Got a good idea, and are looking for the perfect audience to present it to?  This year there are a lot of choices in North America.  This list isn’t complete, but is just a taste of the speaking opportunities available.

Note: many have proposal deadlines this month, even though the events are 6 months away.  So get cracking now…

• Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit, April 8-10 in San Francisco, CA.  Proposals due Feb 15.
• Linux Symposium, July 13-17  in Montreal, Canada.  Call for Papers due Feb 28.
• OSCON, July 20-24 in San Jose, California.  Call for Participation due Feb 3.
• OpenSourceWorld (formerly LinuxWorldExpo), August 10-13 in San Francisco, CA.  Call for Papers due Feb 20.
• Red Hat Summit, September 1-4 in Chicago, IL.  Call For Papers due March 9.
• Linux Foundation LinuxCon 2009, September 21-25 in Portland, OR.  Call for Papers due April 15.  I have the pleasure of serving on the program committee for this one.
• Linux Plumbers Conference 2009, September 23-25 in Portland OR.  This shares a venue with LinuxCon.