title: "AlmaLinux Day: Tokyo recap, and announcing AlmaLinux Day: Germany, and more!"
title: "AlmaLinux Day: Tokyo recap, announcing AlmaLinux Day: Germany, and more!"
type: blog
author:
name: "benny Vasquez"
bio: "Chair, AlmaLinux OS Foundation"
image: /users/benny.jpeg
date: 2024-01-31
date: 2024-02-01
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title: "AlmaLinux Day: Tokyo recap, and announcing AlmaLinux Day: Germany, and more!"
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Last December we hosted the very first [AlmaLinux Day in Tokyo](https://almalinux.org/aldt-2023/). As a user-focused event that brought together our community from all over Japan, this wildly successful event focused on the needs and desires of the open source community in Japan. We had nearly 100 attendees and 7 speakers from different industries.
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## Up Next: AlmaLinux Day: Germany
If you missed us at AlmaLinux Day: Tokyo, I have good news! We're working on another event in Germany in March, and one in Raleigh, North Carolina in October! While the details for October are still being nailed down, AlmaLinux Day: Germany is scheduled for March 18th, and will be adjacent to one of our favorite events: CloudFest.
If you missed us at AlmaLinux Day: Tokyo, I have good news! We're working on another event in Germany in March, and one in Raleigh, North Carolina in October! While the details for October are still being nailed down, I am excited to announce that [AlmaLinux Day: Germany](/almalinux-day-germany-2024/) will be March 18th, and will be adjacent to one of our favorite events: CloudFest.
The schedule for AlmaLinux day will include speakers from the global AlmaLinux community, and will cover everything from VFX to HPC, and include people using AlmaLinux as an upstream provider from all over the world. The first bit of information can be found on the AlmaLinux Day: Germany page. Tickets to AlmaLinux day are free, but with 8,000 attendees at CloudFest, we're sure to fill up our 300 seats! Register early and save your spot, and bring a friend!
The schedule includes speakers from the AlmaLinux community, and will cover everything from VFX to HPC to people using AlmaLinux as an upstream provider -- from all over the world. The first bit of information can be found on the AlmaLinux Day: Germany page.
[Tickets to AlmaLinux Day](https://eventyay.com/e/c9789850) are free, but with 8,000 attendees at CloudFest, we're sure to fill up our 300 seats! Register early and save your spot, and bring a friend!
### CloudFest: the intro
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This week we'll be at both [CentOS Connect](https://connect.centos.org/) and [FOSDEM](https://fosdem.org/2024/) to see all of our friends, and I'll be attending [SOOCon](https://openuk.uk/soocon/) in London directly after. We will have booths at a bunch of other events later this year, too, and we'd love to have you join us! So far this year we will be participating in all of these:
| March 14-17 | [SCaLE](https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/) |
| March 16-17 | [CloudFest Hackathon](https://hackathon.cloudfest.com/project/securing-more-infrastructure-by-easing-os-upgrades/) |
| March 18th | AlmaLinux Day Germany |
| March 19-22 | [CloudFest](https://www.cloudfest.com/) |
| April 8 - 10 | [FOSS asia](https://fossasia.org/) |
| April 12-13 | [TexasLinux Fest](http://texaslinuxfest.org/) |
* Probably September - [Ohio Linux Fest (OLF)](http://olfconference.org/) |
* Oct 27-29 - [All things open](http://allthingsopen.org/) |
* Probably November - [Seagl](https://seagl.org/) |
* November 17--22 - [SC (formerly Supercompute)](http://supercomputing.org/) |
If you can dedicate at least 1/2 of the event to staffing a booth at any of the events below, fill out this [Google form](https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1cQ0YQiAcRZXPnDqiHak-AXmsjEBz-IQE8s8jbPLykds/edit)! We'll cover your travel and hotel, and you'll get a per-diem to help offset your food and assorted travel-related costs.
## Keep in touch!
If you want to stay up-to-date, here's where to stay tuned on [our forum](https://almalinux.discourse.group/), [Reddit](https://www.reddit.com/r/AlmaLinux/), [X](https://twitter.com/AlmaLinux), [Mastodon](https://fosstodon.org/@almalinux/), [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/80320905/), [Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/AlmaLinux), and [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCt9lpkqUPp1FUEi9uqVlPQA). We also launched a newsletter this year, which [you can subscribe to on LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/newsletters/almalinux-news-7123058222835376128/) or via email on [our mailing list](https://lists.almalinux.org/postorius/lists/newsletters.lists.almalinux.org/).
benny Vasquez
1 year ago
