FreeBSD Past Events

Past Events:

October 2019

• LISA19, Portland Marriott Downtown Waterfront, Portland, United States
  28 - 30 October, 2019
  LISA is the premier conference for operations professionals, where sysadmins, systems engineers, IT operations professionals, SRE practitioners, developers, IT managers, and academic researchers share real-world knowledge about designing, building, securing, and maintaining the critical systems of our interconnected world.

• Bay Area FreeBSD Vendor and Developer Summit, Intel Campus, SC12 building, 3600 Juliette Lane, Santa Clara, CA, United States
  11 - 12 October, 2019
  This by-invitation event wants to bring together FreeBSD developers and vendors to talk about common goals. We will determine things we have, need, and want from each other to improve FreeBSD. Talks about latest developments in companies and in FreeBSD will provide insights into future directions. The event is also a great opportunity for networking within the industry.

September 2019

• EuroBSDcon 2019, Scandic Lillehammer Hotel, Lillehammer, Norway
  19 - 22 September, 2019
  EuroBSDcon is the European annual technical conference gathering users and developers working on and with 4.4BSD (Berkeley Software Distribution) based operating systems family and related projects.

• vBSDcon 2019, Hyatt Regency, Reston, United States
  05 - 07 September, 2019
  vBSDCon will bring together members of the BSD community for a series of roundtable discussions, educational sessions, best practice conversations and exclusive networking opportunities.

August 2019

• Open Source Summit North America, , San Diego, United States
  21 - 23 August, 2019
  Join over 2,000 developers, technologists, and industry experts in an exchange of ideas on the latest trends in open source and open collaboration, how to navigate the open source landscape, and how open source is shaping innovation. There will be a presentation on FreeBSD.

• COSCUP 2019, , Taipei, Taiwan
  17 - 18 August, 2019
  COSCUP is an annual conference held by Taiwanese Open Source community participants since 2006. FreeBSD will be well represented with both talks and a table to educate people about FreeBSD.

July 2019

• OSCON 2019, , Portland, United States
  15 - 18 July, 2019
  The FreeBSD Foundation will have a table in the expo hall to promote FreeBSD.

June 2019

• Rootconf 2019, , Bangalore, India
  21 - 22 June, 2019
  Join members of the FreeBSD community at Rootconf 2019! Rootconf is India’s most well-known conference on DevOps and IT infrastructure. Rootconf attracts systems and operations engineers, and decision-makers in IT to share real world knowledge about building reliable systems. Rootconf 2019 will focus on infrastructure security, cost optimization, and distributed systems.

• Comcast Labs Connect 2nd Annual Open Source Conference, Hyatt Regency Denver, Denver, United States
  20 - 20 June, 2019
  Comcast Labs Connect in partnership with the Comcast Open Source Program Office is proud to announce the 2nd Annual Open Source Conference. This conference aims to connect open source developers, leaders, technologists, and community leaders to collaborate on the latest in open source innovation in the broadband, media, entertainment, and connected home space. This is an ideal forum for cross-collaboration between developers, operators, architects, leaders and others who are driving the technology forward.

• Berlin FreeBSD DevSummit, Bally Wulff Games & Entertainment GmbH, Berlin, Germany
  15 - 16 June, 2019
  This devsummit will be run "un-conference" style, meaning that the agenda is made by the participants. People can give talks or form working groups around a topic of interest. Developers can invite guests by adding them to the wiki page. You do not have to have a commit bit to contribute to this event.

• HKOSCON 2019, Convention Centre 2, Hong Kong Science Park, Shatin, ,
  14 - 15 June, 2019
  Hong Kong Open Source Conference is one of the major open source conferences in Hong Kong since its first commencement in 2013, bringing an international crowd of developers, contributors, users, IT managers, and students. There will be a FreeBSD table and talk to promote FreeBSD.

• Vienna Security Hackathon 2019, SBA Research, Vienna, Austria
  08 - 09 June, 2019
  This hackathon in Vienna is focused on security, but this is not a strict requirement. The basic idea is to get together with FreeBSD hackers to discuss and work directly on issues resolving as many as we can over the long weekend. Fixing bugs, writing code, adding features, improving the documentation, working on ports, and such are all welcome activities at the event. There is also a sightseeing tour planned on the Monday after.

May 2019

• BSDday Argentina 2019, Departamento de Computacion de la Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales de la Universidad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina
  29 - 30 May, 2019
  The BSDday is an event where users, administrators and developers of operating systems of type BSD come together to share knowledge, talks, contacts and get to know each other. In the event lectures, debates, courses and installations of the systems will be exposed. The event is also a great entry for Linux users, Unix and other operating systems to the BSD world.

• Waterloo Hackathon 2019, University of Waterloo, Kitchener-Waterloo, Canada
  20 - 22 May, 2019
  Join fellow FreeBSD developers for a few days of collaborative software development or hardware hacking in Kitchener-Waterloo, Ontario, after BSDCan.

• BSDCan 2019, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada
  15 - 18 May, 2019
  A four day BSD conference held in Ottawa, Canada. BSDCan hosts talks and tutorials on a range of topics based around the BSD family of operating systems.

April 2019

• Hackathon 201904, University of Aberdeen, Fraser Noble Building, Room 213, Aberdeen, United Kingdom
  17 - 19 April, 2019
  The Aberdeen hackathon is placed at the half way point between AsiaBSDCon and BSDCan to give ardent hackers something to fill their time. Deadline for registration is March 31st, 2019.

• FreeBSD Community Day, B3 Consulting Group, Kämpegatan 6, Gothenburg, Sweden
  07 - 07 April, 2019
  The FreeBSD Community Day in Gothenburg is hosted in connection with the FOSS-north conference. It is a public event for users, developers, and anyone with an interest in FreeBSD, who wants to learn more about the project.

March 2019

• AsiaBSDCon 2019, Tokyo University of Science, Tokyo, Japan
  21 - 24 March, 2019
  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 2019

• FOSDEM 2019, Free University of Brussels, Solbosch Campus, Brussels, Belgium
  02 - 03 February, 2019
  The Free and Open Source Software Developers' European Meeting (FOSDEM) is a free event for software hackers to meet, share ideas and collaborate. Every year 8000+ open source developers from all over the world gather at the event in Brussels, Belgium. During the FOSDEM, developer rooms (devrooms) are assigned to self organized open source groups and projects to meet together and showcase their projects; a BSD devroom will host talks about BSD operating systems and projects. If you want to submit a talk, see the CfP.

Events from past years:

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• 2018
• 2017
• 2016
• 2015
• 2014
• 2013
• 2012
• 2011
• 2010
• 2009
• 2008
• 2007
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• 2003

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