Free, Libre and Open Source Software Events in Oxford, United Kingdom.

Except where otherwise specified:
Open to anyone in the city, technical or not, whether a free software expert or newbie.
Just turn up; no registration required!
Wherever possible, in-person events should also be streamed online; see their pages below.

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Events Jan-Mar 2026 organised by Laura Fortunato and Oliver Geer

open-level

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Teaching High School Students Research Computing - Andrea Bruno and Mark Galassi

Friday, Feb 06, 04:00 PM GMT-05:00 PM

open-level talk

[External; ox.ac.uk Members Only] Digital Scholarship Open Source Initiative

[External; ox.ac.uk Members Only] Digital Scholarship Open Source Initiative

Tuesday, Feb 10, 10:30 AM-11:30 AM

Visiting Scholars Centre, Weston Library

external open-level social talk

A grid of logos with the phrase "Free Software" in green in the central square. Logos include: Firefox, Blender, Linux, Filezilla, Ubuntu, GIMP, Tor, 7-Zip, Darktable, Debian, VLC, Conversations XMPP client, DavX5, openSUSE, F-Droid, Linux Mint, LibreOffice, KDE, Python, Inkscape, Raspberry Pi, Krita, GNOME, Gentoo...

Contribute to FLOSS projects (non-programmers and programmers welcomed) & #ILoveFS Social - Oliver Geer

Saturday, Feb 14, 02:00 PM-04:00 PM

Bill Roscoe Lecture Theatre, Computer Science

open-level social workshop

Copyleft and Protecting Users’ Right to Repair - Karen Sandler, Software Freedom Conservancy

Friday, Feb 20, 06:00 PM GMT-07:00 PM

open-level talk

Software Engineering for Bioinformatics: a Bioconductor Perspective - Kevin Rue-Albrecht

Tuesday, Feb 24, 02:00 PM-03:00 PM

The Community Works

open-level talk

A screenshot of Emacs with a yellowish light theme. An editor panel is open at the top, and a calendar panel at the bottom, showing University of Oxford week names alongside the dates for three months. The editor panel contains a comment describing the use of the calendar (it's Prot's oxford-calendar package).

Computing in freedom with GNU Emacs - Protesilaos Stavrou

Thursday, Mar 12, 06:00 PM GMT-07:00 PM

open-level talk