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FreeBSD Past 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.

Past Events:

December 2008

• NLLGG-bijeenkomst december 2008, Liefland college, Utrecht, Utrecht, the Netherlands
  13 December, 2008
  The "Nederlandse Linux Gebruikers Groep" (NLLGG) organisation is arranging a national community day in Utrecht focussing on BSD. Robert Watson, Hans vd Looy, Marten Vijn, Wim Vandeputte and Remko Lodder will do presentations for the Linux community.

  Social links: Flickr, Blog Search.

November 2008

• MeetBSD California 2008, Googleplex, Mountain View, California, USA
  15 - 16 November, 2008
  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. meetBSD 2007 was held in Warsaw, Poland and will continue this year in Mountain View, California. This year marks the first meetBSD held in California, so join us to celebrate FreeBSD's 15th Anniversary!

  Social links: Flickr, Blog Search, YouTube.

October 2008

• Ticino Informatica 2008, Palazzo dei Congressi, Lugano, Switzerland
  22 - 25 October, 2008
  FreeBSD and The FreeBSD Foundation Stand A13 Presented by OEMS Sagl

  Social links: Flickr, Blog Search.

• EuroBSDCon 2008, University of Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France
  18 - 19 October, 2008
  The seventh annual European BSD Conference. It is oriented to developers and users of all BSD flavors, including FreeBSD of course. A variety of full and half-day tutorials will precede the conference.

  Social links: Flickr, Blog Search.

• NYCBSDCon 2008, Columbia University, New York City, USA
  11 - 12 October, 2008
  The New York City *BSD Conference (NYCBSDCon) 2008 will be held at Columbia University in Manhattan. 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: Flickr, Blog Search, YouTube.

September 2008

• OpenExpo 2008, Zurich, Switzerland
  24 - 25 September, 2008
  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.

August 2008

• COSCUP 2008 - Conference for Open Source Coders, Users and Promoters, International Conference Hall, Institute of Applied Mechanics, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan (ROC)
  23 - 24 August, 2008
  COSCUP 2008 is the 3rd incarnation of the series, and becomes the biggest annual open source community party in Taiwan. Several FreeBSD contributions will be presenting on FreeBSD topics.

  Social links: Flickr, Blog Search.

• FrOSCon 2008, Fachhochschule Bonn-Rhein-Sieg, Sankt Augustin, Germany
  23 - 24 August, 2008
  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 2008

• O'Reilly Open Source Conference 2008, Oregon Convention Center, Portland, Oregon, USA
  21 - 25 July, 2008
  The annual O'Reilly Open Source Conference will again have a FreeBSD booth this year. Matt Olander, Dru Lavigne, and others will help spread the word about FreeBSD.

  Social links: Flickr, Blog Search.

• 9th Libre Software Meeting, Multiple Locations, Mont-de-Marsan, France
  1 - 5 July, 2008
  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.

May 2008

• LinuxTag 2008, Messe Berlin, Berlin, Germany
  28 - 31 May, 2008
  LinuxTag is Europe's largest event about Free Software, Linux and Open Source. This year there will be the traditional FreeBSD booth and several BSD talks. It will also be possible to take the BSDA certification exam there on Friday May 30.

  Social links: Flickr, Blog Search.

• BSDCan 2008, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada
  16 - 17 May, 2008
  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 2008

• BSDCon Barcelona 2008, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain
  19 - 20 April, 2008
  BSDCon Barcelona is a conference on all BSD-based operating systems. Submissions can be on any topic, as long as they are somehow connected to BSD. There is room for all kinds of topics ranging from documentation to kernel-programming and using systems for various tasks.

  Social links: Flickr, Blog Search.

• OSDC.tw 2008 - Open Source Developers' Conference in Taiwan, School Of Continuing Education Chinese Culture University, Taipei, Taiwan (ROC)
  12 - 13 April, 2008
  OSDC.tw is a major conference for open source developers and contributions. The subject of OSDC.tw 2008 is the "Innovation and Implementation". Several FreeBSD developers and contributions will be presenting on FreeBSD topics.

  Social links: Flickr, Blog Search.

March 2008

• Linux-Infotag 2008, FH Augsburg, Augsburg, Germany
  29 March, 2008
  The Augsburger Linux-Infotag offers two parallel tracks of talks to show the capabilities of free and open source software. There will be several talks about FreeBSD as well as a FreeBSD booth.

  Social links: Flickr, Blog Search.

• AsiaBSDCon 2008, Tokyo University of Science, Tokyo, Japan
  27 - 30 March, 2008
  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.

• Unigroup FreeBSD7 Launch Meeting, Alliance for Downtown NY Conference Facility, New York, USA
  13 March, 2008
  UNIGROUP of New York presents FreeBSD 7, the latest release of the FreeBSD Operating System. George Neville-Neil, a member of the FreeBSD Project will give a presentation of the main features and significant improvements in the latest release as well as talk about the FreeBSD project and how the operating system is developed. The presentation will be followed by a question and answer period.

  Social links: Flickr, Blog Search.

• Linuxtage Chemnitz 2008, Technical University Chemnitz, Chemnitz, Germany
  1 - 2 March, 2008
  Linuxtage Chemnitz 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 as well as several talks.

  Social links: Flickr, Blog Search.

February 2008

• FOSDEM 2008, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium
  23 - 24 February, 2008
  A 2-day event to promote the widespread use of Free and Open Source software. There will be a joined BSD and PostgreSQL developer room. Several FreeBSD developers will be present with Core Team member Robert Watson giving the opening talk on one of the conference days.

  Social links: Flickr, Blog Search.

• SCALE: Southern California Linux Expo 2008, The Westin Los Angeles Airport, Los Angeles, California, USA
  9 - 10 February, 2008
  There will be a FreeBSD presence at the sixth Southern California Linux Expo in February. Matt Olander will be representing the project.

  Social links: Flickr, Blog Search.

January 2008

• Solutions Linux 2008, CNIT, Paris, France
  29 - 31 January, 2008
  A 3 day event to promote GNU/Linux and Open Source software. French FreeBSD User Group will be present in the Association Village to promote FreeBSD of course !

  Social links: Flickr, Blog Search.

Current Events

Events from past years:

• 2012
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• 2010
• 2009
• 2008
• 2007
• 2006
• 2005
• 2004
• 2003