What is the most important open source / free culture conference?

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After you vote, tell us why you made your choice and tell us about your favorite open source conferences.

131 votes tallied
FOSDEM
21% (27 votes)
linux.conf.au (LCA)
5% (6 votes)
LinuxCon
11% (15 votes)
Open Source Business Conference (OSBC)
2% (3 votes)
OSCON
12% (16 votes)
I think regional conferences are most valuable (Ex.: LinuxFest Northwest, Ohio LinuxFest)
18% (23 votes)
I think more topic-specific conferences are most valuable (Ex.: DrupalCon, EclipseCon)
16% (21 votes)
Conferences aren't really all that important
15% (20 votes)

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Corfy | July 26, 2011
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The headline asks about "favorite open source conferences", but just above the poll, it asks for "most important". Those might be mutually exclusive. Personally, I'd say the local ones are my favorite (Indiana LinuxFest and Ohio LinuxFest), but the national ones are probably more important.

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AndrejT | July 27, 2011
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During the past few years I've been to many of these conferences and the atmosphere and topics discussed were the best at KDE's conference Akademy and the more general FOSDEM conference. So these are the two I try to attend every year.