2019 | 2020

This page is about connecting people beyond borders and nations who understand the benefits of sharing knowledge and to collectively use, study, share and improve it for everyone.

You find a list of Free, Libre and/or Open Source Software (related) events happening in Europe in 2020 below, chronologically sorted into upcoming and passed. Unity in diversity!

If you know about an event that is not yet listed here and it matches the criteria, please contribute. For any questions get in contact.

Upcoming events in 2020

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October

Past events in 2020

January

About

This project shall help growing a free society. As long as inner-European borders can still be crossed and international events are possible, this page is here to encourage you to get to know and network with each other. Create international organisations, form resilient communities and build friendships with each other across borders. Go to a FOSS event in another country this year, an event where you have never been before. Get to know new people there, their habits, knowledge and backgrounds. Help each other and listen to each other. And above all do what you always love to do:

Use, study, share and improve. Together.

about: contribute

If you know of an event that matches our criteria [↓] and you do not see it mentioned in our list of events [↑], please contribute with an email. Easiest option is to simply copy-paste the URL of the event into the body section of your mail and after checking we will list it here. If you see that some information is missing on our side, use the same email-address and send us the missing information.

If you are an organiser or you have 5 minutes of time, it would be of such a great help to this project if you can use this advanced email-template and help us with collecting all necessary information about an event.

Thank you so much for your contribution!

about: criteria

// foss.events is all about collecting and spreading FOSS events in Europe. These are mainly conferences but can also be meetings, *-a-thons, camps, festival, exhibitions and other kind of events - as long as they match the following criteria:

• only events that happen in Europe.
• only events that are open for the general public. Entrance fee is ok, but events shall be accessible for everyone to participate and in particular not restricted to a specific group like the members of a specific group, organisation or similar.
• only "full-day" events. As a rule of thumb, that means events that are at least 6-8 hours or more.

If you know about Free, Libre and/or Open Source Software event in Europe that matches this criteria and is not yet in our list, please contribute [↑]

about: features

This page is work in progress. It is build from scratch and shall become a database-driven web-project for and by the FOSS community to help connecting people. If you are interested in sharing knowlege or improving something get in contact or open an issue on github. Also pass by once in a while on this page to enjoy the newest features : )

about: contact

Whenever you feel like giving us your feedback, you have a good idea or you want to give us a digital hug, you can simply send us an email. Also consider following us on Mastodon or Twitter to enjoy our toots and tweets around foss-events in Europe.

about: people

// foss.events is a project for and by all FOSS enthusiasts and everyone else who seeks living in a Free Society. In its daily operations it is run by some friendly Free Software geeks who simply feel like doing what we feel to be good. No commercial interest involved. Project lead is Erik Albers, technical lead is Michael Weimann.

The domain foss.events was initially registered and run by OpenRheinRuhr e.V. and later generously shared with // foss.events. Thank you so much for this priceless contribution!

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