$FreeBSD$ FOSDEM 2019 https://fosdem.org/2019/ 2019 02 02 2019 02 03 Belgium Brussels Free University of Brussels, Solbosch Campus 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. AsiaBSDCon 2019 https://2019.asiabsdcon.org/ 2019 03 21 2019 03 24 Japan Tokyo Tokyo University of Science AsiaBSDCon is a conference for users and developers on BSD based systems. The conference is for anyone developing, deploying and using systems based on &os;, 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. FreeBSD Community Day https://wiki.freebsd.org/DevSummit/201904 2019 04 07 2019 04 07 Sweden Gothenburg B3 Consulting Group, Kämpegatan 6 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 &os;, who wants to learn more about the project. Hackathon 201904 https://wiki.freebsd.org/Hackathon/201904 2019 04 17 2019 04 19 United Kingdom Aberdeen University of Aberdeen, Fraser Noble Building, Room 213 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. BSDCan 2019 https://www.bsdcan.org/2019/ 2019 05 15 2019 05 18 Canada Ottawa University of Ottawa 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. Waterloo Hackathon 2019 https://wiki.freebsd.org/Hackathon/201905 2019 05 20 2019 05 22 Canada Kitchener-Waterloo University of Waterloo Join fellow FreeBSD developers for a few days of collaborative software development or hardware hacking in Kitchener-Waterloo, Ontario, after BSDCan. BSDday Argentina 2019 http://bsdday.com.ar/ 2019 05 29 2019 05 30 Argentina Buenos Aires Departamento de Computacion de la Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales de la Universidad de Buenos Aires 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. Vienna Security Hackathon 2019 https://wiki.freebsd.org/Hackathon/201906 2019 06 8 2019 06 9 Austria Vienna SBA Research This hackathon in Vienna is focused on security, but this is not a strict requirement. The basic idea is to get together with &os; 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. Berlin FreeBSD DevSummit https://wiki.freebsd.org/DevSummit/201906 2019 06 15 2019 06 16 Germany Berlin Bally Wulff Games & Entertainment GmbH 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 don't have to have a commit bit to contribute to this event. EuroBSDcon 2019 https://2019.eurobsdcon.org 2019 09 19 2019 09 22 Norway Lillehammer Scandic Lillehammer Hotel 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.