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Open Source Experience Paris 2026, Porte de Versailles, Paris, France 09 - 10 December, 2026 Open Source Experience (OSXP) is an event held annually in Paris and dedicated to enterprise Open Source IT solutions. The event also host booths for Open Source projects and initiatives. A FreeBSD booth will be organized by a group of contributors and users.
November 2026 FreeBSD Vendor Summit, NetApp Campus, San Jose, CA, United States 05 - 06 November, 2026 The Summit provides commercial FreeBSD users with the unique opportunity to meet face-to-face with developers and contributors to get features requested, problems solved, and needs met. It also opens up discussion on improving and enhancing the operating system.
EuroBSDCon 2026, VUB Main Campus in Etterbeek, Brussels, Belgium 09 - 13 September, 2026 EuroBSDCon is the international annual technical conference held in a different European country each year. It focuses on gathering users and developers working on and with 4.4BSD (Berkeley Software Distribution) based operating systems family and related projects.
BSDCan 2026, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada 17 - 20 June, 2026 BSDCan is the definitive BSD event in North America and welcomes BSD Unix developers, administrators, and users of every level of experience. Get direct access to the friendly people who make the Internet run smoothly and develop your favorite modern products and services. Whether you are shy or outgoing, we welcome you!
BSD-NL 2026, Brouwerij Maximus, Utrecht, The Netherlands 09 - 09 May, 2026 BSD-NL is all about bringing like-minded people together, whether you’re a hobbyist, enthusiast, expert, developer, network or system administrator. Everyone is welcome! Meeting once, or twice a year, at EuroBSDCon, BSDCan or AsiaBSDCon isn’t enough! So we decided to start BSD-NL, The BSD Community in The Netherlands. For all your *BSD needs, either it be FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, DragonFlyBSD, HardenedBSD, SecBSD or any other *BSD.
AsiaBSDCon 2026, National Taiwan Normal University (NTNU), Taipei, Taiwan 19 - 22 March, 2026 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.
FOSDEM 2026, ULB, Brussels, Belgium 31 - 01 February, 2026 Every year, 8000+ hackers in free and open source software from all over the world gather at the event in Brussels. A BSD, illumos, OpenZFS, bhyve devroom is organized for presentations covering BSD and illumos operating system family, OpenZFS and bhyve. The Call For Participation is now available.
Open Source Experience Paris 2025, Cité des Sciences, Paris, France 10 - 11 December, 2025 Open Source Experience (OSXP) is an event held annually in Paris and dedicated to enterprise Open Source IT solutions. The event also host booths for Open Source projects and initiatives. A FreeBSD booth will be organized by a group of contributors and users.
Fall 2025 FreeBSD Summit, NetApp Campus, San Jose, CA, United States 06 - 07 November, 2025 The FreeBSD Summit is an event held annually to bring the FreeBSD community together to learn, network, and drive FreeBSD use. Each year the event gathers FreeBSD users including: decision makers, software engineers, and individual contributors and users, to share best practices and successes in their use of FreeBSD. The FreeBSD Summit also provides the unique opportunity to discuss issues with the developer community in-person.
OpenZFS Developers Summit 2025, Hillsdale neighborhood, Portland, OR, United States 25 - 28 October, 2025 The goal of the event is to foster cross-community discussions of OpenZFS work and to make progress on some of the projects we have proposed. This 4-day event consisted of 2-day of User Summit, 1-day of Developer Summit, and a 1-day Developer Summit Hackathon.
EuroBSDcon 2025, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing (FER), Zagreb, Croatia 25 - 28 September, 2025 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.
BSDCan 2025, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada 11 - 14 June, 2025 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.
BSD-NL 2025, Brouwerij Maximus, Pratumplaats 2A, 3454 NA Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands 12 - 12 April, 2025 Whoohoo! It’s time for our third conference, held at the Maximus Brewery in Utrecht. There will be talks, hacking, slacking, beer and food.
FOSDEM 2025, ULB, Brussels, Belgium 01 - 02 February, 2025 Every year, thousands of developers of free and open source software from all over the world gather at the event in Brussels. A BSD devroom is organized for presentations covering BSD operating system family, the Call For Participation is now available.
Fall 2024 FreeBSD Summit, NetApp Campus, San Jose, CA, United States 07 - 08 November, 2024 The FreeBSD Summit is an event held annually to bring the FreeBSD community together to learn, network, and drive FreeBSD use. Each year the event gathers FreeBSD users including: decision makers, software engineers, and individual contributors and users, to share best practices and successes in their use of FreeBSD. The FreeBSD Summit also provides the unique opportunity to discuss issues with the developer community in-person.
EuroBSDcon 2024, UCD O’Reilly Hall, Dublin, Ireland 19 - 22 September, 2024 EuroBSDcon is the European annual tec