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FreeBSD Events

If you know of any FreeBSD related events, or events that are of interest for FreeBSD users, which are not listed here, please send details to www@FreeBSD.org, so they can be included.

Users with organisational software that understands the iCalendar format can subscribe to the FreeBSD events calendar which contains all of the events listed here.

Countries and regions displayed in dark red on the map below are hosting upcoming FreeBSD-related events. Countries that have hosted FreeBSD-related events in the past show up in yellow or orange, with darker colors representing a larger number of previous events.

Current/Upcoming Events:

October 2010

  • EuroBSDCon 2010, Karlsruhe, Germany
    8 - 10 October, 2010
    The ninth annual European BSD Conference will take place in Karlsruhe, Germany in October, 2010, and include a technical track, tutorials, and FreeBSD developer summit.

    Social links: upcoming

November 2010

  • NYCBSDCon 2010, Cooper Union, New York City, USA
    12 - 14 November, 2010
    The New York City *BSD Conference (NYCBSDCon) 2010 will be held at Manhattan's prestigious Cooper Union. NYCBSDCon is the main technical conference on the East Coast for the BSD community to get together to share and gain knowledge, to network with like-minded people, and to have fun. This event is organized by members of the New York City *BSD Users Group (NYC*BUG).

    Social links: upcoming

  • BSD-Day@2010, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary
    20 November, 2010
    This one-day event is to gather Central European developers of today's open-source BSD systems, popularize their work, and provide a real-life communication interface between developers and users. There are no formalities, no papers, and no registration or participation fee, however the invited developers are encouraged to give a talk on their favorite BSD-related topic. The goal is to motivate potential future developers and users, especially undergraduate university students to work with BSD systems.

    Social links: upcoming

May 2011

  • BSDCan 2011, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada
    10 - 13 May, 2011
    BSDCan is a developers conference with a strong focus on emerging technologies, research projects, and works in progress. It also features Userland infrastructure projects and invites contributions from both free software developers and those from commercial vendors.

    Social links: upcoming

May 2012

  • BSDCan 2012, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada
    15 - 18 May, 2012
    BSDCan is a developers conference with a strong focus on emerging technologies, research projects, and works in progress. It also features Userland infrastructure projects and invites contributions from both free software developers and those from commercial vendors.

    Social links: upcoming

May 2013

  • BSDCan 2013, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada
    13 - 17 May, 2013
    BSDCan is a developers conference with a strong focus on emerging technologies, research projects, and works in progress. It also features Userland infrastructure projects and invites contributions from both free software developers and those from commercial vendors.

    Social links: upcoming

Past Events:

July 2010

  • 11th Libre Software Meeting, Bordeaux, France
    6 - 11 July, 2010
    The Libre Software Meeting has occurred each year since July 2000. This year there will again be a FreeBSD boot camp to introduce new users to the Operating System.

    Social links: Flickr, Blog Search.

  • meetBSD 2010, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland
    2 - 3 July, 2010
    meetBSD is an annual event gathering users and developers of the BSD operating systems family, mostly FreeBSD, NetBSD and OpenBSD. After the special California edition for the 10th FreeBSD anniversary, meetBSD Wintercamp in Livigno, this year we are back to Krakow, Poland.

    Social links: Flickr, Blog Search, YouTube.

May 2010

  • BSDCan 2010, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada
    11 - 14 May, 2010
    BSDCan is a developers conference with a strong focus on emerging technologies, research projects, and works in progress. It also features Userland infrastructure projects and invites contributions from both free software developers and those from commercial vendors.

    Social links: Flickr, Blog Search.

April 2010

  • it 360° 2010, Toronto, Canada
    7 April, 2010
    IT360° Conference & Expo 2010 is an interactive experience for IT professionals and business executives to expand their mind and their bottom line. The BSD Certification Group will offer their BSDA certification exam.

    Social links: Flickr, Blog Search.

March 2010

  • OpenExpo 2010, Bern, Switzerland
    24 - 25 March, 2010
    The goal of OpenExpo is the promotion of Open Source software in the business environment. Among many others, there will be a FreeBSD booth.

    Social links: Flickr, Blog Search.

  • Solutions Linux 2010, Paris Expo, Paris, France
    16 - 18 March, 2010
    A 3 days event to promote GNU/Linux and Open Source Software to companies. As usual, a French FreeBSD User Group will be there to promote FreeBSD. The access to the event is free of charge.

    Social links: Flickr, Blog Search.

  • Chemnitzer Linux-Tage 2010, Technical University Chemnitz, Chemnitz, Germany
    13 - 14 March, 2010
    Chemnitzer Linux-Tage is a two day event on Linux and Free Software in general. There will be workshops, talks and room for various projects to present themselves. FreeBSD will be present with a booth.

    Social links: Flickr, Blog Search.

  • AsiaBSDCon 2010, Tokyo University of Science, Tokyo, Japan
    11 - 14 March, 2010
    AsiaBSDCon is a conference for users and developers on BSD based systems. The conference is for anyone developing, deploying and using systems based on FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, DragonFlyBSD, Darwin and MacOS X. AsiaBSDCon is a technical conference and aims to collect the best technical papers and presentations available to ensure that the latest developments in our open source community are shared with the widest possible audience.

    Social links: Flickr, Blog Search, YouTube.

February 2010

  • SCALE: Southern California Linux Expo 2010, The Westin Los Angeles Airport, Los Angeles, California, USA
    19 - 21 February, 2010
    There will be a FreeBSD booth at the 8th annual Southern California Linux Expo in February. Futhermore Dru Lavigne will give a talk about BSD for Linux users.

    Social links: Flickr, Blog Search.

  • FOSDEM '10, ULB Campus Solbosh, Brussels, Belgium
    6 - 7 February, 2010
    FOSDEM '10 is a free and non-commercial event organized by the community, for the community. Its goal is to provide Free and Open Source developers a place to meet. Several FreeBSD developers will be present.

    Social links: Flickr, Blog Search.

November 2009

  • OpenRheinRuhr 2009, Saalbau, Bottrop, Germany
    7 - 8 November, 2009
    This new event in the middle of Europe will see a huge audience and an impressive list of exhibitors. FreeBSD will have a booth as well as the other major BSDs.

    Social links: Flickr, Blog Search.

October 2009

  • discuss & discover 2009, Messe München, Munich, Germany
    20 - 22 October, 2009
    Discuss & discover is the successor of Systems. FreeBSD will have a booth as well as the other major BSDs and will try to repeat the great success of past years. There will be an Open Source conference with workshops, talks and a theme park for various projects.

    Social links: Flickr, Blog Search.

September 2009

  • Kyiv BSD 2009, Kiev, Ukraine
    26 September, 2009
    26th September 2009 in Kiev, Ukraine will take place first Ukrainian conference, dedicated to FreeBSD.

    Social links: Flickr, Blog Search.

  • IT Security Expo 2009, Nuremberg, Germany
    23 - 24 September, 2009
    Starting in 2009, Nuremberg will be staging the leading IT security event in a new venue: Although SYSTEMS has closed its doors, the IT SecurityExpo with its track record of ten successful years is to be continued and its scope expanded. There will be a FreeBSD booth and talks likely.

    Social links: Flickr, Blog Search.

  • OpenExpo 2009, Winterthur, Switzerland
    23 - 24 September, 2009
    The goal of OpenExpo is the promotion of Open Source software in the business environment. Among many others, there will be a FreeBSD booth.

    Social links: Flickr, Blog Search.

  • EuroBSDCon 2009, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
    17 - 19 September, 2009
    The eighth annual European BSD Conference will take place in Cambridge, England in September, 2009, and include a technical track, tutorials, and FreeBSD developer summit.

    Social links: Flickr, Blog Search.

August 2009

  • FrOSCon 2009, Fachhochschule Bonn-Rhein-Sieg, Sankt Augustin, Germany
    22 - 23 August, 2009
    FrOSCon is a two day conference on Free Software and Open Source, taking place in Sankt Augustin near the cities of Bonn and Cologne. The conference revolves around a rich schedule of talks, highlighting current topics in Free Software and Open Source.

    Social links: Flickr, Blog Search.

July 2009

  • Kernel Conference Australia 2009, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
    15 - 17 July, 2009
    Kernel Conference Australia is a Kernel-focused technical conference. Any and all Open Source kernels and the technologies within those kernels are open for discussion. The only hard criteria is that the kernel must be covered by an OSI-approved license.

    Social links: Flickr, Blog Search.

  • 10th Libre Software Meeting, Nantes University, Nantes, France
    7 - 11 July, 2009
    The Libre Software Meeting has occurred each year since July 2000. This year there will again be a FreeBSD boot camp to introduce new users to the Operating System.

    Social links: Flickr, Blog Search.

June 2009

  • LinuxTag 2009, Messe Berlin, Berlin, Germany
    24 - 27 June, 2009
    LinuxTag is Europe's largest event for Free Software, Linux and Open Source. This year there will be the traditional FreeBSD booth as well as booths from NetBSD, OpenBSD and MirBSD and several BSD talks.

    Social links: Flickr, Blog Search.

May 2009

  • BSDday Argentina 2009, Buenos Aires, Argentina
    29 - 30 May, 2009
    BSDday Argentina is a conference for users and developers on BSD based systems. The conference is for anyone developing, deploying and using systems based on FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, DragonFlyBSD and others *BSD. BSDday Argentina is a technical conference and aims to collect the best technical papers and presentations available to ensure that the latest developments in our open source community are shared with the widest possible audience.

    Social links: Flickr, Blog Search.

  • BSDCan 2009, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada
    6 - 9 May, 2009
    BSDCan is a developers conference with a strong focus on emerging technologies, research projects, and works in progress. It also features Userland infrastructure projects and invites contributions from both free software developers and those from commercial vendors.

    Social links: Flickr, Blog Search.

April 2009

March 2009

  • Solutions Linux 2009, Paris Expo, Paris, France
    31 March - 2 April, 2009
    A 3 days event to promote GNU/Linux and Open Source Software to companies. As usual, a French FreeBSD User Group will be there to promote FreeBSD. The access to the event is free of charge.

    Social links: Flickr, Blog Search.

  • FreeBSD Kernel Internals: Intensive Evening Course, Berkeley, California, USA
    18 March - 2 July, 2009
    The FreeBSD Kernel Internals: An Intensive Code Walkthrough course provides an in depth study of the source code of the FreeBSD 8-current kernel as of early March. This course is aimed at users with a good understanding of the algorithms used in the FreeBSD kernel that want to learn the details of their implementation. The class will be held at the historic Hillside Club at 2286 Cedar Street, Berkeley, CA 94709 just three blocks north of the Berkeley campus once per week from 6:30PM to 10:00PM starting Wednesday March 18th and finishing Thursday July 2nd.

    Social links: Flickr, Blog Search.

  • AsiaBSDCon 2009, Tokyo University of Science, Tokyo, Japan
    12 - 15 March, 2009
    AsiaBSDCon is a conference for users and developers on BSD based systems. The conference is for anyone developing, deploying and using systems based on FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, DragonFlyBSD, Darwin and MacOS X. AsiaBSDCon is a technical conference and aims to collect the best technical papers and presentations available to ensure that the latest developments in our open source community are shared with the widest possible audience.

    Social links: Flickr, Blog Search, YouTube.

February 2009

  • FOSDEM '09, ULB Campus Solbosh, Brussels, Belgium
    7 - 8 February, 2009
    FOSDEM '09 is a free and non-commercial event organized by the community, for the community. Its goal is to provide Free and Open Source developers a place to meet. Several FreeBSD developers will be present, including Kris Kennaway who will be giving a talk about system performance.

    Social links: Flickr, Blog Search.

  • DCBSDCon 2009, Marriott Wardman, Washington, D.C., USA
    5 - 6 February, 2009
    The first large BSD Conference in the DC area. Will include 45 minute presentations on BSD related topics and security themes.

    Social links: Flickr, Blog Search, YouTube.

January 2009

  • Network-related Bugathon #6
    30 January - 1 February, 2009
    A bugathon is an event coordinated by the FreeBSD bugbusting team. Bugathons are held on IRC (in the #freebsd-bugbusters channel of EFnet), and are attended by any interested FreeBSD developers and contributors during a week-end. They focus on closing as many problem reports and fixing as many bugs as possible. The plan for the sixth bugathon is to work through the all network-related problem reports in FreeBSD's GNATS database.

    Social links: Flickr, Blog Search.

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