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A Linux conference is a computer conference for people interested in Linux, BSD, free software and open-source software.

List of Linux conferences

Notable grassroots Linux conferences include:

North America

• Calgary LinuxFest held in Calgary, Canada in October
• Florida Linux Show, held in Orlando, Florida in October
• Free Software and Open Source Symposium (FSOSS), held at Seneca College, Toronto each October
• GCC Summit held in Ottawa, Canada
• Linuxfest Northwest, held in Bellingham, Washington (80 miles north of Seattle) in the spring
• O'Reilly Open Source Convention, held each summer in the US
• Ohio LinuxFest, held in Ohio
• Ontario Linux Fest, held in Toronto, Ontario in the autumn
• Linux Symposium, held in Canada in June or July
• Southern California Linux Expo is held in Los Angeles, CA each February
• USENIX Annual Technical Conference June
• Linux Plumbers Conference in Portland, Oregon in September
• SouthEast LinuxFest (SELF) is held in June. ^[1]
• Atlanta LinuxFest September

Europe

• FOSDEM, held in Brussels, Belgium every February
• Linux Bier Wanderung, held in a different European country every summer
• Linux Days Luxembourg, held in Luxembourg every February
• Linux Kongress, held in Germany in the autumn
• LinuxTag, held in Germany every summer
• Open Source Days, held in Denmark every autumn
• Linux Vacation / Eastern Europe held in Belarus every summer

Asia, Australia and Oceania

• linux.conf.au, held in Australia or New Zealand in the summer
• FOSS.IN
• Freed.in
• OSDC

International

• Gelato ICE, held each year in the US or Italy by the Gelato Federation
• DebConf
• Desktop Developers' Conference
• Linux Kernel Developers Summit
• FISL - Free Software International Forum, held each year in Porto Alegre, Brazil (7000+ participants)

Commercial conferences

Notable commercial Linux conferences include:

• OpenSource World (formerly LinuxWorld Conference and Expo), Brazil / Canada / Beijing, China / Guangzhou, China / Shanghai, China / Germany / Italy / Japan / Korea / Malaysia / Mexico / Poland / Russia / Singapore / South Africa / Spain / Sweden / The Netherlands / United Kingdom / Boston, USA / San Francisco, USA
• Open Source India Week, formerly known as "LinuxAsia Conference and Expo", held in India
• Open Source Business Conference (OSBC) held in the US every spring
• Open Source in Mobile, held in a different European country every September

See also

Category:Linux conferences

References

External links

• LWN.net - has an "Announcements" section that lists upcoming Linux conferences
• http://www.linux-events.de - continuously updated list of Linux and Open Source conferences