Open Source Technology US Conference Calendar

By , December 16, 2008 1:24 pm

One of the best ways to keep up with your field and network at the same time is to attend conferences. It’s one of the things I look forward to every year. After learning that O’Reilly has decided to commit blasphemy and *not* hold OSCON in Portland, Oregon the same week as the Oregon Brewers Festival, I was inspired to look around at what other conferences I might attend in 2009. Turns out, this is a huge pain in the ass, because I can’t find a single, central place that lists all of the conferences I’m likely to be interested in.

So… I created a public Google Calendar. It’s called “US Technical Conferences”. It needs more conferences, but I’ve listed the interesting ones I found. In order to keep the calendar from getting overwhelmingly crowded, I’ve decided that conferences on the list should:

  • Deal with open source technology in some way. This is purposely broad.
  • Be at least 3 days in length

If you want something added to the calendar, I’d be delighted to know about more conferences, so leave a comment! If you want to subscribe to the calendar, it’s public – the xml feed is here, and ical is here.

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  • http://heikkitoivonen.net/blog/ Heikki Toivonen

    You might want to check out a service a former colleague of mine created, called Conference Fanatic: http://conferencefanatic.com/

  • SeanH

    I agree entirely with this. Conferences and combined RSS feeds (such as the Planet Python one) are a great way to keep up to speed. I’m not aware of anything like this for Open Source specific conferences but the security community have a variety of places keeping track of events. A list of some of the better ones can be found in the this post and the responses

    http://lists.immunitysec.com/pipermail/dailydave/2008-September/005350.html

  • http://www.linkedin.com/in/carltrachte Carl T.

    Scale is in LA in the late winter (20 – 22 FEB):

    http://scale7x.socallinuxexpo.org/

    It probably conflicts with something, but for the budget minded Southwest/Socal crowd, it’s a pretty good deal.

  • http://www.garfieldtech.com/ Larry Garfield

    DrupalCon DC in March is all about open source, 4 days long (plus code sprint afterward), and should be totally awesome:

    http://dc2009.drupalcon.org/

  • m0j0

    I’ve added SCALE, and am adding DrupalCon DC right away. Thanks!

  • onegiddylemur

    no LinuxWorld? (now opensourceworld) http://www.opensourceworld.com

  • m0j0

    Added, even though LinuxWorld hasn’t been a cool conference to go to since like 2000. ;-)

  • onegiddylemur

    heh any suggestions?

  • m0j0

    Guess it depends on what you need to get out of it. Last time I went to linuxworld, it was overrun with suits, and didn’t really provide what I was looking for. I go to LISA every few years, and I went to OSCON until it moved back to CA in ’09. I’ve been to a few more specialized events (like SANS and PHP-con), but I guess it just depends on what your objective is.

  • http://conferences.oreilly.com Suzanne

    Hi, O’Reilly Media would love to see the two events below listed on your calendar, thanks. (And btw we *loved* having OSCON in Portland, but couldn’t keep it there forever!)

    MySQL Conference & Expo
    April 20-23, 2009 in Santa Clara, CA
    mysqlconf.com

    RailsConf
    May 4-7, 2009 in Las Vegas, NV
    railsconf.com

    Suzanne Axtell, O’Reilly Conferences team

  • m0j0

    Hi Suzanne,

    The MySQL conference is already on the calendar, it just links off to the MySQL site and not O’Reilly’s. I have added RailsConf, though.

    Any chance of any of these conferences *ever* making it to *anywhere* on the *east* coast?

    Thanks for checking in.

  • http://marclaporte.com Marc Laporte

    I have a relevant list here:
    http://dev.tikiwiki.org/Upcoming+Events

    And some other links as well

    M ;-)

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