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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 &quot;Birds Of a Feather&quot; (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      23: <hr>
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                     30:     Tagline formatting:
                     31:     <li><strong>
                     32:     <a href=LINK>EVENT NAME</a></strong>,
                     33:     Month Day - Day, Year, Location<br>
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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:
1.691     reyk       46: <li><strong><a name=auug2007></a>
                     47: <a href="http://new.auug.org.au/AUUG2007">AUUG 2007</a></strong>,
                     48: Oct 13 - 14, 2007, Melbourne, Australia.<br>
                     49: Reyk Floeter will talk about load balancing and TCP-relaying with hoststated.
                     50: There will be developers, users, and probably an OpenBSD booth present.
                     51: <p>
                     52:
1.621     wvdputte   53: <li><strong><a name="t-dose2007"></a>
                     54: <a href="http://www.t-dose.org/">T-DOSE 2007</a></strong>,
                     55: Oct 13 - 14, 2007, Eindhoven, The Netherlands.<br>
                     56: Technical Dutch Open Source Event<br>
1.612     mk         57: There will be developers present as well as an OpenBSD booth,
                     58: run by the usual suspects.
                     59: <p>
                     60:
1.647     mbalmer    61: <li><strong><a name="bsdcontr2007"></a>
                     62: <a href="http://www.bsdcontr.org/">BSDConTR 2007</a></strong>
                     63: Oct 20 - 21, 2007, Goztepe Campus Marmara University, Istanbul, Turkey.<br>
1.692   ! mbalmer    64: First Turkish Conference on BSD Systems.<br>
        !            65: Marc Balmer will talk about his work on support for radio clocks in
        !            66: OpenBSD.
1.647     mbalmer    67: <p>
                     68:
1.664     michele    69: <li><strong><a name="opencon2007"></a>
                     70: <a href="http://www.opencon.org/">OpenCON 2007</a></strong>
                     71: Nov 30 - Dec 2, 2007, Venice, Italy.<br>
                     72: OpenCON is the only conference dedicated solely to OpenBSD.
                     73: This edition is composed by one "tutorial day" and two days of conference.
                     74: Three days entirely dedicated to OpenBSD with a lot of developers and users.
                     75: <p>
                     76:
1.588     espie      77: </ul>
                     78:
1.597     mbalmer    79: <hr>
                     80:
                     81: <h2>Past events:</h2>
                     82:
1.616     wvdputte   83: <h3>2007</h3>
                     84: <ul>
1.658     reyk       85:
1.689     claudio    86: <li><strong><a name="openexpo2007"></a>
                     87: <a href="http://www.openexpo.ch/">OpenExpo 2007</a></strong>,
                     88: Sep 19 - 20, 2007, Zurich, Switzerland<br>
                     89: There were developers present as well as an OpenBSD booth,
                     90: run by the usual suspects.  Stephan A. Rickauer gave a talk
                     91: "OpenBSD and Linux: Insights into a migration project at the Institute of
                     92: Neuroinformatics, ETH Zurich".<br>
                     93: <p>
                     94:
1.686     mbalmer    95: <li><strong><a name="eurobsdcon2007"></a>
                     96: <a href="http://2007.eurobsdcon.org/">EuroBSDCon 2007</a></strong>,
                     97: Sep 14 - 15, 2007, Copenhagen, Denmark.<br>
                     98: Marc Balmer gave a talk <a href="papers/eurobsdcon07/mbalmer-radio_clocks.pdf">
                     99: Support for Radio Clocks in OpenBSD</a>.<br>
                    100: Pierre-Yves Ritschard gave a talk "Load Balancing in OpenBSD Using hoststated".<br>
1.688     claudio   101: Claudio Jeker gave a talk <a href="papers/eurobsdcon07/claudio-routing">
                    102: Using OpenBSD as Routing Platform</a>.<br>
1.686     mbalmer   103: Peter Hansteen offered "A Packet Filter Tutorial" on the tutorial day.<br>
                    104: There was an OpenBSD booth, run by the usual suspects.
                    105: <p>
                    106:
1.685     bernd     107: <li><strong><a name="linuxdayskiel2007"></a>
                    108: <a href="http://www.kieler-linuxtage.de">Kieler Linux und Open Source Tage</a></strong>,
                    109: Sep 07 - 08, 2007, Kiel, Germany<br>
                    110: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Bernd.
                    111: <p>
                    112:
1.686     mbalmer   113: <li><strong><a name="xds2007"></a>
                    114: <a href="http://www.x.org/wiki/Events/XDS2007">X.Org Developers' Summit 2007</a></strong>,
                    115: Sep 10 - 12, 2007, Cambridge, UK.<br>
                    116: Matthieu Herrb and Marc Balmer attended the 3-day summit to make sure the
                    117: *BSD point of view was well represented.
                    118: <p>
                    119:
1.684     bernd     120: <li><strong><a name="froscon2007"></a>
                    121: <a href="http://www.froscon.de">FrOSCon 2007</a></strong>,
                    122: Aug 25 - 26, 2007, Bonn/Rhein-Sieg, Germany<br>
                    123: There was an OpenBSD booth, run by the usual suspects.
                    124: <p>
                    125:
1.682     bernd     126: <li><strong><a name="summercamp2007"></a>
                    127: <a href="http://events.ccc.de/camp/2007">Chaos Communication Camp 2007</a>
                    128: </strong>,
                    129: Aug 8 - 12, 2007, Finowfurt, Germany<br>
                    130: This open air event had a big OpenBSD village with all the usual suspects.
                    131: <p>
                    132:
1.680     aanriot   133: <li><strong><a name="lsm2007"></a>
                    134: <a href="http://www.rmll.info">Libre Software Meeting 2007</a></strong>,
                    135: Jul 10 - 14, 2007, Amiens, France.<br>
1.681     aanriot   136: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Wim, Matthieu and
                    137: Alexandre with the help of Serge and Christelle.
1.680     aanriot   138: <p>
                    139:
1.675     mbalmer   140: <li><strong><a name=Slackathon2007></a>
                    141: <a href="http://www.slackathon.se/">Slackathon 2007</a>
                    142: </strong>,
                    143: June 16, 2007, Stockholm, Sweden.<br>
                    144: Yet another round of fund raising for OpenBSD/SSH and general *BSD meeting
                    145: that took place in Stockholm.
                    146: <p>
                    147:
                    148: <li><strong><a name="linuxtag2007"></a>
                    149: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.org/2007/en/">LinuxTag 2007</a>
                    150: </strong>,
                    151: May 30 - Jun 2, 2007, Berlin, Germany<br>
                    152: There were presentations by OpenBSD developers and an OpenBSD booth,
1.677     wvdputte  153: run by the usual suspects, and Stephan A. Rickauer held Peter Hansteen's PF
                    154: tutorial as well as the talk
                    155: <a href="http://www.ini.unizh.ch/~stephan/talks/LinuxTag07.pdf">
                    156: "OpenBSD and Linux: Insights into a migration project at the Institute of
                    157: Neuroinformatics, ETH Zurich"</a>.
1.675     mbalmer   158: <p>
                    159:
1.674     martin    160: <li><strong><a name=LinuxwochenVienna2007></a>
                    161: <a href="http://www.linuxwochen.at/2007/Wien">Linuxwochen Vienna 2007</a>
                    162: </strong>,
                    163: May 31 - Jun 2, 2007, Vienna, Austria.<br>
                    164: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth run by Martin Reindl, Robert Peichaer
                    165: and Teemu Schaabl.
                    166: <p>
                    167:
1.671     aanriot   168: <li><strong><a name=cuug2007></a>
                    169: <a href="http://www.cuug.ab.ca/">Calgary Unix Users Group</a></strong>,
                    170: May 29, 2007, downtown Library, basement meeting room, Calgary, Alberta.<br>
1.688     claudio   171: <a href="papers/cuug07-claudio/">Claudio Jeker</a>,
                    172: <a href="papers/cuug2007/">David Gwynne, Henning Brauer</a>,
1.673     mbalmer   173: Reyk Fl&ouml;ter, Matthieu Herrb, Marc Balmer, and Bob Beck discussed recent and
                    174: future networking changes in OpenBSD, as well as Xenocara, support for
                    175: radio clocks in OpenBSD, and Spam Reduction with OpenBSD spamd and greylisting.
1.672     henning   176: Some other OpenBSD developers attended to provide international colour.
1.671     aanriot   177: <p>
                    178:
1.670     ray       179: <li><strong><a name="bsdcan2007"></a>
                    180: <a href="http://www.bsdcan.org/2007/">BSDCan 2007</a></strong>,
                    181: May 16 - 19, 2007, Ottawa, Canada.<br>
                    182: Several OpenBSD developers were there.<br>
                    183: Peter Hansteen gave a "Packet filtering for fun and profit" tutorial and
                    184: presented a "Fighting malware and spam with free tools" talk.<br>
                    185: Ray Lai presented OpenCVS/OpenRCS and
                    186: discussed why a secure CVS implementation is needed.
                    187: <a href="papers/bsdcan07-cvs/">Slides</a> are available.<br>
                    188: Jason Dixon gave the closing session of BSDCan 2007.
                    189: <p>
                    190:
1.669     fkr       191: <li><strong><a name="confidence2007"></a>
                    192: <a href="http://2007.confidence.org.pl/">Confidence 2007</a></strong>,
                    193: May 12 - 13, 2007, Krakow, Poland.<br>
                    194: Felix, Henning and Wim gave presentations and ran the OpenBSD booth.
                    195: <p>
                    196:
1.666     michele   197: <li><strong><a name="obsdm2"></a>
                    198: <a href="http://www.openbeer.it/?open=obsdm2">OpenBSD Meeting V.2</a></strong>
                    199: May 12, 2007, Verona, Italy.<br>
                    200: Another event organized by the OpenBEER team with italian OpenBSD related talks.
                    201: Michele presented a talk about the OpenBSD network stack.
                    202: <p>
                    203:
                    204: <li><strong><a name="nluug2007"></a>
                    205: <a href="http://www.nluug.nl/events/vj07/index.html">NLUUG Voorjaarsconferentie
                    206: 2007</a></strong>,
                    207: May 10, 2007, Ede, Netherlands<br>
                    208: There was a
                    209: <a href="http://www.nluug.nl/events/vj07/abstracts/ab.html?id=2">presentation</a>
                    210: by Anil Madhavapeddy and an OpenBSD booth, run by the usual
                    211: suspects.
                    212: <p>
                    213:
1.665     mbalmer   214: <li><strong><a name="coimbra2007"></a>
                    215: <a href="http://www.openbsd-pt.com/eventos/coimbra07/index-en.html">Portuguese OpenBSD Usergroup Meeting</a></strong>,
                    216: May 5 - 6, 2007, Coimbra, Portugal.<br>
                    217: 7th Meeting of the Portuguese OpenBSD Usergroup.<br>
                    218: Marc Balmer gave a talk "Ensuring Quality in OpenBSD Without a Formal Process".<br>
                    219: Rui Reis gave a presentation "The Honeynet.PT project".<br>
1.667     pedro     220: Michael Shalayeff gave a talk "Asynchronous I/O".<br>
                    221: Also present was Pedro Martelletto.
1.665     mbalmer   222: <p>
                    223:
1.658     reyk      224: <li><strong><a name=decix6th></a>
                    225: <a href="http://www.de-cix.org/">DE-CIX 6th Technical Meeting</a></strong>,
                    226: Apr 19, 2007, Schloss Kransberg, near Usingen, Germany.<br>
                    227: Henning Brauer and Reyk Fl&ouml;ter talked at the 6th technical
                    228: meeting of the Deutsche Commercial Internet Exchange (DE-CIX).
                    229: Henning gave an update on OpenBGPD and Reyk about the latest
                    230: network-related changes since OpenBSD 4.1. They also talked about
                    231: the status of test OpenBGPD route server running at the DE-CIX.
                    232: <p>
                    233:
1.651     fkr       234: <li><strong><a name="litol07"></a>
                    235: <a href="http://www.lit-ol.de/">2. Linux-Informationstag Oldenburg</a></strong>,
                    236: Apr 14 - 15, 2007, Oldenburg, Germany.<br>
                    237: Small Open-Source event. Of course there was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth run by
1.659     fkr       238: Bernd, Felix and Tobias Stoeckmann. Felix gave a talk about the current state
                    239: of OpenBSD development titled <a href="papers/litol07/">OpenBSD - Past, Present and Future</a>.
1.651     fkr       240: <p>
1.650     deraadt   241:
                    242: <li><strong><a name="fisl8"></a>
                    243: <a href="http://fisl.softwarelivre.org/8.0/www/?q=en">fisl8.0</a></strong>,
                    244: Apr 12-14, 2007, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil.<br>
                    245: This was a fairly large conference in South America.  Theo de Raadt
                    246: presented a talk about <a href="papers/brhard2007/">Hardware Documentation</a>.
                    247: <p>
                    248:
1.645     ray       249: <li><strong><a name="nycbug2007-cvs"></a>
                    250: <a href="http://nycbug.org/">NYC*BUG April 2007</a></strong>,
                    251: Apr 4, 2007, NYC, USA.<br>
                    252: Ray Lai (ray@) gave a
                    253: <a href="http://www.nycbug.org/index.php?NAV=Home;SUBM=10104">talk</a>
                    254: on OpenCVS.
1.648     ray       255: <a href="papers/nycbug07-cvs/">Slides</a> and
                    256: <a href="http://www.fetissov.org/public/nycbug/nycbug-04-04-07.mp3">audio</a>
                    257: are available.
1.645     ray       258: <p>
                    259:
1.638     grunk     260: <li><strong><a name="elite2007"></a>
                    261: <a href="http://www.erlug.de/?q=node/323">5. Erlanger Linuxtage</a></strong>,
                    262: Mar 24 - 25, 2007, Erlangen, Germany.<br>
                    263: There was an OpenBSD/OpenSSH booth, run by Alexander von Gernler (grunk@).
                    264: He also gave a talk called
1.639     grunk     265: <a href="papers/elite2007/elite2007-openbsd.pdf">
1.638     grunk     266: "Sichere Systeme mit OpenBSD" (german)</a>.
                    267: <p>
                    268:
1.635     tom       269: <li><strong><a name="ukuug2007"></a>
                    270: <a href="http://www.ukuug.org/events/spring2007/">UKUUG Spring 2007 Conference</a></strong>,
                    271: Mar 19 - 21, 2007, Manchester, United Kingdom<br>
                    272: Tom Cosgrove gave a presentation about "Third-Party Applications on OpenBSD"
                    273: at the annual spring meeting of the
                    274: <a href="http://www.ukuug.org/">UK's Unix and Open Systems User Group</a>.
                    275: <p>
                    276:
1.627     mcbride   277: <li><strong><a name="asiabsdcon2007"></a>
                    278: <a href="http://www.asiabsdcon.org/">AsiaBSDCon 2007</a></strong>,
                    279: Mar 8 - 11, 2007, Tokyo, Japan.<br>
1.631     mbalmer   280: Marc Balmer presented a paper <a href="papers/radio-clocks-asiabsdcon07.pdf">Supporting Radio Clocks in OpenBSD</a>. Presentation
                    281: <a href="papers/asiabsdcon07-radioclocks/index.html">slides</a> are also
                    282: available.<br>
1.627     mcbride   283: 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   284: Mathieu Sauve-Frankel gave a talk <a href="papers/asiabsdcon07-ipsec/index.html">Recent Improvements in OpenBSD's IPSec Support</a>.<br>
                    285: Damien Miller presented a paper <a href="papers/openssh-measures-asiabsdcon2007.pdf">Security measures in OpenSSH</a>. Presentation
1.628     djm       286: <a href="papers/openssh-measures-asiabsdcon2007-slides.pdf">slides</a> are
                    287: also available.<br>
1.627     mcbride   288: 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".
                    289: <p>
                    290:
1.622     fkr       291: <li><strong><a name="linuxforum2007"></a>
                    292: <a href="http://www.linuxforum.dk/2007/">LinuxForum 2007</a></strong>,
                    293: Mar 2 - 3, 2007, Copenhagen, Denmark.<br>
1.623     wvdputte  294: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth run by Wim, Bernd and Michael in the
1.633     tom       295: <a href="http://img.ba-net.org/LinuxForum2007/">best of circumstances</a>.
1.622     fkr       296: Felix gave a talk titled
                    297: <a href="papers/linuxforum07/index.html">OpenBSD - Past, Present and Future</a>.
                    298: <p>
                    299:
1.619     wvdputte  300: <li><strong><a name=Brussels2007></a>
                    301: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/2007/">FOSDEM Brussels 2007</a></strong>,
                    302: Feb 24 - 25, 2007, Brussels, Belgium.<br>
                    303: There was an an OpenBSD/OpenSSH booth with Matthieu, Marc, Mickey, Saad
                    304: and Wim. On Saturday we had our traditional BSD dinner.<br>
                    305: Matthieu gave a <a href="papers/fosdem07-xenocara.pdf">
                    306: talk on Xenocara</a> in the X.Org devroom.
                    307: <p>
1.616     wvdputte  308:
                    309: <li><strong><a name="kiberpipa2007"></a>
                    310: <a href="http://pot.kiberpipa.org">Kiberpipa open sessions</a></strong>,
                    311: February 20, 2007, Ljubljana, Slovenia.<br>
                    312: On that edition of weekly "Open sessions" meetings
                    313: <a href="http://www.kerberos.si">Mitja Muzenic</a> gave a
                    314: <a href="http://pot.kiberpipa.org/?p=39">talk</a> on OpenBSD.
1.619     wvdputte  315: <a href="http://www.kerberos.si/papers/Kiberpipa07/">Slides</a> (in Slovenian),
                    316: <a href="http://video.kiberpipa.org/media/POT_OpenBSD">video</a> (in Slovenian),
1.616     wvdputte  317: and <a href="http://gallery.kerberos.si/kiberpipa07/">photos</a> are available.
                    318: <p>
                    319:
                    320: </ul>
                    321:
1.445     martin    322: <h3>2006</h3>
1.236     jose      323: <ul>
1.537     deraadt   324:
1.588     espie     325: <li><strong><a name="23c3"></a>
1.577     mbalmer   326: <a href="https://events.ccc.de/congress/2006/">23C3 Chaos Communication Congress in
                    327: Berlin</a></strong>,
                    328: December 27 - 30, 2006, Berlin, Germany.<br>
1.597     mbalmer   329: Who can you trust? Well, us. OpenBSD was there, of course, for our annual
1.595     reyk      330: closing event.  fkr, grunk, jsg, mbalmer, mickey, sturm, uwe, martin,
1.598     bernd     331: henning, moritz, bernd and wvdputte were there
1.597     mbalmer   332: there to chat with attendees and discuss OpenBSD stuff.  It was - as usual -
                    333: a great end-of-the-year event.  See you in Berlin again end of 2007.
1.577     mbalmer   334: <p>
                    335:
1.594     mbalmer   336: <li><strong><a name="moscow2006"></a>
                    337: <a href="https://kd85.com/">Moscow OpenBSD user meeting</a></strong>,
                    338: December 8 - 9, 2006, Moscow, Russia.<br>
1.633     tom       339: For details, please email <a href="mailto:grange@opensd.org">Grange</a>
1.594     mbalmer   340: <p>
                    341:
1.515     tom       342: <li><strong><a name="opencon2006"></a>
                    343: <a href="http://www.opencon.org/">OpenCON 2006</a></strong>,
1.569     deraadt   344: 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   345: OpenCON is the only conference dedicated solely to OpenBSD.
1.587     deraadt   346: 135 people were registered for the event, but since it was a completely open event is likely that
                    347: even more people just walked in.
1.577     mbalmer   348: Most talks were by OpenBSD developers, but there was also an impressive
1.568     mbalmer   349: number of our developers just attending the conference.  Talks by OpenBSD
1.577     mbalmer   350: developers were:
1.568     mbalmer   351: <p>
1.535     deraadt   352:  <ul>
1.581     claudio   353:  <li>Claudio Jeker: <a href="papers/opencon06-network/index.html">
                    354:      Network stack changes in OpenBSD</a>
1.580     deraadt   355:  <li>Marc Balmer: <a href="papers/opencon06-nmea/index.html">
                    356:      Support for Time Signal Station Receivers and GPS in OpenBSD</a>
1.601     fkr       357:  <li>Felix Kronlage: <a href="papers/opencon06-umts/index.html">Redundancy or mobile deployment with 3G technology</a>
1.584     jsg       358:  <li>Jonathan Gray: <a href="papers/opencon06-drivers/index.html">
                    359:      Driver architecture and implementation in OpenBSD</a>
1.543     mbalmer   360:  <li>Gordon Klok: <i>Processor Power Management</i>
1.596     dlg       361:  <li>David Gwynne: <a href="papers/opencon06-culture.pdf">The OpenBSD
                    362:      Culture</a> and he also filled in for Marco's
                    363:      <a href="papers/opencon06-bio.pdf">Bio and Sensors in OpenBSD</a> talk.
1.582     michele   364:  <li>Michele Marchetto: <a href="papers/opencon06-ripd/index.html">
                    365:      OpenRIPD</a>
1.574     mbalmer   366:  <li>Reyk Floeter: <i>IPsec demystified</i>
1.580     deraadt   367:  <li>Theo de Raadt: <a href="papers/opencon06-docs">
                    368:     Why hardware documentation matters so much and why it is so hard to get</a>
1.535     deraadt   369:  </ul>
1.502     mbalmer   370: <p>
1.577     mbalmer   371: Also present were jcs, krw, mglocker, robert, wvdputte, martin, grunk,
                    372: dhartmei, aanriot, sturm, and bernd.  Of course there was an OpenBSD booth
                    373: run by the usual suspects and you could buy our CD-ROMS, the audio CD and other
1.568     mbalmer   374: stuff.
                    375: <p>
1.502     mbalmer   376:
1.575     reyk      377: <li><strong><a name=opensourcetag2006></a>
                    378: <a href="http://www.opensourcetag.de/2006/">OpenSourceTag 2006</a></strong>,
                    379: Nov 30, 2006, Hannover, Germany.<br>
                    380: Reyk gave a <a href="http://www.opensourcetag.de/2006/agenda/">talk</a> about OpenBSD
                    381: as a reference project for secure software.
                    382: <p>
                    383:
1.583     henning   384: <li><strong><a name=epf2006></a>
                    385: <a href="http://www.peering-forum.eu/2006/">European Peering Forum 2006</a></strong>,
                    386: Nov 29 - 30, 2006, Frankfurt, Germany.<br>
                    387: The European Peering Forum in Frankfurt was hosted by the 3 big european
                    388: peering points DE-CIX, AMSIX and LINX, bringing network operators together.
                    389: Henning was talking about OpenBGPD,
                    390: <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/epf2006/">slides</a> are available.
                    391: <p>
                    392:
1.565     krw       393: <li><strong><a name=conisli2006></a>
                    394: <a href="http://conisli.org/">CONISLI 2006</a></strong>,
                    395: Nov 3 - 5, 2006, S&atilde;o Paulo, Brazil<br>
                    396: 4th edition of S&atilde;o Paulo's International Free Software Congress.
1.687     jolan     397: Ken Westerback and Pedro Martelletto gave a talk.
1.565     krw       398: <p>
                    399:
1.559     jason     400: <li><strong><a name=nycbsdcon2006></a>
                    401: <a href="http://nycbsdcon.org/">NYCBSDCon 2006</a></strong>,
                    402: Oct 28 - 29, 2006, New York City, USA<br>
                    403: NYCBSDCon is the main conference on the East Coast for the
                    404: BSD community to get together to share and gain knowledge,
1.562     jason     405: to network with like minded people.  Several developers
1.563     jason     406: spoke, more were on hand:
1.559     jason     407:  <ul>
                    408:   <li>Marco Peereboom: <a href="papers/bio.pdf">bio and sensors in OpenBSD</a>
1.563     jason     409:    [<a href="http://www.fetissov.org/public/nycbsdcon06/1.6.mp3">audio</a>]
1.605     jason     410:   <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     411:   <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>]
                    412:   <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     413:   <li>Ray Lai: <i>First time booth bunny</i>
                    414:  </ul>
                    415: <p>
                    416:
1.556     fgsch     417: <li><strong><a name=linuxworlduk2006></a>
                    418: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.co.uk/">LinuxWorld Expo UK 2006</a></strong>,
                    419: Oct 25 - 26, 2006, Olympia, London, UK.<br>
1.558     wvdputte  420: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Wim, Tom, Peter, Federico and
                    421: Pedro La Peu.
1.556     fgsch     422: <p>
                    423:
1.589     aanriot   424: <li><strong><a name=cuug2006oct></a>
                    425: <a href="http://www.cuug.ab.ca/">Calgary Unix Users Group</a></strong>,
                    426: Oct 24, 2006, downtown Library, basement meeting room, Calgary, Alberta.<br>
                    427: Theo de Raadt gave a talk regarding the increasing demand for
                    428: vendors to open up their documentation.
                    429: <p>
                    430:
1.553     grunk     431: <li><strong><a name="systems2006"></a>
                    432: <a href="http://www.systems.de/">Systems</a></strong>,
                    433: Oct 23 - 27, 2006, Munich, Germany <br>
                    434: The *BSD projects were located at A3.542.
                    435: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
                    436: Wilhelm B&uuml;hler, DaN, Nikolay Sturm, Marco Pfatschbacher,
                    437: and some other volunteers.
                    438: <p>
                    439:
1.550     henning   440: <li><strong><a name=hacklu2006></a>
                    441: <a href="http://www.hack.lu/">hack.lu 2006</a></strong>,
                    442: Oct 19 - 21, 2006, Luxembourg/Kirchberg.<br>
                    443: Henning Brauer gave a well received talk about OpenBGPD.
                    444: <p>
                    445:
1.547     aanriot   446: <li><strong><a name=aldil2006></a>
                    447: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/">Les Journ&eacute;es Du Logiciel Libre
                    448: 2006</a></strong>,
                    449: Oct 13 - 14, 2006, Lyon, France.<br>
                    450: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Miod Vallat and Alexandre
                    451: Anriot with the help of Thierry Thomas and Damien Bergamini.
                    452: <p>
                    453:
1.546     mcbride   454: <li><strong><a name=auug2006></a>
                    455: <a href="http://new.auug.org.au/">AUUG 2006</a></strong>,
                    456: Oct 10 - 13, 2006, Melbourne, Australia.<br>
                    457: Ryan Mcbride presented a full-day tutorial entitled
                    458: "Advanced PF Rulesets" as well as two additional talks
                    459: <a href="papers/auug2006/pf_evolution/">PF evolution</a>
                    460: and
                    461: <a href="papers/auug2006/network_randomness/">Network stack randomness in OpenBSD</a>.
                    462: <p>
                    463:
1.532     wvdputte  464: <li><strong><a name=eurooscon2006></a>
                    465: <a href="http://conferences.oreillynet.com/euos2006/">O'Reilly Euro OSCON 2006
                    466: </a></strong>,
                    467: Sep 20, 2006, Brussels, Belgium.<br>
                    468: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth.
                    469: <p>
                    470:
1.528     wvdputte  471: <li><strong><a name=come2linux2006></a>
                    472: <a href="http://www.come2linux.org/psp/">Come 2 Linux 2006</a></strong>,
                    473: Sep 9 - 10, 2006, Duisburg-Essen, Germany.<br>
                    474: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth.
                    475: <p>
                    476:
1.525     wvdputte  477: <li><strong><a name=ChaosdaysDarmstadt2006></a>
                    478: <a href="http://mrmcd101b.metarheinmain.de/index.html">mrmcd101b - MetaRheinMainChaosDays Darmstadt 2006</a>
                    479: </strong>,
                    480: Sep 1 - 3, 2006, Darmstadt, Germany.<br>
                    481: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth.
                    482: <p>
                    483:
1.521     fkr       484: <li><strong><a name=LinuxWorldExpoSF2006></a>
                    485: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/live/12/events/12SFO06A/conference/tracksessions/Security/QMONYA04ROFR">LinuxWorld Expo San Francisco 2006</a>
                    486: </strong>,
                    487: Aug 16, 2006, San Francisco, United States.<br>
                    488: Ted Unangst spoke about OpenBSD as part of a security panel.
                    489: <p>
                    490:
1.518     tedu      491: <li><strong><a name=coimbra2006></a>
                    492: <a href="http://www.openbsd-pt.com/eventos/coimbra06/">Portuguese OpenBSD Usergroup Meeting</a></strong>,
                    493: Jul 22 - 23, 2006, Coimbra, Portugal.<br>
                    494: 6th Meeting of the Portuguese OpenBSD Usergroup.  Marc Balmer gave a talk
                    495: "NMEA 0183 and Time Signal Station Receiver Support in OpenBSD".
                    496: <p>
                    497:
                    498: <li><strong><a name=akqit2006></a>
                    499: <a href="http://www.akqit.ch/w3/DE/actual.html">Arbeitskreis f&uuml;r Qualit&auml;t in der Informationstechnologie (Working Group for Quality in IT)</a></strong>,
                    500: Jul 20, 2006, University of Basel, Computer Science Department, Room 205, Bernoullistr. 16, 17:30 - 18:30<br>
1.590     mbalmer   501: Marc Balmer gave a talk in german "<a href="papers/akqit06/index.html">Ensuring
                    502: Quality in the Development of the Free Operating System OpenBSD</a>".
1.518     tedu      503: <p>
1.475     deraadt   504:
1.510     wvdputte  505: <li><strong><a name="lsm2006"></a>
                    506: <a href="http://www.rmll.info">Libre Software Meeting 2006</a></strong>,
                    507: Jul 4 - 8, 2006, Vandoeuvre-les-nancy, France.<br>
1.681     aanriot   508: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Wim, Matthieu and
                    509: Alexandre with the help of Serge and Christelle.
1.510     wvdputte  510: <p>
                    511:
1.508     wvdputte  512: <li><strong><a name=FrOSCon></a>
                    513: <a href="http://www.froscon.de/">
                    514: FrOSCon 2006 - Free and Open Source Software Conference</a></strong>,
                    515: Jun 24 - 25, 2006, Bonn/Rhein-Sieg, Germany.<br>
1.518     tedu      516: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth run by Wim, Waldemar, Manuel and
1.508     wvdputte  517: Tim Kornau.
                    518: <p>
                    519:
1.507     mbalmer   520: <li><strong><a name=LinuxwochenLinz2006></a>
                    521: <a href="http://www.linuxwochen.at/2006/Linz">Linuxwochen Linz 2006</a>
                    522: </strong>,
                    523: June 15, 2006, Linz, Austria.<br>
                    524: There was an an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth run by Wim and the usual suspects.
                    525: <p>
                    526:
1.506     deraadt   527: <li><strong><a name=lugverona2006></a>
1.526     steven    528: <a href="http://www.di.univr.it/dol/main?ent=iniziativa&amp;id=857&amp;lang=it">LUGVR@UNIVR</a></strong>
1.506     deraadt   529: Jun 9, 2006, Verona University, Borgo Roma, Italy.<br>
                    530: Florin Iamandi of <a href="https://www.verona.linux.it">LUG Verona</a>
                    531: gave a talk
                    532: (<a href="http://todome.net/docs/obsd_carp/en">English</a> and
                    533: <a href="http://todome.net/docs/obsd_carp/it">Italian</a>)
                    534: and live demonstration on redundant failover
                    535: OpenBSD firewalls. He explained why OpenBSD solves many problems that
                    536: had previously been the dominion of expensive commercial solutions.
                    537: Attendees learned about OpenBSD's hard stance and successful fight against
                    538: bad licences and uncooperating vendors and manufacturers.
                    539: <p>
                    540:
1.502     mbalmer   541: <li><strong><a name=Slackathon2006></a>
                    542: <a href="http://slackathon2006.unix.se">Slackathon 2006</a>
                    543: </strong>
                    544: Jun 3, 2006, Stockholm, Sweden.<br>
                    545: A fundraiser for OpenBSD/SSH held at the Stockholm University. Free
1.505     ian       546: entrance and all donations went straight to the project. Several
1.502     mbalmer   547: developers were talking about OpenBSD here, as well as some hands-on
                    548: workshops took place with both old and new hardware.
                    549: <p>
                    550:
1.500     deraadt   551: <li><strong><a name=cuug2006></a>
                    552: <a href="http://www.cuug.ab.ca/">Calgary Unix Users Group</a></strong>,
                    553: Jun 1, 2006, SAIT Campus, Calgary, Alberta.<br>
1.504     miod      554: Bob Beck and Reyk Floeter discussed recent and future networking
                    555: changes in OpenBSD.  Some other OpenBSD developers attended to provide
1.500     deraadt   556: international colour, and there were tshirts, CDs, and posters on hand.
                    557: CUUG made a substantial contribution to OpenBSD at this event as well.
                    558: <p>
                    559:
1.589     aanriot   560: <li><strong><a name=LinuxwochenVienna2006></a>
                    561: <a href="http://www.linuxwochen.at/2006/Wien">Linuxwochen Vienna 2006</a>
                    562: </strong>,
                    563: May 31 - Jun 2, 2006, Vienna, Austria.<br>
                    564: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth run by Wim and the usual suspects.
                    565: <p>
                    566:
1.585     aanriot   567: <li><strong><a name=plug060519></a>
1.586     aanriot   568: <a href="http://www.plugfr.org/">Provence Linux User Group</a></strong>
                    569: May 19, 2006, Marseille, France.<br>
1.585     aanriot   570: Alexandre Anriot spoke about the deployment of wireless networks with
1.586     aanriot   571: OpenBSD during a meeting of the PLUG.
1.585     aanriot   572: <p>
                    573:
1.491     bernd     574: <li><strong><a name="SANE2006"></a>
                    575: <a href="http://www.sane.nl/sane2006/">SANE 2006</a></strong>,
                    576: May 15 - 19, 2006, Delft, The Netherlands.<br>
                    577: Peter N. M. Hansteen gave a
                    578: <a href="http://www.sane.nl/sane2006/program/abstract.php?eventid=35">
                    579: PF tutorial</a>.
                    580: <p>
                    581:
1.490     reyk      582: <li><strong><a name=bsdcan2006></a> <a
                    583: href="http://www.bsdcan.org/2006/">BSDCan 2006</a></strong>,
                    584: May 12 - 13, 2006, Ottawa, Canada.<br>
                    585: David Gwynne gave a talk about hardware monitoring with bio and
                    586: sensors in OpenBSD (<a href="papers/bsdcan06-biosensors.pdf">slides</a>)
                    587: and Reyk Fl&ouml;ter talked about the latest
                    588: wireless support and the incredible plans for the future
                    589: (<a href="papers/bsdcan06-wlan/index.html">slides</a>), and
                    590: Peter Hansteen gave a PF tutorial. A number of OpenBSD hackers
                    591: attended the conference as well, like Bob Beck and Mathieu Sauve-Frankel.
                    592: <p>
                    593:
1.489     bernd     594: <li><strong><a name="linuxdays2006"></a>
                    595: <a href="http://www.linuxdays.ch">Linuxdays 2006</a></strong>,
                    596: May 8 - 12, 2006, Geneva, Switzerland.<br>
                    597: Julien Mabillard, a long-time Geneva OpenBSD user, gave a talk to present
                    598: the overall system and its great features.
                    599: <p>
                    600:
1.592     claudio   601: <li><strong><a name="idepes2006"></a>
1.589     aanriot   602: <a href="http://www.idepes.org.br/openbsd/">IDEPES 2006</a></strong>,
                    603: May 6, 2006, S&atilde;o Paulo, Brazil.<br>
                    604: First event in Brazil totally dedicated to OpenBSD.
                    605: <p>
                    606:
1.592     claudio   607: <li><strong><a name="LinuxTag2006"></a>
1.484     mbalmer   608: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.org/2006/">LinuxTag 2006</a></strong>,
                    609: May 3 - 6, 2006, Wiesbaden, Germany.<br>
                    610: OpenBSD was very present at this years Linuxtag:
                    611: <ul>
                    612: <li>On friday morning, Claudio and Marc moderated a panel discussion
                    613: "BLOBS sind das Krebsgeschw&uuml;r freier Software" (Blobs are the
1.485     mbalmer   614: cancer of free software) that was well attended.  Unfortunately no one
1.484     mbalmer   615: in favour of Blobs attended, although we asked almost all Linux
                    616: distributions...
                    617: <li>After lunch, Marc Balmer started the afternoon with a talk "OpenBSD
                    618: as a Strategic Platform for the Basle Public Schools", outlining how and
1.485     mbalmer   619: why the Basle Public school system uses OpenBSD for most of its
1.484     mbalmer   620: infrastructure.
1.592     claudio   621: <li>The next OpenBSD specific talk was by Claudio Jeker,
                    622: <a href="papers/linuxtag06-network/">"Routing with OpenBSD using
                    623: OpenOSPFD and OpenBGPD"</a> where he showed various routing setups and
                    624: how full redundancy can be achieved.
                    625: [<a href="papers/linuxtag06-network.pdf">paper</a>]
1.484     mbalmer   626: <li>Later, Marc Balmer gave a talk "Decoding Time Signal Stations using
                    627: OpenBSD" and explained the recent addition of timedelta sensors and the
                    628: first implementation of such, udcf(4).
                    629: </ul>
                    630: <br>
                    631: All talks where very well received and OpenBSD filled four hours of the
1.485     mbalmer   632: Linuxtag program.  We thank Wilhelm B&uuml;hler,  chair of the BSD-Track
1.484     mbalmer   633: at Linuxtag, for the superb and professional organization.
                    634: <br>
                    635: Of course, there was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth run by Wim and the
                    636: usual suspects.
                    637: <p>
                    638:
1.486     mickey    639: <li><strong><a name=NYCBUG2006-05></a>
                    640: <a href="http://nycbug.org/index.php?NAV=Home&amp;SUBM=83">NYCBUG Monthly meeting</a></strong>,
                    641: May 3, 2006, NYC, USA.<br>
                    642: Mickey gave a talk
1.564     jason     643: (<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    644: about PAE work for OpenBSD/i386.<br>
                    645: Mischa Diehm gave a talk about implementing VPN using OpenBSD.
                    646: <p>
                    647:
1.484     mbalmer   648: <li><strong><a name=tokyo2006></a>
                    649: <a href="http://www.tokyopc.org/index.php/weblog/">Tokyo PC Users Group</a></strong>,
                    650: May 2, 2006, Tokyo.<br>
                    651: Theo presented his <a href="papers/ven05-deraadt">"Exploit Mitigation Techniques"</a>
                    652: talk.  There is a
                    653: <a href="http://www.tokyopc.org/faxmessage/index.html#about">map to the location</a>.
                    654: <p>
                    655:
1.478     mbalmer   656: <li><strong><a name=SambaEXPerience2006></a>
                    657: <a href="http://www.sambaxp.org/">Samba eXPerience 2006</a></strong>,
                    658: April 24 - 26, 2006, G&ouml;ttingen, Germany.<br>
                    659: Marc Balmer gave a talk "Providing Fully Automated Fileserver Services
                    660: for Public Schools using LDAP Integrated SAMBA on OpenBSD" that was very
                    661: well received.
                    662: <br>
                    663: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth run by Wim and Marc and Felix Kronlage
                    664: and we could draw a lot of attention.
                    665: <p>
                    666:
1.479     deraadt   667: <li><strong><a name=DORSCLUC2006></a>
                    668: <a href="http://www.open.hr/dc2006/"> DORS / CLUC 2006</a></strong>,
                    669: April 19-21, 2006, Zagreb, Croatia.<br>
                    670: <a href="http://www.kerberos.si">Mitja Muzenic</a> gave a
1.480     mbalmer   671: <a href="http://www.kerberos.si/papers/DORS06/index.html">
                    672: "Introduction to OpenBSD"</a> talk. Conference
                    673: <a href="http://www.open.hr/dc2006/program.php">program</a> (in croatian
1.479     deraadt   674: only).
                    675: <p>
                    676:
1.475     deraadt   677: <li><strong><a name=linuxworld2006></a>
                    678: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/live/12/events/12BOS06A/">
                    679: LinuxWorld/OpenSolutions World 2006</a></strong>,
                    680: April 3 - 6, 2006, Boston, USA.<br>
                    681: Jason Dixon presented
                    682: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/live/12/events/12BOS06A/conference/tracksessions/Security/QMONYA04Q1DK">Secure Network Architectures with OpenBSD</a>,
                    683: a talk on OpenBSD that outlines the various technologies that make
                    684: it a leader of secure networking platforms.
                    685: <br>
                    686: He spent time around the exposition BSD booth with giveaways
                    687: and early release OpenBSD 3.9 CDs.
                    688: <p>
                    689:
                    690: <li><strong><a name=cansecwest06></a>
                    691: <a href="http://www.cansecwest.com">Cansecwest/core06</a></strong>,
                    692: April 3 - 7, 2006, Vancouver.<br>
                    693: A rather interesting OpenBSD-related talk happened at this event, regarding
                    694: using SMI interrupts to break out of X into kernel mode.
                    695: <br>
                    696: Some OpenBSD developers attended.  Some early OpenBSD 3.9 items went
                    697: on sale.
                    698: <p>
                    699:
1.469     tom       700: <li><strong><a name=ukuug2006></a>
                    701: <a href="http://www.ukuug.org/events/spring2006/">UKUUG Spring Conference 2006</a></strong>,
                    702: Mar 22 - 23, 2006, Durham, United Kingdom<br>
                    703: Reyk Fl&ouml;ter gave a talk about the latest wireless support in
                    704: OpenBSD at the annual spring meeting of the
                    705: <a href="http://www.ukuug.org/">UK's Unix and Open Systems User Group</a>.
                    706: Peter N. M. Hansteen
                    707: gave a PF tutorial, Tom Cosgrove presented "Exploit
                    708: Mitigation Techniques" and Constantine Murenin gave a
                    709: presentation on "Hardware temperature monitoring device
                    710: drivers for OpenBSD".
                    711: These were all part of a new, well-attended, BSD stream at the event.
                    712: <p>
                    713:
1.459     henning   714: <li><strong><a name=Copenhagen2006></a>
                    715: <a href="http://www.linuxforum.dk/2006/en/">LinuxForum 2006</a></strong>,
                    716: Mar 3 - 4, 2006, Copenhagen, Denmark<br>
                    717: Wim gave Felix Kronlage's talk about OpenBSD Mobile Use (wifi, UMTS,
                    718: GPRS, phones and the like) with some demo setups.
                    719: Henning Brauer gave a very well received talk about OpenBGPD,
                    720: <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/linuxforum2006/">slides</a> are available.
                    721: <p>
                    722:
1.457     wvdputte  723: <li><strong><a name=Brussels2006></a>
                    724: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/2006/">FOSDEM Brussels 2006</a></strong>,
                    725: Feb 25 - 26, 2006, Brussels, Belgium.<br>
                    726: An OpenBSD/OpenSSH booth was present, run by the usual gang of suspects:
1.458     xsa       727: Alexandre, Dimitar, Matthieu, Mbalmer, Nikolay, Otto, Reyk, Saad, Thierry, Uwe, Wim, and
1.457     wvdputte  728: Xsa. Reyk gave a talk about Wifi with OpenBSD and there was our traditional
                    729: BSD dinner. More details and
                    730: <a href="http://saad.docisland.org/pictures/fosdem2006/index.html">pictures</a>
1.458     xsa       731: on <a href="http://saad.docisland.org/blog/files/archive-12.html#unique-entry-id-40">Saad's blog</a>.
1.457     wvdputte  732: <p>
                    733:
                    734: <li><strong><a name=Vegas2006></a>
                    735: <a href="http://kd85.com/vegas2006.html">Merciful briefings 2006</a></strong>,
                    736: Feb 15, 2006, Las Vegas, USA - Feb 17, 2006, San Diego, USA - Feb 18, 2006, Phoenix, USA.<br>
                    737: While traveling the US, Wim met with a bunch of OpenBSD users in Las Vegas,
                    738: San Diego and Phoenix. With many thanks to the members of PhxBUG - Phoenix BSD
                    739: User Group, more specificly Darrin Chandler, for organising the little
                    740: details and Jacob for road trip directions.
                    741: <p>
1.455     grunk     742:
1.456     henning   743: <li><strong><a name=nanog36></a>
                    744: <a href="http://www.nanog.org/">NANOG 36</a></strong>,
                    745: Feb 12 - 15, 2006, Dallas, USA.<br>
                    746: Henning Brauer and Bernhard Kroenung of DE-CIX talked about OpenBGPD and
                    747: OpenBGPD at DE-CIX, <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/nanog36/">slides</a>
                    748: are available. Henning talked again at the tools BOF
                    749: (<a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/nanog36-bof/">slides</a>).
                    750: Both talks were very well received by the audience.
                    751: Kenjiro Cho was there too, talking about IPv6 issues.
                    752: <p>
                    753:
1.455     grunk     754: <li><strong><a name="Paris2006"></a>
                    755: <a href="http://www.solutionslinux.fr/fr/index.php">Solutions Linux 2006</a>
                    756: </strong>,
                    757: Jan 31 - Feb 2, 2006, Paris, France.<br>
                    758: There was an OpenBSD booth run by Marc Espie, Miod Vallat, Saad Kadhi and
                    759: Wim with help from Guillaume Arcas and Christophe Plasschaert.
                    760: <p>
                    761: </ul>
                    762:
1.296     mcbride   763: <h3>2005</h3>
1.240     espie     764:
                    765: <ul>
1.337     deraadt   766:
1.445     martin    767: <li><strong><a name=22c3></a>
                    768: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/2005/">22C3 Chaos Communication Congress in
                    769: Berlin</a></strong>,
                    770: December 27 - 30, 2005, Berlin, Germany.<br>
                    771: Many OpenBSD developers and users met for a Xmas break in a unique setting.
                    772: <p>
                    773:
1.585     aanriot   774: <li><strong><a name=plug051216></a>
1.586     aanriot   775: <a href="http://www.plugfr.org/">Provence Linux User Group</a></strong>
                    776: December 16, 2005, Marseille, France.<br>
                    777: Alexandre Anriot spoke about OpenSSH during a meeting of the PLUG.
1.585     aanriot   778: <p>
                    779:
1.435     matthieu  780: <li><strong><a name=eurobsdcon2005></a>
                    781: <a href="http://2005.eurobsdcon.org/">EuroBSDCon 2005</a></strong>,
                    782: Nov 25 - 27, 2005, Basel, Switzerland.<br>
                    783: The 4th edition of the european conference for BSD systems has been a
                    784: great success. More than 225 people from 27 countries attended the
1.438     deraadt   785: event.
1.444     grunk     786: The program included a
                    787: <a href="http://www.eurobsdcon.org/tutorials-reyk.php">tutorial by Reyk about
1.437     niallo    788: OpenBSD-based Wireless Networks</a> and the following talks
                    789: <ul>
1.438     deraadt   790: <li>Henning Brauer with Wilhelm B&uuml;hler "Signal Handlers"
                    791: <li>Ryan McBride "Network Stack Randomness"
1.439     matthieu  792: <li><a href="papers/eurobsd2005/herrb-hopf.pdf">Matthieu Herrb and Matthias Hopf "New Evolutions in the X Window System"</a>
1.440     claudio   793: <li><a href="papers/eurobsd2005/claudio/">Claudio Jeker "The Design and Implementation of OpenOSPFD"</a>
1.439     matthieu  794: <li><a href="papers/eurobsd2005/niallo-uwe/">Niall O'Higgins &amp; Uwe Stuehler "Embedded OpenBSD"</a>
1.443     deraadt   795: <li><a href="papers/eurobsd2005/tedu-rthreads.pdf">Ted Unangst "rthreads: A New Thread Implementation for OpenBSD"</a>
1.437     niallo    796: </ul>
1.438     deraadt   797: <p>
1.435     matthieu  798: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
                    799: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
                    800: <p>
                    801:
1.434     bernd     802: <li><strong><a name=linuxworldexpogermany2005></a>
                    803: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.de/">Linux World Expo Germany</a></strong>,
                    804: Nov 15 - 17, 2005, Frankfurt, Germany.<br>
                    805: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
                    806: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a> and Bernd.
                    807: <p>
                    808:
1.441     niallo    809: <li><strong><a name="pacsec05"></a>
                    810: <a href="http://www.pacsec.jp/">PacSec/core 05 conference</a></strong>,
                    811: Nov 15 - 16, 2005, Tokyo, Japan.<br>
                    812: Sean Comeau presented a talk called
                    813: <a href="http://www.openbsd-support.com/jp/en/htm/mgp/pacsec05/index.html">
                    814: Open Source Secure Wireless Networks in a Windows World</a>
                    815: <a href="http://www.pacsec.jp/core05/psj05-scomeau-en.pdf">[PDF]</a>.
                    816: The solution he presents uses IPsec to protect traffic between the
                    817: wireless clients and access points. Authentication is done using OpenSSH
                    818: (authpf), a process made transparent and user-friendly by a few small
                    819: scripts.
                    820: <p>
                    821:
1.424     mbalmer   822: <li><strong><a name=opencon2005></a>
                    823: <a href="http://www.opencon.org/">OpenCON 2005</a></strong>,
                    824: Nov 4 - 6, 2005, San Servolo Island, Venice, Italy.<br>
1.427     deraadt   825: The only unique conference entirely dedicated to OpenBSD, held in the totally
                    826: crazy environment of San Servolo island: an old insane asylum turned into a
                    827: university about 20 years ago, about 10 minutes boat ride from Venice.
1.429     deraadt   828: In the days leading up to this, about 12 OpenBSD developers arrived early
1.427     deraadt   829: for a Ports mini-hackathon.  During the conference a few developers gave
1.433     deraadt   830: talks, including
                    831: <ul>
                    832: <li><a href="papers/ven05-pvalchev">Peter Valchev "OpenBSD Hackathon report"</a>
                    833: <li><a href="papers/ven05-espie">Marc Espie "OpenBSD ports and packages"</a>
                    834: <li><a href="papers/ven05-henning">Henning Brauer "OpenBSD networking update"</a>
                    835: <li><a href="papers/ven05-niallo-uwe/slides.pdf">Uwe Stuehler, Niall O'Higgins "Porting OpenBSD"</a>
                    836: <li><a href="papers/ven05-deraadt">Theo de Raadt "Exploit Mitigation Techniques (updated to include random malloc and mmap)"</a>
                    837: </ul>
1.424     mbalmer   838: <p>
                    839:
                    840: <li><strong><a name=systems2005></a>
                    841: <a href="http://www.systems.de/">Systems</a></strong>,
                    842: Oct 24 - 28, 2005, Munich, Germany <br>
1.425     mbalmer   843: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
1.424     mbalmer   844: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
                    845: <p>
                    846:
1.418     djm       847: <li><strong><a name=auug2005></a>
                    848: <a href="http://www.auug.org.au/events/2005/auug2005/">AUUG 2005</a></strong>,
                    849: October 16 - 21, 2005, Sydney, Australia.<br>
                    850: Mark Uemura presented a tutorial on setting up CARP/PF, a demonstration of
                    851: stateful failover with CARP and pfsync and a talk on wireless security in
                    852: a corporate environment using authpf and isakmpd.  Peter Hansteen gave a
                    853: <a href="http://www.bgnett.no/~peter/pf/">Firewalling with PF</a> tutorial.
1.420     deraadt   854: Damien Miller presented on the approach to
                    855: <a href="papers/auug2005-portability">secure software portability used
                    856: by portable OpenSSH</a>, Reyk Flöter gave a talk on the current state of wireless
1.418     djm       857: support in OpenBSD and David Purdue introduced OpenBSD's spamd tarpit.
                    858: Most of the Australian OpenBSD developers and many users were present.
                    859: <p>
                    860:
1.415     aanriot   861: <li><strong><a name=aldil2005></a>
                    862: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/">Les Journ&eacute;es Du Logiciel Libre
                    863: 2005</a></strong>,
                    864: Oct 14 - 15, 2005, Lyon, France.<br>
                    865: There was OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Alexandre Anriot with the
                    866: help of Thierry Thomas.
                    867: <p>
                    868:
1.420     deraadt   869: <li><strong><a name=cafeconf2005></a>
                    870: <a href="http://www.cafeconf.org/">CaFeConf 2005,
                    871: 4tas Jornadas Abiertas de GNU/Linux y Software Libre</a></strong>,
                    872: Oct 13 - 15, 2005, Buenos Aires, Argentina<br>
                    873: CaFeConf 2005 is the anual event of CaFeLUG - Free Software Users
                    874: Group of Capital Federal, Argentina. This year the event featured
                    875: 116 presentations consisting of talks, tutorials, and workshops. The
                    876: event was also broadcasted on the Internet. Entrance was free, but
                    877: registration was mandatory.<br>
                    878: Fernando Gont gave a talk on
1.444     grunk     879: <a href="http://www.cafeconf.org/modules/myconference/viewspeech.php?sid=147&amp;cid=20">
1.420     deraadt   880: ICMP attacks against TCP</a>,
                    881: in which he gave an overview of the attacks, the possible
                    882: counter-measures, and the politics of vulnerabilities, and a talk on
1.444     grunk     883: <a href="http://www.cafeconf.org/modules/myconference/viewspeech.php?sid=173&amp;cid=20">
1.420     deraadt   884: Fixing the vulnerability of the Path-MTU Discovery mechanism</a>,
                    885: in which explained how OpenBSD fixed the vulnerability of the PMTUD
                    886: mechanism.
                    887: <p>
                    888:
1.414     bernd     889: <li><strong><a name=linuxkongress2005></a>
                    890: <a href="http://www.linux-kongress.org/">12th International Linux System
                    891: Technology Conference</a></strong>,
                    892: Oct 11 - 14, 2005, University of Hamburg, Germany.<br>
                    893: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth.
                    894: <p>
                    895:
                    896: <li><strong><a name=linuxworlduk2005></a>
                    897: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.co.uk/">LinuxWorld Expo UK 2005</a></strong>,
                    898: Oct 5 - 6, 2005, Olympia, London, UK.<br>
                    899: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth.
                    900: <p>
                    901:
1.410     wvdputte  902: <li><strong><a name=opensourcetag2005></a>
1.575     reyk      903: <a href="http://www.opensourcetag.de/2005/">OpenSourceTag 2005</a></strong>,
1.410     wvdputte  904: Sep 27, 2005, Hannover, Germany.<br>
1.444     grunk     905: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth and Reyk gave a
1.575     reyk      906: <a href="http://www.opensourcetag.de/2005/agenda/">talk</a> about IT security.
1.410     wvdputte  907: <p>
                    908:
                    909: <li><strong><a name="gubuginstallfest2005"></a>
                    910: <a href="http://gubug.org/meetings.php">Greater Utah BSD Group
                    911: Installfest 2005</a></strong>,
                    912: Sep 24, 2005, Sandy, UT, USA.<br/>
1.444     grunk     913: <a href="http://www.gubug.org/">The Greater Utah BSD User Group</a> organised
1.410     wvdputte  914: their first annual BSD Installfest, sponsored by Utah ISP ArosNet.
                    915: There were handouts, CD-ROMs, technical presentations, and
                    916: fun, plus a chance to get OpenBSD or a related open source BSD operating system
                    917: installed on your computer.
                    918: Admission was free (computers not included in cost of admission).
1.419     djm       919: Featured speakers included Dan Langille, organizer of BSDCan.
1.410     wvdputte  920: <p>
                    921:
1.404     wvdputte  922: <li><strong><a name="NYCBSDCon2005"></a>
                    923: <a href="http://nycbsdcon.org/">New York City BSD Conference 2005</a></strong>,
1.410     wvdputte  924: Sep 17, 2005, NYC, USA.<br>
1.404     wvdputte  925: NYCBSDCon was a one day technical conference hosted by the New York
                    926: City *BSD User Group and was held at Columbia University.
1.406     saad      927: The all day conference included a variety of speakers representing the
1.404     wvdputte  928: BSD projects and the open source community.<br>
                    929: NYCBSDCon was organized by NYC*BUG, a technical user group that formed in
                    930: December 2003. Besides their regular monthly meetings at the Soho Apple
                    931: Store, NYC*BUG has done fundraising for the BSD projects and contributed a
                    932: number of useful online applications such as BSDTracker and dmesgd.<br>
                    933: Additional sponsors included USENIX, New York Internet and SRA America.
                    934: <p>
                    935:
                    936: <li><strong><a name=opensaar2005></a>
                    937: <a href="http://www.opensaar.de/">OpenSaar 2005</a></strong>,
                    938: Sep 13 - 14, 2005, Saarbr&uuml;cken, Germany.<br>
                    939: An OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth was present
                    940: <p>
                    941:
1.403     henning   942: <li><strong><a name=decix160905></a> <a
                    943: href="http://www.de-cix.org/">DE-CIX Technical Meeting</a></strong>,
1.410     wvdputte  944: Sep 16, 2005, Schloss Kransberg, near Usingen, Germany.<br>
1.403     henning   945: Henning Brauer, Reyk Fl&ouml;ter and Maxim Salomon had been invited to the
                    946: technical meeting of the Deutsche Commercial Internet Exchange (DE-CIX) again.
                    947: Henning gave an update on OpenBGPD, Reyk talked about a route server project
                    948: using OpenBGPD at DE-CIX, and Maxim explained why the CCC sponsors us doing so.
                    949: There was a very positive discussion afterwards.
                    950: <a href="http://unduli.bsws.de/papers/decix2005-2/">Slides</a> are available.
                    951: <p>
                    952:
1.388     tom       953: <li><strong><a name="ukuug2005"></a>
                    954: <a href="http://www.ukuug.org/events/linux2005/">UKUUG Linux Technical
                    955: Conference 2005</a></strong>,
1.410     wvdputte  956: Aug 4 - 7, 2005, University of Wales, Swansea, UK<br>
1.388     tom       957: Tom Cosgrove gave Theo's presentation about Exploit Mitigation Techniques.
                    958: <p>
                    959:
1.385     mickey    960: <li><strong><a name=wth2005></a>
1.390     deraadt   961: <a href="http://www.whatthehack.org/">What the Hack 2005</a></strong>,
1.410     wvdputte  962: Jul 28 - 31, 2005, Den Bosch, The Netherlands.<br>
1.385     mickey    963: As every 4 years, Wim organized the
                    964: <a href="http://eurobsd.org/2005-WhatTheHack/">BSD village</a> at this huge
1.389     tom       965: open air event. There were some talks, Reyk spoke about
                    966: <a href="http://program.whatthehack.org/event/6.en.html">WLAN in OpenBSD</a>,
1.385     mickey    967: and an excellent
                    968: <a href="ftp://ftp.nyc.openbsd.org/pub/news/wth-radio-humppa.mp3">Humppa show</a> (35MB MP3) was performed on the SubEther radio.
                    969: If you want to see what happened previously, check
                    970: <a href="http://eurobsd.org/hal2001/">http://eurobsd.org/hal2001/</a>
                    971: and <a href="http://www.eurobsd.org/SummerCamp2003/">http://www.eurobsd.org/SummerCamp2003/</a>.
                    972: <p>
                    973:
1.382     pedro     974: <li><strong><a name=coimbra2005></a>
1.474     pedro     975: <a href="http://www.openbsd-pt.com/eventos/coimbra05/">Portuguese OpenBSD Usergroup Meeting</a></strong>,
1.410     wvdputte  976: Jul 23 - 24, 2005, Coimbra, Portugal.<br>
1.538     pedro     977: 5th Meeting of the Portuguese OpenBSD Usergroup. Pedro Martelletto gave a talk.
1.382     pedro     978: <p>
                    979:
1.378     aanriot   980: <li><strong><a name="lsm2005"></a>
                    981: <a href="http://2005.rencontresmondiales.org/sections/index_html/switchLanguage/en">Libre Software Meeting 2005</a></strong>,
1.410     wvdputte  982: Jul 5 - 9, 2005, Dijon, France.<br>
1.379     aanriot   983: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Wim and the usual
                    984: suspects, with the help of Serge Basterot. It was a nice place to meet
                    985: some of our French, German and Swiss developers, including Marc Balmer,
                    986: Alexandre Anriot, Matthieu Herrb and Reyk Floeter.
1.378     aanriot   987: <p>
                    988:
1.375     grunk     989: <li><strong><a name=LinuxTag2005></a>
                    990: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.org">LinuxTag 2005</a></strong>,
1.410     wvdputte  991: Jun 22 - 25, 2005, Karlsruhe, Germany.<br>
1.375     grunk     992: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth ran by Wim, Christian Weisgerber,
                    993: Marc Balmer, Wilhelm Buehler, Robert Nagy, Bernd Ahlers and Phil Schulz.
                    994: <p>
                    995:
1.374     grunk     996: <li><strong><a name="uofa-cc2005"></a>
                    997: <a href="http://www.ualberta.ca/CC2005"> University of Alberta, Campus
1.410     wvdputte  998: Computing 2005</a></strong>, Jun 21, 2005, Edmonton, Canada.<br>
1.374     grunk     999: Ryan McBride spoke about OpenBSD's packet filter, PF, with CARP and
                   1000: failover examples. Local color and examples at the U of A shown by Bob
                   1001: Beck. Bob Beck spoke about PF and Spamd, as well as several other
                   1002: OpenBSD using and related talks at this event, which primarily focuses
                   1003: on activities centered at the University of Alberta.
                   1004: <p>
                   1005:
1.371     deraadt  1006: <li><strong><a name=uemera2005></a>
                   1007: <a href="http://www.tokyopc.net">Tokyo PC Users Group</a></strong>,
1.410     wvdputte 1008: Jun 2, 2005, Tokyo Union Church in Omotesando, Tokyo, Japan.<br>
1.371     deraadt  1009: Mark T. Uemura spoke to Japan's largest English speaking
                   1010: personal computer club.  The talk was entitled
                   1011: <a href="http://www.openbsd-support.com/jp/en/htm/mgp/index.shtml">
                   1012: "Open Source in a Windows World"</a>.
                   1013: He demonstrated how companies can easily
                   1014: integrate Open Source, with an emphasis on OpenBSD, into their IT
                   1015: infrastructure to enhance security, scalability and stability,
                   1016: significantly reduce IT expenditures, free up computing infrastructure
                   1017: and move away from commercial lock-in.  This talk is based on changes
                   1018: implemented at PricewaterhouseCoopers in Japan.
                   1019: <p>
                   1020:
1.366     martin   1021: <li><strong><a name=LinuxwochenVienna2005></a>
                   1022: <a href="http://www.linuxwochen.at/">Linuxwochen Vienna 2005</a></strong>,
                   1023: May 24 - 27, 2005, Vienna, Austria.<br>
                   1024: The Linuxwochen 2005 tour stopped in the MuseumsQuartier, Vienna.
                   1025: Wim Vandeputte and Reinhard Sammer were running an OpenBSD booth selling
                   1026: CDs and shirts.
                   1027: <p>
                   1028:
1.365     mcbride  1029: <li><strong><a name=cuug2005></a>
                   1030: <a href="http://www.cuug.ab.ca/">Calgary Unix Users Group</a></strong>,
                   1031: May 24, 2005, Calgary, Canada.<br>
                   1032: Ryan McBride spoke about OpenBSD's packet filter, PF.
                   1033: A broad overview of PF's features were presented, with special attention
                   1034: paid to newer and more unique features and how these can be used together
                   1035: effectively for DoS mitigation, high availability, and load balancing.
                   1036: <br>
                   1037: Approximately 60 OpenBSD developers attended to heckle and participate
                   1038: in a free-for-all question period after the talk.
                   1039: <p>
                   1040:
1.362     reyk     1041: <li><strong><a name=bsdcan2005></a>
                   1042: <a href="http://www.bsdcan.org/2005/">BSDCan 2005</a></strong>,
                   1043: May 13 - 14, 2005, Ottawa, Canada.<br>
                   1044: A number of OpenBSD developers presented: Bob Beck on
                   1045: Spam Reduction with PF and Spamd, Henning Brauer on OpenBGPD,
                   1046: Ryan McBride on Network Stack Randomness and Reyk Fl&ouml;ter
                   1047: on WLAN in OpenBSD and the free ath(4) HAL. The
                   1048: <a href="papers/bsdcan05-spamd/">Spamd</a> and
                   1049: <a href="papers/bsdcan05-wlan/">WLAN</a> slides are available.
                   1050: Mathieu Sauve-Frankel has been there in attendance as well.
                   1051: <p>
                   1052:
1.358     mcbride  1053: <li><strong><a name=csw2005></a>
                   1054: <a href="http://www.cansecwest.com/">cansecwest/core05</a></strong>,
                   1055: May 4-6, 2005, Vancouver, Canada.<br>
                   1056: Hiroaki Etoh spoke about propolice; Theo de Raadt and a number of other
                   1057: developers were there to sell CDs and make a nuisance of themselves.
                   1058: <p>
                   1059:
1.357     henning  1060: <li><strong><a name=ripe50></a>
                   1061: <a href="http://www.ripe.net/ripe/meetings/ripe-50/">RIPE 50</a></strong>,
                   1062: May 2-6, 2005, Stockholm, Sweden.<br>
                   1063: RIPE NCC invited Henning to talk about OpenBGPD.
                   1064: There were over 350 attendees to the conference, and most of them attended
                   1065: henning's talk, which got very very positive feedback.
                   1066: <p>
                   1067:
1.384     tom      1068: <li><strong><a name=libreast2005></a>
1.356     espie    1069: <a href="http://idile.org/libreast/">Libr'east 2005</a></strong>,
1.410     wvdputte 1070: Apr 22-24, Marne La Vallée, near Paris, France<br>
1.356     espie    1071: There was an OpenBSD booth (Wim + Miod + Marc)
                   1072: Marc Espie did talk about recent OpenBSD advances, and his ports and
                   1073: packages work in front of about 30 people.
                   1074: <p>
                   1075:
1.353     henning  1076: <li><strong><a name=decix150405></a> <a
                   1077: href="http://www.de-cix.org/">DE-CIX Technical Meeting</a></strong>,
1.410     wvdputte 1078: Apr 15, 2005, near Usingen, Germany.<br>
1.353     henning  1079: Henning Brauer and Reyk Fl&ouml;ter had been invited to the technical
                   1080: meeting of the Deutsche Commercial Internet Exchange (DE-CIX). Henning
                   1081: presented his talk on OpenBGPD, about 60 people, mostly operators from
                   1082: the big ISPs peering at DECIX, were in attendance.
1.354     reyk     1083: Reyk, Maxim Salomon and Tim Kornau spoke on Wireless Network Security.
1.353     henning  1084: <p>
                   1085:
1.352     henning  1086: <li><strong><a name=nuug140405></a>
                   1087: <a href="http://www.nuug.no/aktiviteter/20050414-pf-brannmur/">Firewalling with PF at NUUG</a></strong>,
1.410     wvdputte 1088: Apr 14, 2005, Oslo, Norway.<br>
1.352     henning  1089: Peter N. M. Hansteen gave a firewalling with PF talk - which hopefully
                   1090: gave you some ideas about how to control your network traffic the
                   1091: way you want - keeping some things outside your network, directing
                   1092: traffic to specified hosts or services, and of course, giving spammers
                   1093: a hard time. The talk was in Norwegian, with <a
                   1094: href="http://www.bgnett.no/~peter/pf/no/foils/">foils</a> and <a
                   1095: href="http://www.bgnett.no/~peter/pf/no/">manuscript</a> (English <a
                   1096: href="http://www.bgnett.no/~peter/pf/en/foils/">foils</a> and <a
                   1097: href="http://www.bgnett.no/~peter/pf/en/">manuscript</a> too)
                   1098: available if you couldn't make it there.
                   1099: <p>
                   1100:
1.589     aanriot  1101:
                   1102: <li><strong><a name=fhwedel130405></a>
                   1103: <a href="http://www.fh-wedel.de/">FH Wedel invited talk</a></strong>,
                   1104: Apr 13, 2005, 17:00, H&ouml;rsaal 5, FH Wedel, Hamburg, Germany.<br>
                   1105: Henning Brauer spoke on OpenBGPD. More than 40 people were in attendance.
                   1106: <p>
                   1107:
1.350     marius   1108: <li><strong><a name=usenix2005></a>
                   1109: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix05/">Usenix Annual
1.410     wvdputte 1110: Technical Conference</a></strong>, Apr 10-15, 2005, Anaheim,
1.350     marius   1111: California, USA.<br> Marius Eriksen gave the OpenBSD update at the BSD
                   1112: super BoF.  The update was well received and people were quite
                   1113: sympathetic towards the ongoing efforts of the OpenBSD project to
                   1114: ensure the free redistribution rights for firmware.  People were also
                   1115: excited about the new Open* tools (OpenBGPD, OpenNTPD, OpenCVS) and it
1.351     marius   1116: would not be surprising to see more of these imported into other BSDs.
1.350     marius   1117: <p>
                   1118:
1.585     aanriot  1119: <li><strong><a name=plug050408></a>
1.586     aanriot  1120: <a href="http://www.plugfr.org/">Provence Linux User Group</a></strong>
                   1121: April 8, 2005, Marseille, France.<br>
1.585     aanriot  1122: Alexandre Anriot spoke about OpenBSD and some associated projects
1.586     aanriot  1123: (OpenBGPD etc.) during a meeting of the PLUG.
1.585     aanriot  1124: The <a href="papers/plug080405">slides</a> (in French) are available.
1.344     martin   1125: <p>
                   1126:
1.337     deraadt  1127: <li><strong><a name=bcs2005></a>
                   1128: <a href="http://www.bellua.com/bcs2005/asia05.index.html">Bellua Cyber Security Asia 2005</a></strong>,
1.410     wvdputte 1129: Mar 21-24, 2005, Jakarta, Indonesia.<br>
1.337     deraadt  1130: Ryan McBride presented an overview of PF which
                   1131: discussed how its advanced features work together in some important
1.338     deraadt  1132: applications and compared PF with the other major commercial and open
1.337     deraadt  1133: source firewalls.
                   1134: <p>
                   1135:
1.317     henning  1136: <li><strong><a name=nui_maynooth2005></a>
                   1137: <a href="http://www.minds.nuim.ie/events">NUI Maynooth lectures</a></strong>,
                   1138: Mar 4, 2005, Department of Computer Science, NUI Maynooth, Dublin, Ireland.<br>
1.318     henning  1139: Ryan McBride presented talks about PF and about
1.326     mcbride  1140: <a href="papers/dublin05-nr">randomization in the OpenBSD network layer.</a><br>
1.318     henning  1141: Theo and Henning were in attendance because someone had to heckle.
1.317     henning  1142: <p>
                   1143:
1.312     deraadt  1144: <li><strong><a name=trinity2005></a>
                   1145: <a href="http://www.netsoc.tcd.ie/events/0405/openbsd.php">Trinity lecture</a></strong>,
                   1146: Mar 3, 2005, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.<br>
1.320     deraadt  1147: Theo de Raadt presented his talk about
                   1148: <a href="papers/auug04">Exploit Mitigation Techniques</a>.
1.312     deraadt  1149: <p>
                   1150:
1.319     saad     1151: <li><strong><a name=ShefLUG2005></a>
                   1152: <a href="http://www.sheflug.co.uk/seminar/tiki-index.php?page=Sheffield%20Open%20Source%20Seminar">ShefLUG2005</a></strong>,
                   1153: Mar 2, 2005, Sheffield, UK.<br>
                   1154: Jacek Artymiak gave a talk about installing OpenBSD on Soekris hardware.
                   1155: <p>
                   1156:
1.310     mickey   1157: <li><strong><a name=NYCBUG2005-03></a>
1.375     grunk    1158: <a href="http://nycbug.org/index.php?NAV=Home&amp;SUBM=83">NYCBUG Monthly meeting</a></strong>,
1.310     mickey   1159: Mar 2, 2005, NYC, USA.<br>
1.322     deraadt  1160: Mickey gave a talk
1.325     mickey   1161: (<a href="papers/nyc2005">slides</a> and
1.564     jason    1162: <a href="http://www.fetissov.org/public/nycbug/nycbug-03-02-05.mp3">10.5MB audio</a>)
1.321     mickey   1163: about <a href="hppa.html">porting OpenBSD</a>
1.313     martin   1164: to the <a href="http://www.openpa.net">HP PA-RISC</a> platform.
1.310     mickey   1165: <p>
1.312     deraadt  1166:
1.308     deraadt  1167: <li><strong><a name=Netsoc2005></a>
                   1168: <a href="http://netsoc.ucd.ie/events/openbsd/">Netsoc lectures</a></strong>,
                   1169: Mar 2, 2005, UCD, Dublin, Ireland.<br>
                   1170: Theo de Raadt, Henning Brauer, and Ryan McBride gave a series of
1.320     deraadt  1171: talks. Topics included
                   1172: <a href="papers/auug04">exploit mitigation techniques</a>,
1.326     mcbride  1173: <a href="papers/dublin05-nr">introducing network randomness to increase security</a>,
                   1174: OpenBGPD, and pf.
                   1175: Almost 200 people came to this event.
1.308     deraadt  1176: <p>
                   1177:
1.304     saad     1178: <li><strong><a name=Brussels2005></a>
                   1179: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/2005/">FOSDEM Brussels 2005</a></strong>,
                   1180: Feb 26 - 27, 2005, Brussels, Belgium.<br>
                   1181: An OpenBSD/OpenSSH booth was present, ran by the usual gang of suspects.
                   1182: Support for <a href="mailto:wim@kd85.com">Wim Vandeputte</a> this time were
1.307     otto     1183: (among many others), Saad Kadhi, Henning Brauer, Thierry Deval, Otto Moerbeek,
1.304     saad     1184: Xavier Santolaria, Martin Reindl, Reyk Fl&ouml;ter, Hans-J&ouml;rg
1.360     db       1185: H&ouml;xer, Nikolay Sturm, Marc Balmer, Claudio Jeker, Joris Vink,
                   1186: Olivier Cherrier, David Berghoff,
1.316     mbalmer  1187: Alexander von Gernler, Uwe Stuehler, and Felix Kronlage from OpenDarwin.<br>
1.304     saad     1188: There was a separate OpenBSD track, featuring Henning Brauer (about
                   1189: signal handlers and OpenNTPD), Reyk Fl&ouml;ter (about wireless cards in
                   1190: OpenBSD), and the author of the OpenBSD PF book, Jacek Artymiak (about
1.375     grunk    1191: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pf">pf(4)</a>, of course).<br>
1.304     saad     1192: At the conference's Free Software Foundation Event, Theo de Raadt was
                   1193: awarded the Free Software Award 2004 for his efforts to make Firmware for
                   1194: wireless hardware and other devices freely available.
                   1195: <p>
1.301     saad     1196: <li><strong><a name=UKUUG05></a>
                   1197: <a href="http://www.ukuug.org/events/winter2005/">UKUUG LISA/Winter Conference</a></strong>,
                   1198: Feb 24 - 25, 2005, Birmingham, UK.<br>
                   1199: Henning Brauer spoke on OpenBGPD, OpenNTPD and Signal Handlers.
                   1200: <p>
                   1201: <li><strong><a name=FFG2005></a>
                   1202: <a href="http://www.guug.de/veranstaltungen/ffg2005/">GUUG FFG 2005</a></strong>,
                   1203: Feb 22 - 25, 2005, Munich, Germany.<br>
                   1204: Reyk Fl&ouml;ter talked about the latest wireless support in
                   1205: OpenBSD at the annual spring meeting of the <a href="http://www.guug.de/">German Unix User Group</a>.
                   1206: <p>
1.293     saad     1207: <li><strong><a name=Paris2005></a>
                   1208: <a href="http://www.solutionslinux.fr/fr/index.php">Solutions Linux 2005</a></strong>,
                   1209: Feb 1 - 3, 2005, Paris, France.<br>
                   1210: An OpenBSD booth as well as an OpenSSH booth were present. These booths
                   1211: were run by Marc Espie, Miod Vallat, Saad Kadhi and Wim with help from
                   1212: Guillaume Arcas and Christophe Plasschaert, two members of the OpenBSD
1.294     saad     1213: french translation team.<br>
                   1214: Marc Espie and Saad Kadhi gave a talk about the OpenBSD project with a
                   1215: special focus on the ports collection and Packet Filter. The <a
                   1216: href="papers/sl2005/index.html">slides</a> (in French) are
                   1217: available.<br>
                   1218: During the event, several demonstrations of <a
1.293     saad     1219: href="http://soekris.kd85.com/">Soekris</a> machines running OpenBSD
                   1220: were given by Saad Kadhi and Wim.
                   1221: <p>
1.296     mcbride  1222: </ul>
1.293     saad     1223:
1.296     mcbride  1224: <h3>2004</h3>
                   1225:
                   1226: <ul>
1.287     henning  1227: <li><strong><a name=21C3></a>
                   1228: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/2004/">21C3 - Chaos Communication Congress</a></strong>,
1.375     grunk    1229: Dec 27 - 29, 2004, Berlin, Germany<br>
1.287     henning  1230: &quot;The Usual Suspects&quot; were there and ran the BSD corner, including
                   1231: <a href="mailto:wim@kd85.com">Wim</a>,
                   1232: Henning Brauer, Marc Balmer, Martin Reindl, Moritz Jodeit, Felix Kronlage,
1.315     nick     1233: Uwe Stuehler, Konrad Foerstner, Bernd Ahlers, and Alexander von Gernler.<br>
1.287     henning  1234: Henning gave a talk about OpenBGPD and OpenNTPD
                   1235: (<a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/21c3/">slides</a>).<br>
                   1236: The WiFi backbone ran on OpenBSD powered
                   1237: <a href="http://soekris.kd85.com">Soekris</a> machines as access points,
                   1238: work done by Reyk Fl&ouml;ter, Tim Kornau and others.
                   1239: This installation was a very successful test of the new
1.290     henning  1240: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ath">ath(4)</a>
1.287     henning  1241: driver.
                   1242: <p>
1.248     deraadt  1243:
1.286     kevlo    1244: <li><strong><a name=icos2004></a>
1.417     kevlo    1245: <a href="http://2004.icos.org.tw/">ICOS 2004</a></strong>,
1.286     kevlo    1246: Dec 18 - 19, 2004, Taipei, Taiwan.<br>
                   1247: Kevin Lo gave a presentation.
                   1248: <p>
                   1249:
1.285     deraadt  1250: <li><strong><a name=syscan2004></a>
                   1251: <a href="http://www.syscan.org/">SyScAN 2004</a></strong>,
                   1252: Dec 16 - 17, 2004, Singapore.<br>
                   1253: Theo de Raadt presented his talk about
                   1254: <a href="papers/auug04">Exploit Mitigation Techniques</a>.
                   1255: <p>
                   1256:
1.283     saad     1257: <li><strong><a name=sur200412></a>
                   1258: <a href="http://www.ossir.org/sur/calendrier/index.shtml">SUR Group Meeting, December 2004</a></strong>,
                   1259: Dec 14, 2004, Paris, France.<br>
                   1260: Saad Kadhi gave a talk about OpenBSD and security during the monthly
                   1261: meeting of the
                   1262: <a href="http://www.ossir.org/sur/index.shtml">SUR</a> Group (Sécurité
                   1263: Unix et Réseaux), a french user group focusing on security and Unix. The
1.284     xsa      1264: <a href="papers/surgroup200412/index.html">slides</a> (in French) are available.
1.283     saad     1265: <p>
                   1266:
1.282     henning  1267: <li><strong><a name=opencon2004></a>
                   1268: <a href="http://www.opencon.org/">OpenCon 2004</a></strong>,
                   1269: Dec 10 - 12, 2004, Venice, Italy.<br>
                   1270: OpenBSD meeting in Northern Italy. Henning gave 3 talks in
                   1271: two days, on bgpd
                   1272: (<a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/opencon04/bgpd/">slides</a>),
                   1273: ntpd
                   1274: (<a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/opencon04/ntpd/">slides</a>)
                   1275: and signal handlers
                   1276: (<a href="papers/opencon04/">slides</a>).
                   1277: Wim ran a booth, and Marc Balmer was there as well.
                   1278: <p>
                   1279:
1.275     deraadt  1280: <li><strong><a name=UofA></a>
                   1281: <a href="http://www.ualberta.ca/">U of A Seminar</a></strong>,
                   1282: Nov 17 - 18, 2004, Edmonton Alberta.<br>
                   1283: Theo de Raadt presented a talk at an open seminar at the
                   1284: <a href="http://www.ualberta.ca/">University of Alberta</a>, in
                   1285: Room B-02 of the
                   1286: <a href="http://www.campusmap.ualberta.ca/map_bldg.cfm?bldg_id=42">
                   1287: Computing Sciences Center</a>.
                   1288: Talk went from 2 PM to nearly 5PM with more than 100 people attending
                   1289: from the University and industry, followed by beer nearby.
                   1290: The talk was also given the following day at the
                   1291: <a href="http://www.cips.ca/">CIPS Security SIG</a> luncheon.
                   1292: <p>
                   1293:
1.271     henning  1294: <li><strong><a name=EuroBSDCon2004></a>
                   1295: <a href="http://2004.eurobsdcon.org/">EuroBSD Con</a></strong>,
                   1296: Oct 29 - 31, 2004, Karlsruhe, Germany.<br>
1.272     henning  1297: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
                   1298: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
1.271     henning  1299: Henning gave a talk
1.375     grunk    1300: about <a href="http://2004.eurobsdcon.org/talks.html?&amp;tx_ptspeechupload_pi1[showUid]=44&amp;cHash=ec015b0552">bgpd</a>,
1.272     henning  1301: <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/euroBSDCon2004/">slides</a> are available.
1.271     henning  1302: <p>
                   1303:
                   1304: <li><strong><a name=LinuxWorldExpoGermany2004></a>
                   1305: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.de/">Linux World Expo</a></strong>,
                   1306: Oct 26 - 28, 2004, Frankfurt, Germany.<br>
1.272     henning  1307: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
                   1308: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
1.271     henning  1309: <p>
                   1310:
1.276     deraadt  1311: <li><strong><a name=cuug2004></a>
1.270     deraadt  1312: <a href="http://www.cuug.ab.ca/">Calgary Unix Users's Group</a></strong>,
                   1313: Oct 26, 2004, Calgary, Canada.<br>
                   1314: Theo presented the talk that he has recently given in Australia and
                   1315: Malaysia to the "Home Crowd".
                   1316: <p>
                   1317:
                   1318: <li><strong><a name=aldil2004></a>
1.269     krw      1319: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/">Les Journées Du Logiciel Libre 2004</a></strong>,
                   1320: Oct 22 - 23, 2004, Lyon, France.<br>
1.381     aanriot  1321: There was OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Miod Vallat with the help of
1.415     aanriot  1322: Alexandre Anriot and Thierry Thomas.
1.269     krw      1323: <p>
                   1324:
                   1325: <li><strong><a name=systems2004></a>
                   1326: <a href="http://www.systems.de/">Systems</a></strong>,
                   1327: Oct 18 - 22, 2004, Munich, Germany <br>
                   1328: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
                   1329: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
                   1330: <p>
                   1331:
1.268     krw      1332: <li><strong><a name=linuxexpo2004oct></a>
                   1333: <a href="http://www.linuxexpo.org.uk/">Linux Expo</a></strong>,
                   1334: Oct 6 - 7, 2004, London, UK.<br>
                   1335: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
                   1336: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
                   1337: <p>
                   1338:
1.375     grunk    1339: <li><strong><a name=hitb2004></a>
1.268     krw      1340: <a href="http://conference.hackinthebox.org">Hack in the Box Security Conference 2004</a></strong>,
                   1341: Oct 4 - 7, 2004, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.<br>
                   1342: Theo de Raadt presented an updated version of his
                   1343: "Exploit Mitigation Techniques" talk.
                   1344: <p>
                   1345:
                   1346: <li><strong><a name=SANE2004></a>
                   1347: <a href="http://www.nluug.nl/events/sane2004/bazaar.html">SANE 2004</a></strong>
1.410     wvdputte 1348: , Sep 29, 2004, Amsterdam, Netherlands.<br>
1.268     krw      1349: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
                   1350: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
                   1351: <p>
                   1352:
1.265     wvdputte 1353: <li><strong><a name=LinuxKongress2004></a>
                   1354: <a href="http://www.linux-kongress.org/2004">Linux Kongress 2004</a></strong>,
1.410     wvdputte 1355: Sep 7 - 10, 2004, Erlangen, Germany.<br>
1.265     wvdputte 1356: From their website: "Linux-Kongress is still the premier event for European
                   1357: developers and one of the most important in the world. Each year hundreds of
                   1358: hard core Linux enthusiasts from all over the world gather for this important
                   1359: event."
                   1360: <br>
                   1361: Although this was a Linux developers' conference, we were able to
                   1362: install a regular OpenBSD booth there, as known from other events.
                   1363: It was run by <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim Vandeputte</a>,
                   1364: <a href="mailto:grunk@pestilenz.org">Alexander von Gernler</a> and other
                   1365: geeks from the Erlangen-Nuremberg area.
                   1366: <br>
                   1367: There also was a BSD dinner at Friday evening.
                   1368: <p>
                   1369:
1.262     henning  1370: <li><strong><a name=Sucon2004></a>
                   1371: <a href="http://www.suug.ch/sucon/04/">SUCON 2004</a></strong>,
1.410     wvdputte 1372: Sep 2 - 4, 2004, Zurich, Switzerland.<br>
1.262     henning  1373: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth. Very nice conference.
                   1374: Henning's slides from his talks about
                   1375: <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/sucon04/bgpd">bgpd</a> and
                   1376: <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/sucon04/ntpd">ntpd</a>
                   1377: are available.
                   1378: <p>
                   1379:
1.261     deraadt  1380: <li><strong><a name=auug2004></a>
1.266     jolan    1381: <a href="http://www.auug.org.au/events/2004/auug2004/">AUUG 2004</a></strong>,
1.261     deraadt  1382: Aug 29 - Sep 3, 2004, Melbourne, Australia.<br>
                   1383: Theo de Raadt presented a half-day tutorial on privilege seperation and a
                   1384: newly extended version of the
                   1385: <a href="papers/auug04">Exploit Mitigation Techniques</a> talk.<br>
                   1386: For more information, see this
                   1387: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;517187222;fp;16;fpid;0">
                   1388: ComputerWorld article</a>.
                   1389: <p>
                   1390:
                   1391:
1.680     aanriot  1392: <li><strong><a name=lsm2004></a>
1.257     saad     1393: <a href="http://lsm.abul.org">Libre Software Meeting</a></strong>,
1.410     wvdputte 1394: Jul 6 - 10, 2004, Bordeaux, France.<br>
1.257     saad     1395: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
                   1396: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim Vandeputte</a>.
                   1397: <p>
                   1398:
                   1399: <li><strong><a name=LinuxTag2004></a>
                   1400: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.org">LinuxTag 2004</a></strong>,
1.410     wvdputte 1401: Jun 23 - 26, 2004, Karlsruhe, Germany.<br>
1.257     saad     1402: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
                   1403: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim Vandeputte</a>.
                   1404: <p>
                   1405:
1.254     xsa      1406: <li><strong><a name=LinuxwochenVienna2004></a>
1.255     xsa      1407: <a href="http://www.linuxwochen.at/">Linuxwochen Vienna 2004</a></strong>,
1.254     xsa      1408: May 26 - 29, 2004, Vienna, Austria.<br>
                   1409: The Linuxwochen 2004 tour stopped in the MuseumsQuartier, Vienna.
                   1410: Wim Vandeputte and Reinhard Sammer ran the OpenBSD booth. Michael Bauer
                   1411: and Teemu Schaabl from the <a href="http://www.cngw.org/">CNGW</a> gave
                   1412: a basic talk about pf.
                   1413: <p>
                   1414:
1.248     deraadt  1415: <li><strong><a name=BSDCan2004></a>
1.303     mcbride  1416: <a href="http://www.bsdcan.org/2004/">BSDCan 2004</a></strong>,
1.248     deraadt  1417: May 13 - 16, 2004, Ottawa, Canada.<br>
                   1418: BSDCan was held at the University of Ottawa.  Ryan McBride gave a talk
1.302     mcbride  1419: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/papers/bsdcan04-pf/index.html">about newer features in pf</a>,
                   1420: focusing on the redundancy provided by CARP and pfsync.
                   1421: Theo de Raadt presented a revised version of his talk on
1.248     deraadt  1422: <a href="papers/bsdcan04">Exploit Mitigation Techniques</a>.
                   1423: <p>
                   1424:
1.247     canacar  1425: <li><strong><a name="LOSFAnkara2004"></a>
                   1426: <a href="http://senlik.linux.org.tr">3rd Linux and Open Source Festival</a></strong>,
                   1427: May 13 - 16, 2004, Ankara, Turkey.<br>
                   1428: Can E. Acar and Berk D. Demir talked about the OpenBSD Project. The
                   1429: philosophy, project goals, system features and recent proactive
                   1430: security features were introduced. CARP, patents, recent Apache &amp;
                   1431: XFree86 licensing issues and effects of NDAs in open source
                   1432: projects were discussed.<br>
                   1433: You can view the
1.281     canacar  1434: <a href="http://bdd.mindcast.org/slides/OpenBSD-LOYS2004-cea-bdd.pdf">
1.247     canacar  1435: slides in PDF format</a> the
1.281     canacar  1436: <a href="http://bdd.mindcast.org/slides/OpenBSD-LOYS2004-cea-bdd.tex">
1.247     canacar  1437: LaTeX source</a> is also available (they are
                   1438: <a href="http://www.eee.metu.edu.tr/~canacar/slides/">mirrored</a>, as well).
                   1439: <p>
                   1440:
1.242     henning  1441: <li><strong><a name=Brussels2004></a>
                   1442: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/">FOSDEM Brussels 2004</a></strong>,
                   1443: Feb 21 - 22, 2004, Brussels, Belgium.<br>
1.243     henning  1444: An OpenBSD/OpenSSH booth was present, run by Wim Vandeputte.
                   1445: Several developers (including Henning Brauer, Xavier Santolaria, Thierry Deval,
                   1446: Philipp B&uuml;hler, Otto Moerbeek and Saad Kadhi) showed up.
                   1447: Wim and Alexander von Gernler gave &quot;lightning talks&quot; about Soekris
                   1448: and systrace
1.263     saad     1449: (<a href="http://pestilenz.org/~grunk/vortraege/2004/FOSDEM/systrace.pdf">slides</a>), respectively.
1.243     henning  1450: Henning got a slot in the main track to talk about the new bgpd
                   1451: (<a href="http://www.2suck.net/papers/fosdem2004/">slides</a>).
                   1452: On Saturday evening, the traditional OpenBSD dinner took place.
1.242     henning  1453: <p>
                   1454:
1.240     espie    1455: <li><strong><a name=Paris2004></a>
                   1456: <a href="http://www.linuxsolutions.fr/">Linux Expo Paris 2004</a></strong>,
                   1457: Feb 3 - 5, 2004, Paris, France.<br>
                   1458: An OpenBSD booth as well as an OpenSSH booth were present, thanks to
                   1459: <a href="mailto:saad@docisland.org">Saad Kadhi</a> and
                   1460: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
                   1461: <p>
                   1462:
                   1463: <li><strong><a name="LWE04"></a>
                   1464: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/linuxworldny/V40/index.cvn">LinuxWorld
                   1465: Conference and Expo</a></strong>, Jan 20 - 23, 2004, New York, NY, USA.<br>
1.397     grunk    1466: <a href="mailto:wes@openlysecure.org">Wes Sonnenreich</a> and others
1.240     espie    1467: have established a BSD user group in NYC and held a BSD BoF at the
                   1468: Jacob Javits Center on January 22nd at 5:45pm, Room 1E15.
                   1469: <p>
                   1470: </ul>
                   1471:
1.188     henning  1472: <h3>2003</h3>
1.236     jose     1473:
                   1474: <ul>
1.232     jose     1475: <li><strong><a name=20c3></a>
                   1476: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/2003/">20th Chaos Communication Congress 2003</a></strong>,
                   1477: Dec 27 - 29, 2003, Berlin, Germany.<br>
                   1478: OpenBSD was represented by a booth, ran by
                   1479: <a href= "mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>, and supported by Henning and
1.236     jose     1480: Alexander von Gernler. Alexander also gave a
1.260     saad     1481: <a href="http://pestilenz.org/~grunk/vortraege/2003/20C3/openbsd.pdf">talk</a>
1.232     jose     1482: introducing the project and the OS (in German).
1.236     jose     1483: <p>
1.232     jose     1484:
1.228     jose     1485: <li><strong><a name=brazil2003></a>
1.236     jose     1486: <a href="http://bsdcon.myfreebsd.com.br">1st BSDCon Brazil</a></strong>,
1.228     jose     1487: Dec 6 - 7, 2003. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.<br>
                   1488: This was the first BSDCon Brazil, and of course OpenBSD was present.
1.236     jose     1489: Douglas Santos spoke on advocacy and about some of the technical aspects
                   1490: of OpenBSD. Eduardo A. Alvarenga gave a presentation about firewalling
1.228     jose     1491: with OpenBSD PF.
                   1492: <p>
                   1493:
                   1494: <li><strong><a name=ankara03></a>
                   1495: <a href="http://seminer.linux.org.tr">Association of Turkish Linux User</a></strong>,
                   1496: Dec 4, 2003, Ankara, Turkey.<br>
                   1497: Can Acar and Berk Demir gave a mammoth 4 hour presentation on OpenBSD.
                   1498: The first part was a broad introduction to the OpenBSD philosophy, the
1.236     jose     1499: project goals, and system features. After a break, in the second part they
                   1500: talked about the exploit mitigation techniques employed in OpenBSD. This
                   1501: part was aimed at techies and is almost a complete Turkish translation of
                   1502: the talk Theo recently gave in Japan. You can view the
1.281     canacar  1503: <a href="http://bdd.mindcast.org/slides/OpenBSD_3.12.2003.can-bdd.pdf">
1.236     jose     1504: slides in PDF format </a>
                   1505: (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     1506: <p>
                   1507:
1.227     jose     1508: <li><strong><a name=Luxembourg2003></a>
                   1509: <a href="http://www.linuxday.lu/">Linuxday Luxembourg 2003</a></strong>,
                   1510: Nov 6 - 8, 2003, Luxembourg, Luxembourg.<br>
                   1511: Booths were present, organized by <a href= "mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
                   1512: <p>
                   1513:
                   1514: <li><strong><a name=Pacsec2003></a>
                   1515: <a href="http://pacsec.jp/">Pacsec 2003</a></strong>,
1.410     wvdputte 1516: Nov 6 - 7, 2003, Tokyo, Japan.<br>
1.236     jose     1517: Three OpenBSD developers presented on various topics. Theo de Raadt
1.227     jose     1518: gave a presentation on Exploit Mitigation Techniques
1.236     jose     1519: <a href="papers/pacsec03/e/index.html">(English)</a>
                   1520: <a href="papers/pacsec03/j/index.html">(Japanese)</a>, Jun-ichiro
1.227     jose     1521: itojun Hagino presented material covering
1.236     jose     1522: <a href="http://www.itojun.org/paper/itojun-200311-pacsec-jp/">
1.241     david    1523: IPv6 security considerations</a>, and Jose Nazario discussed advances
1.227     jose     1524: in Internet worm defenses.
                   1525: <p>
                   1526:
1.224     miod     1527: <li><strong><a name=Lyon2003></a>
                   1528: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/agenda/journees/2003/">Les V<sup>&egrave;mes</sup> Journ&eacute;es du Libre 2003</a></strong>,
                   1529: Oct 31 - Nov 1, 2003, Lyon, France.<br>
                   1530: Miod Vallat gave a talk about the recent security efforts deployed in OpenBSD,
                   1531: as well as generic security concepts (slides, in bad French, are available in
                   1532: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/agenda/journees/2003/vallat/miod.mgp">mgp
                   1533: format</a>). As usual, Wim ran an OpenBSD booth featuring the new 3.4 release,
                   1534: as well as <a href="http://soekris.kd85.com">Soekris</a> hardware running
                   1535: OpenBSD.
                   1536: <p>
                   1537:
                   1538: <li><strong><a name=Saarbrucken2003></a>
                   1539: <a href="http://www.linux-kongress.org/2003/index.html">Linux Kongress Saarbr&uuml;cken 2003</a></strong>,
                   1540: Oct 14 - 16, 2003, Saarbr&uuml;cken, Germany.<br>
                   1541: An OpenBSD booth was present, starring Wim again.
                   1542: <p>
                   1543:
                   1544: <li><strong><a name=London2003></a>
                   1545: <a href="http://www.linuxexpo.org.uk/">Linux Expo London 2003</a></strong>,
                   1546: Oct 8 - 9, 2003, London, UK.<br>
                   1547: An OpenBSD booth was present, starring Wim as usual.
                   1548: <p>
                   1549:
1.219     jose     1550: <li><strong><a name=bsdcon2003></a>
                   1551: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/bsdcon03/">BSDCon '03</a></strong>,
                   1552: Sep 8 - 12, 2003, San Mateo, California.<br>
1.236     jose     1553: OpenBSD was represented in the BSD Status Report, and David Rosenthal
1.219     jose     1554: gave a talk on an OpenBSD based security appliance.
                   1555: <p>
                   1556:
1.218     jose     1557: <li><strong><a name=sucon2003></a>
                   1558: <a href="http://www.sucon.ch/">SUCON '03</a></strong>,
                   1559: Sep 5, 2003. Zurich, Switzerland.<br>
1.236     jose     1560: Daniel Hartmeier talked about PF, and <a
1.218     jose     1561: href="http://open.bsdcow.net/events/sucon2003/">pictures are available</a>.
                   1562: <p>
                   1563:
1.214     henning  1564: <li><strong><a name=camp2003></a>
                   1565: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/camp/">Chaos Communication Camp 2003</a></strong>,
1.216     jose     1566: Aug 7 - 10, 2003, in <a href="http://www.paulshof.de/body-mehr.html">a field</a> near Berlin Germany<br>
1.214     henning  1567: There was a huge OpenBSD village. Several OpenBSD developers have been there.
                   1568: <p>
                   1569:
1.213     jose     1570: <li><strong><a name=sec2003></a>
                   1571: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/sec03/">Usenix Security</a></strong>,
1.216     jose     1572: Aug 4 - 8, 2003, Washington, DC, USA.<br>
1.236     jose     1573: Niels Provos presented two papers on security advances originally
1.213     jose     1574: developed for OpenBSD, including the OpenSSH privsep feature and systrace.
                   1575: Several OpenBSD developers were there.
                   1576: <p>
                   1577:
1.211     jose     1578: <li><strong><a name=linuxtag2003></a>
                   1579: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.org/2003/en/index.html">LinuxTag 2003</a></strong>,
1.216     jose     1580: Jul 10 - 13, 2003, Karlsruhe Convention Center Germany<br>
1.211     jose     1581: Both OpenBSD and OpenSSH had booths in the main exhibit.
                   1582: <p>
                   1583:
                   1584: <li><strong><a name=lsm2003></a>
                   1585: <a href="http://libresoftwaremeeting.org/">Libre Software Meeting 2003</a></strong>,
1.216     jose     1586: Jul 9 - 12, 2003, Metz, France<br>
1.212     matthieu 1587: Matthieu Herrb gave <a href="papers/xf86-sec.pdf">a talk about XFree86 security</a>. There was
1.211     jose     1588: also an OpenBSD booth with developers.
                   1589: <p>
                   1590:
1.209     wvdputte 1591: <li><strong><a name=lud2003></a>
                   1592: <a href="http://www.linuxuserexpo.com/">Linux User & Developer Expo 2003</a></strong>,
1.216     jose     1593: Jun 24 - 26, 2003, at the NEC in Birmingham UK<br>
1.209     wvdputte 1594: There was an OpenBSD booth with developers.
                   1595: <p>
1.195     deraadt  1596:
1.202     jason    1597: <li><strong><a name=usenix2003></a>
1.236     jose     1598: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix03/">Usenix Annual Technical
1.216     jose     1599: Conference</a></strong>,
                   1600: Jun 9 - 14, 2003, San Antonio, Texas, USA<br>
1.202     jason    1601: A few OpenBSD developers were there and one paper was presented:
                   1602: <ul>
1.216     jose     1603: <li>The Design of the OpenBSD Cryptographic Framework<br>
1.202     jason    1604:     <a href="events.html#usenix2003">Usenix 2003</a>, by
1.236     jose     1605:     Angelos D. Keromytis,
                   1606:     Jason L. Wright, and
1.205     deraadt  1607:     Theo de Raadt.<br>
1.202     jason    1608:     <a href="papers/ocf.pdf">paper</a>.
                   1609: </ul>
                   1610: <p>
                   1611:
1.216     jose     1612: <li><strong>
                   1613: <a href="http://www.webb.it/">Webbit 2003</a></strong>,
                   1614: May 9 - 11, 2003, Padova, Italy<br>
1.203     jason    1615: Giacomo Cariello and Wim Vandeputte attended, and several OpenBSD
1.661     martynas 1616: <a href="http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20030503101052">related talks</a> were given.
1.203     jason    1617: <p>
                   1618:
1.216     jose     1619: <li><strong>
                   1620: <a href="http://cansecwest.com/">CanSecWest 03</a></strong>,
                   1621: Apr 9 - 11, 2003, Vancouver, Canada<br>
1.195     deraadt  1622: Theo spoke about killing buffer overflows using ProPolice and the new W^X technology,
1.196     matthieu 1623: available as a <a href="papers/csw03.mgp">magicpoint file</a>.
1.195     deraadt  1624: <p>
                   1625:
1.216     jose     1626: <li><strong>
                   1627: <a href="http://www.cebit.de/">CeBIT 2003</a></strong>,
                   1628: Mar 14, 2003, Hannover, Germany<br>
1.236     jose     1629: 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 1630: gave a talk on OpenBSD and OpenSSH. <a href="papers/cebit2003.tgz">slides</a> are available.
1.194     henning  1631: <p>
                   1632:
1.216     jose     1633: <li><strong>
                   1634: <a href="http://www.linuxforum.dk/2003/english/">LinuxForum 2003</a></strong>,
                   1635: Mar 1, 2003, Copenhagen<br>
1.236     jose     1636: Daniel spoke about PF (slides in <a href="papers/linuxforum2k3.tar.gz">mgp</a>,
                   1637: <a href="http://www.benzedrine.cx/linuxforum/">HTML</a>).
1.191     dhartmei 1638: It was a small but cozy conference, jointly held by Danish Linux and BSD
                   1639: user groups.
                   1640: <p>
                   1641:
1.236     jose     1642: <li><strong>
                   1643: <a href="http://www.cuug.ab.ca">CUUG - The Calgary Unix Users
1.216     jose     1644: Group</a></strong>,
                   1645: Feb 25, 2003, 18:00 MST, Calgary<br>
1.190     miod     1646: OpenBSD lead developer Theo de Raadt spoke about some of the recent
                   1647: changes in OpenBSD that are leading the way to the complete elimination of
                   1648: "buffer overflow" security risks and attacks.
                   1649: <p>
                   1650:
1.216     jose     1651: <li><strong>
                   1652: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/">FOSDEM 2003</a></strong>,
                   1653: Feb 8 - 9, 2003, Brussels<br>
1.236     jose     1654: Henning and Philipp gave a talk on -current PF developments
1.196     matthieu 1655: (<a href="papers/fosdem2k3-pf.mgp">slides</a>)
1.187     henning  1656: and on Saturday evening, there was an OpenBSD dinner for those interested.
                   1657: <p>
                   1658:
1.216     jose     1659: <li><strong>
                   1660: <a href="http://linuxsolutions.fr/FR/home/index.php?site=default">Linux Solutions</a></strong>,
                   1661: Feb 4 - 6, 2003, CNIT - Paris La Défense<br>
1.185     miod     1662: There was an OpenBSD booth with several OpenBSD developers, as well as 3.2 OpenBSD
1.413     grunk    1663: CD sets and T-shirts.
1.185     miod     1664: <p>
1.236     jose     1665: </ul>
1.185     miod     1666:
1.161     millert  1667: <h3>2002</h3>
1.236     jose     1668:
                   1669: <ul>
                   1670: <li><strong>
                   1671: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/2002/">19c3: the 19th CCC
1.216     jose     1672: Congress</a></strong>,
                   1673: Dec 27 - 29, 2002, Berlin<br>
1.236     jose     1674: There was a huge <a href="http://www.eurobsd.org/19c3">reserved space</a> for
                   1675: OpenBSD users and developers, a couple of -current test systems and for those
1.413     grunk    1676: curious, a first look at the 3.2 OpenBSD T-shirts.
1.184     wvdputte 1677: <p>
1.177     jason    1678:
1.216     jose     1679: <li><strong>
                   1680: <a href="http://2002.eurobsdcon.org/">BSDCon Europe 2002</a></strong>,
                   1681: Nov 15 - 17, 2002, Amsterdam, Netherlands<br>
1.181     henning  1682: OpenBSD people were there;
1.236     jose     1683: Philipp B&uuml;hler and Henning Brauer spoke about
1.182     ian      1684: <a href="papers/tuning-openbsd.ps">
                   1685: network performance tuning on OpenBSD</a>,
1.236     jose     1686: and Ian Darwin presented a
1.182     ian      1687: <a href="papers/eurobsd-firewalls-2002.pdf">
                   1688: tutorial on OpenBSD servers/firewalls</a>.
1.179     pb       1689: <p>
1.178     pb       1690:
1.216     jose     1691: <li><strong>
1.236     jose     1692: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa02/">LISA '02: 16th Systems
1.216     jose     1693: Administration Conference</a></strong>,
                   1694: Nov 3 - 8, 2002, Philadelphia, USA<br>
1.177     jason    1695: Mickey and Jason manned the booth at the vendor expo (the only BSD
                   1696: represented) and sold <a href="32.html">3.2</a> CDs, and Jason gave a BoF
                   1697: session on <a href="32.html">3.2</a> and future.
                   1698: <p>
                   1699:
1.216     jose     1700: <li><strong>
1.264     djm      1701: <a href="http://www.auug.org.au/events/2002/auug2002/">Australian Unix Users
                   1702: Group Winter Conference</a></strong>,
                   1703: Sep 1 - 6, 2002, Melbourne Australia<br>
                   1704: Damien Miller presented a tutorial on the
                   1705: <a href="papers/auug2002-ssh/index.html">SSH protocol</a> and
                   1706: <a href="papers/auug2002-ssh.ps">OpenSSH tips and tricks</a>.
                   1707: <p>
                   1708:
                   1709: <li><strong>
1.216     jose     1710: <a href="http://lsm.abul.org">The 3rd Libre Software Meeting</a></strong>,
                   1711: Jul 9 - 13, 2002, Bordeaux, France<br>
1.172     miod     1712: Several OpenBSD developers and users were attending the meeting, and
                   1713: Niels Provos presented his
                   1714: <a href="http://www.citi.umich.edu/u/provos/systrace">systrace</a>
                   1715: system call policy management tool.
1.174     nick     1716: <p>
1.172     miod     1717:
1.216     jose     1718: <li><strong>
                   1719: <a href="http://www.Webb.it">Webb.it 02</a></strong>,
                   1720: Jul 5 - 7, 2002, Padova, Italy<br>
1.171     ian      1721: OpenBSD developers had a booth selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
                   1722: <p>
                   1723:
1.216     jose     1724: <li><strong>
1.236     jose     1725: <a href="http://www.softwarelivre.rs.gov.br/forum">The Annual International
1.216     jose     1726: Free Software Forum</a></strong>,
                   1727: May 2 - 4, 2002, Porto Alegre-RS, Brazil<br>
1.236     jose     1728: Mainly a Linux/GNU event, but this year the BSD Operating Systems
                   1729: had a chance to prove their value.
1.169     horacio  1730: Edson Brandi spoke on FreeBSD, Diego Linke
1.236     jose     1731: on NetBSD, and Ricardo Nascimento Ferreira on OpenBSD.
1.169     horacio  1732: <p>
1.168     miod     1733:
1.216     jose     1734: <li><strong>
                   1735: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/bsdcon02/">BSDCON 2002</a></strong>,
                   1736: Feb 11 - 14, 2002, San Francisco, California, USA<br>
1.161     millert  1737: Todd Miller gave an update on current OpenBSD status and participated in a
1.162     millert  1738: BSD panel discussion.  The <a href="slides/bsdcon_2002/index.html">slides</a>
                   1739: are available.
1.161     millert  1740: <p>
                   1741:
1.216     jose     1742: <li><strong>
                   1743: <a href="http://www.linuxexpoparis.com">Linux expo Paris 2002</a></strong>,
                   1744: Jan 30 - Feb 1, 2002, Paris, France<br>
1.163     miod     1745: The french Linux Expo 2002 was quite small and as usual the OpenBSD booth ended
                   1746: up with others on the expo's side.  On the first day, almost all the merchandise
                   1747: was sold, and we have even sold older versions (2.9) the following days to
                   1748: people who wouldn't leave without a cd set in their hands...
                   1749: <p>
                   1750:
1.216     jose     1751: <li><strong>
                   1752: <a href="http://musess.mcmaster.ca/">MUSESS 2002</a></strong>,
                   1753: Jan 25 - 26, 2002, McMaster University, Ontario, Canada<br>
1.164     millert  1754: Louis Bertrand gave a presentation on OpenBSD titled
                   1755: <strong>Fix The Bugs, Secure The System</strong>.
                   1756: The <a href="slides/musess_2002/index.html">slides</a> are available.
                   1757: <p>
1.236     jose     1758: </ul>
1.164     millert  1759:
1.152     jakob    1760: <h3>2001</h3>
                   1761:
1.236     jose     1762: <ul>
1.216     jose     1763: <li><strong>
                   1764: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa01/">USENIX LISA 2001</a></strong>,
                   1765: Dec 2 - 7, 2001, San Diego, California, USA<br>
1.160     jufi     1766: Niels Provos gave a presentation, and there's been a booth selling
1.413     grunk    1767: T-shirts and 3.0 CDs.
1.160     jufi     1768: <p>
                   1769:
1.216     jose     1770: <li><strong>
                   1771: <a href="http://www.ietf.org/meetings/IETF-52.html">52nd IETF</a></strong>,
                   1772: Dec 9 - 14, 2001, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA<br>
1.160     jufi     1773: Angelos, Itojun &amp; Jakob were there.
                   1774: <p>
                   1775:
1.158     deraadt  1776: <li><strong>
1.236     jose     1777: <a href="http://www.disc2000.unam.mx/disc/index-ing.html">DISC
1.216     jose     1778: 2001</a></strong>,
                   1779: Nov 26 - 29, 2001, Mexico City, Mexico<br>
1.158     deraadt  1780: Once again, Theo de Raadt explained the security auditing process and
                   1781: subsequent secure configuration choices made in OpenBSD, in a talk
                   1782: entitled "Updated thoughts on writing a secure Operating System".
                   1783: <p>
                   1784:
1.216     jose     1785: <li><strong>
                   1786: <a href="http://www.linux.org.hk">LinuxCafe</a></strong>,
                   1787: Sep 15, 2001, Hong Kong, China<br>
1.156     provos   1788: Shell Hung gave an introduction for BSD and demonstration of OpenBSD to HKLUG.
                   1789: <p>
                   1790:
1.201     deraadt  1791: <li><strong>VPN Bakeoff</strong>,
1.216     jose     1792: Aug 13 - 18, 2001, Finland<br>
1.156     provos   1793: Jakob and Itojun were there.
                   1794: <p>
1.158     deraadt  1795:
1.150     wvdputte 1796: <li><strong>
1.215     nick     1797: <a href="http://www.hal2001.org">HAL 2001</a></strong>,
1.216     jose     1798: Aug 10 - 12, 2001, Twente, Netherlands<br>
1.153     jufi     1799: Quite a lot of developers were there, we even had our own tent.
                   1800: Niels, Rees and Dugsong held talks, more info on the main website
                   1801: for HAL2001. And of course T-Shirts and CDROMs were sold.
1.150     wvdputte 1802: <p>
1.137     aaron    1803:
                   1804: <li><strong>
1.236     jose     1805: <a href="http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon/">O'Reilly Open Source
1.216     jose     1806: Conference</a></strong>,
                   1807: Jul 23 - 27, 2001, San Diego, California, USA<br>
1.148     brian    1808: OpenBSD had a booth selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
                   1809: Ian Darwin presented his "Firewalls and Secure Internet Servers
                   1810: with OpenBSD" tutorial.
                   1811: <p>
                   1812:
                   1813: <li><strong>
1.201     deraadt  1814: <a href="http://www.defcon.org">DEF CON Nine</a></strong>,
1.216     jose     1815: Jul 13 - 15, 2001 Las Vegas, USA<br>
1.148     brian    1816: OpenBSD developers and users make it a point to attend every year,
                   1817: and had a table selling CD's, shirts, etc.
                   1818: <p>
                   1819:
                   1820: <li><strong>
1.236     jose     1821: <a href="http://www.sek.co.kr/sek2001/sek_html/main.htm">Software
1.216     jose     1822: Exhibition of Korea</a></strong>,
                   1823: Jun 26 - 29, 2001, Seoul, Korea<br>
1.146     krw      1824: urisecure/NDS sponsored an OpenBSD booth with CD's, posters,
                   1825: and a live demo of OpenBSD's IPSEC hardware acceleration.
                   1826: <p>
                   1827:
                   1828: <li><strong>
1.236     jose     1829: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix01/">2001 USENIX Annual
1.216     jose     1830: Technical Conference</a></strong>,
                   1831: Jun 25 - 30, 2001, Boston, USA<br>
1.146     krw      1832: OpenBSD developers were there, selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
                   1833: <p>
                   1834:
                   1835: <li><strong>
1.143     dugsong  1836: <a href="http://www.olymfair.org/eng/workshop.htm">Information
1.201     deraadt  1837: Security OlymFair</a></strong>,
1.216     jose     1838: May 16 - 18, 2001, Seoul, Korea<br>
1.143     dugsong  1839: Dug Song gave a detailed introduction to OpenBSD to the Korean
                   1840: security community.
                   1841: <p>
                   1842:
                   1843: <li><strong>
1.236     jose     1844: <a href="http://www.osdem.org/">2001 Open Source and Free Software
1.216     jose     1845: Developers' Meeting</a></strong>,
                   1846: Feb 3 - 4, 2001, Brussels, Belgium<br>
1.137     aaron    1847: There was an OpenBSD booth with some loose talks made.
                   1848: <p>
                   1849:
                   1850: <li><strong>
1.201     deraadt  1851: <a href="http://www.linuxexpoparis.com/">2001 Linux Expo</a></strong>,
1.216     jose     1852: Feb 1 - 2, 2001, Paris, France<br>
1.236     jose     1853: There was an OpenBSD booth in the 'F' area.
1.137     aaron    1854: <p>
1.236     jose     1855: </ul>
1.137     aaron    1856:
1.132     louis    1857: <h3>2000</h3>
                   1858:
1.236     jose     1859: <ul>
1.132     louis    1860: <li><strong>
1.236     jose     1861: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa2000/">LISA 2000, USENIX
1.216     jose     1862: Systems Administration Conference</a></strong>,
                   1863: Dec 3 - 8, 2000, New Orleans, USA<br>
1.134     jufi     1864: Wim Vandeputte and other volunteers have been running a sales table with
                   1865: shirts, posters and the brand new 2.8 CDs.
                   1866: <p>
                   1867:
                   1868: <li><strong>
1.215     nick     1869: <a href="http://www.disc2000.unam.mx/disc/index-ing.html">DISC 2000</a></strong>,
1.216     jose     1870: Nov 26 - Dec 1, 2000, Mexico City, Mexico<br>
1.133     deraadt  1871: Theo de Raadt explained the security auditing process and subsequent secure
                   1872: configuration choices made in OpenBSD, in a talk entitled "Secure by Default".
                   1873: Over the next few days, he also participated in two panels with various security
                   1874: experts who had flown in from around the world.  Following this, Theo climbed
1.151     jsyn     1875: one of the largest volcanoes, called Malinche.
1.133     deraadt  1876: <p>
                   1877:
                   1878: <li><strong>
1.236     jose     1879: <a href="http://www.nluug.nl/events/nj2000">NLUUG Najaarsconferentie
1.216     jose     1880: 2000</a></strong>,
                   1881: Nov 9, 2000, Ede, NL<br>
1.236     jose     1882: There was an OpenBSD booth where people dropped by for information or to
1.413     grunk    1883: get their T-shirts, polos, caps and 2.7 CDs.
1.13      deraadt  1884: <p>
1.4       millert  1885:
1.132     louis    1886: <li><strong><a name=ipsec2000></a>
1.236     jose     1887: <a href="http://www.upperside.fr/baipsecy2k.htm">IPsec 2000 Global
1.216     jose     1888: Summit</a></strong>,
                   1889: Oct 24 - 27, 2000, Paris La Defense, France<br>
1.159     miod     1890: Niels Provos ended the conference by speaking about the IPsec architecture
1.132     louis    1891: in OpenBSD. The talk was well received and many people were very interested
                   1892: about our cryptographic hardware acceleration.
                   1893:
                   1894: <ul>
1.236     jose     1895: <li>The IPsec Architecture in OpenBSD<br>
1.215     nick     1896:     <a href="#ipsec2000">IPsec 2000 Global Summit</a> by Niels Provos.<br>
1.132     louis    1897:     <a href="papers/ipsec-slides.ps">slides</a>.
                   1898: </ul>
1.4       millert  1899: <p>
1.132     louis    1900:
1.7       deraadt  1901: <li><strong>
1.201     deraadt  1902: <a href="http://ApacheCon.Com/2000/EU/">ApacheCon Europa 2000</a></strong>,
1.216     jose     1903: Oct 23 - 25, 2000, London, UK<br>
1.132     louis    1904: There was an OpenBSD booth where people could drop by for information and
                   1905: a chat with the local OpenBSD personnel. We also had the essentials for
1.413     grunk    1906: your wardrobe (T-shirts, polos, caps), for your hardware (2.7 CDs) and for your
1.132     louis    1907: mind (drinks afterwards).
                   1908: <p>
                   1909:
1.216     jose     1910: <li><strong>
                   1911: <a href="http://www.bsdcon.com/">BSD Con 2000</a></strong>,
                   1912: Oct 18 - 20, 2000, Monterey, CA, USA<br>
1.132     louis    1913: David Terrell ran an OpenBSD booth selling T-shirts and CDs and answering
                   1914: questions.
1.32      deraadt  1915: <p>
1.1       deraadt  1916:
1.132     louis    1917: <li><strong><a name=opensource2000></a>
1.236     jose     1918: <a href="http://www.opensource-forum.com/konferens">The Open Source
1.216     jose     1919: Revolution</a></strong>,
                   1920: Oct 5, 2000, Stockholm, Sweden<br>
1.133     deraadt  1921: Theo de Raadt spoke about how user expectations for security out of the box
                   1922: have changed over the last years.
1.1       deraadt  1923: <p>
                   1924:
1.132     louis    1925: <li><strong><a name=sec2000></a>
1.216     jose     1926: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/sec2000/">Usenix Security</a></strong>,
                   1927: Aug 14 - 17, 2000, Denver, Colorado, USA<br>
1.132     louis    1928: Some OpenBSD developers were there and one paper was presented:
                   1929: <ul>
1.236     jose     1930: <li>Encrypting Virtual Memory<br>
1.132     louis    1931:     <a href="#sec2000">Usenix Security 2000</a>
1.205     deraadt  1932:     by Niels Provos.<br>
1.132     louis    1933:     <a href="papers/swapencrypt.ps">paper</a> and
                   1934:     <a href="papers/swapencrypt-slides.ps">slides</a>.
                   1935: </ul>
1.1       deraadt  1936: <p>
1.132     louis    1937:
1.10      provos   1938: <li><strong>
1.201     deraadt  1939: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-8-post.html">Defcon 2000</a></strong>,
1.216     jose     1940: Jul 28 - 30, 2000, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.236     jose     1941: Kjell Wooding (our IPF maintainer), James Phillips from the
1.132     louis    1942: <a href="http://www.deadly.org">OpenBSD Journal</a>, and Theo de Raadt
1.413     grunk    1943: had a table and were selling OpenBSD CDROMs, T-shirts, and posters on
1.132     louis    1944: Friday and Saturday.  Hordes of people visited our table and we at the
                   1945: end we were completely sold out of CDROMS and shirts (allowing us to go
                   1946: check out Hoover Dam's hardhat tour on Sunday and leave the madness behind).
                   1947: <br>
                   1948: We were completely amazed at the people who stopped by our table, to say
                   1949: that they were relying on OpenBSD.
                   1950: <p>
1.32      deraadt  1951:
1.132     louis    1952: <li><strong>
1.236     jose     1953: <a href="http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon2000/">O'Reilly Open Source
1.216     jose     1954: Conference 2000</a></strong>,
                   1955: Jul 17 - 20, 2000, Monterey, California, USA<br>
                   1956: Ian Darwin presented a <a href="papers/oreilly2000/">tutorial</a> on
1.132     louis    1957: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/w/bsd_tutorials.html">
                   1958: Secure Internet Servers/Firewalls with OpenBSD</a>, and bravely
                   1959: manned the OpenBSD booth for the remainder of the show.
                   1960: Kjell Wooding took part in a panel discussion on the Future of the BSDs,
                   1961: and spoke about
                   1962: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/w/bsd_presentations.html">
1.241     david    1963: Secure By Default.</a> Both sessions were well attended, and at least
1.132     louis    1964: one Linux sysadmin was seen racing for a keyboard, scared look in his eyes,
1.236     jose     1965: after the security talk.
1.3       provos   1966: <p>
1.132     louis    1967:
1.6       deraadt  1968: <li><strong>
1.201     deraadt  1969: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.de/2000/english/">LinuxTag 2000</a></strong>,
1.216     jose     1970: Jun 29 - Jul 2, 2000, Stuttgart, Germany<br>
1.132     louis    1971: There was a BSD booth where we had the first <a href="27.html">OpenBSD 2.7 CDs</a> for Europe
                   1972: and the new blue stitchwork <a href="tshirts.html#11">Blowfish Polo</a> shirt.
                   1973: <br>
                   1974: Christian Weisgerber gave a
                   1975: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.de/2000/english/conference/talks.php3?ID=3">talk
                   1976: on BSD</a>.
1.32      deraadt  1977: <p>
1.1       deraadt  1978:
1.216     jose     1979: <li><strong><a name=usenix2000></a>
1.236     jose     1980: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix2000/">Usenix Annual Technical
1.216     jose     1981: Conference.</a></strong>,
                   1982: Jun 18 - 23, 2000, San Diego, California, USA<br>
1.132     louis    1983: Almost 20 OpenBSD developers showed up for the 25th anniversary of Usenix.
                   1984: We had a vendor booth, as well as a number of papers being presented.
                   1985: Conference attendees had the opportunity to test drive the new release,
                   1986: OpenBSD 2.7, on the 30 workstations in the terminal room.  For the first
                   1987: time ever, the terminal room and wavelan networks also had a IPv6 connection,
1.147     jason    1988: and some users even discovered so by themselves.
1.132     louis    1989: Theo also held a BoF on the Wednesday evening, after which the developers
                   1990: had almost too much singing in foreign languages with the help of helium.
                   1991: <ul>
                   1992:
                   1993: <li>Implementing Internet Key Exchange, IKE.<br>
                   1994:     <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
1.216     jose     1995:     by Angelos D. Keromytis, Niklas Hallqvist.<br>
1.132     louis    1996:     <a href="papers/ikepaper.ps">paper</a> and
                   1997:     <a href="papers/ikeslides.ps">slides</a>.
                   1998:
                   1999: <li>Transparent Network Security Policy Enforcement.<br>
                   2000:     <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
1.216     jose     2001:     by Angelos D. Keromytis, Jason L. Wright.<br>
1.132     louis    2002:     <a href="papers/bridgepaper.ps">paper</a> and
                   2003:     <a href="papers/bridgeslides.ps">slides</a>.
1.2       deraadt  2004:
1.132     louis    2005: <li>Safety Checking of Kernel Extensions.<br>
                   2006:     <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
1.205     deraadt  2007:     by Craig Metz.
1.132     louis    2008: </ul>
1.2       deraadt  2009: <p>
                   2010:
1.132     louis    2011: <li><strong>
1.236     jose     2012: <a href="http://www.manlug.mcc.ac.uk/calendar.html">OpenBSD: The Open
1.216     jose     2013: Source Secure Operating System</a></strong>,
                   2014: Jun 17, 2000, 14:00. Manchester, UK<br>
1.132     louis    2015: Sam Smith gave a rundown of features coming in OpenBSD 2.7 and
                   2016: OpenSSH 2.1. His <a href="http://www.manlug.mcc.ac.uk/20000617/">slides</a>
                   2017: are available from the user group's site.
1.1       deraadt  2018: <p>
1.2       deraadt  2019:
1.132     louis    2020: <li><strong>
1.216     jose     2021: <a href="reprints/crypto2000.html">OpenBSD Crypto 2000 conference</a></strong>,
                   2022: Jun 15 - 20, 2000, Calgary, AB, Canada<br>
1.132     louis    2023: Repeating the tradition of a similar meeting held last year, many
                   2024: OpenBSD developers from around the world converged on Calgary
                   2025: for a weekend long hack-and-drink session.  As before, the event
                   2026: was invitation only.  Many significant things got done, including
                   2027: ipv6 + ipsec running over hardware crypto devices.
1.1       deraadt  2028: <p>
1.11      jkatz    2029:
1.17      deraadt  2030: <li><strong>
1.201     deraadt  2031: <a href="http://www.converge2000.com">CONVERGENCE 2000</a></strong>,
                   2032: May 18, 2000. Convention Centre, Calgary, Alberta, Canada<br>
1.132     louis    2033: Theo de Raadt participated in a panel discussion about the pros and cons
                   2034: of using Open Source software in various business environments.  The local
                   2035: users also handed out OpenSSH and OpenBSD posters, and were absolutely
                   2036: surprised and amazed by the number of Calgary companies quietly using
                   2037: OpenBSD.
1.21      pattonme 2038: <p>
1.17      deraadt  2039:
1.23      niklas   2040: <li><strong>
1.216     jose     2041: <a href="http://www.cansecwest.com/">CanSecWest</a></strong>,
                   2042: May 10 - 12, 2000. Robson Conference Centre, Vancouver, BC, Canada<br>
1.132     louis    2043: Theo de Raadt spoke about why programmers keep making the same stupid mistakes,
                   2044: what types of efforts might improve this, and how this all relates to auditing
1.375     grunk    2045: efforts.
                   2046: Rain Forest Puppy, Ron Gula (Network Security Wizards), Ken Williams (E&amp;Y),
1.216     jose     2047: Marty Roesch (snort/HiverWorld), and Fyodor (nmap) were among the other speakers
1.132     louis    2048: at this event.  (On a personal note: at this conference Theo realized that three
                   2049: leading Network Intrusion Detection System companies use OpenBSD as their
                   2050: base operating system: Hiverworld, Network Security Wizards, and NFR).
1.32      deraadt  2051: <p>
1.25      deraadt  2052:
1.132     louis    2053: <li><strong>
                   2054: <a href="http://www.zdevents.com/comdex/spring2000/">Linux Business Expo /
1.201     deraadt  2055: COMDEX Spring 2000</a></strong>,
                   2056: Apr 19, 2000, Chicago, IL, USA<br>
1.216     jose     2057: Louis Bertrand represented OpenBSD at a BSD BOF with FreeBSD/BDSI,
1.132     louis    2058: NetBSD and Apple (Darwin is BSD-derived). The BOF was attended by about
                   2059: 75 people, many of whom were new to *BSD. It was an opportunity to
                   2060: explore future cooperation among the various BSD groups and companies.
1.25      deraadt  2061: <p>
1.23      niklas   2062:
1.31      deraadt  2063: <li><strong>
1.236     jose     2064: <a href="http://www.nordu.org/NordU2000/">NordU 2000 -- The second
1.216     jose     2065: EurOpen/USENIX Conference</a></strong>,
                   2066: Feb 8 - 11, 2000. Malmo, Sweden<br>
1.140     jufi     2067: About 15 OpenBSD team members attended.
1.132     louis    2068: OpenBSD CDs and shirts were sold at a booth donated by the conference.<br>
                   2069: As well, Theo de Raadt gave an invited talk on Wednesday morning
                   2070: about why software quality/security suffers, and what we can do to
                   2071: improve it.
1.32      deraadt  2072: <p>
1.31      deraadt  2073:
1.201     deraadt  2074: <li><strong>BSD BOF session, LinuxWorld Expo</strong>,
1.216     jose     2075: Feb 3, 2000, New York, USA<br>
1.132     louis    2076: Representatives from OpenBSD, BSDi, and FreeBSD hosted a
                   2077: &quot;Birds Of a Feather&quot; session at the <a
                   2078: href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/">New York LinuxWorld Expo</a>.<br>
                   2079: There were installation CD-ROMs, free food, and even free Daemon Horns!
1.33      niklas   2080: <p>
1.236     jose     2081: </ul>
1.33      niklas   2082:
1.132     louis    2083: <h3>1999</h3>
1.36      niklas   2084:
1.236     jose     2085: <ul>
1.216     jose     2086: <li><strong>The Bazaar</strong>,
                   2087: Dec 14 - 16, 1999, New York, New York, USA<br>
1.132     louis    2088: Wes Sonnenreich and Tom Yates presented a tutorial on building
1.216     jose     2089: firewalls with OpenBSD. BoF of open source BSDs took place.
1.413     grunk    2090: 2.6 release CDROMs and T-shirts were sold.
1.132     louis    2091: Emphatic interest has been shown by representatives from press, international
                   2092: government and military institutions.
1.45      jason    2093: <p>
                   2094:
1.216     jose     2095: <li><strong><a name=lisa99></a>
1.236     jose     2096: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa99/">13th Systems Administration
1.216     jose     2097: Conference (LISA 99)</a></strong>,
                   2098: Nov 7 - 12, 1999, Seattle, Washington, USA<br>
1.132     louis    2099: Bob Beck presented a paper about the U of A's nifty OpenBSD based
                   2100: solution to the problem of public Ethernet jacks in the technical sessions
                   2101: starting at 11:00 AM on the 11th.<br>
                   2102: There were many other OpenBSD
                   2103: people at this conference as well, as well as a booth selling CDROMs and
1.413     grunk    2104: T-shirts.  His paper is available at:
1.132     louis    2105:
                   2106: <ul>
                   2107: <li>Dealing with Public Ethernet Jacks-Switches, Gateways, and Authentication.<br>
1.236     jose     2108:     <a href="events.html#lisa99">LISA 1999</a>,
1.206     david    2109:     by Bob Beck.<br>
1.236     jose     2110:     <a href="papers/authgw-paper.ps">paper</a> and
                   2111:     <a href="papers/authgw-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132     louis    2112: </ul>
                   2113: <p>
                   2114:
                   2115: <li><strong>
1.201     deraadt  2116: IP-dagarna 1999</strong>,
1.216     jose     2117: Oct 27 - 28, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden<br>
1.132     louis    2118: H&aring;kan Olsson &amp; Jakob Schlyter spoke at the DNSSEC session on the 27th.
                   2119: <p>
                   2120:
                   2121: <li><strong>
1.236     jose     2122: <a href="http://www.opensource-forum.com/konferens/">Linux &amp; Open Source
1.216     jose     2123: Software '99</a></strong>,
                   2124: Oct 21, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)<br>
1.132     louis    2125: Niklas Hallqvist spoke on the topic of how to use
1.236     jose     2126: <a
1.375     grunk    2127: href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&amp;sektion=4">IPsec</a> for securing communications.
1.132     louis    2128: <p>
                   2129:
                   2130: <li><strong>
1.236     jose     2131: <a href="http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference">Reflections/Projections
1.216     jose     2132: 1999</a></strong>,
                   2133: Oct 8 - 10, 1999, Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA<br>
1.132     louis    2134: Theo de Raadt spoke at 10:00am on the 9th.  Other OpenBSD
                   2135: developers from the east coast attended as well.
                   2136: <p>
                   2137:
1.236     jose     2138: <li><strong><a name="ipsec99"></a>
1.216     jose     2139: IPsec Interoperability tests</strong>,
                   2140: Sep 27 - 30, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)<br>
1.236     jose     2141: A dozen vendors, among them OpenBSD, tested more than 15
1.375     grunk    2142: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&amp;sektion=4">IPsec</a>
1.132     louis    2143: products, both gateways and hosts, for interoperability.  The tests
                   2144: were successful as far as general IPsec and pre-shared key
                   2145: authentication went, OpenBSD interoperated with everyone, but due to
                   2146: time constraints we never got to test the certificate support
                   2147: appropriately.  The results were presented later that fall at a
                   2148: conference in Stockholm.
                   2149: <p>
                   2150:
                   2151: <li><strong>
1.236     jose     2152: <a href="http://www.auug.org.au/winter/auug99">AUUG'99</a></strong>,
1.216     jose     2153: Sep 8 - 11, 1999, Melbourne, Australia<br>
1.132     louis    2154: Theo de Raadt gave two talks on "quality of software" related issues
                   2155: and participated on a panel about how open source projects are
                   2156: coordinated.
                   2157: <p>
                   2158:
                   2159: <li><strong>
1.236     jose     2160: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/sec99/index.html">Usenix
1.216     jose     2161: Security</a></strong>,
                   2162: Aug 23 - 26, 1999, Washington, DC, USA<br>
1.132     louis    2163: Many OpenBSD people from the east coast showed up and sold CDs and
                   2164: shirts.  It was pretty clear from discussions that many people were
                   2165: very aware of OpenBSD, and that OpenBSD was being used in very
                   2166: significant security roles.
                   2167: <p>
                   2168:
                   2169: <li><strong>
1.236     jose     2170: <a href="http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/99jul/index.html">45th IETF
1.216     jose     2171: meeting</a></strong>,
                   2172: Jul 12 - 16, 1999, Oslo, Norway<br>
1.132     louis    2173: A number of OpenBSD team members from all over the world were at this
                   2174: conference. In addition to attending the IPsec and DNS working groups (among
                   2175: others) we did IPsec/IKE interoperability testing together with
1.166     miod     2176: the Japanese KAME project. Also, Angelos D. Keromytis did a presentation on
1.132     louis    2177: his work with keynote and isakmpd in OpenBSD.
                   2178: <p>
1.45      jason    2179:
1.132     louis    2180: <li><strong>
1.236     jose     2181: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-6.html">Defcon 6.0</a></strong>,
1.216     jose     2182: Jul 9 - 11, 1999, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132     louis    2183: At this conference, the OpenBSD team sold 100 or so 2.5 release CDROMs
1.413     grunk    2184: and a TON of T-shirts.
1.46      deraadt  2185: <p>
1.132     louis    2186:
1.236     jose     2187: <li><strong><a name="usenix99"></a>
                   2188: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix99/index.html">
1.216     jose     2189: Usenix Annual Technical Conference</a></strong>,
                   2190: Jun 6 - 11, 1999, Monterey, California, USA<br>
1.106     jufi     2191: The <a href="http://www.usenix.org">USENIX Association</a>
1.46      deraadt  2192: provided The OpenBSD Project with a grant to underwrite the production
1.106     jufi     2193: of CDs of OpenBSD 2.5.  (We distributed the
                   2194: release for free to attendees of the USENIX Annual Conference in
1.46      deraadt  2195: June.)
1.132     louis    2196: <br>
1.46      deraadt  2197: Usenix team members were involved in the authoring and
1.132     louis    2198: presentation of 4 OpenBSD-related papers:
                   2199:
1.375     grunk    2200: <a name="anoncvs_paper"></a>
1.46      deraadt  2201: <ul>
1.66      deraadt  2202: <li>Opening the Source Repository with Anonymous CVS.<br>
1.236     jose     2203:     <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216     jose     2204:     by Charles D. Cranor, Theo de Raadt.<br>
1.236     jose     2205:     <a href="papers/anoncvs-paper.ps">paper</a> and
                   2206:     <a href="papers/anoncvs-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132     louis    2207: <br>
1.66      deraadt  2208: <li>A Future-Adaptable Password Scheme.<br>
1.236     jose     2209:     <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216     jose     2210:     by Niels Provos, David Mazieres.<br>
1.236     jose     2211:     <a href="papers/bcrypt-paper.ps">paper</a> and
                   2212:     <a href="papers/bcrypt-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132     louis    2213: <br>
1.66      deraadt  2214: <li>Cryptography in OpenBSD: An Overview.<br>
1.236     jose     2215:     <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216     jose     2216:     by Theo de Raadt, Niklas Hallqvist, Artur Grabowski,
                   2217:     Angelos D. Keromytis, Niels Provos.<br>
1.236     jose     2218:     <a href="papers/crypt-paper.ps">paper</a> and
                   2219:     <a href="papers/crypt-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132     louis    2220: <br>
1.66      deraadt  2221: <li>strlcpy and strlcat -- consistent, safe, string copy and concatenation.<br>
1.236     jose     2222:     <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216     jose     2223:     by Todd C. Miller, Theo de Raadt.<br>
1.236     jose     2224:     <a href="papers/strlcpy-paper.ps">paper</a> and
                   2225:     <a href="papers/strlcpy-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132     louis    2226: </ul>
1.66      deraadt  2227: <p>
1.46      deraadt  2228:
1.51      deraadt  2229: <li><strong>
1.236     jose     2230: <a href="http://www.linuxexpo.org">5th Annual Linux Expo</a></strong>,
1.216     jose     2231: May 18 - 22, 1999, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA<br>
1.132     louis    2232: Some OpenBSD team members were at this conference selling OpenBSD 2.5 CDs,
                   2233: OpenBSE T-shirts, as well as Blowfish T-shirts, which sold out very quickly
                   2234: at a table donated by the Expo.  OpenBSD was the only BSD represented at the
                   2235: vendor exposition, and we had good chance to present a secure alternative
                   2236: to Linux.
1.51      deraadt  2237: <p>
                   2238:
1.53      jakob    2239: <li><strong>
1.236     jose     2240: <a href="http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/99mar/index.html">44th IETF
1.216     jose     2241: meeting</a></strong>,
                   2242: Mar 15 - 19, 1999, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA<br>
1.132     louis    2243: Some OpenBSD team members were at this conference, in particular our
                   2244: IPSEC developers.
1.53      jakob    2245: <p>
                   2246:
1.132     louis    2247: <li><strong>
1.236     jose     2248: <a href="http://www.europen.se/NordU99">NordU99 -- The first
1.216     jose     2249: EurOpen/USENIX Conference</a></strong>,
                   2250: Feb 9 - 12, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden<br>
1.132     louis    2251: A couple of OpenBSD team members were there and some of the swedish user
                   2252: society as well.  OpenBSD CDs were sold at a booth and at the end of a
                   2253: security talk, the project got applauded for its continuous strive of auditing
                   2254: security sensitive parts of the system.
1.59      deraadt  2255: <p>
1.236     jose     2256: </ul>
1.59      deraadt  2257:
1.132     louis    2258: <h3>1998</h3>
1.59      deraadt  2259:
1.236     jose     2260: <ul>
1.132     louis    2261: <li><strong><a name=ipsec98></a>
1.690     nick     2262: IPsec/VPN Interoperability tests &amp; seminar</strong>,
                   2263: Dec 14, 1998, Stockholm, Sweden<br>
1.132     louis    2264: OpenBSD was represented as one of about a dozen
1.375     grunk    2265: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&amp;sektion=4">IPsec</a>
1.132     louis    2266: implementations who were tested for interoperability.  The tests were
                   2267: successful, both for the technology in general, and for OpenBSD in
                   2268: specific.  We managed to communicate encrypted with every vendor present,
                   2269: and to negotiate keys via IKE with everyone capable.
1.70      deraadt  2270: <p>
                   2271:
1.236     jose     2272: <li><strong><a name="lisaboston-98"></a>
1.690     nick     2273: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa98">LISA '98: 12th Systems Administration
1.216     jose     2274: Conference</a></strong>,
                   2275: Dec 6 - 11, 1998, Boston, Massachusetts<br>
1.132     louis    2276: More than 10 OpenBSD team members showed up.  By far, OpenBSD was the
                   2277: largest representative group from free software at the conference.
                   2278: Usenix gave us a table in the vendor area where we sold 2.4 CDROMs,
1.413     grunk    2279: 2.3 "wire-frame" T-shirts, and the new 2.4 embroidered
                   2280: "Because security matters..." T-shirts, polos, and sweaters.
1.132     louis    2281: An OpenBSD BOF was held one evening, led by Theo de Raadt.
                   2282: A PalmPilot schedule loader was at the membership booth, powered by OpenBSD.
                   2283: <br>
1.690     nick     2284: The terminal room ran OpenBSD 2.4 on 45 machines. Obviously trust in OpenBSD
                   2285: had increased since many people, normally wary of security problems of open
1.132     louis    2286: terminal rooms, were seen using the machines.
1.72      ho       2287: <p>
                   2288:
1.73      deraadt  2289: <li><strong>
1.690     nick     2290: <a href="http://www.disc.unam.mx/eventos_anteriores/disc98/">DISC - Seguridad en
1.217     jose     2291: C&oacute;mputo 98</a></strong>,
1.216     jose     2292: Nov 2 - 7, 1998, Mexico City<br>
1.132     louis    2293: Theo de Raadt gave a talk about security auditing, sponsored by
1.236     jose     2294: <a href="http://www.core-sdi.com">CORE SDI S.A.</a>, an Argentine
1.132     louis    2295: security auditing company who strongly believes in the future
1.236     jose     2296: of OpenBSD. (<a href="papers/mexico98-slides.ps">Slides are available</a>).
1.131     jufi     2297: <p>
1.73      deraadt  2298:
1.236     jose     2299: <li><strong>IP-dagarna</strong>,
1.690     nick     2300: Oct 29, 30 1998, Stockholm, Sweden<br>
1.132     louis    2301: At this conference, entirely devoted to IP, Niklas Hallqvist from the
                   2302: OpenBSD team held a talk on the IKE (a.k.a ISAKMP/Oakley) key management
                   2303: protocol and experiences from the implementation of <strong>isakmpd</strong>,
                   2304: an IKE implementation funded by Ericsson Radio Systems and developed
                   2305: primarily for the OpenBSD IPSEC stack.
1.79      deraadt  2306: <p>
1.73      deraadt  2307:
1.690     nick     2308: <li><strong>NCEE '98</strong>,
1.216     jose     2309: Oct 9 - 10, 1998, Auburn, Maine, USA<br>
1.132     louis    2310: An extensive after-action report was sent to advocacy@openbsd.org. While
1.151     jsyn     2311: sales of shirts and CDROMs left much to be desired, we did have good
1.132     louis    2312: opportunities to further project visibility and highlight its strengths.
1.80      deraadt  2313: <p>
                   2314:
1.93      louis    2315: <li><strong>
1.690     nick     2316: <a href="http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference/1998/">Reflections/Projections
1.216     jose     2317: 1998</a></strong>,
1.236     jose     2318: Oct 2 - 4, 1998, Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA<br>
1.132     louis    2319: Theo de Raadt spoke in a panel about Open/Free software with Eric
                   2320: Raymond and others.
1.93      louis    2321: <p>
                   2322:
1.216     jose     2323: <li><strong>
1.690     nick     2324: <a href="http://press.oreilly.com/pub/pr/797">O'Reilly and
1.236     jose     2325: Associates Open Source Developer Days</a></strong>,
1.216     jose     2326: Aug 21, 1998, San Jose, California, USA<br>
1.132     louis    2327: OpenBSD team members were on-hand to discuss OpenBSD's role among the
1.413     grunk    2328: other free software projects available. They also sold some CDs and T-shirts.
1.96      deraadt  2329: <p>
                   2330:
1.236     jose     2331: <li><strong><a name="defcon98"></a>
1.690     nick     2332: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-6/defcon-6.html">Defcon 6.0</a></strong>,
1.216     jose     2333: Jul 31 - Aug 2, 1998, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132     louis    2334: The router to the outside world was an OpenBSD 2.3 box.  It was involved
                   2335: in a "capture the flag" competition in which an entire room of crackers
                   2336: attempted to break into it and machines running other operating systems.
                   2337: The OpenBSD box was not broken into.
                   2338: <br>
                   2339: Almost 100 OpenBSD 2.3 CDROMs were sold (we ran out again).  The primates
1.236     jose     2340: at <a href="http://www.monkey.org">monkey.org</a> brought 2.3
1.413     grunk    2341: &quot;wire-frame&quot; OpenBSD T-shirts to the conference and sold almost
1.132     louis    2342: 200 of them.  The proceeds from the sales were donated to the OpenBSD project.
1.96      deraadt  2343: <p>
1.94      deraadt  2344:
1.690     nick     2345: <li><strong><a href="http://www.blackhat.com/html/bh-usa-98/bh2-index.html">BlackHat Sessions</a></strong>,
1.216     jose     2346: Jul 29 - 30, 1998, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132     louis    2347: Theo de Raadt presented a talk entitled
                   2348: "Auditing software for security" about the OpenBSD security auditing
                   2349: team's process and the lessons the team learned.  The talk concentrated
                   2350: on how our process fixes bugs -- not just holes -- since one never knows
                   2351: when 5 bugs will act together to become a hole.
1.99      deraadt  2352: <p>
                   2353:
1.236     jose     2354: <li><strong><a name="usenix-neworleans"></a>
                   2355: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/usenix98/index.html">Usenix Annual Technical Conference</a></strong>,
1.216     jose     2356: Jun 15 - 19, 1998, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA<br>
1.132     louis    2357: At Usenix 1998 there was a strong OpenBSD presence both in the Freenix
                   2358: and normal tracks.  Theo did a general talk about what the OpenBSD
                   2359: project offers.  Angelos held a panel about IPSEC (which is quite an
                   2360: OpenBSD topic since IPSEC development at that time was so much further
                   2361: ahead in OpenBSD than anywhere else).
                   2362: <br>
                   2363: The terminal room PCs ran OpenBSD 2.3.  We sold many CDROMs.  The
1.413     grunk    2364: first style of OpenBSD T-shirt also sold quite well.
1.101     wvdputte 2365: <p>
                   2366:
1.105     wvdputte 2367: <li><strong>
1.236     jose     2368: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/sec98/index.html">Usenix Security</a></strong>,
1.216     jose     2369: Jan 26 - 29, 1998, San Antonio, Texas, USA<br>
1.132     louis    2370: At this conference, Theo presented an evening talk which basically
                   2371: turned into a list of fixed security problems and cautionary tales about
                   2372: subsystems in which future problems may be encountered
1.236     jose     2373: (<a href="papers/security98-slides.ps">slides available</a>).
1.105     wvdputte 2374: <br>
1.132     louis    2375: The terminal room PCs ran OpenBSD 2.2.
                   2376: <p>
1.236     jose     2377: </ul>
1.105     wvdputte 2378:
1.132     louis    2379: <h3>1997</h3>
1.107     deraadt  2380:
1.236     jose     2381: <ul>
1.113     deraadt  2382: <li><strong>
1.236     jose     2383: <a href="http://www.hip97.nl">HIP</a></strong>,
1.216     jose     2384: Aug, 1997, Almere, Netherlands<br>
1.236     jose     2385: Niels held a
1.690     nick     2386: <a href="http://www.citi.umich.edu/u/provos/papers/hip97-tcpip.html">talk</a>
1.132     louis    2387: about the problems of unencrypted TCP/IP connections, offering IPSEC as
                   2388: possible solution.
1.113     deraadt  2389: <p>
1.132     louis    2390:
1.236     jose     2391: <li><strong>HOPE</strong>,
1.216     jose     2392: Aug, 1997, New York, New York, USA<br>
1.166     miod     2393: The terminal room consisted primarily of DECstations running
1.690     nick     2394: OpenBSD 2.1.  Once again, the <a href="http://www.lopht.com/">L0phT</a>
1.132     louis    2395: people had very good things to say about our security.
1.113     deraadt  2396: <p>
1.105     wvdputte 2397:
1.236     jose     2398: <li><strong><a name="defcon5"></a>
1.690     nick     2399: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-5/defcon-5.html">Defcon V</a></strong>,
1.216     jose     2400: Jul 11 - 13, 1997, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132     louis    2401: At this conference, the OpenBSD team sold 100 or so 2.1 release CDROMs.
                   2402: <br>
                   2403: Since this is the primary security conference, many speakers said very
1.140     jufi     2404: good things about our stance on security... particularly people like
1.690     nick     2405: <a href="http://www.lopht.com">the L0phT</a>.
1.118     deraadt  2406: <p>
                   2407:
1.125     deraadt  2408: <li><strong>
1.236     jose     2409: <a
                   2410: href="http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/ana97/index.html">Usenix Annual Technical Conference</a></strong>,
1.216     jose     2411: Jan  6 - 10, 1997, Anaheim, California, USA.<br>
1.690     nick     2412: Theo de Raadt held a BOF ("Birds Of a Feather", i.e. a meeting of people
1.132     louis    2413: interested in the same thing) about OpenBSD.
1.236     jose     2414: </ul>
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