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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>
1.662 rui 51: Pedro Martelletto, Michael Shalayeff, and Rui Reis 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,
1.663 deraadt 89: run by the usual suspects. NOTE: Peter Hansteen's PF tutorial is now on offer at Linuxtag, get it while it's hot!
1.621 wvdputte 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>
1.660 claudio 129: Claudio Jeker will give a talk "Using OpenBSD as Routing Platform".<br>
1.656 mbalmer 130: Peter Hansteen will offer "A Packet Filter Tutorial" on the tutorial day.<br>
1.652 mbalmer 131: There will be an OpenBSD booth, run by the usual suspects.
1.621 wvdputte 132: <p>
133:
134: <li><strong><a name="t-dose2007"></a>
135: <a href="http://www.t-dose.org/">T-DOSE 2007</a></strong>,
136: Oct 13 - 14, 2007, Eindhoven, The Netherlands.<br>
137: Technical Dutch Open Source Event<br>
1.612 mk 138: There will be developers present as well as an OpenBSD booth,
139: run by the usual suspects.
140: <p>
141:
1.647 mbalmer 142: <li><strong><a name="bsdcontr2007"></a>
143: <a href="http://www.bsdcontr.org/">BSDConTR 2007</a></strong>
144: Oct 20 - 21, 2007, Goztepe Campus Marmara University, Istanbul, Turkey.<br>
145: First Turkish Conference on BSD Systems.
146: <p>
147:
1.664 ! michele 148: <li><strong><a name="opencon2007"></a>
! 149: <a href="http://www.opencon.org/">OpenCON 2007</a></strong>
! 150: Nov 30 - Dec 2, 2007, Venice, Italy.<br>
! 151: OpenCON is the only conference dedicated solely to OpenBSD.
! 152: This edition is composed by one "tutorial day" and two days of conference.
! 153: Three days entirely dedicated to OpenBSD with a lot of developers and users.
! 154: <p>
! 155:
1.588 espie 156: </ul>
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1.597 mbalmer 158: <hr>
159:
160: <h2>Past events:</h2>
161:
1.616 wvdputte 162: <h3>2007</h3>
163: <ul>
1.658 reyk 164:
165: <li><strong><a name=decix6th></a>
166: <a href="http://www.de-cix.org/">DE-CIX 6th Technical Meeting</a></strong>,
167: Apr 19, 2007, Schloss Kransberg, near Usingen, Germany.<br>
168: Henning Brauer and Reyk Flöter talked at the 6th technical
169: meeting of the Deutsche Commercial Internet Exchange (DE-CIX).
170: Henning gave an update on OpenBGPD and Reyk about the latest
171: network-related changes since OpenBSD 4.1. They also talked about
172: the status of test OpenBGPD route server running at the DE-CIX.
173: <p>
174:
1.651 fkr 175: <li><strong><a name="litol07"></a>
176: <a href="http://www.lit-ol.de/">2. Linux-Informationstag Oldenburg</a></strong>,
177: Apr 14 - 15, 2007, Oldenburg, Germany.<br>
178: Small Open-Source event. Of course there was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth run by
1.659 fkr 179: Bernd, Felix and Tobias Stoeckmann. Felix gave a talk about the current state
180: of OpenBSD development titled <a href="papers/litol07/">OpenBSD - Past, Present and Future</a>.
1.651 fkr 181: <p>
1.650 deraadt 182:
183: <li><strong><a name="fisl8"></a>
184: <a href="http://fisl.softwarelivre.org/8.0/www/?q=en">fisl8.0</a></strong>,
185: Apr 12-14, 2007, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil.<br>
186: This was a fairly large conference in South America. Theo de Raadt
187: presented a talk about <a href="papers/brhard2007/">Hardware Documentation</a>.
188: <p>
189:
1.645 ray 190: <li><strong><a name="nycbug2007-cvs"></a>
191: <a href="http://nycbug.org/">NYC*BUG April 2007</a></strong>,
192: Apr 4, 2007, NYC, USA.<br>
193: Ray Lai (ray@) gave a
194: <a href="http://www.nycbug.org/index.php?NAV=Home;SUBM=10104">talk</a>
195: on OpenCVS.
1.648 ray 196: <a href="papers/nycbug07-cvs/">Slides</a> and
197: <a href="http://www.fetissov.org/public/nycbug/nycbug-04-04-07.mp3">audio</a>
198: are available.
1.645 ray 199: <p>
200:
1.638 grunk 201: <li><strong><a name="elite2007"></a>
202: <a href="http://www.erlug.de/?q=node/323">5. Erlanger Linuxtage</a></strong>,
203: Mar 24 - 25, 2007, Erlangen, Germany.<br>
204: There was an OpenBSD/OpenSSH booth, run by Alexander von Gernler (grunk@).
205: He also gave a talk called
1.639 grunk 206: <a href="papers/elite2007/elite2007-openbsd.pdf">
1.638 grunk 207: "Sichere Systeme mit OpenBSD" (german)</a>.
208: <p>
209:
1.635 tom 210: <li><strong><a name="ukuug2007"></a>
211: <a href="http://www.ukuug.org/events/spring2007/">UKUUG Spring 2007 Conference</a></strong>,
212: Mar 19 - 21, 2007, Manchester, United Kingdom<br>
213: Tom Cosgrove gave a presentation about "Third-Party Applications on OpenBSD"
214: at the annual spring meeting of the
215: <a href="http://www.ukuug.org/">UK's Unix and Open Systems User Group</a>.
216: <p>
217:
1.627 mcbride 218: <li><strong><a name="asiabsdcon2007"></a>
219: <a href="http://www.asiabsdcon.org/">AsiaBSDCon 2007</a></strong>,
220: Mar 8 - 11, 2007, Tokyo, Japan.<br>
1.631 mbalmer 221: Marc Balmer presented a paper <a href="papers/radio-clocks-asiabsdcon07.pdf">Supporting Radio Clocks in OpenBSD</a>. Presentation
222: <a href="papers/asiabsdcon07-radioclocks/index.html">slides</a> are also
223: available.<br>
1.627 mcbride 224: 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 225: Mathieu Sauve-Frankel gave a talk <a href="papers/asiabsdcon07-ipsec/index.html">Recent Improvements in OpenBSD's IPSec Support</a>.<br>
226: Damien Miller presented a paper <a href="papers/openssh-measures-asiabsdcon2007.pdf">Security measures in OpenSSH</a>. Presentation
1.628 djm 227: <a href="papers/openssh-measures-asiabsdcon2007-slides.pdf">slides</a> are
228: also available.<br>
1.627 mcbride 229: 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".
230: <p>
231:
1.622 fkr 232: <li><strong><a name="linuxforum2007"></a>
233: <a href="http://www.linuxforum.dk/2007/">LinuxForum 2007</a></strong>,
234: Mar 2 - 3, 2007, Copenhagen, Denmark.<br>
1.623 wvdputte 235: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth run by Wim, Bernd and Michael in the
1.633 tom 236: <a href="http://img.ba-net.org/LinuxForum2007/">best of circumstances</a>.
1.622 fkr 237: Felix gave a talk titled
238: <a href="papers/linuxforum07/index.html">OpenBSD - Past, Present and Future</a>.
239: <p>
240:
1.619 wvdputte 241: <li><strong><a name=Brussels2007></a>
242: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/2007/">FOSDEM Brussels 2007</a></strong>,
243: Feb 24 - 25, 2007, Brussels, Belgium.<br>
244: There was an an OpenBSD/OpenSSH booth with Matthieu, Marc, Mickey, Saad
245: and Wim. On Saturday we had our traditional BSD dinner.<br>
246: Matthieu gave a <a href="papers/fosdem07-xenocara.pdf">
247: talk on Xenocara</a> in the X.Org devroom.
248: <p>
1.616 wvdputte 249:
250: <li><strong><a name="kiberpipa2007"></a>
251: <a href="http://pot.kiberpipa.org">Kiberpipa open sessions</a></strong>,
252: February 20, 2007, Ljubljana, Slovenia.<br>
253: On that edition of weekly "Open sessions" meetings
254: <a href="http://www.kerberos.si">Mitja Muzenic</a> gave a
255: <a href="http://pot.kiberpipa.org/?p=39">talk</a> on OpenBSD.
1.619 wvdputte 256: <a href="http://www.kerberos.si/papers/Kiberpipa07/">Slides</a> (in Slovenian),
257: <a href="http://video.kiberpipa.org/media/POT_OpenBSD">video</a> (in Slovenian),
1.616 wvdputte 258: and <a href="http://gallery.kerberos.si/kiberpipa07/">photos</a> are available.
259: <p>
260:
261: </ul>
262:
1.445 martin 263: <h3>2006</h3>
1.236 jose 264: <ul>
1.537 deraadt 265:
1.588 espie 266: <li><strong><a name="23c3"></a>
1.577 mbalmer 267: <a href="https://events.ccc.de/congress/2006/">23C3 Chaos Communication Congress in
268: Berlin</a></strong>,
269: December 27 - 30, 2006, Berlin, Germany.<br>
1.597 mbalmer 270: Who can you trust? Well, us. OpenBSD was there, of course, for our annual
1.595 reyk 271: closing event. fkr, grunk, jsg, mbalmer, mickey, sturm, uwe, martin,
1.598 bernd 272: henning, moritz, bernd and wvdputte were there
1.597 mbalmer 273: there to chat with attendees and discuss OpenBSD stuff. It was - as usual -
274: a great end-of-the-year event. See you in Berlin again end of 2007.
1.577 mbalmer 275: <p>
276:
1.594 mbalmer 277: <li><strong><a name="moscow2006"></a>
278: <a href="https://kd85.com/">Moscow OpenBSD user meeting</a></strong>,
279: December 8 - 9, 2006, Moscow, Russia.<br>
1.633 tom 280: For details, please email <a href="mailto:grange@opensd.org">Grange</a>
1.594 mbalmer 281: <p>
282:
1.515 tom 283: <li><strong><a name="opencon2006"></a>
284: <a href="http://www.opencon.org/">OpenCON 2006</a></strong>,
1.569 deraadt 285: 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 286: OpenCON is the only conference dedicated solely to OpenBSD.
1.587 deraadt 287: 135 people were registered for the event, but since it was a completely open event is likely that
288: even more people just walked in.
1.577 mbalmer 289: Most talks were by OpenBSD developers, but there was also an impressive
1.568 mbalmer 290: number of our developers just attending the conference. Talks by OpenBSD
1.577 mbalmer 291: developers were:
1.568 mbalmer 292: <p>
1.535 deraadt 293: <ul>
1.581 claudio 294: <li>Claudio Jeker: <a href="papers/opencon06-network/index.html">
295: Network stack changes in OpenBSD</a>
1.580 deraadt 296: <li>Marc Balmer: <a href="papers/opencon06-nmea/index.html">
297: Support for Time Signal Station Receivers and GPS in OpenBSD</a>
1.601 fkr 298: <li>Felix Kronlage: <a href="papers/opencon06-umts/index.html">Redundancy or mobile deployment with 3G technology</a>
1.584 jsg 299: <li>Jonathan Gray: <a href="papers/opencon06-drivers/index.html">
300: Driver architecture and implementation in OpenBSD</a>
1.543 mbalmer 301: <li>Gordon Klok: <i>Processor Power Management</i>
1.596 dlg 302: <li>David Gwynne: <a href="papers/opencon06-culture.pdf">The OpenBSD
303: Culture</a> and he also filled in for Marco's
304: <a href="papers/opencon06-bio.pdf">Bio and Sensors in OpenBSD</a> talk.
1.582 michele 305: <li>Michele Marchetto: <a href="papers/opencon06-ripd/index.html">
306: OpenRIPD</a>
1.574 mbalmer 307: <li>Reyk Floeter: <i>IPsec demystified</i>
1.580 deraadt 308: <li>Theo de Raadt: <a href="papers/opencon06-docs">
309: Why hardware documentation matters so much and why it is so hard to get</a>
1.535 deraadt 310: </ul>
1.502 mbalmer 311: <p>
1.577 mbalmer 312: Also present were jcs, krw, mglocker, robert, wvdputte, martin, grunk,
313: dhartmei, aanriot, sturm, and bernd. Of course there was an OpenBSD booth
314: run by the usual suspects and you could buy our CD-ROMS, the audio CD and other
1.568 mbalmer 315: stuff.
316: <p>
1.502 mbalmer 317:
1.575 reyk 318: <li><strong><a name=opensourcetag2006></a>
319: <a href="http://www.opensourcetag.de/2006/">OpenSourceTag 2006</a></strong>,
320: Nov 30, 2006, Hannover, Germany.<br>
321: Reyk gave a <a href="http://www.opensourcetag.de/2006/agenda/">talk</a> about OpenBSD
322: as a reference project for secure software.
323: <p>
324:
1.583 henning 325: <li><strong><a name=epf2006></a>
326: <a href="http://www.peering-forum.eu/2006/">European Peering Forum 2006</a></strong>,
327: Nov 29 - 30, 2006, Frankfurt, Germany.<br>
328: The European Peering Forum in Frankfurt was hosted by the 3 big european
329: peering points DE-CIX, AMSIX and LINX, bringing network operators together.
330: Henning was talking about OpenBGPD,
331: <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/epf2006/">slides</a> are available.
332: <p>
333:
1.565 krw 334: <li><strong><a name=conisli2006></a>
335: <a href="http://conisli.org/">CONISLI 2006</a></strong>,
336: Nov 3 - 5, 2006, São Paulo, Brazil<br>
337: 4th edition of São Paulo's International Free Software Congress.
1.567 pedro 338: Ken Westerback and Pedro Martelletto gave a talk
339: (<a href="http://www2.par.inf.puc-rio.br/~pedro/conisli-html/">slides</a>).
1.565 krw 340: <p>
341:
1.559 jason 342: <li><strong><a name=nycbsdcon2006></a>
343: <a href="http://nycbsdcon.org/">NYCBSDCon 2006</a></strong>,
344: Oct 28 - 29, 2006, New York City, USA<br>
345: NYCBSDCon is the main conference on the East Coast for the
346: BSD community to get together to share and gain knowledge,
1.562 jason 347: to network with like minded people. Several developers
1.563 jason 348: spoke, more were on hand:
1.559 jason 349: <ul>
350: <li>Marco Peereboom: <a href="papers/bio.pdf">bio and sensors in OpenBSD</a>
1.563 jason 351: [<a href="http://www.fetissov.org/public/nycbsdcon06/1.6.mp3">audio</a>]
1.605 jason 352: <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 353: <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>]
354: <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 355: <li>Ray Lai: <i>First time booth bunny</i>
356: </ul>
357: <p>
358:
1.556 fgsch 359: <li><strong><a name=linuxworlduk2006></a>
360: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.co.uk/">LinuxWorld Expo UK 2006</a></strong>,
361: Oct 25 - 26, 2006, Olympia, London, UK.<br>
1.558 wvdputte 362: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Wim, Tom, Peter, Federico and
363: Pedro La Peu.
1.556 fgsch 364: <p>
365:
1.589 aanriot 366: <li><strong><a name=cuug2006oct></a>
367: <a href="http://www.cuug.ab.ca/">Calgary Unix Users Group</a></strong>,
368: Oct 24, 2006, downtown Library, basement meeting room, Calgary, Alberta.<br>
369: Theo de Raadt gave a talk regarding the increasing demand for
370: vendors to open up their documentation.
371: <p>
372:
1.553 grunk 373: <li><strong><a name="systems2006"></a>
374: <a href="http://www.systems.de/">Systems</a></strong>,
375: Oct 23 - 27, 2006, Munich, Germany <br>
376: The *BSD projects were located at A3.542.
377: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
378: Wilhelm Bühler, DaN, Nikolay Sturm, Marco Pfatschbacher,
379: and some other volunteers.
380: <p>
381:
1.550 henning 382: <li><strong><a name=hacklu2006></a>
383: <a href="http://www.hack.lu/">hack.lu 2006</a></strong>,
384: Oct 19 - 21, 2006, Luxembourg/Kirchberg.<br>
385: Henning Brauer gave a well received talk about OpenBGPD.
386: <p>
387:
1.547 aanriot 388: <li><strong><a name=aldil2006></a>
389: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/">Les Journées Du Logiciel Libre
390: 2006</a></strong>,
391: Oct 13 - 14, 2006, Lyon, France.<br>
392: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Miod Vallat and Alexandre
393: Anriot with the help of Thierry Thomas and Damien Bergamini.
394: <p>
395:
1.546 mcbride 396: <li><strong><a name=auug2006></a>
397: <a href="http://new.auug.org.au/">AUUG 2006</a></strong>,
398: Oct 10 - 13, 2006, Melbourne, Australia.<br>
399: Ryan Mcbride presented a full-day tutorial entitled
400: "Advanced PF Rulesets" as well as two additional talks
401: <a href="papers/auug2006/pf_evolution/">PF evolution</a>
402: and
403: <a href="papers/auug2006/network_randomness/">Network stack randomness in OpenBSD</a>.
404: <p>
405:
1.532 wvdputte 406: <li><strong><a name=eurooscon2006></a>
407: <a href="http://conferences.oreillynet.com/euos2006/">O'Reilly Euro OSCON 2006
408: </a></strong>,
409: Sep 20, 2006, Brussels, Belgium.<br>
410: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth.
411: <p>
412:
1.528 wvdputte 413: <li><strong><a name=come2linux2006></a>
414: <a href="http://www.come2linux.org/psp/">Come 2 Linux 2006</a></strong>,
415: Sep 9 - 10, 2006, Duisburg-Essen, Germany.<br>
416: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth.
417: <p>
418:
1.525 wvdputte 419: <li><strong><a name=ChaosdaysDarmstadt2006></a>
420: <a href="http://mrmcd101b.metarheinmain.de/index.html">mrmcd101b - MetaRheinMainChaosDays Darmstadt 2006</a>
421: </strong>,
422: Sep 1 - 3, 2006, Darmstadt, Germany.<br>
423: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth.
424: <p>
425:
1.521 fkr 426: <li><strong><a name=LinuxWorldExpoSF2006></a>
427: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/live/12/events/12SFO06A/conference/tracksessions/Security/QMONYA04ROFR">LinuxWorld Expo San Francisco 2006</a>
428: </strong>,
429: Aug 16, 2006, San Francisco, United States.<br>
430: Ted Unangst spoke about OpenBSD as part of a security panel.
431: <p>
432:
1.518 tedu 433: <li><strong><a name=coimbra2006></a>
434: <a href="http://www.openbsd-pt.com/eventos/coimbra06/">Portuguese OpenBSD Usergroup Meeting</a></strong>,
435: Jul 22 - 23, 2006, Coimbra, Portugal.<br>
436: 6th Meeting of the Portuguese OpenBSD Usergroup. Marc Balmer gave a talk
437: "NMEA 0183 and Time Signal Station Receiver Support in OpenBSD".
438: <p>
439:
440: <li><strong><a name=akqit2006></a>
441: <a href="http://www.akqit.ch/w3/DE/actual.html">Arbeitskreis für Qualität in der Informationstechnologie (Working Group for Quality in IT)</a></strong>,
442: Jul 20, 2006, University of Basel, Computer Science Department, Room 205, Bernoullistr. 16, 17:30 - 18:30<br>
1.590 mbalmer 443: Marc Balmer gave a talk in german "<a href="papers/akqit06/index.html">Ensuring
444: Quality in the Development of the Free Operating System OpenBSD</a>".
1.518 tedu 445: <p>
1.475 deraadt 446:
1.510 wvdputte 447: <li><strong><a name="lsm2006"></a>
448: <a href="http://www.rmll.info">Libre Software Meeting 2006</a></strong>,
449: Jul 4 - 8, 2006, Vandoeuvre-les-nancy, France.<br>
450: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Wim, Alexandre, Matthieu and
451: Serge Basterot.
452: <p>
453:
1.508 wvdputte 454: <li><strong><a name=FrOSCon></a>
455: <a href="http://www.froscon.de/">
456: FrOSCon 2006 - Free and Open Source Software Conference</a></strong>,
457: Jun 24 - 25, 2006, Bonn/Rhein-Sieg, Germany.<br>
1.518 tedu 458: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth run by Wim, Waldemar, Manuel and
1.508 wvdputte 459: Tim Kornau.
460: <p>
461:
1.507 mbalmer 462: <li><strong><a name=LinuxwochenLinz2006></a>
463: <a href="http://www.linuxwochen.at/2006/Linz">Linuxwochen Linz 2006</a>
464: </strong>,
465: June 15, 2006, Linz, Austria.<br>
466: There was an an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth run by Wim and the usual suspects.
467: <p>
468:
1.506 deraadt 469: <li><strong><a name=lugverona2006></a>
1.526 steven 470: <a href="http://www.di.univr.it/dol/main?ent=iniziativa&id=857&lang=it">LUGVR@UNIVR</a></strong>
1.506 deraadt 471: Jun 9, 2006, Verona University, Borgo Roma, Italy.<br>
472: Florin Iamandi of <a href="https://www.verona.linux.it">LUG Verona</a>
473: gave a talk
474: (<a href="http://todome.net/docs/obsd_carp/en">English</a> and
475: <a href="http://todome.net/docs/obsd_carp/it">Italian</a>)
476: and live demonstration on redundant failover
477: OpenBSD firewalls. He explained why OpenBSD solves many problems that
478: had previously been the dominion of expensive commercial solutions.
479: Attendees learned about OpenBSD's hard stance and successful fight against
480: bad licences and uncooperating vendors and manufacturers.
481: <p>
482:
1.502 mbalmer 483: <li><strong><a name=Slackathon2006></a>
484: <a href="http://slackathon2006.unix.se">Slackathon 2006</a>
485: </strong>
486: Jun 3, 2006, Stockholm, Sweden.<br>
487: A fundraiser for OpenBSD/SSH held at the Stockholm University. Free
1.505 ian 488: entrance and all donations went straight to the project. Several
1.502 mbalmer 489: developers were talking about OpenBSD here, as well as some hands-on
490: workshops took place with both old and new hardware.
491: <p>
492:
1.500 deraadt 493: <li><strong><a name=cuug2006></a>
494: <a href="http://www.cuug.ab.ca/">Calgary Unix Users Group</a></strong>,
495: Jun 1, 2006, SAIT Campus, Calgary, Alberta.<br>
1.504 miod 496: Bob Beck and Reyk Floeter discussed recent and future networking
497: changes in OpenBSD. Some other OpenBSD developers attended to provide
1.500 deraadt 498: international colour, and there were tshirts, CDs, and posters on hand.
499: CUUG made a substantial contribution to OpenBSD at this event as well.
500: <p>
501:
1.589 aanriot 502: <li><strong><a name=LinuxwochenVienna2006></a>
503: <a href="http://www.linuxwochen.at/2006/Wien">Linuxwochen Vienna 2006</a>
504: </strong>,
505: May 31 - Jun 2, 2006, Vienna, Austria.<br>
506: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth run by Wim and the usual suspects.
507: <p>
508:
1.585 aanriot 509: <li><strong><a name=plug060519></a>
1.586 aanriot 510: <a href="http://www.plugfr.org/">Provence Linux User Group</a></strong>
511: May 19, 2006, Marseille, France.<br>
1.585 aanriot 512: Alexandre Anriot spoke about the deployment of wireless networks with
1.586 aanriot 513: OpenBSD during a meeting of the PLUG.
1.585 aanriot 514: <p>
515:
1.491 bernd 516: <li><strong><a name="SANE2006"></a>
517: <a href="http://www.sane.nl/sane2006/">SANE 2006</a></strong>,
518: May 15 - 19, 2006, Delft, The Netherlands.<br>
519: Peter N. M. Hansteen gave a
520: <a href="http://www.sane.nl/sane2006/program/abstract.php?eventid=35">
521: PF tutorial</a>.
522: <p>
523:
1.490 reyk 524: <li><strong><a name=bsdcan2006></a> <a
525: href="http://www.bsdcan.org/2006/">BSDCan 2006</a></strong>,
526: May 12 - 13, 2006, Ottawa, Canada.<br>
527: David Gwynne gave a talk about hardware monitoring with bio and
528: sensors in OpenBSD (<a href="papers/bsdcan06-biosensors.pdf">slides</a>)
529: and Reyk Flöter talked about the latest
530: wireless support and the incredible plans for the future
531: (<a href="papers/bsdcan06-wlan/index.html">slides</a>), and
532: Peter Hansteen gave a PF tutorial. A number of OpenBSD hackers
533: attended the conference as well, like Bob Beck and Mathieu Sauve-Frankel.
534: <p>
535:
1.489 bernd 536: <li><strong><a name="linuxdays2006"></a>
537: <a href="http://www.linuxdays.ch">Linuxdays 2006</a></strong>,
538: May 8 - 12, 2006, Geneva, Switzerland.<br>
539: Julien Mabillard, a long-time Geneva OpenBSD user, gave a talk to present
540: the overall system and its great features.
541: <p>
542:
1.592 claudio 543: <li><strong><a name="idepes2006"></a>
1.589 aanriot 544: <a href="http://www.idepes.org.br/openbsd/">IDEPES 2006</a></strong>,
545: May 6, 2006, São Paulo, Brazil.<br>
546: First event in Brazil totally dedicated to OpenBSD.
547: <p>
548:
1.592 claudio 549: <li><strong><a name="LinuxTag2006"></a>
1.484 mbalmer 550: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.org/2006/">LinuxTag 2006</a></strong>,
551: May 3 - 6, 2006, Wiesbaden, Germany.<br>
552: OpenBSD was very present at this years Linuxtag:
553: <ul>
554: <li>On friday morning, Claudio and Marc moderated a panel discussion
555: "BLOBS sind das Krebsgeschwür freier Software" (Blobs are the
1.485 mbalmer 556: cancer of free software) that was well attended. Unfortunately no one
1.484 mbalmer 557: in favour of Blobs attended, although we asked almost all Linux
558: distributions...
559: <li>After lunch, Marc Balmer started the afternoon with a talk "OpenBSD
560: as a Strategic Platform for the Basle Public Schools", outlining how and
1.485 mbalmer 561: why the Basle Public school system uses OpenBSD for most of its
1.484 mbalmer 562: infrastructure.
1.592 claudio 563: <li>The next OpenBSD specific talk was by Claudio Jeker,
564: <a href="papers/linuxtag06-network/">"Routing with OpenBSD using
565: OpenOSPFD and OpenBGPD"</a> where he showed various routing setups and
566: how full redundancy can be achieved.
567: [<a href="papers/linuxtag06-network.pdf">paper</a>]
1.484 mbalmer 568: <li>Later, Marc Balmer gave a talk "Decoding Time Signal Stations using
569: OpenBSD" and explained the recent addition of timedelta sensors and the
570: first implementation of such, udcf(4).
571: </ul>
572: <br>
573: All talks where very well received and OpenBSD filled four hours of the
1.485 mbalmer 574: Linuxtag program. We thank Wilhelm Bühler, chair of the BSD-Track
1.484 mbalmer 575: at Linuxtag, for the superb and professional organization.
576: <br>
577: Of course, there was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth run by Wim and the
578: usual suspects.
579: <p>
580:
1.486 mickey 581: <li><strong><a name=NYCBUG2006-05></a>
582: <a href="http://nycbug.org/index.php?NAV=Home&SUBM=83">NYCBUG Monthly meeting</a></strong>,
583: May 3, 2006, NYC, USA.<br>
584: Mickey gave a talk
1.564 jason 585: (<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 586: about PAE work for OpenBSD/i386.<br>
587: Mischa Diehm gave a talk about implementing VPN using OpenBSD.
588: <p>
589:
1.484 mbalmer 590: <li><strong><a name=tokyo2006></a>
591: <a href="http://www.tokyopc.org/index.php/weblog/">Tokyo PC Users Group</a></strong>,
592: May 2, 2006, Tokyo.<br>
593: Theo presented his <a href="papers/ven05-deraadt">"Exploit Mitigation Techniques"</a>
594: talk. There is a
595: <a href="http://www.tokyopc.org/faxmessage/index.html#about">map to the location</a>.
596: <p>
597:
1.478 mbalmer 598: <li><strong><a name=SambaEXPerience2006></a>
599: <a href="http://www.sambaxp.org/">Samba eXPerience 2006</a></strong>,
600: April 24 - 26, 2006, Göttingen, Germany.<br>
601: Marc Balmer gave a talk "Providing Fully Automated Fileserver Services
602: for Public Schools using LDAP Integrated SAMBA on OpenBSD" that was very
603: well received.
604: <br>
605: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth run by Wim and Marc and Felix Kronlage
606: and we could draw a lot of attention.
607: <p>
608:
1.479 deraadt 609: <li><strong><a name=DORSCLUC2006></a>
610: <a href="http://www.open.hr/dc2006/"> DORS / CLUC 2006</a></strong>,
611: April 19-21, 2006, Zagreb, Croatia.<br>
612: <a href="http://www.kerberos.si">Mitja Muzenic</a> gave a
1.480 mbalmer 613: <a href="http://www.kerberos.si/papers/DORS06/index.html">
614: "Introduction to OpenBSD"</a> talk. Conference
615: <a href="http://www.open.hr/dc2006/program.php">program</a> (in croatian
1.479 deraadt 616: only).
617: <p>
618:
1.475 deraadt 619: <li><strong><a name=linuxworld2006></a>
620: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/live/12/events/12BOS06A/">
621: LinuxWorld/OpenSolutions World 2006</a></strong>,
622: April 3 - 6, 2006, Boston, USA.<br>
623: Jason Dixon presented
624: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/live/12/events/12BOS06A/conference/tracksessions/Security/QMONYA04Q1DK">Secure Network Architectures with OpenBSD</a>,
625: a talk on OpenBSD that outlines the various technologies that make
626: it a leader of secure networking platforms.
627: <br>
628: He spent time around the exposition BSD booth with giveaways
629: and early release OpenBSD 3.9 CDs.
630: <p>
631:
632: <li><strong><a name=cansecwest06></a>
633: <a href="http://www.cansecwest.com">Cansecwest/core06</a></strong>,
634: April 3 - 7, 2006, Vancouver.<br>
635: A rather interesting OpenBSD-related talk happened at this event, regarding
636: using SMI interrupts to break out of X into kernel mode.
637: <br>
638: Some OpenBSD developers attended. Some early OpenBSD 3.9 items went
639: on sale.
640: <p>
641:
1.469 tom 642: <li><strong><a name=ukuug2006></a>
643: <a href="http://www.ukuug.org/events/spring2006/">UKUUG Spring Conference 2006</a></strong>,
644: Mar 22 - 23, 2006, Durham, United Kingdom<br>
645: Reyk Flöter gave a talk about the latest wireless support in
646: OpenBSD at the annual spring meeting of the
647: <a href="http://www.ukuug.org/">UK's Unix and Open Systems User Group</a>.
648: Peter N. M. Hansteen
649: gave a PF tutorial, Tom Cosgrove presented "Exploit
650: Mitigation Techniques" and Constantine Murenin gave a
651: presentation on "Hardware temperature monitoring device
652: drivers for OpenBSD".
653: These were all part of a new, well-attended, BSD stream at the event.
654: <p>
655:
1.459 henning 656: <li><strong><a name=Copenhagen2006></a>
657: <a href="http://www.linuxforum.dk/2006/en/">LinuxForum 2006</a></strong>,
658: Mar 3 - 4, 2006, Copenhagen, Denmark<br>
659: Wim gave Felix Kronlage's talk about OpenBSD Mobile Use (wifi, UMTS,
660: GPRS, phones and the like) with some demo setups.
661: Henning Brauer gave a very well received talk about OpenBGPD,
662: <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/linuxforum2006/">slides</a> are available.
663: <p>
664:
1.457 wvdputte 665: <li><strong><a name=Brussels2006></a>
666: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/2006/">FOSDEM Brussels 2006</a></strong>,
667: Feb 25 - 26, 2006, Brussels, Belgium.<br>
668: An OpenBSD/OpenSSH booth was present, run by the usual gang of suspects:
1.458 xsa 669: Alexandre, Dimitar, Matthieu, Mbalmer, Nikolay, Otto, Reyk, Saad, Thierry, Uwe, Wim, and
1.457 wvdputte 670: Xsa. Reyk gave a talk about Wifi with OpenBSD and there was our traditional
671: BSD dinner. More details and
672: <a href="http://saad.docisland.org/pictures/fosdem2006/index.html">pictures</a>
1.458 xsa 673: on <a href="http://saad.docisland.org/blog/files/archive-12.html#unique-entry-id-40">Saad's blog</a>.
1.457 wvdputte 674: <p>
675:
676: <li><strong><a name=Vegas2006></a>
677: <a href="http://kd85.com/vegas2006.html">Merciful briefings 2006</a></strong>,
678: Feb 15, 2006, Las Vegas, USA - Feb 17, 2006, San Diego, USA - Feb 18, 2006, Phoenix, USA.<br>
679: While traveling the US, Wim met with a bunch of OpenBSD users in Las Vegas,
680: San Diego and Phoenix. With many thanks to the members of PhxBUG - Phoenix BSD
681: User Group, more specificly Darrin Chandler, for organising the little
682: details and Jacob for road trip directions.
683: <p>
1.455 grunk 684:
1.456 henning 685: <li><strong><a name=nanog36></a>
686: <a href="http://www.nanog.org/">NANOG 36</a></strong>,
687: Feb 12 - 15, 2006, Dallas, USA.<br>
688: Henning Brauer and Bernhard Kroenung of DE-CIX talked about OpenBGPD and
689: OpenBGPD at DE-CIX, <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/nanog36/">slides</a>
690: are available. Henning talked again at the tools BOF
691: (<a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/nanog36-bof/">slides</a>).
692: Both talks were very well received by the audience.
693: Kenjiro Cho was there too, talking about IPv6 issues.
694: <p>
695:
1.455 grunk 696: <li><strong><a name="Paris2006"></a>
697: <a href="http://www.solutionslinux.fr/fr/index.php">Solutions Linux 2006</a>
698: </strong>,
699: Jan 31 - Feb 2, 2006, Paris, France.<br>
700: There was an OpenBSD booth run by Marc Espie, Miod Vallat, Saad Kadhi and
701: Wim with help from Guillaume Arcas and Christophe Plasschaert.
702: <p>
703: </ul>
704:
1.296 mcbride 705: <h3>2005</h3>
1.240 espie 706:
707: <ul>
1.337 deraadt 708:
1.445 martin 709: <li><strong><a name=22c3></a>
710: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/2005/">22C3 Chaos Communication Congress in
711: Berlin</a></strong>,
712: December 27 - 30, 2005, Berlin, Germany.<br>
713: Many OpenBSD developers and users met for a Xmas break in a unique setting.
714: <p>
715:
1.585 aanriot 716: <li><strong><a name=plug051216></a>
1.586 aanriot 717: <a href="http://www.plugfr.org/">Provence Linux User Group</a></strong>
718: December 16, 2005, Marseille, France.<br>
719: Alexandre Anriot spoke about OpenSSH during a meeting of the PLUG.
1.585 aanriot 720: <p>
721:
1.435 matthieu 722: <li><strong><a name=eurobsdcon2005></a>
723: <a href="http://2005.eurobsdcon.org/">EuroBSDCon 2005</a></strong>,
724: Nov 25 - 27, 2005, Basel, Switzerland.<br>
725: The 4th edition of the european conference for BSD systems has been a
726: great success. More than 225 people from 27 countries attended the
1.438 deraadt 727: event.
1.444 grunk 728: The program included a
729: <a href="http://www.eurobsdcon.org/tutorials-reyk.php">tutorial by Reyk about
1.437 niallo 730: OpenBSD-based Wireless Networks</a> and the following talks
731: <ul>
1.438 deraadt 732: <li>Henning Brauer with Wilhelm Bühler "Signal Handlers"
733: <li>Ryan McBride "Network Stack Randomness"
1.439 matthieu 734: <li><a href="papers/eurobsd2005/herrb-hopf.pdf">Matthieu Herrb and Matthias Hopf "New Evolutions in the X Window System"</a>
1.440 claudio 735: <li><a href="papers/eurobsd2005/claudio/">Claudio Jeker "The Design and Implementation of OpenOSPFD"</a>
1.439 matthieu 736: <li><a href="papers/eurobsd2005/niallo-uwe/">Niall O'Higgins & Uwe Stuehler "Embedded OpenBSD"</a>
1.443 deraadt 737: <li><a href="papers/eurobsd2005/tedu-rthreads.pdf">Ted Unangst "rthreads: A New Thread Implementation for OpenBSD"</a>
1.437 niallo 738: </ul>
1.438 deraadt 739: <p>
1.435 matthieu 740: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
741: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
742: <p>
743:
1.434 bernd 744: <li><strong><a name=linuxworldexpogermany2005></a>
745: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.de/">Linux World Expo Germany</a></strong>,
746: Nov 15 - 17, 2005, Frankfurt, Germany.<br>
747: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
748: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a> and Bernd.
749: <p>
750:
1.441 niallo 751: <li><strong><a name="pacsec05"></a>
752: <a href="http://www.pacsec.jp/">PacSec/core 05 conference</a></strong>,
753: Nov 15 - 16, 2005, Tokyo, Japan.<br>
754: Sean Comeau presented a talk called
755: <a href="http://www.openbsd-support.com/jp/en/htm/mgp/pacsec05/index.html">
756: Open Source Secure Wireless Networks in a Windows World</a>
757: <a href="http://www.pacsec.jp/core05/psj05-scomeau-en.pdf">[PDF]</a>.
758: The solution he presents uses IPsec to protect traffic between the
759: wireless clients and access points. Authentication is done using OpenSSH
760: (authpf), a process made transparent and user-friendly by a few small
761: scripts.
762: <p>
763:
1.424 mbalmer 764: <li><strong><a name=opencon2005></a>
765: <a href="http://www.opencon.org/">OpenCON 2005</a></strong>,
766: Nov 4 - 6, 2005, San Servolo Island, Venice, Italy.<br>
1.427 deraadt 767: The only unique conference entirely dedicated to OpenBSD, held in the totally
768: crazy environment of San Servolo island: an old insane asylum turned into a
769: university about 20 years ago, about 10 minutes boat ride from Venice.
1.429 deraadt 770: In the days leading up to this, about 12 OpenBSD developers arrived early
1.427 deraadt 771: for a Ports mini-hackathon. During the conference a few developers gave
1.433 deraadt 772: talks, including
773: <ul>
774: <li><a href="papers/ven05-pvalchev">Peter Valchev "OpenBSD Hackathon report"</a>
775: <li><a href="papers/ven05-espie">Marc Espie "OpenBSD ports and packages"</a>
776: <li><a href="papers/ven05-henning">Henning Brauer "OpenBSD networking update"</a>
777: <li><a href="papers/ven05-niallo-uwe/slides.pdf">Uwe Stuehler, Niall O'Higgins "Porting OpenBSD"</a>
778: <li><a href="papers/ven05-deraadt">Theo de Raadt "Exploit Mitigation Techniques (updated to include random malloc and mmap)"</a>
779: </ul>
1.424 mbalmer 780: <p>
781:
782: <li><strong><a name=systems2005></a>
783: <a href="http://www.systems.de/">Systems</a></strong>,
784: Oct 24 - 28, 2005, Munich, Germany <br>
1.425 mbalmer 785: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
1.424 mbalmer 786: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
787: <p>
788:
1.418 djm 789: <li><strong><a name=auug2005></a>
790: <a href="http://www.auug.org.au/events/2005/auug2005/">AUUG 2005</a></strong>,
791: October 16 - 21, 2005, Sydney, Australia.<br>
792: Mark Uemura presented a tutorial on setting up CARP/PF, a demonstration of
793: stateful failover with CARP and pfsync and a talk on wireless security in
794: a corporate environment using authpf and isakmpd. Peter Hansteen gave a
795: <a href="http://www.bgnett.no/~peter/pf/">Firewalling with PF</a> tutorial.
1.420 deraadt 796: Damien Miller presented on the approach to
797: <a href="papers/auug2005-portability">secure software portability used
798: by portable OpenSSH</a>, Reyk Flöter gave a talk on the current state of wireless
1.418 djm 799: support in OpenBSD and David Purdue introduced OpenBSD's spamd tarpit.
800: Most of the Australian OpenBSD developers and many users were present.
801: <p>
802:
1.415 aanriot 803: <li><strong><a name=aldil2005></a>
804: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/">Les Journées Du Logiciel Libre
805: 2005</a></strong>,
806: Oct 14 - 15, 2005, Lyon, France.<br>
807: There was OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Alexandre Anriot with the
808: help of Thierry Thomas.
809: <p>
810:
1.420 deraadt 811: <li><strong><a name=cafeconf2005></a>
812: <a href="http://www.cafeconf.org/">CaFeConf 2005,
813: 4tas Jornadas Abiertas de GNU/Linux y Software Libre</a></strong>,
814: Oct 13 - 15, 2005, Buenos Aires, Argentina<br>
815: CaFeConf 2005 is the anual event of CaFeLUG - Free Software Users
816: Group of Capital Federal, Argentina. This year the event featured
817: 116 presentations consisting of talks, tutorials, and workshops. The
818: event was also broadcasted on the Internet. Entrance was free, but
819: registration was mandatory.<br>
820: Fernando Gont gave a talk on
1.444 grunk 821: <a href="http://www.cafeconf.org/modules/myconference/viewspeech.php?sid=147&cid=20">
1.420 deraadt 822: ICMP attacks against TCP</a>,
823: in which he gave an overview of the attacks, the possible
824: counter-measures, and the politics of vulnerabilities, and a talk on
1.444 grunk 825: <a href="http://www.cafeconf.org/modules/myconference/viewspeech.php?sid=173&cid=20">
1.420 deraadt 826: Fixing the vulnerability of the Path-MTU Discovery mechanism</a>,
827: in which explained how OpenBSD fixed the vulnerability of the PMTUD
828: mechanism.
829: <p>
830:
1.414 bernd 831: <li><strong><a name=linuxkongress2005></a>
832: <a href="http://www.linux-kongress.org/">12th International Linux System
833: Technology Conference</a></strong>,
834: Oct 11 - 14, 2005, University of Hamburg, Germany.<br>
835: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth.
836: <p>
837:
838: <li><strong><a name=linuxworlduk2005></a>
839: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.co.uk/">LinuxWorld Expo UK 2005</a></strong>,
840: Oct 5 - 6, 2005, Olympia, London, UK.<br>
841: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth.
842: <p>
843:
1.410 wvdputte 844: <li><strong><a name=opensourcetag2005></a>
1.575 reyk 845: <a href="http://www.opensourcetag.de/2005/">OpenSourceTag 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 846: Sep 27, 2005, Hannover, Germany.<br>
1.444 grunk 847: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth and Reyk gave a
1.575 reyk 848: <a href="http://www.opensourcetag.de/2005/agenda/">talk</a> about IT security.
1.410 wvdputte 849: <p>
850:
851: <li><strong><a name="gubuginstallfest2005"></a>
852: <a href="http://gubug.org/meetings.php">Greater Utah BSD Group
853: Installfest 2005</a></strong>,
854: Sep 24, 2005, Sandy, UT, USA.<br/>
1.444 grunk 855: <a href="http://www.gubug.org/">The Greater Utah BSD User Group</a> organised
1.410 wvdputte 856: their first annual BSD Installfest, sponsored by Utah ISP ArosNet.
857: There were handouts, CD-ROMs, technical presentations, and
858: fun, plus a chance to get OpenBSD or a related open source BSD operating system
859: installed on your computer.
860: Admission was free (computers not included in cost of admission).
1.419 djm 861: Featured speakers included Dan Langille, organizer of BSDCan.
1.410 wvdputte 862: <p>
863:
1.404 wvdputte 864: <li><strong><a name="NYCBSDCon2005"></a>
865: <a href="http://nycbsdcon.org/">New York City BSD Conference 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 866: Sep 17, 2005, NYC, USA.<br>
1.404 wvdputte 867: NYCBSDCon was a one day technical conference hosted by the New York
868: City *BSD User Group and was held at Columbia University.
1.406 saad 869: The all day conference included a variety of speakers representing the
1.404 wvdputte 870: BSD projects and the open source community.<br>
871: NYCBSDCon was organized by NYC*BUG, a technical user group that formed in
872: December 2003. Besides their regular monthly meetings at the Soho Apple
873: Store, NYC*BUG has done fundraising for the BSD projects and contributed a
874: number of useful online applications such as BSDTracker and dmesgd.<br>
875: Additional sponsors included USENIX, New York Internet and SRA America.
876: <p>
877:
878: <li><strong><a name=opensaar2005></a>
879: <a href="http://www.opensaar.de/">OpenSaar 2005</a></strong>,
880: Sep 13 - 14, 2005, Saarbrücken, Germany.<br>
881: An OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth was present
882: <p>
883:
1.403 henning 884: <li><strong><a name=decix160905></a> <a
885: href="http://www.de-cix.org/">DE-CIX Technical Meeting</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 886: Sep 16, 2005, Schloss Kransberg, near Usingen, Germany.<br>
1.403 henning 887: Henning Brauer, Reyk Flöter and Maxim Salomon had been invited to the
888: technical meeting of the Deutsche Commercial Internet Exchange (DE-CIX) again.
889: Henning gave an update on OpenBGPD, Reyk talked about a route server project
890: using OpenBGPD at DE-CIX, and Maxim explained why the CCC sponsors us doing so.
891: There was a very positive discussion afterwards.
892: <a href="http://unduli.bsws.de/papers/decix2005-2/">Slides</a> are available.
893: <p>
894:
1.388 tom 895: <li><strong><a name="ukuug2005"></a>
896: <a href="http://www.ukuug.org/events/linux2005/">UKUUG Linux Technical
897: Conference 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 898: Aug 4 - 7, 2005, University of Wales, Swansea, UK<br>
1.388 tom 899: Tom Cosgrove gave Theo's presentation about Exploit Mitigation Techniques.
900: <p>
901:
1.385 mickey 902: <li><strong><a name=wth2005></a>
1.390 deraadt 903: <a href="http://www.whatthehack.org/">What the Hack 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 904: Jul 28 - 31, 2005, Den Bosch, The Netherlands.<br>
1.385 mickey 905: As every 4 years, Wim organized the
906: <a href="http://eurobsd.org/2005-WhatTheHack/">BSD village</a> at this huge
1.389 tom 907: open air event. There were some talks, Reyk spoke about
908: <a href="http://program.whatthehack.org/event/6.en.html">WLAN in OpenBSD</a>,
1.385 mickey 909: and an excellent
910: <a href="ftp://ftp.nyc.openbsd.org/pub/news/wth-radio-humppa.mp3">Humppa show</a> (35MB MP3) was performed on the SubEther radio.
911: If you want to see what happened previously, check
912: <a href="http://eurobsd.org/hal2001/">http://eurobsd.org/hal2001/</a>
913: and <a href="http://www.eurobsd.org/SummerCamp2003/">http://www.eurobsd.org/SummerCamp2003/</a>.
914: <p>
915:
1.382 pedro 916: <li><strong><a name=coimbra2005></a>
1.474 pedro 917: <a href="http://www.openbsd-pt.com/eventos/coimbra05/">Portuguese OpenBSD Usergroup Meeting</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 918: Jul 23 - 24, 2005, Coimbra, Portugal.<br>
1.538 pedro 919: 5th Meeting of the Portuguese OpenBSD Usergroup. Pedro Martelletto gave a talk.
1.382 pedro 920: <p>
921:
1.378 aanriot 922: <li><strong><a name="lsm2005"></a>
923: <a href="http://2005.rencontresmondiales.org/sections/index_html/switchLanguage/en">Libre Software Meeting 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 924: Jul 5 - 9, 2005, Dijon, France.<br>
1.379 aanriot 925: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Wim and the usual
926: suspects, with the help of Serge Basterot. It was a nice place to meet
927: some of our French, German and Swiss developers, including Marc Balmer,
928: Alexandre Anriot, Matthieu Herrb and Reyk Floeter.
1.378 aanriot 929: <p>
930:
1.375 grunk 931: <li><strong><a name=LinuxTag2005></a>
932: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.org">LinuxTag 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 933: Jun 22 - 25, 2005, Karlsruhe, Germany.<br>
1.375 grunk 934: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth ran by Wim, Christian Weisgerber,
935: Marc Balmer, Wilhelm Buehler, Robert Nagy, Bernd Ahlers and Phil Schulz.
936: <p>
937:
1.374 grunk 938: <li><strong><a name="uofa-cc2005"></a>
939: <a href="http://www.ualberta.ca/CC2005"> University of Alberta, Campus
1.410 wvdputte 940: Computing 2005</a></strong>, Jun 21, 2005, Edmonton, Canada.<br>
1.374 grunk 941: Ryan McBride spoke about OpenBSD's packet filter, PF, with CARP and
942: failover examples. Local color and examples at the U of A shown by Bob
943: Beck. Bob Beck spoke about PF and Spamd, as well as several other
944: OpenBSD using and related talks at this event, which primarily focuses
945: on activities centered at the University of Alberta.
946: <p>
947:
1.371 deraadt 948: <li><strong><a name=uemera2005></a>
949: <a href="http://www.tokyopc.net">Tokyo PC Users Group</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 950: Jun 2, 2005, Tokyo Union Church in Omotesando, Tokyo, Japan.<br>
1.371 deraadt 951: Mark T. Uemura spoke to Japan's largest English speaking
952: personal computer club. The talk was entitled
953: <a href="http://www.openbsd-support.com/jp/en/htm/mgp/index.shtml">
954: "Open Source in a Windows World"</a>.
955: He demonstrated how companies can easily
956: integrate Open Source, with an emphasis on OpenBSD, into their IT
957: infrastructure to enhance security, scalability and stability,
958: significantly reduce IT expenditures, free up computing infrastructure
959: and move away from commercial lock-in. This talk is based on changes
960: implemented at PricewaterhouseCoopers in Japan.
961: <p>
962:
1.366 martin 963: <li><strong><a name=LinuxwochenVienna2005></a>
964: <a href="http://www.linuxwochen.at/">Linuxwochen Vienna 2005</a></strong>,
965: May 24 - 27, 2005, Vienna, Austria.<br>
966: The Linuxwochen 2005 tour stopped in the MuseumsQuartier, Vienna.
967: Wim Vandeputte and Reinhard Sammer were running an OpenBSD booth selling
968: CDs and shirts.
969: <p>
970:
1.365 mcbride 971: <li><strong><a name=cuug2005></a>
972: <a href="http://www.cuug.ab.ca/">Calgary Unix Users Group</a></strong>,
973: May 24, 2005, Calgary, Canada.<br>
974: Ryan McBride spoke about OpenBSD's packet filter, PF.
975: A broad overview of PF's features were presented, with special attention
976: paid to newer and more unique features and how these can be used together
977: effectively for DoS mitigation, high availability, and load balancing.
978: <br>
979: Approximately 60 OpenBSD developers attended to heckle and participate
980: in a free-for-all question period after the talk.
981: <p>
982:
1.362 reyk 983: <li><strong><a name=bsdcan2005></a>
984: <a href="http://www.bsdcan.org/2005/">BSDCan 2005</a></strong>,
985: May 13 - 14, 2005, Ottawa, Canada.<br>
986: A number of OpenBSD developers presented: Bob Beck on
987: Spam Reduction with PF and Spamd, Henning Brauer on OpenBGPD,
988: Ryan McBride on Network Stack Randomness and Reyk Flöter
989: on WLAN in OpenBSD and the free ath(4) HAL. The
990: <a href="papers/bsdcan05-spamd/">Spamd</a> and
991: <a href="papers/bsdcan05-wlan/">WLAN</a> slides are available.
992: Mathieu Sauve-Frankel has been there in attendance as well.
993: <p>
994:
1.358 mcbride 995: <li><strong><a name=csw2005></a>
996: <a href="http://www.cansecwest.com/">cansecwest/core05</a></strong>,
997: May 4-6, 2005, Vancouver, Canada.<br>
998: Hiroaki Etoh spoke about propolice; Theo de Raadt and a number of other
999: developers were there to sell CDs and make a nuisance of themselves.
1000: <p>
1001:
1.357 henning 1002: <li><strong><a name=ripe50></a>
1003: <a href="http://www.ripe.net/ripe/meetings/ripe-50/">RIPE 50</a></strong>,
1004: May 2-6, 2005, Stockholm, Sweden.<br>
1005: RIPE NCC invited Henning to talk about OpenBGPD.
1006: There were over 350 attendees to the conference, and most of them attended
1007: henning's talk, which got very very positive feedback.
1008: <p>
1009:
1.384 tom 1010: <li><strong><a name=libreast2005></a>
1.356 espie 1011: <a href="http://idile.org/libreast/">Libr'east 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 1012: Apr 22-24, Marne La Vallée, near Paris, France<br>
1.356 espie 1013: There was an OpenBSD booth (Wim + Miod + Marc)
1014: Marc Espie did talk about recent OpenBSD advances, and his ports and
1015: packages work in front of about 30 people.
1016: <p>
1017:
1.353 henning 1018: <li><strong><a name=decix150405></a> <a
1019: href="http://www.de-cix.org/">DE-CIX Technical Meeting</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 1020: Apr 15, 2005, near Usingen, Germany.<br>
1.353 henning 1021: Henning Brauer and Reyk Flöter had been invited to the technical
1022: meeting of the Deutsche Commercial Internet Exchange (DE-CIX). Henning
1023: presented his talk on OpenBGPD, about 60 people, mostly operators from
1024: the big ISPs peering at DECIX, were in attendance.
1.354 reyk 1025: Reyk, Maxim Salomon and Tim Kornau spoke on Wireless Network Security.
1.353 henning 1026: <p>
1027:
1.352 henning 1028: <li><strong><a name=nuug140405></a>
1029: <a href="http://www.nuug.no/aktiviteter/20050414-pf-brannmur/">Firewalling with PF at NUUG</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 1030: Apr 14, 2005, Oslo, Norway.<br>
1.352 henning 1031: Peter N. M. Hansteen gave a firewalling with PF talk - which hopefully
1032: gave you some ideas about how to control your network traffic the
1033: way you want - keeping some things outside your network, directing
1034: traffic to specified hosts or services, and of course, giving spammers
1035: a hard time. The talk was in Norwegian, with <a
1036: href="http://www.bgnett.no/~peter/pf/no/foils/">foils</a> and <a
1037: href="http://www.bgnett.no/~peter/pf/no/">manuscript</a> (English <a
1038: href="http://www.bgnett.no/~peter/pf/en/foils/">foils</a> and <a
1039: href="http://www.bgnett.no/~peter/pf/en/">manuscript</a> too)
1040: available if you couldn't make it there.
1041: <p>
1042:
1.589 aanriot 1043:
1044: <li><strong><a name=fhwedel130405></a>
1045: <a href="http://www.fh-wedel.de/">FH Wedel invited talk</a></strong>,
1046: Apr 13, 2005, 17:00, Hörsaal 5, FH Wedel, Hamburg, Germany.<br>
1047: Henning Brauer spoke on OpenBGPD. More than 40 people were in attendance.
1048: <p>
1049:
1.350 marius 1050: <li><strong><a name=usenix2005></a>
1051: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix05/">Usenix Annual
1.410 wvdputte 1052: Technical Conference</a></strong>, Apr 10-15, 2005, Anaheim,
1.350 marius 1053: California, USA.<br> Marius Eriksen gave the OpenBSD update at the BSD
1054: super BoF. The update was well received and people were quite
1055: sympathetic towards the ongoing efforts of the OpenBSD project to
1056: ensure the free redistribution rights for firmware. People were also
1057: excited about the new Open* tools (OpenBGPD, OpenNTPD, OpenCVS) and it
1.351 marius 1058: would not be surprising to see more of these imported into other BSDs.
1.350 marius 1059: <p>
1060:
1.585 aanriot 1061: <li><strong><a name=plug050408></a>
1.586 aanriot 1062: <a href="http://www.plugfr.org/">Provence Linux User Group</a></strong>
1063: April 8, 2005, Marseille, France.<br>
1.585 aanriot 1064: Alexandre Anriot spoke about OpenBSD and some associated projects
1.586 aanriot 1065: (OpenBGPD etc.) during a meeting of the PLUG.
1.585 aanriot 1066: The <a href="papers/plug080405">slides</a> (in French) are available.
1.344 martin 1067: <p>
1068:
1.337 deraadt 1069: <li><strong><a name=bcs2005></a>
1070: <a href="http://www.bellua.com/bcs2005/asia05.index.html">Bellua Cyber Security Asia 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 1071: Mar 21-24, 2005, Jakarta, Indonesia.<br>
1.337 deraadt 1072: Ryan McBride presented an overview of PF which
1073: discussed how its advanced features work together in some important
1.338 deraadt 1074: applications and compared PF with the other major commercial and open
1.337 deraadt 1075: source firewalls.
1076: <p>
1077:
1.317 henning 1078: <li><strong><a name=nui_maynooth2005></a>
1079: <a href="http://www.minds.nuim.ie/events">NUI Maynooth lectures</a></strong>,
1080: Mar 4, 2005, Department of Computer Science, NUI Maynooth, Dublin, Ireland.<br>
1.318 henning 1081: Ryan McBride presented talks about PF and about
1.326 mcbride 1082: <a href="papers/dublin05-nr">randomization in the OpenBSD network layer.</a><br>
1.318 henning 1083: Theo and Henning were in attendance because someone had to heckle.
1.317 henning 1084: <p>
1085:
1.312 deraadt 1086: <li><strong><a name=trinity2005></a>
1087: <a href="http://www.netsoc.tcd.ie/events/0405/openbsd.php">Trinity lecture</a></strong>,
1088: Mar 3, 2005, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.<br>
1.320 deraadt 1089: Theo de Raadt presented his talk about
1090: <a href="papers/auug04">Exploit Mitigation Techniques</a>.
1.312 deraadt 1091: <p>
1092:
1.319 saad 1093: <li><strong><a name=ShefLUG2005></a>
1094: <a href="http://www.sheflug.co.uk/seminar/tiki-index.php?page=Sheffield%20Open%20Source%20Seminar">ShefLUG2005</a></strong>,
1095: Mar 2, 2005, Sheffield, UK.<br>
1096: Jacek Artymiak gave a talk about installing OpenBSD on Soekris hardware.
1097: <p>
1098:
1.310 mickey 1099: <li><strong><a name=NYCBUG2005-03></a>
1.375 grunk 1100: <a href="http://nycbug.org/index.php?NAV=Home&SUBM=83">NYCBUG Monthly meeting</a></strong>,
1.310 mickey 1101: Mar 2, 2005, NYC, USA.<br>
1.322 deraadt 1102: Mickey gave a talk
1.325 mickey 1103: (<a href="papers/nyc2005">slides</a> and
1.564 jason 1104: <a href="http://www.fetissov.org/public/nycbug/nycbug-03-02-05.mp3">10.5MB audio</a>)
1.321 mickey 1105: about <a href="hppa.html">porting OpenBSD</a>
1.313 martin 1106: to the <a href="http://www.openpa.net">HP PA-RISC</a> platform.
1.310 mickey 1107: <p>
1.312 deraadt 1108:
1.308 deraadt 1109: <li><strong><a name=Netsoc2005></a>
1110: <a href="http://netsoc.ucd.ie/events/openbsd/">Netsoc lectures</a></strong>,
1111: Mar 2, 2005, UCD, Dublin, Ireland.<br>
1112: Theo de Raadt, Henning Brauer, and Ryan McBride gave a series of
1.320 deraadt 1113: talks. Topics included
1114: <a href="papers/auug04">exploit mitigation techniques</a>,
1.326 mcbride 1115: <a href="papers/dublin05-nr">introducing network randomness to increase security</a>,
1116: OpenBGPD, and pf.
1117: Almost 200 people came to this event.
1.308 deraadt 1118: <p>
1119:
1.304 saad 1120: <li><strong><a name=Brussels2005></a>
1121: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/2005/">FOSDEM Brussels 2005</a></strong>,
1122: Feb 26 - 27, 2005, Brussels, Belgium.<br>
1123: An OpenBSD/OpenSSH booth was present, ran by the usual gang of suspects.
1124: Support for <a href="mailto:wim@kd85.com">Wim Vandeputte</a> this time were
1.307 otto 1125: (among many others), Saad Kadhi, Henning Brauer, Thierry Deval, Otto Moerbeek,
1.304 saad 1126: Xavier Santolaria, Martin Reindl, Reyk Flöter, Hans-Jörg
1.360 db 1127: Höxer, Nikolay Sturm, Marc Balmer, Claudio Jeker, Joris Vink,
1128: Olivier Cherrier, David Berghoff,
1.316 mbalmer 1129: Alexander von Gernler, Uwe Stuehler, and Felix Kronlage from OpenDarwin.<br>
1.304 saad 1130: There was a separate OpenBSD track, featuring Henning Brauer (about
1131: signal handlers and OpenNTPD), Reyk Flöter (about wireless cards in
1132: OpenBSD), and the author of the OpenBSD PF book, Jacek Artymiak (about
1.375 grunk 1133: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pf">pf(4)</a>, of course).<br>
1.304 saad 1134: At the conference's Free Software Foundation Event, Theo de Raadt was
1135: awarded the Free Software Award 2004 for his efforts to make Firmware for
1136: wireless hardware and other devices freely available.
1137: <p>
1.301 saad 1138: <li><strong><a name=UKUUG05></a>
1139: <a href="http://www.ukuug.org/events/winter2005/">UKUUG LISA/Winter Conference</a></strong>,
1140: Feb 24 - 25, 2005, Birmingham, UK.<br>
1141: Henning Brauer spoke on OpenBGPD, OpenNTPD and Signal Handlers.
1142: <p>
1143: <li><strong><a name=FFG2005></a>
1144: <a href="http://www.guug.de/veranstaltungen/ffg2005/">GUUG FFG 2005</a></strong>,
1145: Feb 22 - 25, 2005, Munich, Germany.<br>
1146: Reyk Flöter talked about the latest wireless support in
1147: OpenBSD at the annual spring meeting of the <a href="http://www.guug.de/">German Unix User Group</a>.
1148: <p>
1.293 saad 1149: <li><strong><a name=Paris2005></a>
1150: <a href="http://www.solutionslinux.fr/fr/index.php">Solutions Linux 2005</a></strong>,
1151: Feb 1 - 3, 2005, Paris, France.<br>
1152: An OpenBSD booth as well as an OpenSSH booth were present. These booths
1153: were run by Marc Espie, Miod Vallat, Saad Kadhi and Wim with help from
1154: Guillaume Arcas and Christophe Plasschaert, two members of the OpenBSD
1.294 saad 1155: french translation team.<br>
1156: Marc Espie and Saad Kadhi gave a talk about the OpenBSD project with a
1157: special focus on the ports collection and Packet Filter. The <a
1158: href="papers/sl2005/index.html">slides</a> (in French) are
1159: available.<br>
1160: During the event, several demonstrations of <a
1.293 saad 1161: href="http://soekris.kd85.com/">Soekris</a> machines running OpenBSD
1162: were given by Saad Kadhi and Wim.
1163: <p>
1.296 mcbride 1164: </ul>
1.293 saad 1165:
1.296 mcbride 1166: <h3>2004</h3>
1167:
1168: <ul>
1.287 henning 1169: <li><strong><a name=21C3></a>
1170: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/2004/">21C3 - Chaos Communication Congress</a></strong>,
1.375 grunk 1171: Dec 27 - 29, 2004, Berlin, Germany<br>
1.287 henning 1172: "The Usual Suspects" were there and ran the BSD corner, including
1173: <a href="mailto:wim@kd85.com">Wim</a>,
1174: Henning Brauer, Marc Balmer, Martin Reindl, Moritz Jodeit, Felix Kronlage,
1.315 nick 1175: Uwe Stuehler, Konrad Foerstner, Bernd Ahlers, and Alexander von Gernler.<br>
1.287 henning 1176: Henning gave a talk about OpenBGPD and OpenNTPD
1177: (<a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/21c3/">slides</a>).<br>
1178: The WiFi backbone ran on OpenBSD powered
1179: <a href="http://soekris.kd85.com">Soekris</a> machines as access points,
1180: work done by Reyk Flöter, Tim Kornau and others.
1181: This installation was a very successful test of the new
1.290 henning 1182: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ath">ath(4)</a>
1.287 henning 1183: driver.
1184: <p>
1.248 deraadt 1185:
1.286 kevlo 1186: <li><strong><a name=icos2004></a>
1.417 kevlo 1187: <a href="http://2004.icos.org.tw/">ICOS 2004</a></strong>,
1.286 kevlo 1188: Dec 18 - 19, 2004, Taipei, Taiwan.<br>
1189: Kevin Lo gave a presentation.
1190: <p>
1191:
1.285 deraadt 1192: <li><strong><a name=syscan2004></a>
1193: <a href="http://www.syscan.org/">SyScAN 2004</a></strong>,
1194: Dec 16 - 17, 2004, Singapore.<br>
1195: Theo de Raadt presented his talk about
1196: <a href="papers/auug04">Exploit Mitigation Techniques</a>.
1197: <p>
1198:
1.283 saad 1199: <li><strong><a name=sur200412></a>
1200: <a href="http://www.ossir.org/sur/calendrier/index.shtml">SUR Group Meeting, December 2004</a></strong>,
1201: Dec 14, 2004, Paris, France.<br>
1202: Saad Kadhi gave a talk about OpenBSD and security during the monthly
1203: meeting of the
1204: <a href="http://www.ossir.org/sur/index.shtml">SUR</a> Group (Sécurité
1205: Unix et Réseaux), a french user group focusing on security and Unix. The
1.284 xsa 1206: <a href="papers/surgroup200412/index.html">slides</a> (in French) are available.
1.283 saad 1207: <p>
1208:
1.282 henning 1209: <li><strong><a name=opencon2004></a>
1210: <a href="http://www.opencon.org/">OpenCon 2004</a></strong>,
1211: Dec 10 - 12, 2004, Venice, Italy.<br>
1212: OpenBSD meeting in Northern Italy. Henning gave 3 talks in
1213: two days, on bgpd
1214: (<a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/opencon04/bgpd/">slides</a>),
1215: ntpd
1216: (<a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/opencon04/ntpd/">slides</a>)
1217: and signal handlers
1218: (<a href="papers/opencon04/">slides</a>).
1219: Wim ran a booth, and Marc Balmer was there as well.
1220: <p>
1221:
1.275 deraadt 1222: <li><strong><a name=UofA></a>
1223: <a href="http://www.ualberta.ca/">U of A Seminar</a></strong>,
1224: Nov 17 - 18, 2004, Edmonton Alberta.<br>
1225: Theo de Raadt presented a talk at an open seminar at the
1226: <a href="http://www.ualberta.ca/">University of Alberta</a>, in
1227: Room B-02 of the
1228: <a href="http://www.campusmap.ualberta.ca/map_bldg.cfm?bldg_id=42">
1229: Computing Sciences Center</a>.
1230: Talk went from 2 PM to nearly 5PM with more than 100 people attending
1231: from the University and industry, followed by beer nearby.
1232: The talk was also given the following day at the
1233: <a href="http://www.cips.ca/">CIPS Security SIG</a> luncheon.
1234: <p>
1235:
1.271 henning 1236: <li><strong><a name=EuroBSDCon2004></a>
1237: <a href="http://2004.eurobsdcon.org/">EuroBSD Con</a></strong>,
1238: Oct 29 - 31, 2004, Karlsruhe, 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: Henning gave a talk
1.375 grunk 1242: about <a href="http://2004.eurobsdcon.org/talks.html?&tx_ptspeechupload_pi1[showUid]=44&cHash=ec015b0552">bgpd</a>,
1.272 henning 1243: <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/euroBSDCon2004/">slides</a> are available.
1.271 henning 1244: <p>
1245:
1246: <li><strong><a name=LinuxWorldExpoGermany2004></a>
1247: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.de/">Linux World Expo</a></strong>,
1248: Oct 26 - 28, 2004, Frankfurt, Germany.<br>
1.272 henning 1249: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
1250: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
1.271 henning 1251: <p>
1252:
1.276 deraadt 1253: <li><strong><a name=cuug2004></a>
1.270 deraadt 1254: <a href="http://www.cuug.ab.ca/">Calgary Unix Users's Group</a></strong>,
1255: Oct 26, 2004, Calgary, Canada.<br>
1256: Theo presented the talk that he has recently given in Australia and
1257: Malaysia to the "Home Crowd".
1258: <p>
1259:
1260: <li><strong><a name=aldil2004></a>
1.269 krw 1261: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/">Les Journées Du Logiciel Libre 2004</a></strong>,
1262: Oct 22 - 23, 2004, Lyon, France.<br>
1.381 aanriot 1263: There was OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Miod Vallat with the help of
1.415 aanriot 1264: Alexandre Anriot and Thierry Thomas.
1.269 krw 1265: <p>
1266:
1267: <li><strong><a name=systems2004></a>
1268: <a href="http://www.systems.de/">Systems</a></strong>,
1269: Oct 18 - 22, 2004, Munich, Germany <br>
1270: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
1271: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
1272: <p>
1273:
1.268 krw 1274: <li><strong><a name=linuxexpo2004oct></a>
1275: <a href="http://www.linuxexpo.org.uk/">Linux Expo</a></strong>,
1276: Oct 6 - 7, 2004, London, UK.<br>
1277: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
1278: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
1279: <p>
1280:
1.375 grunk 1281: <li><strong><a name=hitb2004></a>
1.268 krw 1282: <a href="http://conference.hackinthebox.org">Hack in the Box Security Conference 2004</a></strong>,
1283: Oct 4 - 7, 2004, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.<br>
1284: Theo de Raadt presented an updated version of his
1285: "Exploit Mitigation Techniques" talk.
1286: <p>
1287:
1288: <li><strong><a name=SANE2004></a>
1289: <a href="http://www.nluug.nl/events/sane2004/bazaar.html">SANE 2004</a></strong>
1.410 wvdputte 1290: , Sep 29, 2004, Amsterdam, Netherlands.<br>
1.268 krw 1291: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
1292: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
1293: <p>
1294:
1.265 wvdputte 1295: <li><strong><a name=LinuxKongress2004></a>
1296: <a href="http://www.linux-kongress.org/2004">Linux Kongress 2004</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 1297: Sep 7 - 10, 2004, Erlangen, Germany.<br>
1.265 wvdputte 1298: From their website: "Linux-Kongress is still the premier event for European
1299: developers and one of the most important in the world. Each year hundreds of
1300: hard core Linux enthusiasts from all over the world gather for this important
1301: event."
1302: <br>
1303: Although this was a Linux developers' conference, we were able to
1304: install a regular OpenBSD booth there, as known from other events.
1305: It was run by <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim Vandeputte</a>,
1306: <a href="mailto:grunk@pestilenz.org">Alexander von Gernler</a> and other
1307: geeks from the Erlangen-Nuremberg area.
1308: <br>
1309: There also was a BSD dinner at Friday evening.
1310: <p>
1311:
1.262 henning 1312: <li><strong><a name=Sucon2004></a>
1313: <a href="http://www.suug.ch/sucon/04/">SUCON 2004</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 1314: Sep 2 - 4, 2004, Zurich, Switzerland.<br>
1.262 henning 1315: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth. Very nice conference.
1316: Henning's slides from his talks about
1317: <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/sucon04/bgpd">bgpd</a> and
1318: <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/sucon04/ntpd">ntpd</a>
1319: are available.
1320: <p>
1321:
1.261 deraadt 1322: <li><strong><a name=auug2004></a>
1.266 jolan 1323: <a href="http://www.auug.org.au/events/2004/auug2004/">AUUG 2004</a></strong>,
1.261 deraadt 1324: Aug 29 - Sep 3, 2004, Melbourne, Australia.<br>
1325: Theo de Raadt presented a half-day tutorial on privilege seperation and a
1326: newly extended version of the
1327: <a href="papers/auug04">Exploit Mitigation Techniques</a> talk.<br>
1328: For more information, see this
1329: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;517187222;fp;16;fpid;0">
1330: ComputerWorld article</a>.
1331: <p>
1332:
1333:
1.257 saad 1334: <li><strong><a name=LSM2004></a>
1335: <a href="http://lsm.abul.org">Libre Software Meeting</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 1336: Jul 6 - 10, 2004, Bordeaux, France.<br>
1.257 saad 1337: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
1338: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim Vandeputte</a>.
1339: <p>
1340:
1341: <li><strong><a name=LinuxTag2004></a>
1342: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.org">LinuxTag 2004</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 1343: Jun 23 - 26, 2004, Karlsruhe, Germany.<br>
1.257 saad 1344: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
1345: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim Vandeputte</a>.
1346: <p>
1347:
1.254 xsa 1348: <li><strong><a name=LinuxwochenVienna2004></a>
1.255 xsa 1349: <a href="http://www.linuxwochen.at/">Linuxwochen Vienna 2004</a></strong>,
1.254 xsa 1350: May 26 - 29, 2004, Vienna, Austria.<br>
1351: The Linuxwochen 2004 tour stopped in the MuseumsQuartier, Vienna.
1352: Wim Vandeputte and Reinhard Sammer ran the OpenBSD booth. Michael Bauer
1353: and Teemu Schaabl from the <a href="http://www.cngw.org/">CNGW</a> gave
1354: a basic talk about pf.
1355: <p>
1356:
1.248 deraadt 1357: <li><strong><a name=BSDCan2004></a>
1.303 mcbride 1358: <a href="http://www.bsdcan.org/2004/">BSDCan 2004</a></strong>,
1.248 deraadt 1359: May 13 - 16, 2004, Ottawa, Canada.<br>
1360: BSDCan was held at the University of Ottawa. Ryan McBride gave a talk
1.302 mcbride 1361: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/papers/bsdcan04-pf/index.html">about newer features in pf</a>,
1362: focusing on the redundancy provided by CARP and pfsync.
1363: Theo de Raadt presented a revised version of his talk on
1.248 deraadt 1364: <a href="papers/bsdcan04">Exploit Mitigation Techniques</a>.
1365: <p>
1366:
1.247 canacar 1367: <li><strong><a name="LOSFAnkara2004"></a>
1368: <a href="http://senlik.linux.org.tr">3rd Linux and Open Source Festival</a></strong>,
1369: May 13 - 16, 2004, Ankara, Turkey.<br>
1370: Can E. Acar and Berk D. Demir talked about the OpenBSD Project. The
1371: philosophy, project goals, system features and recent proactive
1372: security features were introduced. CARP, patents, recent Apache &
1373: XFree86 licensing issues and effects of NDAs in open source
1374: projects were discussed.<br>
1375: You can view the
1.281 canacar 1376: <a href="http://bdd.mindcast.org/slides/OpenBSD-LOYS2004-cea-bdd.pdf">
1.247 canacar 1377: slides in PDF format</a> the
1.281 canacar 1378: <a href="http://bdd.mindcast.org/slides/OpenBSD-LOYS2004-cea-bdd.tex">
1.247 canacar 1379: LaTeX source</a> is also available (they are
1380: <a href="http://www.eee.metu.edu.tr/~canacar/slides/">mirrored</a>, as well).
1381: <p>
1382:
1.242 henning 1383: <li><strong><a name=Brussels2004></a>
1384: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/">FOSDEM Brussels 2004</a></strong>,
1385: Feb 21 - 22, 2004, Brussels, Belgium.<br>
1.243 henning 1386: An OpenBSD/OpenSSH booth was present, run by Wim Vandeputte.
1387: Several developers (including Henning Brauer, Xavier Santolaria, Thierry Deval,
1388: Philipp Bühler, Otto Moerbeek and Saad Kadhi) showed up.
1389: Wim and Alexander von Gernler gave "lightning talks" about Soekris
1390: and systrace
1.263 saad 1391: (<a href="http://pestilenz.org/~grunk/vortraege/2004/FOSDEM/systrace.pdf">slides</a>), respectively.
1.243 henning 1392: Henning got a slot in the main track to talk about the new bgpd
1393: (<a href="http://www.2suck.net/papers/fosdem2004/">slides</a>).
1394: On Saturday evening, the traditional OpenBSD dinner took place.
1.242 henning 1395: <p>
1396:
1.240 espie 1397: <li><strong><a name=Paris2004></a>
1398: <a href="http://www.linuxsolutions.fr/">Linux Expo Paris 2004</a></strong>,
1399: Feb 3 - 5, 2004, Paris, France.<br>
1400: An OpenBSD booth as well as an OpenSSH booth were present, thanks to
1401: <a href="mailto:saad@docisland.org">Saad Kadhi</a> and
1402: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
1403: <p>
1404:
1405: <li><strong><a name="LWE04"></a>
1406: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/linuxworldny/V40/index.cvn">LinuxWorld
1407: Conference and Expo</a></strong>, Jan 20 - 23, 2004, New York, NY, USA.<br>
1.397 grunk 1408: <a href="mailto:wes@openlysecure.org">Wes Sonnenreich</a> and others
1.240 espie 1409: have established a BSD user group in NYC and held a BSD BoF at the
1410: Jacob Javits Center on January 22nd at 5:45pm, Room 1E15.
1411: <p>
1412: </ul>
1413:
1.188 henning 1414: <h3>2003</h3>
1.236 jose 1415:
1416: <ul>
1.232 jose 1417: <li><strong><a name=20c3></a>
1418: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/2003/">20th Chaos Communication Congress 2003</a></strong>,
1419: Dec 27 - 29, 2003, Berlin, Germany.<br>
1420: OpenBSD was represented by a booth, ran by
1421: <a href= "mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>, and supported by Henning and
1.236 jose 1422: Alexander von Gernler. Alexander also gave a
1.260 saad 1423: <a href="http://pestilenz.org/~grunk/vortraege/2003/20C3/openbsd.pdf">talk</a>
1.232 jose 1424: introducing the project and the OS (in German).
1.236 jose 1425: <p>
1.232 jose 1426:
1.228 jose 1427: <li><strong><a name=brazil2003></a>
1.236 jose 1428: <a href="http://bsdcon.myfreebsd.com.br">1st BSDCon Brazil</a></strong>,
1.228 jose 1429: Dec 6 - 7, 2003. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.<br>
1430: This was the first BSDCon Brazil, and of course OpenBSD was present.
1.236 jose 1431: Douglas Santos spoke on advocacy and about some of the technical aspects
1432: of OpenBSD. Eduardo A. Alvarenga gave a presentation about firewalling
1.228 jose 1433: with OpenBSD PF.
1434: <p>
1435:
1436: <li><strong><a name=ankara03></a>
1437: <a href="http://seminer.linux.org.tr">Association of Turkish Linux User</a></strong>,
1438: Dec 4, 2003, Ankara, Turkey.<br>
1439: Can Acar and Berk Demir gave a mammoth 4 hour presentation on OpenBSD.
1440: The first part was a broad introduction to the OpenBSD philosophy, the
1.236 jose 1441: project goals, and system features. After a break, in the second part they
1442: talked about the exploit mitigation techniques employed in OpenBSD. This
1443: part was aimed at techies and is almost a complete Turkish translation of
1444: the talk Theo recently gave in Japan. You can view the
1.281 canacar 1445: <a href="http://bdd.mindcast.org/slides/OpenBSD_3.12.2003.can-bdd.pdf">
1.236 jose 1446: slides in PDF format </a>
1447: (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 1448: <p>
1449:
1.227 jose 1450: <li><strong><a name=Luxembourg2003></a>
1451: <a href="http://www.linuxday.lu/">Linuxday Luxembourg 2003</a></strong>,
1452: Nov 6 - 8, 2003, Luxembourg, Luxembourg.<br>
1453: Booths were present, organized by <a href= "mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
1454: <p>
1455:
1456: <li><strong><a name=Pacsec2003></a>
1457: <a href="http://pacsec.jp/">Pacsec 2003</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 1458: Nov 6 - 7, 2003, Tokyo, Japan.<br>
1.236 jose 1459: Three OpenBSD developers presented on various topics. Theo de Raadt
1.227 jose 1460: gave a presentation on Exploit Mitigation Techniques
1.236 jose 1461: <a href="papers/pacsec03/e/index.html">(English)</a>
1462: <a href="papers/pacsec03/j/index.html">(Japanese)</a>, Jun-ichiro
1.227 jose 1463: itojun Hagino presented material covering
1.236 jose 1464: <a href="http://www.itojun.org/paper/itojun-200311-pacsec-jp/">
1.241 david 1465: IPv6 security considerations</a>, and Jose Nazario discussed advances
1.227 jose 1466: in Internet worm defenses.
1467: <p>
1468:
1.224 miod 1469: <li><strong><a name=Lyon2003></a>
1470: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/agenda/journees/2003/">Les V<sup>èmes</sup> Journées du Libre 2003</a></strong>,
1471: Oct 31 - Nov 1, 2003, Lyon, France.<br>
1472: Miod Vallat gave a talk about the recent security efforts deployed in OpenBSD,
1473: as well as generic security concepts (slides, in bad French, are available in
1474: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/agenda/journees/2003/vallat/miod.mgp">mgp
1475: format</a>). As usual, Wim ran an OpenBSD booth featuring the new 3.4 release,
1476: as well as <a href="http://soekris.kd85.com">Soekris</a> hardware running
1477: OpenBSD.
1478: <p>
1479:
1480: <li><strong><a name=Saarbrucken2003></a>
1481: <a href="http://www.linux-kongress.org/2003/index.html">Linux Kongress Saarbrücken 2003</a></strong>,
1482: Oct 14 - 16, 2003, Saarbrücken, Germany.<br>
1483: An OpenBSD booth was present, starring Wim again.
1484: <p>
1485:
1486: <li><strong><a name=London2003></a>
1487: <a href="http://www.linuxexpo.org.uk/">Linux Expo London 2003</a></strong>,
1488: Oct 8 - 9, 2003, London, UK.<br>
1489: An OpenBSD booth was present, starring Wim as usual.
1490: <p>
1491:
1.219 jose 1492: <li><strong><a name=bsdcon2003></a>
1493: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/bsdcon03/">BSDCon '03</a></strong>,
1494: Sep 8 - 12, 2003, San Mateo, California.<br>
1.236 jose 1495: OpenBSD was represented in the BSD Status Report, and David Rosenthal
1.219 jose 1496: gave a talk on an OpenBSD based security appliance.
1497: <p>
1498:
1.218 jose 1499: <li><strong><a name=sucon2003></a>
1500: <a href="http://www.sucon.ch/">SUCON '03</a></strong>,
1501: Sep 5, 2003. Zurich, Switzerland.<br>
1.236 jose 1502: Daniel Hartmeier talked about PF, and <a
1.218 jose 1503: href="http://open.bsdcow.net/events/sucon2003/">pictures are available</a>.
1504: <p>
1505:
1.214 henning 1506: <li><strong><a name=camp2003></a>
1507: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/camp/">Chaos Communication Camp 2003</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1508: Aug 7 - 10, 2003, in <a href="http://www.paulshof.de/body-mehr.html">a field</a> near Berlin Germany<br>
1.214 henning 1509: There was a huge OpenBSD village. Several OpenBSD developers have been there.
1510: <p>
1511:
1.213 jose 1512: <li><strong><a name=sec2003></a>
1513: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/sec03/">Usenix Security</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1514: Aug 4 - 8, 2003, Washington, DC, USA.<br>
1.236 jose 1515: Niels Provos presented two papers on security advances originally
1.213 jose 1516: developed for OpenBSD, including the OpenSSH privsep feature and systrace.
1517: Several OpenBSD developers were there.
1518: <p>
1519:
1.211 jose 1520: <li><strong><a name=linuxtag2003></a>
1521: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.org/2003/en/index.html">LinuxTag 2003</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1522: Jul 10 - 13, 2003, Karlsruhe Convention Center Germany<br>
1.211 jose 1523: Both OpenBSD and OpenSSH had booths in the main exhibit.
1524: <p>
1525:
1526: <li><strong><a name=lsm2003></a>
1527: <a href="http://libresoftwaremeeting.org/">Libre Software Meeting 2003</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1528: Jul 9 - 12, 2003, Metz, France<br>
1.212 matthieu 1529: Matthieu Herrb gave <a href="papers/xf86-sec.pdf">a talk about XFree86 security</a>. There was
1.211 jose 1530: also an OpenBSD booth with developers.
1531: <p>
1532:
1.209 wvdputte 1533: <li><strong><a name=lud2003></a>
1534: <a href="http://www.linuxuserexpo.com/">Linux User & Developer Expo 2003</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1535: Jun 24 - 26, 2003, at the NEC in Birmingham UK<br>
1.209 wvdputte 1536: There was an OpenBSD booth with developers.
1537: <p>
1.195 deraadt 1538:
1.202 jason 1539: <li><strong><a name=usenix2003></a>
1.236 jose 1540: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix03/">Usenix Annual Technical
1.216 jose 1541: Conference</a></strong>,
1542: Jun 9 - 14, 2003, San Antonio, Texas, USA<br>
1.202 jason 1543: A few OpenBSD developers were there and one paper was presented:
1544: <ul>
1.216 jose 1545: <li>The Design of the OpenBSD Cryptographic Framework<br>
1.202 jason 1546: <a href="events.html#usenix2003">Usenix 2003</a>, by
1.236 jose 1547: Angelos D. Keromytis,
1548: Jason L. Wright, and
1.205 deraadt 1549: Theo de Raadt.<br>
1.202 jason 1550: <a href="papers/ocf.pdf">paper</a>.
1551: </ul>
1552: <p>
1553:
1.216 jose 1554: <li><strong>
1555: <a href="http://www.webb.it/">Webbit 2003</a></strong>,
1556: May 9 - 11, 2003, Padova, Italy<br>
1.203 jason 1557: Giacomo Cariello and Wim Vandeputte attended, and several OpenBSD
1.661 martynas 1558: <a href="http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20030503101052">related talks</a> were given.
1.203 jason 1559: <p>
1560:
1.216 jose 1561: <li><strong>
1562: <a href="http://cansecwest.com/">CanSecWest 03</a></strong>,
1563: Apr 9 - 11, 2003, Vancouver, Canada<br>
1.195 deraadt 1564: Theo spoke about killing buffer overflows using ProPolice and the new W^X technology,
1.196 matthieu 1565: available as a <a href="papers/csw03.mgp">magicpoint file</a>.
1.195 deraadt 1566: <p>
1567:
1.216 jose 1568: <li><strong>
1569: <a href="http://www.cebit.de/">CeBIT 2003</a></strong>,
1570: Mar 14, 2003, Hannover, Germany<br>
1.236 jose 1571: 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 1572: gave a talk on OpenBSD and OpenSSH. <a href="papers/cebit2003.tgz">slides</a> are available.
1.194 henning 1573: <p>
1574:
1.216 jose 1575: <li><strong>
1576: <a href="http://www.linuxforum.dk/2003/english/">LinuxForum 2003</a></strong>,
1577: Mar 1, 2003, Copenhagen<br>
1.236 jose 1578: Daniel spoke about PF (slides in <a href="papers/linuxforum2k3.tar.gz">mgp</a>,
1579: <a href="http://www.benzedrine.cx/linuxforum/">HTML</a>).
1.191 dhartmei 1580: It was a small but cozy conference, jointly held by Danish Linux and BSD
1581: user groups.
1582: <p>
1583:
1.236 jose 1584: <li><strong>
1585: <a href="http://www.cuug.ab.ca">CUUG - The Calgary Unix Users
1.216 jose 1586: Group</a></strong>,
1587: Feb 25, 2003, 18:00 MST, Calgary<br>
1.190 miod 1588: OpenBSD lead developer Theo de Raadt spoke about some of the recent
1589: changes in OpenBSD that are leading the way to the complete elimination of
1590: "buffer overflow" security risks and attacks.
1591: <p>
1592:
1.216 jose 1593: <li><strong>
1594: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/">FOSDEM 2003</a></strong>,
1595: Feb 8 - 9, 2003, Brussels<br>
1.236 jose 1596: Henning and Philipp gave a talk on -current PF developments
1.196 matthieu 1597: (<a href="papers/fosdem2k3-pf.mgp">slides</a>)
1.187 henning 1598: and on Saturday evening, there was an OpenBSD dinner for those interested.
1599: <p>
1600:
1.216 jose 1601: <li><strong>
1602: <a href="http://linuxsolutions.fr/FR/home/index.php?site=default">Linux Solutions</a></strong>,
1603: Feb 4 - 6, 2003, CNIT - Paris La Défense<br>
1.185 miod 1604: There was an OpenBSD booth with several OpenBSD developers, as well as 3.2 OpenBSD
1.413 grunk 1605: CD sets and T-shirts.
1.185 miod 1606: <p>
1.236 jose 1607: </ul>
1.185 miod 1608:
1.161 millert 1609: <h3>2002</h3>
1.236 jose 1610:
1611: <ul>
1612: <li><strong>
1613: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/2002/">19c3: the 19th CCC
1.216 jose 1614: Congress</a></strong>,
1615: Dec 27 - 29, 2002, Berlin<br>
1.236 jose 1616: There was a huge <a href="http://www.eurobsd.org/19c3">reserved space</a> for
1617: OpenBSD users and developers, a couple of -current test systems and for those
1.413 grunk 1618: curious, a first look at the 3.2 OpenBSD T-shirts.
1.184 wvdputte 1619: <p>
1.177 jason 1620:
1.216 jose 1621: <li><strong>
1622: <a href="http://2002.eurobsdcon.org/">BSDCon Europe 2002</a></strong>,
1623: Nov 15 - 17, 2002, Amsterdam, Netherlands<br>
1.181 henning 1624: OpenBSD people were there;
1.236 jose 1625: Philipp Bühler and Henning Brauer spoke about
1.182 ian 1626: <a href="papers/tuning-openbsd.ps">
1627: network performance tuning on OpenBSD</a>,
1.236 jose 1628: and Ian Darwin presented a
1.182 ian 1629: <a href="papers/eurobsd-firewalls-2002.pdf">
1630: tutorial on OpenBSD servers/firewalls</a>.
1.179 pb 1631: <p>
1.178 pb 1632:
1.216 jose 1633: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1634: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa02/">LISA '02: 16th Systems
1.216 jose 1635: Administration Conference</a></strong>,
1636: Nov 3 - 8, 2002, Philadelphia, USA<br>
1.177 jason 1637: Mickey and Jason manned the booth at the vendor expo (the only BSD
1638: represented) and sold <a href="32.html">3.2</a> CDs, and Jason gave a BoF
1639: session on <a href="32.html">3.2</a> and future.
1640: <p>
1641:
1.216 jose 1642: <li><strong>
1.264 djm 1643: <a href="http://www.auug.org.au/events/2002/auug2002/">Australian Unix Users
1644: Group Winter Conference</a></strong>,
1645: Sep 1 - 6, 2002, Melbourne Australia<br>
1646: Damien Miller presented a tutorial on the
1647: <a href="papers/auug2002-ssh/index.html">SSH protocol</a> and
1648: <a href="papers/auug2002-ssh.ps">OpenSSH tips and tricks</a>.
1649: <p>
1650:
1651: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 1652: <a href="http://lsm.abul.org">The 3rd Libre Software Meeting</a></strong>,
1653: Jul 9 - 13, 2002, Bordeaux, France<br>
1.172 miod 1654: Several OpenBSD developers and users were attending the meeting, and
1655: Niels Provos presented his
1656: <a href="http://www.citi.umich.edu/u/provos/systrace">systrace</a>
1657: system call policy management tool.
1.174 nick 1658: <p>
1.172 miod 1659:
1.216 jose 1660: <li><strong>
1661: <a href="http://www.Webb.it">Webb.it 02</a></strong>,
1662: Jul 5 - 7, 2002, Padova, Italy<br>
1.171 ian 1663: OpenBSD developers had a booth selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
1664: <p>
1665:
1.216 jose 1666: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1667: <a href="http://www.softwarelivre.rs.gov.br/forum">The Annual International
1.216 jose 1668: Free Software Forum</a></strong>,
1669: May 2 - 4, 2002, Porto Alegre-RS, Brazil<br>
1.236 jose 1670: Mainly a Linux/GNU event, but this year the BSD Operating Systems
1671: had a chance to prove their value.
1.169 horacio 1672: Edson Brandi spoke on FreeBSD, Diego Linke
1.236 jose 1673: on NetBSD, and Ricardo Nascimento Ferreira on OpenBSD.
1.169 horacio 1674: <p>
1.168 miod 1675:
1.216 jose 1676: <li><strong>
1677: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/bsdcon02/">BSDCON 2002</a></strong>,
1678: Feb 11 - 14, 2002, San Francisco, California, USA<br>
1.161 millert 1679: Todd Miller gave an update on current OpenBSD status and participated in a
1.162 millert 1680: BSD panel discussion. The <a href="slides/bsdcon_2002/index.html">slides</a>
1681: are available.
1.161 millert 1682: <p>
1683:
1.216 jose 1684: <li><strong>
1685: <a href="http://www.linuxexpoparis.com">Linux expo Paris 2002</a></strong>,
1686: Jan 30 - Feb 1, 2002, Paris, France<br>
1.163 miod 1687: The french Linux Expo 2002 was quite small and as usual the OpenBSD booth ended
1688: up with others on the expo's side. On the first day, almost all the merchandise
1689: was sold, and we have even sold older versions (2.9) the following days to
1690: people who wouldn't leave without a cd set in their hands...
1691: <p>
1692:
1.216 jose 1693: <li><strong>
1694: <a href="http://musess.mcmaster.ca/">MUSESS 2002</a></strong>,
1695: Jan 25 - 26, 2002, McMaster University, Ontario, Canada<br>
1.164 millert 1696: Louis Bertrand gave a presentation on OpenBSD titled
1697: <strong>Fix The Bugs, Secure The System</strong>.
1698: The <a href="slides/musess_2002/index.html">slides</a> are available.
1699: <p>
1.236 jose 1700: </ul>
1.164 millert 1701:
1.152 jakob 1702: <h3>2001</h3>
1703:
1.236 jose 1704: <ul>
1.216 jose 1705: <li><strong>
1706: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa01/">USENIX LISA 2001</a></strong>,
1707: Dec 2 - 7, 2001, San Diego, California, USA<br>
1.160 jufi 1708: Niels Provos gave a presentation, and there's been a booth selling
1.413 grunk 1709: T-shirts and 3.0 CDs.
1.160 jufi 1710: <p>
1711:
1.216 jose 1712: <li><strong>
1713: <a href="http://www.ietf.org/meetings/IETF-52.html">52nd IETF</a></strong>,
1714: Dec 9 - 14, 2001, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA<br>
1.160 jufi 1715: Angelos, Itojun & Jakob were there.
1716: <p>
1717:
1.158 deraadt 1718: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1719: <a href="http://www.disc2000.unam.mx/disc/index-ing.html">DISC
1.216 jose 1720: 2001</a></strong>,
1721: Nov 26 - 29, 2001, Mexico City, Mexico<br>
1.158 deraadt 1722: Once again, Theo de Raadt explained the security auditing process and
1723: subsequent secure configuration choices made in OpenBSD, in a talk
1724: entitled "Updated thoughts on writing a secure Operating System".
1725: <p>
1726:
1.216 jose 1727: <li><strong>
1728: <a href="http://www.linux.org.hk">LinuxCafe</a></strong>,
1729: Sep 15, 2001, Hong Kong, China<br>
1.156 provos 1730: Shell Hung gave an introduction for BSD and demonstration of OpenBSD to HKLUG.
1731: <p>
1732:
1.201 deraadt 1733: <li><strong>VPN Bakeoff</strong>,
1.216 jose 1734: Aug 13 - 18, 2001, Finland<br>
1.156 provos 1735: Jakob and Itojun were there.
1736: <p>
1.158 deraadt 1737:
1.150 wvdputte 1738: <li><strong>
1.215 nick 1739: <a href="http://www.hal2001.org">HAL 2001</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1740: Aug 10 - 12, 2001, Twente, Netherlands<br>
1.153 jufi 1741: Quite a lot of developers were there, we even had our own tent.
1742: Niels, Rees and Dugsong held talks, more info on the main website
1743: for HAL2001. And of course T-Shirts and CDROMs were sold.
1.150 wvdputte 1744: <p>
1.137 aaron 1745:
1746: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1747: <a href="http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon/">O'Reilly Open Source
1.216 jose 1748: Conference</a></strong>,
1749: Jul 23 - 27, 2001, San Diego, California, USA<br>
1.148 brian 1750: OpenBSD had a booth selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
1751: Ian Darwin presented his "Firewalls and Secure Internet Servers
1752: with OpenBSD" tutorial.
1753: <p>
1754:
1755: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 1756: <a href="http://www.defcon.org">DEF CON Nine</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1757: Jul 13 - 15, 2001 Las Vegas, USA<br>
1.148 brian 1758: OpenBSD developers and users make it a point to attend every year,
1759: and had a table selling CD's, shirts, etc.
1760: <p>
1761:
1762: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1763: <a href="http://www.sek.co.kr/sek2001/sek_html/main.htm">Software
1.216 jose 1764: Exhibition of Korea</a></strong>,
1765: Jun 26 - 29, 2001, Seoul, Korea<br>
1.146 krw 1766: urisecure/NDS sponsored an OpenBSD booth with CD's, posters,
1767: and a live demo of OpenBSD's IPSEC hardware acceleration.
1768: <p>
1769:
1770: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1771: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix01/">2001 USENIX Annual
1.216 jose 1772: Technical Conference</a></strong>,
1773: Jun 25 - 30, 2001, Boston, USA<br>
1.146 krw 1774: OpenBSD developers were there, selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
1775: <p>
1776:
1777: <li><strong>
1.143 dugsong 1778: <a href="http://www.olymfair.org/eng/workshop.htm">Information
1.201 deraadt 1779: Security OlymFair</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1780: May 16 - 18, 2001, Seoul, Korea<br>
1.143 dugsong 1781: Dug Song gave a detailed introduction to OpenBSD to the Korean
1782: security community.
1783: <p>
1784:
1785: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1786: <a href="http://www.osdem.org/">2001 Open Source and Free Software
1.216 jose 1787: Developers' Meeting</a></strong>,
1788: Feb 3 - 4, 2001, Brussels, Belgium<br>
1.137 aaron 1789: There was an OpenBSD booth with some loose talks made.
1790: <p>
1791:
1792: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 1793: <a href="http://www.linuxexpoparis.com/">2001 Linux Expo</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1794: Feb 1 - 2, 2001, Paris, France<br>
1.236 jose 1795: There was an OpenBSD booth in the 'F' area.
1.137 aaron 1796: <p>
1.236 jose 1797: </ul>
1.137 aaron 1798:
1.132 louis 1799: <h3>2000</h3>
1800:
1.236 jose 1801: <ul>
1.132 louis 1802: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1803: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa2000/">LISA 2000, USENIX
1.216 jose 1804: Systems Administration Conference</a></strong>,
1805: Dec 3 - 8, 2000, New Orleans, USA<br>
1.134 jufi 1806: Wim Vandeputte and other volunteers have been running a sales table with
1807: shirts, posters and the brand new 2.8 CDs.
1808: <p>
1809:
1810: <li><strong>
1.215 nick 1811: <a href="http://www.disc2000.unam.mx/disc/index-ing.html">DISC 2000</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1812: Nov 26 - Dec 1, 2000, Mexico City, Mexico<br>
1.133 deraadt 1813: Theo de Raadt explained the security auditing process and subsequent secure
1814: configuration choices made in OpenBSD, in a talk entitled "Secure by Default".
1815: Over the next few days, he also participated in two panels with various security
1816: experts who had flown in from around the world. Following this, Theo climbed
1.151 jsyn 1817: one of the largest volcanoes, called Malinche.
1.133 deraadt 1818: <p>
1819:
1820: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1821: <a href="http://www.nluug.nl/events/nj2000">NLUUG Najaarsconferentie
1.216 jose 1822: 2000</a></strong>,
1823: Nov 9, 2000, Ede, NL<br>
1.236 jose 1824: There was an OpenBSD booth where people dropped by for information or to
1.413 grunk 1825: get their T-shirts, polos, caps and 2.7 CDs.
1.13 deraadt 1826: <p>
1.4 millert 1827:
1.132 louis 1828: <li><strong><a name=ipsec2000></a>
1.236 jose 1829: <a href="http://www.upperside.fr/baipsecy2k.htm">IPsec 2000 Global
1.216 jose 1830: Summit</a></strong>,
1831: Oct 24 - 27, 2000, Paris La Defense, France<br>
1.159 miod 1832: Niels Provos ended the conference by speaking about the IPsec architecture
1.132 louis 1833: in OpenBSD. The talk was well received and many people were very interested
1834: about our cryptographic hardware acceleration.
1835:
1836: <ul>
1.236 jose 1837: <li>The IPsec Architecture in OpenBSD<br>
1.215 nick 1838: <a href="#ipsec2000">IPsec 2000 Global Summit</a> by Niels Provos.<br>
1.132 louis 1839: <a href="papers/ipsec-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1840: </ul>
1.4 millert 1841: <p>
1.132 louis 1842:
1.7 deraadt 1843: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 1844: <a href="http://ApacheCon.Com/2000/EU/">ApacheCon Europa 2000</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1845: Oct 23 - 25, 2000, London, UK<br>
1.132 louis 1846: There was an OpenBSD booth where people could drop by for information and
1847: a chat with the local OpenBSD personnel. We also had the essentials for
1.413 grunk 1848: your wardrobe (T-shirts, polos, caps), for your hardware (2.7 CDs) and for your
1.132 louis 1849: mind (drinks afterwards).
1850: <p>
1851:
1.216 jose 1852: <li><strong>
1853: <a href="http://www.bsdcon.com/">BSD Con 2000</a></strong>,
1854: Oct 18 - 20, 2000, Monterey, CA, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1855: David Terrell ran an OpenBSD booth selling T-shirts and CDs and answering
1856: questions.
1.32 deraadt 1857: <p>
1.1 deraadt 1858:
1.132 louis 1859: <li><strong><a name=opensource2000></a>
1.236 jose 1860: <a href="http://www.opensource-forum.com/konferens">The Open Source
1.216 jose 1861: Revolution</a></strong>,
1862: Oct 5, 2000, Stockholm, Sweden<br>
1.133 deraadt 1863: Theo de Raadt spoke about how user expectations for security out of the box
1864: have changed over the last years.
1.1 deraadt 1865: <p>
1866:
1.132 louis 1867: <li><strong><a name=sec2000></a>
1.216 jose 1868: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/sec2000/">Usenix Security</a></strong>,
1869: Aug 14 - 17, 2000, Denver, Colorado, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1870: Some OpenBSD developers were there and one paper was presented:
1871: <ul>
1.236 jose 1872: <li>Encrypting Virtual Memory<br>
1.132 louis 1873: <a href="#sec2000">Usenix Security 2000</a>
1.205 deraadt 1874: by Niels Provos.<br>
1.132 louis 1875: <a href="papers/swapencrypt.ps">paper</a> and
1876: <a href="papers/swapencrypt-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1877: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 1878: <p>
1.132 louis 1879:
1.10 provos 1880: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 1881: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-8-post.html">Defcon 2000</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1882: Jul 28 - 30, 2000, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.236 jose 1883: Kjell Wooding (our IPF maintainer), James Phillips from the
1.132 louis 1884: <a href="http://www.deadly.org">OpenBSD Journal</a>, and Theo de Raadt
1.413 grunk 1885: had a table and were selling OpenBSD CDROMs, T-shirts, and posters on
1.132 louis 1886: Friday and Saturday. Hordes of people visited our table and we at the
1887: end we were completely sold out of CDROMS and shirts (allowing us to go
1888: check out Hoover Dam's hardhat tour on Sunday and leave the madness behind).
1889: <br>
1890: We were completely amazed at the people who stopped by our table, to say
1891: that they were relying on OpenBSD.
1892: <p>
1.32 deraadt 1893:
1.132 louis 1894: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1895: <a href="http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon2000/">O'Reilly Open Source
1.216 jose 1896: Conference 2000</a></strong>,
1897: Jul 17 - 20, 2000, Monterey, California, USA<br>
1898: Ian Darwin presented a <a href="papers/oreilly2000/">tutorial</a> on
1.132 louis 1899: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/w/bsd_tutorials.html">
1900: Secure Internet Servers/Firewalls with OpenBSD</a>, and bravely
1901: manned the OpenBSD booth for the remainder of the show.
1902: Kjell Wooding took part in a panel discussion on the Future of the BSDs,
1903: and spoke about
1904: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/w/bsd_presentations.html">
1.241 david 1905: Secure By Default.</a> Both sessions were well attended, and at least
1.132 louis 1906: one Linux sysadmin was seen racing for a keyboard, scared look in his eyes,
1.236 jose 1907: after the security talk.
1.3 provos 1908: <p>
1.132 louis 1909:
1.6 deraadt 1910: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 1911: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.de/2000/english/">LinuxTag 2000</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1912: Jun 29 - Jul 2, 2000, Stuttgart, Germany<br>
1.132 louis 1913: There was a BSD booth where we had the first <a href="27.html">OpenBSD 2.7 CDs</a> for Europe
1914: and the new blue stitchwork <a href="tshirts.html#11">Blowfish Polo</a> shirt.
1915: <br>
1916: Christian Weisgerber gave a
1917: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.de/2000/english/conference/talks.php3?ID=3">talk
1918: on BSD</a>.
1.32 deraadt 1919: <p>
1.1 deraadt 1920:
1.216 jose 1921: <li><strong><a name=usenix2000></a>
1.236 jose 1922: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix2000/">Usenix Annual Technical
1.216 jose 1923: Conference.</a></strong>,
1924: Jun 18 - 23, 2000, San Diego, California, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1925: Almost 20 OpenBSD developers showed up for the 25th anniversary of Usenix.
1926: We had a vendor booth, as well as a number of papers being presented.
1927: Conference attendees had the opportunity to test drive the new release,
1928: OpenBSD 2.7, on the 30 workstations in the terminal room. For the first
1929: time ever, the terminal room and wavelan networks also had a IPv6 connection,
1.147 jason 1930: and some users even discovered so by themselves.
1.132 louis 1931: Theo also held a BoF on the Wednesday evening, after which the developers
1932: had almost too much singing in foreign languages with the help of helium.
1933: <ul>
1934:
1935: <li>Implementing Internet Key Exchange, IKE.<br>
1936: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
1.216 jose 1937: by Angelos D. Keromytis, Niklas Hallqvist.<br>
1.132 louis 1938: <a href="papers/ikepaper.ps">paper</a> and
1939: <a href="papers/ikeslides.ps">slides</a>.
1940:
1941: <li>Transparent Network Security Policy Enforcement.<br>
1942: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
1.216 jose 1943: by Angelos D. Keromytis, Jason L. Wright.<br>
1.132 louis 1944: <a href="papers/bridgepaper.ps">paper</a> and
1945: <a href="papers/bridgeslides.ps">slides</a>.
1.2 deraadt 1946:
1.132 louis 1947: <li>Safety Checking of Kernel Extensions.<br>
1948: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
1.205 deraadt 1949: by Craig Metz.
1.132 louis 1950: </ul>
1.2 deraadt 1951: <p>
1952:
1.132 louis 1953: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1954: <a href="http://www.manlug.mcc.ac.uk/calendar.html">OpenBSD: The Open
1.216 jose 1955: Source Secure Operating System</a></strong>,
1956: Jun 17, 2000, 14:00. Manchester, UK<br>
1.132 louis 1957: Sam Smith gave a rundown of features coming in OpenBSD 2.7 and
1958: OpenSSH 2.1. His <a href="http://www.manlug.mcc.ac.uk/20000617/">slides</a>
1959: are available from the user group's site.
1.1 deraadt 1960: <p>
1.2 deraadt 1961:
1.132 louis 1962: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 1963: <a href="reprints/crypto2000.html">OpenBSD Crypto 2000 conference</a></strong>,
1964: Jun 15 - 20, 2000, Calgary, AB, Canada<br>
1.132 louis 1965: Repeating the tradition of a similar meeting held last year, many
1966: OpenBSD developers from around the world converged on Calgary
1967: for a weekend long hack-and-drink session. As before, the event
1968: was invitation only. Many significant things got done, including
1969: ipv6 + ipsec running over hardware crypto devices.
1.1 deraadt 1970: <p>
1.11 jkatz 1971:
1.17 deraadt 1972: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 1973: <a href="http://www.converge2000.com">CONVERGENCE 2000</a></strong>,
1974: May 18, 2000. Convention Centre, Calgary, Alberta, Canada<br>
1.132 louis 1975: Theo de Raadt participated in a panel discussion about the pros and cons
1976: of using Open Source software in various business environments. The local
1977: users also handed out OpenSSH and OpenBSD posters, and were absolutely
1978: surprised and amazed by the number of Calgary companies quietly using
1979: OpenBSD.
1.21 pattonme 1980: <p>
1.17 deraadt 1981:
1.23 niklas 1982: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 1983: <a href="http://www.cansecwest.com/">CanSecWest</a></strong>,
1984: May 10 - 12, 2000. Robson Conference Centre, Vancouver, BC, Canada<br>
1.132 louis 1985: Theo de Raadt spoke about why programmers keep making the same stupid mistakes,
1986: what types of efforts might improve this, and how this all relates to auditing
1.375 grunk 1987: efforts.
1988: Rain Forest Puppy, Ron Gula (Network Security Wizards), Ken Williams (E&Y),
1.216 jose 1989: Marty Roesch (snort/HiverWorld), and Fyodor (nmap) were among the other speakers
1.132 louis 1990: at this event. (On a personal note: at this conference Theo realized that three
1991: leading Network Intrusion Detection System companies use OpenBSD as their
1992: base operating system: Hiverworld, Network Security Wizards, and NFR).
1.32 deraadt 1993: <p>
1.25 deraadt 1994:
1.132 louis 1995: <li><strong>
1996: <a href="http://www.zdevents.com/comdex/spring2000/">Linux Business Expo /
1.201 deraadt 1997: COMDEX Spring 2000</a></strong>,
1998: Apr 19, 2000, Chicago, IL, USA<br>
1.216 jose 1999: Louis Bertrand represented OpenBSD at a BSD BOF with FreeBSD/BDSI,
1.132 louis 2000: NetBSD and Apple (Darwin is BSD-derived). The BOF was attended by about
2001: 75 people, many of whom were new to *BSD. It was an opportunity to
2002: explore future cooperation among the various BSD groups and companies.
1.25 deraadt 2003: <p>
1.23 niklas 2004:
1.31 deraadt 2005: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2006: <a href="http://www.nordu.org/NordU2000/">NordU 2000 -- The second
1.216 jose 2007: EurOpen/USENIX Conference</a></strong>,
2008: Feb 8 - 11, 2000. Malmo, Sweden<br>
1.140 jufi 2009: About 15 OpenBSD team members attended.
1.132 louis 2010: OpenBSD CDs and shirts were sold at a booth donated by the conference.<br>
2011: As well, Theo de Raadt gave an invited talk on Wednesday morning
2012: about why software quality/security suffers, and what we can do to
2013: improve it.
1.32 deraadt 2014: <p>
1.31 deraadt 2015:
1.201 deraadt 2016: <li><strong>BSD BOF session, LinuxWorld Expo</strong>,
1.216 jose 2017: Feb 3, 2000, New York, USA<br>
1.132 louis 2018: Representatives from OpenBSD, BSDi, and FreeBSD hosted a
2019: "Birds Of a Feather" session at the <a
2020: href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/">New York LinuxWorld Expo</a>.<br>
2021: There were installation CD-ROMs, free food, and even free Daemon Horns!
1.33 niklas 2022: <p>
1.236 jose 2023: </ul>
1.33 niklas 2024:
1.132 louis 2025: <h3>1999</h3>
1.36 niklas 2026:
1.236 jose 2027: <ul>
1.216 jose 2028: <li><strong>The Bazaar</strong>,
2029: Dec 14 - 16, 1999, New York, New York, USA<br>
1.132 louis 2030: Wes Sonnenreich and Tom Yates presented a tutorial on building
1.216 jose 2031: firewalls with OpenBSD. BoF of open source BSDs took place.
1.413 grunk 2032: 2.6 release CDROMs and T-shirts were sold.
1.132 louis 2033: Emphatic interest has been shown by representatives from press, international
2034: government and military institutions.
1.45 jason 2035: <p>
2036:
1.216 jose 2037: <li><strong><a name=lisa99></a>
1.236 jose 2038: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa99/">13th Systems Administration
1.216 jose 2039: Conference (LISA 99)</a></strong>,
2040: Nov 7 - 12, 1999, Seattle, Washington, USA<br>
1.132 louis 2041: Bob Beck presented a paper about the U of A's nifty OpenBSD based
2042: solution to the problem of public Ethernet jacks in the technical sessions
2043: starting at 11:00 AM on the 11th.<br>
2044: There were many other OpenBSD
2045: people at this conference as well, as well as a booth selling CDROMs and
1.413 grunk 2046: T-shirts. His paper is available at:
1.132 louis 2047:
2048: <ul>
2049: <li>Dealing with Public Ethernet Jacks-Switches, Gateways, and Authentication.<br>
1.236 jose 2050: <a href="events.html#lisa99">LISA 1999</a>,
1.206 david 2051: by Bob Beck.<br>
1.236 jose 2052: <a href="papers/authgw-paper.ps">paper</a> and
2053: <a href="papers/authgw-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 2054: </ul>
2055: <p>
2056:
2057: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 2058: IP-dagarna 1999</strong>,
1.216 jose 2059: Oct 27 - 28, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden<br>
1.132 louis 2060: Håkan Olsson & Jakob Schlyter spoke at the DNSSEC session on the 27th.
2061: <p>
2062:
2063: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2064: <a href="http://www.opensource-forum.com/konferens/">Linux & Open Source
1.216 jose 2065: Software '99</a></strong>,
2066: Oct 21, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)<br>
1.132 louis 2067: Niklas Hallqvist spoke on the topic of how to use
1.236 jose 2068: <a
1.375 grunk 2069: href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4">IPsec</a> for securing communications.
1.132 louis 2070: <p>
2071:
2072: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2073: <a href="http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference">Reflections/Projections
1.216 jose 2074: 1999</a></strong>,
2075: Oct 8 - 10, 1999, Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA<br>
1.132 louis 2076: Theo de Raadt spoke at 10:00am on the 9th. Other OpenBSD
2077: developers from the east coast attended as well.
2078: <p>
2079:
1.236 jose 2080: <li><strong><a name="ipsec99"></a>
1.216 jose 2081: IPsec Interoperability tests</strong>,
2082: Sep 27 - 30, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)<br>
1.236 jose 2083: A dozen vendors, among them OpenBSD, tested more than 15
1.375 grunk 2084: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4">IPsec</a>
1.132 louis 2085: products, both gateways and hosts, for interoperability. The tests
2086: were successful as far as general IPsec and pre-shared key
2087: authentication went, OpenBSD interoperated with everyone, but due to
2088: time constraints we never got to test the certificate support
2089: appropriately. The results were presented later that fall at a
2090: conference in Stockholm.
2091: <p>
2092:
2093: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2094: <a href="http://www.auug.org.au/winter/auug99">AUUG'99</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 2095: Sep 8 - 11, 1999, Melbourne, Australia<br>
1.132 louis 2096: Theo de Raadt gave two talks on "quality of software" related issues
2097: and participated on a panel about how open source projects are
2098: coordinated.
2099: <p>
2100:
2101: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2102: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/sec99/index.html">Usenix
1.216 jose 2103: Security</a></strong>,
2104: Aug 23 - 26, 1999, Washington, DC, USA<br>
1.132 louis 2105: Many OpenBSD people from the east coast showed up and sold CDs and
2106: shirts. It was pretty clear from discussions that many people were
2107: very aware of OpenBSD, and that OpenBSD was being used in very
2108: significant security roles.
2109: <p>
2110:
2111: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2112: <a href="http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/99jul/index.html">45th IETF
1.216 jose 2113: meeting</a></strong>,
2114: Jul 12 - 16, 1999, Oslo, Norway<br>
1.132 louis 2115: A number of OpenBSD team members from all over the world were at this
2116: conference. In addition to attending the IPsec and DNS working groups (among
2117: others) we did IPsec/IKE interoperability testing together with
1.166 miod 2118: the Japanese KAME project. Also, Angelos D. Keromytis did a presentation on
1.132 louis 2119: his work with keynote and isakmpd in OpenBSD.
2120: <p>
1.45 jason 2121:
1.132 louis 2122: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2123: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-6.html">Defcon 6.0</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 2124: Jul 9 - 11, 1999, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132 louis 2125: At this conference, the OpenBSD team sold 100 or so 2.5 release CDROMs
1.413 grunk 2126: and a TON of T-shirts.
1.46 deraadt 2127: <p>
1.132 louis 2128:
1.236 jose 2129: <li><strong><a name="usenix99"></a>
2130: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix99/index.html">
1.216 jose 2131: Usenix Annual Technical Conference</a></strong>,
2132: Jun 6 - 11, 1999, Monterey, California, USA<br>
1.106 jufi 2133: The <a href="http://www.usenix.org">USENIX Association</a>
1.46 deraadt 2134: provided The OpenBSD Project with a grant to underwrite the production
1.106 jufi 2135: of CDs of OpenBSD 2.5. (We distributed the
2136: release for free to attendees of the USENIX Annual Conference in
1.46 deraadt 2137: June.)
1.132 louis 2138: <br>
1.46 deraadt 2139: Usenix team members were involved in the authoring and
1.132 louis 2140: presentation of 4 OpenBSD-related papers:
2141:
1.375 grunk 2142: <a name="anoncvs_paper"></a>
1.46 deraadt 2143: <ul>
1.66 deraadt 2144: <li>Opening the Source Repository with Anonymous CVS.<br>
1.236 jose 2145: <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216 jose 2146: by Charles D. Cranor, Theo de Raadt.<br>
1.236 jose 2147: <a href="papers/anoncvs-paper.ps">paper</a> and
2148: <a href="papers/anoncvs-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 2149: <br>
1.66 deraadt 2150: <li>A Future-Adaptable Password Scheme.<br>
1.236 jose 2151: <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216 jose 2152: by Niels Provos, David Mazieres.<br>
1.236 jose 2153: <a href="papers/bcrypt-paper.ps">paper</a> and
2154: <a href="papers/bcrypt-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 2155: <br>
1.66 deraadt 2156: <li>Cryptography in OpenBSD: An Overview.<br>
1.236 jose 2157: <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216 jose 2158: by Theo de Raadt, Niklas Hallqvist, Artur Grabowski,
2159: Angelos D. Keromytis, Niels Provos.<br>
1.236 jose 2160: <a href="papers/crypt-paper.ps">paper</a> and
2161: <a href="papers/crypt-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 2162: <br>
1.66 deraadt 2163: <li>strlcpy and strlcat -- consistent, safe, string copy and concatenation.<br>
1.236 jose 2164: <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216 jose 2165: by Todd C. Miller, Theo de Raadt.<br>
1.236 jose 2166: <a href="papers/strlcpy-paper.ps">paper</a> and
2167: <a href="papers/strlcpy-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 2168: </ul>
1.66 deraadt 2169: <p>
1.46 deraadt 2170:
1.51 deraadt 2171: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2172: <a href="http://www.linuxexpo.org">5th Annual Linux Expo</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 2173: May 18 - 22, 1999, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA<br>
1.132 louis 2174: Some OpenBSD team members were at this conference selling OpenBSD 2.5 CDs,
2175: OpenBSE T-shirts, as well as Blowfish T-shirts, which sold out very quickly
2176: at a table donated by the Expo. OpenBSD was the only BSD represented at the
2177: vendor exposition, and we had good chance to present a secure alternative
2178: to Linux.
1.51 deraadt 2179: <p>
2180:
1.53 jakob 2181: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2182: <a href="http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/99mar/index.html">44th IETF
1.216 jose 2183: meeting</a></strong>,
2184: Mar 15 - 19, 1999, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA<br>
1.132 louis 2185: Some OpenBSD team members were at this conference, in particular our
2186: IPSEC developers.
1.53 jakob 2187: <p>
2188:
1.132 louis 2189: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2190: <a href="http://www.europen.se/NordU99">NordU99 -- The first
1.216 jose 2191: EurOpen/USENIX Conference</a></strong>,
2192: Feb 9 - 12, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden<br>
1.132 louis 2193: A couple of OpenBSD team members were there and some of the swedish user
2194: society as well. OpenBSD CDs were sold at a booth and at the end of a
2195: security talk, the project got applauded for its continuous strive of auditing
2196: security sensitive parts of the system.
1.59 deraadt 2197: <p>
1.236 jose 2198: </ul>
1.59 deraadt 2199:
1.132 louis 2200: <h3>1998</h3>
1.59 deraadt 2201:
1.236 jose 2202: <ul>
1.132 louis 2203: <li><strong><a name=ipsec98></a>
1.236 jose 2204: <a href="http://www.netman.se/kurs/96.html">IPsec/VPN Interoperability
2205: tests & seminar</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 2206: Dec 14, 1998, Stockholm, Sweden (in swedish)<br>
1.132 louis 2207: OpenBSD was represented as one of about a dozen
1.375 grunk 2208: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4">IPsec</a>
1.132 louis 2209: implementations who were tested for interoperability. The tests were
2210: successful, both for the technology in general, and for OpenBSD in
2211: specific. We managed to communicate encrypted with every vendor present,
2212: and to negotiate keys via IKE with everyone capable.
1.70 deraadt 2213: <p>
2214:
1.236 jose 2215: <li><strong><a name="lisaboston-98"></a>
2216: <a href="http://usenix.org/events/lisa98">LISA '98: 12th Systems Administration
1.216 jose 2217: Conference</a></strong>,
2218: Dec 6 - 11, 1998, Boston, Massachusetts<br>
1.132 louis 2219: More than 10 OpenBSD team members showed up. By far, OpenBSD was the
2220: largest representative group from free software at the conference.
2221: Usenix gave us a table in the vendor area where we sold 2.4 CDROMs,
1.413 grunk 2222: 2.3 "wire-frame" T-shirts, and the new 2.4 embroidered
2223: "Because security matters..." T-shirts, polos, and sweaters.
1.132 louis 2224: An OpenBSD BOF was held one evening, led by Theo de Raadt.
2225: A PalmPilot schedule loader was at the membership booth, powered by OpenBSD.
2226: <br>
2227: The terminal room ran OpenBSD 2.4 on 45 machines. Obviously trust in OpenBSD
2228: had increased since many people,normally wary of security problems of open
2229: terminal rooms, were seen using the machines.
1.72 ho 2230: <p>
2231:
1.73 deraadt 2232: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2233: <a href="http://www.asc.unam.mx/disc98">DISC - Seguridad en
1.217 jose 2234: Cómputo 98</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 2235: Nov 2 - 7, 1998, Mexico City<br>
1.132 louis 2236: Theo de Raadt gave a talk about security auditing, sponsored by
1.236 jose 2237: <a href="http://www.core-sdi.com">CORE SDI S.A.</a>, an Argentine
1.132 louis 2238: security auditing company who strongly believes in the future
1.236 jose 2239: of OpenBSD. (<a href="papers/mexico98-slides.ps">Slides are available</a>).
1.131 jufi 2240: <p>
1.73 deraadt 2241:
1.236 jose 2242: <li><strong>IP-dagarna</strong>,
1.216 jose 2243: Oct 29, 30 1998, Stockholm, Sweden (in swedish)<br>
1.132 louis 2244: At this conference, entirely devoted to IP, Niklas Hallqvist from the
2245: OpenBSD team held a talk on the IKE (a.k.a ISAKMP/Oakley) key management
2246: protocol and experiences from the implementation of <strong>isakmpd</strong>,
2247: an IKE implementation funded by Ericsson Radio Systems and developed
2248: primarily for the OpenBSD IPSEC stack.
1.79 deraadt 2249: <p>
1.73 deraadt 2250:
1.80 deraadt 2251: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 2252: <a href="http://www.nceexpo.com/">NCEE '98</a></strong>,
2253: Oct 9 - 10, 1998, Auburn, Maine, USA<br>
1.132 louis 2254: An extensive after-action report was sent to advocacy@openbsd.org. While
1.151 jsyn 2255: sales of shirts and CDROMs left much to be desired, we did have good
1.132 louis 2256: opportunities to further project visibility and highlight its strengths.
1.80 deraadt 2257: <p>
2258:
1.93 louis 2259: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2260: <a href="http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference">Reflections/Projections
1.216 jose 2261: 1998</a></strong>,
1.236 jose 2262: Oct 2 - 4, 1998, Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA<br>
1.132 louis 2263: Theo de Raadt spoke in a panel about Open/Free software with Eric
2264: Raymond and others.
1.93 louis 2265: <p>
2266:
1.216 jose 2267: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2268: <a href="http://opensource.oreilly.com/townmeet.html">O'Reilly and
2269: Associates Open Source Developer Days</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 2270: Aug 21, 1998, San Jose, California, USA<br>
1.132 louis 2271: OpenBSD team members were on-hand to discuss OpenBSD's role among the
1.413 grunk 2272: other free software projects available. They also sold some CDs and T-shirts.
1.96 deraadt 2273: <p>
2274:
1.236 jose 2275: <li><strong><a name="defcon98"></a>
2276: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-6.html">Defcon VI</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 2277: Jul 31 - Aug 2, 1998, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132 louis 2278: The router to the outside world was an OpenBSD 2.3 box. It was involved
2279: in a "capture the flag" competition in which an entire room of crackers
2280: attempted to break into it and machines running other operating systems.
2281: The OpenBSD box was not broken into.
2282: <br>
2283: Almost 100 OpenBSD 2.3 CDROMs were sold (we ran out again). The primates
1.236 jose 2284: at <a href="http://www.monkey.org">monkey.org</a> brought 2.3
1.413 grunk 2285: "wire-frame" OpenBSD T-shirts to the conference and sold almost
1.132 louis 2286: 200 of them. The proceeds from the sales were donated to the OpenBSD project.
1.96 deraadt 2287: <p>
1.94 deraadt 2288:
1.236 jose 2289: <li><strong><a href="http://www.blackhat.com">BlackHat Sessions</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 2290: Jul 29 - 30, 1998, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132 louis 2291: Theo de Raadt presented a talk entitled
2292: "Auditing software for security" about the OpenBSD security auditing
2293: team's process and the lessons the team learned. The talk concentrated
2294: on how our process fixes bugs -- not just holes -- since one never knows
2295: when 5 bugs will act together to become a hole.
1.99 deraadt 2296: <p>
2297:
1.236 jose 2298: <li><strong><a name="usenix-neworleans"></a>
2299: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/usenix98/index.html">Usenix Annual Technical Conference</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 2300: Jun 15 - 19, 1998, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA<br>
1.132 louis 2301: At Usenix 1998 there was a strong OpenBSD presence both in the Freenix
2302: and normal tracks. Theo did a general talk about what the OpenBSD
2303: project offers. Angelos held a panel about IPSEC (which is quite an
2304: OpenBSD topic since IPSEC development at that time was so much further
2305: ahead in OpenBSD than anywhere else).
2306: <br>
2307: The terminal room PCs ran OpenBSD 2.3. We sold many CDROMs. The
1.413 grunk 2308: first style of OpenBSD T-shirt also sold quite well.
1.101 wvdputte 2309: <p>
2310:
1.105 wvdputte 2311: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2312: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/sec98/index.html">Usenix Security</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 2313: Jan 26 - 29, 1998, San Antonio, Texas, USA<br>
1.132 louis 2314: At this conference, Theo presented an evening talk which basically
2315: turned into a list of fixed security problems and cautionary tales about
2316: subsystems in which future problems may be encountered
1.236 jose 2317: (<a href="papers/security98-slides.ps">slides available</a>).
1.105 wvdputte 2318: <br>
1.132 louis 2319: The terminal room PCs ran OpenBSD 2.2.
2320: <p>
1.236 jose 2321: </ul>
1.105 wvdputte 2322:
1.132 louis 2323: <h3>1997</h3>
1.107 deraadt 2324:
1.236 jose 2325: <ul>
1.113 deraadt 2326: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2327: <a href="http://www.hip97.nl">HIP</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 2328: Aug, 1997, Almere, Netherlands<br>
1.236 jose 2329: Niels held a
2330: <a href="http://www.physnet.uni-hamburg.de/provos/hip97-tcpip.html">talk</a>
1.132 louis 2331: about the problems of unencrypted TCP/IP connections, offering IPSEC as
2332: possible solution.
1.113 deraadt 2333: <p>
1.132 louis 2334:
1.236 jose 2335: <li><strong>HOPE</strong>,
1.216 jose 2336: Aug, 1997, New York, New York, USA<br>
1.166 miod 2337: The terminal room consisted primarily of DECstations running
1.236 jose 2338: OpenBSD 2.1. Once again, the <a href="http://www.l0pht.com">L0phT</a>
1.132 louis 2339: people had very good things to say about our security.
1.113 deraadt 2340: <p>
1.105 wvdputte 2341:
1.236 jose 2342: <li><strong><a name="defcon5"></a>
2343: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-5.html">Defcon V</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 2344: Jul 11 - 13, 1997, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132 louis 2345: At this conference, the OpenBSD team sold 100 or so 2.1 release CDROMs.
2346: <br>
2347: Since this is the primary security conference, many speakers said very
1.140 jufi 2348: good things about our stance on security... particularly people like
1.236 jose 2349: <a href="http://www.l0pht.com">the L0phT</a>.
1.118 deraadt 2350: <p>
2351:
1.125 deraadt 2352: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2353: <a
2354: href="http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/ana97/index.html">Usenix Annual Technical Conference</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 2355: Jan 6 - 10, 1997, Anaheim, California, USA.<br>
1.132 louis 2356: Theo de Raadt held a BOF ("Birds Of a Feather", ie. a meeting of people
2357: interested in the same thing) about OpenBSD.
1.236 jose 2358: </ul>
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