Dear Firedrakers, if you are interested in the development of PDE software more broadly than just Firedrake itself (!), you may be interested in PDESoft in Norway this summer (the week before the Firedrake workshop). The abstract submission deadline has been extended until 19th February. A brief one-paragraph description: The PDE Software Frameworks 2018 conference takes place May 28-30 in Bergen, Norway. This conference provides a forum for the developers and users of software solving the diverse stages of the numerical PDE process, and for discussing future directions of research and development. http://www.iris.no/pdesoft18/pde-software-homepage Cheers, Lawrence