Ask HN: What are the best developer conferences for 2015?

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Post by tburger » Thu, Jan 01, 2015, 11:26 PM UTC

As a resolution for 2015, I'm hoping to attend more conferences - particularly for web development, server-side languages, Linux, and open source software. What are the best conferences lined up for 2015?

Re: Ask HN: What are the best developer conferences for 2015?

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Post by alblue » Thu, Jan 01, 2015, 11:51 PM UTC

You should provide what kind of location or travel budget that you are asking about: there's great conferences across Europe but that may not be of interest if you are based on the West coast of the states for example.

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Post by akoumjian » Fri, Jan 02, 2015, 12:11 AM UTC

PyCon (https://us.pycon.org/2015/) is always a blast. It's large, but has an amazing sense of community. You will find at least three or four amazing talks each day, on a variety of subjects. The posters area will expose you to all kinds of cool academic and other projects. The Expo Hall is always full of hip companies (giving away lots of great SWAG, of course).

I guarantee you will leave inspired.

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Post by tburger » Fri, Jan 02, 2015, 12:13 AM UTC

alblue wrote: post #2

You should provide what kind of location or travel budget that you are asking about: there's great conferences across Europe but that may not be of interest if you are based on the West coast of the states for example.

I live in the Seattle area, and would be open to one or two in Europe during the year.

Re: Ask HN: What are the best developer conferences for 2015?

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Post by criveros » Fri, Jan 02, 2015, 12:38 AM UTC

You can find most relevant talks on youtube.

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Post by gracer » Fri, Jan 02, 2015, 12:41 AM UTC

akoumjian wrote: post #3

PyCon ( https://us.pycon.org/2015/ ) is always a blast. It's large, but has an amazing sense of community. You will find at least three or four amazing talks each day, on a variety of subjects. The posters area will expose you to all kinds of cool academic and other projects. The Expo Hall is always full of hip companies (giving away lots of great SWAG, of course). I guarantee you will leave inspired.

Of course! Thanks - great tip.

Re: Ask HN: What are the best developer conferences for 2015?

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Post by jwildeboer » Fri, Jan 02, 2015, 12:43 AM UTC

Fosdem in Brussels. Best place for open source since 14 years.

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Post by gracer » Fri, Jan 02, 2015, 12:44 AM UTC

alblue wrote: post #2

You should provide what kind of location or travel budget that you are asking about: there's great conferences across Europe but that may not be of interest if you are based on the West coast of the states for example.

I live in Australia. So almost EVERYTHING is an international airfare (ugh).

But love it here anyhow!

Re: Ask HN: What are the best developer conferences for 2015?

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Post by Yadi » Fri, Jan 02, 2015, 12:47 AM UTC

http://rubyconf.org/

The International Ruby Conference -- more commonly known as RubyConf -- has been the main annual gathering of Rubyists from around the world since 2001.

http://www.railsconf.com/

April 21-23, 2015 • Atlanta, Georgia

Something similar to JsConf:

http://fluentconf.com/javascript-html-2015?cmp=kn-web-confre...

http://www.buildwindows.com/ 2015

"/dev/winter 2015" http://devcycles.net/2015/winter/?utm_source=lanyrd

Free 1 day software conference. Development, DevOps, Mobile, Web, NoSQL, Cloud, Functional Programming, Startups and more.

QCon London 2015

http://qconlondon.com/

9th International Software Development Conference

Or

QCon New York 2015

The 4th Annual International Software Development Conference

https://qconnewyork.com/

Maybe: http://sxsw.com/interactive ?

Less Web Dev though ( http://www.gdconf.com/ )

Game Developers Conference

I think there will be:

http://html5devconf.com/ for 2014 as well.

Here are some other conferences about "Computer Image Analysis, Computer Vision Conferences One Year Calendar"

http://conferences.visionbib.com/Browse-data.php?order=DateN...

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Post by JoshTriplett » Fri, Jan 02, 2015, 12:56 AM UTC

akoumjian wrote: post #3

PyCon ( https://us.pycon.org/2015/ ) is always a blast. It's large, but has an amazing sense of community. You will find at least three or four amazing talks each day, on a variety of subjects. The posters area will expose you to all kinds of cool academic and other projects. The Expo Hall is always full of hip companies (giving away lots of great SWAG, of course). I guarantee you will leave inspired.

I'm going to PyCon for the first time this year (presenting on how to port Python to run without an OS). I've been to quite a few other FOSS conferences; any tips for PyCon, since it sounds like you've been before?