DebConf7/OtherConfs

Some conferences we might want to look at getting details for (note that I'm not claiming these are all FOSS conferences, just that there might be a crossover of interests from Debian attendees)

Known dates:

• OpenCon (OpenBSD): 2/3 December 2006, Venice (Italy)
• linux.conf.au: 15-20 January, Sydney (Australia)
• X.org: 7-9th February, Silicon Valley (USA)
• FOSDEM: 25-26 February according to site, but presumably actually the weekend?; Brussels (Belgium)
• AsiaBSDCon: 8-11 March, Tokyo (Japan)
• UKUUG Spring: 19-21st March, Manchester (UK)
• FISL: 12-14 April, Porto Alegre (Brazil)
• MySQL Users Conf: 23-26 April, Santa Clara (USA)
• 3rd Int'l Conf on Open Source Systems: 11-13 June, Limerick (Ireland)
• USENIX07: 17-22 June, Santa Clara (USA)
• YAPC (Perl, North America): June 25-27th Houston, Texas (USA)
• The International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks: June 25-28th, Edinburgh (UK)
• aKademy 2007 (KDE): June 30th-July 7th, Glasgow (UK)
• RMLL/LSM: 8-14 July, Amiens (France)
• EuroPython: 9-11 July, Vilnius (Lithuania)
• GUADEC: 15-21 July, Birmingham (UK)
• 9th Ottawa Linux Symposium July, 22-29
• O'Reilly OSCon: 23-27 July, Portland (USA)
• FrOSCon: August 25-26th (Germany)
• YAPCeu (Perl, Europe): 29-31 August, Vienna (Austria)
• Software Freedom Day: 15 September, Worldwide

Guessed dates:

• UKUUG Linux 2007: in 2006 was late June (UK)
• LinuxTag: in 2006 was in May (Germany)
• PostgreSQL: in 2006 was 8/9 July (Canada)
• Kernel summit: usually late June/early July just before OLS, 2007 probably in Sept, Cambridge (UK)
• EuroOSCon: in 2006 was September
• Linux Kongress: usually September/October (Germany)
• RubyConf: in 2006 was 20-22 October (USA)
• EuroBSDCon: in 2006 was November

Don't know:

• BSDCon
• Congreso Nacional de Software Libre (Venezuela) ending at July 2007. A brief poll will be carried in Debian Venezuela, expected results are: everyone wants Debconf :)
• Ubuntu summit?
• Anything for Gentoo/SuSE?

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