FrOSCon, the Free and Open Source Software Conference 2007, starts in just 3 days (August 25^th and the 26^th). During this event KDE, Amarok, and Kubuntu Deutschland will share a room providing talks about Marble, Amarok 2, Kubuntu DE, and KDE 4. So if you are in or around Bonn, Germany, stop by the Department of Computer Science of the University of Applied Sciences Bonn-Rhein-Sieg in Sankt Augustin, Germany.
You can also check out a live webcam that has been setup!

Akademy 2007, the KDE World Summit, is happening now in Glasgow. The week long event is being sponsored by Kubuntu thanks to Canonical. Mark Shuttleworth gave one of the keynote speeches talking about challenges to the free software desktop and provoked a debate among KDE developers by suggesting they adopt a fixed release schedule. Kubuntu developer Jonathan Riddell also gave a talk on the upcoming features in the Gutsy release. Videos (and slides for other talks) are available on the programme web page.

The week continues with BoFs, hacking and a day trip to Loch Lomond. The Photos page gives you a feel of the excitement. Needless to say the machines in the hacklab and the 50 node Icecream distributed compiling cluster are all running Kubuntu.

On March 31 2007 Zagreb will host the first Ubuntu conference in Croatia. During this conference you will be able to find out everything you wanted to know about Ubuntu Linux and discover business possibilities while talking with representatives from Canonical and Croatian companies dealing with Ubuntu.

Lecturers will include Mario Splivalo (Ubuntu-hr), Filip Skoblar (Ubuntu-hr), Senko Rašić (Rei and Ubuntu-hr), Anthony Mercatante (Kubuntu developer), Christopher Kenyon (Canonical), and Ante Karamatić (Init and Ubuntu-hr).

More details and instructions on how to register for the conference are available here.

• Location: Wolverhampton, UK
• Web site: http://www.lugradio.org/live/2007/

• Location: Portland, Oregon, USA
• Web site: http://www.ubuntulive.com/

• Location: University of Seville, Sevilla, Spain
• Wiki page: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/TheUbucon/Sevilla

• Location: Sevilla, Spain
• Wiki page: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UES-Sevilla

On February 16 the brand-new Google offices in New York will host UbuCon New York, a 1-day conference for Ubuntu users and developers. This event will be part conference, part installfest, and part user group meeting. And there’s an added bonus: you will be served lunch on-site, hopefully from the famous Google cafeteria.

For more details on the conference and instructions on how to register please visit the UbuCon page on the Ubuntu Wiki, or the UbuCon blog. And you can also visit the IRC channel #ubucon on irc.freenode.net if you have any questions.

The Ubuntu Live conference is coming to Portland, Oregon (US) between July 22 and July 24, 2007.

This will be the first official conference dedicated to Ubuntu. The three-day event will aim to give participants in-depth knowledge of the features in Ubuntu and related applications. The conference will feature expert-led tutorials, big-picture plenary gatherings, focused sessions, and a lively “hallway track” to bring attendees face to face with the members of the Ubuntu community from all around the world.

The Ubuntu Live conference will coincide with the O’Reilly 2007 Open Source Convention (OSCON).

The call for participation for Ubuntu Live is now open until February 14.

Have a great Ubuntu-related idea that needs exposure to a wider audience? Best practices or knowledge you’d like to share? Want to help guide the future of Ubuntu? If so, we want to hear from you!

— Program chair Jane Silber.

Submissions are welcome on any aspects of developing, using, customizing, or deploying Ubuntu and can be submitted via the Ubuntu Live web site.

The conference will bring together the people who deploy and manage Ubuntu in the enterprise, companies offering services and solutions based on Ubuntu, and the folks who build it. Participants will include IT professionals, government and business leaders, educators, community leaders, and enterprise users.

The general registration for participants will open in April 2007.

With less than a week away linux.conf.au 2007 is shaping up to be better than ever. The conference will run from the 15th through the 20th of January. linux.conf.au, a purely volunteer effort hosted in a different Australian city each year, is one of the world’s best Open Source and Free Software developer community conferences. This year the conference will be held at the Kensington campus of the University of New South Wales in Sydney.

Included in the events are talks from some of our very own:

• Jono Bacon
• Scott James Remnant
• Robert Collins
• Matthew Garrett

There is a free Open Day on Thursday, January 18th, from 3pm until 8pm. During this time the Australia Local Community Team will be doing their best to spread Ubuntu by handing out swag bags and do flashing cool demos for the attendees. The team will also hold an unofficial, casual, late dinner at a nearby pub after the Open Day. Details of the dinner can be found at https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-au/2007-January/001106.html.

More information about linux.conf.au can be found at http://lca2007.linux.org.au/. A breakdown of the entire event can be viewed at http://lca2007.linux.org.au/Programme.