Open Source Conferences

NOTE: this page is now defunct, sorry. Instead, go check out this calendar maintained by O’Reilly.

This page tracks conferences of interest to open-source developers, particularly in the embedded and/or mobile space. If you discover conferences that are not represented here, please let me know and I’ll add them.

You can also see this page as a Google Calendar:

January 2012

• Perl Oasis (PerlOasis) 2012
  Organizer: YAPC
  Dates: 14-15 January 2012
  Location: Orlando, FL, USA –
• Community Leadership Summit West (CLSWest) 2012
  Organizer: Community Leadership Summit West
  Dates: 14 January 2012
  Location: San Jose, CA, USA – eBay Town Hall
• linux.conf.au (LCA) 2012
  Organizer: linux.conf.au
  Dates: 16-20 January 2012
  Location: Ballarat, Victoria, Australia
• RTECC Organizer: RTC
  Dates: 17 January 2012 Location: Santa Clara, CA, USA – Santa Clara Convention Center
• Southern California Linux Expo – SCALE 9x (SCaLE) 2012
  Organizer: Linux Expo of So Cal Inc.
  Dates: 20-22 January 2012
  Location: Los Angeles, CA, USA – Hilton Los Angeles Airport
• DesignCon (DesignCon) 2012
  Organizer: EE Times
  Dates: 30 January – 2 February 2012
  Location: Santa Clara, CA, USA – Santa Clara Convention Center

February 2012

• Linaro Connect
  Organizer: Linaro
  Dates: 6-10 February 2012
  Location: Redwood Shores, CA, USA – Hotel Sofitel
• Android Builder’s Conference 2012
  Organizer: Linux Foundation
  Dates: 13-14 February 2012
  Location: Redwood Shores, CA, USA – Hotel Sofitel
• Yocto Project Developer Day
  Organizer: Linux Foundation & Yocto Project
  Dates: 14 February 2012
  Location: Redwood Shores, CA, USA – Hotel Sofitel
• Embedded Linux Conference (ELC) 2012
  Organizer: Linux Foundation
  Dates: 15-17 February 2012
  Location: Redwood Shores, CA, USA – Hotel Sofitel
• Embedded Technology Conference
  16-17 February 2012 Location: Curridabat, San José, Costa Rica – Colegio Federado de Ingenieros y Arquitectos (CFIA)
• OpenCF Summit
  24-26 February 2012 Location: Dallas, TX, USA – Special Events Center, Garland
• Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2012
  Organizer: GSM Assoc
  Dates: 27 February – 1 March 2012
  Location: Barcelona, Spain – Fira Barcelona in Montjuic
• Embedded World (EmbeddedWorld) 2012
  Organizer: NurnburgMesse
  Dates: 28 February – 1 March 2012
  Location: Nürnberg, Germany – Messezentrum
• Strata Conference 2012
  Organizer: O’Reilly Media
  Dates: 28 February – 1 March 2012
  Santa Clara, CA, USA – Santa Clara Convention Center

March 2012

• YAPC – Yet Another Perl Conference (YAPC::DE) Germany 2012
  Organizer: YAPC
  Dates: 5-7 March 2012
  Location: Erlangen, Germany
• Game Developers Conference (GDC) 2012
  Organizer: Think Services
  Dates: 5-9 March 2012
  Location: San Francisco, CA, USA – Moscone Center
• DrupalCon (DrupalCon) 2012
  Organizer: Drupal Association
  Dates: 19-23 March 2012
  Location: Denver, CO, USA – Colorado Convention Center
• PyCon (PyCon) 2012
  Organizer: Python Software Foundation
  Dates: 7-15 March 2012
  Location: Santa Clara, USA – Santa Clara Convention Center
• EclipseCon (EclipseCon) 2012
  Organizer: Eclipse Foundation
  Dates: 26-29 March 2012
  Location: Reston, VA, USA – Hyatt Regency Reston
• DesignWest, formerly Embedded Systems Conference (ESC-SV) 2012
  Organizer: UBM Electronics
  Dates: 26-29 March 2012
  Location: San Jose, CA, USA – McEnery Convention Center
• Palmetto Open Source Software Conference (POSSCON) 2012
  Dates: 28-29 March 2012
  Location: Columbia, SC, USA – Columbia Metropolitan Convention Center
• Flourish (Flourish) 2012
  Organizer: http://lug.cs.uic.edu/
  Dates: 30-31 March 2012
  Location: Chicago, IL, USA

April 2012

• Linux Storage, Filesystem, and MM Summit
  Organizer: Linux Foundation
  Dates: 1-2 April 2012
  Location: San Francisco, CA, USA – Hotel Nikko
• Collaboration Summit (CollabSummit) 2012
  Organizer: Linux Foundation
  Dates: 3-5 April 2012
  Location: San Francisco, CA, USA – Hotel Nikko
• Indiana Linux Fest
  Dates: 13-15 April 2012
  Location: Indianapolis, Indiana – Wyndham Indianapolis West Hotel
• Penguicon (Penguicon) 2012
  Organizer: Penguicon, Inc.
  Dates: 27-29 April 2012
  Location: Dearborn, MI, USA – Hyatt Regency Dearborn
• LinuxFest Northwest (LFNW) 2012
  Organizer: Bellingham Linux User’s Group
  Dates: 28-29 April 2012
  Location: Bellingham, WA, USA – Bellingham Technical College
• Linux Enterprise End User Summit 2012
  Organizer: Linux Foundation
  Dates: 30 April – 1 May 2012
  Location: New York, NY, USA – New York Stock Exchange

May 2012

• Open Source Business Conference (OSBC) 2012
  Dates: 21-22 May 2012
  Location: San Francisco, CA, USA – Hyatt Regency San Francisco
• LinuxTag (LinuxTag) 2012
  Organizer: LinuxTag
  Dates: 23-26 May 2012
  Location: Berlin, Germany –
• Linaro Connect – Hong Kong
  Organizer: Linaro
  Dates: 28 May – 1 June 2012
  Location: Gold Coast, Hong Kong

June 2012

• Computex Taipei (Computex) 2012
  Organizer: Taiwan External Trade Development Council (TAITRA)
  Dates: 5-9 June 2012
  Location: Taipei, Taiwan
• LinuxCon Japan 2012
  Organizer: Linux Foundation
  Dates: 6-8 June 2012
  Location: Yokohama, Japan – Pacifico Yokohama
• SouthEast LinuxFest (SELF) 2012
  Dates: 8-10 June 2012
  Location: Charlotte NC, USA – Blake Hotel
• Yet Another Perl Conference North America (YAPC::NA) 2012
  Dates: 13-15 June 2012
  Location: Madion, Wisconsin, USA
• NASA Open Source Summit (open.NASA) 2012
  Organizer: NASA
  Dates: 20-21 June 2012
  Location: College Park, MC, USA – University of Maryland Business School, Van Munching Hall
• SETI Conference (SETIcon) 2012
  Organizer: SETI Institute
  Dates: 22-24 June 2012
  Location: Santa Clara, CA, USA – Hyatt Regency Santa Clara
• Ottawa Linux Symposium (OLS) 2012
  Organizer: Linux Symposium Inc.
  Dates: 26-29 June 2012
  Location: Ottawa, Ontario, Canada – uOttawa
• Open Source Bridge (OSBridge) 2012
  Dates: 26-29 June 2012
  Location: Portland, OR, USA – The Eliot Center
• Google I/O Developer’s Conference (GoogIO) 2012
  Organizer: Google
  Dates: 27-29 June 2012
  Location: San Francisco, CA, USA – Moscone West

July 2012

• Community Leadership Summit (CLS) 2012
  Dates: 14-15 July 2012
  Location: Portland, OR, USA – Oregon Convention Center
• OSCON (OSCON) 2012
  Organizer: O’Reilly Publishing
  Dates: 16-20 July 2012
  Location: Portland, OR, USA – Oregon Convention Center
• Embedded Systems Conference (ESC) India (ESC-India) 2012
  Organizer: EETimes
  Dates: 18-20 July 2012
  Location: Bangalore, India – NIMHANS Convention Center

August 2012

• Texas LinuxFest (TLF) 2012
  Dates: 3-4 August, 2012
  Location: Austin, TX, USA –
• Open Help Conference 2012
  Dates: August 10 – 15
  Location: Cincinnati, Ohio
• FOSS Conference (FOSSCON) 2012
  Dates: August 11
  Location: Philadelphia, PA, USA –
• Free and Open Source Conference (FrOSCon) 2012
  Dates: 25-26 August, 2012
  Location: – University of Applied Sciences Bonn-Rhein-Sieg
• Linux Kernel Summit 2012
  Organizer: Linux Foundation
  Dates: 27-29 August 2012
  Location: San Diego, CA, USA – Sheraton Harbor Island
• Linux Plumbers Conference (Plumbers) 2012
  Organizer: Linux Foundation
  Dates: 29-31 August 2012
  Location: San Diego, CA, USA – Sheraton Harbor Island
• LinuxCon (LinuxCon) 2012
  Organizer: Linux Foundation
  Dates: 29-31 August 2012
  Location: San Diego, CA, USA – Sheraton Harbor Island

September 2012

• DjangoCon (DjangoCon) 2012
  Dates: 3-9 September, 2012
  Location: Washington, DC, USA – Hyatt Regency Crystal City
• International Congress on Open Source Systems (Seventh) (ICOSS) 2012
  Dates: 10-13 September 2012
  Location: Hammamet, Tunisia
• Embedded Systems Conference Boston (ESC-BOS)
  Organizer: EE Times
  Dates: 17-20 September 2012
  Location: Boston, MA, USA – Hynes Convention Center
• SUSEcon 2012
  Dates: 18-21 September 2012
  Location: Orlando, FL, USA – Royal Caribe Hotel
• Automotive Linux Summit 2012
  Organizer: Linux Foundation
  Dates: September 19-20
  Location: Warwickshire, UK
• Open Hardware Summit (OHS) 2012
  Dates: 27 September, 2012
  Location: New York, NY, USA – Eyebeam Art & Technology Center
• Ohio LinuxFest (OLF) 2012
  Dates: 28-30 September 2012
  Location: Columbus, OH, USA – Greater Columbus Convention Center

October 2012

• Cutting-Edge IT & Electronics Comprehensive Exhibition (CEATEC) 2012
  Dates: 2-6 October 2012
  Location: Tokyo, Japan – Makuhari Messe
• Open World Forum (OWF) 2012
  Dates: 11-13 October, 2012
  Location: Paris, France –
• Blender Conference (BlenderCon) 2012
  Dates: 12-14 October, 2012
  Location: Amsterdam, The Netherlands – De Balie, Leidseplein
• Free Software and Open Source Symposium (10th annual)
  Dates: 25-26 October 2012
  Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada – Seneca@York Campus
• T-DOSE (T-DOSE) 2012
  Dates: 27-28 October, 2012
  Location: Fontys University of Applied Science in Eindhoven, The Netherlands –
• ARM Technical Conference (ARM TechCon) 2012
  Organizer: UBM Electronics
  Dates: 30 October – 1 November 2012
  Location: Santa Clara, CA, USA – Santa Clara Convention Center

November 2012

• Embedded Linux Conference Europe (ELC-EU) 2012
  Organizer: Linux Foundation
  Dates: 5-7 November 2012
  Location: Barcelona, Spain – Hotel Fira Palace
• LinuxCon Europe 2012
  Organizer: Linux Foundation
  Dates: 5-7 November 2012
  Location: Barcelona, Spain – Hotel Fira Palace
• KVM Forum 2012
  Organizer: Linux Foundation
  Dates: 7-9 November 2012
  Location: Barcelona, Spain – Hotel Fira Palace
• FSCONS
  Dates: 9-11 November 2012
  Location: Sweden
• Embedded Technology
  Dates: 14-16 November, 2012
• KiwiCon (KiwiCon) 2012
  Dates: 17-18 November 2012
  Location: Wellington, New Zealand –

December

• LISA (Usenix)
  Dates: 9-14 December 2012
  Location: San Diego, CA USA

Coming Up in 2013

• linux.conf.au (LCA) 2012
  Organizer: linux.conf.au
  Dates: 28 January – 2 February 2013
  Location: Canberra, ACT, Australia
• Southern California Linux Expo (SCaLE) 2012
  Organizer: Linux Expo of So Cal Inc.
  Dates: 22-24 February 2013
  Location: Los Angeles, CA, USA – Hilton Los Angeles Airport
• February 2-3: FOSDEM, Brussels, Belgium
• March 12-13: OpenNMS User Conference Europe 2013, Fulda, Germany
• March 13-21: PYCON, Santa Clara, CA USA

No Longer Being Tracked

• Humanitarian FOSS Project Symposium (HFOSS) 2012
  Organizer: HFOSS
  Dates: not yet announced
  Location: not yet announced
• Desktop Summit
  Dates: not yet announced
  Location: not yet announced
• Government Open Source (GOSCON) 2012
  Dates: not yet announced
  Location: Washington, DC, USA
• Utah Open Source Conference (Utah Open Source Conference) 2012
  Dates: not yet announced
  Location: Salt Lake City, UT, USA – Miller Campus, Salt Lake Community College
• GSOC Mentor Summit (GSOC) 2012 – Google
  Dates: not yet announced
  Location: Mountain View, CA, USA – Google HQ