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