FreeBSD Past Events

Past Events:

December 2010

• NLLGG gathering, Trajectum College, Utrecht, the Netherlands
  11 - 11 December, 2010
  The "Nederlandse Linux Gebruikers Groep" (NLLGG) organisation is arranging its third national community day in Utrecht focusing on BSD. Like the last two years, there will be aand a BSD-specific track. Presentations are yet to be announced.

November 2010

• BSD-Day@2010, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary
  20 - 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.

• 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).

• BSDday Argentina 2010, University of Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina
  05 - 06 November, 2010
  BSDday Argentina is a conference for users, system administrators, and developers of BSD software and BSD-based systems. The conference is for anyone who is developing, deploying, and using systems based on FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, DragonFlyBSD, and other BSDs. BSDday Argentina is a technical conference and it 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.

• MeetBSD California 2010, Hacker Dojo, Mountain View, USA
  05 - 06 November, 2010
  meetBSD was started in Krakow, Poland in 2004 and strong turnout and highly regarded technical presentations have allowed it to continue each year since then. meetBSD is a conference devoted to the BSD operating systems with a strong emphasis towards FreeBSD.

October 2010

• EuroBSDCon 2010, , Karlsruhe, Germany
  08 - 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.

September 2010

• KyivBSD 2010, , Kiev, Ukraine
  25 - 25 September, 2010
  The second KyivBSD conference will take place in Kiev, Ukraine.

• FrOSCamp 2010, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
  17 - 18 September, 2010
  FrOSCamp is an open source event organized for the first time in 2010. There will be a FreeBSD booth as well as several committers attending the event.

August 2010

• Bugathon #7: PRs containing patches, , ,
  06 - 09 August, 2010
  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 seventh bugathon is to work through many of the problem reports in FreeBSD's GNATS database containing patches, with a view to either committing them, getting them into a committable shape, or explaining to the submitters the issues with the supplied patches.

July 2010

• 11th Libre Software Meeting, , Bordeaux, France
  06 - 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.

• meetBSD 2010, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland
  02 - 03 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.

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.

April 2010

• it 360° 2010, , Toronto, Canada
  07 - 07 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.

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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

February 2010

• SCALE: Southern California Linux Expo 2010, The Westin Los Angeles Airport, Los Angeles, 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.

• FOSDEM '10, ULB Campus Solbosh, Brussels, Belgium
  06 - 07 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.

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