2017 was a good year–and by that I mean very busy–for conferences. Here is a brief roundup of where I was.

January

Nothing!

February

FOSDEM (Brussels, Belgium)

March

LibrePlanet (Cambridge, MA)

April

Lectures in Paris

May

Linux Fest North West (Bellingham, WA)
OSCON (Austin, TX)

June

Nothing!

July

Readercon (Boston, MA)

August

DebConf (Montreal, QC, Canada)

September

Nothing!

October

Leafest (Stowe, VT)
SeaGL (Seattle, WA)
All Things Open (Raleigh, NC)

November

Public Lab Barn Raising (Cocodrie, LA)
CubaConf (Habana, Cuba)

December

Chaos Communication Congress (Leipzig, Germany)

Of these, I spoke at:

• FOSDEM – All Ages: How to Build a Movement, with Deb Nicholson and “F as in Freedom
• Lectures in Paris – Introduction to Software Freedom and Governance and How to Become a Free Software Leader in Three Easy Steps
• LFNW – All Ages, with Deb Nicholson
• DebConf – Freedom embedded: Devices that respect users and communities, for John Sullivan, and All ages: How to build a movement, with Deb Nicholson
• SeaGL – A division of labor: Measuring diversity in free software
• All Things Open – Funding (and spending) for diversity
• CubaConf – A variation on Freedom Embedded
• Chaos Communication Congress – History and implications of DRM: From tractors to Web standards

For this, I was out of Boston for 65 days. (There were a few other travel days over the course of the year.)

I have my eye on a few new conferences for 2018, but also to drop a few of the ones I attended in 2017. For example, I don’t think I’ll be lecturing in Paris; I’m not attending FOSDEM this year. I submitted to the OSCON CfP, but it’s unlikely I’ll attend otherwise; I am planning on submitting to Open West.

I submitted to some conferences I was not accepted to, but I forget which. Sorry!