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Open Source ERP solutions
An informative event on Open Source ERP solutions will be organised in Brussels by Profoss, a Belgian association encouraging the use of Free and Open Source technologies in professional environments. The event will take place on 18 November and 2 December.
Berlin Open 2009 - Knowledge, Networking, Innovation
This two days conference in Berlin will focus on the role that Open Source Systems plays in future scientific development. The conference programme will concentrate on the progress reached in the the domain of Geographical Information Systems (GIS), geo-portal news and geo-information generation. Particular attention will be paid to the impact these alternative systems will have on privacy and data protection laws.
Third Secure Linux Administration Conference in Magdeburg
The third Secure Linux Administration Conference (SLAC) is a practical training on current developments in the Linux server administration targeting experienced professional administrators.
Geospatial opensource tools and freely available spatial data for local governments
The 'Hunagi conference on Geospatial opensource tools and freely available spatial data in use by local governments' is to take place in Budapest, Hungary in late February. For updates on the program, see the website below.
YAPC EU 2009
The tenth edition of the "Yet Another Perl Conference" will be held in in the Faculty of Sciences, University of Lisbon, Portugal, from 3 to 5 August 2009.
AMOOCON 2009
2009 edition of the AMOOCON conference will focus on open source VoIP and communications. This two days bilingual (DE - EN) event will be composed of conference sessions and tutorials.
The Power of Procurement
A two day conference on the impact of Information and Communications Technology (ICT) procurement decisions in policy and business processes.
Open Source Mediterranean Day
Jointly organised by the Linux Azur association, the École Polytech'Nice Sophia and the European Smalltalk User Group (ESUG), the third edition of the Open Source Mediterranean Day will propose conferences, workshops, install party and stands.
Launch of Plonegov Italy
The Italian chapter of Plonegov, an international project to develop Open Source e-government applications using the Plone Open Source content management system, will mark its launch with a one day conference in Ferrara.
Forum Open Sweden 09
The conference aims at providing a platform for elected representatives, policy makers, business developers, developers and suppliers interested in open source software and open standards in the public sector.
Archaeo Foss 2009
The fourth edition of the Italian workshop on free software, open source and open formats in archeological research will be held in Rome.
eLiberatica 2009
The third edition of eLiberatica aims at developing and promoting free software, open source and the Digital Civil Society movement, as a step stone towards the creation of related business models in Romania and Europe. A speaker from the OSOR.eu team will participate in this event.
Dublin ubuntu bug jam
During this one day event, the Irish ubuntu community will meet in Dublin to share experiences.
OASIS eGovernment Webinar
A thirty minutes webinar providing advice and guidance for the use of free, libre and open source software (FLOSS) by governments will take place on 3 December. The webinar will start at 5pm (GMT+1).
Iberic Web Application Security conference (Ibwas09)
The Iberic Web Application Security conference aims to bring together application security experts, researchers, educators and practitioners from the industry, academia and international communities, in order to discuss open problems and new solutions in application security. In the context of this track academic researchers will be able to combine interesting results with the experience of practitioners and software engineers.
Seventh Portuguese open source meeting
Three main topics will be covered during this year edition of the meeting: integration and interoperability, the financial crisis as an opportunity for open source development, and the global success of Netbooks.
"The Power of Communities" - IDABC Open Source event 2009
On 2 October 2009, the European Commission, Directorate General for Informatics will organise the IDABC Open Source Event 2009: The Power of Communities. The event is part of the Open World Forum taking place in Paris, on 1-2 October 2009. Attendees of the main event will have an opportunity to participate in a worldwide initiative bringing together Open Source players and decision-makers from 5 continents; explore the future of FLOSS, with Innovation Awards, Trends Radars, and recommendations around a unique forward-looking initiative: the 2020 FLOSS RoadMap; share insights and best practices with many of the most respected Open Source experts and entrepreneurs worldwide; and network with 1,500 CxOs, CIOs, IT Managers, architects, developers, academics and investors from more than 20 countries.
Second Open Source GIS UK Conference
The Open Source GIS conference aims to bring together speakers and delegates from government, academe, industry and open source communities.
Encontro Nacional de OpenSuse / National OpenSuse Meeting
The Portuguese OpenSuse community and the Porto GNU/Linux user group hope the Encontro Nacional de OpenSuse (ENSO) will provide an opportunity for Portuguese users of the OpenSuse GNU/Linux distribution to get together, participate in development community events and get updated on the latest OpenSuse developments.
European Open Source Lawyers Event
A conference exclusively dedicated to the legal analysis of the GPLv3, taking place during the Paris Capital du Libre conference in September.
Open source project meeting
For the second time this year, Mozilla and OpenOffice.org groups are organising a one-day event in Munchen. The aim of this one-day meeting is to provide developers and users of free software with an informal occasion to meet and share ideas, opinions, and feedback on open source software and projects. Participation is completely free of charge.
IT-architecture conference
The Danish Ministry of Science invites all interested companies and organizations to the sixth edition of the IT-Archiutecture. The main audience is composed of heads of state, regions and municipalities, IT managers, project managers, architects, strategists, business analysts, webmasters, IT security officers and software developers.
Free software at Lille's braderie
For the fourth consecutive year, Chtinux will attend the Braderie of Lille, the biggest European flea market. As in 2008, people will have the opportunity to visit the village of free software.
Fall Conference 2009: the Open Web
This year edition of the association of professional open systems and open standards users in the Netherlands (Nluug)'s Fall Conference of will focus on Open Web.
Open the source
This one-day workshop will focus on the opportunities that open source applications offer to public institutions, the industry and the academia. Particular attention will be paid to concrete cases.
German OpenOffice.org conference on economic management
The first German OpenOffice.org conference dedicated to public administration will be held in the thermal city of Wiesbaden, Germany, on 6 and 7 October 2009. The target of the event is mainly composed of decision makers from the institutional and business sectors. The conference is organised by OpenOffice.org Deutschland eV.
European OpenSource & Free Software Law Event (EOLE) 2009
The European OpenSource & Free Software Law Event (EOLE) aims to promote the sharing and dissemination of legal knowledge on open source licenses, as well as the development and promotion of good practice. The scientific orientation led to pay particular attention to the delivery of qualitative information on a neutral and non-partisan basis.
GeoGebra Conference 2009
The first international GeoGebra conference will provide researchers, developers, and teachers with an occasion to meet and discuss about their experiences and ideas concerning GeoGebra. The main goal of this two days conference is to to find out the direction and vision the GeoGebra community should take in the future.
2009 International ILIAS Conference
The eight edition of the international ILIAS conference will be hosted by the Dennis Gabor Applied University (DGAU) for applied sciences. The main topics of the conference are: best practice for using ILIAS in e-learning, content creation and re-use, incl. SCORM and eLAIX, quality management, and online assessment.
CLOUD Expo Europe 2009
From 20 to 21 May 2009, the Barbican Center in London will host the CLOUD Computing Expo.
Open Bravo World Conference
This three days event aims to bring together members from all over the world to share and fuel the growth of the professional open source space and of Openbravo ERP technology.
Nordic Perl Workshop 2009
The topic of this two days event will be "Your future with Perl" and a particular focus will be put on Perl 6, Rakudo and Parrot. Participants could also discover additional and more modern ways of using Perl 5. The event will be co-located with the GO Open 2009 conference.
UKUUG Tutorial on Request Tracker
This one day event will provide a general training on Request Tracker (RT), an enterprise-grade ticketing system written in object-oriented Perl, which enables a group of people to manage tasks, issues, and requests submitted by a community of users. The RT platform has been under development since 1996, and is used by systems administrators, customer support staffs, IT managers, developers and marketing departments at thousands of sites around the world.
Maltese World Plone Day
On 22 April 2009, the Chamber of Commerce and Enterprise in Valletta will host the first Maltese event dedicated to Plone, one of the biggest open source projects worldwide. Plone has been developed since 2001 by two hundreds core developers and three hundreds solution providers in 57 countries. This open source software is available in more than forty languages and it could be used with all major operating systems.
10th Libre Software Meeting
The tenth edition of the "Libre Software Meeting" will take place in Nantes, from 7th to 11th July 2009. Under the title "Nantes 2009 : Rendez-vous Libres !", this edition focuses on software migration and change management towards free software. The aim of the event is to show visitors how to profit from open source software and applications in different domains.
OpenOffice.org Conference 2009
2009 edition of the OpenOffice.org Conference (OOoCon 2009) will take place in Orvieto, Italy, from 3 to 5 November 2009. A member of the OSOr.eu team will attend this event.
Admira Salón 2009
The Admira Salón is a three-days event where companies will present products and services that could be applied to the Spanish public administration, in order to make it more modern and efficient.
Open Tech 2009
The third edition of Open Tech is an informal, low cost, one-day conference on slightly different approaches to technology, democracy and community.
UKUUG Spring 2009 Conference
UKUUG's annual Large Installation Systems Administration (LISA) conference targets system and network administrators and aims to offer a platform for productive debates and networking.
Free Society conference 2009
The third edition of FSCONS aims to bridge the gap between free software and cultural freedom, bringing together the different movements working for digital freedom.
Linux Day 09
This one day event aims to provide Linux users, administrators and software developers, with an occasion to be informed on last Linux news and to strength their networks.
Akademy 2010
2010 edition of Akademy, the annual developer conference of the open source desktop environment project KDE, will be held in the city of Tampere, Finland. KDE is one of the leading open source desktop projects, known by the majority of Linux users. Akademy will take place the first week of July 2010. The conference will be organized by COSS, the Finnish Centre for Open Source Solutions.
Portuguese meeting on free software for Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
The second edition of the Portuguese meeting on free software for GIS will take place at the University of Évora, from 2 to4 November. The conference will focus on the ways open source software for GIS are implemented in various sectors, such as the Public Administration, different types of organisations, the academia, etc. The event also aims to enhance the development and use of existing technologies and GIS programs by organising various wokshops.
Hack.lu
Hack.lu is an open convention where people can discuss about computer security, privacy, information technology and their cultural and technical implication on society. The aim of the convention is to crate a bridge connecting different actors of the computer security sector.
JoomlaDay Italia 2009
The second annual meeting of the Italian Joomla community will take place in Rome, on 21 November 2009. This one day event is open to Joomla users, as well as to all those people interested in learning more about this free and open source content management system.
Eclipse-IT 2009
The fourth yearly meeting of the Eclipse Italian community, which includes universities, industries, researchers, practitioners, students and professionals is organised by the University of Bergamo, Italy. The meeting provides participants with an occasion to share ideas and knowledge on the Eclipse platform and to extend and supporting its applications.
Talend open studio discovery roadshow
The Talend Roadshow is a series of free technical workshops which are taking place in different cities through Europe. In a three hour session participants will receive complimentary training in Talend Open Studio, which is available under GPL2 licence.
Linux 2008 - Conference and Tutorials
Linux 2008 will take place at the Manchester Conference Centre, part of the University of Manchester, from Friday 7 to Sunday 9 November. The organisers expect the talks and discussions to cover a variety of subjects, including kernel and desktop development, tools, applications, networking and security.
eParticipation Conference
The projects co-funded by the European Commission under the eParticipation Preparatory Action are organising an eParticipation Conference, which will be held at the European Parliament, in Brussels. The aim of the conference is to inform citizens about what the European institutions do to diminish the democratic deficit in the European Union and to involve the citizens into decision-making processes.
Opendatacampparis1
This one-day BarCamp will focus on availability and use of public administration data in France, in Europe and in the United States. Participants are requested to present case studies and demonstrations.
Bug squashing party
From 22 to 24 January 2010, Debian developers from different countries will meet at the German Open Source Support Center in Mönchengladbach for a three days event, which aims to celebrate the elimination of remaining bugs.
Friprog open debate
A Friprog open debate will be held on 12th October at the House of Literature in Oslo. The title of the debate, led by Torgeir Waterhouse from ICT-Norway, is "Er det penger i noe som er gratis?" (Are there funds available somewhere?).
Open source community day 2009
Open source day is one of the largest conference on open source in Denmark. The event focuses on Linux, Berkeley Software Distribution, Apache, and Samba. The event aims to provide participants with a platform to exchange knowledge and learn more on last open source developments and applications. The event is open to system administrators, programmers ans users of Linux, Unix or Berkeley Software Distribution.
Hands-on Labs in Schoten
A series of workshops on various open source-related topics will be held in the Belgian city of Schoten, on 13th November 2009. The workshops, jointly organised by the Municipality of Schoten and the local Royal High School, will focus on the growing importance of open source applications for both organisations and companies.
Linuxerie: les jeudis du libre
Nîmes open source community meets every second Thursday for a convivial event. The aim of these meetings is to offer participants an occasion to learn more about open source software and to share experiences, ideas and points of view on open source-related issues.
OpenDocument format plugfest
The second OpenDocument format (ODF) plugfest will take place in Orvieto, Italy, on 2-3 November 2009. This two-day ODF interoperability workshop aims to bring together the key vendors and organisations implementing open document format, in order to achieve full seamless interoperability for the entire feature set of ODF across all suppliers, platforms and supported technologies.
Solutions Linux 2010
The programme of this three-day event, which is expecting more than 220 exhibitors and 10.000 visitors, will also consist of conferences on different topics related to open source. The panel of speakers will be composed of French and international open source experts.
Conference on free and open source software for geo-information systems
FOSSGIS-Konferenz (Freie und Open Source Software für Geoinformationssysteme) will take place in the German city of Osnabrück in early March. Topics include uses of open source GIS applications by public administrations in Sweden, Switzerland and Germany.
Linux Conference Portoroz, Slovenia
One of the biggest conferences on Linux in Slovenia, according to the organisers, 'Linux Konferenca 2010', is scheduled for 27 and 28 September, in Portoroz.
FSCONS 2008
This year's Fcons, Free Society Conference and Nordic Summit, is taking place at the IT-university in the city of Gothenburg, Sweden. The organisers promise a wide range of lectures and events, covering kernel design, citizen journalism and licensing in the 21st century.
European Telecommunicatins Standards Institute 2010 security workshop
This annual workshop on security standardisation will bring together international standards developing organisations (SDOs) and security experts to discuss recent developments, share knowledge, identify gaps and co-ordinate on future actions and work areas. The workshop will include overviews of the work being done in the area of security across standards and technical bodies, along with presentations from major organisations involved in security initiatives.
Electronic transactions broadcast industry conference
This conference will deal with on open source standards for HR management, with a focus on flexible and temporary employment. Particular attention will be paid to open standards applied to time sheets, invoices and quotes.
Embedded and mobile use of GNU/Linux
GNU/Linux is increasingly being used in mobile equipment. On Thursday November 6 and 7 two conferences are jointly taking place on this topic in the city of Ede, the Netherlands.
Boat trip for Porvoo Linux User Group tenth anniversary
The Porvoo and Helsinki GNU/Linux User Group (PLUG), is celebrating its 10th Anniversary on Saturday 6 March, with a boat trip between Helsinki, Finland and Tallinn, Estonia.
Open Source Data Center Conference
A two day conference offering international IT experts the chance to meet and discuss, to learn about and to share their expertise on Open Source solutions for large IT infrastructures.
GoOpen 2009
The Go Open conference is a two-day event for decision makers from the public sector in Norway, IT-professionals and students. The conference is meant to increase the use of open source in the public sector, to help Norwegian and international vendors of open source and open standards software in gaining a market for their products and to encourage developers and investors to business opportunities.
Annual Debian Conference
The DebConf is dedicated to the Debian GNU/Linux, an open source operating system created and maintained by volunteers from all over the world. The ninth edition will be sponsored by the Spanish region of Extremadura.
Third Trieste gvSIG user group meeting
The third Trieste gvSIG user meeting, taking place in April in Trieste, Italy. The conference is organised by the Forest department of the regions of Trieste and Gorizia, the Department of Life Sciences of the University of Trieste, the City of San Dorligo della Valle - Dolina Občina and by the Slovenian Forestry department.
Augsburg Linux Info Day 2010
This one day event, which will take place in the premises of the University of Augsburg, aims to give new insight into the possible applications of open source software and present the latest developments.
Qt developers days 2009
Qt is one of the fastest growing development frameworks in the world, with hundreds of thousands of developers. Leading companies such as Alcatel-Lucent, AMD, Google, Oracle, Samsung, and Siemens use Qt to deliver applications across platforms. Qt developer days is the largest Qt-specific event that aims to provide participants with a chance to improve their Qt development skills, identify new technology and business opportunities, and network with other members of the Qt community.
International workshop on e-Health in emerging economies
This three-days event will bring together NGOs and members from the academia, governments, churches and the industry, in order to share experiences and find ways to improve the lives of millions of human beings in the developing world. Attention will be paid to open source tools to be used to improve health and education conditions.
Linux Kongress 2010
The seventeenth edition of the Linux Kongress will take place in Nuremberg (Nürnberg), Germany in September this year. The organisers, the German Unix User Group (GUUG), describe this conference as one of the most traditional Linux conferences, focussing on development and cutting edge topics.
European Postgresl Developers Day 2008
Developers of the Open Source relational database management system Postgres are holding their first European conference on 17 and 18 October in the city of Prato, Italy.
4th International Conference on Geographic Information Systems
The 4th International Conference on Geographic Information Systems (GIS) will be organised by the Government of Valencia on 3-5 December 2008. The conference aims to demonstrate that the integration of Open Source technologies could offer professional solutions in the fields of GIS and Spatial Data Infrastructure.
Open Source ERP solutions
A conference on Open Source ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) will take place in Brussels on 18 November and 2 December.
Second International OpenDocument Format workshop
The second International OpenDocument Format (ODF) User Workshop is being held in the city of Pretoria, South Africa on October 9 and 10.
Conference on Open Government
A one day conference on how the Internet is changing the role of the Government is taking place in the city of The Hague, The Netherlands, on October 9.
FOSS4G "Open Source Geospatial Software" in Barcelona
FOSS4G is a conference on open source Geospatial software, to be held in Barcelona, Spain. The organisers aim to offer developers and users a place to show off their latest software and projects on Geographic Information Systems (GIS).
Cloud computing in the government
This one-day conference will focus on cloud computing applications in the Danish public sector. Experts in the field will present the benefits and the challenges associated with the use of cloud computing.
UKUUG DNS Tutorial
This one day tutorial is intended for Domaine Name Server (DNS) administrators who wish to extend their understanding of how to configure and manage name servers running BIND9. Participants should already have some experience of configuring and running a name server and be familiar with DNS jargon, resource records as well as the syntax of zone files and named.conf.
Setting standards in Delft
Setting standards is a simulation exercise on strategy and cooperation in standardisation organised by the Delft University of Technology and United Knowledge. The training will focus on both scope and content. Experts from sciences, business sector, government and standards organisations are expected to attend this one-day training.
Mozilla classes at the University of Évry
From 19 to 23 October, the University of Évry will held a week of classes especially dedicated to Mozilla, under the title "Course on Mozilla education and Technologies @ Evry". This project, jointly organised with Mozilla Europe et Mozilla Education, is the launching event of a new University module entirely dedicated to Mozilla technologies. Mozilla instructors and professors will provide studenst with practical and theoretical skills.
UKGovOSS.org London conference
The second national UK conference on open source in the public sector will take place in London, on 25 November 2009. The programme of this one-day event will consist of presentations and case studies showing successful applications of open source software in the public sector.
Linux and open source day 2009
The seventh edition of the Linux and open source day organised by the German city of Kiel will focus on professional and private applications of open source software. The first day will present various Linux and open source solutions applied in the business sector and in the field of public administration. The second day will focus on private applications and community projects. Participants will also have the opportunity to visit an exhibition on Linux and other opens source software.
Fourth free geographic information system days
From 10 to 12 March 2010, the fourth consecutive edition of the free GIS (Geographic information system) days will be organised by the University of Girona, Spain. The programme of the first day will consist of different workshops, while the second and third day will be dedicated to conferences, debates and presentations.
Open afternoon event
The Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs is organising an afternoon meeting to present the results of the annual study on governmental implementation of open source software and standards.
Med@Tel
The 8th annual Med-e-Tel conference (14-16 April 2010) will include a track that is dedicated specifically to Free/Libre Open Source Software in Health Care (FLOSS-HC).
Italian Conference on Free Software 2009 (CONFSL09)
The third edition of the Italian Conference on Free Software will take place in Bologna on 12th and 13th June 2009. The aim of this two days event is to review free software's state of the art in Italy. The target of this event is mainly composed of free software developpers and promoters, public administrations, private users and associations.
Red Hat Symposium (Open source day)
An "Open Source Day" organised by red Hat Italia will take place in Rome, on 9th of June. This one day conference will provide extensive insights on Red Hat services and open source technologies.
CERN workshop on Innovations in Scholarly Communication
This three days event will take place at the University of Geneva, Switzerland. Its target is mostly composed of open access and repositories developpers, research information policy developers at university or library level, open access publishers, and influential researchers who want to develop open access in their own field. Previous workshops have built a strong community spirit and the event is a unique opportunity to exchange ideas and contact details with the wide range of people connected to the OA movement. The OAI series of workshops is one of the biggest international meetings in this field and takes place roughly every two years.
Open source meets business 2010
This edition of "open source meets business" will focus on the gain of open source software and how to make it happen. The event is open to decision makers, leading IT industry players, and heads of the open source community.
Open source meeting in Munich
On 24 July, the first of a series of events focusing on open source will be held in Munich. The aim of these events is to offer open source developers and users an occasion to meet and debate on open source topics, such as: how to contribute to an open source project and how open source projects' are funded.
GFOSS DAY 2009
The second edition of the Italian Conference on Geospatial Free and Open Source Software (GFOSS) will be held in Bolzano, Italy, on 11 and 12 November 2009. The conference will take place at TIS Innovation Park. The aim of this two days event is to report on the state of the art of Geospatial Free and Open Source Software in Italy, with particular emphasis on its commercial applications.
Conference on free and open source software for geoinformation systems
The 2009 edition of the FOSSGIS Conference will include presentations and workshops focusing on free and open source software for geoinformation systems.
Open Source Hands On Camp
A two days workshop, organised by the regional public agency "Sardegna Ricerche", aimed at companies and public administration. Organisers will show how to install and use some of the most common Open Source applications.
Saarland's IT industry event
The first Saarland IT industry event will take place in the Congress Hall in Saarbrücken, on 18 September 2009. The event aims to offer visitors a comprehensive overview of current IT trends and of the know-how of the Saarland's IT industry. More than fourty exhibitors will present new business solutions (standard software, individual software, open source software), Internet technologies, network and information security systems.
GUADEC 2010
GUADEC, the annual GNOME conference, will be held in The Hague, Netherlands from the 24th through the 30th of July 2010. The conference is expected to draw more than five hundred attendees to discuss and direct the future of the GNOME Project. GUADEC will draw members of the GNOME development and user community, as well as many participants in the overall FLOSS community from local projects, organizations, and companies.
Dev'Days VideoLAN 2009
The Dev'Days VideoLAN event aims to bring together developers of various VideoLAN projects, such as: VLC, dvblast, vlma, EIP, and VLMC. Particular attention will be paid to this last project, an open source software for video editing and mounting. Free and multiplatform, it combines simplicity of use and advanced features. The project was selected for the Google Summer of Code, during the summer of 2009.
Le Jeudi du Libre à Nîmes
Every Thursday the open source community of the region of Nîmes meets for an evening of debates on open source-related themes.
