There are many who attend OS-related academic conferences multiple times a year: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_computer_science_conferences#Operating_sy

There are many who attend OS-related academic conferences multiple times a year: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_computer_science_conferences#Operating_systems https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_computer_science_confe... There are also some more industry-related conferences like http://operatingsystems.io/ http://operatingsystems.io/, Linux- and BSD-focused technical conferences. If you attend these you'll meet people from many age groups who are working on OSes.