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1.236 jose 17: <h2><font color="#e00000">Events</font></h2>
18: OpenBSD developers, users and sponsors attend trade shows and conferences,
19: give papers, and organize "Birds Of a Feather" (BOF) sessions.
20: This is an opportunity to find out more about OpenBSD or just meet
1.165 ian 21: like-minded people.
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1.78 louis 39: <h2>Future events:</h2>
1.132 louis 40:
1.719 wvdputte 41:
42: <h3>2007</h3>
43:
44: <ul>
45: <p>
46:
47:
48: <li><strong><a name=24c3></a>
49: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/2007/">24C3 Chaos Communication Congress in
50: Berlin</a></strong>,
51: December 27 - 30, 2007, Berlin, Germany.<br>
52: This years motto is Volldampf voraus! (literally Full Steam Ahead)
53: <p>
54:
55: </ul>
56:
1.715 jdixon 57: <h3>2008</h3>
58:
59: <ul>
60: <p>
1.716 wvdputte 61: <li><strong><a name="Paris2008"></a>
62: <a href="http://www.solutionslinux.fr/fr/index.php">Solutions Linux 2008</a>
63: </strong>,
64: Jan 29 - 31, 2008, Paris, France.<br>
65: There will be an OpenBSD booth (for real this year) run by Marc Espie, Saad
66: Kadhi and Wim with help from many others.
67: <p>
1.715 jdixon 68:
69: <li><strong><a name="scale6x"></a>
70: <a href="http://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale6x/">Southern California Linux
71: Expo 6x</a></strong>,
72: Feb 8 - 10, 2008, Los Angeles, California, USA<br>
73: Jason Dixon will be presenting an overview of the high-availability
74: and failover capabilities found natively in OpenBSD. There will be an
75: OpenBSD booth with live demonstrations and CDs for sale.
76: <p>
77:
1.718 wvdputte 78: <p>
79: <li><strong><a name="vj08"></a>
80: <a href="http://www.nluug.nl/events/vj08">NLUUG spring conference 2008</a>
81: </strong>,
82: May 15, 2008, Ede, Netherlands.<br>
83: There will be an OpenBSD booth
84: <p>
85:
1.715 jdixon 86: </ul>
87:
1.719 wvdputte 88: <hr>
89:
90: <h2>Past events:</h2>
91:
1.588 espie 92: <h3>2007</h3>
93: <ul>
1.603 fkr 94:
1.721 jsg 95: <li><strong><a name="opencon2007"></a>
96: <a href="http://www.opencon.org/">OpenCON 2007</a></strong>
97: Nov 30 - Dec 2, 2007, Venice, Italy.<br>
98: OpenCON is the only conference dedicated solely to OpenBSD.
99: This edition was composed of one "tutorial day" and two days of conference.
100: Three days entirely dedicated to OpenBSD with a lot of developers and users.
1.722 jsg 101: Talks by OpenBSD developers were:
102: <p>
103: <ul>
104: <li>Jonathan Gray: <a href="papers/opencon07-complex/index.html">
105: Why are modern operating systems so complicated?</a>
1.723 ! jasper 106: <li>Reiner Jung and Jasper Lievisse Adriaanse: <a href="papers/opencon07-gnome.pdf">
! 107: Gnome as OpenBSD desktop solution</a>
1.722 jsg 108: </ul>
1.721 jsg 109: <p>
110:
1.716 wvdputte 111: <li><strong><a name="dulug2007"></a>
1.719 wvdputte 112: <a href="http://www.dulug.de/">Duisburger Linux User Group</a></strong>,
1.716 wvdputte 113: Nov 17, 2007, Duisburg, Germany<br>
1.719 wvdputte 114: Richard Verwayen gave a workshop on installing OpenBSD,
115: [<a href="http://www.dulug.de/cgi-bin/dcms.cgi?action=lit-17.11.07">pictures</a>]
1.716 wvdputte 116: <p>
117:
118: <li><strong><a name="essen2007"></a>
119: <a href="http://www.come2linux.org/psp/">Come 2 Linux 2007 Essen</a></strong>,
120: Nov 10 - 11, 2007, Essen, Germany<br>
121: The *BSD projects had an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth
122: <p>
123:
124: <li><strong><a name="nluug2007"></a>
125: <a href="http://www.nluug25.nl/en/index.php">NLUUG 25th anniversary</a></strong>,
126: Nov 7, 2007, Amsterdam, Netherlands<br>
127: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth with Wim, Otto, Floor and Kevin.
128: <p>
1.658 reyk 129:
1.714 jasper 130: <li><strong><a name="amsterdam2007"></a>
131: <a href="http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20071017100734&mode=expanded&count=20">Amsterdam user meeting Cafe De Deugniet</a></strong>,
132: Nov 2, 2007, Amsterdam, Netherlands<br>
133: Informal OpenBSD user meeting in Amsterdam, more info on Undeadly.org
134: <p>
135:
1.713 wvdputte 136: <li><strong><a name="uaoug2007"></a>
137: <a href="http://www.uaoug.org.ua/en/index.html">Ukrainian OpenBSD Users Group meeting</a></strong>,
138: Nov 1, 2007, Kyiv, Ukraine<br>
139: Sergey Prysiazhnyi, community co-ordinator, gave a talk about Driver
140: Architecture and OpenBSD using in Embedded Systems.
141: <a href= "http://www.atmnis.com/~apelsin/uaoug/u2k7_v3.0/talk/">[slides]</a>
142: <a href= "http://www.atmnis.com/~apelsin/uaoug/u2k7_v3.0/">[pictures]</a>
143: <a href= "http://www.atmnis.com/~apelsin/uaoug/u2k7_v3.0/video/talk.mp4">[video]</a>
144: <p>
145:
1.712 sthen 146: <li><strong><a name="cossfest2007"></a>
147: <a href="http://www.cossfest.ca/">COSSFEST 2007</a></strong>,
148: Oct 27, 2007, Calgary, Alberta,<br>
149: There was an OpenBSD booth present with 4.2 CDs.
150: <p>
151:
152: <li><strong><a name="systems2007"></a>
153: <a href="http://www.systems.de/">Systems</a></strong>,
154: Oct 23 - 26, 2007, Munich, Germany<br>
155: The *BSD projects had an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth in Halle B2 110-2, run by
156: DaN, Nikolay Sturm, Marco Pfatschbacher and some other volunteers.
157: <p>
158:
159: <li><strong><a name="bsdcontr2007"></a>
160: <a href="http://www.bsdcontr.org/">BSDConTR 2007</a></strong>
161: Oct 19 - 20, 2007, Rectorate of Marmara University, SultanAhmet, Istanbul,
162: Turkey.<br>
163: First Turkish Conference on BSD Systems.<br>
164: Marc Balmer talked about his work on support for radio clocks in
165: OpenBSD.<br>
166: Gökhan Alkan gave a talk "Spam protection with OpenBSD and PF".<br>
167: Huzeyfe Önal gave a talk "Advanced Security solutions in OpenBSD".
168: <br>
169: <p>
170:
1.708 aanriot 171: <li><strong><a name=aldil2007></a>
172: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/">Les Journées Du Logiciel Libre
173: 2007</a></strong>,
174: Oct 19 - 20, 2007, Lyon, France.<br>
175: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Damien Bergamini and
176: Alexandre Anriot with the help of Thierry Thomas.
177: <p>
178:
1.705 pvalchev 179: <li><strong><a name=rp2007></a>
180: <a href="http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference/2007/">Reflections/Projections
181: 2007</a></strong>,
182: Oct 12 - 14, 2007, Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA<br>
183: Peter Valchev gave a talk titled <a href="papers/rp2007-slides.pdf">
184: Using OpenBSD Security Features to Find Software Bugs</a>.
185: <p>
186:
187: <li><strong><a name=auug2007></a>
188: <a href="http://new.auug.org.au/AUUG2007">AUUG 2007</a></strong>,
189: Oct 13 - 14, 2007, Melbourne, Australia.<br>
190: Reyk Floeter talked about load balancing and TCP-relaying with hoststated.
191: There were developers, users, and an OpenBSD booth present.
192: <p>
193:
194: <li><strong><a name="t-dose2007"></a>
195: <a href="http://www.t-dose.org/">T-DOSE 2007</a></strong>,
196: Oct 13 - 14, 2007, Eindhoven, The Netherlands.<br>
197: Technical Dutch Open Source Event<br>
198: There were developers present as well as an OpenBSD booth,
199: run by the usual suspects.
200: <p>
201:
1.689 claudio 202: <li><strong><a name="openexpo2007"></a>
203: <a href="http://www.openexpo.ch/">OpenExpo 2007</a></strong>,
204: Sep 19 - 20, 2007, Zurich, Switzerland<br>
205: There were developers present as well as an OpenBSD booth,
206: run by the usual suspects. Stephan A. Rickauer gave a talk
207: "OpenBSD and Linux: Insights into a migration project at the Institute of
208: Neuroinformatics, ETH Zurich".<br>
209: <p>
210:
1.686 mbalmer 211: <li><strong><a name="eurobsdcon2007"></a>
212: <a href="http://2007.eurobsdcon.org/">EuroBSDCon 2007</a></strong>,
213: Sep 14 - 15, 2007, Copenhagen, Denmark.<br>
214: Marc Balmer gave a talk <a href="papers/eurobsdcon07/mbalmer-radio_clocks.pdf">
215: Support for Radio Clocks in OpenBSD</a>.<br>
1.702 pyr 216: Pierre-Yves Ritschard gave a talk <a href="papers/eurobsdcon07/pyr-loadbalancing">Load Balancing in OpenBSD Using hoststated</a>.<br>
1.688 claudio 217: Claudio Jeker gave a talk <a href="papers/eurobsdcon07/claudio-routing">
218: Using OpenBSD as Routing Platform</a>.<br>
1.686 mbalmer 219: Peter Hansteen offered "A Packet Filter Tutorial" on the tutorial day.<br>
220: There was an OpenBSD booth, run by the usual suspects.
221: <p>
222:
1.685 bernd 223: <li><strong><a name="linuxdayskiel2007"></a>
224: <a href="http://www.kieler-linuxtage.de">Kieler Linux und Open Source Tage</a></strong>,
225: Sep 07 - 08, 2007, Kiel, Germany<br>
226: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Bernd.
227: <p>
228:
1.686 mbalmer 229: <li><strong><a name="xds2007"></a>
230: <a href="http://www.x.org/wiki/Events/XDS2007">X.Org Developers' Summit 2007</a></strong>,
231: Sep 10 - 12, 2007, Cambridge, UK.<br>
232: Matthieu Herrb and Marc Balmer attended the 3-day summit to make sure the
233: *BSD point of view was well represented.
234: <p>
235:
1.684 bernd 236: <li><strong><a name="froscon2007"></a>
237: <a href="http://www.froscon.de">FrOSCon 2007</a></strong>,
238: Aug 25 - 26, 2007, Bonn/Rhein-Sieg, Germany<br>
239: There was an OpenBSD booth, run by the usual suspects.
240: <p>
241:
1.682 bernd 242: <li><strong><a name="summercamp2007"></a>
243: <a href="http://events.ccc.de/camp/2007">Chaos Communication Camp 2007</a>
244: </strong>,
245: Aug 8 - 12, 2007, Finowfurt, Germany<br>
246: This open air event had a big OpenBSD village with all the usual suspects.
247: <p>
248:
1.680 aanriot 249: <li><strong><a name="lsm2007"></a>
250: <a href="http://www.rmll.info">Libre Software Meeting 2007</a></strong>,
251: Jul 10 - 14, 2007, Amiens, France.<br>
1.681 aanriot 252: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Wim, Matthieu and
253: Alexandre with the help of Serge and Christelle.
1.680 aanriot 254: <p>
255:
1.675 mbalmer 256: <li><strong><a name=Slackathon2007></a>
257: <a href="http://www.slackathon.se/">Slackathon 2007</a>
258: </strong>,
259: June 16, 2007, Stockholm, Sweden.<br>
260: Yet another round of fund raising for OpenBSD/SSH and general *BSD meeting
261: that took place in Stockholm.
262: <p>
263:
264: <li><strong><a name="linuxtag2007"></a>
265: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.org/2007/en/">LinuxTag 2007</a>
266: </strong>,
267: May 30 - Jun 2, 2007, Berlin, Germany<br>
268: There were presentations by OpenBSD developers and an OpenBSD booth,
1.677 wvdputte 269: run by the usual suspects, and Stephan A. Rickauer held Peter Hansteen's PF
270: tutorial as well as the talk
271: <a href="http://www.ini.unizh.ch/~stephan/talks/LinuxTag07.pdf">
272: "OpenBSD and Linux: Insights into a migration project at the Institute of
273: Neuroinformatics, ETH Zurich"</a>.
1.675 mbalmer 274: <p>
275:
1.674 martin 276: <li><strong><a name=LinuxwochenVienna2007></a>
277: <a href="http://www.linuxwochen.at/2007/Wien">Linuxwochen Vienna 2007</a>
278: </strong>,
279: May 31 - Jun 2, 2007, Vienna, Austria.<br>
280: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth run by Martin Reindl, Robert Peichaer
281: and Teemu Schaabl.
282: <p>
283:
1.671 aanriot 284: <li><strong><a name=cuug2007></a>
285: <a href="http://www.cuug.ab.ca/">Calgary Unix Users Group</a></strong>,
286: May 29, 2007, downtown Library, basement meeting room, Calgary, Alberta.<br>
1.688 claudio 287: <a href="papers/cuug07-claudio/">Claudio Jeker</a>,
288: <a href="papers/cuug2007/">David Gwynne, Henning Brauer</a>,
1.673 mbalmer 289: Reyk Flöter, Matthieu Herrb, Marc Balmer, and Bob Beck discussed recent and
290: future networking changes in OpenBSD, as well as Xenocara, support for
291: radio clocks in OpenBSD, and Spam Reduction with OpenBSD spamd and greylisting.
1.672 henning 292: Some other OpenBSD developers attended to provide international colour.
1.671 aanriot 293: <p>
294:
1.670 ray 295: <li><strong><a name="bsdcan2007"></a>
296: <a href="http://www.bsdcan.org/2007/">BSDCan 2007</a></strong>,
297: May 16 - 19, 2007, Ottawa, Canada.<br>
298: Several OpenBSD developers were there.<br>
299: Peter Hansteen gave a "Packet filtering for fun and profit" tutorial and
300: presented a "Fighting malware and spam with free tools" talk.<br>
301: Ray Lai presented OpenCVS/OpenRCS and
302: discussed why a secure CVS implementation is needed.
303: <a href="papers/bsdcan07-cvs/">Slides</a> are available.<br>
304: Jason Dixon gave the closing session of BSDCan 2007.
305: <p>
306:
1.669 fkr 307: <li><strong><a name="confidence2007"></a>
308: <a href="http://2007.confidence.org.pl/">Confidence 2007</a></strong>,
309: May 12 - 13, 2007, Krakow, Poland.<br>
310: Felix, Henning and Wim gave presentations and ran the OpenBSD booth.
311: <p>
312:
1.666 michele 313: <li><strong><a name="obsdm2"></a>
314: <a href="http://www.openbeer.it/?open=obsdm2">OpenBSD Meeting V.2</a></strong>
315: May 12, 2007, Verona, Italy.<br>
316: Another event organized by the OpenBEER team with italian OpenBSD related talks.
317: Michele presented a talk about the OpenBSD network stack.
318: <p>
319:
320: <li><strong><a name="nluug2007"></a>
321: <a href="http://www.nluug.nl/events/vj07/index.html">NLUUG Voorjaarsconferentie
322: 2007</a></strong>,
323: May 10, 2007, Ede, Netherlands<br>
324: There was a
325: <a href="http://www.nluug.nl/events/vj07/abstracts/ab.html?id=2">presentation</a>
326: by Anil Madhavapeddy and an OpenBSD booth, run by the usual
327: suspects.
328: <p>
329:
1.665 mbalmer 330: <li><strong><a name="coimbra2007"></a>
331: <a href="http://www.openbsd-pt.com/eventos/coimbra07/index-en.html">Portuguese OpenBSD Usergroup Meeting</a></strong>,
332: May 5 - 6, 2007, Coimbra, Portugal.<br>
333: 7th Meeting of the Portuguese OpenBSD Usergroup.<br>
334: Marc Balmer gave a talk "Ensuring Quality in OpenBSD Without a Formal Process".<br>
335: Rui Reis gave a presentation "The Honeynet.PT project".<br>
1.667 pedro 336: Michael Shalayeff gave a talk "Asynchronous I/O".<br>
337: Also present was Pedro Martelletto.
1.665 mbalmer 338: <p>
339:
1.658 reyk 340: <li><strong><a name=decix6th></a>
341: <a href="http://www.de-cix.org/">DE-CIX 6th Technical Meeting</a></strong>,
342: Apr 19, 2007, Schloss Kransberg, near Usingen, Germany.<br>
343: Henning Brauer and Reyk Flöter talked at the 6th technical
344: meeting of the Deutsche Commercial Internet Exchange (DE-CIX).
345: Henning gave an update on OpenBGPD and Reyk about the latest
346: network-related changes since OpenBSD 4.1. They also talked about
347: the status of test OpenBGPD route server running at the DE-CIX.
348: <p>
349:
1.651 fkr 350: <li><strong><a name="litol07"></a>
351: <a href="http://www.lit-ol.de/">2. Linux-Informationstag Oldenburg</a></strong>,
352: Apr 14 - 15, 2007, Oldenburg, Germany.<br>
353: Small Open-Source event. Of course there was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth run by
1.659 fkr 354: Bernd, Felix and Tobias Stoeckmann. Felix gave a talk about the current state
355: of OpenBSD development titled <a href="papers/litol07/">OpenBSD - Past, Present and Future</a>.
1.651 fkr 356: <p>
1.650 deraadt 357:
358: <li><strong><a name="fisl8"></a>
359: <a href="http://fisl.softwarelivre.org/8.0/www/?q=en">fisl8.0</a></strong>,
360: Apr 12-14, 2007, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil.<br>
361: This was a fairly large conference in South America. Theo de Raadt
362: presented a talk about <a href="papers/brhard2007/">Hardware Documentation</a>.
363: <p>
364:
1.645 ray 365: <li><strong><a name="nycbug2007-cvs"></a>
366: <a href="http://nycbug.org/">NYC*BUG April 2007</a></strong>,
367: Apr 4, 2007, NYC, USA.<br>
368: Ray Lai (ray@) gave a
369: <a href="http://www.nycbug.org/index.php?NAV=Home;SUBM=10104">talk</a>
370: on OpenCVS.
1.648 ray 371: <a href="papers/nycbug07-cvs/">Slides</a> and
372: <a href="http://www.fetissov.org/public/nycbug/nycbug-04-04-07.mp3">audio</a>
373: are available.
1.645 ray 374: <p>
375:
1.638 grunk 376: <li><strong><a name="elite2007"></a>
377: <a href="http://www.erlug.de/?q=node/323">5. Erlanger Linuxtage</a></strong>,
378: Mar 24 - 25, 2007, Erlangen, Germany.<br>
379: There was an OpenBSD/OpenSSH booth, run by Alexander von Gernler (grunk@).
380: He also gave a talk called
1.639 grunk 381: <a href="papers/elite2007/elite2007-openbsd.pdf">
1.638 grunk 382: "Sichere Systeme mit OpenBSD" (german)</a>.
383: <p>
384:
1.635 tom 385: <li><strong><a name="ukuug2007"></a>
386: <a href="http://www.ukuug.org/events/spring2007/">UKUUG Spring 2007 Conference</a></strong>,
387: Mar 19 - 21, 2007, Manchester, United Kingdom<br>
388: Tom Cosgrove gave a presentation about "Third-Party Applications on OpenBSD"
389: at the annual spring meeting of the
390: <a href="http://www.ukuug.org/">UK's Unix and Open Systems User Group</a>.
391: <p>
392:
1.627 mcbride 393: <li><strong><a name="asiabsdcon2007"></a>
394: <a href="http://www.asiabsdcon.org/">AsiaBSDCon 2007</a></strong>,
395: Mar 8 - 11, 2007, Tokyo, Japan.<br>
1.631 mbalmer 396: Marc Balmer presented a paper <a href="papers/radio-clocks-asiabsdcon07.pdf">Supporting Radio Clocks in OpenBSD</a>. Presentation
397: <a href="papers/asiabsdcon07-radioclocks/index.html">slides</a> are also
398: available.<br>
1.627 mcbride 399: 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 400: Mathieu Sauve-Frankel gave a talk <a href="papers/asiabsdcon07-ipsec/index.html">Recent Improvements in OpenBSD's IPSec Support</a>.<br>
401: Damien Miller presented a paper <a href="papers/openssh-measures-asiabsdcon2007.pdf">Security measures in OpenSSH</a>. Presentation
1.628 djm 402: <a href="papers/openssh-measures-asiabsdcon2007-slides.pdf">slides</a> are
403: also available.<br>
1.627 mcbride 404: 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".
405: <p>
406:
1.622 fkr 407: <li><strong><a name="linuxforum2007"></a>
408: <a href="http://www.linuxforum.dk/2007/">LinuxForum 2007</a></strong>,
409: Mar 2 - 3, 2007, Copenhagen, Denmark.<br>
1.623 wvdputte 410: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth run by Wim, Bernd and Michael in the
1.633 tom 411: <a href="http://img.ba-net.org/LinuxForum2007/">best of circumstances</a>.
1.622 fkr 412: Felix gave a talk titled
413: <a href="papers/linuxforum07/index.html">OpenBSD - Past, Present and Future</a>.
414: <p>
415:
1.619 wvdputte 416: <li><strong><a name=Brussels2007></a>
417: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/2007/">FOSDEM Brussels 2007</a></strong>,
418: Feb 24 - 25, 2007, Brussels, Belgium.<br>
419: There was an an OpenBSD/OpenSSH booth with Matthieu, Marc, Mickey, Saad
420: and Wim. On Saturday we had our traditional BSD dinner.<br>
421: Matthieu gave a <a href="papers/fosdem07-xenocara.pdf">
422: talk on Xenocara</a> in the X.Org devroom.
423: <p>
1.616 wvdputte 424:
425: <li><strong><a name="kiberpipa2007"></a>
426: <a href="http://pot.kiberpipa.org">Kiberpipa open sessions</a></strong>,
427: February 20, 2007, Ljubljana, Slovenia.<br>
428: On that edition of weekly "Open sessions" meetings
429: <a href="http://www.kerberos.si">Mitja Muzenic</a> gave a
430: <a href="http://pot.kiberpipa.org/?p=39">talk</a> on OpenBSD.
1.619 wvdputte 431: <a href="http://www.kerberos.si/papers/Kiberpipa07/">Slides</a> (in Slovenian),
432: <a href="http://video.kiberpipa.org/media/POT_OpenBSD">video</a> (in Slovenian),
1.616 wvdputte 433: and <a href="http://gallery.kerberos.si/kiberpipa07/">photos</a> are available.
434: <p>
435:
436: </ul>
437:
1.445 martin 438: <h3>2006</h3>
1.236 jose 439: <ul>
1.537 deraadt 440:
1.588 espie 441: <li><strong><a name="23c3"></a>
1.577 mbalmer 442: <a href="https://events.ccc.de/congress/2006/">23C3 Chaos Communication Congress in
443: Berlin</a></strong>,
444: December 27 - 30, 2006, Berlin, Germany.<br>
1.597 mbalmer 445: Who can you trust? Well, us. OpenBSD was there, of course, for our annual
1.595 reyk 446: closing event. fkr, grunk, jsg, mbalmer, mickey, sturm, uwe, martin,
1.598 bernd 447: henning, moritz, bernd and wvdputte were there
1.597 mbalmer 448: there to chat with attendees and discuss OpenBSD stuff. It was - as usual -
449: a great end-of-the-year event. See you in Berlin again end of 2007.
1.577 mbalmer 450: <p>
451:
1.594 mbalmer 452: <li><strong><a name="moscow2006"></a>
453: <a href="https://kd85.com/">Moscow OpenBSD user meeting</a></strong>,
454: December 8 - 9, 2006, Moscow, Russia.<br>
1.633 tom 455: For details, please email <a href="mailto:grange@opensd.org">Grange</a>
1.594 mbalmer 456: <p>
457:
1.515 tom 458: <li><strong><a name="opencon2006"></a>
459: <a href="http://www.opencon.org/">OpenCON 2006</a></strong>,
1.569 deraadt 460: 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 461: OpenCON is the only conference dedicated solely to OpenBSD.
1.587 deraadt 462: 135 people were registered for the event, but since it was a completely open event is likely that
463: even more people just walked in.
1.577 mbalmer 464: Most talks were by OpenBSD developers, but there was also an impressive
1.568 mbalmer 465: number of our developers just attending the conference. Talks by OpenBSD
1.577 mbalmer 466: developers were:
1.568 mbalmer 467: <p>
1.535 deraadt 468: <ul>
1.581 claudio 469: <li>Claudio Jeker: <a href="papers/opencon06-network/index.html">
470: Network stack changes in OpenBSD</a>
1.580 deraadt 471: <li>Marc Balmer: <a href="papers/opencon06-nmea/index.html">
472: Support for Time Signal Station Receivers and GPS in OpenBSD</a>
1.601 fkr 473: <li>Felix Kronlage: <a href="papers/opencon06-umts/index.html">Redundancy or mobile deployment with 3G technology</a>
1.584 jsg 474: <li>Jonathan Gray: <a href="papers/opencon06-drivers/index.html">
475: Driver architecture and implementation in OpenBSD</a>
1.543 mbalmer 476: <li>Gordon Klok: <i>Processor Power Management</i>
1.596 dlg 477: <li>David Gwynne: <a href="papers/opencon06-culture.pdf">The OpenBSD
478: Culture</a> and he also filled in for Marco's
479: <a href="papers/opencon06-bio.pdf">Bio and Sensors in OpenBSD</a> talk.
1.582 michele 480: <li>Michele Marchetto: <a href="papers/opencon06-ripd/index.html">
481: OpenRIPD</a>
1.574 mbalmer 482: <li>Reyk Floeter: <i>IPsec demystified</i>
1.580 deraadt 483: <li>Theo de Raadt: <a href="papers/opencon06-docs">
484: Why hardware documentation matters so much and why it is so hard to get</a>
1.535 deraadt 485: </ul>
1.502 mbalmer 486: <p>
1.577 mbalmer 487: Also present were jcs, krw, mglocker, robert, wvdputte, martin, grunk,
488: dhartmei, aanriot, sturm, and bernd. Of course there was an OpenBSD booth
489: run by the usual suspects and you could buy our CD-ROMS, the audio CD and other
1.568 mbalmer 490: stuff.
491: <p>
1.502 mbalmer 492:
1.575 reyk 493: <li><strong><a name=opensourcetag2006></a>
494: <a href="http://www.opensourcetag.de/2006/">OpenSourceTag 2006</a></strong>,
495: Nov 30, 2006, Hannover, Germany.<br>
496: Reyk gave a <a href="http://www.opensourcetag.de/2006/agenda/">talk</a> about OpenBSD
497: as a reference project for secure software.
498: <p>
499:
1.583 henning 500: <li><strong><a name=epf2006></a>
501: <a href="http://www.peering-forum.eu/2006/">European Peering Forum 2006</a></strong>,
502: Nov 29 - 30, 2006, Frankfurt, Germany.<br>
503: The European Peering Forum in Frankfurt was hosted by the 3 big european
504: peering points DE-CIX, AMSIX and LINX, bringing network operators together.
505: Henning was talking about OpenBGPD,
506: <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/epf2006/">slides</a> are available.
507: <p>
508:
1.565 krw 509: <li><strong><a name=conisli2006></a>
510: <a href="http://conisli.org/">CONISLI 2006</a></strong>,
511: Nov 3 - 5, 2006, São Paulo, Brazil<br>
512: 4th edition of São Paulo's International Free Software Congress.
1.687 jolan 513: Ken Westerback and Pedro Martelletto gave a talk.
1.565 krw 514: <p>
515:
1.559 jason 516: <li><strong><a name=nycbsdcon2006></a>
517: <a href="http://nycbsdcon.org/">NYCBSDCon 2006</a></strong>,
518: Oct 28 - 29, 2006, New York City, USA<br>
519: NYCBSDCon is the main conference on the East Coast for the
520: BSD community to get together to share and gain knowledge,
1.562 jason 521: to network with like minded people. Several developers
1.563 jason 522: spoke, more were on hand:
1.559 jason 523: <ul>
524: <li>Marco Peereboom: <a href="papers/bio.pdf">bio and sensors in OpenBSD</a>
1.563 jason 525: [<a href="http://www.fetissov.org/public/nycbsdcon06/1.6.mp3">audio</a>]
1.605 jason 526: <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 527: <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>]
528: <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 529: <li>Ray Lai: <i>First time booth bunny</i>
530: </ul>
531: <p>
532:
1.556 fgsch 533: <li><strong><a name=linuxworlduk2006></a>
534: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.co.uk/">LinuxWorld Expo UK 2006</a></strong>,
535: Oct 25 - 26, 2006, Olympia, London, UK.<br>
1.558 wvdputte 536: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Wim, Tom, Peter, Federico and
537: Pedro La Peu.
1.556 fgsch 538: <p>
539:
1.589 aanriot 540: <li><strong><a name=cuug2006oct></a>
541: <a href="http://www.cuug.ab.ca/">Calgary Unix Users Group</a></strong>,
542: Oct 24, 2006, downtown Library, basement meeting room, Calgary, Alberta.<br>
543: Theo de Raadt gave a talk regarding the increasing demand for
544: vendors to open up their documentation.
545: <p>
546:
1.553 grunk 547: <li><strong><a name="systems2006"></a>
548: <a href="http://www.systems.de/">Systems</a></strong>,
549: Oct 23 - 27, 2006, Munich, Germany <br>
550: The *BSD projects were located at A3.542.
551: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
552: Wilhelm Bühler, DaN, Nikolay Sturm, Marco Pfatschbacher,
553: and some other volunteers.
554: <p>
555:
1.550 henning 556: <li><strong><a name=hacklu2006></a>
557: <a href="http://www.hack.lu/">hack.lu 2006</a></strong>,
558: Oct 19 - 21, 2006, Luxembourg/Kirchberg.<br>
559: Henning Brauer gave a well received talk about OpenBGPD.
560: <p>
561:
1.547 aanriot 562: <li><strong><a name=aldil2006></a>
563: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/">Les Journées Du Logiciel Libre
564: 2006</a></strong>,
565: Oct 13 - 14, 2006, Lyon, France.<br>
566: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Miod Vallat and Alexandre
567: Anriot with the help of Thierry Thomas and Damien Bergamini.
568: <p>
569:
1.546 mcbride 570: <li><strong><a name=auug2006></a>
571: <a href="http://new.auug.org.au/">AUUG 2006</a></strong>,
572: Oct 10 - 13, 2006, Melbourne, Australia.<br>
573: Ryan Mcbride presented a full-day tutorial entitled
574: "Advanced PF Rulesets" as well as two additional talks
575: <a href="papers/auug2006/pf_evolution/">PF evolution</a>
576: and
577: <a href="papers/auug2006/network_randomness/">Network stack randomness in OpenBSD</a>.
578: <p>
579:
1.532 wvdputte 580: <li><strong><a name=eurooscon2006></a>
581: <a href="http://conferences.oreillynet.com/euos2006/">O'Reilly Euro OSCON 2006
582: </a></strong>,
583: Sep 20, 2006, Brussels, Belgium.<br>
584: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth.
585: <p>
586:
1.528 wvdputte 587: <li><strong><a name=come2linux2006></a>
588: <a href="http://www.come2linux.org/psp/">Come 2 Linux 2006</a></strong>,
589: Sep 9 - 10, 2006, Duisburg-Essen, Germany.<br>
590: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth.
591: <p>
592:
1.525 wvdputte 593: <li><strong><a name=ChaosdaysDarmstadt2006></a>
594: <a href="http://mrmcd101b.metarheinmain.de/index.html">mrmcd101b - MetaRheinMainChaosDays Darmstadt 2006</a>
595: </strong>,
596: Sep 1 - 3, 2006, Darmstadt, Germany.<br>
597: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth.
598: <p>
599:
1.521 fkr 600: <li><strong><a name=LinuxWorldExpoSF2006></a>
601: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/live/12/events/12SFO06A/conference/tracksessions/Security/QMONYA04ROFR">LinuxWorld Expo San Francisco 2006</a>
602: </strong>,
603: Aug 16, 2006, San Francisco, United States.<br>
604: Ted Unangst spoke about OpenBSD as part of a security panel.
605: <p>
606:
1.518 tedu 607: <li><strong><a name=coimbra2006></a>
608: <a href="http://www.openbsd-pt.com/eventos/coimbra06/">Portuguese OpenBSD Usergroup Meeting</a></strong>,
609: Jul 22 - 23, 2006, Coimbra, Portugal.<br>
610: 6th Meeting of the Portuguese OpenBSD Usergroup. Marc Balmer gave a talk
611: "NMEA 0183 and Time Signal Station Receiver Support in OpenBSD".
612: <p>
613:
614: <li><strong><a name=akqit2006></a>
615: <a href="http://www.akqit.ch/w3/DE/actual.html">Arbeitskreis für Qualität in der Informationstechnologie (Working Group for Quality in IT)</a></strong>,
616: Jul 20, 2006, University of Basel, Computer Science Department, Room 205, Bernoullistr. 16, 17:30 - 18:30<br>
1.590 mbalmer 617: Marc Balmer gave a talk in german "<a href="papers/akqit06/index.html">Ensuring
618: Quality in the Development of the Free Operating System OpenBSD</a>".
1.518 tedu 619: <p>
1.475 deraadt 620:
1.510 wvdputte 621: <li><strong><a name="lsm2006"></a>
622: <a href="http://www.rmll.info">Libre Software Meeting 2006</a></strong>,
623: Jul 4 - 8, 2006, Vandoeuvre-les-nancy, France.<br>
1.681 aanriot 624: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Wim, Matthieu and
625: Alexandre with the help of Serge and Christelle.
1.510 wvdputte 626: <p>
627:
1.508 wvdputte 628: <li><strong><a name=FrOSCon></a>
629: <a href="http://www.froscon.de/">
630: FrOSCon 2006 - Free and Open Source Software Conference</a></strong>,
631: Jun 24 - 25, 2006, Bonn/Rhein-Sieg, Germany.<br>
1.518 tedu 632: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth run by Wim, Waldemar, Manuel and
1.508 wvdputte 633: Tim Kornau.
634: <p>
635:
1.507 mbalmer 636: <li><strong><a name=LinuxwochenLinz2006></a>
637: <a href="http://www.linuxwochen.at/2006/Linz">Linuxwochen Linz 2006</a>
638: </strong>,
639: June 15, 2006, Linz, Austria.<br>
640: There was an an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth run by Wim and the usual suspects.
641: <p>
642:
1.506 deraadt 643: <li><strong><a name=lugverona2006></a>
1.526 steven 644: <a href="http://www.di.univr.it/dol/main?ent=iniziativa&id=857&lang=it">LUGVR@UNIVR</a></strong>
1.506 deraadt 645: Jun 9, 2006, Verona University, Borgo Roma, Italy.<br>
646: Florin Iamandi of <a href="https://www.verona.linux.it">LUG Verona</a>
647: gave a talk
648: (<a href="http://todome.net/docs/obsd_carp/en">English</a> and
649: <a href="http://todome.net/docs/obsd_carp/it">Italian</a>)
650: and live demonstration on redundant failover
651: OpenBSD firewalls. He explained why OpenBSD solves many problems that
652: had previously been the dominion of expensive commercial solutions.
653: Attendees learned about OpenBSD's hard stance and successful fight against
654: bad licences and uncooperating vendors and manufacturers.
655: <p>
656:
1.502 mbalmer 657: <li><strong><a name=Slackathon2006></a>
658: <a href="http://slackathon2006.unix.se">Slackathon 2006</a>
659: </strong>
660: Jun 3, 2006, Stockholm, Sweden.<br>
661: A fundraiser for OpenBSD/SSH held at the Stockholm University. Free
1.505 ian 662: entrance and all donations went straight to the project. Several
1.502 mbalmer 663: developers were talking about OpenBSD here, as well as some hands-on
664: workshops took place with both old and new hardware.
665: <p>
666:
1.500 deraadt 667: <li><strong><a name=cuug2006></a>
668: <a href="http://www.cuug.ab.ca/">Calgary Unix Users Group</a></strong>,
669: Jun 1, 2006, SAIT Campus, Calgary, Alberta.<br>
1.504 miod 670: Bob Beck and Reyk Floeter discussed recent and future networking
671: changes in OpenBSD. Some other OpenBSD developers attended to provide
1.500 deraadt 672: international colour, and there were tshirts, CDs, and posters on hand.
673: CUUG made a substantial contribution to OpenBSD at this event as well.
674: <p>
675:
1.589 aanriot 676: <li><strong><a name=LinuxwochenVienna2006></a>
677: <a href="http://www.linuxwochen.at/2006/Wien">Linuxwochen Vienna 2006</a>
678: </strong>,
679: May 31 - Jun 2, 2006, Vienna, Austria.<br>
680: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth run by Wim and the usual suspects.
681: <p>
682:
1.585 aanriot 683: <li><strong><a name=plug060519></a>
1.586 aanriot 684: <a href="http://www.plugfr.org/">Provence Linux User Group</a></strong>
685: May 19, 2006, Marseille, France.<br>
1.585 aanriot 686: Alexandre Anriot spoke about the deployment of wireless networks with
1.586 aanriot 687: OpenBSD during a meeting of the PLUG.
1.585 aanriot 688: <p>
689:
1.491 bernd 690: <li><strong><a name="SANE2006"></a>
691: <a href="http://www.sane.nl/sane2006/">SANE 2006</a></strong>,
692: May 15 - 19, 2006, Delft, The Netherlands.<br>
693: Peter N. M. Hansteen gave a
694: <a href="http://www.sane.nl/sane2006/program/abstract.php?eventid=35">
695: PF tutorial</a>.
696: <p>
697:
1.490 reyk 698: <li><strong><a name=bsdcan2006></a> <a
699: href="http://www.bsdcan.org/2006/">BSDCan 2006</a></strong>,
700: May 12 - 13, 2006, Ottawa, Canada.<br>
701: David Gwynne gave a talk about hardware monitoring with bio and
702: sensors in OpenBSD (<a href="papers/bsdcan06-biosensors.pdf">slides</a>)
703: and Reyk Flöter talked about the latest
704: wireless support and the incredible plans for the future
705: (<a href="papers/bsdcan06-wlan/index.html">slides</a>), and
706: Peter Hansteen gave a PF tutorial. A number of OpenBSD hackers
707: attended the conference as well, like Bob Beck and Mathieu Sauve-Frankel.
708: <p>
709:
1.489 bernd 710: <li><strong><a name="linuxdays2006"></a>
711: <a href="http://www.linuxdays.ch">Linuxdays 2006</a></strong>,
712: May 8 - 12, 2006, Geneva, Switzerland.<br>
713: Julien Mabillard, a long-time Geneva OpenBSD user, gave a talk to present
714: the overall system and its great features.
715: <p>
716:
1.592 claudio 717: <li><strong><a name="idepes2006"></a>
1.589 aanriot 718: <a href="http://www.idepes.org.br/openbsd/">IDEPES 2006</a></strong>,
719: May 6, 2006, São Paulo, Brazil.<br>
720: First event in Brazil totally dedicated to OpenBSD.
721: <p>
722:
1.592 claudio 723: <li><strong><a name="LinuxTag2006"></a>
1.484 mbalmer 724: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.org/2006/">LinuxTag 2006</a></strong>,
725: May 3 - 6, 2006, Wiesbaden, Germany.<br>
726: OpenBSD was very present at this years Linuxtag:
727: <ul>
728: <li>On friday morning, Claudio and Marc moderated a panel discussion
729: "BLOBS sind das Krebsgeschwür freier Software" (Blobs are the
1.485 mbalmer 730: cancer of free software) that was well attended. Unfortunately no one
1.484 mbalmer 731: in favour of Blobs attended, although we asked almost all Linux
732: distributions...
733: <li>After lunch, Marc Balmer started the afternoon with a talk "OpenBSD
734: as a Strategic Platform for the Basle Public Schools", outlining how and
1.485 mbalmer 735: why the Basle Public school system uses OpenBSD for most of its
1.484 mbalmer 736: infrastructure.
1.592 claudio 737: <li>The next OpenBSD specific talk was by Claudio Jeker,
738: <a href="papers/linuxtag06-network/">"Routing with OpenBSD using
739: OpenOSPFD and OpenBGPD"</a> where he showed various routing setups and
740: how full redundancy can be achieved.
741: [<a href="papers/linuxtag06-network.pdf">paper</a>]
1.484 mbalmer 742: <li>Later, Marc Balmer gave a talk "Decoding Time Signal Stations using
743: OpenBSD" and explained the recent addition of timedelta sensors and the
744: first implementation of such, udcf(4).
745: </ul>
746: <br>
747: All talks where very well received and OpenBSD filled four hours of the
1.485 mbalmer 748: Linuxtag program. We thank Wilhelm Bühler, chair of the BSD-Track
1.484 mbalmer 749: at Linuxtag, for the superb and professional organization.
750: <br>
751: Of course, there was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth run by Wim and the
752: usual suspects.
753: <p>
754:
1.486 mickey 755: <li><strong><a name=NYCBUG2006-05></a>
756: <a href="http://nycbug.org/index.php?NAV=Home&SUBM=83">NYCBUG Monthly meeting</a></strong>,
757: May 3, 2006, NYC, USA.<br>
758: Mickey gave a talk
1.564 jason 759: (<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 760: about PAE work for OpenBSD/i386.<br>
761: Mischa Diehm gave a talk about implementing VPN using OpenBSD.
762: <p>
763:
1.484 mbalmer 764: <li><strong><a name=tokyo2006></a>
765: <a href="http://www.tokyopc.org/index.php/weblog/">Tokyo PC Users Group</a></strong>,
766: May 2, 2006, Tokyo.<br>
767: Theo presented his <a href="papers/ven05-deraadt">"Exploit Mitigation Techniques"</a>
768: talk. There is a
769: <a href="http://www.tokyopc.org/faxmessage/index.html#about">map to the location</a>.
770: <p>
771:
1.478 mbalmer 772: <li><strong><a name=SambaEXPerience2006></a>
773: <a href="http://www.sambaxp.org/">Samba eXPerience 2006</a></strong>,
774: April 24 - 26, 2006, Göttingen, Germany.<br>
775: Marc Balmer gave a talk "Providing Fully Automated Fileserver Services
776: for Public Schools using LDAP Integrated SAMBA on OpenBSD" that was very
777: well received.
778: <br>
779: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth run by Wim and Marc and Felix Kronlage
780: and we could draw a lot of attention.
781: <p>
782:
1.479 deraadt 783: <li><strong><a name=DORSCLUC2006></a>
784: <a href="http://www.open.hr/dc2006/"> DORS / CLUC 2006</a></strong>,
785: April 19-21, 2006, Zagreb, Croatia.<br>
786: <a href="http://www.kerberos.si">Mitja Muzenic</a> gave a
1.480 mbalmer 787: <a href="http://www.kerberos.si/papers/DORS06/index.html">
788: "Introduction to OpenBSD"</a> talk. Conference
789: <a href="http://www.open.hr/dc2006/program.php">program</a> (in croatian
1.479 deraadt 790: only).
791: <p>
792:
1.475 deraadt 793: <li><strong><a name=linuxworld2006></a>
794: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/live/12/events/12BOS06A/">
795: LinuxWorld/OpenSolutions World 2006</a></strong>,
796: April 3 - 6, 2006, Boston, USA.<br>
797: Jason Dixon presented
798: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/live/12/events/12BOS06A/conference/tracksessions/Security/QMONYA04Q1DK">Secure Network Architectures with OpenBSD</a>,
799: a talk on OpenBSD that outlines the various technologies that make
800: it a leader of secure networking platforms.
801: <br>
802: He spent time around the exposition BSD booth with giveaways
803: and early release OpenBSD 3.9 CDs.
804: <p>
805:
806: <li><strong><a name=cansecwest06></a>
807: <a href="http://www.cansecwest.com">Cansecwest/core06</a></strong>,
808: April 3 - 7, 2006, Vancouver.<br>
809: A rather interesting OpenBSD-related talk happened at this event, regarding
810: using SMI interrupts to break out of X into kernel mode.
811: <br>
812: Some OpenBSD developers attended. Some early OpenBSD 3.9 items went
813: on sale.
814: <p>
815:
1.469 tom 816: <li><strong><a name=ukuug2006></a>
817: <a href="http://www.ukuug.org/events/spring2006/">UKUUG Spring Conference 2006</a></strong>,
818: Mar 22 - 23, 2006, Durham, United Kingdom<br>
819: Reyk Flöter gave a talk about the latest wireless support in
820: OpenBSD at the annual spring meeting of the
821: <a href="http://www.ukuug.org/">UK's Unix and Open Systems User Group</a>.
822: Peter N. M. Hansteen
823: gave a PF tutorial, Tom Cosgrove presented "Exploit
824: Mitigation Techniques" and Constantine Murenin gave a
825: presentation on "Hardware temperature monitoring device
826: drivers for OpenBSD".
827: These were all part of a new, well-attended, BSD stream at the event.
828: <p>
829:
1.459 henning 830: <li><strong><a name=Copenhagen2006></a>
831: <a href="http://www.linuxforum.dk/2006/en/">LinuxForum 2006</a></strong>,
832: Mar 3 - 4, 2006, Copenhagen, Denmark<br>
833: Wim gave Felix Kronlage's talk about OpenBSD Mobile Use (wifi, UMTS,
834: GPRS, phones and the like) with some demo setups.
835: Henning Brauer gave a very well received talk about OpenBGPD,
836: <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/linuxforum2006/">slides</a> are available.
837: <p>
838:
1.457 wvdputte 839: <li><strong><a name=Brussels2006></a>
840: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/2006/">FOSDEM Brussels 2006</a></strong>,
841: Feb 25 - 26, 2006, Brussels, Belgium.<br>
842: An OpenBSD/OpenSSH booth was present, run by the usual gang of suspects:
1.458 xsa 843: Alexandre, Dimitar, Matthieu, Mbalmer, Nikolay, Otto, Reyk, Saad, Thierry, Uwe, Wim, and
1.457 wvdputte 844: Xsa. Reyk gave a talk about Wifi with OpenBSD and there was our traditional
845: BSD dinner. More details and
846: <a href="http://saad.docisland.org/pictures/fosdem2006/index.html">pictures</a>
1.458 xsa 847: on <a href="http://saad.docisland.org/blog/files/archive-12.html#unique-entry-id-40">Saad's blog</a>.
1.457 wvdputte 848: <p>
849:
850: <li><strong><a name=Vegas2006></a>
851: <a href="http://kd85.com/vegas2006.html">Merciful briefings 2006</a></strong>,
852: Feb 15, 2006, Las Vegas, USA - Feb 17, 2006, San Diego, USA - Feb 18, 2006, Phoenix, USA.<br>
853: While traveling the US, Wim met with a bunch of OpenBSD users in Las Vegas,
854: San Diego and Phoenix. With many thanks to the members of PhxBUG - Phoenix BSD
855: User Group, more specificly Darrin Chandler, for organising the little
856: details and Jacob for road trip directions.
857: <p>
1.455 grunk 858:
1.456 henning 859: <li><strong><a name=nanog36></a>
860: <a href="http://www.nanog.org/">NANOG 36</a></strong>,
861: Feb 12 - 15, 2006, Dallas, USA.<br>
862: Henning Brauer and Bernhard Kroenung of DE-CIX talked about OpenBGPD and
863: OpenBGPD at DE-CIX, <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/nanog36/">slides</a>
864: are available. Henning talked again at the tools BOF
865: (<a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/nanog36-bof/">slides</a>).
866: Both talks were very well received by the audience.
867: Kenjiro Cho was there too, talking about IPv6 issues.
868: <p>
869:
1.455 grunk 870: <li><strong><a name="Paris2006"></a>
871: <a href="http://www.solutionslinux.fr/fr/index.php">Solutions Linux 2006</a>
872: </strong>,
873: Jan 31 - Feb 2, 2006, Paris, France.<br>
874: There was an OpenBSD booth run by Marc Espie, Miod Vallat, Saad Kadhi and
875: Wim with help from Guillaume Arcas and Christophe Plasschaert.
876: <p>
877: </ul>
878:
1.296 mcbride 879: <h3>2005</h3>
1.240 espie 880:
881: <ul>
1.337 deraadt 882:
1.445 martin 883: <li><strong><a name=22c3></a>
884: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/2005/">22C3 Chaos Communication Congress in
885: Berlin</a></strong>,
886: December 27 - 30, 2005, Berlin, Germany.<br>
887: Many OpenBSD developers and users met for a Xmas break in a unique setting.
888: <p>
889:
1.585 aanriot 890: <li><strong><a name=plug051216></a>
1.586 aanriot 891: <a href="http://www.plugfr.org/">Provence Linux User Group</a></strong>
892: December 16, 2005, Marseille, France.<br>
893: Alexandre Anriot spoke about OpenSSH during a meeting of the PLUG.
1.585 aanriot 894: <p>
895:
1.435 matthieu 896: <li><strong><a name=eurobsdcon2005></a>
897: <a href="http://2005.eurobsdcon.org/">EuroBSDCon 2005</a></strong>,
898: Nov 25 - 27, 2005, Basel, Switzerland.<br>
899: The 4th edition of the european conference for BSD systems has been a
900: great success. More than 225 people from 27 countries attended the
1.438 deraadt 901: event.
1.444 grunk 902: The program included a
903: <a href="http://www.eurobsdcon.org/tutorials-reyk.php">tutorial by Reyk about
1.437 niallo 904: OpenBSD-based Wireless Networks</a> and the following talks
905: <ul>
1.438 deraadt 906: <li>Henning Brauer with Wilhelm Bühler "Signal Handlers"
907: <li>Ryan McBride "Network Stack Randomness"
1.439 matthieu 908: <li><a href="papers/eurobsd2005/herrb-hopf.pdf">Matthieu Herrb and Matthias Hopf "New Evolutions in the X Window System"</a>
1.440 claudio 909: <li><a href="papers/eurobsd2005/claudio/">Claudio Jeker "The Design and Implementation of OpenOSPFD"</a>
1.439 matthieu 910: <li><a href="papers/eurobsd2005/niallo-uwe/">Niall O'Higgins & Uwe Stuehler "Embedded OpenBSD"</a>
1.443 deraadt 911: <li><a href="papers/eurobsd2005/tedu-rthreads.pdf">Ted Unangst "rthreads: A New Thread Implementation for OpenBSD"</a>
1.437 niallo 912: </ul>
1.438 deraadt 913: <p>
1.435 matthieu 914: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
915: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
916: <p>
917:
1.434 bernd 918: <li><strong><a name=linuxworldexpogermany2005></a>
919: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.de/">Linux World Expo Germany</a></strong>,
920: Nov 15 - 17, 2005, Frankfurt, Germany.<br>
921: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
922: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a> and Bernd.
923: <p>
924:
1.441 niallo 925: <li><strong><a name="pacsec05"></a>
926: <a href="http://www.pacsec.jp/">PacSec/core 05 conference</a></strong>,
927: Nov 15 - 16, 2005, Tokyo, Japan.<br>
928: Sean Comeau presented a talk called
929: <a href="http://www.openbsd-support.com/jp/en/htm/mgp/pacsec05/index.html">
930: Open Source Secure Wireless Networks in a Windows World</a>
931: <a href="http://www.pacsec.jp/core05/psj05-scomeau-en.pdf">[PDF]</a>.
932: The solution he presents uses IPsec to protect traffic between the
933: wireless clients and access points. Authentication is done using OpenSSH
934: (authpf), a process made transparent and user-friendly by a few small
935: scripts.
936: <p>
937:
1.424 mbalmer 938: <li><strong><a name=opencon2005></a>
939: <a href="http://www.opencon.org/">OpenCON 2005</a></strong>,
940: Nov 4 - 6, 2005, San Servolo Island, Venice, Italy.<br>
1.427 deraadt 941: The only unique conference entirely dedicated to OpenBSD, held in the totally
942: crazy environment of San Servolo island: an old insane asylum turned into a
943: university about 20 years ago, about 10 minutes boat ride from Venice.
1.429 deraadt 944: In the days leading up to this, about 12 OpenBSD developers arrived early
1.427 deraadt 945: for a Ports mini-hackathon. During the conference a few developers gave
1.433 deraadt 946: talks, including
947: <ul>
948: <li><a href="papers/ven05-pvalchev">Peter Valchev "OpenBSD Hackathon report"</a>
949: <li><a href="papers/ven05-espie">Marc Espie "OpenBSD ports and packages"</a>
950: <li><a href="papers/ven05-henning">Henning Brauer "OpenBSD networking update"</a>
951: <li><a href="papers/ven05-niallo-uwe/slides.pdf">Uwe Stuehler, Niall O'Higgins "Porting OpenBSD"</a>
952: <li><a href="papers/ven05-deraadt">Theo de Raadt "Exploit Mitigation Techniques (updated to include random malloc and mmap)"</a>
953: </ul>
1.424 mbalmer 954: <p>
955:
956: <li><strong><a name=systems2005></a>
957: <a href="http://www.systems.de/">Systems</a></strong>,
958: Oct 24 - 28, 2005, Munich, Germany <br>
1.425 mbalmer 959: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
1.424 mbalmer 960: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
961: <p>
962:
1.418 djm 963: <li><strong><a name=auug2005></a>
964: <a href="http://www.auug.org.au/events/2005/auug2005/">AUUG 2005</a></strong>,
965: October 16 - 21, 2005, Sydney, Australia.<br>
966: Mark Uemura presented a tutorial on setting up CARP/PF, a demonstration of
967: stateful failover with CARP and pfsync and a talk on wireless security in
968: a corporate environment using authpf and isakmpd. Peter Hansteen gave a
969: <a href="http://www.bgnett.no/~peter/pf/">Firewalling with PF</a> tutorial.
1.420 deraadt 970: Damien Miller presented on the approach to
971: <a href="papers/auug2005-portability">secure software portability used
972: by portable OpenSSH</a>, Reyk Flöter gave a talk on the current state of wireless
1.418 djm 973: support in OpenBSD and David Purdue introduced OpenBSD's spamd tarpit.
974: Most of the Australian OpenBSD developers and many users were present.
975: <p>
976:
1.415 aanriot 977: <li><strong><a name=aldil2005></a>
978: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/">Les Journées Du Logiciel Libre
979: 2005</a></strong>,
980: Oct 14 - 15, 2005, Lyon, France.<br>
981: There was OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Alexandre Anriot with the
982: help of Thierry Thomas.
983: <p>
984:
1.420 deraadt 985: <li><strong><a name=cafeconf2005></a>
986: <a href="http://www.cafeconf.org/">CaFeConf 2005,
987: 4tas Jornadas Abiertas de GNU/Linux y Software Libre</a></strong>,
988: Oct 13 - 15, 2005, Buenos Aires, Argentina<br>
989: CaFeConf 2005 is the anual event of CaFeLUG - Free Software Users
990: Group of Capital Federal, Argentina. This year the event featured
991: 116 presentations consisting of talks, tutorials, and workshops. The
992: event was also broadcasted on the Internet. Entrance was free, but
993: registration was mandatory.<br>
994: Fernando Gont gave a talk on
1.444 grunk 995: <a href="http://www.cafeconf.org/modules/myconference/viewspeech.php?sid=147&cid=20">
1.420 deraadt 996: ICMP attacks against TCP</a>,
997: in which he gave an overview of the attacks, the possible
998: counter-measures, and the politics of vulnerabilities, and a talk on
1.444 grunk 999: <a href="http://www.cafeconf.org/modules/myconference/viewspeech.php?sid=173&cid=20">
1.420 deraadt 1000: Fixing the vulnerability of the Path-MTU Discovery mechanism</a>,
1001: in which explained how OpenBSD fixed the vulnerability of the PMTUD
1002: mechanism.
1003: <p>
1004:
1.414 bernd 1005: <li><strong><a name=linuxkongress2005></a>
1006: <a href="http://www.linux-kongress.org/">12th International Linux System
1007: Technology Conference</a></strong>,
1008: Oct 11 - 14, 2005, University of Hamburg, Germany.<br>
1009: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth.
1010: <p>
1011:
1012: <li><strong><a name=linuxworlduk2005></a>
1013: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.co.uk/">LinuxWorld Expo UK 2005</a></strong>,
1014: Oct 5 - 6, 2005, Olympia, London, UK.<br>
1015: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth.
1016: <p>
1017:
1.410 wvdputte 1018: <li><strong><a name=opensourcetag2005></a>
1.575 reyk 1019: <a href="http://www.opensourcetag.de/2005/">OpenSourceTag 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 1020: Sep 27, 2005, Hannover, Germany.<br>
1.444 grunk 1021: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth and Reyk gave a
1.575 reyk 1022: <a href="http://www.opensourcetag.de/2005/agenda/">talk</a> about IT security.
1.410 wvdputte 1023: <p>
1024:
1025: <li><strong><a name="gubuginstallfest2005"></a>
1026: <a href="http://gubug.org/meetings.php">Greater Utah BSD Group
1027: Installfest 2005</a></strong>,
1028: Sep 24, 2005, Sandy, UT, USA.<br/>
1.444 grunk 1029: <a href="http://www.gubug.org/">The Greater Utah BSD User Group</a> organised
1.410 wvdputte 1030: their first annual BSD Installfest, sponsored by Utah ISP ArosNet.
1031: There were handouts, CD-ROMs, technical presentations, and
1032: fun, plus a chance to get OpenBSD or a related open source BSD operating system
1033: installed on your computer.
1034: Admission was free (computers not included in cost of admission).
1.419 djm 1035: Featured speakers included Dan Langille, organizer of BSDCan.
1.410 wvdputte 1036: <p>
1037:
1.404 wvdputte 1038: <li><strong><a name="NYCBSDCon2005"></a>
1039: <a href="http://nycbsdcon.org/">New York City BSD Conference 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 1040: Sep 17, 2005, NYC, USA.<br>
1.404 wvdputte 1041: NYCBSDCon was a one day technical conference hosted by the New York
1042: City *BSD User Group and was held at Columbia University.
1.406 saad 1043: The all day conference included a variety of speakers representing the
1.404 wvdputte 1044: BSD projects and the open source community.<br>
1045: NYCBSDCon was organized by NYC*BUG, a technical user group that formed in
1046: December 2003. Besides their regular monthly meetings at the Soho Apple
1047: Store, NYC*BUG has done fundraising for the BSD projects and contributed a
1048: number of useful online applications such as BSDTracker and dmesgd.<br>
1049: Additional sponsors included USENIX, New York Internet and SRA America.
1050: <p>
1051:
1052: <li><strong><a name=opensaar2005></a>
1053: <a href="http://www.opensaar.de/">OpenSaar 2005</a></strong>,
1054: Sep 13 - 14, 2005, Saarbrücken, Germany.<br>
1055: An OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth was present
1056: <p>
1057:
1.403 henning 1058: <li><strong><a name=decix160905></a> <a
1059: href="http://www.de-cix.org/">DE-CIX Technical Meeting</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 1060: Sep 16, 2005, Schloss Kransberg, near Usingen, Germany.<br>
1.403 henning 1061: Henning Brauer, Reyk Flöter and Maxim Salomon had been invited to the
1062: technical meeting of the Deutsche Commercial Internet Exchange (DE-CIX) again.
1063: Henning gave an update on OpenBGPD, Reyk talked about a route server project
1064: using OpenBGPD at DE-CIX, and Maxim explained why the CCC sponsors us doing so.
1065: There was a very positive discussion afterwards.
1066: <a href="http://unduli.bsws.de/papers/decix2005-2/">Slides</a> are available.
1067: <p>
1068:
1.388 tom 1069: <li><strong><a name="ukuug2005"></a>
1070: <a href="http://www.ukuug.org/events/linux2005/">UKUUG Linux Technical
1071: Conference 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 1072: Aug 4 - 7, 2005, University of Wales, Swansea, UK<br>
1.388 tom 1073: Tom Cosgrove gave Theo's presentation about Exploit Mitigation Techniques.
1074: <p>
1075:
1.385 mickey 1076: <li><strong><a name=wth2005></a>
1.390 deraadt 1077: <a href="http://www.whatthehack.org/">What the Hack 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 1078: Jul 28 - 31, 2005, Den Bosch, The Netherlands.<br>
1.385 mickey 1079: As every 4 years, Wim organized the
1080: <a href="http://eurobsd.org/2005-WhatTheHack/">BSD village</a> at this huge
1.389 tom 1081: open air event. There were some talks, Reyk spoke about
1082: <a href="http://program.whatthehack.org/event/6.en.html">WLAN in OpenBSD</a>,
1.385 mickey 1083: and an excellent
1084: <a href="ftp://ftp.nyc.openbsd.org/pub/news/wth-radio-humppa.mp3">Humppa show</a> (35MB MP3) was performed on the SubEther radio.
1085: If you want to see what happened previously, check
1086: <a href="http://eurobsd.org/hal2001/">http://eurobsd.org/hal2001/</a>
1087: and <a href="http://www.eurobsd.org/SummerCamp2003/">http://www.eurobsd.org/SummerCamp2003/</a>.
1088: <p>
1089:
1.382 pedro 1090: <li><strong><a name=coimbra2005></a>
1.474 pedro 1091: <a href="http://www.openbsd-pt.com/eventos/coimbra05/">Portuguese OpenBSD Usergroup Meeting</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 1092: Jul 23 - 24, 2005, Coimbra, Portugal.<br>
1.538 pedro 1093: 5th Meeting of the Portuguese OpenBSD Usergroup. Pedro Martelletto gave a talk.
1.382 pedro 1094: <p>
1095:
1.378 aanriot 1096: <li><strong><a name="lsm2005"></a>
1097: <a href="http://2005.rencontresmondiales.org/sections/index_html/switchLanguage/en">Libre Software Meeting 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 1098: Jul 5 - 9, 2005, Dijon, France.<br>
1.379 aanriot 1099: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Wim and the usual
1100: suspects, with the help of Serge Basterot. It was a nice place to meet
1101: some of our French, German and Swiss developers, including Marc Balmer,
1102: Alexandre Anriot, Matthieu Herrb and Reyk Floeter.
1.378 aanriot 1103: <p>
1104:
1.375 grunk 1105: <li><strong><a name=LinuxTag2005></a>
1106: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.org">LinuxTag 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 1107: Jun 22 - 25, 2005, Karlsruhe, Germany.<br>
1.375 grunk 1108: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth ran by Wim, Christian Weisgerber,
1109: Marc Balmer, Wilhelm Buehler, Robert Nagy, Bernd Ahlers and Phil Schulz.
1110: <p>
1111:
1.374 grunk 1112: <li><strong><a name="uofa-cc2005"></a>
1113: <a href="http://www.ualberta.ca/CC2005"> University of Alberta, Campus
1.410 wvdputte 1114: Computing 2005</a></strong>, Jun 21, 2005, Edmonton, Canada.<br>
1.374 grunk 1115: Ryan McBride spoke about OpenBSD's packet filter, PF, with CARP and
1116: failover examples. Local color and examples at the U of A shown by Bob
1117: Beck. Bob Beck spoke about PF and Spamd, as well as several other
1118: OpenBSD using and related talks at this event, which primarily focuses
1119: on activities centered at the University of Alberta.
1120: <p>
1121:
1.371 deraadt 1122: <li><strong><a name=uemera2005></a>
1123: <a href="http://www.tokyopc.net">Tokyo PC Users Group</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 1124: Jun 2, 2005, Tokyo Union Church in Omotesando, Tokyo, Japan.<br>
1.371 deraadt 1125: Mark T. Uemura spoke to Japan's largest English speaking
1126: personal computer club. The talk was entitled
1127: <a href="http://www.openbsd-support.com/jp/en/htm/mgp/index.shtml">
1128: "Open Source in a Windows World"</a>.
1129: He demonstrated how companies can easily
1130: integrate Open Source, with an emphasis on OpenBSD, into their IT
1131: infrastructure to enhance security, scalability and stability,
1132: significantly reduce IT expenditures, free up computing infrastructure
1133: and move away from commercial lock-in. This talk is based on changes
1134: implemented at PricewaterhouseCoopers in Japan.
1135: <p>
1136:
1.366 martin 1137: <li><strong><a name=LinuxwochenVienna2005></a>
1138: <a href="http://www.linuxwochen.at/">Linuxwochen Vienna 2005</a></strong>,
1139: May 24 - 27, 2005, Vienna, Austria.<br>
1140: The Linuxwochen 2005 tour stopped in the MuseumsQuartier, Vienna.
1141: Wim Vandeputte and Reinhard Sammer were running an OpenBSD booth selling
1142: CDs and shirts.
1143: <p>
1144:
1.365 mcbride 1145: <li><strong><a name=cuug2005></a>
1146: <a href="http://www.cuug.ab.ca/">Calgary Unix Users Group</a></strong>,
1147: May 24, 2005, Calgary, Canada.<br>
1148: Ryan McBride spoke about OpenBSD's packet filter, PF.
1149: A broad overview of PF's features were presented, with special attention
1150: paid to newer and more unique features and how these can be used together
1151: effectively for DoS mitigation, high availability, and load balancing.
1152: <br>
1153: Approximately 60 OpenBSD developers attended to heckle and participate
1154: in a free-for-all question period after the talk.
1155: <p>
1156:
1.362 reyk 1157: <li><strong><a name=bsdcan2005></a>
1158: <a href="http://www.bsdcan.org/2005/">BSDCan 2005</a></strong>,
1159: May 13 - 14, 2005, Ottawa, Canada.<br>
1160: A number of OpenBSD developers presented: Bob Beck on
1161: Spam Reduction with PF and Spamd, Henning Brauer on OpenBGPD,
1162: Ryan McBride on Network Stack Randomness and Reyk Flöter
1163: on WLAN in OpenBSD and the free ath(4) HAL. The
1164: <a href="papers/bsdcan05-spamd/">Spamd</a> and
1165: <a href="papers/bsdcan05-wlan/">WLAN</a> slides are available.
1166: Mathieu Sauve-Frankel has been there in attendance as well.
1167: <p>
1168:
1.358 mcbride 1169: <li><strong><a name=csw2005></a>
1170: <a href="http://www.cansecwest.com/">cansecwest/core05</a></strong>,
1171: May 4-6, 2005, Vancouver, Canada.<br>
1172: Hiroaki Etoh spoke about propolice; Theo de Raadt and a number of other
1173: developers were there to sell CDs and make a nuisance of themselves.
1174: <p>
1175:
1.357 henning 1176: <li><strong><a name=ripe50></a>
1177: <a href="http://www.ripe.net/ripe/meetings/ripe-50/">RIPE 50</a></strong>,
1178: May 2-6, 2005, Stockholm, Sweden.<br>
1179: RIPE NCC invited Henning to talk about OpenBGPD.
1180: There were over 350 attendees to the conference, and most of them attended
1181: henning's talk, which got very very positive feedback.
1182: <p>
1183:
1.384 tom 1184: <li><strong><a name=libreast2005></a>
1.356 espie 1185: <a href="http://idile.org/libreast/">Libr'east 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 1186: Apr 22-24, Marne La Vallée, near Paris, France<br>
1.356 espie 1187: There was an OpenBSD booth (Wim + Miod + Marc)
1188: Marc Espie did talk about recent OpenBSD advances, and his ports and
1189: packages work in front of about 30 people.
1190: <p>
1191:
1.353 henning 1192: <li><strong><a name=decix150405></a> <a
1193: href="http://www.de-cix.org/">DE-CIX Technical Meeting</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 1194: Apr 15, 2005, near Usingen, Germany.<br>
1.353 henning 1195: Henning Brauer and Reyk Flöter had been invited to the technical
1196: meeting of the Deutsche Commercial Internet Exchange (DE-CIX). Henning
1197: presented his talk on OpenBGPD, about 60 people, mostly operators from
1198: the big ISPs peering at DECIX, were in attendance.
1.354 reyk 1199: Reyk, Maxim Salomon and Tim Kornau spoke on Wireless Network Security.
1.353 henning 1200: <p>
1201:
1.352 henning 1202: <li><strong><a name=nuug140405></a>
1203: <a href="http://www.nuug.no/aktiviteter/20050414-pf-brannmur/">Firewalling with PF at NUUG</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 1204: Apr 14, 2005, Oslo, Norway.<br>
1.352 henning 1205: Peter N. M. Hansteen gave a firewalling with PF talk - which hopefully
1206: gave you some ideas about how to control your network traffic the
1207: way you want - keeping some things outside your network, directing
1208: traffic to specified hosts or services, and of course, giving spammers
1209: a hard time. The talk was in Norwegian, with <a
1210: href="http://www.bgnett.no/~peter/pf/no/foils/">foils</a> and <a
1211: href="http://www.bgnett.no/~peter/pf/no/">manuscript</a> (English <a
1212: href="http://www.bgnett.no/~peter/pf/en/foils/">foils</a> and <a
1213: href="http://www.bgnett.no/~peter/pf/en/">manuscript</a> too)
1214: available if you couldn't make it there.
1215: <p>
1216:
1.589 aanriot 1217:
1218: <li><strong><a name=fhwedel130405></a>
1219: <a href="http://www.fh-wedel.de/">FH Wedel invited talk</a></strong>,
1220: Apr 13, 2005, 17:00, Hörsaal 5, FH Wedel, Hamburg, Germany.<br>
1221: Henning Brauer spoke on OpenBGPD. More than 40 people were in attendance.
1222: <p>
1223:
1.350 marius 1224: <li><strong><a name=usenix2005></a>
1225: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix05/">Usenix Annual
1.410 wvdputte 1226: Technical Conference</a></strong>, Apr 10-15, 2005, Anaheim,
1.350 marius 1227: California, USA.<br> Marius Eriksen gave the OpenBSD update at the BSD
1228: super BoF. The update was well received and people were quite
1229: sympathetic towards the ongoing efforts of the OpenBSD project to
1230: ensure the free redistribution rights for firmware. People were also
1231: excited about the new Open* tools (OpenBGPD, OpenNTPD, OpenCVS) and it
1.351 marius 1232: would not be surprising to see more of these imported into other BSDs.
1.350 marius 1233: <p>
1234:
1.585 aanriot 1235: <li><strong><a name=plug050408></a>
1.586 aanriot 1236: <a href="http://www.plugfr.org/">Provence Linux User Group</a></strong>
1237: April 8, 2005, Marseille, France.<br>
1.585 aanriot 1238: Alexandre Anriot spoke about OpenBSD and some associated projects
1.586 aanriot 1239: (OpenBGPD etc.) during a meeting of the PLUG.
1.585 aanriot 1240: The <a href="papers/plug080405">slides</a> (in French) are available.
1.344 martin 1241: <p>
1242:
1.337 deraadt 1243: <li><strong><a name=bcs2005></a>
1244: <a href="http://www.bellua.com/bcs2005/asia05.index.html">Bellua Cyber Security Asia 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 1245: Mar 21-24, 2005, Jakarta, Indonesia.<br>
1.337 deraadt 1246: Ryan McBride presented an overview of PF which
1247: discussed how its advanced features work together in some important
1.338 deraadt 1248: applications and compared PF with the other major commercial and open
1.337 deraadt 1249: source firewalls.
1250: <p>
1251:
1.317 henning 1252: <li><strong><a name=nui_maynooth2005></a>
1253: <a href="http://www.minds.nuim.ie/events">NUI Maynooth lectures</a></strong>,
1254: Mar 4, 2005, Department of Computer Science, NUI Maynooth, Dublin, Ireland.<br>
1.318 henning 1255: Ryan McBride presented talks about PF and about
1.326 mcbride 1256: <a href="papers/dublin05-nr">randomization in the OpenBSD network layer.</a><br>
1.318 henning 1257: Theo and Henning were in attendance because someone had to heckle.
1.317 henning 1258: <p>
1259:
1.312 deraadt 1260: <li><strong><a name=trinity2005></a>
1261: <a href="http://www.netsoc.tcd.ie/events/0405/openbsd.php">Trinity lecture</a></strong>,
1262: Mar 3, 2005, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.<br>
1.320 deraadt 1263: Theo de Raadt presented his talk about
1264: <a href="papers/auug04">Exploit Mitigation Techniques</a>.
1.312 deraadt 1265: <p>
1266:
1.319 saad 1267: <li><strong><a name=ShefLUG2005></a>
1268: <a href="http://www.sheflug.co.uk/seminar/tiki-index.php?page=Sheffield%20Open%20Source%20Seminar">ShefLUG2005</a></strong>,
1269: Mar 2, 2005, Sheffield, UK.<br>
1270: Jacek Artymiak gave a talk about installing OpenBSD on Soekris hardware.
1271: <p>
1272:
1.310 mickey 1273: <li><strong><a name=NYCBUG2005-03></a>
1.375 grunk 1274: <a href="http://nycbug.org/index.php?NAV=Home&SUBM=83">NYCBUG Monthly meeting</a></strong>,
1.310 mickey 1275: Mar 2, 2005, NYC, USA.<br>
1.322 deraadt 1276: Mickey gave a talk
1.325 mickey 1277: (<a href="papers/nyc2005">slides</a> and
1.564 jason 1278: <a href="http://www.fetissov.org/public/nycbug/nycbug-03-02-05.mp3">10.5MB audio</a>)
1.321 mickey 1279: about <a href="hppa.html">porting OpenBSD</a>
1.313 martin 1280: to the <a href="http://www.openpa.net">HP PA-RISC</a> platform.
1.310 mickey 1281: <p>
1.312 deraadt 1282:
1.308 deraadt 1283: <li><strong><a name=Netsoc2005></a>
1284: <a href="http://netsoc.ucd.ie/events/openbsd/">Netsoc lectures</a></strong>,
1285: Mar 2, 2005, UCD, Dublin, Ireland.<br>
1286: Theo de Raadt, Henning Brauer, and Ryan McBride gave a series of
1.320 deraadt 1287: talks. Topics included
1288: <a href="papers/auug04">exploit mitigation techniques</a>,
1.326 mcbride 1289: <a href="papers/dublin05-nr">introducing network randomness to increase security</a>,
1290: OpenBGPD, and pf.
1291: Almost 200 people came to this event.
1.308 deraadt 1292: <p>
1293:
1.304 saad 1294: <li><strong><a name=Brussels2005></a>
1295: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/2005/">FOSDEM Brussels 2005</a></strong>,
1296: Feb 26 - 27, 2005, Brussels, Belgium.<br>
1297: An OpenBSD/OpenSSH booth was present, ran by the usual gang of suspects.
1298: Support for <a href="mailto:wim@kd85.com">Wim Vandeputte</a> this time were
1.307 otto 1299: (among many others), Saad Kadhi, Henning Brauer, Thierry Deval, Otto Moerbeek,
1.304 saad 1300: Xavier Santolaria, Martin Reindl, Reyk Flöter, Hans-Jörg
1.360 db 1301: Höxer, Nikolay Sturm, Marc Balmer, Claudio Jeker, Joris Vink,
1302: Olivier Cherrier, David Berghoff,
1.316 mbalmer 1303: Alexander von Gernler, Uwe Stuehler, and Felix Kronlage from OpenDarwin.<br>
1.304 saad 1304: There was a separate OpenBSD track, featuring Henning Brauer (about
1305: signal handlers and OpenNTPD), Reyk Flöter (about wireless cards in
1306: OpenBSD), and the author of the OpenBSD PF book, Jacek Artymiak (about
1.375 grunk 1307: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pf">pf(4)</a>, of course).<br>
1.304 saad 1308: At the conference's Free Software Foundation Event, Theo de Raadt was
1309: awarded the Free Software Award 2004 for his efforts to make Firmware for
1310: wireless hardware and other devices freely available.
1311: <p>
1.301 saad 1312: <li><strong><a name=UKUUG05></a>
1313: <a href="http://www.ukuug.org/events/winter2005/">UKUUG LISA/Winter Conference</a></strong>,
1314: Feb 24 - 25, 2005, Birmingham, UK.<br>
1315: Henning Brauer spoke on OpenBGPD, OpenNTPD and Signal Handlers.
1316: <p>
1317: <li><strong><a name=FFG2005></a>
1318: <a href="http://www.guug.de/veranstaltungen/ffg2005/">GUUG FFG 2005</a></strong>,
1319: Feb 22 - 25, 2005, Munich, Germany.<br>
1320: Reyk Flöter talked about the latest wireless support in
1321: OpenBSD at the annual spring meeting of the <a href="http://www.guug.de/">German Unix User Group</a>.
1322: <p>
1.293 saad 1323: <li><strong><a name=Paris2005></a>
1324: <a href="http://www.solutionslinux.fr/fr/index.php">Solutions Linux 2005</a></strong>,
1325: Feb 1 - 3, 2005, Paris, France.<br>
1326: An OpenBSD booth as well as an OpenSSH booth were present. These booths
1327: were run by Marc Espie, Miod Vallat, Saad Kadhi and Wim with help from
1328: Guillaume Arcas and Christophe Plasschaert, two members of the OpenBSD
1.294 saad 1329: french translation team.<br>
1330: Marc Espie and Saad Kadhi gave a talk about the OpenBSD project with a
1331: special focus on the ports collection and Packet Filter. The <a
1332: href="papers/sl2005/index.html">slides</a> (in French) are
1333: available.<br>
1334: During the event, several demonstrations of <a
1.293 saad 1335: href="http://soekris.kd85.com/">Soekris</a> machines running OpenBSD
1336: were given by Saad Kadhi and Wim.
1337: <p>
1.296 mcbride 1338: </ul>
1.293 saad 1339:
1.296 mcbride 1340: <h3>2004</h3>
1341:
1342: <ul>
1.287 henning 1343: <li><strong><a name=21C3></a>
1344: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/2004/">21C3 - Chaos Communication Congress</a></strong>,
1.375 grunk 1345: Dec 27 - 29, 2004, Berlin, Germany<br>
1.287 henning 1346: "The Usual Suspects" were there and ran the BSD corner, including
1347: <a href="mailto:wim@kd85.com">Wim</a>,
1348: Henning Brauer, Marc Balmer, Martin Reindl, Moritz Jodeit, Felix Kronlage,
1.315 nick 1349: Uwe Stuehler, Konrad Foerstner, Bernd Ahlers, and Alexander von Gernler.<br>
1.287 henning 1350: Henning gave a talk about OpenBGPD and OpenNTPD
1351: (<a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/21c3/">slides</a>).<br>
1352: The WiFi backbone ran on OpenBSD powered
1353: <a href="http://soekris.kd85.com">Soekris</a> machines as access points,
1354: work done by Reyk Flöter, Tim Kornau and others.
1355: This installation was a very successful test of the new
1.290 henning 1356: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ath">ath(4)</a>
1.287 henning 1357: driver.
1358: <p>
1.248 deraadt 1359:
1.286 kevlo 1360: <li><strong><a name=icos2004></a>
1.417 kevlo 1361: <a href="http://2004.icos.org.tw/">ICOS 2004</a></strong>,
1.286 kevlo 1362: Dec 18 - 19, 2004, Taipei, Taiwan.<br>
1363: Kevin Lo gave a presentation.
1364: <p>
1365:
1.285 deraadt 1366: <li><strong><a name=syscan2004></a>
1367: <a href="http://www.syscan.org/">SyScAN 2004</a></strong>,
1368: Dec 16 - 17, 2004, Singapore.<br>
1369: Theo de Raadt presented his talk about
1370: <a href="papers/auug04">Exploit Mitigation Techniques</a>.
1371: <p>
1372:
1.283 saad 1373: <li><strong><a name=sur200412></a>
1374: <a href="http://www.ossir.org/sur/calendrier/index.shtml">SUR Group Meeting, December 2004</a></strong>,
1375: Dec 14, 2004, Paris, France.<br>
1376: Saad Kadhi gave a talk about OpenBSD and security during the monthly
1377: meeting of the
1378: <a href="http://www.ossir.org/sur/index.shtml">SUR</a> Group (Sécurité
1379: Unix et Réseaux), a french user group focusing on security and Unix. The
1.284 xsa 1380: <a href="papers/surgroup200412/index.html">slides</a> (in French) are available.
1.283 saad 1381: <p>
1382:
1.282 henning 1383: <li><strong><a name=opencon2004></a>
1384: <a href="http://www.opencon.org/">OpenCon 2004</a></strong>,
1385: Dec 10 - 12, 2004, Venice, Italy.<br>
1386: OpenBSD meeting in Northern Italy. Henning gave 3 talks in
1387: two days, on bgpd
1388: (<a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/opencon04/bgpd/">slides</a>),
1389: ntpd
1390: (<a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/opencon04/ntpd/">slides</a>)
1391: and signal handlers
1392: (<a href="papers/opencon04/">slides</a>).
1393: Wim ran a booth, and Marc Balmer was there as well.
1394: <p>
1395:
1.275 deraadt 1396: <li><strong><a name=UofA></a>
1397: <a href="http://www.ualberta.ca/">U of A Seminar</a></strong>,
1398: Nov 17 - 18, 2004, Edmonton Alberta.<br>
1399: Theo de Raadt presented a talk at an open seminar at the
1400: <a href="http://www.ualberta.ca/">University of Alberta</a>, in
1401: Room B-02 of the
1402: <a href="http://www.campusmap.ualberta.ca/map_bldg.cfm?bldg_id=42">
1403: Computing Sciences Center</a>.
1404: Talk went from 2 PM to nearly 5PM with more than 100 people attending
1405: from the University and industry, followed by beer nearby.
1406: The talk was also given the following day at the
1407: <a href="http://www.cips.ca/">CIPS Security SIG</a> luncheon.
1408: <p>
1409:
1.271 henning 1410: <li><strong><a name=EuroBSDCon2004></a>
1411: <a href="http://2004.eurobsdcon.org/">EuroBSD Con</a></strong>,
1412: Oct 29 - 31, 2004, Karlsruhe, Germany.<br>
1.272 henning 1413: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
1414: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
1.271 henning 1415: Henning gave a talk
1.375 grunk 1416: about <a href="http://2004.eurobsdcon.org/talks.html?&tx_ptspeechupload_pi1[showUid]=44&cHash=ec015b0552">bgpd</a>,
1.272 henning 1417: <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/euroBSDCon2004/">slides</a> are available.
1.271 henning 1418: <p>
1419:
1420: <li><strong><a name=LinuxWorldExpoGermany2004></a>
1421: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.de/">Linux World Expo</a></strong>,
1422: Oct 26 - 28, 2004, Frankfurt, Germany.<br>
1.272 henning 1423: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
1424: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
1.271 henning 1425: <p>
1426:
1.276 deraadt 1427: <li><strong><a name=cuug2004></a>
1.270 deraadt 1428: <a href="http://www.cuug.ab.ca/">Calgary Unix Users's Group</a></strong>,
1429: Oct 26, 2004, Calgary, Canada.<br>
1430: Theo presented the talk that he has recently given in Australia and
1431: Malaysia to the "Home Crowd".
1432: <p>
1433:
1434: <li><strong><a name=aldil2004></a>
1.269 krw 1435: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/">Les Journées Du Logiciel Libre 2004</a></strong>,
1436: Oct 22 - 23, 2004, Lyon, France.<br>
1.381 aanriot 1437: There was OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Miod Vallat with the help of
1.415 aanriot 1438: Alexandre Anriot and Thierry Thomas.
1.269 krw 1439: <p>
1440:
1441: <li><strong><a name=systems2004></a>
1442: <a href="http://www.systems.de/">Systems</a></strong>,
1443: Oct 18 - 22, 2004, Munich, Germany <br>
1444: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
1445: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
1446: <p>
1447:
1.268 krw 1448: <li><strong><a name=linuxexpo2004oct></a>
1449: <a href="http://www.linuxexpo.org.uk/">Linux Expo</a></strong>,
1450: Oct 6 - 7, 2004, London, UK.<br>
1451: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
1452: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
1453: <p>
1454:
1.375 grunk 1455: <li><strong><a name=hitb2004></a>
1.268 krw 1456: <a href="http://conference.hackinthebox.org">Hack in the Box Security Conference 2004</a></strong>,
1457: Oct 4 - 7, 2004, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.<br>
1458: Theo de Raadt presented an updated version of his
1459: "Exploit Mitigation Techniques" talk.
1460: <p>
1461:
1462: <li><strong><a name=SANE2004></a>
1463: <a href="http://www.nluug.nl/events/sane2004/bazaar.html">SANE 2004</a></strong>
1.410 wvdputte 1464: , Sep 29, 2004, Amsterdam, Netherlands.<br>
1.268 krw 1465: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
1466: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
1467: <p>
1468:
1.265 wvdputte 1469: <li><strong><a name=LinuxKongress2004></a>
1470: <a href="http://www.linux-kongress.org/2004">Linux Kongress 2004</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 1471: Sep 7 - 10, 2004, Erlangen, Germany.<br>
1.265 wvdputte 1472: From their website: "Linux-Kongress is still the premier event for European
1473: developers and one of the most important in the world. Each year hundreds of
1474: hard core Linux enthusiasts from all over the world gather for this important
1475: event."
1476: <br>
1477: Although this was a Linux developers' conference, we were able to
1478: install a regular OpenBSD booth there, as known from other events.
1479: It was run by <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim Vandeputte</a>,
1480: <a href="mailto:grunk@pestilenz.org">Alexander von Gernler</a> and other
1481: geeks from the Erlangen-Nuremberg area.
1482: <br>
1483: There also was a BSD dinner at Friday evening.
1484: <p>
1485:
1.262 henning 1486: <li><strong><a name=Sucon2004></a>
1487: <a href="http://www.suug.ch/sucon/04/">SUCON 2004</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 1488: Sep 2 - 4, 2004, Zurich, Switzerland.<br>
1.262 henning 1489: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth. Very nice conference.
1490: Henning's slides from his talks about
1491: <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/sucon04/bgpd">bgpd</a> and
1492: <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/sucon04/ntpd">ntpd</a>
1493: are available.
1494: <p>
1495:
1.261 deraadt 1496: <li><strong><a name=auug2004></a>
1.266 jolan 1497: <a href="http://www.auug.org.au/events/2004/auug2004/">AUUG 2004</a></strong>,
1.261 deraadt 1498: Aug 29 - Sep 3, 2004, Melbourne, Australia.<br>
1499: Theo de Raadt presented a half-day tutorial on privilege seperation and a
1500: newly extended version of the
1501: <a href="papers/auug04">Exploit Mitigation Techniques</a> talk.<br>
1502: For more information, see this
1503: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;517187222;fp;16;fpid;0">
1504: ComputerWorld article</a>.
1505: <p>
1506:
1507:
1.680 aanriot 1508: <li><strong><a name=lsm2004></a>
1.257 saad 1509: <a href="http://lsm.abul.org">Libre Software Meeting</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 1510: Jul 6 - 10, 2004, Bordeaux, France.<br>
1.257 saad 1511: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
1512: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim Vandeputte</a>.
1513: <p>
1514:
1515: <li><strong><a name=LinuxTag2004></a>
1516: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.org">LinuxTag 2004</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 1517: Jun 23 - 26, 2004, Karlsruhe, Germany.<br>
1.257 saad 1518: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
1519: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim Vandeputte</a>.
1520: <p>
1521:
1.254 xsa 1522: <li><strong><a name=LinuxwochenVienna2004></a>
1.255 xsa 1523: <a href="http://www.linuxwochen.at/">Linuxwochen Vienna 2004</a></strong>,
1.254 xsa 1524: May 26 - 29, 2004, Vienna, Austria.<br>
1525: The Linuxwochen 2004 tour stopped in the MuseumsQuartier, Vienna.
1526: Wim Vandeputte and Reinhard Sammer ran the OpenBSD booth. Michael Bauer
1527: and Teemu Schaabl from the <a href="http://www.cngw.org/">CNGW</a> gave
1528: a basic talk about pf.
1529: <p>
1530:
1.248 deraadt 1531: <li><strong><a name=BSDCan2004></a>
1.303 mcbride 1532: <a href="http://www.bsdcan.org/2004/">BSDCan 2004</a></strong>,
1.248 deraadt 1533: May 13 - 16, 2004, Ottawa, Canada.<br>
1534: BSDCan was held at the University of Ottawa. Ryan McBride gave a talk
1.302 mcbride 1535: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/papers/bsdcan04-pf/index.html">about newer features in pf</a>,
1536: focusing on the redundancy provided by CARP and pfsync.
1537: Theo de Raadt presented a revised version of his talk on
1.248 deraadt 1538: <a href="papers/bsdcan04">Exploit Mitigation Techniques</a>.
1539: <p>
1540:
1.247 canacar 1541: <li><strong><a name="LOSFAnkara2004"></a>
1542: <a href="http://senlik.linux.org.tr">3rd Linux and Open Source Festival</a></strong>,
1543: May 13 - 16, 2004, Ankara, Turkey.<br>
1544: Can E. Acar and Berk D. Demir talked about the OpenBSD Project. The
1545: philosophy, project goals, system features and recent proactive
1546: security features were introduced. CARP, patents, recent Apache &
1547: XFree86 licensing issues and effects of NDAs in open source
1548: projects were discussed.<br>
1549: You can view the
1.720 canacar 1550: <a href="http://purl.org/net/bddemir/talk/2004/LOYS-OpenBSD-cea-bdd.pdf">
1.247 canacar 1551: slides in PDF format</a> the
1.720 canacar 1552: <a href="http://purl.org/net/bddemir/talk/2004/LOYS-OpenBSD-cea-bdd.tex">
1.247 canacar 1553: LaTeX source</a> is also available (they are
1554: <a href="http://www.eee.metu.edu.tr/~canacar/slides/">mirrored</a>, as well).
1555: <p>
1556:
1.242 henning 1557: <li><strong><a name=Brussels2004></a>
1558: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/">FOSDEM Brussels 2004</a></strong>,
1559: Feb 21 - 22, 2004, Brussels, Belgium.<br>
1.243 henning 1560: An OpenBSD/OpenSSH booth was present, run by Wim Vandeputte.
1561: Several developers (including Henning Brauer, Xavier Santolaria, Thierry Deval,
1562: Philipp Bühler, Otto Moerbeek and Saad Kadhi) showed up.
1563: Wim and Alexander von Gernler gave "lightning talks" about Soekris
1564: and systrace
1.263 saad 1565: (<a href="http://pestilenz.org/~grunk/vortraege/2004/FOSDEM/systrace.pdf">slides</a>), respectively.
1.243 henning 1566: Henning got a slot in the main track to talk about the new bgpd
1567: (<a href="http://www.2suck.net/papers/fosdem2004/">slides</a>).
1568: On Saturday evening, the traditional OpenBSD dinner took place.
1.242 henning 1569: <p>
1570:
1.240 espie 1571: <li><strong><a name=Paris2004></a>
1572: <a href="http://www.linuxsolutions.fr/">Linux Expo Paris 2004</a></strong>,
1573: Feb 3 - 5, 2004, Paris, France.<br>
1574: An OpenBSD booth as well as an OpenSSH booth were present, thanks to
1575: <a href="mailto:saad@docisland.org">Saad Kadhi</a> and
1576: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
1577: <p>
1578:
1579: <li><strong><a name="LWE04"></a>
1580: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/linuxworldny/V40/index.cvn">LinuxWorld
1581: Conference and Expo</a></strong>, Jan 20 - 23, 2004, New York, NY, USA.<br>
1.397 grunk 1582: <a href="mailto:wes@openlysecure.org">Wes Sonnenreich</a> and others
1.240 espie 1583: have established a BSD user group in NYC and held a BSD BoF at the
1584: Jacob Javits Center on January 22nd at 5:45pm, Room 1E15.
1585: <p>
1586: </ul>
1587:
1.188 henning 1588: <h3>2003</h3>
1.236 jose 1589:
1590: <ul>
1.232 jose 1591: <li><strong><a name=20c3></a>
1592: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/2003/">20th Chaos Communication Congress 2003</a></strong>,
1593: Dec 27 - 29, 2003, Berlin, Germany.<br>
1594: OpenBSD was represented by a booth, ran by
1595: <a href= "mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>, and supported by Henning and
1.236 jose 1596: Alexander von Gernler. Alexander also gave a
1.260 saad 1597: <a href="http://pestilenz.org/~grunk/vortraege/2003/20C3/openbsd.pdf">talk</a>
1.232 jose 1598: introducing the project and the OS (in German).
1.236 jose 1599: <p>
1.232 jose 1600:
1.228 jose 1601: <li><strong><a name=brazil2003></a>
1.236 jose 1602: <a href="http://bsdcon.myfreebsd.com.br">1st BSDCon Brazil</a></strong>,
1.228 jose 1603: Dec 6 - 7, 2003. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.<br>
1604: This was the first BSDCon Brazil, and of course OpenBSD was present.
1.236 jose 1605: Douglas Santos spoke on advocacy and about some of the technical aspects
1606: of OpenBSD. Eduardo A. Alvarenga gave a presentation about firewalling
1.228 jose 1607: with OpenBSD PF.
1608: <p>
1609:
1610: <li><strong><a name=ankara03></a>
1.720 canacar 1611: <a href="http://seminer.linux.org.tr">Turkish Linux Users Association</a></strong>,
1.228 jose 1612: Dec 4, 2003, Ankara, Turkey.<br>
1.720 canacar 1613: Can E. Acar and Berk D. Demir gave a mammoth 4 hour presentation on OpenBSD.
1.228 jose 1614: The first part was a broad introduction to the OpenBSD philosophy, the
1.236 jose 1615: project goals, and system features. After a break, in the second part they
1616: talked about the exploit mitigation techniques employed in OpenBSD. This
1617: part was aimed at techies and is almost a complete Turkish translation of
1618: the talk Theo recently gave in Japan. You can view the
1.720 canacar 1619: <a href="http://purl.org/net/bddemir/talk/2003/LS-OpenBSD-cea-bdd.pdf">
1.236 jose 1620: slides in PDF format </a>
1621: (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 1622: <p>
1623:
1.227 jose 1624: <li><strong><a name=Luxembourg2003></a>
1625: <a href="http://www.linuxday.lu/">Linuxday Luxembourg 2003</a></strong>,
1626: Nov 6 - 8, 2003, Luxembourg, Luxembourg.<br>
1627: Booths were present, organized by <a href= "mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
1628: <p>
1629:
1630: <li><strong><a name=Pacsec2003></a>
1631: <a href="http://pacsec.jp/">Pacsec 2003</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 1632: Nov 6 - 7, 2003, Tokyo, Japan.<br>
1.236 jose 1633: Three OpenBSD developers presented on various topics. Theo de Raadt
1.227 jose 1634: gave a presentation on Exploit Mitigation Techniques
1.236 jose 1635: <a href="papers/pacsec03/e/index.html">(English)</a>
1636: <a href="papers/pacsec03/j/index.html">(Japanese)</a>, Jun-ichiro
1.227 jose 1637: itojun Hagino presented material covering
1.236 jose 1638: <a href="http://www.itojun.org/paper/itojun-200311-pacsec-jp/">
1.241 david 1639: IPv6 security considerations</a>, and Jose Nazario discussed advances
1.227 jose 1640: in Internet worm defenses.
1641: <p>
1642:
1.224 miod 1643: <li><strong><a name=Lyon2003></a>
1644: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/agenda/journees/2003/">Les V<sup>èmes</sup> Journées du Libre 2003</a></strong>,
1645: Oct 31 - Nov 1, 2003, Lyon, France.<br>
1646: Miod Vallat gave a talk about the recent security efforts deployed in OpenBSD,
1647: as well as generic security concepts (slides, in bad French, are available in
1648: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/agenda/journees/2003/vallat/miod.mgp">mgp
1649: format</a>). As usual, Wim ran an OpenBSD booth featuring the new 3.4 release,
1650: as well as <a href="http://soekris.kd85.com">Soekris</a> hardware running
1651: OpenBSD.
1652: <p>
1653:
1654: <li><strong><a name=Saarbrucken2003></a>
1655: <a href="http://www.linux-kongress.org/2003/index.html">Linux Kongress Saarbrücken 2003</a></strong>,
1656: Oct 14 - 16, 2003, Saarbrücken, Germany.<br>
1657: An OpenBSD booth was present, starring Wim again.
1658: <p>
1659:
1660: <li><strong><a name=London2003></a>
1661: <a href="http://www.linuxexpo.org.uk/">Linux Expo London 2003</a></strong>,
1662: Oct 8 - 9, 2003, London, UK.<br>
1663: An OpenBSD booth was present, starring Wim as usual.
1664: <p>
1665:
1.219 jose 1666: <li><strong><a name=bsdcon2003></a>
1667: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/bsdcon03/">BSDCon '03</a></strong>,
1668: Sep 8 - 12, 2003, San Mateo, California.<br>
1.236 jose 1669: OpenBSD was represented in the BSD Status Report, and David Rosenthal
1.219 jose 1670: gave a talk on an OpenBSD based security appliance.
1671: <p>
1672:
1.218 jose 1673: <li><strong><a name=sucon2003></a>
1674: <a href="http://www.sucon.ch/">SUCON '03</a></strong>,
1675: Sep 5, 2003. Zurich, Switzerland.<br>
1.236 jose 1676: Daniel Hartmeier talked about PF, and <a
1.218 jose 1677: href="http://open.bsdcow.net/events/sucon2003/">pictures are available</a>.
1678: <p>
1679:
1.214 henning 1680: <li><strong><a name=camp2003></a>
1681: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/camp/">Chaos Communication Camp 2003</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1682: Aug 7 - 10, 2003, in <a href="http://www.paulshof.de/body-mehr.html">a field</a> near Berlin Germany<br>
1.214 henning 1683: There was a huge OpenBSD village. Several OpenBSD developers have been there.
1684: <p>
1685:
1.213 jose 1686: <li><strong><a name=sec2003></a>
1687: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/sec03/">Usenix Security</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1688: Aug 4 - 8, 2003, Washington, DC, USA.<br>
1.236 jose 1689: Niels Provos presented two papers on security advances originally
1.213 jose 1690: developed for OpenBSD, including the OpenSSH privsep feature and systrace.
1691: Several OpenBSD developers were there.
1692: <p>
1693:
1.211 jose 1694: <li><strong><a name=linuxtag2003></a>
1695: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.org/2003/en/index.html">LinuxTag 2003</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1696: Jul 10 - 13, 2003, Karlsruhe Convention Center Germany<br>
1.211 jose 1697: Both OpenBSD and OpenSSH had booths in the main exhibit.
1698: <p>
1699:
1700: <li><strong><a name=lsm2003></a>
1701: <a href="http://libresoftwaremeeting.org/">Libre Software Meeting 2003</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1702: Jul 9 - 12, 2003, Metz, France<br>
1.212 matthieu 1703: Matthieu Herrb gave <a href="papers/xf86-sec.pdf">a talk about XFree86 security</a>. There was
1.211 jose 1704: also an OpenBSD booth with developers.
1705: <p>
1706:
1.209 wvdputte 1707: <li><strong><a name=lud2003></a>
1708: <a href="http://www.linuxuserexpo.com/">Linux User & Developer Expo 2003</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1709: Jun 24 - 26, 2003, at the NEC in Birmingham UK<br>
1.209 wvdputte 1710: There was an OpenBSD booth with developers.
1711: <p>
1.195 deraadt 1712:
1.202 jason 1713: <li><strong><a name=usenix2003></a>
1.236 jose 1714: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix03/">Usenix Annual Technical
1.216 jose 1715: Conference</a></strong>,
1716: Jun 9 - 14, 2003, San Antonio, Texas, USA<br>
1.202 jason 1717: A few OpenBSD developers were there and one paper was presented:
1718: <ul>
1.216 jose 1719: <li>The Design of the OpenBSD Cryptographic Framework<br>
1.202 jason 1720: <a href="events.html#usenix2003">Usenix 2003</a>, by
1.236 jose 1721: Angelos D. Keromytis,
1722: Jason L. Wright, and
1.205 deraadt 1723: Theo de Raadt.<br>
1.202 jason 1724: <a href="papers/ocf.pdf">paper</a>.
1725: </ul>
1726: <p>
1727:
1.216 jose 1728: <li><strong>
1729: <a href="http://www.webb.it/">Webbit 2003</a></strong>,
1730: May 9 - 11, 2003, Padova, Italy<br>
1.203 jason 1731: Giacomo Cariello and Wim Vandeputte attended, and several OpenBSD
1.661 martynas 1732: <a href="http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20030503101052">related talks</a> were given.
1.203 jason 1733: <p>
1734:
1.216 jose 1735: <li><strong>
1736: <a href="http://cansecwest.com/">CanSecWest 03</a></strong>,
1737: Apr 9 - 11, 2003, Vancouver, Canada<br>
1.195 deraadt 1738: Theo spoke about killing buffer overflows using ProPolice and the new W^X technology,
1.196 matthieu 1739: available as a <a href="papers/csw03.mgp">magicpoint file</a>.
1.195 deraadt 1740: <p>
1741:
1.216 jose 1742: <li><strong>
1743: <a href="http://www.cebit.de/">CeBIT 2003</a></strong>,
1744: Mar 14, 2003, Hannover, Germany<br>
1.236 jose 1745: 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 1746: gave a talk on OpenBSD and OpenSSH. <a href="papers/cebit2003.tgz">slides</a> are available.
1.194 henning 1747: <p>
1748:
1.216 jose 1749: <li><strong>
1750: <a href="http://www.linuxforum.dk/2003/english/">LinuxForum 2003</a></strong>,
1751: Mar 1, 2003, Copenhagen<br>
1.236 jose 1752: Daniel spoke about PF (slides in <a href="papers/linuxforum2k3.tar.gz">mgp</a>,
1753: <a href="http://www.benzedrine.cx/linuxforum/">HTML</a>).
1.191 dhartmei 1754: It was a small but cozy conference, jointly held by Danish Linux and BSD
1755: user groups.
1756: <p>
1757:
1.236 jose 1758: <li><strong>
1759: <a href="http://www.cuug.ab.ca">CUUG - The Calgary Unix Users
1.216 jose 1760: Group</a></strong>,
1761: Feb 25, 2003, 18:00 MST, Calgary<br>
1.190 miod 1762: OpenBSD lead developer Theo de Raadt spoke about some of the recent
1763: changes in OpenBSD that are leading the way to the complete elimination of
1764: "buffer overflow" security risks and attacks.
1765: <p>
1766:
1.216 jose 1767: <li><strong>
1768: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/">FOSDEM 2003</a></strong>,
1769: Feb 8 - 9, 2003, Brussels<br>
1.236 jose 1770: Henning and Philipp gave a talk on -current PF developments
1.196 matthieu 1771: (<a href="papers/fosdem2k3-pf.mgp">slides</a>)
1.187 henning 1772: and on Saturday evening, there was an OpenBSD dinner for those interested.
1773: <p>
1774:
1.216 jose 1775: <li><strong>
1776: <a href="http://linuxsolutions.fr/FR/home/index.php?site=default">Linux Solutions</a></strong>,
1777: Feb 4 - 6, 2003, CNIT - Paris La Défense<br>
1.185 miod 1778: There was an OpenBSD booth with several OpenBSD developers, as well as 3.2 OpenBSD
1.413 grunk 1779: CD sets and T-shirts.
1.185 miod 1780: <p>
1.236 jose 1781: </ul>
1.185 miod 1782:
1.161 millert 1783: <h3>2002</h3>
1.236 jose 1784:
1785: <ul>
1786: <li><strong>
1787: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/2002/">19c3: the 19th CCC
1.216 jose 1788: Congress</a></strong>,
1789: Dec 27 - 29, 2002, Berlin<br>
1.236 jose 1790: There was a huge <a href="http://www.eurobsd.org/19c3">reserved space</a> for
1791: OpenBSD users and developers, a couple of -current test systems and for those
1.413 grunk 1792: curious, a first look at the 3.2 OpenBSD T-shirts.
1.184 wvdputte 1793: <p>
1.177 jason 1794:
1.216 jose 1795: <li><strong>
1796: <a href="http://2002.eurobsdcon.org/">BSDCon Europe 2002</a></strong>,
1797: Nov 15 - 17, 2002, Amsterdam, Netherlands<br>
1.181 henning 1798: OpenBSD people were there;
1.236 jose 1799: Philipp Bühler and Henning Brauer spoke about
1.182 ian 1800: <a href="papers/tuning-openbsd.ps">
1801: network performance tuning on OpenBSD</a>,
1.236 jose 1802: and Ian Darwin presented a
1.182 ian 1803: <a href="papers/eurobsd-firewalls-2002.pdf">
1804: tutorial on OpenBSD servers/firewalls</a>.
1.179 pb 1805: <p>
1.178 pb 1806:
1.216 jose 1807: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1808: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa02/">LISA '02: 16th Systems
1.216 jose 1809: Administration Conference</a></strong>,
1810: Nov 3 - 8, 2002, Philadelphia, USA<br>
1.177 jason 1811: Mickey and Jason manned the booth at the vendor expo (the only BSD
1812: represented) and sold <a href="32.html">3.2</a> CDs, and Jason gave a BoF
1813: session on <a href="32.html">3.2</a> and future.
1814: <p>
1815:
1.216 jose 1816: <li><strong>
1.264 djm 1817: <a href="http://www.auug.org.au/events/2002/auug2002/">Australian Unix Users
1818: Group Winter Conference</a></strong>,
1819: Sep 1 - 6, 2002, Melbourne Australia<br>
1820: Damien Miller presented a tutorial on the
1821: <a href="papers/auug2002-ssh/index.html">SSH protocol</a> and
1822: <a href="papers/auug2002-ssh.ps">OpenSSH tips and tricks</a>.
1823: <p>
1824:
1825: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 1826: <a href="http://lsm.abul.org">The 3rd Libre Software Meeting</a></strong>,
1827: Jul 9 - 13, 2002, Bordeaux, France<br>
1.172 miod 1828: Several OpenBSD developers and users were attending the meeting, and
1829: Niels Provos presented his
1830: <a href="http://www.citi.umich.edu/u/provos/systrace">systrace</a>
1831: system call policy management tool.
1.174 nick 1832: <p>
1.172 miod 1833:
1.216 jose 1834: <li><strong>
1835: <a href="http://www.Webb.it">Webb.it 02</a></strong>,
1836: Jul 5 - 7, 2002, Padova, Italy<br>
1.171 ian 1837: OpenBSD developers had a booth selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
1838: <p>
1839:
1.216 jose 1840: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1841: <a href="http://www.softwarelivre.rs.gov.br/forum">The Annual International
1.216 jose 1842: Free Software Forum</a></strong>,
1843: May 2 - 4, 2002, Porto Alegre-RS, Brazil<br>
1.236 jose 1844: Mainly a Linux/GNU event, but this year the BSD Operating Systems
1845: had a chance to prove their value.
1.169 horacio 1846: Edson Brandi spoke on FreeBSD, Diego Linke
1.236 jose 1847: on NetBSD, and Ricardo Nascimento Ferreira on OpenBSD.
1.169 horacio 1848: <p>
1.168 miod 1849:
1.216 jose 1850: <li><strong>
1851: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/bsdcon02/">BSDCON 2002</a></strong>,
1852: Feb 11 - 14, 2002, San Francisco, California, USA<br>
1.161 millert 1853: Todd Miller gave an update on current OpenBSD status and participated in a
1.162 millert 1854: BSD panel discussion. The <a href="slides/bsdcon_2002/index.html">slides</a>
1855: are available.
1.161 millert 1856: <p>
1857:
1.216 jose 1858: <li><strong>
1859: <a href="http://www.linuxexpoparis.com">Linux expo Paris 2002</a></strong>,
1860: Jan 30 - Feb 1, 2002, Paris, France<br>
1.163 miod 1861: The french Linux Expo 2002 was quite small and as usual the OpenBSD booth ended
1862: up with others on the expo's side. On the first day, almost all the merchandise
1863: was sold, and we have even sold older versions (2.9) the following days to
1864: people who wouldn't leave without a cd set in their hands...
1865: <p>
1866:
1.216 jose 1867: <li><strong>
1868: <a href="http://musess.mcmaster.ca/">MUSESS 2002</a></strong>,
1869: Jan 25 - 26, 2002, McMaster University, Ontario, Canada<br>
1.164 millert 1870: Louis Bertrand gave a presentation on OpenBSD titled
1871: <strong>Fix The Bugs, Secure The System</strong>.
1872: The <a href="slides/musess_2002/index.html">slides</a> are available.
1873: <p>
1.236 jose 1874: </ul>
1.164 millert 1875:
1.152 jakob 1876: <h3>2001</h3>
1877:
1.236 jose 1878: <ul>
1.216 jose 1879: <li><strong>
1880: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa01/">USENIX LISA 2001</a></strong>,
1881: Dec 2 - 7, 2001, San Diego, California, USA<br>
1.160 jufi 1882: Niels Provos gave a presentation, and there's been a booth selling
1.413 grunk 1883: T-shirts and 3.0 CDs.
1.160 jufi 1884: <p>
1885:
1.216 jose 1886: <li><strong>
1887: <a href="http://www.ietf.org/meetings/IETF-52.html">52nd IETF</a></strong>,
1888: Dec 9 - 14, 2001, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA<br>
1.160 jufi 1889: Angelos, Itojun & Jakob were there.
1890: <p>
1891:
1.158 deraadt 1892: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1893: <a href="http://www.disc2000.unam.mx/disc/index-ing.html">DISC
1.216 jose 1894: 2001</a></strong>,
1895: Nov 26 - 29, 2001, Mexico City, Mexico<br>
1.158 deraadt 1896: Once again, Theo de Raadt explained the security auditing process and
1897: subsequent secure configuration choices made in OpenBSD, in a talk
1898: entitled "Updated thoughts on writing a secure Operating System".
1899: <p>
1900:
1.216 jose 1901: <li><strong>
1902: <a href="http://www.linux.org.hk">LinuxCafe</a></strong>,
1903: Sep 15, 2001, Hong Kong, China<br>
1.156 provos 1904: Shell Hung gave an introduction for BSD and demonstration of OpenBSD to HKLUG.
1905: <p>
1906:
1.201 deraadt 1907: <li><strong>VPN Bakeoff</strong>,
1.216 jose 1908: Aug 13 - 18, 2001, Finland<br>
1.156 provos 1909: Jakob and Itojun were there.
1910: <p>
1.158 deraadt 1911:
1.150 wvdputte 1912: <li><strong>
1.215 nick 1913: <a href="http://www.hal2001.org">HAL 2001</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1914: Aug 10 - 12, 2001, Twente, Netherlands<br>
1.153 jufi 1915: Quite a lot of developers were there, we even had our own tent.
1916: Niels, Rees and Dugsong held talks, more info on the main website
1917: for HAL2001. And of course T-Shirts and CDROMs were sold.
1.150 wvdputte 1918: <p>
1.137 aaron 1919:
1920: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1921: <a href="http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon/">O'Reilly Open Source
1.216 jose 1922: Conference</a></strong>,
1923: Jul 23 - 27, 2001, San Diego, California, USA<br>
1.148 brian 1924: OpenBSD had a booth selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
1925: Ian Darwin presented his "Firewalls and Secure Internet Servers
1926: with OpenBSD" tutorial.
1927: <p>
1928:
1929: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 1930: <a href="http://www.defcon.org">DEF CON Nine</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1931: Jul 13 - 15, 2001 Las Vegas, USA<br>
1.148 brian 1932: OpenBSD developers and users make it a point to attend every year,
1933: and had a table selling CD's, shirts, etc.
1934: <p>
1935:
1936: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1937: <a href="http://www.sek.co.kr/sek2001/sek_html/main.htm">Software
1.216 jose 1938: Exhibition of Korea</a></strong>,
1939: Jun 26 - 29, 2001, Seoul, Korea<br>
1.146 krw 1940: urisecure/NDS sponsored an OpenBSD booth with CD's, posters,
1941: and a live demo of OpenBSD's IPSEC hardware acceleration.
1942: <p>
1943:
1944: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1945: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix01/">2001 USENIX Annual
1.216 jose 1946: Technical Conference</a></strong>,
1947: Jun 25 - 30, 2001, Boston, USA<br>
1.146 krw 1948: OpenBSD developers were there, selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
1949: <p>
1950:
1951: <li><strong>
1.143 dugsong 1952: <a href="http://www.olymfair.org/eng/workshop.htm">Information
1.201 deraadt 1953: Security OlymFair</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1954: May 16 - 18, 2001, Seoul, Korea<br>
1.143 dugsong 1955: Dug Song gave a detailed introduction to OpenBSD to the Korean
1956: security community.
1957: <p>
1958:
1959: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1960: <a href="http://www.osdem.org/">2001 Open Source and Free Software
1.216 jose 1961: Developers' Meeting</a></strong>,
1962: Feb 3 - 4, 2001, Brussels, Belgium<br>
1.137 aaron 1963: There was an OpenBSD booth with some loose talks made.
1964: <p>
1965:
1966: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 1967: <a href="http://www.linuxexpoparis.com/">2001 Linux Expo</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1968: Feb 1 - 2, 2001, Paris, France<br>
1.236 jose 1969: There was an OpenBSD booth in the 'F' area.
1.137 aaron 1970: <p>
1.236 jose 1971: </ul>
1.137 aaron 1972:
1.132 louis 1973: <h3>2000</h3>
1974:
1.236 jose 1975: <ul>
1.132 louis 1976: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1977: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa2000/">LISA 2000, USENIX
1.216 jose 1978: Systems Administration Conference</a></strong>,
1979: Dec 3 - 8, 2000, New Orleans, USA<br>
1.134 jufi 1980: Wim Vandeputte and other volunteers have been running a sales table with
1981: shirts, posters and the brand new 2.8 CDs.
1982: <p>
1983:
1984: <li><strong>
1.215 nick 1985: <a href="http://www.disc2000.unam.mx/disc/index-ing.html">DISC 2000</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1986: Nov 26 - Dec 1, 2000, Mexico City, Mexico<br>
1.133 deraadt 1987: Theo de Raadt explained the security auditing process and subsequent secure
1988: configuration choices made in OpenBSD, in a talk entitled "Secure by Default".
1989: Over the next few days, he also participated in two panels with various security
1990: experts who had flown in from around the world. Following this, Theo climbed
1.151 jsyn 1991: one of the largest volcanoes, called Malinche.
1.133 deraadt 1992: <p>
1993:
1994: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1995: <a href="http://www.nluug.nl/events/nj2000">NLUUG Najaarsconferentie
1.216 jose 1996: 2000</a></strong>,
1997: Nov 9, 2000, Ede, NL<br>
1.236 jose 1998: There was an OpenBSD booth where people dropped by for information or to
1.413 grunk 1999: get their T-shirts, polos, caps and 2.7 CDs.
1.13 deraadt 2000: <p>
1.4 millert 2001:
1.132 louis 2002: <li><strong><a name=ipsec2000></a>
1.236 jose 2003: <a href="http://www.upperside.fr/baipsecy2k.htm">IPsec 2000 Global
1.216 jose 2004: Summit</a></strong>,
2005: Oct 24 - 27, 2000, Paris La Defense, France<br>
1.159 miod 2006: Niels Provos ended the conference by speaking about the IPsec architecture
1.132 louis 2007: in OpenBSD. The talk was well received and many people were very interested
2008: about our cryptographic hardware acceleration.
2009:
2010: <ul>
1.236 jose 2011: <li>The IPsec Architecture in OpenBSD<br>
1.215 nick 2012: <a href="#ipsec2000">IPsec 2000 Global Summit</a> by Niels Provos.<br>
1.132 louis 2013: <a href="papers/ipsec-slides.ps">slides</a>.
2014: </ul>
1.4 millert 2015: <p>
1.132 louis 2016:
1.7 deraadt 2017: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 2018: <a href="http://ApacheCon.Com/2000/EU/">ApacheCon Europa 2000</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 2019: Oct 23 - 25, 2000, London, UK<br>
1.132 louis 2020: There was an OpenBSD booth where people could drop by for information and
2021: a chat with the local OpenBSD personnel. We also had the essentials for
1.413 grunk 2022: your wardrobe (T-shirts, polos, caps), for your hardware (2.7 CDs) and for your
1.132 louis 2023: mind (drinks afterwards).
2024: <p>
2025:
1.216 jose 2026: <li><strong>
2027: <a href="http://www.bsdcon.com/">BSD Con 2000</a></strong>,
2028: Oct 18 - 20, 2000, Monterey, CA, USA<br>
1.132 louis 2029: David Terrell ran an OpenBSD booth selling T-shirts and CDs and answering
2030: questions.
1.32 deraadt 2031: <p>
1.1 deraadt 2032:
1.132 louis 2033: <li><strong><a name=opensource2000></a>
1.236 jose 2034: <a href="http://www.opensource-forum.com/konferens">The Open Source
1.216 jose 2035: Revolution</a></strong>,
2036: Oct 5, 2000, Stockholm, Sweden<br>
1.133 deraadt 2037: Theo de Raadt spoke about how user expectations for security out of the box
2038: have changed over the last years.
1.1 deraadt 2039: <p>
2040:
1.132 louis 2041: <li><strong><a name=sec2000></a>
1.216 jose 2042: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/sec2000/">Usenix Security</a></strong>,
2043: Aug 14 - 17, 2000, Denver, Colorado, USA<br>
1.132 louis 2044: Some OpenBSD developers were there and one paper was presented:
2045: <ul>
1.236 jose 2046: <li>Encrypting Virtual Memory<br>
1.132 louis 2047: <a href="#sec2000">Usenix Security 2000</a>
1.205 deraadt 2048: by Niels Provos.<br>
1.132 louis 2049: <a href="papers/swapencrypt.ps">paper</a> and
2050: <a href="papers/swapencrypt-slides.ps">slides</a>.
2051: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 2052: <p>
1.132 louis 2053:
1.10 provos 2054: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 2055: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-8-post.html">Defcon 2000</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 2056: Jul 28 - 30, 2000, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.236 jose 2057: Kjell Wooding (our IPF maintainer), James Phillips from the
1.132 louis 2058: <a href="http://www.deadly.org">OpenBSD Journal</a>, and Theo de Raadt
1.413 grunk 2059: had a table and were selling OpenBSD CDROMs, T-shirts, and posters on
1.132 louis 2060: Friday and Saturday. Hordes of people visited our table and we at the
2061: end we were completely sold out of CDROMS and shirts (allowing us to go
2062: check out Hoover Dam's hardhat tour on Sunday and leave the madness behind).
2063: <br>
2064: We were completely amazed at the people who stopped by our table, to say
2065: that they were relying on OpenBSD.
2066: <p>
1.32 deraadt 2067:
1.132 louis 2068: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2069: <a href="http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon2000/">O'Reilly Open Source
1.216 jose 2070: Conference 2000</a></strong>,
2071: Jul 17 - 20, 2000, Monterey, California, USA<br>
2072: Ian Darwin presented a <a href="papers/oreilly2000/">tutorial</a> on
1.132 louis 2073: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/w/bsd_tutorials.html">
2074: Secure Internet Servers/Firewalls with OpenBSD</a>, and bravely
2075: manned the OpenBSD booth for the remainder of the show.
2076: Kjell Wooding took part in a panel discussion on the Future of the BSDs,
2077: and spoke about
2078: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/w/bsd_presentations.html">
1.241 david 2079: Secure By Default.</a> Both sessions were well attended, and at least
1.132 louis 2080: one Linux sysadmin was seen racing for a keyboard, scared look in his eyes,
1.236 jose 2081: after the security talk.
1.3 provos 2082: <p>
1.132 louis 2083:
1.6 deraadt 2084: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 2085: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.de/2000/english/">LinuxTag 2000</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 2086: Jun 29 - Jul 2, 2000, Stuttgart, Germany<br>
1.132 louis 2087: There was a BSD booth where we had the first <a href="27.html">OpenBSD 2.7 CDs</a> for Europe
2088: and the new blue stitchwork <a href="tshirts.html#11">Blowfish Polo</a> shirt.
2089: <br>
2090: Christian Weisgerber gave a
2091: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.de/2000/english/conference/talks.php3?ID=3">talk
2092: on BSD</a>.
1.32 deraadt 2093: <p>
1.1 deraadt 2094:
1.216 jose 2095: <li><strong><a name=usenix2000></a>
1.236 jose 2096: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix2000/">Usenix Annual Technical
1.216 jose 2097: Conference.</a></strong>,
2098: Jun 18 - 23, 2000, San Diego, California, USA<br>
1.132 louis 2099: Almost 20 OpenBSD developers showed up for the 25th anniversary of Usenix.
2100: We had a vendor booth, as well as a number of papers being presented.
2101: Conference attendees had the opportunity to test drive the new release,
2102: OpenBSD 2.7, on the 30 workstations in the terminal room. For the first
2103: time ever, the terminal room and wavelan networks also had a IPv6 connection,
1.147 jason 2104: and some users even discovered so by themselves.
1.132 louis 2105: Theo also held a BoF on the Wednesday evening, after which the developers
2106: had almost too much singing in foreign languages with the help of helium.
2107: <ul>
2108:
2109: <li>Implementing Internet Key Exchange, IKE.<br>
2110: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
1.216 jose 2111: by Angelos D. Keromytis, Niklas Hallqvist.<br>
1.132 louis 2112: <a href="papers/ikepaper.ps">paper</a> and
2113: <a href="papers/ikeslides.ps">slides</a>.
2114:
2115: <li>Transparent Network Security Policy Enforcement.<br>
2116: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
1.216 jose 2117: by Angelos D. Keromytis, Jason L. Wright.<br>
1.132 louis 2118: <a href="papers/bridgepaper.ps">paper</a> and
2119: <a href="papers/bridgeslides.ps">slides</a>.
1.2 deraadt 2120:
1.132 louis 2121: <li>Safety Checking of Kernel Extensions.<br>
2122: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
1.205 deraadt 2123: by Craig Metz.
1.132 louis 2124: </ul>
1.2 deraadt 2125: <p>
2126:
1.132 louis 2127: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2128: <a href="http://www.manlug.mcc.ac.uk/calendar.html">OpenBSD: The Open
1.216 jose 2129: Source Secure Operating System</a></strong>,
2130: Jun 17, 2000, 14:00. Manchester, UK<br>
1.132 louis 2131: Sam Smith gave a rundown of features coming in OpenBSD 2.7 and
2132: OpenSSH 2.1. His <a href="http://www.manlug.mcc.ac.uk/20000617/">slides</a>
2133: are available from the user group's site.
1.1 deraadt 2134: <p>
1.2 deraadt 2135:
1.132 louis 2136: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 2137: <a href="reprints/crypto2000.html">OpenBSD Crypto 2000 conference</a></strong>,
2138: Jun 15 - 20, 2000, Calgary, AB, Canada<br>
1.132 louis 2139: Repeating the tradition of a similar meeting held last year, many
2140: OpenBSD developers from around the world converged on Calgary
2141: for a weekend long hack-and-drink session. As before, the event
2142: was invitation only. Many significant things got done, including
2143: ipv6 + ipsec running over hardware crypto devices.
1.1 deraadt 2144: <p>
1.11 jkatz 2145:
1.17 deraadt 2146: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 2147: <a href="http://www.converge2000.com">CONVERGENCE 2000</a></strong>,
2148: May 18, 2000. Convention Centre, Calgary, Alberta, Canada<br>
1.132 louis 2149: Theo de Raadt participated in a panel discussion about the pros and cons
2150: of using Open Source software in various business environments. The local
2151: users also handed out OpenSSH and OpenBSD posters, and were absolutely
2152: surprised and amazed by the number of Calgary companies quietly using
2153: OpenBSD.
1.21 pattonme 2154: <p>
1.17 deraadt 2155:
1.23 niklas 2156: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 2157: <a href="http://www.cansecwest.com/">CanSecWest</a></strong>,
2158: May 10 - 12, 2000. Robson Conference Centre, Vancouver, BC, Canada<br>
1.132 louis 2159: Theo de Raadt spoke about why programmers keep making the same stupid mistakes,
2160: what types of efforts might improve this, and how this all relates to auditing
1.375 grunk 2161: efforts.
2162: Rain Forest Puppy, Ron Gula (Network Security Wizards), Ken Williams (E&Y),
1.216 jose 2163: Marty Roesch (snort/HiverWorld), and Fyodor (nmap) were among the other speakers
1.132 louis 2164: at this event. (On a personal note: at this conference Theo realized that three
2165: leading Network Intrusion Detection System companies use OpenBSD as their
2166: base operating system: Hiverworld, Network Security Wizards, and NFR).
1.32 deraadt 2167: <p>
1.25 deraadt 2168:
1.132 louis 2169: <li><strong>
2170: <a href="http://www.zdevents.com/comdex/spring2000/">Linux Business Expo /
1.201 deraadt 2171: COMDEX Spring 2000</a></strong>,
2172: Apr 19, 2000, Chicago, IL, USA<br>
1.216 jose 2173: Louis Bertrand represented OpenBSD at a BSD BOF with FreeBSD/BDSI,
1.132 louis 2174: NetBSD and Apple (Darwin is BSD-derived). The BOF was attended by about
2175: 75 people, many of whom were new to *BSD. It was an opportunity to
2176: explore future cooperation among the various BSD groups and companies.
1.25 deraadt 2177: <p>
1.23 niklas 2178:
1.31 deraadt 2179: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2180: <a href="http://www.nordu.org/NordU2000/">NordU 2000 -- The second
1.216 jose 2181: EurOpen/USENIX Conference</a></strong>,
2182: Feb 8 - 11, 2000. Malmo, Sweden<br>
1.140 jufi 2183: About 15 OpenBSD team members attended.
1.132 louis 2184: OpenBSD CDs and shirts were sold at a booth donated by the conference.<br>
2185: As well, Theo de Raadt gave an invited talk on Wednesday morning
2186: about why software quality/security suffers, and what we can do to
2187: improve it.
1.32 deraadt 2188: <p>
1.31 deraadt 2189:
1.201 deraadt 2190: <li><strong>BSD BOF session, LinuxWorld Expo</strong>,
1.216 jose 2191: Feb 3, 2000, New York, USA<br>
1.132 louis 2192: Representatives from OpenBSD, BSDi, and FreeBSD hosted a
2193: "Birds Of a Feather" session at the <a
2194: href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/">New York LinuxWorld Expo</a>.<br>
2195: There were installation CD-ROMs, free food, and even free Daemon Horns!
1.33 niklas 2196: <p>
1.236 jose 2197: </ul>
1.33 niklas 2198:
1.132 louis 2199: <h3>1999</h3>
1.36 niklas 2200:
1.236 jose 2201: <ul>
1.216 jose 2202: <li><strong>The Bazaar</strong>,
2203: Dec 14 - 16, 1999, New York, New York, USA<br>
1.132 louis 2204: Wes Sonnenreich and Tom Yates presented a tutorial on building
1.216 jose 2205: firewalls with OpenBSD. BoF of open source BSDs took place.
1.413 grunk 2206: 2.6 release CDROMs and T-shirts were sold.
1.132 louis 2207: Emphatic interest has been shown by representatives from press, international
2208: government and military institutions.
1.45 jason 2209: <p>
2210:
1.216 jose 2211: <li><strong><a name=lisa99></a>
1.236 jose 2212: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa99/">13th Systems Administration
1.216 jose 2213: Conference (LISA 99)</a></strong>,
2214: Nov 7 - 12, 1999, Seattle, Washington, USA<br>
1.132 louis 2215: Bob Beck presented a paper about the U of A's nifty OpenBSD based
2216: solution to the problem of public Ethernet jacks in the technical sessions
2217: starting at 11:00 AM on the 11th.<br>
2218: There were many other OpenBSD
2219: people at this conference as well, as well as a booth selling CDROMs and
1.413 grunk 2220: T-shirts. His paper is available at:
1.132 louis 2221:
2222: <ul>
2223: <li>Dealing with Public Ethernet Jacks-Switches, Gateways, and Authentication.<br>
1.236 jose 2224: <a href="events.html#lisa99">LISA 1999</a>,
1.206 david 2225: by Bob Beck.<br>
1.236 jose 2226: <a href="papers/authgw-paper.ps">paper</a> and
2227: <a href="papers/authgw-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 2228: </ul>
2229: <p>
2230:
2231: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 2232: IP-dagarna 1999</strong>,
1.216 jose 2233: Oct 27 - 28, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden<br>
1.132 louis 2234: Håkan Olsson & Jakob Schlyter spoke at the DNSSEC session on the 27th.
2235: <p>
2236:
2237: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2238: <a href="http://www.opensource-forum.com/konferens/">Linux & Open Source
1.216 jose 2239: Software '99</a></strong>,
2240: Oct 21, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)<br>
1.132 louis 2241: Niklas Hallqvist spoke on the topic of how to use
1.236 jose 2242: <a
1.375 grunk 2243: href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4">IPsec</a> for securing communications.
1.132 louis 2244: <p>
2245:
2246: <li><strong>
1.705 pvalchev 2247: <a href="http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference/1999">Reflections/Projections
1.216 jose 2248: 1999</a></strong>,
2249: Oct 8 - 10, 1999, Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA<br>
1.132 louis 2250: Theo de Raadt spoke at 10:00am on the 9th. Other OpenBSD
2251: developers from the east coast attended as well.
2252: <p>
2253:
1.236 jose 2254: <li><strong><a name="ipsec99"></a>
1.216 jose 2255: IPsec Interoperability tests</strong>,
2256: Sep 27 - 30, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)<br>
1.236 jose 2257: A dozen vendors, among them OpenBSD, tested more than 15
1.375 grunk 2258: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4">IPsec</a>
1.132 louis 2259: products, both gateways and hosts, for interoperability. The tests
2260: were successful as far as general IPsec and pre-shared key
2261: authentication went, OpenBSD interoperated with everyone, but due to
2262: time constraints we never got to test the certificate support
2263: appropriately. The results were presented later that fall at a
2264: conference in Stockholm.
2265: <p>
2266:
2267: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2268: <a href="http://www.auug.org.au/winter/auug99">AUUG'99</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 2269: Sep 8 - 11, 1999, Melbourne, Australia<br>
1.132 louis 2270: Theo de Raadt gave two talks on "quality of software" related issues
2271: and participated on a panel about how open source projects are
2272: coordinated.
2273: <p>
2274:
2275: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2276: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/sec99/index.html">Usenix
1.216 jose 2277: Security</a></strong>,
2278: Aug 23 - 26, 1999, Washington, DC, USA<br>
1.132 louis 2279: Many OpenBSD people from the east coast showed up and sold CDs and
2280: shirts. It was pretty clear from discussions that many people were
2281: very aware of OpenBSD, and that OpenBSD was being used in very
2282: significant security roles.
2283: <p>
2284:
2285: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2286: <a href="http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/99jul/index.html">45th IETF
1.216 jose 2287: meeting</a></strong>,
2288: Jul 12 - 16, 1999, Oslo, Norway<br>
1.132 louis 2289: A number of OpenBSD team members from all over the world were at this
2290: conference. In addition to attending the IPsec and DNS working groups (among
2291: others) we did IPsec/IKE interoperability testing together with
1.166 miod 2292: the Japanese KAME project. Also, Angelos D. Keromytis did a presentation on
1.132 louis 2293: his work with keynote and isakmpd in OpenBSD.
2294: <p>
1.45 jason 2295:
1.132 louis 2296: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2297: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-6.html">Defcon 6.0</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 2298: Jul 9 - 11, 1999, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132 louis 2299: At this conference, the OpenBSD team sold 100 or so 2.5 release CDROMs
1.413 grunk 2300: and a TON of T-shirts.
1.46 deraadt 2301: <p>
1.132 louis 2302:
1.236 jose 2303: <li><strong><a name="usenix99"></a>
2304: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix99/index.html">
1.216 jose 2305: Usenix Annual Technical Conference</a></strong>,
2306: Jun 6 - 11, 1999, Monterey, California, USA<br>
1.106 jufi 2307: The <a href="http://www.usenix.org">USENIX Association</a>
1.46 deraadt 2308: provided The OpenBSD Project with a grant to underwrite the production
1.106 jufi 2309: of CDs of OpenBSD 2.5. (We distributed the
2310: release for free to attendees of the USENIX Annual Conference in
1.46 deraadt 2311: June.)
1.132 louis 2312: <br>
1.46 deraadt 2313: Usenix team members were involved in the authoring and
1.132 louis 2314: presentation of 4 OpenBSD-related papers:
2315:
1.375 grunk 2316: <a name="anoncvs_paper"></a>
1.46 deraadt 2317: <ul>
1.66 deraadt 2318: <li>Opening the Source Repository with Anonymous CVS.<br>
1.236 jose 2319: <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216 jose 2320: by Charles D. Cranor, Theo de Raadt.<br>
1.236 jose 2321: <a href="papers/anoncvs-paper.ps">paper</a> and
2322: <a href="papers/anoncvs-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 2323: <br>
1.66 deraadt 2324: <li>A Future-Adaptable Password Scheme.<br>
1.236 jose 2325: <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216 jose 2326: by Niels Provos, David Mazieres.<br>
1.236 jose 2327: <a href="papers/bcrypt-paper.ps">paper</a> and
2328: <a href="papers/bcrypt-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 2329: <br>
1.66 deraadt 2330: <li>Cryptography in OpenBSD: An Overview.<br>
1.236 jose 2331: <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216 jose 2332: by Theo de Raadt, Niklas Hallqvist, Artur Grabowski,
2333: Angelos D. Keromytis, Niels Provos.<br>
1.236 jose 2334: <a href="papers/crypt-paper.ps">paper</a> and
2335: <a href="papers/crypt-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 2336: <br>
1.66 deraadt 2337: <li>strlcpy and strlcat -- consistent, safe, string copy and concatenation.<br>
1.236 jose 2338: <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216 jose 2339: by Todd C. Miller, Theo de Raadt.<br>
1.236 jose 2340: <a href="papers/strlcpy-paper.ps">paper</a> and
2341: <a href="papers/strlcpy-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 2342: </ul>
1.66 deraadt 2343: <p>
1.46 deraadt 2344:
1.51 deraadt 2345: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2346: <a href="http://www.linuxexpo.org">5th Annual Linux Expo</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 2347: May 18 - 22, 1999, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA<br>
1.132 louis 2348: Some OpenBSD team members were at this conference selling OpenBSD 2.5 CDs,
2349: OpenBSE T-shirts, as well as Blowfish T-shirts, which sold out very quickly
2350: at a table donated by the Expo. OpenBSD was the only BSD represented at the
2351: vendor exposition, and we had good chance to present a secure alternative
2352: to Linux.
1.51 deraadt 2353: <p>
2354:
1.53 jakob 2355: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2356: <a href="http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/99mar/index.html">44th IETF
1.216 jose 2357: meeting</a></strong>,
2358: Mar 15 - 19, 1999, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA<br>
1.132 louis 2359: Some OpenBSD team members were at this conference, in particular our
2360: IPSEC developers.
1.53 jakob 2361: <p>
2362:
1.132 louis 2363: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2364: <a href="http://www.europen.se/NordU99">NordU99 -- The first
1.216 jose 2365: EurOpen/USENIX Conference</a></strong>,
2366: Feb 9 - 12, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden<br>
1.132 louis 2367: A couple of OpenBSD team members were there and some of the swedish user
2368: society as well. OpenBSD CDs were sold at a booth and at the end of a
2369: security talk, the project got applauded for its continuous strive of auditing
2370: security sensitive parts of the system.
1.59 deraadt 2371: <p>
1.236 jose 2372: </ul>
1.59 deraadt 2373:
1.132 louis 2374: <h3>1998</h3>
1.59 deraadt 2375:
1.236 jose 2376: <ul>
1.132 louis 2377: <li><strong><a name=ipsec98></a>
1.690 nick 2378: IPsec/VPN Interoperability tests & seminar</strong>,
2379: Dec 14, 1998, Stockholm, Sweden<br>
1.132 louis 2380: OpenBSD was represented as one of about a dozen
1.375 grunk 2381: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4">IPsec</a>
1.132 louis 2382: implementations who were tested for interoperability. The tests were
2383: successful, both for the technology in general, and for OpenBSD in
2384: specific. We managed to communicate encrypted with every vendor present,
2385: and to negotiate keys via IKE with everyone capable.
1.70 deraadt 2386: <p>
2387:
1.236 jose 2388: <li><strong><a name="lisaboston-98"></a>
1.690 nick 2389: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa98">LISA '98: 12th Systems Administration
1.216 jose 2390: Conference</a></strong>,
2391: Dec 6 - 11, 1998, Boston, Massachusetts<br>
1.132 louis 2392: More than 10 OpenBSD team members showed up. By far, OpenBSD was the
2393: largest representative group from free software at the conference.
2394: Usenix gave us a table in the vendor area where we sold 2.4 CDROMs,
1.413 grunk 2395: 2.3 "wire-frame" T-shirts, and the new 2.4 embroidered
2396: "Because security matters..." T-shirts, polos, and sweaters.
1.132 louis 2397: An OpenBSD BOF was held one evening, led by Theo de Raadt.
2398: A PalmPilot schedule loader was at the membership booth, powered by OpenBSD.
2399: <br>
1.690 nick 2400: The terminal room ran OpenBSD 2.4 on 45 machines. Obviously trust in OpenBSD
2401: had increased since many people, normally wary of security problems of open
1.132 louis 2402: terminal rooms, were seen using the machines.
1.72 ho 2403: <p>
2404:
1.73 deraadt 2405: <li><strong>
1.690 nick 2406: <a href="http://www.disc.unam.mx/eventos_anteriores/disc98/">DISC - Seguridad en
1.217 jose 2407: Cómputo 98</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 2408: Nov 2 - 7, 1998, Mexico City<br>
1.132 louis 2409: Theo de Raadt gave a talk about security auditing, sponsored by
1.236 jose 2410: <a href="http://www.core-sdi.com">CORE SDI S.A.</a>, an Argentine
1.132 louis 2411: security auditing company who strongly believes in the future
1.236 jose 2412: of OpenBSD. (<a href="papers/mexico98-slides.ps">Slides are available</a>).
1.131 jufi 2413: <p>
1.73 deraadt 2414:
1.236 jose 2415: <li><strong>IP-dagarna</strong>,
1.690 nick 2416: Oct 29, 30 1998, Stockholm, Sweden<br>
1.132 louis 2417: At this conference, entirely devoted to IP, Niklas Hallqvist from the
2418: OpenBSD team held a talk on the IKE (a.k.a ISAKMP/Oakley) key management
2419: protocol and experiences from the implementation of <strong>isakmpd</strong>,
2420: an IKE implementation funded by Ericsson Radio Systems and developed
2421: primarily for the OpenBSD IPSEC stack.
1.79 deraadt 2422: <p>
1.73 deraadt 2423:
1.690 nick 2424: <li><strong>NCEE '98</strong>,
1.216 jose 2425: Oct 9 - 10, 1998, Auburn, Maine, USA<br>
1.132 louis 2426: An extensive after-action report was sent to advocacy@openbsd.org. While
1.151 jsyn 2427: sales of shirts and CDROMs left much to be desired, we did have good
1.132 louis 2428: opportunities to further project visibility and highlight its strengths.
1.80 deraadt 2429: <p>
2430:
1.93 louis 2431: <li><strong>
1.690 nick 2432: <a href="http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference/1998/">Reflections/Projections
1.216 jose 2433: 1998</a></strong>,
1.236 jose 2434: Oct 2 - 4, 1998, Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA<br>
1.132 louis 2435: Theo de Raadt spoke in a panel about Open/Free software with Eric
2436: Raymond and others.
1.93 louis 2437: <p>
2438:
1.216 jose 2439: <li><strong>
1.690 nick 2440: <a href="http://press.oreilly.com/pub/pr/797">O'Reilly and
1.236 jose 2441: Associates Open Source Developer Days</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 2442: Aug 21, 1998, San Jose, California, USA<br>
1.132 louis 2443: OpenBSD team members were on-hand to discuss OpenBSD's role among the
1.413 grunk 2444: other free software projects available. They also sold some CDs and T-shirts.
1.96 deraadt 2445: <p>
2446:
1.236 jose 2447: <li><strong><a name="defcon98"></a>
1.690 nick 2448: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-6/defcon-6.html">Defcon 6.0</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 2449: Jul 31 - Aug 2, 1998, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132 louis 2450: The router to the outside world was an OpenBSD 2.3 box. It was involved
2451: in a "capture the flag" competition in which an entire room of crackers
2452: attempted to break into it and machines running other operating systems.
2453: The OpenBSD box was not broken into.
2454: <br>
2455: Almost 100 OpenBSD 2.3 CDROMs were sold (we ran out again). The primates
1.236 jose 2456: at <a href="http://www.monkey.org">monkey.org</a> brought 2.3
1.413 grunk 2457: "wire-frame" OpenBSD T-shirts to the conference and sold almost
1.132 louis 2458: 200 of them. The proceeds from the sales were donated to the OpenBSD project.
1.96 deraadt 2459: <p>
1.94 deraadt 2460:
1.690 nick 2461: <li><strong><a href="http://www.blackhat.com/html/bh-usa-98/bh2-index.html">BlackHat Sessions</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 2462: Jul 29 - 30, 1998, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132 louis 2463: Theo de Raadt presented a talk entitled
2464: "Auditing software for security" about the OpenBSD security auditing
2465: team's process and the lessons the team learned. The talk concentrated
2466: on how our process fixes bugs -- not just holes -- since one never knows
2467: when 5 bugs will act together to become a hole.
1.99 deraadt 2468: <p>
2469:
1.236 jose 2470: <li><strong><a name="usenix-neworleans"></a>
2471: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/usenix98/index.html">Usenix Annual Technical Conference</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 2472: Jun 15 - 19, 1998, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA<br>
1.132 louis 2473: At Usenix 1998 there was a strong OpenBSD presence both in the Freenix
2474: and normal tracks. Theo did a general talk about what the OpenBSD
2475: project offers. Angelos held a panel about IPSEC (which is quite an
2476: OpenBSD topic since IPSEC development at that time was so much further
2477: ahead in OpenBSD than anywhere else).
2478: <br>
2479: The terminal room PCs ran OpenBSD 2.3. We sold many CDROMs. The
1.413 grunk 2480: first style of OpenBSD T-shirt also sold quite well.
1.101 wvdputte 2481: <p>
2482:
1.105 wvdputte 2483: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2484: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/sec98/index.html">Usenix Security</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 2485: Jan 26 - 29, 1998, San Antonio, Texas, USA<br>
1.132 louis 2486: At this conference, Theo presented an evening talk which basically
2487: turned into a list of fixed security problems and cautionary tales about
2488: subsystems in which future problems may be encountered
1.236 jose 2489: (<a href="papers/security98-slides.ps">slides available</a>).
1.105 wvdputte 2490: <br>
1.132 louis 2491: The terminal room PCs ran OpenBSD 2.2.
2492: <p>
1.236 jose 2493: </ul>
1.105 wvdputte 2494:
1.132 louis 2495: <h3>1997</h3>
1.107 deraadt 2496:
1.236 jose 2497: <ul>
1.113 deraadt 2498: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2499: <a href="http://www.hip97.nl">HIP</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 2500: Aug, 1997, Almere, Netherlands<br>
1.236 jose 2501: Niels held a
1.690 nick 2502: <a href="http://www.citi.umich.edu/u/provos/papers/hip97-tcpip.html">talk</a>
1.132 louis 2503: about the problems of unencrypted TCP/IP connections, offering IPSEC as
2504: possible solution.
1.113 deraadt 2505: <p>
1.132 louis 2506:
1.236 jose 2507: <li><strong>HOPE</strong>,
1.216 jose 2508: Aug, 1997, New York, New York, USA<br>
1.166 miod 2509: The terminal room consisted primarily of DECstations running
1.690 nick 2510: OpenBSD 2.1. Once again, the <a href="http://www.lopht.com/">L0phT</a>
1.132 louis 2511: people had very good things to say about our security.
1.113 deraadt 2512: <p>
1.105 wvdputte 2513:
1.236 jose 2514: <li><strong><a name="defcon5"></a>
1.690 nick 2515: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-5/defcon-5.html">Defcon V</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 2516: Jul 11 - 13, 1997, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132 louis 2517: At this conference, the OpenBSD team sold 100 or so 2.1 release CDROMs.
2518: <br>
2519: Since this is the primary security conference, many speakers said very
1.140 jufi 2520: good things about our stance on security... particularly people like
1.690 nick 2521: <a href="http://www.lopht.com">the L0phT</a>.
1.118 deraadt 2522: <p>
2523:
1.125 deraadt 2524: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2525: <a
2526: href="http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/ana97/index.html">Usenix Annual Technical Conference</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 2527: Jan 6 - 10, 1997, Anaheim, California, USA.<br>
1.690 nick 2528: Theo de Raadt held a BOF ("Birds Of a Feather", i.e. a meeting of people
1.132 louis 2529: interested in the same thing) about OpenBSD.
1.236 jose 2530: </ul>
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