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OSCAL (Open Source Conference Albania) is the first annual conference in Albania organized to promote software freedom, open source software, free culture and open knowledge, a global movement that originally started more than 25 years ago. The Conference will take place at 13th and 14th May 2017 in Tirana and will gather free libre open source technology users, developers, academics, governmental agencies and people who share the idea that software should be free and open for the local community and governments to develop and customize to its needs; that knowledge is a communal property and free and open to everyone. Learn more →

“The Albanian FLOSS community is young and dynamic, and is putting a lot of energy, enthusiasm and professional skills into OSCAL. The conference is offering a complete overview of open source software in Albania, and represents a unique opportunity for global projects to meet local FLOSS advocates.”

Italo Vignoli

Founding member of TDF

“OSCAL is probably the most hospitable conference I’ve ever attended. It’s very well organized and the organizers and visitors are full of enthusiasm. I can only recommend you visit it.“

Jiri Eischmann

Desktop Engineering at Red Hat

“I was very impressed with the enthusiasm and professionalism of the OSCAL organisation team. I found the programme very interesting and engaging, catering to an audience of both FLOSS specialists and for the general public.

Gwen Franck

Creative Commons

“The Albanian FLOSS community is leading the way in the region. OSCAL is one of their key events that brings together local expertise with international guests to create a dynamic and enjoyable event.”

Brian King

Community Development at Mozilla

“OSCAL was a professionally organized conference with almost too many excellent talks to keep track of, fantastic networking opportunities, and an abundance of food and coffee for all the attendees of this mysteriously effective free-to-attend conference.”

Bruno Skvorc

SitePoint

OSCAL is organized by Open Labs, the Albanian based not for profit community that promotes open knowledge initiatives such as Wikipedia, Linux, LibreOffice, Mozilla and any free libre open source platform that promotes the free software manifesto. Open Labs is active since 2012 and has organized more than 100 events, weekly workshops, projections and activities with local and foreign presenters.