By Kelly Tenn, January 20, 2015
Originally published on the CoreOS blog (archived copy) . Re-published with the authors' permission.

January has been packed with meetups and events across the globe. So far, we’ve been to India, Switzerland, France, England and New Zealand.
Check out a CoreOS tutorial from Brandon Philips (@brandonphilips) at Linux Conf New Zealand.
Our team has been on a fantastic tour meeting CoreOS contributors and friends around the world. A special thank you to the organizers of those meetups and to all those who came out to the meetups and made us feel at home. Come join us at the following events this month:
Tuesday, January 27 at 11 a.m. PST – Online
Join us for a webinar on Managing CoreOS Container Performance for Production Workloads. Kelsey Hightower (@kelseyhightower) from CoreOS and Matt Williams from Datadog will discuss trends in container usage and show how container performance can be monitored, especially as the container deployments grow. Register here.
Tuesday, January 27 at 6 p.m. EST – New York, NY
Come to our January New York City meetup at Work-Bench, 110 Fifth Avenue on the 5th floor, where our team will discuss our new container runtime, Rocket, as well as Quay.io new features. In addition, Nathan Smith, head of engineering at Wink, www.wink.com, will walk us through how they are using CoreOS. Register here.
Tuesday, January 27 at 6 p.m. PST – San Francisco, CA
Our January San Francisco meetup is not-to-miss! We’ll discuss news and updates on etcd, Rocket and AppC. Register here.
Thursday, January 29 at 7 p.m. CET – Barcelona, Spain
Meet Brian Harrington, better known as Redbeard (@brianredbeard), for CoreOS: An Overview, at itnig. Dedicated VMs and configuration management tools are being replaced by containerization and new service management technologies like systemd. This meetup will give an overview of CoreOS, including etcd, schedulers (mesos, kubernetes, etc.), and containers (nspawn, docker, rocket). Understand how to use these new technologies to build performant, reliable, large distributed systems. Register here.
Saturday, January 31-Sunday, February 1 – Brussels, Belgium
Our team is attending FOSDEM ’15 to connect with developers and the open source community. See our talks and meet the team at our dev booth throughout the event.
A special shout out to the organizers of those meetups - Fintan Ryan, Ranganathan Balashanmugam, Muharem Hrnjadovic, Frédéric Ménez, Richard Paul, Piotr Zurek, Patrick Heneise, Benjamin Reitzammer, Sunday Ogwu, Tom Martin, Chris Kuhl and Johann Romefort.
If you are interested in hosting an event of your own or inviting someone from CoreOS to speak, reach out to us at press@coreos.com.