Before the end of the summer: DrupalCon Szeged in Hungary. More than four hundred prospective attendees have already signed up for the biggest Drupal Conference in Europe. In addition to four compact session tracks, there will be lots of BoF opportunities, plus four new themed exhibitions. Participate in the code sprint and test out what you've just learned at the conference. Be a part of this thriving community!

Nothing beats learning something and traveling at the same time. Wanna see deserts and lizards? Utah Open Source Conference, organized by Utah Open Source Foundation, will be held on August 28 - 30 in Salt Lake City this year. This year's theme is HOWTO. The idea is to bring together open source enthusiasts across industries to foster the knowledge exchange and learning. Conference tracks will be categorized into technology, education, community and business. In addition, the registration fee is structured to ensure that it's affordable to everyone interested. Such a great community event! We've teamed up to sponsor.

PyCon UK, hosted in Brimingham on Sept 12—14, is back by popular demand. It's a conference for Python users and programmers of all levels, with talk topics ranging from an introduction to Python to building publishing solutions with ReportLab and tricks for systems programmers. This year, Mano Marks of Google will be holding a Google AppEngine tutorial at the conference. We're sponsoring, but we'd rather be there....

Here's another chance to mingle and learn from the Perl experts. Back by popular demand, the 4th Italian Perl Workshop, organized by Italian Perl Mongers and Pisa.pm, will be held on Sept 18-19, 2008. This workshop will create a dialogue between Perl developers of all levels and provide an arena for the exchange of knowledge. There will be both conference-style talks and unconference-style discussions. To make sure the workshop is accessible to everyone, registration is free of charge! ActiveState is a sponsor.

This year's YAPC::EU's theme is Beautiful Perl. 92 talks are packed into the 3-day event with a wide range of tracks: Big, DB, Devel, GUI, Lang, etc. Topics include working with Perl and Rails, working in the cloud, DBIx::MasterClass, and unicode best practices. YAPC continues to deliver conferences at affordable level. Don't miss out on this community driven event!

EuroPython brings together developers, designers and business people from Python, Plone, and Zope communities around the world to build contacts and learn from each other's experiences. This year's event is organized into two parts: Conference talks will be held on July 7-10, while development sprints will be on July 10-12. Themes include Python implementations and packaging, mobile programming, database programming and games! Since Komodo IDE supports Python, we're sponsoring.

Looks like Drupal is getting more popular than ever! The Drupal community in and around Alberta are coming together for two days to collaborate, learn, network and raise a little "heck." Coming up on July 3-4, DrupalCamp Alberta will take place at the University of Lethbridge. Similar to other DrupalCamps, its tracks are organized for rookies and experts across all industries. No matter if you are a developer, info architect, entrepreneur, or work for a non-profit, there will be something for you. Don't miss out on another Drupal event. Register now.

ActiveState is proud to be sponsoring the annual DrupalCamp Seattle, which will be held on June 27-28 this year at Youngstown Cultural Arts Center in West Seattle. Organized by local Drupal enthusiasts, this event has lined up presentations for Drupal developers of all levels. Talks include, but are not limited to, Drupal 101, developing Drupal themes, information architecture and site planning, and staging and deployment. The workshop is already full, but you can still get your hands on the limited edition DrupalCamp Seattle t-shirts!

YAPC: NA - Yet Another Perl Conference in North America, organized by local Perl user groups, is to provide an affordable conference for Perl masters and newbies alike with an amazing price of US$100 for the 3-day event. This high-profile yet inclusive conference will be held on June 16-18 on the campus of IIT in Chicago this year.

Test your Perl skills and participate in the Hackathons if you'd like.

Kudos to those volunteers who organize the grassroots event.

If you live in Europe and can't come to the Tcl Conf in the States in September, don't miss out on the European Tcl/Tk User Meeting, which will be held in Strasbourg, France, on June 6-7.

Organized by the local Tcl community, this meeting has lined up presentations from SECS with Tcl, Nfickle: improved scanner generators for Tcl, Tcl on the OLPC, to Ucome a new Tcl Web environment. It's a great opportunity to meet Tcl enthusiasts and gurus and discuss how you could utilize the power of Tcl. We can't be there, but we have sponsored a Tcl Dev Kit prize package.

The Portuguese Perl Workshop, organized by APPP (Portuguese Association for Perl Programmers), will take place on June 6-7 in Braga. If you're interested in getting more out of the workshops, Brian D. Foy is giving an Intermediate Perl Training session on June 4-5. The registration to the training also includes workshop registration. Hurry up, seats are limited.

On June 2-3, the 3rd Annual DC PHP Conference & Expo will be held in George Washington University in DC. Our very own Jeff Griffiths will be there with his presentation "RIA with PHP and Open Standards" to show you how to build dynamic and pretty Rich Internet Applications with PHP and open standards. In addition to that, don't miss out the PHP IDEs panel discussion on June 3. Find out which PHP IDE is the best for you!

eLiberatica, being held on May 30 in Bucharest, Romania, will foster discussions on open and free technologies and bring together community and business leaders around the world to share best practices. Topics include how to make money with open source technologies, how to maintain professional growth while participating in the community, and the adaptations of open source tools in government and public sectors.

The previous French Perl Workshops have been highlighting sessions on Perl development for industries and services. This year's focus will be on the Perl capability to support scientists and teachers. In fact, there's a session dedicated on the topic: research and teaching. Amateurs and students, fear not, the workshops promise to bring you the knowledge and skills needed for programming in many styles. Professionals? Learn how to apply the power of Perl on lead projects.

As developers are discovering the effectiveness and efficiency of dynamic languages such as Ruby, PHP and Python, more companies are relying on those languages for business-relevant web applications. Dynamic Languages World Europe, which will be held on May 26–28 in Karlsruhe, Germany, is the first European conference that brings together the shared frameworks and ideas of these dynamic languages. ActiveState is proud to be a Kicker Sponsor, making sure the foosball tables are there for you to unwind in between sessions. We're not responsible for any funds lost in wagering on the games, mind you!

Organized by the local Perl Mongers, the annual Nordic Perl Workshop will be held on May 24-25 in Stockholm this year. As a workshop for the community by the community, it accepts a wide variety of talk subjects from algorithms for social graphing and web-technologies to Perl5 core optimizations and language implementation targeting the Parrot VM. Never been to Stockholm? Submit a talk now and you might get a chance to visit the home of Nobel Prize.

Can't join the Drupal Camp Vancouver because it's sold out? Don't despair! There's a Drupal Camp Toronto coming up May 23-24 at the University of Toronto. Organized by community Drupal enthusiasts, tickets are going fast for this event too. As Komodo team is always excited to be an ambassador to the community, we are happy to be sponsoring. See you there!

The annual php|tek Conference, organized by php|publishers, has lined up 50 sessions and tutorials this year for a well-balanced and serious learning experience.

Attend the conference for a richer understanding of the technologies and techniques that help you in your daily work and, for a limited time, receive free training worth $769 USD. As the tickets for the last two editions of php|tek have sold out weeks prior to the event, don't get left out this time.

Our PHP developer, Jeff Griffiths, will be there with his presentation "RIA with open standards," a talk on using open standards to build Rich Internet Applications that are highly interactive and attractive.