The Oslo Hackathon brings together FreeBSD contributors to collaborate on open source projects and work across different areas of the FreeBSD ecosystem. Attendees can tackle PRs and code reviews, write tests, work on ports, improve documentation, or team up with others on shared areas of interest.

The hackathon will be hosted by Entersekt at its office in central Oslo. October 27–30, 2026 | Oslo, Norway

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CHERITech’26 brings together researchers, technologists, cybersecurity experts, and product developers to explore advancements in CHERI technology and secure computing. The conference will highlight technical innovations, real-world implementations, and research shaping the future of security by design.

CHERITech’26 will be co-located with SEMICON Europa. November 12–13, 2026 | Munich, Germany

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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 October 27, 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. 

Find out more here.

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Join us for the November 2026 FreeBSD Vendor Summit. The event will take place November 5-6, 2026.  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.

Registration is now open

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Co-located with EuroBSDCon 2026, the September 2026 FreeBSD Developer Summit will bring together developers, contributors, vendors, and working groups for focused discussions and collaboration. Developer Summits offer a valuable opportunity to meet face-to-face, share ongoing work, ask questions, and work through ideas with others in the FreeBSD community.

Registration is a two step process:

1) Register for the Devsummit at the EuroBSDcon page and pay the devsummit fee to attend.

2) FreeBSD committers add themselves or any of their guests to this wiki page.

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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.

EuroBSDCon 2026 will be held in Brussels, Belgium; September 09-13, 2026.

Find out more here.

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Join the FreeBSD community for the September 2026 FreeBSD Hackathon, taking place in Berlin, Germany, the weekend before EuroBSDCon 2026. The hackathon brings FreeBSD developers and contributors together to collaborate on projects, share ideas, and work side by side before continuing on to EuroBSDCon. 

Pre-register and learn more

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Join Klara for a live FreeBSD AMA session following BSDCan 2026. This community discussion will cover key announcements, technical discussions, and highlights from BSDCan, with opportunities for attendees to ask questions directly to FreeBSD experts.

Link to the webinar.

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Join us for the June 2026 FreeBSD Developer Summit, co-located with BSDCan 2026, which will take place in Ottawa, Canada. The two-day event takes place June 17-18, 2026, consisting of developer discussion sessions, vendor talks, and working groups.

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BSDCan is a technical conference for people working on and with BSD operating systems and related projects. It is a developer’s conference with a strong focus on emerging technologies, research projects, and works in progress. It also features Userland infrastructure projects and invites contributions from both free software developers and those from commercial vendors.

Find out more here. 

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