Community F2F 2027: Toronto in April, Brno in May, or both?
Chris Ward PublicSeen by 29poll by Chris Ward Closing Fri 27 Nov 2026 10:59PM
What is this poll about?
We are exploring two additional possible in-person F2F community meetups this spring '27. We’re checking interest before anyone plans anything.
Toronto, April. The International Cryptographic Module Conference (ICMC) runs 12–15 April 2027 at the Marriott Downtown at CF Toronto Eaton Centre (icmconference.org). We’d meet the day before it starts, so it works best for people already going, without interrupting participation in the conference event itself. The OpenSSL Corporation team will be at RSAC in San Francisco the week before, as well, but Toronto is the one we’re aiming for to meetup with the larger community while the broader OpenSSL-* teams are in North America.
Brno, May. We’d potentially repeat the format of last May. Mutliple days in Brno brought the Project, the Corporation and community collaborators together. They produced the post-quantum defaults, hardware-backed release signing, official Windows binaries and the public roadmap (highlights here). Dates for 2027 aren’t set.
Why is this important?
Last year the Large Businesses community ran an informal meetup at ICMC, in the OpenSSL meeting room during a coffee break. That went well enough and they plan to run it again, if there's sufficient interest. Would your community be interested to run F2F too? And/Or in Brno? The answers will tell us which location, if either, or both, justifies the effort.
What are you asking people to do?
Vote for each location you could realistically get to in person. Pick both if both work. A comment with your preferred month, city or topic is useful to add. You're preference for which week in May, or which weeks to avoid, if coming to Brno in May works for you but some weeks work better than others. Default preference is to repeat last year's timeframe: Last week in May, sometime between May 25 - 29th, but dates are not confirmed nor final.
Choose the option(s) you favor. (multiple selection allowed)
Toronto, the day before ICMC (April 2027): I could be there
Brno, Czech Republic (May 2027): I could be there
Either works: I’d go wherever more people can make it
I’d suggest a different time or place (comment below)
Neither works for me in 2027
Current results
| Current results | Option | % of points | Voters | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brno, Czech Republic (May 2027): I could be there | 43 | 10 |     | |||
| Toronto, the day before ICMC (April 2027): I could be there | 26 | 6 |  | |||
| Neither works for me in 2027 | 17 | 4 |   | |||
| Either works: I’d go wherever more people can make it | 13 | 3 |   | |||
| I’d suggest a different time or place (comment below) | 0 | 0 | ||||
| Not voted | 210 |                 |
Almost all flights from here to Toronto go via the US, so definitely Brno to avoid the US.
Brno is logistically very convenient for myself, I can be in Toronto too if needed; however, I'd very likely need sponsorship to travel internationally.
if "day after' ICMC is an option for folks, include it as a comment too if it's preferred.
I'd prefer Toronto, but that week doesn't work for me. I have various events in May, so it depends on the particular week.
The ICMC week and surrounding days don't work for me, unfortunately. Had it been later in April, it would have...
TAC/BAC have access to discretionary budget; it can help fund this type of initiative to the point TAC/BAC agree that it's valuable.