In addition to these great suggestions, I started a quick round-up myself at http://blog.edge80.com/2014/12/developer-conferences-for-201...
Soup to nuts.
Ask HN: What are the best developer conferences for 2015?
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Re: Ask HN: What are the best developer conferences for 2015?
#12Linux Plumbers Conference is always incredible, both as an attendee and as a presenter. This year, it's in Seattle.
linux.conf.au 2015 is coming up very soon, but you might want to start planning for linux.conf.au 2016.
In general, I highly recommend the LWN events and CFP calendars: https://lwn.net/Calendar/ and https://lwn.net/Calendar/Monthly/cfp/ . Use the former if you plan to attend, or the latter to know when to submit proposals.
Re: Ask HN: What are the best developer conferences for 2015?
#13strangeloop https://thestrangeloop.com/
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gluecon http://gluecon.com/
Re: Ask HN: What are the best developer conferences for 2015?
#14Linux Plumbers Conference is always incredible, both as an attendee and as a presenter. This year, it's in Seattle. linux.conf.au 2015 is coming up very soon, but you might want to start planning for linux.conf.au 2016. In general, I highly recommend the LWN events and CFP calendars: https://lwn.net/Calendar/ and https://lwn.net/Calendar/Monthly/cfp/ . Use the former if you plan to attend, or the latter to know when…
Is there any info on Linux Plumbers Conference 2015? I can only find stuff about their 2014 conference online.
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#15BSD conferences are Right Sized and the people are amazing. BSDCan is worth the trip if you want to see a different perspective from the larger confs which are highly commercialized.
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#16If you can't attend every conference, many of them are recorded.
http://www.confreaks.com/events
Rubyconf is here and various other ones not related to ruby.
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#17You can find most relevant talks on youtube.
There's so much content on YouTube it can be hard to find something worth watching.
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#18If you are interested in security there are at least two or three good conferences happening every month somewhere. Some are listed below.
BlackHat (big and expensive), Defcon and various Security BSides are always worth attending. There are some great ones in South America (H2HC, YSTS, ekoparty) and of course there are a lot in Europe (Chaos Communication Congress in Germany, HITB in Netherlands, NoSuchCon in France).
Re: Ask HN: What are the best developer conferences for 2015?
#19BSD conferences are Right Sized and the people are amazing. BSDCan is worth the trip if you want to see a different perspective from the larger confs which are highly commercialized.
BSDCan is awesome. 2015 will be my 11th trip.
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#20I too am interested in attending conferences this year.
My list so far:
Nodeconf Adventure
Laracon
WordPress Seattle and Vancouver
CascadiaJS
Ruby on Rails conf