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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:
1.642 mbalmer 46: <li><strong><a name="coimbra2007"></a>
1.649 mbalmer 47: <a href="http://www.openbsd-pt.com/eventos/coimbra07/index-en.html">Portuguese OpenBSD Usergroup Meeting</a></strong>,
1.644 pedro 48: May 5 - 6, 2007, Coimbra, Portugal.<br>
1.642 mbalmer 49: 7th Meeting of the Portuguese OpenBSD Usergroup.
1.643 pedro 50: Marc Balmer, Pedro Martelletto and Michael Shalayeff will be around.
1.642 mbalmer 51: <p>
52:
1.625 wvdputte 53: <li><strong><a name="nluug2007"></a>
54: <a href="http://www.nluug.nl/events/vj07/index.html">NLUUG Voorjaarsconferentie
55: 2007</a></strong>,
56: May 10, 2007, Ede, Netherlands<br>
1.633 tom 57: There will be a
58: <a href="http://www.nluug.nl/events/vj07/abstracts/ab.html?id=2">presentation</a>
59: by Anil Madhavapeddy and an OpenBSD booth, run by the usual
1.625 wvdputte 60: suspects.
61: <p>
62:
1.636 michele 63: <li><strong><a name="obsdm2"></a>
64: <a href="http://www.openbeer.it/?open=obsdm2">OpenBSD Meeting V.2</a></strong>
65: May 12, 2007, Verona, Italy.<br>
66: Another event organized by the OpenBEER team with italian OpenBSD related talks.
67: Michele will present a talk about network stack.
68: <p>
69:
1.599 mbalmer 70: <li><strong><a name="confidence2007"></a>
71: <a href="http://2007.confidence.org.pl/">Confidence 2007</a></strong>,
72: May 12 - 13, 2007, Krakow, Poland.<br>
73: There will be presentations by OpenBSD developers and an OpenBSD booth,
74: run by the usual suspects.
75: <p>
76:
1.614 deraadt 77: <li><strong><a name="bsdcan2007"></a>
78: <a href="http://www.bsdcan.org/">BSDCan 2007</a></strong>,
79: May 16 - 19, 2007, Ottawa, Canada.<br>
80: 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.
81: <p>
82:
1.621 wvdputte 83: <li><strong><a name="linuxtag2007"></a>
84: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.org/2007/en/">LinuxTag 2007</a>
85: </strong>,
86: May 30 - Jun 2, 2007, Berlin, Germany<br>
87: There will be presentations by OpenBSD developers and an OpenBSD booth,
88: run by the usual suspects.
89: <p>
90:
1.637 martin 91: <li><strong><a name=LinuxwochenVienna2007></a>
92: <a href="http://www.linuxwochen.at/2007/Wien">Linuxwochen Vienna 2007</a>
93: </strong>,
94: May 31 - Jun 2, 2007, Vienna, Austria.<br>
95: There will be an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth run by Martin Reindl and the usual
96: suspects.
97: <p>
98:
1.641 ajacouto 99: <li><strong><a name=Slackathon2007></a>
100: <a href="http://www.slackathon.se/">Slackathon 2007</a>
101: </strong>,
102: June 16, 2007, Stockholm, Sweden.<br>
103: Yet another round of fund raising for OpenBSD/SSH and general *BSD meeting in
104: Stockholm.
105: <p>
1.640 wvdputte 106:
1.617 wvdputte 107: <li><strong><a name="summercamp2007"></a>
108: <a href="http://events.ccc.de/camp/2007">Chaos Communication Camp 2007</a>
109: </strong>,
110: Aug 8 - 12, 2007, Finowfurt, Germany<br>
111: This open air event wil have a big OpenBSD village with all the usual suspects.
112: This year you can actually fly in with your private jet as it's held at
113: the Luftfahrtmuseum Finowfurt.
114: <p>
1.614 deraadt 115:
1.620 wvdputte 116: <li><strong><a name="froscon2007"></a>
117: <a href="http://www.froscon.de">FrOSCon 2007</a></strong>,
118: Aug 25 - 26, 2007, Bonn/Rhein-Sieg, Germany<br>
119: There will be developers present as well as an OpenBSD booth,
120: run by the usual suspects.
121: <p>
122:
1.612 mk 123: <li><strong><a name="eurobsdcon2007"></a>
124: <a href="http://2007.eurobsdcon.org/">EuroBSDCon 2007</a></strong>,
1.621 wvdputte 125: Sep 14 - 15, 2007, Copenhagen, Denmark.<br>
1.652 ! mbalmer 126: Marc Balmer will give a talk "Support for Radio Clocks in OpenBSD".<br>
! 127: Marco Pfatschbacher will present "Techniques for Load Balancing in OpenBSD Using CARP".<br>
! 128: Pierre-Yves Ritschard will give a talk "Load Balancing in OpenBSD Using hoststated".<br>
! 129: There will be an OpenBSD booth, run by the usual suspects.
1.621 wvdputte 130: <p>
131:
132: <li><strong><a name="t-dose2007"></a>
133: <a href="http://www.t-dose.org/">T-DOSE 2007</a></strong>,
134: Oct 13 - 14, 2007, Eindhoven, The Netherlands.<br>
135: Technical Dutch Open Source Event<br>
1.612 mk 136: There will be developers present as well as an OpenBSD booth,
137: run by the usual suspects.
138: <p>
139:
1.647 mbalmer 140: <li><strong><a name="bsdcontr2007"></a>
141: <a href="http://www.bsdcontr.org/">BSDConTR 2007</a></strong>
142: Oct 20 - 21, 2007, Goztepe Campus Marmara University, Istanbul, Turkey.<br>
143: First Turkish Conference on BSD Systems.
144: <p>
145:
1.588 espie 146: </ul>
147:
1.597 mbalmer 148: <hr>
149:
150: <h2>Past events:</h2>
151:
1.616 wvdputte 152: <h3>2007</h3>
153: <ul>
1.651 fkr 154: <li><strong><a name="litol07"></a>
155: <a href="http://www.lit-ol.de/">2. Linux-Informationstag Oldenburg</a></strong>,
156: Apr 14 - 15, 2007, Oldenburg, Germany.<br>
157: Small Open-Source event. Of course there was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth run by
158: Bernd, Felix and Tobias Stoeckmann.
159: <p>
1.650 deraadt 160:
161: <li><strong><a name="fisl8"></a>
162: <a href="http://fisl.softwarelivre.org/8.0/www/?q=en">fisl8.0</a></strong>,
163: Apr 12-14, 2007, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil.<br>
164: This was a fairly large conference in South America. Theo de Raadt
165: presented a talk about <a href="papers/brhard2007/">Hardware Documentation</a>.
166: <p>
167:
1.645 ray 168: <li><strong><a name="nycbug2007-cvs"></a>
169: <a href="http://nycbug.org/">NYC*BUG April 2007</a></strong>,
170: Apr 4, 2007, NYC, USA.<br>
171: Ray Lai (ray@) gave a
172: <a href="http://www.nycbug.org/index.php?NAV=Home;SUBM=10104">talk</a>
173: on OpenCVS.
1.648 ray 174: <a href="papers/nycbug07-cvs/">Slides</a> and
175: <a href="http://www.fetissov.org/public/nycbug/nycbug-04-04-07.mp3">audio</a>
176: are available.
1.645 ray 177: <p>
178:
1.638 grunk 179: <li><strong><a name="elite2007"></a>
180: <a href="http://www.erlug.de/?q=node/323">5. Erlanger Linuxtage</a></strong>,
181: Mar 24 - 25, 2007, Erlangen, Germany.<br>
182: There was an OpenBSD/OpenSSH booth, run by Alexander von Gernler (grunk@).
183: He also gave a talk called
1.639 grunk 184: <a href="papers/elite2007/elite2007-openbsd.pdf">
1.638 grunk 185: "Sichere Systeme mit OpenBSD" (german)</a>.
186: <p>
187:
1.635 tom 188: <li><strong><a name="ukuug2007"></a>
189: <a href="http://www.ukuug.org/events/spring2007/">UKUUG Spring 2007 Conference</a></strong>,
190: Mar 19 - 21, 2007, Manchester, United Kingdom<br>
191: Tom Cosgrove gave a presentation about "Third-Party Applications on OpenBSD"
192: at the annual spring meeting of the
193: <a href="http://www.ukuug.org/">UK's Unix and Open Systems User Group</a>.
194: <p>
195:
1.627 mcbride 196: <li><strong><a name="asiabsdcon2007"></a>
197: <a href="http://www.asiabsdcon.org/">AsiaBSDCon 2007</a></strong>,
198: Mar 8 - 11, 2007, Tokyo, Japan.<br>
1.631 mbalmer 199: Marc Balmer presented a paper <a href="papers/radio-clocks-asiabsdcon07.pdf">Supporting Radio Clocks in OpenBSD</a>. Presentation
200: <a href="papers/asiabsdcon07-radioclocks/index.html">slides</a> are also
201: available.<br>
1.627 mcbride 202: 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 203: Mathieu Sauve-Frankel gave a talk <a href="papers/asiabsdcon07-ipsec/index.html">Recent Improvements in OpenBSD's IPSec Support</a>.<br>
204: Damien Miller presented a paper <a href="papers/openssh-measures-asiabsdcon2007.pdf">Security measures in OpenSSH</a>. Presentation
1.628 djm 205: <a href="papers/openssh-measures-asiabsdcon2007-slides.pdf">slides</a> are
206: also available.<br>
1.627 mcbride 207: 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".
208: <p>
209:
1.622 fkr 210: <li><strong><a name="linuxforum2007"></a>
211: <a href="http://www.linuxforum.dk/2007/">LinuxForum 2007</a></strong>,
212: Mar 2 - 3, 2007, Copenhagen, Denmark.<br>
1.623 wvdputte 213: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth run by Wim, Bernd and Michael in the
1.633 tom 214: <a href="http://img.ba-net.org/LinuxForum2007/">best of circumstances</a>.
1.622 fkr 215: Felix gave a talk titled
216: <a href="papers/linuxforum07/index.html">OpenBSD - Past, Present and Future</a>.
217: <p>
218:
1.619 wvdputte 219: <li><strong><a name=Brussels2007></a>
220: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/2007/">FOSDEM Brussels 2007</a></strong>,
221: Feb 24 - 25, 2007, Brussels, Belgium.<br>
222: There was an an OpenBSD/OpenSSH booth with Matthieu, Marc, Mickey, Saad
223: and Wim. On Saturday we had our traditional BSD dinner.<br>
224: Matthieu gave a <a href="papers/fosdem07-xenocara.pdf">
225: talk on Xenocara</a> in the X.Org devroom.
226: <p>
1.616 wvdputte 227:
228: <li><strong><a name="kiberpipa2007"></a>
229: <a href="http://pot.kiberpipa.org">Kiberpipa open sessions</a></strong>,
230: February 20, 2007, Ljubljana, Slovenia.<br>
231: On that edition of weekly "Open sessions" meetings
232: <a href="http://www.kerberos.si">Mitja Muzenic</a> gave a
233: <a href="http://pot.kiberpipa.org/?p=39">talk</a> on OpenBSD.
1.619 wvdputte 234: <a href="http://www.kerberos.si/papers/Kiberpipa07/">Slides</a> (in Slovenian),
235: <a href="http://video.kiberpipa.org/media/POT_OpenBSD">video</a> (in Slovenian),
1.616 wvdputte 236: and <a href="http://gallery.kerberos.si/kiberpipa07/">photos</a> are available.
237: <p>
238:
239: </ul>
240:
1.445 martin 241: <h3>2006</h3>
1.236 jose 242: <ul>
1.537 deraadt 243:
1.588 espie 244: <li><strong><a name="23c3"></a>
1.577 mbalmer 245: <a href="https://events.ccc.de/congress/2006/">23C3 Chaos Communication Congress in
246: Berlin</a></strong>,
247: December 27 - 30, 2006, Berlin, Germany.<br>
1.597 mbalmer 248: Who can you trust? Well, us. OpenBSD was there, of course, for our annual
1.595 reyk 249: closing event. fkr, grunk, jsg, mbalmer, mickey, sturm, uwe, martin,
1.598 bernd 250: henning, moritz, bernd and wvdputte were there
1.597 mbalmer 251: there to chat with attendees and discuss OpenBSD stuff. It was - as usual -
252: a great end-of-the-year event. See you in Berlin again end of 2007.
1.577 mbalmer 253: <p>
254:
1.594 mbalmer 255: <li><strong><a name="moscow2006"></a>
256: <a href="https://kd85.com/">Moscow OpenBSD user meeting</a></strong>,
257: December 8 - 9, 2006, Moscow, Russia.<br>
1.633 tom 258: For details, please email <a href="mailto:grange@opensd.org">Grange</a>
1.594 mbalmer 259: <p>
260:
1.515 tom 261: <li><strong><a name="opencon2006"></a>
262: <a href="http://www.opencon.org/">OpenCON 2006</a></strong>,
1.569 deraadt 263: 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 264: OpenCON is the only conference dedicated solely to OpenBSD.
1.587 deraadt 265: 135 people were registered for the event, but since it was a completely open event is likely that
266: even more people just walked in.
1.577 mbalmer 267: Most talks were by OpenBSD developers, but there was also an impressive
1.568 mbalmer 268: number of our developers just attending the conference. Talks by OpenBSD
1.577 mbalmer 269: developers were:
1.568 mbalmer 270: <p>
1.535 deraadt 271: <ul>
1.581 claudio 272: <li>Claudio Jeker: <a href="papers/opencon06-network/index.html">
273: Network stack changes in OpenBSD</a>
1.580 deraadt 274: <li>Marc Balmer: <a href="papers/opencon06-nmea/index.html">
275: Support for Time Signal Station Receivers and GPS in OpenBSD</a>
1.601 fkr 276: <li>Felix Kronlage: <a href="papers/opencon06-umts/index.html">Redundancy or mobile deployment with 3G technology</a>
1.584 jsg 277: <li>Jonathan Gray: <a href="papers/opencon06-drivers/index.html">
278: Driver architecture and implementation in OpenBSD</a>
1.543 mbalmer 279: <li>Gordon Klok: <i>Processor Power Management</i>
1.596 dlg 280: <li>David Gwynne: <a href="papers/opencon06-culture.pdf">The OpenBSD
281: Culture</a> and he also filled in for Marco's
282: <a href="papers/opencon06-bio.pdf">Bio and Sensors in OpenBSD</a> talk.
1.582 michele 283: <li>Michele Marchetto: <a href="papers/opencon06-ripd/index.html">
284: OpenRIPD</a>
1.574 mbalmer 285: <li>Reyk Floeter: <i>IPsec demystified</i>
1.580 deraadt 286: <li>Theo de Raadt: <a href="papers/opencon06-docs">
287: Why hardware documentation matters so much and why it is so hard to get</a>
1.535 deraadt 288: </ul>
1.502 mbalmer 289: <p>
1.577 mbalmer 290: Also present were jcs, krw, mglocker, robert, wvdputte, martin, grunk,
291: dhartmei, aanriot, sturm, and bernd. Of course there was an OpenBSD booth
292: run by the usual suspects and you could buy our CD-ROMS, the audio CD and other
1.568 mbalmer 293: stuff.
294: <p>
1.502 mbalmer 295:
1.575 reyk 296: <li><strong><a name=opensourcetag2006></a>
297: <a href="http://www.opensourcetag.de/2006/">OpenSourceTag 2006</a></strong>,
298: Nov 30, 2006, Hannover, Germany.<br>
299: Reyk gave a <a href="http://www.opensourcetag.de/2006/agenda/">talk</a> about OpenBSD
300: as a reference project for secure software.
301: <p>
302:
1.583 henning 303: <li><strong><a name=epf2006></a>
304: <a href="http://www.peering-forum.eu/2006/">European Peering Forum 2006</a></strong>,
305: Nov 29 - 30, 2006, Frankfurt, Germany.<br>
306: The European Peering Forum in Frankfurt was hosted by the 3 big european
307: peering points DE-CIX, AMSIX and LINX, bringing network operators together.
308: Henning was talking about OpenBGPD,
309: <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/epf2006/">slides</a> are available.
310: <p>
311:
1.565 krw 312: <li><strong><a name=conisli2006></a>
313: <a href="http://conisli.org/">CONISLI 2006</a></strong>,
314: Nov 3 - 5, 2006, São Paulo, Brazil<br>
315: 4th edition of São Paulo's International Free Software Congress.
1.567 pedro 316: Ken Westerback and Pedro Martelletto gave a talk
317: (<a href="http://www2.par.inf.puc-rio.br/~pedro/conisli-html/">slides</a>).
1.565 krw 318: <p>
319:
1.559 jason 320: <li><strong><a name=nycbsdcon2006></a>
321: <a href="http://nycbsdcon.org/">NYCBSDCon 2006</a></strong>,
322: Oct 28 - 29, 2006, New York City, USA<br>
323: NYCBSDCon is the main conference on the East Coast for the
324: BSD community to get together to share and gain knowledge,
1.562 jason 325: to network with like minded people. Several developers
1.563 jason 326: spoke, more were on hand:
1.559 jason 327: <ul>
328: <li>Marco Peereboom: <a href="papers/bio.pdf">bio and sensors in OpenBSD</a>
1.563 jason 329: [<a href="http://www.fetissov.org/public/nycbsdcon06/1.6.mp3">audio</a>]
1.605 jason 330: <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 331: <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>]
332: <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 333: <li>Ray Lai: <i>First time booth bunny</i>
334: </ul>
335: <p>
336:
1.556 fgsch 337: <li><strong><a name=linuxworlduk2006></a>
338: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.co.uk/">LinuxWorld Expo UK 2006</a></strong>,
339: Oct 25 - 26, 2006, Olympia, London, UK.<br>
1.558 wvdputte 340: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Wim, Tom, Peter, Federico and
341: Pedro La Peu.
1.556 fgsch 342: <p>
343:
1.589 aanriot 344: <li><strong><a name=cuug2006oct></a>
345: <a href="http://www.cuug.ab.ca/">Calgary Unix Users Group</a></strong>,
346: Oct 24, 2006, downtown Library, basement meeting room, Calgary, Alberta.<br>
347: Theo de Raadt gave a talk regarding the increasing demand for
348: vendors to open up their documentation.
349: <p>
350:
1.553 grunk 351: <li><strong><a name="systems2006"></a>
352: <a href="http://www.systems.de/">Systems</a></strong>,
353: Oct 23 - 27, 2006, Munich, Germany <br>
354: The *BSD projects were located at A3.542.
355: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
356: Wilhelm Bühler, DaN, Nikolay Sturm, Marco Pfatschbacher,
357: and some other volunteers.
358: <p>
359:
1.550 henning 360: <li><strong><a name=hacklu2006></a>
361: <a href="http://www.hack.lu/">hack.lu 2006</a></strong>,
362: Oct 19 - 21, 2006, Luxembourg/Kirchberg.<br>
363: Henning Brauer gave a well received talk about OpenBGPD.
364: <p>
365:
1.547 aanriot 366: <li><strong><a name=aldil2006></a>
367: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/">Les Journées Du Logiciel Libre
368: 2006</a></strong>,
369: Oct 13 - 14, 2006, Lyon, France.<br>
370: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Miod Vallat and Alexandre
371: Anriot with the help of Thierry Thomas and Damien Bergamini.
372: <p>
373:
1.546 mcbride 374: <li><strong><a name=auug2006></a>
375: <a href="http://new.auug.org.au/">AUUG 2006</a></strong>,
376: Oct 10 - 13, 2006, Melbourne, Australia.<br>
377: Ryan Mcbride presented a full-day tutorial entitled
378: "Advanced PF Rulesets" as well as two additional talks
379: <a href="papers/auug2006/pf_evolution/">PF evolution</a>
380: and
381: <a href="papers/auug2006/network_randomness/">Network stack randomness in OpenBSD</a>.
382: <p>
383:
1.532 wvdputte 384: <li><strong><a name=eurooscon2006></a>
385: <a href="http://conferences.oreillynet.com/euos2006/">O'Reilly Euro OSCON 2006
386: </a></strong>,
387: Sep 20, 2006, Brussels, Belgium.<br>
388: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth.
389: <p>
390:
1.528 wvdputte 391: <li><strong><a name=come2linux2006></a>
392: <a href="http://www.come2linux.org/psp/">Come 2 Linux 2006</a></strong>,
393: Sep 9 - 10, 2006, Duisburg-Essen, Germany.<br>
394: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth.
395: <p>
396:
1.525 wvdputte 397: <li><strong><a name=ChaosdaysDarmstadt2006></a>
398: <a href="http://mrmcd101b.metarheinmain.de/index.html">mrmcd101b - MetaRheinMainChaosDays Darmstadt 2006</a>
399: </strong>,
400: Sep 1 - 3, 2006, Darmstadt, Germany.<br>
401: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth.
402: <p>
403:
1.521 fkr 404: <li><strong><a name=LinuxWorldExpoSF2006></a>
405: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/live/12/events/12SFO06A/conference/tracksessions/Security/QMONYA04ROFR">LinuxWorld Expo San Francisco 2006</a>
406: </strong>,
407: Aug 16, 2006, San Francisco, United States.<br>
408: Ted Unangst spoke about OpenBSD as part of a security panel.
409: <p>
410:
1.518 tedu 411: <li><strong><a name=coimbra2006></a>
412: <a href="http://www.openbsd-pt.com/eventos/coimbra06/">Portuguese OpenBSD Usergroup Meeting</a></strong>,
413: Jul 22 - 23, 2006, Coimbra, Portugal.<br>
414: 6th Meeting of the Portuguese OpenBSD Usergroup. Marc Balmer gave a talk
415: "NMEA 0183 and Time Signal Station Receiver Support in OpenBSD".
416: <p>
417:
418: <li><strong><a name=akqit2006></a>
419: <a href="http://www.akqit.ch/w3/DE/actual.html">Arbeitskreis für Qualität in der Informationstechnologie (Working Group for Quality in IT)</a></strong>,
420: Jul 20, 2006, University of Basel, Computer Science Department, Room 205, Bernoullistr. 16, 17:30 - 18:30<br>
1.590 mbalmer 421: Marc Balmer gave a talk in german "<a href="papers/akqit06/index.html">Ensuring
422: Quality in the Development of the Free Operating System OpenBSD</a>".
1.518 tedu 423: <p>
1.475 deraadt 424:
1.510 wvdputte 425: <li><strong><a name="lsm2006"></a>
426: <a href="http://www.rmll.info">Libre Software Meeting 2006</a></strong>,
427: Jul 4 - 8, 2006, Vandoeuvre-les-nancy, France.<br>
428: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Wim, Alexandre, Matthieu and
429: Serge Basterot.
430: <p>
431:
1.508 wvdputte 432: <li><strong><a name=FrOSCon></a>
433: <a href="http://www.froscon.de/">
434: FrOSCon 2006 - Free and Open Source Software Conference</a></strong>,
435: Jun 24 - 25, 2006, Bonn/Rhein-Sieg, Germany.<br>
1.518 tedu 436: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth run by Wim, Waldemar, Manuel and
1.508 wvdputte 437: Tim Kornau.
438: <p>
439:
1.507 mbalmer 440: <li><strong><a name=LinuxwochenLinz2006></a>
441: <a href="http://www.linuxwochen.at/2006/Linz">Linuxwochen Linz 2006</a>
442: </strong>,
443: June 15, 2006, Linz, Austria.<br>
444: There was an an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth run by Wim and the usual suspects.
445: <p>
446:
1.506 deraadt 447: <li><strong><a name=lugverona2006></a>
1.526 steven 448: <a href="http://www.di.univr.it/dol/main?ent=iniziativa&id=857&lang=it">LUGVR@UNIVR</a></strong>
1.506 deraadt 449: Jun 9, 2006, Verona University, Borgo Roma, Italy.<br>
450: Florin Iamandi of <a href="https://www.verona.linux.it">LUG Verona</a>
451: gave a talk
452: (<a href="http://todome.net/docs/obsd_carp/en">English</a> and
453: <a href="http://todome.net/docs/obsd_carp/it">Italian</a>)
454: and live demonstration on redundant failover
455: OpenBSD firewalls. He explained why OpenBSD solves many problems that
456: had previously been the dominion of expensive commercial solutions.
457: Attendees learned about OpenBSD's hard stance and successful fight against
458: bad licences and uncooperating vendors and manufacturers.
459: <p>
460:
1.502 mbalmer 461: <li><strong><a name=Slackathon2006></a>
462: <a href="http://slackathon2006.unix.se">Slackathon 2006</a>
463: </strong>
464: Jun 3, 2006, Stockholm, Sweden.<br>
465: A fundraiser for OpenBSD/SSH held at the Stockholm University. Free
1.505 ian 466: entrance and all donations went straight to the project. Several
1.502 mbalmer 467: developers were talking about OpenBSD here, as well as some hands-on
468: workshops took place with both old and new hardware.
469: <p>
470:
1.500 deraadt 471: <li><strong><a name=cuug2006></a>
472: <a href="http://www.cuug.ab.ca/">Calgary Unix Users Group</a></strong>,
473: Jun 1, 2006, SAIT Campus, Calgary, Alberta.<br>
1.504 miod 474: Bob Beck and Reyk Floeter discussed recent and future networking
475: changes in OpenBSD. Some other OpenBSD developers attended to provide
1.500 deraadt 476: international colour, and there were tshirts, CDs, and posters on hand.
477: CUUG made a substantial contribution to OpenBSD at this event as well.
478: <p>
479:
1.589 aanriot 480: <li><strong><a name=LinuxwochenVienna2006></a>
481: <a href="http://www.linuxwochen.at/2006/Wien">Linuxwochen Vienna 2006</a>
482: </strong>,
483: May 31 - Jun 2, 2006, Vienna, Austria.<br>
484: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth run by Wim and the usual suspects.
485: <p>
486:
1.585 aanriot 487: <li><strong><a name=plug060519></a>
1.586 aanriot 488: <a href="http://www.plugfr.org/">Provence Linux User Group</a></strong>
489: May 19, 2006, Marseille, France.<br>
1.585 aanriot 490: Alexandre Anriot spoke about the deployment of wireless networks with
1.586 aanriot 491: OpenBSD during a meeting of the PLUG.
1.585 aanriot 492: <p>
493:
1.491 bernd 494: <li><strong><a name="SANE2006"></a>
495: <a href="http://www.sane.nl/sane2006/">SANE 2006</a></strong>,
496: May 15 - 19, 2006, Delft, The Netherlands.<br>
497: Peter N. M. Hansteen gave a
498: <a href="http://www.sane.nl/sane2006/program/abstract.php?eventid=35">
499: PF tutorial</a>.
500: <p>
501:
1.490 reyk 502: <li><strong><a name=bsdcan2006></a> <a
503: href="http://www.bsdcan.org/2006/">BSDCan 2006</a></strong>,
504: May 12 - 13, 2006, Ottawa, Canada.<br>
505: David Gwynne gave a talk about hardware monitoring with bio and
506: sensors in OpenBSD (<a href="papers/bsdcan06-biosensors.pdf">slides</a>)
507: and Reyk Flöter talked about the latest
508: wireless support and the incredible plans for the future
509: (<a href="papers/bsdcan06-wlan/index.html">slides</a>), and
510: Peter Hansteen gave a PF tutorial. A number of OpenBSD hackers
511: attended the conference as well, like Bob Beck and Mathieu Sauve-Frankel.
512: <p>
513:
1.489 bernd 514: <li><strong><a name="linuxdays2006"></a>
515: <a href="http://www.linuxdays.ch">Linuxdays 2006</a></strong>,
516: May 8 - 12, 2006, Geneva, Switzerland.<br>
517: Julien Mabillard, a long-time Geneva OpenBSD user, gave a talk to present
518: the overall system and its great features.
519: <p>
520:
1.592 claudio 521: <li><strong><a name="idepes2006"></a>
1.589 aanriot 522: <a href="http://www.idepes.org.br/openbsd/">IDEPES 2006</a></strong>,
523: May 6, 2006, São Paulo, Brazil.<br>
524: First event in Brazil totally dedicated to OpenBSD.
525: <p>
526:
1.592 claudio 527: <li><strong><a name="LinuxTag2006"></a>
1.484 mbalmer 528: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.org/2006/">LinuxTag 2006</a></strong>,
529: May 3 - 6, 2006, Wiesbaden, Germany.<br>
530: OpenBSD was very present at this years Linuxtag:
531: <ul>
532: <li>On friday morning, Claudio and Marc moderated a panel discussion
533: "BLOBS sind das Krebsgeschwür freier Software" (Blobs are the
1.485 mbalmer 534: cancer of free software) that was well attended. Unfortunately no one
1.484 mbalmer 535: in favour of Blobs attended, although we asked almost all Linux
536: distributions...
537: <li>After lunch, Marc Balmer started the afternoon with a talk "OpenBSD
538: as a Strategic Platform for the Basle Public Schools", outlining how and
1.485 mbalmer 539: why the Basle Public school system uses OpenBSD for most of its
1.484 mbalmer 540: infrastructure.
1.592 claudio 541: <li>The next OpenBSD specific talk was by Claudio Jeker,
542: <a href="papers/linuxtag06-network/">"Routing with OpenBSD using
543: OpenOSPFD and OpenBGPD"</a> where he showed various routing setups and
544: how full redundancy can be achieved.
545: [<a href="papers/linuxtag06-network.pdf">paper</a>]
1.484 mbalmer 546: <li>Later, Marc Balmer gave a talk "Decoding Time Signal Stations using
547: OpenBSD" and explained the recent addition of timedelta sensors and the
548: first implementation of such, udcf(4).
549: </ul>
550: <br>
551: All talks where very well received and OpenBSD filled four hours of the
1.485 mbalmer 552: Linuxtag program. We thank Wilhelm Bühler, chair of the BSD-Track
1.484 mbalmer 553: at Linuxtag, for the superb and professional organization.
554: <br>
555: Of course, there was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth run by Wim and the
556: usual suspects.
557: <p>
558:
1.486 mickey 559: <li><strong><a name=NYCBUG2006-05></a>
560: <a href="http://nycbug.org/index.php?NAV=Home&SUBM=83">NYCBUG Monthly meeting</a></strong>,
561: May 3, 2006, NYC, USA.<br>
562: Mickey gave a talk
1.564 jason 563: (<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 564: about PAE work for OpenBSD/i386.<br>
565: Mischa Diehm gave a talk about implementing VPN using OpenBSD.
566: <p>
567:
1.484 mbalmer 568: <li><strong><a name=tokyo2006></a>
569: <a href="http://www.tokyopc.org/index.php/weblog/">Tokyo PC Users Group</a></strong>,
570: May 2, 2006, Tokyo.<br>
571: Theo presented his <a href="papers/ven05-deraadt">"Exploit Mitigation Techniques"</a>
572: talk. There is a
573: <a href="http://www.tokyopc.org/faxmessage/index.html#about">map to the location</a>.
574: <p>
575:
1.478 mbalmer 576: <li><strong><a name=SambaEXPerience2006></a>
577: <a href="http://www.sambaxp.org/">Samba eXPerience 2006</a></strong>,
578: April 24 - 26, 2006, Göttingen, Germany.<br>
579: Marc Balmer gave a talk "Providing Fully Automated Fileserver Services
580: for Public Schools using LDAP Integrated SAMBA on OpenBSD" that was very
581: well received.
582: <br>
583: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth run by Wim and Marc and Felix Kronlage
584: and we could draw a lot of attention.
585: <p>
586:
1.479 deraadt 587: <li><strong><a name=DORSCLUC2006></a>
588: <a href="http://www.open.hr/dc2006/"> DORS / CLUC 2006</a></strong>,
589: April 19-21, 2006, Zagreb, Croatia.<br>
590: <a href="http://www.kerberos.si">Mitja Muzenic</a> gave a
1.480 mbalmer 591: <a href="http://www.kerberos.si/papers/DORS06/index.html">
592: "Introduction to OpenBSD"</a> talk. Conference
593: <a href="http://www.open.hr/dc2006/program.php">program</a> (in croatian
1.479 deraadt 594: only).
595: <p>
596:
1.475 deraadt 597: <li><strong><a name=linuxworld2006></a>
598: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/live/12/events/12BOS06A/">
599: LinuxWorld/OpenSolutions World 2006</a></strong>,
600: April 3 - 6, 2006, Boston, USA.<br>
601: Jason Dixon presented
602: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/live/12/events/12BOS06A/conference/tracksessions/Security/QMONYA04Q1DK">Secure Network Architectures with OpenBSD</a>,
603: a talk on OpenBSD that outlines the various technologies that make
604: it a leader of secure networking platforms.
605: <br>
606: He spent time around the exposition BSD booth with giveaways
607: and early release OpenBSD 3.9 CDs.
608: <p>
609:
610: <li><strong><a name=cansecwest06></a>
611: <a href="http://www.cansecwest.com">Cansecwest/core06</a></strong>,
612: April 3 - 7, 2006, Vancouver.<br>
613: A rather interesting OpenBSD-related talk happened at this event, regarding
614: using SMI interrupts to break out of X into kernel mode.
615: <br>
616: Some OpenBSD developers attended. Some early OpenBSD 3.9 items went
617: on sale.
618: <p>
619:
1.469 tom 620: <li><strong><a name=ukuug2006></a>
621: <a href="http://www.ukuug.org/events/spring2006/">UKUUG Spring Conference 2006</a></strong>,
622: Mar 22 - 23, 2006, Durham, United Kingdom<br>
623: Reyk Flöter gave a talk about the latest wireless support in
624: OpenBSD at the annual spring meeting of the
625: <a href="http://www.ukuug.org/">UK's Unix and Open Systems User Group</a>.
626: Peter N. M. Hansteen
627: gave a PF tutorial, Tom Cosgrove presented "Exploit
628: Mitigation Techniques" and Constantine Murenin gave a
629: presentation on "Hardware temperature monitoring device
630: drivers for OpenBSD".
631: These were all part of a new, well-attended, BSD stream at the event.
632: <p>
633:
1.459 henning 634: <li><strong><a name=Copenhagen2006></a>
635: <a href="http://www.linuxforum.dk/2006/en/">LinuxForum 2006</a></strong>,
636: Mar 3 - 4, 2006, Copenhagen, Denmark<br>
637: Wim gave Felix Kronlage's talk about OpenBSD Mobile Use (wifi, UMTS,
638: GPRS, phones and the like) with some demo setups.
639: Henning Brauer gave a very well received talk about OpenBGPD,
640: <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/linuxforum2006/">slides</a> are available.
641: <p>
642:
1.457 wvdputte 643: <li><strong><a name=Brussels2006></a>
644: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/2006/">FOSDEM Brussels 2006</a></strong>,
645: Feb 25 - 26, 2006, Brussels, Belgium.<br>
646: An OpenBSD/OpenSSH booth was present, run by the usual gang of suspects:
1.458 xsa 647: Alexandre, Dimitar, Matthieu, Mbalmer, Nikolay, Otto, Reyk, Saad, Thierry, Uwe, Wim, and
1.457 wvdputte 648: Xsa. Reyk gave a talk about Wifi with OpenBSD and there was our traditional
649: BSD dinner. More details and
650: <a href="http://saad.docisland.org/pictures/fosdem2006/index.html">pictures</a>
1.458 xsa 651: on <a href="http://saad.docisland.org/blog/files/archive-12.html#unique-entry-id-40">Saad's blog</a>.
1.457 wvdputte 652: <p>
653:
654: <li><strong><a name=Vegas2006></a>
655: <a href="http://kd85.com/vegas2006.html">Merciful briefings 2006</a></strong>,
656: Feb 15, 2006, Las Vegas, USA - Feb 17, 2006, San Diego, USA - Feb 18, 2006, Phoenix, USA.<br>
657: While traveling the US, Wim met with a bunch of OpenBSD users in Las Vegas,
658: San Diego and Phoenix. With many thanks to the members of PhxBUG - Phoenix BSD
659: User Group, more specificly Darrin Chandler, for organising the little
660: details and Jacob for road trip directions.
661: <p>
1.455 grunk 662:
1.456 henning 663: <li><strong><a name=nanog36></a>
664: <a href="http://www.nanog.org/">NANOG 36</a></strong>,
665: Feb 12 - 15, 2006, Dallas, USA.<br>
666: Henning Brauer and Bernhard Kroenung of DE-CIX talked about OpenBGPD and
667: OpenBGPD at DE-CIX, <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/nanog36/">slides</a>
668: are available. Henning talked again at the tools BOF
669: (<a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/nanog36-bof/">slides</a>).
670: Both talks were very well received by the audience.
671: Kenjiro Cho was there too, talking about IPv6 issues.
672: <p>
673:
1.455 grunk 674: <li><strong><a name="Paris2006"></a>
675: <a href="http://www.solutionslinux.fr/fr/index.php">Solutions Linux 2006</a>
676: </strong>,
677: Jan 31 - Feb 2, 2006, Paris, France.<br>
678: There was an OpenBSD booth run by Marc Espie, Miod Vallat, Saad Kadhi and
679: Wim with help from Guillaume Arcas and Christophe Plasschaert.
680: <p>
681: </ul>
682:
1.296 mcbride 683: <h3>2005</h3>
1.240 espie 684:
685: <ul>
1.337 deraadt 686:
1.445 martin 687: <li><strong><a name=22c3></a>
688: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/2005/">22C3 Chaos Communication Congress in
689: Berlin</a></strong>,
690: December 27 - 30, 2005, Berlin, Germany.<br>
691: Many OpenBSD developers and users met for a Xmas break in a unique setting.
692: <p>
693:
1.585 aanriot 694: <li><strong><a name=plug051216></a>
1.586 aanriot 695: <a href="http://www.plugfr.org/">Provence Linux User Group</a></strong>
696: December 16, 2005, Marseille, France.<br>
697: Alexandre Anriot spoke about OpenSSH during a meeting of the PLUG.
1.585 aanriot 698: <p>
699:
1.435 matthieu 700: <li><strong><a name=eurobsdcon2005></a>
701: <a href="http://2005.eurobsdcon.org/">EuroBSDCon 2005</a></strong>,
702: Nov 25 - 27, 2005, Basel, Switzerland.<br>
703: The 4th edition of the european conference for BSD systems has been a
704: great success. More than 225 people from 27 countries attended the
1.438 deraadt 705: event.
1.444 grunk 706: The program included a
707: <a href="http://www.eurobsdcon.org/tutorials-reyk.php">tutorial by Reyk about
1.437 niallo 708: OpenBSD-based Wireless Networks</a> and the following talks
709: <ul>
1.438 deraadt 710: <li>Henning Brauer with Wilhelm Bühler "Signal Handlers"
711: <li>Ryan McBride "Network Stack Randomness"
1.439 matthieu 712: <li><a href="papers/eurobsd2005/herrb-hopf.pdf">Matthieu Herrb and Matthias Hopf "New Evolutions in the X Window System"</a>
1.440 claudio 713: <li><a href="papers/eurobsd2005/claudio/">Claudio Jeker "The Design and Implementation of OpenOSPFD"</a>
1.439 matthieu 714: <li><a href="papers/eurobsd2005/niallo-uwe/">Niall O'Higgins & Uwe Stuehler "Embedded OpenBSD"</a>
1.443 deraadt 715: <li><a href="papers/eurobsd2005/tedu-rthreads.pdf">Ted Unangst "rthreads: A New Thread Implementation for OpenBSD"</a>
1.437 niallo 716: </ul>
1.438 deraadt 717: <p>
1.435 matthieu 718: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
719: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
720: <p>
721:
1.434 bernd 722: <li><strong><a name=linuxworldexpogermany2005></a>
723: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.de/">Linux World Expo Germany</a></strong>,
724: Nov 15 - 17, 2005, Frankfurt, Germany.<br>
725: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
726: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a> and Bernd.
727: <p>
728:
1.441 niallo 729: <li><strong><a name="pacsec05"></a>
730: <a href="http://www.pacsec.jp/">PacSec/core 05 conference</a></strong>,
731: Nov 15 - 16, 2005, Tokyo, Japan.<br>
732: Sean Comeau presented a talk called
733: <a href="http://www.openbsd-support.com/jp/en/htm/mgp/pacsec05/index.html">
734: Open Source Secure Wireless Networks in a Windows World</a>
735: <a href="http://www.pacsec.jp/core05/psj05-scomeau-en.pdf">[PDF]</a>.
736: The solution he presents uses IPsec to protect traffic between the
737: wireless clients and access points. Authentication is done using OpenSSH
738: (authpf), a process made transparent and user-friendly by a few small
739: scripts.
740: <p>
741:
1.424 mbalmer 742: <li><strong><a name=opencon2005></a>
743: <a href="http://www.opencon.org/">OpenCON 2005</a></strong>,
744: Nov 4 - 6, 2005, San Servolo Island, Venice, Italy.<br>
1.427 deraadt 745: The only unique conference entirely dedicated to OpenBSD, held in the totally
746: crazy environment of San Servolo island: an old insane asylum turned into a
747: university about 20 years ago, about 10 minutes boat ride from Venice.
1.429 deraadt 748: In the days leading up to this, about 12 OpenBSD developers arrived early
1.427 deraadt 749: for a Ports mini-hackathon. During the conference a few developers gave
1.433 deraadt 750: talks, including
751: <ul>
752: <li><a href="papers/ven05-pvalchev">Peter Valchev "OpenBSD Hackathon report"</a>
753: <li><a href="papers/ven05-espie">Marc Espie "OpenBSD ports and packages"</a>
754: <li><a href="papers/ven05-henning">Henning Brauer "OpenBSD networking update"</a>
755: <li><a href="papers/ven05-niallo-uwe/slides.pdf">Uwe Stuehler, Niall O'Higgins "Porting OpenBSD"</a>
756: <li><a href="papers/ven05-deraadt">Theo de Raadt "Exploit Mitigation Techniques (updated to include random malloc and mmap)"</a>
757: </ul>
1.424 mbalmer 758: <p>
759:
760: <li><strong><a name=systems2005></a>
761: <a href="http://www.systems.de/">Systems</a></strong>,
762: Oct 24 - 28, 2005, Munich, Germany <br>
1.425 mbalmer 763: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
1.424 mbalmer 764: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
765: <p>
766:
1.418 djm 767: <li><strong><a name=auug2005></a>
768: <a href="http://www.auug.org.au/events/2005/auug2005/">AUUG 2005</a></strong>,
769: October 16 - 21, 2005, Sydney, Australia.<br>
770: Mark Uemura presented a tutorial on setting up CARP/PF, a demonstration of
771: stateful failover with CARP and pfsync and a talk on wireless security in
772: a corporate environment using authpf and isakmpd. Peter Hansteen gave a
773: <a href="http://www.bgnett.no/~peter/pf/">Firewalling with PF</a> tutorial.
1.420 deraadt 774: Damien Miller presented on the approach to
775: <a href="papers/auug2005-portability">secure software portability used
776: by portable OpenSSH</a>, Reyk Flöter gave a talk on the current state of wireless
1.418 djm 777: support in OpenBSD and David Purdue introduced OpenBSD's spamd tarpit.
778: Most of the Australian OpenBSD developers and many users were present.
779: <p>
780:
1.415 aanriot 781: <li><strong><a name=aldil2005></a>
782: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/">Les Journées Du Logiciel Libre
783: 2005</a></strong>,
784: Oct 14 - 15, 2005, Lyon, France.<br>
785: There was OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Alexandre Anriot with the
786: help of Thierry Thomas.
787: <p>
788:
1.420 deraadt 789: <li><strong><a name=cafeconf2005></a>
790: <a href="http://www.cafeconf.org/">CaFeConf 2005,
791: 4tas Jornadas Abiertas de GNU/Linux y Software Libre</a></strong>,
792: Oct 13 - 15, 2005, Buenos Aires, Argentina<br>
793: CaFeConf 2005 is the anual event of CaFeLUG - Free Software Users
794: Group of Capital Federal, Argentina. This year the event featured
795: 116 presentations consisting of talks, tutorials, and workshops. The
796: event was also broadcasted on the Internet. Entrance was free, but
797: registration was mandatory.<br>
798: Fernando Gont gave a talk on
1.444 grunk 799: <a href="http://www.cafeconf.org/modules/myconference/viewspeech.php?sid=147&cid=20">
1.420 deraadt 800: ICMP attacks against TCP</a>,
801: in which he gave an overview of the attacks, the possible
802: counter-measures, and the politics of vulnerabilities, and a talk on
1.444 grunk 803: <a href="http://www.cafeconf.org/modules/myconference/viewspeech.php?sid=173&cid=20">
1.420 deraadt 804: Fixing the vulnerability of the Path-MTU Discovery mechanism</a>,
805: in which explained how OpenBSD fixed the vulnerability of the PMTUD
806: mechanism.
807: <p>
808:
1.414 bernd 809: <li><strong><a name=linuxkongress2005></a>
810: <a href="http://www.linux-kongress.org/">12th International Linux System
811: Technology Conference</a></strong>,
812: Oct 11 - 14, 2005, University of Hamburg, Germany.<br>
813: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth.
814: <p>
815:
816: <li><strong><a name=linuxworlduk2005></a>
817: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.co.uk/">LinuxWorld Expo UK 2005</a></strong>,
818: Oct 5 - 6, 2005, Olympia, London, UK.<br>
819: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth.
820: <p>
821:
1.410 wvdputte 822: <li><strong><a name=opensourcetag2005></a>
1.575 reyk 823: <a href="http://www.opensourcetag.de/2005/">OpenSourceTag 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 824: Sep 27, 2005, Hannover, Germany.<br>
1.444 grunk 825: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth and Reyk gave a
1.575 reyk 826: <a href="http://www.opensourcetag.de/2005/agenda/">talk</a> about IT security.
1.410 wvdputte 827: <p>
828:
829: <li><strong><a name="gubuginstallfest2005"></a>
830: <a href="http://gubug.org/meetings.php">Greater Utah BSD Group
831: Installfest 2005</a></strong>,
832: Sep 24, 2005, Sandy, UT, USA.<br/>
1.444 grunk 833: <a href="http://www.gubug.org/">The Greater Utah BSD User Group</a> organised
1.410 wvdputte 834: their first annual BSD Installfest, sponsored by Utah ISP ArosNet.
835: There were handouts, CD-ROMs, technical presentations, and
836: fun, plus a chance to get OpenBSD or a related open source BSD operating system
837: installed on your computer.
838: Admission was free (computers not included in cost of admission).
1.419 djm 839: Featured speakers included Dan Langille, organizer of BSDCan.
1.410 wvdputte 840: <p>
841:
1.404 wvdputte 842: <li><strong><a name="NYCBSDCon2005"></a>
843: <a href="http://nycbsdcon.org/">New York City BSD Conference 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 844: Sep 17, 2005, NYC, USA.<br>
1.404 wvdputte 845: NYCBSDCon was a one day technical conference hosted by the New York
846: City *BSD User Group and was held at Columbia University.
1.406 saad 847: The all day conference included a variety of speakers representing the
1.404 wvdputte 848: BSD projects and the open source community.<br>
849: NYCBSDCon was organized by NYC*BUG, a technical user group that formed in
850: December 2003. Besides their regular monthly meetings at the Soho Apple
851: Store, NYC*BUG has done fundraising for the BSD projects and contributed a
852: number of useful online applications such as BSDTracker and dmesgd.<br>
853: Additional sponsors included USENIX, New York Internet and SRA America.
854: <p>
855:
856: <li><strong><a name=opensaar2005></a>
857: <a href="http://www.opensaar.de/">OpenSaar 2005</a></strong>,
858: Sep 13 - 14, 2005, Saarbrücken, Germany.<br>
859: An OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth was present
860: <p>
861:
1.403 henning 862: <li><strong><a name=decix160905></a> <a
863: href="http://www.de-cix.org/">DE-CIX Technical Meeting</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 864: Sep 16, 2005, Schloss Kransberg, near Usingen, Germany.<br>
1.403 henning 865: Henning Brauer, Reyk Flöter and Maxim Salomon had been invited to the
866: technical meeting of the Deutsche Commercial Internet Exchange (DE-CIX) again.
867: Henning gave an update on OpenBGPD, Reyk talked about a route server project
868: using OpenBGPD at DE-CIX, and Maxim explained why the CCC sponsors us doing so.
869: There was a very positive discussion afterwards.
870: <a href="http://unduli.bsws.de/papers/decix2005-2/">Slides</a> are available.
871: <p>
872:
1.388 tom 873: <li><strong><a name="ukuug2005"></a>
874: <a href="http://www.ukuug.org/events/linux2005/">UKUUG Linux Technical
875: Conference 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 876: Aug 4 - 7, 2005, University of Wales, Swansea, UK<br>
1.388 tom 877: Tom Cosgrove gave Theo's presentation about Exploit Mitigation Techniques.
878: <p>
879:
1.385 mickey 880: <li><strong><a name=wth2005></a>
1.390 deraadt 881: <a href="http://www.whatthehack.org/">What the Hack 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 882: Jul 28 - 31, 2005, Den Bosch, The Netherlands.<br>
1.385 mickey 883: As every 4 years, Wim organized the
884: <a href="http://eurobsd.org/2005-WhatTheHack/">BSD village</a> at this huge
1.389 tom 885: open air event. There were some talks, Reyk spoke about
886: <a href="http://program.whatthehack.org/event/6.en.html">WLAN in OpenBSD</a>,
1.385 mickey 887: and an excellent
888: <a href="ftp://ftp.nyc.openbsd.org/pub/news/wth-radio-humppa.mp3">Humppa show</a> (35MB MP3) was performed on the SubEther radio.
889: If you want to see what happened previously, check
890: <a href="http://eurobsd.org/hal2001/">http://eurobsd.org/hal2001/</a>
891: and <a href="http://www.eurobsd.org/SummerCamp2003/">http://www.eurobsd.org/SummerCamp2003/</a>.
892: <p>
893:
1.382 pedro 894: <li><strong><a name=coimbra2005></a>
1.474 pedro 895: <a href="http://www.openbsd-pt.com/eventos/coimbra05/">Portuguese OpenBSD Usergroup Meeting</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 896: Jul 23 - 24, 2005, Coimbra, Portugal.<br>
1.538 pedro 897: 5th Meeting of the Portuguese OpenBSD Usergroup. Pedro Martelletto gave a talk.
1.382 pedro 898: <p>
899:
1.378 aanriot 900: <li><strong><a name="lsm2005"></a>
901: <a href="http://2005.rencontresmondiales.org/sections/index_html/switchLanguage/en">Libre Software Meeting 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 902: Jul 5 - 9, 2005, Dijon, France.<br>
1.379 aanriot 903: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Wim and the usual
904: suspects, with the help of Serge Basterot. It was a nice place to meet
905: some of our French, German and Swiss developers, including Marc Balmer,
906: Alexandre Anriot, Matthieu Herrb and Reyk Floeter.
1.378 aanriot 907: <p>
908:
1.375 grunk 909: <li><strong><a name=LinuxTag2005></a>
910: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.org">LinuxTag 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 911: Jun 22 - 25, 2005, Karlsruhe, Germany.<br>
1.375 grunk 912: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth ran by Wim, Christian Weisgerber,
913: Marc Balmer, Wilhelm Buehler, Robert Nagy, Bernd Ahlers and Phil Schulz.
914: <p>
915:
1.374 grunk 916: <li><strong><a name="uofa-cc2005"></a>
917: <a href="http://www.ualberta.ca/CC2005"> University of Alberta, Campus
1.410 wvdputte 918: Computing 2005</a></strong>, Jun 21, 2005, Edmonton, Canada.<br>
1.374 grunk 919: Ryan McBride spoke about OpenBSD's packet filter, PF, with CARP and
920: failover examples. Local color and examples at the U of A shown by Bob
921: Beck. Bob Beck spoke about PF and Spamd, as well as several other
922: OpenBSD using and related talks at this event, which primarily focuses
923: on activities centered at the University of Alberta.
924: <p>
925:
1.371 deraadt 926: <li><strong><a name=uemera2005></a>
927: <a href="http://www.tokyopc.net">Tokyo PC Users Group</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 928: Jun 2, 2005, Tokyo Union Church in Omotesando, Tokyo, Japan.<br>
1.371 deraadt 929: Mark T. Uemura spoke to Japan's largest English speaking
930: personal computer club. The talk was entitled
931: <a href="http://www.openbsd-support.com/jp/en/htm/mgp/index.shtml">
932: "Open Source in a Windows World"</a>.
933: He demonstrated how companies can easily
934: integrate Open Source, with an emphasis on OpenBSD, into their IT
935: infrastructure to enhance security, scalability and stability,
936: significantly reduce IT expenditures, free up computing infrastructure
937: and move away from commercial lock-in. This talk is based on changes
938: implemented at PricewaterhouseCoopers in Japan.
939: <p>
940:
1.366 martin 941: <li><strong><a name=LinuxwochenVienna2005></a>
942: <a href="http://www.linuxwochen.at/">Linuxwochen Vienna 2005</a></strong>,
943: May 24 - 27, 2005, Vienna, Austria.<br>
944: The Linuxwochen 2005 tour stopped in the MuseumsQuartier, Vienna.
945: Wim Vandeputte and Reinhard Sammer were running an OpenBSD booth selling
946: CDs and shirts.
947: <p>
948:
1.365 mcbride 949: <li><strong><a name=cuug2005></a>
950: <a href="http://www.cuug.ab.ca/">Calgary Unix Users Group</a></strong>,
951: May 24, 2005, Calgary, Canada.<br>
952: Ryan McBride spoke about OpenBSD's packet filter, PF.
953: A broad overview of PF's features were presented, with special attention
954: paid to newer and more unique features and how these can be used together
955: effectively for DoS mitigation, high availability, and load balancing.
956: <br>
957: Approximately 60 OpenBSD developers attended to heckle and participate
958: in a free-for-all question period after the talk.
959: <p>
960:
1.362 reyk 961: <li><strong><a name=bsdcan2005></a>
962: <a href="http://www.bsdcan.org/2005/">BSDCan 2005</a></strong>,
963: May 13 - 14, 2005, Ottawa, Canada.<br>
964: A number of OpenBSD developers presented: Bob Beck on
965: Spam Reduction with PF and Spamd, Henning Brauer on OpenBGPD,
966: Ryan McBride on Network Stack Randomness and Reyk Flöter
967: on WLAN in OpenBSD and the free ath(4) HAL. The
968: <a href="papers/bsdcan05-spamd/">Spamd</a> and
969: <a href="papers/bsdcan05-wlan/">WLAN</a> slides are available.
970: Mathieu Sauve-Frankel has been there in attendance as well.
971: <p>
972:
1.358 mcbride 973: <li><strong><a name=csw2005></a>
974: <a href="http://www.cansecwest.com/">cansecwest/core05</a></strong>,
975: May 4-6, 2005, Vancouver, Canada.<br>
976: Hiroaki Etoh spoke about propolice; Theo de Raadt and a number of other
977: developers were there to sell CDs and make a nuisance of themselves.
978: <p>
979:
1.357 henning 980: <li><strong><a name=ripe50></a>
981: <a href="http://www.ripe.net/ripe/meetings/ripe-50/">RIPE 50</a></strong>,
982: May 2-6, 2005, Stockholm, Sweden.<br>
983: RIPE NCC invited Henning to talk about OpenBGPD.
984: There were over 350 attendees to the conference, and most of them attended
985: henning's talk, which got very very positive feedback.
986: <p>
987:
1.384 tom 988: <li><strong><a name=libreast2005></a>
1.356 espie 989: <a href="http://idile.org/libreast/">Libr'east 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 990: Apr 22-24, Marne La Vallée, near Paris, France<br>
1.356 espie 991: There was an OpenBSD booth (Wim + Miod + Marc)
992: Marc Espie did talk about recent OpenBSD advances, and his ports and
993: packages work in front of about 30 people.
994: <p>
995:
1.353 henning 996: <li><strong><a name=decix150405></a> <a
997: href="http://www.de-cix.org/">DE-CIX Technical Meeting</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 998: Apr 15, 2005, near Usingen, Germany.<br>
1.353 henning 999: Henning Brauer and Reyk Flöter had been invited to the technical
1000: meeting of the Deutsche Commercial Internet Exchange (DE-CIX). Henning
1001: presented his talk on OpenBGPD, about 60 people, mostly operators from
1002: the big ISPs peering at DECIX, were in attendance.
1.354 reyk 1003: Reyk, Maxim Salomon and Tim Kornau spoke on Wireless Network Security.
1.353 henning 1004: <p>
1005:
1.352 henning 1006: <li><strong><a name=nuug140405></a>
1007: <a href="http://www.nuug.no/aktiviteter/20050414-pf-brannmur/">Firewalling with PF at NUUG</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 1008: Apr 14, 2005, Oslo, Norway.<br>
1.352 henning 1009: Peter N. M. Hansteen gave a firewalling with PF talk - which hopefully
1010: gave you some ideas about how to control your network traffic the
1011: way you want - keeping some things outside your network, directing
1012: traffic to specified hosts or services, and of course, giving spammers
1013: a hard time. The talk was in Norwegian, with <a
1014: href="http://www.bgnett.no/~peter/pf/no/foils/">foils</a> and <a
1015: href="http://www.bgnett.no/~peter/pf/no/">manuscript</a> (English <a
1016: href="http://www.bgnett.no/~peter/pf/en/foils/">foils</a> and <a
1017: href="http://www.bgnett.no/~peter/pf/en/">manuscript</a> too)
1018: available if you couldn't make it there.
1019: <p>
1020:
1.589 aanriot 1021:
1022: <li><strong><a name=fhwedel130405></a>
1023: <a href="http://www.fh-wedel.de/">FH Wedel invited talk</a></strong>,
1024: Apr 13, 2005, 17:00, Hörsaal 5, FH Wedel, Hamburg, Germany.<br>
1025: Henning Brauer spoke on OpenBGPD. More than 40 people were in attendance.
1026: <p>
1027:
1.350 marius 1028: <li><strong><a name=usenix2005></a>
1029: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix05/">Usenix Annual
1.410 wvdputte 1030: Technical Conference</a></strong>, Apr 10-15, 2005, Anaheim,
1.350 marius 1031: California, USA.<br> Marius Eriksen gave the OpenBSD update at the BSD
1032: super BoF. The update was well received and people were quite
1033: sympathetic towards the ongoing efforts of the OpenBSD project to
1034: ensure the free redistribution rights for firmware. People were also
1035: excited about the new Open* tools (OpenBGPD, OpenNTPD, OpenCVS) and it
1.351 marius 1036: would not be surprising to see more of these imported into other BSDs.
1.350 marius 1037: <p>
1038:
1.585 aanriot 1039: <li><strong><a name=plug050408></a>
1.586 aanriot 1040: <a href="http://www.plugfr.org/">Provence Linux User Group</a></strong>
1041: April 8, 2005, Marseille, France.<br>
1.585 aanriot 1042: Alexandre Anriot spoke about OpenBSD and some associated projects
1.586 aanriot 1043: (OpenBGPD etc.) during a meeting of the PLUG.
1.585 aanriot 1044: The <a href="papers/plug080405">slides</a> (in French) are available.
1.344 martin 1045: <p>
1046:
1.337 deraadt 1047: <li><strong><a name=bcs2005></a>
1048: <a href="http://www.bellua.com/bcs2005/asia05.index.html">Bellua Cyber Security Asia 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 1049: Mar 21-24, 2005, Jakarta, Indonesia.<br>
1.337 deraadt 1050: Ryan McBride presented an overview of PF which
1051: discussed how its advanced features work together in some important
1.338 deraadt 1052: applications and compared PF with the other major commercial and open
1.337 deraadt 1053: source firewalls.
1054: <p>
1055:
1.317 henning 1056: <li><strong><a name=nui_maynooth2005></a>
1057: <a href="http://www.minds.nuim.ie/events">NUI Maynooth lectures</a></strong>,
1058: Mar 4, 2005, Department of Computer Science, NUI Maynooth, Dublin, Ireland.<br>
1.318 henning 1059: Ryan McBride presented talks about PF and about
1.326 mcbride 1060: <a href="papers/dublin05-nr">randomization in the OpenBSD network layer.</a><br>
1.318 henning 1061: Theo and Henning were in attendance because someone had to heckle.
1.317 henning 1062: <p>
1063:
1.312 deraadt 1064: <li><strong><a name=trinity2005></a>
1065: <a href="http://www.netsoc.tcd.ie/events/0405/openbsd.php">Trinity lecture</a></strong>,
1066: Mar 3, 2005, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.<br>
1.320 deraadt 1067: Theo de Raadt presented his talk about
1068: <a href="papers/auug04">Exploit Mitigation Techniques</a>.
1.312 deraadt 1069: <p>
1070:
1.319 saad 1071: <li><strong><a name=ShefLUG2005></a>
1072: <a href="http://www.sheflug.co.uk/seminar/tiki-index.php?page=Sheffield%20Open%20Source%20Seminar">ShefLUG2005</a></strong>,
1073: Mar 2, 2005, Sheffield, UK.<br>
1074: Jacek Artymiak gave a talk about installing OpenBSD on Soekris hardware.
1075: <p>
1076:
1.310 mickey 1077: <li><strong><a name=NYCBUG2005-03></a>
1.375 grunk 1078: <a href="http://nycbug.org/index.php?NAV=Home&SUBM=83">NYCBUG Monthly meeting</a></strong>,
1.310 mickey 1079: Mar 2, 2005, NYC, USA.<br>
1.322 deraadt 1080: Mickey gave a talk
1.325 mickey 1081: (<a href="papers/nyc2005">slides</a> and
1.564 jason 1082: <a href="http://www.fetissov.org/public/nycbug/nycbug-03-02-05.mp3">10.5MB audio</a>)
1.321 mickey 1083: about <a href="hppa.html">porting OpenBSD</a>
1.313 martin 1084: to the <a href="http://www.openpa.net">HP PA-RISC</a> platform.
1.310 mickey 1085: <p>
1.312 deraadt 1086:
1.308 deraadt 1087: <li><strong><a name=Netsoc2005></a>
1088: <a href="http://netsoc.ucd.ie/events/openbsd/">Netsoc lectures</a></strong>,
1089: Mar 2, 2005, UCD, Dublin, Ireland.<br>
1090: Theo de Raadt, Henning Brauer, and Ryan McBride gave a series of
1.320 deraadt 1091: talks. Topics included
1092: <a href="papers/auug04">exploit mitigation techniques</a>,
1.326 mcbride 1093: <a href="papers/dublin05-nr">introducing network randomness to increase security</a>,
1094: OpenBGPD, and pf.
1095: Almost 200 people came to this event.
1.308 deraadt 1096: <p>
1097:
1.304 saad 1098: <li><strong><a name=Brussels2005></a>
1099: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/2005/">FOSDEM Brussels 2005</a></strong>,
1100: Feb 26 - 27, 2005, Brussels, Belgium.<br>
1101: An OpenBSD/OpenSSH booth was present, ran by the usual gang of suspects.
1102: Support for <a href="mailto:wim@kd85.com">Wim Vandeputte</a> this time were
1.307 otto 1103: (among many others), Saad Kadhi, Henning Brauer, Thierry Deval, Otto Moerbeek,
1.304 saad 1104: Xavier Santolaria, Martin Reindl, Reyk Flöter, Hans-Jörg
1.360 db 1105: Höxer, Nikolay Sturm, Marc Balmer, Claudio Jeker, Joris Vink,
1106: Olivier Cherrier, David Berghoff,
1.316 mbalmer 1107: Alexander von Gernler, Uwe Stuehler, and Felix Kronlage from OpenDarwin.<br>
1.304 saad 1108: There was a separate OpenBSD track, featuring Henning Brauer (about
1109: signal handlers and OpenNTPD), Reyk Flöter (about wireless cards in
1110: OpenBSD), and the author of the OpenBSD PF book, Jacek Artymiak (about
1.375 grunk 1111: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pf">pf(4)</a>, of course).<br>
1.304 saad 1112: At the conference's Free Software Foundation Event, Theo de Raadt was
1113: awarded the Free Software Award 2004 for his efforts to make Firmware for
1114: wireless hardware and other devices freely available.
1115: <p>
1.301 saad 1116: <li><strong><a name=UKUUG05></a>
1117: <a href="http://www.ukuug.org/events/winter2005/">UKUUG LISA/Winter Conference</a></strong>,
1118: Feb 24 - 25, 2005, Birmingham, UK.<br>
1119: Henning Brauer spoke on OpenBGPD, OpenNTPD and Signal Handlers.
1120: <p>
1121: <li><strong><a name=FFG2005></a>
1122: <a href="http://www.guug.de/veranstaltungen/ffg2005/">GUUG FFG 2005</a></strong>,
1123: Feb 22 - 25, 2005, Munich, Germany.<br>
1124: Reyk Flöter talked about the latest wireless support in
1125: OpenBSD at the annual spring meeting of the <a href="http://www.guug.de/">German Unix User Group</a>.
1126: <p>
1.293 saad 1127: <li><strong><a name=Paris2005></a>
1128: <a href="http://www.solutionslinux.fr/fr/index.php">Solutions Linux 2005</a></strong>,
1129: Feb 1 - 3, 2005, Paris, France.<br>
1130: An OpenBSD booth as well as an OpenSSH booth were present. These booths
1131: were run by Marc Espie, Miod Vallat, Saad Kadhi and Wim with help from
1132: Guillaume Arcas and Christophe Plasschaert, two members of the OpenBSD
1.294 saad 1133: french translation team.<br>
1134: Marc Espie and Saad Kadhi gave a talk about the OpenBSD project with a
1135: special focus on the ports collection and Packet Filter. The <a
1136: href="papers/sl2005/index.html">slides</a> (in French) are
1137: available.<br>
1138: During the event, several demonstrations of <a
1.293 saad 1139: href="http://soekris.kd85.com/">Soekris</a> machines running OpenBSD
1140: were given by Saad Kadhi and Wim.
1141: <p>
1.296 mcbride 1142: </ul>
1.293 saad 1143:
1.296 mcbride 1144: <h3>2004</h3>
1145:
1146: <ul>
1.287 henning 1147: <li><strong><a name=21C3></a>
1148: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/2004/">21C3 - Chaos Communication Congress</a></strong>,
1.375 grunk 1149: Dec 27 - 29, 2004, Berlin, Germany<br>
1.287 henning 1150: "The Usual Suspects" were there and ran the BSD corner, including
1151: <a href="mailto:wim@kd85.com">Wim</a>,
1152: Henning Brauer, Marc Balmer, Martin Reindl, Moritz Jodeit, Felix Kronlage,
1.315 nick 1153: Uwe Stuehler, Konrad Foerstner, Bernd Ahlers, and Alexander von Gernler.<br>
1.287 henning 1154: Henning gave a talk about OpenBGPD and OpenNTPD
1155: (<a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/21c3/">slides</a>).<br>
1156: The WiFi backbone ran on OpenBSD powered
1157: <a href="http://soekris.kd85.com">Soekris</a> machines as access points,
1158: work done by Reyk Flöter, Tim Kornau and others.
1159: This installation was a very successful test of the new
1.290 henning 1160: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ath">ath(4)</a>
1.287 henning 1161: driver.
1162: <p>
1.248 deraadt 1163:
1.286 kevlo 1164: <li><strong><a name=icos2004></a>
1.417 kevlo 1165: <a href="http://2004.icos.org.tw/">ICOS 2004</a></strong>,
1.286 kevlo 1166: Dec 18 - 19, 2004, Taipei, Taiwan.<br>
1167: Kevin Lo gave a presentation.
1168: <p>
1169:
1.285 deraadt 1170: <li><strong><a name=syscan2004></a>
1171: <a href="http://www.syscan.org/">SyScAN 2004</a></strong>,
1172: Dec 16 - 17, 2004, Singapore.<br>
1173: Theo de Raadt presented his talk about
1174: <a href="papers/auug04">Exploit Mitigation Techniques</a>.
1175: <p>
1176:
1.283 saad 1177: <li><strong><a name=sur200412></a>
1178: <a href="http://www.ossir.org/sur/calendrier/index.shtml">SUR Group Meeting, December 2004</a></strong>,
1179: Dec 14, 2004, Paris, France.<br>
1180: Saad Kadhi gave a talk about OpenBSD and security during the monthly
1181: meeting of the
1182: <a href="http://www.ossir.org/sur/index.shtml">SUR</a> Group (Sécurité
1183: Unix et Réseaux), a french user group focusing on security and Unix. The
1.284 xsa 1184: <a href="papers/surgroup200412/index.html">slides</a> (in French) are available.
1.283 saad 1185: <p>
1186:
1.282 henning 1187: <li><strong><a name=opencon2004></a>
1188: <a href="http://www.opencon.org/">OpenCon 2004</a></strong>,
1189: Dec 10 - 12, 2004, Venice, Italy.<br>
1190: OpenBSD meeting in Northern Italy. Henning gave 3 talks in
1191: two days, on bgpd
1192: (<a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/opencon04/bgpd/">slides</a>),
1193: ntpd
1194: (<a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/opencon04/ntpd/">slides</a>)
1195: and signal handlers
1196: (<a href="papers/opencon04/">slides</a>).
1197: Wim ran a booth, and Marc Balmer was there as well.
1198: <p>
1199:
1.275 deraadt 1200: <li><strong><a name=UofA></a>
1201: <a href="http://www.ualberta.ca/">U of A Seminar</a></strong>,
1202: Nov 17 - 18, 2004, Edmonton Alberta.<br>
1203: Theo de Raadt presented a talk at an open seminar at the
1204: <a href="http://www.ualberta.ca/">University of Alberta</a>, in
1205: Room B-02 of the
1206: <a href="http://www.campusmap.ualberta.ca/map_bldg.cfm?bldg_id=42">
1207: Computing Sciences Center</a>.
1208: Talk went from 2 PM to nearly 5PM with more than 100 people attending
1209: from the University and industry, followed by beer nearby.
1210: The talk was also given the following day at the
1211: <a href="http://www.cips.ca/">CIPS Security SIG</a> luncheon.
1212: <p>
1213:
1.271 henning 1214: <li><strong><a name=EuroBSDCon2004></a>
1215: <a href="http://2004.eurobsdcon.org/">EuroBSD Con</a></strong>,
1216: Oct 29 - 31, 2004, Karlsruhe, Germany.<br>
1.272 henning 1217: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
1218: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
1.271 henning 1219: Henning gave a talk
1.375 grunk 1220: about <a href="http://2004.eurobsdcon.org/talks.html?&tx_ptspeechupload_pi1[showUid]=44&cHash=ec015b0552">bgpd</a>,
1.272 henning 1221: <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/euroBSDCon2004/">slides</a> are available.
1.271 henning 1222: <p>
1223:
1224: <li><strong><a name=LinuxWorldExpoGermany2004></a>
1225: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.de/">Linux World Expo</a></strong>,
1226: Oct 26 - 28, 2004, Frankfurt, Germany.<br>
1.272 henning 1227: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
1228: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
1.271 henning 1229: <p>
1230:
1.276 deraadt 1231: <li><strong><a name=cuug2004></a>
1.270 deraadt 1232: <a href="http://www.cuug.ab.ca/">Calgary Unix Users's Group</a></strong>,
1233: Oct 26, 2004, Calgary, Canada.<br>
1234: Theo presented the talk that he has recently given in Australia and
1235: Malaysia to the "Home Crowd".
1236: <p>
1237:
1238: <li><strong><a name=aldil2004></a>
1.269 krw 1239: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/">Les Journées Du Logiciel Libre 2004</a></strong>,
1240: Oct 22 - 23, 2004, Lyon, France.<br>
1.381 aanriot 1241: There was OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Miod Vallat with the help of
1.415 aanriot 1242: Alexandre Anriot and Thierry Thomas.
1.269 krw 1243: <p>
1244:
1245: <li><strong><a name=systems2004></a>
1246: <a href="http://www.systems.de/">Systems</a></strong>,
1247: Oct 18 - 22, 2004, Munich, Germany <br>
1248: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
1249: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
1250: <p>
1251:
1.268 krw 1252: <li><strong><a name=linuxexpo2004oct></a>
1253: <a href="http://www.linuxexpo.org.uk/">Linux Expo</a></strong>,
1254: Oct 6 - 7, 2004, London, UK.<br>
1255: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
1256: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
1257: <p>
1258:
1.375 grunk 1259: <li><strong><a name=hitb2004></a>
1.268 krw 1260: <a href="http://conference.hackinthebox.org">Hack in the Box Security Conference 2004</a></strong>,
1261: Oct 4 - 7, 2004, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.<br>
1262: Theo de Raadt presented an updated version of his
1263: "Exploit Mitigation Techniques" talk.
1264: <p>
1265:
1266: <li><strong><a name=SANE2004></a>
1267: <a href="http://www.nluug.nl/events/sane2004/bazaar.html">SANE 2004</a></strong>
1.410 wvdputte 1268: , Sep 29, 2004, Amsterdam, Netherlands.<br>
1.268 krw 1269: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
1270: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
1271: <p>
1272:
1.265 wvdputte 1273: <li><strong><a name=LinuxKongress2004></a>
1274: <a href="http://www.linux-kongress.org/2004">Linux Kongress 2004</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 1275: Sep 7 - 10, 2004, Erlangen, Germany.<br>
1.265 wvdputte 1276: From their website: "Linux-Kongress is still the premier event for European
1277: developers and one of the most important in the world. Each year hundreds of
1278: hard core Linux enthusiasts from all over the world gather for this important
1279: event."
1280: <br>
1281: Although this was a Linux developers' conference, we were able to
1282: install a regular OpenBSD booth there, as known from other events.
1283: It was run by <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim Vandeputte</a>,
1284: <a href="mailto:grunk@pestilenz.org">Alexander von Gernler</a> and other
1285: geeks from the Erlangen-Nuremberg area.
1286: <br>
1287: There also was a BSD dinner at Friday evening.
1288: <p>
1289:
1.262 henning 1290: <li><strong><a name=Sucon2004></a>
1291: <a href="http://www.suug.ch/sucon/04/">SUCON 2004</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 1292: Sep 2 - 4, 2004, Zurich, Switzerland.<br>
1.262 henning 1293: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth. Very nice conference.
1294: Henning's slides from his talks about
1295: <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/sucon04/bgpd">bgpd</a> and
1296: <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/sucon04/ntpd">ntpd</a>
1297: are available.
1298: <p>
1299:
1.261 deraadt 1300: <li><strong><a name=auug2004></a>
1.266 jolan 1301: <a href="http://www.auug.org.au/events/2004/auug2004/">AUUG 2004</a></strong>,
1.261 deraadt 1302: Aug 29 - Sep 3, 2004, Melbourne, Australia.<br>
1303: Theo de Raadt presented a half-day tutorial on privilege seperation and a
1304: newly extended version of the
1305: <a href="papers/auug04">Exploit Mitigation Techniques</a> talk.<br>
1306: For more information, see this
1307: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;517187222;fp;16;fpid;0">
1308: ComputerWorld article</a>.
1309: <p>
1310:
1311:
1.257 saad 1312: <li><strong><a name=LSM2004></a>
1313: <a href="http://lsm.abul.org">Libre Software Meeting</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 1314: Jul 6 - 10, 2004, Bordeaux, France.<br>
1.257 saad 1315: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
1316: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim Vandeputte</a>.
1317: <p>
1318:
1319: <li><strong><a name=LinuxTag2004></a>
1320: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.org">LinuxTag 2004</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 1321: Jun 23 - 26, 2004, Karlsruhe, Germany.<br>
1.257 saad 1322: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
1323: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim Vandeputte</a>.
1324: <p>
1325:
1.254 xsa 1326: <li><strong><a name=LinuxwochenVienna2004></a>
1.255 xsa 1327: <a href="http://www.linuxwochen.at/">Linuxwochen Vienna 2004</a></strong>,
1.254 xsa 1328: May 26 - 29, 2004, Vienna, Austria.<br>
1329: The Linuxwochen 2004 tour stopped in the MuseumsQuartier, Vienna.
1330: Wim Vandeputte and Reinhard Sammer ran the OpenBSD booth. Michael Bauer
1331: and Teemu Schaabl from the <a href="http://www.cngw.org/">CNGW</a> gave
1332: a basic talk about pf.
1333: <p>
1334:
1.248 deraadt 1335: <li><strong><a name=BSDCan2004></a>
1.303 mcbride 1336: <a href="http://www.bsdcan.org/2004/">BSDCan 2004</a></strong>,
1.248 deraadt 1337: May 13 - 16, 2004, Ottawa, Canada.<br>
1338: BSDCan was held at the University of Ottawa. Ryan McBride gave a talk
1.302 mcbride 1339: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/papers/bsdcan04-pf/index.html">about newer features in pf</a>,
1340: focusing on the redundancy provided by CARP and pfsync.
1341: Theo de Raadt presented a revised version of his talk on
1.248 deraadt 1342: <a href="papers/bsdcan04">Exploit Mitigation Techniques</a>.
1343: <p>
1344:
1.247 canacar 1345: <li><strong><a name="LOSFAnkara2004"></a>
1346: <a href="http://senlik.linux.org.tr">3rd Linux and Open Source Festival</a></strong>,
1347: May 13 - 16, 2004, Ankara, Turkey.<br>
1348: Can E. Acar and Berk D. Demir talked about the OpenBSD Project. The
1349: philosophy, project goals, system features and recent proactive
1350: security features were introduced. CARP, patents, recent Apache &
1351: XFree86 licensing issues and effects of NDAs in open source
1352: projects were discussed.<br>
1353: You can view the
1.281 canacar 1354: <a href="http://bdd.mindcast.org/slides/OpenBSD-LOYS2004-cea-bdd.pdf">
1.247 canacar 1355: slides in PDF format</a> the
1.281 canacar 1356: <a href="http://bdd.mindcast.org/slides/OpenBSD-LOYS2004-cea-bdd.tex">
1.247 canacar 1357: LaTeX source</a> is also available (they are
1358: <a href="http://www.eee.metu.edu.tr/~canacar/slides/">mirrored</a>, as well).
1359: <p>
1360:
1.242 henning 1361: <li><strong><a name=Brussels2004></a>
1362: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/">FOSDEM Brussels 2004</a></strong>,
1363: Feb 21 - 22, 2004, Brussels, Belgium.<br>
1.243 henning 1364: An OpenBSD/OpenSSH booth was present, run by Wim Vandeputte.
1365: Several developers (including Henning Brauer, Xavier Santolaria, Thierry Deval,
1366: Philipp Bühler, Otto Moerbeek and Saad Kadhi) showed up.
1367: Wim and Alexander von Gernler gave "lightning talks" about Soekris
1368: and systrace
1.263 saad 1369: (<a href="http://pestilenz.org/~grunk/vortraege/2004/FOSDEM/systrace.pdf">slides</a>), respectively.
1.243 henning 1370: Henning got a slot in the main track to talk about the new bgpd
1371: (<a href="http://www.2suck.net/papers/fosdem2004/">slides</a>).
1372: On Saturday evening, the traditional OpenBSD dinner took place.
1.242 henning 1373: <p>
1374:
1.240 espie 1375: <li><strong><a name=Paris2004></a>
1376: <a href="http://www.linuxsolutions.fr/">Linux Expo Paris 2004</a></strong>,
1377: Feb 3 - 5, 2004, Paris, France.<br>
1378: An OpenBSD booth as well as an OpenSSH booth were present, thanks to
1379: <a href="mailto:saad@docisland.org">Saad Kadhi</a> and
1380: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
1381: <p>
1382:
1383: <li><strong><a name="LWE04"></a>
1384: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/linuxworldny/V40/index.cvn">LinuxWorld
1385: Conference and Expo</a></strong>, Jan 20 - 23, 2004, New York, NY, USA.<br>
1.397 grunk 1386: <a href="mailto:wes@openlysecure.org">Wes Sonnenreich</a> and others
1.240 espie 1387: have established a BSD user group in NYC and held a BSD BoF at the
1388: Jacob Javits Center on January 22nd at 5:45pm, Room 1E15.
1389: <p>
1390: </ul>
1391:
1.188 henning 1392: <h3>2003</h3>
1.236 jose 1393:
1394: <ul>
1.232 jose 1395: <li><strong><a name=20c3></a>
1396: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/2003/">20th Chaos Communication Congress 2003</a></strong>,
1397: Dec 27 - 29, 2003, Berlin, Germany.<br>
1398: OpenBSD was represented by a booth, ran by
1399: <a href= "mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>, and supported by Henning and
1.236 jose 1400: Alexander von Gernler. Alexander also gave a
1.260 saad 1401: <a href="http://pestilenz.org/~grunk/vortraege/2003/20C3/openbsd.pdf">talk</a>
1.232 jose 1402: introducing the project and the OS (in German).
1.236 jose 1403: <p>
1.232 jose 1404:
1.228 jose 1405: <li><strong><a name=brazil2003></a>
1.236 jose 1406: <a href="http://bsdcon.myfreebsd.com.br">1st BSDCon Brazil</a></strong>,
1.228 jose 1407: Dec 6 - 7, 2003. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.<br>
1408: This was the first BSDCon Brazil, and of course OpenBSD was present.
1.236 jose 1409: Douglas Santos spoke on advocacy and about some of the technical aspects
1410: of OpenBSD. Eduardo A. Alvarenga gave a presentation about firewalling
1.228 jose 1411: with OpenBSD PF.
1412: <p>
1413:
1414: <li><strong><a name=ankara03></a>
1415: <a href="http://seminer.linux.org.tr">Association of Turkish Linux User</a></strong>,
1416: Dec 4, 2003, Ankara, Turkey.<br>
1417: Can Acar and Berk Demir gave a mammoth 4 hour presentation on OpenBSD.
1418: The first part was a broad introduction to the OpenBSD philosophy, the
1.236 jose 1419: project goals, and system features. After a break, in the second part they
1420: talked about the exploit mitigation techniques employed in OpenBSD. This
1421: part was aimed at techies and is almost a complete Turkish translation of
1422: the talk Theo recently gave in Japan. You can view the
1.281 canacar 1423: <a href="http://bdd.mindcast.org/slides/OpenBSD_3.12.2003.can-bdd.pdf">
1.236 jose 1424: slides in PDF format </a>
1425: (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 1426: <p>
1427:
1.227 jose 1428: <li><strong><a name=Luxembourg2003></a>
1429: <a href="http://www.linuxday.lu/">Linuxday Luxembourg 2003</a></strong>,
1430: Nov 6 - 8, 2003, Luxembourg, Luxembourg.<br>
1431: Booths were present, organized by <a href= "mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
1432: <p>
1433:
1434: <li><strong><a name=Pacsec2003></a>
1435: <a href="http://pacsec.jp/">Pacsec 2003</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 1436: Nov 6 - 7, 2003, Tokyo, Japan.<br>
1.236 jose 1437: Three OpenBSD developers presented on various topics. Theo de Raadt
1.227 jose 1438: gave a presentation on Exploit Mitigation Techniques
1.236 jose 1439: <a href="papers/pacsec03/e/index.html">(English)</a>
1440: <a href="papers/pacsec03/j/index.html">(Japanese)</a>, Jun-ichiro
1.227 jose 1441: itojun Hagino presented material covering
1.236 jose 1442: <a href="http://www.itojun.org/paper/itojun-200311-pacsec-jp/">
1.241 david 1443: IPv6 security considerations</a>, and Jose Nazario discussed advances
1.227 jose 1444: in Internet worm defenses.
1445: <p>
1446:
1.224 miod 1447: <li><strong><a name=Lyon2003></a>
1448: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/agenda/journees/2003/">Les V<sup>èmes</sup> Journées du Libre 2003</a></strong>,
1449: Oct 31 - Nov 1, 2003, Lyon, France.<br>
1450: Miod Vallat gave a talk about the recent security efforts deployed in OpenBSD,
1451: as well as generic security concepts (slides, in bad French, are available in
1452: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/agenda/journees/2003/vallat/miod.mgp">mgp
1453: format</a>). As usual, Wim ran an OpenBSD booth featuring the new 3.4 release,
1454: as well as <a href="http://soekris.kd85.com">Soekris</a> hardware running
1455: OpenBSD.
1456: <p>
1457:
1458: <li><strong><a name=Saarbrucken2003></a>
1459: <a href="http://www.linux-kongress.org/2003/index.html">Linux Kongress Saarbrücken 2003</a></strong>,
1460: Oct 14 - 16, 2003, Saarbrücken, Germany.<br>
1461: An OpenBSD booth was present, starring Wim again.
1462: <p>
1463:
1464: <li><strong><a name=London2003></a>
1465: <a href="http://www.linuxexpo.org.uk/">Linux Expo London 2003</a></strong>,
1466: Oct 8 - 9, 2003, London, UK.<br>
1467: An OpenBSD booth was present, starring Wim as usual.
1468: <p>
1469:
1.219 jose 1470: <li><strong><a name=bsdcon2003></a>
1471: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/bsdcon03/">BSDCon '03</a></strong>,
1472: Sep 8 - 12, 2003, San Mateo, California.<br>
1.236 jose 1473: OpenBSD was represented in the BSD Status Report, and David Rosenthal
1.219 jose 1474: gave a talk on an OpenBSD based security appliance.
1475: <p>
1476:
1.218 jose 1477: <li><strong><a name=sucon2003></a>
1478: <a href="http://www.sucon.ch/">SUCON '03</a></strong>,
1479: Sep 5, 2003. Zurich, Switzerland.<br>
1.236 jose 1480: Daniel Hartmeier talked about PF, and <a
1.218 jose 1481: href="http://open.bsdcow.net/events/sucon2003/">pictures are available</a>.
1482: <p>
1483:
1.214 henning 1484: <li><strong><a name=camp2003></a>
1485: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/camp/">Chaos Communication Camp 2003</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1486: Aug 7 - 10, 2003, in <a href="http://www.paulshof.de/body-mehr.html">a field</a> near Berlin Germany<br>
1.214 henning 1487: There was a huge OpenBSD village. Several OpenBSD developers have been there.
1488: <p>
1489:
1.213 jose 1490: <li><strong><a name=sec2003></a>
1491: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/sec03/">Usenix Security</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1492: Aug 4 - 8, 2003, Washington, DC, USA.<br>
1.236 jose 1493: Niels Provos presented two papers on security advances originally
1.213 jose 1494: developed for OpenBSD, including the OpenSSH privsep feature and systrace.
1495: Several OpenBSD developers were there.
1496: <p>
1497:
1.211 jose 1498: <li><strong><a name=linuxtag2003></a>
1499: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.org/2003/en/index.html">LinuxTag 2003</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1500: Jul 10 - 13, 2003, Karlsruhe Convention Center Germany<br>
1.211 jose 1501: Both OpenBSD and OpenSSH had booths in the main exhibit.
1502: <p>
1503:
1504: <li><strong><a name=lsm2003></a>
1505: <a href="http://libresoftwaremeeting.org/">Libre Software Meeting 2003</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1506: Jul 9 - 12, 2003, Metz, France<br>
1.212 matthieu 1507: Matthieu Herrb gave <a href="papers/xf86-sec.pdf">a talk about XFree86 security</a>. There was
1.211 jose 1508: also an OpenBSD booth with developers.
1509: <p>
1510:
1.209 wvdputte 1511: <li><strong><a name=lud2003></a>
1512: <a href="http://www.linuxuserexpo.com/">Linux User & Developer Expo 2003</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1513: Jun 24 - 26, 2003, at the NEC in Birmingham UK<br>
1.209 wvdputte 1514: There was an OpenBSD booth with developers.
1515: <p>
1.195 deraadt 1516:
1.202 jason 1517: <li><strong><a name=usenix2003></a>
1.236 jose 1518: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix03/">Usenix Annual Technical
1.216 jose 1519: Conference</a></strong>,
1520: Jun 9 - 14, 2003, San Antonio, Texas, USA<br>
1.202 jason 1521: A few OpenBSD developers were there and one paper was presented:
1522: <ul>
1.216 jose 1523: <li>The Design of the OpenBSD Cryptographic Framework<br>
1.202 jason 1524: <a href="events.html#usenix2003">Usenix 2003</a>, by
1.236 jose 1525: Angelos D. Keromytis,
1526: Jason L. Wright, and
1.205 deraadt 1527: Theo de Raadt.<br>
1.202 jason 1528: <a href="papers/ocf.pdf">paper</a>.
1529: </ul>
1530: <p>
1531:
1.216 jose 1532: <li><strong>
1533: <a href="http://www.webb.it/">Webbit 2003</a></strong>,
1534: May 9 - 11, 2003, Padova, Italy<br>
1.203 jason 1535: Giacomo Cariello and Wim Vandeputte attended, and several OpenBSD
1536: <a href="http://www.deadly.org/article.php3?sid=20030503101052">related talks</a> were given.
1537: <p>
1538:
1.216 jose 1539: <li><strong>
1540: <a href="http://cansecwest.com/">CanSecWest 03</a></strong>,
1541: Apr 9 - 11, 2003, Vancouver, Canada<br>
1.195 deraadt 1542: Theo spoke about killing buffer overflows using ProPolice and the new W^X technology,
1.196 matthieu 1543: available as a <a href="papers/csw03.mgp">magicpoint file</a>.
1.195 deraadt 1544: <p>
1545:
1.216 jose 1546: <li><strong>
1547: <a href="http://www.cebit.de/">CeBIT 2003</a></strong>,
1548: Mar 14, 2003, Hannover, Germany<br>
1.236 jose 1549: 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 1550: gave a talk on OpenBSD and OpenSSH. <a href="papers/cebit2003.tgz">slides</a> are available.
1.194 henning 1551: <p>
1552:
1.216 jose 1553: <li><strong>
1554: <a href="http://www.linuxforum.dk/2003/english/">LinuxForum 2003</a></strong>,
1555: Mar 1, 2003, Copenhagen<br>
1.236 jose 1556: Daniel spoke about PF (slides in <a href="papers/linuxforum2k3.tar.gz">mgp</a>,
1557: <a href="http://www.benzedrine.cx/linuxforum/">HTML</a>).
1.191 dhartmei 1558: It was a small but cozy conference, jointly held by Danish Linux and BSD
1559: user groups.
1560: <p>
1561:
1.236 jose 1562: <li><strong>
1563: <a href="http://www.cuug.ab.ca">CUUG - The Calgary Unix Users
1.216 jose 1564: Group</a></strong>,
1565: Feb 25, 2003, 18:00 MST, Calgary<br>
1.190 miod 1566: OpenBSD lead developer Theo de Raadt spoke about some of the recent
1567: changes in OpenBSD that are leading the way to the complete elimination of
1568: "buffer overflow" security risks and attacks.
1569: <p>
1570:
1.216 jose 1571: <li><strong>
1572: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/">FOSDEM 2003</a></strong>,
1573: Feb 8 - 9, 2003, Brussels<br>
1.236 jose 1574: Henning and Philipp gave a talk on -current PF developments
1.196 matthieu 1575: (<a href="papers/fosdem2k3-pf.mgp">slides</a>)
1.187 henning 1576: and on Saturday evening, there was an OpenBSD dinner for those interested.
1577: <p>
1578:
1.216 jose 1579: <li><strong>
1580: <a href="http://linuxsolutions.fr/FR/home/index.php?site=default">Linux Solutions</a></strong>,
1581: Feb 4 - 6, 2003, CNIT - Paris La Défense<br>
1.185 miod 1582: There was an OpenBSD booth with several OpenBSD developers, as well as 3.2 OpenBSD
1.413 grunk 1583: CD sets and T-shirts.
1.185 miod 1584: <p>
1.236 jose 1585: </ul>
1.185 miod 1586:
1.161 millert 1587: <h3>2002</h3>
1.236 jose 1588:
1589: <ul>
1590: <li><strong>
1591: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/2002/">19c3: the 19th CCC
1.216 jose 1592: Congress</a></strong>,
1593: Dec 27 - 29, 2002, Berlin<br>
1.236 jose 1594: There was a huge <a href="http://www.eurobsd.org/19c3">reserved space</a> for
1595: OpenBSD users and developers, a couple of -current test systems and for those
1.413 grunk 1596: curious, a first look at the 3.2 OpenBSD T-shirts.
1.184 wvdputte 1597: <p>
1.177 jason 1598:
1.216 jose 1599: <li><strong>
1600: <a href="http://2002.eurobsdcon.org/">BSDCon Europe 2002</a></strong>,
1601: Nov 15 - 17, 2002, Amsterdam, Netherlands<br>
1.181 henning 1602: OpenBSD people were there;
1.236 jose 1603: Philipp Bühler and Henning Brauer spoke about
1.182 ian 1604: <a href="papers/tuning-openbsd.ps">
1605: network performance tuning on OpenBSD</a>,
1.236 jose 1606: and Ian Darwin presented a
1.182 ian 1607: <a href="papers/eurobsd-firewalls-2002.pdf">
1608: tutorial on OpenBSD servers/firewalls</a>.
1.179 pb 1609: <p>
1.178 pb 1610:
1.216 jose 1611: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1612: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa02/">LISA '02: 16th Systems
1.216 jose 1613: Administration Conference</a></strong>,
1614: Nov 3 - 8, 2002, Philadelphia, USA<br>
1.177 jason 1615: Mickey and Jason manned the booth at the vendor expo (the only BSD
1616: represented) and sold <a href="32.html">3.2</a> CDs, and Jason gave a BoF
1617: session on <a href="32.html">3.2</a> and future.
1618: <p>
1619:
1.216 jose 1620: <li><strong>
1.264 djm 1621: <a href="http://www.auug.org.au/events/2002/auug2002/">Australian Unix Users
1622: Group Winter Conference</a></strong>,
1623: Sep 1 - 6, 2002, Melbourne Australia<br>
1624: Damien Miller presented a tutorial on the
1625: <a href="papers/auug2002-ssh/index.html">SSH protocol</a> and
1626: <a href="papers/auug2002-ssh.ps">OpenSSH tips and tricks</a>.
1627: <p>
1628:
1629: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 1630: <a href="http://lsm.abul.org">The 3rd Libre Software Meeting</a></strong>,
1631: Jul 9 - 13, 2002, Bordeaux, France<br>
1.172 miod 1632: Several OpenBSD developers and users were attending the meeting, and
1633: Niels Provos presented his
1634: <a href="http://www.citi.umich.edu/u/provos/systrace">systrace</a>
1635: system call policy management tool.
1.174 nick 1636: <p>
1.172 miod 1637:
1.216 jose 1638: <li><strong>
1639: <a href="http://www.Webb.it">Webb.it 02</a></strong>,
1640: Jul 5 - 7, 2002, Padova, Italy<br>
1.171 ian 1641: OpenBSD developers had a booth selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
1642: <p>
1643:
1.216 jose 1644: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1645: <a href="http://www.softwarelivre.rs.gov.br/forum">The Annual International
1.216 jose 1646: Free Software Forum</a></strong>,
1647: May 2 - 4, 2002, Porto Alegre-RS, Brazil<br>
1.236 jose 1648: Mainly a Linux/GNU event, but this year the BSD Operating Systems
1649: had a chance to prove their value.
1.169 horacio 1650: Edson Brandi spoke on FreeBSD, Diego Linke
1.236 jose 1651: on NetBSD, and Ricardo Nascimento Ferreira on OpenBSD.
1.169 horacio 1652: <p>
1.168 miod 1653:
1.216 jose 1654: <li><strong>
1655: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/bsdcon02/">BSDCON 2002</a></strong>,
1656: Feb 11 - 14, 2002, San Francisco, California, USA<br>
1.161 millert 1657: Todd Miller gave an update on current OpenBSD status and participated in a
1.162 millert 1658: BSD panel discussion. The <a href="slides/bsdcon_2002/index.html">slides</a>
1659: are available.
1.161 millert 1660: <p>
1661:
1.216 jose 1662: <li><strong>
1663: <a href="http://www.linuxexpoparis.com">Linux expo Paris 2002</a></strong>,
1664: Jan 30 - Feb 1, 2002, Paris, France<br>
1.163 miod 1665: The french Linux Expo 2002 was quite small and as usual the OpenBSD booth ended
1666: up with others on the expo's side. On the first day, almost all the merchandise
1667: was sold, and we have even sold older versions (2.9) the following days to
1668: people who wouldn't leave without a cd set in their hands...
1669: <p>
1670:
1.216 jose 1671: <li><strong>
1672: <a href="http://musess.mcmaster.ca/">MUSESS 2002</a></strong>,
1673: Jan 25 - 26, 2002, McMaster University, Ontario, Canada<br>
1.164 millert 1674: Louis Bertrand gave a presentation on OpenBSD titled
1675: <strong>Fix The Bugs, Secure The System</strong>.
1676: The <a href="slides/musess_2002/index.html">slides</a> are available.
1677: <p>
1.236 jose 1678: </ul>
1.164 millert 1679:
1.152 jakob 1680: <h3>2001</h3>
1681:
1.236 jose 1682: <ul>
1.216 jose 1683: <li><strong>
1684: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa01/">USENIX LISA 2001</a></strong>,
1685: Dec 2 - 7, 2001, San Diego, California, USA<br>
1.160 jufi 1686: Niels Provos gave a presentation, and there's been a booth selling
1.413 grunk 1687: T-shirts and 3.0 CDs.
1.160 jufi 1688: <p>
1689:
1.216 jose 1690: <li><strong>
1691: <a href="http://www.ietf.org/meetings/IETF-52.html">52nd IETF</a></strong>,
1692: Dec 9 - 14, 2001, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA<br>
1.160 jufi 1693: Angelos, Itojun & Jakob were there.
1694: <p>
1695:
1.158 deraadt 1696: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1697: <a href="http://www.disc2000.unam.mx/disc/index-ing.html">DISC
1.216 jose 1698: 2001</a></strong>,
1699: Nov 26 - 29, 2001, Mexico City, Mexico<br>
1.158 deraadt 1700: Once again, Theo de Raadt explained the security auditing process and
1701: subsequent secure configuration choices made in OpenBSD, in a talk
1702: entitled "Updated thoughts on writing a secure Operating System".
1703: <p>
1704:
1.216 jose 1705: <li><strong>
1706: <a href="http://www.linux.org.hk">LinuxCafe</a></strong>,
1707: Sep 15, 2001, Hong Kong, China<br>
1.156 provos 1708: Shell Hung gave an introduction for BSD and demonstration of OpenBSD to HKLUG.
1709: <p>
1710:
1.201 deraadt 1711: <li><strong>VPN Bakeoff</strong>,
1.216 jose 1712: Aug 13 - 18, 2001, Finland<br>
1.156 provos 1713: Jakob and Itojun were there.
1714: <p>
1.158 deraadt 1715:
1.150 wvdputte 1716: <li><strong>
1.215 nick 1717: <a href="http://www.hal2001.org">HAL 2001</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1718: Aug 10 - 12, 2001, Twente, Netherlands<br>
1.153 jufi 1719: Quite a lot of developers were there, we even had our own tent.
1720: Niels, Rees and Dugsong held talks, more info on the main website
1721: for HAL2001. And of course T-Shirts and CDROMs were sold.
1.150 wvdputte 1722: <p>
1.137 aaron 1723:
1724: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1725: <a href="http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon/">O'Reilly Open Source
1.216 jose 1726: Conference</a></strong>,
1727: Jul 23 - 27, 2001, San Diego, California, USA<br>
1.148 brian 1728: OpenBSD had a booth selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
1729: Ian Darwin presented his "Firewalls and Secure Internet Servers
1730: with OpenBSD" tutorial.
1731: <p>
1732:
1733: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 1734: <a href="http://www.defcon.org">DEF CON Nine</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1735: Jul 13 - 15, 2001 Las Vegas, USA<br>
1.148 brian 1736: OpenBSD developers and users make it a point to attend every year,
1737: and had a table selling CD's, shirts, etc.
1738: <p>
1739:
1740: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1741: <a href="http://www.sek.co.kr/sek2001/sek_html/main.htm">Software
1.216 jose 1742: Exhibition of Korea</a></strong>,
1743: Jun 26 - 29, 2001, Seoul, Korea<br>
1.146 krw 1744: urisecure/NDS sponsored an OpenBSD booth with CD's, posters,
1745: and a live demo of OpenBSD's IPSEC hardware acceleration.
1746: <p>
1747:
1748: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1749: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix01/">2001 USENIX Annual
1.216 jose 1750: Technical Conference</a></strong>,
1751: Jun 25 - 30, 2001, Boston, USA<br>
1.146 krw 1752: OpenBSD developers were there, selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
1753: <p>
1754:
1755: <li><strong>
1.143 dugsong 1756: <a href="http://www.olymfair.org/eng/workshop.htm">Information
1.201 deraadt 1757: Security OlymFair</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1758: May 16 - 18, 2001, Seoul, Korea<br>
1.143 dugsong 1759: Dug Song gave a detailed introduction to OpenBSD to the Korean
1760: security community.
1761: <p>
1762:
1763: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1764: <a href="http://www.osdem.org/">2001 Open Source and Free Software
1.216 jose 1765: Developers' Meeting</a></strong>,
1766: Feb 3 - 4, 2001, Brussels, Belgium<br>
1.137 aaron 1767: There was an OpenBSD booth with some loose talks made.
1768: <p>
1769:
1770: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 1771: <a href="http://www.linuxexpoparis.com/">2001 Linux Expo</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1772: Feb 1 - 2, 2001, Paris, France<br>
1.236 jose 1773: There was an OpenBSD booth in the 'F' area.
1.137 aaron 1774: <p>
1.236 jose 1775: </ul>
1.137 aaron 1776:
1.132 louis 1777: <h3>2000</h3>
1778:
1.236 jose 1779: <ul>
1.132 louis 1780: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1781: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa2000/">LISA 2000, USENIX
1.216 jose 1782: Systems Administration Conference</a></strong>,
1783: Dec 3 - 8, 2000, New Orleans, USA<br>
1.134 jufi 1784: Wim Vandeputte and other volunteers have been running a sales table with
1785: shirts, posters and the brand new 2.8 CDs.
1786: <p>
1787:
1788: <li><strong>
1.215 nick 1789: <a href="http://www.disc2000.unam.mx/disc/index-ing.html">DISC 2000</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1790: Nov 26 - Dec 1, 2000, Mexico City, Mexico<br>
1.133 deraadt 1791: Theo de Raadt explained the security auditing process and subsequent secure
1792: configuration choices made in OpenBSD, in a talk entitled "Secure by Default".
1793: Over the next few days, he also participated in two panels with various security
1794: experts who had flown in from around the world. Following this, Theo climbed
1.151 jsyn 1795: one of the largest volcanoes, called Malinche.
1.133 deraadt 1796: <p>
1797:
1798: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1799: <a href="http://www.nluug.nl/events/nj2000">NLUUG Najaarsconferentie
1.216 jose 1800: 2000</a></strong>,
1801: Nov 9, 2000, Ede, NL<br>
1.236 jose 1802: There was an OpenBSD booth where people dropped by for information or to
1.413 grunk 1803: get their T-shirts, polos, caps and 2.7 CDs.
1.13 deraadt 1804: <p>
1.4 millert 1805:
1.132 louis 1806: <li><strong><a name=ipsec2000></a>
1.236 jose 1807: <a href="http://www.upperside.fr/baipsecy2k.htm">IPsec 2000 Global
1.216 jose 1808: Summit</a></strong>,
1809: Oct 24 - 27, 2000, Paris La Defense, France<br>
1.159 miod 1810: Niels Provos ended the conference by speaking about the IPsec architecture
1.132 louis 1811: in OpenBSD. The talk was well received and many people were very interested
1812: about our cryptographic hardware acceleration.
1813:
1814: <ul>
1.236 jose 1815: <li>The IPsec Architecture in OpenBSD<br>
1.215 nick 1816: <a href="#ipsec2000">IPsec 2000 Global Summit</a> by Niels Provos.<br>
1.132 louis 1817: <a href="papers/ipsec-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1818: </ul>
1.4 millert 1819: <p>
1.132 louis 1820:
1.7 deraadt 1821: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 1822: <a href="http://ApacheCon.Com/2000/EU/">ApacheCon Europa 2000</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1823: Oct 23 - 25, 2000, London, UK<br>
1.132 louis 1824: There was an OpenBSD booth where people could drop by for information and
1825: a chat with the local OpenBSD personnel. We also had the essentials for
1.413 grunk 1826: your wardrobe (T-shirts, polos, caps), for your hardware (2.7 CDs) and for your
1.132 louis 1827: mind (drinks afterwards).
1828: <p>
1829:
1.216 jose 1830: <li><strong>
1831: <a href="http://www.bsdcon.com/">BSD Con 2000</a></strong>,
1832: Oct 18 - 20, 2000, Monterey, CA, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1833: David Terrell ran an OpenBSD booth selling T-shirts and CDs and answering
1834: questions.
1.32 deraadt 1835: <p>
1.1 deraadt 1836:
1.132 louis 1837: <li><strong><a name=opensource2000></a>
1.236 jose 1838: <a href="http://www.opensource-forum.com/konferens">The Open Source
1.216 jose 1839: Revolution</a></strong>,
1840: Oct 5, 2000, Stockholm, Sweden<br>
1.133 deraadt 1841: Theo de Raadt spoke about how user expectations for security out of the box
1842: have changed over the last years.
1.1 deraadt 1843: <p>
1844:
1.132 louis 1845: <li><strong><a name=sec2000></a>
1.216 jose 1846: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/sec2000/">Usenix Security</a></strong>,
1847: Aug 14 - 17, 2000, Denver, Colorado, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1848: Some OpenBSD developers were there and one paper was presented:
1849: <ul>
1.236 jose 1850: <li>Encrypting Virtual Memory<br>
1.132 louis 1851: <a href="#sec2000">Usenix Security 2000</a>
1.205 deraadt 1852: by Niels Provos.<br>
1.132 louis 1853: <a href="papers/swapencrypt.ps">paper</a> and
1854: <a href="papers/swapencrypt-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1855: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 1856: <p>
1.132 louis 1857:
1.10 provos 1858: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 1859: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-8-post.html">Defcon 2000</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1860: Jul 28 - 30, 2000, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.236 jose 1861: Kjell Wooding (our IPF maintainer), James Phillips from the
1.132 louis 1862: <a href="http://www.deadly.org">OpenBSD Journal</a>, and Theo de Raadt
1.413 grunk 1863: had a table and were selling OpenBSD CDROMs, T-shirts, and posters on
1.132 louis 1864: Friday and Saturday. Hordes of people visited our table and we at the
1865: end we were completely sold out of CDROMS and shirts (allowing us to go
1866: check out Hoover Dam's hardhat tour on Sunday and leave the madness behind).
1867: <br>
1868: We were completely amazed at the people who stopped by our table, to say
1869: that they were relying on OpenBSD.
1870: <p>
1.32 deraadt 1871:
1.132 louis 1872: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1873: <a href="http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon2000/">O'Reilly Open Source
1.216 jose 1874: Conference 2000</a></strong>,
1875: Jul 17 - 20, 2000, Monterey, California, USA<br>
1876: Ian Darwin presented a <a href="papers/oreilly2000/">tutorial</a> on
1.132 louis 1877: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/w/bsd_tutorials.html">
1878: Secure Internet Servers/Firewalls with OpenBSD</a>, and bravely
1879: manned the OpenBSD booth for the remainder of the show.
1880: Kjell Wooding took part in a panel discussion on the Future of the BSDs,
1881: and spoke about
1882: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/w/bsd_presentations.html">
1.241 david 1883: Secure By Default.</a> Both sessions were well attended, and at least
1.132 louis 1884: one Linux sysadmin was seen racing for a keyboard, scared look in his eyes,
1.236 jose 1885: after the security talk.
1.3 provos 1886: <p>
1.132 louis 1887:
1.6 deraadt 1888: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 1889: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.de/2000/english/">LinuxTag 2000</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1890: Jun 29 - Jul 2, 2000, Stuttgart, Germany<br>
1.132 louis 1891: There was a BSD booth where we had the first <a href="27.html">OpenBSD 2.7 CDs</a> for Europe
1892: and the new blue stitchwork <a href="tshirts.html#11">Blowfish Polo</a> shirt.
1893: <br>
1894: Christian Weisgerber gave a
1895: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.de/2000/english/conference/talks.php3?ID=3">talk
1896: on BSD</a>.
1.32 deraadt 1897: <p>
1.1 deraadt 1898:
1.216 jose 1899: <li><strong><a name=usenix2000></a>
1.236 jose 1900: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix2000/">Usenix Annual Technical
1.216 jose 1901: Conference.</a></strong>,
1902: Jun 18 - 23, 2000, San Diego, California, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1903: Almost 20 OpenBSD developers showed up for the 25th anniversary of Usenix.
1904: We had a vendor booth, as well as a number of papers being presented.
1905: Conference attendees had the opportunity to test drive the new release,
1906: OpenBSD 2.7, on the 30 workstations in the terminal room. For the first
1907: time ever, the terminal room and wavelan networks also had a IPv6 connection,
1.147 jason 1908: and some users even discovered so by themselves.
1.132 louis 1909: Theo also held a BoF on the Wednesday evening, after which the developers
1910: had almost too much singing in foreign languages with the help of helium.
1911: <ul>
1912:
1913: <li>Implementing Internet Key Exchange, IKE.<br>
1914: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
1.216 jose 1915: by Angelos D. Keromytis, Niklas Hallqvist.<br>
1.132 louis 1916: <a href="papers/ikepaper.ps">paper</a> and
1917: <a href="papers/ikeslides.ps">slides</a>.
1918:
1919: <li>Transparent Network Security Policy Enforcement.<br>
1920: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
1.216 jose 1921: by Angelos D. Keromytis, Jason L. Wright.<br>
1.132 louis 1922: <a href="papers/bridgepaper.ps">paper</a> and
1923: <a href="papers/bridgeslides.ps">slides</a>.
1.2 deraadt 1924:
1.132 louis 1925: <li>Safety Checking of Kernel Extensions.<br>
1926: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
1.205 deraadt 1927: by Craig Metz.
1.132 louis 1928: </ul>
1.2 deraadt 1929: <p>
1930:
1.132 louis 1931: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1932: <a href="http://www.manlug.mcc.ac.uk/calendar.html">OpenBSD: The Open
1.216 jose 1933: Source Secure Operating System</a></strong>,
1934: Jun 17, 2000, 14:00. Manchester, UK<br>
1.132 louis 1935: Sam Smith gave a rundown of features coming in OpenBSD 2.7 and
1936: OpenSSH 2.1. His <a href="http://www.manlug.mcc.ac.uk/20000617/">slides</a>
1937: are available from the user group's site.
1.1 deraadt 1938: <p>
1.2 deraadt 1939:
1.132 louis 1940: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 1941: <a href="reprints/crypto2000.html">OpenBSD Crypto 2000 conference</a></strong>,
1942: Jun 15 - 20, 2000, Calgary, AB, Canada<br>
1.132 louis 1943: Repeating the tradition of a similar meeting held last year, many
1944: OpenBSD developers from around the world converged on Calgary
1945: for a weekend long hack-and-drink session. As before, the event
1946: was invitation only. Many significant things got done, including
1947: ipv6 + ipsec running over hardware crypto devices.
1.1 deraadt 1948: <p>
1.11 jkatz 1949:
1.17 deraadt 1950: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 1951: <a href="http://www.converge2000.com">CONVERGENCE 2000</a></strong>,
1952: May 18, 2000. Convention Centre, Calgary, Alberta, Canada<br>
1.132 louis 1953: Theo de Raadt participated in a panel discussion about the pros and cons
1954: of using Open Source software in various business environments. The local
1955: users also handed out OpenSSH and OpenBSD posters, and were absolutely
1956: surprised and amazed by the number of Calgary companies quietly using
1957: OpenBSD.
1.21 pattonme 1958: <p>
1.17 deraadt 1959:
1.23 niklas 1960: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 1961: <a href="http://www.cansecwest.com/">CanSecWest</a></strong>,
1962: May 10 - 12, 2000. Robson Conference Centre, Vancouver, BC, Canada<br>
1.132 louis 1963: Theo de Raadt spoke about why programmers keep making the same stupid mistakes,
1964: what types of efforts might improve this, and how this all relates to auditing
1.375 grunk 1965: efforts.
1966: Rain Forest Puppy, Ron Gula (Network Security Wizards), Ken Williams (E&Y),
1.216 jose 1967: Marty Roesch (snort/HiverWorld), and Fyodor (nmap) were among the other speakers
1.132 louis 1968: at this event. (On a personal note: at this conference Theo realized that three
1969: leading Network Intrusion Detection System companies use OpenBSD as their
1970: base operating system: Hiverworld, Network Security Wizards, and NFR).
1.32 deraadt 1971: <p>
1.25 deraadt 1972:
1.132 louis 1973: <li><strong>
1974: <a href="http://www.zdevents.com/comdex/spring2000/">Linux Business Expo /
1.201 deraadt 1975: COMDEX Spring 2000</a></strong>,
1976: Apr 19, 2000, Chicago, IL, USA<br>
1.216 jose 1977: Louis Bertrand represented OpenBSD at a BSD BOF with FreeBSD/BDSI,
1.132 louis 1978: NetBSD and Apple (Darwin is BSD-derived). The BOF was attended by about
1979: 75 people, many of whom were new to *BSD. It was an opportunity to
1980: explore future cooperation among the various BSD groups and companies.
1.25 deraadt 1981: <p>
1.23 niklas 1982:
1.31 deraadt 1983: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1984: <a href="http://www.nordu.org/NordU2000/">NordU 2000 -- The second
1.216 jose 1985: EurOpen/USENIX Conference</a></strong>,
1986: Feb 8 - 11, 2000. Malmo, Sweden<br>
1.140 jufi 1987: About 15 OpenBSD team members attended.
1.132 louis 1988: OpenBSD CDs and shirts were sold at a booth donated by the conference.<br>
1989: As well, Theo de Raadt gave an invited talk on Wednesday morning
1990: about why software quality/security suffers, and what we can do to
1991: improve it.
1.32 deraadt 1992: <p>
1.31 deraadt 1993:
1.201 deraadt 1994: <li><strong>BSD BOF session, LinuxWorld Expo</strong>,
1.216 jose 1995: Feb 3, 2000, New York, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1996: Representatives from OpenBSD, BSDi, and FreeBSD hosted a
1997: "Birds Of a Feather" session at the <a
1998: href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/">New York LinuxWorld Expo</a>.<br>
1999: There were installation CD-ROMs, free food, and even free Daemon Horns!
1.33 niklas 2000: <p>
1.236 jose 2001: </ul>
1.33 niklas 2002:
1.132 louis 2003: <h3>1999</h3>
1.36 niklas 2004:
1.236 jose 2005: <ul>
1.216 jose 2006: <li><strong>The Bazaar</strong>,
2007: Dec 14 - 16, 1999, New York, New York, USA<br>
1.132 louis 2008: Wes Sonnenreich and Tom Yates presented a tutorial on building
1.216 jose 2009: firewalls with OpenBSD. BoF of open source BSDs took place.
1.413 grunk 2010: 2.6 release CDROMs and T-shirts were sold.
1.132 louis 2011: Emphatic interest has been shown by representatives from press, international
2012: government and military institutions.
1.45 jason 2013: <p>
2014:
1.216 jose 2015: <li><strong><a name=lisa99></a>
1.236 jose 2016: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa99/">13th Systems Administration
1.216 jose 2017: Conference (LISA 99)</a></strong>,
2018: Nov 7 - 12, 1999, Seattle, Washington, USA<br>
1.132 louis 2019: Bob Beck presented a paper about the U of A's nifty OpenBSD based
2020: solution to the problem of public Ethernet jacks in the technical sessions
2021: starting at 11:00 AM on the 11th.<br>
2022: There were many other OpenBSD
2023: people at this conference as well, as well as a booth selling CDROMs and
1.413 grunk 2024: T-shirts. His paper is available at:
1.132 louis 2025:
2026: <ul>
2027: <li>Dealing with Public Ethernet Jacks-Switches, Gateways, and Authentication.<br>
1.236 jose 2028: <a href="events.html#lisa99">LISA 1999</a>,
1.206 david 2029: by Bob Beck.<br>
1.236 jose 2030: <a href="papers/authgw-paper.ps">paper</a> and
2031: <a href="papers/authgw-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 2032: </ul>
2033: <p>
2034:
2035: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 2036: IP-dagarna 1999</strong>,
1.216 jose 2037: Oct 27 - 28, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden<br>
1.132 louis 2038: Håkan Olsson & Jakob Schlyter spoke at the DNSSEC session on the 27th.
2039: <p>
2040:
2041: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2042: <a href="http://www.opensource-forum.com/konferens/">Linux & Open Source
1.216 jose 2043: Software '99</a></strong>,
2044: Oct 21, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)<br>
1.132 louis 2045: Niklas Hallqvist spoke on the topic of how to use
1.236 jose 2046: <a
1.375 grunk 2047: href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4">IPsec</a> for securing communications.
1.132 louis 2048: <p>
2049:
2050: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2051: <a href="http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference">Reflections/Projections
1.216 jose 2052: 1999</a></strong>,
2053: Oct 8 - 10, 1999, Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA<br>
1.132 louis 2054: Theo de Raadt spoke at 10:00am on the 9th. Other OpenBSD
2055: developers from the east coast attended as well.
2056: <p>
2057:
1.236 jose 2058: <li><strong><a name="ipsec99"></a>
1.216 jose 2059: IPsec Interoperability tests</strong>,
2060: Sep 27 - 30, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)<br>
1.236 jose 2061: A dozen vendors, among them OpenBSD, tested more than 15
1.375 grunk 2062: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4">IPsec</a>
1.132 louis 2063: products, both gateways and hosts, for interoperability. The tests
2064: were successful as far as general IPsec and pre-shared key
2065: authentication went, OpenBSD interoperated with everyone, but due to
2066: time constraints we never got to test the certificate support
2067: appropriately. The results were presented later that fall at a
2068: conference in Stockholm.
2069: <p>
2070:
2071: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2072: <a href="http://www.auug.org.au/winter/auug99">AUUG'99</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 2073: Sep 8 - 11, 1999, Melbourne, Australia<br>
1.132 louis 2074: Theo de Raadt gave two talks on "quality of software" related issues
2075: and participated on a panel about how open source projects are
2076: coordinated.
2077: <p>
2078:
2079: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2080: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/sec99/index.html">Usenix
1.216 jose 2081: Security</a></strong>,
2082: Aug 23 - 26, 1999, Washington, DC, USA<br>
1.132 louis 2083: Many OpenBSD people from the east coast showed up and sold CDs and
2084: shirts. It was pretty clear from discussions that many people were
2085: very aware of OpenBSD, and that OpenBSD was being used in very
2086: significant security roles.
2087: <p>
2088:
2089: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2090: <a href="http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/99jul/index.html">45th IETF
1.216 jose 2091: meeting</a></strong>,
2092: Jul 12 - 16, 1999, Oslo, Norway<br>
1.132 louis 2093: A number of OpenBSD team members from all over the world were at this
2094: conference. In addition to attending the IPsec and DNS working groups (among
2095: others) we did IPsec/IKE interoperability testing together with
1.166 miod 2096: the Japanese KAME project. Also, Angelos D. Keromytis did a presentation on
1.132 louis 2097: his work with keynote and isakmpd in OpenBSD.
2098: <p>
1.45 jason 2099:
1.132 louis 2100: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2101: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-6.html">Defcon 6.0</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 2102: Jul 9 - 11, 1999, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132 louis 2103: At this conference, the OpenBSD team sold 100 or so 2.5 release CDROMs
1.413 grunk 2104: and a TON of T-shirts.
1.46 deraadt 2105: <p>
1.132 louis 2106:
1.236 jose 2107: <li><strong><a name="usenix99"></a>
2108: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix99/index.html">
1.216 jose 2109: Usenix Annual Technical Conference</a></strong>,
2110: Jun 6 - 11, 1999, Monterey, California, USA<br>
1.106 jufi 2111: The <a href="http://www.usenix.org">USENIX Association</a>
1.46 deraadt 2112: provided The OpenBSD Project with a grant to underwrite the production
1.106 jufi 2113: of CDs of OpenBSD 2.5. (We distributed the
2114: release for free to attendees of the USENIX Annual Conference in
1.46 deraadt 2115: June.)
1.132 louis 2116: <br>
1.46 deraadt 2117: Usenix team members were involved in the authoring and
1.132 louis 2118: presentation of 4 OpenBSD-related papers:
2119:
1.375 grunk 2120: <a name="anoncvs_paper"></a>
1.46 deraadt 2121: <ul>
1.66 deraadt 2122: <li>Opening the Source Repository with Anonymous CVS.<br>
1.236 jose 2123: <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216 jose 2124: by Charles D. Cranor, Theo de Raadt.<br>
1.236 jose 2125: <a href="papers/anoncvs-paper.ps">paper</a> and
2126: <a href="papers/anoncvs-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 2127: <br>
1.66 deraadt 2128: <li>A Future-Adaptable Password Scheme.<br>
1.236 jose 2129: <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216 jose 2130: by Niels Provos, David Mazieres.<br>
1.236 jose 2131: <a href="papers/bcrypt-paper.ps">paper</a> and
2132: <a href="papers/bcrypt-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 2133: <br>
1.66 deraadt 2134: <li>Cryptography in OpenBSD: An Overview.<br>
1.236 jose 2135: <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216 jose 2136: by Theo de Raadt, Niklas Hallqvist, Artur Grabowski,
2137: Angelos D. Keromytis, Niels Provos.<br>
1.236 jose 2138: <a href="papers/crypt-paper.ps">paper</a> and
2139: <a href="papers/crypt-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 2140: <br>
1.66 deraadt 2141: <li>strlcpy and strlcat -- consistent, safe, string copy and concatenation.<br>
1.236 jose 2142: <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216 jose 2143: by Todd C. Miller, Theo de Raadt.<br>
1.236 jose 2144: <a href="papers/strlcpy-paper.ps">paper</a> and
2145: <a href="papers/strlcpy-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 2146: </ul>
1.66 deraadt 2147: <p>
1.46 deraadt 2148:
1.51 deraadt 2149: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2150: <a href="http://www.linuxexpo.org">5th Annual Linux Expo</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 2151: May 18 - 22, 1999, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA<br>
1.132 louis 2152: Some OpenBSD team members were at this conference selling OpenBSD 2.5 CDs,
2153: OpenBSE T-shirts, as well as Blowfish T-shirts, which sold out very quickly
2154: at a table donated by the Expo. OpenBSD was the only BSD represented at the
2155: vendor exposition, and we had good chance to present a secure alternative
2156: to Linux.
1.51 deraadt 2157: <p>
2158:
1.53 jakob 2159: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2160: <a href="http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/99mar/index.html">44th IETF
1.216 jose 2161: meeting</a></strong>,
2162: Mar 15 - 19, 1999, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA<br>
1.132 louis 2163: Some OpenBSD team members were at this conference, in particular our
2164: IPSEC developers.
1.53 jakob 2165: <p>
2166:
1.132 louis 2167: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2168: <a href="http://www.europen.se/NordU99">NordU99 -- The first
1.216 jose 2169: EurOpen/USENIX Conference</a></strong>,
2170: Feb 9 - 12, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden<br>
1.132 louis 2171: A couple of OpenBSD team members were there and some of the swedish user
2172: society as well. OpenBSD CDs were sold at a booth and at the end of a
2173: security talk, the project got applauded for its continuous strive of auditing
2174: security sensitive parts of the system.
1.59 deraadt 2175: <p>
1.236 jose 2176: </ul>
1.59 deraadt 2177:
1.132 louis 2178: <h3>1998</h3>
1.59 deraadt 2179:
1.236 jose 2180: <ul>
1.132 louis 2181: <li><strong><a name=ipsec98></a>
1.236 jose 2182: <a href="http://www.netman.se/kurs/96.html">IPsec/VPN Interoperability
2183: tests & seminar</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 2184: Dec 14, 1998, Stockholm, Sweden (in swedish)<br>
1.132 louis 2185: OpenBSD was represented as one of about a dozen
1.375 grunk 2186: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4">IPsec</a>
1.132 louis 2187: implementations who were tested for interoperability. The tests were
2188: successful, both for the technology in general, and for OpenBSD in
2189: specific. We managed to communicate encrypted with every vendor present,
2190: and to negotiate keys via IKE with everyone capable.
1.70 deraadt 2191: <p>
2192:
1.236 jose 2193: <li><strong><a name="lisaboston-98"></a>
2194: <a href="http://usenix.org/events/lisa98">LISA '98: 12th Systems Administration
1.216 jose 2195: Conference</a></strong>,
2196: Dec 6 - 11, 1998, Boston, Massachusetts<br>
1.132 louis 2197: More than 10 OpenBSD team members showed up. By far, OpenBSD was the
2198: largest representative group from free software at the conference.
2199: Usenix gave us a table in the vendor area where we sold 2.4 CDROMs,
1.413 grunk 2200: 2.3 "wire-frame" T-shirts, and the new 2.4 embroidered
2201: "Because security matters..." T-shirts, polos, and sweaters.
1.132 louis 2202: An OpenBSD BOF was held one evening, led by Theo de Raadt.
2203: A PalmPilot schedule loader was at the membership booth, powered by OpenBSD.
2204: <br>
2205: The terminal room ran OpenBSD 2.4 on 45 machines. Obviously trust in OpenBSD
2206: had increased since many people,normally wary of security problems of open
2207: terminal rooms, were seen using the machines.
1.72 ho 2208: <p>
2209:
1.73 deraadt 2210: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2211: <a href="http://www.asc.unam.mx/disc98">DISC - Seguridad en
1.217 jose 2212: Cómputo 98</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 2213: Nov 2 - 7, 1998, Mexico City<br>
1.132 louis 2214: Theo de Raadt gave a talk about security auditing, sponsored by
1.236 jose 2215: <a href="http://www.core-sdi.com">CORE SDI S.A.</a>, an Argentine
1.132 louis 2216: security auditing company who strongly believes in the future
1.236 jose 2217: of OpenBSD. (<a href="papers/mexico98-slides.ps">Slides are available</a>).
1.131 jufi 2218: <p>
1.73 deraadt 2219:
1.236 jose 2220: <li><strong>IP-dagarna</strong>,
1.216 jose 2221: Oct 29, 30 1998, Stockholm, Sweden (in swedish)<br>
1.132 louis 2222: At this conference, entirely devoted to IP, Niklas Hallqvist from the
2223: OpenBSD team held a talk on the IKE (a.k.a ISAKMP/Oakley) key management
2224: protocol and experiences from the implementation of <strong>isakmpd</strong>,
2225: an IKE implementation funded by Ericsson Radio Systems and developed
2226: primarily for the OpenBSD IPSEC stack.
1.79 deraadt 2227: <p>
1.73 deraadt 2228:
1.80 deraadt 2229: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 2230: <a href="http://www.nceexpo.com/">NCEE '98</a></strong>,
2231: Oct 9 - 10, 1998, Auburn, Maine, USA<br>
1.132 louis 2232: An extensive after-action report was sent to advocacy@openbsd.org. While
1.151 jsyn 2233: sales of shirts and CDROMs left much to be desired, we did have good
1.132 louis 2234: opportunities to further project visibility and highlight its strengths.
1.80 deraadt 2235: <p>
2236:
1.93 louis 2237: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2238: <a href="http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference">Reflections/Projections
1.216 jose 2239: 1998</a></strong>,
1.236 jose 2240: Oct 2 - 4, 1998, Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA<br>
1.132 louis 2241: Theo de Raadt spoke in a panel about Open/Free software with Eric
2242: Raymond and others.
1.93 louis 2243: <p>
2244:
1.216 jose 2245: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2246: <a href="http://opensource.oreilly.com/townmeet.html">O'Reilly and
2247: Associates Open Source Developer Days</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 2248: Aug 21, 1998, San Jose, California, USA<br>
1.132 louis 2249: OpenBSD team members were on-hand to discuss OpenBSD's role among the
1.413 grunk 2250: other free software projects available. They also sold some CDs and T-shirts.
1.96 deraadt 2251: <p>
2252:
1.236 jose 2253: <li><strong><a name="defcon98"></a>
2254: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-6.html">Defcon VI</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 2255: Jul 31 - Aug 2, 1998, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132 louis 2256: The router to the outside world was an OpenBSD 2.3 box. It was involved
2257: in a "capture the flag" competition in which an entire room of crackers
2258: attempted to break into it and machines running other operating systems.
2259: The OpenBSD box was not broken into.
2260: <br>
2261: Almost 100 OpenBSD 2.3 CDROMs were sold (we ran out again). The primates
1.236 jose 2262: at <a href="http://www.monkey.org">monkey.org</a> brought 2.3
1.413 grunk 2263: "wire-frame" OpenBSD T-shirts to the conference and sold almost
1.132 louis 2264: 200 of them. The proceeds from the sales were donated to the OpenBSD project.
1.96 deraadt 2265: <p>
1.94 deraadt 2266:
1.236 jose 2267: <li><strong><a href="http://www.blackhat.com">BlackHat Sessions</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 2268: Jul 29 - 30, 1998, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132 louis 2269: Theo de Raadt presented a talk entitled
2270: "Auditing software for security" about the OpenBSD security auditing
2271: team's process and the lessons the team learned. The talk concentrated
2272: on how our process fixes bugs -- not just holes -- since one never knows
2273: when 5 bugs will act together to become a hole.
1.99 deraadt 2274: <p>
2275:
1.236 jose 2276: <li><strong><a name="usenix-neworleans"></a>
2277: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/usenix98/index.html">Usenix Annual Technical Conference</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 2278: Jun 15 - 19, 1998, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA<br>
1.132 louis 2279: At Usenix 1998 there was a strong OpenBSD presence both in the Freenix
2280: and normal tracks. Theo did a general talk about what the OpenBSD
2281: project offers. Angelos held a panel about IPSEC (which is quite an
2282: OpenBSD topic since IPSEC development at that time was so much further
2283: ahead in OpenBSD than anywhere else).
2284: <br>
2285: The terminal room PCs ran OpenBSD 2.3. We sold many CDROMs. The
1.413 grunk 2286: first style of OpenBSD T-shirt also sold quite well.
1.101 wvdputte 2287: <p>
2288:
1.105 wvdputte 2289: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2290: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/sec98/index.html">Usenix Security</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 2291: Jan 26 - 29, 1998, San Antonio, Texas, USA<br>
1.132 louis 2292: At this conference, Theo presented an evening talk which basically
2293: turned into a list of fixed security problems and cautionary tales about
2294: subsystems in which future problems may be encountered
1.236 jose 2295: (<a href="papers/security98-slides.ps">slides available</a>).
1.105 wvdputte 2296: <br>
1.132 louis 2297: The terminal room PCs ran OpenBSD 2.2.
2298: <p>
1.236 jose 2299: </ul>
1.105 wvdputte 2300:
1.132 louis 2301: <h3>1997</h3>
1.107 deraadt 2302:
1.236 jose 2303: <ul>
1.113 deraadt 2304: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2305: <a href="http://www.hip97.nl">HIP</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 2306: Aug, 1997, Almere, Netherlands<br>
1.236 jose 2307: Niels held a
2308: <a href="http://www.physnet.uni-hamburg.de/provos/hip97-tcpip.html">talk</a>
1.132 louis 2309: about the problems of unencrypted TCP/IP connections, offering IPSEC as
2310: possible solution.
1.113 deraadt 2311: <p>
1.132 louis 2312:
1.236 jose 2313: <li><strong>HOPE</strong>,
1.216 jose 2314: Aug, 1997, New York, New York, USA<br>
1.166 miod 2315: The terminal room consisted primarily of DECstations running
1.236 jose 2316: OpenBSD 2.1. Once again, the <a href="http://www.l0pht.com">L0phT</a>
1.132 louis 2317: people had very good things to say about our security.
1.113 deraadt 2318: <p>
1.105 wvdputte 2319:
1.236 jose 2320: <li><strong><a name="defcon5"></a>
2321: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-5.html">Defcon V</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 2322: Jul 11 - 13, 1997, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132 louis 2323: At this conference, the OpenBSD team sold 100 or so 2.1 release CDROMs.
2324: <br>
2325: Since this is the primary security conference, many speakers said very
1.140 jufi 2326: good things about our stance on security... particularly people like
1.236 jose 2327: <a href="http://www.l0pht.com">the L0phT</a>.
1.118 deraadt 2328: <p>
2329:
1.125 deraadt 2330: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2331: <a
2332: href="http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/ana97/index.html">Usenix Annual Technical Conference</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 2333: Jan 6 - 10, 1997, Anaheim, California, USA.<br>
1.132 louis 2334: Theo de Raadt held a BOF ("Birds Of a Feather", ie. a meeting of people
2335: interested in the same thing) about OpenBSD.
1.236 jose 2336: </ul>
1.125 deraadt 2337:
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