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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>
1.724 ! jasper 106: <li>Mark Kettenis: <a href="papers/opencon07-sparc64.pdf">
! 107: OpenBSD/sparc64</a>.
1.723 jasper 108: <li>Reiner Jung and Jasper Lievisse Adriaanse: <a href="papers/opencon07-gnome.pdf">
1.724 ! jasper 109: Gnome as OpenBSD desktop solution</a>.
1.722 jsg 110: </ul>
1.721 jsg 111: <p>
112:
1.716 wvdputte 113: <li><strong><a name="dulug2007"></a>
1.719 wvdputte 114: <a href="http://www.dulug.de/">Duisburger Linux User Group</a></strong>,
1.716 wvdputte 115: Nov 17, 2007, Duisburg, Germany<br>
1.719 wvdputte 116: Richard Verwayen gave a workshop on installing OpenBSD,
117: [<a href="http://www.dulug.de/cgi-bin/dcms.cgi?action=lit-17.11.07">pictures</a>]
1.716 wvdputte 118: <p>
119:
120: <li><strong><a name="essen2007"></a>
121: <a href="http://www.come2linux.org/psp/">Come 2 Linux 2007 Essen</a></strong>,
122: Nov 10 - 11, 2007, Essen, Germany<br>
123: The *BSD projects had an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth
124: <p>
125:
126: <li><strong><a name="nluug2007"></a>
127: <a href="http://www.nluug25.nl/en/index.php">NLUUG 25th anniversary</a></strong>,
128: Nov 7, 2007, Amsterdam, Netherlands<br>
129: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth with Wim, Otto, Floor and Kevin.
130: <p>
1.658 reyk 131:
1.714 jasper 132: <li><strong><a name="amsterdam2007"></a>
133: <a href="http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20071017100734&mode=expanded&count=20">Amsterdam user meeting Cafe De Deugniet</a></strong>,
134: Nov 2, 2007, Amsterdam, Netherlands<br>
135: Informal OpenBSD user meeting in Amsterdam, more info on Undeadly.org
136: <p>
137:
1.713 wvdputte 138: <li><strong><a name="uaoug2007"></a>
139: <a href="http://www.uaoug.org.ua/en/index.html">Ukrainian OpenBSD Users Group meeting</a></strong>,
140: Nov 1, 2007, Kyiv, Ukraine<br>
141: Sergey Prysiazhnyi, community co-ordinator, gave a talk about Driver
142: Architecture and OpenBSD using in Embedded Systems.
143: <a href= "http://www.atmnis.com/~apelsin/uaoug/u2k7_v3.0/talk/">[slides]</a>
144: <a href= "http://www.atmnis.com/~apelsin/uaoug/u2k7_v3.0/">[pictures]</a>
145: <a href= "http://www.atmnis.com/~apelsin/uaoug/u2k7_v3.0/video/talk.mp4">[video]</a>
146: <p>
147:
1.712 sthen 148: <li><strong><a name="cossfest2007"></a>
149: <a href="http://www.cossfest.ca/">COSSFEST 2007</a></strong>,
150: Oct 27, 2007, Calgary, Alberta,<br>
151: There was an OpenBSD booth present with 4.2 CDs.
152: <p>
153:
154: <li><strong><a name="systems2007"></a>
155: <a href="http://www.systems.de/">Systems</a></strong>,
156: Oct 23 - 26, 2007, Munich, Germany<br>
157: The *BSD projects had an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth in Halle B2 110-2, run by
158: DaN, Nikolay Sturm, Marco Pfatschbacher and some other volunteers.
159: <p>
160:
161: <li><strong><a name="bsdcontr2007"></a>
162: <a href="http://www.bsdcontr.org/">BSDConTR 2007</a></strong>
163: Oct 19 - 20, 2007, Rectorate of Marmara University, SultanAhmet, Istanbul,
164: Turkey.<br>
165: First Turkish Conference on BSD Systems.<br>
166: Marc Balmer talked about his work on support for radio clocks in
167: OpenBSD.<br>
168: Gökhan Alkan gave a talk "Spam protection with OpenBSD and PF".<br>
169: Huzeyfe Önal gave a talk "Advanced Security solutions in OpenBSD".
170: <br>
171: <p>
172:
1.708 aanriot 173: <li><strong><a name=aldil2007></a>
174: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/">Les Journées Du Logiciel Libre
175: 2007</a></strong>,
176: Oct 19 - 20, 2007, Lyon, France.<br>
177: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Damien Bergamini and
178: Alexandre Anriot with the help of Thierry Thomas.
179: <p>
180:
1.705 pvalchev 181: <li><strong><a name=rp2007></a>
182: <a href="http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference/2007/">Reflections/Projections
183: 2007</a></strong>,
184: Oct 12 - 14, 2007, Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA<br>
185: Peter Valchev gave a talk titled <a href="papers/rp2007-slides.pdf">
186: Using OpenBSD Security Features to Find Software Bugs</a>.
187: <p>
188:
189: <li><strong><a name=auug2007></a>
190: <a href="http://new.auug.org.au/AUUG2007">AUUG 2007</a></strong>,
191: Oct 13 - 14, 2007, Melbourne, Australia.<br>
192: Reyk Floeter talked about load balancing and TCP-relaying with hoststated.
193: There were developers, users, and an OpenBSD booth present.
194: <p>
195:
196: <li><strong><a name="t-dose2007"></a>
197: <a href="http://www.t-dose.org/">T-DOSE 2007</a></strong>,
198: Oct 13 - 14, 2007, Eindhoven, The Netherlands.<br>
199: Technical Dutch Open Source Event<br>
200: There were developers present as well as an OpenBSD booth,
201: run by the usual suspects.
202: <p>
203:
1.689 claudio 204: <li><strong><a name="openexpo2007"></a>
205: <a href="http://www.openexpo.ch/">OpenExpo 2007</a></strong>,
206: Sep 19 - 20, 2007, Zurich, Switzerland<br>
207: There were developers present as well as an OpenBSD booth,
208: run by the usual suspects. Stephan A. Rickauer gave a talk
209: "OpenBSD and Linux: Insights into a migration project at the Institute of
210: Neuroinformatics, ETH Zurich".<br>
211: <p>
212:
1.686 mbalmer 213: <li><strong><a name="eurobsdcon2007"></a>
214: <a href="http://2007.eurobsdcon.org/">EuroBSDCon 2007</a></strong>,
215: Sep 14 - 15, 2007, Copenhagen, Denmark.<br>
216: Marc Balmer gave a talk <a href="papers/eurobsdcon07/mbalmer-radio_clocks.pdf">
217: Support for Radio Clocks in OpenBSD</a>.<br>
1.702 pyr 218: Pierre-Yves Ritschard gave a talk <a href="papers/eurobsdcon07/pyr-loadbalancing">Load Balancing in OpenBSD Using hoststated</a>.<br>
1.688 claudio 219: Claudio Jeker gave a talk <a href="papers/eurobsdcon07/claudio-routing">
220: Using OpenBSD as Routing Platform</a>.<br>
1.686 mbalmer 221: Peter Hansteen offered "A Packet Filter Tutorial" on the tutorial day.<br>
222: There was an OpenBSD booth, run by the usual suspects.
223: <p>
224:
1.685 bernd 225: <li><strong><a name="linuxdayskiel2007"></a>
226: <a href="http://www.kieler-linuxtage.de">Kieler Linux und Open Source Tage</a></strong>,
227: Sep 07 - 08, 2007, Kiel, Germany<br>
228: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Bernd.
229: <p>
230:
1.686 mbalmer 231: <li><strong><a name="xds2007"></a>
232: <a href="http://www.x.org/wiki/Events/XDS2007">X.Org Developers' Summit 2007</a></strong>,
233: Sep 10 - 12, 2007, Cambridge, UK.<br>
234: Matthieu Herrb and Marc Balmer attended the 3-day summit to make sure the
235: *BSD point of view was well represented.
236: <p>
237:
1.684 bernd 238: <li><strong><a name="froscon2007"></a>
239: <a href="http://www.froscon.de">FrOSCon 2007</a></strong>,
240: Aug 25 - 26, 2007, Bonn/Rhein-Sieg, Germany<br>
241: There was an OpenBSD booth, run by the usual suspects.
242: <p>
243:
1.682 bernd 244: <li><strong><a name="summercamp2007"></a>
245: <a href="http://events.ccc.de/camp/2007">Chaos Communication Camp 2007</a>
246: </strong>,
247: Aug 8 - 12, 2007, Finowfurt, Germany<br>
248: This open air event had a big OpenBSD village with all the usual suspects.
249: <p>
250:
1.680 aanriot 251: <li><strong><a name="lsm2007"></a>
252: <a href="http://www.rmll.info">Libre Software Meeting 2007</a></strong>,
253: Jul 10 - 14, 2007, Amiens, France.<br>
1.681 aanriot 254: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Wim, Matthieu and
255: Alexandre with the help of Serge and Christelle.
1.680 aanriot 256: <p>
257:
1.675 mbalmer 258: <li><strong><a name=Slackathon2007></a>
259: <a href="http://www.slackathon.se/">Slackathon 2007</a>
260: </strong>,
261: June 16, 2007, Stockholm, Sweden.<br>
262: Yet another round of fund raising for OpenBSD/SSH and general *BSD meeting
263: that took place in Stockholm.
264: <p>
265:
266: <li><strong><a name="linuxtag2007"></a>
267: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.org/2007/en/">LinuxTag 2007</a>
268: </strong>,
269: May 30 - Jun 2, 2007, Berlin, Germany<br>
270: There were presentations by OpenBSD developers and an OpenBSD booth,
1.677 wvdputte 271: run by the usual suspects, and Stephan A. Rickauer held Peter Hansteen's PF
272: tutorial as well as the talk
273: <a href="http://www.ini.unizh.ch/~stephan/talks/LinuxTag07.pdf">
274: "OpenBSD and Linux: Insights into a migration project at the Institute of
275: Neuroinformatics, ETH Zurich"</a>.
1.675 mbalmer 276: <p>
277:
1.674 martin 278: <li><strong><a name=LinuxwochenVienna2007></a>
279: <a href="http://www.linuxwochen.at/2007/Wien">Linuxwochen Vienna 2007</a>
280: </strong>,
281: May 31 - Jun 2, 2007, Vienna, Austria.<br>
282: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth run by Martin Reindl, Robert Peichaer
283: and Teemu Schaabl.
284: <p>
285:
1.671 aanriot 286: <li><strong><a name=cuug2007></a>
287: <a href="http://www.cuug.ab.ca/">Calgary Unix Users Group</a></strong>,
288: May 29, 2007, downtown Library, basement meeting room, Calgary, Alberta.<br>
1.688 claudio 289: <a href="papers/cuug07-claudio/">Claudio Jeker</a>,
290: <a href="papers/cuug2007/">David Gwynne, Henning Brauer</a>,
1.673 mbalmer 291: Reyk Flöter, Matthieu Herrb, Marc Balmer, and Bob Beck discussed recent and
292: future networking changes in OpenBSD, as well as Xenocara, support for
293: radio clocks in OpenBSD, and Spam Reduction with OpenBSD spamd and greylisting.
1.672 henning 294: Some other OpenBSD developers attended to provide international colour.
1.671 aanriot 295: <p>
296:
1.670 ray 297: <li><strong><a name="bsdcan2007"></a>
298: <a href="http://www.bsdcan.org/2007/">BSDCan 2007</a></strong>,
299: May 16 - 19, 2007, Ottawa, Canada.<br>
300: Several OpenBSD developers were there.<br>
301: Peter Hansteen gave a "Packet filtering for fun and profit" tutorial and
302: presented a "Fighting malware and spam with free tools" talk.<br>
303: Ray Lai presented OpenCVS/OpenRCS and
304: discussed why a secure CVS implementation is needed.
305: <a href="papers/bsdcan07-cvs/">Slides</a> are available.<br>
306: Jason Dixon gave the closing session of BSDCan 2007.
307: <p>
308:
1.669 fkr 309: <li><strong><a name="confidence2007"></a>
310: <a href="http://2007.confidence.org.pl/">Confidence 2007</a></strong>,
311: May 12 - 13, 2007, Krakow, Poland.<br>
312: Felix, Henning and Wim gave presentations and ran the OpenBSD booth.
313: <p>
314:
1.666 michele 315: <li><strong><a name="obsdm2"></a>
316: <a href="http://www.openbeer.it/?open=obsdm2">OpenBSD Meeting V.2</a></strong>
317: May 12, 2007, Verona, Italy.<br>
318: Another event organized by the OpenBEER team with italian OpenBSD related talks.
319: Michele presented a talk about the OpenBSD network stack.
320: <p>
321:
322: <li><strong><a name="nluug2007"></a>
323: <a href="http://www.nluug.nl/events/vj07/index.html">NLUUG Voorjaarsconferentie
324: 2007</a></strong>,
325: May 10, 2007, Ede, Netherlands<br>
326: There was a
327: <a href="http://www.nluug.nl/events/vj07/abstracts/ab.html?id=2">presentation</a>
328: by Anil Madhavapeddy and an OpenBSD booth, run by the usual
329: suspects.
330: <p>
331:
1.665 mbalmer 332: <li><strong><a name="coimbra2007"></a>
333: <a href="http://www.openbsd-pt.com/eventos/coimbra07/index-en.html">Portuguese OpenBSD Usergroup Meeting</a></strong>,
334: May 5 - 6, 2007, Coimbra, Portugal.<br>
335: 7th Meeting of the Portuguese OpenBSD Usergroup.<br>
336: Marc Balmer gave a talk "Ensuring Quality in OpenBSD Without a Formal Process".<br>
337: Rui Reis gave a presentation "The Honeynet.PT project".<br>
1.667 pedro 338: Michael Shalayeff gave a talk "Asynchronous I/O".<br>
339: Also present was Pedro Martelletto.
1.665 mbalmer 340: <p>
341:
1.658 reyk 342: <li><strong><a name=decix6th></a>
343: <a href="http://www.de-cix.org/">DE-CIX 6th Technical Meeting</a></strong>,
344: Apr 19, 2007, Schloss Kransberg, near Usingen, Germany.<br>
345: Henning Brauer and Reyk Flöter talked at the 6th technical
346: meeting of the Deutsche Commercial Internet Exchange (DE-CIX).
347: Henning gave an update on OpenBGPD and Reyk about the latest
348: network-related changes since OpenBSD 4.1. They also talked about
349: the status of test OpenBGPD route server running at the DE-CIX.
350: <p>
351:
1.651 fkr 352: <li><strong><a name="litol07"></a>
353: <a href="http://www.lit-ol.de/">2. Linux-Informationstag Oldenburg</a></strong>,
354: Apr 14 - 15, 2007, Oldenburg, Germany.<br>
355: Small Open-Source event. Of course there was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth run by
1.659 fkr 356: Bernd, Felix and Tobias Stoeckmann. Felix gave a talk about the current state
357: of OpenBSD development titled <a href="papers/litol07/">OpenBSD - Past, Present and Future</a>.
1.651 fkr 358: <p>
1.650 deraadt 359:
360: <li><strong><a name="fisl8"></a>
361: <a href="http://fisl.softwarelivre.org/8.0/www/?q=en">fisl8.0</a></strong>,
362: Apr 12-14, 2007, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil.<br>
363: This was a fairly large conference in South America. Theo de Raadt
364: presented a talk about <a href="papers/brhard2007/">Hardware Documentation</a>.
365: <p>
366:
1.645 ray 367: <li><strong><a name="nycbug2007-cvs"></a>
368: <a href="http://nycbug.org/">NYC*BUG April 2007</a></strong>,
369: Apr 4, 2007, NYC, USA.<br>
370: Ray Lai (ray@) gave a
371: <a href="http://www.nycbug.org/index.php?NAV=Home;SUBM=10104">talk</a>
372: on OpenCVS.
1.648 ray 373: <a href="papers/nycbug07-cvs/">Slides</a> and
374: <a href="http://www.fetissov.org/public/nycbug/nycbug-04-04-07.mp3">audio</a>
375: are available.
1.645 ray 376: <p>
377:
1.638 grunk 378: <li><strong><a name="elite2007"></a>
379: <a href="http://www.erlug.de/?q=node/323">5. Erlanger Linuxtage</a></strong>,
380: Mar 24 - 25, 2007, Erlangen, Germany.<br>
381: There was an OpenBSD/OpenSSH booth, run by Alexander von Gernler (grunk@).
382: He also gave a talk called
1.639 grunk 383: <a href="papers/elite2007/elite2007-openbsd.pdf">
1.638 grunk 384: "Sichere Systeme mit OpenBSD" (german)</a>.
385: <p>
386:
1.635 tom 387: <li><strong><a name="ukuug2007"></a>
388: <a href="http://www.ukuug.org/events/spring2007/">UKUUG Spring 2007 Conference</a></strong>,
389: Mar 19 - 21, 2007, Manchester, United Kingdom<br>
390: Tom Cosgrove gave a presentation about "Third-Party Applications on OpenBSD"
391: at the annual spring meeting of the
392: <a href="http://www.ukuug.org/">UK's Unix and Open Systems User Group</a>.
393: <p>
394:
1.627 mcbride 395: <li><strong><a name="asiabsdcon2007"></a>
396: <a href="http://www.asiabsdcon.org/">AsiaBSDCon 2007</a></strong>,
397: Mar 8 - 11, 2007, Tokyo, Japan.<br>
1.631 mbalmer 398: Marc Balmer presented a paper <a href="papers/radio-clocks-asiabsdcon07.pdf">Supporting Radio Clocks in OpenBSD</a>. Presentation
399: <a href="papers/asiabsdcon07-radioclocks/index.html">slides</a> are also
400: available.<br>
1.627 mcbride 401: 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 402: Mathieu Sauve-Frankel gave a talk <a href="papers/asiabsdcon07-ipsec/index.html">Recent Improvements in OpenBSD's IPSec Support</a>.<br>
403: Damien Miller presented a paper <a href="papers/openssh-measures-asiabsdcon2007.pdf">Security measures in OpenSSH</a>. Presentation
1.628 djm 404: <a href="papers/openssh-measures-asiabsdcon2007-slides.pdf">slides</a> are
405: also available.<br>
1.627 mcbride 406: 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".
407: <p>
408:
1.622 fkr 409: <li><strong><a name="linuxforum2007"></a>
410: <a href="http://www.linuxforum.dk/2007/">LinuxForum 2007</a></strong>,
411: Mar 2 - 3, 2007, Copenhagen, Denmark.<br>
1.623 wvdputte 412: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth run by Wim, Bernd and Michael in the
1.633 tom 413: <a href="http://img.ba-net.org/LinuxForum2007/">best of circumstances</a>.
1.622 fkr 414: Felix gave a talk titled
415: <a href="papers/linuxforum07/index.html">OpenBSD - Past, Present and Future</a>.
416: <p>
417:
1.619 wvdputte 418: <li><strong><a name=Brussels2007></a>
419: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/2007/">FOSDEM Brussels 2007</a></strong>,
420: Feb 24 - 25, 2007, Brussels, Belgium.<br>
421: There was an an OpenBSD/OpenSSH booth with Matthieu, Marc, Mickey, Saad
422: and Wim. On Saturday we had our traditional BSD dinner.<br>
423: Matthieu gave a <a href="papers/fosdem07-xenocara.pdf">
424: talk on Xenocara</a> in the X.Org devroom.
425: <p>
1.616 wvdputte 426:
427: <li><strong><a name="kiberpipa2007"></a>
428: <a href="http://pot.kiberpipa.org">Kiberpipa open sessions</a></strong>,
429: February 20, 2007, Ljubljana, Slovenia.<br>
430: On that edition of weekly "Open sessions" meetings
431: <a href="http://www.kerberos.si">Mitja Muzenic</a> gave a
432: <a href="http://pot.kiberpipa.org/?p=39">talk</a> on OpenBSD.
1.619 wvdputte 433: <a href="http://www.kerberos.si/papers/Kiberpipa07/">Slides</a> (in Slovenian),
434: <a href="http://video.kiberpipa.org/media/POT_OpenBSD">video</a> (in Slovenian),
1.616 wvdputte 435: and <a href="http://gallery.kerberos.si/kiberpipa07/">photos</a> are available.
436: <p>
437:
438: </ul>
439:
1.445 martin 440: <h3>2006</h3>
1.236 jose 441: <ul>
1.537 deraadt 442:
1.588 espie 443: <li><strong><a name="23c3"></a>
1.577 mbalmer 444: <a href="https://events.ccc.de/congress/2006/">23C3 Chaos Communication Congress in
445: Berlin</a></strong>,
446: December 27 - 30, 2006, Berlin, Germany.<br>
1.597 mbalmer 447: Who can you trust? Well, us. OpenBSD was there, of course, for our annual
1.595 reyk 448: closing event. fkr, grunk, jsg, mbalmer, mickey, sturm, uwe, martin,
1.598 bernd 449: henning, moritz, bernd and wvdputte were there
1.597 mbalmer 450: there to chat with attendees and discuss OpenBSD stuff. It was - as usual -
451: a great end-of-the-year event. See you in Berlin again end of 2007.
1.577 mbalmer 452: <p>
453:
1.594 mbalmer 454: <li><strong><a name="moscow2006"></a>
455: <a href="https://kd85.com/">Moscow OpenBSD user meeting</a></strong>,
456: December 8 - 9, 2006, Moscow, Russia.<br>
1.633 tom 457: For details, please email <a href="mailto:grange@opensd.org">Grange</a>
1.594 mbalmer 458: <p>
459:
1.515 tom 460: <li><strong><a name="opencon2006"></a>
461: <a href="http://www.opencon.org/">OpenCON 2006</a></strong>,
1.569 deraadt 462: 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 463: OpenCON is the only conference dedicated solely to OpenBSD.
1.587 deraadt 464: 135 people were registered for the event, but since it was a completely open event is likely that
465: even more people just walked in.
1.577 mbalmer 466: Most talks were by OpenBSD developers, but there was also an impressive
1.568 mbalmer 467: number of our developers just attending the conference. Talks by OpenBSD
1.577 mbalmer 468: developers were:
1.568 mbalmer 469: <p>
1.535 deraadt 470: <ul>
1.581 claudio 471: <li>Claudio Jeker: <a href="papers/opencon06-network/index.html">
472: Network stack changes in OpenBSD</a>
1.580 deraadt 473: <li>Marc Balmer: <a href="papers/opencon06-nmea/index.html">
474: Support for Time Signal Station Receivers and GPS in OpenBSD</a>
1.601 fkr 475: <li>Felix Kronlage: <a href="papers/opencon06-umts/index.html">Redundancy or mobile deployment with 3G technology</a>
1.584 jsg 476: <li>Jonathan Gray: <a href="papers/opencon06-drivers/index.html">
477: Driver architecture and implementation in OpenBSD</a>
1.543 mbalmer 478: <li>Gordon Klok: <i>Processor Power Management</i>
1.596 dlg 479: <li>David Gwynne: <a href="papers/opencon06-culture.pdf">The OpenBSD
480: Culture</a> and he also filled in for Marco's
481: <a href="papers/opencon06-bio.pdf">Bio and Sensors in OpenBSD</a> talk.
1.582 michele 482: <li>Michele Marchetto: <a href="papers/opencon06-ripd/index.html">
483: OpenRIPD</a>
1.574 mbalmer 484: <li>Reyk Floeter: <i>IPsec demystified</i>
1.580 deraadt 485: <li>Theo de Raadt: <a href="papers/opencon06-docs">
486: Why hardware documentation matters so much and why it is so hard to get</a>
1.535 deraadt 487: </ul>
1.502 mbalmer 488: <p>
1.577 mbalmer 489: Also present were jcs, krw, mglocker, robert, wvdputte, martin, grunk,
490: dhartmei, aanriot, sturm, and bernd. Of course there was an OpenBSD booth
491: run by the usual suspects and you could buy our CD-ROMS, the audio CD and other
1.568 mbalmer 492: stuff.
493: <p>
1.502 mbalmer 494:
1.575 reyk 495: <li><strong><a name=opensourcetag2006></a>
496: <a href="http://www.opensourcetag.de/2006/">OpenSourceTag 2006</a></strong>,
497: Nov 30, 2006, Hannover, Germany.<br>
498: Reyk gave a <a href="http://www.opensourcetag.de/2006/agenda/">talk</a> about OpenBSD
499: as a reference project for secure software.
500: <p>
501:
1.583 henning 502: <li><strong><a name=epf2006></a>
503: <a href="http://www.peering-forum.eu/2006/">European Peering Forum 2006</a></strong>,
504: Nov 29 - 30, 2006, Frankfurt, Germany.<br>
505: The European Peering Forum in Frankfurt was hosted by the 3 big european
506: peering points DE-CIX, AMSIX and LINX, bringing network operators together.
507: Henning was talking about OpenBGPD,
508: <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/epf2006/">slides</a> are available.
509: <p>
510:
1.565 krw 511: <li><strong><a name=conisli2006></a>
512: <a href="http://conisli.org/">CONISLI 2006</a></strong>,
513: Nov 3 - 5, 2006, São Paulo, Brazil<br>
514: 4th edition of São Paulo's International Free Software Congress.
1.687 jolan 515: Ken Westerback and Pedro Martelletto gave a talk.
1.565 krw 516: <p>
517:
1.559 jason 518: <li><strong><a name=nycbsdcon2006></a>
519: <a href="http://nycbsdcon.org/">NYCBSDCon 2006</a></strong>,
520: Oct 28 - 29, 2006, New York City, USA<br>
521: NYCBSDCon is the main conference on the East Coast for the
522: BSD community to get together to share and gain knowledge,
1.562 jason 523: to network with like minded people. Several developers
1.563 jason 524: spoke, more were on hand:
1.559 jason 525: <ul>
526: <li>Marco Peereboom: <a href="papers/bio.pdf">bio and sensors in OpenBSD</a>
1.563 jason 527: [<a href="http://www.fetissov.org/public/nycbsdcon06/1.6.mp3">audio</a>]
1.605 jason 528: <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 529: <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>]
530: <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 531: <li>Ray Lai: <i>First time booth bunny</i>
532: </ul>
533: <p>
534:
1.556 fgsch 535: <li><strong><a name=linuxworlduk2006></a>
536: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.co.uk/">LinuxWorld Expo UK 2006</a></strong>,
537: Oct 25 - 26, 2006, Olympia, London, UK.<br>
1.558 wvdputte 538: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Wim, Tom, Peter, Federico and
539: Pedro La Peu.
1.556 fgsch 540: <p>
541:
1.589 aanriot 542: <li><strong><a name=cuug2006oct></a>
543: <a href="http://www.cuug.ab.ca/">Calgary Unix Users Group</a></strong>,
544: Oct 24, 2006, downtown Library, basement meeting room, Calgary, Alberta.<br>
545: Theo de Raadt gave a talk regarding the increasing demand for
546: vendors to open up their documentation.
547: <p>
548:
1.553 grunk 549: <li><strong><a name="systems2006"></a>
550: <a href="http://www.systems.de/">Systems</a></strong>,
551: Oct 23 - 27, 2006, Munich, Germany <br>
552: The *BSD projects were located at A3.542.
553: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
554: Wilhelm Bühler, DaN, Nikolay Sturm, Marco Pfatschbacher,
555: and some other volunteers.
556: <p>
557:
1.550 henning 558: <li><strong><a name=hacklu2006></a>
559: <a href="http://www.hack.lu/">hack.lu 2006</a></strong>,
560: Oct 19 - 21, 2006, Luxembourg/Kirchberg.<br>
561: Henning Brauer gave a well received talk about OpenBGPD.
562: <p>
563:
1.547 aanriot 564: <li><strong><a name=aldil2006></a>
565: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/">Les Journées Du Logiciel Libre
566: 2006</a></strong>,
567: Oct 13 - 14, 2006, Lyon, France.<br>
568: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Miod Vallat and Alexandre
569: Anriot with the help of Thierry Thomas and Damien Bergamini.
570: <p>
571:
1.546 mcbride 572: <li><strong><a name=auug2006></a>
573: <a href="http://new.auug.org.au/">AUUG 2006</a></strong>,
574: Oct 10 - 13, 2006, Melbourne, Australia.<br>
575: Ryan Mcbride presented a full-day tutorial entitled
576: "Advanced PF Rulesets" as well as two additional talks
577: <a href="papers/auug2006/pf_evolution/">PF evolution</a>
578: and
579: <a href="papers/auug2006/network_randomness/">Network stack randomness in OpenBSD</a>.
580: <p>
581:
1.532 wvdputte 582: <li><strong><a name=eurooscon2006></a>
583: <a href="http://conferences.oreillynet.com/euos2006/">O'Reilly Euro OSCON 2006
584: </a></strong>,
585: Sep 20, 2006, Brussels, Belgium.<br>
586: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth.
587: <p>
588:
1.528 wvdputte 589: <li><strong><a name=come2linux2006></a>
590: <a href="http://www.come2linux.org/psp/">Come 2 Linux 2006</a></strong>,
591: Sep 9 - 10, 2006, Duisburg-Essen, Germany.<br>
592: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth.
593: <p>
594:
1.525 wvdputte 595: <li><strong><a name=ChaosdaysDarmstadt2006></a>
596: <a href="http://mrmcd101b.metarheinmain.de/index.html">mrmcd101b - MetaRheinMainChaosDays Darmstadt 2006</a>
597: </strong>,
598: Sep 1 - 3, 2006, Darmstadt, Germany.<br>
599: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth.
600: <p>
601:
1.521 fkr 602: <li><strong><a name=LinuxWorldExpoSF2006></a>
603: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/live/12/events/12SFO06A/conference/tracksessions/Security/QMONYA04ROFR">LinuxWorld Expo San Francisco 2006</a>
604: </strong>,
605: Aug 16, 2006, San Francisco, United States.<br>
606: Ted Unangst spoke about OpenBSD as part of a security panel.
607: <p>
608:
1.518 tedu 609: <li><strong><a name=coimbra2006></a>
610: <a href="http://www.openbsd-pt.com/eventos/coimbra06/">Portuguese OpenBSD Usergroup Meeting</a></strong>,
611: Jul 22 - 23, 2006, Coimbra, Portugal.<br>
612: 6th Meeting of the Portuguese OpenBSD Usergroup. Marc Balmer gave a talk
613: "NMEA 0183 and Time Signal Station Receiver Support in OpenBSD".
614: <p>
615:
616: <li><strong><a name=akqit2006></a>
617: <a href="http://www.akqit.ch/w3/DE/actual.html">Arbeitskreis für Qualität in der Informationstechnologie (Working Group for Quality in IT)</a></strong>,
618: Jul 20, 2006, University of Basel, Computer Science Department, Room 205, Bernoullistr. 16, 17:30 - 18:30<br>
1.590 mbalmer 619: Marc Balmer gave a talk in german "<a href="papers/akqit06/index.html">Ensuring
620: Quality in the Development of the Free Operating System OpenBSD</a>".
1.518 tedu 621: <p>
1.475 deraadt 622:
1.510 wvdputte 623: <li><strong><a name="lsm2006"></a>
624: <a href="http://www.rmll.info">Libre Software Meeting 2006</a></strong>,
625: Jul 4 - 8, 2006, Vandoeuvre-les-nancy, France.<br>
1.681 aanriot 626: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Wim, Matthieu and
627: Alexandre with the help of Serge and Christelle.
1.510 wvdputte 628: <p>
629:
1.508 wvdputte 630: <li><strong><a name=FrOSCon></a>
631: <a href="http://www.froscon.de/">
632: FrOSCon 2006 - Free and Open Source Software Conference</a></strong>,
633: Jun 24 - 25, 2006, Bonn/Rhein-Sieg, Germany.<br>
1.518 tedu 634: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth run by Wim, Waldemar, Manuel and
1.508 wvdputte 635: Tim Kornau.
636: <p>
637:
1.507 mbalmer 638: <li><strong><a name=LinuxwochenLinz2006></a>
639: <a href="http://www.linuxwochen.at/2006/Linz">Linuxwochen Linz 2006</a>
640: </strong>,
641: June 15, 2006, Linz, Austria.<br>
642: There was an an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth run by Wim and the usual suspects.
643: <p>
644:
1.506 deraadt 645: <li><strong><a name=lugverona2006></a>
1.526 steven 646: <a href="http://www.di.univr.it/dol/main?ent=iniziativa&id=857&lang=it">LUGVR@UNIVR</a></strong>
1.506 deraadt 647: Jun 9, 2006, Verona University, Borgo Roma, Italy.<br>
648: Florin Iamandi of <a href="https://www.verona.linux.it">LUG Verona</a>
649: gave a talk
650: (<a href="http://todome.net/docs/obsd_carp/en">English</a> and
651: <a href="http://todome.net/docs/obsd_carp/it">Italian</a>)
652: and live demonstration on redundant failover
653: OpenBSD firewalls. He explained why OpenBSD solves many problems that
654: had previously been the dominion of expensive commercial solutions.
655: Attendees learned about OpenBSD's hard stance and successful fight against
656: bad licences and uncooperating vendors and manufacturers.
657: <p>
658:
1.502 mbalmer 659: <li><strong><a name=Slackathon2006></a>
660: <a href="http://slackathon2006.unix.se">Slackathon 2006</a>
661: </strong>
662: Jun 3, 2006, Stockholm, Sweden.<br>
663: A fundraiser for OpenBSD/SSH held at the Stockholm University. Free
1.505 ian 664: entrance and all donations went straight to the project. Several
1.502 mbalmer 665: developers were talking about OpenBSD here, as well as some hands-on
666: workshops took place with both old and new hardware.
667: <p>
668:
1.500 deraadt 669: <li><strong><a name=cuug2006></a>
670: <a href="http://www.cuug.ab.ca/">Calgary Unix Users Group</a></strong>,
671: Jun 1, 2006, SAIT Campus, Calgary, Alberta.<br>
1.504 miod 672: Bob Beck and Reyk Floeter discussed recent and future networking
673: changes in OpenBSD. Some other OpenBSD developers attended to provide
1.500 deraadt 674: international colour, and there were tshirts, CDs, and posters on hand.
675: CUUG made a substantial contribution to OpenBSD at this event as well.
676: <p>
677:
1.589 aanriot 678: <li><strong><a name=LinuxwochenVienna2006></a>
679: <a href="http://www.linuxwochen.at/2006/Wien">Linuxwochen Vienna 2006</a>
680: </strong>,
681: May 31 - Jun 2, 2006, Vienna, Austria.<br>
682: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth run by Wim and the usual suspects.
683: <p>
684:
1.585 aanriot 685: <li><strong><a name=plug060519></a>
1.586 aanriot 686: <a href="http://www.plugfr.org/">Provence Linux User Group</a></strong>
687: May 19, 2006, Marseille, France.<br>
1.585 aanriot 688: Alexandre Anriot spoke about the deployment of wireless networks with
1.586 aanriot 689: OpenBSD during a meeting of the PLUG.
1.585 aanriot 690: <p>
691:
1.491 bernd 692: <li><strong><a name="SANE2006"></a>
693: <a href="http://www.sane.nl/sane2006/">SANE 2006</a></strong>,
694: May 15 - 19, 2006, Delft, The Netherlands.<br>
695: Peter N. M. Hansteen gave a
696: <a href="http://www.sane.nl/sane2006/program/abstract.php?eventid=35">
697: PF tutorial</a>.
698: <p>
699:
1.490 reyk 700: <li><strong><a name=bsdcan2006></a> <a
701: href="http://www.bsdcan.org/2006/">BSDCan 2006</a></strong>,
702: May 12 - 13, 2006, Ottawa, Canada.<br>
703: David Gwynne gave a talk about hardware monitoring with bio and
704: sensors in OpenBSD (<a href="papers/bsdcan06-biosensors.pdf">slides</a>)
705: and Reyk Flöter talked about the latest
706: wireless support and the incredible plans for the future
707: (<a href="papers/bsdcan06-wlan/index.html">slides</a>), and
708: Peter Hansteen gave a PF tutorial. A number of OpenBSD hackers
709: attended the conference as well, like Bob Beck and Mathieu Sauve-Frankel.
710: <p>
711:
1.489 bernd 712: <li><strong><a name="linuxdays2006"></a>
713: <a href="http://www.linuxdays.ch">Linuxdays 2006</a></strong>,
714: May 8 - 12, 2006, Geneva, Switzerland.<br>
715: Julien Mabillard, a long-time Geneva OpenBSD user, gave a talk to present
716: the overall system and its great features.
717: <p>
718:
1.592 claudio 719: <li><strong><a name="idepes2006"></a>
1.589 aanriot 720: <a href="http://www.idepes.org.br/openbsd/">IDEPES 2006</a></strong>,
721: May 6, 2006, São Paulo, Brazil.<br>
722: First event in Brazil totally dedicated to OpenBSD.
723: <p>
724:
1.592 claudio 725: <li><strong><a name="LinuxTag2006"></a>
1.484 mbalmer 726: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.org/2006/">LinuxTag 2006</a></strong>,
727: May 3 - 6, 2006, Wiesbaden, Germany.<br>
728: OpenBSD was very present at this years Linuxtag:
729: <ul>
730: <li>On friday morning, Claudio and Marc moderated a panel discussion
731: "BLOBS sind das Krebsgeschwür freier Software" (Blobs are the
1.485 mbalmer 732: cancer of free software) that was well attended. Unfortunately no one
1.484 mbalmer 733: in favour of Blobs attended, although we asked almost all Linux
734: distributions...
735: <li>After lunch, Marc Balmer started the afternoon with a talk "OpenBSD
736: as a Strategic Platform for the Basle Public Schools", outlining how and
1.485 mbalmer 737: why the Basle Public school system uses OpenBSD for most of its
1.484 mbalmer 738: infrastructure.
1.592 claudio 739: <li>The next OpenBSD specific talk was by Claudio Jeker,
740: <a href="papers/linuxtag06-network/">"Routing with OpenBSD using
741: OpenOSPFD and OpenBGPD"</a> where he showed various routing setups and
742: how full redundancy can be achieved.
743: [<a href="papers/linuxtag06-network.pdf">paper</a>]
1.484 mbalmer 744: <li>Later, Marc Balmer gave a talk "Decoding Time Signal Stations using
745: OpenBSD" and explained the recent addition of timedelta sensors and the
746: first implementation of such, udcf(4).
747: </ul>
748: <br>
749: All talks where very well received and OpenBSD filled four hours of the
1.485 mbalmer 750: Linuxtag program. We thank Wilhelm Bühler, chair of the BSD-Track
1.484 mbalmer 751: at Linuxtag, for the superb and professional organization.
752: <br>
753: Of course, there was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth run by Wim and the
754: usual suspects.
755: <p>
756:
1.486 mickey 757: <li><strong><a name=NYCBUG2006-05></a>
758: <a href="http://nycbug.org/index.php?NAV=Home&SUBM=83">NYCBUG Monthly meeting</a></strong>,
759: May 3, 2006, NYC, USA.<br>
760: Mickey gave a talk
1.564 jason 761: (<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 762: about PAE work for OpenBSD/i386.<br>
763: Mischa Diehm gave a talk about implementing VPN using OpenBSD.
764: <p>
765:
1.484 mbalmer 766: <li><strong><a name=tokyo2006></a>
767: <a href="http://www.tokyopc.org/index.php/weblog/">Tokyo PC Users Group</a></strong>,
768: May 2, 2006, Tokyo.<br>
769: Theo presented his <a href="papers/ven05-deraadt">"Exploit Mitigation Techniques"</a>
770: talk. There is a
771: <a href="http://www.tokyopc.org/faxmessage/index.html#about">map to the location</a>.
772: <p>
773:
1.478 mbalmer 774: <li><strong><a name=SambaEXPerience2006></a>
775: <a href="http://www.sambaxp.org/">Samba eXPerience 2006</a></strong>,
776: April 24 - 26, 2006, Göttingen, Germany.<br>
777: Marc Balmer gave a talk "Providing Fully Automated Fileserver Services
778: for Public Schools using LDAP Integrated SAMBA on OpenBSD" that was very
779: well received.
780: <br>
781: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth run by Wim and Marc and Felix Kronlage
782: and we could draw a lot of attention.
783: <p>
784:
1.479 deraadt 785: <li><strong><a name=DORSCLUC2006></a>
786: <a href="http://www.open.hr/dc2006/"> DORS / CLUC 2006</a></strong>,
787: April 19-21, 2006, Zagreb, Croatia.<br>
788: <a href="http://www.kerberos.si">Mitja Muzenic</a> gave a
1.480 mbalmer 789: <a href="http://www.kerberos.si/papers/DORS06/index.html">
790: "Introduction to OpenBSD"</a> talk. Conference
791: <a href="http://www.open.hr/dc2006/program.php">program</a> (in croatian
1.479 deraadt 792: only).
793: <p>
794:
1.475 deraadt 795: <li><strong><a name=linuxworld2006></a>
796: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/live/12/events/12BOS06A/">
797: LinuxWorld/OpenSolutions World 2006</a></strong>,
798: April 3 - 6, 2006, Boston, USA.<br>
799: Jason Dixon presented
800: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/live/12/events/12BOS06A/conference/tracksessions/Security/QMONYA04Q1DK">Secure Network Architectures with OpenBSD</a>,
801: a talk on OpenBSD that outlines the various technologies that make
802: it a leader of secure networking platforms.
803: <br>
804: He spent time around the exposition BSD booth with giveaways
805: and early release OpenBSD 3.9 CDs.
806: <p>
807:
808: <li><strong><a name=cansecwest06></a>
809: <a href="http://www.cansecwest.com">Cansecwest/core06</a></strong>,
810: April 3 - 7, 2006, Vancouver.<br>
811: A rather interesting OpenBSD-related talk happened at this event, regarding
812: using SMI interrupts to break out of X into kernel mode.
813: <br>
814: Some OpenBSD developers attended. Some early OpenBSD 3.9 items went
815: on sale.
816: <p>
817:
1.469 tom 818: <li><strong><a name=ukuug2006></a>
819: <a href="http://www.ukuug.org/events/spring2006/">UKUUG Spring Conference 2006</a></strong>,
820: Mar 22 - 23, 2006, Durham, United Kingdom<br>
821: Reyk Flöter gave a talk about the latest wireless support in
822: OpenBSD at the annual spring meeting of the
823: <a href="http://www.ukuug.org/">UK's Unix and Open Systems User Group</a>.
824: Peter N. M. Hansteen
825: gave a PF tutorial, Tom Cosgrove presented "Exploit
826: Mitigation Techniques" and Constantine Murenin gave a
827: presentation on "Hardware temperature monitoring device
828: drivers for OpenBSD".
829: These were all part of a new, well-attended, BSD stream at the event.
830: <p>
831:
1.459 henning 832: <li><strong><a name=Copenhagen2006></a>
833: <a href="http://www.linuxforum.dk/2006/en/">LinuxForum 2006</a></strong>,
834: Mar 3 - 4, 2006, Copenhagen, Denmark<br>
835: Wim gave Felix Kronlage's talk about OpenBSD Mobile Use (wifi, UMTS,
836: GPRS, phones and the like) with some demo setups.
837: Henning Brauer gave a very well received talk about OpenBGPD,
838: <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/linuxforum2006/">slides</a> are available.
839: <p>
840:
1.457 wvdputte 841: <li><strong><a name=Brussels2006></a>
842: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/2006/">FOSDEM Brussels 2006</a></strong>,
843: Feb 25 - 26, 2006, Brussels, Belgium.<br>
844: An OpenBSD/OpenSSH booth was present, run by the usual gang of suspects:
1.458 xsa 845: Alexandre, Dimitar, Matthieu, Mbalmer, Nikolay, Otto, Reyk, Saad, Thierry, Uwe, Wim, and
1.457 wvdputte 846: Xsa. Reyk gave a talk about Wifi with OpenBSD and there was our traditional
847: BSD dinner. More details and
848: <a href="http://saad.docisland.org/pictures/fosdem2006/index.html">pictures</a>
1.458 xsa 849: on <a href="http://saad.docisland.org/blog/files/archive-12.html#unique-entry-id-40">Saad's blog</a>.
1.457 wvdputte 850: <p>
851:
852: <li><strong><a name=Vegas2006></a>
853: <a href="http://kd85.com/vegas2006.html">Merciful briefings 2006</a></strong>,
854: Feb 15, 2006, Las Vegas, USA - Feb 17, 2006, San Diego, USA - Feb 18, 2006, Phoenix, USA.<br>
855: While traveling the US, Wim met with a bunch of OpenBSD users in Las Vegas,
856: San Diego and Phoenix. With many thanks to the members of PhxBUG - Phoenix BSD
857: User Group, more specificly Darrin Chandler, for organising the little
858: details and Jacob for road trip directions.
859: <p>
1.455 grunk 860:
1.456 henning 861: <li><strong><a name=nanog36></a>
862: <a href="http://www.nanog.org/">NANOG 36</a></strong>,
863: Feb 12 - 15, 2006, Dallas, USA.<br>
864: Henning Brauer and Bernhard Kroenung of DE-CIX talked about OpenBGPD and
865: OpenBGPD at DE-CIX, <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/nanog36/">slides</a>
866: are available. Henning talked again at the tools BOF
867: (<a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/nanog36-bof/">slides</a>).
868: Both talks were very well received by the audience.
869: Kenjiro Cho was there too, talking about IPv6 issues.
870: <p>
871:
1.455 grunk 872: <li><strong><a name="Paris2006"></a>
873: <a href="http://www.solutionslinux.fr/fr/index.php">Solutions Linux 2006</a>
874: </strong>,
875: Jan 31 - Feb 2, 2006, Paris, France.<br>
876: There was an OpenBSD booth run by Marc Espie, Miod Vallat, Saad Kadhi and
877: Wim with help from Guillaume Arcas and Christophe Plasschaert.
878: <p>
879: </ul>
880:
1.296 mcbride 881: <h3>2005</h3>
1.240 espie 882:
883: <ul>
1.337 deraadt 884:
1.445 martin 885: <li><strong><a name=22c3></a>
886: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/2005/">22C3 Chaos Communication Congress in
887: Berlin</a></strong>,
888: December 27 - 30, 2005, Berlin, Germany.<br>
889: Many OpenBSD developers and users met for a Xmas break in a unique setting.
890: <p>
891:
1.585 aanriot 892: <li><strong><a name=plug051216></a>
1.586 aanriot 893: <a href="http://www.plugfr.org/">Provence Linux User Group</a></strong>
894: December 16, 2005, Marseille, France.<br>
895: Alexandre Anriot spoke about OpenSSH during a meeting of the PLUG.
1.585 aanriot 896: <p>
897:
1.435 matthieu 898: <li><strong><a name=eurobsdcon2005></a>
899: <a href="http://2005.eurobsdcon.org/">EuroBSDCon 2005</a></strong>,
900: Nov 25 - 27, 2005, Basel, Switzerland.<br>
901: The 4th edition of the european conference for BSD systems has been a
902: great success. More than 225 people from 27 countries attended the
1.438 deraadt 903: event.
1.444 grunk 904: The program included a
905: <a href="http://www.eurobsdcon.org/tutorials-reyk.php">tutorial by Reyk about
1.437 niallo 906: OpenBSD-based Wireless Networks</a> and the following talks
907: <ul>
1.438 deraadt 908: <li>Henning Brauer with Wilhelm Bühler "Signal Handlers"
909: <li>Ryan McBride "Network Stack Randomness"
1.439 matthieu 910: <li><a href="papers/eurobsd2005/herrb-hopf.pdf">Matthieu Herrb and Matthias Hopf "New Evolutions in the X Window System"</a>
1.440 claudio 911: <li><a href="papers/eurobsd2005/claudio/">Claudio Jeker "The Design and Implementation of OpenOSPFD"</a>
1.439 matthieu 912: <li><a href="papers/eurobsd2005/niallo-uwe/">Niall O'Higgins & Uwe Stuehler "Embedded OpenBSD"</a>
1.443 deraadt 913: <li><a href="papers/eurobsd2005/tedu-rthreads.pdf">Ted Unangst "rthreads: A New Thread Implementation for OpenBSD"</a>
1.437 niallo 914: </ul>
1.438 deraadt 915: <p>
1.435 matthieu 916: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
917: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
918: <p>
919:
1.434 bernd 920: <li><strong><a name=linuxworldexpogermany2005></a>
921: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.de/">Linux World Expo Germany</a></strong>,
922: Nov 15 - 17, 2005, Frankfurt, Germany.<br>
923: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
924: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a> and Bernd.
925: <p>
926:
1.441 niallo 927: <li><strong><a name="pacsec05"></a>
928: <a href="http://www.pacsec.jp/">PacSec/core 05 conference</a></strong>,
929: Nov 15 - 16, 2005, Tokyo, Japan.<br>
930: Sean Comeau presented a talk called
931: <a href="http://www.openbsd-support.com/jp/en/htm/mgp/pacsec05/index.html">
932: Open Source Secure Wireless Networks in a Windows World</a>
933: <a href="http://www.pacsec.jp/core05/psj05-scomeau-en.pdf">[PDF]</a>.
934: The solution he presents uses IPsec to protect traffic between the
935: wireless clients and access points. Authentication is done using OpenSSH
936: (authpf), a process made transparent and user-friendly by a few small
937: scripts.
938: <p>
939:
1.424 mbalmer 940: <li><strong><a name=opencon2005></a>
941: <a href="http://www.opencon.org/">OpenCON 2005</a></strong>,
942: Nov 4 - 6, 2005, San Servolo Island, Venice, Italy.<br>
1.427 deraadt 943: The only unique conference entirely dedicated to OpenBSD, held in the totally
944: crazy environment of San Servolo island: an old insane asylum turned into a
945: university about 20 years ago, about 10 minutes boat ride from Venice.
1.429 deraadt 946: In the days leading up to this, about 12 OpenBSD developers arrived early
1.427 deraadt 947: for a Ports mini-hackathon. During the conference a few developers gave
1.433 deraadt 948: talks, including
949: <ul>
950: <li><a href="papers/ven05-pvalchev">Peter Valchev "OpenBSD Hackathon report"</a>
951: <li><a href="papers/ven05-espie">Marc Espie "OpenBSD ports and packages"</a>
952: <li><a href="papers/ven05-henning">Henning Brauer "OpenBSD networking update"</a>
953: <li><a href="papers/ven05-niallo-uwe/slides.pdf">Uwe Stuehler, Niall O'Higgins "Porting OpenBSD"</a>
954: <li><a href="papers/ven05-deraadt">Theo de Raadt "Exploit Mitigation Techniques (updated to include random malloc and mmap)"</a>
955: </ul>
1.424 mbalmer 956: <p>
957:
958: <li><strong><a name=systems2005></a>
959: <a href="http://www.systems.de/">Systems</a></strong>,
960: Oct 24 - 28, 2005, Munich, Germany <br>
1.425 mbalmer 961: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
1.424 mbalmer 962: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
963: <p>
964:
1.418 djm 965: <li><strong><a name=auug2005></a>
966: <a href="http://www.auug.org.au/events/2005/auug2005/">AUUG 2005</a></strong>,
967: October 16 - 21, 2005, Sydney, Australia.<br>
968: Mark Uemura presented a tutorial on setting up CARP/PF, a demonstration of
969: stateful failover with CARP and pfsync and a talk on wireless security in
970: a corporate environment using authpf and isakmpd. Peter Hansteen gave a
971: <a href="http://www.bgnett.no/~peter/pf/">Firewalling with PF</a> tutorial.
1.420 deraadt 972: Damien Miller presented on the approach to
973: <a href="papers/auug2005-portability">secure software portability used
974: by portable OpenSSH</a>, Reyk Flöter gave a talk on the current state of wireless
1.418 djm 975: support in OpenBSD and David Purdue introduced OpenBSD's spamd tarpit.
976: Most of the Australian OpenBSD developers and many users were present.
977: <p>
978:
1.415 aanriot 979: <li><strong><a name=aldil2005></a>
980: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/">Les Journées Du Logiciel Libre
981: 2005</a></strong>,
982: Oct 14 - 15, 2005, Lyon, France.<br>
983: There was OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Alexandre Anriot with the
984: help of Thierry Thomas.
985: <p>
986:
1.420 deraadt 987: <li><strong><a name=cafeconf2005></a>
988: <a href="http://www.cafeconf.org/">CaFeConf 2005,
989: 4tas Jornadas Abiertas de GNU/Linux y Software Libre</a></strong>,
990: Oct 13 - 15, 2005, Buenos Aires, Argentina<br>
991: CaFeConf 2005 is the anual event of CaFeLUG - Free Software Users
992: Group of Capital Federal, Argentina. This year the event featured
993: 116 presentations consisting of talks, tutorials, and workshops. The
994: event was also broadcasted on the Internet. Entrance was free, but
995: registration was mandatory.<br>
996: Fernando Gont gave a talk on
1.444 grunk 997: <a href="http://www.cafeconf.org/modules/myconference/viewspeech.php?sid=147&cid=20">
1.420 deraadt 998: ICMP attacks against TCP</a>,
999: in which he gave an overview of the attacks, the possible
1000: counter-measures, and the politics of vulnerabilities, and a talk on
1.444 grunk 1001: <a href="http://www.cafeconf.org/modules/myconference/viewspeech.php?sid=173&cid=20">
1.420 deraadt 1002: Fixing the vulnerability of the Path-MTU Discovery mechanism</a>,
1003: in which explained how OpenBSD fixed the vulnerability of the PMTUD
1004: mechanism.
1005: <p>
1006:
1.414 bernd 1007: <li><strong><a name=linuxkongress2005></a>
1008: <a href="http://www.linux-kongress.org/">12th International Linux System
1009: Technology Conference</a></strong>,
1010: Oct 11 - 14, 2005, University of Hamburg, Germany.<br>
1011: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth.
1012: <p>
1013:
1014: <li><strong><a name=linuxworlduk2005></a>
1015: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.co.uk/">LinuxWorld Expo UK 2005</a></strong>,
1016: Oct 5 - 6, 2005, Olympia, London, UK.<br>
1017: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth.
1018: <p>
1019:
1.410 wvdputte 1020: <li><strong><a name=opensourcetag2005></a>
1.575 reyk 1021: <a href="http://www.opensourcetag.de/2005/">OpenSourceTag 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 1022: Sep 27, 2005, Hannover, Germany.<br>
1.444 grunk 1023: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth and Reyk gave a
1.575 reyk 1024: <a href="http://www.opensourcetag.de/2005/agenda/">talk</a> about IT security.
1.410 wvdputte 1025: <p>
1026:
1027: <li><strong><a name="gubuginstallfest2005"></a>
1028: <a href="http://gubug.org/meetings.php">Greater Utah BSD Group
1029: Installfest 2005</a></strong>,
1030: Sep 24, 2005, Sandy, UT, USA.<br/>
1.444 grunk 1031: <a href="http://www.gubug.org/">The Greater Utah BSD User Group</a> organised
1.410 wvdputte 1032: their first annual BSD Installfest, sponsored by Utah ISP ArosNet.
1033: There were handouts, CD-ROMs, technical presentations, and
1034: fun, plus a chance to get OpenBSD or a related open source BSD operating system
1035: installed on your computer.
1036: Admission was free (computers not included in cost of admission).
1.419 djm 1037: Featured speakers included Dan Langille, organizer of BSDCan.
1.410 wvdputte 1038: <p>
1039:
1.404 wvdputte 1040: <li><strong><a name="NYCBSDCon2005"></a>
1041: <a href="http://nycbsdcon.org/">New York City BSD Conference 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 1042: Sep 17, 2005, NYC, USA.<br>
1.404 wvdputte 1043: NYCBSDCon was a one day technical conference hosted by the New York
1044: City *BSD User Group and was held at Columbia University.
1.406 saad 1045: The all day conference included a variety of speakers representing the
1.404 wvdputte 1046: BSD projects and the open source community.<br>
1047: NYCBSDCon was organized by NYC*BUG, a technical user group that formed in
1048: December 2003. Besides their regular monthly meetings at the Soho Apple
1049: Store, NYC*BUG has done fundraising for the BSD projects and contributed a
1050: number of useful online applications such as BSDTracker and dmesgd.<br>
1051: Additional sponsors included USENIX, New York Internet and SRA America.
1052: <p>
1053:
1054: <li><strong><a name=opensaar2005></a>
1055: <a href="http://www.opensaar.de/">OpenSaar 2005</a></strong>,
1056: Sep 13 - 14, 2005, Saarbrücken, Germany.<br>
1057: An OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth was present
1058: <p>
1059:
1.403 henning 1060: <li><strong><a name=decix160905></a> <a
1061: href="http://www.de-cix.org/">DE-CIX Technical Meeting</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 1062: Sep 16, 2005, Schloss Kransberg, near Usingen, Germany.<br>
1.403 henning 1063: Henning Brauer, Reyk Flöter and Maxim Salomon had been invited to the
1064: technical meeting of the Deutsche Commercial Internet Exchange (DE-CIX) again.
1065: Henning gave an update on OpenBGPD, Reyk talked about a route server project
1066: using OpenBGPD at DE-CIX, and Maxim explained why the CCC sponsors us doing so.
1067: There was a very positive discussion afterwards.
1068: <a href="http://unduli.bsws.de/papers/decix2005-2/">Slides</a> are available.
1069: <p>
1070:
1.388 tom 1071: <li><strong><a name="ukuug2005"></a>
1072: <a href="http://www.ukuug.org/events/linux2005/">UKUUG Linux Technical
1073: Conference 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 1074: Aug 4 - 7, 2005, University of Wales, Swansea, UK<br>
1.388 tom 1075: Tom Cosgrove gave Theo's presentation about Exploit Mitigation Techniques.
1076: <p>
1077:
1.385 mickey 1078: <li><strong><a name=wth2005></a>
1.390 deraadt 1079: <a href="http://www.whatthehack.org/">What the Hack 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 1080: Jul 28 - 31, 2005, Den Bosch, The Netherlands.<br>
1.385 mickey 1081: As every 4 years, Wim organized the
1082: <a href="http://eurobsd.org/2005-WhatTheHack/">BSD village</a> at this huge
1.389 tom 1083: open air event. There were some talks, Reyk spoke about
1084: <a href="http://program.whatthehack.org/event/6.en.html">WLAN in OpenBSD</a>,
1.385 mickey 1085: and an excellent
1086: <a href="ftp://ftp.nyc.openbsd.org/pub/news/wth-radio-humppa.mp3">Humppa show</a> (35MB MP3) was performed on the SubEther radio.
1087: If you want to see what happened previously, check
1088: <a href="http://eurobsd.org/hal2001/">http://eurobsd.org/hal2001/</a>
1089: and <a href="http://www.eurobsd.org/SummerCamp2003/">http://www.eurobsd.org/SummerCamp2003/</a>.
1090: <p>
1091:
1.382 pedro 1092: <li><strong><a name=coimbra2005></a>
1.474 pedro 1093: <a href="http://www.openbsd-pt.com/eventos/coimbra05/">Portuguese OpenBSD Usergroup Meeting</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 1094: Jul 23 - 24, 2005, Coimbra, Portugal.<br>
1.538 pedro 1095: 5th Meeting of the Portuguese OpenBSD Usergroup. Pedro Martelletto gave a talk.
1.382 pedro 1096: <p>
1097:
1.378 aanriot 1098: <li><strong><a name="lsm2005"></a>
1099: <a href="http://2005.rencontresmondiales.org/sections/index_html/switchLanguage/en">Libre Software Meeting 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 1100: Jul 5 - 9, 2005, Dijon, France.<br>
1.379 aanriot 1101: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Wim and the usual
1102: suspects, with the help of Serge Basterot. It was a nice place to meet
1103: some of our French, German and Swiss developers, including Marc Balmer,
1104: Alexandre Anriot, Matthieu Herrb and Reyk Floeter.
1.378 aanriot 1105: <p>
1106:
1.375 grunk 1107: <li><strong><a name=LinuxTag2005></a>
1108: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.org">LinuxTag 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 1109: Jun 22 - 25, 2005, Karlsruhe, Germany.<br>
1.375 grunk 1110: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth ran by Wim, Christian Weisgerber,
1111: Marc Balmer, Wilhelm Buehler, Robert Nagy, Bernd Ahlers and Phil Schulz.
1112: <p>
1113:
1.374 grunk 1114: <li><strong><a name="uofa-cc2005"></a>
1115: <a href="http://www.ualberta.ca/CC2005"> University of Alberta, Campus
1.410 wvdputte 1116: Computing 2005</a></strong>, Jun 21, 2005, Edmonton, Canada.<br>
1.374 grunk 1117: Ryan McBride spoke about OpenBSD's packet filter, PF, with CARP and
1118: failover examples. Local color and examples at the U of A shown by Bob
1119: Beck. Bob Beck spoke about PF and Spamd, as well as several other
1120: OpenBSD using and related talks at this event, which primarily focuses
1121: on activities centered at the University of Alberta.
1122: <p>
1123:
1.371 deraadt 1124: <li><strong><a name=uemera2005></a>
1125: <a href="http://www.tokyopc.net">Tokyo PC Users Group</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 1126: Jun 2, 2005, Tokyo Union Church in Omotesando, Tokyo, Japan.<br>
1.371 deraadt 1127: Mark T. Uemura spoke to Japan's largest English speaking
1128: personal computer club. The talk was entitled
1129: <a href="http://www.openbsd-support.com/jp/en/htm/mgp/index.shtml">
1130: "Open Source in a Windows World"</a>.
1131: He demonstrated how companies can easily
1132: integrate Open Source, with an emphasis on OpenBSD, into their IT
1133: infrastructure to enhance security, scalability and stability,
1134: significantly reduce IT expenditures, free up computing infrastructure
1135: and move away from commercial lock-in. This talk is based on changes
1136: implemented at PricewaterhouseCoopers in Japan.
1137: <p>
1138:
1.366 martin 1139: <li><strong><a name=LinuxwochenVienna2005></a>
1140: <a href="http://www.linuxwochen.at/">Linuxwochen Vienna 2005</a></strong>,
1141: May 24 - 27, 2005, Vienna, Austria.<br>
1142: The Linuxwochen 2005 tour stopped in the MuseumsQuartier, Vienna.
1143: Wim Vandeputte and Reinhard Sammer were running an OpenBSD booth selling
1144: CDs and shirts.
1145: <p>
1146:
1.365 mcbride 1147: <li><strong><a name=cuug2005></a>
1148: <a href="http://www.cuug.ab.ca/">Calgary Unix Users Group</a></strong>,
1149: May 24, 2005, Calgary, Canada.<br>
1150: Ryan McBride spoke about OpenBSD's packet filter, PF.
1151: A broad overview of PF's features were presented, with special attention
1152: paid to newer and more unique features and how these can be used together
1153: effectively for DoS mitigation, high availability, and load balancing.
1154: <br>
1155: Approximately 60 OpenBSD developers attended to heckle and participate
1156: in a free-for-all question period after the talk.
1157: <p>
1158:
1.362 reyk 1159: <li><strong><a name=bsdcan2005></a>
1160: <a href="http://www.bsdcan.org/2005/">BSDCan 2005</a></strong>,
1161: May 13 - 14, 2005, Ottawa, Canada.<br>
1162: A number of OpenBSD developers presented: Bob Beck on
1163: Spam Reduction with PF and Spamd, Henning Brauer on OpenBGPD,
1164: Ryan McBride on Network Stack Randomness and Reyk Flöter
1165: on WLAN in OpenBSD and the free ath(4) HAL. The
1166: <a href="papers/bsdcan05-spamd/">Spamd</a> and
1167: <a href="papers/bsdcan05-wlan/">WLAN</a> slides are available.
1168: Mathieu Sauve-Frankel has been there in attendance as well.
1169: <p>
1170:
1.358 mcbride 1171: <li><strong><a name=csw2005></a>
1172: <a href="http://www.cansecwest.com/">cansecwest/core05</a></strong>,
1173: May 4-6, 2005, Vancouver, Canada.<br>
1174: Hiroaki Etoh spoke about propolice; Theo de Raadt and a number of other
1175: developers were there to sell CDs and make a nuisance of themselves.
1176: <p>
1177:
1.357 henning 1178: <li><strong><a name=ripe50></a>
1179: <a href="http://www.ripe.net/ripe/meetings/ripe-50/">RIPE 50</a></strong>,
1180: May 2-6, 2005, Stockholm, Sweden.<br>
1181: RIPE NCC invited Henning to talk about OpenBGPD.
1182: There were over 350 attendees to the conference, and most of them attended
1183: henning's talk, which got very very positive feedback.
1184: <p>
1185:
1.384 tom 1186: <li><strong><a name=libreast2005></a>
1.356 espie 1187: <a href="http://idile.org/libreast/">Libr'east 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 1188: Apr 22-24, Marne La Vallée, near Paris, France<br>
1.356 espie 1189: There was an OpenBSD booth (Wim + Miod + Marc)
1190: Marc Espie did talk about recent OpenBSD advances, and his ports and
1191: packages work in front of about 30 people.
1192: <p>
1193:
1.353 henning 1194: <li><strong><a name=decix150405></a> <a
1195: href="http://www.de-cix.org/">DE-CIX Technical Meeting</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 1196: Apr 15, 2005, near Usingen, Germany.<br>
1.353 henning 1197: Henning Brauer and Reyk Flöter had been invited to the technical
1198: meeting of the Deutsche Commercial Internet Exchange (DE-CIX). Henning
1199: presented his talk on OpenBGPD, about 60 people, mostly operators from
1200: the big ISPs peering at DECIX, were in attendance.
1.354 reyk 1201: Reyk, Maxim Salomon and Tim Kornau spoke on Wireless Network Security.
1.353 henning 1202: <p>
1203:
1.352 henning 1204: <li><strong><a name=nuug140405></a>
1205: <a href="http://www.nuug.no/aktiviteter/20050414-pf-brannmur/">Firewalling with PF at NUUG</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 1206: Apr 14, 2005, Oslo, Norway.<br>
1.352 henning 1207: Peter N. M. Hansteen gave a firewalling with PF talk - which hopefully
1208: gave you some ideas about how to control your network traffic the
1209: way you want - keeping some things outside your network, directing
1210: traffic to specified hosts or services, and of course, giving spammers
1211: a hard time. The talk was in Norwegian, with <a
1212: href="http://www.bgnett.no/~peter/pf/no/foils/">foils</a> and <a
1213: href="http://www.bgnett.no/~peter/pf/no/">manuscript</a> (English <a
1214: href="http://www.bgnett.no/~peter/pf/en/foils/">foils</a> and <a
1215: href="http://www.bgnett.no/~peter/pf/en/">manuscript</a> too)
1216: available if you couldn't make it there.
1217: <p>
1218:
1.589 aanriot 1219:
1220: <li><strong><a name=fhwedel130405></a>
1221: <a href="http://www.fh-wedel.de/">FH Wedel invited talk</a></strong>,
1222: Apr 13, 2005, 17:00, Hörsaal 5, FH Wedel, Hamburg, Germany.<br>
1223: Henning Brauer spoke on OpenBGPD. More than 40 people were in attendance.
1224: <p>
1225:
1.350 marius 1226: <li><strong><a name=usenix2005></a>
1227: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix05/">Usenix Annual
1.410 wvdputte 1228: Technical Conference</a></strong>, Apr 10-15, 2005, Anaheim,
1.350 marius 1229: California, USA.<br> Marius Eriksen gave the OpenBSD update at the BSD
1230: super BoF. The update was well received and people were quite
1231: sympathetic towards the ongoing efforts of the OpenBSD project to
1232: ensure the free redistribution rights for firmware. People were also
1233: excited about the new Open* tools (OpenBGPD, OpenNTPD, OpenCVS) and it
1.351 marius 1234: would not be surprising to see more of these imported into other BSDs.
1.350 marius 1235: <p>
1236:
1.585 aanriot 1237: <li><strong><a name=plug050408></a>
1.586 aanriot 1238: <a href="http://www.plugfr.org/">Provence Linux User Group</a></strong>
1239: April 8, 2005, Marseille, France.<br>
1.585 aanriot 1240: Alexandre Anriot spoke about OpenBSD and some associated projects
1.586 aanriot 1241: (OpenBGPD etc.) during a meeting of the PLUG.
1.585 aanriot 1242: The <a href="papers/plug080405">slides</a> (in French) are available.
1.344 martin 1243: <p>
1244:
1.337 deraadt 1245: <li><strong><a name=bcs2005></a>
1246: <a href="http://www.bellua.com/bcs2005/asia05.index.html">Bellua Cyber Security Asia 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 1247: Mar 21-24, 2005, Jakarta, Indonesia.<br>
1.337 deraadt 1248: Ryan McBride presented an overview of PF which
1249: discussed how its advanced features work together in some important
1.338 deraadt 1250: applications and compared PF with the other major commercial and open
1.337 deraadt 1251: source firewalls.
1252: <p>
1253:
1.317 henning 1254: <li><strong><a name=nui_maynooth2005></a>
1255: <a href="http://www.minds.nuim.ie/events">NUI Maynooth lectures</a></strong>,
1256: Mar 4, 2005, Department of Computer Science, NUI Maynooth, Dublin, Ireland.<br>
1.318 henning 1257: Ryan McBride presented talks about PF and about
1.326 mcbride 1258: <a href="papers/dublin05-nr">randomization in the OpenBSD network layer.</a><br>
1.318 henning 1259: Theo and Henning were in attendance because someone had to heckle.
1.317 henning 1260: <p>
1261:
1.312 deraadt 1262: <li><strong><a name=trinity2005></a>
1263: <a href="http://www.netsoc.tcd.ie/events/0405/openbsd.php">Trinity lecture</a></strong>,
1264: Mar 3, 2005, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.<br>
1.320 deraadt 1265: Theo de Raadt presented his talk about
1266: <a href="papers/auug04">Exploit Mitigation Techniques</a>.
1.312 deraadt 1267: <p>
1268:
1.319 saad 1269: <li><strong><a name=ShefLUG2005></a>
1270: <a href="http://www.sheflug.co.uk/seminar/tiki-index.php?page=Sheffield%20Open%20Source%20Seminar">ShefLUG2005</a></strong>,
1271: Mar 2, 2005, Sheffield, UK.<br>
1272: Jacek Artymiak gave a talk about installing OpenBSD on Soekris hardware.
1273: <p>
1274:
1.310 mickey 1275: <li><strong><a name=NYCBUG2005-03></a>
1.375 grunk 1276: <a href="http://nycbug.org/index.php?NAV=Home&SUBM=83">NYCBUG Monthly meeting</a></strong>,
1.310 mickey 1277: Mar 2, 2005, NYC, USA.<br>
1.322 deraadt 1278: Mickey gave a talk
1.325 mickey 1279: (<a href="papers/nyc2005">slides</a> and
1.564 jason 1280: <a href="http://www.fetissov.org/public/nycbug/nycbug-03-02-05.mp3">10.5MB audio</a>)
1.321 mickey 1281: about <a href="hppa.html">porting OpenBSD</a>
1.313 martin 1282: to the <a href="http://www.openpa.net">HP PA-RISC</a> platform.
1.310 mickey 1283: <p>
1.312 deraadt 1284:
1.308 deraadt 1285: <li><strong><a name=Netsoc2005></a>
1286: <a href="http://netsoc.ucd.ie/events/openbsd/">Netsoc lectures</a></strong>,
1287: Mar 2, 2005, UCD, Dublin, Ireland.<br>
1288: Theo de Raadt, Henning Brauer, and Ryan McBride gave a series of
1.320 deraadt 1289: talks. Topics included
1290: <a href="papers/auug04">exploit mitigation techniques</a>,
1.326 mcbride 1291: <a href="papers/dublin05-nr">introducing network randomness to increase security</a>,
1292: OpenBGPD, and pf.
1293: Almost 200 people came to this event.
1.308 deraadt 1294: <p>
1295:
1.304 saad 1296: <li><strong><a name=Brussels2005></a>
1297: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/2005/">FOSDEM Brussels 2005</a></strong>,
1298: Feb 26 - 27, 2005, Brussels, Belgium.<br>
1299: An OpenBSD/OpenSSH booth was present, ran by the usual gang of suspects.
1300: Support for <a href="mailto:wim@kd85.com">Wim Vandeputte</a> this time were
1.307 otto 1301: (among many others), Saad Kadhi, Henning Brauer, Thierry Deval, Otto Moerbeek,
1.304 saad 1302: Xavier Santolaria, Martin Reindl, Reyk Flöter, Hans-Jörg
1.360 db 1303: Höxer, Nikolay Sturm, Marc Balmer, Claudio Jeker, Joris Vink,
1304: Olivier Cherrier, David Berghoff,
1.316 mbalmer 1305: Alexander von Gernler, Uwe Stuehler, and Felix Kronlage from OpenDarwin.<br>
1.304 saad 1306: There was a separate OpenBSD track, featuring Henning Brauer (about
1307: signal handlers and OpenNTPD), Reyk Flöter (about wireless cards in
1308: OpenBSD), and the author of the OpenBSD PF book, Jacek Artymiak (about
1.375 grunk 1309: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pf">pf(4)</a>, of course).<br>
1.304 saad 1310: At the conference's Free Software Foundation Event, Theo de Raadt was
1311: awarded the Free Software Award 2004 for his efforts to make Firmware for
1312: wireless hardware and other devices freely available.
1313: <p>
1.301 saad 1314: <li><strong><a name=UKUUG05></a>
1315: <a href="http://www.ukuug.org/events/winter2005/">UKUUG LISA/Winter Conference</a></strong>,
1316: Feb 24 - 25, 2005, Birmingham, UK.<br>
1317: Henning Brauer spoke on OpenBGPD, OpenNTPD and Signal Handlers.
1318: <p>
1319: <li><strong><a name=FFG2005></a>
1320: <a href="http://www.guug.de/veranstaltungen/ffg2005/">GUUG FFG 2005</a></strong>,
1321: Feb 22 - 25, 2005, Munich, Germany.<br>
1322: Reyk Flöter talked about the latest wireless support in
1323: OpenBSD at the annual spring meeting of the <a href="http://www.guug.de/">German Unix User Group</a>.
1324: <p>
1.293 saad 1325: <li><strong><a name=Paris2005></a>
1326: <a href="http://www.solutionslinux.fr/fr/index.php">Solutions Linux 2005</a></strong>,
1327: Feb 1 - 3, 2005, Paris, France.<br>
1328: An OpenBSD booth as well as an OpenSSH booth were present. These booths
1329: were run by Marc Espie, Miod Vallat, Saad Kadhi and Wim with help from
1330: Guillaume Arcas and Christophe Plasschaert, two members of the OpenBSD
1.294 saad 1331: french translation team.<br>
1332: Marc Espie and Saad Kadhi gave a talk about the OpenBSD project with a
1333: special focus on the ports collection and Packet Filter. The <a
1334: href="papers/sl2005/index.html">slides</a> (in French) are
1335: available.<br>
1336: During the event, several demonstrations of <a
1.293 saad 1337: href="http://soekris.kd85.com/">Soekris</a> machines running OpenBSD
1338: were given by Saad Kadhi and Wim.
1339: <p>
1.296 mcbride 1340: </ul>
1.293 saad 1341:
1.296 mcbride 1342: <h3>2004</h3>
1343:
1344: <ul>
1.287 henning 1345: <li><strong><a name=21C3></a>
1346: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/2004/">21C3 - Chaos Communication Congress</a></strong>,
1.375 grunk 1347: Dec 27 - 29, 2004, Berlin, Germany<br>
1.287 henning 1348: "The Usual Suspects" were there and ran the BSD corner, including
1349: <a href="mailto:wim@kd85.com">Wim</a>,
1350: Henning Brauer, Marc Balmer, Martin Reindl, Moritz Jodeit, Felix Kronlage,
1.315 nick 1351: Uwe Stuehler, Konrad Foerstner, Bernd Ahlers, and Alexander von Gernler.<br>
1.287 henning 1352: Henning gave a talk about OpenBGPD and OpenNTPD
1353: (<a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/21c3/">slides</a>).<br>
1354: The WiFi backbone ran on OpenBSD powered
1355: <a href="http://soekris.kd85.com">Soekris</a> machines as access points,
1356: work done by Reyk Flöter, Tim Kornau and others.
1357: This installation was a very successful test of the new
1.290 henning 1358: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ath">ath(4)</a>
1.287 henning 1359: driver.
1360: <p>
1.248 deraadt 1361:
1.286 kevlo 1362: <li><strong><a name=icos2004></a>
1.417 kevlo 1363: <a href="http://2004.icos.org.tw/">ICOS 2004</a></strong>,
1.286 kevlo 1364: Dec 18 - 19, 2004, Taipei, Taiwan.<br>
1365: Kevin Lo gave a presentation.
1366: <p>
1367:
1.285 deraadt 1368: <li><strong><a name=syscan2004></a>
1369: <a href="http://www.syscan.org/">SyScAN 2004</a></strong>,
1370: Dec 16 - 17, 2004, Singapore.<br>
1371: Theo de Raadt presented his talk about
1372: <a href="papers/auug04">Exploit Mitigation Techniques</a>.
1373: <p>
1374:
1.283 saad 1375: <li><strong><a name=sur200412></a>
1376: <a href="http://www.ossir.org/sur/calendrier/index.shtml">SUR Group Meeting, December 2004</a></strong>,
1377: Dec 14, 2004, Paris, France.<br>
1378: Saad Kadhi gave a talk about OpenBSD and security during the monthly
1379: meeting of the
1380: <a href="http://www.ossir.org/sur/index.shtml">SUR</a> Group (Sécurité
1381: Unix et Réseaux), a french user group focusing on security and Unix. The
1.284 xsa 1382: <a href="papers/surgroup200412/index.html">slides</a> (in French) are available.
1.283 saad 1383: <p>
1384:
1.282 henning 1385: <li><strong><a name=opencon2004></a>
1386: <a href="http://www.opencon.org/">OpenCon 2004</a></strong>,
1387: Dec 10 - 12, 2004, Venice, Italy.<br>
1388: OpenBSD meeting in Northern Italy. Henning gave 3 talks in
1389: two days, on bgpd
1390: (<a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/opencon04/bgpd/">slides</a>),
1391: ntpd
1392: (<a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/opencon04/ntpd/">slides</a>)
1393: and signal handlers
1394: (<a href="papers/opencon04/">slides</a>).
1395: Wim ran a booth, and Marc Balmer was there as well.
1396: <p>
1397:
1.275 deraadt 1398: <li><strong><a name=UofA></a>
1399: <a href="http://www.ualberta.ca/">U of A Seminar</a></strong>,
1400: Nov 17 - 18, 2004, Edmonton Alberta.<br>
1401: Theo de Raadt presented a talk at an open seminar at the
1402: <a href="http://www.ualberta.ca/">University of Alberta</a>, in
1403: Room B-02 of the
1404: <a href="http://www.campusmap.ualberta.ca/map_bldg.cfm?bldg_id=42">
1405: Computing Sciences Center</a>.
1406: Talk went from 2 PM to nearly 5PM with more than 100 people attending
1407: from the University and industry, followed by beer nearby.
1408: The talk was also given the following day at the
1409: <a href="http://www.cips.ca/">CIPS Security SIG</a> luncheon.
1410: <p>
1411:
1.271 henning 1412: <li><strong><a name=EuroBSDCon2004></a>
1413: <a href="http://2004.eurobsdcon.org/">EuroBSD Con</a></strong>,
1414: Oct 29 - 31, 2004, Karlsruhe, Germany.<br>
1.272 henning 1415: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
1416: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
1.271 henning 1417: Henning gave a talk
1.375 grunk 1418: about <a href="http://2004.eurobsdcon.org/talks.html?&tx_ptspeechupload_pi1[showUid]=44&cHash=ec015b0552">bgpd</a>,
1.272 henning 1419: <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/euroBSDCon2004/">slides</a> are available.
1.271 henning 1420: <p>
1421:
1422: <li><strong><a name=LinuxWorldExpoGermany2004></a>
1423: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.de/">Linux World Expo</a></strong>,
1424: Oct 26 - 28, 2004, Frankfurt, Germany.<br>
1.272 henning 1425: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
1426: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
1.271 henning 1427: <p>
1428:
1.276 deraadt 1429: <li><strong><a name=cuug2004></a>
1.270 deraadt 1430: <a href="http://www.cuug.ab.ca/">Calgary Unix Users's Group</a></strong>,
1431: Oct 26, 2004, Calgary, Canada.<br>
1432: Theo presented the talk that he has recently given in Australia and
1433: Malaysia to the "Home Crowd".
1434: <p>
1435:
1436: <li><strong><a name=aldil2004></a>
1.269 krw 1437: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/">Les Journées Du Logiciel Libre 2004</a></strong>,
1438: Oct 22 - 23, 2004, Lyon, France.<br>
1.381 aanriot 1439: There was OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Miod Vallat with the help of
1.415 aanriot 1440: Alexandre Anriot and Thierry Thomas.
1.269 krw 1441: <p>
1442:
1443: <li><strong><a name=systems2004></a>
1444: <a href="http://www.systems.de/">Systems</a></strong>,
1445: Oct 18 - 22, 2004, Munich, Germany <br>
1446: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
1447: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
1448: <p>
1449:
1.268 krw 1450: <li><strong><a name=linuxexpo2004oct></a>
1451: <a href="http://www.linuxexpo.org.uk/">Linux Expo</a></strong>,
1452: Oct 6 - 7, 2004, London, UK.<br>
1453: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
1454: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
1455: <p>
1456:
1.375 grunk 1457: <li><strong><a name=hitb2004></a>
1.268 krw 1458: <a href="http://conference.hackinthebox.org">Hack in the Box Security Conference 2004</a></strong>,
1459: Oct 4 - 7, 2004, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.<br>
1460: Theo de Raadt presented an updated version of his
1461: "Exploit Mitigation Techniques" talk.
1462: <p>
1463:
1464: <li><strong><a name=SANE2004></a>
1465: <a href="http://www.nluug.nl/events/sane2004/bazaar.html">SANE 2004</a></strong>
1.410 wvdputte 1466: , Sep 29, 2004, Amsterdam, Netherlands.<br>
1.268 krw 1467: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
1468: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
1469: <p>
1470:
1.265 wvdputte 1471: <li><strong><a name=LinuxKongress2004></a>
1472: <a href="http://www.linux-kongress.org/2004">Linux Kongress 2004</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 1473: Sep 7 - 10, 2004, Erlangen, Germany.<br>
1.265 wvdputte 1474: From their website: "Linux-Kongress is still the premier event for European
1475: developers and one of the most important in the world. Each year hundreds of
1476: hard core Linux enthusiasts from all over the world gather for this important
1477: event."
1478: <br>
1479: Although this was a Linux developers' conference, we were able to
1480: install a regular OpenBSD booth there, as known from other events.
1481: It was run by <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim Vandeputte</a>,
1482: <a href="mailto:grunk@pestilenz.org">Alexander von Gernler</a> and other
1483: geeks from the Erlangen-Nuremberg area.
1484: <br>
1485: There also was a BSD dinner at Friday evening.
1486: <p>
1487:
1.262 henning 1488: <li><strong><a name=Sucon2004></a>
1489: <a href="http://www.suug.ch/sucon/04/">SUCON 2004</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 1490: Sep 2 - 4, 2004, Zurich, Switzerland.<br>
1.262 henning 1491: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth. Very nice conference.
1492: Henning's slides from his talks about
1493: <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/sucon04/bgpd">bgpd</a> and
1494: <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/sucon04/ntpd">ntpd</a>
1495: are available.
1496: <p>
1497:
1.261 deraadt 1498: <li><strong><a name=auug2004></a>
1.266 jolan 1499: <a href="http://www.auug.org.au/events/2004/auug2004/">AUUG 2004</a></strong>,
1.261 deraadt 1500: Aug 29 - Sep 3, 2004, Melbourne, Australia.<br>
1501: Theo de Raadt presented a half-day tutorial on privilege seperation and a
1502: newly extended version of the
1503: <a href="papers/auug04">Exploit Mitigation Techniques</a> talk.<br>
1504: For more information, see this
1505: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;517187222;fp;16;fpid;0">
1506: ComputerWorld article</a>.
1507: <p>
1508:
1509:
1.680 aanriot 1510: <li><strong><a name=lsm2004></a>
1.257 saad 1511: <a href="http://lsm.abul.org">Libre Software Meeting</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 1512: Jul 6 - 10, 2004, Bordeaux, France.<br>
1.257 saad 1513: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
1514: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim Vandeputte</a>.
1515: <p>
1516:
1517: <li><strong><a name=LinuxTag2004></a>
1518: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.org">LinuxTag 2004</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 1519: Jun 23 - 26, 2004, Karlsruhe, Germany.<br>
1.257 saad 1520: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
1521: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim Vandeputte</a>.
1522: <p>
1523:
1.254 xsa 1524: <li><strong><a name=LinuxwochenVienna2004></a>
1.255 xsa 1525: <a href="http://www.linuxwochen.at/">Linuxwochen Vienna 2004</a></strong>,
1.254 xsa 1526: May 26 - 29, 2004, Vienna, Austria.<br>
1527: The Linuxwochen 2004 tour stopped in the MuseumsQuartier, Vienna.
1528: Wim Vandeputte and Reinhard Sammer ran the OpenBSD booth. Michael Bauer
1529: and Teemu Schaabl from the <a href="http://www.cngw.org/">CNGW</a> gave
1530: a basic talk about pf.
1531: <p>
1532:
1.248 deraadt 1533: <li><strong><a name=BSDCan2004></a>
1.303 mcbride 1534: <a href="http://www.bsdcan.org/2004/">BSDCan 2004</a></strong>,
1.248 deraadt 1535: May 13 - 16, 2004, Ottawa, Canada.<br>
1536: BSDCan was held at the University of Ottawa. Ryan McBride gave a talk
1.302 mcbride 1537: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/papers/bsdcan04-pf/index.html">about newer features in pf</a>,
1538: focusing on the redundancy provided by CARP and pfsync.
1539: Theo de Raadt presented a revised version of his talk on
1.248 deraadt 1540: <a href="papers/bsdcan04">Exploit Mitigation Techniques</a>.
1541: <p>
1542:
1.247 canacar 1543: <li><strong><a name="LOSFAnkara2004"></a>
1544: <a href="http://senlik.linux.org.tr">3rd Linux and Open Source Festival</a></strong>,
1545: May 13 - 16, 2004, Ankara, Turkey.<br>
1546: Can E. Acar and Berk D. Demir talked about the OpenBSD Project. The
1547: philosophy, project goals, system features and recent proactive
1548: security features were introduced. CARP, patents, recent Apache &
1549: XFree86 licensing issues and effects of NDAs in open source
1550: projects were discussed.<br>
1551: You can view the
1.720 canacar 1552: <a href="http://purl.org/net/bddemir/talk/2004/LOYS-OpenBSD-cea-bdd.pdf">
1.247 canacar 1553: slides in PDF format</a> the
1.720 canacar 1554: <a href="http://purl.org/net/bddemir/talk/2004/LOYS-OpenBSD-cea-bdd.tex">
1.247 canacar 1555: LaTeX source</a> is also available (they are
1556: <a href="http://www.eee.metu.edu.tr/~canacar/slides/">mirrored</a>, as well).
1557: <p>
1558:
1.242 henning 1559: <li><strong><a name=Brussels2004></a>
1560: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/">FOSDEM Brussels 2004</a></strong>,
1561: Feb 21 - 22, 2004, Brussels, Belgium.<br>
1.243 henning 1562: An OpenBSD/OpenSSH booth was present, run by Wim Vandeputte.
1563: Several developers (including Henning Brauer, Xavier Santolaria, Thierry Deval,
1564: Philipp Bühler, Otto Moerbeek and Saad Kadhi) showed up.
1565: Wim and Alexander von Gernler gave "lightning talks" about Soekris
1566: and systrace
1.263 saad 1567: (<a href="http://pestilenz.org/~grunk/vortraege/2004/FOSDEM/systrace.pdf">slides</a>), respectively.
1.243 henning 1568: Henning got a slot in the main track to talk about the new bgpd
1569: (<a href="http://www.2suck.net/papers/fosdem2004/">slides</a>).
1570: On Saturday evening, the traditional OpenBSD dinner took place.
1.242 henning 1571: <p>
1572:
1.240 espie 1573: <li><strong><a name=Paris2004></a>
1574: <a href="http://www.linuxsolutions.fr/">Linux Expo Paris 2004</a></strong>,
1575: Feb 3 - 5, 2004, Paris, France.<br>
1576: An OpenBSD booth as well as an OpenSSH booth were present, thanks to
1577: <a href="mailto:saad@docisland.org">Saad Kadhi</a> and
1578: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
1579: <p>
1580:
1581: <li><strong><a name="LWE04"></a>
1582: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/linuxworldny/V40/index.cvn">LinuxWorld
1583: Conference and Expo</a></strong>, Jan 20 - 23, 2004, New York, NY, USA.<br>
1.397 grunk 1584: <a href="mailto:wes@openlysecure.org">Wes Sonnenreich</a> and others
1.240 espie 1585: have established a BSD user group in NYC and held a BSD BoF at the
1586: Jacob Javits Center on January 22nd at 5:45pm, Room 1E15.
1587: <p>
1588: </ul>
1589:
1.188 henning 1590: <h3>2003</h3>
1.236 jose 1591:
1592: <ul>
1.232 jose 1593: <li><strong><a name=20c3></a>
1594: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/2003/">20th Chaos Communication Congress 2003</a></strong>,
1595: Dec 27 - 29, 2003, Berlin, Germany.<br>
1596: OpenBSD was represented by a booth, ran by
1597: <a href= "mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>, and supported by Henning and
1.236 jose 1598: Alexander von Gernler. Alexander also gave a
1.260 saad 1599: <a href="http://pestilenz.org/~grunk/vortraege/2003/20C3/openbsd.pdf">talk</a>
1.232 jose 1600: introducing the project and the OS (in German).
1.236 jose 1601: <p>
1.232 jose 1602:
1.228 jose 1603: <li><strong><a name=brazil2003></a>
1.236 jose 1604: <a href="http://bsdcon.myfreebsd.com.br">1st BSDCon Brazil</a></strong>,
1.228 jose 1605: Dec 6 - 7, 2003. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.<br>
1606: This was the first BSDCon Brazil, and of course OpenBSD was present.
1.236 jose 1607: Douglas Santos spoke on advocacy and about some of the technical aspects
1608: of OpenBSD. Eduardo A. Alvarenga gave a presentation about firewalling
1.228 jose 1609: with OpenBSD PF.
1610: <p>
1611:
1612: <li><strong><a name=ankara03></a>
1.720 canacar 1613: <a href="http://seminer.linux.org.tr">Turkish Linux Users Association</a></strong>,
1.228 jose 1614: Dec 4, 2003, Ankara, Turkey.<br>
1.720 canacar 1615: Can E. Acar and Berk D. Demir gave a mammoth 4 hour presentation on OpenBSD.
1.228 jose 1616: The first part was a broad introduction to the OpenBSD philosophy, the
1.236 jose 1617: project goals, and system features. After a break, in the second part they
1618: talked about the exploit mitigation techniques employed in OpenBSD. This
1619: part was aimed at techies and is almost a complete Turkish translation of
1620: the talk Theo recently gave in Japan. You can view the
1.720 canacar 1621: <a href="http://purl.org/net/bddemir/talk/2003/LS-OpenBSD-cea-bdd.pdf">
1.236 jose 1622: slides in PDF format </a>
1623: (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 1624: <p>
1625:
1.227 jose 1626: <li><strong><a name=Luxembourg2003></a>
1627: <a href="http://www.linuxday.lu/">Linuxday Luxembourg 2003</a></strong>,
1628: Nov 6 - 8, 2003, Luxembourg, Luxembourg.<br>
1629: Booths were present, organized by <a href= "mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
1630: <p>
1631:
1632: <li><strong><a name=Pacsec2003></a>
1633: <a href="http://pacsec.jp/">Pacsec 2003</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 1634: Nov 6 - 7, 2003, Tokyo, Japan.<br>
1.236 jose 1635: Three OpenBSD developers presented on various topics. Theo de Raadt
1.227 jose 1636: gave a presentation on Exploit Mitigation Techniques
1.236 jose 1637: <a href="papers/pacsec03/e/index.html">(English)</a>
1638: <a href="papers/pacsec03/j/index.html">(Japanese)</a>, Jun-ichiro
1.227 jose 1639: itojun Hagino presented material covering
1.236 jose 1640: <a href="http://www.itojun.org/paper/itojun-200311-pacsec-jp/">
1.241 david 1641: IPv6 security considerations</a>, and Jose Nazario discussed advances
1.227 jose 1642: in Internet worm defenses.
1643: <p>
1644:
1.224 miod 1645: <li><strong><a name=Lyon2003></a>
1646: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/agenda/journees/2003/">Les V<sup>èmes</sup> Journées du Libre 2003</a></strong>,
1647: Oct 31 - Nov 1, 2003, Lyon, France.<br>
1648: Miod Vallat gave a talk about the recent security efforts deployed in OpenBSD,
1649: as well as generic security concepts (slides, in bad French, are available in
1650: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/agenda/journees/2003/vallat/miod.mgp">mgp
1651: format</a>). As usual, Wim ran an OpenBSD booth featuring the new 3.4 release,
1652: as well as <a href="http://soekris.kd85.com">Soekris</a> hardware running
1653: OpenBSD.
1654: <p>
1655:
1656: <li><strong><a name=Saarbrucken2003></a>
1657: <a href="http://www.linux-kongress.org/2003/index.html">Linux Kongress Saarbrücken 2003</a></strong>,
1658: Oct 14 - 16, 2003, Saarbrücken, Germany.<br>
1659: An OpenBSD booth was present, starring Wim again.
1660: <p>
1661:
1662: <li><strong><a name=London2003></a>
1663: <a href="http://www.linuxexpo.org.uk/">Linux Expo London 2003</a></strong>,
1664: Oct 8 - 9, 2003, London, UK.<br>
1665: An OpenBSD booth was present, starring Wim as usual.
1666: <p>
1667:
1.219 jose 1668: <li><strong><a name=bsdcon2003></a>
1669: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/bsdcon03/">BSDCon '03</a></strong>,
1670: Sep 8 - 12, 2003, San Mateo, California.<br>
1.236 jose 1671: OpenBSD was represented in the BSD Status Report, and David Rosenthal
1.219 jose 1672: gave a talk on an OpenBSD based security appliance.
1673: <p>
1674:
1.218 jose 1675: <li><strong><a name=sucon2003></a>
1676: <a href="http://www.sucon.ch/">SUCON '03</a></strong>,
1677: Sep 5, 2003. Zurich, Switzerland.<br>
1.236 jose 1678: Daniel Hartmeier talked about PF, and <a
1.218 jose 1679: href="http://open.bsdcow.net/events/sucon2003/">pictures are available</a>.
1680: <p>
1681:
1.214 henning 1682: <li><strong><a name=camp2003></a>
1683: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/camp/">Chaos Communication Camp 2003</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1684: Aug 7 - 10, 2003, in <a href="http://www.paulshof.de/body-mehr.html">a field</a> near Berlin Germany<br>
1.214 henning 1685: There was a huge OpenBSD village. Several OpenBSD developers have been there.
1686: <p>
1687:
1.213 jose 1688: <li><strong><a name=sec2003></a>
1689: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/sec03/">Usenix Security</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1690: Aug 4 - 8, 2003, Washington, DC, USA.<br>
1.236 jose 1691: Niels Provos presented two papers on security advances originally
1.213 jose 1692: developed for OpenBSD, including the OpenSSH privsep feature and systrace.
1693: Several OpenBSD developers were there.
1694: <p>
1695:
1.211 jose 1696: <li><strong><a name=linuxtag2003></a>
1697: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.org/2003/en/index.html">LinuxTag 2003</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1698: Jul 10 - 13, 2003, Karlsruhe Convention Center Germany<br>
1.211 jose 1699: Both OpenBSD and OpenSSH had booths in the main exhibit.
1700: <p>
1701:
1702: <li><strong><a name=lsm2003></a>
1703: <a href="http://libresoftwaremeeting.org/">Libre Software Meeting 2003</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1704: Jul 9 - 12, 2003, Metz, France<br>
1.212 matthieu 1705: Matthieu Herrb gave <a href="papers/xf86-sec.pdf">a talk about XFree86 security</a>. There was
1.211 jose 1706: also an OpenBSD booth with developers.
1707: <p>
1708:
1.209 wvdputte 1709: <li><strong><a name=lud2003></a>
1710: <a href="http://www.linuxuserexpo.com/">Linux User & Developer Expo 2003</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1711: Jun 24 - 26, 2003, at the NEC in Birmingham UK<br>
1.209 wvdputte 1712: There was an OpenBSD booth with developers.
1713: <p>
1.195 deraadt 1714:
1.202 jason 1715: <li><strong><a name=usenix2003></a>
1.236 jose 1716: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix03/">Usenix Annual Technical
1.216 jose 1717: Conference</a></strong>,
1718: Jun 9 - 14, 2003, San Antonio, Texas, USA<br>
1.202 jason 1719: A few OpenBSD developers were there and one paper was presented:
1720: <ul>
1.216 jose 1721: <li>The Design of the OpenBSD Cryptographic Framework<br>
1.202 jason 1722: <a href="events.html#usenix2003">Usenix 2003</a>, by
1.236 jose 1723: Angelos D. Keromytis,
1724: Jason L. Wright, and
1.205 deraadt 1725: Theo de Raadt.<br>
1.202 jason 1726: <a href="papers/ocf.pdf">paper</a>.
1727: </ul>
1728: <p>
1729:
1.216 jose 1730: <li><strong>
1731: <a href="http://www.webb.it/">Webbit 2003</a></strong>,
1732: May 9 - 11, 2003, Padova, Italy<br>
1.203 jason 1733: Giacomo Cariello and Wim Vandeputte attended, and several OpenBSD
1.661 martynas 1734: <a href="http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20030503101052">related talks</a> were given.
1.203 jason 1735: <p>
1736:
1.216 jose 1737: <li><strong>
1738: <a href="http://cansecwest.com/">CanSecWest 03</a></strong>,
1739: Apr 9 - 11, 2003, Vancouver, Canada<br>
1.195 deraadt 1740: Theo spoke about killing buffer overflows using ProPolice and the new W^X technology,
1.196 matthieu 1741: available as a <a href="papers/csw03.mgp">magicpoint file</a>.
1.195 deraadt 1742: <p>
1743:
1.216 jose 1744: <li><strong>
1745: <a href="http://www.cebit.de/">CeBIT 2003</a></strong>,
1746: Mar 14, 2003, Hannover, Germany<br>
1.236 jose 1747: 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 1748: gave a talk on OpenBSD and OpenSSH. <a href="papers/cebit2003.tgz">slides</a> are available.
1.194 henning 1749: <p>
1750:
1.216 jose 1751: <li><strong>
1752: <a href="http://www.linuxforum.dk/2003/english/">LinuxForum 2003</a></strong>,
1753: Mar 1, 2003, Copenhagen<br>
1.236 jose 1754: Daniel spoke about PF (slides in <a href="papers/linuxforum2k3.tar.gz">mgp</a>,
1755: <a href="http://www.benzedrine.cx/linuxforum/">HTML</a>).
1.191 dhartmei 1756: It was a small but cozy conference, jointly held by Danish Linux and BSD
1757: user groups.
1758: <p>
1759:
1.236 jose 1760: <li><strong>
1761: <a href="http://www.cuug.ab.ca">CUUG - The Calgary Unix Users
1.216 jose 1762: Group</a></strong>,
1763: Feb 25, 2003, 18:00 MST, Calgary<br>
1.190 miod 1764: OpenBSD lead developer Theo de Raadt spoke about some of the recent
1765: changes in OpenBSD that are leading the way to the complete elimination of
1766: "buffer overflow" security risks and attacks.
1767: <p>
1768:
1.216 jose 1769: <li><strong>
1770: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/">FOSDEM 2003</a></strong>,
1771: Feb 8 - 9, 2003, Brussels<br>
1.236 jose 1772: Henning and Philipp gave a talk on -current PF developments
1.196 matthieu 1773: (<a href="papers/fosdem2k3-pf.mgp">slides</a>)
1.187 henning 1774: and on Saturday evening, there was an OpenBSD dinner for those interested.
1775: <p>
1776:
1.216 jose 1777: <li><strong>
1778: <a href="http://linuxsolutions.fr/FR/home/index.php?site=default">Linux Solutions</a></strong>,
1779: Feb 4 - 6, 2003, CNIT - Paris La Défense<br>
1.185 miod 1780: There was an OpenBSD booth with several OpenBSD developers, as well as 3.2 OpenBSD
1.413 grunk 1781: CD sets and T-shirts.
1.185 miod 1782: <p>
1.236 jose 1783: </ul>
1.185 miod 1784:
1.161 millert 1785: <h3>2002</h3>
1.236 jose 1786:
1787: <ul>
1788: <li><strong>
1789: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/2002/">19c3: the 19th CCC
1.216 jose 1790: Congress</a></strong>,
1791: Dec 27 - 29, 2002, Berlin<br>
1.236 jose 1792: There was a huge <a href="http://www.eurobsd.org/19c3">reserved space</a> for
1793: OpenBSD users and developers, a couple of -current test systems and for those
1.413 grunk 1794: curious, a first look at the 3.2 OpenBSD T-shirts.
1.184 wvdputte 1795: <p>
1.177 jason 1796:
1.216 jose 1797: <li><strong>
1798: <a href="http://2002.eurobsdcon.org/">BSDCon Europe 2002</a></strong>,
1799: Nov 15 - 17, 2002, Amsterdam, Netherlands<br>
1.181 henning 1800: OpenBSD people were there;
1.236 jose 1801: Philipp Bühler and Henning Brauer spoke about
1.182 ian 1802: <a href="papers/tuning-openbsd.ps">
1803: network performance tuning on OpenBSD</a>,
1.236 jose 1804: and Ian Darwin presented a
1.182 ian 1805: <a href="papers/eurobsd-firewalls-2002.pdf">
1806: tutorial on OpenBSD servers/firewalls</a>.
1.179 pb 1807: <p>
1.178 pb 1808:
1.216 jose 1809: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1810: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa02/">LISA '02: 16th Systems
1.216 jose 1811: Administration Conference</a></strong>,
1812: Nov 3 - 8, 2002, Philadelphia, USA<br>
1.177 jason 1813: Mickey and Jason manned the booth at the vendor expo (the only BSD
1814: represented) and sold <a href="32.html">3.2</a> CDs, and Jason gave a BoF
1815: session on <a href="32.html">3.2</a> and future.
1816: <p>
1817:
1.216 jose 1818: <li><strong>
1.264 djm 1819: <a href="http://www.auug.org.au/events/2002/auug2002/">Australian Unix Users
1820: Group Winter Conference</a></strong>,
1821: Sep 1 - 6, 2002, Melbourne Australia<br>
1822: Damien Miller presented a tutorial on the
1823: <a href="papers/auug2002-ssh/index.html">SSH protocol</a> and
1824: <a href="papers/auug2002-ssh.ps">OpenSSH tips and tricks</a>.
1825: <p>
1826:
1827: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 1828: <a href="http://lsm.abul.org">The 3rd Libre Software Meeting</a></strong>,
1829: Jul 9 - 13, 2002, Bordeaux, France<br>
1.172 miod 1830: Several OpenBSD developers and users were attending the meeting, and
1831: Niels Provos presented his
1832: <a href="http://www.citi.umich.edu/u/provos/systrace">systrace</a>
1833: system call policy management tool.
1.174 nick 1834: <p>
1.172 miod 1835:
1.216 jose 1836: <li><strong>
1837: <a href="http://www.Webb.it">Webb.it 02</a></strong>,
1838: Jul 5 - 7, 2002, Padova, Italy<br>
1.171 ian 1839: OpenBSD developers had a booth selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
1840: <p>
1841:
1.216 jose 1842: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1843: <a href="http://www.softwarelivre.rs.gov.br/forum">The Annual International
1.216 jose 1844: Free Software Forum</a></strong>,
1845: May 2 - 4, 2002, Porto Alegre-RS, Brazil<br>
1.236 jose 1846: Mainly a Linux/GNU event, but this year the BSD Operating Systems
1847: had a chance to prove their value.
1.169 horacio 1848: Edson Brandi spoke on FreeBSD, Diego Linke
1.236 jose 1849: on NetBSD, and Ricardo Nascimento Ferreira on OpenBSD.
1.169 horacio 1850: <p>
1.168 miod 1851:
1.216 jose 1852: <li><strong>
1853: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/bsdcon02/">BSDCON 2002</a></strong>,
1854: Feb 11 - 14, 2002, San Francisco, California, USA<br>
1.161 millert 1855: Todd Miller gave an update on current OpenBSD status and participated in a
1.162 millert 1856: BSD panel discussion. The <a href="slides/bsdcon_2002/index.html">slides</a>
1857: are available.
1.161 millert 1858: <p>
1859:
1.216 jose 1860: <li><strong>
1861: <a href="http://www.linuxexpoparis.com">Linux expo Paris 2002</a></strong>,
1862: Jan 30 - Feb 1, 2002, Paris, France<br>
1.163 miod 1863: The french Linux Expo 2002 was quite small and as usual the OpenBSD booth ended
1864: up with others on the expo's side. On the first day, almost all the merchandise
1865: was sold, and we have even sold older versions (2.9) the following days to
1866: people who wouldn't leave without a cd set in their hands...
1867: <p>
1868:
1.216 jose 1869: <li><strong>
1870: <a href="http://musess.mcmaster.ca/">MUSESS 2002</a></strong>,
1871: Jan 25 - 26, 2002, McMaster University, Ontario, Canada<br>
1.164 millert 1872: Louis Bertrand gave a presentation on OpenBSD titled
1873: <strong>Fix The Bugs, Secure The System</strong>.
1874: The <a href="slides/musess_2002/index.html">slides</a> are available.
1875: <p>
1.236 jose 1876: </ul>
1.164 millert 1877:
1.152 jakob 1878: <h3>2001</h3>
1879:
1.236 jose 1880: <ul>
1.216 jose 1881: <li><strong>
1882: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa01/">USENIX LISA 2001</a></strong>,
1883: Dec 2 - 7, 2001, San Diego, California, USA<br>
1.160 jufi 1884: Niels Provos gave a presentation, and there's been a booth selling
1.413 grunk 1885: T-shirts and 3.0 CDs.
1.160 jufi 1886: <p>
1887:
1.216 jose 1888: <li><strong>
1889: <a href="http://www.ietf.org/meetings/IETF-52.html">52nd IETF</a></strong>,
1890: Dec 9 - 14, 2001, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA<br>
1.160 jufi 1891: Angelos, Itojun & Jakob were there.
1892: <p>
1893:
1.158 deraadt 1894: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1895: <a href="http://www.disc2000.unam.mx/disc/index-ing.html">DISC
1.216 jose 1896: 2001</a></strong>,
1897: Nov 26 - 29, 2001, Mexico City, Mexico<br>
1.158 deraadt 1898: Once again, Theo de Raadt explained the security auditing process and
1899: subsequent secure configuration choices made in OpenBSD, in a talk
1900: entitled "Updated thoughts on writing a secure Operating System".
1901: <p>
1902:
1.216 jose 1903: <li><strong>
1904: <a href="http://www.linux.org.hk">LinuxCafe</a></strong>,
1905: Sep 15, 2001, Hong Kong, China<br>
1.156 provos 1906: Shell Hung gave an introduction for BSD and demonstration of OpenBSD to HKLUG.
1907: <p>
1908:
1.201 deraadt 1909: <li><strong>VPN Bakeoff</strong>,
1.216 jose 1910: Aug 13 - 18, 2001, Finland<br>
1.156 provos 1911: Jakob and Itojun were there.
1912: <p>
1.158 deraadt 1913:
1.150 wvdputte 1914: <li><strong>
1.215 nick 1915: <a href="http://www.hal2001.org">HAL 2001</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1916: Aug 10 - 12, 2001, Twente, Netherlands<br>
1.153 jufi 1917: Quite a lot of developers were there, we even had our own tent.
1918: Niels, Rees and Dugsong held talks, more info on the main website
1919: for HAL2001. And of course T-Shirts and CDROMs were sold.
1.150 wvdputte 1920: <p>
1.137 aaron 1921:
1922: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1923: <a href="http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon/">O'Reilly Open Source
1.216 jose 1924: Conference</a></strong>,
1925: Jul 23 - 27, 2001, San Diego, California, USA<br>
1.148 brian 1926: OpenBSD had a booth selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
1927: Ian Darwin presented his "Firewalls and Secure Internet Servers
1928: with OpenBSD" tutorial.
1929: <p>
1930:
1931: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 1932: <a href="http://www.defcon.org">DEF CON Nine</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1933: Jul 13 - 15, 2001 Las Vegas, USA<br>
1.148 brian 1934: OpenBSD developers and users make it a point to attend every year,
1935: and had a table selling CD's, shirts, etc.
1936: <p>
1937:
1938: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1939: <a href="http://www.sek.co.kr/sek2001/sek_html/main.htm">Software
1.216 jose 1940: Exhibition of Korea</a></strong>,
1941: Jun 26 - 29, 2001, Seoul, Korea<br>
1.146 krw 1942: urisecure/NDS sponsored an OpenBSD booth with CD's, posters,
1943: and a live demo of OpenBSD's IPSEC hardware acceleration.
1944: <p>
1945:
1946: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1947: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix01/">2001 USENIX Annual
1.216 jose 1948: Technical Conference</a></strong>,
1949: Jun 25 - 30, 2001, Boston, USA<br>
1.146 krw 1950: OpenBSD developers were there, selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
1951: <p>
1952:
1953: <li><strong>
1.143 dugsong 1954: <a href="http://www.olymfair.org/eng/workshop.htm">Information
1.201 deraadt 1955: Security OlymFair</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1956: May 16 - 18, 2001, Seoul, Korea<br>
1.143 dugsong 1957: Dug Song gave a detailed introduction to OpenBSD to the Korean
1958: security community.
1959: <p>
1960:
1961: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1962: <a href="http://www.osdem.org/">2001 Open Source and Free Software
1.216 jose 1963: Developers' Meeting</a></strong>,
1964: Feb 3 - 4, 2001, Brussels, Belgium<br>
1.137 aaron 1965: There was an OpenBSD booth with some loose talks made.
1966: <p>
1967:
1968: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 1969: <a href="http://www.linuxexpoparis.com/">2001 Linux Expo</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1970: Feb 1 - 2, 2001, Paris, France<br>
1.236 jose 1971: There was an OpenBSD booth in the 'F' area.
1.137 aaron 1972: <p>
1.236 jose 1973: </ul>
1.137 aaron 1974:
1.132 louis 1975: <h3>2000</h3>
1976:
1.236 jose 1977: <ul>
1.132 louis 1978: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1979: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa2000/">LISA 2000, USENIX
1.216 jose 1980: Systems Administration Conference</a></strong>,
1981: Dec 3 - 8, 2000, New Orleans, USA<br>
1.134 jufi 1982: Wim Vandeputte and other volunteers have been running a sales table with
1983: shirts, posters and the brand new 2.8 CDs.
1984: <p>
1985:
1986: <li><strong>
1.215 nick 1987: <a href="http://www.disc2000.unam.mx/disc/index-ing.html">DISC 2000</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1988: Nov 26 - Dec 1, 2000, Mexico City, Mexico<br>
1.133 deraadt 1989: Theo de Raadt explained the security auditing process and subsequent secure
1990: configuration choices made in OpenBSD, in a talk entitled "Secure by Default".
1991: Over the next few days, he also participated in two panels with various security
1992: experts who had flown in from around the world. Following this, Theo climbed
1.151 jsyn 1993: one of the largest volcanoes, called Malinche.
1.133 deraadt 1994: <p>
1995:
1996: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1997: <a href="http://www.nluug.nl/events/nj2000">NLUUG Najaarsconferentie
1.216 jose 1998: 2000</a></strong>,
1999: Nov 9, 2000, Ede, NL<br>
1.236 jose 2000: There was an OpenBSD booth where people dropped by for information or to
1.413 grunk 2001: get their T-shirts, polos, caps and 2.7 CDs.
1.13 deraadt 2002: <p>
1.4 millert 2003:
1.132 louis 2004: <li><strong><a name=ipsec2000></a>
1.236 jose 2005: <a href="http://www.upperside.fr/baipsecy2k.htm">IPsec 2000 Global
1.216 jose 2006: Summit</a></strong>,
2007: Oct 24 - 27, 2000, Paris La Defense, France<br>
1.159 miod 2008: Niels Provos ended the conference by speaking about the IPsec architecture
1.132 louis 2009: in OpenBSD. The talk was well received and many people were very interested
2010: about our cryptographic hardware acceleration.
2011:
2012: <ul>
1.236 jose 2013: <li>The IPsec Architecture in OpenBSD<br>
1.215 nick 2014: <a href="#ipsec2000">IPsec 2000 Global Summit</a> by Niels Provos.<br>
1.132 louis 2015: <a href="papers/ipsec-slides.ps">slides</a>.
2016: </ul>
1.4 millert 2017: <p>
1.132 louis 2018:
1.7 deraadt 2019: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 2020: <a href="http://ApacheCon.Com/2000/EU/">ApacheCon Europa 2000</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 2021: Oct 23 - 25, 2000, London, UK<br>
1.132 louis 2022: There was an OpenBSD booth where people could drop by for information and
2023: a chat with the local OpenBSD personnel. We also had the essentials for
1.413 grunk 2024: your wardrobe (T-shirts, polos, caps), for your hardware (2.7 CDs) and for your
1.132 louis 2025: mind (drinks afterwards).
2026: <p>
2027:
1.216 jose 2028: <li><strong>
2029: <a href="http://www.bsdcon.com/">BSD Con 2000</a></strong>,
2030: Oct 18 - 20, 2000, Monterey, CA, USA<br>
1.132 louis 2031: David Terrell ran an OpenBSD booth selling T-shirts and CDs and answering
2032: questions.
1.32 deraadt 2033: <p>
1.1 deraadt 2034:
1.132 louis 2035: <li><strong><a name=opensource2000></a>
1.236 jose 2036: <a href="http://www.opensource-forum.com/konferens">The Open Source
1.216 jose 2037: Revolution</a></strong>,
2038: Oct 5, 2000, Stockholm, Sweden<br>
1.133 deraadt 2039: Theo de Raadt spoke about how user expectations for security out of the box
2040: have changed over the last years.
1.1 deraadt 2041: <p>
2042:
1.132 louis 2043: <li><strong><a name=sec2000></a>
1.216 jose 2044: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/sec2000/">Usenix Security</a></strong>,
2045: Aug 14 - 17, 2000, Denver, Colorado, USA<br>
1.132 louis 2046: Some OpenBSD developers were there and one paper was presented:
2047: <ul>
1.236 jose 2048: <li>Encrypting Virtual Memory<br>
1.132 louis 2049: <a href="#sec2000">Usenix Security 2000</a>
1.205 deraadt 2050: by Niels Provos.<br>
1.132 louis 2051: <a href="papers/swapencrypt.ps">paper</a> and
2052: <a href="papers/swapencrypt-slides.ps">slides</a>.
2053: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 2054: <p>
1.132 louis 2055:
1.10 provos 2056: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 2057: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-8-post.html">Defcon 2000</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 2058: Jul 28 - 30, 2000, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.236 jose 2059: Kjell Wooding (our IPF maintainer), James Phillips from the
1.132 louis 2060: <a href="http://www.deadly.org">OpenBSD Journal</a>, and Theo de Raadt
1.413 grunk 2061: had a table and were selling OpenBSD CDROMs, T-shirts, and posters on
1.132 louis 2062: Friday and Saturday. Hordes of people visited our table and we at the
2063: end we were completely sold out of CDROMS and shirts (allowing us to go
2064: check out Hoover Dam's hardhat tour on Sunday and leave the madness behind).
2065: <br>
2066: We were completely amazed at the people who stopped by our table, to say
2067: that they were relying on OpenBSD.
2068: <p>
1.32 deraadt 2069:
1.132 louis 2070: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2071: <a href="http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon2000/">O'Reilly Open Source
1.216 jose 2072: Conference 2000</a></strong>,
2073: Jul 17 - 20, 2000, Monterey, California, USA<br>
2074: Ian Darwin presented a <a href="papers/oreilly2000/">tutorial</a> on
1.132 louis 2075: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/w/bsd_tutorials.html">
2076: Secure Internet Servers/Firewalls with OpenBSD</a>, and bravely
2077: manned the OpenBSD booth for the remainder of the show.
2078: Kjell Wooding took part in a panel discussion on the Future of the BSDs,
2079: and spoke about
2080: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/w/bsd_presentations.html">
1.241 david 2081: Secure By Default.</a> Both sessions were well attended, and at least
1.132 louis 2082: one Linux sysadmin was seen racing for a keyboard, scared look in his eyes,
1.236 jose 2083: after the security talk.
1.3 provos 2084: <p>
1.132 louis 2085:
1.6 deraadt 2086: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 2087: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.de/2000/english/">LinuxTag 2000</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 2088: Jun 29 - Jul 2, 2000, Stuttgart, Germany<br>
1.132 louis 2089: There was a BSD booth where we had the first <a href="27.html">OpenBSD 2.7 CDs</a> for Europe
2090: and the new blue stitchwork <a href="tshirts.html#11">Blowfish Polo</a> shirt.
2091: <br>
2092: Christian Weisgerber gave a
2093: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.de/2000/english/conference/talks.php3?ID=3">talk
2094: on BSD</a>.
1.32 deraadt 2095: <p>
1.1 deraadt 2096:
1.216 jose 2097: <li><strong><a name=usenix2000></a>
1.236 jose 2098: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix2000/">Usenix Annual Technical
1.216 jose 2099: Conference.</a></strong>,
2100: Jun 18 - 23, 2000, San Diego, California, USA<br>
1.132 louis 2101: Almost 20 OpenBSD developers showed up for the 25th anniversary of Usenix.
2102: We had a vendor booth, as well as a number of papers being presented.
2103: Conference attendees had the opportunity to test drive the new release,
2104: OpenBSD 2.7, on the 30 workstations in the terminal room. For the first
2105: time ever, the terminal room and wavelan networks also had a IPv6 connection,
1.147 jason 2106: and some users even discovered so by themselves.
1.132 louis 2107: Theo also held a BoF on the Wednesday evening, after which the developers
2108: had almost too much singing in foreign languages with the help of helium.
2109: <ul>
2110:
2111: <li>Implementing Internet Key Exchange, IKE.<br>
2112: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
1.216 jose 2113: by Angelos D. Keromytis, Niklas Hallqvist.<br>
1.132 louis 2114: <a href="papers/ikepaper.ps">paper</a> and
2115: <a href="papers/ikeslides.ps">slides</a>.
2116:
2117: <li>Transparent Network Security Policy Enforcement.<br>
2118: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
1.216 jose 2119: by Angelos D. Keromytis, Jason L. Wright.<br>
1.132 louis 2120: <a href="papers/bridgepaper.ps">paper</a> and
2121: <a href="papers/bridgeslides.ps">slides</a>.
1.2 deraadt 2122:
1.132 louis 2123: <li>Safety Checking of Kernel Extensions.<br>
2124: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
1.205 deraadt 2125: by Craig Metz.
1.132 louis 2126: </ul>
1.2 deraadt 2127: <p>
2128:
1.132 louis 2129: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2130: <a href="http://www.manlug.mcc.ac.uk/calendar.html">OpenBSD: The Open
1.216 jose 2131: Source Secure Operating System</a></strong>,
2132: Jun 17, 2000, 14:00. Manchester, UK<br>
1.132 louis 2133: Sam Smith gave a rundown of features coming in OpenBSD 2.7 and
2134: OpenSSH 2.1. His <a href="http://www.manlug.mcc.ac.uk/20000617/">slides</a>
2135: are available from the user group's site.
1.1 deraadt 2136: <p>
1.2 deraadt 2137:
1.132 louis 2138: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 2139: <a href="reprints/crypto2000.html">OpenBSD Crypto 2000 conference</a></strong>,
2140: Jun 15 - 20, 2000, Calgary, AB, Canada<br>
1.132 louis 2141: Repeating the tradition of a similar meeting held last year, many
2142: OpenBSD developers from around the world converged on Calgary
2143: for a weekend long hack-and-drink session. As before, the event
2144: was invitation only. Many significant things got done, including
2145: ipv6 + ipsec running over hardware crypto devices.
1.1 deraadt 2146: <p>
1.11 jkatz 2147:
1.17 deraadt 2148: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 2149: <a href="http://www.converge2000.com">CONVERGENCE 2000</a></strong>,
2150: May 18, 2000. Convention Centre, Calgary, Alberta, Canada<br>
1.132 louis 2151: Theo de Raadt participated in a panel discussion about the pros and cons
2152: of using Open Source software in various business environments. The local
2153: users also handed out OpenSSH and OpenBSD posters, and were absolutely
2154: surprised and amazed by the number of Calgary companies quietly using
2155: OpenBSD.
1.21 pattonme 2156: <p>
1.17 deraadt 2157:
1.23 niklas 2158: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 2159: <a href="http://www.cansecwest.com/">CanSecWest</a></strong>,
2160: May 10 - 12, 2000. Robson Conference Centre, Vancouver, BC, Canada<br>
1.132 louis 2161: Theo de Raadt spoke about why programmers keep making the same stupid mistakes,
2162: what types of efforts might improve this, and how this all relates to auditing
1.375 grunk 2163: efforts.
2164: Rain Forest Puppy, Ron Gula (Network Security Wizards), Ken Williams (E&Y),
1.216 jose 2165: Marty Roesch (snort/HiverWorld), and Fyodor (nmap) were among the other speakers
1.132 louis 2166: at this event. (On a personal note: at this conference Theo realized that three
2167: leading Network Intrusion Detection System companies use OpenBSD as their
2168: base operating system: Hiverworld, Network Security Wizards, and NFR).
1.32 deraadt 2169: <p>
1.25 deraadt 2170:
1.132 louis 2171: <li><strong>
2172: <a href="http://www.zdevents.com/comdex/spring2000/">Linux Business Expo /
1.201 deraadt 2173: COMDEX Spring 2000</a></strong>,
2174: Apr 19, 2000, Chicago, IL, USA<br>
1.216 jose 2175: Louis Bertrand represented OpenBSD at a BSD BOF with FreeBSD/BDSI,
1.132 louis 2176: NetBSD and Apple (Darwin is BSD-derived). The BOF was attended by about
2177: 75 people, many of whom were new to *BSD. It was an opportunity to
2178: explore future cooperation among the various BSD groups and companies.
1.25 deraadt 2179: <p>
1.23 niklas 2180:
1.31 deraadt 2181: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2182: <a href="http://www.nordu.org/NordU2000/">NordU 2000 -- The second
1.216 jose 2183: EurOpen/USENIX Conference</a></strong>,
2184: Feb 8 - 11, 2000. Malmo, Sweden<br>
1.140 jufi 2185: About 15 OpenBSD team members attended.
1.132 louis 2186: OpenBSD CDs and shirts were sold at a booth donated by the conference.<br>
2187: As well, Theo de Raadt gave an invited talk on Wednesday morning
2188: about why software quality/security suffers, and what we can do to
2189: improve it.
1.32 deraadt 2190: <p>
1.31 deraadt 2191:
1.201 deraadt 2192: <li><strong>BSD BOF session, LinuxWorld Expo</strong>,
1.216 jose 2193: Feb 3, 2000, New York, USA<br>
1.132 louis 2194: Representatives from OpenBSD, BSDi, and FreeBSD hosted a
2195: "Birds Of a Feather" session at the <a
2196: href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/">New York LinuxWorld Expo</a>.<br>
2197: There were installation CD-ROMs, free food, and even free Daemon Horns!
1.33 niklas 2198: <p>
1.236 jose 2199: </ul>
1.33 niklas 2200:
1.132 louis 2201: <h3>1999</h3>
1.36 niklas 2202:
1.236 jose 2203: <ul>
1.216 jose 2204: <li><strong>The Bazaar</strong>,
2205: Dec 14 - 16, 1999, New York, New York, USA<br>
1.132 louis 2206: Wes Sonnenreich and Tom Yates presented a tutorial on building
1.216 jose 2207: firewalls with OpenBSD. BoF of open source BSDs took place.
1.413 grunk 2208: 2.6 release CDROMs and T-shirts were sold.
1.132 louis 2209: Emphatic interest has been shown by representatives from press, international
2210: government and military institutions.
1.45 jason 2211: <p>
2212:
1.216 jose 2213: <li><strong><a name=lisa99></a>
1.236 jose 2214: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa99/">13th Systems Administration
1.216 jose 2215: Conference (LISA 99)</a></strong>,
2216: Nov 7 - 12, 1999, Seattle, Washington, USA<br>
1.132 louis 2217: Bob Beck presented a paper about the U of A's nifty OpenBSD based
2218: solution to the problem of public Ethernet jacks in the technical sessions
2219: starting at 11:00 AM on the 11th.<br>
2220: There were many other OpenBSD
2221: people at this conference as well, as well as a booth selling CDROMs and
1.413 grunk 2222: T-shirts. His paper is available at:
1.132 louis 2223:
2224: <ul>
2225: <li>Dealing with Public Ethernet Jacks-Switches, Gateways, and Authentication.<br>
1.236 jose 2226: <a href="events.html#lisa99">LISA 1999</a>,
1.206 david 2227: by Bob Beck.<br>
1.236 jose 2228: <a href="papers/authgw-paper.ps">paper</a> and
2229: <a href="papers/authgw-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 2230: </ul>
2231: <p>
2232:
2233: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 2234: IP-dagarna 1999</strong>,
1.216 jose 2235: Oct 27 - 28, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden<br>
1.132 louis 2236: Håkan Olsson & Jakob Schlyter spoke at the DNSSEC session on the 27th.
2237: <p>
2238:
2239: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2240: <a href="http://www.opensource-forum.com/konferens/">Linux & Open Source
1.216 jose 2241: Software '99</a></strong>,
2242: Oct 21, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)<br>
1.132 louis 2243: Niklas Hallqvist spoke on the topic of how to use
1.236 jose 2244: <a
1.375 grunk 2245: href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4">IPsec</a> for securing communications.
1.132 louis 2246: <p>
2247:
2248: <li><strong>
1.705 pvalchev 2249: <a href="http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference/1999">Reflections/Projections
1.216 jose 2250: 1999</a></strong>,
2251: Oct 8 - 10, 1999, Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA<br>
1.132 louis 2252: Theo de Raadt spoke at 10:00am on the 9th. Other OpenBSD
2253: developers from the east coast attended as well.
2254: <p>
2255:
1.236 jose 2256: <li><strong><a name="ipsec99"></a>
1.216 jose 2257: IPsec Interoperability tests</strong>,
2258: Sep 27 - 30, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)<br>
1.236 jose 2259: A dozen vendors, among them OpenBSD, tested more than 15
1.375 grunk 2260: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4">IPsec</a>
1.132 louis 2261: products, both gateways and hosts, for interoperability. The tests
2262: were successful as far as general IPsec and pre-shared key
2263: authentication went, OpenBSD interoperated with everyone, but due to
2264: time constraints we never got to test the certificate support
2265: appropriately. The results were presented later that fall at a
2266: conference in Stockholm.
2267: <p>
2268:
2269: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2270: <a href="http://www.auug.org.au/winter/auug99">AUUG'99</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 2271: Sep 8 - 11, 1999, Melbourne, Australia<br>
1.132 louis 2272: Theo de Raadt gave two talks on "quality of software" related issues
2273: and participated on a panel about how open source projects are
2274: coordinated.
2275: <p>
2276:
2277: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2278: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/sec99/index.html">Usenix
1.216 jose 2279: Security</a></strong>,
2280: Aug 23 - 26, 1999, Washington, DC, USA<br>
1.132 louis 2281: Many OpenBSD people from the east coast showed up and sold CDs and
2282: shirts. It was pretty clear from discussions that many people were
2283: very aware of OpenBSD, and that OpenBSD was being used in very
2284: significant security roles.
2285: <p>
2286:
2287: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2288: <a href="http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/99jul/index.html">45th IETF
1.216 jose 2289: meeting</a></strong>,
2290: Jul 12 - 16, 1999, Oslo, Norway<br>
1.132 louis 2291: A number of OpenBSD team members from all over the world were at this
2292: conference. In addition to attending the IPsec and DNS working groups (among
2293: others) we did IPsec/IKE interoperability testing together with
1.166 miod 2294: the Japanese KAME project. Also, Angelos D. Keromytis did a presentation on
1.132 louis 2295: his work with keynote and isakmpd in OpenBSD.
2296: <p>
1.45 jason 2297:
1.132 louis 2298: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2299: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-6.html">Defcon 6.0</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 2300: Jul 9 - 11, 1999, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132 louis 2301: At this conference, the OpenBSD team sold 100 or so 2.5 release CDROMs
1.413 grunk 2302: and a TON of T-shirts.
1.46 deraadt 2303: <p>
1.132 louis 2304:
1.236 jose 2305: <li><strong><a name="usenix99"></a>
2306: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix99/index.html">
1.216 jose 2307: Usenix Annual Technical Conference</a></strong>,
2308: Jun 6 - 11, 1999, Monterey, California, USA<br>
1.106 jufi 2309: The <a href="http://www.usenix.org">USENIX Association</a>
1.46 deraadt 2310: provided The OpenBSD Project with a grant to underwrite the production
1.106 jufi 2311: of CDs of OpenBSD 2.5. (We distributed the
2312: release for free to attendees of the USENIX Annual Conference in
1.46 deraadt 2313: June.)
1.132 louis 2314: <br>
1.46 deraadt 2315: Usenix team members were involved in the authoring and
1.132 louis 2316: presentation of 4 OpenBSD-related papers:
2317:
1.375 grunk 2318: <a name="anoncvs_paper"></a>
1.46 deraadt 2319: <ul>
1.66 deraadt 2320: <li>Opening the Source Repository with Anonymous CVS.<br>
1.236 jose 2321: <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216 jose 2322: by Charles D. Cranor, Theo de Raadt.<br>
1.236 jose 2323: <a href="papers/anoncvs-paper.ps">paper</a> and
2324: <a href="papers/anoncvs-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 2325: <br>
1.66 deraadt 2326: <li>A Future-Adaptable Password Scheme.<br>
1.236 jose 2327: <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216 jose 2328: by Niels Provos, David Mazieres.<br>
1.236 jose 2329: <a href="papers/bcrypt-paper.ps">paper</a> and
2330: <a href="papers/bcrypt-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 2331: <br>
1.66 deraadt 2332: <li>Cryptography in OpenBSD: An Overview.<br>
1.236 jose 2333: <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216 jose 2334: by Theo de Raadt, Niklas Hallqvist, Artur Grabowski,
2335: Angelos D. Keromytis, Niels Provos.<br>
1.236 jose 2336: <a href="papers/crypt-paper.ps">paper</a> and
2337: <a href="papers/crypt-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 2338: <br>
1.66 deraadt 2339: <li>strlcpy and strlcat -- consistent, safe, string copy and concatenation.<br>
1.236 jose 2340: <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216 jose 2341: by Todd C. Miller, Theo de Raadt.<br>
1.236 jose 2342: <a href="papers/strlcpy-paper.ps">paper</a> and
2343: <a href="papers/strlcpy-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 2344: </ul>
1.66 deraadt 2345: <p>
1.46 deraadt 2346:
1.51 deraadt 2347: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2348: <a href="http://www.linuxexpo.org">5th Annual Linux Expo</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 2349: May 18 - 22, 1999, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA<br>
1.132 louis 2350: Some OpenBSD team members were at this conference selling OpenBSD 2.5 CDs,
2351: OpenBSE T-shirts, as well as Blowfish T-shirts, which sold out very quickly
2352: at a table donated by the Expo. OpenBSD was the only BSD represented at the
2353: vendor exposition, and we had good chance to present a secure alternative
2354: to Linux.
1.51 deraadt 2355: <p>
2356:
1.53 jakob 2357: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2358: <a href="http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/99mar/index.html">44th IETF
1.216 jose 2359: meeting</a></strong>,
2360: Mar 15 - 19, 1999, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA<br>
1.132 louis 2361: Some OpenBSD team members were at this conference, in particular our
2362: IPSEC developers.
1.53 jakob 2363: <p>
2364:
1.132 louis 2365: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2366: <a href="http://www.europen.se/NordU99">NordU99 -- The first
1.216 jose 2367: EurOpen/USENIX Conference</a></strong>,
2368: Feb 9 - 12, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden<br>
1.132 louis 2369: A couple of OpenBSD team members were there and some of the swedish user
2370: society as well. OpenBSD CDs were sold at a booth and at the end of a
2371: security talk, the project got applauded for its continuous strive of auditing
2372: security sensitive parts of the system.
1.59 deraadt 2373: <p>
1.236 jose 2374: </ul>
1.59 deraadt 2375:
1.132 louis 2376: <h3>1998</h3>
1.59 deraadt 2377:
1.236 jose 2378: <ul>
1.132 louis 2379: <li><strong><a name=ipsec98></a>
1.690 nick 2380: IPsec/VPN Interoperability tests & seminar</strong>,
2381: Dec 14, 1998, Stockholm, Sweden<br>
1.132 louis 2382: OpenBSD was represented as one of about a dozen
1.375 grunk 2383: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4">IPsec</a>
1.132 louis 2384: implementations who were tested for interoperability. The tests were
2385: successful, both for the technology in general, and for OpenBSD in
2386: specific. We managed to communicate encrypted with every vendor present,
2387: and to negotiate keys via IKE with everyone capable.
1.70 deraadt 2388: <p>
2389:
1.236 jose 2390: <li><strong><a name="lisaboston-98"></a>
1.690 nick 2391: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa98">LISA '98: 12th Systems Administration
1.216 jose 2392: Conference</a></strong>,
2393: Dec 6 - 11, 1998, Boston, Massachusetts<br>
1.132 louis 2394: More than 10 OpenBSD team members showed up. By far, OpenBSD was the
2395: largest representative group from free software at the conference.
2396: Usenix gave us a table in the vendor area where we sold 2.4 CDROMs,
1.413 grunk 2397: 2.3 "wire-frame" T-shirts, and the new 2.4 embroidered
2398: "Because security matters..." T-shirts, polos, and sweaters.
1.132 louis 2399: An OpenBSD BOF was held one evening, led by Theo de Raadt.
2400: A PalmPilot schedule loader was at the membership booth, powered by OpenBSD.
2401: <br>
1.690 nick 2402: The terminal room ran OpenBSD 2.4 on 45 machines. Obviously trust in OpenBSD
2403: had increased since many people, normally wary of security problems of open
1.132 louis 2404: terminal rooms, were seen using the machines.
1.72 ho 2405: <p>
2406:
1.73 deraadt 2407: <li><strong>
1.690 nick 2408: <a href="http://www.disc.unam.mx/eventos_anteriores/disc98/">DISC - Seguridad en
1.217 jose 2409: Cómputo 98</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 2410: Nov 2 - 7, 1998, Mexico City<br>
1.132 louis 2411: Theo de Raadt gave a talk about security auditing, sponsored by
1.236 jose 2412: <a href="http://www.core-sdi.com">CORE SDI S.A.</a>, an Argentine
1.132 louis 2413: security auditing company who strongly believes in the future
1.236 jose 2414: of OpenBSD. (<a href="papers/mexico98-slides.ps">Slides are available</a>).
1.131 jufi 2415: <p>
1.73 deraadt 2416:
1.236 jose 2417: <li><strong>IP-dagarna</strong>,
1.690 nick 2418: Oct 29, 30 1998, Stockholm, Sweden<br>
1.132 louis 2419: At this conference, entirely devoted to IP, Niklas Hallqvist from the
2420: OpenBSD team held a talk on the IKE (a.k.a ISAKMP/Oakley) key management
2421: protocol and experiences from the implementation of <strong>isakmpd</strong>,
2422: an IKE implementation funded by Ericsson Radio Systems and developed
2423: primarily for the OpenBSD IPSEC stack.
1.79 deraadt 2424: <p>
1.73 deraadt 2425:
1.690 nick 2426: <li><strong>NCEE '98</strong>,
1.216 jose 2427: Oct 9 - 10, 1998, Auburn, Maine, USA<br>
1.132 louis 2428: An extensive after-action report was sent to advocacy@openbsd.org. While
1.151 jsyn 2429: sales of shirts and CDROMs left much to be desired, we did have good
1.132 louis 2430: opportunities to further project visibility and highlight its strengths.
1.80 deraadt 2431: <p>
2432:
1.93 louis 2433: <li><strong>
1.690 nick 2434: <a href="http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference/1998/">Reflections/Projections
1.216 jose 2435: 1998</a></strong>,
1.236 jose 2436: Oct 2 - 4, 1998, Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA<br>
1.132 louis 2437: Theo de Raadt spoke in a panel about Open/Free software with Eric
2438: Raymond and others.
1.93 louis 2439: <p>
2440:
1.216 jose 2441: <li><strong>
1.690 nick 2442: <a href="http://press.oreilly.com/pub/pr/797">O'Reilly and
1.236 jose 2443: Associates Open Source Developer Days</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 2444: Aug 21, 1998, San Jose, California, USA<br>
1.132 louis 2445: OpenBSD team members were on-hand to discuss OpenBSD's role among the
1.413 grunk 2446: other free software projects available. They also sold some CDs and T-shirts.
1.96 deraadt 2447: <p>
2448:
1.236 jose 2449: <li><strong><a name="defcon98"></a>
1.690 nick 2450: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-6/defcon-6.html">Defcon 6.0</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 2451: Jul 31 - Aug 2, 1998, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132 louis 2452: The router to the outside world was an OpenBSD 2.3 box. It was involved
2453: in a "capture the flag" competition in which an entire room of crackers
2454: attempted to break into it and machines running other operating systems.
2455: The OpenBSD box was not broken into.
2456: <br>
2457: Almost 100 OpenBSD 2.3 CDROMs were sold (we ran out again). The primates
1.236 jose 2458: at <a href="http://www.monkey.org">monkey.org</a> brought 2.3
1.413 grunk 2459: "wire-frame" OpenBSD T-shirts to the conference and sold almost
1.132 louis 2460: 200 of them. The proceeds from the sales were donated to the OpenBSD project.
1.96 deraadt 2461: <p>
1.94 deraadt 2462:
1.690 nick 2463: <li><strong><a href="http://www.blackhat.com/html/bh-usa-98/bh2-index.html">BlackHat Sessions</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 2464: Jul 29 - 30, 1998, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132 louis 2465: Theo de Raadt presented a talk entitled
2466: "Auditing software for security" about the OpenBSD security auditing
2467: team's process and the lessons the team learned. The talk concentrated
2468: on how our process fixes bugs -- not just holes -- since one never knows
2469: when 5 bugs will act together to become a hole.
1.99 deraadt 2470: <p>
2471:
1.236 jose 2472: <li><strong><a name="usenix-neworleans"></a>
2473: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/usenix98/index.html">Usenix Annual Technical Conference</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 2474: Jun 15 - 19, 1998, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA<br>
1.132 louis 2475: At Usenix 1998 there was a strong OpenBSD presence both in the Freenix
2476: and normal tracks. Theo did a general talk about what the OpenBSD
2477: project offers. Angelos held a panel about IPSEC (which is quite an
2478: OpenBSD topic since IPSEC development at that time was so much further
2479: ahead in OpenBSD than anywhere else).
2480: <br>
2481: The terminal room PCs ran OpenBSD 2.3. We sold many CDROMs. The
1.413 grunk 2482: first style of OpenBSD T-shirt also sold quite well.
1.101 wvdputte 2483: <p>
2484:
1.105 wvdputte 2485: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2486: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/sec98/index.html">Usenix Security</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 2487: Jan 26 - 29, 1998, San Antonio, Texas, USA<br>
1.132 louis 2488: At this conference, Theo presented an evening talk which basically
2489: turned into a list of fixed security problems and cautionary tales about
2490: subsystems in which future problems may be encountered
1.236 jose 2491: (<a href="papers/security98-slides.ps">slides available</a>).
1.105 wvdputte 2492: <br>
1.132 louis 2493: The terminal room PCs ran OpenBSD 2.2.
2494: <p>
1.236 jose 2495: </ul>
1.105 wvdputte 2496:
1.132 louis 2497: <h3>1997</h3>
1.107 deraadt 2498:
1.236 jose 2499: <ul>
1.113 deraadt 2500: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2501: <a href="http://www.hip97.nl">HIP</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 2502: Aug, 1997, Almere, Netherlands<br>
1.236 jose 2503: Niels held a
1.690 nick 2504: <a href="http://www.citi.umich.edu/u/provos/papers/hip97-tcpip.html">talk</a>
1.132 louis 2505: about the problems of unencrypted TCP/IP connections, offering IPSEC as
2506: possible solution.
1.113 deraadt 2507: <p>
1.132 louis 2508:
1.236 jose 2509: <li><strong>HOPE</strong>,
1.216 jose 2510: Aug, 1997, New York, New York, USA<br>
1.166 miod 2511: The terminal room consisted primarily of DECstations running
1.690 nick 2512: OpenBSD 2.1. Once again, the <a href="http://www.lopht.com/">L0phT</a>
1.132 louis 2513: people had very good things to say about our security.
1.113 deraadt 2514: <p>
1.105 wvdputte 2515:
1.236 jose 2516: <li><strong><a name="defcon5"></a>
1.690 nick 2517: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-5/defcon-5.html">Defcon V</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 2518: Jul 11 - 13, 1997, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132 louis 2519: At this conference, the OpenBSD team sold 100 or so 2.1 release CDROMs.
2520: <br>
2521: Since this is the primary security conference, many speakers said very
1.140 jufi 2522: good things about our stance on security... particularly people like
1.690 nick 2523: <a href="http://www.lopht.com">the L0phT</a>.
1.118 deraadt 2524: <p>
2525:
1.125 deraadt 2526: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2527: <a
2528: href="http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/ana97/index.html">Usenix Annual Technical Conference</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 2529: Jan 6 - 10, 1997, Anaheim, California, USA.<br>
1.690 nick 2530: Theo de Raadt held a BOF ("Birds Of a Feather", i.e. a meeting of people
1.132 louis 2531: interested in the same thing) about OpenBSD.
1.236 jose 2532: </ul>
1.125 deraadt 2533:
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