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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 freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org, so they can be included.

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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:

November 2012

  • BSDday Argentina 2012, Universidad Tecnologica Nacional, Buenos Aires City, Argentina
    17 November, 2012
    BSDday Argentina is a conference for users, sysadmins and developers of BSD software and based systems. The conference is for anyone developing, deploying and using systems based on FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, DragonFlyBSD and others *BSD. BSDday Argentina 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.

  • meetBSD California 2012, Yahoo! Inc., Sunnyvale, California, United States
    3 - 4 November, 2012
    MeetBSD California 2012 promises to be an experience unlike any other. MeetBSD California is no normal conference - it's a meeting of the minds from all over the BSD community. MeetBSD California 2012 will feature community-scheduled break-out sessions, discussions groups, and 5-10 minute "lightning talks," as well as longer talks from seasoned BSD experts.

    Social links: Flickr, Blog Search, YouTube.

October 2012

  • EuroBSDCon 2012, Warsaw, Poland
    18 - 21 October, 2012
    EuroBSDcon is the European technical conference for people working on and with BSD based operating systems and related projects. EuroBSDcon 2012 is the 11th EuroBSDcon and will take place in Poland, 20-21 October 2012 (tutorials 18-19 October) in Warsaw. EuroBSDcon is a great and unique time to learn more about the powerful BSD systems we use everyday and to connect with other developers around the world.

    Social links: Flickr, Blog Search.

September 2012

  • KyivBSD 2012, Kyiv, Ukraine
    29 September, 2012
    The fourth KyivBSD conference will take place in Kyiv, Ukraine. The main goal of this conference: make the community grow faster, uptimes longer and users happier. This year there will be discussion about embedding BSD systems, tutorial about poudriere and pkgng, insight into mpd5, and few more technical subjects.

    Social links: Flickr, Blog Search.

June 2012

  • Solutions Linux 2012, CNIT La Défense, Paris, France
    19 - 21 June, 2012
    A 3 days event to promote GNU/Linux and Open Source Software to companies. As usual, a French FreeBSD User Group will be there to promote FreeBSD. The access to the event is free of charge.

    Social links: Flickr, Blog Search.

May 2012

  • BSDCan 2012, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada
    9 - 12 May, 2012
    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.

  • BSDDay.eu/2012, UAS Technikum Wien, Vienna, Austria
    5 May, 2012
    This year Beastie joins Tux on his tour in Vienna in May: another "DanuBSDCon" is coming to gather Central-European BSD people to meet! The event features several BSD developers and enthusiasts to tell about their work, communicate with their fellows and reach their potential future partners. As usual, there are no formalities, papers, registration or participation fee, however the invited folks are encouraged to give a brief talk about their favorite BSD-related topic. The goal is to motivate everybody, especially university students to work with BSD systems.

    Social links: Flickr, Blog Search.

March 2012

  • AsiaBSDCon 2012, Morito Memorial Hall, Tokyo University of Science, Tokyo, Japan
    22 - 25 March, 2012
    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.

  • Chemnitz Linux Days 2012, Chemnitz University of Technology, Chemnitz, Germany
    17 - 18 March, 2012
    Chemnitz Linux Days is a conference that deals with Linux and Open Source software. It is open for everyone - newbies and experts alike. This event is organized by IN Chemnitz, CLUG, computing centre and Faculty of Computer Science of Chemnitz University of Technology and many volunteers. Pick up your schedule and make a big mark around March 17 and 18. You won't regret it.

    Social links: Flickr, Blog Search.

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