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1: This is an incomplete list of NetBSD-related events. If you know about 2: some public event that fits and would like it to be listed here, 3: [contact us.](http://www.NetBSD.org/cgi-bin/feedback.cgi) 4: 5: For a list of NetBSD-related presentations, please check out our 6: [presentation pages](http://www.netbsd.org/gallery/presentations/). 7: 8: Future Events 9: ------------- 10: 11: ### `Oct 2015` - EuroBSDcon 2015, Stockholm, Sweden 12: 13: *Oct. 1-4, 2015, Stockholm, Sweden* 14: 15: [EuroBSDcon](https://2015.eurobsdcon.org/) is the premier European 16: conference on the open source BSD operating systems attracting about 17: 250 highly skilled engineering professionals, software developers, 18: computer science students and professors, and users from all over 19: Europe and other parts of the world. The goal of EuroBSDcon is to 20: exchange knowledge about the BSD operating systems, facilitate 21: coordination and cooperation among users and developers. 22: 23: ### `Sep 2015` - vBSDCon 2015, Virginia, United States 24: 25: *Sep. 11-13, 2015, Virginia, United States* 26: 27: On September 11-13, 2015 at the Sheraton in Reston, Virginia for the second biennial [vBSDCon](http://vbsdcon.com) event. This exciting weekend will bring together members of the BSD community for a series of roundtable discussions, educational sessions, best practice conversations, and exclusive networking opportunities. 28: 29: ### `Sep 2015` - Open Source Conference 2015 Niigata 30: 31: *Sep. 5, 2015, [HON-PORT NIIGATA CITY PUBLIC LIBRARY](http://www.niigatacitylib.jp/?page_id=166), Shimane, Japan* 32: 33: At the [Open Source Conference 2015 34: Niigata](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2015-niigata/) , there will be a NetBSD booth 35: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 36: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) with many gadget 37: demonstrations. 38: 39: Past Events 40: ----------- 41: 42: ### `Aug 2015` - Open Source Conference 2015 Shimane 43: 44: *Aug. 22, 2015, [MATSUE TERRSA](http://www.sanbg.com/terrsa/e/index.html), Shimane, Japan* 45: 46: At the [Open Source Conference 2015 47: Shimane](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2015-shimane/) , there was a NetBSD booth 48: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 49: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) with many gadget 50: demonstrations.[Report on netbsd-advocacy](http://mail-index.netbsd.org/netbsd-advocacy/2015/08/22/msg000692.html). 51: 52: ### `Mar 2015` - AsiaBSDCon 2015 53: 54: *Mar. 12-15, 2015, Tokyo, Japan* 55: 56: [AsiaBSDCon](https://2015.asiabsdcon.org/) is a conference for users 57: and developers on BSD based systems. The next conference will be held 58: in Tokyo, in 12-15 March, 2015. The conference is for anyone 59: developing, deploying and using systems based on FreeBSD, NetBSD, 60: OpenBSD, DragonFlyBSD, Darwin and MacOS X. AsiaBSDCon is a technical 61: conference and aims to collect the best technical papers and 62: presentations available to ensure that the latest developments in our 63: open source community are shared with the widest possible audience. 64: 65: ### `Nov 2014` - Kansai OpenSource 2014 66: 67: *Nov. 7-8, 2014, [Asia and Pacific Trade Center ITM 68: Building](http://www.atc-co.com/), Osaka, Japan* 69: 70: At the [Kansai OpenSource 2014](http://www.k-of.jp/), there will be BSD 71: booths staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 72: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) and [Kansai \*BSD Users 73: Group](http://www.kbug.gr.jp/). with many gadget demonstrations { 74: [hpcarm](../ports/hpcarm/), [hpcmips](../ports/hpcmips/), 75: [hpcsh](../ports/hpcsh/) } and BSDBOF. 76: 77: ### `Sep 2014` - EuroBSDCon 2014, Sofia, Bulgaria 78: 79: *Sep. 25-28, 2014, Sofia, Bulgaria* 80: 81: [EuroBSDcon](http://2014.EuroBSDCon.org) is the premier European 82: conference on the open source BSD operating systems attracting about 83: 250 highly skilled engineering professionals, software developers, 84: computer science students and professors, and users from all over 85: Europe and other parts of the world. The goal of EuroBSDcon is to 86: exchange knowledge about the BSD operating systems, facilitate 87: coordination and cooperation among users and developers. 88: 89: ### `Jul 2014` - Open Source Conference 2014 Nagoya 90: 91: *Jul. 4-5, 2014, [Nagoya International 92: Center](http://www.nic-nagoya.or.jp/en/e/about-us/access-hours), Nagoya, 93: Japan* 94: 95: At the [Open Source Conference 2014 96: Nagoya](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2014-nagoya/) , there will be a OpenBSD 97: and NetBSD booth staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 98: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/) and [Nagoya \*BSD Users' Group 99: (NBUG)](http://www.nagoya.bug.gr.jp/). There will be a gadget 100: demonstration [BSD booth](http://twitpic.com/czat1r) and NBUG BOF. 101: 102: ### `Jun 2014` - pkgsrcCon 2014, London, England 103: 104: *Jun. 21-22, 2014, Middlesex University, London, England* 105: 106: [pkgsrcCon](http://www.pkgsrc.org/pkgsrcCon/2014/) is a technical 107: conference for people working on the NetBSD Packages Collection 108: (pkgsrc), focusing on existing technologies, research projects, and 109: works-in-progress in pkgsrc infrastructure. Developers, contributors, 110: interested developers and users are all welcome to attend. 111: 112: ### `Jun 2014` - Open Source Conference 2014 Hokkaido 113: 114: *Jun. 13-14, 2014, [Sapporo Business Innovation Center, Sapporo, 115: Japan](http://www.sapporosansin.jp/access/)* 116: 117: At the [Open Source Conference 2014 118: Hokkaido](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2014-do/) , there will be a NetBSD booth 119: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 120: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/) and [NoBUG](http://www.no.bug.gr.jp/) 121: with NetBSD gadget demonstrations ( [hpcarm](../ports/hpcarm/), 122: [hpcmips](../ports/hpcmips/), [hpcsh](../ports/hpcsh/)). 123: 124: ### `Mar 2014` - Open Source Conference 2014 Hamanako 125: 126: *Mar. 22, 2014, [Hamamatsu Shimin Kyodo 127: Center](http://www.machien-hamamatsu.jp/) , Shizuoka, Japan* 128: 129: At the [Open Source Conference 2014 130: Hamanako](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2014-hamanako/) , there will be a NetBSD 131: booth staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 132: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/) with many gadgets demonstration ( 133: [hpcarm](../ports/hpcarm/), [hpcmips](../ports/hpcmips/), 134: [hpcsh](../ports/hpcsh/)). 135: 136: ### `Mar 2014` - AsiaBSDCon 2014 137: 138: *Mar 13-16, 2014, Tokyo University of Science,Tokyo, Japan* 139: 140: [AsiaBSDCon](http://2014.asiabsdcon.org/) will be a conference for users 141: and developers on BSD based systems. The conference was for anyone 142: developing, deploying and using systems based on FreeBSD, NetBSD, 143: OpenBSD, DragonFly BSD, Darwin, and MacOS X. AsiaBSDCon was a technical 144: conference and aimed to collect the best technical papers and 145: presentations available to ensure that the latest developments in our 146: open source community are shared with the widest possible audience. 147: 148: ### `Feb 2014` - Open Source Conference 2014 Tokyo/Spring 149: 150: *Feb. 28- Mar. 1, 2014, [MEISEI 151: UNIVERSITY](http://www.meisei-u.ac.jp/access/hino.html), Tokyo, Japan* 152: 153: At the [Open Source Conference 2014 154: Tokyo/Spring](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2014-spring/), there was a NetBSD 155: booth staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 156: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/) with NetBSD gadget demonstrations ( 157: [hpcarm](../ports/hpcarm/), [zaurus](../ports/zaurus/), 158: [evbarm](../ports/evbarm/)). [2014-02-28-netbsd-raspi 159: image](http://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-arm/2014/02/28/msg002243.html)). 160: more reports on [togetter](http://togetter.com/li/635747). Japan NetBSD 161: Users' Group got an award called "[Open Source Confernce 162: Award](http://www.ospn.jp/press/20140218osc-award.html)". 163: 164: ### `Feb 2014` - NYC\*BSD Con 2014 165: 166: *Feb 8, 2014 Suspenders Bar and Restaurant* 167: 168: [NYC\*BSD Con 2014](http://www.nycbsdcon.org/2014/) NYCBSDCon is on as a 169: day-long event with the theme of "The BSDs in Production." 170: 171: ### `Nov 2013` - Linux User Group of Mauritius - LinuxFest 2013 172: 173: *Nov 25, 2013, Octave Wiehe Auditorium University of Mauritius* 174: 175: [Linux Fest 2013 in Mauritius](http://lugm.org/linuxfest/#) will feature 176: some BSD thumb drives and other general IT and Open Source talks 177: 178: ### `Nov 2013` - Open Source Conference 2013 Oita 179: 180: *Nov. 23, 2013, i-ness, Oita, Japan* 181: 182: At the [Open Source Conference 2013 183: Oita](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2013-oita/) , there will be a NetBSD booth 184: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 185: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/) with many gadgets demonstration ( 186: [hpcarm](../ports/hpcarm/), [hpcmips](../ports/hpcmips/), 187: [hpcsh](../ports/hpcsh/)). 188: 189: ### `Nov 2013` - Open Source Conference 2013 Fukuoka 190: 191: *Nov. 16, 2013, [Fukuoka Soft Research 192: Park](http://www.fukuoka-srp.co.jp/access/index.html) , Fukuoka, Japan* 193: 194: At the [Open Source Conference 2013 195: Fukuoka](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2013-fukuoka/) , there will be a NetBSD 196: booth staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 197: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/) with many gadgets demonstration ( 198: [hpcarm](../ports/hpcarm/), [hpcmips](../ports/hpcmips/), 199: [hpcsh](../ports/hpcsh/)) 200: 201: ### `Nov 2013` - Kansai OpenSource 2013 202: 203: *Nov. 8-9, 2013, [Asia and Pacific Trade Center ITM 204: Building](http://www.atc-co.com/), Osaka, Japan* 205: 206: At the [Kansai OpenSource 2013](http://www.k-of.jp/), there will be BSD 207: booths staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 208: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) and [Kansai \*BSD Users 209: Group](http://www.kbug.gr.jp/). with many gadget demonstrations { 210: [hpcarm](../ports/hpcarm/), [hpcmips](../ports/hpcmips/), 211: [hpcsh](../ports/hpcsh/) } and BSDBOF. 212: 213: ### `Oct 2013` - Open Source Conference 2013 Tokyo/Fall 214: 215: *Oct. 19-20, 2013, [MEISEI 216: UNIVERSITY](http://www.meisei-u.ac.jp/access/hino.html), Tokyo, Japan* 217: 218: At the [Open Source Conference 2013 219: Tokyo/Fall](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2013-fall/), there will be a NetBSD 220: booth staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 221: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/) with NetBSD gadget demonstrations ( 222: [hpcarm](../ports/hpcarm/), [hpcmips](../ports/hpcmips/), 223: [hpcsh](../ports/hpcsh/)) and BSDBOF. 224: 225: ### `Oct 2013` - Open Source Conference 2013 Hiroshima 226: 227: *Oct. 6, 2013, [Satellite Campus 228: Hiroshima](http://www.pu-hiroshima.ac.jp/site/satellite/accessmap.html) 229: , Hiroshima, Japan* 230: 231: At the [Open Source Conference 2013 232: Hiroshima](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2013-hiroshima/) , there will be a 233: NetBSD booth staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 234: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/) with NetBSD gadget demonstrations ( 235: [hpcarm](../ports/hpcarm/), [hpcmips](../ports/hpcmips/), 236: [hpcsh](../ports/hpcsh/)). 237: 238: ### `Sep 2013` - Open Source Conference 2013 Hokkaido 239: 240: *Sep. 14, 2013, [Sapporo Convention Center, Sapporo, 241: Japan](http://www.sora-scc.jp/access/index.html)* 242: 243: At the [Open Source Conference 2013 244: Hokkaido](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2013-do/) , there will be a NetBSD booth 245: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 246: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/) and [NoBUG](http://www.no.bug.gr.jp/) 247: with NetBSD gadget demonstrations ( [hpcarm](../ports/hpcarm/), 248: [hpcmips](../ports/hpcmips/), [hpcsh](../ports/hpcsh/)). 249: 250: ### `Aug 2013` - FrOSCon 2013 251: 252: *Aug. 24–25, 2013, [Bonn-Rhein-Sieg University of Applied Sciences, 253: Campus 254: Sankt-Augustin](http://fhbrs.de/en/University/Addresses+and+how+to+find+us.html), 255: Germany* 256: 257: At [FrOSCon 8](http://froscon.org/en/home/) (Free and Open Source 258: Software Conference), the NetBSD project will be present with a booth 259: with several "showcase" machines, handing out flyers and CDs and 260: answering users' questions. 261: 262: ### `Aug 2013` - Open Source Conference 2013 Shimane 263: 264: *Aug. 24, 2013, [MATSUE 265: TERRSA](http://www.sanbg.com/terrsa/e/index.html), Shimane, Japan* 266: 267: At the [Open Source Conference 2013 268: Shimane](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2013-shimane/) , there was a NetBSD booth 269: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 270: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) with many gadget 271: demonstrations ( [SONY NEWS 272: NetBSD/newsmips](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/5003059), [Java Station 273: NetBSD/sparc](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/5003356), [OMRON LUNAII 274: NetBSD/luna68k](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/5003079), [XM6i 275: NetBSD/x68k](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/5003189), [Raspberry PI 276: hardfloat 277: NetBSD/evbarmv6hf](http://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-arm/2013/08/23/msg001984.html) 278: ). more reports on [togetter](http://togetter.com/li/553529). 279: 280: ### `Aug 2013` - Open Source Conference 2013 Kansai@Kyoto 281: 282: *Aug. 2-3, 2013, [KYOTO RESEARCH 283: PARK](http://www.krp.co.jp/english/access/index.html), Kyoto, Japan* 284: 285: At the [Open Source Conference 2013 286: Kansai@Kyoto](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2013-kyoto/) , there was a NetBSD 287: booth staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 288: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/) and [Kansai \*BSD Users 289: Group](http://www.kbug.gr.jp/) . There was a gadgets demonstration ( 290: [sparc64 Genial 737s](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/4987247), [OMRON 291: LUNA and LUNAII](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/4987331), [LUNAII and 292: mikutter](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/4987913), 293: [RaspberryPI](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/4987927) ) and presentation 294: ( [all about OMRON LUNA](http://www.soum.co.jp/~jun/OSC2013kyoto.pdf), 295: [Do LUNA68K Dream of mltermic Twitter 296: Sheep?,](http://www.ceres.dti.ne.jp/tsutsui/osc2013kyoto/NetBSD-luna68k_mlterm-fb_Twitter.html) 297: ). more report on [togetter](http://togetter.com/li/542885). 298: 299: ### `Jul 2013` - Japan NetBSD Users' Group meeting & NetBSD BOF 300: 301: *Jul 13, 2013, [VLSI Design and Education Center University of 302: Tokyo](http://www.vdec.u-tokyo.ac.jp/English/contact.html), Tokyo, 303: Japan* 304: 305: See [Japan NetBSD Users Group 15th annual Meeting and BoF 306: 2013](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/announce/meeting15.html.en) 307: for meeting information.[more detail on 308: togetter](http://togetter.com/li/532926). 309: 310: ### `Jul 2013` - Open Source Conference 2013 Okinawa 311: 312: *Jul. 6, 2013, [Okinawa Convention 313: Center](http://www.oki-conven.jp/en/modules/tinyd7/page/page1.html) , 314: Okinawa, Japan* 315: 316: At the [Open Source Conference 2013 317: Okinawa](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2013-okinawa/) , there will be a NetBSD 318: booth staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 319: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/) with many gadgets demonstration ( 320: [hpcarm](../ports/hpcarm/), [Raspberry-pi image for 321: NetBSD](http://ftp.NetBSD.org/pub/NetBSD/misc/jun/raspberry-pi/), 322: [XM6i](http://xm6i.org/)).[more detail on 323: togetter](http://togetter.com/li/529669). 324: 325: ### `Jun 2013` - Open Source Conference 2013 Nagoya 326: 327: *Jun. 21-22, 2013, [Nagoya International 328: Center](http://www.nic-nagoya.or.jp/en/e/about-us/access-hours), Nagoya, 329: Japan* 330: 331: At the [Open Source Conference 2013 332: Nagoya](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2013-nagoya/) , there was a OpenBSD 333: andNetBSD booth staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 334: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/) and [Nagoya \*BSD Users' Group 335: (NBUG)](http://www.nagoya.bug.gr.jp/). There was a gadget demonstration 336: [BSD booth](http://twitpic.com/czat1r) ( [OpenBSD/luna88k and 337: NetBSD/luna68k](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/4959244), [NetBSD6.1 vs 338: NetBSD6.0.2 animation viewer runnning on NetBSD/x68k with XM6i X68030 339: emulator](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/4959314), [RaspberryPI NetBSD 340: Image](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/4959033) ) and NBUG 341: BOF([OpenBSD/luna88k](http://www.nk-home.net/~aoyama/osc2013nagoya/OpenBSD-luna88k.pdf),6.1 342: vs 6.0.2 animation on 343: NetBSD/x68k,[NetBSD/RPI](http://ftp.NetBSD.org/pub/NetBSD/misc/jun/raspberry-pi/README-RPI.pdf) 344: ),[CLU lang and NetBSD 345: 2038](http://www.slideshare.net/hirofumitouhei/osc2013-nagoya). [more 346: detail on togetter](http://togetter.com/li/522396). 347: 348: ### May 2013 - Linuxtag Berlin 349: 350: *May 22-25, 2013, Berlin, Germany.* 351: 352: LinuxTag 2013 opens its doors from May 22 to May 25, 2013, at the Berlin 353: Expo Center under the Funkturm in Berlin, Germany. The event features a 354: NetBSD booth on the exhibition fair, where you can get the newest 355: T-Shirts, talk to NetBSD developers or get stickers for your computer 356: cases or notebooks. 357: 358: See the [Linuxtag homepage](http://www.linuxtag.org/2013/en.html) for 359: more information. 360: 361: ### `May 2013` - BSDCan 2013, Ottawa, Canada 362: 363: *May 17-18, 2013, Ottawa, Canada.* 364: 365: [BSDCan 2013](http://www.bsdcan.org/2013) is a BSD conference held in 366: Ottawa, Canada, for people working on and with 4.4BSD based operating 367: systems and related projects. BSDCan 2013 will be held on 17-18 May 2013 368: at University of Ottawa, and will be preceded by two days of tutorials 369: on 15-16 May 2013. There were related events (of a social nature, for 370: the most part) on the day before and after the conference. 371: 372: See [the call for 373: papers](http://mail-index.NetBSD.org/netbsd-advocacy/2012/12/09/msg000506.html) 374: for details. 375: 376: ### `Apr 2013` - Central European BSD-Day 2013, Naples, Italy 377: 378: *Apr 6, 2013, Naples, Italy* 379: 380: The [Central European BSD-Day](http://bsdday.eu/2013) took place at he 381: Institute of Biostructures and Bioimaging in Naples, Italy on Saturday, 382: April 6th. The format is technically a mixture of a cross-project 383: developer summit and a workshop. We have invited developers working with 384: BSD from different organizations, we have some dinners together, and 385: dedicate various sessions to each of the topics based on the interests 386: of the attending developers. The format of these sessions is quite 387: flexible: they may include presentations or demonstration of results, or 388: even public discussions with developers involved, or a mix of all of 389: these. 390: 391: ### `Mar 2013` - pkgsrcCon 2013, Berlin, Germany 392: 393: *Mar. 23, 2013, IN-Berlin Space, Berlin, Germany* 394: 395: The [pkgsrcCon](http://www.pkgsrc.org/pkgsrcCon/2013/) is a technical 396: conference for people working on the NetBSD Packages Collection 397: (pkgsrc), focusing on existing technologies, research projects, and 398: works-in-progress in pkgsrc infrastructure. Developers, contributors, 399: interested developers and users are all welcome to attend. 400: 401: ### `Mar 2013` - Chemnitz Linux Days 2013, Chemnitz, Germany 402: 403: *Mar. 16-17, 2013, Chemnitz, Germany* 404: 405: The Chemnitz Linux Days is a conference that deals with Linux and Open 406: Source Software. It is open for everyone, novices and experts alike. 407: There will be a NetBSD booth where you can get the freshest goodies and 408: BSD related talks. 409: 410: See the [website](http://chemnitzer.linux-tage.de/2013/) for more 411: information. 412: 413: ### `Mar 2013` - AsiaBSDCon 2013 414: 415: *Mar 14-17, 2013, Tokyo University of Science,Tokyo, Japan* 416: 417: [AsiaBSDCon](http://2013.asiabsdcon.org/) will be a conference for users 418: and developers on BSD based systems. The conference was for anyone 419: developing, deploying and using systems based on FreeBSD, NetBSD, 420: OpenBSD, DragonFly BSD, Darwin, and MacOS X. AsiaBSDCon was a technical 421: conference and aimed to collect the best technical papers and 422: presentations available to ensure that the latest developments in our 423: open source community are shared with the widest possible audience. 424: 425: [Time table](http://2013.asiabsdcon.org/timetable.html). Keynote: [64bit 426: SMP NetBSD OS Porting for TILE-Gx VLIW Many-Core Processor by Toru 427: Nishimura](http://2013.asiabsdcon.org/timetable.html#K1) [More reports 428: on Togetter](http://togetter.com/li/472002) and [AsiaBSDCon Guide by 429: Japan NetBSD Users 430: Group](http://www.soum.co.jp/~jun/asiabsdcon2013.pdf). 431: 432: ### `Mar 2013` - Open Source Conference 2013 Tokushima 433: 434: *Mar. 9, 2013, [TOKUGIN TOMONY 435: PLAZA](http://www.tokuginplaza.com/own/index.asp) , Tokushima, Japan* 436: 437: At the [Open Source Conference 2013 438: Tokushima](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2013-tokushima/) , there was be a 439: NetBSD booth staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 440: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/) with many gadgets demonstration ( 441: [hpcarm](../ports/hpcarm/), [evbarm 442: (Netwalker,KOBO,RPI)](../ports/evbarm/), [luna68k](../ports/luna68k/)) 443: and ["NetBSD 20 years" 444: presentation](http://www.slideshare.net/tsutsuii/osc2013tokushima-net-bsd20th) 445: by tsutsui@. [More reports on Togetter](http://togetter.com/li/468577). 446: 447: ### `Feb 2013` - Open Source Conference 2013 Tokyo/Spring 448: 449: *Feb. 22-23, 2013, Tokyo, Japan* 450: 451: At the [Open Source Conference 2013 452: Tokyo/Spring](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2013-spring/), there was a NetBSD 453: booth staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 454: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/) with NetBSD gadget demonstrations( 455: [NetBSD/Raspberry Pi](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/4689247), 456: [NetBSD/KOBO and 457: NetBSD/netwalker](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/4688202), [mikutter on 458: WZERO3](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/4689261), ) and [more details on 459: togetter](http://togetter.com/li/460484). 460: 461: ### `Feb 2013` - Open Source Conference 2013 Hamamatsu 462: 463: *Feb. 9, 2013, [Hamamatsu Shimin Kyodo 464: Center](http://www.machien-hamamatsu.jp/) , Shizuoka, Japan* 465: 466: At the [Open Source Conference 2013 467: Hamamatsu](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2013-hamamatsu/) , there was a NetBSD 468: booth staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 469: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/) with many gadgets demonstration ( 470: [hpcarm](../ports/hpcarm/), [hpcmips](../ports/hpcmips/), 471: [hpcsh](../ports/hpcsh/)). [More reports on 472: Togetter](http://togetter.com/li/452856). 473: 474: ### `Feb 2013` - FOSDEM 2013, Brussels, Belgium 475: 476: *Feb. 2-3, 2013, Brussels, Belgium* 477: 478: [FOSDEM](https://fosdem.org/2013/) (Free and Open source Software 479: Developers' European Meeting) is a two-day free and non-commercial event 480: organized by the community for the community. Its goal is to provide 481: Free Software and Open Source developers and communities a place to 482: meet. It includes talks, presentations, booths, and a social event on 483: the day prior to the event. Participation and attendance is totally 484: free, though the organization gratefully accepts donations and 485: sponsorships. No registration necessary. 486: 487: There was a special developer's room reserved for BSD licensed operating 488: systems and their talks, and a NetBSD booth where you can talk to 489: developers or get NetBSD goodies. 490: 491: Please see [this 492: announcement](http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-advocacy/2012-November/004276.html) 493: for details. 494: 495: ### `Dec 2012` - Open Source Conference 2012 Fukuoka 496: 497: *Dec. 8, 2012, [Fukuoka Jyouhou 498: Senmon-gakkou](http://www.kcs-f.ac.jp/index.html) , Fukuoka, Japan* 499: 500: At the [Open Source Conference 2012 501: Fukuoka](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2012-fukuoka/) , there was a NetBSD booth 502: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 503: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/) with many gadgets demonstration ( 504: [hpcarm](../ports/hpcarm/), [hpcmips](../ports/hpcmips/), 505: [hpcsh](../ports/hpcsh/)) 506: 507: ### `Nov 2012` - Open Source Conference 2012 Aizu 508: 509: *Nov. 3, 2012, [The University of 510: Aizu](http://www.u-aizu.ac.jp/e-index.html) , Aizu, Japan* 511: 512: At the [Open Source Conference 2012 513: Aizu](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2012-aizu/) , there was a NetBSD booth 514: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 515: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/) with many gadgets demonstration ( 516: [hpcarm](../ports/hpcarm/), [hpcmips](../ports/hpcmips/), 517: [hpcsh](../ports/hpcsh/)) 518: 519: ### `Oct 2012` - Open Source Conference 2012 Oita/Fall 520: 521: *Oct. 27, 2012, Sophia hall , Oita, Japan* 522: 523: At the [Open Source Conference 2012 524: Oita/Fall](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2012-oita-fall/) , there was a NetBSD 525: booth staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 526: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/) with many gadgets demonstration ( 527: [hpcarm](../ports/hpcarm/), [hpcmips](../ports/hpcmips/), 528: [hpcsh](../ports/hpcsh/)). 529: 530: ### `Oct 2012` - Open Source Conference 2012 Hiroshima 531: 532: *Oct. 20, 2012, [Hiroshima Kokusai Gakuin 533: University](http://www.hkg.ac.jp/html/about/access.html) , Hiroshima, 534: Japan* 535: 536: At the [Open Source Conference 2012 537: Hiroshima](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2012-hiroshima/) , there was a NetBSD 538: booth staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 539: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/) with [four NetBSD/x68k 540: machines](http://twitpic.com/b6hyt7) including 541: [X68030](http://twitpic.com/b6h7bz)+[Neptune-X+NE2000](http://twitpic.com/b6i5j1), 542: [X68030+Nereid](http://twitpic.com/b6h0gl), 543: [X68060](http://twitpic.com/b6hw05) 544: ([X68030+060turbo](http://twitpic.com/b67l7a)), [X68000 545: PRO](http://twitpic.com/b6gs48) with [Xellent30 546: accellerator](http://movapic.com/pic/201210201011355081fa47b2a4f) 547: [booted via recently added netboot](http://twitpic.com/b6gqeb), and 548: [XM6i X68030 Emulator](http://xm6i.org/) on [Mac OS X with a real X68000 549: keyboard via USB converter](http://twitpic.com/b6i2qa). There were also 550: presentations ["Competitive development of XM6i and NetBSD/x68k" by 551: isaki@](http://xm6i.org/event/osc2012hi/) and ["NetBSD 6.0 New features 552: found at OSC booth" by 553: tsutsui@](http://www.slideshare.net/tsutsuii/osc-netbsd-60). [The event 554: summary is available on Togetter](http://togetter.com/li/392778). 555: 556: ### `Oct 2012` - EuroBSDCon 2012, Warsaw, Poland 557: 558: *Oct. 18-21, 2012, Warsaw, Poland* 559: 560: [EuroBSDcon](http://2012.EuroBSDCon.org) is the European annual 561: technical conference gathering users and developers working on and with 562: 4.4BSD based operating systems family and related projects. 563: 564: EuroBSDcon gives the exceptional opportunity to learn about latest news 565: from the BSD world, witness contemporary deployment case studies, and 566: meet personally other users and companies using BSD oriented 567: technologies. EuroBSDcon is also a boiler plate for ideas, discussions 568: and information exchange, which often turn into programming projects. 569: 570: The conference has always attracted active programmers, administrators 571: and aspiring students, as well as IT companies at large, which found the 572: conference a convenient and quality training option for its staff. We 573: firmly believe that high profile education is vital to the future of 574: technology, and hence greatly welcome students and young people to this 575: regular meeting. 576: 577: ### `Sep 2012` - Open Source Conference 2012 Okinawa 578: 579: *Sep. 22, 2012, [Okinawa Convention 580: Center](http://www.oki-conven.jp/en/modules/tinyd7/page/page1.html) , 581: Okinawa, Japan* 582: 583: At the [Open Source Conference 2012 584: Okinawa](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2012-okinawa/) , there was a NetBSD booth 585: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 586: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/) with many gadgets demonstration ( 587: [hpcarm](../ports/hpcarm/), [hpcmips](../ports/hpcmips/), 588: [hpcsh](../ports/hpcsh/)). 589: 590: ### `Sep 2012` - Open Source Conference 2012 Tokyo/Spring 591: 592: *Sep. 7-8, 2012, Tokyo, Japan* 593: 594: At the [Open Source Conference 2012 595: Tokyo/Spring](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2012-spring/), there was a NetBSD 596: booth staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 597: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/) with NetBSD gadget demonstrations( 598: [NetBSD/Openblocks A6 by 599: kiyohara@](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/4686373), [NetBSD/Openblocks 600: 266,600 by kiyohara@](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/4687681), 601: [NetBSD/Raspberry Pi](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/4689247), 602: [NetBSD/KOBO and 603: NetBSD/netwalker](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/4688202), [mikutter on 604: WZERO3](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/4689261), [linkstation and 605: USL-5P](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/4686571), [KAME 606: Project](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/4686706) ) and BSD BOF. [more 607: details on togetter](http://togetter.com/li/369471). 608: 609: ### `Nov 2012` - Kansai OpenSource 2012 610: 611: *Nov. 9-10, 2012, [Asia and Pacific Trade Center ITM 612: Building](http://www.atc-co.com/), Osaka, Japan* 613: 614: At the [Kansai OpenSource 2012](http://www.k-of.jp/), there were two BSD 615: booths staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 616: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) and [Kansai \*BSD Users 617: Group](http://www.kbug.gr.jp/). with many gadget demonstrations { WZero3 618: NetBSD/evbarm, ZAURUS NetBSD/zaurus, [XM6i 619: NetBSD/X68k](http://twitpic.com/bbvayo) } and BSDBOF (). [More reports 620: on Togetter](http://togetter.com/li/404573). 621: 622: ### `Sep 2012` - Open Source Conference 2012 Shimane 623: 624: *Sep. 1, 2012, [MATSUE 625: TERRSA](http://www.sanbg.com/terrsa/e/index.html), Shimane, Japan* 626: 627: At the [Open Source Conference 2012 628: Shimane](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2012-shimane/) , there was a NetBSD booth 629: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 630: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) with many gadget 631: demonstrations ( 632: [NetBSD/hpcarm,i386](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/4678623), ). [more 633: details on togetter](http://togetter.com/li/365753). 634: 635: ### `Aug 2012` - XenSummit North America 2012 636: 637: *Aug. 27-28, 2012, [Sheraton Hotel & 638: Marina](http://www.starwoodhotels.com/sheraton/property/overview/index.html?propertyID=127), 639: San Diego, California, USA* 640: 641: [XenSummit](http://xen.org/xensummit/xs12na_talks/xensummit.html) is the 642: leading annual technical conference for Xen® developers and users in 643: North America. The event provides collaboration and education for the 644: Xen® community. There was a talk on NetBSD (and FreeBSD) on Xen roadmap 645: on day one of the conference. 646: 647: ### `Aug 2012` - FrOSCon 2012 648: 649: *Aug. 25-26, 2012, [Hochschule Bonn-Rhein-Sieg](http://h-brs.de/), Sankt 650: Augustin, Germany* 651: 652: The [FrOSCon](http://www.froscon.de/en) (Free And Open Source 653: Conference) is one of the largest Open Source conferences in Germany. 654: 655: ### `Aug 2012` - Open Source Conference 2012 Kansai@Kyoto 656: 657: *Aug. 3-4, 2012, [KYOTO RESEARCH 658: PARK](http://www.krp.co.jp/english/access/index.html), Kyoto, Japan* 659: 660: At the [Open Source Conference 2012 661: Kansai@Kyoto](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2012-kyoto/) , there was a NetBSD 662: booth staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 663: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/) and [Kansai \*BSD Users 664: Group](http://www.kbug.gr.jp/) . There was a gadgets demonstration ( 665: [OMRON LUNA](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/4634623), [OMRON LUNA 666: II](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/4634629), [NetBSD/hpcarm (SHARP 667: WZERO3)](http://movapic.com/pic/20120803100715501b24433284c), [Gainer 668: with squeak](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/4634639), [Making plans for 669: SHARP,X68K on 670: XM6i,ZAURUS,Netwalker](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/4634777), [ZAURUS 671: cluster](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/4634992), [the mikutter 672: Chronicles](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/4636177), [NetBSD install 673: service center](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/4636374), [RetroBSD on 674: PIC32](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/4635032) ) and [NetBSD luna68k 675: updates presetation by 676: tsutsuii](http://www.ceres.dti.ne.jp/tsutsui/osc2012kyoto/NetBSD-luna68k-updates.html) 677: [more details on togetter](http://togetter.com/li/350035). 678: 679: ### `Jul 2012` - Open Source Conference 2012 Sendai 680: 681: *Jul 14, 2012, [Tohoku Computer 682: College](http://www.jc-21.ac.jp/map/index.shtml), Sendai, Japan* 683: 684: At the [Open Source Conference 2012 685: Sendai](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2012-sendai/) , there was a NetBSD booth 686: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 687: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) with many hpc{ 688: [mips](../ports/hpcmips/), [sh](../ports/hpcsh/), [arm and 689: Netwalker](../ports/hpcarm/) } gadgets demonstration. 690: 691: ### `Jul 2012` - Japan NetBSD Users' Group meeting & NetBSD BOF 692: 693: *Jul 7, 2012, [VLSI Design and Education Center University of 694: Tokyo](http://www.vdec.u-tokyo.ac.jp/English/contact.html), Tokyo, 695: Japan* 696: 697: See [Japan NetBSD Users Group 14th annual Meeting and BoF 698: 2012](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/announce/meeting14.html.en) 699: for meeting information. 700: 701: ### `Jun 2012` - 17th NetBSD Hackathon 702: 703: *June 14 - 17, 2012, [17th NetBSD 704: Hackathon](http://wiki.NetBSD.org/hackathon)* 705: 706: The 17th NetBSD hackathon focuses on getting NetBSD 6 BETA2 ready for 707: the first release candidate. Our goal is fixing all the bugs that need 708: fixing to get NetBSD-current ready for the creation of the NetBSD 6.0 709: release branch. 710: 711: ### `Jun 2012` - Open Source Conference 2012 Hokkaido 712: 713: *Jun. 16, 2012, Sapporo Business Innovation Center, Sapporo, Japan* 714: 715: At the [Open Source Conference 2012 716: Hokkaido](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2012-do/) , there was a NetBSD booth 717: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 718: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/) and [NoBUG](http://www.no.bug.gr.jp/) 719: with [Building NetBSD on 720: Win7+Cygwin](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/4565220), 721: [NetBSD/Armadillo-9](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/4565161), [Processing 722: on NetBSD](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/4565033), [NetBSD/IBM 723: PalmTop110](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/4565193), [NetBSD/X68k on 724: XM6i](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/4565208), [mikutter on NetBSD/WZERO3 725: and NetBSD/Zaurus](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/4565158), [NetBSD and 726: mikutter goods](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/4565027), [Geiger 727: counter](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/4565528), [Making install-image 728: Presentation](http://www.ceres.dti.ne.jp/tsutsui/osc12do/NetBSD-cross-liveimage.html) 729: by tsutsui@. [more detail on togetter](http://togetter.com/li/318806). 730: 731: ### May 2012 - Linuxtag Berlin 732: 733: *May 23-26, 2012, Berlin, Germany.* 734: 735: LinuxTag 2012 opened its doors from May 23 to May 26, 2012, at the 736: Berlin Expo Center under the Funkturm in Berlin, Germany. The event 737: featured talks about Open Source and there was be a NetBSD booth on the 738: exhibition fair where you could get advocacy material, talk to users and 739: developers or buy NetBSD T-Shirts. 740: 741: See the [Linuxtag homepage](http://www.linuxtag.org/2012/en.html) for 742: more information. 743: 744: ### `May 2012` - BSDCan 2012 745: 746: *May 11-12, 2012, Ottawa, Canada.* 747: 748: [BSDCan 2012](http://www.bsdcan.org/) was a BSD conference held in 749: Ottawa, Canada, for people working on and with 4.4BSD based operating 750: systems and related projects. The organizers have found a fantastic 751: formula that appeals to a wide range of people from extreme novices to 752: advanced developers. BSDCan 2012 was held on 11-12 May 2012 at 753: University of Ottawa, and will be preceded by two days of Tutorials on 754: 9-10 May 2012. There were related events (of a social nature, for the 755: most part) on the day before and after the conference. 756: 757: ### `May 2012` - Open Source Conference 2012 Nagoya 758: 759: *May. 12, 2012, [Nagoya International 760: Center](http://www.nic-nagoya.or.jp/en/e/about-us/access-hours), Nagoya, 761: Japan* 762: 763: At the [Open Source Conference 2012 764: Nagoya](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2012-nagoya/) , there was a NetBSD booth 765: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 766: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/) and [Nagoya \*BSD Users' Group 767: (NBUG)](http://www.nagoya.bug.gr.jp/). There was a gadget demonstration 768: [BSD booth](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/4511413) ( [Twitter time line 769: on NetBSD/dreamcast visual 770: memory](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/4512178) ([slide and 771: paper](http://www.yagoto-urayama.jp/~oshimaya/netbsd/vm/index.html)), 772: [Zaurus](../ports/zaurus/), [W-ZERO3](../ports/hpcarm/), [Enjoy NetBSD 773: on EeePC NetBook with OpenOffice and 774: Mikutter](http://www.ceres.dti.ne.jp/tsutsui/netbsd/liveimage/), 775: [mikutter mug and seal](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/4511548) ) and 776: NBUG BOF. [more detail on togetter](http://togetter.com/li/302311). 777: 778: ### `May 2012` - Central European BSD-Day 2012 Vienna 779: 780: The [Central European BSD-Day](http://bsdday.eu/2012) took place at the 781: University of Applied Sciences in Vienna, Austria, on saturday, may 5th. 782: 783: ### `Apr 2012` - Open Source Conference 2012 Iwate 784: 785: *Apr. 21, 2012, Iwate, Japan* 786: 787: At the [Open Source Conference 2012 788: Iwate](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2012-iwate/) , there was a [NetBSD 789: booth](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/4472557) staffed by members of the 790: [Japan NetBSD Users' Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/) with many { 791: [XM6i](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/4472584), 792: [hpcarm](../ports/hpcarm/), [hpcmips](../ports/hpcmips/), 793: [zaurus](../ports/zaurus/), [hpcsh](../ports/hpcsh/) } gadget 794: demonstrations. 795: 796: ### `Mar 2012` - AsiaBSDCon 2012 797: 798: *Mar 22-25, 2012, Tokyo University of Science,Tokyo, Japan* 799: 800: [AsiaBSDCon](http://2012.asiabsdcon.org/) was a conference for users and 801: developers on BSD based systems. The conference was for anyone 802: developing, deploying and using systems based on FreeBSD, NetBSD, 803: OpenBSD, DragonFly BSD, Darwin, and MacOS X. AsiaBSDCon was a technical 804: conference and aimed to collect the best technical papers and 805: presentations available to ensure that the latest developments in our 806: open source community are shared with the widest possible audience. 807: 808: ### `Mar 2012` - Open Source Conference 2012 Ehime 809: 810: *Mar. 24, 2012, Ehime, Japan* 811: 812: At the [Open Source Conference 2012 813: Ehime](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2012-ehime/) , there was a NetBSD booth 814: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 815: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/) with [NetBSD/x68k by 816: isaki@](http://www.pastel-flower.jp/~isaki/NetBSD/osc12eh/page1.html), 817: [XM6i by isaki@](http://xm6i.org/event/osc2012eh/page1.html), [NetBSD 818: port history by 819: tsutsui@](http://www.ceres.dti.ne.jp/tsutsui/osc12eh/NetBSD-port-history.html), 820: [zaurus and WZERO3](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/4422214), [evbarm and 821: shark](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/4422260), 822: [XM6i](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/4422589), [XM6i on 823: mac](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/4422798), gadget demonstrations 824: [[ustream live 825: archive](http://www.ustream.tv/channel/japan-netbsd-users-group-meeting)]. 826: 827: ### `Mar 2012` - Chemnitzer Linux-Tage 2012 828: 829: *Mar. 17-18, 2012, Chemnitz, Germany* 830: 831: The "Chemnitz Linux Days" was a conference that deals with Linux, but 832: also with free and open source software in general. Being an event vor 833: novices and experts as well, there were a NetBSD booth and related 834: talks. 835: 836: See the [website](http://chemnitzer.linux-tage.de/2012/) for more 837: information. 838: 839: ### `Mar 2012` - Open Source Conference 2012 Tokyo/Spring 840: 841: *Mar. 16-17, 2012, Tokyo, Japan* 842: 843: At the [Open Source Conference 2012 844: Tokyo/Spring](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2012-spring/), there was be a NetBSD 845: booth staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 846: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/) with [teokure live 847: image(NetBSD5.1.2/i386,amd64+Firefox+mikutter)](http://teokurebsd.org/), 848: [WZero3 live 849: image(NetBSD6.0BETA/hpcarm)](http://ftp.NetBSD.org/pub/NetBSD/misc/tsutsui/wzero3/), 850: [Zaurus live 851: image(NetBSD6.0BETA/zaurus)](http://ftp.NetBSD.org/pub/NetBSD/misc/tsutsui/zaurus/), 852: [Translate NetBSD man with 853: po4a](http://www.slideshare.net/master_q/netbsd-man-osc2012), 854: [Jornada680](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/4407584), 855: [Jornada720](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/4407590), [Zaurus 856: 760,860](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/4407593), [WZero3 with 857: pkgsrc/net/mikutter](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/4407661), 858: [OpenBlocks](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/4408049), 859: [ZBOXNANO-VD01](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/4409584), [Lemote yeeloong 860: 8089b evbmips64](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/4409939), [mikutter 861: seal](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/4408149), NetBSD [gadget 862: demonstrations](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/4409260). 863: 864: ### `Feb 2012` - Open Source Conference 2012 Oita 865: 866: *Feb. 11, 2012, Oita, Japan* 867: 868: At the [Open Source Conference 2012 869: Oita](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2012-oita/), there was a [NetBSD 870: booth](http://movapic.com/pic/201202111050584f35c982a782a), staffed by 871: members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/) 872: with hpcsh { [Persona 873: 30](http://movapic.com/pic/201202111116074f35cf677a48b), [Jornada 874: 680](http://movapic.com/pic/201202111105064f35ccd26f35f), [Jornada 875: 690](http://movapic.com/pic/201202111036504f35c6323d7f3)}, hpcarm { 876: [Jornada 720](http://movapic.com/pic/201202111107354f35cd67daedf), 877: [WS007SH](http://movapic.com/pic/201202111039044f35c6b854249), 878: [WS011SH](http://movapic.com/pic/201202111103074f35cc5b6ea81)}, hpcmips 879: { [MCR520](http://movapic.com/pic/201202111124414f35d169430c3), 880: [Z50](http://movapic.com/pic/201202111048154f35c8dfba12d)}, zaurus { 881: [SLC-860+mikutter](http://movapic.com/pic/201202111112154f35ce7f6db5a)}, 882: i386 { [aspire 883: one](http://movapic.com/pic/201202111121424f35d0b649525)}, x68k { 884: [XM6i](http://movapic.com/pic/201202111204074f35daa7e639a), 885: [XM6i](http://movapic.com/pic/201202111207584f35db8ea62fa)}, amd64 {[pen 886: tablet with NetBSD](http://movapic.com/pic/201202110957324f35bcfcaa63d), 887: [teokure live image](http://teokurebsd.org/) }, 888: [Xnp2](http://movapic.com/pic/201202111234014f35e1a946be8), 889: [NetBSD/mikutter seal](http://yfrog.com/esrv5bej) gadget demonstrations 890: and brand new [NetBSD 5.1.2 891: presentation](http://www.NetBSD.org/releases/formal-5/NetBSD-5.1.2.html). 892: 893: ### `Feb 2012` - FOSDEM 2012 894: 895: *Feb. 4-5, 2012, Brussels, Belgium* 896: 897: [FOSDEM](http://www.fosdem.org/2012/) is the biggest free and 898: non-commercial event organized by and for the community. Its goal is to 899: provide Free and Open Source developers a place to meet. No registration 900: necessary. 901: 902: There was a NetBSD booth and a special developer's room reserved for BSD 903: licensed operating systems and their talks. Please see [the 904: announcement](http://mail-index.NetBSD.org/netbsd-advocacy/2011/11/28/msg000374.html) 905: for details. 906: 907: ### `Dec 2011` - Open Source Conference 2011 Fukuoka 908: 909: *Dec. 3, 2011, [CHIKUSHI 910: JOGAKUEN](http://www-new.chikushi-u.ac.jp/english/about/index.html#Where), 911: Fukuoka, Japan* 912: 913: At the [Open Source Conference 2011 914: Fukuoka](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2011-fukuoka/) , there was a NetBSD booth 915: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 916: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) with many hpc{ 917: [mips](../ports/hpcmips/), [sh(Jornada 680)](http://twitpic.com/7nhic7), 918: [arm(WZERO3)](http://twitpic.com/7nhfzq) } gadgets demonstration and 919: [Xen4 live USB -teokure- memory](http://twitpic.com/7nhl97). 920: 921: ### `Nov 2011` - Open Source Conference 2011 Tokyo/Fall 922: 923: *Nov. 19-20, 2011, [MEISEI 924: UNIVERSITY](http://www.meisei-u.ac.jp/english/), Tokyo, Japan* 925: 926: At the [Open Source Conference 2011 927: Tokyo/Fall](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2011-fall/) , there was a NetBSD booth 928: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 929: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) with many gadget 930: demonstrations { [Teokure-Live Image 931: amd64](http://www.ceres.dti.ne.jp/tsutsui/netbsd/liveimage/) (Thinkpad 932: X201, X61), [acorn26](../ports/acorn26/) ([BBC 933: A3000](http://movapic.com/pic/201111201146094ec869f10e10e)), 934: [hpcarm](../ports/hpcarm/) (WS003SH, WS007SH, WS011SH, WS020SH, Jornada 935: 710), [hpcmips](../ports/hpcmips/) (IBM Z50, MobileGear 530) , 936: [hpcsh](../ports/hpcsh/) (Persona HPW30PA), [i386](../ports/i386/) (Acer 937: Aspire One with [pkgsrc/net/mikutter](http://mikutter.hachune.net/)), 938: [X68k](../ports/x68k/) ([XM6i](http://www.xm6i.org/)), 939: [zaurus](../ports/zaurus/) 940: ([SL-C700[NEW]](http://d.hatena.ne.jp/steleto/20101201), SL-C750, 941: SL-C1000, SL-C3200), } and BSD BOF ([Ustream 942: Recorded](http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/18441201) ). 943: 944: ### `Nov 2011` - Open Source Conference 2011 Shimane 945: 946: *Nov. 12, 2011, [MATSUE 947: TERRSA](http://www.sanbg.com/terrsa/e/index.html), Shimane, Japan* 948: 949: At the [Open Source Conference 2011 950: Shimane](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2011-shimane/) , there was a NetBSD booth 951: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 952: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) with many gadget 953: demonstrations ( [hpcarm](../ports/hpcarm/), 954: [hpcmips](../ports/hpcmips/), [hpcsh](../ports/hpcsh/) ). 955: 956: ### `Nov 2011` - Kansai OpenSource 2011 957: 958: *Nov. 11-12, 2011, [Asia and Pacific Trade Center ITM 959: Building](http://www.atc-co.com/), Osaka, Japan* 960: 961: At the [Kansai OpenSource 2011](http://www.k-of.jp/), there were two BSD 962: booths staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 963: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) and [Kansai \*BSD Users 964: Group](http://www.kbug.gr.jp/). with many gadget demonstrations { 965: [dreamcast with fishing contoller](../ports/dreamcast/), 966: [Hewlett-Packard 9000/700](../ports/hp700/), 967: [Luna-II](../ports/luna68k/), [hpcarm and WZero3](../ports/hpcarm/), 968: [hpcmips](../ports/hpcmips/), [hpcsh](../ports/hpcsh/), pf firewall 969: demonstration with OpenBSD/landisk(USL-5Px2) } and BSDBOF ([Why 970: enigmatic machines by 971: tsutsui](http://www.ceres.dti.ne.jp/tsutsui/kof2011/Why-enigmatic-machines.html), 972: pkgsrc by obache, [[Ustream 973: Recorded](http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/18441201)]). [More reports on 974: Togetter](http://togetter.com/li/213724). 975: 976: ### `Nov 2011` - bsd\_day(2011) 977: 978: *Nov. 5, 2011, Slovak University of Technology, Bratislava, Slovakia* 979: 980: The purpose of this one-day event is to gather Central European 981: developers of today's open-source BSD systems, popularize their work, 982: and provide an interface for real-life communication. There are no 983: formalities, no papers, and no registration or participation fee, 984: however the invited developers are encouraged to give a talk on their 985: favorite BSD-related topic, then have a beer with the other folks around 986: :-) The language of this event is English, and the goal is to motivate 987: potential future developers and users, especially undergraduate 988: university students to work with BSD systems. 989: 990: There is an additional schedule for participants and their guests on the 991: day prior to (November 4th) and after (November 6th) the main event. 992: 993: For more information please visit the website 994: [](http://www.bsdday.eu/2011/). 995: 996: ### `Nov 2011` - BSDday Argentina 2011 997: 998: *Nov. 5, 2011, Buenos Aires City, Argentina* 999: 1000: BSDday Argentina is a conference for users, sysadmins and developers of 1001: BSD software and based systems. The conference is for anyone developing, 1002: deploying and using systems based on FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, 1003: DragonFlyBSD and others \*BSD. BSDday Argentina is a technical 1004: conference and aims to collect the best technical papers and 1005: presentations available to ensure that the latest developments in our 1006: open source community are shared with the widest possible audience. 1007: 1008: For more information please visit the website 1009: [](http://www.bsdday.org.ar/). 1010: 1011: ### `Oct 2011` - EuroBSDCon 2011 1012: 1013: *Oct. 6-9, 2011, Maarssen, Netherlands* 1014: 1015: EuroBSDcon is the European technical conference for people working on 1016: and with 4.4BSD based operating systems and related projects. EuroBSDcon 1017: 2011 is the 10th EuroBSDcon and will take place in (in the center of) 1018: The Netherlands 6 - 9 October 2011 at Meeting Plaza, Maarssen, The 1019: Netherlands. 1020: 1021: For more information please visit the website 1022: [](http://2011.EuroBSDCon.org/). 1023: 1024: ### `Oct 2011` - Open Source Conference 2011 Hiroshima 1025: 1026: *Oct. 1, 2011, [Prefectual University of 1027: Hiroshima](http://www.pu-hiroshima.ac.jp/05_campus/08_access/index.html) 1028: , Hiroshima, Japan* 1029: 1030: At the [Open Source Conference 2011 1031: Hiroshima](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2011-hiroshima/) , there was a NetBSD 1032: booth staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 1033: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) with many gadgets 1034: demonstration ( [NetBSD/x68k](../ports/x68k/) ( 1035: [X68030+Neptune-X+NE2000](http://twitpic.com/6tuiik), 1036: [X68030+Nereid](http://twitpic.com/6tvkzo), 1037: [X68060(X68030+060turbo)](http://twitpic.com/6tu7p2)), [XM6i X68030 1038: Emulator](http://xm6i.org/) on 1039: ([NetBSD/i386](http://movapic.com/pic/201110011105024e86754e2efbb), [Mac 1040: OS X](http://movapic.com/pic/201110011101544e8674925d26a)), [WZero 1041: 3](../ports/hpcarm) ([WS011SH](http://twitpic.com/6tyvva)), 1042: [Zaurus](../ports/zaurus) ([SL-C1000](http://twitpic.com/6tzg2z))) and 1043: [XM6i presentation by isaki@](http://xm6i.org/event/osc2011hi/), 1044: ["Teokure Live Image" and mikutter presentation by 1045: tsutsui](http://www.ceres.dti.ne.jp/tsutsui/osc11hi/Teokure-Live-Image.html), 1046: [event summary](http://togetter.com/li/195551). 1047: 1048: ### `Sep 2011` - Open Source Conference 2011 Okinawa 1049: 1050: *Sep. 10, 2011, [Okinawa Convention 1051: Center](http://www.oki-conven.jp/en/modules/tinyd7/page/page1.html) , 1052: Okinawa, Japan* 1053: 1054: At the [Open Source Conference 2011 1055: Okinawa](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2011-okinawa/) , there was a NetBSD booth 1056: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 1057: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) with many gadgets 1058: demonstration ( [hpcarm](../ports/hpcarm/), 1059: [hpcmips](../ports/hpcmips/), [hpcsh](../ports/hpcsh/) ) and PCBSD9.0 1060: presentation by Jun YAMASHIRO. 1061: 1062: ### `Sep 2011` - Open Source Small Conference 2011 Aizu 1063: 1064: *Sep. 3, 2011, [University of 1065: Aizu](http://www.u-aizu.ac.jp/e-intro/e-facilities/e-campusmap.html) , 1066: Fukushima, Japan* 1067: 1068: At the [Open Source Small Conference 2011 1069: Aizu](http://www.ospn.jp/ossc-aizu/) , there was a NetBSD booth staffed 1070: by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 1071: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) with many gadgets 1072: demonstration ( [hpcarm](../ports/hpcarm/), 1073: [hpcmips](../ports/hpcmips/), [hpcsh](../ports/hpcsh/) ). 1074: 1075: ### `Aug 2011` - Open Source Conference 2011 Nagoya 1076: 1077: *Aug. 20, 2011, [Nagoya International 1078: Center](http://www.nic-nagoya.or.jp/en/e/about-us/access-hours), Nagoya, 1079: Japan* 1080: 1081: At the [Open Source Conference 2011 1082: Nagoya](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2011-nagoya/) , there was a NetBSD booth 1083: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 1084: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) and [Nagoya \*BSD Users' 1085: Group](http://www.nagoya.bug.gr.jp/). There was a gadget demonstration ( 1086: [Presentation Software using only wscons with Dreamcast Fishing 1087: Controller](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/3923999), 1088: [hpcmips](../ports/hpcmips/), [hpcsh](../ports/hpcsh/), 1089: [hpcarm](../ports/hpcarm/), [Amiga 1090: 1200](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/3924333), [SONY NEWS 1091: 3460](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/3924343), [Geiger 1092: counter](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/3924354) ). 1093: 1094: ### `Aug 2011` - 15th NetBSD Hackathon 1095: 1096: *Aug. 10 - 15, 2011, [15th NetBSD 1097: Hackathon](http://wiki.NetBSD.org/hackathon)* 1098: 1099: The 15th NetBSD hackathon focused on documentation. Please see the Wiki 1100: page at the URL mentioned above for details and progress. 1101: 1102: ### `Jul 2011` - Open Source Conference 2011 Kansai@Kyoto 1103: 1104: *Jul. 15-16, 2011, [KYOTO RESEARCH 1105: PARK](http://www.krp.co.jp/english/access/index.html), Kyoto, Japan* 1106: 1107: At the [Open Source Conference 2011 1108: Kansai@Kyoto](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2011-kyoto/) , there was a [NetBSD 1109: booth](http://www.ceres.dti.ne.jp/tsutsui/osc2011kyoto/index.html) 1110: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 1111: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) and [Kansai \*BSD Users 1112: Group](http://www.kbug.gr.jp/) . There was a gadgets demonstration ( 1113: [Sun3/80](http://twitpic.com/5rcp11), [SONY NEWS 1114: NWS-1750](http://twitpic.com/5rcrjj), [OMRON LUNA 1115: SX-9100/DT](http://twitpic.com/5rcuqb), [Workstation book 1116: colab.](http://twitpic.com/5rd4td), [SHARP WZERO3](../ports/hpcarm/), [4 1117: BSD variants (NetBSD, FreeBSD, OpenBSD and DragonFly BSD) on 1118: NetBSD/xen](http://twitpic.com/5rl3n7), [Wsdisplay Presentation tool on 1119: NetBSD/hpcmips](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/3812933), 1120: [USL5P+OpenBSD4.9](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/3813423), [Compiling 1121: process Visualizer like teen spirit called Captain 1122: Nadeshiko](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/3812608), [Some like a BSD 1123: Statue Joystick](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/3809140) driven by 1124: [Gainer+Squeak](http://www.yengawa.com/squeak_gainer) ) and [NetBSD/m68k 1125: will never die! 1126: presentation](http://www.ceres.dti.ne.jp/tsutsui/osc2011kyoto/NetBSD-m68k-will-never-die.html) 1127: and 1128: [commit](http://mail-index.NetBSD.org/source-changes/2011/07/16/msg024675.html) 1129: by tsutsui. 1130: 1131: ### `Jul 2011` - Japan NetBSD Users' Group meeting & NetBSD BOF 1132: 1133: *Jul 9, 2011, [VLSI Design and Education Center University of 1134: Tokyo](http://www.vdec.u-tokyo.ac.jp/English/contact.html), Tokyo, 1135: Japan* 1136: 1137: See [Japan NetBSD Users Group 13th annual Meeting and BoF 1138: 2011](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/announce/meeting13.html.en) 1139: for meeting information. NetBSD BOF with 36 attendances and 153 ustream 1140: clients: pkgsrc updates by obache, jp.NetBSD.org servers by 1141: mef,NetBSD/[Psion netBook](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psion_netBook) 1142: by kiyohara, AC Tap with USB controlled power meter by Kubota, Power 1143: consumption and bcbench by jun, Capture Power consumption meter with 1144: OpenCV by mita@FreeBSD, Build [Facebook page for Japan NetBSD Users' 1145: Group](http://www.facebook.com/NetBSD.jp), 6.0 - here today by soda, PGP 1146: keysign party by soda. 1147: 1148: ### `Jun 2011` - Open Source Conference 2011 Hokkaido 1149: 1150: *Jun. 11, 2011, Sapporo Business Innovation Center, Sapporo, Japan* 1151: 1152: At the [Open Source Conference 2011 1153: Hokkaido](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2011-do/) , there was a NetBSD booth 1154: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 1155: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) and 1156: [NoBUG](http://www.no.bug.gr.jp/) with BeagleBoard, MSP430 LaunchPad, 1157: JMBadgeBoard, Processing on NetBSD and many hpc{ 1158: [mips](../ports/hpcmips/), [sh](../ports/hpcsh/), 1159: [arm](../ports/hpcarm/) } . 1160: 1161: ### `May 2011` - Open Source Conference 2011 Sendai 1162: 1163: *May 21, 2011, [Tohoku Computer 1164: College](http://www.jc-21.ac.jp/map/index.shtml), Sendai, Japan* 1165: 1166: At the [Open Source Conference 2011 1167: Sendai](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2011-sendai/) , there was a NetBSD booth 1168: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 1169: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) with many hpc{ 1170: [mips](../ports/hpcmips/), [sh](../ports/hpcsh/), [arm and 1171: WZero3(WS011SH)](../ports/hpcarm/) } gadgets demonstration. 1172: 1173: ### `May 2011` - BSDCan 2011 1174: 1175: *May 13-14, 2011, Ottawa, Canada.* 1176: 1177: [BSDCan 2011](http://www.bsdcan.org/) was held on 13-14 May 2011 at the 1178: University of Ottawa. It was preceded by two days of tutorials on 11-12 1179: May 2011. 1180: 1181: ### `Apr 2011` - Open Source Conference 2011 Kansai@Kobe 1182: 1183: *Apr. 16, 2011, [Kobe Industrial Promotion 1184: Center](http://www.kobe-ipc.or.jp/access/), Kobe, Japan* 1185: 1186: At the [Open Source Conference 2011 1187: Kansai@Kobe](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2011-kobe/) , there was a NetBSD 1188: booth staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 1189: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) with [ATARI TT030 + 1190: EtherNEC , and NetBSD bus\_space 1191: API](http://www.ceres.dti.ne.jp/tsutsui/osc2011kobe/NetBSD-EtherNEC.html) 1192: presentation by tsutsui, contao presentation by taca, and [ATARI 1193: TT030](../ports/atari/), [SHARP X68030](../ports/x68k/), 1194: [cobalt](../ports/cobalt/), [hpcmips](../ports/hpcmips/), 1195: [hpcsh](../ports/hpcsh/), [hpcarm](../ports/hpcarm/), 1196: [zaurus](../ports/zaurus/) gadgets demonstration. 1197: 1198: ### `Mar 2011` - AsiaBSDCon 2011 1199: 1200: *Mar 19-20, 2011, Tokyo University of Science,Tokyo, Japan* 1201: 1202: [AsiaBSDCon](http://2011.asiabsdcon.org/) is a conference for users and 1203: developers on BSD based systems. The conference is for anyone 1204: developing, deploying and using systems based on FreeBSD, NetBSD, 1205: OpenBSD, DragonFly BSD, Darwin, and MacOS X. AsiaBSDCon is a technical 1206: conference and aims to collect the best technical papers and 1207: presentations available to ensure that the latest developments in our 1208: open source community are shared with the widest possible audience. 1209: 1210: ### `Mar 2011` - Open Source Conference 2011 Oita 1211: 1212: *Mar. 19, 2011, [i-ness](http://www.pref.oita.jp/13040/index.html), 1213: Oita, Japan* 1214: 1215: At the [Open Source Conference 2011 1216: Oita](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2011-oita/) , there was a NetBSD booth 1217: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 1218: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) with many hpc{ 1219: [mips](../ports/hpcmips/), [sh](../ports/hpcsh/), 1220: [arm](../ports/hpcarm/) } gadgets demonstrations. 1221: 1222: ### `Mar 2011` - Open Source Conference 2011 Tokyo/Spring 1223: 1224: *Mar. 4-5, 2011, [Wasseda University,Nishiwaseda 1225: Campus](http://www.waseda.jp/eng/campus/map03.html), Tokyo, Japan* 1226: 1227: At the [Open Source Conference 2011 1228: Tokyo/Spring](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2011-spring/) , there was a NetBSD 1229: booth staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 1230: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) with many hpc{ 1231: [mips](../ports/hpcmips/), [sh](../ports/hpcsh/), 1232: [arm](../ports/hpcarm/) } gadgets demonstration. 1233: 1234: ### `Feb 2011` - FOSDEM 2011 Brussels, Belgium 1235: 1236: *Feb. 5-6, 2011, [FOSDEM](http://www.fosdem.org/2011/), Brussels, 1237: Belgium* 1238: 1239: At the [FOSDEM 2011 Conference](http://www.fosdem.org/2011/), there was 1240: a joint BSD booth staffed by NetBSD and FreeBSD developers and users. 1241: 1242: [Marc Balmer](http://www.vnode.ch/) (mbalmer@) gave a talk "Lua in BSD" 1243: in the BSD devroom 1244: 1245: ### `Feb 2011` - Open Source Conference 2011 Kagawa 1246: 1247: *Feb. 5, 2011, [Sunport Hall 1248: Takamatsu](http://www.sunport-hall.jp/shisetu/access.htm), Kagawa, 1249: Japan* 1250: 1251: At the [Open Source Conference 2011 1252: Kagawa](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2011-kagawa/), there was a NetBSD booth 1253: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 1254: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) with [many 1255: hp](http://twitpic.com/3xoh1i){ [hp300](../ports/hp300/), 1256: [hpcmips](../ports/hpcmips/), [hpcsh](../ports/hpcsh/), 1257: [hpcarm](../ports/hpcarm/) } gadgets demonstration and [NetBSD/hp300 and 1258: wscons](http://www.ceres.dti.ne.jp/tsutsui/osc11kg/netbsd-hp300.html) 1259: presentation by tsutsui ([Event driven Commit 1260: Log](http://mail-index.NetBSD.org/source-changes/2011/02/06/msg018165.html)). 1261: 1262: ### `Dec 2010` - Open Source Conference 2010 Fukuoka 1263: 1264: *Dec. 11, 2010, [Fukuoka Institute of 1265: Technology](http://www.fit.ac.jp/EN/index.html), Fukuoka, Japan* 1266: 1267: At the [Open Source Conference 2010 1268: Fukuoka](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2010-fukuoka/) , there was a NetBSD booth 1269: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 1270: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) with many hpc{ 1271: [mips](../ports/hpcmips/), [sh](../ports/hpcsh/), 1272: [arm](../ports/hpcarm/) } gadgets demonstration. 1273: 1274: ### `Nov 2010` - Journées Méditéranéennes du Logiciel Libre in Sophia-Antipolis. 1275: 1276: *November 26-27, 2010, Sophia-Antipolis, France.* 1277: 1278: NetBSD was present for the 2nd time at the [Journées Méditéranéennes du 1279: Logiciel Libre](http://jm2l.linux-azur.org). Friday afternoon was 1280: generally more enterprise oriented, while Saturday was more end-users 1281: focused. 1282: 1283: ### `Nov 2010` - Open Source Conference 2010 Shimane 1284: 1285: *Nov 27, 2010, [MATSUE 1286: TERRSA](http://www.sanbg.com/terrsa/e/index.html), Shimane, Japan* 1287: 1288: At the [Open Source Conference 2010 1289: Shimane](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2010-shimane/) , there was a NetBSD booth 1290: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 1291: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/). There was gadget 1292: demonstrations ( [hpcarm](../ports/hpcarm/), 1293: [hpcmips](../ports/hpcmips/), [hpcsh](../ports/hpcsh/) ). 1294: 1295: ### `Nov 2010` - NYCBSDCon 2010 1296: 1297: *November 12-14, 2010, Cooper Union, New York, NY, USA* 1298: 1299: [The New York City BSD Conference 1300: (NYCBSDCon)](http://www.nycbsdcon.org/2010/) is the main technical 1301: conference on the US East Coast for the BSD community to get together to 1302: share and gain knowledge, to network with like-minded people, and to 1303: have fun. This event was organized by members of the New York City \*BSD 1304: Users Group (NYC\*BUG). 1305: 1306: ### `Nov 2010` - Kansai OpenSource 2010 1307: 1308: *Nov. 5-6, 2010, [Asia and Pacific Trade Center ITC 1309: Building](http://www.atc-co.com/), Osaka, Japan* 1310: 1311: At the [Kansai OpenSource 2010](http://www.k-of.jp/), there were three 1312: BSD booths staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 1313: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) , [Kansai \*BSD Users 1314: Group](http://www.kbug.gr.jp/) and [NAKAMURA 1315: Kazushi](http://www.kobe1995.jp/) with [NEC 1316: Express5800(arc)](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/2898351) , [64bit 1317: 20years {NEC Express5800(amd64), SONY NEWS NWS-5000(newsmips), Sun 1318: Ultra60(sun4u), Sun Ultra10(sun4u), HP 1319: ML115(amd64)}](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/2899650), Xen Dom0 on 1320: NetBSD and DomU (NetBSD, OpenBSD, DragonflyBSD), 1321: OpenBSD/landisk(Firewall Redundancy with CARP and pfsync), 1322: OpenBSD/zaurus, WZero3(hpcarm), [hpcmips](../ports/hpcmips/), 1323: [hpcsh](../ports/hpcsh/), [hpcarm](../ports/hpcarm/), [NetBSD 1324: straps](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/2898808) gadgets demonstration and 1325: BSDBOF (soda-san got [Japanese OSS Contributor 1326: Award](http://www.ipa.go.jp/about/press/20101015_2.html), so let me 1327: introduce [raiders of the lost ARC 1328: tech](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/2899062) and [talkin' bout a 1329: revolution with soda-san](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/2899023) by 1330: tsutsui) 1331: 1332: ### `Oct 2010` - Open Source Conference 2010 Niigata 1333: 1334: *Oct. 23, 2010, Niigata University, Niigata, Japan* 1335: 1336: At the [Open Source Conference 2010 1337: Niigata](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2010-niigata/) , there was a BSD booth 1338: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 1339: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) and [Echigo BSD Users 1340: Group](http://www.ebug.jp/) . There was a gadgets demonstration ( 1341: [hpcarm](../ports/hpcarm/), [hpcmips](../ports/hpcmips/), 1342: [hpcsh](../ports/hpcsh/) and [FuguIta - OpenBSD LiveCD with 1seg 1343: tuner](http://kaw.ath.cx/openbsd/index.php?en%2FLiveCD). ). 1344: 1345: ### `Oct 2010` - EuroBSDCon 2010 1346: 1347: *Oct. 8-10, 2010, Karlsruhe, Germany* 1348: 1349: EuroBSDcon 2010, the european technical conference for people working on 1350: and with 4.4BSD based operating systems, was held on Oct 8-10th 2010 in 1351: Karlsruhe, Germany. The two day conference program (October 9 - 10) was 1352: preceeded by a tutorial day (Oct 8). 1353: 1354: For more information please visit the website 1355: [](http://2010.EuroBSDCon.org/). 1356: 1357: ### `Oct 2010` - Open Source Conference 2010 Okinawa 1358: 1359: *Oct. 2, 2010, [Okinawa Convention 1360: Center](http://www.oki-conven.jp/en/modules/tinyd7/page/page1.html) , 1361: Okinawa, Japan* 1362: 1363: At the [Open Source Conference 2010 1364: Okinawa](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2010-okinawa/) , there was a NetBSD booth 1365: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 1366: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) with many gadgets 1367: demonstration ( [hpcarm](../ports/hpcarm/), 1368: [hpcmips](../ports/hpcmips/), [hpcsh](../ports/hpcsh/) ). 1369: 1370: ### `Sep 2010` - Open Source Conference 2010 Tokyo/Fall 1371: 1372: *Sep. 10-11, 2010, [MEISEI 1373: UNIVERSITY](http://www.meisei-u.ac.jp/english/), Tokyo, Japan* 1374: 1375: At the [Open Source Conference 2010 1376: Tokyo/Fall](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2010-fall/) , there was a NetBSD booth 1377: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 1378: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) with many hpc{ 1379: [mips](../ports/hpcmips/), [sh](../ports/hpcsh/), 1380: [arm](../ports/hpcarm/) } gadgets demonstration and 1381: [NetBSD/x68k](../ports/x68k/) on [XM6i X68000 1382: emulator](http://www.pastel-flower.jp/~isaki/xm6i/). 1383: 1384: ### `Aug 2010` - Open Source Conference 2010 Nagoya 1385: 1386: *Aug. 7, 2010, Nagoya City University, Nagoya, Japan* 1387: 1388: At the [Open Source Conference 2010 1389: Nagoya](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2010-nagoya/) , there was a NetBSD booth 1390: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 1391: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) and [Nagoya \*BSD Users' 1392: Group](http://www.nagoya.bug.gr.jp/). There were gadget demonstrations ( 1393: [hpcarm](../ports/hpcarm/), [hpcmips](../ports/hpcmips/), 1394: [hpcsh](../ports/hpcsh/) ). 1395: 1396: ### `Jul 2010` - Open Source Conference 2010 Kansai 1397: 1398: *Jul. 9-10, 2010, Kyoto Computer Gakuin, Kyoto, Japan* 1399: 1400: At the [Open Source Conference 2010 1401: Kansai](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2010-kyoto/) , there was a NetBSD booth 1402: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 1403: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) and [Kansai \*BSD Users 1404: Group](http://www.kbug.gr.jp/) . There were gadgets demonstration ( 1405: [hpcarm](../ports/hpcarm/), [hpcmips](../ports/hpcmips/), 1406: [hpcsh](../ports/hpcsh/), ). 1407: 1408: ### `Jul 2010` - Japan NetBSD Users' Group meeting & NetBSD BOF 1409: 1410: *Jul 3, 2010, [The University of 1411: Tokyo](http://www.u-tokyo.ac.jp/campusmap/cam01_04_03_j.html), Tokyo, 1412: Japan* 1413: 1414: See [this 1415: page](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/announce/meeting12.html.en) 1416: for meeting information. 1417: 1418: NetBSD BOF with 44 attendances and 55 ustream clients: OpenBlockS600 by 1419: kiyohara, [STAR81xx/91xx](http://www.nerv.org/~ryo/bof/index1.html) by 1420: Ryo SHIMIZU, [NetBSD goes POSIX.1-2008 and 1421: C1X](http://www.hi-matic.org/BOF/BOF.pdf) by tnozaki, YUREX by noztos, 1422: AsiaBSDCon by hrs, pkgsrc updates by obache. 1423: 1424: ### `Jun 2010` - Open Source Conference 2010 Hokkaido 1425: 1426: *Jun. 26, 2010, Sapporo Business Innovation Center, Sapporo, Japan* 1427: 1428: At the [Open Source Conference 2010 1429: Hokkaido](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2010-do/) , there was a NetBSD booth 1430: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 1431: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) and 1432: [NoBUG](http://www.no.bug.gr.jp/) with NetBSD/evbarm on Armadillo-9 + 1433: VT220J, NetBSD/sparc on Sparcstation IPX, NetBSD/i386 on ThinkPad X200s 1434: (VMWarePlayer) and ThinkPad X24, FreeNAS on ThinkPad X200s 1435: (VMWarePlayer), NetBSD/landisk on USL-5P, NetBSD/evbppc on kuro-box, 1436: NetBSD/evbmips-el on BBR-4MG, and many hpc{ [mips](../ports/hpcmips/), 1437: [sh](../ports/hpcsh/), [arm](../ports/hpcarm/),WZero3 with AM/FM Radio } 1438: 1439: ### `Jun 2010` - LinuxTag 2010 1440: 1441: *June 9-12, 2010, Berlin, Germany* 1442: 1443: [LinuxTag 2010](http://www.linuxtag.org/2010/), one of Europe's largest 1444: Open Source Expo, took place from June 9th through 12th, 2010, in 1445: Berlin, Germany. The NetBSD Project was being represented by volunteers 1446: in a shared BSD booth. 1447: 1448: If you are interested in helping out at the NetBSD booth or have any 1449: questions, please contact Thomas Kaepernick (mast\_1(at)gmx.net). 1450: 1451: ### `May 2010` - pkgsrcCon 2010 Basel, Switzerland 1452: 1453: *May. 28 -30, 2010, [Departement Informatik, University of 1454: Basel](http://www.pkgsrc.org/pkgsrcCon/2010/), Basel, Switzerland* 1455: 1456: ### `May 2010` - Open Source Conference 2010 Sendai 1457: 1458: *May. 22, 2010, [Tohoku Computer 1459: College](http://www.jc-21.ac.jp/map/index.shtml), Sendai, Japan* 1460: 1461: At the [Open Source Conference 2010 1462: Sendai](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2010-sendai/) , there was a NetBSD booth 1463: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 1464: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) with many hpc{ 1465: [mips](../ports/hpcmips/), [sh](../ports/hpcsh/), [arm and 1466: WZero3(WS011SH)](../ports/hpcarm/) } gadgets demonstration. 1467: 1468: ### `May 2010` - Rencontres Bretonnes du Logiciel Libre in Rennes 1469: 1470: *May 15-16, 2010, Rennes, France.* 1471: 1472: NetBSD was present for the 2nd time at the [Rencontres Bretonnes du 1473: Logiciel Libre](http://www.rbll.info) 1474: 1475: ### `May 2010` - BSDCan 2010 1476: 1477: *May 13-14, 2010, Ottawa, Canada.* 1478: 1479: [BSDCan 2010](http://www.bsdcan.org/) was held on 13-14 May 2010 at the 1480: University of Ottawa, and was preceded by two days of tutorials on 11-12 1481: May 2010. 1482: 1483: ### `Mar 2010` - AsiaBSDCon 2010 1484: 1485: *Mar 11-14, 2010, Tokyo University of Science,Tokyo, Japan* 1486: 1487: [AsiaBSDCon](http://2010.asiabsdcon.org/) is a conference for users and 1488: developers on BSD based systems. The conference is for anyone 1489: developing, deploying and using systems based on FreeBSD, NetBSD, 1490: OpenBSD, DragonFly BSD, Darwin, and MacOS X. AsiaBSDCon is a technical 1491: conference and aims to collect the best technical papers and 1492: presentations available to ensure that the latest developments in our 1493: open source community are shared with the widest possible audience. 1494: 1495: A NetBSD BOF was held on March 12, 2010 14:00-16:30 1496: 1497: ### `Mar 2010` - Open Source Conference 2010 Kansai@Kobe 1498: 1499: *Mar. 13, 2010, [Kobe Industrial Promotion 1500: Center](http://www.kobe-ipc.or.jp/access/), Kobe, Japan* 1501: 1502: At the [Open Source Conference 2010 1503: Kansai@Kobe](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2010-kobe/) , there was a NetBSD 1504: booth staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 1505: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) with [ATARI TT030 + 1506: SMC\_TT](../ports/atari/) ([Demonstration animation GIF for 1507: TT030](http://www.ceres.dti.ne.jp/tsutsui/smc_tt/SMC_TT-OSC2010Kobe.gif)) 1508: , cobalt, many hpc{ [mips](../ports/hpcmips/), [sh](../ports/hpcsh/), 1509: [arm](../ports/hpcarm/) } gadgets demonstration. 1510: 1511: ### `Feb 2010` - Open Source Conference 2010 Tokyo/Spring 1512: 1513: *Feb. 26-27, 2010, [MEISEI 1514: UNIVERSITY](http://www.meisei-u.ac.jp/english/), Tokyo, Japan* 1515: 1516: At the [Open Source Conference 2010 1517: Tokyo/Spring](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2010-spring/) , there was a NetBSD 1518: booth staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 1519: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) with tadpole(sparc) and 1520: many hpc{ [mips](../ports/hpcmips/), [sh](../ports/hpcsh/), 1521: [arm](../ports/hpcarm/) } gadgets demonstration. 1522: 1523: ### `Feb 2010` - Hackathon, February 2010 1524: 1525: *Feb. 19-22, 2010, 1526: [Hackathon](http://www.NetBSD.org/community/hackathon.html)* 1527: 1528: The [February 2010 1529: Hackathon](http://www.NetBSD.org/community/hackathon.html) was focusing 1530: on closing as many bugs and PRs as possible. 1531: 1532: ### `Feb 2010` - FOSDEM 2010 Brussels, Belgium 1533: 1534: *Feb. 6-7, 2010, [FOSDEM](http://www.fosdem.org/2010/), Brussels, 1535: Belgium* 1536: 1537: At the [FOSDEM 2010 Conference](http://www.fosdem.org/2010/) , there was 1538: a joint BSD booth staffed by NetBSD and FreeBSD developers and users. 1539: 1540: [Marc Balmer](http://www.vnode.ch/) (mbalmer@) gave a talk [Because the 1541: License Matters: BSD as the Foundation for Commercial Point of Sale 1542: Applications](http://www.fosdem.org/2010/schedule/events/bsd_license) in 1543: the [BSD devroom](http://www.fosdem.org/2010/schedule/tracks/bsd). 1544: 1545: ### `Jan 2010` - Open Source Conference 2010 Oita 1546: 1547: *Jan. 23, 2010, [i-ness](http://www.pref.oita.jp/13040/index.html), 1548: Oita, Japan* 1549: 1550: At the [Open Source Conference 2010 1551: Oita](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2010-oita/) , there was be a NetBSD booth 1552: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 1553: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) with many hpc{ 1554: [mips](../ports/hpcmips/), [sh](../ports/hpcsh/), 1555: [arm](../ports/hpcarm/) } gadgets demonstrations. 1556: 1557: ### `Dec 2009` - Open Source Conference 2009 Fukuoka 1558: 1559: *Dec. 5, 2009, [Kyushu Sangyo 1560: University](http://www.kyusan-u.ac.jp/E/index.html), Fukuoka, Japan* 1561: 1562: At the [Open Source Conference 2009 1563: Fukuoka](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2009-fukuoka/) , there was a NetBSD booth 1564: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 1565: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) with many hpc{ 1566: [mips](../ports/hpcmips/), [sh](../ports/hpcsh/), 1567: [arm](../ports/hpcarm/) } gadgets demonstration. 1568: 1569: ### `Nov 2009` - Open Source Conference 2009 Kochi 1570: 1571: *Nov. 14, 2009, [Kochi City Culture-Plaze 1572: Cul-Port.](http://www.bunkaplaza.or.jp/access/index.html), Kochi, Japan* 1573: 1574: At the [Open Source Conference 2009 1575: Kochi](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2009-kochi/) , there was a NetBSD booth 1576: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 1577: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) with 1578: [hpcmips](../ports/hpcmips/), [hpcsh](../ports/hpcsh/), gadgets 1579: demonstration. 1580: 1581: ### `Nov 2009` - OpenRheinRuhr 2009 1582: 1583: *Nov. 7-8, 2009, Saalbau, Bottrop, Germany* 1584: 1585: A new event in the middle of Europe with a huge audience and an 1586: impressive list of exhibitors. NetBSD had a booth as well as the other 1587: major BSDs. 1588: 1589: For more information about OpenRheinRuhr visit the website 1590: [](http://www.openrheinruhr.de/) . 1591: 1592: ### `Nov 2009` - Kansai OpenSource 2009 1593: 1594: *Nov. 6-7, 2009, [Asia and Pacific Trade Center ITC 1595: Building](http://www.atc-co.com/), Osaka, Japan* 1596: 1597: At the [Kansai OpenSource 2009](http://www.k-of.jp/), there was a NetBSD 1598: booth staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 1599: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) and [Kansai \*BSD Users 1600: Group](http://www.kbug.gr.jp/) with IIJ SEIL/X1(evbmips64), IIJ 1601: SEIL/B1(evbarm), NSLU2(evbarm), dreamcast+ISA bus+IDE DiskDrive 1602: extension, tadpole(sparc), USL-5P+USB LCD(landisk), Link 1603: Station(sandpoint), MacLC475upgrade(mac68k), 1604: [hpcmips](../ports/hpcmips/), [hpcsh](../ports/hpcsh/), 1605: [hpcarm](../ports/hpcarm/), BSD daemon statue gadgets demonstration and 1606: BSDBOF (EuroBSDCon2009 report by msaitoh). 1607: 1608: ### `Oct 2009` - Open Source Conference 2009 Tokyo/Fall 1609: 1610: *Oct. 30-31, 2009, [Nihon Kogakuin College 12th 1611: build.](http://www.neec.ac.jp/access/kmt.html), Tokyo, Japan* 1612: 1613: At the [Open Source Conference 2009 1614: Tokyo/Fall](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2009-fall/) , there was a NetBSD booth 1615: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 1616: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) with [USB-LCD driver for 1617: NetBSD](http://www.naobsd.org/udl/) on 1618: [USL-5P](http://www.iodata.jp/product/hdd/lanhdd/usl-5p/index.htm) and 1619: [LS-S250L](http://buffalo.jp/products/catalog/storage/ls-sl/), 1620: [hpcmips](../ports/hpcmips/), [hpcsh](../ports/hpcsh/), 1621: [hpcarm](../ports/hpcarm/), [tadpole GX3:sparc](../ports/sparc/) gadgets 1622: demonstration and BSD BOF. 1623: 1624: ### `Sep 2009` - Open Source Conference 2009 Okinawa 1625: 1626: *Sep. 26, 2009, [Okinawa Convention 1627: Center](http://www.oki-conven.jp/en/modules/tinyd7/page/page1.html) , 1628: Okinawa, Japan* 1629: 1630: At the [Open Source Conference 2009 1631: Okinawa](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2009-okinawa/) , there was a NetBSD booth 1632: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 1633: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) . There was gadgets 1634: demonstration ( [hpcarm](../ports/hpcarm/), 1635: [hpcmips](../ports/hpcmips/), [hpcsh](../ports/hpcsh/) ). 1636: 1637: ### `Sep 2009` - EuroBSDCon 2009 1638: 1639: *Sep. 18-20, 2009, University of Cambridge, England..* 1640: 1641: EuroBSDcon 2009, the european technical conference for people working on 1642: and with 4.4BSD based operating systems, was held on Sept 19-20th 2009 1643: at the University of Cambridge, England. One day of Tutorials preceded 1644: the conference on Sept 18th. 1645: 1646: For more information about EuroBSDCon 2009 visit the website 1647: [](http://2009.EuroBSDCon.org/). 1648: 1649: ### `Aug 2009` - Open Source Conference 2009 Nagoya 1650: 1651: *Aug. 22, 2009, Nagoya City University, Nagoya, Japan* 1652: 1653: At the [Open Source Conference 2009 1654: Nagoya](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2009-nagoya/) , there was a NetBSD booth 1655: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 1656: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) and [Nagoya \*BSD Users' 1657: Group](http://www.nagoya.bug.gr.jp/). There were gadget demonstrations ( 1658: [hpcarm](../ports/hpcarm/), [hpcmips](../ports/hpcmips/), 1659: [hpcsh](../ports/hpcsh/) ). 1660: 1661: ### `Aug 2009` - Open Source Conference 2009 Niigata 1662: 1663: *Aug. 1, 2009, Niigata University of International and Information 1664: Studies, Niigata, Japan* 1665: 1666: At the [Open Source Conference 2009 1667: Niigata](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2009-niigata/) , there was a NetBSD booth 1668: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 1669: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) and [Echigo BSD Users 1670: Group](http://www.ebug.jp/) . There was gadgets demonstration ( 1671: [hpcarm](../ports/hpcarm/), [hpcmips](../ports/hpcmips/), 1672: [hpcsh](../ports/hpcsh/) and [FuguIta - OpenBSD LiveCD with 1seg 1673: tuner](http://kaw.ath.cx/openbsd/index.php?en%2FLiveCD). ). 1674: 1675: ### `Jul 2009` - Open Source Conference 2009 Kansai 1676: 1677: *Jul. 10-11, 2009, Kyoto Computer Gakuin, Kyoto, Japan* 1678: 1679: At the [Open Source Conference 2009 1680: Kansai](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2009-kansai/) , there was a NetBSD booth 1681: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 1682: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) and [Kansai \*BSD Users 1683: Group](http://www.kbug.gr.jp/) . There was gadgets power consumption 1684: demonstration ( [Atari TT030](../ports/atari/), [BeBox (stop at 1685: bootloader:need S3 Video Card)](../ports/bebox/), [MSI Wind Notebook and 1686: VAIO Type P](../ports/amd64/), [cobalt QUBE2 and Cache RAQ2 with 1687: Zope](../ports/cobalt/), [gumstix music player sings OpenBSD 1688: song](../ports/evbarm/), [hpcarm](../ports/hpcarm/), 1689: [hpcmips](../ports/hpcmips/), [hpcsh](../ports/hpcsh/), 1690: [Linkstation:sandpoint](../ports/evbarm/), 1691: [OpenBSD/zaurus](http://www.openbsd.org/zaurus.html), [DragonFlyBSD with 1692: hammer](http://www.dragonflybsd.org/), [SGI O2](../ports/sgimips/), [IBM 1693: PReP](../ports/prep/), CPU Load average x 16 LED Meterboard with 1694: libFT245, bc benchmark time x electricity consumption = energy 1695: efficiency graph with all BSD machines. ). 1696: 1697: ### `Jul 2009` - Japan NetBSD Users' Group meeting & NetBSD BOF 1698: 1699: *Jul 4, 2009, [The University of 1700: Tokyo](http://www.u-tokyo.ac.jp/campusmap/cam01_04_03_j.html), Tokyo, 1701: Japan* 1702: 1703: See [this 1704: page](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/announce/meeting11.html.en) 1705: for meeting information. 1706: 1707: BOF with 39 attendances: pkgsrc updates, workarounds for VAIO Type P, 1708: AsiaBSDCon reports, eXecute In Place (XIP), gumstix, IA64 , SheevaPlug, 1709: USB Wireless LAN drivers, NetBSD - Now, 6.0 and Future, PGP key sign 1710: party. 1711: 1712: ### `Jul 2009` - Open Source World 2009 1713: 1714: *Jul. 1-2, 2009, Tokyo International Forum, Tokyo, Japan* 1715: 1716: At the [Open Source World 2009](http://www.idg.co.jp/expo/osw/2009/) , 1717: there was a NetBSD booth staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 1718: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) . There was gadgets power 1719: consumption demonstration ( [hpcarm](../ports/hpcarm/), 1720: [hpcmips](../ports/hpcmips/), [hpcsh](../ports/hpcsh/) ) and [tadpole 1721: GX3:sparc](../ports/sparc/). 1722: 1723: ### `Jun 2009` - LinuxTag 2009 1724: 1725: *June 24-27 2009, Berlin, Germany* 1726: 1727: The annual [LinuxTag](http://www.linuxtag.org/2009/en.html) conference 1728: took place from 24th until 27th of June 2009 at the Berlin fairground 1729: under the radio tower. NetBSD was sharing a booth with the other BSD 1730: systems at the exhibition. 1731: 1732: ### `Jun 2009` - Open Source Conference 2009 Hokkaido 1733: 1734: *Jun. 20, 2009, Sapporo Business Innovation Center, Sapporo, Japan* 1735: 1736: At the [Open Source Conference 2009 1737: Hokkaido](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2009-do/) , there was a NetBSD booth 1738: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 1739: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) and [Northern land BSD 1740: Users Group](http://www.no.bug.gr.jp/) with many hpc{ 1741: [mips](../ports/hpcmips/), [sh](../ports/hpcsh/), 1742: [arm](../ports/hpcarm/) } , [NetBSD/evbmips on 1743: BBR-4MG](../ports/evbmips/), Twitter ticker monitor on 78K0 board via 1744: USB Serial, [NetBSD/evbarm on Armadillo-9](../ports/evbarm/) with 1745: VT-220J, [NetBSD/sparc on SparcStation Classic](../ports/sparc/), 1746: [NetBSD/evbarm on BeagleBoard (working in progress,not boot 1747: yet)](../ports/evbarm/). 1748: 1749: ### `May 2009` - Open Source Conference 2009 Shimane 1750: 1751: *May 16, 2009, [MATSUE 1752: TERRSA](http://www.sanbg.com/terrsa/e/index.html), Shimane, Japan* 1753: 1754: At the [Open Source Conference 2009 1755: Shimane](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2009-shimane/) , there was a NetBSD booth 1756: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 1757: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/). There were gadget 1758: demonstrations ( [SONY VAIO type P](../ports/i386/), 1759: [RaQ2:cobalt](../ports/cobalt/), [Armadillo9:evbarm](../ports/evbarm/), 1760: [hpcarm](../ports/hpcarm/), [hpcmips](../ports/hpcmips/), 1761: [hpcsh](../ports/hpcsh/) ). 1762: 1763: ### `May 2009` - BSDCan 2009 1764: 1765: *May 8-9, 2009, Ottawa, Canada.* 1766: 1767: [BSDCan 2009](http://www.bsdcan.org/) was held on 8-9 May 2009 at the 1768: University of Ottawa, and was preceded by two days of tutorials on 6-7 1769: May 2009. 1770: 1771: ### `Mar 2009` - CeBIT 2009 1772: 1773: *March 3-8, 2009, Hannover, Germany* 1774: 1775: The NetBSD project had a joint booth with the FreeBSD project at 1776: [CeBIT](http://www.cebit.de/), the large b2b trade fair held in 1777: Hannover, Germany. 1778: 1779: ### `Mar 2009` - AsiaBSDCon 2009 1780: 1781: *Mar 12-15, 2009, Tokyo University of Science,Tokyo, Japan* 1782: 1783: [AsiaBSDCon](http://2009.asiabsdcon.org/) is a conference for users and 1784: developers on BSD based systems. The conference is for anyone 1785: developing, deploying and using systems based on FreeBSD, NetBSD, 1786: OpenBSD, DragonFly BSD, Darwin, and MacOS X. AsiaBSDCon is a technical 1787: conference and aims to collect the best technical papers and 1788: presentations available to ensure that the latest developments in our 1789: open source community are shared with the widest possible audience. 1790: [Antti Kantee:Environmental Independance:BSD Kernel TCP/IP in 1791: Userspace](http://2009.asiabsdcon.org/timetable.html#P5A) 1792: ([Report](http://journal.mycom.co.jp/articles/2009/03/30/asiabsdcon4/index.html)), 1793: and [NetBSD 1794: BoF](http://mail-index.NetBSD.org/regional-jp/2009/02/15/msg000018.html) 1795: was held on Mar 13,2009 17:30-19:00. [AsiaBSDCon 2009 1796: papers](http://2009.asiabsdcon.org/live/) and 1797: [presentations](http://www.youtube.com/bsdconferences) are available. 1798: 1799: ### `Feb 2009` - Southern California Linux Expo 1800: 1801: *Feb 20-22, 2009, Los Angeles, CA* 1802: 1803: The NetBSD project was represented by A.KML and A.DAVID at [SCALE 1804: 7x](http://www.socallinuxexpo.org/), the 7th annual Southern California 1805: Linux Expo, which took place February 20-22, 2009 at The Westin Los 1806: Angeles Airport, Los Angeles, California. 1807: 1808: ### `Feb 2009` - Open Source Conference 2009 Tokyo/Spring 1809: 1810: *Feb. 20-21, 2009, [Japan Electronics 1811: College](http://www.jec.ac.jp/access/), Tokyo, Japan* 1812: 1813: At the [Open Source Conference 2009 1814: Tokyo/Spring](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2009-spring/) , there was a NetBSD 1815: booth staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 1816: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) with [VAIO type 1817: P](http://www.vaio.sony.co.jp/Products/P1/) with NetBSD, [tadpole 1818: GX3:sparc](../ports/sparc/) and many hpc{ [mips](../ports/hpcmips/), 1819: [sh](../ports/hpcsh/), [arm](../ports/hpcarm/) } gadgets demonstration. 1820: 1821: ### `Feb 2009` - FOSDEM 2009 1822: 1823: NetBSD was present at FOSDEM on Feb 7-8 2009 in Brussels, Belgium. 1824: FOSDEM is a free and non-commercial event organised by the community for 1825: the community. 1826: 1827: ### `Feb 2009` - DCBSDCon 2009 1828: 1829: *Feb. 5-6, 2009, Washington, D.C.* 1830: 1831: For information, visit [](http://www.dcbsdcon.org/). 1832: 1833: ### `Jan 2009` - Open Source Conference 2009 Sendai 1834: 1835: *Jan. 24, 2009, [Tohoku Computer 1836: College](http://www.jc-21.ac.jp/map/index.shtml), Sendai, Japan* 1837: 1838: At the [Open Source Conference 2009 1839: Sendai](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2009-sendai/) , there was a NetBSD booth 1840: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 1841: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) with many hpc{ 1842: [mips](../ports/hpcmips/), [sh](../ports/hpcsh/), 1843: [arm](../ports/hpcarm/) } gadgets demonstration. 1844: 1845: ### `Dec 2008` - Open Source Conference 2008 Fukuoka 1846: 1847: *Dec. 13, 2008, [Humanities and Social Sciences Center,Fukuoka 1848: University](http://www.fukuoka-u.ac.jp/unv_gide/access/cmps_map1.html), 1849: Fukuoka, Japan* 1850: 1851: At the [Open Source Conference 2008 1852: Fukuoka](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2008-fukuoka/) , there was a NetBSD booth 1853: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 1854: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) with many hpc{ 1855: [mips](../ports/hpcmips/), [sh](../ports/hpcsh/), 1856: [arm](../ports/hpcarm/) } gadgets and USB Camera demonstration. 1857: 1858: ### `Nov 2008` - Open Source Conference 2008 Okinawa 1859: 1860: *Nov. 29, 2008, [Okinawa Industory Support 1861: Center](http://www.okinawa-sangyoushien.co.jp/), Okinawa, Japan* 1862: 1863: At the [Open Source Conference 2008 1864: Okinawa](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2008-okinawa/) , there was a NetBSD booth 1865: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 1866: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) with many hpc{ 1867: [mips](../ports/hpcmips/), [sh](../ports/hpcsh/), 1868: [arm](../ports/hpcarm/) } gadgets demonstration. 1869: 1870: ### `Nov 2008` - meetBSD California '08 1871: 1872: *Nov. 15-16, 2008, Mountain View, California* 1873: 1874: For information, visit [](http://www.meetbsd.com/). 1875: 1876: ### `Nov 2008` - Kansai OpenSource 2008 1877: 1878: *Nov. 7-8, 2008, [Asia and Pacific Trade Center ITC 1879: Building](http://www.atc-co.com/), Osaka, Japan* 1880: 1881: At the [Kansai OpenSource 2008](http://www.k-of.jp/), there was a NetBSD 1882: booth staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 1883: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) and [Kansai \*BSD Users 1884: Group](http://www.kbug.gr.jp/) with [tadpole 1885: GX3:sparc](../ports/sparc/), [Linkstation:sandpoint](../ports/evbarm/), 1886: [PCBSD on Xen](../ports/xen/), [hpcmips](../ports/hpcmips/), 1887: [hpcsh](../ports/hpcsh/), [hpcarm](../ports/hpcarm/), 1888: [LC475](../ports/mac68k/), 1889: [OpenBSD/zaurus](http://www.openbsd.org/zaurus.html), 1890: [DragonFlyBSD](http://www.dragonflybsd.org/), [Servo motor realtime 1891: control via USB audio](http://rogiken.org/daemon/works.html) gadgets 1892: demonstration and BSDBOF. 1893: 1894: ### `Oct 2008` - EuroBSDCon 2008 1895: 1896: *Oct. 18-19, 2008, Strasbourg, France* 1897: 1898: EuroBSDcon 2008, the european technical conference for people working on 1899: and with 4.4BSD based operating systems, was held on October 18-19th 1900: 2008 at the University of Strasbourg in France. Two days of Tutorials 1901: preceded the conference on Oct. 16-17th. 1902: 1903: For more information about EuroBSDCon 2008 visit the website 1904: [](http://2008.EuroBSDCon.org/). 1905: 1906: ### `Oct 2008` - NetBSD developers summit @ NYCBSDCon 2008 1907: 1908: *Oct 10, 2008, Columbia University, NY, NY, USA* 1909: 1910: A NetBSD developer's summit was held on Friday, October 10th, 2008. The 1911: event was sponsored by and leads up to that year's NYCBSDCon and took 1912: place at Columbia University on the island of Manhattan in New York 1913: City, NY, USA. The event was *open to the public*. 1914: 1915: ### `Oct 2008` - NYCBSDCon 2008 1916: 1917: *Oct 11-12, 2008, Columbia University, NY, NY, USA* 1918: 1919: The third BSD Conference organized by the [NYC BSD User 1920: Group](http://www.nycbug.org) took place in New York City on October 1921: 11th and 12th, 2008. 1922: 1923: More information about NYCBSDCon 2008 is available at 1924: [](http://www.nycbsdcon.org/2008/). 1925: 1926: Coinciding with the conference was the 12th NetBSD Hackathon being held. 1927: 1928: ### `Oct 2008` - Open Source Conference 2008 Tokyo/Fall 1929: 1930: *Oct. 3-4, 2008, [Ota City Industrial 1931: Plaza](http://www.pio-ota.jp/english/access.html), Tokyo, Japan* 1932: 1933: At the [Open Source Conference 2008 1934: Tokyo/Fall](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2008-fall/) , there was a NetBSD booth 1935: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 1936: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) with [tadpole 1937: GX3:sparc](../ports/sparc/), [LinkStation:sandpoint](../ports/evbarm/), 1938: [PCBSD on Xen](../ports/xen/), [hpcmips](../ports/hpcmips/), 1939: [hpcsh](../ports/hpcsh/), [hpcarm](../ports/hpcarm/) gadgets 1940: demonstration and BSD BOF(OpenBSD,NetBSD, [76th IETF 1941: Hiroshima](http://www.wide.ad.jp/news/press/20080804-IETF-e.html), 1942: [Itojun Service 1943: Award](http://www.wide.ad.jp/news/press/20080912-itojun-fund-j.html) ). 1944: 1945: ### `Sep 2008` - Open Source Conference 2008 in Shimane 1946: 1947: *Sep. 12-13, 2008, [MATSUE 1948: TERRSA](http://www.sanbg.com/terrsa/e/index.html), Shimane, Japan* 1949: 1950: At the [Open Source Conference 2008 1951: Shimane](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2008-shimane/) , there was a NetBSD booth 1952: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 1953: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/). There were gadget 1954: demonstrations ( [dynabook/SS:amd64](../ports/amd64/), 1955: [Armadillo9:evbarm](../ports/evbarm/), 1956: [HP712/80:hp700](../ports/hp700/), [hpcarm](../ports/hpcarm/), 1957: [hpcmips](../ports/hpcmips/), [hpcsh](../ports/hpcsh/), 1958: [SL-C3200:zaurus](../ports/zaurus/), 1959: [LaVie/G:OpenSolaris](http://www.solaris.com/), and 1960: [chumby](http://www.chumby.com/) ). 1961: 1962: ### `Aug 2008` - Open Source Conference 2008 in Nagoya 1963: 1964: *Aug. 9, 2008, Nagoya City University, Nagoya, Japan* 1965: 1966: At the [Open Source Conference 2008 1967: Nagoya](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2008-nagoya/) , there was a NetBSD booth 1968: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 1969: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) and [Nagoya \*BSD Users' 1970: Group](http://www.nagoya.bug.gr.jp/). There were gadget demonstrations ( 1971: [RaQ2:cobalt](../ports/cobalt/), [hpcarm](../ports/hpcarm/), 1972: [hpcmips](../ports/hpcmips/), [hpcsh](../ports/hpcsh/), 1973: [HP712/80:hp700](../ports/hp700/), 1974: [OpenBSD/zaurus](http://www.openbsd.org/zaurus.html), [Speecys Robot: 1975: NetBSD/sh3](http://www.speecys.com/), [samtk](http://www.samtk.org/) ). 1976: 1977: ### `Jul 2008` - Open Source Conference 2008 in Kansai 1978: 1979: *Jul. 18-19, 2008, Kyoto Computer Gakuin, Kyoto, Japan* 1980: 1981: At the [Open Source Conference 2008 1982: Kansai](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2008-kansai/) , there was a NetBSD booth 1983: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 1984: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) . There were gadgets power 1985: consumption demonstration ( [hpcarm](../ports/hpcarm/), 1986: [hpcmips](../ports/hpcmips/), [hpcsh](../ports/hpcsh/), 1987: [alpha](../ports/alpha/), [SGI O2](../ports/sgimips/) ), Miku Hatsune 1988: paper doll with Six servo moters controlled by USB audio, libFT245 with 1989: USB, BeBox, Squeak on hpcmips, OneSeg TV recording with hpcmips, bc 1990: benchmark time x electricity consumption = energy efficiency graph with 1991: all BSD machines. 1992: 1993: ### `Jul 2008` - Japan NetBSD Users' Group meeting & NetBSD BOF 1994: 1995: *Jul 5, 2008, [The University of 1996: Tokyo](http://www.u-tokyo.ac.jp/campusmap/cam01_04_03_j.html), Tokyo, 1997: Japan* 1998: 1999: BOF with 52 attendances: NetBSD/sparc64 SMP, NetBSD/BBR-4MG 2000: evbmips(ADM5120), NetBSD/DLX - CPU implementation on FPGA, OpenRoads - 2001: Open Robot Operation And Design Specification, AsiaBSDCon2009, pkgsrc 2002: update, KURO-BOX/PRO MB88F5182, Toolchain and "mknative", EeePC, NetBSD 2003: - Now, 5.0 and Future, PGP key sign party. 2004: 2005: ### `Jun 2008` - Open Source Conference 2008 in Hokkaido 2006: 2007: *Jun. 28, 2008, Sapporo Business Innovation Center, Sapporo, Japan* 2008: 2009: At the [Open Source Conference 2008 2010: Hokkaido](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2008-do/) , there was a NetBSD booth 2011: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 2012: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) with many hpc{ 2013: [mips](../ports/hpcmips/), [sh](../ports/hpcsh/), 2014: [arm](../ports/hpcarm/) } gadgets demonstration, VT-220J, USL-5P with 3 2015: one-seg TV tuners, NetBSD/BBR-4MG . 2016: 2017: ### `Jun 2008` - pkgsrcCon 2008 2018: 2019: *Jun 13-15, 2008, Technical University of Berlin* 2020: 2021: The fifth annual pkgsrcCon convened in Berlin, Germany on June 13 to 15, 2022: 2008. pkgsrcCon is a technical conference for people working on the 2023: [NetBSD Packages Collection 2024: (pkgsrc)](http://www.NetBSD.org/docs/software/packages.html), focusing 2025: on existing technologies, research projects, and works-in-progress in 2026: pkgsrc infrastructure. 2027: 2028: More information about pkgsrcCon 2008 is available at 2029: [](http://www.pkgsrccon.org/2008/). 2030: 2031: ### `May 2008` - BSDCan 2008 2032: 2033: *May 16-17, 2008, University of Ottawa, Canada* 2034: 2035: BSDCan is a BSD conference held in Ottawa, for people working on and 2036: with 4.4BSD based operating systems and related projects. The organizers 2037: have found a formula that appeals to a wide range of people from extreme 2038: novices to advanced developers. 2039: 2040: For more information about BSDCan 2008 visit 2041: [](http://www.BSDCan.org/2008/). 2042: 2043: ### `Apr 2008` - BSDCon Barcelona 2008 2044: 2045: *Apr 19-20, 2008, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, 2046: Spain* 2047: 2048: For more information about BSDCon Barcelona '08 visit 2049: [](http://bcn.bsdcon.net/). 2050: 2051: ### `Apr 2008` - Open Source Conference 2008 Nagaoka 2052: 2053: *Apr. 12, 2008, [Nagaoka University of 2054: Technology.](http://www.nagaokaut.ac.jp/j/), Niigata, Japan* 2055: 2056: At the [Open Source Conference 2008 2057: Nagaoka](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2008-nagaoka/) , there was a NetBSD booth 2058: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 2059: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) with many hpc{ 2060: [mips](../ports/hpcmips/), [sh](../ports/hpcsh/), 2061: [arm](../ports/hpcarm/) } gadgets demonstration, NetBSD/Playstation3, 2062: USB OneSeg TV tuner (DUS-01). 2063: 2064: ### `Mar 2008` - Frühjahrsfachgespräch (FFG) of the German Unix User Group 2065: 2066: *March 11-14, 2008, University of Munich, Germany* 2067: 2068: The FFG is an annual meeting for professional users of Unix, networking 2069: technologies and IT security. 2070: 2071: For more information about FFG 2008 visit 2072: [](http://www.guug.de/veranstaltungen/ffg2008/) 2073: 2074: ### `Mar 2008` - AsiaBSDCon 2008 2075: 2076: *Mar 27-30, 2008, Tokyo, Japan* 2077: 2078: [AsiaBSDCon](http://2008.asiabsdcon.org/) is a conference for users and 2079: developers on BSD based systems. The conference is for anyone 2080: developing, deploying and using systems based on FreeBSD, NetBSD, 2081: OpenBSD, DragonFly BSD, Darwin, and MacOS X. AsiaBSDCon is a technical 2082: conference and aims to collect the best technical papers and 2083: presentations available to ensure that the latest developments in our 2084: open source community are shared with the widest possible audience. 2085: AsiaBSDCon2008 was held with over 170 attendances. [[Paper/Slide 2086: List](http://2008.asiabsdcon.org/papers/index.html), 2087: [photographs](http://2008.asiabsdcon.org/photo/0327/index.html)] 2088: 2089: [NetBSD Discussion:](http://www.NetBSD.org/~uebayasi/abc2008bof.txt) 2090: Cherry G.Mathew:NetBSD/ia64, Hiroki Doshita and Masahiko Yasuoka: [npppd 2091: and pipex](http://www.seil.jp/download/eng/), Toshiaki Nozawa [Speecys 2092: Corp.](http://www.speecys.com/) :NetBSD/Robots, Masao Uebayashi:MIPS N32 2093: ABI support and OCTEON on [SEIL/X](http://www.seil.jp/download/eng/). 2094: 2095: Paper Session (NetBSD-related content): Christoph Badura: [Gaols: 2096: Implementing Jails Under the kauth 2097: Framework](http://2008.asiabsdcon.org/timetable.html#P3A), Antti Kantee: 2098: [Send and Recieve of File System Protocols: Userspace Approach With 2099: puffs](http://2008.asiabsdcon.org/timetable.html#P4B), Kristaps 2100: Džonsons: [Logical Resource Isolation in the NetBSD 2101: Kernel](http://2008.asiabsdcon.org/timetable.html#P5A) [detail: 2102: [mult](http://mult.bsd.lv/)] , Alistair Crooks: [A Portable iSCSI 2103: Initiator](http://2008.asiabsdcon.org/timetable.html#P6A), Jörg 2104: Sonnenberger and Jared D.McNeill: [Sleeping Beauty - NetBSD on Modern 2105: Laptops](http://2008.asiabsdcon.org/timetable.html#P9A) 2106: [[Presentation](./presentations/)] . 2107: 2108: Mini Talk: M.Warner Losh: FreeBSD/mips, Alistair Crooks: Three roadmaps 2109: for NetBSD development through 5.0 and 6.0 - this will cover storage, 2110: networking and virtualisation. 2111: ### `Feb 2008` - Open Source Conference 2008 Tokyo/Spring 2112: 2113: *Feb. 29-Mar. 1, 2008, [Japan Electronics 2114: College.](http://www.jec.ac.jp/college/access.html), Tokyo, Japan* 2115: 2116: At the [Open Source Conference 2008 2117: Tokyo/Spring](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2008-spring/) , there was a NetBSD 2118: booth staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 2119: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) with many hpc{ 2120: [mips](../ports/hpcmips/), [sh](../ports/hpcsh/), 2121: [arm](../ports/hpcarm/) [arm](../ports/hpcarm/) [NetBSD/i386 on Asus 2122: EeePC](../ports/i386/netbook.html) } gadgets demonstration and 2123: [Speecys](http://www.speecys.com/) Robots. 2124: 2125: ### `Feb 2008` - FOSDEM 2008 2126: 2127: *Feb 23-24, 2008, Brussels, Belgium* 2128: 2129: NetBSD has had a booth at the FOSDEM on Feb 23-24 2008 in Brussels, 2130: Belgium. FOSDEM is a free and non-commercial event organised by the 2131: community for the community. The NetBSD booth was manned by Thomas 2132: Reisky <doppelhertz@bsdgroup.de>. 2133: 2134: ### `Feb 2008` - SCALE 6x 2135: 2136: *Feb. 9-10, 2007, Los Angeles, USA* 2137: 2138: The NetBSD project was represented by A.KML and A.DAVID at [SCALE 2139: 6x](http://www.socallinuxexpo.org/), the 6th annual Southern California 2140: Linux Expo, which took place February 9-10, 2008 at The Westin Los 2141: Angeles Airport, Los Angeles, California. 2142: 2143: ### `Dec 2007` - Open Source Conference 2007 Fukuoka 2144: 2145: *Dec. 8, 2007, [ASC BUILD.](http://www.kma.ne.jp/asc/), Fukuoka, Japan* 2146: 2147: At the [Open Source Conference 2007 2148: Fukuoka](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2007-fukuoka/) , there was a NetBSD booth 2149: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 2150: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) with many hpc{ 2151: [mips](../ports/hpcmips/), [sh](../ports/hpcsh/), 2152: [arm](../ports/hpcarm/) } gadgets demonstration. 2153: 2154: ### `Nov 2007` - Open Source Conference 2007 Okinawa 2155: 2156: *Nov. 17, 2007, [Okiden Fureai 2157: Hall](http://www.okiden.co.jp/corporate/branch/naha.html), Okinawa, 2158: Japan* 2159: 2160: At the [Open Source Conference 2007 2161: Okinawa](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2007-okinawa/) , there was a NetBSD booth 2162: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 2163: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) with many hpc{ 2164: [mips](../ports/hpcmips/), [sh](../ports/hpcsh/), 2165: [arm](../ports/hpcarm/) } gadgets demonstration. 2166: 2167: ### Nov 2007 - come2linux: Linux-days Essen 2007 2168: 2169: *November 10-11th 2007, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany* 2170: 2171: NetBSD was present at *come2linux*, the Linux-days Essen 2007. There was 2172: a joint BSD booth, the NetBSD part was manned by Stefan Klose, Julian 2173: Suschlik and Karsten Kruse. 2174: 2175: ### `Nov 2007` - Kansai OpenSource 2007 2176: 2177: *Nov. 9-10, 2007, [Asia and Pacific Trade Center ITC 2178: Building](http://www.atc-co.com/), Osaka, Japan* 2179: 2180: At the [Kansai OpenSource 2007](http://www.k-of.jp/), there was a NetBSD 2181: booth staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 2182: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) with [Mac LCIII+475 2183: upgrade](../ports/mac68k/), [iBook](../ports/macppc/) with [Servo motor 2184: realtime control via USB audio](http://rogiken.org/daemon/works.html), 2185: [Zaurus C3200](../ports/zaurus/), many hpc{ [mips](../ports/hpcmips/), 2186: [sh](../ports/hpcsh/), [arm](../ports/hpcarm/) } gadgets demonstration. 2187: 2188: ### `Oct 2007` - Open Source Conference 2007 Niigata 2189: 2190: *Oct. 27, 2007, [NIIGATA TERRSA](http://www.n-terrsa.jp/access/), 2191: Niigata, Japan* 2192: 2193: At the [Open Source Conference 2007 2194: Niigata](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2007-niigata/) , there was a NetBSD booth 2195: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 2196: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) with many hpc{ 2197: [mips](../ports/hpcmips/), [sh](../ports/hpcsh/), 2198: [arm](../ports/hpcarm/) } gadgets demonstration. 2199: 2200: ### `Oct 2007` - Systems Munich 2201: 2202: NetBSD was present at the Open Source Pavillon (hall B2, booth 110-2) at 2203: the [Systems](http://www.systems-world.de/) Computer Fair in Munich, 2204: Germany, from October 23rd to 26th. The booth is sponsored and organized 2205: by [Computer- und Literaturverlag](http://www.cul.de/). 2206: 2207: ### `Oct 2007` - First Turkish Conference on BSD Systems 2208: 2209: *Oct. 19-20, 2007, Sultanahmet Campus Marmara University, Istanbul, 2210: Turkey* 2211: 2212: BSDConTR was the first conference on BSD systems in Turkey. The 2213: conference was organized in full cooperation with EnderUNIX Software 2214: Development team, which is largely known as its ongoing support for BSD 2215: systems in Turkey, and its open source projects and Marmara University. 2216: 2217: More information on BSDConTR at [](http://www.bsdcontr.org/) 2218: 2219: ### `Oct 2007` - Brandenburger Linux-Infotag 2220: 2221: The Brandenburg Linux-Infotag was held on Oct 20th 2007 at the FH 2222: Brandenburg, Germany. The NetBSD project was represented with an own 2223: booth, and Stefan Schumacher was there to answer questions. For more 2224: information, see the [event's 2225: homepage](http://www.linuxinfotag-brb.de/). 2226: 2227: ### `Oct 2007` - Open Source Conference 2007 Tokyo/Fall 2228: 2229: *Oct. 5-6, 2007, [Ota City Industrial 2230: Plaza](http://www.pio-ota.jp/english/access.html), Tokyo, Japan* 2231: 2232: At the [Open Source Conference 2007 2233: Tokyo/Fall](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2007-fall/) , there was a NetBSD booth 2234: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 2235: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) with 2236: [X68030](../ports/x68k/) with [Nereid](http://xps.jp/), many hpc{ 2237: [mips](../ports/hpcmips/), [sh](../ports/hpcsh/), 2238: [arm](../ports/hpcarm/) } gadgets demonstration and [IPv6 and Security 2239: Presentation by 2240: itojun](http://www.itojun.org/paper/itojun-200710-ospn-tokyo/mgp00001.html). 2241: 2242: ### `Sep 2007` - EuroBSDCon 2007 2243: 2244: *Sep. 14-15, 2007, Copenhagen, Denmark* 2245: 2246: The sixth annual European BSD Conference, EuroBSDCon 2007, was held on 2247: September 14-15th 2007 at Symbion Science Park in Copenhagen, Denmark. 2248: Two days of Tutorials preceeded the Conference on Sep 12-13th. 2249: 2250: For more information about EuroBSDCon 2007 visit the website 2251: [](http://2007.EuroBSDCon.org/). 2252: 2253: ### Aug 2007 - Chaos Communications Camp 2007 2254: 2255: The Chaos Communications Camp is the summer event of the Chaos Computer 2256: Club. It was held from August 8th to 12th at the Airport Museum 2257: Finowfurt near Berlin, Germany. See the event's 2258: [homepage](http://events.ccc.de/camp/2007/) for more information. 2259: 2260: ### `Jul 2007` - Open Source Conference 2007 in Kansai 2261: 2262: *Jul. 20-21, 2007, Kyoto Computer Gakuin, Kyoto, Japan* 2263: 2264: At the [Open Source Conference 2007 2265: Kansai](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2007-kansai/) , there was a NetBSD booth 2266: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 2267: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) and [Nagoya \*BSD Users' 2268: Group](http://www.nagoya.bug.gr.jp/). There were gadgets power 2269: consumption demonstration ( [amd64](../ports/amd64/), 2270: [alpha](../ports/alpha/), [evbarm](../ports/evbarm/), 2271: [hpcarm](../ports/hpcarm/), [hpcmips](../ports/hpcmips/), 2272: [hpcsh](../ports/hpcsh/), [news68k](../ports/news68k/), 2273: [newsmips](../ports/newsmips/), [sandpoint](../ports/sandpoint/), 2274: [sgimips](../ports/sgimips/), [xen](../ports/xen/), 2275: [OpenBSD/zaurus](http://www.OpenBSD.org/zaurus.html) ) and [BSD 2276: BOF](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2007-kansai/modules/eguide/event.php?eid=52) 2277: ( [Servo motor realtime control via USB 2278: audio](http://rogiken.org/daemon/works.html), [Apache 2279: Geronimo](http://geronimo.apache.org/), [NetBSD and 2280: Java](http://www.yagoto-urayama.jp/~oshimaya/netbsd/netbsd-java/index.html) 2281: ). 2282: 2283: [A report with some 2284: photos](http://www.nagoya.bug.gr.jp/2007/osc2007-kansai/index.html) is 2285: available. 2286: 2287: ### Jul 2007 - Chaos Singularity (CoSin) 2007 2288: 2289: *Jul. 6-8, 2007, Bremgarten AG, Switzerland* 2290: 2291: The Chaos Singularity 2007 was an event organized by swiss groups which 2292: organizationally or by content are related to the CCC (Chaos Computer 2293: Club). This event took place from July 6th to 8th at the cultural center 2294: of Bremgarten ([KuZeB](http://www.kuzeb.ch)) in the canton of Aargau, 2295: Switzerland. 2296: 2297: There was a BSD booth at the CoSin 2007, also representing NetBSD. A 2298: report was posted to the 2299: [regional-de](http://mail-index.NetBSD.org/regional-de/2007/07/09/0000.html) 2300: mailing list. 2301: 2302: ### `Jul 2007` - Japan NetBSD Users' Group meeting & NetBSD BOF 2303: 2304: *Jul 7, 2007, [The University of 2305: Tokyo](http://www.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/epage/public/map/e25-j.html), Tokyo, 2306: Japan* 2307: 2308: See [this 2309: page](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/announce/meeting9.html) for 2310: meeting information. Talking about ColdFire, 2311: [MobileIPv6](https://op-ha.nautilus6.org/), [Type 0 Routing Header 2312: issue](http://www.kame.net/newsletter/20070502/index.html), update 2313: net80211 and Atheros, pkgsrc, 2314: [NetBSD/playstation3](http://www.ki.nu/hardware/.ps3/files/20070707/), 2315: [build status](ftp://ftp.ki.nu/pub/NetBSD-daily/HEAD/map/index.html), 2316: automake to BSD make converter, NetBSD - Now, 4.0 and Future, PGP key 2317: sign party. 2318: 2319: ### `Jun 2007` - Open Source Conference 2007 in Hokkaido 2320: 2321: *Jun. 30, 2007, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan* 2322: 2323: At the [Open Source Conference 2007 2324: Hokkaido](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2007-do/) , there was a NetBSD booth 2325: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 2326: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) with many hpc{ 2327: [mips](../ports/hpcmips/), [sh](../ports/hpcsh/), 2328: [arm](../ports/hpcarm/) } gadgets demonstration, Internet Radio Player 2329: on USL-5P, NetBSD/Armadillo-9. 2330: 2331: ### May 2007 - Linuxtag Berlin 2332: 2333: LinuxTag 2007 opened its doors from May 30 to June 2, 2007 at the Berlin 2334: Expo Center under the Funkturm in Berlin, Germany. The event featured 2335: many talks about Open Source, Linux and there was a [full 2336: BSD-track](http://www.linuxtag.org/2007/en/conf/events/vp-freitag.html) 2337: at the 2338: [BSD-Day](http://www.linuxtag.org/2007/de/community/workshops/bsd-day.html) 2339: this year, too. Besides the talks there was a large exhibition fair, and 2340: the NetBSD project was among the BSD projects, which had a joint booth. 2341: BSD talks included Hubert Feyrer's NetBSD status report. 2342: 2343: See the [Linuxtag homepage](http://www.linuxtag.org/2007/) for more 2344: information. 2345: 2346: ### `May 2007` - BSDCan 2007 2347: 2348: *May 18-19, 2007, Ottawa, Canada* 2349: 2350: In just three short years, BSDCan, a BSD conference held in Ottawa, has 2351: quickly established itself as the technical conference for people 2352: working on and with 4.4BSD based operating systems and related projects. 2353: The organizers have found a fantastic formula that appeals to a wide 2354: range of people from extreme novices to advanced developers. 2355: 2356: That year, BSDCan 2007 was held on 18-19 May 2007 at University of 2357: Ottawa, and was preceded by two days of Tutorials on 16-17 May 2007. 2358: 2359: For more information about BSDCan 2007 visit 2360: [](http://www.BSDCan.org/2007/). 2361: 2362: ### `Apr 2007` - pkgsrcCon 2007 2363: 2364: *Apr. 27-29, 2007, Barcelona, Spain* 2365: 2366: The fourth annual pkgsrcCon will convene in Barcelona, Spain on April 27 2367: to 29, 2007. pkgsrcCon is a technical conference for people working on 2368: the [NetBSD Packages Collection 2369: (pkgsrc)](http://www.NetBSD.org/docs/software/packages.html), focusing 2370: on existing technologies, research projects, and works-in-progress in 2371: pkgsrc infrastructure. Developers, contributors, and users are all 2372: welcome to attend. 2373: 2374: More information about pkgsrcCon 2007 is available at 2375: [](http://www.pkgsrccon.org/2007/). 2376: 2377: ### `Mar 2007` - Linux-Infotag Augsburg 2378: 2379: *Mar 24, 2007, Augsburg, Germany* 2380: 2381: There will be a joint BSD booth at the Linux Infotag in Augsburg, 2382: including presence of the NetBSD project. The event offers some small 2383: expo space, and two tracks of talks, one with beginners in mind, the 2384: other one for advanced users. See [the event's 2385: homepage](http://www.luga.de/Aktionen/LIT-2007/) for more information. 2386: 2387: P.S.: A report is available in [this 2388: mail](http://mail-index.NetBSD.org/netbsd-advocacy/2007/03/26/0000.html). 2389: 2390: ### `Mar 2007` - Open Source Conference 2007 Tokyo/Spring 2391: 2392: *Mar. 16-17, 2007, Tokyo, Japan* 2393: 2394: At the [Open Source Conference 2007 2395: Tokyo/Spring](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2007-spring/), there will be a 2396: NetBSD booth staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 2397: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) with many hpc{ 2398: [mips](../ports/hpcmips/), [sh](../ports/hpcsh/), 2399: [arm](../ports/hpcarm/) } gadgets demonstration and 2400: [Speecys](http://www.speecys.com/) Robots. 2401: 2402: ### `Mar 2007` - AsiaBSDCon 2007 2403: 2404: *Mar. 8-11, 2007, Tokyo, Japan* 2405: 2406: AsiaBSDCon is a conference for users and developers on BSD based 2407: systems. The conference is for anyone developing, deploying and using 2408: systems based on FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, DragonFly BSD, Darwin, and 2409: MacOS X. AsiaBSDCon is a technical conference and aims to collect the 2410: best technical papers and presentations available to ensure that the 2411: latest developments in our open source community are shared with the 2412: widest possible audience. 2413: 2414: Please contact secretary@asiabsdcon.org if you have any questions. The 2415: AsiaBSDCon 2007 timetable is available at 2416: [](http://2007.asiabsdcon.org/timetable.html). 2417: 2418: ### `Mar 2007` - Chemnitzer Linux-Tage 2419: 2420: *Mar. 3-4, 2007, Chemnitz* 2421: 2422: NetBSD will have a booth and related talks at the Chemnitzer Linux-Tage 2423: (linux days) in Chemnitz, Germany. See 2424: [](http://chemnitzer.linux-tage.de/2007/) for more information. If you 2425: want to help out manning the booth, please contact Hubert Feyrer 2426: <hubertf@NetBSD.org> for further details. 2427: 2428: ### `Feb 2007` - GUUG spring talk 2429: 2430: *Feb. 27-Mar. 2, 2007, Berlin, Germany* 2431: 2432: The German Unix User Group will have it's annual spring talk 2433: (Frühjahrsfachgespräch) in Berlin this year. It will take place February 2434: 27-March 2, 2007, at the Freie Universität Berlin. There will be several 2435: talks about Unix and Unix-related topics, and one will be held by Stefan 2436: Schumacher on how to secure a NetBSD system using Systrace. 2437: 2438: More information can be found at 2439: [](http://www.guug.de/veranstaltungen/ffg2007/) and 2440: [](http://www.guug.de/veranstaltungen/ffg2007/abstracts.html#3_7_1). The 2441: German language article can be found at: 2442: [](http://net-tex.dnsalias.org/~stefan/nt/netbsd/systrace.html). 2443: 2444: Ignatios also 2445: [posted](http://mail-index.NetBSD.org/regional-de/2007/03/27/0000.html) 2446: his [slides (german 2447: language!)](http://theory.cs.uni-bonn.de/~ignatios/erlgrey-guug-ffg-2007.pdf). 2448: 2449: ### `Feb 2007` - FOSDEM 2007 2450: 2451: *Feb 24-25, 2007, Brussels, Belgium* 2452: 2453: on February 24 and 25, the Free and Open source Software Developers' 2454: European Meeting (FOSDEM) takes place again at the Free University of 2455: Brussels, Belgium. 2456: 2457: There will be a joint \*BSD booth with flyers, CD's, T-shirts and other 2458: merchandising, and the Xen demo machine (now upgraded to NetBSD 2459: 4.0\_BETA2 with Xen 3.x). Furthermore there are a lot of interesting 2460: talks, development rooms, a key signing event, etcetera. More 2461: information is available on [](http://www.fosdem.org). 2462: 2463: ### `Feb 2007` - SCALE 5x 2464: 2465: *Feb. 10-11, 2007, Los Angeles, USA* 2466: 2467: [SCALE 5x](http://www.socallinuxexpo.org/), the 5th annual Southern 2468: California Linux Expo, took place February 10-11, 2007, at The Westin 2469: Los Angeles Airport, Los Angeles, California. The NetBSD Project had a 2470: booth at this event; see the reports by 2471: [A.KML](http://mail-index.NetBSD.org/netbsd-advocacy/2007/02/11/0000.html) 2472: and 2473: [A.JSCHAUMA](http://mail-index.NetBSD.org/netbsd-advocacy/2007/02/12/0000.html). 2474: 2475: ### `Dec 2006` - BSDCon Chile 2006 2476: 2477: *December 9, 2006, Universidad Diego Portales - Santiago, Chile.* 2478: 2479: This is the first BSD related conference held in Chile (Latin America). 2480: Our main objective is to provide a place for BSD developers, users and 2481: Sysadmins to meet in Chile to share and interchange ideas, experiences, 2482: knowledge and in addition to socialize to construct future links to 2483: expand knowledge of BSD systems. 2484: 2485: The conference is for anyone developing, administrating and using 2486: systems based on FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, DragonFlyBSD, Darwin, MacOS X 2487: and Solaris. 2488: 2489: For more information, please [visit the 2490: website](http://www.bsd.cl/index.php/BSDCon2006). 2491: 2492: ### `Dec 2006` - OpenSource Conference 2006 Okinawa 2493: 2494: *December 2, 2006, Okinawa Industry Support Center,Japan* 2495: 2496: At the [OpenSource Conference 2006 2497: Okinawa](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2006-okinawa/) , there will be a NetBSD 2498: booth staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 2499: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) with many hpc{ 2500: [mips](../ports/hpcmips/), [sh](../ports/hpcsh/), 2501: [arm](../ports/hpcarm/) } gadgets demonstration. 2502: 2503: ### `Nov 2006` - Hackathon 2504: 2505: NetBSD will run another hackathon, primarily dedicated to get -current 2506: ready for the 4.0 re-branch. See the [Hackathon 2507: page](../community/hackathon.html) for details. 2508: 2509: ### `Nov 2006` - LinuxDay Dornbirn, Austria 2510: 2511: NetBSD will be present as part of the OpenSource community at the 2512: [LinuxDay in Dornbirn](http://www.linuxday.at/), Austria, on November 2513: 18th. Please contact Raphael Langerhorst <raphael@raphael.g-system.at> 2514: if you have any questions or want to help out. 2515: 2516: ### `Nov 2006` - EuroBSDCon Milan 2517: 2518: EuroBSDCon 2006, the European BSD Conference will be held November 10th 2519: - 12th 2006 in Milan, Italy. The 2520: [schedule](http://www.eurobsdcon.org/schedule.php) is up now, and it has 2521: quite a bit of NetBSD-related content: 2522: 2523: - Anders "Ragge" Magnusson: How to set an internet2 Landspeed record 2524: - Jörg Sonnenberger: pkg\_install 2525: - Alistair Crooks: iSCSI - beyond the hype 2526: - NetBSD Security Enhancements: Elad Efrat 2527: - Emmanuel Dreyfus: What's new in NetBSD? 2528: - Brian A. Seklecki: A Scalable Framework for Compact Flash Booting 2529: NetBSD Network Appliances 2530: - Antti Kantee & Johannes Helander: Implementing Lightweight Routing 2531: for BSD TCP/IP 2532: 2533: Registration is open now. Please [see the 2534: website](http://www.eurobsdcon.org/) for more details! 2535: 2536: ### `Oct 2006` - NYCBSDCon 2006 2537: 2538: *Oct. 28-29, 2006, New York, NY, USA* 2539: 2540: Building on last year's success, the [New York City \*BSD User 2541: Group](http://www.nycbug.org/) is organizing [NYCBSDCon 2542: 2006](http://nycbsdcon.org/). The 2543: [schedule](http://nycbsdcon.org/schedule) shows some speakers talking 2544: about NetBSD-related topics. 2545: 2546: ### `Oct 2006` - Open Source Conference 2006 Tokyo/Fall 2547: 2548: *Oct. 28, 2006, Tokyo, Japan* 2549: 2550: At the [Open Source Conference 2006 2551: Tokyo/Fall](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2006-fall/), there will be a NetBSD 2552: booth staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 2553: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) with many hpc{ 2554: [mips](../ports/hpcmips/), [sh](../ports/hpcsh/), 2555: [arm](../ports/hpcarm/) } gadgets demonstration. 2556: 2557: ### `Oct 2006` - Systems Munich 2558: 2559: NetBSD will be present at the Open Source Pavillon (hall A3, booth 2560: A3.542) at the [Systems](http://www.systems-world.de/) Computer Fair in 2561: Munich, Germany, from October 23rd to 27th. The booth is sponsored and 2562: organized by [Computer- und Literaturverlag](http://www.cul.de/) - if 2563: you want to join us in manning the booth, please contact Hubert Feyrer 2564: <hubertf@NetBSD.org>. 2565: 2566: A report on the event is available 2567: [here](http://mail-index.NetBSD.org/netbsd-advocacy/2006/10/30/0001.html). 2568: 2569: ### `Sep 2006` - Ohio Linuxfest 2570: 2571: *Sep. 30, 2006, Columbus, Ohio, USA* 2572: 2573: There will be a NetBSD booth at the 2006 [Ohio 2574: Linuxfest](http://www.ohiolinux.org/) Conference and Expo. Contact A.JRF 2575: <jrf@NetBSD.org> if you have any questions or want to help out at the 2576: booth. 2577: 2578: A report of the event can be found 2579: [here](http://mail-index.NetBSD.org/netbsd-advocacy/2006/10/17/0000.html). 2580: 2581: ### `Sep 2006` - NetBSD at Linux-days Essen 2006: come2linux 2582: 2583: NetBSD will participate in the Linux-days in Essen, dubbed "come2linux". 2584: There will be a joint BSD booth, the NetBSD part will be manned by 2585: Menuhin Saitov <menuhin@web.de>, feel free to contact him about helping 2586: out at the booth or if you have any questions. A number of NetBSD CDs, 2587: NetBSD t-shirts etc. will be available at the booth, too. 2588: 2589: The event takes place on September 9th and 10th 2006 at the Glaspavillon 2590: of the University of Duisburg-Essen. See 2591: [http://www.come2linux.org/](http://www.come2linux.org/) for more 2592: information. 2593: 2594: A report on the event was [posted to the regional-de mailing 2595: list](http://mail-index.NetBSD.org/regional-de/2006/09/16/0000.html). 2596: 2597: ### `Sep 2006` - NetBSD at Linux-kongress Nuremberg 2006 2598: 2599: There will be a NetBSD booth at the Linux-Kongress in Nuremberg on 2600: September 7th and 8th at the University of Applied Sciences 2601: (Fachhochschule) Nuernberg. See 2602: [http://www.linux-kongress.org/](http://www.linux-kongress.org/) for 2603: more information on the event, and contact Hubert Feyrer 2604: <hubertf@NetBSD.org> if you have any questions or want to help out at 2605: the booth. 2606: 2607: A.HUBERTF wrote a short 2608: [report](http://mail-index.NetBSD.org/netbsd-advocacy/2006/09/09/0000.html) 2609: about the event. 2610: 2611: ### `Jul 2006` - Open Source Conference 2006 in Hokkaido 2612: 2613: *Jul. 15, 2006, Sapporo, Japan* 2614: 2615: At the [Open Source Conference 2006 DO](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2006-do/) 2616: , there will be a NetBSD booth staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD 2617: Users' Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) with many hpc{ 2618: [mips](../ports/hpcmips/), [sh](../ports/hpcsh/), 2619: [arm](../ports/hpcarm/) } gadgets demonstration. 2620: 2621: ### `Jun 2006` - Open Source Conference 2006 in Niigata 2622: 2623: *Jun. 17, 2006, Niigata, Japan* 2624: 2625: At the [Open Source Conference 2006 2626: Niigata](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2006-niigata/) , there was a NetBSD booth 2627: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 2628: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) with many hpc{ 2629: [mips](../ports/hpcmips/), [sh](../ports/hpcsh/), 2630: [arm](../ports/hpcarm/) } gadgets demonstration with 150 attendances. 2631: 2632: ### `Jun 2006` - Interop 2006 Tokyo BSD BOF 2633: 2634: *Jun 8, 2006, Makuhari-Messe, Chiba, Japan, 18:30-20:00 JST* 2635: 2636: [Interop 2006 Tokyo BSD 2637: BOF](https://ssl.medialive.jp/in2006fm/jp/seminar_BOF03.html) was held 2638: in [Interop 2006 Tokyo](http://www.interop.jp/2006/) with 129 2639: attendances. BOF03. Room 201. 2640: 2641: - Asia BSD Con 2007 Call for Participation , George Neville-Neil / 2642: FreeBSD Project 2643: - FreeBSD: Suspend and Resume Circumstances, for Panasonic Let's Note 2644: CF-R4, Norikatsu Shigemura / 2645: Ensure Technology Ltd 2646: . 2647: - BSD Usergroup activity: 2648: Echigo BSD Users Group 2649: , T.Tamura@EBUG 2650: - XCAST - Explicit Multi-Unicast 2651: 2652: \> See [program for 2653: details](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/ml/announce-ja/200606/msg00000.html). 2654: 2655: The BoF was broadcasted via RealVideo (238 clients), 2656: [xcast](http://www.xcast.jp/) (6 clients) , 2657: [IRC](http://www.reicha.net/) (49 clients). 2658: 2659: ### `May 2006` - BSDCan 2006 2660: 2661: *May 12-13 2006, Ottawa, Canada* 2662: 2663: In just two years, [BSDCan](http://www.bsdcan.org/), a BSD conference 2664: held in Ottawa, has quickly established itself as the technical 2665: conference for people working on and with 4.4BSD based operating systems 2666: and related projects. The organizers have found a fantastic formula that 2667: appeals to a wide range of people from extreme novices to advanced 2668: developers. 2669: 2670: This year, BSDCan 2006 will be will be held on May 12-13 2006 at 2671: University of Ottawa, and some other related events will be passed 2672: during May 10-14th. 2673: 2674: [Watch out](http://www.bsdcan.org/2006/presentations.php) for the 2675: [NetBSD people](http://www.bsdcan.org/2006/speaker.php) on BSDCan 2006! 2676: 2677: ### `May 2006` - pkgsrcCon 2006 2678: 2679: *May 5-7, Paris, France* 2680: 2681: The third pkgsrc conference will be held on May 5-7, 2006 in Paris, 2682: France. Universite Paris 7 - Denis Diderot is graciously hosting the 2683: conference on their campus. 2684: 2685: pkgsrcCon is a technical conference for people working on the NetBSD 2686: Packages Collection (pkgsrc), focusing on existing technologies, 2687: research projects, and works-in-progress in pkgsrc infrastructure. 2688: Developers, contributors, and users are all welcome to attend, and to 2689: share an excellent opportunity to gather and to discuss ideas 2690: face-to-face on how to improve pkgsrc. 2691: 2692: For more information, including how to register, and how to submit a 2693: presentation proposal, please visit 2694: [http://www.pkgsrcCon.org/](http://www.pkgsrcCon.org/). 2695: 2696: ### `May 2006` - LinuxTag 2006 2697: 2698: *May 3-6 2006, Wiesbaden, Germany* 2699: 2700: NetBSD will have a booth at [LinuxTag 2006](http://www.linuxtag.org/), 2701: visit us at Hall 9, booth number 944. There will also be BSD talks and 2702: tutorials. 2703: 2704: If you're interested in helping out at the NetBSD booth or have any 2705: questions, please contact Dennis Wecker <dennis@eperm.net>. 2706: 2707: ### `Apr 2006` - Vintage Computer Festival Europe 2708: 2709: *Apr 29th - May 1st, Munich, Germany* 2710: 2711: The [Vintage Computer Festival Europe](http://www.vcfe.org/) is taking 2712: place from April 29th to May 1st in Munich, Germany. NetBSD's A.JKUNZ 2713: will demonstrate 2.11BSD on a PDP-11/73 and do some general NetBSD 2714: advocacy. If you're interested, please contact A.JKUNZ and/or visit the 2715: URL above. 2716: 2717: ### `Apr 2006` - Japan NetBSD Users' Group meeting & NetBSD BOF 2718: 2719: *Apr 16, 2006, [National Olympics Memorial Youth 2720: Center](http://nyc.niye.go.jp/e/), Tokyo, Japan* 2721: 2722: See [this 2723: page](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/announce/meeting8.html) for 2724: meeting information. Talking about NetBSD/pc98, GDB operation on Emacs, 2725: NetBSD/dreamcast maracas controller, NetBSD/kurobako, NetBSD/Armadillo, 2726: Codeblog. 2727: 2728: ### `Apr 2006` - LinuxWorld-Boston 2006 2729: 2730: *April 3-6, 2006, Boston, MA, USA* 2731: 2732: This year the first of two LinuxWorld Conferences & Expo is going to 2733: take place in Boston, MA, USA at the beginning of April. The NetBSD 2734: Project might be represented with a [shared] booth there - if you are 2735: interested in helping out, please contact Brian Asemi (asemisldkfj at 2736: gmail.com). 2737: 2738: For more information about this event see 2739: [](http://mail-index.NetBSD.org/netbsd-advocacy/2006/04/07/0000.html). 2740: 2741: ### `Mar 2006` - Chemnitzer Linux-Tage 2006 2742: 2743: *March 4-5th 2006, TU Chemnitz, Chemnitz, Germany* 2744: 2745: NetBSD will have a booth at the [Chemnitzer 2746: Linux-Tage](http://chemnitzer.linux-tage.de), one of the largest Linux 2747: Cons in Germany. 2748: 2749: Additionally, several NetBSD presentations and a workshop will be held: 2750: 2751: - Karl Uwe Lockhoff: Introduction into Unix, BSD and Co. 2752: - Stefan Schumacher: Backup and Recovery in a NetBSD environment 2753: - Dennis Wecker: Verified Exec in NetBSD 2754: - Matthias Petermann: NetBSD Features 2755: - Hubert Feyrer: NetBSD example installation in QEmu (Workshop) 2756: 2757: For further information contact Stefan Schumacher \<stefan (at) 2758: net-tex.de\>. 2759: 2760: ### `Mar 2006` - CeBIT 2006 2761: 2762: *March 9-15 2006, Hannover, Germany* 2763: 2764: The NetBSD project will have a booth at [CeBIT](http://www.cebit.de/), 2765: the large b2b-tradefair in Hannover, Germany, from March 12-15. The 2766: booth will be in Hall 5, number E 56 and will showcase NetBSD and Xen. 2767: 2768: ### `Mar 2006` - Open Source Conference 2006 Tokyo/Spring 2769: 2770: *Mar. 17-18, 2006, Tokyo, Japan* 2771: 2772: At the [Open Source Conference 2006 2773: Tokyo/Spring](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2006/), there will be a NetBSD booth 2774: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 2775: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) with many hpc{ 2776: [mips](../ports/hpcmips/), [sh](../ports/hpcsh/), 2777: [arm](../ports/hpcarm/) } gadgets demonstration. 2778: 2779: ### `Mar 2006` - GUUG spring talk 2780: 2781: *March 21-24th 2006, Osnabrück, Germany* 2782: 2783: [German Unix User Group 2784: “Frühjahrsfachgespräch”](http://www.guug.de/veranstaltungen/ffg2006/) 2785: (spring talk) will be passed during 21.-24.3.2006 in the [University of 2786: Osnabrück](http://www.uni-osnabrueck.de/). 2787: 2788: There will be at least one NetBSD-related talk, on [backup 2789: strategies](http://www.guug.de/veranstaltungen/ffg2006/abstracts.html#3_8_2). 2790: Interested parties are welcome to coordinate any BOF sessions or booth 2791: activities with Stefan Schumacher, see [his posting on 2792: regional-de](http://mail-index.NetBSD.org/regional-de/2006/01/29/0000.html). 2793: 2794: ### `Feb 2006` - FOSDEM 2006 2795: 2796: *February 25/26th 2006, Brussels, Belgium* 2797: 2798: The sixth [Free and Open source Software Developers' European 2799: Meeting](http://www.fosdem.org/) is a 2 days event, organized by 2800: volunteers, to promote the widespread use of Free and Open Source 2801: software. Taking place in the beautiful city of Brussels, Belgium FOSDEM 2802: meetings are recognised as the best Free and Open Source events in 2803: Europe. 2804: 2805: A.PETER (<peter>) and A.GHEN (<ghen>) [will 2806: advocate](http://mail-index.NetBSD.org/netbsd-advocacy/2006/02/21/0000.html) 2807: the NetBSD project on this event. Hope to see you too! 2808: 2809: Update: A.GHEN posted a [review of the 2810: event](http://mail-index.NetBSD.org/netbsd-advocacy/2006/02/26/0000.html). 2811: 2812: ### `Feb 2006` - SCALE 4x 2813: 2814: *February 11-12th 2006, Los Angeles, California* 2815: 2816: [SCALE 4x](http://www.socallinuxexpo.org/), the 4th annual Southern 2817: California Linux Expo, will take place February 11-12, 2006, at The 2818: Westin Los Angeles Airport, Los Angeles, California. The NetBSD Project 2819: will have a booth at this event; please contact A.KML (<kml@NetBSD.org>) 2820: if you would like to help. 2821: 2822: A report from Kevin Lahey is 2823: [available](http://mail-index.NetBSD.org/netbsd-advocacy/2006/02/14/0000.html). 2824: 2825: ### `Dec 2005` - 22nd Chaos Communication Congress (22C3) 2826: 2827: *December 27-30th 2005, Berlin, Germany* 2828: 2829: [The 22nd Chaos Communication Congress 2830: (22C3)](http://events.ccc.de/congress/2005/) is a four-day conference on 2831: technology, society and utopia. The Congress offers lectures and 2832: workshops on a multitude of topics including (but not limited to) 2833: information technology, IT-security, internet, cryptography and 2834: generally a critical-creative attitude towards technology and the 2835: discussion about the effects of technological advances on society. 2836: 2837: ### `Nov 2005` - OpenSource Conference 2005 Okinawa 2838: 2839: *November 19, 2005, Okiden Fureai Hall,Japan* 2840: 2841: At the [OpenSource Conference 2005 2842: Okinawa](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2005-okinawa/) , there will be a NetBSD 2843: booth staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 2844: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) with many hpc{ 2845: [mips](../ports/hpcmips/), [sh](../ports/hpcsh/), 2846: [arm](../ports/hpcarm/) } gadgets demonstration. 2847: 2848: ### `Nov 2005` - EuroBSDCon 2005 2849: 2850: *November 25th-27th 2005, Switzerland* 2851: 2852: [EuroBSDCon 2005](http://2005.eurobsdcon.org/) will be held at the 2853: University of Basel, Switzerland on November 25th to 27th 2005. Check 2854: the [website](http://2005.eurobsdcon.org/) for official program, 2855: conference venue and registration. present. 2856: 2857: ### `Oct 2005` - Linux-Info-Tag Dresden 2005 2858: 2859: *October 29, 2005, Dresden, Germany* 2860: 2861: The “Linux-Info-Tag Dresden 2005” will take place on October 29th, 2005, 2862: in Dresden, Germany. There will be a NetBSD booth presenting NetBSD to 2863: the public and showing its abilities on demo computers. Furthermore, 2864: there will be a lecture entitled “Introduction to NetBSD” by Karl Uwe 2865: Lockhoff. 2866: 2867: For further information contact Stefan Schumacher (stefan [at] net-tex 2868: [dot] de) and see the website of the event at 2869: [](http://www.linux-info-tag.de/). 2870: 2871: ### `Oct 2005` - Systems 2005 2872: 2873: *October 24th-28th, 2005, Munich, Germany* 2874: 2875: There will be a BSD booth at the Systems computer show in Munich, 2876: Germany from October 24th to 28th 2005, where the BSD Projects (among 2877: others) will be presented. 2878: 2879: People willing to help are welcome. It's also fine that you have only on 2880: one or more days time to participate at the Booth. There is also a 2881: sponsor which provides food and drinks during the event! 2882: 2883: For more Information see [](http://www.systems.de/) 2884: 2885: Please contact Daniel Ettle (dan at deam dot org) to help at the booth, 2886: especially showing NetBSD! 2887: 2888: ### `Oct 2005` - KANSAI-OPENSOURCE-2005 2889: 2890: *October 28-October 29, 2005, Osaka Sangyo Souzoukan, Japan* 2891: 2892: At the [KANSAI OpenSource 2005](http://k-of.jp/2005/kof.html) there was 2893: a NetBSD booth staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 2894: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) with many hpc{ 2895: [mips](../ports/hpcmips/), [sh](../ports/hpcsh/), 2896: [arm](../ports/hpcarm/) } gadgets demonstration, and [DreamCast with ISA 2897: BUS Expander](../ports/dreamcast/), [NEC EWS4800 with 2898: NetBSD](http://mail-index.NetBSD.org/port-mips/2004/06/27/0000.html), 2899: [IO-DATA USL-5P 2900: (NetBSD/landisk)](http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~aw9k-nnk/n/landisk.html). 2901: 2902: At the \*BSD Meeting in Kansai 2005, There was a BoF about Secure 2903: Programing, embeded-NetBSD developers' Network, Devices and more about 2904: BSD, driven by [Kansai \*BSD Users Group](http://www.kbug.gr.jp/). 2905: 2906: ### `Sep 2005` - Open Source Conference 2005 Fall 2907: 2908: *Sep. 17, 2005, Tokyo, Japan* 2909: 2910: At the [Open Source Conference 2005 2911: Fall](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2005-fall/) there was a NetBSD booth staffed 2912: by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 2913: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) with many hpc{ 2914: [mips](../ports/hpcmips/), [sh](../ports/hpcsh/), 2915: [arm](../ports/hpcarm/) } gadgets demonstration. 2916: 2917: ### `Sep 2005` - NYC BSD Con 2005 2918: 2919: *September 17th 2005, New York City, NY, USA* 2920: 2921: The [NYC BSD User Group](http://www.nycbug.org) organized the first [NYC 2922: BSD Conference](http://nycbsdcon.org/), a one day technical conference 2923: for developers, systems administrators and end-users of the BSD 2924: operating systems and related open source projects. Please see the 2925: [conference website](http://nycbsdcon.org/) for details. 2926: 2927: ### `Sep 2005` - Computer-Bank-Office 2005 2928: 2929: *September 7th-10th 2005, Odessa, Ukraine* 2930: 2931: The NetBSD Project will be presented at 10th annual international 2932: exhibition of information technologies, [Computer-Bank-Office 2933: 2005](http://www.expo-odessa.com/exeb.phtml?id=47&lang=en), which will 2934: take place at Expocentre of Odessa Marine Terminal. All talks about 2935: NetBSD and pkgsrc systems are scheduled for Sep 8th. Anyone interested 2936: in support for and preparation of this event, please contact Mike M. 2937: Volokhov <mishka@NetBSD.org>. See also [his 2938: post](http://mail-index.NetBSD.org/netbsd-advocacy/2005/07/12/0000.html) 2939: on netbsd-advocacy. 2940: 2941: ### `Sep 2005` - Portuguese NetBSD Users's Group meeting 2942: 2943: *September 10th 2005, Lisboa, Portugal* 2944: 2945: The [Portuguese NetBSD User Group](http://www.netbsd-pt.org/) second 2946: meeting will be held at [Parque das 2947: Nações](http://www.parquedasnacoes.pt/) (Vasco da Gama). Please see the 2948: group page for more information. 2949: 2950: ### `Aug 2005` - Japan NetBSD Users' Group meeting & NetBSD BOF 2951: 2952: *Aug 27, 2005, [National Olympics Memorial Youth 2953: Center](http://nyc.niye.go.jp/e/), Tokyo, Japan* 2954: 2955: See [this 2956: page](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/announce/meeting7.html) for 2957: meeting information. 2958: 2959: A 2960: [presentation](http://www.haun.org/kent/tmp/20050827-NetBSD-audio-en.pdf) 2961: about the changes on the NetBSD audio framework is also available. 2962: 2963: ### `Aug 2005` - BSDDAY São Paulo 2964: 2965: *August 13th, 2005, São Paulo, Brazil* 2966: 2967: The first [BSDDAY](http://www.bsdday.com.br/) in São Paulo, Brazil took 2968: place on August 13th, 2005. Presentations regarding the main BSD 2969: derivatives including, of course, NetBSD were given. Since the event is 2970: also meant to promote charity, the entrance fee was 2 Kilograms of 2971: non-perishable food, which were donated to a non-governmental 2972: organization. 2973: 2974: ### `Aug 2005` - LinuxWorld Conference & Expo 2005 2975: 2976: *August 9-11th, 2005, San Francisco, California, USA* 2977: 2978: [LinuxWorld Conference & Expo 2979: 2005](http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/live/12/events/12SFO05A/) was held 2980: in San Francisco, California, USA from August 9th to 11th 2005. NetBSD 2981: had a booth in the ".org Pavilion", organized by A.RIZ <riz@NetBSD.org>. 2982: One of the main attractions here was the [NetBSD 2983: Toaster](http://www.embeddedarm.com/news/netbsd_toaster.htm), engineered 2984: by Technologic Systems. See A.RIZ's 2985: [report](http://mail-index.NetBSD.org/netbsd-advocacy/2005/08/13/0000.html) 2986: for more details. 2987: 2988: ### `Jul 2005` - BSD at “What the Hack” outdoor hacker conference 2989: 2990: *July 28 - 31, 2005, Liempde, near Den Bosch, The Netherlands* 2991: 2992: [What The Hack](http://www.whatthehack.org/) is an outdoor hacker 2993: conference/event taking place on a large event-campground in the south 2994: of The Netherlands from 28 until 31 July 2005. There will be a BSD 2995: village with at least three members of the NetBSD Project present. For 2996: more details about the \*BSD presence see Daniel Ettle's 2997: [message](http://mail-index.NetBSD.org/netbsd-advocacy/2005/07/04/0000.html) 2998: to the netbsd-advocacy mailinglist. 2999: 3000: ### `Jul 2005` - BSD-CONFERENCE-JAPAN 2005 3001: 3002: *July 23, 2005, [NADYA 3003: Park](http://www.u-net.city.nagoya.jp/t-index/nadia.htm) Nagoya, Japan* 3004: 3005: [http://www.bsdcon.jp/](http://www.bsdcon.jp/) with 80 attendances. 3006: There had be a BSD booth staffed by members of the [Nagoya \*BSD Users' 3007: Group](http://www.nagoya.bug.gr.jp/). See more 3008: [Reports](http://pcweb.mycom.co.jp/articles/2005/07/27/bsdcon/). 3009: 3010: ### `Jul 2005` - Open Source Conference 2005 in Hokkaido 3011: 3012: *Jul. 9, 2005, Sapporo, Japan* 3013: 3014: At the Open Source Conference 2005 DO there had be a NetBSD booth 3015: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 3016: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/). 3017: [](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2005-do/) with 250 attendances and 17 user 3018: groups. 3019: 3020: ### `Jun 2005` - MeetBSD 2005 3021: 3022: *June 17-19th, 2005, Kraków, Poland* 3023: 3024: [MeetBSD 2005](http://2005.meetbsd.org/) will be held in Kraków, Poland, 3025: from June 17th to 19th 2005. Check the 3026: [website](http://2005.meetbsd.org/) for the official program conference 3027: venue and registration. 3028: 3029: ### `Jun 2005` - Interop 2005 Tokyo BSD BOF 3030: 3031: *Jun 9, 2005, Makuhari-Messe, Chiba, Japan, 18:30-20:00 JST* 3032: 3033: [Interop 2005 Tokyo BSD 3034: BOF](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/ml/announce-ja/200506/msg00000.html) 3035: was held in [Interop 2005 Tokyo](http://www.interop.jp/2005/) with 130 3036: attendances. BOF01. Room 302. 3037: 3038: - \*BSD Document Internationalization 3039: - A Robot that runs on NetBSD 3040: Live performance 3041: - BSD Usergroup activity in Japan 3042: - XCAST - Explicit Multi-Unicast 3043: 3044: See [program for 3045: details](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/ml/announce-ja/200506/msg00000.html). 3046: 3047: The BoF was broadcasted via RealVideo (277 3048: clients)/[xcast](http://www.xcast.jp/) (4 clients include [Univ. of 3049: Science Malaysia](http://nrg.cs.usm.my/), [Nagoya 3050: University](http://www.nagoya-u.ac.jp/en/), and [Nagoya \*BSD Users' 3051: Group](http://www.nagoya.bug.gr.jp/))/ [IRC](http://www.reicha.net/) (55 3052: clients,[BSD-BOF-LOG](http://motoyuki.bsdclub.org/boflog/NI2005-BSD-BOF-LOG.txt),[BSD-BOF-QA](http://motoyuki.bsdclub.org/boflog/NI2005-BSD-BOF-QA.txt)). 3053: 3054: ### `May 2005` - BSDCan2005 3055: 3056: *May 13th - May 14th, Ottawa, Canada* 3057: 3058: [BSDCan 2005](http://www.bsdcan.org/2005/) was held on May 13-14 2005 at 3059: University of Ottawa. There were related events on the 12th and the 15th 3060: (of a social nature, for the most part). 3061: 3062: ### `May 2005` - pkgsrcCon 2005 3063: 3064: *May 6th - May 8th 2005, Prague, Czech Republic* 3065: 3066: [pkgsrcCon 2005](http://www.pkgsrcCon.org/2005/) was held in Prague, 3067: Czech Republic from May 6th until May 8th 2005. pkgsrcCon is a technical 3068: conference for people working on the [NetBSD Packages Collection 3069: (pkgsrc)](../docs/pkgsrc/), focusing on existing technologies, research 3070: projects, and works-in-progress in pkgsrc infrastructure. Developers, 3071: contributors, and users are all welcome to attend. You can view the 3072: [slides for this 3073: event](http://www.pkgsrcCon.org/2005/presentations.html) here. 3074: 3075: See [](http://www.pkgsrcCon.org/2005/) for details. 3076: 3077: ### `Apr 2005` - Linux Fest Northwest 2005 3078: 3079: LinuxFest Northwest is an annual conference providing many free lectures 3080: and booths covering the open source Unix community. The free event was 3081: held April 30th in Bellingham, Washington, USA. Lectures covering BSD 3082: topics and a BSD advocacy booth were available for the fourth year. 3083: Around 1000 people attended the past two years. 3084: 3085: More information is at 3086: [http://linuxnorthwest.org/](http://linuxnorthwest.org/). (If you can 3087: volunteer to help with NetBSD advocacy at LinuxFest, please see [this 3088: email](http://mail-index.NetBSD.org/netbsd-advocacy/2005/03/25/0000.html).) 3089: 3090: ### `Apr 2005` - 2005 USENIX Annual Technical Conference 3091: 3092: *April 10-15, 2005, Anaheim, California, USA* 3093: 3094: USENIX is a place to present groundbreaking research and cutting-edge 3095: practices in a wide variety of technologies and environments. The 2005 3096: program included additional tutorials, more security breakthroughs, and 3097: sessions devoted to Linux and Open Source Software. Join the community 3098: of programmers, developers, and systems professionals in sharing 3099: solutions and fresh ideas. 3100: 3101: See [](http://www.usenix.org/usenix05/) for details. 3102: 3103: ### `Mar 2005` - Open Source Conference 2005 3104: 3105: *Mar. 25-26, 2005, Tokyo, Japan* 3106: 3107: At the Open Source Conference 2005 there was a NetBSD booth staffed by 3108: members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 3109: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/). For more details see 3110: [](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2005/). 3111: 3112: ### `Mar 2005` - CeBIT 2005 3113: 3114: *March 10-16, 2005, Hannover, Germany* 3115: 3116: The NetBSD Project was presented at the [CeBIT 3117: 2005](http://www.cebit.de/) trade show. A few pictures are available at 3118: [this URL](http://nuxi.homeunix.org/album/messen/cebit-2005/). 3119: 3120: ### `Mar 2005` - Chemnitzer Linux-Tage 2005 3121: 3122: NetBSD was present Mar 5th/6th 2005 in Chemnitz, Germany. We had a fine 3123: NetBSD booth at the Chemnitz Linuxdays Mar 5th/6th 2005, with lots of 3124: fun going on. Please check Hubert Feyrer's BLOG for all the details: 3125: 3126: - Chemnitzer Linux-Tage 2005 Day 0 and 1 3127: - Chemnitzer Linux-Tage 2005 Day 2 3128: 3129: ### `Feb 2005` - Spring Talks of the German Unix User Group 3130: 3131: Feb 22nd to 25th 2005 in Munich, Germany. For some details on the event 3132: itself and some rumours & gossips see Hubert Feyrer's BLOG entries: 3133: 3134: - GUUG Spring Talk, Day 1 3135: - GUUG Spring Talk, Day 2 3136: - GUUG Spring Talk, Day 3 3137: 3138: ### `Feb 2005` - Southern California Linux Expo 3139: 3140: *Feb 12th -13th, 2005, Los Angeles, California* 3141: 3142: NetBSD had a booth at the [Southern California Linux 3143: Expo](http://www.socallinuxexpo.org/) at the LA Convention Center. 3144: NetBSD's presence in booth \#34 was organized by A.KML 3145: (<kml@NetBSD.org>). You can find an account of his experience 3146: [here](http://mail-index.NetBSD.org/netbsd-advocacy/2005/02/14/0008.html) 3147: and [here](http://www.nomadlogic.org/~pete/scale.html); a picture of the 3148: NetBSD booth also was prominently displayed 3149: [](http://www.socallinuxexpo.org/images/pictures/scale3x_day1_6.jpg). 3150: 3151: ### `Feb 2005` - Solutions Linux 2005 3152: 3153: *Feb. 1-3, 2005, Paris, France* 3154: 3155: NetBSD will have a booth at Solutions Linux 2005. We will be presenting 3156: both NetBSD and pkgsrc on various hardware and software platforms, while 3157: selling CDs and other merchandise. If you want to help, you can contact 3158: Quentin Garnier (<cube@cubidou.net>). 3159: 3160: ### `Dec 2004` - 21st Chaos Communication Congress (21c3) 3161: 3162: *Dec. 27 - 29, 2004, Berlin, Germany* 3163: 3164: There will be a NetBSD booth at this year's [21st Chaos Communications 3165: Congress](http://www.ccc.de/congress/2004/), and you're welcome to drop 3166: by for hacking, drinking, fun and entertainment, giving talks, promoting 3167: NetBSD and your working areas, help man the NetBSD booth, etc. Please 3168: contact Stefan Schumacher (stefan [at] net-tex [dot] de) if you're 3169: interested in helping out. There are some [notes on the 3170: event](http://mail-index.NetBSD.org/netbsd-advocacy/2004/12/30/0000.html) 3171: available. 3172: 3173: ### `Oct 2004` - EuroBSDCon 2004 3174: 3175: *Oct. 29 - 31, 2004, Karlsruhe, Germany* 3176: 3177: [EuroBSDCon 2004](http://2004.eurobsdcon.org/) took place in Karlsruhe, 3178: Germany. Check the [website](http://2004.eurobsdcon.org/) for official 3179: program, conference venue and registration. A 3180: [schedule](http://2004.eurobsdcon.org/talkschedule.html) of the talks 3181: shows that there were a number of NetBSD developers present. 3182: 3183: A brief report from the conference is available 3184: [here](http://mail-index.NetBSD.org/netbsd-advocacy/2004/11/02/0000.html). 3185: A longer review was published in the [USENIX ;login: 3186: magazine](http://www.usenix.org/publications/login/2005-02/openpdfs/eurobsdcon.pdf). 3187: 3188: ### `Oct 2004` - Systems 2004 3189: 3190: *Oct. 18 - 22, 2004, Munich, Germany* 3191: 3192: There will be a 40m² BSD booth at the Systems computer show in Munich, 3193: Germany from October 18th to 22nd 2004, where the NetBSD project (among 3194: others) will be presented. People willing to help are welcome; Daniel 3195: Ettle (dan at deam org) will act as a point of contact. See 3196: [](http://www.systems.de/) for more information on the exhibition. 3197: 3198: ### `Oct 2004` - BSD-CONFERENCE-JAPAN 2004 3199: 3200: *October 23, 2004, Osaka Sangyo Souzoukan, Japan* 3201: 3202: [](http://www.bsdcon.jp/2004/) 3203: 3204: ### `Oct 2004` - KANSAI-OPENSOURCE-2004 3205: 3206: *October 22-October 23, 2004, Osaka Sangyo Souzoukan, Japan* 3207: 3208: [](http://k-of.jp/2004/) 3209: 3210: ### `Sep 2004` - Open Source Conference 2004 3211: 3212: *Sep. 4, 2004, Tokyo, Japan* 3213: 3214: At the Open Source Conference 2004 there was a NetBSD booth staffed by 3215: members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 3216: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/). 3217: 3218: ### `Sep 2004` - Swiss Unix Conference 2004 3219: 3220: *Sep. 2 - 4, 2004, Zurich, Switzerland* 3221: 3222: [SUCON '04](http://www.suug.ch/sucon/04/), the 2nd Swiss Unix 3223: Conference, will take place in Zurich, Switzerland. The NetBSD Project 3224: was represented by Hubert Feyrer, who will gave [a 3225: presentation](http://www.feyrer.de/NetBSD/sucon-netbsd.pdf) at this 3226: conference. 3227: 3228: ### `Aug 2004` - NetBSD System Administration training 3229: 3230: *August 10 - 13, 2004, Seattle, Washington, USA* 3231: 3232: [Puget Sound Technology](http://www.pugetsoundtechnology.com/) is 3233: teaching a hands-on class covering the fundamentals of NetBSD system 3234: administration. Visit [http://www.pugetsoun 3235: dtechnology.com/training/netbsd/](http://www.pugetsoundtechnology.com/training/netbsd/) 3236: for details. 3237: 3238: ### `Aug 2004` - LinuxWorld 2004 3239: 3240: *Aug. 2 - 5, 2004, San Francisco, CA, USA* 3241: 3242: [LinuxWorld Conference and 3243: Expo](http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/live/12/events/12SFO04A) is going to 3244: take place in San Francisco, CA, USA at the beginning of August. The 3245: NetBSD Project might be represented with a booth there - if you are 3246: interested in helping out, please contact <regional-sfba@NetBSD.org>. 3247: 3248: ### `Jul 2004` - Get into OpenSource Hokkaido 2004 (GODo2004) 3249: 3250: *Jul. 24, 2004, Sapporo Business Innovation Center, Sapporo, Japan* 3251: 3252: At the Get into OpenSource Hokkaido 2004 (GODo2004), there was a NetBSD 3253: booth staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 3254: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) and 3255: [NoBUG](http://www.no.bug.gr.jp/) with NetBSD/i386+IPv6 XCAST on VAIO 3256: GT, and many hpc{ [mips](../ports/hpcmips/), [sh](../ports/hpcsh/), 3257: [arm](../ports/hpcarm/) } 3258: 3259: ### `Jun 2004` - NetWorld+Interop 2004 Tokyo BSD BOF 3260: 3261: *Jun 30, 2004, Makuhari-Messe, Chiba, Japan, 18:30-20:00 JST* 3262: 3263: [](http://www.interop.jp/2004/) 3264: 3265: [BOF 3266: information](http://www.re.soum.co.jp/%7Efukaumi/ml/netbsd/200406/msg00015.html) 3267: 3268: Contact Jun Ebihara <jun@NetBSD.org> for more information. 3269: 3270: ### `Jun 2004` - USENIX 2004 3271: 3272: *June 27 - July 2, 2004, Boston, MA, USA* 3273: 3274: [USENIX '04](http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix04/), the USENIX Annual 3275: Technical Conference is going to take place in Boston, MA, USA at the 3276: end of June. The NetBSD Project will be represented by Alistair Crooks, 3277: who gives a talk on [The NetBSD Update 3278: System](http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix04/tech/sigs.html#netbsd_update), 3279: as well as Christos Zoulas, who will report on NetBSD during [The State 3280: of the BSD 3281: Projects](http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix04/tech/sigs.html#bsd_projects), 3282: and finally by a number of NetBSD developers who will be attending the 3283: conference. 3284: 3285: ### `Jun 2004` - Linuxtag 2004 3286: 3287: *June 23 - 26, 2004, Karlsruhe, Germany* 3288: 3289: [Linuxtag 2004](http://www.linuxtag.org/2004/index.html) is going to 3290: take place in Karlsruhe, Germany. The NetBSD Project will be represented 3291: with a booth - please contact <hubertf@NetBSD.org> if you are interested 3292: in helping out. 3293: 3294: ### `May 2004` - Japan NetBSD Users' Group meeting & NetBSD BOF 3295: 3296: *May 22, 2004, [National Olympics Memorial Youth 3297: Center](http://nyc.niye.go.jp/e/), Tokyo, Japan* 3298: 3299: See [this 3300: page](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/announce/meeting6.html) for 3301: meeting information. 3302: 3303: ### `May 2004` - BSDCan 2004 3304: 3305: *May 13-16, 2004, Ottawa, Canada* 3306: 3307: The first BSDCan was a tremendous success. With attendance matching 3308: BSDCon, and lower fees and accommodation costs, this looks likely to 3309: become a popular annual conference. BSD developer Speakers and attendees 3310: were numerous. BSDMall had NetBSD paraphanalia available for sale. See 3311: also the [BSDCan Website](http://www.bsdcan.org/), and some [photos from 3312: Daemonnews.](http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200405/bsdcan_2004/) 3313: 3314: ### `May 2004` - LinuxChix-Br II National Meeting 3315: 3316: *May 1-2, 2004 Sao Paulo, Brazil* 3317: 3318: At the [LinuxChix-Br National 3319: Meeting](http://www.linuxchix.org.br/node.php?id=87) there will be a 3320: presentation about pkgsrc and a NetBSD booth staffed by members of 3321: NetBSD-BR. 3322: 3323: ### `Apr 2004` - pkgsrcCon 2004 3324: 3325: *April 30 - May 2, 2004, Vienna, Austria* 3326: 3327: pkgsrcCon is a technical conference for people working at the NetBSD 3328: Packages Collection (pkgsrc), focusing on existing technologies, 3329: research projects, and works-in-progress in pkgsrc infrastructure. For 3330: more information, including slides of the talks, please visit 3331: [http://www.pkgsrcCon.org/2004/](http://www.pkgsrcCon.org/2004/), and 3332: see Hubert Feyrer's report in the [DaemonNews 3333: Ezine](http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200405/pkgsrcCon2004.html). 3334: 3335: ### `Apr 2004` - Linuxfest Northwest 2004 3336: 3337: *April 17, 2004, Bellingham, Washington, USA* 3338: 3339: LFNW is a showcase for what Northwest Linux users are doing with open 3340: source software. Over 50 short (1 hour) presentations will be given 3341: throughout the day. Among them will be introductions to BSD and pkgsrc. 3342: There will be a BSD booth, occupied by two NetBSD developers and other 3343: BSD enthusiasts. Admission is free. Please see 3344: [http://www.linuxnorthwest.org/](http://www.linuxnorthwest.org/) and 3345: [this message to the netbsd-news 3346: mailinglist](http://mail-index.NetBSD.org/netbsd-news/2004/04/16/0000.html) 3347: for more information. 3348: 3349: ### `Mar 2004` - GUUG Frühjahrsfachgespräch 3350: 3351: *March 9-12, 2004, Bochum, Germany* 3352: 3353: The NetBSD Project will in all likeliness be represented at this year's 3354: [GUUG 3355: Frühjahrsfachgespräche](http://www.guug.de/veranstaltungen/ffg2004/), a 3356: yearly congress for everybody interested in Unix(-like) Systems and 3357: System Administration organized by the [German Unix User 3358: Group](http://www.guug.de/). 3359: 3360: ### `Mar 2004` - Chemnitzer Linux-Tag 2004 3361: 3362: *March 6-7, 2004, Chemnitz, Germany* 3363: 3364: NetBSD was represented with a booth at the Chemnitzer Linux-Tag 2004 in 3365: Chemnitz, Germany. In addition, there were three presentations: 3366: 3367: - \`\` 3368: Cryptographic applications under NetBSD 3369: '' by Stefan Schumacher 3370: - \`\` 3371: Introduction to NetBSD 3372: '' by Karl Uwe Lockhoff 3373: - \`\` 3374: Software Installation under NetBSD, Linux & Solaris using pkgsrc 3375: '' by Hubert Feyrer 3376: 3377: Please see the 3378: [website](http://www.tu-chemnitz.de/linux/tag/2004/allgemeines/) for 3379: details. Photos are available at [this 3380: website](http://www.uni-magdeburg.de/steschum/6clt/), more photos can be 3381: found on the [Linux-Tag 3382: website](http://www.tu-chemnitz.de/linux/tag/2004/media/bilder/). 3383: 3384: ### `Feb 2004` - Solutions Linux 2004 3385: 3386: *February 3-5, 2004, Paris, France* 3387: 3388: NetBSD was represented with a booth at the [Solutions Linux 3389: 2004](http://www.solutionslinux.fr) conference and expo in Paris, 3390: France. 3391: 3392: ### `Jan 2004` - LinuxWorld 2004 3393: 3394: *January 20-23, 2004, New York, New York* 3395: 3396: The [LinuxWorld Conference and Expo](http://www.linuxworldexpo.com) 2004 3397: took place in the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center in New York City 3398: from January 20-23, 2004. While the NetBSD Project did not have their 3399: own booth this year, we were able to hand out some flyers and sell a few 3400: shirts through the [BSDMall](http://www.bsdmall.com) booth. See the 3401: [report](http://daily.daemonnews.org/view_story.php3?story_id=4368) from 3402: the local user group ([NYCBUG](http://www.nycbug.org/)) for details. 3403: 3404: ### `Dec 2003` - 20th Chaos Communication Congress (20c3) 3405: 3406: *December 27th to 29th, 2003, Berlin, Germany* 3407: 3408: The NetBSD Project was represented at the [20th Chaos Communication 3409: Congress](http://www.ccc.de/congress/2003/) (20c3) in Berlin, Germany, 3410: from December 27th to 29th. See Hubert Feyrer's 3411: [report](http://mail-index.NetBSD.org/netbsd-advocacy/2004/01/02/0002.html) 3412: for Details. If you're interested in the 3413: [Blinkenlights](http://www.blinkenlights.de/) project, one of 20c3's 3414: main attractions, you will find Lubomir Sedlacik's [post to the 3415: netbsd-advocacy](http://mail-index.NetBSD.org/netbsd-advocacy/2004/01/03/0000.html) 3416: MailingList useful. 3417: 3418: ### `Dec 2003` - BSDCon Brasil 2003 3419: 3420: *December 6 and 7, 2003, Instituto Militar de Engenharia (military 3421: institute of engineering - IME), Rio de Janeiro, Brasil* 3422: 3423: See [http://bsdcon.myfreebsd.com.br](http://bsdcon.myfreebsd.com.br) for 3424: details. 3425: 3426: ### `Dec 2003` - BSD-Linux-Day 2003 3427: 3428: *December 2, 2003, Pacifico Yokohama, Japan* 3429: 3430: [http://www.jus.or.jp/events/bsd-linux-day/](http://www.jus.or.jp/events/bsd-linux-day/) 3431: 3432: ### `Nov 2003` - NetBSD System Administration training 3433: 3434: *November 18-21, 2003, Seattle, Washington area* 3435: 3436: [Puget Sound Technology](http://www.pugetsoundtechnology.com/) is 3437: teaching a hands-on class covering the fundamentals of NetBSD system 3438: administration. See 3439: [http://www.pugetsoundtechnology.com/training/netbsd/](http://www.pugetsoundtechnology.com/training/netbsd/) 3440: for details. 3441: 3442: ### `Oct 2003` - KANSAI-OPENSOURCE+FREEWARE-2003 3443: 3444: *October 31-November 1, 2003, Osaka Sangyo Souzoukan, Japan* 3445: 3446: [](http://k-of.jp/2003/) 3447: 3448: ### `Oct 2003` - BSD-CONFERENCE-JAPAN 2003 3449: 3450: *October 18, 2003, BIZ SHINJUKU, Japan* 3451: 3452: [](http://www.bsdcon.jp/2003/) 3453: 3454: ### `Oct 2003` - Linux-Kongress 2003 3455: 3456: *October 14-16, 2003, Saarbrücken, Germany* 3457: 3458: NetBSD will be present at the Linux-Kongress in Saarbrücken, Germany, an 3459: event mostly attended by Linux developers. Presenting NetBSD in this 3460: environment will give an interesting chance to compare open source 3461: operating systems on a highly skilled level. There will be a joint booth 3462: by all BSD projects offering CDs, DVDs, t-shirts and other devotionalia. 3463: See [this page](http://www.linux-kongress.org/2003/index.html) for more 3464: information. 3465: 3466: ### `Sep 2003` - BSDCon 2003 3467: 3468: *September 8-12, 2003, Marriott Hotel,San Mateo, California, USA* 3469: 3470: Meet the movers and shakers of the BSD community, and learn how you can 3471: use BSD as part of your enterprise-grade solutions. For details, see 3472: [http://www.usenix.org/events/bsdcon03/cfp/](http://www.usenix.org/events/bsdcon03/cfp/). 3473: Contact name, address, phone, fax and/or e-mail: Conference Department, 3474: 510-528-8649, conference@usenix.org. A 3475: [report](http://mail-index.NetBSD.org/netbsd-advocacy/2003/09/13/0000.html) 3476: is available online. 3477: 3478: ### `Aug 2003` - Chaos Communication Camp 2003 3479: 3480: *August 7-10, 2003, near Berlin, Germany (Old Europe).* 3481: 3482: A lot of photos are available 3483: [online](http://www.uni-magdeburg.de/steschum/ccc03/index.html), as well 3484: as [some slides](advocacy/folienslide.pdf). 3485: 3486: ### `Jul 2003` - Linuxtag Karlsruhe, Germany 3487: 3488: *July 10-13, Karlsruhe, Germany* 3489: 3490: The NetBSD Project was present at the [Linuxtag Karlsruhe 2003, 3491: Germany](http://www.linuxtag.org/2003/en/index.html) from July 10ths to 3492: 13th in a booth together with other BSD-related projects. 3493: 3494: The booth was organized by Hubert Feyrer, Bernd Sieker and Jaromir 3495: Dolecek. See the [full 3496: report](http://mail-index.NetBSD.org/netbsd-advocacy/2003/07/14/0000.html) 3497: for details and pictures. 3498: 3499: ### `Jul 2003` - Libre Software Meeting in Metz 3500: 3501: *July 9-12, 2003, Metz, France* 3502: [http://www.rencontresmondiales.org/](http://www.rencontresmondiales.org/) 3503: 3504: The NetBSD Project was represented at the LSM 2003 by Emmanuel Dreyfus 3505: and Gilbert Fernandes. A 3506: [report](http://mail-index.NetBSD.org/netbsd-advocacy/2003/07/14/0002.html) 3507: of the meeting as well as some pictures are available online. 3508: 3509: ### `Jul 2003` - NetWorld+Interop 2003 Tokyo BSD BOF 3510: 3511: *July 2, 2003, Makuhari-Messe, Chiba, Japan, 18:30-20:00 JST* 3512: 3513: [http://www.interop.jp/](http://www.interop.jp/) 3514: 3515: Call for Presentation: contact Jun Ebihara <jun@NetBSD.org>. 3516: 3517: ### `Jun 2003` - Japan NetBSD Users' Group meeting & NetBSD BOF 3518: 3519: *Jun 28, 2003, [National Olympics Memorial Youth 3520: Center](http://nyc.niye.go.jp/e/), Tokyo, Japan* 3521: 3522: ### `Jun 2003` - Open Source Meeting 2003 in Nagoya University 3523: 3524: *June 7-8, 2003, Nagoya, Japan* 3525: 3526: [http://tokai.opensource.jp/tsudoi/2003/](http://tokai.opensource.jp/tsudoi/2003/) 3527: 3528: ### `Jun 2003` - 2003 USENIX Annual Technical Conference 3529: 3530: *June 9-14, 2003, San Antonio, Texas, USA* 3531: 3532: A six-day, multiple-track event which includes tutorials, technical 3533: sessions composed of refereed papers, invited talks, and 3534: Birds-of-a-Feather sessions. There will be a [Super BSD BOF 3535: Session](http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix03/bofs.html). For details, 3536: see 3537: [http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix03/](http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix03/). 3538: Contact name, address, phone, fax and/or e-mail: Conference Department, 3539: 510-528-8649, conference@usenix.org 3540: 3541: Slides of Chris Demetriou's presentation are [available 3542: here](events/usenix2003/). 3543: 3544: ### `May 2003` - BSDay 2003 3545: 3546: *May 21, 2003, Warszawa-Miedzeszyn, Poland* 3547: 3548: [AVET Information and Network Security](http://www.avet.com.pl/) are 3549: holding the [BSDay 3550: 2003](http://www.avet.com.pl/en/conferences/bsday/bsday.php) conference 3551: on May 21, 2003, the first event of its kind in Poland. See the web site 3552: for more information. 3553: 3554: ### `May 2003` - BSDCon.it 3555: 3556: *May 9-11, 2003, Padova, Italy* 3557: 3558: As part of [Webbit '03](http://www.webb.it/), 3559: [BSDCon.it](http://www.bsdcon.it/) will be held from May 9th to may 11th 3560: in Padova, Italy. People interested in giving a talk on NetBSD should 3561: contact <ed@bsdcon.it>. 3562: 3563: ### `Apr 2003` - DECUS Munich Symposium 2003 3564: 3565: *April 8th-10th, 2003, Bonn, Germany* *(updated)* 3566: 3567: There was a presentation about porting NetBSD to old hardware, and the 3568: different emulating systems that allow old software to run on new 3569: hardware, again with NetBSD as the host OS, and one about eletronic 3570: voting, using the procedure for the [election of the NetBSD Board of 3571: Directors](../changes/#board-elections2002) as an in-depth example. 3572: 3573: ### `Apr 2003` - Magdeburg Linuxtag 3574: 3575: *April 5th, 2003, Magdeburg, Germany* 3576: 3577: There was a NetBSD booth and presentation at the Magdeburg Linuxtag in 3578: Magdeburg, Germany on April 5th 2003 at the University of Magdeburg, 3579: Germany. See [http://www.mdlug.de/](http://www.mdlug.de/) for more 3580: information. Contact Bernd Sieker <bsieker@freenet.de> for information 3581: regarding representation of NetBSD at the event. 3582: 3583: ### `Mar 2003` - NetBSD is ten years young and still going strong! 3584: 3585: Several parties are being held in cities around the world to celebrate 3586: the tenth birthday of The NetBSD Project, March 21, 2003. Check out the 3587: [Events Gallery](events/) for more information. 3588: 3589: ### `Mar 2003` - CeBIT 2003 3590: 3591: *March 12-19, 2003, Hannover, Germany* 3592: 3593: The [CeBIT 2003](http://www.cebit.de), the most widely known ICT trade 3594: fair world-wide, took place in Hannover, Germany from March 12-19, 2003. 3595: The NetBSD Project had a booth on Wednesday the 12th, and Thursday 13th, 3596: and there was a 30 minute presentation of the NetBSD Project. Bernd 3597: Sieker and Jaromir Dolocek manned the booth, see their 3598: [report](http://mail-index.NetBSD.org/netbsd-advocacy/2003/03/20/0001.html). 3599: 3600: ### `Mar 2003` - NetBSD System Administration training 3601: 3602: *March 4-6, 2003, Phoenix, Arizona, USA area* 3603: 3604: [Puget Sound Technology](http://www.pugetsoundtechnology.com/) is 3605: teaching a hands-on class covering the fundamentals of NetBSD system 3606: administration. See 3607: [http://www.pugetsoundtechnology.com/training/netbsd/](http://www.pugetsoundtechnology.com/training/netbsd/) 3608: for details. 3609: 3610: ### `Mar 2003` - Chemnitzer Linux-Tag 3611: 3612: *March 1, 2003, Chemnitz, Germany* 3613: 3614: NetBSD was represented with a booth at the [Chemnitzer Linux-Tag 3615: (CLT5)](http://www.tu-chemnitz.de/linux/tag/lt5/). A summary of the 3616: events including several pictures is available online at 3617: [http://www.feyrer.de/NetBSD/clt5.html](http://www.feyrer.de/NetBSD/clt5.html). 3618: Presentations, including mp3s of the talks (in German!) are available 3619: from: 3620: 3621: - NetBSD - eine Einführung 3622: [ 3623: mp3 3624: ] 3625: - NetBSD 1.6 - Neuigkeiten und Einsatz im Embedded-Umfeld 3626: [ 3627: mp3 3628: ] 3629: - Der Regensburger Marathon-Cluster - eine Video-Rendering-Anwendung 3630: mit NetBSD 3631: [ 3632: mp3 3633: ] 3634: 3635: ### `Feb 2003` - Solutions Linux 3636: 3637: *February 4-6, 2003, CNIT - Paris La Defense, France.* 3638: 3639: The Solutions Linux conference and expo (formerly known as the Linux 3640: Expo Paris) held a NetBSD booth run by the 3641: [GCU-Squad](http://www.gcu-squad.org/) and the [French NetBSD Users 3642: Group](http://www.netbsd-fr.org/). A [report is available 3643: online.](http://mail-index.NetBSD.org/netbsd-users/2003/02/08/0010.html) 3644: 3645: ### `Jan 2003` - Ottawa Open Source Weekend 3646: 3647: *January 25th, 26th, 2003, Ottawa, Canada* 3648: 3649: On 2003 January 25 and 26, a coalition of computer professionals, 3650: students, and volunteers will host an Open Source Weekend in Ottawa, 3651: Canada. The events will be spread across the city and throughout the 3652: weekend to showcase the dynamic world of open source software. The major 3653: activities will be the: 3654: 3655: - Linuxfest at the University of Ottawa (Sat. Jan. 25th) 3656: - Linuxfest at Carleton University (Sat. Jan. 25th) 3657: - The Business of Open Source Software conference. (Sun. Jan. 26th) 3658: 3659: For details, please see [http://www.osw.ca/](http://www.osw.ca/). 3660: 3661: ### `Jan 2003` - LinuxWorld 2003 3662: 3663: *January 21-24, 2003, New York, New York* 3664: 3665: The [LinuxWorld Conference and Expo](http://www.linuxworldexpo.com) 2003 3666: takes place in the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center in New York City 3667: from January 21-24, 2003. See the 3668: [website](http://www.linuxworldexpo.com) for more details and a free 3669: registration for the expo. The NetBSD Project had a booth at LinuxWorld, 3670: a [short 3671: review](http://mail-index.NetBSD.org/netbsd-advocacy/2003/01/24/0000.html) 3672: and a [handful of pictures](http://www.NetBSD.org/~jschauma/lwe03/) are 3673: available online. 3674: 3675: ### `Dec 2002` - 19th Chaos Communication Congress (19c3) 3676: 3677: *December 17th to 29th, Berlin, Germany* 3678: 3679: The NetBSD Project will be present at the [19th Chaos Communication 3680: Congress](http://www.ccc.de/congress/2002/) (19c3) in Berlin, Germany, 3681: from December 27th to 29th. 3682: 3683: ### `Dec 2002` - NetBSD System Administration training 3684: 3685: *December 10-12, 2002, Seattle, Washington, USA area* 3686: 3687: [Puget Sound Technology](http://www.pugetsoundtechnology.com/) is 3688: teaching a hands-on class covering the fundamentals of NetBSD system 3689: administration. 3690: 3691: ### `Dec 2002` - Internet Week 2002 3692: 3693: *December 16-20, 2002, Pacifico Yokohama, Japan* 3694: 3695: [Japan NetBSD Users' Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/) will organize a 3696: BSD BoF on December 18th, 18:00(JST) at this years Internet Week. The 3697: BoF was broadcasted via RealVideo (179 clients)/[xcast (3 3698: clients)](http://www.xcast.jp/)/IRC. See 3699: [http://www.nic.ad.jp/iw2002/bof/bof04.htm](http://www.nic.ad.jp/iw2002/bof/bof04.htm) 3700: for details. 3701: 3702: ### `Nov 2002` - KNF Congress 2002 3703: 3704: *November 24, 2002, Nuremberg, Germany* 3705: 3706: This years KNF Congress is under the motto "Linux in allen 3707: Lebenslagen???, ... und andere Fragen im Internet" ("Linux in all 3708: aspects of life??? ... and other questions on the Internet"). There will 3709: not only be Linux-oriented talks, but also a bit of talk about NetBSD, 3710: so this might be interesting for anyone in the area of 3711: Nuremberg/Germany. There will be a talk about NetBSD/dreamcast, a NetBSD 3712: booth and also some NetBSD-related prices in the Tombola. 3713: 3714: The congress will take place Sunday Nov 24th, 10-18h at the 3715: Gemeinschaftshaus Langwasser, Glogauer Str. 50, 90473 Nuremberg, 3716: Germany. See 3717: [http://www.franken.de/kongress/index.html](http://www.franken.de/kongress/index.html) 3718: for more information. 3719: 3720: ### `Nov 2002` - BSD Conference Japan 3721: 3722: *November 23, 2002, tsudahall Tokyo, Japan* 3723: 3724: [](http://www.bsdcon.jp/2002/) with 172 attendances. 3725: 3726: ### `Nov 2002` - BSDCon Europe 2002 3727: 3728: *November 15-17, 2002, Amsterdam, Netherlands* 3729: 3730: [http://2002.eurobsdcon.org/](http://2002.eurobsdcon.org/). \`\`[Rumors, 3731: Gossips and Facts](http://www.feyrer.de/NetBSD/eurobsdcon2002.html)'' 3732: are available online thanks to Hubert Feyrer. 3733: 3734: ### `Nov 2002` - LISA '02 3735: 3736: *November 3-8, 2002, Philadelphia, PA* 3737: 3738: [http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa02/](http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa02/) 3739: 3740: ### `Nov 2002` - RISC OS S.E. Show 3741: 3742: *November 2, 2002, Guildford, UK* 3743: 3744: The Surrey and Sussex Acorn User Group [RISC OS South-East 3745: Show](http://www.fillin.co.uk/seshow/), held in Guildford Technical 3746: College. 3747: 3748: ### `Oct 2002` - Linuxdays 2002 3749: 3750: *October 1-3, 2002, Luxembourg* 3751: 3752: The NetBSD Project was present at the [Luxembourgh 3753: Linuxdays](http://www.linuxday.lu/), an Open Source and Free Software 3754: Conference and Expo held in, well, Luxembourg. Hubert Feyrer gave talks 3755: on [NetBSD](http://www.feyrer.de/NetBSD/nb2002-lu.pdf) and a [video 3756: rendering cluster done with 3757: NetBSD](http://www.feyrer.de/marathon-cluster/mc-slides.pdf). A 3758: [report](http://mail-index.NetBSD.org/netbsd-advocacy/2002/10/08/0000.html) 3759: was sent to the netbsd-advocacy list, pictures and more information are 3760: available from [Hubert's 3761: website](http://www.feyrer.de/NetBSD/#linuxday.lu). 3762: 3763: ### `Sep 2002` - Linux-Kongress 2002 3764: 3765: *September 4-6, 2002, Cologne, Germany* 3766: 3767: The NetBSD Project will be present at [Linux-Kongress 3768: 2002](http://www.linux-kongress.org), the 9th International Linux System 3769: Technology Conference, held at the Physics Institutes of the University 3770: of Cologne, Germany. A report and pictures of the BSD-booth is available 3771: online. 3772: 3773: ### `Aug 2002` - 11th USENIX Security Symposium 3774: 3775: *August 5-9, 2002, San Francisco, CA* 3776: 3777: [http://www.usenix.org/events/sec02/](http://www.usenix.org/events/sec02/) 3778: 3779: ### `Jul 2002` - NetBSD 1.5.3 release 3780: 3781: *July 22, 2002* 3782: 3783: [NetBSD 1.5.3](../releases/formal-1.5/NetBSD-1.5.3.html), a *[patch 3784: release](../releases/release-map.html)* improving stability, fixing bugs 3785: in, addressing security issues in, and adding some features to [NetBSD 3786: 1.5.2](../releases/formal-1.5/), has been released with support for 20 3787: architectures. More information is available in the [1.5.3 release 3788: announcement](../releases/formal-1.5/NetBSD-1.5.3.html). 3789: 3790: ### `Jul 2002` - NetWorld+Interop 2002 Tokyo BSD BOF 3791: 3792: *July 3, 2002, Chiba, Japan* 3793: 3794: http://www.interop.jp/syutten/report.html 3795: 3796: [http://www.jp.freebsd.org/event/N+I2002\_BOF/](http://www.jp.freebsd.org/event/N+I2002_BOF/) 3797: , [BSD security update - BIND, 3798: OpenSSH](http://www.itojun.org/paper/itojun-interop2002-bsdbof/mgp00001.html). 3799: 3800: ### `Jun 2002` - USENIX Annual Technical Conference 3801: 3802: *June 9-14, 2002, Montery Conference Center Monterey, California, USA* 3803: 3804: [http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix02/](http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix02/). 3805: Slides of Christos Zoulas' presentation are [available 3806: here](events/usenix2002/). 3807: 3808: ### `Jun 2002` - Open Source Meeting 2002 in Nagoya University 3809: 3810: *June 8-9, 2002, Nagoya, Japan* 3811: 3812: [](http://tokai.opensource.jp/tsudoi/2002/) 3813: 3814: ### `Jun 2002` - Linuxtag 2002 in Karlsruhe 3815: 3816: *June 6-9, 2002, Karlsruhe, Germany* 3817: 3818: [Linuxtag](http://www.linuxtag.de) had a BSD booth. A 3819: [report](http://www.feyrer.de/NetBSD/linuxtag-karlsruhe-2002.html) is 3820: available. 3821: 3822: ### `May 2002` - Wakefield 2002, The Acorn RISC OS Show 3823: 3824: *May 18-19, 2002, Wakefield, UK* 3825: 3826: [http://www.wrocc.org.uk/show/2002/](http://www.wrocc.org.uk/show/2002/) 3827: 3828: ### `May 2002` - Japan NetBSD Users' Group meeting 3829: 3830: *May 18, 2002, T-Zone Minami, Akihabara, Tokyo, Japan* 3831: 3832: [http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/announce/meeting4.html](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/announce/meeting4.html) 3833: 3834: The Japan NetBSD Users' Group had their annual meeting with 60 3835: attendances, and a NetBSD BoF with 95 attendances, 210 clients via 3836: RealVideo. Talking about Zoularis, LCD System Status monitor, devsw 3837: again, presentation with less, citrus, ACPI, jp.netbsd servers, Upcoming 3838: 1.6 and current, sourceforge.jp, xcast6. 3839: 3840: ### `May 2002` - Annual International Free Software Forum 3841: 3842: *May 2-4, 2002, Porto Alegre- RS, Brazil* 3843: 3844: The Annual International Free Software Forum will take place on this May 3845: 2th, 3th and 4th in Porto Alegre- RS , Brazil. Mainly in event about 3846: Linux Gnu's solutions, this year The BSD's Operating Systems will have a 3847: chance to prove their value. 3848: 3849: The Session's Speakers are Edson Brandi (FreeBSD), Diego Linke (NetBSD) 3850: and Ricardo Nascimento Ferreira (OpenBSD) and they will focus in the 3851: general aspects of the systems: history, license, goods and bads, 3852: technical characteristics and philosophy. 3853: 3854: ### `Mar 2002` - 4th Chemnitz Linuxday 2002 3855: 3856: *March 9-10, 2002, TU Chemnitz, Chemnitz, Germany* 3857: 3858: [www.tu-chemnitz.de/linux/tag/lt4/](http://www.tu-chemnitz.de/linux/tag/lt4/) 3859: 3860: Presentations included "Migration to IPv6" mentioning NetBSD as example, 3861: "\*BSD - Alternative to Linux" presenting BSDs and "BIND9 - Let's talk 3862: IPv6". There was also a (Net)BSD booth manned by Andre Nicklas, Hubert 3863: Feyrer, Karl Uwe Lockhoff. A [detailed 3864: report](http://mail-index.NetBSD.org/netbsd-advocacy/2002/03/11/0000.html) 3865: is available. 3866: 3867: ### `Feb 2002` - GUUG Frühjahrsfachgespräch 2002 3868: 3869: *February 27-March 1, 2002, Ruhr-Uni Bochum, Bochum, Germany* 3870: 3871: [http://www.guug.de/veranstaltungen/ffg2002/index.html](http://www.guug.de/veranstaltungen/ffg2002/index.html) 3872: 3873: Presentations given during the spring meeting of the German Unix User 3874: Group (GUUG) included a report about NetBSD in 2002 and details about 3875: Rapid Deployment of IPv6 with 6to4, which covered NetBSD (among others). 3876: 3877: ### `Feb 2002` - BSDCon 2002 3878: 3879: *February 11-14, 2002, Cathedral Hill Hotel, San Francisco, California, 3880: USA* 3881: 3882: [http://www.usenix.org/events/bsdcon02/cfp/](http://www.usenix.org/events/bsdcon02/cfp/) 3883: 3884: ### `Dec 2001` - Internet Week 2001 3885: 3886: *December 3-7, 2001, Yokohama, Japan* 3887: 3888: [http://internetweek.jp/](http://internetweek.jp/) 3889: 3890: At Internet Week 2001, there was a BSD BOF on December 6th. 3891: Additionally, December 7th was BSD/Linux Day. 3892: 3893: There was a [BSD BoF session](http://www.jp.FreeBSD.org/event/iw2001/) 3894: on Dec 7 with 197 attendances, 392 clients via [RealVideo 3895: G2](http://www.real.com) broadcasting,IRC chatting. Talking about The 3896: BSD System on 1FDD, Special talk and Presentation [Perry E. 3897: Metzger/Warner Losh], IPv6 DNS transfer Club,Catch up FreeBSD 3898: current,talking about free software community, [BSD users group meeting 3899: via IPv6 XCAST](http://www.mma.gr.jp/%7Etree/bsd-20011206/). 3900: 3901: On Dec 8, there was a [BSD/Linux 3902: Day](http://www.jus.or.jp/events/bsd-linux-day2001/) session talking 3903: about BSD, Linux, Mail User Agents, Mail Transfer, Office Suite, 3904: Emulation. 3905: 3906: ### `Nov 2001` - BSDCon Europe 2001 3907: 3908: *November 9-11, 2001, Thistle Hotel, Brighton, UK* 3909: 3910: [http://www.bsdconeurope.org/](http://www.bsdconeurope.org/) 3911: 3912: ### `Oct 2001` - RISC OS 2001 Show 3913: 3914: *October 20-21, 2001, Berkshire, England* 3915: 3916: [http://www.riscos2001.com/](http://www.riscos2001.com/) 3917: 3918: NetBSD had a stand at the [RISC OS 2001 3919: Show](http://www.riscos2001.com/). There was various NetBSD boxes on 3920: display and NetBSD 1.5.2 CDs for sale. 3921: 3922: ### `Sep 2001` - NetBSD 1.5.2 release 3923: 3924: *September 13, 2001* 3925: 3926: NetBSD 1.5.2, a [patch release](../releases/release-map.html) improving 3927: stability, fixing bugs in, and adding some features to [NetBSD 3928: 1.5.1](../releases/formal-1.5/), was released with support for 21 3929: architectures. More information is available in the [1.5.2 release 3930: announcement](../releases/formal-1.5/NetBSD-1.5.2.html). 3931: 3932: ### `Aug 2001` - LinuxWorld Expo 3933: 3934: *August 26-30, 2001, San Francisco, CA* 3935: 3936: [http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/](http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/) 3937: 3938: The NetBSD Project had a booth at the LinuxWorld Conference & Expo from 3939: August 28-30, 2001. Jason Thorpe has written a short [summary about the 3940: NetBSD booth at 3941: LinuxWorld](http://mail-index.NetBSD.org/netbsd-advocacy/2001/08/30/0000.html). 3942: Also at the booth was the debut of NetBSD running on a Playstation 2 3943: from Japan. 3944: 3945: ### `Jul 2001` - NetBSD 1.5.1 release 3946: 3947: *July 11, 2001* 3948: 3949: NetBSD 1.5.1, a [patch release](../releases/release-map.html) improving 3950: stability, fixing bugs in, and adding some features to [NetBSD 3951: 1.5](../releases/formal-1.5/), was released with support for 21 3952: architectures. More information is available in the [1.5.1 release 3953: announcement](../releases/formal-1.5/NetBSD-1.5.1.html). 3954: 3955: ### `Jun 2001` - Japan NetBSD Users' Group meeting 3956: 3957: *June 30, 2001, [ASCII Corporation](http://www.ascii.co.jp/info/), 3958: Tokyo, Japan* 3959: 3960: [http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/announce/meeting3.html](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/announce/meeting3.html) 3961: 3962: The Japan NetBSD Users' Group had their annual meeting with 52 3963: attendances, and a NetBSD BoF with 102 attendances, 275 clients via 3964: RealVideo G2 broadcasting. 3965: 3966: Talking about jp.NetBSD.org servers, NetBSD status updates after 3967: USENIX2001,Korea NetBSD User Group, www.NetBSD.org Logo, Chiba-BUG, 3968: Making plan for NetBSD Book in Japan, XCAST on NetBSD, The New 3969: Block/Character Device Switch Configration Framework, Life in PEACE, wdc 3970: MD driver for DC IDE-HD Interface on NetBSD/dreamcast, Get into 3971: Zoularis, PS2Linux for NetBSD, and special guest talking with Antti 3972: Kantee from Finland. Japan NetBSD Users' Group will have a special 3973: meeting on 54th IETF Yokohama, Japan. 3974: 3975: ### `Jun 2001` - USENIX Annual Technical Conference 3976: 3977: *June 25-30, 2001, Boston, MA* 3978: 3979: [http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix01/](http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix01/) 3980: 3981: NetBSD was well represented at [Usenix 3982: 2001](http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix01/), and we would like to 3983: thank everyone involved in the BSD BoF and the NetBSD booth. 3984: 3985: The NetBSD Project had a presentation at the BSD BoF which was headed by 3986: [NetBSD Core Group](../people/core.html) members Christos Zoulas and 3987: Luke Mewburn. A list of highlights is available in Chuck Toporek's 3988: "[Greetings from the BSD Super 3989: BoF](http://unix.oreilly.com/news/usenixchuck_0601.html)" article. The 3990: slides from this talk are available at 3991: [events/usenix2001/](events/usenix2001/). 3992: 3993: Luke Mewburn was also a part of the scripting technical session; his 3994: presentation was entitled, "The Design and Implementation of the NetBSD 3995: rc.d System". In Ellen Siever's "[Usenix Technical Session 3996: Wrap-Up](http://unix.oreilly.com/news/usenixellen_0601.html)" article, 3997: she talks briefly about Luke's presentation. Luke's paper can be found 3998: at the [Usenix 2001](http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix01/) web site, 3999: in both HTML and PDF formats, under [FREENIX Track Refereed 4000: Papers](http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix01/freenix01/mewburn.html) 4001: (requires USENIX membership). The paper may also be found in 4002: [PDF](http://www.mewburn.net/luke/papers/rc.d.pdf) format at Luke's own 4003: web site. 4004: 4005: Again, a thank you to all involved. 4006: 4007: ### `Jun 2001` - Open Source Meeting 2001 in Nagoya University 4008: 4009: *June 9-10, 2001, Nagoya, Japan* 4010: 4011: [](http://tokai.opensource.jp/tsudoi/2001/) 4012: 4013: On June 9-10th, 2001, several Bof about open source community in japan 4014: were held.100+150 persons attended in person. 4015: 4016: ### `Jun 2001` - NetWorld+Interop Tokyo, BSD BoF 4017: 4018: *June 7 2001, Chiba, Japan* 4019: 4020: [http://www.interop.jp/](http://www.interop.jp/) 4021: 4022: On June 7th, 2001, a BSD BoF was held as one of the night sessions at 4023: [NetWorld+Interop Tokyo](http://www.interop.jp/). Over 300 people 4024: attended in person, 50-100 people attended over IRC (volunteers typed 4025: the discussions to a couple of IRC channels), and 828 clients watched 4026: the discussion over RealVideo transmission. Jun-ichiro itojun Hagino 4027: wrote up a [summary of the BSD BoF at NetWorld+Interop 4028: Tokyo](events/interop-tokyo-2001.html). 4029: 4030: ### `May 2001` - Wakefield 2001 4031: 4032: *May 19-20, 2001, Wakefield, UK* 4033: 4034: There was a NetBSD stand at the Wakefield Acorn / RiscOS show. The 4035: Wakefield show was more of an ARM biased show, so there was a 4036: [NetBSD/arm26](../ports/arm26/) and [NetBSD/arm32](../ports/arm32/) 4037: slant to the NetBSD stand. The stand featured machines running NetBSD, 4038: and CD-ROMS of the NetBSD system with some additional pre-built packages 4039: and a copy of the NetBSD web site on them. Also at the show Chris 4040: Gilbert gave a talk about NetBSD. 4041: 4042: ### `Apr 2001` - Comdex Spring 2001 4043: 4044: *April 2-5, 2001, Chicago, IL* 4045: 4046: [http://www.comdex.com/](http://www.comdex.com/) 4047: 4048: NetBSD had a booth at [Comdex](http://www.comdex.com/) Spring 2001. A 4049: [short summary](events/comdex-spring-2001.html) of NetBSD at Comdex 4050: Spring is available. 4051: 4052: Expenses for this event were underwritten by The NetBSD Mission. 4053: 4054: ### `Feb 2001` - Open Source Matsuri 2001 in Akihabara 4055: 4056: *February 10-11, 2001, Tokyo, Japan* 4057: 4058: [Japan NetBSD Users' Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/) had a 4059: [booth](http://www.voj.toda.saitama.jp/photo/OpenSource2001/) with SONY 4060: NEWS,Sun Ultra1,DEC VAX station,Sega DreamCast,Mac SE/30, Sharp 4061: X68030,Mac G4Qube,iBook,NEC MobileGearII, 4062: [PEACE](http://chiharu.hauN.ORG/peace/) and [umidi/utoro 4063: demo](http://utoro.imou.to/) with 7000 attendances. Held a Presentation 4064: & a tutorial about NetBSD by jun@NetBSD.org. [[Reports on 4065: jp.NetBSD.org](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/event/20010210OSF/)] 4066: 4067: ### `Jan 2001` - LinuxWorld Expo 2001 4068: 4069: *January 30-February 2, 2001, New York City, USA* 4070: 4071: [http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/](http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/) 4072: 4073: The NetBSD Project shared a stand with [Wasabi 4074: Systems](http://www.wasabisystems.com/) at LinuxWorld Expo 2001. The 4075: stand had a variety of different platforms running NetBSD, 1.5 CDs, and 4076: other swag. 4077: 4078: ### `Dec 2000` - Internet Week 2000 4079: 4080: *December 18-21, 2000, Osaka, Japan* 4081: 4082: [http://www.nic.ad.jp/iw2000/](http://www.nic.ad.jp/iw2000/) 4083: 4084: There was a [BSD BoF 4085: session](http://www.unixmagic.org/ml/netbsd/200012/msg00019.html) on Dec 4086: 19 with 160 attendances, 94 clients via [RealVideo 4087: G2](http://www.real.com) broadcasting,60 IRC realtime broadcasting 4088: clients. Talking about The BSD System on 1FDD, USB maniacs from across 4089: the [BSD magazine](http://www.ascii.co.jp/BSDmag/) editorial room, 4090: announce from BSDi Japan Office, Users groups in 4091: JP[[NoBUG](http://www.no.bug.gr.jp/), [OFUG](http://www.ofug.net/), 4092: [S\*BUG](http://www.bbsbrain.ne.jp/~sbug/), 4093: [K\*bug](http://www.kbug.gr.jp/), [NBUG](http://www.nagoya.bug.gr.jp/), 4094: [JNUG](http://www.NetBSD.org/community/groups.html#jnug), L\*BUG], 4095: little red [Daemon-kun](http://www.twin.ne.jp/~minamie/ost/) from The 4096: Open Source Toys Project, BSD goods present time,and more thinking about 4097: BSD activity in Japan. 4098: 4099: ### `Dec 2000` - NetBSD 1.5 release 4100: 4101: *December 6, 2000* 4102: 4103: [NetBSD 1.5](../releases/formal-1.5/), the eighth [major 4104: release](../releases/release-map.html) of NetBSD, was announced to the 4105: public. 4106: 4107: ### `Dec 2000` - Usenix Systems Administration Conference (LISA) 4108: 4109: *December 3-8, 2000, New Orleans, LA* 4110: 4111: [http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa2000/](http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa2000/) 4112: 4113: ### `Nov 2000` - NetBSD 1.4.3 release 4114: 4115: *November 25, 2000* 4116: 4117: NetBSD 1.4.3, a [patch release](../releases/release-map.html) improving 4118: stability and fixing bugs in [NetBSD-1.4](../releases/formal-1.4/), was 4119: announced to the public. 4120: 4121: ### `Nov 2000` - Comdex Fall 2000 4122: 4123: *November 13-17 2000, Las Vegas, NV* 4124: 4125: [http://www.comdex.com/](http://www.comdex.com/) 4126: 4127: The NetBSD Project had a booth at Comdex Fall 2000. We demonstrated a 4128: full desktop system running on a Macintosh G4 cube, as well as other 4129: sundry bits. The cube also appeared on German 3Sat Neues. 4130: 4131: Expenses for this event were underwritten by LinuxMall and The NetBSD 4132: Mission. 4133: 4134: ### `Oct 2000` - Linux Expo Toronto 2000 4135: 4136: *October 30-November 1 2000, Toronto, Ontario, Canada* 4137: 4138: [http://www.linuxexpocanada.com/](http://www.linuxexpocanada.com/) 4139: 4140: The NetBSD Project had a booth at displaying NetBSD i386 and mac68k - 4141: T-shirts and 1.4.2 CDs were available. The i386 machine was running an 4142: automated demo which will soon be available in pkgsrc. 4143: 4144: Expenses for this event were underwritten by The NetBSD Mission and 4145: David Maxwell. 4146: 4147: ### `Oct 2000` - RISC OS 2000 4148: 4149: *October 21-22 2000, Epsom, England* 4150: 4151: [http://www.armclub.org.uk/shows/riscos/](http://www.armclub.org.uk/shows/riscos/) 4152: 4153: A group of NetBSD enthusiasts were one of the exhibitors at RISC OS 4154: 2000. They had CD's, leaflets, and a mixture of hardware running NetBSD 4155: on display. David Brownlee wrote up a report about the [NetBSD stand at 4156: RISC OS 2000](events/riscos-2000.html). 4157: 4158: ### `Oct 2000` - BSDCon 2000 4159: 4160: *October 14-20 2000, Monterey, CA* 4161: 4162: [http://www.bsdcon.org/](http://www.bsdcon.org/) 4163: 4164: NetBSD had a table at this event, and there were a couple of talks 4165: spotlighting NetBSD. 4166: 4167: Erik Berls <cyber@NetBSD.org> and Luke Mewburn <lukem@NetBSD.org> gave a 4168: talk entitled "NetBSD: Platform for the Future". Slides are available at 4169: [](http://www.mewburn.net/luke/talks/bsdcon-2000/). 4170: 4171: Also, Jun-ichiro itojun Hagino gave a talk on NetBSD 1.5. A transcript 4172: is available at 4173: [](ftp://ftp.itojun.org/pub/paper/itojun-bsdcon2000-netbsd15.ps.gz). 4174: 4175: ### `Oct 2000` - Atlanta Linux Showcase 4176: 4177: *October 12-14 2000, Atlanta, GA* 4178: 4179: [http://www.linuxshowcase.org/](http://www.linuxshowcase.org/) 4180: 4181: The NetBSD Project ran a booth at this event, showcasing NetBSD on 4182: non-PC platforms (primarily the Mac G4 cube). Some unfortunate bugs were 4183: fixed onsite. 4184: 4185: Expenses for this event were underwritten by The NetBSD Mission. 4186: 4187: ### `Aug 2000` - LinuxWorld Conference & Expo 4188: 4189: *August 14-17 2000, San Jose, CA* 4190: 4191: [http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/](http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/) 4192: 4193: There was a BSD BoF session on Wednesday August 16th. In the September 4194: 2000 issue, Daemon News published an 4195: [article](http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200009/linuxworld-2000.html) on 4196: the BSD presence at LinuxWorld 2000. 4197: 4198: ### `Jul 2000` - O'Reilly Open Source Software Convention 2000 4199: 4200: *July 17-20, 2000, Monterey, CA* 4201: 4202: http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon2000/ 4203: 4204: NetBSD had a table at the O'Reilly Open Source Software Convention 2000. 4205: Also, there was a session called the "Future of the BSDs", presented by 4206: a group that included Charles Hannum from NetBSD. 4207: 4208: Expenses for this event were underwritten by The NetBSD Mission. 4209: 4210: ### `Jul 2000` - Comdex Canada 2000 4211: 4212: *July 12-14 2000, Toronto, Ontario, Canada* 4213: 4214: The NetBSD Project had a booth at Comdex Canada 2000 at which T-shirts 4215: and 1.4.2 CDs were available. There are some photos of [the screen, 4216: showing the bktr display](../images/events/20000712-1.jpg), NetBSD 4217: developers [David Maxwell (left) and D'Arcy Cain 4218: (right)](../images/events/20000712-2.jpg), and helpers [Carol Cain, and 4219: Robert Waters](../images/events/20000712-3.jpg). We also have pictures 4220: of another [User Friendly visitor](../images/events/booth_puppy.jpg). 4221: 4222: Expenses for this event were underwritten by LinuxMall, The NetBSD 4223: Mission and David Maxwell. 4224: 4225: ### `Jul 2000` - Japan NetBSD Users' Group meeting 4226: 4227: *July 1 2000, Tokyo Japan* 4228: 4229: [http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/announce/meeting2.html](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/announce/meeting2.html) 4230: 4231: The Japan NetBSD Users' Group had their annual meeting, and a NetBSD BoF 4232: followed. 4233: 4234: ### `Jun 2000` - LinuxTag 2000 4235: 4236: *June 29-July 2 2000, Stuttgart, Germany* 4237: 4238: http://www.linuxtag.org/2000/english/ 4239: 4240: A group of \*BSD enthusiasts organized a \*BSD booth at [LinuxTag 4241: 2000](http://www.linuxtag.org/2000/english/), which, among many other 4242: things, included a variety of boxes showcasing NetBSD. Christian 4243: Weisgerber has written a [summary](events/linuxtag-2000.html) about his 4244: experiences at LinuxTag 2000, as one both manning the \*BSD booth and 4245: giving a talk. 4246: 4247: ### `Jun 2000` - Usenix Annual Technical Conference 4248: 4249: *June 21-22 2000, San Diego, CA* 4250: 4251: [http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix2000/](http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix2000/) 4252: 4253: NetBSD had a presence at the [Usenix Annual Technical 4254: Conference](http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix2000/) in 2000. Most 4255: notably, Charles Hannum gave a talk about NetBSD, William Studenmund 4256: gave a [technical session on 4257: DMFS](http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/usenix2000/freenix/studenmund.html) 4258: (Data Migration File System) for NetBSD, Chuck Silvers gave a [technical 4259: session on 4260: UBC](http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/usenix2000/freenix/silvers.html) 4261: (an efficient United I/O and Memory Caching Subsystem for NetBSD), and 4262: Jun-ichiro Hagino gave a [technical session on mbuf changes in 4263: KAME/\*BSD IPv6 4264: support](http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/usenix2000/freenix/hagino.html). 4265: There was also a BSD BoF which included people kicking around beach 4266: balls emblazoned with "NetBSD support: it's not hot air anymore" in 4267: reference to the launch of [Wasabi 4268: Systems](http://www.wasabisystems.com/). 4269: 4270: Expenses for this event were underwritten by The Usenix Association and 4271: The NetBSD Mission. 4272: 4273: ### `Jun 2000` - German Unix User Group spring '00 meeting 4274: 4275: *June 14-16 2000, Cologne, Germany* 4276: 4277: [http://www.guug.de/](http://www.guug.de/) 4278: 4279: NetBSD was represented at the spring meeting of the [German Unix User 4280: Group](http://www.guug.de/). Ignatios Souvatzis gave a presentation 4281: about experiences with IPv6 using NetBSD. 4282: 4283: ### `Jun 2000` - NetWorld+Interop Tokyo 4284: 4285: *June 8 2000, Chiba, Japan* 4286: 4287: [http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/ml/admin-ja/200005/msg00015.html](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/ml/admin-ja/200005/msg00015.html) 4288: 4289: A joint \*BSD users group BOF was held. Jordan Hubbard and Warner Losh 4290: (of FreeBSD) joined and gave us a talk. BOF session covering various 4291: \*BSD followed. 4292: 4293: ### `Apr 2000` - Comdex Spring 2000 4294: 4295: *April 17-20 2000, Chicago, IL* 4296: 4297: [http://www.comdex.com/](http://www.comdex.com/) 4298: 4299: Expenses for this event were underwritten by LinuxMall and The NetBSD 4300: Mission. 4301: 4302: ### `Apr 2000` - Linux Expo 4303: 4304: *April 10-12 2000, Montreal, Quebec, Canada* 4305: 4306: [http://www.linuxexpocanada.com/](http://www.linuxexpocanada.com/) 4307: 4308: The NetBSD Project had a booth displaying NetBSD i386, hpcmips, and 4309: mmeye at this event in Montreal, Canada. T-shirts, 1.4.1, 1.4.2, and 4310: snapshot CDs were available. 4311: 4312: Expenses for this event were underwritten by The NetBSD Mission. 4313: 4314: ### `Mar 2000` - DECUS Munich 4315: 4316: *March 29, 2000, Munich, Germany* 4317: 4318: [http://www.decus.de/](http://www.decus.de/) 4319: 4320: Ignatios Souvatzis talked about NetBSD news and experiences with IPv6 on 4321: NetBSD at the DECUS Munich Symposium in Bonn. 4322: 4323: ### `Mar 2000` - NetBSD 1.4.2 release 4324: 4325: *March 19, 2000* 4326: 4327: NetBSD 1.4.2, a [patch release](../releases/release-map.html) improving 4328: stability and fixing bugs in [NetBSD-1.4](../releases/formal-1.4/), was 4329: announced to the public. 4330: 4331: ### `Feb 2000` - Linux Expo 4332: 4333: *February 1-3 2000, Paris, France* 4334: 4335: [http://www.linuxexpoparis.com/](http://www.linuxexpoparis.com/) 4336: 4337: There was a BSD BoF at the New York Linuxworld on Thursday, February 4338: 3rd. 4339: 4340: Expenses for this event were underwritten by The NetBSD Mission. 4341: 4342: ### `Dec 1999` - Internet Week 1999 4343: 4344: *December 18 1999, Yokohama, Japan* 4345: 4346: [http://www.nic.ad.jp/iw99/](http://www.nic.ad.jp/iw99/) 4347: 4348: There was a [BSD BoF session](http://www.jp.freebsd.org/event/iw99/) on 4349: Dec 18. 4350: 4351: ### `Dec 1999` - The Bazaar 4352: 4353: *December 14-16 1999, New York City, NY* 4354: 4355: The NetBSD Project had two kiosks at "The Bazaar" in New York City at 4356: the Javits Center. We demoed NetBSD on several hardware platforms, and 4357: provided live video from the show floor via a [Brains, Inc. mmEye video 4358: server](http://www.brains.co.jp/). 4359: 4360: Expenses for this event were underwritten by The NetBSD Mission. 4361: 4362: ### `Nov 1999` - Comdex Fall 1999 4363: 4364: *November 15-19 1999, Las Vegas, NV* 4365: 4366: [http://www.comdex.com/](http://www.comdex.com/) 4367: 4368: The NetBSD Project had a booth at Comdex Fall 1999. We had 1.4.1 CD 4369: sets, sample CDs, demo machines, and a few surprises. 4370: 4371: Expenses for this event were underwritten by LinuxMall and The NetBSD 4372: Mission. 4373: 4374: ### `Nov 1999` - Open Source Matsuri99 in Akihabara 4375: 4376: *November 12-13, 1999, Akihabara, Tokyo* 4377: 4378: Japan NetBSD Users' Group ran a booth at Open Source Matsuri'99 in 4379: Akihabara ("Matsuri" is Japanese word for "Festival"). We had demo 4380: machines and short Presentation with NetBSD/hpcmips. 4381: 4382: ### `Oct 1999` - Atlanta Linux Showcase 1999 4383: 4384: *October 14-16, 1999, Atlanta, GA* 4385: 4386: [http://www.linuxshowcase.org/1999/](http://www.linuxshowcase.org/1999/) 4387: 4388: The NetBSD Project ran a booth at the Atlanta Linux Showcase. 1.4.1 CD 4389: sets and T-shirts were on sale. 4390: 4391: Expenses for this event were underwritten by The NetBSD Mission. 4392: 4393: ### `Oct 1999` - BSD Social Event in Berlin 4394: 4395: *October 9-10, 1999* 4396: 4397: ### `Aug 1999` - NetBSD 1.4.1 release 4398: 4399: *August 26, 1999* 4400: 4401: NetBSD 1.4.1, a [patch release](../releases/release-map.html) improving 4402: stability and fixing bugs in [NetBSD-1.4](../releases/formal-1.4/), was 4403: announced to the public. 4404: 4405: ### `Jul 1999` - Wizards of OS \#1 4406: 4407: *July 16-17, 1999, Berlin, Germany* 4408: 4409: Patrick M. Hausen talked about FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD at the Free 4410: Software Projects panel of the Wizards of OS conference. 4411: 4412: ### `Jun 1999` - LinuxTag '99 4413: 4414: *June 26-27, 1999, Kaiserslautern, Germany* 4415: 4416: [http://www.linuxtag.org/1999/](http://www.linuxtag.org/1999/) 4417: 4418: The NetBSD Project attended LinuxTag '99 in Kaiserslautern, Germany. We 4419: exhibited a NetBSD/arm32 system running on a DNARD, and demonstrated the 4420: package system. 4421: 4422: ### `Jun 1999` - Usenix '99 4423: 4424: *June 6-11, 1999, Monterey, CA* 4425: 4426: [http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix99/](http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix99/) 4427: 4428: The NetBSD foundation attended the USENIX Annual Technical Conference in 4429: Monterey, CA. There was a Birds of a Feather session on Tuesday 8, 8pm - 4430: 10pm, and an exhibition booth featuring many different platforms. There 4431: is also a [full report](events/usenix1999.html) available. 4432: 4433: ### `Mar 1999` - German Unix User Group spring '99 meeting 4434: 4435: *March 16-19, 1999, Germany* 4436: 4437: [http://www.guug.de/](http://www.guug.de/) 4438: 4439: During the spring meeting of the [German Unix User 4440: Group](http://www.guug.de/) (GUUG), NetBSD was mentioned in two talks 4441: held by [Dr. Alexandre 4442: Wennmacher](http://www.uni-koeln.de/math-nat-fak/geomet/geo/mitarbeiter/mitarb/aw.html). 4443: The first described security through file flags and the second was about 4444: checkpointing in userspace. 4445: 4446: At the \*BSD BoF, Hubert Feyrer explained the changes made in the 4447: Packages System to what was taken from FreeBSD, Christoph Badura 4448: answered general NetBSD questions. 4449: 4450: ### `May 1999` - NetBSD 1.4 release 4451: 4452: *May 12, 1999* 4453: 4454: [NetBSD 1.4](../releases/formal-1.4/), the seventh [major 4455: release](../releases/release-map.html) of NetBSD, was announced to the 4456: public. 4457: 4458: ### `Dec 1998` - NetBSD 1.3.3 release 4459: 4460: *December 23, 1998* 4461: 4462: NetBSD 1.3.3, a [patch release](../releases/release-map.html) improving 4463: stability and fixing bugs in [NetBSD-1.3](../releases/formal-1.3/), was 4464: announced to the public. 4465: 4466: ### `Aug 1998` - Open Source Developer Day 4467: 4468: *August 21, 1998, San Jose, CA* 4469: 4470: The NetBSD Project was proud to be a partner with O'Reilly and 4471: Associates for its Open Source Developer Day, held at the Fairmont Hotel 4472: in San Jose, CA. 4473: 4474: ### `Jun 1998` - Usenix freenix track 4475: 4476: *June 15-19, 1998, New Orleans, LA* 4477: 4478: [FREENIX](http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/usenix98/freenix/), 4479: the freely redistributable software track, was held at 4480: [Usenix](http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/usenix98/). 4481: FREENIX was intended to be a showcase for the latest developments and 4482: interesting applications in freely redistributable software including 4483: NetBSD, FreeBSD, Linux, OpenBSD, GNU and Samba. 4484: 4485: ### `May 1998` - NetBSD 1.3.2 release 4486: 4487: *May 29, 1998* 4488: 4489: NetBSD 1.3.2, a [patch release](../releases/release-map.html) improving 4490: stability and fixing bugs in [NetBSD-1.3](../releases/formal-1.3/), was 4491: announced to the public. 4492: 4493: ### `Apr 1998` - MTT '98 "Magic Days Trier" 4494: 4495: *April 25-26, 1998, Germany* 4496: 4497: The Amiga1 user group held another MTT. 4498: 4499: ### `Mar 1998` - NetBSD 1.3.1 release 4500: 4501: *March 9, 1998* 4502: 4503: NetBSD 1.3.1, a [patch release](../releases/release-map.html) improving 4504: stability and fixing bugs in [NetBSD-1.3](../releases/formal-1.3/), was 4505: released. 4506: 4507: ### `Jan 1998` - NetBSD 1.3 release 4508: 4509: *January 4, 1998* 4510: 4511: [NetBSD-1.3](../releases/formal-1.5/), the sixth [major 4512: release](../releases/release-map.html) of NetBSD, was announced to the 4513: public. 4514: 4515: ### `May 1997` - NetBSD 1.2.1 release 4516: 4517: *May 20, 1997* 4518: 4519: NetBSD 1.2.1, a [patch release](../releases/release-map.html) improving 4520: stability and fixing bugs in [NetBSD-1.2](../releases/formal-1.2/), was 4521: announced to the public. 4522: 4523: ### `Apr 1997` - MTT '97 "Magic Days Trier" 4524: 4525: *April 19-20, 1997, Germany* 4526: 4527: A NetBSD-1.2.1/Amiga preview, running on a DraCo and (after installing 4528: it live over ARCnet) on an Amiga 3000, was presented by Jürgen Schmitz 4529: and Ignatios Souvatzis at the MTT '97. 4530: 4531: ### `Apr 1997` - DECUS Munich 4532: 4533: *April 17, 1997, Bonn, Germany* 4534: 4535: Ignatios Souvatzis presented a talk about *NetBSD on Digital Hardware* 4536: at the [DECUS Munich](http://www.decus.de/) Symposium in Bonn. 4537: 4538: ### `Jan 1997` - Anaheim Usenix Birds of a Feather 4539: 4540: *January 14, 1997, Anaheim, CA* 4541: 4542: NetBSD hosted a Birds of a Feather at the Usenix conference which was 4543: held in Anaheim California. Christos Zoulas spoke about the current 4544: state, goals and future directions of the project, while Paul 4545: Kranenburg, Aaron Brown and Chris Demetriou answered questions about the 4546: sparc and the alpha ports respectively.