Besides the “big one,” DevOpsDays Austin 2013, there’s a bunch of great events going on in Austin for techies.
The Agile Austin DevOps SIG meets every last Wednesday over lunch at Bazaarvoice; lunch is provided. This month’s meeting on January 30 is Breaking the Barriers.
The Austin Cloud User Group meets every third Tuesday in the evening at Pervasive; dinner is provided. This month’s meeting is January 15, sponsored by Canonical, and there is a talk on Openstack Quantum, the network virtualization platform.
South by Southwest Interactive is here of course on March 8-12.
Hip security event BSides Austin is on March 21-22.
Data Day Austin is on January 29.
Texas Linux Fest will be May 31 – June 1.
It’s never been a better time to be a techie in Austin!
the agile admin 
Also the Austin Groovy and Grails user group meets on 1/24 at Mister Tramps with Todd Niswonger talking about Spring Security Plugin! http://www.meetup.com/Austin-Groovy-and-Grails-Users/events/98818682/
Following Texas Linux Fest is the Yet Another Perl Conference, North America (YAPC::NA 2013), June 3-5 at the Joe C. Thompson Conference Center – http://www.yapcna.org/yn2013/. The Perl community is celebrating Perl’s 25th Anniversary here in Austin!
And yet another one to add to the list, SciPy 2013 http://conference.scipy.org/scipy2013/about.php