 In 2009 and 2014, he delivered talks at the Open Source Monitoring Conference in Nuremberg, Germany.He has spoken at SouthEast LinuxFest in 2011, 2013 (delivered keynote) and 2015.Balog spoke at Indiana LinuxFest in 2011 and at Ohio LinuxFest in 2011, 2012, and as keynote speaker in 2017.

, Balog has written 14 articles for Opensource.com.