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 [email protected].
Users with organizational software that uses 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.
Current/Upcoming Events:
Past Events:
December 2020
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FreeBSD Friday: Intro to Documentation, live.FreeBSD.org
18 December, 2020
On December 18th 2020 from 18:00 UTC there will be an 1 hour live streaming session of the FreeBSD Fridays. The topic of this week is: Intro to Documentation by Sergio Carlavilla.Social links: Flickr, Blog Search.
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FreeBSD Office Hours, live.FreeBSD.org
16 December, 2020
On December 16th at 21:00 UTC we will hold a "FreeBSD Office Hours", an interactive online event where users, contributors, and developers can ask questions or to offer comments. The topic will be "Bhyve", hosted by Peter Grehan and John Baldwin. For more information please see the Office Hours page on the FreeBSD wiki.Social links: Flickr, Blog Search.
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FreeBSD Friday: Intro to Capsicum, live.FreeBSD.org
11 December, 2020
On December 11th 2020 from 18:00 UTC there will be an 1 hour live streaming session of the FreeBSD Fridays. The topic of this week is: Intro to Capsicum by Mariusz Zaborski.Social links: Flickr, Blog Search.
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FreeBSD Office Hours, live.FreeBSD.org
03 December, 2020
On December 3rd at 18:00 UTC we will hold a "FreeBSD Office Hours", an interactive online event where users, contributors, and developers can ask questions or to offer comments. The topic will be "Git Q&A." For more information please see the Office Hours page on the FreeBSD wiki.Social links: Flickr, Blog Search.
November 2020
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FreeBSD Friday: Intro to DTrace, live.FreeBSD.org
20 November, 2020
On November 20th 2020 from 17:00 UTC there will be an 1 hour live streaming session of the FreeBSD Fridays. The topic of this week is: Intro to DTrace by Mark Johnston.Social links: Flickr, Blog Search.
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FreeBSD Vendor Summit 2020, Online
11 - 13 November, 2020
This event wants to bring together FreeBSD developers and vendors to talk about common goals. Talks about latest developments in companies and in FreeBSD will provide insights into future directions. The event is also a great opportunity for networking within the industry. The half day sessions are free to attend, but you will need to register to access the meeting room.Social links: Flickr, Blog Search.
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FreeBSD Friday: Intro to RISC-V, live.FreeBSD.org
06 November, 2020
On November 6th 2020 from 17:00 UTC there will be an 1 hour live streaming session of the FreeBSD Fridays. The topic of this week is: Intro to RISC-V by Mitchell Horne.Social links: Flickr, Blog Search.
October 2020
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FreeBSD Friday: Intro to Bhyve, live.FreeBSD.org
23 October, 2020
On October 24rd 2020 from 00:00 UTC there will be an 1 hour live streaming session of the FreeBSD Fridays. The topic of this week is: Intro to Bhyve by Peter Grehan.Social links: Flickr, Blog Search.
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FreeBSD Office Hours, live.FreeBSD.org
14 October, 2020
On October 14th at 02:00 UTC we will hold the 4th "FreeBSD Core Team Office Hours", an interactive online event where users, contributors, and developers can ask questions or to offer comments. The detail of the topics is in the announcement. The event will be recorded and posted to Youtube after its conclusion. For more information see the Office Hours page on the FreeBSD wiki.Social links: Flickr, Blog Search.
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FreeBSD Friday: Intro to CheriBSD, live.FreeBSD.org
09 October, 2020
On October 9th 2020 from 17:00 UTC there will be an 1 hour live streaming session of the FreeBSD Fridays. The topic of this week is: Intro to CheriBSD by Dr. Robert N. M. Watson.Social links: Flickr, Blog Search.
September 2020
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FreeBSD Friday: Intro to Jails, live.FreeBSD.org
25 September, 2020
On September 25th 2020 from 17:00 UTC there will be an 1 hour live streaming session of the FreeBSD Fridays. The topic of this week is: Intro to Jails by Michael W. Lucas.Social links: Flickr, Blog Search.
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FreeBSD Office Hours, live.FreeBSD.org
23 September, 2020
On September 23rd at 18:00 UTC we will hold a "FreeBSD Office Hours", an interactive online event where users, contributors, and developers can ask questions and get advice. The event will be recorded and posted to Youtube after its conclusion. For more information see the Office Hours page on the FreeBSD wiki.Social links: Flickr, Blog Search.
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FreeBSD Bug Squash, live.FreeBSD.org
19 September, 2020
On September 19th 2020 from 1400-2100 UTC we will be running a coordinated virtual Bug Squash. FreeBSD has a Problem Report (PR) database where users and developers are encouraged to file issues and regressions they find in both the base system and ports tree. A Bug Squash is a focused session where we try to triage, process, fix and close as many reports as we can from the PR database. This September 11th Bug Squash we will focus on closing as many PRs with patches as we can. Both users and developers are invited to attend and participate via the live video stream and IRC channel.Social links: Flickr, Blog Search.
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FreeBSD Friday: Introduction to Hardware Hacking on Raspberry Pi, live.FreeBSD.org
11 September, 2020
On September 11th 2020 from 17:00 UTC there will be an 1 hour live streaming session of the FreeBSD Fridays. The topic of this week is: Introduction to Hardware Hacking on Raspberry Pi by Tom Jones.Social links: Flickr, Blog Search.
August 2020
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FreeBSD Friday: Intro to FreeBSD Security, live.FreeBSD.org
28 August, 2020
On August 28th 2020 from 17:00 UTC there will be an 1 hour live streaming session of the FreeBSD Fridays. The topic of this week is: Intro to FreeBSD Security by Antranig Vartanian.Social links: Flickr, Blog Search.
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FreeBSD Office Hours, live.FreeBSD.org
19 August, 2020
On August 19th at 18:00 UTC we will hold a "FreeBSD Office Hours", an interactive online event where users, contributors, and developers can ask questions and get advice. The event will be recorded and posted to Youtube after its conclusion. For more information see the Office Hours page on the FreeBSD wiki.Social links: Flickr, Blog Search.
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FreeBSD Friday: Introduction to ZFS, live.FreeBSD.org
14 August, 2020
On August 14th 2020 from 17:00 UTC there will be an 1 hour live streaming session of the FreeBSD Fridays. The topic of this week is: Introduction to ZFS by Dan Langille.Social links: Flickr, Blog Search.
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FreeBSD Friday: History of BSD Fast Filesystem, live.FreeBSD.org
07 August, 2020
On August 7th 2020 from 17:00 UTC there will be an 1 hour live streaming session of the FreeBSD Fridays. The topic of this week is: History of BSD Fast Filesystem by Dr. Marshall Kirk McKusick.Social links: Flickr, Blog Search.
July 2020
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FreeBSD Friday: FreeBSD Installfest Pt 2, live.FreeBSD.org
31 July, 2020
On July 31st 2020 from 17:00 UTC there will be an 1 hour live streaming session of the FreeBSD Fridays. The topic of this week is: FreeBSD Installfest Pt 2 by Roller Angel.Social links: Flickr, Blog Search.
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FreeBSD Friday: FreeBSD Installfest Pt 1, live.FreeBSD.org
24 July, 2020
On July 24th 2020 from 17:00 UTC there will be an 1 hour live streaming session of the FreeBSD Fridays. The topic of this week is: FreeBSD Installfest Pt 1 by Roller Angel.Social links: Flickr, Blog Search.
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FreeBSD Office Hours, live.FreeBSD.org
22 July, 2020
On July 22nd at 18:00 UTC we will hold a "FreeBSD Office Hours", an interactive online event where users, contributors, and developers can ask questions and get advice. The event will be recorded and posted to Youtube after its conclusion. For more information see the Office Hours page on the FreeBSD wiki.Social links: Flickr, Blog Search.
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FreeBSD Friday: Intro to FreeBSD, live.FreeBSD.org
17 July, 2020
On July 17th 2020 from 17:00 UTC there will be an 1 hour live streaming session of the FreeBSD Fridays. The topic of this week is: Intro to FreeBSD by Deb Goodkin.Social links: Flickr, Blog Search.
June 2020
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FreeBSD Office Hours, live.FreeBSD.org
24 June, 2020
On June 24th at 18:00 UTC we will hold the fifth "FreeBSD Office Hours", an interactive online event where users, contributors, and developers can ask questions and get advice. The event will be recorded and posted to Youtube after its conclusion. For more information see the Office Hours page on the FreeBSD wiki.Social links: Flickr, Blog Search.
April 2020
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FreeBSD Office Hours, live.FreeBSD.org
15 - 16 April, 2020
On April 16th at 02:00 UTC (April 15th in North America) we will hold the second "FreeBSD Office Hours", an interactive online event where users, contributors, and developers can ask questions and get advice. The event will be recorded and posted to Youtube after its conclusion.Social links: Flickr, Blog Search.
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FreeBSD Office Hours, Google Hangout
01 April, 2020
On April 1st at 18:00 UTC we will hold the first "FreeBSD Office Hours", an interactive online event where users, contributors, and developers can ask questions and get advice. The event will be recorded and posted to Youtube after its conclusion.Social links: Flickr, Blog Search.
February 2020
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FOSDEM 2020, ULB Solbosch Campus, Brussels, Belgium
01 - 02 February, 2020
FOSDEM is a free event for software developers to meet, share ideas and collaborate. Every year, thousands of developers of free and open source software from all over the world gather at the event in Brussels.Social links: Flickr, Blog Search.
January 2020
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FreeBSD mini-DevSummit FOSDEM 2020, Hotel NH Brussels Carrefour de l'Europe, Brussels, Belgium
31 January, 2020
Join FreeBSD Developers and Vendors for a one-day summit to be held in conjunction with FOSDEM '20 in Brussels, Belgium. The summit will consist of discussion sessions and is by-invitation only.Social links: Flickr, Blog Search.
October 2019
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LISA19, Portland Marriott Downtown Waterfront, Portland, United States
28 - 30 October, 2019
LISA is the premier conference for operations professionals, where sysadmins, systems engineers, IT operations professionals, SRE practitioners, developers, IT managers, and academic researchers share real-world knowledge about designing, building, securing, and maintaining the critical systems of our interconnected world.Social links: Flickr, Blog Search.
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Bay Area FreeBSD Vendor and Developer Summit, Intel Campus, SC12 building, 3600 Juliette Lane, Santa Clara, CA, United States
11 - 12 October, 2019
This by-invitation event wants to bring together FreeBSD developers and vendors to talk about common goals. We will determine things we have, need, and want from each other to improve FreeBSD. Talks about latest developments in companies and in FreeBSD will provide insights into future directions. The event is also a great opportunity for networking within the industry.Social links: Flickr, Blog Search.
September 2019
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EuroBSDcon 2019, Scandic Lillehammer Hotel, Lillehammer, Norway
19 - 22 September, 2019
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.Social links: Flickr, Blog Search.
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vBSDcon 2019, Hyatt Regency, Reston, United States
05 - 07 September, 2019
vBSDCon will bring together members of the BSD community for a series of roundtable discussions, educational sessions, best practice conversations and exclusive networking opportunities.Social links: Flickr, Blog Search.
August 2019
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Open Source Summit North America, San Diego, United States
21 - 23 August, 2019
Join over 2,000 developers, technologists, and industry experts in an exchange of ideas on the latest trends in open source and open collaboration, how to navigate the open source landscape, and how open source is shaping innovation. There will be a presentation on FreeBSD.Social links: Flickr, Blog Search.
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COSCUP 2019, Taipei, Taiwan
17 - 18 August, 2019
COSCUP is an annual conference held by Taiwanese Open Source community participants since 2006. FreeBSD will be well represented with both talks and a table to educate people about FreeBSD.Social links: Flickr, Blog Search.
July 2019
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OSCON 2019, Portland, United States
15 - 18 July, 2019
The FreeBSD Foundation will have a table in the expo hall to promote FreeBSD.Social links: Flickr, Blog Search.
June 2019
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Rootconf 2019, Bangalore, India
21 - 22 June, 2019
Join members of the FreeBSD community at Rootconf 2019! Rootconf is India’s most well-known conference on DevOps and IT infrastructure. Rootconf attracts systems and operations engineers, and decision-makers in IT to share real world knowledge about building reliable systems. Rootconf 2019 will focus on infrastructure security, cost optimization, and distributed systems.Social links: Flickr, Blog Search.
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Comcast Labs Connect 2nd Annual Open Source Conference, Hyatt Regency Denver, Denver, United States
20 June, 2019
Comcast Labs Connect in partnership with the Comcast Open Source Program Office is proud to announce the 2nd Annual Open Source Conference. This conference aims to connect open source developers, leaders, technologists, and community leaders to collaborate on the latest in open source innovation in the broadband, media, entertainment, and connected home space. This is an ideal forum for cross-collaboration between developers, operators, architects, leaders and others who are driving the technology forward.Social links: Flickr, Blog Search.
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Berlin FreeBSD DevSummit, Bally Wulff Games & Entertainment GmbH, Berlin, Germany
15 - 16 June, 2019
This devsummit will be run "un-conference" style, meaning that the agenda is made by the participants. People can give talks or form working groups around a topic of interest. Developers can invite guests by adding them to the wiki page. You do not have to have a commit bit to contribute to this event.Social links: Flickr, Blog Search.
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HKOSCON 2019, Convention Centre 2, Hong Kong Science Park, Shatin
14 - 15 June, 2019
Hong Kong Open Source Conference is one of the major open source conferences in Hong Kong since its first commencement in 2013, bringing an international crowd of developers, contributors, users, IT managers, and students. There will be a FreeBSD table and talk to promote FreeBSD.Social links: Flickr, Blog Search.
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Vienna Security Hackathon 2019, SBA Research, Vienna, Austria
8 - 9 June, 2019
This hackathon in Vienna is focused on security, but this is not a strict requirement. The basic idea is to get together with FreeBSD hackers to discuss and work directly on issues resolving as many as we can over the long weekend. Fixing bugs, writing code, adding features, improving the documentation, working on ports, and such are all welcome activities at the event. There is also a sightseeing tour planned on the Monday after.Social links: Flickr, Blog Search.
May 2019
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BSDday Argentina 2019, Departamento de Computacion de la Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales de la Universidad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina
29 - 30 May, 2019
The BSDday is an event where users, administrators and developers of operating systems of type BSD come together to share knowledge, talks, contacts and get to know each other. In the event lectures, debates, courses and installations of the systems will be exposed. The event is also a great entry for Linux users, Unix and other operating systems to the BSD world.Social links: Flickr, Blog Search.
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Waterloo Hackathon 2019, University of Waterloo, Kitchener-Waterloo, Canada
20 - 22 May, 2019
Join fellow FreeBSD developers for a few days of collaborative software development or hardware hacking in Kitchener-Waterloo, Ontario, after BSDCan.Social links: Flickr, Blog Search.
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BSDCan 2019, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada
15 - 18 May, 2019
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.Social links: Flickr, Blog Search.
April 2019
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Hackathon 201904, University of Aberdeen, Fraser Noble Building, Room 213, Aberdeen, United Kingdom
17 - 19 April, 2019
The Aberdeen hackathon is placed at the half way point between AsiaBSDCon and BSDCan to give ardent hackers something to fill their time. Deadline for registration is March 31st, 2019.Social links: Flickr, Blog Search.
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FreeBSD Community Day, B3 Consulting Group, K�mpegatan 6, Gothenburg, Sweden
07 April, 2019
The FreeBSD Community Day in Gothenburg is hosted in connection with the FOSS-north conference. It is a public event for users, developers, and anyone with an interest in FreeBSD, who wants to learn more about the project.Social links: Flickr, Blog Search.
March 2019
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AsiaBSDCon 2019, Tokyo University of Science, Tokyo, Japan
21 - 24 March, 2019
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, YouTube.
February 2019
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FOSDEM 2019, Free University of Brussels, Solbosch Campus, Brussels, Belgium
02 - 03 February, 2019
The Free and Open Source Software Developers' European Meeting (FOSDEM) is a free event for software hackers to meet, share ideas and collaborate. Every year 8000+ open source developers from all over the world gather at the event in Brussels, Belgium. During the FOSDEM, developer rooms (devrooms) are assigned to self organized open source groups and projects to meet together and showcase their projects; a BSD devroom will host talks about BSD operating systems and projects. If you want to submit a talk, see the CfP.Social links: Flickr, Blog Search.
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