DevConf.cz (Developer Conference) is an annual, free,

Red Hat Red Hat, Inc. is an American software company that provides open source software products to enterprises. Founded in 1993, Red Hat has its corporate headquarters in Raleigh, North Carolina, with other offices worldwide. Red Hat has become ass ...

sponsored community conference for developers, admins,

DevOps DevOps is a set of practices that combines software development (''Dev'') and IT operations (''Ops''). It aims to shorten the systems development life cycle and provide continuous delivery with high software quality. DevOps is complementary to a ...

engineers, testers, documentation writers and other contributors to open source technologies. The conference includes topics on

Linux Linux ( or ) is a family of open-source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991, by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged as a Linux distribution, which ...

Middleware Middleware is a type of computer software that provides services to software applications beyond those available from the operating system. It can be described as "software glue". Middleware makes it easier for software developers to implement co ...

Virtualization In computing, virtualization or virtualisation (sometimes abbreviated v12n, a numeronym) is the act of creating a virtual (rather than actual) version of something at the same abstraction level, including virtual computer hardware platforms, stor ...

, Storage and

Cloud In meteorology, a cloud is an aerosol consisting of a visible mass of miniature liquid droplets, frozen crystals, or other particles suspended in the atmosphere of a planetary body or similar space. Water or various other chemicals may co ...

. At DevConf.cz,

FLOSS Free and open-source software (FOSS) is a term used to refer to groups of software consisting of both free software and open-source software where anyone is freely licensed to use, copy, study, and change the software in any way, and the source ...

communities sync, share, and hack on upstream projects together in the city of

Brno Brno ( , ; german: Brünn ) is a city in the South Moravian Region of the Czech Republic. Located at the confluence of the Svitava and Svratka rivers, Brno has about 380,000 inhabitants, making it the second-largest city in the Czech Republic ...

Czech Republic The Czech Republic, or simply Czechia, is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Historically known as Bohemia, it is bordered by Austria to the south, Germany to the west, Poland to the northeast, and Slovakia to the southeast. The ...

. DevConf.cz is held annually, usually during the last weekend of January (one week before

FOSDEM Free and Open source Software Developers' European Meeting (FOSDEM) is a non-commercial, volunteer-organized European event centered on free and open-source software development. It is aimed at developers and anyone interested in the free and ...

), at the

Brno University of Technology Brno University of Technology (abbreviated: ''BUT''; in Czech: Vysoké učení technické v Brně – Czech abbreviation: ''VUT'') is a university located in Brno, Czech Republic. Being founded in 1899 and initially offering a single course ...

Faculty of Information Technology campus. The topics of the conference in 2020 were: Agile,

& CI/ CD,

and Containers, Community, Debug / Tracing, Desktop, Developer Tools,

Documentation Documentation is any communicable material that is used to describe, explain or instruct regarding some attributes of an object, system or procedure, such as its parts, assembly, installation, maintenance and use. As a form of knowledge manageme ...

Fedora A fedora () is a hat with a soft brim and indented crown.Kilgour, Ruth Edwards (1958). ''A Pageant of Hats Ancient and Modern''. R. M. McBride Company. It is typically creased lengthwise down the crown and "pinched" near the front on both sides ...

, Frontend / UI / UX,

Kernel Kernel may refer to: Computing * Kernel (operating system), the central component of most operating systems * Kernel (image processing), a matrix used for image convolution * Compute kernel, in GPGPU programming * Kernel method, in machine learnin ...

, Immutable OS,

IoT The Internet of things (IoT) describes physical objects (or groups of such objects) with sensors, processing ability, software and other technologies that connect and exchange data with other devices and systems over the Internet or other com ...

(Internet of Things),

Microservices A microservice architecture – a variant of the service-oriented architecture structural style – is an architectural pattern that arranges an application as a collection of loosely-coupled, fine-grained services, communicating through lightw ...

, ML / AI /

Big Data Though used sometimes loosely partly because of a lack of formal definition, the interpretation that seems to best describe Big data is the one associated with large body of information that we could not comprehend when used only in smaller am ...

Networking Network, networking and networked may refer to: Science and technology * Network theory, the study of graphs as a representation of relations between discrete objects * Network science, an academic field that studies complex networks Mathematics ...

, Platform / OS,

Quality Quality may refer to: Concepts *Quality (business), the ''non-inferiority'' or ''superiority'' of something *Quality (philosophy), an attribute or a property *Quality (physics), in response theory *Energy quality, used in various science discipli ...

/ Testing,

Security Security is protection from, or resilience against, potential harm (or other unwanted coercive change) caused by others, by restraining the freedom of others to act. Beneficiaries (technically referents) of security may be of persons and social ...

/ IdM, Storage / Ceph /

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and

Conference history

The Developer Conference started in 2009 and followed the FUDCon, the Fedora User and Developer conference. * 2009 **September 10–11 at Faculty of Informatics

Masaryk University Masaryk University (MU) ( cs, Masarykova univerzita; la, Universitas Masarykiana Brunensis) is the second largest university in the Czech Republic, a member of the Compostela Group and the Utrecht Network. Founded in 1919 in Brno as the seco ...

- focused on Linux developers, advanced users and developers of

JBoss WildFly, formerly known as JBoss AS, or simply JBoss, is an application server written by JBoss, now developed by Red Hat. WildFly is written in Java and implements the Java Platform, Enterprise Edition (Java EE) specification. It runs on multip ...

**33 talks and workshops ** JBoss topics like Jopr, jboss.org, Drools, Jbpm to Fedora topics like KDE and core utils **The keynote speakers were Radovan Musil and Radek Vokal * 2011 **February 11–12 at Faculty of Informatics

**Two parallel tracks **around 200 attendees *2012 **February 17–18 at Faculty of Informatics

**60 talks (95% in English) **more than 600 attendees **GTK+ hackfest and GNOME Docs Sprint * 2013 **February 23–24 at Faculty of Informatics

**60 talks, 18 lightning talks, 20 workshops **around 700 attendees * 2014 **February 7–9 at Faculty of Informatics

** 6 parallel tracks (3 talk tracks and 3 workshop tracks) ** more than 1000 attendees ** The keynote speaker was Tim Burke from

* 2015 **February 6–8 at Faculty of Information Technology

** 154 workshops and talks ** more than 1000 attendees ** 8 parallel tracks (5 talk tracks and 3 workshop tracks) ** Winners of the Winter of Code competition were announced ** The keynote speakers were Tim Burke, a vice president of Red Hat engineering, and Mark Little, a vice president of Red Hat engineering and CTO of JBoss Middleware * 2016 ** February 5–7 at Faculty of Information Technology

** 203 workshops and talks ** 1600 attendees ** 8 parallel tracks (5 talk tracks and 3 workshop tracks) ** Keynote speakers: Tim Burke, Jan Wildeboer, Denise Dumas and Matthew Miller * 2017 ** January 27-29 at Faculty of Information Technology

** 220 talks, workshops, keynotes across 20 tracks, 30 lightning talks *** 3-5 sessions for Storage, Cloud, Networking, .net and Desktop *** 6-10 sessions for Microservices, OpenStack, Testing, DevTools, Virtualization, DevOps and Agile *** 11-15 sessions for Config Management, Linux and OpenShift *** JUDCon had 18 sessions *** Security, Fedora and Containers each had around 20 sessions ** 1600 attendees ** 13 community project booths, 4 community meetups *2018 **January 26-28 at Faculty of Information Technology

**3 keynotes, 215 talks and discussions and 26 workshops across 20 tracks **15 community project booths, 6 community meetups **Keynote speakers: Chris Wright, Hugh Brock, Michael McGrath, Jim Perrin, Matthew Miller **1600 attendees *2019 **January 25-27 at Faculty of Information Technology

**273 talks and workshops **18 meetups and 6 activities **1500 attendees *2020 **January 24-26 at Faculty of Information Technology

**3 keynotes, 210 talks, 11 discussions, 23 workshops across 21 tracks **20 community project booths, 12 community meetups and 5 fun activities **Keynote speakers: Leslie Hawthorn, William Benton & Christoph Goern, Karanbir Singh & Jeremy Eder **1600 attendees

Financing

Entrance and participation in the event is entirely free. It is financed by variety of teams of

. The event is mainly organized and run by volunteers.

References

External links

*{{Official website, https://www.devconf.info/cz/
Schedule of DevConf.cz 2015DevConf.cz 2018 scheduleDevconf.cz 2019 scheduleDevconf.cz 2020 schedule
Linux conferences Free-software conferences Recurring events established in 2009

Conference history

Financing

See also

References

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