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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>
1.655 mbalmer 49: 7th Meeting of the Portuguese OpenBSD Usergroup.<br>
50: Marc Balmer will give talk "Ensuring Quality in OpenBSD Without a Formal Process".<br>
51: Pedro Martelletto and Michael Shalayeff will be around as well.
1.642 mbalmer 52: <p>
53:
1.625 wvdputte 54: <li><strong><a name="nluug2007"></a>
55: <a href="http://www.nluug.nl/events/vj07/index.html">NLUUG Voorjaarsconferentie
56: 2007</a></strong>,
57: May 10, 2007, Ede, Netherlands<br>
1.633 tom 58: There will be a
59: <a href="http://www.nluug.nl/events/vj07/abstracts/ab.html?id=2">presentation</a>
60: by Anil Madhavapeddy and an OpenBSD booth, run by the usual
1.625 wvdputte 61: suspects.
62: <p>
63:
1.636 michele 64: <li><strong><a name="obsdm2"></a>
65: <a href="http://www.openbeer.it/?open=obsdm2">OpenBSD Meeting V.2</a></strong>
66: May 12, 2007, Verona, Italy.<br>
67: Another event organized by the OpenBEER team with italian OpenBSD related talks.
1.654 mbalmer 68: Michele will present a talk about the OpenBSD network stack.
1.636 michele 69: <p>
70:
1.599 mbalmer 71: <li><strong><a name="confidence2007"></a>
72: <a href="http://2007.confidence.org.pl/">Confidence 2007</a></strong>,
73: May 12 - 13, 2007, Krakow, Poland.<br>
74: There will be presentations by OpenBSD developers and an OpenBSD booth,
75: run by the usual suspects.
76: <p>
77:
1.614 deraadt 78: <li><strong><a name="bsdcan2007"></a>
79: <a href="http://www.bsdcan.org/">BSDCan 2007</a></strong>,
80: May 16 - 19, 2007, Ottawa, Canada.<br>
81: 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.
82: <p>
83:
1.621 wvdputte 84: <li><strong><a name="linuxtag2007"></a>
85: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.org/2007/en/">LinuxTag 2007</a>
86: </strong>,
87: May 30 - Jun 2, 2007, Berlin, Germany<br>
88: There will be presentations by OpenBSD developers and an OpenBSD booth,
89: run by the usual suspects.
90: <p>
91:
1.637 martin 92: <li><strong><a name=LinuxwochenVienna2007></a>
93: <a href="http://www.linuxwochen.at/2007/Wien">Linuxwochen Vienna 2007</a>
94: </strong>,
95: May 31 - Jun 2, 2007, Vienna, Austria.<br>
96: There will be an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth run by Martin Reindl and the usual
97: suspects.
98: <p>
99:
1.641 ajacouto 100: <li><strong><a name=Slackathon2007></a>
101: <a href="http://www.slackathon.se/">Slackathon 2007</a>
102: </strong>,
103: June 16, 2007, Stockholm, Sweden.<br>
104: Yet another round of fund raising for OpenBSD/SSH and general *BSD meeting in
105: Stockholm.
106: <p>
1.640 wvdputte 107:
1.617 wvdputte 108: <li><strong><a name="summercamp2007"></a>
109: <a href="http://events.ccc.de/camp/2007">Chaos Communication Camp 2007</a>
110: </strong>,
111: Aug 8 - 12, 2007, Finowfurt, Germany<br>
112: This open air event wil have a big OpenBSD village with all the usual suspects.
113: This year you can actually fly in with your private jet as it's held at
114: the Luftfahrtmuseum Finowfurt.
115: <p>
1.614 deraadt 116:
1.620 wvdputte 117: <li><strong><a name="froscon2007"></a>
118: <a href="http://www.froscon.de">FrOSCon 2007</a></strong>,
119: Aug 25 - 26, 2007, Bonn/Rhein-Sieg, Germany<br>
120: There will be developers present as well as an OpenBSD booth,
121: run by the usual suspects.
122: <p>
123:
1.612 mk 124: <li><strong><a name="eurobsdcon2007"></a>
125: <a href="http://2007.eurobsdcon.org/">EuroBSDCon 2007</a></strong>,
1.621 wvdputte 126: Sep 14 - 15, 2007, Copenhagen, Denmark.<br>
1.652 mbalmer 127: Marc Balmer will give a talk "Support for Radio Clocks in OpenBSD".<br>
128: Pierre-Yves Ritschard will give a talk "Load Balancing in OpenBSD Using hoststated".<br>
1.656 ! mbalmer 129: Peter Hansteen will offer "A Packet Filter Tutorial" on the tutorial day.<br>
1.652 mbalmer 130: There will be an OpenBSD booth, run by the usual suspects.
1.621 wvdputte 131: <p>
132:
133: <li><strong><a name="t-dose2007"></a>
134: <a href="http://www.t-dose.org/">T-DOSE 2007</a></strong>,
135: Oct 13 - 14, 2007, Eindhoven, The Netherlands.<br>
136: Technical Dutch Open Source Event<br>
1.612 mk 137: There will be developers present as well as an OpenBSD booth,
138: run by the usual suspects.
139: <p>
140:
1.647 mbalmer 141: <li><strong><a name="bsdcontr2007"></a>
142: <a href="http://www.bsdcontr.org/">BSDConTR 2007</a></strong>
143: Oct 20 - 21, 2007, Goztepe Campus Marmara University, Istanbul, Turkey.<br>
144: First Turkish Conference on BSD Systems.
145: <p>
146:
1.588 espie 147: </ul>
148:
1.597 mbalmer 149: <hr>
150:
151: <h2>Past events:</h2>
152:
1.616 wvdputte 153: <h3>2007</h3>
154: <ul>
1.651 fkr 155: <li><strong><a name="litol07"></a>
156: <a href="http://www.lit-ol.de/">2. Linux-Informationstag Oldenburg</a></strong>,
157: Apr 14 - 15, 2007, Oldenburg, Germany.<br>
158: Small Open-Source event. Of course there was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth run by
159: Bernd, Felix and Tobias Stoeckmann.
160: <p>
1.650 deraadt 161:
162: <li><strong><a name="fisl8"></a>
163: <a href="http://fisl.softwarelivre.org/8.0/www/?q=en">fisl8.0</a></strong>,
164: Apr 12-14, 2007, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil.<br>
165: This was a fairly large conference in South America. Theo de Raadt
166: presented a talk about <a href="papers/brhard2007/">Hardware Documentation</a>.
167: <p>
168:
1.645 ray 169: <li><strong><a name="nycbug2007-cvs"></a>
170: <a href="http://nycbug.org/">NYC*BUG April 2007</a></strong>,
171: Apr 4, 2007, NYC, USA.<br>
172: Ray Lai (ray@) gave a
173: <a href="http://www.nycbug.org/index.php?NAV=Home;SUBM=10104">talk</a>
174: on OpenCVS.
1.648 ray 175: <a href="papers/nycbug07-cvs/">Slides</a> and
176: <a href="http://www.fetissov.org/public/nycbug/nycbug-04-04-07.mp3">audio</a>
177: are available.
1.645 ray 178: <p>
179:
1.638 grunk 180: <li><strong><a name="elite2007"></a>
181: <a href="http://www.erlug.de/?q=node/323">5. Erlanger Linuxtage</a></strong>,
182: Mar 24 - 25, 2007, Erlangen, Germany.<br>
183: There was an OpenBSD/OpenSSH booth, run by Alexander von Gernler (grunk@).
184: He also gave a talk called
1.639 grunk 185: <a href="papers/elite2007/elite2007-openbsd.pdf">
1.638 grunk 186: "Sichere Systeme mit OpenBSD" (german)</a>.
187: <p>
188:
1.635 tom 189: <li><strong><a name="ukuug2007"></a>
190: <a href="http://www.ukuug.org/events/spring2007/">UKUUG Spring 2007 Conference</a></strong>,
191: Mar 19 - 21, 2007, Manchester, United Kingdom<br>
192: Tom Cosgrove gave a presentation about "Third-Party Applications on OpenBSD"
193: at the annual spring meeting of the
194: <a href="http://www.ukuug.org/">UK's Unix and Open Systems User Group</a>.
195: <p>
196:
1.627 mcbride 197: <li><strong><a name="asiabsdcon2007"></a>
198: <a href="http://www.asiabsdcon.org/">AsiaBSDCon 2007</a></strong>,
199: Mar 8 - 11, 2007, Tokyo, Japan.<br>
1.631 mbalmer 200: Marc Balmer presented a paper <a href="papers/radio-clocks-asiabsdcon07.pdf">Supporting Radio Clocks in OpenBSD</a>. Presentation
201: <a href="papers/asiabsdcon07-radioclocks/index.html">slides</a> are also
202: available.<br>
1.627 mcbride 203: 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 204: Mathieu Sauve-Frankel gave a talk <a href="papers/asiabsdcon07-ipsec/index.html">Recent Improvements in OpenBSD's IPSec Support</a>.<br>
205: Damien Miller presented a paper <a href="papers/openssh-measures-asiabsdcon2007.pdf">Security measures in OpenSSH</a>. Presentation
1.628 djm 206: <a href="papers/openssh-measures-asiabsdcon2007-slides.pdf">slides</a> are
207: also available.<br>
1.627 mcbride 208: 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".
209: <p>
210:
1.622 fkr 211: <li><strong><a name="linuxforum2007"></a>
212: <a href="http://www.linuxforum.dk/2007/">LinuxForum 2007</a></strong>,
213: Mar 2 - 3, 2007, Copenhagen, Denmark.<br>
1.623 wvdputte 214: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth run by Wim, Bernd and Michael in the
1.633 tom 215: <a href="http://img.ba-net.org/LinuxForum2007/">best of circumstances</a>.
1.622 fkr 216: Felix gave a talk titled
217: <a href="papers/linuxforum07/index.html">OpenBSD - Past, Present and Future</a>.
218: <p>
219:
1.619 wvdputte 220: <li><strong><a name=Brussels2007></a>
221: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/2007/">FOSDEM Brussels 2007</a></strong>,
222: Feb 24 - 25, 2007, Brussels, Belgium.<br>
223: There was an an OpenBSD/OpenSSH booth with Matthieu, Marc, Mickey, Saad
224: and Wim. On Saturday we had our traditional BSD dinner.<br>
225: Matthieu gave a <a href="papers/fosdem07-xenocara.pdf">
226: talk on Xenocara</a> in the X.Org devroom.
227: <p>
1.616 wvdputte 228:
229: <li><strong><a name="kiberpipa2007"></a>
230: <a href="http://pot.kiberpipa.org">Kiberpipa open sessions</a></strong>,
231: February 20, 2007, Ljubljana, Slovenia.<br>
232: On that edition of weekly "Open sessions" meetings
233: <a href="http://www.kerberos.si">Mitja Muzenic</a> gave a
234: <a href="http://pot.kiberpipa.org/?p=39">talk</a> on OpenBSD.
1.619 wvdputte 235: <a href="http://www.kerberos.si/papers/Kiberpipa07/">Slides</a> (in Slovenian),
236: <a href="http://video.kiberpipa.org/media/POT_OpenBSD">video</a> (in Slovenian),
1.616 wvdputte 237: and <a href="http://gallery.kerberos.si/kiberpipa07/">photos</a> are available.
238: <p>
239:
240: </ul>
241:
1.445 martin 242: <h3>2006</h3>
1.236 jose 243: <ul>
1.537 deraadt 244:
1.588 espie 245: <li><strong><a name="23c3"></a>
1.577 mbalmer 246: <a href="https://events.ccc.de/congress/2006/">23C3 Chaos Communication Congress in
247: Berlin</a></strong>,
248: December 27 - 30, 2006, Berlin, Germany.<br>
1.597 mbalmer 249: Who can you trust? Well, us. OpenBSD was there, of course, for our annual
1.595 reyk 250: closing event. fkr, grunk, jsg, mbalmer, mickey, sturm, uwe, martin,
1.598 bernd 251: henning, moritz, bernd and wvdputte were there
1.597 mbalmer 252: there to chat with attendees and discuss OpenBSD stuff. It was - as usual -
253: a great end-of-the-year event. See you in Berlin again end of 2007.
1.577 mbalmer 254: <p>
255:
1.594 mbalmer 256: <li><strong><a name="moscow2006"></a>
257: <a href="https://kd85.com/">Moscow OpenBSD user meeting</a></strong>,
258: December 8 - 9, 2006, Moscow, Russia.<br>
1.633 tom 259: For details, please email <a href="mailto:grange@opensd.org">Grange</a>
1.594 mbalmer 260: <p>
261:
1.515 tom 262: <li><strong><a name="opencon2006"></a>
263: <a href="http://www.opencon.org/">OpenCON 2006</a></strong>,
1.569 deraadt 264: 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 265: OpenCON is the only conference dedicated solely to OpenBSD.
1.587 deraadt 266: 135 people were registered for the event, but since it was a completely open event is likely that
267: even more people just walked in.
1.577 mbalmer 268: Most talks were by OpenBSD developers, but there was also an impressive
1.568 mbalmer 269: number of our developers just attending the conference. Talks by OpenBSD
1.577 mbalmer 270: developers were:
1.568 mbalmer 271: <p>
1.535 deraadt 272: <ul>
1.581 claudio 273: <li>Claudio Jeker: <a href="papers/opencon06-network/index.html">
274: Network stack changes in OpenBSD</a>
1.580 deraadt 275: <li>Marc Balmer: <a href="papers/opencon06-nmea/index.html">
276: Support for Time Signal Station Receivers and GPS in OpenBSD</a>
1.601 fkr 277: <li>Felix Kronlage: <a href="papers/opencon06-umts/index.html">Redundancy or mobile deployment with 3G technology</a>
1.584 jsg 278: <li>Jonathan Gray: <a href="papers/opencon06-drivers/index.html">
279: Driver architecture and implementation in OpenBSD</a>
1.543 mbalmer 280: <li>Gordon Klok: <i>Processor Power Management</i>
1.596 dlg 281: <li>David Gwynne: <a href="papers/opencon06-culture.pdf">The OpenBSD
282: Culture</a> and he also filled in for Marco's
283: <a href="papers/opencon06-bio.pdf">Bio and Sensors in OpenBSD</a> talk.
1.582 michele 284: <li>Michele Marchetto: <a href="papers/opencon06-ripd/index.html">
285: OpenRIPD</a>
1.574 mbalmer 286: <li>Reyk Floeter: <i>IPsec demystified</i>
1.580 deraadt 287: <li>Theo de Raadt: <a href="papers/opencon06-docs">
288: Why hardware documentation matters so much and why it is so hard to get</a>
1.535 deraadt 289: </ul>
1.502 mbalmer 290: <p>
1.577 mbalmer 291: Also present were jcs, krw, mglocker, robert, wvdputte, martin, grunk,
292: dhartmei, aanriot, sturm, and bernd. Of course there was an OpenBSD booth
293: run by the usual suspects and you could buy our CD-ROMS, the audio CD and other
1.568 mbalmer 294: stuff.
295: <p>
1.502 mbalmer 296:
1.575 reyk 297: <li><strong><a name=opensourcetag2006></a>
298: <a href="http://www.opensourcetag.de/2006/">OpenSourceTag 2006</a></strong>,
299: Nov 30, 2006, Hannover, Germany.<br>
300: Reyk gave a <a href="http://www.opensourcetag.de/2006/agenda/">talk</a> about OpenBSD
301: as a reference project for secure software.
302: <p>
303:
1.583 henning 304: <li><strong><a name=epf2006></a>
305: <a href="http://www.peering-forum.eu/2006/">European Peering Forum 2006</a></strong>,
306: Nov 29 - 30, 2006, Frankfurt, Germany.<br>
307: The European Peering Forum in Frankfurt was hosted by the 3 big european
308: peering points DE-CIX, AMSIX and LINX, bringing network operators together.
309: Henning was talking about OpenBGPD,
310: <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/epf2006/">slides</a> are available.
311: <p>
312:
1.565 krw 313: <li><strong><a name=conisli2006></a>
314: <a href="http://conisli.org/">CONISLI 2006</a></strong>,
315: Nov 3 - 5, 2006, São Paulo, Brazil<br>
316: 4th edition of São Paulo's International Free Software Congress.
1.567 pedro 317: Ken Westerback and Pedro Martelletto gave a talk
318: (<a href="http://www2.par.inf.puc-rio.br/~pedro/conisli-html/">slides</a>).
1.565 krw 319: <p>
320:
1.559 jason 321: <li><strong><a name=nycbsdcon2006></a>
322: <a href="http://nycbsdcon.org/">NYCBSDCon 2006</a></strong>,
323: Oct 28 - 29, 2006, New York City, USA<br>
324: NYCBSDCon is the main conference on the East Coast for the
325: BSD community to get together to share and gain knowledge,
1.562 jason 326: to network with like minded people. Several developers
1.563 jason 327: spoke, more were on hand:
1.559 jason 328: <ul>
329: <li>Marco Peereboom: <a href="papers/bio.pdf">bio and sensors in OpenBSD</a>
1.563 jason 330: [<a href="http://www.fetissov.org/public/nycbsdcon06/1.6.mp3">audio</a>]
1.605 jason 331: <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 332: <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>]
333: <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 334: <li>Ray Lai: <i>First time booth bunny</i>
335: </ul>
336: <p>
337:
1.556 fgsch 338: <li><strong><a name=linuxworlduk2006></a>
339: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.co.uk/">LinuxWorld Expo UK 2006</a></strong>,
340: Oct 25 - 26, 2006, Olympia, London, UK.<br>
1.558 wvdputte 341: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Wim, Tom, Peter, Federico and
342: Pedro La Peu.
1.556 fgsch 343: <p>
344:
1.589 aanriot 345: <li><strong><a name=cuug2006oct></a>
346: <a href="http://www.cuug.ab.ca/">Calgary Unix Users Group</a></strong>,
347: Oct 24, 2006, downtown Library, basement meeting room, Calgary, Alberta.<br>
348: Theo de Raadt gave a talk regarding the increasing demand for
349: vendors to open up their documentation.
350: <p>
351:
1.553 grunk 352: <li><strong><a name="systems2006"></a>
353: <a href="http://www.systems.de/">Systems</a></strong>,
354: Oct 23 - 27, 2006, Munich, Germany <br>
355: The *BSD projects were located at A3.542.
356: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
357: Wilhelm Bühler, DaN, Nikolay Sturm, Marco Pfatschbacher,
358: and some other volunteers.
359: <p>
360:
1.550 henning 361: <li><strong><a name=hacklu2006></a>
362: <a href="http://www.hack.lu/">hack.lu 2006</a></strong>,
363: Oct 19 - 21, 2006, Luxembourg/Kirchberg.<br>
364: Henning Brauer gave a well received talk about OpenBGPD.
365: <p>
366:
1.547 aanriot 367: <li><strong><a name=aldil2006></a>
368: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/">Les Journées Du Logiciel Libre
369: 2006</a></strong>,
370: Oct 13 - 14, 2006, Lyon, France.<br>
371: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Miod Vallat and Alexandre
372: Anriot with the help of Thierry Thomas and Damien Bergamini.
373: <p>
374:
1.546 mcbride 375: <li><strong><a name=auug2006></a>
376: <a href="http://new.auug.org.au/">AUUG 2006</a></strong>,
377: Oct 10 - 13, 2006, Melbourne, Australia.<br>
378: Ryan Mcbride presented a full-day tutorial entitled
379: "Advanced PF Rulesets" as well as two additional talks
380: <a href="papers/auug2006/pf_evolution/">PF evolution</a>
381: and
382: <a href="papers/auug2006/network_randomness/">Network stack randomness in OpenBSD</a>.
383: <p>
384:
1.532 wvdputte 385: <li><strong><a name=eurooscon2006></a>
386: <a href="http://conferences.oreillynet.com/euos2006/">O'Reilly Euro OSCON 2006
387: </a></strong>,
388: Sep 20, 2006, Brussels, Belgium.<br>
389: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth.
390: <p>
391:
1.528 wvdputte 392: <li><strong><a name=come2linux2006></a>
393: <a href="http://www.come2linux.org/psp/">Come 2 Linux 2006</a></strong>,
394: Sep 9 - 10, 2006, Duisburg-Essen, Germany.<br>
395: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth.
396: <p>
397:
1.525 wvdputte 398: <li><strong><a name=ChaosdaysDarmstadt2006></a>
399: <a href="http://mrmcd101b.metarheinmain.de/index.html">mrmcd101b - MetaRheinMainChaosDays Darmstadt 2006</a>
400: </strong>,
401: Sep 1 - 3, 2006, Darmstadt, Germany.<br>
402: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth.
403: <p>
404:
1.521 fkr 405: <li><strong><a name=LinuxWorldExpoSF2006></a>
406: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/live/12/events/12SFO06A/conference/tracksessions/Security/QMONYA04ROFR">LinuxWorld Expo San Francisco 2006</a>
407: </strong>,
408: Aug 16, 2006, San Francisco, United States.<br>
409: Ted Unangst spoke about OpenBSD as part of a security panel.
410: <p>
411:
1.518 tedu 412: <li><strong><a name=coimbra2006></a>
413: <a href="http://www.openbsd-pt.com/eventos/coimbra06/">Portuguese OpenBSD Usergroup Meeting</a></strong>,
414: Jul 22 - 23, 2006, Coimbra, Portugal.<br>
415: 6th Meeting of the Portuguese OpenBSD Usergroup. Marc Balmer gave a talk
416: "NMEA 0183 and Time Signal Station Receiver Support in OpenBSD".
417: <p>
418:
419: <li><strong><a name=akqit2006></a>
420: <a href="http://www.akqit.ch/w3/DE/actual.html">Arbeitskreis für Qualität in der Informationstechnologie (Working Group for Quality in IT)</a></strong>,
421: Jul 20, 2006, University of Basel, Computer Science Department, Room 205, Bernoullistr. 16, 17:30 - 18:30<br>
1.590 mbalmer 422: Marc Balmer gave a talk in german "<a href="papers/akqit06/index.html">Ensuring
423: Quality in the Development of the Free Operating System OpenBSD</a>".
1.518 tedu 424: <p>
1.475 deraadt 425:
1.510 wvdputte 426: <li><strong><a name="lsm2006"></a>
427: <a href="http://www.rmll.info">Libre Software Meeting 2006</a></strong>,
428: Jul 4 - 8, 2006, Vandoeuvre-les-nancy, France.<br>
429: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Wim, Alexandre, Matthieu and
430: Serge Basterot.
431: <p>
432:
1.508 wvdputte 433: <li><strong><a name=FrOSCon></a>
434: <a href="http://www.froscon.de/">
435: FrOSCon 2006 - Free and Open Source Software Conference</a></strong>,
436: Jun 24 - 25, 2006, Bonn/Rhein-Sieg, Germany.<br>
1.518 tedu 437: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth run by Wim, Waldemar, Manuel and
1.508 wvdputte 438: Tim Kornau.
439: <p>
440:
1.507 mbalmer 441: <li><strong><a name=LinuxwochenLinz2006></a>
442: <a href="http://www.linuxwochen.at/2006/Linz">Linuxwochen Linz 2006</a>
443: </strong>,
444: June 15, 2006, Linz, Austria.<br>
445: There was an an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth run by Wim and the usual suspects.
446: <p>
447:
1.506 deraadt 448: <li><strong><a name=lugverona2006></a>
1.526 steven 449: <a href="http://www.di.univr.it/dol/main?ent=iniziativa&id=857&lang=it">LUGVR@UNIVR</a></strong>
1.506 deraadt 450: Jun 9, 2006, Verona University, Borgo Roma, Italy.<br>
451: Florin Iamandi of <a href="https://www.verona.linux.it">LUG Verona</a>
452: gave a talk
453: (<a href="http://todome.net/docs/obsd_carp/en">English</a> and
454: <a href="http://todome.net/docs/obsd_carp/it">Italian</a>)
455: and live demonstration on redundant failover
456: OpenBSD firewalls. He explained why OpenBSD solves many problems that
457: had previously been the dominion of expensive commercial solutions.
458: Attendees learned about OpenBSD's hard stance and successful fight against
459: bad licences and uncooperating vendors and manufacturers.
460: <p>
461:
1.502 mbalmer 462: <li><strong><a name=Slackathon2006></a>
463: <a href="http://slackathon2006.unix.se">Slackathon 2006</a>
464: </strong>
465: Jun 3, 2006, Stockholm, Sweden.<br>
466: A fundraiser for OpenBSD/SSH held at the Stockholm University. Free
1.505 ian 467: entrance and all donations went straight to the project. Several
1.502 mbalmer 468: developers were talking about OpenBSD here, as well as some hands-on
469: workshops took place with both old and new hardware.
470: <p>
471:
1.500 deraadt 472: <li><strong><a name=cuug2006></a>
473: <a href="http://www.cuug.ab.ca/">Calgary Unix Users Group</a></strong>,
474: Jun 1, 2006, SAIT Campus, Calgary, Alberta.<br>
1.504 miod 475: Bob Beck and Reyk Floeter discussed recent and future networking
476: changes in OpenBSD. Some other OpenBSD developers attended to provide
1.500 deraadt 477: international colour, and there were tshirts, CDs, and posters on hand.
478: CUUG made a substantial contribution to OpenBSD at this event as well.
479: <p>
480:
1.589 aanriot 481: <li><strong><a name=LinuxwochenVienna2006></a>
482: <a href="http://www.linuxwochen.at/2006/Wien">Linuxwochen Vienna 2006</a>
483: </strong>,
484: May 31 - Jun 2, 2006, Vienna, Austria.<br>
485: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth run by Wim and the usual suspects.
486: <p>
487:
1.585 aanriot 488: <li><strong><a name=plug060519></a>
1.586 aanriot 489: <a href="http://www.plugfr.org/">Provence Linux User Group</a></strong>
490: May 19, 2006, Marseille, France.<br>
1.585 aanriot 491: Alexandre Anriot spoke about the deployment of wireless networks with
1.586 aanriot 492: OpenBSD during a meeting of the PLUG.
1.585 aanriot 493: <p>
494:
1.491 bernd 495: <li><strong><a name="SANE2006"></a>
496: <a href="http://www.sane.nl/sane2006/">SANE 2006</a></strong>,
497: May 15 - 19, 2006, Delft, The Netherlands.<br>
498: Peter N. M. Hansteen gave a
499: <a href="http://www.sane.nl/sane2006/program/abstract.php?eventid=35">
500: PF tutorial</a>.
501: <p>
502:
1.490 reyk 503: <li><strong><a name=bsdcan2006></a> <a
504: href="http://www.bsdcan.org/2006/">BSDCan 2006</a></strong>,
505: May 12 - 13, 2006, Ottawa, Canada.<br>
506: David Gwynne gave a talk about hardware monitoring with bio and
507: sensors in OpenBSD (<a href="papers/bsdcan06-biosensors.pdf">slides</a>)
508: and Reyk Flöter talked about the latest
509: wireless support and the incredible plans for the future
510: (<a href="papers/bsdcan06-wlan/index.html">slides</a>), and
511: Peter Hansteen gave a PF tutorial. A number of OpenBSD hackers
512: attended the conference as well, like Bob Beck and Mathieu Sauve-Frankel.
513: <p>
514:
1.489 bernd 515: <li><strong><a name="linuxdays2006"></a>
516: <a href="http://www.linuxdays.ch">Linuxdays 2006</a></strong>,
517: May 8 - 12, 2006, Geneva, Switzerland.<br>
518: Julien Mabillard, a long-time Geneva OpenBSD user, gave a talk to present
519: the overall system and its great features.
520: <p>
521:
1.592 claudio 522: <li><strong><a name="idepes2006"></a>
1.589 aanriot 523: <a href="http://www.idepes.org.br/openbsd/">IDEPES 2006</a></strong>,
524: May 6, 2006, São Paulo, Brazil.<br>
525: First event in Brazil totally dedicated to OpenBSD.
526: <p>
527:
1.592 claudio 528: <li><strong><a name="LinuxTag2006"></a>
1.484 mbalmer 529: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.org/2006/">LinuxTag 2006</a></strong>,
530: May 3 - 6, 2006, Wiesbaden, Germany.<br>
531: OpenBSD was very present at this years Linuxtag:
532: <ul>
533: <li>On friday morning, Claudio and Marc moderated a panel discussion
534: "BLOBS sind das Krebsgeschwür freier Software" (Blobs are the
1.485 mbalmer 535: cancer of free software) that was well attended. Unfortunately no one
1.484 mbalmer 536: in favour of Blobs attended, although we asked almost all Linux
537: distributions...
538: <li>After lunch, Marc Balmer started the afternoon with a talk "OpenBSD
539: as a Strategic Platform for the Basle Public Schools", outlining how and
1.485 mbalmer 540: why the Basle Public school system uses OpenBSD for most of its
1.484 mbalmer 541: infrastructure.
1.592 claudio 542: <li>The next OpenBSD specific talk was by Claudio Jeker,
543: <a href="papers/linuxtag06-network/">"Routing with OpenBSD using
544: OpenOSPFD and OpenBGPD"</a> where he showed various routing setups and
545: how full redundancy can be achieved.
546: [<a href="papers/linuxtag06-network.pdf">paper</a>]
1.484 mbalmer 547: <li>Later, Marc Balmer gave a talk "Decoding Time Signal Stations using
548: OpenBSD" and explained the recent addition of timedelta sensors and the
549: first implementation of such, udcf(4).
550: </ul>
551: <br>
552: All talks where very well received and OpenBSD filled four hours of the
1.485 mbalmer 553: Linuxtag program. We thank Wilhelm Bühler, chair of the BSD-Track
1.484 mbalmer 554: at Linuxtag, for the superb and professional organization.
555: <br>
556: Of course, there was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth run by Wim and the
557: usual suspects.
558: <p>
559:
1.486 mickey 560: <li><strong><a name=NYCBUG2006-05></a>
561: <a href="http://nycbug.org/index.php?NAV=Home&SUBM=83">NYCBUG Monthly meeting</a></strong>,
562: May 3, 2006, NYC, USA.<br>
563: Mickey gave a talk
1.564 jason 564: (<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 565: about PAE work for OpenBSD/i386.<br>
566: Mischa Diehm gave a talk about implementing VPN using OpenBSD.
567: <p>
568:
1.484 mbalmer 569: <li><strong><a name=tokyo2006></a>
570: <a href="http://www.tokyopc.org/index.php/weblog/">Tokyo PC Users Group</a></strong>,
571: May 2, 2006, Tokyo.<br>
572: Theo presented his <a href="papers/ven05-deraadt">"Exploit Mitigation Techniques"</a>
573: talk. There is a
574: <a href="http://www.tokyopc.org/faxmessage/index.html#about">map to the location</a>.
575: <p>
576:
1.478 mbalmer 577: <li><strong><a name=SambaEXPerience2006></a>
578: <a href="http://www.sambaxp.org/">Samba eXPerience 2006</a></strong>,
579: April 24 - 26, 2006, Göttingen, Germany.<br>
580: Marc Balmer gave a talk "Providing Fully Automated Fileserver Services
581: for Public Schools using LDAP Integrated SAMBA on OpenBSD" that was very
582: well received.
583: <br>
584: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth run by Wim and Marc and Felix Kronlage
585: and we could draw a lot of attention.
586: <p>
587:
1.479 deraadt 588: <li><strong><a name=DORSCLUC2006></a>
589: <a href="http://www.open.hr/dc2006/"> DORS / CLUC 2006</a></strong>,
590: April 19-21, 2006, Zagreb, Croatia.<br>
591: <a href="http://www.kerberos.si">Mitja Muzenic</a> gave a
1.480 mbalmer 592: <a href="http://www.kerberos.si/papers/DORS06/index.html">
593: "Introduction to OpenBSD"</a> talk. Conference
594: <a href="http://www.open.hr/dc2006/program.php">program</a> (in croatian
1.479 deraadt 595: only).
596: <p>
597:
1.475 deraadt 598: <li><strong><a name=linuxworld2006></a>
599: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/live/12/events/12BOS06A/">
600: LinuxWorld/OpenSolutions World 2006</a></strong>,
601: April 3 - 6, 2006, Boston, USA.<br>
602: Jason Dixon presented
603: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/live/12/events/12BOS06A/conference/tracksessions/Security/QMONYA04Q1DK">Secure Network Architectures with OpenBSD</a>,
604: a talk on OpenBSD that outlines the various technologies that make
605: it a leader of secure networking platforms.
606: <br>
607: He spent time around the exposition BSD booth with giveaways
608: and early release OpenBSD 3.9 CDs.
609: <p>
610:
611: <li><strong><a name=cansecwest06></a>
612: <a href="http://www.cansecwest.com">Cansecwest/core06</a></strong>,
613: April 3 - 7, 2006, Vancouver.<br>
614: A rather interesting OpenBSD-related talk happened at this event, regarding
615: using SMI interrupts to break out of X into kernel mode.
616: <br>
617: Some OpenBSD developers attended. Some early OpenBSD 3.9 items went
618: on sale.
619: <p>
620:
1.469 tom 621: <li><strong><a name=ukuug2006></a>
622: <a href="http://www.ukuug.org/events/spring2006/">UKUUG Spring Conference 2006</a></strong>,
623: Mar 22 - 23, 2006, Durham, United Kingdom<br>
624: Reyk Flöter gave a talk about the latest wireless support in
625: OpenBSD at the annual spring meeting of the
626: <a href="http://www.ukuug.org/">UK's Unix and Open Systems User Group</a>.
627: Peter N. M. Hansteen
628: gave a PF tutorial, Tom Cosgrove presented "Exploit
629: Mitigation Techniques" and Constantine Murenin gave a
630: presentation on "Hardware temperature monitoring device
631: drivers for OpenBSD".
632: These were all part of a new, well-attended, BSD stream at the event.
633: <p>
634:
1.459 henning 635: <li><strong><a name=Copenhagen2006></a>
636: <a href="http://www.linuxforum.dk/2006/en/">LinuxForum 2006</a></strong>,
637: Mar 3 - 4, 2006, Copenhagen, Denmark<br>
638: Wim gave Felix Kronlage's talk about OpenBSD Mobile Use (wifi, UMTS,
639: GPRS, phones and the like) with some demo setups.
640: Henning Brauer gave a very well received talk about OpenBGPD,
641: <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/linuxforum2006/">slides</a> are available.
642: <p>
643:
1.457 wvdputte 644: <li><strong><a name=Brussels2006></a>
645: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/2006/">FOSDEM Brussels 2006</a></strong>,
646: Feb 25 - 26, 2006, Brussels, Belgium.<br>
647: An OpenBSD/OpenSSH booth was present, run by the usual gang of suspects:
1.458 xsa 648: Alexandre, Dimitar, Matthieu, Mbalmer, Nikolay, Otto, Reyk, Saad, Thierry, Uwe, Wim, and
1.457 wvdputte 649: Xsa. Reyk gave a talk about Wifi with OpenBSD and there was our traditional
650: BSD dinner. More details and
651: <a href="http://saad.docisland.org/pictures/fosdem2006/index.html">pictures</a>
1.458 xsa 652: on <a href="http://saad.docisland.org/blog/files/archive-12.html#unique-entry-id-40">Saad's blog</a>.
1.457 wvdputte 653: <p>
654:
655: <li><strong><a name=Vegas2006></a>
656: <a href="http://kd85.com/vegas2006.html">Merciful briefings 2006</a></strong>,
657: Feb 15, 2006, Las Vegas, USA - Feb 17, 2006, San Diego, USA - Feb 18, 2006, Phoenix, USA.<br>
658: While traveling the US, Wim met with a bunch of OpenBSD users in Las Vegas,
659: San Diego and Phoenix. With many thanks to the members of PhxBUG - Phoenix BSD
660: User Group, more specificly Darrin Chandler, for organising the little
661: details and Jacob for road trip directions.
662: <p>
1.455 grunk 663:
1.456 henning 664: <li><strong><a name=nanog36></a>
665: <a href="http://www.nanog.org/">NANOG 36</a></strong>,
666: Feb 12 - 15, 2006, Dallas, USA.<br>
667: Henning Brauer and Bernhard Kroenung of DE-CIX talked about OpenBGPD and
668: OpenBGPD at DE-CIX, <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/nanog36/">slides</a>
669: are available. Henning talked again at the tools BOF
670: (<a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/nanog36-bof/">slides</a>).
671: Both talks were very well received by the audience.
672: Kenjiro Cho was there too, talking about IPv6 issues.
673: <p>
674:
1.455 grunk 675: <li><strong><a name="Paris2006"></a>
676: <a href="http://www.solutionslinux.fr/fr/index.php">Solutions Linux 2006</a>
677: </strong>,
678: Jan 31 - Feb 2, 2006, Paris, France.<br>
679: There was an OpenBSD booth run by Marc Espie, Miod Vallat, Saad Kadhi and
680: Wim with help from Guillaume Arcas and Christophe Plasschaert.
681: <p>
682: </ul>
683:
1.296 mcbride 684: <h3>2005</h3>
1.240 espie 685:
686: <ul>
1.337 deraadt 687:
1.445 martin 688: <li><strong><a name=22c3></a>
689: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/2005/">22C3 Chaos Communication Congress in
690: Berlin</a></strong>,
691: December 27 - 30, 2005, Berlin, Germany.<br>
692: Many OpenBSD developers and users met for a Xmas break in a unique setting.
693: <p>
694:
1.585 aanriot 695: <li><strong><a name=plug051216></a>
1.586 aanriot 696: <a href="http://www.plugfr.org/">Provence Linux User Group</a></strong>
697: December 16, 2005, Marseille, France.<br>
698: Alexandre Anriot spoke about OpenSSH during a meeting of the PLUG.
1.585 aanriot 699: <p>
700:
1.435 matthieu 701: <li><strong><a name=eurobsdcon2005></a>
702: <a href="http://2005.eurobsdcon.org/">EuroBSDCon 2005</a></strong>,
703: Nov 25 - 27, 2005, Basel, Switzerland.<br>
704: The 4th edition of the european conference for BSD systems has been a
705: great success. More than 225 people from 27 countries attended the
1.438 deraadt 706: event.
1.444 grunk 707: The program included a
708: <a href="http://www.eurobsdcon.org/tutorials-reyk.php">tutorial by Reyk about
1.437 niallo 709: OpenBSD-based Wireless Networks</a> and the following talks
710: <ul>
1.438 deraadt 711: <li>Henning Brauer with Wilhelm Bühler "Signal Handlers"
712: <li>Ryan McBride "Network Stack Randomness"
1.439 matthieu 713: <li><a href="papers/eurobsd2005/herrb-hopf.pdf">Matthieu Herrb and Matthias Hopf "New Evolutions in the X Window System"</a>
1.440 claudio 714: <li><a href="papers/eurobsd2005/claudio/">Claudio Jeker "The Design and Implementation of OpenOSPFD"</a>
1.439 matthieu 715: <li><a href="papers/eurobsd2005/niallo-uwe/">Niall O'Higgins & Uwe Stuehler "Embedded OpenBSD"</a>
1.443 deraadt 716: <li><a href="papers/eurobsd2005/tedu-rthreads.pdf">Ted Unangst "rthreads: A New Thread Implementation for OpenBSD"</a>
1.437 niallo 717: </ul>
1.438 deraadt 718: <p>
1.435 matthieu 719: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
720: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
721: <p>
722:
1.434 bernd 723: <li><strong><a name=linuxworldexpogermany2005></a>
724: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.de/">Linux World Expo Germany</a></strong>,
725: Nov 15 - 17, 2005, Frankfurt, Germany.<br>
726: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
727: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a> and Bernd.
728: <p>
729:
1.441 niallo 730: <li><strong><a name="pacsec05"></a>
731: <a href="http://www.pacsec.jp/">PacSec/core 05 conference</a></strong>,
732: Nov 15 - 16, 2005, Tokyo, Japan.<br>
733: Sean Comeau presented a talk called
734: <a href="http://www.openbsd-support.com/jp/en/htm/mgp/pacsec05/index.html">
735: Open Source Secure Wireless Networks in a Windows World</a>
736: <a href="http://www.pacsec.jp/core05/psj05-scomeau-en.pdf">[PDF]</a>.
737: The solution he presents uses IPsec to protect traffic between the
738: wireless clients and access points. Authentication is done using OpenSSH
739: (authpf), a process made transparent and user-friendly by a few small
740: scripts.
741: <p>
742:
1.424 mbalmer 743: <li><strong><a name=opencon2005></a>
744: <a href="http://www.opencon.org/">OpenCON 2005</a></strong>,
745: Nov 4 - 6, 2005, San Servolo Island, Venice, Italy.<br>
1.427 deraadt 746: The only unique conference entirely dedicated to OpenBSD, held in the totally
747: crazy environment of San Servolo island: an old insane asylum turned into a
748: university about 20 years ago, about 10 minutes boat ride from Venice.
1.429 deraadt 749: In the days leading up to this, about 12 OpenBSD developers arrived early
1.427 deraadt 750: for a Ports mini-hackathon. During the conference a few developers gave
1.433 deraadt 751: talks, including
752: <ul>
753: <li><a href="papers/ven05-pvalchev">Peter Valchev "OpenBSD Hackathon report"</a>
754: <li><a href="papers/ven05-espie">Marc Espie "OpenBSD ports and packages"</a>
755: <li><a href="papers/ven05-henning">Henning Brauer "OpenBSD networking update"</a>
756: <li><a href="papers/ven05-niallo-uwe/slides.pdf">Uwe Stuehler, Niall O'Higgins "Porting OpenBSD"</a>
757: <li><a href="papers/ven05-deraadt">Theo de Raadt "Exploit Mitigation Techniques (updated to include random malloc and mmap)"</a>
758: </ul>
1.424 mbalmer 759: <p>
760:
761: <li><strong><a name=systems2005></a>
762: <a href="http://www.systems.de/">Systems</a></strong>,
763: Oct 24 - 28, 2005, Munich, Germany <br>
1.425 mbalmer 764: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
1.424 mbalmer 765: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
766: <p>
767:
1.418 djm 768: <li><strong><a name=auug2005></a>
769: <a href="http://www.auug.org.au/events/2005/auug2005/">AUUG 2005</a></strong>,
770: October 16 - 21, 2005, Sydney, Australia.<br>
771: Mark Uemura presented a tutorial on setting up CARP/PF, a demonstration of
772: stateful failover with CARP and pfsync and a talk on wireless security in
773: a corporate environment using authpf and isakmpd. Peter Hansteen gave a
774: <a href="http://www.bgnett.no/~peter/pf/">Firewalling with PF</a> tutorial.
1.420 deraadt 775: Damien Miller presented on the approach to
776: <a href="papers/auug2005-portability">secure software portability used
777: by portable OpenSSH</a>, Reyk Flöter gave a talk on the current state of wireless
1.418 djm 778: support in OpenBSD and David Purdue introduced OpenBSD's spamd tarpit.
779: Most of the Australian OpenBSD developers and many users were present.
780: <p>
781:
1.415 aanriot 782: <li><strong><a name=aldil2005></a>
783: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/">Les Journées Du Logiciel Libre
784: 2005</a></strong>,
785: Oct 14 - 15, 2005, Lyon, France.<br>
786: There was OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Alexandre Anriot with the
787: help of Thierry Thomas.
788: <p>
789:
1.420 deraadt 790: <li><strong><a name=cafeconf2005></a>
791: <a href="http://www.cafeconf.org/">CaFeConf 2005,
792: 4tas Jornadas Abiertas de GNU/Linux y Software Libre</a></strong>,
793: Oct 13 - 15, 2005, Buenos Aires, Argentina<br>
794: CaFeConf 2005 is the anual event of CaFeLUG - Free Software Users
795: Group of Capital Federal, Argentina. This year the event featured
796: 116 presentations consisting of talks, tutorials, and workshops. The
797: event was also broadcasted on the Internet. Entrance was free, but
798: registration was mandatory.<br>
799: Fernando Gont gave a talk on
1.444 grunk 800: <a href="http://www.cafeconf.org/modules/myconference/viewspeech.php?sid=147&cid=20">
1.420 deraadt 801: ICMP attacks against TCP</a>,
802: in which he gave an overview of the attacks, the possible
803: counter-measures, and the politics of vulnerabilities, and a talk on
1.444 grunk 804: <a href="http://www.cafeconf.org/modules/myconference/viewspeech.php?sid=173&cid=20">
1.420 deraadt 805: Fixing the vulnerability of the Path-MTU Discovery mechanism</a>,
806: in which explained how OpenBSD fixed the vulnerability of the PMTUD
807: mechanism.
808: <p>
809:
1.414 bernd 810: <li><strong><a name=linuxkongress2005></a>
811: <a href="http://www.linux-kongress.org/">12th International Linux System
812: Technology Conference</a></strong>,
813: Oct 11 - 14, 2005, University of Hamburg, Germany.<br>
814: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth.
815: <p>
816:
817: <li><strong><a name=linuxworlduk2005></a>
818: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.co.uk/">LinuxWorld Expo UK 2005</a></strong>,
819: Oct 5 - 6, 2005, Olympia, London, UK.<br>
820: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth.
821: <p>
822:
1.410 wvdputte 823: <li><strong><a name=opensourcetag2005></a>
1.575 reyk 824: <a href="http://www.opensourcetag.de/2005/">OpenSourceTag 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 825: Sep 27, 2005, Hannover, Germany.<br>
1.444 grunk 826: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth and Reyk gave a
1.575 reyk 827: <a href="http://www.opensourcetag.de/2005/agenda/">talk</a> about IT security.
1.410 wvdputte 828: <p>
829:
830: <li><strong><a name="gubuginstallfest2005"></a>
831: <a href="http://gubug.org/meetings.php">Greater Utah BSD Group
832: Installfest 2005</a></strong>,
833: Sep 24, 2005, Sandy, UT, USA.<br/>
1.444 grunk 834: <a href="http://www.gubug.org/">The Greater Utah BSD User Group</a> organised
1.410 wvdputte 835: their first annual BSD Installfest, sponsored by Utah ISP ArosNet.
836: There were handouts, CD-ROMs, technical presentations, and
837: fun, plus a chance to get OpenBSD or a related open source BSD operating system
838: installed on your computer.
839: Admission was free (computers not included in cost of admission).
1.419 djm 840: Featured speakers included Dan Langille, organizer of BSDCan.
1.410 wvdputte 841: <p>
842:
1.404 wvdputte 843: <li><strong><a name="NYCBSDCon2005"></a>
844: <a href="http://nycbsdcon.org/">New York City BSD Conference 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 845: Sep 17, 2005, NYC, USA.<br>
1.404 wvdputte 846: NYCBSDCon was a one day technical conference hosted by the New York
847: City *BSD User Group and was held at Columbia University.
1.406 saad 848: The all day conference included a variety of speakers representing the
1.404 wvdputte 849: BSD projects and the open source community.<br>
850: NYCBSDCon was organized by NYC*BUG, a technical user group that formed in
851: December 2003. Besides their regular monthly meetings at the Soho Apple
852: Store, NYC*BUG has done fundraising for the BSD projects and contributed a
853: number of useful online applications such as BSDTracker and dmesgd.<br>
854: Additional sponsors included USENIX, New York Internet and SRA America.
855: <p>
856:
857: <li><strong><a name=opensaar2005></a>
858: <a href="http://www.opensaar.de/">OpenSaar 2005</a></strong>,
859: Sep 13 - 14, 2005, Saarbrücken, Germany.<br>
860: An OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth was present
861: <p>
862:
1.403 henning 863: <li><strong><a name=decix160905></a> <a
864: href="http://www.de-cix.org/">DE-CIX Technical Meeting</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 865: Sep 16, 2005, Schloss Kransberg, near Usingen, Germany.<br>
1.403 henning 866: Henning Brauer, Reyk Flöter and Maxim Salomon had been invited to the
867: technical meeting of the Deutsche Commercial Internet Exchange (DE-CIX) again.
868: Henning gave an update on OpenBGPD, Reyk talked about a route server project
869: using OpenBGPD at DE-CIX, and Maxim explained why the CCC sponsors us doing so.
870: There was a very positive discussion afterwards.
871: <a href="http://unduli.bsws.de/papers/decix2005-2/">Slides</a> are available.
872: <p>
873:
1.388 tom 874: <li><strong><a name="ukuug2005"></a>
875: <a href="http://www.ukuug.org/events/linux2005/">UKUUG Linux Technical
876: Conference 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 877: Aug 4 - 7, 2005, University of Wales, Swansea, UK<br>
1.388 tom 878: Tom Cosgrove gave Theo's presentation about Exploit Mitigation Techniques.
879: <p>
880:
1.385 mickey 881: <li><strong><a name=wth2005></a>
1.390 deraadt 882: <a href="http://www.whatthehack.org/">What the Hack 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 883: Jul 28 - 31, 2005, Den Bosch, The Netherlands.<br>
1.385 mickey 884: As every 4 years, Wim organized the
885: <a href="http://eurobsd.org/2005-WhatTheHack/">BSD village</a> at this huge
1.389 tom 886: open air event. There were some talks, Reyk spoke about
887: <a href="http://program.whatthehack.org/event/6.en.html">WLAN in OpenBSD</a>,
1.385 mickey 888: and an excellent
889: <a href="ftp://ftp.nyc.openbsd.org/pub/news/wth-radio-humppa.mp3">Humppa show</a> (35MB MP3) was performed on the SubEther radio.
890: If you want to see what happened previously, check
891: <a href="http://eurobsd.org/hal2001/">http://eurobsd.org/hal2001/</a>
892: and <a href="http://www.eurobsd.org/SummerCamp2003/">http://www.eurobsd.org/SummerCamp2003/</a>.
893: <p>
894:
1.382 pedro 895: <li><strong><a name=coimbra2005></a>
1.474 pedro 896: <a href="http://www.openbsd-pt.com/eventos/coimbra05/">Portuguese OpenBSD Usergroup Meeting</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 897: Jul 23 - 24, 2005, Coimbra, Portugal.<br>
1.538 pedro 898: 5th Meeting of the Portuguese OpenBSD Usergroup. Pedro Martelletto gave a talk.
1.382 pedro 899: <p>
900:
1.378 aanriot 901: <li><strong><a name="lsm2005"></a>
902: <a href="http://2005.rencontresmondiales.org/sections/index_html/switchLanguage/en">Libre Software Meeting 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 903: Jul 5 - 9, 2005, Dijon, France.<br>
1.379 aanriot 904: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Wim and the usual
905: suspects, with the help of Serge Basterot. It was a nice place to meet
906: some of our French, German and Swiss developers, including Marc Balmer,
907: Alexandre Anriot, Matthieu Herrb and Reyk Floeter.
1.378 aanriot 908: <p>
909:
1.375 grunk 910: <li><strong><a name=LinuxTag2005></a>
911: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.org">LinuxTag 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 912: Jun 22 - 25, 2005, Karlsruhe, Germany.<br>
1.375 grunk 913: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth ran by Wim, Christian Weisgerber,
914: Marc Balmer, Wilhelm Buehler, Robert Nagy, Bernd Ahlers and Phil Schulz.
915: <p>
916:
1.374 grunk 917: <li><strong><a name="uofa-cc2005"></a>
918: <a href="http://www.ualberta.ca/CC2005"> University of Alberta, Campus
1.410 wvdputte 919: Computing 2005</a></strong>, Jun 21, 2005, Edmonton, Canada.<br>
1.374 grunk 920: Ryan McBride spoke about OpenBSD's packet filter, PF, with CARP and
921: failover examples. Local color and examples at the U of A shown by Bob
922: Beck. Bob Beck spoke about PF and Spamd, as well as several other
923: OpenBSD using and related talks at this event, which primarily focuses
924: on activities centered at the University of Alberta.
925: <p>
926:
1.371 deraadt 927: <li><strong><a name=uemera2005></a>
928: <a href="http://www.tokyopc.net">Tokyo PC Users Group</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 929: Jun 2, 2005, Tokyo Union Church in Omotesando, Tokyo, Japan.<br>
1.371 deraadt 930: Mark T. Uemura spoke to Japan's largest English speaking
931: personal computer club. The talk was entitled
932: <a href="http://www.openbsd-support.com/jp/en/htm/mgp/index.shtml">
933: "Open Source in a Windows World"</a>.
934: He demonstrated how companies can easily
935: integrate Open Source, with an emphasis on OpenBSD, into their IT
936: infrastructure to enhance security, scalability and stability,
937: significantly reduce IT expenditures, free up computing infrastructure
938: and move away from commercial lock-in. This talk is based on changes
939: implemented at PricewaterhouseCoopers in Japan.
940: <p>
941:
1.366 martin 942: <li><strong><a name=LinuxwochenVienna2005></a>
943: <a href="http://www.linuxwochen.at/">Linuxwochen Vienna 2005</a></strong>,
944: May 24 - 27, 2005, Vienna, Austria.<br>
945: The Linuxwochen 2005 tour stopped in the MuseumsQuartier, Vienna.
946: Wim Vandeputte and Reinhard Sammer were running an OpenBSD booth selling
947: CDs and shirts.
948: <p>
949:
1.365 mcbride 950: <li><strong><a name=cuug2005></a>
951: <a href="http://www.cuug.ab.ca/">Calgary Unix Users Group</a></strong>,
952: May 24, 2005, Calgary, Canada.<br>
953: Ryan McBride spoke about OpenBSD's packet filter, PF.
954: A broad overview of PF's features were presented, with special attention
955: paid to newer and more unique features and how these can be used together
956: effectively for DoS mitigation, high availability, and load balancing.
957: <br>
958: Approximately 60 OpenBSD developers attended to heckle and participate
959: in a free-for-all question period after the talk.
960: <p>
961:
1.362 reyk 962: <li><strong><a name=bsdcan2005></a>
963: <a href="http://www.bsdcan.org/2005/">BSDCan 2005</a></strong>,
964: May 13 - 14, 2005, Ottawa, Canada.<br>
965: A number of OpenBSD developers presented: Bob Beck on
966: Spam Reduction with PF and Spamd, Henning Brauer on OpenBGPD,
967: Ryan McBride on Network Stack Randomness and Reyk Flöter
968: on WLAN in OpenBSD and the free ath(4) HAL. The
969: <a href="papers/bsdcan05-spamd/">Spamd</a> and
970: <a href="papers/bsdcan05-wlan/">WLAN</a> slides are available.
971: Mathieu Sauve-Frankel has been there in attendance as well.
972: <p>
973:
1.358 mcbride 974: <li><strong><a name=csw2005></a>
975: <a href="http://www.cansecwest.com/">cansecwest/core05</a></strong>,
976: May 4-6, 2005, Vancouver, Canada.<br>
977: Hiroaki Etoh spoke about propolice; Theo de Raadt and a number of other
978: developers were there to sell CDs and make a nuisance of themselves.
979: <p>
980:
1.357 henning 981: <li><strong><a name=ripe50></a>
982: <a href="http://www.ripe.net/ripe/meetings/ripe-50/">RIPE 50</a></strong>,
983: May 2-6, 2005, Stockholm, Sweden.<br>
984: RIPE NCC invited Henning to talk about OpenBGPD.
985: There were over 350 attendees to the conference, and most of them attended
986: henning's talk, which got very very positive feedback.
987: <p>
988:
1.384 tom 989: <li><strong><a name=libreast2005></a>
1.356 espie 990: <a href="http://idile.org/libreast/">Libr'east 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 991: Apr 22-24, Marne La Vallée, near Paris, France<br>
1.356 espie 992: There was an OpenBSD booth (Wim + Miod + Marc)
993: Marc Espie did talk about recent OpenBSD advances, and his ports and
994: packages work in front of about 30 people.
995: <p>
996:
1.353 henning 997: <li><strong><a name=decix150405></a> <a
998: href="http://www.de-cix.org/">DE-CIX Technical Meeting</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 999: Apr 15, 2005, near Usingen, Germany.<br>
1.353 henning 1000: Henning Brauer and Reyk Flöter had been invited to the technical
1001: meeting of the Deutsche Commercial Internet Exchange (DE-CIX). Henning
1002: presented his talk on OpenBGPD, about 60 people, mostly operators from
1003: the big ISPs peering at DECIX, were in attendance.
1.354 reyk 1004: Reyk, Maxim Salomon and Tim Kornau spoke on Wireless Network Security.
1.353 henning 1005: <p>
1006:
1.352 henning 1007: <li><strong><a name=nuug140405></a>
1008: <a href="http://www.nuug.no/aktiviteter/20050414-pf-brannmur/">Firewalling with PF at NUUG</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 1009: Apr 14, 2005, Oslo, Norway.<br>
1.352 henning 1010: Peter N. M. Hansteen gave a firewalling with PF talk - which hopefully
1011: gave you some ideas about how to control your network traffic the
1012: way you want - keeping some things outside your network, directing
1013: traffic to specified hosts or services, and of course, giving spammers
1014: a hard time. The talk was in Norwegian, with <a
1015: href="http://www.bgnett.no/~peter/pf/no/foils/">foils</a> and <a
1016: href="http://www.bgnett.no/~peter/pf/no/">manuscript</a> (English <a
1017: href="http://www.bgnett.no/~peter/pf/en/foils/">foils</a> and <a
1018: href="http://www.bgnett.no/~peter/pf/en/">manuscript</a> too)
1019: available if you couldn't make it there.
1020: <p>
1021:
1.589 aanriot 1022:
1023: <li><strong><a name=fhwedel130405></a>
1024: <a href="http://www.fh-wedel.de/">FH Wedel invited talk</a></strong>,
1025: Apr 13, 2005, 17:00, Hörsaal 5, FH Wedel, Hamburg, Germany.<br>
1026: Henning Brauer spoke on OpenBGPD. More than 40 people were in attendance.
1027: <p>
1028:
1.350 marius 1029: <li><strong><a name=usenix2005></a>
1030: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix05/">Usenix Annual
1.410 wvdputte 1031: Technical Conference</a></strong>, Apr 10-15, 2005, Anaheim,
1.350 marius 1032: California, USA.<br> Marius Eriksen gave the OpenBSD update at the BSD
1033: super BoF. The update was well received and people were quite
1034: sympathetic towards the ongoing efforts of the OpenBSD project to
1035: ensure the free redistribution rights for firmware. People were also
1036: excited about the new Open* tools (OpenBGPD, OpenNTPD, OpenCVS) and it
1.351 marius 1037: would not be surprising to see more of these imported into other BSDs.
1.350 marius 1038: <p>
1039:
1.585 aanriot 1040: <li><strong><a name=plug050408></a>
1.586 aanriot 1041: <a href="http://www.plugfr.org/">Provence Linux User Group</a></strong>
1042: April 8, 2005, Marseille, France.<br>
1.585 aanriot 1043: Alexandre Anriot spoke about OpenBSD and some associated projects
1.586 aanriot 1044: (OpenBGPD etc.) during a meeting of the PLUG.
1.585 aanriot 1045: The <a href="papers/plug080405">slides</a> (in French) are available.
1.344 martin 1046: <p>
1047:
1.337 deraadt 1048: <li><strong><a name=bcs2005></a>
1049: <a href="http://www.bellua.com/bcs2005/asia05.index.html">Bellua Cyber Security Asia 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 1050: Mar 21-24, 2005, Jakarta, Indonesia.<br>
1.337 deraadt 1051: Ryan McBride presented an overview of PF which
1052: discussed how its advanced features work together in some important
1.338 deraadt 1053: applications and compared PF with the other major commercial and open
1.337 deraadt 1054: source firewalls.
1055: <p>
1056:
1.317 henning 1057: <li><strong><a name=nui_maynooth2005></a>
1058: <a href="http://www.minds.nuim.ie/events">NUI Maynooth lectures</a></strong>,
1059: Mar 4, 2005, Department of Computer Science, NUI Maynooth, Dublin, Ireland.<br>
1.318 henning 1060: Ryan McBride presented talks about PF and about
1.326 mcbride 1061: <a href="papers/dublin05-nr">randomization in the OpenBSD network layer.</a><br>
1.318 henning 1062: Theo and Henning were in attendance because someone had to heckle.
1.317 henning 1063: <p>
1064:
1.312 deraadt 1065: <li><strong><a name=trinity2005></a>
1066: <a href="http://www.netsoc.tcd.ie/events/0405/openbsd.php">Trinity lecture</a></strong>,
1067: Mar 3, 2005, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.<br>
1.320 deraadt 1068: Theo de Raadt presented his talk about
1069: <a href="papers/auug04">Exploit Mitigation Techniques</a>.
1.312 deraadt 1070: <p>
1071:
1.319 saad 1072: <li><strong><a name=ShefLUG2005></a>
1073: <a href="http://www.sheflug.co.uk/seminar/tiki-index.php?page=Sheffield%20Open%20Source%20Seminar">ShefLUG2005</a></strong>,
1074: Mar 2, 2005, Sheffield, UK.<br>
1075: Jacek Artymiak gave a talk about installing OpenBSD on Soekris hardware.
1076: <p>
1077:
1.310 mickey 1078: <li><strong><a name=NYCBUG2005-03></a>
1.375 grunk 1079: <a href="http://nycbug.org/index.php?NAV=Home&SUBM=83">NYCBUG Monthly meeting</a></strong>,
1.310 mickey 1080: Mar 2, 2005, NYC, USA.<br>
1.322 deraadt 1081: Mickey gave a talk
1.325 mickey 1082: (<a href="papers/nyc2005">slides</a> and
1.564 jason 1083: <a href="http://www.fetissov.org/public/nycbug/nycbug-03-02-05.mp3">10.5MB audio</a>)
1.321 mickey 1084: about <a href="hppa.html">porting OpenBSD</a>
1.313 martin 1085: to the <a href="http://www.openpa.net">HP PA-RISC</a> platform.
1.310 mickey 1086: <p>
1.312 deraadt 1087:
1.308 deraadt 1088: <li><strong><a name=Netsoc2005></a>
1089: <a href="http://netsoc.ucd.ie/events/openbsd/">Netsoc lectures</a></strong>,
1090: Mar 2, 2005, UCD, Dublin, Ireland.<br>
1091: Theo de Raadt, Henning Brauer, and Ryan McBride gave a series of
1.320 deraadt 1092: talks. Topics included
1093: <a href="papers/auug04">exploit mitigation techniques</a>,
1.326 mcbride 1094: <a href="papers/dublin05-nr">introducing network randomness to increase security</a>,
1095: OpenBGPD, and pf.
1096: Almost 200 people came to this event.
1.308 deraadt 1097: <p>
1098:
1.304 saad 1099: <li><strong><a name=Brussels2005></a>
1100: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/2005/">FOSDEM Brussels 2005</a></strong>,
1101: Feb 26 - 27, 2005, Brussels, Belgium.<br>
1102: An OpenBSD/OpenSSH booth was present, ran by the usual gang of suspects.
1103: Support for <a href="mailto:wim@kd85.com">Wim Vandeputte</a> this time were
1.307 otto 1104: (among many others), Saad Kadhi, Henning Brauer, Thierry Deval, Otto Moerbeek,
1.304 saad 1105: Xavier Santolaria, Martin Reindl, Reyk Flöter, Hans-Jörg
1.360 db 1106: Höxer, Nikolay Sturm, Marc Balmer, Claudio Jeker, Joris Vink,
1107: Olivier Cherrier, David Berghoff,
1.316 mbalmer 1108: Alexander von Gernler, Uwe Stuehler, and Felix Kronlage from OpenDarwin.<br>
1.304 saad 1109: There was a separate OpenBSD track, featuring Henning Brauer (about
1110: signal handlers and OpenNTPD), Reyk Flöter (about wireless cards in
1111: OpenBSD), and the author of the OpenBSD PF book, Jacek Artymiak (about
1.375 grunk 1112: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pf">pf(4)</a>, of course).<br>
1.304 saad 1113: At the conference's Free Software Foundation Event, Theo de Raadt was
1114: awarded the Free Software Award 2004 for his efforts to make Firmware for
1115: wireless hardware and other devices freely available.
1116: <p>
1.301 saad 1117: <li><strong><a name=UKUUG05></a>
1118: <a href="http://www.ukuug.org/events/winter2005/">UKUUG LISA/Winter Conference</a></strong>,
1119: Feb 24 - 25, 2005, Birmingham, UK.<br>
1120: Henning Brauer spoke on OpenBGPD, OpenNTPD and Signal Handlers.
1121: <p>
1122: <li><strong><a name=FFG2005></a>
1123: <a href="http://www.guug.de/veranstaltungen/ffg2005/">GUUG FFG 2005</a></strong>,
1124: Feb 22 - 25, 2005, Munich, Germany.<br>
1125: Reyk Flöter talked about the latest wireless support in
1126: OpenBSD at the annual spring meeting of the <a href="http://www.guug.de/">German Unix User Group</a>.
1127: <p>
1.293 saad 1128: <li><strong><a name=Paris2005></a>
1129: <a href="http://www.solutionslinux.fr/fr/index.php">Solutions Linux 2005</a></strong>,
1130: Feb 1 - 3, 2005, Paris, France.<br>
1131: An OpenBSD booth as well as an OpenSSH booth were present. These booths
1132: were run by Marc Espie, Miod Vallat, Saad Kadhi and Wim with help from
1133: Guillaume Arcas and Christophe Plasschaert, two members of the OpenBSD
1.294 saad 1134: french translation team.<br>
1135: Marc Espie and Saad Kadhi gave a talk about the OpenBSD project with a
1136: special focus on the ports collection and Packet Filter. The <a
1137: href="papers/sl2005/index.html">slides</a> (in French) are
1138: available.<br>
1139: During the event, several demonstrations of <a
1.293 saad 1140: href="http://soekris.kd85.com/">Soekris</a> machines running OpenBSD
1141: were given by Saad Kadhi and Wim.
1142: <p>
1.296 mcbride 1143: </ul>
1.293 saad 1144:
1.296 mcbride 1145: <h3>2004</h3>
1146:
1147: <ul>
1.287 henning 1148: <li><strong><a name=21C3></a>
1149: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/2004/">21C3 - Chaos Communication Congress</a></strong>,
1.375 grunk 1150: Dec 27 - 29, 2004, Berlin, Germany<br>
1.287 henning 1151: "The Usual Suspects" were there and ran the BSD corner, including
1152: <a href="mailto:wim@kd85.com">Wim</a>,
1153: Henning Brauer, Marc Balmer, Martin Reindl, Moritz Jodeit, Felix Kronlage,
1.315 nick 1154: Uwe Stuehler, Konrad Foerstner, Bernd Ahlers, and Alexander von Gernler.<br>
1.287 henning 1155: Henning gave a talk about OpenBGPD and OpenNTPD
1156: (<a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/21c3/">slides</a>).<br>
1157: The WiFi backbone ran on OpenBSD powered
1158: <a href="http://soekris.kd85.com">Soekris</a> machines as access points,
1159: work done by Reyk Flöter, Tim Kornau and others.
1160: This installation was a very successful test of the new
1.290 henning 1161: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ath">ath(4)</a>
1.287 henning 1162: driver.
1163: <p>
1.248 deraadt 1164:
1.286 kevlo 1165: <li><strong><a name=icos2004></a>
1.417 kevlo 1166: <a href="http://2004.icos.org.tw/">ICOS 2004</a></strong>,
1.286 kevlo 1167: Dec 18 - 19, 2004, Taipei, Taiwan.<br>
1168: Kevin Lo gave a presentation.
1169: <p>
1170:
1.285 deraadt 1171: <li><strong><a name=syscan2004></a>
1172: <a href="http://www.syscan.org/">SyScAN 2004</a></strong>,
1173: Dec 16 - 17, 2004, Singapore.<br>
1174: Theo de Raadt presented his talk about
1175: <a href="papers/auug04">Exploit Mitigation Techniques</a>.
1176: <p>
1177:
1.283 saad 1178: <li><strong><a name=sur200412></a>
1179: <a href="http://www.ossir.org/sur/calendrier/index.shtml">SUR Group Meeting, December 2004</a></strong>,
1180: Dec 14, 2004, Paris, France.<br>
1181: Saad Kadhi gave a talk about OpenBSD and security during the monthly
1182: meeting of the
1183: <a href="http://www.ossir.org/sur/index.shtml">SUR</a> Group (Sécurité
1184: Unix et Réseaux), a french user group focusing on security and Unix. The
1.284 xsa 1185: <a href="papers/surgroup200412/index.html">slides</a> (in French) are available.
1.283 saad 1186: <p>
1187:
1.282 henning 1188: <li><strong><a name=opencon2004></a>
1189: <a href="http://www.opencon.org/">OpenCon 2004</a></strong>,
1190: Dec 10 - 12, 2004, Venice, Italy.<br>
1191: OpenBSD meeting in Northern Italy. Henning gave 3 talks in
1192: two days, on bgpd
1193: (<a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/opencon04/bgpd/">slides</a>),
1194: ntpd
1195: (<a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/opencon04/ntpd/">slides</a>)
1196: and signal handlers
1197: (<a href="papers/opencon04/">slides</a>).
1198: Wim ran a booth, and Marc Balmer was there as well.
1199: <p>
1200:
1.275 deraadt 1201: <li><strong><a name=UofA></a>
1202: <a href="http://www.ualberta.ca/">U of A Seminar</a></strong>,
1203: Nov 17 - 18, 2004, Edmonton Alberta.<br>
1204: Theo de Raadt presented a talk at an open seminar at the
1205: <a href="http://www.ualberta.ca/">University of Alberta</a>, in
1206: Room B-02 of the
1207: <a href="http://www.campusmap.ualberta.ca/map_bldg.cfm?bldg_id=42">
1208: Computing Sciences Center</a>.
1209: Talk went from 2 PM to nearly 5PM with more than 100 people attending
1210: from the University and industry, followed by beer nearby.
1211: The talk was also given the following day at the
1212: <a href="http://www.cips.ca/">CIPS Security SIG</a> luncheon.
1213: <p>
1214:
1.271 henning 1215: <li><strong><a name=EuroBSDCon2004></a>
1216: <a href="http://2004.eurobsdcon.org/">EuroBSD Con</a></strong>,
1217: Oct 29 - 31, 2004, Karlsruhe, Germany.<br>
1.272 henning 1218: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
1219: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
1.271 henning 1220: Henning gave a talk
1.375 grunk 1221: about <a href="http://2004.eurobsdcon.org/talks.html?&tx_ptspeechupload_pi1[showUid]=44&cHash=ec015b0552">bgpd</a>,
1.272 henning 1222: <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/euroBSDCon2004/">slides</a> are available.
1.271 henning 1223: <p>
1224:
1225: <li><strong><a name=LinuxWorldExpoGermany2004></a>
1226: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.de/">Linux World Expo</a></strong>,
1227: Oct 26 - 28, 2004, Frankfurt, Germany.<br>
1.272 henning 1228: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
1229: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
1.271 henning 1230: <p>
1231:
1.276 deraadt 1232: <li><strong><a name=cuug2004></a>
1.270 deraadt 1233: <a href="http://www.cuug.ab.ca/">Calgary Unix Users's Group</a></strong>,
1234: Oct 26, 2004, Calgary, Canada.<br>
1235: Theo presented the talk that he has recently given in Australia and
1236: Malaysia to the "Home Crowd".
1237: <p>
1238:
1239: <li><strong><a name=aldil2004></a>
1.269 krw 1240: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/">Les Journées Du Logiciel Libre 2004</a></strong>,
1241: Oct 22 - 23, 2004, Lyon, France.<br>
1.381 aanriot 1242: There was OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Miod Vallat with the help of
1.415 aanriot 1243: Alexandre Anriot and Thierry Thomas.
1.269 krw 1244: <p>
1245:
1246: <li><strong><a name=systems2004></a>
1247: <a href="http://www.systems.de/">Systems</a></strong>,
1248: Oct 18 - 22, 2004, Munich, Germany <br>
1249: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
1250: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
1251: <p>
1252:
1.268 krw 1253: <li><strong><a name=linuxexpo2004oct></a>
1254: <a href="http://www.linuxexpo.org.uk/">Linux Expo</a></strong>,
1255: Oct 6 - 7, 2004, London, UK.<br>
1256: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
1257: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
1258: <p>
1259:
1.375 grunk 1260: <li><strong><a name=hitb2004></a>
1.268 krw 1261: <a href="http://conference.hackinthebox.org">Hack in the Box Security Conference 2004</a></strong>,
1262: Oct 4 - 7, 2004, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.<br>
1263: Theo de Raadt presented an updated version of his
1264: "Exploit Mitigation Techniques" talk.
1265: <p>
1266:
1267: <li><strong><a name=SANE2004></a>
1268: <a href="http://www.nluug.nl/events/sane2004/bazaar.html">SANE 2004</a></strong>
1.410 wvdputte 1269: , Sep 29, 2004, Amsterdam, Netherlands.<br>
1.268 krw 1270: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
1271: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
1272: <p>
1273:
1.265 wvdputte 1274: <li><strong><a name=LinuxKongress2004></a>
1275: <a href="http://www.linux-kongress.org/2004">Linux Kongress 2004</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 1276: Sep 7 - 10, 2004, Erlangen, Germany.<br>
1.265 wvdputte 1277: From their website: "Linux-Kongress is still the premier event for European
1278: developers and one of the most important in the world. Each year hundreds of
1279: hard core Linux enthusiasts from all over the world gather for this important
1280: event."
1281: <br>
1282: Although this was a Linux developers' conference, we were able to
1283: install a regular OpenBSD booth there, as known from other events.
1284: It was run by <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim Vandeputte</a>,
1285: <a href="mailto:grunk@pestilenz.org">Alexander von Gernler</a> and other
1286: geeks from the Erlangen-Nuremberg area.
1287: <br>
1288: There also was a BSD dinner at Friday evening.
1289: <p>
1290:
1.262 henning 1291: <li><strong><a name=Sucon2004></a>
1292: <a href="http://www.suug.ch/sucon/04/">SUCON 2004</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 1293: Sep 2 - 4, 2004, Zurich, Switzerland.<br>
1.262 henning 1294: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth. Very nice conference.
1295: Henning's slides from his talks about
1296: <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/sucon04/bgpd">bgpd</a> and
1297: <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/sucon04/ntpd">ntpd</a>
1298: are available.
1299: <p>
1300:
1.261 deraadt 1301: <li><strong><a name=auug2004></a>
1.266 jolan 1302: <a href="http://www.auug.org.au/events/2004/auug2004/">AUUG 2004</a></strong>,
1.261 deraadt 1303: Aug 29 - Sep 3, 2004, Melbourne, Australia.<br>
1304: Theo de Raadt presented a half-day tutorial on privilege seperation and a
1305: newly extended version of the
1306: <a href="papers/auug04">Exploit Mitigation Techniques</a> talk.<br>
1307: For more information, see this
1308: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;517187222;fp;16;fpid;0">
1309: ComputerWorld article</a>.
1310: <p>
1311:
1312:
1.257 saad 1313: <li><strong><a name=LSM2004></a>
1314: <a href="http://lsm.abul.org">Libre Software Meeting</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 1315: Jul 6 - 10, 2004, Bordeaux, France.<br>
1.257 saad 1316: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
1317: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim Vandeputte</a>.
1318: <p>
1319:
1320: <li><strong><a name=LinuxTag2004></a>
1321: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.org">LinuxTag 2004</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 1322: Jun 23 - 26, 2004, Karlsruhe, Germany.<br>
1.257 saad 1323: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
1324: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim Vandeputte</a>.
1325: <p>
1326:
1.254 xsa 1327: <li><strong><a name=LinuxwochenVienna2004></a>
1.255 xsa 1328: <a href="http://www.linuxwochen.at/">Linuxwochen Vienna 2004</a></strong>,
1.254 xsa 1329: May 26 - 29, 2004, Vienna, Austria.<br>
1330: The Linuxwochen 2004 tour stopped in the MuseumsQuartier, Vienna.
1331: Wim Vandeputte and Reinhard Sammer ran the OpenBSD booth. Michael Bauer
1332: and Teemu Schaabl from the <a href="http://www.cngw.org/">CNGW</a> gave
1333: a basic talk about pf.
1334: <p>
1335:
1.248 deraadt 1336: <li><strong><a name=BSDCan2004></a>
1.303 mcbride 1337: <a href="http://www.bsdcan.org/2004/">BSDCan 2004</a></strong>,
1.248 deraadt 1338: May 13 - 16, 2004, Ottawa, Canada.<br>
1339: BSDCan was held at the University of Ottawa. Ryan McBride gave a talk
1.302 mcbride 1340: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/papers/bsdcan04-pf/index.html">about newer features in pf</a>,
1341: focusing on the redundancy provided by CARP and pfsync.
1342: Theo de Raadt presented a revised version of his talk on
1.248 deraadt 1343: <a href="papers/bsdcan04">Exploit Mitigation Techniques</a>.
1344: <p>
1345:
1.247 canacar 1346: <li><strong><a name="LOSFAnkara2004"></a>
1347: <a href="http://senlik.linux.org.tr">3rd Linux and Open Source Festival</a></strong>,
1348: May 13 - 16, 2004, Ankara, Turkey.<br>
1349: Can E. Acar and Berk D. Demir talked about the OpenBSD Project. The
1350: philosophy, project goals, system features and recent proactive
1351: security features were introduced. CARP, patents, recent Apache &
1352: XFree86 licensing issues and effects of NDAs in open source
1353: projects were discussed.<br>
1354: You can view the
1.281 canacar 1355: <a href="http://bdd.mindcast.org/slides/OpenBSD-LOYS2004-cea-bdd.pdf">
1.247 canacar 1356: slides in PDF format</a> the
1.281 canacar 1357: <a href="http://bdd.mindcast.org/slides/OpenBSD-LOYS2004-cea-bdd.tex">
1.247 canacar 1358: LaTeX source</a> is also available (they are
1359: <a href="http://www.eee.metu.edu.tr/~canacar/slides/">mirrored</a>, as well).
1360: <p>
1361:
1.242 henning 1362: <li><strong><a name=Brussels2004></a>
1363: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/">FOSDEM Brussels 2004</a></strong>,
1364: Feb 21 - 22, 2004, Brussels, Belgium.<br>
1.243 henning 1365: An OpenBSD/OpenSSH booth was present, run by Wim Vandeputte.
1366: Several developers (including Henning Brauer, Xavier Santolaria, Thierry Deval,
1367: Philipp Bühler, Otto Moerbeek and Saad Kadhi) showed up.
1368: Wim and Alexander von Gernler gave "lightning talks" about Soekris
1369: and systrace
1.263 saad 1370: (<a href="http://pestilenz.org/~grunk/vortraege/2004/FOSDEM/systrace.pdf">slides</a>), respectively.
1.243 henning 1371: Henning got a slot in the main track to talk about the new bgpd
1372: (<a href="http://www.2suck.net/papers/fosdem2004/">slides</a>).
1373: On Saturday evening, the traditional OpenBSD dinner took place.
1.242 henning 1374: <p>
1375:
1.240 espie 1376: <li><strong><a name=Paris2004></a>
1377: <a href="http://www.linuxsolutions.fr/">Linux Expo Paris 2004</a></strong>,
1378: Feb 3 - 5, 2004, Paris, France.<br>
1379: An OpenBSD booth as well as an OpenSSH booth were present, thanks to
1380: <a href="mailto:saad@docisland.org">Saad Kadhi</a> and
1381: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
1382: <p>
1383:
1384: <li><strong><a name="LWE04"></a>
1385: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/linuxworldny/V40/index.cvn">LinuxWorld
1386: Conference and Expo</a></strong>, Jan 20 - 23, 2004, New York, NY, USA.<br>
1.397 grunk 1387: <a href="mailto:wes@openlysecure.org">Wes Sonnenreich</a> and others
1.240 espie 1388: have established a BSD user group in NYC and held a BSD BoF at the
1389: Jacob Javits Center on January 22nd at 5:45pm, Room 1E15.
1390: <p>
1391: </ul>
1392:
1.188 henning 1393: <h3>2003</h3>
1.236 jose 1394:
1395: <ul>
1.232 jose 1396: <li><strong><a name=20c3></a>
1397: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/2003/">20th Chaos Communication Congress 2003</a></strong>,
1398: Dec 27 - 29, 2003, Berlin, Germany.<br>
1399: OpenBSD was represented by a booth, ran by
1400: <a href= "mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>, and supported by Henning and
1.236 jose 1401: Alexander von Gernler. Alexander also gave a
1.260 saad 1402: <a href="http://pestilenz.org/~grunk/vortraege/2003/20C3/openbsd.pdf">talk</a>
1.232 jose 1403: introducing the project and the OS (in German).
1.236 jose 1404: <p>
1.232 jose 1405:
1.228 jose 1406: <li><strong><a name=brazil2003></a>
1.236 jose 1407: <a href="http://bsdcon.myfreebsd.com.br">1st BSDCon Brazil</a></strong>,
1.228 jose 1408: Dec 6 - 7, 2003. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.<br>
1409: This was the first BSDCon Brazil, and of course OpenBSD was present.
1.236 jose 1410: Douglas Santos spoke on advocacy and about some of the technical aspects
1411: of OpenBSD. Eduardo A. Alvarenga gave a presentation about firewalling
1.228 jose 1412: with OpenBSD PF.
1413: <p>
1414:
1415: <li><strong><a name=ankara03></a>
1416: <a href="http://seminer.linux.org.tr">Association of Turkish Linux User</a></strong>,
1417: Dec 4, 2003, Ankara, Turkey.<br>
1418: Can Acar and Berk Demir gave a mammoth 4 hour presentation on OpenBSD.
1419: The first part was a broad introduction to the OpenBSD philosophy, the
1.236 jose 1420: project goals, and system features. After a break, in the second part they
1421: talked about the exploit mitigation techniques employed in OpenBSD. This
1422: part was aimed at techies and is almost a complete Turkish translation of
1423: the talk Theo recently gave in Japan. You can view the
1.281 canacar 1424: <a href="http://bdd.mindcast.org/slides/OpenBSD_3.12.2003.can-bdd.pdf">
1.236 jose 1425: slides in PDF format </a>
1426: (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 1427: <p>
1428:
1.227 jose 1429: <li><strong><a name=Luxembourg2003></a>
1430: <a href="http://www.linuxday.lu/">Linuxday Luxembourg 2003</a></strong>,
1431: Nov 6 - 8, 2003, Luxembourg, Luxembourg.<br>
1432: Booths were present, organized by <a href= "mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
1433: <p>
1434:
1435: <li><strong><a name=Pacsec2003></a>
1436: <a href="http://pacsec.jp/">Pacsec 2003</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 1437: Nov 6 - 7, 2003, Tokyo, Japan.<br>
1.236 jose 1438: Three OpenBSD developers presented on various topics. Theo de Raadt
1.227 jose 1439: gave a presentation on Exploit Mitigation Techniques
1.236 jose 1440: <a href="papers/pacsec03/e/index.html">(English)</a>
1441: <a href="papers/pacsec03/j/index.html">(Japanese)</a>, Jun-ichiro
1.227 jose 1442: itojun Hagino presented material covering
1.236 jose 1443: <a href="http://www.itojun.org/paper/itojun-200311-pacsec-jp/">
1.241 david 1444: IPv6 security considerations</a>, and Jose Nazario discussed advances
1.227 jose 1445: in Internet worm defenses.
1446: <p>
1447:
1.224 miod 1448: <li><strong><a name=Lyon2003></a>
1449: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/agenda/journees/2003/">Les V<sup>èmes</sup> Journées du Libre 2003</a></strong>,
1450: Oct 31 - Nov 1, 2003, Lyon, France.<br>
1451: Miod Vallat gave a talk about the recent security efforts deployed in OpenBSD,
1452: as well as generic security concepts (slides, in bad French, are available in
1453: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/agenda/journees/2003/vallat/miod.mgp">mgp
1454: format</a>). As usual, Wim ran an OpenBSD booth featuring the new 3.4 release,
1455: as well as <a href="http://soekris.kd85.com">Soekris</a> hardware running
1456: OpenBSD.
1457: <p>
1458:
1459: <li><strong><a name=Saarbrucken2003></a>
1460: <a href="http://www.linux-kongress.org/2003/index.html">Linux Kongress Saarbrücken 2003</a></strong>,
1461: Oct 14 - 16, 2003, Saarbrücken, Germany.<br>
1462: An OpenBSD booth was present, starring Wim again.
1463: <p>
1464:
1465: <li><strong><a name=London2003></a>
1466: <a href="http://www.linuxexpo.org.uk/">Linux Expo London 2003</a></strong>,
1467: Oct 8 - 9, 2003, London, UK.<br>
1468: An OpenBSD booth was present, starring Wim as usual.
1469: <p>
1470:
1.219 jose 1471: <li><strong><a name=bsdcon2003></a>
1472: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/bsdcon03/">BSDCon '03</a></strong>,
1473: Sep 8 - 12, 2003, San Mateo, California.<br>
1.236 jose 1474: OpenBSD was represented in the BSD Status Report, and David Rosenthal
1.219 jose 1475: gave a talk on an OpenBSD based security appliance.
1476: <p>
1477:
1.218 jose 1478: <li><strong><a name=sucon2003></a>
1479: <a href="http://www.sucon.ch/">SUCON '03</a></strong>,
1480: Sep 5, 2003. Zurich, Switzerland.<br>
1.236 jose 1481: Daniel Hartmeier talked about PF, and <a
1.218 jose 1482: href="http://open.bsdcow.net/events/sucon2003/">pictures are available</a>.
1483: <p>
1484:
1.214 henning 1485: <li><strong><a name=camp2003></a>
1486: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/camp/">Chaos Communication Camp 2003</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1487: Aug 7 - 10, 2003, in <a href="http://www.paulshof.de/body-mehr.html">a field</a> near Berlin Germany<br>
1.214 henning 1488: There was a huge OpenBSD village. Several OpenBSD developers have been there.
1489: <p>
1490:
1.213 jose 1491: <li><strong><a name=sec2003></a>
1492: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/sec03/">Usenix Security</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1493: Aug 4 - 8, 2003, Washington, DC, USA.<br>
1.236 jose 1494: Niels Provos presented two papers on security advances originally
1.213 jose 1495: developed for OpenBSD, including the OpenSSH privsep feature and systrace.
1496: Several OpenBSD developers were there.
1497: <p>
1498:
1.211 jose 1499: <li><strong><a name=linuxtag2003></a>
1500: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.org/2003/en/index.html">LinuxTag 2003</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1501: Jul 10 - 13, 2003, Karlsruhe Convention Center Germany<br>
1.211 jose 1502: Both OpenBSD and OpenSSH had booths in the main exhibit.
1503: <p>
1504:
1505: <li><strong><a name=lsm2003></a>
1506: <a href="http://libresoftwaremeeting.org/">Libre Software Meeting 2003</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1507: Jul 9 - 12, 2003, Metz, France<br>
1.212 matthieu 1508: Matthieu Herrb gave <a href="papers/xf86-sec.pdf">a talk about XFree86 security</a>. There was
1.211 jose 1509: also an OpenBSD booth with developers.
1510: <p>
1511:
1.209 wvdputte 1512: <li><strong><a name=lud2003></a>
1513: <a href="http://www.linuxuserexpo.com/">Linux User & Developer Expo 2003</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1514: Jun 24 - 26, 2003, at the NEC in Birmingham UK<br>
1.209 wvdputte 1515: There was an OpenBSD booth with developers.
1516: <p>
1.195 deraadt 1517:
1.202 jason 1518: <li><strong><a name=usenix2003></a>
1.236 jose 1519: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix03/">Usenix Annual Technical
1.216 jose 1520: Conference</a></strong>,
1521: Jun 9 - 14, 2003, San Antonio, Texas, USA<br>
1.202 jason 1522: A few OpenBSD developers were there and one paper was presented:
1523: <ul>
1.216 jose 1524: <li>The Design of the OpenBSD Cryptographic Framework<br>
1.202 jason 1525: <a href="events.html#usenix2003">Usenix 2003</a>, by
1.236 jose 1526: Angelos D. Keromytis,
1527: Jason L. Wright, and
1.205 deraadt 1528: Theo de Raadt.<br>
1.202 jason 1529: <a href="papers/ocf.pdf">paper</a>.
1530: </ul>
1531: <p>
1532:
1.216 jose 1533: <li><strong>
1534: <a href="http://www.webb.it/">Webbit 2003</a></strong>,
1535: May 9 - 11, 2003, Padova, Italy<br>
1.203 jason 1536: Giacomo Cariello and Wim Vandeputte attended, and several OpenBSD
1537: <a href="http://www.deadly.org/article.php3?sid=20030503101052">related talks</a> were given.
1538: <p>
1539:
1.216 jose 1540: <li><strong>
1541: <a href="http://cansecwest.com/">CanSecWest 03</a></strong>,
1542: Apr 9 - 11, 2003, Vancouver, Canada<br>
1.195 deraadt 1543: Theo spoke about killing buffer overflows using ProPolice and the new W^X technology,
1.196 matthieu 1544: available as a <a href="papers/csw03.mgp">magicpoint file</a>.
1.195 deraadt 1545: <p>
1546:
1.216 jose 1547: <li><strong>
1548: <a href="http://www.cebit.de/">CeBIT 2003</a></strong>,
1549: Mar 14, 2003, Hannover, Germany<br>
1.236 jose 1550: 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 1551: gave a talk on OpenBSD and OpenSSH. <a href="papers/cebit2003.tgz">slides</a> are available.
1.194 henning 1552: <p>
1553:
1.216 jose 1554: <li><strong>
1555: <a href="http://www.linuxforum.dk/2003/english/">LinuxForum 2003</a></strong>,
1556: Mar 1, 2003, Copenhagen<br>
1.236 jose 1557: Daniel spoke about PF (slides in <a href="papers/linuxforum2k3.tar.gz">mgp</a>,
1558: <a href="http://www.benzedrine.cx/linuxforum/">HTML</a>).
1.191 dhartmei 1559: It was a small but cozy conference, jointly held by Danish Linux and BSD
1560: user groups.
1561: <p>
1562:
1.236 jose 1563: <li><strong>
1564: <a href="http://www.cuug.ab.ca">CUUG - The Calgary Unix Users
1.216 jose 1565: Group</a></strong>,
1566: Feb 25, 2003, 18:00 MST, Calgary<br>
1.190 miod 1567: OpenBSD lead developer Theo de Raadt spoke about some of the recent
1568: changes in OpenBSD that are leading the way to the complete elimination of
1569: "buffer overflow" security risks and attacks.
1570: <p>
1571:
1.216 jose 1572: <li><strong>
1573: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/">FOSDEM 2003</a></strong>,
1574: Feb 8 - 9, 2003, Brussels<br>
1.236 jose 1575: Henning and Philipp gave a talk on -current PF developments
1.196 matthieu 1576: (<a href="papers/fosdem2k3-pf.mgp">slides</a>)
1.187 henning 1577: and on Saturday evening, there was an OpenBSD dinner for those interested.
1578: <p>
1579:
1.216 jose 1580: <li><strong>
1581: <a href="http://linuxsolutions.fr/FR/home/index.php?site=default">Linux Solutions</a></strong>,
1582: Feb 4 - 6, 2003, CNIT - Paris La Défense<br>
1.185 miod 1583: There was an OpenBSD booth with several OpenBSD developers, as well as 3.2 OpenBSD
1.413 grunk 1584: CD sets and T-shirts.
1.185 miod 1585: <p>
1.236 jose 1586: </ul>
1.185 miod 1587:
1.161 millert 1588: <h3>2002</h3>
1.236 jose 1589:
1590: <ul>
1591: <li><strong>
1592: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/2002/">19c3: the 19th CCC
1.216 jose 1593: Congress</a></strong>,
1594: Dec 27 - 29, 2002, Berlin<br>
1.236 jose 1595: There was a huge <a href="http://www.eurobsd.org/19c3">reserved space</a> for
1596: OpenBSD users and developers, a couple of -current test systems and for those
1.413 grunk 1597: curious, a first look at the 3.2 OpenBSD T-shirts.
1.184 wvdputte 1598: <p>
1.177 jason 1599:
1.216 jose 1600: <li><strong>
1601: <a href="http://2002.eurobsdcon.org/">BSDCon Europe 2002</a></strong>,
1602: Nov 15 - 17, 2002, Amsterdam, Netherlands<br>
1.181 henning 1603: OpenBSD people were there;
1.236 jose 1604: Philipp Bühler and Henning Brauer spoke about
1.182 ian 1605: <a href="papers/tuning-openbsd.ps">
1606: network performance tuning on OpenBSD</a>,
1.236 jose 1607: and Ian Darwin presented a
1.182 ian 1608: <a href="papers/eurobsd-firewalls-2002.pdf">
1609: tutorial on OpenBSD servers/firewalls</a>.
1.179 pb 1610: <p>
1.178 pb 1611:
1.216 jose 1612: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1613: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa02/">LISA '02: 16th Systems
1.216 jose 1614: Administration Conference</a></strong>,
1615: Nov 3 - 8, 2002, Philadelphia, USA<br>
1.177 jason 1616: Mickey and Jason manned the booth at the vendor expo (the only BSD
1617: represented) and sold <a href="32.html">3.2</a> CDs, and Jason gave a BoF
1618: session on <a href="32.html">3.2</a> and future.
1619: <p>
1620:
1.216 jose 1621: <li><strong>
1.264 djm 1622: <a href="http://www.auug.org.au/events/2002/auug2002/">Australian Unix Users
1623: Group Winter Conference</a></strong>,
1624: Sep 1 - 6, 2002, Melbourne Australia<br>
1625: Damien Miller presented a tutorial on the
1626: <a href="papers/auug2002-ssh/index.html">SSH protocol</a> and
1627: <a href="papers/auug2002-ssh.ps">OpenSSH tips and tricks</a>.
1628: <p>
1629:
1630: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 1631: <a href="http://lsm.abul.org">The 3rd Libre Software Meeting</a></strong>,
1632: Jul 9 - 13, 2002, Bordeaux, France<br>
1.172 miod 1633: Several OpenBSD developers and users were attending the meeting, and
1634: Niels Provos presented his
1635: <a href="http://www.citi.umich.edu/u/provos/systrace">systrace</a>
1636: system call policy management tool.
1.174 nick 1637: <p>
1.172 miod 1638:
1.216 jose 1639: <li><strong>
1640: <a href="http://www.Webb.it">Webb.it 02</a></strong>,
1641: Jul 5 - 7, 2002, Padova, Italy<br>
1.171 ian 1642: OpenBSD developers had a booth selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
1643: <p>
1644:
1.216 jose 1645: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1646: <a href="http://www.softwarelivre.rs.gov.br/forum">The Annual International
1.216 jose 1647: Free Software Forum</a></strong>,
1648: May 2 - 4, 2002, Porto Alegre-RS, Brazil<br>
1.236 jose 1649: Mainly a Linux/GNU event, but this year the BSD Operating Systems
1650: had a chance to prove their value.
1.169 horacio 1651: Edson Brandi spoke on FreeBSD, Diego Linke
1.236 jose 1652: on NetBSD, and Ricardo Nascimento Ferreira on OpenBSD.
1.169 horacio 1653: <p>
1.168 miod 1654:
1.216 jose 1655: <li><strong>
1656: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/bsdcon02/">BSDCON 2002</a></strong>,
1657: Feb 11 - 14, 2002, San Francisco, California, USA<br>
1.161 millert 1658: Todd Miller gave an update on current OpenBSD status and participated in a
1.162 millert 1659: BSD panel discussion. The <a href="slides/bsdcon_2002/index.html">slides</a>
1660: are available.
1.161 millert 1661: <p>
1662:
1.216 jose 1663: <li><strong>
1664: <a href="http://www.linuxexpoparis.com">Linux expo Paris 2002</a></strong>,
1665: Jan 30 - Feb 1, 2002, Paris, France<br>
1.163 miod 1666: The french Linux Expo 2002 was quite small and as usual the OpenBSD booth ended
1667: up with others on the expo's side. On the first day, almost all the merchandise
1668: was sold, and we have even sold older versions (2.9) the following days to
1669: people who wouldn't leave without a cd set in their hands...
1670: <p>
1671:
1.216 jose 1672: <li><strong>
1673: <a href="http://musess.mcmaster.ca/">MUSESS 2002</a></strong>,
1674: Jan 25 - 26, 2002, McMaster University, Ontario, Canada<br>
1.164 millert 1675: Louis Bertrand gave a presentation on OpenBSD titled
1676: <strong>Fix The Bugs, Secure The System</strong>.
1677: The <a href="slides/musess_2002/index.html">slides</a> are available.
1678: <p>
1.236 jose 1679: </ul>
1.164 millert 1680:
1.152 jakob 1681: <h3>2001</h3>
1682:
1.236 jose 1683: <ul>
1.216 jose 1684: <li><strong>
1685: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa01/">USENIX LISA 2001</a></strong>,
1686: Dec 2 - 7, 2001, San Diego, California, USA<br>
1.160 jufi 1687: Niels Provos gave a presentation, and there's been a booth selling
1.413 grunk 1688: T-shirts and 3.0 CDs.
1.160 jufi 1689: <p>
1690:
1.216 jose 1691: <li><strong>
1692: <a href="http://www.ietf.org/meetings/IETF-52.html">52nd IETF</a></strong>,
1693: Dec 9 - 14, 2001, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA<br>
1.160 jufi 1694: Angelos, Itojun & Jakob were there.
1695: <p>
1696:
1.158 deraadt 1697: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1698: <a href="http://www.disc2000.unam.mx/disc/index-ing.html">DISC
1.216 jose 1699: 2001</a></strong>,
1700: Nov 26 - 29, 2001, Mexico City, Mexico<br>
1.158 deraadt 1701: Once again, Theo de Raadt explained the security auditing process and
1702: subsequent secure configuration choices made in OpenBSD, in a talk
1703: entitled "Updated thoughts on writing a secure Operating System".
1704: <p>
1705:
1.216 jose 1706: <li><strong>
1707: <a href="http://www.linux.org.hk">LinuxCafe</a></strong>,
1708: Sep 15, 2001, Hong Kong, China<br>
1.156 provos 1709: Shell Hung gave an introduction for BSD and demonstration of OpenBSD to HKLUG.
1710: <p>
1711:
1.201 deraadt 1712: <li><strong>VPN Bakeoff</strong>,
1.216 jose 1713: Aug 13 - 18, 2001, Finland<br>
1.156 provos 1714: Jakob and Itojun were there.
1715: <p>
1.158 deraadt 1716:
1.150 wvdputte 1717: <li><strong>
1.215 nick 1718: <a href="http://www.hal2001.org">HAL 2001</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1719: Aug 10 - 12, 2001, Twente, Netherlands<br>
1.153 jufi 1720: Quite a lot of developers were there, we even had our own tent.
1721: Niels, Rees and Dugsong held talks, more info on the main website
1722: for HAL2001. And of course T-Shirts and CDROMs were sold.
1.150 wvdputte 1723: <p>
1.137 aaron 1724:
1725: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1726: <a href="http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon/">O'Reilly Open Source
1.216 jose 1727: Conference</a></strong>,
1728: Jul 23 - 27, 2001, San Diego, California, USA<br>
1.148 brian 1729: OpenBSD had a booth selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
1730: Ian Darwin presented his "Firewalls and Secure Internet Servers
1731: with OpenBSD" tutorial.
1732: <p>
1733:
1734: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 1735: <a href="http://www.defcon.org">DEF CON Nine</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1736: Jul 13 - 15, 2001 Las Vegas, USA<br>
1.148 brian 1737: OpenBSD developers and users make it a point to attend every year,
1738: and had a table selling CD's, shirts, etc.
1739: <p>
1740:
1741: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1742: <a href="http://www.sek.co.kr/sek2001/sek_html/main.htm">Software
1.216 jose 1743: Exhibition of Korea</a></strong>,
1744: Jun 26 - 29, 2001, Seoul, Korea<br>
1.146 krw 1745: urisecure/NDS sponsored an OpenBSD booth with CD's, posters,
1746: and a live demo of OpenBSD's IPSEC hardware acceleration.
1747: <p>
1748:
1749: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1750: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix01/">2001 USENIX Annual
1.216 jose 1751: Technical Conference</a></strong>,
1752: Jun 25 - 30, 2001, Boston, USA<br>
1.146 krw 1753: OpenBSD developers were there, selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
1754: <p>
1755:
1756: <li><strong>
1.143 dugsong 1757: <a href="http://www.olymfair.org/eng/workshop.htm">Information
1.201 deraadt 1758: Security OlymFair</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1759: May 16 - 18, 2001, Seoul, Korea<br>
1.143 dugsong 1760: Dug Song gave a detailed introduction to OpenBSD to the Korean
1761: security community.
1762: <p>
1763:
1764: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1765: <a href="http://www.osdem.org/">2001 Open Source and Free Software
1.216 jose 1766: Developers' Meeting</a></strong>,
1767: Feb 3 - 4, 2001, Brussels, Belgium<br>
1.137 aaron 1768: There was an OpenBSD booth with some loose talks made.
1769: <p>
1770:
1771: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 1772: <a href="http://www.linuxexpoparis.com/">2001 Linux Expo</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1773: Feb 1 - 2, 2001, Paris, France<br>
1.236 jose 1774: There was an OpenBSD booth in the 'F' area.
1.137 aaron 1775: <p>
1.236 jose 1776: </ul>
1.137 aaron 1777:
1.132 louis 1778: <h3>2000</h3>
1779:
1.236 jose 1780: <ul>
1.132 louis 1781: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1782: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa2000/">LISA 2000, USENIX
1.216 jose 1783: Systems Administration Conference</a></strong>,
1784: Dec 3 - 8, 2000, New Orleans, USA<br>
1.134 jufi 1785: Wim Vandeputte and other volunteers have been running a sales table with
1786: shirts, posters and the brand new 2.8 CDs.
1787: <p>
1788:
1789: <li><strong>
1.215 nick 1790: <a href="http://www.disc2000.unam.mx/disc/index-ing.html">DISC 2000</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1791: Nov 26 - Dec 1, 2000, Mexico City, Mexico<br>
1.133 deraadt 1792: Theo de Raadt explained the security auditing process and subsequent secure
1793: configuration choices made in OpenBSD, in a talk entitled "Secure by Default".
1794: Over the next few days, he also participated in two panels with various security
1795: experts who had flown in from around the world. Following this, Theo climbed
1.151 jsyn 1796: one of the largest volcanoes, called Malinche.
1.133 deraadt 1797: <p>
1798:
1799: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1800: <a href="http://www.nluug.nl/events/nj2000">NLUUG Najaarsconferentie
1.216 jose 1801: 2000</a></strong>,
1802: Nov 9, 2000, Ede, NL<br>
1.236 jose 1803: There was an OpenBSD booth where people dropped by for information or to
1.413 grunk 1804: get their T-shirts, polos, caps and 2.7 CDs.
1.13 deraadt 1805: <p>
1.4 millert 1806:
1.132 louis 1807: <li><strong><a name=ipsec2000></a>
1.236 jose 1808: <a href="http://www.upperside.fr/baipsecy2k.htm">IPsec 2000 Global
1.216 jose 1809: Summit</a></strong>,
1810: Oct 24 - 27, 2000, Paris La Defense, France<br>
1.159 miod 1811: Niels Provos ended the conference by speaking about the IPsec architecture
1.132 louis 1812: in OpenBSD. The talk was well received and many people were very interested
1813: about our cryptographic hardware acceleration.
1814:
1815: <ul>
1.236 jose 1816: <li>The IPsec Architecture in OpenBSD<br>
1.215 nick 1817: <a href="#ipsec2000">IPsec 2000 Global Summit</a> by Niels Provos.<br>
1.132 louis 1818: <a href="papers/ipsec-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1819: </ul>
1.4 millert 1820: <p>
1.132 louis 1821:
1.7 deraadt 1822: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 1823: <a href="http://ApacheCon.Com/2000/EU/">ApacheCon Europa 2000</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1824: Oct 23 - 25, 2000, London, UK<br>
1.132 louis 1825: There was an OpenBSD booth where people could drop by for information and
1826: a chat with the local OpenBSD personnel. We also had the essentials for
1.413 grunk 1827: your wardrobe (T-shirts, polos, caps), for your hardware (2.7 CDs) and for your
1.132 louis 1828: mind (drinks afterwards).
1829: <p>
1830:
1.216 jose 1831: <li><strong>
1832: <a href="http://www.bsdcon.com/">BSD Con 2000</a></strong>,
1833: Oct 18 - 20, 2000, Monterey, CA, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1834: David Terrell ran an OpenBSD booth selling T-shirts and CDs and answering
1835: questions.
1.32 deraadt 1836: <p>
1.1 deraadt 1837:
1.132 louis 1838: <li><strong><a name=opensource2000></a>
1.236 jose 1839: <a href="http://www.opensource-forum.com/konferens">The Open Source
1.216 jose 1840: Revolution</a></strong>,
1841: Oct 5, 2000, Stockholm, Sweden<br>
1.133 deraadt 1842: Theo de Raadt spoke about how user expectations for security out of the box
1843: have changed over the last years.
1.1 deraadt 1844: <p>
1845:
1.132 louis 1846: <li><strong><a name=sec2000></a>
1.216 jose 1847: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/sec2000/">Usenix Security</a></strong>,
1848: Aug 14 - 17, 2000, Denver, Colorado, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1849: Some OpenBSD developers were there and one paper was presented:
1850: <ul>
1.236 jose 1851: <li>Encrypting Virtual Memory<br>
1.132 louis 1852: <a href="#sec2000">Usenix Security 2000</a>
1.205 deraadt 1853: by Niels Provos.<br>
1.132 louis 1854: <a href="papers/swapencrypt.ps">paper</a> and
1855: <a href="papers/swapencrypt-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1856: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 1857: <p>
1.132 louis 1858:
1.10 provos 1859: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 1860: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-8-post.html">Defcon 2000</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1861: Jul 28 - 30, 2000, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.236 jose 1862: Kjell Wooding (our IPF maintainer), James Phillips from the
1.132 louis 1863: <a href="http://www.deadly.org">OpenBSD Journal</a>, and Theo de Raadt
1.413 grunk 1864: had a table and were selling OpenBSD CDROMs, T-shirts, and posters on
1.132 louis 1865: Friday and Saturday. Hordes of people visited our table and we at the
1866: end we were completely sold out of CDROMS and shirts (allowing us to go
1867: check out Hoover Dam's hardhat tour on Sunday and leave the madness behind).
1868: <br>
1869: We were completely amazed at the people who stopped by our table, to say
1870: that they were relying on OpenBSD.
1871: <p>
1.32 deraadt 1872:
1.132 louis 1873: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1874: <a href="http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon2000/">O'Reilly Open Source
1.216 jose 1875: Conference 2000</a></strong>,
1876: Jul 17 - 20, 2000, Monterey, California, USA<br>
1877: Ian Darwin presented a <a href="papers/oreilly2000/">tutorial</a> on
1.132 louis 1878: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/w/bsd_tutorials.html">
1879: Secure Internet Servers/Firewalls with OpenBSD</a>, and bravely
1880: manned the OpenBSD booth for the remainder of the show.
1881: Kjell Wooding took part in a panel discussion on the Future of the BSDs,
1882: and spoke about
1883: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/w/bsd_presentations.html">
1.241 david 1884: Secure By Default.</a> Both sessions were well attended, and at least
1.132 louis 1885: one Linux sysadmin was seen racing for a keyboard, scared look in his eyes,
1.236 jose 1886: after the security talk.
1.3 provos 1887: <p>
1.132 louis 1888:
1.6 deraadt 1889: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 1890: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.de/2000/english/">LinuxTag 2000</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1891: Jun 29 - Jul 2, 2000, Stuttgart, Germany<br>
1.132 louis 1892: There was a BSD booth where we had the first <a href="27.html">OpenBSD 2.7 CDs</a> for Europe
1893: and the new blue stitchwork <a href="tshirts.html#11">Blowfish Polo</a> shirt.
1894: <br>
1895: Christian Weisgerber gave a
1896: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.de/2000/english/conference/talks.php3?ID=3">talk
1897: on BSD</a>.
1.32 deraadt 1898: <p>
1.1 deraadt 1899:
1.216 jose 1900: <li><strong><a name=usenix2000></a>
1.236 jose 1901: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix2000/">Usenix Annual Technical
1.216 jose 1902: Conference.</a></strong>,
1903: Jun 18 - 23, 2000, San Diego, California, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1904: Almost 20 OpenBSD developers showed up for the 25th anniversary of Usenix.
1905: We had a vendor booth, as well as a number of papers being presented.
1906: Conference attendees had the opportunity to test drive the new release,
1907: OpenBSD 2.7, on the 30 workstations in the terminal room. For the first
1908: time ever, the terminal room and wavelan networks also had a IPv6 connection,
1.147 jason 1909: and some users even discovered so by themselves.
1.132 louis 1910: Theo also held a BoF on the Wednesday evening, after which the developers
1911: had almost too much singing in foreign languages with the help of helium.
1912: <ul>
1913:
1914: <li>Implementing Internet Key Exchange, IKE.<br>
1915: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
1.216 jose 1916: by Angelos D. Keromytis, Niklas Hallqvist.<br>
1.132 louis 1917: <a href="papers/ikepaper.ps">paper</a> and
1918: <a href="papers/ikeslides.ps">slides</a>.
1919:
1920: <li>Transparent Network Security Policy Enforcement.<br>
1921: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
1.216 jose 1922: by Angelos D. Keromytis, Jason L. Wright.<br>
1.132 louis 1923: <a href="papers/bridgepaper.ps">paper</a> and
1924: <a href="papers/bridgeslides.ps">slides</a>.
1.2 deraadt 1925:
1.132 louis 1926: <li>Safety Checking of Kernel Extensions.<br>
1927: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
1.205 deraadt 1928: by Craig Metz.
1.132 louis 1929: </ul>
1.2 deraadt 1930: <p>
1931:
1.132 louis 1932: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1933: <a href="http://www.manlug.mcc.ac.uk/calendar.html">OpenBSD: The Open
1.216 jose 1934: Source Secure Operating System</a></strong>,
1935: Jun 17, 2000, 14:00. Manchester, UK<br>
1.132 louis 1936: Sam Smith gave a rundown of features coming in OpenBSD 2.7 and
1937: OpenSSH 2.1. His <a href="http://www.manlug.mcc.ac.uk/20000617/">slides</a>
1938: are available from the user group's site.
1.1 deraadt 1939: <p>
1.2 deraadt 1940:
1.132 louis 1941: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 1942: <a href="reprints/crypto2000.html">OpenBSD Crypto 2000 conference</a></strong>,
1943: Jun 15 - 20, 2000, Calgary, AB, Canada<br>
1.132 louis 1944: Repeating the tradition of a similar meeting held last year, many
1945: OpenBSD developers from around the world converged on Calgary
1946: for a weekend long hack-and-drink session. As before, the event
1947: was invitation only. Many significant things got done, including
1948: ipv6 + ipsec running over hardware crypto devices.
1.1 deraadt 1949: <p>
1.11 jkatz 1950:
1.17 deraadt 1951: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 1952: <a href="http://www.converge2000.com">CONVERGENCE 2000</a></strong>,
1953: May 18, 2000. Convention Centre, Calgary, Alberta, Canada<br>
1.132 louis 1954: Theo de Raadt participated in a panel discussion about the pros and cons
1955: of using Open Source software in various business environments. The local
1956: users also handed out OpenSSH and OpenBSD posters, and were absolutely
1957: surprised and amazed by the number of Calgary companies quietly using
1958: OpenBSD.
1.21 pattonme 1959: <p>
1.17 deraadt 1960:
1.23 niklas 1961: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 1962: <a href="http://www.cansecwest.com/">CanSecWest</a></strong>,
1963: May 10 - 12, 2000. Robson Conference Centre, Vancouver, BC, Canada<br>
1.132 louis 1964: Theo de Raadt spoke about why programmers keep making the same stupid mistakes,
1965: what types of efforts might improve this, and how this all relates to auditing
1.375 grunk 1966: efforts.
1967: Rain Forest Puppy, Ron Gula (Network Security Wizards), Ken Williams (E&Y),
1.216 jose 1968: Marty Roesch (snort/HiverWorld), and Fyodor (nmap) were among the other speakers
1.132 louis 1969: at this event. (On a personal note: at this conference Theo realized that three
1970: leading Network Intrusion Detection System companies use OpenBSD as their
1971: base operating system: Hiverworld, Network Security Wizards, and NFR).
1.32 deraadt 1972: <p>
1.25 deraadt 1973:
1.132 louis 1974: <li><strong>
1975: <a href="http://www.zdevents.com/comdex/spring2000/">Linux Business Expo /
1.201 deraadt 1976: COMDEX Spring 2000</a></strong>,
1977: Apr 19, 2000, Chicago, IL, USA<br>
1.216 jose 1978: Louis Bertrand represented OpenBSD at a BSD BOF with FreeBSD/BDSI,
1.132 louis 1979: NetBSD and Apple (Darwin is BSD-derived). The BOF was attended by about
1980: 75 people, many of whom were new to *BSD. It was an opportunity to
1981: explore future cooperation among the various BSD groups and companies.
1.25 deraadt 1982: <p>
1.23 niklas 1983:
1.31 deraadt 1984: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1985: <a href="http://www.nordu.org/NordU2000/">NordU 2000 -- The second
1.216 jose 1986: EurOpen/USENIX Conference</a></strong>,
1987: Feb 8 - 11, 2000. Malmo, Sweden<br>
1.140 jufi 1988: About 15 OpenBSD team members attended.
1.132 louis 1989: OpenBSD CDs and shirts were sold at a booth donated by the conference.<br>
1990: As well, Theo de Raadt gave an invited talk on Wednesday morning
1991: about why software quality/security suffers, and what we can do to
1992: improve it.
1.32 deraadt 1993: <p>
1.31 deraadt 1994:
1.201 deraadt 1995: <li><strong>BSD BOF session, LinuxWorld Expo</strong>,
1.216 jose 1996: Feb 3, 2000, New York, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1997: Representatives from OpenBSD, BSDi, and FreeBSD hosted a
1998: "Birds Of a Feather" session at the <a
1999: href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/">New York LinuxWorld Expo</a>.<br>
2000: There were installation CD-ROMs, free food, and even free Daemon Horns!
1.33 niklas 2001: <p>
1.236 jose 2002: </ul>
1.33 niklas 2003:
1.132 louis 2004: <h3>1999</h3>
1.36 niklas 2005:
1.236 jose 2006: <ul>
1.216 jose 2007: <li><strong>The Bazaar</strong>,
2008: Dec 14 - 16, 1999, New York, New York, USA<br>
1.132 louis 2009: Wes Sonnenreich and Tom Yates presented a tutorial on building
1.216 jose 2010: firewalls with OpenBSD. BoF of open source BSDs took place.
1.413 grunk 2011: 2.6 release CDROMs and T-shirts were sold.
1.132 louis 2012: Emphatic interest has been shown by representatives from press, international
2013: government and military institutions.
1.45 jason 2014: <p>
2015:
1.216 jose 2016: <li><strong><a name=lisa99></a>
1.236 jose 2017: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa99/">13th Systems Administration
1.216 jose 2018: Conference (LISA 99)</a></strong>,
2019: Nov 7 - 12, 1999, Seattle, Washington, USA<br>
1.132 louis 2020: Bob Beck presented a paper about the U of A's nifty OpenBSD based
2021: solution to the problem of public Ethernet jacks in the technical sessions
2022: starting at 11:00 AM on the 11th.<br>
2023: There were many other OpenBSD
2024: people at this conference as well, as well as a booth selling CDROMs and
1.413 grunk 2025: T-shirts. His paper is available at:
1.132 louis 2026:
2027: <ul>
2028: <li>Dealing with Public Ethernet Jacks-Switches, Gateways, and Authentication.<br>
1.236 jose 2029: <a href="events.html#lisa99">LISA 1999</a>,
1.206 david 2030: by Bob Beck.<br>
1.236 jose 2031: <a href="papers/authgw-paper.ps">paper</a> and
2032: <a href="papers/authgw-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 2033: </ul>
2034: <p>
2035:
2036: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 2037: IP-dagarna 1999</strong>,
1.216 jose 2038: Oct 27 - 28, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden<br>
1.132 louis 2039: Håkan Olsson & Jakob Schlyter spoke at the DNSSEC session on the 27th.
2040: <p>
2041:
2042: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2043: <a href="http://www.opensource-forum.com/konferens/">Linux & Open Source
1.216 jose 2044: Software '99</a></strong>,
2045: Oct 21, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)<br>
1.132 louis 2046: Niklas Hallqvist spoke on the topic of how to use
1.236 jose 2047: <a
1.375 grunk 2048: href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4">IPsec</a> for securing communications.
1.132 louis 2049: <p>
2050:
2051: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2052: <a href="http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference">Reflections/Projections
1.216 jose 2053: 1999</a></strong>,
2054: Oct 8 - 10, 1999, Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA<br>
1.132 louis 2055: Theo de Raadt spoke at 10:00am on the 9th. Other OpenBSD
2056: developers from the east coast attended as well.
2057: <p>
2058:
1.236 jose 2059: <li><strong><a name="ipsec99"></a>
1.216 jose 2060: IPsec Interoperability tests</strong>,
2061: Sep 27 - 30, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)<br>
1.236 jose 2062: A dozen vendors, among them OpenBSD, tested more than 15
1.375 grunk 2063: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4">IPsec</a>
1.132 louis 2064: products, both gateways and hosts, for interoperability. The tests
2065: were successful as far as general IPsec and pre-shared key
2066: authentication went, OpenBSD interoperated with everyone, but due to
2067: time constraints we never got to test the certificate support
2068: appropriately. The results were presented later that fall at a
2069: conference in Stockholm.
2070: <p>
2071:
2072: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2073: <a href="http://www.auug.org.au/winter/auug99">AUUG'99</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 2074: Sep 8 - 11, 1999, Melbourne, Australia<br>
1.132 louis 2075: Theo de Raadt gave two talks on "quality of software" related issues
2076: and participated on a panel about how open source projects are
2077: coordinated.
2078: <p>
2079:
2080: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2081: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/sec99/index.html">Usenix
1.216 jose 2082: Security</a></strong>,
2083: Aug 23 - 26, 1999, Washington, DC, USA<br>
1.132 louis 2084: Many OpenBSD people from the east coast showed up and sold CDs and
2085: shirts. It was pretty clear from discussions that many people were
2086: very aware of OpenBSD, and that OpenBSD was being used in very
2087: significant security roles.
2088: <p>
2089:
2090: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2091: <a href="http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/99jul/index.html">45th IETF
1.216 jose 2092: meeting</a></strong>,
2093: Jul 12 - 16, 1999, Oslo, Norway<br>
1.132 louis 2094: A number of OpenBSD team members from all over the world were at this
2095: conference. In addition to attending the IPsec and DNS working groups (among
2096: others) we did IPsec/IKE interoperability testing together with
1.166 miod 2097: the Japanese KAME project. Also, Angelos D. Keromytis did a presentation on
1.132 louis 2098: his work with keynote and isakmpd in OpenBSD.
2099: <p>
1.45 jason 2100:
1.132 louis 2101: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2102: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-6.html">Defcon 6.0</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 2103: Jul 9 - 11, 1999, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132 louis 2104: At this conference, the OpenBSD team sold 100 or so 2.5 release CDROMs
1.413 grunk 2105: and a TON of T-shirts.
1.46 deraadt 2106: <p>
1.132 louis 2107:
1.236 jose 2108: <li><strong><a name="usenix99"></a>
2109: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix99/index.html">
1.216 jose 2110: Usenix Annual Technical Conference</a></strong>,
2111: Jun 6 - 11, 1999, Monterey, California, USA<br>
1.106 jufi 2112: The <a href="http://www.usenix.org">USENIX Association</a>
1.46 deraadt 2113: provided The OpenBSD Project with a grant to underwrite the production
1.106 jufi 2114: of CDs of OpenBSD 2.5. (We distributed the
2115: release for free to attendees of the USENIX Annual Conference in
1.46 deraadt 2116: June.)
1.132 louis 2117: <br>
1.46 deraadt 2118: Usenix team members were involved in the authoring and
1.132 louis 2119: presentation of 4 OpenBSD-related papers:
2120:
1.375 grunk 2121: <a name="anoncvs_paper"></a>
1.46 deraadt 2122: <ul>
1.66 deraadt 2123: <li>Opening the Source Repository with Anonymous CVS.<br>
1.236 jose 2124: <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216 jose 2125: by Charles D. Cranor, Theo de Raadt.<br>
1.236 jose 2126: <a href="papers/anoncvs-paper.ps">paper</a> and
2127: <a href="papers/anoncvs-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 2128: <br>
1.66 deraadt 2129: <li>A Future-Adaptable Password Scheme.<br>
1.236 jose 2130: <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216 jose 2131: by Niels Provos, David Mazieres.<br>
1.236 jose 2132: <a href="papers/bcrypt-paper.ps">paper</a> and
2133: <a href="papers/bcrypt-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 2134: <br>
1.66 deraadt 2135: <li>Cryptography in OpenBSD: An Overview.<br>
1.236 jose 2136: <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216 jose 2137: by Theo de Raadt, Niklas Hallqvist, Artur Grabowski,
2138: Angelos D. Keromytis, Niels Provos.<br>
1.236 jose 2139: <a href="papers/crypt-paper.ps">paper</a> and
2140: <a href="papers/crypt-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 2141: <br>
1.66 deraadt 2142: <li>strlcpy and strlcat -- consistent, safe, string copy and concatenation.<br>
1.236 jose 2143: <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216 jose 2144: by Todd C. Miller, Theo de Raadt.<br>
1.236 jose 2145: <a href="papers/strlcpy-paper.ps">paper</a> and
2146: <a href="papers/strlcpy-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 2147: </ul>
1.66 deraadt 2148: <p>
1.46 deraadt 2149:
1.51 deraadt 2150: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2151: <a href="http://www.linuxexpo.org">5th Annual Linux Expo</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 2152: May 18 - 22, 1999, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA<br>
1.132 louis 2153: Some OpenBSD team members were at this conference selling OpenBSD 2.5 CDs,
2154: OpenBSE T-shirts, as well as Blowfish T-shirts, which sold out very quickly
2155: at a table donated by the Expo. OpenBSD was the only BSD represented at the
2156: vendor exposition, and we had good chance to present a secure alternative
2157: to Linux.
1.51 deraadt 2158: <p>
2159:
1.53 jakob 2160: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2161: <a href="http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/99mar/index.html">44th IETF
1.216 jose 2162: meeting</a></strong>,
2163: Mar 15 - 19, 1999, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA<br>
1.132 louis 2164: Some OpenBSD team members were at this conference, in particular our
2165: IPSEC developers.
1.53 jakob 2166: <p>
2167:
1.132 louis 2168: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2169: <a href="http://www.europen.se/NordU99">NordU99 -- The first
1.216 jose 2170: EurOpen/USENIX Conference</a></strong>,
2171: Feb 9 - 12, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden<br>
1.132 louis 2172: A couple of OpenBSD team members were there and some of the swedish user
2173: society as well. OpenBSD CDs were sold at a booth and at the end of a
2174: security talk, the project got applauded for its continuous strive of auditing
2175: security sensitive parts of the system.
1.59 deraadt 2176: <p>
1.236 jose 2177: </ul>
1.59 deraadt 2178:
1.132 louis 2179: <h3>1998</h3>
1.59 deraadt 2180:
1.236 jose 2181: <ul>
1.132 louis 2182: <li><strong><a name=ipsec98></a>
1.236 jose 2183: <a href="http://www.netman.se/kurs/96.html">IPsec/VPN Interoperability
2184: tests & seminar</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 2185: Dec 14, 1998, Stockholm, Sweden (in swedish)<br>
1.132 louis 2186: OpenBSD was represented as one of about a dozen
1.375 grunk 2187: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4">IPsec</a>
1.132 louis 2188: implementations who were tested for interoperability. The tests were
2189: successful, both for the technology in general, and for OpenBSD in
2190: specific. We managed to communicate encrypted with every vendor present,
2191: and to negotiate keys via IKE with everyone capable.
1.70 deraadt 2192: <p>
2193:
1.236 jose 2194: <li><strong><a name="lisaboston-98"></a>
2195: <a href="http://usenix.org/events/lisa98">LISA '98: 12th Systems Administration
1.216 jose 2196: Conference</a></strong>,
2197: Dec 6 - 11, 1998, Boston, Massachusetts<br>
1.132 louis 2198: More than 10 OpenBSD team members showed up. By far, OpenBSD was the
2199: largest representative group from free software at the conference.
2200: Usenix gave us a table in the vendor area where we sold 2.4 CDROMs,
1.413 grunk 2201: 2.3 "wire-frame" T-shirts, and the new 2.4 embroidered
2202: "Because security matters..." T-shirts, polos, and sweaters.
1.132 louis 2203: An OpenBSD BOF was held one evening, led by Theo de Raadt.
2204: A PalmPilot schedule loader was at the membership booth, powered by OpenBSD.
2205: <br>
2206: The terminal room ran OpenBSD 2.4 on 45 machines. Obviously trust in OpenBSD
2207: had increased since many people,normally wary of security problems of open
2208: terminal rooms, were seen using the machines.
1.72 ho 2209: <p>
2210:
1.73 deraadt 2211: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2212: <a href="http://www.asc.unam.mx/disc98">DISC - Seguridad en
1.217 jose 2213: Cómputo 98</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 2214: Nov 2 - 7, 1998, Mexico City<br>
1.132 louis 2215: Theo de Raadt gave a talk about security auditing, sponsored by
1.236 jose 2216: <a href="http://www.core-sdi.com">CORE SDI S.A.</a>, an Argentine
1.132 louis 2217: security auditing company who strongly believes in the future
1.236 jose 2218: of OpenBSD. (<a href="papers/mexico98-slides.ps">Slides are available</a>).
1.131 jufi 2219: <p>
1.73 deraadt 2220:
1.236 jose 2221: <li><strong>IP-dagarna</strong>,
1.216 jose 2222: Oct 29, 30 1998, Stockholm, Sweden (in swedish)<br>
1.132 louis 2223: At this conference, entirely devoted to IP, Niklas Hallqvist from the
2224: OpenBSD team held a talk on the IKE (a.k.a ISAKMP/Oakley) key management
2225: protocol and experiences from the implementation of <strong>isakmpd</strong>,
2226: an IKE implementation funded by Ericsson Radio Systems and developed
2227: primarily for the OpenBSD IPSEC stack.
1.79 deraadt 2228: <p>
1.73 deraadt 2229:
1.80 deraadt 2230: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 2231: <a href="http://www.nceexpo.com/">NCEE '98</a></strong>,
2232: Oct 9 - 10, 1998, Auburn, Maine, USA<br>
1.132 louis 2233: An extensive after-action report was sent to advocacy@openbsd.org. While
1.151 jsyn 2234: sales of shirts and CDROMs left much to be desired, we did have good
1.132 louis 2235: opportunities to further project visibility and highlight its strengths.
1.80 deraadt 2236: <p>
2237:
1.93 louis 2238: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2239: <a href="http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference">Reflections/Projections
1.216 jose 2240: 1998</a></strong>,
1.236 jose 2241: Oct 2 - 4, 1998, Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA<br>
1.132 louis 2242: Theo de Raadt spoke in a panel about Open/Free software with Eric
2243: Raymond and others.
1.93 louis 2244: <p>
2245:
1.216 jose 2246: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2247: <a href="http://opensource.oreilly.com/townmeet.html">O'Reilly and
2248: Associates Open Source Developer Days</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 2249: Aug 21, 1998, San Jose, California, USA<br>
1.132 louis 2250: OpenBSD team members were on-hand to discuss OpenBSD's role among the
1.413 grunk 2251: other free software projects available. They also sold some CDs and T-shirts.
1.96 deraadt 2252: <p>
2253:
1.236 jose 2254: <li><strong><a name="defcon98"></a>
2255: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-6.html">Defcon VI</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 2256: Jul 31 - Aug 2, 1998, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132 louis 2257: The router to the outside world was an OpenBSD 2.3 box. It was involved
2258: in a "capture the flag" competition in which an entire room of crackers
2259: attempted to break into it and machines running other operating systems.
2260: The OpenBSD box was not broken into.
2261: <br>
2262: Almost 100 OpenBSD 2.3 CDROMs were sold (we ran out again). The primates
1.236 jose 2263: at <a href="http://www.monkey.org">monkey.org</a> brought 2.3
1.413 grunk 2264: "wire-frame" OpenBSD T-shirts to the conference and sold almost
1.132 louis 2265: 200 of them. The proceeds from the sales were donated to the OpenBSD project.
1.96 deraadt 2266: <p>
1.94 deraadt 2267:
1.236 jose 2268: <li><strong><a href="http://www.blackhat.com">BlackHat Sessions</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 2269: Jul 29 - 30, 1998, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132 louis 2270: Theo de Raadt presented a talk entitled
2271: "Auditing software for security" about the OpenBSD security auditing
2272: team's process and the lessons the team learned. The talk concentrated
2273: on how our process fixes bugs -- not just holes -- since one never knows
2274: when 5 bugs will act together to become a hole.
1.99 deraadt 2275: <p>
2276:
1.236 jose 2277: <li><strong><a name="usenix-neworleans"></a>
2278: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/usenix98/index.html">Usenix Annual Technical Conference</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 2279: Jun 15 - 19, 1998, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA<br>
1.132 louis 2280: At Usenix 1998 there was a strong OpenBSD presence both in the Freenix
2281: and normal tracks. Theo did a general talk about what the OpenBSD
2282: project offers. Angelos held a panel about IPSEC (which is quite an
2283: OpenBSD topic since IPSEC development at that time was so much further
2284: ahead in OpenBSD than anywhere else).
2285: <br>
2286: The terminal room PCs ran OpenBSD 2.3. We sold many CDROMs. The
1.413 grunk 2287: first style of OpenBSD T-shirt also sold quite well.
1.101 wvdputte 2288: <p>
2289:
1.105 wvdputte 2290: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2291: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/sec98/index.html">Usenix Security</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 2292: Jan 26 - 29, 1998, San Antonio, Texas, USA<br>
1.132 louis 2293: At this conference, Theo presented an evening talk which basically
2294: turned into a list of fixed security problems and cautionary tales about
2295: subsystems in which future problems may be encountered
1.236 jose 2296: (<a href="papers/security98-slides.ps">slides available</a>).
1.105 wvdputte 2297: <br>
1.132 louis 2298: The terminal room PCs ran OpenBSD 2.2.
2299: <p>
1.236 jose 2300: </ul>
1.105 wvdputte 2301:
1.132 louis 2302: <h3>1997</h3>
1.107 deraadt 2303:
1.236 jose 2304: <ul>
1.113 deraadt 2305: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2306: <a href="http://www.hip97.nl">HIP</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 2307: Aug, 1997, Almere, Netherlands<br>
1.236 jose 2308: Niels held a
2309: <a href="http://www.physnet.uni-hamburg.de/provos/hip97-tcpip.html">talk</a>
1.132 louis 2310: about the problems of unencrypted TCP/IP connections, offering IPSEC as
2311: possible solution.
1.113 deraadt 2312: <p>
1.132 louis 2313:
1.236 jose 2314: <li><strong>HOPE</strong>,
1.216 jose 2315: Aug, 1997, New York, New York, USA<br>
1.166 miod 2316: The terminal room consisted primarily of DECstations running
1.236 jose 2317: OpenBSD 2.1. Once again, the <a href="http://www.l0pht.com">L0phT</a>
1.132 louis 2318: people had very good things to say about our security.
1.113 deraadt 2319: <p>
1.105 wvdputte 2320:
1.236 jose 2321: <li><strong><a name="defcon5"></a>
2322: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-5.html">Defcon V</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 2323: Jul 11 - 13, 1997, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132 louis 2324: At this conference, the OpenBSD team sold 100 or so 2.1 release CDROMs.
2325: <br>
2326: Since this is the primary security conference, many speakers said very
1.140 jufi 2327: good things about our stance on security... particularly people like
1.236 jose 2328: <a href="http://www.l0pht.com">the L0phT</a>.
1.118 deraadt 2329: <p>
2330:
1.125 deraadt 2331: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2332: <a
2333: href="http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/ana97/index.html">Usenix Annual Technical Conference</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 2334: Jan 6 - 10, 1997, Anaheim, California, USA.<br>
1.132 louis 2335: Theo de Raadt held a BOF ("Birds Of a Feather", ie. a meeting of people
2336: interested in the same thing) about OpenBSD.
1.236 jose 2337: </ul>
1.125 deraadt 2338:
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