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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: ### `Mar 2016` - AsiaBSDCon 2016 12: 13: *Mar. 10-13, 2016, Tokyo, Japan* 14: 15: [AsiaBSDCon](https://www.asiabsdcon.org/) is a conference for users 16: and developers on BSD based systems. The next conference will be held 17: in Tokyo, in 10-13 March, 2016. The conference is for anyone 18: developing, deploying and using systems based on FreeBSD, NetBSD, 19: OpenBSD, DragonFlyBSD, Darwin and MacOS X. AsiaBSDCon is a technical 20: conference and aims to collect the best technical papers and 21: presentations available to ensure that the latest developments in our 22: open source community are shared with the widest possible audience. 23: 24: ### `Feb 2016` - Open Source Conference 2016 Tokyo/Spring 25: 26: *Feb. 26- 27, 2016, [MEISEI 27: UNIVERSITY](http://www.meisei-u.ac.jp/access/hino.html), Tokyo, Japan* 28: 29: At the [Open Source Conference 2016 30: Tokyo/Spring](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2016-spring/), there will be a NetBSD 31: booth staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 32: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/) with NetBSD gadget demonstrations. 33: 34: Past Events 35: ----------- 36: 37: ### `Jan 2016` - Open Source Conference 2016 Hamanako 38: 39: *Jan. 23, 2016, [Hamamatsu Shimin Kyodo Center](http://www.machien-hamamatsu.jp/access.html), Shizuoka, Japan* 40: 41: At the [Open Source Conference 2016 42: Hamanako](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2015-hamanako/), there was a NetBSD 43: booth staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 44: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/) with NetBSD gadget demonstrations. 45: [Report on netbsd-advocacy](http://mail-index.netbsd.org/netbsd-advocacy/2016/01/23/msg000701.html). 46: 47: 48: ### `Nov 2015` - Open Source Conference 2015 Tokushima 49: 50: *Nov. 14, 2015, [TOKUGIN TOMONI PLAZA](http://www.tokuginplaza.com/own/index.asp), Tokushima, Japan* 51: 52: At the [Open Source Conference 2015 53: Tokushima](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2015-tokushima/), there was a NetBSD 54: booth staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 55: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/) with NetBSD gadget demonstrations. 56: [Report on netbsd-advocacy](http://mail-index.netbsd.org/netbsd-advocacy/2015/11/09/msg000700.html). 57: 58: ### `Nov 2015` - KANSAI OPEN FORUM 2015 59: 60: *Nov. 6- 7, 2015, [Asia and Pacific Trade Center](http://www.atc-co.com/guide/access.php), Osaka, Japan* 61: 62: At the [KANSAI OPEN FORUM 2015](https://k-of.jp/2015/), there was a NetBSD 63: booth staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 64: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/) with NetBSD gadget demonstrations 65: and [BSD BOF](https://k-of.jp/2015/session/731). 66: [Report on netbsd-advocacy](http://mail-index.netbsd.org/netbsd-advocacy/2015/11/09/msg000699.html). 67: 68: ### `Oct 2015` - Open Source Conference 2015 Tokyo/Fall 69: 70: *Oct. 24- 25, 2015, [MEISEI 71: UNIVERSITY](http://www.meisei-u.ac.jp/access/hino.html), Tokyo, Japan* 72: 73: At the [Open Source Conference 2015 74: Tokyo/Fall](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2015-fall/), there will be a NetBSD 75: booth staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 76: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/) with NetBSD gadget demonstrations 77: and [BSD BOF](https://www.ospn.jp/osc2015-fall/modules/eguide/event.php?eid=4). 78: [Report on netbsd-advocacy](http://mail-index.netbsd.org/netbsd-advocacy/2015/10/25/msg000698.html). 79: 80: 81: ### `Oct 2015` - BSDCon Brasil 2015, Ceará, Brasil 82: 83: *Oct. 9-10, 2015, University of Fortaleza ,Ceará, Brasil* 84: 85: A primeira edição da [BSDCon Brasil](http://2015.bsdcon.com.br/) ocorreu em 2003. Durante todos esses anos que se passaram, o Brasil ainda não tinha reunido sua comunidade com tanta força como agora. Todos os envolvidos na conferência terão contato direto com o mundo dos usuários, entusiastas e desenvolvedores, o que lhes permitirá melhor compreender sistemas FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, DragonflyBSD e outros sistemas de linhagem BSD UNIX. 86: 87: 88: ### `Oct 2015` - Open Source Conference 2015 Fukuoka 89: 90: *Oct. 3, 2015, [KYUSHU SANGYO UNIVERSITY](http://www.kyusan-u.ac.jp/E/index.shtml), Fukuoka, Japan* 91: 92: At the [Open Source Conference 2015 93: Fukuoka](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2015-fukuoka/) , there was a NetBSD booth 94: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 95: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) with many gadget 96: demonstrations.[Report on netbsd-advocacy](http://mail-index.netbsd.org/netbsd-advocacy/2015/10/05/msg000697.html). 97: 98: ### `Oct 2015` - EuroBSDcon 2015, Stockholm, Sweden 99: 100: *Oct. 1-4, 2015, Stockholm, Sweden* 101: 102: [EuroBSDcon](https://2015.eurobsdcon.org/) is the premier European 103: conference on the open source BSD operating systems attracting about 104: 250 highly skilled engineering professionals, software developers, 105: computer science students and professors, and users from all over 106: Europe and other parts of the world. The goal of EuroBSDcon is to 107: exchange knowledge about the BSD operating systems, facilitate 108: coordination and cooperation among users and developers. 109: 110: ### `Sep 2015` - Open Source Conference 2015 Hiroshima 111: 112: *Sep. 19, 2015, [Satellite Campus Hiroshima](https://www.pu-hiroshima.ac.jp/site/satellite/), Hiroshima, Japan* 113: 114: At the [Open Source Conference 2015 115: Hiroshima](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2015-Hiroshima/) , there was a NetBSD and XM6i booth 116: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 117: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) and [XM6i](http://xm6i.org/) developers with many gadget 118: demonstrations.[Report on netbsd-advocacy](http://mail-index.netbsd.org/netbsd-advocacy/2015/09/24/msg000696.html). 119: 120: ### `Sep 2015` - vBSDCon 2015, Virginia, United States 121: 122: *Sep. 11-13, 2015, Virginia, United States* 123: 124: 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. 125: 126: ### `Sep 2015` - Open Source Conference 2015 Niigata 127: 128: *Sep. 5, 2015, [HON-PORT NIIGATA CITY PUBLIC LIBRARY](http://www.niigatacitylib.jp/?page_id=166), Niigata, Japan* 129: 130: At the [Open Source Conference 2015 131: Niigata](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2015-niigata/) , there was a NetBSD booth 132: staffed by members of [Echigo BSD Users Group](http://www.ebug.jp/) members and the [Japan NetBSD Users' 133: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) with many gadget 134: demonstrations.[Report on netbsd-advocacy](http://mail-index.netbsd.org/netbsd-advocacy/2015/09/05/msg000695.html). 135: 136: ### `Aug 2015` - Open Source Conference 2015 Shimane 137: 138: *Aug. 22, 2015, [MATSUE TERRSA](http://www.sanbg.com/terrsa/e/index.html), Shimane, Japan* 139: 140: At the [Open Source Conference 2015 141: Shimane](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2015-shimane/) , there was a NetBSD booth 142: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 143: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) with many gadget 144: demonstrations.[Report on netbsd-advocacy](http://mail-index.netbsd.org/netbsd-advocacy/2015/08/22/msg000692.html). 145: 146: ### `Mar 2015` - AsiaBSDCon 2015 147: 148: *Mar. 12-15, 2015, Tokyo, Japan* 149: 150: [AsiaBSDCon](https://2015.asiabsdcon.org/) is a conference for users 151: and developers on BSD based systems. The next conference will be held 152: in Tokyo, in 12-15 March, 2015. The conference is for anyone 153: developing, deploying and using systems based on FreeBSD, NetBSD, 154: OpenBSD, DragonFlyBSD, Darwin and MacOS X. AsiaBSDCon is a technical 155: conference and aims to collect the best technical papers and 156: presentations available to ensure that the latest developments in our 157: open source community are shared with the widest possible audience. 158: 159: ### `Nov 2014` - Kansai OpenSource 2014 160: 161: *Nov. 7-8, 2014, [Asia and Pacific Trade Center ITM 162: Building](http://www.atc-co.com/), Osaka, Japan* 163: 164: At the [Kansai OpenSource 2014](http://www.k-of.jp/), there will be BSD 165: booths staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 166: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) and [Kansai \*BSD Users 167: Group](http://www.kbug.gr.jp/). with many gadget demonstrations { 168: [hpcarm](../ports/hpcarm/), [hpcmips](../ports/hpcmips/), 169: [hpcsh](../ports/hpcsh/) } and BSDBOF. 170: 171: ### `Sep 2014` - EuroBSDCon 2014, Sofia, Bulgaria 172: 173: *Sep. 25-28, 2014, Sofia, Bulgaria* 174: 175: [EuroBSDcon](http://2014.EuroBSDCon.org) is the premier European 176: conference on the open source BSD operating systems attracting about 177: 250 highly skilled engineering professionals, software developers, 178: computer science students and professors, and users from all over 179: Europe and other parts of the world. The goal of EuroBSDcon is to 180: exchange knowledge about the BSD operating systems, facilitate 181: coordination and cooperation among users and developers. 182: 183: ### `Jul 2014` - Open Source Conference 2014 Nagoya 184: 185: *Jul. 4-5, 2014, [Nagoya International 186: Center](http://www.nic-nagoya.or.jp/en/e/about-us/access-hours), Nagoya, 187: Japan* 188: 189: At the [Open Source Conference 2014 190: Nagoya](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2014-nagoya/) , there will be a OpenBSD 191: and NetBSD booth staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 192: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/) and [Nagoya \*BSD Users' Group 193: (NBUG)](http://www.nagoya.bug.gr.jp/). There will be a gadget 194: demonstration [BSD booth](http://twitpic.com/czat1r) and NBUG BOF. 195: 196: ### `Jun 2014` - pkgsrcCon 2014, London, England 197: 198: *Jun. 21-22, 2014, Middlesex University, London, England* 199: 200: [pkgsrcCon](http://www.pkgsrc.org/pkgsrcCon/2014/) is a technical 201: conference for people working on the NetBSD Packages Collection 202: (pkgsrc), focusing on existing technologies, research projects, and 203: works-in-progress in pkgsrc infrastructure. Developers, contributors, 204: interested developers and users are all welcome to attend. 205: 206: ### `Jun 2014` - Open Source Conference 2014 Hokkaido 207: 208: *Jun. 13-14, 2014, [Sapporo Business Innovation Center, Sapporo, 209: Japan](http://www.sapporosansin.jp/access/)* 210: 211: At the [Open Source Conference 2014 212: Hokkaido](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2014-do/) , there will be a NetBSD booth 213: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 214: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/) and [NoBUG](http://www.no.bug.gr.jp/) 215: with NetBSD gadget demonstrations ( [hpcarm](../ports/hpcarm/), 216: [hpcmips](../ports/hpcmips/), [hpcsh](../ports/hpcsh/)). 217: 218: ### `Mar 2014` - Open Source Conference 2014 Hamanako 219: 220: *Mar. 22, 2014, [Hamamatsu Shimin Kyodo 221: Center](http://www.machien-hamamatsu.jp/) , Shizuoka, Japan* 222: 223: At the [Open Source Conference 2014 224: Hamanako](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2014-hamanako/) , there will be a NetBSD 225: booth staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 226: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/) with many gadgets demonstration ( 227: [hpcarm](../ports/hpcarm/), [hpcmips](../ports/hpcmips/), 228: [hpcsh](../ports/hpcsh/)). 229: 230: ### `Mar 2014` - AsiaBSDCon 2014 231: 232: *Mar 13-16, 2014, Tokyo University of Science,Tokyo, Japan* 233: 234: [AsiaBSDCon](http://2014.asiabsdcon.org/) will be a conference for users 235: and developers on BSD based systems. The conference was for anyone 236: developing, deploying and using systems based on FreeBSD, NetBSD, 237: OpenBSD, DragonFly BSD, Darwin, and MacOS X. AsiaBSDCon was a technical 238: conference and aimed to collect the best technical papers and 239: presentations available to ensure that the latest developments in our 240: open source community are shared with the widest possible audience. 241: 242: ### `Feb 2014` - Open Source Conference 2014 Tokyo/Spring 243: 244: *Feb. 28- Mar. 1, 2014, [MEISEI 245: UNIVERSITY](http://www.meisei-u.ac.jp/access/hino.html), Tokyo, Japan* 246: 247: At the [Open Source Conference 2014 248: Tokyo/Spring](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2014-spring/), there was a NetBSD 249: booth staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 250: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/) with NetBSD gadget demonstrations ( 251: [hpcarm](../ports/hpcarm/), [zaurus](../ports/zaurus/), 252: [evbarm](../ports/evbarm/)). [2014-02-28-netbsd-raspi 253: image](http://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-arm/2014/02/28/msg002243.html)). 254: more reports on [togetter](http://togetter.com/li/635747). Japan NetBSD 255: Users' Group got an award called "[Open Source Confernce 256: Award](http://www.ospn.jp/press/20140218osc-award.html)". 257: 258: ### `Feb 2014` - NYC\*BSD Con 2014 259: 260: *Feb 8, 2014 Suspenders Bar and Restaurant* 261: 262: [NYC\*BSD Con 2014](http://www.nycbsdcon.org/2014/) NYCBSDCon is on as a 263: day-long event with the theme of "The BSDs in Production." 264: 265: ### `Nov 2013` - Linux User Group of Mauritius - LinuxFest 2013 266: 267: *Nov 25, 2013, Octave Wiehe Auditorium University of Mauritius* 268: 269: [Linux Fest 2013 in Mauritius](http://lugm.org/linuxfest/#) will feature 270: some BSD thumb drives and other general IT and Open Source talks 271: 272: ### `Nov 2013` - Open Source Conference 2013 Oita 273: 274: *Nov. 23, 2013, i-ness, Oita, Japan* 275: 276: At the [Open Source Conference 2013 277: Oita](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2013-oita/) , there will be a NetBSD booth 278: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 279: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/) with many gadgets demonstration ( 280: [hpcarm](../ports/hpcarm/), [hpcmips](../ports/hpcmips/), 281: [hpcsh](../ports/hpcsh/)). 282: 283: ### `Nov 2013` - Open Source Conference 2013 Fukuoka 284: 285: *Nov. 16, 2013, [Fukuoka Soft Research 286: Park](http://www.fukuoka-srp.co.jp/access/index.html) , Fukuoka, Japan* 287: 288: At the [Open Source Conference 2013 289: Fukuoka](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2013-fukuoka/) , there will be a NetBSD 290: booth staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 291: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/) with many gadgets demonstration ( 292: [hpcarm](../ports/hpcarm/), [hpcmips](../ports/hpcmips/), 293: [hpcsh](../ports/hpcsh/)) 294: 295: ### `Nov 2013` - Kansai OpenSource 2013 296: 297: *Nov. 8-9, 2013, [Asia and Pacific Trade Center ITM 298: Building](http://www.atc-co.com/), Osaka, Japan* 299: 300: At the [Kansai OpenSource 2013](http://www.k-of.jp/), there will be BSD 301: booths staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 302: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) and [Kansai \*BSD Users 303: Group](http://www.kbug.gr.jp/). with many gadget demonstrations { 304: [hpcarm](../ports/hpcarm/), [hpcmips](../ports/hpcmips/), 305: [hpcsh](../ports/hpcsh/) } and BSDBOF. 306: 307: ### `Oct 2013` - Open Source Conference 2013 Tokyo/Fall 308: 309: *Oct. 19-20, 2013, [MEISEI 310: UNIVERSITY](http://www.meisei-u.ac.jp/access/hino.html), Tokyo, Japan* 311: 312: At the [Open Source Conference 2013 313: Tokyo/Fall](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2013-fall/), there will be a NetBSD 314: booth staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 315: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/) with NetBSD gadget demonstrations ( 316: [hpcarm](../ports/hpcarm/), [hpcmips](../ports/hpcmips/), 317: [hpcsh](../ports/hpcsh/)) and BSDBOF. 318: 319: ### `Oct 2013` - Open Source Conference 2013 Hiroshima 320: 321: *Oct. 6, 2013, [Satellite Campus 322: Hiroshima](http://www.pu-hiroshima.ac.jp/site/satellite/accessmap.html) 323: , Hiroshima, Japan* 324: 325: At the [Open Source Conference 2013 326: Hiroshima](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2013-hiroshima/) , there will be a 327: NetBSD booth staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 328: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/) with NetBSD gadget demonstrations ( 329: [hpcarm](../ports/hpcarm/), [hpcmips](../ports/hpcmips/), 330: [hpcsh](../ports/hpcsh/)). 331: 332: ### `Sep 2013` - Open Source Conference 2013 Hokkaido 333: 334: *Sep. 14, 2013, [Sapporo Convention Center, Sapporo, 335: Japan](http://www.sora-scc.jp/access/index.html)* 336: 337: At the [Open Source Conference 2013 338: Hokkaido](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2013-do/) , there will be a NetBSD booth 339: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 340: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/) and [NoBUG](http://www.no.bug.gr.jp/) 341: with NetBSD gadget demonstrations ( [hpcarm](../ports/hpcarm/), 342: [hpcmips](../ports/hpcmips/), [hpcsh](../ports/hpcsh/)). 343: 344: ### `Aug 2013` - FrOSCon 2013 345: 346: *Aug. 24–25, 2013, [Bonn-Rhein-Sieg University of Applied Sciences, 347: Campus 348: Sankt-Augustin](http://fhbrs.de/en/University/Addresses+and+how+to+find+us.html), 349: Germany* 350: 351: At [FrOSCon 8](http://froscon.org/en/home/) (Free and Open Source 352: Software Conference), the NetBSD project will be present with a booth 353: with several "showcase" machines, handing out flyers and CDs and 354: answering users' questions. 355: 356: ### `Aug 2013` - Open Source Conference 2013 Shimane 357: 358: *Aug. 24, 2013, [MATSUE 359: TERRSA](http://www.sanbg.com/terrsa/e/index.html), Shimane, Japan* 360: 361: At the [Open Source Conference 2013 362: Shimane](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2013-shimane/) , there was a NetBSD booth 363: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 364: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) with many gadget 365: demonstrations ( [SONY NEWS 366: NetBSD/newsmips](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/5003059), [Java Station 367: NetBSD/sparc](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/5003356), [OMRON LUNAII 368: NetBSD/luna68k](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/5003079), [XM6i 369: NetBSD/x68k](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/5003189), [Raspberry PI 370: hardfloat 371: NetBSD/evbarmv6hf](http://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-arm/2013/08/23/msg001984.html) 372: ). more reports on [togetter](http://togetter.com/li/553529). 373: 374: ### `Aug 2013` - Open Source Conference 2013 Kansai@Kyoto 375: 376: *Aug. 2-3, 2013, [KYOTO RESEARCH 377: PARK](http://www.krp.co.jp/english/access/index.html), Kyoto, Japan* 378: 379: At the [Open Source Conference 2013 380: Kansai@Kyoto](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2013-kyoto/) , there was a NetBSD 381: booth staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 382: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/) and [Kansai \*BSD Users 383: Group](http://www.kbug.gr.jp/) . There was a gadgets demonstration ( 384: [sparc64 Genial 737s](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/4987247), [OMRON 385: LUNA and LUNAII](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/4987331), [LUNAII and 386: mikutter](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/4987913), 387: [RaspberryPI](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/4987927) ) and presentation 388: ( [all about OMRON LUNA](http://www.soum.co.jp/~jun/OSC2013kyoto.pdf), 389: [Do LUNA68K Dream of mltermic Twitter 390: Sheep?,](http://www.ceres.dti.ne.jp/tsutsui/osc2013kyoto/NetBSD-luna68k_mlterm-fb_Twitter.html) 391: ). more report on [togetter](http://togetter.com/li/542885). 392: 393: ### `Jul 2013` - Japan NetBSD Users' Group meeting & NetBSD BOF 394: 395: *Jul 13, 2013, [VLSI Design and Education Center University of 396: Tokyo](http://www.vdec.u-tokyo.ac.jp/English/contact.html), Tokyo, 397: Japan* 398: 399: See [Japan NetBSD Users Group 15th annual Meeting and BoF 400: 2013](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/announce/meeting15.html.en) 401: for meeting information.[more detail on 402: togetter](http://togetter.com/li/532926). 403: 404: ### `Jul 2013` - Open Source Conference 2013 Okinawa 405: 406: *Jul. 6, 2013, [Okinawa Convention 407: Center](http://www.oki-conven.jp/en/modules/tinyd7/page/page1.html) , 408: Okinawa, Japan* 409: 410: At the [Open Source Conference 2013 411: Okinawa](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2013-okinawa/) , there will be a NetBSD 412: booth staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 413: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/) with many gadgets demonstration ( 414: [hpcarm](../ports/hpcarm/), [Raspberry-pi image for 415: NetBSD](http://ftp.NetBSD.org/pub/NetBSD/misc/jun/raspberry-pi/), 416: [XM6i](http://xm6i.org/)).[more detail on 417: togetter](http://togetter.com/li/529669). 418: 419: ### `Jun 2013` - Open Source Conference 2013 Nagoya 420: 421: *Jun. 21-22, 2013, [Nagoya International 422: Center](http://www.nic-nagoya.or.jp/en/e/about-us/access-hours), Nagoya, 423: Japan* 424: 425: At the [Open Source Conference 2013 426: Nagoya](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2013-nagoya/) , there was a OpenBSD 427: andNetBSD booth staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 428: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/) and [Nagoya \*BSD Users' Group 429: (NBUG)](http://www.nagoya.bug.gr.jp/). There was a gadget demonstration 430: [BSD booth](http://twitpic.com/czat1r) ( [OpenBSD/luna88k and 431: NetBSD/luna68k](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/4959244), [NetBSD6.1 vs 432: NetBSD6.0.2 animation viewer runnning on NetBSD/x68k with XM6i X68030 433: emulator](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/4959314), [RaspberryPI NetBSD 434: Image](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/4959033) ) and NBUG 435: BOF([OpenBSD/luna88k](http://www.nk-home.net/~aoyama/osc2013nagoya/OpenBSD-luna88k.pdf),6.1 436: vs 6.0.2 animation on 437: NetBSD/x68k,[NetBSD/RPI](http://ftp.NetBSD.org/pub/NetBSD/misc/jun/raspberry-pi/README-RPI.pdf) 438: ),[CLU lang and NetBSD 439: 2038](http://www.slideshare.net/hirofumitouhei/osc2013-nagoya). [more 440: detail on togetter](http://togetter.com/li/522396). 441: 442: ### May 2013 - Linuxtag Berlin 443: 444: *May 22-25, 2013, Berlin, Germany.* 445: 446: LinuxTag 2013 opens its doors from May 22 to May 25, 2013, at the Berlin 447: Expo Center under the Funkturm in Berlin, Germany. The event features a 448: NetBSD booth on the exhibition fair, where you can get the newest 449: T-Shirts, talk to NetBSD developers or get stickers for your computer 450: cases or notebooks. 451: 452: See the [Linuxtag homepage](http://www.linuxtag.org/2013/en.html) for 453: more information. 454: 455: ### `May 2013` - BSDCan 2013, Ottawa, Canada 456: 457: *May 17-18, 2013, Ottawa, Canada.* 458: 459: [BSDCan 2013](http://www.bsdcan.org/2013) is a BSD conference held in 460: Ottawa, Canada, for people working on and with 4.4BSD based operating 461: systems and related projects. BSDCan 2013 will be held on 17-18 May 2013 462: at University of Ottawa, and will be preceded by two days of tutorials 463: on 15-16 May 2013. There were related events (of a social nature, for 464: the most part) on the day before and after the conference. 465: 466: See [the call for 467: papers](http://mail-index.NetBSD.org/netbsd-advocacy/2012/12/09/msg000506.html) 468: for details. 469: 470: ### `Apr 2013` - Central European BSD-Day 2013, Naples, Italy 471: 472: *Apr 6, 2013, Naples, Italy* 473: 474: The [Central European BSD-Day](http://bsdday.eu/2013) took place at he 475: Institute of Biostructures and Bioimaging in Naples, Italy on Saturday, 476: April 6th. The format is technically a mixture of a cross-project 477: developer summit and a workshop. We have invited developers working with 478: BSD from different organizations, we have some dinners together, and 479: dedicate various sessions to each of the topics based on the interests 480: of the attending developers. The format of these sessions is quite 481: flexible: they may include presentations or demonstration of results, or 482: even public discussions with developers involved, or a mix of all of 483: these. 484: 485: ### `Mar 2013` - pkgsrcCon 2013, Berlin, Germany 486: 487: *Mar. 23, 2013, IN-Berlin Space, Berlin, Germany* 488: 489: The [pkgsrcCon](http://www.pkgsrc.org/pkgsrcCon/2013/) is a technical 490: conference for people working on the NetBSD Packages Collection 491: (pkgsrc), focusing on existing technologies, research projects, and 492: works-in-progress in pkgsrc infrastructure. Developers, contributors, 493: interested developers and users are all welcome to attend. 494: 495: ### `Mar 2013` - Chemnitz Linux Days 2013, Chemnitz, Germany 496: 497: *Mar. 16-17, 2013, Chemnitz, Germany* 498: 499: The Chemnitz Linux Days is a conference that deals with Linux and Open 500: Source Software. It is open for everyone, novices and experts alike. 501: There will be a NetBSD booth where you can get the freshest goodies and 502: BSD related talks. 503: 504: See the [website](http://chemnitzer.linux-tage.de/2013/) for more 505: information. 506: 507: ### `Mar 2013` - AsiaBSDCon 2013 508: 509: *Mar 14-17, 2013, Tokyo University of Science,Tokyo, Japan* 510: 511: [AsiaBSDCon](http://2013.asiabsdcon.org/) will be a conference for users 512: and developers on BSD based systems. The conference was for anyone 513: developing, deploying and using systems based on FreeBSD, NetBSD, 514: OpenBSD, DragonFly BSD, Darwin, and MacOS X. AsiaBSDCon was a technical 515: conference and aimed to collect the best technical papers and 516: presentations available to ensure that the latest developments in our 517: open source community are shared with the widest possible audience. 518: 519: [Time table](http://2013.asiabsdcon.org/timetable.html). Keynote: [64bit 520: SMP NetBSD OS Porting for TILE-Gx VLIW Many-Core Processor by Toru 521: Nishimura](http://2013.asiabsdcon.org/timetable.html#K1) [More reports 522: on Togetter](http://togetter.com/li/472002) and [AsiaBSDCon Guide by 523: Japan NetBSD Users 524: Group](http://www.soum.co.jp/~jun/asiabsdcon2013.pdf). 525: 526: ### `Mar 2013` - Open Source Conference 2013 Tokushima 527: 528: *Mar. 9, 2013, [TOKUGIN TOMONY 529: PLAZA](http://www.tokuginplaza.com/own/index.asp) , Tokushima, Japan* 530: 531: At the [Open Source Conference 2013 532: Tokushima](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2013-tokushima/) , there was be a 533: NetBSD booth staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 534: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/) with many gadgets demonstration ( 535: [hpcarm](../ports/hpcarm/), [evbarm 536: (Netwalker,KOBO,RPI)](../ports/evbarm/), [luna68k](../ports/luna68k/)) 537: and ["NetBSD 20 years" 538: presentation](http://www.slideshare.net/tsutsuii/osc2013tokushima-net-bsd20th) 539: by tsutsui@. [More reports on Togetter](http://togetter.com/li/468577). 540: 541: ### `Feb 2013` - Open Source Conference 2013 Tokyo/Spring 542: 543: *Feb. 22-23, 2013, Tokyo, Japan* 544: 545: At the [Open Source Conference 2013 546: Tokyo/Spring](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2013-spring/), there was a NetBSD 547: booth staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 548: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/) with NetBSD gadget demonstrations( 549: [NetBSD/Raspberry Pi](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/4689247), 550: [NetBSD/KOBO and 551: NetBSD/netwalker](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/4688202), [mikutter on 552: WZERO3](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/4689261), ) and [more details on 553: togetter](http://togetter.com/li/460484). 554: 555: ### `Feb 2013` - Open Source Conference 2013 Hamamatsu 556: 557: *Feb. 9, 2013, [Hamamatsu Shimin Kyodo 558: Center](http://www.machien-hamamatsu.jp/) , Shizuoka, Japan* 559: 560: At the [Open Source Conference 2013 561: Hamamatsu](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2013-hamamatsu/) , there was a NetBSD 562: booth staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 563: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/) with many gadgets demonstration ( 564: [hpcarm](../ports/hpcarm/), [hpcmips](../ports/hpcmips/), 565: [hpcsh](../ports/hpcsh/)). [More reports on 566: Togetter](http://togetter.com/li/452856). 567: 568: ### `Feb 2013` - FOSDEM 2013, Brussels, Belgium 569: 570: *Feb. 2-3, 2013, Brussels, Belgium* 571: 572: [FOSDEM](https://fosdem.org/2013/) (Free and Open source Software 573: Developers' European Meeting) is a two-day free and non-commercial event 574: organized by the community for the community. Its goal is to provide 575: Free Software and Open Source developers and communities a place to 576: meet. It includes talks, presentations, booths, and a social event on 577: the day prior to the event. Participation and attendance is totally 578: free, though the organization gratefully accepts donations and 579: sponsorships. No registration necessary. 580: 581: There was a special developer's room reserved for BSD licensed operating 582: systems and their talks, and a NetBSD booth where you can talk to 583: developers or get NetBSD goodies. 584: 585: Please see [this 586: announcement](http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-advocacy/2012-November/004276.html) 587: for details. 588: 589: ### `Dec 2012` - Open Source Conference 2012 Fukuoka 590: 591: *Dec. 8, 2012, [Fukuoka Jyouhou 592: Senmon-gakkou](http://www.kcs-f.ac.jp/index.html) , Fukuoka, Japan* 593: 594: At the [Open Source Conference 2012 595: Fukuoka](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2012-fukuoka/) , there was a NetBSD booth 596: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 597: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/) with many gadgets demonstration ( 598: [hpcarm](../ports/hpcarm/), [hpcmips](../ports/hpcmips/), 599: [hpcsh](../ports/hpcsh/)) 600: 601: ### `Nov 2012` - Open Source Conference 2012 Aizu 602: 603: *Nov. 3, 2012, [The University of 604: Aizu](http://www.u-aizu.ac.jp/e-index.html) , Aizu, Japan* 605: 606: At the [Open Source Conference 2012 607: Aizu](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2012-aizu/) , there was a NetBSD booth 608: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 609: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/) with many gadgets demonstration ( 610: [hpcarm](../ports/hpcarm/), [hpcmips](../ports/hpcmips/), 611: [hpcsh](../ports/hpcsh/)) 612: 613: ### `Oct 2012` - Open Source Conference 2012 Oita/Fall 614: 615: *Oct. 27, 2012, Sophia hall , Oita, Japan* 616: 617: At the [Open Source Conference 2012 618: Oita/Fall](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2012-oita-fall/) , there was a NetBSD 619: booth staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 620: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/) with many gadgets demonstration ( 621: [hpcarm](../ports/hpcarm/), [hpcmips](../ports/hpcmips/), 622: [hpcsh](../ports/hpcsh/)). 623: 624: ### `Oct 2012` - Open Source Conference 2012 Hiroshima 625: 626: *Oct. 20, 2012, [Hiroshima Kokusai Gakuin 627: University](http://www.hkg.ac.jp/html/about/access.html) , Hiroshima, 628: Japan* 629: 630: At the [Open Source Conference 2012 631: Hiroshima](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2012-hiroshima/) , there was a NetBSD 632: booth staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 633: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/) with [four NetBSD/x68k 634: machines](http://twitpic.com/b6hyt7) including 635: [X68030](http://twitpic.com/b6h7bz)+[Neptune-X+NE2000](http://twitpic.com/b6i5j1), 636: [X68030+Nereid](http://twitpic.com/b6h0gl), 637: [X68060](http://twitpic.com/b6hw05) 638: ([X68030+060turbo](http://twitpic.com/b67l7a)), [X68000 639: PRO](http://twitpic.com/b6gs48) with [Xellent30 640: accellerator](http://movapic.com/pic/201210201011355081fa47b2a4f) 641: [booted via recently added netboot](http://twitpic.com/b6gqeb), and 642: [XM6i X68030 Emulator](http://xm6i.org/) on [Mac OS X with a real X68000 643: keyboard via USB converter](http://twitpic.com/b6i2qa). There were also 644: presentations ["Competitive development of XM6i and NetBSD/x68k" by 645: isaki@](http://xm6i.org/event/osc2012hi/) and ["NetBSD 6.0 New features 646: found at OSC booth" by 647: tsutsui@](http://www.slideshare.net/tsutsuii/osc-netbsd-60). [The event 648: summary is available on Togetter](http://togetter.com/li/392778). 649: 650: ### `Oct 2012` - EuroBSDCon 2012, Warsaw, Poland 651: 652: *Oct. 18-21, 2012, Warsaw, Poland* 653: 654: [EuroBSDcon](http://2012.EuroBSDCon.org) is the European annual 655: technical conference gathering users and developers working on and with 656: 4.4BSD based operating systems family and related projects. 657: 658: EuroBSDcon gives the exceptional opportunity to learn about latest news 659: from the BSD world, witness contemporary deployment case studies, and 660: meet personally other users and companies using BSD oriented 661: technologies. EuroBSDcon is also a boiler plate for ideas, discussions 662: and information exchange, which often turn into programming projects. 663: 664: The conference has always attracted active programmers, administrators 665: and aspiring students, as well as IT companies at large, which found the 666: conference a convenient and quality training option for its staff. We 667: firmly believe that high profile education is vital to the future of 668: technology, and hence greatly welcome students and young people to this 669: regular meeting. 670: 671: ### `Sep 2012` - Open Source Conference 2012 Okinawa 672: 673: *Sep. 22, 2012, [Okinawa Convention 674: Center](http://www.oki-conven.jp/en/modules/tinyd7/page/page1.html) , 675: Okinawa, Japan* 676: 677: At the [Open Source Conference 2012 678: Okinawa](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2012-okinawa/) , there was a NetBSD booth 679: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 680: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/) with many gadgets demonstration ( 681: [hpcarm](../ports/hpcarm/), [hpcmips](../ports/hpcmips/), 682: [hpcsh](../ports/hpcsh/)). 683: 684: ### `Sep 2012` - Open Source Conference 2012 Tokyo/Spring 685: 686: *Sep. 7-8, 2012, Tokyo, Japan* 687: 688: At the [Open Source Conference 2012 689: Tokyo/Spring](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2012-spring/), there was a NetBSD 690: booth staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 691: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/) with NetBSD gadget demonstrations( 692: [NetBSD/Openblocks A6 by 693: kiyohara@](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/4686373), [NetBSD/Openblocks 694: 266,600 by kiyohara@](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/4687681), 695: [NetBSD/Raspberry Pi](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/4689247), 696: [NetBSD/KOBO and 697: NetBSD/netwalker](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/4688202), [mikutter on 698: WZERO3](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/4689261), [linkstation and 699: USL-5P](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/4686571), [KAME 700: Project](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/4686706) ) and BSD BOF. [more 701: details on togetter](http://togetter.com/li/369471). 702: 703: ### `Nov 2012` - Kansai OpenSource 2012 704: 705: *Nov. 9-10, 2012, [Asia and Pacific Trade Center ITM 706: Building](http://www.atc-co.com/), Osaka, Japan* 707: 708: At the [Kansai OpenSource 2012](http://www.k-of.jp/), there were two BSD 709: booths staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 710: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) and [Kansai \*BSD Users 711: Group](http://www.kbug.gr.jp/). with many gadget demonstrations { WZero3 712: NetBSD/evbarm, ZAURUS NetBSD/zaurus, [XM6i 713: NetBSD/X68k](http://twitpic.com/bbvayo) } and BSDBOF (). [More reports 714: on Togetter](http://togetter.com/li/404573). 715: 716: ### `Sep 2012` - Open Source Conference 2012 Shimane 717: 718: *Sep. 1, 2012, [MATSUE 719: TERRSA](http://www.sanbg.com/terrsa/e/index.html), Shimane, Japan* 720: 721: At the [Open Source Conference 2012 722: Shimane](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2012-shimane/) , there was a NetBSD booth 723: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 724: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) with many gadget 725: demonstrations ( 726: [NetBSD/hpcarm,i386](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/4678623), ). [more 727: details on togetter](http://togetter.com/li/365753). 728: 729: ### `Aug 2012` - XenSummit North America 2012 730: 731: *Aug. 27-28, 2012, [Sheraton Hotel & 732: Marina](http://www.starwoodhotels.com/sheraton/property/overview/index.html?propertyID=127), 733: San Diego, California, USA* 734: 735: [XenSummit](http://xen.org/xensummit/xs12na_talks/xensummit.html) is the 736: leading annual technical conference for Xen® developers and users in 737: North America. The event provides collaboration and education for the 738: Xen® community. There was a talk on NetBSD (and FreeBSD) on Xen roadmap 739: on day one of the conference. 740: 741: ### `Aug 2012` - FrOSCon 2012 742: 743: *Aug. 25-26, 2012, [Hochschule Bonn-Rhein-Sieg](http://h-brs.de/), Sankt 744: Augustin, Germany* 745: 746: The [FrOSCon](http://www.froscon.de/en) (Free And Open Source 747: Conference) is one of the largest Open Source conferences in Germany. 748: 749: ### `Aug 2012` - Open Source Conference 2012 Kansai@Kyoto 750: 751: *Aug. 3-4, 2012, [KYOTO RESEARCH 752: PARK](http://www.krp.co.jp/english/access/index.html), Kyoto, Japan* 753: 754: At the [Open Source Conference 2012 755: Kansai@Kyoto](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2012-kyoto/) , there was a NetBSD 756: booth staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 757: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/) and [Kansai \*BSD Users 758: Group](http://www.kbug.gr.jp/) . There was a gadgets demonstration ( 759: [OMRON LUNA](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/4634623), [OMRON LUNA 760: II](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/4634629), [NetBSD/hpcarm (SHARP 761: WZERO3)](http://movapic.com/pic/20120803100715501b24433284c), [Gainer 762: with squeak](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/4634639), [Making plans for 763: SHARP,X68K on 764: XM6i,ZAURUS,Netwalker](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/4634777), [ZAURUS 765: cluster](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/4634992), [the mikutter 766: Chronicles](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/4636177), [NetBSD install 767: service center](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/4636374), [RetroBSD on 768: PIC32](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/4635032) ) and [NetBSD luna68k 769: updates presetation by 770: tsutsuii](http://www.ceres.dti.ne.jp/tsutsui/osc2012kyoto/NetBSD-luna68k-updates.html) 771: [more details on togetter](http://togetter.com/li/350035). 772: 773: ### `Jul 2012` - Open Source Conference 2012 Sendai 774: 775: *Jul 14, 2012, [Tohoku Computer 776: College](http://www.jc-21.ac.jp/map/index.shtml), Sendai, Japan* 777: 778: At the [Open Source Conference 2012 779: Sendai](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2012-sendai/) , there was a NetBSD booth 780: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 781: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) with many hpc{ 782: [mips](../ports/hpcmips/), [sh](../ports/hpcsh/), [arm and 783: Netwalker](../ports/hpcarm/) } gadgets demonstration. 784: 785: ### `Jul 2012` - Japan NetBSD Users' Group meeting & NetBSD BOF 786: 787: *Jul 7, 2012, [VLSI Design and Education Center University of 788: Tokyo](http://www.vdec.u-tokyo.ac.jp/English/contact.html), Tokyo, 789: Japan* 790: 791: See [Japan NetBSD Users Group 14th annual Meeting and BoF 792: 2012](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/announce/meeting14.html.en) 793: for meeting information. 794: 795: ### `Jun 2012` - 17th NetBSD Hackathon 796: 797: *June 14 - 17, 2012, [17th NetBSD 798: Hackathon](http://wiki.NetBSD.org/hackathon)* 799: 800: The 17th NetBSD hackathon focuses on getting NetBSD 6 BETA2 ready for 801: the first release candidate. Our goal is fixing all the bugs that need 802: fixing to get NetBSD-current ready for the creation of the NetBSD 6.0 803: release branch. 804: 805: ### `Jun 2012` - Open Source Conference 2012 Hokkaido 806: 807: *Jun. 16, 2012, Sapporo Business Innovation Center, Sapporo, Japan* 808: 809: At the [Open Source Conference 2012 810: Hokkaido](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2012-do/) , there was a NetBSD booth 811: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 812: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/) and [NoBUG](http://www.no.bug.gr.jp/) 813: with [Building NetBSD on 814: Win7+Cygwin](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/4565220), 815: [NetBSD/Armadillo-9](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/4565161), [Processing 816: on NetBSD](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/4565033), [NetBSD/IBM 817: PalmTop110](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/4565193), [NetBSD/X68k on 818: XM6i](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/4565208), [mikutter on NetBSD/WZERO3 819: and NetBSD/Zaurus](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/4565158), [NetBSD and 820: mikutter goods](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/4565027), [Geiger 821: counter](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/4565528), [Making install-image 822: Presentation](http://www.ceres.dti.ne.jp/tsutsui/osc12do/NetBSD-cross-liveimage.html) 823: by tsutsui@. [more detail on togetter](http://togetter.com/li/318806). 824: 825: ### May 2012 - Linuxtag Berlin 826: 827: *May 23-26, 2012, Berlin, Germany.* 828: 829: LinuxTag 2012 opened its doors from May 23 to May 26, 2012, at the 830: Berlin Expo Center under the Funkturm in Berlin, Germany. The event 831: featured talks about Open Source and there was be a NetBSD booth on the 832: exhibition fair where you could get advocacy material, talk to users and 833: developers or buy NetBSD T-Shirts. 834: 835: See the [Linuxtag homepage](http://www.linuxtag.org/2012/en.html) for 836: more information. 837: 838: ### `May 2012` - BSDCan 2012 839: 840: *May 11-12, 2012, Ottawa, Canada.* 841: 842: [BSDCan 2012](http://www.bsdcan.org/) was a BSD conference held in 843: Ottawa, Canada, for people working on and with 4.4BSD based operating 844: systems and related projects. The organizers have found a fantastic 845: formula that appeals to a wide range of people from extreme novices to 846: advanced developers. BSDCan 2012 was held on 11-12 May 2012 at 847: University of Ottawa, and will be preceded by two days of Tutorials on 848: 9-10 May 2012. There were related events (of a social nature, for the 849: most part) on the day before and after the conference. 850: 851: ### `May 2012` - Open Source Conference 2012 Nagoya 852: 853: *May. 12, 2012, [Nagoya International 854: Center](http://www.nic-nagoya.or.jp/en/e/about-us/access-hours), Nagoya, 855: Japan* 856: 857: At the [Open Source Conference 2012 858: Nagoya](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2012-nagoya/) , there was a NetBSD booth 859: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 860: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/) and [Nagoya \*BSD Users' Group 861: (NBUG)](http://www.nagoya.bug.gr.jp/). There was a gadget demonstration 862: [BSD booth](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/4511413) ( [Twitter time line 863: on NetBSD/dreamcast visual 864: memory](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/4512178) ([slide and 865: paper](http://www.yagoto-urayama.jp/~oshimaya/netbsd/vm/index.html)), 866: [Zaurus](../ports/zaurus/), [W-ZERO3](../ports/hpcarm/), [Enjoy NetBSD 867: on EeePC NetBook with OpenOffice and 868: Mikutter](http://www.ceres.dti.ne.jp/tsutsui/netbsd/liveimage/), 869: [mikutter mug and seal](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/4511548) ) and 870: NBUG BOF. [more detail on togetter](http://togetter.com/li/302311). 871: 872: ### `May 2012` - Central European BSD-Day 2012 Vienna 873: 874: The [Central European BSD-Day](http://bsdday.eu/2012) took place at the 875: University of Applied Sciences in Vienna, Austria, on saturday, may 5th. 876: 877: ### `Apr 2012` - Open Source Conference 2012 Iwate 878: 879: *Apr. 21, 2012, Iwate, Japan* 880: 881: At the [Open Source Conference 2012 882: Iwate](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2012-iwate/) , there was a [NetBSD 883: booth](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/4472557) staffed by members of the 884: [Japan NetBSD Users' Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/) with many { 885: [XM6i](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/4472584), 886: [hpcarm](../ports/hpcarm/), [hpcmips](../ports/hpcmips/), 887: [zaurus](../ports/zaurus/), [hpcsh](../ports/hpcsh/) } gadget 888: demonstrations. 889: 890: ### `Mar 2012` - AsiaBSDCon 2012 891: 892: *Mar 22-25, 2012, Tokyo University of Science,Tokyo, Japan* 893: 894: [AsiaBSDCon](http://2012.asiabsdcon.org/) was a conference for users and 895: developers on BSD based systems. The conference was for anyone 896: developing, deploying and using systems based on FreeBSD, NetBSD, 897: OpenBSD, DragonFly BSD, Darwin, and MacOS X. AsiaBSDCon was a technical 898: conference and aimed to collect the best technical papers and 899: presentations available to ensure that the latest developments in our 900: open source community are shared with the widest possible audience. 901: 902: ### `Mar 2012` - Open Source Conference 2012 Ehime 903: 904: *Mar. 24, 2012, Ehime, Japan* 905: 906: At the [Open Source Conference 2012 907: Ehime](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2012-ehime/) , there was a NetBSD booth 908: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 909: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/) with [NetBSD/x68k by 910: isaki@](http://www.pastel-flower.jp/~isaki/NetBSD/osc12eh/page1.html), 911: [XM6i by isaki@](http://xm6i.org/event/osc2012eh/page1.html), [NetBSD 912: port history by 913: tsutsui@](http://www.ceres.dti.ne.jp/tsutsui/osc12eh/NetBSD-port-history.html), 914: [zaurus and WZERO3](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/4422214), [evbarm and 915: shark](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/4422260), 916: [XM6i](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/4422589), [XM6i on 917: mac](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/4422798), gadget demonstrations 918: [[ustream live 919: archive](http://www.ustream.tv/channel/japan-netbsd-users-group-meeting)]. 920: 921: ### `Mar 2012` - Chemnitzer Linux-Tage 2012 922: 923: *Mar. 17-18, 2012, Chemnitz, Germany* 924: 925: The "Chemnitz Linux Days" was a conference that deals with Linux, but 926: also with free and open source software in general. Being an event vor 927: novices and experts as well, there were a NetBSD booth and related 928: talks. 929: 930: See the [website](http://chemnitzer.linux-tage.de/2012/) for more 931: information. 932: 933: ### `Mar 2012` - Open Source Conference 2012 Tokyo/Spring 934: 935: *Mar. 16-17, 2012, Tokyo, Japan* 936: 937: At the [Open Source Conference 2012 938: Tokyo/Spring](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2012-spring/), there was be a NetBSD 939: booth staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 940: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/) with [teokure live 941: image(NetBSD5.1.2/i386,amd64+Firefox+mikutter)](http://teokurebsd.org/), 942: [WZero3 live 943: image(NetBSD6.0BETA/hpcarm)](http://ftp.NetBSD.org/pub/NetBSD/misc/tsutsui/wzero3/), 944: [Zaurus live 945: image(NetBSD6.0BETA/zaurus)](http://ftp.NetBSD.org/pub/NetBSD/misc/tsutsui/zaurus/), 946: [Translate NetBSD man with 947: po4a](http://www.slideshare.net/master_q/netbsd-man-osc2012), 948: [Jornada680](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/4407584), 949: [Jornada720](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/4407590), [Zaurus 950: 760,860](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/4407593), [WZero3 with 951: pkgsrc/net/mikutter](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/4407661), 952: [OpenBlocks](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/4408049), 953: [ZBOXNANO-VD01](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/4409584), [Lemote yeeloong 954: 8089b evbmips64](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/4409939), [mikutter 955: seal](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/4408149), NetBSD [gadget 956: demonstrations](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/4409260). 957: 958: ### `Feb 2012` - Open Source Conference 2012 Oita 959: 960: *Feb. 11, 2012, Oita, Japan* 961: 962: At the [Open Source Conference 2012 963: Oita](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2012-oita/), there was a [NetBSD 964: booth](http://movapic.com/pic/201202111050584f35c982a782a), staffed by 965: members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/) 966: with hpcsh { [Persona 967: 30](http://movapic.com/pic/201202111116074f35cf677a48b), [Jornada 968: 680](http://movapic.com/pic/201202111105064f35ccd26f35f), [Jornada 969: 690](http://movapic.com/pic/201202111036504f35c6323d7f3)}, hpcarm { 970: [Jornada 720](http://movapic.com/pic/201202111107354f35cd67daedf), 971: [WS007SH](http://movapic.com/pic/201202111039044f35c6b854249), 972: [WS011SH](http://movapic.com/pic/201202111103074f35cc5b6ea81)}, hpcmips 973: { [MCR520](http://movapic.com/pic/201202111124414f35d169430c3), 974: [Z50](http://movapic.com/pic/201202111048154f35c8dfba12d)}, zaurus { 975: [SLC-860+mikutter](http://movapic.com/pic/201202111112154f35ce7f6db5a)}, 976: i386 { [aspire 977: one](http://movapic.com/pic/201202111121424f35d0b649525)}, x68k { 978: [XM6i](http://movapic.com/pic/201202111204074f35daa7e639a), 979: [XM6i](http://movapic.com/pic/201202111207584f35db8ea62fa)}, amd64 {[pen 980: tablet with NetBSD](http://movapic.com/pic/201202110957324f35bcfcaa63d), 981: [teokure live image](http://teokurebsd.org/) }, 982: [Xnp2](http://movapic.com/pic/201202111234014f35e1a946be8), 983: [NetBSD/mikutter seal](http://yfrog.com/esrv5bej) gadget demonstrations 984: and brand new [NetBSD 5.1.2 985: presentation](http://www.NetBSD.org/releases/formal-5/NetBSD-5.1.2.html). 986: 987: ### `Feb 2012` - FOSDEM 2012 988: 989: *Feb. 4-5, 2012, Brussels, Belgium* 990: 991: [FOSDEM](http://www.fosdem.org/2012/) is the biggest free and 992: non-commercial event organized by and for the community. Its goal is to 993: provide Free and Open Source developers a place to meet. No registration 994: necessary. 995: 996: There was a NetBSD booth and a special developer's room reserved for BSD 997: licensed operating systems and their talks. Please see [the 998: announcement](http://mail-index.NetBSD.org/netbsd-advocacy/2011/11/28/msg000374.html) 999: for details. 1000: 1001: ### `Dec 2011` - Open Source Conference 2011 Fukuoka 1002: 1003: *Dec. 3, 2011, [CHIKUSHI 1004: JOGAKUEN](http://www-new.chikushi-u.ac.jp/english/about/index.html#Where), 1005: Fukuoka, Japan* 1006: 1007: At the [Open Source Conference 2011 1008: Fukuoka](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2011-fukuoka/) , there was a NetBSD booth 1009: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 1010: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) with many hpc{ 1011: [mips](../ports/hpcmips/), [sh(Jornada 680)](http://twitpic.com/7nhic7), 1012: [arm(WZERO3)](http://twitpic.com/7nhfzq) } gadgets demonstration and 1013: [Xen4 live USB -teokure- memory](http://twitpic.com/7nhl97). 1014: 1015: ### `Nov 2011` - Open Source Conference 2011 Tokyo/Fall 1016: 1017: *Nov. 19-20, 2011, [MEISEI 1018: UNIVERSITY](http://www.meisei-u.ac.jp/english/), Tokyo, Japan* 1019: 1020: At the [Open Source Conference 2011 1021: Tokyo/Fall](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2011-fall/) , there was a NetBSD booth 1022: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 1023: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) with many gadget 1024: demonstrations { [Teokure-Live Image 1025: amd64](http://www.ceres.dti.ne.jp/tsutsui/netbsd/liveimage/) (Thinkpad 1026: X201, X61), [acorn26](../ports/acorn26/) ([BBC 1027: A3000](http://movapic.com/pic/201111201146094ec869f10e10e)), 1028: [hpcarm](../ports/hpcarm/) (WS003SH, WS007SH, WS011SH, WS020SH, Jornada 1029: 710), [hpcmips](../ports/hpcmips/) (IBM Z50, MobileGear 530) , 1030: [hpcsh](../ports/hpcsh/) (Persona HPW30PA), [i386](../ports/i386/) (Acer 1031: Aspire One with [pkgsrc/net/mikutter](http://mikutter.hachune.net/)), 1032: [X68k](../ports/x68k/) ([XM6i](http://www.xm6i.org/)), 1033: [zaurus](../ports/zaurus/) 1034: ([SL-C700[NEW]](http://d.hatena.ne.jp/steleto/20101201), SL-C750, 1035: SL-C1000, SL-C3200), } and BSD BOF ([Ustream 1036: Recorded](http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/18441201) ). 1037: 1038: ### `Nov 2011` - Open Source Conference 2011 Shimane 1039: 1040: *Nov. 12, 2011, [MATSUE 1041: TERRSA](http://www.sanbg.com/terrsa/e/index.html), Shimane, Japan* 1042: 1043: At the [Open Source Conference 2011 1044: Shimane](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2011-shimane/) , there was a NetBSD booth 1045: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 1046: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) with many gadget 1047: demonstrations ( [hpcarm](../ports/hpcarm/), 1048: [hpcmips](../ports/hpcmips/), [hpcsh](../ports/hpcsh/) ). 1049: 1050: ### `Nov 2011` - Kansai OpenSource 2011 1051: 1052: *Nov. 11-12, 2011, [Asia and Pacific Trade Center ITM 1053: Building](http://www.atc-co.com/), Osaka, Japan* 1054: 1055: At the [Kansai OpenSource 2011](http://www.k-of.jp/), there were two BSD 1056: booths staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 1057: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) and [Kansai \*BSD Users 1058: Group](http://www.kbug.gr.jp/). with many gadget demonstrations { 1059: [dreamcast with fishing contoller](../ports/dreamcast/), 1060: [Hewlett-Packard 9000/700](../ports/hp700/), 1061: [Luna-II](../ports/luna68k/), [hpcarm and WZero3](../ports/hpcarm/), 1062: [hpcmips](../ports/hpcmips/), [hpcsh](../ports/hpcsh/), pf firewall 1063: demonstration with OpenBSD/landisk(USL-5Px2) } and BSDBOF ([Why 1064: enigmatic machines by 1065: tsutsui](http://www.ceres.dti.ne.jp/tsutsui/kof2011/Why-enigmatic-machines.html), 1066: pkgsrc by obache, [[Ustream 1067: Recorded](http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/18441201)]). [More reports on 1068: Togetter](http://togetter.com/li/213724). 1069: 1070: ### `Nov 2011` - bsd\_day(2011) 1071: 1072: *Nov. 5, 2011, Slovak University of Technology, Bratislava, Slovakia* 1073: 1074: The purpose of this one-day event is to gather Central European 1075: developers of today's open-source BSD systems, popularize their work, 1076: and provide an interface for real-life communication. There are no 1077: formalities, no papers, and no registration or participation fee, 1078: however the invited developers are encouraged to give a talk on their 1079: favorite BSD-related topic, then have a beer with the other folks around 1080: :-) The language of this event is English, and the goal is to motivate 1081: potential future developers and users, especially undergraduate 1082: university students to work with BSD systems. 1083: 1084: There is an additional schedule for participants and their guests on the 1085: day prior to (November 4th) and after (November 6th) the main event. 1086: 1087: For more information please visit the website 1088: [](http://www.bsdday.eu/2011/). 1089: 1090: ### `Nov 2011` - BSDday Argentina 2011 1091: 1092: *Nov. 5, 2011, Buenos Aires City, Argentina* 1093: 1094: BSDday Argentina is a conference for users, sysadmins and developers of 1095: BSD software and based systems. The conference is for anyone developing, 1096: deploying and using systems based on FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, 1097: DragonFlyBSD and others \*BSD. BSDday Argentina is a technical 1098: conference and aims to collect the best technical papers and 1099: presentations available to ensure that the latest developments in our 1100: open source community are shared with the widest possible audience. 1101: 1102: For more information please visit the website 1103: [](http://www.bsdday.org.ar/). 1104: 1105: ### `Oct 2011` - EuroBSDCon 2011 1106: 1107: *Oct. 6-9, 2011, Maarssen, Netherlands* 1108: 1109: EuroBSDcon is the European technical conference for people working on 1110: and with 4.4BSD based operating systems and related projects. EuroBSDcon 1111: 2011 is the 10th EuroBSDcon and will take place in (in the center of) 1112: The Netherlands 6 - 9 October 2011 at Meeting Plaza, Maarssen, The 1113: Netherlands. 1114: 1115: For more information please visit the website 1116: [](http://2011.EuroBSDCon.org/). 1117: 1118: ### `Oct 2011` - Open Source Conference 2011 Hiroshima 1119: 1120: *Oct. 1, 2011, [Prefectual University of 1121: Hiroshima](http://www.pu-hiroshima.ac.jp/05_campus/08_access/index.html) 1122: , Hiroshima, Japan* 1123: 1124: At the [Open Source Conference 2011 1125: Hiroshima](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2011-hiroshima/) , there was a NetBSD 1126: booth staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 1127: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) with many gadgets 1128: demonstration ( [NetBSD/x68k](../ports/x68k/) ( 1129: [X68030+Neptune-X+NE2000](http://twitpic.com/6tuiik), 1130: [X68030+Nereid](http://twitpic.com/6tvkzo), 1131: [X68060(X68030+060turbo)](http://twitpic.com/6tu7p2)), [XM6i X68030 1132: Emulator](http://xm6i.org/) on 1133: ([NetBSD/i386](http://movapic.com/pic/201110011105024e86754e2efbb), [Mac 1134: OS X](http://movapic.com/pic/201110011101544e8674925d26a)), [WZero 1135: 3](../ports/hpcarm) ([WS011SH](http://twitpic.com/6tyvva)), 1136: [Zaurus](../ports/zaurus) ([SL-C1000](http://twitpic.com/6tzg2z))) and 1137: [XM6i presentation by isaki@](http://xm6i.org/event/osc2011hi/), 1138: ["Teokure Live Image" and mikutter presentation by 1139: tsutsui](http://www.ceres.dti.ne.jp/tsutsui/osc11hi/Teokure-Live-Image.html), 1140: [event summary](http://togetter.com/li/195551). 1141: 1142: ### `Sep 2011` - Open Source Conference 2011 Okinawa 1143: 1144: *Sep. 10, 2011, [Okinawa Convention 1145: Center](http://www.oki-conven.jp/en/modules/tinyd7/page/page1.html) , 1146: Okinawa, Japan* 1147: 1148: At the [Open Source Conference 2011 1149: Okinawa](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2011-okinawa/) , there was a NetBSD booth 1150: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 1151: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) with many gadgets 1152: demonstration ( [hpcarm](../ports/hpcarm/), 1153: [hpcmips](../ports/hpcmips/), [hpcsh](../ports/hpcsh/) ) and PCBSD9.0 1154: presentation by Jun YAMASHIRO. 1155: 1156: ### `Sep 2011` - Open Source Small Conference 2011 Aizu 1157: 1158: *Sep. 3, 2011, [University of 1159: Aizu](http://www.u-aizu.ac.jp/e-intro/e-facilities/e-campusmap.html) , 1160: Fukushima, Japan* 1161: 1162: At the [Open Source Small Conference 2011 1163: Aizu](http://www.ospn.jp/ossc-aizu/) , there was a NetBSD booth staffed 1164: by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 1165: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) with many gadgets 1166: demonstration ( [hpcarm](../ports/hpcarm/), 1167: [hpcmips](../ports/hpcmips/), [hpcsh](../ports/hpcsh/) ). 1168: 1169: ### `Aug 2011` - Open Source Conference 2011 Nagoya 1170: 1171: *Aug. 20, 2011, [Nagoya International 1172: Center](http://www.nic-nagoya.or.jp/en/e/about-us/access-hours), Nagoya, 1173: Japan* 1174: 1175: At the [Open Source Conference 2011 1176: Nagoya](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2011-nagoya/) , there was a NetBSD booth 1177: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 1178: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) and [Nagoya \*BSD Users' 1179: Group](http://www.nagoya.bug.gr.jp/). There was a gadget demonstration ( 1180: [Presentation Software using only wscons with Dreamcast Fishing 1181: Controller](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/3923999), 1182: [hpcmips](../ports/hpcmips/), [hpcsh](../ports/hpcsh/), 1183: [hpcarm](../ports/hpcarm/), [Amiga 1184: 1200](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/3924333), [SONY NEWS 1185: 3460](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/3924343), [Geiger 1186: counter](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/3924354) ). 1187: 1188: ### `Aug 2011` - 15th NetBSD Hackathon 1189: 1190: *Aug. 10 - 15, 2011, [15th NetBSD 1191: Hackathon](http://wiki.NetBSD.org/hackathon)* 1192: 1193: The 15th NetBSD hackathon focused on documentation. Please see the Wiki 1194: page at the URL mentioned above for details and progress. 1195: 1196: ### `Jul 2011` - Open Source Conference 2011 Kansai@Kyoto 1197: 1198: *Jul. 15-16, 2011, [KYOTO RESEARCH 1199: PARK](http://www.krp.co.jp/english/access/index.html), Kyoto, Japan* 1200: 1201: At the [Open Source Conference 2011 1202: Kansai@Kyoto](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2011-kyoto/) , there was a [NetBSD 1203: booth](http://www.ceres.dti.ne.jp/tsutsui/osc2011kyoto/index.html) 1204: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 1205: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) and [Kansai \*BSD Users 1206: Group](http://www.kbug.gr.jp/) . There was a gadgets demonstration ( 1207: [Sun3/80](http://twitpic.com/5rcp11), [SONY NEWS 1208: NWS-1750](http://twitpic.com/5rcrjj), [OMRON LUNA 1209: SX-9100/DT](http://twitpic.com/5rcuqb), [Workstation book 1210: colab.](http://twitpic.com/5rd4td), [SHARP WZERO3](../ports/hpcarm/), [4 1211: BSD variants (NetBSD, FreeBSD, OpenBSD and DragonFly BSD) on 1212: NetBSD/xen](http://twitpic.com/5rl3n7), [Wsdisplay Presentation tool on 1213: NetBSD/hpcmips](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/3812933), 1214: [USL5P+OpenBSD4.9](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/3813423), [Compiling 1215: process Visualizer like teen spirit called Captain 1216: Nadeshiko](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/3812608), [Some like a BSD 1217: Statue Joystick](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/3809140) driven by 1218: [Gainer+Squeak](http://www.yengawa.com/squeak_gainer) ) and [NetBSD/m68k 1219: will never die! 1220: presentation](http://www.ceres.dti.ne.jp/tsutsui/osc2011kyoto/NetBSD-m68k-will-never-die.html) 1221: and 1222: [commit](http://mail-index.NetBSD.org/source-changes/2011/07/16/msg024675.html) 1223: by tsutsui. 1224: 1225: ### `Jul 2011` - Japan NetBSD Users' Group meeting & NetBSD BOF 1226: 1227: *Jul 9, 2011, [VLSI Design and Education Center University of 1228: Tokyo](http://www.vdec.u-tokyo.ac.jp/English/contact.html), Tokyo, 1229: Japan* 1230: 1231: See [Japan NetBSD Users Group 13th annual Meeting and BoF 1232: 2011](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/announce/meeting13.html.en) 1233: for meeting information. NetBSD BOF with 36 attendances and 153 ustream 1234: clients: pkgsrc updates by obache, jp.NetBSD.org servers by 1235: mef,NetBSD/[Psion netBook](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psion_netBook) 1236: by kiyohara, AC Tap with USB controlled power meter by Kubota, Power 1237: consumption and bcbench by jun, Capture Power consumption meter with 1238: OpenCV by mita@FreeBSD, Build [Facebook page for Japan NetBSD Users' 1239: Group](http://www.facebook.com/NetBSD.jp), 6.0 - here today by soda, PGP 1240: keysign party by soda. 1241: 1242: ### `Jun 2011` - Open Source Conference 2011 Hokkaido 1243: 1244: *Jun. 11, 2011, Sapporo Business Innovation Center, Sapporo, Japan* 1245: 1246: At the [Open Source Conference 2011 1247: Hokkaido](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2011-do/) , there was a NetBSD booth 1248: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 1249: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) and 1250: [NoBUG](http://www.no.bug.gr.jp/) with BeagleBoard, MSP430 LaunchPad, 1251: JMBadgeBoard, Processing on NetBSD and many hpc{ 1252: [mips](../ports/hpcmips/), [sh](../ports/hpcsh/), 1253: [arm](../ports/hpcarm/) } . 1254: 1255: ### `May 2011` - Open Source Conference 2011 Sendai 1256: 1257: *May 21, 2011, [Tohoku Computer 1258: College](http://www.jc-21.ac.jp/map/index.shtml), Sendai, Japan* 1259: 1260: At the [Open Source Conference 2011 1261: Sendai](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2011-sendai/) , there was a NetBSD booth 1262: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 1263: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) with many hpc{ 1264: [mips](../ports/hpcmips/), [sh](../ports/hpcsh/), [arm and 1265: WZero3(WS011SH)](../ports/hpcarm/) } gadgets demonstration. 1266: 1267: ### `May 2011` - BSDCan 2011 1268: 1269: *May 13-14, 2011, Ottawa, Canada.* 1270: 1271: [BSDCan 2011](http://www.bsdcan.org/) was held on 13-14 May 2011 at the 1272: University of Ottawa. It was preceded by two days of tutorials on 11-12 1273: May 2011. 1274: 1275: ### `Apr 2011` - Open Source Conference 2011 Kansai@Kobe 1276: 1277: *Apr. 16, 2011, [Kobe Industrial Promotion 1278: Center](http://www.kobe-ipc.or.jp/access/), Kobe, Japan* 1279: 1280: At the [Open Source Conference 2011 1281: Kansai@Kobe](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2011-kobe/) , there was a NetBSD 1282: booth staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 1283: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) with [ATARI TT030 + 1284: EtherNEC , and NetBSD bus\_space 1285: API](http://www.ceres.dti.ne.jp/tsutsui/osc2011kobe/NetBSD-EtherNEC.html) 1286: presentation by tsutsui, contao presentation by taca, and [ATARI 1287: TT030](../ports/atari/), [SHARP X68030](../ports/x68k/), 1288: [cobalt](../ports/cobalt/), [hpcmips](../ports/hpcmips/), 1289: [hpcsh](../ports/hpcsh/), [hpcarm](../ports/hpcarm/), 1290: [zaurus](../ports/zaurus/) gadgets demonstration. 1291: 1292: ### `Mar 2011` - AsiaBSDCon 2011 1293: 1294: *Mar 19-20, 2011, Tokyo University of Science,Tokyo, Japan* 1295: 1296: [AsiaBSDCon](http://2011.asiabsdcon.org/) is a conference for users and 1297: developers on BSD based systems. The conference is for anyone 1298: developing, deploying and using systems based on FreeBSD, NetBSD, 1299: OpenBSD, DragonFly BSD, Darwin, and MacOS X. AsiaBSDCon is a technical 1300: conference and aims to collect the best technical papers and 1301: presentations available to ensure that the latest developments in our 1302: open source community are shared with the widest possible audience. 1303: 1304: ### `Mar 2011` - Open Source Conference 2011 Oita 1305: 1306: *Mar. 19, 2011, [i-ness](http://www.pref.oita.jp/13040/index.html), 1307: Oita, Japan* 1308: 1309: At the [Open Source Conference 2011 1310: Oita](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2011-oita/) , there was a NetBSD booth 1311: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 1312: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) with many hpc{ 1313: [mips](../ports/hpcmips/), [sh](../ports/hpcsh/), 1314: [arm](../ports/hpcarm/) } gadgets demonstrations. 1315: 1316: ### `Mar 2011` - Open Source Conference 2011 Tokyo/Spring 1317: 1318: *Mar. 4-5, 2011, [Wasseda University,Nishiwaseda 1319: Campus](http://www.waseda.jp/eng/campus/map03.html), Tokyo, Japan* 1320: 1321: At the [Open Source Conference 2011 1322: Tokyo/Spring](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2011-spring/) , there was a NetBSD 1323: booth staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 1324: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) with many hpc{ 1325: [mips](../ports/hpcmips/), [sh](../ports/hpcsh/), 1326: [arm](../ports/hpcarm/) } gadgets demonstration. 1327: 1328: ### `Feb 2011` - FOSDEM 2011 Brussels, Belgium 1329: 1330: *Feb. 5-6, 2011, [FOSDEM](http://www.fosdem.org/2011/), Brussels, 1331: Belgium* 1332: 1333: At the [FOSDEM 2011 Conference](http://www.fosdem.org/2011/), there was 1334: a joint BSD booth staffed by NetBSD and FreeBSD developers and users. 1335: 1336: [Marc Balmer](http://www.vnode.ch/) (mbalmer@) gave a talk "Lua in BSD" 1337: in the BSD devroom 1338: 1339: ### `Feb 2011` - Open Source Conference 2011 Kagawa 1340: 1341: *Feb. 5, 2011, [Sunport Hall 1342: Takamatsu](http://www.sunport-hall.jp/shisetu/access.htm), Kagawa, 1343: Japan* 1344: 1345: At the [Open Source Conference 2011 1346: Kagawa](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2011-kagawa/), there was a NetBSD booth 1347: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 1348: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) with [many 1349: hp](http://twitpic.com/3xoh1i){ [hp300](../ports/hp300/), 1350: [hpcmips](../ports/hpcmips/), [hpcsh](../ports/hpcsh/), 1351: [hpcarm](../ports/hpcarm/) } gadgets demonstration and [NetBSD/hp300 and 1352: wscons](http://www.ceres.dti.ne.jp/tsutsui/osc11kg/netbsd-hp300.html) 1353: presentation by tsutsui ([Event driven Commit 1354: Log](http://mail-index.NetBSD.org/source-changes/2011/02/06/msg018165.html)). 1355: 1356: ### `Dec 2010` - Open Source Conference 2010 Fukuoka 1357: 1358: *Dec. 11, 2010, [Fukuoka Institute of 1359: Technology](http://www.fit.ac.jp/EN/index.html), Fukuoka, Japan* 1360: 1361: At the [Open Source Conference 2010 1362: Fukuoka](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2010-fukuoka/) , there was a NetBSD booth 1363: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 1364: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) with many hpc{ 1365: [mips](../ports/hpcmips/), [sh](../ports/hpcsh/), 1366: [arm](../ports/hpcarm/) } gadgets demonstration. 1367: 1368: ### `Nov 2010` - Journées Méditéranéennes du Logiciel Libre in Sophia-Antipolis. 1369: 1370: *November 26-27, 2010, Sophia-Antipolis, France.* 1371: 1372: NetBSD was present for the 2nd time at the [Journées Méditéranéennes du 1373: Logiciel Libre](http://jm2l.linux-azur.org). Friday afternoon was 1374: generally more enterprise oriented, while Saturday was more end-users 1375: focused. 1376: 1377: ### `Nov 2010` - Open Source Conference 2010 Shimane 1378: 1379: *Nov 27, 2010, [MATSUE 1380: TERRSA](http://www.sanbg.com/terrsa/e/index.html), Shimane, Japan* 1381: 1382: At the [Open Source Conference 2010 1383: Shimane](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2010-shimane/) , there was a NetBSD booth 1384: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 1385: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/). There was gadget 1386: demonstrations ( [hpcarm](../ports/hpcarm/), 1387: [hpcmips](../ports/hpcmips/), [hpcsh](../ports/hpcsh/) ). 1388: 1389: ### `Nov 2010` - NYCBSDCon 2010 1390: 1391: *November 12-14, 2010, Cooper Union, New York, NY, USA* 1392: 1393: [The New York City BSD Conference 1394: (NYCBSDCon)](http://www.nycbsdcon.org/2010/) is the main technical 1395: conference on the US East Coast for the BSD community to get together to 1396: share and gain knowledge, to network with like-minded people, and to 1397: have fun. This event was organized by members of the New York City \*BSD 1398: Users Group (NYC\*BUG). 1399: 1400: ### `Nov 2010` - Kansai OpenSource 2010 1401: 1402: *Nov. 5-6, 2010, [Asia and Pacific Trade Center ITC 1403: Building](http://www.atc-co.com/), Osaka, Japan* 1404: 1405: At the [Kansai OpenSource 2010](http://www.k-of.jp/), there were three 1406: BSD booths staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 1407: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) , [Kansai \*BSD Users 1408: Group](http://www.kbug.gr.jp/) and [NAKAMURA 1409: Kazushi](http://www.kobe1995.jp/) with [NEC 1410: Express5800(arc)](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/2898351) , [64bit 1411: 20years {NEC Express5800(amd64), SONY NEWS NWS-5000(newsmips), Sun 1412: Ultra60(sun4u), Sun Ultra10(sun4u), HP 1413: ML115(amd64)}](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/2899650), Xen Dom0 on 1414: NetBSD and DomU (NetBSD, OpenBSD, DragonflyBSD), 1415: OpenBSD/landisk(Firewall Redundancy with CARP and pfsync), 1416: OpenBSD/zaurus, WZero3(hpcarm), [hpcmips](../ports/hpcmips/), 1417: [hpcsh](../ports/hpcsh/), [hpcarm](../ports/hpcarm/), [NetBSD 1418: straps](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/2898808) gadgets demonstration and 1419: BSDBOF (soda-san got [Japanese OSS Contributor 1420: Award](http://www.ipa.go.jp/about/press/20101015_2.html), so let me 1421: introduce [raiders of the lost ARC 1422: tech](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/2899062) and [talkin' bout a 1423: revolution with soda-san](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/2899023) by 1424: tsutsui) 1425: 1426: ### `Oct 2010` - Open Source Conference 2010 Niigata 1427: 1428: *Oct. 23, 2010, Niigata University, Niigata, Japan* 1429: 1430: At the [Open Source Conference 2010 1431: Niigata](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2010-niigata/) , there was a BSD booth 1432: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 1433: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) and [Echigo BSD Users 1434: Group](http://www.ebug.jp/) . There was a gadgets demonstration ( 1435: [hpcarm](../ports/hpcarm/), [hpcmips](../ports/hpcmips/), 1436: [hpcsh](../ports/hpcsh/) and [FuguIta - OpenBSD LiveCD with 1seg 1437: tuner](http://kaw.ath.cx/openbsd/index.php?en%2FLiveCD). ). 1438: 1439: ### `Oct 2010` - EuroBSDCon 2010 1440: 1441: *Oct. 8-10, 2010, Karlsruhe, Germany* 1442: 1443: EuroBSDcon 2010, the european technical conference for people working on 1444: and with 4.4BSD based operating systems, was held on Oct 8-10th 2010 in 1445: Karlsruhe, Germany. The two day conference program (October 9 - 10) was 1446: preceeded by a tutorial day (Oct 8). 1447: 1448: For more information please visit the website 1449: [](http://2010.EuroBSDCon.org/). 1450: 1451: ### `Oct 2010` - Open Source Conference 2010 Okinawa 1452: 1453: *Oct. 2, 2010, [Okinawa Convention 1454: Center](http://www.oki-conven.jp/en/modules/tinyd7/page/page1.html) , 1455: Okinawa, Japan* 1456: 1457: At the [Open Source Conference 2010 1458: Okinawa](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2010-okinawa/) , there was a NetBSD booth 1459: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 1460: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) with many gadgets 1461: demonstration ( [hpcarm](../ports/hpcarm/), 1462: [hpcmips](../ports/hpcmips/), [hpcsh](../ports/hpcsh/) ). 1463: 1464: ### `Sep 2010` - Open Source Conference 2010 Tokyo/Fall 1465: 1466: *Sep. 10-11, 2010, [MEISEI 1467: UNIVERSITY](http://www.meisei-u.ac.jp/english/), Tokyo, Japan* 1468: 1469: At the [Open Source Conference 2010 1470: Tokyo/Fall](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2010-fall/) , there was a NetBSD booth 1471: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 1472: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) with many hpc{ 1473: [mips](../ports/hpcmips/), [sh](../ports/hpcsh/), 1474: [arm](../ports/hpcarm/) } gadgets demonstration and 1475: [NetBSD/x68k](../ports/x68k/) on [XM6i X68000 1476: emulator](http://www.pastel-flower.jp/~isaki/xm6i/). 1477: 1478: ### `Aug 2010` - Open Source Conference 2010 Nagoya 1479: 1480: *Aug. 7, 2010, Nagoya City University, Nagoya, Japan* 1481: 1482: At the [Open Source Conference 2010 1483: Nagoya](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2010-nagoya/) , there was a NetBSD booth 1484: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 1485: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) and [Nagoya \*BSD Users' 1486: Group](http://www.nagoya.bug.gr.jp/). There were gadget demonstrations ( 1487: [hpcarm](../ports/hpcarm/), [hpcmips](../ports/hpcmips/), 1488: [hpcsh](../ports/hpcsh/) ). 1489: 1490: ### `Jul 2010` - Open Source Conference 2010 Kansai 1491: 1492: *Jul. 9-10, 2010, Kyoto Computer Gakuin, Kyoto, Japan* 1493: 1494: At the [Open Source Conference 2010 1495: Kansai](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2010-kyoto/) , there was a NetBSD booth 1496: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 1497: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) and [Kansai \*BSD Users 1498: Group](http://www.kbug.gr.jp/) . There were gadgets demonstration ( 1499: [hpcarm](../ports/hpcarm/), [hpcmips](../ports/hpcmips/), 1500: [hpcsh](../ports/hpcsh/), ). 1501: 1502: ### `Jul 2010` - Japan NetBSD Users' Group meeting & NetBSD BOF 1503: 1504: *Jul 3, 2010, [The University of 1505: Tokyo](http://www.u-tokyo.ac.jp/campusmap/cam01_04_03_j.html), Tokyo, 1506: Japan* 1507: 1508: See [this 1509: page](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/announce/meeting12.html.en) 1510: for meeting information. 1511: 1512: NetBSD BOF with 44 attendances and 55 ustream clients: OpenBlockS600 by 1513: kiyohara, [STAR81xx/91xx](http://www.nerv.org/~ryo/bof/index1.html) by 1514: Ryo SHIMIZU, [NetBSD goes POSIX.1-2008 and 1515: C1X](http://www.hi-matic.org/BOF/BOF.pdf) by tnozaki, YUREX by noztos, 1516: AsiaBSDCon by hrs, pkgsrc updates by obache. 1517: 1518: ### `Jun 2010` - Open Source Conference 2010 Hokkaido 1519: 1520: *Jun. 26, 2010, Sapporo Business Innovation Center, Sapporo, Japan* 1521: 1522: At the [Open Source Conference 2010 1523: Hokkaido](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2010-do/) , there was a NetBSD booth 1524: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 1525: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) and 1526: [NoBUG](http://www.no.bug.gr.jp/) with NetBSD/evbarm on Armadillo-9 + 1527: VT220J, NetBSD/sparc on Sparcstation IPX, NetBSD/i386 on ThinkPad X200s 1528: (VMWarePlayer) and ThinkPad X24, FreeNAS on ThinkPad X200s 1529: (VMWarePlayer), NetBSD/landisk on USL-5P, NetBSD/evbppc on kuro-box, 1530: NetBSD/evbmips-el on BBR-4MG, and many hpc{ [mips](../ports/hpcmips/), 1531: [sh](../ports/hpcsh/), [arm](../ports/hpcarm/),WZero3 with AM/FM Radio } 1532: 1533: ### `Jun 2010` - LinuxTag 2010 1534: 1535: *June 9-12, 2010, Berlin, Germany* 1536: 1537: [LinuxTag 2010](http://www.linuxtag.org/2010/), one of Europe's largest 1538: Open Source Expo, took place from June 9th through 12th, 2010, in 1539: Berlin, Germany. The NetBSD Project was being represented by volunteers 1540: in a shared BSD booth. 1541: 1542: If you are interested in helping out at the NetBSD booth or have any 1543: questions, please contact Thomas Kaepernick (mast\_1(at)gmx.net). 1544: 1545: ### `May 2010` - pkgsrcCon 2010 Basel, Switzerland 1546: 1547: *May. 28 -30, 2010, [Departement Informatik, University of 1548: Basel](http://www.pkgsrc.org/pkgsrcCon/2010/), Basel, Switzerland* 1549: 1550: ### `May 2010` - Open Source Conference 2010 Sendai 1551: 1552: *May. 22, 2010, [Tohoku Computer 1553: College](http://www.jc-21.ac.jp/map/index.shtml), Sendai, Japan* 1554: 1555: At the [Open Source Conference 2010 1556: Sendai](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2010-sendai/) , there was a NetBSD booth 1557: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 1558: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) with many hpc{ 1559: [mips](../ports/hpcmips/), [sh](../ports/hpcsh/), [arm and 1560: WZero3(WS011SH)](../ports/hpcarm/) } gadgets demonstration. 1561: 1562: ### `May 2010` - Rencontres Bretonnes du Logiciel Libre in Rennes 1563: 1564: *May 15-16, 2010, Rennes, France.* 1565: 1566: NetBSD was present for the 2nd time at the [Rencontres Bretonnes du 1567: Logiciel Libre](http://www.rbll.info) 1568: 1569: ### `May 2010` - BSDCan 2010 1570: 1571: *May 13-14, 2010, Ottawa, Canada.* 1572: 1573: [BSDCan 2010](http://www.bsdcan.org/) was held on 13-14 May 2010 at the 1574: University of Ottawa, and was preceded by two days of tutorials on 11-12 1575: May 2010. 1576: 1577: ### `Mar 2010` - AsiaBSDCon 2010 1578: 1579: *Mar 11-14, 2010, Tokyo University of Science,Tokyo, Japan* 1580: 1581: [AsiaBSDCon](http://2010.asiabsdcon.org/) is a conference for users and 1582: developers on BSD based systems. The conference is for anyone 1583: developing, deploying and using systems based on FreeBSD, NetBSD, 1584: OpenBSD, DragonFly BSD, Darwin, and MacOS X. AsiaBSDCon is a technical 1585: conference and aims to collect the best technical papers and 1586: presentations available to ensure that the latest developments in our 1587: open source community are shared with the widest possible audience. 1588: 1589: A NetBSD BOF was held on March 12, 2010 14:00-16:30 1590: 1591: ### `Mar 2010` - Open Source Conference 2010 Kansai@Kobe 1592: 1593: *Mar. 13, 2010, [Kobe Industrial Promotion 1594: Center](http://www.kobe-ipc.or.jp/access/), Kobe, Japan* 1595: 1596: At the [Open Source Conference 2010 1597: Kansai@Kobe](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2010-kobe/) , there was a NetBSD 1598: booth staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 1599: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) with [ATARI TT030 + 1600: SMC\_TT](../ports/atari/) ([Demonstration animation GIF for 1601: TT030](http://www.ceres.dti.ne.jp/tsutsui/smc_tt/SMC_TT-OSC2010Kobe.gif)) 1602: , cobalt, many hpc{ [mips](../ports/hpcmips/), [sh](../ports/hpcsh/), 1603: [arm](../ports/hpcarm/) } gadgets demonstration. 1604: 1605: ### `Feb 2010` - Open Source Conference 2010 Tokyo/Spring 1606: 1607: *Feb. 26-27, 2010, [MEISEI 1608: UNIVERSITY](http://www.meisei-u.ac.jp/english/), Tokyo, Japan* 1609: 1610: At the [Open Source Conference 2010 1611: Tokyo/Spring](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2010-spring/) , there was a NetBSD 1612: booth staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 1613: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) with tadpole(sparc) and 1614: many hpc{ [mips](../ports/hpcmips/), [sh](../ports/hpcsh/), 1615: [arm](../ports/hpcarm/) } gadgets demonstration. 1616: 1617: ### `Feb 2010` - Hackathon, February 2010 1618: 1619: *Feb. 19-22, 2010, 1620: [Hackathon](http://www.NetBSD.org/community/hackathon.html)* 1621: 1622: The [February 2010 1623: Hackathon](http://www.NetBSD.org/community/hackathon.html) was focusing 1624: on closing as many bugs and PRs as possible. 1625: 1626: ### `Feb 2010` - FOSDEM 2010 Brussels, Belgium 1627: 1628: *Feb. 6-7, 2010, [FOSDEM](http://www.fosdem.org/2010/), Brussels, 1629: Belgium* 1630: 1631: At the [FOSDEM 2010 Conference](http://www.fosdem.org/2010/) , there was 1632: a joint BSD booth staffed by NetBSD and FreeBSD developers and users. 1633: 1634: [Marc Balmer](http://www.vnode.ch/) (mbalmer@) gave a talk [Because the 1635: License Matters: BSD as the Foundation for Commercial Point of Sale 1636: Applications](http://www.fosdem.org/2010/schedule/events/bsd_license) in 1637: the [BSD devroom](http://www.fosdem.org/2010/schedule/tracks/bsd). 1638: 1639: ### `Jan 2010` - Open Source Conference 2010 Oita 1640: 1641: *Jan. 23, 2010, [i-ness](http://www.pref.oita.jp/13040/index.html), 1642: Oita, Japan* 1643: 1644: At the [Open Source Conference 2010 1645: Oita](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2010-oita/) , there was be a NetBSD booth 1646: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 1647: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) with many hpc{ 1648: [mips](../ports/hpcmips/), [sh](../ports/hpcsh/), 1649: [arm](../ports/hpcarm/) } gadgets demonstrations. 1650: 1651: ### `Dec 2009` - Open Source Conference 2009 Fukuoka 1652: 1653: *Dec. 5, 2009, [Kyushu Sangyo 1654: University](http://www.kyusan-u.ac.jp/E/index.html), Fukuoka, Japan* 1655: 1656: At the [Open Source Conference 2009 1657: Fukuoka](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2009-fukuoka/) , there was a NetBSD booth 1658: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 1659: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) with many hpc{ 1660: [mips](../ports/hpcmips/), [sh](../ports/hpcsh/), 1661: [arm](../ports/hpcarm/) } gadgets demonstration. 1662: 1663: ### `Nov 2009` - Open Source Conference 2009 Kochi 1664: 1665: *Nov. 14, 2009, [Kochi City Culture-Plaze 1666: Cul-Port.](http://www.bunkaplaza.or.jp/access/index.html), Kochi, Japan* 1667: 1668: At the [Open Source Conference 2009 1669: Kochi](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2009-kochi/) , there was a NetBSD booth 1670: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 1671: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) with 1672: [hpcmips](../ports/hpcmips/), [hpcsh](../ports/hpcsh/), gadgets 1673: demonstration. 1674: 1675: ### `Nov 2009` - OpenRheinRuhr 2009 1676: 1677: *Nov. 7-8, 2009, Saalbau, Bottrop, Germany* 1678: 1679: A new event in the middle of Europe with a huge audience and an 1680: impressive list of exhibitors. NetBSD had a booth as well as the other 1681: major BSDs. 1682: 1683: For more information about OpenRheinRuhr visit the website 1684: [](http://www.openrheinruhr.de/) . 1685: 1686: ### `Nov 2009` - Kansai OpenSource 2009 1687: 1688: *Nov. 6-7, 2009, [Asia and Pacific Trade Center ITC 1689: Building](http://www.atc-co.com/), Osaka, Japan* 1690: 1691: At the [Kansai OpenSource 2009](http://www.k-of.jp/), there was a NetBSD 1692: booth staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 1693: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) and [Kansai \*BSD Users 1694: Group](http://www.kbug.gr.jp/) with IIJ SEIL/X1(evbmips64), IIJ 1695: SEIL/B1(evbarm), NSLU2(evbarm), dreamcast+ISA bus+IDE DiskDrive 1696: extension, tadpole(sparc), USL-5P+USB LCD(landisk), Link 1697: Station(sandpoint), MacLC475upgrade(mac68k), 1698: [hpcmips](../ports/hpcmips/), [hpcsh](../ports/hpcsh/), 1699: [hpcarm](../ports/hpcarm/), BSD daemon statue gadgets demonstration and 1700: BSDBOF (EuroBSDCon2009 report by msaitoh). 1701: 1702: ### `Oct 2009` - Open Source Conference 2009 Tokyo/Fall 1703: 1704: *Oct. 30-31, 2009, [Nihon Kogakuin College 12th 1705: build.](http://www.neec.ac.jp/access/kmt.html), Tokyo, Japan* 1706: 1707: At the [Open Source Conference 2009 1708: Tokyo/Fall](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2009-fall/) , there was a NetBSD booth 1709: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 1710: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) with [USB-LCD driver for 1711: NetBSD](http://www.naobsd.org/udl/) on 1712: [USL-5P](http://www.iodata.jp/product/hdd/lanhdd/usl-5p/index.htm) and 1713: [LS-S250L](http://buffalo.jp/products/catalog/storage/ls-sl/), 1714: [hpcmips](../ports/hpcmips/), [hpcsh](../ports/hpcsh/), 1715: [hpcarm](../ports/hpcarm/), [tadpole GX3:sparc](../ports/sparc/) gadgets 1716: demonstration and BSD BOF. 1717: 1718: ### `Sep 2009` - Open Source Conference 2009 Okinawa 1719: 1720: *Sep. 26, 2009, [Okinawa Convention 1721: Center](http://www.oki-conven.jp/en/modules/tinyd7/page/page1.html) , 1722: Okinawa, Japan* 1723: 1724: At the [Open Source Conference 2009 1725: Okinawa](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2009-okinawa/) , there was a NetBSD booth 1726: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 1727: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) . There was gadgets 1728: demonstration ( [hpcarm](../ports/hpcarm/), 1729: [hpcmips](../ports/hpcmips/), [hpcsh](../ports/hpcsh/) ). 1730: 1731: ### `Sep 2009` - EuroBSDCon 2009 1732: 1733: *Sep. 18-20, 2009, University of Cambridge, England..* 1734: 1735: EuroBSDcon 2009, the european technical conference for people working on 1736: and with 4.4BSD based operating systems, was held on Sept 19-20th 2009 1737: at the University of Cambridge, England. One day of Tutorials preceded 1738: the conference on Sept 18th. 1739: 1740: For more information about EuroBSDCon 2009 visit the website 1741: [](http://2009.EuroBSDCon.org/). 1742: 1743: ### `Aug 2009` - Open Source Conference 2009 Nagoya 1744: 1745: *Aug. 22, 2009, Nagoya City University, Nagoya, Japan* 1746: 1747: At the [Open Source Conference 2009 1748: Nagoya](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2009-nagoya/) , there was a NetBSD booth 1749: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 1750: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) and [Nagoya \*BSD Users' 1751: Group](http://www.nagoya.bug.gr.jp/). There were gadget demonstrations ( 1752: [hpcarm](../ports/hpcarm/), [hpcmips](../ports/hpcmips/), 1753: [hpcsh](../ports/hpcsh/) ). 1754: 1755: ### `Aug 2009` - Open Source Conference 2009 Niigata 1756: 1757: *Aug. 1, 2009, Niigata University of International and Information 1758: Studies, Niigata, Japan* 1759: 1760: At the [Open Source Conference 2009 1761: Niigata](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2009-niigata/) , there was a NetBSD booth 1762: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 1763: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) and [Echigo BSD Users 1764: Group](http://www.ebug.jp/) . There was gadgets demonstration ( 1765: [hpcarm](../ports/hpcarm/), [hpcmips](../ports/hpcmips/), 1766: [hpcsh](../ports/hpcsh/) and [FuguIta - OpenBSD LiveCD with 1seg 1767: tuner](http://kaw.ath.cx/openbsd/index.php?en%2FLiveCD). ). 1768: 1769: ### `Jul 2009` - Open Source Conference 2009 Kansai 1770: 1771: *Jul. 10-11, 2009, Kyoto Computer Gakuin, Kyoto, Japan* 1772: 1773: At the [Open Source Conference 2009 1774: Kansai](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2009-kansai/) , there was a NetBSD booth 1775: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 1776: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) and [Kansai \*BSD Users 1777: Group](http://www.kbug.gr.jp/) . There was gadgets power consumption 1778: demonstration ( [Atari TT030](../ports/atari/), [BeBox (stop at 1779: bootloader:need S3 Video Card)](../ports/bebox/), [MSI Wind Notebook and 1780: VAIO Type P](../ports/amd64/), [cobalt QUBE2 and Cache RAQ2 with 1781: Zope](../ports/cobalt/), [gumstix music player sings OpenBSD 1782: song](../ports/evbarm/), [hpcarm](../ports/hpcarm/), 1783: [hpcmips](../ports/hpcmips/), [hpcsh](../ports/hpcsh/), 1784: [Linkstation:sandpoint](../ports/evbarm/), 1785: [OpenBSD/zaurus](http://www.openbsd.org/zaurus.html), [DragonFlyBSD with 1786: hammer](http://www.dragonflybsd.org/), [SGI O2](../ports/sgimips/), [IBM 1787: PReP](../ports/prep/), CPU Load average x 16 LED Meterboard with 1788: libFT245, bc benchmark time x electricity consumption = energy 1789: efficiency graph with all BSD machines. ). 1790: 1791: ### `Jul 2009` - Japan NetBSD Users' Group meeting & NetBSD BOF 1792: 1793: *Jul 4, 2009, [The University of 1794: Tokyo](http://www.u-tokyo.ac.jp/campusmap/cam01_04_03_j.html), Tokyo, 1795: Japan* 1796: 1797: See [this 1798: page](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/announce/meeting11.html.en) 1799: for meeting information. 1800: 1801: BOF with 39 attendances: pkgsrc updates, workarounds for VAIO Type P, 1802: AsiaBSDCon reports, eXecute In Place (XIP), gumstix, IA64 , SheevaPlug, 1803: USB Wireless LAN drivers, NetBSD - Now, 6.0 and Future, PGP key sign 1804: party. 1805: 1806: ### `Jul 2009` - Open Source World 2009 1807: 1808: *Jul. 1-2, 2009, Tokyo International Forum, Tokyo, Japan* 1809: 1810: At the [Open Source World 2009](http://www.idg.co.jp/expo/osw/2009/) , 1811: there was a NetBSD booth staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 1812: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) . There was gadgets power 1813: consumption demonstration ( [hpcarm](../ports/hpcarm/), 1814: [hpcmips](../ports/hpcmips/), [hpcsh](../ports/hpcsh/) ) and [tadpole 1815: GX3:sparc](../ports/sparc/). 1816: 1817: ### `Jun 2009` - LinuxTag 2009 1818: 1819: *June 24-27 2009, Berlin, Germany* 1820: 1821: The annual [LinuxTag](http://www.linuxtag.org/2009/en.html) conference 1822: took place from 24th until 27th of June 2009 at the Berlin fairground 1823: under the radio tower. NetBSD was sharing a booth with the other BSD 1824: systems at the exhibition. 1825: 1826: ### `Jun 2009` - Open Source Conference 2009 Hokkaido 1827: 1828: *Jun. 20, 2009, Sapporo Business Innovation Center, Sapporo, Japan* 1829: 1830: At the [Open Source Conference 2009 1831: Hokkaido](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2009-do/) , there was a NetBSD booth 1832: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 1833: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) and [Northern land BSD 1834: Users Group](http://www.no.bug.gr.jp/) with many hpc{ 1835: [mips](../ports/hpcmips/), [sh](../ports/hpcsh/), 1836: [arm](../ports/hpcarm/) } , [NetBSD/evbmips on 1837: BBR-4MG](../ports/evbmips/), Twitter ticker monitor on 78K0 board via 1838: USB Serial, [NetBSD/evbarm on Armadillo-9](../ports/evbarm/) with 1839: VT-220J, [NetBSD/sparc on SparcStation Classic](../ports/sparc/), 1840: [NetBSD/evbarm on BeagleBoard (working in progress,not boot 1841: yet)](../ports/evbarm/). 1842: 1843: ### `May 2009` - Open Source Conference 2009 Shimane 1844: 1845: *May 16, 2009, [MATSUE 1846: TERRSA](http://www.sanbg.com/terrsa/e/index.html), Shimane, Japan* 1847: 1848: At the [Open Source Conference 2009 1849: Shimane](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2009-shimane/) , there was a NetBSD booth 1850: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 1851: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/). There were gadget 1852: demonstrations ( [SONY VAIO type P](../ports/i386/), 1853: [RaQ2:cobalt](../ports/cobalt/), [Armadillo9:evbarm](../ports/evbarm/), 1854: [hpcarm](../ports/hpcarm/), [hpcmips](../ports/hpcmips/), 1855: [hpcsh](../ports/hpcsh/) ). 1856: 1857: ### `May 2009` - BSDCan 2009 1858: 1859: *May 8-9, 2009, Ottawa, Canada.* 1860: 1861: [BSDCan 2009](http://www.bsdcan.org/) was held on 8-9 May 2009 at the 1862: University of Ottawa, and was preceded by two days of tutorials on 6-7 1863: May 2009. 1864: 1865: ### `Mar 2009` - CeBIT 2009 1866: 1867: *March 3-8, 2009, Hannover, Germany* 1868: 1869: The NetBSD project had a joint booth with the FreeBSD project at 1870: [CeBIT](http://www.cebit.de/), the large b2b trade fair held in 1871: Hannover, Germany. 1872: 1873: ### `Mar 2009` - AsiaBSDCon 2009 1874: 1875: *Mar 12-15, 2009, Tokyo University of Science,Tokyo, Japan* 1876: 1877: [AsiaBSDCon](http://2009.asiabsdcon.org/) is a conference for users and 1878: developers on BSD based systems. The conference is for anyone 1879: developing, deploying and using systems based on FreeBSD, NetBSD, 1880: OpenBSD, DragonFly BSD, Darwin, and MacOS X. AsiaBSDCon is a technical 1881: conference and aims to collect the best technical papers and 1882: presentations available to ensure that the latest developments in our 1883: open source community are shared with the widest possible audience. 1884: [Antti Kantee:Environmental Independance:BSD Kernel TCP/IP in 1885: Userspace](http://2009.asiabsdcon.org/timetable.html#P5A) 1886: ([Report](http://journal.mycom.co.jp/articles/2009/03/30/asiabsdcon4/index.html)), 1887: and [NetBSD 1888: BoF](http://mail-index.NetBSD.org/regional-jp/2009/02/15/msg000018.html) 1889: was held on Mar 13,2009 17:30-19:00. [AsiaBSDCon 2009 1890: papers](http://2009.asiabsdcon.org/live/) and 1891: [presentations](http://www.youtube.com/bsdconferences) are available. 1892: 1893: ### `Feb 2009` - Southern California Linux Expo 1894: 1895: *Feb 20-22, 2009, Los Angeles, CA* 1896: 1897: The NetBSD project was represented by A.KML and A.DAVID at [SCALE 1898: 7x](http://www.socallinuxexpo.org/), the 7th annual Southern California 1899: Linux Expo, which took place February 20-22, 2009 at The Westin Los 1900: Angeles Airport, Los Angeles, California. 1901: 1902: ### `Feb 2009` - Open Source Conference 2009 Tokyo/Spring 1903: 1904: *Feb. 20-21, 2009, [Japan Electronics 1905: College](http://www.jec.ac.jp/access/), Tokyo, Japan* 1906: 1907: At the [Open Source Conference 2009 1908: Tokyo/Spring](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2009-spring/) , there was a NetBSD 1909: booth staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 1910: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) with [VAIO type 1911: P](http://www.vaio.sony.co.jp/Products/P1/) with NetBSD, [tadpole 1912: GX3:sparc](../ports/sparc/) and many hpc{ [mips](../ports/hpcmips/), 1913: [sh](../ports/hpcsh/), [arm](../ports/hpcarm/) } gadgets demonstration. 1914: 1915: ### `Feb 2009` - FOSDEM 2009 1916: 1917: NetBSD was present at FOSDEM on Feb 7-8 2009 in Brussels, Belgium. 1918: FOSDEM is a free and non-commercial event organised by the community for 1919: the community. 1920: 1921: ### `Feb 2009` - DCBSDCon 2009 1922: 1923: *Feb. 5-6, 2009, Washington, D.C.* 1924: 1925: For information, visit [](http://www.dcbsdcon.org/). 1926: 1927: ### `Jan 2009` - Open Source Conference 2009 Sendai 1928: 1929: *Jan. 24, 2009, [Tohoku Computer 1930: College](http://www.jc-21.ac.jp/map/index.shtml), Sendai, Japan* 1931: 1932: At the [Open Source Conference 2009 1933: Sendai](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2009-sendai/) , there was a NetBSD booth 1934: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 1935: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) with many hpc{ 1936: [mips](../ports/hpcmips/), [sh](../ports/hpcsh/), 1937: [arm](../ports/hpcarm/) } gadgets demonstration. 1938: 1939: ### `Dec 2008` - Open Source Conference 2008 Fukuoka 1940: 1941: *Dec. 13, 2008, [Humanities and Social Sciences Center,Fukuoka 1942: University](http://www.fukuoka-u.ac.jp/unv_gide/access/cmps_map1.html), 1943: Fukuoka, Japan* 1944: 1945: At the [Open Source Conference 2008 1946: Fukuoka](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2008-fukuoka/) , there was a NetBSD booth 1947: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 1948: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) with many hpc{ 1949: [mips](../ports/hpcmips/), [sh](../ports/hpcsh/), 1950: [arm](../ports/hpcarm/) } gadgets and USB Camera demonstration. 1951: 1952: ### `Nov 2008` - Open Source Conference 2008 Okinawa 1953: 1954: *Nov. 29, 2008, [Okinawa Industory Support 1955: Center](http://www.okinawa-sangyoushien.co.jp/), Okinawa, Japan* 1956: 1957: At the [Open Source Conference 2008 1958: Okinawa](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2008-okinawa/) , there was a NetBSD booth 1959: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 1960: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) with many hpc{ 1961: [mips](../ports/hpcmips/), [sh](../ports/hpcsh/), 1962: [arm](../ports/hpcarm/) } gadgets demonstration. 1963: 1964: ### `Nov 2008` - meetBSD California '08 1965: 1966: *Nov. 15-16, 2008, Mountain View, California* 1967: 1968: For information, visit [](http://www.meetbsd.com/). 1969: 1970: ### `Nov 2008` - Kansai OpenSource 2008 1971: 1972: *Nov. 7-8, 2008, [Asia and Pacific Trade Center ITC 1973: Building](http://www.atc-co.com/), Osaka, Japan* 1974: 1975: At the [Kansai OpenSource 2008](http://www.k-of.jp/), there was a NetBSD 1976: booth staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 1977: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) and [Kansai \*BSD Users 1978: Group](http://www.kbug.gr.jp/) with [tadpole 1979: GX3:sparc](../ports/sparc/), [Linkstation:sandpoint](../ports/evbarm/), 1980: [PCBSD on Xen](../ports/xen/), [hpcmips](../ports/hpcmips/), 1981: [hpcsh](../ports/hpcsh/), [hpcarm](../ports/hpcarm/), 1982: [LC475](../ports/mac68k/), 1983: [OpenBSD/zaurus](http://www.openbsd.org/zaurus.html), 1984: [DragonFlyBSD](http://www.dragonflybsd.org/), [Servo motor realtime 1985: control via USB audio](http://rogiken.org/daemon/works.html) gadgets 1986: demonstration and BSDBOF. 1987: 1988: ### `Oct 2008` - EuroBSDCon 2008 1989: 1990: *Oct. 18-19, 2008, Strasbourg, France* 1991: 1992: EuroBSDcon 2008, the european technical conference for people working on 1993: and with 4.4BSD based operating systems, was held on October 18-19th 1994: 2008 at the University of Strasbourg in France. Two days of Tutorials 1995: preceded the conference on Oct. 16-17th. 1996: 1997: For more information about EuroBSDCon 2008 visit the website 1998: [](http://2008.EuroBSDCon.org/). 1999: 2000: ### `Oct 2008` - NetBSD developers summit @ NYCBSDCon 2008 2001: 2002: *Oct 10, 2008, Columbia University, NY, NY, USA* 2003: 2004: A NetBSD developer's summit was held on Friday, October 10th, 2008. The 2005: event was sponsored by and leads up to that year's NYCBSDCon and took 2006: place at Columbia University on the island of Manhattan in New York 2007: City, NY, USA. The event was *open to the public*. 2008: 2009: ### `Oct 2008` - NYCBSDCon 2008 2010: 2011: *Oct 11-12, 2008, Columbia University, NY, NY, USA* 2012: 2013: The third BSD Conference organized by the [NYC BSD User 2014: Group](http://www.nycbug.org) took place in New York City on October 2015: 11th and 12th, 2008. 2016: 2017: More information about NYCBSDCon 2008 is available at 2018: [](http://www.nycbsdcon.org/2008/). 2019: 2020: Coinciding with the conference was the 12th NetBSD Hackathon being held. 2021: 2022: ### `Oct 2008` - Open Source Conference 2008 Tokyo/Fall 2023: 2024: *Oct. 3-4, 2008, [Ota City Industrial 2025: Plaza](http://www.pio-ota.jp/english/access.html), Tokyo, Japan* 2026: 2027: At the [Open Source Conference 2008 2028: Tokyo/Fall](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2008-fall/) , there was a NetBSD booth 2029: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 2030: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) with [tadpole 2031: GX3:sparc](../ports/sparc/), [LinkStation:sandpoint](../ports/evbarm/), 2032: [PCBSD on Xen](../ports/xen/), [hpcmips](../ports/hpcmips/), 2033: [hpcsh](../ports/hpcsh/), [hpcarm](../ports/hpcarm/) gadgets 2034: demonstration and BSD BOF(OpenBSD,NetBSD, [76th IETF 2035: Hiroshima](http://www.wide.ad.jp/news/press/20080804-IETF-e.html), 2036: [Itojun Service 2037: Award](http://www.wide.ad.jp/news/press/20080912-itojun-fund-j.html) ). 2038: 2039: ### `Sep 2008` - Open Source Conference 2008 in Shimane 2040: 2041: *Sep. 12-13, 2008, [MATSUE 2042: TERRSA](http://www.sanbg.com/terrsa/e/index.html), Shimane, Japan* 2043: 2044: At the [Open Source Conference 2008 2045: Shimane](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2008-shimane/) , there was a NetBSD booth 2046: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 2047: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/). There were gadget 2048: demonstrations ( [dynabook/SS:amd64](../ports/amd64/), 2049: [Armadillo9:evbarm](../ports/evbarm/), 2050: [HP712/80:hp700](../ports/hp700/), [hpcarm](../ports/hpcarm/), 2051: [hpcmips](../ports/hpcmips/), [hpcsh](../ports/hpcsh/), 2052: [SL-C3200:zaurus](../ports/zaurus/), 2053: [LaVie/G:OpenSolaris](http://www.solaris.com/), and 2054: [chumby](http://www.chumby.com/) ). 2055: 2056: ### `Aug 2008` - Open Source Conference 2008 in Nagoya 2057: 2058: *Aug. 9, 2008, Nagoya City University, Nagoya, Japan* 2059: 2060: At the [Open Source Conference 2008 2061: Nagoya](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2008-nagoya/) , there was a NetBSD booth 2062: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 2063: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) and [Nagoya \*BSD Users' 2064: Group](http://www.nagoya.bug.gr.jp/). There were gadget demonstrations ( 2065: [RaQ2:cobalt](../ports/cobalt/), [hpcarm](../ports/hpcarm/), 2066: [hpcmips](../ports/hpcmips/), [hpcsh](../ports/hpcsh/), 2067: [HP712/80:hp700](../ports/hp700/), 2068: [OpenBSD/zaurus](http://www.openbsd.org/zaurus.html), [Speecys Robot: 2069: NetBSD/sh3](http://www.speecys.com/), [samtk](http://www.samtk.org/) ). 2070: 2071: ### `Jul 2008` - Open Source Conference 2008 in Kansai 2072: 2073: *Jul. 18-19, 2008, Kyoto Computer Gakuin, Kyoto, Japan* 2074: 2075: At the [Open Source Conference 2008 2076: Kansai](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2008-kansai/) , there was a NetBSD booth 2077: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 2078: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) . There were gadgets power 2079: consumption demonstration ( [hpcarm](../ports/hpcarm/), 2080: [hpcmips](../ports/hpcmips/), [hpcsh](../ports/hpcsh/), 2081: [alpha](../ports/alpha/), [SGI O2](../ports/sgimips/) ), Miku Hatsune 2082: paper doll with Six servo moters controlled by USB audio, libFT245 with 2083: USB, BeBox, Squeak on hpcmips, OneSeg TV recording with hpcmips, bc 2084: benchmark time x electricity consumption = energy efficiency graph with 2085: all BSD machines. 2086: 2087: ### `Jul 2008` - Japan NetBSD Users' Group meeting & NetBSD BOF 2088: 2089: *Jul 5, 2008, [The University of 2090: Tokyo](http://www.u-tokyo.ac.jp/campusmap/cam01_04_03_j.html), Tokyo, 2091: Japan* 2092: 2093: BOF with 52 attendances: NetBSD/sparc64 SMP, NetBSD/BBR-4MG 2094: evbmips(ADM5120), NetBSD/DLX - CPU implementation on FPGA, OpenRoads - 2095: Open Robot Operation And Design Specification, AsiaBSDCon2009, pkgsrc 2096: update, KURO-BOX/PRO MB88F5182, Toolchain and "mknative", EeePC, NetBSD 2097: - Now, 5.0 and Future, PGP key sign party. 2098: 2099: ### `Jun 2008` - Open Source Conference 2008 in Hokkaido 2100: 2101: *Jun. 28, 2008, Sapporo Business Innovation Center, Sapporo, Japan* 2102: 2103: At the [Open Source Conference 2008 2104: Hokkaido](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2008-do/) , there was a NetBSD booth 2105: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 2106: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) with many hpc{ 2107: [mips](../ports/hpcmips/), [sh](../ports/hpcsh/), 2108: [arm](../ports/hpcarm/) } gadgets demonstration, VT-220J, USL-5P with 3 2109: one-seg TV tuners, NetBSD/BBR-4MG . 2110: 2111: ### `Jun 2008` - pkgsrcCon 2008 2112: 2113: *Jun 13-15, 2008, Technical University of Berlin* 2114: 2115: The fifth annual pkgsrcCon convened in Berlin, Germany on June 13 to 15, 2116: 2008. pkgsrcCon is a technical conference for people working on the 2117: [NetBSD Packages Collection 2118: (pkgsrc)](http://www.NetBSD.org/docs/software/packages.html), focusing 2119: on existing technologies, research projects, and works-in-progress in 2120: pkgsrc infrastructure. 2121: 2122: More information about pkgsrcCon 2008 is available at 2123: [](http://www.pkgsrccon.org/2008/). 2124: 2125: ### `May 2008` - BSDCan 2008 2126: 2127: *May 16-17, 2008, University of Ottawa, Canada* 2128: 2129: BSDCan is a BSD conference held in Ottawa, for people working on and 2130: with 4.4BSD based operating systems and related projects. The organizers 2131: have found a formula that appeals to a wide range of people from extreme 2132: novices to advanced developers. 2133: 2134: For more information about BSDCan 2008 visit 2135: [](http://www.BSDCan.org/2008/). 2136: 2137: ### `Apr 2008` - BSDCon Barcelona 2008 2138: 2139: *Apr 19-20, 2008, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, 2140: Spain* 2141: 2142: For more information about BSDCon Barcelona '08 visit 2143: [](http://bcn.bsdcon.net/). 2144: 2145: ### `Apr 2008` - Open Source Conference 2008 Nagaoka 2146: 2147: *Apr. 12, 2008, [Nagaoka University of 2148: Technology.](http://www.nagaokaut.ac.jp/j/), Niigata, Japan* 2149: 2150: At the [Open Source Conference 2008 2151: Nagaoka](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2008-nagaoka/) , there was a NetBSD booth 2152: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 2153: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) with many hpc{ 2154: [mips](../ports/hpcmips/), [sh](../ports/hpcsh/), 2155: [arm](../ports/hpcarm/) } gadgets demonstration, NetBSD/Playstation3, 2156: USB OneSeg TV tuner (DUS-01). 2157: 2158: ### `Mar 2008` - Frühjahrsfachgespräch (FFG) of the German Unix User Group 2159: 2160: *March 11-14, 2008, University of Munich, Germany* 2161: 2162: The FFG is an annual meeting for professional users of Unix, networking 2163: technologies and IT security. 2164: 2165: For more information about FFG 2008 visit 2166: [](http://www.guug.de/veranstaltungen/ffg2008/) 2167: 2168: ### `Mar 2008` - AsiaBSDCon 2008 2169: 2170: *Mar 27-30, 2008, Tokyo, Japan* 2171: 2172: [AsiaBSDCon](http://2008.asiabsdcon.org/) is a conference for users and 2173: developers on BSD based systems. The conference is for anyone 2174: developing, deploying and using systems based on FreeBSD, NetBSD, 2175: OpenBSD, DragonFly BSD, Darwin, and MacOS X. AsiaBSDCon is a technical 2176: conference and aims to collect the best technical papers and 2177: presentations available to ensure that the latest developments in our 2178: open source community are shared with the widest possible audience. 2179: AsiaBSDCon2008 was held with over 170 attendances. [[Paper/Slide 2180: List](http://2008.asiabsdcon.org/papers/index.html), 2181: [photographs](http://2008.asiabsdcon.org/photo/0327/index.html)] 2182: 2183: [NetBSD Discussion:](http://www.NetBSD.org/~uebayasi/abc2008bof.txt) 2184: Cherry G.Mathew:NetBSD/ia64, Hiroki Doshita and Masahiko Yasuoka: [npppd 2185: and pipex](http://www.seil.jp/download/eng/), Toshiaki Nozawa [Speecys 2186: Corp.](http://www.speecys.com/) :NetBSD/Robots, Masao Uebayashi:MIPS N32 2187: ABI support and OCTEON on [SEIL/X](http://www.seil.jp/download/eng/). 2188: 2189: Paper Session (NetBSD-related content): Christoph Badura: [Gaols: 2190: Implementing Jails Under the kauth 2191: Framework](http://2008.asiabsdcon.org/timetable.html#P3A), Antti Kantee: 2192: [Send and Recieve of File System Protocols: Userspace Approach With 2193: puffs](http://2008.asiabsdcon.org/timetable.html#P4B), Kristaps 2194: Džonsons: [Logical Resource Isolation in the NetBSD 2195: Kernel](http://2008.asiabsdcon.org/timetable.html#P5A) [detail: 2196: [mult](http://mult.bsd.lv/)] , Alistair Crooks: [A Portable iSCSI 2197: Initiator](http://2008.asiabsdcon.org/timetable.html#P6A), Jörg 2198: Sonnenberger and Jared D.McNeill: [Sleeping Beauty - NetBSD on Modern 2199: Laptops](http://2008.asiabsdcon.org/timetable.html#P9A) 2200: [[Presentation](./presentations/)] . 2201: 2202: Mini Talk: M.Warner Losh: FreeBSD/mips, Alistair Crooks: Three roadmaps 2203: for NetBSD development through 5.0 and 6.0 - this will cover storage, 2204: networking and virtualisation. 2205: ### `Feb 2008` - Open Source Conference 2008 Tokyo/Spring 2206: 2207: *Feb. 29-Mar. 1, 2008, [Japan Electronics 2208: College.](http://www.jec.ac.jp/college/access.html), Tokyo, Japan* 2209: 2210: At the [Open Source Conference 2008 2211: Tokyo/Spring](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2008-spring/) , there was a NetBSD 2212: booth staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 2213: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) with many hpc{ 2214: [mips](../ports/hpcmips/), [sh](../ports/hpcsh/), 2215: [arm](../ports/hpcarm/) [arm](../ports/hpcarm/) [NetBSD/i386 on Asus 2216: EeePC](../ports/i386/netbook.html) } gadgets demonstration and 2217: [Speecys](http://www.speecys.com/) Robots. 2218: 2219: ### `Feb 2008` - FOSDEM 2008 2220: 2221: *Feb 23-24, 2008, Brussels, Belgium* 2222: 2223: NetBSD has had a booth at the FOSDEM on Feb 23-24 2008 in Brussels, 2224: Belgium. FOSDEM is a free and non-commercial event organised by the 2225: community for the community. The NetBSD booth was manned by Thomas 2226: Reisky <doppelhertz@bsdgroup.de>. 2227: 2228: ### `Feb 2008` - SCALE 6x 2229: 2230: *Feb. 9-10, 2007, Los Angeles, USA* 2231: 2232: The NetBSD project was represented by A.KML and A.DAVID at [SCALE 2233: 6x](http://www.socallinuxexpo.org/), the 6th annual Southern California 2234: Linux Expo, which took place February 9-10, 2008 at The Westin Los 2235: Angeles Airport, Los Angeles, California. 2236: 2237: ### `Dec 2007` - Open Source Conference 2007 Fukuoka 2238: 2239: *Dec. 8, 2007, [ASC BUILD.](http://www.kma.ne.jp/asc/), Fukuoka, Japan* 2240: 2241: At the [Open Source Conference 2007 2242: Fukuoka](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2007-fukuoka/) , there was a NetBSD booth 2243: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 2244: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) with many hpc{ 2245: [mips](../ports/hpcmips/), [sh](../ports/hpcsh/), 2246: [arm](../ports/hpcarm/) } gadgets demonstration. 2247: 2248: ### `Nov 2007` - Open Source Conference 2007 Okinawa 2249: 2250: *Nov. 17, 2007, [Okiden Fureai 2251: Hall](http://www.okiden.co.jp/corporate/branch/naha.html), Okinawa, 2252: Japan* 2253: 2254: At the [Open Source Conference 2007 2255: Okinawa](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2007-okinawa/) , there was a NetBSD booth 2256: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 2257: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) with many hpc{ 2258: [mips](../ports/hpcmips/), [sh](../ports/hpcsh/), 2259: [arm](../ports/hpcarm/) } gadgets demonstration. 2260: 2261: ### Nov 2007 - come2linux: Linux-days Essen 2007 2262: 2263: *November 10-11th 2007, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany* 2264: 2265: NetBSD was present at *come2linux*, the Linux-days Essen 2007. There was 2266: a joint BSD booth, the NetBSD part was manned by Stefan Klose, Julian 2267: Suschlik and Karsten Kruse. 2268: 2269: ### `Nov 2007` - Kansai OpenSource 2007 2270: 2271: *Nov. 9-10, 2007, [Asia and Pacific Trade Center ITC 2272: Building](http://www.atc-co.com/), Osaka, Japan* 2273: 2274: At the [Kansai OpenSource 2007](http://www.k-of.jp/), there was a NetBSD 2275: booth staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 2276: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) with [Mac LCIII+475 2277: upgrade](../ports/mac68k/), [iBook](../ports/macppc/) with [Servo motor 2278: realtime control via USB audio](http://rogiken.org/daemon/works.html), 2279: [Zaurus C3200](../ports/zaurus/), many hpc{ [mips](../ports/hpcmips/), 2280: [sh](../ports/hpcsh/), [arm](../ports/hpcarm/) } gadgets demonstration. 2281: 2282: ### `Oct 2007` - Open Source Conference 2007 Niigata 2283: 2284: *Oct. 27, 2007, [NIIGATA TERRSA](http://www.n-terrsa.jp/access/), 2285: Niigata, Japan* 2286: 2287: At the [Open Source Conference 2007 2288: Niigata](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2007-niigata/) , there was a NetBSD booth 2289: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 2290: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) with many hpc{ 2291: [mips](../ports/hpcmips/), [sh](../ports/hpcsh/), 2292: [arm](../ports/hpcarm/) } gadgets demonstration. 2293: 2294: ### `Oct 2007` - Systems Munich 2295: 2296: NetBSD was present at the Open Source Pavillon (hall B2, booth 110-2) at 2297: the [Systems](http://www.systems-world.de/) Computer Fair in Munich, 2298: Germany, from October 23rd to 26th. The booth is sponsored and organized 2299: by [Computer- und Literaturverlag](http://www.cul.de/). 2300: 2301: ### `Oct 2007` - First Turkish Conference on BSD Systems 2302: 2303: *Oct. 19-20, 2007, Sultanahmet Campus Marmara University, Istanbul, 2304: Turkey* 2305: 2306: BSDConTR was the first conference on BSD systems in Turkey. The 2307: conference was organized in full cooperation with EnderUNIX Software 2308: Development team, which is largely known as its ongoing support for BSD 2309: systems in Turkey, and its open source projects and Marmara University. 2310: 2311: More information on BSDConTR at [](http://www.bsdcontr.org/) 2312: 2313: ### `Oct 2007` - Brandenburger Linux-Infotag 2314: 2315: The Brandenburg Linux-Infotag was held on Oct 20th 2007 at the FH 2316: Brandenburg, Germany. The NetBSD project was represented with an own 2317: booth, and Stefan Schumacher was there to answer questions. For more 2318: information, see the [event's 2319: homepage](http://www.linuxinfotag-brb.de/). 2320: 2321: ### `Oct 2007` - Open Source Conference 2007 Tokyo/Fall 2322: 2323: *Oct. 5-6, 2007, [Ota City Industrial 2324: Plaza](http://www.pio-ota.jp/english/access.html), Tokyo, Japan* 2325: 2326: At the [Open Source Conference 2007 2327: Tokyo/Fall](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2007-fall/) , there was a NetBSD booth 2328: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 2329: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) with 2330: [X68030](../ports/x68k/) with [Nereid](http://xps.jp/), many hpc{ 2331: [mips](../ports/hpcmips/), [sh](../ports/hpcsh/), 2332: [arm](../ports/hpcarm/) } gadgets demonstration and [IPv6 and Security 2333: Presentation by 2334: itojun](http://www.itojun.org/paper/itojun-200710-ospn-tokyo/mgp00001.html). 2335: 2336: ### `Sep 2007` - EuroBSDCon 2007 2337: 2338: *Sep. 14-15, 2007, Copenhagen, Denmark* 2339: 2340: The sixth annual European BSD Conference, EuroBSDCon 2007, was held on 2341: September 14-15th 2007 at Symbion Science Park in Copenhagen, Denmark. 2342: Two days of Tutorials preceeded the Conference on Sep 12-13th. 2343: 2344: For more information about EuroBSDCon 2007 visit the website 2345: [](http://2007.EuroBSDCon.org/). 2346: 2347: ### Aug 2007 - Chaos Communications Camp 2007 2348: 2349: The Chaos Communications Camp is the summer event of the Chaos Computer 2350: Club. It was held from August 8th to 12th at the Airport Museum 2351: Finowfurt near Berlin, Germany. See the event's 2352: [homepage](http://events.ccc.de/camp/2007/) for more information. 2353: 2354: ### `Jul 2007` - Open Source Conference 2007 in Kansai 2355: 2356: *Jul. 20-21, 2007, Kyoto Computer Gakuin, Kyoto, Japan* 2357: 2358: At the [Open Source Conference 2007 2359: Kansai](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2007-kansai/) , there was a NetBSD booth 2360: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 2361: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) and [Nagoya \*BSD Users' 2362: Group](http://www.nagoya.bug.gr.jp/). There were gadgets power 2363: consumption demonstration ( [amd64](../ports/amd64/), 2364: [alpha](../ports/alpha/), [evbarm](../ports/evbarm/), 2365: [hpcarm](../ports/hpcarm/), [hpcmips](../ports/hpcmips/), 2366: [hpcsh](../ports/hpcsh/), [news68k](../ports/news68k/), 2367: [newsmips](../ports/newsmips/), [sandpoint](../ports/sandpoint/), 2368: [sgimips](../ports/sgimips/), [xen](../ports/xen/), 2369: [OpenBSD/zaurus](http://www.OpenBSD.org/zaurus.html) ) and [BSD 2370: BOF](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2007-kansai/modules/eguide/event.php?eid=52) 2371: ( [Servo motor realtime control via USB 2372: audio](http://rogiken.org/daemon/works.html), [Apache 2373: Geronimo](http://geronimo.apache.org/), [NetBSD and 2374: Java](http://www.yagoto-urayama.jp/~oshimaya/netbsd/netbsd-java/index.html) 2375: ). 2376: 2377: [A report with some 2378: photos](http://www.nagoya.bug.gr.jp/2007/osc2007-kansai/index.html) is 2379: available. 2380: 2381: ### Jul 2007 - Chaos Singularity (CoSin) 2007 2382: 2383: *Jul. 6-8, 2007, Bremgarten AG, Switzerland* 2384: 2385: The Chaos Singularity 2007 was an event organized by swiss groups which 2386: organizationally or by content are related to the CCC (Chaos Computer 2387: Club). This event took place from July 6th to 8th at the cultural center 2388: of Bremgarten ([KuZeB](http://www.kuzeb.ch)) in the canton of Aargau, 2389: Switzerland. 2390: 2391: There was a BSD booth at the CoSin 2007, also representing NetBSD. A 2392: report was posted to the 2393: [regional-de](http://mail-index.NetBSD.org/regional-de/2007/07/09/0000.html) 2394: mailing list. 2395: 2396: ### `Jul 2007` - Japan NetBSD Users' Group meeting & NetBSD BOF 2397: 2398: *Jul 7, 2007, [The University of 2399: Tokyo](http://www.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/epage/public/map/e25-j.html), Tokyo, 2400: Japan* 2401: 2402: See [this 2403: page](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/announce/meeting9.html) for 2404: meeting information. Talking about ColdFire, 2405: [MobileIPv6](https://op-ha.nautilus6.org/), [Type 0 Routing Header 2406: issue](http://www.kame.net/newsletter/20070502/index.html), update 2407: net80211 and Atheros, pkgsrc, 2408: [NetBSD/playstation3](http://www.ki.nu/hardware/.ps3/files/20070707/), 2409: [build status](ftp://ftp.ki.nu/pub/NetBSD-daily/HEAD/map/index.html), 2410: automake to BSD make converter, NetBSD - Now, 4.0 and Future, PGP key 2411: sign party. 2412: 2413: ### `Jun 2007` - Open Source Conference 2007 in Hokkaido 2414: 2415: *Jun. 30, 2007, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan* 2416: 2417: At the [Open Source Conference 2007 2418: Hokkaido](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2007-do/) , there was a NetBSD booth 2419: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 2420: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) with many hpc{ 2421: [mips](../ports/hpcmips/), [sh](../ports/hpcsh/), 2422: [arm](../ports/hpcarm/) } gadgets demonstration, Internet Radio Player 2423: on USL-5P, NetBSD/Armadillo-9. 2424: 2425: ### May 2007 - Linuxtag Berlin 2426: 2427: LinuxTag 2007 opened its doors from May 30 to June 2, 2007 at the Berlin 2428: Expo Center under the Funkturm in Berlin, Germany. The event featured 2429: many talks about Open Source, Linux and there was a [full 2430: BSD-track](http://www.linuxtag.org/2007/en/conf/events/vp-freitag.html) 2431: at the 2432: [BSD-Day](http://www.linuxtag.org/2007/de/community/workshops/bsd-day.html) 2433: this year, too. Besides the talks there was a large exhibition fair, and 2434: the NetBSD project was among the BSD projects, which had a joint booth. 2435: BSD talks included Hubert Feyrer's NetBSD status report. 2436: 2437: See the [Linuxtag homepage](http://www.linuxtag.org/2007/) for more 2438: information. 2439: 2440: ### `May 2007` - BSDCan 2007 2441: 2442: *May 18-19, 2007, Ottawa, Canada* 2443: 2444: In just three short years, BSDCan, a BSD conference held in Ottawa, has 2445: quickly established itself as the technical conference for people 2446: working on and with 4.4BSD based operating systems and related projects. 2447: The organizers have found a fantastic formula that appeals to a wide 2448: range of people from extreme novices to advanced developers. 2449: 2450: That year, BSDCan 2007 was held on 18-19 May 2007 at University of 2451: Ottawa, and was preceded by two days of Tutorials on 16-17 May 2007. 2452: 2453: For more information about BSDCan 2007 visit 2454: [](http://www.BSDCan.org/2007/). 2455: 2456: ### `Apr 2007` - pkgsrcCon 2007 2457: 2458: *Apr. 27-29, 2007, Barcelona, Spain* 2459: 2460: The fourth annual pkgsrcCon will convene in Barcelona, Spain on April 27 2461: to 29, 2007. pkgsrcCon is a technical conference for people working on 2462: the [NetBSD Packages Collection 2463: (pkgsrc)](http://www.NetBSD.org/docs/software/packages.html), focusing 2464: on existing technologies, research projects, and works-in-progress in 2465: pkgsrc infrastructure. Developers, contributors, and users are all 2466: welcome to attend. 2467: 2468: More information about pkgsrcCon 2007 is available at 2469: [](http://www.pkgsrccon.org/2007/). 2470: 2471: ### `Mar 2007` - Linux-Infotag Augsburg 2472: 2473: *Mar 24, 2007, Augsburg, Germany* 2474: 2475: There will be a joint BSD booth at the Linux Infotag in Augsburg, 2476: including presence of the NetBSD project. The event offers some small 2477: expo space, and two tracks of talks, one with beginners in mind, the 2478: other one for advanced users. See [the event's 2479: homepage](http://www.luga.de/Aktionen/LIT-2007/) for more information. 2480: 2481: P.S.: A report is available in [this 2482: mail](http://mail-index.NetBSD.org/netbsd-advocacy/2007/03/26/0000.html). 2483: 2484: ### `Mar 2007` - Open Source Conference 2007 Tokyo/Spring 2485: 2486: *Mar. 16-17, 2007, Tokyo, Japan* 2487: 2488: At the [Open Source Conference 2007 2489: Tokyo/Spring](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2007-spring/), there will be a 2490: NetBSD booth staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 2491: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) with many hpc{ 2492: [mips](../ports/hpcmips/), [sh](../ports/hpcsh/), 2493: [arm](../ports/hpcarm/) } gadgets demonstration and 2494: [Speecys](http://www.speecys.com/) Robots. 2495: 2496: ### `Mar 2007` - AsiaBSDCon 2007 2497: 2498: *Mar. 8-11, 2007, Tokyo, Japan* 2499: 2500: AsiaBSDCon is a conference for users and developers on BSD based 2501: systems. The conference is for anyone developing, deploying and using 2502: systems based on FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, DragonFly BSD, Darwin, and 2503: MacOS X. AsiaBSDCon is a technical conference and aims to collect the 2504: best technical papers and presentations available to ensure that the 2505: latest developments in our open source community are shared with the 2506: widest possible audience. 2507: 2508: Please contact secretary@asiabsdcon.org if you have any questions. The 2509: AsiaBSDCon 2007 timetable is available at 2510: [](http://2007.asiabsdcon.org/timetable.html). 2511: 2512: ### `Mar 2007` - Chemnitzer Linux-Tage 2513: 2514: *Mar. 3-4, 2007, Chemnitz* 2515: 2516: NetBSD will have a booth and related talks at the Chemnitzer Linux-Tage 2517: (linux days) in Chemnitz, Germany. See 2518: [](http://chemnitzer.linux-tage.de/2007/) for more information. If you 2519: want to help out manning the booth, please contact Hubert Feyrer 2520: <hubertf@NetBSD.org> for further details. 2521: 2522: ### `Feb 2007` - GUUG spring talk 2523: 2524: *Feb. 27-Mar. 2, 2007, Berlin, Germany* 2525: 2526: The German Unix User Group will have it's annual spring talk 2527: (Frühjahrsfachgespräch) in Berlin this year. It will take place February 2528: 27-March 2, 2007, at the Freie Universität Berlin. There will be several 2529: talks about Unix and Unix-related topics, and one will be held by Stefan 2530: Schumacher on how to secure a NetBSD system using Systrace. 2531: 2532: More information can be found at 2533: [](http://www.guug.de/veranstaltungen/ffg2007/) and 2534: [](http://www.guug.de/veranstaltungen/ffg2007/abstracts.html#3_7_1). The 2535: German language article can be found at: 2536: [](http://net-tex.dnsalias.org/~stefan/nt/netbsd/systrace.html). 2537: 2538: Ignatios also 2539: [posted](http://mail-index.NetBSD.org/regional-de/2007/03/27/0000.html) 2540: his [slides (german 2541: language!)](http://theory.cs.uni-bonn.de/~ignatios/erlgrey-guug-ffg-2007.pdf). 2542: 2543: ### `Feb 2007` - FOSDEM 2007 2544: 2545: *Feb 24-25, 2007, Brussels, Belgium* 2546: 2547: on February 24 and 25, the Free and Open source Software Developers' 2548: European Meeting (FOSDEM) takes place again at the Free University of 2549: Brussels, Belgium. 2550: 2551: There will be a joint \*BSD booth with flyers, CD's, T-shirts and other 2552: merchandising, and the Xen demo machine (now upgraded to NetBSD 2553: 4.0\_BETA2 with Xen 3.x). Furthermore there are a lot of interesting 2554: talks, development rooms, a key signing event, etcetera. More 2555: information is available on [](http://www.fosdem.org). 2556: 2557: ### `Feb 2007` - SCALE 5x 2558: 2559: *Feb. 10-11, 2007, Los Angeles, USA* 2560: 2561: [SCALE 5x](http://www.socallinuxexpo.org/), the 5th annual Southern 2562: California Linux Expo, took place February 10-11, 2007, at The Westin 2563: Los Angeles Airport, Los Angeles, California. The NetBSD Project had a 2564: booth at this event; see the reports by 2565: [A.KML](http://mail-index.NetBSD.org/netbsd-advocacy/2007/02/11/0000.html) 2566: and 2567: [A.JSCHAUMA](http://mail-index.NetBSD.org/netbsd-advocacy/2007/02/12/0000.html). 2568: 2569: ### `Dec 2006` - BSDCon Chile 2006 2570: 2571: *December 9, 2006, Universidad Diego Portales - Santiago, Chile.* 2572: 2573: This is the first BSD related conference held in Chile (Latin America). 2574: Our main objective is to provide a place for BSD developers, users and 2575: Sysadmins to meet in Chile to share and interchange ideas, experiences, 2576: knowledge and in addition to socialize to construct future links to 2577: expand knowledge of BSD systems. 2578: 2579: The conference is for anyone developing, administrating and using 2580: systems based on FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, DragonFlyBSD, Darwin, MacOS X 2581: and Solaris. 2582: 2583: For more information, please [visit the 2584: website](http://www.bsd.cl/index.php/BSDCon2006). 2585: 2586: ### `Dec 2006` - OpenSource Conference 2006 Okinawa 2587: 2588: *December 2, 2006, Okinawa Industry Support Center,Japan* 2589: 2590: At the [OpenSource Conference 2006 2591: Okinawa](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2006-okinawa/) , there will be a NetBSD 2592: booth staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 2593: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) with many hpc{ 2594: [mips](../ports/hpcmips/), [sh](../ports/hpcsh/), 2595: [arm](../ports/hpcarm/) } gadgets demonstration. 2596: 2597: ### `Nov 2006` - Hackathon 2598: 2599: NetBSD will run another hackathon, primarily dedicated to get -current 2600: ready for the 4.0 re-branch. See the [Hackathon 2601: page](../community/hackathon.html) for details. 2602: 2603: ### `Nov 2006` - LinuxDay Dornbirn, Austria 2604: 2605: NetBSD will be present as part of the OpenSource community at the 2606: [LinuxDay in Dornbirn](http://www.linuxday.at/), Austria, on November 2607: 18th. Please contact Raphael Langerhorst <raphael@raphael.g-system.at> 2608: if you have any questions or want to help out. 2609: 2610: ### `Nov 2006` - EuroBSDCon Milan 2611: 2612: EuroBSDCon 2006, the European BSD Conference will be held November 10th 2613: - 12th 2006 in Milan, Italy. The 2614: [schedule](http://www.eurobsdcon.org/schedule.php) is up now, and it has 2615: quite a bit of NetBSD-related content: 2616: 2617: - Anders "Ragge" Magnusson: How to set an internet2 Landspeed record 2618: - Jörg Sonnenberger: pkg\_install 2619: - Alistair Crooks: iSCSI - beyond the hype 2620: - NetBSD Security Enhancements: Elad Efrat 2621: - Emmanuel Dreyfus: What's new in NetBSD? 2622: - Brian A. Seklecki: A Scalable Framework for Compact Flash Booting 2623: NetBSD Network Appliances 2624: - Antti Kantee & Johannes Helander: Implementing Lightweight Routing 2625: for BSD TCP/IP 2626: 2627: Registration is open now. Please [see the 2628: website](http://www.eurobsdcon.org/) for more details! 2629: 2630: ### `Oct 2006` - NYCBSDCon 2006 2631: 2632: *Oct. 28-29, 2006, New York, NY, USA* 2633: 2634: Building on last year's success, the [New York City \*BSD User 2635: Group](http://www.nycbug.org/) is organizing [NYCBSDCon 2636: 2006](http://nycbsdcon.org/). The 2637: [schedule](http://nycbsdcon.org/schedule) shows some speakers talking 2638: about NetBSD-related topics. 2639: 2640: ### `Oct 2006` - Open Source Conference 2006 Tokyo/Fall 2641: 2642: *Oct. 28, 2006, Tokyo, Japan* 2643: 2644: At the [Open Source Conference 2006 2645: Tokyo/Fall](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2006-fall/), there will be a NetBSD 2646: booth staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 2647: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) with many hpc{ 2648: [mips](../ports/hpcmips/), [sh](../ports/hpcsh/), 2649: [arm](../ports/hpcarm/) } gadgets demonstration. 2650: 2651: ### `Oct 2006` - Systems Munich 2652: 2653: NetBSD will be present at the Open Source Pavillon (hall A3, booth 2654: A3.542) at the [Systems](http://www.systems-world.de/) Computer Fair in 2655: Munich, Germany, from October 23rd to 27th. The booth is sponsored and 2656: organized by [Computer- und Literaturverlag](http://www.cul.de/) - if 2657: you want to join us in manning the booth, please contact Hubert Feyrer 2658: <hubertf@NetBSD.org>. 2659: 2660: A report on the event is available 2661: [here](http://mail-index.NetBSD.org/netbsd-advocacy/2006/10/30/0001.html). 2662: 2663: ### `Sep 2006` - Ohio Linuxfest 2664: 2665: *Sep. 30, 2006, Columbus, Ohio, USA* 2666: 2667: There will be a NetBSD booth at the 2006 [Ohio 2668: Linuxfest](http://www.ohiolinux.org/) Conference and Expo. Contact A.JRF 2669: <jrf@NetBSD.org> if you have any questions or want to help out at the 2670: booth. 2671: 2672: A report of the event can be found 2673: [here](http://mail-index.NetBSD.org/netbsd-advocacy/2006/10/17/0000.html). 2674: 2675: ### `Sep 2006` - NetBSD at Linux-days Essen 2006: come2linux 2676: 2677: NetBSD will participate in the Linux-days in Essen, dubbed "come2linux". 2678: There will be a joint BSD booth, the NetBSD part will be manned by 2679: Menuhin Saitov <menuhin@web.de>, feel free to contact him about helping 2680: out at the booth or if you have any questions. A number of NetBSD CDs, 2681: NetBSD t-shirts etc. will be available at the booth, too. 2682: 2683: The event takes place on September 9th and 10th 2006 at the Glaspavillon 2684: of the University of Duisburg-Essen. See 2685: [http://www.come2linux.org/](http://www.come2linux.org/) for more 2686: information. 2687: 2688: A report on the event was [posted to the regional-de mailing 2689: list](http://mail-index.NetBSD.org/regional-de/2006/09/16/0000.html). 2690: 2691: ### `Sep 2006` - NetBSD at Linux-kongress Nuremberg 2006 2692: 2693: There will be a NetBSD booth at the Linux-Kongress in Nuremberg on 2694: September 7th and 8th at the University of Applied Sciences 2695: (Fachhochschule) Nuernberg. See 2696: [http://www.linux-kongress.org/](http://www.linux-kongress.org/) for 2697: more information on the event, and contact Hubert Feyrer 2698: <hubertf@NetBSD.org> if you have any questions or want to help out at 2699: the booth. 2700: 2701: A.HUBERTF wrote a short 2702: [report](http://mail-index.NetBSD.org/netbsd-advocacy/2006/09/09/0000.html) 2703: about the event. 2704: 2705: ### `Jul 2006` - Open Source Conference 2006 in Hokkaido 2706: 2707: *Jul. 15, 2006, Sapporo, Japan* 2708: 2709: At the [Open Source Conference 2006 DO](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2006-do/) 2710: , there will be a NetBSD booth staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD 2711: Users' Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) with many hpc{ 2712: [mips](../ports/hpcmips/), [sh](../ports/hpcsh/), 2713: [arm](../ports/hpcarm/) } gadgets demonstration. 2714: 2715: ### `Jun 2006` - Open Source Conference 2006 in Niigata 2716: 2717: *Jun. 17, 2006, Niigata, Japan* 2718: 2719: At the [Open Source Conference 2006 2720: Niigata](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2006-niigata/) , there was a NetBSD booth 2721: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 2722: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) with many hpc{ 2723: [mips](../ports/hpcmips/), [sh](../ports/hpcsh/), 2724: [arm](../ports/hpcarm/) } gadgets demonstration with 150 attendances. 2725: 2726: ### `Jun 2006` - Interop 2006 Tokyo BSD BOF 2727: 2728: *Jun 8, 2006, Makuhari-Messe, Chiba, Japan, 18:30-20:00 JST* 2729: 2730: [Interop 2006 Tokyo BSD 2731: BOF](https://ssl.medialive.jp/in2006fm/jp/seminar_BOF03.html) was held 2732: in [Interop 2006 Tokyo](http://www.interop.jp/2006/) with 129 2733: attendances. BOF03. Room 201. 2734: 2735: - Asia BSD Con 2007 Call for Participation , George Neville-Neil / 2736: FreeBSD Project 2737: - FreeBSD: Suspend and Resume Circumstances, for Panasonic Let's Note 2738: CF-R4, Norikatsu Shigemura / 2739: Ensure Technology Ltd 2740: . 2741: - BSD Usergroup activity: 2742: Echigo BSD Users Group 2743: , T.Tamura@EBUG 2744: - XCAST - Explicit Multi-Unicast 2745: 2746: \> See [program for 2747: details](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/ml/announce-ja/200606/msg00000.html). 2748: 2749: The BoF was broadcasted via RealVideo (238 clients), 2750: [xcast](http://www.xcast.jp/) (6 clients) , 2751: [IRC](http://www.reicha.net/) (49 clients). 2752: 2753: ### `May 2006` - BSDCan 2006 2754: 2755: *May 12-13 2006, Ottawa, Canada* 2756: 2757: In just two years, [BSDCan](http://www.bsdcan.org/), a BSD conference 2758: held in Ottawa, has quickly established itself as the technical 2759: conference for people working on and with 4.4BSD based operating systems 2760: and related projects. The organizers have found a fantastic formula that 2761: appeals to a wide range of people from extreme novices to advanced 2762: developers. 2763: 2764: This year, BSDCan 2006 will be will be held on May 12-13 2006 at 2765: University of Ottawa, and some other related events will be passed 2766: during May 10-14th. 2767: 2768: [Watch out](http://www.bsdcan.org/2006/presentations.php) for the 2769: [NetBSD people](http://www.bsdcan.org/2006/speaker.php) on BSDCan 2006! 2770: 2771: ### `May 2006` - pkgsrcCon 2006 2772: 2773: *May 5-7, Paris, France* 2774: 2775: The third pkgsrc conference will be held on May 5-7, 2006 in Paris, 2776: France. Universite Paris 7 - Denis Diderot is graciously hosting the 2777: conference on their campus. 2778: 2779: pkgsrcCon is a technical conference for people working on the NetBSD 2780: Packages Collection (pkgsrc), focusing on existing technologies, 2781: research projects, and works-in-progress in pkgsrc infrastructure. 2782: Developers, contributors, and users are all welcome to attend, and to 2783: share an excellent opportunity to gather and to discuss ideas 2784: face-to-face on how to improve pkgsrc. 2785: 2786: For more information, including how to register, and how to submit a 2787: presentation proposal, please visit 2788: [http://www.pkgsrcCon.org/](http://www.pkgsrcCon.org/). 2789: 2790: ### `May 2006` - LinuxTag 2006 2791: 2792: *May 3-6 2006, Wiesbaden, Germany* 2793: 2794: NetBSD will have a booth at [LinuxTag 2006](http://www.linuxtag.org/), 2795: visit us at Hall 9, booth number 944. There will also be BSD talks and 2796: tutorials. 2797: 2798: If you're interested in helping out at the NetBSD booth or have any 2799: questions, please contact Dennis Wecker <dennis@eperm.net>. 2800: 2801: ### `Apr 2006` - Vintage Computer Festival Europe 2802: 2803: *Apr 29th - May 1st, Munich, Germany* 2804: 2805: The [Vintage Computer Festival Europe](http://www.vcfe.org/) is taking 2806: place from April 29th to May 1st in Munich, Germany. NetBSD's A.JKUNZ 2807: will demonstrate 2.11BSD on a PDP-11/73 and do some general NetBSD 2808: advocacy. If you're interested, please contact A.JKUNZ and/or visit the 2809: URL above. 2810: 2811: ### `Apr 2006` - Japan NetBSD Users' Group meeting & NetBSD BOF 2812: 2813: *Apr 16, 2006, [National Olympics Memorial Youth 2814: Center](http://nyc.niye.go.jp/e/), Tokyo, Japan* 2815: 2816: See [this 2817: page](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/announce/meeting8.html) for 2818: meeting information. Talking about NetBSD/pc98, GDB operation on Emacs, 2819: NetBSD/dreamcast maracas controller, NetBSD/kurobako, NetBSD/Armadillo, 2820: Codeblog. 2821: 2822: ### `Apr 2006` - LinuxWorld-Boston 2006 2823: 2824: *April 3-6, 2006, Boston, MA, USA* 2825: 2826: This year the first of two LinuxWorld Conferences & Expo is going to 2827: take place in Boston, MA, USA at the beginning of April. The NetBSD 2828: Project might be represented with a [shared] booth there - if you are 2829: interested in helping out, please contact Brian Asemi (asemisldkfj at 2830: gmail.com). 2831: 2832: For more information about this event see 2833: [](http://mail-index.NetBSD.org/netbsd-advocacy/2006/04/07/0000.html). 2834: 2835: ### `Mar 2006` - Chemnitzer Linux-Tage 2006 2836: 2837: *March 4-5th 2006, TU Chemnitz, Chemnitz, Germany* 2838: 2839: NetBSD will have a booth at the [Chemnitzer 2840: Linux-Tage](http://chemnitzer.linux-tage.de), one of the largest Linux 2841: Cons in Germany. 2842: 2843: Additionally, several NetBSD presentations and a workshop will be held: 2844: 2845: - Karl Uwe Lockhoff: Introduction into Unix, BSD and Co. 2846: - Stefan Schumacher: Backup and Recovery in a NetBSD environment 2847: - Dennis Wecker: Verified Exec in NetBSD 2848: - Matthias Petermann: NetBSD Features 2849: - Hubert Feyrer: NetBSD example installation in QEmu (Workshop) 2850: 2851: For further information contact Stefan Schumacher \<stefan (at) 2852: net-tex.de\>. 2853: 2854: ### `Mar 2006` - CeBIT 2006 2855: 2856: *March 9-15 2006, Hannover, Germany* 2857: 2858: The NetBSD project will have a booth at [CeBIT](http://www.cebit.de/), 2859: the large b2b-tradefair in Hannover, Germany, from March 12-15. The 2860: booth will be in Hall 5, number E 56 and will showcase NetBSD and Xen. 2861: 2862: ### `Mar 2006` - Open Source Conference 2006 Tokyo/Spring 2863: 2864: *Mar. 17-18, 2006, Tokyo, Japan* 2865: 2866: At the [Open Source Conference 2006 2867: Tokyo/Spring](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2006/), there will be a NetBSD booth 2868: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 2869: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) with many hpc{ 2870: [mips](../ports/hpcmips/), [sh](../ports/hpcsh/), 2871: [arm](../ports/hpcarm/) } gadgets demonstration. 2872: 2873: ### `Mar 2006` - GUUG spring talk 2874: 2875: *March 21-24th 2006, Osnabrück, Germany* 2876: 2877: [German Unix User Group 2878: “Frühjahrsfachgespräch”](http://www.guug.de/veranstaltungen/ffg2006/) 2879: (spring talk) will be passed during 21.-24.3.2006 in the [University of 2880: Osnabrück](http://www.uni-osnabrueck.de/). 2881: 2882: There will be at least one NetBSD-related talk, on [backup 2883: strategies](http://www.guug.de/veranstaltungen/ffg2006/abstracts.html#3_8_2). 2884: Interested parties are welcome to coordinate any BOF sessions or booth 2885: activities with Stefan Schumacher, see [his posting on 2886: regional-de](http://mail-index.NetBSD.org/regional-de/2006/01/29/0000.html). 2887: 2888: ### `Feb 2006` - FOSDEM 2006 2889: 2890: *February 25/26th 2006, Brussels, Belgium* 2891: 2892: The sixth [Free and Open source Software Developers' European 2893: Meeting](http://www.fosdem.org/) is a 2 days event, organized by 2894: volunteers, to promote the widespread use of Free and Open Source 2895: software. Taking place in the beautiful city of Brussels, Belgium FOSDEM 2896: meetings are recognised as the best Free and Open Source events in 2897: Europe. 2898: 2899: A.PETER (<peter>) and A.GHEN (<ghen>) [will 2900: advocate](http://mail-index.NetBSD.org/netbsd-advocacy/2006/02/21/0000.html) 2901: the NetBSD project on this event. Hope to see you too! 2902: 2903: Update: A.GHEN posted a [review of the 2904: event](http://mail-index.NetBSD.org/netbsd-advocacy/2006/02/26/0000.html). 2905: 2906: ### `Feb 2006` - SCALE 4x 2907: 2908: *February 11-12th 2006, Los Angeles, California* 2909: 2910: [SCALE 4x](http://www.socallinuxexpo.org/), the 4th annual Southern 2911: California Linux Expo, will take place February 11-12, 2006, at The 2912: Westin Los Angeles Airport, Los Angeles, California. The NetBSD Project 2913: will have a booth at this event; please contact A.KML (<kml@NetBSD.org>) 2914: if you would like to help. 2915: 2916: A report from Kevin Lahey is 2917: [available](http://mail-index.NetBSD.org/netbsd-advocacy/2006/02/14/0000.html). 2918: 2919: ### `Dec 2005` - 22nd Chaos Communication Congress (22C3) 2920: 2921: *December 27-30th 2005, Berlin, Germany* 2922: 2923: [The 22nd Chaos Communication Congress 2924: (22C3)](http://events.ccc.de/congress/2005/) is a four-day conference on 2925: technology, society and utopia. The Congress offers lectures and 2926: workshops on a multitude of topics including (but not limited to) 2927: information technology, IT-security, internet, cryptography and 2928: generally a critical-creative attitude towards technology and the 2929: discussion about the effects of technological advances on society. 2930: 2931: ### `Nov 2005` - OpenSource Conference 2005 Okinawa 2932: 2933: *November 19, 2005, Okiden Fureai Hall,Japan* 2934: 2935: At the [OpenSource Conference 2005 2936: Okinawa](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2005-okinawa/) , there will be a NetBSD 2937: booth staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 2938: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) with many hpc{ 2939: [mips](../ports/hpcmips/), [sh](../ports/hpcsh/), 2940: [arm](../ports/hpcarm/) } gadgets demonstration. 2941: 2942: ### `Nov 2005` - EuroBSDCon 2005 2943: 2944: *November 25th-27th 2005, Switzerland* 2945: 2946: [EuroBSDCon 2005](http://2005.eurobsdcon.org/) will be held at the 2947: University of Basel, Switzerland on November 25th to 27th 2005. Check 2948: the [website](http://2005.eurobsdcon.org/) for official program, 2949: conference venue and registration. present. 2950: 2951: ### `Oct 2005` - Linux-Info-Tag Dresden 2005 2952: 2953: *October 29, 2005, Dresden, Germany* 2954: 2955: The “Linux-Info-Tag Dresden 2005” will take place on October 29th, 2005, 2956: in Dresden, Germany. There will be a NetBSD booth presenting NetBSD to 2957: the public and showing its abilities on demo computers. Furthermore, 2958: there will be a lecture entitled “Introduction to NetBSD” by Karl Uwe 2959: Lockhoff. 2960: 2961: For further information contact Stefan Schumacher (stefan [at] net-tex 2962: [dot] de) and see the website of the event at 2963: [](http://www.linux-info-tag.de/). 2964: 2965: ### `Oct 2005` - Systems 2005 2966: 2967: *October 24th-28th, 2005, Munich, Germany* 2968: 2969: There will be a BSD booth at the Systems computer show in Munich, 2970: Germany from October 24th to 28th 2005, where the BSD Projects (among 2971: others) will be presented. 2972: 2973: People willing to help are welcome. It's also fine that you have only on 2974: one or more days time to participate at the Booth. There is also a 2975: sponsor which provides food and drinks during the event! 2976: 2977: For more Information see [](http://www.systems.de/) 2978: 2979: Please contact Daniel Ettle (dan at deam dot org) to help at the booth, 2980: especially showing NetBSD! 2981: 2982: ### `Oct 2005` - KANSAI-OPENSOURCE-2005 2983: 2984: *October 28-October 29, 2005, Osaka Sangyo Souzoukan, Japan* 2985: 2986: At the [KANSAI OpenSource 2005](http://k-of.jp/2005/kof.html) there was 2987: a NetBSD booth staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 2988: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) with many hpc{ 2989: [mips](../ports/hpcmips/), [sh](../ports/hpcsh/), 2990: [arm](../ports/hpcarm/) } gadgets demonstration, and [DreamCast with ISA 2991: BUS Expander](../ports/dreamcast/), [NEC EWS4800 with 2992: NetBSD](http://mail-index.NetBSD.org/port-mips/2004/06/27/0000.html), 2993: [IO-DATA USL-5P 2994: (NetBSD/landisk)](http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~aw9k-nnk/n/landisk.html). 2995: 2996: At the \*BSD Meeting in Kansai 2005, There was a BoF about Secure 2997: Programing, embeded-NetBSD developers' Network, Devices and more about 2998: BSD, driven by [Kansai \*BSD Users Group](http://www.kbug.gr.jp/). 2999: 3000: ### `Sep 2005` - Open Source Conference 2005 Fall 3001: 3002: *Sep. 17, 2005, Tokyo, Japan* 3003: 3004: At the [Open Source Conference 2005 3005: Fall](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2005-fall/) there was a NetBSD booth staffed 3006: by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 3007: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) with many hpc{ 3008: [mips](../ports/hpcmips/), [sh](../ports/hpcsh/), 3009: [arm](../ports/hpcarm/) } gadgets demonstration. 3010: 3011: ### `Sep 2005` - NYC BSD Con 2005 3012: 3013: *September 17th 2005, New York City, NY, USA* 3014: 3015: The [NYC BSD User Group](http://www.nycbug.org) organized the first [NYC 3016: BSD Conference](http://nycbsdcon.org/), a one day technical conference 3017: for developers, systems administrators and end-users of the BSD 3018: operating systems and related open source projects. Please see the 3019: [conference website](http://nycbsdcon.org/) for details. 3020: 3021: ### `Sep 2005` - Computer-Bank-Office 2005 3022: 3023: *September 7th-10th 2005, Odessa, Ukraine* 3024: 3025: The NetBSD Project will be presented at 10th annual international 3026: exhibition of information technologies, [Computer-Bank-Office 3027: 2005](http://www.expo-odessa.com/exeb.phtml?id=47&lang=en), which will 3028: take place at Expocentre of Odessa Marine Terminal. All talks about 3029: NetBSD and pkgsrc systems are scheduled for Sep 8th. Anyone interested 3030: in support for and preparation of this event, please contact Mike M. 3031: Volokhov <mishka@NetBSD.org>. See also [his 3032: post](http://mail-index.NetBSD.org/netbsd-advocacy/2005/07/12/0000.html) 3033: on netbsd-advocacy. 3034: 3035: ### `Sep 2005` - Portuguese NetBSD Users's Group meeting 3036: 3037: *September 10th 2005, Lisboa, Portugal* 3038: 3039: The [Portuguese NetBSD User Group](http://www.netbsd-pt.org/) second 3040: meeting will be held at [Parque das 3041: Nações](http://www.parquedasnacoes.pt/) (Vasco da Gama). Please see the 3042: group page for more information. 3043: 3044: ### `Aug 2005` - Japan NetBSD Users' Group meeting & NetBSD BOF 3045: 3046: *Aug 27, 2005, [National Olympics Memorial Youth 3047: Center](http://nyc.niye.go.jp/e/), Tokyo, Japan* 3048: 3049: See [this 3050: page](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/announce/meeting7.html) for 3051: meeting information. 3052: 3053: A 3054: [presentation](http://www.haun.org/kent/tmp/20050827-NetBSD-audio-en.pdf) 3055: about the changes on the NetBSD audio framework is also available. 3056: 3057: ### `Aug 2005` - BSDDAY São Paulo 3058: 3059: *August 13th, 2005, São Paulo, Brazil* 3060: 3061: The first [BSDDAY](http://www.bsdday.com.br/) in São Paulo, Brazil took 3062: place on August 13th, 2005. Presentations regarding the main BSD 3063: derivatives including, of course, NetBSD were given. Since the event is 3064: also meant to promote charity, the entrance fee was 2 Kilograms of 3065: non-perishable food, which were donated to a non-governmental 3066: organization. 3067: 3068: ### `Aug 2005` - LinuxWorld Conference & Expo 2005 3069: 3070: *August 9-11th, 2005, San Francisco, California, USA* 3071: 3072: [LinuxWorld Conference & Expo 3073: 2005](http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/live/12/events/12SFO05A/) was held 3074: in San Francisco, California, USA from August 9th to 11th 2005. NetBSD 3075: had a booth in the ".org Pavilion", organized by A.RIZ <riz@NetBSD.org>. 3076: One of the main attractions here was the [NetBSD 3077: Toaster](http://www.embeddedarm.com/news/netbsd_toaster.htm), engineered 3078: by Technologic Systems. See A.RIZ's 3079: [report](http://mail-index.NetBSD.org/netbsd-advocacy/2005/08/13/0000.html) 3080: for more details. 3081: 3082: ### `Jul 2005` - BSD at “What the Hack” outdoor hacker conference 3083: 3084: *July 28 - 31, 2005, Liempde, near Den Bosch, The Netherlands* 3085: 3086: [What The Hack](http://www.whatthehack.org/) is an outdoor hacker 3087: conference/event taking place on a large event-campground in the south 3088: of The Netherlands from 28 until 31 July 2005. There will be a BSD 3089: village with at least three members of the NetBSD Project present. For 3090: more details about the \*BSD presence see Daniel Ettle's 3091: [message](http://mail-index.NetBSD.org/netbsd-advocacy/2005/07/04/0000.html) 3092: to the netbsd-advocacy mailinglist. 3093: 3094: ### `Jul 2005` - BSD-CONFERENCE-JAPAN 2005 3095: 3096: *July 23, 2005, [NADYA 3097: Park](http://www.u-net.city.nagoya.jp/t-index/nadia.htm) Nagoya, Japan* 3098: 3099: [http://www.bsdcon.jp/](http://www.bsdcon.jp/) with 80 attendances. 3100: There had be a BSD booth staffed by members of the [Nagoya \*BSD Users' 3101: Group](http://www.nagoya.bug.gr.jp/). See more 3102: [Reports](http://pcweb.mycom.co.jp/articles/2005/07/27/bsdcon/). 3103: 3104: ### `Jul 2005` - Open Source Conference 2005 in Hokkaido 3105: 3106: *Jul. 9, 2005, Sapporo, Japan* 3107: 3108: At the Open Source Conference 2005 DO there had be a NetBSD booth 3109: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 3110: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/). 3111: [](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2005-do/) with 250 attendances and 17 user 3112: groups. 3113: 3114: ### `Jun 2005` - MeetBSD 2005 3115: 3116: *June 17-19th, 2005, Kraków, Poland* 3117: 3118: [MeetBSD 2005](http://2005.meetbsd.org/) will be held in Kraków, Poland, 3119: from June 17th to 19th 2005. Check the 3120: [website](http://2005.meetbsd.org/) for the official program conference 3121: venue and registration. 3122: 3123: ### `Jun 2005` - Interop 2005 Tokyo BSD BOF 3124: 3125: *Jun 9, 2005, Makuhari-Messe, Chiba, Japan, 18:30-20:00 JST* 3126: 3127: [Interop 2005 Tokyo BSD 3128: BOF](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/ml/announce-ja/200506/msg00000.html) 3129: was held in [Interop 2005 Tokyo](http://www.interop.jp/2005/) with 130 3130: attendances. BOF01. Room 302. 3131: 3132: - \*BSD Document Internationalization 3133: - A Robot that runs on NetBSD 3134: Live performance 3135: - BSD Usergroup activity in Japan 3136: - XCAST - Explicit Multi-Unicast 3137: 3138: See [program for 3139: details](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/ml/announce-ja/200506/msg00000.html). 3140: 3141: The BoF was broadcasted via RealVideo (277 3142: clients)/[xcast](http://www.xcast.jp/) (4 clients include [Univ. of 3143: Science Malaysia](http://nrg.cs.usm.my/), [Nagoya 3144: University](http://www.nagoya-u.ac.jp/en/), and [Nagoya \*BSD Users' 3145: Group](http://www.nagoya.bug.gr.jp/))/ [IRC](http://www.reicha.net/) (55 3146: 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)). 3147: 3148: ### `May 2005` - BSDCan2005 3149: 3150: *May 13th - May 14th, Ottawa, Canada* 3151: 3152: [BSDCan 2005](http://www.bsdcan.org/2005/) was held on May 13-14 2005 at 3153: University of Ottawa. There were related events on the 12th and the 15th 3154: (of a social nature, for the most part). 3155: 3156: ### `May 2005` - pkgsrcCon 2005 3157: 3158: *May 6th - May 8th 2005, Prague, Czech Republic* 3159: 3160: [pkgsrcCon 2005](http://www.pkgsrcCon.org/2005/) was held in Prague, 3161: Czech Republic from May 6th until May 8th 2005. pkgsrcCon is a technical 3162: conference for people working on the [NetBSD Packages Collection 3163: (pkgsrc)](../docs/pkgsrc/), focusing on existing technologies, research 3164: projects, and works-in-progress in pkgsrc infrastructure. Developers, 3165: contributors, and users are all welcome to attend. You can view the 3166: [slides for this 3167: event](http://www.pkgsrcCon.org/2005/presentations.html) here. 3168: 3169: See [](http://www.pkgsrcCon.org/2005/) for details. 3170: 3171: ### `Apr 2005` - Linux Fest Northwest 2005 3172: 3173: LinuxFest Northwest is an annual conference providing many free lectures 3174: and booths covering the open source Unix community. The free event was 3175: held April 30th in Bellingham, Washington, USA. Lectures covering BSD 3176: topics and a BSD advocacy booth were available for the fourth year. 3177: Around 1000 people attended the past two years. 3178: 3179: More information is at 3180: [http://linuxnorthwest.org/](http://linuxnorthwest.org/). (If you can 3181: volunteer to help with NetBSD advocacy at LinuxFest, please see [this 3182: email](http://mail-index.NetBSD.org/netbsd-advocacy/2005/03/25/0000.html).) 3183: 3184: ### `Apr 2005` - 2005 USENIX Annual Technical Conference 3185: 3186: *April 10-15, 2005, Anaheim, California, USA* 3187: 3188: USENIX is a place to present groundbreaking research and cutting-edge 3189: practices in a wide variety of technologies and environments. The 2005 3190: program included additional tutorials, more security breakthroughs, and 3191: sessions devoted to Linux and Open Source Software. Join the community 3192: of programmers, developers, and systems professionals in sharing 3193: solutions and fresh ideas. 3194: 3195: See [](http://www.usenix.org/usenix05/) for details. 3196: 3197: ### `Mar 2005` - Open Source Conference 2005 3198: 3199: *Mar. 25-26, 2005, Tokyo, Japan* 3200: 3201: At the Open Source Conference 2005 there was a NetBSD booth staffed by 3202: members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 3203: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/). For more details see 3204: [](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2005/). 3205: 3206: ### `Mar 2005` - CeBIT 2005 3207: 3208: *March 10-16, 2005, Hannover, Germany* 3209: 3210: The NetBSD Project was presented at the [CeBIT 3211: 2005](http://www.cebit.de/) trade show. A few pictures are available at 3212: [this URL](http://nuxi.homeunix.org/album/messen/cebit-2005/). 3213: 3214: ### `Mar 2005` - Chemnitzer Linux-Tage 2005 3215: 3216: NetBSD was present Mar 5th/6th 2005 in Chemnitz, Germany. We had a fine 3217: NetBSD booth at the Chemnitz Linuxdays Mar 5th/6th 2005, with lots of 3218: fun going on. Please check Hubert Feyrer's BLOG for all the details: 3219: 3220: - Chemnitzer Linux-Tage 2005 Day 0 and 1 3221: - Chemnitzer Linux-Tage 2005 Day 2 3222: 3223: ### `Feb 2005` - Spring Talks of the German Unix User Group 3224: 3225: Feb 22nd to 25th 2005 in Munich, Germany. For some details on the event 3226: itself and some rumours & gossips see Hubert Feyrer's BLOG entries: 3227: 3228: - GUUG Spring Talk, Day 1 3229: - GUUG Spring Talk, Day 2 3230: - GUUG Spring Talk, Day 3 3231: 3232: ### `Feb 2005` - Southern California Linux Expo 3233: 3234: *Feb 12th -13th, 2005, Los Angeles, California* 3235: 3236: NetBSD had a booth at the [Southern California Linux 3237: Expo](http://www.socallinuxexpo.org/) at the LA Convention Center. 3238: NetBSD's presence in booth \#34 was organized by A.KML 3239: (<kml@NetBSD.org>). You can find an account of his experience 3240: [here](http://mail-index.NetBSD.org/netbsd-advocacy/2005/02/14/0008.html) 3241: and [here](http://www.nomadlogic.org/~pete/scale.html); a picture of the 3242: NetBSD booth also was prominently displayed 3243: [](http://www.socallinuxexpo.org/images/pictures/scale3x_day1_6.jpg). 3244: 3245: ### `Feb 2005` - Solutions Linux 2005 3246: 3247: *Feb. 1-3, 2005, Paris, France* 3248: 3249: NetBSD will have a booth at Solutions Linux 2005. We will be presenting 3250: both NetBSD and pkgsrc on various hardware and software platforms, while 3251: selling CDs and other merchandise. If you want to help, you can contact 3252: Quentin Garnier (<cube@cubidou.net>). 3253: 3254: ### `Dec 2004` - 21st Chaos Communication Congress (21c3) 3255: 3256: *Dec. 27 - 29, 2004, Berlin, Germany* 3257: 3258: There will be a NetBSD booth at this year's [21st Chaos Communications 3259: Congress](http://www.ccc.de/congress/2004/), and you're welcome to drop 3260: by for hacking, drinking, fun and entertainment, giving talks, promoting 3261: NetBSD and your working areas, help man the NetBSD booth, etc. Please 3262: contact Stefan Schumacher (stefan [at] net-tex [dot] de) if you're 3263: interested in helping out. There are some [notes on the 3264: event](http://mail-index.NetBSD.org/netbsd-advocacy/2004/12/30/0000.html) 3265: available. 3266: 3267: ### `Oct 2004` - EuroBSDCon 2004 3268: 3269: *Oct. 29 - 31, 2004, Karlsruhe, Germany* 3270: 3271: [EuroBSDCon 2004](http://2004.eurobsdcon.org/) took place in Karlsruhe, 3272: Germany. Check the [website](http://2004.eurobsdcon.org/) for official 3273: program, conference venue and registration. A 3274: [schedule](http://2004.eurobsdcon.org/talkschedule.html) of the talks 3275: shows that there were a number of NetBSD developers present. 3276: 3277: A brief report from the conference is available 3278: [here](http://mail-index.NetBSD.org/netbsd-advocacy/2004/11/02/0000.html). 3279: A longer review was published in the [USENIX ;login: 3280: magazine](http://www.usenix.org/publications/login/2005-02/openpdfs/eurobsdcon.pdf). 3281: 3282: ### `Oct 2004` - Systems 2004 3283: 3284: *Oct. 18 - 22, 2004, Munich, Germany* 3285: 3286: There will be a 40m² BSD booth at the Systems computer show in Munich, 3287: Germany from October 18th to 22nd 2004, where the NetBSD project (among 3288: others) will be presented. People willing to help are welcome; Daniel 3289: Ettle (dan at deam org) will act as a point of contact. See 3290: [](http://www.systems.de/) for more information on the exhibition. 3291: 3292: ### `Oct 2004` - BSD-CONFERENCE-JAPAN 2004 3293: 3294: *October 23, 2004, Osaka Sangyo Souzoukan, Japan* 3295: 3296: [](http://www.bsdcon.jp/2004/) 3297: 3298: ### `Oct 2004` - KANSAI-OPENSOURCE-2004 3299: 3300: *October 22-October 23, 2004, Osaka Sangyo Souzoukan, Japan* 3301: 3302: [](http://k-of.jp/2004/) 3303: 3304: ### `Sep 2004` - Open Source Conference 2004 3305: 3306: *Sep. 4, 2004, Tokyo, Japan* 3307: 3308: At the Open Source Conference 2004 there was a NetBSD booth staffed by 3309: members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 3310: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/). 3311: 3312: ### `Sep 2004` - Swiss Unix Conference 2004 3313: 3314: *Sep. 2 - 4, 2004, Zurich, Switzerland* 3315: 3316: [SUCON '04](http://www.suug.ch/sucon/04/), the 2nd Swiss Unix 3317: Conference, will take place in Zurich, Switzerland. The NetBSD Project 3318: was represented by Hubert Feyrer, who will gave [a 3319: presentation](http://www.feyrer.de/NetBSD/sucon-netbsd.pdf) at this 3320: conference. 3321: 3322: ### `Aug 2004` - NetBSD System Administration training 3323: 3324: *August 10 - 13, 2004, Seattle, Washington, USA* 3325: 3326: [Puget Sound Technology](http://www.pugetsoundtechnology.com/) is 3327: teaching a hands-on class covering the fundamentals of NetBSD system 3328: administration. Visit [http://www.pugetsoun 3329: dtechnology.com/training/netbsd/](http://www.pugetsoundtechnology.com/training/netbsd/) 3330: for details. 3331: 3332: ### `Aug 2004` - LinuxWorld 2004 3333: 3334: *Aug. 2 - 5, 2004, San Francisco, CA, USA* 3335: 3336: [LinuxWorld Conference and 3337: Expo](http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/live/12/events/12SFO04A) is going to 3338: take place in San Francisco, CA, USA at the beginning of August. The 3339: NetBSD Project might be represented with a booth there - if you are 3340: interested in helping out, please contact <regional-sfba@NetBSD.org>. 3341: 3342: ### `Jul 2004` - Get into OpenSource Hokkaido 2004 (GODo2004) 3343: 3344: *Jul. 24, 2004, Sapporo Business Innovation Center, Sapporo, Japan* 3345: 3346: At the Get into OpenSource Hokkaido 2004 (GODo2004), there was a NetBSD 3347: booth staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 3348: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) and 3349: [NoBUG](http://www.no.bug.gr.jp/) with NetBSD/i386+IPv6 XCAST on VAIO 3350: GT, and many hpc{ [mips](../ports/hpcmips/), [sh](../ports/hpcsh/), 3351: [arm](../ports/hpcarm/) } 3352: 3353: ### `Jun 2004` - NetWorld+Interop 2004 Tokyo BSD BOF 3354: 3355: *Jun 30, 2004, Makuhari-Messe, Chiba, Japan, 18:30-20:00 JST* 3356: 3357: [](http://www.interop.jp/2004/) 3358: 3359: [BOF 3360: information](http://www.re.soum.co.jp/%7Efukaumi/ml/netbsd/200406/msg00015.html) 3361: 3362: Contact Jun Ebihara <jun@NetBSD.org> for more information. 3363: 3364: ### `Jun 2004` - USENIX 2004 3365: 3366: *June 27 - July 2, 2004, Boston, MA, USA* 3367: 3368: [USENIX '04](http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix04/), the USENIX Annual 3369: Technical Conference is going to take place in Boston, MA, USA at the 3370: end of June. The NetBSD Project will be represented by Alistair Crooks, 3371: who gives a talk on [The NetBSD Update 3372: System](http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix04/tech/sigs.html#netbsd_update), 3373: as well as Christos Zoulas, who will report on NetBSD during [The State 3374: of the BSD 3375: Projects](http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix04/tech/sigs.html#bsd_projects), 3376: and finally by a number of NetBSD developers who will be attending the 3377: conference. 3378: 3379: ### `Jun 2004` - Linuxtag 2004 3380: 3381: *June 23 - 26, 2004, Karlsruhe, Germany* 3382: 3383: [Linuxtag 2004](http://www.linuxtag.org/2004/index.html) is going to 3384: take place in Karlsruhe, Germany. The NetBSD Project will be represented 3385: with a booth - please contact <hubertf@NetBSD.org> if you are interested 3386: in helping out. 3387: 3388: ### `May 2004` - Japan NetBSD Users' Group meeting & NetBSD BOF 3389: 3390: *May 22, 2004, [National Olympics Memorial Youth 3391: Center](http://nyc.niye.go.jp/e/), Tokyo, Japan* 3392: 3393: See [this 3394: page](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/announce/meeting6.html) for 3395: meeting information. 3396: 3397: ### `May 2004` - BSDCan 2004 3398: 3399: *May 13-16, 2004, Ottawa, Canada* 3400: 3401: The first BSDCan was a tremendous success. With attendance matching 3402: BSDCon, and lower fees and accommodation costs, this looks likely to 3403: become a popular annual conference. BSD developer Speakers and attendees 3404: were numerous. BSDMall had NetBSD paraphanalia available for sale. See 3405: also the [BSDCan Website](http://www.bsdcan.org/), and some [photos from 3406: Daemonnews.](http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200405/bsdcan_2004/) 3407: 3408: ### `May 2004` - LinuxChix-Br II National Meeting 3409: 3410: *May 1-2, 2004 Sao Paulo, Brazil* 3411: 3412: At the [LinuxChix-Br National 3413: Meeting](http://www.linuxchix.org.br/node.php?id=87) there will be a 3414: presentation about pkgsrc and a NetBSD booth staffed by members of 3415: NetBSD-BR. 3416: 3417: ### `Apr 2004` - pkgsrcCon 2004 3418: 3419: *April 30 - May 2, 2004, Vienna, Austria* 3420: 3421: pkgsrcCon is a technical conference for people working at the NetBSD 3422: Packages Collection (pkgsrc), focusing on existing technologies, 3423: research projects, and works-in-progress in pkgsrc infrastructure. For 3424: more information, including slides of the talks, please visit 3425: [http://www.pkgsrcCon.org/2004/](http://www.pkgsrcCon.org/2004/), and 3426: see Hubert Feyrer's report in the [DaemonNews 3427: Ezine](http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200405/pkgsrcCon2004.html). 3428: 3429: ### `Apr 2004` - Linuxfest Northwest 2004 3430: 3431: *April 17, 2004, Bellingham, Washington, USA* 3432: 3433: LFNW is a showcase for what Northwest Linux users are doing with open 3434: source software. Over 50 short (1 hour) presentations will be given 3435: throughout the day. Among them will be introductions to BSD and pkgsrc. 3436: There will be a BSD booth, occupied by two NetBSD developers and other 3437: BSD enthusiasts. Admission is free. Please see 3438: [http://www.linuxnorthwest.org/](http://www.linuxnorthwest.org/) and 3439: [this message to the netbsd-news 3440: mailinglist](http://mail-index.NetBSD.org/netbsd-news/2004/04/16/0000.html) 3441: for more information. 3442: 3443: ### `Mar 2004` - GUUG Frühjahrsfachgespräch 3444: 3445: *March 9-12, 2004, Bochum, Germany* 3446: 3447: The NetBSD Project will in all likeliness be represented at this year's 3448: [GUUG 3449: Frühjahrsfachgespräche](http://www.guug.de/veranstaltungen/ffg2004/), a 3450: yearly congress for everybody interested in Unix(-like) Systems and 3451: System Administration organized by the [German Unix User 3452: Group](http://www.guug.de/). 3453: 3454: ### `Mar 2004` - Chemnitzer Linux-Tag 2004 3455: 3456: *March 6-7, 2004, Chemnitz, Germany* 3457: 3458: NetBSD was represented with a booth at the Chemnitzer Linux-Tag 2004 in 3459: Chemnitz, Germany. In addition, there were three presentations: 3460: 3461: - \`\` 3462: Cryptographic applications under NetBSD 3463: '' by Stefan Schumacher 3464: - \`\` 3465: Introduction to NetBSD 3466: '' by Karl Uwe Lockhoff 3467: - \`\` 3468: Software Installation under NetBSD, Linux & Solaris using pkgsrc 3469: '' by Hubert Feyrer 3470: 3471: Please see the 3472: [website](http://www.tu-chemnitz.de/linux/tag/2004/allgemeines/) for 3473: details. Photos are available at [this 3474: website](http://www.uni-magdeburg.de/steschum/6clt/), more photos can be 3475: found on the [Linux-Tag 3476: website](http://www.tu-chemnitz.de/linux/tag/2004/media/bilder/). 3477: 3478: ### `Feb 2004` - Solutions Linux 2004 3479: 3480: *February 3-5, 2004, Paris, France* 3481: 3482: NetBSD was represented with a booth at the [Solutions Linux 3483: 2004](http://www.solutionslinux.fr) conference and expo in Paris, 3484: France. 3485: 3486: ### `Jan 2004` - LinuxWorld 2004 3487: 3488: *January 20-23, 2004, New York, New York* 3489: 3490: The [LinuxWorld Conference and Expo](http://www.linuxworldexpo.com) 2004 3491: took place in the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center in New York City 3492: from January 20-23, 2004. While the NetBSD Project did not have their 3493: own booth this year, we were able to hand out some flyers and sell a few 3494: shirts through the [BSDMall](http://www.bsdmall.com) booth. See the 3495: [report](http://daily.daemonnews.org/view_story.php3?story_id=4368) from 3496: the local user group ([NYCBUG](http://www.nycbug.org/)) for details. 3497: 3498: ### `Dec 2003` - 20th Chaos Communication Congress (20c3) 3499: 3500: *December 27th to 29th, 2003, Berlin, Germany* 3501: 3502: The NetBSD Project was represented at the [20th Chaos Communication 3503: Congress](http://www.ccc.de/congress/2003/) (20c3) in Berlin, Germany, 3504: from December 27th to 29th. See Hubert Feyrer's 3505: [report](http://mail-index.NetBSD.org/netbsd-advocacy/2004/01/02/0002.html) 3506: for Details. If you're interested in the 3507: [Blinkenlights](http://www.blinkenlights.de/) project, one of 20c3's 3508: main attractions, you will find Lubomir Sedlacik's [post to the 3509: netbsd-advocacy](http://mail-index.NetBSD.org/netbsd-advocacy/2004/01/03/0000.html) 3510: MailingList useful. 3511: 3512: ### `Dec 2003` - BSDCon Brasil 2003 3513: 3514: *December 6 and 7, 2003, Instituto Militar de Engenharia (military 3515: institute of engineering - IME), Rio de Janeiro, Brasil* 3516: 3517: See [http://bsdcon.myfreebsd.com.br](http://bsdcon.myfreebsd.com.br) for 3518: details. 3519: 3520: ### `Dec 2003` - BSD-Linux-Day 2003 3521: 3522: *December 2, 2003, Pacifico Yokohama, Japan* 3523: 3524: [http://www.jus.or.jp/events/bsd-linux-day/](http://www.jus.or.jp/events/bsd-linux-day/) 3525: 3526: ### `Nov 2003` - NetBSD System Administration training 3527: 3528: *November 18-21, 2003, Seattle, Washington area* 3529: 3530: [Puget Sound Technology](http://www.pugetsoundtechnology.com/) is 3531: teaching a hands-on class covering the fundamentals of NetBSD system 3532: administration. See 3533: [http://www.pugetsoundtechnology.com/training/netbsd/](http://www.pugetsoundtechnology.com/training/netbsd/) 3534: for details. 3535: 3536: ### `Oct 2003` - KANSAI-OPENSOURCE+FREEWARE-2003 3537: 3538: *October 31-November 1, 2003, Osaka Sangyo Souzoukan, Japan* 3539: 3540: [](http://k-of.jp/2003/) 3541: 3542: ### `Oct 2003` - BSD-CONFERENCE-JAPAN 2003 3543: 3544: *October 18, 2003, BIZ SHINJUKU, Japan* 3545: 3546: [](http://www.bsdcon.jp/2003/) 3547: 3548: ### `Oct 2003` - Linux-Kongress 2003 3549: 3550: *October 14-16, 2003, Saarbrücken, Germany* 3551: 3552: NetBSD will be present at the Linux-Kongress in Saarbrücken, Germany, an 3553: event mostly attended by Linux developers. Presenting NetBSD in this 3554: environment will give an interesting chance to compare open source 3555: operating systems on a highly skilled level. There will be a joint booth 3556: by all BSD projects offering CDs, DVDs, t-shirts and other devotionalia. 3557: See [this page](http://www.linux-kongress.org/2003/index.html) for more 3558: information. 3559: 3560: ### `Sep 2003` - BSDCon 2003 3561: 3562: *September 8-12, 2003, Marriott Hotel,San Mateo, California, USA* 3563: 3564: Meet the movers and shakers of the BSD community, and learn how you can 3565: use BSD as part of your enterprise-grade solutions. For details, see 3566: [http://www.usenix.org/events/bsdcon03/cfp/](http://www.usenix.org/events/bsdcon03/cfp/). 3567: Contact name, address, phone, fax and/or e-mail: Conference Department, 3568: 510-528-8649, conference@usenix.org. A 3569: [report](http://mail-index.NetBSD.org/netbsd-advocacy/2003/09/13/0000.html) 3570: is available online. 3571: 3572: ### `Aug 2003` - Chaos Communication Camp 2003 3573: 3574: *August 7-10, 2003, near Berlin, Germany (Old Europe).* 3575: 3576: A lot of photos are available 3577: [online](http://www.uni-magdeburg.de/steschum/ccc03/index.html), as well 3578: as [some slides](advocacy/folienslide.pdf). 3579: 3580: ### `Jul 2003` - Linuxtag Karlsruhe, Germany 3581: 3582: *July 10-13, Karlsruhe, Germany* 3583: 3584: The NetBSD Project was present at the [Linuxtag Karlsruhe 2003, 3585: Germany](http://www.linuxtag.org/2003/en/index.html) from July 10ths to 3586: 13th in a booth together with other BSD-related projects. 3587: 3588: The booth was organized by Hubert Feyrer, Bernd Sieker and Jaromir 3589: Dolecek. See the [full 3590: report](http://mail-index.NetBSD.org/netbsd-advocacy/2003/07/14/0000.html) 3591: for details and pictures. 3592: 3593: ### `Jul 2003` - Libre Software Meeting in Metz 3594: 3595: *July 9-12, 2003, Metz, France* 3596: [http://www.rencontresmondiales.org/](http://www.rencontresmondiales.org/) 3597: 3598: The NetBSD Project was represented at the LSM 2003 by Emmanuel Dreyfus 3599: and Gilbert Fernandes. A 3600: [report](http://mail-index.NetBSD.org/netbsd-advocacy/2003/07/14/0002.html) 3601: of the meeting as well as some pictures are available online. 3602: 3603: ### `Jul 2003` - NetWorld+Interop 2003 Tokyo BSD BOF 3604: 3605: *July 2, 2003, Makuhari-Messe, Chiba, Japan, 18:30-20:00 JST* 3606: 3607: [http://www.interop.jp/](http://www.interop.jp/) 3608: 3609: Call for Presentation: contact Jun Ebihara <jun@NetBSD.org>. 3610: 3611: ### `Jun 2003` - Japan NetBSD Users' Group meeting & NetBSD BOF 3612: 3613: *Jun 28, 2003, [National Olympics Memorial Youth 3614: Center](http://nyc.niye.go.jp/e/), Tokyo, Japan* 3615: 3616: ### `Jun 2003` - Open Source Meeting 2003 in Nagoya University 3617: 3618: *June 7-8, 2003, Nagoya, Japan* 3619: 3620: [http://tokai.opensource.jp/tsudoi/2003/](http://tokai.opensource.jp/tsudoi/2003/) 3621: 3622: ### `Jun 2003` - 2003 USENIX Annual Technical Conference 3623: 3624: *June 9-14, 2003, San Antonio, Texas, USA* 3625: 3626: A six-day, multiple-track event which includes tutorials, technical 3627: sessions composed of refereed papers, invited talks, and 3628: Birds-of-a-Feather sessions. There will be a [Super BSD BOF 3629: Session](http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix03/bofs.html). For details, 3630: see 3631: [http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix03/](http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix03/). 3632: Contact name, address, phone, fax and/or e-mail: Conference Department, 3633: 510-528-8649, conference@usenix.org 3634: 3635: Slides of Chris Demetriou's presentation are [available 3636: here](events/usenix2003/). 3637: 3638: ### `May 2003` - BSDay 2003 3639: 3640: *May 21, 2003, Warszawa-Miedzeszyn, Poland* 3641: 3642: [AVET Information and Network Security](http://www.avet.com.pl/) are 3643: holding the [BSDay 3644: 2003](http://www.avet.com.pl/en/conferences/bsday/bsday.php) conference 3645: on May 21, 2003, the first event of its kind in Poland. See the web site 3646: for more information. 3647: 3648: ### `May 2003` - BSDCon.it 3649: 3650: *May 9-11, 2003, Padova, Italy* 3651: 3652: As part of [Webbit '03](http://www.webb.it/), 3653: [BSDCon.it](http://www.bsdcon.it/) will be held from May 9th to may 11th 3654: in Padova, Italy. People interested in giving a talk on NetBSD should 3655: contact <ed@bsdcon.it>. 3656: 3657: ### `Apr 2003` - DECUS Munich Symposium 2003 3658: 3659: *April 8th-10th, 2003, Bonn, Germany* *(updated)* 3660: 3661: There was a presentation about porting NetBSD to old hardware, and the 3662: different emulating systems that allow old software to run on new 3663: hardware, again with NetBSD as the host OS, and one about eletronic 3664: voting, using the procedure for the [election of the NetBSD Board of 3665: Directors](../changes/#board-elections2002) as an in-depth example. 3666: 3667: ### `Apr 2003` - Magdeburg Linuxtag 3668: 3669: *April 5th, 2003, Magdeburg, Germany* 3670: 3671: There was a NetBSD booth and presentation at the Magdeburg Linuxtag in 3672: Magdeburg, Germany on April 5th 2003 at the University of Magdeburg, 3673: Germany. See [http://www.mdlug.de/](http://www.mdlug.de/) for more 3674: information. Contact Bernd Sieker <bsieker@freenet.de> for information 3675: regarding representation of NetBSD at the event. 3676: 3677: ### `Mar 2003` - NetBSD is ten years young and still going strong! 3678: 3679: Several parties are being held in cities around the world to celebrate 3680: the tenth birthday of The NetBSD Project, March 21, 2003. Check out the 3681: [Events Gallery](events/) for more information. 3682: 3683: ### `Mar 2003` - CeBIT 2003 3684: 3685: *March 12-19, 2003, Hannover, Germany* 3686: 3687: The [CeBIT 2003](http://www.cebit.de), the most widely known ICT trade 3688: fair world-wide, took place in Hannover, Germany from March 12-19, 2003. 3689: The NetBSD Project had a booth on Wednesday the 12th, and Thursday 13th, 3690: and there was a 30 minute presentation of the NetBSD Project. Bernd 3691: Sieker and Jaromir Dolocek manned the booth, see their 3692: [report](http://mail-index.NetBSD.org/netbsd-advocacy/2003/03/20/0001.html). 3693: 3694: ### `Mar 2003` - NetBSD System Administration training 3695: 3696: *March 4-6, 2003, Phoenix, Arizona, USA area* 3697: 3698: [Puget Sound Technology](http://www.pugetsoundtechnology.com/) is 3699: teaching a hands-on class covering the fundamentals of NetBSD system 3700: administration. See 3701: [http://www.pugetsoundtechnology.com/training/netbsd/](http://www.pugetsoundtechnology.com/training/netbsd/) 3702: for details. 3703: 3704: ### `Mar 2003` - Chemnitzer Linux-Tag 3705: 3706: *March 1, 2003, Chemnitz, Germany* 3707: 3708: NetBSD was represented with a booth at the [Chemnitzer Linux-Tag 3709: (CLT5)](http://www.tu-chemnitz.de/linux/tag/lt5/). A summary of the 3710: events including several pictures is available online at 3711: [http://www.feyrer.de/NetBSD/clt5.html](http://www.feyrer.de/NetBSD/clt5.html). 3712: Presentations, including mp3s of the talks (in German!) are available 3713: from: 3714: 3715: - NetBSD - eine Einführung 3716: [ 3717: mp3 3718: ] 3719: - NetBSD 1.6 - Neuigkeiten und Einsatz im Embedded-Umfeld 3720: [ 3721: mp3 3722: ] 3723: - Der Regensburger Marathon-Cluster - eine Video-Rendering-Anwendung 3724: mit NetBSD 3725: [ 3726: mp3 3727: ] 3728: 3729: ### `Feb 2003` - Solutions Linux 3730: 3731: *February 4-6, 2003, CNIT - Paris La Defense, France.* 3732: 3733: The Solutions Linux conference and expo (formerly known as the Linux 3734: Expo Paris) held a NetBSD booth run by the 3735: [GCU-Squad](http://www.gcu-squad.org/) and the [French NetBSD Users 3736: Group](http://www.netbsd-fr.org/). A [report is available 3737: online.](http://mail-index.NetBSD.org/netbsd-users/2003/02/08/0010.html) 3738: 3739: ### `Jan 2003` - Ottawa Open Source Weekend 3740: 3741: *January 25th, 26th, 2003, Ottawa, Canada* 3742: 3743: On 2003 January 25 and 26, a coalition of computer professionals, 3744: students, and volunteers will host an Open Source Weekend in Ottawa, 3745: Canada. The events will be spread across the city and throughout the 3746: weekend to showcase the dynamic world of open source software. The major 3747: activities will be the: 3748: 3749: - Linuxfest at the University of Ottawa (Sat. Jan. 25th) 3750: - Linuxfest at Carleton University (Sat. Jan. 25th) 3751: - The Business of Open Source Software conference. (Sun. Jan. 26th) 3752: 3753: For details, please see [http://www.osw.ca/](http://www.osw.ca/). 3754: 3755: ### `Jan 2003` - LinuxWorld 2003 3756: 3757: *January 21-24, 2003, New York, New York* 3758: 3759: The [LinuxWorld Conference and Expo](http://www.linuxworldexpo.com) 2003 3760: takes place in the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center in New York City 3761: from January 21-24, 2003. See the 3762: [website](http://www.linuxworldexpo.com) for more details and a free 3763: registration for the expo. The NetBSD Project had a booth at LinuxWorld, 3764: a [short 3765: review](http://mail-index.NetBSD.org/netbsd-advocacy/2003/01/24/0000.html) 3766: and a [handful of pictures](http://www.NetBSD.org/~jschauma/lwe03/) are 3767: available online. 3768: 3769: ### `Dec 2002` - 19th Chaos Communication Congress (19c3) 3770: 3771: *December 17th to 29th, Berlin, Germany* 3772: 3773: The NetBSD Project will be present at the [19th Chaos Communication 3774: Congress](http://www.ccc.de/congress/2002/) (19c3) in Berlin, Germany, 3775: from December 27th to 29th. 3776: 3777: ### `Dec 2002` - NetBSD System Administration training 3778: 3779: *December 10-12, 2002, Seattle, Washington, USA area* 3780: 3781: [Puget Sound Technology](http://www.pugetsoundtechnology.com/) is 3782: teaching a hands-on class covering the fundamentals of NetBSD system 3783: administration. 3784: 3785: ### `Dec 2002` - Internet Week 2002 3786: 3787: *December 16-20, 2002, Pacifico Yokohama, Japan* 3788: 3789: [Japan NetBSD Users' Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/) will organize a 3790: BSD BoF on December 18th, 18:00(JST) at this years Internet Week. The 3791: BoF was broadcasted via RealVideo (179 clients)/[xcast (3 3792: clients)](http://www.xcast.jp/)/IRC. See 3793: [http://www.nic.ad.jp/iw2002/bof/bof04.htm](http://www.nic.ad.jp/iw2002/bof/bof04.htm) 3794: for details. 3795: 3796: ### `Nov 2002` - KNF Congress 2002 3797: 3798: *November 24, 2002, Nuremberg, Germany* 3799: 3800: This years KNF Congress is under the motto "Linux in allen 3801: Lebenslagen???, ... und andere Fragen im Internet" ("Linux in all 3802: aspects of life??? ... and other questions on the Internet"). There will 3803: not only be Linux-oriented talks, but also a bit of talk about NetBSD, 3804: so this might be interesting for anyone in the area of 3805: Nuremberg/Germany. There will be a talk about NetBSD/dreamcast, a NetBSD 3806: booth and also some NetBSD-related prices in the Tombola. 3807: 3808: The congress will take place Sunday Nov 24th, 10-18h at the 3809: Gemeinschaftshaus Langwasser, Glogauer Str. 50, 90473 Nuremberg, 3810: Germany. See 3811: [http://www.franken.de/kongress/index.html](http://www.franken.de/kongress/index.html) 3812: for more information. 3813: 3814: ### `Nov 2002` - BSD Conference Japan 3815: 3816: *November 23, 2002, tsudahall Tokyo, Japan* 3817: 3818: [](http://www.bsdcon.jp/2002/) with 172 attendances. 3819: 3820: ### `Nov 2002` - BSDCon Europe 2002 3821: 3822: *November 15-17, 2002, Amsterdam, Netherlands* 3823: 3824: [http://2002.eurobsdcon.org/](http://2002.eurobsdcon.org/). \`\`[Rumors, 3825: Gossips and Facts](http://www.feyrer.de/NetBSD/eurobsdcon2002.html)'' 3826: are available online thanks to Hubert Feyrer. 3827: 3828: ### `Nov 2002` - LISA '02 3829: 3830: *November 3-8, 2002, Philadelphia, PA* 3831: 3832: [http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa02/](http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa02/) 3833: 3834: ### `Nov 2002` - RISC OS S.E. Show 3835: 3836: *November 2, 2002, Guildford, UK* 3837: 3838: The Surrey and Sussex Acorn User Group [RISC OS South-East 3839: Show](http://www.fillin.co.uk/seshow/), held in Guildford Technical 3840: College. 3841: 3842: ### `Oct 2002` - Linuxdays 2002 3843: 3844: *October 1-3, 2002, Luxembourg* 3845: 3846: The NetBSD Project was present at the [Luxembourgh 3847: Linuxdays](http://www.linuxday.lu/), an Open Source and Free Software 3848: Conference and Expo held in, well, Luxembourg. Hubert Feyrer gave talks 3849: on [NetBSD](http://www.feyrer.de/NetBSD/nb2002-lu.pdf) and a [video 3850: rendering cluster done with 3851: NetBSD](http://www.feyrer.de/marathon-cluster/mc-slides.pdf). A 3852: [report](http://mail-index.NetBSD.org/netbsd-advocacy/2002/10/08/0000.html) 3853: was sent to the netbsd-advocacy list, pictures and more information are 3854: available from [Hubert's 3855: website](http://www.feyrer.de/NetBSD/#linuxday.lu). 3856: 3857: ### `Sep 2002` - Linux-Kongress 2002 3858: 3859: *September 4-6, 2002, Cologne, Germany* 3860: 3861: The NetBSD Project will be present at [Linux-Kongress 3862: 2002](http://www.linux-kongress.org), the 9th International Linux System 3863: Technology Conference, held at the Physics Institutes of the University 3864: of Cologne, Germany. A report and pictures of the BSD-booth is available 3865: online. 3866: 3867: ### `Aug 2002` - 11th USENIX Security Symposium 3868: 3869: *August 5-9, 2002, San Francisco, CA* 3870: 3871: [http://www.usenix.org/events/sec02/](http://www.usenix.org/events/sec02/) 3872: 3873: ### `Jul 2002` - NetBSD 1.5.3 release 3874: 3875: *July 22, 2002* 3876: 3877: [NetBSD 1.5.3](../releases/formal-1.5/NetBSD-1.5.3.html), a *[patch 3878: release](../releases/release-map.html)* improving stability, fixing bugs 3879: in, addressing security issues in, and adding some features to [NetBSD 3880: 1.5.2](../releases/formal-1.5/), has been released with support for 20 3881: architectures. More information is available in the [1.5.3 release 3882: announcement](../releases/formal-1.5/NetBSD-1.5.3.html). 3883: 3884: ### `Jul 2002` - NetWorld+Interop 2002 Tokyo BSD BOF 3885: 3886: *July 3, 2002, Chiba, Japan* 3887: 3888: http://www.interop.jp/syutten/report.html 3889: 3890: [http://www.jp.freebsd.org/event/N+I2002\_BOF/](http://www.jp.freebsd.org/event/N+I2002_BOF/) 3891: , [BSD security update - BIND, 3892: OpenSSH](http://www.itojun.org/paper/itojun-interop2002-bsdbof/mgp00001.html). 3893: 3894: ### `Jun 2002` - USENIX Annual Technical Conference 3895: 3896: *June 9-14, 2002, Montery Conference Center Monterey, California, USA* 3897: 3898: [http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix02/](http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix02/). 3899: Slides of Christos Zoulas' presentation are [available 3900: here](events/usenix2002/). 3901: 3902: ### `Jun 2002` - Open Source Meeting 2002 in Nagoya University 3903: 3904: *June 8-9, 2002, Nagoya, Japan* 3905: 3906: [](http://tokai.opensource.jp/tsudoi/2002/) 3907: 3908: ### `Jun 2002` - Linuxtag 2002 in Karlsruhe 3909: 3910: *June 6-9, 2002, Karlsruhe, Germany* 3911: 3912: [Linuxtag](http://www.linuxtag.de) had a BSD booth. A 3913: [report](http://www.feyrer.de/NetBSD/linuxtag-karlsruhe-2002.html) is 3914: available. 3915: 3916: ### `May 2002` - Wakefield 2002, The Acorn RISC OS Show 3917: 3918: *May 18-19, 2002, Wakefield, UK* 3919: 3920: [http://www.wrocc.org.uk/show/2002/](http://www.wrocc.org.uk/show/2002/) 3921: 3922: ### `May 2002` - Japan NetBSD Users' Group meeting 3923: 3924: *May 18, 2002, T-Zone Minami, Akihabara, Tokyo, Japan* 3925: 3926: [http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/announce/meeting4.html](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/announce/meeting4.html) 3927: 3928: The Japan NetBSD Users' Group had their annual meeting with 60 3929: attendances, and a NetBSD BoF with 95 attendances, 210 clients via 3930: RealVideo. Talking about Zoularis, LCD System Status monitor, devsw 3931: again, presentation with less, citrus, ACPI, jp.netbsd servers, Upcoming 3932: 1.6 and current, sourceforge.jp, xcast6. 3933: 3934: ### `May 2002` - Annual International Free Software Forum 3935: 3936: *May 2-4, 2002, Porto Alegre- RS, Brazil* 3937: 3938: The Annual International Free Software Forum will take place on this May 3939: 2th, 3th and 4th in Porto Alegre- RS , Brazil. Mainly in event about 3940: Linux Gnu's solutions, this year The BSD's Operating Systems will have a 3941: chance to prove their value. 3942: 3943: The Session's Speakers are Edson Brandi (FreeBSD), Diego Linke (NetBSD) 3944: and Ricardo Nascimento Ferreira (OpenBSD) and they will focus in the 3945: general aspects of the systems: history, license, goods and bads, 3946: technical characteristics and philosophy. 3947: 3948: ### `Mar 2002` - 4th Chemnitz Linuxday 2002 3949: 3950: *March 9-10, 2002, TU Chemnitz, Chemnitz, Germany* 3951: 3952: [www.tu-chemnitz.de/linux/tag/lt4/](http://www.tu-chemnitz.de/linux/tag/lt4/) 3953: 3954: Presentations included "Migration to IPv6" mentioning NetBSD as example, 3955: "\*BSD - Alternative to Linux" presenting BSDs and "BIND9 - Let's talk 3956: IPv6". There was also a (Net)BSD booth manned by Andre Nicklas, Hubert 3957: Feyrer, Karl Uwe Lockhoff. A [detailed 3958: report](http://mail-index.NetBSD.org/netbsd-advocacy/2002/03/11/0000.html) 3959: is available. 3960: 3961: ### `Feb 2002` - GUUG Frühjahrsfachgespräch 2002 3962: 3963: *February 27-March 1, 2002, Ruhr-Uni Bochum, Bochum, Germany* 3964: 3965: [http://www.guug.de/veranstaltungen/ffg2002/index.html](http://www.guug.de/veranstaltungen/ffg2002/index.html) 3966: 3967: Presentations given during the spring meeting of the German Unix User 3968: Group (GUUG) included a report about NetBSD in 2002 and details about 3969: Rapid Deployment of IPv6 with 6to4, which covered NetBSD (among others). 3970: 3971: ### `Feb 2002` - BSDCon 2002 3972: 3973: *February 11-14, 2002, Cathedral Hill Hotel, San Francisco, California, 3974: USA* 3975: 3976: [http://www.usenix.org/events/bsdcon02/cfp/](http://www.usenix.org/events/bsdcon02/cfp/) 3977: 3978: ### `Dec 2001` - Internet Week 2001 3979: 3980: *December 3-7, 2001, Yokohama, Japan* 3981: 3982: [http://internetweek.jp/](http://internetweek.jp/) 3983: 3984: At Internet Week 2001, there was a BSD BOF on December 6th. 3985: Additionally, December 7th was BSD/Linux Day. 3986: 3987: There was a [BSD BoF session](http://www.jp.FreeBSD.org/event/iw2001/) 3988: on Dec 7 with 197 attendances, 392 clients via [RealVideo 3989: G2](http://www.real.com) broadcasting,IRC chatting. Talking about The 3990: BSD System on 1FDD, Special talk and Presentation [Perry E. 3991: Metzger/Warner Losh], IPv6 DNS transfer Club,Catch up FreeBSD 3992: current,talking about free software community, [BSD users group meeting 3993: via IPv6 XCAST](http://www.mma.gr.jp/%7Etree/bsd-20011206/). 3994: 3995: On Dec 8, there was a [BSD/Linux 3996: Day](http://www.jus.or.jp/events/bsd-linux-day2001/) session talking 3997: about BSD, Linux, Mail User Agents, Mail Transfer, Office Suite, 3998: Emulation. 3999: 4000: ### `Nov 2001` - BSDCon Europe 2001 4001: 4002: *November 9-11, 2001, Thistle Hotel, Brighton, UK* 4003: 4004: [http://www.bsdconeurope.org/](http://www.bsdconeurope.org/) 4005: 4006: ### `Oct 2001` - RISC OS 2001 Show 4007: 4008: *October 20-21, 2001, Berkshire, England* 4009: 4010: [http://www.riscos2001.com/](http://www.riscos2001.com/) 4011: 4012: NetBSD had a stand at the [RISC OS 2001 4013: Show](http://www.riscos2001.com/). There was various NetBSD boxes on 4014: display and NetBSD 1.5.2 CDs for sale. 4015: 4016: ### `Sep 2001` - NetBSD 1.5.2 release 4017: 4018: *September 13, 2001* 4019: 4020: NetBSD 1.5.2, a [patch release](../releases/release-map.html) improving 4021: stability, fixing bugs in, and adding some features to [NetBSD 4022: 1.5.1](../releases/formal-1.5/), was released with support for 21 4023: architectures. More information is available in the [1.5.2 release 4024: announcement](../releases/formal-1.5/NetBSD-1.5.2.html). 4025: 4026: ### `Aug 2001` - LinuxWorld Expo 4027: 4028: *August 26-30, 2001, San Francisco, CA* 4029: 4030: [http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/](http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/) 4031: 4032: The NetBSD Project had a booth at the LinuxWorld Conference & Expo from 4033: August 28-30, 2001. Jason Thorpe has written a short [summary about the 4034: NetBSD booth at 4035: LinuxWorld](http://mail-index.NetBSD.org/netbsd-advocacy/2001/08/30/0000.html). 4036: Also at the booth was the debut of NetBSD running on a Playstation 2 4037: from Japan. 4038: 4039: ### `Jul 2001` - NetBSD 1.5.1 release 4040: 4041: *July 11, 2001* 4042: 4043: NetBSD 1.5.1, a [patch release](../releases/release-map.html) improving 4044: stability, fixing bugs in, and adding some features to [NetBSD 4045: 1.5](../releases/formal-1.5/), was released with support for 21 4046: architectures. More information is available in the [1.5.1 release 4047: announcement](../releases/formal-1.5/NetBSD-1.5.1.html). 4048: 4049: ### `Jun 2001` - Japan NetBSD Users' Group meeting 4050: 4051: *June 30, 2001, [ASCII Corporation](http://www.ascii.co.jp/info/), 4052: Tokyo, Japan* 4053: 4054: [http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/announce/meeting3.html](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/announce/meeting3.html) 4055: 4056: The Japan NetBSD Users' Group had their annual meeting with 52 4057: attendances, and a NetBSD BoF with 102 attendances, 275 clients via 4058: RealVideo G2 broadcasting. 4059: 4060: Talking about jp.NetBSD.org servers, NetBSD status updates after 4061: USENIX2001,Korea NetBSD User Group, www.NetBSD.org Logo, Chiba-BUG, 4062: Making plan for NetBSD Book in Japan, XCAST on NetBSD, The New 4063: Block/Character Device Switch Configration Framework, Life in PEACE, wdc 4064: MD driver for DC IDE-HD Interface on NetBSD/dreamcast, Get into 4065: Zoularis, PS2Linux for NetBSD, and special guest talking with Antti 4066: Kantee from Finland. Japan NetBSD Users' Group will have a special 4067: meeting on 54th IETF Yokohama, Japan. 4068: 4069: ### `Jun 2001` - USENIX Annual Technical Conference 4070: 4071: *June 25-30, 2001, Boston, MA* 4072: 4073: [http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix01/](http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix01/) 4074: 4075: NetBSD was well represented at [Usenix 4076: 2001](http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix01/), and we would like to 4077: thank everyone involved in the BSD BoF and the NetBSD booth. 4078: 4079: The NetBSD Project had a presentation at the BSD BoF which was headed by 4080: [NetBSD Core Group](../people/core.html) members Christos Zoulas and 4081: Luke Mewburn. A list of highlights is available in Chuck Toporek's 4082: "[Greetings from the BSD Super 4083: BoF](http://unix.oreilly.com/news/usenixchuck_0601.html)" article. The 4084: slides from this talk are available at 4085: [events/usenix2001/](events/usenix2001/). 4086: 4087: Luke Mewburn was also a part of the scripting technical session; his 4088: presentation was entitled, "The Design and Implementation of the NetBSD 4089: rc.d System". In Ellen Siever's "[Usenix Technical Session 4090: Wrap-Up](http://unix.oreilly.com/news/usenixellen_0601.html)" article, 4091: she talks briefly about Luke's presentation. Luke's paper can be found 4092: at the [Usenix 2001](http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix01/) web site, 4093: in both HTML and PDF formats, under [FREENIX Track Refereed 4094: Papers](http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix01/freenix01/mewburn.html) 4095: (requires USENIX membership). The paper may also be found in 4096: [PDF](http://www.mewburn.net/luke/papers/rc.d.pdf) format at Luke's own 4097: web site. 4098: 4099: Again, a thank you to all involved. 4100: 4101: ### `Jun 2001` - Open Source Meeting 2001 in Nagoya University 4102: 4103: *June 9-10, 2001, Nagoya, Japan* 4104: 4105: [](http://tokai.opensource.jp/tsudoi/2001/) 4106: 4107: On June 9-10th, 2001, several Bof about open source community in japan 4108: were held.100+150 persons attended in person. 4109: 4110: ### `Jun 2001` - NetWorld+Interop Tokyo, BSD BoF 4111: 4112: *June 7 2001, Chiba, Japan* 4113: 4114: [http://www.interop.jp/](http://www.interop.jp/) 4115: 4116: On June 7th, 2001, a BSD BoF was held as one of the night sessions at 4117: [NetWorld+Interop Tokyo](http://www.interop.jp/). Over 300 people 4118: attended in person, 50-100 people attended over IRC (volunteers typed 4119: the discussions to a couple of IRC channels), and 828 clients watched 4120: the discussion over RealVideo transmission. Jun-ichiro itojun Hagino 4121: wrote up a [summary of the BSD BoF at NetWorld+Interop 4122: Tokyo](events/interop-tokyo-2001.html). 4123: 4124: ### `May 2001` - Wakefield 2001 4125: 4126: *May 19-20, 2001, Wakefield, UK* 4127: 4128: There was a NetBSD stand at the Wakefield Acorn / RiscOS show. The 4129: Wakefield show was more of an ARM biased show, so there was a 4130: [NetBSD/arm26](../ports/arm26/) and [NetBSD/arm32](../ports/arm32/) 4131: slant to the NetBSD stand. The stand featured machines running NetBSD, 4132: and CD-ROMS of the NetBSD system with some additional pre-built packages 4133: and a copy of the NetBSD web site on them. Also at the show Chris 4134: Gilbert gave a talk about NetBSD. 4135: 4136: ### `Apr 2001` - Comdex Spring 2001 4137: 4138: *April 2-5, 2001, Chicago, IL* 4139: 4140: [http://www.comdex.com/](http://www.comdex.com/) 4141: 4142: NetBSD had a booth at [Comdex](http://www.comdex.com/) Spring 2001. A 4143: [short summary](events/comdex-spring-2001.html) of NetBSD at Comdex 4144: Spring is available. 4145: 4146: Expenses for this event were underwritten by The NetBSD Mission. 4147: 4148: ### `Feb 2001` - Open Source Matsuri 2001 in Akihabara 4149: 4150: *February 10-11, 2001, Tokyo, Japan* 4151: 4152: [Japan NetBSD Users' Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/) had a 4153: [booth](http://www.voj.toda.saitama.jp/photo/OpenSource2001/) with SONY 4154: NEWS,Sun Ultra1,DEC VAX station,Sega DreamCast,Mac SE/30, Sharp 4155: X68030,Mac G4Qube,iBook,NEC MobileGearII, 4156: [PEACE](http://chiharu.hauN.ORG/peace/) and [umidi/utoro 4157: demo](http://utoro.imou.to/) with 7000 attendances. Held a Presentation 4158: & a tutorial about NetBSD by jun@NetBSD.org. [[Reports on 4159: jp.NetBSD.org](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/event/20010210OSF/)] 4160: 4161: ### `Jan 2001` - LinuxWorld Expo 2001 4162: 4163: *January 30-February 2, 2001, New York City, USA* 4164: 4165: [http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/](http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/) 4166: 4167: The NetBSD Project shared a stand with [Wasabi 4168: Systems](http://www.wasabisystems.com/) at LinuxWorld Expo 2001. The 4169: stand had a variety of different platforms running NetBSD, 1.5 CDs, and 4170: other swag. 4171: 4172: ### `Dec 2000` - Internet Week 2000 4173: 4174: *December 18-21, 2000, Osaka, Japan* 4175: 4176: [http://www.nic.ad.jp/iw2000/](http://www.nic.ad.jp/iw2000/) 4177: 4178: There was a [BSD BoF 4179: session](http://www.unixmagic.org/ml/netbsd/200012/msg00019.html) on Dec 4180: 19 with 160 attendances, 94 clients via [RealVideo 4181: G2](http://www.real.com) broadcasting,60 IRC realtime broadcasting 4182: clients. Talking about The BSD System on 1FDD, USB maniacs from across 4183: the [BSD magazine](http://www.ascii.co.jp/BSDmag/) editorial room, 4184: announce from BSDi Japan Office, Users groups in 4185: JP[[NoBUG](http://www.no.bug.gr.jp/), [OFUG](http://www.ofug.net/), 4186: [S\*BUG](http://www.bbsbrain.ne.jp/~sbug/), 4187: [K\*bug](http://www.kbug.gr.jp/), [NBUG](http://www.nagoya.bug.gr.jp/), 4188: [JNUG](http://www.NetBSD.org/community/groups.html#jnug), L\*BUG], 4189: little red [Daemon-kun](http://www.twin.ne.jp/~minamie/ost/) from The 4190: Open Source Toys Project, BSD goods present time,and more thinking about 4191: BSD activity in Japan. 4192: 4193: ### `Dec 2000` - NetBSD 1.5 release 4194: 4195: *December 6, 2000* 4196: 4197: [NetBSD 1.5](../releases/formal-1.5/), the eighth [major 4198: release](../releases/release-map.html) of NetBSD, was announced to the 4199: public. 4200: 4201: ### `Dec 2000` - Usenix Systems Administration Conference (LISA) 4202: 4203: *December 3-8, 2000, New Orleans, LA* 4204: 4205: [http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa2000/](http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa2000/) 4206: 4207: ### `Nov 2000` - NetBSD 1.4.3 release 4208: 4209: *November 25, 2000* 4210: 4211: NetBSD 1.4.3, a [patch release](../releases/release-map.html) improving 4212: stability and fixing bugs in [NetBSD-1.4](../releases/formal-1.4/), was 4213: announced to the public. 4214: 4215: ### `Nov 2000` - Comdex Fall 2000 4216: 4217: *November 13-17 2000, Las Vegas, NV* 4218: 4219: [http://www.comdex.com/](http://www.comdex.com/) 4220: 4221: The NetBSD Project had a booth at Comdex Fall 2000. We demonstrated a 4222: full desktop system running on a Macintosh G4 cube, as well as other 4223: sundry bits. The cube also appeared on German 3Sat Neues. 4224: 4225: Expenses for this event were underwritten by LinuxMall and The NetBSD 4226: Mission. 4227: 4228: ### `Oct 2000` - Linux Expo Toronto 2000 4229: 4230: *October 30-November 1 2000, Toronto, Ontario, Canada* 4231: 4232: [http://www.linuxexpocanada.com/](http://www.linuxexpocanada.com/) 4233: 4234: The NetBSD Project had a booth at displaying NetBSD i386 and mac68k - 4235: T-shirts and 1.4.2 CDs were available. The i386 machine was running an 4236: automated demo which will soon be available in pkgsrc. 4237: 4238: Expenses for this event were underwritten by The NetBSD Mission and 4239: David Maxwell. 4240: 4241: ### `Oct 2000` - RISC OS 2000 4242: 4243: *October 21-22 2000, Epsom, England* 4244: 4245: [http://www.armclub.org.uk/shows/riscos/](http://www.armclub.org.uk/shows/riscos/) 4246: 4247: A group of NetBSD enthusiasts were one of the exhibitors at RISC OS 4248: 2000. They had CD's, leaflets, and a mixture of hardware running NetBSD 4249: on display. David Brownlee wrote up a report about the [NetBSD stand at 4250: RISC OS 2000](events/riscos-2000.html). 4251: 4252: ### `Oct 2000` - BSDCon 2000 4253: 4254: *October 14-20 2000, Monterey, CA* 4255: 4256: [http://www.bsdcon.org/](http://www.bsdcon.org/) 4257: 4258: NetBSD had a table at this event, and there were a couple of talks 4259: spotlighting NetBSD. 4260: 4261: Erik Berls <cyber@NetBSD.org> and Luke Mewburn <lukem@NetBSD.org> gave a 4262: talk entitled "NetBSD: Platform for the Future". Slides are available at 4263: [](http://www.mewburn.net/luke/talks/bsdcon-2000/). 4264: 4265: Also, Jun-ichiro itojun Hagino gave a talk on NetBSD 1.5. A transcript 4266: is available at 4267: [](ftp://ftp.itojun.org/pub/paper/itojun-bsdcon2000-netbsd15.ps.gz). 4268: 4269: ### `Oct 2000` - Atlanta Linux Showcase 4270: 4271: *October 12-14 2000, Atlanta, GA* 4272: 4273: [http://www.linuxshowcase.org/](http://www.linuxshowcase.org/) 4274: 4275: The NetBSD Project ran a booth at this event, showcasing NetBSD on 4276: non-PC platforms (primarily the Mac G4 cube). Some unfortunate bugs were 4277: fixed onsite. 4278: 4279: Expenses for this event were underwritten by The NetBSD Mission. 4280: 4281: ### `Aug 2000` - LinuxWorld Conference & Expo 4282: 4283: *August 14-17 2000, San Jose, CA* 4284: 4285: [http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/](http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/) 4286: 4287: There was a BSD BoF session on Wednesday August 16th. In the September 4288: 2000 issue, Daemon News published an 4289: [article](http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200009/linuxworld-2000.html) on 4290: the BSD presence at LinuxWorld 2000. 4291: 4292: ### `Jul 2000` - O'Reilly Open Source Software Convention 2000 4293: 4294: *July 17-20, 2000, Monterey, CA* 4295: 4296: http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon2000/ 4297: 4298: NetBSD had a table at the O'Reilly Open Source Software Convention 2000. 4299: Also, there was a session called the "Future of the BSDs", presented by 4300: a group that included Charles Hannum from NetBSD. 4301: 4302: Expenses for this event were underwritten by The NetBSD Mission. 4303: 4304: ### `Jul 2000` - Comdex Canada 2000 4305: 4306: *July 12-14 2000, Toronto, Ontario, Canada* 4307: 4308: The NetBSD Project had a booth at Comdex Canada 2000 at which T-shirts 4309: and 1.4.2 CDs were available. There are some photos of [the screen, 4310: showing the bktr display](../images/events/20000712-1.jpg), NetBSD 4311: developers [David Maxwell (left) and D'Arcy Cain 4312: (right)](../images/events/20000712-2.jpg), and helpers [Carol Cain, and 4313: Robert Waters](../images/events/20000712-3.jpg). We also have pictures 4314: of another [User Friendly visitor](../images/events/booth_puppy.jpg). 4315: 4316: Expenses for this event were underwritten by LinuxMall, The NetBSD 4317: Mission and David Maxwell. 4318: 4319: ### `Jul 2000` - Japan NetBSD Users' Group meeting 4320: 4321: *July 1 2000, Tokyo Japan* 4322: 4323: [http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/announce/meeting2.html](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/announce/meeting2.html) 4324: 4325: The Japan NetBSD Users' Group had their annual meeting, and a NetBSD BoF 4326: followed. 4327: 4328: ### `Jun 2000` - LinuxTag 2000 4329: 4330: *June 29-July 2 2000, Stuttgart, Germany* 4331: 4332: http://www.linuxtag.org/2000/english/ 4333: 4334: A group of \*BSD enthusiasts organized a \*BSD booth at [LinuxTag 4335: 2000](http://www.linuxtag.org/2000/english/), which, among many other 4336: things, included a variety of boxes showcasing NetBSD. Christian 4337: Weisgerber has written a [summary](events/linuxtag-2000.html) about his 4338: experiences at LinuxTag 2000, as one both manning the \*BSD booth and 4339: giving a talk. 4340: 4341: ### `Jun 2000` - Usenix Annual Technical Conference 4342: 4343: *June 21-22 2000, San Diego, CA* 4344: 4345: [http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix2000/](http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix2000/) 4346: 4347: NetBSD had a presence at the [Usenix Annual Technical 4348: Conference](http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix2000/) in 2000. Most 4349: notably, Charles Hannum gave a talk about NetBSD, William Studenmund 4350: gave a [technical session on 4351: DMFS](http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/usenix2000/freenix/studenmund.html) 4352: (Data Migration File System) for NetBSD, Chuck Silvers gave a [technical 4353: session on 4354: UBC](http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/usenix2000/freenix/silvers.html) 4355: (an efficient United I/O and Memory Caching Subsystem for NetBSD), and 4356: Jun-ichiro Hagino gave a [technical session on mbuf changes in 4357: KAME/\*BSD IPv6 4358: support](http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/usenix2000/freenix/hagino.html). 4359: There was also a BSD BoF which included people kicking around beach 4360: balls emblazoned with "NetBSD support: it's not hot air anymore" in 4361: reference to the launch of [Wasabi 4362: Systems](http://www.wasabisystems.com/). 4363: 4364: Expenses for this event were underwritten by The Usenix Association and 4365: The NetBSD Mission. 4366: 4367: ### `Jun 2000` - German Unix User Group spring '00 meeting 4368: 4369: *June 14-16 2000, Cologne, Germany* 4370: 4371: [http://www.guug.de/](http://www.guug.de/) 4372: 4373: NetBSD was represented at the spring meeting of the [German Unix User 4374: Group](http://www.guug.de/). Ignatios Souvatzis gave a presentation 4375: about experiences with IPv6 using NetBSD. 4376: 4377: ### `Jun 2000` - NetWorld+Interop Tokyo 4378: 4379: *June 8 2000, Chiba, Japan* 4380: 4381: [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) 4382: 4383: A joint \*BSD users group BOF was held. Jordan Hubbard and Warner Losh 4384: (of FreeBSD) joined and gave us a talk. BOF session covering various 4385: \*BSD followed. 4386: 4387: ### `Apr 2000` - Comdex Spring 2000 4388: 4389: *April 17-20 2000, Chicago, IL* 4390: 4391: [http://www.comdex.com/](http://www.comdex.com/) 4392: 4393: Expenses for this event were underwritten by LinuxMall and The NetBSD 4394: Mission. 4395: 4396: ### `Apr 2000` - Linux Expo 4397: 4398: *April 10-12 2000, Montreal, Quebec, Canada* 4399: 4400: [http://www.linuxexpocanada.com/](http://www.linuxexpocanada.com/) 4401: 4402: The NetBSD Project had a booth displaying NetBSD i386, hpcmips, and 4403: mmeye at this event in Montreal, Canada. T-shirts, 1.4.1, 1.4.2, and 4404: snapshot CDs were available. 4405: 4406: Expenses for this event were underwritten by The NetBSD Mission. 4407: 4408: ### `Mar 2000` - DECUS Munich 4409: 4410: *March 29, 2000, Munich, Germany* 4411: 4412: [http://www.decus.de/](http://www.decus.de/) 4413: 4414: Ignatios Souvatzis talked about NetBSD news and experiences with IPv6 on 4415: NetBSD at the DECUS Munich Symposium in Bonn. 4416: 4417: ### `Mar 2000` - NetBSD 1.4.2 release 4418: 4419: *March 19, 2000* 4420: 4421: NetBSD 1.4.2, a [patch release](../releases/release-map.html) improving 4422: stability and fixing bugs in [NetBSD-1.4](../releases/formal-1.4/), was 4423: announced to the public. 4424: 4425: ### `Feb 2000` - Linux Expo 4426: 4427: *February 1-3 2000, Paris, France* 4428: 4429: [http://www.linuxexpoparis.com/](http://www.linuxexpoparis.com/) 4430: 4431: There was a BSD BoF at the New York Linuxworld on Thursday, February 4432: 3rd. 4433: 4434: Expenses for this event were underwritten by The NetBSD Mission. 4435: 4436: ### `Dec 1999` - Internet Week 1999 4437: 4438: *December 18 1999, Yokohama, Japan* 4439: 4440: [http://www.nic.ad.jp/iw99/](http://www.nic.ad.jp/iw99/) 4441: 4442: There was a [BSD BoF session](http://www.jp.freebsd.org/event/iw99/) on 4443: Dec 18. 4444: 4445: ### `Dec 1999` - The Bazaar 4446: 4447: *December 14-16 1999, New York City, NY* 4448: 4449: The NetBSD Project had two kiosks at "The Bazaar" in New York City at 4450: the Javits Center. We demoed NetBSD on several hardware platforms, and 4451: provided live video from the show floor via a [Brains, Inc. mmEye video 4452: server](http://www.brains.co.jp/). 4453: 4454: Expenses for this event were underwritten by The NetBSD Mission. 4455: 4456: ### `Nov 1999` - Comdex Fall 1999 4457: 4458: *November 15-19 1999, Las Vegas, NV* 4459: 4460: [http://www.comdex.com/](http://www.comdex.com/) 4461: 4462: The NetBSD Project had a booth at Comdex Fall 1999. We had 1.4.1 CD 4463: sets, sample CDs, demo machines, and a few surprises. 4464: 4465: Expenses for this event were underwritten by LinuxMall and The NetBSD 4466: Mission. 4467: 4468: ### `Nov 1999` - Open Source Matsuri99 in Akihabara 4469: 4470: *November 12-13, 1999, Akihabara, Tokyo* 4471: 4472: Japan NetBSD Users' Group ran a booth at Open Source Matsuri'99 in 4473: Akihabara ("Matsuri" is Japanese word for "Festival"). We had demo 4474: machines and short Presentation with NetBSD/hpcmips. 4475: 4476: ### `Oct 1999` - Atlanta Linux Showcase 1999 4477: 4478: *October 14-16, 1999, Atlanta, GA* 4479: 4480: [http://www.linuxshowcase.org/1999/](http://www.linuxshowcase.org/1999/) 4481: 4482: The NetBSD Project ran a booth at the Atlanta Linux Showcase. 1.4.1 CD 4483: sets and T-shirts were on sale. 4484: 4485: Expenses for this event were underwritten by The NetBSD Mission. 4486: 4487: ### `Oct 1999` - BSD Social Event in Berlin 4488: 4489: *October 9-10, 1999* 4490: 4491: ### `Aug 1999` - NetBSD 1.4.1 release 4492: 4493: *August 26, 1999* 4494: 4495: NetBSD 1.4.1, a [patch release](../releases/release-map.html) improving 4496: stability and fixing bugs in [NetBSD-1.4](../releases/formal-1.4/), was 4497: announced to the public. 4498: 4499: ### `Jul 1999` - Wizards of OS \#1 4500: 4501: *July 16-17, 1999, Berlin, Germany* 4502: 4503: Patrick M. Hausen talked about FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD at the Free 4504: Software Projects panel of the Wizards of OS conference. 4505: 4506: ### `Jun 1999` - LinuxTag '99 4507: 4508: *June 26-27, 1999, Kaiserslautern, Germany* 4509: 4510: [http://www.linuxtag.org/1999/](http://www.linuxtag.org/1999/) 4511: 4512: The NetBSD Project attended LinuxTag '99 in Kaiserslautern, Germany. We 4513: exhibited a NetBSD/arm32 system running on a DNARD, and demonstrated the 4514: package system. 4515: 4516: ### `Jun 1999` - Usenix '99 4517: 4518: *June 6-11, 1999, Monterey, CA* 4519: 4520: [http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix99/](http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix99/) 4521: 4522: The NetBSD foundation attended the USENIX Annual Technical Conference in 4523: Monterey, CA. There was a Birds of a Feather session on Tuesday 8, 8pm - 4524: 10pm, and an exhibition booth featuring many different platforms. There 4525: is also a [full report](events/usenix1999.html) available. 4526: 4527: ### `Mar 1999` - German Unix User Group spring '99 meeting 4528: 4529: *March 16-19, 1999, Germany* 4530: 4531: [http://www.guug.de/](http://www.guug.de/) 4532: 4533: During the spring meeting of the [German Unix User 4534: Group](http://www.guug.de/) (GUUG), NetBSD was mentioned in two talks 4535: held by [Dr. Alexandre 4536: Wennmacher](http://www.uni-koeln.de/math-nat-fak/geomet/geo/mitarbeiter/mitarb/aw.html). 4537: The first described security through file flags and the second was about 4538: checkpointing in userspace. 4539: 4540: At the \*BSD BoF, Hubert Feyrer explained the changes made in the 4541: Packages System to what was taken from FreeBSD, Christoph Badura 4542: answered general NetBSD questions. 4543: 4544: ### `May 1999` - NetBSD 1.4 release 4545: 4546: *May 12, 1999* 4547: 4548: [NetBSD 1.4](../releases/formal-1.4/), the seventh [major 4549: release](../releases/release-map.html) of NetBSD, was announced to the 4550: public. 4551: 4552: ### `Dec 1998` - NetBSD 1.3.3 release 4553: 4554: *December 23, 1998* 4555: 4556: NetBSD 1.3.3, a [patch release](../releases/release-map.html) improving 4557: stability and fixing bugs in [NetBSD-1.3](../releases/formal-1.3/), was 4558: announced to the public. 4559: 4560: ### `Aug 1998` - Open Source Developer Day 4561: 4562: *August 21, 1998, San Jose, CA* 4563: 4564: The NetBSD Project was proud to be a partner with O'Reilly and 4565: Associates for its Open Source Developer Day, held at the Fairmont Hotel 4566: in San Jose, CA. 4567: 4568: ### `Jun 1998` - Usenix freenix track 4569: 4570: *June 15-19, 1998, New Orleans, LA* 4571: 4572: [FREENIX](http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/usenix98/freenix/), 4573: the freely redistributable software track, was held at 4574: [Usenix](http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/usenix98/). 4575: FREENIX was intended to be a showcase for the latest developments and 4576: interesting applications in freely redistributable software including 4577: NetBSD, FreeBSD, Linux, OpenBSD, GNU and Samba. 4578: 4579: ### `May 1998` - NetBSD 1.3.2 release 4580: 4581: *May 29, 1998* 4582: 4583: NetBSD 1.3.2, a [patch release](../releases/release-map.html) improving 4584: stability and fixing bugs in [NetBSD-1.3](../releases/formal-1.3/), was 4585: announced to the public. 4586: 4587: ### `Apr 1998` - MTT '98 "Magic Days Trier" 4588: 4589: *April 25-26, 1998, Germany* 4590: 4591: The Amiga1 user group held another MTT. 4592: 4593: ### `Mar 1998` - NetBSD 1.3.1 release 4594: 4595: *March 9, 1998* 4596: 4597: NetBSD 1.3.1, a [patch release](../releases/release-map.html) improving 4598: stability and fixing bugs in [NetBSD-1.3](../releases/formal-1.3/), was 4599: released. 4600: 4601: ### `Jan 1998` - NetBSD 1.3 release 4602: 4603: *January 4, 1998* 4604: 4605: [NetBSD-1.3](../releases/formal-1.5/), the sixth [major 4606: release](../releases/release-map.html) of NetBSD, was announced to the 4607: public. 4608: 4609: ### `May 1997` - NetBSD 1.2.1 release 4610: 4611: *May 20, 1997* 4612: 4613: NetBSD 1.2.1, a [patch release](../releases/release-map.html) improving 4614: stability and fixing bugs in [NetBSD-1.2](../releases/formal-1.2/), was 4615: announced to the public. 4616: 4617: ### `Apr 1997` - MTT '97 "Magic Days Trier" 4618: 4619: *April 19-20, 1997, Germany* 4620: 4621: A NetBSD-1.2.1/Amiga preview, running on a DraCo and (after installing 4622: it live over ARCnet) on an Amiga 3000, was presented by Jürgen Schmitz 4623: and Ignatios Souvatzis at the MTT '97. 4624: 4625: ### `Apr 1997` - DECUS Munich 4626: 4627: *April 17, 1997, Bonn, Germany* 4628: 4629: Ignatios Souvatzis presented a talk about *NetBSD on Digital Hardware* 4630: at the [DECUS Munich](http://www.decus.de/) Symposium in Bonn. 4631: 4632: ### `Jan 1997` - Anaheim Usenix Birds of a Feather 4633: 4634: *January 14, 1997, Anaheim, CA* 4635: 4636: NetBSD hosted a Birds of a Feather at the Usenix conference which was 4637: held in Anaheim California. Christos Zoulas spoke about the current 4638: state, goals and future directions of the project, while Paul 4639: Kranenburg, Aaron Brown and Chris Demetriou answered questions about the 4640: sparc and the alpha ports respectively.