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FreeBSD Events

Please send details of any FreeBSD related events or events that are of interest for FreeBSD users which are not listed here to freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org.

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 2025

  • OpenZFS Developers Summit 2025, Hillsdale neighborhood, Portland, OR, United States
    25 - 28 October, 2025
    The goal of the event is to foster cross-community discussions of OpenZFS work and to make progress on some of the projects we have proposed. This 4-day event consisted of 2-day of User Summit, 1-day of Developer Summit, and a 1-day Developer Summit Hackathon.

November 2025

  • Fall 2025 FreeBSD Summit, NetApp Campus, San Jose, CA, United States
    06 - 07 November, 2025
    The FreeBSD Summit is an event held annually to bring the FreeBSD community together to learn, network, and drive FreeBSD use. Each year the event gathers FreeBSD users including: decision makers, software engineers, and individual contributors and users, to share best practices and successes in their use of FreeBSD. The FreeBSD Summit also provides the unique opportunity to discuss issues with the developer community in-person.

Past Events:

September 2025

  • EuroBSDcon 2025, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing (FER), Zagreb, Croatia
    25 - 28 September, 2025
    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.

June 2025

  • BSDCan 2025, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada
    11 - 14 June, 2025
    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 2025

  • BSD-NL 2025, Brouwerij Maximus, Pratumplaats 2A, 3454 NA Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands
    12 - 12 April, 2025
    Whoohoo! It’s time for our third conference, held at the Maximus Brewery in Utrecht. There will be talks, hacking, slacking, beer and food.

February 2025

  • FOSDEM 2025, ULB, Brussels, Belgium
    01 - 02 February, 2025
    Every year, thousands of developers of free and open source software from all over the world gather at the event in Brussels. A BSD devroom is organized for presentations covering BSD operating system family, the Call For Participation is now available.

November 2024

  • Fall 2024 FreeBSD Summit, NetApp Campus, San Jose, CA, United States
    07 - 08 November, 2024
    The FreeBSD Summit is an event held annually to bring the FreeBSD community together to learn, network, and drive FreeBSD use. Each year the event gathers FreeBSD users including: decision makers, software engineers, and individual contributors and users, to share best practices and successes in their use of FreeBSD. The FreeBSD Summit also provides the unique opportunity to discuss issues with the developer community in-person.

September 2024

  • EuroBSDcon 2024, UCD O’Reilly Hall, Dublin, Ireland
    19 - 22 September, 2024
    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.

June 2024

  • BSDCan 2024, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada
    29 - 01 June, 2024
    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.

March 2024

  • AsiaBSDCon 2024, Chientan Youth Activity Center, Taipei, Taiwan
    21 - 24 March, 2024
    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 2024

  • FOSDEM 2024, ULB, Brussels, Belgium
    03 - 04 February, 2024
    Every year, thousands of developers of free and open source software from all over the world gather at the event in Brussels.

November 2023

  • November 2023 FreeBSD Vendor Summit, NetApp Campus, San Jose, CA, United States
    02 - 03 November, 2023
    Mark your calendars! The November 2023 FreeBSD Vendor Summit will take place November 2-3, 2023 at the NetApp Campus in San Jose, CA. The Vendor Summit will feature a single track of talks on both days.

October 2023

  • Hackathon 202310, Modirum, Oslo, Norway
    04 - 06 October, 2023
    A FreeBSD hackathon will be held in Oslo on the 4th, 5th and 6th of October 2023. Modirum MDPay has kindly offered to host us in their offices in Oslo.

September 2023

  • EuroBSDcon 2023, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal
    14 - 17 September, 2023
    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.

May 2023

  • BSDCan 2023, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada
    17 - 20 May, 2023
    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 2023

  • AsiaBSDCon 2023, Tokyo University of Science, Tokyo, Japan
    30 - 02 April, 2023
    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.

March 2023

  • Google Summer of Code, FreeBSD Office Hours – YouTube, ,
    22 - 22 March, 2023
    On Wednesday March 22 at 17:00 UTC, we will share information about contributing to FreeBSD through Google Summer of Code.

February 2023

  • FOSDEM 2023, ULB, Brussels, Belgium
    04 - 05 February, 2023
    Every year, thousands of developers of free and open source software from all over the world gather at the event in Brussels. In 2023, after 2 years of online events, they will gather in Brussels again. Be sure to stop by the FreeBSD stand and BSD devroom to get the latest on FreeBSD.

Events from past years:

Last modified on: May 16, 2021 by Sergio Carlavilla Delgado