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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:
1.614 deraadt 46: <li><strong><a name="bsdcan2007"></a>
47: <a href="http://www.bsdcan.org/">BSDCan 2007</a></strong>,
48: May 16 - 19, 2007, Ottawa, Canada.<br>
1.668 jdixon 49: 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. Ray Lai will present a lecture on OpenCVS/OpenRCS and discuss why a secure CVS implementation is needed. Jason Dixon is giving the closing session of BSDCan 2007.
1.614 deraadt 50: <p>
51:
1.621 wvdputte 52: <li><strong><a name="linuxtag2007"></a>
53: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.org/2007/en/">LinuxTag 2007</a>
54: </strong>,
55: May 30 - Jun 2, 2007, Berlin, Germany<br>
56: There will be presentations by OpenBSD developers and an OpenBSD booth,
1.663 deraadt 57: 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 58: <p>
59:
1.637 martin 60: <li><strong><a name=LinuxwochenVienna2007></a>
61: <a href="http://www.linuxwochen.at/2007/Wien">Linuxwochen Vienna 2007</a>
62: </strong>,
63: May 31 - Jun 2, 2007, Vienna, Austria.<br>
64: There will be an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth run by Martin Reindl and the usual
65: suspects.
66: <p>
67:
1.641 ajacouto 68: <li><strong><a name=Slackathon2007></a>
69: <a href="http://www.slackathon.se/">Slackathon 2007</a>
70: </strong>,
71: June 16, 2007, Stockholm, Sweden.<br>
72: Yet another round of fund raising for OpenBSD/SSH and general *BSD meeting in
73: Stockholm.
74: <p>
1.640 wvdputte 75:
1.617 wvdputte 76: <li><strong><a name="summercamp2007"></a>
77: <a href="http://events.ccc.de/camp/2007">Chaos Communication Camp 2007</a>
78: </strong>,
79: Aug 8 - 12, 2007, Finowfurt, Germany<br>
80: This open air event wil have a big OpenBSD village with all the usual suspects.
81: This year you can actually fly in with your private jet as it's held at
82: the Luftfahrtmuseum Finowfurt.
83: <p>
1.614 deraadt 84:
1.620 wvdputte 85: <li><strong><a name="froscon2007"></a>
86: <a href="http://www.froscon.de">FrOSCon 2007</a></strong>,
87: Aug 25 - 26, 2007, Bonn/Rhein-Sieg, Germany<br>
88: There will be developers present as well as an OpenBSD booth,
89: run by the usual suspects.
90: <p>
91:
1.612 mk 92: <li><strong><a name="eurobsdcon2007"></a>
93: <a href="http://2007.eurobsdcon.org/">EuroBSDCon 2007</a></strong>,
1.621 wvdputte 94: Sep 14 - 15, 2007, Copenhagen, Denmark.<br>
1.652 mbalmer 95: Marc Balmer will give a talk "Support for Radio Clocks in OpenBSD".<br>
96: Pierre-Yves Ritschard will give a talk "Load Balancing in OpenBSD Using hoststated".<br>
1.660 claudio 97: Claudio Jeker will give a talk "Using OpenBSD as Routing Platform".<br>
1.656 mbalmer 98: Peter Hansteen will offer "A Packet Filter Tutorial" on the tutorial day.<br>
1.652 mbalmer 99: There will be an OpenBSD booth, run by the usual suspects.
1.621 wvdputte 100: <p>
101:
102: <li><strong><a name="t-dose2007"></a>
103: <a href="http://www.t-dose.org/">T-DOSE 2007</a></strong>,
104: Oct 13 - 14, 2007, Eindhoven, The Netherlands.<br>
105: Technical Dutch Open Source Event<br>
1.612 mk 106: There will be developers present as well as an OpenBSD booth,
107: run by the usual suspects.
108: <p>
109:
1.647 mbalmer 110: <li><strong><a name="bsdcontr2007"></a>
111: <a href="http://www.bsdcontr.org/">BSDConTR 2007</a></strong>
112: Oct 20 - 21, 2007, Goztepe Campus Marmara University, Istanbul, Turkey.<br>
113: First Turkish Conference on BSD Systems.
114: <p>
115:
1.664 michele 116: <li><strong><a name="opencon2007"></a>
117: <a href="http://www.opencon.org/">OpenCON 2007</a></strong>
118: Nov 30 - Dec 2, 2007, Venice, Italy.<br>
119: OpenCON is the only conference dedicated solely to OpenBSD.
120: This edition is composed by one "tutorial day" and two days of conference.
121: Three days entirely dedicated to OpenBSD with a lot of developers and users.
122: <p>
123:
1.588 espie 124: </ul>
125:
1.597 mbalmer 126: <hr>
127:
128: <h2>Past events:</h2>
129:
1.616 wvdputte 130: <h3>2007</h3>
131: <ul>
1.658 reyk 132:
1.669 ! fkr 133: <li><strong><a name="confidence2007"></a>
! 134: <a href="http://2007.confidence.org.pl/">Confidence 2007</a></strong>,
! 135: May 12 - 13, 2007, Krakow, Poland.<br>
! 136: Felix, Henning and Wim gave presentations and ran the OpenBSD booth.
! 137: <p>
! 138:
1.666 michele 139: <li><strong><a name="obsdm2"></a>
140: <a href="http://www.openbeer.it/?open=obsdm2">OpenBSD Meeting V.2</a></strong>
141: May 12, 2007, Verona, Italy.<br>
142: Another event organized by the OpenBEER team with italian OpenBSD related talks.
143: Michele presented a talk about the OpenBSD network stack.
144: <p>
145:
146: <li><strong><a name="nluug2007"></a>
147: <a href="http://www.nluug.nl/events/vj07/index.html">NLUUG Voorjaarsconferentie
148: 2007</a></strong>,
149: May 10, 2007, Ede, Netherlands<br>
150: There was a
151: <a href="http://www.nluug.nl/events/vj07/abstracts/ab.html?id=2">presentation</a>
152: by Anil Madhavapeddy and an OpenBSD booth, run by the usual
153: suspects.
154: <p>
155:
1.665 mbalmer 156: <li><strong><a name="coimbra2007"></a>
157: <a href="http://www.openbsd-pt.com/eventos/coimbra07/index-en.html">Portuguese OpenBSD Usergroup Meeting</a></strong>,
158: May 5 - 6, 2007, Coimbra, Portugal.<br>
159: 7th Meeting of the Portuguese OpenBSD Usergroup.<br>
160: Marc Balmer gave a talk "Ensuring Quality in OpenBSD Without a Formal Process".<br>
161: Rui Reis gave a presentation "The Honeynet.PT project".<br>
1.667 pedro 162: Michael Shalayeff gave a talk "Asynchronous I/O".<br>
163: Also present was Pedro Martelletto.
1.665 mbalmer 164: <p>
165:
1.658 reyk 166: <li><strong><a name=decix6th></a>
167: <a href="http://www.de-cix.org/">DE-CIX 6th Technical Meeting</a></strong>,
168: Apr 19, 2007, Schloss Kransberg, near Usingen, Germany.<br>
169: Henning Brauer and Reyk Flöter talked at the 6th technical
170: meeting of the Deutsche Commercial Internet Exchange (DE-CIX).
171: Henning gave an update on OpenBGPD and Reyk about the latest
172: network-related changes since OpenBSD 4.1. They also talked about
173: the status of test OpenBGPD route server running at the DE-CIX.
174: <p>
175:
1.651 fkr 176: <li><strong><a name="litol07"></a>
177: <a href="http://www.lit-ol.de/">2. Linux-Informationstag Oldenburg</a></strong>,
178: Apr 14 - 15, 2007, Oldenburg, Germany.<br>
179: Small Open-Source event. Of course there was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth run by
1.659 fkr 180: Bernd, Felix and Tobias Stoeckmann. Felix gave a talk about the current state
181: of OpenBSD development titled <a href="papers/litol07/">OpenBSD - Past, Present and Future</a>.
1.651 fkr 182: <p>
1.650 deraadt 183:
184: <li><strong><a name="fisl8"></a>
185: <a href="http://fisl.softwarelivre.org/8.0/www/?q=en">fisl8.0</a></strong>,
186: Apr 12-14, 2007, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil.<br>
187: This was a fairly large conference in South America. Theo de Raadt
188: presented a talk about <a href="papers/brhard2007/">Hardware Documentation</a>.
189: <p>
190:
1.645 ray 191: <li><strong><a name="nycbug2007-cvs"></a>
192: <a href="http://nycbug.org/">NYC*BUG April 2007</a></strong>,
193: Apr 4, 2007, NYC, USA.<br>
194: Ray Lai (ray@) gave a
195: <a href="http://www.nycbug.org/index.php?NAV=Home;SUBM=10104">talk</a>
196: on OpenCVS.
1.648 ray 197: <a href="papers/nycbug07-cvs/">Slides</a> and
198: <a href="http://www.fetissov.org/public/nycbug/nycbug-04-04-07.mp3">audio</a>
199: are available.
1.645 ray 200: <p>
201:
1.638 grunk 202: <li><strong><a name="elite2007"></a>
203: <a href="http://www.erlug.de/?q=node/323">5. Erlanger Linuxtage</a></strong>,
204: Mar 24 - 25, 2007, Erlangen, Germany.<br>
205: There was an OpenBSD/OpenSSH booth, run by Alexander von Gernler (grunk@).
206: He also gave a talk called
1.639 grunk 207: <a href="papers/elite2007/elite2007-openbsd.pdf">
1.638 grunk 208: "Sichere Systeme mit OpenBSD" (german)</a>.
209: <p>
210:
1.635 tom 211: <li><strong><a name="ukuug2007"></a>
212: <a href="http://www.ukuug.org/events/spring2007/">UKUUG Spring 2007 Conference</a></strong>,
213: Mar 19 - 21, 2007, Manchester, United Kingdom<br>
214: Tom Cosgrove gave a presentation about "Third-Party Applications on OpenBSD"
215: at the annual spring meeting of the
216: <a href="http://www.ukuug.org/">UK's Unix and Open Systems User Group</a>.
217: <p>
218:
1.627 mcbride 219: <li><strong><a name="asiabsdcon2007"></a>
220: <a href="http://www.asiabsdcon.org/">AsiaBSDCon 2007</a></strong>,
221: Mar 8 - 11, 2007, Tokyo, Japan.<br>
1.631 mbalmer 222: Marc Balmer presented a paper <a href="papers/radio-clocks-asiabsdcon07.pdf">Supporting Radio Clocks in OpenBSD</a>. Presentation
223: <a href="papers/asiabsdcon07-radioclocks/index.html">slides</a> are also
224: available.<br>
1.627 mcbride 225: 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 226: Mathieu Sauve-Frankel gave a talk <a href="papers/asiabsdcon07-ipsec/index.html">Recent Improvements in OpenBSD's IPSec Support</a>.<br>
227: Damien Miller presented a paper <a href="papers/openssh-measures-asiabsdcon2007.pdf">Security measures in OpenSSH</a>. Presentation
1.628 djm 228: <a href="papers/openssh-measures-asiabsdcon2007-slides.pdf">slides</a> are
229: also available.<br>
1.627 mcbride 230: 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".
231: <p>
232:
1.622 fkr 233: <li><strong><a name="linuxforum2007"></a>
234: <a href="http://www.linuxforum.dk/2007/">LinuxForum 2007</a></strong>,
235: Mar 2 - 3, 2007, Copenhagen, Denmark.<br>
1.623 wvdputte 236: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth run by Wim, Bernd and Michael in the
1.633 tom 237: <a href="http://img.ba-net.org/LinuxForum2007/">best of circumstances</a>.
1.622 fkr 238: Felix gave a talk titled
239: <a href="papers/linuxforum07/index.html">OpenBSD - Past, Present and Future</a>.
240: <p>
241:
1.619 wvdputte 242: <li><strong><a name=Brussels2007></a>
243: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/2007/">FOSDEM Brussels 2007</a></strong>,
244: Feb 24 - 25, 2007, Brussels, Belgium.<br>
245: There was an an OpenBSD/OpenSSH booth with Matthieu, Marc, Mickey, Saad
246: and Wim. On Saturday we had our traditional BSD dinner.<br>
247: Matthieu gave a <a href="papers/fosdem07-xenocara.pdf">
248: talk on Xenocara</a> in the X.Org devroom.
249: <p>
1.616 wvdputte 250:
251: <li><strong><a name="kiberpipa2007"></a>
252: <a href="http://pot.kiberpipa.org">Kiberpipa open sessions</a></strong>,
253: February 20, 2007, Ljubljana, Slovenia.<br>
254: On that edition of weekly "Open sessions" meetings
255: <a href="http://www.kerberos.si">Mitja Muzenic</a> gave a
256: <a href="http://pot.kiberpipa.org/?p=39">talk</a> on OpenBSD.
1.619 wvdputte 257: <a href="http://www.kerberos.si/papers/Kiberpipa07/">Slides</a> (in Slovenian),
258: <a href="http://video.kiberpipa.org/media/POT_OpenBSD">video</a> (in Slovenian),
1.616 wvdputte 259: and <a href="http://gallery.kerberos.si/kiberpipa07/">photos</a> are available.
260: <p>
261:
262: </ul>
263:
1.445 martin 264: <h3>2006</h3>
1.236 jose 265: <ul>
1.537 deraadt 266:
1.588 espie 267: <li><strong><a name="23c3"></a>
1.577 mbalmer 268: <a href="https://events.ccc.de/congress/2006/">23C3 Chaos Communication Congress in
269: Berlin</a></strong>,
270: December 27 - 30, 2006, Berlin, Germany.<br>
1.597 mbalmer 271: Who can you trust? Well, us. OpenBSD was there, of course, for our annual
1.595 reyk 272: closing event. fkr, grunk, jsg, mbalmer, mickey, sturm, uwe, martin,
1.598 bernd 273: henning, moritz, bernd and wvdputte were there
1.597 mbalmer 274: there to chat with attendees and discuss OpenBSD stuff. It was - as usual -
275: a great end-of-the-year event. See you in Berlin again end of 2007.
1.577 mbalmer 276: <p>
277:
1.594 mbalmer 278: <li><strong><a name="moscow2006"></a>
279: <a href="https://kd85.com/">Moscow OpenBSD user meeting</a></strong>,
280: December 8 - 9, 2006, Moscow, Russia.<br>
1.633 tom 281: For details, please email <a href="mailto:grange@opensd.org">Grange</a>
1.594 mbalmer 282: <p>
283:
1.515 tom 284: <li><strong><a name="opencon2006"></a>
285: <a href="http://www.opencon.org/">OpenCON 2006</a></strong>,
1.569 deraadt 286: 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 287: OpenCON is the only conference dedicated solely to OpenBSD.
1.587 deraadt 288: 135 people were registered for the event, but since it was a completely open event is likely that
289: even more people just walked in.
1.577 mbalmer 290: Most talks were by OpenBSD developers, but there was also an impressive
1.568 mbalmer 291: number of our developers just attending the conference. Talks by OpenBSD
1.577 mbalmer 292: developers were:
1.568 mbalmer 293: <p>
1.535 deraadt 294: <ul>
1.581 claudio 295: <li>Claudio Jeker: <a href="papers/opencon06-network/index.html">
296: Network stack changes in OpenBSD</a>
1.580 deraadt 297: <li>Marc Balmer: <a href="papers/opencon06-nmea/index.html">
298: Support for Time Signal Station Receivers and GPS in OpenBSD</a>
1.601 fkr 299: <li>Felix Kronlage: <a href="papers/opencon06-umts/index.html">Redundancy or mobile deployment with 3G technology</a>
1.584 jsg 300: <li>Jonathan Gray: <a href="papers/opencon06-drivers/index.html">
301: Driver architecture and implementation in OpenBSD</a>
1.543 mbalmer 302: <li>Gordon Klok: <i>Processor Power Management</i>
1.596 dlg 303: <li>David Gwynne: <a href="papers/opencon06-culture.pdf">The OpenBSD
304: Culture</a> and he also filled in for Marco's
305: <a href="papers/opencon06-bio.pdf">Bio and Sensors in OpenBSD</a> talk.
1.582 michele 306: <li>Michele Marchetto: <a href="papers/opencon06-ripd/index.html">
307: OpenRIPD</a>
1.574 mbalmer 308: <li>Reyk Floeter: <i>IPsec demystified</i>
1.580 deraadt 309: <li>Theo de Raadt: <a href="papers/opencon06-docs">
310: Why hardware documentation matters so much and why it is so hard to get</a>
1.535 deraadt 311: </ul>
1.502 mbalmer 312: <p>
1.577 mbalmer 313: Also present were jcs, krw, mglocker, robert, wvdputte, martin, grunk,
314: dhartmei, aanriot, sturm, and bernd. Of course there was an OpenBSD booth
315: run by the usual suspects and you could buy our CD-ROMS, the audio CD and other
1.568 mbalmer 316: stuff.
317: <p>
1.502 mbalmer 318:
1.575 reyk 319: <li><strong><a name=opensourcetag2006></a>
320: <a href="http://www.opensourcetag.de/2006/">OpenSourceTag 2006</a></strong>,
321: Nov 30, 2006, Hannover, Germany.<br>
322: Reyk gave a <a href="http://www.opensourcetag.de/2006/agenda/">talk</a> about OpenBSD
323: as a reference project for secure software.
324: <p>
325:
1.583 henning 326: <li><strong><a name=epf2006></a>
327: <a href="http://www.peering-forum.eu/2006/">European Peering Forum 2006</a></strong>,
328: Nov 29 - 30, 2006, Frankfurt, Germany.<br>
329: The European Peering Forum in Frankfurt was hosted by the 3 big european
330: peering points DE-CIX, AMSIX and LINX, bringing network operators together.
331: Henning was talking about OpenBGPD,
332: <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/epf2006/">slides</a> are available.
333: <p>
334:
1.565 krw 335: <li><strong><a name=conisli2006></a>
336: <a href="http://conisli.org/">CONISLI 2006</a></strong>,
337: Nov 3 - 5, 2006, São Paulo, Brazil<br>
338: 4th edition of São Paulo's International Free Software Congress.
1.567 pedro 339: Ken Westerback and Pedro Martelletto gave a talk
340: (<a href="http://www2.par.inf.puc-rio.br/~pedro/conisli-html/">slides</a>).
1.565 krw 341: <p>
342:
1.559 jason 343: <li><strong><a name=nycbsdcon2006></a>
344: <a href="http://nycbsdcon.org/">NYCBSDCon 2006</a></strong>,
345: Oct 28 - 29, 2006, New York City, USA<br>
346: NYCBSDCon is the main conference on the East Coast for the
347: BSD community to get together to share and gain knowledge,
1.562 jason 348: to network with like minded people. Several developers
1.563 jason 349: spoke, more were on hand:
1.559 jason 350: <ul>
351: <li>Marco Peereboom: <a href="papers/bio.pdf">bio and sensors in OpenBSD</a>
1.563 jason 352: [<a href="http://www.fetissov.org/public/nycbsdcon06/1.6.mp3">audio</a>]
1.605 jason 353: <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 354: <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>]
355: <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 356: <li>Ray Lai: <i>First time booth bunny</i>
357: </ul>
358: <p>
359:
1.556 fgsch 360: <li><strong><a name=linuxworlduk2006></a>
361: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.co.uk/">LinuxWorld Expo UK 2006</a></strong>,
362: Oct 25 - 26, 2006, Olympia, London, UK.<br>
1.558 wvdputte 363: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Wim, Tom, Peter, Federico and
364: Pedro La Peu.
1.556 fgsch 365: <p>
366:
1.589 aanriot 367: <li><strong><a name=cuug2006oct></a>
368: <a href="http://www.cuug.ab.ca/">Calgary Unix Users Group</a></strong>,
369: Oct 24, 2006, downtown Library, basement meeting room, Calgary, Alberta.<br>
370: Theo de Raadt gave a talk regarding the increasing demand for
371: vendors to open up their documentation.
372: <p>
373:
1.553 grunk 374: <li><strong><a name="systems2006"></a>
375: <a href="http://www.systems.de/">Systems</a></strong>,
376: Oct 23 - 27, 2006, Munich, Germany <br>
377: The *BSD projects were located at A3.542.
378: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
379: Wilhelm Bühler, DaN, Nikolay Sturm, Marco Pfatschbacher,
380: and some other volunteers.
381: <p>
382:
1.550 henning 383: <li><strong><a name=hacklu2006></a>
384: <a href="http://www.hack.lu/">hack.lu 2006</a></strong>,
385: Oct 19 - 21, 2006, Luxembourg/Kirchberg.<br>
386: Henning Brauer gave a well received talk about OpenBGPD.
387: <p>
388:
1.547 aanriot 389: <li><strong><a name=aldil2006></a>
390: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/">Les Journées Du Logiciel Libre
391: 2006</a></strong>,
392: Oct 13 - 14, 2006, Lyon, France.<br>
393: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Miod Vallat and Alexandre
394: Anriot with the help of Thierry Thomas and Damien Bergamini.
395: <p>
396:
1.546 mcbride 397: <li><strong><a name=auug2006></a>
398: <a href="http://new.auug.org.au/">AUUG 2006</a></strong>,
399: Oct 10 - 13, 2006, Melbourne, Australia.<br>
400: Ryan Mcbride presented a full-day tutorial entitled
401: "Advanced PF Rulesets" as well as two additional talks
402: <a href="papers/auug2006/pf_evolution/">PF evolution</a>
403: and
404: <a href="papers/auug2006/network_randomness/">Network stack randomness in OpenBSD</a>.
405: <p>
406:
1.532 wvdputte 407: <li><strong><a name=eurooscon2006></a>
408: <a href="http://conferences.oreillynet.com/euos2006/">O'Reilly Euro OSCON 2006
409: </a></strong>,
410: Sep 20, 2006, Brussels, Belgium.<br>
411: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth.
412: <p>
413:
1.528 wvdputte 414: <li><strong><a name=come2linux2006></a>
415: <a href="http://www.come2linux.org/psp/">Come 2 Linux 2006</a></strong>,
416: Sep 9 - 10, 2006, Duisburg-Essen, Germany.<br>
417: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth.
418: <p>
419:
1.525 wvdputte 420: <li><strong><a name=ChaosdaysDarmstadt2006></a>
421: <a href="http://mrmcd101b.metarheinmain.de/index.html">mrmcd101b - MetaRheinMainChaosDays Darmstadt 2006</a>
422: </strong>,
423: Sep 1 - 3, 2006, Darmstadt, Germany.<br>
424: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth.
425: <p>
426:
1.521 fkr 427: <li><strong><a name=LinuxWorldExpoSF2006></a>
428: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/live/12/events/12SFO06A/conference/tracksessions/Security/QMONYA04ROFR">LinuxWorld Expo San Francisco 2006</a>
429: </strong>,
430: Aug 16, 2006, San Francisco, United States.<br>
431: Ted Unangst spoke about OpenBSD as part of a security panel.
432: <p>
433:
1.518 tedu 434: <li><strong><a name=coimbra2006></a>
435: <a href="http://www.openbsd-pt.com/eventos/coimbra06/">Portuguese OpenBSD Usergroup Meeting</a></strong>,
436: Jul 22 - 23, 2006, Coimbra, Portugal.<br>
437: 6th Meeting of the Portuguese OpenBSD Usergroup. Marc Balmer gave a talk
438: "NMEA 0183 and Time Signal Station Receiver Support in OpenBSD".
439: <p>
440:
441: <li><strong><a name=akqit2006></a>
442: <a href="http://www.akqit.ch/w3/DE/actual.html">Arbeitskreis für Qualität in der Informationstechnologie (Working Group for Quality in IT)</a></strong>,
443: Jul 20, 2006, University of Basel, Computer Science Department, Room 205, Bernoullistr. 16, 17:30 - 18:30<br>
1.590 mbalmer 444: Marc Balmer gave a talk in german "<a href="papers/akqit06/index.html">Ensuring
445: Quality in the Development of the Free Operating System OpenBSD</a>".
1.518 tedu 446: <p>
1.475 deraadt 447:
1.510 wvdputte 448: <li><strong><a name="lsm2006"></a>
449: <a href="http://www.rmll.info">Libre Software Meeting 2006</a></strong>,
450: Jul 4 - 8, 2006, Vandoeuvre-les-nancy, France.<br>
451: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Wim, Alexandre, Matthieu and
452: Serge Basterot.
453: <p>
454:
1.508 wvdputte 455: <li><strong><a name=FrOSCon></a>
456: <a href="http://www.froscon.de/">
457: FrOSCon 2006 - Free and Open Source Software Conference</a></strong>,
458: Jun 24 - 25, 2006, Bonn/Rhein-Sieg, Germany.<br>
1.518 tedu 459: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth run by Wim, Waldemar, Manuel and
1.508 wvdputte 460: Tim Kornau.
461: <p>
462:
1.507 mbalmer 463: <li><strong><a name=LinuxwochenLinz2006></a>
464: <a href="http://www.linuxwochen.at/2006/Linz">Linuxwochen Linz 2006</a>
465: </strong>,
466: June 15, 2006, Linz, Austria.<br>
467: There was an an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth run by Wim and the usual suspects.
468: <p>
469:
1.506 deraadt 470: <li><strong><a name=lugverona2006></a>
1.526 steven 471: <a href="http://www.di.univr.it/dol/main?ent=iniziativa&id=857&lang=it">LUGVR@UNIVR</a></strong>
1.506 deraadt 472: Jun 9, 2006, Verona University, Borgo Roma, Italy.<br>
473: Florin Iamandi of <a href="https://www.verona.linux.it">LUG Verona</a>
474: gave a talk
475: (<a href="http://todome.net/docs/obsd_carp/en">English</a> and
476: <a href="http://todome.net/docs/obsd_carp/it">Italian</a>)
477: and live demonstration on redundant failover
478: OpenBSD firewalls. He explained why OpenBSD solves many problems that
479: had previously been the dominion of expensive commercial solutions.
480: Attendees learned about OpenBSD's hard stance and successful fight against
481: bad licences and uncooperating vendors and manufacturers.
482: <p>
483:
1.502 mbalmer 484: <li><strong><a name=Slackathon2006></a>
485: <a href="http://slackathon2006.unix.se">Slackathon 2006</a>
486: </strong>
487: Jun 3, 2006, Stockholm, Sweden.<br>
488: A fundraiser for OpenBSD/SSH held at the Stockholm University. Free
1.505 ian 489: entrance and all donations went straight to the project. Several
1.502 mbalmer 490: developers were talking about OpenBSD here, as well as some hands-on
491: workshops took place with both old and new hardware.
492: <p>
493:
1.500 deraadt 494: <li><strong><a name=cuug2006></a>
495: <a href="http://www.cuug.ab.ca/">Calgary Unix Users Group</a></strong>,
496: Jun 1, 2006, SAIT Campus, Calgary, Alberta.<br>
1.504 miod 497: Bob Beck and Reyk Floeter discussed recent and future networking
498: changes in OpenBSD. Some other OpenBSD developers attended to provide
1.500 deraadt 499: international colour, and there were tshirts, CDs, and posters on hand.
500: CUUG made a substantial contribution to OpenBSD at this event as well.
501: <p>
502:
1.589 aanriot 503: <li><strong><a name=LinuxwochenVienna2006></a>
504: <a href="http://www.linuxwochen.at/2006/Wien">Linuxwochen Vienna 2006</a>
505: </strong>,
506: May 31 - Jun 2, 2006, Vienna, Austria.<br>
507: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth run by Wim and the usual suspects.
508: <p>
509:
1.585 aanriot 510: <li><strong><a name=plug060519></a>
1.586 aanriot 511: <a href="http://www.plugfr.org/">Provence Linux User Group</a></strong>
512: May 19, 2006, Marseille, France.<br>
1.585 aanriot 513: Alexandre Anriot spoke about the deployment of wireless networks with
1.586 aanriot 514: OpenBSD during a meeting of the PLUG.
1.585 aanriot 515: <p>
516:
1.491 bernd 517: <li><strong><a name="SANE2006"></a>
518: <a href="http://www.sane.nl/sane2006/">SANE 2006</a></strong>,
519: May 15 - 19, 2006, Delft, The Netherlands.<br>
520: Peter N. M. Hansteen gave a
521: <a href="http://www.sane.nl/sane2006/program/abstract.php?eventid=35">
522: PF tutorial</a>.
523: <p>
524:
1.490 reyk 525: <li><strong><a name=bsdcan2006></a> <a
526: href="http://www.bsdcan.org/2006/">BSDCan 2006</a></strong>,
527: May 12 - 13, 2006, Ottawa, Canada.<br>
528: David Gwynne gave a talk about hardware monitoring with bio and
529: sensors in OpenBSD (<a href="papers/bsdcan06-biosensors.pdf">slides</a>)
530: and Reyk Flöter talked about the latest
531: wireless support and the incredible plans for the future
532: (<a href="papers/bsdcan06-wlan/index.html">slides</a>), and
533: Peter Hansteen gave a PF tutorial. A number of OpenBSD hackers
534: attended the conference as well, like Bob Beck and Mathieu Sauve-Frankel.
535: <p>
536:
1.489 bernd 537: <li><strong><a name="linuxdays2006"></a>
538: <a href="http://www.linuxdays.ch">Linuxdays 2006</a></strong>,
539: May 8 - 12, 2006, Geneva, Switzerland.<br>
540: Julien Mabillard, a long-time Geneva OpenBSD user, gave a talk to present
541: the overall system and its great features.
542: <p>
543:
1.592 claudio 544: <li><strong><a name="idepes2006"></a>
1.589 aanriot 545: <a href="http://www.idepes.org.br/openbsd/">IDEPES 2006</a></strong>,
546: May 6, 2006, São Paulo, Brazil.<br>
547: First event in Brazil totally dedicated to OpenBSD.
548: <p>
549:
1.592 claudio 550: <li><strong><a name="LinuxTag2006"></a>
1.484 mbalmer 551: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.org/2006/">LinuxTag 2006</a></strong>,
552: May 3 - 6, 2006, Wiesbaden, Germany.<br>
553: OpenBSD was very present at this years Linuxtag:
554: <ul>
555: <li>On friday morning, Claudio and Marc moderated a panel discussion
556: "BLOBS sind das Krebsgeschwür freier Software" (Blobs are the
1.485 mbalmer 557: cancer of free software) that was well attended. Unfortunately no one
1.484 mbalmer 558: in favour of Blobs attended, although we asked almost all Linux
559: distributions...
560: <li>After lunch, Marc Balmer started the afternoon with a talk "OpenBSD
561: as a Strategic Platform for the Basle Public Schools", outlining how and
1.485 mbalmer 562: why the Basle Public school system uses OpenBSD for most of its
1.484 mbalmer 563: infrastructure.
1.592 claudio 564: <li>The next OpenBSD specific talk was by Claudio Jeker,
565: <a href="papers/linuxtag06-network/">"Routing with OpenBSD using
566: OpenOSPFD and OpenBGPD"</a> where he showed various routing setups and
567: how full redundancy can be achieved.
568: [<a href="papers/linuxtag06-network.pdf">paper</a>]
1.484 mbalmer 569: <li>Later, Marc Balmer gave a talk "Decoding Time Signal Stations using
570: OpenBSD" and explained the recent addition of timedelta sensors and the
571: first implementation of such, udcf(4).
572: </ul>
573: <br>
574: All talks where very well received and OpenBSD filled four hours of the
1.485 mbalmer 575: Linuxtag program. We thank Wilhelm Bühler, chair of the BSD-Track
1.484 mbalmer 576: at Linuxtag, for the superb and professional organization.
577: <br>
578: Of course, there was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth run by Wim and the
579: usual suspects.
580: <p>
581:
1.486 mickey 582: <li><strong><a name=NYCBUG2006-05></a>
583: <a href="http://nycbug.org/index.php?NAV=Home&SUBM=83">NYCBUG Monthly meeting</a></strong>,
584: May 3, 2006, NYC, USA.<br>
585: Mickey gave a talk
1.564 jason 586: (<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 587: about PAE work for OpenBSD/i386.<br>
588: Mischa Diehm gave a talk about implementing VPN using OpenBSD.
589: <p>
590:
1.484 mbalmer 591: <li><strong><a name=tokyo2006></a>
592: <a href="http://www.tokyopc.org/index.php/weblog/">Tokyo PC Users Group</a></strong>,
593: May 2, 2006, Tokyo.<br>
594: Theo presented his <a href="papers/ven05-deraadt">"Exploit Mitigation Techniques"</a>
595: talk. There is a
596: <a href="http://www.tokyopc.org/faxmessage/index.html#about">map to the location</a>.
597: <p>
598:
1.478 mbalmer 599: <li><strong><a name=SambaEXPerience2006></a>
600: <a href="http://www.sambaxp.org/">Samba eXPerience 2006</a></strong>,
601: April 24 - 26, 2006, Göttingen, Germany.<br>
602: Marc Balmer gave a talk "Providing Fully Automated Fileserver Services
603: for Public Schools using LDAP Integrated SAMBA on OpenBSD" that was very
604: well received.
605: <br>
606: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth run by Wim and Marc and Felix Kronlage
607: and we could draw a lot of attention.
608: <p>
609:
1.479 deraadt 610: <li><strong><a name=DORSCLUC2006></a>
611: <a href="http://www.open.hr/dc2006/"> DORS / CLUC 2006</a></strong>,
612: April 19-21, 2006, Zagreb, Croatia.<br>
613: <a href="http://www.kerberos.si">Mitja Muzenic</a> gave a
1.480 mbalmer 614: <a href="http://www.kerberos.si/papers/DORS06/index.html">
615: "Introduction to OpenBSD"</a> talk. Conference
616: <a href="http://www.open.hr/dc2006/program.php">program</a> (in croatian
1.479 deraadt 617: only).
618: <p>
619:
1.475 deraadt 620: <li><strong><a name=linuxworld2006></a>
621: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/live/12/events/12BOS06A/">
622: LinuxWorld/OpenSolutions World 2006</a></strong>,
623: April 3 - 6, 2006, Boston, USA.<br>
624: Jason Dixon presented
625: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/live/12/events/12BOS06A/conference/tracksessions/Security/QMONYA04Q1DK">Secure Network Architectures with OpenBSD</a>,
626: a talk on OpenBSD that outlines the various technologies that make
627: it a leader of secure networking platforms.
628: <br>
629: He spent time around the exposition BSD booth with giveaways
630: and early release OpenBSD 3.9 CDs.
631: <p>
632:
633: <li><strong><a name=cansecwest06></a>
634: <a href="http://www.cansecwest.com">Cansecwest/core06</a></strong>,
635: April 3 - 7, 2006, Vancouver.<br>
636: A rather interesting OpenBSD-related talk happened at this event, regarding
637: using SMI interrupts to break out of X into kernel mode.
638: <br>
639: Some OpenBSD developers attended. Some early OpenBSD 3.9 items went
640: on sale.
641: <p>
642:
1.469 tom 643: <li><strong><a name=ukuug2006></a>
644: <a href="http://www.ukuug.org/events/spring2006/">UKUUG Spring Conference 2006</a></strong>,
645: Mar 22 - 23, 2006, Durham, United Kingdom<br>
646: Reyk Flöter gave a talk about the latest wireless support in
647: OpenBSD at the annual spring meeting of the
648: <a href="http://www.ukuug.org/">UK's Unix and Open Systems User Group</a>.
649: Peter N. M. Hansteen
650: gave a PF tutorial, Tom Cosgrove presented "Exploit
651: Mitigation Techniques" and Constantine Murenin gave a
652: presentation on "Hardware temperature monitoring device
653: drivers for OpenBSD".
654: These were all part of a new, well-attended, BSD stream at the event.
655: <p>
656:
1.459 henning 657: <li><strong><a name=Copenhagen2006></a>
658: <a href="http://www.linuxforum.dk/2006/en/">LinuxForum 2006</a></strong>,
659: Mar 3 - 4, 2006, Copenhagen, Denmark<br>
660: Wim gave Felix Kronlage's talk about OpenBSD Mobile Use (wifi, UMTS,
661: GPRS, phones and the like) with some demo setups.
662: Henning Brauer gave a very well received talk about OpenBGPD,
663: <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/linuxforum2006/">slides</a> are available.
664: <p>
665:
1.457 wvdputte 666: <li><strong><a name=Brussels2006></a>
667: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/2006/">FOSDEM Brussels 2006</a></strong>,
668: Feb 25 - 26, 2006, Brussels, Belgium.<br>
669: An OpenBSD/OpenSSH booth was present, run by the usual gang of suspects:
1.458 xsa 670: Alexandre, Dimitar, Matthieu, Mbalmer, Nikolay, Otto, Reyk, Saad, Thierry, Uwe, Wim, and
1.457 wvdputte 671: Xsa. Reyk gave a talk about Wifi with OpenBSD and there was our traditional
672: BSD dinner. More details and
673: <a href="http://saad.docisland.org/pictures/fosdem2006/index.html">pictures</a>
1.458 xsa 674: on <a href="http://saad.docisland.org/blog/files/archive-12.html#unique-entry-id-40">Saad's blog</a>.
1.457 wvdputte 675: <p>
676:
677: <li><strong><a name=Vegas2006></a>
678: <a href="http://kd85.com/vegas2006.html">Merciful briefings 2006</a></strong>,
679: Feb 15, 2006, Las Vegas, USA - Feb 17, 2006, San Diego, USA - Feb 18, 2006, Phoenix, USA.<br>
680: While traveling the US, Wim met with a bunch of OpenBSD users in Las Vegas,
681: San Diego and Phoenix. With many thanks to the members of PhxBUG - Phoenix BSD
682: User Group, more specificly Darrin Chandler, for organising the little
683: details and Jacob for road trip directions.
684: <p>
1.455 grunk 685:
1.456 henning 686: <li><strong><a name=nanog36></a>
687: <a href="http://www.nanog.org/">NANOG 36</a></strong>,
688: Feb 12 - 15, 2006, Dallas, USA.<br>
689: Henning Brauer and Bernhard Kroenung of DE-CIX talked about OpenBGPD and
690: OpenBGPD at DE-CIX, <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/nanog36/">slides</a>
691: are available. Henning talked again at the tools BOF
692: (<a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/nanog36-bof/">slides</a>).
693: Both talks were very well received by the audience.
694: Kenjiro Cho was there too, talking about IPv6 issues.
695: <p>
696:
1.455 grunk 697: <li><strong><a name="Paris2006"></a>
698: <a href="http://www.solutionslinux.fr/fr/index.php">Solutions Linux 2006</a>
699: </strong>,
700: Jan 31 - Feb 2, 2006, Paris, France.<br>
701: There was an OpenBSD booth run by Marc Espie, Miod Vallat, Saad Kadhi and
702: Wim with help from Guillaume Arcas and Christophe Plasschaert.
703: <p>
704: </ul>
705:
1.296 mcbride 706: <h3>2005</h3>
1.240 espie 707:
708: <ul>
1.337 deraadt 709:
1.445 martin 710: <li><strong><a name=22c3></a>
711: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/2005/">22C3 Chaos Communication Congress in
712: Berlin</a></strong>,
713: December 27 - 30, 2005, Berlin, Germany.<br>
714: Many OpenBSD developers and users met for a Xmas break in a unique setting.
715: <p>
716:
1.585 aanriot 717: <li><strong><a name=plug051216></a>
1.586 aanriot 718: <a href="http://www.plugfr.org/">Provence Linux User Group</a></strong>
719: December 16, 2005, Marseille, France.<br>
720: Alexandre Anriot spoke about OpenSSH during a meeting of the PLUG.
1.585 aanriot 721: <p>
722:
1.435 matthieu 723: <li><strong><a name=eurobsdcon2005></a>
724: <a href="http://2005.eurobsdcon.org/">EuroBSDCon 2005</a></strong>,
725: Nov 25 - 27, 2005, Basel, Switzerland.<br>
726: The 4th edition of the european conference for BSD systems has been a
727: great success. More than 225 people from 27 countries attended the
1.438 deraadt 728: event.
1.444 grunk 729: The program included a
730: <a href="http://www.eurobsdcon.org/tutorials-reyk.php">tutorial by Reyk about
1.437 niallo 731: OpenBSD-based Wireless Networks</a> and the following talks
732: <ul>
1.438 deraadt 733: <li>Henning Brauer with Wilhelm Bühler "Signal Handlers"
734: <li>Ryan McBride "Network Stack Randomness"
1.439 matthieu 735: <li><a href="papers/eurobsd2005/herrb-hopf.pdf">Matthieu Herrb and Matthias Hopf "New Evolutions in the X Window System"</a>
1.440 claudio 736: <li><a href="papers/eurobsd2005/claudio/">Claudio Jeker "The Design and Implementation of OpenOSPFD"</a>
1.439 matthieu 737: <li><a href="papers/eurobsd2005/niallo-uwe/">Niall O'Higgins & Uwe Stuehler "Embedded OpenBSD"</a>
1.443 deraadt 738: <li><a href="papers/eurobsd2005/tedu-rthreads.pdf">Ted Unangst "rthreads: A New Thread Implementation for OpenBSD"</a>
1.437 niallo 739: </ul>
1.438 deraadt 740: <p>
1.435 matthieu 741: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
742: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
743: <p>
744:
1.434 bernd 745: <li><strong><a name=linuxworldexpogermany2005></a>
746: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.de/">Linux World Expo Germany</a></strong>,
747: Nov 15 - 17, 2005, Frankfurt, Germany.<br>
748: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
749: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a> and Bernd.
750: <p>
751:
1.441 niallo 752: <li><strong><a name="pacsec05"></a>
753: <a href="http://www.pacsec.jp/">PacSec/core 05 conference</a></strong>,
754: Nov 15 - 16, 2005, Tokyo, Japan.<br>
755: Sean Comeau presented a talk called
756: <a href="http://www.openbsd-support.com/jp/en/htm/mgp/pacsec05/index.html">
757: Open Source Secure Wireless Networks in a Windows World</a>
758: <a href="http://www.pacsec.jp/core05/psj05-scomeau-en.pdf">[PDF]</a>.
759: The solution he presents uses IPsec to protect traffic between the
760: wireless clients and access points. Authentication is done using OpenSSH
761: (authpf), a process made transparent and user-friendly by a few small
762: scripts.
763: <p>
764:
1.424 mbalmer 765: <li><strong><a name=opencon2005></a>
766: <a href="http://www.opencon.org/">OpenCON 2005</a></strong>,
767: Nov 4 - 6, 2005, San Servolo Island, Venice, Italy.<br>
1.427 deraadt 768: The only unique conference entirely dedicated to OpenBSD, held in the totally
769: crazy environment of San Servolo island: an old insane asylum turned into a
770: university about 20 years ago, about 10 minutes boat ride from Venice.
1.429 deraadt 771: In the days leading up to this, about 12 OpenBSD developers arrived early
1.427 deraadt 772: for a Ports mini-hackathon. During the conference a few developers gave
1.433 deraadt 773: talks, including
774: <ul>
775: <li><a href="papers/ven05-pvalchev">Peter Valchev "OpenBSD Hackathon report"</a>
776: <li><a href="papers/ven05-espie">Marc Espie "OpenBSD ports and packages"</a>
777: <li><a href="papers/ven05-henning">Henning Brauer "OpenBSD networking update"</a>
778: <li><a href="papers/ven05-niallo-uwe/slides.pdf">Uwe Stuehler, Niall O'Higgins "Porting OpenBSD"</a>
779: <li><a href="papers/ven05-deraadt">Theo de Raadt "Exploit Mitigation Techniques (updated to include random malloc and mmap)"</a>
780: </ul>
1.424 mbalmer 781: <p>
782:
783: <li><strong><a name=systems2005></a>
784: <a href="http://www.systems.de/">Systems</a></strong>,
785: Oct 24 - 28, 2005, Munich, Germany <br>
1.425 mbalmer 786: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
1.424 mbalmer 787: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
788: <p>
789:
1.418 djm 790: <li><strong><a name=auug2005></a>
791: <a href="http://www.auug.org.au/events/2005/auug2005/">AUUG 2005</a></strong>,
792: October 16 - 21, 2005, Sydney, Australia.<br>
793: Mark Uemura presented a tutorial on setting up CARP/PF, a demonstration of
794: stateful failover with CARP and pfsync and a talk on wireless security in
795: a corporate environment using authpf and isakmpd. Peter Hansteen gave a
796: <a href="http://www.bgnett.no/~peter/pf/">Firewalling with PF</a> tutorial.
1.420 deraadt 797: Damien Miller presented on the approach to
798: <a href="papers/auug2005-portability">secure software portability used
799: by portable OpenSSH</a>, Reyk Flöter gave a talk on the current state of wireless
1.418 djm 800: support in OpenBSD and David Purdue introduced OpenBSD's spamd tarpit.
801: Most of the Australian OpenBSD developers and many users were present.
802: <p>
803:
1.415 aanriot 804: <li><strong><a name=aldil2005></a>
805: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/">Les Journées Du Logiciel Libre
806: 2005</a></strong>,
807: Oct 14 - 15, 2005, Lyon, France.<br>
808: There was OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Alexandre Anriot with the
809: help of Thierry Thomas.
810: <p>
811:
1.420 deraadt 812: <li><strong><a name=cafeconf2005></a>
813: <a href="http://www.cafeconf.org/">CaFeConf 2005,
814: 4tas Jornadas Abiertas de GNU/Linux y Software Libre</a></strong>,
815: Oct 13 - 15, 2005, Buenos Aires, Argentina<br>
816: CaFeConf 2005 is the anual event of CaFeLUG - Free Software Users
817: Group of Capital Federal, Argentina. This year the event featured
818: 116 presentations consisting of talks, tutorials, and workshops. The
819: event was also broadcasted on the Internet. Entrance was free, but
820: registration was mandatory.<br>
821: Fernando Gont gave a talk on
1.444 grunk 822: <a href="http://www.cafeconf.org/modules/myconference/viewspeech.php?sid=147&cid=20">
1.420 deraadt 823: ICMP attacks against TCP</a>,
824: in which he gave an overview of the attacks, the possible
825: counter-measures, and the politics of vulnerabilities, and a talk on
1.444 grunk 826: <a href="http://www.cafeconf.org/modules/myconference/viewspeech.php?sid=173&cid=20">
1.420 deraadt 827: Fixing the vulnerability of the Path-MTU Discovery mechanism</a>,
828: in which explained how OpenBSD fixed the vulnerability of the PMTUD
829: mechanism.
830: <p>
831:
1.414 bernd 832: <li><strong><a name=linuxkongress2005></a>
833: <a href="http://www.linux-kongress.org/">12th International Linux System
834: Technology Conference</a></strong>,
835: Oct 11 - 14, 2005, University of Hamburg, Germany.<br>
836: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth.
837: <p>
838:
839: <li><strong><a name=linuxworlduk2005></a>
840: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.co.uk/">LinuxWorld Expo UK 2005</a></strong>,
841: Oct 5 - 6, 2005, Olympia, London, UK.<br>
842: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth.
843: <p>
844:
1.410 wvdputte 845: <li><strong><a name=opensourcetag2005></a>
1.575 reyk 846: <a href="http://www.opensourcetag.de/2005/">OpenSourceTag 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 847: Sep 27, 2005, Hannover, Germany.<br>
1.444 grunk 848: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth and Reyk gave a
1.575 reyk 849: <a href="http://www.opensourcetag.de/2005/agenda/">talk</a> about IT security.
1.410 wvdputte 850: <p>
851:
852: <li><strong><a name="gubuginstallfest2005"></a>
853: <a href="http://gubug.org/meetings.php">Greater Utah BSD Group
854: Installfest 2005</a></strong>,
855: Sep 24, 2005, Sandy, UT, USA.<br/>
1.444 grunk 856: <a href="http://www.gubug.org/">The Greater Utah BSD User Group</a> organised
1.410 wvdputte 857: their first annual BSD Installfest, sponsored by Utah ISP ArosNet.
858: There were handouts, CD-ROMs, technical presentations, and
859: fun, plus a chance to get OpenBSD or a related open source BSD operating system
860: installed on your computer.
861: Admission was free (computers not included in cost of admission).
1.419 djm 862: Featured speakers included Dan Langille, organizer of BSDCan.
1.410 wvdputte 863: <p>
864:
1.404 wvdputte 865: <li><strong><a name="NYCBSDCon2005"></a>
866: <a href="http://nycbsdcon.org/">New York City BSD Conference 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 867: Sep 17, 2005, NYC, USA.<br>
1.404 wvdputte 868: NYCBSDCon was a one day technical conference hosted by the New York
869: City *BSD User Group and was held at Columbia University.
1.406 saad 870: The all day conference included a variety of speakers representing the
1.404 wvdputte 871: BSD projects and the open source community.<br>
872: NYCBSDCon was organized by NYC*BUG, a technical user group that formed in
873: December 2003. Besides their regular monthly meetings at the Soho Apple
874: Store, NYC*BUG has done fundraising for the BSD projects and contributed a
875: number of useful online applications such as BSDTracker and dmesgd.<br>
876: Additional sponsors included USENIX, New York Internet and SRA America.
877: <p>
878:
879: <li><strong><a name=opensaar2005></a>
880: <a href="http://www.opensaar.de/">OpenSaar 2005</a></strong>,
881: Sep 13 - 14, 2005, Saarbrücken, Germany.<br>
882: An OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth was present
883: <p>
884:
1.403 henning 885: <li><strong><a name=decix160905></a> <a
886: href="http://www.de-cix.org/">DE-CIX Technical Meeting</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 887: Sep 16, 2005, Schloss Kransberg, near Usingen, Germany.<br>
1.403 henning 888: Henning Brauer, Reyk Flöter and Maxim Salomon had been invited to the
889: technical meeting of the Deutsche Commercial Internet Exchange (DE-CIX) again.
890: Henning gave an update on OpenBGPD, Reyk talked about a route server project
891: using OpenBGPD at DE-CIX, and Maxim explained why the CCC sponsors us doing so.
892: There was a very positive discussion afterwards.
893: <a href="http://unduli.bsws.de/papers/decix2005-2/">Slides</a> are available.
894: <p>
895:
1.388 tom 896: <li><strong><a name="ukuug2005"></a>
897: <a href="http://www.ukuug.org/events/linux2005/">UKUUG Linux Technical
898: Conference 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 899: Aug 4 - 7, 2005, University of Wales, Swansea, UK<br>
1.388 tom 900: Tom Cosgrove gave Theo's presentation about Exploit Mitigation Techniques.
901: <p>
902:
1.385 mickey 903: <li><strong><a name=wth2005></a>
1.390 deraadt 904: <a href="http://www.whatthehack.org/">What the Hack 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 905: Jul 28 - 31, 2005, Den Bosch, The Netherlands.<br>
1.385 mickey 906: As every 4 years, Wim organized the
907: <a href="http://eurobsd.org/2005-WhatTheHack/">BSD village</a> at this huge
1.389 tom 908: open air event. There were some talks, Reyk spoke about
909: <a href="http://program.whatthehack.org/event/6.en.html">WLAN in OpenBSD</a>,
1.385 mickey 910: and an excellent
911: <a href="ftp://ftp.nyc.openbsd.org/pub/news/wth-radio-humppa.mp3">Humppa show</a> (35MB MP3) was performed on the SubEther radio.
912: If you want to see what happened previously, check
913: <a href="http://eurobsd.org/hal2001/">http://eurobsd.org/hal2001/</a>
914: and <a href="http://www.eurobsd.org/SummerCamp2003/">http://www.eurobsd.org/SummerCamp2003/</a>.
915: <p>
916:
1.382 pedro 917: <li><strong><a name=coimbra2005></a>
1.474 pedro 918: <a href="http://www.openbsd-pt.com/eventos/coimbra05/">Portuguese OpenBSD Usergroup Meeting</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 919: Jul 23 - 24, 2005, Coimbra, Portugal.<br>
1.538 pedro 920: 5th Meeting of the Portuguese OpenBSD Usergroup. Pedro Martelletto gave a talk.
1.382 pedro 921: <p>
922:
1.378 aanriot 923: <li><strong><a name="lsm2005"></a>
924: <a href="http://2005.rencontresmondiales.org/sections/index_html/switchLanguage/en">Libre Software Meeting 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 925: Jul 5 - 9, 2005, Dijon, France.<br>
1.379 aanriot 926: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Wim and the usual
927: suspects, with the help of Serge Basterot. It was a nice place to meet
928: some of our French, German and Swiss developers, including Marc Balmer,
929: Alexandre Anriot, Matthieu Herrb and Reyk Floeter.
1.378 aanriot 930: <p>
931:
1.375 grunk 932: <li><strong><a name=LinuxTag2005></a>
933: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.org">LinuxTag 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 934: Jun 22 - 25, 2005, Karlsruhe, Germany.<br>
1.375 grunk 935: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth ran by Wim, Christian Weisgerber,
936: Marc Balmer, Wilhelm Buehler, Robert Nagy, Bernd Ahlers and Phil Schulz.
937: <p>
938:
1.374 grunk 939: <li><strong><a name="uofa-cc2005"></a>
940: <a href="http://www.ualberta.ca/CC2005"> University of Alberta, Campus
1.410 wvdputte 941: Computing 2005</a></strong>, Jun 21, 2005, Edmonton, Canada.<br>
1.374 grunk 942: Ryan McBride spoke about OpenBSD's packet filter, PF, with CARP and
943: failover examples. Local color and examples at the U of A shown by Bob
944: Beck. Bob Beck spoke about PF and Spamd, as well as several other
945: OpenBSD using and related talks at this event, which primarily focuses
946: on activities centered at the University of Alberta.
947: <p>
948:
1.371 deraadt 949: <li><strong><a name=uemera2005></a>
950: <a href="http://www.tokyopc.net">Tokyo PC Users Group</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 951: Jun 2, 2005, Tokyo Union Church in Omotesando, Tokyo, Japan.<br>
1.371 deraadt 952: Mark T. Uemura spoke to Japan's largest English speaking
953: personal computer club. The talk was entitled
954: <a href="http://www.openbsd-support.com/jp/en/htm/mgp/index.shtml">
955: "Open Source in a Windows World"</a>.
956: He demonstrated how companies can easily
957: integrate Open Source, with an emphasis on OpenBSD, into their IT
958: infrastructure to enhance security, scalability and stability,
959: significantly reduce IT expenditures, free up computing infrastructure
960: and move away from commercial lock-in. This talk is based on changes
961: implemented at PricewaterhouseCoopers in Japan.
962: <p>
963:
1.366 martin 964: <li><strong><a name=LinuxwochenVienna2005></a>
965: <a href="http://www.linuxwochen.at/">Linuxwochen Vienna 2005</a></strong>,
966: May 24 - 27, 2005, Vienna, Austria.<br>
967: The Linuxwochen 2005 tour stopped in the MuseumsQuartier, Vienna.
968: Wim Vandeputte and Reinhard Sammer were running an OpenBSD booth selling
969: CDs and shirts.
970: <p>
971:
1.365 mcbride 972: <li><strong><a name=cuug2005></a>
973: <a href="http://www.cuug.ab.ca/">Calgary Unix Users Group</a></strong>,
974: May 24, 2005, Calgary, Canada.<br>
975: Ryan McBride spoke about OpenBSD's packet filter, PF.
976: A broad overview of PF's features were presented, with special attention
977: paid to newer and more unique features and how these can be used together
978: effectively for DoS mitigation, high availability, and load balancing.
979: <br>
980: Approximately 60 OpenBSD developers attended to heckle and participate
981: in a free-for-all question period after the talk.
982: <p>
983:
1.362 reyk 984: <li><strong><a name=bsdcan2005></a>
985: <a href="http://www.bsdcan.org/2005/">BSDCan 2005</a></strong>,
986: May 13 - 14, 2005, Ottawa, Canada.<br>
987: A number of OpenBSD developers presented: Bob Beck on
988: Spam Reduction with PF and Spamd, Henning Brauer on OpenBGPD,
989: Ryan McBride on Network Stack Randomness and Reyk Flöter
990: on WLAN in OpenBSD and the free ath(4) HAL. The
991: <a href="papers/bsdcan05-spamd/">Spamd</a> and
992: <a href="papers/bsdcan05-wlan/">WLAN</a> slides are available.
993: Mathieu Sauve-Frankel has been there in attendance as well.
994: <p>
995:
1.358 mcbride 996: <li><strong><a name=csw2005></a>
997: <a href="http://www.cansecwest.com/">cansecwest/core05</a></strong>,
998: May 4-6, 2005, Vancouver, Canada.<br>
999: Hiroaki Etoh spoke about propolice; Theo de Raadt and a number of other
1000: developers were there to sell CDs and make a nuisance of themselves.
1001: <p>
1002:
1.357 henning 1003: <li><strong><a name=ripe50></a>
1004: <a href="http://www.ripe.net/ripe/meetings/ripe-50/">RIPE 50</a></strong>,
1005: May 2-6, 2005, Stockholm, Sweden.<br>
1006: RIPE NCC invited Henning to talk about OpenBGPD.
1007: There were over 350 attendees to the conference, and most of them attended
1008: henning's talk, which got very very positive feedback.
1009: <p>
1010:
1.384 tom 1011: <li><strong><a name=libreast2005></a>
1.356 espie 1012: <a href="http://idile.org/libreast/">Libr'east 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 1013: Apr 22-24, Marne La Vallée, near Paris, France<br>
1.356 espie 1014: There was an OpenBSD booth (Wim + Miod + Marc)
1015: Marc Espie did talk about recent OpenBSD advances, and his ports and
1016: packages work in front of about 30 people.
1017: <p>
1018:
1.353 henning 1019: <li><strong><a name=decix150405></a> <a
1020: href="http://www.de-cix.org/">DE-CIX Technical Meeting</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 1021: Apr 15, 2005, near Usingen, Germany.<br>
1.353 henning 1022: Henning Brauer and Reyk Flöter had been invited to the technical
1023: meeting of the Deutsche Commercial Internet Exchange (DE-CIX). Henning
1024: presented his talk on OpenBGPD, about 60 people, mostly operators from
1025: the big ISPs peering at DECIX, were in attendance.
1.354 reyk 1026: Reyk, Maxim Salomon and Tim Kornau spoke on Wireless Network Security.
1.353 henning 1027: <p>
1028:
1.352 henning 1029: <li><strong><a name=nuug140405></a>
1030: <a href="http://www.nuug.no/aktiviteter/20050414-pf-brannmur/">Firewalling with PF at NUUG</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 1031: Apr 14, 2005, Oslo, Norway.<br>
1.352 henning 1032: Peter N. M. Hansteen gave a firewalling with PF talk - which hopefully
1033: gave you some ideas about how to control your network traffic the
1034: way you want - keeping some things outside your network, directing
1035: traffic to specified hosts or services, and of course, giving spammers
1036: a hard time. The talk was in Norwegian, with <a
1037: href="http://www.bgnett.no/~peter/pf/no/foils/">foils</a> and <a
1038: href="http://www.bgnett.no/~peter/pf/no/">manuscript</a> (English <a
1039: href="http://www.bgnett.no/~peter/pf/en/foils/">foils</a> and <a
1040: href="http://www.bgnett.no/~peter/pf/en/">manuscript</a> too)
1041: available if you couldn't make it there.
1042: <p>
1043:
1.589 aanriot 1044:
1045: <li><strong><a name=fhwedel130405></a>
1046: <a href="http://www.fh-wedel.de/">FH Wedel invited talk</a></strong>,
1047: Apr 13, 2005, 17:00, Hörsaal 5, FH Wedel, Hamburg, Germany.<br>
1048: Henning Brauer spoke on OpenBGPD. More than 40 people were in attendance.
1049: <p>
1050:
1.350 marius 1051: <li><strong><a name=usenix2005></a>
1052: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix05/">Usenix Annual
1.410 wvdputte 1053: Technical Conference</a></strong>, Apr 10-15, 2005, Anaheim,
1.350 marius 1054: California, USA.<br> Marius Eriksen gave the OpenBSD update at the BSD
1055: super BoF. The update was well received and people were quite
1056: sympathetic towards the ongoing efforts of the OpenBSD project to
1057: ensure the free redistribution rights for firmware. People were also
1058: excited about the new Open* tools (OpenBGPD, OpenNTPD, OpenCVS) and it
1.351 marius 1059: would not be surprising to see more of these imported into other BSDs.
1.350 marius 1060: <p>
1061:
1.585 aanriot 1062: <li><strong><a name=plug050408></a>
1.586 aanriot 1063: <a href="http://www.plugfr.org/">Provence Linux User Group</a></strong>
1064: April 8, 2005, Marseille, France.<br>
1.585 aanriot 1065: Alexandre Anriot spoke about OpenBSD and some associated projects
1.586 aanriot 1066: (OpenBGPD etc.) during a meeting of the PLUG.
1.585 aanriot 1067: The <a href="papers/plug080405">slides</a> (in French) are available.
1.344 martin 1068: <p>
1069:
1.337 deraadt 1070: <li><strong><a name=bcs2005></a>
1071: <a href="http://www.bellua.com/bcs2005/asia05.index.html">Bellua Cyber Security Asia 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 1072: Mar 21-24, 2005, Jakarta, Indonesia.<br>
1.337 deraadt 1073: Ryan McBride presented an overview of PF which
1074: discussed how its advanced features work together in some important
1.338 deraadt 1075: applications and compared PF with the other major commercial and open
1.337 deraadt 1076: source firewalls.
1077: <p>
1078:
1.317 henning 1079: <li><strong><a name=nui_maynooth2005></a>
1080: <a href="http://www.minds.nuim.ie/events">NUI Maynooth lectures</a></strong>,
1081: Mar 4, 2005, Department of Computer Science, NUI Maynooth, Dublin, Ireland.<br>
1.318 henning 1082: Ryan McBride presented talks about PF and about
1.326 mcbride 1083: <a href="papers/dublin05-nr">randomization in the OpenBSD network layer.</a><br>
1.318 henning 1084: Theo and Henning were in attendance because someone had to heckle.
1.317 henning 1085: <p>
1086:
1.312 deraadt 1087: <li><strong><a name=trinity2005></a>
1088: <a href="http://www.netsoc.tcd.ie/events/0405/openbsd.php">Trinity lecture</a></strong>,
1089: Mar 3, 2005, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.<br>
1.320 deraadt 1090: Theo de Raadt presented his talk about
1091: <a href="papers/auug04">Exploit Mitigation Techniques</a>.
1.312 deraadt 1092: <p>
1093:
1.319 saad 1094: <li><strong><a name=ShefLUG2005></a>
1095: <a href="http://www.sheflug.co.uk/seminar/tiki-index.php?page=Sheffield%20Open%20Source%20Seminar">ShefLUG2005</a></strong>,
1096: Mar 2, 2005, Sheffield, UK.<br>
1097: Jacek Artymiak gave a talk about installing OpenBSD on Soekris hardware.
1098: <p>
1099:
1.310 mickey 1100: <li><strong><a name=NYCBUG2005-03></a>
1.375 grunk 1101: <a href="http://nycbug.org/index.php?NAV=Home&SUBM=83">NYCBUG Monthly meeting</a></strong>,
1.310 mickey 1102: Mar 2, 2005, NYC, USA.<br>
1.322 deraadt 1103: Mickey gave a talk
1.325 mickey 1104: (<a href="papers/nyc2005">slides</a> and
1.564 jason 1105: <a href="http://www.fetissov.org/public/nycbug/nycbug-03-02-05.mp3">10.5MB audio</a>)
1.321 mickey 1106: about <a href="hppa.html">porting OpenBSD</a>
1.313 martin 1107: to the <a href="http://www.openpa.net">HP PA-RISC</a> platform.
1.310 mickey 1108: <p>
1.312 deraadt 1109:
1.308 deraadt 1110: <li><strong><a name=Netsoc2005></a>
1111: <a href="http://netsoc.ucd.ie/events/openbsd/">Netsoc lectures</a></strong>,
1112: Mar 2, 2005, UCD, Dublin, Ireland.<br>
1113: Theo de Raadt, Henning Brauer, and Ryan McBride gave a series of
1.320 deraadt 1114: talks. Topics included
1115: <a href="papers/auug04">exploit mitigation techniques</a>,
1.326 mcbride 1116: <a href="papers/dublin05-nr">introducing network randomness to increase security</a>,
1117: OpenBGPD, and pf.
1118: Almost 200 people came to this event.
1.308 deraadt 1119: <p>
1120:
1.304 saad 1121: <li><strong><a name=Brussels2005></a>
1122: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/2005/">FOSDEM Brussels 2005</a></strong>,
1123: Feb 26 - 27, 2005, Brussels, Belgium.<br>
1124: An OpenBSD/OpenSSH booth was present, ran by the usual gang of suspects.
1125: Support for <a href="mailto:wim@kd85.com">Wim Vandeputte</a> this time were
1.307 otto 1126: (among many others), Saad Kadhi, Henning Brauer, Thierry Deval, Otto Moerbeek,
1.304 saad 1127: Xavier Santolaria, Martin Reindl, Reyk Flöter, Hans-Jörg
1.360 db 1128: Höxer, Nikolay Sturm, Marc Balmer, Claudio Jeker, Joris Vink,
1129: Olivier Cherrier, David Berghoff,
1.316 mbalmer 1130: Alexander von Gernler, Uwe Stuehler, and Felix Kronlage from OpenDarwin.<br>
1.304 saad 1131: There was a separate OpenBSD track, featuring Henning Brauer (about
1132: signal handlers and OpenNTPD), Reyk Flöter (about wireless cards in
1133: OpenBSD), and the author of the OpenBSD PF book, Jacek Artymiak (about
1.375 grunk 1134: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pf">pf(4)</a>, of course).<br>
1.304 saad 1135: At the conference's Free Software Foundation Event, Theo de Raadt was
1136: awarded the Free Software Award 2004 for his efforts to make Firmware for
1137: wireless hardware and other devices freely available.
1138: <p>
1.301 saad 1139: <li><strong><a name=UKUUG05></a>
1140: <a href="http://www.ukuug.org/events/winter2005/">UKUUG LISA/Winter Conference</a></strong>,
1141: Feb 24 - 25, 2005, Birmingham, UK.<br>
1142: Henning Brauer spoke on OpenBGPD, OpenNTPD and Signal Handlers.
1143: <p>
1144: <li><strong><a name=FFG2005></a>
1145: <a href="http://www.guug.de/veranstaltungen/ffg2005/">GUUG FFG 2005</a></strong>,
1146: Feb 22 - 25, 2005, Munich, Germany.<br>
1147: Reyk Flöter talked about the latest wireless support in
1148: OpenBSD at the annual spring meeting of the <a href="http://www.guug.de/">German Unix User Group</a>.
1149: <p>
1.293 saad 1150: <li><strong><a name=Paris2005></a>
1151: <a href="http://www.solutionslinux.fr/fr/index.php">Solutions Linux 2005</a></strong>,
1152: Feb 1 - 3, 2005, Paris, France.<br>
1153: An OpenBSD booth as well as an OpenSSH booth were present. These booths
1154: were run by Marc Espie, Miod Vallat, Saad Kadhi and Wim with help from
1155: Guillaume Arcas and Christophe Plasschaert, two members of the OpenBSD
1.294 saad 1156: french translation team.<br>
1157: Marc Espie and Saad Kadhi gave a talk about the OpenBSD project with a
1158: special focus on the ports collection and Packet Filter. The <a
1159: href="papers/sl2005/index.html">slides</a> (in French) are
1160: available.<br>
1161: During the event, several demonstrations of <a
1.293 saad 1162: href="http://soekris.kd85.com/">Soekris</a> machines running OpenBSD
1163: were given by Saad Kadhi and Wim.
1164: <p>
1.296 mcbride 1165: </ul>
1.293 saad 1166:
1.296 mcbride 1167: <h3>2004</h3>
1168:
1169: <ul>
1.287 henning 1170: <li><strong><a name=21C3></a>
1171: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/2004/">21C3 - Chaos Communication Congress</a></strong>,
1.375 grunk 1172: Dec 27 - 29, 2004, Berlin, Germany<br>
1.287 henning 1173: "The Usual Suspects" were there and ran the BSD corner, including
1174: <a href="mailto:wim@kd85.com">Wim</a>,
1175: Henning Brauer, Marc Balmer, Martin Reindl, Moritz Jodeit, Felix Kronlage,
1.315 nick 1176: Uwe Stuehler, Konrad Foerstner, Bernd Ahlers, and Alexander von Gernler.<br>
1.287 henning 1177: Henning gave a talk about OpenBGPD and OpenNTPD
1178: (<a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/21c3/">slides</a>).<br>
1179: The WiFi backbone ran on OpenBSD powered
1180: <a href="http://soekris.kd85.com">Soekris</a> machines as access points,
1181: work done by Reyk Flöter, Tim Kornau and others.
1182: This installation was a very successful test of the new
1.290 henning 1183: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ath">ath(4)</a>
1.287 henning 1184: driver.
1185: <p>
1.248 deraadt 1186:
1.286 kevlo 1187: <li><strong><a name=icos2004></a>
1.417 kevlo 1188: <a href="http://2004.icos.org.tw/">ICOS 2004</a></strong>,
1.286 kevlo 1189: Dec 18 - 19, 2004, Taipei, Taiwan.<br>
1190: Kevin Lo gave a presentation.
1191: <p>
1192:
1.285 deraadt 1193: <li><strong><a name=syscan2004></a>
1194: <a href="http://www.syscan.org/">SyScAN 2004</a></strong>,
1195: Dec 16 - 17, 2004, Singapore.<br>
1196: Theo de Raadt presented his talk about
1197: <a href="papers/auug04">Exploit Mitigation Techniques</a>.
1198: <p>
1199:
1.283 saad 1200: <li><strong><a name=sur200412></a>
1201: <a href="http://www.ossir.org/sur/calendrier/index.shtml">SUR Group Meeting, December 2004</a></strong>,
1202: Dec 14, 2004, Paris, France.<br>
1203: Saad Kadhi gave a talk about OpenBSD and security during the monthly
1204: meeting of the
1205: <a href="http://www.ossir.org/sur/index.shtml">SUR</a> Group (Sécurité
1206: Unix et Réseaux), a french user group focusing on security and Unix. The
1.284 xsa 1207: <a href="papers/surgroup200412/index.html">slides</a> (in French) are available.
1.283 saad 1208: <p>
1209:
1.282 henning 1210: <li><strong><a name=opencon2004></a>
1211: <a href="http://www.opencon.org/">OpenCon 2004</a></strong>,
1212: Dec 10 - 12, 2004, Venice, Italy.<br>
1213: OpenBSD meeting in Northern Italy. Henning gave 3 talks in
1214: two days, on bgpd
1215: (<a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/opencon04/bgpd/">slides</a>),
1216: ntpd
1217: (<a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/opencon04/ntpd/">slides</a>)
1218: and signal handlers
1219: (<a href="papers/opencon04/">slides</a>).
1220: Wim ran a booth, and Marc Balmer was there as well.
1221: <p>
1222:
1.275 deraadt 1223: <li><strong><a name=UofA></a>
1224: <a href="http://www.ualberta.ca/">U of A Seminar</a></strong>,
1225: Nov 17 - 18, 2004, Edmonton Alberta.<br>
1226: Theo de Raadt presented a talk at an open seminar at the
1227: <a href="http://www.ualberta.ca/">University of Alberta</a>, in
1228: Room B-02 of the
1229: <a href="http://www.campusmap.ualberta.ca/map_bldg.cfm?bldg_id=42">
1230: Computing Sciences Center</a>.
1231: Talk went from 2 PM to nearly 5PM with more than 100 people attending
1232: from the University and industry, followed by beer nearby.
1233: The talk was also given the following day at the
1234: <a href="http://www.cips.ca/">CIPS Security SIG</a> luncheon.
1235: <p>
1236:
1.271 henning 1237: <li><strong><a name=EuroBSDCon2004></a>
1238: <a href="http://2004.eurobsdcon.org/">EuroBSD Con</a></strong>,
1239: Oct 29 - 31, 2004, Karlsruhe, Germany.<br>
1.272 henning 1240: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
1241: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
1.271 henning 1242: Henning gave a talk
1.375 grunk 1243: about <a href="http://2004.eurobsdcon.org/talks.html?&tx_ptspeechupload_pi1[showUid]=44&cHash=ec015b0552">bgpd</a>,
1.272 henning 1244: <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/euroBSDCon2004/">slides</a> are available.
1.271 henning 1245: <p>
1246:
1247: <li><strong><a name=LinuxWorldExpoGermany2004></a>
1248: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.de/">Linux World Expo</a></strong>,
1249: Oct 26 - 28, 2004, Frankfurt, Germany.<br>
1.272 henning 1250: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
1251: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
1.271 henning 1252: <p>
1253:
1.276 deraadt 1254: <li><strong><a name=cuug2004></a>
1.270 deraadt 1255: <a href="http://www.cuug.ab.ca/">Calgary Unix Users's Group</a></strong>,
1256: Oct 26, 2004, Calgary, Canada.<br>
1257: Theo presented the talk that he has recently given in Australia and
1258: Malaysia to the "Home Crowd".
1259: <p>
1260:
1261: <li><strong><a name=aldil2004></a>
1.269 krw 1262: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/">Les Journées Du Logiciel Libre 2004</a></strong>,
1263: Oct 22 - 23, 2004, Lyon, France.<br>
1.381 aanriot 1264: There was OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Miod Vallat with the help of
1.415 aanriot 1265: Alexandre Anriot and Thierry Thomas.
1.269 krw 1266: <p>
1267:
1268: <li><strong><a name=systems2004></a>
1269: <a href="http://www.systems.de/">Systems</a></strong>,
1270: Oct 18 - 22, 2004, Munich, Germany <br>
1271: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
1272: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
1273: <p>
1274:
1.268 krw 1275: <li><strong><a name=linuxexpo2004oct></a>
1276: <a href="http://www.linuxexpo.org.uk/">Linux Expo</a></strong>,
1277: Oct 6 - 7, 2004, London, UK.<br>
1278: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
1279: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
1280: <p>
1281:
1.375 grunk 1282: <li><strong><a name=hitb2004></a>
1.268 krw 1283: <a href="http://conference.hackinthebox.org">Hack in the Box Security Conference 2004</a></strong>,
1284: Oct 4 - 7, 2004, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.<br>
1285: Theo de Raadt presented an updated version of his
1286: "Exploit Mitigation Techniques" talk.
1287: <p>
1288:
1289: <li><strong><a name=SANE2004></a>
1290: <a href="http://www.nluug.nl/events/sane2004/bazaar.html">SANE 2004</a></strong>
1.410 wvdputte 1291: , Sep 29, 2004, Amsterdam, Netherlands.<br>
1.268 krw 1292: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
1293: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
1294: <p>
1295:
1.265 wvdputte 1296: <li><strong><a name=LinuxKongress2004></a>
1297: <a href="http://www.linux-kongress.org/2004">Linux Kongress 2004</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 1298: Sep 7 - 10, 2004, Erlangen, Germany.<br>
1.265 wvdputte 1299: From their website: "Linux-Kongress is still the premier event for European
1300: developers and one of the most important in the world. Each year hundreds of
1301: hard core Linux enthusiasts from all over the world gather for this important
1302: event."
1303: <br>
1304: Although this was a Linux developers' conference, we were able to
1305: install a regular OpenBSD booth there, as known from other events.
1306: It was run by <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim Vandeputte</a>,
1307: <a href="mailto:grunk@pestilenz.org">Alexander von Gernler</a> and other
1308: geeks from the Erlangen-Nuremberg area.
1309: <br>
1310: There also was a BSD dinner at Friday evening.
1311: <p>
1312:
1.262 henning 1313: <li><strong><a name=Sucon2004></a>
1314: <a href="http://www.suug.ch/sucon/04/">SUCON 2004</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 1315: Sep 2 - 4, 2004, Zurich, Switzerland.<br>
1.262 henning 1316: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth. Very nice conference.
1317: Henning's slides from his talks about
1318: <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/sucon04/bgpd">bgpd</a> and
1319: <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/sucon04/ntpd">ntpd</a>
1320: are available.
1321: <p>
1322:
1.261 deraadt 1323: <li><strong><a name=auug2004></a>
1.266 jolan 1324: <a href="http://www.auug.org.au/events/2004/auug2004/">AUUG 2004</a></strong>,
1.261 deraadt 1325: Aug 29 - Sep 3, 2004, Melbourne, Australia.<br>
1326: Theo de Raadt presented a half-day tutorial on privilege seperation and a
1327: newly extended version of the
1328: <a href="papers/auug04">Exploit Mitigation Techniques</a> talk.<br>
1329: For more information, see this
1330: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;517187222;fp;16;fpid;0">
1331: ComputerWorld article</a>.
1332: <p>
1333:
1334:
1.257 saad 1335: <li><strong><a name=LSM2004></a>
1336: <a href="http://lsm.abul.org">Libre Software Meeting</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 1337: Jul 6 - 10, 2004, Bordeaux, France.<br>
1.257 saad 1338: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
1339: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim Vandeputte</a>.
1340: <p>
1341:
1342: <li><strong><a name=LinuxTag2004></a>
1343: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.org">LinuxTag 2004</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 1344: Jun 23 - 26, 2004, Karlsruhe, Germany.<br>
1.257 saad 1345: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
1346: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim Vandeputte</a>.
1347: <p>
1348:
1.254 xsa 1349: <li><strong><a name=LinuxwochenVienna2004></a>
1.255 xsa 1350: <a href="http://www.linuxwochen.at/">Linuxwochen Vienna 2004</a></strong>,
1.254 xsa 1351: May 26 - 29, 2004, Vienna, Austria.<br>
1352: The Linuxwochen 2004 tour stopped in the MuseumsQuartier, Vienna.
1353: Wim Vandeputte and Reinhard Sammer ran the OpenBSD booth. Michael Bauer
1354: and Teemu Schaabl from the <a href="http://www.cngw.org/">CNGW</a> gave
1355: a basic talk about pf.
1356: <p>
1357:
1.248 deraadt 1358: <li><strong><a name=BSDCan2004></a>
1.303 mcbride 1359: <a href="http://www.bsdcan.org/2004/">BSDCan 2004</a></strong>,
1.248 deraadt 1360: May 13 - 16, 2004, Ottawa, Canada.<br>
1361: BSDCan was held at the University of Ottawa. Ryan McBride gave a talk
1.302 mcbride 1362: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/papers/bsdcan04-pf/index.html">about newer features in pf</a>,
1363: focusing on the redundancy provided by CARP and pfsync.
1364: Theo de Raadt presented a revised version of his talk on
1.248 deraadt 1365: <a href="papers/bsdcan04">Exploit Mitigation Techniques</a>.
1366: <p>
1367:
1.247 canacar 1368: <li><strong><a name="LOSFAnkara2004"></a>
1369: <a href="http://senlik.linux.org.tr">3rd Linux and Open Source Festival</a></strong>,
1370: May 13 - 16, 2004, Ankara, Turkey.<br>
1371: Can E. Acar and Berk D. Demir talked about the OpenBSD Project. The
1372: philosophy, project goals, system features and recent proactive
1373: security features were introduced. CARP, patents, recent Apache &
1374: XFree86 licensing issues and effects of NDAs in open source
1375: projects were discussed.<br>
1376: You can view the
1.281 canacar 1377: <a href="http://bdd.mindcast.org/slides/OpenBSD-LOYS2004-cea-bdd.pdf">
1.247 canacar 1378: slides in PDF format</a> the
1.281 canacar 1379: <a href="http://bdd.mindcast.org/slides/OpenBSD-LOYS2004-cea-bdd.tex">
1.247 canacar 1380: LaTeX source</a> is also available (they are
1381: <a href="http://www.eee.metu.edu.tr/~canacar/slides/">mirrored</a>, as well).
1382: <p>
1383:
1.242 henning 1384: <li><strong><a name=Brussels2004></a>
1385: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/">FOSDEM Brussels 2004</a></strong>,
1386: Feb 21 - 22, 2004, Brussels, Belgium.<br>
1.243 henning 1387: An OpenBSD/OpenSSH booth was present, run by Wim Vandeputte.
1388: Several developers (including Henning Brauer, Xavier Santolaria, Thierry Deval,
1389: Philipp Bühler, Otto Moerbeek and Saad Kadhi) showed up.
1390: Wim and Alexander von Gernler gave "lightning talks" about Soekris
1391: and systrace
1.263 saad 1392: (<a href="http://pestilenz.org/~grunk/vortraege/2004/FOSDEM/systrace.pdf">slides</a>), respectively.
1.243 henning 1393: Henning got a slot in the main track to talk about the new bgpd
1394: (<a href="http://www.2suck.net/papers/fosdem2004/">slides</a>).
1395: On Saturday evening, the traditional OpenBSD dinner took place.
1.242 henning 1396: <p>
1397:
1.240 espie 1398: <li><strong><a name=Paris2004></a>
1399: <a href="http://www.linuxsolutions.fr/">Linux Expo Paris 2004</a></strong>,
1400: Feb 3 - 5, 2004, Paris, France.<br>
1401: An OpenBSD booth as well as an OpenSSH booth were present, thanks to
1402: <a href="mailto:saad@docisland.org">Saad Kadhi</a> and
1403: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
1404: <p>
1405:
1406: <li><strong><a name="LWE04"></a>
1407: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/linuxworldny/V40/index.cvn">LinuxWorld
1408: Conference and Expo</a></strong>, Jan 20 - 23, 2004, New York, NY, USA.<br>
1.397 grunk 1409: <a href="mailto:wes@openlysecure.org">Wes Sonnenreich</a> and others
1.240 espie 1410: have established a BSD user group in NYC and held a BSD BoF at the
1411: Jacob Javits Center on January 22nd at 5:45pm, Room 1E15.
1412: <p>
1413: </ul>
1414:
1.188 henning 1415: <h3>2003</h3>
1.236 jose 1416:
1417: <ul>
1.232 jose 1418: <li><strong><a name=20c3></a>
1419: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/2003/">20th Chaos Communication Congress 2003</a></strong>,
1420: Dec 27 - 29, 2003, Berlin, Germany.<br>
1421: OpenBSD was represented by a booth, ran by
1422: <a href= "mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>, and supported by Henning and
1.236 jose 1423: Alexander von Gernler. Alexander also gave a
1.260 saad 1424: <a href="http://pestilenz.org/~grunk/vortraege/2003/20C3/openbsd.pdf">talk</a>
1.232 jose 1425: introducing the project and the OS (in German).
1.236 jose 1426: <p>
1.232 jose 1427:
1.228 jose 1428: <li><strong><a name=brazil2003></a>
1.236 jose 1429: <a href="http://bsdcon.myfreebsd.com.br">1st BSDCon Brazil</a></strong>,
1.228 jose 1430: Dec 6 - 7, 2003. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.<br>
1431: This was the first BSDCon Brazil, and of course OpenBSD was present.
1.236 jose 1432: Douglas Santos spoke on advocacy and about some of the technical aspects
1433: of OpenBSD. Eduardo A. Alvarenga gave a presentation about firewalling
1.228 jose 1434: with OpenBSD PF.
1435: <p>
1436:
1437: <li><strong><a name=ankara03></a>
1438: <a href="http://seminer.linux.org.tr">Association of Turkish Linux User</a></strong>,
1439: Dec 4, 2003, Ankara, Turkey.<br>
1440: Can Acar and Berk Demir gave a mammoth 4 hour presentation on OpenBSD.
1441: The first part was a broad introduction to the OpenBSD philosophy, the
1.236 jose 1442: project goals, and system features. After a break, in the second part they
1443: talked about the exploit mitigation techniques employed in OpenBSD. This
1444: part was aimed at techies and is almost a complete Turkish translation of
1445: the talk Theo recently gave in Japan. You can view the
1.281 canacar 1446: <a href="http://bdd.mindcast.org/slides/OpenBSD_3.12.2003.can-bdd.pdf">
1.236 jose 1447: slides in PDF format </a>
1448: (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 1449: <p>
1450:
1.227 jose 1451: <li><strong><a name=Luxembourg2003></a>
1452: <a href="http://www.linuxday.lu/">Linuxday Luxembourg 2003</a></strong>,
1453: Nov 6 - 8, 2003, Luxembourg, Luxembourg.<br>
1454: Booths were present, organized by <a href= "mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
1455: <p>
1456:
1457: <li><strong><a name=Pacsec2003></a>
1458: <a href="http://pacsec.jp/">Pacsec 2003</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 1459: Nov 6 - 7, 2003, Tokyo, Japan.<br>
1.236 jose 1460: Three OpenBSD developers presented on various topics. Theo de Raadt
1.227 jose 1461: gave a presentation on Exploit Mitigation Techniques
1.236 jose 1462: <a href="papers/pacsec03/e/index.html">(English)</a>
1463: <a href="papers/pacsec03/j/index.html">(Japanese)</a>, Jun-ichiro
1.227 jose 1464: itojun Hagino presented material covering
1.236 jose 1465: <a href="http://www.itojun.org/paper/itojun-200311-pacsec-jp/">
1.241 david 1466: IPv6 security considerations</a>, and Jose Nazario discussed advances
1.227 jose 1467: in Internet worm defenses.
1468: <p>
1469:
1.224 miod 1470: <li><strong><a name=Lyon2003></a>
1471: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/agenda/journees/2003/">Les V<sup>èmes</sup> Journées du Libre 2003</a></strong>,
1472: Oct 31 - Nov 1, 2003, Lyon, France.<br>
1473: Miod Vallat gave a talk about the recent security efforts deployed in OpenBSD,
1474: as well as generic security concepts (slides, in bad French, are available in
1475: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/agenda/journees/2003/vallat/miod.mgp">mgp
1476: format</a>). As usual, Wim ran an OpenBSD booth featuring the new 3.4 release,
1477: as well as <a href="http://soekris.kd85.com">Soekris</a> hardware running
1478: OpenBSD.
1479: <p>
1480:
1481: <li><strong><a name=Saarbrucken2003></a>
1482: <a href="http://www.linux-kongress.org/2003/index.html">Linux Kongress Saarbrücken 2003</a></strong>,
1483: Oct 14 - 16, 2003, Saarbrücken, Germany.<br>
1484: An OpenBSD booth was present, starring Wim again.
1485: <p>
1486:
1487: <li><strong><a name=London2003></a>
1488: <a href="http://www.linuxexpo.org.uk/">Linux Expo London 2003</a></strong>,
1489: Oct 8 - 9, 2003, London, UK.<br>
1490: An OpenBSD booth was present, starring Wim as usual.
1491: <p>
1492:
1.219 jose 1493: <li><strong><a name=bsdcon2003></a>
1494: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/bsdcon03/">BSDCon '03</a></strong>,
1495: Sep 8 - 12, 2003, San Mateo, California.<br>
1.236 jose 1496: OpenBSD was represented in the BSD Status Report, and David Rosenthal
1.219 jose 1497: gave a talk on an OpenBSD based security appliance.
1498: <p>
1499:
1.218 jose 1500: <li><strong><a name=sucon2003></a>
1501: <a href="http://www.sucon.ch/">SUCON '03</a></strong>,
1502: Sep 5, 2003. Zurich, Switzerland.<br>
1.236 jose 1503: Daniel Hartmeier talked about PF, and <a
1.218 jose 1504: href="http://open.bsdcow.net/events/sucon2003/">pictures are available</a>.
1505: <p>
1506:
1.214 henning 1507: <li><strong><a name=camp2003></a>
1508: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/camp/">Chaos Communication Camp 2003</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1509: Aug 7 - 10, 2003, in <a href="http://www.paulshof.de/body-mehr.html">a field</a> near Berlin Germany<br>
1.214 henning 1510: There was a huge OpenBSD village. Several OpenBSD developers have been there.
1511: <p>
1512:
1.213 jose 1513: <li><strong><a name=sec2003></a>
1514: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/sec03/">Usenix Security</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1515: Aug 4 - 8, 2003, Washington, DC, USA.<br>
1.236 jose 1516: Niels Provos presented two papers on security advances originally
1.213 jose 1517: developed for OpenBSD, including the OpenSSH privsep feature and systrace.
1518: Several OpenBSD developers were there.
1519: <p>
1520:
1.211 jose 1521: <li><strong><a name=linuxtag2003></a>
1522: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.org/2003/en/index.html">LinuxTag 2003</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1523: Jul 10 - 13, 2003, Karlsruhe Convention Center Germany<br>
1.211 jose 1524: Both OpenBSD and OpenSSH had booths in the main exhibit.
1525: <p>
1526:
1527: <li><strong><a name=lsm2003></a>
1528: <a href="http://libresoftwaremeeting.org/">Libre Software Meeting 2003</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1529: Jul 9 - 12, 2003, Metz, France<br>
1.212 matthieu 1530: Matthieu Herrb gave <a href="papers/xf86-sec.pdf">a talk about XFree86 security</a>. There was
1.211 jose 1531: also an OpenBSD booth with developers.
1532: <p>
1533:
1.209 wvdputte 1534: <li><strong><a name=lud2003></a>
1535: <a href="http://www.linuxuserexpo.com/">Linux User & Developer Expo 2003</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1536: Jun 24 - 26, 2003, at the NEC in Birmingham UK<br>
1.209 wvdputte 1537: There was an OpenBSD booth with developers.
1538: <p>
1.195 deraadt 1539:
1.202 jason 1540: <li><strong><a name=usenix2003></a>
1.236 jose 1541: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix03/">Usenix Annual Technical
1.216 jose 1542: Conference</a></strong>,
1543: Jun 9 - 14, 2003, San Antonio, Texas, USA<br>
1.202 jason 1544: A few OpenBSD developers were there and one paper was presented:
1545: <ul>
1.216 jose 1546: <li>The Design of the OpenBSD Cryptographic Framework<br>
1.202 jason 1547: <a href="events.html#usenix2003">Usenix 2003</a>, by
1.236 jose 1548: Angelos D. Keromytis,
1549: Jason L. Wright, and
1.205 deraadt 1550: Theo de Raadt.<br>
1.202 jason 1551: <a href="papers/ocf.pdf">paper</a>.
1552: </ul>
1553: <p>
1554:
1.216 jose 1555: <li><strong>
1556: <a href="http://www.webb.it/">Webbit 2003</a></strong>,
1557: May 9 - 11, 2003, Padova, Italy<br>
1.203 jason 1558: Giacomo Cariello and Wim Vandeputte attended, and several OpenBSD
1.661 martynas 1559: <a href="http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20030503101052">related talks</a> were given.
1.203 jason 1560: <p>
1561:
1.216 jose 1562: <li><strong>
1563: <a href="http://cansecwest.com/">CanSecWest 03</a></strong>,
1564: Apr 9 - 11, 2003, Vancouver, Canada<br>
1.195 deraadt 1565: Theo spoke about killing buffer overflows using ProPolice and the new W^X technology,
1.196 matthieu 1566: available as a <a href="papers/csw03.mgp">magicpoint file</a>.
1.195 deraadt 1567: <p>
1568:
1.216 jose 1569: <li><strong>
1570: <a href="http://www.cebit.de/">CeBIT 2003</a></strong>,
1571: Mar 14, 2003, Hannover, Germany<br>
1.236 jose 1572: 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 1573: gave a talk on OpenBSD and OpenSSH. <a href="papers/cebit2003.tgz">slides</a> are available.
1.194 henning 1574: <p>
1575:
1.216 jose 1576: <li><strong>
1577: <a href="http://www.linuxforum.dk/2003/english/">LinuxForum 2003</a></strong>,
1578: Mar 1, 2003, Copenhagen<br>
1.236 jose 1579: Daniel spoke about PF (slides in <a href="papers/linuxforum2k3.tar.gz">mgp</a>,
1580: <a href="http://www.benzedrine.cx/linuxforum/">HTML</a>).
1.191 dhartmei 1581: It was a small but cozy conference, jointly held by Danish Linux and BSD
1582: user groups.
1583: <p>
1584:
1.236 jose 1585: <li><strong>
1586: <a href="http://www.cuug.ab.ca">CUUG - The Calgary Unix Users
1.216 jose 1587: Group</a></strong>,
1588: Feb 25, 2003, 18:00 MST, Calgary<br>
1.190 miod 1589: OpenBSD lead developer Theo de Raadt spoke about some of the recent
1590: changes in OpenBSD that are leading the way to the complete elimination of
1591: "buffer overflow" security risks and attacks.
1592: <p>
1593:
1.216 jose 1594: <li><strong>
1595: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/">FOSDEM 2003</a></strong>,
1596: Feb 8 - 9, 2003, Brussels<br>
1.236 jose 1597: Henning and Philipp gave a talk on -current PF developments
1.196 matthieu 1598: (<a href="papers/fosdem2k3-pf.mgp">slides</a>)
1.187 henning 1599: and on Saturday evening, there was an OpenBSD dinner for those interested.
1600: <p>
1601:
1.216 jose 1602: <li><strong>
1603: <a href="http://linuxsolutions.fr/FR/home/index.php?site=default">Linux Solutions</a></strong>,
1604: Feb 4 - 6, 2003, CNIT - Paris La Défense<br>
1.185 miod 1605: There was an OpenBSD booth with several OpenBSD developers, as well as 3.2 OpenBSD
1.413 grunk 1606: CD sets and T-shirts.
1.185 miod 1607: <p>
1.236 jose 1608: </ul>
1.185 miod 1609:
1.161 millert 1610: <h3>2002</h3>
1.236 jose 1611:
1612: <ul>
1613: <li><strong>
1614: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/2002/">19c3: the 19th CCC
1.216 jose 1615: Congress</a></strong>,
1616: Dec 27 - 29, 2002, Berlin<br>
1.236 jose 1617: There was a huge <a href="http://www.eurobsd.org/19c3">reserved space</a> for
1618: OpenBSD users and developers, a couple of -current test systems and for those
1.413 grunk 1619: curious, a first look at the 3.2 OpenBSD T-shirts.
1.184 wvdputte 1620: <p>
1.177 jason 1621:
1.216 jose 1622: <li><strong>
1623: <a href="http://2002.eurobsdcon.org/">BSDCon Europe 2002</a></strong>,
1624: Nov 15 - 17, 2002, Amsterdam, Netherlands<br>
1.181 henning 1625: OpenBSD people were there;
1.236 jose 1626: Philipp Bühler and Henning Brauer spoke about
1.182 ian 1627: <a href="papers/tuning-openbsd.ps">
1628: network performance tuning on OpenBSD</a>,
1.236 jose 1629: and Ian Darwin presented a
1.182 ian 1630: <a href="papers/eurobsd-firewalls-2002.pdf">
1631: tutorial on OpenBSD servers/firewalls</a>.
1.179 pb 1632: <p>
1.178 pb 1633:
1.216 jose 1634: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1635: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa02/">LISA '02: 16th Systems
1.216 jose 1636: Administration Conference</a></strong>,
1637: Nov 3 - 8, 2002, Philadelphia, USA<br>
1.177 jason 1638: Mickey and Jason manned the booth at the vendor expo (the only BSD
1639: represented) and sold <a href="32.html">3.2</a> CDs, and Jason gave a BoF
1640: session on <a href="32.html">3.2</a> and future.
1641: <p>
1642:
1.216 jose 1643: <li><strong>
1.264 djm 1644: <a href="http://www.auug.org.au/events/2002/auug2002/">Australian Unix Users
1645: Group Winter Conference</a></strong>,
1646: Sep 1 - 6, 2002, Melbourne Australia<br>
1647: Damien Miller presented a tutorial on the
1648: <a href="papers/auug2002-ssh/index.html">SSH protocol</a> and
1649: <a href="papers/auug2002-ssh.ps">OpenSSH tips and tricks</a>.
1650: <p>
1651:
1652: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 1653: <a href="http://lsm.abul.org">The 3rd Libre Software Meeting</a></strong>,
1654: Jul 9 - 13, 2002, Bordeaux, France<br>
1.172 miod 1655: Several OpenBSD developers and users were attending the meeting, and
1656: Niels Provos presented his
1657: <a href="http://www.citi.umich.edu/u/provos/systrace">systrace</a>
1658: system call policy management tool.
1.174 nick 1659: <p>
1.172 miod 1660:
1.216 jose 1661: <li><strong>
1662: <a href="http://www.Webb.it">Webb.it 02</a></strong>,
1663: Jul 5 - 7, 2002, Padova, Italy<br>
1.171 ian 1664: OpenBSD developers had a booth selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
1665: <p>
1666:
1.216 jose 1667: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1668: <a href="http://www.softwarelivre.rs.gov.br/forum">The Annual International
1.216 jose 1669: Free Software Forum</a></strong>,
1670: May 2 - 4, 2002, Porto Alegre-RS, Brazil<br>
1.236 jose 1671: Mainly a Linux/GNU event, but this year the BSD Operating Systems
1672: had a chance to prove their value.
1.169 horacio 1673: Edson Brandi spoke on FreeBSD, Diego Linke
1.236 jose 1674: on NetBSD, and Ricardo Nascimento Ferreira on OpenBSD.
1.169 horacio 1675: <p>
1.168 miod 1676:
1.216 jose 1677: <li><strong>
1678: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/bsdcon02/">BSDCON 2002</a></strong>,
1679: Feb 11 - 14, 2002, San Francisco, California, USA<br>
1.161 millert 1680: Todd Miller gave an update on current OpenBSD status and participated in a
1.162 millert 1681: BSD panel discussion. The <a href="slides/bsdcon_2002/index.html">slides</a>
1682: are available.
1.161 millert 1683: <p>
1684:
1.216 jose 1685: <li><strong>
1686: <a href="http://www.linuxexpoparis.com">Linux expo Paris 2002</a></strong>,
1687: Jan 30 - Feb 1, 2002, Paris, France<br>
1.163 miod 1688: The french Linux Expo 2002 was quite small and as usual the OpenBSD booth ended
1689: up with others on the expo's side. On the first day, almost all the merchandise
1690: was sold, and we have even sold older versions (2.9) the following days to
1691: people who wouldn't leave without a cd set in their hands...
1692: <p>
1693:
1.216 jose 1694: <li><strong>
1695: <a href="http://musess.mcmaster.ca/">MUSESS 2002</a></strong>,
1696: Jan 25 - 26, 2002, McMaster University, Ontario, Canada<br>
1.164 millert 1697: Louis Bertrand gave a presentation on OpenBSD titled
1698: <strong>Fix The Bugs, Secure The System</strong>.
1699: The <a href="slides/musess_2002/index.html">slides</a> are available.
1700: <p>
1.236 jose 1701: </ul>
1.164 millert 1702:
1.152 jakob 1703: <h3>2001</h3>
1704:
1.236 jose 1705: <ul>
1.216 jose 1706: <li><strong>
1707: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa01/">USENIX LISA 2001</a></strong>,
1708: Dec 2 - 7, 2001, San Diego, California, USA<br>
1.160 jufi 1709: Niels Provos gave a presentation, and there's been a booth selling
1.413 grunk 1710: T-shirts and 3.0 CDs.
1.160 jufi 1711: <p>
1712:
1.216 jose 1713: <li><strong>
1714: <a href="http://www.ietf.org/meetings/IETF-52.html">52nd IETF</a></strong>,
1715: Dec 9 - 14, 2001, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA<br>
1.160 jufi 1716: Angelos, Itojun & Jakob were there.
1717: <p>
1718:
1.158 deraadt 1719: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1720: <a href="http://www.disc2000.unam.mx/disc/index-ing.html">DISC
1.216 jose 1721: 2001</a></strong>,
1722: Nov 26 - 29, 2001, Mexico City, Mexico<br>
1.158 deraadt 1723: Once again, Theo de Raadt explained the security auditing process and
1724: subsequent secure configuration choices made in OpenBSD, in a talk
1725: entitled "Updated thoughts on writing a secure Operating System".
1726: <p>
1727:
1.216 jose 1728: <li><strong>
1729: <a href="http://www.linux.org.hk">LinuxCafe</a></strong>,
1730: Sep 15, 2001, Hong Kong, China<br>
1.156 provos 1731: Shell Hung gave an introduction for BSD and demonstration of OpenBSD to HKLUG.
1732: <p>
1733:
1.201 deraadt 1734: <li><strong>VPN Bakeoff</strong>,
1.216 jose 1735: Aug 13 - 18, 2001, Finland<br>
1.156 provos 1736: Jakob and Itojun were there.
1737: <p>
1.158 deraadt 1738:
1.150 wvdputte 1739: <li><strong>
1.215 nick 1740: <a href="http://www.hal2001.org">HAL 2001</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1741: Aug 10 - 12, 2001, Twente, Netherlands<br>
1.153 jufi 1742: Quite a lot of developers were there, we even had our own tent.
1743: Niels, Rees and Dugsong held talks, more info on the main website
1744: for HAL2001. And of course T-Shirts and CDROMs were sold.
1.150 wvdputte 1745: <p>
1.137 aaron 1746:
1747: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1748: <a href="http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon/">O'Reilly Open Source
1.216 jose 1749: Conference</a></strong>,
1750: Jul 23 - 27, 2001, San Diego, California, USA<br>
1.148 brian 1751: OpenBSD had a booth selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
1752: Ian Darwin presented his "Firewalls and Secure Internet Servers
1753: with OpenBSD" tutorial.
1754: <p>
1755:
1756: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 1757: <a href="http://www.defcon.org">DEF CON Nine</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1758: Jul 13 - 15, 2001 Las Vegas, USA<br>
1.148 brian 1759: OpenBSD developers and users make it a point to attend every year,
1760: and had a table selling CD's, shirts, etc.
1761: <p>
1762:
1763: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1764: <a href="http://www.sek.co.kr/sek2001/sek_html/main.htm">Software
1.216 jose 1765: Exhibition of Korea</a></strong>,
1766: Jun 26 - 29, 2001, Seoul, Korea<br>
1.146 krw 1767: urisecure/NDS sponsored an OpenBSD booth with CD's, posters,
1768: and a live demo of OpenBSD's IPSEC hardware acceleration.
1769: <p>
1770:
1771: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1772: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix01/">2001 USENIX Annual
1.216 jose 1773: Technical Conference</a></strong>,
1774: Jun 25 - 30, 2001, Boston, USA<br>
1.146 krw 1775: OpenBSD developers were there, selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
1776: <p>
1777:
1778: <li><strong>
1.143 dugsong 1779: <a href="http://www.olymfair.org/eng/workshop.htm">Information
1.201 deraadt 1780: Security OlymFair</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1781: May 16 - 18, 2001, Seoul, Korea<br>
1.143 dugsong 1782: Dug Song gave a detailed introduction to OpenBSD to the Korean
1783: security community.
1784: <p>
1785:
1786: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1787: <a href="http://www.osdem.org/">2001 Open Source and Free Software
1.216 jose 1788: Developers' Meeting</a></strong>,
1789: Feb 3 - 4, 2001, Brussels, Belgium<br>
1.137 aaron 1790: There was an OpenBSD booth with some loose talks made.
1791: <p>
1792:
1793: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 1794: <a href="http://www.linuxexpoparis.com/">2001 Linux Expo</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1795: Feb 1 - 2, 2001, Paris, France<br>
1.236 jose 1796: There was an OpenBSD booth in the 'F' area.
1.137 aaron 1797: <p>
1.236 jose 1798: </ul>
1.137 aaron 1799:
1.132 louis 1800: <h3>2000</h3>
1801:
1.236 jose 1802: <ul>
1.132 louis 1803: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1804: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa2000/">LISA 2000, USENIX
1.216 jose 1805: Systems Administration Conference</a></strong>,
1806: Dec 3 - 8, 2000, New Orleans, USA<br>
1.134 jufi 1807: Wim Vandeputte and other volunteers have been running a sales table with
1808: shirts, posters and the brand new 2.8 CDs.
1809: <p>
1810:
1811: <li><strong>
1.215 nick 1812: <a href="http://www.disc2000.unam.mx/disc/index-ing.html">DISC 2000</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1813: Nov 26 - Dec 1, 2000, Mexico City, Mexico<br>
1.133 deraadt 1814: Theo de Raadt explained the security auditing process and subsequent secure
1815: configuration choices made in OpenBSD, in a talk entitled "Secure by Default".
1816: Over the next few days, he also participated in two panels with various security
1817: experts who had flown in from around the world. Following this, Theo climbed
1.151 jsyn 1818: one of the largest volcanoes, called Malinche.
1.133 deraadt 1819: <p>
1820:
1821: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1822: <a href="http://www.nluug.nl/events/nj2000">NLUUG Najaarsconferentie
1.216 jose 1823: 2000</a></strong>,
1824: Nov 9, 2000, Ede, NL<br>
1.236 jose 1825: There was an OpenBSD booth where people dropped by for information or to
1.413 grunk 1826: get their T-shirts, polos, caps and 2.7 CDs.
1.13 deraadt 1827: <p>
1.4 millert 1828:
1.132 louis 1829: <li><strong><a name=ipsec2000></a>
1.236 jose 1830: <a href="http://www.upperside.fr/baipsecy2k.htm">IPsec 2000 Global
1.216 jose 1831: Summit</a></strong>,
1832: Oct 24 - 27, 2000, Paris La Defense, France<br>
1.159 miod 1833: Niels Provos ended the conference by speaking about the IPsec architecture
1.132 louis 1834: in OpenBSD. The talk was well received and many people were very interested
1835: about our cryptographic hardware acceleration.
1836:
1837: <ul>
1.236 jose 1838: <li>The IPsec Architecture in OpenBSD<br>
1.215 nick 1839: <a href="#ipsec2000">IPsec 2000 Global Summit</a> by Niels Provos.<br>
1.132 louis 1840: <a href="papers/ipsec-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1841: </ul>
1.4 millert 1842: <p>
1.132 louis 1843:
1.7 deraadt 1844: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 1845: <a href="http://ApacheCon.Com/2000/EU/">ApacheCon Europa 2000</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1846: Oct 23 - 25, 2000, London, UK<br>
1.132 louis 1847: There was an OpenBSD booth where people could drop by for information and
1848: a chat with the local OpenBSD personnel. We also had the essentials for
1.413 grunk 1849: your wardrobe (T-shirts, polos, caps), for your hardware (2.7 CDs) and for your
1.132 louis 1850: mind (drinks afterwards).
1851: <p>
1852:
1.216 jose 1853: <li><strong>
1854: <a href="http://www.bsdcon.com/">BSD Con 2000</a></strong>,
1855: Oct 18 - 20, 2000, Monterey, CA, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1856: David Terrell ran an OpenBSD booth selling T-shirts and CDs and answering
1857: questions.
1.32 deraadt 1858: <p>
1.1 deraadt 1859:
1.132 louis 1860: <li><strong><a name=opensource2000></a>
1.236 jose 1861: <a href="http://www.opensource-forum.com/konferens">The Open Source
1.216 jose 1862: Revolution</a></strong>,
1863: Oct 5, 2000, Stockholm, Sweden<br>
1.133 deraadt 1864: Theo de Raadt spoke about how user expectations for security out of the box
1865: have changed over the last years.
1.1 deraadt 1866: <p>
1867:
1.132 louis 1868: <li><strong><a name=sec2000></a>
1.216 jose 1869: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/sec2000/">Usenix Security</a></strong>,
1870: Aug 14 - 17, 2000, Denver, Colorado, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1871: Some OpenBSD developers were there and one paper was presented:
1872: <ul>
1.236 jose 1873: <li>Encrypting Virtual Memory<br>
1.132 louis 1874: <a href="#sec2000">Usenix Security 2000</a>
1.205 deraadt 1875: by Niels Provos.<br>
1.132 louis 1876: <a href="papers/swapencrypt.ps">paper</a> and
1877: <a href="papers/swapencrypt-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1878: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 1879: <p>
1.132 louis 1880:
1.10 provos 1881: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 1882: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-8-post.html">Defcon 2000</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1883: Jul 28 - 30, 2000, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.236 jose 1884: Kjell Wooding (our IPF maintainer), James Phillips from the
1.132 louis 1885: <a href="http://www.deadly.org">OpenBSD Journal</a>, and Theo de Raadt
1.413 grunk 1886: had a table and were selling OpenBSD CDROMs, T-shirts, and posters on
1.132 louis 1887: Friday and Saturday. Hordes of people visited our table and we at the
1888: end we were completely sold out of CDROMS and shirts (allowing us to go
1889: check out Hoover Dam's hardhat tour on Sunday and leave the madness behind).
1890: <br>
1891: We were completely amazed at the people who stopped by our table, to say
1892: that they were relying on OpenBSD.
1893: <p>
1.32 deraadt 1894:
1.132 louis 1895: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1896: <a href="http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon2000/">O'Reilly Open Source
1.216 jose 1897: Conference 2000</a></strong>,
1898: Jul 17 - 20, 2000, Monterey, California, USA<br>
1899: Ian Darwin presented a <a href="papers/oreilly2000/">tutorial</a> on
1.132 louis 1900: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/w/bsd_tutorials.html">
1901: Secure Internet Servers/Firewalls with OpenBSD</a>, and bravely
1902: manned the OpenBSD booth for the remainder of the show.
1903: Kjell Wooding took part in a panel discussion on the Future of the BSDs,
1904: and spoke about
1905: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/w/bsd_presentations.html">
1.241 david 1906: Secure By Default.</a> Both sessions were well attended, and at least
1.132 louis 1907: one Linux sysadmin was seen racing for a keyboard, scared look in his eyes,
1.236 jose 1908: after the security talk.
1.3 provos 1909: <p>
1.132 louis 1910:
1.6 deraadt 1911: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 1912: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.de/2000/english/">LinuxTag 2000</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1913: Jun 29 - Jul 2, 2000, Stuttgart, Germany<br>
1.132 louis 1914: There was a BSD booth where we had the first <a href="27.html">OpenBSD 2.7 CDs</a> for Europe
1915: and the new blue stitchwork <a href="tshirts.html#11">Blowfish Polo</a> shirt.
1916: <br>
1917: Christian Weisgerber gave a
1918: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.de/2000/english/conference/talks.php3?ID=3">talk
1919: on BSD</a>.
1.32 deraadt 1920: <p>
1.1 deraadt 1921:
1.216 jose 1922: <li><strong><a name=usenix2000></a>
1.236 jose 1923: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix2000/">Usenix Annual Technical
1.216 jose 1924: Conference.</a></strong>,
1925: Jun 18 - 23, 2000, San Diego, California, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1926: Almost 20 OpenBSD developers showed up for the 25th anniversary of Usenix.
1927: We had a vendor booth, as well as a number of papers being presented.
1928: Conference attendees had the opportunity to test drive the new release,
1929: OpenBSD 2.7, on the 30 workstations in the terminal room. For the first
1930: time ever, the terminal room and wavelan networks also had a IPv6 connection,
1.147 jason 1931: and some users even discovered so by themselves.
1.132 louis 1932: Theo also held a BoF on the Wednesday evening, after which the developers
1933: had almost too much singing in foreign languages with the help of helium.
1934: <ul>
1935:
1936: <li>Implementing Internet Key Exchange, IKE.<br>
1937: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
1.216 jose 1938: by Angelos D. Keromytis, Niklas Hallqvist.<br>
1.132 louis 1939: <a href="papers/ikepaper.ps">paper</a> and
1940: <a href="papers/ikeslides.ps">slides</a>.
1941:
1942: <li>Transparent Network Security Policy Enforcement.<br>
1943: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
1.216 jose 1944: by Angelos D. Keromytis, Jason L. Wright.<br>
1.132 louis 1945: <a href="papers/bridgepaper.ps">paper</a> and
1946: <a href="papers/bridgeslides.ps">slides</a>.
1.2 deraadt 1947:
1.132 louis 1948: <li>Safety Checking of Kernel Extensions.<br>
1949: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
1.205 deraadt 1950: by Craig Metz.
1.132 louis 1951: </ul>
1.2 deraadt 1952: <p>
1953:
1.132 louis 1954: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1955: <a href="http://www.manlug.mcc.ac.uk/calendar.html">OpenBSD: The Open
1.216 jose 1956: Source Secure Operating System</a></strong>,
1957: Jun 17, 2000, 14:00. Manchester, UK<br>
1.132 louis 1958: Sam Smith gave a rundown of features coming in OpenBSD 2.7 and
1959: OpenSSH 2.1. His <a href="http://www.manlug.mcc.ac.uk/20000617/">slides</a>
1960: are available from the user group's site.
1.1 deraadt 1961: <p>
1.2 deraadt 1962:
1.132 louis 1963: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 1964: <a href="reprints/crypto2000.html">OpenBSD Crypto 2000 conference</a></strong>,
1965: Jun 15 - 20, 2000, Calgary, AB, Canada<br>
1.132 louis 1966: Repeating the tradition of a similar meeting held last year, many
1967: OpenBSD developers from around the world converged on Calgary
1968: for a weekend long hack-and-drink session. As before, the event
1969: was invitation only. Many significant things got done, including
1970: ipv6 + ipsec running over hardware crypto devices.
1.1 deraadt 1971: <p>
1.11 jkatz 1972:
1.17 deraadt 1973: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 1974: <a href="http://www.converge2000.com">CONVERGENCE 2000</a></strong>,
1975: May 18, 2000. Convention Centre, Calgary, Alberta, Canada<br>
1.132 louis 1976: Theo de Raadt participated in a panel discussion about the pros and cons
1977: of using Open Source software in various business environments. The local
1978: users also handed out OpenSSH and OpenBSD posters, and were absolutely
1979: surprised and amazed by the number of Calgary companies quietly using
1980: OpenBSD.
1.21 pattonme 1981: <p>
1.17 deraadt 1982:
1.23 niklas 1983: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 1984: <a href="http://www.cansecwest.com/">CanSecWest</a></strong>,
1985: May 10 - 12, 2000. Robson Conference Centre, Vancouver, BC, Canada<br>
1.132 louis 1986: Theo de Raadt spoke about why programmers keep making the same stupid mistakes,
1987: what types of efforts might improve this, and how this all relates to auditing
1.375 grunk 1988: efforts.
1989: Rain Forest Puppy, Ron Gula (Network Security Wizards), Ken Williams (E&Y),
1.216 jose 1990: Marty Roesch (snort/HiverWorld), and Fyodor (nmap) were among the other speakers
1.132 louis 1991: at this event. (On a personal note: at this conference Theo realized that three
1992: leading Network Intrusion Detection System companies use OpenBSD as their
1993: base operating system: Hiverworld, Network Security Wizards, and NFR).
1.32 deraadt 1994: <p>
1.25 deraadt 1995:
1.132 louis 1996: <li><strong>
1997: <a href="http://www.zdevents.com/comdex/spring2000/">Linux Business Expo /
1.201 deraadt 1998: COMDEX Spring 2000</a></strong>,
1999: Apr 19, 2000, Chicago, IL, USA<br>
1.216 jose 2000: Louis Bertrand represented OpenBSD at a BSD BOF with FreeBSD/BDSI,
1.132 louis 2001: NetBSD and Apple (Darwin is BSD-derived). The BOF was attended by about
2002: 75 people, many of whom were new to *BSD. It was an opportunity to
2003: explore future cooperation among the various BSD groups and companies.
1.25 deraadt 2004: <p>
1.23 niklas 2005:
1.31 deraadt 2006: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2007: <a href="http://www.nordu.org/NordU2000/">NordU 2000 -- The second
1.216 jose 2008: EurOpen/USENIX Conference</a></strong>,
2009: Feb 8 - 11, 2000. Malmo, Sweden<br>
1.140 jufi 2010: About 15 OpenBSD team members attended.
1.132 louis 2011: OpenBSD CDs and shirts were sold at a booth donated by the conference.<br>
2012: As well, Theo de Raadt gave an invited talk on Wednesday morning
2013: about why software quality/security suffers, and what we can do to
2014: improve it.
1.32 deraadt 2015: <p>
1.31 deraadt 2016:
1.201 deraadt 2017: <li><strong>BSD BOF session, LinuxWorld Expo</strong>,
1.216 jose 2018: Feb 3, 2000, New York, USA<br>
1.132 louis 2019: Representatives from OpenBSD, BSDi, and FreeBSD hosted a
2020: "Birds Of a Feather" session at the <a
2021: href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/">New York LinuxWorld Expo</a>.<br>
2022: There were installation CD-ROMs, free food, and even free Daemon Horns!
1.33 niklas 2023: <p>
1.236 jose 2024: </ul>
1.33 niklas 2025:
1.132 louis 2026: <h3>1999</h3>
1.36 niklas 2027:
1.236 jose 2028: <ul>
1.216 jose 2029: <li><strong>The Bazaar</strong>,
2030: Dec 14 - 16, 1999, New York, New York, USA<br>
1.132 louis 2031: Wes Sonnenreich and Tom Yates presented a tutorial on building
1.216 jose 2032: firewalls with OpenBSD. BoF of open source BSDs took place.
1.413 grunk 2033: 2.6 release CDROMs and T-shirts were sold.
1.132 louis 2034: Emphatic interest has been shown by representatives from press, international
2035: government and military institutions.
1.45 jason 2036: <p>
2037:
1.216 jose 2038: <li><strong><a name=lisa99></a>
1.236 jose 2039: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa99/">13th Systems Administration
1.216 jose 2040: Conference (LISA 99)</a></strong>,
2041: Nov 7 - 12, 1999, Seattle, Washington, USA<br>
1.132 louis 2042: Bob Beck presented a paper about the U of A's nifty OpenBSD based
2043: solution to the problem of public Ethernet jacks in the technical sessions
2044: starting at 11:00 AM on the 11th.<br>
2045: There were many other OpenBSD
2046: people at this conference as well, as well as a booth selling CDROMs and
1.413 grunk 2047: T-shirts. His paper is available at:
1.132 louis 2048:
2049: <ul>
2050: <li>Dealing with Public Ethernet Jacks-Switches, Gateways, and Authentication.<br>
1.236 jose 2051: <a href="events.html#lisa99">LISA 1999</a>,
1.206 david 2052: by Bob Beck.<br>
1.236 jose 2053: <a href="papers/authgw-paper.ps">paper</a> and
2054: <a href="papers/authgw-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 2055: </ul>
2056: <p>
2057:
2058: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 2059: IP-dagarna 1999</strong>,
1.216 jose 2060: Oct 27 - 28, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden<br>
1.132 louis 2061: Håkan Olsson & Jakob Schlyter spoke at the DNSSEC session on the 27th.
2062: <p>
2063:
2064: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2065: <a href="http://www.opensource-forum.com/konferens/">Linux & Open Source
1.216 jose 2066: Software '99</a></strong>,
2067: Oct 21, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)<br>
1.132 louis 2068: Niklas Hallqvist spoke on the topic of how to use
1.236 jose 2069: <a
1.375 grunk 2070: href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4">IPsec</a> for securing communications.
1.132 louis 2071: <p>
2072:
2073: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2074: <a href="http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference">Reflections/Projections
1.216 jose 2075: 1999</a></strong>,
2076: Oct 8 - 10, 1999, Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA<br>
1.132 louis 2077: Theo de Raadt spoke at 10:00am on the 9th. Other OpenBSD
2078: developers from the east coast attended as well.
2079: <p>
2080:
1.236 jose 2081: <li><strong><a name="ipsec99"></a>
1.216 jose 2082: IPsec Interoperability tests</strong>,
2083: Sep 27 - 30, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)<br>
1.236 jose 2084: A dozen vendors, among them OpenBSD, tested more than 15
1.375 grunk 2085: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4">IPsec</a>
1.132 louis 2086: products, both gateways and hosts, for interoperability. The tests
2087: were successful as far as general IPsec and pre-shared key
2088: authentication went, OpenBSD interoperated with everyone, but due to
2089: time constraints we never got to test the certificate support
2090: appropriately. The results were presented later that fall at a
2091: conference in Stockholm.
2092: <p>
2093:
2094: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2095: <a href="http://www.auug.org.au/winter/auug99">AUUG'99</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 2096: Sep 8 - 11, 1999, Melbourne, Australia<br>
1.132 louis 2097: Theo de Raadt gave two talks on "quality of software" related issues
2098: and participated on a panel about how open source projects are
2099: coordinated.
2100: <p>
2101:
2102: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2103: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/sec99/index.html">Usenix
1.216 jose 2104: Security</a></strong>,
2105: Aug 23 - 26, 1999, Washington, DC, USA<br>
1.132 louis 2106: Many OpenBSD people from the east coast showed up and sold CDs and
2107: shirts. It was pretty clear from discussions that many people were
2108: very aware of OpenBSD, and that OpenBSD was being used in very
2109: significant security roles.
2110: <p>
2111:
2112: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2113: <a href="http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/99jul/index.html">45th IETF
1.216 jose 2114: meeting</a></strong>,
2115: Jul 12 - 16, 1999, Oslo, Norway<br>
1.132 louis 2116: A number of OpenBSD team members from all over the world were at this
2117: conference. In addition to attending the IPsec and DNS working groups (among
2118: others) we did IPsec/IKE interoperability testing together with
1.166 miod 2119: the Japanese KAME project. Also, Angelos D. Keromytis did a presentation on
1.132 louis 2120: his work with keynote and isakmpd in OpenBSD.
2121: <p>
1.45 jason 2122:
1.132 louis 2123: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2124: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-6.html">Defcon 6.0</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 2125: Jul 9 - 11, 1999, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132 louis 2126: At this conference, the OpenBSD team sold 100 or so 2.5 release CDROMs
1.413 grunk 2127: and a TON of T-shirts.
1.46 deraadt 2128: <p>
1.132 louis 2129:
1.236 jose 2130: <li><strong><a name="usenix99"></a>
2131: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix99/index.html">
1.216 jose 2132: Usenix Annual Technical Conference</a></strong>,
2133: Jun 6 - 11, 1999, Monterey, California, USA<br>
1.106 jufi 2134: The <a href="http://www.usenix.org">USENIX Association</a>
1.46 deraadt 2135: provided The OpenBSD Project with a grant to underwrite the production
1.106 jufi 2136: of CDs of OpenBSD 2.5. (We distributed the
2137: release for free to attendees of the USENIX Annual Conference in
1.46 deraadt 2138: June.)
1.132 louis 2139: <br>
1.46 deraadt 2140: Usenix team members were involved in the authoring and
1.132 louis 2141: presentation of 4 OpenBSD-related papers:
2142:
1.375 grunk 2143: <a name="anoncvs_paper"></a>
1.46 deraadt 2144: <ul>
1.66 deraadt 2145: <li>Opening the Source Repository with Anonymous CVS.<br>
1.236 jose 2146: <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216 jose 2147: by Charles D. Cranor, Theo de Raadt.<br>
1.236 jose 2148: <a href="papers/anoncvs-paper.ps">paper</a> and
2149: <a href="papers/anoncvs-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 2150: <br>
1.66 deraadt 2151: <li>A Future-Adaptable Password Scheme.<br>
1.236 jose 2152: <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216 jose 2153: by Niels Provos, David Mazieres.<br>
1.236 jose 2154: <a href="papers/bcrypt-paper.ps">paper</a> and
2155: <a href="papers/bcrypt-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 2156: <br>
1.66 deraadt 2157: <li>Cryptography in OpenBSD: An Overview.<br>
1.236 jose 2158: <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216 jose 2159: by Theo de Raadt, Niklas Hallqvist, Artur Grabowski,
2160: Angelos D. Keromytis, Niels Provos.<br>
1.236 jose 2161: <a href="papers/crypt-paper.ps">paper</a> and
2162: <a href="papers/crypt-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 2163: <br>
1.66 deraadt 2164: <li>strlcpy and strlcat -- consistent, safe, string copy and concatenation.<br>
1.236 jose 2165: <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216 jose 2166: by Todd C. Miller, Theo de Raadt.<br>
1.236 jose 2167: <a href="papers/strlcpy-paper.ps">paper</a> and
2168: <a href="papers/strlcpy-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 2169: </ul>
1.66 deraadt 2170: <p>
1.46 deraadt 2171:
1.51 deraadt 2172: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2173: <a href="http://www.linuxexpo.org">5th Annual Linux Expo</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 2174: May 18 - 22, 1999, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA<br>
1.132 louis 2175: Some OpenBSD team members were at this conference selling OpenBSD 2.5 CDs,
2176: OpenBSE T-shirts, as well as Blowfish T-shirts, which sold out very quickly
2177: at a table donated by the Expo. OpenBSD was the only BSD represented at the
2178: vendor exposition, and we had good chance to present a secure alternative
2179: to Linux.
1.51 deraadt 2180: <p>
2181:
1.53 jakob 2182: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2183: <a href="http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/99mar/index.html">44th IETF
1.216 jose 2184: meeting</a></strong>,
2185: Mar 15 - 19, 1999, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA<br>
1.132 louis 2186: Some OpenBSD team members were at this conference, in particular our
2187: IPSEC developers.
1.53 jakob 2188: <p>
2189:
1.132 louis 2190: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2191: <a href="http://www.europen.se/NordU99">NordU99 -- The first
1.216 jose 2192: EurOpen/USENIX Conference</a></strong>,
2193: Feb 9 - 12, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden<br>
1.132 louis 2194: A couple of OpenBSD team members were there and some of the swedish user
2195: society as well. OpenBSD CDs were sold at a booth and at the end of a
2196: security talk, the project got applauded for its continuous strive of auditing
2197: security sensitive parts of the system.
1.59 deraadt 2198: <p>
1.236 jose 2199: </ul>
1.59 deraadt 2200:
1.132 louis 2201: <h3>1998</h3>
1.59 deraadt 2202:
1.236 jose 2203: <ul>
1.132 louis 2204: <li><strong><a name=ipsec98></a>
1.236 jose 2205: <a href="http://www.netman.se/kurs/96.html">IPsec/VPN Interoperability
2206: tests & seminar</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 2207: Dec 14, 1998, Stockholm, Sweden (in swedish)<br>
1.132 louis 2208: OpenBSD was represented as one of about a dozen
1.375 grunk 2209: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4">IPsec</a>
1.132 louis 2210: implementations who were tested for interoperability. The tests were
2211: successful, both for the technology in general, and for OpenBSD in
2212: specific. We managed to communicate encrypted with every vendor present,
2213: and to negotiate keys via IKE with everyone capable.
1.70 deraadt 2214: <p>
2215:
1.236 jose 2216: <li><strong><a name="lisaboston-98"></a>
2217: <a href="http://usenix.org/events/lisa98">LISA '98: 12th Systems Administration
1.216 jose 2218: Conference</a></strong>,
2219: Dec 6 - 11, 1998, Boston, Massachusetts<br>
1.132 louis 2220: More than 10 OpenBSD team members showed up. By far, OpenBSD was the
2221: largest representative group from free software at the conference.
2222: Usenix gave us a table in the vendor area where we sold 2.4 CDROMs,
1.413 grunk 2223: 2.3 "wire-frame" T-shirts, and the new 2.4 embroidered
2224: "Because security matters..." T-shirts, polos, and sweaters.
1.132 louis 2225: An OpenBSD BOF was held one evening, led by Theo de Raadt.
2226: A PalmPilot schedule loader was at the membership booth, powered by OpenBSD.
2227: <br>
2228: The terminal room ran OpenBSD 2.4 on 45 machines. Obviously trust in OpenBSD
2229: had increased since many people,normally wary of security problems of open
2230: terminal rooms, were seen using the machines.
1.72 ho 2231: <p>
2232:
1.73 deraadt 2233: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2234: <a href="http://www.asc.unam.mx/disc98">DISC - Seguridad en
1.217 jose 2235: Cómputo 98</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 2236: Nov 2 - 7, 1998, Mexico City<br>
1.132 louis 2237: Theo de Raadt gave a talk about security auditing, sponsored by
1.236 jose 2238: <a href="http://www.core-sdi.com">CORE SDI S.A.</a>, an Argentine
1.132 louis 2239: security auditing company who strongly believes in the future
1.236 jose 2240: of OpenBSD. (<a href="papers/mexico98-slides.ps">Slides are available</a>).
1.131 jufi 2241: <p>
1.73 deraadt 2242:
1.236 jose 2243: <li><strong>IP-dagarna</strong>,
1.216 jose 2244: Oct 29, 30 1998, Stockholm, Sweden (in swedish)<br>
1.132 louis 2245: At this conference, entirely devoted to IP, Niklas Hallqvist from the
2246: OpenBSD team held a talk on the IKE (a.k.a ISAKMP/Oakley) key management
2247: protocol and experiences from the implementation of <strong>isakmpd</strong>,
2248: an IKE implementation funded by Ericsson Radio Systems and developed
2249: primarily for the OpenBSD IPSEC stack.
1.79 deraadt 2250: <p>
1.73 deraadt 2251:
1.80 deraadt 2252: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 2253: <a href="http://www.nceexpo.com/">NCEE '98</a></strong>,
2254: Oct 9 - 10, 1998, Auburn, Maine, USA<br>
1.132 louis 2255: An extensive after-action report was sent to advocacy@openbsd.org. While
1.151 jsyn 2256: sales of shirts and CDROMs left much to be desired, we did have good
1.132 louis 2257: opportunities to further project visibility and highlight its strengths.
1.80 deraadt 2258: <p>
2259:
1.93 louis 2260: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2261: <a href="http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference">Reflections/Projections
1.216 jose 2262: 1998</a></strong>,
1.236 jose 2263: Oct 2 - 4, 1998, Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA<br>
1.132 louis 2264: Theo de Raadt spoke in a panel about Open/Free software with Eric
2265: Raymond and others.
1.93 louis 2266: <p>
2267:
1.216 jose 2268: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2269: <a href="http://opensource.oreilly.com/townmeet.html">O'Reilly and
2270: Associates Open Source Developer Days</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 2271: Aug 21, 1998, San Jose, California, USA<br>
1.132 louis 2272: OpenBSD team members were on-hand to discuss OpenBSD's role among the
1.413 grunk 2273: other free software projects available. They also sold some CDs and T-shirts.
1.96 deraadt 2274: <p>
2275:
1.236 jose 2276: <li><strong><a name="defcon98"></a>
2277: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-6.html">Defcon VI</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 2278: Jul 31 - Aug 2, 1998, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132 louis 2279: The router to the outside world was an OpenBSD 2.3 box. It was involved
2280: in a "capture the flag" competition in which an entire room of crackers
2281: attempted to break into it and machines running other operating systems.
2282: The OpenBSD box was not broken into.
2283: <br>
2284: Almost 100 OpenBSD 2.3 CDROMs were sold (we ran out again). The primates
1.236 jose 2285: at <a href="http://www.monkey.org">monkey.org</a> brought 2.3
1.413 grunk 2286: "wire-frame" OpenBSD T-shirts to the conference and sold almost
1.132 louis 2287: 200 of them. The proceeds from the sales were donated to the OpenBSD project.
1.96 deraadt 2288: <p>
1.94 deraadt 2289:
1.236 jose 2290: <li><strong><a href="http://www.blackhat.com">BlackHat Sessions</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 2291: Jul 29 - 30, 1998, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132 louis 2292: Theo de Raadt presented a talk entitled
2293: "Auditing software for security" about the OpenBSD security auditing
2294: team's process and the lessons the team learned. The talk concentrated
2295: on how our process fixes bugs -- not just holes -- since one never knows
2296: when 5 bugs will act together to become a hole.
1.99 deraadt 2297: <p>
2298:
1.236 jose 2299: <li><strong><a name="usenix-neworleans"></a>
2300: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/usenix98/index.html">Usenix Annual Technical Conference</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 2301: Jun 15 - 19, 1998, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA<br>
1.132 louis 2302: At Usenix 1998 there was a strong OpenBSD presence both in the Freenix
2303: and normal tracks. Theo did a general talk about what the OpenBSD
2304: project offers. Angelos held a panel about IPSEC (which is quite an
2305: OpenBSD topic since IPSEC development at that time was so much further
2306: ahead in OpenBSD than anywhere else).
2307: <br>
2308: The terminal room PCs ran OpenBSD 2.3. We sold many CDROMs. The
1.413 grunk 2309: first style of OpenBSD T-shirt also sold quite well.
1.101 wvdputte 2310: <p>
2311:
1.105 wvdputte 2312: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2313: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/sec98/index.html">Usenix Security</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 2314: Jan 26 - 29, 1998, San Antonio, Texas, USA<br>
1.132 louis 2315: At this conference, Theo presented an evening talk which basically
2316: turned into a list of fixed security problems and cautionary tales about
2317: subsystems in which future problems may be encountered
1.236 jose 2318: (<a href="papers/security98-slides.ps">slides available</a>).
1.105 wvdputte 2319: <br>
1.132 louis 2320: The terminal room PCs ran OpenBSD 2.2.
2321: <p>
1.236 jose 2322: </ul>
1.105 wvdputte 2323:
1.132 louis 2324: <h3>1997</h3>
1.107 deraadt 2325:
1.236 jose 2326: <ul>
1.113 deraadt 2327: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2328: <a href="http://www.hip97.nl">HIP</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 2329: Aug, 1997, Almere, Netherlands<br>
1.236 jose 2330: Niels held a
2331: <a href="http://www.physnet.uni-hamburg.de/provos/hip97-tcpip.html">talk</a>
1.132 louis 2332: about the problems of unencrypted TCP/IP connections, offering IPSEC as
2333: possible solution.
1.113 deraadt 2334: <p>
1.132 louis 2335:
1.236 jose 2336: <li><strong>HOPE</strong>,
1.216 jose 2337: Aug, 1997, New York, New York, USA<br>
1.166 miod 2338: The terminal room consisted primarily of DECstations running
1.236 jose 2339: OpenBSD 2.1. Once again, the <a href="http://www.l0pht.com">L0phT</a>
1.132 louis 2340: people had very good things to say about our security.
1.113 deraadt 2341: <p>
1.105 wvdputte 2342:
1.236 jose 2343: <li><strong><a name="defcon5"></a>
2344: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-5.html">Defcon V</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 2345: Jul 11 - 13, 1997, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132 louis 2346: At this conference, the OpenBSD team sold 100 or so 2.1 release CDROMs.
2347: <br>
2348: Since this is the primary security conference, many speakers said very
1.140 jufi 2349: good things about our stance on security... particularly people like
1.236 jose 2350: <a href="http://www.l0pht.com">the L0phT</a>.
1.118 deraadt 2351: <p>
2352:
1.125 deraadt 2353: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2354: <a
2355: href="http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/ana97/index.html">Usenix Annual Technical Conference</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 2356: Jan 6 - 10, 1997, Anaheim, California, USA.<br>
1.132 louis 2357: Theo de Raadt held a BOF ("Birds Of a Feather", ie. a meeting of people
2358: interested in the same thing) about OpenBSD.
1.236 jose 2359: </ul>
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