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Move `Open Source Conference 2016 Gunma' to the past.
Add `pkgsrcCon 2016' and `EuroBSDCon 2016'.

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: ### `Jul 2016` - pkgsrcCon 2016, Kraków, Poland 12: 13: *July 2 - 3, 2016, Kraków Poland* 14: 15: [pkgsrcCon](http://www.pkgsrc.org/pkgsrcCon/2016/) is the annual technical 16: conference for people working on pkgsrc, a framework for building 17: over 17,000 open source software packages. pkgsrc is the native 18: package manager on NetBSD, SmartOS and Minix, and is portable across 19: many different operating systems including Linux and Mac OS X. 20: 21: ### `Sep 2016` - EuroBSDCon 2016 Belgrade, Serbia 22: 23: *September 22 - 25, 2016, Belgrade Serbia* 24: 25: [EuroBSDCon](https://2016.eurobsdcon.org/) is the premier European 26: conference on the open source BSD operating systems attracting 27: about 250 highly skilled engineering professionals, software 28: developers, computer science students and professors, and users 29: from all over Europe and other parts of the world. 30: 31: Past Events 32: ----------- 33: 34: ### `May 2016` - Open Source Conference 2016 Gunma 35: 36: *May. 14, 2016, [LABI1 Takasaki](http://www.yamadalabi.com/takasaki/access/index.html), Gunma, Japan* 37: 38: At the [Open Source Conference 2016 39: Gunma](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2016-gunma/), there will be a NetBSD 40: booth staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 41: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/) with NetBSD gadget demonstrations. 42: 43: ### `Mar 2016` - AsiaBSDCon 2016 44: 45: *Mar. 10-13, 2016, Tokyo, Japan* 46: 47: [AsiaBSDCon](https://www.asiabsdcon.org/) is a conference for users 48: and developers on BSD based systems. The next conference will be held 49: in Tokyo, in 10-13 March, 2016. The conference is for anyone 50: developing, deploying and using systems based on FreeBSD, NetBSD, 51: OpenBSD, DragonFlyBSD, Darwin and MacOS X. AsiaBSDCon is a technical 52: conference and aims to collect the best technical papers and 53: presentations available to ensure that the latest developments in our 54: open source community are shared with the widest possible audience. 55: [BSD Research and Japan NetBSD Users' Group booth report](https://github.com/ebijun/osc-demo/blob/master/2016/AsiaBSDCon2016.txt) 56: 57: ### `Feb 2016` - Open Source Conference 2016 Tokyo/Spring 58: 59: *Feb. 26- 27, 2016, [MEISEI 60: UNIVERSITY](http://www.meisei-u.ac.jp/access/hino.html), Tokyo, Japan* 61: 62: At the [Open Source Conference 2016 63: Tokyo/Spring](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2016-spring/), there was a NetBSD 64: booth staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 65: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/) with NetBSD gadget demonstrations. 66: [Report on netbsd-advocacy](http://mail-index.netbsd.org/netbsd-advocacy/2016/02/29/msg000703.html). 67: 68: 69: ### `Jan 2016` - Open Source Conference 2016 Hamanako 70: 71: *Jan. 23, 2016, [Hamamatsu Shimin Kyodo Center](http://www.machien-hamamatsu.jp/access.html), Shizuoka, Japan* 72: 73: At the [Open Source Conference 2016 74: Hamanako](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2015-hamanako/), there was a NetBSD 75: booth staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 76: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/) with NetBSD gadget demonstrations. 77: [Report on netbsd-advocacy](http://mail-index.netbsd.org/netbsd-advocacy/2016/01/23/msg000701.html). 78: 79: 80: ### `Nov 2015` - Open Source Conference 2015 Tokushima 81: 82: *Nov. 14, 2015, [TOKUGIN TOMONI PLAZA](http://www.tokuginplaza.com/own/index.asp), Tokushima, Japan* 83: 84: At the [Open Source Conference 2015 85: Tokushima](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2015-tokushima/), there was a NetBSD 86: booth staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 87: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/) with NetBSD gadget demonstrations. 88: [Report on netbsd-advocacy](http://mail-index.netbsd.org/netbsd-advocacy/2015/11/09/msg000700.html). 89: 90: ### `Nov 2015` - KANSAI OPEN FORUM 2015 91: 92: *Nov. 6- 7, 2015, [Asia and Pacific Trade Center](http://www.atc-co.com/guide/access.php), Osaka, Japan* 93: 94: At the [KANSAI OPEN FORUM 2015](https://k-of.jp/2015/), there was a NetBSD 95: booth staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 96: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/) with NetBSD gadget demonstrations 97: and [BSD BOF](https://k-of.jp/2015/session/731). 98: [Report on netbsd-advocacy](http://mail-index.netbsd.org/netbsd-advocacy/2015/11/09/msg000699.html). 99: 100: ### `Oct 2015` - Open Source Conference 2015 Tokyo/Fall 101: 102: *Oct. 24- 25, 2015, [MEISEI 103: UNIVERSITY](http://www.meisei-u.ac.jp/access/hino.html), Tokyo, Japan* 104: 105: At the [Open Source Conference 2015 106: Tokyo/Fall](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2015-fall/), there was a NetBSD 107: booth staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 108: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/) with NetBSD gadget demonstrations 109: and [BSD BOF](https://www.ospn.jp/osc2015-fall/modules/eguide/event.php?eid=4). 110: [Report on netbsd-advocacy](http://mail-index.netbsd.org/netbsd-advocacy/2015/10/25/msg000698.html). 111: 112: 113: ### `Oct 2015` - BSDCon Brasil 2015, Ceará, Brasil 114: 115: *Oct. 9-10, 2015, University of Fortaleza ,Ceará, Brasil* 116: 117: 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. 118: 119: 120: ### `Oct 2015` - Open Source Conference 2015 Fukuoka 121: 122: *Oct. 3, 2015, [KYUSHU SANGYO UNIVERSITY](http://www.kyusan-u.ac.jp/E/index.shtml), Fukuoka, Japan* 123: 124: At the [Open Source Conference 2015 125: Fukuoka](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2015-fukuoka/) , there was a NetBSD booth 126: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 127: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) with many gadget 128: demonstrations.[Report on netbsd-advocacy](http://mail-index.netbsd.org/netbsd-advocacy/2015/10/05/msg000697.html). 129: 130: ### `Oct 2015` - EuroBSDcon 2015, Stockholm, Sweden 131: 132: *Oct. 1-4, 2015, Stockholm, Sweden* 133: 134: [EuroBSDcon](https://2015.eurobsdcon.org/) is the premier European 135: conference on the open source BSD operating systems attracting about 136: 250 highly skilled engineering professionals, software developers, 137: computer science students and professors, and users from all over 138: Europe and other parts of the world. The goal of EuroBSDcon is to 139: exchange knowledge about the BSD operating systems, facilitate 140: coordination and cooperation among users and developers. 141: 142: ### `Sep 2015` - Open Source Conference 2015 Hiroshima 143: 144: *Sep. 19, 2015, [Satellite Campus Hiroshima](https://www.pu-hiroshima.ac.jp/site/satellite/), Hiroshima, Japan* 145: 146: At the [Open Source Conference 2015 147: Hiroshima](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2015-Hiroshima/) , there was a NetBSD and XM6i booth 148: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 149: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) and [XM6i](http://xm6i.org/) developers with many gadget 150: demonstrations.[Report on netbsd-advocacy](http://mail-index.netbsd.org/netbsd-advocacy/2015/09/24/msg000696.html). 151: 152: ### `Sep 2015` - vBSDCon 2015, Virginia, United States 153: 154: *Sep. 11-13, 2015, Virginia, United States* 155: 156: 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. 157: 158: ### `Sep 2015` - Open Source Conference 2015 Niigata 159: 160: *Sep. 5, 2015, [HON-PORT NIIGATA CITY PUBLIC LIBRARY](http://www.niigatacitylib.jp/?page_id=166), Niigata, Japan* 161: 162: At the [Open Source Conference 2015 163: Niigata](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2015-niigata/) , there was a NetBSD booth 164: staffed by members of [Echigo BSD Users Group](http://www.ebug.jp/) members and the [Japan NetBSD Users' 165: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) with many gadget 166: demonstrations.[Report on netbsd-advocacy](http://mail-index.netbsd.org/netbsd-advocacy/2015/09/05/msg000695.html). 167: 168: ### `Aug 2015` - Open Source Conference 2015 Shimane 169: 170: *Aug. 22, 2015, [MATSUE TERRSA](http://www.sanbg.com/terrsa/e/index.html), Shimane, Japan* 171: 172: At the [Open Source Conference 2015 173: Shimane](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2015-shimane/) , there was a NetBSD booth 174: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 175: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) with many gadget 176: demonstrations.[Report on netbsd-advocacy](http://mail-index.netbsd.org/netbsd-advocacy/2015/08/22/msg000692.html). 177: 178: ### `Mar 2015` - AsiaBSDCon 2015 179: 180: *Mar. 12-15, 2015, Tokyo, Japan* 181: 182: [AsiaBSDCon](https://2015.asiabsdcon.org/) is a conference for users 183: and developers on BSD based systems. The next conference will be held 184: in Tokyo, in 12-15 March, 2015. The conference is for anyone 185: developing, deploying and using systems based on FreeBSD, NetBSD, 186: OpenBSD, DragonFlyBSD, Darwin and MacOS X. AsiaBSDCon is a technical 187: conference and aims to collect the best technical papers and 188: presentations available to ensure that the latest developments in our 189: open source community are shared with the widest possible audience. 190: 191: ### `Feb 2015` - Open Source Conference 2015 Tokyo/Spring 192: 193: *Feb. 27- 28, 2015, [MEISEI 194: UNIVERSITY](http://www.meisei-u.ac.jp/access/hino.html), Tokyo, Japan* 195: 196: At the [Open Source Conference 2015 197: Tokyo/Spring](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2015-spring/), there was a NetBSD 198: booth staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 199: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/) with NetBSD gadget demonstrations. 200: [Report on netbsd-advocacy](http://mail-index.netbsd.org/netbsd-advocacy/2015/02/28/msg000680.html). 201: 202: ### `Nov 2014` - Kansai OpenSource 2014 203: 204: *Nov. 7-8, 2014, [Asia and Pacific Trade Center ITM 205: Building](http://www.atc-co.com/), Osaka, Japan* 206: 207: At the [Kansai OpenSource 2014](http://www.k-of.jp/), there will be BSD 208: booths staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 209: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) and [Kansai \*BSD Users 210: Group](http://www.kbug.gr.jp/). with many gadget demonstrations { 211: [hpcarm](../ports/hpcarm/), [hpcmips](../ports/hpcmips/), 212: [hpcsh](../ports/hpcsh/) } and BSDBOF. 213: 214: ### `Sep 2014` - EuroBSDCon 2014, Sofia, Bulgaria 215: 216: *Sep. 25-28, 2014, Sofia, Bulgaria* 217: 218: [EuroBSDcon](http://2014.EuroBSDCon.org) is the premier European 219: conference on the open source BSD operating systems attracting about 220: 250 highly skilled engineering professionals, software developers, 221: computer science students and professors, and users from all over 222: Europe and other parts of the world. The goal of EuroBSDcon is to 223: exchange knowledge about the BSD operating systems, facilitate 224: coordination and cooperation among users and developers. 225: 226: ### `Jul 2014` - Open Source Conference 2014 Nagoya 227: 228: *Jul. 4-5, 2014, [Nagoya International 229: Center](http://www.nic-nagoya.or.jp/en/e/about-us/access-hours), Nagoya, 230: Japan* 231: 232: At the [Open Source Conference 2014 233: Nagoya](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2014-nagoya/) , there will be a OpenBSD 234: and NetBSD booth staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 235: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/) and [Nagoya \*BSD Users' Group 236: (NBUG)](http://www.nagoya.bug.gr.jp/). There will be a gadget 237: demonstration [BSD booth](http://twitpic.com/czat1r) and NBUG BOF. 238: 239: ### `Jun 2014` - pkgsrcCon 2014, London, England 240: 241: *Jun. 21-22, 2014, Middlesex University, London, England* 242: 243: [pkgsrcCon](http://www.pkgsrc.org/pkgsrcCon/2014/) is a technical 244: conference for people working on the NetBSD Packages Collection 245: (pkgsrc), focusing on existing technologies, research projects, and 246: works-in-progress in pkgsrc infrastructure. Developers, contributors, 247: interested developers and users are all welcome to attend. 248: 249: ### `Jun 2014` - Open Source Conference 2014 Hokkaido 250: 251: *Jun. 13-14, 2014, [Sapporo Business Innovation Center, Sapporo, 252: Japan](http://www.sapporosansin.jp/access/)* 253: 254: At the [Open Source Conference 2014 255: Hokkaido](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2014-do/) , there will be a NetBSD booth 256: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 257: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/) and [NoBUG](http://www.no.bug.gr.jp/) 258: with NetBSD gadget demonstrations ( [hpcarm](../ports/hpcarm/), 259: [hpcmips](../ports/hpcmips/), [hpcsh](../ports/hpcsh/)). 260: 261: ### `Mar 2014` - Open Source Conference 2014 Hamanako 262: 263: *Mar. 22, 2014, [Hamamatsu Shimin Kyodo 264: Center](http://www.machien-hamamatsu.jp/) , Shizuoka, Japan* 265: 266: At the [Open Source Conference 2014 267: Hamanako](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2014-hamanako/) , there will be a NetBSD 268: booth staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 269: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/) with many gadgets demonstration ( 270: [hpcarm](../ports/hpcarm/), [hpcmips](../ports/hpcmips/), 271: [hpcsh](../ports/hpcsh/)). 272: 273: ### `Mar 2014` - AsiaBSDCon 2014 274: 275: *Mar 13-16, 2014, Tokyo University of Science,Tokyo, Japan* 276: 277: [AsiaBSDCon](http://2014.asiabsdcon.org/) will be a conference for users 278: and developers on BSD based systems. The conference was for anyone 279: developing, deploying and using systems based on FreeBSD, NetBSD, 280: OpenBSD, DragonFly BSD, Darwin, and MacOS X. AsiaBSDCon was a technical 281: conference and aimed to collect the best technical papers and 282: presentations available to ensure that the latest developments in our 283: open source community are shared with the widest possible audience. 284: 285: ### `Feb 2014` - Open Source Conference 2014 Tokyo/Spring 286: 287: *Feb. 28- Mar. 1, 2014, [MEISEI 288: UNIVERSITY](http://www.meisei-u.ac.jp/access/hino.html), Tokyo, Japan* 289: 290: At the [Open Source Conference 2014 291: Tokyo/Spring](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2014-spring/), there was a NetBSD 292: booth staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 293: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/) with NetBSD gadget demonstrations ( 294: [hpcarm](../ports/hpcarm/), [zaurus](../ports/zaurus/), 295: [evbarm](../ports/evbarm/)). [2014-02-28-netbsd-raspi 296: image](http://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-arm/2014/02/28/msg002243.html)). 297: more reports on [togetter](http://togetter.com/li/635747). Japan NetBSD 298: Users' Group got an award called "[Open Source Confernce 299: Award](http://www.ospn.jp/press/20140218osc-award.html)". 300: 301: ### `Feb 2014` - NYC\*BSD Con 2014 302: 303: *Feb 8, 2014 Suspenders Bar and Restaurant* 304: 305: [NYC\*BSD Con 2014](http://www.nycbsdcon.org/2014/) NYCBSDCon is on as a 306: day-long event with the theme of "The BSDs in Production." 307: 308: ### `Nov 2013` - Linux User Group of Mauritius - LinuxFest 2013 309: 310: *Nov 25, 2013, Octave Wiehe Auditorium University of Mauritius* 311: 312: [Linux Fest 2013 in Mauritius](http://lugm.org/linuxfest/#) will feature 313: some BSD thumb drives and other general IT and Open Source talks 314: 315: ### `Nov 2013` - Open Source Conference 2013 Oita 316: 317: *Nov. 23, 2013, i-ness, Oita, Japan* 318: 319: At the [Open Source Conference 2013 320: Oita](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2013-oita/) , there will be a NetBSD booth 321: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 322: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/) with many gadgets demonstration ( 323: [hpcarm](../ports/hpcarm/), [hpcmips](../ports/hpcmips/), 324: [hpcsh](../ports/hpcsh/)). 325: 326: ### `Nov 2013` - Open Source Conference 2013 Fukuoka 327: 328: *Nov. 16, 2013, [Fukuoka Soft Research 329: Park](http://www.fukuoka-srp.co.jp/access/index.html) , Fukuoka, Japan* 330: 331: At the [Open Source Conference 2013 332: Fukuoka](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2013-fukuoka/) , there will be a NetBSD 333: booth staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 334: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/) with many gadgets demonstration ( 335: [hpcarm](../ports/hpcarm/), [hpcmips](../ports/hpcmips/), 336: [hpcsh](../ports/hpcsh/)) 337: 338: ### `Nov 2013` - Kansai OpenSource 2013 339: 340: *Nov. 8-9, 2013, [Asia and Pacific Trade Center ITM 341: Building](http://www.atc-co.com/), Osaka, Japan* 342: 343: At the [Kansai OpenSource 2013](http://www.k-of.jp/), there will be BSD 344: booths staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 345: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) and [Kansai \*BSD Users 346: Group](http://www.kbug.gr.jp/). with many gadget demonstrations { 347: [hpcarm](../ports/hpcarm/), [hpcmips](../ports/hpcmips/), 348: [hpcsh](../ports/hpcsh/) } and BSDBOF. 349: 350: ### `Oct 2013` - Open Source Conference 2013 Tokyo/Fall 351: 352: *Oct. 19-20, 2013, [MEISEI 353: UNIVERSITY](http://www.meisei-u.ac.jp/access/hino.html), Tokyo, Japan* 354: 355: At the [Open Source Conference 2013 356: Tokyo/Fall](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2013-fall/), there will be a NetBSD 357: booth staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 358: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/) with NetBSD gadget demonstrations ( 359: [hpcarm](../ports/hpcarm/), [hpcmips](../ports/hpcmips/), 360: [hpcsh](../ports/hpcsh/)) and BSDBOF. 361: 362: ### `Oct 2013` - Open Source Conference 2013 Hiroshima 363: 364: *Oct. 6, 2013, [Satellite Campus 365: Hiroshima](http://www.pu-hiroshima.ac.jp/site/satellite/accessmap.html) 366: , Hiroshima, Japan* 367: 368: At the [Open Source Conference 2013 369: Hiroshima](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2013-hiroshima/) , there will be a 370: NetBSD booth staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 371: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/) with NetBSD gadget demonstrations ( 372: [hpcarm](../ports/hpcarm/), [hpcmips](../ports/hpcmips/), 373: [hpcsh](../ports/hpcsh/)). 374: 375: ### `Sep 2013` - Open Source Conference 2013 Hokkaido 376: 377: *Sep. 14, 2013, [Sapporo Convention Center, Sapporo, 378: Japan](http://www.sora-scc.jp/access/index.html)* 379: 380: At the [Open Source Conference 2013 381: Hokkaido](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2013-do/) , there will be a NetBSD booth 382: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 383: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/) and [NoBUG](http://www.no.bug.gr.jp/) 384: with NetBSD gadget demonstrations ( [hpcarm](../ports/hpcarm/), 385: [hpcmips](../ports/hpcmips/), [hpcsh](../ports/hpcsh/)). 386: 387: ### `Aug 2013` - FrOSCon 2013 388: 389: *Aug. 24–25, 2013, [Bonn-Rhein-Sieg University of Applied Sciences, 390: Campus 391: Sankt-Augustin](http://fhbrs.de/en/University/Addresses+and+how+to+find+us.html), 392: Germany* 393: 394: At [FrOSCon 8](http://froscon.org/en/home/) (Free and Open Source 395: Software Conference), the NetBSD project will be present with a booth 396: with several "showcase" machines, handing out flyers and CDs and 397: answering users' questions. 398: 399: ### `Aug 2013` - Open Source Conference 2013 Shimane 400: 401: *Aug. 24, 2013, [MATSUE 402: TERRSA](http://www.sanbg.com/terrsa/e/index.html), Shimane, Japan* 403: 404: At the [Open Source Conference 2013 405: Shimane](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2013-shimane/) , there was a NetBSD booth 406: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 407: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) with many gadget 408: demonstrations ( [SONY NEWS 409: NetBSD/newsmips](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/5003059), [Java Station 410: NetBSD/sparc](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/5003356), [OMRON LUNAII 411: NetBSD/luna68k](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/5003079), [XM6i 412: NetBSD/x68k](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/5003189), [Raspberry PI 413: hardfloat 414: NetBSD/evbarmv6hf](http://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-arm/2013/08/23/msg001984.html) 415: ). more reports on [togetter](http://togetter.com/li/553529). 416: 417: ### `Aug 2013` - Open Source Conference 2013 Kansai@Kyoto 418: 419: *Aug. 2-3, 2013, [KYOTO RESEARCH 420: PARK](http://www.krp.co.jp/english/access/index.html), Kyoto, Japan* 421: 422: At the [Open Source Conference 2013 423: Kansai@Kyoto](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2013-kyoto/) , there was a NetBSD 424: booth staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 425: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/) and [Kansai \*BSD Users 426: Group](http://www.kbug.gr.jp/) . There was a gadgets demonstration ( 427: [sparc64 Genial 737s](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/4987247), [OMRON 428: LUNA and LUNAII](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/4987331), [LUNAII and 429: mikutter](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/4987913), 430: [RaspberryPI](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/4987927) ) and presentation 431: ( [all about OMRON LUNA](http://www.soum.co.jp/~jun/OSC2013kyoto.pdf), 432: [Do LUNA68K Dream of mltermic Twitter 433: Sheep?,](http://www.ceres.dti.ne.jp/tsutsui/osc2013kyoto/NetBSD-luna68k_mlterm-fb_Twitter.html) 434: ). more report on [togetter](http://togetter.com/li/542885). 435: 436: ### `Jul 2013` - Japan NetBSD Users' Group meeting & NetBSD BOF 437: 438: *Jul 13, 2013, [VLSI Design and Education Center University of 439: Tokyo](http://www.vdec.u-tokyo.ac.jp/English/contact.html), Tokyo, 440: Japan* 441: 442: See [Japan NetBSD Users Group 15th annual Meeting and BoF 443: 2013](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/announce/meeting15.html.en) 444: for meeting information.[more detail on 445: togetter](http://togetter.com/li/532926). 446: 447: ### `Jul 2013` - Open Source Conference 2013 Okinawa 448: 449: *Jul. 6, 2013, [Okinawa Convention 450: Center](http://www.oki-conven.jp/en/modules/tinyd7/page/page1.html) , 451: Okinawa, Japan* 452: 453: At the [Open Source Conference 2013 454: Okinawa](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2013-okinawa/) , there will be a NetBSD 455: booth staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 456: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/) with many gadgets demonstration ( 457: [hpcarm](../ports/hpcarm/), [Raspberry-pi image for 458: NetBSD](http://ftp.NetBSD.org/pub/NetBSD/misc/jun/raspberry-pi/), 459: [XM6i](http://xm6i.org/)).[more detail on 460: togetter](http://togetter.com/li/529669). 461: 462: ### `Jun 2013` - Open Source Conference 2013 Nagoya 463: 464: *Jun. 21-22, 2013, [Nagoya International 465: Center](http://www.nic-nagoya.or.jp/en/e/about-us/access-hours), Nagoya, 466: Japan* 467: 468: At the [Open Source Conference 2013 469: Nagoya](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2013-nagoya/) , there was a OpenBSD 470: andNetBSD booth staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 471: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/) and [Nagoya \*BSD Users' Group 472: (NBUG)](http://www.nagoya.bug.gr.jp/). There was a gadget demonstration 473: [BSD booth](http://twitpic.com/czat1r) ( [OpenBSD/luna88k and 474: NetBSD/luna68k](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/4959244), [NetBSD6.1 vs 475: NetBSD6.0.2 animation viewer runnning on NetBSD/x68k with XM6i X68030 476: emulator](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/4959314), [RaspberryPI NetBSD 477: Image](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/4959033) ) and NBUG 478: BOF([OpenBSD/luna88k](http://www.nk-home.net/~aoyama/osc2013nagoya/OpenBSD-luna88k.pdf),6.1 479: vs 6.0.2 animation on 480: NetBSD/x68k,[NetBSD/RPI](http://ftp.NetBSD.org/pub/NetBSD/misc/jun/raspberry-pi/README-RPI.pdf) 481: ),[CLU lang and NetBSD 482: 2038](http://www.slideshare.net/hirofumitouhei/osc2013-nagoya). [more 483: detail on togetter](http://togetter.com/li/522396). 484: 485: ### May 2013 - Linuxtag Berlin 486: 487: *May 22-25, 2013, Berlin, Germany.* 488: 489: LinuxTag 2013 opens its doors from May 22 to May 25, 2013, at the Berlin 490: Expo Center under the Funkturm in Berlin, Germany. The event features a 491: NetBSD booth on the exhibition fair, where you can get the newest 492: T-Shirts, talk to NetBSD developers or get stickers for your computer 493: cases or notebooks. 494: 495: See the [Linuxtag homepage](http://www.linuxtag.org/2013/en.html) for 496: more information. 497: 498: ### `May 2013` - BSDCan 2013, Ottawa, Canada 499: 500: *May 17-18, 2013, Ottawa, Canada.* 501: 502: [BSDCan 2013](http://www.bsdcan.org/2013) is a BSD conference held in 503: Ottawa, Canada, for people working on and with 4.4BSD based operating 504: systems and related projects. BSDCan 2013 will be held on 17-18 May 2013 505: at University of Ottawa, and will be preceded by two days of tutorials 506: on 15-16 May 2013. There were related events (of a social nature, for 507: the most part) on the day before and after the conference. 508: 509: See [the call for 510: papers](http://mail-index.NetBSD.org/netbsd-advocacy/2012/12/09/msg000506.html) 511: for details. 512: 513: ### `Apr 2013` - Central European BSD-Day 2013, Naples, Italy 514: 515: *Apr 6, 2013, Naples, Italy* 516: 517: The [Central European BSD-Day](http://bsdday.eu/2013) took place at he 518: Institute of Biostructures and Bioimaging in Naples, Italy on Saturday, 519: April 6th. The format is technically a mixture of a cross-project 520: developer summit and a workshop. We have invited developers working with 521: BSD from different organizations, we have some dinners together, and 522: dedicate various sessions to each of the topics based on the interests 523: of the attending developers. The format of these sessions is quite 524: flexible: they may include presentations or demonstration of results, or 525: even public discussions with developers involved, or a mix of all of 526: these. 527: 528: ### `Mar 2013` - pkgsrcCon 2013, Berlin, Germany 529: 530: *Mar. 23, 2013, IN-Berlin Space, Berlin, Germany* 531: 532: The [pkgsrcCon](http://www.pkgsrc.org/pkgsrcCon/2013/) is a technical 533: conference for people working on the NetBSD Packages Collection 534: (pkgsrc), focusing on existing technologies, research projects, and 535: works-in-progress in pkgsrc infrastructure. Developers, contributors, 536: interested developers and users are all welcome to attend. 537: 538: ### `Mar 2013` - Chemnitz Linux Days 2013, Chemnitz, Germany 539: 540: *Mar. 16-17, 2013, Chemnitz, Germany* 541: 542: The Chemnitz Linux Days is a conference that deals with Linux and Open 543: Source Software. It is open for everyone, novices and experts alike. 544: There will be a NetBSD booth where you can get the freshest goodies and 545: BSD related talks. 546: 547: See the [website](http://chemnitzer.linux-tage.de/2013/) for more 548: information. 549: 550: ### `Mar 2013` - AsiaBSDCon 2013 551: 552: *Mar 14-17, 2013, Tokyo University of Science,Tokyo, Japan* 553: 554: [AsiaBSDCon](http://2013.asiabsdcon.org/) will be a conference for users 555: and developers on BSD based systems. The conference was for anyone 556: developing, deploying and using systems based on FreeBSD, NetBSD, 557: OpenBSD, DragonFly BSD, Darwin, and MacOS X. AsiaBSDCon was a technical 558: conference and aimed to collect the best technical papers and 559: presentations available to ensure that the latest developments in our 560: open source community are shared with the widest possible audience. 561: 562: [Time table](http://2013.asiabsdcon.org/timetable.html). Keynote: [64bit 563: SMP NetBSD OS Porting for TILE-Gx VLIW Many-Core Processor by Toru 564: Nishimura](http://2013.asiabsdcon.org/timetable.html#K1) [More reports 565: on Togetter](http://togetter.com/li/472002) and [AsiaBSDCon Guide by 566: Japan NetBSD Users 567: Group](http://www.soum.co.jp/~jun/asiabsdcon2013.pdf). 568: 569: ### `Mar 2013` - Open Source Conference 2013 Tokushima 570: 571: *Mar. 9, 2013, [TOKUGIN TOMONY 572: PLAZA](http://www.tokuginplaza.com/own/index.asp) , Tokushima, Japan* 573: 574: At the [Open Source Conference 2013 575: Tokushima](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2013-tokushima/) , there was be a 576: NetBSD booth staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 577: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/) with many gadgets demonstration ( 578: [hpcarm](../ports/hpcarm/), [evbarm 579: (Netwalker,KOBO,RPI)](../ports/evbarm/), [luna68k](../ports/luna68k/)) 580: and ["NetBSD 20 years" 581: presentation](http://www.slideshare.net/tsutsuii/osc2013tokushima-net-bsd20th) 582: by tsutsui@. [More reports on Togetter](http://togetter.com/li/468577). 583: 584: ### `Feb 2013` - Open Source Conference 2013 Tokyo/Spring 585: 586: *Feb. 22-23, 2013, Tokyo, Japan* 587: 588: At the [Open Source Conference 2013 589: Tokyo/Spring](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2013-spring/), there was a NetBSD 590: booth staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 591: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/) with NetBSD gadget demonstrations( 592: [NetBSD/Raspberry Pi](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/4689247), 593: [NetBSD/KOBO and 594: NetBSD/netwalker](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/4688202), [mikutter on 595: WZERO3](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/4689261), ) and [more details on 596: togetter](http://togetter.com/li/460484). 597: 598: ### `Feb 2013` - Open Source Conference 2013 Hamamatsu 599: 600: *Feb. 9, 2013, [Hamamatsu Shimin Kyodo 601: Center](http://www.machien-hamamatsu.jp/) , Shizuoka, Japan* 602: 603: At the [Open Source Conference 2013 604: Hamamatsu](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2013-hamamatsu/) , there was a NetBSD 605: booth staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 606: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/) with many gadgets demonstration ( 607: [hpcarm](../ports/hpcarm/), [hpcmips](../ports/hpcmips/), 608: [hpcsh](../ports/hpcsh/)). [More reports on 609: Togetter](http://togetter.com/li/452856). 610: 611: ### `Feb 2013` - FOSDEM 2013, Brussels, Belgium 612: 613: *Feb. 2-3, 2013, Brussels, Belgium* 614: 615: [FOSDEM](https://fosdem.org/2013/) (Free and Open source Software 616: Developers' European Meeting) is a two-day free and non-commercial event 617: organized by the community for the community. Its goal is to provide 618: Free Software and Open Source developers and communities a place to 619: meet. It includes talks, presentations, booths, and a social event on 620: the day prior to the event. Participation and attendance is totally 621: free, though the organization gratefully accepts donations and 622: sponsorships. No registration necessary. 623: 624: There was a special developer's room reserved for BSD licensed operating 625: systems and their talks, and a NetBSD booth where you can talk to 626: developers or get NetBSD goodies. 627: 628: Please see [this 629: announcement](http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-advocacy/2012-November/004276.html) 630: for details. 631: 632: ### `Dec 2012` - Open Source Conference 2012 Fukuoka 633: 634: *Dec. 8, 2012, [Fukuoka Jyouhou 635: Senmon-gakkou](http://www.kcs-f.ac.jp/index.html) , Fukuoka, Japan* 636: 637: At the [Open Source Conference 2012 638: Fukuoka](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2012-fukuoka/) , there was a NetBSD booth 639: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 640: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/) with many gadgets demonstration ( 641: [hpcarm](../ports/hpcarm/), [hpcmips](../ports/hpcmips/), 642: [hpcsh](../ports/hpcsh/)) 643: 644: ### `Nov 2012` - Open Source Conference 2012 Aizu 645: 646: *Nov. 3, 2012, [The University of 647: Aizu](http://www.u-aizu.ac.jp/e-index.html) , Aizu, Japan* 648: 649: At the [Open Source Conference 2012 650: Aizu](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2012-aizu/) , there was a NetBSD booth 651: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 652: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/) with many gadgets demonstration ( 653: [hpcarm](../ports/hpcarm/), [hpcmips](../ports/hpcmips/), 654: [hpcsh](../ports/hpcsh/)) 655: 656: ### `Oct 2012` - Open Source Conference 2012 Oita/Fall 657: 658: *Oct. 27, 2012, Sophia hall , Oita, Japan* 659: 660: At the [Open Source Conference 2012 661: Oita/Fall](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2012-oita-fall/) , there was a NetBSD 662: booth staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 663: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/) with many gadgets demonstration ( 664: [hpcarm](../ports/hpcarm/), [hpcmips](../ports/hpcmips/), 665: [hpcsh](../ports/hpcsh/)). 666: 667: ### `Oct 2012` - Open Source Conference 2012 Hiroshima 668: 669: *Oct. 20, 2012, [Hiroshima Kokusai Gakuin 670: University](http://www.hkg.ac.jp/html/about/access.html) , Hiroshima, 671: Japan* 672: 673: At the [Open Source Conference 2012 674: Hiroshima](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2012-hiroshima/) , there was a NetBSD 675: booth staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 676: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/) with [four NetBSD/x68k 677: machines](http://twitpic.com/b6hyt7) including 678: [X68030](http://twitpic.com/b6h7bz)+[Neptune-X+NE2000](http://twitpic.com/b6i5j1), 679: [X68030+Nereid](http://twitpic.com/b6h0gl), 680: [X68060](http://twitpic.com/b6hw05) 681: ([X68030+060turbo](http://twitpic.com/b67l7a)), [X68000 682: PRO](http://twitpic.com/b6gs48) with [Xellent30 683: accellerator](http://movapic.com/pic/201210201011355081fa47b2a4f) 684: [booted via recently added netboot](http://twitpic.com/b6gqeb), and 685: [XM6i X68030 Emulator](http://xm6i.org/) on [Mac OS X with a real X68000 686: keyboard via USB converter](http://twitpic.com/b6i2qa). There were also 687: presentations ["Competitive development of XM6i and NetBSD/x68k" by 688: isaki@](http://xm6i.org/event/osc2012hi/) and ["NetBSD 6.0 New features 689: found at OSC booth" by 690: tsutsui@](http://www.slideshare.net/tsutsuii/osc-netbsd-60). [The event 691: summary is available on Togetter](http://togetter.com/li/392778). 692: 693: ### `Oct 2012` - EuroBSDCon 2012, Warsaw, Poland 694: 695: *Oct. 18-21, 2012, Warsaw, Poland* 696: 697: [EuroBSDcon](http://2012.EuroBSDCon.org) is the European annual 698: technical conference gathering users and developers working on and with 699: 4.4BSD based operating systems family and related projects. 700: 701: EuroBSDcon gives the exceptional opportunity to learn about latest news 702: from the BSD world, witness contemporary deployment case studies, and 703: meet personally other users and companies using BSD oriented 704: technologies. EuroBSDcon is also a boiler plate for ideas, discussions 705: and information exchange, which often turn into programming projects. 706: 707: The conference has always attracted active programmers, administrators 708: and aspiring students, as well as IT companies at large, which found the 709: conference a convenient and quality training option for its staff. We 710: firmly believe that high profile education is vital to the future of 711: technology, and hence greatly welcome students and young people to this 712: regular meeting. 713: 714: ### `Sep 2012` - Open Source Conference 2012 Okinawa 715: 716: *Sep. 22, 2012, [Okinawa Convention 717: Center](http://www.oki-conven.jp/en/modules/tinyd7/page/page1.html) , 718: Okinawa, Japan* 719: 720: At the [Open Source Conference 2012 721: Okinawa](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2012-okinawa/) , there was a NetBSD booth 722: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 723: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/) with many gadgets demonstration ( 724: [hpcarm](../ports/hpcarm/), [hpcmips](../ports/hpcmips/), 725: [hpcsh](../ports/hpcsh/)). 726: 727: ### `Sep 2012` - Open Source Conference 2012 Tokyo/Spring 728: 729: *Sep. 7-8, 2012, Tokyo, Japan* 730: 731: At the [Open Source Conference 2012 732: Tokyo/Spring](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2012-spring/), there was a NetBSD 733: booth staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 734: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/) with NetBSD gadget demonstrations( 735: [NetBSD/Openblocks A6 by 736: kiyohara@](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/4686373), [NetBSD/Openblocks 737: 266,600 by kiyohara@](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/4687681), 738: [NetBSD/Raspberry Pi](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/4689247), 739: [NetBSD/KOBO and 740: NetBSD/netwalker](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/4688202), [mikutter on 741: WZERO3](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/4689261), [linkstation and 742: USL-5P](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/4686571), [KAME 743: Project](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/4686706) ) and BSD BOF. [more 744: details on togetter](http://togetter.com/li/369471). 745: 746: ### `Nov 2012` - Kansai OpenSource 2012 747: 748: *Nov. 9-10, 2012, [Asia and Pacific Trade Center ITM 749: Building](http://www.atc-co.com/), Osaka, Japan* 750: 751: At the [Kansai OpenSource 2012](http://www.k-of.jp/), there were two BSD 752: booths staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 753: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) and [Kansai \*BSD Users 754: Group](http://www.kbug.gr.jp/). with many gadget demonstrations { WZero3 755: NetBSD/evbarm, ZAURUS NetBSD/zaurus, [XM6i 756: NetBSD/X68k](http://twitpic.com/bbvayo) } and BSDBOF (). [More reports 757: on Togetter](http://togetter.com/li/404573). 758: 759: ### `Sep 2012` - Open Source Conference 2012 Shimane 760: 761: *Sep. 1, 2012, [MATSUE 762: TERRSA](http://www.sanbg.com/terrsa/e/index.html), Shimane, Japan* 763: 764: At the [Open Source Conference 2012 765: Shimane](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2012-shimane/) , there was a NetBSD booth 766: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 767: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) with many gadget 768: demonstrations ( 769: [NetBSD/hpcarm,i386](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/4678623), ). [more 770: details on togetter](http://togetter.com/li/365753). 771: 772: ### `Aug 2012` - XenSummit North America 2012 773: 774: *Aug. 27-28, 2012, [Sheraton Hotel & 775: Marina](http://www.starwoodhotels.com/sheraton/property/overview/index.html?propertyID=127), 776: San Diego, California, USA* 777: 778: [XenSummit](http://xen.org/xensummit/xs12na_talks/xensummit.html) is the 779: leading annual technical conference for Xen® developers and users in 780: North America. The event provides collaboration and education for the 781: Xen® community. There was a talk on NetBSD (and FreeBSD) on Xen roadmap 782: on day one of the conference. 783: 784: ### `Aug 2012` - FrOSCon 2012 785: 786: *Aug. 25-26, 2012, [Hochschule Bonn-Rhein-Sieg](http://h-brs.de/), Sankt 787: Augustin, Germany* 788: 789: The [FrOSCon](http://www.froscon.de/en) (Free And Open Source 790: Conference) is one of the largest Open Source conferences in Germany. 791: 792: ### `Aug 2012` - Open Source Conference 2012 Kansai@Kyoto 793: 794: *Aug. 3-4, 2012, [KYOTO RESEARCH 795: PARK](http://www.krp.co.jp/english/access/index.html), Kyoto, Japan* 796: 797: At the [Open Source Conference 2012 798: Kansai@Kyoto](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2012-kyoto/) , there was a NetBSD 799: booth staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 800: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/) and [Kansai \*BSD Users 801: Group](http://www.kbug.gr.jp/) . There was a gadgets demonstration ( 802: [OMRON LUNA](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/4634623), [OMRON LUNA 803: II](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/4634629), [NetBSD/hpcarm (SHARP 804: WZERO3)](http://movapic.com/pic/20120803100715501b24433284c), [Gainer 805: with squeak](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/4634639), [Making plans for 806: SHARP,X68K on 807: XM6i,ZAURUS,Netwalker](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/4634777), [ZAURUS 808: cluster](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/4634992), [the mikutter 809: Chronicles](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/4636177), [NetBSD install 810: service center](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/4636374), [RetroBSD on 811: PIC32](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/4635032) ) and [NetBSD luna68k 812: updates presetation by 813: tsutsuii](http://www.ceres.dti.ne.jp/tsutsui/osc2012kyoto/NetBSD-luna68k-updates.html) 814: [more details on togetter](http://togetter.com/li/350035). 815: 816: ### `Jul 2012` - Open Source Conference 2012 Sendai 817: 818: *Jul 14, 2012, [Tohoku Computer 819: College](http://www.jc-21.ac.jp/map/index.shtml), Sendai, Japan* 820: 821: At the [Open Source Conference 2012 822: Sendai](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2012-sendai/) , there was a NetBSD booth 823: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 824: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) with many hpc{ 825: [mips](../ports/hpcmips/), [sh](../ports/hpcsh/), [arm and 826: Netwalker](../ports/hpcarm/) } gadgets demonstration. 827: 828: ### `Jul 2012` - Japan NetBSD Users' Group meeting & NetBSD BOF 829: 830: *Jul 7, 2012, [VLSI Design and Education Center University of 831: Tokyo](http://www.vdec.u-tokyo.ac.jp/English/contact.html), Tokyo, 832: Japan* 833: 834: See [Japan NetBSD Users Group 14th annual Meeting and BoF 835: 2012](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/announce/meeting14.html.en) 836: for meeting information. 837: 838: ### `Jun 2012` - 17th NetBSD Hackathon 839: 840: *June 14 - 17, 2012, [17th NetBSD 841: Hackathon](http://wiki.NetBSD.org/hackathon)* 842: 843: The 17th NetBSD hackathon focuses on getting NetBSD 6 BETA2 ready for 844: the first release candidate. Our goal is fixing all the bugs that need 845: fixing to get NetBSD-current ready for the creation of the NetBSD 6.0 846: release branch. 847: 848: ### `Jun 2012` - Open Source Conference 2012 Hokkaido 849: 850: *Jun. 16, 2012, Sapporo Business Innovation Center, Sapporo, Japan* 851: 852: At the [Open Source Conference 2012 853: Hokkaido](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2012-do/) , there was a NetBSD booth 854: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 855: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/) and [NoBUG](http://www.no.bug.gr.jp/) 856: with [Building NetBSD on 857: Win7+Cygwin](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/4565220), 858: [NetBSD/Armadillo-9](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/4565161), [Processing 859: on NetBSD](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/4565033), [NetBSD/IBM 860: PalmTop110](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/4565193), [NetBSD/X68k on 861: XM6i](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/4565208), [mikutter on NetBSD/WZERO3 862: and NetBSD/Zaurus](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/4565158), [NetBSD and 863: mikutter goods](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/4565027), [Geiger 864: counter](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/4565528), [Making install-image 865: Presentation](http://www.ceres.dti.ne.jp/tsutsui/osc12do/NetBSD-cross-liveimage.html) 866: by tsutsui@. [more detail on togetter](http://togetter.com/li/318806). 867: 868: ### May 2012 - Linuxtag Berlin 869: 870: *May 23-26, 2012, Berlin, Germany.* 871: 872: LinuxTag 2012 opened its doors from May 23 to May 26, 2012, at the 873: Berlin Expo Center under the Funkturm in Berlin, Germany. The event 874: featured talks about Open Source and there was be a NetBSD booth on the 875: exhibition fair where you could get advocacy material, talk to users and 876: developers or buy NetBSD T-Shirts. 877: 878: See the [Linuxtag homepage](http://www.linuxtag.org/2012/en.html) for 879: more information. 880: 881: ### `May 2012` - BSDCan 2012 882: 883: *May 11-12, 2012, Ottawa, Canada.* 884: 885: [BSDCan 2012](http://www.bsdcan.org/) was a BSD conference held in 886: Ottawa, Canada, for people working on and with 4.4BSD based operating 887: systems and related projects. The organizers have found a fantastic 888: formula that appeals to a wide range of people from extreme novices to 889: advanced developers. BSDCan 2012 was held on 11-12 May 2012 at 890: University of Ottawa, and will be preceded by two days of Tutorials on 891: 9-10 May 2012. There were related events (of a social nature, for the 892: most part) on the day before and after the conference. 893: 894: ### `May 2012` - Open Source Conference 2012 Nagoya 895: 896: *May. 12, 2012, [Nagoya International 897: Center](http://www.nic-nagoya.or.jp/en/e/about-us/access-hours), Nagoya, 898: Japan* 899: 900: At the [Open Source Conference 2012 901: Nagoya](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2012-nagoya/) , there was a NetBSD booth 902: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 903: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/) and [Nagoya \*BSD Users' Group 904: (NBUG)](http://www.nagoya.bug.gr.jp/). There was a gadget demonstration 905: [BSD booth](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/4511413) ( [Twitter time line 906: on NetBSD/dreamcast visual 907: memory](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/4512178) ([slide and 908: paper](http://www.yagoto-urayama.jp/~oshimaya/netbsd/vm/index.html)), 909: [Zaurus](../ports/zaurus/), [W-ZERO3](../ports/hpcarm/), [Enjoy NetBSD 910: on EeePC NetBook with OpenOffice and 911: Mikutter](http://www.ceres.dti.ne.jp/tsutsui/netbsd/liveimage/), 912: [mikutter mug and seal](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/4511548) ) and 913: NBUG BOF. [more detail on togetter](http://togetter.com/li/302311). 914: 915: ### `May 2012` - Central European BSD-Day 2012 Vienna 916: 917: The [Central European BSD-Day](http://bsdday.eu/2012) took place at the 918: University of Applied Sciences in Vienna, Austria, on saturday, may 5th. 919: 920: ### `Apr 2012` - Open Source Conference 2012 Iwate 921: 922: *Apr. 21, 2012, Iwate, Japan* 923: 924: At the [Open Source Conference 2012 925: Iwate](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2012-iwate/) , there was a [NetBSD 926: booth](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/4472557) staffed by members of the 927: [Japan NetBSD Users' Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/) with many { 928: [XM6i](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/4472584), 929: [hpcarm](../ports/hpcarm/), [hpcmips](../ports/hpcmips/), 930: [zaurus](../ports/zaurus/), [hpcsh](../ports/hpcsh/) } gadget 931: demonstrations. 932: 933: ### `Mar 2012` - AsiaBSDCon 2012 934: 935: *Mar 22-25, 2012, Tokyo University of Science,Tokyo, Japan* 936: 937: [AsiaBSDCon](http://2012.asiabsdcon.org/) was a conference for users and 938: developers on BSD based systems. The conference was for anyone 939: developing, deploying and using systems based on FreeBSD, NetBSD, 940: OpenBSD, DragonFly BSD, Darwin, and MacOS X. AsiaBSDCon was a technical 941: conference and aimed to collect the best technical papers and 942: presentations available to ensure that the latest developments in our 943: open source community are shared with the widest possible audience. 944: 945: ### `Mar 2012` - Open Source Conference 2012 Ehime 946: 947: *Mar. 24, 2012, Ehime, Japan* 948: 949: At the [Open Source Conference 2012 950: Ehime](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2012-ehime/) , there was a NetBSD booth 951: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 952: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/) with [NetBSD/x68k by 953: isaki@](http://www.pastel-flower.jp/~isaki/NetBSD/osc12eh/page1.html), 954: [XM6i by isaki@](http://xm6i.org/event/osc2012eh/page1.html), [NetBSD 955: port history by 956: tsutsui@](http://www.ceres.dti.ne.jp/tsutsui/osc12eh/NetBSD-port-history.html), 957: [zaurus and WZERO3](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/4422214), [evbarm and 958: shark](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/4422260), 959: [XM6i](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/4422589), [XM6i on 960: mac](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/4422798), gadget demonstrations 961: [[ustream live 962: archive](http://www.ustream.tv/channel/japan-netbsd-users-group-meeting)]. 963: 964: ### `Mar 2012` - Chemnitzer Linux-Tage 2012 965: 966: *Mar. 17-18, 2012, Chemnitz, Germany* 967: 968: The "Chemnitz Linux Days" was a conference that deals with Linux, but 969: also with free and open source software in general. Being an event vor 970: novices and experts as well, there were a NetBSD booth and related 971: talks. 972: 973: See the [website](http://chemnitzer.linux-tage.de/2012/) for more 974: information. 975: 976: ### `Mar 2012` - Open Source Conference 2012 Tokyo/Spring 977: 978: *Mar. 16-17, 2012, Tokyo, Japan* 979: 980: At the [Open Source Conference 2012 981: Tokyo/Spring](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2012-spring/), there was be a NetBSD 982: booth staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 983: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/) with [teokure live 984: image(NetBSD5.1.2/i386,amd64+Firefox+mikutter)](http://teokurebsd.org/), 985: [WZero3 live 986: image(NetBSD6.0BETA/hpcarm)](http://ftp.NetBSD.org/pub/NetBSD/misc/tsutsui/wzero3/), 987: [Zaurus live 988: image(NetBSD6.0BETA/zaurus)](http://ftp.NetBSD.org/pub/NetBSD/misc/tsutsui/zaurus/), 989: [Translate NetBSD man with 990: po4a](http://www.slideshare.net/master_q/netbsd-man-osc2012), 991: [Jornada680](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/4407584), 992: [Jornada720](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/4407590), [Zaurus 993: 760,860](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/4407593), [WZero3 with 994: pkgsrc/net/mikutter](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/4407661), 995: [OpenBlocks](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/4408049), 996: [ZBOXNANO-VD01](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/4409584), [Lemote yeeloong 997: 8089b evbmips64](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/4409939), [mikutter 998: seal](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/4408149), NetBSD [gadget 999: demonstrations](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/4409260). 1000: 1001: ### `Feb 2012` - Open Source Conference 2012 Oita 1002: 1003: *Feb. 11, 2012, Oita, Japan* 1004: 1005: At the [Open Source Conference 2012 1006: Oita](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2012-oita/), there was a [NetBSD 1007: booth](http://movapic.com/pic/201202111050584f35c982a782a), staffed by 1008: members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/) 1009: with hpcsh { [Persona 1010: 30](http://movapic.com/pic/201202111116074f35cf677a48b), [Jornada 1011: 680](http://movapic.com/pic/201202111105064f35ccd26f35f), [Jornada 1012: 690](http://movapic.com/pic/201202111036504f35c6323d7f3)}, hpcarm { 1013: [Jornada 720](http://movapic.com/pic/201202111107354f35cd67daedf), 1014: [WS007SH](http://movapic.com/pic/201202111039044f35c6b854249), 1015: [WS011SH](http://movapic.com/pic/201202111103074f35cc5b6ea81)}, hpcmips 1016: { [MCR520](http://movapic.com/pic/201202111124414f35d169430c3), 1017: [Z50](http://movapic.com/pic/201202111048154f35c8dfba12d)}, zaurus { 1018: [SLC-860+mikutter](http://movapic.com/pic/201202111112154f35ce7f6db5a)}, 1019: i386 { [aspire 1020: one](http://movapic.com/pic/201202111121424f35d0b649525)}, x68k { 1021: [XM6i](http://movapic.com/pic/201202111204074f35daa7e639a), 1022: [XM6i](http://movapic.com/pic/201202111207584f35db8ea62fa)}, amd64 {[pen 1023: tablet with NetBSD](http://movapic.com/pic/201202110957324f35bcfcaa63d), 1024: [teokure live image](http://teokurebsd.org/) }, 1025: [Xnp2](http://movapic.com/pic/201202111234014f35e1a946be8), 1026: [NetBSD/mikutter seal](http://yfrog.com/esrv5bej) gadget demonstrations 1027: and brand new [NetBSD 5.1.2 1028: presentation](http://www.NetBSD.org/releases/formal-5/NetBSD-5.1.2.html). 1029: 1030: ### `Feb 2012` - FOSDEM 2012 1031: 1032: *Feb. 4-5, 2012, Brussels, Belgium* 1033: 1034: [FOSDEM](http://www.fosdem.org/2012/) is the biggest free and 1035: non-commercial event organized by and for the community. Its goal is to 1036: provide Free and Open Source developers a place to meet. No registration 1037: necessary. 1038: 1039: There was a NetBSD booth and a special developer's room reserved for BSD 1040: licensed operating systems and their talks. Please see [the 1041: announcement](http://mail-index.NetBSD.org/netbsd-advocacy/2011/11/28/msg000374.html) 1042: for details. 1043: 1044: ### `Dec 2011` - Open Source Conference 2011 Fukuoka 1045: 1046: *Dec. 3, 2011, [CHIKUSHI 1047: JOGAKUEN](http://www-new.chikushi-u.ac.jp/english/about/index.html#Where), 1048: Fukuoka, Japan* 1049: 1050: At the [Open Source Conference 2011 1051: Fukuoka](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2011-fukuoka/) , there was a NetBSD booth 1052: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 1053: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) with many hpc{ 1054: [mips](../ports/hpcmips/), [sh(Jornada 680)](http://twitpic.com/7nhic7), 1055: [arm(WZERO3)](http://twitpic.com/7nhfzq) } gadgets demonstration and 1056: [Xen4 live USB -teokure- memory](http://twitpic.com/7nhl97). 1057: 1058: ### `Nov 2011` - Open Source Conference 2011 Tokyo/Fall 1059: 1060: *Nov. 19-20, 2011, [MEISEI 1061: UNIVERSITY](http://www.meisei-u.ac.jp/english/), Tokyo, Japan* 1062: 1063: At the [Open Source Conference 2011 1064: Tokyo/Fall](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2011-fall/) , there was a NetBSD booth 1065: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 1066: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) with many gadget 1067: demonstrations { [Teokure-Live Image 1068: amd64](http://www.ceres.dti.ne.jp/tsutsui/netbsd/liveimage/) (Thinkpad 1069: X201, X61), [acorn26](../ports/acorn26/) ([BBC 1070: A3000](http://movapic.com/pic/201111201146094ec869f10e10e)), 1071: [hpcarm](../ports/hpcarm/) (WS003SH, WS007SH, WS011SH, WS020SH, Jornada 1072: 710), [hpcmips](../ports/hpcmips/) (IBM Z50, MobileGear 530) , 1073: [hpcsh](../ports/hpcsh/) (Persona HPW30PA), [i386](../ports/i386/) (Acer 1074: Aspire One with [pkgsrc/net/mikutter](http://mikutter.hachune.net/)), 1075: [X68k](../ports/x68k/) ([XM6i](http://www.xm6i.org/)), 1076: [zaurus](../ports/zaurus/) 1077: ([SL-C700[NEW]](http://d.hatena.ne.jp/steleto/20101201), SL-C750, 1078: SL-C1000, SL-C3200), } and BSD BOF ([Ustream 1079: Recorded](http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/18441201) ). 1080: 1081: ### `Nov 2011` - Open Source Conference 2011 Shimane 1082: 1083: *Nov. 12, 2011, [MATSUE 1084: TERRSA](http://www.sanbg.com/terrsa/e/index.html), Shimane, Japan* 1085: 1086: At the [Open Source Conference 2011 1087: Shimane](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2011-shimane/) , there was a NetBSD booth 1088: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 1089: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) with many gadget 1090: demonstrations ( [hpcarm](../ports/hpcarm/), 1091: [hpcmips](../ports/hpcmips/), [hpcsh](../ports/hpcsh/) ). 1092: 1093: ### `Nov 2011` - Kansai OpenSource 2011 1094: 1095: *Nov. 11-12, 2011, [Asia and Pacific Trade Center ITM 1096: Building](http://www.atc-co.com/), Osaka, Japan* 1097: 1098: At the [Kansai OpenSource 2011](http://www.k-of.jp/), there were two BSD 1099: booths staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 1100: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) and [Kansai \*BSD Users 1101: Group](http://www.kbug.gr.jp/). with many gadget demonstrations { 1102: [dreamcast with fishing contoller](../ports/dreamcast/), 1103: [Hewlett-Packard 9000/700](../ports/hp700/), 1104: [Luna-II](../ports/luna68k/), [hpcarm and WZero3](../ports/hpcarm/), 1105: [hpcmips](../ports/hpcmips/), [hpcsh](../ports/hpcsh/), pf firewall 1106: demonstration with OpenBSD/landisk(USL-5Px2) } and BSDBOF ([Why 1107: enigmatic machines by 1108: tsutsui](http://www.ceres.dti.ne.jp/tsutsui/kof2011/Why-enigmatic-machines.html), 1109: pkgsrc by obache, [[Ustream 1110: Recorded](http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/18441201)]). [More reports on 1111: Togetter](http://togetter.com/li/213724). 1112: 1113: ### `Nov 2011` - bsd\_day(2011) 1114: 1115: *Nov. 5, 2011, Slovak University of Technology, Bratislava, Slovakia* 1116: 1117: The purpose of this one-day event is to gather Central European 1118: developers of today's open-source BSD systems, popularize their work, 1119: and provide an interface for real-life communication. There are no 1120: formalities, no papers, and no registration or participation fee, 1121: however the invited developers are encouraged to give a talk on their 1122: favorite BSD-related topic, then have a beer with the other folks around 1123: :-) The language of this event is English, and the goal is to motivate 1124: potential future developers and users, especially undergraduate 1125: university students to work with BSD systems. 1126: 1127: There is an additional schedule for participants and their guests on the 1128: day prior to (November 4th) and after (November 6th) the main event. 1129: 1130: For more information please visit the website 1131: [](http://www.bsdday.eu/2011/). 1132: 1133: ### `Nov 2011` - BSDday Argentina 2011 1134: 1135: *Nov. 5, 2011, Buenos Aires City, Argentina* 1136: 1137: BSDday Argentina is a conference for users, sysadmins and developers of 1138: BSD software and based systems. The conference is for anyone developing, 1139: deploying and using systems based on FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, 1140: DragonFlyBSD and others \*BSD. BSDday Argentina is a technical 1141: conference and aims to collect the best technical papers and 1142: presentations available to ensure that the latest developments in our 1143: open source community are shared with the widest possible audience. 1144: 1145: For more information please visit the website 1146: [](http://www.bsdday.org.ar/). 1147: 1148: ### `Oct 2011` - EuroBSDCon 2011 1149: 1150: *Oct. 6-9, 2011, Maarssen, Netherlands* 1151: 1152: EuroBSDcon is the European technical conference for people working on 1153: and with 4.4BSD based operating systems and related projects. EuroBSDcon 1154: 2011 is the 10th EuroBSDcon and will take place in (in the center of) 1155: The Netherlands 6 - 9 October 2011 at Meeting Plaza, Maarssen, The 1156: Netherlands. 1157: 1158: For more information please visit the website 1159: [](http://2011.EuroBSDCon.org/). 1160: 1161: ### `Oct 2011` - Open Source Conference 2011 Hiroshima 1162: 1163: *Oct. 1, 2011, [Prefectual University of 1164: Hiroshima](http://www.pu-hiroshima.ac.jp/05_campus/08_access/index.html) 1165: , Hiroshima, Japan* 1166: 1167: At the [Open Source Conference 2011 1168: Hiroshima](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2011-hiroshima/) , there was a NetBSD 1169: booth staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 1170: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) with many gadgets 1171: demonstration ( [NetBSD/x68k](../ports/x68k/) ( 1172: [X68030+Neptune-X+NE2000](http://twitpic.com/6tuiik), 1173: [X68030+Nereid](http://twitpic.com/6tvkzo), 1174: [X68060(X68030+060turbo)](http://twitpic.com/6tu7p2)), [XM6i X68030 1175: Emulator](http://xm6i.org/) on 1176: ([NetBSD/i386](http://movapic.com/pic/201110011105024e86754e2efbb), [Mac 1177: OS X](http://movapic.com/pic/201110011101544e8674925d26a)), [WZero 1178: 3](../ports/hpcarm) ([WS011SH](http://twitpic.com/6tyvva)), 1179: [Zaurus](../ports/zaurus) ([SL-C1000](http://twitpic.com/6tzg2z))) and 1180: [XM6i presentation by isaki@](http://xm6i.org/event/osc2011hi/), 1181: ["Teokure Live Image" and mikutter presentation by 1182: tsutsui](http://www.ceres.dti.ne.jp/tsutsui/osc11hi/Teokure-Live-Image.html), 1183: [event summary](http://togetter.com/li/195551). 1184: 1185: ### `Sep 2011` - Open Source Conference 2011 Okinawa 1186: 1187: *Sep. 10, 2011, [Okinawa Convention 1188: Center](http://www.oki-conven.jp/en/modules/tinyd7/page/page1.html) , 1189: Okinawa, Japan* 1190: 1191: At the [Open Source Conference 2011 1192: Okinawa](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2011-okinawa/) , there was a NetBSD booth 1193: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 1194: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) with many gadgets 1195: demonstration ( [hpcarm](../ports/hpcarm/), 1196: [hpcmips](../ports/hpcmips/), [hpcsh](../ports/hpcsh/) ) and PCBSD9.0 1197: presentation by Jun YAMASHIRO. 1198: 1199: ### `Sep 2011` - Open Source Small Conference 2011 Aizu 1200: 1201: *Sep. 3, 2011, [University of 1202: Aizu](http://www.u-aizu.ac.jp/e-intro/e-facilities/e-campusmap.html) , 1203: Fukushima, Japan* 1204: 1205: At the [Open Source Small Conference 2011 1206: Aizu](http://www.ospn.jp/ossc-aizu/) , there was a NetBSD booth staffed 1207: by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 1208: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) with many gadgets 1209: demonstration ( [hpcarm](../ports/hpcarm/), 1210: [hpcmips](../ports/hpcmips/), [hpcsh](../ports/hpcsh/) ). 1211: 1212: ### `Aug 2011` - Open Source Conference 2011 Nagoya 1213: 1214: *Aug. 20, 2011, [Nagoya International 1215: Center](http://www.nic-nagoya.or.jp/en/e/about-us/access-hours), Nagoya, 1216: Japan* 1217: 1218: At the [Open Source Conference 2011 1219: Nagoya](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2011-nagoya/) , there was a NetBSD booth 1220: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 1221: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) and [Nagoya \*BSD Users' 1222: Group](http://www.nagoya.bug.gr.jp/). There was a gadget demonstration ( 1223: [Presentation Software using only wscons with Dreamcast Fishing 1224: Controller](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/3923999), 1225: [hpcmips](../ports/hpcmips/), [hpcsh](../ports/hpcsh/), 1226: [hpcarm](../ports/hpcarm/), [Amiga 1227: 1200](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/3924333), [SONY NEWS 1228: 3460](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/3924343), [Geiger 1229: counter](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/3924354) ). 1230: 1231: ### `Aug 2011` - 15th NetBSD Hackathon 1232: 1233: *Aug. 10 - 15, 2011, [15th NetBSD 1234: Hackathon](http://wiki.NetBSD.org/hackathon)* 1235: 1236: The 15th NetBSD hackathon focused on documentation. Please see the Wiki 1237: page at the URL mentioned above for details and progress. 1238: 1239: ### `Jul 2011` - Open Source Conference 2011 Kansai@Kyoto 1240: 1241: *Jul. 15-16, 2011, [KYOTO RESEARCH 1242: PARK](http://www.krp.co.jp/english/access/index.html), Kyoto, Japan* 1243: 1244: At the [Open Source Conference 2011 1245: Kansai@Kyoto](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2011-kyoto/) , there was a [NetBSD 1246: booth](http://www.ceres.dti.ne.jp/tsutsui/osc2011kyoto/index.html) 1247: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 1248: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) and [Kansai \*BSD Users 1249: Group](http://www.kbug.gr.jp/) . There was a gadgets demonstration ( 1250: [Sun3/80](http://twitpic.com/5rcp11), [SONY NEWS 1251: NWS-1750](http://twitpic.com/5rcrjj), [OMRON LUNA 1252: SX-9100/DT](http://twitpic.com/5rcuqb), [Workstation book 1253: colab.](http://twitpic.com/5rd4td), [SHARP WZERO3](../ports/hpcarm/), [4 1254: BSD variants (NetBSD, FreeBSD, OpenBSD and DragonFly BSD) on 1255: NetBSD/xen](http://twitpic.com/5rl3n7), [Wsdisplay Presentation tool on 1256: NetBSD/hpcmips](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/3812933), 1257: [USL5P+OpenBSD4.9](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/3813423), [Compiling 1258: process Visualizer like teen spirit called Captain 1259: Nadeshiko](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/3812608), [Some like a BSD 1260: Statue Joystick](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/3809140) driven by 1261: [Gainer+Squeak](http://www.yengawa.com/squeak_gainer) ) and [NetBSD/m68k 1262: will never die! 1263: presentation](http://www.ceres.dti.ne.jp/tsutsui/osc2011kyoto/NetBSD-m68k-will-never-die.html) 1264: and 1265: [commit](http://mail-index.NetBSD.org/source-changes/2011/07/16/msg024675.html) 1266: by tsutsui. 1267: 1268: ### `Jul 2011` - Japan NetBSD Users' Group meeting & NetBSD BOF 1269: 1270: *Jul 9, 2011, [VLSI Design and Education Center University of 1271: Tokyo](http://www.vdec.u-tokyo.ac.jp/English/contact.html), Tokyo, 1272: Japan* 1273: 1274: See [Japan NetBSD Users Group 13th annual Meeting and BoF 1275: 2011](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/announce/meeting13.html.en) 1276: for meeting information. NetBSD BOF with 36 attendances and 153 ustream 1277: clients: pkgsrc updates by obache, jp.NetBSD.org servers by 1278: mef,NetBSD/[Psion netBook](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psion_netBook) 1279: by kiyohara, AC Tap with USB controlled power meter by Kubota, Power 1280: consumption and bcbench by jun, Capture Power consumption meter with 1281: OpenCV by mita@FreeBSD, Build [Facebook page for Japan NetBSD Users' 1282: Group](http://www.facebook.com/NetBSD.jp), 6.0 - here today by soda, PGP 1283: keysign party by soda. 1284: 1285: ### `Jun 2011` - Open Source Conference 2011 Hokkaido 1286: 1287: *Jun. 11, 2011, Sapporo Business Innovation Center, Sapporo, Japan* 1288: 1289: At the [Open Source Conference 2011 1290: Hokkaido](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2011-do/) , there was a NetBSD booth 1291: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 1292: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) and 1293: [NoBUG](http://www.no.bug.gr.jp/) with BeagleBoard, MSP430 LaunchPad, 1294: JMBadgeBoard, Processing on NetBSD and many hpc{ 1295: [mips](../ports/hpcmips/), [sh](../ports/hpcsh/), 1296: [arm](../ports/hpcarm/) } . 1297: 1298: ### `May 2011` - Open Source Conference 2011 Sendai 1299: 1300: *May 21, 2011, [Tohoku Computer 1301: College](http://www.jc-21.ac.jp/map/index.shtml), Sendai, Japan* 1302: 1303: At the [Open Source Conference 2011 1304: Sendai](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2011-sendai/) , there was a NetBSD booth 1305: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 1306: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) with many hpc{ 1307: [mips](../ports/hpcmips/), [sh](../ports/hpcsh/), [arm and 1308: WZero3(WS011SH)](../ports/hpcarm/) } gadgets demonstration. 1309: 1310: ### `May 2011` - BSDCan 2011 1311: 1312: *May 13-14, 2011, Ottawa, Canada.* 1313: 1314: [BSDCan 2011](http://www.bsdcan.org/) was held on 13-14 May 2011 at the 1315: University of Ottawa. It was preceded by two days of tutorials on 11-12 1316: May 2011. 1317: 1318: ### `Apr 2011` - Open Source Conference 2011 Kansai@Kobe 1319: 1320: *Apr. 16, 2011, [Kobe Industrial Promotion 1321: Center](http://www.kobe-ipc.or.jp/access/), Kobe, Japan* 1322: 1323: At the [Open Source Conference 2011 1324: Kansai@Kobe](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2011-kobe/) , there was a NetBSD 1325: booth staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 1326: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) with [ATARI TT030 + 1327: EtherNEC , and NetBSD bus\_space 1328: API](http://www.ceres.dti.ne.jp/tsutsui/osc2011kobe/NetBSD-EtherNEC.html) 1329: presentation by tsutsui, contao presentation by taca, and [ATARI 1330: TT030](../ports/atari/), [SHARP X68030](../ports/x68k/), 1331: [cobalt](../ports/cobalt/), [hpcmips](../ports/hpcmips/), 1332: [hpcsh](../ports/hpcsh/), [hpcarm](../ports/hpcarm/), 1333: [zaurus](../ports/zaurus/) gadgets demonstration. 1334: 1335: ### `Mar 2011` - AsiaBSDCon 2011 1336: 1337: *Mar 19-20, 2011, Tokyo University of Science,Tokyo, Japan* 1338: 1339: [AsiaBSDCon](http://2011.asiabsdcon.org/) is a conference for users and 1340: developers on BSD based systems. The conference is for anyone 1341: developing, deploying and using systems based on FreeBSD, NetBSD, 1342: OpenBSD, DragonFly BSD, Darwin, and MacOS X. AsiaBSDCon is a technical 1343: conference and aims to collect the best technical papers and 1344: presentations available to ensure that the latest developments in our 1345: open source community are shared with the widest possible audience. 1346: 1347: ### `Mar 2011` - Open Source Conference 2011 Oita 1348: 1349: *Mar. 19, 2011, [i-ness](http://www.pref.oita.jp/13040/index.html), 1350: Oita, Japan* 1351: 1352: At the [Open Source Conference 2011 1353: Oita](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2011-oita/) , there was a NetBSD booth 1354: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 1355: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) with many hpc{ 1356: [mips](../ports/hpcmips/), [sh](../ports/hpcsh/), 1357: [arm](../ports/hpcarm/) } gadgets demonstrations. 1358: 1359: ### `Mar 2011` - Open Source Conference 2011 Tokyo/Spring 1360: 1361: *Mar. 4-5, 2011, [Wasseda University,Nishiwaseda 1362: Campus](http://www.waseda.jp/eng/campus/map03.html), Tokyo, Japan* 1363: 1364: At the [Open Source Conference 2011 1365: Tokyo/Spring](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2011-spring/) , there was a NetBSD 1366: booth staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 1367: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) with many hpc{ 1368: [mips](../ports/hpcmips/), [sh](../ports/hpcsh/), 1369: [arm](../ports/hpcarm/) } gadgets demonstration. 1370: 1371: ### `Feb 2011` - FOSDEM 2011 Brussels, Belgium 1372: 1373: *Feb. 5-6, 2011, [FOSDEM](http://www.fosdem.org/2011/), Brussels, 1374: Belgium* 1375: 1376: At the [FOSDEM 2011 Conference](http://www.fosdem.org/2011/), there was 1377: a joint BSD booth staffed by NetBSD and FreeBSD developers and users. 1378: 1379: [Marc Balmer](http://www.vnode.ch/) (mbalmer@) gave a talk "Lua in BSD" 1380: in the BSD devroom 1381: 1382: ### `Feb 2011` - Open Source Conference 2011 Kagawa 1383: 1384: *Feb. 5, 2011, [Sunport Hall 1385: Takamatsu](http://www.sunport-hall.jp/shisetu/access.htm), Kagawa, 1386: Japan* 1387: 1388: At the [Open Source Conference 2011 1389: Kagawa](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2011-kagawa/), there was a NetBSD booth 1390: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 1391: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) with [many 1392: hp](http://twitpic.com/3xoh1i){ [hp300](../ports/hp300/), 1393: [hpcmips](../ports/hpcmips/), [hpcsh](../ports/hpcsh/), 1394: [hpcarm](../ports/hpcarm/) } gadgets demonstration and [NetBSD/hp300 and 1395: wscons](http://www.ceres.dti.ne.jp/tsutsui/osc11kg/netbsd-hp300.html) 1396: presentation by tsutsui ([Event driven Commit 1397: Log](http://mail-index.NetBSD.org/source-changes/2011/02/06/msg018165.html)). 1398: 1399: ### `Dec 2010` - Open Source Conference 2010 Fukuoka 1400: 1401: *Dec. 11, 2010, [Fukuoka Institute of 1402: Technology](http://www.fit.ac.jp/EN/index.html), Fukuoka, Japan* 1403: 1404: At the [Open Source Conference 2010 1405: Fukuoka](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2010-fukuoka/) , there was a NetBSD booth 1406: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 1407: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) with many hpc{ 1408: [mips](../ports/hpcmips/), [sh](../ports/hpcsh/), 1409: [arm](../ports/hpcarm/) } gadgets demonstration. 1410: 1411: ### `Nov 2010` - Journées Méditéranéennes du Logiciel Libre in Sophia-Antipolis. 1412: 1413: *November 26-27, 2010, Sophia-Antipolis, France.* 1414: 1415: NetBSD was present for the 2nd time at the [Journées Méditéranéennes du 1416: Logiciel Libre](http://jm2l.linux-azur.org). Friday afternoon was 1417: generally more enterprise oriented, while Saturday was more end-users 1418: focused. 1419: 1420: ### `Nov 2010` - Open Source Conference 2010 Shimane 1421: 1422: *Nov 27, 2010, [MATSUE 1423: TERRSA](http://www.sanbg.com/terrsa/e/index.html), Shimane, Japan* 1424: 1425: At the [Open Source Conference 2010 1426: Shimane](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2010-shimane/) , there was a NetBSD booth 1427: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 1428: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/). There was gadget 1429: demonstrations ( [hpcarm](../ports/hpcarm/), 1430: [hpcmips](../ports/hpcmips/), [hpcsh](../ports/hpcsh/) ). 1431: 1432: ### `Nov 2010` - NYCBSDCon 2010 1433: 1434: *November 12-14, 2010, Cooper Union, New York, NY, USA* 1435: 1436: [The New York City BSD Conference 1437: (NYCBSDCon)](http://www.nycbsdcon.org/2010/) is the main technical 1438: conference on the US East Coast for the BSD community to get together to 1439: share and gain knowledge, to network with like-minded people, and to 1440: have fun. This event was organized by members of the New York City \*BSD 1441: Users Group (NYC\*BUG). 1442: 1443: ### `Nov 2010` - Kansai OpenSource 2010 1444: 1445: *Nov. 5-6, 2010, [Asia and Pacific Trade Center ITC 1446: Building](http://www.atc-co.com/), Osaka, Japan* 1447: 1448: At the [Kansai OpenSource 2010](http://www.k-of.jp/), there were three 1449: BSD booths staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 1450: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) , [Kansai \*BSD Users 1451: Group](http://www.kbug.gr.jp/) and [NAKAMURA 1452: Kazushi](http://www.kobe1995.jp/) with [NEC 1453: Express5800(arc)](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/2898351) , [64bit 1454: 20years {NEC Express5800(amd64), SONY NEWS NWS-5000(newsmips), Sun 1455: Ultra60(sun4u), Sun Ultra10(sun4u), HP 1456: ML115(amd64)}](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/2899650), Xen Dom0 on 1457: NetBSD and DomU (NetBSD, OpenBSD, DragonflyBSD), 1458: OpenBSD/landisk(Firewall Redundancy with CARP and pfsync), 1459: OpenBSD/zaurus, WZero3(hpcarm), [hpcmips](../ports/hpcmips/), 1460: [hpcsh](../ports/hpcsh/), [hpcarm](../ports/hpcarm/), [NetBSD 1461: straps](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/2898808) gadgets demonstration and 1462: BSDBOF (soda-san got [Japanese OSS Contributor 1463: Award](http://www.ipa.go.jp/about/press/20101015_2.html), so let me 1464: introduce [raiders of the lost ARC 1465: tech](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/2899062) and [talkin' bout a 1466: revolution with soda-san](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/2899023) by 1467: tsutsui) 1468: 1469: ### `Oct 2010` - Open Source Conference 2010 Niigata 1470: 1471: *Oct. 23, 2010, Niigata University, Niigata, Japan* 1472: 1473: At the [Open Source Conference 2010 1474: Niigata](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2010-niigata/) , there was a BSD booth 1475: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 1476: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) and [Echigo BSD Users 1477: Group](http://www.ebug.jp/) . There was a gadgets demonstration ( 1478: [hpcarm](../ports/hpcarm/), [hpcmips](../ports/hpcmips/), 1479: [hpcsh](../ports/hpcsh/) and [FuguIta - OpenBSD LiveCD with 1seg 1480: tuner](http://kaw.ath.cx/openbsd/index.php?en%2FLiveCD). ). 1481: 1482: ### `Oct 2010` - EuroBSDCon 2010 1483: 1484: *Oct. 8-10, 2010, Karlsruhe, Germany* 1485: 1486: EuroBSDcon 2010, the european technical conference for people working on 1487: and with 4.4BSD based operating systems, was held on Oct 8-10th 2010 in 1488: Karlsruhe, Germany. The two day conference program (October 9 - 10) was 1489: preceeded by a tutorial day (Oct 8). 1490: 1491: For more information please visit the website 1492: [](http://2010.EuroBSDCon.org/). 1493: 1494: ### `Oct 2010` - Open Source Conference 2010 Okinawa 1495: 1496: *Oct. 2, 2010, [Okinawa Convention 1497: Center](http://www.oki-conven.jp/en/modules/tinyd7/page/page1.html) , 1498: Okinawa, Japan* 1499: 1500: At the [Open Source Conference 2010 1501: Okinawa](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2010-okinawa/) , there was a NetBSD booth 1502: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 1503: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) with many gadgets 1504: demonstration ( [hpcarm](../ports/hpcarm/), 1505: [hpcmips](../ports/hpcmips/), [hpcsh](../ports/hpcsh/) ). 1506: 1507: ### `Sep 2010` - Open Source Conference 2010 Tokyo/Fall 1508: 1509: *Sep. 10-11, 2010, [MEISEI 1510: UNIVERSITY](http://www.meisei-u.ac.jp/english/), Tokyo, Japan* 1511: 1512: At the [Open Source Conference 2010 1513: Tokyo/Fall](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2010-fall/) , there was a NetBSD booth 1514: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 1515: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) with many hpc{ 1516: [mips](../ports/hpcmips/), [sh](../ports/hpcsh/), 1517: [arm](../ports/hpcarm/) } gadgets demonstration and 1518: [NetBSD/x68k](../ports/x68k/) on [XM6i X68000 1519: emulator](http://www.pastel-flower.jp/~isaki/xm6i/). 1520: 1521: ### `Aug 2010` - Open Source Conference 2010 Nagoya 1522: 1523: *Aug. 7, 2010, Nagoya City University, Nagoya, Japan* 1524: 1525: At the [Open Source Conference 2010 1526: Nagoya](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2010-nagoya/) , there was a NetBSD booth 1527: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 1528: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) and [Nagoya \*BSD Users' 1529: Group](http://www.nagoya.bug.gr.jp/). There were gadget demonstrations ( 1530: [hpcarm](../ports/hpcarm/), [hpcmips](../ports/hpcmips/), 1531: [hpcsh](../ports/hpcsh/) ). 1532: 1533: ### `Jul 2010` - Open Source Conference 2010 Kansai 1534: 1535: *Jul. 9-10, 2010, Kyoto Computer Gakuin, Kyoto, Japan* 1536: 1537: At the [Open Source Conference 2010 1538: Kansai](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2010-kyoto/) , there was a NetBSD booth 1539: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 1540: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) and [Kansai \*BSD Users 1541: Group](http://www.kbug.gr.jp/) . There were gadgets demonstration ( 1542: [hpcarm](../ports/hpcarm/), [hpcmips](../ports/hpcmips/), 1543: [hpcsh](../ports/hpcsh/), ). 1544: 1545: ### `Jul 2010` - Japan NetBSD Users' Group meeting & NetBSD BOF 1546: 1547: *Jul 3, 2010, [The University of 1548: Tokyo](http://www.u-tokyo.ac.jp/campusmap/cam01_04_03_j.html), Tokyo, 1549: Japan* 1550: 1551: See [this 1552: page](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/announce/meeting12.html.en) 1553: for meeting information. 1554: 1555: NetBSD BOF with 44 attendances and 55 ustream clients: OpenBlockS600 by 1556: kiyohara, [STAR81xx/91xx](http://www.nerv.org/~ryo/bof/index1.html) by 1557: Ryo SHIMIZU, [NetBSD goes POSIX.1-2008 and 1558: C1X](http://www.hi-matic.org/BOF/BOF.pdf) by tnozaki, YUREX by noztos, 1559: AsiaBSDCon by hrs, pkgsrc updates by obache. 1560: 1561: ### `Jun 2010` - Open Source Conference 2010 Hokkaido 1562: 1563: *Jun. 26, 2010, Sapporo Business Innovation Center, Sapporo, Japan* 1564: 1565: At the [Open Source Conference 2010 1566: Hokkaido](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2010-do/) , there was a NetBSD booth 1567: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 1568: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) and 1569: [NoBUG](http://www.no.bug.gr.jp/) with NetBSD/evbarm on Armadillo-9 + 1570: VT220J, NetBSD/sparc on Sparcstation IPX, NetBSD/i386 on ThinkPad X200s 1571: (VMWarePlayer) and ThinkPad X24, FreeNAS on ThinkPad X200s 1572: (VMWarePlayer), NetBSD/landisk on USL-5P, NetBSD/evbppc on kuro-box, 1573: NetBSD/evbmips-el on BBR-4MG, and many hpc{ [mips](../ports/hpcmips/), 1574: [sh](../ports/hpcsh/), [arm](../ports/hpcarm/),WZero3 with AM/FM Radio } 1575: 1576: ### `Jun 2010` - LinuxTag 2010 1577: 1578: *June 9-12, 2010, Berlin, Germany* 1579: 1580: [LinuxTag 2010](http://www.linuxtag.org/2010/), one of Europe's largest 1581: Open Source Expo, took place from June 9th through 12th, 2010, in 1582: Berlin, Germany. The NetBSD Project was being represented by volunteers 1583: in a shared BSD booth. 1584: 1585: If you are interested in helping out at the NetBSD booth or have any 1586: questions, please contact Thomas Kaepernick (mast\_1(at)gmx.net). 1587: 1588: ### `May 2010` - pkgsrcCon 2010 Basel, Switzerland 1589: 1590: *May. 28 -30, 2010, [Departement Informatik, University of 1591: Basel](http://www.pkgsrc.org/pkgsrcCon/2010/), Basel, Switzerland* 1592: 1593: ### `May 2010` - Open Source Conference 2010 Sendai 1594: 1595: *May. 22, 2010, [Tohoku Computer 1596: College](http://www.jc-21.ac.jp/map/index.shtml), Sendai, Japan* 1597: 1598: At the [Open Source Conference 2010 1599: Sendai](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2010-sendai/) , there was a NetBSD booth 1600: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 1601: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) with many hpc{ 1602: [mips](../ports/hpcmips/), [sh](../ports/hpcsh/), [arm and 1603: WZero3(WS011SH)](../ports/hpcarm/) } gadgets demonstration. 1604: 1605: ### `May 2010` - Rencontres Bretonnes du Logiciel Libre in Rennes 1606: 1607: *May 15-16, 2010, Rennes, France.* 1608: 1609: NetBSD was present for the 2nd time at the [Rencontres Bretonnes du 1610: Logiciel Libre](http://www.rbll.info) 1611: 1612: ### `May 2010` - BSDCan 2010 1613: 1614: *May 13-14, 2010, Ottawa, Canada.* 1615: 1616: [BSDCan 2010](http://www.bsdcan.org/) was held on 13-14 May 2010 at the 1617: University of Ottawa, and was preceded by two days of tutorials on 11-12 1618: May 2010. 1619: 1620: ### `Mar 2010` - AsiaBSDCon 2010 1621: 1622: *Mar 11-14, 2010, Tokyo University of Science,Tokyo, Japan* 1623: 1624: [AsiaBSDCon](http://2010.asiabsdcon.org/) is a conference for users and 1625: developers on BSD based systems. The conference is for anyone 1626: developing, deploying and using systems based on FreeBSD, NetBSD, 1627: OpenBSD, DragonFly BSD, Darwin, and MacOS X. AsiaBSDCon is a technical 1628: conference and aims to collect the best technical papers and 1629: presentations available to ensure that the latest developments in our 1630: open source community are shared with the widest possible audience. 1631: 1632: A NetBSD BOF was held on March 12, 2010 14:00-16:30 1633: 1634: ### `Mar 2010` - Open Source Conference 2010 Kansai@Kobe 1635: 1636: *Mar. 13, 2010, [Kobe Industrial Promotion 1637: Center](http://www.kobe-ipc.or.jp/access/), Kobe, Japan* 1638: 1639: At the [Open Source Conference 2010 1640: Kansai@Kobe](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2010-kobe/) , there was a NetBSD 1641: booth staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 1642: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) with [ATARI TT030 + 1643: SMC\_TT](../ports/atari/) ([Demonstration animation GIF for 1644: TT030](http://www.ceres.dti.ne.jp/tsutsui/smc_tt/SMC_TT-OSC2010Kobe.gif)) 1645: , cobalt, many hpc{ [mips](../ports/hpcmips/), [sh](../ports/hpcsh/), 1646: [arm](../ports/hpcarm/) } gadgets demonstration. 1647: 1648: ### `Feb 2010` - Open Source Conference 2010 Tokyo/Spring 1649: 1650: *Feb. 26-27, 2010, [MEISEI 1651: UNIVERSITY](http://www.meisei-u.ac.jp/english/), Tokyo, Japan* 1652: 1653: At the [Open Source Conference 2010 1654: Tokyo/Spring](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2010-spring/) , there was a NetBSD 1655: booth staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 1656: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) with tadpole(sparc) and 1657: many hpc{ [mips](../ports/hpcmips/), [sh](../ports/hpcsh/), 1658: [arm](../ports/hpcarm/) } gadgets demonstration. 1659: 1660: ### `Feb 2010` - Hackathon, February 2010 1661: 1662: *Feb. 19-22, 2010, 1663: [Hackathon](http://www.NetBSD.org/community/hackathon.html)* 1664: 1665: The [February 2010 1666: Hackathon](http://www.NetBSD.org/community/hackathon.html) was focusing 1667: on closing as many bugs and PRs as possible. 1668: 1669: ### `Feb 2010` - FOSDEM 2010 Brussels, Belgium 1670: 1671: *Feb. 6-7, 2010, [FOSDEM](http://www.fosdem.org/2010/), Brussels, 1672: Belgium* 1673: 1674: At the [FOSDEM 2010 Conference](http://www.fosdem.org/2010/) , there was 1675: a joint BSD booth staffed by NetBSD and FreeBSD developers and users. 1676: 1677: [Marc Balmer](http://www.vnode.ch/) (mbalmer@) gave a talk [Because the 1678: License Matters: BSD as the Foundation for Commercial Point of Sale 1679: Applications](http://www.fosdem.org/2010/schedule/events/bsd_license) in 1680: the [BSD devroom](http://www.fosdem.org/2010/schedule/tracks/bsd). 1681: 1682: ### `Jan 2010` - Open Source Conference 2010 Oita 1683: 1684: *Jan. 23, 2010, [i-ness](http://www.pref.oita.jp/13040/index.html), 1685: Oita, Japan* 1686: 1687: At the [Open Source Conference 2010 1688: Oita](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2010-oita/) , there was be a NetBSD booth 1689: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 1690: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) with many hpc{ 1691: [mips](../ports/hpcmips/), [sh](../ports/hpcsh/), 1692: [arm](../ports/hpcarm/) } gadgets demonstrations. 1693: 1694: ### `Dec 2009` - Open Source Conference 2009 Fukuoka 1695: 1696: *Dec. 5, 2009, [Kyushu Sangyo 1697: University](http://www.kyusan-u.ac.jp/E/index.html), Fukuoka, Japan* 1698: 1699: At the [Open Source Conference 2009 1700: Fukuoka](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2009-fukuoka/) , there was a NetBSD booth 1701: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 1702: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) with many hpc{ 1703: [mips](../ports/hpcmips/), [sh](../ports/hpcsh/), 1704: [arm](../ports/hpcarm/) } gadgets demonstration. 1705: 1706: ### `Nov 2009` - Open Source Conference 2009 Kochi 1707: 1708: *Nov. 14, 2009, [Kochi City Culture-Plaze 1709: Cul-Port.](http://www.bunkaplaza.or.jp/access/index.html), Kochi, Japan* 1710: 1711: At the [Open Source Conference 2009 1712: Kochi](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2009-kochi/) , there was a NetBSD booth 1713: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 1714: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) with 1715: [hpcmips](../ports/hpcmips/), [hpcsh](../ports/hpcsh/), gadgets 1716: demonstration. 1717: 1718: ### `Nov 2009` - OpenRheinRuhr 2009 1719: 1720: *Nov. 7-8, 2009, Saalbau, Bottrop, Germany* 1721: 1722: A new event in the middle of Europe with a huge audience and an 1723: impressive list of exhibitors. NetBSD had a booth as well as the other 1724: major BSDs. 1725: 1726: For more information about OpenRheinRuhr visit the website 1727: [](http://www.openrheinruhr.de/) . 1728: 1729: ### `Nov 2009` - Kansai OpenSource 2009 1730: 1731: *Nov. 6-7, 2009, [Asia and Pacific Trade Center ITC 1732: Building](http://www.atc-co.com/), Osaka, Japan* 1733: 1734: At the [Kansai OpenSource 2009](http://www.k-of.jp/), there was a NetBSD 1735: booth staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 1736: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) and [Kansai \*BSD Users 1737: Group](http://www.kbug.gr.jp/) with IIJ SEIL/X1(evbmips64), IIJ 1738: SEIL/B1(evbarm), NSLU2(evbarm), dreamcast+ISA bus+IDE DiskDrive 1739: extension, tadpole(sparc), USL-5P+USB LCD(landisk), Link 1740: Station(sandpoint), MacLC475upgrade(mac68k), 1741: [hpcmips](../ports/hpcmips/), [hpcsh](../ports/hpcsh/), 1742: [hpcarm](../ports/hpcarm/), BSD daemon statue gadgets demonstration and 1743: BSDBOF (EuroBSDCon2009 report by msaitoh). 1744: 1745: ### `Oct 2009` - Open Source Conference 2009 Tokyo/Fall 1746: 1747: *Oct. 30-31, 2009, [Nihon Kogakuin College 12th 1748: build.](http://www.neec.ac.jp/access/kmt.html), Tokyo, Japan* 1749: 1750: At the [Open Source Conference 2009 1751: Tokyo/Fall](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2009-fall/) , there was a NetBSD booth 1752: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 1753: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) with [USB-LCD driver for 1754: NetBSD](http://www.naobsd.org/udl/) on 1755: [USL-5P](http://www.iodata.jp/product/hdd/lanhdd/usl-5p/index.htm) and 1756: [LS-S250L](http://buffalo.jp/products/catalog/storage/ls-sl/), 1757: [hpcmips](../ports/hpcmips/), [hpcsh](../ports/hpcsh/), 1758: [hpcarm](../ports/hpcarm/), [tadpole GX3:sparc](../ports/sparc/) gadgets 1759: demonstration and BSD BOF. 1760: 1761: ### `Sep 2009` - Open Source Conference 2009 Okinawa 1762: 1763: *Sep. 26, 2009, [Okinawa Convention 1764: Center](http://www.oki-conven.jp/en/modules/tinyd7/page/page1.html) , 1765: Okinawa, Japan* 1766: 1767: At the [Open Source Conference 2009 1768: Okinawa](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2009-okinawa/) , there was a NetBSD booth 1769: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 1770: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) . There was gadgets 1771: demonstration ( [hpcarm](../ports/hpcarm/), 1772: [hpcmips](../ports/hpcmips/), [hpcsh](../ports/hpcsh/) ). 1773: 1774: ### `Sep 2009` - EuroBSDCon 2009 1775: 1776: *Sep. 18-20, 2009, University of Cambridge, England..* 1777: 1778: EuroBSDcon 2009, the european technical conference for people working on 1779: and with 4.4BSD based operating systems, was held on Sept 19-20th 2009 1780: at the University of Cambridge, England. One day of Tutorials preceded 1781: the conference on Sept 18th. 1782: 1783: For more information about EuroBSDCon 2009 visit the website 1784: [](http://2009.EuroBSDCon.org/). 1785: 1786: ### `Aug 2009` - Open Source Conference 2009 Nagoya 1787: 1788: *Aug. 22, 2009, Nagoya City University, Nagoya, Japan* 1789: 1790: At the [Open Source Conference 2009 1791: Nagoya](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2009-nagoya/) , there was a NetBSD booth 1792: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 1793: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) and [Nagoya \*BSD Users' 1794: Group](http://www.nagoya.bug.gr.jp/). There were gadget demonstrations ( 1795: [hpcarm](../ports/hpcarm/), [hpcmips](../ports/hpcmips/), 1796: [hpcsh](../ports/hpcsh/) ). 1797: 1798: ### `Aug 2009` - Open Source Conference 2009 Niigata 1799: 1800: *Aug. 1, 2009, Niigata University of International and Information 1801: Studies, Niigata, Japan* 1802: 1803: At the [Open Source Conference 2009 1804: Niigata](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2009-niigata/) , there was a NetBSD booth 1805: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 1806: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) and [Echigo BSD Users 1807: Group](http://www.ebug.jp/) . There was gadgets demonstration ( 1808: [hpcarm](../ports/hpcarm/), [hpcmips](../ports/hpcmips/), 1809: [hpcsh](../ports/hpcsh/) and [FuguIta - OpenBSD LiveCD with 1seg 1810: tuner](http://kaw.ath.cx/openbsd/index.php?en%2FLiveCD). ). 1811: 1812: ### `Jul 2009` - Open Source Conference 2009 Kansai 1813: 1814: *Jul. 10-11, 2009, Kyoto Computer Gakuin, Kyoto, Japan* 1815: 1816: At the [Open Source Conference 2009 1817: Kansai](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2009-kansai/) , there was a NetBSD booth 1818: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 1819: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) and [Kansai \*BSD Users 1820: Group](http://www.kbug.gr.jp/) . There was gadgets power consumption 1821: demonstration ( [Atari TT030](../ports/atari/), [BeBox (stop at 1822: bootloader:need S3 Video Card)](../ports/bebox/), [MSI Wind Notebook and 1823: VAIO Type P](../ports/amd64/), [cobalt QUBE2 and Cache RAQ2 with 1824: Zope](../ports/cobalt/), [gumstix music player sings OpenBSD 1825: song](../ports/evbarm/), [hpcarm](../ports/hpcarm/), 1826: [hpcmips](../ports/hpcmips/), [hpcsh](../ports/hpcsh/), 1827: [Linkstation:sandpoint](../ports/evbarm/), 1828: [OpenBSD/zaurus](http://www.openbsd.org/zaurus.html), [DragonFlyBSD with 1829: hammer](http://www.dragonflybsd.org/), [SGI O2](../ports/sgimips/), [IBM 1830: PReP](../ports/prep/), CPU Load average x 16 LED Meterboard with 1831: libFT245, bc benchmark time x electricity consumption = energy 1832: efficiency graph with all BSD machines. ). 1833: 1834: ### `Jul 2009` - Japan NetBSD Users' Group meeting & NetBSD BOF 1835: 1836: *Jul 4, 2009, [The University of 1837: Tokyo](http://www.u-tokyo.ac.jp/campusmap/cam01_04_03_j.html), Tokyo, 1838: Japan* 1839: 1840: See [this 1841: page](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/announce/meeting11.html.en) 1842: for meeting information. 1843: 1844: BOF with 39 attendances: pkgsrc updates, workarounds for VAIO Type P, 1845: AsiaBSDCon reports, eXecute In Place (XIP), gumstix, IA64 , SheevaPlug, 1846: USB Wireless LAN drivers, NetBSD - Now, 6.0 and Future, PGP key sign 1847: party. 1848: 1849: ### `Jul 2009` - Open Source World 2009 1850: 1851: *Jul. 1-2, 2009, Tokyo International Forum, Tokyo, Japan* 1852: 1853: At the [Open Source World 2009](http://www.idg.co.jp/expo/osw/2009/) , 1854: there was a NetBSD booth staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 1855: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) . There was gadgets power 1856: consumption demonstration ( [hpcarm](../ports/hpcarm/), 1857: [hpcmips](../ports/hpcmips/), [hpcsh](../ports/hpcsh/) ) and [tadpole 1858: GX3:sparc](../ports/sparc/). 1859: 1860: ### `Jun 2009` - LinuxTag 2009 1861: 1862: *June 24-27 2009, Berlin, Germany* 1863: 1864: The annual [LinuxTag](http://www.linuxtag.org/2009/en.html) conference 1865: took place from 24th until 27th of June 2009 at the Berlin fairground 1866: under the radio tower. NetBSD was sharing a booth with the other BSD 1867: systems at the exhibition. 1868: 1869: ### `Jun 2009` - Open Source Conference 2009 Hokkaido 1870: 1871: *Jun. 20, 2009, Sapporo Business Innovation Center, Sapporo, Japan* 1872: 1873: At the [Open Source Conference 2009 1874: Hokkaido](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2009-do/) , there was a NetBSD booth 1875: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 1876: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) and [Northern land BSD 1877: Users Group](http://www.no.bug.gr.jp/) with many hpc{ 1878: [mips](../ports/hpcmips/), [sh](../ports/hpcsh/), 1879: [arm](../ports/hpcarm/) } , [NetBSD/evbmips on 1880: BBR-4MG](../ports/evbmips/), Twitter ticker monitor on 78K0 board via 1881: USB Serial, [NetBSD/evbarm on Armadillo-9](../ports/evbarm/) with 1882: VT-220J, [NetBSD/sparc on SparcStation Classic](../ports/sparc/), 1883: [NetBSD/evbarm on BeagleBoard (working in progress,not boot 1884: yet)](../ports/evbarm/). 1885: 1886: ### `May 2009` - Open Source Conference 2009 Shimane 1887: 1888: *May 16, 2009, [MATSUE 1889: TERRSA](http://www.sanbg.com/terrsa/e/index.html), Shimane, Japan* 1890: 1891: At the [Open Source Conference 2009 1892: Shimane](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2009-shimane/) , there was a NetBSD booth 1893: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 1894: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/). There were gadget 1895: demonstrations ( [SONY VAIO type P](../ports/i386/), 1896: [RaQ2:cobalt](../ports/cobalt/), [Armadillo9:evbarm](../ports/evbarm/), 1897: [hpcarm](../ports/hpcarm/), [hpcmips](../ports/hpcmips/), 1898: [hpcsh](../ports/hpcsh/) ). 1899: 1900: ### `May 2009` - BSDCan 2009 1901: 1902: *May 8-9, 2009, Ottawa, Canada.* 1903: 1904: [BSDCan 2009](http://www.bsdcan.org/) was held on 8-9 May 2009 at the 1905: University of Ottawa, and was preceded by two days of tutorials on 6-7 1906: May 2009. 1907: 1908: ### `Mar 2009` - CeBIT 2009 1909: 1910: *March 3-8, 2009, Hannover, Germany* 1911: 1912: The NetBSD project had a joint booth with the FreeBSD project at 1913: [CeBIT](http://www.cebit.de/), the large b2b trade fair held in 1914: Hannover, Germany. 1915: 1916: ### `Mar 2009` - AsiaBSDCon 2009 1917: 1918: *Mar 12-15, 2009, Tokyo University of Science,Tokyo, Japan* 1919: 1920: [AsiaBSDCon](http://2009.asiabsdcon.org/) is a conference for users and 1921: developers on BSD based systems. The conference is for anyone 1922: developing, deploying and using systems based on FreeBSD, NetBSD, 1923: OpenBSD, DragonFly BSD, Darwin, and MacOS X. AsiaBSDCon is a technical 1924: conference and aims to collect the best technical papers and 1925: presentations available to ensure that the latest developments in our 1926: open source community are shared with the widest possible audience. 1927: [Antti Kantee:Environmental Independance:BSD Kernel TCP/IP in 1928: Userspace](http://2009.asiabsdcon.org/timetable.html#P5A) 1929: ([Report](http://journal.mycom.co.jp/articles/2009/03/30/asiabsdcon4/index.html)), 1930: and [NetBSD 1931: BoF](http://mail-index.NetBSD.org/regional-jp/2009/02/15/msg000018.html) 1932: was held on Mar 13,2009 17:30-19:00. [AsiaBSDCon 2009 1933: papers](http://2009.asiabsdcon.org/live/) and 1934: [presentations](http://www.youtube.com/bsdconferences) are available. 1935: 1936: ### `Feb 2009` - Southern California Linux Expo 1937: 1938: *Feb 20-22, 2009, Los Angeles, CA* 1939: 1940: The NetBSD project was represented by A.KML and A.DAVID at [SCALE 1941: 7x](http://www.socallinuxexpo.org/), the 7th annual Southern California 1942: Linux Expo, which took place February 20-22, 2009 at The Westin Los 1943: Angeles Airport, Los Angeles, California. 1944: 1945: ### `Feb 2009` - Open Source Conference 2009 Tokyo/Spring 1946: 1947: *Feb. 20-21, 2009, [Japan Electronics 1948: College](http://www.jec.ac.jp/access/), Tokyo, Japan* 1949: 1950: At the [Open Source Conference 2009 1951: Tokyo/Spring](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2009-spring/) , there was a NetBSD 1952: booth staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 1953: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) with [VAIO type 1954: P](http://www.vaio.sony.co.jp/Products/P1/) with NetBSD, [tadpole 1955: GX3:sparc](../ports/sparc/) and many hpc{ [mips](../ports/hpcmips/), 1956: [sh](../ports/hpcsh/), [arm](../ports/hpcarm/) } gadgets demonstration. 1957: 1958: ### `Feb 2009` - FOSDEM 2009 1959: 1960: NetBSD was present at FOSDEM on Feb 7-8 2009 in Brussels, Belgium. 1961: FOSDEM is a free and non-commercial event organised by the community for 1962: the community. 1963: 1964: ### `Feb 2009` - DCBSDCon 2009 1965: 1966: *Feb. 5-6, 2009, Washington, D.C.* 1967: 1968: For information, visit [](http://www.dcbsdcon.org/). 1969: 1970: ### `Jan 2009` - Open Source Conference 2009 Sendai 1971: 1972: *Jan. 24, 2009, [Tohoku Computer 1973: College](http://www.jc-21.ac.jp/map/index.shtml), Sendai, Japan* 1974: 1975: At the [Open Source Conference 2009 1976: Sendai](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2009-sendai/) , there was a NetBSD booth 1977: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 1978: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) with many hpc{ 1979: [mips](../ports/hpcmips/), [sh](../ports/hpcsh/), 1980: [arm](../ports/hpcarm/) } gadgets demonstration. 1981: 1982: ### `Dec 2008` - Open Source Conference 2008 Fukuoka 1983: 1984: *Dec. 13, 2008, [Humanities and Social Sciences Center,Fukuoka 1985: University](http://www.fukuoka-u.ac.jp/unv_gide/access/cmps_map1.html), 1986: Fukuoka, Japan* 1987: 1988: At the [Open Source Conference 2008 1989: Fukuoka](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2008-fukuoka/) , there was a NetBSD booth 1990: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 1991: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) with many hpc{ 1992: [mips](../ports/hpcmips/), [sh](../ports/hpcsh/), 1993: [arm](../ports/hpcarm/) } gadgets and USB Camera demonstration. 1994: 1995: ### `Nov 2008` - Open Source Conference 2008 Okinawa 1996: 1997: *Nov. 29, 2008, [Okinawa Industory Support 1998: Center](http://www.okinawa-sangyoushien.co.jp/), Okinawa, Japan* 1999: 2000: At the [Open Source Conference 2008 2001: Okinawa](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2008-okinawa/) , there was a NetBSD booth 2002: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 2003: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) with many hpc{ 2004: [mips](../ports/hpcmips/), [sh](../ports/hpcsh/), 2005: [arm](../ports/hpcarm/) } gadgets demonstration. 2006: 2007: ### `Nov 2008` - meetBSD California '08 2008: 2009: *Nov. 15-16, 2008, Mountain View, California* 2010: 2011: For information, visit [](http://www.meetbsd.com/). 2012: 2013: ### `Nov 2008` - Kansai OpenSource 2008 2014: 2015: *Nov. 7-8, 2008, [Asia and Pacific Trade Center ITC 2016: Building](http://www.atc-co.com/), Osaka, Japan* 2017: 2018: At the [Kansai OpenSource 2008](http://www.k-of.jp/), there was a NetBSD 2019: booth staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 2020: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) and [Kansai \*BSD Users 2021: Group](http://www.kbug.gr.jp/) with [tadpole 2022: GX3:sparc](../ports/sparc/), [Linkstation:sandpoint](../ports/evbarm/), 2023: [PCBSD on Xen](../ports/xen/), [hpcmips](../ports/hpcmips/), 2024: [hpcsh](../ports/hpcsh/), [hpcarm](../ports/hpcarm/), 2025: [LC475](../ports/mac68k/), 2026: [OpenBSD/zaurus](http://www.openbsd.org/zaurus.html), 2027: [DragonFlyBSD](http://www.dragonflybsd.org/), [Servo motor realtime 2028: control via USB audio](http://rogiken.org/daemon/works.html) gadgets 2029: demonstration and BSDBOF. 2030: 2031: ### `Oct 2008` - EuroBSDCon 2008 2032: 2033: *Oct. 18-19, 2008, Strasbourg, France* 2034: 2035: EuroBSDcon 2008, the european technical conference for people working on 2036: and with 4.4BSD based operating systems, was held on October 18-19th 2037: 2008 at the University of Strasbourg in France. Two days of Tutorials 2038: preceded the conference on Oct. 16-17th. 2039: 2040: For more information about EuroBSDCon 2008 visit the website 2041: [](http://2008.EuroBSDCon.org/). 2042: 2043: ### `Oct 2008` - NetBSD developers summit @ NYCBSDCon 2008 2044: 2045: *Oct 10, 2008, Columbia University, NY, NY, USA* 2046: 2047: A NetBSD developer's summit was held on Friday, October 10th, 2008. The 2048: event was sponsored by and leads up to that year's NYCBSDCon and took 2049: place at Columbia University on the island of Manhattan in New York 2050: City, NY, USA. The event was *open to the public*. 2051: 2052: ### `Oct 2008` - NYCBSDCon 2008 2053: 2054: *Oct 11-12, 2008, Columbia University, NY, NY, USA* 2055: 2056: The third BSD Conference organized by the [NYC BSD User 2057: Group](http://www.nycbug.org) took place in New York City on October 2058: 11th and 12th, 2008. 2059: 2060: More information about NYCBSDCon 2008 is available at 2061: [](http://www.nycbsdcon.org/2008/). 2062: 2063: Coinciding with the conference was the 12th NetBSD Hackathon being held. 2064: 2065: ### `Oct 2008` - Open Source Conference 2008 Tokyo/Fall 2066: 2067: *Oct. 3-4, 2008, [Ota City Industrial 2068: Plaza](http://www.pio-ota.jp/english/access.html), Tokyo, Japan* 2069: 2070: At the [Open Source Conference 2008 2071: Tokyo/Fall](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2008-fall/) , there was a NetBSD booth 2072: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 2073: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) with [tadpole 2074: GX3:sparc](../ports/sparc/), [LinkStation:sandpoint](../ports/evbarm/), 2075: [PCBSD on Xen](../ports/xen/), [hpcmips](../ports/hpcmips/), 2076: [hpcsh](../ports/hpcsh/), [hpcarm](../ports/hpcarm/) gadgets 2077: demonstration and BSD BOF(OpenBSD,NetBSD, [76th IETF 2078: Hiroshima](http://www.wide.ad.jp/news/press/20080804-IETF-e.html), 2079: [Itojun Service 2080: Award](http://www.wide.ad.jp/news/press/20080912-itojun-fund-j.html) ). 2081: 2082: ### `Sep 2008` - Open Source Conference 2008 in Shimane 2083: 2084: *Sep. 12-13, 2008, [MATSUE 2085: TERRSA](http://www.sanbg.com/terrsa/e/index.html), Shimane, Japan* 2086: 2087: At the [Open Source Conference 2008 2088: Shimane](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2008-shimane/) , there was a NetBSD booth 2089: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 2090: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/). There were gadget 2091: demonstrations ( [dynabook/SS:amd64](../ports/amd64/), 2092: [Armadillo9:evbarm](../ports/evbarm/), 2093: [HP712/80:hp700](../ports/hp700/), [hpcarm](../ports/hpcarm/), 2094: [hpcmips](../ports/hpcmips/), [hpcsh](../ports/hpcsh/), 2095: [SL-C3200:zaurus](../ports/zaurus/), 2096: [LaVie/G:OpenSolaris](http://www.solaris.com/), and 2097: [chumby](http://www.chumby.com/) ). 2098: 2099: ### `Aug 2008` - Open Source Conference 2008 in Nagoya 2100: 2101: *Aug. 9, 2008, Nagoya City University, Nagoya, Japan* 2102: 2103: At the [Open Source Conference 2008 2104: Nagoya](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2008-nagoya/) , there was a NetBSD booth 2105: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 2106: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) and [Nagoya \*BSD Users' 2107: Group](http://www.nagoya.bug.gr.jp/). There were gadget demonstrations ( 2108: [RaQ2:cobalt](../ports/cobalt/), [hpcarm](../ports/hpcarm/), 2109: [hpcmips](../ports/hpcmips/), [hpcsh](../ports/hpcsh/), 2110: [HP712/80:hp700](../ports/hp700/), 2111: [OpenBSD/zaurus](http://www.openbsd.org/zaurus.html), [Speecys Robot: 2112: NetBSD/sh3](http://www.speecys.com/), [samtk](http://www.samtk.org/) ). 2113: 2114: ### `Jul 2008` - Open Source Conference 2008 in Kansai 2115: 2116: *Jul. 18-19, 2008, Kyoto Computer Gakuin, Kyoto, Japan* 2117: 2118: At the [Open Source Conference 2008 2119: Kansai](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2008-kansai/) , there was a NetBSD booth 2120: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 2121: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) . There were gadgets power 2122: consumption demonstration ( [hpcarm](../ports/hpcarm/), 2123: [hpcmips](../ports/hpcmips/), [hpcsh](../ports/hpcsh/), 2124: [alpha](../ports/alpha/), [SGI O2](../ports/sgimips/) ), Miku Hatsune 2125: paper doll with Six servo moters controlled by USB audio, libFT245 with 2126: USB, BeBox, Squeak on hpcmips, OneSeg TV recording with hpcmips, bc 2127: benchmark time x electricity consumption = energy efficiency graph with 2128: all BSD machines. 2129: 2130: ### `Jul 2008` - Japan NetBSD Users' Group meeting & NetBSD BOF 2131: 2132: *Jul 5, 2008, [The University of 2133: Tokyo](http://www.u-tokyo.ac.jp/campusmap/cam01_04_03_j.html), Tokyo, 2134: Japan* 2135: 2136: BOF with 52 attendances: NetBSD/sparc64 SMP, NetBSD/BBR-4MG 2137: evbmips(ADM5120), NetBSD/DLX - CPU implementation on FPGA, OpenRoads - 2138: Open Robot Operation And Design Specification, AsiaBSDCon2009, pkgsrc 2139: update, KURO-BOX/PRO MB88F5182, Toolchain and "mknative", EeePC, NetBSD 2140: - Now, 5.0 and Future, PGP key sign party. 2141: 2142: ### `Jun 2008` - Open Source Conference 2008 in Hokkaido 2143: 2144: *Jun. 28, 2008, Sapporo Business Innovation Center, Sapporo, Japan* 2145: 2146: At the [Open Source Conference 2008 2147: Hokkaido](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2008-do/) , there was a NetBSD booth 2148: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 2149: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) with many hpc{ 2150: [mips](../ports/hpcmips/), [sh](../ports/hpcsh/), 2151: [arm](../ports/hpcarm/) } gadgets demonstration, VT-220J, USL-5P with 3 2152: one-seg TV tuners, NetBSD/BBR-4MG . 2153: 2154: ### `Jun 2008` - pkgsrcCon 2008 2155: 2156: *Jun 13-15, 2008, Technical University of Berlin* 2157: 2158: The fifth annual pkgsrcCon convened in Berlin, Germany on June 13 to 15, 2159: 2008. pkgsrcCon is a technical conference for people working on the 2160: [NetBSD Packages Collection 2161: (pkgsrc)](http://www.NetBSD.org/docs/software/packages.html), focusing 2162: on existing technologies, research projects, and works-in-progress in 2163: pkgsrc infrastructure. 2164: 2165: More information about pkgsrcCon 2008 is available at 2166: [](http://www.pkgsrccon.org/2008/). 2167: 2168: ### `May 2008` - BSDCan 2008 2169: 2170: *May 16-17, 2008, University of Ottawa, Canada* 2171: 2172: BSDCan is a BSD conference held in Ottawa, for people working on and 2173: with 4.4BSD based operating systems and related projects. The organizers 2174: have found a formula that appeals to a wide range of people from extreme 2175: novices to advanced developers. 2176: 2177: For more information about BSDCan 2008 visit 2178: [](http://www.BSDCan.org/2008/). 2179: 2180: ### `Apr 2008` - BSDCon Barcelona 2008 2181: 2182: *Apr 19-20, 2008, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, 2183: Spain* 2184: 2185: For more information about BSDCon Barcelona '08 visit 2186: [](http://bcn.bsdcon.net/). 2187: 2188: ### `Apr 2008` - Open Source Conference 2008 Nagaoka 2189: 2190: *Apr. 12, 2008, [Nagaoka University of 2191: Technology.](http://www.nagaokaut.ac.jp/j/), Niigata, Japan* 2192: 2193: At the [Open Source Conference 2008 2194: Nagaoka](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2008-nagaoka/) , there was a NetBSD booth 2195: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 2196: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) with many hpc{ 2197: [mips](../ports/hpcmips/), [sh](../ports/hpcsh/), 2198: [arm](../ports/hpcarm/) } gadgets demonstration, NetBSD/Playstation3, 2199: USB OneSeg TV tuner (DUS-01). 2200: 2201: ### `Mar 2008` - Frühjahrsfachgespräch (FFG) of the German Unix User Group 2202: 2203: *March 11-14, 2008, University of Munich, Germany* 2204: 2205: The FFG is an annual meeting for professional users of Unix, networking 2206: technologies and IT security. 2207: 2208: For more information about FFG 2008 visit 2209: [](http://www.guug.de/veranstaltungen/ffg2008/) 2210: 2211: ### `Mar 2008` - AsiaBSDCon 2008 2212: 2213: *Mar 27-30, 2008, Tokyo, Japan* 2214: 2215: [AsiaBSDCon](http://2008.asiabsdcon.org/) is a conference for users and 2216: developers on BSD based systems. The conference is for anyone 2217: developing, deploying and using systems based on FreeBSD, NetBSD, 2218: OpenBSD, DragonFly BSD, Darwin, and MacOS X. AsiaBSDCon is a technical 2219: conference and aims to collect the best technical papers and 2220: presentations available to ensure that the latest developments in our 2221: open source community are shared with the widest possible audience. 2222: AsiaBSDCon2008 was held with over 170 attendances. [[Paper/Slide 2223: List](http://2008.asiabsdcon.org/papers/index.html), 2224: [photographs](http://2008.asiabsdcon.org/photo/0327/index.html)] 2225: 2226: [NetBSD Discussion:](http://www.NetBSD.org/~uebayasi/abc2008bof.txt) 2227: Cherry G.Mathew:NetBSD/ia64, Hiroki Doshita and Masahiko Yasuoka: [npppd 2228: and pipex](http://www.seil.jp/download/eng/), Toshiaki Nozawa [Speecys 2229: Corp.](http://www.speecys.com/) :NetBSD/Robots, Masao Uebayashi:MIPS N32 2230: ABI support and OCTEON on [SEIL/X](http://www.seil.jp/download/eng/). 2231: 2232: Paper Session (NetBSD-related content): Christoph Badura: [Gaols: 2233: Implementing Jails Under the kauth 2234: Framework](http://2008.asiabsdcon.org/timetable.html#P3A), Antti Kantee: 2235: [Send and Recieve of File System Protocols: Userspace Approach With 2236: puffs](http://2008.asiabsdcon.org/timetable.html#P4B), Kristaps 2237: Džonsons: [Logical Resource Isolation in the NetBSD 2238: Kernel](http://2008.asiabsdcon.org/timetable.html#P5A) [detail: 2239: [mult](http://mult.bsd.lv/)] , Alistair Crooks: [A Portable iSCSI 2240: Initiator](http://2008.asiabsdcon.org/timetable.html#P6A), Jörg 2241: Sonnenberger and Jared D.McNeill: [Sleeping Beauty - NetBSD on Modern 2242: Laptops](http://2008.asiabsdcon.org/timetable.html#P9A) 2243: [[Presentation](./presentations/)] . 2244: 2245: Mini Talk: M.Warner Losh: FreeBSD/mips, Alistair Crooks: Three roadmaps 2246: for NetBSD development through 5.0 and 6.0 - this will cover storage, 2247: networking and virtualisation. 2248: ### `Feb 2008` - Open Source Conference 2008 Tokyo/Spring 2249: 2250: *Feb. 29-Mar. 1, 2008, [Japan Electronics 2251: College.](http://www.jec.ac.jp/college/access.html), Tokyo, Japan* 2252: 2253: At the [Open Source Conference 2008 2254: Tokyo/Spring](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2008-spring/) , there was a NetBSD 2255: booth staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 2256: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) with many hpc{ 2257: [mips](../ports/hpcmips/), [sh](../ports/hpcsh/), 2258: [arm](../ports/hpcarm/) [arm](../ports/hpcarm/) [NetBSD/i386 on Asus 2259: EeePC](../ports/i386/netbook.html) } gadgets demonstration and 2260: [Speecys](http://www.speecys.com/) Robots. 2261: 2262: ### `Feb 2008` - FOSDEM 2008 2263: 2264: *Feb 23-24, 2008, Brussels, Belgium* 2265: 2266: NetBSD has had a booth at the FOSDEM on Feb 23-24 2008 in Brussels, 2267: Belgium. FOSDEM is a free and non-commercial event organised by the 2268: community for the community. The NetBSD booth was manned by Thomas 2269: Reisky <doppelhertz@bsdgroup.de>. 2270: 2271: ### `Feb 2008` - SCALE 6x 2272: 2273: *Feb. 9-10, 2007, Los Angeles, USA* 2274: 2275: The NetBSD project was represented by A.KML and A.DAVID at [SCALE 2276: 6x](http://www.socallinuxexpo.org/), the 6th annual Southern California 2277: Linux Expo, which took place February 9-10, 2008 at The Westin Los 2278: Angeles Airport, Los Angeles, California. 2279: 2280: ### `Dec 2007` - Open Source Conference 2007 Fukuoka 2281: 2282: *Dec. 8, 2007, [ASC BUILD.](http://www.kma.ne.jp/asc/), Fukuoka, Japan* 2283: 2284: At the [Open Source Conference 2007 2285: Fukuoka](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2007-fukuoka/) , there was a NetBSD booth 2286: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 2287: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) with many hpc{ 2288: [mips](../ports/hpcmips/), [sh](../ports/hpcsh/), 2289: [arm](../ports/hpcarm/) } gadgets demonstration. 2290: 2291: ### `Nov 2007` - Open Source Conference 2007 Okinawa 2292: 2293: *Nov. 17, 2007, [Okiden Fureai 2294: Hall](http://www.okiden.co.jp/corporate/branch/naha.html), Okinawa, 2295: Japan* 2296: 2297: At the [Open Source Conference 2007 2298: Okinawa](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2007-okinawa/) , there was a NetBSD booth 2299: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 2300: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) with many hpc{ 2301: [mips](../ports/hpcmips/), [sh](../ports/hpcsh/), 2302: [arm](../ports/hpcarm/) } gadgets demonstration. 2303: 2304: ### Nov 2007 - come2linux: Linux-days Essen 2007 2305: 2306: *November 10-11th 2007, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany* 2307: 2308: NetBSD was present at *come2linux*, the Linux-days Essen 2007. There was 2309: a joint BSD booth, the NetBSD part was manned by Stefan Klose, Julian 2310: Suschlik and Karsten Kruse. 2311: 2312: ### `Nov 2007` - Kansai OpenSource 2007 2313: 2314: *Nov. 9-10, 2007, [Asia and Pacific Trade Center ITC 2315: Building](http://www.atc-co.com/), Osaka, Japan* 2316: 2317: At the [Kansai OpenSource 2007](http://www.k-of.jp/), there was a NetBSD 2318: booth staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 2319: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) with [Mac LCIII+475 2320: upgrade](../ports/mac68k/), [iBook](../ports/macppc/) with [Servo motor 2321: realtime control via USB audio](http://rogiken.org/daemon/works.html), 2322: [Zaurus C3200](../ports/zaurus/), many hpc{ [mips](../ports/hpcmips/), 2323: [sh](../ports/hpcsh/), [arm](../ports/hpcarm/) } gadgets demonstration. 2324: 2325: ### `Oct 2007` - Open Source Conference 2007 Niigata 2326: 2327: *Oct. 27, 2007, [NIIGATA TERRSA](http://www.n-terrsa.jp/access/), 2328: Niigata, Japan* 2329: 2330: At the [Open Source Conference 2007 2331: Niigata](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2007-niigata/) , there was a NetBSD booth 2332: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 2333: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) with many hpc{ 2334: [mips](../ports/hpcmips/), [sh](../ports/hpcsh/), 2335: [arm](../ports/hpcarm/) } gadgets demonstration. 2336: 2337: ### `Oct 2007` - Systems Munich 2338: 2339: NetBSD was present at the Open Source Pavillon (hall B2, booth 110-2) at 2340: the [Systems](http://www.systems-world.de/) Computer Fair in Munich, 2341: Germany, from October 23rd to 26th. The booth is sponsored and organized 2342: by [Computer- und Literaturverlag](http://www.cul.de/). 2343: 2344: ### `Oct 2007` - First Turkish Conference on BSD Systems 2345: 2346: *Oct. 19-20, 2007, Sultanahmet Campus Marmara University, Istanbul, 2347: Turkey* 2348: 2349: BSDConTR was the first conference on BSD systems in Turkey. The 2350: conference was organized in full cooperation with EnderUNIX Software 2351: Development team, which is largely known as its ongoing support for BSD 2352: systems in Turkey, and its open source projects and Marmara University. 2353: 2354: More information on BSDConTR at [](http://www.bsdcontr.org/) 2355: 2356: ### `Oct 2007` - Brandenburger Linux-Infotag 2357: 2358: The Brandenburg Linux-Infotag was held on Oct 20th 2007 at the FH 2359: Brandenburg, Germany. The NetBSD project was represented with an own 2360: booth, and Stefan Schumacher was there to answer questions. For more 2361: information, see the [event's 2362: homepage](http://www.linuxinfotag-brb.de/). 2363: 2364: ### `Oct 2007` - Open Source Conference 2007 Tokyo/Fall 2365: 2366: *Oct. 5-6, 2007, [Ota City Industrial 2367: Plaza](http://www.pio-ota.jp/english/access.html), Tokyo, Japan* 2368: 2369: At the [Open Source Conference 2007 2370: Tokyo/Fall](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2007-fall/) , there was a NetBSD booth 2371: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 2372: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) with 2373: [X68030](../ports/x68k/) with [Nereid](http://xps.jp/), many hpc{ 2374: [mips](../ports/hpcmips/), [sh](../ports/hpcsh/), 2375: [arm](../ports/hpcarm/) } gadgets demonstration and [IPv6 and Security 2376: Presentation by 2377: itojun](http://www.itojun.org/paper/itojun-200710-ospn-tokyo/mgp00001.html). 2378: 2379: ### `Sep 2007` - EuroBSDCon 2007 2380: 2381: *Sep. 14-15, 2007, Copenhagen, Denmark* 2382: 2383: The sixth annual European BSD Conference, EuroBSDCon 2007, was held on 2384: September 14-15th 2007 at Symbion Science Park in Copenhagen, Denmark. 2385: Two days of Tutorials preceeded the Conference on Sep 12-13th. 2386: 2387: For more information about EuroBSDCon 2007 visit the website 2388: [](http://2007.EuroBSDCon.org/). 2389: 2390: ### Aug 2007 - Chaos Communications Camp 2007 2391: 2392: The Chaos Communications Camp is the summer event of the Chaos Computer 2393: Club. It was held from August 8th to 12th at the Airport Museum 2394: Finowfurt near Berlin, Germany. See the event's 2395: [homepage](http://events.ccc.de/camp/2007/) for more information. 2396: 2397: ### `Jul 2007` - Open Source Conference 2007 in Kansai 2398: 2399: *Jul. 20-21, 2007, Kyoto Computer Gakuin, Kyoto, Japan* 2400: 2401: At the [Open Source Conference 2007 2402: Kansai](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2007-kansai/) , there was a NetBSD booth 2403: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 2404: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) and [Nagoya \*BSD Users' 2405: Group](http://www.nagoya.bug.gr.jp/). There were gadgets power 2406: consumption demonstration ( [amd64](../ports/amd64/), 2407: [alpha](../ports/alpha/), [evbarm](../ports/evbarm/), 2408: [hpcarm](../ports/hpcarm/), [hpcmips](../ports/hpcmips/), 2409: [hpcsh](../ports/hpcsh/), [news68k](../ports/news68k/), 2410: [newsmips](../ports/newsmips/), [sandpoint](../ports/sandpoint/), 2411: [sgimips](../ports/sgimips/), [xen](../ports/xen/), 2412: [OpenBSD/zaurus](http://www.OpenBSD.org/zaurus.html) ) and [BSD 2413: BOF](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2007-kansai/modules/eguide/event.php?eid=52) 2414: ( [Servo motor realtime control via USB 2415: audio](http://rogiken.org/daemon/works.html), [Apache 2416: Geronimo](http://geronimo.apache.org/), [NetBSD and 2417: Java](http://www.yagoto-urayama.jp/~oshimaya/netbsd/netbsd-java/index.html) 2418: ). 2419: 2420: [A report with some 2421: photos](http://www.nagoya.bug.gr.jp/2007/osc2007-kansai/index.html) is 2422: available. 2423: 2424: ### Jul 2007 - Chaos Singularity (CoSin) 2007 2425: 2426: *Jul. 6-8, 2007, Bremgarten AG, Switzerland* 2427: 2428: The Chaos Singularity 2007 was an event organized by swiss groups which 2429: organizationally or by content are related to the CCC (Chaos Computer 2430: Club). This event took place from July 6th to 8th at the cultural center 2431: of Bremgarten ([KuZeB](http://www.kuzeb.ch)) in the canton of Aargau, 2432: Switzerland. 2433: 2434: There was a BSD booth at the CoSin 2007, also representing NetBSD. A 2435: report was posted to the 2436: [regional-de](http://mail-index.NetBSD.org/regional-de/2007/07/09/0000.html) 2437: mailing list. 2438: 2439: ### `Jul 2007` - Japan NetBSD Users' Group meeting & NetBSD BOF 2440: 2441: *Jul 7, 2007, [The University of 2442: Tokyo](http://www.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/epage/public/map/e25-j.html), Tokyo, 2443: Japan* 2444: 2445: See [this 2446: page](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/announce/meeting9.html) for 2447: meeting information. Talking about ColdFire, 2448: [MobileIPv6](https://op-ha.nautilus6.org/), [Type 0 Routing Header 2449: issue](http://www.kame.net/newsletter/20070502/index.html), update 2450: net80211 and Atheros, pkgsrc, 2451: [NetBSD/playstation3](http://www.ki.nu/hardware/.ps3/files/20070707/), 2452: [build status](ftp://ftp.ki.nu/pub/NetBSD-daily/HEAD/map/index.html), 2453: automake to BSD make converter, NetBSD - Now, 4.0 and Future, PGP key 2454: sign party. 2455: 2456: ### `Jun 2007` - Open Source Conference 2007 in Hokkaido 2457: 2458: *Jun. 30, 2007, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan* 2459: 2460: At the [Open Source Conference 2007 2461: Hokkaido](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2007-do/) , there was a NetBSD booth 2462: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 2463: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) with many hpc{ 2464: [mips](../ports/hpcmips/), [sh](../ports/hpcsh/), 2465: [arm](../ports/hpcarm/) } gadgets demonstration, Internet Radio Player 2466: on USL-5P, NetBSD/Armadillo-9. 2467: 2468: ### May 2007 - Linuxtag Berlin 2469: 2470: LinuxTag 2007 opened its doors from May 30 to June 2, 2007 at the Berlin 2471: Expo Center under the Funkturm in Berlin, Germany. The event featured 2472: many talks about Open Source, Linux and there was a [full 2473: BSD-track](http://www.linuxtag.org/2007/en/conf/events/vp-freitag.html) 2474: at the 2475: [BSD-Day](http://www.linuxtag.org/2007/de/community/workshops/bsd-day.html) 2476: this year, too. Besides the talks there was a large exhibition fair, and 2477: the NetBSD project was among the BSD projects, which had a joint booth. 2478: BSD talks included Hubert Feyrer's NetBSD status report. 2479: 2480: See the [Linuxtag homepage](http://www.linuxtag.org/2007/) for more 2481: information. 2482: 2483: ### `May 2007` - BSDCan 2007 2484: 2485: *May 18-19, 2007, Ottawa, Canada* 2486: 2487: In just three short years, BSDCan, a BSD conference held in Ottawa, has 2488: quickly established itself as the technical conference for people 2489: working on and with 4.4BSD based operating systems and related projects. 2490: The organizers have found a fantastic formula that appeals to a wide 2491: range of people from extreme novices to advanced developers. 2492: 2493: That year, BSDCan 2007 was held on 18-19 May 2007 at University of 2494: Ottawa, and was preceded by two days of Tutorials on 16-17 May 2007. 2495: 2496: For more information about BSDCan 2007 visit 2497: [](http://www.BSDCan.org/2007/). 2498: 2499: ### `Apr 2007` - pkgsrcCon 2007 2500: 2501: *Apr. 27-29, 2007, Barcelona, Spain* 2502: 2503: The fourth annual pkgsrcCon will convene in Barcelona, Spain on April 27 2504: to 29, 2007. pkgsrcCon is a technical conference for people working on 2505: the [NetBSD Packages Collection 2506: (pkgsrc)](http://www.NetBSD.org/docs/software/packages.html), focusing 2507: on existing technologies, research projects, and works-in-progress in 2508: pkgsrc infrastructure. Developers, contributors, and users are all 2509: welcome to attend. 2510: 2511: More information about pkgsrcCon 2007 is available at 2512: [](http://www.pkgsrccon.org/2007/). 2513: 2514: ### `Mar 2007` - Linux-Infotag Augsburg 2515: 2516: *Mar 24, 2007, Augsburg, Germany* 2517: 2518: There will be a joint BSD booth at the Linux Infotag in Augsburg, 2519: including presence of the NetBSD project. The event offers some small 2520: expo space, and two tracks of talks, one with beginners in mind, the 2521: other one for advanced users. See [the event's 2522: homepage](http://www.luga.de/Aktionen/LIT-2007/) for more information. 2523: 2524: P.S.: A report is available in [this 2525: mail](http://mail-index.NetBSD.org/netbsd-advocacy/2007/03/26/0000.html). 2526: 2527: ### `Mar 2007` - Open Source Conference 2007 Tokyo/Spring 2528: 2529: *Mar. 16-17, 2007, Tokyo, Japan* 2530: 2531: At the [Open Source Conference 2007 2532: Tokyo/Spring](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2007-spring/), there will be a 2533: NetBSD booth staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 2534: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) with many hpc{ 2535: [mips](../ports/hpcmips/), [sh](../ports/hpcsh/), 2536: [arm](../ports/hpcarm/) } gadgets demonstration and 2537: [Speecys](http://www.speecys.com/) Robots. 2538: 2539: ### `Mar 2007` - AsiaBSDCon 2007 2540: 2541: *Mar. 8-11, 2007, Tokyo, Japan* 2542: 2543: AsiaBSDCon is a conference for users and developers on BSD based 2544: systems. The conference is for anyone developing, deploying and using 2545: systems based on FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, DragonFly BSD, Darwin, and 2546: MacOS X. AsiaBSDCon is a technical conference and aims to collect the 2547: best technical papers and presentations available to ensure that the 2548: latest developments in our open source community are shared with the 2549: widest possible audience. 2550: 2551: Please contact secretary@asiabsdcon.org if you have any questions. The 2552: AsiaBSDCon 2007 timetable is available at 2553: [](http://2007.asiabsdcon.org/timetable.html). 2554: 2555: ### `Mar 2007` - Chemnitzer Linux-Tage 2556: 2557: *Mar. 3-4, 2007, Chemnitz* 2558: 2559: NetBSD will have a booth and related talks at the Chemnitzer Linux-Tage 2560: (linux days) in Chemnitz, Germany. See 2561: [](http://chemnitzer.linux-tage.de/2007/) for more information. If you 2562: want to help out manning the booth, please contact Hubert Feyrer 2563: <hubertf@NetBSD.org> for further details. 2564: 2565: ### `Feb 2007` - GUUG spring talk 2566: 2567: *Feb. 27-Mar. 2, 2007, Berlin, Germany* 2568: 2569: The German Unix User Group will have it's annual spring talk 2570: (Frühjahrsfachgespräch) in Berlin this year. It will take place February 2571: 27-March 2, 2007, at the Freie Universität Berlin. There will be several 2572: talks about Unix and Unix-related topics, and one will be held by Stefan 2573: Schumacher on how to secure a NetBSD system using Systrace. 2574: 2575: More information can be found at 2576: [](http://www.guug.de/veranstaltungen/ffg2007/) and 2577: [](http://www.guug.de/veranstaltungen/ffg2007/abstracts.html#3_7_1). The 2578: German language article can be found at: 2579: [](http://net-tex.dnsalias.org/~stefan/nt/netbsd/systrace.html). 2580: 2581: Ignatios also 2582: [posted](http://mail-index.NetBSD.org/regional-de/2007/03/27/0000.html) 2583: his [slides (german 2584: language!)](http://theory.cs.uni-bonn.de/~ignatios/erlgrey-guug-ffg-2007.pdf). 2585: 2586: ### `Feb 2007` - FOSDEM 2007 2587: 2588: *Feb 24-25, 2007, Brussels, Belgium* 2589: 2590: on February 24 and 25, the Free and Open source Software Developers' 2591: European Meeting (FOSDEM) takes place again at the Free University of 2592: Brussels, Belgium. 2593: 2594: There will be a joint \*BSD booth with flyers, CD's, T-shirts and other 2595: merchandising, and the Xen demo machine (now upgraded to NetBSD 2596: 4.0\_BETA2 with Xen 3.x). Furthermore there are a lot of interesting 2597: talks, development rooms, a key signing event, etcetera. More 2598: information is available on [](http://www.fosdem.org). 2599: 2600: ### `Feb 2007` - SCALE 5x 2601: 2602: *Feb. 10-11, 2007, Los Angeles, USA* 2603: 2604: [SCALE 5x](http://www.socallinuxexpo.org/), the 5th annual Southern 2605: California Linux Expo, took place February 10-11, 2007, at The Westin 2606: Los Angeles Airport, Los Angeles, California. The NetBSD Project had a 2607: booth at this event; see the reports by 2608: [A.KML](http://mail-index.NetBSD.org/netbsd-advocacy/2007/02/11/0000.html) 2609: and 2610: [A.JSCHAUMA](http://mail-index.NetBSD.org/netbsd-advocacy/2007/02/12/0000.html). 2611: 2612: ### `Dec 2006` - BSDCon Chile 2006 2613: 2614: *December 9, 2006, Universidad Diego Portales - Santiago, Chile.* 2615: 2616: This is the first BSD related conference held in Chile (Latin America). 2617: Our main objective is to provide a place for BSD developers, users and 2618: Sysadmins to meet in Chile to share and interchange ideas, experiences, 2619: knowledge and in addition to socialize to construct future links to 2620: expand knowledge of BSD systems. 2621: 2622: The conference is for anyone developing, administrating and using 2623: systems based on FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, DragonFlyBSD, Darwin, MacOS X 2624: and Solaris. 2625: 2626: For more information, please [visit the 2627: website](http://www.bsd.cl/index.php/BSDCon2006). 2628: 2629: ### `Dec 2006` - OpenSource Conference 2006 Okinawa 2630: 2631: *December 2, 2006, Okinawa Industry Support Center,Japan* 2632: 2633: At the [OpenSource Conference 2006 2634: Okinawa](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2006-okinawa/) , there will be a NetBSD 2635: booth staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 2636: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) with many hpc{ 2637: [mips](../ports/hpcmips/), [sh](../ports/hpcsh/), 2638: [arm](../ports/hpcarm/) } gadgets demonstration. 2639: 2640: ### `Nov 2006` - Hackathon 2641: 2642: NetBSD will run another hackathon, primarily dedicated to get -current 2643: ready for the 4.0 re-branch. See the [Hackathon 2644: page](../community/hackathon.html) for details. 2645: 2646: ### `Nov 2006` - LinuxDay Dornbirn, Austria 2647: 2648: NetBSD will be present as part of the OpenSource community at the 2649: [LinuxDay in Dornbirn](http://www.linuxday.at/), Austria, on November 2650: 18th. Please contact Raphael Langerhorst <raphael@raphael.g-system.at> 2651: if you have any questions or want to help out. 2652: 2653: ### `Nov 2006` - EuroBSDCon Milan 2654: 2655: EuroBSDCon 2006, the European BSD Conference will be held November 10th 2656: - 12th 2006 in Milan, Italy. The 2657: [schedule](http://www.eurobsdcon.org/schedule.php) is up now, and it has 2658: quite a bit of NetBSD-related content: 2659: 2660: - Anders "Ragge" Magnusson: How to set an internet2 Landspeed record 2661: - Jörg Sonnenberger: pkg\_install 2662: - Alistair Crooks: iSCSI - beyond the hype 2663: - NetBSD Security Enhancements: Elad Efrat 2664: - Emmanuel Dreyfus: What's new in NetBSD? 2665: - Brian A. Seklecki: A Scalable Framework for Compact Flash Booting 2666: NetBSD Network Appliances 2667: - Antti Kantee & Johannes Helander: Implementing Lightweight Routing 2668: for BSD TCP/IP 2669: 2670: Registration is open now. Please [see the 2671: website](http://www.eurobsdcon.org/) for more details! 2672: 2673: ### `Oct 2006` - NYCBSDCon 2006 2674: 2675: *Oct. 28-29, 2006, New York, NY, USA* 2676: 2677: Building on last year's success, the [New York City \*BSD User 2678: Group](http://www.nycbug.org/) is organizing [NYCBSDCon 2679: 2006](http://nycbsdcon.org/). The 2680: [schedule](http://nycbsdcon.org/schedule) shows some speakers talking 2681: about NetBSD-related topics. 2682: 2683: ### `Oct 2006` - Open Source Conference 2006 Tokyo/Fall 2684: 2685: *Oct. 28, 2006, Tokyo, Japan* 2686: 2687: At the [Open Source Conference 2006 2688: Tokyo/Fall](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2006-fall/), there will be a NetBSD 2689: booth staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 2690: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) with many hpc{ 2691: [mips](../ports/hpcmips/), [sh](../ports/hpcsh/), 2692: [arm](../ports/hpcarm/) } gadgets demonstration. 2693: 2694: ### `Oct 2006` - Systems Munich 2695: 2696: NetBSD will be present at the Open Source Pavillon (hall A3, booth 2697: A3.542) at the [Systems](http://www.systems-world.de/) Computer Fair in 2698: Munich, Germany, from October 23rd to 27th. The booth is sponsored and 2699: organized by [Computer- und Literaturverlag](http://www.cul.de/) - if 2700: you want to join us in manning the booth, please contact Hubert Feyrer 2701: <hubertf@NetBSD.org>. 2702: 2703: A report on the event is available 2704: [here](http://mail-index.NetBSD.org/netbsd-advocacy/2006/10/30/0001.html). 2705: 2706: ### `Sep 2006` - Ohio Linuxfest 2707: 2708: *Sep. 30, 2006, Columbus, Ohio, USA* 2709: 2710: There will be a NetBSD booth at the 2006 [Ohio 2711: Linuxfest](http://www.ohiolinux.org/) Conference and Expo. Contact A.JRF 2712: <jrf@NetBSD.org> if you have any questions or want to help out at the 2713: booth. 2714: 2715: A report of the event can be found 2716: [here](http://mail-index.NetBSD.org/netbsd-advocacy/2006/10/17/0000.html). 2717: 2718: ### `Sep 2006` - NetBSD at Linux-days Essen 2006: come2linux 2719: 2720: NetBSD will participate in the Linux-days in Essen, dubbed "come2linux". 2721: There will be a joint BSD booth, the NetBSD part will be manned by 2722: Menuhin Saitov <menuhin@web.de>, feel free to contact him about helping 2723: out at the booth or if you have any questions. A number of NetBSD CDs, 2724: NetBSD t-shirts etc. will be available at the booth, too. 2725: 2726: The event takes place on September 9th and 10th 2006 at the Glaspavillon 2727: of the University of Duisburg-Essen. See 2728: [http://www.come2linux.org/](http://www.come2linux.org/) for more 2729: information. 2730: 2731: A report on the event was [posted to the regional-de mailing 2732: list](http://mail-index.NetBSD.org/regional-de/2006/09/16/0000.html). 2733: 2734: ### `Sep 2006` - NetBSD at Linux-kongress Nuremberg 2006 2735: 2736: There will be a NetBSD booth at the Linux-Kongress in Nuremberg on 2737: September 7th and 8th at the University of Applied Sciences 2738: (Fachhochschule) Nuernberg. See 2739: [http://www.linux-kongress.org/](http://www.linux-kongress.org/) for 2740: more information on the event, and contact Hubert Feyrer 2741: <hubertf@NetBSD.org> if you have any questions or want to help out at 2742: the booth. 2743: 2744: A.HUBERTF wrote a short 2745: [report](http://mail-index.NetBSD.org/netbsd-advocacy/2006/09/09/0000.html) 2746: about the event. 2747: 2748: ### `Jul 2006` - Open Source Conference 2006 in Hokkaido 2749: 2750: *Jul. 15, 2006, Sapporo, Japan* 2751: 2752: At the [Open Source Conference 2006 DO](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2006-do/) 2753: , there will be a NetBSD booth staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD 2754: Users' Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) with many hpc{ 2755: [mips](../ports/hpcmips/), [sh](../ports/hpcsh/), 2756: [arm](../ports/hpcarm/) } gadgets demonstration. 2757: 2758: ### `Jun 2006` - Open Source Conference 2006 in Niigata 2759: 2760: *Jun. 17, 2006, Niigata, Japan* 2761: 2762: At the [Open Source Conference 2006 2763: Niigata](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2006-niigata/) , there was a NetBSD booth 2764: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 2765: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) with many hpc{ 2766: [mips](../ports/hpcmips/), [sh](../ports/hpcsh/), 2767: [arm](../ports/hpcarm/) } gadgets demonstration with 150 attendances. 2768: 2769: ### `Jun 2006` - Interop 2006 Tokyo BSD BOF 2770: 2771: *Jun 8, 2006, Makuhari-Messe, Chiba, Japan, 18:30-20:00 JST* 2772: 2773: [Interop 2006 Tokyo BSD 2774: BOF](https://ssl.medialive.jp/in2006fm/jp/seminar_BOF03.html) was held 2775: in [Interop 2006 Tokyo](http://www.interop.jp/2006/) with 129 2776: attendances. BOF03. Room 201. 2777: 2778: - Asia BSD Con 2007 Call for Participation , George Neville-Neil / 2779: FreeBSD Project 2780: - FreeBSD: Suspend and Resume Circumstances, for Panasonic Let's Note 2781: CF-R4, Norikatsu Shigemura / 2782: Ensure Technology Ltd 2783: . 2784: - BSD Usergroup activity: 2785: Echigo BSD Users Group 2786: , T.Tamura@EBUG 2787: - XCAST - Explicit Multi-Unicast 2788: 2789: \> See [program for 2790: details](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/ml/announce-ja/200606/msg00000.html). 2791: 2792: The BoF was broadcasted via RealVideo (238 clients), 2793: [xcast](http://www.xcast.jp/) (6 clients) , 2794: [IRC](http://www.reicha.net/) (49 clients). 2795: 2796: ### `May 2006` - BSDCan 2006 2797: 2798: *May 12-13 2006, Ottawa, Canada* 2799: 2800: In just two years, [BSDCan](http://www.bsdcan.org/), a BSD conference 2801: held in Ottawa, has quickly established itself as the technical 2802: conference for people working on and with 4.4BSD based operating systems 2803: and related projects. The organizers have found a fantastic formula that 2804: appeals to a wide range of people from extreme novices to advanced 2805: developers. 2806: 2807: This year, BSDCan 2006 will be will be held on May 12-13 2006 at 2808: University of Ottawa, and some other related events will be passed 2809: during May 10-14th. 2810: 2811: [Watch out](http://www.bsdcan.org/2006/presentations.php) for the 2812: [NetBSD people](http://www.bsdcan.org/2006/speaker.php) on BSDCan 2006! 2813: 2814: ### `May 2006` - pkgsrcCon 2006 2815: 2816: *May 5-7, Paris, France* 2817: 2818: The third pkgsrc conference will be held on May 5-7, 2006 in Paris, 2819: France. Universite Paris 7 - Denis Diderot is graciously hosting the 2820: conference on their campus. 2821: 2822: pkgsrcCon is a technical conference for people working on the NetBSD 2823: Packages Collection (pkgsrc), focusing on existing technologies, 2824: research projects, and works-in-progress in pkgsrc infrastructure. 2825: Developers, contributors, and users are all welcome to attend, and to 2826: share an excellent opportunity to gather and to discuss ideas 2827: face-to-face on how to improve pkgsrc. 2828: 2829: For more information, including how to register, and how to submit a 2830: presentation proposal, please visit 2831: [http://www.pkgsrcCon.org/](http://www.pkgsrcCon.org/). 2832: 2833: ### `May 2006` - LinuxTag 2006 2834: 2835: *May 3-6 2006, Wiesbaden, Germany* 2836: 2837: NetBSD will have a booth at [LinuxTag 2006](http://www.linuxtag.org/), 2838: visit us at Hall 9, booth number 944. There will also be BSD talks and 2839: tutorials. 2840: 2841: If you're interested in helping out at the NetBSD booth or have any 2842: questions, please contact Dennis Wecker <dennis@eperm.net>. 2843: 2844: ### `Apr 2006` - Vintage Computer Festival Europe 2845: 2846: *Apr 29th - May 1st, Munich, Germany* 2847: 2848: The [Vintage Computer Festival Europe](http://www.vcfe.org/) is taking 2849: place from April 29th to May 1st in Munich, Germany. NetBSD's A.JKUNZ 2850: will demonstrate 2.11BSD on a PDP-11/73 and do some general NetBSD 2851: advocacy. If you're interested, please contact A.JKUNZ and/or visit the 2852: URL above. 2853: 2854: ### `Apr 2006` - Japan NetBSD Users' Group meeting & NetBSD BOF 2855: 2856: *Apr 16, 2006, [National Olympics Memorial Youth 2857: Center](http://nyc.niye.go.jp/e/), Tokyo, Japan* 2858: 2859: See [this 2860: page](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/announce/meeting8.html) for 2861: meeting information. Talking about NetBSD/pc98, GDB operation on Emacs, 2862: NetBSD/dreamcast maracas controller, NetBSD/kurobako, NetBSD/Armadillo, 2863: Codeblog. 2864: 2865: ### `Apr 2006` - LinuxWorld-Boston 2006 2866: 2867: *April 3-6, 2006, Boston, MA, USA* 2868: 2869: This year the first of two LinuxWorld Conferences & Expo is going to 2870: take place in Boston, MA, USA at the beginning of April. The NetBSD 2871: Project might be represented with a [shared] booth there - if you are 2872: interested in helping out, please contact Brian Asemi (asemisldkfj at 2873: gmail.com). 2874: 2875: For more information about this event see 2876: [](http://mail-index.NetBSD.org/netbsd-advocacy/2006/04/07/0000.html). 2877: 2878: ### `Mar 2006` - Chemnitzer Linux-Tage 2006 2879: 2880: *March 4-5th 2006, TU Chemnitz, Chemnitz, Germany* 2881: 2882: NetBSD will have a booth at the [Chemnitzer 2883: Linux-Tage](http://chemnitzer.linux-tage.de), one of the largest Linux 2884: Cons in Germany. 2885: 2886: Additionally, several NetBSD presentations and a workshop will be held: 2887: 2888: - Karl Uwe Lockhoff: Introduction into Unix, BSD and Co. 2889: - Stefan Schumacher: Backup and Recovery in a NetBSD environment 2890: - Dennis Wecker: Verified Exec in NetBSD 2891: - Matthias Petermann: NetBSD Features 2892: - Hubert Feyrer: NetBSD example installation in QEmu (Workshop) 2893: 2894: For further information contact Stefan Schumacher \<stefan (at) 2895: net-tex.de\>. 2896: 2897: ### `Mar 2006` - CeBIT 2006 2898: 2899: *March 9-15 2006, Hannover, Germany* 2900: 2901: The NetBSD project will have a booth at [CeBIT](http://www.cebit.de/), 2902: the large b2b-tradefair in Hannover, Germany, from March 12-15. The 2903: booth will be in Hall 5, number E 56 and will showcase NetBSD and Xen. 2904: 2905: ### `Mar 2006` - Open Source Conference 2006 Tokyo/Spring 2906: 2907: *Mar. 17-18, 2006, Tokyo, Japan* 2908: 2909: At the [Open Source Conference 2006 2910: Tokyo/Spring](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2006/), there will be a NetBSD booth 2911: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 2912: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) with many hpc{ 2913: [mips](../ports/hpcmips/), [sh](../ports/hpcsh/), 2914: [arm](../ports/hpcarm/) } gadgets demonstration. 2915: 2916: ### `Mar 2006` - GUUG spring talk 2917: 2918: *March 21-24th 2006, Osnabrück, Germany* 2919: 2920: [German Unix User Group 2921: “Frühjahrsfachgespräch”](http://www.guug.de/veranstaltungen/ffg2006/) 2922: (spring talk) will be passed during 21.-24.3.2006 in the [University of 2923: Osnabrück](http://www.uni-osnabrueck.de/). 2924: 2925: There will be at least one NetBSD-related talk, on [backup 2926: strategies](http://www.guug.de/veranstaltungen/ffg2006/abstracts.html#3_8_2). 2927: Interested parties are welcome to coordinate any BOF sessions or booth 2928: activities with Stefan Schumacher, see [his posting on 2929: regional-de](http://mail-index.NetBSD.org/regional-de/2006/01/29/0000.html). 2930: 2931: ### `Feb 2006` - FOSDEM 2006 2932: 2933: *February 25/26th 2006, Brussels, Belgium* 2934: 2935: The sixth [Free and Open source Software Developers' European 2936: Meeting](http://www.fosdem.org/) is a 2 days event, organized by 2937: volunteers, to promote the widespread use of Free and Open Source 2938: software. Taking place in the beautiful city of Brussels, Belgium FOSDEM 2939: meetings are recognised as the best Free and Open Source events in 2940: Europe. 2941: 2942: A.PETER (<peter>) and A.GHEN (<ghen>) [will 2943: advocate](http://mail-index.NetBSD.org/netbsd-advocacy/2006/02/21/0000.html) 2944: the NetBSD project on this event. Hope to see you too! 2945: 2946: Update: A.GHEN posted a [review of the 2947: event](http://mail-index.NetBSD.org/netbsd-advocacy/2006/02/26/0000.html). 2948: 2949: ### `Feb 2006` - SCALE 4x 2950: 2951: *February 11-12th 2006, Los Angeles, California* 2952: 2953: [SCALE 4x](http://www.socallinuxexpo.org/), the 4th annual Southern 2954: California Linux Expo, will take place February 11-12, 2006, at The 2955: Westin Los Angeles Airport, Los Angeles, California. The NetBSD Project 2956: will have a booth at this event; please contact A.KML (<kml@NetBSD.org>) 2957: if you would like to help. 2958: 2959: A report from Kevin Lahey is 2960: [available](http://mail-index.NetBSD.org/netbsd-advocacy/2006/02/14/0000.html). 2961: 2962: ### `Dec 2005` - 22nd Chaos Communication Congress (22C3) 2963: 2964: *December 27-30th 2005, Berlin, Germany* 2965: 2966: [The 22nd Chaos Communication Congress 2967: (22C3)](http://events.ccc.de/congress/2005/) is a four-day conference on 2968: technology, society and utopia. The Congress offers lectures and 2969: workshops on a multitude of topics including (but not limited to) 2970: information technology, IT-security, internet, cryptography and 2971: generally a critical-creative attitude towards technology and the 2972: discussion about the effects of technological advances on society. 2973: 2974: ### `Nov 2005` - OpenSource Conference 2005 Okinawa 2975: 2976: *November 19, 2005, Okiden Fureai Hall,Japan* 2977: 2978: At the [OpenSource Conference 2005 2979: Okinawa](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2005-okinawa/) , there will be a NetBSD 2980: booth staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 2981: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) with many hpc{ 2982: [mips](../ports/hpcmips/), [sh](../ports/hpcsh/), 2983: [arm](../ports/hpcarm/) } gadgets demonstration. 2984: 2985: ### `Nov 2005` - EuroBSDCon 2005 2986: 2987: *November 25th-27th 2005, Switzerland* 2988: 2989: [EuroBSDCon 2005](http://2005.eurobsdcon.org/) will be held at the 2990: University of Basel, Switzerland on November 25th to 27th 2005. Check 2991: the [website](http://2005.eurobsdcon.org/) for official program, 2992: conference venue and registration. present. 2993: 2994: ### `Oct 2005` - Linux-Info-Tag Dresden 2005 2995: 2996: *October 29, 2005, Dresden, Germany* 2997: 2998: The “Linux-Info-Tag Dresden 2005” will take place on October 29th, 2005, 2999: in Dresden, Germany. There will be a NetBSD booth presenting NetBSD to 3000: the public and showing its abilities on demo computers. Furthermore, 3001: there will be a lecture entitled “Introduction to NetBSD” by Karl Uwe 3002: Lockhoff. 3003: 3004: For further information contact Stefan Schumacher (stefan [at] net-tex 3005: [dot] de) and see the website of the event at 3006: [](http://www.linux-info-tag.de/). 3007: 3008: ### `Oct 2005` - Systems 2005 3009: 3010: *October 24th-28th, 2005, Munich, Germany* 3011: 3012: There will be a BSD booth at the Systems computer show in Munich, 3013: Germany from October 24th to 28th 2005, where the BSD Projects (among 3014: others) will be presented. 3015: 3016: People willing to help are welcome. It's also fine that you have only on 3017: one or more days time to participate at the Booth. There is also a 3018: sponsor which provides food and drinks during the event! 3019: 3020: For more Information see [](http://www.systems.de/) 3021: 3022: Please contact Daniel Ettle (dan at deam dot org) to help at the booth, 3023: especially showing NetBSD! 3024: 3025: ### `Oct 2005` - KANSAI-OPENSOURCE-2005 3026: 3027: *October 28-October 29, 2005, Osaka Sangyo Souzoukan, Japan* 3028: 3029: At the [KANSAI OpenSource 2005](http://k-of.jp/2005/kof.html) there was 3030: a NetBSD booth staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 3031: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) with many hpc{ 3032: [mips](../ports/hpcmips/), [sh](../ports/hpcsh/), 3033: [arm](../ports/hpcarm/) } gadgets demonstration, and [DreamCast with ISA 3034: BUS Expander](../ports/dreamcast/), [NEC EWS4800 with 3035: NetBSD](http://mail-index.NetBSD.org/port-mips/2004/06/27/0000.html), 3036: [IO-DATA USL-5P 3037: (NetBSD/landisk)](http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~aw9k-nnk/n/landisk.html). 3038: 3039: At the \*BSD Meeting in Kansai 2005, There was a BoF about Secure 3040: Programing, embeded-NetBSD developers' Network, Devices and more about 3041: BSD, driven by [Kansai \*BSD Users Group](http://www.kbug.gr.jp/). 3042: 3043: ### `Sep 2005` - Open Source Conference 2005 Fall 3044: 3045: *Sep. 17, 2005, Tokyo, Japan* 3046: 3047: At the [Open Source Conference 2005 3048: Fall](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2005-fall/) there was a NetBSD booth staffed 3049: by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 3050: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) with many hpc{ 3051: [mips](../ports/hpcmips/), [sh](../ports/hpcsh/), 3052: [arm](../ports/hpcarm/) } gadgets demonstration. 3053: 3054: ### `Sep 2005` - NYC BSD Con 2005 3055: 3056: *September 17th 2005, New York City, NY, USA* 3057: 3058: The [NYC BSD User Group](http://www.nycbug.org) organized the first [NYC 3059: BSD Conference](http://nycbsdcon.org/), a one day technical conference 3060: for developers, systems administrators and end-users of the BSD 3061: operating systems and related open source projects. Please see the 3062: [conference website](http://nycbsdcon.org/) for details. 3063: 3064: ### `Sep 2005` - Computer-Bank-Office 2005 3065: 3066: *September 7th-10th 2005, Odessa, Ukraine* 3067: 3068: The NetBSD Project will be presented at 10th annual international 3069: exhibition of information technologies, [Computer-Bank-Office 3070: 2005](http://www.expo-odessa.com/exeb.phtml?id=47&lang=en), which will 3071: take place at Expocentre of Odessa Marine Terminal. All talks about 3072: NetBSD and pkgsrc systems are scheduled for Sep 8th. Anyone interested 3073: in support for and preparation of this event, please contact Mike M. 3074: Volokhov <mishka@NetBSD.org>. See also [his 3075: post](http://mail-index.NetBSD.org/netbsd-advocacy/2005/07/12/0000.html) 3076: on netbsd-advocacy. 3077: 3078: ### `Sep 2005` - Portuguese NetBSD Users's Group meeting 3079: 3080: *September 10th 2005, Lisboa, Portugal* 3081: 3082: The [Portuguese NetBSD User Group](http://www.netbsd-pt.org/) second 3083: meeting will be held at [Parque das 3084: Nações](http://www.parquedasnacoes.pt/) (Vasco da Gama). Please see the 3085: group page for more information. 3086: 3087: ### `Aug 2005` - Japan NetBSD Users' Group meeting & NetBSD BOF 3088: 3089: *Aug 27, 2005, [National Olympics Memorial Youth 3090: Center](http://nyc.niye.go.jp/e/), Tokyo, Japan* 3091: 3092: See [this 3093: page](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/announce/meeting7.html) for 3094: meeting information. 3095: 3096: A 3097: [presentation](http://www.haun.org/kent/tmp/20050827-NetBSD-audio-en.pdf) 3098: about the changes on the NetBSD audio framework is also available. 3099: 3100: ### `Aug 2005` - BSDDAY São Paulo 3101: 3102: *August 13th, 2005, São Paulo, Brazil* 3103: 3104: The first [BSDDAY](http://www.bsdday.com.br/) in São Paulo, Brazil took 3105: place on August 13th, 2005. Presentations regarding the main BSD 3106: derivatives including, of course, NetBSD were given. Since the event is 3107: also meant to promote charity, the entrance fee was 2 Kilograms of 3108: non-perishable food, which were donated to a non-governmental 3109: organization. 3110: 3111: ### `Aug 2005` - LinuxWorld Conference & Expo 2005 3112: 3113: *August 9-11th, 2005, San Francisco, California, USA* 3114: 3115: [LinuxWorld Conference & Expo 3116: 2005](http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/live/12/events/12SFO05A/) was held 3117: in San Francisco, California, USA from August 9th to 11th 2005. NetBSD 3118: had a booth in the ".org Pavilion", organized by A.RIZ <riz@NetBSD.org>. 3119: One of the main attractions here was the [NetBSD 3120: Toaster](http://www.embeddedarm.com/news/netbsd_toaster.htm), engineered 3121: by Technologic Systems. See A.RIZ's 3122: [report](http://mail-index.NetBSD.org/netbsd-advocacy/2005/08/13/0000.html) 3123: for more details. 3124: 3125: ### `Jul 2005` - BSD at “What the Hack” outdoor hacker conference 3126: 3127: *July 28 - 31, 2005, Liempde, near Den Bosch, The Netherlands* 3128: 3129: [What The Hack](http://www.whatthehack.org/) is an outdoor hacker 3130: conference/event taking place on a large event-campground in the south 3131: of The Netherlands from 28 until 31 July 2005. There will be a BSD 3132: village with at least three members of the NetBSD Project present. For 3133: more details about the \*BSD presence see Daniel Ettle's 3134: [message](http://mail-index.NetBSD.org/netbsd-advocacy/2005/07/04/0000.html) 3135: to the netbsd-advocacy mailinglist. 3136: 3137: ### `Jul 2005` - BSD-CONFERENCE-JAPAN 2005 3138: 3139: *July 23, 2005, [NADYA 3140: Park](http://www.u-net.city.nagoya.jp/t-index/nadia.htm) Nagoya, Japan* 3141: 3142: [http://www.bsdcon.jp/](http://www.bsdcon.jp/) with 80 attendances. 3143: There had be a BSD booth staffed by members of the [Nagoya \*BSD Users' 3144: Group](http://www.nagoya.bug.gr.jp/). See more 3145: [Reports](http://pcweb.mycom.co.jp/articles/2005/07/27/bsdcon/). 3146: 3147: ### `Jul 2005` - Open Source Conference 2005 in Hokkaido 3148: 3149: *Jul. 9, 2005, Sapporo, Japan* 3150: 3151: At the Open Source Conference 2005 DO there had be a NetBSD booth 3152: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 3153: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/). 3154: [](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2005-do/) with 250 attendances and 17 user 3155: groups. 3156: 3157: ### `Jun 2005` - MeetBSD 2005 3158: 3159: *June 17-19th, 2005, Kraków, Poland* 3160: 3161: [MeetBSD 2005](http://2005.meetbsd.org/) will be held in Kraków, Poland, 3162: from June 17th to 19th 2005. Check the 3163: [website](http://2005.meetbsd.org/) for the official program conference 3164: venue and registration. 3165: 3166: ### `Jun 2005` - Interop 2005 Tokyo BSD BOF 3167: 3168: *Jun 9, 2005, Makuhari-Messe, Chiba, Japan, 18:30-20:00 JST* 3169: 3170: [Interop 2005 Tokyo BSD 3171: BOF](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/ml/announce-ja/200506/msg00000.html) 3172: was held in [Interop 2005 Tokyo](http://www.interop.jp/2005/) with 130 3173: attendances. BOF01. Room 302. 3174: 3175: - \*BSD Document Internationalization 3176: - A Robot that runs on NetBSD 3177: Live performance 3178: - BSD Usergroup activity in Japan 3179: - XCAST - Explicit Multi-Unicast 3180: 3181: See [program for 3182: details](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/ml/announce-ja/200506/msg00000.html). 3183: 3184: The BoF was broadcasted via RealVideo (277 3185: clients)/[xcast](http://www.xcast.jp/) (4 clients include [Univ. of 3186: Science Malaysia](http://nrg.cs.usm.my/), [Nagoya 3187: University](http://www.nagoya-u.ac.jp/en/), and [Nagoya \*BSD Users' 3188: Group](http://www.nagoya.bug.gr.jp/))/ [IRC](http://www.reicha.net/) (55 3189: 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)). 3190: 3191: ### `May 2005` - BSDCan2005 3192: 3193: *May 13th - May 14th, Ottawa, Canada* 3194: 3195: [BSDCan 2005](http://www.bsdcan.org/2005/) was held on May 13-14 2005 at 3196: University of Ottawa. There were related events on the 12th and the 15th 3197: (of a social nature, for the most part). 3198: 3199: ### `May 2005` - pkgsrcCon 2005 3200: 3201: *May 6th - May 8th 2005, Prague, Czech Republic* 3202: 3203: [pkgsrcCon 2005](http://www.pkgsrcCon.org/2005/) was held in Prague, 3204: Czech Republic from May 6th until May 8th 2005. pkgsrcCon is a technical 3205: conference for people working on the [NetBSD Packages Collection 3206: (pkgsrc)](../docs/pkgsrc/), focusing on existing technologies, research 3207: projects, and works-in-progress in pkgsrc infrastructure. Developers, 3208: contributors, and users are all welcome to attend. You can view the 3209: [slides for this 3210: event](http://www.pkgsrcCon.org/2005/presentations.html) here. 3211: 3212: See [](http://www.pkgsrcCon.org/2005/) for details. 3213: 3214: ### `Apr 2005` - Linux Fest Northwest 2005 3215: 3216: LinuxFest Northwest is an annual conference providing many free lectures 3217: and booths covering the open source Unix community. The free event was 3218: held April 30th in Bellingham, Washington, USA. Lectures covering BSD 3219: topics and a BSD advocacy booth were available for the fourth year. 3220: Around 1000 people attended the past two years. 3221: 3222: More information is at 3223: [http://linuxnorthwest.org/](http://linuxnorthwest.org/). (If you can 3224: volunteer to help with NetBSD advocacy at LinuxFest, please see [this 3225: email](http://mail-index.NetBSD.org/netbsd-advocacy/2005/03/25/0000.html).) 3226: 3227: ### `Apr 2005` - 2005 USENIX Annual Technical Conference 3228: 3229: *April 10-15, 2005, Anaheim, California, USA* 3230: 3231: USENIX is a place to present groundbreaking research and cutting-edge 3232: practices in a wide variety of technologies and environments. The 2005 3233: program included additional tutorials, more security breakthroughs, and 3234: sessions devoted to Linux and Open Source Software. Join the community 3235: of programmers, developers, and systems professionals in sharing 3236: solutions and fresh ideas. 3237: 3238: See [](http://www.usenix.org/usenix05/) for details. 3239: 3240: ### `Mar 2005` - Open Source Conference 2005 3241: 3242: *Mar. 25-26, 2005, Tokyo, Japan* 3243: 3244: At the Open Source Conference 2005 there was a NetBSD booth staffed by 3245: members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 3246: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/). For more details see 3247: [](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2005/). 3248: 3249: ### `Mar 2005` - CeBIT 2005 3250: 3251: *March 10-16, 2005, Hannover, Germany* 3252: 3253: The NetBSD Project was presented at the [CeBIT 3254: 2005](http://www.cebit.de/) trade show. A few pictures are available at 3255: [this URL](http://nuxi.homeunix.org/album/messen/cebit-2005/). 3256: 3257: ### `Mar 2005` - Chemnitzer Linux-Tage 2005 3258: 3259: NetBSD was present Mar 5th/6th 2005 in Chemnitz, Germany. We had a fine 3260: NetBSD booth at the Chemnitz Linuxdays Mar 5th/6th 2005, with lots of 3261: fun going on. Please check Hubert Feyrer's BLOG for all the details: 3262: 3263: - Chemnitzer Linux-Tage 2005 Day 0 and 1 3264: - Chemnitzer Linux-Tage 2005 Day 2 3265: 3266: ### `Feb 2005` - Spring Talks of the German Unix User Group 3267: 3268: Feb 22nd to 25th 2005 in Munich, Germany. For some details on the event 3269: itself and some rumours & gossips see Hubert Feyrer's BLOG entries: 3270: 3271: - GUUG Spring Talk, Day 1 3272: - GUUG Spring Talk, Day 2 3273: - GUUG Spring Talk, Day 3 3274: 3275: ### `Feb 2005` - Southern California Linux Expo 3276: 3277: *Feb 12th -13th, 2005, Los Angeles, California* 3278: 3279: NetBSD had a booth at the [Southern California Linux 3280: Expo](http://www.socallinuxexpo.org/) at the LA Convention Center. 3281: NetBSD's presence in booth \#34 was organized by A.KML 3282: (<kml@NetBSD.org>). You can find an account of his experience 3283: [here](http://mail-index.NetBSD.org/netbsd-advocacy/2005/02/14/0008.html) 3284: and [here](http://www.nomadlogic.org/~pete/scale.html); a picture of the 3285: NetBSD booth also was prominently displayed 3286: [](http://www.socallinuxexpo.org/images/pictures/scale3x_day1_6.jpg). 3287: 3288: ### `Feb 2005` - Solutions Linux 2005 3289: 3290: *Feb. 1-3, 2005, Paris, France* 3291: 3292: NetBSD will have a booth at Solutions Linux 2005. We will be presenting 3293: both NetBSD and pkgsrc on various hardware and software platforms, while 3294: selling CDs and other merchandise. If you want to help, you can contact 3295: Quentin Garnier (<cube@cubidou.net>). 3296: 3297: ### `Dec 2004` - 21st Chaos Communication Congress (21c3) 3298: 3299: *Dec. 27 - 29, 2004, Berlin, Germany* 3300: 3301: There will be a NetBSD booth at this year's [21st Chaos Communications 3302: Congress](http://www.ccc.de/congress/2004/), and you're welcome to drop 3303: by for hacking, drinking, fun and entertainment, giving talks, promoting 3304: NetBSD and your working areas, help man the NetBSD booth, etc. Please 3305: contact Stefan Schumacher (stefan [at] net-tex [dot] de) if you're 3306: interested in helping out. There are some [notes on the 3307: event](http://mail-index.NetBSD.org/netbsd-advocacy/2004/12/30/0000.html) 3308: available. 3309: 3310: ### `Oct 2004` - EuroBSDCon 2004 3311: 3312: *Oct. 29 - 31, 2004, Karlsruhe, Germany* 3313: 3314: [EuroBSDCon 2004](http://2004.eurobsdcon.org/) took place in Karlsruhe, 3315: Germany. Check the [website](http://2004.eurobsdcon.org/) for official 3316: program, conference venue and registration. A 3317: [schedule](http://2004.eurobsdcon.org/talkschedule.html) of the talks 3318: shows that there were a number of NetBSD developers present. 3319: 3320: A brief report from the conference is available 3321: [here](http://mail-index.NetBSD.org/netbsd-advocacy/2004/11/02/0000.html). 3322: A longer review was published in the [USENIX ;login: 3323: magazine](http://www.usenix.org/publications/login/2005-02/openpdfs/eurobsdcon.pdf). 3324: 3325: ### `Oct 2004` - Systems 2004 3326: 3327: *Oct. 18 - 22, 2004, Munich, Germany* 3328: 3329: There will be a 40m² BSD booth at the Systems computer show in Munich, 3330: Germany from October 18th to 22nd 2004, where the NetBSD project (among 3331: others) will be presented. People willing to help are welcome; Daniel 3332: Ettle (dan at deam org) will act as a point of contact. See 3333: [](http://www.systems.de/) for more information on the exhibition. 3334: 3335: ### `Oct 2004` - BSD-CONFERENCE-JAPAN 2004 3336: 3337: *October 23, 2004, Osaka Sangyo Souzoukan, Japan* 3338: 3339: [](http://www.bsdcon.jp/2004/) 3340: 3341: ### `Oct 2004` - KANSAI-OPENSOURCE-2004 3342: 3343: *October 22-October 23, 2004, Osaka Sangyo Souzoukan, Japan* 3344: 3345: [](http://k-of.jp/2004/) 3346: 3347: ### `Sep 2004` - Open Source Conference 2004 3348: 3349: *Sep. 4, 2004, Tokyo, Japan* 3350: 3351: At the Open Source Conference 2004 there was a NetBSD booth staffed by 3352: members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 3353: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/). 3354: 3355: ### `Sep 2004` - Swiss Unix Conference 2004 3356: 3357: *Sep. 2 - 4, 2004, Zurich, Switzerland* 3358: 3359: [SUCON '04](http://www.suug.ch/sucon/04/), the 2nd Swiss Unix 3360: Conference, will take place in Zurich, Switzerland. The NetBSD Project 3361: was represented by Hubert Feyrer, who will gave [a 3362: presentation](http://www.feyrer.de/NetBSD/sucon-netbsd.pdf) at this 3363: conference. 3364: 3365: ### `Aug 2004` - NetBSD System Administration training 3366: 3367: *August 10 - 13, 2004, Seattle, Washington, USA* 3368: 3369: [Puget Sound Technology](http://www.pugetsoundtechnology.com/) is 3370: teaching a hands-on class covering the fundamentals of NetBSD system 3371: administration. Visit [http://www.pugetsoun 3372: dtechnology.com/training/netbsd/](http://www.pugetsoundtechnology.com/training/netbsd/) 3373: for details. 3374: 3375: ### `Aug 2004` - LinuxWorld 2004 3376: 3377: *Aug. 2 - 5, 2004, San Francisco, CA, USA* 3378: 3379: [LinuxWorld Conference and 3380: Expo](http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/live/12/events/12SFO04A) is going to 3381: take place in San Francisco, CA, USA at the beginning of August. The 3382: NetBSD Project might be represented with a booth there - if you are 3383: interested in helping out, please contact <regional-sfba@NetBSD.org>. 3384: 3385: ### `Jul 2004` - Get into OpenSource Hokkaido 2004 (GODo2004) 3386: 3387: *Jul. 24, 2004, Sapporo Business Innovation Center, Sapporo, Japan* 3388: 3389: At the Get into OpenSource Hokkaido 2004 (GODo2004), there was a NetBSD 3390: booth staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 3391: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) and 3392: [NoBUG](http://www.no.bug.gr.jp/) with NetBSD/i386+IPv6 XCAST on VAIO 3393: GT, and many hpc{ [mips](../ports/hpcmips/), [sh](../ports/hpcsh/), 3394: [arm](../ports/hpcarm/) } 3395: 3396: ### `Jun 2004` - NetWorld+Interop 2004 Tokyo BSD BOF 3397: 3398: *Jun 30, 2004, Makuhari-Messe, Chiba, Japan, 18:30-20:00 JST* 3399: 3400: [](http://www.interop.jp/2004/) 3401: 3402: [BOF 3403: information](http://www.re.soum.co.jp/%7Efukaumi/ml/netbsd/200406/msg00015.html) 3404: 3405: Contact Jun Ebihara <jun@NetBSD.org> for more information. 3406: 3407: ### `Jun 2004` - USENIX 2004 3408: 3409: *June 27 - July 2, 2004, Boston, MA, USA* 3410: 3411: [USENIX '04](http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix04/), the USENIX Annual 3412: Technical Conference is going to take place in Boston, MA, USA at the 3413: end of June. The NetBSD Project will be represented by Alistair Crooks, 3414: who gives a talk on [The NetBSD Update 3415: System](http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix04/tech/sigs.html#netbsd_update), 3416: as well as Christos Zoulas, who will report on NetBSD during [The State 3417: of the BSD 3418: Projects](http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix04/tech/sigs.html#bsd_projects), 3419: and finally by a number of NetBSD developers who will be attending the 3420: conference. 3421: 3422: ### `Jun 2004` - Linuxtag 2004 3423: 3424: *June 23 - 26, 2004, Karlsruhe, Germany* 3425: 3426: [Linuxtag 2004](http://www.linuxtag.org/2004/index.html) is going to 3427: take place in Karlsruhe, Germany. The NetBSD Project will be represented 3428: with a booth - please contact <hubertf@NetBSD.org> if you are interested 3429: in helping out. 3430: 3431: ### `May 2004` - Japan NetBSD Users' Group meeting & NetBSD BOF 3432: 3433: *May 22, 2004, [National Olympics Memorial Youth 3434: Center](http://nyc.niye.go.jp/e/), Tokyo, Japan* 3435: 3436: See [this 3437: page](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/announce/meeting6.html) for 3438: meeting information. 3439: 3440: ### `May 2004` - BSDCan 2004 3441: 3442: *May 13-16, 2004, Ottawa, Canada* 3443: 3444: The first BSDCan was a tremendous success. With attendance matching 3445: BSDCon, and lower fees and accommodation costs, this looks likely to 3446: become a popular annual conference. BSD developer Speakers and attendees 3447: were numerous. BSDMall had NetBSD paraphanalia available for sale. See 3448: also the [BSDCan Website](http://www.bsdcan.org/), and some [photos from 3449: Daemonnews.](http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200405/bsdcan_2004/) 3450: 3451: ### `May 2004` - LinuxChix-Br II National Meeting 3452: 3453: *May 1-2, 2004 Sao Paulo, Brazil* 3454: 3455: At the [LinuxChix-Br National 3456: Meeting](http://www.linuxchix.org.br/node.php?id=87) there will be a 3457: presentation about pkgsrc and a NetBSD booth staffed by members of 3458: NetBSD-BR. 3459: 3460: ### `Apr 2004` - pkgsrcCon 2004 3461: 3462: *April 30 - May 2, 2004, Vienna, Austria* 3463: 3464: pkgsrcCon is a technical conference for people working at the NetBSD 3465: Packages Collection (pkgsrc), focusing on existing technologies, 3466: research projects, and works-in-progress in pkgsrc infrastructure. For 3467: more information, including slides of the talks, please visit 3468: [http://www.pkgsrcCon.org/2004/](http://www.pkgsrcCon.org/2004/), and 3469: see Hubert Feyrer's report in the [DaemonNews 3470: Ezine](http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200405/pkgsrcCon2004.html). 3471: 3472: ### `Apr 2004` - Linuxfest Northwest 2004 3473: 3474: *April 17, 2004, Bellingham, Washington, USA* 3475: 3476: LFNW is a showcase for what Northwest Linux users are doing with open 3477: source software. Over 50 short (1 hour) presentations will be given 3478: throughout the day. Among them will be introductions to BSD and pkgsrc. 3479: There will be a BSD booth, occupied by two NetBSD developers and other 3480: BSD enthusiasts. Admission is free. Please see 3481: [http://www.linuxnorthwest.org/](http://www.linuxnorthwest.org/) and 3482: [this message to the netbsd-news 3483: mailinglist](http://mail-index.NetBSD.org/netbsd-news/2004/04/16/0000.html) 3484: for more information. 3485: 3486: ### `Mar 2004` - GUUG Frühjahrsfachgespräch 3487: 3488: *March 9-12, 2004, Bochum, Germany* 3489: 3490: The NetBSD Project will in all likeliness be represented at this year's 3491: [GUUG 3492: Frühjahrsfachgespräche](http://www.guug.de/veranstaltungen/ffg2004/), a 3493: yearly congress for everybody interested in Unix(-like) Systems and 3494: System Administration organized by the [German Unix User 3495: Group](http://www.guug.de/). 3496: 3497: ### `Mar 2004` - Chemnitzer Linux-Tag 2004 3498: 3499: *March 6-7, 2004, Chemnitz, Germany* 3500: 3501: NetBSD was represented with a booth at the Chemnitzer Linux-Tag 2004 in 3502: Chemnitz, Germany. In addition, there were three presentations: 3503: 3504: - \`\` 3505: Cryptographic applications under NetBSD 3506: '' by Stefan Schumacher 3507: - \`\` 3508: Introduction to NetBSD 3509: '' by Karl Uwe Lockhoff 3510: - \`\` 3511: Software Installation under NetBSD, Linux & Solaris using pkgsrc 3512: '' by Hubert Feyrer 3513: 3514: Please see the 3515: [website](http://www.tu-chemnitz.de/linux/tag/2004/allgemeines/) for 3516: details. Photos are available at [this 3517: website](http://www.uni-magdeburg.de/steschum/6clt/), more photos can be 3518: found on the [Linux-Tag 3519: website](http://www.tu-chemnitz.de/linux/tag/2004/media/bilder/). 3520: 3521: ### `Feb 2004` - Solutions Linux 2004 3522: 3523: *February 3-5, 2004, Paris, France* 3524: 3525: NetBSD was represented with a booth at the [Solutions Linux 3526: 2004](http://www.solutionslinux.fr) conference and expo in Paris, 3527: France. 3528: 3529: ### `Jan 2004` - LinuxWorld 2004 3530: 3531: *January 20-23, 2004, New York, New York* 3532: 3533: The [LinuxWorld Conference and Expo](http://www.linuxworldexpo.com) 2004 3534: took place in the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center in New York City 3535: from January 20-23, 2004. While the NetBSD Project did not have their 3536: own booth this year, we were able to hand out some flyers and sell a few 3537: shirts through the [BSDMall](http://www.bsdmall.com) booth. See the 3538: [report](http://daily.daemonnews.org/view_story.php3?story_id=4368) from 3539: the local user group ([NYCBUG](http://www.nycbug.org/)) for details. 3540: 3541: ### `Dec 2003` - 20th Chaos Communication Congress (20c3) 3542: 3543: *December 27th to 29th, 2003, Berlin, Germany* 3544: 3545: The NetBSD Project was represented at the [20th Chaos Communication 3546: Congress](http://www.ccc.de/congress/2003/) (20c3) in Berlin, Germany, 3547: from December 27th to 29th. See Hubert Feyrer's 3548: [report](http://mail-index.NetBSD.org/netbsd-advocacy/2004/01/02/0002.html) 3549: for Details. If you're interested in the 3550: [Blinkenlights](http://www.blinkenlights.de/) project, one of 20c3's 3551: main attractions, you will find Lubomir Sedlacik's [post to the 3552: netbsd-advocacy](http://mail-index.NetBSD.org/netbsd-advocacy/2004/01/03/0000.html) 3553: MailingList useful. 3554: 3555: ### `Dec 2003` - BSDCon Brasil 2003 3556: 3557: *December 6 and 7, 2003, Instituto Militar de Engenharia (military 3558: institute of engineering - IME), Rio de Janeiro, Brasil* 3559: 3560: See [http://bsdcon.myfreebsd.com.br](http://bsdcon.myfreebsd.com.br) for 3561: details. 3562: 3563: ### `Dec 2003` - BSD-Linux-Day 2003 3564: 3565: *December 2, 2003, Pacifico Yokohama, Japan* 3566: 3567: [http://www.jus.or.jp/events/bsd-linux-day/](http://www.jus.or.jp/events/bsd-linux-day/) 3568: 3569: ### `Nov 2003` - NetBSD System Administration training 3570: 3571: *November 18-21, 2003, Seattle, Washington area* 3572: 3573: [Puget Sound Technology](http://www.pugetsoundtechnology.com/) is 3574: teaching a hands-on class covering the fundamentals of NetBSD system 3575: administration. See 3576: [http://www.pugetsoundtechnology.com/training/netbsd/](http://www.pugetsoundtechnology.com/training/netbsd/) 3577: for details. 3578: 3579: ### `Oct 2003` - KANSAI-OPENSOURCE+FREEWARE-2003 3580: 3581: *October 31-November 1, 2003, Osaka Sangyo Souzoukan, Japan* 3582: 3583: [](http://k-of.jp/2003/) 3584: 3585: ### `Oct 2003` - BSD-CONFERENCE-JAPAN 2003 3586: 3587: *October 18, 2003, BIZ SHINJUKU, Japan* 3588: 3589: [](http://www.bsdcon.jp/2003/) 3590: 3591: ### `Oct 2003` - Linux-Kongress 2003 3592: 3593: *October 14-16, 2003, Saarbrücken, Germany* 3594: 3595: NetBSD will be present at the Linux-Kongress in Saarbrücken, Germany, an 3596: event mostly attended by Linux developers. Presenting NetBSD in this 3597: environment will give an interesting chance to compare open source 3598: operating systems on a highly skilled level. There will be a joint booth 3599: by all BSD projects offering CDs, DVDs, t-shirts and other devotionalia. 3600: See [this page](http://www.linux-kongress.org/2003/index.html) for more 3601: information. 3602: 3603: ### `Sep 2003` - BSDCon 2003 3604: 3605: *September 8-12, 2003, Marriott Hotel,San Mateo, California, USA* 3606: 3607: Meet the movers and shakers of the BSD community, and learn how you can 3608: use BSD as part of your enterprise-grade solutions. For details, see 3609: [http://www.usenix.org/events/bsdcon03/cfp/](http://www.usenix.org/events/bsdcon03/cfp/). 3610: Contact name, address, phone, fax and/or e-mail: Conference Department, 3611: 510-528-8649, conference@usenix.org. A 3612: [report](http://mail-index.NetBSD.org/netbsd-advocacy/2003/09/13/0000.html) 3613: is available online. 3614: 3615: ### `Aug 2003` - Chaos Communication Camp 2003 3616: 3617: *August 7-10, 2003, near Berlin, Germany (Old Europe).* 3618: 3619: A lot of photos are available 3620: [online](http://www.uni-magdeburg.de/steschum/ccc03/index.html), as well 3621: as [some slides](advocacy/folienslide.pdf). 3622: 3623: ### `Jul 2003` - Linuxtag Karlsruhe, Germany 3624: 3625: *July 10-13, Karlsruhe, Germany* 3626: 3627: The NetBSD Project was present at the [Linuxtag Karlsruhe 2003, 3628: Germany](http://www.linuxtag.org/2003/en/index.html) from July 10ths to 3629: 13th in a booth together with other BSD-related projects. 3630: 3631: The booth was organized by Hubert Feyrer, Bernd Sieker and Jaromir 3632: Dolecek. See the [full 3633: report](http://mail-index.NetBSD.org/netbsd-advocacy/2003/07/14/0000.html) 3634: for details and pictures. 3635: 3636: ### `Jul 2003` - Libre Software Meeting in Metz 3637: 3638: *July 9-12, 2003, Metz, France* 3639: [http://www.rencontresmondiales.org/](http://www.rencontresmondiales.org/) 3640: 3641: The NetBSD Project was represented at the LSM 2003 by Emmanuel Dreyfus 3642: and Gilbert Fernandes. A 3643: [report](http://mail-index.NetBSD.org/netbsd-advocacy/2003/07/14/0002.html) 3644: of the meeting as well as some pictures are available online. 3645: 3646: ### `Jul 2003` - NetWorld+Interop 2003 Tokyo BSD BOF 3647: 3648: *July 2, 2003, Makuhari-Messe, Chiba, Japan, 18:30-20:00 JST* 3649: 3650: [http://www.interop.jp/](http://www.interop.jp/) 3651: 3652: Call for Presentation: contact Jun Ebihara <jun@NetBSD.org>. 3653: 3654: ### `Jun 2003` - Japan NetBSD Users' Group meeting & NetBSD BOF 3655: 3656: *Jun 28, 2003, [National Olympics Memorial Youth 3657: Center](http://nyc.niye.go.jp/e/), Tokyo, Japan* 3658: 3659: ### `Jun 2003` - Open Source Meeting 2003 in Nagoya University 3660: 3661: *June 7-8, 2003, Nagoya, Japan* 3662: 3663: [http://tokai.opensource.jp/tsudoi/2003/](http://tokai.opensource.jp/tsudoi/2003/) 3664: 3665: ### `Jun 2003` - 2003 USENIX Annual Technical Conference 3666: 3667: *June 9-14, 2003, San Antonio, Texas, USA* 3668: 3669: A six-day, multiple-track event which includes tutorials, technical 3670: sessions composed of refereed papers, invited talks, and 3671: Birds-of-a-Feather sessions. There will be a [Super BSD BOF 3672: Session](http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix03/bofs.html). For details, 3673: see 3674: [http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix03/](http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix03/). 3675: Contact name, address, phone, fax and/or e-mail: Conference Department, 3676: 510-528-8649, conference@usenix.org 3677: 3678: Slides of Chris Demetriou's presentation are [available 3679: here](events/usenix2003/). 3680: 3681: ### `May 2003` - BSDay 2003 3682: 3683: *May 21, 2003, Warszawa-Miedzeszyn, Poland* 3684: 3685: [AVET Information and Network Security](http://www.avet.com.pl/) are 3686: holding the [BSDay 3687: 2003](http://www.avet.com.pl/en/conferences/bsday/bsday.php) conference 3688: on May 21, 2003, the first event of its kind in Poland. See the web site 3689: for more information. 3690: 3691: ### `May 2003` - BSDCon.it 3692: 3693: *May 9-11, 2003, Padova, Italy* 3694: 3695: As part of [Webbit '03](http://www.webb.it/), 3696: [BSDCon.it](http://www.bsdcon.it/) will be held from May 9th to may 11th 3697: in Padova, Italy. People interested in giving a talk on NetBSD should 3698: contact <ed@bsdcon.it>. 3699: 3700: ### `Apr 2003` - DECUS Munich Symposium 2003 3701: 3702: *April 8th-10th, 2003, Bonn, Germany* *(updated)* 3703: 3704: There was a presentation about porting NetBSD to old hardware, and the 3705: different emulating systems that allow old software to run on new 3706: hardware, again with NetBSD as the host OS, and one about eletronic 3707: voting, using the procedure for the [election of the NetBSD Board of 3708: Directors](../changes/#board-elections2002) as an in-depth example. 3709: 3710: ### `Apr 2003` - Magdeburg Linuxtag 3711: 3712: *April 5th, 2003, Magdeburg, Germany* 3713: 3714: There was a NetBSD booth and presentation at the Magdeburg Linuxtag in 3715: Magdeburg, Germany on April 5th 2003 at the University of Magdeburg, 3716: Germany. See [http://www.mdlug.de/](http://www.mdlug.de/) for more 3717: information. Contact Bernd Sieker <bsieker@freenet.de> for information 3718: regarding representation of NetBSD at the event. 3719: 3720: ### `Mar 2003` - NetBSD is ten years young and still going strong! 3721: 3722: Several parties are being held in cities around the world to celebrate 3723: the tenth birthday of The NetBSD Project, March 21, 2003. Check out the 3724: [Events Gallery](events/) for more information. 3725: 3726: ### `Mar 2003` - CeBIT 2003 3727: 3728: *March 12-19, 2003, Hannover, Germany* 3729: 3730: The [CeBIT 2003](http://www.cebit.de), the most widely known ICT trade 3731: fair world-wide, took place in Hannover, Germany from March 12-19, 2003. 3732: The NetBSD Project had a booth on Wednesday the 12th, and Thursday 13th, 3733: and there was a 30 minute presentation of the NetBSD Project. Bernd 3734: Sieker and Jaromir Dolocek manned the booth, see their 3735: [report](http://mail-index.NetBSD.org/netbsd-advocacy/2003/03/20/0001.html). 3736: 3737: ### `Mar 2003` - NetBSD System Administration training 3738: 3739: *March 4-6, 2003, Phoenix, Arizona, USA area* 3740: 3741: [Puget Sound Technology](http://www.pugetsoundtechnology.com/) is 3742: teaching a hands-on class covering the fundamentals of NetBSD system 3743: administration. See 3744: [http://www.pugetsoundtechnology.com/training/netbsd/](http://www.pugetsoundtechnology.com/training/netbsd/) 3745: for details. 3746: 3747: ### `Mar 2003` - Chemnitzer Linux-Tag 3748: 3749: *March 1, 2003, Chemnitz, Germany* 3750: 3751: NetBSD was represented with a booth at the [Chemnitzer Linux-Tag 3752: (CLT5)](http://www.tu-chemnitz.de/linux/tag/lt5/). A summary of the 3753: events including several pictures is available online at 3754: [http://www.feyrer.de/NetBSD/clt5.html](http://www.feyrer.de/NetBSD/clt5.html). 3755: Presentations, including mp3s of the talks (in German!) are available 3756: from: 3757: 3758: - NetBSD - eine Einführung 3759: [ 3760: mp3 3761: ] 3762: - NetBSD 1.6 - Neuigkeiten und Einsatz im Embedded-Umfeld 3763: [ 3764: mp3 3765: ] 3766: - Der Regensburger Marathon-Cluster - eine Video-Rendering-Anwendung 3767: mit NetBSD 3768: [ 3769: mp3 3770: ] 3771: 3772: ### `Feb 2003` - Solutions Linux 3773: 3774: *February 4-6, 2003, CNIT - Paris La Defense, France.* 3775: 3776: The Solutions Linux conference and expo (formerly known as the Linux 3777: Expo Paris) held a NetBSD booth run by the 3778: [GCU-Squad](http://www.gcu-squad.org/) and the [French NetBSD Users 3779: Group](http://www.netbsd-fr.org/). A [report is available 3780: online.](http://mail-index.NetBSD.org/netbsd-users/2003/02/08/0010.html) 3781: 3782: ### `Jan 2003` - Ottawa Open Source Weekend 3783: 3784: *January 25th, 26th, 2003, Ottawa, Canada* 3785: 3786: On 2003 January 25 and 26, a coalition of computer professionals, 3787: students, and volunteers will host an Open Source Weekend in Ottawa, 3788: Canada. The events will be spread across the city and throughout the 3789: weekend to showcase the dynamic world of open source software. The major 3790: activities will be the: 3791: 3792: - Linuxfest at the University of Ottawa (Sat. Jan. 25th) 3793: - Linuxfest at Carleton University (Sat. Jan. 25th) 3794: - The Business of Open Source Software conference. (Sun. Jan. 26th) 3795: 3796: For details, please see [http://www.osw.ca/](http://www.osw.ca/). 3797: 3798: ### `Jan 2003` - LinuxWorld 2003 3799: 3800: *January 21-24, 2003, New York, New York* 3801: 3802: The [LinuxWorld Conference and Expo](http://www.linuxworldexpo.com) 2003 3803: takes place in the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center in New York City 3804: from January 21-24, 2003. See the 3805: [website](http://www.linuxworldexpo.com) for more details and a free 3806: registration for the expo. The NetBSD Project had a booth at LinuxWorld, 3807: a [short 3808: review](http://mail-index.NetBSD.org/netbsd-advocacy/2003/01/24/0000.html) 3809: and a [handful of pictures](http://www.NetBSD.org/~jschauma/lwe03/) are 3810: available online. 3811: 3812: ### `Dec 2002` - 19th Chaos Communication Congress (19c3) 3813: 3814: *December 17th to 29th, Berlin, Germany* 3815: 3816: The NetBSD Project will be present at the [19th Chaos Communication 3817: Congress](http://www.ccc.de/congress/2002/) (19c3) in Berlin, Germany, 3818: from December 27th to 29th. 3819: 3820: ### `Dec 2002` - NetBSD System Administration training 3821: 3822: *December 10-12, 2002, Seattle, Washington, USA area* 3823: 3824: [Puget Sound Technology](http://www.pugetsoundtechnology.com/) is 3825: teaching a hands-on class covering the fundamentals of NetBSD system 3826: administration. 3827: 3828: ### `Dec 2002` - Internet Week 2002 3829: 3830: *December 16-20, 2002, Pacifico Yokohama, Japan* 3831: 3832: [Japan NetBSD Users' Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/) will organize a 3833: BSD BoF on December 18th, 18:00(JST) at this years Internet Week. The 3834: BoF was broadcasted via RealVideo (179 clients)/[xcast (3 3835: clients)](http://www.xcast.jp/)/IRC. See 3836: [http://www.nic.ad.jp/iw2002/bof/bof04.htm](http://www.nic.ad.jp/iw2002/bof/bof04.htm) 3837: for details. 3838: 3839: ### `Nov 2002` - KNF Congress 2002 3840: 3841: *November 24, 2002, Nuremberg, Germany* 3842: 3843: This years KNF Congress is under the motto "Linux in allen 3844: Lebenslagen???, ... und andere Fragen im Internet" ("Linux in all 3845: aspects of life??? ... and other questions on the Internet"). There will 3846: not only be Linux-oriented talks, but also a bit of talk about NetBSD, 3847: so this might be interesting for anyone in the area of 3848: Nuremberg/Germany. There will be a talk about NetBSD/dreamcast, a NetBSD 3849: booth and also some NetBSD-related prices in the Tombola. 3850: 3851: The congress will take place Sunday Nov 24th, 10-18h at the 3852: Gemeinschaftshaus Langwasser, Glogauer Str. 50, 90473 Nuremberg, 3853: Germany. See 3854: [http://www.franken.de/kongress/index.html](http://www.franken.de/kongress/index.html) 3855: for more information. 3856: 3857: ### `Nov 2002` - BSD Conference Japan 3858: 3859: *November 23, 2002, tsudahall Tokyo, Japan* 3860: 3861: [](http://www.bsdcon.jp/2002/) with 172 attendances. 3862: 3863: ### `Nov 2002` - BSDCon Europe 2002 3864: 3865: *November 15-17, 2002, Amsterdam, Netherlands* 3866: 3867: [http://2002.eurobsdcon.org/](http://2002.eurobsdcon.org/). \`\`[Rumors, 3868: Gossips and Facts](http://www.feyrer.de/NetBSD/eurobsdcon2002.html)'' 3869: are available online thanks to Hubert Feyrer. 3870: 3871: ### `Nov 2002` - LISA '02 3872: 3873: *November 3-8, 2002, Philadelphia, PA* 3874: 3875: [http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa02/](http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa02/) 3876: 3877: ### `Nov 2002` - RISC OS S.E. Show 3878: 3879: *November 2, 2002, Guildford, UK* 3880: 3881: The Surrey and Sussex Acorn User Group [RISC OS South-East 3882: Show](http://www.fillin.co.uk/seshow/), held in Guildford Technical 3883: College. 3884: 3885: ### `Oct 2002` - Linuxdays 2002 3886: 3887: *October 1-3, 2002, Luxembourg* 3888: 3889: The NetBSD Project was present at the [Luxembourgh 3890: Linuxdays](http://www.linuxday.lu/), an Open Source and Free Software 3891: Conference and Expo held in, well, Luxembourg. Hubert Feyrer gave talks 3892: on [NetBSD](http://www.feyrer.de/NetBSD/nb2002-lu.pdf) and a [video 3893: rendering cluster done with 3894: NetBSD](http://www.feyrer.de/marathon-cluster/mc-slides.pdf). A 3895: [report](http://mail-index.NetBSD.org/netbsd-advocacy/2002/10/08/0000.html) 3896: was sent to the netbsd-advocacy list, pictures and more information are 3897: available from [Hubert's 3898: website](http://www.feyrer.de/NetBSD/#linuxday.lu). 3899: 3900: ### `Sep 2002` - Linux-Kongress 2002 3901: 3902: *September 4-6, 2002, Cologne, Germany* 3903: 3904: The NetBSD Project will be present at [Linux-Kongress 3905: 2002](http://www.linux-kongress.org), the 9th International Linux System 3906: Technology Conference, held at the Physics Institutes of the University 3907: of Cologne, Germany. A report and pictures of the BSD-booth is available 3908: online. 3909: 3910: ### `Aug 2002` - 11th USENIX Security Symposium 3911: 3912: *August 5-9, 2002, San Francisco, CA* 3913: 3914: [http://www.usenix.org/events/sec02/](http://www.usenix.org/events/sec02/) 3915: 3916: ### `Jul 2002` - NetBSD 1.5.3 release 3917: 3918: *July 22, 2002* 3919: 3920: [NetBSD 1.5.3](../releases/formal-1.5/NetBSD-1.5.3.html), a *[patch 3921: release](../releases/release-map.html)* improving stability, fixing bugs 3922: in, addressing security issues in, and adding some features to [NetBSD 3923: 1.5.2](../releases/formal-1.5/), has been released with support for 20 3924: architectures. More information is available in the [1.5.3 release 3925: announcement](../releases/formal-1.5/NetBSD-1.5.3.html). 3926: 3927: ### `Jul 2002` - NetWorld+Interop 2002 Tokyo BSD BOF 3928: 3929: *July 3, 2002, Chiba, Japan* 3930: 3931: http://www.interop.jp/syutten/report.html 3932: 3933: [http://www.jp.freebsd.org/event/N+I2002\_BOF/](http://www.jp.freebsd.org/event/N+I2002_BOF/) 3934: , [BSD security update - BIND, 3935: OpenSSH](http://www.itojun.org/paper/itojun-interop2002-bsdbof/mgp00001.html). 3936: 3937: ### `Jun 2002` - USENIX Annual Technical Conference 3938: 3939: *June 9-14, 2002, Montery Conference Center Monterey, California, USA* 3940: 3941: [http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix02/](http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix02/). 3942: Slides of Christos Zoulas' presentation are [available 3943: here](events/usenix2002/). 3944: 3945: ### `Jun 2002` - Open Source Meeting 2002 in Nagoya University 3946: 3947: *June 8-9, 2002, Nagoya, Japan* 3948: 3949: [](http://tokai.opensource.jp/tsudoi/2002/) 3950: 3951: ### `Jun 2002` - Linuxtag 2002 in Karlsruhe 3952: 3953: *June 6-9, 2002, Karlsruhe, Germany* 3954: 3955: [Linuxtag](http://www.linuxtag.de) had a BSD booth. A 3956: [report](http://www.feyrer.de/NetBSD/linuxtag-karlsruhe-2002.html) is 3957: available. 3958: 3959: ### `May 2002` - Wakefield 2002, The Acorn RISC OS Show 3960: 3961: *May 18-19, 2002, Wakefield, UK* 3962: 3963: [http://www.wrocc.org.uk/show/2002/](http://www.wrocc.org.uk/show/2002/) 3964: 3965: ### `May 2002` - Japan NetBSD Users' Group meeting 3966: 3967: *May 18, 2002, T-Zone Minami, Akihabara, Tokyo, Japan* 3968: 3969: [http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/announce/meeting4.html](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/announce/meeting4.html) 3970: 3971: The Japan NetBSD Users' Group had their annual meeting with 60 3972: attendances, and a NetBSD BoF with 95 attendances, 210 clients via 3973: RealVideo. Talking about Zoularis, LCD System Status monitor, devsw 3974: again, presentation with less, citrus, ACPI, jp.netbsd servers, Upcoming 3975: 1.6 and current, sourceforge.jp, xcast6. 3976: 3977: ### `May 2002` - Annual International Free Software Forum 3978: 3979: *May 2-4, 2002, Porto Alegre- RS, Brazil* 3980: 3981: The Annual International Free Software Forum will take place on this May 3982: 2th, 3th and 4th in Porto Alegre- RS , Brazil. Mainly in event about 3983: Linux Gnu's solutions, this year The BSD's Operating Systems will have a 3984: chance to prove their value. 3985: 3986: The Session's Speakers are Edson Brandi (FreeBSD), Diego Linke (NetBSD) 3987: and Ricardo Nascimento Ferreira (OpenBSD) and they will focus in the 3988: general aspects of the systems: history, license, goods and bads, 3989: technical characteristics and philosophy. 3990: 3991: ### `Mar 2002` - 4th Chemnitz Linuxday 2002 3992: 3993: *March 9-10, 2002, TU Chemnitz, Chemnitz, Germany* 3994: 3995: [www.tu-chemnitz.de/linux/tag/lt4/](http://www.tu-chemnitz.de/linux/tag/lt4/) 3996: 3997: Presentations included "Migration to IPv6" mentioning NetBSD as example, 3998: "\*BSD - Alternative to Linux" presenting BSDs and "BIND9 - Let's talk 3999: IPv6". There was also a (Net)BSD booth manned by Andre Nicklas, Hubert 4000: Feyrer, Karl Uwe Lockhoff. A [detailed 4001: report](http://mail-index.NetBSD.org/netbsd-advocacy/2002/03/11/0000.html) 4002: is available. 4003: 4004: ### `Feb 2002` - GUUG Frühjahrsfachgespräch 2002 4005: 4006: *February 27-March 1, 2002, Ruhr-Uni Bochum, Bochum, Germany* 4007: 4008: [http://www.guug.de/veranstaltungen/ffg2002/index.html](http://www.guug.de/veranstaltungen/ffg2002/index.html) 4009: 4010: Presentations given during the spring meeting of the German Unix User 4011: Group (GUUG) included a report about NetBSD in 2002 and details about 4012: Rapid Deployment of IPv6 with 6to4, which covered NetBSD (among others). 4013: 4014: ### `Feb 2002` - BSDCon 2002 4015: 4016: *February 11-14, 2002, Cathedral Hill Hotel, San Francisco, California, 4017: USA* 4018: 4019: [http://www.usenix.org/events/bsdcon02/cfp/](http://www.usenix.org/events/bsdcon02/cfp/) 4020: 4021: ### `Dec 2001` - Internet Week 2001 4022: 4023: *December 3-7, 2001, Yokohama, Japan* 4024: 4025: [http://internetweek.jp/](http://internetweek.jp/) 4026: 4027: At Internet Week 2001, there was a BSD BOF on December 6th. 4028: Additionally, December 7th was BSD/Linux Day. 4029: 4030: There was a [BSD BoF session](http://www.jp.FreeBSD.org/event/iw2001/) 4031: on Dec 7 with 197 attendances, 392 clients via [RealVideo 4032: G2](http://www.real.com) broadcasting,IRC chatting. Talking about The 4033: BSD System on 1FDD, Special talk and Presentation [Perry E. 4034: Metzger/Warner Losh], IPv6 DNS transfer Club,Catch up FreeBSD 4035: current,talking about free software community, [BSD users group meeting 4036: via IPv6 XCAST](http://www.mma.gr.jp/%7Etree/bsd-20011206/). 4037: 4038: On Dec 8, there was a [BSD/Linux 4039: Day](http://www.jus.or.jp/events/bsd-linux-day2001/) session talking 4040: about BSD, Linux, Mail User Agents, Mail Transfer, Office Suite, 4041: Emulation. 4042: 4043: ### `Nov 2001` - BSDCon Europe 2001 4044: 4045: *November 9-11, 2001, Thistle Hotel, Brighton, UK* 4046: 4047: [http://www.bsdconeurope.org/](http://www.bsdconeurope.org/) 4048: 4049: ### `Oct 2001` - RISC OS 2001 Show 4050: 4051: *October 20-21, 2001, Berkshire, England* 4052: 4053: [http://www.riscos2001.com/](http://www.riscos2001.com/) 4054: 4055: NetBSD had a stand at the [RISC OS 2001 4056: Show](http://www.riscos2001.com/). There was various NetBSD boxes on 4057: display and NetBSD 1.5.2 CDs for sale. 4058: 4059: ### `Sep 2001` - NetBSD 1.5.2 release 4060: 4061: *September 13, 2001* 4062: 4063: NetBSD 1.5.2, a [patch release](../releases/release-map.html) improving 4064: stability, fixing bugs in, and adding some features to [NetBSD 4065: 1.5.1](../releases/formal-1.5/), was released with support for 21 4066: architectures. More information is available in the [1.5.2 release 4067: announcement](../releases/formal-1.5/NetBSD-1.5.2.html). 4068: 4069: ### `Aug 2001` - LinuxWorld Expo 4070: 4071: *August 26-30, 2001, San Francisco, CA* 4072: 4073: [http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/](http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/) 4074: 4075: The NetBSD Project had a booth at the LinuxWorld Conference & Expo from 4076: August 28-30, 2001. Jason Thorpe has written a short [summary about the 4077: NetBSD booth at 4078: LinuxWorld](http://mail-index.NetBSD.org/netbsd-advocacy/2001/08/30/0000.html). 4079: Also at the booth was the debut of NetBSD running on a Playstation 2 4080: from Japan. 4081: 4082: ### `Jul 2001` - NetBSD 1.5.1 release 4083: 4084: *July 11, 2001* 4085: 4086: NetBSD 1.5.1, a [patch release](../releases/release-map.html) improving 4087: stability, fixing bugs in, and adding some features to [NetBSD 4088: 1.5](../releases/formal-1.5/), was released with support for 21 4089: architectures. More information is available in the [1.5.1 release 4090: announcement](../releases/formal-1.5/NetBSD-1.5.1.html). 4091: 4092: ### `Jun 2001` - Japan NetBSD Users' Group meeting 4093: 4094: *June 30, 2001, [ASCII Corporation](http://www.ascii.co.jp/info/), 4095: Tokyo, Japan* 4096: 4097: [http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/announce/meeting3.html](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/announce/meeting3.html) 4098: 4099: The Japan NetBSD Users' Group had their annual meeting with 52 4100: attendances, and a NetBSD BoF with 102 attendances, 275 clients via 4101: RealVideo G2 broadcasting. 4102: 4103: Talking about jp.NetBSD.org servers, NetBSD status updates after 4104: USENIX2001,Korea NetBSD User Group, www.NetBSD.org Logo, Chiba-BUG, 4105: Making plan for NetBSD Book in Japan, XCAST on NetBSD, The New 4106: Block/Character Device Switch Configration Framework, Life in PEACE, wdc 4107: MD driver for DC IDE-HD Interface on NetBSD/dreamcast, Get into 4108: Zoularis, PS2Linux for NetBSD, and special guest talking with Antti 4109: Kantee from Finland. Japan NetBSD Users' Group will have a special 4110: meeting on 54th IETF Yokohama, Japan. 4111: 4112: ### `Jun 2001` - USENIX Annual Technical Conference 4113: 4114: *June 25-30, 2001, Boston, MA* 4115: 4116: [http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix01/](http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix01/) 4117: 4118: NetBSD was well represented at [Usenix 4119: 2001](http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix01/), and we would like to 4120: thank everyone involved in the BSD BoF and the NetBSD booth. 4121: 4122: The NetBSD Project had a presentation at the BSD BoF which was headed by 4123: [NetBSD Core Group](../people/core.html) members Christos Zoulas and 4124: Luke Mewburn. A list of highlights is available in Chuck Toporek's 4125: "[Greetings from the BSD Super 4126: BoF](http://unix.oreilly.com/news/usenixchuck_0601.html)" article. The 4127: slides from this talk are available at 4128: [events/usenix2001/](events/usenix2001/). 4129: 4130: Luke Mewburn was also a part of the scripting technical session; his 4131: presentation was entitled, "The Design and Implementation of the NetBSD 4132: rc.d System". In Ellen Siever's "[Usenix Technical Session 4133: Wrap-Up](http://unix.oreilly.com/news/usenixellen_0601.html)" article, 4134: she talks briefly about Luke's presentation. Luke's paper can be found 4135: at the [Usenix 2001](http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix01/) web site, 4136: in both HTML and PDF formats, under [FREENIX Track Refereed 4137: Papers](http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix01/freenix01/mewburn.html) 4138: (requires USENIX membership). The paper may also be found in 4139: [PDF](http://www.mewburn.net/luke/papers/rc.d.pdf) format at Luke's own 4140: web site. 4141: 4142: Again, a thank you to all involved. 4143: 4144: ### `Jun 2001` - Open Source Meeting 2001 in Nagoya University 4145: 4146: *June 9-10, 2001, Nagoya, Japan* 4147: 4148: [](http://tokai.opensource.jp/tsudoi/2001/) 4149: 4150: On June 9-10th, 2001, several Bof about open source community in japan 4151: were held.100+150 persons attended in person. 4152: 4153: ### `Jun 2001` - NetWorld+Interop Tokyo, BSD BoF 4154: 4155: *June 7 2001, Chiba, Japan* 4156: 4157: [http://www.interop.jp/](http://www.interop.jp/) 4158: 4159: On June 7th, 2001, a BSD BoF was held as one of the night sessions at 4160: [NetWorld+Interop Tokyo](http://www.interop.jp/). Over 300 people 4161: attended in person, 50-100 people attended over IRC (volunteers typed 4162: the discussions to a couple of IRC channels), and 828 clients watched 4163: the discussion over RealVideo transmission. Jun-ichiro itojun Hagino 4164: wrote up a [summary of the BSD BoF at NetWorld+Interop 4165: Tokyo](events/interop-tokyo-2001.html). 4166: 4167: ### `May 2001` - Wakefield 2001 4168: 4169: *May 19-20, 2001, Wakefield, UK* 4170: 4171: There was a NetBSD stand at the Wakefield Acorn / RiscOS show. The 4172: Wakefield show was more of an ARM biased show, so there was a 4173: [NetBSD/arm26](../ports/arm26/) and [NetBSD/arm32](../ports/arm32/) 4174: slant to the NetBSD stand. The stand featured machines running NetBSD, 4175: and CD-ROMS of the NetBSD system with some additional pre-built packages 4176: and a copy of the NetBSD web site on them. Also at the show Chris 4177: Gilbert gave a talk about NetBSD. 4178: 4179: ### `Apr 2001` - Comdex Spring 2001 4180: 4181: *April 2-5, 2001, Chicago, IL* 4182: 4183: [http://www.comdex.com/](http://www.comdex.com/) 4184: 4185: NetBSD had a booth at [Comdex](http://www.comdex.com/) Spring 2001. A 4186: [short summary](events/comdex-spring-2001.html) of NetBSD at Comdex 4187: Spring is available. 4188: 4189: Expenses for this event were underwritten by The NetBSD Mission. 4190: 4191: ### `Feb 2001` - Open Source Matsuri 2001 in Akihabara 4192: 4193: *February 10-11, 2001, Tokyo, Japan* 4194: 4195: [Japan NetBSD Users' Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/) had a 4196: [booth](http://www.voj.toda.saitama.jp/photo/OpenSource2001/) with SONY 4197: NEWS,Sun Ultra1,DEC VAX station,Sega DreamCast,Mac SE/30, Sharp 4198: X68030,Mac G4Qube,iBook,NEC MobileGearII, 4199: [PEACE](http://chiharu.hauN.ORG/peace/) and [umidi/utoro 4200: demo](http://utoro.imou.to/) with 7000 attendances. Held a Presentation 4201: & a tutorial about NetBSD by jun@NetBSD.org. [[Reports on 4202: jp.NetBSD.org](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/event/20010210OSF/)] 4203: 4204: ### `Jan 2001` - LinuxWorld Expo 2001 4205: 4206: *January 30-February 2, 2001, New York City, USA* 4207: 4208: [http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/](http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/) 4209: 4210: The NetBSD Project shared a stand with [Wasabi 4211: Systems](http://www.wasabisystems.com/) at LinuxWorld Expo 2001. The 4212: stand had a variety of different platforms running NetBSD, 1.5 CDs, and 4213: other swag. 4214: 4215: ### `Dec 2000` - Internet Week 2000 4216: 4217: *December 18-21, 2000, Osaka, Japan* 4218: 4219: [http://www.nic.ad.jp/iw2000/](http://www.nic.ad.jp/iw2000/) 4220: 4221: There was a [BSD BoF 4222: session](http://www.unixmagic.org/ml/netbsd/200012/msg00019.html) on Dec 4223: 19 with 160 attendances, 94 clients via [RealVideo 4224: G2](http://www.real.com) broadcasting,60 IRC realtime broadcasting 4225: clients. Talking about The BSD System on 1FDD, USB maniacs from across 4226: the [BSD magazine](http://www.ascii.co.jp/BSDmag/) editorial room, 4227: announce from BSDi Japan Office, Users groups in 4228: JP[[NoBUG](http://www.no.bug.gr.jp/), [OFUG](http://www.ofug.net/), 4229: [S\*BUG](http://www.bbsbrain.ne.jp/~sbug/), 4230: [K\*bug](http://www.kbug.gr.jp/), [NBUG](http://www.nagoya.bug.gr.jp/), 4231: [JNUG](http://www.NetBSD.org/community/groups.html#jnug), L\*BUG], 4232: little red [Daemon-kun](http://www.twin.ne.jp/~minamie/ost/) from The 4233: Open Source Toys Project, BSD goods present time,and more thinking about 4234: BSD activity in Japan. 4235: 4236: ### `Dec 2000` - NetBSD 1.5 release 4237: 4238: *December 6, 2000* 4239: 4240: [NetBSD 1.5](../releases/formal-1.5/), the eighth [major 4241: release](../releases/release-map.html) of NetBSD, was announced to the 4242: public. 4243: 4244: ### `Dec 2000` - Usenix Systems Administration Conference (LISA) 4245: 4246: *December 3-8, 2000, New Orleans, LA* 4247: 4248: [http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa2000/](http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa2000/) 4249: 4250: ### `Nov 2000` - NetBSD 1.4.3 release 4251: 4252: *November 25, 2000* 4253: 4254: NetBSD 1.4.3, a [patch release](../releases/release-map.html) improving 4255: stability and fixing bugs in [NetBSD-1.4](../releases/formal-1.4/), was 4256: announced to the public. 4257: 4258: ### `Nov 2000` - Comdex Fall 2000 4259: 4260: *November 13-17 2000, Las Vegas, NV* 4261: 4262: [http://www.comdex.com/](http://www.comdex.com/) 4263: 4264: The NetBSD Project had a booth at Comdex Fall 2000. We demonstrated a 4265: full desktop system running on a Macintosh G4 cube, as well as other 4266: sundry bits. The cube also appeared on German 3Sat Neues. 4267: 4268: Expenses for this event were underwritten by LinuxMall and The NetBSD 4269: Mission. 4270: 4271: ### `Oct 2000` - Linux Expo Toronto 2000 4272: 4273: *October 30-November 1 2000, Toronto, Ontario, Canada* 4274: 4275: [http://www.linuxexpocanada.com/](http://www.linuxexpocanada.com/) 4276: 4277: The NetBSD Project had a booth at displaying NetBSD i386 and mac68k - 4278: T-shirts and 1.4.2 CDs were available. The i386 machine was running an 4279: automated demo which will soon be available in pkgsrc. 4280: 4281: Expenses for this event were underwritten by The NetBSD Mission and 4282: David Maxwell. 4283: 4284: ### `Oct 2000` - RISC OS 2000 4285: 4286: *October 21-22 2000, Epsom, England* 4287: 4288: [http://www.armclub.org.uk/shows/riscos/](http://www.armclub.org.uk/shows/riscos/) 4289: 4290: A group of NetBSD enthusiasts were one of the exhibitors at RISC OS 4291: 2000. They had CD's, leaflets, and a mixture of hardware running NetBSD 4292: on display. David Brownlee wrote up a report about the [NetBSD stand at 4293: RISC OS 2000](events/riscos-2000.html). 4294: 4295: ### `Oct 2000` - BSDCon 2000 4296: 4297: *October 14-20 2000, Monterey, CA* 4298: 4299: [http://www.bsdcon.org/](http://www.bsdcon.org/) 4300: 4301: NetBSD had a table at this event, and there were a couple of talks 4302: spotlighting NetBSD. 4303: 4304: Erik Berls <cyber@NetBSD.org> and Luke Mewburn <lukem@NetBSD.org> gave a 4305: talk entitled "NetBSD: Platform for the Future". Slides are available at 4306: [](http://www.mewburn.net/luke/talks/bsdcon-2000/). 4307: 4308: Also, Jun-ichiro itojun Hagino gave a talk on NetBSD 1.5. A transcript 4309: is available at 4310: [](ftp://ftp.itojun.org/pub/paper/itojun-bsdcon2000-netbsd15.ps.gz). 4311: 4312: ### `Oct 2000` - Atlanta Linux Showcase 4313: 4314: *October 12-14 2000, Atlanta, GA* 4315: 4316: [http://www.linuxshowcase.org/](http://www.linuxshowcase.org/) 4317: 4318: The NetBSD Project ran a booth at this event, showcasing NetBSD on 4319: non-PC platforms (primarily the Mac G4 cube). Some unfortunate bugs were 4320: fixed onsite. 4321: 4322: Expenses for this event were underwritten by The NetBSD Mission. 4323: 4324: ### `Aug 2000` - LinuxWorld Conference & Expo 4325: 4326: *August 14-17 2000, San Jose, CA* 4327: 4328: [http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/](http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/) 4329: 4330: There was a BSD BoF session on Wednesday August 16th. In the September 4331: 2000 issue, Daemon News published an 4332: [article](http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200009/linuxworld-2000.html) on 4333: the BSD presence at LinuxWorld 2000. 4334: 4335: ### `Jul 2000` - O'Reilly Open Source Software Convention 2000 4336: 4337: *July 17-20, 2000, Monterey, CA* 4338: 4339: http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon2000/ 4340: 4341: NetBSD had a table at the O'Reilly Open Source Software Convention 2000. 4342: Also, there was a session called the "Future of the BSDs", presented by 4343: a group that included Charles Hannum from NetBSD. 4344: 4345: Expenses for this event were underwritten by The NetBSD Mission. 4346: 4347: ### `Jul 2000` - Comdex Canada 2000 4348: 4349: *July 12-14 2000, Toronto, Ontario, Canada* 4350: 4351: The NetBSD Project had a booth at Comdex Canada 2000 at which T-shirts 4352: and 1.4.2 CDs were available. There are some photos of [the screen, 4353: showing the bktr display](../images/events/20000712-1.jpg), NetBSD 4354: developers [David Maxwell (left) and D'Arcy Cain 4355: (right)](../images/events/20000712-2.jpg), and helpers [Carol Cain, and 4356: Robert Waters](../images/events/20000712-3.jpg). We also have pictures 4357: of another [User Friendly visitor](../images/events/booth_puppy.jpg). 4358: 4359: Expenses for this event were underwritten by LinuxMall, The NetBSD 4360: Mission and David Maxwell. 4361: 4362: ### `Jul 2000` - Japan NetBSD Users' Group meeting 4363: 4364: *July 1 2000, Tokyo Japan* 4365: 4366: [http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/announce/meeting2.html](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/announce/meeting2.html) 4367: 4368: The Japan NetBSD Users' Group had their annual meeting, and a NetBSD BoF 4369: followed. 4370: 4371: ### `Jun 2000` - LinuxTag 2000 4372: 4373: *June 29-July 2 2000, Stuttgart, Germany* 4374: 4375: http://www.linuxtag.org/2000/english/ 4376: 4377: A group of \*BSD enthusiasts organized a \*BSD booth at [LinuxTag 4378: 2000](http://www.linuxtag.org/2000/english/), which, among many other 4379: things, included a variety of boxes showcasing NetBSD. Christian 4380: Weisgerber has written a [summary](events/linuxtag-2000.html) about his 4381: experiences at LinuxTag 2000, as one both manning the \*BSD booth and 4382: giving a talk. 4383: 4384: ### `Jun 2000` - Usenix Annual Technical Conference 4385: 4386: *June 21-22 2000, San Diego, CA* 4387: 4388: [http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix2000/](http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix2000/) 4389: 4390: NetBSD had a presence at the [Usenix Annual Technical 4391: Conference](http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix2000/) in 2000. Most 4392: notably, Charles Hannum gave a talk about NetBSD, William Studenmund 4393: gave a [technical session on 4394: DMFS](http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/usenix2000/freenix/studenmund.html) 4395: (Data Migration File System) for NetBSD, Chuck Silvers gave a [technical 4396: session on 4397: UBC](http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/usenix2000/freenix/silvers.html) 4398: (an efficient United I/O and Memory Caching Subsystem for NetBSD), and 4399: Jun-ichiro Hagino gave a [technical session on mbuf changes in 4400: KAME/\*BSD IPv6 4401: support](http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/usenix2000/freenix/hagino.html). 4402: There was also a BSD BoF which included people kicking around beach 4403: balls emblazoned with "NetBSD support: it's not hot air anymore" in 4404: reference to the launch of [Wasabi 4405: Systems](http://www.wasabisystems.com/). 4406: 4407: Expenses for this event were underwritten by The Usenix Association and 4408: The NetBSD Mission. 4409: 4410: ### `Jun 2000` - German Unix User Group spring '00 meeting 4411: 4412: *June 14-16 2000, Cologne, Germany* 4413: 4414: [http://www.guug.de/](http://www.guug.de/) 4415: 4416: NetBSD was represented at the spring meeting of the [German Unix User 4417: Group](http://www.guug.de/). Ignatios Souvatzis gave a presentation 4418: about experiences with IPv6 using NetBSD. 4419: 4420: ### `Jun 2000` - NetWorld+Interop Tokyo 4421: 4422: *June 8 2000, Chiba, Japan* 4423: 4424: [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) 4425: 4426: A joint \*BSD users group BOF was held. Jordan Hubbard and Warner Losh 4427: (of FreeBSD) joined and gave us a talk. BOF session covering various 4428: \*BSD followed. 4429: 4430: ### `Apr 2000` - Comdex Spring 2000 4431: 4432: *April 17-20 2000, Chicago, IL* 4433: 4434: [http://www.comdex.com/](http://www.comdex.com/) 4435: 4436: Expenses for this event were underwritten by LinuxMall and The NetBSD 4437: Mission. 4438: 4439: ### `Apr 2000` - Linux Expo 4440: 4441: *April 10-12 2000, Montreal, Quebec, Canada* 4442: 4443: [http://www.linuxexpocanada.com/](http://www.linuxexpocanada.com/) 4444: 4445: The NetBSD Project had a booth displaying NetBSD i386, hpcmips, and 4446: mmeye at this event in Montreal, Canada. T-shirts, 1.4.1, 1.4.2, and 4447: snapshot CDs were available. 4448: 4449: Expenses for this event were underwritten by The NetBSD Mission. 4450: 4451: ### `Mar 2000` - DECUS Munich 4452: 4453: *March 29, 2000, Munich, Germany* 4454: 4455: [http://www.decus.de/](http://www.decus.de/) 4456: 4457: Ignatios Souvatzis talked about NetBSD news and experiences with IPv6 on 4458: NetBSD at the DECUS Munich Symposium in Bonn. 4459: 4460: ### `Mar 2000` - NetBSD 1.4.2 release 4461: 4462: *March 19, 2000* 4463: 4464: NetBSD 1.4.2, a [patch release](../releases/release-map.html) improving 4465: stability and fixing bugs in [NetBSD-1.4](../releases/formal-1.4/), was 4466: announced to the public. 4467: 4468: ### `Feb 2000` - Linux Expo 4469: 4470: *February 1-3 2000, Paris, France* 4471: 4472: [http://www.linuxexpoparis.com/](http://www.linuxexpoparis.com/) 4473: 4474: There was a BSD BoF at the New York Linuxworld on Thursday, February 4475: 3rd. 4476: 4477: Expenses for this event were underwritten by The NetBSD Mission. 4478: 4479: ### `Dec 1999` - Internet Week 1999 4480: 4481: *December 18 1999, Yokohama, Japan* 4482: 4483: [http://www.nic.ad.jp/iw99/](http://www.nic.ad.jp/iw99/) 4484: 4485: There was a [BSD BoF session](http://www.jp.freebsd.org/event/iw99/) on 4486: Dec 18. 4487: 4488: ### `Dec 1999` - The Bazaar 4489: 4490: *December 14-16 1999, New York City, NY* 4491: 4492: The NetBSD Project had two kiosks at "The Bazaar" in New York City at 4493: the Javits Center. We demoed NetBSD on several hardware platforms, and 4494: provided live video from the show floor via a [Brains, Inc. mmEye video 4495: server](http://www.brains.co.jp/). 4496: 4497: Expenses for this event were underwritten by The NetBSD Mission. 4498: 4499: ### `Nov 1999` - Comdex Fall 1999 4500: 4501: *November 15-19 1999, Las Vegas, NV* 4502: 4503: [http://www.comdex.com/](http://www.comdex.com/) 4504: 4505: The NetBSD Project had a booth at Comdex Fall 1999. We had 1.4.1 CD 4506: sets, sample CDs, demo machines, and a few surprises. 4507: 4508: Expenses for this event were underwritten by LinuxMall and The NetBSD 4509: Mission. 4510: 4511: ### `Nov 1999` - Open Source Matsuri99 in Akihabara 4512: 4513: *November 12-13, 1999, Akihabara, Tokyo* 4514: 4515: Japan NetBSD Users' Group ran a booth at Open Source Matsuri'99 in 4516: Akihabara ("Matsuri" is Japanese word for "Festival"). We had demo 4517: machines and short Presentation with NetBSD/hpcmips. 4518: 4519: ### `Oct 1999` - Atlanta Linux Showcase 1999 4520: 4521: *October 14-16, 1999, Atlanta, GA* 4522: 4523: [http://www.linuxshowcase.org/1999/](http://www.linuxshowcase.org/1999/) 4524: 4525: The NetBSD Project ran a booth at the Atlanta Linux Showcase. 1.4.1 CD 4526: sets and T-shirts were on sale. 4527: 4528: Expenses for this event were underwritten by The NetBSD Mission. 4529: 4530: ### `Oct 1999` - BSD Social Event in Berlin 4531: 4532: *October 9-10, 1999* 4533: 4534: ### `Aug 1999` - NetBSD 1.4.1 release 4535: 4536: *August 26, 1999* 4537: 4538: NetBSD 1.4.1, a [patch release](../releases/release-map.html) improving 4539: stability and fixing bugs in [NetBSD-1.4](../releases/formal-1.4/), was 4540: announced to the public. 4541: 4542: ### `Jul 1999` - Wizards of OS \#1 4543: 4544: *July 16-17, 1999, Berlin, Germany* 4545: 4546: Patrick M. Hausen talked about FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD at the Free 4547: Software Projects panel of the Wizards of OS conference. 4548: 4549: ### `Jun 1999` - LinuxTag '99 4550: 4551: *June 26-27, 1999, Kaiserslautern, Germany* 4552: 4553: [http://www.linuxtag.org/1999/](http://www.linuxtag.org/1999/) 4554: 4555: The NetBSD Project attended LinuxTag '99 in Kaiserslautern, Germany. We 4556: exhibited a NetBSD/arm32 system running on a DNARD, and demonstrated the 4557: package system. 4558: 4559: ### `Jun 1999` - Usenix '99 4560: 4561: *June 6-11, 1999, Monterey, CA* 4562: 4563: [http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix99/](http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix99/) 4564: 4565: The NetBSD foundation attended the USENIX Annual Technical Conference in 4566: Monterey, CA. There was a Birds of a Feather session on Tuesday 8, 8pm - 4567: 10pm, and an exhibition booth featuring many different platforms. There 4568: is also a [full report](events/usenix1999.html) available. 4569: 4570: ### `Mar 1999` - German Unix User Group spring '99 meeting 4571: 4572: *March 16-19, 1999, Germany* 4573: 4574: [http://www.guug.de/](http://www.guug.de/) 4575: 4576: During the spring meeting of the [German Unix User 4577: Group](http://www.guug.de/) (GUUG), NetBSD was mentioned in two talks 4578: held by [Dr. Alexandre 4579: Wennmacher](http://www.uni-koeln.de/math-nat-fak/geomet/geo/mitarbeiter/mitarb/aw.html). 4580: The first described security through file flags and the second was about 4581: checkpointing in userspace. 4582: 4583: At the \*BSD BoF, Hubert Feyrer explained the changes made in the 4584: Packages System to what was taken from FreeBSD, Christoph Badura 4585: answered general NetBSD questions. 4586: 4587: ### `May 1999` - NetBSD 1.4 release 4588: 4589: *May 12, 1999* 4590: 4591: [NetBSD 1.4](../releases/formal-1.4/), the seventh [major 4592: release](../releases/release-map.html) of NetBSD, was announced to the 4593: public. 4594: 4595: ### `Dec 1998` - NetBSD 1.3.3 release 4596: 4597: *December 23, 1998* 4598: 4599: NetBSD 1.3.3, a [patch release](../releases/release-map.html) improving 4600: stability and fixing bugs in [NetBSD-1.3](../releases/formal-1.3/), was 4601: announced to the public. 4602: 4603: ### `Aug 1998` - Open Source Developer Day 4604: 4605: *August 21, 1998, San Jose, CA* 4606: 4607: The NetBSD Project was proud to be a partner with O'Reilly and 4608: Associates for its Open Source Developer Day, held at the Fairmont Hotel 4609: in San Jose, CA. 4610: 4611: ### `Jun 1998` - Usenix freenix track 4612: 4613: *June 15-19, 1998, New Orleans, LA* 4614: 4615: [FREENIX](http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/usenix98/freenix/), 4616: the freely redistributable software track, was held at 4617: [Usenix](http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/usenix98/). 4618: FREENIX was intended to be a showcase for the latest developments and 4619: interesting applications in freely redistributable software including 4620: NetBSD, FreeBSD, Linux, OpenBSD, GNU and Samba. 4621: 4622: ### `May 1998` - NetBSD 1.3.2 release 4623: 4624: *May 29, 1998* 4625: 4626: NetBSD 1.3.2, a [patch release](../releases/release-map.html) improving 4627: stability and fixing bugs in [NetBSD-1.3](../releases/formal-1.3/), was 4628: announced to the public. 4629: 4630: ### `Apr 1998` - MTT '98 "Magic Days Trier" 4631: 4632: *April 25-26, 1998, Germany* 4633: 4634: The Amiga1 user group held another MTT. 4635: 4636: ### `Mar 1998` - NetBSD 1.3.1 release 4637: 4638: *March 9, 1998* 4639: 4640: NetBSD 1.3.1, a [patch release](../releases/release-map.html) improving 4641: stability and fixing bugs in [NetBSD-1.3](../releases/formal-1.3/), was 4642: released. 4643: 4644: ### `Jan 1998` - NetBSD 1.3 release 4645: 4646: *January 4, 1998* 4647: 4648: [NetBSD-1.3](../releases/formal-1.5/), the sixth [major 4649: release](../releases/release-map.html) of NetBSD, was announced to the 4650: public. 4651: 4652: ### `May 1997` - NetBSD 1.2.1 release 4653: 4654: *May 20, 1997* 4655: 4656: NetBSD 1.2.1, a [patch release](../releases/release-map.html) improving 4657: stability and fixing bugs in [NetBSD-1.2](../releases/formal-1.2/), was 4658: announced to the public. 4659: 4660: ### `Apr 1997` - MTT '97 "Magic Days Trier" 4661: 4662: *April 19-20, 1997, Germany* 4663: 4664: A NetBSD-1.2.1/Amiga preview, running on a DraCo and (after installing 4665: it live over ARCnet) on an Amiga 3000, was presented by Jürgen Schmitz 4666: and Ignatios Souvatzis at the MTT '97. 4667: 4668: ### `Apr 1997` - DECUS Munich 4669: 4670: *April 17, 1997, Bonn, Germany* 4671: 4672: Ignatios Souvatzis presented a talk about *NetBSD on Digital Hardware* 4673: at the [DECUS Munich](http://www.decus.de/) Symposium in Bonn. 4674: 4675: ### `Jan 1997` - Anaheim Usenix Birds of a Feather 4676: 4677: *January 14, 1997, Anaheim, CA* 4678: 4679: NetBSD hosted a Birds of a Feather at the Usenix conference which was 4680: held in Anaheim California. Christos Zoulas spoke about the current 4681: state, goals and future directions of the project, while Paul 4682: Kranenburg, Aaron Brown and Chris Demetriou answered questions about the 4683: sparc and the alpha ports respectively.