







Date: Sept 30-Oct 2nd, 2026 Location: Tilburg University, The Netherlands Venue: Simon Building, Prof. Cobbenhagenlaan 225 (the building marked “S” on the campus map) Registration: https://edu.nl/guntn
Local-First Conf 2025
Join us for the world's first local-first conference. Connect with a rapidly-growing community in an intimate setting. Berlin, May 26-28 2025.
Western Europe FRC Regional Announcement
Hi everyone, I’m excited to share some news: the first FRC Regional in Western Europe is coming to Eindhoven, the Netherlands — 1–3 April 2027, at the Indoor Sportcentrum. I’m convinced this regional will be pivotal for the international growth of FRC. Europe already has several strong, large FTC regions, together heading toward 1,000 teams. With that base, FRC is the logical, and exciting, next step, and a lot of those students are ready for it. The event is organized by STEAMu...

Local-First Conf 2027
Save the date for Local-First Conf 2027 in Berlin, May 25-26. Two days of talks, workshops, and community. Join the waitlist for early bird tickets!
Search Netherlands National Open Science Festival 2025 | Zenodo
Interesting Conferences in 2026
OEGlobal 2026 Conference
A livestream of Bluesky posts about the OEGlobal 2026 Conference taking place online and in person at MIT, as well as the satellite event taking place in Vancouver BC, co-organized by @iskme.org and BCcampus.
AtmosphereConf 2027 is coming to Amsterdam - Atmosphere Conference News
Announcing our dates and our city: Amsterdam, April 29 - May 2
IOSP 2026: Institute of Open Science Practices (space) | nanodash
An event, a community, and a coordinating institute for the people building, using, and advancing the infrastructure open science depends on. IOSP 2026 is the third edition, held 12-15 October 2026 in Leiden: the Poortgebouw of the University of Leiden and GO FAIR host 12, 13 and 15 October, while 1…
2026 in LLMs (so far)
On Friday I gave the closing keynote at the WeAreDevelopers World Congress North America in San Jose. I tied together the key trends from the past year into a chronological …

FR#161 – Conference Edition
How the conferences FediForum and 2mr.social this week show how fediverse is trying to build connections with European politics, as well as with the atmosphere.

A writeup of two conferences about the fediverse this week, with @fediforum.org and the German 2MR.social conference from this week, and how they are both dealing with bridging work to both EU politics as well as atproto and the atmosphere connectedplaces.online/reports/fr161-conference-edit…
FR#161 – Conference Edition
connectedplaces.onlineExcited to announce that I will be giving the opening keynote for @newpublic.org + @publicspaces.net Open Social Award Show in Amsterdam next month! My keynote will discuss how we do community governance at @blackskyweb.xyz Best of luck to all applicants and hope to see you there!
Designing Technology for All #11: Open Socials Award Show
dezwijger.nl@atproto.com I'm curating the architecture track at the Øredev developers conference in Malmö, Sweden. It'd be super interesting to feature a session about the AT Protocol. Do you know of someone who's done a conference session about Atproto or do you have any other recommendations?
Øredev
oredev.orgOur next meetup is coming up in just a couple days. This is your chance to pick up stickers from the conference! See ya there. #atproto.local
protocols for pubs ⋅ atproto boston meetup
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