It is no big news that open source research has been growing strongly in recent years. However, the recent string of conference and workshop announcements is just amazing. Here is a short run-down of what reached me the last two weeks:

• 10.-12.02.2010: Workshop on the Future of Research on Free/Open Source Software (FOSS)
• 08.05.2010: 2010 ICSE workshop on FLOSS
• 31.05.-01.06.2010: (F/L/)OSS 2010
• 01.-02.07.2010: Fourth F/LOSS Workshop

These are all international academic/research open source research events!