1. When is the event? 🎃

All Things Open, or ATO, will be held from October 27th to 29th in downtown Raleigh, North Carolina (USA), at the Raleigh Convention Center.

1. How big is the event? 👀

I hear it will be close to 5k attendees this year.

ATO brings folks from all over the world because of the content and the people. Todd Lewis the event organizer spends a lot of time and effort staying connected to the trends, important topics, and people in open source and tech so that attendees are getting the latest and greatest.

1. What's the content? Who are the people?

CONTENT

AI is going to be 🔥 everywhere like a wildfire.

Cloudy and code-y stuff will always underpin the trendy stuff.

SPEAKERS

Women are in high numbers on the speaker list, thank goodness.

Lots of folks from places 🎒 like Red Hat, Grafana Labs, MongoDB, Cloudflare and other cloudy places... GitLab and other gity places.

And lots of developers as speakers 🤘

1. How much is it? $150 for two days 🤑

Seriously? Seriously. REGISTER!.

Plus, there's free content on Sunday - Community and DEI.

1. Where should I stay? 🌲

The city of Raleigh isn't so big that the location matters terribly, but staying close to the venue is nice if you'd like to walk and socialize before and after the event or set up meetings/hangouts.

I have lived in Raleigh since 2001 and have seen it change dramatically over the past 25 years. This area has several amazing universities and fantastic creatives... like chefs, botanists, yogis, and entrepreneurs of all kinds. This is reflected in fun things to do in nearby towns like Chapel Hill, Durham, Cary, and Wake Forest, to name a few. Downtown Raleigh also has a sampling of great food, nature, yoga, craft beers, etc.

Like I said, you can Uber easily no matter where you stay, and there are some economy options further out, but if you can, I highly recommend that you try to stay in one of the many hotel options downtown. Top rec: Long Leaf Hotel.

Leave me a note in the comment if you want more recommendations or have questions!