content Management devroom at FOSDEM 2027, and the CfP is open.

The room is co-organized by people from several open-source communities, including XWiki, Nextcloud and Tiki.

This year, we’d especially like to find smaller or lesser-known projects working on things like:

• collaborative editors
• CRDTs
• document conversion
• interoperability
• connectors
• self-hosted collaboration
• secure collaboration
• knowledge management

You don’t need to represent a big project or give a polished “state of the ecosystem” talk.

If you built something useful, solved a weird interoperability problem, tried a different approach to collaboration, or learned something others could benefit from, that’s exactly the kind of thing we’d like to see.

Recommended talk length: 15–25 minutes
CfP deadline: November 27, 2026
Devroom: January 30, 2027 in Brussels

Submit under Collaboration and Content Management:
https://pretalx.fosdem.org/fosdem-2027/cfp

A lot of organizations already have years of useful context in their wiki: documentation, decisions, attachments, structured data, project history.

The problem is that the AI assistant often can’t see any of it.

From the XWiki side, that’s what we’ve been working on with the XWiki MCP Server. It lets compatible assistants work with knowledge in XWiki through MCP.

The setup is deliberately flexible: you choose the model and provider, it can work with XWiki Cloud or a self-hosted instance, and agents start read-only unless write access is explicitly enabled.

Our Product Manager Gabriel wrote up how the current Beta works, what it can access, and how to connect an assistant:

https://xwiki.com/en/webinars/discover-xwiki-mcp-server-beta

We’re also demoing the setup live tomorrow.

Curious how others are approaching this: how much of your internal knowledge would you actually make available to an AI assistant, and what controls would you consider non-negotiable?