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DevConf.cz
Logo of the DevConf.cz
TypeEvent
LocationBrno (Czech Republic)
WebsiteDevConf.cz

DevConf.cz (Developer Conference) is a yearly conference for all Linux and JBoss Community Developers, Admins and Linux users organized by Red Hat Czech Republic, the Fedora and JBoss Community.

DevConf.cz is held annually, usually during the second weekend of February (one week after FOSDEM), at the Brno University of Technology Faculty of Information Technology campus, situated in the north of Brno, Czech Republic.

The topics of the conference in 2015 were: Kernel, JBoss, Networking, OpenShift, OpenStack, Security, Storage, Software quality, Systems Management, Virtualization, Desktop, Containers, Databases, Hardware, Documentation and 3D Printing.[1]

Conference history

The Developer Conference started in year 2009 and followed the FUDCon, the Fedora User and Developer conference.

  • 2009
    • September 10 - 11 at Faculty of Informatics Masaryk University - focused on GNU/Linux developers, advanced users and developers of JBoss
    • 33 talks and workshops[2]
    • JBoss topics like Jopr, jboss.org, Drools, Jbpm to Fedora topics like KDE and core utils[3]
    • The keynote speakers were Radovan Musil and Radek Vokal
  • 2011
    • February 11 - 12 at Faculty of Informatics Masaryk University
    • Two parallel tracks
    • around 200 attendees[4]
  • 2012
    • February 17 - 18 at Faculty of Informatics Masaryk University
    • 60 talks (95% in English)
    • more than 600 attendees
    • GTK+ hackfest and GNOME Docs Sprint[5]
  • 2013
    • February 23 - 24 at Faculty of Informatics Masaryk University
    • 60 talks, 18 lightning talks, 20 workshops [6]
    • around 700 attendees [7]
  • 2014
    • February 7 - 9 at Faculty of Informatics Masaryk University
    • 6 parallel tracks (3 talk tracks and 3 workshop tracks)
    • more than 1000 attendees
    • The keynote speaker was Tim Burke from Red Hat[8]
  • 2015
    • February 6 - 8 at Faculty of Faculty of Information Technology Brno University of Technology
    • 154 workshops and talks
    • more than 1000 attendees
    • 8 parallel tracks (5 talk tracks and 3 workshop tracks)
    • Winners of the Winter of Code competition were announced
    • The keynote speakers were Tim Burke, a vicepresident of Red Hat engineering, and Mark Little, a vicepresident of Red Hat engineering and CTO of JBoss Middleware[9]
  • 2016
    • February 5 - 7 at Faculty of Information Technology Brno University of Technology
    • 203 workshops and talks
    • 1600 attendees
    • 8 parallel tracks (5 talk tracks and 3 workshop tracks)
    • The keynote speakers were Tim Burke, Jan Wildeboer, Denis Dumas and Matthew Miller

Financing

Entrance and participation in the event is entirely free. It is financed by variety of teams of Red Hat. The event is mainly organized and run by volunteers.

Other similar conferences

References

  1. ^ "THE SCHEDULE OF DEVCONF.CZ 2015 IS OUT!". DevConf.cz. Retrieved 21 July 2015.
  2. ^ "Developer Conference 2009". fedoraproject.org. Retrieved 21 July 2015.
  3. ^ Šlégr, Pavel. "Red Hat developer conference Brno 2009". Pavel Šlégr's blog. Retrieved 21 July 2015.
  4. ^ "Developer Conference - poděkování a slajdy". AbcLinuxu.cz. Retrieved 21 July 2015.
  5. ^ Eischmann, Jiri. "Developer Conference 2012 – looking back". Brno's hat. Retrieved 21 July 2015.
  6. ^ Eischmann, Jiri. "Developer Conference 2013 just one month away!". Brno's hat. Retrieved 21 July 2015.
  7. ^ Eischmann, Jiri. "Spring Season 2013". Brno's hat. Retrieved 21 July 2015.
  8. ^ "DevConf 2014 – vydařená akce". Fedora.cz. Retrieved 21 July 2015.
  9. ^ "THE SCHEDULE OF DEVCONF.CZ 2015 IS OUT!". DevConf.cz. Retrieved 21 July 2015.

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