About conference

OpenWeekend is an international academic conference, organised every year by CTU Student union - Silicon Hill club in cooperation with Departement of Computer Science FEE CTU and sponsors. It is focused on open technologies for broad range of users, especially on their use in academic environment.

During four years of its existence, many speakers from various parts of the world - Czech and Slovak republic, Germany, France and USA - participated at the conference. They presented papers on various topics: security of Linux kernel and wireless networks, different problems in cryptology, programming in non-traditional languages, OS Linux kernel drivers development, protocols IPSEC, IPv6, IP telephony, GNU systems, deployment of open technologies in government administration and many others.

An audiovisual recordings from the conference, later on freely accesible to everyone, are always produced.

Proceedings of the conference provide materials to all presented papers.

By its scope, OpenWeekend is focused on advanced users programmers, administrators, managers and university students. However, beginners interested in presented topics can be found in the audience as well.

It is also an important meeting of the community.

OpenWeekend is always broadcasted live to the internet.