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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 - Humanitarian FOSS Project Symposium (HFOSS) 2012
Organizer: HFOSS
Dates: not yet announced
Location: not yet announced - NASA Open Source Summit
Dates: not yet announced
Location: VIRTUAL, also Mountain View, CA
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 - Texas LinuxFest (TLF) 2012
Dates: not yet announced
Location: Austin, TX, USA –
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 - 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 - Open Help Conference 2012
Dates: not yet announced
Location: Cincinnati, Ohio - FOSS Conference (FOSSCON) 2012
Dates: not yet announced
Location: Rochester, NY, USA – - Mobile Computing Summit 2012
Dates: not yet announced
Location: San Francisco, CA, USA – Hyatt Regency San Francisco Airport
July 2012
- Community Leadership Summit (CLS) 2012
Organizer: Community Leadership Summit West
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
- 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 - Desktop Summit
Dates: not yet announced
Location: not yet announced - Free and Open Source Conference (FrOSCon) 2012
Dates: not yet announced
Location: not yet announced
September 2012
- 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 - Ohio LinuxFest (OLF) 2012
Dates: 28-30 September 2012
Location: Columbus, OH, USA – Greater Columbus Convention Center - Open Hardware Summit (OHS) 2012
Dates: not yet announced
Location: Queens, NY, USA – World Fair Grounds - Open World Forum (OWF) 2012
Dates: not yet announced
Location: Paris, France – - DjangoCon (DjangoCon) 2012
Dates: not yet announced
Location: Portland, OR, USA –
October 2012
- Cutting-Edge IT & Electronics Comprehensive Exhibition (CEATEC) 2012
Dates: 2-6 October 2012
Location: Tokyo, Japan – Makuhari Messe - ARM Technical Conference (ARM TechCon) 2012
Organizer: UBM Electronics
Dates: 30 October – 1 November 2012
Location: Santa Clara, CA, USA – Santa Clara Convention Center - Blender Conference (BlenderCon) 2012
Dates: not yet announced
Location: Amsterdam, The Netherlands – De Balie, Leidseplein - 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 - Free Software and Open Source Symposium (10th annual)
Dates: not yet announced
Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada – Seneca@York Campus
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 - Mobile Asia Congress (Mobile Asia Congress) 2012
Dates: not yet announced
Location: Hong Kong - Open Source Developer’s Conference (OSDC) 2012
Dates: not yet announced
Location: Canberra, Victoria, Australia – - T-DOSE (T-DOSE) 2012
Dates: not yet announced
Location: Fontys University of Applied Science in Eindhoven, The Netherlands – - KiwiCon (KiwiCon) 2012
Dates: not yet announced
Location: Wellington, New Zealand – - Embedded Technology
Dates: not yet announced
December 2012
- Automotive Linux Summit 2012
Organizer: Linux Foundation
Dates: not yet announced
Location: Yokohama, Japan
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March 30, 2009 at 12:05 pm
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May 22, 2010 at 9:12 am
Heath Bair (Candybar)
YAPC (Yet Another Perl Conference) will be held June 21 – 23 2010 on the campus of The Ohio State University, Columbus Ohio.
The Yet Another Perl Conference is a high-quality, inexpensive technical conference with its roots in the Perl Mongers user groups. The conference celebrates the Perl programming language and is meant to be accessible to anyone, regardless of experience, yet valuable to even the most skilled of programmers. Each year the conference attracts hundreds of programmers from around the world, including luminaries such as Larry Wall, Randal Schwartz, and Damian Conway.
May 23, 2010 at 11:41 pm
jefro
Thanks! Added to open source conferences page.
December 9, 2010 at 3:41 pm
Chris Tyler
There’s also the 10th Annual Free Software and Open Source Symposium (FSOSS 2011) at Seneca, Toronto – October 26-28, 2011. Web site: http://fsoss.ca (2011 details coming soon).
December 9, 2010 at 4:04 pm
jefro
Added FSOSS, thanks!
December 20, 2010 at 3:30 am
TheDeath
FrOSCon 2011 is supposed to take place on the 20-21. August 2011. Source: http://twitter.com/#!/froscon/status/10089191329243137
Greets from Germany, TheDeath
February 14, 2011 at 5:35 pm
Jacinta Richardson
YAPC::NA dates are published and aren’t in August as this calendar suggests but instead are running right after OS Bridge on 27th – 29th June 2011.
There’s also OSDC.my running 29th June – 1st July 2011.
OSDC 2011 will be in Canberra, not Melbourne.
Thanks.
February 14, 2011 at 5:42 pm
jefro
Thanks Jacinta! Updating now – and please feel free to correct anything else here, it’s tough to keep up.
March 24, 2011 at 8:39 pm
fhe
Thanks for the list Jeff. You saved me a lot of time.
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January 7, 2012 at 5:05 am
Jason Blum
http://OpenCFSummit.org is in Dallas, February 24-26.
January 25, 2012 at 6:35 pm
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January 28, 2012 at 9:44 pm
Nuba
YAPC::NA in Madison, Wisconsin – June 13-15, 2012, more on http://www.yapcna.org/
January 28, 2012 at 11:55 pm
jefro
Nuba – got it, thanks! Added to calendar.
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