$FreeBSD$ AsiaBSDCon 2013 http://2013.asiabsdcon.org/ 2013 3 14 2013 3 17 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 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. Central European BSD-Day 2013 http://bsdday.eu/2013 2013 4 6 2013 4 6 Italy Naples Institute of Biostructures and Bioimaging Watch out, another BSD-Day is rising: next April Beastie visits Naples to gather BSD people of Italy and Central Europe to meet up! This event is an excellent opportunity for BSD developers and enthusiasts to present their work to larger audiences, share their thoughts with their fellows and reach out for their potential partners. Traditionally, the event tries to avoid formalities as it does not require the speakers to submit papers or the attendees to register or pay an entry fee. However, the invited folks are encouraged to a give a brief talk on their favorite BSD topic. The goal is to motivate everybody, especially university students to see the benefits of our approach and take a chance on working with BSD systems. BSDCan 2013 http://www.bsdcan.org/ 2013 5 15 2013 5 18 Canada Ottawa University of Ottawa 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. EuroBSDcon 2013 http://2013.eurobsdcon.org/ 2013 9 26 2013 9 29 Malta TBA St. Julians's area We are happy to announce that the EuroBSDcon 2013 will be held on Saturday 28th and Sunday 29th of September 2013 (tutorials on Thursday 26th and Friday 27th) on Malta (St. Julian's area). The weather is great at about 26°C during the day and 20°C at night. The ocean is still warm from summer. Consider taking you family, wife, kids and spouse with you for a long weekend. The social event on Saturday evening will be a BBQ at a beautiful sandy beach. Family is invited too and children attend for free. A side program with sight seeing and a tour of the island is being organized at cost.