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The purpose of this page is to build a global Fedora events calendar, and to identify responsible Ambassadors for each event.

This page is laid out by quarter and by region. Please maintain the layout, as it is crucial for budget planning.

Events can be added to this page that have an Ambassador owner and if they do not have an owner. Events without an owner are not eligible for funding, but being listed allows any Ambassador to take ownership of the event.

Additional information:

  • Reimbursements -- reimbursement guidelines.
  • Budget -- budget for the current quarter (as distributed by FAMSCo).
  • Organization -- event organization, budget information, and regional responsibility.
  • Reporting -- event report guidelines and suggestions.
  • LinuxEvents -- a collection of calendars of Linux events.


North America (NA)

NOTE: Please do not remove events from the list until the end of the quarter. This helps planning for following quarters.

FY10 Q1 (March 2009 - May 2009)

Date Event Location Owner Description Estimated Attendance
11 June 2009 Fedora 11 Release party Québec, Canada jfsaucier Pub Edward, start at 17:30 ~30

FY10 Q2 (June 2009 - August 2009)

Date Event Location Owner Description Estimated Attendance Event Box? Report Links
TBA FAD Fedora Devel 2009 Raleigh, NC User:Jkeating Engineering-heavy workshops for development cycle brainstorming 10+ No
13 June Southeast Linuxfest Clemson University, Clemson, SC David Nalley, Ben Williams (attending) New Linuxfest filling the gap left by the Atlanta Linux Showcase when it went to the west coast and became Linuxworld. 350-450 Yes http://jbwillia.wordpress.com/2009/06/15/self-2009/
14 June Docs FAD at SELF Clemson University, Clemson, SC David Nalley Docs FAD following SELF 10 or so No
17 - 19 June Open Source Bridge 2009 Oregon Convention Center, Portland OR Matt McKenzie, Larry Cafiero, John Poelstra (on conference marketing team--able to help locally as needed) New Open Source conference, filling gap left by OSCON for Portland area 500 ??? Decided not to have a Fedora presence at the conference because of cost and

last minute arrangements required

28 June - 01 July National Educational Computing Conference (NECC) (NECC_2009) Walter E. Washington Convention Center, Washington, DC ??? (Regional help needed + budget, or may not do show) Biggest edtech show, has dedicated open source pavilion with large number (100?+) K12Linux thin clients and dedicated open source track Yes ???
13 - 17 July Montreal Linux Symposium Montreal, Quebec, Canada jfsaucier Montreal Linux Symposium 2009 ~700 Maybe To follow
20 - 25 July OSCON 2009 San Jose, CA User:Lcafiero,User:Kwade O'Reilly's open source everything convention 3,600

FY10 Q3 (September 2009 - November 2009)

Date Event Location Owner Description Estimated Attendance Event Box
2009-09-01/04 Red Hat Summit Chicago, IL, USA John Rose, Paul W. Frields Fedora contributors' attendees list at Red_Hat_Summit_2009 -
September 13, 2009 College Park Fedora 11 Distribution College Park, Maryland Dramsey see College Park ?
September 19, 2009 Atlanta Linux Fest Atlanta, GA, USA David Nalley - 200-250
September 19, 2009 Software Freedom Day Albuquerque, NM, USA David Thomas 3rd year, This year will be at Cottonwood Mall Lots of foot traffic 1000+
September 19, 2009 Software Freedom Day Portales, NM, USA David Thomas In the Sandia Room of the Eastern New Mexico University Campus Union Building. 100+
September 19, 2009 Software Freedom Day Felton, CA, USA Larry Cafiero At the offices of Redwood Digital Research, 6116 Highway 9, Felton. 50-100
September 21-23, 2009 LinuxCon Portland, OR, USA Matt McKenzie New event run by The Linux Foundation, at Portland Marriott Waterfront Hotel, coincides with Linux Plumbers Con 500-1000(?) YES
September 25-26, 2009 Ohio LinuxFest Columbus, Ohio Brian Powell Ben Williams The seventh annual Ohio LinuxFest will be on September 25-26, 2009 at the Greater Columbus Convention Center, in downtown Columbus, Ohio. 2000+ YES
September 27, 2009 College Park Fedora 11 Distribution College Park, Maryland Dramsey see College Park ?
October 8-10 2009 Utah Open Source Conference Salt Lake City, UT, USA Clint Savage 3rd year of the Regional Conference 600+
October 11, 2009 College Park Fedora 11 Distribution College Park, Maryland Dramsey see College Park ?
October 17 2009 Central Pennsylvania Open Source Conference Harrisburg, PA, USA Brian Powell Central Pennsylvania Open Source Conference 100+ YES
October 20 2009 JIT 2009 Quebec, Canada Jean-Francois Saucier JIT is a conference to promote the use of free softwares and to demonstrate the capabilities of them. It focus on the technical side of using the softwares and how to integrate them into a production environment 150+ Yes
October 24 2009 Ontario Linux Fest 2009 Ontario, Canada Jean-Francois Saucier soon confirmed Ontario Linux Fest is the conference, workshop and community meeting place that is organized and run by the community for the community. This event opens Toronto Open Source Week 300+ Yes
October 25, 2009 College Park Fedora 11 Distribution College Park, Maryland Dramsey see College Park ?
October 29 2009 Teaching Open Source Summit (TOSS09) Toronto, Ontario, Canada owner needed The Teaching Open Source Summit is a face to face gathering of the TeachingOpenSource.org community. TOSS09 is an adjunct event to FSOSS2009 and part of Toronto Open Source Week. 50-100
October 29-30 2009 Free Software and Open Source Symposium (FSOSS) Toronto, Ontario, Canada owner needed FSOSS is a conference with workshops organized by Seneca College, now in its 8th year. This event closes Toronto Open Source Week. 300-400
November 8, 2009 College Park Fedora 11 Distribution College Park, Maryland Dramsey see College Park ?
November 22, 2009 College Park Fedora 11 Distribution and Fedora 12 Distribution depending released availability College Park, Maryland Dramsey see College Park ?
November 22-24, 2009 NYSCATE Annual Conference Rochester, NY, USA owner needed 44th NYSCATE Annual Conference Rochester Riverside Convention Center ???

FY10 Q4 (December 2009 - February 2010)

Date Event Location Owner Description Estimated Attendance Event Box? Report Links
December 5-7, 2009 FUDCon:Toronto 2009 Toronto, Canada Paul W. Frields, Mel Chua North American FUDCon; Technical sessions, hackfests, Fedora 13 planning, user outreach, and general merriment 150-200
December 6, 2009 College Park Fedora 12 Distribution depending on released availability College Park, Maryland Dramsey see College Park ?
December 19, 2009 New Mexico GNU/LinuxFest Albuquerque, NM, USA David Thomas New event, New Mexico University, Convention and Expo Fedora specific information at the Fest 400 to 500
December 20, 2009 College Park Fedora 12 Distribution depending on released availability College Park, Maryland Dramsey see College Park ?

Central & South America (LATAM)

FY10 Q1 (March 2009 - May 2009)

Date Event Location Owner Description Estimated Attendance Report Links
May 4-8, 2009 VI Foro Mundial de Conocimiento Libre Mérida, Venezuela MariaLeandro See FedoraEvents/FMCL/VI-FMCL for status 3000 Canceled
May 15, 2009 Fedora-Venezuela Aniversary Caracas, Venezuela MariaLeandro See Fedora Venezuela Website for date and location 20 Mail Report Photos
May 15-16, 2009 VCNSL San Juan de los Morros, Venezuela User:tatica See VCNSL 500 photos
May 29-30, 2009 III ENSL e IV FSLBA Salvador-BA,Brazil User:Rafaelgomes User:Jasonn User:Nadilson See III ENSL e IV FSLBA 2000+

FY10 Q2 (June 2009 - August 2009)

Date Event Location Owner Description Estimated Attendance Report Links
Jun 03-04, 09 Jornada Makuruma Bogota, Colombia amoncada See Jornada Makuruma 250-300
09 Jun 09 Pizza-Bash Fedora 11 Managua, Nicaragua Neville A. Cross Release Party 40
Jun 12-13, 2009 VCNSL Maracay/Aragua, Venezuela User:tatica See VCNSL 300 Photos Report-Spanish
15 Jun 09 Fedora 11 Managua, Nicaragua Neville A. Cross Release Party 100 Report Photos
24-27 Jun 09 FUDCon LATAM - FISL 10 Porto Alegre, Brasil RodrigoPadula See FUDCon LATAM 10,000
Jul 4, 2009 Fedora-Classroom Maracay,Venezuela María "tatica" Leandro HackLab 15 -20 Photos
Jul 17-18, 2009 VCNSL Caracas, Venezuela User:tatica See VCNSL 2000
25 Jul 09 Conferencia "Free software and the Operative System" Ciudad del Saber Panama User:aeperezt Richard M Stallman Conference 100+ Report Photos
Aug 1, 2009 Fedora-Classroom Maracay,Venezuela María "tatica" Leandro HackLab 20 - 40
Aug 12-14, 2009 BugCON Mexico,DF Josue Guillermo Araujo Mayorga Security Conferences. See [| BugCON] 350 - 500
Aug 12, 2009 Software Freedom Day Concepcion, Chile Maximilinux Software Freedom Day 40+

FY10 Q3 (September 2009 - November 2009)


Date Event Location Owner Description Estimated Attendance Report Links
Sep 19, 2009 Software Freedom Day Chihuahua, México Alejandro Acosta See [1] 40+
Sep 19, 2009 Software Freedom Day Managua, Nicaragua Neville A. Cross See Fedora Details 1000+
Sep 19, 2009 Software Freedom Day Panama, Panama Alejandro Perez Juan Carlos Watts See Fedora Details 100+
September 19, 2009 Software Freedom Day El Salvador, San Salvador, UTEC Andres Pascasio Publicize is Free Software, its philosophy, benefits, and that is the fedora project its principles, and to contribute to free software.On the premises of Technology University of El Salvador. 50-100
Sep 22-25, 2009 2° Congreso Internacional de Investigación Delicias, México Alejandro Acosta See Call for Papers 700+
Sep 24-25, 2009 Encuentro de Tecnologias de la Informacion y Comunicacion Libre Securinf V3.0 Popayán, Colombia Diego Escobar See for details 200+
Sep 24-26, 2009 Comsolid Maracanaú, Brazil Lucazz See for details 500+
Sep 24-26, 2009 I ENINC Cariri, Brazil Lucazz See for details 300+
Oct 22-24, 2009 Encuentro Linux 2009 Valparaiso, Chile User:rcovarru See EL2009 Call for Papers 1000+

FY10 Q4 (December 2009 - February 2010)

Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA)

FY10 Q1 (March 2009 - May 2009)

Date Event Location Owner Description Estimated Attendance
26 - 30 April 2009 UNIX Base System Exhibition Khartoum, Sudan Hisham Abdel-Magid Technical Fest on open source at University of Khartoum. Open
16 May 2009 Fedora Install Fest Nairobi, Kenya Arthur Buliva Technical and Install Fest on Fedora. Open
8 - 9 May 2009 Journees du Libre Brussels, Belgium FredericHornain FOSS Event targeted on Business, local Government 100
9 - 10 May 2009 FossComm 2 Larissa, Greece PierrosPapadeas FossComm, the annual gathering of Greek FOSS Communities 1,000
22 - 23 May 2009 eLiberatica Bucharest, Romania JeroenVanMeeuwen, NicuBuculei, JoergSimon FOSS Event targeted on Business and Government -

FY10 Q2 (June 2009 - August 2009)

Date Event Location Owner Description Estimated Attendance Report links
2009-06-03/-05 LinuxDays 2009 Geneva, Switzerland - - unkown
2009-06-12 Fedora 11 Release Party Wageningen, Netherlands Yaakov M. Nemoy or Alex C Fedora 11 Release Party Wageningen 15
June 23-27 LinuxTag Berlin, Germany GeroldKassube
FabianAffolter
See LinuxTag2009 for status. 11,000
June 26-28 FUDConBerlin2009 Berlin, Germany MaxSpevack The annual EMEA FUDCon 200
June 27-28 Fedora 11 Release Party Paris, France Nicolas Chauvet See Release_Party_F11_Paris for status (?)
July 4-5 CAT H4ck3rZ Duo Mansoura, Egypt Ahmed Soliman Mohamed Al-Maraghy A two days event in Mansoura University, arranged by CAT-H4ck3rZ Team [[2]] 200 see Event Photos
July 7-11 RMLL 2009 Nantes, France Quentin Dumont
Armel Kermorvant
See Rencontres_Mondiales_du_Logiciel_Libre_2009. (?)
July 21-23 [Forum.net] Yaounde, Cameroon user:ahandajf Annual ICT Exibit 200
July 25-August 1 [SIM2009] Cotonou, Benin Mathias HOUNGBO Multimedia Exibit, Salon International du Multimedia 350
August 13-16 Hacking At Random Vierhouten, Netherlands Yaakov Nemoy See HAR2009 for status. 2,000 (?)
August 22-23 FrOSCon Sankt Augustin, Germany Felix Kaechele See FrOSCon2009 ? (third biggest linuxday in Germany)

Before Dec 27 || [3] comming soon. || Ikoyi, Lagos, Nigeria || Bensoft Enterprise + G-town Media || (Nigeria's First True Open Source Summit)

FY10 Q3 (September 2009 - November 2009)

Date Event Location Owner Description Estimated Attendance
2009-09-05/06 Braderie Lille 2009 Lille, France ThomasCanniot Non Computer science event : annual Lille street market 1 million every year
2009-09-10/11 Developer Conference 2009 Brno, Czech Republic RadekVokal Open conference for all Developers, Admins and Linux users organized by Red Hat Czech Republic unknown
2009-09-19 Software Freedom Day Stockholm, Sweden Nordickiwi Software Freedom Day is a global celebration and education of why transparent and sustainable technologies are now more important than ever. We will hand out free Linux CD's/DVD's to the public in Stockholm, and information on free software. unknown
2009-09-19 Software Freedom Day Yaounde, Cameroon Ahandajf Software Freedom Day is a global celebration and education of why transparent and sustainable technologies are now more important than ever. We will hand out free Linux CD's/DVD's and make install to the public, and information on free software. unknown
2009-09-19 Software Freedom Day Thessaloniki, Greece ChristosBacharakis Software Freedom Day is a global celebration and education of why transparent and sustainable technologies are now more important than ever. We will hand out free Linux CD's/DVD's and make install to the public, and information on free software at the central square of Thessaloniki. over 800
2009-09-23/24 OpenExpo 2009 Winterthur, Switzerland FabianAffolter OpenExpo, the Swiss conference and trade show for Free and Open Source Software, takes place for for two days at Winterthur.
See OpenExpo 2009
1,200
2009-09-25/27 FAD EMEA 2009 Rheinfelden, Germany GeroldKassube
FabianAffolter
Fedora Activity Day (legacy FAD) to plan Events for 2010, Budgets, Announcements and the Roadmap for EMEA Ambassadors in the near future unknown yet
2009-11-26/29 Infosystem 2009 Thessaloniki, Greece ChristosBacharakis Infosystem is an International IT exhibition at Thessaloniki International Exhibition Center over 8000
November OpenSource Expo 2009 Karlsruhe, Germany JensMaucher, JoergSimon - unknown
2009-11-07/08 OpenRheinRuhr Bottrop, Germany DominicHopf A trade show with congress which takes place at Bottrop, Germany in November 2009. See OpenRheinRuhr2009 unknown
2009-11-07 BarCampCameroon Douala, Cameroon Ahandajf BarCamp is an ad-hoc gathering born from the desire for people to share and learn in an open environment. It is an intense event with discussions, demos and interaction from participants who are the main actors of the event. 150
2009-11-28 LinuxDay 2009 Dornbirn, Austria Fabian Affolter LinuxDay is a small event in Austria near the Swiss, German, and Lichtenstein border.
See LinuxDay 2009
300

FY10 Q4 (December 2009 - February 2010)

Before Dec 2009 Open Source and Fedora Linux today Lagos G-town Media + Bensoft Enterprise Seminar/Workshop Still getting response, targer 200 system Admins.
Providing a platform for Linux users to meet and discussing issues affecting the development of Open source in the region and also providing support where needed in other to make full transit to Open Open source resources available today. Fedora's rapid growth and why it is our server O.S of choice.

India, Asia, and Australia (India/APJ)

FY10 Q1 (March 2009 - May 2009)

Date Event Location Owner Description Estimated Attendance
May 16-17, 2009 Fedora FOSS workshop Jaipur Engineering College and Research Center, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India ShakthiKannan shakthimaan.com/downloads.html, i-want-to-do-project.tell-me-wat-2-do-Fedora, Badam Halwa of Embedded Systems, Packaging Red hot, Paneer (butter) Masala >200
May 2, 2009 Introduction to FOSS, Fedora workshop NBKR Institute of Science and Technology, Vidyanagar, Nellore district, Andhra Pradesh, India ShakthiKannan shakthimaan.com/downloads.html, i-want-to-do-project.tell-me-wat-2-do-Fedora, Fedora instalation and desktop, Badam Halwa of Embedded Systems >100
May 10, 2009 Akihabara Fedora 10 Distribution Tokyo, Japan Dramsey see Akihabara "Electric City" >100
May 14-15, 2009 DGPLUG FAD 2009 Dr. B. C. Roy Engineering College, Durgapur, West Bengal, India RatnadeepDebnath KishanGoyal "DGPLUG FAD 2009" ~50
May 24, 2009 Akihabara Fedora 10 Distribution Tokyo, Japan Dramsey see Akihabara "Electric City" >100

FY10 Q2 (June 2009 - August 2009)

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Date Event Location Owner Description Estimated Attendance
August 22, 2009 Fedora/Free Software Workshop ACE Engineering College, Ankushapur, Ghatkesar Mandal, Ranga Reddy District, Andhra Pradesh, India ShakthiKannan shakthimaan.com/downloads.html, i-want-to-do-project.tell-me-wat-2-do-Fedora, Badam Halwa of Embedded Systems, Packaging Red hot, Paneer (butter) Masala >150
July 18-19, 2009 GNUtsav Agartala, Tripura, India ShakthiKannan shakthimaan.com/downloads.html, i-want-to-do-project.tell-me-wat-2-do-Fedora, Badam Halwa of Embedded Systems, Packaging Red hot, Paneer (butter) Masala >150
May 31-June 3, 2009 MSC Open Source Convention 2009 and Fedora Activity Day Berjaya Times Square Hotel & Convention Centre, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Anuar Shahriman Izhar Firdaus A .MY government conference for developers, communities, and public sector. Aims in increasing involvement in Open Source by going deep in the technology and initiating local communities. >600
June 6, 2009 Fedora 11 Release Party Manila, Philippines Magie Engels Herson >100
June 6, 2009 Fedora 11 Release Event Kolkata, India A.Mani >15
June 7, 2009 Akihabara Fedora 10 Distribution Tokyo, Japan Dramsey see Akihabara "Electric City" >100
June 3, 2009 Manipur Fedora 11 Release Event Manipur Central University, Imphal, Manipur Rishikesh Sharma Fedora 11 Release event and Installation Fest 2009 >200
June 11/12, 2009 Introducing FOSS & Fedora 11 install fest Wilgamuwa, Sri Lanka Danishka Navin Introducing FOSS to school schildren and Fedora 11 install fest >100
June 12, 2009 Fedora 11 Release Event Hanoi, Vietnam Truong Anh Tuan See details on iWay website >40
June 21, 2009 Akihabara Fedora 11 Distribution Tokyo, Japan Dramsey see Akihabara "Electric City" >100
June 29/30, 2009 Fedora 11 release + teachers training Galle, Sri Lanka Danishka Navin Fedora 11 launch and Fedora Edu Spin and hand on training 100
July 5, 2009 Akihabara Fedora 11 Distribution Tokyo, Japan Dramsey see Akihabara "Electric City" >100
July 18-19, 2009 NIT Agartala GNU/Linux Fest & Fedora 11 Release Party NIT Agartala, Agartala, India Aveek Sen Linux & FOSS fest- installation fest, talks & workshops over 2 days see NIT Agartala GLUG] >1000 over the 2 days
July 19, 2009 Akihabara Fedora 11 Distribution Tokyo, Japan Dramsey see Akihabara "Electric City" >100
August 2, 2009 Akihabara Fedora 11 Distribution Tokyo, Japan Dramsey see Akihabara "Electric City" >100
August 10, 2009 Introduction to FOSS, Linux and Fedora Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra, India Debjit,Aditya Blog Entry >100
August 11, 2009 Fedora Install Fest Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra, India Debjit ,Aditya Blog Entry >100
August 16, 2009 Understanding Fedora : General usage and advance topics Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra, India Debjit,Aditya Blog Entry >70
August 16, 2009 Akihabara Fedora 11 Distribution Tokyo, Japan Dramsey see Akihabara "Electric City" >100
August 23, 2009 Introduction to fedora,Fedora electric lab and fedora 11 release party Thanjavur,Tamilnadu ,India Pankaj, Anurag Jain, Sanjeev Gopinath V SASTRA University,Thanjavur,Tamilnadu ,India >150
August 27, 2009 Introducing fedora as Powerful OS for students Government Engineering College, Modasa, India Zaid Chauhan "Modas City" "Government Engineering College, Modasa" >200
August 30, 2009 Akihabara Fedora 11 Distribution Tokyo, Japan Dramsey see Akihabara "Electric City" >100

FY10 Q3 (September 2009 - November 2009)

Date Event Location Owner Description Estimated Attendance
September 3-4, 2009

September 10-11, 2009 September 17-18, 2009

Pre-Scheduled visits to the Different Universities & Campuses, to give them on hand support and help , for the Fedora and Open Source OS Rawalpindi, Islamabad (Pakistan) Skyscanner4u A tour to introduce the Fedora in Pakistan >500
September 6, 2009 Akihabara Fedora 11 Distribution Tokyo, Japan Dramsey see Akihabara "Electric City" >100
September 10 - 12, 2009 Linux Poison : An event on GNU/Linux, Free And Open Source Technologies, at SRM University. Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India Salvadesswaran, Ramadass, Shiv Deepak

10 Sep: Linux Lingo : A Workshop On GNU/Linux Fedora; 11 Sep: Linu(X)Box : LAN Gaming on GNU/Linux Platform; 12 Sep: Python: The Man Eater: A Workshop On Python Basics [4]

~500
September 15, 2009 Software Freedom Day CSI Auditorium, Kolkata A. Mani [5]. >60
September 19, 2009 Software Freedom Day 2009 National Computer Center, Quezon City, Philippines Heherson Pagcaliwagan, Magie Antonio, Engels Antonio See event page. >400
September 20, 2009 Akihabara Fedora 11 Distribution Tokyo, Japan Dramsey see Akihabara "Electric City" >100
October 4, 2009 Akihabara Fedora 11 Distribution Tokyo, Japan Dramsey see Akihabara "Electric City" >100
October 18, 2009 Akihabara Fedora 11 Distribution Tokyo, Japan Dramsey see Akihabara "Electric City" >100
October 23-25, 2009 FOSS.my 2009 Asia Pacific Institute of Institute of Information Technology (APIIT), Malaysia MohdIzharFirdaus, SyamsulAnuar Community FOSS conference in Malaysia. Event planning page : Events/FOSS.my_2009 >300
October 30-31, 2009 Dextrix: Annual Technical Symposium Festival of APIIT SD INDIA Asia Pacific Institute of Information Technology (Panipat) HARYANA Sundeep Anand Workshop on KVM based Virtualization "A new career option" >100
November 1, 2009 Akihabara Fedora 11 Distribution Tokyo, Japan Dramsey see Akihabara "Electric City" >100
November 15, 2009 Akihabara Fedora 11 Distribution and Fedora 12 Distribution depending released availability Tokyo, Japan Dramsey see Akihabara "Electric City" >100
November 29, 2009 Akihabara Fedora 11 Distribution and Fedora 12 Distribution depending released availability Tokyo, Japan Dramsey see Akihabara "Electric City" >100

FY10 Q4 (December 2009 - February 2010)

Date Event Location Owner Description Estimated Attendance
December 7-11, 2009 University of the Philippines Engineering Week University of the Philippines - Diliman, College of Engineering Heherson Pagcaliwagan Fedora Workshop and F12 Distribution >200
December 13, 2009 Akihabara Fedora 12 Distribution depending released availability Tokyo, Japan Dramsey see Akihabara "Electric City" >100
December 27, 2009 Akihabara Fedora 12 Distribution depending released availability Tokyo, Japan Dramsey see Akihabara "Electric City" >100

Past Events

Please move past events to the current archive. The full archive is also available.