LAC is the international conference about Free/Open-Source Software for music, sound, and other media with GNU/Linux as the main platform. For this 2026 edition, the conference is hosted on Maynooth university south campus (53.3781433,-6.5961569 comaps), from the 18th to the 20th of June, and facilitated by Maynooth's music department.

• March 10, 2026: Paper/music submission deadline
• April 20, 2026: Review deadline
• April 27, 2026: Notification of acceptance
• May 25, 2026: Camera-Ready version deadline

Choose the relevant submission type.

The required file format is PDF. For the full paper category, authors must use the provided template for paper formatting (see below). For the other categories, your PDF should contain the title of your presentation/demo/workshop, the name of the authors and their affiliations, and abstract/description (you can either use the full paper template or your own).

Please let us know if you need a special technical setup for your presentation. Templates

All additional information can be found on the website