List of free-software events
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The following is a list of computer conferences and other events focused on the development and usage of free and open-source software (FOSS).
General free-software events
Some events with "Linux" in their name are in fact general-purpose free-software events, often because they began as Linux-only events before broadening their focus.
North, Central and South America
- FLISOL - Latin American free software install fest held each year in all Latin America the same day, on the last Sunday of April
- LibrePlanet - Organized annually by the Free Software Foundation in or around Boston, Massachusetts since 2006[1]
- LinuxFest Northwest, held in Bellingham, Washington in the spring since 2000
- OLF Conference (formerly Ohio Linux Fest), held annually in Ohio since 2003[2]
- SouthEast LinuxFest, held annually in June since 2009.[3]
- Southern California Linux Expo (SCALE), held in Los Angeles each year since 2002
- Seattle GNU/Linux conference (SeaGL), held each fall in Seattle since 2013
Europe
- Berlin Buzzwords, held annually in June in Berlin, Germany, since 2010[4]
- Chemnitz Linux Days, held in Chemnitz, Germany since 1999
- DevConf.cz, held annually in Brno, Czech Republic since 2009
- FOSS Backstage, held annually in February in Berlin, Germany, since 2018[5]
- Fosscomm, held annually in a different Greek city since 2008
- FOSDEM, held in Brussels, Belgium every February since 2001
- FrOSCon, held in Sankt Augustin (near Bonn), Germany since 2006
- Linux Vacation / Eastern Europe, held in Belarus every summer since 2005
- openSUSE Conference is held annually at a location in Europe since 2010.
Asia and Australia
- COSCUP, held annually in Taiwan since 2006
- FOSSASIA Summit, held annually since 2009, normally in the Singapore hub.
- IndiaFOSS, first held in 2020 as IndiaOS, then held in July 2022 in Bangalore.
- linux.conf.au, held in Australia or New Zealand in the (Southern Hemisphere) summer since 1999
- openSUSE Asia Summit is held annually at a location in Asia since 2014.
Africa
- linuxconf.co.za, held in South Africa since 2018
International
- Open Source Summit, known before 2017 as "LinuxCon", held several times each year in various continents since 2009
- Software Freedom Day, international observance since 2004
- FOSS4G (Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial), since 2006. Held once a year in various continents. Organized by OSGeo.[6]
Defunct
- Africa Source, held in 2004 and 2006
- Asia Source, held in 2005, 2007 and 2009
- August Penguin, held annually in Israel from 2004 to 2018
- FOSSAP, held in 2004 and 2005
- FOSS.IN, first known as "Linux Bangalore", held from 2001 to 2012[citation needed]
- Fórum Internacional Software Livre (FISL) - International Free Software Forum, held each year in Porto Alegre, Brazil (with 7000+ participants) from 2000 to 2018
- Free Software and Open Source Symposium (FSOSS), held at Seneca College, Toronto each October from 2001 to 2018
- FSCONS, held every autumn in Gothenburg, Sweden from 2007 to 2019
- GOSCON, held annually in the United States from 2005 to 2011
- Libre Software Meeting, French name "Rencontres mondiales du logiciel libre", held every July in France or surrounding countries from 2000 to 2018
- Linux Bier Wanderung, informal event held in a different European country every summer from 1999 to 2019
- OggCamp, a BarCamp-style conference held annually in the United Kingdom from 2009 to 2019
- Ontario Linux Fest, held in Toronto, Ontario in the autumn from 2007 to 2009
- Open Source Day, conference held annually in Warsaw, Poland from 2008 to 2019
- Open Source Developers' Conference (OSDC), held annually in various countries from 2004 to 2015[citation needed]
- Solutions Linux, a trade show and conference with 10,000 visitors held every year in Paris from 1999 to 2014[7]
- O'Reilly Open Source Convention (OSCON), held each summer in the US from 1999 to 2019.
- ÖzgürKon, online conference held in 2020 and 2021
- LinuxWorld Conference and Expo, briefly also known as "OpenSource World", from 1998 to 2009[citation needed]
- Wizards of OS, held in Berlin every two years from 1999 to 2006
- LinuxTag, held in Germany every summer from 1996 to 2014
Events for specific free software
Operating systems
- DebConf - conference for the Debian operating system, held annually since 2000
- Linux Kernel Developers Summit, annual conference since 2001
- ROSCon, annual conference about ROS since 2012[8]
Programming languages
- PyCon – conference for the Python programming language, held several times a year in different locations since 2003
- RubyConf – conference for the Ruby programming language, held once a year in different locations since 2002
- Yet Another Perl Conference – conference for the Perl programming language, held several times a year since 1999
- ZendCon & OpenEnterprise – PHP and open source conference[9][10]
Other
- Akademy - conference for the KDE desktop environment, held annually in Europe since 1997
- ApacheCon - conference for the Apache HTTP Server, held once or twice each year since 2000
- DjangoCon - conference for the Django web framework, held twice a year (once in Europe and once in the U.S.) since 2008
- DrupalCon - conference for the Drupal content management framework, held twice a year (once in Europe and once in North America) since 2007
- GNOME Users And Developers European Conference – conference for the GNOME desktop environment, held annually in Europe since 2000
- GNUHealthCon - conference for the GNU Health hospital management and digital health ecosystem, held annually since 2010
- Libre Graphics Meeting, held each year in May in Europe or Canada since 2006
- Spinnaker Summit - summit for the Spinnaker continuous delivery software, held annually in the United States since 2017
- WordCamp - event for the WordPress content management system, held frequently around the world since 2007
- X.Org Developers' Conference (XDC) and X Developers' Summit (XDS), annual events since 2005 organized by X.Org Foundation
Defunct
- BeGeistert - conference for the Haiku operating system, held annually in Europe from 2006 to 2016 (originally a BeOS conference, from 1998 to 2005)
- Desktop Developers' Conference, held from 2004 to 2006[citation needed]
- Desktop Linux Summit, held in San Diego, California from 2003 to 2006
- GCC Summit, held in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada from 2003 to 2010[citation needed]
- Gelato ICE, held each year in the US or Italy by the Gelato Federation from 2001 to 2007[citation needed]
- Joomla World Conference - event for the Joomla content management system, held frequently around the from 2011 to 2019
- Linux Kongress, held in Germany in the autumn from 1994 to 2010
- Linux Symposium, held in Canada in the summer from 1999 to 2014
- Ubuntu Developer Summit, held twice a year (timed with respect to Ubuntu releases), alternating between Europe and North America, from 2004 to 2015
References
- ^ "Feeling generous? Open source software community gives shelter to code". JAXenter. 2018-11-23. Retrieved 2019-10-07.
- ^ "About".
- ^ LinuxFest to highlight open-source software GoUpstate.com, June 12, 2009
- ^ "Konferenz zu hochskalierbarer Software". heise online (in German). Retrieved 2021-02-01.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "Die erste FOSS Backstage | newthinking". newthinking.de. Retrieved 2021-02-01.
- ^ FOSS4G
- ^ Impressions du Salon Solutions Linux 2010
- ^ Ackerman, Evan (8 November 2011). "ROS Turns Four, Schedules Conference/Party for 2012". IEEE Spectrum: Technology, Engineering, and Science News. Retrieved 17 June 2020.
- ^ ZendCon & OpenEnterprise PHP Conference
- ^ Cloud computing underwhelms PHP developers
External links
- LWN.net Community Calendar - lists upcoming Linux and free/open source software conferences
- Linux Magazin events calendar - continuously updated list of Linux and Open Source conferences
- // foss.events - upcoming and past Free and Open Source Software events in Europe
- FOSS Events in Europe
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