Free software is coming to the city! ÖzgürKon will take place on April 25-26 at Kadıköy Municipality Barış Manço Cultural Center. The weather is expected to be partly cloudy on both days of the event. Learn about the venue facilities and ways to get there.

Kadıköy Municipality Barış Manço Cultural Center

Address: Caferağa Mahallesi Nailbey Sokak No:29/A Kadıköy/Istanbul

Unfortunately, there is no ramp for wheelchairs or strollers.

Click here for the OpenStreetMap location

ÖzgürKon 2026 is an international free software conference, organized by Özgür Yazılım Derneği (Free Software Association in Turkey), takes place between April 25-26, 2026 at Barış Manço Culture Center, Istanbul, Turkey. The conference will be held in English and Turkish. The call for participation is open to anyone who has a word to say on freedom. Participation and attendance is completely free (as in beer).

Five years have passed until the last edition of ÖzgürKon. ÖzgürKon, that is one of the first examples of online conferences during the pandemic was organized for the last time in 2021, unfortunately due to the inflation also affects the online conferences. Within the period when comperably smaller events regarding the free software community and for-profit, advertisement oriented huge sized events with extraordinary budgets and overcharged ticket prices; the integrity and contiunity of the free software groups have stalled due to the disappearence of regular and bigger events that are the base and meeting points of the community.