jA crowdsourced list of global open science/education/publishing events in 2015  and beyond!

Ontario Library Association, January 28 - 31, Toronto

PSP 2015 Annual Conference, February 4 - 6, Washington DC

SLAS 2015, February 7 - 11, Washington DC 

10th International Digital Curation Conference, February 9 - 13, London

AAAS Annual Meeting, 12 – 16 February, San Jose, California

SCELC colloquium, 18 February, California

Digital Conversations @ British Library: A Web of Rights, 19 February, London

ER&L, February 22 - 25, Austin Texas 

RDA 5th Plenary, 8-11 March, San Diego

Jisc Digital Festival, March 9 - 10, Birmingham, UK

The future of scientific publishing: Roundtable discussion 20 March, Royal Society, London

eResearch NZ, 23 - 25 March, Queenstown, NZ

ACRL 2015, 25 - 28 March 2015, Portland, Oregon

The future for Open Access and the move towards Open Data, 26 March, London

Library Publishing Forum 29 - 30 March, Portland, Oregon

UKSG 38th Annual Conference and Exhibition March 30 - April 1, Glasgow

ScholarOne User Conf, 15 -16 April, Lisbon, Portugal

CRIStin, 20 - 21 April, Oslo, Norway

RDAP, 22 - 24 April, Minneapolis, Minnesota

ARCS Workshop: Using the PressForward Plugin to Create Publications and Build Research Communities  April 26 - 28, Philadelphia 

Dryad Community Meeting, 27 May, DC

3rd International Open Data Conference, 27-29 May, Ottawa

SSP, 27-29 May, Arlington, VA

RMA Induction, 1 June 2015, Brighton, UK

OR2015 June 8 - 11, Indianapolis, Indiana

Edinburgh Publishing Conference  June 19 - 20, Edinburgh

LIBER, 24 - 26 June, London, UK

PKP Scholarly Publishing Conference August 13 - 14, Vancouver

Open Knowledge Festival - Annual event hosted by Open Knowledge and featuring multiple formats and open communities. Probably taking place late Summer 2015. TBC. (Website for the 2014 event here: 2014.okfestival.org/)

MozFest - Annual event hosted by Mozilla including an Open Science track, Nov 4-6, London

OpenCon 2015 - Nov 14-16, Brussels

SpotOn  - dates/venues TBC

London Info International, November 16-17, London

Regular meetups

Open Drinks - currently take place in:

London @LDNOpenDrinks

London @OpenResLDN

London @SciCommForum

San Francisco @SFOpenDrinks

NYC: @NYOpenDrinks

Washington, DC: @DCOpenDrinks

Chicago, IL: @CHIOpenDrinks (just started - let’s plan the first meetup soon!)

NB, SciDataCon 2016, the international conference on scientific data will be in Autumn 2016.