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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>
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1.597 mbalmer 149: <hr>
150:
151: <h2>Past events:</h2>
152:
1.616 wvdputte 153: <h3>2007</h3>
154: <ul>
1.658 ! reyk 155:
! 156: <li><strong><a name=decix6th></a>
! 157: <a href="http://www.de-cix.org/">DE-CIX 6th Technical Meeting</a></strong>,
! 158: Apr 19, 2007, Schloss Kransberg, near Usingen, Germany.<br>
! 159: Henning Brauer and Reyk Flöter talked at the 6th technical
! 160: meeting of the Deutsche Commercial Internet Exchange (DE-CIX).
! 161: Henning gave an update on OpenBGPD and Reyk about the latest
! 162: network-related changes since OpenBSD 4.1. They also talked about
! 163: the status of test OpenBGPD route server running at the DE-CIX.
! 164: <p>
! 165:
1.651 fkr 166: <li><strong><a name="litol07"></a>
167: <a href="http://www.lit-ol.de/">2. Linux-Informationstag Oldenburg</a></strong>,
168: Apr 14 - 15, 2007, Oldenburg, Germany.<br>
169: Small Open-Source event. Of course there was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth run by
170: Bernd, Felix and Tobias Stoeckmann.
171: <p>
1.650 deraadt 172:
173: <li><strong><a name="fisl8"></a>
174: <a href="http://fisl.softwarelivre.org/8.0/www/?q=en">fisl8.0</a></strong>,
175: Apr 12-14, 2007, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil.<br>
176: This was a fairly large conference in South America. Theo de Raadt
177: presented a talk about <a href="papers/brhard2007/">Hardware Documentation</a>.
178: <p>
179:
1.645 ray 180: <li><strong><a name="nycbug2007-cvs"></a>
181: <a href="http://nycbug.org/">NYC*BUG April 2007</a></strong>,
182: Apr 4, 2007, NYC, USA.<br>
183: Ray Lai (ray@) gave a
184: <a href="http://www.nycbug.org/index.php?NAV=Home;SUBM=10104">talk</a>
185: on OpenCVS.
1.648 ray 186: <a href="papers/nycbug07-cvs/">Slides</a> and
187: <a href="http://www.fetissov.org/public/nycbug/nycbug-04-04-07.mp3">audio</a>
188: are available.
1.645 ray 189: <p>
190:
1.638 grunk 191: <li><strong><a name="elite2007"></a>
192: <a href="http://www.erlug.de/?q=node/323">5. Erlanger Linuxtage</a></strong>,
193: Mar 24 - 25, 2007, Erlangen, Germany.<br>
194: There was an OpenBSD/OpenSSH booth, run by Alexander von Gernler (grunk@).
195: He also gave a talk called
1.639 grunk 196: <a href="papers/elite2007/elite2007-openbsd.pdf">
1.638 grunk 197: "Sichere Systeme mit OpenBSD" (german)</a>.
198: <p>
199:
1.635 tom 200: <li><strong><a name="ukuug2007"></a>
201: <a href="http://www.ukuug.org/events/spring2007/">UKUUG Spring 2007 Conference</a></strong>,
202: Mar 19 - 21, 2007, Manchester, United Kingdom<br>
203: Tom Cosgrove gave a presentation about "Third-Party Applications on OpenBSD"
204: at the annual spring meeting of the
205: <a href="http://www.ukuug.org/">UK's Unix and Open Systems User Group</a>.
206: <p>
207:
1.627 mcbride 208: <li><strong><a name="asiabsdcon2007"></a>
209: <a href="http://www.asiabsdcon.org/">AsiaBSDCon 2007</a></strong>,
210: Mar 8 - 11, 2007, Tokyo, Japan.<br>
1.631 mbalmer 211: Marc Balmer presented a paper <a href="papers/radio-clocks-asiabsdcon07.pdf">Supporting Radio Clocks in OpenBSD</a>. Presentation
212: <a href="papers/asiabsdcon07-radioclocks/index.html">slides</a> are also
213: available.<br>
1.627 mcbride 214: 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 215: Mathieu Sauve-Frankel gave a talk <a href="papers/asiabsdcon07-ipsec/index.html">Recent Improvements in OpenBSD's IPSec Support</a>.<br>
216: Damien Miller presented a paper <a href="papers/openssh-measures-asiabsdcon2007.pdf">Security measures in OpenSSH</a>. Presentation
1.628 djm 217: <a href="papers/openssh-measures-asiabsdcon2007-slides.pdf">slides</a> are
218: also available.<br>
1.627 mcbride 219: 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".
220: <p>
221:
1.622 fkr 222: <li><strong><a name="linuxforum2007"></a>
223: <a href="http://www.linuxforum.dk/2007/">LinuxForum 2007</a></strong>,
224: Mar 2 - 3, 2007, Copenhagen, Denmark.<br>
1.623 wvdputte 225: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth run by Wim, Bernd and Michael in the
1.633 tom 226: <a href="http://img.ba-net.org/LinuxForum2007/">best of circumstances</a>.
1.622 fkr 227: Felix gave a talk titled
228: <a href="papers/linuxforum07/index.html">OpenBSD - Past, Present and Future</a>.
229: <p>
230:
1.619 wvdputte 231: <li><strong><a name=Brussels2007></a>
232: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/2007/">FOSDEM Brussels 2007</a></strong>,
233: Feb 24 - 25, 2007, Brussels, Belgium.<br>
234: There was an an OpenBSD/OpenSSH booth with Matthieu, Marc, Mickey, Saad
235: and Wim. On Saturday we had our traditional BSD dinner.<br>
236: Matthieu gave a <a href="papers/fosdem07-xenocara.pdf">
237: talk on Xenocara</a> in the X.Org devroom.
238: <p>
1.616 wvdputte 239:
240: <li><strong><a name="kiberpipa2007"></a>
241: <a href="http://pot.kiberpipa.org">Kiberpipa open sessions</a></strong>,
242: February 20, 2007, Ljubljana, Slovenia.<br>
243: On that edition of weekly "Open sessions" meetings
244: <a href="http://www.kerberos.si">Mitja Muzenic</a> gave a
245: <a href="http://pot.kiberpipa.org/?p=39">talk</a> on OpenBSD.
1.619 wvdputte 246: <a href="http://www.kerberos.si/papers/Kiberpipa07/">Slides</a> (in Slovenian),
247: <a href="http://video.kiberpipa.org/media/POT_OpenBSD">video</a> (in Slovenian),
1.616 wvdputte 248: and <a href="http://gallery.kerberos.si/kiberpipa07/">photos</a> are available.
249: <p>
250:
251: </ul>
252:
1.445 martin 253: <h3>2006</h3>
1.236 jose 254: <ul>
1.537 deraadt 255:
1.588 espie 256: <li><strong><a name="23c3"></a>
1.577 mbalmer 257: <a href="https://events.ccc.de/congress/2006/">23C3 Chaos Communication Congress in
258: Berlin</a></strong>,
259: December 27 - 30, 2006, Berlin, Germany.<br>
1.597 mbalmer 260: Who can you trust? Well, us. OpenBSD was there, of course, for our annual
1.595 reyk 261: closing event. fkr, grunk, jsg, mbalmer, mickey, sturm, uwe, martin,
1.598 bernd 262: henning, moritz, bernd and wvdputte were there
1.597 mbalmer 263: there to chat with attendees and discuss OpenBSD stuff. It was - as usual -
264: a great end-of-the-year event. See you in Berlin again end of 2007.
1.577 mbalmer 265: <p>
266:
1.594 mbalmer 267: <li><strong><a name="moscow2006"></a>
268: <a href="https://kd85.com/">Moscow OpenBSD user meeting</a></strong>,
269: December 8 - 9, 2006, Moscow, Russia.<br>
1.633 tom 270: For details, please email <a href="mailto:grange@opensd.org">Grange</a>
1.594 mbalmer 271: <p>
272:
1.515 tom 273: <li><strong><a name="opencon2006"></a>
274: <a href="http://www.opencon.org/">OpenCON 2006</a></strong>,
1.569 deraadt 275: 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 276: OpenCON is the only conference dedicated solely to OpenBSD.
1.587 deraadt 277: 135 people were registered for the event, but since it was a completely open event is likely that
278: even more people just walked in.
1.577 mbalmer 279: Most talks were by OpenBSD developers, but there was also an impressive
1.568 mbalmer 280: number of our developers just attending the conference. Talks by OpenBSD
1.577 mbalmer 281: developers were:
1.568 mbalmer 282: <p>
1.535 deraadt 283: <ul>
1.581 claudio 284: <li>Claudio Jeker: <a href="papers/opencon06-network/index.html">
285: Network stack changes in OpenBSD</a>
1.580 deraadt 286: <li>Marc Balmer: <a href="papers/opencon06-nmea/index.html">
287: Support for Time Signal Station Receivers and GPS in OpenBSD</a>
1.601 fkr 288: <li>Felix Kronlage: <a href="papers/opencon06-umts/index.html">Redundancy or mobile deployment with 3G technology</a>
1.584 jsg 289: <li>Jonathan Gray: <a href="papers/opencon06-drivers/index.html">
290: Driver architecture and implementation in OpenBSD</a>
1.543 mbalmer 291: <li>Gordon Klok: <i>Processor Power Management</i>
1.596 dlg 292: <li>David Gwynne: <a href="papers/opencon06-culture.pdf">The OpenBSD
293: Culture</a> and he also filled in for Marco's
294: <a href="papers/opencon06-bio.pdf">Bio and Sensors in OpenBSD</a> talk.
1.582 michele 295: <li>Michele Marchetto: <a href="papers/opencon06-ripd/index.html">
296: OpenRIPD</a>
1.574 mbalmer 297: <li>Reyk Floeter: <i>IPsec demystified</i>
1.580 deraadt 298: <li>Theo de Raadt: <a href="papers/opencon06-docs">
299: Why hardware documentation matters so much and why it is so hard to get</a>
1.535 deraadt 300: </ul>
1.502 mbalmer 301: <p>
1.577 mbalmer 302: Also present were jcs, krw, mglocker, robert, wvdputte, martin, grunk,
303: dhartmei, aanriot, sturm, and bernd. Of course there was an OpenBSD booth
304: run by the usual suspects and you could buy our CD-ROMS, the audio CD and other
1.568 mbalmer 305: stuff.
306: <p>
1.502 mbalmer 307:
1.575 reyk 308: <li><strong><a name=opensourcetag2006></a>
309: <a href="http://www.opensourcetag.de/2006/">OpenSourceTag 2006</a></strong>,
310: Nov 30, 2006, Hannover, Germany.<br>
311: Reyk gave a <a href="http://www.opensourcetag.de/2006/agenda/">talk</a> about OpenBSD
312: as a reference project for secure software.
313: <p>
314:
1.583 henning 315: <li><strong><a name=epf2006></a>
316: <a href="http://www.peering-forum.eu/2006/">European Peering Forum 2006</a></strong>,
317: Nov 29 - 30, 2006, Frankfurt, Germany.<br>
318: The European Peering Forum in Frankfurt was hosted by the 3 big european
319: peering points DE-CIX, AMSIX and LINX, bringing network operators together.
320: Henning was talking about OpenBGPD,
321: <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/epf2006/">slides</a> are available.
322: <p>
323:
1.565 krw 324: <li><strong><a name=conisli2006></a>
325: <a href="http://conisli.org/">CONISLI 2006</a></strong>,
326: Nov 3 - 5, 2006, São Paulo, Brazil<br>
327: 4th edition of São Paulo's International Free Software Congress.
1.567 pedro 328: Ken Westerback and Pedro Martelletto gave a talk
329: (<a href="http://www2.par.inf.puc-rio.br/~pedro/conisli-html/">slides</a>).
1.565 krw 330: <p>
331:
1.559 jason 332: <li><strong><a name=nycbsdcon2006></a>
333: <a href="http://nycbsdcon.org/">NYCBSDCon 2006</a></strong>,
334: Oct 28 - 29, 2006, New York City, USA<br>
335: NYCBSDCon is the main conference on the East Coast for the
336: BSD community to get together to share and gain knowledge,
1.562 jason 337: to network with like minded people. Several developers
1.563 jason 338: spoke, more were on hand:
1.559 jason 339: <ul>
340: <li>Marco Peereboom: <a href="papers/bio.pdf">bio and sensors in OpenBSD</a>
1.563 jason 341: [<a href="http://www.fetissov.org/public/nycbsdcon06/1.6.mp3">audio</a>]
1.605 jason 342: <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 343: <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>]
344: <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 345: <li>Ray Lai: <i>First time booth bunny</i>
346: </ul>
347: <p>
348:
1.556 fgsch 349: <li><strong><a name=linuxworlduk2006></a>
350: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.co.uk/">LinuxWorld Expo UK 2006</a></strong>,
351: Oct 25 - 26, 2006, Olympia, London, UK.<br>
1.558 wvdputte 352: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Wim, Tom, Peter, Federico and
353: Pedro La Peu.
1.556 fgsch 354: <p>
355:
1.589 aanriot 356: <li><strong><a name=cuug2006oct></a>
357: <a href="http://www.cuug.ab.ca/">Calgary Unix Users Group</a></strong>,
358: Oct 24, 2006, downtown Library, basement meeting room, Calgary, Alberta.<br>
359: Theo de Raadt gave a talk regarding the increasing demand for
360: vendors to open up their documentation.
361: <p>
362:
1.553 grunk 363: <li><strong><a name="systems2006"></a>
364: <a href="http://www.systems.de/">Systems</a></strong>,
365: Oct 23 - 27, 2006, Munich, Germany <br>
366: The *BSD projects were located at A3.542.
367: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
368: Wilhelm Bühler, DaN, Nikolay Sturm, Marco Pfatschbacher,
369: and some other volunteers.
370: <p>
371:
1.550 henning 372: <li><strong><a name=hacklu2006></a>
373: <a href="http://www.hack.lu/">hack.lu 2006</a></strong>,
374: Oct 19 - 21, 2006, Luxembourg/Kirchberg.<br>
375: Henning Brauer gave a well received talk about OpenBGPD.
376: <p>
377:
1.547 aanriot 378: <li><strong><a name=aldil2006></a>
379: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/">Les Journées Du Logiciel Libre
380: 2006</a></strong>,
381: Oct 13 - 14, 2006, Lyon, France.<br>
382: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Miod Vallat and Alexandre
383: Anriot with the help of Thierry Thomas and Damien Bergamini.
384: <p>
385:
1.546 mcbride 386: <li><strong><a name=auug2006></a>
387: <a href="http://new.auug.org.au/">AUUG 2006</a></strong>,
388: Oct 10 - 13, 2006, Melbourne, Australia.<br>
389: Ryan Mcbride presented a full-day tutorial entitled
390: "Advanced PF Rulesets" as well as two additional talks
391: <a href="papers/auug2006/pf_evolution/">PF evolution</a>
392: and
393: <a href="papers/auug2006/network_randomness/">Network stack randomness in OpenBSD</a>.
394: <p>
395:
1.532 wvdputte 396: <li><strong><a name=eurooscon2006></a>
397: <a href="http://conferences.oreillynet.com/euos2006/">O'Reilly Euro OSCON 2006
398: </a></strong>,
399: Sep 20, 2006, Brussels, Belgium.<br>
400: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth.
401: <p>
402:
1.528 wvdputte 403: <li><strong><a name=come2linux2006></a>
404: <a href="http://www.come2linux.org/psp/">Come 2 Linux 2006</a></strong>,
405: Sep 9 - 10, 2006, Duisburg-Essen, Germany.<br>
406: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth.
407: <p>
408:
1.525 wvdputte 409: <li><strong><a name=ChaosdaysDarmstadt2006></a>
410: <a href="http://mrmcd101b.metarheinmain.de/index.html">mrmcd101b - MetaRheinMainChaosDays Darmstadt 2006</a>
411: </strong>,
412: Sep 1 - 3, 2006, Darmstadt, Germany.<br>
413: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth.
414: <p>
415:
1.521 fkr 416: <li><strong><a name=LinuxWorldExpoSF2006></a>
417: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/live/12/events/12SFO06A/conference/tracksessions/Security/QMONYA04ROFR">LinuxWorld Expo San Francisco 2006</a>
418: </strong>,
419: Aug 16, 2006, San Francisco, United States.<br>
420: Ted Unangst spoke about OpenBSD as part of a security panel.
421: <p>
422:
1.518 tedu 423: <li><strong><a name=coimbra2006></a>
424: <a href="http://www.openbsd-pt.com/eventos/coimbra06/">Portuguese OpenBSD Usergroup Meeting</a></strong>,
425: Jul 22 - 23, 2006, Coimbra, Portugal.<br>
426: 6th Meeting of the Portuguese OpenBSD Usergroup. Marc Balmer gave a talk
427: "NMEA 0183 and Time Signal Station Receiver Support in OpenBSD".
428: <p>
429:
430: <li><strong><a name=akqit2006></a>
431: <a href="http://www.akqit.ch/w3/DE/actual.html">Arbeitskreis für Qualität in der Informationstechnologie (Working Group for Quality in IT)</a></strong>,
432: Jul 20, 2006, University of Basel, Computer Science Department, Room 205, Bernoullistr. 16, 17:30 - 18:30<br>
1.590 mbalmer 433: Marc Balmer gave a talk in german "<a href="papers/akqit06/index.html">Ensuring
434: Quality in the Development of the Free Operating System OpenBSD</a>".
1.518 tedu 435: <p>
1.475 deraadt 436:
1.510 wvdputte 437: <li><strong><a name="lsm2006"></a>
438: <a href="http://www.rmll.info">Libre Software Meeting 2006</a></strong>,
439: Jul 4 - 8, 2006, Vandoeuvre-les-nancy, France.<br>
440: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Wim, Alexandre, Matthieu and
441: Serge Basterot.
442: <p>
443:
1.508 wvdputte 444: <li><strong><a name=FrOSCon></a>
445: <a href="http://www.froscon.de/">
446: FrOSCon 2006 - Free and Open Source Software Conference</a></strong>,
447: Jun 24 - 25, 2006, Bonn/Rhein-Sieg, Germany.<br>
1.518 tedu 448: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth run by Wim, Waldemar, Manuel and
1.508 wvdputte 449: Tim Kornau.
450: <p>
451:
1.507 mbalmer 452: <li><strong><a name=LinuxwochenLinz2006></a>
453: <a href="http://www.linuxwochen.at/2006/Linz">Linuxwochen Linz 2006</a>
454: </strong>,
455: June 15, 2006, Linz, Austria.<br>
456: There was an an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth run by Wim and the usual suspects.
457: <p>
458:
1.506 deraadt 459: <li><strong><a name=lugverona2006></a>
1.526 steven 460: <a href="http://www.di.univr.it/dol/main?ent=iniziativa&id=857&lang=it">LUGVR@UNIVR</a></strong>
1.506 deraadt 461: Jun 9, 2006, Verona University, Borgo Roma, Italy.<br>
462: Florin Iamandi of <a href="https://www.verona.linux.it">LUG Verona</a>
463: gave a talk
464: (<a href="http://todome.net/docs/obsd_carp/en">English</a> and
465: <a href="http://todome.net/docs/obsd_carp/it">Italian</a>)
466: and live demonstration on redundant failover
467: OpenBSD firewalls. He explained why OpenBSD solves many problems that
468: had previously been the dominion of expensive commercial solutions.
469: Attendees learned about OpenBSD's hard stance and successful fight against
470: bad licences and uncooperating vendors and manufacturers.
471: <p>
472:
1.502 mbalmer 473: <li><strong><a name=Slackathon2006></a>
474: <a href="http://slackathon2006.unix.se">Slackathon 2006</a>
475: </strong>
476: Jun 3, 2006, Stockholm, Sweden.<br>
477: A fundraiser for OpenBSD/SSH held at the Stockholm University. Free
1.505 ian 478: entrance and all donations went straight to the project. Several
1.502 mbalmer 479: developers were talking about OpenBSD here, as well as some hands-on
480: workshops took place with both old and new hardware.
481: <p>
482:
1.500 deraadt 483: <li><strong><a name=cuug2006></a>
484: <a href="http://www.cuug.ab.ca/">Calgary Unix Users Group</a></strong>,
485: Jun 1, 2006, SAIT Campus, Calgary, Alberta.<br>
1.504 miod 486: Bob Beck and Reyk Floeter discussed recent and future networking
487: changes in OpenBSD. Some other OpenBSD developers attended to provide
1.500 deraadt 488: international colour, and there were tshirts, CDs, and posters on hand.
489: CUUG made a substantial contribution to OpenBSD at this event as well.
490: <p>
491:
1.589 aanriot 492: <li><strong><a name=LinuxwochenVienna2006></a>
493: <a href="http://www.linuxwochen.at/2006/Wien">Linuxwochen Vienna 2006</a>
494: </strong>,
495: May 31 - Jun 2, 2006, Vienna, Austria.<br>
496: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth run by Wim and the usual suspects.
497: <p>
498:
1.585 aanriot 499: <li><strong><a name=plug060519></a>
1.586 aanriot 500: <a href="http://www.plugfr.org/">Provence Linux User Group</a></strong>
501: May 19, 2006, Marseille, France.<br>
1.585 aanriot 502: Alexandre Anriot spoke about the deployment of wireless networks with
1.586 aanriot 503: OpenBSD during a meeting of the PLUG.
1.585 aanriot 504: <p>
505:
1.491 bernd 506: <li><strong><a name="SANE2006"></a>
507: <a href="http://www.sane.nl/sane2006/">SANE 2006</a></strong>,
508: May 15 - 19, 2006, Delft, The Netherlands.<br>
509: Peter N. M. Hansteen gave a
510: <a href="http://www.sane.nl/sane2006/program/abstract.php?eventid=35">
511: PF tutorial</a>.
512: <p>
513:
1.490 reyk 514: <li><strong><a name=bsdcan2006></a> <a
515: href="http://www.bsdcan.org/2006/">BSDCan 2006</a></strong>,
516: May 12 - 13, 2006, Ottawa, Canada.<br>
517: David Gwynne gave a talk about hardware monitoring with bio and
518: sensors in OpenBSD (<a href="papers/bsdcan06-biosensors.pdf">slides</a>)
519: and Reyk Flöter talked about the latest
520: wireless support and the incredible plans for the future
521: (<a href="papers/bsdcan06-wlan/index.html">slides</a>), and
522: Peter Hansteen gave a PF tutorial. A number of OpenBSD hackers
523: attended the conference as well, like Bob Beck and Mathieu Sauve-Frankel.
524: <p>
525:
1.489 bernd 526: <li><strong><a name="linuxdays2006"></a>
527: <a href="http://www.linuxdays.ch">Linuxdays 2006</a></strong>,
528: May 8 - 12, 2006, Geneva, Switzerland.<br>
529: Julien Mabillard, a long-time Geneva OpenBSD user, gave a talk to present
530: the overall system and its great features.
531: <p>
532:
1.592 claudio 533: <li><strong><a name="idepes2006"></a>
1.589 aanriot 534: <a href="http://www.idepes.org.br/openbsd/">IDEPES 2006</a></strong>,
535: May 6, 2006, São Paulo, Brazil.<br>
536: First event in Brazil totally dedicated to OpenBSD.
537: <p>
538:
1.592 claudio 539: <li><strong><a name="LinuxTag2006"></a>
1.484 mbalmer 540: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.org/2006/">LinuxTag 2006</a></strong>,
541: May 3 - 6, 2006, Wiesbaden, Germany.<br>
542: OpenBSD was very present at this years Linuxtag:
543: <ul>
544: <li>On friday morning, Claudio and Marc moderated a panel discussion
545: "BLOBS sind das Krebsgeschwür freier Software" (Blobs are the
1.485 mbalmer 546: cancer of free software) that was well attended. Unfortunately no one
1.484 mbalmer 547: in favour of Blobs attended, although we asked almost all Linux
548: distributions...
549: <li>After lunch, Marc Balmer started the afternoon with a talk "OpenBSD
550: as a Strategic Platform for the Basle Public Schools", outlining how and
1.485 mbalmer 551: why the Basle Public school system uses OpenBSD for most of its
1.484 mbalmer 552: infrastructure.
1.592 claudio 553: <li>The next OpenBSD specific talk was by Claudio Jeker,
554: <a href="papers/linuxtag06-network/">"Routing with OpenBSD using
555: OpenOSPFD and OpenBGPD"</a> where he showed various routing setups and
556: how full redundancy can be achieved.
557: [<a href="papers/linuxtag06-network.pdf">paper</a>]
1.484 mbalmer 558: <li>Later, Marc Balmer gave a talk "Decoding Time Signal Stations using
559: OpenBSD" and explained the recent addition of timedelta sensors and the
560: first implementation of such, udcf(4).
561: </ul>
562: <br>
563: All talks where very well received and OpenBSD filled four hours of the
1.485 mbalmer 564: Linuxtag program. We thank Wilhelm Bühler, chair of the BSD-Track
1.484 mbalmer 565: at Linuxtag, for the superb and professional organization.
566: <br>
567: Of course, there was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth run by Wim and the
568: usual suspects.
569: <p>
570:
1.486 mickey 571: <li><strong><a name=NYCBUG2006-05></a>
572: <a href="http://nycbug.org/index.php?NAV=Home&SUBM=83">NYCBUG Monthly meeting</a></strong>,
573: May 3, 2006, NYC, USA.<br>
574: Mickey gave a talk
1.564 jason 575: (<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 576: about PAE work for OpenBSD/i386.<br>
577: Mischa Diehm gave a talk about implementing VPN using OpenBSD.
578: <p>
579:
1.484 mbalmer 580: <li><strong><a name=tokyo2006></a>
581: <a href="http://www.tokyopc.org/index.php/weblog/">Tokyo PC Users Group</a></strong>,
582: May 2, 2006, Tokyo.<br>
583: Theo presented his <a href="papers/ven05-deraadt">"Exploit Mitigation Techniques"</a>
584: talk. There is a
585: <a href="http://www.tokyopc.org/faxmessage/index.html#about">map to the location</a>.
586: <p>
587:
1.478 mbalmer 588: <li><strong><a name=SambaEXPerience2006></a>
589: <a href="http://www.sambaxp.org/">Samba eXPerience 2006</a></strong>,
590: April 24 - 26, 2006, Göttingen, Germany.<br>
591: Marc Balmer gave a talk "Providing Fully Automated Fileserver Services
592: for Public Schools using LDAP Integrated SAMBA on OpenBSD" that was very
593: well received.
594: <br>
595: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth run by Wim and Marc and Felix Kronlage
596: and we could draw a lot of attention.
597: <p>
598:
1.479 deraadt 599: <li><strong><a name=DORSCLUC2006></a>
600: <a href="http://www.open.hr/dc2006/"> DORS / CLUC 2006</a></strong>,
601: April 19-21, 2006, Zagreb, Croatia.<br>
602: <a href="http://www.kerberos.si">Mitja Muzenic</a> gave a
1.480 mbalmer 603: <a href="http://www.kerberos.si/papers/DORS06/index.html">
604: "Introduction to OpenBSD"</a> talk. Conference
605: <a href="http://www.open.hr/dc2006/program.php">program</a> (in croatian
1.479 deraadt 606: only).
607: <p>
608:
1.475 deraadt 609: <li><strong><a name=linuxworld2006></a>
610: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/live/12/events/12BOS06A/">
611: LinuxWorld/OpenSolutions World 2006</a></strong>,
612: April 3 - 6, 2006, Boston, USA.<br>
613: Jason Dixon presented
614: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/live/12/events/12BOS06A/conference/tracksessions/Security/QMONYA04Q1DK">Secure Network Architectures with OpenBSD</a>,
615: a talk on OpenBSD that outlines the various technologies that make
616: it a leader of secure networking platforms.
617: <br>
618: He spent time around the exposition BSD booth with giveaways
619: and early release OpenBSD 3.9 CDs.
620: <p>
621:
622: <li><strong><a name=cansecwest06></a>
623: <a href="http://www.cansecwest.com">Cansecwest/core06</a></strong>,
624: April 3 - 7, 2006, Vancouver.<br>
625: A rather interesting OpenBSD-related talk happened at this event, regarding
626: using SMI interrupts to break out of X into kernel mode.
627: <br>
628: Some OpenBSD developers attended. Some early OpenBSD 3.9 items went
629: on sale.
630: <p>
631:
1.469 tom 632: <li><strong><a name=ukuug2006></a>
633: <a href="http://www.ukuug.org/events/spring2006/">UKUUG Spring Conference 2006</a></strong>,
634: Mar 22 - 23, 2006, Durham, United Kingdom<br>
635: Reyk Flöter gave a talk about the latest wireless support in
636: OpenBSD at the annual spring meeting of the
637: <a href="http://www.ukuug.org/">UK's Unix and Open Systems User Group</a>.
638: Peter N. M. Hansteen
639: gave a PF tutorial, Tom Cosgrove presented "Exploit
640: Mitigation Techniques" and Constantine Murenin gave a
641: presentation on "Hardware temperature monitoring device
642: drivers for OpenBSD".
643: These were all part of a new, well-attended, BSD stream at the event.
644: <p>
645:
1.459 henning 646: <li><strong><a name=Copenhagen2006></a>
647: <a href="http://www.linuxforum.dk/2006/en/">LinuxForum 2006</a></strong>,
648: Mar 3 - 4, 2006, Copenhagen, Denmark<br>
649: Wim gave Felix Kronlage's talk about OpenBSD Mobile Use (wifi, UMTS,
650: GPRS, phones and the like) with some demo setups.
651: Henning Brauer gave a very well received talk about OpenBGPD,
652: <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/linuxforum2006/">slides</a> are available.
653: <p>
654:
1.457 wvdputte 655: <li><strong><a name=Brussels2006></a>
656: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/2006/">FOSDEM Brussels 2006</a></strong>,
657: Feb 25 - 26, 2006, Brussels, Belgium.<br>
658: An OpenBSD/OpenSSH booth was present, run by the usual gang of suspects:
1.458 xsa 659: Alexandre, Dimitar, Matthieu, Mbalmer, Nikolay, Otto, Reyk, Saad, Thierry, Uwe, Wim, and
1.457 wvdputte 660: Xsa. Reyk gave a talk about Wifi with OpenBSD and there was our traditional
661: BSD dinner. More details and
662: <a href="http://saad.docisland.org/pictures/fosdem2006/index.html">pictures</a>
1.458 xsa 663: on <a href="http://saad.docisland.org/blog/files/archive-12.html#unique-entry-id-40">Saad's blog</a>.
1.457 wvdputte 664: <p>
665:
666: <li><strong><a name=Vegas2006></a>
667: <a href="http://kd85.com/vegas2006.html">Merciful briefings 2006</a></strong>,
668: Feb 15, 2006, Las Vegas, USA - Feb 17, 2006, San Diego, USA - Feb 18, 2006, Phoenix, USA.<br>
669: While traveling the US, Wim met with a bunch of OpenBSD users in Las Vegas,
670: San Diego and Phoenix. With many thanks to the members of PhxBUG - Phoenix BSD
671: User Group, more specificly Darrin Chandler, for organising the little
672: details and Jacob for road trip directions.
673: <p>
1.455 grunk 674:
1.456 henning 675: <li><strong><a name=nanog36></a>
676: <a href="http://www.nanog.org/">NANOG 36</a></strong>,
677: Feb 12 - 15, 2006, Dallas, USA.<br>
678: Henning Brauer and Bernhard Kroenung of DE-CIX talked about OpenBGPD and
679: OpenBGPD at DE-CIX, <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/nanog36/">slides</a>
680: are available. Henning talked again at the tools BOF
681: (<a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/nanog36-bof/">slides</a>).
682: Both talks were very well received by the audience.
683: Kenjiro Cho was there too, talking about IPv6 issues.
684: <p>
685:
1.455 grunk 686: <li><strong><a name="Paris2006"></a>
687: <a href="http://www.solutionslinux.fr/fr/index.php">Solutions Linux 2006</a>
688: </strong>,
689: Jan 31 - Feb 2, 2006, Paris, France.<br>
690: There was an OpenBSD booth run by Marc Espie, Miod Vallat, Saad Kadhi and
691: Wim with help from Guillaume Arcas and Christophe Plasschaert.
692: <p>
693: </ul>
694:
1.296 mcbride 695: <h3>2005</h3>
1.240 espie 696:
697: <ul>
1.337 deraadt 698:
1.445 martin 699: <li><strong><a name=22c3></a>
700: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/2005/">22C3 Chaos Communication Congress in
701: Berlin</a></strong>,
702: December 27 - 30, 2005, Berlin, Germany.<br>
703: Many OpenBSD developers and users met for a Xmas break in a unique setting.
704: <p>
705:
1.585 aanriot 706: <li><strong><a name=plug051216></a>
1.586 aanriot 707: <a href="http://www.plugfr.org/">Provence Linux User Group</a></strong>
708: December 16, 2005, Marseille, France.<br>
709: Alexandre Anriot spoke about OpenSSH during a meeting of the PLUG.
1.585 aanriot 710: <p>
711:
1.435 matthieu 712: <li><strong><a name=eurobsdcon2005></a>
713: <a href="http://2005.eurobsdcon.org/">EuroBSDCon 2005</a></strong>,
714: Nov 25 - 27, 2005, Basel, Switzerland.<br>
715: The 4th edition of the european conference for BSD systems has been a
716: great success. More than 225 people from 27 countries attended the
1.438 deraadt 717: event.
1.444 grunk 718: The program included a
719: <a href="http://www.eurobsdcon.org/tutorials-reyk.php">tutorial by Reyk about
1.437 niallo 720: OpenBSD-based Wireless Networks</a> and the following talks
721: <ul>
1.438 deraadt 722: <li>Henning Brauer with Wilhelm Bühler "Signal Handlers"
723: <li>Ryan McBride "Network Stack Randomness"
1.439 matthieu 724: <li><a href="papers/eurobsd2005/herrb-hopf.pdf">Matthieu Herrb and Matthias Hopf "New Evolutions in the X Window System"</a>
1.440 claudio 725: <li><a href="papers/eurobsd2005/claudio/">Claudio Jeker "The Design and Implementation of OpenOSPFD"</a>
1.439 matthieu 726: <li><a href="papers/eurobsd2005/niallo-uwe/">Niall O'Higgins & Uwe Stuehler "Embedded OpenBSD"</a>
1.443 deraadt 727: <li><a href="papers/eurobsd2005/tedu-rthreads.pdf">Ted Unangst "rthreads: A New Thread Implementation for OpenBSD"</a>
1.437 niallo 728: </ul>
1.438 deraadt 729: <p>
1.435 matthieu 730: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
731: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
732: <p>
733:
1.434 bernd 734: <li><strong><a name=linuxworldexpogermany2005></a>
735: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.de/">Linux World Expo Germany</a></strong>,
736: Nov 15 - 17, 2005, Frankfurt, Germany.<br>
737: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
738: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a> and Bernd.
739: <p>
740:
1.441 niallo 741: <li><strong><a name="pacsec05"></a>
742: <a href="http://www.pacsec.jp/">PacSec/core 05 conference</a></strong>,
743: Nov 15 - 16, 2005, Tokyo, Japan.<br>
744: Sean Comeau presented a talk called
745: <a href="http://www.openbsd-support.com/jp/en/htm/mgp/pacsec05/index.html">
746: Open Source Secure Wireless Networks in a Windows World</a>
747: <a href="http://www.pacsec.jp/core05/psj05-scomeau-en.pdf">[PDF]</a>.
748: The solution he presents uses IPsec to protect traffic between the
749: wireless clients and access points. Authentication is done using OpenSSH
750: (authpf), a process made transparent and user-friendly by a few small
751: scripts.
752: <p>
753:
1.424 mbalmer 754: <li><strong><a name=opencon2005></a>
755: <a href="http://www.opencon.org/">OpenCON 2005</a></strong>,
756: Nov 4 - 6, 2005, San Servolo Island, Venice, Italy.<br>
1.427 deraadt 757: The only unique conference entirely dedicated to OpenBSD, held in the totally
758: crazy environment of San Servolo island: an old insane asylum turned into a
759: university about 20 years ago, about 10 minutes boat ride from Venice.
1.429 deraadt 760: In the days leading up to this, about 12 OpenBSD developers arrived early
1.427 deraadt 761: for a Ports mini-hackathon. During the conference a few developers gave
1.433 deraadt 762: talks, including
763: <ul>
764: <li><a href="papers/ven05-pvalchev">Peter Valchev "OpenBSD Hackathon report"</a>
765: <li><a href="papers/ven05-espie">Marc Espie "OpenBSD ports and packages"</a>
766: <li><a href="papers/ven05-henning">Henning Brauer "OpenBSD networking update"</a>
767: <li><a href="papers/ven05-niallo-uwe/slides.pdf">Uwe Stuehler, Niall O'Higgins "Porting OpenBSD"</a>
768: <li><a href="papers/ven05-deraadt">Theo de Raadt "Exploit Mitigation Techniques (updated to include random malloc and mmap)"</a>
769: </ul>
1.424 mbalmer 770: <p>
771:
772: <li><strong><a name=systems2005></a>
773: <a href="http://www.systems.de/">Systems</a></strong>,
774: Oct 24 - 28, 2005, Munich, Germany <br>
1.425 mbalmer 775: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
1.424 mbalmer 776: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
777: <p>
778:
1.418 djm 779: <li><strong><a name=auug2005></a>
780: <a href="http://www.auug.org.au/events/2005/auug2005/">AUUG 2005</a></strong>,
781: October 16 - 21, 2005, Sydney, Australia.<br>
782: Mark Uemura presented a tutorial on setting up CARP/PF, a demonstration of
783: stateful failover with CARP and pfsync and a talk on wireless security in
784: a corporate environment using authpf and isakmpd. Peter Hansteen gave a
785: <a href="http://www.bgnett.no/~peter/pf/">Firewalling with PF</a> tutorial.
1.420 deraadt 786: Damien Miller presented on the approach to
787: <a href="papers/auug2005-portability">secure software portability used
788: by portable OpenSSH</a>, Reyk Flöter gave a talk on the current state of wireless
1.418 djm 789: support in OpenBSD and David Purdue introduced OpenBSD's spamd tarpit.
790: Most of the Australian OpenBSD developers and many users were present.
791: <p>
792:
1.415 aanriot 793: <li><strong><a name=aldil2005></a>
794: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/">Les Journées Du Logiciel Libre
795: 2005</a></strong>,
796: Oct 14 - 15, 2005, Lyon, France.<br>
797: There was OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Alexandre Anriot with the
798: help of Thierry Thomas.
799: <p>
800:
1.420 deraadt 801: <li><strong><a name=cafeconf2005></a>
802: <a href="http://www.cafeconf.org/">CaFeConf 2005,
803: 4tas Jornadas Abiertas de GNU/Linux y Software Libre</a></strong>,
804: Oct 13 - 15, 2005, Buenos Aires, Argentina<br>
805: CaFeConf 2005 is the anual event of CaFeLUG - Free Software Users
806: Group of Capital Federal, Argentina. This year the event featured
807: 116 presentations consisting of talks, tutorials, and workshops. The
808: event was also broadcasted on the Internet. Entrance was free, but
809: registration was mandatory.<br>
810: Fernando Gont gave a talk on
1.444 grunk 811: <a href="http://www.cafeconf.org/modules/myconference/viewspeech.php?sid=147&cid=20">
1.420 deraadt 812: ICMP attacks against TCP</a>,
813: in which he gave an overview of the attacks, the possible
814: counter-measures, and the politics of vulnerabilities, and a talk on
1.444 grunk 815: <a href="http://www.cafeconf.org/modules/myconference/viewspeech.php?sid=173&cid=20">
1.420 deraadt 816: Fixing the vulnerability of the Path-MTU Discovery mechanism</a>,
817: in which explained how OpenBSD fixed the vulnerability of the PMTUD
818: mechanism.
819: <p>
820:
1.414 bernd 821: <li><strong><a name=linuxkongress2005></a>
822: <a href="http://www.linux-kongress.org/">12th International Linux System
823: Technology Conference</a></strong>,
824: Oct 11 - 14, 2005, University of Hamburg, Germany.<br>
825: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth.
826: <p>
827:
828: <li><strong><a name=linuxworlduk2005></a>
829: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.co.uk/">LinuxWorld Expo UK 2005</a></strong>,
830: Oct 5 - 6, 2005, Olympia, London, UK.<br>
831: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth.
832: <p>
833:
1.410 wvdputte 834: <li><strong><a name=opensourcetag2005></a>
1.575 reyk 835: <a href="http://www.opensourcetag.de/2005/">OpenSourceTag 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 836: Sep 27, 2005, Hannover, Germany.<br>
1.444 grunk 837: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth and Reyk gave a
1.575 reyk 838: <a href="http://www.opensourcetag.de/2005/agenda/">talk</a> about IT security.
1.410 wvdputte 839: <p>
840:
841: <li><strong><a name="gubuginstallfest2005"></a>
842: <a href="http://gubug.org/meetings.php">Greater Utah BSD Group
843: Installfest 2005</a></strong>,
844: Sep 24, 2005, Sandy, UT, USA.<br/>
1.444 grunk 845: <a href="http://www.gubug.org/">The Greater Utah BSD User Group</a> organised
1.410 wvdputte 846: their first annual BSD Installfest, sponsored by Utah ISP ArosNet.
847: There were handouts, CD-ROMs, technical presentations, and
848: fun, plus a chance to get OpenBSD or a related open source BSD operating system
849: installed on your computer.
850: Admission was free (computers not included in cost of admission).
1.419 djm 851: Featured speakers included Dan Langille, organizer of BSDCan.
1.410 wvdputte 852: <p>
853:
1.404 wvdputte 854: <li><strong><a name="NYCBSDCon2005"></a>
855: <a href="http://nycbsdcon.org/">New York City BSD Conference 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 856: Sep 17, 2005, NYC, USA.<br>
1.404 wvdputte 857: NYCBSDCon was a one day technical conference hosted by the New York
858: City *BSD User Group and was held at Columbia University.
1.406 saad 859: The all day conference included a variety of speakers representing the
1.404 wvdputte 860: BSD projects and the open source community.<br>
861: NYCBSDCon was organized by NYC*BUG, a technical user group that formed in
862: December 2003. Besides their regular monthly meetings at the Soho Apple
863: Store, NYC*BUG has done fundraising for the BSD projects and contributed a
864: number of useful online applications such as BSDTracker and dmesgd.<br>
865: Additional sponsors included USENIX, New York Internet and SRA America.
866: <p>
867:
868: <li><strong><a name=opensaar2005></a>
869: <a href="http://www.opensaar.de/">OpenSaar 2005</a></strong>,
870: Sep 13 - 14, 2005, Saarbrücken, Germany.<br>
871: An OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth was present
872: <p>
873:
1.403 henning 874: <li><strong><a name=decix160905></a> <a
875: href="http://www.de-cix.org/">DE-CIX Technical Meeting</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 876: Sep 16, 2005, Schloss Kransberg, near Usingen, Germany.<br>
1.403 henning 877: Henning Brauer, Reyk Flöter and Maxim Salomon had been invited to the
878: technical meeting of the Deutsche Commercial Internet Exchange (DE-CIX) again.
879: Henning gave an update on OpenBGPD, Reyk talked about a route server project
880: using OpenBGPD at DE-CIX, and Maxim explained why the CCC sponsors us doing so.
881: There was a very positive discussion afterwards.
882: <a href="http://unduli.bsws.de/papers/decix2005-2/">Slides</a> are available.
883: <p>
884:
1.388 tom 885: <li><strong><a name="ukuug2005"></a>
886: <a href="http://www.ukuug.org/events/linux2005/">UKUUG Linux Technical
887: Conference 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 888: Aug 4 - 7, 2005, University of Wales, Swansea, UK<br>
1.388 tom 889: Tom Cosgrove gave Theo's presentation about Exploit Mitigation Techniques.
890: <p>
891:
1.385 mickey 892: <li><strong><a name=wth2005></a>
1.390 deraadt 893: <a href="http://www.whatthehack.org/">What the Hack 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 894: Jul 28 - 31, 2005, Den Bosch, The Netherlands.<br>
1.385 mickey 895: As every 4 years, Wim organized the
896: <a href="http://eurobsd.org/2005-WhatTheHack/">BSD village</a> at this huge
1.389 tom 897: open air event. There were some talks, Reyk spoke about
898: <a href="http://program.whatthehack.org/event/6.en.html">WLAN in OpenBSD</a>,
1.385 mickey 899: and an excellent
900: <a href="ftp://ftp.nyc.openbsd.org/pub/news/wth-radio-humppa.mp3">Humppa show</a> (35MB MP3) was performed on the SubEther radio.
901: If you want to see what happened previously, check
902: <a href="http://eurobsd.org/hal2001/">http://eurobsd.org/hal2001/</a>
903: and <a href="http://www.eurobsd.org/SummerCamp2003/">http://www.eurobsd.org/SummerCamp2003/</a>.
904: <p>
905:
1.382 pedro 906: <li><strong><a name=coimbra2005></a>
1.474 pedro 907: <a href="http://www.openbsd-pt.com/eventos/coimbra05/">Portuguese OpenBSD Usergroup Meeting</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 908: Jul 23 - 24, 2005, Coimbra, Portugal.<br>
1.538 pedro 909: 5th Meeting of the Portuguese OpenBSD Usergroup. Pedro Martelletto gave a talk.
1.382 pedro 910: <p>
911:
1.378 aanriot 912: <li><strong><a name="lsm2005"></a>
913: <a href="http://2005.rencontresmondiales.org/sections/index_html/switchLanguage/en">Libre Software Meeting 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 914: Jul 5 - 9, 2005, Dijon, France.<br>
1.379 aanriot 915: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Wim and the usual
916: suspects, with the help of Serge Basterot. It was a nice place to meet
917: some of our French, German and Swiss developers, including Marc Balmer,
918: Alexandre Anriot, Matthieu Herrb and Reyk Floeter.
1.378 aanriot 919: <p>
920:
1.375 grunk 921: <li><strong><a name=LinuxTag2005></a>
922: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.org">LinuxTag 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 923: Jun 22 - 25, 2005, Karlsruhe, Germany.<br>
1.375 grunk 924: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth ran by Wim, Christian Weisgerber,
925: Marc Balmer, Wilhelm Buehler, Robert Nagy, Bernd Ahlers and Phil Schulz.
926: <p>
927:
1.374 grunk 928: <li><strong><a name="uofa-cc2005"></a>
929: <a href="http://www.ualberta.ca/CC2005"> University of Alberta, Campus
1.410 wvdputte 930: Computing 2005</a></strong>, Jun 21, 2005, Edmonton, Canada.<br>
1.374 grunk 931: Ryan McBride spoke about OpenBSD's packet filter, PF, with CARP and
932: failover examples. Local color and examples at the U of A shown by Bob
933: Beck. Bob Beck spoke about PF and Spamd, as well as several other
934: OpenBSD using and related talks at this event, which primarily focuses
935: on activities centered at the University of Alberta.
936: <p>
937:
1.371 deraadt 938: <li><strong><a name=uemera2005></a>
939: <a href="http://www.tokyopc.net">Tokyo PC Users Group</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 940: Jun 2, 2005, Tokyo Union Church in Omotesando, Tokyo, Japan.<br>
1.371 deraadt 941: Mark T. Uemura spoke to Japan's largest English speaking
942: personal computer club. The talk was entitled
943: <a href="http://www.openbsd-support.com/jp/en/htm/mgp/index.shtml">
944: "Open Source in a Windows World"</a>.
945: He demonstrated how companies can easily
946: integrate Open Source, with an emphasis on OpenBSD, into their IT
947: infrastructure to enhance security, scalability and stability,
948: significantly reduce IT expenditures, free up computing infrastructure
949: and move away from commercial lock-in. This talk is based on changes
950: implemented at PricewaterhouseCoopers in Japan.
951: <p>
952:
1.366 martin 953: <li><strong><a name=LinuxwochenVienna2005></a>
954: <a href="http://www.linuxwochen.at/">Linuxwochen Vienna 2005</a></strong>,
955: May 24 - 27, 2005, Vienna, Austria.<br>
956: The Linuxwochen 2005 tour stopped in the MuseumsQuartier, Vienna.
957: Wim Vandeputte and Reinhard Sammer were running an OpenBSD booth selling
958: CDs and shirts.
959: <p>
960:
1.365 mcbride 961: <li><strong><a name=cuug2005></a>
962: <a href="http://www.cuug.ab.ca/">Calgary Unix Users Group</a></strong>,
963: May 24, 2005, Calgary, Canada.<br>
964: Ryan McBride spoke about OpenBSD's packet filter, PF.
965: A broad overview of PF's features were presented, with special attention
966: paid to newer and more unique features and how these can be used together
967: effectively for DoS mitigation, high availability, and load balancing.
968: <br>
969: Approximately 60 OpenBSD developers attended to heckle and participate
970: in a free-for-all question period after the talk.
971: <p>
972:
1.362 reyk 973: <li><strong><a name=bsdcan2005></a>
974: <a href="http://www.bsdcan.org/2005/">BSDCan 2005</a></strong>,
975: May 13 - 14, 2005, Ottawa, Canada.<br>
976: A number of OpenBSD developers presented: Bob Beck on
977: Spam Reduction with PF and Spamd, Henning Brauer on OpenBGPD,
978: Ryan McBride on Network Stack Randomness and Reyk Flöter
979: on WLAN in OpenBSD and the free ath(4) HAL. The
980: <a href="papers/bsdcan05-spamd/">Spamd</a> and
981: <a href="papers/bsdcan05-wlan/">WLAN</a> slides are available.
982: Mathieu Sauve-Frankel has been there in attendance as well.
983: <p>
984:
1.358 mcbride 985: <li><strong><a name=csw2005></a>
986: <a href="http://www.cansecwest.com/">cansecwest/core05</a></strong>,
987: May 4-6, 2005, Vancouver, Canada.<br>
988: Hiroaki Etoh spoke about propolice; Theo de Raadt and a number of other
989: developers were there to sell CDs and make a nuisance of themselves.
990: <p>
991:
1.357 henning 992: <li><strong><a name=ripe50></a>
993: <a href="http://www.ripe.net/ripe/meetings/ripe-50/">RIPE 50</a></strong>,
994: May 2-6, 2005, Stockholm, Sweden.<br>
995: RIPE NCC invited Henning to talk about OpenBGPD.
996: There were over 350 attendees to the conference, and most of them attended
997: henning's talk, which got very very positive feedback.
998: <p>
999:
1.384 tom 1000: <li><strong><a name=libreast2005></a>
1.356 espie 1001: <a href="http://idile.org/libreast/">Libr'east 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 1002: Apr 22-24, Marne La Vallée, near Paris, France<br>
1.356 espie 1003: There was an OpenBSD booth (Wim + Miod + Marc)
1004: Marc Espie did talk about recent OpenBSD advances, and his ports and
1005: packages work in front of about 30 people.
1006: <p>
1007:
1.353 henning 1008: <li><strong><a name=decix150405></a> <a
1009: href="http://www.de-cix.org/">DE-CIX Technical Meeting</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 1010: Apr 15, 2005, near Usingen, Germany.<br>
1.353 henning 1011: Henning Brauer and Reyk Flöter had been invited to the technical
1012: meeting of the Deutsche Commercial Internet Exchange (DE-CIX). Henning
1013: presented his talk on OpenBGPD, about 60 people, mostly operators from
1014: the big ISPs peering at DECIX, were in attendance.
1.354 reyk 1015: Reyk, Maxim Salomon and Tim Kornau spoke on Wireless Network Security.
1.353 henning 1016: <p>
1017:
1.352 henning 1018: <li><strong><a name=nuug140405></a>
1019: <a href="http://www.nuug.no/aktiviteter/20050414-pf-brannmur/">Firewalling with PF at NUUG</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 1020: Apr 14, 2005, Oslo, Norway.<br>
1.352 henning 1021: Peter N. M. Hansteen gave a firewalling with PF talk - which hopefully
1022: gave you some ideas about how to control your network traffic the
1023: way you want - keeping some things outside your network, directing
1024: traffic to specified hosts or services, and of course, giving spammers
1025: a hard time. The talk was in Norwegian, with <a
1026: href="http://www.bgnett.no/~peter/pf/no/foils/">foils</a> and <a
1027: href="http://www.bgnett.no/~peter/pf/no/">manuscript</a> (English <a
1028: href="http://www.bgnett.no/~peter/pf/en/foils/">foils</a> and <a
1029: href="http://www.bgnett.no/~peter/pf/en/">manuscript</a> too)
1030: available if you couldn't make it there.
1031: <p>
1032:
1.589 aanriot 1033:
1034: <li><strong><a name=fhwedel130405></a>
1035: <a href="http://www.fh-wedel.de/">FH Wedel invited talk</a></strong>,
1036: Apr 13, 2005, 17:00, Hörsaal 5, FH Wedel, Hamburg, Germany.<br>
1037: Henning Brauer spoke on OpenBGPD. More than 40 people were in attendance.
1038: <p>
1039:
1.350 marius 1040: <li><strong><a name=usenix2005></a>
1041: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix05/">Usenix Annual
1.410 wvdputte 1042: Technical Conference</a></strong>, Apr 10-15, 2005, Anaheim,
1.350 marius 1043: California, USA.<br> Marius Eriksen gave the OpenBSD update at the BSD
1044: super BoF. The update was well received and people were quite
1045: sympathetic towards the ongoing efforts of the OpenBSD project to
1046: ensure the free redistribution rights for firmware. People were also
1047: excited about the new Open* tools (OpenBGPD, OpenNTPD, OpenCVS) and it
1.351 marius 1048: would not be surprising to see more of these imported into other BSDs.
1.350 marius 1049: <p>
1050:
1.585 aanriot 1051: <li><strong><a name=plug050408></a>
1.586 aanriot 1052: <a href="http://www.plugfr.org/">Provence Linux User Group</a></strong>
1053: April 8, 2005, Marseille, France.<br>
1.585 aanriot 1054: Alexandre Anriot spoke about OpenBSD and some associated projects
1.586 aanriot 1055: (OpenBGPD etc.) during a meeting of the PLUG.
1.585 aanriot 1056: The <a href="papers/plug080405">slides</a> (in French) are available.
1.344 martin 1057: <p>
1058:
1.337 deraadt 1059: <li><strong><a name=bcs2005></a>
1060: <a href="http://www.bellua.com/bcs2005/asia05.index.html">Bellua Cyber Security Asia 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 1061: Mar 21-24, 2005, Jakarta, Indonesia.<br>
1.337 deraadt 1062: Ryan McBride presented an overview of PF which
1063: discussed how its advanced features work together in some important
1.338 deraadt 1064: applications and compared PF with the other major commercial and open
1.337 deraadt 1065: source firewalls.
1066: <p>
1067:
1.317 henning 1068: <li><strong><a name=nui_maynooth2005></a>
1069: <a href="http://www.minds.nuim.ie/events">NUI Maynooth lectures</a></strong>,
1070: Mar 4, 2005, Department of Computer Science, NUI Maynooth, Dublin, Ireland.<br>
1.318 henning 1071: Ryan McBride presented talks about PF and about
1.326 mcbride 1072: <a href="papers/dublin05-nr">randomization in the OpenBSD network layer.</a><br>
1.318 henning 1073: Theo and Henning were in attendance because someone had to heckle.
1.317 henning 1074: <p>
1075:
1.312 deraadt 1076: <li><strong><a name=trinity2005></a>
1077: <a href="http://www.netsoc.tcd.ie/events/0405/openbsd.php">Trinity lecture</a></strong>,
1078: Mar 3, 2005, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.<br>
1.320 deraadt 1079: Theo de Raadt presented his talk about
1080: <a href="papers/auug04">Exploit Mitigation Techniques</a>.
1.312 deraadt 1081: <p>
1082:
1.319 saad 1083: <li><strong><a name=ShefLUG2005></a>
1084: <a href="http://www.sheflug.co.uk/seminar/tiki-index.php?page=Sheffield%20Open%20Source%20Seminar">ShefLUG2005</a></strong>,
1085: Mar 2, 2005, Sheffield, UK.<br>
1086: Jacek Artymiak gave a talk about installing OpenBSD on Soekris hardware.
1087: <p>
1088:
1.310 mickey 1089: <li><strong><a name=NYCBUG2005-03></a>
1.375 grunk 1090: <a href="http://nycbug.org/index.php?NAV=Home&SUBM=83">NYCBUG Monthly meeting</a></strong>,
1.310 mickey 1091: Mar 2, 2005, NYC, USA.<br>
1.322 deraadt 1092: Mickey gave a talk
1.325 mickey 1093: (<a href="papers/nyc2005">slides</a> and
1.564 jason 1094: <a href="http://www.fetissov.org/public/nycbug/nycbug-03-02-05.mp3">10.5MB audio</a>)
1.321 mickey 1095: about <a href="hppa.html">porting OpenBSD</a>
1.313 martin 1096: to the <a href="http://www.openpa.net">HP PA-RISC</a> platform.
1.310 mickey 1097: <p>
1.312 deraadt 1098:
1.308 deraadt 1099: <li><strong><a name=Netsoc2005></a>
1100: <a href="http://netsoc.ucd.ie/events/openbsd/">Netsoc lectures</a></strong>,
1101: Mar 2, 2005, UCD, Dublin, Ireland.<br>
1102: Theo de Raadt, Henning Brauer, and Ryan McBride gave a series of
1.320 deraadt 1103: talks. Topics included
1104: <a href="papers/auug04">exploit mitigation techniques</a>,
1.326 mcbride 1105: <a href="papers/dublin05-nr">introducing network randomness to increase security</a>,
1106: OpenBGPD, and pf.
1107: Almost 200 people came to this event.
1.308 deraadt 1108: <p>
1109:
1.304 saad 1110: <li><strong><a name=Brussels2005></a>
1111: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/2005/">FOSDEM Brussels 2005</a></strong>,
1112: Feb 26 - 27, 2005, Brussels, Belgium.<br>
1113: An OpenBSD/OpenSSH booth was present, ran by the usual gang of suspects.
1114: Support for <a href="mailto:wim@kd85.com">Wim Vandeputte</a> this time were
1.307 otto 1115: (among many others), Saad Kadhi, Henning Brauer, Thierry Deval, Otto Moerbeek,
1.304 saad 1116: Xavier Santolaria, Martin Reindl, Reyk Flöter, Hans-Jörg
1.360 db 1117: Höxer, Nikolay Sturm, Marc Balmer, Claudio Jeker, Joris Vink,
1118: Olivier Cherrier, David Berghoff,
1.316 mbalmer 1119: Alexander von Gernler, Uwe Stuehler, and Felix Kronlage from OpenDarwin.<br>
1.304 saad 1120: There was a separate OpenBSD track, featuring Henning Brauer (about
1121: signal handlers and OpenNTPD), Reyk Flöter (about wireless cards in
1122: OpenBSD), and the author of the OpenBSD PF book, Jacek Artymiak (about
1.375 grunk 1123: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pf">pf(4)</a>, of course).<br>
1.304 saad 1124: At the conference's Free Software Foundation Event, Theo de Raadt was
1125: awarded the Free Software Award 2004 for his efforts to make Firmware for
1126: wireless hardware and other devices freely available.
1127: <p>
1.301 saad 1128: <li><strong><a name=UKUUG05></a>
1129: <a href="http://www.ukuug.org/events/winter2005/">UKUUG LISA/Winter Conference</a></strong>,
1130: Feb 24 - 25, 2005, Birmingham, UK.<br>
1131: Henning Brauer spoke on OpenBGPD, OpenNTPD and Signal Handlers.
1132: <p>
1133: <li><strong><a name=FFG2005></a>
1134: <a href="http://www.guug.de/veranstaltungen/ffg2005/">GUUG FFG 2005</a></strong>,
1135: Feb 22 - 25, 2005, Munich, Germany.<br>
1136: Reyk Flöter talked about the latest wireless support in
1137: OpenBSD at the annual spring meeting of the <a href="http://www.guug.de/">German Unix User Group</a>.
1138: <p>
1.293 saad 1139: <li><strong><a name=Paris2005></a>
1140: <a href="http://www.solutionslinux.fr/fr/index.php">Solutions Linux 2005</a></strong>,
1141: Feb 1 - 3, 2005, Paris, France.<br>
1142: An OpenBSD booth as well as an OpenSSH booth were present. These booths
1143: were run by Marc Espie, Miod Vallat, Saad Kadhi and Wim with help from
1144: Guillaume Arcas and Christophe Plasschaert, two members of the OpenBSD
1.294 saad 1145: french translation team.<br>
1146: Marc Espie and Saad Kadhi gave a talk about the OpenBSD project with a
1147: special focus on the ports collection and Packet Filter. The <a
1148: href="papers/sl2005/index.html">slides</a> (in French) are
1149: available.<br>
1150: During the event, several demonstrations of <a
1.293 saad 1151: href="http://soekris.kd85.com/">Soekris</a> machines running OpenBSD
1152: were given by Saad Kadhi and Wim.
1153: <p>
1.296 mcbride 1154: </ul>
1.293 saad 1155:
1.296 mcbride 1156: <h3>2004</h3>
1157:
1158: <ul>
1.287 henning 1159: <li><strong><a name=21C3></a>
1160: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/2004/">21C3 - Chaos Communication Congress</a></strong>,
1.375 grunk 1161: Dec 27 - 29, 2004, Berlin, Germany<br>
1.287 henning 1162: "The Usual Suspects" were there and ran the BSD corner, including
1163: <a href="mailto:wim@kd85.com">Wim</a>,
1164: Henning Brauer, Marc Balmer, Martin Reindl, Moritz Jodeit, Felix Kronlage,
1.315 nick 1165: Uwe Stuehler, Konrad Foerstner, Bernd Ahlers, and Alexander von Gernler.<br>
1.287 henning 1166: Henning gave a talk about OpenBGPD and OpenNTPD
1167: (<a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/21c3/">slides</a>).<br>
1168: The WiFi backbone ran on OpenBSD powered
1169: <a href="http://soekris.kd85.com">Soekris</a> machines as access points,
1170: work done by Reyk Flöter, Tim Kornau and others.
1171: This installation was a very successful test of the new
1.290 henning 1172: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ath">ath(4)</a>
1.287 henning 1173: driver.
1174: <p>
1.248 deraadt 1175:
1.286 kevlo 1176: <li><strong><a name=icos2004></a>
1.417 kevlo 1177: <a href="http://2004.icos.org.tw/">ICOS 2004</a></strong>,
1.286 kevlo 1178: Dec 18 - 19, 2004, Taipei, Taiwan.<br>
1179: Kevin Lo gave a presentation.
1180: <p>
1181:
1.285 deraadt 1182: <li><strong><a name=syscan2004></a>
1183: <a href="http://www.syscan.org/">SyScAN 2004</a></strong>,
1184: Dec 16 - 17, 2004, Singapore.<br>
1185: Theo de Raadt presented his talk about
1186: <a href="papers/auug04">Exploit Mitigation Techniques</a>.
1187: <p>
1188:
1.283 saad 1189: <li><strong><a name=sur200412></a>
1190: <a href="http://www.ossir.org/sur/calendrier/index.shtml">SUR Group Meeting, December 2004</a></strong>,
1191: Dec 14, 2004, Paris, France.<br>
1192: Saad Kadhi gave a talk about OpenBSD and security during the monthly
1193: meeting of the
1194: <a href="http://www.ossir.org/sur/index.shtml">SUR</a> Group (Sécurité
1195: Unix et Réseaux), a french user group focusing on security and Unix. The
1.284 xsa 1196: <a href="papers/surgroup200412/index.html">slides</a> (in French) are available.
1.283 saad 1197: <p>
1198:
1.282 henning 1199: <li><strong><a name=opencon2004></a>
1200: <a href="http://www.opencon.org/">OpenCon 2004</a></strong>,
1201: Dec 10 - 12, 2004, Venice, Italy.<br>
1202: OpenBSD meeting in Northern Italy. Henning gave 3 talks in
1203: two days, on bgpd
1204: (<a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/opencon04/bgpd/">slides</a>),
1205: ntpd
1206: (<a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/opencon04/ntpd/">slides</a>)
1207: and signal handlers
1208: (<a href="papers/opencon04/">slides</a>).
1209: Wim ran a booth, and Marc Balmer was there as well.
1210: <p>
1211:
1.275 deraadt 1212: <li><strong><a name=UofA></a>
1213: <a href="http://www.ualberta.ca/">U of A Seminar</a></strong>,
1214: Nov 17 - 18, 2004, Edmonton Alberta.<br>
1215: Theo de Raadt presented a talk at an open seminar at the
1216: <a href="http://www.ualberta.ca/">University of Alberta</a>, in
1217: Room B-02 of the
1218: <a href="http://www.campusmap.ualberta.ca/map_bldg.cfm?bldg_id=42">
1219: Computing Sciences Center</a>.
1220: Talk went from 2 PM to nearly 5PM with more than 100 people attending
1221: from the University and industry, followed by beer nearby.
1222: The talk was also given the following day at the
1223: <a href="http://www.cips.ca/">CIPS Security SIG</a> luncheon.
1224: <p>
1225:
1.271 henning 1226: <li><strong><a name=EuroBSDCon2004></a>
1227: <a href="http://2004.eurobsdcon.org/">EuroBSD Con</a></strong>,
1228: Oct 29 - 31, 2004, Karlsruhe, Germany.<br>
1.272 henning 1229: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
1230: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
1.271 henning 1231: Henning gave a talk
1.375 grunk 1232: about <a href="http://2004.eurobsdcon.org/talks.html?&tx_ptspeechupload_pi1[showUid]=44&cHash=ec015b0552">bgpd</a>,
1.272 henning 1233: <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/euroBSDCon2004/">slides</a> are available.
1.271 henning 1234: <p>
1235:
1236: <li><strong><a name=LinuxWorldExpoGermany2004></a>
1237: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.de/">Linux World Expo</a></strong>,
1238: Oct 26 - 28, 2004, Frankfurt, Germany.<br>
1.272 henning 1239: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
1240: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
1.271 henning 1241: <p>
1242:
1.276 deraadt 1243: <li><strong><a name=cuug2004></a>
1.270 deraadt 1244: <a href="http://www.cuug.ab.ca/">Calgary Unix Users's Group</a></strong>,
1245: Oct 26, 2004, Calgary, Canada.<br>
1246: Theo presented the talk that he has recently given in Australia and
1247: Malaysia to the "Home Crowd".
1248: <p>
1249:
1250: <li><strong><a name=aldil2004></a>
1.269 krw 1251: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/">Les Journées Du Logiciel Libre 2004</a></strong>,
1252: Oct 22 - 23, 2004, Lyon, France.<br>
1.381 aanriot 1253: There was OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Miod Vallat with the help of
1.415 aanriot 1254: Alexandre Anriot and Thierry Thomas.
1.269 krw 1255: <p>
1256:
1257: <li><strong><a name=systems2004></a>
1258: <a href="http://www.systems.de/">Systems</a></strong>,
1259: Oct 18 - 22, 2004, Munich, Germany <br>
1260: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
1261: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
1262: <p>
1263:
1.268 krw 1264: <li><strong><a name=linuxexpo2004oct></a>
1265: <a href="http://www.linuxexpo.org.uk/">Linux Expo</a></strong>,
1266: Oct 6 - 7, 2004, London, UK.<br>
1267: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
1268: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
1269: <p>
1270:
1.375 grunk 1271: <li><strong><a name=hitb2004></a>
1.268 krw 1272: <a href="http://conference.hackinthebox.org">Hack in the Box Security Conference 2004</a></strong>,
1273: Oct 4 - 7, 2004, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.<br>
1274: Theo de Raadt presented an updated version of his
1275: "Exploit Mitigation Techniques" talk.
1276: <p>
1277:
1278: <li><strong><a name=SANE2004></a>
1279: <a href="http://www.nluug.nl/events/sane2004/bazaar.html">SANE 2004</a></strong>
1.410 wvdputte 1280: , Sep 29, 2004, Amsterdam, Netherlands.<br>
1.268 krw 1281: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
1282: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
1283: <p>
1284:
1.265 wvdputte 1285: <li><strong><a name=LinuxKongress2004></a>
1286: <a href="http://www.linux-kongress.org/2004">Linux Kongress 2004</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 1287: Sep 7 - 10, 2004, Erlangen, Germany.<br>
1.265 wvdputte 1288: From their website: "Linux-Kongress is still the premier event for European
1289: developers and one of the most important in the world. Each year hundreds of
1290: hard core Linux enthusiasts from all over the world gather for this important
1291: event."
1292: <br>
1293: Although this was a Linux developers' conference, we were able to
1294: install a regular OpenBSD booth there, as known from other events.
1295: It was run by <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim Vandeputte</a>,
1296: <a href="mailto:grunk@pestilenz.org">Alexander von Gernler</a> and other
1297: geeks from the Erlangen-Nuremberg area.
1298: <br>
1299: There also was a BSD dinner at Friday evening.
1300: <p>
1301:
1.262 henning 1302: <li><strong><a name=Sucon2004></a>
1303: <a href="http://www.suug.ch/sucon/04/">SUCON 2004</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 1304: Sep 2 - 4, 2004, Zurich, Switzerland.<br>
1.262 henning 1305: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth. Very nice conference.
1306: Henning's slides from his talks about
1307: <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/sucon04/bgpd">bgpd</a> and
1308: <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/sucon04/ntpd">ntpd</a>
1309: are available.
1310: <p>
1311:
1.261 deraadt 1312: <li><strong><a name=auug2004></a>
1.266 jolan 1313: <a href="http://www.auug.org.au/events/2004/auug2004/">AUUG 2004</a></strong>,
1.261 deraadt 1314: Aug 29 - Sep 3, 2004, Melbourne, Australia.<br>
1315: Theo de Raadt presented a half-day tutorial on privilege seperation and a
1316: newly extended version of the
1317: <a href="papers/auug04">Exploit Mitigation Techniques</a> talk.<br>
1318: For more information, see this
1319: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;517187222;fp;16;fpid;0">
1320: ComputerWorld article</a>.
1321: <p>
1322:
1323:
1.257 saad 1324: <li><strong><a name=LSM2004></a>
1325: <a href="http://lsm.abul.org">Libre Software Meeting</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 1326: Jul 6 - 10, 2004, Bordeaux, France.<br>
1.257 saad 1327: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
1328: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim Vandeputte</a>.
1329: <p>
1330:
1331: <li><strong><a name=LinuxTag2004></a>
1332: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.org">LinuxTag 2004</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 1333: Jun 23 - 26, 2004, Karlsruhe, Germany.<br>
1.257 saad 1334: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
1335: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim Vandeputte</a>.
1336: <p>
1337:
1.254 xsa 1338: <li><strong><a name=LinuxwochenVienna2004></a>
1.255 xsa 1339: <a href="http://www.linuxwochen.at/">Linuxwochen Vienna 2004</a></strong>,
1.254 xsa 1340: May 26 - 29, 2004, Vienna, Austria.<br>
1341: The Linuxwochen 2004 tour stopped in the MuseumsQuartier, Vienna.
1342: Wim Vandeputte and Reinhard Sammer ran the OpenBSD booth. Michael Bauer
1343: and Teemu Schaabl from the <a href="http://www.cngw.org/">CNGW</a> gave
1344: a basic talk about pf.
1345: <p>
1346:
1.248 deraadt 1347: <li><strong><a name=BSDCan2004></a>
1.303 mcbride 1348: <a href="http://www.bsdcan.org/2004/">BSDCan 2004</a></strong>,
1.248 deraadt 1349: May 13 - 16, 2004, Ottawa, Canada.<br>
1350: BSDCan was held at the University of Ottawa. Ryan McBride gave a talk
1.302 mcbride 1351: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/papers/bsdcan04-pf/index.html">about newer features in pf</a>,
1352: focusing on the redundancy provided by CARP and pfsync.
1353: Theo de Raadt presented a revised version of his talk on
1.248 deraadt 1354: <a href="papers/bsdcan04">Exploit Mitigation Techniques</a>.
1355: <p>
1356:
1.247 canacar 1357: <li><strong><a name="LOSFAnkara2004"></a>
1358: <a href="http://senlik.linux.org.tr">3rd Linux and Open Source Festival</a></strong>,
1359: May 13 - 16, 2004, Ankara, Turkey.<br>
1360: Can E. Acar and Berk D. Demir talked about the OpenBSD Project. The
1361: philosophy, project goals, system features and recent proactive
1362: security features were introduced. CARP, patents, recent Apache &
1363: XFree86 licensing issues and effects of NDAs in open source
1364: projects were discussed.<br>
1365: You can view the
1.281 canacar 1366: <a href="http://bdd.mindcast.org/slides/OpenBSD-LOYS2004-cea-bdd.pdf">
1.247 canacar 1367: slides in PDF format</a> the
1.281 canacar 1368: <a href="http://bdd.mindcast.org/slides/OpenBSD-LOYS2004-cea-bdd.tex">
1.247 canacar 1369: LaTeX source</a> is also available (they are
1370: <a href="http://www.eee.metu.edu.tr/~canacar/slides/">mirrored</a>, as well).
1371: <p>
1372:
1.242 henning 1373: <li><strong><a name=Brussels2004></a>
1374: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/">FOSDEM Brussels 2004</a></strong>,
1375: Feb 21 - 22, 2004, Brussels, Belgium.<br>
1.243 henning 1376: An OpenBSD/OpenSSH booth was present, run by Wim Vandeputte.
1377: Several developers (including Henning Brauer, Xavier Santolaria, Thierry Deval,
1378: Philipp Bühler, Otto Moerbeek and Saad Kadhi) showed up.
1379: Wim and Alexander von Gernler gave "lightning talks" about Soekris
1380: and systrace
1.263 saad 1381: (<a href="http://pestilenz.org/~grunk/vortraege/2004/FOSDEM/systrace.pdf">slides</a>), respectively.
1.243 henning 1382: Henning got a slot in the main track to talk about the new bgpd
1383: (<a href="http://www.2suck.net/papers/fosdem2004/">slides</a>).
1384: On Saturday evening, the traditional OpenBSD dinner took place.
1.242 henning 1385: <p>
1386:
1.240 espie 1387: <li><strong><a name=Paris2004></a>
1388: <a href="http://www.linuxsolutions.fr/">Linux Expo Paris 2004</a></strong>,
1389: Feb 3 - 5, 2004, Paris, France.<br>
1390: An OpenBSD booth as well as an OpenSSH booth were present, thanks to
1391: <a href="mailto:saad@docisland.org">Saad Kadhi</a> and
1392: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
1393: <p>
1394:
1395: <li><strong><a name="LWE04"></a>
1396: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/linuxworldny/V40/index.cvn">LinuxWorld
1397: Conference and Expo</a></strong>, Jan 20 - 23, 2004, New York, NY, USA.<br>
1.397 grunk 1398: <a href="mailto:wes@openlysecure.org">Wes Sonnenreich</a> and others
1.240 espie 1399: have established a BSD user group in NYC and held a BSD BoF at the
1400: Jacob Javits Center on January 22nd at 5:45pm, Room 1E15.
1401: <p>
1402: </ul>
1403:
1.188 henning 1404: <h3>2003</h3>
1.236 jose 1405:
1406: <ul>
1.232 jose 1407: <li><strong><a name=20c3></a>
1408: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/2003/">20th Chaos Communication Congress 2003</a></strong>,
1409: Dec 27 - 29, 2003, Berlin, Germany.<br>
1410: OpenBSD was represented by a booth, ran by
1411: <a href= "mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>, and supported by Henning and
1.236 jose 1412: Alexander von Gernler. Alexander also gave a
1.260 saad 1413: <a href="http://pestilenz.org/~grunk/vortraege/2003/20C3/openbsd.pdf">talk</a>
1.232 jose 1414: introducing the project and the OS (in German).
1.236 jose 1415: <p>
1.232 jose 1416:
1.228 jose 1417: <li><strong><a name=brazil2003></a>
1.236 jose 1418: <a href="http://bsdcon.myfreebsd.com.br">1st BSDCon Brazil</a></strong>,
1.228 jose 1419: Dec 6 - 7, 2003. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.<br>
1420: This was the first BSDCon Brazil, and of course OpenBSD was present.
1.236 jose 1421: Douglas Santos spoke on advocacy and about some of the technical aspects
1422: of OpenBSD. Eduardo A. Alvarenga gave a presentation about firewalling
1.228 jose 1423: with OpenBSD PF.
1424: <p>
1425:
1426: <li><strong><a name=ankara03></a>
1427: <a href="http://seminer.linux.org.tr">Association of Turkish Linux User</a></strong>,
1428: Dec 4, 2003, Ankara, Turkey.<br>
1429: Can Acar and Berk Demir gave a mammoth 4 hour presentation on OpenBSD.
1430: The first part was a broad introduction to the OpenBSD philosophy, the
1.236 jose 1431: project goals, and system features. After a break, in the second part they
1432: talked about the exploit mitigation techniques employed in OpenBSD. This
1433: part was aimed at techies and is almost a complete Turkish translation of
1434: the talk Theo recently gave in Japan. You can view the
1.281 canacar 1435: <a href="http://bdd.mindcast.org/slides/OpenBSD_3.12.2003.can-bdd.pdf">
1.236 jose 1436: slides in PDF format </a>
1437: (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 1438: <p>
1439:
1.227 jose 1440: <li><strong><a name=Luxembourg2003></a>
1441: <a href="http://www.linuxday.lu/">Linuxday Luxembourg 2003</a></strong>,
1442: Nov 6 - 8, 2003, Luxembourg, Luxembourg.<br>
1443: Booths were present, organized by <a href= "mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
1444: <p>
1445:
1446: <li><strong><a name=Pacsec2003></a>
1447: <a href="http://pacsec.jp/">Pacsec 2003</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 1448: Nov 6 - 7, 2003, Tokyo, Japan.<br>
1.236 jose 1449: Three OpenBSD developers presented on various topics. Theo de Raadt
1.227 jose 1450: gave a presentation on Exploit Mitigation Techniques
1.236 jose 1451: <a href="papers/pacsec03/e/index.html">(English)</a>
1452: <a href="papers/pacsec03/j/index.html">(Japanese)</a>, Jun-ichiro
1.227 jose 1453: itojun Hagino presented material covering
1.236 jose 1454: <a href="http://www.itojun.org/paper/itojun-200311-pacsec-jp/">
1.241 david 1455: IPv6 security considerations</a>, and Jose Nazario discussed advances
1.227 jose 1456: in Internet worm defenses.
1457: <p>
1458:
1.224 miod 1459: <li><strong><a name=Lyon2003></a>
1460: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/agenda/journees/2003/">Les V<sup>èmes</sup> Journées du Libre 2003</a></strong>,
1461: Oct 31 - Nov 1, 2003, Lyon, France.<br>
1462: Miod Vallat gave a talk about the recent security efforts deployed in OpenBSD,
1463: as well as generic security concepts (slides, in bad French, are available in
1464: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/agenda/journees/2003/vallat/miod.mgp">mgp
1465: format</a>). As usual, Wim ran an OpenBSD booth featuring the new 3.4 release,
1466: as well as <a href="http://soekris.kd85.com">Soekris</a> hardware running
1467: OpenBSD.
1468: <p>
1469:
1470: <li><strong><a name=Saarbrucken2003></a>
1471: <a href="http://www.linux-kongress.org/2003/index.html">Linux Kongress Saarbrücken 2003</a></strong>,
1472: Oct 14 - 16, 2003, Saarbrücken, Germany.<br>
1473: An OpenBSD booth was present, starring Wim again.
1474: <p>
1475:
1476: <li><strong><a name=London2003></a>
1477: <a href="http://www.linuxexpo.org.uk/">Linux Expo London 2003</a></strong>,
1478: Oct 8 - 9, 2003, London, UK.<br>
1479: An OpenBSD booth was present, starring Wim as usual.
1480: <p>
1481:
1.219 jose 1482: <li><strong><a name=bsdcon2003></a>
1483: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/bsdcon03/">BSDCon '03</a></strong>,
1484: Sep 8 - 12, 2003, San Mateo, California.<br>
1.236 jose 1485: OpenBSD was represented in the BSD Status Report, and David Rosenthal
1.219 jose 1486: gave a talk on an OpenBSD based security appliance.
1487: <p>
1488:
1.218 jose 1489: <li><strong><a name=sucon2003></a>
1490: <a href="http://www.sucon.ch/">SUCON '03</a></strong>,
1491: Sep 5, 2003. Zurich, Switzerland.<br>
1.236 jose 1492: Daniel Hartmeier talked about PF, and <a
1.218 jose 1493: href="http://open.bsdcow.net/events/sucon2003/">pictures are available</a>.
1494: <p>
1495:
1.214 henning 1496: <li><strong><a name=camp2003></a>
1497: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/camp/">Chaos Communication Camp 2003</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1498: Aug 7 - 10, 2003, in <a href="http://www.paulshof.de/body-mehr.html">a field</a> near Berlin Germany<br>
1.214 henning 1499: There was a huge OpenBSD village. Several OpenBSD developers have been there.
1500: <p>
1501:
1.213 jose 1502: <li><strong><a name=sec2003></a>
1503: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/sec03/">Usenix Security</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1504: Aug 4 - 8, 2003, Washington, DC, USA.<br>
1.236 jose 1505: Niels Provos presented two papers on security advances originally
1.213 jose 1506: developed for OpenBSD, including the OpenSSH privsep feature and systrace.
1507: Several OpenBSD developers were there.
1508: <p>
1509:
1.211 jose 1510: <li><strong><a name=linuxtag2003></a>
1511: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.org/2003/en/index.html">LinuxTag 2003</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1512: Jul 10 - 13, 2003, Karlsruhe Convention Center Germany<br>
1.211 jose 1513: Both OpenBSD and OpenSSH had booths in the main exhibit.
1514: <p>
1515:
1516: <li><strong><a name=lsm2003></a>
1517: <a href="http://libresoftwaremeeting.org/">Libre Software Meeting 2003</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1518: Jul 9 - 12, 2003, Metz, France<br>
1.212 matthieu 1519: Matthieu Herrb gave <a href="papers/xf86-sec.pdf">a talk about XFree86 security</a>. There was
1.211 jose 1520: also an OpenBSD booth with developers.
1521: <p>
1522:
1.209 wvdputte 1523: <li><strong><a name=lud2003></a>
1524: <a href="http://www.linuxuserexpo.com/">Linux User & Developer Expo 2003</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1525: Jun 24 - 26, 2003, at the NEC in Birmingham UK<br>
1.209 wvdputte 1526: There was an OpenBSD booth with developers.
1527: <p>
1.195 deraadt 1528:
1.202 jason 1529: <li><strong><a name=usenix2003></a>
1.236 jose 1530: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix03/">Usenix Annual Technical
1.216 jose 1531: Conference</a></strong>,
1532: Jun 9 - 14, 2003, San Antonio, Texas, USA<br>
1.202 jason 1533: A few OpenBSD developers were there and one paper was presented:
1534: <ul>
1.216 jose 1535: <li>The Design of the OpenBSD Cryptographic Framework<br>
1.202 jason 1536: <a href="events.html#usenix2003">Usenix 2003</a>, by
1.236 jose 1537: Angelos D. Keromytis,
1538: Jason L. Wright, and
1.205 deraadt 1539: Theo de Raadt.<br>
1.202 jason 1540: <a href="papers/ocf.pdf">paper</a>.
1541: </ul>
1542: <p>
1543:
1.216 jose 1544: <li><strong>
1545: <a href="http://www.webb.it/">Webbit 2003</a></strong>,
1546: May 9 - 11, 2003, Padova, Italy<br>
1.203 jason 1547: Giacomo Cariello and Wim Vandeputte attended, and several OpenBSD
1548: <a href="http://www.deadly.org/article.php3?sid=20030503101052">related talks</a> were given.
1549: <p>
1550:
1.216 jose 1551: <li><strong>
1552: <a href="http://cansecwest.com/">CanSecWest 03</a></strong>,
1553: Apr 9 - 11, 2003, Vancouver, Canada<br>
1.195 deraadt 1554: Theo spoke about killing buffer overflows using ProPolice and the new W^X technology,
1.196 matthieu 1555: available as a <a href="papers/csw03.mgp">magicpoint file</a>.
1.195 deraadt 1556: <p>
1557:
1.216 jose 1558: <li><strong>
1559: <a href="http://www.cebit.de/">CeBIT 2003</a></strong>,
1560: Mar 14, 2003, Hannover, Germany<br>
1.236 jose 1561: 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 1562: gave a talk on OpenBSD and OpenSSH. <a href="papers/cebit2003.tgz">slides</a> are available.
1.194 henning 1563: <p>
1564:
1.216 jose 1565: <li><strong>
1566: <a href="http://www.linuxforum.dk/2003/english/">LinuxForum 2003</a></strong>,
1567: Mar 1, 2003, Copenhagen<br>
1.236 jose 1568: Daniel spoke about PF (slides in <a href="papers/linuxforum2k3.tar.gz">mgp</a>,
1569: <a href="http://www.benzedrine.cx/linuxforum/">HTML</a>).
1.191 dhartmei 1570: It was a small but cozy conference, jointly held by Danish Linux and BSD
1571: user groups.
1572: <p>
1573:
1.236 jose 1574: <li><strong>
1575: <a href="http://www.cuug.ab.ca">CUUG - The Calgary Unix Users
1.216 jose 1576: Group</a></strong>,
1577: Feb 25, 2003, 18:00 MST, Calgary<br>
1.190 miod 1578: OpenBSD lead developer Theo de Raadt spoke about some of the recent
1579: changes in OpenBSD that are leading the way to the complete elimination of
1580: "buffer overflow" security risks and attacks.
1581: <p>
1582:
1.216 jose 1583: <li><strong>
1584: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/">FOSDEM 2003</a></strong>,
1585: Feb 8 - 9, 2003, Brussels<br>
1.236 jose 1586: Henning and Philipp gave a talk on -current PF developments
1.196 matthieu 1587: (<a href="papers/fosdem2k3-pf.mgp">slides</a>)
1.187 henning 1588: and on Saturday evening, there was an OpenBSD dinner for those interested.
1589: <p>
1590:
1.216 jose 1591: <li><strong>
1592: <a href="http://linuxsolutions.fr/FR/home/index.php?site=default">Linux Solutions</a></strong>,
1593: Feb 4 - 6, 2003, CNIT - Paris La Défense<br>
1.185 miod 1594: There was an OpenBSD booth with several OpenBSD developers, as well as 3.2 OpenBSD
1.413 grunk 1595: CD sets and T-shirts.
1.185 miod 1596: <p>
1.236 jose 1597: </ul>
1.185 miod 1598:
1.161 millert 1599: <h3>2002</h3>
1.236 jose 1600:
1601: <ul>
1602: <li><strong>
1603: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/2002/">19c3: the 19th CCC
1.216 jose 1604: Congress</a></strong>,
1605: Dec 27 - 29, 2002, Berlin<br>
1.236 jose 1606: There was a huge <a href="http://www.eurobsd.org/19c3">reserved space</a> for
1607: OpenBSD users and developers, a couple of -current test systems and for those
1.413 grunk 1608: curious, a first look at the 3.2 OpenBSD T-shirts.
1.184 wvdputte 1609: <p>
1.177 jason 1610:
1.216 jose 1611: <li><strong>
1612: <a href="http://2002.eurobsdcon.org/">BSDCon Europe 2002</a></strong>,
1613: Nov 15 - 17, 2002, Amsterdam, Netherlands<br>
1.181 henning 1614: OpenBSD people were there;
1.236 jose 1615: Philipp Bühler and Henning Brauer spoke about
1.182 ian 1616: <a href="papers/tuning-openbsd.ps">
1617: network performance tuning on OpenBSD</a>,
1.236 jose 1618: and Ian Darwin presented a
1.182 ian 1619: <a href="papers/eurobsd-firewalls-2002.pdf">
1620: tutorial on OpenBSD servers/firewalls</a>.
1.179 pb 1621: <p>
1.178 pb 1622:
1.216 jose 1623: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1624: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa02/">LISA '02: 16th Systems
1.216 jose 1625: Administration Conference</a></strong>,
1626: Nov 3 - 8, 2002, Philadelphia, USA<br>
1.177 jason 1627: Mickey and Jason manned the booth at the vendor expo (the only BSD
1628: represented) and sold <a href="32.html">3.2</a> CDs, and Jason gave a BoF
1629: session on <a href="32.html">3.2</a> and future.
1630: <p>
1631:
1.216 jose 1632: <li><strong>
1.264 djm 1633: <a href="http://www.auug.org.au/events/2002/auug2002/">Australian Unix Users
1634: Group Winter Conference</a></strong>,
1635: Sep 1 - 6, 2002, Melbourne Australia<br>
1636: Damien Miller presented a tutorial on the
1637: <a href="papers/auug2002-ssh/index.html">SSH protocol</a> and
1638: <a href="papers/auug2002-ssh.ps">OpenSSH tips and tricks</a>.
1639: <p>
1640:
1641: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 1642: <a href="http://lsm.abul.org">The 3rd Libre Software Meeting</a></strong>,
1643: Jul 9 - 13, 2002, Bordeaux, France<br>
1.172 miod 1644: Several OpenBSD developers and users were attending the meeting, and
1645: Niels Provos presented his
1646: <a href="http://www.citi.umich.edu/u/provos/systrace">systrace</a>
1647: system call policy management tool.
1.174 nick 1648: <p>
1.172 miod 1649:
1.216 jose 1650: <li><strong>
1651: <a href="http://www.Webb.it">Webb.it 02</a></strong>,
1652: Jul 5 - 7, 2002, Padova, Italy<br>
1.171 ian 1653: OpenBSD developers had a booth selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
1654: <p>
1655:
1.216 jose 1656: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1657: <a href="http://www.softwarelivre.rs.gov.br/forum">The Annual International
1.216 jose 1658: Free Software Forum</a></strong>,
1659: May 2 - 4, 2002, Porto Alegre-RS, Brazil<br>
1.236 jose 1660: Mainly a Linux/GNU event, but this year the BSD Operating Systems
1661: had a chance to prove their value.
1.169 horacio 1662: Edson Brandi spoke on FreeBSD, Diego Linke
1.236 jose 1663: on NetBSD, and Ricardo Nascimento Ferreira on OpenBSD.
1.169 horacio 1664: <p>
1.168 miod 1665:
1.216 jose 1666: <li><strong>
1667: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/bsdcon02/">BSDCON 2002</a></strong>,
1668: Feb 11 - 14, 2002, San Francisco, California, USA<br>
1.161 millert 1669: Todd Miller gave an update on current OpenBSD status and participated in a
1.162 millert 1670: BSD panel discussion. The <a href="slides/bsdcon_2002/index.html">slides</a>
1671: are available.
1.161 millert 1672: <p>
1673:
1.216 jose 1674: <li><strong>
1675: <a href="http://www.linuxexpoparis.com">Linux expo Paris 2002</a></strong>,
1676: Jan 30 - Feb 1, 2002, Paris, France<br>
1.163 miod 1677: The french Linux Expo 2002 was quite small and as usual the OpenBSD booth ended
1678: up with others on the expo's side. On the first day, almost all the merchandise
1679: was sold, and we have even sold older versions (2.9) the following days to
1680: people who wouldn't leave without a cd set in their hands...
1681: <p>
1682:
1.216 jose 1683: <li><strong>
1684: <a href="http://musess.mcmaster.ca/">MUSESS 2002</a></strong>,
1685: Jan 25 - 26, 2002, McMaster University, Ontario, Canada<br>
1.164 millert 1686: Louis Bertrand gave a presentation on OpenBSD titled
1687: <strong>Fix The Bugs, Secure The System</strong>.
1688: The <a href="slides/musess_2002/index.html">slides</a> are available.
1689: <p>
1.236 jose 1690: </ul>
1.164 millert 1691:
1.152 jakob 1692: <h3>2001</h3>
1693:
1.236 jose 1694: <ul>
1.216 jose 1695: <li><strong>
1696: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa01/">USENIX LISA 2001</a></strong>,
1697: Dec 2 - 7, 2001, San Diego, California, USA<br>
1.160 jufi 1698: Niels Provos gave a presentation, and there's been a booth selling
1.413 grunk 1699: T-shirts and 3.0 CDs.
1.160 jufi 1700: <p>
1701:
1.216 jose 1702: <li><strong>
1703: <a href="http://www.ietf.org/meetings/IETF-52.html">52nd IETF</a></strong>,
1704: Dec 9 - 14, 2001, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA<br>
1.160 jufi 1705: Angelos, Itojun & Jakob were there.
1706: <p>
1707:
1.158 deraadt 1708: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1709: <a href="http://www.disc2000.unam.mx/disc/index-ing.html">DISC
1.216 jose 1710: 2001</a></strong>,
1711: Nov 26 - 29, 2001, Mexico City, Mexico<br>
1.158 deraadt 1712: Once again, Theo de Raadt explained the security auditing process and
1713: subsequent secure configuration choices made in OpenBSD, in a talk
1714: entitled "Updated thoughts on writing a secure Operating System".
1715: <p>
1716:
1.216 jose 1717: <li><strong>
1718: <a href="http://www.linux.org.hk">LinuxCafe</a></strong>,
1719: Sep 15, 2001, Hong Kong, China<br>
1.156 provos 1720: Shell Hung gave an introduction for BSD and demonstration of OpenBSD to HKLUG.
1721: <p>
1722:
1.201 deraadt 1723: <li><strong>VPN Bakeoff</strong>,
1.216 jose 1724: Aug 13 - 18, 2001, Finland<br>
1.156 provos 1725: Jakob and Itojun were there.
1726: <p>
1.158 deraadt 1727:
1.150 wvdputte 1728: <li><strong>
1.215 nick 1729: <a href="http://www.hal2001.org">HAL 2001</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1730: Aug 10 - 12, 2001, Twente, Netherlands<br>
1.153 jufi 1731: Quite a lot of developers were there, we even had our own tent.
1732: Niels, Rees and Dugsong held talks, more info on the main website
1733: for HAL2001. And of course T-Shirts and CDROMs were sold.
1.150 wvdputte 1734: <p>
1.137 aaron 1735:
1736: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1737: <a href="http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon/">O'Reilly Open Source
1.216 jose 1738: Conference</a></strong>,
1739: Jul 23 - 27, 2001, San Diego, California, USA<br>
1.148 brian 1740: OpenBSD had a booth selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
1741: Ian Darwin presented his "Firewalls and Secure Internet Servers
1742: with OpenBSD" tutorial.
1743: <p>
1744:
1745: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 1746: <a href="http://www.defcon.org">DEF CON Nine</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1747: Jul 13 - 15, 2001 Las Vegas, USA<br>
1.148 brian 1748: OpenBSD developers and users make it a point to attend every year,
1749: and had a table selling CD's, shirts, etc.
1750: <p>
1751:
1752: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1753: <a href="http://www.sek.co.kr/sek2001/sek_html/main.htm">Software
1.216 jose 1754: Exhibition of Korea</a></strong>,
1755: Jun 26 - 29, 2001, Seoul, Korea<br>
1.146 krw 1756: urisecure/NDS sponsored an OpenBSD booth with CD's, posters,
1757: and a live demo of OpenBSD's IPSEC hardware acceleration.
1758: <p>
1759:
1760: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1761: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix01/">2001 USENIX Annual
1.216 jose 1762: Technical Conference</a></strong>,
1763: Jun 25 - 30, 2001, Boston, USA<br>
1.146 krw 1764: OpenBSD developers were there, selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
1765: <p>
1766:
1767: <li><strong>
1.143 dugsong 1768: <a href="http://www.olymfair.org/eng/workshop.htm">Information
1.201 deraadt 1769: Security OlymFair</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1770: May 16 - 18, 2001, Seoul, Korea<br>
1.143 dugsong 1771: Dug Song gave a detailed introduction to OpenBSD to the Korean
1772: security community.
1773: <p>
1774:
1775: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1776: <a href="http://www.osdem.org/">2001 Open Source and Free Software
1.216 jose 1777: Developers' Meeting</a></strong>,
1778: Feb 3 - 4, 2001, Brussels, Belgium<br>
1.137 aaron 1779: There was an OpenBSD booth with some loose talks made.
1780: <p>
1781:
1782: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 1783: <a href="http://www.linuxexpoparis.com/">2001 Linux Expo</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1784: Feb 1 - 2, 2001, Paris, France<br>
1.236 jose 1785: There was an OpenBSD booth in the 'F' area.
1.137 aaron 1786: <p>
1.236 jose 1787: </ul>
1.137 aaron 1788:
1.132 louis 1789: <h3>2000</h3>
1790:
1.236 jose 1791: <ul>
1.132 louis 1792: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1793: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa2000/">LISA 2000, USENIX
1.216 jose 1794: Systems Administration Conference</a></strong>,
1795: Dec 3 - 8, 2000, New Orleans, USA<br>
1.134 jufi 1796: Wim Vandeputte and other volunteers have been running a sales table with
1797: shirts, posters and the brand new 2.8 CDs.
1798: <p>
1799:
1800: <li><strong>
1.215 nick 1801: <a href="http://www.disc2000.unam.mx/disc/index-ing.html">DISC 2000</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1802: Nov 26 - Dec 1, 2000, Mexico City, Mexico<br>
1.133 deraadt 1803: Theo de Raadt explained the security auditing process and subsequent secure
1804: configuration choices made in OpenBSD, in a talk entitled "Secure by Default".
1805: Over the next few days, he also participated in two panels with various security
1806: experts who had flown in from around the world. Following this, Theo climbed
1.151 jsyn 1807: one of the largest volcanoes, called Malinche.
1.133 deraadt 1808: <p>
1809:
1810: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1811: <a href="http://www.nluug.nl/events/nj2000">NLUUG Najaarsconferentie
1.216 jose 1812: 2000</a></strong>,
1813: Nov 9, 2000, Ede, NL<br>
1.236 jose 1814: There was an OpenBSD booth where people dropped by for information or to
1.413 grunk 1815: get their T-shirts, polos, caps and 2.7 CDs.
1.13 deraadt 1816: <p>
1.4 millert 1817:
1.132 louis 1818: <li><strong><a name=ipsec2000></a>
1.236 jose 1819: <a href="http://www.upperside.fr/baipsecy2k.htm">IPsec 2000 Global
1.216 jose 1820: Summit</a></strong>,
1821: Oct 24 - 27, 2000, Paris La Defense, France<br>
1.159 miod 1822: Niels Provos ended the conference by speaking about the IPsec architecture
1.132 louis 1823: in OpenBSD. The talk was well received and many people were very interested
1824: about our cryptographic hardware acceleration.
1825:
1826: <ul>
1.236 jose 1827: <li>The IPsec Architecture in OpenBSD<br>
1.215 nick 1828: <a href="#ipsec2000">IPsec 2000 Global Summit</a> by Niels Provos.<br>
1.132 louis 1829: <a href="papers/ipsec-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1830: </ul>
1.4 millert 1831: <p>
1.132 louis 1832:
1.7 deraadt 1833: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 1834: <a href="http://ApacheCon.Com/2000/EU/">ApacheCon Europa 2000</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1835: Oct 23 - 25, 2000, London, UK<br>
1.132 louis 1836: There was an OpenBSD booth where people could drop by for information and
1837: a chat with the local OpenBSD personnel. We also had the essentials for
1.413 grunk 1838: your wardrobe (T-shirts, polos, caps), for your hardware (2.7 CDs) and for your
1.132 louis 1839: mind (drinks afterwards).
1840: <p>
1841:
1.216 jose 1842: <li><strong>
1843: <a href="http://www.bsdcon.com/">BSD Con 2000</a></strong>,
1844: Oct 18 - 20, 2000, Monterey, CA, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1845: David Terrell ran an OpenBSD booth selling T-shirts and CDs and answering
1846: questions.
1.32 deraadt 1847: <p>
1.1 deraadt 1848:
1.132 louis 1849: <li><strong><a name=opensource2000></a>
1.236 jose 1850: <a href="http://www.opensource-forum.com/konferens">The Open Source
1.216 jose 1851: Revolution</a></strong>,
1852: Oct 5, 2000, Stockholm, Sweden<br>
1.133 deraadt 1853: Theo de Raadt spoke about how user expectations for security out of the box
1854: have changed over the last years.
1.1 deraadt 1855: <p>
1856:
1.132 louis 1857: <li><strong><a name=sec2000></a>
1.216 jose 1858: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/sec2000/">Usenix Security</a></strong>,
1859: Aug 14 - 17, 2000, Denver, Colorado, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1860: Some OpenBSD developers were there and one paper was presented:
1861: <ul>
1.236 jose 1862: <li>Encrypting Virtual Memory<br>
1.132 louis 1863: <a href="#sec2000">Usenix Security 2000</a>
1.205 deraadt 1864: by Niels Provos.<br>
1.132 louis 1865: <a href="papers/swapencrypt.ps">paper</a> and
1866: <a href="papers/swapencrypt-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1867: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 1868: <p>
1.132 louis 1869:
1.10 provos 1870: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 1871: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-8-post.html">Defcon 2000</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1872: Jul 28 - 30, 2000, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.236 jose 1873: Kjell Wooding (our IPF maintainer), James Phillips from the
1.132 louis 1874: <a href="http://www.deadly.org">OpenBSD Journal</a>, and Theo de Raadt
1.413 grunk 1875: had a table and were selling OpenBSD CDROMs, T-shirts, and posters on
1.132 louis 1876: Friday and Saturday. Hordes of people visited our table and we at the
1877: end we were completely sold out of CDROMS and shirts (allowing us to go
1878: check out Hoover Dam's hardhat tour on Sunday and leave the madness behind).
1879: <br>
1880: We were completely amazed at the people who stopped by our table, to say
1881: that they were relying on OpenBSD.
1882: <p>
1.32 deraadt 1883:
1.132 louis 1884: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1885: <a href="http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon2000/">O'Reilly Open Source
1.216 jose 1886: Conference 2000</a></strong>,
1887: Jul 17 - 20, 2000, Monterey, California, USA<br>
1888: Ian Darwin presented a <a href="papers/oreilly2000/">tutorial</a> on
1.132 louis 1889: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/w/bsd_tutorials.html">
1890: Secure Internet Servers/Firewalls with OpenBSD</a>, and bravely
1891: manned the OpenBSD booth for the remainder of the show.
1892: Kjell Wooding took part in a panel discussion on the Future of the BSDs,
1893: and spoke about
1894: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/w/bsd_presentations.html">
1.241 david 1895: Secure By Default.</a> Both sessions were well attended, and at least
1.132 louis 1896: one Linux sysadmin was seen racing for a keyboard, scared look in his eyes,
1.236 jose 1897: after the security talk.
1.3 provos 1898: <p>
1.132 louis 1899:
1.6 deraadt 1900: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 1901: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.de/2000/english/">LinuxTag 2000</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1902: Jun 29 - Jul 2, 2000, Stuttgart, Germany<br>
1.132 louis 1903: There was a BSD booth where we had the first <a href="27.html">OpenBSD 2.7 CDs</a> for Europe
1904: and the new blue stitchwork <a href="tshirts.html#11">Blowfish Polo</a> shirt.
1905: <br>
1906: Christian Weisgerber gave a
1907: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.de/2000/english/conference/talks.php3?ID=3">talk
1908: on BSD</a>.
1.32 deraadt 1909: <p>
1.1 deraadt 1910:
1.216 jose 1911: <li><strong><a name=usenix2000></a>
1.236 jose 1912: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix2000/">Usenix Annual Technical
1.216 jose 1913: Conference.</a></strong>,
1914: Jun 18 - 23, 2000, San Diego, California, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1915: Almost 20 OpenBSD developers showed up for the 25th anniversary of Usenix.
1916: We had a vendor booth, as well as a number of papers being presented.
1917: Conference attendees had the opportunity to test drive the new release,
1918: OpenBSD 2.7, on the 30 workstations in the terminal room. For the first
1919: time ever, the terminal room and wavelan networks also had a IPv6 connection,
1.147 jason 1920: and some users even discovered so by themselves.
1.132 louis 1921: Theo also held a BoF on the Wednesday evening, after which the developers
1922: had almost too much singing in foreign languages with the help of helium.
1923: <ul>
1924:
1925: <li>Implementing Internet Key Exchange, IKE.<br>
1926: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
1.216 jose 1927: by Angelos D. Keromytis, Niklas Hallqvist.<br>
1.132 louis 1928: <a href="papers/ikepaper.ps">paper</a> and
1929: <a href="papers/ikeslides.ps">slides</a>.
1930:
1931: <li>Transparent Network Security Policy Enforcement.<br>
1932: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
1.216 jose 1933: by Angelos D. Keromytis, Jason L. Wright.<br>
1.132 louis 1934: <a href="papers/bridgepaper.ps">paper</a> and
1935: <a href="papers/bridgeslides.ps">slides</a>.
1.2 deraadt 1936:
1.132 louis 1937: <li>Safety Checking of Kernel Extensions.<br>
1938: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
1.205 deraadt 1939: by Craig Metz.
1.132 louis 1940: </ul>
1.2 deraadt 1941: <p>
1942:
1.132 louis 1943: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1944: <a href="http://www.manlug.mcc.ac.uk/calendar.html">OpenBSD: The Open
1.216 jose 1945: Source Secure Operating System</a></strong>,
1946: Jun 17, 2000, 14:00. Manchester, UK<br>
1.132 louis 1947: Sam Smith gave a rundown of features coming in OpenBSD 2.7 and
1948: OpenSSH 2.1. His <a href="http://www.manlug.mcc.ac.uk/20000617/">slides</a>
1949: are available from the user group's site.
1.1 deraadt 1950: <p>
1.2 deraadt 1951:
1.132 louis 1952: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 1953: <a href="reprints/crypto2000.html">OpenBSD Crypto 2000 conference</a></strong>,
1954: Jun 15 - 20, 2000, Calgary, AB, Canada<br>
1.132 louis 1955: Repeating the tradition of a similar meeting held last year, many
1956: OpenBSD developers from around the world converged on Calgary
1957: for a weekend long hack-and-drink session. As before, the event
1958: was invitation only. Many significant things got done, including
1959: ipv6 + ipsec running over hardware crypto devices.
1.1 deraadt 1960: <p>
1.11 jkatz 1961:
1.17 deraadt 1962: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 1963: <a href="http://www.converge2000.com">CONVERGENCE 2000</a></strong>,
1964: May 18, 2000. Convention Centre, Calgary, Alberta, Canada<br>
1.132 louis 1965: Theo de Raadt participated in a panel discussion about the pros and cons
1966: of using Open Source software in various business environments. The local
1967: users also handed out OpenSSH and OpenBSD posters, and were absolutely
1968: surprised and amazed by the number of Calgary companies quietly using
1969: OpenBSD.
1.21 pattonme 1970: <p>
1.17 deraadt 1971:
1.23 niklas 1972: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 1973: <a href="http://www.cansecwest.com/">CanSecWest</a></strong>,
1974: May 10 - 12, 2000. Robson Conference Centre, Vancouver, BC, Canada<br>
1.132 louis 1975: Theo de Raadt spoke about why programmers keep making the same stupid mistakes,
1976: what types of efforts might improve this, and how this all relates to auditing
1.375 grunk 1977: efforts.
1978: Rain Forest Puppy, Ron Gula (Network Security Wizards), Ken Williams (E&Y),
1.216 jose 1979: Marty Roesch (snort/HiverWorld), and Fyodor (nmap) were among the other speakers
1.132 louis 1980: at this event. (On a personal note: at this conference Theo realized that three
1981: leading Network Intrusion Detection System companies use OpenBSD as their
1982: base operating system: Hiverworld, Network Security Wizards, and NFR).
1.32 deraadt 1983: <p>
1.25 deraadt 1984:
1.132 louis 1985: <li><strong>
1986: <a href="http://www.zdevents.com/comdex/spring2000/">Linux Business Expo /
1.201 deraadt 1987: COMDEX Spring 2000</a></strong>,
1988: Apr 19, 2000, Chicago, IL, USA<br>
1.216 jose 1989: Louis Bertrand represented OpenBSD at a BSD BOF with FreeBSD/BDSI,
1.132 louis 1990: NetBSD and Apple (Darwin is BSD-derived). The BOF was attended by about
1991: 75 people, many of whom were new to *BSD. It was an opportunity to
1992: explore future cooperation among the various BSD groups and companies.
1.25 deraadt 1993: <p>
1.23 niklas 1994:
1.31 deraadt 1995: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1996: <a href="http://www.nordu.org/NordU2000/">NordU 2000 -- The second
1.216 jose 1997: EurOpen/USENIX Conference</a></strong>,
1998: Feb 8 - 11, 2000. Malmo, Sweden<br>
1.140 jufi 1999: About 15 OpenBSD team members attended.
1.132 louis 2000: OpenBSD CDs and shirts were sold at a booth donated by the conference.<br>
2001: As well, Theo de Raadt gave an invited talk on Wednesday morning
2002: about why software quality/security suffers, and what we can do to
2003: improve it.
1.32 deraadt 2004: <p>
1.31 deraadt 2005:
1.201 deraadt 2006: <li><strong>BSD BOF session, LinuxWorld Expo</strong>,
1.216 jose 2007: Feb 3, 2000, New York, USA<br>
1.132 louis 2008: Representatives from OpenBSD, BSDi, and FreeBSD hosted a
2009: "Birds Of a Feather" session at the <a
2010: href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/">New York LinuxWorld Expo</a>.<br>
2011: There were installation CD-ROMs, free food, and even free Daemon Horns!
1.33 niklas 2012: <p>
1.236 jose 2013: </ul>
1.33 niklas 2014:
1.132 louis 2015: <h3>1999</h3>
1.36 niklas 2016:
1.236 jose 2017: <ul>
1.216 jose 2018: <li><strong>The Bazaar</strong>,
2019: Dec 14 - 16, 1999, New York, New York, USA<br>
1.132 louis 2020: Wes Sonnenreich and Tom Yates presented a tutorial on building
1.216 jose 2021: firewalls with OpenBSD. BoF of open source BSDs took place.
1.413 grunk 2022: 2.6 release CDROMs and T-shirts were sold.
1.132 louis 2023: Emphatic interest has been shown by representatives from press, international
2024: government and military institutions.
1.45 jason 2025: <p>
2026:
1.216 jose 2027: <li><strong><a name=lisa99></a>
1.236 jose 2028: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa99/">13th Systems Administration
1.216 jose 2029: Conference (LISA 99)</a></strong>,
2030: Nov 7 - 12, 1999, Seattle, Washington, USA<br>
1.132 louis 2031: Bob Beck presented a paper about the U of A's nifty OpenBSD based
2032: solution to the problem of public Ethernet jacks in the technical sessions
2033: starting at 11:00 AM on the 11th.<br>
2034: There were many other OpenBSD
2035: people at this conference as well, as well as a booth selling CDROMs and
1.413 grunk 2036: T-shirts. His paper is available at:
1.132 louis 2037:
2038: <ul>
2039: <li>Dealing with Public Ethernet Jacks-Switches, Gateways, and Authentication.<br>
1.236 jose 2040: <a href="events.html#lisa99">LISA 1999</a>,
1.206 david 2041: by Bob Beck.<br>
1.236 jose 2042: <a href="papers/authgw-paper.ps">paper</a> and
2043: <a href="papers/authgw-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 2044: </ul>
2045: <p>
2046:
2047: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 2048: IP-dagarna 1999</strong>,
1.216 jose 2049: Oct 27 - 28, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden<br>
1.132 louis 2050: Håkan Olsson & Jakob Schlyter spoke at the DNSSEC session on the 27th.
2051: <p>
2052:
2053: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2054: <a href="http://www.opensource-forum.com/konferens/">Linux & Open Source
1.216 jose 2055: Software '99</a></strong>,
2056: Oct 21, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)<br>
1.132 louis 2057: Niklas Hallqvist spoke on the topic of how to use
1.236 jose 2058: <a
1.375 grunk 2059: href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4">IPsec</a> for securing communications.
1.132 louis 2060: <p>
2061:
2062: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2063: <a href="http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference">Reflections/Projections
1.216 jose 2064: 1999</a></strong>,
2065: Oct 8 - 10, 1999, Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA<br>
1.132 louis 2066: Theo de Raadt spoke at 10:00am on the 9th. Other OpenBSD
2067: developers from the east coast attended as well.
2068: <p>
2069:
1.236 jose 2070: <li><strong><a name="ipsec99"></a>
1.216 jose 2071: IPsec Interoperability tests</strong>,
2072: Sep 27 - 30, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)<br>
1.236 jose 2073: A dozen vendors, among them OpenBSD, tested more than 15
1.375 grunk 2074: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4">IPsec</a>
1.132 louis 2075: products, both gateways and hosts, for interoperability. The tests
2076: were successful as far as general IPsec and pre-shared key
2077: authentication went, OpenBSD interoperated with everyone, but due to
2078: time constraints we never got to test the certificate support
2079: appropriately. The results were presented later that fall at a
2080: conference in Stockholm.
2081: <p>
2082:
2083: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2084: <a href="http://www.auug.org.au/winter/auug99">AUUG'99</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 2085: Sep 8 - 11, 1999, Melbourne, Australia<br>
1.132 louis 2086: Theo de Raadt gave two talks on "quality of software" related issues
2087: and participated on a panel about how open source projects are
2088: coordinated.
2089: <p>
2090:
2091: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2092: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/sec99/index.html">Usenix
1.216 jose 2093: Security</a></strong>,
2094: Aug 23 - 26, 1999, Washington, DC, USA<br>
1.132 louis 2095: Many OpenBSD people from the east coast showed up and sold CDs and
2096: shirts. It was pretty clear from discussions that many people were
2097: very aware of OpenBSD, and that OpenBSD was being used in very
2098: significant security roles.
2099: <p>
2100:
2101: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2102: <a href="http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/99jul/index.html">45th IETF
1.216 jose 2103: meeting</a></strong>,
2104: Jul 12 - 16, 1999, Oslo, Norway<br>
1.132 louis 2105: A number of OpenBSD team members from all over the world were at this
2106: conference. In addition to attending the IPsec and DNS working groups (among
2107: others) we did IPsec/IKE interoperability testing together with
1.166 miod 2108: the Japanese KAME project. Also, Angelos D. Keromytis did a presentation on
1.132 louis 2109: his work with keynote and isakmpd in OpenBSD.
2110: <p>
1.45 jason 2111:
1.132 louis 2112: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2113: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-6.html">Defcon 6.0</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 2114: Jul 9 - 11, 1999, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132 louis 2115: At this conference, the OpenBSD team sold 100 or so 2.5 release CDROMs
1.413 grunk 2116: and a TON of T-shirts.
1.46 deraadt 2117: <p>
1.132 louis 2118:
1.236 jose 2119: <li><strong><a name="usenix99"></a>
2120: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix99/index.html">
1.216 jose 2121: Usenix Annual Technical Conference</a></strong>,
2122: Jun 6 - 11, 1999, Monterey, California, USA<br>
1.106 jufi 2123: The <a href="http://www.usenix.org">USENIX Association</a>
1.46 deraadt 2124: provided The OpenBSD Project with a grant to underwrite the production
1.106 jufi 2125: of CDs of OpenBSD 2.5. (We distributed the
2126: release for free to attendees of the USENIX Annual Conference in
1.46 deraadt 2127: June.)
1.132 louis 2128: <br>
1.46 deraadt 2129: Usenix team members were involved in the authoring and
1.132 louis 2130: presentation of 4 OpenBSD-related papers:
2131:
1.375 grunk 2132: <a name="anoncvs_paper"></a>
1.46 deraadt 2133: <ul>
1.66 deraadt 2134: <li>Opening the Source Repository with Anonymous CVS.<br>
1.236 jose 2135: <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216 jose 2136: by Charles D. Cranor, Theo de Raadt.<br>
1.236 jose 2137: <a href="papers/anoncvs-paper.ps">paper</a> and
2138: <a href="papers/anoncvs-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 2139: <br>
1.66 deraadt 2140: <li>A Future-Adaptable Password Scheme.<br>
1.236 jose 2141: <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216 jose 2142: by Niels Provos, David Mazieres.<br>
1.236 jose 2143: <a href="papers/bcrypt-paper.ps">paper</a> and
2144: <a href="papers/bcrypt-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 2145: <br>
1.66 deraadt 2146: <li>Cryptography in OpenBSD: An Overview.<br>
1.236 jose 2147: <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216 jose 2148: by Theo de Raadt, Niklas Hallqvist, Artur Grabowski,
2149: Angelos D. Keromytis, Niels Provos.<br>
1.236 jose 2150: <a href="papers/crypt-paper.ps">paper</a> and
2151: <a href="papers/crypt-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 2152: <br>
1.66 deraadt 2153: <li>strlcpy and strlcat -- consistent, safe, string copy and concatenation.<br>
1.236 jose 2154: <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216 jose 2155: by Todd C. Miller, Theo de Raadt.<br>
1.236 jose 2156: <a href="papers/strlcpy-paper.ps">paper</a> and
2157: <a href="papers/strlcpy-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 2158: </ul>
1.66 deraadt 2159: <p>
1.46 deraadt 2160:
1.51 deraadt 2161: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2162: <a href="http://www.linuxexpo.org">5th Annual Linux Expo</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 2163: May 18 - 22, 1999, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA<br>
1.132 louis 2164: Some OpenBSD team members were at this conference selling OpenBSD 2.5 CDs,
2165: OpenBSE T-shirts, as well as Blowfish T-shirts, which sold out very quickly
2166: at a table donated by the Expo. OpenBSD was the only BSD represented at the
2167: vendor exposition, and we had good chance to present a secure alternative
2168: to Linux.
1.51 deraadt 2169: <p>
2170:
1.53 jakob 2171: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2172: <a href="http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/99mar/index.html">44th IETF
1.216 jose 2173: meeting</a></strong>,
2174: Mar 15 - 19, 1999, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA<br>
1.132 louis 2175: Some OpenBSD team members were at this conference, in particular our
2176: IPSEC developers.
1.53 jakob 2177: <p>
2178:
1.132 louis 2179: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2180: <a href="http://www.europen.se/NordU99">NordU99 -- The first
1.216 jose 2181: EurOpen/USENIX Conference</a></strong>,
2182: Feb 9 - 12, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden<br>
1.132 louis 2183: A couple of OpenBSD team members were there and some of the swedish user
2184: society as well. OpenBSD CDs were sold at a booth and at the end of a
2185: security talk, the project got applauded for its continuous strive of auditing
2186: security sensitive parts of the system.
1.59 deraadt 2187: <p>
1.236 jose 2188: </ul>
1.59 deraadt 2189:
1.132 louis 2190: <h3>1998</h3>
1.59 deraadt 2191:
1.236 jose 2192: <ul>
1.132 louis 2193: <li><strong><a name=ipsec98></a>
1.236 jose 2194: <a href="http://www.netman.se/kurs/96.html">IPsec/VPN Interoperability
2195: tests & seminar</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 2196: Dec 14, 1998, Stockholm, Sweden (in swedish)<br>
1.132 louis 2197: OpenBSD was represented as one of about a dozen
1.375 grunk 2198: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4">IPsec</a>
1.132 louis 2199: implementations who were tested for interoperability. The tests were
2200: successful, both for the technology in general, and for OpenBSD in
2201: specific. We managed to communicate encrypted with every vendor present,
2202: and to negotiate keys via IKE with everyone capable.
1.70 deraadt 2203: <p>
2204:
1.236 jose 2205: <li><strong><a name="lisaboston-98"></a>
2206: <a href="http://usenix.org/events/lisa98">LISA '98: 12th Systems Administration
1.216 jose 2207: Conference</a></strong>,
2208: Dec 6 - 11, 1998, Boston, Massachusetts<br>
1.132 louis 2209: More than 10 OpenBSD team members showed up. By far, OpenBSD was the
2210: largest representative group from free software at the conference.
2211: Usenix gave us a table in the vendor area where we sold 2.4 CDROMs,
1.413 grunk 2212: 2.3 "wire-frame" T-shirts, and the new 2.4 embroidered
2213: "Because security matters..." T-shirts, polos, and sweaters.
1.132 louis 2214: An OpenBSD BOF was held one evening, led by Theo de Raadt.
2215: A PalmPilot schedule loader was at the membership booth, powered by OpenBSD.
2216: <br>
2217: The terminal room ran OpenBSD 2.4 on 45 machines. Obviously trust in OpenBSD
2218: had increased since many people,normally wary of security problems of open
2219: terminal rooms, were seen using the machines.
1.72 ho 2220: <p>
2221:
1.73 deraadt 2222: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2223: <a href="http://www.asc.unam.mx/disc98">DISC - Seguridad en
1.217 jose 2224: Cómputo 98</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 2225: Nov 2 - 7, 1998, Mexico City<br>
1.132 louis 2226: Theo de Raadt gave a talk about security auditing, sponsored by
1.236 jose 2227: <a href="http://www.core-sdi.com">CORE SDI S.A.</a>, an Argentine
1.132 louis 2228: security auditing company who strongly believes in the future
1.236 jose 2229: of OpenBSD. (<a href="papers/mexico98-slides.ps">Slides are available</a>).
1.131 jufi 2230: <p>
1.73 deraadt 2231:
1.236 jose 2232: <li><strong>IP-dagarna</strong>,
1.216 jose 2233: Oct 29, 30 1998, Stockholm, Sweden (in swedish)<br>
1.132 louis 2234: At this conference, entirely devoted to IP, Niklas Hallqvist from the
2235: OpenBSD team held a talk on the IKE (a.k.a ISAKMP/Oakley) key management
2236: protocol and experiences from the implementation of <strong>isakmpd</strong>,
2237: an IKE implementation funded by Ericsson Radio Systems and developed
2238: primarily for the OpenBSD IPSEC stack.
1.79 deraadt 2239: <p>
1.73 deraadt 2240:
1.80 deraadt 2241: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 2242: <a href="http://www.nceexpo.com/">NCEE '98</a></strong>,
2243: Oct 9 - 10, 1998, Auburn, Maine, USA<br>
1.132 louis 2244: An extensive after-action report was sent to advocacy@openbsd.org. While
1.151 jsyn 2245: sales of shirts and CDROMs left much to be desired, we did have good
1.132 louis 2246: opportunities to further project visibility and highlight its strengths.
1.80 deraadt 2247: <p>
2248:
1.93 louis 2249: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2250: <a href="http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference">Reflections/Projections
1.216 jose 2251: 1998</a></strong>,
1.236 jose 2252: Oct 2 - 4, 1998, Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA<br>
1.132 louis 2253: Theo de Raadt spoke in a panel about Open/Free software with Eric
2254: Raymond and others.
1.93 louis 2255: <p>
2256:
1.216 jose 2257: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2258: <a href="http://opensource.oreilly.com/townmeet.html">O'Reilly and
2259: Associates Open Source Developer Days</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 2260: Aug 21, 1998, San Jose, California, USA<br>
1.132 louis 2261: OpenBSD team members were on-hand to discuss OpenBSD's role among the
1.413 grunk 2262: other free software projects available. They also sold some CDs and T-shirts.
1.96 deraadt 2263: <p>
2264:
1.236 jose 2265: <li><strong><a name="defcon98"></a>
2266: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-6.html">Defcon VI</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 2267: Jul 31 - Aug 2, 1998, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132 louis 2268: The router to the outside world was an OpenBSD 2.3 box. It was involved
2269: in a "capture the flag" competition in which an entire room of crackers
2270: attempted to break into it and machines running other operating systems.
2271: The OpenBSD box was not broken into.
2272: <br>
2273: Almost 100 OpenBSD 2.3 CDROMs were sold (we ran out again). The primates
1.236 jose 2274: at <a href="http://www.monkey.org">monkey.org</a> brought 2.3
1.413 grunk 2275: "wire-frame" OpenBSD T-shirts to the conference and sold almost
1.132 louis 2276: 200 of them. The proceeds from the sales were donated to the OpenBSD project.
1.96 deraadt 2277: <p>
1.94 deraadt 2278:
1.236 jose 2279: <li><strong><a href="http://www.blackhat.com">BlackHat Sessions</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 2280: Jul 29 - 30, 1998, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132 louis 2281: Theo de Raadt presented a talk entitled
2282: "Auditing software for security" about the OpenBSD security auditing
2283: team's process and the lessons the team learned. The talk concentrated
2284: on how our process fixes bugs -- not just holes -- since one never knows
2285: when 5 bugs will act together to become a hole.
1.99 deraadt 2286: <p>
2287:
1.236 jose 2288: <li><strong><a name="usenix-neworleans"></a>
2289: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/usenix98/index.html">Usenix Annual Technical Conference</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 2290: Jun 15 - 19, 1998, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA<br>
1.132 louis 2291: At Usenix 1998 there was a strong OpenBSD presence both in the Freenix
2292: and normal tracks. Theo did a general talk about what the OpenBSD
2293: project offers. Angelos held a panel about IPSEC (which is quite an
2294: OpenBSD topic since IPSEC development at that time was so much further
2295: ahead in OpenBSD than anywhere else).
2296: <br>
2297: The terminal room PCs ran OpenBSD 2.3. We sold many CDROMs. The
1.413 grunk 2298: first style of OpenBSD T-shirt also sold quite well.
1.101 wvdputte 2299: <p>
2300:
1.105 wvdputte 2301: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2302: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/sec98/index.html">Usenix Security</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 2303: Jan 26 - 29, 1998, San Antonio, Texas, USA<br>
1.132 louis 2304: At this conference, Theo presented an evening talk which basically
2305: turned into a list of fixed security problems and cautionary tales about
2306: subsystems in which future problems may be encountered
1.236 jose 2307: (<a href="papers/security98-slides.ps">slides available</a>).
1.105 wvdputte 2308: <br>
1.132 louis 2309: The terminal room PCs ran OpenBSD 2.2.
2310: <p>
1.236 jose 2311: </ul>
1.105 wvdputte 2312:
1.132 louis 2313: <h3>1997</h3>
1.107 deraadt 2314:
1.236 jose 2315: <ul>
1.113 deraadt 2316: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2317: <a href="http://www.hip97.nl">HIP</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 2318: Aug, 1997, Almere, Netherlands<br>
1.236 jose 2319: Niels held a
2320: <a href="http://www.physnet.uni-hamburg.de/provos/hip97-tcpip.html">talk</a>
1.132 louis 2321: about the problems of unencrypted TCP/IP connections, offering IPSEC as
2322: possible solution.
1.113 deraadt 2323: <p>
1.132 louis 2324:
1.236 jose 2325: <li><strong>HOPE</strong>,
1.216 jose 2326: Aug, 1997, New York, New York, USA<br>
1.166 miod 2327: The terminal room consisted primarily of DECstations running
1.236 jose 2328: OpenBSD 2.1. Once again, the <a href="http://www.l0pht.com">L0phT</a>
1.132 louis 2329: people had very good things to say about our security.
1.113 deraadt 2330: <p>
1.105 wvdputte 2331:
1.236 jose 2332: <li><strong><a name="defcon5"></a>
2333: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-5.html">Defcon V</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 2334: Jul 11 - 13, 1997, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132 louis 2335: At this conference, the OpenBSD team sold 100 or so 2.1 release CDROMs.
2336: <br>
2337: Since this is the primary security conference, many speakers said very
1.140 jufi 2338: good things about our stance on security... particularly people like
1.236 jose 2339: <a href="http://www.l0pht.com">the L0phT</a>.
1.118 deraadt 2340: <p>
2341:
1.125 deraadt 2342: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2343: <a
2344: href="http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/ana97/index.html">Usenix Annual Technical Conference</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 2345: Jan 6 - 10, 1997, Anaheim, California, USA.<br>
1.132 louis 2346: Theo de Raadt held a BOF ("Birds Of a Feather", ie. a meeting of people
2347: interested in the same thing) about OpenBSD.
1.236 jose 2348: </ul>
1.125 deraadt 2349:
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