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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: See also the NetBSD [[developer summits|summits]]. 11: 12: 13: Future Events 14: ------------- 15: ### `Mar 2020` - AsiaBSDCon 2020, Tokyo, Japan 16: 17: *March 19 - 22, Tokyo University of Science, Tokyo, Japan* 18: 19: [AsiaBSDCon](https://www.asiabsdcon.org/) is a 20: conference for users and developers on BSD based systems. 21: The conference is for anyone developing, deploying and using systems 22: based on FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, DragonFly BSD, Darwin, and MacOS X. 23: AsiaBSDCon is a technical conference and aims to collect the best 24: technical papers and presentations available to ensure that the latest 25: developments in our open source community are shared with the widest 26: possible audience. 27: 28: 29: ### `Jun 2020` - BSDCan 2020, Ottawa, Canada 30: 31: *June 3 - 6, 2020, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada* 32: 33: [BSDCan](https://www.bsdcan.org/2020/), a BSD conference held in 34: Ottawa, Canada, quickly established itself as the technical conference 35: for people working on and with 4.4BSD based operating systems and 36: related projects. The organizers have found a fantastic formula 37: that appeals to a wide range of people from extreme novices to 38: advanced developers. 39: 40: 41: ### `Sep 2020` - EuroBSDcon 2020, Vienna, Austria 42: 43: *September 17 - 20, 2020, The Gußhaus Campus of Vienna's Technical University, Vienna, Austria* 44: 45: [EuroBSDcon](https://2020.eurobsdcon.org/) is the premier European 46: conference on the open source BSD operating systems attracting 47: about 300 highly skilled engineering professionals, software 48: developers, computer science students and professors, and users 49: from all over Europe and other parts of the world. The goal of 50: EuroBSDcon is to exchange knowledge about the BSD operating systems, 51: facilitate coordination and cooperation among users and developers. 52: 53: 54: Past Events 55: ----------- 56: ### `Feb 2020` - FOSDEM 2020 Brussels, Belgium 57: 58: *February 1 - 2, 2020, ULB Solbosch Campus, Brussels, Belgium* 59: 60: [FOSDEM](https://fosdem.org/2020/) is a 61: free event for software developers to meet, share ideas 62: and collaborate. Every year, thousands of developers of 63: free and open source software from all over the world gather 64: at the event in Brussels. 65: 66: There is a special developer's room reserved for BSD licensed 67: operating systems and their talks. 68: 69: Please see 70: [this announcement](//mail-index.NetBSD.org/netbsd-advocacy/2019/10/10/msg000816.html) 71: for details. 72: 73: 74: ### `Sep 2019` - EuroBSDcon 2019, Lillehammer, Norway 75: 76: *September 19 - 22, 2019, Scandic Lillehammer Hotel, Lillehammer, Norway* 77: 78: [EuroBSDcon](https://2019.eurobsdcon.org/) is the premier European 79: conference on the open source BSD operating systems attracting 80: about 300 highly skilled engineering professionals, software 81: developers, computer science students and professors, and users 82: from all over Europe and other parts of the world. The goal of 83: EuroBSDcon is to exchange knowledge about the BSD operating systems, 84: facilitate coordination and cooperation among users and developers. 85: 86: 87: ### `Jul 2019` - pkgsrcCon 2019, Cambridge, United Kingdom 88: 89: *July 13 - 14, 2019, Cambridge, United Kingdom* 90: 91: [pkgsrcCon](//pkgsrc.org/pkgsrcCon/2019/) is the annual technical 92: conference for people working on pkgsrc, a framework for building 93: over 19,000 open source software packages. 94: pkgsrc is the native package manager on NetBSD, SmartOS and Minix, and 95: is portable across many different operating systems including Linux and 96: Mac OS X. 97: 98: 99: ### `May 2019` - BSDCan 2019, Ottawa, Canada 100: 101: *May 15 - 18, 2019, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada* 102: 103: [BSDCan](https://www.bsdcan.org/2019/), a BSD conference held in 104: Ottawa, Canada, quickly established itself as the technical conference 105: for people working on and with 4.4BSD based operating systems and 106: related projects. The organizers have found a fantastic formula 107: that appeals to a wide range of people from extreme novices to 108: advanced developers. 109: 110: 111: ### `Mar 2019` - AsiaBSDCon 2019, Tokyo, Japan 112: 113: *March 21 - 24, Tokyo University of Science, Tokyo, Japan* 114: 115: [AsiaBSDCon](https://www.asiabsdcon.org/) is a 116: conference for users and developers on BSD based systems. 117: The conference is for anyone developing, deploying and using systems 118: based on FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, DragonFly BSD, Darwin, and MacOS X. 119: AsiaBSDCon is a technical conference and aims to collect the best 120: technical papers and presentations available to ensure that the latest 121: developments in our open source community are shared with the widest 122: possible audience. 123: 124: 125: ### `Feb 2019` - FOSDEM 2019 Brussels, Belgium 126: 127: *February 2 - 3, 2019, ULB Solbosch Campus, Brussels, Belgium* 128: 129: [FOSDEM](https://fosdem.org/2019/) is a 130: free event for software developers to meet, share ideas 131: and collaborate. Every year, thousands of developers of 132: free and open source software from all over the world gather 133: at the event in Brussels. 134: 135: There is a special developer's room reserved for BSD licensed 136: operating systems and their talks. 137: 138: Please see 139: [this announcement](https://mail-index.NetBSD.org/netbsd-advocacy/2018/10/24/msg000787.html) 140: for details. 141: 142: 143: ### `Oct 2018` - MeetBSDCA 2018, Santa Clara, US 144: 145: *October 19 - 20, 2018, Intel Santa Clara Campus, California, US* 146: 147: [MeetBSD California](https://www.meetbsd.com/) is a biennial BSD 148: Unix conference that takes place in Silicon Valley. The first 149: MeetBSD California took place in 2008 and in 2018 it will take 150: place at the Intel Santa Clara Campus. 151: 152: 153: ### `Sep 2018` - EuroBSDCon 2018, Bucharest, Romania 154: 155: *September 20 - 23, 2018, University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania* 156: 157: [EuroBSDCon](https://2018.eurobsdcon.org/) is the premier European 158: conference on the open source BSD operating systems attracting 159: about 300 highly skilled engineering professionals, software 160: developers, computer science students and professors, and users 161: from all over Europe and other parts of the world. The goal of 162: EuroBSDcon is to exchange knowledge about the BSD operating systems, 163: facilitate coordination and cooperation among users and developers. 164: 165: 166: ### `Jul 2018` - Japan NetBSD Users Group annual Meeting and BoF, Tokyo, Japan 167: 168: *July 14, 2018, Takeda Building, The University of Tokyo, Japan* 169: 170: [Japan NetBSD User Group annual Meeting and BoF](http://www.jp.netbsd.org/ja/JP/JNUG/announce/meeting20.html.en) 171: is the 20th annual meeting organized by the 172: [Japan NetBSD Users Group](http://www.jp.netbsd.org/ja/JP/JNUG/). 173: The meeting consists of the 20th Annual Meeting opened to all 174: members of JNUG and the NetBSD BoF (Birds of a Feather), the casual 175: meeting for individuals who have interests to the NetBSD operating 176: system opened to everybody interested. 177: 178: For more information please see the report on 179: [netbsd-advocacy@](//mail-index.netbsd.org/netbsd-advocacy/2018/07/17/msg000778.html) 180: mailing list. 181: 182: 183: ### `Jul 2018` - pkgsrcCon 2018, Berlin, Germany 184: 185: *July 7 - 8, 2018, Berlin, Germany* 186: 187: [pkgsrcCon](//pkgsrc.org/pkgsrcCon/2018/) is the annual technical 188: conference for people working on pkgsrc, a framework for building 189: over 19,000 open source software packages. pkgsrc is the native 190: package manager on NetBSD, SmartOS and Minix, and is portable across 191: many different operating systems including Linux and Mac OS X. 192: 193: 194: ### `Jun 2018` - BSDCan 2018, Ottawa, Canada 195: 196: *June 6 - 9, 2018, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada* 197: 198: [BSDCan](https://www.bsdcan.org/2018/), a BSD conference held in 199: Ottawa, Canada, quickly established itself as the technical conference 200: for people working on and with 4.4BSD based operating systems and 201: related projects. The organizers have found a fantastic formula 202: that appeals to a wide range of people from extreme novices to 203: advanced developers. 204: 205: 206: ### `Mar 2018` - AsiaBSDCon 2018, Tokyo, Japan 207: 208: *March 8 - 11, Tokyo University of Science, Tokyo, Japan* 209: 210: [AsiaBSDCon](https://2018.asiabsdcon.org/) was a 211: conference for users and developers on BSD based systems. 212: The conference was for anyone developing, deploying and using systems 213: based on FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, DragonFly BSD, Darwin, and MacOS X. 214: AsiaBSDCon was a technical conference and aimed to collect the best 215: technical papers and presentations available to ensure that the latest 216: developments in our open source community were shared with the widest 217: possible audience. 218: 219: 220: ### `Feb 2018` - FOSDEM 2018, Brussels, Belgium 221: 222: *February 3 - 4, 2018, ULB Solbosch Campus, Brussels, Belgium* 223: 224: [FOSDEM](https://fosdem.org/2018/) was a free event for software developers to 225: meet, share ideas and collaborate. Every year, thousands of developers of 226: free and open source software from all over the world gather at the event in 227: Brussels. 228: 229: 230: ### `Nov 2017` - BSDTW 2017, Taipei, Taiwan 231: 232: *November 11 - 12, 2017, Taipei, Taiwan* 233: 234: [BSDTW 2017](https://bsdtw.org/) was planned as a 235: single track, 2 days conference with 11 presentations of 50 236: minutes each covering the latest BSD technology. The conference 237: attracted over 100 highly skilled engineering professionals, 238: software developers, computer science professors, users and 239: students from all over Asia as well as other parts of the 240: world. The goal of BSDTW was to exchange knowledge about the 241: BSD operating systems, facilitate coordination and cooperation 242: among users and developers and to promote business friendly 243: BSD licensed open source software. 244: 245: 246: ### `Sep 2017` - EuroBSDCon 2017 Paris, France 247: 248: *September 21 - 24, 2017, Paris, France* 249: 250: [EuroBSDCon](https://2017.eurobsdcon.org/) was the premier European 251: conference on the open source BSD operating systems attracting 252: about 250 highly skilled engineering professionals, software 253: developers, computer science students and professors, and users 254: from all over Europe and other parts of the world. The goal of 255: EuroBSDcon was to exchange knowledge about the BSD operating systems, 256: facilitate coordination and cooperation among users and developers. 257: 258: 259: ### `Jul 2017` - pkgsrcCon 2017, London, England 260: 261: *July 1 - 2, 2017, London, England* 262: 263: [pkgsrcCon](//pkgsrc.org/pkgsrcCon/2017/) was the annual technical 264: conference for people working on pkgsrc, a framework for building 265: over 18,000 open source software packages. pkgsrc is the native 266: package manager on NetBSD, SmartOS and Minix, and is portable across 267: many different operating systems including Linux and Mac OS X. 268: 269: 270: ### `Jun 2017` - BSDCAN 2017, Ottawa, Canada 271: 272: *June 7 - 10, Ottawa, Canada* 273: 274: BSDCan hosted talks and tutorials on a range of topics based 275: around the BSD family of operating systems. The event was held over a 276: four day period at the University of Ottawa. 277: 278: Please see 279: [website](https://www.bsdcan.org/2017/) 280: for details. 281: 282: 283: ### `Mar 2017` - AsiaBSDCon 2017 284: 285: *March 9 - 12, Tokyo University of Science, Tokyo, Japan* 286: 287: [AsiaBSDCon](https://2017.asiabsdcon.org/) was a 288: conference for users and developers on BSD based systems. 289: The conference was for anyone developing, deploying and using systems 290: based on FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, DragonFly BSD, Darwin, and MacOS X. 291: AsiaBSDCon was a technical conference and aimed to collect the best 292: technical papers and presentations available to ensure that the latest 293: developments in our open source community were shared with the widest 294: possible audience. 295: 296: 297: ### `Feb 2017` - FOSDEM 2017 Brussels, Belgium 298: 299: *February 4 - 5, Brussels, Belgium* 300: 301: [FOSDEM](https://fosdem.org/2017/) was a 302: free event for software developers to meet, share ideas 303: and collaborate. Every year, thousands of developers of 304: free and open source software from all over the world gather 305: at the event in Brussels. 306: 307: There was a special developer's room reserved for BSD licensed 308: operating systems and their talks. 309: 310: Please see 311: [this announcement](http://mail-index.netbsd.org/netbsd-advocacy/2016/10/20/msg000720.html) 312: for details. 313: 314: 315: ### `Sep 2016` - EuroBSDCon 2016 Belgrade, Serbia 316: 317: *September 22 - 25, 2016, Belgrade Serbia* 318: 319: [EuroBSDCon](https://2016.eurobsdcon.org/) is the premier European 320: conference on the open source BSD operating systems attracting 321: about 250 highly skilled engineering professionals, software 322: developers, computer science students and professors, and users 323: from all over Europe and other parts of the world. 324: 325: 326: ### `Sep 2016` - Open Source Conference 2016 Shimane 327: 328: *Sep. 24, 2016, [MATSUE TERRSA](http://www.sanbg.com/terrsa/e/index.html), Shimane, Japan* 329: 330: At the [Open Source Conference 2016 331: Shimane](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2016-shimane/) , there was a NetBSD booth 332: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 333: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) with many gadget 334: demonstrations. 335: 336: 337: ### `Jul 2016` - Open Source Conference 2016 Kyoto 338: 339: *Jul. 29-30, 2016, [KYOTO RESEARCH 340: PARK](http://www.krp.co.jp/english/spatial_services/convention/map/), Kyoto, Japan* 341: 342: At the [Open Source Conference 2016 343: Kyoto](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2016-kyoto/) , there was a NetBSD 344: booth staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 345: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/) and [Kansai \*BSD Users 346: Group](http://www.kbug.gr.jp/). 347: [more report on netbsd-advocacy](http://mail-index.netbsd.org/netbsd-advocacy/2016/08/01/msg000712.html). 348: 349: 350: ### `Jul 2016` - Japan NetBSD Users' Group meeting & NetBSD BOF 351: 352: *Jul 9, 2016, [VLSI Design and Education Center University of 353: Tokyo](http://www.vdec.u-tokyo.ac.jp/English/contact.html), Tokyo, 354: Japan* 355: 356: See [Japan NetBSD Users Group 18th annual Meeting and BoF 357: 2016](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/announce/meeting18.html.en) 358: for meeting information and 359: [Report](https://github.com/ebijun/osc-demo/blob/master/2016/JNUG2016.txt). 360: 361: ### `Jul 2016` - pkgsrcCon 2016, Kraków, Poland 362: 363: *July 2 - 3, 2016, Kraków Poland* 364: 365: [pkgsrcCon](http://www.pkgsrc.org/pkgsrcCon/2016/) is the annual technical 366: conference for people working on pkgsrc, a framework for building 367: over 17,000 open source software packages. pkgsrc is the native 368: package manager on NetBSD, SmartOS and Minix, and is portable across 369: many different operating systems including Linux and Mac OS X. 370: 371: ### `Jul 2016` - Open Source Conference 2016 Okinawa 372: 373: *Jul. 2, 2016, [Okinawa Convention 374: Center](http://www.oki-conven.jp/en/modules/tinyd7/page/page1.html) , 375: Okinawa, Japan* 376: 377: At the [Open Source Conference 2016 378: Okinawa](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2016-okinawa/) , there will be a NetBSD 379: booth staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 380: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/) with NetBSD gadgets demonstration. 381: [Report on netbsd-advocacy](http://mail-index.netbsd.org/netbsd-advocacy/2016/07/04/msg000710.html). 382: 383: ### `Jun 2016` - Open Source Conference 2016 Hokkaido 384: 385: *Jun. 17-18, 2016, [Sapporo Convention Center](http://www.sora-scc.jp/access/index.html), Sapporo, Japan* 386: 387: At the [Open Source Conference 2016 388: Hokkaido](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2016-do/), there was a NetBSD 389: booth staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 390: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/) with NetBSD gadget demonstrations. 391: [Report on netbsd-advocacy](http://mail-index.netbsd.org/netbsd-advocacy/2016/06/20/msg000709.html). 392: 393: ### `May 2016` - Open Source Conference 2016 Nagoya 394: 395: *May. 28, 2016, [Fukiage Hall](http://www.nipc.or.jp/fukiage/index.html), Nagoya, Japan* 396: 397: At the [Open Source Conference 2016 398: Nagoya](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2016-nagoya/), there was a NetBSD 399: booth staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 400: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/) with NetBSD gadget demonstrations. 401: [Report on netbsd-advocacy](http://mail-index.netbsd.org/netbsd-advocacy/2016/05/30/msg000707.html). 402: 403: 404: ### `May 2016` - Open Source Conference 2016 Gunma 405: 406: *May. 14, 2016, [LABI1 Takasaki](http://www.yamadalabi.com/takasaki/access/index.html), Gunma, Japan* 407: 408: At the [Open Source Conference 2016 409: Gunma](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2016-gunma/), there was a NetBSD 410: booth staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 411: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/) with NetBSD gadget demonstrations. 412: [Report on netbsd-advocacy](http://mail-index.netbsd.org/netbsd-advocacy/2016/05/16/msg000706.html). 413: 414: ### `Mar 2016` - AsiaBSDCon 2016 415: 416: *Mar. 10-13, 2016, Tokyo, Japan* 417: 418: [AsiaBSDCon](https://www.asiabsdcon.org/) is a conference for users 419: and developers on BSD based systems. The next conference will be held 420: in Tokyo, in 10-13 March, 2016. The conference is for anyone 421: developing, deploying and using systems based on FreeBSD, NetBSD, 422: OpenBSD, DragonFlyBSD, Darwin and MacOS X. AsiaBSDCon is a technical 423: conference and aims to collect the best technical papers and 424: presentations available to ensure that the latest developments in our 425: open source community are shared with the widest possible audience. 426: [BSD Research and Japan NetBSD Users' Group booth report](https://github.com/ebijun/osc-demo/blob/master/2016/AsiaBSDCon2016.txt) 427: 428: ### `Feb 2016` - Open Source Conference 2016 Tokyo/Spring 429: 430: *Feb. 26- 27, 2016, [MEISEI 431: UNIVERSITY](http://www.meisei-u.ac.jp/access/hino.html), Tokyo, Japan* 432: 433: At the [Open Source Conference 2016 434: Tokyo/Spring](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2016-spring/), there was a NetBSD 435: booth staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 436: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/) with NetBSD gadget demonstrations. 437: [Report on netbsd-advocacy](http://mail-index.netbsd.org/netbsd-advocacy/2016/02/29/msg000703.html). 438: 439: 440: ### `Jan 2016` - Open Source Conference 2016 Hamanako 441: 442: *Jan. 23, 2016, [Hamamatsu Shimin Kyodo Center](http://www.machien-hamamatsu.jp/access.html), Shizuoka, Japan* 443: 444: At the [Open Source Conference 2016 445: Hamanako](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2015-hamanako/), there was a NetBSD 446: booth staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 447: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/) with NetBSD gadget demonstrations. 448: [Report on netbsd-advocacy](http://mail-index.netbsd.org/netbsd-advocacy/2016/01/23/msg000701.html). 449: 450: 451: ### `Nov 2015` - Open Source Conference 2015 Tokushima 452: 453: *Nov. 14, 2015, [TOKUGIN TOMONI PLAZA](http://www.tokuginplaza.com/own/index.asp), Tokushima, Japan* 454: 455: At the [Open Source Conference 2015 456: Tokushima](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2015-tokushima/), there was a NetBSD 457: booth staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 458: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/) with NetBSD gadget demonstrations. 459: [Report on netbsd-advocacy](http://mail-index.netbsd.org/netbsd-advocacy/2015/11/09/msg000700.html). 460: 461: ### `Nov 2015` - KANSAI OPEN FORUM 2015 462: 463: *Nov. 6- 7, 2015, [Asia and Pacific Trade Center](http://www.atc-co.com/guide/access.php), Osaka, Japan* 464: 465: At the [KANSAI OPEN FORUM 2015](https://k-of.jp/2015/), there was a NetBSD 466: booth staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 467: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/) with NetBSD gadget demonstrations 468: and [BSD BOF](https://k-of.jp/2015/session/731). 469: [Report on netbsd-advocacy](http://mail-index.netbsd.org/netbsd-advocacy/2015/11/09/msg000699.html). 470: 471: ### `Oct 2015` - Open Source Conference 2015 Tokyo/Fall 472: 473: *Oct. 24- 25, 2015, [MEISEI 474: UNIVERSITY](http://www.meisei-u.ac.jp/access/hino.html), Tokyo, Japan* 475: 476: At the [Open Source Conference 2015 477: Tokyo/Fall](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2015-fall/), there was a NetBSD 478: booth staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 479: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/) with NetBSD gadget demonstrations 480: and [BSD BOF](https://www.ospn.jp/osc2015-fall/modules/eguide/event.php?eid=4). 481: [Report on netbsd-advocacy](http://mail-index.netbsd.org/netbsd-advocacy/2015/10/25/msg000698.html). 482: 483: 484: ### `Oct 2015` - BSDCon Brasil 2015, Ceará, Brasil 485: 486: *Oct. 9-10, 2015, University of Fortaleza ,Ceará, Brasil* 487: 488: 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. 489: 490: 491: ### `Oct 2015` - Open Source Conference 2015 Fukuoka 492: 493: *Oct. 3, 2015, [KYUSHU SANGYO UNIVERSITY](http://www.kyusan-u.ac.jp/E/index.shtml), Fukuoka, Japan* 494: 495: At the [Open Source Conference 2015 496: Fukuoka](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2015-fukuoka/) , there was a NetBSD booth 497: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 498: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) with many gadget 499: demonstrations.[Report on netbsd-advocacy](http://mail-index.netbsd.org/netbsd-advocacy/2015/10/05/msg000697.html). 500: 501: ### `Oct 2015` - EuroBSDcon 2015, Stockholm, Sweden 502: 503: *Oct. 1-4, 2015, Stockholm, Sweden* 504: 505: [EuroBSDcon](https://2015.eurobsdcon.org/) is the premier European 506: conference on the open source BSD operating systems attracting about 507: 250 highly skilled engineering professionals, software developers, 508: computer science students and professors, and users from all over 509: Europe and other parts of the world. The goal of EuroBSDcon is to 510: exchange knowledge about the BSD operating systems, facilitate 511: coordination and cooperation among users and developers. 512: 513: ### `Sep 2015` - Open Source Conference 2015 Hiroshima 514: 515: *Sep. 19, 2015, [Satellite Campus Hiroshima](https://www.pu-hiroshima.ac.jp/site/satellite/), Hiroshima, Japan* 516: 517: At the [Open Source Conference 2015 518: Hiroshima](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2015-Hiroshima/) , there was a NetBSD and XM6i booth 519: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 520: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) and [XM6i](http://xm6i.org/) developers with many gadget 521: demonstrations.[Report on netbsd-advocacy](http://mail-index.netbsd.org/netbsd-advocacy/2015/09/24/msg000696.html). 522: 523: ### `Sep 2015` - vBSDCon 2015, Virginia, United States 524: 525: *Sep. 11-13, 2015, Virginia, United States* 526: 527: 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. 528: 529: ### `Sep 2015` - Open Source Conference 2015 Niigata 530: 531: *Sep. 5, 2015, [HON-PORT NIIGATA CITY PUBLIC LIBRARY](http://www.niigatacitylib.jp/?page_id=166), Niigata, Japan* 532: 533: At the [Open Source Conference 2015 534: Niigata](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2015-niigata/) , there was a NetBSD booth 535: staffed by members of [Echigo BSD Users Group](http://www.ebug.jp/) members and the [Japan NetBSD Users' 536: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) with many gadget 537: demonstrations.[Report on netbsd-advocacy](http://mail-index.netbsd.org/netbsd-advocacy/2015/09/05/msg000695.html). 538: 539: ### `Aug 2015` - Open Source Conference 2015 Shimane 540: 541: *Aug. 22, 2015, [MATSUE TERRSA](http://www.sanbg.com/terrsa/e/index.html), Shimane, Japan* 542: 543: At the [Open Source Conference 2015 544: Shimane](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2015-shimane/) , there was a NetBSD booth 545: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 546: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) with many gadget 547: demonstrations.[Report on netbsd-advocacy](http://mail-index.netbsd.org/netbsd-advocacy/2015/08/22/msg000692.html). 548: 549: ### `Aug 2015` - Open Source Conference 2014 Kansai@Kyoto 550: 551: *Aug. 7-8, 2015, [KYOTO RESEARCH 552: PARK](http://www.krp.co.jp/english/spatial_services/convention/map/), Kyoto, Japan* 553: 554: At the [Open Source Conference 2015 555: Kansai@Kyoto](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2015-kyoto/) , there was a NetBSD 556: booth staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 557: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/) and [Kansai \*BSD Users 558: Group](http://www.kbug.gr.jp/) and [Nagoya . *BSD Users' Group](http://www.nagoya.bug.gr.jp/). 559: [Report on netbsd-advocacy](http://mail-index.netbsd.org/netbsd-advocacy/2015/08/10/msg000691.html). 560: 561: 562: ### `Jul 2015` - Open Source Conference 2015 Okinawa 563: 564: *Jul. 4, 2015, [Okinawa Convention 565: Center](http://www.oki-conven.jp/en/modules/tinyd7/page/page1.html) , 566: Okinawa, Japan* 567: 568: At the [Open Source Conference 2015 569: Okinawa](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2015-okinawa/) , there was a NetBSD 570: booth staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 571: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/) with NetBSD gadgets demonstration. 572: [Report on NetBSD-advocacy](http://mail-index.netbsd.org/netbsd-advocacy/2015/07/04/msg000688.html). 573: 574: 575: ### `Jun 2015` - Open Source Conference 2015 Hokkaido 576: 577: *Jun. 12-13, 2015, [Sapporo Convention Center](http://www.sora-scc.jp/access/index.html), Sapporo, Japan* 578: 579: At the [Open Source Conference 2015 580: Hokkaido](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2015-do/), there was a NetBSD 581: booth staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 582: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/) with NetBSD gadget demonstrations. 583: [Report on netbsd-advocacy](http://mail-index.netbsd.org/netbsd-advocacy/2015/06/13/msg000687.html). 584: 585: 586: ### `Mar 2015` - AsiaBSDCon 2015 587: 588: *Mar. 12-15, 2015, Tokyo, Japan* 589: 590: [AsiaBSDCon](https://2015.asiabsdcon.org/) is a conference for users 591: and developers on BSD based systems. The next conference will be held 592: in Tokyo, in 12-15 March, 2015. The conference is for anyone 593: developing, deploying and using systems based on FreeBSD, NetBSD, 594: OpenBSD, DragonFlyBSD, Darwin and MacOS X. AsiaBSDCon is a technical 595: conference and aims to collect the best technical papers and 596: presentations available to ensure that the latest developments in our 597: open source community are shared with the widest possible audience. 598: 599: ### `Feb 2015` - Open Source Conference 2015 Tokyo/Spring 600: 601: *Feb. 27- 28, 2015, [MEISEI 602: UNIVERSITY](http://www.meisei-u.ac.jp/access/hino.html), Tokyo, Japan* 603: 604: At the [Open Source Conference 2015 605: Tokyo/Spring](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2015-spring/), there was a NetBSD 606: booth staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 607: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/) with NetBSD gadget demonstrations. 608: [Report on netbsd-advocacy](http://mail-index.netbsd.org/netbsd-advocacy/2015/02/28/msg000680.html). 609: 610: ### `Nov 2014` - Kansai OpenSource 2014 611: 612: *Nov. 7-8, 2014, [Asia and Pacific Trade Center ITM 613: Building](http://www.atc-co.com/), Osaka, Japan* 614: 615: At the [Kansai OpenSource 2014](http://www.k-of.jp/), there will be BSD 616: booths staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 617: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) and [Kansai \*BSD Users 618: Group](http://www.kbug.gr.jp/). with many gadget demonstrations { 619: [hpcarm](../ports/hpcarm/), [hpcmips](../ports/hpcmips/), 620: [hpcsh](../ports/hpcsh/) } and BSDBOF. 621: 622: ### `Sep 2014` - EuroBSDCon 2014, Sofia, Bulgaria 623: 624: *Sep. 25-28, 2014, Sofia, Bulgaria* 625: 626: [EuroBSDcon](http://2014.EuroBSDCon.org) is the premier European 627: conference on the open source BSD operating systems attracting about 628: 250 highly skilled engineering professionals, software developers, 629: computer science students and professors, and users from all over 630: Europe and other parts of the world. The goal of EuroBSDcon is to 631: exchange knowledge about the BSD operating systems, facilitate 632: coordination and cooperation among users and developers. 633: 634: ### `Aug 2014` - Open Source Conference 2014 Kansai@Kyoto 635: 636: *Aug. 1-2, 2014, [KYOTO RESEARCH 637: PARK](http://www.krp.co.jp/english/spatial_services/convention/map/), Kyoto, Japan* 638: 639: At the [Open Source Conference 2014 640: Kansai@Kyoto](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2014-kyoto/) , there was a NetBSD 641: booth staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 642: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/) and [Kansai \*BSD Users 643: Group](http://www.kbug.gr.jp/). 644: [Report on netbsd-advocacy](http://mail-index.netbsd.org/netbsd-advocacy/2014/08/09/msg000658.html). 645: 646: 647: ### `Jul 2014` - Open Source Conference 2014 Nagoya 648: 649: *Jul. 4-5, 2014, [Nagoya International 650: Center](http://www.nic-nagoya.or.jp/en/e/about-us/access-hours), Nagoya, 651: Japan* 652: 653: At the [Open Source Conference 2014 654: Nagoya](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2014-nagoya/) , there will be a OpenBSD 655: and NetBSD booth staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 656: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/) and [Nagoya \*BSD Users' Group 657: (NBUG)](http://www.nagoya.bug.gr.jp/). There will be a gadget 658: demonstration [BSD booth](http://twitpic.com/czat1r) and NBUG BOF. 659: 660: ### `Jun 2014` - pkgsrcCon 2014, London, England 661: 662: *Jun. 21-22, 2014, Middlesex University, London, England* 663: 664: [pkgsrcCon](http://www.pkgsrc.org/pkgsrcCon/2014/) is a technical 665: conference for people working on the NetBSD Packages Collection 666: (pkgsrc), focusing on existing technologies, research projects, and 667: works-in-progress in pkgsrc infrastructure. Developers, contributors, 668: interested developers and users are all welcome to attend. 669: 670: ### `Jun 2014` - Open Source Conference 2014 Hokkaido 671: 672: *Jun. 13-14, 2014, [Sapporo Business Innovation Center, Sapporo, 673: Japan](http://www.sapporosansin.jp/access/)* 674: 675: At the [Open Source Conference 2014 676: Hokkaido](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2014-do/) , there will be a NetBSD booth 677: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 678: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/) and [NoBUG](http://www.no.bug.gr.jp/) 679: with NetBSD gadget demonstrations ( [hpcarm](../ports/hpcarm/), 680: [hpcmips](../ports/hpcmips/), [hpcsh](../ports/hpcsh/)). 681: 682: 683: ### `May 2014` - Open Source Conference 2014 Okinawa 684: 685: *May. 6, 2014, [Okinawa Convention 686: Center](http://www.oki-conven.jp/en/modules/tinyd7/page/page1.html) , 687: Okinawa, Japan* 688: 689: At the [Open Source Conference 2014 690: Okinawa](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2014-okinawa/) , there was a NetBSD 691: booth staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 692: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/) with NetBSD gadgets demonstration. 693: [more detail on togetter](http://togetter.com/li/671580). 694: 695: 696: ### `Mar 2014` - Open Source Conference 2014 Hamanako 697: 698: *Mar. 22, 2014, [Hamamatsu Shimin Kyodo 699: Center](http://www.machien-hamamatsu.jp/) , Shizuoka, Japan* 700: 701: At the [Open Source Conference 2014 702: Hamanako](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2014-hamanako/) , there will be a NetBSD 703: booth staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 704: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/) with many gadgets demonstration ( 705: [hpcarm](../ports/hpcarm/), [hpcmips](../ports/hpcmips/), 706: [hpcsh](../ports/hpcsh/)). 707: 708: ### `Mar 2014` - AsiaBSDCon 2014 709: 710: *Mar 13-16, 2014, Tokyo University of Science,Tokyo, Japan* 711: 712: [AsiaBSDCon](http://2014.asiabsdcon.org/) will be a conference for users 713: and developers on BSD based systems. The conference was for anyone 714: developing, deploying and using systems based on FreeBSD, NetBSD, 715: OpenBSD, DragonFly BSD, Darwin, and MacOS X. AsiaBSDCon was a technical 716: conference and aimed to collect the best technical papers and 717: presentations available to ensure that the latest developments in our 718: open source community are shared with the widest possible audience. 719: 720: ### `Feb 2014` - Open Source Conference 2014 Tokyo/Spring 721: 722: *Feb. 28- Mar. 1, 2014, [MEISEI 723: UNIVERSITY](http://www.meisei-u.ac.jp/access/hino.html), Tokyo, Japan* 724: 725: At the [Open Source Conference 2014 726: Tokyo/Spring](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2014-spring/), there was a NetBSD 727: booth staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 728: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/) with NetBSD gadget demonstrations ( 729: [hpcarm](../ports/hpcarm/), [zaurus](../ports/zaurus/), 730: [evbarm](../ports/evbarm/)). [2014-02-28-netbsd-raspi 731: image](http://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-arm/2014/02/28/msg002243.html)). 732: more reports on [togetter](http://togetter.com/li/635747). Japan NetBSD 733: Users' Group got an award called "[Open Source Confernce 734: Award](http://www.ospn.jp/press/20140218osc-award.html)". 735: 736: ### `Feb 2014` - NYC\*BSD Con 2014 737: 738: *Feb 8, 2014 Suspenders Bar and Restaurant* 739: 740: [NYC\*BSD Con 2014](http://www.nycbsdcon.org/2014/) NYCBSDCon is on as a 741: day-long event with the theme of "The BSDs in Production." 742: 743: ### `Nov 2013` - Linux User Group of Mauritius - LinuxFest 2013 744: 745: *Nov 25, 2013, Octave Wiehe Auditorium University of Mauritius* 746: 747: [Linux Fest 2013 in Mauritius](http://lugm.org/linuxfest/#) will feature 748: some BSD thumb drives and other general IT and Open Source talks 749: 750: ### `Nov 2013` - Open Source Conference 2013 Oita 751: 752: *Nov. 23, 2013, i-ness, Oita, Japan* 753: 754: At the [Open Source Conference 2013 755: Oita](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2013-oita/) , there will be a NetBSD booth 756: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 757: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/) with many gadgets demonstration ( 758: [hpcarm](../ports/hpcarm/), [hpcmips](../ports/hpcmips/), 759: [hpcsh](../ports/hpcsh/)). 760: 761: ### `Nov 2013` - Open Source Conference 2013 Fukuoka 762: 763: *Nov. 16, 2013, [Fukuoka Soft Research 764: Park](http://www.fukuoka-srp.co.jp/access/index.html) , Fukuoka, Japan* 765: 766: At the [Open Source Conference 2013 767: Fukuoka](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2013-fukuoka/) , there will be a NetBSD 768: booth staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 769: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/) with many gadgets demonstration ( 770: [hpcarm](../ports/hpcarm/), [hpcmips](../ports/hpcmips/), 771: [hpcsh](../ports/hpcsh/)) 772: 773: ### `Nov 2013` - Kansai OpenSource 2013 774: 775: *Nov. 8-9, 2013, [Asia and Pacific Trade Center ITM 776: Building](http://www.atc-co.com/), Osaka, Japan* 777: 778: At the [Kansai OpenSource 2013](http://www.k-of.jp/), there will be BSD 779: booths staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 780: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) and [Kansai \*BSD Users 781: Group](http://www.kbug.gr.jp/). with many gadget demonstrations { 782: [hpcarm](../ports/hpcarm/), [hpcmips](../ports/hpcmips/), 783: [hpcsh](../ports/hpcsh/) } and BSDBOF. 784: 785: ### `Oct 2013` - Open Source Conference 2013 Tokyo/Fall 786: 787: *Oct. 19-20, 2013, [MEISEI 788: UNIVERSITY](http://www.meisei-u.ac.jp/access/hino.html), Tokyo, Japan* 789: 790: At the [Open Source Conference 2013 791: Tokyo/Fall](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2013-fall/), there will be a NetBSD 792: booth staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 793: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/) with NetBSD gadget demonstrations ( 794: [hpcarm](../ports/hpcarm/), [hpcmips](../ports/hpcmips/), 795: [hpcsh](../ports/hpcsh/)) and BSDBOF. 796: 797: ### `Oct 2013` - Open Source Conference 2013 Hiroshima 798: 799: *Oct. 6, 2013, [Satellite Campus 800: Hiroshima](http://www.pu-hiroshima.ac.jp/site/satellite/accessmap.html) 801: , Hiroshima, Japan* 802: 803: At the [Open Source Conference 2013 804: Hiroshima](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2013-hiroshima/) , there will be a 805: NetBSD booth staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 806: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/) with NetBSD gadget demonstrations ( 807: [hpcarm](../ports/hpcarm/), [hpcmips](../ports/hpcmips/), 808: [hpcsh](../ports/hpcsh/)). 809: 810: ### `Sep 2013` - Open Source Conference 2013 Hokkaido 811: 812: *Sep. 14, 2013, [Sapporo Convention Center, Sapporo, 813: Japan](http://www.sora-scc.jp/access/index.html)* 814: 815: At the [Open Source Conference 2013 816: Hokkaido](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2013-do/) , there will be a NetBSD booth 817: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 818: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/) and [NoBUG](http://www.no.bug.gr.jp/) 819: with NetBSD gadget demonstrations ( [hpcarm](../ports/hpcarm/), 820: [hpcmips](../ports/hpcmips/), [hpcsh](../ports/hpcsh/)). 821: 822: ### `Aug 2013` - FrOSCon 2013 823: 824: *Aug. 24–25, 2013, [Bonn-Rhein-Sieg University of Applied Sciences, 825: Campus 826: Sankt-Augustin](http://fhbrs.de/en/University/Addresses+and+how+to+find+us.html), 827: Germany* 828: 829: At [FrOSCon 8](http://froscon.org/en/home/) (Free and Open Source 830: Software Conference), the NetBSD project will be present with a booth 831: with several "showcase" machines, handing out flyers and CDs and 832: answering users' questions. 833: 834: ### `Aug 2013` - Open Source Conference 2013 Shimane 835: 836: *Aug. 24, 2013, [MATSUE 837: TERRSA](http://www.sanbg.com/terrsa/e/index.html), Shimane, Japan* 838: 839: At the [Open Source Conference 2013 840: Shimane](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2013-shimane/) , there was a NetBSD booth 841: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 842: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) with many gadget 843: demonstrations ( [SONY NEWS 844: NetBSD/newsmips](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/5003059), [Java Station 845: NetBSD/sparc](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/5003356), [OMRON LUNAII 846: NetBSD/luna68k](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/5003079), [XM6i 847: NetBSD/x68k](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/5003189), [Raspberry PI 848: hardfloat 849: NetBSD/evbarmv6hf](http://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-arm/2013/08/23/msg001984.html) 850: ). more reports on [togetter](http://togetter.com/li/553529). 851: 852: ### `Aug 2013` - Open Source Conference 2013 Kansai@Kyoto 853: 854: *Aug. 2-3, 2013, [KYOTO RESEARCH 855: PARK](http://www.krp.co.jp/english/access/index.html), Kyoto, Japan* 856: 857: At the [Open Source Conference 2013 858: Kansai@Kyoto](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2013-kyoto/) , there was a NetBSD 859: booth staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 860: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/) and [Kansai \*BSD Users 861: Group](http://www.kbug.gr.jp/) . There was a gadgets demonstration ( 862: [sparc64 Genial 737s](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/4987247), [OMRON 863: LUNA and LUNAII](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/4987331), [LUNAII and 864: mikutter](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/4987913), 865: [RaspberryPI](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/4987927) ) and presentation 866: ( [all about OMRON LUNA](http://www.soum.co.jp/~jun/OSC2013kyoto.pdf), 867: [Do LUNA68K Dream of mltermic Twitter 868: Sheep?,](http://www.ceres.dti.ne.jp/tsutsui/osc2013kyoto/NetBSD-luna68k_mlterm-fb_Twitter.html) 869: ). more report on [togetter](http://togetter.com/li/542885). 870: 871: ### `Jul 2013` - Japan NetBSD Users' Group meeting & NetBSD BOF 872: 873: *Jul 13, 2013, [VLSI Design and Education Center University of 874: Tokyo](http://www.vdec.u-tokyo.ac.jp/English/contact.html), Tokyo, 875: Japan* 876: 877: See [Japan NetBSD Users Group 15th annual Meeting and BoF 878: 2013](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/announce/meeting15.html.en) 879: for meeting information.[more detail on 880: togetter](http://togetter.com/li/532926). 881: 882: ### `Jul 2013` - Open Source Conference 2013 Okinawa 883: 884: *Jul. 6, 2013, [Okinawa Convention 885: Center](http://www.oki-conven.jp/en/modules/tinyd7/page/page1.html) , 886: Okinawa, Japan* 887: 888: At the [Open Source Conference 2013 889: Okinawa](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2013-okinawa/) , there will be a NetBSD 890: booth staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 891: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/) with many gadgets demonstration ( 892: [hpcarm](../ports/hpcarm/), [Raspberry-pi image for 893: NetBSD](http://ftp.NetBSD.org/pub/NetBSD/misc/jun/raspberry-pi/), 894: [XM6i](http://xm6i.org/)).[more detail on 895: togetter](http://togetter.com/li/529669). 896: 897: ### `Jun 2013` - Open Source Conference 2013 Nagoya 898: 899: *Jun. 21-22, 2013, [Nagoya International 900: Center](http://www.nic-nagoya.or.jp/en/e/about-us/access-hours), Nagoya, 901: Japan* 902: 903: At the [Open Source Conference 2013 904: Nagoya](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2013-nagoya/) , there was a OpenBSD 905: andNetBSD booth staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 906: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/) and [Nagoya \*BSD Users' Group 907: (NBUG)](http://www.nagoya.bug.gr.jp/). There was a gadget demonstration 908: [BSD booth](http://twitpic.com/czat1r) ( [OpenBSD/luna88k and 909: NetBSD/luna68k](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/4959244), [NetBSD6.1 vs 910: NetBSD6.0.2 animation viewer runnning on NetBSD/x68k with XM6i X68030 911: emulator](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/4959314), [RaspberryPI NetBSD 912: Image](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/4959033) ) and NBUG 913: BOF([OpenBSD/luna88k](http://www.nk-home.net/~aoyama/osc2013nagoya/OpenBSD-luna88k.pdf),6.1 914: vs 6.0.2 animation on 915: NetBSD/x68k,[NetBSD/RPI](http://ftp.NetBSD.org/pub/NetBSD/misc/jun/raspberry-pi/README-RPI.pdf) 916: ),[CLU lang and NetBSD 917: 2038](http://www.slideshare.net/hirofumitouhei/osc2013-nagoya). [more 918: detail on togetter](http://togetter.com/li/522396). 919: 920: ### May 2013 - Linuxtag Berlin 921: 922: *May 22-25, 2013, Berlin, Germany.* 923: 924: LinuxTag 2013 opens its doors from May 22 to May 25, 2013, at the Berlin 925: Expo Center under the Funkturm in Berlin, Germany. The event features a 926: NetBSD booth on the exhibition fair, where you can get the newest 927: T-Shirts, talk to NetBSD developers or get stickers for your computer 928: cases or notebooks. 929: 930: See the [Linuxtag homepage](http://www.linuxtag.org/2013/en.html) for 931: more information. 932: 933: ### `May 2013` - BSDCan 2013, Ottawa, Canada 934: 935: *May 17-18, 2013, Ottawa, Canada.* 936: 937: [BSDCan 2013](http://www.bsdcan.org/2013) is a BSD conference held in 938: Ottawa, Canada, for people working on and with 4.4BSD based operating 939: systems and related projects. BSDCan 2013 will be held on 17-18 May 2013 940: at University of Ottawa, and will be preceded by two days of tutorials 941: on 15-16 May 2013. There were related events (of a social nature, for 942: the most part) on the day before and after the conference. 943: 944: See [the call for 945: papers](http://mail-index.NetBSD.org/netbsd-advocacy/2012/12/09/msg000506.html) 946: for details. 947: 948: ### `Apr 2013` - Central European BSD-Day 2013, Naples, Italy 949: 950: *Apr 6, 2013, Naples, Italy* 951: 952: The [Central European BSD-Day](http://bsdday.eu/2013) took place at he 953: Institute of Biostructures and Bioimaging in Naples, Italy on Saturday, 954: April 6th. The format is technically a mixture of a cross-project 955: developer summit and a workshop. We have invited developers working with 956: BSD from different organizations, we have some dinners together, and 957: dedicate various sessions to each of the topics based on the interests 958: of the attending developers. The format of these sessions is quite 959: flexible: they may include presentations or demonstration of results, or 960: even public discussions with developers involved, or a mix of all of 961: these. 962: 963: ### `Mar 2013` - pkgsrcCon 2013, Berlin, Germany 964: 965: *Mar. 23, 2013, IN-Berlin Space, Berlin, Germany* 966: 967: The [pkgsrcCon](http://www.pkgsrc.org/pkgsrcCon/2013/) is a technical 968: conference for people working on the NetBSD Packages Collection 969: (pkgsrc), focusing on existing technologies, research projects, and 970: works-in-progress in pkgsrc infrastructure. Developers, contributors, 971: interested developers and users are all welcome to attend. 972: 973: ### `Mar 2013` - Chemnitz Linux Days 2013, Chemnitz, Germany 974: 975: *Mar. 16-17, 2013, Chemnitz, Germany* 976: 977: The Chemnitz Linux Days is a conference that deals with Linux and Open 978: Source Software. It is open for everyone, novices and experts alike. 979: There will be a NetBSD booth where you can get the freshest goodies and 980: BSD related talks. 981: 982: See the [website](http://chemnitzer.linux-tage.de/2013/) for more 983: information. 984: 985: ### `Mar 2013` - AsiaBSDCon 2013 986: 987: *Mar 14-17, 2013, Tokyo University of Science,Tokyo, Japan* 988: 989: [AsiaBSDCon](http://2013.asiabsdcon.org/) will be a conference for users 990: and developers on BSD based systems. The conference was for anyone 991: developing, deploying and using systems based on FreeBSD, NetBSD, 992: OpenBSD, DragonFly BSD, Darwin, and MacOS X. AsiaBSDCon was a technical 993: conference and aimed to collect the best technical papers and 994: presentations available to ensure that the latest developments in our 995: open source community are shared with the widest possible audience. 996: 997: [Time table](http://2013.asiabsdcon.org/timetable.html). Keynote: [64bit 998: SMP NetBSD OS Porting for TILE-Gx VLIW Many-Core Processor by Toru 999: Nishimura](http://2013.asiabsdcon.org/timetable.html#K1) [More reports 1000: on Togetter](http://togetter.com/li/472002) and [AsiaBSDCon Guide by 1001: Japan NetBSD Users 1002: Group](http://www.soum.co.jp/~jun/asiabsdcon2013.pdf). 1003: 1004: ### `Mar 2013` - Open Source Conference 2013 Tokushima 1005: 1006: *Mar. 9, 2013, [TOKUGIN TOMONY 1007: PLAZA](http://www.tokuginplaza.com/own/index.asp) , Tokushima, Japan* 1008: 1009: At the [Open Source Conference 2013 1010: Tokushima](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2013-tokushima/) , there was be a 1011: NetBSD booth staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 1012: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/) with many gadgets demonstration ( 1013: [hpcarm](../ports/hpcarm/), [evbarm 1014: (Netwalker,KOBO,RPI)](../ports/evbarm/), [luna68k](../ports/luna68k/)) 1015: and ["NetBSD 20 years" 1016: presentation](http://www.slideshare.net/tsutsuii/osc2013tokushima-net-bsd20th) 1017: by tsutsui@. [More reports on Togetter](http://togetter.com/li/468577). 1018: 1019: ### `Feb 2013` - Open Source Conference 2013 Tokyo/Spring 1020: 1021: *Feb. 22-23, 2013, Tokyo, Japan* 1022: 1023: At the [Open Source Conference 2013 1024: Tokyo/Spring](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2013-spring/), there was a NetBSD 1025: booth staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 1026: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/) with NetBSD gadget demonstrations( 1027: [NetBSD/Raspberry Pi](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/4689247), 1028: [NetBSD/KOBO and 1029: NetBSD/netwalker](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/4688202), [mikutter on 1030: WZERO3](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/4689261), ) and [more details on 1031: togetter](http://togetter.com/li/460484). 1032: 1033: ### `Feb 2013` - Open Source Conference 2013 Hamamatsu 1034: 1035: *Feb. 9, 2013, [Hamamatsu Shimin Kyodo 1036: Center](http://www.machien-hamamatsu.jp/) , Shizuoka, Japan* 1037: 1038: At the [Open Source Conference 2013 1039: Hamamatsu](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2013-hamamatsu/) , there was a NetBSD 1040: booth staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 1041: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/) with many gadgets demonstration ( 1042: [hpcarm](../ports/hpcarm/), [hpcmips](../ports/hpcmips/), 1043: [hpcsh](../ports/hpcsh/)). [More reports on 1044: Togetter](http://togetter.com/li/452856). 1045: 1046: ### `Feb 2013` - FOSDEM 2013, Brussels, Belgium 1047: 1048: *Feb. 2-3, 2013, Brussels, Belgium* 1049: 1050: [FOSDEM](https://fosdem.org/2013/) (Free and Open source Software 1051: Developers' European Meeting) is a two-day free and non-commercial event 1052: organized by the community for the community. Its goal is to provide 1053: Free Software and Open Source developers and communities a place to 1054: meet. It includes talks, presentations, booths, and a social event on 1055: the day prior to the event. Participation and attendance is totally 1056: free, though the organization gratefully accepts donations and 1057: sponsorships. No registration necessary. 1058: 1059: There was a special developer's room reserved for BSD licensed operating 1060: systems and their talks, and a NetBSD booth where you can talk to 1061: developers or get NetBSD goodies. 1062: 1063: Please see [this 1064: announcement](http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-advocacy/2012-November/004276.html) 1065: for details. 1066: 1067: ### `Dec 2012` - Open Source Conference 2012 Fukuoka 1068: 1069: *Dec. 8, 2012, [Fukuoka Jyouhou 1070: Senmon-gakkou](http://www.kcs-f.ac.jp/index.html) , Fukuoka, Japan* 1071: 1072: At the [Open Source Conference 2012 1073: Fukuoka](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2012-fukuoka/) , there was a NetBSD booth 1074: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 1075: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/) with many gadgets demonstration ( 1076: [hpcarm](../ports/hpcarm/), [hpcmips](../ports/hpcmips/), 1077: [hpcsh](../ports/hpcsh/)) 1078: 1079: ### `Nov 2012` - Open Source Conference 2012 Aizu 1080: 1081: *Nov. 3, 2012, [The University of 1082: Aizu](http://www.u-aizu.ac.jp/e-index.html) , Aizu, Japan* 1083: 1084: At the [Open Source Conference 2012 1085: Aizu](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2012-aizu/) , there was a NetBSD booth 1086: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 1087: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/) with many gadgets demonstration ( 1088: [hpcarm](../ports/hpcarm/), [hpcmips](../ports/hpcmips/), 1089: [hpcsh](../ports/hpcsh/)) 1090: 1091: ### `Oct 2012` - Open Source Conference 2012 Oita/Fall 1092: 1093: *Oct. 27, 2012, Sophia hall , Oita, Japan* 1094: 1095: At the [Open Source Conference 2012 1096: Oita/Fall](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2012-oita-fall/) , there was a NetBSD 1097: booth staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 1098: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/) with many gadgets demonstration ( 1099: [hpcarm](../ports/hpcarm/), [hpcmips](../ports/hpcmips/), 1100: [hpcsh](../ports/hpcsh/)). 1101: 1102: ### `Oct 2012` - Open Source Conference 2012 Hiroshima 1103: 1104: *Oct. 20, 2012, [Hiroshima Kokusai Gakuin 1105: University](http://www.hkg.ac.jp/html/about/access.html) , Hiroshima, 1106: Japan* 1107: 1108: At the [Open Source Conference 2012 1109: Hiroshima](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2012-hiroshima/) , there was a NetBSD 1110: booth staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 1111: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/) with [four NetBSD/x68k 1112: machines](http://twitpic.com/b6hyt7) including 1113: [X68030](http://twitpic.com/b6h7bz)+[Neptune-X+NE2000](http://twitpic.com/b6i5j1), 1114: [X68030+Nereid](http://twitpic.com/b6h0gl), 1115: [X68060](http://twitpic.com/b6hw05) 1116: ([X68030+060turbo](http://twitpic.com/b67l7a)), [X68000 1117: PRO](http://twitpic.com/b6gs48) with [Xellent30 1118: accellerator](http://movapic.com/pic/201210201011355081fa47b2a4f) 1119: [booted via recently added netboot](http://twitpic.com/b6gqeb), and 1120: [XM6i X68030 Emulator](http://xm6i.org/) on [Mac OS X with a real X68000 1121: keyboard via USB converter](http://twitpic.com/b6i2qa). There were also 1122: presentations ["Competitive development of XM6i and NetBSD/x68k" by 1123: isaki@](http://xm6i.org/event/osc2012hi/) and ["NetBSD 6.0 New features 1124: found at OSC booth" by 1125: tsutsui@](http://www.slideshare.net/tsutsuii/osc-netbsd-60). [The event 1126: summary is available on Togetter](http://togetter.com/li/392778). 1127: 1128: ### `Oct 2012` - EuroBSDCon 2012, Warsaw, Poland 1129: 1130: *Oct. 18-21, 2012, Warsaw, Poland* 1131: 1132: [EuroBSDcon](http://2012.EuroBSDCon.org) is the European annual 1133: technical conference gathering users and developers working on and with 1134: 4.4BSD based operating systems family and related projects. 1135: 1136: EuroBSDcon gives the exceptional opportunity to learn about latest news 1137: from the BSD world, witness contemporary deployment case studies, and 1138: meet personally other users and companies using BSD oriented 1139: technologies. EuroBSDcon is also a boiler plate for ideas, discussions 1140: and information exchange, which often turn into programming projects. 1141: 1142: The conference has always attracted active programmers, administrators 1143: and aspiring students, as well as IT companies at large, which found the 1144: conference a convenient and quality training option for its staff. We 1145: firmly believe that high profile education is vital to the future of 1146: technology, and hence greatly welcome students and young people to this 1147: regular meeting. 1148: 1149: ### `Sep 2012` - Open Source Conference 2012 Okinawa 1150: 1151: *Sep. 22, 2012, [Okinawa Convention 1152: Center](http://www.oki-conven.jp/en/modules/tinyd7/page/page1.html) , 1153: Okinawa, Japan* 1154: 1155: At the [Open Source Conference 2012 1156: Okinawa](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2012-okinawa/) , there was a NetBSD booth 1157: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 1158: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/) with many gadgets demonstration ( 1159: [hpcarm](../ports/hpcarm/), [hpcmips](../ports/hpcmips/), 1160: [hpcsh](../ports/hpcsh/)). 1161: 1162: ### `Sep 2012` - Open Source Conference 2012 Tokyo/Spring 1163: 1164: *Sep. 7-8, 2012, Tokyo, Japan* 1165: 1166: At the [Open Source Conference 2012 1167: Tokyo/Spring](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2012-spring/), there was a NetBSD 1168: booth staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 1169: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/) with NetBSD gadget demonstrations( 1170: [NetBSD/Openblocks A6 by 1171: kiyohara@](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/4686373), [NetBSD/Openblocks 1172: 266,600 by kiyohara@](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/4687681), 1173: [NetBSD/Raspberry Pi](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/4689247), 1174: [NetBSD/KOBO and 1175: NetBSD/netwalker](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/4688202), [mikutter on 1176: WZERO3](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/4689261), [linkstation and 1177: USL-5P](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/4686571), [KAME 1178: Project](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/4686706) ) and BSD BOF. [more 1179: details on togetter](http://togetter.com/li/369471). 1180: 1181: ### `Nov 2012` - Kansai OpenSource 2012 1182: 1183: *Nov. 9-10, 2012, [Asia and Pacific Trade Center ITM 1184: Building](http://www.atc-co.com/), Osaka, Japan* 1185: 1186: At the [Kansai OpenSource 2012](http://www.k-of.jp/), there were two BSD 1187: booths staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 1188: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) and [Kansai \*BSD Users 1189: Group](http://www.kbug.gr.jp/). with many gadget demonstrations { WZero3 1190: NetBSD/evbarm, ZAURUS NetBSD/zaurus, [XM6i 1191: NetBSD/X68k](http://twitpic.com/bbvayo) } and BSDBOF (). [More reports 1192: on Togetter](http://togetter.com/li/404573). 1193: 1194: ### `Sep 2012` - Open Source Conference 2012 Shimane 1195: 1196: *Sep. 1, 2012, [MATSUE 1197: TERRSA](http://www.sanbg.com/terrsa/e/index.html), Shimane, Japan* 1198: 1199: At the [Open Source Conference 2012 1200: Shimane](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2012-shimane/) , there was a NetBSD booth 1201: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 1202: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) with many gadget 1203: demonstrations ( 1204: [NetBSD/hpcarm,i386](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/4678623), ). [more 1205: details on togetter](http://togetter.com/li/365753). 1206: 1207: ### `Aug 2012` - XenSummit North America 2012 1208: 1209: *Aug. 27-28, 2012, [Sheraton Hotel & 1210: Marina](http://www.starwoodhotels.com/sheraton/property/overview/index.html?propertyID=127), 1211: San Diego, California, USA* 1212: 1213: [XenSummit](http://xen.org/xensummit/xs12na_talks/xensummit.html) is the 1214: leading annual technical conference for Xen® developers and users in 1215: North America. The event provides collaboration and education for the 1216: Xen® community. There was a talk on NetBSD (and FreeBSD) on Xen roadmap 1217: on day one of the conference. 1218: 1219: ### `Aug 2012` - FrOSCon 2012 1220: 1221: *Aug. 25-26, 2012, [Hochschule Bonn-Rhein-Sieg](http://h-brs.de/), Sankt 1222: Augustin, Germany* 1223: 1224: The [FrOSCon](http://www.froscon.de/en) (Free And Open Source 1225: Conference) is one of the largest Open Source conferences in Germany. 1226: 1227: ### `Aug 2012` - Open Source Conference 2012 Kansai@Kyoto 1228: 1229: *Aug. 3-4, 2012, [KYOTO RESEARCH 1230: PARK](http://www.krp.co.jp/english/access/index.html), Kyoto, Japan* 1231: 1232: At the [Open Source Conference 2012 1233: Kansai@Kyoto](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2012-kyoto/) , there was a NetBSD 1234: booth staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 1235: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/) and [Kansai \*BSD Users 1236: Group](http://www.kbug.gr.jp/) . There was a gadgets demonstration ( 1237: [OMRON LUNA](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/4634623), [OMRON LUNA 1238: II](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/4634629), [NetBSD/hpcarm (SHARP 1239: WZERO3)](http://movapic.com/pic/20120803100715501b24433284c), [Gainer 1240: with squeak](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/4634639), [Making plans for 1241: SHARP,X68K on 1242: XM6i,ZAURUS,Netwalker](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/4634777), [ZAURUS 1243: cluster](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/4634992), [the mikutter 1244: Chronicles](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/4636177), [NetBSD install 1245: service center](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/4636374), [RetroBSD on 1246: PIC32](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/4635032) ) and [NetBSD luna68k 1247: updates presetation by 1248: tsutsuii](http://www.ceres.dti.ne.jp/tsutsui/osc2012kyoto/NetBSD-luna68k-updates.html) 1249: [more details on togetter](http://togetter.com/li/350035). 1250: 1251: ### `Jul 2012` - Open Source Conference 2012 Sendai 1252: 1253: *Jul 14, 2012, [Tohoku Computer 1254: College](http://www.jc-21.ac.jp/map/index.shtml), Sendai, Japan* 1255: 1256: At the [Open Source Conference 2012 1257: Sendai](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2012-sendai/) , there was a NetBSD booth 1258: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 1259: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) with many hpc{ 1260: [mips](../ports/hpcmips/), [sh](../ports/hpcsh/), [arm and 1261: Netwalker](../ports/hpcarm/) } gadgets demonstration. 1262: 1263: ### `Jul 2012` - Japan NetBSD Users' Group meeting & NetBSD BOF 1264: 1265: *Jul 7, 2012, [VLSI Design and Education Center University of 1266: Tokyo](http://www.vdec.u-tokyo.ac.jp/English/contact.html), Tokyo, 1267: Japan* 1268: 1269: See [Japan NetBSD Users Group 14th annual Meeting and BoF 1270: 2012](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/announce/meeting14.html.en) 1271: for meeting information. 1272: 1273: ### `Jun 2012` - 17th NetBSD Hackathon 1274: 1275: *June 14 - 17, 2012, [17th NetBSD 1276: Hackathon](http://wiki.NetBSD.org/hackathon)* 1277: 1278: The 17th NetBSD hackathon focuses on getting NetBSD 6 BETA2 ready for 1279: the first release candidate. Our goal is fixing all the bugs that need 1280: fixing to get NetBSD-current ready for the creation of the NetBSD 6.0 1281: release branch. 1282: 1283: ### `Jun 2012` - Open Source Conference 2012 Hokkaido 1284: 1285: *Jun. 16, 2012, Sapporo Business Innovation Center, Sapporo, Japan* 1286: 1287: At the [Open Source Conference 2012 1288: Hokkaido](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2012-do/) , there was a NetBSD booth 1289: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 1290: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/) and [NoBUG](http://www.no.bug.gr.jp/) 1291: with [Building NetBSD on 1292: Win7+Cygwin](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/4565220), 1293: [NetBSD/Armadillo-9](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/4565161), [Processing 1294: on NetBSD](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/4565033), [NetBSD/IBM 1295: PalmTop110](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/4565193), [NetBSD/X68k on 1296: XM6i](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/4565208), [mikutter on NetBSD/WZERO3 1297: and NetBSD/Zaurus](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/4565158), [NetBSD and 1298: mikutter goods](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/4565027), [Geiger 1299: counter](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/4565528), [Making install-image 1300: Presentation](http://www.ceres.dti.ne.jp/tsutsui/osc12do/NetBSD-cross-liveimage.html) 1301: by tsutsui@. [more detail on togetter](http://togetter.com/li/318806). 1302: 1303: ### May 2012 - Linuxtag Berlin 1304: 1305: *May 23-26, 2012, Berlin, Germany.* 1306: 1307: LinuxTag 2012 opened its doors from May 23 to May 26, 2012, at the 1308: Berlin Expo Center under the Funkturm in Berlin, Germany. The event 1309: featured talks about Open Source and there was be a NetBSD booth on the 1310: exhibition fair where you could get advocacy material, talk to users and 1311: developers or buy NetBSD T-Shirts. 1312: 1313: See the [Linuxtag homepage](http://www.linuxtag.org/2012/en.html) for 1314: more information. 1315: 1316: ### `May 2012` - BSDCan 2012 1317: 1318: *May 11-12, 2012, Ottawa, Canada.* 1319: 1320: [BSDCan 2012](http://www.bsdcan.org/) was a BSD conference held in 1321: Ottawa, Canada, for people working on and with 4.4BSD based operating 1322: systems and related projects. The organizers have found a fantastic 1323: formula that appeals to a wide range of people from extreme novices to 1324: advanced developers. BSDCan 2012 was held on 11-12 May 2012 at 1325: University of Ottawa, and will be preceded by two days of Tutorials on 1326: 9-10 May 2012. There were related events (of a social nature, for the 1327: most part) on the day before and after the conference. 1328: 1329: ### `May 2012` - Open Source Conference 2012 Nagoya 1330: 1331: *May. 12, 2012, [Nagoya International 1332: Center](http://www.nic-nagoya.or.jp/en/e/about-us/access-hours), Nagoya, 1333: Japan* 1334: 1335: At the [Open Source Conference 2012 1336: Nagoya](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2012-nagoya/) , there was a NetBSD booth 1337: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 1338: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/) and [Nagoya \*BSD Users' Group 1339: (NBUG)](http://www.nagoya.bug.gr.jp/). There was a gadget demonstration 1340: [BSD booth](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/4511413) ( [Twitter time line 1341: on NetBSD/dreamcast visual 1342: memory](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/4512178) ([slide and 1343: paper](http://www.yagoto-urayama.jp/~oshimaya/netbsd/vm/index.html)), 1344: [Zaurus](../ports/zaurus/), [W-ZERO3](../ports/hpcarm/), [Enjoy NetBSD 1345: on EeePC NetBook with OpenOffice and 1346: Mikutter](http://www.ceres.dti.ne.jp/tsutsui/netbsd/liveimage/), 1347: [mikutter mug and seal](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/4511548) ) and 1348: NBUG BOF. [more detail on togetter](http://togetter.com/li/302311). 1349: 1350: ### `May 2012` - Central European BSD-Day 2012 Vienna 1351: 1352: The [Central European BSD-Day](http://bsdday.eu/2012) took place at the 1353: University of Applied Sciences in Vienna, Austria, on saturday, may 5th. 1354: 1355: ### `Apr 2012` - Open Source Conference 2012 Iwate 1356: 1357: *Apr. 21, 2012, Iwate, Japan* 1358: 1359: At the [Open Source Conference 2012 1360: Iwate](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2012-iwate/) , there was a [NetBSD 1361: booth](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/4472557) staffed by members of the 1362: [Japan NetBSD Users' Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/) with many { 1363: [XM6i](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/4472584), 1364: [hpcarm](../ports/hpcarm/), [hpcmips](../ports/hpcmips/), 1365: [zaurus](../ports/zaurus/), [hpcsh](../ports/hpcsh/) } gadget 1366: demonstrations. 1367: 1368: ### `Mar 2012` - AsiaBSDCon 2012 1369: 1370: *Mar 22-25, 2012, Tokyo University of Science,Tokyo, Japan* 1371: 1372: [AsiaBSDCon](http://2012.asiabsdcon.org/) was a conference for users and 1373: developers on BSD based systems. The conference was for anyone 1374: developing, deploying and using systems based on FreeBSD, NetBSD, 1375: OpenBSD, DragonFly BSD, Darwin, and MacOS X. AsiaBSDCon was a technical 1376: conference and aimed to collect the best technical papers and 1377: presentations available to ensure that the latest developments in our 1378: open source community are shared with the widest possible audience. 1379: 1380: ### `Mar 2012` - Open Source Conference 2012 Ehime 1381: 1382: *Mar. 24, 2012, Ehime, Japan* 1383: 1384: At the [Open Source Conference 2012 1385: Ehime](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2012-ehime/) , there was a NetBSD booth 1386: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 1387: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/) with [NetBSD/x68k by 1388: isaki@](http://www.pastel-flower.jp/~isaki/NetBSD/osc12eh/page1.html), 1389: [XM6i by isaki@](http://xm6i.org/event/osc2012eh/page1.html), [NetBSD 1390: port history by 1391: tsutsui@](http://www.ceres.dti.ne.jp/tsutsui/osc12eh/NetBSD-port-history.html), 1392: [zaurus and WZERO3](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/4422214), [evbarm and 1393: shark](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/4422260), 1394: [XM6i](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/4422589), [XM6i on 1395: mac](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/4422798), gadget demonstrations 1396: [[ustream live 1397: archive](http://www.ustream.tv/channel/japan-netbsd-users-group-meeting)]. 1398: 1399: ### `Mar 2012` - Chemnitzer Linux-Tage 2012 1400: 1401: *Mar. 17-18, 2012, Chemnitz, Germany* 1402: 1403: The "Chemnitz Linux Days" was a conference that deals with Linux, but 1404: also with free and open source software in general. Being an event vor 1405: novices and experts as well, there were a NetBSD booth and related 1406: talks. 1407: 1408: See the [website](http://chemnitzer.linux-tage.de/2012/) for more 1409: information. 1410: 1411: ### `Mar 2012` - Open Source Conference 2012 Tokyo/Spring 1412: 1413: *Mar. 16-17, 2012, Tokyo, Japan* 1414: 1415: At the [Open Source Conference 2012 1416: Tokyo/Spring](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2012-spring/), there was be a NetBSD 1417: booth staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 1418: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/) with [teokure live 1419: image(NetBSD5.1.2/i386,amd64+Firefox+mikutter)](http://teokurebsd.org/), 1420: [WZero3 live 1421: image(NetBSD6.0BETA/hpcarm)](http://ftp.NetBSD.org/pub/NetBSD/misc/tsutsui/wzero3/), 1422: [Zaurus live 1423: image(NetBSD6.0BETA/zaurus)](http://ftp.NetBSD.org/pub/NetBSD/misc/tsutsui/zaurus/), 1424: [Translate NetBSD man with 1425: po4a](http://www.slideshare.net/master_q/netbsd-man-osc2012), 1426: [Jornada680](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/4407584), 1427: [Jornada720](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/4407590), [Zaurus 1428: 760,860](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/4407593), [WZero3 with 1429: pkgsrc/net/mikutter](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/4407661), 1430: [OpenBlocks](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/4408049), 1431: [ZBOXNANO-VD01](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/4409584), [Lemote yeeloong 1432: 8089b evbmips64](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/4409939), [mikutter 1433: seal](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/4408149), NetBSD [gadget 1434: demonstrations](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/4409260). 1435: 1436: ### `Feb 2012` - Open Source Conference 2012 Oita 1437: 1438: *Feb. 11, 2012, Oita, Japan* 1439: 1440: At the [Open Source Conference 2012 1441: Oita](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2012-oita/), there was a [NetBSD 1442: booth](http://movapic.com/pic/201202111050584f35c982a782a), staffed by 1443: members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/) 1444: with hpcsh { [Persona 1445: 30](http://movapic.com/pic/201202111116074f35cf677a48b), [Jornada 1446: 680](http://movapic.com/pic/201202111105064f35ccd26f35f), [Jornada 1447: 690](http://movapic.com/pic/201202111036504f35c6323d7f3)}, hpcarm { 1448: [Jornada 720](http://movapic.com/pic/201202111107354f35cd67daedf), 1449: [WS007SH](http://movapic.com/pic/201202111039044f35c6b854249), 1450: [WS011SH](http://movapic.com/pic/201202111103074f35cc5b6ea81)}, hpcmips 1451: { [MCR520](http://movapic.com/pic/201202111124414f35d169430c3), 1452: [Z50](http://movapic.com/pic/201202111048154f35c8dfba12d)}, zaurus { 1453: [SLC-860+mikutter](http://movapic.com/pic/201202111112154f35ce7f6db5a)}, 1454: i386 { [aspire 1455: one](http://movapic.com/pic/201202111121424f35d0b649525)}, x68k { 1456: [XM6i](http://movapic.com/pic/201202111204074f35daa7e639a), 1457: [XM6i](http://movapic.com/pic/201202111207584f35db8ea62fa)}, amd64 {[pen 1458: tablet with NetBSD](http://movapic.com/pic/201202110957324f35bcfcaa63d), 1459: [teokure live image](http://teokurebsd.org/) }, 1460: [Xnp2](http://movapic.com/pic/201202111234014f35e1a946be8), 1461: [NetBSD/mikutter seal](http://yfrog.com/esrv5bej) gadget demonstrations 1462: and brand new [NetBSD 5.1.2 1463: presentation](http://www.NetBSD.org/releases/formal-5/NetBSD-5.1.2.html). 1464: 1465: ### `Feb 2012` - FOSDEM 2012 1466: 1467: *Feb. 4-5, 2012, Brussels, Belgium* 1468: 1469: [FOSDEM](http://www.fosdem.org/2012/) is the biggest free and 1470: non-commercial event organized by and for the community. Its goal is to 1471: provide Free and Open Source developers a place to meet. No registration 1472: necessary. 1473: 1474: There was a NetBSD booth and a special developer's room reserved for BSD 1475: licensed operating systems and their talks. Please see [the 1476: announcement](http://mail-index.NetBSD.org/netbsd-advocacy/2011/11/28/msg000374.html) 1477: for details. 1478: 1479: ### `Dec 2011` - Open Source Conference 2011 Fukuoka 1480: 1481: *Dec. 3, 2011, [CHIKUSHI 1482: JOGAKUEN](http://www-new.chikushi-u.ac.jp/english/about/index.html#Where), 1483: Fukuoka, Japan* 1484: 1485: At the [Open Source Conference 2011 1486: Fukuoka](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2011-fukuoka/) , there was a NetBSD booth 1487: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 1488: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) with many hpc{ 1489: [mips](../ports/hpcmips/), [sh(Jornada 680)](http://twitpic.com/7nhic7), 1490: [arm(WZERO3)](http://twitpic.com/7nhfzq) } gadgets demonstration and 1491: [Xen4 live USB -teokure- memory](http://twitpic.com/7nhl97). 1492: 1493: ### `Nov 2011` - Open Source Conference 2011 Tokyo/Fall 1494: 1495: *Nov. 19-20, 2011, [MEISEI 1496: UNIVERSITY](http://www.meisei-u.ac.jp/english/), Tokyo, Japan* 1497: 1498: At the [Open Source Conference 2011 1499: Tokyo/Fall](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2011-fall/) , there was a NetBSD booth 1500: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 1501: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) with many gadget 1502: demonstrations { [Teokure-Live Image 1503: amd64](http://www.ceres.dti.ne.jp/tsutsui/netbsd/liveimage/) (Thinkpad 1504: X201, X61), [acorn26](../ports/acorn26/) ([BBC 1505: A3000](http://movapic.com/pic/201111201146094ec869f10e10e)), 1506: [hpcarm](../ports/hpcarm/) (WS003SH, WS007SH, WS011SH, WS020SH, Jornada 1507: 710), [hpcmips](../ports/hpcmips/) (IBM Z50, MobileGear 530) , 1508: [hpcsh](../ports/hpcsh/) (Persona HPW30PA), [i386](../ports/i386/) (Acer 1509: Aspire One with [pkgsrc/net/mikutter](http://mikutter.hachune.net/)), 1510: [X68k](../ports/x68k/) ([XM6i](http://www.xm6i.org/)), 1511: [zaurus](../ports/zaurus/) 1512: ([SL-C700[NEW]](http://d.hatena.ne.jp/steleto/20101201), SL-C750, 1513: SL-C1000, SL-C3200), } and BSD BOF ([Ustream 1514: Recorded](http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/18441201) ). 1515: 1516: ### `Nov 2011` - Open Source Conference 2011 Shimane 1517: 1518: *Nov. 12, 2011, [MATSUE 1519: TERRSA](http://www.sanbg.com/terrsa/e/index.html), Shimane, Japan* 1520: 1521: At the [Open Source Conference 2011 1522: Shimane](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2011-shimane/) , there was a NetBSD booth 1523: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 1524: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) with many gadget 1525: demonstrations ( [hpcarm](../ports/hpcarm/), 1526: [hpcmips](../ports/hpcmips/), [hpcsh](../ports/hpcsh/) ). 1527: 1528: ### `Nov 2011` - Kansai OpenSource 2011 1529: 1530: *Nov. 11-12, 2011, [Asia and Pacific Trade Center ITM 1531: Building](http://www.atc-co.com/), Osaka, Japan* 1532: 1533: At the [Kansai OpenSource 2011](http://www.k-of.jp/), there were two BSD 1534: booths staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 1535: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) and [Kansai \*BSD Users 1536: Group](http://www.kbug.gr.jp/). with many gadget demonstrations { 1537: [dreamcast with fishing contoller](../ports/dreamcast/), 1538: [Hewlett-Packard 9000/700](../ports/hp700/), 1539: [Luna-II](../ports/luna68k/), [hpcarm and WZero3](../ports/hpcarm/), 1540: [hpcmips](../ports/hpcmips/), [hpcsh](../ports/hpcsh/), pf firewall 1541: demonstration with OpenBSD/landisk(USL-5Px2) } and BSDBOF ([Why 1542: enigmatic machines by 1543: tsutsui](http://www.ceres.dti.ne.jp/tsutsui/kof2011/Why-enigmatic-machines.html), 1544: pkgsrc by obache, [[Ustream 1545: Recorded](http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/18441201)]). [More reports on 1546: Togetter](http://togetter.com/li/213724). 1547: 1548: ### `Nov 2011` - bsd\_day(2011) 1549: 1550: *Nov. 5, 2011, Slovak University of Technology, Bratislava, Slovakia* 1551: 1552: The purpose of this one-day event is to gather Central European 1553: developers of today's open-source BSD systems, popularize their work, 1554: and provide an interface for real-life communication. There are no 1555: formalities, no papers, and no registration or participation fee, 1556: however the invited developers are encouraged to give a talk on their 1557: favorite BSD-related topic, then have a beer with the other folks around 1558: :-) The language of this event is English, and the goal is to motivate 1559: potential future developers and users, especially undergraduate 1560: university students to work with BSD systems. 1561: 1562: There is an additional schedule for participants and their guests on the 1563: day prior to (November 4th) and after (November 6th) the main event. 1564: 1565: For more information please visit the website 1566: [](http://www.bsdday.eu/2011/). 1567: 1568: ### `Nov 2011` - BSDday Argentina 2011 1569: 1570: *Nov. 5, 2011, Buenos Aires City, Argentina* 1571: 1572: BSDday Argentina is a conference for users, sysadmins and developers of 1573: BSD software and based systems. The conference is for anyone developing, 1574: deploying and using systems based on FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, 1575: DragonFlyBSD and others \*BSD. BSDday Argentina is a technical 1576: conference and aims to collect the best technical papers and 1577: presentations available to ensure that the latest developments in our 1578: open source community are shared with the widest possible audience. 1579: 1580: For more information please visit the website 1581: [](http://www.bsdday.org.ar/). 1582: 1583: ### `Oct 2011` - EuroBSDCon 2011 1584: 1585: *Oct. 6-9, 2011, Maarssen, Netherlands* 1586: 1587: EuroBSDcon is the European technical conference for people working on 1588: and with 4.4BSD based operating systems and related projects. EuroBSDcon 1589: 2011 is the 10th EuroBSDcon and will take place in (in the center of) 1590: The Netherlands 6 - 9 October 2011 at Meeting Plaza, Maarssen, The 1591: Netherlands. 1592: 1593: For more information please visit the website 1594: [](http://2011.EuroBSDCon.org/). 1595: 1596: ### `Oct 2011` - Open Source Conference 2011 Hiroshima 1597: 1598: *Oct. 1, 2011, [Prefectual University of 1599: Hiroshima](http://www.pu-hiroshima.ac.jp/05_campus/08_access/index.html) 1600: , Hiroshima, Japan* 1601: 1602: At the [Open Source Conference 2011 1603: Hiroshima](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2011-hiroshima/) , there was a NetBSD 1604: booth staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 1605: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) with many gadgets 1606: demonstration ( [NetBSD/x68k](../ports/x68k/) ( 1607: [X68030+Neptune-X+NE2000](http://twitpic.com/6tuiik), 1608: [X68030+Nereid](http://twitpic.com/6tvkzo), 1609: [X68060(X68030+060turbo)](http://twitpic.com/6tu7p2)), [XM6i X68030 1610: Emulator](http://xm6i.org/) on 1611: ([NetBSD/i386](http://movapic.com/pic/201110011105024e86754e2efbb), [Mac 1612: OS X](http://movapic.com/pic/201110011101544e8674925d26a)), [WZero 1613: 3](../ports/hpcarm) ([WS011SH](http://twitpic.com/6tyvva)), 1614: [Zaurus](../ports/zaurus) ([SL-C1000](http://twitpic.com/6tzg2z))) and 1615: [XM6i presentation by isaki@](http://xm6i.org/event/osc2011hi/), 1616: ["Teokure Live Image" and mikutter presentation by 1617: tsutsui](http://www.ceres.dti.ne.jp/tsutsui/osc11hi/Teokure-Live-Image.html), 1618: [event summary](http://togetter.com/li/195551). 1619: 1620: ### `Sep 2011` - Open Source Conference 2011 Okinawa 1621: 1622: *Sep. 10, 2011, [Okinawa Convention 1623: Center](http://www.oki-conven.jp/en/modules/tinyd7/page/page1.html) , 1624: Okinawa, Japan* 1625: 1626: At the [Open Source Conference 2011 1627: Okinawa](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2011-okinawa/) , there was a NetBSD booth 1628: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 1629: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) with many gadgets 1630: demonstration ( [hpcarm](../ports/hpcarm/), 1631: [hpcmips](../ports/hpcmips/), [hpcsh](../ports/hpcsh/) ) and PCBSD9.0 1632: presentation by Jun YAMASHIRO. 1633: 1634: ### `Sep 2011` - Open Source Small Conference 2011 Aizu 1635: 1636: *Sep. 3, 2011, [University of 1637: Aizu](http://www.u-aizu.ac.jp/e-intro/e-facilities/e-campusmap.html) , 1638: Fukushima, Japan* 1639: 1640: At the [Open Source Small Conference 2011 1641: Aizu](http://www.ospn.jp/ossc-aizu/) , there was a NetBSD booth staffed 1642: by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 1643: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) with many gadgets 1644: demonstration ( [hpcarm](../ports/hpcarm/), 1645: [hpcmips](../ports/hpcmips/), [hpcsh](../ports/hpcsh/) ). 1646: 1647: ### `Aug 2011` - Open Source Conference 2011 Nagoya 1648: 1649: *Aug. 20, 2011, [Nagoya International 1650: Center](http://www.nic-nagoya.or.jp/en/e/about-us/access-hours), Nagoya, 1651: Japan* 1652: 1653: At the [Open Source Conference 2011 1654: Nagoya](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2011-nagoya/) , there was a NetBSD booth 1655: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 1656: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) and [Nagoya \*BSD Users' 1657: Group](http://www.nagoya.bug.gr.jp/). There was a gadget demonstration ( 1658: [Presentation Software using only wscons with Dreamcast Fishing 1659: Controller](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/3923999), 1660: [hpcmips](../ports/hpcmips/), [hpcsh](../ports/hpcsh/), 1661: [hpcarm](../ports/hpcarm/), [Amiga 1662: 1200](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/3924333), [SONY NEWS 1663: 3460](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/3924343), [Geiger 1664: counter](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/3924354) ). 1665: 1666: ### `Aug 2011` - 15th NetBSD Hackathon 1667: 1668: *Aug. 10 - 15, 2011, [15th NetBSD 1669: Hackathon](http://wiki.NetBSD.org/hackathon)* 1670: 1671: The 15th NetBSD hackathon focused on documentation. Please see the Wiki 1672: page at the URL mentioned above for details and progress. 1673: 1674: ### `Jul 2011` - Open Source Conference 2011 Kansai@Kyoto 1675: 1676: *Jul. 15-16, 2011, [KYOTO RESEARCH 1677: PARK](http://www.krp.co.jp/english/access/index.html), Kyoto, Japan* 1678: 1679: At the [Open Source Conference 2011 1680: Kansai@Kyoto](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2011-kyoto/) , there was a [NetBSD 1681: booth](http://www.ceres.dti.ne.jp/tsutsui/osc2011kyoto/index.html) 1682: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 1683: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) and [Kansai \*BSD Users 1684: Group](http://www.kbug.gr.jp/) . There was a gadgets demonstration ( 1685: [Sun3/80](http://twitpic.com/5rcp11), [SONY NEWS 1686: NWS-1750](http://twitpic.com/5rcrjj), [OMRON LUNA 1687: SX-9100/DT](http://twitpic.com/5rcuqb), [Workstation book 1688: colab.](http://twitpic.com/5rd4td), [SHARP WZERO3](../ports/hpcarm/), [4 1689: BSD variants (NetBSD, FreeBSD, OpenBSD and DragonFly BSD) on 1690: NetBSD/xen](http://twitpic.com/5rl3n7), [Wsdisplay Presentation tool on 1691: NetBSD/hpcmips](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/3812933), 1692: [USL5P+OpenBSD4.9](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/3813423), [Compiling 1693: process Visualizer like teen spirit called Captain 1694: Nadeshiko](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/3812608), [Some like a BSD 1695: Statue Joystick](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/3809140) driven by 1696: [Gainer+Squeak](http://www.yengawa.com/squeak_gainer) ) and [NetBSD/m68k 1697: will never die! 1698: presentation](http://www.ceres.dti.ne.jp/tsutsui/osc2011kyoto/NetBSD-m68k-will-never-die.html) 1699: and 1700: [commit](http://mail-index.NetBSD.org/source-changes/2011/07/16/msg024675.html) 1701: by tsutsui. 1702: 1703: ### `Jul 2011` - Japan NetBSD Users' Group meeting & NetBSD BOF 1704: 1705: *Jul 9, 2011, [VLSI Design and Education Center University of 1706: Tokyo](http://www.vdec.u-tokyo.ac.jp/English/contact.html), Tokyo, 1707: Japan* 1708: 1709: See [Japan NetBSD Users Group 13th annual Meeting and BoF 1710: 2011](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/announce/meeting13.html.en) 1711: for meeting information. NetBSD BOF with 36 attendances and 153 ustream 1712: clients: pkgsrc updates by obache, jp.NetBSD.org servers by 1713: mef,NetBSD/[Psion netBook](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psion_netBook) 1714: by kiyohara, AC Tap with USB controlled power meter by Kubota, Power 1715: consumption and bcbench by jun, Capture Power consumption meter with 1716: OpenCV by mita@FreeBSD, Build [Facebook page for Japan NetBSD Users' 1717: Group](http://www.facebook.com/NetBSD.jp), 6.0 - here today by soda, PGP 1718: keysign party by soda. 1719: 1720: ### `Jun 2011` - Open Source Conference 2011 Hokkaido 1721: 1722: *Jun. 11, 2011, Sapporo Business Innovation Center, Sapporo, Japan* 1723: 1724: At the [Open Source Conference 2011 1725: Hokkaido](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2011-do/) , there was a NetBSD booth 1726: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 1727: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) and 1728: [NoBUG](http://www.no.bug.gr.jp/) with BeagleBoard, MSP430 LaunchPad, 1729: JMBadgeBoard, Processing on NetBSD and many hpc{ 1730: [mips](../ports/hpcmips/), [sh](../ports/hpcsh/), 1731: [arm](../ports/hpcarm/) } . 1732: 1733: ### `May 2011` - Open Source Conference 2011 Sendai 1734: 1735: *May 21, 2011, [Tohoku Computer 1736: College](http://www.jc-21.ac.jp/map/index.shtml), Sendai, Japan* 1737: 1738: At the [Open Source Conference 2011 1739: Sendai](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2011-sendai/) , there was a NetBSD booth 1740: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 1741: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) with many hpc{ 1742: [mips](../ports/hpcmips/), [sh](../ports/hpcsh/), [arm and 1743: WZero3(WS011SH)](../ports/hpcarm/) } gadgets demonstration. 1744: 1745: ### `May 2011` - BSDCan 2011 1746: 1747: *May 13-14, 2011, Ottawa, Canada.* 1748: 1749: [BSDCan 2011](http://www.bsdcan.org/) was held on 13-14 May 2011 at the 1750: University of Ottawa. It was preceded by two days of tutorials on 11-12 1751: May 2011. 1752: 1753: ### `Apr 2011` - Open Source Conference 2011 Kansai@Kobe 1754: 1755: *Apr. 16, 2011, [Kobe Industrial Promotion 1756: Center](http://www.kobe-ipc.or.jp/access/), Kobe, Japan* 1757: 1758: At the [Open Source Conference 2011 1759: Kansai@Kobe](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2011-kobe/) , there was a NetBSD 1760: booth staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 1761: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) with [ATARI TT030 + 1762: EtherNEC , and NetBSD bus\_space 1763: API](http://www.ceres.dti.ne.jp/tsutsui/osc2011kobe/NetBSD-EtherNEC.html) 1764: presentation by tsutsui, contao presentation by taca, and [ATARI 1765: TT030](../ports/atari/), [SHARP X68030](../ports/x68k/), 1766: [cobalt](../ports/cobalt/), [hpcmips](../ports/hpcmips/), 1767: [hpcsh](../ports/hpcsh/), [hpcarm](../ports/hpcarm/), 1768: [zaurus](../ports/zaurus/) gadgets demonstration. 1769: 1770: ### `Mar 2011` - AsiaBSDCon 2011 1771: 1772: *Mar 19-20, 2011, Tokyo University of Science,Tokyo, Japan* 1773: 1774: [AsiaBSDCon](http://2011.asiabsdcon.org/) is a conference for users and 1775: developers on BSD based systems. The conference is for anyone 1776: developing, deploying and using systems based on FreeBSD, NetBSD, 1777: OpenBSD, DragonFly BSD, Darwin, and MacOS X. AsiaBSDCon is a technical 1778: conference and aims to collect the best technical papers and 1779: presentations available to ensure that the latest developments in our 1780: open source community are shared with the widest possible audience. 1781: 1782: ### `Mar 2011` - Open Source Conference 2011 Oita 1783: 1784: *Mar. 19, 2011, [i-ness](http://www.pref.oita.jp/13040/index.html), 1785: Oita, Japan* 1786: 1787: At the [Open Source Conference 2011 1788: Oita](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2011-oita/) , there was a NetBSD booth 1789: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 1790: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) with many hpc{ 1791: [mips](../ports/hpcmips/), [sh](../ports/hpcsh/), 1792: [arm](../ports/hpcarm/) } gadgets demonstrations. 1793: 1794: ### `Mar 2011` - Open Source Conference 2011 Tokyo/Spring 1795: 1796: *Mar. 4-5, 2011, [Wasseda University,Nishiwaseda 1797: Campus](http://www.waseda.jp/eng/campus/map03.html), Tokyo, Japan* 1798: 1799: At the [Open Source Conference 2011 1800: Tokyo/Spring](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2011-spring/) , there was a NetBSD 1801: booth staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 1802: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) with many hpc{ 1803: [mips](../ports/hpcmips/), [sh](../ports/hpcsh/), 1804: [arm](../ports/hpcarm/) } gadgets demonstration. 1805: 1806: ### `Feb 2011` - FOSDEM 2011 Brussels, Belgium 1807: 1808: *Feb. 5-6, 2011, [FOSDEM](http://www.fosdem.org/2011/), Brussels, 1809: Belgium* 1810: 1811: At the [FOSDEM 2011 Conference](http://www.fosdem.org/2011/), there was 1812: a joint BSD booth staffed by NetBSD and FreeBSD developers and users. 1813: 1814: [Marc Balmer](http://www.vnode.ch/) (mbalmer@) gave a talk "Lua in BSD" 1815: in the BSD devroom 1816: 1817: ### `Feb 2011` - Open Source Conference 2011 Kagawa 1818: 1819: *Feb. 5, 2011, [Sunport Hall 1820: Takamatsu](http://www.sunport-hall.jp/shisetu/access.htm), Kagawa, 1821: Japan* 1822: 1823: At the [Open Source Conference 2011 1824: Kagawa](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2011-kagawa/), there was a NetBSD booth 1825: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 1826: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) with [many 1827: hp](http://twitpic.com/3xoh1i){ [hp300](../ports/hp300/), 1828: [hpcmips](../ports/hpcmips/), [hpcsh](../ports/hpcsh/), 1829: [hpcarm](../ports/hpcarm/) } gadgets demonstration and [NetBSD/hp300 and 1830: wscons](http://www.ceres.dti.ne.jp/tsutsui/osc11kg/netbsd-hp300.html) 1831: presentation by tsutsui ([Event driven Commit 1832: Log](http://mail-index.NetBSD.org/source-changes/2011/02/06/msg018165.html)). 1833: 1834: ### `Dec 2010` - Open Source Conference 2010 Fukuoka 1835: 1836: *Dec. 11, 2010, [Fukuoka Institute of 1837: Technology](http://www.fit.ac.jp/EN/index.html), Fukuoka, Japan* 1838: 1839: At the [Open Source Conference 2010 1840: Fukuoka](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2010-fukuoka/) , there was a NetBSD booth 1841: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 1842: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) with many hpc{ 1843: [mips](../ports/hpcmips/), [sh](../ports/hpcsh/), 1844: [arm](../ports/hpcarm/) } gadgets demonstration. 1845: 1846: ### `Nov 2010` - Journées Méditéranéennes du Logiciel Libre in Sophia-Antipolis. 1847: 1848: *November 26-27, 2010, Sophia-Antipolis, France.* 1849: 1850: NetBSD was present for the 2nd time at the [Journées Méditéranéennes du 1851: Logiciel Libre](http://jm2l.linux-azur.org). Friday afternoon was 1852: generally more enterprise oriented, while Saturday was more end-users 1853: focused. 1854: 1855: ### `Nov 2010` - Open Source Conference 2010 Shimane 1856: 1857: *Nov 27, 2010, [MATSUE 1858: TERRSA](http://www.sanbg.com/terrsa/e/index.html), Shimane, Japan* 1859: 1860: At the [Open Source Conference 2010 1861: Shimane](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2010-shimane/) , there was a NetBSD booth 1862: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 1863: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/). There was gadget 1864: demonstrations ( [hpcarm](../ports/hpcarm/), 1865: [hpcmips](../ports/hpcmips/), [hpcsh](../ports/hpcsh/) ). 1866: 1867: ### `Nov 2010` - NYCBSDCon 2010 1868: 1869: *November 12-14, 2010, Cooper Union, New York, NY, USA* 1870: 1871: [The New York City BSD Conference 1872: (NYCBSDCon)](http://www.nycbsdcon.org/2010/) is the main technical 1873: conference on the US East Coast for the BSD community to get together to 1874: share and gain knowledge, to network with like-minded people, and to 1875: have fun. This event was organized by members of the New York City \*BSD 1876: Users Group (NYC\*BUG). 1877: 1878: ### `Nov 2010` - Kansai OpenSource 2010 1879: 1880: *Nov. 5-6, 2010, [Asia and Pacific Trade Center ITC 1881: Building](http://www.atc-co.com/), Osaka, Japan* 1882: 1883: At the [Kansai OpenSource 2010](http://www.k-of.jp/), there were three 1884: BSD booths staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 1885: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) , [Kansai \*BSD Users 1886: Group](http://www.kbug.gr.jp/) and [NAKAMURA 1887: Kazushi](http://www.kobe1995.jp/) with [NEC 1888: Express5800(arc)](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/2898351) , [64bit 1889: 20years {NEC Express5800(amd64), SONY NEWS NWS-5000(newsmips), Sun 1890: Ultra60(sun4u), Sun Ultra10(sun4u), HP 1891: ML115(amd64)}](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/2899650), Xen Dom0 on 1892: NetBSD and DomU (NetBSD, OpenBSD, DragonflyBSD), 1893: OpenBSD/landisk(Firewall Redundancy with CARP and pfsync), 1894: OpenBSD/zaurus, WZero3(hpcarm), [hpcmips](../ports/hpcmips/), 1895: [hpcsh](../ports/hpcsh/), [hpcarm](../ports/hpcarm/), [NetBSD 1896: straps](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/2898808) gadgets demonstration and 1897: BSDBOF (soda-san got [Japanese OSS Contributor 1898: Award](http://www.ipa.go.jp/about/press/20101015_2.html), so let me 1899: introduce [raiders of the lost ARC 1900: tech](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/2899062) and [talkin' bout a 1901: revolution with soda-san](http://movapic.com/ebijun/pic/2899023) by 1902: tsutsui) 1903: 1904: ### `Oct 2010` - Open Source Conference 2010 Niigata 1905: 1906: *Oct. 23, 2010, Niigata University, Niigata, Japan* 1907: 1908: At the [Open Source Conference 2010 1909: Niigata](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2010-niigata/) , there was a BSD booth 1910: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 1911: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) and [Echigo BSD Users 1912: Group](http://www.ebug.jp/) . There was a gadgets demonstration ( 1913: [hpcarm](../ports/hpcarm/), [hpcmips](../ports/hpcmips/), 1914: [hpcsh](../ports/hpcsh/) and [FuguIta - OpenBSD LiveCD with 1seg 1915: tuner](http://kaw.ath.cx/openbsd/index.php?en%2FLiveCD). ). 1916: 1917: ### `Oct 2010` - EuroBSDCon 2010 1918: 1919: *Oct. 8-10, 2010, Karlsruhe, Germany* 1920: 1921: EuroBSDcon 2010, the european technical conference for people working on 1922: and with 4.4BSD based operating systems, was held on Oct 8-10th 2010 in 1923: Karlsruhe, Germany. The two day conference program (October 9 - 10) was 1924: preceeded by a tutorial day (Oct 8). 1925: 1926: For more information please visit the website 1927: [](http://2010.EuroBSDCon.org/). 1928: 1929: ### `Oct 2010` - Open Source Conference 2010 Okinawa 1930: 1931: *Oct. 2, 2010, [Okinawa Convention 1932: Center](http://www.oki-conven.jp/en/modules/tinyd7/page/page1.html) , 1933: Okinawa, Japan* 1934: 1935: At the [Open Source Conference 2010 1936: Okinawa](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2010-okinawa/) , there was a NetBSD booth 1937: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 1938: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) with many gadgets 1939: demonstration ( [hpcarm](../ports/hpcarm/), 1940: [hpcmips](../ports/hpcmips/), [hpcsh](../ports/hpcsh/) ). 1941: 1942: ### `Sep 2010` - Open Source Conference 2010 Tokyo/Fall 1943: 1944: *Sep. 10-11, 2010, [MEISEI 1945: UNIVERSITY](http://www.meisei-u.ac.jp/english/), Tokyo, Japan* 1946: 1947: At the [Open Source Conference 2010 1948: Tokyo/Fall](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2010-fall/) , there was a NetBSD booth 1949: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 1950: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) with many hpc{ 1951: [mips](../ports/hpcmips/), [sh](../ports/hpcsh/), 1952: [arm](../ports/hpcarm/) } gadgets demonstration and 1953: [NetBSD/x68k](../ports/x68k/) on [XM6i X68000 1954: emulator](http://www.pastel-flower.jp/~isaki/xm6i/). 1955: 1956: ### `Aug 2010` - Open Source Conference 2010 Nagoya 1957: 1958: *Aug. 7, 2010, Nagoya City University, Nagoya, Japan* 1959: 1960: At the [Open Source Conference 2010 1961: Nagoya](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2010-nagoya/) , there was a NetBSD booth 1962: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 1963: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) and [Nagoya \*BSD Users' 1964: Group](http://www.nagoya.bug.gr.jp/). There were gadget demonstrations ( 1965: [hpcarm](../ports/hpcarm/), [hpcmips](../ports/hpcmips/), 1966: [hpcsh](../ports/hpcsh/) ). 1967: 1968: ### `Jul 2010` - Open Source Conference 2010 Kansai 1969: 1970: *Jul. 9-10, 2010, Kyoto Computer Gakuin, Kyoto, Japan* 1971: 1972: At the [Open Source Conference 2010 1973: Kansai](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2010-kyoto/) , there was a NetBSD booth 1974: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 1975: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) and [Kansai \*BSD Users 1976: Group](http://www.kbug.gr.jp/) . There were gadgets demonstration ( 1977: [hpcarm](../ports/hpcarm/), [hpcmips](../ports/hpcmips/), 1978: [hpcsh](../ports/hpcsh/), ). 1979: 1980: ### `Jul 2010` - Japan NetBSD Users' Group meeting & NetBSD BOF 1981: 1982: *Jul 3, 2010, [The University of 1983: Tokyo](http://www.u-tokyo.ac.jp/campusmap/cam01_04_03_j.html), Tokyo, 1984: Japan* 1985: 1986: See [this 1987: page](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/announce/meeting12.html.en) 1988: for meeting information. 1989: 1990: NetBSD BOF with 44 attendances and 55 ustream clients: OpenBlockS600 by 1991: kiyohara, [STAR81xx/91xx](http://www.nerv.org/~ryo/bof/index1.html) by 1992: Ryo SHIMIZU, [NetBSD goes POSIX.1-2008 and 1993: C1X](http://www.hi-matic.org/BOF/BOF.pdf) by tnozaki, YUREX by noztos, 1994: AsiaBSDCon by hrs, pkgsrc updates by obache. 1995: 1996: ### `Jun 2010` - Open Source Conference 2010 Hokkaido 1997: 1998: *Jun. 26, 2010, Sapporo Business Innovation Center, Sapporo, Japan* 1999: 2000: At the [Open Source Conference 2010 2001: Hokkaido](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2010-do/) , there was a NetBSD booth 2002: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 2003: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) and 2004: [NoBUG](http://www.no.bug.gr.jp/) with NetBSD/evbarm on Armadillo-9 + 2005: VT220J, NetBSD/sparc on Sparcstation IPX, NetBSD/i386 on ThinkPad X200s 2006: (VMWarePlayer) and ThinkPad X24, FreeNAS on ThinkPad X200s 2007: (VMWarePlayer), NetBSD/landisk on USL-5P, NetBSD/evbppc on kuro-box, 2008: NetBSD/evbmips-el on BBR-4MG, and many hpc{ [mips](../ports/hpcmips/), 2009: [sh](../ports/hpcsh/), [arm](../ports/hpcarm/),WZero3 with AM/FM Radio } 2010: 2011: ### `Jun 2010` - LinuxTag 2010 2012: 2013: *June 9-12, 2010, Berlin, Germany* 2014: 2015: [LinuxTag 2010](http://www.linuxtag.org/2010/), one of Europe's largest 2016: Open Source Expo, took place from June 9th through 12th, 2010, in 2017: Berlin, Germany. The NetBSD Project was being represented by volunteers 2018: in a shared BSD booth. 2019: 2020: If you are interested in helping out at the NetBSD booth or have any 2021: questions, please contact Thomas Kaepernick (mast\_1(at)gmx.net). 2022: 2023: ### `May 2010` - pkgsrcCon 2010 Basel, Switzerland 2024: 2025: *May. 28 -30, 2010, [Departement Informatik, University of 2026: Basel](http://www.pkgsrc.org/pkgsrcCon/2010/), Basel, Switzerland* 2027: 2028: ### `May 2010` - Open Source Conference 2010 Sendai 2029: 2030: *May. 22, 2010, [Tohoku Computer 2031: College](http://www.jc-21.ac.jp/map/index.shtml), Sendai, Japan* 2032: 2033: At the [Open Source Conference 2010 2034: Sendai](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2010-sendai/) , there was a NetBSD booth 2035: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 2036: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) with many hpc{ 2037: [mips](../ports/hpcmips/), [sh](../ports/hpcsh/), [arm and 2038: WZero3(WS011SH)](../ports/hpcarm/) } gadgets demonstration. 2039: 2040: ### `May 2010` - Rencontres Bretonnes du Logiciel Libre in Rennes 2041: 2042: *May 15-16, 2010, Rennes, France.* 2043: 2044: NetBSD was present for the 2nd time at the [Rencontres Bretonnes du 2045: Logiciel Libre](http://www.rbll.info) 2046: 2047: ### `May 2010` - BSDCan 2010 2048: 2049: *May 13-14, 2010, Ottawa, Canada.* 2050: 2051: [BSDCan 2010](http://www.bsdcan.org/) was held on 13-14 May 2010 at the 2052: University of Ottawa, and was preceded by two days of tutorials on 11-12 2053: May 2010. 2054: 2055: ### `Mar 2010` - AsiaBSDCon 2010 2056: 2057: *Mar 11-14, 2010, Tokyo University of Science,Tokyo, Japan* 2058: 2059: [AsiaBSDCon](http://2010.asiabsdcon.org/) is a conference for users and 2060: developers on BSD based systems. The conference is for anyone 2061: developing, deploying and using systems based on FreeBSD, NetBSD, 2062: OpenBSD, DragonFly BSD, Darwin, and MacOS X. AsiaBSDCon is a technical 2063: conference and aims to collect the best technical papers and 2064: presentations available to ensure that the latest developments in our 2065: open source community are shared with the widest possible audience. 2066: 2067: A NetBSD BOF was held on March 12, 2010 14:00-16:30 2068: 2069: ### `Mar 2010` - Open Source Conference 2010 Kansai@Kobe 2070: 2071: *Mar. 13, 2010, [Kobe Industrial Promotion 2072: Center](http://www.kobe-ipc.or.jp/access/), Kobe, Japan* 2073: 2074: At the [Open Source Conference 2010 2075: Kansai@Kobe](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2010-kobe/) , there was a NetBSD 2076: booth staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 2077: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) with [ATARI TT030 + 2078: SMC\_TT](../ports/atari/) ([Demonstration animation GIF for 2079: TT030](http://www.ceres.dti.ne.jp/tsutsui/smc_tt/SMC_TT-OSC2010Kobe.gif)) 2080: , cobalt, many hpc{ [mips](../ports/hpcmips/), [sh](../ports/hpcsh/), 2081: [arm](../ports/hpcarm/) } gadgets demonstration. 2082: 2083: ### `Feb 2010` - Open Source Conference 2010 Tokyo/Spring 2084: 2085: *Feb. 26-27, 2010, [MEISEI 2086: UNIVERSITY](http://www.meisei-u.ac.jp/english/), Tokyo, Japan* 2087: 2088: At the [Open Source Conference 2010 2089: Tokyo/Spring](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2010-spring/) , there was a NetBSD 2090: booth staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 2091: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) with tadpole(sparc) and 2092: many hpc{ [mips](../ports/hpcmips/), [sh](../ports/hpcsh/), 2093: [arm](../ports/hpcarm/) } gadgets demonstration. 2094: 2095: ### `Feb 2010` - Hackathon, February 2010 2096: 2097: *Feb. 19-22, 2010, 2098: [Hackathon](http://www.NetBSD.org/community/hackathon.html)* 2099: 2100: The [February 2010 2101: Hackathon](http://www.NetBSD.org/community/hackathon.html) was focusing 2102: on closing as many bugs and PRs as possible. 2103: 2104: ### `Feb 2010` - FOSDEM 2010 Brussels, Belgium 2105: 2106: *Feb. 6-7, 2010, [FOSDEM](http://www.fosdem.org/2010/), Brussels, 2107: Belgium* 2108: 2109: At the [FOSDEM 2010 Conference](http://www.fosdem.org/2010/) , there was 2110: a joint BSD booth staffed by NetBSD and FreeBSD developers and users. 2111: 2112: [Marc Balmer](http://www.vnode.ch/) (mbalmer@) gave a talk [Because the 2113: License Matters: BSD as the Foundation for Commercial Point of Sale 2114: Applications](http://www.fosdem.org/2010/schedule/events/bsd_license) in 2115: the [BSD devroom](http://www.fosdem.org/2010/schedule/tracks/bsd). 2116: 2117: ### `Jan 2010` - Open Source Conference 2010 Oita 2118: 2119: *Jan. 23, 2010, [i-ness](http://www.pref.oita.jp/13040/index.html), 2120: Oita, Japan* 2121: 2122: At the [Open Source Conference 2010 2123: Oita](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2010-oita/) , there was be a NetBSD booth 2124: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 2125: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) with many hpc{ 2126: [mips](../ports/hpcmips/), [sh](../ports/hpcsh/), 2127: [arm](../ports/hpcarm/) } gadgets demonstrations. 2128: 2129: ### `Dec 2009` - Open Source Conference 2009 Fukuoka 2130: 2131: *Dec. 5, 2009, [Kyushu Sangyo 2132: University](http://www.kyusan-u.ac.jp/E/index.html), Fukuoka, Japan* 2133: 2134: At the [Open Source Conference 2009 2135: Fukuoka](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2009-fukuoka/) , there was a NetBSD booth 2136: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 2137: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) with many hpc{ 2138: [mips](../ports/hpcmips/), [sh](../ports/hpcsh/), 2139: [arm](../ports/hpcarm/) } gadgets demonstration. 2140: 2141: ### `Nov 2009` - Open Source Conference 2009 Kochi 2142: 2143: *Nov. 14, 2009, [Kochi City Culture-Plaze 2144: Cul-Port.](http://www.bunkaplaza.or.jp/access/index.html), Kochi, Japan* 2145: 2146: At the [Open Source Conference 2009 2147: Kochi](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2009-kochi/) , there was a NetBSD booth 2148: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 2149: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) with 2150: [hpcmips](../ports/hpcmips/), [hpcsh](../ports/hpcsh/), gadgets 2151: demonstration. 2152: 2153: ### `Nov 2009` - OpenRheinRuhr 2009 2154: 2155: *Nov. 7-8, 2009, Saalbau, Bottrop, Germany* 2156: 2157: A new event in the middle of Europe with a huge audience and an 2158: impressive list of exhibitors. NetBSD had a booth as well as the other 2159: major BSDs. 2160: 2161: For more information about OpenRheinRuhr visit the website 2162: [](http://www.openrheinruhr.de/) . 2163: 2164: ### `Nov 2009` - Kansai OpenSource 2009 2165: 2166: *Nov. 6-7, 2009, [Asia and Pacific Trade Center ITC 2167: Building](http://www.atc-co.com/), Osaka, Japan* 2168: 2169: At the [Kansai OpenSource 2009](http://www.k-of.jp/), there was a NetBSD 2170: booth staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 2171: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) and [Kansai \*BSD Users 2172: Group](http://www.kbug.gr.jp/) with IIJ SEIL/X1(evbmips64), IIJ 2173: SEIL/B1(evbarm), NSLU2(evbarm), dreamcast+ISA bus+IDE DiskDrive 2174: extension, tadpole(sparc), USL-5P+USB LCD(landisk), Link 2175: Station(sandpoint), MacLC475upgrade(mac68k), 2176: [hpcmips](../ports/hpcmips/), [hpcsh](../ports/hpcsh/), 2177: [hpcarm](../ports/hpcarm/), BSD daemon statue gadgets demonstration and 2178: BSDBOF (EuroBSDCon2009 report by msaitoh). 2179: 2180: ### `Oct 2009` - Open Source Conference 2009 Tokyo/Fall 2181: 2182: *Oct. 30-31, 2009, [Nihon Kogakuin College 12th 2183: build.](http://www.neec.ac.jp/access/kmt.html), Tokyo, Japan* 2184: 2185: At the [Open Source Conference 2009 2186: Tokyo/Fall](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2009-fall/) , there was a NetBSD booth 2187: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 2188: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) with [USB-LCD driver for 2189: NetBSD](http://www.naobsd.org/udl/) on 2190: [USL-5P](http://www.iodata.jp/product/hdd/lanhdd/usl-5p/index.htm) and 2191: [LS-S250L](http://buffalo.jp/products/catalog/storage/ls-sl/), 2192: [hpcmips](../ports/hpcmips/), [hpcsh](../ports/hpcsh/), 2193: [hpcarm](../ports/hpcarm/), [tadpole GX3:sparc](../ports/sparc/) gadgets 2194: demonstration and BSD BOF. 2195: 2196: ### `Sep 2009` - Open Source Conference 2009 Okinawa 2197: 2198: *Sep. 26, 2009, [Okinawa Convention 2199: Center](http://www.oki-conven.jp/en/modules/tinyd7/page/page1.html) , 2200: Okinawa, Japan* 2201: 2202: At the [Open Source Conference 2009 2203: Okinawa](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2009-okinawa/) , there was a NetBSD booth 2204: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 2205: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) . There was gadgets 2206: demonstration ( [hpcarm](../ports/hpcarm/), 2207: [hpcmips](../ports/hpcmips/), [hpcsh](../ports/hpcsh/) ). 2208: 2209: ### `Sep 2009` - EuroBSDCon 2009 2210: 2211: *Sep. 18-20, 2009, University of Cambridge, England..* 2212: 2213: EuroBSDcon 2009, the european technical conference for people working on 2214: and with 4.4BSD based operating systems, was held on Sept 19-20th 2009 2215: at the University of Cambridge, England. One day of Tutorials preceded 2216: the conference on Sept 18th. 2217: 2218: For more information about EuroBSDCon 2009 visit the website 2219: [](http://2009.EuroBSDCon.org/). 2220: 2221: ### `Aug 2009` - Open Source Conference 2009 Nagoya 2222: 2223: *Aug. 22, 2009, Nagoya City University, Nagoya, Japan* 2224: 2225: At the [Open Source Conference 2009 2226: Nagoya](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2009-nagoya/) , there was a NetBSD booth 2227: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 2228: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) and [Nagoya \*BSD Users' 2229: Group](http://www.nagoya.bug.gr.jp/). There were gadget demonstrations ( 2230: [hpcarm](../ports/hpcarm/), [hpcmips](../ports/hpcmips/), 2231: [hpcsh](../ports/hpcsh/) ). 2232: 2233: ### `Aug 2009` - Open Source Conference 2009 Niigata 2234: 2235: *Aug. 1, 2009, Niigata University of International and Information 2236: Studies, Niigata, Japan* 2237: 2238: At the [Open Source Conference 2009 2239: Niigata](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2009-niigata/) , there was a NetBSD booth 2240: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 2241: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) and [Echigo BSD Users 2242: Group](http://www.ebug.jp/) . There was gadgets demonstration ( 2243: [hpcarm](../ports/hpcarm/), [hpcmips](../ports/hpcmips/), 2244: [hpcsh](../ports/hpcsh/) and [FuguIta - OpenBSD LiveCD with 1seg 2245: tuner](http://kaw.ath.cx/openbsd/index.php?en%2FLiveCD). ). 2246: 2247: ### `Jul 2009` - Open Source Conference 2009 Kansai 2248: 2249: *Jul. 10-11, 2009, Kyoto Computer Gakuin, Kyoto, Japan* 2250: 2251: At the [Open Source Conference 2009 2252: Kansai](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2009-kansai/) , there was a NetBSD booth 2253: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 2254: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) and [Kansai \*BSD Users 2255: Group](http://www.kbug.gr.jp/) . There was gadgets power consumption 2256: demonstration ( [Atari TT030](../ports/atari/), [BeBox (stop at 2257: bootloader:need S3 Video Card)](../ports/bebox/), [MSI Wind Notebook and 2258: VAIO Type P](../ports/amd64/), [cobalt QUBE2 and Cache RAQ2 with 2259: Zope](../ports/cobalt/), [gumstix music player sings OpenBSD 2260: song](../ports/evbarm/), [hpcarm](../ports/hpcarm/), 2261: [hpcmips](../ports/hpcmips/), [hpcsh](../ports/hpcsh/), 2262: [Linkstation:sandpoint](../ports/evbarm/), 2263: [OpenBSD/zaurus](http://www.openbsd.org/zaurus.html), [DragonFlyBSD with 2264: hammer](http://www.dragonflybsd.org/), [SGI O2](../ports/sgimips/), [IBM 2265: PReP](../ports/prep/), CPU Load average x 16 LED Meterboard with 2266: libFT245, bc benchmark time x electricity consumption = energy 2267: efficiency graph with all BSD machines. ). 2268: 2269: ### `Jul 2009` - Japan NetBSD Users' Group meeting & NetBSD BOF 2270: 2271: *Jul 4, 2009, [The University of 2272: Tokyo](http://www.u-tokyo.ac.jp/campusmap/cam01_04_03_j.html), Tokyo, 2273: Japan* 2274: 2275: See [this 2276: page](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/announce/meeting11.html.en) 2277: for meeting information. 2278: 2279: BOF with 39 attendances: pkgsrc updates, workarounds for VAIO Type P, 2280: AsiaBSDCon reports, eXecute In Place (XIP), gumstix, IA64 , SheevaPlug, 2281: USB Wireless LAN drivers, NetBSD - Now, 6.0 and Future, PGP key sign 2282: party. 2283: 2284: ### `Jul 2009` - Open Source World 2009 2285: 2286: *Jul. 1-2, 2009, Tokyo International Forum, Tokyo, Japan* 2287: 2288: At the [Open Source World 2009](http://www.idg.co.jp/expo/osw/2009/) , 2289: there was a NetBSD booth staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 2290: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) . There was gadgets power 2291: consumption demonstration ( [hpcarm](../ports/hpcarm/), 2292: [hpcmips](../ports/hpcmips/), [hpcsh](../ports/hpcsh/) ) and [tadpole 2293: GX3:sparc](../ports/sparc/). 2294: 2295: ### `Jun 2009` - LinuxTag 2009 2296: 2297: *June 24-27 2009, Berlin, Germany* 2298: 2299: The annual [LinuxTag](http://www.linuxtag.org/2009/en.html) conference 2300: took place from 24th until 27th of June 2009 at the Berlin fairground 2301: under the radio tower. NetBSD was sharing a booth with the other BSD 2302: systems at the exhibition. 2303: 2304: ### `Jun 2009` - Open Source Conference 2009 Hokkaido 2305: 2306: *Jun. 20, 2009, Sapporo Business Innovation Center, Sapporo, Japan* 2307: 2308: At the [Open Source Conference 2009 2309: Hokkaido](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2009-do/) , there was a NetBSD booth 2310: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 2311: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) and [Northern land BSD 2312: Users Group](http://www.no.bug.gr.jp/) with many hpc{ 2313: [mips](../ports/hpcmips/), [sh](../ports/hpcsh/), 2314: [arm](../ports/hpcarm/) } , [NetBSD/evbmips on 2315: BBR-4MG](../ports/evbmips/), Twitter ticker monitor on 78K0 board via 2316: USB Serial, [NetBSD/evbarm on Armadillo-9](../ports/evbarm/) with 2317: VT-220J, [NetBSD/sparc on SparcStation Classic](../ports/sparc/), 2318: [NetBSD/evbarm on BeagleBoard (working in progress,not boot 2319: yet)](../ports/evbarm/). 2320: 2321: ### `May 2009` - Open Source Conference 2009 Shimane 2322: 2323: *May 16, 2009, [MATSUE 2324: TERRSA](http://www.sanbg.com/terrsa/e/index.html), Shimane, Japan* 2325: 2326: At the [Open Source Conference 2009 2327: Shimane](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2009-shimane/) , there was a NetBSD booth 2328: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 2329: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/). There were gadget 2330: demonstrations ( [SONY VAIO type P](../ports/i386/), 2331: [RaQ2:cobalt](../ports/cobalt/), [Armadillo9:evbarm](../ports/evbarm/), 2332: [hpcarm](../ports/hpcarm/), [hpcmips](../ports/hpcmips/), 2333: [hpcsh](../ports/hpcsh/) ). 2334: 2335: ### `May 2009` - BSDCan 2009 2336: 2337: *May 8-9, 2009, Ottawa, Canada.* 2338: 2339: [BSDCan 2009](http://www.bsdcan.org/) was held on 8-9 May 2009 at the 2340: University of Ottawa, and was preceded by two days of tutorials on 6-7 2341: May 2009. 2342: 2343: ### `Mar 2009` - CeBIT 2009 2344: 2345: *March 3-8, 2009, Hannover, Germany* 2346: 2347: The NetBSD project had a joint booth with the FreeBSD project at 2348: [CeBIT](http://www.cebit.de/), the large b2b trade fair held in 2349: Hannover, Germany. 2350: 2351: ### `Mar 2009` - AsiaBSDCon 2009 2352: 2353: *Mar 12-15, 2009, Tokyo University of Science,Tokyo, Japan* 2354: 2355: [AsiaBSDCon](http://2009.asiabsdcon.org/) is a conference for users and 2356: developers on BSD based systems. The conference is for anyone 2357: developing, deploying and using systems based on FreeBSD, NetBSD, 2358: OpenBSD, DragonFly BSD, Darwin, and MacOS X. AsiaBSDCon is a technical 2359: conference and aims to collect the best technical papers and 2360: presentations available to ensure that the latest developments in our 2361: open source community are shared with the widest possible audience. 2362: [Antti Kantee:Environmental Independance:BSD Kernel TCP/IP in 2363: Userspace](http://2009.asiabsdcon.org/timetable.html#P5A) 2364: ([Report](http://journal.mycom.co.jp/articles/2009/03/30/asiabsdcon4/index.html)), 2365: and [NetBSD 2366: BoF](http://mail-index.NetBSD.org/regional-jp/2009/02/15/msg000018.html) 2367: was held on Mar 13,2009 17:30-19:00. [AsiaBSDCon 2009 2368: papers](http://2009.asiabsdcon.org/live/) and 2369: [presentations](http://www.youtube.com/bsdconferences) are available. 2370: 2371: ### `Feb 2009` - Southern California Linux Expo 2372: 2373: *Feb 20-22, 2009, Los Angeles, CA* 2374: 2375: The NetBSD project was represented by A.KML and A.DAVID at [SCALE 2376: 7x](http://www.socallinuxexpo.org/), the 7th annual Southern California 2377: Linux Expo, which took place February 20-22, 2009 at The Westin Los 2378: Angeles Airport, Los Angeles, California. 2379: 2380: ### `Feb 2009` - Open Source Conference 2009 Tokyo/Spring 2381: 2382: *Feb. 20-21, 2009, [Japan Electronics 2383: College](http://www.jec.ac.jp/access/), Tokyo, Japan* 2384: 2385: At the [Open Source Conference 2009 2386: Tokyo/Spring](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2009-spring/) , there was a NetBSD 2387: booth staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 2388: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) with [VAIO type 2389: P](http://www.vaio.sony.co.jp/Products/P1/) with NetBSD, [tadpole 2390: GX3:sparc](../ports/sparc/) and many hpc{ [mips](../ports/hpcmips/), 2391: [sh](../ports/hpcsh/), [arm](../ports/hpcarm/) } gadgets demonstration. 2392: 2393: ### `Feb 2009` - FOSDEM 2009 2394: 2395: NetBSD was present at FOSDEM on Feb 7-8 2009 in Brussels, Belgium. 2396: FOSDEM is a free and non-commercial event organised by the community for 2397: the community. 2398: 2399: ### `Feb 2009` - DCBSDCon 2009 2400: 2401: *Feb. 5-6, 2009, Washington, D.C.* 2402: 2403: For information, visit [](http://www.dcbsdcon.org/). 2404: 2405: ### `Jan 2009` - Open Source Conference 2009 Sendai 2406: 2407: *Jan. 24, 2009, [Tohoku Computer 2408: College](http://www.jc-21.ac.jp/map/index.shtml), Sendai, Japan* 2409: 2410: At the [Open Source Conference 2009 2411: Sendai](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2009-sendai/) , there was a NetBSD booth 2412: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 2413: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) with many hpc{ 2414: [mips](../ports/hpcmips/), [sh](../ports/hpcsh/), 2415: [arm](../ports/hpcarm/) } gadgets demonstration. 2416: 2417: ### `Dec 2008` - Open Source Conference 2008 Fukuoka 2418: 2419: *Dec. 13, 2008, [Humanities and Social Sciences Center,Fukuoka 2420: University](http://www.fukuoka-u.ac.jp/unv_gide/access/cmps_map1.html), 2421: Fukuoka, Japan* 2422: 2423: At the [Open Source Conference 2008 2424: Fukuoka](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2008-fukuoka/) , there was a NetBSD booth 2425: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 2426: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) with many hpc{ 2427: [mips](../ports/hpcmips/), [sh](../ports/hpcsh/), 2428: [arm](../ports/hpcarm/) } gadgets and USB Camera demonstration. 2429: 2430: ### `Nov 2008` - Open Source Conference 2008 Okinawa 2431: 2432: *Nov. 29, 2008, [Okinawa Industory Support 2433: Center](http://www.okinawa-sangyoushien.co.jp/), Okinawa, Japan* 2434: 2435: At the [Open Source Conference 2008 2436: Okinawa](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2008-okinawa/) , there was a NetBSD booth 2437: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 2438: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) with many hpc{ 2439: [mips](../ports/hpcmips/), [sh](../ports/hpcsh/), 2440: [arm](../ports/hpcarm/) } gadgets demonstration. 2441: 2442: ### `Nov 2008` - meetBSD California '08 2443: 2444: *Nov. 15-16, 2008, Mountain View, California* 2445: 2446: For information, visit [](http://www.meetbsd.com/). 2447: 2448: ### `Nov 2008` - Kansai OpenSource 2008 2449: 2450: *Nov. 7-8, 2008, [Asia and Pacific Trade Center ITC 2451: Building](http://www.atc-co.com/), Osaka, Japan* 2452: 2453: At the [Kansai OpenSource 2008](http://www.k-of.jp/), there was a NetBSD 2454: booth staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 2455: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) and [Kansai \*BSD Users 2456: Group](http://www.kbug.gr.jp/) with [tadpole 2457: GX3:sparc](../ports/sparc/), [Linkstation:sandpoint](../ports/evbarm/), 2458: [PCBSD on Xen](../ports/xen/), [hpcmips](../ports/hpcmips/), 2459: [hpcsh](../ports/hpcsh/), [hpcarm](../ports/hpcarm/), 2460: [LC475](../ports/mac68k/), 2461: [OpenBSD/zaurus](http://www.openbsd.org/zaurus.html), 2462: [DragonFlyBSD](http://www.dragonflybsd.org/), [Servo motor realtime 2463: control via USB audio](http://rogiken.org/daemon/works.html) gadgets 2464: demonstration and BSDBOF. 2465: 2466: ### `Oct 2008` - EuroBSDCon 2008 2467: 2468: *Oct. 18-19, 2008, Strasbourg, France* 2469: 2470: EuroBSDcon 2008, the european technical conference for people working on 2471: and with 4.4BSD based operating systems, was held on October 18-19th 2472: 2008 at the University of Strasbourg in France. Two days of Tutorials 2473: preceded the conference on Oct. 16-17th. 2474: 2475: For more information about EuroBSDCon 2008 visit the website 2476: [](http://2008.EuroBSDCon.org/). 2477: 2478: ### `Oct 2008` - NetBSD developers summit @ NYCBSDCon 2008 2479: 2480: *Oct 10, 2008, Columbia University, NY, NY, USA* 2481: 2482: A NetBSD developer's summit was held on Friday, October 10th, 2008. The 2483: event was sponsored by and leads up to that year's NYCBSDCon and took 2484: place at Columbia University on the island of Manhattan in New York 2485: City, NY, USA. The event was *open to the public*. 2486: 2487: ### `Oct 2008` - NYCBSDCon 2008 2488: 2489: *Oct 11-12, 2008, Columbia University, NY, NY, USA* 2490: 2491: The third BSD Conference organized by the [NYC BSD User 2492: Group](http://www.nycbug.org) took place in New York City on October 2493: 11th and 12th, 2008. 2494: 2495: More information about NYCBSDCon 2008 is available at 2496: [](http://www.nycbsdcon.org/2008/). 2497: 2498: Coinciding with the conference was the 12th NetBSD Hackathon being held. 2499: 2500: ### `Oct 2008` - Open Source Conference 2008 Tokyo/Fall 2501: 2502: *Oct. 3-4, 2008, [Ota City Industrial 2503: Plaza](http://www.pio-ota.jp/english/access.html), Tokyo, Japan* 2504: 2505: At the [Open Source Conference 2008 2506: Tokyo/Fall](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2008-fall/) , there was a NetBSD booth 2507: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 2508: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) with [tadpole 2509: GX3:sparc](../ports/sparc/), [LinkStation:sandpoint](../ports/evbarm/), 2510: [PCBSD on Xen](../ports/xen/), [hpcmips](../ports/hpcmips/), 2511: [hpcsh](../ports/hpcsh/), [hpcarm](../ports/hpcarm/) gadgets 2512: demonstration and BSD BOF(OpenBSD,NetBSD, [76th IETF 2513: Hiroshima](http://www.wide.ad.jp/news/press/20080804-IETF-e.html), 2514: [Itojun Service 2515: Award](http://www.wide.ad.jp/news/press/20080912-itojun-fund-j.html) ). 2516: 2517: ### `Sep 2008` - Open Source Conference 2008 in Shimane 2518: 2519: *Sep. 12-13, 2008, [MATSUE 2520: TERRSA](http://www.sanbg.com/terrsa/e/index.html), Shimane, Japan* 2521: 2522: At the [Open Source Conference 2008 2523: Shimane](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2008-shimane/) , there was a NetBSD booth 2524: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 2525: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/). There were gadget 2526: demonstrations ( [dynabook/SS:amd64](../ports/amd64/), 2527: [Armadillo9:evbarm](../ports/evbarm/), 2528: [HP712/80:hp700](../ports/hp700/), [hpcarm](../ports/hpcarm/), 2529: [hpcmips](../ports/hpcmips/), [hpcsh](../ports/hpcsh/), 2530: [SL-C3200:zaurus](../ports/zaurus/), 2531: [LaVie/G:OpenSolaris](http://www.solaris.com/), and 2532: [chumby](http://www.chumby.com/) ). 2533: 2534: ### `Aug 2008` - Open Source Conference 2008 in Nagoya 2535: 2536: *Aug. 9, 2008, Nagoya City University, Nagoya, Japan* 2537: 2538: At the [Open Source Conference 2008 2539: Nagoya](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2008-nagoya/) , there was a NetBSD booth 2540: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 2541: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) and [Nagoya \*BSD Users' 2542: Group](http://www.nagoya.bug.gr.jp/). There were gadget demonstrations ( 2543: [RaQ2:cobalt](../ports/cobalt/), [hpcarm](../ports/hpcarm/), 2544: [hpcmips](../ports/hpcmips/), [hpcsh](../ports/hpcsh/), 2545: [HP712/80:hp700](../ports/hp700/), 2546: [OpenBSD/zaurus](http://www.openbsd.org/zaurus.html), [Speecys Robot: 2547: NetBSD/sh3](http://www.speecys.com/), [samtk](http://www.samtk.org/) ). 2548: 2549: ### `Jul 2008` - Open Source Conference 2008 in Kansai 2550: 2551: *Jul. 18-19, 2008, Kyoto Computer Gakuin, Kyoto, Japan* 2552: 2553: At the [Open Source Conference 2008 2554: Kansai](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2008-kansai/) , there was a NetBSD booth 2555: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 2556: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) . There were gadgets power 2557: consumption demonstration ( [hpcarm](../ports/hpcarm/), 2558: [hpcmips](../ports/hpcmips/), [hpcsh](../ports/hpcsh/), 2559: [alpha](../ports/alpha/), [SGI O2](../ports/sgimips/) ), Miku Hatsune 2560: paper doll with Six servo moters controlled by USB audio, libFT245 with 2561: USB, BeBox, Squeak on hpcmips, OneSeg TV recording with hpcmips, bc 2562: benchmark time x electricity consumption = energy efficiency graph with 2563: all BSD machines. 2564: 2565: ### `Jul 2008` - Japan NetBSD Users' Group meeting & NetBSD BOF 2566: 2567: *Jul 5, 2008, [The University of 2568: Tokyo](http://www.u-tokyo.ac.jp/campusmap/cam01_04_03_j.html), Tokyo, 2569: Japan* 2570: 2571: BOF with 52 attendances: NetBSD/sparc64 SMP, NetBSD/BBR-4MG 2572: evbmips(ADM5120), NetBSD/DLX - CPU implementation on FPGA, OpenRoads - 2573: Open Robot Operation And Design Specification, AsiaBSDCon2009, pkgsrc 2574: update, KURO-BOX/PRO MB88F5182, Toolchain and "mknative", EeePC, NetBSD 2575: - Now, 5.0 and Future, PGP key sign party. 2576: 2577: ### `Jun 2008` - Open Source Conference 2008 in Hokkaido 2578: 2579: *Jun. 28, 2008, Sapporo Business Innovation Center, Sapporo, Japan* 2580: 2581: At the [Open Source Conference 2008 2582: Hokkaido](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2008-do/) , there was a NetBSD booth 2583: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 2584: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) with many hpc{ 2585: [mips](../ports/hpcmips/), [sh](../ports/hpcsh/), 2586: [arm](../ports/hpcarm/) } gadgets demonstration, VT-220J, USL-5P with 3 2587: one-seg TV tuners, NetBSD/BBR-4MG . 2588: 2589: ### `Jun 2008` - pkgsrcCon 2008 2590: 2591: *Jun 13-15, 2008, Technical University of Berlin* 2592: 2593: The fifth annual pkgsrcCon convened in Berlin, Germany on June 13 to 15, 2594: 2008. pkgsrcCon is a technical conference for people working on the 2595: [NetBSD Packages Collection 2596: (pkgsrc)](http://www.NetBSD.org/docs/software/packages.html), focusing 2597: on existing technologies, research projects, and works-in-progress in 2598: pkgsrc infrastructure. 2599: 2600: More information about pkgsrcCon 2008 is available at 2601: [](http://www.pkgsrccon.org/2008/). 2602: 2603: ### `May 2008` - BSDCan 2008 2604: 2605: *May 16-17, 2008, University of Ottawa, Canada* 2606: 2607: BSDCan is a BSD conference held in Ottawa, for people working on and 2608: with 4.4BSD based operating systems and related projects. The organizers 2609: have found a formula that appeals to a wide range of people from extreme 2610: novices to advanced developers. 2611: 2612: For more information about BSDCan 2008 visit 2613: [](http://www.BSDCan.org/2008/). 2614: 2615: ### `Apr 2008` - BSDCon Barcelona 2008 2616: 2617: *Apr 19-20, 2008, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, 2618: Spain* 2619: 2620: For more information about BSDCon Barcelona '08 visit 2621: [](http://bcn.bsdcon.net/). 2622: 2623: ### `Apr 2008` - Open Source Conference 2008 Nagaoka 2624: 2625: *Apr. 12, 2008, [Nagaoka University of 2626: Technology.](http://www.nagaokaut.ac.jp/j/), Niigata, Japan* 2627: 2628: At the [Open Source Conference 2008 2629: Nagaoka](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2008-nagaoka/) , there was a NetBSD booth 2630: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 2631: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) with many hpc{ 2632: [mips](../ports/hpcmips/), [sh](../ports/hpcsh/), 2633: [arm](../ports/hpcarm/) } gadgets demonstration, NetBSD/Playstation3, 2634: USB OneSeg TV tuner (DUS-01). 2635: 2636: ### `Mar 2008` - Frühjahrsfachgespräch (FFG) of the German Unix User Group 2637: 2638: *March 11-14, 2008, University of Munich, Germany* 2639: 2640: The FFG is an annual meeting for professional users of Unix, networking 2641: technologies and IT security. 2642: 2643: For more information about FFG 2008 visit 2644: [](http://www.guug.de/veranstaltungen/ffg2008/) 2645: 2646: ### `Mar 2008` - AsiaBSDCon 2008 2647: 2648: *Mar 27-30, 2008, Tokyo, Japan* 2649: 2650: [AsiaBSDCon](http://2008.asiabsdcon.org/) is a conference for users and 2651: developers on BSD based systems. The conference is for anyone 2652: developing, deploying and using systems based on FreeBSD, NetBSD, 2653: OpenBSD, DragonFly BSD, Darwin, and MacOS X. AsiaBSDCon is a technical 2654: conference and aims to collect the best technical papers and 2655: presentations available to ensure that the latest developments in our 2656: open source community are shared with the widest possible audience. 2657: AsiaBSDCon2008 was held with over 170 attendances. [[Paper/Slide 2658: List](http://2008.asiabsdcon.org/papers/index.html), 2659: [photographs](http://2008.asiabsdcon.org/photo/0327/index.html)] 2660: 2661: [NetBSD Discussion:](http://www.NetBSD.org/~uebayasi/abc2008bof.txt) 2662: Cherry G.Mathew:NetBSD/ia64, Hiroki Doshita and Masahiko Yasuoka: [npppd 2663: and pipex](http://www.seil.jp/download/eng/), Toshiaki Nozawa [Speecys 2664: Corp.](http://www.speecys.com/) :NetBSD/Robots, Masao Uebayashi:MIPS N32 2665: ABI support and OCTEON on [SEIL/X](http://www.seil.jp/download/eng/). 2666: 2667: Paper Session (NetBSD-related content): Christoph Badura: [Gaols: 2668: Implementing Jails Under the kauth 2669: Framework](http://2008.asiabsdcon.org/timetable.html#P3A), Antti Kantee: 2670: [Send and Recieve of File System Protocols: Userspace Approach With 2671: puffs](http://2008.asiabsdcon.org/timetable.html#P4B), Kristaps 2672: Džonsons: [Logical Resource Isolation in the NetBSD 2673: Kernel](http://2008.asiabsdcon.org/timetable.html#P5A) [detail: 2674: [mult](http://mult.bsd.lv/)] , Alistair Crooks: [A Portable iSCSI 2675: Initiator](http://2008.asiabsdcon.org/timetable.html#P6A), Jörg 2676: Sonnenberger and Jared D.McNeill: [Sleeping Beauty - NetBSD on Modern 2677: Laptops](http://2008.asiabsdcon.org/timetable.html#P9A) 2678: [[Presentation](./presentations/)] . 2679: 2680: Mini Talk: M.Warner Losh: FreeBSD/mips, Alistair Crooks: Three roadmaps 2681: for NetBSD development through 5.0 and 6.0 - this will cover storage, 2682: networking and virtualisation. 2683: ### `Feb 2008` - Open Source Conference 2008 Tokyo/Spring 2684: 2685: *Feb. 29-Mar. 1, 2008, [Japan Electronics 2686: College.](http://www.jec.ac.jp/college/access.html), Tokyo, Japan* 2687: 2688: At the [Open Source Conference 2008 2689: Tokyo/Spring](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2008-spring/) , there was a NetBSD 2690: booth staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 2691: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) with many hpc{ 2692: [mips](../ports/hpcmips/), [sh](../ports/hpcsh/), 2693: [arm](../ports/hpcarm/) [arm](../ports/hpcarm/) [NetBSD/i386 on Asus 2694: EeePC](../ports/i386/netbook.html) } gadgets demonstration and 2695: [Speecys](http://www.speecys.com/) Robots. 2696: 2697: ### `Feb 2008` - FOSDEM 2008 2698: 2699: *Feb 23-24, 2008, Brussels, Belgium* 2700: 2701: NetBSD has had a booth at the FOSDEM on Feb 23-24 2008 in Brussels, 2702: Belgium. FOSDEM is a free and non-commercial event organised by the 2703: community for the community. The NetBSD booth was manned by Thomas 2704: Reisky <doppelhertz@bsdgroup.de>. 2705: 2706: ### `Feb 2008` - SCALE 6x 2707: 2708: *Feb. 9-10, 2007, Los Angeles, USA* 2709: 2710: The NetBSD project was represented by A.KML and A.DAVID at [SCALE 2711: 6x](http://www.socallinuxexpo.org/), the 6th annual Southern California 2712: Linux Expo, which took place February 9-10, 2008 at The Westin Los 2713: Angeles Airport, Los Angeles, California. 2714: 2715: ### `Dec 2007` - Open Source Conference 2007 Fukuoka 2716: 2717: *Dec. 8, 2007, [ASC BUILD.](http://www.kma.ne.jp/asc/), Fukuoka, Japan* 2718: 2719: At the [Open Source Conference 2007 2720: Fukuoka](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2007-fukuoka/) , there was a NetBSD booth 2721: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 2722: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) with many hpc{ 2723: [mips](../ports/hpcmips/), [sh](../ports/hpcsh/), 2724: [arm](../ports/hpcarm/) } gadgets demonstration. 2725: 2726: ### `Nov 2007` - Open Source Conference 2007 Okinawa 2727: 2728: *Nov. 17, 2007, [Okiden Fureai 2729: Hall](http://www.okiden.co.jp/corporate/branch/naha.html), Okinawa, 2730: Japan* 2731: 2732: At the [Open Source Conference 2007 2733: Okinawa](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2007-okinawa/) , there was a NetBSD booth 2734: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 2735: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) with many hpc{ 2736: [mips](../ports/hpcmips/), [sh](../ports/hpcsh/), 2737: [arm](../ports/hpcarm/) } gadgets demonstration. 2738: 2739: ### Nov 2007 - come2linux: Linux-days Essen 2007 2740: 2741: *November 10-11th 2007, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany* 2742: 2743: NetBSD was present at *come2linux*, the Linux-days Essen 2007. There was 2744: a joint BSD booth, the NetBSD part was manned by Stefan Klose, Julian 2745: Suschlik and Karsten Kruse. 2746: 2747: ### `Nov 2007` - Kansai OpenSource 2007 2748: 2749: *Nov. 9-10, 2007, [Asia and Pacific Trade Center ITC 2750: Building](http://www.atc-co.com/), Osaka, Japan* 2751: 2752: At the [Kansai OpenSource 2007](http://www.k-of.jp/), there was a NetBSD 2753: booth staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 2754: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) with [Mac LCIII+475 2755: upgrade](../ports/mac68k/), [iBook](../ports/macppc/) with [Servo motor 2756: realtime control via USB audio](http://rogiken.org/daemon/works.html), 2757: [Zaurus C3200](../ports/zaurus/), many hpc{ [mips](../ports/hpcmips/), 2758: [sh](../ports/hpcsh/), [arm](../ports/hpcarm/) } gadgets demonstration. 2759: 2760: ### `Oct 2007` - Open Source Conference 2007 Niigata 2761: 2762: *Oct. 27, 2007, [NIIGATA TERRSA](http://www.n-terrsa.jp/access/), 2763: Niigata, Japan* 2764: 2765: At the [Open Source Conference 2007 2766: Niigata](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2007-niigata/) , there was a NetBSD booth 2767: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 2768: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) with many hpc{ 2769: [mips](../ports/hpcmips/), [sh](../ports/hpcsh/), 2770: [arm](../ports/hpcarm/) } gadgets demonstration. 2771: 2772: ### `Oct 2007` - Systems Munich 2773: 2774: NetBSD was present at the Open Source Pavillon (hall B2, booth 110-2) at 2775: the [Systems](http://www.systems-world.de/) Computer Fair in Munich, 2776: Germany, from October 23rd to 26th. The booth is sponsored and organized 2777: by [Computer- und Literaturverlag](http://www.cul.de/). 2778: 2779: ### `Oct 2007` - First Turkish Conference on BSD Systems 2780: 2781: *Oct. 19-20, 2007, Sultanahmet Campus Marmara University, Istanbul, 2782: Turkey* 2783: 2784: BSDConTR was the first conference on BSD systems in Turkey. The 2785: conference was organized in full cooperation with EnderUNIX Software 2786: Development team, which is largely known as its ongoing support for BSD 2787: systems in Turkey, and its open source projects and Marmara University. 2788: 2789: More information on BSDConTR at [](http://www.bsdcontr.org/) 2790: 2791: ### `Oct 2007` - Brandenburger Linux-Infotag 2792: 2793: The Brandenburg Linux-Infotag was held on Oct 20th 2007 at the FH 2794: Brandenburg, Germany. The NetBSD project was represented with an own 2795: booth, and Stefan Schumacher was there to answer questions. For more 2796: information, see the [event's 2797: homepage](http://www.linuxinfotag-brb.de/). 2798: 2799: ### `Oct 2007` - Open Source Conference 2007 Tokyo/Fall 2800: 2801: *Oct. 5-6, 2007, [Ota City Industrial 2802: Plaza](http://www.pio-ota.jp/english/access.html), Tokyo, Japan* 2803: 2804: At the [Open Source Conference 2007 2805: Tokyo/Fall](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2007-fall/) , there was a NetBSD booth 2806: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 2807: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) with 2808: [X68030](../ports/x68k/) with [Nereid](http://xps.jp/), many hpc{ 2809: [mips](../ports/hpcmips/), [sh](../ports/hpcsh/), 2810: [arm](../ports/hpcarm/) } gadgets demonstration and [IPv6 and Security 2811: Presentation by 2812: itojun](http://www.itojun.org/paper/itojun-200710-ospn-tokyo/mgp00001.html). 2813: 2814: ### `Sep 2007` - EuroBSDCon 2007 2815: 2816: *Sep. 14-15, 2007, Copenhagen, Denmark* 2817: 2818: The sixth annual European BSD Conference, EuroBSDCon 2007, was held on 2819: September 14-15th 2007 at Symbion Science Park in Copenhagen, Denmark. 2820: Two days of Tutorials preceeded the Conference on Sep 12-13th. 2821: 2822: For more information about EuroBSDCon 2007 visit the website 2823: [](http://2007.EuroBSDCon.org/). 2824: 2825: ### Aug 2007 - Chaos Communications Camp 2007 2826: 2827: The Chaos Communications Camp is the summer event of the Chaos Computer 2828: Club. It was held from August 8th to 12th at the Airport Museum 2829: Finowfurt near Berlin, Germany. See the event's 2830: [homepage](http://events.ccc.de/camp/2007/) for more information. 2831: 2832: ### `Jul 2007` - Open Source Conference 2007 in Kansai 2833: 2834: *Jul. 20-21, 2007, Kyoto Computer Gakuin, Kyoto, Japan* 2835: 2836: At the [Open Source Conference 2007 2837: Kansai](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2007-kansai/) , there was a NetBSD booth 2838: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 2839: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) and [Nagoya \*BSD Users' 2840: Group](http://www.nagoya.bug.gr.jp/). There were gadgets power 2841: consumption demonstration ( [amd64](../ports/amd64/), 2842: [alpha](../ports/alpha/), [evbarm](../ports/evbarm/), 2843: [hpcarm](../ports/hpcarm/), [hpcmips](../ports/hpcmips/), 2844: [hpcsh](../ports/hpcsh/), [news68k](../ports/news68k/), 2845: [newsmips](../ports/newsmips/), [sandpoint](../ports/sandpoint/), 2846: [sgimips](../ports/sgimips/), [xen](../ports/xen/), 2847: [OpenBSD/zaurus](http://www.OpenBSD.org/zaurus.html) ) and [BSD 2848: BOF](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2007-kansai/modules/eguide/event.php?eid=52) 2849: ( [Servo motor realtime control via USB 2850: audio](http://rogiken.org/daemon/works.html), [Apache 2851: Geronimo](http://geronimo.apache.org/), [NetBSD and 2852: Java](http://www.yagoto-urayama.jp/~oshimaya/netbsd/netbsd-java/index.html) 2853: ). 2854: 2855: [A report with some 2856: photos](http://www.nagoya.bug.gr.jp/2007/osc2007-kansai/index.html) is 2857: available. 2858: 2859: ### Jul 2007 - Chaos Singularity (CoSin) 2007 2860: 2861: *Jul. 6-8, 2007, Bremgarten AG, Switzerland* 2862: 2863: The Chaos Singularity 2007 was an event organized by swiss groups which 2864: organizationally or by content are related to the CCC (Chaos Computer 2865: Club). This event took place from July 6th to 8th at the cultural center 2866: of Bremgarten ([KuZeB](http://www.kuzeb.ch)) in the canton of Aargau, 2867: Switzerland. 2868: 2869: There was a BSD booth at the CoSin 2007, also representing NetBSD. A 2870: report was posted to the 2871: [regional-de](http://mail-index.NetBSD.org/regional-de/2007/07/09/0000.html) 2872: mailing list. 2873: 2874: ### `Jul 2007` - Japan NetBSD Users' Group meeting & NetBSD BOF 2875: 2876: *Jul 7, 2007, [The University of 2877: Tokyo](http://www.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/epage/public/map/e25-j.html), Tokyo, 2878: Japan* 2879: 2880: See [this 2881: page](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/announce/meeting9.html) for 2882: meeting information. Talking about ColdFire, 2883: [MobileIPv6](https://op-ha.nautilus6.org/), [Type 0 Routing Header 2884: issue](http://www.kame.net/newsletter/20070502/index.html), update 2885: net80211 and Atheros, pkgsrc, 2886: [NetBSD/playstation3](http://www.ki.nu/hardware/.ps3/files/20070707/), 2887: [build status](ftp://ftp.ki.nu/pub/NetBSD-daily/HEAD/map/index.html), 2888: automake to BSD make converter, NetBSD - Now, 4.0 and Future, PGP key 2889: sign party. 2890: 2891: ### `Jun 2007` - Open Source Conference 2007 in Hokkaido 2892: 2893: *Jun. 30, 2007, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan* 2894: 2895: At the [Open Source Conference 2007 2896: Hokkaido](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2007-do/) , there was a NetBSD booth 2897: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 2898: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) with many hpc{ 2899: [mips](../ports/hpcmips/), [sh](../ports/hpcsh/), 2900: [arm](../ports/hpcarm/) } gadgets demonstration, Internet Radio Player 2901: on USL-5P, NetBSD/Armadillo-9. 2902: 2903: ### May 2007 - Linuxtag Berlin 2904: 2905: LinuxTag 2007 opened its doors from May 30 to June 2, 2007 at the Berlin 2906: Expo Center under the Funkturm in Berlin, Germany. The event featured 2907: many talks about Open Source, Linux and there was a [full 2908: BSD-track](http://www.linuxtag.org/2007/en/conf/events/vp-freitag.html) 2909: at the 2910: [BSD-Day](http://www.linuxtag.org/2007/de/community/workshops/bsd-day.html) 2911: this year, too. Besides the talks there was a large exhibition fair, and 2912: the NetBSD project was among the BSD projects, which had a joint booth. 2913: BSD talks included Hubert Feyrer's NetBSD status report. 2914: 2915: See the [Linuxtag homepage](http://www.linuxtag.org/2007/) for more 2916: information. 2917: 2918: ### `May 2007` - BSDCan 2007 2919: 2920: *May 18-19, 2007, Ottawa, Canada* 2921: 2922: In just three short years, BSDCan, a BSD conference held in Ottawa, has 2923: quickly established itself as the technical conference for people 2924: working on and with 4.4BSD based operating systems and related projects. 2925: The organizers have found a fantastic formula that appeals to a wide 2926: range of people from extreme novices to advanced developers. 2927: 2928: That year, BSDCan 2007 was held on 18-19 May 2007 at University of 2929: Ottawa, and was preceded by two days of Tutorials on 16-17 May 2007. 2930: 2931: For more information about BSDCan 2007 visit 2932: [](http://www.BSDCan.org/2007/). 2933: 2934: ### `Apr 2007` - pkgsrcCon 2007 2935: 2936: *Apr. 27-29, 2007, Barcelona, Spain* 2937: 2938: The fourth annual pkgsrcCon will convene in Barcelona, Spain on April 27 2939: to 29, 2007. pkgsrcCon is a technical conference for people working on 2940: the [NetBSD Packages Collection 2941: (pkgsrc)](http://www.NetBSD.org/docs/software/packages.html), focusing 2942: on existing technologies, research projects, and works-in-progress in 2943: pkgsrc infrastructure. Developers, contributors, and users are all 2944: welcome to attend. 2945: 2946: More information about pkgsrcCon 2007 is available at 2947: [](http://www.pkgsrccon.org/2007/). 2948: 2949: ### `Mar 2007` - Linux-Infotag Augsburg 2950: 2951: *Mar 24, 2007, Augsburg, Germany* 2952: 2953: There will be a joint BSD booth at the Linux Infotag in Augsburg, 2954: including presence of the NetBSD project. The event offers some small 2955: expo space, and two tracks of talks, one with beginners in mind, the 2956: other one for advanced users. See [the event's 2957: homepage](http://www.luga.de/Aktionen/LIT-2007/) for more information. 2958: 2959: P.S.: A report is available in [this 2960: mail](http://mail-index.NetBSD.org/netbsd-advocacy/2007/03/26/0000.html). 2961: 2962: ### `Mar 2007` - Open Source Conference 2007 Tokyo/Spring 2963: 2964: *Mar. 16-17, 2007, Tokyo, Japan* 2965: 2966: At the [Open Source Conference 2007 2967: Tokyo/Spring](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2007-spring/), there will be a 2968: NetBSD booth staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 2969: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) with many hpc{ 2970: [mips](../ports/hpcmips/), [sh](../ports/hpcsh/), 2971: [arm](../ports/hpcarm/) } gadgets demonstration and 2972: [Speecys](http://www.speecys.com/) Robots. 2973: 2974: ### `Mar 2007` - AsiaBSDCon 2007 2975: 2976: *Mar. 8-11, 2007, Tokyo, Japan* 2977: 2978: AsiaBSDCon is a conference for users and developers on BSD based 2979: systems. The conference is for anyone developing, deploying and using 2980: systems based on FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, DragonFly BSD, Darwin, and 2981: MacOS X. AsiaBSDCon is a technical conference and aims to collect the 2982: best technical papers and presentations available to ensure that the 2983: latest developments in our open source community are shared with the 2984: widest possible audience. 2985: 2986: Please contact secretary@asiabsdcon.org if you have any questions. The 2987: AsiaBSDCon 2007 timetable is available at 2988: [](http://2007.asiabsdcon.org/timetable.html). 2989: 2990: ### `Mar 2007` - Chemnitzer Linux-Tage 2991: 2992: *Mar. 3-4, 2007, Chemnitz* 2993: 2994: NetBSD will have a booth and related talks at the Chemnitzer Linux-Tage 2995: (linux days) in Chemnitz, Germany. See 2996: [](http://chemnitzer.linux-tage.de/2007/) for more information. If you 2997: want to help out manning the booth, please contact Hubert Feyrer 2998: <hubertf@NetBSD.org> for further details. 2999: 3000: ### `Feb 2007` - GUUG spring talk 3001: 3002: *Feb. 27-Mar. 2, 2007, Berlin, Germany* 3003: 3004: The German Unix User Group will have it's annual spring talk 3005: (Frühjahrsfachgespräch) in Berlin this year. It will take place February 3006: 27-March 2, 2007, at the Freie Universität Berlin. There will be several 3007: talks about Unix and Unix-related topics, and one will be held by Stefan 3008: Schumacher on how to secure a NetBSD system using Systrace. 3009: 3010: More information can be found at 3011: [](http://www.guug.de/veranstaltungen/ffg2007/) and 3012: [](http://www.guug.de/veranstaltungen/ffg2007/abstracts.html#3_7_1). The 3013: German language article can be found at: 3014: [](http://net-tex.dnsalias.org/~stefan/nt/netbsd/systrace.html). 3015: 3016: Ignatios also 3017: [posted](http://mail-index.NetBSD.org/regional-de/2007/03/27/0000.html) 3018: his [slides (german 3019: language!)](http://theory.cs.uni-bonn.de/~ignatios/erlgrey-guug-ffg-2007.pdf). 3020: 3021: ### `Feb 2007` - FOSDEM 2007 3022: 3023: *Feb 24-25, 2007, Brussels, Belgium* 3024: 3025: on February 24 and 25, the Free and Open source Software Developers' 3026: European Meeting (FOSDEM) takes place again at the Free University of 3027: Brussels, Belgium. 3028: 3029: There will be a joint \*BSD booth with flyers, CD's, T-shirts and other 3030: merchandising, and the Xen demo machine (now upgraded to NetBSD 3031: 4.0\_BETA2 with Xen 3.x). Furthermore there are a lot of interesting 3032: talks, development rooms, a key signing event, etcetera. More 3033: information is available on [](http://www.fosdem.org). 3034: 3035: ### `Feb 2007` - SCALE 5x 3036: 3037: *Feb. 10-11, 2007, Los Angeles, USA* 3038: 3039: [SCALE 5x](http://www.socallinuxexpo.org/), the 5th annual Southern 3040: California Linux Expo, took place February 10-11, 2007, at The Westin 3041: Los Angeles Airport, Los Angeles, California. The NetBSD Project had a 3042: booth at this event; see the reports by 3043: [A.KML](http://mail-index.NetBSD.org/netbsd-advocacy/2007/02/11/0000.html) 3044: and 3045: [A.JSCHAUMA](http://mail-index.NetBSD.org/netbsd-advocacy/2007/02/12/0000.html). 3046: 3047: ### `Dec 2006` - BSDCon Chile 2006 3048: 3049: *December 9, 2006, Universidad Diego Portales - Santiago, Chile.* 3050: 3051: This is the first BSD related conference held in Chile (Latin America). 3052: Our main objective is to provide a place for BSD developers, users and 3053: Sysadmins to meet in Chile to share and interchange ideas, experiences, 3054: knowledge and in addition to socialize to construct future links to 3055: expand knowledge of BSD systems. 3056: 3057: The conference is for anyone developing, administrating and using 3058: systems based on FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, DragonFlyBSD, Darwin, MacOS X 3059: and Solaris. 3060: 3061: For more information, please [visit the 3062: website](http://www.bsd.cl/index.php/BSDCon2006). 3063: 3064: ### `Dec 2006` - OpenSource Conference 2006 Okinawa 3065: 3066: *December 2, 2006, Okinawa Industry Support Center,Japan* 3067: 3068: At the [OpenSource Conference 2006 3069: Okinawa](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2006-okinawa/) , there will be a NetBSD 3070: booth staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 3071: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) with many hpc{ 3072: [mips](../ports/hpcmips/), [sh](../ports/hpcsh/), 3073: [arm](../ports/hpcarm/) } gadgets demonstration. 3074: 3075: ### `Nov 2006` - Hackathon 3076: 3077: NetBSD will run another hackathon, primarily dedicated to get -current 3078: ready for the 4.0 re-branch. See the [Hackathon 3079: page](../community/hackathon.html) for details. 3080: 3081: ### `Nov 2006` - LinuxDay Dornbirn, Austria 3082: 3083: NetBSD will be present as part of the OpenSource community at the 3084: [LinuxDay in Dornbirn](http://www.linuxday.at/), Austria, on November 3085: 18th. Please contact Raphael Langerhorst <raphael@raphael.g-system.at> 3086: if you have any questions or want to help out. 3087: 3088: ### `Nov 2006` - EuroBSDCon Milan 3089: 3090: EuroBSDCon 2006, the European BSD Conference will be held November 10th 3091: - 12th 2006 in Milan, Italy. The 3092: [schedule](http://www.eurobsdcon.org/schedule.php) is up now, and it has 3093: quite a bit of NetBSD-related content: 3094: 3095: - Anders "Ragge" Magnusson: How to set an internet2 Landspeed record 3096: - Jörg Sonnenberger: pkg\_install 3097: - Alistair Crooks: iSCSI - beyond the hype 3098: - NetBSD Security Enhancements: Elad Efrat 3099: - Emmanuel Dreyfus: What's new in NetBSD? 3100: - Brian A. Seklecki: A Scalable Framework for Compact Flash Booting 3101: NetBSD Network Appliances 3102: - Antti Kantee & Johannes Helander: Implementing Lightweight Routing 3103: for BSD TCP/IP 3104: 3105: Registration is open now. Please [see the 3106: website](http://www.eurobsdcon.org/) for more details! 3107: 3108: ### `Oct 2006` - NYCBSDCon 2006 3109: 3110: *Oct. 28-29, 2006, New York, NY, USA* 3111: 3112: Building on last year's success, the [New York City \*BSD User 3113: Group](http://www.nycbug.org/) is organizing [NYCBSDCon 3114: 2006](http://nycbsdcon.org/). The 3115: [schedule](http://nycbsdcon.org/schedule) shows some speakers talking 3116: about NetBSD-related topics. 3117: 3118: ### `Oct 2006` - Open Source Conference 2006 Tokyo/Fall 3119: 3120: *Oct. 28, 2006, Tokyo, Japan* 3121: 3122: At the [Open Source Conference 2006 3123: Tokyo/Fall](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2006-fall/), there will be a NetBSD 3124: booth staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 3125: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) with many hpc{ 3126: [mips](../ports/hpcmips/), [sh](../ports/hpcsh/), 3127: [arm](../ports/hpcarm/) } gadgets demonstration. 3128: 3129: ### `Oct 2006` - Systems Munich 3130: 3131: NetBSD will be present at the Open Source Pavillon (hall A3, booth 3132: A3.542) at the [Systems](http://www.systems-world.de/) Computer Fair in 3133: Munich, Germany, from October 23rd to 27th. The booth is sponsored and 3134: organized by [Computer- und Literaturverlag](http://www.cul.de/) - if 3135: you want to join us in manning the booth, please contact Hubert Feyrer 3136: <hubertf@NetBSD.org>. 3137: 3138: A report on the event is available 3139: [here](http://mail-index.NetBSD.org/netbsd-advocacy/2006/10/30/0001.html). 3140: 3141: ### `Sep 2006` - Ohio Linuxfest 3142: 3143: *Sep. 30, 2006, Columbus, Ohio, USA* 3144: 3145: There will be a NetBSD booth at the 2006 [Ohio 3146: Linuxfest](http://www.ohiolinux.org/) Conference and Expo. Contact A.JRF 3147: <jrf@NetBSD.org> if you have any questions or want to help out at the 3148: booth. 3149: 3150: A report of the event can be found 3151: [here](http://mail-index.NetBSD.org/netbsd-advocacy/2006/10/17/0000.html). 3152: 3153: ### `Sep 2006` - NetBSD at Linux-days Essen 2006: come2linux 3154: 3155: NetBSD will participate in the Linux-days in Essen, dubbed "come2linux". 3156: There will be a joint BSD booth, the NetBSD part will be manned by 3157: Menuhin Saitov <menuhin@web.de>, feel free to contact him about helping 3158: out at the booth or if you have any questions. A number of NetBSD CDs, 3159: NetBSD t-shirts etc. will be available at the booth, too. 3160: 3161: The event takes place on September 9th and 10th 2006 at the Glaspavillon 3162: of the University of Duisburg-Essen. See 3163: <http://www.come2linux.org/> for more 3164: information. 3165: 3166: A report on the event was [posted to the regional-de mailing 3167: list](http://mail-index.NetBSD.org/regional-de/2006/09/16/0000.html). 3168: 3169: ### `Sep 2006` - NetBSD at Linux-kongress Nuremberg 2006 3170: 3171: There will be a NetBSD booth at the Linux-Kongress in Nuremberg on 3172: September 7th and 8th at the University of Applied Sciences 3173: (Fachhochschule) Nuernberg. See 3174: <http://www.linux-kongress.org/> for 3175: more information on the event, and contact Hubert Feyrer 3176: <hubertf@NetBSD.org> if you have any questions or want to help out at 3177: the booth. 3178: 3179: A.HUBERTF wrote a short 3180: [report](http://mail-index.NetBSD.org/netbsd-advocacy/2006/09/09/0000.html) 3181: about the event. 3182: 3183: ### `Jul 2006` - Open Source Conference 2006 in Hokkaido 3184: 3185: *Jul. 15, 2006, Sapporo, Japan* 3186: 3187: At the [Open Source Conference 2006 DO](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2006-do/) 3188: , there will be a NetBSD booth staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD 3189: Users' Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) with many hpc{ 3190: [mips](../ports/hpcmips/), [sh](../ports/hpcsh/), 3191: [arm](../ports/hpcarm/) } gadgets demonstration. 3192: 3193: ### `Jun 2006` - Open Source Conference 2006 in Niigata 3194: 3195: *Jun. 17, 2006, Niigata, Japan* 3196: 3197: At the [Open Source Conference 2006 3198: Niigata](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2006-niigata/) , there was a NetBSD booth 3199: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 3200: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) with many hpc{ 3201: [mips](../ports/hpcmips/), [sh](../ports/hpcsh/), 3202: [arm](../ports/hpcarm/) } gadgets demonstration with 150 attendances. 3203: 3204: ### `Jun 2006` - Interop 2006 Tokyo BSD BOF 3205: 3206: *Jun 8, 2006, Makuhari-Messe, Chiba, Japan, 18:30-20:00 JST* 3207: 3208: [Interop 2006 Tokyo BSD 3209: BOF](https://ssl.medialive.jp/in2006fm/jp/seminar_BOF03.html) was held 3210: in [Interop 2006 Tokyo](http://www.interop.jp/2006/) with 129 3211: attendances. BOF03. Room 201. 3212: 3213: - Asia BSD Con 2007 Call for Participation , George Neville-Neil / 3214: FreeBSD Project 3215: - FreeBSD: Suspend and Resume Circumstances, for Panasonic Let's Note 3216: CF-R4, Norikatsu Shigemura / 3217: Ensure Technology Ltd 3218: . 3219: - BSD Usergroup activity: 3220: Echigo BSD Users Group 3221: , T.Tamura@EBUG 3222: - XCAST - Explicit Multi-Unicast 3223: 3224: \> See [program for 3225: details](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/ml/announce-ja/200606/msg00000.html). 3226: 3227: The BoF was broadcasted via RealVideo (238 clients), 3228: [xcast](http://www.xcast.jp/) (6 clients) , 3229: [IRC](http://www.reicha.net/) (49 clients). 3230: 3231: ### `May 2006` - BSDCan 2006 3232: 3233: *May 12-13 2006, Ottawa, Canada* 3234: 3235: In just two years, [BSDCan](http://www.bsdcan.org/), a BSD conference 3236: held in Ottawa, has quickly established itself as the technical 3237: conference for people working on and with 4.4BSD based operating systems 3238: and related projects. The organizers have found a fantastic formula that 3239: appeals to a wide range of people from extreme novices to advanced 3240: developers. 3241: 3242: This year, BSDCan 2006 will be will be held on May 12-13 2006 at 3243: University of Ottawa, and some other related events will be passed 3244: during May 10-14th. 3245: 3246: [Watch out](http://www.bsdcan.org/2006/presentations.php) for the 3247: [NetBSD people](http://www.bsdcan.org/2006/speaker.php) on BSDCan 2006! 3248: 3249: ### `May 2006` - pkgsrcCon 2006 3250: 3251: *May 5-7, Paris, France* 3252: 3253: The third pkgsrc conference will be held on May 5-7, 2006 in Paris, 3254: France. Universite Paris 7 - Denis Diderot is graciously hosting the 3255: conference on their campus. 3256: 3257: pkgsrcCon is a technical conference for people working on the NetBSD 3258: Packages Collection (pkgsrc), focusing on existing technologies, 3259: research projects, and works-in-progress in pkgsrc infrastructure. 3260: Developers, contributors, and users are all welcome to attend, and to 3261: share an excellent opportunity to gather and to discuss ideas 3262: face-to-face on how to improve pkgsrc. 3263: 3264: For more information, including how to register, and how to submit a 3265: presentation proposal, please visit 3266: <http://www.pkgsrcCon.org/>. 3267: 3268: ### `May 2006` - LinuxTag 2006 3269: 3270: *May 3-6 2006, Wiesbaden, Germany* 3271: 3272: NetBSD will have a booth at [LinuxTag 2006](http://www.linuxtag.org/), 3273: visit us at Hall 9, booth number 944. There will also be BSD talks and 3274: tutorials. 3275: 3276: If you're interested in helping out at the NetBSD booth or have any 3277: questions, please contact Dennis Wecker <dennis@eperm.net>. 3278: 3279: ### `Apr 2006` - Vintage Computer Festival Europe 3280: 3281: *Apr 29th - May 1st, Munich, Germany* 3282: 3283: The [Vintage Computer Festival Europe](http://www.vcfe.org/) is taking 3284: place from April 29th to May 1st in Munich, Germany. NetBSD's A.JKUNZ 3285: will demonstrate 2.11BSD on a PDP-11/73 and do some general NetBSD 3286: advocacy. If you're interested, please contact A.JKUNZ and/or visit the 3287: URL above. 3288: 3289: ### `Apr 2006` - Japan NetBSD Users' Group meeting & NetBSD BOF 3290: 3291: *Apr 16, 2006, [National Olympics Memorial Youth 3292: Center](http://nyc.niye.go.jp/e/), Tokyo, Japan* 3293: 3294: See [this 3295: page](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/announce/meeting8.html) for 3296: meeting information. Talking about NetBSD/pc98, GDB operation on Emacs, 3297: NetBSD/dreamcast maracas controller, NetBSD/kurobako, NetBSD/Armadillo, 3298: Codeblog. 3299: 3300: ### `Apr 2006` - LinuxWorld-Boston 2006 3301: 3302: *April 3-6, 2006, Boston, MA, USA* 3303: 3304: This year the first of two LinuxWorld Conferences & Expo is going to 3305: take place in Boston, MA, USA at the beginning of April. The NetBSD 3306: Project might be represented with a [shared] booth there - if you are 3307: interested in helping out, please contact Brian Asemi (asemisldkfj at 3308: gmail.com). 3309: 3310: For more information about this event see 3311: [](http://mail-index.NetBSD.org/netbsd-advocacy/2006/04/07/0000.html). 3312: 3313: ### `Mar 2006` - Chemnitzer Linux-Tage 2006 3314: 3315: *March 4-5th 2006, TU Chemnitz, Chemnitz, Germany* 3316: 3317: NetBSD will have a booth at the [Chemnitzer 3318: Linux-Tage](http://chemnitzer.linux-tage.de), one of the largest Linux 3319: Cons in Germany. 3320: 3321: Additionally, several NetBSD presentations and a workshop will be held: 3322: 3323: - Karl Uwe Lockhoff: Introduction into Unix, BSD and Co. 3324: - Stefan Schumacher: Backup and Recovery in a NetBSD environment 3325: - Dennis Wecker: Verified Exec in NetBSD 3326: - Matthias Petermann: NetBSD Features 3327: - Hubert Feyrer: NetBSD example installation in QEmu (Workshop) 3328: 3329: For further information contact Stefan Schumacher \<stefan (at) 3330: net-tex.de\>. 3331: 3332: ### `Mar 2006` - CeBIT 2006 3333: 3334: *March 9-15 2006, Hannover, Germany* 3335: 3336: The NetBSD project will have a booth at [CeBIT](http://www.cebit.de/), 3337: the large b2b-tradefair in Hannover, Germany, from March 12-15. The 3338: booth will be in Hall 5, number E 56 and will showcase NetBSD and Xen. 3339: 3340: ### `Mar 2006` - Open Source Conference 2006 Tokyo/Spring 3341: 3342: *Mar. 17-18, 2006, Tokyo, Japan* 3343: 3344: At the [Open Source Conference 2006 3345: Tokyo/Spring](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2006/), there will be a NetBSD booth 3346: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 3347: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) with many hpc{ 3348: [mips](../ports/hpcmips/), [sh](../ports/hpcsh/), 3349: [arm](../ports/hpcarm/) } gadgets demonstration. 3350: 3351: ### `Mar 2006` - GUUG spring talk 3352: 3353: *March 21-24th 2006, Osnabrück, Germany* 3354: 3355: [German Unix User Group 3356: “Frühjahrsfachgespräch”](http://www.guug.de/veranstaltungen/ffg2006/) 3357: (spring talk) will be passed during 21.-24.3.2006 in the [University of 3358: Osnabrück](http://www.uni-osnabrueck.de/). 3359: 3360: There will be at least one NetBSD-related talk, on [backup 3361: strategies](http://www.guug.de/veranstaltungen/ffg2006/abstracts.html#3_8_2). 3362: Interested parties are welcome to coordinate any BOF sessions or booth 3363: activities with Stefan Schumacher, see [his posting on 3364: regional-de](http://mail-index.NetBSD.org/regional-de/2006/01/29/0000.html). 3365: 3366: ### `Feb 2006` - FOSDEM 2006 3367: 3368: *February 25/26th 2006, Brussels, Belgium* 3369: 3370: The sixth [Free and Open source Software Developers' European 3371: Meeting](http://www.fosdem.org/) is a 2 days event, organized by 3372: volunteers, to promote the widespread use of Free and Open Source 3373: software. Taking place in the beautiful city of Brussels, Belgium FOSDEM 3374: meetings are recognised as the best Free and Open Source events in 3375: Europe. 3376: 3377: A.PETER (<peter>) and A.GHEN (<ghen>) [will 3378: advocate](http://mail-index.NetBSD.org/netbsd-advocacy/2006/02/21/0000.html) 3379: the NetBSD project on this event. Hope to see you too! 3380: 3381: Update: A.GHEN posted a [review of the 3382: event](http://mail-index.NetBSD.org/netbsd-advocacy/2006/02/26/0000.html). 3383: 3384: ### `Feb 2006` - SCALE 4x 3385: 3386: *February 11-12th 2006, Los Angeles, California* 3387: 3388: [SCALE 4x](http://www.socallinuxexpo.org/), the 4th annual Southern 3389: California Linux Expo, will take place February 11-12, 2006, at The 3390: Westin Los Angeles Airport, Los Angeles, California. The NetBSD Project 3391: will have a booth at this event; please contact A.KML (<kml@NetBSD.org>) 3392: if you would like to help. 3393: 3394: A report from Kevin Lahey is 3395: [available](http://mail-index.NetBSD.org/netbsd-advocacy/2006/02/14/0000.html). 3396: 3397: ### `Dec 2005` - 22nd Chaos Communication Congress (22C3) 3398: 3399: *December 27-30th 2005, Berlin, Germany* 3400: 3401: [The 22nd Chaos Communication Congress 3402: (22C3)](http://events.ccc.de/congress/2005/) is a four-day conference on 3403: technology, society and utopia. The Congress offers lectures and 3404: workshops on a multitude of topics including (but not limited to) 3405: information technology, IT-security, internet, cryptography and 3406: generally a critical-creative attitude towards technology and the 3407: discussion about the effects of technological advances on society. 3408: 3409: ### `Nov 2005` - OpenSource Conference 2005 Okinawa 3410: 3411: *November 19, 2005, Okiden Fureai Hall,Japan* 3412: 3413: At the [OpenSource Conference 2005 3414: Okinawa](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2005-okinawa/) , there will be a NetBSD 3415: booth staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 3416: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) with many hpc{ 3417: [mips](../ports/hpcmips/), [sh](../ports/hpcsh/), 3418: [arm](../ports/hpcarm/) } gadgets demonstration. 3419: 3420: ### `Nov 2005` - EuroBSDCon 2005 3421: 3422: *November 25th-27th 2005, Switzerland* 3423: 3424: [EuroBSDCon 2005](http://2005.eurobsdcon.org/) will be held at the 3425: University of Basel, Switzerland on November 25th to 27th 2005. Check 3426: the [website](http://2005.eurobsdcon.org/) for official program, 3427: conference venue and registration. present. 3428: 3429: ### `Oct 2005` - Linux-Info-Tag Dresden 2005 3430: 3431: *October 29, 2005, Dresden, Germany* 3432: 3433: The “Linux-Info-Tag Dresden 2005” will take place on October 29th, 2005, 3434: in Dresden, Germany. There will be a NetBSD booth presenting NetBSD to 3435: the public and showing its abilities on demo computers. Furthermore, 3436: there will be a lecture entitled “Introduction to NetBSD” by Karl Uwe 3437: Lockhoff. 3438: 3439: For further information contact Stefan Schumacher (stefan [at] net-tex 3440: [dot] de) and see the website of the event at 3441: [](http://www.linux-info-tag.de/). 3442: 3443: ### `Oct 2005` - Systems 2005 3444: 3445: *October 24th-28th, 2005, Munich, Germany* 3446: 3447: There will be a BSD booth at the Systems computer show in Munich, 3448: Germany from October 24th to 28th 2005, where the BSD Projects (among 3449: others) will be presented. 3450: 3451: People willing to help are welcome. It's also fine that you have only on 3452: one or more days time to participate at the Booth. There is also a 3453: sponsor which provides food and drinks during the event! 3454: 3455: For more Information see [](http://www.systems.de/) 3456: 3457: Please contact Daniel Ettle (dan at deam dot org) to help at the booth, 3458: especially showing NetBSD! 3459: 3460: ### `Oct 2005` - KANSAI-OPENSOURCE-2005 3461: 3462: *October 28-October 29, 2005, Osaka Sangyo Souzoukan, Japan* 3463: 3464: At the [KANSAI OpenSource 2005](http://k-of.jp/2005/kof.html) there was 3465: a NetBSD booth staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 3466: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) with many hpc{ 3467: [mips](../ports/hpcmips/), [sh](../ports/hpcsh/), 3468: [arm](../ports/hpcarm/) } gadgets demonstration, and [DreamCast with ISA 3469: BUS Expander](../ports/dreamcast/), [NEC EWS4800 with 3470: NetBSD](http://mail-index.NetBSD.org/port-mips/2004/06/27/0000.html), 3471: [IO-DATA USL-5P 3472: (NetBSD/landisk)](http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~aw9k-nnk/n/landisk.html). 3473: 3474: At the \*BSD Meeting in Kansai 2005, There was a BoF about Secure 3475: Programing, embeded-NetBSD developers' Network, Devices and more about 3476: BSD, driven by [Kansai \*BSD Users Group](http://www.kbug.gr.jp/). 3477: 3478: ### `Sep 2005` - Open Source Conference 2005 Fall 3479: 3480: *Sep. 17, 2005, Tokyo, Japan* 3481: 3482: At the [Open Source Conference 2005 3483: Fall](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2005-fall/) there was a NetBSD booth staffed 3484: by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 3485: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) with many hpc{ 3486: [mips](../ports/hpcmips/), [sh](../ports/hpcsh/), 3487: [arm](../ports/hpcarm/) } gadgets demonstration. 3488: 3489: ### `Sep 2005` - NYC BSD Con 2005 3490: 3491: *September 17th 2005, New York City, NY, USA* 3492: 3493: The [NYC BSD User Group](http://www.nycbug.org) organized the first [NYC 3494: BSD Conference](http://nycbsdcon.org/), a one day technical conference 3495: for developers, systems administrators and end-users of the BSD 3496: operating systems and related open source projects. Please see the 3497: [conference website](http://nycbsdcon.org/) for details. 3498: 3499: ### `Sep 2005` - Computer-Bank-Office 2005 3500: 3501: *September 7th-10th 2005, Odessa, Ukraine* 3502: 3503: The NetBSD Project will be presented at 10th annual international 3504: exhibition of information technologies, [Computer-Bank-Office 3505: 2005](http://www.expo-odessa.com/exeb.phtml?id=47&lang=en), which will 3506: take place at Expocentre of Odessa Marine Terminal. All talks about 3507: NetBSD and pkgsrc systems are scheduled for Sep 8th. Anyone interested 3508: in support for and preparation of this event, please contact Mike M. 3509: Volokhov <mishka@NetBSD.org>. See also [his 3510: post](http://mail-index.NetBSD.org/netbsd-advocacy/2005/07/12/0000.html) 3511: on netbsd-advocacy. 3512: 3513: ### `Sep 2005` - Portuguese NetBSD Users's Group meeting 3514: 3515: *September 10th 2005, Lisboa, Portugal* 3516: 3517: The [Portuguese NetBSD User Group](http://www.netbsd-pt.org/) second 3518: meeting will be held at [Parque das 3519: Nações](http://www.parquedasnacoes.pt/) (Vasco da Gama). Please see the 3520: group page for more information. 3521: 3522: ### `Aug 2005` - Japan NetBSD Users' Group meeting & NetBSD BOF 3523: 3524: *Aug 27, 2005, [National Olympics Memorial Youth 3525: Center](http://nyc.niye.go.jp/e/), Tokyo, Japan* 3526: 3527: See [this 3528: page](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/announce/meeting7.html) for 3529: meeting information. 3530: 3531: A 3532: [presentation](http://www.haun.org/kent/tmp/20050827-NetBSD-audio-en.pdf) 3533: about the changes on the NetBSD audio framework is also available. 3534: 3535: ### `Aug 2005` - BSDDAY São Paulo 3536: 3537: *August 13th, 2005, São Paulo, Brazil* 3538: 3539: The first [BSDDAY](http://www.bsdday.com.br/) in São Paulo, Brazil took 3540: place on August 13th, 2005. Presentations regarding the main BSD 3541: derivatives including, of course, NetBSD were given. Since the event is 3542: also meant to promote charity, the entrance fee was 2 Kilograms of 3543: non-perishable food, which were donated to a non-governmental 3544: organization. 3545: 3546: ### `Aug 2005` - LinuxWorld Conference & Expo 2005 3547: 3548: *August 9-11th, 2005, San Francisco, California, USA* 3549: 3550: [LinuxWorld Conference & Expo 3551: 2005](http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/live/12/events/12SFO05A/) was held 3552: in San Francisco, California, USA from August 9th to 11th 2005. NetBSD 3553: had a booth in the ".org Pavilion", organized by A.RIZ <riz@NetBSD.org>. 3554: One of the main attractions here was the [NetBSD 3555: Toaster](http://www.embeddedarm.com/news/netbsd_toaster.htm), engineered 3556: by Technologic Systems. See A.RIZ's 3557: [report](http://mail-index.NetBSD.org/netbsd-advocacy/2005/08/13/0000.html) 3558: for more details. 3559: 3560: ### `Jul 2005` - BSD at “What the Hack” outdoor hacker conference 3561: 3562: *July 28 - 31, 2005, Liempde, near Den Bosch, The Netherlands* 3563: 3564: [What The Hack](http://www.whatthehack.org/) is an outdoor hacker 3565: conference/event taking place on a large event-campground in the south 3566: of The Netherlands from 28 until 31 July 2005. There will be a BSD 3567: village with at least three members of the NetBSD Project present. For 3568: more details about the \*BSD presence see Daniel Ettle's 3569: [message](http://mail-index.NetBSD.org/netbsd-advocacy/2005/07/04/0000.html) 3570: to the netbsd-advocacy mailinglist. 3571: 3572: ### `Jul 2005` - BSD-CONFERENCE-JAPAN 2005 3573: 3574: *July 23, 2005, [NADYA 3575: Park](http://www.u-net.city.nagoya.jp/t-index/nadia.htm) Nagoya, Japan* 3576: 3577: <http://www.bsdcon.jp/> with 80 attendances. 3578: There had be a BSD booth staffed by members of the [Nagoya \*BSD Users' 3579: Group](http://www.nagoya.bug.gr.jp/). See more 3580: [Reports](http://pcweb.mycom.co.jp/articles/2005/07/27/bsdcon/). 3581: 3582: ### `Jul 2005` - Open Source Conference 2005 in Hokkaido 3583: 3584: *Jul. 9, 2005, Sapporo, Japan* 3585: 3586: At the Open Source Conference 2005 DO there had be a NetBSD booth 3587: staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 3588: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/). 3589: [](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2005-do/) with 250 attendances and 17 user 3590: groups. 3591: 3592: ### `Jun 2005` - MeetBSD 2005 3593: 3594: *June 17-19th, 2005, Kraków, Poland* 3595: 3596: [MeetBSD 2005](http://2005.meetbsd.org/) will be held in Kraków, Poland, 3597: from June 17th to 19th 2005. Check the 3598: [website](http://2005.meetbsd.org/) for the official program conference 3599: venue and registration. 3600: 3601: ### `Jun 2005` - Interop 2005 Tokyo BSD BOF 3602: 3603: *Jun 9, 2005, Makuhari-Messe, Chiba, Japan, 18:30-20:00 JST* 3604: 3605: [Interop 2005 Tokyo BSD 3606: BOF](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/ml/announce-ja/200506/msg00000.html) 3607: was held in [Interop 2005 Tokyo](http://www.interop.jp/2005/) with 130 3608: attendances. BOF01. Room 302. 3609: 3610: - \*BSD Document Internationalization 3611: - A Robot that runs on NetBSD 3612: Live performance 3613: - BSD Usergroup activity in Japan 3614: - XCAST - Explicit Multi-Unicast 3615: 3616: See [program for 3617: details](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/ml/announce-ja/200506/msg00000.html). 3618: 3619: The BoF was broadcasted via RealVideo (277 3620: clients)/[xcast](http://www.xcast.jp/) (4 clients include [Univ. of 3621: Science Malaysia](http://nrg.cs.usm.my/), [Nagoya 3622: University](http://www.nagoya-u.ac.jp/en/), and [Nagoya \*BSD Users' 3623: Group](http://www.nagoya.bug.gr.jp/))/ [IRC](http://www.reicha.net/) (55 3624: 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)). 3625: 3626: ### `May 2005` - BSDCan2005 3627: 3628: *May 13th - May 14th, Ottawa, Canada* 3629: 3630: [BSDCan 2005](http://www.bsdcan.org/2005/) was held on May 13-14 2005 at 3631: University of Ottawa. There were related events on the 12th and the 15th 3632: (of a social nature, for the most part). 3633: 3634: ### `May 2005` - pkgsrcCon 2005 3635: 3636: *May 6th - May 8th 2005, Prague, Czech Republic* 3637: 3638: [pkgsrcCon 2005](http://www.pkgsrcCon.org/2005/) was held in Prague, 3639: Czech Republic from May 6th until May 8th 2005. pkgsrcCon is a technical 3640: conference for people working on the [NetBSD Packages Collection 3641: (pkgsrc)](../docs/pkgsrc/), focusing on existing technologies, research 3642: projects, and works-in-progress in pkgsrc infrastructure. Developers, 3643: contributors, and users are all welcome to attend. You can view the 3644: [slides for this 3645: event](http://www.pkgsrcCon.org/2005/presentations.html) here. 3646: 3647: See [](http://www.pkgsrcCon.org/2005/) for details. 3648: 3649: ### `Apr 2005` - Linux Fest Northwest 2005 3650: 3651: LinuxFest Northwest is an annual conference providing many free lectures 3652: and booths covering the open source Unix community. The free event was 3653: held April 30th in Bellingham, Washington, USA. Lectures covering BSD 3654: topics and a BSD advocacy booth were available for the fourth year. 3655: Around 1000 people attended the past two years. 3656: 3657: More information is at 3658: <http://linuxnorthwest.org/>. (If you can 3659: volunteer to help with NetBSD advocacy at LinuxFest, please see [this 3660: email](http://mail-index.NetBSD.org/netbsd-advocacy/2005/03/25/0000.html).) 3661: 3662: ### `Apr 2005` - 2005 USENIX Annual Technical Conference 3663: 3664: *April 10-15, 2005, Anaheim, California, USA* 3665: 3666: USENIX is a place to present groundbreaking research and cutting-edge 3667: practices in a wide variety of technologies and environments. The 2005 3668: program included additional tutorials, more security breakthroughs, and 3669: sessions devoted to Linux and Open Source Software. Join the community 3670: of programmers, developers, and systems professionals in sharing 3671: solutions and fresh ideas. 3672: 3673: See [](http://www.usenix.org/usenix05/) for details. 3674: 3675: ### `Mar 2005` - Open Source Conference 2005 3676: 3677: *Mar. 25-26, 2005, Tokyo, Japan* 3678: 3679: At the Open Source Conference 2005 there was a NetBSD booth staffed by 3680: members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 3681: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/). For more details see 3682: [](http://www.ospn.jp/osc2005/). 3683: 3684: ### `Mar 2005` - CeBIT 2005 3685: 3686: *March 10-16, 2005, Hannover, Germany* 3687: 3688: The NetBSD Project was presented at the [CeBIT 3689: 2005](http://www.cebit.de/) trade show. A few pictures are available at 3690: [this URL](http://nuxi.homeunix.org/album/messen/cebit-2005/). 3691: 3692: ### `Mar 2005` - Chemnitzer Linux-Tage 2005 3693: 3694: NetBSD was present Mar 5th/6th 2005 in Chemnitz, Germany. We had a fine 3695: NetBSD booth at the Chemnitz Linuxdays Mar 5th/6th 2005, with lots of 3696: fun going on. Please check Hubert Feyrer's BLOG for all the details: 3697: 3698: - Chemnitzer Linux-Tage 2005 Day 0 and 1 3699: - Chemnitzer Linux-Tage 2005 Day 2 3700: 3701: ### `Feb 2005` - Spring Talks of the German Unix User Group 3702: 3703: Feb 22nd to 25th 2005 in Munich, Germany. For some details on the event 3704: itself and some rumours & gossips see Hubert Feyrer's BLOG entries: 3705: 3706: - GUUG Spring Talk, Day 1 3707: - GUUG Spring Talk, Day 2 3708: - GUUG Spring Talk, Day 3 3709: 3710: ### `Feb 2005` - Southern California Linux Expo 3711: 3712: *Feb 12th -13th, 2005, Los Angeles, California* 3713: 3714: NetBSD had a booth at the [Southern California Linux 3715: Expo](http://www.socallinuxexpo.org/) at the LA Convention Center. 3716: NetBSD's presence in booth \#34 was organized by A.KML 3717: (<kml@NetBSD.org>). You can find an account of his experience 3718: [here](http://mail-index.NetBSD.org/netbsd-advocacy/2005/02/14/0008.html) 3719: and [here](http://www.nomadlogic.org/~pete/scale.html); a picture of the 3720: NetBSD booth also was prominently displayed 3721: [](http://www.socallinuxexpo.org/images/pictures/scale3x_day1_6.jpg). 3722: 3723: ### `Feb 2005` - Solutions Linux 2005 3724: 3725: *Feb. 1-3, 2005, Paris, France* 3726: 3727: NetBSD will have a booth at Solutions Linux 2005. We will be presenting 3728: both NetBSD and pkgsrc on various hardware and software platforms, while 3729: selling CDs and other merchandise. If you want to help, you can contact 3730: Quentin Garnier (<cube@cubidou.net>). 3731: 3732: ### `Dec 2004` - 21st Chaos Communication Congress (21c3) 3733: 3734: *Dec. 27 - 29, 2004, Berlin, Germany* 3735: 3736: There will be a NetBSD booth at this year's [21st Chaos Communications 3737: Congress](http://www.ccc.de/congress/2004/), and you're welcome to drop 3738: by for hacking, drinking, fun and entertainment, giving talks, promoting 3739: NetBSD and your working areas, help man the NetBSD booth, etc. Please 3740: contact Stefan Schumacher (stefan [at] net-tex [dot] de) if you're 3741: interested in helping out. There are some [notes on the 3742: event](http://mail-index.NetBSD.org/netbsd-advocacy/2004/12/30/0000.html) 3743: available. 3744: 3745: ### `Oct 2004` - EuroBSDCon 2004 3746: 3747: *Oct. 29 - 31, 2004, Karlsruhe, Germany* 3748: 3749: [EuroBSDCon 2004](http://2004.eurobsdcon.org/) took place in Karlsruhe, 3750: Germany. Check the [website](http://2004.eurobsdcon.org/) for official 3751: program, conference venue and registration. A 3752: [schedule](http://2004.eurobsdcon.org/talkschedule.html) of the talks 3753: shows that there were a number of NetBSD developers present. 3754: 3755: A brief report from the conference is available 3756: [here](http://mail-index.NetBSD.org/netbsd-advocacy/2004/11/02/0000.html). 3757: A longer review was published in the [USENIX ;login: 3758: magazine](http://www.usenix.org/publications/login/2005-02/openpdfs/eurobsdcon.pdf). 3759: 3760: ### `Oct 2004` - Systems 2004 3761: 3762: *Oct. 18 - 22, 2004, Munich, Germany* 3763: 3764: There will be a 40m² BSD booth at the Systems computer show in Munich, 3765: Germany from October 18th to 22nd 2004, where the NetBSD project (among 3766: others) will be presented. People willing to help are welcome; Daniel 3767: Ettle (dan at deam org) will act as a point of contact. See 3768: [](http://www.systems.de/) for more information on the exhibition. 3769: 3770: ### `Oct 2004` - BSD-CONFERENCE-JAPAN 2004 3771: 3772: *October 23, 2004, Osaka Sangyo Souzoukan, Japan* 3773: 3774: [](http://www.bsdcon.jp/2004/) 3775: 3776: ### `Oct 2004` - KANSAI-OPENSOURCE-2004 3777: 3778: *October 22-October 23, 2004, Osaka Sangyo Souzoukan, Japan* 3779: 3780: [](http://k-of.jp/2004/) 3781: 3782: ### `Sep 2004` - Open Source Conference 2004 3783: 3784: *Sep. 4, 2004, Tokyo, Japan* 3785: 3786: At the Open Source Conference 2004 there was a NetBSD booth staffed by 3787: members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 3788: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/). 3789: 3790: ### `Sep 2004` - Swiss Unix Conference 2004 3791: 3792: *Sep. 2 - 4, 2004, Zurich, Switzerland* 3793: 3794: [SUCON '04](http://www.suug.ch/sucon/04/), the 2nd Swiss Unix 3795: Conference, will take place in Zurich, Switzerland. The NetBSD Project 3796: was represented by Hubert Feyrer, who will gave [a 3797: presentation](http://www.feyrer.de/NetBSD/sucon-netbsd.pdf) at this 3798: conference. 3799: 3800: ### `Aug 2004` - NetBSD System Administration training 3801: 3802: *August 10 - 13, 2004, Seattle, Washington, USA* 3803: 3804: [Puget Sound Technology](http://www.pugetsoundtechnology.com/) is 3805: teaching a hands-on class covering the fundamentals of NetBSD system 3806: administration. Visit [http://www.pugetsoun 3807: dtechnology.com/training/netbsd/](http://www.pugetsoundtechnology.com/training/netbsd/) 3808: for details. 3809: 3810: ### `Aug 2004` - LinuxWorld 2004 3811: 3812: *Aug. 2 - 5, 2004, San Francisco, CA, USA* 3813: 3814: [LinuxWorld Conference and 3815: Expo](http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/live/12/events/12SFO04A) is going to 3816: take place in San Francisco, CA, USA at the beginning of August. The 3817: NetBSD Project might be represented with a booth there - if you are 3818: interested in helping out, please contact <regional-sfba@NetBSD.org>. 3819: 3820: ### `Jul 2004` - Get into OpenSource Hokkaido 2004 (GODo2004) 3821: 3822: *Jul. 24, 2004, Sapporo Business Innovation Center, Sapporo, Japan* 3823: 3824: At the Get into OpenSource Hokkaido 2004 (GODo2004), there was a NetBSD 3825: booth staffed by members of the [Japan NetBSD Users' 3826: Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/) and 3827: [NoBUG](http://www.no.bug.gr.jp/) with NetBSD/i386+IPv6 XCAST on VAIO 3828: GT, and many hpc{ [mips](../ports/hpcmips/), [sh](../ports/hpcsh/), 3829: [arm](../ports/hpcarm/) } 3830: 3831: ### `Jun 2004` - NetWorld+Interop 2004 Tokyo BSD BOF 3832: 3833: *Jun 30, 2004, Makuhari-Messe, Chiba, Japan, 18:30-20:00 JST* 3834: 3835: [](http://www.interop.jp/2004/) 3836: 3837: [BOF 3838: information](http://www.re.soum.co.jp/%7Efukaumi/ml/netbsd/200406/msg00015.html) 3839: 3840: Contact Jun Ebihara <jun@NetBSD.org> for more information. 3841: 3842: ### `Jun 2004` - USENIX 2004 3843: 3844: *June 27 - July 2, 2004, Boston, MA, USA* 3845: 3846: [USENIX '04](http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix04/), the USENIX Annual 3847: Technical Conference is going to take place in Boston, MA, USA at the 3848: end of June. The NetBSD Project will be represented by Alistair Crooks, 3849: who gives a talk on [The NetBSD Update 3850: System](http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix04/tech/sigs.html#netbsd_update), 3851: as well as Christos Zoulas, who will report on NetBSD during [The State 3852: of the BSD 3853: Projects](http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix04/tech/sigs.html#bsd_projects), 3854: and finally by a number of NetBSD developers who will be attending the 3855: conference. 3856: 3857: ### `Jun 2004` - Linuxtag 2004 3858: 3859: *June 23 - 26, 2004, Karlsruhe, Germany* 3860: 3861: [Linuxtag 2004](http://www.linuxtag.org/2004/index.html) is going to 3862: take place in Karlsruhe, Germany. The NetBSD Project will be represented 3863: with a booth - please contact <hubertf@NetBSD.org> if you are interested 3864: in helping out. 3865: 3866: ### `May 2004` - Japan NetBSD Users' Group meeting & NetBSD BOF 3867: 3868: *May 22, 2004, [National Olympics Memorial Youth 3869: Center](http://nyc.niye.go.jp/e/), Tokyo, Japan* 3870: 3871: See [this 3872: page](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/announce/meeting6.html) for 3873: meeting information. 3874: 3875: ### `May 2004` - BSDCan 2004 3876: 3877: *May 13-16, 2004, Ottawa, Canada* 3878: 3879: The first BSDCan was a tremendous success. With attendance matching 3880: BSDCon, and lower fees and accommodation costs, this looks likely to 3881: become a popular annual conference. BSD developer Speakers and attendees 3882: were numerous. BSDMall had NetBSD paraphanalia available for sale. See 3883: also the [BSDCan Website](http://www.bsdcan.org/), and some [photos from 3884: Daemonnews.](http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200405/bsdcan_2004/) 3885: 3886: ### `May 2004` - LinuxChix-Br II National Meeting 3887: 3888: *May 1-2, 2004 Sao Paulo, Brazil* 3889: 3890: At the [LinuxChix-Br National 3891: Meeting](http://www.linuxchix.org.br/node.php?id=87) there will be a 3892: presentation about pkgsrc and a NetBSD booth staffed by members of 3893: NetBSD-BR. 3894: 3895: ### `Apr 2004` - pkgsrcCon 2004 3896: 3897: *April 30 - May 2, 2004, Vienna, Austria* 3898: 3899: pkgsrcCon is a technical conference for people working at the NetBSD 3900: Packages Collection (pkgsrc), focusing on existing technologies, 3901: research projects, and works-in-progress in pkgsrc infrastructure. For 3902: more information, including slides of the talks, please visit 3903: <http://www.pkgsrcCon.org/2004/>, and 3904: see Hubert Feyrer's report in the [DaemonNews 3905: Ezine](http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200405/pkgsrcCon2004.html). 3906: 3907: ### `Apr 2004` - Linuxfest Northwest 2004 3908: 3909: *April 17, 2004, Bellingham, Washington, USA* 3910: 3911: LFNW is a showcase for what Northwest Linux users are doing with open 3912: source software. Over 50 short (1 hour) presentations will be given 3913: throughout the day. Among them will be introductions to BSD and pkgsrc. 3914: There will be a BSD booth, occupied by two NetBSD developers and other 3915: BSD enthusiasts. Admission is free. Please see 3916: <http://www.linuxnorthwest.org/> and 3917: [this message to the netbsd-news 3918: mailinglist](http://mail-index.NetBSD.org/netbsd-news/2004/04/16/0000.html) 3919: for more information. 3920: 3921: ### `Mar 2004` - GUUG Frühjahrsfachgespräch 3922: 3923: *March 9-12, 2004, Bochum, Germany* 3924: 3925: The NetBSD Project will in all likeliness be represented at this year's 3926: [GUUG 3927: Frühjahrsfachgespräche](http://www.guug.de/veranstaltungen/ffg2004/), a 3928: yearly congress for everybody interested in Unix(-like) Systems and 3929: System Administration organized by the [German Unix User 3930: Group](http://www.guug.de/). 3931: 3932: ### `Mar 2004` - Chemnitzer Linux-Tag 2004 3933: 3934: *March 6-7, 2004, Chemnitz, Germany* 3935: 3936: NetBSD was represented with a booth at the Chemnitzer Linux-Tag 2004 in 3937: Chemnitz, Germany. In addition, there were three presentations: 3938: 3939: - \`\` 3940: Cryptographic applications under NetBSD 3941: '' by Stefan Schumacher 3942: - \`\` 3943: Introduction to NetBSD 3944: '' by Karl Uwe Lockhoff 3945: - \`\` 3946: Software Installation under NetBSD, Linux & Solaris using pkgsrc 3947: '' by Hubert Feyrer 3948: 3949: Please see the 3950: [website](http://www.tu-chemnitz.de/linux/tag/2004/allgemeines/) for 3951: details. Photos are available at [this 3952: website](http://www.uni-magdeburg.de/steschum/6clt/), more photos can be 3953: found on the [Linux-Tag 3954: website](http://www.tu-chemnitz.de/linux/tag/2004/media/bilder/). 3955: 3956: ### `Feb 2004` - Solutions Linux 2004 3957: 3958: *February 3-5, 2004, Paris, France* 3959: 3960: NetBSD was represented with a booth at the [Solutions Linux 3961: 2004](http://www.solutionslinux.fr) conference and expo in Paris, 3962: France. 3963: 3964: ### `Jan 2004` - LinuxWorld 2004 3965: 3966: *January 20-23, 2004, New York, New York* 3967: 3968: The [LinuxWorld Conference and Expo](http://www.linuxworldexpo.com) 2004 3969: took place in the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center in New York City 3970: from January 20-23, 2004. While the NetBSD Project did not have their 3971: own booth this year, we were able to hand out some flyers and sell a few 3972: shirts through the [BSDMall](http://www.bsdmall.com) booth. See the 3973: [report](http://daily.daemonnews.org/view_story.php3?story_id=4368) from 3974: the local user group ([NYCBUG](http://www.nycbug.org/)) for details. 3975: 3976: ### `Dec 2003` - 20th Chaos Communication Congress (20c3) 3977: 3978: *December 27th to 29th, 2003, Berlin, Germany* 3979: 3980: The NetBSD Project was represented at the [20th Chaos Communication 3981: Congress](http://www.ccc.de/congress/2003/) (20c3) in Berlin, Germany, 3982: from December 27th to 29th. See Hubert Feyrer's 3983: [report](http://mail-index.NetBSD.org/netbsd-advocacy/2004/01/02/0002.html) 3984: for Details. If you're interested in the 3985: [Blinkenlights](http://www.blinkenlights.de/) project, one of 20c3's 3986: main attractions, you will find Lubomir Sedlacik's [post to the 3987: netbsd-advocacy](http://mail-index.NetBSD.org/netbsd-advocacy/2004/01/03/0000.html) 3988: MailingList useful. 3989: 3990: ### `Dec 2003` - BSDCon Brasil 2003 3991: 3992: *December 6 and 7, 2003, Instituto Militar de Engenharia (military 3993: institute of engineering - IME), Rio de Janeiro, Brasil* 3994: 3995: See <http://bsdcon.myfreebsd.com.br> for 3996: details. 3997: 3998: ### `Dec 2003` - BSD-Linux-Day 2003 3999: 4000: *December 2, 2003, Pacifico Yokohama, Japan* 4001: 4002: <http://www.jus.or.jp/events/bsd-linux-day/> 4003: 4004: ### `Nov 2003` - NetBSD System Administration training 4005: 4006: *November 18-21, 2003, Seattle, Washington area* 4007: 4008: [Puget Sound Technology](http://www.pugetsoundtechnology.com/) is 4009: teaching a hands-on class covering the fundamentals of NetBSD system 4010: administration. See 4011: <http://www.pugetsoundtechnology.com/training/netbsd/> 4012: for details. 4013: 4014: ### `Oct 2003` - KANSAI-OPENSOURCE+FREEWARE-2003 4015: 4016: *October 31-November 1, 2003, Osaka Sangyo Souzoukan, Japan* 4017: 4018: [](http://k-of.jp/2003/) 4019: 4020: ### `Oct 2003` - BSD-CONFERENCE-JAPAN 2003 4021: 4022: *October 18, 2003, BIZ SHINJUKU, Japan* 4023: 4024: [](http://www.bsdcon.jp/2003/) 4025: 4026: ### `Oct 2003` - Linux-Kongress 2003 4027: 4028: *October 14-16, 2003, Saarbrücken, Germany* 4029: 4030: NetBSD will be present at the Linux-Kongress in Saarbrücken, Germany, an 4031: event mostly attended by Linux developers. Presenting NetBSD in this 4032: environment will give an interesting chance to compare open source 4033: operating systems on a highly skilled level. There will be a joint booth 4034: by all BSD projects offering CDs, DVDs, t-shirts and other devotionalia. 4035: See [this page](http://www.linux-kongress.org/2003/index.html) for more 4036: information. 4037: 4038: ### `Sep 2003` - BSDCon 2003 4039: 4040: *September 8-12, 2003, Marriott Hotel,San Mateo, California, USA* 4041: 4042: Meet the movers and shakers of the BSD community, and learn how you can 4043: use BSD as part of your enterprise-grade solutions. For details, see 4044: <http://www.usenix.org/events/bsdcon03/cfp/>. 4045: Contact name, address, phone, fax and/or e-mail: Conference Department, 4046: 510-528-8649, conference@usenix.org. A 4047: [report](http://mail-index.NetBSD.org/netbsd-advocacy/2003/09/13/0000.html) 4048: is available online. 4049: 4050: ### `Aug 2003` - Chaos Communication Camp 2003 4051: 4052: *August 7-10, 2003, near Berlin, Germany (Old Europe).* 4053: 4054: A lot of photos are available 4055: [online](http://www.uni-magdeburg.de/steschum/ccc03/index.html), as well 4056: as [some slides](advocacy/folienslide.pdf). 4057: 4058: ### `Jul 2003` - Linuxtag Karlsruhe, Germany 4059: 4060: *July 10-13, Karlsruhe, Germany* 4061: 4062: The NetBSD Project was present at the [Linuxtag Karlsruhe 2003, 4063: Germany](http://www.linuxtag.org/2003/en/index.html) from July 10ths to 4064: 13th in a booth together with other BSD-related projects. 4065: 4066: The booth was organized by Hubert Feyrer, Bernd Sieker and Jaromir 4067: Dolecek. See the [full 4068: report](http://mail-index.NetBSD.org/netbsd-advocacy/2003/07/14/0000.html) 4069: for details and pictures. 4070: 4071: ### `Jul 2003` - Libre Software Meeting in Metz 4072: 4073: *July 9-12, 2003, Metz, France* 4074: <http://www.rencontresmondiales.org/> 4075: 4076: The NetBSD Project was represented at the LSM 2003 by Emmanuel Dreyfus 4077: and Gilbert Fernandes. A 4078: [report](http://mail-index.NetBSD.org/netbsd-advocacy/2003/07/14/0002.html) 4079: of the meeting as well as some pictures are available online. 4080: 4081: ### `Jul 2003` - NetWorld+Interop 2003 Tokyo BSD BOF 4082: 4083: *July 2, 2003, Makuhari-Messe, Chiba, Japan, 18:30-20:00 JST* 4084: 4085: <http://www.interop.jp/> 4086: 4087: Call for Presentation: contact Jun Ebihara <jun@NetBSD.org>. 4088: 4089: ### `Jun 2003` - Japan NetBSD Users' Group meeting & NetBSD BOF 4090: 4091: *Jun 28, 2003, [National Olympics Memorial Youth 4092: Center](http://nyc.niye.go.jp/e/), Tokyo, Japan* 4093: 4094: ### `Jun 2003` - Open Source Meeting 2003 in Nagoya University 4095: 4096: *June 7-8, 2003, Nagoya, Japan* 4097: 4098: <http://tokai.opensource.jp/tsudoi/2003/> 4099: 4100: ### `Jun 2003` - 2003 USENIX Annual Technical Conference 4101: 4102: *June 9-14, 2003, San Antonio, Texas, USA* 4103: 4104: A six-day, multiple-track event which includes tutorials, technical 4105: sessions composed of refereed papers, invited talks, and 4106: Birds-of-a-Feather sessions. There will be a [Super BSD BOF 4107: Session](http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix03/bofs.html). For details, 4108: see 4109: <http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix03/>. 4110: Contact name, address, phone, fax and/or e-mail: Conference Department, 4111: 510-528-8649, conference@usenix.org 4112: 4113: Slides of Chris Demetriou's presentation are [available 4114: here](events/usenix2003/). 4115: 4116: ### `May 2003` - BSDay 2003 4117: 4118: *May 21, 2003, Warszawa-Miedzeszyn, Poland* 4119: 4120: [AVET Information and Network Security](http://www.avet.com.pl/) are 4121: holding the [BSDay 4122: 2003](http://www.avet.com.pl/en/conferences/bsday/bsday.php) conference 4123: on May 21, 2003, the first event of its kind in Poland. See the web site 4124: for more information. 4125: 4126: ### `May 2003` - BSDCon.it 4127: 4128: *May 9-11, 2003, Padova, Italy* 4129: 4130: As part of [Webbit '03](http://www.webb.it/), 4131: [BSDCon.it](http://www.bsdcon.it/) will be held from May 9th to may 11th 4132: in Padova, Italy. People interested in giving a talk on NetBSD should 4133: contact <ed@bsdcon.it>. 4134: 4135: ### `Apr 2003` - DECUS Munich Symposium 2003 4136: 4137: *April 8th-10th, 2003, Bonn, Germany* *(updated)* 4138: 4139: There was a presentation about porting NetBSD to old hardware, and the 4140: different emulating systems that allow old software to run on new 4141: hardware, again with NetBSD as the host OS, and one about eletronic 4142: voting, using the procedure for the [election of the NetBSD Board of 4143: Directors](../changes/#board-elections2002) as an in-depth example. 4144: 4145: ### `Apr 2003` - Magdeburg Linuxtag 4146: 4147: *April 5th, 2003, Magdeburg, Germany* 4148: 4149: There was a NetBSD booth and presentation at the Magdeburg Linuxtag in 4150: Magdeburg, Germany on April 5th 2003 at the University of Magdeburg, 4151: Germany. See <http://www.mdlug.de/> for more 4152: information. Contact Bernd Sieker <bsieker@freenet.de> for information 4153: regarding representation of NetBSD at the event. 4154: 4155: ### `Mar 2003` - NetBSD is ten years young and still going strong! 4156: 4157: Several parties are being held in cities around the world to celebrate 4158: the tenth birthday of The NetBSD Project, March 21, 2003. Check out the 4159: [Events Gallery](events/) for more information. 4160: 4161: ### `Mar 2003` - CeBIT 2003 4162: 4163: *March 12-19, 2003, Hannover, Germany* 4164: 4165: The [CeBIT 2003](http://www.cebit.de), the most widely known ICT trade 4166: fair world-wide, took place in Hannover, Germany from March 12-19, 2003. 4167: The NetBSD Project had a booth on Wednesday the 12th, and Thursday 13th, 4168: and there was a 30 minute presentation of the NetBSD Project. Bernd 4169: Sieker and Jaromir Dolocek manned the booth, see their 4170: [report](http://mail-index.NetBSD.org/netbsd-advocacy/2003/03/20/0001.html). 4171: 4172: ### `Mar 2003` - NetBSD System Administration training 4173: 4174: *March 4-6, 2003, Phoenix, Arizona, USA area* 4175: 4176: [Puget Sound Technology](http://www.pugetsoundtechnology.com/) is 4177: teaching a hands-on class covering the fundamentals of NetBSD system 4178: administration. See 4179: <http://www.pugetsoundtechnology.com/training/netbsd/> 4180: for details. 4181: 4182: ### `Mar 2003` - Chemnitzer Linux-Tag 4183: 4184: *March 1, 2003, Chemnitz, Germany* 4185: 4186: NetBSD was represented with a booth at the [Chemnitzer Linux-Tag 4187: (CLT5)](http://www.tu-chemnitz.de/linux/tag/lt5/). A summary of the 4188: events including several pictures is available online at 4189: <http://www.feyrer.de/NetBSD/clt5.html>. 4190: Presentations, including mp3s of the talks (in German!) are available 4191: from: 4192: 4193: - NetBSD - eine Einführung 4194: [ 4195: mp3 4196: ] 4197: - NetBSD 1.6 - Neuigkeiten und Einsatz im Embedded-Umfeld 4198: [ 4199: mp3 4200: ] 4201: - Der Regensburger Marathon-Cluster - eine Video-Rendering-Anwendung 4202: mit NetBSD 4203: [ 4204: mp3 4205: ] 4206: 4207: ### `Feb 2003` - Solutions Linux 4208: 4209: *February 4-6, 2003, CNIT - Paris La Defense, France.* 4210: 4211: The Solutions Linux conference and expo (formerly known as the Linux 4212: Expo Paris) held a NetBSD booth run by the 4213: [GCU-Squad](http://www.gcu-squad.org/) and the [French NetBSD Users 4214: Group](http://www.netbsd-fr.org/). A [report is available 4215: online.](http://mail-index.NetBSD.org/netbsd-users/2003/02/08/0010.html) 4216: 4217: ### `Jan 2003` - Ottawa Open Source Weekend 4218: 4219: *January 25th, 26th, 2003, Ottawa, Canada* 4220: 4221: On 2003 January 25 and 26, a coalition of computer professionals, 4222: students, and volunteers will host an Open Source Weekend in Ottawa, 4223: Canada. The events will be spread across the city and throughout the 4224: weekend to showcase the dynamic world of open source software. The major 4225: activities will be the: 4226: 4227: - Linuxfest at the University of Ottawa (Sat. Jan. 25th) 4228: - Linuxfest at Carleton University (Sat. Jan. 25th) 4229: - The Business of Open Source Software conference. (Sun. Jan. 26th) 4230: 4231: For details, please see <http://www.osw.ca/>. 4232: 4233: ### `Jan 2003` - LinuxWorld 2003 4234: 4235: *January 21-24, 2003, New York, New York* 4236: 4237: The [LinuxWorld Conference and Expo](http://www.linuxworldexpo.com) 2003 4238: takes place in the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center in New York City 4239: from January 21-24, 2003. See the 4240: [website](http://www.linuxworldexpo.com) for more details and a free 4241: registration for the expo. The NetBSD Project had a booth at LinuxWorld, 4242: a [short 4243: review](http://mail-index.NetBSD.org/netbsd-advocacy/2003/01/24/0000.html) 4244: and a [handful of pictures](http://www.NetBSD.org/~jschauma/lwe03/) are 4245: available online. 4246: 4247: ### `Dec 2002` - 19th Chaos Communication Congress (19c3) 4248: 4249: *December 17th to 29th, Berlin, Germany* 4250: 4251: The NetBSD Project will be present at the [19th Chaos Communication 4252: Congress](http://www.ccc.de/congress/2002/) (19c3) in Berlin, Germany, 4253: from December 27th to 29th. 4254: 4255: ### `Dec 2002` - NetBSD System Administration training 4256: 4257: *December 10-12, 2002, Seattle, Washington, USA area* 4258: 4259: [Puget Sound Technology](http://www.pugetsoundtechnology.com/) is 4260: teaching a hands-on class covering the fundamentals of NetBSD system 4261: administration. 4262: 4263: ### `Dec 2002` - Internet Week 2002 4264: 4265: *December 16-20, 2002, Pacifico Yokohama, Japan* 4266: 4267: [Japan NetBSD Users' Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/) will organize a 4268: BSD BoF on December 18th, 18:00(JST) at this years Internet Week. The 4269: BoF was broadcasted via RealVideo (179 clients)/[xcast (3 4270: clients)](http://www.xcast.jp/)/IRC. See 4271: <http://www.nic.ad.jp/iw2002/bof/bof04.htm> 4272: for details. 4273: 4274: ### `Nov 2002` - KNF Congress 2002 4275: 4276: *November 24, 2002, Nuremberg, Germany* 4277: 4278: This years KNF Congress is under the motto "Linux in allen 4279: Lebenslagen???, ... und andere Fragen im Internet" ("Linux in all 4280: aspects of life??? ... and other questions on the Internet"). There will 4281: not only be Linux-oriented talks, but also a bit of talk about NetBSD, 4282: so this might be interesting for anyone in the area of 4283: Nuremberg/Germany. There will be a talk about NetBSD/dreamcast, a NetBSD 4284: booth and also some NetBSD-related prices in the Tombola. 4285: 4286: The congress will take place Sunday Nov 24th, 10-18h at the 4287: Gemeinschaftshaus Langwasser, Glogauer Str. 50, 90473 Nuremberg, 4288: Germany. See 4289: <http://www.franken.de/kongress/index.html> 4290: for more information. 4291: 4292: ### `Nov 2002` - BSD Conference Japan 4293: 4294: *November 23, 2002, tsudahall Tokyo, Japan* 4295: 4296: [](http://www.bsdcon.jp/2002/) with 172 attendances. 4297: 4298: ### `Nov 2002` - BSDCon Europe 2002 4299: 4300: *November 15-17, 2002, Amsterdam, Netherlands* 4301: 4302: <http://2002.eurobsdcon.org/>. \`\`[Rumors, 4303: Gossips and Facts](http://www.feyrer.de/NetBSD/eurobsdcon2002.html)'' 4304: are available online thanks to Hubert Feyrer. 4305: 4306: ### `Nov 2002` - LISA '02 4307: 4308: *November 3-8, 2002, Philadelphia, PA* 4309: 4310: <http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa02/> 4311: 4312: ### `Nov 2002` - RISC OS S.E. Show 4313: 4314: *November 2, 2002, Guildford, UK* 4315: 4316: The Surrey and Sussex Acorn User Group [RISC OS South-East 4317: Show](http://www.fillin.co.uk/seshow/), held in Guildford Technical 4318: College. 4319: 4320: ### `Oct 2002` - Linuxdays 2002 4321: 4322: *October 1-3, 2002, Luxembourg* 4323: 4324: The NetBSD Project was present at the [Luxembourgh 4325: Linuxdays](http://www.linuxday.lu/), an Open Source and Free Software 4326: Conference and Expo held in, well, Luxembourg. Hubert Feyrer gave talks 4327: on [NetBSD](http://www.feyrer.de/NetBSD/nb2002-lu.pdf) and a [video 4328: rendering cluster done with 4329: NetBSD](http://www.feyrer.de/marathon-cluster/mc-slides.pdf). A 4330: [report](http://mail-index.NetBSD.org/netbsd-advocacy/2002/10/08/0000.html) 4331: was sent to the netbsd-advocacy list, pictures and more information are 4332: available from [Hubert's 4333: website](http://www.feyrer.de/NetBSD/#linuxday.lu). 4334: 4335: ### `Sep 2002` - Linux-Kongress 2002 4336: 4337: *September 4-6, 2002, Cologne, Germany* 4338: 4339: The NetBSD Project will be present at [Linux-Kongress 4340: 2002](http://www.linux-kongress.org), the 9th International Linux System 4341: Technology Conference, held at the Physics Institutes of the University 4342: of Cologne, Germany. A report and pictures of the BSD-booth is available 4343: online. 4344: 4345: ### `Aug 2002` - 11th USENIX Security Symposium 4346: 4347: *August 5-9, 2002, San Francisco, CA* 4348: 4349: <http://www.usenix.org/events/sec02/> 4350: 4351: ### `Jul 2002` - NetBSD 1.5.3 release 4352: 4353: *July 22, 2002* 4354: 4355: [NetBSD 1.5.3](../releases/formal-1.5/NetBSD-1.5.3.html), a *[patch 4356: release](../releases/release-map.html)* improving stability, fixing bugs 4357: in, addressing security issues in, and adding some features to [NetBSD 4358: 1.5.2](../releases/formal-1.5/), has been released with support for 20 4359: architectures. More information is available in the [1.5.3 release 4360: announcement](../releases/formal-1.5/NetBSD-1.5.3.html). 4361: 4362: ### `Jul 2002` - NetWorld+Interop 2002 Tokyo BSD BOF 4363: 4364: *July 3, 2002, Chiba, Japan* 4365: 4366: http://www.interop.jp/syutten/report.html 4367: 4368: [http://www.jp.freebsd.org/event/N+I2002\_BOF/](http://www.jp.freebsd.org/event/N+I2002_BOF/) 4369: , [BSD security update - BIND, 4370: OpenSSH](http://www.itojun.org/paper/itojun-interop2002-bsdbof/mgp00001.html). 4371: 4372: ### `Jun 2002` - USENIX Annual Technical Conference 4373: 4374: *June 9-14, 2002, Montery Conference Center Monterey, California, USA* 4375: 4376: <http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix02/>. 4377: Slides of Christos Zoulas' presentation are [available 4378: here](events/usenix2002/). 4379: 4380: ### `Jun 2002` - Open Source Meeting 2002 in Nagoya University 4381: 4382: *June 8-9, 2002, Nagoya, Japan* 4383: 4384: [](http://tokai.opensource.jp/tsudoi/2002/) 4385: 4386: ### `Jun 2002` - Linuxtag 2002 in Karlsruhe 4387: 4388: *June 6-9, 2002, Karlsruhe, Germany* 4389: 4390: [Linuxtag](http://www.linuxtag.de) had a BSD booth. A 4391: [report](http://www.feyrer.de/NetBSD/linuxtag-karlsruhe-2002.html) is 4392: available. 4393: 4394: ### `May 2002` - Wakefield 2002, The Acorn RISC OS Show 4395: 4396: *May 18-19, 2002, Wakefield, UK* 4397: 4398: <http://www.wrocc.org.uk/show/2002/> 4399: 4400: ### `May 2002` - Japan NetBSD Users' Group meeting 4401: 4402: *May 18, 2002, T-Zone Minami, Akihabara, Tokyo, Japan* 4403: 4404: <http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/announce/meeting4.html> 4405: 4406: The Japan NetBSD Users' Group had their annual meeting with 60 4407: attendances, and a NetBSD BoF with 95 attendances, 210 clients via 4408: RealVideo. Talking about Zoularis, LCD System Status monitor, devsw 4409: again, presentation with less, citrus, ACPI, jp.netbsd servers, Upcoming 4410: 1.6 and current, sourceforge.jp, xcast6. 4411: 4412: ### `May 2002` - Annual International Free Software Forum 4413: 4414: *May 2-4, 2002, Porto Alegre- RS, Brazil* 4415: 4416: The Annual International Free Software Forum will take place on this May 4417: 2th, 3th and 4th in Porto Alegre- RS , Brazil. Mainly in event about 4418: Linux Gnu's solutions, this year The BSD's Operating Systems will have a 4419: chance to prove their value. 4420: 4421: The Session's Speakers are Edson Brandi (FreeBSD), Diego Linke (NetBSD) 4422: and Ricardo Nascimento Ferreira (OpenBSD) and they will focus in the 4423: general aspects of the systems: history, license, goods and bads, 4424: technical characteristics and philosophy. 4425: 4426: ### `Mar 2002` - 4th Chemnitz Linuxday 2002 4427: 4428: *March 9-10, 2002, TU Chemnitz, Chemnitz, Germany* 4429: 4430: [www.tu-chemnitz.de/linux/tag/lt4/](http://www.tu-chemnitz.de/linux/tag/lt4/) 4431: 4432: Presentations included "Migration to IPv6" mentioning NetBSD as example, 4433: "\*BSD - Alternative to Linux" presenting BSDs and "BIND9 - Let's talk 4434: IPv6". There was also a (Net)BSD booth manned by Andre Nicklas, Hubert 4435: Feyrer, Karl Uwe Lockhoff. A [detailed 4436: report](http://mail-index.NetBSD.org/netbsd-advocacy/2002/03/11/0000.html) 4437: is available. 4438: 4439: ### `Feb 2002` - GUUG Frühjahrsfachgespräch 2002 4440: 4441: *February 27-March 1, 2002, Ruhr-Uni Bochum, Bochum, Germany* 4442: 4443: <http://www.guug.de/veranstaltungen/ffg2002/index.html> 4444: 4445: Presentations given during the spring meeting of the German Unix User 4446: Group (GUUG) included a report about NetBSD in 2002 and details about 4447: Rapid Deployment of IPv6 with 6to4, which covered NetBSD (among others). 4448: 4449: ### `Feb 2002` - BSDCon 2002 4450: 4451: *February 11-14, 2002, Cathedral Hill Hotel, San Francisco, California, 4452: USA* 4453: 4454: <http://www.usenix.org/events/bsdcon02/cfp/> 4455: 4456: ### `Dec 2001` - Internet Week 2001 4457: 4458: *December 3-7, 2001, Yokohama, Japan* 4459: 4460: <http://internetweek.jp/> 4461: 4462: At Internet Week 2001, there was a BSD BOF on December 6th. 4463: Additionally, December 7th was BSD/Linux Day. 4464: 4465: There was a [BSD BoF session](http://www.jp.FreeBSD.org/event/iw2001/) 4466: on Dec 7 with 197 attendances, 392 clients via [RealVideo 4467: G2](http://www.real.com) broadcasting,IRC chatting. Talking about The 4468: BSD System on 1FDD, Special talk and Presentation [Perry E. 4469: Metzger/Warner Losh], IPv6 DNS transfer Club,Catch up FreeBSD 4470: current,talking about free software community, [BSD users group meeting 4471: via IPv6 XCAST](http://www.mma.gr.jp/%7Etree/bsd-20011206/). 4472: 4473: On Dec 8, there was a [BSD/Linux 4474: Day](http://www.jus.or.jp/events/bsd-linux-day2001/) session talking 4475: about BSD, Linux, Mail User Agents, Mail Transfer, Office Suite, 4476: Emulation. 4477: 4478: ### `Nov 2001` - BSDCon Europe 2001 4479: 4480: *November 9-11, 2001, Thistle Hotel, Brighton, UK* 4481: 4482: <http://www.bsdconeurope.org/> 4483: 4484: ### `Oct 2001` - RISC OS 2001 Show 4485: 4486: *October 20-21, 2001, Berkshire, England* 4487: 4488: <http://www.riscos2001.com/> 4489: 4490: NetBSD had a stand at the [RISC OS 2001 4491: Show](http://www.riscos2001.com/). There was various NetBSD boxes on 4492: display and NetBSD 1.5.2 CDs for sale. 4493: 4494: ### `Sep 2001` - NetBSD 1.5.2 release 4495: 4496: *September 13, 2001* 4497: 4498: NetBSD 1.5.2, a [patch release](../releases/release-map.html) improving 4499: stability, fixing bugs in, and adding some features to [NetBSD 4500: 1.5.1](../releases/formal-1.5/), was released with support for 21 4501: architectures. More information is available in the [1.5.2 release 4502: announcement](../releases/formal-1.5/NetBSD-1.5.2.html). 4503: 4504: ### `Aug 2001` - LinuxWorld Expo 4505: 4506: *August 26-30, 2001, San Francisco, CA* 4507: 4508: <http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/> 4509: 4510: The NetBSD Project had a booth at the LinuxWorld Conference & Expo from 4511: August 28-30, 2001. Jason Thorpe has written a short [summary about the 4512: NetBSD booth at 4513: LinuxWorld](http://mail-index.NetBSD.org/netbsd-advocacy/2001/08/30/0000.html). 4514: Also at the booth was the debut of NetBSD running on a Playstation 2 4515: from Japan. 4516: 4517: ### `Jul 2001` - NetBSD 1.5.1 release 4518: 4519: *July 11, 2001* 4520: 4521: NetBSD 1.5.1, a [patch release](../releases/release-map.html) improving 4522: stability, fixing bugs in, and adding some features to [NetBSD 4523: 1.5](../releases/formal-1.5/), was released with support for 21 4524: architectures. More information is available in the [1.5.1 release 4525: announcement](../releases/formal-1.5/NetBSD-1.5.1.html). 4526: 4527: ### `Jun 2001` - Japan NetBSD Users' Group meeting 4528: 4529: *June 30, 2001, [ASCII Corporation](http://www.ascii.co.jp/info/), 4530: Tokyo, Japan* 4531: 4532: <http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/announce/meeting3.html> 4533: 4534: The Japan NetBSD Users' Group had their annual meeting with 52 4535: attendances, and a NetBSD BoF with 102 attendances, 275 clients via 4536: RealVideo G2 broadcasting. 4537: 4538: Talking about jp.NetBSD.org servers, NetBSD status updates after 4539: USENIX2001,Korea NetBSD User Group, www.NetBSD.org Logo, Chiba-BUG, 4540: Making plan for NetBSD Book in Japan, XCAST on NetBSD, The New 4541: Block/Character Device Switch Configration Framework, Life in PEACE, wdc 4542: MD driver for DC IDE-HD Interface on NetBSD/dreamcast, Get into 4543: Zoularis, PS2Linux for NetBSD, and special guest talking with Antti 4544: Kantee from Finland. Japan NetBSD Users' Group will have a special 4545: meeting on 54th IETF Yokohama, Japan. 4546: 4547: ### `Jun 2001` - USENIX Annual Technical Conference 4548: 4549: *June 25-30, 2001, Boston, MA* 4550: 4551: <http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix01/> 4552: 4553: NetBSD was well represented at [Usenix 4554: 2001](http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix01/), and we would like to 4555: thank everyone involved in the BSD BoF and the NetBSD booth. 4556: 4557: The NetBSD Project had a presentation at the BSD BoF which was headed by 4558: [NetBSD Core Group](../people/core.html) members Christos Zoulas and 4559: Luke Mewburn. A list of highlights is available in Chuck Toporek's 4560: "[Greetings from the BSD Super 4561: BoF](http://unix.oreilly.com/news/usenixchuck_0601.html)" article. The 4562: [slides from this talk](//www.netbsd.org/gallery/events/usenix2001/) are available. 4563: 4564: Luke Mewburn was also a part of the scripting technical session; his 4565: presentation was entitled, "The Design and Implementation of the NetBSD 4566: rc.d System". In Ellen Siever's "[Usenix Technical Session 4567: Wrap-Up](http://unix.oreilly.com/news/usenixellen_0601.html)" article, 4568: she talks briefly about Luke's presentation. Luke's paper can be found 4569: at the [Usenix 2001](http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix01/) web site, 4570: in both HTML and PDF formats, under [FREENIX Track Refereed 4571: Papers](http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix01/freenix01/mewburn.html) 4572: (requires USENIX membership). The paper may also be found in 4573: [PDF](http://www.mewburn.net/luke/papers/rc.d.pdf) format at Luke's own 4574: web site. 4575: 4576: Again, a thank you to all involved. 4577: 4578: ### `Jun 2001` - Open Source Meeting 2001 in Nagoya University 4579: 4580: *June 9-10, 2001, Nagoya, Japan* 4581: 4582: [](http://tokai.opensource.jp/tsudoi/2001/) 4583: 4584: On June 9-10th, 2001, several Bof about open source community in japan 4585: were held.100+150 persons attended in person. 4586: 4587: ### `Jun 2001` - NetWorld+Interop Tokyo, BSD BoF 4588: 4589: *June 7 2001, Chiba, Japan* 4590: 4591: <http://www.interop.jp/> 4592: 4593: On June 7th, 2001, a BSD BoF was held as one of the night sessions at 4594: [NetWorld+Interop Tokyo](http://www.interop.jp/). Over 300 people 4595: attended in person, 50-100 people attended over IRC (volunteers typed 4596: the discussions to a couple of IRC channels), and 828 clients watched 4597: the discussion over RealVideo transmission. Jun-ichiro itojun Hagino 4598: wrote up a [summary of the BSD BoF at NetWorld+Interop 4599: Tokyo](events/interop-tokyo-2001.html). 4600: 4601: ### `May 2001` - Wakefield 2001 4602: 4603: *May 19-20, 2001, Wakefield, UK* 4604: 4605: There was a NetBSD stand at the Wakefield Acorn / RiscOS show. The 4606: Wakefield show was more of an ARM biased show, so there was a 4607: [NetBSD/arm26](../ports/arm26/) and [NetBSD/arm32](../ports/arm32/) 4608: slant to the NetBSD stand. The stand featured machines running NetBSD, 4609: and CD-ROMS of the NetBSD system with some additional pre-built packages 4610: and a copy of the NetBSD web site on them. Also at the show Chris 4611: Gilbert gave a talk about NetBSD. 4612: 4613: ### `Apr 2001` - Comdex Spring 2001 4614: 4615: *April 2-5, 2001, Chicago, IL* 4616: 4617: <http://www.comdex.com/> 4618: 4619: NetBSD had a booth at [Comdex](http://www.comdex.com/) Spring 2001. A 4620: [short summary](events/comdex-spring-2001.html) of NetBSD at Comdex 4621: Spring is available. 4622: 4623: Expenses for this event were underwritten by The NetBSD Mission. 4624: 4625: ### `Feb 2001` - Open Source Matsuri 2001 in Akihabara 4626: 4627: *February 10-11, 2001, Tokyo, Japan* 4628: 4629: [Japan NetBSD Users' Group](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/) had a 4630: [booth](http://www.voj.toda.saitama.jp/photo/OpenSource2001/) with SONY 4631: NEWS,Sun Ultra1,DEC VAX station,Sega DreamCast,Mac SE/30, Sharp 4632: X68030,Mac G4Qube,iBook,NEC MobileGearII, 4633: [PEACE](http://chiharu.hauN.ORG/peace/) and [umidi/utoro 4634: demo](http://utoro.imou.to/) with 7000 attendances. Held a Presentation 4635: & a tutorial about NetBSD by jun@NetBSD.org. [[Reports on 4636: jp.NetBSD.org](http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/event/20010210OSF/)] 4637: 4638: ### `Jan 2001` - LinuxWorld Expo 2001 4639: 4640: *January 30-February 2, 2001, New York City, USA* 4641: 4642: <http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/> 4643: 4644: The NetBSD Project shared a stand with [Wasabi 4645: Systems](http://web.archive.org/web/2002/http://www.wasabisystems.com/) at LinuxWorld Expo 2001. The 4646: stand had a variety of different platforms running NetBSD, 1.5 CDs, and 4647: other swag. 4648: 4649: ### `Dec 2000` - Internet Week 2000 4650: 4651: *December 18-21, 2000, Osaka, Japan* 4652: 4653: <http://www.nic.ad.jp/iw2000/> 4654: 4655: There was a [BSD BoF 4656: session](http://www.unixmagic.org/ml/netbsd/200012/msg00019.html) on Dec 4657: 19 with 160 attendances, 94 clients via [RealVideo 4658: G2](http://www.real.com) broadcasting,60 IRC realtime broadcasting 4659: clients. Talking about The BSD System on 1FDD, USB maniacs from across 4660: the [BSD magazine](http://www.ascii.co.jp/BSDmag/) editorial room, 4661: announce from BSDi Japan Office, Users groups in 4662: JP[[NoBUG](http://www.no.bug.gr.jp/), [OFUG](http://www.ofug.net/), 4663: [S\*BUG](http://www.bbsbrain.ne.jp/~sbug/), 4664: [K\*bug](http://www.kbug.gr.jp/), [NBUG](http://www.nagoya.bug.gr.jp/), 4665: [JNUG](http://www.NetBSD.org/community/groups.html#jnug), L\*BUG], 4666: little red [Daemon-kun](http://www.twin.ne.jp/~minamie/ost/) from The 4667: Open Source Toys Project, BSD goods present time,and more thinking about 4668: BSD activity in Japan. 4669: 4670: ### `Dec 2000` - NetBSD 1.5 release 4671: 4672: *December 6, 2000* 4673: 4674: [NetBSD 1.5](../releases/formal-1.5/), the eighth [major 4675: release](../releases/release-map.html) of NetBSD, was announced to the 4676: public. 4677: 4678: ### `Dec 2000` - Usenix Systems Administration Conference (LISA) 4679: 4680: *December 3-8, 2000, New Orleans, LA* 4681: 4682: <http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa2000/> 4683: 4684: ### `Nov 2000` - NetBSD 1.4.3 release 4685: 4686: *November 25, 2000* 4687: 4688: NetBSD 1.4.3, a [patch release](../releases/release-map.html) improving 4689: stability and fixing bugs in [NetBSD-1.4](../releases/formal-1.4/), was 4690: announced to the public. 4691: 4692: ### `Nov 2000` - Comdex Fall 2000 4693: 4694: *November 13-17 2000, Las Vegas, NV* 4695: 4696: <http://www.comdex.com/> 4697: 4698: The NetBSD Project had a booth at Comdex Fall 2000. We demonstrated a 4699: full desktop system running on a Macintosh G4 cube, as well as other 4700: sundry bits. The cube also appeared on German 3Sat Neues. 4701: 4702: Expenses for this event were underwritten by LinuxMall and The NetBSD 4703: Mission. 4704: 4705: ### `Oct 2000` - Linux Expo Toronto 2000 4706: 4707: *October 30-November 1 2000, Toronto, Ontario, Canada* 4708: 4709: <http://www.linuxexpocanada.com/> 4710: 4711: The NetBSD Project had a booth at displaying NetBSD i386 and mac68k - 4712: T-shirts and 1.4.2 CDs were available. The i386 machine was running an 4713: automated demo which will soon be available in pkgsrc. 4714: 4715: Expenses for this event were underwritten by The NetBSD Mission and 4716: David Maxwell. 4717: 4718: ### `Oct 2000` - RISC OS 2000 4719: 4720: *October 21-22 2000, Epsom, England* 4721: 4722: <http://www.armclub.org.uk/shows/riscos/> 4723: 4724: A group of NetBSD enthusiasts were one of the exhibitors at RISC OS 4725: 2000. They had CD's, leaflets, and a mixture of hardware running NetBSD 4726: on display. David Brownlee wrote up a report about the [NetBSD stand at 4727: RISC OS 2000](events/riscos-2000.html). 4728: 4729: ### `Oct 2000` - BSDCon 2000 4730: 4731: *October 14-20 2000, Monterey, CA* 4732: 4733: <http://www.bsdcon.org/> 4734: 4735: NetBSD had a table at this event, and there were a couple of talks 4736: spotlighting NetBSD. 4737: 4738: Erik Berls <cyber@NetBSD.org> and Luke Mewburn <lukem@NetBSD.org> gave a 4739: talk entitled "NetBSD: Platform for the Future". Slides are available at 4740: [](http://www.mewburn.net/luke/talks/bsdcon-2000/). 4741: 4742: Also, Jun-ichiro itojun Hagino gave a talk on NetBSD 1.5. A transcript 4743: is available at 4744: [](ftp://ftp.itojun.org/pub/paper/itojun-bsdcon2000-netbsd15.ps.gz). 4745: 4746: ### `Oct 2000` - Atlanta Linux Showcase 4747: 4748: *October 12-14 2000, Atlanta, GA* 4749: 4750: <http://www.linuxshowcase.org/> 4751: 4752: The NetBSD Project ran a booth at this event, showcasing NetBSD on 4753: non-PC platforms (primarily the Mac G4 cube). Some unfortunate bugs were 4754: fixed onsite. 4755: 4756: Expenses for this event were underwritten by The NetBSD Mission. 4757: 4758: ### `Aug 2000` - LinuxWorld Conference & Expo 4759: 4760: *August 14-17 2000, San Jose, CA* 4761: 4762: <http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/> 4763: 4764: There was a BSD BoF session on Wednesday August 16th. In the September 4765: 2000 issue, Daemon News published an 4766: [article](http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200009/linuxworld-2000.html) on 4767: the BSD presence at LinuxWorld 2000. 4768: 4769: ### `Jul 2000` - O'Reilly Open Source Software Convention 2000 4770: 4771: *July 17-20, 2000, Monterey, CA* 4772: 4773: http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon2000/ 4774: 4775: NetBSD had a table at the O'Reilly Open Source Software Convention 2000. 4776: Also, there was a session called the "Future of the BSDs", presented by 4777: a group that included Charles Hannum from NetBSD. 4778: 4779: Expenses for this event were underwritten by The NetBSD Mission. 4780: 4781: ### `Jul 2000` - Comdex Canada 2000 4782: 4783: *July 12-14 2000, Toronto, Ontario, Canada* 4784: 4785: The NetBSD Project had a booth at Comdex Canada 2000 at which T-shirts 4786: and 1.4.2 CDs were available. There are some photos of [the screen, 4787: showing the bktr display](../images/events/20000712-1.jpg), NetBSD 4788: developers [David Maxwell (left) and D'Arcy Cain 4789: (right)](../images/events/20000712-2.jpg), and helpers [Carol Cain, and 4790: Robert Waters](../images/events/20000712-3.jpg). We also have pictures 4791: of another [User Friendly visitor](../images/events/booth_puppy.jpg). 4792: 4793: Expenses for this event were underwritten by LinuxMall, The NetBSD 4794: Mission and David Maxwell. 4795: 4796: ### `Jul 2000` - Japan NetBSD Users' Group meeting 4797: 4798: *July 1 2000, Tokyo Japan* 4799: 4800: <http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/announce/meeting2.html> 4801: 4802: The Japan NetBSD Users' Group had their annual meeting, and a NetBSD BoF 4803: followed. 4804: 4805: ### `Jun 2000` - LinuxTag 2000 4806: 4807: *June 29-July 2 2000, Stuttgart, Germany* 4808: 4809: http://www.linuxtag.org/2000/english/ 4810: 4811: A group of \*BSD enthusiasts organized a \*BSD booth at [LinuxTag 4812: 2000](http://www.linuxtag.org/2000/english/), which, among many other 4813: things, included a variety of boxes showcasing NetBSD. Christian 4814: Weisgerber has written a [summary](events/linuxtag-2000.html) about his 4815: experiences at LinuxTag 2000, as one both manning the \*BSD booth and 4816: giving a talk. 4817: 4818: ### `Jun 2000` - Usenix Annual Technical Conference 4819: 4820: *June 21-22 2000, San Diego, CA* 4821: 4822: <http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix2000/> 4823: 4824: NetBSD had a presence at the [Usenix Annual Technical 4825: Conference](http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix2000/) in 2000. Most 4826: notably, Charles Hannum gave a talk about NetBSD, William Studenmund 4827: gave a [technical session on 4828: DMFS](http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/usenix2000/freenix/studenmund.html) 4829: (Data Migration File System) for NetBSD, Chuck Silvers gave a [technical 4830: session on 4831: UBC](http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/usenix2000/freenix/silvers.html) 4832: (an efficient United I/O and Memory Caching Subsystem for NetBSD), and 4833: Jun-ichiro Hagino gave a [technical session on mbuf changes in 4834: KAME/\*BSD IPv6 4835: support](http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/usenix2000/freenix/hagino.html). 4836: There was also a BSD BoF which included people kicking around beach 4837: balls emblazoned with "NetBSD support: it's not hot air anymore" in 4838: reference to the launch of [Wasabi 4839: Systems](http://web.archive.org/web/2002/http://www.wasabisystems.com/). 4840: 4841: Expenses for this event were underwritten by The Usenix Association and 4842: The NetBSD Mission. 4843: 4844: ### `Jun 2000` - German Unix User Group spring '00 meeting 4845: 4846: *June 14-16 2000, Cologne, Germany* 4847: 4848: <http://www.guug.de/> 4849: 4850: NetBSD was represented at the spring meeting of the [German Unix User 4851: Group](http://www.guug.de/). Ignatios Souvatzis gave a presentation 4852: about experiences with IPv6 using NetBSD. 4853: 4854: ### `Jun 2000` - NetWorld+Interop Tokyo 4855: 4856: *June 8 2000, Chiba, Japan* 4857: 4858: <http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/ml/admin-ja/200005/msg00015.html> 4859: 4860: A joint \*BSD users group BOF was held. Jordan Hubbard and Warner Losh 4861: (of FreeBSD) joined and gave us a talk. BOF session covering various 4862: \*BSD followed. 4863: 4864: ### `Apr 2000` - Comdex Spring 2000 4865: 4866: *April 17-20 2000, Chicago, IL* 4867: 4868: <http://www.comdex.com/> 4869: 4870: Expenses for this event were underwritten by LinuxMall and The NetBSD 4871: Mission. 4872: 4873: ### `Apr 2000` - Linux Expo 4874: 4875: *April 10-12 2000, Montreal, Quebec, Canada* 4876: 4877: <http://www.linuxexpocanada.com/> 4878: 4879: The NetBSD Project had a booth displaying NetBSD i386, hpcmips, and 4880: mmeye at this event in Montreal, Canada. T-shirts, 1.4.1, 1.4.2, and 4881: snapshot CDs were available. 4882: 4883: Expenses for this event were underwritten by The NetBSD Mission. 4884: 4885: ### `Mar 2000` - DECUS Munich 4886: 4887: *March 29, 2000, Munich, Germany* 4888: 4889: <http://www.decus.de/> 4890: 4891: Ignatios Souvatzis talked about NetBSD news and experiences with IPv6 on 4892: NetBSD at the DECUS Munich Symposium in Bonn. 4893: 4894: ### `Mar 2000` - NetBSD 1.4.2 release 4895: 4896: *March 19, 2000* 4897: 4898: NetBSD 1.4.2, a [patch release](../releases/release-map.html) improving 4899: stability and fixing bugs in [NetBSD-1.4](../releases/formal-1.4/), was 4900: announced to the public. 4901: 4902: ### `Feb 2000` - Linux Expo 4903: 4904: *February 1-3 2000, Paris, France* 4905: 4906: <http://www.linuxexpoparis.com/> 4907: 4908: There was a BSD BoF at the New York Linuxworld on Thursday, February 4909: 3rd. 4910: 4911: Expenses for this event were underwritten by The NetBSD Mission. 4912: 4913: ### `Dec 1999` - Internet Week 1999 4914: 4915: *December 18 1999, Yokohama, Japan* 4916: 4917: <http://www.nic.ad.jp/iw99/> 4918: 4919: There was a [BSD BoF session](http://www.jp.freebsd.org/event/iw99/) on 4920: Dec 18. 4921: 4922: ### `Dec 1999` - The Bazaar 4923: 4924: *December 14-16 1999, New York City, NY* 4925: 4926: The NetBSD Project had two kiosks at "The Bazaar" in New York City at 4927: the Javits Center. We demoed NetBSD on several hardware platforms, and 4928: provided live video from the show floor via a [Brains, Inc. mmEye video 4929: server](http://www.brains.co.jp/). 4930: 4931: Expenses for this event were underwritten by The NetBSD Mission. 4932: 4933: ### `Nov 1999` - Comdex Fall 1999 4934: 4935: *November 15-19 1999, Las Vegas, NV* 4936: 4937: <http://www.comdex.com/> 4938: 4939: The NetBSD Project had a booth at Comdex Fall 1999. We had 1.4.1 CD 4940: sets, sample CDs, demo machines, and a few surprises. 4941: 4942: Expenses for this event were underwritten by LinuxMall and The NetBSD 4943: Mission. 4944: 4945: ### `Nov 1999` - Open Source Matsuri99 in Akihabara 4946: 4947: *November 12-13, 1999, Akihabara, Tokyo* 4948: 4949: Japan NetBSD Users' Group ran a booth at Open Source Matsuri'99 in 4950: Akihabara ("Matsuri" is Japanese word for "Festival"). We had demo 4951: machines and short Presentation with NetBSD/hpcmips. 4952: 4953: ### `Oct 1999` - Atlanta Linux Showcase 1999 4954: 4955: *October 14-16, 1999, Atlanta, GA* 4956: 4957: <http://www.linuxshowcase.org/1999/> 4958: 4959: The NetBSD Project ran a booth at the Atlanta Linux Showcase. 1.4.1 CD 4960: sets and T-shirts were on sale. 4961: 4962: Expenses for this event were underwritten by The NetBSD Mission. 4963: 4964: ### `Oct 1999` - BSD Social Event in Berlin 4965: 4966: *October 9-10, 1999* 4967: 4968: ### `Aug 1999` - NetBSD 1.4.1 release 4969: 4970: *August 26, 1999* 4971: 4972: NetBSD 1.4.1, a [patch release](../releases/release-map.html) improving 4973: stability and fixing bugs in [NetBSD-1.4](../releases/formal-1.4/), was 4974: announced to the public. 4975: 4976: ### `Jul 1999` - Wizards of OS \#1 4977: 4978: *July 16-17, 1999, Berlin, Germany* 4979: 4980: Patrick M. Hausen talked about FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD at the Free 4981: Software Projects panel of the Wizards of OS conference. 4982: 4983: ### `Jun 1999` - LinuxTag '99 4984: 4985: *June 26-27, 1999, Kaiserslautern, Germany* 4986: 4987: <http://www.linuxtag.org/1999/> 4988: 4989: The NetBSD Project attended LinuxTag '99 in Kaiserslautern, Germany. We 4990: exhibited a NetBSD/arm32 system running on a DNARD, and demonstrated the 4991: package system. 4992: 4993: ### `Jun 1999` - Usenix '99 4994: 4995: *June 6-11, 1999, Monterey, CA* 4996: 4997: <http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix99/> 4998: 4999: The NetBSD foundation attended the USENIX Annual Technical Conference in 5000: Monterey, CA. There was a Birds of a Feather session on Tuesday 8, 8pm - 5001: 10pm, and an exhibition booth featuring many different platforms. There 5002: is also a [full report](events/usenix1999.html) available. 5003: 5004: ### `Mar 1999` - German Unix User Group spring '99 meeting 5005: 5006: *March 16-19, 1999, Germany* 5007: 5008: <http://www.guug.de/> 5009: 5010: During the spring meeting of the [German Unix User 5011: Group](http://www.guug.de/) (GUUG), NetBSD was mentioned in two talks 5012: held by [Dr. Alexandre 5013: Wennmacher](http://www.uni-koeln.de/math-nat-fak/geomet/geo/mitarbeiter/mitarb/aw.html). 5014: The first described security through file flags and the second was about 5015: checkpointing in userspace. 5016: 5017: At the \*BSD BoF, Hubert Feyrer explained the changes made in the 5018: Packages System to what was taken from FreeBSD, Christoph Badura 5019: answered general NetBSD questions. 5020: 5021: ### `May 1999` - NetBSD 1.4 release 5022: 5023: *May 12, 1999* 5024: 5025: [NetBSD 1.4](../releases/formal-1.4/), the seventh [major 5026: release](../releases/release-map.html) of NetBSD, was announced to the 5027: public. 5028: 5029: ### `Dec 1998` - NetBSD 1.3.3 release 5030: 5031: *December 23, 1998* 5032: 5033: NetBSD 1.3.3, a [patch release](../releases/release-map.html) improving 5034: stability and fixing bugs in [NetBSD-1.3](../releases/formal-1.3/), was 5035: announced to the public. 5036: 5037: ### `Aug 1998` - Open Source Developer Day 5038: 5039: *August 21, 1998, San Jose, CA* 5040: 5041: The NetBSD Project was proud to be a partner with O'Reilly and 5042: Associates for its Open Source Developer Day, held at the Fairmont Hotel 5043: in San Jose, CA. 5044: 5045: ### `Jun 1998` - Usenix freenix track 5046: 5047: *June 15-19, 1998, New Orleans, LA* 5048: 5049: [FREENIX](http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/usenix98/freenix/), 5050: the freely redistributable software track, was held at 5051: [Usenix](http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/usenix98/). 5052: FREENIX was intended to be a showcase for the latest developments and 5053: interesting applications in freely redistributable software including 5054: NetBSD, FreeBSD, Linux, OpenBSD, GNU and Samba. 5055: 5056: ### `May 1998` - NetBSD 1.3.2 release 5057: 5058: *May 29, 1998* 5059: 5060: NetBSD 1.3.2, a [patch release](../releases/release-map.html) improving 5061: stability and fixing bugs in [NetBSD-1.3](../releases/formal-1.3/), was 5062: announced to the public. 5063: 5064: ### `Apr 1998` - MTT '98 "Magic Days Trier" 5065: 5066: *April 25-26, 1998, Germany* 5067: 5068: The Amiga1 user group held another MTT. 5069: 5070: ### `Mar 1998` - NetBSD 1.3.1 release 5071: 5072: *March 9, 1998* 5073: 5074: NetBSD 1.3.1, a [patch release](../releases/release-map.html) improving 5075: stability and fixing bugs in [NetBSD-1.3](../releases/formal-1.3/), was 5076: released. 5077: 5078: ### `Jan 1998` - NetBSD 1.3 release 5079: 5080: *January 4, 1998* 5081: 5082: [NetBSD-1.3](../releases/formal-1.5/), the sixth [major 5083: release](../releases/release-map.html) of NetBSD, was announced to the 5084: public. 5085: 5086: ### `May 1997` - NetBSD 1.2.1 release 5087: 5088: *May 20, 1997* 5089: 5090: NetBSD 1.2.1, a [patch release](../releases/release-map.html) improving 5091: stability and fixing bugs in [NetBSD-1.2](../releases/formal-1.2/), was 5092: announced to the public. 5093: 5094: ### `Apr 1997` - MTT '97 "Magic Days Trier" 5095: 5096: *April 19-20, 1997, Germany* 5097: 5098: A NetBSD-1.2.1/Amiga preview, running on a DraCo and (after installing 5099: it live over ARCnet) on an Amiga 3000, was presented by Jürgen Schmitz 5100: and Ignatios Souvatzis at the MTT '97. 5101: 5102: ### `Apr 1997` - DECUS Munich 5103: 5104: *April 17, 1997, Bonn, Germany* 5105: 5106: Ignatios Souvatzis presented a talk about *NetBSD on Digital Hardware* 5107: at the [DECUS Munich](http://www.decus.de/) Symposium in Bonn. 5108: 5109: ### `Jan 1997` - Anaheim Usenix Birds of a Feather 5110: 5111: *January 14, 1997, Anaheim, CA* 5112: 5113: NetBSD hosted a Birds of a Feather at the Usenix conference which was 5114: held in Anaheim California. Christos Zoulas spoke about the current 5115: state, goals and future directions of the project, while Paul 5116: Kranenburg, Aaron Brown and Chris Demetriou answered questions about the 5117: sparc and the alpha ports respectively.