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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 39: <h2>Future events:</h2>
1.132 louis 40:
1.588 espie 41: <h3>2007</h3>
42:
43: <ul>
1.603 fkr 44: <p>
45:
1.615 deraadt 46: <li><strong><a name="fisl8"></a>
47: <a href="http://fisl.softwarelivre.org/8.0/www/?q=en">fisl8.0</a></strong>,
1.621 wvdputte 48: Apr 12-14, 2007, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil.<br>
1.615 deraadt 49: This is a very large conference in South America. Theo de Raadt will
50: present a few talks.
51: <p>
52:
1.606 wvdputte 53: <li><strong><a name="litol07"></a>
54: <a href="http://www.lit-ol.de/">2. Linux-Informationstag Oldenburg</a></strong>,
1.621 wvdputte 55: Apr 14 - 15, 2007, Oldenburg, Germany.<br>
1.606 wvdputte 56: Small Open-Source event, there will be an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth run by Wim
57: and Felix. On both days there will be an OpenBSD talk by Felix.
58: <p>
59:
1.642 ! mbalmer 60: <li><strong><a name="coimbra2007"></a>
! 61: <a href="http://www.openbsd-pt.com/">Portuguese OpenBSD Usergroup Meeting</a></strong>,
! 62: May 5 - 6, 2007, 2006, Coimbra, Portugal.<br>
! 63: 7th Meeting of the Portuguese OpenBSD Usergroup.
! 64: Marc Balmer and Pedro Martelleto will give presentations.
! 65: <p>
! 66:
1.625 wvdputte 67: <li><strong><a name="nluug2007"></a>
68: <a href="http://www.nluug.nl/events/vj07/index.html">NLUUG Voorjaarsconferentie
69: 2007</a></strong>,
70: May 10, 2007, Ede, Netherlands<br>
1.633 tom 71: There will be a
72: <a href="http://www.nluug.nl/events/vj07/abstracts/ab.html?id=2">presentation</a>
73: by Anil Madhavapeddy and an OpenBSD booth, run by the usual
1.625 wvdputte 74: suspects.
75: <p>
76:
1.636 michele 77: <li><strong><a name="obsdm2"></a>
78: <a href="http://www.openbeer.it/?open=obsdm2">OpenBSD Meeting V.2</a></strong>
79: May 12, 2007, Verona, Italy.<br>
80: Another event organized by the OpenBEER team with italian OpenBSD related talks.
81: Michele will present a talk about network stack.
82: <p>
83:
1.599 mbalmer 84: <li><strong><a name="confidence2007"></a>
85: <a href="http://2007.confidence.org.pl/">Confidence 2007</a></strong>,
86: May 12 - 13, 2007, Krakow, Poland.<br>
87: There will be presentations by OpenBSD developers and an OpenBSD booth,
88: run by the usual suspects.
89: <p>
90:
1.614 deraadt 91: <li><strong><a name="bsdcan2007"></a>
92: <a href="http://www.bsdcan.org/">BSDCan 2007</a></strong>,
93: May 16 - 19, 2007, Ottawa, Canada.<br>
94: Several OpenBSD developers will be there. Peter Hansteen will give a "Packet filtering for fun and profit" tutorial and present a "Fighting malware and spam with free tools" talk.
95: <p>
96:
1.621 wvdputte 97: <li><strong><a name="linuxtag2007"></a>
98: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.org/2007/en/">LinuxTag 2007</a>
99: </strong>,
100: May 30 - Jun 2, 2007, Berlin, Germany<br>
101: There will be presentations by OpenBSD developers and an OpenBSD booth,
102: run by the usual suspects.
103: <p>
104:
1.637 martin 105: <li><strong><a name=LinuxwochenVienna2007></a>
106: <a href="http://www.linuxwochen.at/2007/Wien">Linuxwochen Vienna 2007</a>
107: </strong>,
108: May 31 - Jun 2, 2007, Vienna, Austria.<br>
109: There will be an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth run by Martin Reindl and the usual
110: suspects.
111: <p>
112:
1.641 ajacouto 113: <li><strong><a name=Slackathon2007></a>
114: <a href="http://www.slackathon.se/">Slackathon 2007</a>
115: </strong>,
116: June 16, 2007, Stockholm, Sweden.<br>
117: Yet another round of fund raising for OpenBSD/SSH and general *BSD meeting in
118: Stockholm.
119: <p>
1.640 wvdputte 120:
1.617 wvdputte 121: <li><strong><a name="summercamp2007"></a>
122: <a href="http://events.ccc.de/camp/2007">Chaos Communication Camp 2007</a>
123: </strong>,
124: Aug 8 - 12, 2007, Finowfurt, Germany<br>
125: This open air event wil have a big OpenBSD village with all the usual suspects.
126: This year you can actually fly in with your private jet as it's held at
127: the Luftfahrtmuseum Finowfurt.
128: <p>
1.614 deraadt 129:
1.620 wvdputte 130: <li><strong><a name="froscon2007"></a>
131: <a href="http://www.froscon.de">FrOSCon 2007</a></strong>,
132: Aug 25 - 26, 2007, Bonn/Rhein-Sieg, Germany<br>
133: There will be developers present as well as an OpenBSD booth,
134: run by the usual suspects.
135: <p>
136:
1.612 mk 137: <li><strong><a name="eurobsdcon2007"></a>
138: <a href="http://2007.eurobsdcon.org/">EuroBSDCon 2007</a></strong>,
1.621 wvdputte 139: Sep 14 - 15, 2007, Copenhagen, Denmark.<br>
140: There will be developers present as well as an OpenBSD booth,
141: run by the usual suspects.
142: <p>
143:
144: <li><strong><a name="t-dose2007"></a>
145: <a href="http://www.t-dose.org/">T-DOSE 2007</a></strong>,
146: Oct 13 - 14, 2007, Eindhoven, The Netherlands.<br>
147: Technical Dutch Open Source Event<br>
1.612 mk 148: There will be developers present as well as an OpenBSD booth,
149: run by the usual suspects.
150: <p>
151:
1.588 espie 152: </ul>
153:
1.597 mbalmer 154: <hr>
155:
156: <h2>Past events:</h2>
157:
1.616 wvdputte 158: <h3>2007</h3>
159: <ul>
1.638 grunk 160: <li><strong><a name="elite2007"></a>
161: <a href="http://www.erlug.de/?q=node/323">5. Erlanger Linuxtage</a></strong>,
162: Mar 24 - 25, 2007, Erlangen, Germany.<br>
163: There was an OpenBSD/OpenSSH booth, run by Alexander von Gernler (grunk@).
164: He also gave a talk called
1.639 grunk 165: <a href="papers/elite2007/elite2007-openbsd.pdf">
1.638 grunk 166: "Sichere Systeme mit OpenBSD" (german)</a>.
167: <p>
168:
1.635 tom 169: <li><strong><a name="ukuug2007"></a>
170: <a href="http://www.ukuug.org/events/spring2007/">UKUUG Spring 2007 Conference</a></strong>,
171: Mar 19 - 21, 2007, Manchester, United Kingdom<br>
172: Tom Cosgrove gave a presentation about "Third-Party Applications on OpenBSD"
173: at the annual spring meeting of the
174: <a href="http://www.ukuug.org/">UK's Unix and Open Systems User Group</a>.
175: <p>
176:
1.627 mcbride 177: <li><strong><a name="asiabsdcon2007"></a>
178: <a href="http://www.asiabsdcon.org/">AsiaBSDCon 2007</a></strong>,
179: Mar 8 - 11, 2007, Tokyo, Japan.<br>
1.631 mbalmer 180: Marc Balmer presented a paper <a href="papers/radio-clocks-asiabsdcon07.pdf">Supporting Radio Clocks in OpenBSD</a>. Presentation
181: <a href="papers/asiabsdcon07-radioclocks/index.html">slides</a> are also
182: available.<br>
1.627 mcbride 183: Ryan McBride gave talks on <a href="papers/asiabsdcon07-development/index.html">OpenBSD as a Development Platform</a> and <a href="papers/asiabsdcon07-network_randomness/index.html">OpenBSD Network Randomness Injection: Further Improvements</a>.<br>
1.630 mbalmer 184: Mathieu Sauve-Frankel gave a talk <a href="papers/asiabsdcon07-ipsec/index.html">Recent Improvements in OpenBSD's IPSec Support</a>.<br>
185: Damien Miller presented a paper <a href="papers/openssh-measures-asiabsdcon2007.pdf">Security measures in OpenSSH</a>. Presentation
1.628 djm 186: <a href="papers/openssh-measures-asiabsdcon2007-slides.pdf">slides</a> are
187: also available.<br>
1.627 mcbride 188: There were also PF tutorials back to back, Peter Hansteen's "Firewalling with OpenBSD's PF packet filter" and Ryan McBride's "Advanced PF Rulesets".
189: <p>
190:
1.622 fkr 191: <li><strong><a name="linuxforum2007"></a>
192: <a href="http://www.linuxforum.dk/2007/">LinuxForum 2007</a></strong>,
193: Mar 2 - 3, 2007, Copenhagen, Denmark.<br>
1.623 wvdputte 194: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth run by Wim, Bernd and Michael in the
1.633 tom 195: <a href="http://img.ba-net.org/LinuxForum2007/">best of circumstances</a>.
1.622 fkr 196: Felix gave a talk titled
197: <a href="papers/linuxforum07/index.html">OpenBSD - Past, Present and Future</a>.
198: <p>
199:
1.619 wvdputte 200: <li><strong><a name=Brussels2007></a>
201: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/2007/">FOSDEM Brussels 2007</a></strong>,
202: Feb 24 - 25, 2007, Brussels, Belgium.<br>
203: There was an an OpenBSD/OpenSSH booth with Matthieu, Marc, Mickey, Saad
204: and Wim. On Saturday we had our traditional BSD dinner.<br>
205: Matthieu gave a <a href="papers/fosdem07-xenocara.pdf">
206: talk on Xenocara</a> in the X.Org devroom.
207: <p>
1.616 wvdputte 208:
209: <li><strong><a name="kiberpipa2007"></a>
210: <a href="http://pot.kiberpipa.org">Kiberpipa open sessions</a></strong>,
211: February 20, 2007, Ljubljana, Slovenia.<br>
212: On that edition of weekly "Open sessions" meetings
213: <a href="http://www.kerberos.si">Mitja Muzenic</a> gave a
214: <a href="http://pot.kiberpipa.org/?p=39">talk</a> on OpenBSD.
1.619 wvdputte 215: <a href="http://www.kerberos.si/papers/Kiberpipa07/">Slides</a> (in Slovenian),
216: <a href="http://video.kiberpipa.org/media/POT_OpenBSD">video</a> (in Slovenian),
1.616 wvdputte 217: and <a href="http://gallery.kerberos.si/kiberpipa07/">photos</a> are available.
218: <p>
219:
220: </ul>
221:
1.445 martin 222: <h3>2006</h3>
1.236 jose 223: <ul>
1.537 deraadt 224:
1.588 espie 225: <li><strong><a name="23c3"></a>
1.577 mbalmer 226: <a href="https://events.ccc.de/congress/2006/">23C3 Chaos Communication Congress in
227: Berlin</a></strong>,
228: December 27 - 30, 2006, Berlin, Germany.<br>
1.597 mbalmer 229: Who can you trust? Well, us. OpenBSD was there, of course, for our annual
1.595 reyk 230: closing event. fkr, grunk, jsg, mbalmer, mickey, sturm, uwe, martin,
1.598 bernd 231: henning, moritz, bernd and wvdputte were there
1.597 mbalmer 232: there to chat with attendees and discuss OpenBSD stuff. It was - as usual -
233: a great end-of-the-year event. See you in Berlin again end of 2007.
1.577 mbalmer 234: <p>
235:
1.594 mbalmer 236: <li><strong><a name="moscow2006"></a>
237: <a href="https://kd85.com/">Moscow OpenBSD user meeting</a></strong>,
238: December 8 - 9, 2006, Moscow, Russia.<br>
1.633 tom 239: For details, please email <a href="mailto:grange@opensd.org">Grange</a>
1.594 mbalmer 240: <p>
241:
1.515 tom 242: <li><strong><a name="opencon2006"></a>
243: <a href="http://www.opencon.org/">OpenCON 2006</a></strong>,
1.569 deraadt 244: Dec 2 - 3, 2006, <a href="http://www.riminiturismo.com/metha/scheda.asp?idHotel=16&lang=uk">CourtYard Venice</a> Airport, Tessera/Venice - Italy<br>
1.568 mbalmer 245: OpenCON is the only conference dedicated solely to OpenBSD.
1.587 deraadt 246: 135 people were registered for the event, but since it was a completely open event is likely that
247: even more people just walked in.
1.577 mbalmer 248: Most talks were by OpenBSD developers, but there was also an impressive
1.568 mbalmer 249: number of our developers just attending the conference. Talks by OpenBSD
1.577 mbalmer 250: developers were:
1.568 mbalmer 251: <p>
1.535 deraadt 252: <ul>
1.581 claudio 253: <li>Claudio Jeker: <a href="papers/opencon06-network/index.html">
254: Network stack changes in OpenBSD</a>
1.580 deraadt 255: <li>Marc Balmer: <a href="papers/opencon06-nmea/index.html">
256: Support for Time Signal Station Receivers and GPS in OpenBSD</a>
1.601 fkr 257: <li>Felix Kronlage: <a href="papers/opencon06-umts/index.html">Redundancy or mobile deployment with 3G technology</a>
1.584 jsg 258: <li>Jonathan Gray: <a href="papers/opencon06-drivers/index.html">
259: Driver architecture and implementation in OpenBSD</a>
1.543 mbalmer 260: <li>Gordon Klok: <i>Processor Power Management</i>
1.596 dlg 261: <li>David Gwynne: <a href="papers/opencon06-culture.pdf">The OpenBSD
262: Culture</a> and he also filled in for Marco's
263: <a href="papers/opencon06-bio.pdf">Bio and Sensors in OpenBSD</a> talk.
1.582 michele 264: <li>Michele Marchetto: <a href="papers/opencon06-ripd/index.html">
265: OpenRIPD</a>
1.574 mbalmer 266: <li>Reyk Floeter: <i>IPsec demystified</i>
1.580 deraadt 267: <li>Theo de Raadt: <a href="papers/opencon06-docs">
268: Why hardware documentation matters so much and why it is so hard to get</a>
1.535 deraadt 269: </ul>
1.502 mbalmer 270: <p>
1.577 mbalmer 271: Also present were jcs, krw, mglocker, robert, wvdputte, martin, grunk,
272: dhartmei, aanriot, sturm, and bernd. Of course there was an OpenBSD booth
273: run by the usual suspects and you could buy our CD-ROMS, the audio CD and other
1.568 mbalmer 274: stuff.
275: <p>
1.502 mbalmer 276:
1.575 reyk 277: <li><strong><a name=opensourcetag2006></a>
278: <a href="http://www.opensourcetag.de/2006/">OpenSourceTag 2006</a></strong>,
279: Nov 30, 2006, Hannover, Germany.<br>
280: Reyk gave a <a href="http://www.opensourcetag.de/2006/agenda/">talk</a> about OpenBSD
281: as a reference project for secure software.
282: <p>
283:
1.583 henning 284: <li><strong><a name=epf2006></a>
285: <a href="http://www.peering-forum.eu/2006/">European Peering Forum 2006</a></strong>,
286: Nov 29 - 30, 2006, Frankfurt, Germany.<br>
287: The European Peering Forum in Frankfurt was hosted by the 3 big european
288: peering points DE-CIX, AMSIX and LINX, bringing network operators together.
289: Henning was talking about OpenBGPD,
290: <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/epf2006/">slides</a> are available.
291: <p>
292:
1.565 krw 293: <li><strong><a name=conisli2006></a>
294: <a href="http://conisli.org/">CONISLI 2006</a></strong>,
295: Nov 3 - 5, 2006, São Paulo, Brazil<br>
296: 4th edition of São Paulo's International Free Software Congress.
1.567 pedro 297: Ken Westerback and Pedro Martelletto gave a talk
298: (<a href="http://www2.par.inf.puc-rio.br/~pedro/conisli-html/">slides</a>).
1.565 krw 299: <p>
300:
1.559 jason 301: <li><strong><a name=nycbsdcon2006></a>
302: <a href="http://nycbsdcon.org/">NYCBSDCon 2006</a></strong>,
303: Oct 28 - 29, 2006, New York City, USA<br>
304: NYCBSDCon is the main conference on the East Coast for the
305: BSD community to get together to share and gain knowledge,
1.562 jason 306: to network with like minded people. Several developers
1.563 jason 307: spoke, more were on hand:
1.559 jason 308: <ul>
309: <li>Marco Peereboom: <a href="papers/bio.pdf">bio and sensors in OpenBSD</a>
1.563 jason 310: [<a href="http://www.fetissov.org/public/nycbsdcon06/1.6.mp3">audio</a>]
1.605 jason 311: <li>Jason Wright: <a href="papers/nycbsdcon06_sparc64/">OpenBSD/sparc64</a> [<a href="http://www.fetissov.org/public/nycbsdcon06/2.1.mp3">audio</a>]
1.563 jason 312: <li>Bob Beck: <a href="http://www.ualberta.ca/~beck/nycbug06/pf">PF, it is not just for firewalls anymore</a> [<a href="http://www.fetissov.org/public/nycbsdcon06/1.3.mp3">audio</a>]
313: <li>Bob Beck: <a href="http://www.ualberta.ca/~beck/nycbug06/spamd">OpenBSD spamd - greylisting and beyond</a> [<a href="http://www.fetissov.org/public/nycbsdcon06/2.4.mp3">audio</a>]
1.559 jason 314: <li>Ray Lai: <i>First time booth bunny</i>
315: </ul>
316: <p>
317:
1.556 fgsch 318: <li><strong><a name=linuxworlduk2006></a>
319: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.co.uk/">LinuxWorld Expo UK 2006</a></strong>,
320: Oct 25 - 26, 2006, Olympia, London, UK.<br>
1.558 wvdputte 321: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Wim, Tom, Peter, Federico and
322: Pedro La Peu.
1.556 fgsch 323: <p>
324:
1.589 aanriot 325: <li><strong><a name=cuug2006oct></a>
326: <a href="http://www.cuug.ab.ca/">Calgary Unix Users Group</a></strong>,
327: Oct 24, 2006, downtown Library, basement meeting room, Calgary, Alberta.<br>
328: Theo de Raadt gave a talk regarding the increasing demand for
329: vendors to open up their documentation.
330: <p>
331:
1.553 grunk 332: <li><strong><a name="systems2006"></a>
333: <a href="http://www.systems.de/">Systems</a></strong>,
334: Oct 23 - 27, 2006, Munich, Germany <br>
335: The *BSD projects were located at A3.542.
336: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
337: Wilhelm Bühler, DaN, Nikolay Sturm, Marco Pfatschbacher,
338: and some other volunteers.
339: <p>
340:
1.550 henning 341: <li><strong><a name=hacklu2006></a>
342: <a href="http://www.hack.lu/">hack.lu 2006</a></strong>,
343: Oct 19 - 21, 2006, Luxembourg/Kirchberg.<br>
344: Henning Brauer gave a well received talk about OpenBGPD.
345: <p>
346:
1.547 aanriot 347: <li><strong><a name=aldil2006></a>
348: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/">Les Journées Du Logiciel Libre
349: 2006</a></strong>,
350: Oct 13 - 14, 2006, Lyon, France.<br>
351: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Miod Vallat and Alexandre
352: Anriot with the help of Thierry Thomas and Damien Bergamini.
353: <p>
354:
1.546 mcbride 355: <li><strong><a name=auug2006></a>
356: <a href="http://new.auug.org.au/">AUUG 2006</a></strong>,
357: Oct 10 - 13, 2006, Melbourne, Australia.<br>
358: Ryan Mcbride presented a full-day tutorial entitled
359: "Advanced PF Rulesets" as well as two additional talks
360: <a href="papers/auug2006/pf_evolution/">PF evolution</a>
361: and
362: <a href="papers/auug2006/network_randomness/">Network stack randomness in OpenBSD</a>.
363: <p>
364:
1.532 wvdputte 365: <li><strong><a name=eurooscon2006></a>
366: <a href="http://conferences.oreillynet.com/euos2006/">O'Reilly Euro OSCON 2006
367: </a></strong>,
368: Sep 20, 2006, Brussels, Belgium.<br>
369: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth.
370: <p>
371:
1.528 wvdputte 372: <li><strong><a name=come2linux2006></a>
373: <a href="http://www.come2linux.org/psp/">Come 2 Linux 2006</a></strong>,
374: Sep 9 - 10, 2006, Duisburg-Essen, Germany.<br>
375: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth.
376: <p>
377:
1.525 wvdputte 378: <li><strong><a name=ChaosdaysDarmstadt2006></a>
379: <a href="http://mrmcd101b.metarheinmain.de/index.html">mrmcd101b - MetaRheinMainChaosDays Darmstadt 2006</a>
380: </strong>,
381: Sep 1 - 3, 2006, Darmstadt, Germany.<br>
382: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth.
383: <p>
384:
1.521 fkr 385: <li><strong><a name=LinuxWorldExpoSF2006></a>
386: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/live/12/events/12SFO06A/conference/tracksessions/Security/QMONYA04ROFR">LinuxWorld Expo San Francisco 2006</a>
387: </strong>,
388: Aug 16, 2006, San Francisco, United States.<br>
389: Ted Unangst spoke about OpenBSD as part of a security panel.
390: <p>
391:
1.518 tedu 392: <li><strong><a name=coimbra2006></a>
393: <a href="http://www.openbsd-pt.com/eventos/coimbra06/">Portuguese OpenBSD Usergroup Meeting</a></strong>,
394: Jul 22 - 23, 2006, Coimbra, Portugal.<br>
395: 6th Meeting of the Portuguese OpenBSD Usergroup. Marc Balmer gave a talk
396: "NMEA 0183 and Time Signal Station Receiver Support in OpenBSD".
397: <p>
398:
399: <li><strong><a name=akqit2006></a>
400: <a href="http://www.akqit.ch/w3/DE/actual.html">Arbeitskreis für Qualität in der Informationstechnologie (Working Group for Quality in IT)</a></strong>,
401: Jul 20, 2006, University of Basel, Computer Science Department, Room 205, Bernoullistr. 16, 17:30 - 18:30<br>
1.590 mbalmer 402: Marc Balmer gave a talk in german "<a href="papers/akqit06/index.html">Ensuring
403: Quality in the Development of the Free Operating System OpenBSD</a>".
1.518 tedu 404: <p>
1.475 deraadt 405:
1.510 wvdputte 406: <li><strong><a name="lsm2006"></a>
407: <a href="http://www.rmll.info">Libre Software Meeting 2006</a></strong>,
408: Jul 4 - 8, 2006, Vandoeuvre-les-nancy, France.<br>
409: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Wim, Alexandre, Matthieu and
410: Serge Basterot.
411: <p>
412:
1.508 wvdputte 413: <li><strong><a name=FrOSCon></a>
414: <a href="http://www.froscon.de/">
415: FrOSCon 2006 - Free and Open Source Software Conference</a></strong>,
416: Jun 24 - 25, 2006, Bonn/Rhein-Sieg, Germany.<br>
1.518 tedu 417: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth run by Wim, Waldemar, Manuel and
1.508 wvdputte 418: Tim Kornau.
419: <p>
420:
1.507 mbalmer 421: <li><strong><a name=LinuxwochenLinz2006></a>
422: <a href="http://www.linuxwochen.at/2006/Linz">Linuxwochen Linz 2006</a>
423: </strong>,
424: June 15, 2006, Linz, Austria.<br>
425: There was an an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth run by Wim and the usual suspects.
426: <p>
427:
1.506 deraadt 428: <li><strong><a name=lugverona2006></a>
1.526 steven 429: <a href="http://www.di.univr.it/dol/main?ent=iniziativa&id=857&lang=it">LUGVR@UNIVR</a></strong>
1.506 deraadt 430: Jun 9, 2006, Verona University, Borgo Roma, Italy.<br>
431: Florin Iamandi of <a href="https://www.verona.linux.it">LUG Verona</a>
432: gave a talk
433: (<a href="http://todome.net/docs/obsd_carp/en">English</a> and
434: <a href="http://todome.net/docs/obsd_carp/it">Italian</a>)
435: and live demonstration on redundant failover
436: OpenBSD firewalls. He explained why OpenBSD solves many problems that
437: had previously been the dominion of expensive commercial solutions.
438: Attendees learned about OpenBSD's hard stance and successful fight against
439: bad licences and uncooperating vendors and manufacturers.
440: <p>
441:
1.502 mbalmer 442: <li><strong><a name=Slackathon2006></a>
443: <a href="http://slackathon2006.unix.se">Slackathon 2006</a>
444: </strong>
445: Jun 3, 2006, Stockholm, Sweden.<br>
446: A fundraiser for OpenBSD/SSH held at the Stockholm University. Free
1.505 ian 447: entrance and all donations went straight to the project. Several
1.502 mbalmer 448: developers were talking about OpenBSD here, as well as some hands-on
449: workshops took place with both old and new hardware.
450: <p>
451:
1.500 deraadt 452: <li><strong><a name=cuug2006></a>
453: <a href="http://www.cuug.ab.ca/">Calgary Unix Users Group</a></strong>,
454: Jun 1, 2006, SAIT Campus, Calgary, Alberta.<br>
1.504 miod 455: Bob Beck and Reyk Floeter discussed recent and future networking
456: changes in OpenBSD. Some other OpenBSD developers attended to provide
1.500 deraadt 457: international colour, and there were tshirts, CDs, and posters on hand.
458: CUUG made a substantial contribution to OpenBSD at this event as well.
459: <p>
460:
1.589 aanriot 461: <li><strong><a name=LinuxwochenVienna2006></a>
462: <a href="http://www.linuxwochen.at/2006/Wien">Linuxwochen Vienna 2006</a>
463: </strong>,
464: May 31 - Jun 2, 2006, Vienna, Austria.<br>
465: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth run by Wim and the usual suspects.
466: <p>
467:
1.585 aanriot 468: <li><strong><a name=plug060519></a>
1.586 aanriot 469: <a href="http://www.plugfr.org/">Provence Linux User Group</a></strong>
470: May 19, 2006, Marseille, France.<br>
1.585 aanriot 471: Alexandre Anriot spoke about the deployment of wireless networks with
1.586 aanriot 472: OpenBSD during a meeting of the PLUG.
1.585 aanriot 473: <p>
474:
1.491 bernd 475: <li><strong><a name="SANE2006"></a>
476: <a href="http://www.sane.nl/sane2006/">SANE 2006</a></strong>,
477: May 15 - 19, 2006, Delft, The Netherlands.<br>
478: Peter N. M. Hansteen gave a
479: <a href="http://www.sane.nl/sane2006/program/abstract.php?eventid=35">
480: PF tutorial</a>.
481: <p>
482:
1.490 reyk 483: <li><strong><a name=bsdcan2006></a> <a
484: href="http://www.bsdcan.org/2006/">BSDCan 2006</a></strong>,
485: May 12 - 13, 2006, Ottawa, Canada.<br>
486: David Gwynne gave a talk about hardware monitoring with bio and
487: sensors in OpenBSD (<a href="papers/bsdcan06-biosensors.pdf">slides</a>)
488: and Reyk Flöter talked about the latest
489: wireless support and the incredible plans for the future
490: (<a href="papers/bsdcan06-wlan/index.html">slides</a>), and
491: Peter Hansteen gave a PF tutorial. A number of OpenBSD hackers
492: attended the conference as well, like Bob Beck and Mathieu Sauve-Frankel.
493: <p>
494:
1.489 bernd 495: <li><strong><a name="linuxdays2006"></a>
496: <a href="http://www.linuxdays.ch">Linuxdays 2006</a></strong>,
497: May 8 - 12, 2006, Geneva, Switzerland.<br>
498: Julien Mabillard, a long-time Geneva OpenBSD user, gave a talk to present
499: the overall system and its great features.
500: <p>
501:
1.592 claudio 502: <li><strong><a name="idepes2006"></a>
1.589 aanriot 503: <a href="http://www.idepes.org.br/openbsd/">IDEPES 2006</a></strong>,
504: May 6, 2006, São Paulo, Brazil.<br>
505: First event in Brazil totally dedicated to OpenBSD.
506: <p>
507:
1.592 claudio 508: <li><strong><a name="LinuxTag2006"></a>
1.484 mbalmer 509: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.org/2006/">LinuxTag 2006</a></strong>,
510: May 3 - 6, 2006, Wiesbaden, Germany.<br>
511: OpenBSD was very present at this years Linuxtag:
512: <ul>
513: <li>On friday morning, Claudio and Marc moderated a panel discussion
514: "BLOBS sind das Krebsgeschwür freier Software" (Blobs are the
1.485 mbalmer 515: cancer of free software) that was well attended. Unfortunately no one
1.484 mbalmer 516: in favour of Blobs attended, although we asked almost all Linux
517: distributions...
518: <li>After lunch, Marc Balmer started the afternoon with a talk "OpenBSD
519: as a Strategic Platform for the Basle Public Schools", outlining how and
1.485 mbalmer 520: why the Basle Public school system uses OpenBSD for most of its
1.484 mbalmer 521: infrastructure.
1.592 claudio 522: <li>The next OpenBSD specific talk was by Claudio Jeker,
523: <a href="papers/linuxtag06-network/">"Routing with OpenBSD using
524: OpenOSPFD and OpenBGPD"</a> where he showed various routing setups and
525: how full redundancy can be achieved.
526: [<a href="papers/linuxtag06-network.pdf">paper</a>]
1.484 mbalmer 527: <li>Later, Marc Balmer gave a talk "Decoding Time Signal Stations using
528: OpenBSD" and explained the recent addition of timedelta sensors and the
529: first implementation of such, udcf(4).
530: </ul>
531: <br>
532: All talks where very well received and OpenBSD filled four hours of the
1.485 mbalmer 533: Linuxtag program. We thank Wilhelm Bühler, chair of the BSD-Track
1.484 mbalmer 534: at Linuxtag, for the superb and professional organization.
535: <br>
536: Of course, there was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth run by Wim and the
537: usual suspects.
538: <p>
539:
1.486 mickey 540: <li><strong><a name=NYCBUG2006-05></a>
541: <a href="http://nycbug.org/index.php?NAV=Home&SUBM=83">NYCBUG Monthly meeting</a></strong>,
542: May 3, 2006, NYC, USA.<br>
543: Mickey gave a talk
1.564 jason 544: (<a href="papers/nyc2006">slides</a> and <a href="http://www.fetissov.org/public/nycbug/nycbug-05-03-06.mp3">audio</a>))
1.486 mickey 545: about PAE work for OpenBSD/i386.<br>
546: Mischa Diehm gave a talk about implementing VPN using OpenBSD.
547: <p>
548:
1.484 mbalmer 549: <li><strong><a name=tokyo2006></a>
550: <a href="http://www.tokyopc.org/index.php/weblog/">Tokyo PC Users Group</a></strong>,
551: May 2, 2006, Tokyo.<br>
552: Theo presented his <a href="papers/ven05-deraadt">"Exploit Mitigation Techniques"</a>
553: talk. There is a
554: <a href="http://www.tokyopc.org/faxmessage/index.html#about">map to the location</a>.
555: <p>
556:
1.478 mbalmer 557: <li><strong><a name=SambaEXPerience2006></a>
558: <a href="http://www.sambaxp.org/">Samba eXPerience 2006</a></strong>,
559: April 24 - 26, 2006, Göttingen, Germany.<br>
560: Marc Balmer gave a talk "Providing Fully Automated Fileserver Services
561: for Public Schools using LDAP Integrated SAMBA on OpenBSD" that was very
562: well received.
563: <br>
564: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth run by Wim and Marc and Felix Kronlage
565: and we could draw a lot of attention.
566: <p>
567:
1.479 deraadt 568: <li><strong><a name=DORSCLUC2006></a>
569: <a href="http://www.open.hr/dc2006/"> DORS / CLUC 2006</a></strong>,
570: April 19-21, 2006, Zagreb, Croatia.<br>
571: <a href="http://www.kerberos.si">Mitja Muzenic</a> gave a
1.480 mbalmer 572: <a href="http://www.kerberos.si/papers/DORS06/index.html">
573: "Introduction to OpenBSD"</a> talk. Conference
574: <a href="http://www.open.hr/dc2006/program.php">program</a> (in croatian
1.479 deraadt 575: only).
576: <p>
577:
1.475 deraadt 578: <li><strong><a name=linuxworld2006></a>
579: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/live/12/events/12BOS06A/">
580: LinuxWorld/OpenSolutions World 2006</a></strong>,
581: April 3 - 6, 2006, Boston, USA.<br>
582: Jason Dixon presented
583: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/live/12/events/12BOS06A/conference/tracksessions/Security/QMONYA04Q1DK">Secure Network Architectures with OpenBSD</a>,
584: a talk on OpenBSD that outlines the various technologies that make
585: it a leader of secure networking platforms.
586: <br>
587: He spent time around the exposition BSD booth with giveaways
588: and early release OpenBSD 3.9 CDs.
589: <p>
590:
591: <li><strong><a name=cansecwest06></a>
592: <a href="http://www.cansecwest.com">Cansecwest/core06</a></strong>,
593: April 3 - 7, 2006, Vancouver.<br>
594: A rather interesting OpenBSD-related talk happened at this event, regarding
595: using SMI interrupts to break out of X into kernel mode.
596: <br>
597: Some OpenBSD developers attended. Some early OpenBSD 3.9 items went
598: on sale.
599: <p>
600:
1.469 tom 601: <li><strong><a name=ukuug2006></a>
602: <a href="http://www.ukuug.org/events/spring2006/">UKUUG Spring Conference 2006</a></strong>,
603: Mar 22 - 23, 2006, Durham, United Kingdom<br>
604: Reyk Flöter gave a talk about the latest wireless support in
605: OpenBSD at the annual spring meeting of the
606: <a href="http://www.ukuug.org/">UK's Unix and Open Systems User Group</a>.
607: Peter N. M. Hansteen
608: gave a PF tutorial, Tom Cosgrove presented "Exploit
609: Mitigation Techniques" and Constantine Murenin gave a
610: presentation on "Hardware temperature monitoring device
611: drivers for OpenBSD".
612: These were all part of a new, well-attended, BSD stream at the event.
613: <p>
614:
1.459 henning 615: <li><strong><a name=Copenhagen2006></a>
616: <a href="http://www.linuxforum.dk/2006/en/">LinuxForum 2006</a></strong>,
617: Mar 3 - 4, 2006, Copenhagen, Denmark<br>
618: Wim gave Felix Kronlage's talk about OpenBSD Mobile Use (wifi, UMTS,
619: GPRS, phones and the like) with some demo setups.
620: Henning Brauer gave a very well received talk about OpenBGPD,
621: <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/linuxforum2006/">slides</a> are available.
622: <p>
623:
1.457 wvdputte 624: <li><strong><a name=Brussels2006></a>
625: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/2006/">FOSDEM Brussels 2006</a></strong>,
626: Feb 25 - 26, 2006, Brussels, Belgium.<br>
627: An OpenBSD/OpenSSH booth was present, run by the usual gang of suspects:
1.458 xsa 628: Alexandre, Dimitar, Matthieu, Mbalmer, Nikolay, Otto, Reyk, Saad, Thierry, Uwe, Wim, and
1.457 wvdputte 629: Xsa. Reyk gave a talk about Wifi with OpenBSD and there was our traditional
630: BSD dinner. More details and
631: <a href="http://saad.docisland.org/pictures/fosdem2006/index.html">pictures</a>
1.458 xsa 632: on <a href="http://saad.docisland.org/blog/files/archive-12.html#unique-entry-id-40">Saad's blog</a>.
1.457 wvdputte 633: <p>
634:
635: <li><strong><a name=Vegas2006></a>
636: <a href="http://kd85.com/vegas2006.html">Merciful briefings 2006</a></strong>,
637: Feb 15, 2006, Las Vegas, USA - Feb 17, 2006, San Diego, USA - Feb 18, 2006, Phoenix, USA.<br>
638: While traveling the US, Wim met with a bunch of OpenBSD users in Las Vegas,
639: San Diego and Phoenix. With many thanks to the members of PhxBUG - Phoenix BSD
640: User Group, more specificly Darrin Chandler, for organising the little
641: details and Jacob for road trip directions.
642: <p>
1.455 grunk 643:
1.456 henning 644: <li><strong><a name=nanog36></a>
645: <a href="http://www.nanog.org/">NANOG 36</a></strong>,
646: Feb 12 - 15, 2006, Dallas, USA.<br>
647: Henning Brauer and Bernhard Kroenung of DE-CIX talked about OpenBGPD and
648: OpenBGPD at DE-CIX, <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/nanog36/">slides</a>
649: are available. Henning talked again at the tools BOF
650: (<a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/nanog36-bof/">slides</a>).
651: Both talks were very well received by the audience.
652: Kenjiro Cho was there too, talking about IPv6 issues.
653: <p>
654:
1.455 grunk 655: <li><strong><a name="Paris2006"></a>
656: <a href="http://www.solutionslinux.fr/fr/index.php">Solutions Linux 2006</a>
657: </strong>,
658: Jan 31 - Feb 2, 2006, Paris, France.<br>
659: There was an OpenBSD booth run by Marc Espie, Miod Vallat, Saad Kadhi and
660: Wim with help from Guillaume Arcas and Christophe Plasschaert.
661: <p>
662: </ul>
663:
1.296 mcbride 664: <h3>2005</h3>
1.240 espie 665:
666: <ul>
1.337 deraadt 667:
1.445 martin 668: <li><strong><a name=22c3></a>
669: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/2005/">22C3 Chaos Communication Congress in
670: Berlin</a></strong>,
671: December 27 - 30, 2005, Berlin, Germany.<br>
672: Many OpenBSD developers and users met for a Xmas break in a unique setting.
673: <p>
674:
1.585 aanriot 675: <li><strong><a name=plug051216></a>
1.586 aanriot 676: <a href="http://www.plugfr.org/">Provence Linux User Group</a></strong>
677: December 16, 2005, Marseille, France.<br>
678: Alexandre Anriot spoke about OpenSSH during a meeting of the PLUG.
1.585 aanriot 679: <p>
680:
1.435 matthieu 681: <li><strong><a name=eurobsdcon2005></a>
682: <a href="http://2005.eurobsdcon.org/">EuroBSDCon 2005</a></strong>,
683: Nov 25 - 27, 2005, Basel, Switzerland.<br>
684: The 4th edition of the european conference for BSD systems has been a
685: great success. More than 225 people from 27 countries attended the
1.438 deraadt 686: event.
1.444 grunk 687: The program included a
688: <a href="http://www.eurobsdcon.org/tutorials-reyk.php">tutorial by Reyk about
1.437 niallo 689: OpenBSD-based Wireless Networks</a> and the following talks
690: <ul>
1.438 deraadt 691: <li>Henning Brauer with Wilhelm Bühler "Signal Handlers"
692: <li>Ryan McBride "Network Stack Randomness"
1.439 matthieu 693: <li><a href="papers/eurobsd2005/herrb-hopf.pdf">Matthieu Herrb and Matthias Hopf "New Evolutions in the X Window System"</a>
1.440 claudio 694: <li><a href="papers/eurobsd2005/claudio/">Claudio Jeker "The Design and Implementation of OpenOSPFD"</a>
1.439 matthieu 695: <li><a href="papers/eurobsd2005/niallo-uwe/">Niall O'Higgins & Uwe Stuehler "Embedded OpenBSD"</a>
1.443 deraadt 696: <li><a href="papers/eurobsd2005/tedu-rthreads.pdf">Ted Unangst "rthreads: A New Thread Implementation for OpenBSD"</a>
1.437 niallo 697: </ul>
1.438 deraadt 698: <p>
1.435 matthieu 699: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
700: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
701: <p>
702:
1.434 bernd 703: <li><strong><a name=linuxworldexpogermany2005></a>
704: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.de/">Linux World Expo Germany</a></strong>,
705: Nov 15 - 17, 2005, Frankfurt, Germany.<br>
706: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
707: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a> and Bernd.
708: <p>
709:
1.441 niallo 710: <li><strong><a name="pacsec05"></a>
711: <a href="http://www.pacsec.jp/">PacSec/core 05 conference</a></strong>,
712: Nov 15 - 16, 2005, Tokyo, Japan.<br>
713: Sean Comeau presented a talk called
714: <a href="http://www.openbsd-support.com/jp/en/htm/mgp/pacsec05/index.html">
715: Open Source Secure Wireless Networks in a Windows World</a>
716: <a href="http://www.pacsec.jp/core05/psj05-scomeau-en.pdf">[PDF]</a>.
717: The solution he presents uses IPsec to protect traffic between the
718: wireless clients and access points. Authentication is done using OpenSSH
719: (authpf), a process made transparent and user-friendly by a few small
720: scripts.
721: <p>
722:
1.424 mbalmer 723: <li><strong><a name=opencon2005></a>
724: <a href="http://www.opencon.org/">OpenCON 2005</a></strong>,
725: Nov 4 - 6, 2005, San Servolo Island, Venice, Italy.<br>
1.427 deraadt 726: The only unique conference entirely dedicated to OpenBSD, held in the totally
727: crazy environment of San Servolo island: an old insane asylum turned into a
728: university about 20 years ago, about 10 minutes boat ride from Venice.
1.429 deraadt 729: In the days leading up to this, about 12 OpenBSD developers arrived early
1.427 deraadt 730: for a Ports mini-hackathon. During the conference a few developers gave
1.433 deraadt 731: talks, including
732: <ul>
733: <li><a href="papers/ven05-pvalchev">Peter Valchev "OpenBSD Hackathon report"</a>
734: <li><a href="papers/ven05-espie">Marc Espie "OpenBSD ports and packages"</a>
735: <li><a href="papers/ven05-henning">Henning Brauer "OpenBSD networking update"</a>
736: <li><a href="papers/ven05-niallo-uwe/slides.pdf">Uwe Stuehler, Niall O'Higgins "Porting OpenBSD"</a>
737: <li><a href="papers/ven05-deraadt">Theo de Raadt "Exploit Mitigation Techniques (updated to include random malloc and mmap)"</a>
738: </ul>
1.424 mbalmer 739: <p>
740:
741: <li><strong><a name=systems2005></a>
742: <a href="http://www.systems.de/">Systems</a></strong>,
743: Oct 24 - 28, 2005, Munich, Germany <br>
1.425 mbalmer 744: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
1.424 mbalmer 745: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
746: <p>
747:
1.418 djm 748: <li><strong><a name=auug2005></a>
749: <a href="http://www.auug.org.au/events/2005/auug2005/">AUUG 2005</a></strong>,
750: October 16 - 21, 2005, Sydney, Australia.<br>
751: Mark Uemura presented a tutorial on setting up CARP/PF, a demonstration of
752: stateful failover with CARP and pfsync and a talk on wireless security in
753: a corporate environment using authpf and isakmpd. Peter Hansteen gave a
754: <a href="http://www.bgnett.no/~peter/pf/">Firewalling with PF</a> tutorial.
1.420 deraadt 755: Damien Miller presented on the approach to
756: <a href="papers/auug2005-portability">secure software portability used
757: by portable OpenSSH</a>, Reyk Flöter gave a talk on the current state of wireless
1.418 djm 758: support in OpenBSD and David Purdue introduced OpenBSD's spamd tarpit.
759: Most of the Australian OpenBSD developers and many users were present.
760: <p>
761:
1.415 aanriot 762: <li><strong><a name=aldil2005></a>
763: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/">Les Journées Du Logiciel Libre
764: 2005</a></strong>,
765: Oct 14 - 15, 2005, Lyon, France.<br>
766: There was OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Alexandre Anriot with the
767: help of Thierry Thomas.
768: <p>
769:
1.420 deraadt 770: <li><strong><a name=cafeconf2005></a>
771: <a href="http://www.cafeconf.org/">CaFeConf 2005,
772: 4tas Jornadas Abiertas de GNU/Linux y Software Libre</a></strong>,
773: Oct 13 - 15, 2005, Buenos Aires, Argentina<br>
774: CaFeConf 2005 is the anual event of CaFeLUG - Free Software Users
775: Group of Capital Federal, Argentina. This year the event featured
776: 116 presentations consisting of talks, tutorials, and workshops. The
777: event was also broadcasted on the Internet. Entrance was free, but
778: registration was mandatory.<br>
779: Fernando Gont gave a talk on
1.444 grunk 780: <a href="http://www.cafeconf.org/modules/myconference/viewspeech.php?sid=147&cid=20">
1.420 deraadt 781: ICMP attacks against TCP</a>,
782: in which he gave an overview of the attacks, the possible
783: counter-measures, and the politics of vulnerabilities, and a talk on
1.444 grunk 784: <a href="http://www.cafeconf.org/modules/myconference/viewspeech.php?sid=173&cid=20">
1.420 deraadt 785: Fixing the vulnerability of the Path-MTU Discovery mechanism</a>,
786: in which explained how OpenBSD fixed the vulnerability of the PMTUD
787: mechanism.
788: <p>
789:
1.414 bernd 790: <li><strong><a name=linuxkongress2005></a>
791: <a href="http://www.linux-kongress.org/">12th International Linux System
792: Technology Conference</a></strong>,
793: Oct 11 - 14, 2005, University of Hamburg, Germany.<br>
794: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth.
795: <p>
796:
797: <li><strong><a name=linuxworlduk2005></a>
798: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.co.uk/">LinuxWorld Expo UK 2005</a></strong>,
799: Oct 5 - 6, 2005, Olympia, London, UK.<br>
800: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth.
801: <p>
802:
1.410 wvdputte 803: <li><strong><a name=opensourcetag2005></a>
1.575 reyk 804: <a href="http://www.opensourcetag.de/2005/">OpenSourceTag 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 805: Sep 27, 2005, Hannover, Germany.<br>
1.444 grunk 806: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth and Reyk gave a
1.575 reyk 807: <a href="http://www.opensourcetag.de/2005/agenda/">talk</a> about IT security.
1.410 wvdputte 808: <p>
809:
810: <li><strong><a name="gubuginstallfest2005"></a>
811: <a href="http://gubug.org/meetings.php">Greater Utah BSD Group
812: Installfest 2005</a></strong>,
813: Sep 24, 2005, Sandy, UT, USA.<br/>
1.444 grunk 814: <a href="http://www.gubug.org/">The Greater Utah BSD User Group</a> organised
1.410 wvdputte 815: their first annual BSD Installfest, sponsored by Utah ISP ArosNet.
816: There were handouts, CD-ROMs, technical presentations, and
817: fun, plus a chance to get OpenBSD or a related open source BSD operating system
818: installed on your computer.
819: Admission was free (computers not included in cost of admission).
1.419 djm 820: Featured speakers included Dan Langille, organizer of BSDCan.
1.410 wvdputte 821: <p>
822:
1.404 wvdputte 823: <li><strong><a name="NYCBSDCon2005"></a>
824: <a href="http://nycbsdcon.org/">New York City BSD Conference 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 825: Sep 17, 2005, NYC, USA.<br>
1.404 wvdputte 826: NYCBSDCon was a one day technical conference hosted by the New York
827: City *BSD User Group and was held at Columbia University.
1.406 saad 828: The all day conference included a variety of speakers representing the
1.404 wvdputte 829: BSD projects and the open source community.<br>
830: NYCBSDCon was organized by NYC*BUG, a technical user group that formed in
831: December 2003. Besides their regular monthly meetings at the Soho Apple
832: Store, NYC*BUG has done fundraising for the BSD projects and contributed a
833: number of useful online applications such as BSDTracker and dmesgd.<br>
834: Additional sponsors included USENIX, New York Internet and SRA America.
835: <p>
836:
837: <li><strong><a name=opensaar2005></a>
838: <a href="http://www.opensaar.de/">OpenSaar 2005</a></strong>,
839: Sep 13 - 14, 2005, Saarbrücken, Germany.<br>
840: An OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth was present
841: <p>
842:
1.403 henning 843: <li><strong><a name=decix160905></a> <a
844: href="http://www.de-cix.org/">DE-CIX Technical Meeting</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 845: Sep 16, 2005, Schloss Kransberg, near Usingen, Germany.<br>
1.403 henning 846: Henning Brauer, Reyk Flöter and Maxim Salomon had been invited to the
847: technical meeting of the Deutsche Commercial Internet Exchange (DE-CIX) again.
848: Henning gave an update on OpenBGPD, Reyk talked about a route server project
849: using OpenBGPD at DE-CIX, and Maxim explained why the CCC sponsors us doing so.
850: There was a very positive discussion afterwards.
851: <a href="http://unduli.bsws.de/papers/decix2005-2/">Slides</a> are available.
852: <p>
853:
1.388 tom 854: <li><strong><a name="ukuug2005"></a>
855: <a href="http://www.ukuug.org/events/linux2005/">UKUUG Linux Technical
856: Conference 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 857: Aug 4 - 7, 2005, University of Wales, Swansea, UK<br>
1.388 tom 858: Tom Cosgrove gave Theo's presentation about Exploit Mitigation Techniques.
859: <p>
860:
1.385 mickey 861: <li><strong><a name=wth2005></a>
1.390 deraadt 862: <a href="http://www.whatthehack.org/">What the Hack 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 863: Jul 28 - 31, 2005, Den Bosch, The Netherlands.<br>
1.385 mickey 864: As every 4 years, Wim organized the
865: <a href="http://eurobsd.org/2005-WhatTheHack/">BSD village</a> at this huge
1.389 tom 866: open air event. There were some talks, Reyk spoke about
867: <a href="http://program.whatthehack.org/event/6.en.html">WLAN in OpenBSD</a>,
1.385 mickey 868: and an excellent
869: <a href="ftp://ftp.nyc.openbsd.org/pub/news/wth-radio-humppa.mp3">Humppa show</a> (35MB MP3) was performed on the SubEther radio.
870: If you want to see what happened previously, check
871: <a href="http://eurobsd.org/hal2001/">http://eurobsd.org/hal2001/</a>
872: and <a href="http://www.eurobsd.org/SummerCamp2003/">http://www.eurobsd.org/SummerCamp2003/</a>.
873: <p>
874:
1.382 pedro 875: <li><strong><a name=coimbra2005></a>
1.474 pedro 876: <a href="http://www.openbsd-pt.com/eventos/coimbra05/">Portuguese OpenBSD Usergroup Meeting</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 877: Jul 23 - 24, 2005, Coimbra, Portugal.<br>
1.538 pedro 878: 5th Meeting of the Portuguese OpenBSD Usergroup. Pedro Martelletto gave a talk.
1.382 pedro 879: <p>
880:
1.378 aanriot 881: <li><strong><a name="lsm2005"></a>
882: <a href="http://2005.rencontresmondiales.org/sections/index_html/switchLanguage/en">Libre Software Meeting 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 883: Jul 5 - 9, 2005, Dijon, France.<br>
1.379 aanriot 884: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Wim and the usual
885: suspects, with the help of Serge Basterot. It was a nice place to meet
886: some of our French, German and Swiss developers, including Marc Balmer,
887: Alexandre Anriot, Matthieu Herrb and Reyk Floeter.
1.378 aanriot 888: <p>
889:
1.375 grunk 890: <li><strong><a name=LinuxTag2005></a>
891: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.org">LinuxTag 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 892: Jun 22 - 25, 2005, Karlsruhe, Germany.<br>
1.375 grunk 893: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth ran by Wim, Christian Weisgerber,
894: Marc Balmer, Wilhelm Buehler, Robert Nagy, Bernd Ahlers and Phil Schulz.
895: <p>
896:
1.374 grunk 897: <li><strong><a name="uofa-cc2005"></a>
898: <a href="http://www.ualberta.ca/CC2005"> University of Alberta, Campus
1.410 wvdputte 899: Computing 2005</a></strong>, Jun 21, 2005, Edmonton, Canada.<br>
1.374 grunk 900: Ryan McBride spoke about OpenBSD's packet filter, PF, with CARP and
901: failover examples. Local color and examples at the U of A shown by Bob
902: Beck. Bob Beck spoke about PF and Spamd, as well as several other
903: OpenBSD using and related talks at this event, which primarily focuses
904: on activities centered at the University of Alberta.
905: <p>
906:
1.371 deraadt 907: <li><strong><a name=uemera2005></a>
908: <a href="http://www.tokyopc.net">Tokyo PC Users Group</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 909: Jun 2, 2005, Tokyo Union Church in Omotesando, Tokyo, Japan.<br>
1.371 deraadt 910: Mark T. Uemura spoke to Japan's largest English speaking
911: personal computer club. The talk was entitled
912: <a href="http://www.openbsd-support.com/jp/en/htm/mgp/index.shtml">
913: "Open Source in a Windows World"</a>.
914: He demonstrated how companies can easily
915: integrate Open Source, with an emphasis on OpenBSD, into their IT
916: infrastructure to enhance security, scalability and stability,
917: significantly reduce IT expenditures, free up computing infrastructure
918: and move away from commercial lock-in. This talk is based on changes
919: implemented at PricewaterhouseCoopers in Japan.
920: <p>
921:
1.366 martin 922: <li><strong><a name=LinuxwochenVienna2005></a>
923: <a href="http://www.linuxwochen.at/">Linuxwochen Vienna 2005</a></strong>,
924: May 24 - 27, 2005, Vienna, Austria.<br>
925: The Linuxwochen 2005 tour stopped in the MuseumsQuartier, Vienna.
926: Wim Vandeputte and Reinhard Sammer were running an OpenBSD booth selling
927: CDs and shirts.
928: <p>
929:
1.365 mcbride 930: <li><strong><a name=cuug2005></a>
931: <a href="http://www.cuug.ab.ca/">Calgary Unix Users Group</a></strong>,
932: May 24, 2005, Calgary, Canada.<br>
933: Ryan McBride spoke about OpenBSD's packet filter, PF.
934: A broad overview of PF's features were presented, with special attention
935: paid to newer and more unique features and how these can be used together
936: effectively for DoS mitigation, high availability, and load balancing.
937: <br>
938: Approximately 60 OpenBSD developers attended to heckle and participate
939: in a free-for-all question period after the talk.
940: <p>
941:
1.362 reyk 942: <li><strong><a name=bsdcan2005></a>
943: <a href="http://www.bsdcan.org/2005/">BSDCan 2005</a></strong>,
944: May 13 - 14, 2005, Ottawa, Canada.<br>
945: A number of OpenBSD developers presented: Bob Beck on
946: Spam Reduction with PF and Spamd, Henning Brauer on OpenBGPD,
947: Ryan McBride on Network Stack Randomness and Reyk Flöter
948: on WLAN in OpenBSD and the free ath(4) HAL. The
949: <a href="papers/bsdcan05-spamd/">Spamd</a> and
950: <a href="papers/bsdcan05-wlan/">WLAN</a> slides are available.
951: Mathieu Sauve-Frankel has been there in attendance as well.
952: <p>
953:
1.358 mcbride 954: <li><strong><a name=csw2005></a>
955: <a href="http://www.cansecwest.com/">cansecwest/core05</a></strong>,
956: May 4-6, 2005, Vancouver, Canada.<br>
957: Hiroaki Etoh spoke about propolice; Theo de Raadt and a number of other
958: developers were there to sell CDs and make a nuisance of themselves.
959: <p>
960:
1.357 henning 961: <li><strong><a name=ripe50></a>
962: <a href="http://www.ripe.net/ripe/meetings/ripe-50/">RIPE 50</a></strong>,
963: May 2-6, 2005, Stockholm, Sweden.<br>
964: RIPE NCC invited Henning to talk about OpenBGPD.
965: There were over 350 attendees to the conference, and most of them attended
966: henning's talk, which got very very positive feedback.
967: <p>
968:
1.384 tom 969: <li><strong><a name=libreast2005></a>
1.356 espie 970: <a href="http://idile.org/libreast/">Libr'east 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 971: Apr 22-24, Marne La Vallée, near Paris, France<br>
1.356 espie 972: There was an OpenBSD booth (Wim + Miod + Marc)
973: Marc Espie did talk about recent OpenBSD advances, and his ports and
974: packages work in front of about 30 people.
975: <p>
976:
1.353 henning 977: <li><strong><a name=decix150405></a> <a
978: href="http://www.de-cix.org/">DE-CIX Technical Meeting</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 979: Apr 15, 2005, near Usingen, Germany.<br>
1.353 henning 980: Henning Brauer and Reyk Flöter had been invited to the technical
981: meeting of the Deutsche Commercial Internet Exchange (DE-CIX). Henning
982: presented his talk on OpenBGPD, about 60 people, mostly operators from
983: the big ISPs peering at DECIX, were in attendance.
1.354 reyk 984: Reyk, Maxim Salomon and Tim Kornau spoke on Wireless Network Security.
1.353 henning 985: <p>
986:
1.352 henning 987: <li><strong><a name=nuug140405></a>
988: <a href="http://www.nuug.no/aktiviteter/20050414-pf-brannmur/">Firewalling with PF at NUUG</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 989: Apr 14, 2005, Oslo, Norway.<br>
1.352 henning 990: Peter N. M. Hansteen gave a firewalling with PF talk - which hopefully
991: gave you some ideas about how to control your network traffic the
992: way you want - keeping some things outside your network, directing
993: traffic to specified hosts or services, and of course, giving spammers
994: a hard time. The talk was in Norwegian, with <a
995: href="http://www.bgnett.no/~peter/pf/no/foils/">foils</a> and <a
996: href="http://www.bgnett.no/~peter/pf/no/">manuscript</a> (English <a
997: href="http://www.bgnett.no/~peter/pf/en/foils/">foils</a> and <a
998: href="http://www.bgnett.no/~peter/pf/en/">manuscript</a> too)
999: available if you couldn't make it there.
1000: <p>
1001:
1.589 aanriot 1002:
1003: <li><strong><a name=fhwedel130405></a>
1004: <a href="http://www.fh-wedel.de/">FH Wedel invited talk</a></strong>,
1005: Apr 13, 2005, 17:00, Hörsaal 5, FH Wedel, Hamburg, Germany.<br>
1006: Henning Brauer spoke on OpenBGPD. More than 40 people were in attendance.
1007: <p>
1008:
1.350 marius 1009: <li><strong><a name=usenix2005></a>
1010: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix05/">Usenix Annual
1.410 wvdputte 1011: Technical Conference</a></strong>, Apr 10-15, 2005, Anaheim,
1.350 marius 1012: California, USA.<br> Marius Eriksen gave the OpenBSD update at the BSD
1013: super BoF. The update was well received and people were quite
1014: sympathetic towards the ongoing efforts of the OpenBSD project to
1015: ensure the free redistribution rights for firmware. People were also
1016: excited about the new Open* tools (OpenBGPD, OpenNTPD, OpenCVS) and it
1.351 marius 1017: would not be surprising to see more of these imported into other BSDs.
1.350 marius 1018: <p>
1019:
1.585 aanriot 1020: <li><strong><a name=plug050408></a>
1.586 aanriot 1021: <a href="http://www.plugfr.org/">Provence Linux User Group</a></strong>
1022: April 8, 2005, Marseille, France.<br>
1.585 aanriot 1023: Alexandre Anriot spoke about OpenBSD and some associated projects
1.586 aanriot 1024: (OpenBGPD etc.) during a meeting of the PLUG.
1.585 aanriot 1025: The <a href="papers/plug080405">slides</a> (in French) are available.
1.344 martin 1026: <p>
1027:
1.337 deraadt 1028: <li><strong><a name=bcs2005></a>
1029: <a href="http://www.bellua.com/bcs2005/asia05.index.html">Bellua Cyber Security Asia 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 1030: Mar 21-24, 2005, Jakarta, Indonesia.<br>
1.337 deraadt 1031: Ryan McBride presented an overview of PF which
1032: discussed how its advanced features work together in some important
1.338 deraadt 1033: applications and compared PF with the other major commercial and open
1.337 deraadt 1034: source firewalls.
1035: <p>
1036:
1.317 henning 1037: <li><strong><a name=nui_maynooth2005></a>
1038: <a href="http://www.minds.nuim.ie/events">NUI Maynooth lectures</a></strong>,
1039: Mar 4, 2005, Department of Computer Science, NUI Maynooth, Dublin, Ireland.<br>
1.318 henning 1040: Ryan McBride presented talks about PF and about
1.326 mcbride 1041: <a href="papers/dublin05-nr">randomization in the OpenBSD network layer.</a><br>
1.318 henning 1042: Theo and Henning were in attendance because someone had to heckle.
1.317 henning 1043: <p>
1044:
1.312 deraadt 1045: <li><strong><a name=trinity2005></a>
1046: <a href="http://www.netsoc.tcd.ie/events/0405/openbsd.php">Trinity lecture</a></strong>,
1047: Mar 3, 2005, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.<br>
1.320 deraadt 1048: Theo de Raadt presented his talk about
1049: <a href="papers/auug04">Exploit Mitigation Techniques</a>.
1.312 deraadt 1050: <p>
1051:
1.319 saad 1052: <li><strong><a name=ShefLUG2005></a>
1053: <a href="http://www.sheflug.co.uk/seminar/tiki-index.php?page=Sheffield%20Open%20Source%20Seminar">ShefLUG2005</a></strong>,
1054: Mar 2, 2005, Sheffield, UK.<br>
1055: Jacek Artymiak gave a talk about installing OpenBSD on Soekris hardware.
1056: <p>
1057:
1.310 mickey 1058: <li><strong><a name=NYCBUG2005-03></a>
1.375 grunk 1059: <a href="http://nycbug.org/index.php?NAV=Home&SUBM=83">NYCBUG Monthly meeting</a></strong>,
1.310 mickey 1060: Mar 2, 2005, NYC, USA.<br>
1.322 deraadt 1061: Mickey gave a talk
1.325 mickey 1062: (<a href="papers/nyc2005">slides</a> and
1.564 jason 1063: <a href="http://www.fetissov.org/public/nycbug/nycbug-03-02-05.mp3">10.5MB audio</a>)
1.321 mickey 1064: about <a href="hppa.html">porting OpenBSD</a>
1.313 martin 1065: to the <a href="http://www.openpa.net">HP PA-RISC</a> platform.
1.310 mickey 1066: <p>
1.312 deraadt 1067:
1.308 deraadt 1068: <li><strong><a name=Netsoc2005></a>
1069: <a href="http://netsoc.ucd.ie/events/openbsd/">Netsoc lectures</a></strong>,
1070: Mar 2, 2005, UCD, Dublin, Ireland.<br>
1071: Theo de Raadt, Henning Brauer, and Ryan McBride gave a series of
1.320 deraadt 1072: talks. Topics included
1073: <a href="papers/auug04">exploit mitigation techniques</a>,
1.326 mcbride 1074: <a href="papers/dublin05-nr">introducing network randomness to increase security</a>,
1075: OpenBGPD, and pf.
1076: Almost 200 people came to this event.
1.308 deraadt 1077: <p>
1078:
1.304 saad 1079: <li><strong><a name=Brussels2005></a>
1080: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/2005/">FOSDEM Brussels 2005</a></strong>,
1081: Feb 26 - 27, 2005, Brussels, Belgium.<br>
1082: An OpenBSD/OpenSSH booth was present, ran by the usual gang of suspects.
1083: Support for <a href="mailto:wim@kd85.com">Wim Vandeputte</a> this time were
1.307 otto 1084: (among many others), Saad Kadhi, Henning Brauer, Thierry Deval, Otto Moerbeek,
1.304 saad 1085: Xavier Santolaria, Martin Reindl, Reyk Flöter, Hans-Jörg
1.360 db 1086: Höxer, Nikolay Sturm, Marc Balmer, Claudio Jeker, Joris Vink,
1087: Olivier Cherrier, David Berghoff,
1.316 mbalmer 1088: Alexander von Gernler, Uwe Stuehler, and Felix Kronlage from OpenDarwin.<br>
1.304 saad 1089: There was a separate OpenBSD track, featuring Henning Brauer (about
1090: signal handlers and OpenNTPD), Reyk Flöter (about wireless cards in
1091: OpenBSD), and the author of the OpenBSD PF book, Jacek Artymiak (about
1.375 grunk 1092: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pf">pf(4)</a>, of course).<br>
1.304 saad 1093: At the conference's Free Software Foundation Event, Theo de Raadt was
1094: awarded the Free Software Award 2004 for his efforts to make Firmware for
1095: wireless hardware and other devices freely available.
1096: <p>
1.301 saad 1097: <li><strong><a name=UKUUG05></a>
1098: <a href="http://www.ukuug.org/events/winter2005/">UKUUG LISA/Winter Conference</a></strong>,
1099: Feb 24 - 25, 2005, Birmingham, UK.<br>
1100: Henning Brauer spoke on OpenBGPD, OpenNTPD and Signal Handlers.
1101: <p>
1102: <li><strong><a name=FFG2005></a>
1103: <a href="http://www.guug.de/veranstaltungen/ffg2005/">GUUG FFG 2005</a></strong>,
1104: Feb 22 - 25, 2005, Munich, Germany.<br>
1105: Reyk Flöter talked about the latest wireless support in
1106: OpenBSD at the annual spring meeting of the <a href="http://www.guug.de/">German Unix User Group</a>.
1107: <p>
1.293 saad 1108: <li><strong><a name=Paris2005></a>
1109: <a href="http://www.solutionslinux.fr/fr/index.php">Solutions Linux 2005</a></strong>,
1110: Feb 1 - 3, 2005, Paris, France.<br>
1111: An OpenBSD booth as well as an OpenSSH booth were present. These booths
1112: were run by Marc Espie, Miod Vallat, Saad Kadhi and Wim with help from
1113: Guillaume Arcas and Christophe Plasschaert, two members of the OpenBSD
1.294 saad 1114: french translation team.<br>
1115: Marc Espie and Saad Kadhi gave a talk about the OpenBSD project with a
1116: special focus on the ports collection and Packet Filter. The <a
1117: href="papers/sl2005/index.html">slides</a> (in French) are
1118: available.<br>
1119: During the event, several demonstrations of <a
1.293 saad 1120: href="http://soekris.kd85.com/">Soekris</a> machines running OpenBSD
1121: were given by Saad Kadhi and Wim.
1122: <p>
1.296 mcbride 1123: </ul>
1.293 saad 1124:
1.296 mcbride 1125: <h3>2004</h3>
1126:
1127: <ul>
1.287 henning 1128: <li><strong><a name=21C3></a>
1129: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/2004/">21C3 - Chaos Communication Congress</a></strong>,
1.375 grunk 1130: Dec 27 - 29, 2004, Berlin, Germany<br>
1.287 henning 1131: "The Usual Suspects" were there and ran the BSD corner, including
1132: <a href="mailto:wim@kd85.com">Wim</a>,
1133: Henning Brauer, Marc Balmer, Martin Reindl, Moritz Jodeit, Felix Kronlage,
1.315 nick 1134: Uwe Stuehler, Konrad Foerstner, Bernd Ahlers, and Alexander von Gernler.<br>
1.287 henning 1135: Henning gave a talk about OpenBGPD and OpenNTPD
1136: (<a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/21c3/">slides</a>).<br>
1137: The WiFi backbone ran on OpenBSD powered
1138: <a href="http://soekris.kd85.com">Soekris</a> machines as access points,
1139: work done by Reyk Flöter, Tim Kornau and others.
1140: This installation was a very successful test of the new
1.290 henning 1141: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ath">ath(4)</a>
1.287 henning 1142: driver.
1143: <p>
1.248 deraadt 1144:
1.286 kevlo 1145: <li><strong><a name=icos2004></a>
1.417 kevlo 1146: <a href="http://2004.icos.org.tw/">ICOS 2004</a></strong>,
1.286 kevlo 1147: Dec 18 - 19, 2004, Taipei, Taiwan.<br>
1148: Kevin Lo gave a presentation.
1149: <p>
1150:
1.285 deraadt 1151: <li><strong><a name=syscan2004></a>
1152: <a href="http://www.syscan.org/">SyScAN 2004</a></strong>,
1153: Dec 16 - 17, 2004, Singapore.<br>
1154: Theo de Raadt presented his talk about
1155: <a href="papers/auug04">Exploit Mitigation Techniques</a>.
1156: <p>
1157:
1.283 saad 1158: <li><strong><a name=sur200412></a>
1159: <a href="http://www.ossir.org/sur/calendrier/index.shtml">SUR Group Meeting, December 2004</a></strong>,
1160: Dec 14, 2004, Paris, France.<br>
1161: Saad Kadhi gave a talk about OpenBSD and security during the monthly
1162: meeting of the
1163: <a href="http://www.ossir.org/sur/index.shtml">SUR</a> Group (Sécurité
1164: Unix et Réseaux), a french user group focusing on security and Unix. The
1.284 xsa 1165: <a href="papers/surgroup200412/index.html">slides</a> (in French) are available.
1.283 saad 1166: <p>
1167:
1.282 henning 1168: <li><strong><a name=opencon2004></a>
1169: <a href="http://www.opencon.org/">OpenCon 2004</a></strong>,
1170: Dec 10 - 12, 2004, Venice, Italy.<br>
1171: OpenBSD meeting in Northern Italy. Henning gave 3 talks in
1172: two days, on bgpd
1173: (<a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/opencon04/bgpd/">slides</a>),
1174: ntpd
1175: (<a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/opencon04/ntpd/">slides</a>)
1176: and signal handlers
1177: (<a href="papers/opencon04/">slides</a>).
1178: Wim ran a booth, and Marc Balmer was there as well.
1179: <p>
1180:
1.275 deraadt 1181: <li><strong><a name=UofA></a>
1182: <a href="http://www.ualberta.ca/">U of A Seminar</a></strong>,
1183: Nov 17 - 18, 2004, Edmonton Alberta.<br>
1184: Theo de Raadt presented a talk at an open seminar at the
1185: <a href="http://www.ualberta.ca/">University of Alberta</a>, in
1186: Room B-02 of the
1187: <a href="http://www.campusmap.ualberta.ca/map_bldg.cfm?bldg_id=42">
1188: Computing Sciences Center</a>.
1189: Talk went from 2 PM to nearly 5PM with more than 100 people attending
1190: from the University and industry, followed by beer nearby.
1191: The talk was also given the following day at the
1192: <a href="http://www.cips.ca/">CIPS Security SIG</a> luncheon.
1193: <p>
1194:
1.271 henning 1195: <li><strong><a name=EuroBSDCon2004></a>
1196: <a href="http://2004.eurobsdcon.org/">EuroBSD Con</a></strong>,
1197: Oct 29 - 31, 2004, Karlsruhe, Germany.<br>
1.272 henning 1198: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
1199: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
1.271 henning 1200: Henning gave a talk
1.375 grunk 1201: about <a href="http://2004.eurobsdcon.org/talks.html?&tx_ptspeechupload_pi1[showUid]=44&cHash=ec015b0552">bgpd</a>,
1.272 henning 1202: <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/euroBSDCon2004/">slides</a> are available.
1.271 henning 1203: <p>
1204:
1205: <li><strong><a name=LinuxWorldExpoGermany2004></a>
1206: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.de/">Linux World Expo</a></strong>,
1207: Oct 26 - 28, 2004, Frankfurt, Germany.<br>
1.272 henning 1208: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
1209: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
1.271 henning 1210: <p>
1211:
1.276 deraadt 1212: <li><strong><a name=cuug2004></a>
1.270 deraadt 1213: <a href="http://www.cuug.ab.ca/">Calgary Unix Users's Group</a></strong>,
1214: Oct 26, 2004, Calgary, Canada.<br>
1215: Theo presented the talk that he has recently given in Australia and
1216: Malaysia to the "Home Crowd".
1217: <p>
1218:
1219: <li><strong><a name=aldil2004></a>
1.269 krw 1220: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/">Les Journées Du Logiciel Libre 2004</a></strong>,
1221: Oct 22 - 23, 2004, Lyon, France.<br>
1.381 aanriot 1222: There was OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Miod Vallat with the help of
1.415 aanriot 1223: Alexandre Anriot and Thierry Thomas.
1.269 krw 1224: <p>
1225:
1226: <li><strong><a name=systems2004></a>
1227: <a href="http://www.systems.de/">Systems</a></strong>,
1228: Oct 18 - 22, 2004, Munich, Germany <br>
1229: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
1230: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
1231: <p>
1232:
1.268 krw 1233: <li><strong><a name=linuxexpo2004oct></a>
1234: <a href="http://www.linuxexpo.org.uk/">Linux Expo</a></strong>,
1235: Oct 6 - 7, 2004, London, UK.<br>
1236: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
1237: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
1238: <p>
1239:
1.375 grunk 1240: <li><strong><a name=hitb2004></a>
1.268 krw 1241: <a href="http://conference.hackinthebox.org">Hack in the Box Security Conference 2004</a></strong>,
1242: Oct 4 - 7, 2004, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.<br>
1243: Theo de Raadt presented an updated version of his
1244: "Exploit Mitigation Techniques" talk.
1245: <p>
1246:
1247: <li><strong><a name=SANE2004></a>
1248: <a href="http://www.nluug.nl/events/sane2004/bazaar.html">SANE 2004</a></strong>
1.410 wvdputte 1249: , Sep 29, 2004, Amsterdam, Netherlands.<br>
1.268 krw 1250: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
1251: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
1252: <p>
1253:
1.265 wvdputte 1254: <li><strong><a name=LinuxKongress2004></a>
1255: <a href="http://www.linux-kongress.org/2004">Linux Kongress 2004</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 1256: Sep 7 - 10, 2004, Erlangen, Germany.<br>
1.265 wvdputte 1257: From their website: "Linux-Kongress is still the premier event for European
1258: developers and one of the most important in the world. Each year hundreds of
1259: hard core Linux enthusiasts from all over the world gather for this important
1260: event."
1261: <br>
1262: Although this was a Linux developers' conference, we were able to
1263: install a regular OpenBSD booth there, as known from other events.
1264: It was run by <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim Vandeputte</a>,
1265: <a href="mailto:grunk@pestilenz.org">Alexander von Gernler</a> and other
1266: geeks from the Erlangen-Nuremberg area.
1267: <br>
1268: There also was a BSD dinner at Friday evening.
1269: <p>
1270:
1.262 henning 1271: <li><strong><a name=Sucon2004></a>
1272: <a href="http://www.suug.ch/sucon/04/">SUCON 2004</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 1273: Sep 2 - 4, 2004, Zurich, Switzerland.<br>
1.262 henning 1274: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth. Very nice conference.
1275: Henning's slides from his talks about
1276: <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/sucon04/bgpd">bgpd</a> and
1277: <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/sucon04/ntpd">ntpd</a>
1278: are available.
1279: <p>
1280:
1.261 deraadt 1281: <li><strong><a name=auug2004></a>
1.266 jolan 1282: <a href="http://www.auug.org.au/events/2004/auug2004/">AUUG 2004</a></strong>,
1.261 deraadt 1283: Aug 29 - Sep 3, 2004, Melbourne, Australia.<br>
1284: Theo de Raadt presented a half-day tutorial on privilege seperation and a
1285: newly extended version of the
1286: <a href="papers/auug04">Exploit Mitigation Techniques</a> talk.<br>
1287: For more information, see this
1288: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;517187222;fp;16;fpid;0">
1289: ComputerWorld article</a>.
1290: <p>
1291:
1292:
1.257 saad 1293: <li><strong><a name=LSM2004></a>
1294: <a href="http://lsm.abul.org">Libre Software Meeting</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 1295: Jul 6 - 10, 2004, Bordeaux, France.<br>
1.257 saad 1296: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
1297: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim Vandeputte</a>.
1298: <p>
1299:
1300: <li><strong><a name=LinuxTag2004></a>
1301: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.org">LinuxTag 2004</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 1302: Jun 23 - 26, 2004, Karlsruhe, Germany.<br>
1.257 saad 1303: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
1304: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim Vandeputte</a>.
1305: <p>
1306:
1.254 xsa 1307: <li><strong><a name=LinuxwochenVienna2004></a>
1.255 xsa 1308: <a href="http://www.linuxwochen.at/">Linuxwochen Vienna 2004</a></strong>,
1.254 xsa 1309: May 26 - 29, 2004, Vienna, Austria.<br>
1310: The Linuxwochen 2004 tour stopped in the MuseumsQuartier, Vienna.
1311: Wim Vandeputte and Reinhard Sammer ran the OpenBSD booth. Michael Bauer
1312: and Teemu Schaabl from the <a href="http://www.cngw.org/">CNGW</a> gave
1313: a basic talk about pf.
1314: <p>
1315:
1.248 deraadt 1316: <li><strong><a name=BSDCan2004></a>
1.303 mcbride 1317: <a href="http://www.bsdcan.org/2004/">BSDCan 2004</a></strong>,
1.248 deraadt 1318: May 13 - 16, 2004, Ottawa, Canada.<br>
1319: BSDCan was held at the University of Ottawa. Ryan McBride gave a talk
1.302 mcbride 1320: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/papers/bsdcan04-pf/index.html">about newer features in pf</a>,
1321: focusing on the redundancy provided by CARP and pfsync.
1322: Theo de Raadt presented a revised version of his talk on
1.248 deraadt 1323: <a href="papers/bsdcan04">Exploit Mitigation Techniques</a>.
1324: <p>
1325:
1.247 canacar 1326: <li><strong><a name="LOSFAnkara2004"></a>
1327: <a href="http://senlik.linux.org.tr">3rd Linux and Open Source Festival</a></strong>,
1328: May 13 - 16, 2004, Ankara, Turkey.<br>
1329: Can E. Acar and Berk D. Demir talked about the OpenBSD Project. The
1330: philosophy, project goals, system features and recent proactive
1331: security features were introduced. CARP, patents, recent Apache &
1332: XFree86 licensing issues and effects of NDAs in open source
1333: projects were discussed.<br>
1334: You can view the
1.281 canacar 1335: <a href="http://bdd.mindcast.org/slides/OpenBSD-LOYS2004-cea-bdd.pdf">
1.247 canacar 1336: slides in PDF format</a> the
1.281 canacar 1337: <a href="http://bdd.mindcast.org/slides/OpenBSD-LOYS2004-cea-bdd.tex">
1.247 canacar 1338: LaTeX source</a> is also available (they are
1339: <a href="http://www.eee.metu.edu.tr/~canacar/slides/">mirrored</a>, as well).
1340: <p>
1341:
1.242 henning 1342: <li><strong><a name=Brussels2004></a>
1343: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/">FOSDEM Brussels 2004</a></strong>,
1344: Feb 21 - 22, 2004, Brussels, Belgium.<br>
1.243 henning 1345: An OpenBSD/OpenSSH booth was present, run by Wim Vandeputte.
1346: Several developers (including Henning Brauer, Xavier Santolaria, Thierry Deval,
1347: Philipp Bühler, Otto Moerbeek and Saad Kadhi) showed up.
1348: Wim and Alexander von Gernler gave "lightning talks" about Soekris
1349: and systrace
1.263 saad 1350: (<a href="http://pestilenz.org/~grunk/vortraege/2004/FOSDEM/systrace.pdf">slides</a>), respectively.
1.243 henning 1351: Henning got a slot in the main track to talk about the new bgpd
1352: (<a href="http://www.2suck.net/papers/fosdem2004/">slides</a>).
1353: On Saturday evening, the traditional OpenBSD dinner took place.
1.242 henning 1354: <p>
1355:
1.240 espie 1356: <li><strong><a name=Paris2004></a>
1357: <a href="http://www.linuxsolutions.fr/">Linux Expo Paris 2004</a></strong>,
1358: Feb 3 - 5, 2004, Paris, France.<br>
1359: An OpenBSD booth as well as an OpenSSH booth were present, thanks to
1360: <a href="mailto:saad@docisland.org">Saad Kadhi</a> and
1361: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
1362: <p>
1363:
1364: <li><strong><a name="LWE04"></a>
1365: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/linuxworldny/V40/index.cvn">LinuxWorld
1366: Conference and Expo</a></strong>, Jan 20 - 23, 2004, New York, NY, USA.<br>
1.397 grunk 1367: <a href="mailto:wes@openlysecure.org">Wes Sonnenreich</a> and others
1.240 espie 1368: have established a BSD user group in NYC and held a BSD BoF at the
1369: Jacob Javits Center on January 22nd at 5:45pm, Room 1E15.
1370: <p>
1371: </ul>
1372:
1.188 henning 1373: <h3>2003</h3>
1.236 jose 1374:
1375: <ul>
1.232 jose 1376: <li><strong><a name=20c3></a>
1377: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/2003/">20th Chaos Communication Congress 2003</a></strong>,
1378: Dec 27 - 29, 2003, Berlin, Germany.<br>
1379: OpenBSD was represented by a booth, ran by
1380: <a href= "mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>, and supported by Henning and
1.236 jose 1381: Alexander von Gernler. Alexander also gave a
1.260 saad 1382: <a href="http://pestilenz.org/~grunk/vortraege/2003/20C3/openbsd.pdf">talk</a>
1.232 jose 1383: introducing the project and the OS (in German).
1.236 jose 1384: <p>
1.232 jose 1385:
1.228 jose 1386: <li><strong><a name=brazil2003></a>
1.236 jose 1387: <a href="http://bsdcon.myfreebsd.com.br">1st BSDCon Brazil</a></strong>,
1.228 jose 1388: Dec 6 - 7, 2003. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.<br>
1389: This was the first BSDCon Brazil, and of course OpenBSD was present.
1.236 jose 1390: Douglas Santos spoke on advocacy and about some of the technical aspects
1391: of OpenBSD. Eduardo A. Alvarenga gave a presentation about firewalling
1.228 jose 1392: with OpenBSD PF.
1393: <p>
1394:
1395: <li><strong><a name=ankara03></a>
1396: <a href="http://seminer.linux.org.tr">Association of Turkish Linux User</a></strong>,
1397: Dec 4, 2003, Ankara, Turkey.<br>
1398: Can Acar and Berk Demir gave a mammoth 4 hour presentation on OpenBSD.
1399: The first part was a broad introduction to the OpenBSD philosophy, the
1.236 jose 1400: project goals, and system features. After a break, in the second part they
1401: talked about the exploit mitigation techniques employed in OpenBSD. This
1402: part was aimed at techies and is almost a complete Turkish translation of
1403: the talk Theo recently gave in Japan. You can view the
1.281 canacar 1404: <a href="http://bdd.mindcast.org/slides/OpenBSD_3.12.2003.can-bdd.pdf">
1.236 jose 1405: slides in PDF format </a>
1406: (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 1407: <p>
1408:
1.227 jose 1409: <li><strong><a name=Luxembourg2003></a>
1410: <a href="http://www.linuxday.lu/">Linuxday Luxembourg 2003</a></strong>,
1411: Nov 6 - 8, 2003, Luxembourg, Luxembourg.<br>
1412: Booths were present, organized by <a href= "mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
1413: <p>
1414:
1415: <li><strong><a name=Pacsec2003></a>
1416: <a href="http://pacsec.jp/">Pacsec 2003</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 1417: Nov 6 - 7, 2003, Tokyo, Japan.<br>
1.236 jose 1418: Three OpenBSD developers presented on various topics. Theo de Raadt
1.227 jose 1419: gave a presentation on Exploit Mitigation Techniques
1.236 jose 1420: <a href="papers/pacsec03/e/index.html">(English)</a>
1421: <a href="papers/pacsec03/j/index.html">(Japanese)</a>, Jun-ichiro
1.227 jose 1422: itojun Hagino presented material covering
1.236 jose 1423: <a href="http://www.itojun.org/paper/itojun-200311-pacsec-jp/">
1.241 david 1424: IPv6 security considerations</a>, and Jose Nazario discussed advances
1.227 jose 1425: in Internet worm defenses.
1426: <p>
1427:
1.224 miod 1428: <li><strong><a name=Lyon2003></a>
1429: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/agenda/journees/2003/">Les V<sup>èmes</sup> Journées du Libre 2003</a></strong>,
1430: Oct 31 - Nov 1, 2003, Lyon, France.<br>
1431: Miod Vallat gave a talk about the recent security efforts deployed in OpenBSD,
1432: as well as generic security concepts (slides, in bad French, are available in
1433: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/agenda/journees/2003/vallat/miod.mgp">mgp
1434: format</a>). As usual, Wim ran an OpenBSD booth featuring the new 3.4 release,
1435: as well as <a href="http://soekris.kd85.com">Soekris</a> hardware running
1436: OpenBSD.
1437: <p>
1438:
1439: <li><strong><a name=Saarbrucken2003></a>
1440: <a href="http://www.linux-kongress.org/2003/index.html">Linux Kongress Saarbrücken 2003</a></strong>,
1441: Oct 14 - 16, 2003, Saarbrücken, Germany.<br>
1442: An OpenBSD booth was present, starring Wim again.
1443: <p>
1444:
1445: <li><strong><a name=London2003></a>
1446: <a href="http://www.linuxexpo.org.uk/">Linux Expo London 2003</a></strong>,
1447: Oct 8 - 9, 2003, London, UK.<br>
1448: An OpenBSD booth was present, starring Wim as usual.
1449: <p>
1450:
1.219 jose 1451: <li><strong><a name=bsdcon2003></a>
1452: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/bsdcon03/">BSDCon '03</a></strong>,
1453: Sep 8 - 12, 2003, San Mateo, California.<br>
1.236 jose 1454: OpenBSD was represented in the BSD Status Report, and David Rosenthal
1.219 jose 1455: gave a talk on an OpenBSD based security appliance.
1456: <p>
1457:
1.218 jose 1458: <li><strong><a name=sucon2003></a>
1459: <a href="http://www.sucon.ch/">SUCON '03</a></strong>,
1460: Sep 5, 2003. Zurich, Switzerland.<br>
1.236 jose 1461: Daniel Hartmeier talked about PF, and <a
1.218 jose 1462: href="http://open.bsdcow.net/events/sucon2003/">pictures are available</a>.
1463: <p>
1464:
1.214 henning 1465: <li><strong><a name=camp2003></a>
1466: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/camp/">Chaos Communication Camp 2003</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1467: Aug 7 - 10, 2003, in <a href="http://www.paulshof.de/body-mehr.html">a field</a> near Berlin Germany<br>
1.214 henning 1468: There was a huge OpenBSD village. Several OpenBSD developers have been there.
1469: <p>
1470:
1.213 jose 1471: <li><strong><a name=sec2003></a>
1472: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/sec03/">Usenix Security</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1473: Aug 4 - 8, 2003, Washington, DC, USA.<br>
1.236 jose 1474: Niels Provos presented two papers on security advances originally
1.213 jose 1475: developed for OpenBSD, including the OpenSSH privsep feature and systrace.
1476: Several OpenBSD developers were there.
1477: <p>
1478:
1.211 jose 1479: <li><strong><a name=linuxtag2003></a>
1480: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.org/2003/en/index.html">LinuxTag 2003</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1481: Jul 10 - 13, 2003, Karlsruhe Convention Center Germany<br>
1.211 jose 1482: Both OpenBSD and OpenSSH had booths in the main exhibit.
1483: <p>
1484:
1485: <li><strong><a name=lsm2003></a>
1486: <a href="http://libresoftwaremeeting.org/">Libre Software Meeting 2003</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1487: Jul 9 - 12, 2003, Metz, France<br>
1.212 matthieu 1488: Matthieu Herrb gave <a href="papers/xf86-sec.pdf">a talk about XFree86 security</a>. There was
1.211 jose 1489: also an OpenBSD booth with developers.
1490: <p>
1491:
1.209 wvdputte 1492: <li><strong><a name=lud2003></a>
1493: <a href="http://www.linuxuserexpo.com/">Linux User & Developer Expo 2003</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1494: Jun 24 - 26, 2003, at the NEC in Birmingham UK<br>
1.209 wvdputte 1495: There was an OpenBSD booth with developers.
1496: <p>
1.195 deraadt 1497:
1.202 jason 1498: <li><strong><a name=usenix2003></a>
1.236 jose 1499: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix03/">Usenix Annual Technical
1.216 jose 1500: Conference</a></strong>,
1501: Jun 9 - 14, 2003, San Antonio, Texas, USA<br>
1.202 jason 1502: A few OpenBSD developers were there and one paper was presented:
1503: <ul>
1.216 jose 1504: <li>The Design of the OpenBSD Cryptographic Framework<br>
1.202 jason 1505: <a href="events.html#usenix2003">Usenix 2003</a>, by
1.236 jose 1506: Angelos D. Keromytis,
1507: Jason L. Wright, and
1.205 deraadt 1508: Theo de Raadt.<br>
1.202 jason 1509: <a href="papers/ocf.pdf">paper</a>.
1510: </ul>
1511: <p>
1512:
1.216 jose 1513: <li><strong>
1514: <a href="http://www.webb.it/">Webbit 2003</a></strong>,
1515: May 9 - 11, 2003, Padova, Italy<br>
1.203 jason 1516: Giacomo Cariello and Wim Vandeputte attended, and several OpenBSD
1517: <a href="http://www.deadly.org/article.php3?sid=20030503101052">related talks</a> were given.
1518: <p>
1519:
1.216 jose 1520: <li><strong>
1521: <a href="http://cansecwest.com/">CanSecWest 03</a></strong>,
1522: Apr 9 - 11, 2003, Vancouver, Canada<br>
1.195 deraadt 1523: Theo spoke about killing buffer overflows using ProPolice and the new W^X technology,
1.196 matthieu 1524: available as a <a href="papers/csw03.mgp">magicpoint file</a>.
1.195 deraadt 1525: <p>
1526:
1.216 jose 1527: <li><strong>
1528: <a href="http://www.cebit.de/">CeBIT 2003</a></strong>,
1529: Mar 14, 2003, Hannover, Germany<br>
1.236 jose 1530: 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 1531: gave a talk on OpenBSD and OpenSSH. <a href="papers/cebit2003.tgz">slides</a> are available.
1.194 henning 1532: <p>
1533:
1.216 jose 1534: <li><strong>
1535: <a href="http://www.linuxforum.dk/2003/english/">LinuxForum 2003</a></strong>,
1536: Mar 1, 2003, Copenhagen<br>
1.236 jose 1537: Daniel spoke about PF (slides in <a href="papers/linuxforum2k3.tar.gz">mgp</a>,
1538: <a href="http://www.benzedrine.cx/linuxforum/">HTML</a>).
1.191 dhartmei 1539: It was a small but cozy conference, jointly held by Danish Linux and BSD
1540: user groups.
1541: <p>
1542:
1.236 jose 1543: <li><strong>
1544: <a href="http://www.cuug.ab.ca">CUUG - The Calgary Unix Users
1.216 jose 1545: Group</a></strong>,
1546: Feb 25, 2003, 18:00 MST, Calgary<br>
1.190 miod 1547: OpenBSD lead developer Theo de Raadt spoke about some of the recent
1548: changes in OpenBSD that are leading the way to the complete elimination of
1549: "buffer overflow" security risks and attacks.
1550: <p>
1551:
1.216 jose 1552: <li><strong>
1553: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/">FOSDEM 2003</a></strong>,
1554: Feb 8 - 9, 2003, Brussels<br>
1.236 jose 1555: Henning and Philipp gave a talk on -current PF developments
1.196 matthieu 1556: (<a href="papers/fosdem2k3-pf.mgp">slides</a>)
1.187 henning 1557: and on Saturday evening, there was an OpenBSD dinner for those interested.
1558: <p>
1559:
1.216 jose 1560: <li><strong>
1561: <a href="http://linuxsolutions.fr/FR/home/index.php?site=default">Linux Solutions</a></strong>,
1562: Feb 4 - 6, 2003, CNIT - Paris La Défense<br>
1.185 miod 1563: There was an OpenBSD booth with several OpenBSD developers, as well as 3.2 OpenBSD
1.413 grunk 1564: CD sets and T-shirts.
1.185 miod 1565: <p>
1.236 jose 1566: </ul>
1.185 miod 1567:
1.161 millert 1568: <h3>2002</h3>
1.236 jose 1569:
1570: <ul>
1571: <li><strong>
1572: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/2002/">19c3: the 19th CCC
1.216 jose 1573: Congress</a></strong>,
1574: Dec 27 - 29, 2002, Berlin<br>
1.236 jose 1575: There was a huge <a href="http://www.eurobsd.org/19c3">reserved space</a> for
1576: OpenBSD users and developers, a couple of -current test systems and for those
1.413 grunk 1577: curious, a first look at the 3.2 OpenBSD T-shirts.
1.184 wvdputte 1578: <p>
1.177 jason 1579:
1.216 jose 1580: <li><strong>
1581: <a href="http://2002.eurobsdcon.org/">BSDCon Europe 2002</a></strong>,
1582: Nov 15 - 17, 2002, Amsterdam, Netherlands<br>
1.181 henning 1583: OpenBSD people were there;
1.236 jose 1584: Philipp Bühler and Henning Brauer spoke about
1.182 ian 1585: <a href="papers/tuning-openbsd.ps">
1586: network performance tuning on OpenBSD</a>,
1.236 jose 1587: and Ian Darwin presented a
1.182 ian 1588: <a href="papers/eurobsd-firewalls-2002.pdf">
1589: tutorial on OpenBSD servers/firewalls</a>.
1.179 pb 1590: <p>
1.178 pb 1591:
1.216 jose 1592: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1593: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa02/">LISA '02: 16th Systems
1.216 jose 1594: Administration Conference</a></strong>,
1595: Nov 3 - 8, 2002, Philadelphia, USA<br>
1.177 jason 1596: Mickey and Jason manned the booth at the vendor expo (the only BSD
1597: represented) and sold <a href="32.html">3.2</a> CDs, and Jason gave a BoF
1598: session on <a href="32.html">3.2</a> and future.
1599: <p>
1600:
1.216 jose 1601: <li><strong>
1.264 djm 1602: <a href="http://www.auug.org.au/events/2002/auug2002/">Australian Unix Users
1603: Group Winter Conference</a></strong>,
1604: Sep 1 - 6, 2002, Melbourne Australia<br>
1605: Damien Miller presented a tutorial on the
1606: <a href="papers/auug2002-ssh/index.html">SSH protocol</a> and
1607: <a href="papers/auug2002-ssh.ps">OpenSSH tips and tricks</a>.
1608: <p>
1609:
1610: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 1611: <a href="http://lsm.abul.org">The 3rd Libre Software Meeting</a></strong>,
1612: Jul 9 - 13, 2002, Bordeaux, France<br>
1.172 miod 1613: Several OpenBSD developers and users were attending the meeting, and
1614: Niels Provos presented his
1615: <a href="http://www.citi.umich.edu/u/provos/systrace">systrace</a>
1616: system call policy management tool.
1.174 nick 1617: <p>
1.172 miod 1618:
1.216 jose 1619: <li><strong>
1620: <a href="http://www.Webb.it">Webb.it 02</a></strong>,
1621: Jul 5 - 7, 2002, Padova, Italy<br>
1.171 ian 1622: OpenBSD developers had a booth selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
1623: <p>
1624:
1.216 jose 1625: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1626: <a href="http://www.softwarelivre.rs.gov.br/forum">The Annual International
1.216 jose 1627: Free Software Forum</a></strong>,
1628: May 2 - 4, 2002, Porto Alegre-RS, Brazil<br>
1.236 jose 1629: Mainly a Linux/GNU event, but this year the BSD Operating Systems
1630: had a chance to prove their value.
1.169 horacio 1631: Edson Brandi spoke on FreeBSD, Diego Linke
1.236 jose 1632: on NetBSD, and Ricardo Nascimento Ferreira on OpenBSD.
1.169 horacio 1633: <p>
1.168 miod 1634:
1.216 jose 1635: <li><strong>
1636: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/bsdcon02/">BSDCON 2002</a></strong>,
1637: Feb 11 - 14, 2002, San Francisco, California, USA<br>
1.161 millert 1638: Todd Miller gave an update on current OpenBSD status and participated in a
1.162 millert 1639: BSD panel discussion. The <a href="slides/bsdcon_2002/index.html">slides</a>
1640: are available.
1.161 millert 1641: <p>
1642:
1.216 jose 1643: <li><strong>
1644: <a href="http://www.linuxexpoparis.com">Linux expo Paris 2002</a></strong>,
1645: Jan 30 - Feb 1, 2002, Paris, France<br>
1.163 miod 1646: The french Linux Expo 2002 was quite small and as usual the OpenBSD booth ended
1647: up with others on the expo's side. On the first day, almost all the merchandise
1648: was sold, and we have even sold older versions (2.9) the following days to
1649: people who wouldn't leave without a cd set in their hands...
1650: <p>
1651:
1.216 jose 1652: <li><strong>
1653: <a href="http://musess.mcmaster.ca/">MUSESS 2002</a></strong>,
1654: Jan 25 - 26, 2002, McMaster University, Ontario, Canada<br>
1.164 millert 1655: Louis Bertrand gave a presentation on OpenBSD titled
1656: <strong>Fix The Bugs, Secure The System</strong>.
1657: The <a href="slides/musess_2002/index.html">slides</a> are available.
1658: <p>
1.236 jose 1659: </ul>
1.164 millert 1660:
1.152 jakob 1661: <h3>2001</h3>
1662:
1.236 jose 1663: <ul>
1.216 jose 1664: <li><strong>
1665: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa01/">USENIX LISA 2001</a></strong>,
1666: Dec 2 - 7, 2001, San Diego, California, USA<br>
1.160 jufi 1667: Niels Provos gave a presentation, and there's been a booth selling
1.413 grunk 1668: T-shirts and 3.0 CDs.
1.160 jufi 1669: <p>
1670:
1.216 jose 1671: <li><strong>
1672: <a href="http://www.ietf.org/meetings/IETF-52.html">52nd IETF</a></strong>,
1673: Dec 9 - 14, 2001, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA<br>
1.160 jufi 1674: Angelos, Itojun & Jakob were there.
1675: <p>
1676:
1.158 deraadt 1677: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1678: <a href="http://www.disc2000.unam.mx/disc/index-ing.html">DISC
1.216 jose 1679: 2001</a></strong>,
1680: Nov 26 - 29, 2001, Mexico City, Mexico<br>
1.158 deraadt 1681: Once again, Theo de Raadt explained the security auditing process and
1682: subsequent secure configuration choices made in OpenBSD, in a talk
1683: entitled "Updated thoughts on writing a secure Operating System".
1684: <p>
1685:
1.216 jose 1686: <li><strong>
1687: <a href="http://www.linux.org.hk">LinuxCafe</a></strong>,
1688: Sep 15, 2001, Hong Kong, China<br>
1.156 provos 1689: Shell Hung gave an introduction for BSD and demonstration of OpenBSD to HKLUG.
1690: <p>
1691:
1.201 deraadt 1692: <li><strong>VPN Bakeoff</strong>,
1.216 jose 1693: Aug 13 - 18, 2001, Finland<br>
1.156 provos 1694: Jakob and Itojun were there.
1695: <p>
1.158 deraadt 1696:
1.150 wvdputte 1697: <li><strong>
1.215 nick 1698: <a href="http://www.hal2001.org">HAL 2001</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1699: Aug 10 - 12, 2001, Twente, Netherlands<br>
1.153 jufi 1700: Quite a lot of developers were there, we even had our own tent.
1701: Niels, Rees and Dugsong held talks, more info on the main website
1702: for HAL2001. And of course T-Shirts and CDROMs were sold.
1.150 wvdputte 1703: <p>
1.137 aaron 1704:
1705: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1706: <a href="http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon/">O'Reilly Open Source
1.216 jose 1707: Conference</a></strong>,
1708: Jul 23 - 27, 2001, San Diego, California, USA<br>
1.148 brian 1709: OpenBSD had a booth selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
1710: Ian Darwin presented his "Firewalls and Secure Internet Servers
1711: with OpenBSD" tutorial.
1712: <p>
1713:
1714: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 1715: <a href="http://www.defcon.org">DEF CON Nine</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1716: Jul 13 - 15, 2001 Las Vegas, USA<br>
1.148 brian 1717: OpenBSD developers and users make it a point to attend every year,
1718: and had a table selling CD's, shirts, etc.
1719: <p>
1720:
1721: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1722: <a href="http://www.sek.co.kr/sek2001/sek_html/main.htm">Software
1.216 jose 1723: Exhibition of Korea</a></strong>,
1724: Jun 26 - 29, 2001, Seoul, Korea<br>
1.146 krw 1725: urisecure/NDS sponsored an OpenBSD booth with CD's, posters,
1726: and a live demo of OpenBSD's IPSEC hardware acceleration.
1727: <p>
1728:
1729: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1730: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix01/">2001 USENIX Annual
1.216 jose 1731: Technical Conference</a></strong>,
1732: Jun 25 - 30, 2001, Boston, USA<br>
1.146 krw 1733: OpenBSD developers were there, selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
1734: <p>
1735:
1736: <li><strong>
1.143 dugsong 1737: <a href="http://www.olymfair.org/eng/workshop.htm">Information
1.201 deraadt 1738: Security OlymFair</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1739: May 16 - 18, 2001, Seoul, Korea<br>
1.143 dugsong 1740: Dug Song gave a detailed introduction to OpenBSD to the Korean
1741: security community.
1742: <p>
1743:
1744: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1745: <a href="http://www.osdem.org/">2001 Open Source and Free Software
1.216 jose 1746: Developers' Meeting</a></strong>,
1747: Feb 3 - 4, 2001, Brussels, Belgium<br>
1.137 aaron 1748: There was an OpenBSD booth with some loose talks made.
1749: <p>
1750:
1751: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 1752: <a href="http://www.linuxexpoparis.com/">2001 Linux Expo</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1753: Feb 1 - 2, 2001, Paris, France<br>
1.236 jose 1754: There was an OpenBSD booth in the 'F' area.
1.137 aaron 1755: <p>
1.236 jose 1756: </ul>
1.137 aaron 1757:
1.132 louis 1758: <h3>2000</h3>
1759:
1.236 jose 1760: <ul>
1.132 louis 1761: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1762: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa2000/">LISA 2000, USENIX
1.216 jose 1763: Systems Administration Conference</a></strong>,
1764: Dec 3 - 8, 2000, New Orleans, USA<br>
1.134 jufi 1765: Wim Vandeputte and other volunteers have been running a sales table with
1766: shirts, posters and the brand new 2.8 CDs.
1767: <p>
1768:
1769: <li><strong>
1.215 nick 1770: <a href="http://www.disc2000.unam.mx/disc/index-ing.html">DISC 2000</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1771: Nov 26 - Dec 1, 2000, Mexico City, Mexico<br>
1.133 deraadt 1772: Theo de Raadt explained the security auditing process and subsequent secure
1773: configuration choices made in OpenBSD, in a talk entitled "Secure by Default".
1774: Over the next few days, he also participated in two panels with various security
1775: experts who had flown in from around the world. Following this, Theo climbed
1.151 jsyn 1776: one of the largest volcanoes, called Malinche.
1.133 deraadt 1777: <p>
1778:
1779: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1780: <a href="http://www.nluug.nl/events/nj2000">NLUUG Najaarsconferentie
1.216 jose 1781: 2000</a></strong>,
1782: Nov 9, 2000, Ede, NL<br>
1.236 jose 1783: There was an OpenBSD booth where people dropped by for information or to
1.413 grunk 1784: get their T-shirts, polos, caps and 2.7 CDs.
1.13 deraadt 1785: <p>
1.4 millert 1786:
1.132 louis 1787: <li><strong><a name=ipsec2000></a>
1.236 jose 1788: <a href="http://www.upperside.fr/baipsecy2k.htm">IPsec 2000 Global
1.216 jose 1789: Summit</a></strong>,
1790: Oct 24 - 27, 2000, Paris La Defense, France<br>
1.159 miod 1791: Niels Provos ended the conference by speaking about the IPsec architecture
1.132 louis 1792: in OpenBSD. The talk was well received and many people were very interested
1793: about our cryptographic hardware acceleration.
1794:
1795: <ul>
1.236 jose 1796: <li>The IPsec Architecture in OpenBSD<br>
1.215 nick 1797: <a href="#ipsec2000">IPsec 2000 Global Summit</a> by Niels Provos.<br>
1.132 louis 1798: <a href="papers/ipsec-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1799: </ul>
1.4 millert 1800: <p>
1.132 louis 1801:
1.7 deraadt 1802: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 1803: <a href="http://ApacheCon.Com/2000/EU/">ApacheCon Europa 2000</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1804: Oct 23 - 25, 2000, London, UK<br>
1.132 louis 1805: There was an OpenBSD booth where people could drop by for information and
1806: a chat with the local OpenBSD personnel. We also had the essentials for
1.413 grunk 1807: your wardrobe (T-shirts, polos, caps), for your hardware (2.7 CDs) and for your
1.132 louis 1808: mind (drinks afterwards).
1809: <p>
1810:
1.216 jose 1811: <li><strong>
1812: <a href="http://www.bsdcon.com/">BSD Con 2000</a></strong>,
1813: Oct 18 - 20, 2000, Monterey, CA, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1814: David Terrell ran an OpenBSD booth selling T-shirts and CDs and answering
1815: questions.
1.32 deraadt 1816: <p>
1.1 deraadt 1817:
1.132 louis 1818: <li><strong><a name=opensource2000></a>
1.236 jose 1819: <a href="http://www.opensource-forum.com/konferens">The Open Source
1.216 jose 1820: Revolution</a></strong>,
1821: Oct 5, 2000, Stockholm, Sweden<br>
1.133 deraadt 1822: Theo de Raadt spoke about how user expectations for security out of the box
1823: have changed over the last years.
1.1 deraadt 1824: <p>
1825:
1.132 louis 1826: <li><strong><a name=sec2000></a>
1.216 jose 1827: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/sec2000/">Usenix Security</a></strong>,
1828: Aug 14 - 17, 2000, Denver, Colorado, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1829: Some OpenBSD developers were there and one paper was presented:
1830: <ul>
1.236 jose 1831: <li>Encrypting Virtual Memory<br>
1.132 louis 1832: <a href="#sec2000">Usenix Security 2000</a>
1.205 deraadt 1833: by Niels Provos.<br>
1.132 louis 1834: <a href="papers/swapencrypt.ps">paper</a> and
1835: <a href="papers/swapencrypt-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1836: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 1837: <p>
1.132 louis 1838:
1.10 provos 1839: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 1840: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-8-post.html">Defcon 2000</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1841: Jul 28 - 30, 2000, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.236 jose 1842: Kjell Wooding (our IPF maintainer), James Phillips from the
1.132 louis 1843: <a href="http://www.deadly.org">OpenBSD Journal</a>, and Theo de Raadt
1.413 grunk 1844: had a table and were selling OpenBSD CDROMs, T-shirts, and posters on
1.132 louis 1845: Friday and Saturday. Hordes of people visited our table and we at the
1846: end we were completely sold out of CDROMS and shirts (allowing us to go
1847: check out Hoover Dam's hardhat tour on Sunday and leave the madness behind).
1848: <br>
1849: We were completely amazed at the people who stopped by our table, to say
1850: that they were relying on OpenBSD.
1851: <p>
1.32 deraadt 1852:
1.132 louis 1853: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1854: <a href="http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon2000/">O'Reilly Open Source
1.216 jose 1855: Conference 2000</a></strong>,
1856: Jul 17 - 20, 2000, Monterey, California, USA<br>
1857: Ian Darwin presented a <a href="papers/oreilly2000/">tutorial</a> on
1.132 louis 1858: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/w/bsd_tutorials.html">
1859: Secure Internet Servers/Firewalls with OpenBSD</a>, and bravely
1860: manned the OpenBSD booth for the remainder of the show.
1861: Kjell Wooding took part in a panel discussion on the Future of the BSDs,
1862: and spoke about
1863: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/w/bsd_presentations.html">
1.241 david 1864: Secure By Default.</a> Both sessions were well attended, and at least
1.132 louis 1865: one Linux sysadmin was seen racing for a keyboard, scared look in his eyes,
1.236 jose 1866: after the security talk.
1.3 provos 1867: <p>
1.132 louis 1868:
1.6 deraadt 1869: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 1870: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.de/2000/english/">LinuxTag 2000</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1871: Jun 29 - Jul 2, 2000, Stuttgart, Germany<br>
1.132 louis 1872: There was a BSD booth where we had the first <a href="27.html">OpenBSD 2.7 CDs</a> for Europe
1873: and the new blue stitchwork <a href="tshirts.html#11">Blowfish Polo</a> shirt.
1874: <br>
1875: Christian Weisgerber gave a
1876: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.de/2000/english/conference/talks.php3?ID=3">talk
1877: on BSD</a>.
1.32 deraadt 1878: <p>
1.1 deraadt 1879:
1.216 jose 1880: <li><strong><a name=usenix2000></a>
1.236 jose 1881: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix2000/">Usenix Annual Technical
1.216 jose 1882: Conference.</a></strong>,
1883: Jun 18 - 23, 2000, San Diego, California, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1884: Almost 20 OpenBSD developers showed up for the 25th anniversary of Usenix.
1885: We had a vendor booth, as well as a number of papers being presented.
1886: Conference attendees had the opportunity to test drive the new release,
1887: OpenBSD 2.7, on the 30 workstations in the terminal room. For the first
1888: time ever, the terminal room and wavelan networks also had a IPv6 connection,
1.147 jason 1889: and some users even discovered so by themselves.
1.132 louis 1890: Theo also held a BoF on the Wednesday evening, after which the developers
1891: had almost too much singing in foreign languages with the help of helium.
1892: <ul>
1893:
1894: <li>Implementing Internet Key Exchange, IKE.<br>
1895: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
1.216 jose 1896: by Angelos D. Keromytis, Niklas Hallqvist.<br>
1.132 louis 1897: <a href="papers/ikepaper.ps">paper</a> and
1898: <a href="papers/ikeslides.ps">slides</a>.
1899:
1900: <li>Transparent Network Security Policy Enforcement.<br>
1901: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
1.216 jose 1902: by Angelos D. Keromytis, Jason L. Wright.<br>
1.132 louis 1903: <a href="papers/bridgepaper.ps">paper</a> and
1904: <a href="papers/bridgeslides.ps">slides</a>.
1.2 deraadt 1905:
1.132 louis 1906: <li>Safety Checking of Kernel Extensions.<br>
1907: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
1.205 deraadt 1908: by Craig Metz.
1.132 louis 1909: </ul>
1.2 deraadt 1910: <p>
1911:
1.132 louis 1912: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1913: <a href="http://www.manlug.mcc.ac.uk/calendar.html">OpenBSD: The Open
1.216 jose 1914: Source Secure Operating System</a></strong>,
1915: Jun 17, 2000, 14:00. Manchester, UK<br>
1.132 louis 1916: Sam Smith gave a rundown of features coming in OpenBSD 2.7 and
1917: OpenSSH 2.1. His <a href="http://www.manlug.mcc.ac.uk/20000617/">slides</a>
1918: are available from the user group's site.
1.1 deraadt 1919: <p>
1.2 deraadt 1920:
1.132 louis 1921: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 1922: <a href="reprints/crypto2000.html">OpenBSD Crypto 2000 conference</a></strong>,
1923: Jun 15 - 20, 2000, Calgary, AB, Canada<br>
1.132 louis 1924: Repeating the tradition of a similar meeting held last year, many
1925: OpenBSD developers from around the world converged on Calgary
1926: for a weekend long hack-and-drink session. As before, the event
1927: was invitation only. Many significant things got done, including
1928: ipv6 + ipsec running over hardware crypto devices.
1.1 deraadt 1929: <p>
1.11 jkatz 1930:
1.17 deraadt 1931: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 1932: <a href="http://www.converge2000.com">CONVERGENCE 2000</a></strong>,
1933: May 18, 2000. Convention Centre, Calgary, Alberta, Canada<br>
1.132 louis 1934: Theo de Raadt participated in a panel discussion about the pros and cons
1935: of using Open Source software in various business environments. The local
1936: users also handed out OpenSSH and OpenBSD posters, and were absolutely
1937: surprised and amazed by the number of Calgary companies quietly using
1938: OpenBSD.
1.21 pattonme 1939: <p>
1.17 deraadt 1940:
1.23 niklas 1941: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 1942: <a href="http://www.cansecwest.com/">CanSecWest</a></strong>,
1943: May 10 - 12, 2000. Robson Conference Centre, Vancouver, BC, Canada<br>
1.132 louis 1944: Theo de Raadt spoke about why programmers keep making the same stupid mistakes,
1945: what types of efforts might improve this, and how this all relates to auditing
1.375 grunk 1946: efforts.
1947: Rain Forest Puppy, Ron Gula (Network Security Wizards), Ken Williams (E&Y),
1.216 jose 1948: Marty Roesch (snort/HiverWorld), and Fyodor (nmap) were among the other speakers
1.132 louis 1949: at this event. (On a personal note: at this conference Theo realized that three
1950: leading Network Intrusion Detection System companies use OpenBSD as their
1951: base operating system: Hiverworld, Network Security Wizards, and NFR).
1.32 deraadt 1952: <p>
1.25 deraadt 1953:
1.132 louis 1954: <li><strong>
1955: <a href="http://www.zdevents.com/comdex/spring2000/">Linux Business Expo /
1.201 deraadt 1956: COMDEX Spring 2000</a></strong>,
1957: Apr 19, 2000, Chicago, IL, USA<br>
1.216 jose 1958: Louis Bertrand represented OpenBSD at a BSD BOF with FreeBSD/BDSI,
1.132 louis 1959: NetBSD and Apple (Darwin is BSD-derived). The BOF was attended by about
1960: 75 people, many of whom were new to *BSD. It was an opportunity to
1961: explore future cooperation among the various BSD groups and companies.
1.25 deraadt 1962: <p>
1.23 niklas 1963:
1.31 deraadt 1964: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1965: <a href="http://www.nordu.org/NordU2000/">NordU 2000 -- The second
1.216 jose 1966: EurOpen/USENIX Conference</a></strong>,
1967: Feb 8 - 11, 2000. Malmo, Sweden<br>
1.140 jufi 1968: About 15 OpenBSD team members attended.
1.132 louis 1969: OpenBSD CDs and shirts were sold at a booth donated by the conference.<br>
1970: As well, Theo de Raadt gave an invited talk on Wednesday morning
1971: about why software quality/security suffers, and what we can do to
1972: improve it.
1.32 deraadt 1973: <p>
1.31 deraadt 1974:
1.201 deraadt 1975: <li><strong>BSD BOF session, LinuxWorld Expo</strong>,
1.216 jose 1976: Feb 3, 2000, New York, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1977: Representatives from OpenBSD, BSDi, and FreeBSD hosted a
1978: "Birds Of a Feather" session at the <a
1979: href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/">New York LinuxWorld Expo</a>.<br>
1980: There were installation CD-ROMs, free food, and even free Daemon Horns!
1.33 niklas 1981: <p>
1.236 jose 1982: </ul>
1.33 niklas 1983:
1.132 louis 1984: <h3>1999</h3>
1.36 niklas 1985:
1.236 jose 1986: <ul>
1.216 jose 1987: <li><strong>The Bazaar</strong>,
1988: Dec 14 - 16, 1999, New York, New York, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1989: Wes Sonnenreich and Tom Yates presented a tutorial on building
1.216 jose 1990: firewalls with OpenBSD. BoF of open source BSDs took place.
1.413 grunk 1991: 2.6 release CDROMs and T-shirts were sold.
1.132 louis 1992: Emphatic interest has been shown by representatives from press, international
1993: government and military institutions.
1.45 jason 1994: <p>
1995:
1.216 jose 1996: <li><strong><a name=lisa99></a>
1.236 jose 1997: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa99/">13th Systems Administration
1.216 jose 1998: Conference (LISA 99)</a></strong>,
1999: Nov 7 - 12, 1999, Seattle, Washington, USA<br>
1.132 louis 2000: Bob Beck presented a paper about the U of A's nifty OpenBSD based
2001: solution to the problem of public Ethernet jacks in the technical sessions
2002: starting at 11:00 AM on the 11th.<br>
2003: There were many other OpenBSD
2004: people at this conference as well, as well as a booth selling CDROMs and
1.413 grunk 2005: T-shirts. His paper is available at:
1.132 louis 2006:
2007: <ul>
2008: <li>Dealing with Public Ethernet Jacks-Switches, Gateways, and Authentication.<br>
1.236 jose 2009: <a href="events.html#lisa99">LISA 1999</a>,
1.206 david 2010: by Bob Beck.<br>
1.236 jose 2011: <a href="papers/authgw-paper.ps">paper</a> and
2012: <a href="papers/authgw-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 2013: </ul>
2014: <p>
2015:
2016: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 2017: IP-dagarna 1999</strong>,
1.216 jose 2018: Oct 27 - 28, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden<br>
1.132 louis 2019: Håkan Olsson & Jakob Schlyter spoke at the DNSSEC session on the 27th.
2020: <p>
2021:
2022: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2023: <a href="http://www.opensource-forum.com/konferens/">Linux & Open Source
1.216 jose 2024: Software '99</a></strong>,
2025: Oct 21, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)<br>
1.132 louis 2026: Niklas Hallqvist spoke on the topic of how to use
1.236 jose 2027: <a
1.375 grunk 2028: href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4">IPsec</a> for securing communications.
1.132 louis 2029: <p>
2030:
2031: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2032: <a href="http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference">Reflections/Projections
1.216 jose 2033: 1999</a></strong>,
2034: Oct 8 - 10, 1999, Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA<br>
1.132 louis 2035: Theo de Raadt spoke at 10:00am on the 9th. Other OpenBSD
2036: developers from the east coast attended as well.
2037: <p>
2038:
1.236 jose 2039: <li><strong><a name="ipsec99"></a>
1.216 jose 2040: IPsec Interoperability tests</strong>,
2041: Sep 27 - 30, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)<br>
1.236 jose 2042: A dozen vendors, among them OpenBSD, tested more than 15
1.375 grunk 2043: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4">IPsec</a>
1.132 louis 2044: products, both gateways and hosts, for interoperability. The tests
2045: were successful as far as general IPsec and pre-shared key
2046: authentication went, OpenBSD interoperated with everyone, but due to
2047: time constraints we never got to test the certificate support
2048: appropriately. The results were presented later that fall at a
2049: conference in Stockholm.
2050: <p>
2051:
2052: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2053: <a href="http://www.auug.org.au/winter/auug99">AUUG'99</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 2054: Sep 8 - 11, 1999, Melbourne, Australia<br>
1.132 louis 2055: Theo de Raadt gave two talks on "quality of software" related issues
2056: and participated on a panel about how open source projects are
2057: coordinated.
2058: <p>
2059:
2060: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2061: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/sec99/index.html">Usenix
1.216 jose 2062: Security</a></strong>,
2063: Aug 23 - 26, 1999, Washington, DC, USA<br>
1.132 louis 2064: Many OpenBSD people from the east coast showed up and sold CDs and
2065: shirts. It was pretty clear from discussions that many people were
2066: very aware of OpenBSD, and that OpenBSD was being used in very
2067: significant security roles.
2068: <p>
2069:
2070: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2071: <a href="http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/99jul/index.html">45th IETF
1.216 jose 2072: meeting</a></strong>,
2073: Jul 12 - 16, 1999, Oslo, Norway<br>
1.132 louis 2074: A number of OpenBSD team members from all over the world were at this
2075: conference. In addition to attending the IPsec and DNS working groups (among
2076: others) we did IPsec/IKE interoperability testing together with
1.166 miod 2077: the Japanese KAME project. Also, Angelos D. Keromytis did a presentation on
1.132 louis 2078: his work with keynote and isakmpd in OpenBSD.
2079: <p>
1.45 jason 2080:
1.132 louis 2081: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2082: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-6.html">Defcon 6.0</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 2083: Jul 9 - 11, 1999, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132 louis 2084: At this conference, the OpenBSD team sold 100 or so 2.5 release CDROMs
1.413 grunk 2085: and a TON of T-shirts.
1.46 deraadt 2086: <p>
1.132 louis 2087:
1.236 jose 2088: <li><strong><a name="usenix99"></a>
2089: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix99/index.html">
1.216 jose 2090: Usenix Annual Technical Conference</a></strong>,
2091: Jun 6 - 11, 1999, Monterey, California, USA<br>
1.106 jufi 2092: The <a href="http://www.usenix.org">USENIX Association</a>
1.46 deraadt 2093: provided The OpenBSD Project with a grant to underwrite the production
1.106 jufi 2094: of CDs of OpenBSD 2.5. (We distributed the
2095: release for free to attendees of the USENIX Annual Conference in
1.46 deraadt 2096: June.)
1.132 louis 2097: <br>
1.46 deraadt 2098: Usenix team members were involved in the authoring and
1.132 louis 2099: presentation of 4 OpenBSD-related papers:
2100:
1.375 grunk 2101: <a name="anoncvs_paper"></a>
1.46 deraadt 2102: <ul>
1.66 deraadt 2103: <li>Opening the Source Repository with Anonymous CVS.<br>
1.236 jose 2104: <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216 jose 2105: by Charles D. Cranor, Theo de Raadt.<br>
1.236 jose 2106: <a href="papers/anoncvs-paper.ps">paper</a> and
2107: <a href="papers/anoncvs-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 2108: <br>
1.66 deraadt 2109: <li>A Future-Adaptable Password Scheme.<br>
1.236 jose 2110: <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216 jose 2111: by Niels Provos, David Mazieres.<br>
1.236 jose 2112: <a href="papers/bcrypt-paper.ps">paper</a> and
2113: <a href="papers/bcrypt-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 2114: <br>
1.66 deraadt 2115: <li>Cryptography in OpenBSD: An Overview.<br>
1.236 jose 2116: <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216 jose 2117: by Theo de Raadt, Niklas Hallqvist, Artur Grabowski,
2118: Angelos D. Keromytis, Niels Provos.<br>
1.236 jose 2119: <a href="papers/crypt-paper.ps">paper</a> and
2120: <a href="papers/crypt-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 2121: <br>
1.66 deraadt 2122: <li>strlcpy and strlcat -- consistent, safe, string copy and concatenation.<br>
1.236 jose 2123: <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216 jose 2124: by Todd C. Miller, Theo de Raadt.<br>
1.236 jose 2125: <a href="papers/strlcpy-paper.ps">paper</a> and
2126: <a href="papers/strlcpy-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 2127: </ul>
1.66 deraadt 2128: <p>
1.46 deraadt 2129:
1.51 deraadt 2130: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2131: <a href="http://www.linuxexpo.org">5th Annual Linux Expo</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 2132: May 18 - 22, 1999, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA<br>
1.132 louis 2133: Some OpenBSD team members were at this conference selling OpenBSD 2.5 CDs,
2134: OpenBSE T-shirts, as well as Blowfish T-shirts, which sold out very quickly
2135: at a table donated by the Expo. OpenBSD was the only BSD represented at the
2136: vendor exposition, and we had good chance to present a secure alternative
2137: to Linux.
1.51 deraadt 2138: <p>
2139:
1.53 jakob 2140: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2141: <a href="http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/99mar/index.html">44th IETF
1.216 jose 2142: meeting</a></strong>,
2143: Mar 15 - 19, 1999, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA<br>
1.132 louis 2144: Some OpenBSD team members were at this conference, in particular our
2145: IPSEC developers.
1.53 jakob 2146: <p>
2147:
1.132 louis 2148: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2149: <a href="http://www.europen.se/NordU99">NordU99 -- The first
1.216 jose 2150: EurOpen/USENIX Conference</a></strong>,
2151: Feb 9 - 12, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden<br>
1.132 louis 2152: A couple of OpenBSD team members were there and some of the swedish user
2153: society as well. OpenBSD CDs were sold at a booth and at the end of a
2154: security talk, the project got applauded for its continuous strive of auditing
2155: security sensitive parts of the system.
1.59 deraadt 2156: <p>
1.236 jose 2157: </ul>
1.59 deraadt 2158:
1.132 louis 2159: <h3>1998</h3>
1.59 deraadt 2160:
1.236 jose 2161: <ul>
1.132 louis 2162: <li><strong><a name=ipsec98></a>
1.236 jose 2163: <a href="http://www.netman.se/kurs/96.html">IPsec/VPN Interoperability
2164: tests & seminar</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 2165: Dec 14, 1998, Stockholm, Sweden (in swedish)<br>
1.132 louis 2166: OpenBSD was represented as one of about a dozen
1.375 grunk 2167: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4">IPsec</a>
1.132 louis 2168: implementations who were tested for interoperability. The tests were
2169: successful, both for the technology in general, and for OpenBSD in
2170: specific. We managed to communicate encrypted with every vendor present,
2171: and to negotiate keys via IKE with everyone capable.
1.70 deraadt 2172: <p>
2173:
1.236 jose 2174: <li><strong><a name="lisaboston-98"></a>
2175: <a href="http://usenix.org/events/lisa98">LISA '98: 12th Systems Administration
1.216 jose 2176: Conference</a></strong>,
2177: Dec 6 - 11, 1998, Boston, Massachusetts<br>
1.132 louis 2178: More than 10 OpenBSD team members showed up. By far, OpenBSD was the
2179: largest representative group from free software at the conference.
2180: Usenix gave us a table in the vendor area where we sold 2.4 CDROMs,
1.413 grunk 2181: 2.3 "wire-frame" T-shirts, and the new 2.4 embroidered
2182: "Because security matters..." T-shirts, polos, and sweaters.
1.132 louis 2183: An OpenBSD BOF was held one evening, led by Theo de Raadt.
2184: A PalmPilot schedule loader was at the membership booth, powered by OpenBSD.
2185: <br>
2186: The terminal room ran OpenBSD 2.4 on 45 machines. Obviously trust in OpenBSD
2187: had increased since many people,normally wary of security problems of open
2188: terminal rooms, were seen using the machines.
1.72 ho 2189: <p>
2190:
1.73 deraadt 2191: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2192: <a href="http://www.asc.unam.mx/disc98">DISC - Seguridad en
1.217 jose 2193: Cómputo 98</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 2194: Nov 2 - 7, 1998, Mexico City<br>
1.132 louis 2195: Theo de Raadt gave a talk about security auditing, sponsored by
1.236 jose 2196: <a href="http://www.core-sdi.com">CORE SDI S.A.</a>, an Argentine
1.132 louis 2197: security auditing company who strongly believes in the future
1.236 jose 2198: of OpenBSD. (<a href="papers/mexico98-slides.ps">Slides are available</a>).
1.131 jufi 2199: <p>
1.73 deraadt 2200:
1.236 jose 2201: <li><strong>IP-dagarna</strong>,
1.216 jose 2202: Oct 29, 30 1998, Stockholm, Sweden (in swedish)<br>
1.132 louis 2203: At this conference, entirely devoted to IP, Niklas Hallqvist from the
2204: OpenBSD team held a talk on the IKE (a.k.a ISAKMP/Oakley) key management
2205: protocol and experiences from the implementation of <strong>isakmpd</strong>,
2206: an IKE implementation funded by Ericsson Radio Systems and developed
2207: primarily for the OpenBSD IPSEC stack.
1.79 deraadt 2208: <p>
1.73 deraadt 2209:
1.80 deraadt 2210: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 2211: <a href="http://www.nceexpo.com/">NCEE '98</a></strong>,
2212: Oct 9 - 10, 1998, Auburn, Maine, USA<br>
1.132 louis 2213: An extensive after-action report was sent to advocacy@openbsd.org. While
1.151 jsyn 2214: sales of shirts and CDROMs left much to be desired, we did have good
1.132 louis 2215: opportunities to further project visibility and highlight its strengths.
1.80 deraadt 2216: <p>
2217:
1.93 louis 2218: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2219: <a href="http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference">Reflections/Projections
1.216 jose 2220: 1998</a></strong>,
1.236 jose 2221: Oct 2 - 4, 1998, Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA<br>
1.132 louis 2222: Theo de Raadt spoke in a panel about Open/Free software with Eric
2223: Raymond and others.
1.93 louis 2224: <p>
2225:
1.216 jose 2226: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2227: <a href="http://opensource.oreilly.com/townmeet.html">O'Reilly and
2228: Associates Open Source Developer Days</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 2229: Aug 21, 1998, San Jose, California, USA<br>
1.132 louis 2230: OpenBSD team members were on-hand to discuss OpenBSD's role among the
1.413 grunk 2231: other free software projects available. They also sold some CDs and T-shirts.
1.96 deraadt 2232: <p>
2233:
1.236 jose 2234: <li><strong><a name="defcon98"></a>
2235: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-6.html">Defcon VI</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 2236: Jul 31 - Aug 2, 1998, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132 louis 2237: The router to the outside world was an OpenBSD 2.3 box. It was involved
2238: in a "capture the flag" competition in which an entire room of crackers
2239: attempted to break into it and machines running other operating systems.
2240: The OpenBSD box was not broken into.
2241: <br>
2242: Almost 100 OpenBSD 2.3 CDROMs were sold (we ran out again). The primates
1.236 jose 2243: at <a href="http://www.monkey.org">monkey.org</a> brought 2.3
1.413 grunk 2244: "wire-frame" OpenBSD T-shirts to the conference and sold almost
1.132 louis 2245: 200 of them. The proceeds from the sales were donated to the OpenBSD project.
1.96 deraadt 2246: <p>
1.94 deraadt 2247:
1.236 jose 2248: <li><strong><a href="http://www.blackhat.com">BlackHat Sessions</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 2249: Jul 29 - 30, 1998, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132 louis 2250: Theo de Raadt presented a talk entitled
2251: "Auditing software for security" about the OpenBSD security auditing
2252: team's process and the lessons the team learned. The talk concentrated
2253: on how our process fixes bugs -- not just holes -- since one never knows
2254: when 5 bugs will act together to become a hole.
1.99 deraadt 2255: <p>
2256:
1.236 jose 2257: <li><strong><a name="usenix-neworleans"></a>
2258: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/usenix98/index.html">Usenix Annual Technical Conference</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 2259: Jun 15 - 19, 1998, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA<br>
1.132 louis 2260: At Usenix 1998 there was a strong OpenBSD presence both in the Freenix
2261: and normal tracks. Theo did a general talk about what the OpenBSD
2262: project offers. Angelos held a panel about IPSEC (which is quite an
2263: OpenBSD topic since IPSEC development at that time was so much further
2264: ahead in OpenBSD than anywhere else).
2265: <br>
2266: The terminal room PCs ran OpenBSD 2.3. We sold many CDROMs. The
1.413 grunk 2267: first style of OpenBSD T-shirt also sold quite well.
1.101 wvdputte 2268: <p>
2269:
1.105 wvdputte 2270: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2271: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/sec98/index.html">Usenix Security</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 2272: Jan 26 - 29, 1998, San Antonio, Texas, USA<br>
1.132 louis 2273: At this conference, Theo presented an evening talk which basically
2274: turned into a list of fixed security problems and cautionary tales about
2275: subsystems in which future problems may be encountered
1.236 jose 2276: (<a href="papers/security98-slides.ps">slides available</a>).
1.105 wvdputte 2277: <br>
1.132 louis 2278: The terminal room PCs ran OpenBSD 2.2.
2279: <p>
1.236 jose 2280: </ul>
1.105 wvdputte 2281:
1.132 louis 2282: <h3>1997</h3>
1.107 deraadt 2283:
1.236 jose 2284: <ul>
1.113 deraadt 2285: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2286: <a href="http://www.hip97.nl">HIP</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 2287: Aug, 1997, Almere, Netherlands<br>
1.236 jose 2288: Niels held a
2289: <a href="http://www.physnet.uni-hamburg.de/provos/hip97-tcpip.html">talk</a>
1.132 louis 2290: about the problems of unencrypted TCP/IP connections, offering IPSEC as
2291: possible solution.
1.113 deraadt 2292: <p>
1.132 louis 2293:
1.236 jose 2294: <li><strong>HOPE</strong>,
1.216 jose 2295: Aug, 1997, New York, New York, USA<br>
1.166 miod 2296: The terminal room consisted primarily of DECstations running
1.236 jose 2297: OpenBSD 2.1. Once again, the <a href="http://www.l0pht.com">L0phT</a>
1.132 louis 2298: people had very good things to say about our security.
1.113 deraadt 2299: <p>
1.105 wvdputte 2300:
1.236 jose 2301: <li><strong><a name="defcon5"></a>
2302: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-5.html">Defcon V</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 2303: Jul 11 - 13, 1997, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132 louis 2304: At this conference, the OpenBSD team sold 100 or so 2.1 release CDROMs.
2305: <br>
2306: Since this is the primary security conference, many speakers said very
1.140 jufi 2307: good things about our stance on security... particularly people like
1.236 jose 2308: <a href="http://www.l0pht.com">the L0phT</a>.
1.118 deraadt 2309: <p>
2310:
1.125 deraadt 2311: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2312: <a
2313: href="http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/ana97/index.html">Usenix Annual Technical Conference</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 2314: Jan 6 - 10, 1997, Anaheim, California, USA.<br>
1.132 louis 2315: Theo de Raadt held a BOF ("Birds Of a Feather", ie. a meeting of people
2316: interested in the same thing) about OpenBSD.
1.236 jose 2317: </ul>
1.125 deraadt 2318:
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