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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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32: <a href=LINK>EVENT NAME</a></strong>,
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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>
1.727 wvdputte 52: This years motto is Volldampf voraus! (literally Full Steam Ahead).
1.719 wvdputte 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>,
1.727 wvdputte 72: Feb 8 - 10, 2008, Los Angeles, California, USA.<br>
1.715 jdixon 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:
1.727 wvdputte 78: <li><strong><a name=Brussels2008></a>
79: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/2008/">FOSDEM Brussels 2008</a></strong>,
80: Feb 23 - 24, 2008, Brussels, Belgium.<br>
81: There will be an OpenBSD/OpenSSH booth and a Dev room, so we are still
82: looking for speakers. Please <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">mail Wim</a>.<br>
83: On Saturday we will have our traditional BSD dinner.
1.718 wvdputte 84: <p>
1.727 wvdputte 85:
86: <li><strong><a name="opensourcedays2008"></a>
87: <a href="http://www.opensourcedays.org/2008/">Open Source Days 2008</a></strong>,
88: Mar ? - ?, 2008, Copenhagen, Denmark.<br>
89: There will be an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth.
90: <p>
91:
1.718 wvdputte 92: <li><strong><a name="vj08"></a>
93: <a href="http://www.nluug.nl/events/vj08">NLUUG spring conference 2008</a>
94: </strong>,
95: May 15, 2008, Ede, Netherlands.<br>
1.727 wvdputte 96: There will be an OpenBSD booth. As this years topic is security, we should
97: have at least one <a href= http://www.nluug.nl/events/vj08/CfP-NL.html>talk</a>
98: submitted.
99: <p>
100:
101: <li><strong><a name="linuxtag2008"></a>
102: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.org/2008/en/">LinuxTag 2008</a>
103: </strong>,
104: May 28 - 31, 2008, Berlin, Germany.<br>
105: There will be plenty of OpenBSD activity (talks & booth).
1.718 wvdputte 106: <p>
107:
1.727 wvdputte 108: <li><strong><a name="lsm2008"></a>
109: <a href="http://www.rmll.info">Libre Software Meeting 2008</a></strong>,
1.729 ! matthieu 110: Jul 1 - 5, 2008, Mon de Marsan, France.<br>
1.727 wvdputte 111: There will be an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth.
112: <p>
113:
114: <li><strong><a name="froscon2008"></a>
115: <a href="http://www.froscon.de">FrOSCon 2008</a></strong>,
116: Aug 23 - 24, 2008, Bonn/Rhein-Sieg, Germany.<br>
117: There will be an OpenBSD booth, run by the usual suspects.
118: <p>
119:
120: <li><strong><a name="t-dose2008"></a>
121: <a href="http://www.t-dose.org/">T-DOSE 2008</a></strong>,
122: Oct ? - ?, 2008, Eindhoven, The Netherlands.<br>
123: Technical Dutch Open Source Event.<br>
124: There will be developers present as well as an OpenBSD booth,
125: run by the usual suspects.
126: <p>
127:
128: <li><strong><a name="eurobsdcon2008"></a>
129: <a href="http://www.eurobsdcon.org/">EuroBSDCon 2008</a></strong>,
130: Nov 2008, France.<br>
131: <p>
132:
133: <li><strong><a name="opencon2008"></a>
134: <a href="http://www.opencon.org/">OpenCON 2008</a></strong>
135: First weekend of Dec, 2008.<br>
136: <p>
137:
138: <li><strong><a name=25c3></a>
139: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/">25C3 Chaos Communication Congress in
140: Berlin</a></strong>,
141: End of December, 2008, Berlin, Germany.<br>
1.715 jdixon 142: </ul>
1.727 wvdputte 143: <p>
1.719 wvdputte 144: <hr>
145:
146: <h2>Past events:</h2>
147:
1.588 espie 148: <h3>2007</h3>
149: <ul>
1.603 fkr 150:
1.726 merdely 151: <li><strong><a name="capbug200712"></a>
152: <a href="http://capbug.org/">Capital Area BSD User Group</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 153: Dec 17, 2007, Columbia, Maryland, USA.<br>
1.726 merdely 154: Michael Erdely presented <a href="papers/capbug200712/index.html">OpenBSD
155: Ports Tutorial: Advanced Topics</a>.
156: [<a href="http://talks.metabug.org/20071218_capbug_640x480.mp4">slides
157: w/audio</a>]
158: <p>
159:
1.721 jsg 160: <li><strong><a name="opencon2007"></a>
161: <a href="http://www.opencon.org/">OpenCON 2007</a></strong>
162: Nov 30 - Dec 2, 2007, Venice, Italy.<br>
163: OpenCON is the only conference dedicated solely to OpenBSD.
164: This edition was composed of one "tutorial day" and two days of conference.
165: Three days entirely dedicated to OpenBSD with a lot of developers and users.
1.722 jsg 166: Talks by OpenBSD developers were:
167: <p>
168: <ul>
169: <li>Jonathan Gray: <a href="papers/opencon07-complex/index.html">
170: Why are modern operating systems so complicated?</a>
1.724 jasper 171: <li>Mark Kettenis: <a href="papers/opencon07-sparc64.pdf">
172: OpenBSD/sparc64</a>.
1.723 jasper 173: <li>Reiner Jung and Jasper Lievisse Adriaanse: <a href="papers/opencon07-gnome.pdf">
1.724 jasper 174: Gnome as OpenBSD desktop solution</a>.
1.725 bernd 175: <li>Bernd Ahlers: <a href="papers/opencon07-portstutorial/index.html">
176: OpenBSD Ports Tutorial</a>.
1.722 jsg 177: </ul>
1.721 jsg 178: <p>
179:
1.716 wvdputte 180: <li><strong><a name="dulug2007"></a>
1.719 wvdputte 181: <a href="http://www.dulug.de/">Duisburger Linux User Group</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 182: Nov 17, 2007, Duisburg, Germany.<br>
1.719 wvdputte 183: Richard Verwayen gave a workshop on installing OpenBSD,
1.727 wvdputte 184: [<a href="http://www.dulug.de/cgi-bin/dcms.cgi?action=lit-17.11.07">pictures</a>].
1.716 wvdputte 185: <p>
186:
187: <li><strong><a name="essen2007"></a>
188: <a href="http://www.come2linux.org/psp/">Come 2 Linux 2007 Essen</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 189: Nov 10 - 11, 2007, Essen, Germany.<br>
190: The *BSD projects had an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth.
1.716 wvdputte 191: <p>
192:
193: <li><strong><a name="nluug2007"></a>
194: <a href="http://www.nluug25.nl/en/index.php">NLUUG 25th anniversary</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 195: Nov 7, 2007, Amsterdam, Netherlands.<br>
1.716 wvdputte 196: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth with Wim, Otto, Floor and Kevin.
197: <p>
1.658 reyk 198:
1.714 jasper 199: <li><strong><a name="amsterdam2007"></a>
200: <a href="http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20071017100734&mode=expanded&count=20">Amsterdam user meeting Cafe De Deugniet</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 201: Nov 2, 2007, Amsterdam, Netherlands.<br>
1.728 wvdputte 202: Informal OpenBSD user meeting in Amsterdam, more info on Undeadly.org. [<a href=
203: http://brobding.mine.nu/Brobding.mine.nu/Albums/Pages/OpenBSD_4.2.html>pictures
204: </a>]
1.714 jasper 205: <p>
206:
1.713 wvdputte 207: <li><strong><a name="uaoug2007"></a>
208: <a href="http://www.uaoug.org.ua/en/index.html">Ukrainian OpenBSD Users Group meeting</a></strong>,
209: Nov 1, 2007, Kyiv, Ukraine<br>
210: Sergey Prysiazhnyi, community co-ordinator, gave a talk about Driver
211: Architecture and OpenBSD using in Embedded Systems.
212: <a href= "http://www.atmnis.com/~apelsin/uaoug/u2k7_v3.0/talk/">[slides]</a>
213: <a href= "http://www.atmnis.com/~apelsin/uaoug/u2k7_v3.0/">[pictures]</a>
214: <a href= "http://www.atmnis.com/~apelsin/uaoug/u2k7_v3.0/video/talk.mp4">[video]</a>
215: <p>
216:
1.712 sthen 217: <li><strong><a name="cossfest2007"></a>
218: <a href="http://www.cossfest.ca/">COSSFEST 2007</a></strong>,
219: Oct 27, 2007, Calgary, Alberta,<br>
220: There was an OpenBSD booth present with 4.2 CDs.
221: <p>
222:
223: <li><strong><a name="systems2007"></a>
224: <a href="http://www.systems.de/">Systems</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 225: Oct 23 - 26, 2007, Munich, Germany.<br>
1.712 sthen 226: The *BSD projects had an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth in Halle B2 110-2, run by
227: DaN, Nikolay Sturm, Marco Pfatschbacher and some other volunteers.
228: <p>
229:
230: <li><strong><a name="bsdcontr2007"></a>
231: <a href="http://www.bsdcontr.org/">BSDConTR 2007</a></strong>
232: Oct 19 - 20, 2007, Rectorate of Marmara University, SultanAhmet, Istanbul,
233: Turkey.<br>
234: First Turkish Conference on BSD Systems.<br>
235: Marc Balmer talked about his work on support for radio clocks in
236: OpenBSD.<br>
237: Gökhan Alkan gave a talk "Spam protection with OpenBSD and PF".<br>
238: Huzeyfe Önal gave a talk "Advanced Security solutions in OpenBSD".
239: <br>
240: <p>
241:
1.708 aanriot 242: <li><strong><a name=aldil2007></a>
243: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/">Les Journées Du Logiciel Libre
244: 2007</a></strong>,
245: Oct 19 - 20, 2007, Lyon, France.<br>
246: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Damien Bergamini and
247: Alexandre Anriot with the help of Thierry Thomas.
248: <p>
249:
1.705 pvalchev 250: <li><strong><a name=rp2007></a>
251: <a href="http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference/2007/">Reflections/Projections
252: 2007</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 253: Oct 12 - 14, 2007, Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA.<br>
1.705 pvalchev 254: Peter Valchev gave a talk titled <a href="papers/rp2007-slides.pdf">
255: Using OpenBSD Security Features to Find Software Bugs</a>.
256: <p>
257:
258: <li><strong><a name=auug2007></a>
259: <a href="http://new.auug.org.au/AUUG2007">AUUG 2007</a></strong>,
260: Oct 13 - 14, 2007, Melbourne, Australia.<br>
261: Reyk Floeter talked about load balancing and TCP-relaying with hoststated.
262: There were developers, users, and an OpenBSD booth present.
263: <p>
264:
265: <li><strong><a name="t-dose2007"></a>
266: <a href="http://www.t-dose.org/">T-DOSE 2007</a></strong>,
267: Oct 13 - 14, 2007, Eindhoven, The Netherlands.<br>
1.727 wvdputte 268: Technical Dutch Open Source Event.<br>
1.705 pvalchev 269: There were developers present as well as an OpenBSD booth,
270: run by the usual suspects.
271: <p>
272:
1.689 claudio 273: <li><strong><a name="openexpo2007"></a>
274: <a href="http://www.openexpo.ch/">OpenExpo 2007</a></strong>,
275: Sep 19 - 20, 2007, Zurich, Switzerland<br>
276: There were developers present as well as an OpenBSD booth,
277: run by the usual suspects. Stephan A. Rickauer gave a talk
278: "OpenBSD and Linux: Insights into a migration project at the Institute of
279: Neuroinformatics, ETH Zurich".<br>
280: <p>
281:
1.686 mbalmer 282: <li><strong><a name="eurobsdcon2007"></a>
283: <a href="http://2007.eurobsdcon.org/">EuroBSDCon 2007</a></strong>,
284: Sep 14 - 15, 2007, Copenhagen, Denmark.<br>
285: Marc Balmer gave a talk <a href="papers/eurobsdcon07/mbalmer-radio_clocks.pdf">
286: Support for Radio Clocks in OpenBSD</a>.<br>
1.702 pyr 287: Pierre-Yves Ritschard gave a talk <a href="papers/eurobsdcon07/pyr-loadbalancing">Load Balancing in OpenBSD Using hoststated</a>.<br>
1.688 claudio 288: Claudio Jeker gave a talk <a href="papers/eurobsdcon07/claudio-routing">
289: Using OpenBSD as Routing Platform</a>.<br>
1.686 mbalmer 290: Peter Hansteen offered "A Packet Filter Tutorial" on the tutorial day.<br>
291: There was an OpenBSD booth, run by the usual suspects.
292: <p>
293:
1.685 bernd 294: <li><strong><a name="linuxdayskiel2007"></a>
295: <a href="http://www.kieler-linuxtage.de">Kieler Linux und Open Source Tage</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 296: Sep 07 - 08, 2007, Kiel, Germany.<br>
1.685 bernd 297: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Bernd.
298: <p>
299:
1.686 mbalmer 300: <li><strong><a name="xds2007"></a>
301: <a href="http://www.x.org/wiki/Events/XDS2007">X.Org Developers' Summit 2007</a></strong>,
302: Sep 10 - 12, 2007, Cambridge, UK.<br>
303: Matthieu Herrb and Marc Balmer attended the 3-day summit to make sure the
304: *BSD point of view was well represented.
305: <p>
306:
1.684 bernd 307: <li><strong><a name="froscon2007"></a>
308: <a href="http://www.froscon.de">FrOSCon 2007</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 309: Aug 25 - 26, 2007, Bonn/Rhein-Sieg, Germany.<br>
1.684 bernd 310: There was an OpenBSD booth, run by the usual suspects.
311: <p>
312:
1.682 bernd 313: <li><strong><a name="summercamp2007"></a>
314: <a href="http://events.ccc.de/camp/2007">Chaos Communication Camp 2007</a>
315: </strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 316: Aug 8 - 12, 2007, Finowfurt, Germany.<br>
1.682 bernd 317: This open air event had a big OpenBSD village with all the usual suspects.
318: <p>
319:
1.680 aanriot 320: <li><strong><a name="lsm2007"></a>
321: <a href="http://www.rmll.info">Libre Software Meeting 2007</a></strong>,
322: Jul 10 - 14, 2007, Amiens, France.<br>
1.681 aanriot 323: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Wim, Matthieu and
324: Alexandre with the help of Serge and Christelle.
1.680 aanriot 325: <p>
326:
1.675 mbalmer 327: <li><strong><a name=Slackathon2007></a>
328: <a href="http://www.slackathon.se/">Slackathon 2007</a>
329: </strong>,
330: June 16, 2007, Stockholm, Sweden.<br>
331: Yet another round of fund raising for OpenBSD/SSH and general *BSD meeting
332: that took place in Stockholm.
333: <p>
334:
335: <li><strong><a name="linuxtag2007"></a>
336: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.org/2007/en/">LinuxTag 2007</a>
337: </strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 338: May 30 - Jun 2, 2007, Berlin, Germany.<br>
1.675 mbalmer 339: There were presentations by OpenBSD developers and an OpenBSD booth,
1.677 wvdputte 340: run by the usual suspects, and Stephan A. Rickauer held Peter Hansteen's PF
341: tutorial as well as the talk
342: <a href="http://www.ini.unizh.ch/~stephan/talks/LinuxTag07.pdf">
343: "OpenBSD and Linux: Insights into a migration project at the Institute of
344: Neuroinformatics, ETH Zurich"</a>.
1.675 mbalmer 345: <p>
346:
1.674 martin 347: <li><strong><a name=LinuxwochenVienna2007></a>
348: <a href="http://www.linuxwochen.at/2007/Wien">Linuxwochen Vienna 2007</a>
349: </strong>,
350: May 31 - Jun 2, 2007, Vienna, Austria.<br>
351: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth run by Martin Reindl, Robert Peichaer
352: and Teemu Schaabl.
353: <p>
354:
1.671 aanriot 355: <li><strong><a name=cuug2007></a>
356: <a href="http://www.cuug.ab.ca/">Calgary Unix Users Group</a></strong>,
357: May 29, 2007, downtown Library, basement meeting room, Calgary, Alberta.<br>
1.688 claudio 358: <a href="papers/cuug07-claudio/">Claudio Jeker</a>,
359: <a href="papers/cuug2007/">David Gwynne, Henning Brauer</a>,
1.673 mbalmer 360: Reyk Flöter, Matthieu Herrb, Marc Balmer, and Bob Beck discussed recent and
361: future networking changes in OpenBSD, as well as Xenocara, support for
362: radio clocks in OpenBSD, and Spam Reduction with OpenBSD spamd and greylisting.
1.672 henning 363: Some other OpenBSD developers attended to provide international colour.
1.671 aanriot 364: <p>
365:
1.670 ray 366: <li><strong><a name="bsdcan2007"></a>
367: <a href="http://www.bsdcan.org/2007/">BSDCan 2007</a></strong>,
368: May 16 - 19, 2007, Ottawa, Canada.<br>
369: Several OpenBSD developers were there.<br>
370: Peter Hansteen gave a "Packet filtering for fun and profit" tutorial and
371: presented a "Fighting malware and spam with free tools" talk.<br>
372: Ray Lai presented OpenCVS/OpenRCS and
373: discussed why a secure CVS implementation is needed.
374: <a href="papers/bsdcan07-cvs/">Slides</a> are available.<br>
375: Jason Dixon gave the closing session of BSDCan 2007.
376: <p>
377:
1.669 fkr 378: <li><strong><a name="confidence2007"></a>
379: <a href="http://2007.confidence.org.pl/">Confidence 2007</a></strong>,
380: May 12 - 13, 2007, Krakow, Poland.<br>
381: Felix, Henning and Wim gave presentations and ran the OpenBSD booth.
382: <p>
383:
1.666 michele 384: <li><strong><a name="obsdm2"></a>
385: <a href="http://www.openbeer.it/?open=obsdm2">OpenBSD Meeting V.2</a></strong>
386: May 12, 2007, Verona, Italy.<br>
387: Another event organized by the OpenBEER team with italian OpenBSD related talks.
388: Michele presented a talk about the OpenBSD network stack.
389: <p>
390:
391: <li><strong><a name="nluug2007"></a>
392: <a href="http://www.nluug.nl/events/vj07/index.html">NLUUG Voorjaarsconferentie
393: 2007</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 394: May 10, 2007, Ede, Netherlands.<br>
1.666 michele 395: There was a
396: <a href="http://www.nluug.nl/events/vj07/abstracts/ab.html?id=2">presentation</a>
397: by Anil Madhavapeddy and an OpenBSD booth, run by the usual
398: suspects.
399: <p>
400:
1.665 mbalmer 401: <li><strong><a name="coimbra2007"></a>
402: <a href="http://www.openbsd-pt.com/eventos/coimbra07/index-en.html">Portuguese OpenBSD Usergroup Meeting</a></strong>,
403: May 5 - 6, 2007, Coimbra, Portugal.<br>
404: 7th Meeting of the Portuguese OpenBSD Usergroup.<br>
405: Marc Balmer gave a talk "Ensuring Quality in OpenBSD Without a Formal Process".<br>
406: Rui Reis gave a presentation "The Honeynet.PT project".<br>
1.667 pedro 407: Michael Shalayeff gave a talk "Asynchronous I/O".<br>
408: Also present was Pedro Martelletto.
1.665 mbalmer 409: <p>
410:
1.658 reyk 411: <li><strong><a name=decix6th></a>
412: <a href="http://www.de-cix.org/">DE-CIX 6th Technical Meeting</a></strong>,
413: Apr 19, 2007, Schloss Kransberg, near Usingen, Germany.<br>
414: Henning Brauer and Reyk Flöter talked at the 6th technical
415: meeting of the Deutsche Commercial Internet Exchange (DE-CIX).
416: Henning gave an update on OpenBGPD and Reyk about the latest
417: network-related changes since OpenBSD 4.1. They also talked about
418: the status of test OpenBGPD route server running at the DE-CIX.
419: <p>
420:
1.651 fkr 421: <li><strong><a name="litol07"></a>
422: <a href="http://www.lit-ol.de/">2. Linux-Informationstag Oldenburg</a></strong>,
423: Apr 14 - 15, 2007, Oldenburg, Germany.<br>
424: Small Open-Source event. Of course there was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth run by
1.659 fkr 425: Bernd, Felix and Tobias Stoeckmann. Felix gave a talk about the current state
426: of OpenBSD development titled <a href="papers/litol07/">OpenBSD - Past, Present and Future</a>.
1.651 fkr 427: <p>
1.650 deraadt 428:
429: <li><strong><a name="fisl8"></a>
430: <a href="http://fisl.softwarelivre.org/8.0/www/?q=en">fisl8.0</a></strong>,
431: Apr 12-14, 2007, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil.<br>
432: This was a fairly large conference in South America. Theo de Raadt
433: presented a talk about <a href="papers/brhard2007/">Hardware Documentation</a>.
434: <p>
435:
1.645 ray 436: <li><strong><a name="nycbug2007-cvs"></a>
437: <a href="http://nycbug.org/">NYC*BUG April 2007</a></strong>,
438: Apr 4, 2007, NYC, USA.<br>
439: Ray Lai (ray@) gave a
440: <a href="http://www.nycbug.org/index.php?NAV=Home;SUBM=10104">talk</a>
441: on OpenCVS.
1.648 ray 442: <a href="papers/nycbug07-cvs/">Slides</a> and
443: <a href="http://www.fetissov.org/public/nycbug/nycbug-04-04-07.mp3">audio</a>
444: are available.
1.645 ray 445: <p>
446:
1.638 grunk 447: <li><strong><a name="elite2007"></a>
448: <a href="http://www.erlug.de/?q=node/323">5. Erlanger Linuxtage</a></strong>,
449: Mar 24 - 25, 2007, Erlangen, Germany.<br>
450: There was an OpenBSD/OpenSSH booth, run by Alexander von Gernler (grunk@).
451: He also gave a talk called
1.639 grunk 452: <a href="papers/elite2007/elite2007-openbsd.pdf">
1.638 grunk 453: "Sichere Systeme mit OpenBSD" (german)</a>.
454: <p>
455:
1.635 tom 456: <li><strong><a name="ukuug2007"></a>
457: <a href="http://www.ukuug.org/events/spring2007/">UKUUG Spring 2007 Conference</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 458: Mar 19 - 21, 2007, Manchester, United Kingdom.<br>
1.635 tom 459: Tom Cosgrove gave a presentation about "Third-Party Applications on OpenBSD"
460: at the annual spring meeting of the
461: <a href="http://www.ukuug.org/">UK's Unix and Open Systems User Group</a>.
462: <p>
463:
1.627 mcbride 464: <li><strong><a name="asiabsdcon2007"></a>
465: <a href="http://www.asiabsdcon.org/">AsiaBSDCon 2007</a></strong>,
466: Mar 8 - 11, 2007, Tokyo, Japan.<br>
1.631 mbalmer 467: Marc Balmer presented a paper <a href="papers/radio-clocks-asiabsdcon07.pdf">Supporting Radio Clocks in OpenBSD</a>. Presentation
468: <a href="papers/asiabsdcon07-radioclocks/index.html">slides</a> are also
469: available.<br>
1.627 mcbride 470: 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 471: Mathieu Sauve-Frankel gave a talk <a href="papers/asiabsdcon07-ipsec/index.html">Recent Improvements in OpenBSD's IPSec Support</a>.<br>
472: Damien Miller presented a paper <a href="papers/openssh-measures-asiabsdcon2007.pdf">Security measures in OpenSSH</a>. Presentation
1.628 djm 473: <a href="papers/openssh-measures-asiabsdcon2007-slides.pdf">slides</a> are
474: also available.<br>
1.627 mcbride 475: 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".
476: <p>
477:
1.622 fkr 478: <li><strong><a name="linuxforum2007"></a>
479: <a href="http://www.linuxforum.dk/2007/">LinuxForum 2007</a></strong>,
480: Mar 2 - 3, 2007, Copenhagen, Denmark.<br>
1.623 wvdputte 481: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth run by Wim, Bernd and Michael in the
1.633 tom 482: <a href="http://img.ba-net.org/LinuxForum2007/">best of circumstances</a>.
1.622 fkr 483: Felix gave a talk titled
484: <a href="papers/linuxforum07/index.html">OpenBSD - Past, Present and Future</a>.
485: <p>
486:
1.619 wvdputte 487: <li><strong><a name=Brussels2007></a>
488: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/2007/">FOSDEM Brussels 2007</a></strong>,
489: Feb 24 - 25, 2007, Brussels, Belgium.<br>
1.727 wvdputte 490: There was an OpenBSD/OpenSSH booth with Matthieu, Marc, Mickey, Saad
1.619 wvdputte 491: and Wim. On Saturday we had our traditional BSD dinner.<br>
492: Matthieu gave a <a href="papers/fosdem07-xenocara.pdf">
493: talk on Xenocara</a> in the X.Org devroom.
494: <p>
1.616 wvdputte 495:
496: <li><strong><a name="kiberpipa2007"></a>
497: <a href="http://pot.kiberpipa.org">Kiberpipa open sessions</a></strong>,
498: February 20, 2007, Ljubljana, Slovenia.<br>
499: On that edition of weekly "Open sessions" meetings
500: <a href="http://www.kerberos.si">Mitja Muzenic</a> gave a
501: <a href="http://pot.kiberpipa.org/?p=39">talk</a> on OpenBSD.
1.619 wvdputte 502: <a href="http://www.kerberos.si/papers/Kiberpipa07/">Slides</a> (in Slovenian),
503: <a href="http://video.kiberpipa.org/media/POT_OpenBSD">video</a> (in Slovenian),
1.616 wvdputte 504: and <a href="http://gallery.kerberos.si/kiberpipa07/">photos</a> are available.
505: <p>
506:
507: </ul>
508:
1.445 martin 509: <h3>2006</h3>
1.236 jose 510: <ul>
1.537 deraadt 511:
1.588 espie 512: <li><strong><a name="23c3"></a>
1.577 mbalmer 513: <a href="https://events.ccc.de/congress/2006/">23C3 Chaos Communication Congress in
514: Berlin</a></strong>,
515: December 27 - 30, 2006, Berlin, Germany.<br>
1.597 mbalmer 516: Who can you trust? Well, us. OpenBSD was there, of course, for our annual
1.595 reyk 517: closing event. fkr, grunk, jsg, mbalmer, mickey, sturm, uwe, martin,
1.598 bernd 518: henning, moritz, bernd and wvdputte were there
1.597 mbalmer 519: there to chat with attendees and discuss OpenBSD stuff. It was - as usual -
520: a great end-of-the-year event. See you in Berlin again end of 2007.
1.577 mbalmer 521: <p>
522:
1.594 mbalmer 523: <li><strong><a name="moscow2006"></a>
524: <a href="https://kd85.com/">Moscow OpenBSD user meeting</a></strong>,
525: December 8 - 9, 2006, Moscow, Russia.<br>
1.633 tom 526: For details, please email <a href="mailto:grange@opensd.org">Grange</a>
1.594 mbalmer 527: <p>
528:
1.515 tom 529: <li><strong><a name="opencon2006"></a>
530: <a href="http://www.opencon.org/">OpenCON 2006</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 531: 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 532: OpenCON is the only conference dedicated solely to OpenBSD.
1.587 deraadt 533: 135 people were registered for the event, but since it was a completely open event is likely that
534: even more people just walked in.
1.577 mbalmer 535: Most talks were by OpenBSD developers, but there was also an impressive
1.568 mbalmer 536: number of our developers just attending the conference. Talks by OpenBSD
1.577 mbalmer 537: developers were:
1.568 mbalmer 538: <p>
1.535 deraadt 539: <ul>
1.581 claudio 540: <li>Claudio Jeker: <a href="papers/opencon06-network/index.html">
541: Network stack changes in OpenBSD</a>
1.580 deraadt 542: <li>Marc Balmer: <a href="papers/opencon06-nmea/index.html">
543: Support for Time Signal Station Receivers and GPS in OpenBSD</a>
1.601 fkr 544: <li>Felix Kronlage: <a href="papers/opencon06-umts/index.html">Redundancy or mobile deployment with 3G technology</a>
1.584 jsg 545: <li>Jonathan Gray: <a href="papers/opencon06-drivers/index.html">
546: Driver architecture and implementation in OpenBSD</a>
1.543 mbalmer 547: <li>Gordon Klok: <i>Processor Power Management</i>
1.596 dlg 548: <li>David Gwynne: <a href="papers/opencon06-culture.pdf">The OpenBSD
549: Culture</a> and he also filled in for Marco's
550: <a href="papers/opencon06-bio.pdf">Bio and Sensors in OpenBSD</a> talk.
1.582 michele 551: <li>Michele Marchetto: <a href="papers/opencon06-ripd/index.html">
552: OpenRIPD</a>
1.574 mbalmer 553: <li>Reyk Floeter: <i>IPsec demystified</i>
1.580 deraadt 554: <li>Theo de Raadt: <a href="papers/opencon06-docs">
555: Why hardware documentation matters so much and why it is so hard to get</a>
1.535 deraadt 556: </ul>
1.502 mbalmer 557: <p>
1.577 mbalmer 558: Also present were jcs, krw, mglocker, robert, wvdputte, martin, grunk,
559: dhartmei, aanriot, sturm, and bernd. Of course there was an OpenBSD booth
560: run by the usual suspects and you could buy our CD-ROMS, the audio CD and other
1.568 mbalmer 561: stuff.
562: <p>
1.502 mbalmer 563:
1.575 reyk 564: <li><strong><a name=opensourcetag2006></a>
565: <a href="http://www.opensourcetag.de/2006/">OpenSourceTag 2006</a></strong>,
566: Nov 30, 2006, Hannover, Germany.<br>
567: Reyk gave a <a href="http://www.opensourcetag.de/2006/agenda/">talk</a> about OpenBSD
568: as a reference project for secure software.
569: <p>
570:
1.583 henning 571: <li><strong><a name=epf2006></a>
572: <a href="http://www.peering-forum.eu/2006/">European Peering Forum 2006</a></strong>,
573: Nov 29 - 30, 2006, Frankfurt, Germany.<br>
574: The European Peering Forum in Frankfurt was hosted by the 3 big european
575: peering points DE-CIX, AMSIX and LINX, bringing network operators together.
576: Henning was talking about OpenBGPD,
577: <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/epf2006/">slides</a> are available.
578: <p>
579:
1.565 krw 580: <li><strong><a name=conisli2006></a>
581: <a href="http://conisli.org/">CONISLI 2006</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 582: Nov 3 - 5, 2006, São Paulo, Brazil.<br>
1.565 krw 583: 4th edition of São Paulo's International Free Software Congress.
1.687 jolan 584: Ken Westerback and Pedro Martelletto gave a talk.
1.565 krw 585: <p>
586:
1.559 jason 587: <li><strong><a name=nycbsdcon2006></a>
588: <a href="http://nycbsdcon.org/">NYCBSDCon 2006</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 589: Oct 28 - 29, 2006, New York City, USA.<br>
1.559 jason 590: NYCBSDCon is the main conference on the East Coast for the
591: BSD community to get together to share and gain knowledge,
1.562 jason 592: to network with like minded people. Several developers
1.563 jason 593: spoke, more were on hand:
1.559 jason 594: <ul>
595: <li>Marco Peereboom: <a href="papers/bio.pdf">bio and sensors in OpenBSD</a>
1.563 jason 596: [<a href="http://www.fetissov.org/public/nycbsdcon06/1.6.mp3">audio</a>]
1.605 jason 597: <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 598: <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>]
599: <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 600: <li>Ray Lai: <i>First time booth bunny</i>
601: </ul>
602: <p>
603:
1.556 fgsch 604: <li><strong><a name=linuxworlduk2006></a>
605: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.co.uk/">LinuxWorld Expo UK 2006</a></strong>,
606: Oct 25 - 26, 2006, Olympia, London, UK.<br>
1.558 wvdputte 607: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Wim, Tom, Peter, Federico and
608: Pedro La Peu.
1.556 fgsch 609: <p>
610:
1.589 aanriot 611: <li><strong><a name=cuug2006oct></a>
612: <a href="http://www.cuug.ab.ca/">Calgary Unix Users Group</a></strong>,
613: Oct 24, 2006, downtown Library, basement meeting room, Calgary, Alberta.<br>
614: Theo de Raadt gave a talk regarding the increasing demand for
615: vendors to open up their documentation.
616: <p>
617:
1.553 grunk 618: <li><strong><a name="systems2006"></a>
619: <a href="http://www.systems.de/">Systems</a></strong>,
620: Oct 23 - 27, 2006, Munich, Germany <br>
621: The *BSD projects were located at A3.542.
622: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
623: Wilhelm Bühler, DaN, Nikolay Sturm, Marco Pfatschbacher,
624: and some other volunteers.
625: <p>
626:
1.550 henning 627: <li><strong><a name=hacklu2006></a>
628: <a href="http://www.hack.lu/">hack.lu 2006</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 629: Oct 19 - 21, 2006, Luxembourg/Kirchberg, Luxembourg.<br>
1.550 henning 630: Henning Brauer gave a well received talk about OpenBGPD.
631: <p>
632:
1.547 aanriot 633: <li><strong><a name=aldil2006></a>
634: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/">Les Journées Du Logiciel Libre
635: 2006</a></strong>,
636: Oct 13 - 14, 2006, Lyon, France.<br>
637: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Miod Vallat and Alexandre
638: Anriot with the help of Thierry Thomas and Damien Bergamini.
639: <p>
640:
1.546 mcbride 641: <li><strong><a name=auug2006></a>
642: <a href="http://new.auug.org.au/">AUUG 2006</a></strong>,
643: Oct 10 - 13, 2006, Melbourne, Australia.<br>
644: Ryan Mcbride presented a full-day tutorial entitled
645: "Advanced PF Rulesets" as well as two additional talks
646: <a href="papers/auug2006/pf_evolution/">PF evolution</a>
647: and
648: <a href="papers/auug2006/network_randomness/">Network stack randomness in OpenBSD</a>.
649: <p>
650:
1.532 wvdputte 651: <li><strong><a name=eurooscon2006></a>
652: <a href="http://conferences.oreillynet.com/euos2006/">O'Reilly Euro OSCON 2006
653: </a></strong>,
654: Sep 20, 2006, Brussels, Belgium.<br>
655: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth.
656: <p>
657:
1.528 wvdputte 658: <li><strong><a name=come2linux2006></a>
659: <a href="http://www.come2linux.org/psp/">Come 2 Linux 2006</a></strong>,
660: Sep 9 - 10, 2006, Duisburg-Essen, Germany.<br>
661: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth.
662: <p>
663:
1.525 wvdputte 664: <li><strong><a name=ChaosdaysDarmstadt2006></a>
665: <a href="http://mrmcd101b.metarheinmain.de/index.html">mrmcd101b - MetaRheinMainChaosDays Darmstadt 2006</a>
666: </strong>,
667: Sep 1 - 3, 2006, Darmstadt, Germany.<br>
668: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth.
669: <p>
670:
1.521 fkr 671: <li><strong><a name=LinuxWorldExpoSF2006></a>
672: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/live/12/events/12SFO06A/conference/tracksessions/Security/QMONYA04ROFR">LinuxWorld Expo San Francisco 2006</a>
673: </strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 674: Aug 16, 2006, San Francisco, USA.<br>
1.521 fkr 675: Ted Unangst spoke about OpenBSD as part of a security panel.
676: <p>
677:
1.518 tedu 678: <li><strong><a name=coimbra2006></a>
679: <a href="http://www.openbsd-pt.com/eventos/coimbra06/">Portuguese OpenBSD Usergroup Meeting</a></strong>,
680: Jul 22 - 23, 2006, Coimbra, Portugal.<br>
681: 6th Meeting of the Portuguese OpenBSD Usergroup. Marc Balmer gave a talk
682: "NMEA 0183 and Time Signal Station Receiver Support in OpenBSD".
683: <p>
684:
685: <li><strong><a name=akqit2006></a>
686: <a href="http://www.akqit.ch/w3/DE/actual.html">Arbeitskreis für Qualität in der Informationstechnologie (Working Group for Quality in IT)</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 687: Jul 20, 2006, University of Basel, Computer Science Department, Room 205, Bernoullistr. 16, 17:30 - 18:30.<br>
1.590 mbalmer 688: Marc Balmer gave a talk in german "<a href="papers/akqit06/index.html">Ensuring
689: Quality in the Development of the Free Operating System OpenBSD</a>".
1.518 tedu 690: <p>
1.475 deraadt 691:
1.510 wvdputte 692: <li><strong><a name="lsm2006"></a>
693: <a href="http://www.rmll.info">Libre Software Meeting 2006</a></strong>,
694: Jul 4 - 8, 2006, Vandoeuvre-les-nancy, France.<br>
1.681 aanriot 695: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Wim, Matthieu and
696: Alexandre with the help of Serge and Christelle.
1.510 wvdputte 697: <p>
698:
1.508 wvdputte 699: <li><strong><a name=FrOSCon></a>
700: <a href="http://www.froscon.de/">
701: FrOSCon 2006 - Free and Open Source Software Conference</a></strong>,
702: Jun 24 - 25, 2006, Bonn/Rhein-Sieg, Germany.<br>
1.518 tedu 703: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth run by Wim, Waldemar, Manuel and
1.508 wvdputte 704: Tim Kornau.
705: <p>
706:
1.507 mbalmer 707: <li><strong><a name=LinuxwochenLinz2006></a>
708: <a href="http://www.linuxwochen.at/2006/Linz">Linuxwochen Linz 2006</a>
709: </strong>,
710: June 15, 2006, Linz, Austria.<br>
1.727 wvdputte 711: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth run by Wim and the usual suspects.
1.507 mbalmer 712: <p>
713:
1.506 deraadt 714: <li><strong><a name=lugverona2006></a>
1.526 steven 715: <a href="http://www.di.univr.it/dol/main?ent=iniziativa&id=857&lang=it">LUGVR@UNIVR</a></strong>
1.506 deraadt 716: Jun 9, 2006, Verona University, Borgo Roma, Italy.<br>
717: Florin Iamandi of <a href="https://www.verona.linux.it">LUG Verona</a>
718: gave a talk
719: (<a href="http://todome.net/docs/obsd_carp/en">English</a> and
720: <a href="http://todome.net/docs/obsd_carp/it">Italian</a>)
721: and live demonstration on redundant failover
722: OpenBSD firewalls. He explained why OpenBSD solves many problems that
723: had previously been the dominion of expensive commercial solutions.
724: Attendees learned about OpenBSD's hard stance and successful fight against
725: bad licences and uncooperating vendors and manufacturers.
726: <p>
727:
1.502 mbalmer 728: <li><strong><a name=Slackathon2006></a>
729: <a href="http://slackathon2006.unix.se">Slackathon 2006</a>
730: </strong>
731: Jun 3, 2006, Stockholm, Sweden.<br>
732: A fundraiser for OpenBSD/SSH held at the Stockholm University. Free
1.505 ian 733: entrance and all donations went straight to the project. Several
1.502 mbalmer 734: developers were talking about OpenBSD here, as well as some hands-on
735: workshops took place with both old and new hardware.
736: <p>
737:
1.500 deraadt 738: <li><strong><a name=cuug2006></a>
739: <a href="http://www.cuug.ab.ca/">Calgary Unix Users Group</a></strong>,
740: Jun 1, 2006, SAIT Campus, Calgary, Alberta.<br>
1.504 miod 741: Bob Beck and Reyk Floeter discussed recent and future networking
742: changes in OpenBSD. Some other OpenBSD developers attended to provide
1.500 deraadt 743: international colour, and there were tshirts, CDs, and posters on hand.
744: CUUG made a substantial contribution to OpenBSD at this event as well.
745: <p>
746:
1.589 aanriot 747: <li><strong><a name=LinuxwochenVienna2006></a>
748: <a href="http://www.linuxwochen.at/2006/Wien">Linuxwochen Vienna 2006</a>
749: </strong>,
750: May 31 - Jun 2, 2006, Vienna, Austria.<br>
751: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth run by Wim and the usual suspects.
752: <p>
753:
1.585 aanriot 754: <li><strong><a name=plug060519></a>
1.586 aanriot 755: <a href="http://www.plugfr.org/">Provence Linux User Group</a></strong>
756: May 19, 2006, Marseille, France.<br>
1.585 aanriot 757: Alexandre Anriot spoke about the deployment of wireless networks with
1.586 aanriot 758: OpenBSD during a meeting of the PLUG.
1.585 aanriot 759: <p>
760:
1.491 bernd 761: <li><strong><a name="SANE2006"></a>
762: <a href="http://www.sane.nl/sane2006/">SANE 2006</a></strong>,
763: May 15 - 19, 2006, Delft, The Netherlands.<br>
764: Peter N. M. Hansteen gave a
765: <a href="http://www.sane.nl/sane2006/program/abstract.php?eventid=35">
766: PF tutorial</a>.
767: <p>
768:
1.490 reyk 769: <li><strong><a name=bsdcan2006></a> <a
770: href="http://www.bsdcan.org/2006/">BSDCan 2006</a></strong>,
771: May 12 - 13, 2006, Ottawa, Canada.<br>
772: David Gwynne gave a talk about hardware monitoring with bio and
773: sensors in OpenBSD (<a href="papers/bsdcan06-biosensors.pdf">slides</a>)
774: and Reyk Flöter talked about the latest
775: wireless support and the incredible plans for the future
776: (<a href="papers/bsdcan06-wlan/index.html">slides</a>), and
777: Peter Hansteen gave a PF tutorial. A number of OpenBSD hackers
778: attended the conference as well, like Bob Beck and Mathieu Sauve-Frankel.
779: <p>
780:
1.489 bernd 781: <li><strong><a name="linuxdays2006"></a>
782: <a href="http://www.linuxdays.ch">Linuxdays 2006</a></strong>,
783: May 8 - 12, 2006, Geneva, Switzerland.<br>
784: Julien Mabillard, a long-time Geneva OpenBSD user, gave a talk to present
785: the overall system and its great features.
786: <p>
787:
1.592 claudio 788: <li><strong><a name="idepes2006"></a>
1.589 aanriot 789: <a href="http://www.idepes.org.br/openbsd/">IDEPES 2006</a></strong>,
790: May 6, 2006, São Paulo, Brazil.<br>
791: First event in Brazil totally dedicated to OpenBSD.
792: <p>
793:
1.592 claudio 794: <li><strong><a name="LinuxTag2006"></a>
1.484 mbalmer 795: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.org/2006/">LinuxTag 2006</a></strong>,
796: May 3 - 6, 2006, Wiesbaden, Germany.<br>
797: OpenBSD was very present at this years Linuxtag:
798: <ul>
799: <li>On friday morning, Claudio and Marc moderated a panel discussion
800: "BLOBS sind das Krebsgeschwür freier Software" (Blobs are the
1.485 mbalmer 801: cancer of free software) that was well attended. Unfortunately no one
1.484 mbalmer 802: in favour of Blobs attended, although we asked almost all Linux
803: distributions...
804: <li>After lunch, Marc Balmer started the afternoon with a talk "OpenBSD
805: as a Strategic Platform for the Basle Public Schools", outlining how and
1.485 mbalmer 806: why the Basle Public school system uses OpenBSD for most of its
1.484 mbalmer 807: infrastructure.
1.592 claudio 808: <li>The next OpenBSD specific talk was by Claudio Jeker,
809: <a href="papers/linuxtag06-network/">"Routing with OpenBSD using
810: OpenOSPFD and OpenBGPD"</a> where he showed various routing setups and
811: how full redundancy can be achieved.
812: [<a href="papers/linuxtag06-network.pdf">paper</a>]
1.484 mbalmer 813: <li>Later, Marc Balmer gave a talk "Decoding Time Signal Stations using
814: OpenBSD" and explained the recent addition of timedelta sensors and the
815: first implementation of such, udcf(4).
816: </ul>
817: <br>
818: All talks where very well received and OpenBSD filled four hours of the
1.485 mbalmer 819: Linuxtag program. We thank Wilhelm Bühler, chair of the BSD-Track
1.484 mbalmer 820: at Linuxtag, for the superb and professional organization.
821: <br>
822: Of course, there was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth run by Wim and the
823: usual suspects.
824: <p>
825:
1.486 mickey 826: <li><strong><a name=NYCBUG2006-05></a>
827: <a href="http://nycbug.org/index.php?NAV=Home&SUBM=83">NYCBUG Monthly meeting</a></strong>,
828: May 3, 2006, NYC, USA.<br>
829: Mickey gave a talk
1.564 jason 830: (<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 831: about PAE work for OpenBSD/i386.<br>
832: Mischa Diehm gave a talk about implementing VPN using OpenBSD.
833: <p>
834:
1.484 mbalmer 835: <li><strong><a name=tokyo2006></a>
836: <a href="http://www.tokyopc.org/index.php/weblog/">Tokyo PC Users Group</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 837: May 2, 2006, Tokyo, Japan.<br>
1.484 mbalmer 838: Theo presented his <a href="papers/ven05-deraadt">"Exploit Mitigation Techniques"</a>
839: talk. There is a
840: <a href="http://www.tokyopc.org/faxmessage/index.html#about">map to the location</a>.
841: <p>
842:
1.478 mbalmer 843: <li><strong><a name=SambaEXPerience2006></a>
844: <a href="http://www.sambaxp.org/">Samba eXPerience 2006</a></strong>,
845: April 24 - 26, 2006, Göttingen, Germany.<br>
846: Marc Balmer gave a talk "Providing Fully Automated Fileserver Services
847: for Public Schools using LDAP Integrated SAMBA on OpenBSD" that was very
848: well received.
849: <br>
850: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth run by Wim and Marc and Felix Kronlage
851: and we could draw a lot of attention.
852: <p>
853:
1.479 deraadt 854: <li><strong><a name=DORSCLUC2006></a>
855: <a href="http://www.open.hr/dc2006/"> DORS / CLUC 2006</a></strong>,
856: April 19-21, 2006, Zagreb, Croatia.<br>
857: <a href="http://www.kerberos.si">Mitja Muzenic</a> gave a
1.480 mbalmer 858: <a href="http://www.kerberos.si/papers/DORS06/index.html">
859: "Introduction to OpenBSD"</a> talk. Conference
860: <a href="http://www.open.hr/dc2006/program.php">program</a> (in croatian
1.479 deraadt 861: only).
862: <p>
863:
1.475 deraadt 864: <li><strong><a name=linuxworld2006></a>
865: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/live/12/events/12BOS06A/">
866: LinuxWorld/OpenSolutions World 2006</a></strong>,
867: April 3 - 6, 2006, Boston, USA.<br>
868: Jason Dixon presented
869: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/live/12/events/12BOS06A/conference/tracksessions/Security/QMONYA04Q1DK">Secure Network Architectures with OpenBSD</a>,
870: a talk on OpenBSD that outlines the various technologies that make
871: it a leader of secure networking platforms.
872: <br>
873: He spent time around the exposition BSD booth with giveaways
874: and early release OpenBSD 3.9 CDs.
875: <p>
876:
877: <li><strong><a name=cansecwest06></a>
878: <a href="http://www.cansecwest.com">Cansecwest/core06</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 879: April 3 - 7, 2006, Vancouver, Canada.<br>
1.475 deraadt 880: A rather interesting OpenBSD-related talk happened at this event, regarding
881: using SMI interrupts to break out of X into kernel mode.
882: <br>
883: Some OpenBSD developers attended. Some early OpenBSD 3.9 items went
884: on sale.
885: <p>
886:
1.469 tom 887: <li><strong><a name=ukuug2006></a>
888: <a href="http://www.ukuug.org/events/spring2006/">UKUUG Spring Conference 2006</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 889: Mar 22 - 23, 2006, Durham, United Kingdom.<br>
1.469 tom 890: Reyk Flöter gave a talk about the latest wireless support in
891: OpenBSD at the annual spring meeting of the
892: <a href="http://www.ukuug.org/">UK's Unix and Open Systems User Group</a>.
893: Peter N. M. Hansteen
894: gave a PF tutorial, Tom Cosgrove presented "Exploit
895: Mitigation Techniques" and Constantine Murenin gave a
896: presentation on "Hardware temperature monitoring device
897: drivers for OpenBSD".
898: These were all part of a new, well-attended, BSD stream at the event.
899: <p>
900:
1.459 henning 901: <li><strong><a name=Copenhagen2006></a>
902: <a href="http://www.linuxforum.dk/2006/en/">LinuxForum 2006</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 903: Mar 3 - 4, 2006, Copenhagen, Denmark.<br>
1.459 henning 904: Wim gave Felix Kronlage's talk about OpenBSD Mobile Use (wifi, UMTS,
905: GPRS, phones and the like) with some demo setups.
906: Henning Brauer gave a very well received talk about OpenBGPD,
907: <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/linuxforum2006/">slides</a> are available.
908: <p>
909:
1.457 wvdputte 910: <li><strong><a name=Brussels2006></a>
911: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/2006/">FOSDEM Brussels 2006</a></strong>,
912: Feb 25 - 26, 2006, Brussels, Belgium.<br>
913: An OpenBSD/OpenSSH booth was present, run by the usual gang of suspects:
1.458 xsa 914: Alexandre, Dimitar, Matthieu, Mbalmer, Nikolay, Otto, Reyk, Saad, Thierry, Uwe, Wim, and
1.457 wvdputte 915: Xsa. Reyk gave a talk about Wifi with OpenBSD and there was our traditional
916: BSD dinner. More details and
917: <a href="http://saad.docisland.org/pictures/fosdem2006/index.html">pictures</a>
1.458 xsa 918: on <a href="http://saad.docisland.org/blog/files/archive-12.html#unique-entry-id-40">Saad's blog</a>.
1.457 wvdputte 919: <p>
920:
921: <li><strong><a name=Vegas2006></a>
922: <a href="http://kd85.com/vegas2006.html">Merciful briefings 2006</a></strong>,
923: Feb 15, 2006, Las Vegas, USA - Feb 17, 2006, San Diego, USA - Feb 18, 2006, Phoenix, USA.<br>
924: While traveling the US, Wim met with a bunch of OpenBSD users in Las Vegas,
925: San Diego and Phoenix. With many thanks to the members of PhxBUG - Phoenix BSD
926: User Group, more specificly Darrin Chandler, for organising the little
927: details and Jacob for road trip directions.
928: <p>
1.455 grunk 929:
1.456 henning 930: <li><strong><a name=nanog36></a>
931: <a href="http://www.nanog.org/">NANOG 36</a></strong>,
932: Feb 12 - 15, 2006, Dallas, USA.<br>
933: Henning Brauer and Bernhard Kroenung of DE-CIX talked about OpenBGPD and
934: OpenBGPD at DE-CIX, <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/nanog36/">slides</a>
935: are available. Henning talked again at the tools BOF
936: (<a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/nanog36-bof/">slides</a>).
937: Both talks were very well received by the audience.
938: Kenjiro Cho was there too, talking about IPv6 issues.
939: <p>
940:
1.455 grunk 941: <li><strong><a name="Paris2006"></a>
942: <a href="http://www.solutionslinux.fr/fr/index.php">Solutions Linux 2006</a>
943: </strong>,
944: Jan 31 - Feb 2, 2006, Paris, France.<br>
945: There was an OpenBSD booth run by Marc Espie, Miod Vallat, Saad Kadhi and
946: Wim with help from Guillaume Arcas and Christophe Plasschaert.
947: <p>
948: </ul>
949:
1.296 mcbride 950: <h3>2005</h3>
1.240 espie 951:
952: <ul>
1.337 deraadt 953:
1.445 martin 954: <li><strong><a name=22c3></a>
955: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/2005/">22C3 Chaos Communication Congress in
956: Berlin</a></strong>,
957: December 27 - 30, 2005, Berlin, Germany.<br>
958: Many OpenBSD developers and users met for a Xmas break in a unique setting.
959: <p>
960:
1.585 aanriot 961: <li><strong><a name=plug051216></a>
1.586 aanriot 962: <a href="http://www.plugfr.org/">Provence Linux User Group</a></strong>
963: December 16, 2005, Marseille, France.<br>
964: Alexandre Anriot spoke about OpenSSH during a meeting of the PLUG.
1.585 aanriot 965: <p>
966:
1.435 matthieu 967: <li><strong><a name=eurobsdcon2005></a>
968: <a href="http://2005.eurobsdcon.org/">EuroBSDCon 2005</a></strong>,
969: Nov 25 - 27, 2005, Basel, Switzerland.<br>
970: The 4th edition of the european conference for BSD systems has been a
971: great success. More than 225 people from 27 countries attended the
1.438 deraadt 972: event.
1.444 grunk 973: The program included a
974: <a href="http://www.eurobsdcon.org/tutorials-reyk.php">tutorial by Reyk about
1.437 niallo 975: OpenBSD-based Wireless Networks</a> and the following talks
976: <ul>
1.438 deraadt 977: <li>Henning Brauer with Wilhelm Bühler "Signal Handlers"
978: <li>Ryan McBride "Network Stack Randomness"
1.439 matthieu 979: <li><a href="papers/eurobsd2005/herrb-hopf.pdf">Matthieu Herrb and Matthias Hopf "New Evolutions in the X Window System"</a>
1.440 claudio 980: <li><a href="papers/eurobsd2005/claudio/">Claudio Jeker "The Design and Implementation of OpenOSPFD"</a>
1.439 matthieu 981: <li><a href="papers/eurobsd2005/niallo-uwe/">Niall O'Higgins & Uwe Stuehler "Embedded OpenBSD"</a>
1.443 deraadt 982: <li><a href="papers/eurobsd2005/tedu-rthreads.pdf">Ted Unangst "rthreads: A New Thread Implementation for OpenBSD"</a>
1.437 niallo 983: </ul>
1.438 deraadt 984: <p>
1.435 matthieu 985: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
986: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
987: <p>
988:
1.434 bernd 989: <li><strong><a name=linuxworldexpogermany2005></a>
990: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.de/">Linux World Expo Germany</a></strong>,
991: Nov 15 - 17, 2005, Frankfurt, Germany.<br>
992: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
993: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a> and Bernd.
994: <p>
995:
1.441 niallo 996: <li><strong><a name="pacsec05"></a>
997: <a href="http://www.pacsec.jp/">PacSec/core 05 conference</a></strong>,
998: Nov 15 - 16, 2005, Tokyo, Japan.<br>
999: Sean Comeau presented a talk called
1000: <a href="http://www.openbsd-support.com/jp/en/htm/mgp/pacsec05/index.html">
1001: Open Source Secure Wireless Networks in a Windows World</a>
1002: <a href="http://www.pacsec.jp/core05/psj05-scomeau-en.pdf">[PDF]</a>.
1003: The solution he presents uses IPsec to protect traffic between the
1004: wireless clients and access points. Authentication is done using OpenSSH
1005: (authpf), a process made transparent and user-friendly by a few small
1006: scripts.
1007: <p>
1008:
1.424 mbalmer 1009: <li><strong><a name=opencon2005></a>
1010: <a href="http://www.opencon.org/">OpenCON 2005</a></strong>,
1011: Nov 4 - 6, 2005, San Servolo Island, Venice, Italy.<br>
1.427 deraadt 1012: The only unique conference entirely dedicated to OpenBSD, held in the totally
1013: crazy environment of San Servolo island: an old insane asylum turned into a
1014: university about 20 years ago, about 10 minutes boat ride from Venice.
1.429 deraadt 1015: In the days leading up to this, about 12 OpenBSD developers arrived early
1.427 deraadt 1016: for a Ports mini-hackathon. During the conference a few developers gave
1.433 deraadt 1017: talks, including
1018: <ul>
1019: <li><a href="papers/ven05-pvalchev">Peter Valchev "OpenBSD Hackathon report"</a>
1020: <li><a href="papers/ven05-espie">Marc Espie "OpenBSD ports and packages"</a>
1021: <li><a href="papers/ven05-henning">Henning Brauer "OpenBSD networking update"</a>
1022: <li><a href="papers/ven05-niallo-uwe/slides.pdf">Uwe Stuehler, Niall O'Higgins "Porting OpenBSD"</a>
1023: <li><a href="papers/ven05-deraadt">Theo de Raadt "Exploit Mitigation Techniques (updated to include random malloc and mmap)"</a>
1024: </ul>
1.424 mbalmer 1025: <p>
1026:
1027: <li><strong><a name=systems2005></a>
1028: <a href="http://www.systems.de/">Systems</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 1029: Oct 24 - 28, 2005, Munich, Germany.<br>
1.425 mbalmer 1030: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
1.424 mbalmer 1031: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
1032: <p>
1033:
1.418 djm 1034: <li><strong><a name=auug2005></a>
1035: <a href="http://www.auug.org.au/events/2005/auug2005/">AUUG 2005</a></strong>,
1036: October 16 - 21, 2005, Sydney, Australia.<br>
1037: Mark Uemura presented a tutorial on setting up CARP/PF, a demonstration of
1038: stateful failover with CARP and pfsync and a talk on wireless security in
1039: a corporate environment using authpf and isakmpd. Peter Hansteen gave a
1040: <a href="http://www.bgnett.no/~peter/pf/">Firewalling with PF</a> tutorial.
1.420 deraadt 1041: Damien Miller presented on the approach to
1042: <a href="papers/auug2005-portability">secure software portability used
1043: by portable OpenSSH</a>, Reyk Flöter gave a talk on the current state of wireless
1.418 djm 1044: support in OpenBSD and David Purdue introduced OpenBSD's spamd tarpit.
1045: Most of the Australian OpenBSD developers and many users were present.
1046: <p>
1047:
1.415 aanriot 1048: <li><strong><a name=aldil2005></a>
1049: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/">Les Journées Du Logiciel Libre
1050: 2005</a></strong>,
1051: Oct 14 - 15, 2005, Lyon, France.<br>
1052: There was OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Alexandre Anriot with the
1053: help of Thierry Thomas.
1054: <p>
1055:
1.420 deraadt 1056: <li><strong><a name=cafeconf2005></a>
1057: <a href="http://www.cafeconf.org/">CaFeConf 2005,
1058: 4tas Jornadas Abiertas de GNU/Linux y Software Libre</a></strong>,
1059: Oct 13 - 15, 2005, Buenos Aires, Argentina<br>
1060: CaFeConf 2005 is the anual event of CaFeLUG - Free Software Users
1061: Group of Capital Federal, Argentina. This year the event featured
1062: 116 presentations consisting of talks, tutorials, and workshops. The
1063: event was also broadcasted on the Internet. Entrance was free, but
1064: registration was mandatory.<br>
1065: Fernando Gont gave a talk on
1.444 grunk 1066: <a href="http://www.cafeconf.org/modules/myconference/viewspeech.php?sid=147&cid=20">
1.420 deraadt 1067: ICMP attacks against TCP</a>,
1068: in which he gave an overview of the attacks, the possible
1069: counter-measures, and the politics of vulnerabilities, and a talk on
1.444 grunk 1070: <a href="http://www.cafeconf.org/modules/myconference/viewspeech.php?sid=173&cid=20">
1.420 deraadt 1071: Fixing the vulnerability of the Path-MTU Discovery mechanism</a>,
1072: in which explained how OpenBSD fixed the vulnerability of the PMTUD
1073: mechanism.
1074: <p>
1075:
1.414 bernd 1076: <li><strong><a name=linuxkongress2005></a>
1077: <a href="http://www.linux-kongress.org/">12th International Linux System
1078: Technology Conference</a></strong>,
1079: Oct 11 - 14, 2005, University of Hamburg, Germany.<br>
1080: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth.
1081: <p>
1082:
1083: <li><strong><a name=linuxworlduk2005></a>
1084: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.co.uk/">LinuxWorld Expo UK 2005</a></strong>,
1085: Oct 5 - 6, 2005, Olympia, London, UK.<br>
1086: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth.
1087: <p>
1088:
1.410 wvdputte 1089: <li><strong><a name=opensourcetag2005></a>
1.575 reyk 1090: <a href="http://www.opensourcetag.de/2005/">OpenSourceTag 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 1091: Sep 27, 2005, Hannover, Germany.<br>
1.444 grunk 1092: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth and Reyk gave a
1.575 reyk 1093: <a href="http://www.opensourcetag.de/2005/agenda/">talk</a> about IT security.
1.410 wvdputte 1094: <p>
1095:
1096: <li><strong><a name="gubuginstallfest2005"></a>
1097: <a href="http://gubug.org/meetings.php">Greater Utah BSD Group
1098: Installfest 2005</a></strong>,
1099: Sep 24, 2005, Sandy, UT, USA.<br/>
1.444 grunk 1100: <a href="http://www.gubug.org/">The Greater Utah BSD User Group</a> organised
1.410 wvdputte 1101: their first annual BSD Installfest, sponsored by Utah ISP ArosNet.
1102: There were handouts, CD-ROMs, technical presentations, and
1103: fun, plus a chance to get OpenBSD or a related open source BSD operating system
1104: installed on your computer.
1105: Admission was free (computers not included in cost of admission).
1.419 djm 1106: Featured speakers included Dan Langille, organizer of BSDCan.
1.410 wvdputte 1107: <p>
1108:
1.404 wvdputte 1109: <li><strong><a name="NYCBSDCon2005"></a>
1110: <a href="http://nycbsdcon.org/">New York City BSD Conference 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 1111: Sep 17, 2005, NYC, USA.<br>
1.404 wvdputte 1112: NYCBSDCon was a one day technical conference hosted by the New York
1113: City *BSD User Group and was held at Columbia University.
1.406 saad 1114: The all day conference included a variety of speakers representing the
1.404 wvdputte 1115: BSD projects and the open source community.<br>
1116: NYCBSDCon was organized by NYC*BUG, a technical user group that formed in
1117: December 2003. Besides their regular monthly meetings at the Soho Apple
1118: Store, NYC*BUG has done fundraising for the BSD projects and contributed a
1119: number of useful online applications such as BSDTracker and dmesgd.<br>
1120: Additional sponsors included USENIX, New York Internet and SRA America.
1121: <p>
1122:
1123: <li><strong><a name=opensaar2005></a>
1124: <a href="http://www.opensaar.de/">OpenSaar 2005</a></strong>,
1125: Sep 13 - 14, 2005, Saarbrücken, Germany.<br>
1.727 wvdputte 1126: An OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth was present.
1.404 wvdputte 1127: <p>
1128:
1.403 henning 1129: <li><strong><a name=decix160905></a> <a
1130: href="http://www.de-cix.org/">DE-CIX Technical Meeting</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 1131: Sep 16, 2005, Schloss Kransberg, near Usingen, Germany.<br>
1.403 henning 1132: Henning Brauer, Reyk Flöter and Maxim Salomon had been invited to the
1133: technical meeting of the Deutsche Commercial Internet Exchange (DE-CIX) again.
1134: Henning gave an update on OpenBGPD, Reyk talked about a route server project
1135: using OpenBGPD at DE-CIX, and Maxim explained why the CCC sponsors us doing so.
1136: There was a very positive discussion afterwards.
1137: <a href="http://unduli.bsws.de/papers/decix2005-2/">Slides</a> are available.
1138: <p>
1139:
1.388 tom 1140: <li><strong><a name="ukuug2005"></a>
1141: <a href="http://www.ukuug.org/events/linux2005/">UKUUG Linux Technical
1142: Conference 2005</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 1143: Aug 4 - 7, 2005, University of Wales, Swansea, UK.<br>
1.388 tom 1144: Tom Cosgrove gave Theo's presentation about Exploit Mitigation Techniques.
1145: <p>
1146:
1.385 mickey 1147: <li><strong><a name=wth2005></a>
1.390 deraadt 1148: <a href="http://www.whatthehack.org/">What the Hack 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 1149: Jul 28 - 31, 2005, Den Bosch, The Netherlands.<br>
1.385 mickey 1150: As every 4 years, Wim organized the
1151: <a href="http://eurobsd.org/2005-WhatTheHack/">BSD village</a> at this huge
1.389 tom 1152: open air event. There were some talks, Reyk spoke about
1153: <a href="http://program.whatthehack.org/event/6.en.html">WLAN in OpenBSD</a>,
1.385 mickey 1154: and an excellent
1155: <a href="ftp://ftp.nyc.openbsd.org/pub/news/wth-radio-humppa.mp3">Humppa show</a> (35MB MP3) was performed on the SubEther radio.
1156: If you want to see what happened previously, check
1157: <a href="http://eurobsd.org/hal2001/">http://eurobsd.org/hal2001/</a>
1158: and <a href="http://www.eurobsd.org/SummerCamp2003/">http://www.eurobsd.org/SummerCamp2003/</a>.
1159: <p>
1160:
1.382 pedro 1161: <li><strong><a name=coimbra2005></a>
1.474 pedro 1162: <a href="http://www.openbsd-pt.com/eventos/coimbra05/">Portuguese OpenBSD Usergroup Meeting</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 1163: Jul 23 - 24, 2005, Coimbra, Portugal.<br>
1.538 pedro 1164: 5th Meeting of the Portuguese OpenBSD Usergroup. Pedro Martelletto gave a talk.
1.382 pedro 1165: <p>
1166:
1.378 aanriot 1167: <li><strong><a name="lsm2005"></a>
1168: <a href="http://2005.rencontresmondiales.org/sections/index_html/switchLanguage/en">Libre Software Meeting 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 1169: Jul 5 - 9, 2005, Dijon, France.<br>
1.379 aanriot 1170: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Wim and the usual
1171: suspects, with the help of Serge Basterot. It was a nice place to meet
1172: some of our French, German and Swiss developers, including Marc Balmer,
1173: Alexandre Anriot, Matthieu Herrb and Reyk Floeter.
1.378 aanriot 1174: <p>
1175:
1.375 grunk 1176: <li><strong><a name=LinuxTag2005></a>
1177: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.org">LinuxTag 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 1178: Jun 22 - 25, 2005, Karlsruhe, Germany.<br>
1.375 grunk 1179: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth ran by Wim, Christian Weisgerber,
1180: Marc Balmer, Wilhelm Buehler, Robert Nagy, Bernd Ahlers and Phil Schulz.
1181: <p>
1182:
1.374 grunk 1183: <li><strong><a name="uofa-cc2005"></a>
1184: <a href="http://www.ualberta.ca/CC2005"> University of Alberta, Campus
1.410 wvdputte 1185: Computing 2005</a></strong>, Jun 21, 2005, Edmonton, Canada.<br>
1.374 grunk 1186: Ryan McBride spoke about OpenBSD's packet filter, PF, with CARP and
1187: failover examples. Local color and examples at the U of A shown by Bob
1188: Beck. Bob Beck spoke about PF and Spamd, as well as several other
1189: OpenBSD using and related talks at this event, which primarily focuses
1190: on activities centered at the University of Alberta.
1191: <p>
1192:
1.371 deraadt 1193: <li><strong><a name=uemera2005></a>
1194: <a href="http://www.tokyopc.net">Tokyo PC Users Group</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 1195: Jun 2, 2005, Tokyo Union Church in Omotesando, Tokyo, Japan.<br>
1.371 deraadt 1196: Mark T. Uemura spoke to Japan's largest English speaking
1197: personal computer club. The talk was entitled
1198: <a href="http://www.openbsd-support.com/jp/en/htm/mgp/index.shtml">
1199: "Open Source in a Windows World"</a>.
1200: He demonstrated how companies can easily
1201: integrate Open Source, with an emphasis on OpenBSD, into their IT
1202: infrastructure to enhance security, scalability and stability,
1203: significantly reduce IT expenditures, free up computing infrastructure
1204: and move away from commercial lock-in. This talk is based on changes
1205: implemented at PricewaterhouseCoopers in Japan.
1206: <p>
1207:
1.366 martin 1208: <li><strong><a name=LinuxwochenVienna2005></a>
1209: <a href="http://www.linuxwochen.at/">Linuxwochen Vienna 2005</a></strong>,
1210: May 24 - 27, 2005, Vienna, Austria.<br>
1211: The Linuxwochen 2005 tour stopped in the MuseumsQuartier, Vienna.
1212: Wim Vandeputte and Reinhard Sammer were running an OpenBSD booth selling
1213: CDs and shirts.
1214: <p>
1215:
1.365 mcbride 1216: <li><strong><a name=cuug2005></a>
1217: <a href="http://www.cuug.ab.ca/">Calgary Unix Users Group</a></strong>,
1218: May 24, 2005, Calgary, Canada.<br>
1219: Ryan McBride spoke about OpenBSD's packet filter, PF.
1220: A broad overview of PF's features were presented, with special attention
1221: paid to newer and more unique features and how these can be used together
1222: effectively for DoS mitigation, high availability, and load balancing.
1223: <br>
1224: Approximately 60 OpenBSD developers attended to heckle and participate
1225: in a free-for-all question period after the talk.
1226: <p>
1227:
1.362 reyk 1228: <li><strong><a name=bsdcan2005></a>
1229: <a href="http://www.bsdcan.org/2005/">BSDCan 2005</a></strong>,
1230: May 13 - 14, 2005, Ottawa, Canada.<br>
1231: A number of OpenBSD developers presented: Bob Beck on
1232: Spam Reduction with PF and Spamd, Henning Brauer on OpenBGPD,
1233: Ryan McBride on Network Stack Randomness and Reyk Flöter
1234: on WLAN in OpenBSD and the free ath(4) HAL. The
1235: <a href="papers/bsdcan05-spamd/">Spamd</a> and
1236: <a href="papers/bsdcan05-wlan/">WLAN</a> slides are available.
1237: Mathieu Sauve-Frankel has been there in attendance as well.
1238: <p>
1239:
1.358 mcbride 1240: <li><strong><a name=csw2005></a>
1241: <a href="http://www.cansecwest.com/">cansecwest/core05</a></strong>,
1242: May 4-6, 2005, Vancouver, Canada.<br>
1243: Hiroaki Etoh spoke about propolice; Theo de Raadt and a number of other
1244: developers were there to sell CDs and make a nuisance of themselves.
1245: <p>
1246:
1.357 henning 1247: <li><strong><a name=ripe50></a>
1248: <a href="http://www.ripe.net/ripe/meetings/ripe-50/">RIPE 50</a></strong>,
1249: May 2-6, 2005, Stockholm, Sweden.<br>
1250: RIPE NCC invited Henning to talk about OpenBGPD.
1251: There were over 350 attendees to the conference, and most of them attended
1252: henning's talk, which got very very positive feedback.
1253: <p>
1254:
1.384 tom 1255: <li><strong><a name=libreast2005></a>
1.356 espie 1256: <a href="http://idile.org/libreast/">Libr'east 2005</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 1257: Apr 22-24, Marne La Vallée, near Paris, France.<br>
1.356 espie 1258: There was an OpenBSD booth (Wim + Miod + Marc)
1259: Marc Espie did talk about recent OpenBSD advances, and his ports and
1260: packages work in front of about 30 people.
1261: <p>
1262:
1.353 henning 1263: <li><strong><a name=decix150405></a> <a
1264: href="http://www.de-cix.org/">DE-CIX Technical Meeting</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 1265: Apr 15, 2005, near Usingen, Germany.<br>
1.353 henning 1266: Henning Brauer and Reyk Flöter had been invited to the technical
1267: meeting of the Deutsche Commercial Internet Exchange (DE-CIX). Henning
1268: presented his talk on OpenBGPD, about 60 people, mostly operators from
1269: the big ISPs peering at DECIX, were in attendance.
1.354 reyk 1270: Reyk, Maxim Salomon and Tim Kornau spoke on Wireless Network Security.
1.353 henning 1271: <p>
1272:
1.352 henning 1273: <li><strong><a name=nuug140405></a>
1274: <a href="http://www.nuug.no/aktiviteter/20050414-pf-brannmur/">Firewalling with PF at NUUG</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 1275: Apr 14, 2005, Oslo, Norway.<br>
1.352 henning 1276: Peter N. M. Hansteen gave a firewalling with PF talk - which hopefully
1277: gave you some ideas about how to control your network traffic the
1278: way you want - keeping some things outside your network, directing
1279: traffic to specified hosts or services, and of course, giving spammers
1280: a hard time. The talk was in Norwegian, with <a
1281: href="http://www.bgnett.no/~peter/pf/no/foils/">foils</a> and <a
1282: href="http://www.bgnett.no/~peter/pf/no/">manuscript</a> (English <a
1283: href="http://www.bgnett.no/~peter/pf/en/foils/">foils</a> and <a
1284: href="http://www.bgnett.no/~peter/pf/en/">manuscript</a> too)
1285: available if you couldn't make it there.
1286: <p>
1287:
1.589 aanriot 1288:
1289: <li><strong><a name=fhwedel130405></a>
1290: <a href="http://www.fh-wedel.de/">FH Wedel invited talk</a></strong>,
1291: Apr 13, 2005, 17:00, Hörsaal 5, FH Wedel, Hamburg, Germany.<br>
1292: Henning Brauer spoke on OpenBGPD. More than 40 people were in attendance.
1293: <p>
1294:
1.350 marius 1295: <li><strong><a name=usenix2005></a>
1296: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix05/">Usenix Annual
1.410 wvdputte 1297: Technical Conference</a></strong>, Apr 10-15, 2005, Anaheim,
1.350 marius 1298: California, USA.<br> Marius Eriksen gave the OpenBSD update at the BSD
1299: super BoF. The update was well received and people were quite
1300: sympathetic towards the ongoing efforts of the OpenBSD project to
1301: ensure the free redistribution rights for firmware. People were also
1302: excited about the new Open* tools (OpenBGPD, OpenNTPD, OpenCVS) and it
1.351 marius 1303: would not be surprising to see more of these imported into other BSDs.
1.350 marius 1304: <p>
1305:
1.585 aanriot 1306: <li><strong><a name=plug050408></a>
1.586 aanriot 1307: <a href="http://www.plugfr.org/">Provence Linux User Group</a></strong>
1308: April 8, 2005, Marseille, France.<br>
1.585 aanriot 1309: Alexandre Anriot spoke about OpenBSD and some associated projects
1.586 aanriot 1310: (OpenBGPD etc.) during a meeting of the PLUG.
1.585 aanriot 1311: The <a href="papers/plug080405">slides</a> (in French) are available.
1.344 martin 1312: <p>
1313:
1.337 deraadt 1314: <li><strong><a name=bcs2005></a>
1315: <a href="http://www.bellua.com/bcs2005/asia05.index.html">Bellua Cyber Security Asia 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 1316: Mar 21-24, 2005, Jakarta, Indonesia.<br>
1.337 deraadt 1317: Ryan McBride presented an overview of PF which
1318: discussed how its advanced features work together in some important
1.338 deraadt 1319: applications and compared PF with the other major commercial and open
1.337 deraadt 1320: source firewalls.
1321: <p>
1322:
1.317 henning 1323: <li><strong><a name=nui_maynooth2005></a>
1324: <a href="http://www.minds.nuim.ie/events">NUI Maynooth lectures</a></strong>,
1325: Mar 4, 2005, Department of Computer Science, NUI Maynooth, Dublin, Ireland.<br>
1.318 henning 1326: Ryan McBride presented talks about PF and about
1.326 mcbride 1327: <a href="papers/dublin05-nr">randomization in the OpenBSD network layer.</a><br>
1.318 henning 1328: Theo and Henning were in attendance because someone had to heckle.
1.317 henning 1329: <p>
1330:
1.312 deraadt 1331: <li><strong><a name=trinity2005></a>
1332: <a href="http://www.netsoc.tcd.ie/events/0405/openbsd.php">Trinity lecture</a></strong>,
1333: Mar 3, 2005, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.<br>
1.320 deraadt 1334: Theo de Raadt presented his talk about
1335: <a href="papers/auug04">Exploit Mitigation Techniques</a>.
1.312 deraadt 1336: <p>
1337:
1.319 saad 1338: <li><strong><a name=ShefLUG2005></a>
1339: <a href="http://www.sheflug.co.uk/seminar/tiki-index.php?page=Sheffield%20Open%20Source%20Seminar">ShefLUG2005</a></strong>,
1340: Mar 2, 2005, Sheffield, UK.<br>
1341: Jacek Artymiak gave a talk about installing OpenBSD on Soekris hardware.
1342: <p>
1343:
1.310 mickey 1344: <li><strong><a name=NYCBUG2005-03></a>
1.375 grunk 1345: <a href="http://nycbug.org/index.php?NAV=Home&SUBM=83">NYCBUG Monthly meeting</a></strong>,
1.310 mickey 1346: Mar 2, 2005, NYC, USA.<br>
1.322 deraadt 1347: Mickey gave a talk
1.325 mickey 1348: (<a href="papers/nyc2005">slides</a> and
1.564 jason 1349: <a href="http://www.fetissov.org/public/nycbug/nycbug-03-02-05.mp3">10.5MB audio</a>)
1.321 mickey 1350: about <a href="hppa.html">porting OpenBSD</a>
1.313 martin 1351: to the <a href="http://www.openpa.net">HP PA-RISC</a> platform.
1.310 mickey 1352: <p>
1.312 deraadt 1353:
1.308 deraadt 1354: <li><strong><a name=Netsoc2005></a>
1355: <a href="http://netsoc.ucd.ie/events/openbsd/">Netsoc lectures</a></strong>,
1356: Mar 2, 2005, UCD, Dublin, Ireland.<br>
1357: Theo de Raadt, Henning Brauer, and Ryan McBride gave a series of
1.320 deraadt 1358: talks. Topics included
1359: <a href="papers/auug04">exploit mitigation techniques</a>,
1.326 mcbride 1360: <a href="papers/dublin05-nr">introducing network randomness to increase security</a>,
1361: OpenBGPD, and pf.
1362: Almost 200 people came to this event.
1.308 deraadt 1363: <p>
1364:
1.304 saad 1365: <li><strong><a name=Brussels2005></a>
1366: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/2005/">FOSDEM Brussels 2005</a></strong>,
1367: Feb 26 - 27, 2005, Brussels, Belgium.<br>
1368: An OpenBSD/OpenSSH booth was present, ran by the usual gang of suspects.
1369: Support for <a href="mailto:wim@kd85.com">Wim Vandeputte</a> this time were
1.307 otto 1370: (among many others), Saad Kadhi, Henning Brauer, Thierry Deval, Otto Moerbeek,
1.304 saad 1371: Xavier Santolaria, Martin Reindl, Reyk Flöter, Hans-Jörg
1.360 db 1372: Höxer, Nikolay Sturm, Marc Balmer, Claudio Jeker, Joris Vink,
1373: Olivier Cherrier, David Berghoff,
1.316 mbalmer 1374: Alexander von Gernler, Uwe Stuehler, and Felix Kronlage from OpenDarwin.<br>
1.304 saad 1375: There was a separate OpenBSD track, featuring Henning Brauer (about
1376: signal handlers and OpenNTPD), Reyk Flöter (about wireless cards in
1377: OpenBSD), and the author of the OpenBSD PF book, Jacek Artymiak (about
1.375 grunk 1378: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pf">pf(4)</a>, of course).<br>
1.304 saad 1379: At the conference's Free Software Foundation Event, Theo de Raadt was
1380: awarded the Free Software Award 2004 for his efforts to make Firmware for
1381: wireless hardware and other devices freely available.
1382: <p>
1.301 saad 1383: <li><strong><a name=UKUUG05></a>
1384: <a href="http://www.ukuug.org/events/winter2005/">UKUUG LISA/Winter Conference</a></strong>,
1385: Feb 24 - 25, 2005, Birmingham, UK.<br>
1386: Henning Brauer spoke on OpenBGPD, OpenNTPD and Signal Handlers.
1387: <p>
1388: <li><strong><a name=FFG2005></a>
1389: <a href="http://www.guug.de/veranstaltungen/ffg2005/">GUUG FFG 2005</a></strong>,
1390: Feb 22 - 25, 2005, Munich, Germany.<br>
1391: Reyk Flöter talked about the latest wireless support in
1392: OpenBSD at the annual spring meeting of the <a href="http://www.guug.de/">German Unix User Group</a>.
1393: <p>
1.293 saad 1394: <li><strong><a name=Paris2005></a>
1395: <a href="http://www.solutionslinux.fr/fr/index.php">Solutions Linux 2005</a></strong>,
1396: Feb 1 - 3, 2005, Paris, France.<br>
1397: An OpenBSD booth as well as an OpenSSH booth were present. These booths
1398: were run by Marc Espie, Miod Vallat, Saad Kadhi and Wim with help from
1399: Guillaume Arcas and Christophe Plasschaert, two members of the OpenBSD
1.294 saad 1400: french translation team.<br>
1401: Marc Espie and Saad Kadhi gave a talk about the OpenBSD project with a
1402: special focus on the ports collection and Packet Filter. The <a
1403: href="papers/sl2005/index.html">slides</a> (in French) are
1404: available.<br>
1405: During the event, several demonstrations of <a
1.293 saad 1406: href="http://soekris.kd85.com/">Soekris</a> machines running OpenBSD
1407: were given by Saad Kadhi and Wim.
1408: <p>
1.296 mcbride 1409: </ul>
1.293 saad 1410:
1.296 mcbride 1411: <h3>2004</h3>
1412:
1413: <ul>
1.287 henning 1414: <li><strong><a name=21C3></a>
1415: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/2004/">21C3 - Chaos Communication Congress</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 1416: Dec 27 - 29, 2004, Berlin, Germany.<br>
1.287 henning 1417: "The Usual Suspects" were there and ran the BSD corner, including
1418: <a href="mailto:wim@kd85.com">Wim</a>,
1419: Henning Brauer, Marc Balmer, Martin Reindl, Moritz Jodeit, Felix Kronlage,
1.315 nick 1420: Uwe Stuehler, Konrad Foerstner, Bernd Ahlers, and Alexander von Gernler.<br>
1.287 henning 1421: Henning gave a talk about OpenBGPD and OpenNTPD
1422: (<a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/21c3/">slides</a>).<br>
1423: The WiFi backbone ran on OpenBSD powered
1424: <a href="http://soekris.kd85.com">Soekris</a> machines as access points,
1425: work done by Reyk Flöter, Tim Kornau and others.
1426: This installation was a very successful test of the new
1.290 henning 1427: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ath">ath(4)</a>
1.287 henning 1428: driver.
1429: <p>
1.248 deraadt 1430:
1.286 kevlo 1431: <li><strong><a name=icos2004></a>
1.417 kevlo 1432: <a href="http://2004.icos.org.tw/">ICOS 2004</a></strong>,
1.286 kevlo 1433: Dec 18 - 19, 2004, Taipei, Taiwan.<br>
1434: Kevin Lo gave a presentation.
1435: <p>
1436:
1.285 deraadt 1437: <li><strong><a name=syscan2004></a>
1438: <a href="http://www.syscan.org/">SyScAN 2004</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 1439: Dec 16 - 17, 2004, Singapore, Singapore.<br>
1.285 deraadt 1440: Theo de Raadt presented his talk about
1441: <a href="papers/auug04">Exploit Mitigation Techniques</a>.
1442: <p>
1443:
1.283 saad 1444: <li><strong><a name=sur200412></a>
1445: <a href="http://www.ossir.org/sur/calendrier/index.shtml">SUR Group Meeting, December 2004</a></strong>,
1446: Dec 14, 2004, Paris, France.<br>
1447: Saad Kadhi gave a talk about OpenBSD and security during the monthly
1448: meeting of the
1449: <a href="http://www.ossir.org/sur/index.shtml">SUR</a> Group (Sécurité
1450: Unix et Réseaux), a french user group focusing on security and Unix. The
1.284 xsa 1451: <a href="papers/surgroup200412/index.html">slides</a> (in French) are available.
1.283 saad 1452: <p>
1453:
1.282 henning 1454: <li><strong><a name=opencon2004></a>
1455: <a href="http://www.opencon.org/">OpenCon 2004</a></strong>,
1456: Dec 10 - 12, 2004, Venice, Italy.<br>
1457: OpenBSD meeting in Northern Italy. Henning gave 3 talks in
1458: two days, on bgpd
1459: (<a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/opencon04/bgpd/">slides</a>),
1460: ntpd
1461: (<a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/opencon04/ntpd/">slides</a>)
1462: and signal handlers
1463: (<a href="papers/opencon04/">slides</a>).
1464: Wim ran a booth, and Marc Balmer was there as well.
1465: <p>
1466:
1.275 deraadt 1467: <li><strong><a name=UofA></a>
1468: <a href="http://www.ualberta.ca/">U of A Seminar</a></strong>,
1469: Nov 17 - 18, 2004, Edmonton Alberta.<br>
1470: Theo de Raadt presented a talk at an open seminar at the
1471: <a href="http://www.ualberta.ca/">University of Alberta</a>, in
1472: Room B-02 of the
1473: <a href="http://www.campusmap.ualberta.ca/map_bldg.cfm?bldg_id=42">
1474: Computing Sciences Center</a>.
1475: Talk went from 2 PM to nearly 5PM with more than 100 people attending
1476: from the University and industry, followed by beer nearby.
1477: The talk was also given the following day at the
1478: <a href="http://www.cips.ca/">CIPS Security SIG</a> luncheon.
1479: <p>
1480:
1.271 henning 1481: <li><strong><a name=EuroBSDCon2004></a>
1482: <a href="http://2004.eurobsdcon.org/">EuroBSD Con</a></strong>,
1483: Oct 29 - 31, 2004, Karlsruhe, Germany.<br>
1.272 henning 1484: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
1485: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
1.271 henning 1486: Henning gave a talk
1.375 grunk 1487: about <a href="http://2004.eurobsdcon.org/talks.html?&tx_ptspeechupload_pi1[showUid]=44&cHash=ec015b0552">bgpd</a>,
1.272 henning 1488: <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/euroBSDCon2004/">slides</a> are available.
1.271 henning 1489: <p>
1490:
1491: <li><strong><a name=LinuxWorldExpoGermany2004></a>
1492: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.de/">Linux World Expo</a></strong>,
1493: Oct 26 - 28, 2004, Frankfurt, Germany.<br>
1.272 henning 1494: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
1495: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
1.271 henning 1496: <p>
1497:
1.276 deraadt 1498: <li><strong><a name=cuug2004></a>
1.270 deraadt 1499: <a href="http://www.cuug.ab.ca/">Calgary Unix Users's Group</a></strong>,
1500: Oct 26, 2004, Calgary, Canada.<br>
1501: Theo presented the talk that he has recently given in Australia and
1502: Malaysia to the "Home Crowd".
1503: <p>
1504:
1505: <li><strong><a name=aldil2004></a>
1.269 krw 1506: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/">Les Journées Du Logiciel Libre 2004</a></strong>,
1507: Oct 22 - 23, 2004, Lyon, France.<br>
1.381 aanriot 1508: There was OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Miod Vallat with the help of
1.415 aanriot 1509: Alexandre Anriot and Thierry Thomas.
1.269 krw 1510: <p>
1511:
1512: <li><strong><a name=systems2004></a>
1513: <a href="http://www.systems.de/">Systems</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 1514: Oct 18 - 22, 2004, Munich, Germany.<br>
1.269 krw 1515: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
1516: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
1517: <p>
1518:
1.268 krw 1519: <li><strong><a name=linuxexpo2004oct></a>
1520: <a href="http://www.linuxexpo.org.uk/">Linux Expo</a></strong>,
1521: Oct 6 - 7, 2004, London, UK.<br>
1522: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
1523: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
1524: <p>
1525:
1.375 grunk 1526: <li><strong><a name=hitb2004></a>
1.268 krw 1527: <a href="http://conference.hackinthebox.org">Hack in the Box Security Conference 2004</a></strong>,
1528: Oct 4 - 7, 2004, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.<br>
1529: Theo de Raadt presented an updated version of his
1530: "Exploit Mitigation Techniques" talk.
1531: <p>
1532:
1533: <li><strong><a name=SANE2004></a>
1534: <a href="http://www.nluug.nl/events/sane2004/bazaar.html">SANE 2004</a></strong>
1.410 wvdputte 1535: , Sep 29, 2004, Amsterdam, Netherlands.<br>
1.268 krw 1536: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
1537: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
1538: <p>
1539:
1.265 wvdputte 1540: <li><strong><a name=LinuxKongress2004></a>
1541: <a href="http://www.linux-kongress.org/2004">Linux Kongress 2004</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 1542: Sep 7 - 10, 2004, Erlangen, Germany.<br>
1.265 wvdputte 1543: From their website: "Linux-Kongress is still the premier event for European
1544: developers and one of the most important in the world. Each year hundreds of
1545: hard core Linux enthusiasts from all over the world gather for this important
1546: event."
1547: <br>
1548: Although this was a Linux developers' conference, we were able to
1549: install a regular OpenBSD booth there, as known from other events.
1550: It was run by <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim Vandeputte</a>,
1551: <a href="mailto:grunk@pestilenz.org">Alexander von Gernler</a> and other
1552: geeks from the Erlangen-Nuremberg area.
1553: <br>
1554: There also was a BSD dinner at Friday evening.
1555: <p>
1556:
1.262 henning 1557: <li><strong><a name=Sucon2004></a>
1558: <a href="http://www.suug.ch/sucon/04/">SUCON 2004</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 1559: Sep 2 - 4, 2004, Zurich, Switzerland.<br>
1.262 henning 1560: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth. Very nice conference.
1561: Henning's slides from his talks about
1562: <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/sucon04/bgpd">bgpd</a> and
1563: <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/sucon04/ntpd">ntpd</a>
1564: are available.
1565: <p>
1566:
1.261 deraadt 1567: <li><strong><a name=auug2004></a>
1.266 jolan 1568: <a href="http://www.auug.org.au/events/2004/auug2004/">AUUG 2004</a></strong>,
1.261 deraadt 1569: Aug 29 - Sep 3, 2004, Melbourne, Australia.<br>
1570: Theo de Raadt presented a half-day tutorial on privilege seperation and a
1571: newly extended version of the
1572: <a href="papers/auug04">Exploit Mitigation Techniques</a> talk.<br>
1573: For more information, see this
1574: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;517187222;fp;16;fpid;0">
1575: ComputerWorld article</a>.
1576: <p>
1577:
1578:
1.680 aanriot 1579: <li><strong><a name=lsm2004></a>
1.257 saad 1580: <a href="http://lsm.abul.org">Libre Software Meeting</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 1581: Jul 6 - 10, 2004, Bordeaux, France.<br>
1.257 saad 1582: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
1583: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim Vandeputte</a>.
1584: <p>
1585:
1586: <li><strong><a name=LinuxTag2004></a>
1587: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.org">LinuxTag 2004</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 1588: Jun 23 - 26, 2004, Karlsruhe, Germany.<br>
1.257 saad 1589: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
1590: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim Vandeputte</a>.
1591: <p>
1592:
1.254 xsa 1593: <li><strong><a name=LinuxwochenVienna2004></a>
1.255 xsa 1594: <a href="http://www.linuxwochen.at/">Linuxwochen Vienna 2004</a></strong>,
1.254 xsa 1595: May 26 - 29, 2004, Vienna, Austria.<br>
1596: The Linuxwochen 2004 tour stopped in the MuseumsQuartier, Vienna.
1597: Wim Vandeputte and Reinhard Sammer ran the OpenBSD booth. Michael Bauer
1598: and Teemu Schaabl from the <a href="http://www.cngw.org/">CNGW</a> gave
1599: a basic talk about pf.
1600: <p>
1601:
1.248 deraadt 1602: <li><strong><a name=BSDCan2004></a>
1.303 mcbride 1603: <a href="http://www.bsdcan.org/2004/">BSDCan 2004</a></strong>,
1.248 deraadt 1604: May 13 - 16, 2004, Ottawa, Canada.<br>
1605: BSDCan was held at the University of Ottawa. Ryan McBride gave a talk
1.302 mcbride 1606: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/papers/bsdcan04-pf/index.html">about newer features in pf</a>,
1607: focusing on the redundancy provided by CARP and pfsync.
1608: Theo de Raadt presented a revised version of his talk on
1.248 deraadt 1609: <a href="papers/bsdcan04">Exploit Mitigation Techniques</a>.
1610: <p>
1611:
1.247 canacar 1612: <li><strong><a name="LOSFAnkara2004"></a>
1613: <a href="http://senlik.linux.org.tr">3rd Linux and Open Source Festival</a></strong>,
1614: May 13 - 16, 2004, Ankara, Turkey.<br>
1615: Can E. Acar and Berk D. Demir talked about the OpenBSD Project. The
1616: philosophy, project goals, system features and recent proactive
1617: security features were introduced. CARP, patents, recent Apache &
1618: XFree86 licensing issues and effects of NDAs in open source
1619: projects were discussed.<br>
1620: You can view the
1.720 canacar 1621: <a href="http://purl.org/net/bddemir/talk/2004/LOYS-OpenBSD-cea-bdd.pdf">
1.247 canacar 1622: slides in PDF format</a> the
1.720 canacar 1623: <a href="http://purl.org/net/bddemir/talk/2004/LOYS-OpenBSD-cea-bdd.tex">
1.247 canacar 1624: LaTeX source</a> is also available (they are
1625: <a href="http://www.eee.metu.edu.tr/~canacar/slides/">mirrored</a>, as well).
1626: <p>
1627:
1.242 henning 1628: <li><strong><a name=Brussels2004></a>
1629: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/">FOSDEM Brussels 2004</a></strong>,
1630: Feb 21 - 22, 2004, Brussels, Belgium.<br>
1.243 henning 1631: An OpenBSD/OpenSSH booth was present, run by Wim Vandeputte.
1632: Several developers (including Henning Brauer, Xavier Santolaria, Thierry Deval,
1633: Philipp Bühler, Otto Moerbeek and Saad Kadhi) showed up.
1634: Wim and Alexander von Gernler gave "lightning talks" about Soekris
1635: and systrace
1.263 saad 1636: (<a href="http://pestilenz.org/~grunk/vortraege/2004/FOSDEM/systrace.pdf">slides</a>), respectively.
1.243 henning 1637: Henning got a slot in the main track to talk about the new bgpd
1638: (<a href="http://www.2suck.net/papers/fosdem2004/">slides</a>).
1639: On Saturday evening, the traditional OpenBSD dinner took place.
1.242 henning 1640: <p>
1641:
1.240 espie 1642: <li><strong><a name=Paris2004></a>
1643: <a href="http://www.linuxsolutions.fr/">Linux Expo Paris 2004</a></strong>,
1644: Feb 3 - 5, 2004, Paris, France.<br>
1645: An OpenBSD booth as well as an OpenSSH booth were present, thanks to
1646: <a href="mailto:saad@docisland.org">Saad Kadhi</a> and
1647: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
1648: <p>
1649:
1650: <li><strong><a name="LWE04"></a>
1651: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/linuxworldny/V40/index.cvn">LinuxWorld
1652: Conference and Expo</a></strong>, Jan 20 - 23, 2004, New York, NY, USA.<br>
1.397 grunk 1653: <a href="mailto:wes@openlysecure.org">Wes Sonnenreich</a> and others
1.240 espie 1654: have established a BSD user group in NYC and held a BSD BoF at the
1655: Jacob Javits Center on January 22nd at 5:45pm, Room 1E15.
1656: <p>
1657: </ul>
1658:
1.188 henning 1659: <h3>2003</h3>
1.236 jose 1660:
1661: <ul>
1.232 jose 1662: <li><strong><a name=20c3></a>
1663: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/2003/">20th Chaos Communication Congress 2003</a></strong>,
1664: Dec 27 - 29, 2003, Berlin, Germany.<br>
1665: OpenBSD was represented by a booth, ran by
1666: <a href= "mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>, and supported by Henning and
1.236 jose 1667: Alexander von Gernler. Alexander also gave a
1.260 saad 1668: <a href="http://pestilenz.org/~grunk/vortraege/2003/20C3/openbsd.pdf">talk</a>
1.232 jose 1669: introducing the project and the OS (in German).
1.236 jose 1670: <p>
1.232 jose 1671:
1.228 jose 1672: <li><strong><a name=brazil2003></a>
1.236 jose 1673: <a href="http://bsdcon.myfreebsd.com.br">1st BSDCon Brazil</a></strong>,
1.228 jose 1674: Dec 6 - 7, 2003. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.<br>
1675: This was the first BSDCon Brazil, and of course OpenBSD was present.
1.236 jose 1676: Douglas Santos spoke on advocacy and about some of the technical aspects
1677: of OpenBSD. Eduardo A. Alvarenga gave a presentation about firewalling
1.228 jose 1678: with OpenBSD PF.
1679: <p>
1680:
1681: <li><strong><a name=ankara03></a>
1.720 canacar 1682: <a href="http://seminer.linux.org.tr">Turkish Linux Users Association</a></strong>,
1.228 jose 1683: Dec 4, 2003, Ankara, Turkey.<br>
1.720 canacar 1684: Can E. Acar and Berk D. Demir gave a mammoth 4 hour presentation on OpenBSD.
1.228 jose 1685: The first part was a broad introduction to the OpenBSD philosophy, the
1.236 jose 1686: project goals, and system features. After a break, in the second part they
1687: talked about the exploit mitigation techniques employed in OpenBSD. This
1688: part was aimed at techies and is almost a complete Turkish translation of
1689: the talk Theo recently gave in Japan. You can view the
1.720 canacar 1690: <a href="http://purl.org/net/bddemir/talk/2003/LS-OpenBSD-cea-bdd.pdf">
1.236 jose 1691: slides in PDF format </a>
1692: (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 1693: <p>
1694:
1.227 jose 1695: <li><strong><a name=Luxembourg2003></a>
1696: <a href="http://www.linuxday.lu/">Linuxday Luxembourg 2003</a></strong>,
1697: Nov 6 - 8, 2003, Luxembourg, Luxembourg.<br>
1698: Booths were present, organized by <a href= "mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
1699: <p>
1700:
1701: <li><strong><a name=Pacsec2003></a>
1702: <a href="http://pacsec.jp/">Pacsec 2003</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 1703: Nov 6 - 7, 2003, Tokyo, Japan.<br>
1.236 jose 1704: Three OpenBSD developers presented on various topics. Theo de Raadt
1.227 jose 1705: gave a presentation on Exploit Mitigation Techniques
1.236 jose 1706: <a href="papers/pacsec03/e/index.html">(English)</a>
1707: <a href="papers/pacsec03/j/index.html">(Japanese)</a>, Jun-ichiro
1.227 jose 1708: itojun Hagino presented material covering
1.236 jose 1709: <a href="http://www.itojun.org/paper/itojun-200311-pacsec-jp/">
1.241 david 1710: IPv6 security considerations</a>, and Jose Nazario discussed advances
1.227 jose 1711: in Internet worm defenses.
1712: <p>
1713:
1.224 miod 1714: <li><strong><a name=Lyon2003></a>
1715: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/agenda/journees/2003/">Les V<sup>èmes</sup> Journées du Libre 2003</a></strong>,
1716: Oct 31 - Nov 1, 2003, Lyon, France.<br>
1717: Miod Vallat gave a talk about the recent security efforts deployed in OpenBSD,
1718: as well as generic security concepts (slides, in bad French, are available in
1719: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/agenda/journees/2003/vallat/miod.mgp">mgp
1720: format</a>). As usual, Wim ran an OpenBSD booth featuring the new 3.4 release,
1721: as well as <a href="http://soekris.kd85.com">Soekris</a> hardware running
1722: OpenBSD.
1723: <p>
1724:
1725: <li><strong><a name=Saarbrucken2003></a>
1726: <a href="http://www.linux-kongress.org/2003/index.html">Linux Kongress Saarbrücken 2003</a></strong>,
1727: Oct 14 - 16, 2003, Saarbrücken, Germany.<br>
1728: An OpenBSD booth was present, starring Wim again.
1729: <p>
1730:
1731: <li><strong><a name=London2003></a>
1732: <a href="http://www.linuxexpo.org.uk/">Linux Expo London 2003</a></strong>,
1733: Oct 8 - 9, 2003, London, UK.<br>
1734: An OpenBSD booth was present, starring Wim as usual.
1735: <p>
1736:
1.219 jose 1737: <li><strong><a name=bsdcon2003></a>
1738: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/bsdcon03/">BSDCon '03</a></strong>,
1739: Sep 8 - 12, 2003, San Mateo, California.<br>
1.236 jose 1740: OpenBSD was represented in the BSD Status Report, and David Rosenthal
1.219 jose 1741: gave a talk on an OpenBSD based security appliance.
1742: <p>
1743:
1.218 jose 1744: <li><strong><a name=sucon2003></a>
1745: <a href="http://www.sucon.ch/">SUCON '03</a></strong>,
1746: Sep 5, 2003. Zurich, Switzerland.<br>
1.236 jose 1747: Daniel Hartmeier talked about PF, and <a
1.218 jose 1748: href="http://open.bsdcow.net/events/sucon2003/">pictures are available</a>.
1749: <p>
1750:
1.214 henning 1751: <li><strong><a name=camp2003></a>
1752: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/camp/">Chaos Communication Camp 2003</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 1753: Aug 7 - 10, 2003, in <a href="http://www.paulshof.de/body-mehr.html">a field</a> near Berlin Germany.<br>
1.214 henning 1754: There was a huge OpenBSD village. Several OpenBSD developers have been there.
1755: <p>
1756:
1.213 jose 1757: <li><strong><a name=sec2003></a>
1758: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/sec03/">Usenix Security</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1759: Aug 4 - 8, 2003, Washington, DC, USA.<br>
1.236 jose 1760: Niels Provos presented two papers on security advances originally
1.213 jose 1761: developed for OpenBSD, including the OpenSSH privsep feature and systrace.
1762: Several OpenBSD developers were there.
1763: <p>
1764:
1.211 jose 1765: <li><strong><a name=linuxtag2003></a>
1766: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.org/2003/en/index.html">LinuxTag 2003</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 1767: Jul 10 - 13, 2003, Karlsruhe Convention Center Germany.<br>
1.211 jose 1768: Both OpenBSD and OpenSSH had booths in the main exhibit.
1769: <p>
1770:
1771: <li><strong><a name=lsm2003></a>
1772: <a href="http://libresoftwaremeeting.org/">Libre Software Meeting 2003</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 1773: Jul 9 - 12, 2003, Metz, France.<br>
1.212 matthieu 1774: Matthieu Herrb gave <a href="papers/xf86-sec.pdf">a talk about XFree86 security</a>. There was
1.211 jose 1775: also an OpenBSD booth with developers.
1776: <p>
1777:
1.209 wvdputte 1778: <li><strong><a name=lud2003></a>
1779: <a href="http://www.linuxuserexpo.com/">Linux User & Developer Expo 2003</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 1780: Jun 24 - 26, 2003, at the NEC in Birmingham UK.<br>
1.209 wvdputte 1781: There was an OpenBSD booth with developers.
1782: <p>
1.195 deraadt 1783:
1.202 jason 1784: <li><strong><a name=usenix2003></a>
1.236 jose 1785: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix03/">Usenix Annual Technical
1.216 jose 1786: Conference</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 1787: Jun 9 - 14, 2003, San Antonio, Texas, USA.<br>
1.202 jason 1788: A few OpenBSD developers were there and one paper was presented:
1789: <ul>
1.216 jose 1790: <li>The Design of the OpenBSD Cryptographic Framework<br>
1.202 jason 1791: <a href="events.html#usenix2003">Usenix 2003</a>, by
1.236 jose 1792: Angelos D. Keromytis,
1793: Jason L. Wright, and
1.205 deraadt 1794: Theo de Raadt.<br>
1.202 jason 1795: <a href="papers/ocf.pdf">paper</a>.
1796: </ul>
1797: <p>
1798:
1.216 jose 1799: <li><strong>
1800: <a href="http://www.webb.it/">Webbit 2003</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 1801: May 9 - 11, 2003, Padova, Italy.<br>
1.203 jason 1802: Giacomo Cariello and Wim Vandeputte attended, and several OpenBSD
1.661 martynas 1803: <a href="http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20030503101052">related talks</a> were given.
1.203 jason 1804: <p>
1805:
1.216 jose 1806: <li><strong>
1807: <a href="http://cansecwest.com/">CanSecWest 03</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 1808: Apr 9 - 11, 2003, Vancouver, Canada.<br>
1.195 deraadt 1809: Theo spoke about killing buffer overflows using ProPolice and the new W^X technology,
1.196 matthieu 1810: available as a <a href="papers/csw03.mgp">magicpoint file</a>.
1.195 deraadt 1811: <p>
1812:
1.216 jose 1813: <li><strong>
1814: <a href="http://www.cebit.de/">CeBIT 2003</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 1815: Mar 14, 2003, Hannover, Germany.<br>
1.236 jose 1816: 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 1817: gave a talk on OpenBSD and OpenSSH. <a href="papers/cebit2003.tgz">slides</a> are available.
1.194 henning 1818: <p>
1819:
1.216 jose 1820: <li><strong>
1821: <a href="http://www.linuxforum.dk/2003/english/">LinuxForum 2003</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 1822: Mar 1, 2003, Copenhagen, Denmark.<br>
1.236 jose 1823: Daniel spoke about PF (slides in <a href="papers/linuxforum2k3.tar.gz">mgp</a>,
1824: <a href="http://www.benzedrine.cx/linuxforum/">HTML</a>).
1.191 dhartmei 1825: It was a small but cozy conference, jointly held by Danish Linux and BSD
1826: user groups.
1827: <p>
1828:
1.236 jose 1829: <li><strong>
1830: <a href="http://www.cuug.ab.ca">CUUG - The Calgary Unix Users
1.216 jose 1831: Group</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 1832: Feb 25, 2003, 18:00 MST, Calgary, Canada.<br>
1.190 miod 1833: OpenBSD lead developer Theo de Raadt spoke about some of the recent
1834: changes in OpenBSD that are leading the way to the complete elimination of
1835: "buffer overflow" security risks and attacks.
1836: <p>
1837:
1.216 jose 1838: <li><strong>
1839: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/">FOSDEM 2003</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 1840: Feb 8 - 9, 2003, Brussels, Belgium.<br>
1.236 jose 1841: Henning and Philipp gave a talk on -current PF developments
1.196 matthieu 1842: (<a href="papers/fosdem2k3-pf.mgp">slides</a>)
1.187 henning 1843: and on Saturday evening, there was an OpenBSD dinner for those interested.
1844: <p>
1845:
1.216 jose 1846: <li><strong>
1847: <a href="http://linuxsolutions.fr/FR/home/index.php?site=default">Linux Solutions</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 1848: Feb 4 - 6, 2003, CNIT - Paris La Défense, France.<br>
1.185 miod 1849: There was an OpenBSD booth with several OpenBSD developers, as well as 3.2 OpenBSD
1.413 grunk 1850: CD sets and T-shirts.
1.185 miod 1851: <p>
1.236 jose 1852: </ul>
1.185 miod 1853:
1.161 millert 1854: <h3>2002</h3>
1.236 jose 1855:
1856: <ul>
1857: <li><strong>
1858: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/2002/">19c3: the 19th CCC
1.216 jose 1859: Congress</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 1860: Dec 27 - 29, 2002, Berlin, Germany.<br>
1.236 jose 1861: There was a huge <a href="http://www.eurobsd.org/19c3">reserved space</a> for
1862: OpenBSD users and developers, a couple of -current test systems and for those
1.413 grunk 1863: curious, a first look at the 3.2 OpenBSD T-shirts.
1.184 wvdputte 1864: <p>
1.177 jason 1865:
1.216 jose 1866: <li><strong>
1867: <a href="http://2002.eurobsdcon.org/">BSDCon Europe 2002</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 1868: Nov 15 - 17, 2002, Amsterdam, Netherlands.<br>
1.181 henning 1869: OpenBSD people were there;
1.236 jose 1870: Philipp Bühler and Henning Brauer spoke about
1.182 ian 1871: <a href="papers/tuning-openbsd.ps">
1872: network performance tuning on OpenBSD</a>,
1.236 jose 1873: and Ian Darwin presented a
1.182 ian 1874: <a href="papers/eurobsd-firewalls-2002.pdf">
1875: tutorial on OpenBSD servers/firewalls</a>.
1.179 pb 1876: <p>
1.178 pb 1877:
1.216 jose 1878: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1879: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa02/">LISA '02: 16th Systems
1.216 jose 1880: Administration Conference</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 1881: Nov 3 - 8, 2002, Philadelphia, USA.<br>
1.177 jason 1882: Mickey and Jason manned the booth at the vendor expo (the only BSD
1883: represented) and sold <a href="32.html">3.2</a> CDs, and Jason gave a BoF
1884: session on <a href="32.html">3.2</a> and future.
1885: <p>
1886:
1.216 jose 1887: <li><strong>
1.264 djm 1888: <a href="http://www.auug.org.au/events/2002/auug2002/">Australian Unix Users
1889: Group Winter Conference</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 1890: Sep 1 - 6, 2002, Melbourne Australia.<br>
1.264 djm 1891: Damien Miller presented a tutorial on the
1892: <a href="papers/auug2002-ssh/index.html">SSH protocol</a> and
1893: <a href="papers/auug2002-ssh.ps">OpenSSH tips and tricks</a>.
1894: <p>
1895:
1896: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 1897: <a href="http://lsm.abul.org">The 3rd Libre Software Meeting</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 1898: Jul 9 - 13, 2002, Bordeaux, France.<br>
1.172 miod 1899: Several OpenBSD developers and users were attending the meeting, and
1900: Niels Provos presented his
1901: <a href="http://www.citi.umich.edu/u/provos/systrace">systrace</a>
1902: system call policy management tool.
1.174 nick 1903: <p>
1.172 miod 1904:
1.216 jose 1905: <li><strong>
1906: <a href="http://www.Webb.it">Webb.it 02</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 1907: Jul 5 - 7, 2002, Padova, Italy.<br>
1.171 ian 1908: OpenBSD developers had a booth selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
1909: <p>
1910:
1.216 jose 1911: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1912: <a href="http://www.softwarelivre.rs.gov.br/forum">The Annual International
1.216 jose 1913: Free Software Forum</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 1914: May 2 - 4, 2002, Porto Alegre-RS, Brazil.<br>
1.236 jose 1915: Mainly a Linux/GNU event, but this year the BSD Operating Systems
1916: had a chance to prove their value.
1.169 horacio 1917: Edson Brandi spoke on FreeBSD, Diego Linke
1.236 jose 1918: on NetBSD, and Ricardo Nascimento Ferreira on OpenBSD.
1.169 horacio 1919: <p>
1.168 miod 1920:
1.216 jose 1921: <li><strong>
1922: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/bsdcon02/">BSDCON 2002</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 1923: Feb 11 - 14, 2002, San Francisco, California, USA.<br>
1.161 millert 1924: Todd Miller gave an update on current OpenBSD status and participated in a
1.162 millert 1925: BSD panel discussion. The <a href="slides/bsdcon_2002/index.html">slides</a>
1926: are available.
1.161 millert 1927: <p>
1928:
1.216 jose 1929: <li><strong>
1930: <a href="http://www.linuxexpoparis.com">Linux expo Paris 2002</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 1931: Jan 30 - Feb 1, 2002, Paris, France.<br>
1.163 miod 1932: The french Linux Expo 2002 was quite small and as usual the OpenBSD booth ended
1933: up with others on the expo's side. On the first day, almost all the merchandise
1934: was sold, and we have even sold older versions (2.9) the following days to
1935: people who wouldn't leave without a cd set in their hands...
1936: <p>
1937:
1.216 jose 1938: <li><strong>
1939: <a href="http://musess.mcmaster.ca/">MUSESS 2002</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 1940: Jan 25 - 26, 2002, McMaster University, Ontario, Canada.<br>
1.164 millert 1941: Louis Bertrand gave a presentation on OpenBSD titled
1942: <strong>Fix The Bugs, Secure The System</strong>.
1943: The <a href="slides/musess_2002/index.html">slides</a> are available.
1944: <p>
1.236 jose 1945: </ul>
1.164 millert 1946:
1.152 jakob 1947: <h3>2001</h3>
1948:
1.236 jose 1949: <ul>
1.216 jose 1950: <li><strong>
1951: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa01/">USENIX LISA 2001</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 1952: Dec 2 - 7, 2001, San Diego, California, USA.<br>
1.160 jufi 1953: Niels Provos gave a presentation, and there's been a booth selling
1.413 grunk 1954: T-shirts and 3.0 CDs.
1.160 jufi 1955: <p>
1956:
1.216 jose 1957: <li><strong>
1958: <a href="http://www.ietf.org/meetings/IETF-52.html">52nd IETF</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 1959: Dec 9 - 14, 2001, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA.<br>
1.160 jufi 1960: Angelos, Itojun & Jakob were there.
1961: <p>
1962:
1.158 deraadt 1963: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1964: <a href="http://www.disc2000.unam.mx/disc/index-ing.html">DISC
1.216 jose 1965: 2001</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 1966: Nov 26 - 29, 2001, Mexico City, Mexico.<br>
1.158 deraadt 1967: Once again, Theo de Raadt explained the security auditing process and
1968: subsequent secure configuration choices made in OpenBSD, in a talk
1969: entitled "Updated thoughts on writing a secure Operating System".
1970: <p>
1971:
1.216 jose 1972: <li><strong>
1973: <a href="http://www.linux.org.hk">LinuxCafe</a></strong>,
1974: Sep 15, 2001, Hong Kong, China<br>
1.156 provos 1975: Shell Hung gave an introduction for BSD and demonstration of OpenBSD to HKLUG.
1976: <p>
1977:
1.201 deraadt 1978: <li><strong>VPN Bakeoff</strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 1979: Aug 13 - 18, 2001, Finland.<br>
1.156 provos 1980: Jakob and Itojun were there.
1981: <p>
1.158 deraadt 1982:
1.150 wvdputte 1983: <li><strong>
1.215 nick 1984: <a href="http://www.hal2001.org">HAL 2001</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 1985: Aug 10 - 12, 2001, Twente, Netherlands.<br>
1.153 jufi 1986: Quite a lot of developers were there, we even had our own tent.
1987: Niels, Rees and Dugsong held talks, more info on the main website
1988: for HAL2001. And of course T-Shirts and CDROMs were sold.
1.150 wvdputte 1989: <p>
1.137 aaron 1990:
1991: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1992: <a href="http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon/">O'Reilly Open Source
1.216 jose 1993: Conference</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 1994: Jul 23 - 27, 2001, San Diego, California, USA.<br>
1.148 brian 1995: OpenBSD had a booth selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
1996: Ian Darwin presented his "Firewalls and Secure Internet Servers
1997: with OpenBSD" tutorial.
1998: <p>
1999:
2000: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 2001: <a href="http://www.defcon.org">DEF CON Nine</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 2002: Jul 13 - 15, 2001 Las Vegas, USA.<br>
1.148 brian 2003: OpenBSD developers and users make it a point to attend every year,
2004: and had a table selling CD's, shirts, etc.
2005: <p>
2006:
2007: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2008: <a href="http://www.sek.co.kr/sek2001/sek_html/main.htm">Software
1.216 jose 2009: Exhibition of Korea</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 2010: Jun 26 - 29, 2001, Seoul, Korea.<br>
1.146 krw 2011: urisecure/NDS sponsored an OpenBSD booth with CD's, posters,
2012: and a live demo of OpenBSD's IPSEC hardware acceleration.
2013: <p>
2014:
2015: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2016: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix01/">2001 USENIX Annual
1.216 jose 2017: Technical Conference</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 2018: Jun 25 - 30, 2001, Boston, USA.<br>
1.146 krw 2019: OpenBSD developers were there, selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
2020: <p>
2021:
2022: <li><strong>
1.143 dugsong 2023: <a href="http://www.olymfair.org/eng/workshop.htm">Information
1.201 deraadt 2024: Security OlymFair</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 2025: May 16 - 18, 2001, Seoul, Korea.<br>
1.143 dugsong 2026: Dug Song gave a detailed introduction to OpenBSD to the Korean
2027: security community.
2028: <p>
2029:
2030: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2031: <a href="http://www.osdem.org/">2001 Open Source and Free Software
1.216 jose 2032: Developers' Meeting</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 2033: Feb 3 - 4, 2001, Brussels, Belgium.<br>
1.137 aaron 2034: There was an OpenBSD booth with some loose talks made.
2035: <p>
2036:
2037: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 2038: <a href="http://www.linuxexpoparis.com/">2001 Linux Expo</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 2039: Feb 1 - 2, 2001, Paris, France.<br>
1.236 jose 2040: There was an OpenBSD booth in the 'F' area.
1.137 aaron 2041: <p>
1.236 jose 2042: </ul>
1.137 aaron 2043:
1.132 louis 2044: <h3>2000</h3>
2045:
1.236 jose 2046: <ul>
1.132 louis 2047: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2048: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa2000/">LISA 2000, USENIX
1.216 jose 2049: Systems Administration Conference</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 2050: Dec 3 - 8, 2000, New Orleans, USA.<br>
1.134 jufi 2051: Wim Vandeputte and other volunteers have been running a sales table with
2052: shirts, posters and the brand new 2.8 CDs.
2053: <p>
2054:
2055: <li><strong>
1.215 nick 2056: <a href="http://www.disc2000.unam.mx/disc/index-ing.html">DISC 2000</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 2057: Nov 26 - Dec 1, 2000, Mexico City, Mexico.<br>
1.133 deraadt 2058: Theo de Raadt explained the security auditing process and subsequent secure
2059: configuration choices made in OpenBSD, in a talk entitled "Secure by Default".
2060: Over the next few days, he also participated in two panels with various security
2061: experts who had flown in from around the world. Following this, Theo climbed
1.151 jsyn 2062: one of the largest volcanoes, called Malinche.
1.133 deraadt 2063: <p>
2064:
2065: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2066: <a href="http://www.nluug.nl/events/nj2000">NLUUG Najaarsconferentie
1.216 jose 2067: 2000</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 2068: Nov 9, 2000, Ede, Netherlands.<br>
1.236 jose 2069: There was an OpenBSD booth where people dropped by for information or to
1.413 grunk 2070: get their T-shirts, polos, caps and 2.7 CDs.
1.13 deraadt 2071: <p>
1.4 millert 2072:
1.132 louis 2073: <li><strong><a name=ipsec2000></a>
1.236 jose 2074: <a href="http://www.upperside.fr/baipsecy2k.htm">IPsec 2000 Global
1.216 jose 2075: Summit</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 2076: Oct 24 - 27, 2000, Paris La Defense, France.<br>
1.159 miod 2077: Niels Provos ended the conference by speaking about the IPsec architecture
1.132 louis 2078: in OpenBSD. The talk was well received and many people were very interested
2079: about our cryptographic hardware acceleration.
2080:
2081: <ul>
1.236 jose 2082: <li>The IPsec Architecture in OpenBSD<br>
1.215 nick 2083: <a href="#ipsec2000">IPsec 2000 Global Summit</a> by Niels Provos.<br>
1.132 louis 2084: <a href="papers/ipsec-slides.ps">slides</a>.
2085: </ul>
1.4 millert 2086: <p>
1.132 louis 2087:
1.7 deraadt 2088: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 2089: <a href="http://ApacheCon.Com/2000/EU/">ApacheCon Europa 2000</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 2090: Oct 23 - 25, 2000, London, UK.<br>
1.132 louis 2091: There was an OpenBSD booth where people could drop by for information and
2092: a chat with the local OpenBSD personnel. We also had the essentials for
1.413 grunk 2093: your wardrobe (T-shirts, polos, caps), for your hardware (2.7 CDs) and for your
1.132 louis 2094: mind (drinks afterwards).
2095: <p>
2096:
1.216 jose 2097: <li><strong>
2098: <a href="http://www.bsdcon.com/">BSD Con 2000</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 2099: Oct 18 - 20, 2000, Monterey, CA, USA.<br>
1.132 louis 2100: David Terrell ran an OpenBSD booth selling T-shirts and CDs and answering
2101: questions.
1.32 deraadt 2102: <p>
1.1 deraadt 2103:
1.132 louis 2104: <li><strong><a name=opensource2000></a>
1.236 jose 2105: <a href="http://www.opensource-forum.com/konferens">The Open Source
1.216 jose 2106: Revolution</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 2107: Oct 5, 2000, Stockholm, Sweden.<br>
1.133 deraadt 2108: Theo de Raadt spoke about how user expectations for security out of the box
2109: have changed over the last years.
1.1 deraadt 2110: <p>
2111:
1.132 louis 2112: <li><strong><a name=sec2000></a>
1.216 jose 2113: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/sec2000/">Usenix Security</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 2114: Aug 14 - 17, 2000, Denver, Colorado, USA.<br>
1.132 louis 2115: Some OpenBSD developers were there and one paper was presented:
2116: <ul>
1.236 jose 2117: <li>Encrypting Virtual Memory<br>
1.132 louis 2118: <a href="#sec2000">Usenix Security 2000</a>
1.205 deraadt 2119: by Niels Provos.<br>
1.132 louis 2120: <a href="papers/swapencrypt.ps">paper</a> and
2121: <a href="papers/swapencrypt-slides.ps">slides</a>.
2122: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 2123: <p>
1.132 louis 2124:
1.10 provos 2125: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 2126: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-8-post.html">Defcon 2000</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 2127: Jul 28 - 30, 2000, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.<br>
1.236 jose 2128: Kjell Wooding (our IPF maintainer), James Phillips from the
1.132 louis 2129: <a href="http://www.deadly.org">OpenBSD Journal</a>, and Theo de Raadt
1.413 grunk 2130: had a table and were selling OpenBSD CDROMs, T-shirts, and posters on
1.132 louis 2131: Friday and Saturday. Hordes of people visited our table and we at the
2132: end we were completely sold out of CDROMS and shirts (allowing us to go
2133: check out Hoover Dam's hardhat tour on Sunday and leave the madness behind).
2134: <br>
2135: We were completely amazed at the people who stopped by our table, to say
2136: that they were relying on OpenBSD.
2137: <p>
1.32 deraadt 2138:
1.132 louis 2139: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2140: <a href="http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon2000/">O'Reilly Open Source
1.216 jose 2141: Conference 2000</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 2142: Jul 17 - 20, 2000, Monterey, California, USA.<br>
1.216 jose 2143: Ian Darwin presented a <a href="papers/oreilly2000/">tutorial</a> on
1.132 louis 2144: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/w/bsd_tutorials.html">
2145: Secure Internet Servers/Firewalls with OpenBSD</a>, and bravely
2146: manned the OpenBSD booth for the remainder of the show.
2147: Kjell Wooding took part in a panel discussion on the Future of the BSDs,
2148: and spoke about
2149: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/w/bsd_presentations.html">
1.241 david 2150: Secure By Default.</a> Both sessions were well attended, and at least
1.132 louis 2151: one Linux sysadmin was seen racing for a keyboard, scared look in his eyes,
1.236 jose 2152: after the security talk.
1.3 provos 2153: <p>
1.132 louis 2154:
1.6 deraadt 2155: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 2156: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.de/2000/english/">LinuxTag 2000</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 2157: Jun 29 - Jul 2, 2000, Stuttgart, Germany.<br>
1.132 louis 2158: There was a BSD booth where we had the first <a href="27.html">OpenBSD 2.7 CDs</a> for Europe
2159: and the new blue stitchwork <a href="tshirts.html#11">Blowfish Polo</a> shirt.
2160: <br>
2161: Christian Weisgerber gave a
2162: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.de/2000/english/conference/talks.php3?ID=3">talk
2163: on BSD</a>.
1.32 deraadt 2164: <p>
1.1 deraadt 2165:
1.216 jose 2166: <li><strong><a name=usenix2000></a>
1.236 jose 2167: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix2000/">Usenix Annual Technical
1.216 jose 2168: Conference.</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 2169: Jun 18 - 23, 2000, San Diego, California, USA.<br>
1.132 louis 2170: Almost 20 OpenBSD developers showed up for the 25th anniversary of Usenix.
2171: We had a vendor booth, as well as a number of papers being presented.
2172: Conference attendees had the opportunity to test drive the new release,
2173: OpenBSD 2.7, on the 30 workstations in the terminal room. For the first
2174: time ever, the terminal room and wavelan networks also had a IPv6 connection,
1.147 jason 2175: and some users even discovered so by themselves.
1.132 louis 2176: Theo also held a BoF on the Wednesday evening, after which the developers
2177: had almost too much singing in foreign languages with the help of helium.
2178: <ul>
2179:
2180: <li>Implementing Internet Key Exchange, IKE.<br>
2181: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
1.216 jose 2182: by Angelos D. Keromytis, Niklas Hallqvist.<br>
1.132 louis 2183: <a href="papers/ikepaper.ps">paper</a> and
2184: <a href="papers/ikeslides.ps">slides</a>.
2185:
2186: <li>Transparent Network Security Policy Enforcement.<br>
2187: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
1.216 jose 2188: by Angelos D. Keromytis, Jason L. Wright.<br>
1.132 louis 2189: <a href="papers/bridgepaper.ps">paper</a> and
2190: <a href="papers/bridgeslides.ps">slides</a>.
1.2 deraadt 2191:
1.132 louis 2192: <li>Safety Checking of Kernel Extensions.<br>
2193: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
1.205 deraadt 2194: by Craig Metz.
1.132 louis 2195: </ul>
1.2 deraadt 2196: <p>
2197:
1.132 louis 2198: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2199: <a href="http://www.manlug.mcc.ac.uk/calendar.html">OpenBSD: The Open
1.216 jose 2200: Source Secure Operating System</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 2201: Jun 17, 2000, 14:00. Manchester, UK.<br>
1.132 louis 2202: Sam Smith gave a rundown of features coming in OpenBSD 2.7 and
2203: OpenSSH 2.1. His <a href="http://www.manlug.mcc.ac.uk/20000617/">slides</a>
2204: are available from the user group's site.
1.1 deraadt 2205: <p>
1.2 deraadt 2206:
1.132 louis 2207: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 2208: <a href="reprints/crypto2000.html">OpenBSD Crypto 2000 conference</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 2209: Jun 15 - 20, 2000, Calgary, AB, Canada.<br>
1.132 louis 2210: Repeating the tradition of a similar meeting held last year, many
2211: OpenBSD developers from around the world converged on Calgary
2212: for a weekend long hack-and-drink session. As before, the event
2213: was invitation only. Many significant things got done, including
2214: ipv6 + ipsec running over hardware crypto devices.
1.1 deraadt 2215: <p>
1.11 jkatz 2216:
1.17 deraadt 2217: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 2218: <a href="http://www.converge2000.com">CONVERGENCE 2000</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 2219: May 18, 2000. Convention Centre, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.<br>
1.132 louis 2220: Theo de Raadt participated in a panel discussion about the pros and cons
2221: of using Open Source software in various business environments. The local
2222: users also handed out OpenSSH and OpenBSD posters, and were absolutely
2223: surprised and amazed by the number of Calgary companies quietly using
2224: OpenBSD.
1.21 pattonme 2225: <p>
1.17 deraadt 2226:
1.23 niklas 2227: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 2228: <a href="http://www.cansecwest.com/">CanSecWest</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 2229: May 10 - 12, 2000. Robson Conference Centre, Vancouver, BC, Canada.<br>
1.132 louis 2230: Theo de Raadt spoke about why programmers keep making the same stupid mistakes,
2231: what types of efforts might improve this, and how this all relates to auditing
1.375 grunk 2232: efforts.
2233: Rain Forest Puppy, Ron Gula (Network Security Wizards), Ken Williams (E&Y),
1.216 jose 2234: Marty Roesch (snort/HiverWorld), and Fyodor (nmap) were among the other speakers
1.132 louis 2235: at this event. (On a personal note: at this conference Theo realized that three
2236: leading Network Intrusion Detection System companies use OpenBSD as their
2237: base operating system: Hiverworld, Network Security Wizards, and NFR).
1.32 deraadt 2238: <p>
1.25 deraadt 2239:
1.132 louis 2240: <li><strong>
2241: <a href="http://www.zdevents.com/comdex/spring2000/">Linux Business Expo /
1.201 deraadt 2242: COMDEX Spring 2000</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 2243: Apr 19, 2000, Chicago, IL, USA.<br>
1.216 jose 2244: Louis Bertrand represented OpenBSD at a BSD BOF with FreeBSD/BDSI,
1.132 louis 2245: NetBSD and Apple (Darwin is BSD-derived). The BOF was attended by about
2246: 75 people, many of whom were new to *BSD. It was an opportunity to
2247: explore future cooperation among the various BSD groups and companies.
1.25 deraadt 2248: <p>
1.23 niklas 2249:
1.31 deraadt 2250: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2251: <a href="http://www.nordu.org/NordU2000/">NordU 2000 -- The second
1.216 jose 2252: EurOpen/USENIX Conference</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 2253: Feb 8 - 11, 2000. Malmo, Sweden.<br>
1.140 jufi 2254: About 15 OpenBSD team members attended.
1.132 louis 2255: OpenBSD CDs and shirts were sold at a booth donated by the conference.<br>
2256: As well, Theo de Raadt gave an invited talk on Wednesday morning
2257: about why software quality/security suffers, and what we can do to
2258: improve it.
1.32 deraadt 2259: <p>
1.31 deraadt 2260:
1.201 deraadt 2261: <li><strong>BSD BOF session, LinuxWorld Expo</strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 2262: Feb 3, 2000, New York, USA.<br>
1.132 louis 2263: Representatives from OpenBSD, BSDi, and FreeBSD hosted a
2264: "Birds Of a Feather" session at the <a
2265: href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/">New York LinuxWorld Expo</a>.<br>
2266: There were installation CD-ROMs, free food, and even free Daemon Horns!
1.33 niklas 2267: <p>
1.236 jose 2268: </ul>
1.33 niklas 2269:
1.132 louis 2270: <h3>1999</h3>
1.36 niklas 2271:
1.236 jose 2272: <ul>
1.216 jose 2273: <li><strong>The Bazaar</strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 2274: Dec 14 - 16, 1999, New York, New York, USA.<br>
1.132 louis 2275: Wes Sonnenreich and Tom Yates presented a tutorial on building
1.216 jose 2276: firewalls with OpenBSD. BoF of open source BSDs took place.
1.413 grunk 2277: 2.6 release CDROMs and T-shirts were sold.
1.132 louis 2278: Emphatic interest has been shown by representatives from press, international
2279: government and military institutions.
1.45 jason 2280: <p>
2281:
1.216 jose 2282: <li><strong><a name=lisa99></a>
1.236 jose 2283: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa99/">13th Systems Administration
1.216 jose 2284: Conference (LISA 99)</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 2285: Nov 7 - 12, 1999, Seattle, Washington, USA.<br>
1.132 louis 2286: Bob Beck presented a paper about the U of A's nifty OpenBSD based
2287: solution to the problem of public Ethernet jacks in the technical sessions
2288: starting at 11:00 AM on the 11th.<br>
2289: There were many other OpenBSD
2290: people at this conference as well, as well as a booth selling CDROMs and
1.413 grunk 2291: T-shirts. His paper is available at:
1.132 louis 2292:
2293: <ul>
2294: <li>Dealing with Public Ethernet Jacks-Switches, Gateways, and Authentication.<br>
1.236 jose 2295: <a href="events.html#lisa99">LISA 1999</a>,
1.206 david 2296: by Bob Beck.<br>
1.236 jose 2297: <a href="papers/authgw-paper.ps">paper</a> and
2298: <a href="papers/authgw-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 2299: </ul>
2300: <p>
2301:
2302: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 2303: IP-dagarna 1999</strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 2304: Oct 27 - 28, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden.<br>
1.132 louis 2305: Håkan Olsson & Jakob Schlyter spoke at the DNSSEC session on the 27th.
2306: <p>
2307:
2308: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2309: <a href="http://www.opensource-forum.com/konferens/">Linux & Open Source
1.216 jose 2310: Software '99</a></strong>,
2311: Oct 21, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)<br>
1.132 louis 2312: Niklas Hallqvist spoke on the topic of how to use
1.236 jose 2313: <a
1.375 grunk 2314: href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4">IPsec</a> for securing communications.
1.132 louis 2315: <p>
2316:
2317: <li><strong>
1.705 pvalchev 2318: <a href="http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference/1999">Reflections/Projections
1.216 jose 2319: 1999</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 2320: Oct 8 - 10, 1999, Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA.<br>
1.132 louis 2321: Theo de Raadt spoke at 10:00am on the 9th. Other OpenBSD
2322: developers from the east coast attended as well.
2323: <p>
2324:
1.236 jose 2325: <li><strong><a name="ipsec99"></a>
1.216 jose 2326: IPsec Interoperability tests</strong>,
2327: Sep 27 - 30, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)<br>
1.236 jose 2328: A dozen vendors, among them OpenBSD, tested more than 15
1.375 grunk 2329: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4">IPsec</a>
1.132 louis 2330: products, both gateways and hosts, for interoperability. The tests
2331: were successful as far as general IPsec and pre-shared key
2332: authentication went, OpenBSD interoperated with everyone, but due to
2333: time constraints we never got to test the certificate support
2334: appropriately. The results were presented later that fall at a
2335: conference in Stockholm.
2336: <p>
2337:
2338: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2339: <a href="http://www.auug.org.au/winter/auug99">AUUG'99</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 2340: Sep 8 - 11, 1999, Melbourne, Australia.<br>
1.132 louis 2341: Theo de Raadt gave two talks on "quality of software" related issues
2342: and participated on a panel about how open source projects are
2343: coordinated.
2344: <p>
2345:
2346: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2347: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/sec99/index.html">Usenix
1.216 jose 2348: Security</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 2349: Aug 23 - 26, 1999, Washington, DC, USA.<br>
1.132 louis 2350: Many OpenBSD people from the east coast showed up and sold CDs and
2351: shirts. It was pretty clear from discussions that many people were
2352: very aware of OpenBSD, and that OpenBSD was being used in very
2353: significant security roles.
2354: <p>
2355:
2356: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2357: <a href="http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/99jul/index.html">45th IETF
1.216 jose 2358: meeting</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 2359: Jul 12 - 16, 1999, Oslo, Norway.<br>
1.132 louis 2360: A number of OpenBSD team members from all over the world were at this
2361: conference. In addition to attending the IPsec and DNS working groups (among
2362: others) we did IPsec/IKE interoperability testing together with
1.166 miod 2363: the Japanese KAME project. Also, Angelos D. Keromytis did a presentation on
1.132 louis 2364: his work with keynote and isakmpd in OpenBSD.
2365: <p>
1.45 jason 2366:
1.132 louis 2367: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2368: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-6.html">Defcon 6.0</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 2369: Jul 9 - 11, 1999, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.<br>
1.132 louis 2370: At this conference, the OpenBSD team sold 100 or so 2.5 release CDROMs
1.413 grunk 2371: and a TON of T-shirts.
1.46 deraadt 2372: <p>
1.132 louis 2373:
1.236 jose 2374: <li><strong><a name="usenix99"></a>
2375: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix99/index.html">
1.216 jose 2376: Usenix Annual Technical Conference</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 2377: Jun 6 - 11, 1999, Monterey, California, USA.<br>
1.106 jufi 2378: The <a href="http://www.usenix.org">USENIX Association</a>
1.46 deraadt 2379: provided The OpenBSD Project with a grant to underwrite the production
1.106 jufi 2380: of CDs of OpenBSD 2.5. (We distributed the
2381: release for free to attendees of the USENIX Annual Conference in
1.46 deraadt 2382: June.)
1.132 louis 2383: <br>
1.46 deraadt 2384: Usenix team members were involved in the authoring and
1.132 louis 2385: presentation of 4 OpenBSD-related papers:
2386:
1.375 grunk 2387: <a name="anoncvs_paper"></a>
1.46 deraadt 2388: <ul>
1.66 deraadt 2389: <li>Opening the Source Repository with Anonymous CVS.<br>
1.236 jose 2390: <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216 jose 2391: by Charles D. Cranor, Theo de Raadt.<br>
1.236 jose 2392: <a href="papers/anoncvs-paper.ps">paper</a> and
2393: <a href="papers/anoncvs-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 2394: <br>
1.66 deraadt 2395: <li>A Future-Adaptable Password Scheme.<br>
1.236 jose 2396: <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216 jose 2397: by Niels Provos, David Mazieres.<br>
1.236 jose 2398: <a href="papers/bcrypt-paper.ps">paper</a> and
2399: <a href="papers/bcrypt-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 2400: <br>
1.66 deraadt 2401: <li>Cryptography in OpenBSD: An Overview.<br>
1.236 jose 2402: <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216 jose 2403: by Theo de Raadt, Niklas Hallqvist, Artur Grabowski,
2404: Angelos D. Keromytis, Niels Provos.<br>
1.236 jose 2405: <a href="papers/crypt-paper.ps">paper</a> and
2406: <a href="papers/crypt-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 2407: <br>
1.66 deraadt 2408: <li>strlcpy and strlcat -- consistent, safe, string copy and concatenation.<br>
1.236 jose 2409: <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216 jose 2410: by Todd C. Miller, Theo de Raadt.<br>
1.236 jose 2411: <a href="papers/strlcpy-paper.ps">paper</a> and
2412: <a href="papers/strlcpy-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 2413: </ul>
1.66 deraadt 2414: <p>
1.46 deraadt 2415:
1.51 deraadt 2416: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2417: <a href="http://www.linuxexpo.org">5th Annual Linux Expo</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 2418: May 18 - 22, 1999, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA.<br>
1.132 louis 2419: Some OpenBSD team members were at this conference selling OpenBSD 2.5 CDs,
2420: OpenBSE T-shirts, as well as Blowfish T-shirts, which sold out very quickly
2421: at a table donated by the Expo. OpenBSD was the only BSD represented at the
2422: vendor exposition, and we had good chance to present a secure alternative
2423: to Linux.
1.51 deraadt 2424: <p>
2425:
1.53 jakob 2426: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2427: <a href="http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/99mar/index.html">44th IETF
1.216 jose 2428: meeting</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 2429: Mar 15 - 19, 1999, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.<br>
1.132 louis 2430: Some OpenBSD team members were at this conference, in particular our
2431: IPSEC developers.
1.53 jakob 2432: <p>
2433:
1.132 louis 2434: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2435: <a href="http://www.europen.se/NordU99">NordU99 -- The first
1.216 jose 2436: EurOpen/USENIX Conference</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 2437: Feb 9 - 12, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden.<br>
1.132 louis 2438: A couple of OpenBSD team members were there and some of the swedish user
2439: society as well. OpenBSD CDs were sold at a booth and at the end of a
2440: security talk, the project got applauded for its continuous strive of auditing
2441: security sensitive parts of the system.
1.59 deraadt 2442: <p>
1.236 jose 2443: </ul>
1.59 deraadt 2444:
1.132 louis 2445: <h3>1998</h3>
1.59 deraadt 2446:
1.236 jose 2447: <ul>
1.132 louis 2448: <li><strong><a name=ipsec98></a>
1.690 nick 2449: IPsec/VPN Interoperability tests & seminar</strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 2450: Dec 14, 1998, Stockholm, Sweden.<br>
1.132 louis 2451: OpenBSD was represented as one of about a dozen
1.375 grunk 2452: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4">IPsec</a>
1.132 louis 2453: implementations who were tested for interoperability. The tests were
2454: successful, both for the technology in general, and for OpenBSD in
2455: specific. We managed to communicate encrypted with every vendor present,
2456: and to negotiate keys via IKE with everyone capable.
1.70 deraadt 2457: <p>
2458:
1.236 jose 2459: <li><strong><a name="lisaboston-98"></a>
1.690 nick 2460: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa98">LISA '98: 12th Systems Administration
1.216 jose 2461: Conference</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 2462: Dec 6 - 11, 1998, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.<br>
1.132 louis 2463: More than 10 OpenBSD team members showed up. By far, OpenBSD was the
2464: largest representative group from free software at the conference.
2465: Usenix gave us a table in the vendor area where we sold 2.4 CDROMs,
1.413 grunk 2466: 2.3 "wire-frame" T-shirts, and the new 2.4 embroidered
2467: "Because security matters..." T-shirts, polos, and sweaters.
1.132 louis 2468: An OpenBSD BOF was held one evening, led by Theo de Raadt.
2469: A PalmPilot schedule loader was at the membership booth, powered by OpenBSD.
2470: <br>
1.690 nick 2471: The terminal room ran OpenBSD 2.4 on 45 machines. Obviously trust in OpenBSD
2472: had increased since many people, normally wary of security problems of open
1.132 louis 2473: terminal rooms, were seen using the machines.
1.72 ho 2474: <p>
2475:
1.73 deraadt 2476: <li><strong>
1.690 nick 2477: <a href="http://www.disc.unam.mx/eventos_anteriores/disc98/">DISC - Seguridad en
1.217 jose 2478: Cómputo 98</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 2479: Nov 2 - 7, 1998, Mexico City, Mexico.<br>
1.132 louis 2480: Theo de Raadt gave a talk about security auditing, sponsored by
1.236 jose 2481: <a href="http://www.core-sdi.com">CORE SDI S.A.</a>, an Argentine
1.132 louis 2482: security auditing company who strongly believes in the future
1.236 jose 2483: of OpenBSD. (<a href="papers/mexico98-slides.ps">Slides are available</a>).
1.131 jufi 2484: <p>
1.73 deraadt 2485:
1.236 jose 2486: <li><strong>IP-dagarna</strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 2487: Oct 29, 30 1998, Stockholm, Sweden.<br>
1.132 louis 2488: At this conference, entirely devoted to IP, Niklas Hallqvist from the
2489: OpenBSD team held a talk on the IKE (a.k.a ISAKMP/Oakley) key management
2490: protocol and experiences from the implementation of <strong>isakmpd</strong>,
2491: an IKE implementation funded by Ericsson Radio Systems and developed
2492: primarily for the OpenBSD IPSEC stack.
1.79 deraadt 2493: <p>
1.73 deraadt 2494:
1.690 nick 2495: <li><strong>NCEE '98</strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 2496: Oct 9 - 10, 1998, Auburn, Maine, USA.<br>
1.132 louis 2497: An extensive after-action report was sent to advocacy@openbsd.org. While
1.151 jsyn 2498: sales of shirts and CDROMs left much to be desired, we did have good
1.132 louis 2499: opportunities to further project visibility and highlight its strengths.
1.80 deraadt 2500: <p>
2501:
1.93 louis 2502: <li><strong>
1.690 nick 2503: <a href="http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference/1998/">Reflections/Projections
1.216 jose 2504: 1998</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 2505: Oct 2 - 4, 1998, Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA.<br>
1.132 louis 2506: Theo de Raadt spoke in a panel about Open/Free software with Eric
2507: Raymond and others.
1.93 louis 2508: <p>
2509:
1.216 jose 2510: <li><strong>
1.690 nick 2511: <a href="http://press.oreilly.com/pub/pr/797">O'Reilly and
1.236 jose 2512: Associates Open Source Developer Days</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 2513: Aug 21, 1998, San Jose, California, USA.<br>
1.132 louis 2514: OpenBSD team members were on-hand to discuss OpenBSD's role among the
1.413 grunk 2515: other free software projects available. They also sold some CDs and T-shirts.
1.96 deraadt 2516: <p>
2517:
1.236 jose 2518: <li><strong><a name="defcon98"></a>
1.690 nick 2519: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-6/defcon-6.html">Defcon 6.0</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 2520: Jul 31 - Aug 2, 1998, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.<br>
1.132 louis 2521: The router to the outside world was an OpenBSD 2.3 box. It was involved
2522: in a "capture the flag" competition in which an entire room of crackers
2523: attempted to break into it and machines running other operating systems.
2524: The OpenBSD box was not broken into.
2525: <br>
2526: Almost 100 OpenBSD 2.3 CDROMs were sold (we ran out again). The primates
1.236 jose 2527: at <a href="http://www.monkey.org">monkey.org</a> brought 2.3
1.413 grunk 2528: "wire-frame" OpenBSD T-shirts to the conference and sold almost
1.132 louis 2529: 200 of them. The proceeds from the sales were donated to the OpenBSD project.
1.96 deraadt 2530: <p>
1.94 deraadt 2531:
1.690 nick 2532: <li><strong><a href="http://www.blackhat.com/html/bh-usa-98/bh2-index.html">BlackHat Sessions</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 2533: Jul 29 - 30, 1998, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.<br>
1.132 louis 2534: Theo de Raadt presented a talk entitled
2535: "Auditing software for security" about the OpenBSD security auditing
2536: team's process and the lessons the team learned. The talk concentrated
2537: on how our process fixes bugs -- not just holes -- since one never knows
2538: when 5 bugs will act together to become a hole.
1.99 deraadt 2539: <p>
2540:
1.236 jose 2541: <li><strong><a name="usenix-neworleans"></a>
2542: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/usenix98/index.html">Usenix Annual Technical Conference</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 2543: Jun 15 - 19, 1998, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.<br>
1.132 louis 2544: At Usenix 1998 there was a strong OpenBSD presence both in the Freenix
2545: and normal tracks. Theo did a general talk about what the OpenBSD
2546: project offers. Angelos held a panel about IPSEC (which is quite an
2547: OpenBSD topic since IPSEC development at that time was so much further
2548: ahead in OpenBSD than anywhere else).
2549: <br>
2550: The terminal room PCs ran OpenBSD 2.3. We sold many CDROMs. The
1.413 grunk 2551: first style of OpenBSD T-shirt also sold quite well.
1.101 wvdputte 2552: <p>
2553:
1.105 wvdputte 2554: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2555: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/sec98/index.html">Usenix Security</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 2556: Jan 26 - 29, 1998, San Antonio, Texas, USA.<br>
1.132 louis 2557: At this conference, Theo presented an evening talk which basically
2558: turned into a list of fixed security problems and cautionary tales about
2559: subsystems in which future problems may be encountered
1.236 jose 2560: (<a href="papers/security98-slides.ps">slides available</a>).
1.105 wvdputte 2561: <br>
1.132 louis 2562: The terminal room PCs ran OpenBSD 2.2.
2563: <p>
1.236 jose 2564: </ul>
1.105 wvdputte 2565:
1.132 louis 2566: <h3>1997</h3>
1.107 deraadt 2567:
1.236 jose 2568: <ul>
1.113 deraadt 2569: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2570: <a href="http://www.hip97.nl">HIP</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 2571: Aug, 1997, Almere, Netherlands.<br>
1.236 jose 2572: Niels held a
1.690 nick 2573: <a href="http://www.citi.umich.edu/u/provos/papers/hip97-tcpip.html">talk</a>
1.132 louis 2574: about the problems of unencrypted TCP/IP connections, offering IPSEC as
2575: possible solution.
1.113 deraadt 2576: <p>
1.132 louis 2577:
1.236 jose 2578: <li><strong>HOPE</strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 2579: Aug, 1997, New York, New York, USA.<br>
1.166 miod 2580: The terminal room consisted primarily of DECstations running
1.690 nick 2581: OpenBSD 2.1. Once again, the <a href="http://www.lopht.com/">L0phT</a>
1.132 louis 2582: people had very good things to say about our security.
1.113 deraadt 2583: <p>
1.105 wvdputte 2584:
1.236 jose 2585: <li><strong><a name="defcon5"></a>
1.690 nick 2586: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-5/defcon-5.html">Defcon V</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 2587: Jul 11 - 13, 1997, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.<br>
1.132 louis 2588: At this conference, the OpenBSD team sold 100 or so 2.1 release CDROMs.
2589: <br>
2590: Since this is the primary security conference, many speakers said very
1.140 jufi 2591: good things about our stance on security... particularly people like
1.690 nick 2592: <a href="http://www.lopht.com">the L0phT</a>.
1.118 deraadt 2593: <p>
2594:
1.125 deraadt 2595: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2596: <a
2597: href="http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/ana97/index.html">Usenix Annual Technical Conference</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 2598: Jan 6 - 10, 1997, Anaheim, California, USA.<br>
1.690 nick 2599: Theo de Raadt held a BOF ("Birds Of a Feather", i.e. a meeting of people
1.132 louis 2600: interested in the same thing) about OpenBSD.
1.236 jose 2601: </ul>
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