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Add pkgsrcCon 2018 and EuroBSDcon 2018.

1: [[!meta title="Events"]] 2: 3: This is an incomplete list of NetBSD-related events. If you know about 4: some public event that fits and would like it to be listed here, 5: [contact us.](//www.NetBSD.org/cgi-bin/feedback.cgi) 6: 7: For a list of NetBSD-related presentations, please check out our 8: [presentation pages](//www.NetBSD.org/gallery/presentations/). 9: 10: 11: Future Events 12: ------------- 13: 14: ### `Jun 2018` - BSDCan 2018, Ottawa, Canada 15: 16: *June 6 - 9, 2018, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada* 17: 18: [BSDCan](https://www.bsdcan.org/2018/), a BSD conference held in 19: Ottawa, Canada, quickly established itself as the technical conference 20: for people working on and with 4.4BSD based operating systems and 21: related projects. The organizers have found a fantastic formula 22: that appeals to a wide range of people from extreme novices to 23: advanced developers. 24: 25: 26: ### `Jul 2018` - pkgsrcCon 2018, Berlin, Germany 27: 28: *July 7 - 8, 2018, Berlin, Germany* 29: 30: [pkgsrcCon](//pkgsrc.org/pkgsrcCon/2018/) is the annual technical 31: conference for people working on pkgsrc, a framework for building 32: over 18,000 open source software packages. pkgsrc is the native 33: package manager on NetBSD, SmartOS and Minix, and is portable across 34: many different operating systems including Linux and Mac OS X. 35: 36: 37: ### `Sep 2018` - EuroBSDCon 2018, Bucharest, Romania 38: 39: *September 20 - 23, 2018, University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania* 40: 41: [EuroBSDCon](https://2018.eurobsdcon.org/) is the premier European 42: conference on the open source BSD operating systems attracting 43: about 300 highly skilled engineering professionals, software 44: developers, computer science students and professors, and users 45: from all over Europe and other parts of the world. The goal of 46: EuroBSDcon is to exchange knowledge about the BSD operating systems, 47: facilitate coordination and cooperation among users and developers. 48: 49: 50: Past Events 51: ----------- 52: 53: ### `Mar 2018` - AsiaBSDCon 2018, Tokyo, Japan 54: 55: *March 8 - 11, Tokyo University of Science, Tokyo, Japan* 56: 57: [AsiaBSDCon](https://2018.asiabsdcon.org/) was a 58: conference for users and developers on BSD based systems. 59: The conference was for anyone developing, deploying and using systems 60: based on FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, DragonFly BSD, Darwin, and MacOS X. 61: AsiaBSDCon was a technical conference and aimed to collect the best 62: technical papers and presentations available to ensure that the latest 63: developments in our open source community were shared with the widest 64: possible audience. 65: 66: 67: ### `Feb 2018` - FOSDEM 2018, Brussels, Belgium 68: 69: *February 3 - 4, 2018, ULB Solbosch Campus, Brussels, Belgium* 70: 71: [FOSDEM](https://fosdem.org/2018/) was a free event for software developers to 72: meet, share ideas and collaborate. Every year, thousands of developers of 73: free and open source software from all over the world gather at the event in 74: Brussels. 75: 76: 77: ### `Nov 2017` - BSDTW 2017, Taipei, Taiwan 78: 79: *November 11 - 12, 2017, Taipei, Taiwan* 80: 81: [BSDTW 2017](https://bsdtw.org/) was planned as a 82: single track, 2 days conference with 11 presentations of 50 83: minutes each covering the latest BSD technology. The conference 84: attracted over 100 highly skilled engineering professionals, 85: software developers, computer science professors, users and 86: students from all over Asia as well as other parts of the 87: world. The goal of BSDTW was to exchange knowledge about the 88: BSD operating systems, facilitate coordination and cooperation 89: among users and developers and to promote business friendly 90: BSD licensed open source software. 91: 92: 93: ### `Sep 2017` - EuroBSDCon 2017 Paris, France 94: 95: *September 21 - 24, 2017, Paris, France* 96: 97: [EuroBSDCon](https://2017.eurobsdcon.org/) was the premier European 98: conference on the open source BSD operating systems attracting 99: about 250 highly skilled engineering professionals, software 100: developers, computer science students and professors, and users 101: from all over Europe and other parts of the world. The goal of 102: EuroBSDcon was to exchange knowledge about the BSD operating systems, 103: facilitate coordination and cooperation among users and developers. 104: 105: 106: ### `Jul 2017` - pkgsrcCon 2017, London, England 107: 108: *July 1 - 2, 2017, London, England* 109: 110: [pkgsrcCon](//pkgsrc.org/pkgsrcCon/2017/) was the annual technical 111: conference for people working on pkgsrc, a framework for building 112: over 18,000 open source software packages. pkgsrc is the native 113: package manager on NetBSD, SmartOS and Minix, and is portable across 114: many different operating systems including Linux and Mac OS X. 115: 116: 117: ### `Jun 2017` - BSDCAN 2017, Ottawa, Canada 118: 119: *June 7 - 10, Ottawa, Canada* 120: 121: BSDCan hosted talks and tutorials on a range of topics based 122: around the BSD family of operating systems. The event was held over a 123: four day period at the University of Ottawa. 124: 125: Please see 126: [website](https://www.bsdcan.org/2017/) 127: for details. 128: 129: 130: ### `Mar 2017` - AsiaBSDCon 2017 131: 132: *March 9 - 12, Tokyo University of Science, Tokyo, Japan* 133: 134: [AsiaBSDCon](https://2017.asiabsdcon.org/) was a 135: conference for users and developers on BSD based systems. 136: The conference was for anyone developing, deploying and using systems 137: based on FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, DragonFly BSD, Darwin, and MacOS X. 138: AsiaBSDCon was a technical conference and aimed to collect the best 139: technical papers and presentations available to ensure that the latest 140: developments in our open source community were shared with the widest 141: possible audience. 142: 143: 144: ### `Feb 2017` - FOSDEM 2017 Brussels, Belgium 145: 146: *February 4 - 5, Brussels, Belgium* 147: 148: [FOSDEM](https://fosdem.org/2017/) was a 149: free event for software developers to meet, share ideas 150: and collaborate. Every year, thousands of developers of 151: free and open source software from all over the world gather 152: at the event in Brussels. 153: 154: There was a special developer's room reserved for BSD licensed 155: operating systems and their talks. 156: 157: Please see 158: [this announcement](http://mail-index.netbsd.org/netbsd-advocacy/2016/10/20/msg000720.html) 159: for details. 160: 161: 162: ### `Sep 2016` - EuroBSDCon 2016 Belgrade, Serbia 163: 164: *September 22 - 25, 2016, Belgrade Serbia* 165: 166: [EuroBSDCon](https://2016.eurobsdcon.org/) is the premier European 167: conference on the open source BSD operating systems attracting 168: about 250 highly skilled engineering professionals, software 169: developers, computer science students and professors, and users 170: from all over Europe and other parts of the world. 171: 172: 173: ### `Sep 2016` - Open Source Conference 2016 Shimane 174: 175: *Sep. 24, 2016, [MATSUE TERRSA](http://www.sanbg.com/terrsa/e/index.html), Shimane, Japan* 176: 177: At the [Open Source Conference 2016 178: Shimane](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2016-shimane/) , there was a NetBSD booth 179: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 180: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) with many gadget 181: demonstrations. 182: 183: 184: ### `Jul 2016` - Open Source Conference 2016 Kyoto 185: 186: *Jul. 29-30, 2016, [KYOTO RESEARCH 187: PARK](http://www.krp.co.jp/english/spatial_services/convention/map/), Kyoto, Japan* 188: 189: At the [Open Source Conference 2016 190: Kyoto](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2016-kyoto/) , there was a NetBSD 191: booth staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 192: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/) and [Kansai \*BSD Users 193: Group](http://www.kbug.gr.jp/). 194: [more report on netbsd-advocacy](http://mail-index.netbsd.org/netbsd-advocacy/2016/08/01/msg000712.html). 195: 196: 197: ### `Jul 2016` - Japan NetBSD Users' Group meeting & NetBSD BOF 198: 199: *Jul 9, 2016, [VLSI Design and Education Center University of 200: Tokyo](http://www.vdec.u-tokyo.ac.jp/English/contact.html), Tokyo, 201: Japan* 202: 203: See [Japan NetBSD Users Group 18th annual Meeting and BoF 204: 2016](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/announce/meeting18.html.en) 205: for meeting information and 206: [Report](https://github.com/ebijun/osc-demo/blob/master/2016/JNUG2016.txt). 207: 208: ### `Jul 2016` - pkgsrcCon 2016, Kraków, Poland 209: 210: *July 2 - 3, 2016, Kraków Poland* 211: 212: [pkgsrcCon](http://www.pkgsrc.org/pkgsrcCon/2016/) is the annual technical 213: conference for people working on pkgsrc, a framework for building 214: over 17,000 open source software packages. pkgsrc is the native 215: package manager on NetBSD, SmartOS and Minix, and is portable across 216: many different operating systems including Linux and Mac OS X. 217: 218: ### `Jul 2016` - Open Source Conference 2016 Okinawa 219: 220: *Jul. 2, 2016, [Okinawa Convention 221: Center](http://www.oki-conven.jp/en/modules/tinyd7/page/page1.html) , 222: Okinawa, Japan* 223: 224: At the [Open Source Conference 2016 225: Okinawa](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2016-okinawa/) , there will be a NetBSD 226: booth staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 227: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/) with NetBSD gadgets demonstration. 228: [Report on netbsd-advocacy](http://mail-index.netbsd.org/netbsd-advocacy/2016/07/04/msg000710.html). 229: 230: ### `Jun 2016` - Open Source Conference 2016 Hokkaido 231: 232: *Jun. 17-18, 2016, [Sapporo Convention Center](http://www.sora-scc.jp/access/index.html), Sapporo, Japan* 233: 234: At the [Open Source Conference 2016 235: Hokkaido](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2016-do/), there was a NetBSD 236: booth staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 237: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/) with NetBSD gadget demonstrations. 238: [Report on netbsd-advocacy](http://mail-index.netbsd.org/netbsd-advocacy/2016/06/20/msg000709.html). 239: 240: ### `May 2016` - Open Source Conference 2016 Nagoya 241: 242: *May. 28, 2016, [Fukiage Hall](http://www.nipc.or.jp/fukiage/index.html), Nagoya, Japan* 243: 244: At the [Open Source Conference 2016 245: Nagoya](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2016-nagoya/), there was a NetBSD 246: booth staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 247: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/) with NetBSD gadget demonstrations. 248: [Report on netbsd-advocacy](http://mail-index.netbsd.org/netbsd-advocacy/2016/05/30/msg000707.html). 249: 250: 251: ### `May 2016` - Open Source Conference 2016 Gunma 252: 253: *May. 14, 2016, [LABI1 Takasaki](http://www.yamadalabi.com/takasaki/access/index.html), Gunma, Japan* 254: 255: At the [Open Source Conference 2016 256: Gunma](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2016-gunma/), there was a NetBSD 257: booth staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 258: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/) with NetBSD gadget demonstrations. 259: [Report on netbsd-advocacy](http://mail-index.netbsd.org/netbsd-advocacy/2016/05/16/msg000706.html). 260: 261: ### `Mar 2016` - AsiaBSDCon 2016 262: 263: *Mar. 10-13, 2016, Tokyo, Japan* 264: 265: [AsiaBSDCon](https://www.asiabsdcon.org/) is a conference for users 266: and developers on BSD based systems. The next conference will be held 267: in Tokyo, in 10-13 March, 2016. The conference is for anyone 268: developing, deploying and using systems based on FreeBSD, NetBSD, 269: OpenBSD, DragonFlyBSD, Darwin and MacOS X. AsiaBSDCon is a technical 270: conference and aims to collect the best technical papers and 271: presentations available to ensure that the latest developments in our 272: open source community are shared with the widest possible audience. 273: [BSD Research and Japan NetBSD Users' Group booth report](https://github.com/ebijun/osc-demo/blob/master/2016/AsiaBSDCon2016.txt) 274: 275: ### `Feb 2016` - Open Source Conference 2016 Tokyo/Spring 276: 277: *Feb. 26- 27, 2016, [MEISEI 278: UNIVERSITY](http://www.meisei-u.ac.jp/access/hino.html), Tokyo, Japan* 279: 280: At the [Open Source Conference 2016 281: Tokyo/Spring](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2016-spring/), there was a NetBSD 282: booth staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 283: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/) with NetBSD gadget demonstrations. 284: [Report on netbsd-advocacy](http://mail-index.netbsd.org/netbsd-advocacy/2016/02/29/msg000703.html). 285: 286: 287: ### `Jan 2016` - Open Source Conference 2016 Hamanako 288: 289: *Jan. 23, 2016, [Hamamatsu Shimin Kyodo Center](http://www.machien-hamamatsu.jp/access.html), Shizuoka, Japan* 290: 291: At the [Open Source Conference 2016 292: Hamanako](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2015-hamanako/), there was a NetBSD 293: booth staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 294: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/) with NetBSD gadget demonstrations. 295: [Report on netbsd-advocacy](http://mail-index.netbsd.org/netbsd-advocacy/2016/01/23/msg000701.html). 296: 297: 298: ### `Nov 2015` - Open Source Conference 2015 Tokushima 299: 300: *Nov. 14, 2015, [TOKUGIN TOMONI PLAZA](http://www.tokuginplaza.com/own/index.asp), Tokushima, Japan* 301: 302: At the [Open Source Conference 2015 303: Tokushima](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2015-tokushima/), there was a NetBSD 304: booth staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 305: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/) with NetBSD gadget demonstrations. 306: [Report on netbsd-advocacy](http://mail-index.netbsd.org/netbsd-advocacy/2015/11/09/msg000700.html). 307: 308: ### `Nov 2015` - KANSAI OPEN FORUM 2015 309: 310: *Nov. 6- 7, 2015, [Asia and Pacific Trade Center](http://www.atc-co.com/guide/access.php), Osaka, Japan* 311: 312: At the [KANSAI OPEN FORUM 2015](https://k-of.jp/2015/), there was a NetBSD 313: booth staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 314: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/) with NetBSD gadget demonstrations 315: and [BSD BOF](https://k-of.jp/2015/session/731). 316: [Report on netbsd-advocacy](http://mail-index.netbsd.org/netbsd-advocacy/2015/11/09/msg000699.html). 317: 318: ### `Oct 2015` - Open Source Conference 2015 Tokyo/Fall 319: 320: *Oct. 24- 25, 2015, [MEISEI 321: UNIVERSITY](http://www.meisei-u.ac.jp/access/hino.html), Tokyo, Japan* 322: 323: At the [Open Source Conference 2015 324: Tokyo/Fall](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2015-fall/), there was a NetBSD 325: booth staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 326: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/) with NetBSD gadget demonstrations 327: and [BSD BOF](https://www.ospn.jp/osc2015-fall/modules/eguide/event.php?eid=4). 328: [Report on netbsd-advocacy](http://mail-index.netbsd.org/netbsd-advocacy/2015/10/25/msg000698.html). 329: 330: 331: ### `Oct 2015` - BSDCon Brasil 2015, Ceará, Brasil 332: 333: *Oct. 9-10, 2015, University of Fortaleza ,Ceará, Brasil* 334: 335: 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. 336: 337: 338: ### `Oct 2015` - Open Source Conference 2015 Fukuoka 339: 340: *Oct. 3, 2015, [KYUSHU SANGYO UNIVERSITY](http://www.kyusan-u.ac.jp/E/index.shtml), Fukuoka, Japan* 341: 342: At the [Open Source Conference 2015 343: Fukuoka](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2015-fukuoka/) , there was a NetBSD booth 344: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 345: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) with many gadget 346: demonstrations.[Report on netbsd-advocacy](http://mail-index.netbsd.org/netbsd-advocacy/2015/10/05/msg000697.html). 347: 348: ### `Oct 2015` - EuroBSDcon 2015, Stockholm, Sweden 349: 350: *Oct. 1-4, 2015, Stockholm, Sweden* 351: 352: [EuroBSDcon](https://2015.eurobsdcon.org/) is the premier European 353: conference on the open source BSD operating systems attracting about 354: 250 highly skilled engineering professionals, software developers, 355: computer science students and professors, and users from all over 356: Europe and other parts of the world. The goal of EuroBSDcon is to 357: exchange knowledge about the BSD operating systems, facilitate 358: coordination and cooperation among users and developers. 359: 360: ### `Sep 2015` - Open Source Conference 2015 Hiroshima 361: 362: *Sep. 19, 2015, [Satellite Campus Hiroshima](https://www.pu-hiroshima.ac.jp/site/satellite/), Hiroshima, Japan* 363: 364: At the [Open Source Conference 2015 365: Hiroshima](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2015-Hiroshima/) , there was a NetBSD and XM6i booth 366: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 367: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) and [XM6i](http://xm6i.org/) developers with many gadget 368: demonstrations.[Report on netbsd-advocacy](http://mail-index.netbsd.org/netbsd-advocacy/2015/09/24/msg000696.html). 369: 370: ### `Sep 2015` - vBSDCon 2015, Virginia, United States 371: 372: *Sep. 11-13, 2015, Virginia, United States* 373: 374: 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. 375: 376: ### `Sep 2015` - Open Source Conference 2015 Niigata 377: 378: *Sep. 5, 2015, [HON-PORT NIIGATA CITY PUBLIC LIBRARY](http://www.niigatacitylib.jp/?page_id=166), Niigata, Japan* 379: 380: At the [Open Source Conference 2015 381: Niigata](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2015-niigata/) , there was a NetBSD booth 382: staffed by members of [Echigo BSD Users Group](http://www.ebug.jp/) members and the [Japan NetBSD Users' 383: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) with many gadget 384: demonstrations.[Report on netbsd-advocacy](http://mail-index.netbsd.org/netbsd-advocacy/2015/09/05/msg000695.html). 385: 386: ### `Aug 2015` - Open Source Conference 2015 Shimane 387: 388: *Aug. 22, 2015, [MATSUE TERRSA](http://www.sanbg.com/terrsa/e/index.html), Shimane, Japan* 389: 390: At the [Open Source Conference 2015 391: Shimane](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2015-shimane/) , there was a NetBSD booth 392: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 393: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) with many gadget 394: demonstrations.[Report on netbsd-advocacy](http://mail-index.netbsd.org/netbsd-advocacy/2015/08/22/msg000692.html). 395: 396: ### `Aug 2015` - Open Source Conference 2014 Kansai@Kyoto 397: 398: *Aug. 7-8, 2015, [KYOTO RESEARCH 399: PARK](http://www.krp.co.jp/english/spatial_services/convention/map/), Kyoto, Japan* 400: 401: At the [Open Source Conference 2015 402: Kansai@Kyoto](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2015-kyoto/) , there was a NetBSD 403: booth staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 404: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/) and [Kansai \*BSD Users 405: Group](http://www.kbug.gr.jp/) and [Nagoya . *BSD Users' Group](http://www.nagoya.bug.gr.jp/). 406: [Report on netbsd-advocacy](http://mail-index.netbsd.org/netbsd-advocacy/2015/08/10/msg000691.html). 407: 408: 409: ### `Jul 2015` - Open Source Conference 2015 Okinawa 410: 411: *Jul. 4, 2015, [Okinawa Convention 412: Center](http://www.oki-conven.jp/en/modules/tinyd7/page/page1.html) , 413: Okinawa, Japan* 414: 415: At the [Open Source Conference 2015 416: Okinawa](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2015-okinawa/) , there was a NetBSD 417: booth staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 418: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/) with NetBSD gadgets demonstration. 419: [Report on NetBSD-advocacy](http://mail-index.netbsd.org/netbsd-advocacy/2015/07/04/msg000688.html). 420: 421: 422: ### `Jun 2015` - Open Source Conference 2015 Hokkaido 423: 424: *Jun. 12-13, 2015, [Sapporo Convention Center](http://www.sora-scc.jp/access/index.html), Sapporo, Japan* 425: 426: At the [Open Source Conference 2015 427: Hokkaido](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2015-do/), there was a NetBSD 428: booth staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 429: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/) with NetBSD gadget demonstrations. 430: [Report on netbsd-advocacy](http://mail-index.netbsd.org/netbsd-advocacy/2015/06/13/msg000687.html). 431: 432: 433: ### `Mar 2015` - AsiaBSDCon 2015 434: 435: *Mar. 12-15, 2015, Tokyo, Japan* 436: 437: [AsiaBSDCon](https://2015.asiabsdcon.org/) is a conference for users 438: and developers on BSD based systems. The next conference will be held 439: in Tokyo, in 12-15 March, 2015. The conference is for anyone 440: developing, deploying and using systems based on FreeBSD, NetBSD, 441: OpenBSD, DragonFlyBSD, Darwin and MacOS X. AsiaBSDCon is a technical 442: conference and aims to collect the best technical papers and 443: presentations available to ensure that the latest developments in our 444: open source community are shared with the widest possible audience. 445: 446: ### `Feb 2015` - Open Source Conference 2015 Tokyo/Spring 447: 448: *Feb. 27- 28, 2015, [MEISEI 449: UNIVERSITY](http://www.meisei-u.ac.jp/access/hino.html), Tokyo, Japan* 450: 451: At the [Open Source Conference 2015 452: Tokyo/Spring](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2015-spring/), there was a NetBSD 453: booth staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 454: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/) with NetBSD gadget demonstrations. 455: [Report on netbsd-advocacy](http://mail-index.netbsd.org/netbsd-advocacy/2015/02/28/msg000680.html). 456: 457: ### `Nov 2014` - Kansai OpenSource 2014 458: 459: *Nov. 7-8, 2014, [Asia and Pacific Trade Center ITM 460: Building](http://www.atc-co.com/), Osaka, Japan* 461: 462: At the [Kansai OpenSource 2014](http://www.k-of.jp/), there will be BSD 463: booths staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 464: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) and [Kansai \*BSD Users 465: Group](http://www.kbug.gr.jp/). with many gadget demonstrations { 466: [hpcarm](../ports/hpcarm/), [hpcmips](../ports/hpcmips/), 467: [hpcsh](../ports/hpcsh/) } and BSDBOF. 468: 469: ### `Sep 2014` - EuroBSDCon 2014, Sofia, Bulgaria 470: 471: *Sep. 25-28, 2014, Sofia, Bulgaria* 472: 473: [EuroBSDcon](http://2014.EuroBSDCon.org) is the premier European 474: conference on the open source BSD operating systems attracting about 475: 250 highly skilled engineering professionals, software developers, 476: computer science students and professors, and users from all over 477: Europe and other parts of the world. The goal of EuroBSDcon is to 478: exchange knowledge about the BSD operating systems, facilitate 479: coordination and cooperation among users and developers. 480: 481: ### `Aug 2014` - Open Source Conference 2014 Kansai@Kyoto 482: 483: *Aug. 1-2, 2014, [KYOTO RESEARCH 484: PARK](http://www.krp.co.jp/english/spatial_services/convention/map/), Kyoto, Japan* 485: 486: At the [Open Source Conference 2014 487: Kansai@Kyoto](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2014-kyoto/) , there was a NetBSD 488: booth staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 489: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/) and [Kansai \*BSD Users 490: Group](http://www.kbug.gr.jp/). 491: [Report on netbsd-advocacy](http://mail-index.netbsd.org/netbsd-advocacy/2014/08/09/msg000658.html). 492: 493: 494: ### `Jul 2014` - Open Source Conference 2014 Nagoya 495: 496: *Jul. 4-5, 2014, [Nagoya International 497: Center](http://www.nic-nagoya.or.jp/en/e/about-us/access-hours), Nagoya, 498: Japan* 499: 500: At the [Open Source Conference 2014 501: Nagoya](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2014-nagoya/) , there will be a OpenBSD 502: and NetBSD booth staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 503: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/) and [Nagoya \*BSD Users' Group 504: (NBUG)](http://www.nagoya.bug.gr.jp/). There will be a gadget 505: demonstration [BSD booth](http://twitpic.com/czat1r) and NBUG BOF. 506: 507: ### `Jun 2014` - pkgsrcCon 2014, London, England 508: 509: *Jun. 21-22, 2014, Middlesex University, London, England* 510: 511: [pkgsrcCon](http://www.pkgsrc.org/pkgsrcCon/2014/) is a technical 512: conference for people working on the NetBSD Packages Collection 513: (pkgsrc), focusing on existing technologies, research projects, and 514: works-in-progress in pkgsrc infrastructure. Developers, contributors, 515: interested developers and users are all welcome to attend. 516: 517: ### `Jun 2014` - Open Source Conference 2014 Hokkaido 518: 519: *Jun. 13-14, 2014, [Sapporo Business Innovation Center, Sapporo, 520: Japan](http://www.sapporosansin.jp/access/)* 521: 522: At the [Open Source Conference 2014 523: Hokkaido](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2014-do/) , there will be a NetBSD booth 524: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 525: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/) and [NoBUG](http://www.no.bug.gr.jp/) 526: with NetBSD gadget demonstrations ( [hpcarm](../ports/hpcarm/), 527: [hpcmips](../ports/hpcmips/), [hpcsh](../ports/hpcsh/)). 528: 529: 530: ### `May 2014` - Open Source Conference 2014 Okinawa 531: 532: *May. 6, 2014, [Okinawa Convention 533: Center](http://www.oki-conven.jp/en/modules/tinyd7/page/page1.html) , 534: Okinawa, Japan* 535: 536: At the [Open Source Conference 2014 537: Okinawa](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2014-okinawa/) , there was a NetBSD 538: booth staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 539: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/) with NetBSD gadgets demonstration. 540: [more detail on togetter](http://togetter.com/li/671580). 541: 542: 543: ### `Mar 2014` - Open Source Conference 2014 Hamanako 544: 545: *Mar. 22, 2014, [Hamamatsu Shimin Kyodo 546: Center](http://www.machien-hamamatsu.jp/) , Shizuoka, Japan* 547: 548: At the [Open Source Conference 2014 549: Hamanako](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2014-hamanako/) , there will be a NetBSD 550: booth staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 551: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/) with many gadgets demonstration ( 552: [hpcarm](../ports/hpcarm/), [hpcmips](../ports/hpcmips/), 553: [hpcsh](../ports/hpcsh/)). 554: 555: ### `Mar 2014` - AsiaBSDCon 2014 556: 557: *Mar 13-16, 2014, Tokyo University of Science,Tokyo, Japan* 558: 559: [AsiaBSDCon](http://2014.asiabsdcon.org/) will be a conference for users 560: and developers on BSD based systems. The conference was for anyone 561: developing, deploying and using systems based on FreeBSD, NetBSD, 562: OpenBSD, DragonFly BSD, Darwin, and MacOS X. AsiaBSDCon was a technical 563: conference and aimed to collect the best technical papers and 564: presentations available to ensure that the latest developments in our 565: open source community are shared with the widest possible audience. 566: 567: ### `Feb 2014` - Open Source Conference 2014 Tokyo/Spring 568: 569: *Feb. 28- Mar. 1, 2014, [MEISEI 570: UNIVERSITY](http://www.meisei-u.ac.jp/access/hino.html), Tokyo, Japan* 571: 572: At the [Open Source Conference 2014 573: Tokyo/Spring](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2014-spring/), there was a NetBSD 574: booth staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 575: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/) with NetBSD gadget demonstrations ( 576: [hpcarm](../ports/hpcarm/), [zaurus](../ports/zaurus/), 577: [evbarm](../ports/evbarm/)). [2014-02-28-netbsd-raspi 578: image](http://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-arm/2014/02/28/msg002243.html)). 579: more reports on [togetter](http://togetter.com/li/635747). Japan NetBSD 580: Users' Group got an award called "[Open Source Confernce 581: Award](http://www.ospn.jp/press/20140218osc-award.html)". 582: 583: ### `Feb 2014` - NYC\*BSD Con 2014 584: 585: *Feb 8, 2014 Suspenders Bar and Restaurant* 586: 587: [NYC\*BSD Con 2014](http://www.nycbsdcon.org/2014/) NYCBSDCon is on as a 588: day-long event with the theme of "The BSDs in Production." 589: 590: ### `Nov 2013` - Linux User Group of Mauritius - LinuxFest 2013 591: 592: *Nov 25, 2013, Octave Wiehe Auditorium University of Mauritius* 593: 594: [Linux Fest 2013 in Mauritius](http://lugm.org/linuxfest/#) will feature 595: some BSD thumb drives and other general IT and Open Source talks 596: 597: ### `Nov 2013` - Open Source Conference 2013 Oita 598: 599: *Nov. 23, 2013, i-ness, Oita, Japan* 600: 601: At the [Open Source Conference 2013 602: Oita](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2013-oita/) , there will be a NetBSD booth 603: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 604: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/) with many gadgets demonstration ( 605: [hpcarm](../ports/hpcarm/), [hpcmips](../ports/hpcmips/), 606: [hpcsh](../ports/hpcsh/)). 607: 608: ### `Nov 2013` - Open Source Conference 2013 Fukuoka 609: 610: *Nov. 16, 2013, [Fukuoka Soft Research 611: Park](http://www.fukuoka-srp.co.jp/access/index.html) , Fukuoka, Japan* 612: 613: At the [Open Source Conference 2013 614: Fukuoka](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2013-fukuoka/) , there will be a NetBSD 615: booth staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 616: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/) with many gadgets demonstration ( 617: [hpcarm](../ports/hpcarm/), [hpcmips](../ports/hpcmips/), 618: [hpcsh](../ports/hpcsh/)) 619: 620: ### `Nov 2013` - Kansai OpenSource 2013 621: 622: *Nov. 8-9, 2013, [Asia and Pacific Trade Center ITM 623: Building](http://www.atc-co.com/), Osaka, Japan* 624: 625: At the [Kansai OpenSource 2013](http://www.k-of.jp/), there will be BSD 626: booths staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 627: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) and [Kansai \*BSD Users 628: Group](http://www.kbug.gr.jp/). with many gadget demonstrations { 629: [hpcarm](../ports/hpcarm/), [hpcmips](../ports/hpcmips/), 630: [hpcsh](../ports/hpcsh/) } and BSDBOF. 631: 632: ### `Oct 2013` - Open Source Conference 2013 Tokyo/Fall 633: 634: *Oct. 19-20, 2013, [MEISEI 635: UNIVERSITY](http://www.meisei-u.ac.jp/access/hino.html), Tokyo, Japan* 636: 637: At the [Open Source Conference 2013 638: Tokyo/Fall](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2013-fall/), there will be a NetBSD 639: booth staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 640: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/) with NetBSD gadget demonstrations ( 641: [hpcarm](../ports/hpcarm/), [hpcmips](../ports/hpcmips/), 642: [hpcsh](../ports/hpcsh/)) and BSDBOF. 643: 644: ### `Oct 2013` - Open Source Conference 2013 Hiroshima 645: 646: *Oct. 6, 2013, [Satellite Campus 647: Hiroshima](http://www.pu-hiroshima.ac.jp/site/satellite/accessmap.html) 648: , Hiroshima, Japan* 649: 650: At the [Open Source Conference 2013 651: Hiroshima](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2013-hiroshima/) , there will be a 652: NetBSD booth staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 653: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/) with NetBSD gadget demonstrations ( 654: [hpcarm](../ports/hpcarm/), [hpcmips](../ports/hpcmips/), 655: [hpcsh](../ports/hpcsh/)). 656: 657: ### `Sep 2013` - Open Source Conference 2013 Hokkaido 658: 659: *Sep. 14, 2013, [Sapporo Convention Center, Sapporo, 660: Japan](http://www.sora-scc.jp/access/index.html)* 661: 662: At the [Open Source Conference 2013 663: Hokkaido](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2013-do/) , there will be a NetBSD booth 664: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 665: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/) and [NoBUG](http://www.no.bug.gr.jp/) 666: with NetBSD gadget demonstrations ( [hpcarm](../ports/hpcarm/), 667: [hpcmips](../ports/hpcmips/), [hpcsh](../ports/hpcsh/)). 668: 669: ### `Aug 2013` - FrOSCon 2013 670: 671: *Aug. 24–25, 2013, [Bonn-Rhein-Sieg University of Applied Sciences, 672: Campus 673: Sankt-Augustin](http://fhbrs.de/en/University/Addresses+and+how+to+find+us.html), 674: Germany* 675: 676: At [FrOSCon 8](http://froscon.org/en/home/) (Free and Open Source 677: Software Conference), the NetBSD project will be present with a booth 678: with several "showcase" machines, handing out flyers and CDs and 679: answering users' questions. 680: 681: ### `Aug 2013` - Open Source Conference 2013 Shimane 682: 683: *Aug. 24, 2013, [MATSUE 684: TERRSA](http://www.sanbg.com/terrsa/e/index.html), Shimane, Japan* 685: 686: At the [Open Source Conference 2013 687: Shimane](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2013-shimane/) , there was a NetBSD booth 688: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 689: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) with many gadget 690: demonstrations ( [SONY NEWS 691: NetBSD/newsmips](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/5003059), [Java Station 692: NetBSD/sparc](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/5003356), [OMRON LUNAII 693: NetBSD/luna68k](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/5003079), [XM6i 694: NetBSD/x68k](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/5003189), [Raspberry PI 695: hardfloat 696: NetBSD/evbarmv6hf](http://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-arm/2013/08/23/msg001984.html) 697: ). more reports on [togetter](http://togetter.com/li/553529). 698: 699: ### `Aug 2013` - Open Source Conference 2013 Kansai@Kyoto 700: 701: *Aug. 2-3, 2013, [KYOTO RESEARCH 702: PARK](http://www.krp.co.jp/english/access/index.html), Kyoto, Japan* 703: 704: At the [Open Source Conference 2013 705: Kansai@Kyoto](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2013-kyoto/) , there was a NetBSD 706: booth staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 707: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/) and [Kansai \*BSD Users 708: Group](http://www.kbug.gr.jp/) . There was a gadgets demonstration ( 709: [sparc64 Genial 737s](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/4987247), [OMRON 710: LUNA and LUNAII](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/4987331), [LUNAII and 711: mikutter](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/4987913), 712: [RaspberryPI](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/4987927) ) and presentation 713: ( [all about OMRON LUNA](http://www.soum.co.jp/~jun/OSC2013kyoto.pdf), 714: [Do LUNA68K Dream of mltermic Twitter 715: Sheep?,](http://www.ceres.dti.ne.jp/tsutsui/osc2013kyoto/NetBSD-luna68k_mlterm-fb_Twitter.html) 716: ). more report on [togetter](http://togetter.com/li/542885). 717: 718: ### `Jul 2013` - Japan NetBSD Users' Group meeting & NetBSD BOF 719: 720: *Jul 13, 2013, [VLSI Design and Education Center University of 721: Tokyo](http://www.vdec.u-tokyo.ac.jp/English/contact.html), Tokyo, 722: Japan* 723: 724: See [Japan NetBSD Users Group 15th annual Meeting and BoF 725: 2013](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/announce/meeting15.html.en) 726: for meeting information.[more detail on 727: togetter](http://togetter.com/li/532926). 728: 729: ### `Jul 2013` - Open Source Conference 2013 Okinawa 730: 731: *Jul. 6, 2013, [Okinawa Convention 732: Center](http://www.oki-conven.jp/en/modules/tinyd7/page/page1.html) , 733: Okinawa, Japan* 734: 735: At the [Open Source Conference 2013 736: Okinawa](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2013-okinawa/) , there will be a NetBSD 737: booth staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 738: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/) with many gadgets demonstration ( 739: [hpcarm](../ports/hpcarm/), [Raspberry-pi image for 740: NetBSD](http://ftp.NetBSD.org/pub/NetBSD/misc/jun/raspberry-pi/), 741: [XM6i](http://xm6i.org/)).[more detail on 742: togetter](http://togetter.com/li/529669). 743: 744: ### `Jun 2013` - Open Source Conference 2013 Nagoya 745: 746: *Jun. 21-22, 2013, [Nagoya International 747: Center](http://www.nic-nagoya.or.jp/en/e/about-us/access-hours), Nagoya, 748: Japan* 749: 750: At the [Open Source Conference 2013 751: Nagoya](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2013-nagoya/) , there was a OpenBSD 752: andNetBSD booth staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 753: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/) and [Nagoya \*BSD Users' Group 754: (NBUG)](http://www.nagoya.bug.gr.jp/). There was a gadget demonstration 755: [BSD booth](http://twitpic.com/czat1r) ( [OpenBSD/luna88k and 756: NetBSD/luna68k](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/4959244), [NetBSD6.1 vs 757: NetBSD6.0.2 animation viewer runnning on NetBSD/x68k with XM6i X68030 758: emulator](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/4959314), [RaspberryPI NetBSD 759: Image](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/4959033) ) and NBUG 760: BOF([OpenBSD/luna88k](http://www.nk-home.net/~aoyama/osc2013nagoya/OpenBSD-luna88k.pdf),6.1 761: vs 6.0.2 animation on 762: NetBSD/x68k,[NetBSD/RPI](http://ftp.NetBSD.org/pub/NetBSD/misc/jun/raspberry-pi/README-RPI.pdf) 763: ),[CLU lang and NetBSD 764: 2038](http://www.slideshare.net/hirofumitouhei/osc2013-nagoya). [more 765: detail on togetter](http://togetter.com/li/522396). 766: 767: ### May 2013 - Linuxtag Berlin 768: 769: *May 22-25, 2013, Berlin, Germany.* 770: 771: LinuxTag 2013 opens its doors from May 22 to May 25, 2013, at the Berlin 772: Expo Center under the Funkturm in Berlin, Germany. The event features a 773: NetBSD booth on the exhibition fair, where you can get the newest 774: T-Shirts, talk to NetBSD developers or get stickers for your computer 775: cases or notebooks. 776: 777: See the [Linuxtag homepage](http://www.linuxtag.org/2013/en.html) for 778: more information. 779: 780: ### `May 2013` - BSDCan 2013, Ottawa, Canada 781: 782: *May 17-18, 2013, Ottawa, Canada.* 783: 784: [BSDCan 2013](http://www.bsdcan.org/2013) is a BSD conference held in 785: Ottawa, Canada, for people working on and with 4.4BSD based operating 786: systems and related projects. BSDCan 2013 will be held on 17-18 May 2013 787: at University of Ottawa, and will be preceded by two days of tutorials 788: on 15-16 May 2013. There were related events (of a social nature, for 789: the most part) on the day before and after the conference. 790: 791: See [the call for 792: papers](http://mail-index.NetBSD.org/netbsd-advocacy/2012/12/09/msg000506.html) 793: for details. 794: 795: ### `Apr 2013` - Central European BSD-Day 2013, Naples, Italy 796: 797: *Apr 6, 2013, Naples, Italy* 798: 799: The [Central European BSD-Day](http://bsdday.eu/2013) took place at he 800: Institute of Biostructures and Bioimaging in Naples, Italy on Saturday, 801: April 6th. The format is technically a mixture of a cross-project 802: developer summit and a workshop. We have invited developers working with 803: BSD from different organizations, we have some dinners together, and 804: dedicate various sessions to each of the topics based on the interests 805: of the attending developers. The format of these sessions is quite 806: flexible: they may include presentations or demonstration of results, or 807: even public discussions with developers involved, or a mix of all of 808: these. 809: 810: ### `Mar 2013` - pkgsrcCon 2013, Berlin, Germany 811: 812: *Mar. 23, 2013, IN-Berlin Space, Berlin, Germany* 813: 814: The [pkgsrcCon](http://www.pkgsrc.org/pkgsrcCon/2013/) is a technical 815: conference for people working on the NetBSD Packages Collection 816: (pkgsrc), focusing on existing technologies, research projects, and 817: works-in-progress in pkgsrc infrastructure. Developers, contributors, 818: interested developers and users are all welcome to attend. 819: 820: ### `Mar 2013` - Chemnitz Linux Days 2013, Chemnitz, Germany 821: 822: *Mar. 16-17, 2013, Chemnitz, Germany* 823: 824: The Chemnitz Linux Days is a conference that deals with Linux and Open 825: Source Software. It is open for everyone, novices and experts alike. 826: There will be a NetBSD booth where you can get the freshest goodies and 827: BSD related talks. 828: 829: See the [website](http://chemnitzer.linux-tage.de/2013/) for more 830: information. 831: 832: ### `Mar 2013` - AsiaBSDCon 2013 833: 834: *Mar 14-17, 2013, Tokyo University of Science,Tokyo, Japan* 835: 836: [AsiaBSDCon](http://2013.asiabsdcon.org/) will be a conference for users 837: and developers on BSD based systems. The conference was for anyone 838: developing, deploying and using systems based on FreeBSD, NetBSD, 839: OpenBSD, DragonFly BSD, Darwin, and MacOS X. AsiaBSDCon was a technical 840: conference and aimed to collect the best technical papers and 841: presentations available to ensure that the latest developments in our 842: open source community are shared with the widest possible audience. 843: 844: [Time table](http://2013.asiabsdcon.org/timetable.html). Keynote: [64bit 845: SMP NetBSD OS Porting for TILE-Gx VLIW Many-Core Processor by Toru 846: Nishimura](http://2013.asiabsdcon.org/timetable.html#K1) [More reports 847: on Togetter](http://togetter.com/li/472002) and [AsiaBSDCon Guide by 848: Japan NetBSD Users 849: Group](http://www.soum.co.jp/~jun/asiabsdcon2013.pdf). 850: 851: ### `Mar 2013` - Open Source Conference 2013 Tokushima 852: 853: *Mar. 9, 2013, [TOKUGIN TOMONY 854: PLAZA](http://www.tokuginplaza.com/own/index.asp) , Tokushima, Japan* 855: 856: At the [Open Source Conference 2013 857: Tokushima](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2013-tokushima/) , there was be a 858: NetBSD booth staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 859: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/) with many gadgets demonstration ( 860: [hpcarm](../ports/hpcarm/), [evbarm 861: (Netwalker,KOBO,RPI)](../ports/evbarm/), [luna68k](../ports/luna68k/)) 862: and ["NetBSD 20 years" 863: presentation](http://www.slideshare.net/tsutsuii/osc2013tokushima-net-bsd20th) 864: by tsutsui@. [More reports on Togetter](http://togetter.com/li/468577). 865: 866: ### `Feb 2013` - Open Source Conference 2013 Tokyo/Spring 867: 868: *Feb. 22-23, 2013, Tokyo, Japan* 869: 870: At the [Open Source Conference 2013 871: Tokyo/Spring](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2013-spring/), there was a NetBSD 872: booth staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 873: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/) with NetBSD gadget demonstrations( 874: [NetBSD/Raspberry Pi](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/4689247), 875: [NetBSD/KOBO and 876: NetBSD/netwalker](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/4688202), [mikutter on 877: WZERO3](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/4689261), ) and [more details on 878: togetter](http://togetter.com/li/460484). 879: 880: ### `Feb 2013` - Open Source Conference 2013 Hamamatsu 881: 882: *Feb. 9, 2013, [Hamamatsu Shimin Kyodo 883: Center](http://www.machien-hamamatsu.jp/) , Shizuoka, Japan* 884: 885: At the [Open Source Conference 2013 886: Hamamatsu](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2013-hamamatsu/) , there was a NetBSD 887: booth staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 888: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/) with many gadgets demonstration ( 889: [hpcarm](../ports/hpcarm/), [hpcmips](../ports/hpcmips/), 890: [hpcsh](../ports/hpcsh/)). [More reports on 891: Togetter](http://togetter.com/li/452856). 892: 893: ### `Feb 2013` - FOSDEM 2013, Brussels, Belgium 894: 895: *Feb. 2-3, 2013, Brussels, Belgium* 896: 897: [FOSDEM](https://fosdem.org/2013/) (Free and Open source Software 898: Developers' European Meeting) is a two-day free and non-commercial event 899: organized by the community for the community. Its goal is to provide 900: Free Software and Open Source developers and communities a place to 901: meet. It includes talks, presentations, booths, and a social event on 902: the day prior to the event. Participation and attendance is totally 903: free, though the organization gratefully accepts donations and 904: sponsorships. No registration necessary. 905: 906: There was a special developer's room reserved for BSD licensed operating 907: systems and their talks, and a NetBSD booth where you can talk to 908: developers or get NetBSD goodies. 909: 910: Please see [this 911: announcement](http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-advocacy/2012-November/004276.html) 912: for details. 913: 914: ### `Dec 2012` - Open Source Conference 2012 Fukuoka 915: 916: *Dec. 8, 2012, [Fukuoka Jyouhou 917: Senmon-gakkou](http://www.kcs-f.ac.jp/index.html) , Fukuoka, Japan* 918: 919: At the [Open Source Conference 2012 920: Fukuoka](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2012-fukuoka/) , there was a NetBSD booth 921: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 922: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/) with many gadgets demonstration ( 923: [hpcarm](../ports/hpcarm/), [hpcmips](../ports/hpcmips/), 924: [hpcsh](../ports/hpcsh/)) 925: 926: ### `Nov 2012` - Open Source Conference 2012 Aizu 927: 928: *Nov. 3, 2012, [The University of 929: Aizu](http://www.u-aizu.ac.jp/e-index.html) , Aizu, Japan* 930: 931: At the [Open Source Conference 2012 932: Aizu](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2012-aizu/) , there was a NetBSD booth 933: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 934: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/) with many gadgets demonstration ( 935: [hpcarm](../ports/hpcarm/), [hpcmips](../ports/hpcmips/), 936: [hpcsh](../ports/hpcsh/)) 937: 938: ### `Oct 2012` - Open Source Conference 2012 Oita/Fall 939: 940: *Oct. 27, 2012, Sophia hall , Oita, Japan* 941: 942: At the [Open Source Conference 2012 943: Oita/Fall](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2012-oita-fall/) , there was a NetBSD 944: booth staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 945: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/) with many gadgets demonstration ( 946: [hpcarm](../ports/hpcarm/), [hpcmips](../ports/hpcmips/), 947: [hpcsh](../ports/hpcsh/)). 948: 949: ### `Oct 2012` - Open Source Conference 2012 Hiroshima 950: 951: *Oct. 20, 2012, [Hiroshima Kokusai Gakuin 952: University](http://www.hkg.ac.jp/html/about/access.html) , Hiroshima, 953: Japan* 954: 955: At the [Open Source Conference 2012 956: Hiroshima](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2012-hiroshima/) , there was a NetBSD 957: booth staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 958: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/) with [four NetBSD/x68k 959: machines](http://twitpic.com/b6hyt7) including 960: [X68030](http://twitpic.com/b6h7bz)+[Neptune-X+NE2000](http://twitpic.com/b6i5j1), 961: [X68030+Nereid](http://twitpic.com/b6h0gl), 962: [X68060](http://twitpic.com/b6hw05) 963: ([X68030+060turbo](http://twitpic.com/b67l7a)), [X68000 964: PRO](http://twitpic.com/b6gs48) with [Xellent30 965: accellerator](http://movapic.com/pic/201210201011355081fa47b2a4f) 966: [booted via recently added netboot](http://twitpic.com/b6gqeb), and 967: [XM6i X68030 Emulator](http://xm6i.org/) on [Mac OS X with a real X68000 968: keyboard via USB converter](http://twitpic.com/b6i2qa). There were also 969: presentations ["Competitive development of XM6i and NetBSD/x68k" by 970: isaki@](http://xm6i.org/event/osc2012hi/) and ["NetBSD 6.0 New features 971: found at OSC booth" by 972: tsutsui@](http://www.slideshare.net/tsutsuii/osc-netbsd-60). [The event 973: summary is available on Togetter](http://togetter.com/li/392778). 974: 975: ### `Oct 2012` - EuroBSDCon 2012, Warsaw, Poland 976: 977: *Oct. 18-21, 2012, Warsaw, Poland* 978: 979: [EuroBSDcon](http://2012.EuroBSDCon.org) is the European annual 980: technical conference gathering users and developers working on and with 981: 4.4BSD based operating systems family and related projects. 982: 983: EuroBSDcon gives the exceptional opportunity to learn about latest news 984: from the BSD world, witness contemporary deployment case studies, and 985: meet personally other users and companies using BSD oriented 986: technologies. EuroBSDcon is also a boiler plate for ideas, discussions 987: and information exchange, which often turn into programming projects. 988: 989: The conference has always attracted active programmers, administrators 990: and aspiring students, as well as IT companies at large, which found the 991: conference a convenient and quality training option for its staff. We 992: firmly believe that high profile education is vital to the future of 993: technology, and hence greatly welcome students and young people to this 994: regular meeting. 995: 996: ### `Sep 2012` - Open Source Conference 2012 Okinawa 997: 998: *Sep. 22, 2012, [Okinawa Convention 999: Center](http://www.oki-conven.jp/en/modules/tinyd7/page/page1.html) , 1000: Okinawa, Japan* 1001: 1002: At the [Open Source Conference 2012 1003: Okinawa](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2012-okinawa/) , there was a NetBSD booth 1004: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 1005: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/) with many gadgets demonstration ( 1006: [hpcarm](../ports/hpcarm/), [hpcmips](../ports/hpcmips/), 1007: [hpcsh](../ports/hpcsh/)). 1008: 1009: ### `Sep 2012` - Open Source Conference 2012 Tokyo/Spring 1010: 1011: *Sep. 7-8, 2012, Tokyo, Japan* 1012: 1013: At the [Open Source Conference 2012 1014: Tokyo/Spring](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2012-spring/), there was a NetBSD 1015: booth staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 1016: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/) with NetBSD gadget demonstrations( 1017: [NetBSD/Openblocks A6 by 1018: kiyohara@](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/4686373), [NetBSD/Openblocks 1019: 266,600 by kiyohara@](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/4687681), 1020: [NetBSD/Raspberry Pi](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/4689247), 1021: [NetBSD/KOBO and 1022: NetBSD/netwalker](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/4688202), [mikutter on 1023: WZERO3](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/4689261), [linkstation and 1024: USL-5P](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/4686571), [KAME 1025: Project](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/4686706) ) and BSD BOF. [more 1026: details on togetter](http://togetter.com/li/369471). 1027: 1028: ### `Nov 2012` - Kansai OpenSource 2012 1029: 1030: *Nov. 9-10, 2012, [Asia and Pacific Trade Center ITM 1031: Building](http://www.atc-co.com/), Osaka, Japan* 1032: 1033: At the [Kansai OpenSource 2012](http://www.k-of.jp/), there were two BSD 1034: booths staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 1035: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) and [Kansai \*BSD Users 1036: Group](http://www.kbug.gr.jp/). with many gadget demonstrations { WZero3 1037: NetBSD/evbarm, ZAURUS NetBSD/zaurus, [XM6i 1038: NetBSD/X68k](http://twitpic.com/bbvayo) } and BSDBOF (). [More reports 1039: on Togetter](http://togetter.com/li/404573). 1040: 1041: ### `Sep 2012` - Open Source Conference 2012 Shimane 1042: 1043: *Sep. 1, 2012, [MATSUE 1044: TERRSA](http://www.sanbg.com/terrsa/e/index.html), Shimane, Japan* 1045: 1046: At the [Open Source Conference 2012 1047: Shimane](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2012-shimane/) , there was a NetBSD booth 1048: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 1049: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) with many gadget 1050: demonstrations ( 1051: [NetBSD/hpcarm,i386](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/4678623), ). [more 1052: details on togetter](http://togetter.com/li/365753). 1053: 1054: ### `Aug 2012` - XenSummit North America 2012 1055: 1056: *Aug. 27-28, 2012, [Sheraton Hotel & 1057: Marina](http://www.starwoodhotels.com/sheraton/property/overview/index.html?propertyID=127), 1058: San Diego, California, USA* 1059: 1060: [XenSummit](http://xen.org/xensummit/xs12na_talks/xensummit.html) is the 1061: leading annual technical conference for Xen® developers and users in 1062: North America. The event provides collaboration and education for the 1063: Xen® community. There was a talk on NetBSD (and FreeBSD) on Xen roadmap 1064: on day one of the conference. 1065: 1066: ### `Aug 2012` - FrOSCon 2012 1067: 1068: *Aug. 25-26, 2012, [Hochschule Bonn-Rhein-Sieg](http://h-brs.de/), Sankt 1069: Augustin, Germany* 1070: 1071: The [FrOSCon](http://www.froscon.de/en) (Free And Open Source 1072: Conference) is one of the largest Open Source conferences in Germany. 1073: 1074: ### `Aug 2012` - Open Source Conference 2012 Kansai@Kyoto 1075: 1076: *Aug. 3-4, 2012, [KYOTO RESEARCH 1077: PARK](http://www.krp.co.jp/english/access/index.html), Kyoto, Japan* 1078: 1079: At the [Open Source Conference 2012 1080: Kansai@Kyoto](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2012-kyoto/) , there was a NetBSD 1081: booth staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 1082: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/) and [Kansai \*BSD Users 1083: Group](http://www.kbug.gr.jp/) . There was a gadgets demonstration ( 1084: [OMRON LUNA](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/4634623), [OMRON LUNA 1085: II](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/4634629), [NetBSD/hpcarm (SHARP 1086: WZERO3)](http://movapic.com/pic/20120803100715501b24433284c), [Gainer 1087: with squeak](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/4634639), [Making plans for 1088: SHARP,X68K on 1089: XM6i,ZAURUS,Netwalker](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/4634777), [ZAURUS 1090: cluster](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/4634992), [the mikutter 1091: Chronicles](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/4636177), [NetBSD install 1092: service center](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/4636374), [RetroBSD on 1093: PIC32](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/4635032) ) and [NetBSD luna68k 1094: updates presetation by 1095: tsutsuii](http://www.ceres.dti.ne.jp/tsutsui/osc2012kyoto/NetBSD-luna68k-updates.html) 1096: [more details on togetter](http://togetter.com/li/350035). 1097: 1098: ### `Jul 2012` - Open Source Conference 2012 Sendai 1099: 1100: *Jul 14, 2012, [Tohoku Computer 1101: College](http://www.jc-21.ac.jp/map/index.shtml), Sendai, Japan* 1102: 1103: At the [Open Source Conference 2012 1104: Sendai](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2012-sendai/) , there was a NetBSD booth 1105: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 1106: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) with many hpc{ 1107: [mips](../ports/hpcmips/), [sh](../ports/hpcsh/), [arm and 1108: Netwalker](../ports/hpcarm/) } gadgets demonstration. 1109: 1110: ### `Jul 2012` - Japan NetBSD Users' Group meeting & NetBSD BOF 1111: 1112: *Jul 7, 2012, [VLSI Design and Education Center University of 1113: Tokyo](http://www.vdec.u-tokyo.ac.jp/English/contact.html), Tokyo, 1114: Japan* 1115: 1116: See [Japan NetBSD Users Group 14th annual Meeting and BoF 1117: 2012](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/announce/meeting14.html.en) 1118: for meeting information. 1119: 1120: ### `Jun 2012` - 17th NetBSD Hackathon 1121: 1122: *June 14 - 17, 2012, [17th NetBSD 1123: Hackathon](http://wiki.NetBSD.org/hackathon)* 1124: 1125: The 17th NetBSD hackathon focuses on getting NetBSD 6 BETA2 ready for 1126: the first release candidate. Our goal is fixing all the bugs that need 1127: fixing to get NetBSD-current ready for the creation of the NetBSD 6.0 1128: release branch. 1129: 1130: ### `Jun 2012` - Open Source Conference 2012 Hokkaido 1131: 1132: *Jun. 16, 2012, Sapporo Business Innovation Center, Sapporo, Japan* 1133: 1134: At the [Open Source Conference 2012 1135: Hokkaido](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2012-do/) , there was a NetBSD booth 1136: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 1137: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/) and [NoBUG](http://www.no.bug.gr.jp/) 1138: with [Building NetBSD on 1139: Win7+Cygwin](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/4565220), 1140: [NetBSD/Armadillo-9](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/4565161), [Processing 1141: on NetBSD](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/4565033), [NetBSD/IBM 1142: PalmTop110](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/4565193), [NetBSD/X68k on 1143: XM6i](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/4565208), [mikutter on NetBSD/WZERO3 1144: and NetBSD/Zaurus](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/4565158), [NetBSD and 1145: mikutter goods](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/4565027), [Geiger 1146: counter](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/4565528), [Making install-image 1147: Presentation](http://www.ceres.dti.ne.jp/tsutsui/osc12do/NetBSD-cross-liveimage.html) 1148: by tsutsui@. [more detail on togetter](http://togetter.com/li/318806). 1149: 1150: ### May 2012 - Linuxtag Berlin 1151: 1152: *May 23-26, 2012, Berlin, Germany.* 1153: 1154: LinuxTag 2012 opened its doors from May 23 to May 26, 2012, at the 1155: Berlin Expo Center under the Funkturm in Berlin, Germany. The event 1156: featured talks about Open Source and there was be a NetBSD booth on the 1157: exhibition fair where you could get advocacy material, talk to users and 1158: developers or buy NetBSD T-Shirts. 1159: 1160: See the [Linuxtag homepage](http://www.linuxtag.org/2012/en.html) for 1161: more information. 1162: 1163: ### `May 2012` - BSDCan 2012 1164: 1165: *May 11-12, 2012, Ottawa, Canada.* 1166: 1167: [BSDCan 2012](http://www.bsdcan.org/) was a BSD conference held in 1168: Ottawa, Canada, for people working on and with 4.4BSD based operating 1169: systems and related projects. The organizers have found a fantastic 1170: formula that appeals to a wide range of people from extreme novices to 1171: advanced developers. BSDCan 2012 was held on 11-12 May 2012 at 1172: University of Ottawa, and will be preceded by two days of Tutorials on 1173: 9-10 May 2012. There were related events (of a social nature, for the 1174: most part) on the day before and after the conference. 1175: 1176: ### `May 2012` - Open Source Conference 2012 Nagoya 1177: 1178: *May. 12, 2012, [Nagoya International 1179: Center](http://www.nic-nagoya.or.jp/en/e/about-us/access-hours), Nagoya, 1180: Japan* 1181: 1182: At the [Open Source Conference 2012 1183: Nagoya](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2012-nagoya/) , there was a NetBSD booth 1184: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 1185: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/) and [Nagoya \*BSD Users' Group 1186: (NBUG)](http://www.nagoya.bug.gr.jp/). There was a gadget demonstration 1187: [BSD booth](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/4511413) ( [Twitter time line 1188: on NetBSD/dreamcast visual 1189: memory](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/4512178) ([slide and 1190: paper](http://www.yagoto-urayama.jp/~oshimaya/netbsd/vm/index.html)), 1191: [Zaurus](../ports/zaurus/), [W-ZERO3](../ports/hpcarm/), [Enjoy NetBSD 1192: on EeePC NetBook with OpenOffice and 1193: Mikutter](http://www.ceres.dti.ne.jp/tsutsui/netbsd/liveimage/), 1194: [mikutter mug and seal](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/4511548) ) and 1195: NBUG BOF. [more detail on togetter](http://togetter.com/li/302311). 1196: 1197: ### `May 2012` - Central European BSD-Day 2012 Vienna 1198: 1199: The [Central European BSD-Day](http://bsdday.eu/2012) took place at the 1200: University of Applied Sciences in Vienna, Austria, on saturday, may 5th. 1201: 1202: ### `Apr 2012` - Open Source Conference 2012 Iwate 1203: 1204: *Apr. 21, 2012, Iwate, Japan* 1205: 1206: At the [Open Source Conference 2012 1207: Iwate](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2012-iwate/) , there was a [NetBSD 1208: booth](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/4472557) staffed by members of the 1209: [Japan NetBSD Users' Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/) with many { 1210: [XM6i](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/4472584), 1211: [hpcarm](../ports/hpcarm/), [hpcmips](../ports/hpcmips/), 1212: [zaurus](../ports/zaurus/), [hpcsh](../ports/hpcsh/) } gadget 1213: demonstrations. 1214: 1215: ### `Mar 2012` - AsiaBSDCon 2012 1216: 1217: *Mar 22-25, 2012, Tokyo University of Science,Tokyo, Japan* 1218: 1219: [AsiaBSDCon](http://2012.asiabsdcon.org/) was a conference for users and 1220: developers on BSD based systems. The conference was for anyone 1221: developing, deploying and using systems based on FreeBSD, NetBSD, 1222: OpenBSD, DragonFly BSD, Darwin, and MacOS X. AsiaBSDCon was a technical 1223: conference and aimed to collect the best technical papers and 1224: presentations available to ensure that the latest developments in our 1225: open source community are shared with the widest possible audience. 1226: 1227: ### `Mar 2012` - Open Source Conference 2012 Ehime 1228: 1229: *Mar. 24, 2012, Ehime, Japan* 1230: 1231: At the [Open Source Conference 2012 1232: Ehime](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2012-ehime/) , there was a NetBSD booth 1233: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 1234: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/) with [NetBSD/x68k by 1235: isaki@](http://www.pastel-flower.jp/~isaki/NetBSD/osc12eh/page1.html), 1236: [XM6i by isaki@](http://xm6i.org/event/osc2012eh/page1.html), [NetBSD 1237: port history by 1238: tsutsui@](http://www.ceres.dti.ne.jp/tsutsui/osc12eh/NetBSD-port-history.html), 1239: [zaurus and WZERO3](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/4422214), [evbarm and 1240: shark](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/4422260), 1241: [XM6i](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/4422589), [XM6i on 1242: mac](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/4422798), gadget demonstrations 1243: [[ustream live 1244: archive](http://www.ustream.tv/channel/japan-netbsd-users-group-meeting)]. 1245: 1246: ### `Mar 2012` - Chemnitzer Linux-Tage 2012 1247: 1248: *Mar. 17-18, 2012, Chemnitz, Germany* 1249: 1250: The "Chemnitz Linux Days" was a conference that deals with Linux, but 1251: also with free and open source software in general. Being an event vor 1252: novices and experts as well, there were a NetBSD booth and related 1253: talks. 1254: 1255: See the [website](http://chemnitzer.linux-tage.de/2012/) for more 1256: information. 1257: 1258: ### `Mar 2012` - Open Source Conference 2012 Tokyo/Spring 1259: 1260: *Mar. 16-17, 2012, Tokyo, Japan* 1261: 1262: At the [Open Source Conference 2012 1263: Tokyo/Spring](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2012-spring/), there was be a NetBSD 1264: booth staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 1265: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/) with [teokure live 1266: image(NetBSD5.1.2/i386,amd64+Firefox+mikutter)](http://teokurebsd.org/), 1267: [WZero3 live 1268: image(NetBSD6.0BETA/hpcarm)](http://ftp.NetBSD.org/pub/NetBSD/misc/tsutsui/wzero3/), 1269: [Zaurus live 1270: image(NetBSD6.0BETA/zaurus)](http://ftp.NetBSD.org/pub/NetBSD/misc/tsutsui/zaurus/), 1271: [Translate NetBSD man with 1272: po4a](http://www.slideshare.net/master_q/netbsd-man-osc2012), 1273: [Jornada680](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/4407584), 1274: [Jornada720](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/4407590), [Zaurus 1275: 760,860](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/4407593), [WZero3 with 1276: pkgsrc/net/mikutter](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/4407661), 1277: [OpenBlocks](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/4408049), 1278: [ZBOXNANO-VD01](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/4409584), [Lemote yeeloong 1279: 8089b evbmips64](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/4409939), [mikutter 1280: seal](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/4408149), NetBSD [gadget 1281: demonstrations](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/4409260). 1282: 1283: ### `Feb 2012` - Open Source Conference 2012 Oita 1284: 1285: *Feb. 11, 2012, Oita, Japan* 1286: 1287: At the [Open Source Conference 2012 1288: Oita](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2012-oita/), there was a [NetBSD 1289: booth](http://movapic.com/pic/201202111050584f35c982a782a), staffed by 1290: members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/) 1291: with hpcsh { [Persona 1292: 30](http://movapic.com/pic/201202111116074f35cf677a48b), [Jornada 1293: 680](http://movapic.com/pic/201202111105064f35ccd26f35f), [Jornada 1294: 690](http://movapic.com/pic/201202111036504f35c6323d7f3)}, hpcarm { 1295: [Jornada 720](http://movapic.com/pic/201202111107354f35cd67daedf), 1296: [WS007SH](http://movapic.com/pic/201202111039044f35c6b854249), 1297: [WS011SH](http://movapic.com/pic/201202111103074f35cc5b6ea81)}, hpcmips 1298: { [MCR520](http://movapic.com/pic/201202111124414f35d169430c3), 1299: [Z50](http://movapic.com/pic/201202111048154f35c8dfba12d)}, zaurus { 1300: [SLC-860+mikutter](http://movapic.com/pic/201202111112154f35ce7f6db5a)}, 1301: i386 { [aspire 1302: one](http://movapic.com/pic/201202111121424f35d0b649525)}, x68k { 1303: [XM6i](http://movapic.com/pic/201202111204074f35daa7e639a), 1304: [XM6i](http://movapic.com/pic/201202111207584f35db8ea62fa)}, amd64 {[pen 1305: tablet with NetBSD](http://movapic.com/pic/201202110957324f35bcfcaa63d), 1306: [teokure live image](http://teokurebsd.org/) }, 1307: [Xnp2](http://movapic.com/pic/201202111234014f35e1a946be8), 1308: [NetBSD/mikutter seal](http://yfrog.com/esrv5bej) gadget demonstrations 1309: and brand new [NetBSD 5.1.2 1310: presentation](http://www.NetBSD.org/releases/formal-5/NetBSD-5.1.2.html). 1311: 1312: ### `Feb 2012` - FOSDEM 2012 1313: 1314: *Feb. 4-5, 2012, Brussels, Belgium* 1315: 1316: [FOSDEM](http://www.fosdem.org/2012/) is the biggest free and 1317: non-commercial event organized by and for the community. Its goal is to 1318: provide Free and Open Source developers a place to meet. No registration 1319: necessary. 1320: 1321: There was a NetBSD booth and a special developer's room reserved for BSD 1322: licensed operating systems and their talks. Please see [the 1323: announcement](http://mail-index.NetBSD.org/netbsd-advocacy/2011/11/28/msg000374.html) 1324: for details. 1325: 1326: ### `Dec 2011` - Open Source Conference 2011 Fukuoka 1327: 1328: *Dec. 3, 2011, [CHIKUSHI 1329: JOGAKUEN](http://www-new.chikushi-u.ac.jp/english/about/index.html#Where), 1330: Fukuoka, Japan* 1331: 1332: At the [Open Source Conference 2011 1333: Fukuoka](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2011-fukuoka/) , there was a NetBSD booth 1334: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 1335: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) with many hpc{ 1336: [mips](../ports/hpcmips/), [sh(Jornada 680)](http://twitpic.com/7nhic7), 1337: [arm(WZERO3)](http://twitpic.com/7nhfzq) } gadgets demonstration and 1338: [Xen4 live USB -teokure- memory](http://twitpic.com/7nhl97). 1339: 1340: ### `Nov 2011` - Open Source Conference 2011 Tokyo/Fall 1341: 1342: *Nov. 19-20, 2011, [MEISEI 1343: UNIVERSITY](http://www.meisei-u.ac.jp/english/), Tokyo, Japan* 1344: 1345: At the [Open Source Conference 2011 1346: Tokyo/Fall](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2011-fall/) , there was a NetBSD booth 1347: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 1348: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) with many gadget 1349: demonstrations { [Teokure-Live Image 1350: amd64](http://www.ceres.dti.ne.jp/tsutsui/netbsd/liveimage/) (Thinkpad 1351: X201, X61), [acorn26](../ports/acorn26/) ([BBC 1352: A3000](http://movapic.com/pic/201111201146094ec869f10e10e)), 1353: [hpcarm](../ports/hpcarm/) (WS003SH, WS007SH, WS011SH, WS020SH, Jornada 1354: 710), [hpcmips](../ports/hpcmips/) (IBM Z50, MobileGear 530) , 1355: [hpcsh](../ports/hpcsh/) (Persona HPW30PA), [i386](../ports/i386/) (Acer 1356: Aspire One with [pkgsrc/net/mikutter](http://mikutter.hachune.net/)), 1357: [X68k](../ports/x68k/) ([XM6i](http://www.xm6i.org/)), 1358: [zaurus](../ports/zaurus/) 1359: ([SL-C700[NEW]](http://d.hatena.ne.jp/steleto/20101201), SL-C750, 1360: SL-C1000, SL-C3200), } and BSD BOF ([Ustream 1361: Recorded](http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/18441201) ). 1362: 1363: ### `Nov 2011` - Open Source Conference 2011 Shimane 1364: 1365: *Nov. 12, 2011, [MATSUE 1366: TERRSA](http://www.sanbg.com/terrsa/e/index.html), Shimane, Japan* 1367: 1368: At the [Open Source Conference 2011 1369: Shimane](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2011-shimane/) , there was a NetBSD booth 1370: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 1371: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) with many gadget 1372: demonstrations ( [hpcarm](../ports/hpcarm/), 1373: [hpcmips](../ports/hpcmips/), [hpcsh](../ports/hpcsh/) ). 1374: 1375: ### `Nov 2011` - Kansai OpenSource 2011 1376: 1377: *Nov. 11-12, 2011, [Asia and Pacific Trade Center ITM 1378: Building](http://www.atc-co.com/), Osaka, Japan* 1379: 1380: At the [Kansai OpenSource 2011](http://www.k-of.jp/), there were two BSD 1381: booths staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 1382: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) and [Kansai \*BSD Users 1383: Group](http://www.kbug.gr.jp/). with many gadget demonstrations { 1384: [dreamcast with fishing contoller](../ports/dreamcast/), 1385: [Hewlett-Packard 9000/700](../ports/hp700/), 1386: [Luna-II](../ports/luna68k/), [hpcarm and WZero3](../ports/hpcarm/), 1387: [hpcmips](../ports/hpcmips/), [hpcsh](../ports/hpcsh/), pf firewall 1388: demonstration with OpenBSD/landisk(USL-5Px2) } and BSDBOF ([Why 1389: enigmatic machines by 1390: tsutsui](http://www.ceres.dti.ne.jp/tsutsui/kof2011/Why-enigmatic-machines.html), 1391: pkgsrc by obache, [[Ustream 1392: Recorded](http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/18441201)]). [More reports on 1393: Togetter](http://togetter.com/li/213724). 1394: 1395: ### `Nov 2011` - bsd\_day(2011) 1396: 1397: *Nov. 5, 2011, Slovak University of Technology, Bratislava, Slovakia* 1398: 1399: The purpose of this one-day event is to gather Central European 1400: developers of today's open-source BSD systems, popularize their work, 1401: and provide an interface for real-life communication. There are no 1402: formalities, no papers, and no registration or participation fee, 1403: however the invited developers are encouraged to give a talk on their 1404: favorite BSD-related topic, then have a beer with the other folks around 1405: :-) The language of this event is English, and the goal is to motivate 1406: potential future developers and users, especially undergraduate 1407: university students to work with BSD systems. 1408: 1409: There is an additional schedule for participants and their guests on the 1410: day prior to (November 4th) and after (November 6th) the main event. 1411: 1412: For more information please visit the website 1413: [](http://www.bsdday.eu/2011/). 1414: 1415: ### `Nov 2011` - BSDday Argentina 2011 1416: 1417: *Nov. 5, 2011, Buenos Aires City, Argentina* 1418: 1419: BSDday Argentina is a conference for users, sysadmins and developers of 1420: BSD software and based systems. The conference is for anyone developing, 1421: deploying and using systems based on FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, 1422: DragonFlyBSD and others \*BSD. BSDday Argentina is a technical 1423: conference and aims to collect the best technical papers and 1424: presentations available to ensure that the latest developments in our 1425: open source community are shared with the widest possible audience. 1426: 1427: For more information please visit the website 1428: [](http://www.bsdday.org.ar/). 1429: 1430: ### `Oct 2011` - EuroBSDCon 2011 1431: 1432: *Oct. 6-9, 2011, Maarssen, Netherlands* 1433: 1434: EuroBSDcon is the European technical conference for people working on 1435: and with 4.4BSD based operating systems and related projects. EuroBSDcon 1436: 2011 is the 10th EuroBSDcon and will take place in (in the center of) 1437: The Netherlands 6 - 9 October 2011 at Meeting Plaza, Maarssen, The 1438: Netherlands. 1439: 1440: For more information please visit the website 1441: [](http://2011.EuroBSDCon.org/). 1442: 1443: ### `Oct 2011` - Open Source Conference 2011 Hiroshima 1444: 1445: *Oct. 1, 2011, [Prefectual University of 1446: Hiroshima](http://www.pu-hiroshima.ac.jp/05_campus/08_access/index.html) 1447: , Hiroshima, Japan* 1448: 1449: At the [Open Source Conference 2011 1450: Hiroshima](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2011-hiroshima/) , there was a NetBSD 1451: booth staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 1452: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) with many gadgets 1453: demonstration ( [NetBSD/x68k](../ports/x68k/) ( 1454: [X68030+Neptune-X+NE2000](http://twitpic.com/6tuiik), 1455: [X68030+Nereid](http://twitpic.com/6tvkzo), 1456: [X68060(X68030+060turbo)](http://twitpic.com/6tu7p2)), [XM6i X68030 1457: Emulator](http://xm6i.org/) on 1458: ([NetBSD/i386](http://movapic.com/pic/201110011105024e86754e2efbb), [Mac 1459: OS X](http://movapic.com/pic/201110011101544e8674925d26a)), [WZero 1460: 3](../ports/hpcarm) ([WS011SH](http://twitpic.com/6tyvva)), 1461: [Zaurus](../ports/zaurus) ([SL-C1000](http://twitpic.com/6tzg2z))) and 1462: [XM6i presentation by isaki@](http://xm6i.org/event/osc2011hi/), 1463: ["Teokure Live Image" and mikutter presentation by 1464: tsutsui](http://www.ceres.dti.ne.jp/tsutsui/osc11hi/Teokure-Live-Image.html), 1465: [event summary](http://togetter.com/li/195551). 1466: 1467: ### `Sep 2011` - Open Source Conference 2011 Okinawa 1468: 1469: *Sep. 10, 2011, [Okinawa Convention 1470: Center](http://www.oki-conven.jp/en/modules/tinyd7/page/page1.html) , 1471: Okinawa, Japan* 1472: 1473: At the [Open Source Conference 2011 1474: Okinawa](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2011-okinawa/) , there was a NetBSD booth 1475: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 1476: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) with many gadgets 1477: demonstration ( [hpcarm](../ports/hpcarm/), 1478: [hpcmips](../ports/hpcmips/), [hpcsh](../ports/hpcsh/) ) and PCBSD9.0 1479: presentation by Jun YAMASHIRO. 1480: 1481: ### `Sep 2011` - Open Source Small Conference 2011 Aizu 1482: 1483: *Sep. 3, 2011, [University of 1484: Aizu](http://www.u-aizu.ac.jp/e-intro/e-facilities/e-campusmap.html) , 1485: Fukushima, Japan* 1486: 1487: At the [Open Source Small Conference 2011 1488: Aizu](http://www.ospn.jp/ossc-aizu/) , there was a NetBSD booth staffed 1489: by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 1490: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) with many gadgets 1491: demonstration ( [hpcarm](../ports/hpcarm/), 1492: [hpcmips](../ports/hpcmips/), [hpcsh](../ports/hpcsh/) ). 1493: 1494: ### `Aug 2011` - Open Source Conference 2011 Nagoya 1495: 1496: *Aug. 20, 2011, [Nagoya International 1497: Center](http://www.nic-nagoya.or.jp/en/e/about-us/access-hours), Nagoya, 1498: Japan* 1499: 1500: At the [Open Source Conference 2011 1501: Nagoya](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2011-nagoya/) , there was a NetBSD booth 1502: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 1503: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) and [Nagoya \*BSD Users' 1504: Group](http://www.nagoya.bug.gr.jp/). There was a gadget demonstration ( 1505: [Presentation Software using only wscons with Dreamcast Fishing 1506: Controller](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/3923999), 1507: [hpcmips](../ports/hpcmips/), [hpcsh](../ports/hpcsh/), 1508: [hpcarm](../ports/hpcarm/), [Amiga 1509: 1200](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/3924333), [SONY NEWS 1510: 3460](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/3924343), [Geiger 1511: counter](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/3924354) ). 1512: 1513: ### `Aug 2011` - 15th NetBSD Hackathon 1514: 1515: *Aug. 10 - 15, 2011, [15th NetBSD 1516: Hackathon](http://wiki.NetBSD.org/hackathon)* 1517: 1518: The 15th NetBSD hackathon focused on documentation. Please see the Wiki 1519: page at the URL mentioned above for details and progress. 1520: 1521: ### `Jul 2011` - Open Source Conference 2011 Kansai@Kyoto 1522: 1523: *Jul. 15-16, 2011, [KYOTO RESEARCH 1524: PARK](http://www.krp.co.jp/english/access/index.html), Kyoto, Japan* 1525: 1526: At the [Open Source Conference 2011 1527: Kansai@Kyoto](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2011-kyoto/) , there was a [NetBSD 1528: booth](http://www.ceres.dti.ne.jp/tsutsui/osc2011kyoto/index.html) 1529: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 1530: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) and [Kansai \*BSD Users 1531: Group](http://www.kbug.gr.jp/) . There was a gadgets demonstration ( 1532: [Sun3/80](http://twitpic.com/5rcp11), [SONY NEWS 1533: NWS-1750](http://twitpic.com/5rcrjj), [OMRON LUNA 1534: SX-9100/DT](http://twitpic.com/5rcuqb), [Workstation book 1535: colab.](http://twitpic.com/5rd4td), [SHARP WZERO3](../ports/hpcarm/), [4 1536: BSD variants (NetBSD, FreeBSD, OpenBSD and DragonFly BSD) on 1537: NetBSD/xen](http://twitpic.com/5rl3n7), [Wsdisplay Presentation tool on 1538: NetBSD/hpcmips](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/3812933), 1539: [USL5P+OpenBSD4.9](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/3813423), [Compiling 1540: process Visualizer like teen spirit called Captain 1541: Nadeshiko](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/3812608), [Some like a BSD 1542: Statue Joystick](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/3809140) driven by 1543: [Gainer+Squeak](http://www.yengawa.com/squeak_gainer) ) and [NetBSD/m68k 1544: will never die! 1545: presentation](http://www.ceres.dti.ne.jp/tsutsui/osc2011kyoto/NetBSD-m68k-will-never-die.html) 1546: and 1547: [commit](http://mail-index.NetBSD.org/source-changes/2011/07/16/msg024675.html) 1548: by tsutsui. 1549: 1550: ### `Jul 2011` - Japan NetBSD Users' Group meeting & NetBSD BOF 1551: 1552: *Jul 9, 2011, [VLSI Design and Education Center University of 1553: Tokyo](http://www.vdec.u-tokyo.ac.jp/English/contact.html), Tokyo, 1554: Japan* 1555: 1556: See [Japan NetBSD Users Group 13th annual Meeting and BoF 1557: 2011](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/announce/meeting13.html.en) 1558: for meeting information. NetBSD BOF with 36 attendances and 153 ustream 1559: clients: pkgsrc updates by obache, jp.NetBSD.org servers by 1560: mef,NetBSD/[Psion netBook](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psion_netBook) 1561: by kiyohara, AC Tap with USB controlled power meter by Kubota, Power 1562: consumption and bcbench by jun, Capture Power consumption meter with 1563: OpenCV by mita@FreeBSD, Build [Facebook page for Japan NetBSD Users' 1564: Group](http://www.facebook.com/NetBSD.jp), 6.0 - here today by soda, PGP 1565: keysign party by soda. 1566: 1567: ### `Jun 2011` - Open Source Conference 2011 Hokkaido 1568: 1569: *Jun. 11, 2011, Sapporo Business Innovation Center, Sapporo, Japan* 1570: 1571: At the [Open Source Conference 2011 1572: Hokkaido](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2011-do/) , there was a NetBSD booth 1573: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 1574: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) and 1575: [NoBUG](http://www.no.bug.gr.jp/) with BeagleBoard, MSP430 LaunchPad, 1576: JMBadgeBoard, Processing on NetBSD and many hpc{ 1577: [mips](../ports/hpcmips/), [sh](../ports/hpcsh/), 1578: [arm](../ports/hpcarm/) } . 1579: 1580: ### `May 2011` - Open Source Conference 2011 Sendai 1581: 1582: *May 21, 2011, [Tohoku Computer 1583: College](http://www.jc-21.ac.jp/map/index.shtml), Sendai, Japan* 1584: 1585: At the [Open Source Conference 2011 1586: Sendai](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2011-sendai/) , there was a NetBSD booth 1587: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 1588: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) with many hpc{ 1589: [mips](../ports/hpcmips/), [sh](../ports/hpcsh/), [arm and 1590: WZero3(WS011SH)](../ports/hpcarm/) } gadgets demonstration. 1591: 1592: ### `May 2011` - BSDCan 2011 1593: 1594: *May 13-14, 2011, Ottawa, Canada.* 1595: 1596: [BSDCan 2011](http://www.bsdcan.org/) was held on 13-14 May 2011 at the 1597: University of Ottawa. It was preceded by two days of tutorials on 11-12 1598: May 2011. 1599: 1600: ### `Apr 2011` - Open Source Conference 2011 Kansai@Kobe 1601: 1602: *Apr. 16, 2011, [Kobe Industrial Promotion 1603: Center](http://www.kobe-ipc.or.jp/access/), Kobe, Japan* 1604: 1605: At the [Open Source Conference 2011 1606: Kansai@Kobe](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2011-kobe/) , there was a NetBSD 1607: booth staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 1608: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) with [ATARI TT030 + 1609: EtherNEC , and NetBSD bus\_space 1610: API](http://www.ceres.dti.ne.jp/tsutsui/osc2011kobe/NetBSD-EtherNEC.html) 1611: presentation by tsutsui, contao presentation by taca, and [ATARI 1612: TT030](../ports/atari/), [SHARP X68030](../ports/x68k/), 1613: [cobalt](../ports/cobalt/), [hpcmips](../ports/hpcmips/), 1614: [hpcsh](../ports/hpcsh/), [hpcarm](../ports/hpcarm/), 1615: [zaurus](../ports/zaurus/) gadgets demonstration. 1616: 1617: ### `Mar 2011` - AsiaBSDCon 2011 1618: 1619: *Mar 19-20, 2011, Tokyo University of Science,Tokyo, Japan* 1620: 1621: [AsiaBSDCon](http://2011.asiabsdcon.org/) is a conference for users and 1622: developers on BSD based systems. The conference is for anyone 1623: developing, deploying and using systems based on FreeBSD, NetBSD, 1624: OpenBSD, DragonFly BSD, Darwin, and MacOS X. AsiaBSDCon is a technical 1625: conference and aims to collect the best technical papers and 1626: presentations available to ensure that the latest developments in our 1627: open source community are shared with the widest possible audience. 1628: 1629: ### `Mar 2011` - Open Source Conference 2011 Oita 1630: 1631: *Mar. 19, 2011, [i-ness](http://www.pref.oita.jp/13040/index.html), 1632: Oita, Japan* 1633: 1634: At the [Open Source Conference 2011 1635: Oita](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2011-oita/) , there was a NetBSD booth 1636: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 1637: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) with many hpc{ 1638: [mips](../ports/hpcmips/), [sh](../ports/hpcsh/), 1639: [arm](../ports/hpcarm/) } gadgets demonstrations. 1640: 1641: ### `Mar 2011` - Open Source Conference 2011 Tokyo/Spring 1642: 1643: *Mar. 4-5, 2011, [Wasseda University,Nishiwaseda 1644: Campus](http://www.waseda.jp/eng/campus/map03.html), Tokyo, Japan* 1645: 1646: At the [Open Source Conference 2011 1647: Tokyo/Spring](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2011-spring/) , there was a NetBSD 1648: booth staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 1649: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) with many hpc{ 1650: [mips](../ports/hpcmips/), [sh](../ports/hpcsh/), 1651: [arm](../ports/hpcarm/) } gadgets demonstration. 1652: 1653: ### `Feb 2011` - FOSDEM 2011 Brussels, Belgium 1654: 1655: *Feb. 5-6, 2011, [FOSDEM](http://www.fosdem.org/2011/), Brussels, 1656: Belgium* 1657: 1658: At the [FOSDEM 2011 Conference](http://www.fosdem.org/2011/), there was 1659: a joint BSD booth staffed by NetBSD and FreeBSD developers and users. 1660: 1661: [Marc Balmer](http://www.vnode.ch/) (mbalmer@) gave a talk "Lua in BSD" 1662: in the BSD devroom 1663: 1664: ### `Feb 2011` - Open Source Conference 2011 Kagawa 1665: 1666: *Feb. 5, 2011, [Sunport Hall 1667: Takamatsu](http://www.sunport-hall.jp/shisetu/access.htm), Kagawa, 1668: Japan* 1669: 1670: At the [Open Source Conference 2011 1671: Kagawa](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2011-kagawa/), there was a NetBSD booth 1672: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 1673: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) with [many 1674: hp](http://twitpic.com/3xoh1i){ [hp300](../ports/hp300/), 1675: [hpcmips](../ports/hpcmips/), [hpcsh](../ports/hpcsh/), 1676: [hpcarm](../ports/hpcarm/) } gadgets demonstration and [NetBSD/hp300 and 1677: wscons](http://www.ceres.dti.ne.jp/tsutsui/osc11kg/netbsd-hp300.html) 1678: presentation by tsutsui ([Event driven Commit 1679: Log](http://mail-index.NetBSD.org/source-changes/2011/02/06/msg018165.html)). 1680: 1681: ### `Dec 2010` - Open Source Conference 2010 Fukuoka 1682: 1683: *Dec. 11, 2010, [Fukuoka Institute of 1684: Technology](http://www.fit.ac.jp/EN/index.html), Fukuoka, Japan* 1685: 1686: At the [Open Source Conference 2010 1687: Fukuoka](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2010-fukuoka/) , there was a NetBSD booth 1688: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 1689: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) with many hpc{ 1690: [mips](../ports/hpcmips/), [sh](../ports/hpcsh/), 1691: [arm](../ports/hpcarm/) } gadgets demonstration. 1692: 1693: ### `Nov 2010` - Journées Méditéranéennes du Logiciel Libre in Sophia-Antipolis. 1694: 1695: *November 26-27, 2010, Sophia-Antipolis, France.* 1696: 1697: NetBSD was present for the 2nd time at the [Journées Méditéranéennes du 1698: Logiciel Libre](http://jm2l.linux-azur.org). Friday afternoon was 1699: generally more enterprise oriented, while Saturday was more end-users 1700: focused. 1701: 1702: ### `Nov 2010` - Open Source Conference 2010 Shimane 1703: 1704: *Nov 27, 2010, [MATSUE 1705: TERRSA](http://www.sanbg.com/terrsa/e/index.html), Shimane, Japan* 1706: 1707: At the [Open Source Conference 2010 1708: Shimane](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2010-shimane/) , there was a NetBSD booth 1709: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 1710: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/). There was gadget 1711: demonstrations ( [hpcarm](../ports/hpcarm/), 1712: [hpcmips](../ports/hpcmips/), [hpcsh](../ports/hpcsh/) ). 1713: 1714: ### `Nov 2010` - NYCBSDCon 2010 1715: 1716: *November 12-14, 2010, Cooper Union, New York, NY, USA* 1717: 1718: [The New York City BSD Conference 1719: (NYCBSDCon)](http://www.nycbsdcon.org/2010/) is the main technical 1720: conference on the US East Coast for the BSD community to get together to 1721: share and gain knowledge, to network with like-minded people, and to 1722: have fun. This event was organized by members of the New York City \*BSD 1723: Users Group (NYC\*BUG). 1724: 1725: ### `Nov 2010` - Kansai OpenSource 2010 1726: 1727: *Nov. 5-6, 2010, [Asia and Pacific Trade Center ITC 1728: Building](http://www.atc-co.com/), Osaka, Japan* 1729: 1730: At the [Kansai OpenSource 2010](http://www.k-of.jp/), there were three 1731: BSD booths staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 1732: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) , [Kansai \*BSD Users 1733: Group](http://www.kbug.gr.jp/) and [NAKAMURA 1734: Kazushi](http://www.kobe1995.jp/) with [NEC 1735: Express5800(arc)](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/2898351) , [64bit 1736: 20years {NEC Express5800(amd64), SONY NEWS NWS-5000(newsmips), Sun 1737: Ultra60(sun4u), Sun Ultra10(sun4u), HP 1738: ML115(amd64)}](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/2899650), Xen Dom0 on 1739: NetBSD and DomU (NetBSD, OpenBSD, DragonflyBSD), 1740: OpenBSD/landisk(Firewall Redundancy with CARP and pfsync), 1741: OpenBSD/zaurus, WZero3(hpcarm), [hpcmips](../ports/hpcmips/), 1742: [hpcsh](../ports/hpcsh/), [hpcarm](../ports/hpcarm/), [NetBSD 1743: straps](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/2898808) gadgets demonstration and 1744: BSDBOF (soda-san got [Japanese OSS Contributor 1745: Award](http://www.ipa.go.jp/about/press/20101015_2.html), so let me 1746: introduce [raiders of the lost ARC 1747: tech](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/2899062) and [talkin' bout a 1748: revolution with soda-san](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/2899023) by 1749: tsutsui) 1750: 1751: ### `Oct 2010` - Open Source Conference 2010 Niigata 1752: 1753: *Oct. 23, 2010, Niigata University, Niigata, Japan* 1754: 1755: At the [Open Source Conference 2010 1756: Niigata](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2010-niigata/) , there was a BSD booth 1757: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 1758: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) and [Echigo BSD Users 1759: Group](http://www.ebug.jp/) . There was a gadgets demonstration ( 1760: [hpcarm](../ports/hpcarm/), [hpcmips](../ports/hpcmips/), 1761: [hpcsh](../ports/hpcsh/) and [FuguIta - OpenBSD LiveCD with 1seg 1762: tuner](http://kaw.ath.cx/openbsd/index.php?en%2FLiveCD). ). 1763: 1764: ### `Oct 2010` - EuroBSDCon 2010 1765: 1766: *Oct. 8-10, 2010, Karlsruhe, Germany* 1767: 1768: EuroBSDcon 2010, the european technical conference for people working on 1769: and with 4.4BSD based operating systems, was held on Oct 8-10th 2010 in 1770: Karlsruhe, Germany. The two day conference program (October 9 - 10) was 1771: preceeded by a tutorial day (Oct 8). 1772: 1773: For more information please visit the website 1774: [](http://2010.EuroBSDCon.org/). 1775: 1776: ### `Oct 2010` - Open Source Conference 2010 Okinawa 1777: 1778: *Oct. 2, 2010, [Okinawa Convention 1779: Center](http://www.oki-conven.jp/en/modules/tinyd7/page/page1.html) , 1780: Okinawa, Japan* 1781: 1782: At the [Open Source Conference 2010 1783: Okinawa](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2010-okinawa/) , there was a NetBSD booth 1784: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 1785: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) with many gadgets 1786: demonstration ( [hpcarm](../ports/hpcarm/), 1787: [hpcmips](../ports/hpcmips/), [hpcsh](../ports/hpcsh/) ). 1788: 1789: ### `Sep 2010` - Open Source Conference 2010 Tokyo/Fall 1790: 1791: *Sep. 10-11, 2010, [MEISEI 1792: UNIVERSITY](http://www.meisei-u.ac.jp/english/), Tokyo, Japan* 1793: 1794: At the [Open Source Conference 2010 1795: Tokyo/Fall](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2010-fall/) , there was a NetBSD booth 1796: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 1797: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) with many hpc{ 1798: [mips](../ports/hpcmips/), [sh](../ports/hpcsh/), 1799: [arm](../ports/hpcarm/) } gadgets demonstration and 1800: [NetBSD/x68k](../ports/x68k/) on [XM6i X68000 1801: emulator](http://www.pastel-flower.jp/~isaki/xm6i/). 1802: 1803: ### `Aug 2010` - Open Source Conference 2010 Nagoya 1804: 1805: *Aug. 7, 2010, Nagoya City University, Nagoya, Japan* 1806: 1807: At the [Open Source Conference 2010 1808: Nagoya](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2010-nagoya/) , there was a NetBSD booth 1809: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 1810: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) and [Nagoya \*BSD Users' 1811: Group](http://www.nagoya.bug.gr.jp/). There were gadget demonstrations ( 1812: [hpcarm](../ports/hpcarm/), [hpcmips](../ports/hpcmips/), 1813: [hpcsh](../ports/hpcsh/) ). 1814: 1815: ### `Jul 2010` - Open Source Conference 2010 Kansai 1816: 1817: *Jul. 9-10, 2010, Kyoto Computer Gakuin, Kyoto, Japan* 1818: 1819: At the [Open Source Conference 2010 1820: Kansai](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2010-kyoto/) , there was a NetBSD booth 1821: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 1822: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) and [Kansai \*BSD Users 1823: Group](http://www.kbug.gr.jp/) . There were gadgets demonstration ( 1824: [hpcarm](../ports/hpcarm/), [hpcmips](../ports/hpcmips/), 1825: [hpcsh](../ports/hpcsh/), ). 1826: 1827: ### `Jul 2010` - Japan NetBSD Users' Group meeting & NetBSD BOF 1828: 1829: *Jul 3, 2010, [The University of 1830: Tokyo](http://www.u-tokyo.ac.jp/campusmap/cam01_04_03_j.html), Tokyo, 1831: Japan* 1832: 1833: See [this 1834: page](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/announce/meeting12.html.en) 1835: for meeting information. 1836: 1837: NetBSD BOF with 44 attendances and 55 ustream clients: OpenBlockS600 by 1838: kiyohara, [STAR81xx/91xx](http://www.nerv.org/~ryo/bof/index1.html) by 1839: Ryo SHIMIZU, [NetBSD goes POSIX.1-2008 and 1840: C1X](http://www.hi-matic.org/BOF/BOF.pdf) by tnozaki, YUREX by noztos, 1841: AsiaBSDCon by hrs, pkgsrc updates by obache. 1842: 1843: ### `Jun 2010` - Open Source Conference 2010 Hokkaido 1844: 1845: *Jun. 26, 2010, Sapporo Business Innovation Center, Sapporo, Japan* 1846: 1847: At the [Open Source Conference 2010 1848: Hokkaido](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2010-do/) , there was a NetBSD booth 1849: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 1850: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) and 1851: [NoBUG](http://www.no.bug.gr.jp/) with NetBSD/evbarm on Armadillo-9 + 1852: VT220J, NetBSD/sparc on Sparcstation IPX, NetBSD/i386 on ThinkPad X200s 1853: (VMWarePlayer) and ThinkPad X24, FreeNAS on ThinkPad X200s 1854: (VMWarePlayer), NetBSD/landisk on USL-5P, NetBSD/evbppc on kuro-box, 1855: NetBSD/evbmips-el on BBR-4MG, and many hpc{ [mips](../ports/hpcmips/), 1856: [sh](../ports/hpcsh/), [arm](../ports/hpcarm/),WZero3 with AM/FM Radio } 1857: 1858: ### `Jun 2010` - LinuxTag 2010 1859: 1860: *June 9-12, 2010, Berlin, Germany* 1861: 1862: [LinuxTag 2010](http://www.linuxtag.org/2010/), one of Europe's largest 1863: Open Source Expo, took place from June 9th through 12th, 2010, in 1864: Berlin, Germany. The NetBSD Project was being represented by volunteers 1865: in a shared BSD booth. 1866: 1867: If you are interested in helping out at the NetBSD booth or have any 1868: questions, please contact Thomas Kaepernick (mast\_1(at)gmx.net). 1869: 1870: ### `May 2010` - pkgsrcCon 2010 Basel, Switzerland 1871: 1872: *May. 28 -30, 2010, [Departement Informatik, University of 1873: Basel](http://www.pkgsrc.org/pkgsrcCon/2010/), Basel, Switzerland* 1874: 1875: ### `May 2010` - Open Source Conference 2010 Sendai 1876: 1877: *May. 22, 2010, [Tohoku Computer 1878: College](http://www.jc-21.ac.jp/map/index.shtml), Sendai, Japan* 1879: 1880: At the [Open Source Conference 2010 1881: Sendai](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2010-sendai/) , there was a NetBSD booth 1882: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 1883: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) with many hpc{ 1884: [mips](../ports/hpcmips/), [sh](../ports/hpcsh/), [arm and 1885: WZero3(WS011SH)](../ports/hpcarm/) } gadgets demonstration. 1886: 1887: ### `May 2010` - Rencontres Bretonnes du Logiciel Libre in Rennes 1888: 1889: *May 15-16, 2010, Rennes, France.* 1890: 1891: NetBSD was present for the 2nd time at the [Rencontres Bretonnes du 1892: Logiciel Libre](http://www.rbll.info) 1893: 1894: ### `May 2010` - BSDCan 2010 1895: 1896: *May 13-14, 2010, Ottawa, Canada.* 1897: 1898: [BSDCan 2010](http://www.bsdcan.org/) was held on 13-14 May 2010 at the 1899: University of Ottawa, and was preceded by two days of tutorials on 11-12 1900: May 2010. 1901: 1902: ### `Mar 2010` - AsiaBSDCon 2010 1903: 1904: *Mar 11-14, 2010, Tokyo University of Science,Tokyo, Japan* 1905: 1906: [AsiaBSDCon](http://2010.asiabsdcon.org/) is a conference for users and 1907: developers on BSD based systems. The conference is for anyone 1908: developing, deploying and using systems based on FreeBSD, NetBSD, 1909: OpenBSD, DragonFly BSD, Darwin, and MacOS X. AsiaBSDCon is a technical 1910: conference and aims to collect the best technical papers and 1911: presentations available to ensure that the latest developments in our 1912: open source community are shared with the widest possible audience. 1913: 1914: A NetBSD BOF was held on March 12, 2010 14:00-16:30 1915: 1916: ### `Mar 2010` - Open Source Conference 2010 Kansai@Kobe 1917: 1918: *Mar. 13, 2010, [Kobe Industrial Promotion 1919: Center](http://www.kobe-ipc.or.jp/access/), Kobe, Japan* 1920: 1921: At the [Open Source Conference 2010 1922: Kansai@Kobe](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2010-kobe/) , there was a NetBSD 1923: booth staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 1924: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) with [ATARI TT030 + 1925: SMC\_TT](../ports/atari/) ([Demonstration animation GIF for 1926: TT030](http://www.ceres.dti.ne.jp/tsutsui/smc_tt/SMC_TT-OSC2010Kobe.gif)) 1927: , cobalt, many hpc{ [mips](../ports/hpcmips/), [sh](../ports/hpcsh/), 1928: [arm](../ports/hpcarm/) } gadgets demonstration. 1929: 1930: ### `Feb 2010` - Open Source Conference 2010 Tokyo/Spring 1931: 1932: *Feb. 26-27, 2010, [MEISEI 1933: UNIVERSITY](http://www.meisei-u.ac.jp/english/), Tokyo, Japan* 1934: 1935: At the [Open Source Conference 2010 1936: Tokyo/Spring](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2010-spring/) , there was a NetBSD 1937: booth staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 1938: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) with tadpole(sparc) and 1939: many hpc{ [mips](../ports/hpcmips/), [sh](../ports/hpcsh/), 1940: [arm](../ports/hpcarm/) } gadgets demonstration. 1941: 1942: ### `Feb 2010` - Hackathon, February 2010 1943: 1944: *Feb. 19-22, 2010, 1945: [Hackathon](http://www.NetBSD.org/community/hackathon.html)* 1946: 1947: The [February 2010 1948: Hackathon](http://www.NetBSD.org/community/hackathon.html) was focusing 1949: on closing as many bugs and PRs as possible. 1950: 1951: ### `Feb 2010` - FOSDEM 2010 Brussels, Belgium 1952: 1953: *Feb. 6-7, 2010, [FOSDEM](http://www.fosdem.org/2010/), Brussels, 1954: Belgium* 1955: 1956: At the [FOSDEM 2010 Conference](http://www.fosdem.org/2010/) , there was 1957: a joint BSD booth staffed by NetBSD and FreeBSD developers and users. 1958: 1959: [Marc Balmer](http://www.vnode.ch/) (mbalmer@) gave a talk [Because the 1960: License Matters: BSD as the Foundation for Commercial Point of Sale 1961: Applications](http://www.fosdem.org/2010/schedule/events/bsd_license) in 1962: the [BSD devroom](http://www.fosdem.org/2010/schedule/tracks/bsd). 1963: 1964: ### `Jan 2010` - Open Source Conference 2010 Oita 1965: 1966: *Jan. 23, 2010, [i-ness](http://www.pref.oita.jp/13040/index.html), 1967: Oita, Japan* 1968: 1969: At the [Open Source Conference 2010 1970: Oita](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2010-oita/) , there was be a NetBSD booth 1971: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 1972: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) with many hpc{ 1973: [mips](../ports/hpcmips/), [sh](../ports/hpcsh/), 1974: [arm](../ports/hpcarm/) } gadgets demonstrations. 1975: 1976: ### `Dec 2009` - Open Source Conference 2009 Fukuoka 1977: 1978: *Dec. 5, 2009, [Kyushu Sangyo 1979: University](http://www.kyusan-u.ac.jp/E/index.html), Fukuoka, Japan* 1980: 1981: At the [Open Source Conference 2009 1982: Fukuoka](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2009-fukuoka/) , there was a NetBSD booth 1983: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 1984: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) with many hpc{ 1985: [mips](../ports/hpcmips/), [sh](../ports/hpcsh/), 1986: [arm](../ports/hpcarm/) } gadgets demonstration. 1987: 1988: ### `Nov 2009` - Open Source Conference 2009 Kochi 1989: 1990: *Nov. 14, 2009, [Kochi City Culture-Plaze 1991: Cul-Port.](http://www.bunkaplaza.or.jp/access/index.html), Kochi, Japan* 1992: 1993: At the [Open Source Conference 2009 1994: Kochi](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2009-kochi/) , there was a NetBSD booth 1995: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 1996: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) with 1997: [hpcmips](../ports/hpcmips/), [hpcsh](../ports/hpcsh/), gadgets 1998: demonstration. 1999: 2000: ### `Nov 2009` - OpenRheinRuhr 2009 2001: 2002: *Nov. 7-8, 2009, Saalbau, Bottrop, Germany* 2003: 2004: A new event in the middle of Europe with a huge audience and an 2005: impressive list of exhibitors. NetBSD had a booth as well as the other 2006: major BSDs. 2007: 2008: For more information about OpenRheinRuhr visit the website 2009: [](http://www.openrheinruhr.de/) . 2010: 2011: ### `Nov 2009` - Kansai OpenSource 2009 2012: 2013: *Nov. 6-7, 2009, [Asia and Pacific Trade Center ITC 2014: Building](http://www.atc-co.com/), Osaka, Japan* 2015: 2016: At the [Kansai OpenSource 2009](http://www.k-of.jp/), there was a NetBSD 2017: booth staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 2018: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) and [Kansai \*BSD Users 2019: Group](http://www.kbug.gr.jp/) with IIJ SEIL/X1(evbmips64), IIJ 2020: SEIL/B1(evbarm), NSLU2(evbarm), dreamcast+ISA bus+IDE DiskDrive 2021: extension, tadpole(sparc), USL-5P+USB LCD(landisk), Link 2022: Station(sandpoint), MacLC475upgrade(mac68k), 2023: [hpcmips](../ports/hpcmips/), [hpcsh](../ports/hpcsh/), 2024: [hpcarm](../ports/hpcarm/), BSD daemon statue gadgets demonstration and 2025: BSDBOF (EuroBSDCon2009 report by msaitoh). 2026: 2027: ### `Oct 2009` - Open Source Conference 2009 Tokyo/Fall 2028: 2029: *Oct. 30-31, 2009, [Nihon Kogakuin College 12th 2030: build.](http://www.neec.ac.jp/access/kmt.html), Tokyo, Japan* 2031: 2032: At the [Open Source Conference 2009 2033: Tokyo/Fall](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2009-fall/) , there was a NetBSD booth 2034: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 2035: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) with [USB-LCD driver for 2036: NetBSD](http://www.naobsd.org/udl/) on 2037: [USL-5P](http://www.iodata.jp/product/hdd/lanhdd/usl-5p/index.htm) and 2038: [LS-S250L](http://buffalo.jp/products/catalog/storage/ls-sl/), 2039: [hpcmips](../ports/hpcmips/), [hpcsh](../ports/hpcsh/), 2040: [hpcarm](../ports/hpcarm/), [tadpole GX3:sparc](../ports/sparc/) gadgets 2041: demonstration and BSD BOF. 2042: 2043: ### `Sep 2009` - Open Source Conference 2009 Okinawa 2044: 2045: *Sep. 26, 2009, [Okinawa Convention 2046: Center](http://www.oki-conven.jp/en/modules/tinyd7/page/page1.html) , 2047: Okinawa, Japan* 2048: 2049: At the [Open Source Conference 2009 2050: Okinawa](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2009-okinawa/) , there was a NetBSD booth 2051: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 2052: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) . There was gadgets 2053: demonstration ( [hpcarm](../ports/hpcarm/), 2054: [hpcmips](../ports/hpcmips/), [hpcsh](../ports/hpcsh/) ). 2055: 2056: ### `Sep 2009` - EuroBSDCon 2009 2057: 2058: *Sep. 18-20, 2009, University of Cambridge, England..* 2059: 2060: EuroBSDcon 2009, the european technical conference for people working on 2061: and with 4.4BSD based operating systems, was held on Sept 19-20th 2009 2062: at the University of Cambridge, England. One day of Tutorials preceded 2063: the conference on Sept 18th. 2064: 2065: For more information about EuroBSDCon 2009 visit the website 2066: [](http://2009.EuroBSDCon.org/). 2067: 2068: ### `Aug 2009` - Open Source Conference 2009 Nagoya 2069: 2070: *Aug. 22, 2009, Nagoya City University, Nagoya, Japan* 2071: 2072: At the [Open Source Conference 2009 2073: Nagoya](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2009-nagoya/) , there was a NetBSD booth 2074: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 2075: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) and [Nagoya \*BSD Users' 2076: Group](http://www.nagoya.bug.gr.jp/). There were gadget demonstrations ( 2077: [hpcarm](../ports/hpcarm/), [hpcmips](../ports/hpcmips/), 2078: [hpcsh](../ports/hpcsh/) ). 2079: 2080: ### `Aug 2009` - Open Source Conference 2009 Niigata 2081: 2082: *Aug. 1, 2009, Niigata University of International and Information 2083: Studies, Niigata, Japan* 2084: 2085: At the [Open Source Conference 2009 2086: Niigata](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2009-niigata/) , there was a NetBSD booth 2087: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 2088: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) and [Echigo BSD Users 2089: Group](http://www.ebug.jp/) . There was gadgets demonstration ( 2090: [hpcarm](../ports/hpcarm/), [hpcmips](../ports/hpcmips/), 2091: [hpcsh](../ports/hpcsh/) and [FuguIta - OpenBSD LiveCD with 1seg 2092: tuner](http://kaw.ath.cx/openbsd/index.php?en%2FLiveCD). ). 2093: 2094: ### `Jul 2009` - Open Source Conference 2009 Kansai 2095: 2096: *Jul. 10-11, 2009, Kyoto Computer Gakuin, Kyoto, Japan* 2097: 2098: At the [Open Source Conference 2009 2099: Kansai](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2009-kansai/) , there was a NetBSD booth 2100: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 2101: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) and [Kansai \*BSD Users 2102: Group](http://www.kbug.gr.jp/) . There was gadgets power consumption 2103: demonstration ( [Atari TT030](../ports/atari/), [BeBox (stop at 2104: bootloader:need S3 Video Card)](../ports/bebox/), [MSI Wind Notebook and 2105: VAIO Type P](../ports/amd64/), [cobalt QUBE2 and Cache RAQ2 with 2106: Zope](../ports/cobalt/), [gumstix music player sings OpenBSD 2107: song](../ports/evbarm/), [hpcarm](../ports/hpcarm/), 2108: [hpcmips](../ports/hpcmips/), [hpcsh](../ports/hpcsh/), 2109: [Linkstation:sandpoint](../ports/evbarm/), 2110: [OpenBSD/zaurus](http://www.openbsd.org/zaurus.html), [DragonFlyBSD with 2111: hammer](http://www.dragonflybsd.org/), [SGI O2](../ports/sgimips/), [IBM 2112: PReP](../ports/prep/), CPU Load average x 16 LED Meterboard with 2113: libFT245, bc benchmark time x electricity consumption = energy 2114: efficiency graph with all BSD machines. ). 2115: 2116: ### `Jul 2009` - Japan NetBSD Users' Group meeting & NetBSD BOF 2117: 2118: *Jul 4, 2009, [The University of 2119: Tokyo](http://www.u-tokyo.ac.jp/campusmap/cam01_04_03_j.html), Tokyo, 2120: Japan* 2121: 2122: See [this 2123: page](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/announce/meeting11.html.en) 2124: for meeting information. 2125: 2126: BOF with 39 attendances: pkgsrc updates, workarounds for VAIO Type P, 2127: AsiaBSDCon reports, eXecute In Place (XIP), gumstix, IA64 , SheevaPlug, 2128: USB Wireless LAN drivers, NetBSD - Now, 6.0 and Future, PGP key sign 2129: party. 2130: 2131: ### `Jul 2009` - Open Source World 2009 2132: 2133: *Jul. 1-2, 2009, Tokyo International Forum, Tokyo, Japan* 2134: 2135: At the [Open Source World 2009](http://www.idg.co.jp/expo/osw/2009/) , 2136: there was a NetBSD booth staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 2137: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) . There was gadgets power 2138: consumption demonstration ( [hpcarm](../ports/hpcarm/), 2139: [hpcmips](../ports/hpcmips/), [hpcsh](../ports/hpcsh/) ) and [tadpole 2140: GX3:sparc](../ports/sparc/). 2141: 2142: ### `Jun 2009` - LinuxTag 2009 2143: 2144: *June 24-27 2009, Berlin, Germany* 2145: 2146: The annual [LinuxTag](http://www.linuxtag.org/2009/en.html) conference 2147: took place from 24th until 27th of June 2009 at the Berlin fairground 2148: under the radio tower. NetBSD was sharing a booth with the other BSD 2149: systems at the exhibition. 2150: 2151: ### `Jun 2009` - Open Source Conference 2009 Hokkaido 2152: 2153: *Jun. 20, 2009, Sapporo Business Innovation Center, Sapporo, Japan* 2154: 2155: At the [Open Source Conference 2009 2156: Hokkaido](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2009-do/) , there was a NetBSD booth 2157: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 2158: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) and [Northern land BSD 2159: Users Group](http://www.no.bug.gr.jp/) with many hpc{ 2160: [mips](../ports/hpcmips/), [sh](../ports/hpcsh/), 2161: [arm](../ports/hpcarm/) } , [NetBSD/evbmips on 2162: BBR-4MG](../ports/evbmips/), Twitter ticker monitor on 78K0 board via 2163: USB Serial, [NetBSD/evbarm on Armadillo-9](../ports/evbarm/) with 2164: VT-220J, [NetBSD/sparc on SparcStation Classic](../ports/sparc/), 2165: [NetBSD/evbarm on BeagleBoard (working in progress,not boot 2166: yet)](../ports/evbarm/). 2167: 2168: ### `May 2009` - Open Source Conference 2009 Shimane 2169: 2170: *May 16, 2009, [MATSUE 2171: TERRSA](http://www.sanbg.com/terrsa/e/index.html), Shimane, Japan* 2172: 2173: At the [Open Source Conference 2009 2174: Shimane](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2009-shimane/) , there was a NetBSD booth 2175: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 2176: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/). There were gadget 2177: demonstrations ( [SONY VAIO type P](../ports/i386/), 2178: [RaQ2:cobalt](../ports/cobalt/), [Armadillo9:evbarm](../ports/evbarm/), 2179: [hpcarm](../ports/hpcarm/), [hpcmips](../ports/hpcmips/), 2180: [hpcsh](../ports/hpcsh/) ). 2181: 2182: ### `May 2009` - BSDCan 2009 2183: 2184: *May 8-9, 2009, Ottawa, Canada.* 2185: 2186: [BSDCan 2009](http://www.bsdcan.org/) was held on 8-9 May 2009 at the 2187: University of Ottawa, and was preceded by two days of tutorials on 6-7 2188: May 2009. 2189: 2190: ### `Mar 2009` - CeBIT 2009 2191: 2192: *March 3-8, 2009, Hannover, Germany* 2193: 2194: The NetBSD project had a joint booth with the FreeBSD project at 2195: [CeBIT](http://www.cebit.de/), the large b2b trade fair held in 2196: Hannover, Germany. 2197: 2198: ### `Mar 2009` - AsiaBSDCon 2009 2199: 2200: *Mar 12-15, 2009, Tokyo University of Science,Tokyo, Japan* 2201: 2202: [AsiaBSDCon](http://2009.asiabsdcon.org/) is a conference for users and 2203: developers on BSD based systems. The conference is for anyone 2204: developing, deploying and using systems based on FreeBSD, NetBSD, 2205: OpenBSD, DragonFly BSD, Darwin, and MacOS X. AsiaBSDCon is a technical 2206: conference and aims to collect the best technical papers and 2207: presentations available to ensure that the latest developments in our 2208: open source community are shared with the widest possible audience. 2209: [Antti Kantee:Environmental Independance:BSD Kernel TCP/IP in 2210: Userspace](http://2009.asiabsdcon.org/timetable.html#P5A) 2211: ([Report](http://journal.mycom.co.jp/articles/2009/03/30/asiabsdcon4/index.html)), 2212: and [NetBSD 2213: BoF](http://mail-index.NetBSD.org/regional-jp/2009/02/15/msg000018.html) 2214: was held on Mar 13,2009 17:30-19:00. [AsiaBSDCon 2009 2215: papers](http://2009.asiabsdcon.org/live/) and 2216: [presentations](http://www.youtube.com/bsdconferences) are available. 2217: 2218: ### `Feb 2009` - Southern California Linux Expo 2219: 2220: *Feb 20-22, 2009, Los Angeles, CA* 2221: 2222: The NetBSD project was represented by A.KML and A.DAVID at [SCALE 2223: 7x](http://www.socallinuxexpo.org/), the 7th annual Southern California 2224: Linux Expo, which took place February 20-22, 2009 at The Westin Los 2225: Angeles Airport, Los Angeles, California. 2226: 2227: ### `Feb 2009` - Open Source Conference 2009 Tokyo/Spring 2228: 2229: *Feb. 20-21, 2009, [Japan Electronics 2230: College](http://www.jec.ac.jp/access/), Tokyo, Japan* 2231: 2232: At the [Open Source Conference 2009 2233: Tokyo/Spring](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2009-spring/) , there was a NetBSD 2234: booth staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 2235: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) with [VAIO type 2236: P](http://www.vaio.sony.co.jp/Products/P1/) with NetBSD, [tadpole 2237: GX3:sparc](../ports/sparc/) and many hpc{ [mips](../ports/hpcmips/), 2238: [sh](../ports/hpcsh/), [arm](../ports/hpcarm/) } gadgets demonstration. 2239: 2240: ### `Feb 2009` - FOSDEM 2009 2241: 2242: NetBSD was present at FOSDEM on Feb 7-8 2009 in Brussels, Belgium. 2243: FOSDEM is a free and non-commercial event organised by the community for 2244: the community. 2245: 2246: ### `Feb 2009` - DCBSDCon 2009 2247: 2248: *Feb. 5-6, 2009, Washington, D.C.* 2249: 2250: For information, visit [](http://www.dcbsdcon.org/). 2251: 2252: ### `Jan 2009` - Open Source Conference 2009 Sendai 2253: 2254: *Jan. 24, 2009, [Tohoku Computer 2255: College](http://www.jc-21.ac.jp/map/index.shtml), Sendai, Japan* 2256: 2257: At the [Open Source Conference 2009 2258: Sendai](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2009-sendai/) , there was a NetBSD booth 2259: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 2260: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) with many hpc{ 2261: [mips](../ports/hpcmips/), [sh](../ports/hpcsh/), 2262: [arm](../ports/hpcarm/) } gadgets demonstration. 2263: 2264: ### `Dec 2008` - Open Source Conference 2008 Fukuoka 2265: 2266: *Dec. 13, 2008, [Humanities and Social Sciences Center,Fukuoka 2267: University](http://www.fukuoka-u.ac.jp/unv_gide/access/cmps_map1.html), 2268: Fukuoka, Japan* 2269: 2270: At the [Open Source Conference 2008 2271: Fukuoka](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2008-fukuoka/) , there was a NetBSD booth 2272: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 2273: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) with many hpc{ 2274: [mips](../ports/hpcmips/), [sh](../ports/hpcsh/), 2275: [arm](../ports/hpcarm/) } gadgets and USB Camera demonstration. 2276: 2277: ### `Nov 2008` - Open Source Conference 2008 Okinawa 2278: 2279: *Nov. 29, 2008, [Okinawa Industory Support 2280: Center](http://www.okinawa-sangyoushien.co.jp/), Okinawa, Japan* 2281: 2282: At the [Open Source Conference 2008 2283: Okinawa](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2008-okinawa/) , there was a NetBSD booth 2284: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 2285: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) with many hpc{ 2286: [mips](../ports/hpcmips/), [sh](../ports/hpcsh/), 2287: [arm](../ports/hpcarm/) } gadgets demonstration. 2288: 2289: ### `Nov 2008` - meetBSD California '08 2290: 2291: *Nov. 15-16, 2008, Mountain View, California* 2292: 2293: For information, visit [](http://www.meetbsd.com/). 2294: 2295: ### `Nov 2008` - Kansai OpenSource 2008 2296: 2297: *Nov. 7-8, 2008, [Asia and Pacific Trade Center ITC 2298: Building](http://www.atc-co.com/), Osaka, Japan* 2299: 2300: At the [Kansai OpenSource 2008](http://www.k-of.jp/), there was a NetBSD 2301: booth staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 2302: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) and [Kansai \*BSD Users 2303: Group](http://www.kbug.gr.jp/) with [tadpole 2304: GX3:sparc](../ports/sparc/), [Linkstation:sandpoint](../ports/evbarm/), 2305: [PCBSD on Xen](../ports/xen/), [hpcmips](../ports/hpcmips/), 2306: [hpcsh](../ports/hpcsh/), [hpcarm](../ports/hpcarm/), 2307: [LC475](../ports/mac68k/), 2308: [OpenBSD/zaurus](http://www.openbsd.org/zaurus.html), 2309: [DragonFlyBSD](http://www.dragonflybsd.org/), [Servo motor realtime 2310: control via USB audio](http://rogiken.org/daemon/works.html) gadgets 2311: demonstration and BSDBOF. 2312: 2313: ### `Oct 2008` - EuroBSDCon 2008 2314: 2315: *Oct. 18-19, 2008, Strasbourg, France* 2316: 2317: EuroBSDcon 2008, the european technical conference for people working on 2318: and with 4.4BSD based operating systems, was held on October 18-19th 2319: 2008 at the University of Strasbourg in France. Two days of Tutorials 2320: preceded the conference on Oct. 16-17th. 2321: 2322: For more information about EuroBSDCon 2008 visit the website 2323: [](http://2008.EuroBSDCon.org/). 2324: 2325: ### `Oct 2008` - NetBSD developers summit @ NYCBSDCon 2008 2326: 2327: *Oct 10, 2008, Columbia University, NY, NY, USA* 2328: 2329: A NetBSD developer's summit was held on Friday, October 10th, 2008. The 2330: event was sponsored by and leads up to that year's NYCBSDCon and took 2331: place at Columbia University on the island of Manhattan in New York 2332: City, NY, USA. The event was *open to the public*. 2333: 2334: ### `Oct 2008` - NYCBSDCon 2008 2335: 2336: *Oct 11-12, 2008, Columbia University, NY, NY, USA* 2337: 2338: The third BSD Conference organized by the [NYC BSD User 2339: Group](http://www.nycbug.org) took place in New York City on October 2340: 11th and 12th, 2008. 2341: 2342: More information about NYCBSDCon 2008 is available at 2343: [](http://www.nycbsdcon.org/2008/). 2344: 2345: Coinciding with the conference was the 12th NetBSD Hackathon being held. 2346: 2347: ### `Oct 2008` - Open Source Conference 2008 Tokyo/Fall 2348: 2349: *Oct. 3-4, 2008, [Ota City Industrial 2350: Plaza](http://www.pio-ota.jp/english/access.html), Tokyo, Japan* 2351: 2352: At the [Open Source Conference 2008 2353: Tokyo/Fall](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2008-fall/) , there was a NetBSD booth 2354: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 2355: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) with [tadpole 2356: GX3:sparc](../ports/sparc/), [LinkStation:sandpoint](../ports/evbarm/), 2357: [PCBSD on Xen](../ports/xen/), [hpcmips](../ports/hpcmips/), 2358: [hpcsh](../ports/hpcsh/), [hpcarm](../ports/hpcarm/) gadgets 2359: demonstration and BSD BOF(OpenBSD,NetBSD, [76th IETF 2360: Hiroshima](http://www.wide.ad.jp/news/press/20080804-IETF-e.html), 2361: [Itojun Service 2362: Award](http://www.wide.ad.jp/news/press/20080912-itojun-fund-j.html) ). 2363: 2364: ### `Sep 2008` - Open Source Conference 2008 in Shimane 2365: 2366: *Sep. 12-13, 2008, [MATSUE 2367: TERRSA](http://www.sanbg.com/terrsa/e/index.html), Shimane, Japan* 2368: 2369: At the [Open Source Conference 2008 2370: Shimane](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2008-shimane/) , there was a NetBSD booth 2371: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 2372: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/). There were gadget 2373: demonstrations ( [dynabook/SS:amd64](../ports/amd64/), 2374: [Armadillo9:evbarm](../ports/evbarm/), 2375: [HP712/80:hp700](../ports/hp700/), [hpcarm](../ports/hpcarm/), 2376: [hpcmips](../ports/hpcmips/), [hpcsh](../ports/hpcsh/), 2377: [SL-C3200:zaurus](../ports/zaurus/), 2378: [LaVie/G:OpenSolaris](http://www.solaris.com/), and 2379: [chumby](http://www.chumby.com/) ). 2380: 2381: ### `Aug 2008` - Open Source Conference 2008 in Nagoya 2382: 2383: *Aug. 9, 2008, Nagoya City University, Nagoya, Japan* 2384: 2385: At the [Open Source Conference 2008 2386: Nagoya](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2008-nagoya/) , there was a NetBSD booth 2387: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 2388: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) and [Nagoya \*BSD Users' 2389: Group](http://www.nagoya.bug.gr.jp/). There were gadget demonstrations ( 2390: [RaQ2:cobalt](../ports/cobalt/), [hpcarm](../ports/hpcarm/), 2391: [hpcmips](../ports/hpcmips/), [hpcsh](../ports/hpcsh/), 2392: [HP712/80:hp700](../ports/hp700/), 2393: [OpenBSD/zaurus](http://www.openbsd.org/zaurus.html), [Speecys Robot: 2394: NetBSD/sh3](http://www.speecys.com/), [samtk](http://www.samtk.org/) ). 2395: 2396: ### `Jul 2008` - Open Source Conference 2008 in Kansai 2397: 2398: *Jul. 18-19, 2008, Kyoto Computer Gakuin, Kyoto, Japan* 2399: 2400: At the [Open Source Conference 2008 2401: Kansai](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2008-kansai/) , there was a NetBSD booth 2402: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 2403: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) . There were gadgets power 2404: consumption demonstration ( [hpcarm](../ports/hpcarm/), 2405: [hpcmips](../ports/hpcmips/), [hpcsh](../ports/hpcsh/), 2406: [alpha](../ports/alpha/), [SGI O2](../ports/sgimips/) ), Miku Hatsune 2407: paper doll with Six servo moters controlled by USB audio, libFT245 with 2408: USB, BeBox, Squeak on hpcmips, OneSeg TV recording with hpcmips, bc 2409: benchmark time x electricity consumption = energy efficiency graph with 2410: all BSD machines. 2411: 2412: ### `Jul 2008` - Japan NetBSD Users' Group meeting & NetBSD BOF 2413: 2414: *Jul 5, 2008, [The University of 2415: Tokyo](http://www.u-tokyo.ac.jp/campusmap/cam01_04_03_j.html), Tokyo, 2416: Japan* 2417: 2418: BOF with 52 attendances: NetBSD/sparc64 SMP, NetBSD/BBR-4MG 2419: evbmips(ADM5120), NetBSD/DLX - CPU implementation on FPGA, OpenRoads - 2420: Open Robot Operation And Design Specification, AsiaBSDCon2009, pkgsrc 2421: update, KURO-BOX/PRO MB88F5182, Toolchain and "mknative", EeePC, NetBSD 2422: - Now, 5.0 and Future, PGP key sign party. 2423: 2424: ### `Jun 2008` - Open Source Conference 2008 in Hokkaido 2425: 2426: *Jun. 28, 2008, Sapporo Business Innovation Center, Sapporo, Japan* 2427: 2428: At the [Open Source Conference 2008 2429: Hokkaido](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2008-do/) , there was a NetBSD booth 2430: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 2431: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) with many hpc{ 2432: [mips](../ports/hpcmips/), [sh](../ports/hpcsh/), 2433: [arm](../ports/hpcarm/) } gadgets demonstration, VT-220J, USL-5P with 3 2434: one-seg TV tuners, NetBSD/BBR-4MG . 2435: 2436: ### `Jun 2008` - pkgsrcCon 2008 2437: 2438: *Jun 13-15, 2008, Technical University of Berlin* 2439: 2440: The fifth annual pkgsrcCon convened in Berlin, Germany on June 13 to 15, 2441: 2008. pkgsrcCon is a technical conference for people working on the 2442: [NetBSD Packages Collection 2443: (pkgsrc)](http://www.NetBSD.org/docs/software/packages.html), focusing 2444: on existing technologies, research projects, and works-in-progress in 2445: pkgsrc infrastructure. 2446: 2447: More information about pkgsrcCon 2008 is available at 2448: [](http://www.pkgsrccon.org/2008/). 2449: 2450: ### `May 2008` - BSDCan 2008 2451: 2452: *May 16-17, 2008, University of Ottawa, Canada* 2453: 2454: BSDCan is a BSD conference held in Ottawa, for people working on and 2455: with 4.4BSD based operating systems and related projects. The organizers 2456: have found a formula that appeals to a wide range of people from extreme 2457: novices to advanced developers. 2458: 2459: For more information about BSDCan 2008 visit 2460: [](http://www.BSDCan.org/2008/). 2461: 2462: ### `Apr 2008` - BSDCon Barcelona 2008 2463: 2464: *Apr 19-20, 2008, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, 2465: Spain* 2466: 2467: For more information about BSDCon Barcelona '08 visit 2468: [](http://bcn.bsdcon.net/). 2469: 2470: ### `Apr 2008` - Open Source Conference 2008 Nagaoka 2471: 2472: *Apr. 12, 2008, [Nagaoka University of 2473: Technology.](http://www.nagaokaut.ac.jp/j/), Niigata, Japan* 2474: 2475: At the [Open Source Conference 2008 2476: Nagaoka](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2008-nagaoka/) , there was a NetBSD booth 2477: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 2478: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) with many hpc{ 2479: [mips](../ports/hpcmips/), [sh](../ports/hpcsh/), 2480: [arm](../ports/hpcarm/) } gadgets demonstration, NetBSD/Playstation3, 2481: USB OneSeg TV tuner (DUS-01). 2482: 2483: ### `Mar 2008` - Frühjahrsfachgespräch (FFG) of the German Unix User Group 2484: 2485: *March 11-14, 2008, University of Munich, Germany* 2486: 2487: The FFG is an annual meeting for professional users of Unix, networking 2488: technologies and IT security. 2489: 2490: For more information about FFG 2008 visit 2491: [](http://www.guug.de/veranstaltungen/ffg2008/) 2492: 2493: ### `Mar 2008` - AsiaBSDCon 2008 2494: 2495: *Mar 27-30, 2008, Tokyo, Japan* 2496: 2497: [AsiaBSDCon](http://2008.asiabsdcon.org/) is a conference for users and 2498: developers on BSD based systems. The conference is for anyone 2499: developing, deploying and using systems based on FreeBSD, NetBSD, 2500: OpenBSD, DragonFly BSD, Darwin, and MacOS X. AsiaBSDCon is a technical 2501: conference and aims to collect the best technical papers and 2502: presentations available to ensure that the latest developments in our 2503: open source community are shared with the widest possible audience. 2504: AsiaBSDCon2008 was held with over 170 attendances. [[Paper/Slide 2505: List](http://2008.asiabsdcon.org/papers/index.html), 2506: [photographs](http://2008.asiabsdcon.org/photo/0327/index.html)] 2507: 2508: [NetBSD Discussion:](http://www.NetBSD.org/~uebayasi/abc2008bof.txt) 2509: Cherry G.Mathew:NetBSD/ia64, Hiroki Doshita and Masahiko Yasuoka: [npppd 2510: and pipex](http://www.seil.jp/download/eng/), Toshiaki Nozawa [Speecys 2511: Corp.](http://www.speecys.com/) :NetBSD/Robots, Masao Uebayashi:MIPS N32 2512: ABI support and OCTEON on [SEIL/X](http://www.seil.jp/download/eng/). 2513: 2514: Paper Session (NetBSD-related content): Christoph Badura: [Gaols: 2515: Implementing Jails Under the kauth 2516: Framework](http://2008.asiabsdcon.org/timetable.html#P3A), Antti Kantee: 2517: [Send and Recieve of File System Protocols: Userspace Approach With 2518: puffs](http://2008.asiabsdcon.org/timetable.html#P4B), Kristaps 2519: Džonsons: [Logical Resource Isolation in the NetBSD 2520: Kernel](http://2008.asiabsdcon.org/timetable.html#P5A) [detail: 2521: [mult](http://mult.bsd.lv/)] , Alistair Crooks: [A Portable iSCSI 2522: Initiator](http://2008.asiabsdcon.org/timetable.html#P6A), Jörg 2523: Sonnenberger and Jared D.McNeill: [Sleeping Beauty - NetBSD on Modern 2524: Laptops](http://2008.asiabsdcon.org/timetable.html#P9A) 2525: [[Presentation](./presentations/)] . 2526: 2527: Mini Talk: M.Warner Losh: FreeBSD/mips, Alistair Crooks: Three roadmaps 2528: for NetBSD development through 5.0 and 6.0 - this will cover storage, 2529: networking and virtualisation. 2530: ### `Feb 2008` - Open Source Conference 2008 Tokyo/Spring 2531: 2532: *Feb. 29-Mar. 1, 2008, [Japan Electronics 2533: College.](http://www.jec.ac.jp/college/access.html), Tokyo, Japan* 2534: 2535: At the [Open Source Conference 2008 2536: Tokyo/Spring](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2008-spring/) , there was a NetBSD 2537: booth staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 2538: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) with many hpc{ 2539: [mips](../ports/hpcmips/), [sh](../ports/hpcsh/), 2540: [arm](../ports/hpcarm/) [arm](../ports/hpcarm/) [NetBSD/i386 on Asus 2541: EeePC](../ports/i386/netbook.html) } gadgets demonstration and 2542: [Speecys](http://www.speecys.com/) Robots. 2543: 2544: ### `Feb 2008` - FOSDEM 2008 2545: 2546: *Feb 23-24, 2008, Brussels, Belgium* 2547: 2548: NetBSD has had a booth at the FOSDEM on Feb 23-24 2008 in Brussels, 2549: Belgium. FOSDEM is a free and non-commercial event organised by the 2550: community for the community. The NetBSD booth was manned by Thomas 2551: Reisky <doppelhertz@bsdgroup.de>. 2552: 2553: ### `Feb 2008` - SCALE 6x 2554: 2555: *Feb. 9-10, 2007, Los Angeles, USA* 2556: 2557: The NetBSD project was represented by A.KML and A.DAVID at [SCALE 2558: 6x](http://www.socallinuxexpo.org/), the 6th annual Southern California 2559: Linux Expo, which took place February 9-10, 2008 at The Westin Los 2560: Angeles Airport, Los Angeles, California. 2561: 2562: ### `Dec 2007` - Open Source Conference 2007 Fukuoka 2563: 2564: *Dec. 8, 2007, [ASC BUILD.](http://www.kma.ne.jp/asc/), Fukuoka, Japan* 2565: 2566: At the [Open Source Conference 2007 2567: Fukuoka](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2007-fukuoka/) , there was a NetBSD booth 2568: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 2569: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) with many hpc{ 2570: [mips](../ports/hpcmips/), [sh](../ports/hpcsh/), 2571: [arm](../ports/hpcarm/) } gadgets demonstration. 2572: 2573: ### `Nov 2007` - Open Source Conference 2007 Okinawa 2574: 2575: *Nov. 17, 2007, [Okiden Fureai 2576: Hall](http://www.okiden.co.jp/corporate/branch/naha.html), Okinawa, 2577: Japan* 2578: 2579: At the [Open Source Conference 2007 2580: Okinawa](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2007-okinawa/) , there was a NetBSD booth 2581: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 2582: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) with many hpc{ 2583: [mips](../ports/hpcmips/), [sh](../ports/hpcsh/), 2584: [arm](../ports/hpcarm/) } gadgets demonstration. 2585: 2586: ### Nov 2007 - come2linux: Linux-days Essen 2007 2587: 2588: *November 10-11th 2007, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany* 2589: 2590: NetBSD was present at *come2linux*, the Linux-days Essen 2007. There was 2591: a joint BSD booth, the NetBSD part was manned by Stefan Klose, Julian 2592: Suschlik and Karsten Kruse. 2593: 2594: ### `Nov 2007` - Kansai OpenSource 2007 2595: 2596: *Nov. 9-10, 2007, [Asia and Pacific Trade Center ITC 2597: Building](http://www.atc-co.com/), Osaka, Japan* 2598: 2599: At the [Kansai OpenSource 2007](http://www.k-of.jp/), there was a NetBSD 2600: booth staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 2601: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) with [Mac LCIII+475 2602: upgrade](../ports/mac68k/), [iBook](../ports/macppc/) with [Servo motor 2603: realtime control via USB audio](http://rogiken.org/daemon/works.html), 2604: [Zaurus C3200](../ports/zaurus/), many hpc{ [mips](../ports/hpcmips/), 2605: [sh](../ports/hpcsh/), [arm](../ports/hpcarm/) } gadgets demonstration. 2606: 2607: ### `Oct 2007` - Open Source Conference 2007 Niigata 2608: 2609: *Oct. 27, 2007, [NIIGATA TERRSA](http://www.n-terrsa.jp/access/), 2610: Niigata, Japan* 2611: 2612: At the [Open Source Conference 2007 2613: Niigata](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2007-niigata/) , there was a NetBSD booth 2614: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 2615: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) with many hpc{ 2616: [mips](../ports/hpcmips/), [sh](../ports/hpcsh/), 2617: [arm](../ports/hpcarm/) } gadgets demonstration. 2618: 2619: ### `Oct 2007` - Systems Munich 2620: 2621: NetBSD was present at the Open Source Pavillon (hall B2, booth 110-2) at 2622: the [Systems](http://www.systems-world.de/) Computer Fair in Munich, 2623: Germany, from October 23rd to 26th. The booth is sponsored and organized 2624: by [Computer- und Literaturverlag](http://www.cul.de/). 2625: 2626: ### `Oct 2007` - First Turkish Conference on BSD Systems 2627: 2628: *Oct. 19-20, 2007, Sultanahmet Campus Marmara University, Istanbul, 2629: Turkey* 2630: 2631: BSDConTR was the first conference on BSD systems in Turkey. The 2632: conference was organized in full cooperation with EnderUNIX Software 2633: Development team, which is largely known as its ongoing support for BSD 2634: systems in Turkey, and its open source projects and Marmara University. 2635: 2636: More information on BSDConTR at [](http://www.bsdcontr.org/) 2637: 2638: ### `Oct 2007` - Brandenburger Linux-Infotag 2639: 2640: The Brandenburg Linux-Infotag was held on Oct 20th 2007 at the FH 2641: Brandenburg, Germany. The NetBSD project was represented with an own 2642: booth, and Stefan Schumacher was there to answer questions. For more 2643: information, see the [event's 2644: homepage](http://www.linuxinfotag-brb.de/). 2645: 2646: ### `Oct 2007` - Open Source Conference 2007 Tokyo/Fall 2647: 2648: *Oct. 5-6, 2007, [Ota City Industrial 2649: Plaza](http://www.pio-ota.jp/english/access.html), Tokyo, Japan* 2650: 2651: At the [Open Source Conference 2007 2652: Tokyo/Fall](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2007-fall/) , there was a NetBSD booth 2653: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 2654: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) with 2655: [X68030](../ports/x68k/) with [Nereid](http://xps.jp/), many hpc{ 2656: [mips](../ports/hpcmips/), [sh](../ports/hpcsh/), 2657: [arm](../ports/hpcarm/) } gadgets demonstration and [IPv6 and Security 2658: Presentation by 2659: itojun](http://www.itojun.org/paper/itojun-200710-ospn-tokyo/mgp00001.html). 2660: 2661: ### `Sep 2007` - EuroBSDCon 2007 2662: 2663: *Sep. 14-15, 2007, Copenhagen, Denmark* 2664: 2665: The sixth annual European BSD Conference, EuroBSDCon 2007, was held on 2666: September 14-15th 2007 at Symbion Science Park in Copenhagen, Denmark. 2667: Two days of Tutorials preceeded the Conference on Sep 12-13th. 2668: 2669: For more information about EuroBSDCon 2007 visit the website 2670: [](http://2007.EuroBSDCon.org/). 2671: 2672: ### Aug 2007 - Chaos Communications Camp 2007 2673: 2674: The Chaos Communications Camp is the summer event of the Chaos Computer 2675: Club. It was held from August 8th to 12th at the Airport Museum 2676: Finowfurt near Berlin, Germany. See the event's 2677: [homepage](http://events.ccc.de/camp/2007/) for more information. 2678: 2679: ### `Jul 2007` - Open Source Conference 2007 in Kansai 2680: 2681: *Jul. 20-21, 2007, Kyoto Computer Gakuin, Kyoto, Japan* 2682: 2683: At the [Open Source Conference 2007 2684: Kansai](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2007-kansai/) , there was a NetBSD booth 2685: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 2686: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) and [Nagoya \*BSD Users' 2687: Group](http://www.nagoya.bug.gr.jp/). There were gadgets power 2688: consumption demonstration ( [amd64](../ports/amd64/), 2689: [alpha](../ports/alpha/), [evbarm](../ports/evbarm/), 2690: [hpcarm](../ports/hpcarm/), [hpcmips](../ports/hpcmips/), 2691: [hpcsh](../ports/hpcsh/), [news68k](../ports/news68k/), 2692: [newsmips](../ports/newsmips/), [sandpoint](../ports/sandpoint/), 2693: [sgimips](../ports/sgimips/), [xen](../ports/xen/), 2694: [OpenBSD/zaurus](http://www.OpenBSD.org/zaurus.html) ) and [BSD 2695: BOF](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2007-kansai/modules/eguide/event.php?eid=52) 2696: ( [Servo motor realtime control via USB 2697: audio](http://rogiken.org/daemon/works.html), [Apache 2698: Geronimo](http://geronimo.apache.org/), [NetBSD and 2699: Java](http://www.yagoto-urayama.jp/~oshimaya/netbsd/netbsd-java/index.html) 2700: ). 2701: 2702: [A report with some 2703: photos](http://www.nagoya.bug.gr.jp/2007/osc2007-kansai/index.html) is 2704: available. 2705: 2706: ### Jul 2007 - Chaos Singularity (CoSin) 2007 2707: 2708: *Jul. 6-8, 2007, Bremgarten AG, Switzerland* 2709: 2710: The Chaos Singularity 2007 was an event organized by swiss groups which 2711: organizationally or by content are related to the CCC (Chaos Computer 2712: Club). This event took place from July 6th to 8th at the cultural center 2713: of Bremgarten ([KuZeB](http://www.kuzeb.ch)) in the canton of Aargau, 2714: Switzerland. 2715: 2716: There was a BSD booth at the CoSin 2007, also representing NetBSD. A 2717: report was posted to the 2718: [regional-de](http://mail-index.NetBSD.org/regional-de/2007/07/09/0000.html) 2719: mailing list. 2720: 2721: ### `Jul 2007` - Japan NetBSD Users' Group meeting & NetBSD BOF 2722: 2723: *Jul 7, 2007, [The University of 2724: Tokyo](http://www.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/epage/public/map/e25-j.html), Tokyo, 2725: Japan* 2726: 2727: See [this 2728: page](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/announce/meeting9.html) for 2729: meeting information. Talking about ColdFire, 2730: [MobileIPv6](https://op-ha.nautilus6.org/), [Type 0 Routing Header 2731: issue](http://www.kame.net/newsletter/20070502/index.html), update 2732: net80211 and Atheros, pkgsrc, 2733: [NetBSD/playstation3](http://www.ki.nu/hardware/.ps3/files/20070707/), 2734: [build status](ftp://ftp.ki.nu/pub/NetBSD-daily/HEAD/map/index.html), 2735: automake to BSD make converter, NetBSD - Now, 4.0 and Future, PGP key 2736: sign party. 2737: 2738: ### `Jun 2007` - Open Source Conference 2007 in Hokkaido 2739: 2740: *Jun. 30, 2007, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan* 2741: 2742: At the [Open Source Conference 2007 2743: Hokkaido](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2007-do/) , there was a NetBSD booth 2744: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 2745: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) with many hpc{ 2746: [mips](../ports/hpcmips/), [sh](../ports/hpcsh/), 2747: [arm](../ports/hpcarm/) } gadgets demonstration, Internet Radio Player 2748: on USL-5P, NetBSD/Armadillo-9. 2749: 2750: ### May 2007 - Linuxtag Berlin 2751: 2752: LinuxTag 2007 opened its doors from May 30 to June 2, 2007 at the Berlin 2753: Expo Center under the Funkturm in Berlin, Germany. The event featured 2754: many talks about Open Source, Linux and there was a [full 2755: BSD-track](http://www.linuxtag.org/2007/en/conf/events/vp-freitag.html) 2756: at the 2757: [BSD-Day](http://www.linuxtag.org/2007/de/community/workshops/bsd-day.html) 2758: this year, too. Besides the talks there was a large exhibition fair, and 2759: the NetBSD project was among the BSD projects, which had a joint booth. 2760: BSD talks included Hubert Feyrer's NetBSD status report. 2761: 2762: See the [Linuxtag homepage](http://www.linuxtag.org/2007/) for more 2763: information. 2764: 2765: ### `May 2007` - BSDCan 2007 2766: 2767: *May 18-19, 2007, Ottawa, Canada* 2768: 2769: In just three short years, BSDCan, a BSD conference held in Ottawa, has 2770: quickly established itself as the technical conference for people 2771: working on and with 4.4BSD based operating systems and related projects. 2772: The organizers have found a fantastic formula that appeals to a wide 2773: range of people from extreme novices to advanced developers. 2774: 2775: That year, BSDCan 2007 was held on 18-19 May 2007 at University of 2776: Ottawa, and was preceded by two days of Tutorials on 16-17 May 2007. 2777: 2778: For more information about BSDCan 2007 visit 2779: [](http://www.BSDCan.org/2007/). 2780: 2781: ### `Apr 2007` - pkgsrcCon 2007 2782: 2783: *Apr. 27-29, 2007, Barcelona, Spain* 2784: 2785: The fourth annual pkgsrcCon will convene in Barcelona, Spain on April 27 2786: to 29, 2007. pkgsrcCon is a technical conference for people working on 2787: the [NetBSD Packages Collection 2788: (pkgsrc)](http://www.NetBSD.org/docs/software/packages.html), focusing 2789: on existing technologies, research projects, and works-in-progress in 2790: pkgsrc infrastructure. Developers, contributors, and users are all 2791: welcome to attend. 2792: 2793: More information about pkgsrcCon 2007 is available at 2794: [](http://www.pkgsrccon.org/2007/). 2795: 2796: ### `Mar 2007` - Linux-Infotag Augsburg 2797: 2798: *Mar 24, 2007, Augsburg, Germany* 2799: 2800: There will be a joint BSD booth at the Linux Infotag in Augsburg, 2801: including presence of the NetBSD project. The event offers some small 2802: expo space, and two tracks of talks, one with beginners in mind, the 2803: other one for advanced users. See [the event's 2804: homepage](http://www.luga.de/Aktionen/LIT-2007/) for more information. 2805: 2806: P.S.: A report is available in [this 2807: mail](http://mail-index.NetBSD.org/netbsd-advocacy/2007/03/26/0000.html). 2808: 2809: ### `Mar 2007` - Open Source Conference 2007 Tokyo/Spring 2810: 2811: *Mar. 16-17, 2007, Tokyo, Japan* 2812: 2813: At the [Open Source Conference 2007 2814: Tokyo/Spring](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2007-spring/), there will be a 2815: NetBSD booth staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 2816: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) with many hpc{ 2817: [mips](../ports/hpcmips/), [sh](../ports/hpcsh/), 2818: [arm](../ports/hpcarm/) } gadgets demonstration and 2819: [Speecys](http://www.speecys.com/) Robots. 2820: 2821: ### `Mar 2007` - AsiaBSDCon 2007 2822: 2823: *Mar. 8-11, 2007, Tokyo, Japan* 2824: 2825: AsiaBSDCon is a conference for users and developers on BSD based 2826: systems. The conference is for anyone developing, deploying and using 2827: systems based on FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, DragonFly BSD, Darwin, and 2828: MacOS X. AsiaBSDCon is a technical conference and aims to collect the 2829: best technical papers and presentations available to ensure that the 2830: latest developments in our open source community are shared with the 2831: widest possible audience. 2832: 2833: Please contact secretary@asiabsdcon.org if you have any questions. The 2834: AsiaBSDCon 2007 timetable is available at 2835: [](http://2007.asiabsdcon.org/timetable.html). 2836: 2837: ### `Mar 2007` - Chemnitzer Linux-Tage 2838: 2839: *Mar. 3-4, 2007, Chemnitz* 2840: 2841: NetBSD will have a booth and related talks at the Chemnitzer Linux-Tage 2842: (linux days) in Chemnitz, Germany. See 2843: [](http://chemnitzer.linux-tage.de/2007/) for more information. If you 2844: want to help out manning the booth, please contact Hubert Feyrer 2845: <hubertf@NetBSD.org> for further details. 2846: 2847: ### `Feb 2007` - GUUG spring talk 2848: 2849: *Feb. 27-Mar. 2, 2007, Berlin, Germany* 2850: 2851: The German Unix User Group will have it's annual spring talk 2852: (Frühjahrsfachgespräch) in Berlin this year. It will take place February 2853: 27-March 2, 2007, at the Freie Universität Berlin. There will be several 2854: talks about Unix and Unix-related topics, and one will be held by Stefan 2855: Schumacher on how to secure a NetBSD system using Systrace. 2856: 2857: More information can be found at 2858: [](http://www.guug.de/veranstaltungen/ffg2007/) and 2859: [](http://www.guug.de/veranstaltungen/ffg2007/abstracts.html#3_7_1). The 2860: German language article can be found at: 2861: [](http://net-tex.dnsalias.org/~stefan/nt/netbsd/systrace.html). 2862: 2863: Ignatios also 2864: [posted](http://mail-index.NetBSD.org/regional-de/2007/03/27/0000.html) 2865: his [slides (german 2866: language!)](http://theory.cs.uni-bonn.de/~ignatios/erlgrey-guug-ffg-2007.pdf). 2867: 2868: ### `Feb 2007` - FOSDEM 2007 2869: 2870: *Feb 24-25, 2007, Brussels, Belgium* 2871: 2872: on February 24 and 25, the Free and Open source Software Developers' 2873: European Meeting (FOSDEM) takes place again at the Free University of 2874: Brussels, Belgium. 2875: 2876: There will be a joint \*BSD booth with flyers, CD's, T-shirts and other 2877: merchandising, and the Xen demo machine (now upgraded to NetBSD 2878: 4.0\_BETA2 with Xen 3.x). Furthermore there are a lot of interesting 2879: talks, development rooms, a key signing event, etcetera. More 2880: information is available on [](http://www.fosdem.org). 2881: 2882: ### `Feb 2007` - SCALE 5x 2883: 2884: *Feb. 10-11, 2007, Los Angeles, USA* 2885: 2886: [SCALE 5x](http://www.socallinuxexpo.org/), the 5th annual Southern 2887: California Linux Expo, took place February 10-11, 2007, at The Westin 2888: Los Angeles Airport, Los Angeles, California. The NetBSD Project had a 2889: booth at this event; see the reports by 2890: [A.KML](http://mail-index.NetBSD.org/netbsd-advocacy/2007/02/11/0000.html) 2891: and 2892: [A.JSCHAUMA](http://mail-index.NetBSD.org/netbsd-advocacy/2007/02/12/0000.html). 2893: 2894: ### `Dec 2006` - BSDCon Chile 2006 2895: 2896: *December 9, 2006, Universidad Diego Portales - Santiago, Chile.* 2897: 2898: This is the first BSD related conference held in Chile (Latin America). 2899: Our main objective is to provide a place for BSD developers, users and 2900: Sysadmins to meet in Chile to share and interchange ideas, experiences, 2901: knowledge and in addition to socialize to construct future links to 2902: expand knowledge of BSD systems. 2903: 2904: The conference is for anyone developing, administrating and using 2905: systems based on FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, DragonFlyBSD, Darwin, MacOS X 2906: and Solaris. 2907: 2908: For more information, please [visit the 2909: website](http://www.bsd.cl/index.php/BSDCon2006). 2910: 2911: ### `Dec 2006` - OpenSource Conference 2006 Okinawa 2912: 2913: *December 2, 2006, Okinawa Industry Support Center,Japan* 2914: 2915: At the [OpenSource Conference 2006 2916: Okinawa](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2006-okinawa/) , there will be a NetBSD 2917: booth staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 2918: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) with many hpc{ 2919: [mips](../ports/hpcmips/), [sh](../ports/hpcsh/), 2920: [arm](../ports/hpcarm/) } gadgets demonstration. 2921: 2922: ### `Nov 2006` - Hackathon 2923: 2924: NetBSD will run another hackathon, primarily dedicated to get -current 2925: ready for the 4.0 re-branch. See the [Hackathon 2926: page](../community/hackathon.html) for details. 2927: 2928: ### `Nov 2006` - LinuxDay Dornbirn, Austria 2929: 2930: NetBSD will be present as part of the OpenSource community at the 2931: [LinuxDay in Dornbirn](http://www.linuxday.at/), Austria, on November 2932: 18th. Please contact Raphael Langerhorst <raphael@raphael.g-system.at> 2933: if you have any questions or want to help out. 2934: 2935: ### `Nov 2006` - EuroBSDCon Milan 2936: 2937: EuroBSDCon 2006, the European BSD Conference will be held November 10th 2938: - 12th 2006 in Milan, Italy. The 2939: [schedule](http://www.eurobsdcon.org/schedule.php) is up now, and it has 2940: quite a bit of NetBSD-related content: 2941: 2942: - Anders "Ragge" Magnusson: How to set an internet2 Landspeed record 2943: - Jörg Sonnenberger: pkg\_install 2944: - Alistair Crooks: iSCSI - beyond the hype 2945: - NetBSD Security Enhancements: Elad Efrat 2946: - Emmanuel Dreyfus: What's new in NetBSD? 2947: - Brian A. Seklecki: A Scalable Framework for Compact Flash Booting 2948: NetBSD Network Appliances 2949: - Antti Kantee & Johannes Helander: Implementing Lightweight Routing 2950: for BSD TCP/IP 2951: 2952: Registration is open now. Please [see the 2953: website](http://www.eurobsdcon.org/) for more details! 2954: 2955: ### `Oct 2006` - NYCBSDCon 2006 2956: 2957: *Oct. 28-29, 2006, New York, NY, USA* 2958: 2959: Building on last year's success, the [New York City \*BSD User 2960: Group](http://www.nycbug.org/) is organizing [NYCBSDCon 2961: 2006](http://nycbsdcon.org/). The 2962: [schedule](http://nycbsdcon.org/schedule) shows some speakers talking 2963: about NetBSD-related topics. 2964: 2965: ### `Oct 2006` - Open Source Conference 2006 Tokyo/Fall 2966: 2967: *Oct. 28, 2006, Tokyo, Japan* 2968: 2969: At the [Open Source Conference 2006 2970: Tokyo/Fall](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2006-fall/), there will be a NetBSD 2971: booth staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 2972: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) with many hpc{ 2973: [mips](../ports/hpcmips/), [sh](../ports/hpcsh/), 2974: [arm](../ports/hpcarm/) } gadgets demonstration. 2975: 2976: ### `Oct 2006` - Systems Munich 2977: 2978: NetBSD will be present at the Open Source Pavillon (hall A3, booth 2979: A3.542) at the [Systems](http://www.systems-world.de/) Computer Fair in 2980: Munich, Germany, from October 23rd to 27th. The booth is sponsored and 2981: organized by [Computer- und Literaturverlag](http://www.cul.de/) - if 2982: you want to join us in manning the booth, please contact Hubert Feyrer 2983: <hubertf@NetBSD.org>. 2984: 2985: A report on the event is available 2986: [here](http://mail-index.NetBSD.org/netbsd-advocacy/2006/10/30/0001.html). 2987: 2988: ### `Sep 2006` - Ohio Linuxfest 2989: 2990: *Sep. 30, 2006, Columbus, Ohio, USA* 2991: 2992: There will be a NetBSD booth at the 2006 [Ohio 2993: Linuxfest](http://www.ohiolinux.org/) Conference and Expo. Contact A.JRF 2994: <jrf@NetBSD.org> if you have any questions or want to help out at the 2995: booth. 2996: 2997: A report of the event can be found 2998: [here](http://mail-index.NetBSD.org/netbsd-advocacy/2006/10/17/0000.html). 2999: 3000: ### `Sep 2006` - NetBSD at Linux-days Essen 2006: come2linux 3001: 3002: NetBSD will participate in the Linux-days in Essen, dubbed "come2linux". 3003: There will be a joint BSD booth, the NetBSD part will be manned by 3004: Menuhin Saitov <menuhin@web.de>, feel free to contact him about helping 3005: out at the booth or if you have any questions. A number of NetBSD CDs, 3006: NetBSD t-shirts etc. will be available at the booth, too. 3007: 3008: The event takes place on September 9th and 10th 2006 at the Glaspavillon 3009: of the University of Duisburg-Essen. See 3010: [http://www.come2linux.org/](http://www.come2linux.org/) for more 3011: information. 3012: 3013: A report on the event was [posted to the regional-de mailing 3014: list](http://mail-index.NetBSD.org/regional-de/2006/09/16/0000.html). 3015: 3016: ### `Sep 2006` - NetBSD at Linux-kongress Nuremberg 2006 3017: 3018: There will be a NetBSD booth at the Linux-Kongress in Nuremberg on 3019: September 7th and 8th at the University of Applied Sciences 3020: (Fachhochschule) Nuernberg. See 3021: [http://www.linux-kongress.org/](http://www.linux-kongress.org/) for 3022: more information on the event, and contact Hubert Feyrer 3023: <hubertf@NetBSD.org> if you have any questions or want to help out at 3024: the booth. 3025: 3026: A.HUBERTF wrote a short 3027: [report](http://mail-index.NetBSD.org/netbsd-advocacy/2006/09/09/0000.html) 3028: about the event. 3029: 3030: ### `Jul 2006` - Open Source Conference 2006 in Hokkaido 3031: 3032: *Jul. 15, 2006, Sapporo, Japan* 3033: 3034: At the [Open Source Conference 2006 DO](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2006-do/) 3035: , there will be a NetBSD booth staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD 3036: Users' Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) with many hpc{ 3037: [mips](../ports/hpcmips/), [sh](../ports/hpcsh/), 3038: [arm](../ports/hpcarm/) } gadgets demonstration. 3039: 3040: ### `Jun 2006` - Open Source Conference 2006 in Niigata 3041: 3042: *Jun. 17, 2006, Niigata, Japan* 3043: 3044: At the [Open Source Conference 2006 3045: Niigata](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2006-niigata/) , there was a NetBSD booth 3046: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 3047: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) with many hpc{ 3048: [mips](../ports/hpcmips/), [sh](../ports/hpcsh/), 3049: [arm](../ports/hpcarm/) } gadgets demonstration with 150 attendances. 3050: 3051: ### `Jun 2006` - Interop 2006 Tokyo BSD BOF 3052: 3053: *Jun 8, 2006, Makuhari-Messe, Chiba, Japan, 18:30-20:00 JST* 3054: 3055: [Interop 2006 Tokyo BSD 3056: BOF](https://ssl.medialive.jp/in2006fm/jp/seminar_BOF03.html) was held 3057: in [Interop 2006 Tokyo](http://www.interop.jp/2006/) with 129 3058: attendances. BOF03. Room 201. 3059: 3060: - Asia BSD Con 2007 Call for Participation , George Neville-Neil / 3061: FreeBSD Project 3062: - FreeBSD: Suspend and Resume Circumstances, for Panasonic Let's Note 3063: CF-R4, Norikatsu Shigemura / 3064: Ensure Technology Ltd 3065: . 3066: - BSD Usergroup activity: 3067: Echigo BSD Users Group 3068: , T.Tamura@EBUG 3069: - XCAST - Explicit Multi-Unicast 3070: 3071: \> See [program for 3072: details](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/ml/announce-ja/200606/msg00000.html). 3073: 3074: The BoF was broadcasted via RealVideo (238 clients), 3075: [xcast](http://www.xcast.jp/) (6 clients) , 3076: [IRC](http://www.reicha.net/) (49 clients). 3077: 3078: ### `May 2006` - BSDCan 2006 3079: 3080: *May 12-13 2006, Ottawa, Canada* 3081: 3082: In just two years, [BSDCan](http://www.bsdcan.org/), a BSD conference 3083: held in Ottawa, has quickly established itself as the technical 3084: conference for people working on and with 4.4BSD based operating systems 3085: and related projects. The organizers have found a fantastic formula that 3086: appeals to a wide range of people from extreme novices to advanced 3087: developers. 3088: 3089: This year, BSDCan 2006 will be will be held on May 12-13 2006 at 3090: University of Ottawa, and some other related events will be passed 3091: during May 10-14th. 3092: 3093: [Watch out](http://www.bsdcan.org/2006/presentations.php) for the 3094: [NetBSD people](http://www.bsdcan.org/2006/speaker.php) on BSDCan 2006! 3095: 3096: ### `May 2006` - pkgsrcCon 2006 3097: 3098: *May 5-7, Paris, France* 3099: 3100: The third pkgsrc conference will be held on May 5-7, 2006 in Paris, 3101: France. Universite Paris 7 - Denis Diderot is graciously hosting the 3102: conference on their campus. 3103: 3104: pkgsrcCon is a technical conference for people working on the NetBSD 3105: Packages Collection (pkgsrc), focusing on existing technologies, 3106: research projects, and works-in-progress in pkgsrc infrastructure. 3107: Developers, contributors, and users are all welcome to attend, and to 3108: share an excellent opportunity to gather and to discuss ideas 3109: face-to-face on how to improve pkgsrc. 3110: 3111: For more information, including how to register, and how to submit a 3112: presentation proposal, please visit 3113: [http://www.pkgsrcCon.org/](http://www.pkgsrcCon.org/). 3114: 3115: ### `May 2006` - LinuxTag 2006 3116: 3117: *May 3-6 2006, Wiesbaden, Germany* 3118: 3119: NetBSD will have a booth at [LinuxTag 2006](http://www.linuxtag.org/), 3120: visit us at Hall 9, booth number 944. There will also be BSD talks and 3121: tutorials. 3122: 3123: If you're interested in helping out at the NetBSD booth or have any 3124: questions, please contact Dennis Wecker <dennis@eperm.net>. 3125: 3126: ### `Apr 2006` - Vintage Computer Festival Europe 3127: 3128: *Apr 29th - May 1st, Munich, Germany* 3129: 3130: The [Vintage Computer Festival Europe](http://www.vcfe.org/) is taking 3131: place from April 29th to May 1st in Munich, Germany. NetBSD's A.JKUNZ 3132: will demonstrate 2.11BSD on a PDP-11/73 and do some general NetBSD 3133: advocacy. If you're interested, please contact A.JKUNZ and/or visit the 3134: URL above. 3135: 3136: ### `Apr 2006` - Japan NetBSD Users' Group meeting & NetBSD BOF 3137: 3138: *Apr 16, 2006, [National Olympics Memorial Youth 3139: Center](http://nyc.niye.go.jp/e/), Tokyo, Japan* 3140: 3141: See [this 3142: page](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/announce/meeting8.html) for 3143: meeting information. Talking about NetBSD/pc98, GDB operation on Emacs, 3144: NetBSD/dreamcast maracas controller, NetBSD/kurobako, NetBSD/Armadillo, 3145: Codeblog. 3146: 3147: ### `Apr 2006` - LinuxWorld-Boston 2006 3148: 3149: *April 3-6, 2006, Boston, MA, USA* 3150: 3151: This year the first of two LinuxWorld Conferences & Expo is going to 3152: take place in Boston, MA, USA at the beginning of April. The NetBSD 3153: Project might be represented with a [shared] booth there - if you are 3154: interested in helping out, please contact Brian Asemi (asemisldkfj at 3155: gmail.com). 3156: 3157: For more information about this event see 3158: [](http://mail-index.NetBSD.org/netbsd-advocacy/2006/04/07/0000.html). 3159: 3160: ### `Mar 2006` - Chemnitzer Linux-Tage 2006 3161: 3162: *March 4-5th 2006, TU Chemnitz, Chemnitz, Germany* 3163: 3164: NetBSD will have a booth at the [Chemnitzer 3165: Linux-Tage](http://chemnitzer.linux-tage.de), one of the largest Linux 3166: Cons in Germany. 3167: 3168: Additionally, several NetBSD presentations and a workshop will be held: 3169: 3170: - Karl Uwe Lockhoff: Introduction into Unix, BSD and Co. 3171: - Stefan Schumacher: Backup and Recovery in a NetBSD environment 3172: - Dennis Wecker: Verified Exec in NetBSD 3173: - Matthias Petermann: NetBSD Features 3174: - Hubert Feyrer: NetBSD example installation in QEmu (Workshop) 3175: 3176: For further information contact Stefan Schumacher \<stefan (at) 3177: net-tex.de\>. 3178: 3179: ### `Mar 2006` - CeBIT 2006 3180: 3181: *March 9-15 2006, Hannover, Germany* 3182: 3183: The NetBSD project will have a booth at [CeBIT](http://www.cebit.de/), 3184: the large b2b-tradefair in Hannover, Germany, from March 12-15. The 3185: booth will be in Hall 5, number E 56 and will showcase NetBSD and Xen. 3186: 3187: ### `Mar 2006` - Open Source Conference 2006 Tokyo/Spring 3188: 3189: *Mar. 17-18, 2006, Tokyo, Japan* 3190: 3191: At the [Open Source Conference 2006 3192: Tokyo/Spring](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2006/), there will be a NetBSD booth 3193: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 3194: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) with many hpc{ 3195: [mips](../ports/hpcmips/), [sh](../ports/hpcsh/), 3196: [arm](../ports/hpcarm/) } gadgets demonstration. 3197: 3198: ### `Mar 2006` - GUUG spring talk 3199: 3200: *March 21-24th 2006, Osnabrück, Germany* 3201: 3202: [German Unix User Group 3203: “Frühjahrsfachgespräch”](http://www.guug.de/veranstaltungen/ffg2006/) 3204: (spring talk) will be passed during 21.-24.3.2006 in the [University of 3205: Osnabrück](http://www.uni-osnabrueck.de/). 3206: 3207: There will be at least one NetBSD-related talk, on [backup 3208: strategies](http://www.guug.de/veranstaltungen/ffg2006/abstracts.html#3_8_2). 3209: Interested parties are welcome to coordinate any BOF sessions or booth 3210: activities with Stefan Schumacher, see [his posting on 3211: regional-de](http://mail-index.NetBSD.org/regional-de/2006/01/29/0000.html). 3212: 3213: ### `Feb 2006` - FOSDEM 2006 3214: 3215: *February 25/26th 2006, Brussels, Belgium* 3216: 3217: The sixth [Free and Open source Software Developers' European 3218: Meeting](http://www.fosdem.org/) is a 2 days event, organized by 3219: volunteers, to promote the widespread use of Free and Open Source 3220: software. Taking place in the beautiful city of Brussels, Belgium FOSDEM 3221: meetings are recognised as the best Free and Open Source events in 3222: Europe. 3223: 3224: A.PETER (<peter>) and A.GHEN (<ghen>) [will 3225: advocate](http://mail-index.NetBSD.org/netbsd-advocacy/2006/02/21/0000.html) 3226: the NetBSD project on this event. Hope to see you too! 3227: 3228: Update: A.GHEN posted a [review of the 3229: event](http://mail-index.NetBSD.org/netbsd-advocacy/2006/02/26/0000.html). 3230: 3231: ### `Feb 2006` - SCALE 4x 3232: 3233: *February 11-12th 2006, Los Angeles, California* 3234: 3235: [SCALE 4x](http://www.socallinuxexpo.org/), the 4th annual Southern 3236: California Linux Expo, will take place February 11-12, 2006, at The 3237: Westin Los Angeles Airport, Los Angeles, California. The NetBSD Project 3238: will have a booth at this event; please contact A.KML (<kml@NetBSD.org>) 3239: if you would like to help. 3240: 3241: A report from Kevin Lahey is 3242: [available](http://mail-index.NetBSD.org/netbsd-advocacy/2006/02/14/0000.html). 3243: 3244: ### `Dec 2005` - 22nd Chaos Communication Congress (22C3) 3245: 3246: *December 27-30th 2005, Berlin, Germany* 3247: 3248: [The 22nd Chaos Communication Congress 3249: (22C3)](http://events.ccc.de/congress/2005/) is a four-day conference on 3250: technology, society and utopia. The Congress offers lectures and 3251: workshops on a multitude of topics including (but not limited to) 3252: information technology, IT-security, internet, cryptography and 3253: generally a critical-creative attitude towards technology and the 3254: discussion about the effects of technological advances on society. 3255: 3256: ### `Nov 2005` - OpenSource Conference 2005 Okinawa 3257: 3258: *November 19, 2005, Okiden Fureai Hall,Japan* 3259: 3260: At the [OpenSource Conference 2005 3261: Okinawa](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2005-okinawa/) , there will be a NetBSD 3262: booth staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 3263: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) with many hpc{ 3264: [mips](../ports/hpcmips/), [sh](../ports/hpcsh/), 3265: [arm](../ports/hpcarm/) } gadgets demonstration. 3266: 3267: ### `Nov 2005` - EuroBSDCon 2005 3268: 3269: *November 25th-27th 2005, Switzerland* 3270: 3271: [EuroBSDCon 2005](http://2005.eurobsdcon.org/) will be held at the 3272: University of Basel, Switzerland on November 25th to 27th 2005. Check 3273: the [website](http://2005.eurobsdcon.org/) for official program, 3274: conference venue and registration. present. 3275: 3276: ### `Oct 2005` - Linux-Info-Tag Dresden 2005 3277: 3278: *October 29, 2005, Dresden, Germany* 3279: 3280: The “Linux-Info-Tag Dresden 2005” will take place on October 29th, 2005, 3281: in Dresden, Germany. There will be a NetBSD booth presenting NetBSD to 3282: the public and showing its abilities on demo computers. Furthermore, 3283: there will be a lecture entitled “Introduction to NetBSD” by Karl Uwe 3284: Lockhoff. 3285: 3286: For further information contact Stefan Schumacher (stefan [at] net-tex 3287: [dot] de) and see the website of the event at 3288: [](http://www.linux-info-tag.de/). 3289: 3290: ### `Oct 2005` - Systems 2005 3291: 3292: *October 24th-28th, 2005, Munich, Germany* 3293: 3294: There will be a BSD booth at the Systems computer show in Munich, 3295: Germany from October 24th to 28th 2005, where the BSD Projects (among 3296: others) will be presented. 3297: 3298: People willing to help are welcome. It's also fine that you have only on 3299: one or more days time to participate at the Booth. There is also a 3300: sponsor which provides food and drinks during the event! 3301: 3302: For more Information see [](http://www.systems.de/) 3303: 3304: Please contact Daniel Ettle (dan at deam dot org) to help at the booth, 3305: especially showing NetBSD! 3306: 3307: ### `Oct 2005` - KANSAI-OPENSOURCE-2005 3308: 3309: *October 28-October 29, 2005, Osaka Sangyo Souzoukan, Japan* 3310: 3311: At the [KANSAI OpenSource 2005](http://k-of.jp/2005/kof.html) there was 3312: a NetBSD booth staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 3313: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) with many hpc{ 3314: [mips](../ports/hpcmips/), [sh](../ports/hpcsh/), 3315: [arm](../ports/hpcarm/) } gadgets demonstration, and [DreamCast with ISA 3316: BUS Expander](../ports/dreamcast/), [NEC EWS4800 with 3317: NetBSD](http://mail-index.NetBSD.org/port-mips/2004/06/27/0000.html), 3318: [IO-DATA USL-5P 3319: (NetBSD/landisk)](http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~aw9k-nnk/n/landisk.html). 3320: 3321: At the \*BSD Meeting in Kansai 2005, There was a BoF about Secure 3322: Programing, embeded-NetBSD developers' Network, Devices and more about 3323: BSD, driven by [Kansai \*BSD Users Group](http://www.kbug.gr.jp/). 3324: 3325: ### `Sep 2005` - Open Source Conference 2005 Fall 3326: 3327: *Sep. 17, 2005, Tokyo, Japan* 3328: 3329: At the [Open Source Conference 2005 3330: Fall](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2005-fall/) there was a NetBSD booth staffed 3331: by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 3332: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) with many hpc{ 3333: [mips](../ports/hpcmips/), [sh](../ports/hpcsh/), 3334: [arm](../ports/hpcarm/) } gadgets demonstration. 3335: 3336: ### `Sep 2005` - NYC BSD Con 2005 3337: 3338: *September 17th 2005, New York City, NY, USA* 3339: 3340: The [NYC BSD User Group](http://www.nycbug.org) organized the first [NYC 3341: BSD Conference](http://nycbsdcon.org/), a one day technical conference 3342: for developers, systems administrators and end-users of the BSD 3343: operating systems and related open source projects. Please see the 3344: [conference website](http://nycbsdcon.org/) for details. 3345: 3346: ### `Sep 2005` - Computer-Bank-Office 2005 3347: 3348: *September 7th-10th 2005, Odessa, Ukraine* 3349: 3350: The NetBSD Project will be presented at 10th annual international 3351: exhibition of information technologies, [Computer-Bank-Office 3352: 2005](http://www.expo-odessa.com/exeb.phtml?id=47&lang=en), which will 3353: take place at Expocentre of Odessa Marine Terminal. All talks about 3354: NetBSD and pkgsrc systems are scheduled for Sep 8th. Anyone interested 3355: in support for and preparation of this event, please contact Mike M. 3356: Volokhov <mishka@NetBSD.org>. See also [his 3357: post](http://mail-index.NetBSD.org/netbsd-advocacy/2005/07/12/0000.html) 3358: on netbsd-advocacy. 3359: 3360: ### `Sep 2005` - Portuguese NetBSD Users's Group meeting 3361: 3362: *September 10th 2005, Lisboa, Portugal* 3363: 3364: The [Portuguese NetBSD User Group](http://www.netbsd-pt.org/) second 3365: meeting will be held at [Parque das 3366: Nações](http://www.parquedasnacoes.pt/) (Vasco da Gama). Please see the 3367: group page for more information. 3368: 3369: ### `Aug 2005` - Japan NetBSD Users' Group meeting & NetBSD BOF 3370: 3371: *Aug 27, 2005, [National Olympics Memorial Youth 3372: Center](http://nyc.niye.go.jp/e/), Tokyo, Japan* 3373: 3374: See [this 3375: page](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/announce/meeting7.html) for 3376: meeting information. 3377: 3378: A 3379: [presentation](http://www.haun.org/kent/tmp/20050827-NetBSD-audio-en.pdf) 3380: about the changes on the NetBSD audio framework is also available. 3381: 3382: ### `Aug 2005` - BSDDAY São Paulo 3383: 3384: *August 13th, 2005, São Paulo, Brazil* 3385: 3386: The first [BSDDAY](http://www.bsdday.com.br/) in São Paulo, Brazil took 3387: place on August 13th, 2005. Presentations regarding the main BSD 3388: derivatives including, of course, NetBSD were given. Since the event is 3389: also meant to promote charity, the entrance fee was 2 Kilograms of 3390: non-perishable food, which were donated to a non-governmental 3391: organization. 3392: 3393: ### `Aug 2005` - LinuxWorld Conference & Expo 2005 3394: 3395: *August 9-11th, 2005, San Francisco, California, USA* 3396: 3397: [LinuxWorld Conference & Expo 3398: 2005](http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/live/12/events/12SFO05A/) was held 3399: in San Francisco, California, USA from August 9th to 11th 2005. NetBSD 3400: had a booth in the ".org Pavilion", organized by A.RIZ <riz@NetBSD.org>. 3401: One of the main attractions here was the [NetBSD 3402: Toaster](http://www.embeddedarm.com/news/netbsd_toaster.htm), engineered 3403: by Technologic Systems. See A.RIZ's 3404: [report](http://mail-index.NetBSD.org/netbsd-advocacy/2005/08/13/0000.html) 3405: for more details. 3406: 3407: ### `Jul 2005` - BSD at “What the Hack” outdoor hacker conference 3408: 3409: *July 28 - 31, 2005, Liempde, near Den Bosch, The Netherlands* 3410: 3411: [What The Hack](http://www.whatthehack.org/) is an outdoor hacker 3412: conference/event taking place on a large event-campground in the south 3413: of The Netherlands from 28 until 31 July 2005. There will be a BSD 3414: village with at least three members of the NetBSD Project present. For 3415: more details about the \*BSD presence see Daniel Ettle's 3416: [message](http://mail-index.NetBSD.org/netbsd-advocacy/2005/07/04/0000.html) 3417: to the netbsd-advocacy mailinglist. 3418: 3419: ### `Jul 2005` - BSD-CONFERENCE-JAPAN 2005 3420: 3421: *July 23, 2005, [NADYA 3422: Park](http://www.u-net.city.nagoya.jp/t-index/nadia.htm) Nagoya, Japan* 3423: 3424: [http://www.bsdcon.jp/](http://www.bsdcon.jp/) with 80 attendances. 3425: There had be a BSD booth staffed by members of the [Nagoya \*BSD Users' 3426: Group](http://www.nagoya.bug.gr.jp/). See more 3427: [Reports](http://pcweb.mycom.co.jp/articles/2005/07/27/bsdcon/). 3428: 3429: ### `Jul 2005` - Open Source Conference 2005 in Hokkaido 3430: 3431: *Jul. 9, 2005, Sapporo, Japan* 3432: 3433: At the Open Source Conference 2005 DO there had be a NetBSD booth 3434: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 3435: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/). 3436: [](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2005-do/) with 250 attendances and 17 user 3437: groups. 3438: 3439: ### `Jun 2005` - MeetBSD 2005 3440: 3441: *June 17-19th, 2005, Kraków, Poland* 3442: 3443: [MeetBSD 2005](http://2005.meetbsd.org/) will be held in Kraków, Poland, 3444: from June 17th to 19th 2005. Check the 3445: [website](http://2005.meetbsd.org/) for the official program conference 3446: venue and registration. 3447: 3448: ### `Jun 2005` - Interop 2005 Tokyo BSD BOF 3449: 3450: *Jun 9, 2005, Makuhari-Messe, Chiba, Japan, 18:30-20:00 JST* 3451: 3452: [Interop 2005 Tokyo BSD 3453: BOF](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/ml/announce-ja/200506/msg00000.html) 3454: was held in [Interop 2005 Tokyo](http://www.interop.jp/2005/) with 130 3455: attendances. BOF01. Room 302. 3456: 3457: - \*BSD Document Internationalization 3458: - A Robot that runs on NetBSD 3459: Live performance 3460: - BSD Usergroup activity in Japan 3461: - XCAST - Explicit Multi-Unicast 3462: 3463: See [program for 3464: details](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/ml/announce-ja/200506/msg00000.html). 3465: 3466: The BoF was broadcasted via RealVideo (277 3467: clients)/[xcast](http://www.xcast.jp/) (4 clients include [Univ. of 3468: Science Malaysia](http://nrg.cs.usm.my/), [Nagoya 3469: University](http://www.nagoya-u.ac.jp/en/), and [Nagoya \*BSD Users' 3470: Group](http://www.nagoya.bug.gr.jp/))/ [IRC](http://www.reicha.net/) (55 3471: 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)). 3472: 3473: ### `May 2005` - BSDCan2005 3474: 3475: *May 13th - May 14th, Ottawa, Canada* 3476: 3477: [BSDCan 2005](http://www.bsdcan.org/2005/) was held on May 13-14 2005 at 3478: University of Ottawa. There were related events on the 12th and the 15th 3479: (of a social nature, for the most part). 3480: 3481: ### `May 2005` - pkgsrcCon 2005 3482: 3483: *May 6th - May 8th 2005, Prague, Czech Republic* 3484: 3485: [pkgsrcCon 2005](http://www.pkgsrcCon.org/2005/) was held in Prague, 3486: Czech Republic from May 6th until May 8th 2005. pkgsrcCon is a technical 3487: conference for people working on the [NetBSD Packages Collection 3488: (pkgsrc)](../docs/pkgsrc/), focusing on existing technologies, research 3489: projects, and works-in-progress in pkgsrc infrastructure. Developers, 3490: contributors, and users are all welcome to attend. You can view the 3491: [slides for this 3492: event](http://www.pkgsrcCon.org/2005/presentations.html) here. 3493: 3494: See [](http://www.pkgsrcCon.org/2005/) for details. 3495: 3496: ### `Apr 2005` - Linux Fest Northwest 2005 3497: 3498: LinuxFest Northwest is an annual conference providing many free lectures 3499: and booths covering the open source Unix community. The free event was 3500: held April 30th in Bellingham, Washington, USA. Lectures covering BSD 3501: topics and a BSD advocacy booth were available for the fourth year. 3502: Around 1000 people attended the past two years. 3503: 3504: More information is at 3505: [http://linuxnorthwest.org/](http://linuxnorthwest.org/). (If you can 3506: volunteer to help with NetBSD advocacy at LinuxFest, please see [this 3507: email](http://mail-index.NetBSD.org/netbsd-advocacy/2005/03/25/0000.html).) 3508: 3509: ### `Apr 2005` - 2005 USENIX Annual Technical Conference 3510: 3511: *April 10-15, 2005, Anaheim, California, USA* 3512: 3513: USENIX is a place to present groundbreaking research and cutting-edge 3514: practices in a wide variety of technologies and environments. The 2005 3515: program included additional tutorials, more security breakthroughs, and 3516: sessions devoted to Linux and Open Source Software. Join the community 3517: of programmers, developers, and systems professionals in sharing 3518: solutions and fresh ideas. 3519: 3520: See [](http://www.usenix.org/usenix05/) for details. 3521: 3522: ### `Mar 2005` - Open Source Conference 2005 3523: 3524: *Mar. 25-26, 2005, Tokyo, Japan* 3525: 3526: At the Open Source Conference 2005 there was a NetBSD booth staffed by 3527: members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 3528: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/). For more details see 3529: [](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2005/). 3530: 3531: ### `Mar 2005` - CeBIT 2005 3532: 3533: *March 10-16, 2005, Hannover, Germany* 3534: 3535: The NetBSD Project was presented at the [CeBIT 3536: 2005](http://www.cebit.de/) trade show. A few pictures are available at 3537: [this URL](http://nuxi.homeunix.org/album/messen/cebit-2005/). 3538: 3539: ### `Mar 2005` - Chemnitzer Linux-Tage 2005 3540: 3541: NetBSD was present Mar 5th/6th 2005 in Chemnitz, Germany. We had a fine 3542: NetBSD booth at the Chemnitz Linuxdays Mar 5th/6th 2005, with lots of 3543: fun going on. Please check Hubert Feyrer's BLOG for all the details: 3544: 3545: - Chemnitzer Linux-Tage 2005 Day 0 and 1 3546: - Chemnitzer Linux-Tage 2005 Day 2 3547: 3548: ### `Feb 2005` - Spring Talks of the German Unix User Group 3549: 3550: Feb 22nd to 25th 2005 in Munich, Germany. For some details on the event 3551: itself and some rumours & gossips see Hubert Feyrer's BLOG entries: 3552: 3553: - GUUG Spring Talk, Day 1 3554: - GUUG Spring Talk, Day 2 3555: - GUUG Spring Talk, Day 3 3556: 3557: ### `Feb 2005` - Southern California Linux Expo 3558: 3559: *Feb 12th -13th, 2005, Los Angeles, California* 3560: 3561: NetBSD had a booth at the [Southern California Linux 3562: Expo](http://www.socallinuxexpo.org/) at the LA Convention Center. 3563: NetBSD's presence in booth \#34 was organized by A.KML 3564: (<kml@NetBSD.org>). You can find an account of his experience 3565: [here](http://mail-index.NetBSD.org/netbsd-advocacy/2005/02/14/0008.html) 3566: and [here](http://www.nomadlogic.org/~pete/scale.html); a picture of the 3567: NetBSD booth also was prominently displayed 3568: [](http://www.socallinuxexpo.org/images/pictures/scale3x_day1_6.jpg). 3569: 3570: ### `Feb 2005` - Solutions Linux 2005 3571: 3572: *Feb. 1-3, 2005, Paris, France* 3573: 3574: NetBSD will have a booth at Solutions Linux 2005. We will be presenting 3575: both NetBSD and pkgsrc on various hardware and software platforms, while 3576: selling CDs and other merchandise. If you want to help, you can contact 3577: Quentin Garnier (<cube@cubidou.net>). 3578: 3579: ### `Dec 2004` - 21st Chaos Communication Congress (21c3) 3580: 3581: *Dec. 27 - 29, 2004, Berlin, Germany* 3582: 3583: There will be a NetBSD booth at this year's [21st Chaos Communications 3584: Congress](http://www.ccc.de/congress/2004/), and you're welcome to drop 3585: by for hacking, drinking, fun and entertainment, giving talks, promoting 3586: NetBSD and your working areas, help man the NetBSD booth, etc. Please 3587: contact Stefan Schumacher (stefan [at] net-tex [dot] de) if you're 3588: interested in helping out. There are some [notes on the 3589: event](http://mail-index.NetBSD.org/netbsd-advocacy/2004/12/30/0000.html) 3590: available. 3591: 3592: ### `Oct 2004` - EuroBSDCon 2004 3593: 3594: *Oct. 29 - 31, 2004, Karlsruhe, Germany* 3595: 3596: [EuroBSDCon 2004](http://2004.eurobsdcon.org/) took place in Karlsruhe, 3597: Germany. Check the [website](http://2004.eurobsdcon.org/) for official 3598: program, conference venue and registration. A 3599: [schedule](http://2004.eurobsdcon.org/talkschedule.html) of the talks 3600: shows that there were a number of NetBSD developers present. 3601: 3602: A brief report from the conference is available 3603: [here](http://mail-index.NetBSD.org/netbsd-advocacy/2004/11/02/0000.html). 3604: A longer review was published in the [USENIX ;login: 3605: magazine](http://www.usenix.org/publications/login/2005-02/openpdfs/eurobsdcon.pdf). 3606: 3607: ### `Oct 2004` - Systems 2004 3608: 3609: *Oct. 18 - 22, 2004, Munich, Germany* 3610: 3611: There will be a 40m² BSD booth at the Systems computer show in Munich, 3612: Germany from October 18th to 22nd 2004, where the NetBSD project (among 3613: others) will be presented. People willing to help are welcome; Daniel 3614: Ettle (dan at deam org) will act as a point of contact. See 3615: [](http://www.systems.de/) for more information on the exhibition. 3616: 3617: ### `Oct 2004` - BSD-CONFERENCE-JAPAN 2004 3618: 3619: *October 23, 2004, Osaka Sangyo Souzoukan, Japan* 3620: 3621: [](http://www.bsdcon.jp/2004/) 3622: 3623: ### `Oct 2004` - KANSAI-OPENSOURCE-2004 3624: 3625: *October 22-October 23, 2004, Osaka Sangyo Souzoukan, Japan* 3626: 3627: [](http://k-of.jp/2004/) 3628: 3629: ### `Sep 2004` - Open Source Conference 2004 3630: 3631: *Sep. 4, 2004, Tokyo, Japan* 3632: 3633: At the Open Source Conference 2004 there was a NetBSD booth staffed by 3634: members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 3635: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/). 3636: 3637: ### `Sep 2004` - Swiss Unix Conference 2004 3638: 3639: *Sep. 2 - 4, 2004, Zurich, Switzerland* 3640: 3641: [SUCON '04](http://www.suug.ch/sucon/04/), the 2nd Swiss Unix 3642: Conference, will take place in Zurich, Switzerland. The NetBSD Project 3643: was represented by Hubert Feyrer, who will gave [a 3644: presentation](http://www.feyrer.de/NetBSD/sucon-netbsd.pdf) at this 3645: conference. 3646: 3647: ### `Aug 2004` - NetBSD System Administration training 3648: 3649: *August 10 - 13, 2004, Seattle, Washington, USA* 3650: 3651: [Puget Sound Technology](http://www.pugetsoundtechnology.com/) is 3652: teaching a hands-on class covering the fundamentals of NetBSD system 3653: administration. Visit [http://www.pugetsoun 3654: dtechnology.com/training/netbsd/](http://www.pugetsoundtechnology.com/training/netbsd/) 3655: for details. 3656: 3657: ### `Aug 2004` - LinuxWorld 2004 3658: 3659: *Aug. 2 - 5, 2004, San Francisco, CA, USA* 3660: 3661: [LinuxWorld Conference and 3662: Expo](http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/live/12/events/12SFO04A) is going to 3663: take place in San Francisco, CA, USA at the beginning of August. The 3664: NetBSD Project might be represented with a booth there - if you are 3665: interested in helping out, please contact <regional-sfba@NetBSD.org>. 3666: 3667: ### `Jul 2004` - Get into OpenSource Hokkaido 2004 (GODo2004) 3668: 3669: *Jul. 24, 2004, Sapporo Business Innovation Center, Sapporo, Japan* 3670: 3671: At the Get into OpenSource Hokkaido 2004 (GODo2004), there was a NetBSD 3672: booth staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 3673: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) and 3674: [NoBUG](http://www.no.bug.gr.jp/) with NetBSD/i386+IPv6 XCAST on VAIO 3675: GT, and many hpc{ [mips](../ports/hpcmips/), [sh](../ports/hpcsh/), 3676: [arm](../ports/hpcarm/) } 3677: 3678: ### `Jun 2004` - NetWorld+Interop 2004 Tokyo BSD BOF 3679: 3680: *Jun 30, 2004, Makuhari-Messe, Chiba, Japan, 18:30-20:00 JST* 3681: 3682: [](http://www.interop.jp/2004/) 3683: 3684: [BOF 3685: information](http://www.re.soum.co.jp/%7Efukaumi/ml/netbsd/200406/msg00015.html) 3686: 3687: Contact Jun Ebihara <jun@NetBSD.org> for more information. 3688: 3689: ### `Jun 2004` - USENIX 2004 3690: 3691: *June 27 - July 2, 2004, Boston, MA, USA* 3692: 3693: [USENIX '04](http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix04/), the USENIX Annual 3694: Technical Conference is going to take place in Boston, MA, USA at the 3695: end of June. The NetBSD Project will be represented by Alistair Crooks, 3696: who gives a talk on [The NetBSD Update 3697: System](http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix04/tech/sigs.html#netbsd_update), 3698: as well as Christos Zoulas, who will report on NetBSD during [The State 3699: of the BSD 3700: Projects](http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix04/tech/sigs.html#bsd_projects), 3701: and finally by a number of NetBSD developers who will be attending the 3702: conference. 3703: 3704: ### `Jun 2004` - Linuxtag 2004 3705: 3706: *June 23 - 26, 2004, Karlsruhe, Germany* 3707: 3708: [Linuxtag 2004](http://www.linuxtag.org/2004/index.html) is going to 3709: take place in Karlsruhe, Germany. The NetBSD Project will be represented 3710: with a booth - please contact <hubertf@NetBSD.org> if you are interested 3711: in helping out. 3712: 3713: ### `May 2004` - Japan NetBSD Users' Group meeting & NetBSD BOF 3714: 3715: *May 22, 2004, [National Olympics Memorial Youth 3716: Center](http://nyc.niye.go.jp/e/), Tokyo, Japan* 3717: 3718: See [this 3719: page](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/announce/meeting6.html) for 3720: meeting information. 3721: 3722: ### `May 2004` - BSDCan 2004 3723: 3724: *May 13-16, 2004, Ottawa, Canada* 3725: 3726: The first BSDCan was a tremendous success. With attendance matching 3727: BSDCon, and lower fees and accommodation costs, this looks likely to 3728: become a popular annual conference. BSD developer Speakers and attendees 3729: were numerous. BSDMall had NetBSD paraphanalia available for sale. See 3730: also the [BSDCan Website](http://www.bsdcan.org/), and some [photos from 3731: Daemonnews.](http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200405/bsdcan_2004/) 3732: 3733: ### `May 2004` - LinuxChix-Br II National Meeting 3734: 3735: *May 1-2, 2004 Sao Paulo, Brazil* 3736: 3737: At the [LinuxChix-Br National 3738: Meeting](http://www.linuxchix.org.br/node.php?id=87) there will be a 3739: presentation about pkgsrc and a NetBSD booth staffed by members of 3740: NetBSD-BR. 3741: 3742: ### `Apr 2004` - pkgsrcCon 2004 3743: 3744: *April 30 - May 2, 2004, Vienna, Austria* 3745: 3746: pkgsrcCon is a technical conference for people working at the NetBSD 3747: Packages Collection (pkgsrc), focusing on existing technologies, 3748: research projects, and works-in-progress in pkgsrc infrastructure. For 3749: more information, including slides of the talks, please visit 3750: [http://www.pkgsrcCon.org/2004/](http://www.pkgsrcCon.org/2004/), and 3751: see Hubert Feyrer's report in the [DaemonNews 3752: Ezine](http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200405/pkgsrcCon2004.html). 3753: 3754: ### `Apr 2004` - Linuxfest Northwest 2004 3755: 3756: *April 17, 2004, Bellingham, Washington, USA* 3757: 3758: LFNW is a showcase for what Northwest Linux users are doing with open 3759: source software. Over 50 short (1 hour) presentations will be given 3760: throughout the day. Among them will be introductions to BSD and pkgsrc. 3761: There will be a BSD booth, occupied by two NetBSD developers and other 3762: BSD enthusiasts. Admission is free. Please see 3763: [http://www.linuxnorthwest.org/](http://www.linuxnorthwest.org/) and 3764: [this message to the netbsd-news 3765: mailinglist](http://mail-index.NetBSD.org/netbsd-news/2004/04/16/0000.html) 3766: for more information. 3767: 3768: ### `Mar 2004` - GUUG Frühjahrsfachgespräch 3769: 3770: *March 9-12, 2004, Bochum, Germany* 3771: 3772: The NetBSD Project will in all likeliness be represented at this year's 3773: [GUUG 3774: Frühjahrsfachgespräche](http://www.guug.de/veranstaltungen/ffg2004/), a 3775: yearly congress for everybody interested in Unix(-like) Systems and 3776: System Administration organized by the [German Unix User 3777: Group](http://www.guug.de/). 3778: 3779: ### `Mar 2004` - Chemnitzer Linux-Tag 2004 3780: 3781: *March 6-7, 2004, Chemnitz, Germany* 3782: 3783: NetBSD was represented with a booth at the Chemnitzer Linux-Tag 2004 in 3784: Chemnitz, Germany. In addition, there were three presentations: 3785: 3786: - \`\` 3787: Cryptographic applications under NetBSD 3788: '' by Stefan Schumacher 3789: - \`\` 3790: Introduction to NetBSD 3791: '' by Karl Uwe Lockhoff 3792: - \`\` 3793: Software Installation under NetBSD, Linux & Solaris using pkgsrc 3794: '' by Hubert Feyrer 3795: 3796: Please see the 3797: [website](http://www.tu-chemnitz.de/linux/tag/2004/allgemeines/) for 3798: details. Photos are available at [this 3799: website](http://www.uni-magdeburg.de/steschum/6clt/), more photos can be 3800: found on the [Linux-Tag 3801: website](http://www.tu-chemnitz.de/linux/tag/2004/media/bilder/). 3802: 3803: ### `Feb 2004` - Solutions Linux 2004 3804: 3805: *February 3-5, 2004, Paris, France* 3806: 3807: NetBSD was represented with a booth at the [Solutions Linux 3808: 2004](http://www.solutionslinux.fr) conference and expo in Paris, 3809: France. 3810: 3811: ### `Jan 2004` - LinuxWorld 2004 3812: 3813: *January 20-23, 2004, New York, New York* 3814: 3815: The [LinuxWorld Conference and Expo](http://www.linuxworldexpo.com) 2004 3816: took place in the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center in New York City 3817: from January 20-23, 2004. While the NetBSD Project did not have their 3818: own booth this year, we were able to hand out some flyers and sell a few 3819: shirts through the [BSDMall](http://www.bsdmall.com) booth. See the 3820: [report](http://daily.daemonnews.org/view_story.php3?story_id=4368) from 3821: the local user group ([NYCBUG](http://www.nycbug.org/)) for details. 3822: 3823: ### `Dec 2003` - 20th Chaos Communication Congress (20c3) 3824: 3825: *December 27th to 29th, 2003, Berlin, Germany* 3826: 3827: The NetBSD Project was represented at the [20th Chaos Communication 3828: Congress](http://www.ccc.de/congress/2003/) (20c3) in Berlin, Germany, 3829: from December 27th to 29th. See Hubert Feyrer's 3830: [report](http://mail-index.NetBSD.org/netbsd-advocacy/2004/01/02/0002.html) 3831: for Details. If you're interested in the 3832: [Blinkenlights](http://www.blinkenlights.de/) project, one of 20c3's 3833: main attractions, you will find Lubomir Sedlacik's [post to the 3834: netbsd-advocacy](http://mail-index.NetBSD.org/netbsd-advocacy/2004/01/03/0000.html) 3835: MailingList useful. 3836: 3837: ### `Dec 2003` - BSDCon Brasil 2003 3838: 3839: *December 6 and 7, 2003, Instituto Militar de Engenharia (military 3840: institute of engineering - IME), Rio de Janeiro, Brasil* 3841: 3842: See [http://bsdcon.myfreebsd.com.br](http://bsdcon.myfreebsd.com.br) for 3843: details. 3844: 3845: ### `Dec 2003` - BSD-Linux-Day 2003 3846: 3847: *December 2, 2003, Pacifico Yokohama, Japan* 3848: 3849: [http://www.jus.or.jp/events/bsd-linux-day/](http://www.jus.or.jp/events/bsd-linux-day/) 3850: 3851: ### `Nov 2003` - NetBSD System Administration training 3852: 3853: *November 18-21, 2003, Seattle, Washington area* 3854: 3855: [Puget Sound Technology](http://www.pugetsoundtechnology.com/) is 3856: teaching a hands-on class covering the fundamentals of NetBSD system 3857: administration. See 3858: [http://www.pugetsoundtechnology.com/training/netbsd/](http://www.pugetsoundtechnology.com/training/netbsd/) 3859: for details. 3860: 3861: ### `Oct 2003` - KANSAI-OPENSOURCE+FREEWARE-2003 3862: 3863: *October 31-November 1, 2003, Osaka Sangyo Souzoukan, Japan* 3864: 3865: [](http://k-of.jp/2003/) 3866: 3867: ### `Oct 2003` - BSD-CONFERENCE-JAPAN 2003 3868: 3869: *October 18, 2003, BIZ SHINJUKU, Japan* 3870: 3871: [](http://www.bsdcon.jp/2003/) 3872: 3873: ### `Oct 2003` - Linux-Kongress 2003 3874: 3875: *October 14-16, 2003, Saarbrücken, Germany* 3876: 3877: NetBSD will be present at the Linux-Kongress in Saarbrücken, Germany, an 3878: event mostly attended by Linux developers. Presenting NetBSD in this 3879: environment will give an interesting chance to compare open source 3880: operating systems on a highly skilled level. There will be a joint booth 3881: by all BSD projects offering CDs, DVDs, t-shirts and other devotionalia. 3882: See [this page](http://www.linux-kongress.org/2003/index.html) for more 3883: information. 3884: 3885: ### `Sep 2003` - BSDCon 2003 3886: 3887: *September 8-12, 2003, Marriott Hotel,San Mateo, California, USA* 3888: 3889: Meet the movers and shakers of the BSD community, and learn how you can 3890: use BSD as part of your enterprise-grade solutions. For details, see 3891: [http://www.usenix.org/events/bsdcon03/cfp/](http://www.usenix.org/events/bsdcon03/cfp/). 3892: Contact name, address, phone, fax and/or e-mail: Conference Department, 3893: 510-528-8649, conference@usenix.org. A 3894: [report](http://mail-index.NetBSD.org/netbsd-advocacy/2003/09/13/0000.html) 3895: is available online. 3896: 3897: ### `Aug 2003` - Chaos Communication Camp 2003 3898: 3899: *August 7-10, 2003, near Berlin, Germany (Old Europe).* 3900: 3901: A lot of photos are available 3902: [online](http://www.uni-magdeburg.de/steschum/ccc03/index.html), as well 3903: as [some slides](advocacy/folienslide.pdf). 3904: 3905: ### `Jul 2003` - Linuxtag Karlsruhe, Germany 3906: 3907: *July 10-13, Karlsruhe, Germany* 3908: 3909: The NetBSD Project was present at the [Linuxtag Karlsruhe 2003, 3910: Germany](http://www.linuxtag.org/2003/en/index.html) from July 10ths to 3911: 13th in a booth together with other BSD-related projects. 3912: 3913: The booth was organized by Hubert Feyrer, Bernd Sieker and Jaromir 3914: Dolecek. See the [full 3915: report](http://mail-index.NetBSD.org/netbsd-advocacy/2003/07/14/0000.html) 3916: for details and pictures. 3917: 3918: ### `Jul 2003` - Libre Software Meeting in Metz 3919: 3920: *July 9-12, 2003, Metz, France* 3921: [http://www.rencontresmondiales.org/](http://www.rencontresmondiales.org/) 3922: 3923: The NetBSD Project was represented at the LSM 2003 by Emmanuel Dreyfus 3924: and Gilbert Fernandes. A 3925: [report](http://mail-index.NetBSD.org/netbsd-advocacy/2003/07/14/0002.html) 3926: of the meeting as well as some pictures are available online. 3927: 3928: ### `Jul 2003` - NetWorld+Interop 2003 Tokyo BSD BOF 3929: 3930: *July 2, 2003, Makuhari-Messe, Chiba, Japan, 18:30-20:00 JST* 3931: 3932: [http://www.interop.jp/](http://www.interop.jp/) 3933: 3934: Call for Presentation: contact Jun Ebihara <jun@NetBSD.org>. 3935: 3936: ### `Jun 2003` - Japan NetBSD Users' Group meeting & NetBSD BOF 3937: 3938: *Jun 28, 2003, [National Olympics Memorial Youth 3939: Center](http://nyc.niye.go.jp/e/), Tokyo, Japan* 3940: 3941: ### `Jun 2003` - Open Source Meeting 2003 in Nagoya University 3942: 3943: *June 7-8, 2003, Nagoya, Japan* 3944: 3945: [http://tokai.opensource.jp/tsudoi/2003/](http://tokai.opensource.jp/tsudoi/2003/) 3946: 3947: ### `Jun 2003` - 2003 USENIX Annual Technical Conference 3948: 3949: *June 9-14, 2003, San Antonio, Texas, USA* 3950: 3951: A six-day, multiple-track event which includes tutorials, technical 3952: sessions composed of refereed papers, invited talks, and 3953: Birds-of-a-Feather sessions. There will be a [Super BSD BOF 3954: Session](http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix03/bofs.html). For details, 3955: see 3956: [http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix03/](http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix03/). 3957: Contact name, address, phone, fax and/or e-mail: Conference Department, 3958: 510-528-8649, conference@usenix.org 3959: 3960: Slides of Chris Demetriou's presentation are [available 3961: here](events/usenix2003/). 3962: 3963: ### `May 2003` - BSDay 2003 3964: 3965: *May 21, 2003, Warszawa-Miedzeszyn, Poland* 3966: 3967: [AVET Information and Network Security](http://www.avet.com.pl/) are 3968: holding the [BSDay 3969: 2003](http://www.avet.com.pl/en/conferences/bsday/bsday.php) conference 3970: on May 21, 2003, the first event of its kind in Poland. See the web site 3971: for more information. 3972: 3973: ### `May 2003` - BSDCon.it 3974: 3975: *May 9-11, 2003, Padova, Italy* 3976: 3977: As part of [Webbit '03](http://www.webb.it/), 3978: [BSDCon.it](http://www.bsdcon.it/) will be held from May 9th to may 11th 3979: in Padova, Italy. People interested in giving a talk on NetBSD should 3980: contact <ed@bsdcon.it>. 3981: 3982: ### `Apr 2003` - DECUS Munich Symposium 2003 3983: 3984: *April 8th-10th, 2003, Bonn, Germany* *(updated)* 3985: 3986: There was a presentation about porting NetBSD to old hardware, and the 3987: different emulating systems that allow old software to run on new 3988: hardware, again with NetBSD as the host OS, and one about eletronic 3989: voting, using the procedure for the [election of the NetBSD Board of 3990: Directors](../changes/#board-elections2002) as an in-depth example. 3991: 3992: ### `Apr 2003` - Magdeburg Linuxtag 3993: 3994: *April 5th, 2003, Magdeburg, Germany* 3995: 3996: There was a NetBSD booth and presentation at the Magdeburg Linuxtag in 3997: Magdeburg, Germany on April 5th 2003 at the University of Magdeburg, 3998: Germany. See [http://www.mdlug.de/](http://www.mdlug.de/) for more 3999: information. Contact Bernd Sieker <bsieker@freenet.de> for information 4000: regarding representation of NetBSD at the event. 4001: 4002: ### `Mar 2003` - NetBSD is ten years young and still going strong! 4003: 4004: Several parties are being held in cities around the world to celebrate 4005: the tenth birthday of The NetBSD Project, March 21, 2003. Check out the 4006: [Events Gallery](events/) for more information. 4007: 4008: ### `Mar 2003` - CeBIT 2003 4009: 4010: *March 12-19, 2003, Hannover, Germany* 4011: 4012: The [CeBIT 2003](http://www.cebit.de), the most widely known ICT trade 4013: fair world-wide, took place in Hannover, Germany from March 12-19, 2003. 4014: The NetBSD Project had a booth on Wednesday the 12th, and Thursday 13th, 4015: and there was a 30 minute presentation of the NetBSD Project. Bernd 4016: Sieker and Jaromir Dolocek manned the booth, see their 4017: [report](http://mail-index.NetBSD.org/netbsd-advocacy/2003/03/20/0001.html). 4018: 4019: ### `Mar 2003` - NetBSD System Administration training 4020: 4021: *March 4-6, 2003, Phoenix, Arizona, USA area* 4022: 4023: [Puget Sound Technology](http://www.pugetsoundtechnology.com/) is 4024: teaching a hands-on class covering the fundamentals of NetBSD system 4025: administration. See 4026: [http://www.pugetsoundtechnology.com/training/netbsd/](http://www.pugetsoundtechnology.com/training/netbsd/) 4027: for details. 4028: 4029: ### `Mar 2003` - Chemnitzer Linux-Tag 4030: 4031: *March 1, 2003, Chemnitz, Germany* 4032: 4033: NetBSD was represented with a booth at the [Chemnitzer Linux-Tag 4034: (CLT5)](http://www.tu-chemnitz.de/linux/tag/lt5/). A summary of the 4035: events including several pictures is available online at 4036: [http://www.feyrer.de/NetBSD/clt5.html](http://www.feyrer.de/NetBSD/clt5.html). 4037: Presentations, including mp3s of the talks (in German!) are available 4038: from: 4039: 4040: - NetBSD - eine Einführung 4041: [ 4042: mp3 4043: ] 4044: - NetBSD 1.6 - Neuigkeiten und Einsatz im Embedded-Umfeld 4045: [ 4046: mp3 4047: ] 4048: - Der Regensburger Marathon-Cluster - eine Video-Rendering-Anwendung 4049: mit NetBSD 4050: [ 4051: mp3 4052: ] 4053: 4054: ### `Feb 2003` - Solutions Linux 4055: 4056: *February 4-6, 2003, CNIT - Paris La Defense, France.* 4057: 4058: The Solutions Linux conference and expo (formerly known as the Linux 4059: Expo Paris) held a NetBSD booth run by the 4060: [GCU-Squad](http://www.gcu-squad.org/) and the [French NetBSD Users 4061: Group](http://www.netbsd-fr.org/). A [report is available 4062: online.](http://mail-index.NetBSD.org/netbsd-users/2003/02/08/0010.html) 4063: 4064: ### `Jan 2003` - Ottawa Open Source Weekend 4065: 4066: *January 25th, 26th, 2003, Ottawa, Canada* 4067: 4068: On 2003 January 25 and 26, a coalition of computer professionals, 4069: students, and volunteers will host an Open Source Weekend in Ottawa, 4070: Canada. The events will be spread across the city and throughout the 4071: weekend to showcase the dynamic world of open source software. The major 4072: activities will be the: 4073: 4074: - Linuxfest at the University of Ottawa (Sat. Jan. 25th) 4075: - Linuxfest at Carleton University (Sat. Jan. 25th) 4076: - The Business of Open Source Software conference. (Sun. Jan. 26th) 4077: 4078: For details, please see [http://www.osw.ca/](http://www.osw.ca/). 4079: 4080: ### `Jan 2003` - LinuxWorld 2003 4081: 4082: *January 21-24, 2003, New York, New York* 4083: 4084: The [LinuxWorld Conference and Expo](http://www.linuxworldexpo.com) 2003 4085: takes place in the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center in New York City 4086: from January 21-24, 2003. See the 4087: [website](http://www.linuxworldexpo.com) for more details and a free 4088: registration for the expo. The NetBSD Project had a booth at LinuxWorld, 4089: a [short 4090: review](http://mail-index.NetBSD.org/netbsd-advocacy/2003/01/24/0000.html) 4091: and a [handful of pictures](http://www.NetBSD.org/~jschauma/lwe03/) are 4092: available online. 4093: 4094: ### `Dec 2002` - 19th Chaos Communication Congress (19c3) 4095: 4096: *December 17th to 29th, Berlin, Germany* 4097: 4098: The NetBSD Project will be present at the [19th Chaos Communication 4099: Congress](http://www.ccc.de/congress/2002/) (19c3) in Berlin, Germany, 4100: from December 27th to 29th. 4101: 4102: ### `Dec 2002` - NetBSD System Administration training 4103: 4104: *December 10-12, 2002, Seattle, Washington, USA area* 4105: 4106: [Puget Sound Technology](http://www.pugetsoundtechnology.com/) is 4107: teaching a hands-on class covering the fundamentals of NetBSD system 4108: administration. 4109: 4110: ### `Dec 2002` - Internet Week 2002 4111: 4112: *December 16-20, 2002, Pacifico Yokohama, Japan* 4113: 4114: [Japan NetBSD Users' Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/) will organize a 4115: BSD BoF on December 18th, 18:00(JST) at this years Internet Week. The 4116: BoF was broadcasted via RealVideo (179 clients)/[xcast (3 4117: clients)](http://www.xcast.jp/)/IRC. See 4118: [http://www.nic.ad.jp/iw2002/bof/bof04.htm](http://www.nic.ad.jp/iw2002/bof/bof04.htm) 4119: for details. 4120: 4121: ### `Nov 2002` - KNF Congress 2002 4122: 4123: *November 24, 2002, Nuremberg, Germany* 4124: 4125: This years KNF Congress is under the motto "Linux in allen 4126: Lebenslagen???, ... und andere Fragen im Internet" ("Linux in all 4127: aspects of life??? ... and other questions on the Internet"). There will 4128: not only be Linux-oriented talks, but also a bit of talk about NetBSD, 4129: so this might be interesting for anyone in the area of 4130: Nuremberg/Germany. There will be a talk about NetBSD/dreamcast, a NetBSD 4131: booth and also some NetBSD-related prices in the Tombola. 4132: 4133: The congress will take place Sunday Nov 24th, 10-18h at the 4134: Gemeinschaftshaus Langwasser, Glogauer Str. 50, 90473 Nuremberg, 4135: Germany. See 4136: [http://www.franken.de/kongress/index.html](http://www.franken.de/kongress/index.html) 4137: for more information. 4138: 4139: ### `Nov 2002` - BSD Conference Japan 4140: 4141: *November 23, 2002, tsudahall Tokyo, Japan* 4142: 4143: [](http://www.bsdcon.jp/2002/) with 172 attendances. 4144: 4145: ### `Nov 2002` - BSDCon Europe 2002 4146: 4147: *November 15-17, 2002, Amsterdam, Netherlands* 4148: 4149: [http://2002.eurobsdcon.org/](http://2002.eurobsdcon.org/). \`\`[Rumors, 4150: Gossips and Facts](http://www.feyrer.de/NetBSD/eurobsdcon2002.html)'' 4151: are available online thanks to Hubert Feyrer. 4152: 4153: ### `Nov 2002` - LISA '02 4154: 4155: *November 3-8, 2002, Philadelphia, PA* 4156: 4157: [http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa02/](http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa02/) 4158: 4159: ### `Nov 2002` - RISC OS S.E. Show 4160: 4161: *November 2, 2002, Guildford, UK* 4162: 4163: The Surrey and Sussex Acorn User Group [RISC OS South-East 4164: Show](http://www.fillin.co.uk/seshow/), held in Guildford Technical 4165: College. 4166: 4167: ### `Oct 2002` - Linuxdays 2002 4168: 4169: *October 1-3, 2002, Luxembourg* 4170: 4171: The NetBSD Project was present at the [Luxembourgh 4172: Linuxdays](http://www.linuxday.lu/), an Open Source and Free Software 4173: Conference and Expo held in, well, Luxembourg. Hubert Feyrer gave talks 4174: on [NetBSD](http://www.feyrer.de/NetBSD/nb2002-lu.pdf) and a [video 4175: rendering cluster done with 4176: NetBSD](http://www.feyrer.de/marathon-cluster/mc-slides.pdf). A 4177: [report](http://mail-index.NetBSD.org/netbsd-advocacy/2002/10/08/0000.html) 4178: was sent to the netbsd-advocacy list, pictures and more information are 4179: available from [Hubert's 4180: website](http://www.feyrer.de/NetBSD/#linuxday.lu). 4181: 4182: ### `Sep 2002` - Linux-Kongress 2002 4183: 4184: *September 4-6, 2002, Cologne, Germany* 4185: 4186: The NetBSD Project will be present at [Linux-Kongress 4187: 2002](http://www.linux-kongress.org), the 9th International Linux System 4188: Technology Conference, held at the Physics Institutes of the University 4189: of Cologne, Germany. A report and pictures of the BSD-booth is available 4190: online. 4191: 4192: ### `Aug 2002` - 11th USENIX Security Symposium 4193: 4194: *August 5-9, 2002, San Francisco, CA* 4195: 4196: [http://www.usenix.org/events/sec02/](http://www.usenix.org/events/sec02/) 4197: 4198: ### `Jul 2002` - NetBSD 1.5.3 release 4199: 4200: *July 22, 2002* 4201: 4202: [NetBSD 1.5.3](../releases/formal-1.5/NetBSD-1.5.3.html), a *[patch 4203: release](../releases/release-map.html)* improving stability, fixing bugs 4204: in, addressing security issues in, and adding some features to [NetBSD 4205: 1.5.2](../releases/formal-1.5/), has been released with support for 20 4206: architectures. More information is available in the [1.5.3 release 4207: announcement](../releases/formal-1.5/NetBSD-1.5.3.html). 4208: 4209: ### `Jul 2002` - NetWorld+Interop 2002 Tokyo BSD BOF 4210: 4211: *July 3, 2002, Chiba, Japan* 4212: 4213: http://www.interop.jp/syutten/report.html 4214: 4215: [http://www.jp.freebsd.org/event/N+I2002\_BOF/](http://www.jp.freebsd.org/event/N+I2002_BOF/) 4216: , [BSD security update - BIND, 4217: OpenSSH](http://www.itojun.org/paper/itojun-interop2002-bsdbof/mgp00001.html). 4218: 4219: ### `Jun 2002` - USENIX Annual Technical Conference 4220: 4221: *June 9-14, 2002, Montery Conference Center Monterey, California, USA* 4222: 4223: [http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix02/](http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix02/). 4224: Slides of Christos Zoulas' presentation are [available 4225: here](events/usenix2002/). 4226: 4227: ### `Jun 2002` - Open Source Meeting 2002 in Nagoya University 4228: 4229: *June 8-9, 2002, Nagoya, Japan* 4230: 4231: [](http://tokai.opensource.jp/tsudoi/2002/) 4232: 4233: ### `Jun 2002` - Linuxtag 2002 in Karlsruhe 4234: 4235: *June 6-9, 2002, Karlsruhe, Germany* 4236: 4237: [Linuxtag](http://www.linuxtag.de) had a BSD booth. A 4238: [report](http://www.feyrer.de/NetBSD/linuxtag-karlsruhe-2002.html) is 4239: available. 4240: 4241: ### `May 2002` - Wakefield 2002, The Acorn RISC OS Show 4242: 4243: *May 18-19, 2002, Wakefield, UK* 4244: 4245: [http://www.wrocc.org.uk/show/2002/](http://www.wrocc.org.uk/show/2002/) 4246: 4247: ### `May 2002` - Japan NetBSD Users' Group meeting 4248: 4249: *May 18, 2002, T-Zone Minami, Akihabara, Tokyo, Japan* 4250: 4251: [http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/announce/meeting4.html](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/announce/meeting4.html) 4252: 4253: The Japan NetBSD Users' Group had their annual meeting with 60 4254: attendances, and a NetBSD BoF with 95 attendances, 210 clients via 4255: RealVideo. Talking about Zoularis, LCD System Status monitor, devsw 4256: again, presentation with less, citrus, ACPI, jp.netbsd servers, Upcoming 4257: 1.6 and current, sourceforge.jp, xcast6. 4258: 4259: ### `May 2002` - Annual International Free Software Forum 4260: 4261: *May 2-4, 2002, Porto Alegre- RS, Brazil* 4262: 4263: The Annual International Free Software Forum will take place on this May 4264: 2th, 3th and 4th in Porto Alegre- RS , Brazil. Mainly in event about 4265: Linux Gnu's solutions, this year The BSD's Operating Systems will have a 4266: chance to prove their value. 4267: 4268: The Session's Speakers are Edson Brandi (FreeBSD), Diego Linke (NetBSD) 4269: and Ricardo Nascimento Ferreira (OpenBSD) and they will focus in the 4270: general aspects of the systems: history, license, goods and bads, 4271: technical characteristics and philosophy. 4272: 4273: ### `Mar 2002` - 4th Chemnitz Linuxday 2002 4274: 4275: *March 9-10, 2002, TU Chemnitz, Chemnitz, Germany* 4276: 4277: [www.tu-chemnitz.de/linux/tag/lt4/](http://www.tu-chemnitz.de/linux/tag/lt4/) 4278: 4279: Presentations included "Migration to IPv6" mentioning NetBSD as example, 4280: "\*BSD - Alternative to Linux" presenting BSDs and "BIND9 - Let's talk 4281: IPv6". There was also a (Net)BSD booth manned by Andre Nicklas, Hubert 4282: Feyrer, Karl Uwe Lockhoff. A [detailed 4283: report](http://mail-index.NetBSD.org/netbsd-advocacy/2002/03/11/0000.html) 4284: is available. 4285: 4286: ### `Feb 2002` - GUUG Frühjahrsfachgespräch 2002 4287: 4288: *February 27-March 1, 2002, Ruhr-Uni Bochum, Bochum, Germany* 4289: 4290: [http://www.guug.de/veranstaltungen/ffg2002/index.html](http://www.guug.de/veranstaltungen/ffg2002/index.html) 4291: 4292: Presentations given during the spring meeting of the German Unix User 4293: Group (GUUG) included a report about NetBSD in 2002 and details about 4294: Rapid Deployment of IPv6 with 6to4, which covered NetBSD (among others). 4295: 4296: ### `Feb 2002` - BSDCon 2002 4297: 4298: *February 11-14, 2002, Cathedral Hill Hotel, San Francisco, California, 4299: USA* 4300: 4301: [http://www.usenix.org/events/bsdcon02/cfp/](http://www.usenix.org/events/bsdcon02/cfp/) 4302: 4303: ### `Dec 2001` - Internet Week 2001 4304: 4305: *December 3-7, 2001, Yokohama, Japan* 4306: 4307: [http://internetweek.jp/](http://internetweek.jp/) 4308: 4309: At Internet Week 2001, there was a BSD BOF on December 6th. 4310: Additionally, December 7th was BSD/Linux Day. 4311: 4312: There was a [BSD BoF session](http://www.jp.FreeBSD.org/event/iw2001/) 4313: on Dec 7 with 197 attendances, 392 clients via [RealVideo 4314: G2](http://www.real.com) broadcasting,IRC chatting. Talking about The 4315: BSD System on 1FDD, Special talk and Presentation [Perry E. 4316: Metzger/Warner Losh], IPv6 DNS transfer Club,Catch up FreeBSD 4317: current,talking about free software community, [BSD users group meeting 4318: via IPv6 XCAST](http://www.mma.gr.jp/%7Etree/bsd-20011206/). 4319: 4320: On Dec 8, there was a [BSD/Linux 4321: Day](http://www.jus.or.jp/events/bsd-linux-day2001/) session talking 4322: about BSD, Linux, Mail User Agents, Mail Transfer, Office Suite, 4323: Emulation. 4324: 4325: ### `Nov 2001` - BSDCon Europe 2001 4326: 4327: *November 9-11, 2001, Thistle Hotel, Brighton, UK* 4328: 4329: [http://www.bsdconeurope.org/](http://www.bsdconeurope.org/) 4330: 4331: ### `Oct 2001` - RISC OS 2001 Show 4332: 4333: *October 20-21, 2001, Berkshire, England* 4334: 4335: [http://www.riscos2001.com/](http://www.riscos2001.com/) 4336: 4337: NetBSD had a stand at the [RISC OS 2001 4338: Show](http://www.riscos2001.com/). There was various NetBSD boxes on 4339: display and NetBSD 1.5.2 CDs for sale. 4340: 4341: ### `Sep 2001` - NetBSD 1.5.2 release 4342: 4343: *September 13, 2001* 4344: 4345: NetBSD 1.5.2, a [patch release](../releases/release-map.html) improving 4346: stability, fixing bugs in, and adding some features to [NetBSD 4347: 1.5.1](../releases/formal-1.5/), was released with support for 21 4348: architectures. More information is available in the [1.5.2 release 4349: announcement](../releases/formal-1.5/NetBSD-1.5.2.html). 4350: 4351: ### `Aug 2001` - LinuxWorld Expo 4352: 4353: *August 26-30, 2001, San Francisco, CA* 4354: 4355: [http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/](http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/) 4356: 4357: The NetBSD Project had a booth at the LinuxWorld Conference & Expo from 4358: August 28-30, 2001. Jason Thorpe has written a short [summary about the 4359: NetBSD booth at 4360: LinuxWorld](http://mail-index.NetBSD.org/netbsd-advocacy/2001/08/30/0000.html). 4361: Also at the booth was the debut of NetBSD running on a Playstation 2 4362: from Japan. 4363: 4364: ### `Jul 2001` - NetBSD 1.5.1 release 4365: 4366: *July 11, 2001* 4367: 4368: NetBSD 1.5.1, a [patch release](../releases/release-map.html) improving 4369: stability, fixing bugs in, and adding some features to [NetBSD 4370: 1.5](../releases/formal-1.5/), was released with support for 21 4371: architectures. More information is available in the [1.5.1 release 4372: announcement](../releases/formal-1.5/NetBSD-1.5.1.html). 4373: 4374: ### `Jun 2001` - Japan NetBSD Users' Group meeting 4375: 4376: *June 30, 2001, [ASCII Corporation](http://www.ascii.co.jp/info/), 4377: Tokyo, Japan* 4378: 4379: [http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/announce/meeting3.html](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/announce/meeting3.html) 4380: 4381: The Japan NetBSD Users' Group had their annual meeting with 52 4382: attendances, and a NetBSD BoF with 102 attendances, 275 clients via 4383: RealVideo G2 broadcasting. 4384: 4385: Talking about jp.NetBSD.org servers, NetBSD status updates after 4386: USENIX2001,Korea NetBSD User Group, www.NetBSD.org Logo, Chiba-BUG, 4387: Making plan for NetBSD Book in Japan, XCAST on NetBSD, The New 4388: Block/Character Device Switch Configration Framework, Life in PEACE, wdc 4389: MD driver for DC IDE-HD Interface on NetBSD/dreamcast, Get into 4390: Zoularis, PS2Linux for NetBSD, and special guest talking with Antti 4391: Kantee from Finland. Japan NetBSD Users' Group will have a special 4392: meeting on 54th IETF Yokohama, Japan. 4393: 4394: ### `Jun 2001` - USENIX Annual Technical Conference 4395: 4396: *June 25-30, 2001, Boston, MA* 4397: 4398: [http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix01/](http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix01/) 4399: 4400: NetBSD was well represented at [Usenix 4401: 2001](http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix01/), and we would like to 4402: thank everyone involved in the BSD BoF and the NetBSD booth. 4403: 4404: The NetBSD Project had a presentation at the BSD BoF which was headed by 4405: [NetBSD Core Group](../people/core.html) members Christos Zoulas and 4406: Luke Mewburn. A list of highlights is available in Chuck Toporek's 4407: "[Greetings from the BSD Super 4408: BoF](http://unix.oreilly.com/news/usenixchuck_0601.html)" article. The 4409: slides from this talk are available at 4410: [events/usenix2001/](events/usenix2001/). 4411: 4412: Luke Mewburn was also a part of the scripting technical session; his 4413: presentation was entitled, "The Design and Implementation of the NetBSD 4414: rc.d System". In Ellen Siever's "[Usenix Technical Session 4415: Wrap-Up](http://unix.oreilly.com/news/usenixellen_0601.html)" article, 4416: she talks briefly about Luke's presentation. Luke's paper can be found 4417: at the [Usenix 2001](http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix01/) web site, 4418: in both HTML and PDF formats, under [FREENIX Track Refereed 4419: Papers](http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix01/freenix01/mewburn.html) 4420: (requires USENIX membership). The paper may also be found in 4421: [PDF](http://www.mewburn.net/luke/papers/rc.d.pdf) format at Luke's own 4422: web site. 4423: 4424: Again, a thank you to all involved. 4425: 4426: ### `Jun 2001` - Open Source Meeting 2001 in Nagoya University 4427: 4428: *June 9-10, 2001, Nagoya, Japan* 4429: 4430: [](http://tokai.opensource.jp/tsudoi/2001/) 4431: 4432: On June 9-10th, 2001, several Bof about open source community in japan 4433: were held.100+150 persons attended in person. 4434: 4435: ### `Jun 2001` - NetWorld+Interop Tokyo, BSD BoF 4436: 4437: *June 7 2001, Chiba, Japan* 4438: 4439: [http://www.interop.jp/](http://www.interop.jp/) 4440: 4441: On June 7th, 2001, a BSD BoF was held as one of the night sessions at 4442: [NetWorld+Interop Tokyo](http://www.interop.jp/). Over 300 people 4443: attended in person, 50-100 people attended over IRC (volunteers typed 4444: the discussions to a couple of IRC channels), and 828 clients watched 4445: the discussion over RealVideo transmission. Jun-ichiro itojun Hagino 4446: wrote up a [summary of the BSD BoF at NetWorld+Interop 4447: Tokyo](events/interop-tokyo-2001.html). 4448: 4449: ### `May 2001` - Wakefield 2001 4450: 4451: *May 19-20, 2001, Wakefield, UK* 4452: 4453: There was a NetBSD stand at the Wakefield Acorn / RiscOS show. The 4454: Wakefield show was more of an ARM biased show, so there was a 4455: [NetBSD/arm26](../ports/arm26/) and [NetBSD/arm32](../ports/arm32/) 4456: slant to the NetBSD stand. The stand featured machines running NetBSD, 4457: and CD-ROMS of the NetBSD system with some additional pre-built packages 4458: and a copy of the NetBSD web site on them. Also at the show Chris 4459: Gilbert gave a talk about NetBSD. 4460: 4461: ### `Apr 2001` - Comdex Spring 2001 4462: 4463: *April 2-5, 2001, Chicago, IL* 4464: 4465: [http://www.comdex.com/](http://www.comdex.com/) 4466: 4467: NetBSD had a booth at [Comdex](http://www.comdex.com/) Spring 2001. A 4468: [short summary](events/comdex-spring-2001.html) of NetBSD at Comdex 4469: Spring is available. 4470: 4471: Expenses for this event were underwritten by The NetBSD Mission. 4472: 4473: ### `Feb 2001` - Open Source Matsuri 2001 in Akihabara 4474: 4475: *February 10-11, 2001, Tokyo, Japan* 4476: 4477: [Japan NetBSD Users' Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/) had a 4478: [booth](http://www.voj.toda.saitama.jp/photo/OpenSource2001/) with SONY 4479: NEWS,Sun Ultra1,DEC VAX station,Sega DreamCast,Mac SE/30, Sharp 4480: X68030,Mac G4Qube,iBook,NEC MobileGearII, 4481: [PEACE](http://chiharu.hauN.ORG/peace/) and [umidi/utoro 4482: demo](http://utoro.imou.to/) with 7000 attendances. Held a Presentation 4483: & a tutorial about NetBSD by jun@NetBSD.org. [[Reports on 4484: jp.NetBSD.org](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/event/20010210OSF/)] 4485: 4486: ### `Jan 2001` - LinuxWorld Expo 2001 4487: 4488: *January 30-February 2, 2001, New York City, USA* 4489: 4490: [http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/](http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/) 4491: 4492: The NetBSD Project shared a stand with [Wasabi 4493: Systems](http://www.wasabisystems.com/) at LinuxWorld Expo 2001. The 4494: stand had a variety of different platforms running NetBSD, 1.5 CDs, and 4495: other swag. 4496: 4497: ### `Dec 2000` - Internet Week 2000 4498: 4499: *December 18-21, 2000, Osaka, Japan* 4500: 4501: [http://www.nic.ad.jp/iw2000/](http://www.nic.ad.jp/iw2000/) 4502: 4503: There was a [BSD BoF 4504: session](http://www.unixmagic.org/ml/netbsd/200012/msg00019.html) on Dec 4505: 19 with 160 attendances, 94 clients via [RealVideo 4506: G2](http://www.real.com) broadcasting,60 IRC realtime broadcasting 4507: clients. Talking about The BSD System on 1FDD, USB maniacs from across 4508: the [BSD magazine](http://www.ascii.co.jp/BSDmag/) editorial room, 4509: announce from BSDi Japan Office, Users groups in 4510: JP[[NoBUG](http://www.no.bug.gr.jp/), [OFUG](http://www.ofug.net/), 4511: [S\*BUG](http://www.bbsbrain.ne.jp/~sbug/), 4512: [K\*bug](http://www.kbug.gr.jp/), [NBUG](http://www.nagoya.bug.gr.jp/), 4513: [JNUG](http://www.NetBSD.org/community/groups.html#jnug), L\*BUG], 4514: little red [Daemon-kun](http://www.twin.ne.jp/~minamie/ost/) from The 4515: Open Source Toys Project, BSD goods present time,and more thinking about 4516: BSD activity in Japan. 4517: 4518: ### `Dec 2000` - NetBSD 1.5 release 4519: 4520: *December 6, 2000* 4521: 4522: [NetBSD 1.5](../releases/formal-1.5/), the eighth [major 4523: release](../releases/release-map.html) of NetBSD, was announced to the 4524: public. 4525: 4526: ### `Dec 2000` - Usenix Systems Administration Conference (LISA) 4527: 4528: *December 3-8, 2000, New Orleans, LA* 4529: 4530: [http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa2000/](http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa2000/) 4531: 4532: ### `Nov 2000` - NetBSD 1.4.3 release 4533: 4534: *November 25, 2000* 4535: 4536: NetBSD 1.4.3, a [patch release](../releases/release-map.html) improving 4537: stability and fixing bugs in [NetBSD-1.4](../releases/formal-1.4/), was 4538: announced to the public. 4539: 4540: ### `Nov 2000` - Comdex Fall 2000 4541: 4542: *November 13-17 2000, Las Vegas, NV* 4543: 4544: [http://www.comdex.com/](http://www.comdex.com/) 4545: 4546: The NetBSD Project had a booth at Comdex Fall 2000. We demonstrated a 4547: full desktop system running on a Macintosh G4 cube, as well as other 4548: sundry bits. The cube also appeared on German 3Sat Neues. 4549: 4550: Expenses for this event were underwritten by LinuxMall and The NetBSD 4551: Mission. 4552: 4553: ### `Oct 2000` - Linux Expo Toronto 2000 4554: 4555: *October 30-November 1 2000, Toronto, Ontario, Canada* 4556: 4557: [http://www.linuxexpocanada.com/](http://www.linuxexpocanada.com/) 4558: 4559: The NetBSD Project had a booth at displaying NetBSD i386 and mac68k - 4560: T-shirts and 1.4.2 CDs were available. The i386 machine was running an 4561: automated demo which will soon be available in pkgsrc. 4562: 4563: Expenses for this event were underwritten by The NetBSD Mission and 4564: David Maxwell. 4565: 4566: ### `Oct 2000` - RISC OS 2000 4567: 4568: *October 21-22 2000, Epsom, England* 4569: 4570: [http://www.armclub.org.uk/shows/riscos/](http://www.armclub.org.uk/shows/riscos/) 4571: 4572: A group of NetBSD enthusiasts were one of the exhibitors at RISC OS 4573: 2000. They had CD's, leaflets, and a mixture of hardware running NetBSD 4574: on display. David Brownlee wrote up a report about the [NetBSD stand at 4575: RISC OS 2000](events/riscos-2000.html). 4576: 4577: ### `Oct 2000` - BSDCon 2000 4578: 4579: *October 14-20 2000, Monterey, CA* 4580: 4581: [http://www.bsdcon.org/](http://www.bsdcon.org/) 4582: 4583: NetBSD had a table at this event, and there were a couple of talks 4584: spotlighting NetBSD. 4585: 4586: Erik Berls <cyber@NetBSD.org> and Luke Mewburn <lukem@NetBSD.org> gave a 4587: talk entitled "NetBSD: Platform for the Future". Slides are available at 4588: [](http://www.mewburn.net/luke/talks/bsdcon-2000/). 4589: 4590: Also, Jun-ichiro itojun Hagino gave a talk on NetBSD 1.5. A transcript 4591: is available at 4592: [](ftp://ftp.itojun.org/pub/paper/itojun-bsdcon2000-netbsd15.ps.gz). 4593: 4594: ### `Oct 2000` - Atlanta Linux Showcase 4595: 4596: *October 12-14 2000, Atlanta, GA* 4597: 4598: [http://www.linuxshowcase.org/](http://www.linuxshowcase.org/) 4599: 4600: The NetBSD Project ran a booth at this event, showcasing NetBSD on 4601: non-PC platforms (primarily the Mac G4 cube). Some unfortunate bugs were 4602: fixed onsite. 4603: 4604: Expenses for this event were underwritten by The NetBSD Mission. 4605: 4606: ### `Aug 2000` - LinuxWorld Conference & Expo 4607: 4608: *August 14-17 2000, San Jose, CA* 4609: 4610: [http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/](http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/) 4611: 4612: There was a BSD BoF session on Wednesday August 16th. In the September 4613: 2000 issue, Daemon News published an 4614: [article](http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200009/linuxworld-2000.html) on 4615: the BSD presence at LinuxWorld 2000. 4616: 4617: ### `Jul 2000` - O'Reilly Open Source Software Convention 2000 4618: 4619: *July 17-20, 2000, Monterey, CA* 4620: 4621: http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon2000/ 4622: 4623: NetBSD had a table at the O'Reilly Open Source Software Convention 2000. 4624: Also, there was a session called the "Future of the BSDs", presented by 4625: a group that included Charles Hannum from NetBSD. 4626: 4627: Expenses for this event were underwritten by The NetBSD Mission. 4628: 4629: ### `Jul 2000` - Comdex Canada 2000 4630: 4631: *July 12-14 2000, Toronto, Ontario, Canada* 4632: 4633: The NetBSD Project had a booth at Comdex Canada 2000 at which T-shirts 4634: and 1.4.2 CDs were available. There are some photos of [the screen, 4635: showing the bktr display](../images/events/20000712-1.jpg), NetBSD 4636: developers [David Maxwell (left) and D'Arcy Cain 4637: (right)](../images/events/20000712-2.jpg), and helpers [Carol Cain, and 4638: Robert Waters](../images/events/20000712-3.jpg). We also have pictures 4639: of another [User Friendly visitor](../images/events/booth_puppy.jpg). 4640: 4641: Expenses for this event were underwritten by LinuxMall, The NetBSD 4642: Mission and David Maxwell. 4643: 4644: ### `Jul 2000` - Japan NetBSD Users' Group meeting 4645: 4646: *July 1 2000, Tokyo Japan* 4647: 4648: [http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/announce/meeting2.html](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/announce/meeting2.html) 4649: 4650: The Japan NetBSD Users' Group had their annual meeting, and a NetBSD BoF 4651: followed. 4652: 4653: ### `Jun 2000` - LinuxTag 2000 4654: 4655: *June 29-July 2 2000, Stuttgart, Germany* 4656: 4657: http://www.linuxtag.org/2000/english/ 4658: 4659: A group of \*BSD enthusiasts organized a \*BSD booth at [LinuxTag 4660: 2000](http://www.linuxtag.org/2000/english/), which, among many other 4661: things, included a variety of boxes showcasing NetBSD. Christian 4662: Weisgerber has written a [summary](events/linuxtag-2000.html) about his 4663: experiences at LinuxTag 2000, as one both manning the \*BSD booth and 4664: giving a talk. 4665: 4666: ### `Jun 2000` - Usenix Annual Technical Conference 4667: 4668: *June 21-22 2000, San Diego, CA* 4669: 4670: [http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix2000/](http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix2000/) 4671: 4672: NetBSD had a presence at the [Usenix Annual Technical 4673: Conference](http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix2000/) in 2000. Most 4674: notably, Charles Hannum gave a talk about NetBSD, William Studenmund 4675: gave a [technical session on 4676: DMFS](http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/usenix2000/freenix/studenmund.html) 4677: (Data Migration File System) for NetBSD, Chuck Silvers gave a [technical 4678: session on 4679: UBC](http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/usenix2000/freenix/silvers.html) 4680: (an efficient United I/O and Memory Caching Subsystem for NetBSD), and 4681: Jun-ichiro Hagino gave a [technical session on mbuf changes in 4682: KAME/\*BSD IPv6 4683: support](http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/usenix2000/freenix/hagino.html). 4684: There was also a BSD BoF which included people kicking around beach 4685: balls emblazoned with "NetBSD support: it's not hot air anymore" in 4686: reference to the launch of [Wasabi 4687: Systems](http://www.wasabisystems.com/). 4688: 4689: Expenses for this event were underwritten by The Usenix Association and 4690: The NetBSD Mission. 4691: 4692: ### `Jun 2000` - German Unix User Group spring '00 meeting 4693: 4694: *June 14-16 2000, Cologne, Germany* 4695: 4696: [http://www.guug.de/](http://www.guug.de/) 4697: 4698: NetBSD was represented at the spring meeting of the [German Unix User 4699: Group](http://www.guug.de/). Ignatios Souvatzis gave a presentation 4700: about experiences with IPv6 using NetBSD. 4701: 4702: ### `Jun 2000` - NetWorld+Interop Tokyo 4703: 4704: *June 8 2000, Chiba, Japan* 4705: 4706: [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) 4707: 4708: A joint \*BSD users group BOF was held. Jordan Hubbard and Warner Losh 4709: (of FreeBSD) joined and gave us a talk. BOF session covering various 4710: \*BSD followed. 4711: 4712: ### `Apr 2000` - Comdex Spring 2000 4713: 4714: *April 17-20 2000, Chicago, IL* 4715: 4716: [http://www.comdex.com/](http://www.comdex.com/) 4717: 4718: Expenses for this event were underwritten by LinuxMall and The NetBSD 4719: Mission. 4720: 4721: ### `Apr 2000` - Linux Expo 4722: 4723: *April 10-12 2000, Montreal, Quebec, Canada* 4724: 4725: [http://www.linuxexpocanada.com/](http://www.linuxexpocanada.com/) 4726: 4727: The NetBSD Project had a booth displaying NetBSD i386, hpcmips, and 4728: mmeye at this event in Montreal, Canada. T-shirts, 1.4.1, 1.4.2, and 4729: snapshot CDs were available. 4730: 4731: Expenses for this event were underwritten by The NetBSD Mission. 4732: 4733: ### `Mar 2000` - DECUS Munich 4734: 4735: *March 29, 2000, Munich, Germany* 4736: 4737: [http://www.decus.de/](http://www.decus.de/) 4738: 4739: Ignatios Souvatzis talked about NetBSD news and experiences with IPv6 on 4740: NetBSD at the DECUS Munich Symposium in Bonn. 4741: 4742: ### `Mar 2000` - NetBSD 1.4.2 release 4743: 4744: *March 19, 2000* 4745: 4746: NetBSD 1.4.2, a [patch release](../releases/release-map.html) improving 4747: stability and fixing bugs in [NetBSD-1.4](../releases/formal-1.4/), was 4748: announced to the public. 4749: 4750: ### `Feb 2000` - Linux Expo 4751: 4752: *February 1-3 2000, Paris, France* 4753: 4754: [http://www.linuxexpoparis.com/](http://www.linuxexpoparis.com/) 4755: 4756: There was a BSD BoF at the New York Linuxworld on Thursday, February 4757: 3rd. 4758: 4759: Expenses for this event were underwritten by The NetBSD Mission. 4760: 4761: ### `Dec 1999` - Internet Week 1999 4762: 4763: *December 18 1999, Yokohama, Japan* 4764: 4765: [http://www.nic.ad.jp/iw99/](http://www.nic.ad.jp/iw99/) 4766: 4767: There was a [BSD BoF session](http://www.jp.freebsd.org/event/iw99/) on 4768: Dec 18. 4769: 4770: ### `Dec 1999` - The Bazaar 4771: 4772: *December 14-16 1999, New York City, NY* 4773: 4774: The NetBSD Project had two kiosks at "The Bazaar" in New York City at 4775: the Javits Center. We demoed NetBSD on several hardware platforms, and 4776: provided live video from the show floor via a [Brains, Inc. mmEye video 4777: server](http://www.brains.co.jp/). 4778: 4779: Expenses for this event were underwritten by The NetBSD Mission. 4780: 4781: ### `Nov 1999` - Comdex Fall 1999 4782: 4783: *November 15-19 1999, Las Vegas, NV* 4784: 4785: [http://www.comdex.com/](http://www.comdex.com/) 4786: 4787: The NetBSD Project had a booth at Comdex Fall 1999. We had 1.4.1 CD 4788: sets, sample CDs, demo machines, and a few surprises. 4789: 4790: Expenses for this event were underwritten by LinuxMall and The NetBSD 4791: Mission. 4792: 4793: ### `Nov 1999` - Open Source Matsuri99 in Akihabara 4794: 4795: *November 12-13, 1999, Akihabara, Tokyo* 4796: 4797: Japan NetBSD Users' Group ran a booth at Open Source Matsuri'99 in 4798: Akihabara ("Matsuri" is Japanese word for "Festival"). We had demo 4799: machines and short Presentation with NetBSD/hpcmips. 4800: 4801: ### `Oct 1999` - Atlanta Linux Showcase 1999 4802: 4803: *October 14-16, 1999, Atlanta, GA* 4804: 4805: [http://www.linuxshowcase.org/1999/](http://www.linuxshowcase.org/1999/) 4806: 4807: The NetBSD Project ran a booth at the Atlanta Linux Showcase. 1.4.1 CD 4808: sets and T-shirts were on sale. 4809: 4810: Expenses for this event were underwritten by The NetBSD Mission. 4811: 4812: ### `Oct 1999` - BSD Social Event in Berlin 4813: 4814: *October 9-10, 1999* 4815: 4816: ### `Aug 1999` - NetBSD 1.4.1 release 4817: 4818: *August 26, 1999* 4819: 4820: NetBSD 1.4.1, a [patch release](../releases/release-map.html) improving 4821: stability and fixing bugs in [NetBSD-1.4](../releases/formal-1.4/), was 4822: announced to the public. 4823: 4824: ### `Jul 1999` - Wizards of OS \#1 4825: 4826: *July 16-17, 1999, Berlin, Germany* 4827: 4828: Patrick M. Hausen talked about FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD at the Free 4829: Software Projects panel of the Wizards of OS conference. 4830: 4831: ### `Jun 1999` - LinuxTag '99 4832: 4833: *June 26-27, 1999, Kaiserslautern, Germany* 4834: 4835: [http://www.linuxtag.org/1999/](http://www.linuxtag.org/1999/) 4836: 4837: The NetBSD Project attended LinuxTag '99 in Kaiserslautern, Germany. We 4838: exhibited a NetBSD/arm32 system running on a DNARD, and demonstrated the 4839: package system. 4840: 4841: ### `Jun 1999` - Usenix '99 4842: 4843: *June 6-11, 1999, Monterey, CA* 4844: 4845: [http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix99/](http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix99/) 4846: 4847: The NetBSD foundation attended the USENIX Annual Technical Conference in 4848: Monterey, CA. There was a Birds of a Feather session on Tuesday 8, 8pm - 4849: 10pm, and an exhibition booth featuring many different platforms. There 4850: is also a [full report](events/usenix1999.html) available. 4851: 4852: ### `Mar 1999` - German Unix User Group spring '99 meeting 4853: 4854: *March 16-19, 1999, Germany* 4855: 4856: [http://www.guug.de/](http://www.guug.de/) 4857: 4858: During the spring meeting of the [German Unix User 4859: Group](http://www.guug.de/) (GUUG), NetBSD was mentioned in two talks 4860: held by [Dr. Alexandre 4861: Wennmacher](http://www.uni-koeln.de/math-nat-fak/geomet/geo/mitarbeiter/mitarb/aw.html). 4862: The first described security through file flags and the second was about 4863: checkpointing in userspace. 4864: 4865: At the \*BSD BoF, Hubert Feyrer explained the changes made in the 4866: Packages System to what was taken from FreeBSD, Christoph Badura 4867: answered general NetBSD questions. 4868: 4869: ### `May 1999` - NetBSD 1.4 release 4870: 4871: *May 12, 1999* 4872: 4873: [NetBSD 1.4](../releases/formal-1.4/), the seventh [major 4874: release](../releases/release-map.html) of NetBSD, was announced to the 4875: public. 4876: 4877: ### `Dec 1998` - NetBSD 1.3.3 release 4878: 4879: *December 23, 1998* 4880: 4881: NetBSD 1.3.3, a [patch release](../releases/release-map.html) improving 4882: stability and fixing bugs in [NetBSD-1.3](../releases/formal-1.3/), was 4883: announced to the public. 4884: 4885: ### `Aug 1998` - Open Source Developer Day 4886: 4887: *August 21, 1998, San Jose, CA* 4888: 4889: The NetBSD Project was proud to be a partner with O'Reilly and 4890: Associates for its Open Source Developer Day, held at the Fairmont Hotel 4891: in San Jose, CA. 4892: 4893: ### `Jun 1998` - Usenix freenix track 4894: 4895: *June 15-19, 1998, New Orleans, LA* 4896: 4897: [FREENIX](http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/usenix98/freenix/), 4898: the freely redistributable software track, was held at 4899: [Usenix](http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/usenix98/). 4900: FREENIX was intended to be a showcase for the latest developments and 4901: interesting applications in freely redistributable software including 4902: NetBSD, FreeBSD, Linux, OpenBSD, GNU and Samba. 4903: 4904: ### `May 1998` - NetBSD 1.3.2 release 4905: 4906: *May 29, 1998* 4907: 4908: NetBSD 1.3.2, a [patch release](../releases/release-map.html) improving 4909: stability and fixing bugs in [NetBSD-1.3](../releases/formal-1.3/), was 4910: announced to the public. 4911: 4912: ### `Apr 1998` - MTT '98 "Magic Days Trier" 4913: 4914: *April 25-26, 1998, Germany* 4915: 4916: The Amiga1 user group held another MTT. 4917: 4918: ### `Mar 1998` - NetBSD 1.3.1 release 4919: 4920: *March 9, 1998* 4921: 4922: NetBSD 1.3.1, a [patch release](../releases/release-map.html) improving 4923: stability and fixing bugs in [NetBSD-1.3](../releases/formal-1.3/), was 4924: released. 4925: 4926: ### `Jan 1998` - NetBSD 1.3 release 4927: 4928: *January 4, 1998* 4929: 4930: [NetBSD-1.3](../releases/formal-1.5/), the sixth [major 4931: release](../releases/release-map.html) of NetBSD, was announced to the 4932: public. 4933: 4934: ### `May 1997` - NetBSD 1.2.1 release 4935: 4936: *May 20, 1997* 4937: 4938: NetBSD 1.2.1, a [patch release](../releases/release-map.html) improving 4939: stability and fixing bugs in [NetBSD-1.2](../releases/formal-1.2/), was 4940: announced to the public. 4941: 4942: ### `Apr 1997` - MTT '97 "Magic Days Trier" 4943: 4944: *April 19-20, 1997, Germany* 4945: 4946: A NetBSD-1.2.1/Amiga preview, running on a DraCo and (after installing 4947: it live over ARCnet) on an Amiga 3000, was presented by Jürgen Schmitz 4948: and Ignatios Souvatzis at the MTT '97. 4949: 4950: ### `Apr 1997` - DECUS Munich 4951: 4952: *April 17, 1997, Bonn, Germany* 4953: 4954: Ignatios Souvatzis presented a talk about *NetBSD on Digital Hardware* 4955: at the [DECUS Munich](http://www.decus.de/) Symposium in Bonn. 4956: 4957: ### `Jan 1997` - Anaheim Usenix Birds of a Feather 4958: 4959: *January 14, 1997, Anaheim, CA* 4960: 4961: NetBSD hosted a Birds of a Feather at the Usenix conference which was 4962: held in Anaheim California. Christos Zoulas spoke about the current 4963: state, goals and future directions of the project, while Paul 4964: Kranenburg, Aaron Brown and Chris Demetriou answered questions about the 4965: sparc and the alpha ports respectively.