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1.236 jose 17: <h2><font color="#e00000">Events</font></h2>
18: OpenBSD developers, users and sponsors attend trade shows and conferences,
19: give papers, and organize "Birds Of a Feather" (BOF) sessions.
20: This is an opportunity to find out more about OpenBSD or just meet
1.165 ian 21: like-minded people.
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1.78 louis 23: <hr>
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30: Tagline formatting:
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32: <a href=LINK>EVENT NAME</a></strong>,
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1.78 louis 39: <h2>Future events:</h2>
1.132 louis 40:
1.445 martin 41: <h3>2006</h3>
1.236 jose 42:
43: <ul>
1.346 marius 44:
1.492 deraadt 45: <li><strong><a name=cuug2006></a>
46: <a href="http://www.cuug.ab.ca/">Calgary Unix Users Group</a></strong>,
1.497 deraadt 47: Jun 1, 2006, SAIT Campus, Calgary, Alberta.<br>
1.496 grunk 48: Starting at 6pm, Bob Beck and Reyk Floeter will discuss various OpenBSD
49: issues such
1.492 deraadt 50: as supporting wireless devices really well and why our fanatical
1.493 deraadt 51: resistance to blobs is the sane approach. Some other OpenBSD
52: developers will attend as well to provide international colour,
53: and we will have tshirts, CDs, and posters on hand.
1.492 deraadt 54: <p>
55:
1.446 wvdputte 56: <li><strong><a name=LinuxwochenVienna2006></a>
1.499 ! wvdputte 57: <a href="http://www.linuxwochen.at/2006/Wien">Linuxwochen Vienna 2006</a>
! 58: </strong>,
1.497 deraadt 59: May 31 - Jun 2, 2006, Vienna, Austria.<br>
1.446 wvdputte 60: There will be an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth run by Wim and the usual suspects.
61: Boothslaves volunteer at the normal address.
62: <p>
63:
1.498 deraadt 64: <li><strong><a name=lugverona2006></a>
1.497 deraadt 65: <a href="http://www.di.univr.it/dol/main?ent=iniziativa&id=857&lang=it">LUGVR@UNIVR</a></strong>
66: Jun 9, 2006, Verona University, Borgo Roma, Italy.<br>
67: Florin Iamandi of <a href="https://www.verona.linux.it">LUG Verona</a>
68: will be giving a talk and live demonstration on redundant failover
69: OpenBSD firewalls. He will explain why OpenBSD solves many problems that
70: had been the dominion of expensive commercial solutions. Attendees will
71: learn about OpenBSD's hard stance and successful fight against bad
72: licences and uncooperating vendors and manufacturers.
73: <p>
74:
1.499 ! wvdputte 75: <li><strong><a name=LinuxwochenLinz2006></a>
! 76: <a href="http://www.linuxwochen.at/2006/Linz">Linuxwochen Linz 2006</a>
! 77: </strong>,
! 78: June 15, 2006, Linz, Austria.<br>
! 79: There will be an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth run by Wim and the usual suspects.
! 80: Boothslaves volunteer at the normal address. (note: only first day of the event)
! 81: <p>
! 82:
1.487 bernd 83: <li><strong><a name=FrOSCon></a>
84: <a href="http://www.froscon.de/">
85: FrOSCon 2006 - Free and Open Source Software Conference</a></strong>,
1.497 deraadt 86: Jun 24 - 25, 2006, Bonn/Rhein-Sieg, Germany.<br>
1.487 bernd 87: There will be an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth run by Wim and the usual suspects.
88: Boothslaves volunteer at the normal address.
89: <p>
1.491 bernd 90:
91: <li><strong><a name="lsm2006"></a>
92: <a href="http://2006.rencontresmondiales.org/home/?lang=en_GB">Libre Software Meeting 2006</a></strong>,
93: Jul 4 - 8, 2006, Vandoeuvre-les-nancy, France.<br>
94: There will be an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Wim and the usual
95: suspects, with the help of Serge Basterot and Alexandre Anriot.
96: <p>
1.236 jose 97: </ul>
1.299 deraadt 98:
1.152 jakob 99: <hr>
100:
101: <h2>Past events:</h2>
102:
1.455 grunk 103: <h3>2006</h3>
104: <ul>
1.475 deraadt 105:
1.491 bernd 106: <li><strong><a name="SANE2006"></a>
107: <a href="http://www.sane.nl/sane2006/">SANE 2006</a></strong>,
108: May 15 - 19, 2006, Delft, The Netherlands.<br>
109: Peter N. M. Hansteen gave a
110: <a href="http://www.sane.nl/sane2006/program/abstract.php?eventid=35">
111: PF tutorial</a>.
112: <p>
113:
1.490 reyk 114: <li><strong><a name=bsdcan2006></a> <a
115: href="http://www.bsdcan.org/2006/">BSDCan 2006</a></strong>,
116: May 12 - 13, 2006, Ottawa, Canada.<br>
117: David Gwynne gave a talk about hardware monitoring with bio and
118: sensors in OpenBSD (<a href="papers/bsdcan06-biosensors.pdf">slides</a>)
119: and Reyk Flöter talked about the latest
120: wireless support and the incredible plans for the future
121: (<a href="papers/bsdcan06-wlan/index.html">slides</a>), and
122: Peter Hansteen gave a PF tutorial. A number of OpenBSD hackers
123: attended the conference as well, like Bob Beck and Mathieu Sauve-Frankel.
124: <p>
125:
1.489 bernd 126: <li><strong><a name="linuxdays2006"></a>
127: <a href="http://www.linuxdays.ch">Linuxdays 2006</a></strong>,
128: May 8 - 12, 2006, Geneva, Switzerland.<br>
129: Julien Mabillard, a long-time Geneva OpenBSD user, gave a talk to present
130: the overall system and its great features.
131: <p>
132:
1.484 mbalmer 133: <li><strong><a name=LinuxTag2006></a>
134: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.org/2006/">LinuxTag 2006</a></strong>,
135: May 3 - 6, 2006, Wiesbaden, Germany.<br>
136: OpenBSD was very present at this years Linuxtag:
137: <ul>
138: <li>On friday morning, Claudio and Marc moderated a panel discussion
139: "BLOBS sind das Krebsgeschwür freier Software" (Blobs are the
1.485 mbalmer 140: cancer of free software) that was well attended. Unfortunately no one
1.484 mbalmer 141: in favour of Blobs attended, although we asked almost all Linux
142: distributions...
143: <li>After lunch, Marc Balmer started the afternoon with a talk "OpenBSD
144: as a Strategic Platform for the Basle Public Schools", outlining how and
1.485 mbalmer 145: why the Basle Public school system uses OpenBSD for most of its
1.484 mbalmer 146: infrastructure.
147: <li>The next OpenBSD specific talk was by Claudio Jeker, "Routing with
148: OpenBSD using OpenOSPFD and OpenBGPD" where he showed various routing
149: setups and how full redundancy can be achieved.
150: <li>Later, Marc Balmer gave a talk "Decoding Time Signal Stations using
151: OpenBSD" and explained the recent addition of timedelta sensors and the
152: first implementation of such, udcf(4).
153: </ul>
154: <br>
155: All talks where very well received and OpenBSD filled four hours of the
1.485 mbalmer 156: Linuxtag program. We thank Wilhelm Bühler, chair of the BSD-Track
1.484 mbalmer 157: at Linuxtag, for the superb and professional organization.
158: <br>
159: Of course, there was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth run by Wim and the
160: usual suspects.
161: <p>
162:
163: <li><strong><a name =idepes2006></a>
164: <a href="http://www.idepes.org.br/openbsd/">IDEPES 2006</a></strong>,
165: May 6, 2006, São Paulo, Brazil.<br>
166: First event in Brazil totally dedicated to OpenBSD.
167: <p>
168:
1.486 mickey 169: <li><strong><a name=NYCBUG2006-05></a>
170: <a href="http://nycbug.org/index.php?NAV=Home&SUBM=83">NYCBUG Monthly meeting</a></strong>,
171: May 3, 2006, NYC, USA.<br>
172: Mickey gave a talk
173: (<a href="papers/nyc2006">slides</a>)
174: about PAE work for OpenBSD/i386.<br>
175: Mischa Diehm gave a talk about implementing VPN using OpenBSD.
176: <p>
177:
1.484 mbalmer 178: <li><strong><a name=tokyo2006></a>
179: <a href="http://www.tokyopc.org/index.php/weblog/">Tokyo PC Users Group</a></strong>,
180: May 2, 2006, Tokyo.<br>
181: Theo presented his <a href="papers/ven05-deraadt">"Exploit Mitigation Techniques"</a>
182: talk. There is a
183: <a href="http://www.tokyopc.org/faxmessage/index.html#about">map to the location</a>.
184: <p>
185:
1.478 mbalmer 186: <li><strong><a name=SambaEXPerience2006></a>
187: <a href="http://www.sambaxp.org/">Samba eXPerience 2006</a></strong>,
188: April 24 - 26, 2006, Göttingen, Germany.<br>
189: Marc Balmer gave a talk "Providing Fully Automated Fileserver Services
190: for Public Schools using LDAP Integrated SAMBA on OpenBSD" that was very
191: well received.
192: <br>
193: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth run by Wim and Marc and Felix Kronlage
194: and we could draw a lot of attention.
195: <p>
196:
1.479 deraadt 197: <li><strong><a name=DORSCLUC2006></a>
198: <a href="http://www.open.hr/dc2006/"> DORS / CLUC 2006</a></strong>,
199: April 19-21, 2006, Zagreb, Croatia.<br>
200: <a href="http://www.kerberos.si">Mitja Muzenic</a> gave a
1.480 mbalmer 201: <a href="http://www.kerberos.si/papers/DORS06/index.html">
202: "Introduction to OpenBSD"</a> talk. Conference
203: <a href="http://www.open.hr/dc2006/program.php">program</a> (in croatian
1.479 deraadt 204: only).
205: <p>
206:
1.475 deraadt 207: <li><strong><a name=linuxworld2006></a>
208: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/live/12/events/12BOS06A/">
209: LinuxWorld/OpenSolutions World 2006</a></strong>,
210: April 3 - 6, 2006, Boston, USA.<br>
211: Jason Dixon presented
212: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/live/12/events/12BOS06A/conference/tracksessions/Security/QMONYA04Q1DK">Secure Network Architectures with OpenBSD</a>,
213: a talk on OpenBSD that outlines the various technologies that make
214: it a leader of secure networking platforms.
215: <br>
216: He spent time around the exposition BSD booth with giveaways
217: and early release OpenBSD 3.9 CDs.
218: <p>
219:
220: <li><strong><a name=cansecwest06></a>
221: <a href="http://www.cansecwest.com">Cansecwest/core06</a></strong>,
222: April 3 - 7, 2006, Vancouver.<br>
223: A rather interesting OpenBSD-related talk happened at this event, regarding
224: using SMI interrupts to break out of X into kernel mode.
225: <br>
226: Some OpenBSD developers attended. Some early OpenBSD 3.9 items went
227: on sale.
228: <p>
229:
1.469 tom 230: <li><strong><a name=ukuug2006></a>
231: <a href="http://www.ukuug.org/events/spring2006/">UKUUG Spring Conference 2006</a></strong>,
232: Mar 22 - 23, 2006, Durham, United Kingdom<br>
233: Reyk Flöter gave a talk about the latest wireless support in
234: OpenBSD at the annual spring meeting of the
235: <a href="http://www.ukuug.org/">UK's Unix and Open Systems User Group</a>.
236: Peter N. M. Hansteen
237: gave a PF tutorial, Tom Cosgrove presented "Exploit
238: Mitigation Techniques" and Constantine Murenin gave a
239: presentation on "Hardware temperature monitoring device
240: drivers for OpenBSD".
241: These were all part of a new, well-attended, BSD stream at the event.
242: <p>
243:
1.459 henning 244: <li><strong><a name=Copenhagen2006></a>
245: <a href="http://www.linuxforum.dk/2006/en/">LinuxForum 2006</a></strong>,
246: Mar 3 - 4, 2006, Copenhagen, Denmark<br>
247: Wim gave Felix Kronlage's talk about OpenBSD Mobile Use (wifi, UMTS,
248: GPRS, phones and the like) with some demo setups.
249: Henning Brauer gave a very well received talk about OpenBGPD,
250: <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/linuxforum2006/">slides</a> are available.
251: <p>
252:
1.457 wvdputte 253: <li><strong><a name=Brussels2006></a>
254: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/2006/">FOSDEM Brussels 2006</a></strong>,
255: Feb 25 - 26, 2006, Brussels, Belgium.<br>
256: An OpenBSD/OpenSSH booth was present, run by the usual gang of suspects:
1.458 xsa 257: Alexandre, Dimitar, Matthieu, Mbalmer, Nikolay, Otto, Reyk, Saad, Thierry, Uwe, Wim, and
1.457 wvdputte 258: Xsa. Reyk gave a talk about Wifi with OpenBSD and there was our traditional
259: BSD dinner. More details and
260: <a href="http://saad.docisland.org/pictures/fosdem2006/index.html">pictures</a>
1.458 xsa 261: on <a href="http://saad.docisland.org/blog/files/archive-12.html#unique-entry-id-40">Saad's blog</a>.
1.457 wvdputte 262: <p>
263:
264: <li><strong><a name=Vegas2006></a>
265: <a href="http://kd85.com/vegas2006.html">Merciful briefings 2006</a></strong>,
266: Feb 15, 2006, Las Vegas, USA - Feb 17, 2006, San Diego, USA - Feb 18, 2006, Phoenix, USA.<br>
267: While traveling the US, Wim met with a bunch of OpenBSD users in Las Vegas,
268: San Diego and Phoenix. With many thanks to the members of PhxBUG - Phoenix BSD
269: User Group, more specificly Darrin Chandler, for organising the little
270: details and Jacob for road trip directions.
271: <p>
1.455 grunk 272:
1.456 henning 273: <li><strong><a name=nanog36></a>
274: <a href="http://www.nanog.org/">NANOG 36</a></strong>,
275: Feb 12 - 15, 2006, Dallas, USA.<br>
276: Henning Brauer and Bernhard Kroenung of DE-CIX talked about OpenBGPD and
277: OpenBGPD at DE-CIX, <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/nanog36/">slides</a>
278: are available. Henning talked again at the tools BOF
279: (<a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/nanog36-bof/">slides</a>).
280: Both talks were very well received by the audience.
281: Kenjiro Cho was there too, talking about IPv6 issues.
282: <p>
283:
1.455 grunk 284: <li><strong><a name="Paris2006"></a>
285: <a href="http://www.solutionslinux.fr/fr/index.php">Solutions Linux 2006</a>
286: </strong>,
287: Jan 31 - Feb 2, 2006, Paris, France.<br>
288: There was an OpenBSD booth run by Marc Espie, Miod Vallat, Saad Kadhi and
289: Wim with help from Guillaume Arcas and Christophe Plasschaert.
290: <p>
291: </ul>
292:
1.296 mcbride 293: <h3>2005</h3>
1.240 espie 294:
295: <ul>
1.337 deraadt 296:
1.445 martin 297: <li><strong><a name=22c3></a>
298: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/2005/">22C3 Chaos Communication Congress in
299: Berlin</a></strong>,
300: December 27 - 30, 2005, Berlin, Germany.<br>
301: Many OpenBSD developers and users met for a Xmas break in a unique setting.
302: <p>
303:
1.435 matthieu 304: <li><strong><a name=eurobsdcon2005></a>
305: <a href="http://2005.eurobsdcon.org/">EuroBSDCon 2005</a></strong>,
306: Nov 25 - 27, 2005, Basel, Switzerland.<br>
307: The 4th edition of the european conference for BSD systems has been a
308: great success. More than 225 people from 27 countries attended the
1.438 deraadt 309: event.
1.444 grunk 310: The program included a
311: <a href="http://www.eurobsdcon.org/tutorials-reyk.php">tutorial by Reyk about
1.437 niallo 312: OpenBSD-based Wireless Networks</a> and the following talks
313: <ul>
1.438 deraadt 314: <li>Henning Brauer with Wilhelm Bühler "Signal Handlers"
315: <li>Ryan McBride "Network Stack Randomness"
1.439 matthieu 316: <li><a href="papers/eurobsd2005/herrb-hopf.pdf">Matthieu Herrb and Matthias Hopf "New Evolutions in the X Window System"</a>
1.440 claudio 317: <li><a href="papers/eurobsd2005/claudio/">Claudio Jeker "The Design and Implementation of OpenOSPFD"</a>
1.439 matthieu 318: <li><a href="papers/eurobsd2005/niallo-uwe/">Niall O'Higgins & Uwe Stuehler "Embedded OpenBSD"</a>
1.443 deraadt 319: <li><a href="papers/eurobsd2005/tedu-rthreads.pdf">Ted Unangst "rthreads: A New Thread Implementation for OpenBSD"</a>
1.437 niallo 320: </ul>
1.438 deraadt 321: <p>
1.435 matthieu 322: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
323: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
324: <p>
325:
1.434 bernd 326: <li><strong><a name=linuxworldexpogermany2005></a>
327: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.de/">Linux World Expo Germany</a></strong>,
328: Nov 15 - 17, 2005, Frankfurt, Germany.<br>
329: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
330: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a> and Bernd.
331: <p>
332:
1.441 niallo 333: <li><strong><a name="pacsec05"></a>
334: <a href="http://www.pacsec.jp/">PacSec/core 05 conference</a></strong>,
335: Nov 15 - 16, 2005, Tokyo, Japan.<br>
336: Sean Comeau presented a talk called
337: <a href="http://www.openbsd-support.com/jp/en/htm/mgp/pacsec05/index.html">
338: Open Source Secure Wireless Networks in a Windows World</a>
339: <a href="http://www.pacsec.jp/core05/psj05-scomeau-en.pdf">[PDF]</a>.
340: The solution he presents uses IPsec to protect traffic between the
341: wireless clients and access points. Authentication is done using OpenSSH
342: (authpf), a process made transparent and user-friendly by a few small
343: scripts.
344: <p>
345:
1.424 mbalmer 346: <li><strong><a name=opencon2005></a>
347: <a href="http://www.opencon.org/">OpenCON 2005</a></strong>,
348: Nov 4 - 6, 2005, San Servolo Island, Venice, Italy.<br>
1.427 deraadt 349: The only unique conference entirely dedicated to OpenBSD, held in the totally
350: crazy environment of San Servolo island: an old insane asylum turned into a
351: university about 20 years ago, about 10 minutes boat ride from Venice.
1.429 deraadt 352: In the days leading up to this, about 12 OpenBSD developers arrived early
1.427 deraadt 353: for a Ports mini-hackathon. During the conference a few developers gave
1.433 deraadt 354: talks, including
355: <ul>
356: <li><a href="papers/ven05-pvalchev">Peter Valchev "OpenBSD Hackathon report"</a>
357: <li><a href="papers/ven05-espie">Marc Espie "OpenBSD ports and packages"</a>
358: <li><a href="papers/ven05-henning">Henning Brauer "OpenBSD networking update"</a>
359: <li><a href="papers/ven05-niallo-uwe/slides.pdf">Uwe Stuehler, Niall O'Higgins "Porting OpenBSD"</a>
360: <li><a href="papers/ven05-deraadt">Theo de Raadt "Exploit Mitigation Techniques (updated to include random malloc and mmap)"</a>
361: </ul>
1.424 mbalmer 362: <p>
363:
364: <li><strong><a name=systems2005></a>
365: <a href="http://www.systems.de/">Systems</a></strong>,
366: Oct 24 - 28, 2005, Munich, Germany <br>
1.425 mbalmer 367: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
1.424 mbalmer 368: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
369: <p>
370:
1.418 djm 371: <li><strong><a name=auug2005></a>
372: <a href="http://www.auug.org.au/events/2005/auug2005/">AUUG 2005</a></strong>,
373: October 16 - 21, 2005, Sydney, Australia.<br>
374: Mark Uemura presented a tutorial on setting up CARP/PF, a demonstration of
375: stateful failover with CARP and pfsync and a talk on wireless security in
376: a corporate environment using authpf and isakmpd. Peter Hansteen gave a
377: <a href="http://www.bgnett.no/~peter/pf/">Firewalling with PF</a> tutorial.
1.420 deraadt 378: Damien Miller presented on the approach to
379: <a href="papers/auug2005-portability">secure software portability used
380: by portable OpenSSH</a>, Reyk Flöter gave a talk on the current state of wireless
1.418 djm 381: support in OpenBSD and David Purdue introduced OpenBSD's spamd tarpit.
382: Most of the Australian OpenBSD developers and many users were present.
383: <p>
384:
1.415 aanriot 385: <li><strong><a name=aldil2005></a>
386: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/">Les Journées Du Logiciel Libre
387: 2005</a></strong>,
388: Oct 14 - 15, 2005, Lyon, France.<br>
389: There was OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Alexandre Anriot with the
390: help of Thierry Thomas.
391: <p>
392:
1.420 deraadt 393: <li><strong><a name=cafeconf2005></a>
394: <a href="http://www.cafeconf.org/">CaFeConf 2005,
395: 4tas Jornadas Abiertas de GNU/Linux y Software Libre</a></strong>,
396: Oct 13 - 15, 2005, Buenos Aires, Argentina<br>
397: CaFeConf 2005 is the anual event of CaFeLUG - Free Software Users
398: Group of Capital Federal, Argentina. This year the event featured
399: 116 presentations consisting of talks, tutorials, and workshops. The
400: event was also broadcasted on the Internet. Entrance was free, but
401: registration was mandatory.<br>
402: Fernando Gont gave a talk on
1.444 grunk 403: <a href="http://www.cafeconf.org/modules/myconference/viewspeech.php?sid=147&cid=20">
1.420 deraadt 404: ICMP attacks against TCP</a>,
405: in which he gave an overview of the attacks, the possible
406: counter-measures, and the politics of vulnerabilities, and a talk on
1.444 grunk 407: <a href="http://www.cafeconf.org/modules/myconference/viewspeech.php?sid=173&cid=20">
1.420 deraadt 408: Fixing the vulnerability of the Path-MTU Discovery mechanism</a>,
409: in which explained how OpenBSD fixed the vulnerability of the PMTUD
410: mechanism.
411: <p>
412:
1.414 bernd 413: <li><strong><a name=linuxkongress2005></a>
414: <a href="http://www.linux-kongress.org/">12th International Linux System
415: Technology Conference</a></strong>,
416: Oct 11 - 14, 2005, University of Hamburg, Germany.<br>
417: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth.
418: <p>
419:
420: <li><strong><a name=linuxworlduk2005></a>
421: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.co.uk/">LinuxWorld Expo UK 2005</a></strong>,
422: Oct 5 - 6, 2005, Olympia, London, UK.<br>
423: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth.
424: <p>
425:
1.410 wvdputte 426: <li><strong><a name=opensourcetag2005></a>
427: <a href="http://www.opensourcetag.de/">OpenSourceTag 2005</a></strong>,
428: Sep 27, 2005, Hannover, Germany.<br>
1.444 grunk 429: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth and Reyk gave a
430: <a href="http://www.opensourcetag.de/agenda/">talk</a> about IT security.
1.410 wvdputte 431: <p>
432:
433: <li><strong><a name="gubuginstallfest2005"></a>
434: <a href="http://gubug.org/meetings.php">Greater Utah BSD Group
435: Installfest 2005</a></strong>,
436: Sep 24, 2005, Sandy, UT, USA.<br/>
1.444 grunk 437: <a href="http://www.gubug.org/">The Greater Utah BSD User Group</a> organised
1.410 wvdputte 438: their first annual BSD Installfest, sponsored by Utah ISP ArosNet.
439: There were handouts, CD-ROMs, technical presentations, and
440: fun, plus a chance to get OpenBSD or a related open source BSD operating system
441: installed on your computer.
442: Admission was free (computers not included in cost of admission).
1.419 djm 443: Featured speakers included Dan Langille, organizer of BSDCan.
1.410 wvdputte 444: <p>
445:
1.404 wvdputte 446: <li><strong><a name="NYCBSDCon2005"></a>
447: <a href="http://nycbsdcon.org/">New York City BSD Conference 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 448: Sep 17, 2005, NYC, USA.<br>
1.404 wvdputte 449: NYCBSDCon was a one day technical conference hosted by the New York
450: City *BSD User Group and was held at Columbia University.
1.406 saad 451: The all day conference included a variety of speakers representing the
1.404 wvdputte 452: BSD projects and the open source community.<br>
453: NYCBSDCon was organized by NYC*BUG, a technical user group that formed in
454: December 2003. Besides their regular monthly meetings at the Soho Apple
455: Store, NYC*BUG has done fundraising for the BSD projects and contributed a
456: number of useful online applications such as BSDTracker and dmesgd.<br>
457: Additional sponsors included USENIX, New York Internet and SRA America.
458: <p>
459:
460: <li><strong><a name=opensaar2005></a>
461: <a href="http://www.opensaar.de/">OpenSaar 2005</a></strong>,
462: Sep 13 - 14, 2005, Saarbrücken, Germany.<br>
463: An OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth was present
464: <p>
465:
1.403 henning 466: <li><strong><a name=decix160905></a> <a
467: href="http://www.de-cix.org/">DE-CIX Technical Meeting</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 468: Sep 16, 2005, Schloss Kransberg, near Usingen, Germany.<br>
1.403 henning 469: Henning Brauer, Reyk Flöter and Maxim Salomon had been invited to the
470: technical meeting of the Deutsche Commercial Internet Exchange (DE-CIX) again.
471: Henning gave an update on OpenBGPD, Reyk talked about a route server project
472: using OpenBGPD at DE-CIX, and Maxim explained why the CCC sponsors us doing so.
473: There was a very positive discussion afterwards.
474: <a href="http://unduli.bsws.de/papers/decix2005-2/">Slides</a> are available.
475: <p>
476:
1.388 tom 477: <li><strong><a name="ukuug2005"></a>
478: <a href="http://www.ukuug.org/events/linux2005/">UKUUG Linux Technical
479: Conference 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 480: Aug 4 - 7, 2005, University of Wales, Swansea, UK<br>
1.388 tom 481: Tom Cosgrove gave Theo's presentation about Exploit Mitigation Techniques.
482: <p>
483:
1.385 mickey 484: <li><strong><a name=wth2005></a>
1.390 deraadt 485: <a href="http://www.whatthehack.org/">What the Hack 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 486: Jul 28 - 31, 2005, Den Bosch, The Netherlands.<br>
1.385 mickey 487: As every 4 years, Wim organized the
488: <a href="http://eurobsd.org/2005-WhatTheHack/">BSD village</a> at this huge
1.389 tom 489: open air event. There were some talks, Reyk spoke about
490: <a href="http://program.whatthehack.org/event/6.en.html">WLAN in OpenBSD</a>,
1.385 mickey 491: and an excellent
492: <a href="ftp://ftp.nyc.openbsd.org/pub/news/wth-radio-humppa.mp3">Humppa show</a> (35MB MP3) was performed on the SubEther radio.
493: If you want to see what happened previously, check
494: <a href="http://eurobsd.org/hal2001/">http://eurobsd.org/hal2001/</a>
495: and <a href="http://www.eurobsd.org/SummerCamp2003/">http://www.eurobsd.org/SummerCamp2003/</a>.
496: <p>
497:
1.382 pedro 498: <li><strong><a name=coimbra2005></a>
1.474 pedro 499: <a href="http://www.openbsd-pt.com/eventos/coimbra05/">Portuguese OpenBSD Usergroup Meeting</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 500: Jul 23 - 24, 2005, Coimbra, Portugal.<br>
1.391 pedro 501: 5th Meeting of the Portuguese OpenBSD Usergroup. Pedro Martelletto gave a talk,
502: <a href="http://ambientworks.net/~pedro/coimbra-html/">slides</a>, in
503: Portuguese, are available.
1.382 pedro 504: <p>
505:
1.378 aanriot 506: <li><strong><a name="lsm2005"></a>
507: <a href="http://2005.rencontresmondiales.org/sections/index_html/switchLanguage/en">Libre Software Meeting 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 508: Jul 5 - 9, 2005, Dijon, France.<br>
1.379 aanriot 509: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Wim and the usual
510: suspects, with the help of Serge Basterot. It was a nice place to meet
511: some of our French, German and Swiss developers, including Marc Balmer,
512: Alexandre Anriot, Matthieu Herrb and Reyk Floeter.
1.378 aanriot 513: <p>
514:
1.375 grunk 515: <li><strong><a name=LinuxTag2005></a>
516: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.org">LinuxTag 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 517: Jun 22 - 25, 2005, Karlsruhe, Germany.<br>
1.375 grunk 518: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth ran by Wim, Christian Weisgerber,
519: Marc Balmer, Wilhelm Buehler, Robert Nagy, Bernd Ahlers and Phil Schulz.
520: <p>
521:
1.374 grunk 522: <li><strong><a name="uofa-cc2005"></a>
523: <a href="http://www.ualberta.ca/CC2005"> University of Alberta, Campus
1.410 wvdputte 524: Computing 2005</a></strong>, Jun 21, 2005, Edmonton, Canada.<br>
1.374 grunk 525: Ryan McBride spoke about OpenBSD's packet filter, PF, with CARP and
526: failover examples. Local color and examples at the U of A shown by Bob
527: Beck. Bob Beck spoke about PF and Spamd, as well as several other
528: OpenBSD using and related talks at this event, which primarily focuses
529: on activities centered at the University of Alberta.
530: <p>
531:
1.371 deraadt 532: <li><strong><a name=uemera2005></a>
533: <a href="http://www.tokyopc.net">Tokyo PC Users Group</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 534: Jun 2, 2005, Tokyo Union Church in Omotesando, Tokyo, Japan.<br>
1.371 deraadt 535: Mark T. Uemura spoke to Japan's largest English speaking
536: personal computer club. The talk was entitled
537: <a href="http://www.openbsd-support.com/jp/en/htm/mgp/index.shtml">
538: "Open Source in a Windows World"</a>.
539: He demonstrated how companies can easily
540: integrate Open Source, with an emphasis on OpenBSD, into their IT
541: infrastructure to enhance security, scalability and stability,
542: significantly reduce IT expenditures, free up computing infrastructure
543: and move away from commercial lock-in. This talk is based on changes
544: implemented at PricewaterhouseCoopers in Japan.
545: <p>
546:
1.366 martin 547: <li><strong><a name=LinuxwochenVienna2005></a>
548: <a href="http://www.linuxwochen.at/">Linuxwochen Vienna 2005</a></strong>,
549: May 24 - 27, 2005, Vienna, Austria.<br>
550: The Linuxwochen 2005 tour stopped in the MuseumsQuartier, Vienna.
551: Wim Vandeputte and Reinhard Sammer were running an OpenBSD booth selling
552: CDs and shirts.
553: <p>
554:
1.365 mcbride 555: <li><strong><a name=cuug2005></a>
556: <a href="http://www.cuug.ab.ca/">Calgary Unix Users Group</a></strong>,
557: May 24, 2005, Calgary, Canada.<br>
558: Ryan McBride spoke about OpenBSD's packet filter, PF.
559: A broad overview of PF's features were presented, with special attention
560: paid to newer and more unique features and how these can be used together
561: effectively for DoS mitigation, high availability, and load balancing.
562: <br>
563: Approximately 60 OpenBSD developers attended to heckle and participate
564: in a free-for-all question period after the talk.
565: <p>
566:
1.362 reyk 567: <li><strong><a name=bsdcan2005></a>
568: <a href="http://www.bsdcan.org/2005/">BSDCan 2005</a></strong>,
569: May 13 - 14, 2005, Ottawa, Canada.<br>
570: A number of OpenBSD developers presented: Bob Beck on
571: Spam Reduction with PF and Spamd, Henning Brauer on OpenBGPD,
572: Ryan McBride on Network Stack Randomness and Reyk Flöter
573: on WLAN in OpenBSD and the free ath(4) HAL. The
574: <a href="papers/bsdcan05-spamd/">Spamd</a> and
575: <a href="papers/bsdcan05-wlan/">WLAN</a> slides are available.
576: Mathieu Sauve-Frankel has been there in attendance as well.
577: <p>
578:
1.358 mcbride 579: <li><strong><a name=csw2005></a>
580: <a href="http://www.cansecwest.com/">cansecwest/core05</a></strong>,
581: May 4-6, 2005, Vancouver, Canada.<br>
582: Hiroaki Etoh spoke about propolice; Theo de Raadt and a number of other
583: developers were there to sell CDs and make a nuisance of themselves.
584: <p>
585:
1.357 henning 586: <li><strong><a name=ripe50></a>
587: <a href="http://www.ripe.net/ripe/meetings/ripe-50/">RIPE 50</a></strong>,
588: May 2-6, 2005, Stockholm, Sweden.<br>
589: RIPE NCC invited Henning to talk about OpenBGPD.
590: There were over 350 attendees to the conference, and most of them attended
591: henning's talk, which got very very positive feedback.
592: <p>
593:
1.384 tom 594: <li><strong><a name=libreast2005></a>
1.356 espie 595: <a href="http://idile.org/libreast/">Libr'east 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 596: Apr 22-24, Marne La Vallée, near Paris, France<br>
1.356 espie 597: There was an OpenBSD booth (Wim + Miod + Marc)
598: Marc Espie did talk about recent OpenBSD advances, and his ports and
599: packages work in front of about 30 people.
600: <p>
601:
1.353 henning 602: <li><strong><a name=decix150405></a> <a
603: href="http://www.de-cix.org/">DE-CIX Technical Meeting</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 604: Apr 15, 2005, near Usingen, Germany.<br>
1.353 henning 605: Henning Brauer and Reyk Flöter had been invited to the technical
606: meeting of the Deutsche Commercial Internet Exchange (DE-CIX). Henning
607: presented his talk on OpenBGPD, about 60 people, mostly operators from
608: the big ISPs peering at DECIX, were in attendance.
1.354 reyk 609: Reyk, Maxim Salomon and Tim Kornau spoke on Wireless Network Security.
1.353 henning 610: <p>
611:
1.352 henning 612: <li><strong><a name=nuug140405></a>
613: <a href="http://www.nuug.no/aktiviteter/20050414-pf-brannmur/">Firewalling with PF at NUUG</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 614: Apr 14, 2005, Oslo, Norway.<br>
1.352 henning 615: Peter N. M. Hansteen gave a firewalling with PF talk - which hopefully
616: gave you some ideas about how to control your network traffic the
617: way you want - keeping some things outside your network, directing
618: traffic to specified hosts or services, and of course, giving spammers
619: a hard time. The talk was in Norwegian, with <a
620: href="http://www.bgnett.no/~peter/pf/no/foils/">foils</a> and <a
621: href="http://www.bgnett.no/~peter/pf/no/">manuscript</a> (English <a
622: href="http://www.bgnett.no/~peter/pf/en/foils/">foils</a> and <a
623: href="http://www.bgnett.no/~peter/pf/en/">manuscript</a> too)
624: available if you couldn't make it there.
625: <p>
626:
1.350 marius 627: <li><strong><a name=usenix2005></a>
628:
629: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix05/">Usenix Annual
1.410 wvdputte 630: Technical Conference</a></strong>, Apr 10-15, 2005, Anaheim,
1.350 marius 631: California, USA.<br> Marius Eriksen gave the OpenBSD update at the BSD
632: super BoF. The update was well received and people were quite
633: sympathetic towards the ongoing efforts of the OpenBSD project to
634: ensure the free redistribution rights for firmware. People were also
635: excited about the new Open* tools (OpenBGPD, OpenNTPD, OpenCVS) and it
1.351 marius 636: would not be surprising to see more of these imported into other BSDs.
1.350 marius 637: <p>
638:
1.345 henning 639: <li><strong><a name=fhwedel130405></a>
640: <a href="http://www.fh-wedel.de/">FH Wedel invited talk</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 641: Apr 13, 2005, 17:00, Hörsaal 5, FH Wedel, Hamburg, Germany.<br>
1.345 henning 642: Henning Brauer spoke on OpenBGPD. More than 40 people were in attendance.
643: <p>
644:
1.344 martin 645: <li><strong><a name=plug080405></a>
646: <a href="http://www.plugfr.org/">Provence Linux User Group</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 647: Apr 08, 2005, 20:00, PLUG, "La Vie de Quartier", 1, rue Antoine PONS
1.344 martin 648: 13004, Marseille, France.<br>
649: Alexandre Anriot from the OpenBSD french translation team spoke
650: about OpenBSD and associated projects (OpenBGPD etc.) during a
651: *BSD meeting. The <a href="papers/plug080405">slides</a>
652: (in French) are available.
653: <p>
654:
1.337 deraadt 655: <li><strong><a name=bcs2005></a>
656: <a href="http://www.bellua.com/bcs2005/asia05.index.html">Bellua Cyber Security Asia 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 657: Mar 21-24, 2005, Jakarta, Indonesia.<br>
1.337 deraadt 658: Ryan McBride presented an overview of PF which
659: discussed how its advanced features work together in some important
1.338 deraadt 660: applications and compared PF with the other major commercial and open
1.337 deraadt 661: source firewalls.
662: <p>
663:
1.317 henning 664: <li><strong><a name=nui_maynooth2005></a>
665: <a href="http://www.minds.nuim.ie/events">NUI Maynooth lectures</a></strong>,
666: Mar 4, 2005, Department of Computer Science, NUI Maynooth, Dublin, Ireland.<br>
1.318 henning 667: Ryan McBride presented talks about PF and about
1.326 mcbride 668: <a href="papers/dublin05-nr">randomization in the OpenBSD network layer.</a><br>
1.318 henning 669: Theo and Henning were in attendance because someone had to heckle.
1.317 henning 670: <p>
671:
1.312 deraadt 672: <li><strong><a name=trinity2005></a>
673: <a href="http://www.netsoc.tcd.ie/events/0405/openbsd.php">Trinity lecture</a></strong>,
674: Mar 3, 2005, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.<br>
1.320 deraadt 675: Theo de Raadt presented his talk about
676: <a href="papers/auug04">Exploit Mitigation Techniques</a>.
1.312 deraadt 677: <p>
678:
1.319 saad 679: <li><strong><a name=ShefLUG2005></a>
680: <a href="http://www.sheflug.co.uk/seminar/tiki-index.php?page=Sheffield%20Open%20Source%20Seminar">ShefLUG2005</a></strong>,
681: Mar 2, 2005, Sheffield, UK.<br>
682: Jacek Artymiak gave a talk about installing OpenBSD on Soekris hardware.
683: <p>
684:
1.310 mickey 685: <li><strong><a name=NYCBUG2005-03></a>
1.375 grunk 686: <a href="http://nycbug.org/index.php?NAV=Home&SUBM=83">NYCBUG Monthly meeting</a></strong>,
1.310 mickey 687: Mar 2, 2005, NYC, USA.<br>
1.322 deraadt 688: Mickey gave a talk
1.325 mickey 689: (<a href="papers/nyc2005">slides</a> and
690: <a href="http://peachisland.com.nyud.net:8090/nycbug/nycbug-03-02-05.mp3">10.5MB audio</a>)
1.321 mickey 691: about <a href="hppa.html">porting OpenBSD</a>
1.313 martin 692: to the <a href="http://www.openpa.net">HP PA-RISC</a> platform.
1.310 mickey 693: <p>
1.312 deraadt 694:
1.308 deraadt 695: <li><strong><a name=Netsoc2005></a>
696: <a href="http://netsoc.ucd.ie/events/openbsd/">Netsoc lectures</a></strong>,
697: Mar 2, 2005, UCD, Dublin, Ireland.<br>
698: Theo de Raadt, Henning Brauer, and Ryan McBride gave a series of
1.320 deraadt 699: talks. Topics included
700: <a href="papers/auug04">exploit mitigation techniques</a>,
1.326 mcbride 701: <a href="papers/dublin05-nr">introducing network randomness to increase security</a>,
702: OpenBGPD, and pf.
703: Almost 200 people came to this event.
1.308 deraadt 704: <p>
705:
1.304 saad 706: <li><strong><a name=Brussels2005></a>
707: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/2005/">FOSDEM Brussels 2005</a></strong>,
708: Feb 26 - 27, 2005, Brussels, Belgium.<br>
709: An OpenBSD/OpenSSH booth was present, ran by the usual gang of suspects.
710: Support for <a href="mailto:wim@kd85.com">Wim Vandeputte</a> this time were
1.307 otto 711: (among many others), Saad Kadhi, Henning Brauer, Thierry Deval, Otto Moerbeek,
1.304 saad 712: Xavier Santolaria, Martin Reindl, Reyk Flöter, Hans-Jörg
1.360 db 713: Höxer, Nikolay Sturm, Marc Balmer, Claudio Jeker, Joris Vink,
714: Olivier Cherrier, David Berghoff,
1.316 mbalmer 715: Alexander von Gernler, Uwe Stuehler, and Felix Kronlage from OpenDarwin.<br>
1.304 saad 716: There was a separate OpenBSD track, featuring Henning Brauer (about
717: signal handlers and OpenNTPD), Reyk Flöter (about wireless cards in
718: OpenBSD), and the author of the OpenBSD PF book, Jacek Artymiak (about
1.375 grunk 719: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pf">pf(4)</a>, of course).<br>
1.304 saad 720: At the conference's Free Software Foundation Event, Theo de Raadt was
721: awarded the Free Software Award 2004 for his efforts to make Firmware for
722: wireless hardware and other devices freely available.
723: <p>
1.301 saad 724: <li><strong><a name=UKUUG05></a>
725: <a href="http://www.ukuug.org/events/winter2005/">UKUUG LISA/Winter Conference</a></strong>,
726: Feb 24 - 25, 2005, Birmingham, UK.<br>
727: Henning Brauer spoke on OpenBGPD, OpenNTPD and Signal Handlers.
728: <p>
729: <li><strong><a name=FFG2005></a>
730: <a href="http://www.guug.de/veranstaltungen/ffg2005/">GUUG FFG 2005</a></strong>,
731: Feb 22 - 25, 2005, Munich, Germany.<br>
732: Reyk Flöter talked about the latest wireless support in
733: OpenBSD at the annual spring meeting of the <a href="http://www.guug.de/">German Unix User Group</a>.
734: <p>
1.293 saad 735: <li><strong><a name=Paris2005></a>
736: <a href="http://www.solutionslinux.fr/fr/index.php">Solutions Linux 2005</a></strong>,
737: Feb 1 - 3, 2005, Paris, France.<br>
738: An OpenBSD booth as well as an OpenSSH booth were present. These booths
739: were run by Marc Espie, Miod Vallat, Saad Kadhi and Wim with help from
740: Guillaume Arcas and Christophe Plasschaert, two members of the OpenBSD
1.294 saad 741: french translation team.<br>
742: Marc Espie and Saad Kadhi gave a talk about the OpenBSD project with a
743: special focus on the ports collection and Packet Filter. The <a
744: href="papers/sl2005/index.html">slides</a> (in French) are
745: available.<br>
746: During the event, several demonstrations of <a
1.293 saad 747: href="http://soekris.kd85.com/">Soekris</a> machines running OpenBSD
748: were given by Saad Kadhi and Wim.
749: <p>
1.296 mcbride 750: </ul>
1.293 saad 751:
1.296 mcbride 752: <h3>2004</h3>
753:
754: <ul>
1.287 henning 755: <li><strong><a name=21C3></a>
756: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/2004/">21C3 - Chaos Communication Congress</a></strong>,
1.375 grunk 757: Dec 27 - 29, 2004, Berlin, Germany<br>
1.287 henning 758: "The Usual Suspects" were there and ran the BSD corner, including
759: <a href="mailto:wim@kd85.com">Wim</a>,
760: Henning Brauer, Marc Balmer, Martin Reindl, Moritz Jodeit, Felix Kronlage,
1.315 nick 761: Uwe Stuehler, Konrad Foerstner, Bernd Ahlers, and Alexander von Gernler.<br>
1.287 henning 762: Henning gave a talk about OpenBGPD and OpenNTPD
763: (<a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/21c3/">slides</a>).<br>
764: The WiFi backbone ran on OpenBSD powered
765: <a href="http://soekris.kd85.com">Soekris</a> machines as access points,
766: work done by Reyk Flöter, Tim Kornau and others.
767: This installation was a very successful test of the new
1.290 henning 768: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ath">ath(4)</a>
1.287 henning 769: driver.
770: <p>
1.248 deraadt 771:
1.286 kevlo 772: <li><strong><a name=icos2004></a>
1.417 kevlo 773: <a href="http://2004.icos.org.tw/">ICOS 2004</a></strong>,
1.286 kevlo 774: Dec 18 - 19, 2004, Taipei, Taiwan.<br>
775: Kevin Lo gave a presentation.
776: <p>
777:
1.285 deraadt 778: <li><strong><a name=syscan2004></a>
779: <a href="http://www.syscan.org/">SyScAN 2004</a></strong>,
780: Dec 16 - 17, 2004, Singapore.<br>
781: Theo de Raadt presented his talk about
782: <a href="papers/auug04">Exploit Mitigation Techniques</a>.
783: <p>
784:
1.283 saad 785: <li><strong><a name=sur200412></a>
786: <a href="http://www.ossir.org/sur/calendrier/index.shtml">SUR Group Meeting, December 2004</a></strong>,
787: Dec 14, 2004, Paris, France.<br>
788: Saad Kadhi gave a talk about OpenBSD and security during the monthly
789: meeting of the
790: <a href="http://www.ossir.org/sur/index.shtml">SUR</a> Group (Sécurité
791: Unix et Réseaux), a french user group focusing on security and Unix. The
1.284 xsa 792: <a href="papers/surgroup200412/index.html">slides</a> (in French) are available.
1.283 saad 793: <p>
794:
1.282 henning 795: <li><strong><a name=opencon2004></a>
796: <a href="http://www.opencon.org/">OpenCon 2004</a></strong>,
797: Dec 10 - 12, 2004, Venice, Italy.<br>
798: OpenBSD meeting in Northern Italy. Henning gave 3 talks in
799: two days, on bgpd
800: (<a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/opencon04/bgpd/">slides</a>),
801: ntpd
802: (<a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/opencon04/ntpd/">slides</a>)
803: and signal handlers
804: (<a href="papers/opencon04/">slides</a>).
805: Wim ran a booth, and Marc Balmer was there as well.
806: <p>
807:
1.275 deraadt 808: <li><strong><a name=UofA></a>
809: <a href="http://www.ualberta.ca/">U of A Seminar</a></strong>,
810: Nov 17 - 18, 2004, Edmonton Alberta.<br>
811: Theo de Raadt presented a talk at an open seminar at the
812: <a href="http://www.ualberta.ca/">University of Alberta</a>, in
813: Room B-02 of the
814: <a href="http://www.campusmap.ualberta.ca/map_bldg.cfm?bldg_id=42">
815: Computing Sciences Center</a>.
816: Talk went from 2 PM to nearly 5PM with more than 100 people attending
817: from the University and industry, followed by beer nearby.
818: The talk was also given the following day at the
819: <a href="http://www.cips.ca/">CIPS Security SIG</a> luncheon.
820: <p>
821:
1.271 henning 822: <li><strong><a name=EuroBSDCon2004></a>
823: <a href="http://2004.eurobsdcon.org/">EuroBSD Con</a></strong>,
824: Oct 29 - 31, 2004, Karlsruhe, Germany.<br>
1.272 henning 825: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
826: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
1.271 henning 827: Henning gave a talk
1.375 grunk 828: about <a href="http://2004.eurobsdcon.org/talks.html?&tx_ptspeechupload_pi1[showUid]=44&cHash=ec015b0552">bgpd</a>,
1.272 henning 829: <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/euroBSDCon2004/">slides</a> are available.
1.271 henning 830: <p>
831:
832: <li><strong><a name=LinuxWorldExpoGermany2004></a>
833: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.de/">Linux World Expo</a></strong>,
834: Oct 26 - 28, 2004, Frankfurt, Germany.<br>
1.272 henning 835: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
836: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
1.271 henning 837: <p>
838:
1.276 deraadt 839: <li><strong><a name=cuug2004></a>
1.270 deraadt 840: <a href="http://www.cuug.ab.ca/">Calgary Unix Users's Group</a></strong>,
841: Oct 26, 2004, Calgary, Canada.<br>
842: Theo presented the talk that he has recently given in Australia and
843: Malaysia to the "Home Crowd".
844: <p>
845:
846: <li><strong><a name=aldil2004></a>
1.269 krw 847: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/">Les Journées Du Logiciel Libre 2004</a></strong>,
848: Oct 22 - 23, 2004, Lyon, France.<br>
1.381 aanriot 849: There was OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Miod Vallat with the help of
1.415 aanriot 850: Alexandre Anriot and Thierry Thomas.
1.269 krw 851: <p>
852:
853: <li><strong><a name=systems2004></a>
854: <a href="http://www.systems.de/">Systems</a></strong>,
855: Oct 18 - 22, 2004, Munich, Germany <br>
856: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
857: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
858: <p>
859:
1.268 krw 860: <li><strong><a name=linuxexpo2004oct></a>
861: <a href="http://www.linuxexpo.org.uk/">Linux Expo</a></strong>,
862: Oct 6 - 7, 2004, London, UK.<br>
863: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
864: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
865: <p>
866:
1.375 grunk 867: <li><strong><a name=hitb2004></a>
1.268 krw 868: <a href="http://conference.hackinthebox.org">Hack in the Box Security Conference 2004</a></strong>,
869: Oct 4 - 7, 2004, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.<br>
870: Theo de Raadt presented an updated version of his
871: "Exploit Mitigation Techniques" talk.
872: <p>
873:
874: <li><strong><a name=SANE2004></a>
875: <a href="http://www.nluug.nl/events/sane2004/bazaar.html">SANE 2004</a></strong>
1.410 wvdputte 876: , Sep 29, 2004, Amsterdam, Netherlands.<br>
1.268 krw 877: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
878: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
879: <p>
880:
1.265 wvdputte 881: <li><strong><a name=LinuxKongress2004></a>
882: <a href="http://www.linux-kongress.org/2004">Linux Kongress 2004</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 883: Sep 7 - 10, 2004, Erlangen, Germany.<br>
1.265 wvdputte 884: From their website: "Linux-Kongress is still the premier event for European
885: developers and one of the most important in the world. Each year hundreds of
886: hard core Linux enthusiasts from all over the world gather for this important
887: event."
888: <br>
889: Although this was a Linux developers' conference, we were able to
890: install a regular OpenBSD booth there, as known from other events.
891: It was run by <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim Vandeputte</a>,
892: <a href="mailto:grunk@pestilenz.org">Alexander von Gernler</a> and other
893: geeks from the Erlangen-Nuremberg area.
894: <br>
895: There also was a BSD dinner at Friday evening.
896: <p>
897:
1.262 henning 898: <li><strong><a name=Sucon2004></a>
899: <a href="http://www.suug.ch/sucon/04/">SUCON 2004</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 900: Sep 2 - 4, 2004, Zurich, Switzerland.<br>
1.262 henning 901: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth. Very nice conference.
902: Henning's slides from his talks about
903: <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/sucon04/bgpd">bgpd</a> and
904: <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/sucon04/ntpd">ntpd</a>
905: are available.
906: <p>
907:
1.261 deraadt 908: <li><strong><a name=auug2004></a>
1.266 jolan 909: <a href="http://www.auug.org.au/events/2004/auug2004/">AUUG 2004</a></strong>,
1.261 deraadt 910: Aug 29 - Sep 3, 2004, Melbourne, Australia.<br>
911: Theo de Raadt presented a half-day tutorial on privilege seperation and a
912: newly extended version of the
913: <a href="papers/auug04">Exploit Mitigation Techniques</a> talk.<br>
914: For more information, see this
915: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;517187222;fp;16;fpid;0">
916: ComputerWorld article</a>.
917: <p>
918:
919:
1.257 saad 920: <li><strong><a name=LSM2004></a>
921: <a href="http://lsm.abul.org">Libre Software Meeting</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 922: Jul 6 - 10, 2004, Bordeaux, France.<br>
1.257 saad 923: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
924: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim Vandeputte</a>.
925: <p>
926:
927: <li><strong><a name=LinuxTag2004></a>
928: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.org">LinuxTag 2004</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 929: Jun 23 - 26, 2004, Karlsruhe, Germany.<br>
1.257 saad 930: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
931: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim Vandeputte</a>.
932: <p>
933:
1.256 mickey 934: <li><strong>OpenBSD c2k4 "Hackathon"</strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 935: Jun 19 - 27, 2004, Calgary, Canada<br>
1.256 mickey 936: Over 45 developers congregated in Calgary for a 9 day long development
937: session.
938: <p>
939:
1.254 xsa 940: <li><strong><a name=LinuxwochenVienna2004></a>
1.255 xsa 941: <a href="http://www.linuxwochen.at/">Linuxwochen Vienna 2004</a></strong>,
1.254 xsa 942: May 26 - 29, 2004, Vienna, Austria.<br>
943: The Linuxwochen 2004 tour stopped in the MuseumsQuartier, Vienna.
944: Wim Vandeputte and Reinhard Sammer ran the OpenBSD booth. Michael Bauer
945: and Teemu Schaabl from the <a href="http://www.cngw.org/">CNGW</a> gave
946: a basic talk about pf.
947: <p>
948:
1.248 deraadt 949: <li><strong><a name=BSDCan2004></a>
1.303 mcbride 950: <a href="http://www.bsdcan.org/2004/">BSDCan 2004</a></strong>,
1.248 deraadt 951: May 13 - 16, 2004, Ottawa, Canada.<br>
952: BSDCan was held at the University of Ottawa. Ryan McBride gave a talk
1.302 mcbride 953: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/papers/bsdcan04-pf/index.html">about newer features in pf</a>,
954: focusing on the redundancy provided by CARP and pfsync.
955: Theo de Raadt presented a revised version of his talk on
1.248 deraadt 956: <a href="papers/bsdcan04">Exploit Mitigation Techniques</a>.
957: <p>
958:
1.247 canacar 959: <li><strong><a name="LOSFAnkara2004"></a>
960: <a href="http://senlik.linux.org.tr">3rd Linux and Open Source Festival</a></strong>,
961: May 13 - 16, 2004, Ankara, Turkey.<br>
962: Can E. Acar and Berk D. Demir talked about the OpenBSD Project. The
963: philosophy, project goals, system features and recent proactive
964: security features were introduced. CARP, patents, recent Apache &
965: XFree86 licensing issues and effects of NDAs in open source
966: projects were discussed.<br>
967: You can view the
1.281 canacar 968: <a href="http://bdd.mindcast.org/slides/OpenBSD-LOYS2004-cea-bdd.pdf">
1.247 canacar 969: slides in PDF format</a> the
1.281 canacar 970: <a href="http://bdd.mindcast.org/slides/OpenBSD-LOYS2004-cea-bdd.tex">
1.247 canacar 971: LaTeX source</a> is also available (they are
972: <a href="http://www.eee.metu.edu.tr/~canacar/slides/">mirrored</a>, as well).
973: <p>
974:
1.242 henning 975: <li><strong><a name=Brussels2004></a>
976: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/">FOSDEM Brussels 2004</a></strong>,
977: Feb 21 - 22, 2004, Brussels, Belgium.<br>
1.243 henning 978: An OpenBSD/OpenSSH booth was present, run by Wim Vandeputte.
979: Several developers (including Henning Brauer, Xavier Santolaria, Thierry Deval,
980: Philipp Bühler, Otto Moerbeek and Saad Kadhi) showed up.
981: Wim and Alexander von Gernler gave "lightning talks" about Soekris
982: and systrace
1.263 saad 983: (<a href="http://pestilenz.org/~grunk/vortraege/2004/FOSDEM/systrace.pdf">slides</a>), respectively.
1.243 henning 984: Henning got a slot in the main track to talk about the new bgpd
985: (<a href="http://www.2suck.net/papers/fosdem2004/">slides</a>).
986: On Saturday evening, the traditional OpenBSD dinner took place.
1.242 henning 987: <p>
988:
1.240 espie 989: <li><strong><a name=Paris2004></a>
990: <a href="http://www.linuxsolutions.fr/">Linux Expo Paris 2004</a></strong>,
991: Feb 3 - 5, 2004, Paris, France.<br>
992: An OpenBSD booth as well as an OpenSSH booth were present, thanks to
993: <a href="mailto:saad@docisland.org">Saad Kadhi</a> and
994: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
995: <p>
996:
997: <li><strong><a name="LWE04"></a>
998: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/linuxworldny/V40/index.cvn">LinuxWorld
999: Conference and Expo</a></strong>, Jan 20 - 23, 2004, New York, NY, USA.<br>
1.397 grunk 1000: <a href="mailto:wes@openlysecure.org">Wes Sonnenreich</a> and others
1.240 espie 1001: have established a BSD user group in NYC and held a BSD BoF at the
1002: Jacob Javits Center on January 22nd at 5:45pm, Room 1E15.
1003: <p>
1004: </ul>
1005:
1.188 henning 1006: <h3>2003</h3>
1.236 jose 1007:
1008: <ul>
1.232 jose 1009: <li><strong><a name=20c3></a>
1010: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/2003/">20th Chaos Communication Congress 2003</a></strong>,
1011: Dec 27 - 29, 2003, Berlin, Germany.<br>
1012: OpenBSD was represented by a booth, ran by
1013: <a href= "mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>, and supported by Henning and
1.236 jose 1014: Alexander von Gernler. Alexander also gave a
1.260 saad 1015: <a href="http://pestilenz.org/~grunk/vortraege/2003/20C3/openbsd.pdf">talk</a>
1.232 jose 1016: introducing the project and the OS (in German).
1.236 jose 1017: <p>
1.232 jose 1018:
1.228 jose 1019: <li><strong><a name=brazil2003></a>
1.236 jose 1020: <a href="http://bsdcon.myfreebsd.com.br">1st BSDCon Brazil</a></strong>,
1.228 jose 1021: Dec 6 - 7, 2003. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.<br>
1022: This was the first BSDCon Brazil, and of course OpenBSD was present.
1.236 jose 1023: Douglas Santos spoke on advocacy and about some of the technical aspects
1024: of OpenBSD. Eduardo A. Alvarenga gave a presentation about firewalling
1.228 jose 1025: with OpenBSD PF.
1026: <p>
1027:
1028: <li><strong><a name=ankara03></a>
1029: <a href="http://seminer.linux.org.tr">Association of Turkish Linux User</a></strong>,
1030: Dec 4, 2003, Ankara, Turkey.<br>
1031: Can Acar and Berk Demir gave a mammoth 4 hour presentation on OpenBSD.
1032: The first part was a broad introduction to the OpenBSD philosophy, the
1.236 jose 1033: project goals, and system features. After a break, in the second part they
1034: talked about the exploit mitigation techniques employed in OpenBSD. This
1035: part was aimed at techies and is almost a complete Turkish translation of
1036: the talk Theo recently gave in Japan. You can view the
1.281 canacar 1037: <a href="http://bdd.mindcast.org/slides/OpenBSD_3.12.2003.can-bdd.pdf">
1.236 jose 1038: slides in PDF format </a>
1039: (they are <a href="http://www.eee.metu.edu.tr/~canacar/slides/OpenBSD_3.12.2003.can-bdd.pdf">mirrored</a>, as well).
1.228 jose 1040: <p>
1041:
1.227 jose 1042: <li><strong><a name=Luxembourg2003></a>
1043: <a href="http://www.linuxday.lu/">Linuxday Luxembourg 2003</a></strong>,
1044: Nov 6 - 8, 2003, Luxembourg, Luxembourg.<br>
1045: Booths were present, organized by <a href= "mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
1046: <p>
1047:
1048: <li><strong><a name=Pacsec2003></a>
1049: <a href="http://pacsec.jp/">Pacsec 2003</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 1050: Nov 6 - 7, 2003, Tokyo, Japan.<br>
1.236 jose 1051: Three OpenBSD developers presented on various topics. Theo de Raadt
1.227 jose 1052: gave a presentation on Exploit Mitigation Techniques
1.236 jose 1053: <a href="papers/pacsec03/e/index.html">(English)</a>
1054: <a href="papers/pacsec03/j/index.html">(Japanese)</a>, Jun-ichiro
1.227 jose 1055: itojun Hagino presented material covering
1.236 jose 1056: <a href="http://www.itojun.org/paper/itojun-200311-pacsec-jp/">
1.241 david 1057: IPv6 security considerations</a>, and Jose Nazario discussed advances
1.227 jose 1058: in Internet worm defenses.
1059: <p>
1060:
1.224 miod 1061: <li><strong><a name=Lyon2003></a>
1062: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/agenda/journees/2003/">Les V<sup>èmes</sup> Journées du Libre 2003</a></strong>,
1063: Oct 31 - Nov 1, 2003, Lyon, France.<br>
1064: Miod Vallat gave a talk about the recent security efforts deployed in OpenBSD,
1065: as well as generic security concepts (slides, in bad French, are available in
1066: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/agenda/journees/2003/vallat/miod.mgp">mgp
1067: format</a>). As usual, Wim ran an OpenBSD booth featuring the new 3.4 release,
1068: as well as <a href="http://soekris.kd85.com">Soekris</a> hardware running
1069: OpenBSD.
1070: <p>
1071:
1072: <li><strong><a name=Saarbrucken2003></a>
1073: <a href="http://www.linux-kongress.org/2003/index.html">Linux Kongress Saarbrücken 2003</a></strong>,
1074: Oct 14 - 16, 2003, Saarbrücken, Germany.<br>
1075: An OpenBSD booth was present, starring Wim again.
1076: <p>
1077:
1078: <li><strong><a name=London2003></a>
1079: <a href="http://www.linuxexpo.org.uk/">Linux Expo London 2003</a></strong>,
1080: Oct 8 - 9, 2003, London, UK.<br>
1081: An OpenBSD booth was present, starring Wim as usual.
1082: <p>
1083:
1.219 jose 1084: <li><strong><a name=bsdcon2003></a>
1085: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/bsdcon03/">BSDCon '03</a></strong>,
1086: Sep 8 - 12, 2003, San Mateo, California.<br>
1.236 jose 1087: OpenBSD was represented in the BSD Status Report, and David Rosenthal
1.219 jose 1088: gave a talk on an OpenBSD based security appliance.
1089: <p>
1090:
1.218 jose 1091: <li><strong><a name=sucon2003></a>
1092: <a href="http://www.sucon.ch/">SUCON '03</a></strong>,
1093: Sep 5, 2003. Zurich, Switzerland.<br>
1.236 jose 1094: Daniel Hartmeier talked about PF, and <a
1.218 jose 1095: href="http://open.bsdcow.net/events/sucon2003/">pictures are available</a>.
1096: <p>
1097:
1.214 henning 1098: <li><strong><a name=camp2003></a>
1099: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/camp/">Chaos Communication Camp 2003</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1100: Aug 7 - 10, 2003, in <a href="http://www.paulshof.de/body-mehr.html">a field</a> near Berlin Germany<br>
1.214 henning 1101: There was a huge OpenBSD village. Several OpenBSD developers have been there.
1102: <p>
1103:
1.213 jose 1104: <li><strong><a name=sec2003></a>
1105: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/sec03/">Usenix Security</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1106: Aug 4 - 8, 2003, Washington, DC, USA.<br>
1.236 jose 1107: Niels Provos presented two papers on security advances originally
1.213 jose 1108: developed for OpenBSD, including the OpenSSH privsep feature and systrace.
1109: Several OpenBSD developers were there.
1110: <p>
1111:
1.211 jose 1112: <li><strong><a name=linuxtag2003></a>
1113: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.org/2003/en/index.html">LinuxTag 2003</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1114: Jul 10 - 13, 2003, Karlsruhe Convention Center Germany<br>
1.211 jose 1115: Both OpenBSD and OpenSSH had booths in the main exhibit.
1116: <p>
1117:
1118: <li><strong><a name=lsm2003></a>
1119: <a href="http://libresoftwaremeeting.org/">Libre Software Meeting 2003</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1120: Jul 9 - 12, 2003, Metz, France<br>
1.212 matthieu 1121: Matthieu Herrb gave <a href="papers/xf86-sec.pdf">a talk about XFree86 security</a>. There was
1.211 jose 1122: also an OpenBSD booth with developers.
1123: <p>
1124:
1.209 wvdputte 1125: <li><strong><a name=lud2003></a>
1126: <a href="http://www.linuxuserexpo.com/">Linux User & Developer Expo 2003</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1127: Jun 24 - 26, 2003, at the NEC in Birmingham UK<br>
1.209 wvdputte 1128: There was an OpenBSD booth with developers.
1129: <p>
1.195 deraadt 1130:
1.202 jason 1131: <li><strong><a name=usenix2003></a>
1.236 jose 1132: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix03/">Usenix Annual Technical
1.216 jose 1133: Conference</a></strong>,
1134: Jun 9 - 14, 2003, San Antonio, Texas, USA<br>
1.202 jason 1135: A few OpenBSD developers were there and one paper was presented:
1136: <ul>
1.216 jose 1137: <li>The Design of the OpenBSD Cryptographic Framework<br>
1.202 jason 1138: <a href="events.html#usenix2003">Usenix 2003</a>, by
1.236 jose 1139: Angelos D. Keromytis,
1140: Jason L. Wright, and
1.205 deraadt 1141: Theo de Raadt.<br>
1.202 jason 1142: <a href="papers/ocf.pdf">paper</a>.
1143: </ul>
1144: <p>
1145:
1.201 deraadt 1146: <li><strong>OpenBSD c2k3 "Hackathon"</strong>,
1.216 jose 1147: May 9 - 19, 2003, Calgary, Canada<br>
1.201 deraadt 1148: Over 50 developers congregated in Calgary for a 10 day long development
1149: session.
1150: <p>
1151:
1.216 jose 1152: <li><strong>
1153: <a href="http://www.webb.it/">Webbit 2003</a></strong>,
1154: May 9 - 11, 2003, Padova, Italy<br>
1.203 jason 1155: Giacomo Cariello and Wim Vandeputte attended, and several OpenBSD
1156: <a href="http://www.deadly.org/article.php3?sid=20030503101052">related talks</a> were given.
1157: <p>
1158:
1.216 jose 1159: <li><strong>
1160: <a href="http://cansecwest.com/">CanSecWest 03</a></strong>,
1161: Apr 9 - 11, 2003, Vancouver, Canada<br>
1.195 deraadt 1162: Theo spoke about killing buffer overflows using ProPolice and the new W^X technology,
1.196 matthieu 1163: available as a <a href="papers/csw03.mgp">magicpoint file</a>.
1.195 deraadt 1164: <p>
1165:
1.216 jose 1166: <li><strong>
1167: <a href="http://www.cebit.de/">CeBIT 2003</a></strong>,
1168: Mar 14, 2003, Hannover, Germany<br>
1.236 jose 1169: You could have found our <a href="http://www.linux-events.de/LinuxPark/cebit/Specials/openbooth.html">booth</a> in Halle 6, A53/068. Friday, Henning and Markus
1.196 matthieu 1170: gave a talk on OpenBSD and OpenSSH. <a href="papers/cebit2003.tgz">slides</a> are available.
1.194 henning 1171: <p>
1172:
1.216 jose 1173: <li><strong>
1174: <a href="http://www.linuxforum.dk/2003/english/">LinuxForum 2003</a></strong>,
1175: Mar 1, 2003, Copenhagen<br>
1.236 jose 1176: Daniel spoke about PF (slides in <a href="papers/linuxforum2k3.tar.gz">mgp</a>,
1177: <a href="http://www.benzedrine.cx/linuxforum/">HTML</a>).
1.191 dhartmei 1178: It was a small but cozy conference, jointly held by Danish Linux and BSD
1179: user groups.
1180: <p>
1181:
1.236 jose 1182: <li><strong>
1183: <a href="http://www.cuug.ab.ca">CUUG - The Calgary Unix Users
1.216 jose 1184: Group</a></strong>,
1185: Feb 25, 2003, 18:00 MST, Calgary<br>
1.190 miod 1186: OpenBSD lead developer Theo de Raadt spoke about some of the recent
1187: changes in OpenBSD that are leading the way to the complete elimination of
1188: "buffer overflow" security risks and attacks.
1189: <p>
1190:
1.216 jose 1191: <li><strong>
1192: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/">FOSDEM 2003</a></strong>,
1193: Feb 8 - 9, 2003, Brussels<br>
1.236 jose 1194: Henning and Philipp gave a talk on -current PF developments
1.196 matthieu 1195: (<a href="papers/fosdem2k3-pf.mgp">slides</a>)
1.187 henning 1196: and on Saturday evening, there was an OpenBSD dinner for those interested.
1197: <p>
1198:
1.216 jose 1199: <li><strong>
1200: <a href="http://linuxsolutions.fr/FR/home/index.php?site=default">Linux Solutions</a></strong>,
1201: Feb 4 - 6, 2003, CNIT - Paris La Défense<br>
1.185 miod 1202: There was an OpenBSD booth with several OpenBSD developers, as well as 3.2 OpenBSD
1.413 grunk 1203: CD sets and T-shirts.
1.185 miod 1204: <p>
1.236 jose 1205: </ul>
1.185 miod 1206:
1.161 millert 1207: <h3>2002</h3>
1.236 jose 1208:
1209: <ul>
1210: <li><strong>
1211: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/2002/">19c3: the 19th CCC
1.216 jose 1212: Congress</a></strong>,
1213: Dec 27 - 29, 2002, Berlin<br>
1.236 jose 1214: There was a huge <a href="http://www.eurobsd.org/19c3">reserved space</a> for
1215: OpenBSD users and developers, a couple of -current test systems and for those
1.413 grunk 1216: curious, a first look at the 3.2 OpenBSD T-shirts.
1.184 wvdputte 1217: <p>
1.177 jason 1218:
1.216 jose 1219: <li><strong>
1220: <a href="http://2002.eurobsdcon.org/">BSDCon Europe 2002</a></strong>,
1221: Nov 15 - 17, 2002, Amsterdam, Netherlands<br>
1.181 henning 1222: OpenBSD people were there;
1.236 jose 1223: Philipp Bühler and Henning Brauer spoke about
1.182 ian 1224: <a href="papers/tuning-openbsd.ps">
1225: network performance tuning on OpenBSD</a>,
1.236 jose 1226: and Ian Darwin presented a
1.182 ian 1227: <a href="papers/eurobsd-firewalls-2002.pdf">
1228: tutorial on OpenBSD servers/firewalls</a>.
1.179 pb 1229: <p>
1.178 pb 1230:
1.216 jose 1231: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1232: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa02/">LISA '02: 16th Systems
1.216 jose 1233: Administration Conference</a></strong>,
1234: Nov 3 - 8, 2002, Philadelphia, USA<br>
1.177 jason 1235: Mickey and Jason manned the booth at the vendor expo (the only BSD
1236: represented) and sold <a href="32.html">3.2</a> CDs, and Jason gave a BoF
1237: session on <a href="32.html">3.2</a> and future.
1238: <p>
1239:
1.216 jose 1240: <li><strong>
1.264 djm 1241: <a href="http://www.auug.org.au/events/2002/auug2002/">Australian Unix Users
1242: Group Winter Conference</a></strong>,
1243: Sep 1 - 6, 2002, Melbourne Australia<br>
1244: Damien Miller presented a tutorial on the
1245: <a href="papers/auug2002-ssh/index.html">SSH protocol</a> and
1246: <a href="papers/auug2002-ssh.ps">OpenSSH tips and tricks</a>.
1247: <p>
1248:
1249: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 1250: <a href="http://lsm.abul.org">The 3rd Libre Software Meeting</a></strong>,
1251: Jul 9 - 13, 2002, Bordeaux, France<br>
1.172 miod 1252: Several OpenBSD developers and users were attending the meeting, and
1253: Niels Provos presented his
1254: <a href="http://www.citi.umich.edu/u/provos/systrace">systrace</a>
1255: system call policy management tool.
1.174 nick 1256: <p>
1.172 miod 1257:
1.216 jose 1258: <li><strong>
1259: <a href="http://www.Webb.it">Webb.it 02</a></strong>,
1260: Jul 5 - 7, 2002, Padova, Italy<br>
1.171 ian 1261: OpenBSD developers had a booth selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
1262: <p>
1263:
1.216 jose 1264: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1265: <a href="http://www.softwarelivre.rs.gov.br/forum">The Annual International
1.216 jose 1266: Free Software Forum</a></strong>,
1267: May 2 - 4, 2002, Porto Alegre-RS, Brazil<br>
1.236 jose 1268: Mainly a Linux/GNU event, but this year the BSD Operating Systems
1269: had a chance to prove their value.
1.169 horacio 1270: Edson Brandi spoke on FreeBSD, Diego Linke
1.236 jose 1271: on NetBSD, and Ricardo Nascimento Ferreira on OpenBSD.
1.169 horacio 1272: <p>
1.168 miod 1273:
1.216 jose 1274: <li><strong>
1275: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/bsdcon02/">BSDCON 2002</a></strong>,
1276: Feb 11 - 14, 2002, San Francisco, California, USA<br>
1.161 millert 1277: Todd Miller gave an update on current OpenBSD status and participated in a
1.162 millert 1278: BSD panel discussion. The <a href="slides/bsdcon_2002/index.html">slides</a>
1279: are available.
1.161 millert 1280: <p>
1281:
1.216 jose 1282: <li><strong>
1283: <a href="http://www.linuxexpoparis.com">Linux expo Paris 2002</a></strong>,
1284: Jan 30 - Feb 1, 2002, Paris, France<br>
1.163 miod 1285: The french Linux Expo 2002 was quite small and as usual the OpenBSD booth ended
1286: up with others on the expo's side. On the first day, almost all the merchandise
1287: was sold, and we have even sold older versions (2.9) the following days to
1288: people who wouldn't leave without a cd set in their hands...
1289: <p>
1290:
1.216 jose 1291: <li><strong>
1292: <a href="http://musess.mcmaster.ca/">MUSESS 2002</a></strong>,
1293: Jan 25 - 26, 2002, McMaster University, Ontario, Canada<br>
1.164 millert 1294: Louis Bertrand gave a presentation on OpenBSD titled
1295: <strong>Fix The Bugs, Secure The System</strong>.
1296: The <a href="slides/musess_2002/index.html">slides</a> are available.
1297: <p>
1.236 jose 1298: </ul>
1.164 millert 1299:
1.152 jakob 1300: <h3>2001</h3>
1301:
1.236 jose 1302: <ul>
1.216 jose 1303: <li><strong>
1304: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa01/">USENIX LISA 2001</a></strong>,
1305: Dec 2 - 7, 2001, San Diego, California, USA<br>
1.160 jufi 1306: Niels Provos gave a presentation, and there's been a booth selling
1.413 grunk 1307: T-shirts and 3.0 CDs.
1.160 jufi 1308: <p>
1309:
1.216 jose 1310: <li><strong>
1311: <a href="http://www.ietf.org/meetings/IETF-52.html">52nd IETF</a></strong>,
1312: Dec 9 - 14, 2001, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA<br>
1.160 jufi 1313: Angelos, Itojun & Jakob were there.
1314: <p>
1315:
1.158 deraadt 1316: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1317: <a href="http://www.disc2000.unam.mx/disc/index-ing.html">DISC
1.216 jose 1318: 2001</a></strong>,
1319: Nov 26 - 29, 2001, Mexico City, Mexico<br>
1.158 deraadt 1320: Once again, Theo de Raadt explained the security auditing process and
1321: subsequent secure configuration choices made in OpenBSD, in a talk
1322: entitled "Updated thoughts on writing a secure Operating System".
1323: <p>
1324:
1.216 jose 1325: <li><strong>
1326: <a href="http://www.linux.org.hk">LinuxCafe</a></strong>,
1327: Sep 15, 2001, Hong Kong, China<br>
1.156 provos 1328: Shell Hung gave an introduction for BSD and demonstration of OpenBSD to HKLUG.
1329: <p>
1330:
1.201 deraadt 1331: <li><strong>VPN Bakeoff</strong>,
1.216 jose 1332: Aug 13 - 18, 2001, Finland<br>
1.156 provos 1333: Jakob and Itojun were there.
1334: <p>
1.158 deraadt 1335:
1.150 wvdputte 1336: <li><strong>
1.215 nick 1337: <a href="http://www.hal2001.org">HAL 2001</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1338: Aug 10 - 12, 2001, Twente, Netherlands<br>
1.153 jufi 1339: Quite a lot of developers were there, we even had our own tent.
1340: Niels, Rees and Dugsong held talks, more info on the main website
1341: for HAL2001. And of course T-Shirts and CDROMs were sold.
1.150 wvdputte 1342: <p>
1.137 aaron 1343:
1344: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1345: <a href="http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon/">O'Reilly Open Source
1.216 jose 1346: Conference</a></strong>,
1347: Jul 23 - 27, 2001, San Diego, California, USA<br>
1.148 brian 1348: OpenBSD had a booth selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
1349: Ian Darwin presented his "Firewalls and Secure Internet Servers
1350: with OpenBSD" tutorial.
1351: <p>
1352:
1353: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 1354: <a href="http://www.defcon.org">DEF CON Nine</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1355: Jul 13 - 15, 2001 Las Vegas, USA<br>
1.148 brian 1356: OpenBSD developers and users make it a point to attend every year,
1357: and had a table selling CD's, shirts, etc.
1358: <p>
1359:
1360: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1361: <a href="http://www.sek.co.kr/sek2001/sek_html/main.htm">Software
1.216 jose 1362: Exhibition of Korea</a></strong>,
1363: Jun 26 - 29, 2001, Seoul, Korea<br>
1.146 krw 1364: urisecure/NDS sponsored an OpenBSD booth with CD's, posters,
1365: and a live demo of OpenBSD's IPSEC hardware acceleration.
1366: <p>
1367:
1368: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1369: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix01/">2001 USENIX Annual
1.216 jose 1370: Technical Conference</a></strong>,
1371: Jun 25 - 30, 2001, Boston, USA<br>
1.146 krw 1372: OpenBSD developers were there, selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
1373: <p>
1374:
1375: <li><strong>
1.143 dugsong 1376: <a href="http://www.olymfair.org/eng/workshop.htm">Information
1.201 deraadt 1377: Security OlymFair</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1378: May 16 - 18, 2001, Seoul, Korea<br>
1.143 dugsong 1379: Dug Song gave a detailed introduction to OpenBSD to the Korean
1380: security community.
1381: <p>
1382:
1383: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1384: <a href="http://www.osdem.org/">2001 Open Source and Free Software
1.216 jose 1385: Developers' Meeting</a></strong>,
1386: Feb 3 - 4, 2001, Brussels, Belgium<br>
1.137 aaron 1387: There was an OpenBSD booth with some loose talks made.
1388: <p>
1389:
1390: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 1391: <a href="http://www.linuxexpoparis.com/">2001 Linux Expo</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1392: Feb 1 - 2, 2001, Paris, France<br>
1.236 jose 1393: There was an OpenBSD booth in the 'F' area.
1.137 aaron 1394: <p>
1.236 jose 1395: </ul>
1.137 aaron 1396:
1.132 louis 1397: <h3>2000</h3>
1398:
1.236 jose 1399: <ul>
1.132 louis 1400: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1401: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa2000/">LISA 2000, USENIX
1.216 jose 1402: Systems Administration Conference</a></strong>,
1403: Dec 3 - 8, 2000, New Orleans, USA<br>
1.134 jufi 1404: Wim Vandeputte and other volunteers have been running a sales table with
1405: shirts, posters and the brand new 2.8 CDs.
1406: <p>
1407:
1408: <li><strong>
1.215 nick 1409: <a href="http://www.disc2000.unam.mx/disc/index-ing.html">DISC 2000</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1410: Nov 26 - Dec 1, 2000, Mexico City, Mexico<br>
1.133 deraadt 1411: Theo de Raadt explained the security auditing process and subsequent secure
1412: configuration choices made in OpenBSD, in a talk entitled "Secure by Default".
1413: Over the next few days, he also participated in two panels with various security
1414: experts who had flown in from around the world. Following this, Theo climbed
1.151 jsyn 1415: one of the largest volcanoes, called Malinche.
1.133 deraadt 1416: <p>
1417:
1418: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1419: <a href="http://www.nluug.nl/events/nj2000">NLUUG Najaarsconferentie
1.216 jose 1420: 2000</a></strong>,
1421: Nov 9, 2000, Ede, NL<br>
1.236 jose 1422: There was an OpenBSD booth where people dropped by for information or to
1.413 grunk 1423: get their T-shirts, polos, caps and 2.7 CDs.
1.13 deraadt 1424: <p>
1.4 millert 1425:
1.132 louis 1426: <li><strong><a name=ipsec2000></a>
1.236 jose 1427: <a href="http://www.upperside.fr/baipsecy2k.htm">IPsec 2000 Global
1.216 jose 1428: Summit</a></strong>,
1429: Oct 24 - 27, 2000, Paris La Defense, France<br>
1.159 miod 1430: Niels Provos ended the conference by speaking about the IPsec architecture
1.132 louis 1431: in OpenBSD. The talk was well received and many people were very interested
1432: about our cryptographic hardware acceleration.
1433:
1434: <ul>
1.236 jose 1435: <li>The IPsec Architecture in OpenBSD<br>
1.215 nick 1436: <a href="#ipsec2000">IPsec 2000 Global Summit</a> by Niels Provos.<br>
1.132 louis 1437: <a href="papers/ipsec-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1438: </ul>
1.4 millert 1439: <p>
1.132 louis 1440:
1.7 deraadt 1441: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 1442: <a href="http://ApacheCon.Com/2000/EU/">ApacheCon Europa 2000</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1443: Oct 23 - 25, 2000, London, UK<br>
1.132 louis 1444: There was an OpenBSD booth where people could drop by for information and
1445: a chat with the local OpenBSD personnel. We also had the essentials for
1.413 grunk 1446: your wardrobe (T-shirts, polos, caps), for your hardware (2.7 CDs) and for your
1.132 louis 1447: mind (drinks afterwards).
1448: <p>
1449:
1.216 jose 1450: <li><strong>
1451: <a href="http://www.bsdcon.com/">BSD Con 2000</a></strong>,
1452: Oct 18 - 20, 2000, Monterey, CA, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1453: David Terrell ran an OpenBSD booth selling T-shirts and CDs and answering
1454: questions.
1.32 deraadt 1455: <p>
1.1 deraadt 1456:
1.132 louis 1457: <li><strong><a name=opensource2000></a>
1.236 jose 1458: <a href="http://www.opensource-forum.com/konferens">The Open Source
1.216 jose 1459: Revolution</a></strong>,
1460: Oct 5, 2000, Stockholm, Sweden<br>
1.133 deraadt 1461: Theo de Raadt spoke about how user expectations for security out of the box
1462: have changed over the last years.
1.1 deraadt 1463: <p>
1464:
1.132 louis 1465: <li><strong><a name=sec2000></a>
1.216 jose 1466: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/sec2000/">Usenix Security</a></strong>,
1467: Aug 14 - 17, 2000, Denver, Colorado, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1468: Some OpenBSD developers were there and one paper was presented:
1469: <ul>
1.236 jose 1470: <li>Encrypting Virtual Memory<br>
1.132 louis 1471: <a href="#sec2000">Usenix Security 2000</a>
1.205 deraadt 1472: by Niels Provos.<br>
1.132 louis 1473: <a href="papers/swapencrypt.ps">paper</a> and
1474: <a href="papers/swapencrypt-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1475: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 1476: <p>
1.132 louis 1477:
1.10 provos 1478: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 1479: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-8-post.html">Defcon 2000</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1480: Jul 28 - 30, 2000, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.236 jose 1481: Kjell Wooding (our IPF maintainer), James Phillips from the
1.132 louis 1482: <a href="http://www.deadly.org">OpenBSD Journal</a>, and Theo de Raadt
1.413 grunk 1483: had a table and were selling OpenBSD CDROMs, T-shirts, and posters on
1.132 louis 1484: Friday and Saturday. Hordes of people visited our table and we at the
1485: end we were completely sold out of CDROMS and shirts (allowing us to go
1486: check out Hoover Dam's hardhat tour on Sunday and leave the madness behind).
1487: <br>
1488: We were completely amazed at the people who stopped by our table, to say
1489: that they were relying on OpenBSD.
1490: <p>
1.32 deraadt 1491:
1.132 louis 1492: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1493: <a href="http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon2000/">O'Reilly Open Source
1.216 jose 1494: Conference 2000</a></strong>,
1495: Jul 17 - 20, 2000, Monterey, California, USA<br>
1496: Ian Darwin presented a <a href="papers/oreilly2000/">tutorial</a> on
1.132 louis 1497: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/w/bsd_tutorials.html">
1498: Secure Internet Servers/Firewalls with OpenBSD</a>, and bravely
1499: manned the OpenBSD booth for the remainder of the show.
1500: Kjell Wooding took part in a panel discussion on the Future of the BSDs,
1501: and spoke about
1502: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/w/bsd_presentations.html">
1.241 david 1503: Secure By Default.</a> Both sessions were well attended, and at least
1.132 louis 1504: one Linux sysadmin was seen racing for a keyboard, scared look in his eyes,
1.236 jose 1505: after the security talk.
1.3 provos 1506: <p>
1.132 louis 1507:
1.6 deraadt 1508: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 1509: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.de/2000/english/">LinuxTag 2000</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1510: Jun 29 - Jul 2, 2000, Stuttgart, Germany<br>
1.132 louis 1511: There was a BSD booth where we had the first <a href="27.html">OpenBSD 2.7 CDs</a> for Europe
1512: and the new blue stitchwork <a href="tshirts.html#11">Blowfish Polo</a> shirt.
1513: <br>
1514: Christian Weisgerber gave a
1515: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.de/2000/english/conference/talks.php3?ID=3">talk
1516: on BSD</a>.
1.32 deraadt 1517: <p>
1.1 deraadt 1518:
1.216 jose 1519: <li><strong><a name=usenix2000></a>
1.236 jose 1520: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix2000/">Usenix Annual Technical
1.216 jose 1521: Conference.</a></strong>,
1522: Jun 18 - 23, 2000, San Diego, California, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1523: Almost 20 OpenBSD developers showed up for the 25th anniversary of Usenix.
1524: We had a vendor booth, as well as a number of papers being presented.
1525: Conference attendees had the opportunity to test drive the new release,
1526: OpenBSD 2.7, on the 30 workstations in the terminal room. For the first
1527: time ever, the terminal room and wavelan networks also had a IPv6 connection,
1.147 jason 1528: and some users even discovered so by themselves.
1.132 louis 1529: Theo also held a BoF on the Wednesday evening, after which the developers
1530: had almost too much singing in foreign languages with the help of helium.
1531: <ul>
1532:
1533: <li>Implementing Internet Key Exchange, IKE.<br>
1534: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
1.216 jose 1535: by Angelos D. Keromytis, Niklas Hallqvist.<br>
1.132 louis 1536: <a href="papers/ikepaper.ps">paper</a> and
1537: <a href="papers/ikeslides.ps">slides</a>.
1538:
1539: <li>Transparent Network Security Policy Enforcement.<br>
1540: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
1.216 jose 1541: by Angelos D. Keromytis, Jason L. Wright.<br>
1.132 louis 1542: <a href="papers/bridgepaper.ps">paper</a> and
1543: <a href="papers/bridgeslides.ps">slides</a>.
1.2 deraadt 1544:
1.132 louis 1545: <li>Safety Checking of Kernel Extensions.<br>
1546: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
1.205 deraadt 1547: by Craig Metz.
1.132 louis 1548: </ul>
1.2 deraadt 1549: <p>
1550:
1.132 louis 1551: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1552: <a href="http://www.manlug.mcc.ac.uk/calendar.html">OpenBSD: The Open
1.216 jose 1553: Source Secure Operating System</a></strong>,
1554: Jun 17, 2000, 14:00. Manchester, UK<br>
1.132 louis 1555: Sam Smith gave a rundown of features coming in OpenBSD 2.7 and
1556: OpenSSH 2.1. His <a href="http://www.manlug.mcc.ac.uk/20000617/">slides</a>
1557: are available from the user group's site.
1.1 deraadt 1558: <p>
1.2 deraadt 1559:
1.132 louis 1560: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 1561: <a href="reprints/crypto2000.html">OpenBSD Crypto 2000 conference</a></strong>,
1562: Jun 15 - 20, 2000, Calgary, AB, Canada<br>
1.132 louis 1563: Repeating the tradition of a similar meeting held last year, many
1564: OpenBSD developers from around the world converged on Calgary
1565: for a weekend long hack-and-drink session. As before, the event
1566: was invitation only. Many significant things got done, including
1567: ipv6 + ipsec running over hardware crypto devices.
1.1 deraadt 1568: <p>
1.11 jkatz 1569:
1.17 deraadt 1570: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 1571: <a href="http://www.converge2000.com">CONVERGENCE 2000</a></strong>,
1572: May 18, 2000. Convention Centre, Calgary, Alberta, Canada<br>
1.132 louis 1573: Theo de Raadt participated in a panel discussion about the pros and cons
1574: of using Open Source software in various business environments. The local
1575: users also handed out OpenSSH and OpenBSD posters, and were absolutely
1576: surprised and amazed by the number of Calgary companies quietly using
1577: OpenBSD.
1.21 pattonme 1578: <p>
1.17 deraadt 1579:
1.23 niklas 1580: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 1581: <a href="http://www.cansecwest.com/">CanSecWest</a></strong>,
1582: May 10 - 12, 2000. Robson Conference Centre, Vancouver, BC, Canada<br>
1.132 louis 1583: Theo de Raadt spoke about why programmers keep making the same stupid mistakes,
1584: what types of efforts might improve this, and how this all relates to auditing
1.375 grunk 1585: efforts.
1586: Rain Forest Puppy, Ron Gula (Network Security Wizards), Ken Williams (E&Y),
1.216 jose 1587: Marty Roesch (snort/HiverWorld), and Fyodor (nmap) were among the other speakers
1.132 louis 1588: at this event. (On a personal note: at this conference Theo realized that three
1589: leading Network Intrusion Detection System companies use OpenBSD as their
1590: base operating system: Hiverworld, Network Security Wizards, and NFR).
1.32 deraadt 1591: <p>
1.25 deraadt 1592:
1.132 louis 1593: <li><strong>
1594: <a href="http://www.zdevents.com/comdex/spring2000/">Linux Business Expo /
1.201 deraadt 1595: COMDEX Spring 2000</a></strong>,
1596: Apr 19, 2000, Chicago, IL, USA<br>
1.216 jose 1597: Louis Bertrand represented OpenBSD at a BSD BOF with FreeBSD/BDSI,
1.132 louis 1598: NetBSD and Apple (Darwin is BSD-derived). The BOF was attended by about
1599: 75 people, many of whom were new to *BSD. It was an opportunity to
1600: explore future cooperation among the various BSD groups and companies.
1.25 deraadt 1601: <p>
1.23 niklas 1602:
1.31 deraadt 1603: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1604: <a href="http://www.nordu.org/NordU2000/">NordU 2000 -- The second
1.216 jose 1605: EurOpen/USENIX Conference</a></strong>,
1606: Feb 8 - 11, 2000. Malmo, Sweden<br>
1.140 jufi 1607: About 15 OpenBSD team members attended.
1.132 louis 1608: OpenBSD CDs and shirts were sold at a booth donated by the conference.<br>
1609: As well, Theo de Raadt gave an invited talk on Wednesday morning
1610: about why software quality/security suffers, and what we can do to
1611: improve it.
1.32 deraadt 1612: <p>
1.31 deraadt 1613:
1.201 deraadt 1614: <li><strong>BSD BOF session, LinuxWorld Expo</strong>,
1.216 jose 1615: Feb 3, 2000, New York, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1616: Representatives from OpenBSD, BSDi, and FreeBSD hosted a
1617: "Birds Of a Feather" session at the <a
1618: href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/">New York LinuxWorld Expo</a>.<br>
1619: There were installation CD-ROMs, free food, and even free Daemon Horns!
1.33 niklas 1620: <p>
1.236 jose 1621: </ul>
1.33 niklas 1622:
1.132 louis 1623: <h3>1999</h3>
1.36 niklas 1624:
1.236 jose 1625: <ul>
1.216 jose 1626: <li><strong>The Bazaar</strong>,
1627: Dec 14 - 16, 1999, New York, New York, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1628: Wes Sonnenreich and Tom Yates presented a tutorial on building
1.216 jose 1629: firewalls with OpenBSD. BoF of open source BSDs took place.
1.413 grunk 1630: 2.6 release CDROMs and T-shirts were sold.
1.132 louis 1631: Emphatic interest has been shown by representatives from press, international
1632: government and military institutions.
1.45 jason 1633: <p>
1634:
1.216 jose 1635: <li><strong><a name=lisa99></a>
1.236 jose 1636: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa99/">13th Systems Administration
1.216 jose 1637: Conference (LISA 99)</a></strong>,
1638: Nov 7 - 12, 1999, Seattle, Washington, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1639: Bob Beck presented a paper about the U of A's nifty OpenBSD based
1640: solution to the problem of public Ethernet jacks in the technical sessions
1641: starting at 11:00 AM on the 11th.<br>
1642: There were many other OpenBSD
1643: people at this conference as well, as well as a booth selling CDROMs and
1.413 grunk 1644: T-shirts. His paper is available at:
1.132 louis 1645:
1646: <ul>
1647: <li>Dealing with Public Ethernet Jacks-Switches, Gateways, and Authentication.<br>
1.236 jose 1648: <a href="events.html#lisa99">LISA 1999</a>,
1.206 david 1649: by Bob Beck.<br>
1.236 jose 1650: <a href="papers/authgw-paper.ps">paper</a> and
1651: <a href="papers/authgw-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 1652: </ul>
1653: <p>
1654:
1655: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 1656: IP-dagarna 1999</strong>,
1.216 jose 1657: Oct 27 - 28, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden<br>
1.132 louis 1658: Håkan Olsson & Jakob Schlyter spoke at the DNSSEC session on the 27th.
1659: <p>
1660:
1661: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1662: <a href="http://www.opensource-forum.com/konferens/">Linux & Open Source
1.216 jose 1663: Software '99</a></strong>,
1664: Oct 21, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)<br>
1.132 louis 1665: Niklas Hallqvist spoke on the topic of how to use
1.236 jose 1666: <a
1.375 grunk 1667: href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4">IPsec</a> for securing communications.
1.132 louis 1668: <p>
1669:
1670: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1671: <a href="http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference">Reflections/Projections
1.216 jose 1672: 1999</a></strong>,
1673: Oct 8 - 10, 1999, Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1674: Theo de Raadt spoke at 10:00am on the 9th. Other OpenBSD
1675: developers from the east coast attended as well.
1676: <p>
1677:
1.236 jose 1678: <li><strong><a name="ipsec99"></a>
1.216 jose 1679: IPsec Interoperability tests</strong>,
1680: Sep 27 - 30, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)<br>
1.236 jose 1681: A dozen vendors, among them OpenBSD, tested more than 15
1.375 grunk 1682: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4">IPsec</a>
1.132 louis 1683: products, both gateways and hosts, for interoperability. The tests
1684: were successful as far as general IPsec and pre-shared key
1685: authentication went, OpenBSD interoperated with everyone, but due to
1686: time constraints we never got to test the certificate support
1687: appropriately. The results were presented later that fall at a
1688: conference in Stockholm.
1689: <p>
1690:
1691: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1692: <a href="http://www.auug.org.au/winter/auug99">AUUG'99</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1693: Sep 8 - 11, 1999, Melbourne, Australia<br>
1.132 louis 1694: Theo de Raadt gave two talks on "quality of software" related issues
1695: and participated on a panel about how open source projects are
1696: coordinated.
1697: <p>
1698:
1699: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1700: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/sec99/index.html">Usenix
1.216 jose 1701: Security</a></strong>,
1702: Aug 23 - 26, 1999, Washington, DC, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1703: Many OpenBSD people from the east coast showed up and sold CDs and
1704: shirts. It was pretty clear from discussions that many people were
1705: very aware of OpenBSD, and that OpenBSD was being used in very
1706: significant security roles.
1707: <p>
1708:
1709: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1710: <a href="http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/99jul/index.html">45th IETF
1.216 jose 1711: meeting</a></strong>,
1712: Jul 12 - 16, 1999, Oslo, Norway<br>
1.132 louis 1713: A number of OpenBSD team members from all over the world were at this
1714: conference. In addition to attending the IPsec and DNS working groups (among
1715: others) we did IPsec/IKE interoperability testing together with
1.166 miod 1716: the Japanese KAME project. Also, Angelos D. Keromytis did a presentation on
1.132 louis 1717: his work with keynote and isakmpd in OpenBSD.
1718: <p>
1.45 jason 1719:
1.132 louis 1720: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1721: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-6.html">Defcon 6.0</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1722: Jul 9 - 11, 1999, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1723: At this conference, the OpenBSD team sold 100 or so 2.5 release CDROMs
1.413 grunk 1724: and a TON of T-shirts.
1.46 deraadt 1725: <p>
1.132 louis 1726:
1.236 jose 1727: <li><strong><a name="usenix99"></a>
1728: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix99/index.html">
1.216 jose 1729: Usenix Annual Technical Conference</a></strong>,
1730: Jun 6 - 11, 1999, Monterey, California, USA<br>
1.106 jufi 1731: The <a href="http://www.usenix.org">USENIX Association</a>
1.46 deraadt 1732: provided The OpenBSD Project with a grant to underwrite the production
1.106 jufi 1733: of CDs of OpenBSD 2.5. (We distributed the
1734: release for free to attendees of the USENIX Annual Conference in
1.46 deraadt 1735: June.)
1.132 louis 1736: <br>
1.46 deraadt 1737: Usenix team members were involved in the authoring and
1.132 louis 1738: presentation of 4 OpenBSD-related papers:
1739:
1.375 grunk 1740: <a name="anoncvs_paper"></a>
1.46 deraadt 1741: <ul>
1.66 deraadt 1742: <li>Opening the Source Repository with Anonymous CVS.<br>
1.236 jose 1743: <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216 jose 1744: by Charles D. Cranor, Theo de Raadt.<br>
1.236 jose 1745: <a href="papers/anoncvs-paper.ps">paper</a> and
1746: <a href="papers/anoncvs-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 1747: <br>
1.66 deraadt 1748: <li>A Future-Adaptable Password Scheme.<br>
1.236 jose 1749: <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216 jose 1750: by Niels Provos, David Mazieres.<br>
1.236 jose 1751: <a href="papers/bcrypt-paper.ps">paper</a> and
1752: <a href="papers/bcrypt-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 1753: <br>
1.66 deraadt 1754: <li>Cryptography in OpenBSD: An Overview.<br>
1.236 jose 1755: <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216 jose 1756: by Theo de Raadt, Niklas Hallqvist, Artur Grabowski,
1757: Angelos D. Keromytis, Niels Provos.<br>
1.236 jose 1758: <a href="papers/crypt-paper.ps">paper</a> and
1759: <a href="papers/crypt-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 1760: <br>
1.66 deraadt 1761: <li>strlcpy and strlcat -- consistent, safe, string copy and concatenation.<br>
1.236 jose 1762: <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216 jose 1763: by Todd C. Miller, Theo de Raadt.<br>
1.236 jose 1764: <a href="papers/strlcpy-paper.ps">paper</a> and
1765: <a href="papers/strlcpy-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 1766: </ul>
1.66 deraadt 1767: <p>
1.46 deraadt 1768:
1.51 deraadt 1769: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1770: <a href="http://www.linuxexpo.org">5th Annual Linux Expo</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1771: May 18 - 22, 1999, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1772: Some OpenBSD team members were at this conference selling OpenBSD 2.5 CDs,
1773: OpenBSE T-shirts, as well as Blowfish T-shirts, which sold out very quickly
1774: at a table donated by the Expo. OpenBSD was the only BSD represented at the
1775: vendor exposition, and we had good chance to present a secure alternative
1776: to Linux.
1.51 deraadt 1777: <p>
1778:
1.53 jakob 1779: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1780: <a href="http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/99mar/index.html">44th IETF
1.216 jose 1781: meeting</a></strong>,
1782: Mar 15 - 19, 1999, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1783: Some OpenBSD team members were at this conference, in particular our
1784: IPSEC developers.
1.53 jakob 1785: <p>
1786:
1.132 louis 1787: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1788: <a href="http://www.europen.se/NordU99">NordU99 -- The first
1.216 jose 1789: EurOpen/USENIX Conference</a></strong>,
1790: Feb 9 - 12, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden<br>
1.132 louis 1791: A couple of OpenBSD team members were there and some of the swedish user
1792: society as well. OpenBSD CDs were sold at a booth and at the end of a
1793: security talk, the project got applauded for its continuous strive of auditing
1794: security sensitive parts of the system.
1.59 deraadt 1795: <p>
1.236 jose 1796: </ul>
1.59 deraadt 1797:
1.132 louis 1798: <h3>1998</h3>
1.59 deraadt 1799:
1.236 jose 1800: <ul>
1.132 louis 1801: <li><strong><a name=ipsec98></a>
1.236 jose 1802: <a href="http://www.netman.se/kurs/96.html">IPsec/VPN Interoperability
1803: tests & seminar</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1804: Dec 14, 1998, Stockholm, Sweden (in swedish)<br>
1.132 louis 1805: OpenBSD was represented as one of about a dozen
1.375 grunk 1806: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4">IPsec</a>
1.132 louis 1807: implementations who were tested for interoperability. The tests were
1808: successful, both for the technology in general, and for OpenBSD in
1809: specific. We managed to communicate encrypted with every vendor present,
1810: and to negotiate keys via IKE with everyone capable.
1.70 deraadt 1811: <p>
1812:
1.236 jose 1813: <li><strong><a name="lisaboston-98"></a>
1814: <a href="http://usenix.org/events/lisa98">LISA '98: 12th Systems Administration
1.216 jose 1815: Conference</a></strong>,
1816: Dec 6 - 11, 1998, Boston, Massachusetts<br>
1.132 louis 1817: More than 10 OpenBSD team members showed up. By far, OpenBSD was the
1818: largest representative group from free software at the conference.
1819: Usenix gave us a table in the vendor area where we sold 2.4 CDROMs,
1.413 grunk 1820: 2.3 "wire-frame" T-shirts, and the new 2.4 embroidered
1821: "Because security matters..." T-shirts, polos, and sweaters.
1.132 louis 1822: An OpenBSD BOF was held one evening, led by Theo de Raadt.
1823: A PalmPilot schedule loader was at the membership booth, powered by OpenBSD.
1824: <br>
1825: The terminal room ran OpenBSD 2.4 on 45 machines. Obviously trust in OpenBSD
1826: had increased since many people,normally wary of security problems of open
1827: terminal rooms, were seen using the machines.
1.72 ho 1828: <p>
1829:
1.73 deraadt 1830: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1831: <a href="http://www.asc.unam.mx/disc98">DISC - Seguridad en
1.217 jose 1832: Cómputo 98</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1833: Nov 2 - 7, 1998, Mexico City<br>
1.132 louis 1834: Theo de Raadt gave a talk about security auditing, sponsored by
1.236 jose 1835: <a href="http://www.core-sdi.com">CORE SDI S.A.</a>, an Argentine
1.132 louis 1836: security auditing company who strongly believes in the future
1.236 jose 1837: of OpenBSD. (<a href="papers/mexico98-slides.ps">Slides are available</a>).
1.131 jufi 1838: <p>
1.73 deraadt 1839:
1.236 jose 1840: <li><strong>IP-dagarna</strong>,
1.216 jose 1841: Oct 29, 30 1998, Stockholm, Sweden (in swedish)<br>
1.132 louis 1842: At this conference, entirely devoted to IP, Niklas Hallqvist from the
1843: OpenBSD team held a talk on the IKE (a.k.a ISAKMP/Oakley) key management
1844: protocol and experiences from the implementation of <strong>isakmpd</strong>,
1845: an IKE implementation funded by Ericsson Radio Systems and developed
1846: primarily for the OpenBSD IPSEC stack.
1.79 deraadt 1847: <p>
1.73 deraadt 1848:
1.80 deraadt 1849: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 1850: <a href="http://www.nceexpo.com/">NCEE '98</a></strong>,
1851: Oct 9 - 10, 1998, Auburn, Maine, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1852: An extensive after-action report was sent to advocacy@openbsd.org. While
1.151 jsyn 1853: sales of shirts and CDROMs left much to be desired, we did have good
1.132 louis 1854: opportunities to further project visibility and highlight its strengths.
1.80 deraadt 1855: <p>
1856:
1.93 louis 1857: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1858: <a href="http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference">Reflections/Projections
1.216 jose 1859: 1998</a></strong>,
1.236 jose 1860: Oct 2 - 4, 1998, Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1861: Theo de Raadt spoke in a panel about Open/Free software with Eric
1862: Raymond and others.
1.93 louis 1863: <p>
1864:
1.216 jose 1865: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1866: <a href="http://opensource.oreilly.com/townmeet.html">O'Reilly and
1867: Associates Open Source Developer Days</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1868: Aug 21, 1998, San Jose, California, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1869: OpenBSD team members were on-hand to discuss OpenBSD's role among the
1.413 grunk 1870: other free software projects available. They also sold some CDs and T-shirts.
1.96 deraadt 1871: <p>
1872:
1.236 jose 1873: <li><strong><a name="defcon98"></a>
1874: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-6.html">Defcon VI</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1875: Jul 31 - Aug 2, 1998, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1876: The router to the outside world was an OpenBSD 2.3 box. It was involved
1877: in a "capture the flag" competition in which an entire room of crackers
1878: attempted to break into it and machines running other operating systems.
1879: The OpenBSD box was not broken into.
1880: <br>
1881: Almost 100 OpenBSD 2.3 CDROMs were sold (we ran out again). The primates
1.236 jose 1882: at <a href="http://www.monkey.org">monkey.org</a> brought 2.3
1.413 grunk 1883: "wire-frame" OpenBSD T-shirts to the conference and sold almost
1.132 louis 1884: 200 of them. The proceeds from the sales were donated to the OpenBSD project.
1.96 deraadt 1885: <p>
1.94 deraadt 1886:
1.236 jose 1887: <li><strong><a href="http://www.blackhat.com">BlackHat Sessions</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1888: Jul 29 - 30, 1998, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1889: Theo de Raadt presented a talk entitled
1890: "Auditing software for security" about the OpenBSD security auditing
1891: team's process and the lessons the team learned. The talk concentrated
1892: on how our process fixes bugs -- not just holes -- since one never knows
1893: when 5 bugs will act together to become a hole.
1.99 deraadt 1894: <p>
1895:
1.236 jose 1896: <li><strong><a name="usenix-neworleans"></a>
1897: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/usenix98/index.html">Usenix Annual Technical Conference</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1898: Jun 15 - 19, 1998, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1899: At Usenix 1998 there was a strong OpenBSD presence both in the Freenix
1900: and normal tracks. Theo did a general talk about what the OpenBSD
1901: project offers. Angelos held a panel about IPSEC (which is quite an
1902: OpenBSD topic since IPSEC development at that time was so much further
1903: ahead in OpenBSD than anywhere else).
1904: <br>
1905: The terminal room PCs ran OpenBSD 2.3. We sold many CDROMs. The
1.413 grunk 1906: first style of OpenBSD T-shirt also sold quite well.
1.101 wvdputte 1907: <p>
1908:
1.105 wvdputte 1909: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1910: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/sec98/index.html">Usenix Security</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1911: Jan 26 - 29, 1998, San Antonio, Texas, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1912: At this conference, Theo presented an evening talk which basically
1913: turned into a list of fixed security problems and cautionary tales about
1914: subsystems in which future problems may be encountered
1.236 jose 1915: (<a href="papers/security98-slides.ps">slides available</a>).
1.105 wvdputte 1916: <br>
1.132 louis 1917: The terminal room PCs ran OpenBSD 2.2.
1918: <p>
1.236 jose 1919: </ul>
1.105 wvdputte 1920:
1.132 louis 1921: <h3>1997</h3>
1.107 deraadt 1922:
1.236 jose 1923: <ul>
1.113 deraadt 1924: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1925: <a href="http://www.hip97.nl">HIP</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1926: Aug, 1997, Almere, Netherlands<br>
1.236 jose 1927: Niels held a
1928: <a href="http://www.physnet.uni-hamburg.de/provos/hip97-tcpip.html">talk</a>
1.132 louis 1929: about the problems of unencrypted TCP/IP connections, offering IPSEC as
1930: possible solution.
1.113 deraadt 1931: <p>
1.132 louis 1932:
1.236 jose 1933: <li><strong>HOPE</strong>,
1.216 jose 1934: Aug, 1997, New York, New York, USA<br>
1.166 miod 1935: The terminal room consisted primarily of DECstations running
1.236 jose 1936: OpenBSD 2.1. Once again, the <a href="http://www.l0pht.com">L0phT</a>
1.132 louis 1937: people had very good things to say about our security.
1.113 deraadt 1938: <p>
1.105 wvdputte 1939:
1.236 jose 1940: <li><strong><a name="defcon5"></a>
1941: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-5.html">Defcon V</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1942: Jul 11 - 13, 1997, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1943: At this conference, the OpenBSD team sold 100 or so 2.1 release CDROMs.
1944: <br>
1945: Since this is the primary security conference, many speakers said very
1.140 jufi 1946: good things about our stance on security... particularly people like
1.236 jose 1947: <a href="http://www.l0pht.com">the L0phT</a>.
1.118 deraadt 1948: <p>
1949:
1.125 deraadt 1950: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1951: <a
1952: href="http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/ana97/index.html">Usenix Annual Technical Conference</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1953: Jan 6 - 10, 1997, Anaheim, California, USA.<br>
1.132 louis 1954: Theo de Raadt held a BOF ("Birds Of a Feather", ie. a meeting of people
1955: interested in the same thing) about OpenBSD.
1.236 jose 1956: </ul>
1.125 deraadt 1957:
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