Building and sustaining open source communities
Over 90,000 open source technologists and leaders from around the globe gather at Linux Foundation events annually to share ideas, learn and collaborate.
Linux Plumbers Conference
A developer conference bringing together the top developers working on the “plumbing” of Linux — kernel subsystems, core libraries, windowing systems, etc. — to work together on core design problems.
Open Mainframe Summit
The event will bring together the mainframer community to share best practices, learn technical insight, and network with people who are passionate about the mainframe industry.
Linux Kernel Maintainer Summit
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.
Embedded Linux Conference
The premier vendor-neutral technical conference for developers working on embedded Linux and industrial IoT products and deployments to gather for education and collaboration.
Open Source Summit
The premier vendor-neutral conference for open source developers and technologists to collaborate, share information and learn about the latest technologies and innovations across open source.
OSPOCon
An event for those working in open source program offices in organizations that rely on open source technologies to learn and share best practices, experiences and tooling to overcome challenges they face.
API Specifications Conference
A place for API practitioners to come together and discuss the evolution of API technology including cutting edge keynotes and sessions that chart the future of APIs with in-depth specification and standards discussions.
Linux Security Summit
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 Source Strategy Forum London
The only conference dedicated to driving collaboration and innovation in financial services through open source software and standards.
OSPOCon Europe
An event for those working in open source program offices in organizations that rely on open source technologies to learn and share best practices, experiences and tooling to overcome challenges they face.
Cloud Native eBPF Day North America
eBPF is transforming Cloud Native. Co-located with KubeCon + CloudNativeCon, eBPF Day is a vendor-neutral conference that explores this transformational technology and its impact on the future of Cloud Native.
EnvoyCon North America
A practitioner-driven community conference that emphasizes end-user case studies as well as deep technical talks from vendors that have chosen to build offerings on top of Envoy.
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America
CNCF’s flagship conference gathers adopters & technologists from leading OS and cloud native communities (Kubernetes, Prometheus, Envoy, CoreDNS and more) for education and advancement of cloud native computing.
Kubernetes Contributor Summit North America
This annual event brings together current Kubernetes contributors to connect and share in a hybrid-event setting.
O3DECon
An event that gathers the developers and community leaders working to make an open source, fully-featured, high-fidelity, realtime 3D engine for building games, simulations and more available to every industry!
Open Networking & Edge Summit + Kubernetes on Edge Day
Gathering business and technical leaders from open networking and edge computing communities to enable collaborative development and innovation across ecosystems.
Production Identity Day: SPIFFE + SPIRE North America
A vendor-neutral conference focused on solving for zero trust security using SPIFFE/SPIRE, Workload Identity, and Hardware and Software attestation.
PromCon North America
An event that aims to connect Prometheus users and developers from around the world in order to exchange knowledge, best practices, and experience gained around using Prometheus.
SupplyChainSecurityCon North America
A new, vendor-neutral conference for security practitioners, open source developers and those interested in software supply chain security.
CHIPS Alliance Fall Workshop
CHIPS Alliance, the open source RTL hardware and software development tool organization, is gathering to share milestones, progress, updates and more.
Cloud Native DevX Day North America
An event for all creators, collaborators, teams, companies and projects who are aware of cloud native challenges and aim to make developers feel like everything is at their fingertips.
Cloud Native Security Conference North America
An event designed to foster collaboration, discussion and knowledge sharing of cloud native security projects and how to best use these to address security challenges and opportunities.
Cloud Native Wasm Day North America
Join us for a day of discussion and to learn more about the intersection of cloud native and web assembly.
FluentCon North America
A vendor-neutral conference on log and metric collection with Fluentd and Fluent Bit. Topics include running the technologies in production, general observability, getting started, and the future of how collection is evolving.
GitOpsCon North America
A vendor-neutral conference designed to foster collaboration, discussion and knowledge sharing on GitOps.
Kubernetes AI Day North America
Join us for Kubernetes AI Day to delve deeper into deploying AI at scale using Kubernetes.
ServiceMeshCon North America
A vendor-neutral conference on service mesh technologies. Topics include getting started with and adopting a mesh, lessons learned from production deployments, and technical sessions from service mesh maintainers.
OpenPOWER Summit North America
An event bringing together leaders, members, and contributors of the OpenPOWER community and ecosystem
Reactive Summit
An event where application architects and developers go to learn and collaborate on the latest Reactive patterns and projects for developing cloud native applications.
The Linux Foundation Member Summit
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.
ELISA Workshop
The ELISA Workshop series is focused on the exchange of ideas and feedback from the Linux kernel and Safety communities, as productive collaboration to make tangible progress toward achieving the mission and goals of the ELISA Project.
Open Source Strategy Forum New York
The only conference dedicated to driving collaboration and innovation in financial services through open source software and standards.
The Linux Foundation Legal Summit
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.
RISC-V Summit
RISC-V Summit 2021 brings together the community for 3-days of deep technical talks, industry updates, networking, and fun! Join us to see the power open collaboration has on removing barriers, fueling the community, and seizing the growth opportunities in the processor industry! RISC-V: the Open era of computing
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon + Open Source Summit China
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation’s flagship conference gathers adopters and technologists from leading open source and cloud native communities.
Automotive Linux Summit
Gathering attendees annually from the global companies leading and accelerating the development and adoption of a fully open software stack for the connected car.
Open Source Summit Japan
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.
Open Compliance Summit
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.
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe
CNCF’s flagship conference gathers adopters & technologists from leading OS and cloud native communities (Kubernetes, Prometheus, Envoy, CoreDNS and more) for education and advancement of cloud native computing.
OpenJS World
Join JavaScript professionals including developers, software engineers, developer advocates and business leaders at the OpenJS global conference. Connect, learn and collaborate with community members from projects including AMP, Dojo, Electron, and Node.js.
Linux Storage, Filesystem, MM & BPF Summit
An annual, by-invitation gathering of the foremost development/research experts and kernel subsystem maintainers to map out and implement improvements to the Linux filesystem, storage, and memory management subsystems.
Latest News
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Community Events
LF Live Webinar: 5 of the Most Common Kubernetes Security Misconfigs and How to Fix Them
Sep 21, 2021 | Virtual
LF Live Webinar: Comprehensive Ransomware Protection and Recoverability for Cloud-Native Applications
Sep 22, 2021 | Virtual
LINBIT Storage Days: Apache CloudStack
Sep 28–29, 2021 | Virtual
LF Live Webinar: Hacking Session – Your App is Only as Secure as Your Weakest Line of Code. Shall We Hack It?
Sep 28, 2021 | Virtual
LF Live Webinar: Operate First Community Cloud: A Reference Environment for OSS Workloads and SRE Practitioners
Oct 5, 2021 | Virtual
P99 CONF
Oct 6–7, 2021 | Virtual
Trusted Computing Group Virtual CodeGen Developer Challenge
Oct 18–22, 2021 | Virtual
Kubernetes Community Days Washington DC 2021 (virtual event)
Nov 4, 2021 | Virtual
Kubernetes Community Days Italy (virtual event)
Nov 17–18, 2021 | Virtual
Kubernetes Community Days Indonesia 2021
Nov 27, 2021 | Virtual