Code & Compliance 2026 is a community event for open-source developers, project stewards, and industry stakeholders focused on software compliance, governance, and open-source security. The event will take place on January 29, 2026, in Brussels, Belgium. This gathering offers a platform for collaboration, sharing best practices, and discussing compliance challenges, an opportunity for the Open-Source community to strengthen trust, transparency, and long-term sustainability. 

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AsiaBSDCon is a conference for users and developers on BSD based systems. The next conference will be held in Taipei, Taiwan, in 19-22 March, 2026. 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. 

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SCaLE 23X – the 23rd annual Southern California Linux Expo – will take place March 5-8, 2026 in Pasadena, CA. 

SCaLE is the largest community-run open-source and free software conference in North America. It is held annually in the greater Los Angeles area. Find out more here.

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FOSDEM is a two-day event organized by volunteers to promote the widespread use of free and open source software. Taking place, January 31 & February 2026, FOSDEM offers open source and free software developers a place to meet, share ideas and collaborate. Renowned for being highly developer-oriented, the event brings together some 8000+ developers from all over the world. This year, there will also be a BSD Dev Room. 

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The FreeBSD developer summit takes place as part of the EuroBSDCon event. Many developers will arrive on the night before and meet for dinner and drinks before things kick off. Most developers will stay on through EuroBSDCon to give and attend talks or tutorials. It is an excellent conference–a good FreeBSD developer showing has countless benefits, not least the opportunity to tell the world what we’re doing.

Detailed Schedule will be updated as the event approaches, find more here.

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The thirteenth annual OpenZFS Developer Summit and the second annual OpenZFS User Summit will take place October 25–28, 2025 (Saturday–Tuesday) in Portland, Oregon, USA.

This year, the User Summit will explore a wide range of topics designed to support and connect the OpenZFS community. Topics will include:

• Storage LAN and WAN Networking for OpenZFS
• Mixed Operating System OpenZFS Environments
• Machine-readable and writable OpenZFS including JSON, SNMP, REST
• Security, Encryption, and MPAA TPN Compliance
• Channel Program Workflows
• Extreme OpenZFS including All-Flash, DRAID, Special Allocation Classes
• Candidate theme: Continuous Replication Brainstorming
• Candidate theme: User-space OpenZFS
• Candidate theme: OpenZFS DMU Object Storage

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Join us for the November 2025 FreeBSD Vendor Summit. The event will take place November 6-7, 2025.  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.

Register now to secure your spot.

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Open Source Summit North America, taking place June 23 -25, 2025, brings together open source developers, technologists, and community leaders to collaborate, share knowledge, and solve problems. It’s a place to connect with contributors and support the future of open source. Don’t miss FreeBSD Foundation Executive Director, Deb Goodkin and Alpha-Omega Technical Strategist, Michael Winser speaking  on Funding Security in Open Source: Insights in FreeBSD’s Audit Journey 

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Join us for the CHERI Blossoms Conference 2025, a premier event dedicated to advancing digital security by design. Bringingtogether researchers, technologists, industry leaders, and business strategists, this conference explores the transformative impact of CHERI (Capability Hardware Enhanced RISC Instructions) technology in building resilient systems. Now incorporating the CHERI Tech Conference, this expanded event offers in-depth discussions on the latest innovations, implementations, and strategic applications of secure computing.

Don’t miss this opportunity to connect with top experts shaping the future of cybersecurity.  

The Call for Papers will be open until March 14.  

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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.

This yearly conference gives the exceptional opportunity to learn about the latest news from the BSD world, witness contemporary deployment case studies, and meet personally other users and companies using BSD-oriented technologies. EuroBSDCon is also a boiler plate for ideas, discussions, and information exchange, which often turn into programming projects.

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