Population: 39 million
Capital: Sacramento
Largest City: Los Angeles
Major Industries: Agriculture, Film and Television, Travel and Tourism, Technology
California is a state in the Western United States. California borders Oregon to the north, Nevada and Arizona to the east, the Mexican state of Baja California to the south; and has a coastline along the Pacific Ocean to the west.
Events
| Location | Event | Date |
|---|---|---|
| Carlsbad | USENIX ATC '22 brings together leading systems researchers for the presentation of cutting-edge systems research and the opportunity to gain insight into a wealth of must-know topics, including virtualization, system and network management and troubleshooting, cloud and edge computing, security, privacy, and trust, mobile and wireless, and more. | July 11-13 2022 |
| Carlsbad | OSDI '22 is a forum for discussing the design, implementation, and implications of systems software. | July 11-13 2022 |
| Los Angeles | SCaLE 19x is the annual Southern California Linux Expo. SCaLE is the largest community-run open-source and free software conference in North America. It is held annually in the greater Los Angeles area. | July 28-31 2022 |
| Fremont | Storage Developer Conference offers tutorials, sessions, Keynote speakers, and the opportunity to participate in the co-located plugfests. | Sept. 12-15 2022 |
User Groups
| Location | Linux User Group |
|---|---|
| Berkeley | BUUG: Berkeley Unix User Group is a friendly support network for residents of Berkeley and surrounding areas, who want to learn and discuss Linux, BSD, Solaris, or other Unix-type systems. |
| Campbell | CocoaHeads: meets every Tuesday from 7-9PM. CocoaHeads merged with NSCoders. |
| Davis | LUGOD: Linux Users' Group of Davis holds regular meetings twice a month. |
| Fullerton | OCLUG: Orange County Linux Users Group meet each month to share information, troubleshoot and plan activities. |
| Los Angeles | SFVLUG:: Linux User Group for the San Fernando Valley meet every two weeks, every other Saturday. |
| Los Angeles | UCLALUG: Linux Users Group at UCLA is a student run group of Linux advocates and users. They offer a support network for Linux users by offering help with Linux, hosting Linux related events, and together with several computing services. |
| Menlo Park | CABAL: Consortium of All Bay Area Linux is a group of enthusiasts of the Linux operating system in the San Francisco Bay Area. |
| Pasadena | SGVLUG: San Gabriel Valley Linux User's Group. |
| Sacramento | SacLUG: Sacramento Linux Users group. |
| San Francisco | BALUG: Bay Area Linux Users Group meets generally on a monthly basis. |
| San Francisco | SFBayLUG: San Francisco Bay Area Linux Users Group; was formerly Silicon Valley Linux User Group |
| San Francisco | SF-LUG: San Francisco Linux Users' Group is a discussion group that focuses on Linux and related open source technologies and news. |
| San Jose | BayLISA: A system administration user group in Silicon Valley and the San Francisco Bay Area. |
| San Luis Obispo | SLOLUG: San Luis Obispo Linux Users Group meets online on the first Thursday of each month at 6:30 PM via Zoom (audio/video conferencing) to share our experiences using Linux, demonstrate applications, features of the Linux operating system and computer hardware. |
| San Luis Obispo | CPLUG: Cal Poly Linux Users Group holds regular talks and meetings, as well as social events. |
| Santa Clara | BAFUG: Bay Area FreeBSD User Group is a group for Open Source Unix like operating systems, based in the San Francisco Bay Area. |
| Santa Rosa | NBLUG: North Bay Linux Users' Group serves the San Francisco North Bay and surrounding areas. |
| Scotts Valley | FeltonLUG: Felton Linux Users Group promotes Linux and free/open source software in Felton and the surrounding San Lorenzo Valley. |
| Sunnyvale | BayPIGgies: Bay Area Python Interest Group. |
| Walnut Creek | DVLUG: Diablo Valley Linux Users Group shares experiences with other users, developers and technologists. Less experienced, (even technophobic) curious users are welcome too. |
If California was a country, it would be the fifth-largest economy in the world. It is only surpassed by the United States, China, Japan, and Germany.
In San Francisco we also have SF-LUG a somewhat anarchic group that presently is holding online meeting on the first Sunday of the Month on Jiti.si meets attended by a lot of people outside San Francisco.. is the URL
Thanks for letting us know. We’ve added this LUG.