The fourth official Open edX conference, and the first one to be hosted outside of the US, is taking place in may 2017 in Madrid, Spain, at the Carlos III University (UC3M). This annual conference is for developers, system administrators, education specialists, and anyone who works with or wants to learn more about the Open edX platform. As part of this …

The third official Open edX conference, and the first one to be hosted outside of the Cambridge Area, was held in Palo Alto California, at Stanford University in june 2016. This annual conference is for developers, system administrators, education specialists, and anyone who works with or wants to learn more about the Open edX platform. As part of the conference, Felipe …

The second official Open edX conference will be held in Wellesley College in Massachusets in October 12th and 13th, 2015. This conference is for developers, system administrators, education specialists, and anyone who works with or wants to learn more about the Open edX platform.

On November 18th – 19th 2014 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the team encharged of the Open edX community hosted the first official Open edX conference, focused on the development and use of the edX open source platform.

After the 2014 Open edX Conference, edX organized a two day Hackathon to get the community to work together with edX engineers in developing new interesting projects. The eduNEXt team participated actively, working in a project aimed at implementing the use of libsass instead of sass to allow the removal of a ruby dependency from the stack.

In December 2013 the State Department hosted alongside with Harvard, MIT and edX a meeting to propose ideas for using technology to improve the current state of higher education. This turned out to be the first ever Open conference, named edX Datajam 2013.