History

A collection of older events that X.Org has held, presented at, or had significant presence at. Move things here from the current events page when they get too old, and if possible, link to what we did there.

2017

• X.Org Developer's Conference: XDC2017, Mountain View, California, USA, September 20th through September 22nd, 2017.
• FOSDEM 2017, Brussels, Belgium, February 4 through February 5, 2017.
• linux.conf.au 2017, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia, January 16 through January 20, 2017.

2016

• X.Org Developer's Conference: XDC2016, Helsinki, Finland, September 21st through September 23rd, 2016.
• linux.conf.au 2016, Geelong, Victoria, Australia, February 1 through February 5, 2016
• FOSDEM 2016, Brussels, Belgium, January 30th through January 31st, 2016.
  • FOSDEM’16: Graphics DevRoom -- Videos
  • Main track talk: Vulkan in Open-Source

2015

• X.Org Developer's Conference: XDC2015, Toronto, Canada, September 16th through September 18th, 2015.
• FOSDEM 2015, Brussels, Belgium, January 31 through February 2, 2015
  • FOSDEM’15: Graphics DevRoom -- Videos
• linux.conf.au 2015, Auckland, New Zealand, January 12 through 16, 2015
  • Slides and Videos of X, DRM, & Mesa talks from LCA2015

2014

• X.Org Developer's Conference: XDC2014, Bordeaux, France, October 8th through 10th, 2014
• FOSDEM 2014, Brussels, Belgium, February 1 through 2, 2014,
• linux.conf.au 2014, Perth, Australia, January 6 through 10, 2014

2013

• X.Org Developer's Conference: XDC2013, Portland, Oregon, USA, September 23rd through 25th, 2013
• Linux Plumber's Conference 2013, Graphics and Display microconference, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, September 18 through 20th, 2013
• FOSDEM 2013, Brussels, Belgium, February 2 through 3, 2013
• linux.conf.au 2013, Canberra, Australia, January 28 through February 2, 2013

2012

• X.Org Developer's Conference: XDC2012, Nuremberg, Germany, September 19 through 21, 2012
• Book Sprint 2012, Nuremberg, Germany, September 17 and 18, 2012
• GUADEC 2012, A Coruña, Spain, July 26 through August 1, 2012
• FOSDEM 2012, Brussels, Belgium, February 4 through 5, 2012
  • X/Graphics Dev Room Call for Participation, Followup
  • X.Org/Wayland/OpenICC Dev Room schedule
• linux.conf.au 2012, Ballarat, Australia, January 16 through 20, 2012

2011

• X.Org Developers' Conference (XDC2011). Chicago, USA, September 12 through 14, 2011.
• Linux Plumbers Conf 2011, Santa Rosa, California, USA, September 7 through 9, 2011
• GNOME/KDE Desktop Summit, Berlin, Germany, August 6 through 12, 2011
• linux.conf.au 2011, Brisbane, Australia, January 24 through 29, 2011

2010

• Linux Plumber's Conference, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, November 3 through 5, 2010
• X.Org Developers' Summit (XDS2010). Toulouse, France, September 16 through 18, 2010.
• GUADEC 2010, The Hague, The Netherlands, July 24 through 30, 2010
• Akademy 2010, Tampere, Finland, July 3 through 10, 2010
• FOSDEM 2010, Brussels, Belgium, February 6 and 7, 2010
• linux.conf.au 2010, Wellington, New Zealand, January 18 through 23, 2010

2009

• VideoHackfest, Barcelona, Spain, November 19th through 22nd, 2009
• X.Org Developers' Conference 2009, Portland, Oregon, USA, September 28 through 30
• Linux Plumber's Conference: X Window System track, Portland, Oregon, USA, September 23 through 25
• Gran Canaria Desktop Summit: GUADEC & Akademy 2009, Las Palmas, Gran Canaria, July 3 through 11, 2009
• FOSDEM 2009, Brussels, Belgium, February 5 through 8, 2009
• linux.conf.au, Hobart, Tasmania, January 19 through 24, 2009

2008

• Gnome Boston Summit, Cambridge, Massachusetts, October 10 through 13.
• X.Org Developers' Summit 2008, Edinburgh, Scotland, September 3 through 5.
• GUADEC 2008, Istanbul, Turkey, July 7th through 12
• X.Org Developers' Conference 2008, Mountain View, California, April 16 through 18.
• xorg@fosdem 2008, February 23 - 24. Brussels, Belgium.
• linux.conf.au, Melbourne, Australia, Jan 28 - Feb 2

2007

• Gnome Summit, Cambridge, Massachusetts, October 6 through 8.
• X.Org Developers' Summit 2007, Cambridge, England, September 10 through 12.
• GUADEC 2007, Birmingham, England, July 15 through 21.
• xorg@fosdem 2007, February 24-25. Brussels, Belgium.
• Xorg Developer's Conference 2007 was held on February 7, 8, and 9 in the San Francisco Bay Area. See XDC2007 Notes for the talk transcript.

2006

• An X.Org BOF was held at SIGGRAPH 2006 (August 1 through 3, 2006) in Boston.
• The Desktop Developers' Conference was held July 17 and 18, 2006, in Ottawa prior to OLS 2006.
• X.Org presented at LinuxTag 2006 in Wiesbaden, Germany May 3 - 6 2006.
• X.Org had an X Developers HotHouse and X DevRoom on February 24-26 at FOSDEM 2006 in Brussels, Belgium.
• X Developers' Conference 2006 was held on February 8-10 2006 at the Sun Microsystems campus in Santa Clara, CA.

2005

• Desktop Developers' Conference, July 18 and 19, 2005, Ottawa, prior to OLS 2005.
• X.Org had its first European Developers meeting in Karlsruhe, Germany from June, 19 to June, 20, right before LinuxTag 2005. (Read more at LinuxTagMeeting2005)
• X Developers' Conference 2005, February 12 through 14, in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

2004

• Desktop Developers' Conference, July 19 and 20, 2004, Ottawa, prior to OLS 2004.
• The first X Developers' Conference (well, first for the X.Org Foundation) was April 28 through 30, 2004 in Cambridge, Massachusetts.