This is a collection of Open Source events or conferences to look out for in 2025.
How can you make the best out of these events or conferences?
- Checkout for the Call for Proposals and submit a talk or workshop.
- Look for opportunities to contribute to the conference through volunteering. Some examples are;
- Watching out for and reporting typos found on the conference website
- Volunteering on-site or online before or during the conference
- Offering to coach new speakers before the conference
- Help market the conference
- Sponsor an event.
- Checkout for grants or financial aid offered by the conference.
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Date: 18th - 19th January || Mode: In-person || Location: Singapore.
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Date: 20th - 22nd January || Mode: In-person || Location: Adelaide, Australia.
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Date: 29th - 30th January || Mode: Virtual
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Date: 31st January, 2025 || Mode: Online || Location: Brussels, Belgium.
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Date: 1st - 2nd February || Mode: In-person || Location: Brussels, Belgium.
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Date: 1st - 2nd February || Mode: In-person || Location: Brussels, Belgium.
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Date: 3rd - 4th February || Mode: In-person || Location: Amsterdam, Netherlands.
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SOOCON - State of Open Conference
Date: 4th - 5th February || Mode: In-person || Location: London, United Kingdom.
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Date: 20th - 22nd February || Mode: In-person || Location: Karlsruhe, Germany.
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Date: 21th - 22nd February || Mode: Hybrid || Location: Worldwide, Worldwide.
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Date: 20th - 22nd February || Mode: In-person || Location: Manila, Philippines.
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Date: 21st - 22nd February || Mode: In-person || Location: Koforidua, Ghana.
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Date: 22nd February || Mode: Virtual
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Date: 24th - 26th February || Mode: In-person || Location: Basel, Switzerland.
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Date: 24th - 27th February || Mode: In-person || Location: Windhoek, Namibia.
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SOSS Policy Summit - Open Source Security Foundation
Date: 4th March || Mode: In-person || Location: Washington, DC - USA.
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Date: 6th - 9th March || Mode: In-person || Location: Pasadena, California - USA.
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Date: 7th March || Mode: In-person || Location: Bristol, United Kingdom.
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Apertre 2.0 - A 30-days-long Open Source Event by Resourcio Community
Date: 7th March to 5th April || Mode: Online + In-person offline meetup || Location: Kolkata, India
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Date: 10th - 11th March || Mode: In-person || Location: Berlin, Germany.
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KHIPU - Latin American Meeting in Artificial Intelligence
Date: 10th - 14th March || Mode: In-person || Location:Santiago de Chile, Chile.
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Date: 12th March || Mode: In-Person || Location: Berlin, Germany.
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Date: 13th - 15th March || Mode: In-person || Location: Bangkok, Thailand.
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Date: 17th - 21st March || Mode: In-person || Location: San Jose, California - USA.
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Linux Foundation Member Summit
Date: 18th - 20th March || Mode: In-person || Location: Napa, California - USA.
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Date: 21st March || Mode: In-person || Location: Florence, Italy.
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Date: 1st April || Mode: In-person || Location: London, England.
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KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe
Date: 1st - 4th April || Mode: In-person || Location: London, England.
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Date: 6th - 7th April || Mode: In-person || Location: Eisenstadt, Austria.
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ShinyConf2025: A global virtual conference focused on Shiny and data-driven applications
Date: 9th - 11th April || Mode: Virtual
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Date: 11th - 13th April || Mode: In-person || Location: Austin, Texas - USA.
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Date: 14th - 15th April || Mode: In-person || Location: Gothenburg, Sweden.
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Date: 23rd - 25th April || Mode: In-person || Location: Frankfurt, Germany.
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Date: 25th - 26th April || Mode: In-person || Location: Ho, Ghana.
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Date: 26th April || Mode: Hybrid || Location: Simultaneously 200+ latinamerican cities, LATAM.
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Date: 26th - 30th April || Mode: In-person || Location: Munich, Germany.
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Date: 30th April - 1 May 2025 || Mode: In-person || Location: Amsterdam, Netherlands.
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Date: 6th May || Mode: In-person || Location: Haasrode (Leuven), Belgium.
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Date: 8th - 9th May || Mode: In-person || Location: Berlin, Germany.
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Date: 14th - 22nd May || Mode: In-person || Location: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania - USA.
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Date: 19th - 22nd May || Mode: In-person || Location: Boston, Massachusetts - USA.
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Date: 27th - 29th May || Mode: In-person || Location: Amsterdam, Netherlands.
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Date: 28th - 31st May || Mode: In-person || Location: Bologna, Italy.
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Date: 29th May || Mode: In-person || Location: St. Paul, Minesota - USA.
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Date: 31st May - 1st June || Mode: In-person || Location: Geldrop, Netherlands.
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Date: 2nd – 6th June || Mode: In-person or Online || Location: Berlin,Germany
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Date: 3rd - 4th June || Mode: In-person || Location: Bengaluru, India.
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Date: 7th June || Mode: In-person || Location: Beijing, China.
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KubeCon + CloudNativeCon China
Date: 10th - 11th June || Mode: In-person || Location: Hong Kong, China
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POSETTE, An Event for Postgres
Date: 10th - 12th June || Mode: Virtual || Location: Online
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Date: 13th & 17th June || Mode: In-person || Location: Amsterdam, Netherlands.
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Date: 15th - 17th June || Mode: In-person || Location: Berlin, Germany.
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KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Japan
Date: 16th - 17th June || Mode: In-person || Location: Tokyo, Japan.
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Date: 16th - 20th June || Mode: In-person || Location: United Nations Headquarters, New York - USA.
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Date: 18th June || Mode: Virtual || Location: Online
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Open Source Summit North America
Date: 23rd - 25th June || Mode: In-person || Location: Denver, Colorado - USA.
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Galaxy and Bioconductor Community Conference
Date: 23rd - 26th June || Mode: In-person || Location: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL), New York - USA.
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Date: 28th - 29th June || Mode: In-person || Location: Leipzig, Germany
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Date: 1st - 4th July || Mode: In-person || Location: Paris, France.
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Date: 14th - 20th July || Mode: In-person || Location: Mostar, Bosnia.
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Date: 1st - 4th July|| Mode: In-person || Location: Télécom Paris, France.
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Date: 14th - 20th July || Mode: In-person || Location: Brest, France.
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Date: 18th - 20th July || Mode: In-person || Location: San Francisco Bay Area, California - USA.
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Date: 21st - 26th July || Mode: In-person || Location: Pittsburgh, PA.
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Date: 24th - 29th July || Mode: In-person || Location: Brescia, Italy.
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Community Over Code Asia by the Apache Software Foundation
Date: 25th - 27th July || Mode: In-person || Location: Beijing, China.
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Date: 14th - 20th July || Mode: In person , Remote || Location: Prague , Czech Republic.
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Date: 26th - 27th July || Mode: In person || Location: Cleveland State University Student Center in Cleveland, Ohio.
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Date: 31st July - 3rd August || Mode: In-person || Location: Portland, Oregon, USA.
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Date: 5th August|| Mode: In-person || Location: Hyderabad, India.
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KubeCon + CloudNativeCon India
Date: 6th - 7th August|| Mode: In-person || Location: Hyderabad, India.
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Date: 8th - 10th August|| Mode: In-person || Location: Duke University & Duke Center for Computational Thinking, Durham USA.
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Date: 15th - 16th August || Mode: In-person || Location: Flywheel Coworking in Greenville, South Carolina.
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COSCUP (Conference for Open Source Coders, Users, and Promoters)
Date: 9th - 10th August || Mode: In-person || Location: National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taipei - Taiwan.
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Date: 11th - 15th August || Mode: In-person || Location: Arusha, Tanzania.
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OSCAFEST - Open Source Festival
Date: 14th - 16th August || Mode: In-person || Location: Lagos, Nigeria.
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Date: 21st - 24th August || Mode: In-person || Location: Costa Rica.
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Date: 23th - 24th(half-day) August || Mode: Hybrid || Location: Lomé, Togo.
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Date: 25th - 27th August || Mode: In-person || Location: Amsterdam, Netherlands.
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Date: 28th August || Mode: In-person || Location: Amsterdam, Netherlands.
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Date: 28th - 30th August || Mode: In-person || Location: Nairabi, Kenya.
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Date: 29th - 30th || Mode: In-person || Location: Athens, Greece.
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Date: not announced yet || Mode: In-person || Location: Costa Rica.
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Date: 5th - 7th September || Mode: In Person || Location: National Science and Technology Museum (South Complex), Sanmin District, Kaohsiung City, Taiwan.
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Date: 8th - 10th September || Mode: In-person || Location: San Jose, CA USA
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Date: 8th - 12th September || Mode: In Person || Location: Chicago, Illinois - USA.
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Date: 10th - 11th September || Mode: In-person || Location: Bologna, Italy
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Date: 11th - 14th September || Mode: In-person || Location: Minneapolis, MN, USA
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Date: 12th - 16th September || Mode: In-person || Location: Pullman Melbourne, Australia.
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Date: 16th - 18th September || Mode: Hybrid || Location: Atlanta, USA
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Date: 19th - 20th September || Mode: In-person || Location: Boston, USA.
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Date: 19th - 21st September || Mode: Hybrid || Location: India, Asia
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Date: 19th - 22nd September || Mode: In-person || Location: Manchester, United Kingdom.
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Date: 24th - 26th September || Mode: In-person || Location: Berlin, Germany.
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Date: 25th - 27th September || Mode: In-person || Location: Accra, Ghana.
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Date: 27th September || Mode: In Person || Location: The Illusion Magic Lounge in Santa Monica, California - USA.
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Date: 26th - 27th September || Mode: In Person || Location: International Conference Center Hiroshima, Japan.
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Date: 29th - 30th September || Mode: Hybrid || Location: GitHub HQ, San Francisco, California - USA.
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Date: 1st - 3rd October || Mode: Virtual
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Date: 2nd - 3rd October || Mode: In-person || Location: Tallinn, Estonia.
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Date: 8th - 12th October || Mode: Hybrid || Location: The Wanderers Club, Johannesburg South Africa.
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Date: 12th - 14th October || Mode: In-person || Location: Raleigh, NC USA.
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Date: 24th October || Mode: In-person || Location: Tepper Building, Carnegie Mellon University, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
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Date: 17th - 18th October || Mode: In-person || Location: Microsoft Thailand and Avani Sukhumvit Bangkok Hotel Bangkok, Thailand
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Date: 18th - 19th October || Mode: In-person || Location: "John Atanasoff" forum, Sofia Tech Park, Sofia, Bulgaria
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Date: 18th -26th October || Mode: In-person || Location: San Francisco, California - USA.
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The Linux Foundation Legal Summit
Date: 20th - 21st October || Mode: In-person || Location: San Francisco, California - USA.
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Date: 21st - 22nd October || Mode: In-person || Location: New York City, New York - USA.
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The Linux Foundation Europe Member Summit
Date: 28th October || Mode: In-person || Location: Ghent, Belgium.
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Date: 28th - 29th October || Mode: In-person || Location: San Francisco, California - USA.
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Date: 4th November || Mode: In-person || Location: Seoul, South Korea.
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Date: 4th - 5th November || Mode: In-person || Location: Seoul, South Korea.
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Open Source Analytics Conference
Date: 4th - 5th November || Mode: Virtual
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Date: 7th - 8th November || Mode: Hybrid || Location: Husky Union Building, University of Washington.
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The South Tyrol Free Software Conference
Date: 7th - 8th November || Mode: In-person || Location: Bolzano, Italy.
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Open Source Security Conference
Date: 10th November || Mode: In-person || Location: Atlanta, United States.
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KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America
Date: 10th - 13th November || Mode: In-person || Location: Atlanta, United States.
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Date: 18th - 19th November || Mode: In-person || Location: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
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Date: 18th & 21st November || Mode: In-person || Location: New York - USA.
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Date: 21st November || Mode: In-person || Location: Korjaamo Kino cinema in Helsinki, Finland.
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Date: 1st - 5th December || Mode: Virtual
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Date: 5th - 7th December || Mode: Virtual
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Open Source Generative AI & ML Summit
Date: 8th - 10th December || Mode: In-person || Location: Tokyo, Japan.
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Date: 8th - 10th December || Mode: In-person || Location: Tokyo, Japan.