Over the years I’ve been reading the Gentoo newsletters and there have been quite a lot of events happening all over the place (especially in Germany), although I was always far away from it all geographically. But now that I start from Holland, I can make the trip without as much of a hassle. I looked around the web and I found these events of interest in the upcoming year:

• NLUUG Najaarsconferentie in Ede (Utrecht province), September 14
• Wizards of Os 4 in Berlin, September 14-16 (seems to be all in German)
• aKademy 2006 in Dublin, September 23-30
• LinuxWorld Conference & Expo in Utrecht, October 11-12
• FOSDEM in Brussels, February 24-25
• CeBIT in Hannover, March 15-21
• LinuxTag in Germany, May? (seems to be all in German)
• GUADEC 2007 in Birmingham, May/June?
• Linux Kongress in Germany, September?

That is a lot to choose from, I never knew there were so many. I’ve already registered for the NLUUG event next week. I was meant to visit FOSDEM this year, but I missed it, so I’d like to go next year. Then there’s CeBIT, always wanted to go to that. And since the LinuxWorld Expo is in Utrecht, I have no excuse to miss it.

So that, I think, is the plan for this year. As for the other events, maybe in the future sometime. One thing for certain, it sure is practical to live in Holland rather than the high north in terms of geek events.

If you want to put together your own agenda, most of these events are listed on Wikipedia.