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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.
1.8       deraadt    22:
1.78      louis      23: <hr>
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                     29:
                     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:
1.694   ! pvalchev   46: <li><strong><a name=rp2007></a>
        !            47: <a href="http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference/2007/">Reflections/Projections
        !            48: 2007</a></strong>,
        !            49: Oct 12 - 14, 2007, Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA<br>
        !            50: Peter Valchev will talk about using OpenBSD's security features to
        !            51: find software bugs.
        !            52: <p>
        !            53:
1.691     reyk       54: <li><strong><a name=auug2007></a>
                     55: <a href="http://new.auug.org.au/AUUG2007">AUUG 2007</a></strong>,
                     56: Oct 13 - 14, 2007, Melbourne, Australia.<br>
                     57: Reyk Floeter will talk about load balancing and TCP-relaying with hoststated.
                     58: There will be developers, users, and probably an OpenBSD booth present.
                     59: <p>
                     60:
1.621     wvdputte   61: <li><strong><a name="t-dose2007"></a>
                     62: <a href="http://www.t-dose.org/">T-DOSE 2007</a></strong>,
                     63: Oct 13 - 14, 2007, Eindhoven, The Netherlands.<br>
                     64: Technical Dutch Open Source Event<br>
1.612     mk         65: There will be developers present as well as an OpenBSD booth,
                     66: run by the usual suspects.
                     67: <p>
                     68:
1.647     mbalmer    69: <li><strong><a name="bsdcontr2007"></a>
                     70: <a href="http://www.bsdcontr.org/">BSDConTR 2007</a></strong>
                     71: Oct 20 - 21, 2007, Goztepe Campus Marmara University, Istanbul, Turkey.<br>
1.692     mbalmer    72: First Turkish Conference on BSD Systems.<br>
                     73: Marc Balmer will talk about his work on support for radio clocks in
                     74: OpenBSD.
1.647     mbalmer    75: <p>
                     76:
1.693     mbalmer    77: <li><strong><a name="ix2007"></a>
                     78: <a href="http://www.ix-konferenz.de/konf.php?konferenzid=20">iX-Konferenz
                     79: Bessere Software</a></strong>
                     80: Nov 19 - 21, 2007, Hotel Hilton, D&uuml;sseldorf, Germany.</br>
                     81: Marc Balmer will give a talk in german "Ensuring
                     82: Quality in the Development of the Free Operating System OpenBSD".
                     83: <p>
                     84:
1.664     michele    85: <li><strong><a name="opencon2007"></a>
                     86: <a href="http://www.opencon.org/">OpenCON 2007</a></strong>
                     87: Nov 30 - Dec 2, 2007, Venice, Italy.<br>
                     88: OpenCON is the only conference dedicated solely to OpenBSD.
                     89: This edition is composed by one "tutorial day" and two days of conference.
                     90: Three days entirely dedicated to OpenBSD with a lot of developers and users.
                     91: <p>
                     92:
1.588     espie      93: </ul>
                     94:
1.597     mbalmer    95: <hr>
                     96:
                     97: <h2>Past events:</h2>
                     98:
1.616     wvdputte   99: <h3>2007</h3>
                    100: <ul>
1.658     reyk      101:
1.689     claudio   102: <li><strong><a name="openexpo2007"></a>
                    103: <a href="http://www.openexpo.ch/">OpenExpo 2007</a></strong>,
                    104: Sep 19 - 20, 2007, Zurich, Switzerland<br>
                    105: There were developers present as well as an OpenBSD booth,
                    106: run by the usual suspects.  Stephan A. Rickauer gave a talk
                    107: "OpenBSD and Linux: Insights into a migration project at the Institute of
                    108: Neuroinformatics, ETH Zurich".<br>
                    109: <p>
                    110:
1.686     mbalmer   111: <li><strong><a name="eurobsdcon2007"></a>
                    112: <a href="http://2007.eurobsdcon.org/">EuroBSDCon 2007</a></strong>,
                    113: Sep 14 - 15, 2007, Copenhagen, Denmark.<br>
                    114: Marc Balmer gave a talk <a href="papers/eurobsdcon07/mbalmer-radio_clocks.pdf">
                    115: Support for Radio Clocks in OpenBSD</a>.<br>
                    116: Pierre-Yves Ritschard gave a talk "Load Balancing in OpenBSD Using hoststated".<br>
1.688     claudio   117: Claudio Jeker gave a talk <a href="papers/eurobsdcon07/claudio-routing">
                    118: Using OpenBSD as Routing Platform</a>.<br>
1.686     mbalmer   119: Peter Hansteen offered "A Packet Filter Tutorial" on the tutorial day.<br>
                    120: There was an OpenBSD booth, run by the usual suspects.
                    121: <p>
                    122:
1.685     bernd     123: <li><strong><a name="linuxdayskiel2007"></a>
                    124: <a href="http://www.kieler-linuxtage.de">Kieler Linux und Open Source Tage</a></strong>,
                    125: Sep 07 - 08, 2007, Kiel, Germany<br>
                    126: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Bernd.
                    127: <p>
                    128:
1.686     mbalmer   129: <li><strong><a name="xds2007"></a>
                    130: <a href="http://www.x.org/wiki/Events/XDS2007">X.Org Developers' Summit 2007</a></strong>,
                    131: Sep 10 - 12, 2007, Cambridge, UK.<br>
                    132: Matthieu Herrb and Marc Balmer attended the 3-day summit to make sure the
                    133: *BSD point of view was well represented.
                    134: <p>
                    135:
1.684     bernd     136: <li><strong><a name="froscon2007"></a>
                    137: <a href="http://www.froscon.de">FrOSCon 2007</a></strong>,
                    138: Aug 25 - 26, 2007, Bonn/Rhein-Sieg, Germany<br>
                    139: There was an OpenBSD booth, run by the usual suspects.
                    140: <p>
                    141:
1.682     bernd     142: <li><strong><a name="summercamp2007"></a>
                    143: <a href="http://events.ccc.de/camp/2007">Chaos Communication Camp 2007</a>
                    144: </strong>,
                    145: Aug 8 - 12, 2007, Finowfurt, Germany<br>
                    146: This open air event had a big OpenBSD village with all the usual suspects.
                    147: <p>
                    148:
1.680     aanriot   149: <li><strong><a name="lsm2007"></a>
                    150: <a href="http://www.rmll.info">Libre Software Meeting 2007</a></strong>,
                    151: Jul 10 - 14, 2007, Amiens, France.<br>
1.681     aanriot   152: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Wim, Matthieu and
                    153: Alexandre with the help of Serge and Christelle.
1.680     aanriot   154: <p>
                    155:
1.675     mbalmer   156: <li><strong><a name=Slackathon2007></a>
                    157: <a href="http://www.slackathon.se/">Slackathon 2007</a>
                    158: </strong>,
                    159: June 16, 2007, Stockholm, Sweden.<br>
                    160: Yet another round of fund raising for OpenBSD/SSH and general *BSD meeting
                    161: that took place in Stockholm.
                    162: <p>
                    163:
                    164: <li><strong><a name="linuxtag2007"></a>
                    165: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.org/2007/en/">LinuxTag 2007</a>
                    166: </strong>,
                    167: May 30 - Jun 2, 2007, Berlin, Germany<br>
                    168: There were presentations by OpenBSD developers and an OpenBSD booth,
1.677     wvdputte  169: run by the usual suspects, and Stephan A. Rickauer held Peter Hansteen's PF
                    170: tutorial as well as the talk
                    171: <a href="http://www.ini.unizh.ch/~stephan/talks/LinuxTag07.pdf">
                    172: "OpenBSD and Linux: Insights into a migration project at the Institute of
                    173: Neuroinformatics, ETH Zurich"</a>.
1.675     mbalmer   174: <p>
                    175:
1.674     martin    176: <li><strong><a name=LinuxwochenVienna2007></a>
                    177: <a href="http://www.linuxwochen.at/2007/Wien">Linuxwochen Vienna 2007</a>
                    178: </strong>,
                    179: May 31 - Jun 2, 2007, Vienna, Austria.<br>
                    180: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth run by Martin Reindl, Robert Peichaer
                    181: and Teemu Schaabl.
                    182: <p>
                    183:
1.671     aanriot   184: <li><strong><a name=cuug2007></a>
                    185: <a href="http://www.cuug.ab.ca/">Calgary Unix Users Group</a></strong>,
                    186: May 29, 2007, downtown Library, basement meeting room, Calgary, Alberta.<br>
1.688     claudio   187: <a href="papers/cuug07-claudio/">Claudio Jeker</a>,
                    188: <a href="papers/cuug2007/">David Gwynne, Henning Brauer</a>,
1.673     mbalmer   189: Reyk Fl&ouml;ter, Matthieu Herrb, Marc Balmer, and Bob Beck discussed recent and
                    190: future networking changes in OpenBSD, as well as Xenocara, support for
                    191: radio clocks in OpenBSD, and Spam Reduction with OpenBSD spamd and greylisting.
1.672     henning   192: Some other OpenBSD developers attended to provide international colour.
1.671     aanriot   193: <p>
                    194:
1.670     ray       195: <li><strong><a name="bsdcan2007"></a>
                    196: <a href="http://www.bsdcan.org/2007/">BSDCan 2007</a></strong>,
                    197: May 16 - 19, 2007, Ottawa, Canada.<br>
                    198: Several OpenBSD developers were there.<br>
                    199: Peter Hansteen gave a "Packet filtering for fun and profit" tutorial and
                    200: presented a "Fighting malware and spam with free tools" talk.<br>
                    201: Ray Lai presented OpenCVS/OpenRCS and
                    202: discussed why a secure CVS implementation is needed.
                    203: <a href="papers/bsdcan07-cvs/">Slides</a> are available.<br>
                    204: Jason Dixon gave the closing session of BSDCan 2007.
                    205: <p>
                    206:
1.669     fkr       207: <li><strong><a name="confidence2007"></a>
                    208: <a href="http://2007.confidence.org.pl/">Confidence 2007</a></strong>,
                    209: May 12 - 13, 2007, Krakow, Poland.<br>
                    210: Felix, Henning and Wim gave presentations and ran the OpenBSD booth.
                    211: <p>
                    212:
1.666     michele   213: <li><strong><a name="obsdm2"></a>
                    214: <a href="http://www.openbeer.it/?open=obsdm2">OpenBSD Meeting V.2</a></strong>
                    215: May 12, 2007, Verona, Italy.<br>
                    216: Another event organized by the OpenBEER team with italian OpenBSD related talks.
                    217: Michele presented a talk about the OpenBSD network stack.
                    218: <p>
                    219:
                    220: <li><strong><a name="nluug2007"></a>
                    221: <a href="http://www.nluug.nl/events/vj07/index.html">NLUUG Voorjaarsconferentie
                    222: 2007</a></strong>,
                    223: May 10, 2007, Ede, Netherlands<br>
                    224: There was a
                    225: <a href="http://www.nluug.nl/events/vj07/abstracts/ab.html?id=2">presentation</a>
                    226: by Anil Madhavapeddy and an OpenBSD booth, run by the usual
                    227: suspects.
                    228: <p>
                    229:
1.665     mbalmer   230: <li><strong><a name="coimbra2007"></a>
                    231: <a href="http://www.openbsd-pt.com/eventos/coimbra07/index-en.html">Portuguese OpenBSD Usergroup Meeting</a></strong>,
                    232: May 5 - 6, 2007, Coimbra, Portugal.<br>
                    233: 7th Meeting of the Portuguese OpenBSD Usergroup.<br>
                    234: Marc Balmer gave a talk "Ensuring Quality in OpenBSD Without a Formal Process".<br>
                    235: Rui Reis gave a presentation "The Honeynet.PT project".<br>
1.667     pedro     236: Michael Shalayeff gave a talk "Asynchronous I/O".<br>
                    237: Also present was Pedro Martelletto.
1.665     mbalmer   238: <p>
                    239:
1.658     reyk      240: <li><strong><a name=decix6th></a>
                    241: <a href="http://www.de-cix.org/">DE-CIX 6th Technical Meeting</a></strong>,
                    242: Apr 19, 2007, Schloss Kransberg, near Usingen, Germany.<br>
                    243: Henning Brauer and Reyk Fl&ouml;ter talked at the 6th technical
                    244: meeting of the Deutsche Commercial Internet Exchange (DE-CIX).
                    245: Henning gave an update on OpenBGPD and Reyk about the latest
                    246: network-related changes since OpenBSD 4.1. They also talked about
                    247: the status of test OpenBGPD route server running at the DE-CIX.
                    248: <p>
                    249:
1.651     fkr       250: <li><strong><a name="litol07"></a>
                    251: <a href="http://www.lit-ol.de/">2. Linux-Informationstag Oldenburg</a></strong>,
                    252: Apr 14 - 15, 2007, Oldenburg, Germany.<br>
                    253: Small Open-Source event. Of course there was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth run by
1.659     fkr       254: Bernd, Felix and Tobias Stoeckmann. Felix gave a talk about the current state
                    255: of OpenBSD development titled <a href="papers/litol07/">OpenBSD - Past, Present and Future</a>.
1.651     fkr       256: <p>
1.650     deraadt   257:
                    258: <li><strong><a name="fisl8"></a>
                    259: <a href="http://fisl.softwarelivre.org/8.0/www/?q=en">fisl8.0</a></strong>,
                    260: Apr 12-14, 2007, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil.<br>
                    261: This was a fairly large conference in South America.  Theo de Raadt
                    262: presented a talk about <a href="papers/brhard2007/">Hardware Documentation</a>.
                    263: <p>
                    264:
1.645     ray       265: <li><strong><a name="nycbug2007-cvs"></a>
                    266: <a href="http://nycbug.org/">NYC*BUG April 2007</a></strong>,
                    267: Apr 4, 2007, NYC, USA.<br>
                    268: Ray Lai (ray@) gave a
                    269: <a href="http://www.nycbug.org/index.php?NAV=Home;SUBM=10104">talk</a>
                    270: on OpenCVS.
1.648     ray       271: <a href="papers/nycbug07-cvs/">Slides</a> and
                    272: <a href="http://www.fetissov.org/public/nycbug/nycbug-04-04-07.mp3">audio</a>
                    273: are available.
1.645     ray       274: <p>
                    275:
1.638     grunk     276: <li><strong><a name="elite2007"></a>
                    277: <a href="http://www.erlug.de/?q=node/323">5. Erlanger Linuxtage</a></strong>,
                    278: Mar 24 - 25, 2007, Erlangen, Germany.<br>
                    279: There was an OpenBSD/OpenSSH booth, run by Alexander von Gernler (grunk@).
                    280: He also gave a talk called
1.639     grunk     281: <a href="papers/elite2007/elite2007-openbsd.pdf">
1.638     grunk     282: "Sichere Systeme mit OpenBSD" (german)</a>.
                    283: <p>
                    284:
1.635     tom       285: <li><strong><a name="ukuug2007"></a>
                    286: <a href="http://www.ukuug.org/events/spring2007/">UKUUG Spring 2007 Conference</a></strong>,
                    287: Mar 19 - 21, 2007, Manchester, United Kingdom<br>
                    288: Tom Cosgrove gave a presentation about "Third-Party Applications on OpenBSD"
                    289: at the annual spring meeting of the
                    290: <a href="http://www.ukuug.org/">UK's Unix and Open Systems User Group</a>.
                    291: <p>
                    292:
1.627     mcbride   293: <li><strong><a name="asiabsdcon2007"></a>
                    294: <a href="http://www.asiabsdcon.org/">AsiaBSDCon 2007</a></strong>,
                    295: Mar 8 - 11, 2007, Tokyo, Japan.<br>
1.631     mbalmer   296: Marc Balmer presented a paper <a href="papers/radio-clocks-asiabsdcon07.pdf">Supporting Radio Clocks in OpenBSD</a>. Presentation
                    297: <a href="papers/asiabsdcon07-radioclocks/index.html">slides</a> are also
                    298: available.<br>
1.627     mcbride   299: 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   300: Mathieu Sauve-Frankel gave a talk <a href="papers/asiabsdcon07-ipsec/index.html">Recent Improvements in OpenBSD's IPSec Support</a>.<br>
                    301: Damien Miller presented a paper <a href="papers/openssh-measures-asiabsdcon2007.pdf">Security measures in OpenSSH</a>. Presentation
1.628     djm       302: <a href="papers/openssh-measures-asiabsdcon2007-slides.pdf">slides</a> are
                    303: also available.<br>
1.627     mcbride   304: 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".
                    305: <p>
                    306:
1.622     fkr       307: <li><strong><a name="linuxforum2007"></a>
                    308: <a href="http://www.linuxforum.dk/2007/">LinuxForum 2007</a></strong>,
                    309: Mar 2 - 3, 2007, Copenhagen, Denmark.<br>
1.623     wvdputte  310: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth run by Wim, Bernd and Michael in the
1.633     tom       311: <a href="http://img.ba-net.org/LinuxForum2007/">best of circumstances</a>.
1.622     fkr       312: Felix gave a talk titled
                    313: <a href="papers/linuxforum07/index.html">OpenBSD - Past, Present and Future</a>.
                    314: <p>
                    315:
1.619     wvdputte  316: <li><strong><a name=Brussels2007></a>
                    317: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/2007/">FOSDEM Brussels 2007</a></strong>,
                    318: Feb 24 - 25, 2007, Brussels, Belgium.<br>
                    319: There was an an OpenBSD/OpenSSH booth with Matthieu, Marc, Mickey, Saad
                    320: and Wim. On Saturday we had our traditional BSD dinner.<br>
                    321: Matthieu gave a <a href="papers/fosdem07-xenocara.pdf">
                    322: talk on Xenocara</a> in the X.Org devroom.
                    323: <p>
1.616     wvdputte  324:
                    325: <li><strong><a name="kiberpipa2007"></a>
                    326: <a href="http://pot.kiberpipa.org">Kiberpipa open sessions</a></strong>,
                    327: February 20, 2007, Ljubljana, Slovenia.<br>
                    328: On that edition of weekly "Open sessions" meetings
                    329: <a href="http://www.kerberos.si">Mitja Muzenic</a> gave a
                    330: <a href="http://pot.kiberpipa.org/?p=39">talk</a> on OpenBSD.
1.619     wvdputte  331: <a href="http://www.kerberos.si/papers/Kiberpipa07/">Slides</a> (in Slovenian),
                    332: <a href="http://video.kiberpipa.org/media/POT_OpenBSD">video</a> (in Slovenian),
1.616     wvdputte  333: and <a href="http://gallery.kerberos.si/kiberpipa07/">photos</a> are available.
                    334: <p>
                    335:
                    336: </ul>
                    337:
1.445     martin    338: <h3>2006</h3>
1.236     jose      339: <ul>
1.537     deraadt   340:
1.588     espie     341: <li><strong><a name="23c3"></a>
1.577     mbalmer   342: <a href="https://events.ccc.de/congress/2006/">23C3 Chaos Communication Congress in
                    343: Berlin</a></strong>,
                    344: December 27 - 30, 2006, Berlin, Germany.<br>
1.597     mbalmer   345: Who can you trust? Well, us. OpenBSD was there, of course, for our annual
1.595     reyk      346: closing event.  fkr, grunk, jsg, mbalmer, mickey, sturm, uwe, martin,
1.598     bernd     347: henning, moritz, bernd and wvdputte were there
1.597     mbalmer   348: there to chat with attendees and discuss OpenBSD stuff.  It was - as usual -
                    349: a great end-of-the-year event.  See you in Berlin again end of 2007.
1.577     mbalmer   350: <p>
                    351:
1.594     mbalmer   352: <li><strong><a name="moscow2006"></a>
                    353: <a href="https://kd85.com/">Moscow OpenBSD user meeting</a></strong>,
                    354: December 8 - 9, 2006, Moscow, Russia.<br>
1.633     tom       355: For details, please email <a href="mailto:grange@opensd.org">Grange</a>
1.594     mbalmer   356: <p>
                    357:
1.515     tom       358: <li><strong><a name="opencon2006"></a>
                    359: <a href="http://www.opencon.org/">OpenCON 2006</a></strong>,
1.569     deraadt   360: 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   361: OpenCON is the only conference dedicated solely to OpenBSD.
1.587     deraadt   362: 135 people were registered for the event, but since it was a completely open event is likely that
                    363: even more people just walked in.
1.577     mbalmer   364: Most talks were by OpenBSD developers, but there was also an impressive
1.568     mbalmer   365: number of our developers just attending the conference.  Talks by OpenBSD
1.577     mbalmer   366: developers were:
1.568     mbalmer   367: <p>
1.535     deraadt   368:  <ul>
1.581     claudio   369:  <li>Claudio Jeker: <a href="papers/opencon06-network/index.html">
                    370:      Network stack changes in OpenBSD</a>
1.580     deraadt   371:  <li>Marc Balmer: <a href="papers/opencon06-nmea/index.html">
                    372:      Support for Time Signal Station Receivers and GPS in OpenBSD</a>
1.601     fkr       373:  <li>Felix Kronlage: <a href="papers/opencon06-umts/index.html">Redundancy or mobile deployment with 3G technology</a>
1.584     jsg       374:  <li>Jonathan Gray: <a href="papers/opencon06-drivers/index.html">
                    375:      Driver architecture and implementation in OpenBSD</a>
1.543     mbalmer   376:  <li>Gordon Klok: <i>Processor Power Management</i>
1.596     dlg       377:  <li>David Gwynne: <a href="papers/opencon06-culture.pdf">The OpenBSD
                    378:      Culture</a> and he also filled in for Marco's
                    379:      <a href="papers/opencon06-bio.pdf">Bio and Sensors in OpenBSD</a> talk.
1.582     michele   380:  <li>Michele Marchetto: <a href="papers/opencon06-ripd/index.html">
                    381:      OpenRIPD</a>
1.574     mbalmer   382:  <li>Reyk Floeter: <i>IPsec demystified</i>
1.580     deraadt   383:  <li>Theo de Raadt: <a href="papers/opencon06-docs">
                    384:     Why hardware documentation matters so much and why it is so hard to get</a>
1.535     deraadt   385:  </ul>
1.502     mbalmer   386: <p>
1.577     mbalmer   387: Also present were jcs, krw, mglocker, robert, wvdputte, martin, grunk,
                    388: dhartmei, aanriot, sturm, and bernd.  Of course there was an OpenBSD booth
                    389: run by the usual suspects and you could buy our CD-ROMS, the audio CD and other
1.568     mbalmer   390: stuff.
                    391: <p>
1.502     mbalmer   392:
1.575     reyk      393: <li><strong><a name=opensourcetag2006></a>
                    394: <a href="http://www.opensourcetag.de/2006/">OpenSourceTag 2006</a></strong>,
                    395: Nov 30, 2006, Hannover, Germany.<br>
                    396: Reyk gave a <a href="http://www.opensourcetag.de/2006/agenda/">talk</a> about OpenBSD
                    397: as a reference project for secure software.
                    398: <p>
                    399:
1.583     henning   400: <li><strong><a name=epf2006></a>
                    401: <a href="http://www.peering-forum.eu/2006/">European Peering Forum 2006</a></strong>,
                    402: Nov 29 - 30, 2006, Frankfurt, Germany.<br>
                    403: The European Peering Forum in Frankfurt was hosted by the 3 big european
                    404: peering points DE-CIX, AMSIX and LINX, bringing network operators together.
                    405: Henning was talking about OpenBGPD,
                    406: <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/epf2006/">slides</a> are available.
                    407: <p>
                    408:
1.565     krw       409: <li><strong><a name=conisli2006></a>
                    410: <a href="http://conisli.org/">CONISLI 2006</a></strong>,
                    411: Nov 3 - 5, 2006, S&atilde;o Paulo, Brazil<br>
                    412: 4th edition of S&atilde;o Paulo's International Free Software Congress.
1.687     jolan     413: Ken Westerback and Pedro Martelletto gave a talk.
1.565     krw       414: <p>
                    415:
1.559     jason     416: <li><strong><a name=nycbsdcon2006></a>
                    417: <a href="http://nycbsdcon.org/">NYCBSDCon 2006</a></strong>,
                    418: Oct 28 - 29, 2006, New York City, USA<br>
                    419: NYCBSDCon is the main conference on the East Coast for the
                    420: BSD community to get together to share and gain knowledge,
1.562     jason     421: to network with like minded people.  Several developers
1.563     jason     422: spoke, more were on hand:
1.559     jason     423:  <ul>
                    424:   <li>Marco Peereboom: <a href="papers/bio.pdf">bio and sensors in OpenBSD</a>
1.563     jason     425:    [<a href="http://www.fetissov.org/public/nycbsdcon06/1.6.mp3">audio</a>]
1.605     jason     426:   <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     427:   <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>]
                    428:   <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     429:   <li>Ray Lai: <i>First time booth bunny</i>
                    430:  </ul>
                    431: <p>
                    432:
1.556     fgsch     433: <li><strong><a name=linuxworlduk2006></a>
                    434: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.co.uk/">LinuxWorld Expo UK 2006</a></strong>,
                    435: Oct 25 - 26, 2006, Olympia, London, UK.<br>
1.558     wvdputte  436: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Wim, Tom, Peter, Federico and
                    437: Pedro La Peu.
1.556     fgsch     438: <p>
                    439:
1.589     aanriot   440: <li><strong><a name=cuug2006oct></a>
                    441: <a href="http://www.cuug.ab.ca/">Calgary Unix Users Group</a></strong>,
                    442: Oct 24, 2006, downtown Library, basement meeting room, Calgary, Alberta.<br>
                    443: Theo de Raadt gave a talk regarding the increasing demand for
                    444: vendors to open up their documentation.
                    445: <p>
                    446:
1.553     grunk     447: <li><strong><a name="systems2006"></a>
                    448: <a href="http://www.systems.de/">Systems</a></strong>,
                    449: Oct 23 - 27, 2006, Munich, Germany <br>
                    450: The *BSD projects were located at A3.542.
                    451: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
                    452: Wilhelm B&uuml;hler, DaN, Nikolay Sturm, Marco Pfatschbacher,
                    453: and some other volunteers.
                    454: <p>
                    455:
1.550     henning   456: <li><strong><a name=hacklu2006></a>
                    457: <a href="http://www.hack.lu/">hack.lu 2006</a></strong>,
                    458: Oct 19 - 21, 2006, Luxembourg/Kirchberg.<br>
                    459: Henning Brauer gave a well received talk about OpenBGPD.
                    460: <p>
                    461:
1.547     aanriot   462: <li><strong><a name=aldil2006></a>
                    463: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/">Les Journ&eacute;es Du Logiciel Libre
                    464: 2006</a></strong>,
                    465: Oct 13 - 14, 2006, Lyon, France.<br>
                    466: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Miod Vallat and Alexandre
                    467: Anriot with the help of Thierry Thomas and Damien Bergamini.
                    468: <p>
                    469:
1.546     mcbride   470: <li><strong><a name=auug2006></a>
                    471: <a href="http://new.auug.org.au/">AUUG 2006</a></strong>,
                    472: Oct 10 - 13, 2006, Melbourne, Australia.<br>
                    473: Ryan Mcbride presented a full-day tutorial entitled
                    474: "Advanced PF Rulesets" as well as two additional talks
                    475: <a href="papers/auug2006/pf_evolution/">PF evolution</a>
                    476: and
                    477: <a href="papers/auug2006/network_randomness/">Network stack randomness in OpenBSD</a>.
                    478: <p>
                    479:
1.532     wvdputte  480: <li><strong><a name=eurooscon2006></a>
                    481: <a href="http://conferences.oreillynet.com/euos2006/">O'Reilly Euro OSCON 2006
                    482: </a></strong>,
                    483: Sep 20, 2006, Brussels, Belgium.<br>
                    484: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth.
                    485: <p>
                    486:
1.528     wvdputte  487: <li><strong><a name=come2linux2006></a>
                    488: <a href="http://www.come2linux.org/psp/">Come 2 Linux 2006</a></strong>,
                    489: Sep 9 - 10, 2006, Duisburg-Essen, Germany.<br>
                    490: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth.
                    491: <p>
                    492:
1.525     wvdputte  493: <li><strong><a name=ChaosdaysDarmstadt2006></a>
                    494: <a href="http://mrmcd101b.metarheinmain.de/index.html">mrmcd101b - MetaRheinMainChaosDays Darmstadt 2006</a>
                    495: </strong>,
                    496: Sep 1 - 3, 2006, Darmstadt, Germany.<br>
                    497: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth.
                    498: <p>
                    499:
1.521     fkr       500: <li><strong><a name=LinuxWorldExpoSF2006></a>
                    501: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/live/12/events/12SFO06A/conference/tracksessions/Security/QMONYA04ROFR">LinuxWorld Expo San Francisco 2006</a>
                    502: </strong>,
                    503: Aug 16, 2006, San Francisco, United States.<br>
                    504: Ted Unangst spoke about OpenBSD as part of a security panel.
                    505: <p>
                    506:
1.518     tedu      507: <li><strong><a name=coimbra2006></a>
                    508: <a href="http://www.openbsd-pt.com/eventos/coimbra06/">Portuguese OpenBSD Usergroup Meeting</a></strong>,
                    509: Jul 22 - 23, 2006, Coimbra, Portugal.<br>
                    510: 6th Meeting of the Portuguese OpenBSD Usergroup.  Marc Balmer gave a talk
                    511: "NMEA 0183 and Time Signal Station Receiver Support in OpenBSD".
                    512: <p>
                    513:
                    514: <li><strong><a name=akqit2006></a>
                    515: <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>,
                    516: Jul 20, 2006, University of Basel, Computer Science Department, Room 205, Bernoullistr. 16, 17:30 - 18:30<br>
1.590     mbalmer   517: Marc Balmer gave a talk in german "<a href="papers/akqit06/index.html">Ensuring
                    518: Quality in the Development of the Free Operating System OpenBSD</a>".
1.518     tedu      519: <p>
1.475     deraadt   520:
1.510     wvdputte  521: <li><strong><a name="lsm2006"></a>
                    522: <a href="http://www.rmll.info">Libre Software Meeting 2006</a></strong>,
                    523: Jul 4 - 8, 2006, Vandoeuvre-les-nancy, France.<br>
1.681     aanriot   524: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Wim, Matthieu and
                    525: Alexandre with the help of Serge and Christelle.
1.510     wvdputte  526: <p>
                    527:
1.508     wvdputte  528: <li><strong><a name=FrOSCon></a>
                    529: <a href="http://www.froscon.de/">
                    530: FrOSCon 2006 - Free and Open Source Software Conference</a></strong>,
                    531: Jun 24 - 25, 2006, Bonn/Rhein-Sieg, Germany.<br>
1.518     tedu      532: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth run by Wim, Waldemar, Manuel and
1.508     wvdputte  533: Tim Kornau.
                    534: <p>
                    535:
1.507     mbalmer   536: <li><strong><a name=LinuxwochenLinz2006></a>
                    537: <a href="http://www.linuxwochen.at/2006/Linz">Linuxwochen Linz 2006</a>
                    538: </strong>,
                    539: June 15, 2006, Linz, Austria.<br>
                    540: There was an an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth run by Wim and the usual suspects.
                    541: <p>
                    542:
1.506     deraadt   543: <li><strong><a name=lugverona2006></a>
1.526     steven    544: <a href="http://www.di.univr.it/dol/main?ent=iniziativa&amp;id=857&amp;lang=it">LUGVR@UNIVR</a></strong>
1.506     deraadt   545: Jun 9, 2006, Verona University, Borgo Roma, Italy.<br>
                    546: Florin Iamandi of <a href="https://www.verona.linux.it">LUG Verona</a>
                    547: gave a talk
                    548: (<a href="http://todome.net/docs/obsd_carp/en">English</a> and
                    549: <a href="http://todome.net/docs/obsd_carp/it">Italian</a>)
                    550: and live demonstration on redundant failover
                    551: OpenBSD firewalls. He explained why OpenBSD solves many problems that
                    552: had previously been the dominion of expensive commercial solutions.
                    553: Attendees learned about OpenBSD's hard stance and successful fight against
                    554: bad licences and uncooperating vendors and manufacturers.
                    555: <p>
                    556:
1.502     mbalmer   557: <li><strong><a name=Slackathon2006></a>
                    558: <a href="http://slackathon2006.unix.se">Slackathon 2006</a>
                    559: </strong>
                    560: Jun 3, 2006, Stockholm, Sweden.<br>
                    561: A fundraiser for OpenBSD/SSH held at the Stockholm University. Free
1.505     ian       562: entrance and all donations went straight to the project. Several
1.502     mbalmer   563: developers were talking about OpenBSD here, as well as some hands-on
                    564: workshops took place with both old and new hardware.
                    565: <p>
                    566:
1.500     deraadt   567: <li><strong><a name=cuug2006></a>
                    568: <a href="http://www.cuug.ab.ca/">Calgary Unix Users Group</a></strong>,
                    569: Jun 1, 2006, SAIT Campus, Calgary, Alberta.<br>
1.504     miod      570: Bob Beck and Reyk Floeter discussed recent and future networking
                    571: changes in OpenBSD.  Some other OpenBSD developers attended to provide
1.500     deraadt   572: international colour, and there were tshirts, CDs, and posters on hand.
                    573: CUUG made a substantial contribution to OpenBSD at this event as well.
                    574: <p>
                    575:
1.589     aanriot   576: <li><strong><a name=LinuxwochenVienna2006></a>
                    577: <a href="http://www.linuxwochen.at/2006/Wien">Linuxwochen Vienna 2006</a>
                    578: </strong>,
                    579: May 31 - Jun 2, 2006, Vienna, Austria.<br>
                    580: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth run by Wim and the usual suspects.
                    581: <p>
                    582:
1.585     aanriot   583: <li><strong><a name=plug060519></a>
1.586     aanriot   584: <a href="http://www.plugfr.org/">Provence Linux User Group</a></strong>
                    585: May 19, 2006, Marseille, France.<br>
1.585     aanriot   586: Alexandre Anriot spoke about the deployment of wireless networks with
1.586     aanriot   587: OpenBSD during a meeting of the PLUG.
1.585     aanriot   588: <p>
                    589:
1.491     bernd     590: <li><strong><a name="SANE2006"></a>
                    591: <a href="http://www.sane.nl/sane2006/">SANE 2006</a></strong>,
                    592: May 15 - 19, 2006, Delft, The Netherlands.<br>
                    593: Peter N. M. Hansteen gave a
                    594: <a href="http://www.sane.nl/sane2006/program/abstract.php?eventid=35">
                    595: PF tutorial</a>.
                    596: <p>
                    597:
1.490     reyk      598: <li><strong><a name=bsdcan2006></a> <a
                    599: href="http://www.bsdcan.org/2006/">BSDCan 2006</a></strong>,
                    600: May 12 - 13, 2006, Ottawa, Canada.<br>
                    601: David Gwynne gave a talk about hardware monitoring with bio and
                    602: sensors in OpenBSD (<a href="papers/bsdcan06-biosensors.pdf">slides</a>)
                    603: and Reyk Fl&ouml;ter talked about the latest
                    604: wireless support and the incredible plans for the future
                    605: (<a href="papers/bsdcan06-wlan/index.html">slides</a>), and
                    606: Peter Hansteen gave a PF tutorial. A number of OpenBSD hackers
                    607: attended the conference as well, like Bob Beck and Mathieu Sauve-Frankel.
                    608: <p>
                    609:
1.489     bernd     610: <li><strong><a name="linuxdays2006"></a>
                    611: <a href="http://www.linuxdays.ch">Linuxdays 2006</a></strong>,
                    612: May 8 - 12, 2006, Geneva, Switzerland.<br>
                    613: Julien Mabillard, a long-time Geneva OpenBSD user, gave a talk to present
                    614: the overall system and its great features.
                    615: <p>
                    616:
1.592     claudio   617: <li><strong><a name="idepes2006"></a>
1.589     aanriot   618: <a href="http://www.idepes.org.br/openbsd/">IDEPES 2006</a></strong>,
                    619: May 6, 2006, S&atilde;o Paulo, Brazil.<br>
                    620: First event in Brazil totally dedicated to OpenBSD.
                    621: <p>
                    622:
1.592     claudio   623: <li><strong><a name="LinuxTag2006"></a>
1.484     mbalmer   624: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.org/2006/">LinuxTag 2006</a></strong>,
                    625: May 3 - 6, 2006, Wiesbaden, Germany.<br>
                    626: OpenBSD was very present at this years Linuxtag:
                    627: <ul>
                    628: <li>On friday morning, Claudio and Marc moderated a panel discussion
                    629: "BLOBS sind das Krebsgeschw&uuml;r freier Software" (Blobs are the
1.485     mbalmer   630: cancer of free software) that was well attended.  Unfortunately no one
1.484     mbalmer   631: in favour of Blobs attended, although we asked almost all Linux
                    632: distributions...
                    633: <li>After lunch, Marc Balmer started the afternoon with a talk "OpenBSD
                    634: as a Strategic Platform for the Basle Public Schools", outlining how and
1.485     mbalmer   635: why the Basle Public school system uses OpenBSD for most of its
1.484     mbalmer   636: infrastructure.
1.592     claudio   637: <li>The next OpenBSD specific talk was by Claudio Jeker,
                    638: <a href="papers/linuxtag06-network/">"Routing with OpenBSD using
                    639: OpenOSPFD and OpenBGPD"</a> where he showed various routing setups and
                    640: how full redundancy can be achieved.
                    641: [<a href="papers/linuxtag06-network.pdf">paper</a>]
1.484     mbalmer   642: <li>Later, Marc Balmer gave a talk "Decoding Time Signal Stations using
                    643: OpenBSD" and explained the recent addition of timedelta sensors and the
                    644: first implementation of such, udcf(4).
                    645: </ul>
                    646: <br>
                    647: All talks where very well received and OpenBSD filled four hours of the
1.485     mbalmer   648: Linuxtag program.  We thank Wilhelm B&uuml;hler,  chair of the BSD-Track
1.484     mbalmer   649: at Linuxtag, for the superb and professional organization.
                    650: <br>
                    651: Of course, there was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth run by Wim and the
                    652: usual suspects.
                    653: <p>
                    654:
1.486     mickey    655: <li><strong><a name=NYCBUG2006-05></a>
                    656: <a href="http://nycbug.org/index.php?NAV=Home&amp;SUBM=83">NYCBUG Monthly meeting</a></strong>,
                    657: May 3, 2006, NYC, USA.<br>
                    658: Mickey gave a talk
1.564     jason     659: (<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    660: about PAE work for OpenBSD/i386.<br>
                    661: Mischa Diehm gave a talk about implementing VPN using OpenBSD.
                    662: <p>
                    663:
1.484     mbalmer   664: <li><strong><a name=tokyo2006></a>
                    665: <a href="http://www.tokyopc.org/index.php/weblog/">Tokyo PC Users Group</a></strong>,
                    666: May 2, 2006, Tokyo.<br>
                    667: Theo presented his <a href="papers/ven05-deraadt">"Exploit Mitigation Techniques"</a>
                    668: talk.  There is a
                    669: <a href="http://www.tokyopc.org/faxmessage/index.html#about">map to the location</a>.
                    670: <p>
                    671:
1.478     mbalmer   672: <li><strong><a name=SambaEXPerience2006></a>
                    673: <a href="http://www.sambaxp.org/">Samba eXPerience 2006</a></strong>,
                    674: April 24 - 26, 2006, G&ouml;ttingen, Germany.<br>
                    675: Marc Balmer gave a talk "Providing Fully Automated Fileserver Services
                    676: for Public Schools using LDAP Integrated SAMBA on OpenBSD" that was very
                    677: well received.
                    678: <br>
                    679: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth run by Wim and Marc and Felix Kronlage
                    680: and we could draw a lot of attention.
                    681: <p>
                    682:
1.479     deraadt   683: <li><strong><a name=DORSCLUC2006></a>
                    684: <a href="http://www.open.hr/dc2006/"> DORS / CLUC 2006</a></strong>,
                    685: April 19-21, 2006, Zagreb, Croatia.<br>
                    686: <a href="http://www.kerberos.si">Mitja Muzenic</a> gave a
1.480     mbalmer   687: <a href="http://www.kerberos.si/papers/DORS06/index.html">
                    688: "Introduction to OpenBSD"</a> talk. Conference
                    689: <a href="http://www.open.hr/dc2006/program.php">program</a> (in croatian
1.479     deraadt   690: only).
                    691: <p>
                    692:
1.475     deraadt   693: <li><strong><a name=linuxworld2006></a>
                    694: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/live/12/events/12BOS06A/">
                    695: LinuxWorld/OpenSolutions World 2006</a></strong>,
                    696: April 3 - 6, 2006, Boston, USA.<br>
                    697: Jason Dixon presented
                    698: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/live/12/events/12BOS06A/conference/tracksessions/Security/QMONYA04Q1DK">Secure Network Architectures with OpenBSD</a>,
                    699: a talk on OpenBSD that outlines the various technologies that make
                    700: it a leader of secure networking platforms.
                    701: <br>
                    702: He spent time around the exposition BSD booth with giveaways
                    703: and early release OpenBSD 3.9 CDs.
                    704: <p>
                    705:
                    706: <li><strong><a name=cansecwest06></a>
                    707: <a href="http://www.cansecwest.com">Cansecwest/core06</a></strong>,
                    708: April 3 - 7, 2006, Vancouver.<br>
                    709: A rather interesting OpenBSD-related talk happened at this event, regarding
                    710: using SMI interrupts to break out of X into kernel mode.
                    711: <br>
                    712: Some OpenBSD developers attended.  Some early OpenBSD 3.9 items went
                    713: on sale.
                    714: <p>
                    715:
1.469     tom       716: <li><strong><a name=ukuug2006></a>
                    717: <a href="http://www.ukuug.org/events/spring2006/">UKUUG Spring Conference 2006</a></strong>,
                    718: Mar 22 - 23, 2006, Durham, United Kingdom<br>
                    719: Reyk Fl&ouml;ter gave a talk about the latest wireless support in
                    720: OpenBSD at the annual spring meeting of the
                    721: <a href="http://www.ukuug.org/">UK's Unix and Open Systems User Group</a>.
                    722: Peter N. M. Hansteen
                    723: gave a PF tutorial, Tom Cosgrove presented "Exploit
                    724: Mitigation Techniques" and Constantine Murenin gave a
                    725: presentation on "Hardware temperature monitoring device
                    726: drivers for OpenBSD".
                    727: These were all part of a new, well-attended, BSD stream at the event.
                    728: <p>
                    729:
1.459     henning   730: <li><strong><a name=Copenhagen2006></a>
                    731: <a href="http://www.linuxforum.dk/2006/en/">LinuxForum 2006</a></strong>,
                    732: Mar 3 - 4, 2006, Copenhagen, Denmark<br>
                    733: Wim gave Felix Kronlage's talk about OpenBSD Mobile Use (wifi, UMTS,
                    734: GPRS, phones and the like) with some demo setups.
                    735: Henning Brauer gave a very well received talk about OpenBGPD,
                    736: <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/linuxforum2006/">slides</a> are available.
                    737: <p>
                    738:
1.457     wvdputte  739: <li><strong><a name=Brussels2006></a>
                    740: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/2006/">FOSDEM Brussels 2006</a></strong>,
                    741: Feb 25 - 26, 2006, Brussels, Belgium.<br>
                    742: An OpenBSD/OpenSSH booth was present, run by the usual gang of suspects:
1.458     xsa       743: Alexandre, Dimitar, Matthieu, Mbalmer, Nikolay, Otto, Reyk, Saad, Thierry, Uwe, Wim, and
1.457     wvdputte  744: Xsa. Reyk gave a talk about Wifi with OpenBSD and there was our traditional
                    745: BSD dinner. More details and
                    746: <a href="http://saad.docisland.org/pictures/fosdem2006/index.html">pictures</a>
1.458     xsa       747: on <a href="http://saad.docisland.org/blog/files/archive-12.html#unique-entry-id-40">Saad's blog</a>.
1.457     wvdputte  748: <p>
                    749:
                    750: <li><strong><a name=Vegas2006></a>
                    751: <a href="http://kd85.com/vegas2006.html">Merciful briefings 2006</a></strong>,
                    752: Feb 15, 2006, Las Vegas, USA - Feb 17, 2006, San Diego, USA - Feb 18, 2006, Phoenix, USA.<br>
                    753: While traveling the US, Wim met with a bunch of OpenBSD users in Las Vegas,
                    754: San Diego and Phoenix. With many thanks to the members of PhxBUG - Phoenix BSD
                    755: User Group, more specificly Darrin Chandler, for organising the little
                    756: details and Jacob for road trip directions.
                    757: <p>
1.455     grunk     758:
1.456     henning   759: <li><strong><a name=nanog36></a>
                    760: <a href="http://www.nanog.org/">NANOG 36</a></strong>,
                    761: Feb 12 - 15, 2006, Dallas, USA.<br>
                    762: Henning Brauer and Bernhard Kroenung of DE-CIX talked about OpenBGPD and
                    763: OpenBGPD at DE-CIX, <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/nanog36/">slides</a>
                    764: are available. Henning talked again at the tools BOF
                    765: (<a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/nanog36-bof/">slides</a>).
                    766: Both talks were very well received by the audience.
                    767: Kenjiro Cho was there too, talking about IPv6 issues.
                    768: <p>
                    769:
1.455     grunk     770: <li><strong><a name="Paris2006"></a>
                    771: <a href="http://www.solutionslinux.fr/fr/index.php">Solutions Linux 2006</a>
                    772: </strong>,
                    773: Jan 31 - Feb 2, 2006, Paris, France.<br>
                    774: There was an OpenBSD booth run by Marc Espie, Miod Vallat, Saad Kadhi and
                    775: Wim with help from Guillaume Arcas and Christophe Plasschaert.
                    776: <p>
                    777: </ul>
                    778:
1.296     mcbride   779: <h3>2005</h3>
1.240     espie     780:
                    781: <ul>
1.337     deraadt   782:
1.445     martin    783: <li><strong><a name=22c3></a>
                    784: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/2005/">22C3 Chaos Communication Congress in
                    785: Berlin</a></strong>,
                    786: December 27 - 30, 2005, Berlin, Germany.<br>
                    787: Many OpenBSD developers and users met for a Xmas break in a unique setting.
                    788: <p>
                    789:
1.585     aanriot   790: <li><strong><a name=plug051216></a>
1.586     aanriot   791: <a href="http://www.plugfr.org/">Provence Linux User Group</a></strong>
                    792: December 16, 2005, Marseille, France.<br>
                    793: Alexandre Anriot spoke about OpenSSH during a meeting of the PLUG.
1.585     aanriot   794: <p>
                    795:
1.435     matthieu  796: <li><strong><a name=eurobsdcon2005></a>
                    797: <a href="http://2005.eurobsdcon.org/">EuroBSDCon 2005</a></strong>,
                    798: Nov 25 - 27, 2005, Basel, Switzerland.<br>
                    799: The 4th edition of the european conference for BSD systems has been a
                    800: great success. More than 225 people from 27 countries attended the
1.438     deraadt   801: event.
1.444     grunk     802: The program included a
                    803: <a href="http://www.eurobsdcon.org/tutorials-reyk.php">tutorial by Reyk about
1.437     niallo    804: OpenBSD-based Wireless Networks</a> and the following talks
                    805: <ul>
1.438     deraadt   806: <li>Henning Brauer with Wilhelm B&uuml;hler "Signal Handlers"
                    807: <li>Ryan McBride "Network Stack Randomness"
1.439     matthieu  808: <li><a href="papers/eurobsd2005/herrb-hopf.pdf">Matthieu Herrb and Matthias Hopf "New Evolutions in the X Window System"</a>
1.440     claudio   809: <li><a href="papers/eurobsd2005/claudio/">Claudio Jeker "The Design and Implementation of OpenOSPFD"</a>
1.439     matthieu  810: <li><a href="papers/eurobsd2005/niallo-uwe/">Niall O'Higgins &amp; Uwe Stuehler "Embedded OpenBSD"</a>
1.443     deraadt   811: <li><a href="papers/eurobsd2005/tedu-rthreads.pdf">Ted Unangst "rthreads: A New Thread Implementation for OpenBSD"</a>
1.437     niallo    812: </ul>
1.438     deraadt   813: <p>
1.435     matthieu  814: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
                    815: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
                    816: <p>
                    817:
1.434     bernd     818: <li><strong><a name=linuxworldexpogermany2005></a>
                    819: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.de/">Linux World Expo Germany</a></strong>,
                    820: Nov 15 - 17, 2005, Frankfurt, Germany.<br>
                    821: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
                    822: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a> and Bernd.
                    823: <p>
                    824:
1.441     niallo    825: <li><strong><a name="pacsec05"></a>
                    826: <a href="http://www.pacsec.jp/">PacSec/core 05 conference</a></strong>,
                    827: Nov 15 - 16, 2005, Tokyo, Japan.<br>
                    828: Sean Comeau presented a talk called
                    829: <a href="http://www.openbsd-support.com/jp/en/htm/mgp/pacsec05/index.html">
                    830: Open Source Secure Wireless Networks in a Windows World</a>
                    831: <a href="http://www.pacsec.jp/core05/psj05-scomeau-en.pdf">[PDF]</a>.
                    832: The solution he presents uses IPsec to protect traffic between the
                    833: wireless clients and access points. Authentication is done using OpenSSH
                    834: (authpf), a process made transparent and user-friendly by a few small
                    835: scripts.
                    836: <p>
                    837:
1.424     mbalmer   838: <li><strong><a name=opencon2005></a>
                    839: <a href="http://www.opencon.org/">OpenCON 2005</a></strong>,
                    840: Nov 4 - 6, 2005, San Servolo Island, Venice, Italy.<br>
1.427     deraadt   841: The only unique conference entirely dedicated to OpenBSD, held in the totally
                    842: crazy environment of San Servolo island: an old insane asylum turned into a
                    843: university about 20 years ago, about 10 minutes boat ride from Venice.
1.429     deraadt   844: In the days leading up to this, about 12 OpenBSD developers arrived early
1.427     deraadt   845: for a Ports mini-hackathon.  During the conference a few developers gave
1.433     deraadt   846: talks, including
                    847: <ul>
                    848: <li><a href="papers/ven05-pvalchev">Peter Valchev "OpenBSD Hackathon report"</a>
                    849: <li><a href="papers/ven05-espie">Marc Espie "OpenBSD ports and packages"</a>
                    850: <li><a href="papers/ven05-henning">Henning Brauer "OpenBSD networking update"</a>
                    851: <li><a href="papers/ven05-niallo-uwe/slides.pdf">Uwe Stuehler, Niall O'Higgins "Porting OpenBSD"</a>
                    852: <li><a href="papers/ven05-deraadt">Theo de Raadt "Exploit Mitigation Techniques (updated to include random malloc and mmap)"</a>
                    853: </ul>
1.424     mbalmer   854: <p>
                    855:
                    856: <li><strong><a name=systems2005></a>
                    857: <a href="http://www.systems.de/">Systems</a></strong>,
                    858: Oct 24 - 28, 2005, Munich, Germany <br>
1.425     mbalmer   859: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
1.424     mbalmer   860: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
                    861: <p>
                    862:
1.418     djm       863: <li><strong><a name=auug2005></a>
                    864: <a href="http://www.auug.org.au/events/2005/auug2005/">AUUG 2005</a></strong>,
                    865: October 16 - 21, 2005, Sydney, Australia.<br>
                    866: Mark Uemura presented a tutorial on setting up CARP/PF, a demonstration of
                    867: stateful failover with CARP and pfsync and a talk on wireless security in
                    868: a corporate environment using authpf and isakmpd.  Peter Hansteen gave a
                    869: <a href="http://www.bgnett.no/~peter/pf/">Firewalling with PF</a> tutorial.
1.420     deraadt   870: Damien Miller presented on the approach to
                    871: <a href="papers/auug2005-portability">secure software portability used
                    872: by portable OpenSSH</a>, Reyk Flöter gave a talk on the current state of wireless
1.418     djm       873: support in OpenBSD and David Purdue introduced OpenBSD's spamd tarpit.
                    874: Most of the Australian OpenBSD developers and many users were present.
                    875: <p>
                    876:
1.415     aanriot   877: <li><strong><a name=aldil2005></a>
                    878: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/">Les Journ&eacute;es Du Logiciel Libre
                    879: 2005</a></strong>,
                    880: Oct 14 - 15, 2005, Lyon, France.<br>
                    881: There was OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Alexandre Anriot with the
                    882: help of Thierry Thomas.
                    883: <p>
                    884:
1.420     deraadt   885: <li><strong><a name=cafeconf2005></a>
                    886: <a href="http://www.cafeconf.org/">CaFeConf 2005,
                    887: 4tas Jornadas Abiertas de GNU/Linux y Software Libre</a></strong>,
                    888: Oct 13 - 15, 2005, Buenos Aires, Argentina<br>
                    889: CaFeConf 2005 is the anual event of CaFeLUG - Free Software Users
                    890: Group of Capital Federal, Argentina. This year the event featured
                    891: 116 presentations consisting of talks, tutorials, and workshops. The
                    892: event was also broadcasted on the Internet. Entrance was free, but
                    893: registration was mandatory.<br>
                    894: Fernando Gont gave a talk on
1.444     grunk     895: <a href="http://www.cafeconf.org/modules/myconference/viewspeech.php?sid=147&amp;cid=20">
1.420     deraadt   896: ICMP attacks against TCP</a>,
                    897: in which he gave an overview of the attacks, the possible
                    898: counter-measures, and the politics of vulnerabilities, and a talk on
1.444     grunk     899: <a href="http://www.cafeconf.org/modules/myconference/viewspeech.php?sid=173&amp;cid=20">
1.420     deraadt   900: Fixing the vulnerability of the Path-MTU Discovery mechanism</a>,
                    901: in which explained how OpenBSD fixed the vulnerability of the PMTUD
                    902: mechanism.
                    903: <p>
                    904:
1.414     bernd     905: <li><strong><a name=linuxkongress2005></a>
                    906: <a href="http://www.linux-kongress.org/">12th International Linux System
                    907: Technology Conference</a></strong>,
                    908: Oct 11 - 14, 2005, University of Hamburg, Germany.<br>
                    909: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth.
                    910: <p>
                    911:
                    912: <li><strong><a name=linuxworlduk2005></a>
                    913: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.co.uk/">LinuxWorld Expo UK 2005</a></strong>,
                    914: Oct 5 - 6, 2005, Olympia, London, UK.<br>
                    915: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth.
                    916: <p>
                    917:
1.410     wvdputte  918: <li><strong><a name=opensourcetag2005></a>
1.575     reyk      919: <a href="http://www.opensourcetag.de/2005/">OpenSourceTag 2005</a></strong>,
1.410     wvdputte  920: Sep 27, 2005, Hannover, Germany.<br>
1.444     grunk     921: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth and Reyk gave a
1.575     reyk      922: <a href="http://www.opensourcetag.de/2005/agenda/">talk</a> about IT security.
1.410     wvdputte  923: <p>
                    924:
                    925: <li><strong><a name="gubuginstallfest2005"></a>
                    926: <a href="http://gubug.org/meetings.php">Greater Utah BSD Group
                    927: Installfest 2005</a></strong>,
                    928: Sep 24, 2005, Sandy, UT, USA.<br/>
1.444     grunk     929: <a href="http://www.gubug.org/">The Greater Utah BSD User Group</a> organised
1.410     wvdputte  930: their first annual BSD Installfest, sponsored by Utah ISP ArosNet.
                    931: There were handouts, CD-ROMs, technical presentations, and
                    932: fun, plus a chance to get OpenBSD or a related open source BSD operating system
                    933: installed on your computer.
                    934: Admission was free (computers not included in cost of admission).
1.419     djm       935: Featured speakers included Dan Langille, organizer of BSDCan.
1.410     wvdputte  936: <p>
                    937:
1.404     wvdputte  938: <li><strong><a name="NYCBSDCon2005"></a>
                    939: <a href="http://nycbsdcon.org/">New York City BSD Conference 2005</a></strong>,
1.410     wvdputte  940: Sep 17, 2005, NYC, USA.<br>
1.404     wvdputte  941: NYCBSDCon was a one day technical conference hosted by the New York
                    942: City *BSD User Group and was held at Columbia University.
1.406     saad      943: The all day conference included a variety of speakers representing the
1.404     wvdputte  944: BSD projects and the open source community.<br>
                    945: NYCBSDCon was organized by NYC*BUG, a technical user group that formed in
                    946: December 2003. Besides their regular monthly meetings at the Soho Apple
                    947: Store, NYC*BUG has done fundraising for the BSD projects and contributed a
                    948: number of useful online applications such as BSDTracker and dmesgd.<br>
                    949: Additional sponsors included USENIX, New York Internet and SRA America.
                    950: <p>
                    951:
                    952: <li><strong><a name=opensaar2005></a>
                    953: <a href="http://www.opensaar.de/">OpenSaar 2005</a></strong>,
                    954: Sep 13 - 14, 2005, Saarbr&uuml;cken, Germany.<br>
                    955: An OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth was present
                    956: <p>
                    957:
1.403     henning   958: <li><strong><a name=decix160905></a> <a
                    959: href="http://www.de-cix.org/">DE-CIX Technical Meeting</a></strong>,
1.410     wvdputte  960: Sep 16, 2005, Schloss Kransberg, near Usingen, Germany.<br>
1.403     henning   961: Henning Brauer, Reyk Fl&ouml;ter and Maxim Salomon had been invited to the
                    962: technical meeting of the Deutsche Commercial Internet Exchange (DE-CIX) again.
                    963: Henning gave an update on OpenBGPD, Reyk talked about a route server project
                    964: using OpenBGPD at DE-CIX, and Maxim explained why the CCC sponsors us doing so.
                    965: There was a very positive discussion afterwards.
                    966: <a href="http://unduli.bsws.de/papers/decix2005-2/">Slides</a> are available.
                    967: <p>
                    968:
1.388     tom       969: <li><strong><a name="ukuug2005"></a>
                    970: <a href="http://www.ukuug.org/events/linux2005/">UKUUG Linux Technical
                    971: Conference 2005</a></strong>,
1.410     wvdputte  972: Aug 4 - 7, 2005, University of Wales, Swansea, UK<br>
1.388     tom       973: Tom Cosgrove gave Theo's presentation about Exploit Mitigation Techniques.
                    974: <p>
                    975:
1.385     mickey    976: <li><strong><a name=wth2005></a>
1.390     deraadt   977: <a href="http://www.whatthehack.org/">What the Hack 2005</a></strong>,
1.410     wvdputte  978: Jul 28 - 31, 2005, Den Bosch, The Netherlands.<br>
1.385     mickey    979: As every 4 years, Wim organized the
                    980: <a href="http://eurobsd.org/2005-WhatTheHack/">BSD village</a> at this huge
1.389     tom       981: open air event. There were some talks, Reyk spoke about
                    982: <a href="http://program.whatthehack.org/event/6.en.html">WLAN in OpenBSD</a>,
1.385     mickey    983: and an excellent
                    984: <a href="ftp://ftp.nyc.openbsd.org/pub/news/wth-radio-humppa.mp3">Humppa show</a> (35MB MP3) was performed on the SubEther radio.
                    985: If you want to see what happened previously, check
                    986: <a href="http://eurobsd.org/hal2001/">http://eurobsd.org/hal2001/</a>
                    987: and <a href="http://www.eurobsd.org/SummerCamp2003/">http://www.eurobsd.org/SummerCamp2003/</a>.
                    988: <p>
                    989:
1.382     pedro     990: <li><strong><a name=coimbra2005></a>
1.474     pedro     991: <a href="http://www.openbsd-pt.com/eventos/coimbra05/">Portuguese OpenBSD Usergroup Meeting</a></strong>,
1.410     wvdputte  992: Jul 23 - 24, 2005, Coimbra, Portugal.<br>
1.538     pedro     993: 5th Meeting of the Portuguese OpenBSD Usergroup. Pedro Martelletto gave a talk.
1.382     pedro     994: <p>
                    995:
1.378     aanriot   996: <li><strong><a name="lsm2005"></a>
                    997: <a href="http://2005.rencontresmondiales.org/sections/index_html/switchLanguage/en">Libre Software Meeting 2005</a></strong>,
1.410     wvdputte  998: Jul 5 - 9, 2005, Dijon, France.<br>
1.379     aanriot   999: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Wim and the usual
                   1000: suspects, with the help of Serge Basterot. It was a nice place to meet
                   1001: some of our French, German and Swiss developers, including Marc Balmer,
                   1002: Alexandre Anriot, Matthieu Herrb and Reyk Floeter.
1.378     aanriot  1003: <p>
                   1004:
1.375     grunk    1005: <li><strong><a name=LinuxTag2005></a>
                   1006: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.org">LinuxTag 2005</a></strong>,
1.410     wvdputte 1007: Jun 22 - 25, 2005, Karlsruhe, Germany.<br>
1.375     grunk    1008: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth ran by Wim, Christian Weisgerber,
                   1009: Marc Balmer, Wilhelm Buehler, Robert Nagy, Bernd Ahlers and Phil Schulz.
                   1010: <p>
                   1011:
1.374     grunk    1012: <li><strong><a name="uofa-cc2005"></a>
                   1013: <a href="http://www.ualberta.ca/CC2005"> University of Alberta, Campus
1.410     wvdputte 1014: Computing 2005</a></strong>, Jun 21, 2005, Edmonton, Canada.<br>
1.374     grunk    1015: Ryan McBride spoke about OpenBSD's packet filter, PF, with CARP and
                   1016: failover examples. Local color and examples at the U of A shown by Bob
                   1017: Beck. Bob Beck spoke about PF and Spamd, as well as several other
                   1018: OpenBSD using and related talks at this event, which primarily focuses
                   1019: on activities centered at the University of Alberta.
                   1020: <p>
                   1021:
1.371     deraadt  1022: <li><strong><a name=uemera2005></a>
                   1023: <a href="http://www.tokyopc.net">Tokyo PC Users Group</a></strong>,
1.410     wvdputte 1024: Jun 2, 2005, Tokyo Union Church in Omotesando, Tokyo, Japan.<br>
1.371     deraadt  1025: Mark T. Uemura spoke to Japan's largest English speaking
                   1026: personal computer club.  The talk was entitled
                   1027: <a href="http://www.openbsd-support.com/jp/en/htm/mgp/index.shtml">
                   1028: "Open Source in a Windows World"</a>.
                   1029: He demonstrated how companies can easily
                   1030: integrate Open Source, with an emphasis on OpenBSD, into their IT
                   1031: infrastructure to enhance security, scalability and stability,
                   1032: significantly reduce IT expenditures, free up computing infrastructure
                   1033: and move away from commercial lock-in.  This talk is based on changes
                   1034: implemented at PricewaterhouseCoopers in Japan.
                   1035: <p>
                   1036:
1.366     martin   1037: <li><strong><a name=LinuxwochenVienna2005></a>
                   1038: <a href="http://www.linuxwochen.at/">Linuxwochen Vienna 2005</a></strong>,
                   1039: May 24 - 27, 2005, Vienna, Austria.<br>
                   1040: The Linuxwochen 2005 tour stopped in the MuseumsQuartier, Vienna.
                   1041: Wim Vandeputte and Reinhard Sammer were running an OpenBSD booth selling
                   1042: CDs and shirts.
                   1043: <p>
                   1044:
1.365     mcbride  1045: <li><strong><a name=cuug2005></a>
                   1046: <a href="http://www.cuug.ab.ca/">Calgary Unix Users Group</a></strong>,
                   1047: May 24, 2005, Calgary, Canada.<br>
                   1048: Ryan McBride spoke about OpenBSD's packet filter, PF.
                   1049: A broad overview of PF's features were presented, with special attention
                   1050: paid to newer and more unique features and how these can be used together
                   1051: effectively for DoS mitigation, high availability, and load balancing.
                   1052: <br>
                   1053: Approximately 60 OpenBSD developers attended to heckle and participate
                   1054: in a free-for-all question period after the talk.
                   1055: <p>
                   1056:
1.362     reyk     1057: <li><strong><a name=bsdcan2005></a>
                   1058: <a href="http://www.bsdcan.org/2005/">BSDCan 2005</a></strong>,
                   1059: May 13 - 14, 2005, Ottawa, Canada.<br>
                   1060: A number of OpenBSD developers presented: Bob Beck on
                   1061: Spam Reduction with PF and Spamd, Henning Brauer on OpenBGPD,
                   1062: Ryan McBride on Network Stack Randomness and Reyk Fl&ouml;ter
                   1063: on WLAN in OpenBSD and the free ath(4) HAL. The
                   1064: <a href="papers/bsdcan05-spamd/">Spamd</a> and
                   1065: <a href="papers/bsdcan05-wlan/">WLAN</a> slides are available.
                   1066: Mathieu Sauve-Frankel has been there in attendance as well.
                   1067: <p>
                   1068:
1.358     mcbride  1069: <li><strong><a name=csw2005></a>
                   1070: <a href="http://www.cansecwest.com/">cansecwest/core05</a></strong>,
                   1071: May 4-6, 2005, Vancouver, Canada.<br>
                   1072: Hiroaki Etoh spoke about propolice; Theo de Raadt and a number of other
                   1073: developers were there to sell CDs and make a nuisance of themselves.
                   1074: <p>
                   1075:
1.357     henning  1076: <li><strong><a name=ripe50></a>
                   1077: <a href="http://www.ripe.net/ripe/meetings/ripe-50/">RIPE 50</a></strong>,
                   1078: May 2-6, 2005, Stockholm, Sweden.<br>
                   1079: RIPE NCC invited Henning to talk about OpenBGPD.
                   1080: There were over 350 attendees to the conference, and most of them attended
                   1081: henning's talk, which got very very positive feedback.
                   1082: <p>
                   1083:
1.384     tom      1084: <li><strong><a name=libreast2005></a>
1.356     espie    1085: <a href="http://idile.org/libreast/">Libr'east 2005</a></strong>,
1.410     wvdputte 1086: Apr 22-24, Marne La Vallée, near Paris, France<br>
1.356     espie    1087: There was an OpenBSD booth (Wim + Miod + Marc)
                   1088: Marc Espie did talk about recent OpenBSD advances, and his ports and
                   1089: packages work in front of about 30 people.
                   1090: <p>
                   1091:
1.353     henning  1092: <li><strong><a name=decix150405></a> <a
                   1093: href="http://www.de-cix.org/">DE-CIX Technical Meeting</a></strong>,
1.410     wvdputte 1094: Apr 15, 2005, near Usingen, Germany.<br>
1.353     henning  1095: Henning Brauer and Reyk Fl&ouml;ter had been invited to the technical
                   1096: meeting of the Deutsche Commercial Internet Exchange (DE-CIX). Henning
                   1097: presented his talk on OpenBGPD, about 60 people, mostly operators from
                   1098: the big ISPs peering at DECIX, were in attendance.
1.354     reyk     1099: Reyk, Maxim Salomon and Tim Kornau spoke on Wireless Network Security.
1.353     henning  1100: <p>
                   1101:
1.352     henning  1102: <li><strong><a name=nuug140405></a>
                   1103: <a href="http://www.nuug.no/aktiviteter/20050414-pf-brannmur/">Firewalling with PF at NUUG</a></strong>,
1.410     wvdputte 1104: Apr 14, 2005, Oslo, Norway.<br>
1.352     henning  1105: Peter N. M. Hansteen gave a firewalling with PF talk - which hopefully
                   1106: gave you some ideas about how to control your network traffic the
                   1107: way you want - keeping some things outside your network, directing
                   1108: traffic to specified hosts or services, and of course, giving spammers
                   1109: a hard time. The talk was in Norwegian, with <a
                   1110: href="http://www.bgnett.no/~peter/pf/no/foils/">foils</a> and <a
                   1111: href="http://www.bgnett.no/~peter/pf/no/">manuscript</a> (English <a
                   1112: href="http://www.bgnett.no/~peter/pf/en/foils/">foils</a> and <a
                   1113: href="http://www.bgnett.no/~peter/pf/en/">manuscript</a> too)
                   1114: available if you couldn't make it there.
                   1115: <p>
                   1116:
1.589     aanriot  1117:
                   1118: <li><strong><a name=fhwedel130405></a>
                   1119: <a href="http://www.fh-wedel.de/">FH Wedel invited talk</a></strong>,
                   1120: Apr 13, 2005, 17:00, H&ouml;rsaal 5, FH Wedel, Hamburg, Germany.<br>
                   1121: Henning Brauer spoke on OpenBGPD. More than 40 people were in attendance.
                   1122: <p>
                   1123:
1.350     marius   1124: <li><strong><a name=usenix2005></a>
                   1125: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix05/">Usenix Annual
1.410     wvdputte 1126: Technical Conference</a></strong>, Apr 10-15, 2005, Anaheim,
1.350     marius   1127: California, USA.<br> Marius Eriksen gave the OpenBSD update at the BSD
                   1128: super BoF.  The update was well received and people were quite
                   1129: sympathetic towards the ongoing efforts of the OpenBSD project to
                   1130: ensure the free redistribution rights for firmware.  People were also
                   1131: excited about the new Open* tools (OpenBGPD, OpenNTPD, OpenCVS) and it
1.351     marius   1132: would not be surprising to see more of these imported into other BSDs.
1.350     marius   1133: <p>
                   1134:
1.585     aanriot  1135: <li><strong><a name=plug050408></a>
1.586     aanriot  1136: <a href="http://www.plugfr.org/">Provence Linux User Group</a></strong>
                   1137: April 8, 2005, Marseille, France.<br>
1.585     aanriot  1138: Alexandre Anriot spoke about OpenBSD and some associated projects
1.586     aanriot  1139: (OpenBGPD etc.) during a meeting of the PLUG.
1.585     aanriot  1140: The <a href="papers/plug080405">slides</a> (in French) are available.
1.344     martin   1141: <p>
                   1142:
1.337     deraadt  1143: <li><strong><a name=bcs2005></a>
                   1144: <a href="http://www.bellua.com/bcs2005/asia05.index.html">Bellua Cyber Security Asia 2005</a></strong>,
1.410     wvdputte 1145: Mar 21-24, 2005, Jakarta, Indonesia.<br>
1.337     deraadt  1146: Ryan McBride presented an overview of PF which
                   1147: discussed how its advanced features work together in some important
1.338     deraadt  1148: applications and compared PF with the other major commercial and open
1.337     deraadt  1149: source firewalls.
                   1150: <p>
                   1151:
1.317     henning  1152: <li><strong><a name=nui_maynooth2005></a>
                   1153: <a href="http://www.minds.nuim.ie/events">NUI Maynooth lectures</a></strong>,
                   1154: Mar 4, 2005, Department of Computer Science, NUI Maynooth, Dublin, Ireland.<br>
1.318     henning  1155: Ryan McBride presented talks about PF and about
1.326     mcbride  1156: <a href="papers/dublin05-nr">randomization in the OpenBSD network layer.</a><br>
1.318     henning  1157: Theo and Henning were in attendance because someone had to heckle.
1.317     henning  1158: <p>
                   1159:
1.312     deraadt  1160: <li><strong><a name=trinity2005></a>
                   1161: <a href="http://www.netsoc.tcd.ie/events/0405/openbsd.php">Trinity lecture</a></strong>,
                   1162: Mar 3, 2005, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.<br>
1.320     deraadt  1163: Theo de Raadt presented his talk about
                   1164: <a href="papers/auug04">Exploit Mitigation Techniques</a>.
1.312     deraadt  1165: <p>
                   1166:
1.319     saad     1167: <li><strong><a name=ShefLUG2005></a>
                   1168: <a href="http://www.sheflug.co.uk/seminar/tiki-index.php?page=Sheffield%20Open%20Source%20Seminar">ShefLUG2005</a></strong>,
                   1169: Mar 2, 2005, Sheffield, UK.<br>
                   1170: Jacek Artymiak gave a talk about installing OpenBSD on Soekris hardware.
                   1171: <p>
                   1172:
1.310     mickey   1173: <li><strong><a name=NYCBUG2005-03></a>
1.375     grunk    1174: <a href="http://nycbug.org/index.php?NAV=Home&amp;SUBM=83">NYCBUG Monthly meeting</a></strong>,
1.310     mickey   1175: Mar 2, 2005, NYC, USA.<br>
1.322     deraadt  1176: Mickey gave a talk
1.325     mickey   1177: (<a href="papers/nyc2005">slides</a> and
1.564     jason    1178: <a href="http://www.fetissov.org/public/nycbug/nycbug-03-02-05.mp3">10.5MB audio</a>)
1.321     mickey   1179: about <a href="hppa.html">porting OpenBSD</a>
1.313     martin   1180: to the <a href="http://www.openpa.net">HP PA-RISC</a> platform.
1.310     mickey   1181: <p>
1.312     deraadt  1182:
1.308     deraadt  1183: <li><strong><a name=Netsoc2005></a>
                   1184: <a href="http://netsoc.ucd.ie/events/openbsd/">Netsoc lectures</a></strong>,
                   1185: Mar 2, 2005, UCD, Dublin, Ireland.<br>
                   1186: Theo de Raadt, Henning Brauer, and Ryan McBride gave a series of
1.320     deraadt  1187: talks. Topics included
                   1188: <a href="papers/auug04">exploit mitigation techniques</a>,
1.326     mcbride  1189: <a href="papers/dublin05-nr">introducing network randomness to increase security</a>,
                   1190: OpenBGPD, and pf.
                   1191: Almost 200 people came to this event.
1.308     deraadt  1192: <p>
                   1193:
1.304     saad     1194: <li><strong><a name=Brussels2005></a>
                   1195: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/2005/">FOSDEM Brussels 2005</a></strong>,
                   1196: Feb 26 - 27, 2005, Brussels, Belgium.<br>
                   1197: An OpenBSD/OpenSSH booth was present, ran by the usual gang of suspects.
                   1198: Support for <a href="mailto:wim@kd85.com">Wim Vandeputte</a> this time were
1.307     otto     1199: (among many others), Saad Kadhi, Henning Brauer, Thierry Deval, Otto Moerbeek,
1.304     saad     1200: Xavier Santolaria, Martin Reindl, Reyk Fl&ouml;ter, Hans-J&ouml;rg
1.360     db       1201: H&ouml;xer, Nikolay Sturm, Marc Balmer, Claudio Jeker, Joris Vink,
                   1202: Olivier Cherrier, David Berghoff,
1.316     mbalmer  1203: Alexander von Gernler, Uwe Stuehler, and Felix Kronlage from OpenDarwin.<br>
1.304     saad     1204: There was a separate OpenBSD track, featuring Henning Brauer (about
                   1205: signal handlers and OpenNTPD), Reyk Fl&ouml;ter (about wireless cards in
                   1206: OpenBSD), and the author of the OpenBSD PF book, Jacek Artymiak (about
1.375     grunk    1207: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pf">pf(4)</a>, of course).<br>
1.304     saad     1208: At the conference's Free Software Foundation Event, Theo de Raadt was
                   1209: awarded the Free Software Award 2004 for his efforts to make Firmware for
                   1210: wireless hardware and other devices freely available.
                   1211: <p>
1.301     saad     1212: <li><strong><a name=UKUUG05></a>
                   1213: <a href="http://www.ukuug.org/events/winter2005/">UKUUG LISA/Winter Conference</a></strong>,
                   1214: Feb 24 - 25, 2005, Birmingham, UK.<br>
                   1215: Henning Brauer spoke on OpenBGPD, OpenNTPD and Signal Handlers.
                   1216: <p>
                   1217: <li><strong><a name=FFG2005></a>
                   1218: <a href="http://www.guug.de/veranstaltungen/ffg2005/">GUUG FFG 2005</a></strong>,
                   1219: Feb 22 - 25, 2005, Munich, Germany.<br>
                   1220: Reyk Fl&ouml;ter talked about the latest wireless support in
                   1221: OpenBSD at the annual spring meeting of the <a href="http://www.guug.de/">German Unix User Group</a>.
                   1222: <p>
1.293     saad     1223: <li><strong><a name=Paris2005></a>
                   1224: <a href="http://www.solutionslinux.fr/fr/index.php">Solutions Linux 2005</a></strong>,
                   1225: Feb 1 - 3, 2005, Paris, France.<br>
                   1226: An OpenBSD booth as well as an OpenSSH booth were present. These booths
                   1227: were run by Marc Espie, Miod Vallat, Saad Kadhi and Wim with help from
                   1228: Guillaume Arcas and Christophe Plasschaert, two members of the OpenBSD
1.294     saad     1229: french translation team.<br>
                   1230: Marc Espie and Saad Kadhi gave a talk about the OpenBSD project with a
                   1231: special focus on the ports collection and Packet Filter. The <a
                   1232: href="papers/sl2005/index.html">slides</a> (in French) are
                   1233: available.<br>
                   1234: During the event, several demonstrations of <a
1.293     saad     1235: href="http://soekris.kd85.com/">Soekris</a> machines running OpenBSD
                   1236: were given by Saad Kadhi and Wim.
                   1237: <p>
1.296     mcbride  1238: </ul>
1.293     saad     1239:
1.296     mcbride  1240: <h3>2004</h3>
                   1241:
                   1242: <ul>
1.287     henning  1243: <li><strong><a name=21C3></a>
                   1244: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/2004/">21C3 - Chaos Communication Congress</a></strong>,
1.375     grunk    1245: Dec 27 - 29, 2004, Berlin, Germany<br>
1.287     henning  1246: &quot;The Usual Suspects&quot; were there and ran the BSD corner, including
                   1247: <a href="mailto:wim@kd85.com">Wim</a>,
                   1248: Henning Brauer, Marc Balmer, Martin Reindl, Moritz Jodeit, Felix Kronlage,
1.315     nick     1249: Uwe Stuehler, Konrad Foerstner, Bernd Ahlers, and Alexander von Gernler.<br>
1.287     henning  1250: Henning gave a talk about OpenBGPD and OpenNTPD
                   1251: (<a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/21c3/">slides</a>).<br>
                   1252: The WiFi backbone ran on OpenBSD powered
                   1253: <a href="http://soekris.kd85.com">Soekris</a> machines as access points,
                   1254: work done by Reyk Fl&ouml;ter, Tim Kornau and others.
                   1255: This installation was a very successful test of the new
1.290     henning  1256: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ath">ath(4)</a>
1.287     henning  1257: driver.
                   1258: <p>
1.248     deraadt  1259:
1.286     kevlo    1260: <li><strong><a name=icos2004></a>
1.417     kevlo    1261: <a href="http://2004.icos.org.tw/">ICOS 2004</a></strong>,
1.286     kevlo    1262: Dec 18 - 19, 2004, Taipei, Taiwan.<br>
                   1263: Kevin Lo gave a presentation.
                   1264: <p>
                   1265:
1.285     deraadt  1266: <li><strong><a name=syscan2004></a>
                   1267: <a href="http://www.syscan.org/">SyScAN 2004</a></strong>,
                   1268: Dec 16 - 17, 2004, Singapore.<br>
                   1269: Theo de Raadt presented his talk about
                   1270: <a href="papers/auug04">Exploit Mitigation Techniques</a>.
                   1271: <p>
                   1272:
1.283     saad     1273: <li><strong><a name=sur200412></a>
                   1274: <a href="http://www.ossir.org/sur/calendrier/index.shtml">SUR Group Meeting, December 2004</a></strong>,
                   1275: Dec 14, 2004, Paris, France.<br>
                   1276: Saad Kadhi gave a talk about OpenBSD and security during the monthly
                   1277: meeting of the
                   1278: <a href="http://www.ossir.org/sur/index.shtml">SUR</a> Group (Sécurité
                   1279: Unix et Réseaux), a french user group focusing on security and Unix. The
1.284     xsa      1280: <a href="papers/surgroup200412/index.html">slides</a> (in French) are available.
1.283     saad     1281: <p>
                   1282:
1.282     henning  1283: <li><strong><a name=opencon2004></a>
                   1284: <a href="http://www.opencon.org/">OpenCon 2004</a></strong>,
                   1285: Dec 10 - 12, 2004, Venice, Italy.<br>
                   1286: OpenBSD meeting in Northern Italy. Henning gave 3 talks in
                   1287: two days, on bgpd
                   1288: (<a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/opencon04/bgpd/">slides</a>),
                   1289: ntpd
                   1290: (<a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/opencon04/ntpd/">slides</a>)
                   1291: and signal handlers
                   1292: (<a href="papers/opencon04/">slides</a>).
                   1293: Wim ran a booth, and Marc Balmer was there as well.
                   1294: <p>
                   1295:
1.275     deraadt  1296: <li><strong><a name=UofA></a>
                   1297: <a href="http://www.ualberta.ca/">U of A Seminar</a></strong>,
                   1298: Nov 17 - 18, 2004, Edmonton Alberta.<br>
                   1299: Theo de Raadt presented a talk at an open seminar at the
                   1300: <a href="http://www.ualberta.ca/">University of Alberta</a>, in
                   1301: Room B-02 of the
                   1302: <a href="http://www.campusmap.ualberta.ca/map_bldg.cfm?bldg_id=42">
                   1303: Computing Sciences Center</a>.
                   1304: Talk went from 2 PM to nearly 5PM with more than 100 people attending
                   1305: from the University and industry, followed by beer nearby.
                   1306: The talk was also given the following day at the
                   1307: <a href="http://www.cips.ca/">CIPS Security SIG</a> luncheon.
                   1308: <p>
                   1309:
1.271     henning  1310: <li><strong><a name=EuroBSDCon2004></a>
                   1311: <a href="http://2004.eurobsdcon.org/">EuroBSD Con</a></strong>,
                   1312: Oct 29 - 31, 2004, Karlsruhe, Germany.<br>
1.272     henning  1313: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
                   1314: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
1.271     henning  1315: Henning gave a talk
1.375     grunk    1316: about <a href="http://2004.eurobsdcon.org/talks.html?&amp;tx_ptspeechupload_pi1[showUid]=44&amp;cHash=ec015b0552">bgpd</a>,
1.272     henning  1317: <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/euroBSDCon2004/">slides</a> are available.
1.271     henning  1318: <p>
                   1319:
                   1320: <li><strong><a name=LinuxWorldExpoGermany2004></a>
                   1321: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.de/">Linux World Expo</a></strong>,
                   1322: Oct 26 - 28, 2004, Frankfurt, Germany.<br>
1.272     henning  1323: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
                   1324: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
1.271     henning  1325: <p>
                   1326:
1.276     deraadt  1327: <li><strong><a name=cuug2004></a>
1.270     deraadt  1328: <a href="http://www.cuug.ab.ca/">Calgary Unix Users's Group</a></strong>,
                   1329: Oct 26, 2004, Calgary, Canada.<br>
                   1330: Theo presented the talk that he has recently given in Australia and
                   1331: Malaysia to the "Home Crowd".
                   1332: <p>
                   1333:
                   1334: <li><strong><a name=aldil2004></a>
1.269     krw      1335: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/">Les Journées Du Logiciel Libre 2004</a></strong>,
                   1336: Oct 22 - 23, 2004, Lyon, France.<br>
1.381     aanriot  1337: There was OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Miod Vallat with the help of
1.415     aanriot  1338: Alexandre Anriot and Thierry Thomas.
1.269     krw      1339: <p>
                   1340:
                   1341: <li><strong><a name=systems2004></a>
                   1342: <a href="http://www.systems.de/">Systems</a></strong>,
                   1343: Oct 18 - 22, 2004, Munich, Germany <br>
                   1344: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
                   1345: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
                   1346: <p>
                   1347:
1.268     krw      1348: <li><strong><a name=linuxexpo2004oct></a>
                   1349: <a href="http://www.linuxexpo.org.uk/">Linux Expo</a></strong>,
                   1350: Oct 6 - 7, 2004, London, UK.<br>
                   1351: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
                   1352: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
                   1353: <p>
                   1354:
1.375     grunk    1355: <li><strong><a name=hitb2004></a>
1.268     krw      1356: <a href="http://conference.hackinthebox.org">Hack in the Box Security Conference 2004</a></strong>,
                   1357: Oct 4 - 7, 2004, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.<br>
                   1358: Theo de Raadt presented an updated version of his
                   1359: "Exploit Mitigation Techniques" talk.
                   1360: <p>
                   1361:
                   1362: <li><strong><a name=SANE2004></a>
                   1363: <a href="http://www.nluug.nl/events/sane2004/bazaar.html">SANE 2004</a></strong>
1.410     wvdputte 1364: , Sep 29, 2004, Amsterdam, Netherlands.<br>
1.268     krw      1365: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
                   1366: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
                   1367: <p>
                   1368:
1.265     wvdputte 1369: <li><strong><a name=LinuxKongress2004></a>
                   1370: <a href="http://www.linux-kongress.org/2004">Linux Kongress 2004</a></strong>,
1.410     wvdputte 1371: Sep 7 - 10, 2004, Erlangen, Germany.<br>
1.265     wvdputte 1372: From their website: "Linux-Kongress is still the premier event for European
                   1373: developers and one of the most important in the world. Each year hundreds of
                   1374: hard core Linux enthusiasts from all over the world gather for this important
                   1375: event."
                   1376: <br>
                   1377: Although this was a Linux developers' conference, we were able to
                   1378: install a regular OpenBSD booth there, as known from other events.
                   1379: It was run by <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim Vandeputte</a>,
                   1380: <a href="mailto:grunk@pestilenz.org">Alexander von Gernler</a> and other
                   1381: geeks from the Erlangen-Nuremberg area.
                   1382: <br>
                   1383: There also was a BSD dinner at Friday evening.
                   1384: <p>
                   1385:
1.262     henning  1386: <li><strong><a name=Sucon2004></a>
                   1387: <a href="http://www.suug.ch/sucon/04/">SUCON 2004</a></strong>,
1.410     wvdputte 1388: Sep 2 - 4, 2004, Zurich, Switzerland.<br>
1.262     henning  1389: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth. Very nice conference.
                   1390: Henning's slides from his talks about
                   1391: <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/sucon04/bgpd">bgpd</a> and
                   1392: <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/sucon04/ntpd">ntpd</a>
                   1393: are available.
                   1394: <p>
                   1395:
1.261     deraadt  1396: <li><strong><a name=auug2004></a>
1.266     jolan    1397: <a href="http://www.auug.org.au/events/2004/auug2004/">AUUG 2004</a></strong>,
1.261     deraadt  1398: Aug 29 - Sep 3, 2004, Melbourne, Australia.<br>
                   1399: Theo de Raadt presented a half-day tutorial on privilege seperation and a
                   1400: newly extended version of the
                   1401: <a href="papers/auug04">Exploit Mitigation Techniques</a> talk.<br>
                   1402: For more information, see this
                   1403: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;517187222;fp;16;fpid;0">
                   1404: ComputerWorld article</a>.
                   1405: <p>
                   1406:
                   1407:
1.680     aanriot  1408: <li><strong><a name=lsm2004></a>
1.257     saad     1409: <a href="http://lsm.abul.org">Libre Software Meeting</a></strong>,
1.410     wvdputte 1410: Jul 6 - 10, 2004, Bordeaux, France.<br>
1.257     saad     1411: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
                   1412: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim Vandeputte</a>.
                   1413: <p>
                   1414:
                   1415: <li><strong><a name=LinuxTag2004></a>
                   1416: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.org">LinuxTag 2004</a></strong>,
1.410     wvdputte 1417: Jun 23 - 26, 2004, Karlsruhe, Germany.<br>
1.257     saad     1418: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
                   1419: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim Vandeputte</a>.
                   1420: <p>
                   1421:
1.254     xsa      1422: <li><strong><a name=LinuxwochenVienna2004></a>
1.255     xsa      1423: <a href="http://www.linuxwochen.at/">Linuxwochen Vienna 2004</a></strong>,
1.254     xsa      1424: May 26 - 29, 2004, Vienna, Austria.<br>
                   1425: The Linuxwochen 2004 tour stopped in the MuseumsQuartier, Vienna.
                   1426: Wim Vandeputte and Reinhard Sammer ran the OpenBSD booth. Michael Bauer
                   1427: and Teemu Schaabl from the <a href="http://www.cngw.org/">CNGW</a> gave
                   1428: a basic talk about pf.
                   1429: <p>
                   1430:
1.248     deraadt  1431: <li><strong><a name=BSDCan2004></a>
1.303     mcbride  1432: <a href="http://www.bsdcan.org/2004/">BSDCan 2004</a></strong>,
1.248     deraadt  1433: May 13 - 16, 2004, Ottawa, Canada.<br>
                   1434: BSDCan was held at the University of Ottawa.  Ryan McBride gave a talk
1.302     mcbride  1435: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/papers/bsdcan04-pf/index.html">about newer features in pf</a>,
                   1436: focusing on the redundancy provided by CARP and pfsync.
                   1437: Theo de Raadt presented a revised version of his talk on
1.248     deraadt  1438: <a href="papers/bsdcan04">Exploit Mitigation Techniques</a>.
                   1439: <p>
                   1440:
1.247     canacar  1441: <li><strong><a name="LOSFAnkara2004"></a>
                   1442: <a href="http://senlik.linux.org.tr">3rd Linux and Open Source Festival</a></strong>,
                   1443: May 13 - 16, 2004, Ankara, Turkey.<br>
                   1444: Can E. Acar and Berk D. Demir talked about the OpenBSD Project. The
                   1445: philosophy, project goals, system features and recent proactive
                   1446: security features were introduced. CARP, patents, recent Apache &amp;
                   1447: XFree86 licensing issues and effects of NDAs in open source
                   1448: projects were discussed.<br>
                   1449: You can view the
1.281     canacar  1450: <a href="http://bdd.mindcast.org/slides/OpenBSD-LOYS2004-cea-bdd.pdf">
1.247     canacar  1451: slides in PDF format</a> the
1.281     canacar  1452: <a href="http://bdd.mindcast.org/slides/OpenBSD-LOYS2004-cea-bdd.tex">
1.247     canacar  1453: LaTeX source</a> is also available (they are
                   1454: <a href="http://www.eee.metu.edu.tr/~canacar/slides/">mirrored</a>, as well).
                   1455: <p>
                   1456:
1.242     henning  1457: <li><strong><a name=Brussels2004></a>
                   1458: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/">FOSDEM Brussels 2004</a></strong>,
                   1459: Feb 21 - 22, 2004, Brussels, Belgium.<br>
1.243     henning  1460: An OpenBSD/OpenSSH booth was present, run by Wim Vandeputte.
                   1461: Several developers (including Henning Brauer, Xavier Santolaria, Thierry Deval,
                   1462: Philipp B&uuml;hler, Otto Moerbeek and Saad Kadhi) showed up.
                   1463: Wim and Alexander von Gernler gave &quot;lightning talks&quot; about Soekris
                   1464: and systrace
1.263     saad     1465: (<a href="http://pestilenz.org/~grunk/vortraege/2004/FOSDEM/systrace.pdf">slides</a>), respectively.
1.243     henning  1466: Henning got a slot in the main track to talk about the new bgpd
                   1467: (<a href="http://www.2suck.net/papers/fosdem2004/">slides</a>).
                   1468: On Saturday evening, the traditional OpenBSD dinner took place.
1.242     henning  1469: <p>
                   1470:
1.240     espie    1471: <li><strong><a name=Paris2004></a>
                   1472: <a href="http://www.linuxsolutions.fr/">Linux Expo Paris 2004</a></strong>,
                   1473: Feb 3 - 5, 2004, Paris, France.<br>
                   1474: An OpenBSD booth as well as an OpenSSH booth were present, thanks to
                   1475: <a href="mailto:saad@docisland.org">Saad Kadhi</a> and
                   1476: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
                   1477: <p>
                   1478:
                   1479: <li><strong><a name="LWE04"></a>
                   1480: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/linuxworldny/V40/index.cvn">LinuxWorld
                   1481: Conference and Expo</a></strong>, Jan 20 - 23, 2004, New York, NY, USA.<br>
1.397     grunk    1482: <a href="mailto:wes@openlysecure.org">Wes Sonnenreich</a> and others
1.240     espie    1483: have established a BSD user group in NYC and held a BSD BoF at the
                   1484: Jacob Javits Center on January 22nd at 5:45pm, Room 1E15.
                   1485: <p>
                   1486: </ul>
                   1487:
1.188     henning  1488: <h3>2003</h3>
1.236     jose     1489:
                   1490: <ul>
1.232     jose     1491: <li><strong><a name=20c3></a>
                   1492: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/2003/">20th Chaos Communication Congress 2003</a></strong>,
                   1493: Dec 27 - 29, 2003, Berlin, Germany.<br>
                   1494: OpenBSD was represented by a booth, ran by
                   1495: <a href= "mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>, and supported by Henning and
1.236     jose     1496: Alexander von Gernler. Alexander also gave a
1.260     saad     1497: <a href="http://pestilenz.org/~grunk/vortraege/2003/20C3/openbsd.pdf">talk</a>
1.232     jose     1498: introducing the project and the OS (in German).
1.236     jose     1499: <p>
1.232     jose     1500:
1.228     jose     1501: <li><strong><a name=brazil2003></a>
1.236     jose     1502: <a href="http://bsdcon.myfreebsd.com.br">1st BSDCon Brazil</a></strong>,
1.228     jose     1503: Dec 6 - 7, 2003. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.<br>
                   1504: This was the first BSDCon Brazil, and of course OpenBSD was present.
1.236     jose     1505: Douglas Santos spoke on advocacy and about some of the technical aspects
                   1506: of OpenBSD. Eduardo A. Alvarenga gave a presentation about firewalling
1.228     jose     1507: with OpenBSD PF.
                   1508: <p>
                   1509:
                   1510: <li><strong><a name=ankara03></a>
                   1511: <a href="http://seminer.linux.org.tr">Association of Turkish Linux User</a></strong>,
                   1512: Dec 4, 2003, Ankara, Turkey.<br>
                   1513: Can Acar and Berk Demir gave a mammoth 4 hour presentation on OpenBSD.
                   1514: The first part was a broad introduction to the OpenBSD philosophy, the
1.236     jose     1515: project goals, and system features. After a break, in the second part they
                   1516: talked about the exploit mitigation techniques employed in OpenBSD. This
                   1517: part was aimed at techies and is almost a complete Turkish translation of
                   1518: the talk Theo recently gave in Japan. You can view the
1.281     canacar  1519: <a href="http://bdd.mindcast.org/slides/OpenBSD_3.12.2003.can-bdd.pdf">
1.236     jose     1520: slides in PDF format </a>
                   1521: (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     1522: <p>
                   1523:
1.227     jose     1524: <li><strong><a name=Luxembourg2003></a>
                   1525: <a href="http://www.linuxday.lu/">Linuxday Luxembourg 2003</a></strong>,
                   1526: Nov 6 - 8, 2003, Luxembourg, Luxembourg.<br>
                   1527: Booths were present, organized by <a href= "mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
                   1528: <p>
                   1529:
                   1530: <li><strong><a name=Pacsec2003></a>
                   1531: <a href="http://pacsec.jp/">Pacsec 2003</a></strong>,
1.410     wvdputte 1532: Nov 6 - 7, 2003, Tokyo, Japan.<br>
1.236     jose     1533: Three OpenBSD developers presented on various topics. Theo de Raadt
1.227     jose     1534: gave a presentation on Exploit Mitigation Techniques
1.236     jose     1535: <a href="papers/pacsec03/e/index.html">(English)</a>
                   1536: <a href="papers/pacsec03/j/index.html">(Japanese)</a>, Jun-ichiro
1.227     jose     1537: itojun Hagino presented material covering
1.236     jose     1538: <a href="http://www.itojun.org/paper/itojun-200311-pacsec-jp/">
1.241     david    1539: IPv6 security considerations</a>, and Jose Nazario discussed advances
1.227     jose     1540: in Internet worm defenses.
                   1541: <p>
                   1542:
1.224     miod     1543: <li><strong><a name=Lyon2003></a>
                   1544: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/agenda/journees/2003/">Les V<sup>&egrave;mes</sup> Journ&eacute;es du Libre 2003</a></strong>,
                   1545: Oct 31 - Nov 1, 2003, Lyon, France.<br>
                   1546: Miod Vallat gave a talk about the recent security efforts deployed in OpenBSD,
                   1547: as well as generic security concepts (slides, in bad French, are available in
                   1548: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/agenda/journees/2003/vallat/miod.mgp">mgp
                   1549: format</a>). As usual, Wim ran an OpenBSD booth featuring the new 3.4 release,
                   1550: as well as <a href="http://soekris.kd85.com">Soekris</a> hardware running
                   1551: OpenBSD.
                   1552: <p>
                   1553:
                   1554: <li><strong><a name=Saarbrucken2003></a>
                   1555: <a href="http://www.linux-kongress.org/2003/index.html">Linux Kongress Saarbr&uuml;cken 2003</a></strong>,
                   1556: Oct 14 - 16, 2003, Saarbr&uuml;cken, Germany.<br>
                   1557: An OpenBSD booth was present, starring Wim again.
                   1558: <p>
                   1559:
                   1560: <li><strong><a name=London2003></a>
                   1561: <a href="http://www.linuxexpo.org.uk/">Linux Expo London 2003</a></strong>,
                   1562: Oct 8 - 9, 2003, London, UK.<br>
                   1563: An OpenBSD booth was present, starring Wim as usual.
                   1564: <p>
                   1565:
1.219     jose     1566: <li><strong><a name=bsdcon2003></a>
                   1567: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/bsdcon03/">BSDCon '03</a></strong>,
                   1568: Sep 8 - 12, 2003, San Mateo, California.<br>
1.236     jose     1569: OpenBSD was represented in the BSD Status Report, and David Rosenthal
1.219     jose     1570: gave a talk on an OpenBSD based security appliance.
                   1571: <p>
                   1572:
1.218     jose     1573: <li><strong><a name=sucon2003></a>
                   1574: <a href="http://www.sucon.ch/">SUCON '03</a></strong>,
                   1575: Sep 5, 2003. Zurich, Switzerland.<br>
1.236     jose     1576: Daniel Hartmeier talked about PF, and <a
1.218     jose     1577: href="http://open.bsdcow.net/events/sucon2003/">pictures are available</a>.
                   1578: <p>
                   1579:
1.214     henning  1580: <li><strong><a name=camp2003></a>
                   1581: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/camp/">Chaos Communication Camp 2003</a></strong>,
1.216     jose     1582: Aug 7 - 10, 2003, in <a href="http://www.paulshof.de/body-mehr.html">a field</a> near Berlin Germany<br>
1.214     henning  1583: There was a huge OpenBSD village. Several OpenBSD developers have been there.
                   1584: <p>
                   1585:
1.213     jose     1586: <li><strong><a name=sec2003></a>
                   1587: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/sec03/">Usenix Security</a></strong>,
1.216     jose     1588: Aug 4 - 8, 2003, Washington, DC, USA.<br>
1.236     jose     1589: Niels Provos presented two papers on security advances originally
1.213     jose     1590: developed for OpenBSD, including the OpenSSH privsep feature and systrace.
                   1591: Several OpenBSD developers were there.
                   1592: <p>
                   1593:
1.211     jose     1594: <li><strong><a name=linuxtag2003></a>
                   1595: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.org/2003/en/index.html">LinuxTag 2003</a></strong>,
1.216     jose     1596: Jul 10 - 13, 2003, Karlsruhe Convention Center Germany<br>
1.211     jose     1597: Both OpenBSD and OpenSSH had booths in the main exhibit.
                   1598: <p>
                   1599:
                   1600: <li><strong><a name=lsm2003></a>
                   1601: <a href="http://libresoftwaremeeting.org/">Libre Software Meeting 2003</a></strong>,
1.216     jose     1602: Jul 9 - 12, 2003, Metz, France<br>
1.212     matthieu 1603: Matthieu Herrb gave <a href="papers/xf86-sec.pdf">a talk about XFree86 security</a>. There was
1.211     jose     1604: also an OpenBSD booth with developers.
                   1605: <p>
                   1606:
1.209     wvdputte 1607: <li><strong><a name=lud2003></a>
                   1608: <a href="http://www.linuxuserexpo.com/">Linux User & Developer Expo 2003</a></strong>,
1.216     jose     1609: Jun 24 - 26, 2003, at the NEC in Birmingham UK<br>
1.209     wvdputte 1610: There was an OpenBSD booth with developers.
                   1611: <p>
1.195     deraadt  1612:
1.202     jason    1613: <li><strong><a name=usenix2003></a>
1.236     jose     1614: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix03/">Usenix Annual Technical
1.216     jose     1615: Conference</a></strong>,
                   1616: Jun 9 - 14, 2003, San Antonio, Texas, USA<br>
1.202     jason    1617: A few OpenBSD developers were there and one paper was presented:
                   1618: <ul>
1.216     jose     1619: <li>The Design of the OpenBSD Cryptographic Framework<br>
1.202     jason    1620:     <a href="events.html#usenix2003">Usenix 2003</a>, by
1.236     jose     1621:     Angelos D. Keromytis,
                   1622:     Jason L. Wright, and
1.205     deraadt  1623:     Theo de Raadt.<br>
1.202     jason    1624:     <a href="papers/ocf.pdf">paper</a>.
                   1625: </ul>
                   1626: <p>
                   1627:
1.216     jose     1628: <li><strong>
                   1629: <a href="http://www.webb.it/">Webbit 2003</a></strong>,
                   1630: May 9 - 11, 2003, Padova, Italy<br>
1.203     jason    1631: Giacomo Cariello and Wim Vandeputte attended, and several OpenBSD
1.661     martynas 1632: <a href="http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20030503101052">related talks</a> were given.
1.203     jason    1633: <p>
                   1634:
1.216     jose     1635: <li><strong>
                   1636: <a href="http://cansecwest.com/">CanSecWest 03</a></strong>,
                   1637: Apr 9 - 11, 2003, Vancouver, Canada<br>
1.195     deraadt  1638: Theo spoke about killing buffer overflows using ProPolice and the new W^X technology,
1.196     matthieu 1639: available as a <a href="papers/csw03.mgp">magicpoint file</a>.
1.195     deraadt  1640: <p>
                   1641:
1.216     jose     1642: <li><strong>
                   1643: <a href="http://www.cebit.de/">CeBIT 2003</a></strong>,
                   1644: Mar 14, 2003, Hannover, Germany<br>
1.236     jose     1645: 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 1646: gave a talk on OpenBSD and OpenSSH. <a href="papers/cebit2003.tgz">slides</a> are available.
1.194     henning  1647: <p>
                   1648:
1.216     jose     1649: <li><strong>
                   1650: <a href="http://www.linuxforum.dk/2003/english/">LinuxForum 2003</a></strong>,
                   1651: Mar 1, 2003, Copenhagen<br>
1.236     jose     1652: Daniel spoke about PF (slides in <a href="papers/linuxforum2k3.tar.gz">mgp</a>,
                   1653: <a href="http://www.benzedrine.cx/linuxforum/">HTML</a>).
1.191     dhartmei 1654: It was a small but cozy conference, jointly held by Danish Linux and BSD
                   1655: user groups.
                   1656: <p>
                   1657:
1.236     jose     1658: <li><strong>
                   1659: <a href="http://www.cuug.ab.ca">CUUG - The Calgary Unix Users
1.216     jose     1660: Group</a></strong>,
                   1661: Feb 25, 2003, 18:00 MST, Calgary<br>
1.190     miod     1662: OpenBSD lead developer Theo de Raadt spoke about some of the recent
                   1663: changes in OpenBSD that are leading the way to the complete elimination of
                   1664: "buffer overflow" security risks and attacks.
                   1665: <p>
                   1666:
1.216     jose     1667: <li><strong>
                   1668: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/">FOSDEM 2003</a></strong>,
                   1669: Feb 8 - 9, 2003, Brussels<br>
1.236     jose     1670: Henning and Philipp gave a talk on -current PF developments
1.196     matthieu 1671: (<a href="papers/fosdem2k3-pf.mgp">slides</a>)
1.187     henning  1672: and on Saturday evening, there was an OpenBSD dinner for those interested.
                   1673: <p>
                   1674:
1.216     jose     1675: <li><strong>
                   1676: <a href="http://linuxsolutions.fr/FR/home/index.php?site=default">Linux Solutions</a></strong>,
                   1677: Feb 4 - 6, 2003, CNIT - Paris La Défense<br>
1.185     miod     1678: There was an OpenBSD booth with several OpenBSD developers, as well as 3.2 OpenBSD
1.413     grunk    1679: CD sets and T-shirts.
1.185     miod     1680: <p>
1.236     jose     1681: </ul>
1.185     miod     1682:
1.161     millert  1683: <h3>2002</h3>
1.236     jose     1684:
                   1685: <ul>
                   1686: <li><strong>
                   1687: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/2002/">19c3: the 19th CCC
1.216     jose     1688: Congress</a></strong>,
                   1689: Dec 27 - 29, 2002, Berlin<br>
1.236     jose     1690: There was a huge <a href="http://www.eurobsd.org/19c3">reserved space</a> for
                   1691: OpenBSD users and developers, a couple of -current test systems and for those
1.413     grunk    1692: curious, a first look at the 3.2 OpenBSD T-shirts.
1.184     wvdputte 1693: <p>
1.177     jason    1694:
1.216     jose     1695: <li><strong>
                   1696: <a href="http://2002.eurobsdcon.org/">BSDCon Europe 2002</a></strong>,
                   1697: Nov 15 - 17, 2002, Amsterdam, Netherlands<br>
1.181     henning  1698: OpenBSD people were there;
1.236     jose     1699: Philipp B&uuml;hler and Henning Brauer spoke about
1.182     ian      1700: <a href="papers/tuning-openbsd.ps">
                   1701: network performance tuning on OpenBSD</a>,
1.236     jose     1702: and Ian Darwin presented a
1.182     ian      1703: <a href="papers/eurobsd-firewalls-2002.pdf">
                   1704: tutorial on OpenBSD servers/firewalls</a>.
1.179     pb       1705: <p>
1.178     pb       1706:
1.216     jose     1707: <li><strong>
1.236     jose     1708: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa02/">LISA '02: 16th Systems
1.216     jose     1709: Administration Conference</a></strong>,
                   1710: Nov 3 - 8, 2002, Philadelphia, USA<br>
1.177     jason    1711: Mickey and Jason manned the booth at the vendor expo (the only BSD
                   1712: represented) and sold <a href="32.html">3.2</a> CDs, and Jason gave a BoF
                   1713: session on <a href="32.html">3.2</a> and future.
                   1714: <p>
                   1715:
1.216     jose     1716: <li><strong>
1.264     djm      1717: <a href="http://www.auug.org.au/events/2002/auug2002/">Australian Unix Users
                   1718: Group Winter Conference</a></strong>,
                   1719: Sep 1 - 6, 2002, Melbourne Australia<br>
                   1720: Damien Miller presented a tutorial on the
                   1721: <a href="papers/auug2002-ssh/index.html">SSH protocol</a> and
                   1722: <a href="papers/auug2002-ssh.ps">OpenSSH tips and tricks</a>.
                   1723: <p>
                   1724:
                   1725: <li><strong>
1.216     jose     1726: <a href="http://lsm.abul.org">The 3rd Libre Software Meeting</a></strong>,
                   1727: Jul 9 - 13, 2002, Bordeaux, France<br>
1.172     miod     1728: Several OpenBSD developers and users were attending the meeting, and
                   1729: Niels Provos presented his
                   1730: <a href="http://www.citi.umich.edu/u/provos/systrace">systrace</a>
                   1731: system call policy management tool.
1.174     nick     1732: <p>
1.172     miod     1733:
1.216     jose     1734: <li><strong>
                   1735: <a href="http://www.Webb.it">Webb.it 02</a></strong>,
                   1736: Jul 5 - 7, 2002, Padova, Italy<br>
1.171     ian      1737: OpenBSD developers had a booth selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
                   1738: <p>
                   1739:
1.216     jose     1740: <li><strong>
1.236     jose     1741: <a href="http://www.softwarelivre.rs.gov.br/forum">The Annual International
1.216     jose     1742: Free Software Forum</a></strong>,
                   1743: May 2 - 4, 2002, Porto Alegre-RS, Brazil<br>
1.236     jose     1744: Mainly a Linux/GNU event, but this year the BSD Operating Systems
                   1745: had a chance to prove their value.
1.169     horacio  1746: Edson Brandi spoke on FreeBSD, Diego Linke
1.236     jose     1747: on NetBSD, and Ricardo Nascimento Ferreira on OpenBSD.
1.169     horacio  1748: <p>
1.168     miod     1749:
1.216     jose     1750: <li><strong>
                   1751: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/bsdcon02/">BSDCON 2002</a></strong>,
                   1752: Feb 11 - 14, 2002, San Francisco, California, USA<br>
1.161     millert  1753: Todd Miller gave an update on current OpenBSD status and participated in a
1.162     millert  1754: BSD panel discussion.  The <a href="slides/bsdcon_2002/index.html">slides</a>
                   1755: are available.
1.161     millert  1756: <p>
                   1757:
1.216     jose     1758: <li><strong>
                   1759: <a href="http://www.linuxexpoparis.com">Linux expo Paris 2002</a></strong>,
                   1760: Jan 30 - Feb 1, 2002, Paris, France<br>
1.163     miod     1761: The french Linux Expo 2002 was quite small and as usual the OpenBSD booth ended
                   1762: up with others on the expo's side.  On the first day, almost all the merchandise
                   1763: was sold, and we have even sold older versions (2.9) the following days to
                   1764: people who wouldn't leave without a cd set in their hands...
                   1765: <p>
                   1766:
1.216     jose     1767: <li><strong>
                   1768: <a href="http://musess.mcmaster.ca/">MUSESS 2002</a></strong>,
                   1769: Jan 25 - 26, 2002, McMaster University, Ontario, Canada<br>
1.164     millert  1770: Louis Bertrand gave a presentation on OpenBSD titled
                   1771: <strong>Fix The Bugs, Secure The System</strong>.
                   1772: The <a href="slides/musess_2002/index.html">slides</a> are available.
                   1773: <p>
1.236     jose     1774: </ul>
1.164     millert  1775:
1.152     jakob    1776: <h3>2001</h3>
                   1777:
1.236     jose     1778: <ul>
1.216     jose     1779: <li><strong>
                   1780: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa01/">USENIX LISA 2001</a></strong>,
                   1781: Dec 2 - 7, 2001, San Diego, California, USA<br>
1.160     jufi     1782: Niels Provos gave a presentation, and there's been a booth selling
1.413     grunk    1783: T-shirts and 3.0 CDs.
1.160     jufi     1784: <p>
                   1785:
1.216     jose     1786: <li><strong>
                   1787: <a href="http://www.ietf.org/meetings/IETF-52.html">52nd IETF</a></strong>,
                   1788: Dec 9 - 14, 2001, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA<br>
1.160     jufi     1789: Angelos, Itojun &amp; Jakob were there.
                   1790: <p>
                   1791:
1.158     deraadt  1792: <li><strong>
1.236     jose     1793: <a href="http://www.disc2000.unam.mx/disc/index-ing.html">DISC
1.216     jose     1794: 2001</a></strong>,
                   1795: Nov 26 - 29, 2001, Mexico City, Mexico<br>
1.158     deraadt  1796: Once again, Theo de Raadt explained the security auditing process and
                   1797: subsequent secure configuration choices made in OpenBSD, in a talk
                   1798: entitled "Updated thoughts on writing a secure Operating System".
                   1799: <p>
                   1800:
1.216     jose     1801: <li><strong>
                   1802: <a href="http://www.linux.org.hk">LinuxCafe</a></strong>,
                   1803: Sep 15, 2001, Hong Kong, China<br>
1.156     provos   1804: Shell Hung gave an introduction for BSD and demonstration of OpenBSD to HKLUG.
                   1805: <p>
                   1806:
1.201     deraadt  1807: <li><strong>VPN Bakeoff</strong>,
1.216     jose     1808: Aug 13 - 18, 2001, Finland<br>
1.156     provos   1809: Jakob and Itojun were there.
                   1810: <p>
1.158     deraadt  1811:
1.150     wvdputte 1812: <li><strong>
1.215     nick     1813: <a href="http://www.hal2001.org">HAL 2001</a></strong>,
1.216     jose     1814: Aug 10 - 12, 2001, Twente, Netherlands<br>
1.153     jufi     1815: Quite a lot of developers were there, we even had our own tent.
                   1816: Niels, Rees and Dugsong held talks, more info on the main website
                   1817: for HAL2001. And of course T-Shirts and CDROMs were sold.
1.150     wvdputte 1818: <p>
1.137     aaron    1819:
                   1820: <li><strong>
1.236     jose     1821: <a href="http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon/">O'Reilly Open Source
1.216     jose     1822: Conference</a></strong>,
                   1823: Jul 23 - 27, 2001, San Diego, California, USA<br>
1.148     brian    1824: OpenBSD had a booth selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
                   1825: Ian Darwin presented his "Firewalls and Secure Internet Servers
                   1826: with OpenBSD" tutorial.
                   1827: <p>
                   1828:
                   1829: <li><strong>
1.201     deraadt  1830: <a href="http://www.defcon.org">DEF CON Nine</a></strong>,
1.216     jose     1831: Jul 13 - 15, 2001 Las Vegas, USA<br>
1.148     brian    1832: OpenBSD developers and users make it a point to attend every year,
                   1833: and had a table selling CD's, shirts, etc.
                   1834: <p>
                   1835:
                   1836: <li><strong>
1.236     jose     1837: <a href="http://www.sek.co.kr/sek2001/sek_html/main.htm">Software
1.216     jose     1838: Exhibition of Korea</a></strong>,
                   1839: Jun 26 - 29, 2001, Seoul, Korea<br>
1.146     krw      1840: urisecure/NDS sponsored an OpenBSD booth with CD's, posters,
                   1841: and a live demo of OpenBSD's IPSEC hardware acceleration.
                   1842: <p>
                   1843:
                   1844: <li><strong>
1.236     jose     1845: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix01/">2001 USENIX Annual
1.216     jose     1846: Technical Conference</a></strong>,
                   1847: Jun 25 - 30, 2001, Boston, USA<br>
1.146     krw      1848: OpenBSD developers were there, selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
                   1849: <p>
                   1850:
                   1851: <li><strong>
1.143     dugsong  1852: <a href="http://www.olymfair.org/eng/workshop.htm">Information
1.201     deraadt  1853: Security OlymFair</a></strong>,
1.216     jose     1854: May 16 - 18, 2001, Seoul, Korea<br>
1.143     dugsong  1855: Dug Song gave a detailed introduction to OpenBSD to the Korean
                   1856: security community.
                   1857: <p>
                   1858:
                   1859: <li><strong>
1.236     jose     1860: <a href="http://www.osdem.org/">2001 Open Source and Free Software
1.216     jose     1861: Developers' Meeting</a></strong>,
                   1862: Feb 3 - 4, 2001, Brussels, Belgium<br>
1.137     aaron    1863: There was an OpenBSD booth with some loose talks made.
                   1864: <p>
                   1865:
                   1866: <li><strong>
1.201     deraadt  1867: <a href="http://www.linuxexpoparis.com/">2001 Linux Expo</a></strong>,
1.216     jose     1868: Feb 1 - 2, 2001, Paris, France<br>
1.236     jose     1869: There was an OpenBSD booth in the 'F' area.
1.137     aaron    1870: <p>
1.236     jose     1871: </ul>
1.137     aaron    1872:
1.132     louis    1873: <h3>2000</h3>
                   1874:
1.236     jose     1875: <ul>
1.132     louis    1876: <li><strong>
1.236     jose     1877: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa2000/">LISA 2000, USENIX
1.216     jose     1878: Systems Administration Conference</a></strong>,
                   1879: Dec 3 - 8, 2000, New Orleans, USA<br>
1.134     jufi     1880: Wim Vandeputte and other volunteers have been running a sales table with
                   1881: shirts, posters and the brand new 2.8 CDs.
                   1882: <p>
                   1883:
                   1884: <li><strong>
1.215     nick     1885: <a href="http://www.disc2000.unam.mx/disc/index-ing.html">DISC 2000</a></strong>,
1.216     jose     1886: Nov 26 - Dec 1, 2000, Mexico City, Mexico<br>
1.133     deraadt  1887: Theo de Raadt explained the security auditing process and subsequent secure
                   1888: configuration choices made in OpenBSD, in a talk entitled "Secure by Default".
                   1889: Over the next few days, he also participated in two panels with various security
                   1890: experts who had flown in from around the world.  Following this, Theo climbed
1.151     jsyn     1891: one of the largest volcanoes, called Malinche.
1.133     deraadt  1892: <p>
                   1893:
                   1894: <li><strong>
1.236     jose     1895: <a href="http://www.nluug.nl/events/nj2000">NLUUG Najaarsconferentie
1.216     jose     1896: 2000</a></strong>,
                   1897: Nov 9, 2000, Ede, NL<br>
1.236     jose     1898: There was an OpenBSD booth where people dropped by for information or to
1.413     grunk    1899: get their T-shirts, polos, caps and 2.7 CDs.
1.13      deraadt  1900: <p>
1.4       millert  1901:
1.132     louis    1902: <li><strong><a name=ipsec2000></a>
1.236     jose     1903: <a href="http://www.upperside.fr/baipsecy2k.htm">IPsec 2000 Global
1.216     jose     1904: Summit</a></strong>,
                   1905: Oct 24 - 27, 2000, Paris La Defense, France<br>
1.159     miod     1906: Niels Provos ended the conference by speaking about the IPsec architecture
1.132     louis    1907: in OpenBSD. The talk was well received and many people were very interested
                   1908: about our cryptographic hardware acceleration.
                   1909:
                   1910: <ul>
1.236     jose     1911: <li>The IPsec Architecture in OpenBSD<br>
1.215     nick     1912:     <a href="#ipsec2000">IPsec 2000 Global Summit</a> by Niels Provos.<br>
1.132     louis    1913:     <a href="papers/ipsec-slides.ps">slides</a>.
                   1914: </ul>
1.4       millert  1915: <p>
1.132     louis    1916:
1.7       deraadt  1917: <li><strong>
1.201     deraadt  1918: <a href="http://ApacheCon.Com/2000/EU/">ApacheCon Europa 2000</a></strong>,
1.216     jose     1919: Oct 23 - 25, 2000, London, UK<br>
1.132     louis    1920: There was an OpenBSD booth where people could drop by for information and
                   1921: a chat with the local OpenBSD personnel. We also had the essentials for
1.413     grunk    1922: your wardrobe (T-shirts, polos, caps), for your hardware (2.7 CDs) and for your
1.132     louis    1923: mind (drinks afterwards).
                   1924: <p>
                   1925:
1.216     jose     1926: <li><strong>
                   1927: <a href="http://www.bsdcon.com/">BSD Con 2000</a></strong>,
                   1928: Oct 18 - 20, 2000, Monterey, CA, USA<br>
1.132     louis    1929: David Terrell ran an OpenBSD booth selling T-shirts and CDs and answering
                   1930: questions.
1.32      deraadt  1931: <p>
1.1       deraadt  1932:
1.132     louis    1933: <li><strong><a name=opensource2000></a>
1.236     jose     1934: <a href="http://www.opensource-forum.com/konferens">The Open Source
1.216     jose     1935: Revolution</a></strong>,
                   1936: Oct 5, 2000, Stockholm, Sweden<br>
1.133     deraadt  1937: Theo de Raadt spoke about how user expectations for security out of the box
                   1938: have changed over the last years.
1.1       deraadt  1939: <p>
                   1940:
1.132     louis    1941: <li><strong><a name=sec2000></a>
1.216     jose     1942: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/sec2000/">Usenix Security</a></strong>,
                   1943: Aug 14 - 17, 2000, Denver, Colorado, USA<br>
1.132     louis    1944: Some OpenBSD developers were there and one paper was presented:
                   1945: <ul>
1.236     jose     1946: <li>Encrypting Virtual Memory<br>
1.132     louis    1947:     <a href="#sec2000">Usenix Security 2000</a>
1.205     deraadt  1948:     by Niels Provos.<br>
1.132     louis    1949:     <a href="papers/swapencrypt.ps">paper</a> and
                   1950:     <a href="papers/swapencrypt-slides.ps">slides</a>.
                   1951: </ul>
1.1       deraadt  1952: <p>
1.132     louis    1953:
1.10      provos   1954: <li><strong>
1.201     deraadt  1955: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-8-post.html">Defcon 2000</a></strong>,
1.216     jose     1956: Jul 28 - 30, 2000, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.236     jose     1957: Kjell Wooding (our IPF maintainer), James Phillips from the
1.132     louis    1958: <a href="http://www.deadly.org">OpenBSD Journal</a>, and Theo de Raadt
1.413     grunk    1959: had a table and were selling OpenBSD CDROMs, T-shirts, and posters on
1.132     louis    1960: Friday and Saturday.  Hordes of people visited our table and we at the
                   1961: end we were completely sold out of CDROMS and shirts (allowing us to go
                   1962: check out Hoover Dam's hardhat tour on Sunday and leave the madness behind).
                   1963: <br>
                   1964: We were completely amazed at the people who stopped by our table, to say
                   1965: that they were relying on OpenBSD.
                   1966: <p>
1.32      deraadt  1967:
1.132     louis    1968: <li><strong>
1.236     jose     1969: <a href="http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon2000/">O'Reilly Open Source
1.216     jose     1970: Conference 2000</a></strong>,
                   1971: Jul 17 - 20, 2000, Monterey, California, USA<br>
                   1972: Ian Darwin presented a <a href="papers/oreilly2000/">tutorial</a> on
1.132     louis    1973: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/w/bsd_tutorials.html">
                   1974: Secure Internet Servers/Firewalls with OpenBSD</a>, and bravely
                   1975: manned the OpenBSD booth for the remainder of the show.
                   1976: Kjell Wooding took part in a panel discussion on the Future of the BSDs,
                   1977: and spoke about
                   1978: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/w/bsd_presentations.html">
1.241     david    1979: Secure By Default.</a> Both sessions were well attended, and at least
1.132     louis    1980: one Linux sysadmin was seen racing for a keyboard, scared look in his eyes,
1.236     jose     1981: after the security talk.
1.3       provos   1982: <p>
1.132     louis    1983:
1.6       deraadt  1984: <li><strong>
1.201     deraadt  1985: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.de/2000/english/">LinuxTag 2000</a></strong>,
1.216     jose     1986: Jun 29 - Jul 2, 2000, Stuttgart, Germany<br>
1.132     louis    1987: There was a BSD booth where we had the first <a href="27.html">OpenBSD 2.7 CDs</a> for Europe
                   1988: and the new blue stitchwork <a href="tshirts.html#11">Blowfish Polo</a> shirt.
                   1989: <br>
                   1990: Christian Weisgerber gave a
                   1991: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.de/2000/english/conference/talks.php3?ID=3">talk
                   1992: on BSD</a>.
1.32      deraadt  1993: <p>
1.1       deraadt  1994:
1.216     jose     1995: <li><strong><a name=usenix2000></a>
1.236     jose     1996: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix2000/">Usenix Annual Technical
1.216     jose     1997: Conference.</a></strong>,
                   1998: Jun 18 - 23, 2000, San Diego, California, USA<br>
1.132     louis    1999: Almost 20 OpenBSD developers showed up for the 25th anniversary of Usenix.
                   2000: We had a vendor booth, as well as a number of papers being presented.
                   2001: Conference attendees had the opportunity to test drive the new release,
                   2002: OpenBSD 2.7, on the 30 workstations in the terminal room.  For the first
                   2003: time ever, the terminal room and wavelan networks also had a IPv6 connection,
1.147     jason    2004: and some users even discovered so by themselves.
1.132     louis    2005: Theo also held a BoF on the Wednesday evening, after which the developers
                   2006: had almost too much singing in foreign languages with the help of helium.
                   2007: <ul>
                   2008:
                   2009: <li>Implementing Internet Key Exchange, IKE.<br>
                   2010:     <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
1.216     jose     2011:     by Angelos D. Keromytis, Niklas Hallqvist.<br>
1.132     louis    2012:     <a href="papers/ikepaper.ps">paper</a> and
                   2013:     <a href="papers/ikeslides.ps">slides</a>.
                   2014:
                   2015: <li>Transparent Network Security Policy Enforcement.<br>
                   2016:     <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
1.216     jose     2017:     by Angelos D. Keromytis, Jason L. Wright.<br>
1.132     louis    2018:     <a href="papers/bridgepaper.ps">paper</a> and
                   2019:     <a href="papers/bridgeslides.ps">slides</a>.
1.2       deraadt  2020:
1.132     louis    2021: <li>Safety Checking of Kernel Extensions.<br>
                   2022:     <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
1.205     deraadt  2023:     by Craig Metz.
1.132     louis    2024: </ul>
1.2       deraadt  2025: <p>
                   2026:
1.132     louis    2027: <li><strong>
1.236     jose     2028: <a href="http://www.manlug.mcc.ac.uk/calendar.html">OpenBSD: The Open
1.216     jose     2029: Source Secure Operating System</a></strong>,
                   2030: Jun 17, 2000, 14:00. Manchester, UK<br>
1.132     louis    2031: Sam Smith gave a rundown of features coming in OpenBSD 2.7 and
                   2032: OpenSSH 2.1. His <a href="http://www.manlug.mcc.ac.uk/20000617/">slides</a>
                   2033: are available from the user group's site.
1.1       deraadt  2034: <p>
1.2       deraadt  2035:
1.132     louis    2036: <li><strong>
1.216     jose     2037: <a href="reprints/crypto2000.html">OpenBSD Crypto 2000 conference</a></strong>,
                   2038: Jun 15 - 20, 2000, Calgary, AB, Canada<br>
1.132     louis    2039: Repeating the tradition of a similar meeting held last year, many
                   2040: OpenBSD developers from around the world converged on Calgary
                   2041: for a weekend long hack-and-drink session.  As before, the event
                   2042: was invitation only.  Many significant things got done, including
                   2043: ipv6 + ipsec running over hardware crypto devices.
1.1       deraadt  2044: <p>
1.11      jkatz    2045:
1.17      deraadt  2046: <li><strong>
1.201     deraadt  2047: <a href="http://www.converge2000.com">CONVERGENCE 2000</a></strong>,
                   2048: May 18, 2000. Convention Centre, Calgary, Alberta, Canada<br>
1.132     louis    2049: Theo de Raadt participated in a panel discussion about the pros and cons
                   2050: of using Open Source software in various business environments.  The local
                   2051: users also handed out OpenSSH and OpenBSD posters, and were absolutely
                   2052: surprised and amazed by the number of Calgary companies quietly using
                   2053: OpenBSD.
1.21      pattonme 2054: <p>
1.17      deraadt  2055:
1.23      niklas   2056: <li><strong>
1.216     jose     2057: <a href="http://www.cansecwest.com/">CanSecWest</a></strong>,
                   2058: May 10 - 12, 2000. Robson Conference Centre, Vancouver, BC, Canada<br>
1.132     louis    2059: Theo de Raadt spoke about why programmers keep making the same stupid mistakes,
                   2060: what types of efforts might improve this, and how this all relates to auditing
1.375     grunk    2061: efforts.
                   2062: Rain Forest Puppy, Ron Gula (Network Security Wizards), Ken Williams (E&amp;Y),
1.216     jose     2063: Marty Roesch (snort/HiverWorld), and Fyodor (nmap) were among the other speakers
1.132     louis    2064: at this event.  (On a personal note: at this conference Theo realized that three
                   2065: leading Network Intrusion Detection System companies use OpenBSD as their
                   2066: base operating system: Hiverworld, Network Security Wizards, and NFR).
1.32      deraadt  2067: <p>
1.25      deraadt  2068:
1.132     louis    2069: <li><strong>
                   2070: <a href="http://www.zdevents.com/comdex/spring2000/">Linux Business Expo /
1.201     deraadt  2071: COMDEX Spring 2000</a></strong>,
                   2072: Apr 19, 2000, Chicago, IL, USA<br>
1.216     jose     2073: Louis Bertrand represented OpenBSD at a BSD BOF with FreeBSD/BDSI,
1.132     louis    2074: NetBSD and Apple (Darwin is BSD-derived). The BOF was attended by about
                   2075: 75 people, many of whom were new to *BSD. It was an opportunity to
                   2076: explore future cooperation among the various BSD groups and companies.
1.25      deraadt  2077: <p>
1.23      niklas   2078:
1.31      deraadt  2079: <li><strong>
1.236     jose     2080: <a href="http://www.nordu.org/NordU2000/">NordU 2000 -- The second
1.216     jose     2081: EurOpen/USENIX Conference</a></strong>,
                   2082: Feb 8 - 11, 2000. Malmo, Sweden<br>
1.140     jufi     2083: About 15 OpenBSD team members attended.
1.132     louis    2084: OpenBSD CDs and shirts were sold at a booth donated by the conference.<br>
                   2085: As well, Theo de Raadt gave an invited talk on Wednesday morning
                   2086: about why software quality/security suffers, and what we can do to
                   2087: improve it.
1.32      deraadt  2088: <p>
1.31      deraadt  2089:
1.201     deraadt  2090: <li><strong>BSD BOF session, LinuxWorld Expo</strong>,
1.216     jose     2091: Feb 3, 2000, New York, USA<br>
1.132     louis    2092: Representatives from OpenBSD, BSDi, and FreeBSD hosted a
                   2093: &quot;Birds Of a Feather&quot; session at the <a
                   2094: href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/">New York LinuxWorld Expo</a>.<br>
                   2095: There were installation CD-ROMs, free food, and even free Daemon Horns!
1.33      niklas   2096: <p>
1.236     jose     2097: </ul>
1.33      niklas   2098:
1.132     louis    2099: <h3>1999</h3>
1.36      niklas   2100:
1.236     jose     2101: <ul>
1.216     jose     2102: <li><strong>The Bazaar</strong>,
                   2103: Dec 14 - 16, 1999, New York, New York, USA<br>
1.132     louis    2104: Wes Sonnenreich and Tom Yates presented a tutorial on building
1.216     jose     2105: firewalls with OpenBSD. BoF of open source BSDs took place.
1.413     grunk    2106: 2.6 release CDROMs and T-shirts were sold.
1.132     louis    2107: Emphatic interest has been shown by representatives from press, international
                   2108: government and military institutions.
1.45      jason    2109: <p>
                   2110:
1.216     jose     2111: <li><strong><a name=lisa99></a>
1.236     jose     2112: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa99/">13th Systems Administration
1.216     jose     2113: Conference (LISA 99)</a></strong>,
                   2114: Nov 7 - 12, 1999, Seattle, Washington, USA<br>
1.132     louis    2115: Bob Beck presented a paper about the U of A's nifty OpenBSD based
                   2116: solution to the problem of public Ethernet jacks in the technical sessions
                   2117: starting at 11:00 AM on the 11th.<br>
                   2118: There were many other OpenBSD
                   2119: people at this conference as well, as well as a booth selling CDROMs and
1.413     grunk    2120: T-shirts.  His paper is available at:
1.132     louis    2121:
                   2122: <ul>
                   2123: <li>Dealing with Public Ethernet Jacks-Switches, Gateways, and Authentication.<br>
1.236     jose     2124:     <a href="events.html#lisa99">LISA 1999</a>,
1.206     david    2125:     by Bob Beck.<br>
1.236     jose     2126:     <a href="papers/authgw-paper.ps">paper</a> and
                   2127:     <a href="papers/authgw-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132     louis    2128: </ul>
                   2129: <p>
                   2130:
                   2131: <li><strong>
1.201     deraadt  2132: IP-dagarna 1999</strong>,
1.216     jose     2133: Oct 27 - 28, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden<br>
1.132     louis    2134: H&aring;kan Olsson &amp; Jakob Schlyter spoke at the DNSSEC session on the 27th.
                   2135: <p>
                   2136:
                   2137: <li><strong>
1.236     jose     2138: <a href="http://www.opensource-forum.com/konferens/">Linux &amp; Open Source
1.216     jose     2139: Software '99</a></strong>,
                   2140: Oct 21, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)<br>
1.132     louis    2141: Niklas Hallqvist spoke on the topic of how to use
1.236     jose     2142: <a
1.375     grunk    2143: href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&amp;sektion=4">IPsec</a> for securing communications.
1.132     louis    2144: <p>
                   2145:
                   2146: <li><strong>
1.236     jose     2147: <a href="http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference">Reflections/Projections
1.216     jose     2148: 1999</a></strong>,
                   2149: Oct 8 - 10, 1999, Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA<br>
1.132     louis    2150: Theo de Raadt spoke at 10:00am on the 9th.  Other OpenBSD
                   2151: developers from the east coast attended as well.
                   2152: <p>
                   2153:
1.236     jose     2154: <li><strong><a name="ipsec99"></a>
1.216     jose     2155: IPsec Interoperability tests</strong>,
                   2156: Sep 27 - 30, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)<br>
1.236     jose     2157: A dozen vendors, among them OpenBSD, tested more than 15
1.375     grunk    2158: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&amp;sektion=4">IPsec</a>
1.132     louis    2159: products, both gateways and hosts, for interoperability.  The tests
                   2160: were successful as far as general IPsec and pre-shared key
                   2161: authentication went, OpenBSD interoperated with everyone, but due to
                   2162: time constraints we never got to test the certificate support
                   2163: appropriately.  The results were presented later that fall at a
                   2164: conference in Stockholm.
                   2165: <p>
                   2166:
                   2167: <li><strong>
1.236     jose     2168: <a href="http://www.auug.org.au/winter/auug99">AUUG'99</a></strong>,
1.216     jose     2169: Sep 8 - 11, 1999, Melbourne, Australia<br>
1.132     louis    2170: Theo de Raadt gave two talks on "quality of software" related issues
                   2171: and participated on a panel about how open source projects are
                   2172: coordinated.
                   2173: <p>
                   2174:
                   2175: <li><strong>
1.236     jose     2176: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/sec99/index.html">Usenix
1.216     jose     2177: Security</a></strong>,
                   2178: Aug 23 - 26, 1999, Washington, DC, USA<br>
1.132     louis    2179: Many OpenBSD people from the east coast showed up and sold CDs and
                   2180: shirts.  It was pretty clear from discussions that many people were
                   2181: very aware of OpenBSD, and that OpenBSD was being used in very
                   2182: significant security roles.
                   2183: <p>
                   2184:
                   2185: <li><strong>
1.236     jose     2186: <a href="http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/99jul/index.html">45th IETF
1.216     jose     2187: meeting</a></strong>,
                   2188: Jul 12 - 16, 1999, Oslo, Norway<br>
1.132     louis    2189: A number of OpenBSD team members from all over the world were at this
                   2190: conference. In addition to attending the IPsec and DNS working groups (among
                   2191: others) we did IPsec/IKE interoperability testing together with
1.166     miod     2192: the Japanese KAME project. Also, Angelos D. Keromytis did a presentation on
1.132     louis    2193: his work with keynote and isakmpd in OpenBSD.
                   2194: <p>
1.45      jason    2195:
1.132     louis    2196: <li><strong>
1.236     jose     2197: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-6.html">Defcon 6.0</a></strong>,
1.216     jose     2198: Jul 9 - 11, 1999, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132     louis    2199: At this conference, the OpenBSD team sold 100 or so 2.5 release CDROMs
1.413     grunk    2200: and a TON of T-shirts.
1.46      deraadt  2201: <p>
1.132     louis    2202:
1.236     jose     2203: <li><strong><a name="usenix99"></a>
                   2204: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix99/index.html">
1.216     jose     2205: Usenix Annual Technical Conference</a></strong>,
                   2206: Jun 6 - 11, 1999, Monterey, California, USA<br>
1.106     jufi     2207: The <a href="http://www.usenix.org">USENIX Association</a>
1.46      deraadt  2208: provided The OpenBSD Project with a grant to underwrite the production
1.106     jufi     2209: of CDs of OpenBSD 2.5.  (We distributed the
                   2210: release for free to attendees of the USENIX Annual Conference in
1.46      deraadt  2211: June.)
1.132     louis    2212: <br>
1.46      deraadt  2213: Usenix team members were involved in the authoring and
1.132     louis    2214: presentation of 4 OpenBSD-related papers:
                   2215:
1.375     grunk    2216: <a name="anoncvs_paper"></a>
1.46      deraadt  2217: <ul>
1.66      deraadt  2218: <li>Opening the Source Repository with Anonymous CVS.<br>
1.236     jose     2219:     <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216     jose     2220:     by Charles D. Cranor, Theo de Raadt.<br>
1.236     jose     2221:     <a href="papers/anoncvs-paper.ps">paper</a> and
                   2222:     <a href="papers/anoncvs-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132     louis    2223: <br>
1.66      deraadt  2224: <li>A Future-Adaptable Password Scheme.<br>
1.236     jose     2225:     <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216     jose     2226:     by Niels Provos, David Mazieres.<br>
1.236     jose     2227:     <a href="papers/bcrypt-paper.ps">paper</a> and
                   2228:     <a href="papers/bcrypt-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132     louis    2229: <br>
1.66      deraadt  2230: <li>Cryptography in OpenBSD: An Overview.<br>
1.236     jose     2231:     <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216     jose     2232:     by Theo de Raadt, Niklas Hallqvist, Artur Grabowski,
                   2233:     Angelos D. Keromytis, Niels Provos.<br>
1.236     jose     2234:     <a href="papers/crypt-paper.ps">paper</a> and
                   2235:     <a href="papers/crypt-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132     louis    2236: <br>
1.66      deraadt  2237: <li>strlcpy and strlcat -- consistent, safe, string copy and concatenation.<br>
1.236     jose     2238:     <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216     jose     2239:     by Todd C. Miller, Theo de Raadt.<br>
1.236     jose     2240:     <a href="papers/strlcpy-paper.ps">paper</a> and
                   2241:     <a href="papers/strlcpy-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132     louis    2242: </ul>
1.66      deraadt  2243: <p>
1.46      deraadt  2244:
1.51      deraadt  2245: <li><strong>
1.236     jose     2246: <a href="http://www.linuxexpo.org">5th Annual Linux Expo</a></strong>,
1.216     jose     2247: May 18 - 22, 1999, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA<br>
1.132     louis    2248: Some OpenBSD team members were at this conference selling OpenBSD 2.5 CDs,
                   2249: OpenBSE T-shirts, as well as Blowfish T-shirts, which sold out very quickly
                   2250: at a table donated by the Expo.  OpenBSD was the only BSD represented at the
                   2251: vendor exposition, and we had good chance to present a secure alternative
                   2252: to Linux.
1.51      deraadt  2253: <p>
                   2254:
1.53      jakob    2255: <li><strong>
1.236     jose     2256: <a href="http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/99mar/index.html">44th IETF
1.216     jose     2257: meeting</a></strong>,
                   2258: Mar 15 - 19, 1999, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA<br>
1.132     louis    2259: Some OpenBSD team members were at this conference, in particular our
                   2260: IPSEC developers.
1.53      jakob    2261: <p>
                   2262:
1.132     louis    2263: <li><strong>
1.236     jose     2264: <a href="http://www.europen.se/NordU99">NordU99 -- The first
1.216     jose     2265: EurOpen/USENIX Conference</a></strong>,
                   2266: Feb 9 - 12, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden<br>
1.132     louis    2267: A couple of OpenBSD team members were there and some of the swedish user
                   2268: society as well.  OpenBSD CDs were sold at a booth and at the end of a
                   2269: security talk, the project got applauded for its continuous strive of auditing
                   2270: security sensitive parts of the system.
1.59      deraadt  2271: <p>
1.236     jose     2272: </ul>
1.59      deraadt  2273:
1.132     louis    2274: <h3>1998</h3>
1.59      deraadt  2275:
1.236     jose     2276: <ul>
1.132     louis    2277: <li><strong><a name=ipsec98></a>
1.690     nick     2278: IPsec/VPN Interoperability tests &amp; seminar</strong>,
                   2279: Dec 14, 1998, Stockholm, Sweden<br>
1.132     louis    2280: OpenBSD was represented as one of about a dozen
1.375     grunk    2281: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&amp;sektion=4">IPsec</a>
1.132     louis    2282: implementations who were tested for interoperability.  The tests were
                   2283: successful, both for the technology in general, and for OpenBSD in
                   2284: specific.  We managed to communicate encrypted with every vendor present,
                   2285: and to negotiate keys via IKE with everyone capable.
1.70      deraadt  2286: <p>
                   2287:
1.236     jose     2288: <li><strong><a name="lisaboston-98"></a>
1.690     nick     2289: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa98">LISA '98: 12th Systems Administration
1.216     jose     2290: Conference</a></strong>,
                   2291: Dec 6 - 11, 1998, Boston, Massachusetts<br>
1.132     louis    2292: More than 10 OpenBSD team members showed up.  By far, OpenBSD was the
                   2293: largest representative group from free software at the conference.
                   2294: Usenix gave us a table in the vendor area where we sold 2.4 CDROMs,
1.413     grunk    2295: 2.3 "wire-frame" T-shirts, and the new 2.4 embroidered
                   2296: "Because security matters..." T-shirts, polos, and sweaters.
1.132     louis    2297: An OpenBSD BOF was held one evening, led by Theo de Raadt.
                   2298: A PalmPilot schedule loader was at the membership booth, powered by OpenBSD.
                   2299: <br>
1.690     nick     2300: The terminal room ran OpenBSD 2.4 on 45 machines. Obviously trust in OpenBSD
                   2301: had increased since many people, normally wary of security problems of open
1.132     louis    2302: terminal rooms, were seen using the machines.
1.72      ho       2303: <p>
                   2304:
1.73      deraadt  2305: <li><strong>
1.690     nick     2306: <a href="http://www.disc.unam.mx/eventos_anteriores/disc98/">DISC - Seguridad en
1.217     jose     2307: C&oacute;mputo 98</a></strong>,
1.216     jose     2308: Nov 2 - 7, 1998, Mexico City<br>
1.132     louis    2309: Theo de Raadt gave a talk about security auditing, sponsored by
1.236     jose     2310: <a href="http://www.core-sdi.com">CORE SDI S.A.</a>, an Argentine
1.132     louis    2311: security auditing company who strongly believes in the future
1.236     jose     2312: of OpenBSD. (<a href="papers/mexico98-slides.ps">Slides are available</a>).
1.131     jufi     2313: <p>
1.73      deraadt  2314:
1.236     jose     2315: <li><strong>IP-dagarna</strong>,
1.690     nick     2316: Oct 29, 30 1998, Stockholm, Sweden<br>
1.132     louis    2317: At this conference, entirely devoted to IP, Niklas Hallqvist from the
                   2318: OpenBSD team held a talk on the IKE (a.k.a ISAKMP/Oakley) key management
                   2319: protocol and experiences from the implementation of <strong>isakmpd</strong>,
                   2320: an IKE implementation funded by Ericsson Radio Systems and developed
                   2321: primarily for the OpenBSD IPSEC stack.
1.79      deraadt  2322: <p>
1.73      deraadt  2323:
1.690     nick     2324: <li><strong>NCEE '98</strong>,
1.216     jose     2325: Oct 9 - 10, 1998, Auburn, Maine, USA<br>
1.132     louis    2326: An extensive after-action report was sent to advocacy@openbsd.org. While
1.151     jsyn     2327: sales of shirts and CDROMs left much to be desired, we did have good
1.132     louis    2328: opportunities to further project visibility and highlight its strengths.
1.80      deraadt  2329: <p>
                   2330:
1.93      louis    2331: <li><strong>
1.690     nick     2332: <a href="http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference/1998/">Reflections/Projections
1.216     jose     2333: 1998</a></strong>,
1.236     jose     2334: Oct 2 - 4, 1998, Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA<br>
1.132     louis    2335: Theo de Raadt spoke in a panel about Open/Free software with Eric
                   2336: Raymond and others.
1.93      louis    2337: <p>
                   2338:
1.216     jose     2339: <li><strong>
1.690     nick     2340: <a href="http://press.oreilly.com/pub/pr/797">O'Reilly and
1.236     jose     2341: Associates Open Source Developer Days</a></strong>,
1.216     jose     2342: Aug 21, 1998, San Jose, California, USA<br>
1.132     louis    2343: OpenBSD team members were on-hand to discuss OpenBSD's role among the
1.413     grunk    2344: other free software projects available. They also sold some CDs and T-shirts.
1.96      deraadt  2345: <p>
                   2346:
1.236     jose     2347: <li><strong><a name="defcon98"></a>
1.690     nick     2348: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-6/defcon-6.html">Defcon 6.0</a></strong>,
1.216     jose     2349: Jul 31 - Aug 2, 1998, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132     louis    2350: The router to the outside world was an OpenBSD 2.3 box.  It was involved
                   2351: in a "capture the flag" competition in which an entire room of crackers
                   2352: attempted to break into it and machines running other operating systems.
                   2353: The OpenBSD box was not broken into.
                   2354: <br>
                   2355: Almost 100 OpenBSD 2.3 CDROMs were sold (we ran out again).  The primates
1.236     jose     2356: at <a href="http://www.monkey.org">monkey.org</a> brought 2.3
1.413     grunk    2357: &quot;wire-frame&quot; OpenBSD T-shirts to the conference and sold almost
1.132     louis    2358: 200 of them.  The proceeds from the sales were donated to the OpenBSD project.
1.96      deraadt  2359: <p>
1.94      deraadt  2360:
1.690     nick     2361: <li><strong><a href="http://www.blackhat.com/html/bh-usa-98/bh2-index.html">BlackHat Sessions</a></strong>,
1.216     jose     2362: Jul 29 - 30, 1998, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132     louis    2363: Theo de Raadt presented a talk entitled
                   2364: "Auditing software for security" about the OpenBSD security auditing
                   2365: team's process and the lessons the team learned.  The talk concentrated
                   2366: on how our process fixes bugs -- not just holes -- since one never knows
                   2367: when 5 bugs will act together to become a hole.
1.99      deraadt  2368: <p>
                   2369:
1.236     jose     2370: <li><strong><a name="usenix-neworleans"></a>
                   2371: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/usenix98/index.html">Usenix Annual Technical Conference</a></strong>,
1.216     jose     2372: Jun 15 - 19, 1998, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA<br>
1.132     louis    2373: At Usenix 1998 there was a strong OpenBSD presence both in the Freenix
                   2374: and normal tracks.  Theo did a general talk about what the OpenBSD
                   2375: project offers.  Angelos held a panel about IPSEC (which is quite an
                   2376: OpenBSD topic since IPSEC development at that time was so much further
                   2377: ahead in OpenBSD than anywhere else).
                   2378: <br>
                   2379: The terminal room PCs ran OpenBSD 2.3.  We sold many CDROMs.  The
1.413     grunk    2380: first style of OpenBSD T-shirt also sold quite well.
1.101     wvdputte 2381: <p>
                   2382:
1.105     wvdputte 2383: <li><strong>
1.236     jose     2384: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/sec98/index.html">Usenix Security</a></strong>,
1.216     jose     2385: Jan 26 - 29, 1998, San Antonio, Texas, USA<br>
1.132     louis    2386: At this conference, Theo presented an evening talk which basically
                   2387: turned into a list of fixed security problems and cautionary tales about
                   2388: subsystems in which future problems may be encountered
1.236     jose     2389: (<a href="papers/security98-slides.ps">slides available</a>).
1.105     wvdputte 2390: <br>
1.132     louis    2391: The terminal room PCs ran OpenBSD 2.2.
                   2392: <p>
1.236     jose     2393: </ul>
1.105     wvdputte 2394:
1.132     louis    2395: <h3>1997</h3>
1.107     deraadt  2396:
1.236     jose     2397: <ul>
1.113     deraadt  2398: <li><strong>
1.236     jose     2399: <a href="http://www.hip97.nl">HIP</a></strong>,
1.216     jose     2400: Aug, 1997, Almere, Netherlands<br>
1.236     jose     2401: Niels held a
1.690     nick     2402: <a href="http://www.citi.umich.edu/u/provos/papers/hip97-tcpip.html">talk</a>
1.132     louis    2403: about the problems of unencrypted TCP/IP connections, offering IPSEC as
                   2404: possible solution.
1.113     deraadt  2405: <p>
1.132     louis    2406:
1.236     jose     2407: <li><strong>HOPE</strong>,
1.216     jose     2408: Aug, 1997, New York, New York, USA<br>
1.166     miod     2409: The terminal room consisted primarily of DECstations running
1.690     nick     2410: OpenBSD 2.1.  Once again, the <a href="http://www.lopht.com/">L0phT</a>
1.132     louis    2411: people had very good things to say about our security.
1.113     deraadt  2412: <p>
1.105     wvdputte 2413:
1.236     jose     2414: <li><strong><a name="defcon5"></a>
1.690     nick     2415: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-5/defcon-5.html">Defcon V</a></strong>,
1.216     jose     2416: Jul 11 - 13, 1997, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132     louis    2417: At this conference, the OpenBSD team sold 100 or so 2.1 release CDROMs.
                   2418: <br>
                   2419: Since this is the primary security conference, many speakers said very
1.140     jufi     2420: good things about our stance on security... particularly people like
1.690     nick     2421: <a href="http://www.lopht.com">the L0phT</a>.
1.118     deraadt  2422: <p>
                   2423:
1.125     deraadt  2424: <li><strong>
1.236     jose     2425: <a
                   2426: href="http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/ana97/index.html">Usenix Annual Technical Conference</a></strong>,
1.216     jose     2427: Jan  6 - 10, 1997, Anaheim, California, USA.<br>
1.690     nick     2428: Theo de Raadt held a BOF ("Birds Of a Feather", i.e. a meeting of people
1.132     louis    2429: interested in the same thing) about OpenBSD.
1.236     jose     2430: </ul>
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