Building and sustaining open source communities

Linux Foundation Research and Meta studied open source AI’s economic, workforce, and sector impacts. Join our roundtable to explore key findings and insights.

GitOpsCon is designed to foster collaboration, discussion, and knowledge sharing on GitOps and it’s adoption within organizations.

OpenSearchCon is the annual conference that brings the OpenSearch community together to learn, connect, and collaborate. Users, administrators, and developers attend to explore solutions to real-world problems, network with peers, and explore the future of search, observability, and security applications.

StrimziCon is an event for developers, DevOps engineers, and solution architects who want to learn about Strimzi and event streaming.

Join PyTorch Day China 2025, hosted by the PyTorch Foundation—a pivotal event for community-driven learning, networking, and open-source AI innovation.

The Cloud Native Computing Foundation’s flagship conference gathers adopters and technologists from leading open source and cloud native communities in Hong Kong, 10-11 June, 2025. Join our CNCF Graduated and Incubating Projects as the community gathers to further the education and advancement of cloud native computing.

KeycloakCon 2025 is a half-day meetup where the community of the open source software "Keycloak" for Identity and Access Management (IAM) gathers in Japan to provide opportunities for technical lectures, growth, and networking.

The Cloud Native Computing Foundation’s flagship conference gathers adopters and technologists from leading open source and cloud native communities in Tokyo, Japan from 16-17 June, 2025. Join our CNCF Graduated and Incubating Projects as the community gathers to further the education and advancement of cloud native computing.

OpenSSF Community Days unite the open source security community to collaborate on securing OSS development, maintenance, and consumption in a regional, innovative setting.

The premier conference for open source developers, technologists and community leaders to collaborate, share information and learn, furthering open source innovation and ensuring a sustainable open source ecosystem.

OSFF 2025 will spotlight groundbreaking advancements, deliver insights on best practices, and offer exclusive access to the leaders shaping open source in finance.

A technical forum for collaboration between Linux developers, researchers, and end users aiming to foster community efforts in analyzing and solving Linux security challenges.

Open Observability Summit and OTel Community Day will bring the observability community together to collaborate, learn, and advance open source observability tools and practices.

OpenSSF Community Days unite the open source security community to collaborate on securing OSS development, maintenance, and consumption in a regional, innovative setting.

The Linux Foundation Europe Roadshow is a one-day event bringing together policymakers, developers, and industry leaders to shape the future of open source in Europe. Kicking off in Milan, the Impact Track will explore the financial sector’s role in open source, fostering collaboration and innovation. This roadshow connects diverse voices to drive technological advancement and policy development across the region.

Automotive Grade Linux (AGL) is a collaborative open source project that is accelerating the development of a fully open software platform for automotive applications exhibiting at AGL’s AMM Summer 2025 to highlight members and the broader AGL ecosystem.

OpenSSF Community Days unite the open source security community to collaborate on securing OSS development, maintenance, and consumption in a regional, innovative setting.

Join us for the inaugural vendor-neutral open source conference in India, where developers and technologists come together to collaborate, share knowledge, and explore the latest innovations and advancements in open source technology.

The Cloud Native Computing Foundation’s flagship conference gathers adopters and technologists from leading open source and cloud native communities in Hyderabad, India, 6-7 August, 2025. Join our CNCF Graduated and Incubating Projects as the community gathers to further the education and advancement of cloud native computing.

Open Source Days, hosted by Academy Software Foundation, is the leading event dedicated to open source software for visual effects, animation and digital content creation.

The premier vendor-neutral conference in Europe for open source developers and technologists to collaborate, share information and learn about the latest technologies and innovations across open source.

Join key customers, project leads, and contributors that make up the gRPC ecosystem for a full day of talks, demos, case studies, and code labs.

AI_dev is the premier event for developers in open source GenAI & ML. Attend to dive deep into AI innovations, collaborations & best practices.

Container Plumbing Days is the place to investigate, discuss, hack, learn, and celebrate the “lower-level” open source container technologies, everything from the container runtime on down to the Linux kernel.

A technical forum for collaboration between Linux developers, researchers, and end users aiming to foster community efforts in analyzing and solving Linux security challenges.

OpenSSF Community Days unite the open source security community to collaborate on securing OSS development, maintenance, and consumption in a regional, innovative setting.

The seL4 Summit is the annual international summit on the seL4 microkernel and seL4-related technology, tools, infrastructure, products, projects, and people.

GraphQLConf presented by the GraphQL Foundation unites the global GraphQL community promoting education, adoption & advancement of GraphQL.

OpenSearchCon is the annual conference that brings the OpenSearch community together to learn, connect, and collaborate. Users, administrators, and developers attend to explore solutions to real-world problems, network with peers, and explore the future of search, observability, and security applications.

This summit will gather the LF Energy community including electric utilities, technology vendors, global energy companies, researchers, and other industry stakeholders to learn about LF Energy and its projects, collaborate, and share best practices.

Xen Summit is our annual event where the community connect with experts, discover innovations, and shape the future of virtualization.

This summit will gather electric utilities, technology vendors, policymakers, regulators, global energy companies, researchers, and other industry stakeholders to learn about open source solutions for energy systems. The event will feature presentations of ongoing work from the LF Energy ecosystem, as well as to collaborate and share best practices to accelerate the energy transition.

Cloud Foundry Day is a celebration of technology - particularly the CF platform, the tooling around it, and all the projects that are a part of its larger ecosystem. Maintainers, contributors, and others in the community convene to help make it a success.

The one-of-a-kind event for all things related to JavaScript (JS) on the web is back and brings together the best and brightest JS programmers.

Open Source AI Week brings together the best open source AI and ML conferences, hackathons, and networking opportunities you won’t want to miss, all in the Bay Area between October 18 - 26, 2025.

A neutral legal forum where leading attorneys from companies leveraging open source solutions can work together to focus on and discuss issues of common interest and concern.

OSFF 2025 will spotlight groundbreaking advancements, deliver insights on best practices, and offer exclusive access to the leaders shaping open source in finance.

Join top-tier researchers, developers, and academics for a deep dive into PyTorch, the cutting-edge open-source machine learning framework.

The premier event for RISC-V, the open-standard instruction set architecture (ISA) enabling new applications and research defining the future of open computing.

Where LF Europe participants foster collaboration, open innovation & partnerships to advance Europe-wide open source strategy and mobilise resources in their organisations to collaboratively influence the largest shared technology investment of our time.

The LF Europe Roadshow is a one-day event focusing on regulation—bringing policymakers, legal experts, and industry leaders together to navigate open source policy. This stop explores how evolving regulations impact adoption, security, and innovation, fostering collaboration to shape the future of open source governance in Europe.

The Linux Foundation is hosting a one-day event to connect Open Science leaders, researchers, developers, and policymakers, fostering collaboration between open scientific software and open source communities to enhance research accessibility and reproducibility.

Explore data science, ML, AI, and education at JupyterCon with hands-on training, expert talks, and innovative tools from the global Jupyter community.

Join us for the inaugural vendor-neutral open source conference in Korea, where developers and technologists come together to collaborate, share knowledge, and explore the latest innovations and advancements in open source technology.

OpenSSF Community Days unite the open source security community to collaborate on securing OSS development, maintenance, and consumption in a regional, innovative setting.

ArgoCon is designed to foster collaboration, discussion, and knowledge sharing on the Argo Project, which consists of four projects: Argo CD, Argo Workflows, Argo Rollouts and Argo Events.

At BackstageCon, we’ll provide a vendor-neutral space for collaboration and learning centered on improving developer experience and effectiveness through open source technologies.

BazelCon is an annual event uniting enthusiasts, maintainers, users, and friends. The event features talks, the Bazel State-of-the-Union, collaboration opportunities, and a live Q&A.

Dive deep into the world of high-performance networking, transparent security, and scalable observability at CiliumCon.

Join us for an event dedicated to advancing AI. As it rapidly evolves, organizations face new challenges. LLMs, Graph RAGs, and ethics reshape innovation and scaling.

New to KubeCon or cloud native? Cloud Native University offers a friendly intro, key concepts, and tips to kickstart your journey with CNCF.

Data on Kubernetes Day brings together industry leaders to share best practices, forge relationships, and explore advancements in Kubernetes for Database as a Service.

Attend the 10th EnvoyCon, a community-driven event with end-user case studies and technical talks from contributors—no product pitches, just real-world solutions and insights.

FluxCon brings together Flux users, contributors, and adopters to share GitOps best practices, success stories, and technical insights on continuous delivery.

GitOpsCon is designed to foster collaboration, discussion, and knowledge sharing on GitOps and it’s adoption within organizations.

Istio Day is a community event focused on the popular service mesh, featuring lessons from production, hands-on experiences, and insights from Istio ecosystem maintainers.

The Cloud Native Computing Foundation’s flagship conference gathers adopters and technologists from leading open source and cloud native communities in Atlanta, Georgia from November 10-13, 2025. Join our CNCF Graduated and Incubating Projects as the community gathers for four days to further the education and advancement of cloud native computing.

Join Kubeflow Summit NA 2025 to connect with the AI/ML community, explore cloud-native tools, and dive deep into Kubeflow projects for scalable model development and deployment.

Kubernetes on Edge Day invites developers and adopters from across the entire cloud native ecosystem to come together and share their insights and experiences in constructing, enhancing, and improving their edge infrastructure.

KyvernoCon is a half-day event for cloud-native pros to explore Kyverno, Policy as Code, real-world use cases, automation, and integrations.

Observability Day unites the cloud-native community to share insights, tools, and best practices for tackling observability with projects like Prometheus and OTel.

Join a 1-day event on cloud-native and open-source security. Connect with experts to explore secure development, supply chain security, identity, and policy.

The OpenFeature Summit is the premier event for feature flagging enthusiasts to share insights, best practices, and stories. Network, join discussions, and explore the latest innovations.

We’ll share a day all about OpenTofu, including migrations, technical details, panels, and new use cases.

Discover real-world strategies for building Internal Developer Platforms. Learn from case studies and expert insights to improve DevEx through holistic, socio-technical practices.

WasmCon connects developers and experts to explore WebAssembly through sessions, workshops, and networking focused on performance, security, and real-world use.

AI_dev is the premier event for developers in open source GenAI & ML. Attend to dive deep into AI innovations, collaborations & best practices.

The premier vendor-neutral open source conference in Japan for developers and technologists to collaborate, share information and learn about the latest technologies and innovations across open source.

An annual, by-invitation gathering of the world’s leading core kernel developers to discuss the state of the existing kernel and plan the next development cycle.

The Linux Plumbers Conference is the premier event for developers working at all levels of the plumbing layer and beyond.

An exclusive, annual event for Linux Foundation members and select invitees that provides an excellent opportunity for organizations to share knowledge around open source compliance.

Where LF members convene to drive digital transformation with open source technologies and learn how to collaboratively manage the largest shared technology investment of our time.

The Cloud Native Computing Foundation’s flagship conference gathers adopters and technologists from leading open source and cloud native communities in Amsterdam, The Netherlands from 23-26 March, 2026. Join our CNCF Graduated and Incubating Projects as the community gathers for four days to further the education and advancement of cloud native computing.

The Cloud Native Computing Foundation’s flagship conference gathers adopters and technologists from leading open source and cloud native communities in Los Angeles, California from October 26-29, 2026. Join our CNCF Graduated and Incubating Projects as the community gathers for four days to further the education and advancement of cloud native computing.

The Cloud Native Computing Foundation’s flagship conference gathers adopters and technologists from leading open source and cloud native communities in Barcelona, Spain from 15-18 March, 2027. Join our CNCF Graduated and Incubating Projects as the community gathers for four days to further the education and advancement of cloud native computing.