Hello, For those of you that might not know me, I’m one of the openSUSE Board Members.
We are having openSUSEcon 2025 in Nuremberg Germany this week, and having our yearly face to face Board meetings.
Part of what we are discussing is the “How, What, When, Where” of oSC for 2026.
I briefly discussed this a bit with Aoife at Flock, and is there any possibility we might be able to coordinate a bit, between Flock and oSC, when it comes to Dates and Locations, or potentially even co-locating the two conferences, as they are of similar size, scope, and topics, in my experience?
I know that the decisions regarding the dates and locations for Flock for 2026 are still undecided, so I thought this would be a good time to reach out.
The important part is the lack of overlapping attendees. That means that colocating the two events together and combining forces would result in doubling the attendee size.
I would be very happy to see this happening. It could help me a lot to attend both conferences and it would be good for both conferences to increase the number of attendees.