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1.236 jose 17: <h2><font color="#e00000">Events</font></h2>
18: OpenBSD developers, users and sponsors attend trade shows and conferences,
19: give papers, and organize "Birds Of a Feather" (BOF) sessions.
20: This is an opportunity to find out more about OpenBSD or just meet
1.165 ian 21: like-minded people.
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1.78 louis 39: <h2>Future events:</h2>
1.132 louis 40:
1.715 jdixon 41: <h3>2008</h3>
42:
43: <ul>
44: <p>
1.716 wvdputte 45: <li><strong><a name="Paris2008"></a>
46: <a href="http://www.solutionslinux.fr/fr/index.php">Solutions Linux 2008</a>
47: </strong>,
48: Jan 29 - 31, 2008, Paris, France.<br>
49: There will be an OpenBSD booth (for real this year) run by Marc Espie, Saad
50: Kadhi and Wim with help from many others.
51: <p>
1.715 jdixon 52:
53: <li><strong><a name="scale6x"></a>
54: <a href="http://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale6x/">Southern California Linux
55: Expo 6x</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 56: Feb 8 - 10, 2008, Los Angeles, California, USA.<br>
1.715 jdixon 57: Jason Dixon will be presenting an overview of the high-availability
58: and failover capabilities found natively in OpenBSD. There will be an
59: OpenBSD booth with live demonstrations and CDs for sale.
60: <p>
61:
1.727 wvdputte 62: <li><strong><a name=Brussels2008></a>
63: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/2008/">FOSDEM Brussels 2008</a></strong>,
64: Feb 23 - 24, 2008, Brussels, Belgium.<br>
65: There will be an OpenBSD/OpenSSH booth and a Dev room, so we are still
1.731 wvdputte 66: looking for speakers. Please <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">mail Wim</a>.
67: There is also an exam for <a href=http://www.bsdcertification.org/>BSD
68: certification</a>.<br>
1.727 wvdputte 69: On Saturday we will have our traditional BSD dinner.
1.718 wvdputte 70: <p>
1.727 wvdputte 71:
1.718 wvdputte 72: <li><strong><a name="vj08"></a>
73: <a href="http://www.nluug.nl/events/vj08">NLUUG spring conference 2008</a>
74: </strong>,
75: May 15, 2008, Ede, Netherlands.<br>
1.727 wvdputte 76: There will be an OpenBSD booth. As this years topic is security, we should
77: have at least one <a href= http://www.nluug.nl/events/vj08/CfP-NL.html>talk</a>
78: submitted.
79: <p>
80:
81: <li><strong><a name="linuxtag2008"></a>
82: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.org/2008/en/">LinuxTag 2008</a>
83: </strong>,
84: May 28 - 31, 2008, Berlin, Germany.<br>
1.733 ! tobias 85: There will be plenty of OpenBSD activity (talks & booth).
1.718 wvdputte 86: <p>
87:
1.727 wvdputte 88: <li><strong><a name="lsm2008"></a>
89: <a href="http://www.rmll.info">Libre Software Meeting 2008</a></strong>,
1.730 miod 90: Jul 1 - 5, 2008, Mont de Marsan, France.<br>
1.727 wvdputte 91: There will be an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth.
92: <p>
93:
94: <li><strong><a name="froscon2008"></a>
95: <a href="http://www.froscon.de">FrOSCon 2008</a></strong>,
96: Aug 23 - 24, 2008, Bonn/Rhein-Sieg, Germany.<br>
97: There will be an OpenBSD booth, run by the usual suspects.
98: <p>
99:
1.731 wvdputte 100: <li><strong><a name="opensourcedays2008"></a>
101: <a href="http://www.opensourcedays.org/2008/">Open Source Days 2008</a></strong>,
102: Oct 3 - 4, 2008, Copenhagen, Denmark.<br>
103: There will be an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth.
104: <p>
105:
1.727 wvdputte 106: <li><strong><a name="t-dose2008"></a>
107: <a href="http://www.t-dose.org/">T-DOSE 2008</a></strong>,
108: Oct ? - ?, 2008, Eindhoven, The Netherlands.<br>
109: Technical Dutch Open Source Event.<br>
110: There will be developers present as well as an OpenBSD booth,
111: run by the usual suspects.
112: <p>
113:
1.732 wvdputte 114: <li><strong><a name=linuxworlduk2008></a>
115: <a href="http://www.confabb.com/conferences/53504-linuxworld-expo-uk">LinuxWorld Expo UK 2008</a></strong>,
116: <!--http://www.linuxworldexpo.co.uk/-->
117: Oct ? - ?, 2008, Olympia, London, UK.<br>
118: <p>
119:
1.727 wvdputte 120: <li><strong><a name="eurobsdcon2008"></a>
121: <a href="http://www.eurobsdcon.org/">EuroBSDCon 2008</a></strong>,
122: Nov 2008, France.<br>
123: <p>
124:
125: <li><strong><a name="opencon2008"></a>
126: <a href="http://www.opencon.org/">OpenCON 2008</a></strong>
127: First weekend of Dec, 2008.<br>
128: <p>
129:
130: <li><strong><a name=25c3></a>
131: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/">25C3 Chaos Communication Congress in
132: Berlin</a></strong>,
133: End of December, 2008, Berlin, Germany.<br>
1.715 jdixon 134: </ul>
1.727 wvdputte 135: <p>
1.719 wvdputte 136: <hr>
137:
138: <h2>Past events:</h2>
139:
1.588 espie 140: <h3>2007</h3>
141: <ul>
1.603 fkr 142:
1.731 wvdputte 143: <li><strong><a name=24c3></a>
144: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/2007/">24C3 Chaos Communication Congress in
145: Berlin</a></strong>,
146: December 27 - 30, 2007, Berlin, Germany.<br>
147: The motto was Volldampf voraus! (literally Full Steam Ahead).
148: <p>
149:
1.726 merdely 150: <li><strong><a name="capbug200712"></a>
151: <a href="http://capbug.org/">Capital Area BSD User Group</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 152: Dec 17, 2007, Columbia, Maryland, USA.<br>
1.726 merdely 153: Michael Erdely presented <a href="papers/capbug200712/index.html">OpenBSD
154: Ports Tutorial: Advanced Topics</a>.
155: [<a href="http://talks.metabug.org/20071218_capbug_640x480.mp4">slides
156: w/audio</a>]
157: <p>
158:
1.721 jsg 159: <li><strong><a name="opencon2007"></a>
160: <a href="http://www.opencon.org/">OpenCON 2007</a></strong>
161: Nov 30 - Dec 2, 2007, Venice, Italy.<br>
162: OpenCON is the only conference dedicated solely to OpenBSD.
163: This edition was composed of one "tutorial day" and two days of conference.
164: Three days entirely dedicated to OpenBSD with a lot of developers and users.
1.722 jsg 165: Talks by OpenBSD developers were:
166: <p>
167: <ul>
168: <li>Jonathan Gray: <a href="papers/opencon07-complex/index.html">
169: Why are modern operating systems so complicated?</a>
1.724 jasper 170: <li>Mark Kettenis: <a href="papers/opencon07-sparc64.pdf">
171: OpenBSD/sparc64</a>.
1.723 jasper 172: <li>Reiner Jung and Jasper Lievisse Adriaanse: <a href="papers/opencon07-gnome.pdf">
1.724 jasper 173: Gnome as OpenBSD desktop solution</a>.
1.725 bernd 174: <li>Bernd Ahlers: <a href="papers/opencon07-portstutorial/index.html">
175: OpenBSD Ports Tutorial</a>.
1.722 jsg 176: </ul>
1.721 jsg 177: <p>
178:
1.716 wvdputte 179: <li><strong><a name="dulug2007"></a>
1.719 wvdputte 180: <a href="http://www.dulug.de/">Duisburger Linux User Group</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 181: Nov 17, 2007, Duisburg, Germany.<br>
1.719 wvdputte 182: Richard Verwayen gave a workshop on installing OpenBSD,
1.727 wvdputte 183: [<a href="http://www.dulug.de/cgi-bin/dcms.cgi?action=lit-17.11.07">pictures</a>].
1.716 wvdputte 184: <p>
185:
186: <li><strong><a name="essen2007"></a>
187: <a href="http://www.come2linux.org/psp/">Come 2 Linux 2007 Essen</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 188: Nov 10 - 11, 2007, Essen, Germany.<br>
189: The *BSD projects had an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth.
1.716 wvdputte 190: <p>
191:
192: <li><strong><a name="nluug2007"></a>
193: <a href="http://www.nluug25.nl/en/index.php">NLUUG 25th anniversary</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 194: Nov 7, 2007, Amsterdam, Netherlands.<br>
1.716 wvdputte 195: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth with Wim, Otto, Floor and Kevin.
196: <p>
1.658 reyk 197:
1.714 jasper 198: <li><strong><a name="amsterdam2007"></a>
199: <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 200: Nov 2, 2007, Amsterdam, Netherlands.<br>
1.728 wvdputte 201: Informal OpenBSD user meeting in Amsterdam, more info on Undeadly.org. [<a href=
202: http://brobding.mine.nu/Brobding.mine.nu/Albums/Pages/OpenBSD_4.2.html>pictures
203: </a>]
1.714 jasper 204: <p>
205:
1.713 wvdputte 206: <li><strong><a name="uaoug2007"></a>
207: <a href="http://www.uaoug.org.ua/en/index.html">Ukrainian OpenBSD Users Group meeting</a></strong>,
208: Nov 1, 2007, Kyiv, Ukraine<br>
209: Sergey Prysiazhnyi, community co-ordinator, gave a talk about Driver
210: Architecture and OpenBSD using in Embedded Systems.
211: <a href= "http://www.atmnis.com/~apelsin/uaoug/u2k7_v3.0/talk/">[slides]</a>
212: <a href= "http://www.atmnis.com/~apelsin/uaoug/u2k7_v3.0/">[pictures]</a>
213: <a href= "http://www.atmnis.com/~apelsin/uaoug/u2k7_v3.0/video/talk.mp4">[video]</a>
214: <p>
215:
1.712 sthen 216: <li><strong><a name="cossfest2007"></a>
217: <a href="http://www.cossfest.ca/">COSSFEST 2007</a></strong>,
218: Oct 27, 2007, Calgary, Alberta,<br>
219: There was an OpenBSD booth present with 4.2 CDs.
220: <p>
221:
222: <li><strong><a name="systems2007"></a>
223: <a href="http://www.systems.de/">Systems</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 224: Oct 23 - 26, 2007, Munich, Germany.<br>
1.712 sthen 225: The *BSD projects had an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth in Halle B2 110-2, run by
226: DaN, Nikolay Sturm, Marco Pfatschbacher and some other volunteers.
227: <p>
228:
229: <li><strong><a name="bsdcontr2007"></a>
230: <a href="http://www.bsdcontr.org/">BSDConTR 2007</a></strong>
231: Oct 19 - 20, 2007, Rectorate of Marmara University, SultanAhmet, Istanbul,
232: Turkey.<br>
233: First Turkish Conference on BSD Systems.<br>
234: Marc Balmer talked about his work on support for radio clocks in
235: OpenBSD.<br>
236: Gökhan Alkan gave a talk "Spam protection with OpenBSD and PF".<br>
237: Huzeyfe Önal gave a talk "Advanced Security solutions in OpenBSD".
238: <br>
239: <p>
240:
1.708 aanriot 241: <li><strong><a name=aldil2007></a>
242: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/">Les Journées Du Logiciel Libre
243: 2007</a></strong>,
244: Oct 19 - 20, 2007, Lyon, France.<br>
245: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Damien Bergamini and
246: Alexandre Anriot with the help of Thierry Thomas.
247: <p>
248:
1.705 pvalchev 249: <li><strong><a name=rp2007></a>
250: <a href="http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference/2007/">Reflections/Projections
251: 2007</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 252: Oct 12 - 14, 2007, Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA.<br>
1.705 pvalchev 253: Peter Valchev gave a talk titled <a href="papers/rp2007-slides.pdf">
254: Using OpenBSD Security Features to Find Software Bugs</a>.
255: <p>
256:
257: <li><strong><a name=auug2007></a>
258: <a href="http://new.auug.org.au/AUUG2007">AUUG 2007</a></strong>,
259: Oct 13 - 14, 2007, Melbourne, Australia.<br>
260: Reyk Floeter talked about load balancing and TCP-relaying with hoststated.
261: There were developers, users, and an OpenBSD booth present.
262: <p>
263:
264: <li><strong><a name="t-dose2007"></a>
265: <a href="http://www.t-dose.org/">T-DOSE 2007</a></strong>,
266: Oct 13 - 14, 2007, Eindhoven, The Netherlands.<br>
1.727 wvdputte 267: Technical Dutch Open Source Event.<br>
1.705 pvalchev 268: There were developers present as well as an OpenBSD booth,
269: run by the usual suspects.
270: <p>
271:
1.689 claudio 272: <li><strong><a name="openexpo2007"></a>
273: <a href="http://www.openexpo.ch/">OpenExpo 2007</a></strong>,
274: Sep 19 - 20, 2007, Zurich, Switzerland<br>
275: There were developers present as well as an OpenBSD booth,
276: run by the usual suspects. Stephan A. Rickauer gave a talk
277: "OpenBSD and Linux: Insights into a migration project at the Institute of
278: Neuroinformatics, ETH Zurich".<br>
279: <p>
280:
1.686 mbalmer 281: <li><strong><a name="eurobsdcon2007"></a>
282: <a href="http://2007.eurobsdcon.org/">EuroBSDCon 2007</a></strong>,
283: Sep 14 - 15, 2007, Copenhagen, Denmark.<br>
284: Marc Balmer gave a talk <a href="papers/eurobsdcon07/mbalmer-radio_clocks.pdf">
285: Support for Radio Clocks in OpenBSD</a>.<br>
1.702 pyr 286: Pierre-Yves Ritschard gave a talk <a href="papers/eurobsdcon07/pyr-loadbalancing">Load Balancing in OpenBSD Using hoststated</a>.<br>
1.688 claudio 287: Claudio Jeker gave a talk <a href="papers/eurobsdcon07/claudio-routing">
288: Using OpenBSD as Routing Platform</a>.<br>
1.686 mbalmer 289: Peter Hansteen offered "A Packet Filter Tutorial" on the tutorial day.<br>
290: There was an OpenBSD booth, run by the usual suspects.
291: <p>
292:
1.685 bernd 293: <li><strong><a name="linuxdayskiel2007"></a>
294: <a href="http://www.kieler-linuxtage.de">Kieler Linux und Open Source Tage</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 295: Sep 07 - 08, 2007, Kiel, Germany.<br>
1.685 bernd 296: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Bernd.
297: <p>
298:
1.686 mbalmer 299: <li><strong><a name="xds2007"></a>
300: <a href="http://www.x.org/wiki/Events/XDS2007">X.Org Developers' Summit 2007</a></strong>,
301: Sep 10 - 12, 2007, Cambridge, UK.<br>
302: Matthieu Herrb and Marc Balmer attended the 3-day summit to make sure the
303: *BSD point of view was well represented.
304: <p>
305:
1.684 bernd 306: <li><strong><a name="froscon2007"></a>
307: <a href="http://www.froscon.de">FrOSCon 2007</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 308: Aug 25 - 26, 2007, Bonn/Rhein-Sieg, Germany.<br>
1.684 bernd 309: There was an OpenBSD booth, run by the usual suspects.
310: <p>
311:
1.682 bernd 312: <li><strong><a name="summercamp2007"></a>
313: <a href="http://events.ccc.de/camp/2007">Chaos Communication Camp 2007</a>
314: </strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 315: Aug 8 - 12, 2007, Finowfurt, Germany.<br>
1.682 bernd 316: This open air event had a big OpenBSD village with all the usual suspects.
317: <p>
318:
1.680 aanriot 319: <li><strong><a name="lsm2007"></a>
320: <a href="http://www.rmll.info">Libre Software Meeting 2007</a></strong>,
321: Jul 10 - 14, 2007, Amiens, France.<br>
1.681 aanriot 322: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Wim, Matthieu and
323: Alexandre with the help of Serge and Christelle.
1.680 aanriot 324: <p>
325:
1.675 mbalmer 326: <li><strong><a name=Slackathon2007></a>
327: <a href="http://www.slackathon.se/">Slackathon 2007</a>
328: </strong>,
329: June 16, 2007, Stockholm, Sweden.<br>
330: Yet another round of fund raising for OpenBSD/SSH and general *BSD meeting
331: that took place in Stockholm.
332: <p>
333:
334: <li><strong><a name="linuxtag2007"></a>
335: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.org/2007/en/">LinuxTag 2007</a>
336: </strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 337: May 30 - Jun 2, 2007, Berlin, Germany.<br>
1.675 mbalmer 338: There were presentations by OpenBSD developers and an OpenBSD booth,
1.677 wvdputte 339: run by the usual suspects, and Stephan A. Rickauer held Peter Hansteen's PF
340: tutorial as well as the talk
341: <a href="http://www.ini.unizh.ch/~stephan/talks/LinuxTag07.pdf">
342: "OpenBSD and Linux: Insights into a migration project at the Institute of
343: Neuroinformatics, ETH Zurich"</a>.
1.675 mbalmer 344: <p>
345:
1.674 martin 346: <li><strong><a name=LinuxwochenVienna2007></a>
347: <a href="http://www.linuxwochen.at/2007/Wien">Linuxwochen Vienna 2007</a>
348: </strong>,
349: May 31 - Jun 2, 2007, Vienna, Austria.<br>
350: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth run by Martin Reindl, Robert Peichaer
351: and Teemu Schaabl.
352: <p>
353:
1.671 aanriot 354: <li><strong><a name=cuug2007></a>
355: <a href="http://www.cuug.ab.ca/">Calgary Unix Users Group</a></strong>,
356: May 29, 2007, downtown Library, basement meeting room, Calgary, Alberta.<br>
1.688 claudio 357: <a href="papers/cuug07-claudio/">Claudio Jeker</a>,
358: <a href="papers/cuug2007/">David Gwynne, Henning Brauer</a>,
1.673 mbalmer 359: Reyk Flöter, Matthieu Herrb, Marc Balmer, and Bob Beck discussed recent and
360: future networking changes in OpenBSD, as well as Xenocara, support for
361: radio clocks in OpenBSD, and Spam Reduction with OpenBSD spamd and greylisting.
1.672 henning 362: Some other OpenBSD developers attended to provide international colour.
1.671 aanriot 363: <p>
364:
1.670 ray 365: <li><strong><a name="bsdcan2007"></a>
366: <a href="http://www.bsdcan.org/2007/">BSDCan 2007</a></strong>,
367: May 16 - 19, 2007, Ottawa, Canada.<br>
368: Several OpenBSD developers were there.<br>
369: Peter Hansteen gave a "Packet filtering for fun and profit" tutorial and
370: presented a "Fighting malware and spam with free tools" talk.<br>
371: Ray Lai presented OpenCVS/OpenRCS and
372: discussed why a secure CVS implementation is needed.
373: <a href="papers/bsdcan07-cvs/">Slides</a> are available.<br>
374: Jason Dixon gave the closing session of BSDCan 2007.
375: <p>
376:
1.669 fkr 377: <li><strong><a name="confidence2007"></a>
378: <a href="http://2007.confidence.org.pl/">Confidence 2007</a></strong>,
379: May 12 - 13, 2007, Krakow, Poland.<br>
380: Felix, Henning and Wim gave presentations and ran the OpenBSD booth.
381: <p>
382:
1.666 michele 383: <li><strong><a name="obsdm2"></a>
384: <a href="http://www.openbeer.it/?open=obsdm2">OpenBSD Meeting V.2</a></strong>
385: May 12, 2007, Verona, Italy.<br>
386: Another event organized by the OpenBEER team with italian OpenBSD related talks.
387: Michele presented a talk about the OpenBSD network stack.
388: <p>
389:
390: <li><strong><a name="nluug2007"></a>
391: <a href="http://www.nluug.nl/events/vj07/index.html">NLUUG Voorjaarsconferentie
392: 2007</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 393: May 10, 2007, Ede, Netherlands.<br>
1.666 michele 394: There was a
395: <a href="http://www.nluug.nl/events/vj07/abstracts/ab.html?id=2">presentation</a>
396: by Anil Madhavapeddy and an OpenBSD booth, run by the usual
397: suspects.
398: <p>
399:
1.665 mbalmer 400: <li><strong><a name="coimbra2007"></a>
401: <a href="http://www.openbsd-pt.com/eventos/coimbra07/index-en.html">Portuguese OpenBSD Usergroup Meeting</a></strong>,
402: May 5 - 6, 2007, Coimbra, Portugal.<br>
403: 7th Meeting of the Portuguese OpenBSD Usergroup.<br>
404: Marc Balmer gave a talk "Ensuring Quality in OpenBSD Without a Formal Process".<br>
405: Rui Reis gave a presentation "The Honeynet.PT project".<br>
1.667 pedro 406: Michael Shalayeff gave a talk "Asynchronous I/O".<br>
407: Also present was Pedro Martelletto.
1.665 mbalmer 408: <p>
409:
1.658 reyk 410: <li><strong><a name=decix6th></a>
411: <a href="http://www.de-cix.org/">DE-CIX 6th Technical Meeting</a></strong>,
412: Apr 19, 2007, Schloss Kransberg, near Usingen, Germany.<br>
413: Henning Brauer and Reyk Flöter talked at the 6th technical
414: meeting of the Deutsche Commercial Internet Exchange (DE-CIX).
415: Henning gave an update on OpenBGPD and Reyk about the latest
416: network-related changes since OpenBSD 4.1. They also talked about
417: the status of test OpenBGPD route server running at the DE-CIX.
418: <p>
419:
1.651 fkr 420: <li><strong><a name="litol07"></a>
421: <a href="http://www.lit-ol.de/">2. Linux-Informationstag Oldenburg</a></strong>,
422: Apr 14 - 15, 2007, Oldenburg, Germany.<br>
423: Small Open-Source event. Of course there was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth run by
1.659 fkr 424: Bernd, Felix and Tobias Stoeckmann. Felix gave a talk about the current state
425: of OpenBSD development titled <a href="papers/litol07/">OpenBSD - Past, Present and Future</a>.
1.651 fkr 426: <p>
1.650 deraadt 427:
428: <li><strong><a name="fisl8"></a>
429: <a href="http://fisl.softwarelivre.org/8.0/www/?q=en">fisl8.0</a></strong>,
430: Apr 12-14, 2007, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil.<br>
431: This was a fairly large conference in South America. Theo de Raadt
432: presented a talk about <a href="papers/brhard2007/">Hardware Documentation</a>.
433: <p>
434:
1.645 ray 435: <li><strong><a name="nycbug2007-cvs"></a>
436: <a href="http://nycbug.org/">NYC*BUG April 2007</a></strong>,
437: Apr 4, 2007, NYC, USA.<br>
438: Ray Lai (ray@) gave a
439: <a href="http://www.nycbug.org/index.php?NAV=Home;SUBM=10104">talk</a>
440: on OpenCVS.
1.648 ray 441: <a href="papers/nycbug07-cvs/">Slides</a> and
442: <a href="http://www.fetissov.org/public/nycbug/nycbug-04-04-07.mp3">audio</a>
443: are available.
1.645 ray 444: <p>
445:
1.638 grunk 446: <li><strong><a name="elite2007"></a>
447: <a href="http://www.erlug.de/?q=node/323">5. Erlanger Linuxtage</a></strong>,
448: Mar 24 - 25, 2007, Erlangen, Germany.<br>
449: There was an OpenBSD/OpenSSH booth, run by Alexander von Gernler (grunk@).
450: He also gave a talk called
1.639 grunk 451: <a href="papers/elite2007/elite2007-openbsd.pdf">
1.638 grunk 452: "Sichere Systeme mit OpenBSD" (german)</a>.
453: <p>
454:
1.635 tom 455: <li><strong><a name="ukuug2007"></a>
456: <a href="http://www.ukuug.org/events/spring2007/">UKUUG Spring 2007 Conference</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 457: Mar 19 - 21, 2007, Manchester, United Kingdom.<br>
1.635 tom 458: Tom Cosgrove gave a presentation about "Third-Party Applications on OpenBSD"
459: at the annual spring meeting of the
460: <a href="http://www.ukuug.org/">UK's Unix and Open Systems User Group</a>.
461: <p>
462:
1.627 mcbride 463: <li><strong><a name="asiabsdcon2007"></a>
464: <a href="http://www.asiabsdcon.org/">AsiaBSDCon 2007</a></strong>,
465: Mar 8 - 11, 2007, Tokyo, Japan.<br>
1.631 mbalmer 466: Marc Balmer presented a paper <a href="papers/radio-clocks-asiabsdcon07.pdf">Supporting Radio Clocks in OpenBSD</a>. Presentation
467: <a href="papers/asiabsdcon07-radioclocks/index.html">slides</a> are also
468: available.<br>
1.627 mcbride 469: 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 470: Mathieu Sauve-Frankel gave a talk <a href="papers/asiabsdcon07-ipsec/index.html">Recent Improvements in OpenBSD's IPSec Support</a>.<br>
471: Damien Miller presented a paper <a href="papers/openssh-measures-asiabsdcon2007.pdf">Security measures in OpenSSH</a>. Presentation
1.628 djm 472: <a href="papers/openssh-measures-asiabsdcon2007-slides.pdf">slides</a> are
473: also available.<br>
1.627 mcbride 474: 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".
475: <p>
476:
1.622 fkr 477: <li><strong><a name="linuxforum2007"></a>
478: <a href="http://www.linuxforum.dk/2007/">LinuxForum 2007</a></strong>,
479: Mar 2 - 3, 2007, Copenhagen, Denmark.<br>
1.623 wvdputte 480: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth run by Wim, Bernd and Michael in the
1.633 tom 481: <a href="http://img.ba-net.org/LinuxForum2007/">best of circumstances</a>.
1.622 fkr 482: Felix gave a talk titled
483: <a href="papers/linuxforum07/index.html">OpenBSD - Past, Present and Future</a>.
484: <p>
485:
1.619 wvdputte 486: <li><strong><a name=Brussels2007></a>
487: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/2007/">FOSDEM Brussels 2007</a></strong>,
488: Feb 24 - 25, 2007, Brussels, Belgium.<br>
1.727 wvdputte 489: There was an OpenBSD/OpenSSH booth with Matthieu, Marc, Mickey, Saad
1.619 wvdputte 490: and Wim. On Saturday we had our traditional BSD dinner.<br>
491: Matthieu gave a <a href="papers/fosdem07-xenocara.pdf">
492: talk on Xenocara</a> in the X.Org devroom.
493: <p>
1.616 wvdputte 494:
495: <li><strong><a name="kiberpipa2007"></a>
496: <a href="http://pot.kiberpipa.org">Kiberpipa open sessions</a></strong>,
497: February 20, 2007, Ljubljana, Slovenia.<br>
498: On that edition of weekly "Open sessions" meetings
499: <a href="http://www.kerberos.si">Mitja Muzenic</a> gave a
500: <a href="http://pot.kiberpipa.org/?p=39">talk</a> on OpenBSD.
1.619 wvdputte 501: <a href="http://www.kerberos.si/papers/Kiberpipa07/">Slides</a> (in Slovenian),
502: <a href="http://video.kiberpipa.org/media/POT_OpenBSD">video</a> (in Slovenian),
1.616 wvdputte 503: and <a href="http://gallery.kerberos.si/kiberpipa07/">photos</a> are available.
504: <p>
505:
506: </ul>
507:
1.445 martin 508: <h3>2006</h3>
1.236 jose 509: <ul>
1.537 deraadt 510:
1.588 espie 511: <li><strong><a name="23c3"></a>
1.577 mbalmer 512: <a href="https://events.ccc.de/congress/2006/">23C3 Chaos Communication Congress in
513: Berlin</a></strong>,
514: December 27 - 30, 2006, Berlin, Germany.<br>
1.597 mbalmer 515: Who can you trust? Well, us. OpenBSD was there, of course, for our annual
1.595 reyk 516: closing event. fkr, grunk, jsg, mbalmer, mickey, sturm, uwe, martin,
1.598 bernd 517: henning, moritz, bernd and wvdputte were there
1.597 mbalmer 518: there to chat with attendees and discuss OpenBSD stuff. It was - as usual -
519: a great end-of-the-year event. See you in Berlin again end of 2007.
1.577 mbalmer 520: <p>
521:
1.594 mbalmer 522: <li><strong><a name="moscow2006"></a>
523: <a href="https://kd85.com/">Moscow OpenBSD user meeting</a></strong>,
524: December 8 - 9, 2006, Moscow, Russia.<br>
1.633 tom 525: For details, please email <a href="mailto:grange@opensd.org">Grange</a>
1.594 mbalmer 526: <p>
527:
1.515 tom 528: <li><strong><a name="opencon2006"></a>
529: <a href="http://www.opencon.org/">OpenCON 2006</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 530: 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 531: OpenCON is the only conference dedicated solely to OpenBSD.
1.587 deraadt 532: 135 people were registered for the event, but since it was a completely open event is likely that
533: even more people just walked in.
1.577 mbalmer 534: Most talks were by OpenBSD developers, but there was also an impressive
1.568 mbalmer 535: number of our developers just attending the conference. Talks by OpenBSD
1.577 mbalmer 536: developers were:
1.568 mbalmer 537: <p>
1.535 deraadt 538: <ul>
1.581 claudio 539: <li>Claudio Jeker: <a href="papers/opencon06-network/index.html">
540: Network stack changes in OpenBSD</a>
1.580 deraadt 541: <li>Marc Balmer: <a href="papers/opencon06-nmea/index.html">
542: Support for Time Signal Station Receivers and GPS in OpenBSD</a>
1.601 fkr 543: <li>Felix Kronlage: <a href="papers/opencon06-umts/index.html">Redundancy or mobile deployment with 3G technology</a>
1.584 jsg 544: <li>Jonathan Gray: <a href="papers/opencon06-drivers/index.html">
545: Driver architecture and implementation in OpenBSD</a>
1.543 mbalmer 546: <li>Gordon Klok: <i>Processor Power Management</i>
1.596 dlg 547: <li>David Gwynne: <a href="papers/opencon06-culture.pdf">The OpenBSD
548: Culture</a> and he also filled in for Marco's
549: <a href="papers/opencon06-bio.pdf">Bio and Sensors in OpenBSD</a> talk.
1.582 michele 550: <li>Michele Marchetto: <a href="papers/opencon06-ripd/index.html">
551: OpenRIPD</a>
1.574 mbalmer 552: <li>Reyk Floeter: <i>IPsec demystified</i>
1.580 deraadt 553: <li>Theo de Raadt: <a href="papers/opencon06-docs">
554: Why hardware documentation matters so much and why it is so hard to get</a>
1.535 deraadt 555: </ul>
1.502 mbalmer 556: <p>
1.577 mbalmer 557: Also present were jcs, krw, mglocker, robert, wvdputte, martin, grunk,
558: dhartmei, aanriot, sturm, and bernd. Of course there was an OpenBSD booth
559: run by the usual suspects and you could buy our CD-ROMS, the audio CD and other
1.568 mbalmer 560: stuff.
561: <p>
1.502 mbalmer 562:
1.575 reyk 563: <li><strong><a name=opensourcetag2006></a>
564: <a href="http://www.opensourcetag.de/2006/">OpenSourceTag 2006</a></strong>,
565: Nov 30, 2006, Hannover, Germany.<br>
566: Reyk gave a <a href="http://www.opensourcetag.de/2006/agenda/">talk</a> about OpenBSD
567: as a reference project for secure software.
568: <p>
569:
1.583 henning 570: <li><strong><a name=epf2006></a>
571: <a href="http://www.peering-forum.eu/2006/">European Peering Forum 2006</a></strong>,
572: Nov 29 - 30, 2006, Frankfurt, Germany.<br>
573: The European Peering Forum in Frankfurt was hosted by the 3 big european
574: peering points DE-CIX, AMSIX and LINX, bringing network operators together.
575: Henning was talking about OpenBGPD,
576: <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/epf2006/">slides</a> are available.
577: <p>
578:
1.565 krw 579: <li><strong><a name=conisli2006></a>
580: <a href="http://conisli.org/">CONISLI 2006</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 581: Nov 3 - 5, 2006, São Paulo, Brazil.<br>
1.565 krw 582: 4th edition of São Paulo's International Free Software Congress.
1.687 jolan 583: Ken Westerback and Pedro Martelletto gave a talk.
1.565 krw 584: <p>
585:
1.559 jason 586: <li><strong><a name=nycbsdcon2006></a>
587: <a href="http://nycbsdcon.org/">NYCBSDCon 2006</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 588: Oct 28 - 29, 2006, New York City, USA.<br>
1.559 jason 589: NYCBSDCon is the main conference on the East Coast for the
590: BSD community to get together to share and gain knowledge,
1.562 jason 591: to network with like minded people. Several developers
1.563 jason 592: spoke, more were on hand:
1.559 jason 593: <ul>
594: <li>Marco Peereboom: <a href="papers/bio.pdf">bio and sensors in OpenBSD</a>
1.563 jason 595: [<a href="http://www.fetissov.org/public/nycbsdcon06/1.6.mp3">audio</a>]
1.605 jason 596: <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 597: <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>]
598: <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 599: <li>Ray Lai: <i>First time booth bunny</i>
600: </ul>
601: <p>
602:
1.556 fgsch 603: <li><strong><a name=linuxworlduk2006></a>
604: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.co.uk/">LinuxWorld Expo UK 2006</a></strong>,
605: Oct 25 - 26, 2006, Olympia, London, UK.<br>
1.558 wvdputte 606: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Wim, Tom, Peter, Federico and
607: Pedro La Peu.
1.556 fgsch 608: <p>
609:
1.589 aanriot 610: <li><strong><a name=cuug2006oct></a>
611: <a href="http://www.cuug.ab.ca/">Calgary Unix Users Group</a></strong>,
612: Oct 24, 2006, downtown Library, basement meeting room, Calgary, Alberta.<br>
613: Theo de Raadt gave a talk regarding the increasing demand for
614: vendors to open up their documentation.
615: <p>
616:
1.553 grunk 617: <li><strong><a name="systems2006"></a>
618: <a href="http://www.systems.de/">Systems</a></strong>,
619: Oct 23 - 27, 2006, Munich, Germany <br>
620: The *BSD projects were located at A3.542.
621: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
622: Wilhelm Bühler, DaN, Nikolay Sturm, Marco Pfatschbacher,
623: and some other volunteers.
624: <p>
625:
1.550 henning 626: <li><strong><a name=hacklu2006></a>
627: <a href="http://www.hack.lu/">hack.lu 2006</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 628: Oct 19 - 21, 2006, Luxembourg/Kirchberg, Luxembourg.<br>
1.550 henning 629: Henning Brauer gave a well received talk about OpenBGPD.
630: <p>
631:
1.547 aanriot 632: <li><strong><a name=aldil2006></a>
633: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/">Les Journées Du Logiciel Libre
634: 2006</a></strong>,
635: Oct 13 - 14, 2006, Lyon, France.<br>
636: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Miod Vallat and Alexandre
637: Anriot with the help of Thierry Thomas and Damien Bergamini.
638: <p>
639:
1.546 mcbride 640: <li><strong><a name=auug2006></a>
641: <a href="http://new.auug.org.au/">AUUG 2006</a></strong>,
642: Oct 10 - 13, 2006, Melbourne, Australia.<br>
643: Ryan Mcbride presented a full-day tutorial entitled
644: "Advanced PF Rulesets" as well as two additional talks
645: <a href="papers/auug2006/pf_evolution/">PF evolution</a>
646: and
647: <a href="papers/auug2006/network_randomness/">Network stack randomness in OpenBSD</a>.
648: <p>
649:
1.532 wvdputte 650: <li><strong><a name=eurooscon2006></a>
651: <a href="http://conferences.oreillynet.com/euos2006/">O'Reilly Euro OSCON 2006
652: </a></strong>,
653: Sep 20, 2006, Brussels, Belgium.<br>
654: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth.
655: <p>
656:
1.528 wvdputte 657: <li><strong><a name=come2linux2006></a>
658: <a href="http://www.come2linux.org/psp/">Come 2 Linux 2006</a></strong>,
659: Sep 9 - 10, 2006, Duisburg-Essen, Germany.<br>
660: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth.
661: <p>
662:
1.525 wvdputte 663: <li><strong><a name=ChaosdaysDarmstadt2006></a>
664: <a href="http://mrmcd101b.metarheinmain.de/index.html">mrmcd101b - MetaRheinMainChaosDays Darmstadt 2006</a>
665: </strong>,
666: Sep 1 - 3, 2006, Darmstadt, Germany.<br>
667: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth.
668: <p>
669:
1.521 fkr 670: <li><strong><a name=LinuxWorldExpoSF2006></a>
671: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/live/12/events/12SFO06A/conference/tracksessions/Security/QMONYA04ROFR">LinuxWorld Expo San Francisco 2006</a>
672: </strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 673: Aug 16, 2006, San Francisco, USA.<br>
1.521 fkr 674: Ted Unangst spoke about OpenBSD as part of a security panel.
675: <p>
676:
1.518 tedu 677: <li><strong><a name=coimbra2006></a>
678: <a href="http://www.openbsd-pt.com/eventos/coimbra06/">Portuguese OpenBSD Usergroup Meeting</a></strong>,
679: Jul 22 - 23, 2006, Coimbra, Portugal.<br>
680: 6th Meeting of the Portuguese OpenBSD Usergroup. Marc Balmer gave a talk
681: "NMEA 0183 and Time Signal Station Receiver Support in OpenBSD".
682: <p>
683:
684: <li><strong><a name=akqit2006></a>
685: <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 686: Jul 20, 2006, University of Basel, Computer Science Department, Room 205, Bernoullistr. 16, 17:30 - 18:30.<br>
1.590 mbalmer 687: Marc Balmer gave a talk in german "<a href="papers/akqit06/index.html">Ensuring
688: Quality in the Development of the Free Operating System OpenBSD</a>".
1.518 tedu 689: <p>
1.475 deraadt 690:
1.510 wvdputte 691: <li><strong><a name="lsm2006"></a>
692: <a href="http://www.rmll.info">Libre Software Meeting 2006</a></strong>,
693: Jul 4 - 8, 2006, Vandoeuvre-les-nancy, France.<br>
1.681 aanriot 694: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Wim, Matthieu and
695: Alexandre with the help of Serge and Christelle.
1.510 wvdputte 696: <p>
697:
1.508 wvdputte 698: <li><strong><a name=FrOSCon></a>
699: <a href="http://www.froscon.de/">
700: FrOSCon 2006 - Free and Open Source Software Conference</a></strong>,
701: Jun 24 - 25, 2006, Bonn/Rhein-Sieg, Germany.<br>
1.518 tedu 702: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth run by Wim, Waldemar, Manuel and
1.508 wvdputte 703: Tim Kornau.
704: <p>
705:
1.507 mbalmer 706: <li><strong><a name=LinuxwochenLinz2006></a>
707: <a href="http://www.linuxwochen.at/2006/Linz">Linuxwochen Linz 2006</a>
708: </strong>,
709: June 15, 2006, Linz, Austria.<br>
1.727 wvdputte 710: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth run by Wim and the usual suspects.
1.507 mbalmer 711: <p>
712:
1.506 deraadt 713: <li><strong><a name=lugverona2006></a>
1.526 steven 714: <a href="http://www.di.univr.it/dol/main?ent=iniziativa&id=857&lang=it">LUGVR@UNIVR</a></strong>
1.506 deraadt 715: Jun 9, 2006, Verona University, Borgo Roma, Italy.<br>
716: Florin Iamandi of <a href="https://www.verona.linux.it">LUG Verona</a>
717: gave a talk
718: (<a href="http://todome.net/docs/obsd_carp/en">English</a> and
719: <a href="http://todome.net/docs/obsd_carp/it">Italian</a>)
720: and live demonstration on redundant failover
721: OpenBSD firewalls. He explained why OpenBSD solves many problems that
722: had previously been the dominion of expensive commercial solutions.
723: Attendees learned about OpenBSD's hard stance and successful fight against
724: bad licences and uncooperating vendors and manufacturers.
725: <p>
726:
1.502 mbalmer 727: <li><strong><a name=Slackathon2006></a>
728: <a href="http://slackathon2006.unix.se">Slackathon 2006</a>
729: </strong>
730: Jun 3, 2006, Stockholm, Sweden.<br>
731: A fundraiser for OpenBSD/SSH held at the Stockholm University. Free
1.505 ian 732: entrance and all donations went straight to the project. Several
1.502 mbalmer 733: developers were talking about OpenBSD here, as well as some hands-on
734: workshops took place with both old and new hardware.
735: <p>
736:
1.500 deraadt 737: <li><strong><a name=cuug2006></a>
738: <a href="http://www.cuug.ab.ca/">Calgary Unix Users Group</a></strong>,
739: Jun 1, 2006, SAIT Campus, Calgary, Alberta.<br>
1.504 miod 740: Bob Beck and Reyk Floeter discussed recent and future networking
741: changes in OpenBSD. Some other OpenBSD developers attended to provide
1.500 deraadt 742: international colour, and there were tshirts, CDs, and posters on hand.
743: CUUG made a substantial contribution to OpenBSD at this event as well.
744: <p>
745:
1.589 aanriot 746: <li><strong><a name=LinuxwochenVienna2006></a>
747: <a href="http://www.linuxwochen.at/2006/Wien">Linuxwochen Vienna 2006</a>
748: </strong>,
749: May 31 - Jun 2, 2006, Vienna, Austria.<br>
750: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth run by Wim and the usual suspects.
751: <p>
752:
1.585 aanriot 753: <li><strong><a name=plug060519></a>
1.586 aanriot 754: <a href="http://www.plugfr.org/">Provence Linux User Group</a></strong>
755: May 19, 2006, Marseille, France.<br>
1.585 aanriot 756: Alexandre Anriot spoke about the deployment of wireless networks with
1.586 aanriot 757: OpenBSD during a meeting of the PLUG.
1.585 aanriot 758: <p>
759:
1.491 bernd 760: <li><strong><a name="SANE2006"></a>
761: <a href="http://www.sane.nl/sane2006/">SANE 2006</a></strong>,
762: May 15 - 19, 2006, Delft, The Netherlands.<br>
763: Peter N. M. Hansteen gave a
764: <a href="http://www.sane.nl/sane2006/program/abstract.php?eventid=35">
765: PF tutorial</a>.
766: <p>
767:
1.490 reyk 768: <li><strong><a name=bsdcan2006></a> <a
769: href="http://www.bsdcan.org/2006/">BSDCan 2006</a></strong>,
770: May 12 - 13, 2006, Ottawa, Canada.<br>
771: David Gwynne gave a talk about hardware monitoring with bio and
772: sensors in OpenBSD (<a href="papers/bsdcan06-biosensors.pdf">slides</a>)
773: and Reyk Flöter talked about the latest
774: wireless support and the incredible plans for the future
775: (<a href="papers/bsdcan06-wlan/index.html">slides</a>), and
776: Peter Hansteen gave a PF tutorial. A number of OpenBSD hackers
777: attended the conference as well, like Bob Beck and Mathieu Sauve-Frankel.
778: <p>
779:
1.489 bernd 780: <li><strong><a name="linuxdays2006"></a>
781: <a href="http://www.linuxdays.ch">Linuxdays 2006</a></strong>,
782: May 8 - 12, 2006, Geneva, Switzerland.<br>
783: Julien Mabillard, a long-time Geneva OpenBSD user, gave a talk to present
784: the overall system and its great features.
785: <p>
786:
1.592 claudio 787: <li><strong><a name="idepes2006"></a>
1.589 aanriot 788: <a href="http://www.idepes.org.br/openbsd/">IDEPES 2006</a></strong>,
789: May 6, 2006, São Paulo, Brazil.<br>
790: First event in Brazil totally dedicated to OpenBSD.
791: <p>
792:
1.592 claudio 793: <li><strong><a name="LinuxTag2006"></a>
1.484 mbalmer 794: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.org/2006/">LinuxTag 2006</a></strong>,
795: May 3 - 6, 2006, Wiesbaden, Germany.<br>
796: OpenBSD was very present at this years Linuxtag:
797: <ul>
798: <li>On friday morning, Claudio and Marc moderated a panel discussion
799: "BLOBS sind das Krebsgeschwür freier Software" (Blobs are the
1.485 mbalmer 800: cancer of free software) that was well attended. Unfortunately no one
1.484 mbalmer 801: in favour of Blobs attended, although we asked almost all Linux
802: distributions...
803: <li>After lunch, Marc Balmer started the afternoon with a talk "OpenBSD
804: as a Strategic Platform for the Basle Public Schools", outlining how and
1.485 mbalmer 805: why the Basle Public school system uses OpenBSD for most of its
1.484 mbalmer 806: infrastructure.
1.592 claudio 807: <li>The next OpenBSD specific talk was by Claudio Jeker,
808: <a href="papers/linuxtag06-network/">"Routing with OpenBSD using
809: OpenOSPFD and OpenBGPD"</a> where he showed various routing setups and
810: how full redundancy can be achieved.
811: [<a href="papers/linuxtag06-network.pdf">paper</a>]
1.484 mbalmer 812: <li>Later, Marc Balmer gave a talk "Decoding Time Signal Stations using
813: OpenBSD" and explained the recent addition of timedelta sensors and the
814: first implementation of such, udcf(4).
815: </ul>
816: <br>
817: All talks where very well received and OpenBSD filled four hours of the
1.485 mbalmer 818: Linuxtag program. We thank Wilhelm Bühler, chair of the BSD-Track
1.484 mbalmer 819: at Linuxtag, for the superb and professional organization.
820: <br>
821: Of course, there was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth run by Wim and the
822: usual suspects.
823: <p>
824:
1.486 mickey 825: <li><strong><a name=NYCBUG2006-05></a>
826: <a href="http://nycbug.org/index.php?NAV=Home&SUBM=83">NYCBUG Monthly meeting</a></strong>,
827: May 3, 2006, NYC, USA.<br>
828: Mickey gave a talk
1.564 jason 829: (<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 830: about PAE work for OpenBSD/i386.<br>
831: Mischa Diehm gave a talk about implementing VPN using OpenBSD.
832: <p>
833:
1.484 mbalmer 834: <li><strong><a name=tokyo2006></a>
835: <a href="http://www.tokyopc.org/index.php/weblog/">Tokyo PC Users Group</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 836: May 2, 2006, Tokyo, Japan.<br>
1.484 mbalmer 837: Theo presented his <a href="papers/ven05-deraadt">"Exploit Mitigation Techniques"</a>
838: talk. There is a
839: <a href="http://www.tokyopc.org/faxmessage/index.html#about">map to the location</a>.
840: <p>
841:
1.478 mbalmer 842: <li><strong><a name=SambaEXPerience2006></a>
843: <a href="http://www.sambaxp.org/">Samba eXPerience 2006</a></strong>,
844: April 24 - 26, 2006, Göttingen, Germany.<br>
845: Marc Balmer gave a talk "Providing Fully Automated Fileserver Services
846: for Public Schools using LDAP Integrated SAMBA on OpenBSD" that was very
847: well received.
848: <br>
849: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth run by Wim and Marc and Felix Kronlage
850: and we could draw a lot of attention.
851: <p>
852:
1.479 deraadt 853: <li><strong><a name=DORSCLUC2006></a>
854: <a href="http://www.open.hr/dc2006/"> DORS / CLUC 2006</a></strong>,
855: April 19-21, 2006, Zagreb, Croatia.<br>
856: <a href="http://www.kerberos.si">Mitja Muzenic</a> gave a
1.480 mbalmer 857: <a href="http://www.kerberos.si/papers/DORS06/index.html">
858: "Introduction to OpenBSD"</a> talk. Conference
859: <a href="http://www.open.hr/dc2006/program.php">program</a> (in croatian
1.479 deraadt 860: only).
861: <p>
862:
1.475 deraadt 863: <li><strong><a name=linuxworld2006></a>
864: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/live/12/events/12BOS06A/">
865: LinuxWorld/OpenSolutions World 2006</a></strong>,
866: April 3 - 6, 2006, Boston, USA.<br>
867: Jason Dixon presented
868: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/live/12/events/12BOS06A/conference/tracksessions/Security/QMONYA04Q1DK">Secure Network Architectures with OpenBSD</a>,
869: a talk on OpenBSD that outlines the various technologies that make
870: it a leader of secure networking platforms.
871: <br>
872: He spent time around the exposition BSD booth with giveaways
873: and early release OpenBSD 3.9 CDs.
874: <p>
875:
876: <li><strong><a name=cansecwest06></a>
877: <a href="http://www.cansecwest.com">Cansecwest/core06</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 878: April 3 - 7, 2006, Vancouver, Canada.<br>
1.475 deraadt 879: A rather interesting OpenBSD-related talk happened at this event, regarding
880: using SMI interrupts to break out of X into kernel mode.
881: <br>
882: Some OpenBSD developers attended. Some early OpenBSD 3.9 items went
883: on sale.
884: <p>
885:
1.469 tom 886: <li><strong><a name=ukuug2006></a>
887: <a href="http://www.ukuug.org/events/spring2006/">UKUUG Spring Conference 2006</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 888: Mar 22 - 23, 2006, Durham, United Kingdom.<br>
1.469 tom 889: Reyk Flöter gave a talk about the latest wireless support in
890: OpenBSD at the annual spring meeting of the
891: <a href="http://www.ukuug.org/">UK's Unix and Open Systems User Group</a>.
892: Peter N. M. Hansteen
893: gave a PF tutorial, Tom Cosgrove presented "Exploit
894: Mitigation Techniques" and Constantine Murenin gave a
895: presentation on "Hardware temperature monitoring device
896: drivers for OpenBSD".
897: These were all part of a new, well-attended, BSD stream at the event.
898: <p>
899:
1.459 henning 900: <li><strong><a name=Copenhagen2006></a>
901: <a href="http://www.linuxforum.dk/2006/en/">LinuxForum 2006</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 902: Mar 3 - 4, 2006, Copenhagen, Denmark.<br>
1.459 henning 903: Wim gave Felix Kronlage's talk about OpenBSD Mobile Use (wifi, UMTS,
904: GPRS, phones and the like) with some demo setups.
905: Henning Brauer gave a very well received talk about OpenBGPD,
906: <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/linuxforum2006/">slides</a> are available.
907: <p>
908:
1.457 wvdputte 909: <li><strong><a name=Brussels2006></a>
910: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/2006/">FOSDEM Brussels 2006</a></strong>,
911: Feb 25 - 26, 2006, Brussels, Belgium.<br>
912: An OpenBSD/OpenSSH booth was present, run by the usual gang of suspects:
1.458 xsa 913: Alexandre, Dimitar, Matthieu, Mbalmer, Nikolay, Otto, Reyk, Saad, Thierry, Uwe, Wim, and
1.457 wvdputte 914: Xsa. Reyk gave a talk about Wifi with OpenBSD and there was our traditional
915: BSD dinner. More details and
916: <a href="http://saad.docisland.org/pictures/fosdem2006/index.html">pictures</a>
1.458 xsa 917: on <a href="http://saad.docisland.org/blog/files/archive-12.html#unique-entry-id-40">Saad's blog</a>.
1.457 wvdputte 918: <p>
919:
920: <li><strong><a name=Vegas2006></a>
921: <a href="http://kd85.com/vegas2006.html">Merciful briefings 2006</a></strong>,
922: Feb 15, 2006, Las Vegas, USA - Feb 17, 2006, San Diego, USA - Feb 18, 2006, Phoenix, USA.<br>
923: While traveling the US, Wim met with a bunch of OpenBSD users in Las Vegas,
924: San Diego and Phoenix. With many thanks to the members of PhxBUG - Phoenix BSD
925: User Group, more specificly Darrin Chandler, for organising the little
926: details and Jacob for road trip directions.
927: <p>
1.455 grunk 928:
1.456 henning 929: <li><strong><a name=nanog36></a>
930: <a href="http://www.nanog.org/">NANOG 36</a></strong>,
931: Feb 12 - 15, 2006, Dallas, USA.<br>
932: Henning Brauer and Bernhard Kroenung of DE-CIX talked about OpenBGPD and
933: OpenBGPD at DE-CIX, <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/nanog36/">slides</a>
934: are available. Henning talked again at the tools BOF
935: (<a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/nanog36-bof/">slides</a>).
936: Both talks were very well received by the audience.
937: Kenjiro Cho was there too, talking about IPv6 issues.
938: <p>
939:
1.455 grunk 940: <li><strong><a name="Paris2006"></a>
941: <a href="http://www.solutionslinux.fr/fr/index.php">Solutions Linux 2006</a>
942: </strong>,
943: Jan 31 - Feb 2, 2006, Paris, France.<br>
944: There was an OpenBSD booth run by Marc Espie, Miod Vallat, Saad Kadhi and
945: Wim with help from Guillaume Arcas and Christophe Plasschaert.
946: <p>
947: </ul>
948:
1.296 mcbride 949: <h3>2005</h3>
1.240 espie 950:
951: <ul>
1.337 deraadt 952:
1.445 martin 953: <li><strong><a name=22c3></a>
954: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/2005/">22C3 Chaos Communication Congress in
955: Berlin</a></strong>,
956: December 27 - 30, 2005, Berlin, Germany.<br>
957: Many OpenBSD developers and users met for a Xmas break in a unique setting.
958: <p>
959:
1.585 aanriot 960: <li><strong><a name=plug051216></a>
1.586 aanriot 961: <a href="http://www.plugfr.org/">Provence Linux User Group</a></strong>
962: December 16, 2005, Marseille, France.<br>
963: Alexandre Anriot spoke about OpenSSH during a meeting of the PLUG.
1.585 aanriot 964: <p>
965:
1.435 matthieu 966: <li><strong><a name=eurobsdcon2005></a>
967: <a href="http://2005.eurobsdcon.org/">EuroBSDCon 2005</a></strong>,
968: Nov 25 - 27, 2005, Basel, Switzerland.<br>
969: The 4th edition of the european conference for BSD systems has been a
970: great success. More than 225 people from 27 countries attended the
1.438 deraadt 971: event.
1.444 grunk 972: The program included a
973: <a href="http://www.eurobsdcon.org/tutorials-reyk.php">tutorial by Reyk about
1.437 niallo 974: OpenBSD-based Wireless Networks</a> and the following talks
975: <ul>
1.438 deraadt 976: <li>Henning Brauer with Wilhelm Bühler "Signal Handlers"
977: <li>Ryan McBride "Network Stack Randomness"
1.439 matthieu 978: <li><a href="papers/eurobsd2005/herrb-hopf.pdf">Matthieu Herrb and Matthias Hopf "New Evolutions in the X Window System"</a>
1.440 claudio 979: <li><a href="papers/eurobsd2005/claudio/">Claudio Jeker "The Design and Implementation of OpenOSPFD"</a>
1.439 matthieu 980: <li><a href="papers/eurobsd2005/niallo-uwe/">Niall O'Higgins & Uwe Stuehler "Embedded OpenBSD"</a>
1.443 deraadt 981: <li><a href="papers/eurobsd2005/tedu-rthreads.pdf">Ted Unangst "rthreads: A New Thread Implementation for OpenBSD"</a>
1.437 niallo 982: </ul>
1.438 deraadt 983: <p>
1.435 matthieu 984: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
985: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
986: <p>
987:
1.434 bernd 988: <li><strong><a name=linuxworldexpogermany2005></a>
989: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.de/">Linux World Expo Germany</a></strong>,
990: Nov 15 - 17, 2005, Frankfurt, Germany.<br>
991: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
992: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a> and Bernd.
993: <p>
994:
1.441 niallo 995: <li><strong><a name="pacsec05"></a>
996: <a href="http://www.pacsec.jp/">PacSec/core 05 conference</a></strong>,
997: Nov 15 - 16, 2005, Tokyo, Japan.<br>
998: Sean Comeau presented a talk called
999: <a href="http://www.openbsd-support.com/jp/en/htm/mgp/pacsec05/index.html">
1000: Open Source Secure Wireless Networks in a Windows World</a>
1001: <a href="http://www.pacsec.jp/core05/psj05-scomeau-en.pdf">[PDF]</a>.
1002: The solution he presents uses IPsec to protect traffic between the
1003: wireless clients and access points. Authentication is done using OpenSSH
1004: (authpf), a process made transparent and user-friendly by a few small
1005: scripts.
1006: <p>
1007:
1.424 mbalmer 1008: <li><strong><a name=opencon2005></a>
1009: <a href="http://www.opencon.org/">OpenCON 2005</a></strong>,
1010: Nov 4 - 6, 2005, San Servolo Island, Venice, Italy.<br>
1.427 deraadt 1011: The only unique conference entirely dedicated to OpenBSD, held in the totally
1012: crazy environment of San Servolo island: an old insane asylum turned into a
1013: university about 20 years ago, about 10 minutes boat ride from Venice.
1.429 deraadt 1014: In the days leading up to this, about 12 OpenBSD developers arrived early
1.427 deraadt 1015: for a Ports mini-hackathon. During the conference a few developers gave
1.433 deraadt 1016: talks, including
1017: <ul>
1018: <li><a href="papers/ven05-pvalchev">Peter Valchev "OpenBSD Hackathon report"</a>
1019: <li><a href="papers/ven05-espie">Marc Espie "OpenBSD ports and packages"</a>
1020: <li><a href="papers/ven05-henning">Henning Brauer "OpenBSD networking update"</a>
1021: <li><a href="papers/ven05-niallo-uwe/slides.pdf">Uwe Stuehler, Niall O'Higgins "Porting OpenBSD"</a>
1022: <li><a href="papers/ven05-deraadt">Theo de Raadt "Exploit Mitigation Techniques (updated to include random malloc and mmap)"</a>
1023: </ul>
1.424 mbalmer 1024: <p>
1025:
1026: <li><strong><a name=systems2005></a>
1027: <a href="http://www.systems.de/">Systems</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 1028: Oct 24 - 28, 2005, Munich, Germany.<br>
1.425 mbalmer 1029: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
1.424 mbalmer 1030: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
1031: <p>
1032:
1.418 djm 1033: <li><strong><a name=auug2005></a>
1034: <a href="http://www.auug.org.au/events/2005/auug2005/">AUUG 2005</a></strong>,
1035: October 16 - 21, 2005, Sydney, Australia.<br>
1036: Mark Uemura presented a tutorial on setting up CARP/PF, a demonstration of
1037: stateful failover with CARP and pfsync and a talk on wireless security in
1038: a corporate environment using authpf and isakmpd. Peter Hansteen gave a
1039: <a href="http://www.bgnett.no/~peter/pf/">Firewalling with PF</a> tutorial.
1.420 deraadt 1040: Damien Miller presented on the approach to
1041: <a href="papers/auug2005-portability">secure software portability used
1042: by portable OpenSSH</a>, Reyk Flöter gave a talk on the current state of wireless
1.418 djm 1043: support in OpenBSD and David Purdue introduced OpenBSD's spamd tarpit.
1044: Most of the Australian OpenBSD developers and many users were present.
1045: <p>
1046:
1.415 aanriot 1047: <li><strong><a name=aldil2005></a>
1048: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/">Les Journées Du Logiciel Libre
1049: 2005</a></strong>,
1050: Oct 14 - 15, 2005, Lyon, France.<br>
1051: There was OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Alexandre Anriot with the
1052: help of Thierry Thomas.
1053: <p>
1054:
1.420 deraadt 1055: <li><strong><a name=cafeconf2005></a>
1056: <a href="http://www.cafeconf.org/">CaFeConf 2005,
1057: 4tas Jornadas Abiertas de GNU/Linux y Software Libre</a></strong>,
1058: Oct 13 - 15, 2005, Buenos Aires, Argentina<br>
1059: CaFeConf 2005 is the anual event of CaFeLUG - Free Software Users
1060: Group of Capital Federal, Argentina. This year the event featured
1061: 116 presentations consisting of talks, tutorials, and workshops. The
1062: event was also broadcasted on the Internet. Entrance was free, but
1063: registration was mandatory.<br>
1064: Fernando Gont gave a talk on
1.444 grunk 1065: <a href="http://www.cafeconf.org/modules/myconference/viewspeech.php?sid=147&cid=20">
1.420 deraadt 1066: ICMP attacks against TCP</a>,
1067: in which he gave an overview of the attacks, the possible
1068: counter-measures, and the politics of vulnerabilities, and a talk on
1.444 grunk 1069: <a href="http://www.cafeconf.org/modules/myconference/viewspeech.php?sid=173&cid=20">
1.420 deraadt 1070: Fixing the vulnerability of the Path-MTU Discovery mechanism</a>,
1071: in which explained how OpenBSD fixed the vulnerability of the PMTUD
1072: mechanism.
1073: <p>
1074:
1.414 bernd 1075: <li><strong><a name=linuxkongress2005></a>
1076: <a href="http://www.linux-kongress.org/">12th International Linux System
1077: Technology Conference</a></strong>,
1078: Oct 11 - 14, 2005, University of Hamburg, Germany.<br>
1079: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth.
1080: <p>
1081:
1082: <li><strong><a name=linuxworlduk2005></a>
1083: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.co.uk/">LinuxWorld Expo UK 2005</a></strong>,
1084: Oct 5 - 6, 2005, Olympia, London, UK.<br>
1085: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth.
1086: <p>
1087:
1.410 wvdputte 1088: <li><strong><a name=opensourcetag2005></a>
1.575 reyk 1089: <a href="http://www.opensourcetag.de/2005/">OpenSourceTag 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 1090: Sep 27, 2005, Hannover, Germany.<br>
1.444 grunk 1091: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth and Reyk gave a
1.575 reyk 1092: <a href="http://www.opensourcetag.de/2005/agenda/">talk</a> about IT security.
1.410 wvdputte 1093: <p>
1094:
1095: <li><strong><a name="gubuginstallfest2005"></a>
1096: <a href="http://gubug.org/meetings.php">Greater Utah BSD Group
1097: Installfest 2005</a></strong>,
1098: Sep 24, 2005, Sandy, UT, USA.<br/>
1.444 grunk 1099: <a href="http://www.gubug.org/">The Greater Utah BSD User Group</a> organised
1.410 wvdputte 1100: their first annual BSD Installfest, sponsored by Utah ISP ArosNet.
1101: There were handouts, CD-ROMs, technical presentations, and
1102: fun, plus a chance to get OpenBSD or a related open source BSD operating system
1103: installed on your computer.
1104: Admission was free (computers not included in cost of admission).
1.419 djm 1105: Featured speakers included Dan Langille, organizer of BSDCan.
1.410 wvdputte 1106: <p>
1107:
1.404 wvdputte 1108: <li><strong><a name="NYCBSDCon2005"></a>
1109: <a href="http://nycbsdcon.org/">New York City BSD Conference 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 1110: Sep 17, 2005, NYC, USA.<br>
1.404 wvdputte 1111: NYCBSDCon was a one day technical conference hosted by the New York
1112: City *BSD User Group and was held at Columbia University.
1.406 saad 1113: The all day conference included a variety of speakers representing the
1.404 wvdputte 1114: BSD projects and the open source community.<br>
1115: NYCBSDCon was organized by NYC*BUG, a technical user group that formed in
1116: December 2003. Besides their regular monthly meetings at the Soho Apple
1117: Store, NYC*BUG has done fundraising for the BSD projects and contributed a
1118: number of useful online applications such as BSDTracker and dmesgd.<br>
1119: Additional sponsors included USENIX, New York Internet and SRA America.
1120: <p>
1121:
1122: <li><strong><a name=opensaar2005></a>
1123: <a href="http://www.opensaar.de/">OpenSaar 2005</a></strong>,
1124: Sep 13 - 14, 2005, Saarbrücken, Germany.<br>
1.727 wvdputte 1125: An OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth was present.
1.404 wvdputte 1126: <p>
1127:
1.403 henning 1128: <li><strong><a name=decix160905></a> <a
1129: href="http://www.de-cix.org/">DE-CIX Technical Meeting</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 1130: Sep 16, 2005, Schloss Kransberg, near Usingen, Germany.<br>
1.403 henning 1131: Henning Brauer, Reyk Flöter and Maxim Salomon had been invited to the
1132: technical meeting of the Deutsche Commercial Internet Exchange (DE-CIX) again.
1133: Henning gave an update on OpenBGPD, Reyk talked about a route server project
1134: using OpenBGPD at DE-CIX, and Maxim explained why the CCC sponsors us doing so.
1135: There was a very positive discussion afterwards.
1136: <a href="http://unduli.bsws.de/papers/decix2005-2/">Slides</a> are available.
1137: <p>
1138:
1.388 tom 1139: <li><strong><a name="ukuug2005"></a>
1140: <a href="http://www.ukuug.org/events/linux2005/">UKUUG Linux Technical
1141: Conference 2005</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 1142: Aug 4 - 7, 2005, University of Wales, Swansea, UK.<br>
1.388 tom 1143: Tom Cosgrove gave Theo's presentation about Exploit Mitigation Techniques.
1144: <p>
1145:
1.385 mickey 1146: <li><strong><a name=wth2005></a>
1.390 deraadt 1147: <a href="http://www.whatthehack.org/">What the Hack 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 1148: Jul 28 - 31, 2005, Den Bosch, The Netherlands.<br>
1.385 mickey 1149: As every 4 years, Wim organized the
1150: <a href="http://eurobsd.org/2005-WhatTheHack/">BSD village</a> at this huge
1.389 tom 1151: open air event. There were some talks, Reyk spoke about
1152: <a href="http://program.whatthehack.org/event/6.en.html">WLAN in OpenBSD</a>,
1.385 mickey 1153: and an excellent
1154: <a href="ftp://ftp.nyc.openbsd.org/pub/news/wth-radio-humppa.mp3">Humppa show</a> (35MB MP3) was performed on the SubEther radio.
1155: If you want to see what happened previously, check
1156: <a href="http://eurobsd.org/hal2001/">http://eurobsd.org/hal2001/</a>
1157: and <a href="http://www.eurobsd.org/SummerCamp2003/">http://www.eurobsd.org/SummerCamp2003/</a>.
1158: <p>
1159:
1.382 pedro 1160: <li><strong><a name=coimbra2005></a>
1.474 pedro 1161: <a href="http://www.openbsd-pt.com/eventos/coimbra05/">Portuguese OpenBSD Usergroup Meeting</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 1162: Jul 23 - 24, 2005, Coimbra, Portugal.<br>
1.538 pedro 1163: 5th Meeting of the Portuguese OpenBSD Usergroup. Pedro Martelletto gave a talk.
1.382 pedro 1164: <p>
1165:
1.378 aanriot 1166: <li><strong><a name="lsm2005"></a>
1167: <a href="http://2005.rencontresmondiales.org/sections/index_html/switchLanguage/en">Libre Software Meeting 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 1168: Jul 5 - 9, 2005, Dijon, France.<br>
1.379 aanriot 1169: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Wim and the usual
1170: suspects, with the help of Serge Basterot. It was a nice place to meet
1171: some of our French, German and Swiss developers, including Marc Balmer,
1172: Alexandre Anriot, Matthieu Herrb and Reyk Floeter.
1.378 aanriot 1173: <p>
1174:
1.375 grunk 1175: <li><strong><a name=LinuxTag2005></a>
1176: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.org">LinuxTag 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 1177: Jun 22 - 25, 2005, Karlsruhe, Germany.<br>
1.375 grunk 1178: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth ran by Wim, Christian Weisgerber,
1179: Marc Balmer, Wilhelm Buehler, Robert Nagy, Bernd Ahlers and Phil Schulz.
1180: <p>
1181:
1.374 grunk 1182: <li><strong><a name="uofa-cc2005"></a>
1183: <a href="http://www.ualberta.ca/CC2005"> University of Alberta, Campus
1.410 wvdputte 1184: Computing 2005</a></strong>, Jun 21, 2005, Edmonton, Canada.<br>
1.374 grunk 1185: Ryan McBride spoke about OpenBSD's packet filter, PF, with CARP and
1186: failover examples. Local color and examples at the U of A shown by Bob
1187: Beck. Bob Beck spoke about PF and Spamd, as well as several other
1188: OpenBSD using and related talks at this event, which primarily focuses
1189: on activities centered at the University of Alberta.
1190: <p>
1191:
1.371 deraadt 1192: <li><strong><a name=uemera2005></a>
1193: <a href="http://www.tokyopc.net">Tokyo PC Users Group</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 1194: Jun 2, 2005, Tokyo Union Church in Omotesando, Tokyo, Japan.<br>
1.371 deraadt 1195: Mark T. Uemura spoke to Japan's largest English speaking
1196: personal computer club. The talk was entitled
1197: <a href="http://www.openbsd-support.com/jp/en/htm/mgp/index.shtml">
1198: "Open Source in a Windows World"</a>.
1199: He demonstrated how companies can easily
1200: integrate Open Source, with an emphasis on OpenBSD, into their IT
1201: infrastructure to enhance security, scalability and stability,
1202: significantly reduce IT expenditures, free up computing infrastructure
1203: and move away from commercial lock-in. This talk is based on changes
1204: implemented at PricewaterhouseCoopers in Japan.
1205: <p>
1206:
1.366 martin 1207: <li><strong><a name=LinuxwochenVienna2005></a>
1208: <a href="http://www.linuxwochen.at/">Linuxwochen Vienna 2005</a></strong>,
1209: May 24 - 27, 2005, Vienna, Austria.<br>
1210: The Linuxwochen 2005 tour stopped in the MuseumsQuartier, Vienna.
1211: Wim Vandeputte and Reinhard Sammer were running an OpenBSD booth selling
1212: CDs and shirts.
1213: <p>
1214:
1.365 mcbride 1215: <li><strong><a name=cuug2005></a>
1216: <a href="http://www.cuug.ab.ca/">Calgary Unix Users Group</a></strong>,
1217: May 24, 2005, Calgary, Canada.<br>
1218: Ryan McBride spoke about OpenBSD's packet filter, PF.
1219: A broad overview of PF's features were presented, with special attention
1220: paid to newer and more unique features and how these can be used together
1221: effectively for DoS mitigation, high availability, and load balancing.
1222: <br>
1223: Approximately 60 OpenBSD developers attended to heckle and participate
1224: in a free-for-all question period after the talk.
1225: <p>
1226:
1.362 reyk 1227: <li><strong><a name=bsdcan2005></a>
1228: <a href="http://www.bsdcan.org/2005/">BSDCan 2005</a></strong>,
1229: May 13 - 14, 2005, Ottawa, Canada.<br>
1230: A number of OpenBSD developers presented: Bob Beck on
1231: Spam Reduction with PF and Spamd, Henning Brauer on OpenBGPD,
1232: Ryan McBride on Network Stack Randomness and Reyk Flöter
1233: on WLAN in OpenBSD and the free ath(4) HAL. The
1234: <a href="papers/bsdcan05-spamd/">Spamd</a> and
1235: <a href="papers/bsdcan05-wlan/">WLAN</a> slides are available.
1236: Mathieu Sauve-Frankel has been there in attendance as well.
1237: <p>
1238:
1.358 mcbride 1239: <li><strong><a name=csw2005></a>
1240: <a href="http://www.cansecwest.com/">cansecwest/core05</a></strong>,
1241: May 4-6, 2005, Vancouver, Canada.<br>
1242: Hiroaki Etoh spoke about propolice; Theo de Raadt and a number of other
1243: developers were there to sell CDs and make a nuisance of themselves.
1244: <p>
1245:
1.357 henning 1246: <li><strong><a name=ripe50></a>
1247: <a href="http://www.ripe.net/ripe/meetings/ripe-50/">RIPE 50</a></strong>,
1248: May 2-6, 2005, Stockholm, Sweden.<br>
1249: RIPE NCC invited Henning to talk about OpenBGPD.
1250: There were over 350 attendees to the conference, and most of them attended
1251: henning's talk, which got very very positive feedback.
1252: <p>
1253:
1.384 tom 1254: <li><strong><a name=libreast2005></a>
1.356 espie 1255: <a href="http://idile.org/libreast/">Libr'east 2005</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 1256: Apr 22-24, Marne La Vallée, near Paris, France.<br>
1.356 espie 1257: There was an OpenBSD booth (Wim + Miod + Marc)
1258: Marc Espie did talk about recent OpenBSD advances, and his ports and
1259: packages work in front of about 30 people.
1260: <p>
1261:
1.353 henning 1262: <li><strong><a name=decix150405></a> <a
1263: href="http://www.de-cix.org/">DE-CIX Technical Meeting</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 1264: Apr 15, 2005, near Usingen, Germany.<br>
1.353 henning 1265: Henning Brauer and Reyk Flöter had been invited to the technical
1266: meeting of the Deutsche Commercial Internet Exchange (DE-CIX). Henning
1267: presented his talk on OpenBGPD, about 60 people, mostly operators from
1268: the big ISPs peering at DECIX, were in attendance.
1.354 reyk 1269: Reyk, Maxim Salomon and Tim Kornau spoke on Wireless Network Security.
1.353 henning 1270: <p>
1271:
1.352 henning 1272: <li><strong><a name=nuug140405></a>
1273: <a href="http://www.nuug.no/aktiviteter/20050414-pf-brannmur/">Firewalling with PF at NUUG</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 1274: Apr 14, 2005, Oslo, Norway.<br>
1.352 henning 1275: Peter N. M. Hansteen gave a firewalling with PF talk - which hopefully
1276: gave you some ideas about how to control your network traffic the
1277: way you want - keeping some things outside your network, directing
1278: traffic to specified hosts or services, and of course, giving spammers
1279: a hard time. The talk was in Norwegian, with <a
1280: href="http://www.bgnett.no/~peter/pf/no/foils/">foils</a> and <a
1281: href="http://www.bgnett.no/~peter/pf/no/">manuscript</a> (English <a
1282: href="http://www.bgnett.no/~peter/pf/en/foils/">foils</a> and <a
1283: href="http://www.bgnett.no/~peter/pf/en/">manuscript</a> too)
1284: available if you couldn't make it there.
1285: <p>
1286:
1.589 aanriot 1287:
1288: <li><strong><a name=fhwedel130405></a>
1289: <a href="http://www.fh-wedel.de/">FH Wedel invited talk</a></strong>,
1290: Apr 13, 2005, 17:00, Hörsaal 5, FH Wedel, Hamburg, Germany.<br>
1291: Henning Brauer spoke on OpenBGPD. More than 40 people were in attendance.
1292: <p>
1293:
1.350 marius 1294: <li><strong><a name=usenix2005></a>
1295: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix05/">Usenix Annual
1.410 wvdputte 1296: Technical Conference</a></strong>, Apr 10-15, 2005, Anaheim,
1.350 marius 1297: California, USA.<br> Marius Eriksen gave the OpenBSD update at the BSD
1298: super BoF. The update was well received and people were quite
1299: sympathetic towards the ongoing efforts of the OpenBSD project to
1300: ensure the free redistribution rights for firmware. People were also
1301: excited about the new Open* tools (OpenBGPD, OpenNTPD, OpenCVS) and it
1.351 marius 1302: would not be surprising to see more of these imported into other BSDs.
1.350 marius 1303: <p>
1304:
1.585 aanriot 1305: <li><strong><a name=plug050408></a>
1.586 aanriot 1306: <a href="http://www.plugfr.org/">Provence Linux User Group</a></strong>
1307: April 8, 2005, Marseille, France.<br>
1.585 aanriot 1308: Alexandre Anriot spoke about OpenBSD and some associated projects
1.586 aanriot 1309: (OpenBGPD etc.) during a meeting of the PLUG.
1.585 aanriot 1310: The <a href="papers/plug080405">slides</a> (in French) are available.
1.344 martin 1311: <p>
1312:
1.337 deraadt 1313: <li><strong><a name=bcs2005></a>
1314: <a href="http://www.bellua.com/bcs2005/asia05.index.html">Bellua Cyber Security Asia 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 1315: Mar 21-24, 2005, Jakarta, Indonesia.<br>
1.337 deraadt 1316: Ryan McBride presented an overview of PF which
1317: discussed how its advanced features work together in some important
1.338 deraadt 1318: applications and compared PF with the other major commercial and open
1.337 deraadt 1319: source firewalls.
1320: <p>
1321:
1.317 henning 1322: <li><strong><a name=nui_maynooth2005></a>
1323: <a href="http://www.minds.nuim.ie/events">NUI Maynooth lectures</a></strong>,
1324: Mar 4, 2005, Department of Computer Science, NUI Maynooth, Dublin, Ireland.<br>
1.318 henning 1325: Ryan McBride presented talks about PF and about
1.326 mcbride 1326: <a href="papers/dublin05-nr">randomization in the OpenBSD network layer.</a><br>
1.318 henning 1327: Theo and Henning were in attendance because someone had to heckle.
1.317 henning 1328: <p>
1329:
1.312 deraadt 1330: <li><strong><a name=trinity2005></a>
1331: <a href="http://www.netsoc.tcd.ie/events/0405/openbsd.php">Trinity lecture</a></strong>,
1332: Mar 3, 2005, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.<br>
1.320 deraadt 1333: Theo de Raadt presented his talk about
1334: <a href="papers/auug04">Exploit Mitigation Techniques</a>.
1.312 deraadt 1335: <p>
1336:
1.319 saad 1337: <li><strong><a name=ShefLUG2005></a>
1338: <a href="http://www.sheflug.co.uk/seminar/tiki-index.php?page=Sheffield%20Open%20Source%20Seminar">ShefLUG2005</a></strong>,
1339: Mar 2, 2005, Sheffield, UK.<br>
1340: Jacek Artymiak gave a talk about installing OpenBSD on Soekris hardware.
1341: <p>
1342:
1.310 mickey 1343: <li><strong><a name=NYCBUG2005-03></a>
1.375 grunk 1344: <a href="http://nycbug.org/index.php?NAV=Home&SUBM=83">NYCBUG Monthly meeting</a></strong>,
1.310 mickey 1345: Mar 2, 2005, NYC, USA.<br>
1.322 deraadt 1346: Mickey gave a talk
1.325 mickey 1347: (<a href="papers/nyc2005">slides</a> and
1.564 jason 1348: <a href="http://www.fetissov.org/public/nycbug/nycbug-03-02-05.mp3">10.5MB audio</a>)
1.321 mickey 1349: about <a href="hppa.html">porting OpenBSD</a>
1.313 martin 1350: to the <a href="http://www.openpa.net">HP PA-RISC</a> platform.
1.310 mickey 1351: <p>
1.312 deraadt 1352:
1.308 deraadt 1353: <li><strong><a name=Netsoc2005></a>
1354: <a href="http://netsoc.ucd.ie/events/openbsd/">Netsoc lectures</a></strong>,
1355: Mar 2, 2005, UCD, Dublin, Ireland.<br>
1356: Theo de Raadt, Henning Brauer, and Ryan McBride gave a series of
1.320 deraadt 1357: talks. Topics included
1358: <a href="papers/auug04">exploit mitigation techniques</a>,
1.326 mcbride 1359: <a href="papers/dublin05-nr">introducing network randomness to increase security</a>,
1360: OpenBGPD, and pf.
1361: Almost 200 people came to this event.
1.308 deraadt 1362: <p>
1363:
1.304 saad 1364: <li><strong><a name=Brussels2005></a>
1365: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/2005/">FOSDEM Brussels 2005</a></strong>,
1366: Feb 26 - 27, 2005, Brussels, Belgium.<br>
1367: An OpenBSD/OpenSSH booth was present, ran by the usual gang of suspects.
1368: Support for <a href="mailto:wim@kd85.com">Wim Vandeputte</a> this time were
1.307 otto 1369: (among many others), Saad Kadhi, Henning Brauer, Thierry Deval, Otto Moerbeek,
1.304 saad 1370: Xavier Santolaria, Martin Reindl, Reyk Flöter, Hans-Jörg
1.360 db 1371: Höxer, Nikolay Sturm, Marc Balmer, Claudio Jeker, Joris Vink,
1372: Olivier Cherrier, David Berghoff,
1.316 mbalmer 1373: Alexander von Gernler, Uwe Stuehler, and Felix Kronlage from OpenDarwin.<br>
1.304 saad 1374: There was a separate OpenBSD track, featuring Henning Brauer (about
1375: signal handlers and OpenNTPD), Reyk Flöter (about wireless cards in
1376: OpenBSD), and the author of the OpenBSD PF book, Jacek Artymiak (about
1.375 grunk 1377: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pf">pf(4)</a>, of course).<br>
1.304 saad 1378: At the conference's Free Software Foundation Event, Theo de Raadt was
1379: awarded the Free Software Award 2004 for his efforts to make Firmware for
1380: wireless hardware and other devices freely available.
1381: <p>
1.301 saad 1382: <li><strong><a name=UKUUG05></a>
1383: <a href="http://www.ukuug.org/events/winter2005/">UKUUG LISA/Winter Conference</a></strong>,
1384: Feb 24 - 25, 2005, Birmingham, UK.<br>
1385: Henning Brauer spoke on OpenBGPD, OpenNTPD and Signal Handlers.
1386: <p>
1387: <li><strong><a name=FFG2005></a>
1388: <a href="http://www.guug.de/veranstaltungen/ffg2005/">GUUG FFG 2005</a></strong>,
1389: Feb 22 - 25, 2005, Munich, Germany.<br>
1390: Reyk Flöter talked about the latest wireless support in
1391: OpenBSD at the annual spring meeting of the <a href="http://www.guug.de/">German Unix User Group</a>.
1392: <p>
1.293 saad 1393: <li><strong><a name=Paris2005></a>
1394: <a href="http://www.solutionslinux.fr/fr/index.php">Solutions Linux 2005</a></strong>,
1395: Feb 1 - 3, 2005, Paris, France.<br>
1396: An OpenBSD booth as well as an OpenSSH booth were present. These booths
1397: were run by Marc Espie, Miod Vallat, Saad Kadhi and Wim with help from
1398: Guillaume Arcas and Christophe Plasschaert, two members of the OpenBSD
1.294 saad 1399: french translation team.<br>
1400: Marc Espie and Saad Kadhi gave a talk about the OpenBSD project with a
1401: special focus on the ports collection and Packet Filter. The <a
1402: href="papers/sl2005/index.html">slides</a> (in French) are
1403: available.<br>
1404: During the event, several demonstrations of <a
1.293 saad 1405: href="http://soekris.kd85.com/">Soekris</a> machines running OpenBSD
1406: were given by Saad Kadhi and Wim.
1407: <p>
1.296 mcbride 1408: </ul>
1.293 saad 1409:
1.296 mcbride 1410: <h3>2004</h3>
1411:
1412: <ul>
1.287 henning 1413: <li><strong><a name=21C3></a>
1414: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/2004/">21C3 - Chaos Communication Congress</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 1415: Dec 27 - 29, 2004, Berlin, Germany.<br>
1.287 henning 1416: "The Usual Suspects" were there and ran the BSD corner, including
1417: <a href="mailto:wim@kd85.com">Wim</a>,
1418: Henning Brauer, Marc Balmer, Martin Reindl, Moritz Jodeit, Felix Kronlage,
1.315 nick 1419: Uwe Stuehler, Konrad Foerstner, Bernd Ahlers, and Alexander von Gernler.<br>
1.287 henning 1420: Henning gave a talk about OpenBGPD and OpenNTPD
1421: (<a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/21c3/">slides</a>).<br>
1422: The WiFi backbone ran on OpenBSD powered
1423: <a href="http://soekris.kd85.com">Soekris</a> machines as access points,
1424: work done by Reyk Flöter, Tim Kornau and others.
1425: This installation was a very successful test of the new
1.290 henning 1426: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ath">ath(4)</a>
1.287 henning 1427: driver.
1428: <p>
1.248 deraadt 1429:
1.286 kevlo 1430: <li><strong><a name=icos2004></a>
1.417 kevlo 1431: <a href="http://2004.icos.org.tw/">ICOS 2004</a></strong>,
1.286 kevlo 1432: Dec 18 - 19, 2004, Taipei, Taiwan.<br>
1433: Kevin Lo gave a presentation.
1434: <p>
1435:
1.285 deraadt 1436: <li><strong><a name=syscan2004></a>
1437: <a href="http://www.syscan.org/">SyScAN 2004</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 1438: Dec 16 - 17, 2004, Singapore, Singapore.<br>
1.285 deraadt 1439: Theo de Raadt presented his talk about
1440: <a href="papers/auug04">Exploit Mitigation Techniques</a>.
1441: <p>
1442:
1.283 saad 1443: <li><strong><a name=sur200412></a>
1444: <a href="http://www.ossir.org/sur/calendrier/index.shtml">SUR Group Meeting, December 2004</a></strong>,
1445: Dec 14, 2004, Paris, France.<br>
1446: Saad Kadhi gave a talk about OpenBSD and security during the monthly
1447: meeting of the
1448: <a href="http://www.ossir.org/sur/index.shtml">SUR</a> Group (Sécurité
1449: Unix et Réseaux), a french user group focusing on security and Unix. The
1.284 xsa 1450: <a href="papers/surgroup200412/index.html">slides</a> (in French) are available.
1.283 saad 1451: <p>
1452:
1.282 henning 1453: <li><strong><a name=opencon2004></a>
1454: <a href="http://www.opencon.org/">OpenCon 2004</a></strong>,
1455: Dec 10 - 12, 2004, Venice, Italy.<br>
1456: OpenBSD meeting in Northern Italy. Henning gave 3 talks in
1457: two days, on bgpd
1458: (<a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/opencon04/bgpd/">slides</a>),
1459: ntpd
1460: (<a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/opencon04/ntpd/">slides</a>)
1461: and signal handlers
1462: (<a href="papers/opencon04/">slides</a>).
1463: Wim ran a booth, and Marc Balmer was there as well.
1464: <p>
1465:
1.275 deraadt 1466: <li><strong><a name=UofA></a>
1467: <a href="http://www.ualberta.ca/">U of A Seminar</a></strong>,
1468: Nov 17 - 18, 2004, Edmonton Alberta.<br>
1469: Theo de Raadt presented a talk at an open seminar at the
1470: <a href="http://www.ualberta.ca/">University of Alberta</a>, in
1471: Room B-02 of the
1472: <a href="http://www.campusmap.ualberta.ca/map_bldg.cfm?bldg_id=42">
1473: Computing Sciences Center</a>.
1474: Talk went from 2 PM to nearly 5PM with more than 100 people attending
1475: from the University and industry, followed by beer nearby.
1476: The talk was also given the following day at the
1477: <a href="http://www.cips.ca/">CIPS Security SIG</a> luncheon.
1478: <p>
1479:
1.271 henning 1480: <li><strong><a name=EuroBSDCon2004></a>
1481: <a href="http://2004.eurobsdcon.org/">EuroBSD Con</a></strong>,
1482: Oct 29 - 31, 2004, Karlsruhe, Germany.<br>
1.272 henning 1483: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
1484: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
1.271 henning 1485: Henning gave a talk
1.375 grunk 1486: about <a href="http://2004.eurobsdcon.org/talks.html?&tx_ptspeechupload_pi1[showUid]=44&cHash=ec015b0552">bgpd</a>,
1.272 henning 1487: <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/euroBSDCon2004/">slides</a> are available.
1.271 henning 1488: <p>
1489:
1490: <li><strong><a name=LinuxWorldExpoGermany2004></a>
1491: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.de/">Linux World Expo</a></strong>,
1492: Oct 26 - 28, 2004, Frankfurt, Germany.<br>
1.272 henning 1493: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
1494: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
1.271 henning 1495: <p>
1496:
1.276 deraadt 1497: <li><strong><a name=cuug2004></a>
1.270 deraadt 1498: <a href="http://www.cuug.ab.ca/">Calgary Unix Users's Group</a></strong>,
1499: Oct 26, 2004, Calgary, Canada.<br>
1500: Theo presented the talk that he has recently given in Australia and
1501: Malaysia to the "Home Crowd".
1502: <p>
1503:
1504: <li><strong><a name=aldil2004></a>
1.269 krw 1505: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/">Les Journées Du Logiciel Libre 2004</a></strong>,
1506: Oct 22 - 23, 2004, Lyon, France.<br>
1.381 aanriot 1507: There was OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Miod Vallat with the help of
1.415 aanriot 1508: Alexandre Anriot and Thierry Thomas.
1.269 krw 1509: <p>
1510:
1511: <li><strong><a name=systems2004></a>
1512: <a href="http://www.systems.de/">Systems</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 1513: Oct 18 - 22, 2004, Munich, Germany.<br>
1.269 krw 1514: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
1515: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
1516: <p>
1517:
1.268 krw 1518: <li><strong><a name=linuxexpo2004oct></a>
1519: <a href="http://www.linuxexpo.org.uk/">Linux Expo</a></strong>,
1520: Oct 6 - 7, 2004, London, UK.<br>
1521: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
1522: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
1523: <p>
1524:
1.375 grunk 1525: <li><strong><a name=hitb2004></a>
1.268 krw 1526: <a href="http://conference.hackinthebox.org">Hack in the Box Security Conference 2004</a></strong>,
1527: Oct 4 - 7, 2004, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.<br>
1528: Theo de Raadt presented an updated version of his
1529: "Exploit Mitigation Techniques" talk.
1530: <p>
1531:
1532: <li><strong><a name=SANE2004></a>
1533: <a href="http://www.nluug.nl/events/sane2004/bazaar.html">SANE 2004</a></strong>
1.410 wvdputte 1534: , Sep 29, 2004, Amsterdam, Netherlands.<br>
1.268 krw 1535: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
1536: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
1537: <p>
1538:
1.265 wvdputte 1539: <li><strong><a name=LinuxKongress2004></a>
1540: <a href="http://www.linux-kongress.org/2004">Linux Kongress 2004</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 1541: Sep 7 - 10, 2004, Erlangen, Germany.<br>
1.265 wvdputte 1542: From their website: "Linux-Kongress is still the premier event for European
1543: developers and one of the most important in the world. Each year hundreds of
1544: hard core Linux enthusiasts from all over the world gather for this important
1545: event."
1546: <br>
1547: Although this was a Linux developers' conference, we were able to
1548: install a regular OpenBSD booth there, as known from other events.
1549: It was run by <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim Vandeputte</a>,
1550: <a href="mailto:grunk@pestilenz.org">Alexander von Gernler</a> and other
1551: geeks from the Erlangen-Nuremberg area.
1552: <br>
1553: There also was a BSD dinner at Friday evening.
1554: <p>
1555:
1.262 henning 1556: <li><strong><a name=Sucon2004></a>
1557: <a href="http://www.suug.ch/sucon/04/">SUCON 2004</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 1558: Sep 2 - 4, 2004, Zurich, Switzerland.<br>
1.262 henning 1559: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth. Very nice conference.
1560: Henning's slides from his talks about
1561: <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/sucon04/bgpd">bgpd</a> and
1562: <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/sucon04/ntpd">ntpd</a>
1563: are available.
1564: <p>
1565:
1.261 deraadt 1566: <li><strong><a name=auug2004></a>
1.266 jolan 1567: <a href="http://www.auug.org.au/events/2004/auug2004/">AUUG 2004</a></strong>,
1.261 deraadt 1568: Aug 29 - Sep 3, 2004, Melbourne, Australia.<br>
1569: Theo de Raadt presented a half-day tutorial on privilege seperation and a
1570: newly extended version of the
1571: <a href="papers/auug04">Exploit Mitigation Techniques</a> talk.<br>
1572: For more information, see this
1573: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;517187222;fp;16;fpid;0">
1574: ComputerWorld article</a>.
1575: <p>
1576:
1577:
1.680 aanriot 1578: <li><strong><a name=lsm2004></a>
1.257 saad 1579: <a href="http://lsm.abul.org">Libre Software Meeting</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 1580: Jul 6 - 10, 2004, Bordeaux, France.<br>
1.257 saad 1581: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
1582: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim Vandeputte</a>.
1583: <p>
1584:
1585: <li><strong><a name=LinuxTag2004></a>
1586: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.org">LinuxTag 2004</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 1587: Jun 23 - 26, 2004, Karlsruhe, Germany.<br>
1.257 saad 1588: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
1589: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim Vandeputte</a>.
1590: <p>
1591:
1.254 xsa 1592: <li><strong><a name=LinuxwochenVienna2004></a>
1.255 xsa 1593: <a href="http://www.linuxwochen.at/">Linuxwochen Vienna 2004</a></strong>,
1.254 xsa 1594: May 26 - 29, 2004, Vienna, Austria.<br>
1595: The Linuxwochen 2004 tour stopped in the MuseumsQuartier, Vienna.
1596: Wim Vandeputte and Reinhard Sammer ran the OpenBSD booth. Michael Bauer
1597: and Teemu Schaabl from the <a href="http://www.cngw.org/">CNGW</a> gave
1598: a basic talk about pf.
1599: <p>
1600:
1.248 deraadt 1601: <li><strong><a name=BSDCan2004></a>
1.303 mcbride 1602: <a href="http://www.bsdcan.org/2004/">BSDCan 2004</a></strong>,
1.248 deraadt 1603: May 13 - 16, 2004, Ottawa, Canada.<br>
1604: BSDCan was held at the University of Ottawa. Ryan McBride gave a talk
1.302 mcbride 1605: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/papers/bsdcan04-pf/index.html">about newer features in pf</a>,
1606: focusing on the redundancy provided by CARP and pfsync.
1607: Theo de Raadt presented a revised version of his talk on
1.248 deraadt 1608: <a href="papers/bsdcan04">Exploit Mitigation Techniques</a>.
1609: <p>
1610:
1.247 canacar 1611: <li><strong><a name="LOSFAnkara2004"></a>
1612: <a href="http://senlik.linux.org.tr">3rd Linux and Open Source Festival</a></strong>,
1613: May 13 - 16, 2004, Ankara, Turkey.<br>
1614: Can E. Acar and Berk D. Demir talked about the OpenBSD Project. The
1615: philosophy, project goals, system features and recent proactive
1616: security features were introduced. CARP, patents, recent Apache &
1617: XFree86 licensing issues and effects of NDAs in open source
1618: projects were discussed.<br>
1619: You can view the
1.720 canacar 1620: <a href="http://purl.org/net/bddemir/talk/2004/LOYS-OpenBSD-cea-bdd.pdf">
1.247 canacar 1621: slides in PDF format</a> the
1.720 canacar 1622: <a href="http://purl.org/net/bddemir/talk/2004/LOYS-OpenBSD-cea-bdd.tex">
1.247 canacar 1623: LaTeX source</a> is also available (they are
1624: <a href="http://www.eee.metu.edu.tr/~canacar/slides/">mirrored</a>, as well).
1625: <p>
1626:
1.242 henning 1627: <li><strong><a name=Brussels2004></a>
1628: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/">FOSDEM Brussels 2004</a></strong>,
1629: Feb 21 - 22, 2004, Brussels, Belgium.<br>
1.243 henning 1630: An OpenBSD/OpenSSH booth was present, run by Wim Vandeputte.
1631: Several developers (including Henning Brauer, Xavier Santolaria, Thierry Deval,
1632: Philipp Bühler, Otto Moerbeek and Saad Kadhi) showed up.
1633: Wim and Alexander von Gernler gave "lightning talks" about Soekris
1634: and systrace
1.263 saad 1635: (<a href="http://pestilenz.org/~grunk/vortraege/2004/FOSDEM/systrace.pdf">slides</a>), respectively.
1.243 henning 1636: Henning got a slot in the main track to talk about the new bgpd
1637: (<a href="http://www.2suck.net/papers/fosdem2004/">slides</a>).
1638: On Saturday evening, the traditional OpenBSD dinner took place.
1.242 henning 1639: <p>
1640:
1.240 espie 1641: <li><strong><a name=Paris2004></a>
1642: <a href="http://www.linuxsolutions.fr/">Linux Expo Paris 2004</a></strong>,
1643: Feb 3 - 5, 2004, Paris, France.<br>
1644: An OpenBSD booth as well as an OpenSSH booth were present, thanks to
1645: <a href="mailto:saad@docisland.org">Saad Kadhi</a> and
1646: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
1647: <p>
1648:
1649: <li><strong><a name="LWE04"></a>
1650: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/linuxworldny/V40/index.cvn">LinuxWorld
1651: Conference and Expo</a></strong>, Jan 20 - 23, 2004, New York, NY, USA.<br>
1.397 grunk 1652: <a href="mailto:wes@openlysecure.org">Wes Sonnenreich</a> and others
1.240 espie 1653: have established a BSD user group in NYC and held a BSD BoF at the
1654: Jacob Javits Center on January 22nd at 5:45pm, Room 1E15.
1655: <p>
1656: </ul>
1657:
1.188 henning 1658: <h3>2003</h3>
1.236 jose 1659:
1660: <ul>
1.232 jose 1661: <li><strong><a name=20c3></a>
1662: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/2003/">20th Chaos Communication Congress 2003</a></strong>,
1663: Dec 27 - 29, 2003, Berlin, Germany.<br>
1664: OpenBSD was represented by a booth, ran by
1665: <a href= "mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>, and supported by Henning and
1.236 jose 1666: Alexander von Gernler. Alexander also gave a
1.260 saad 1667: <a href="http://pestilenz.org/~grunk/vortraege/2003/20C3/openbsd.pdf">talk</a>
1.232 jose 1668: introducing the project and the OS (in German).
1.236 jose 1669: <p>
1.232 jose 1670:
1.228 jose 1671: <li><strong><a name=brazil2003></a>
1.236 jose 1672: <a href="http://bsdcon.myfreebsd.com.br">1st BSDCon Brazil</a></strong>,
1.228 jose 1673: Dec 6 - 7, 2003. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.<br>
1674: This was the first BSDCon Brazil, and of course OpenBSD was present.
1.236 jose 1675: Douglas Santos spoke on advocacy and about some of the technical aspects
1676: of OpenBSD. Eduardo A. Alvarenga gave a presentation about firewalling
1.228 jose 1677: with OpenBSD PF.
1678: <p>
1679:
1680: <li><strong><a name=ankara03></a>
1.720 canacar 1681: <a href="http://seminer.linux.org.tr">Turkish Linux Users Association</a></strong>,
1.228 jose 1682: Dec 4, 2003, Ankara, Turkey.<br>
1.720 canacar 1683: Can E. Acar and Berk D. Demir gave a mammoth 4 hour presentation on OpenBSD.
1.228 jose 1684: The first part was a broad introduction to the OpenBSD philosophy, the
1.236 jose 1685: project goals, and system features. After a break, in the second part they
1686: talked about the exploit mitigation techniques employed in OpenBSD. This
1687: part was aimed at techies and is almost a complete Turkish translation of
1688: the talk Theo recently gave in Japan. You can view the
1.720 canacar 1689: <a href="http://purl.org/net/bddemir/talk/2003/LS-OpenBSD-cea-bdd.pdf">
1.236 jose 1690: slides in PDF format </a>
1691: (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 1692: <p>
1693:
1.227 jose 1694: <li><strong><a name=Luxembourg2003></a>
1695: <a href="http://www.linuxday.lu/">Linuxday Luxembourg 2003</a></strong>,
1696: Nov 6 - 8, 2003, Luxembourg, Luxembourg.<br>
1697: Booths were present, organized by <a href= "mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
1698: <p>
1699:
1700: <li><strong><a name=Pacsec2003></a>
1701: <a href="http://pacsec.jp/">Pacsec 2003</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 1702: Nov 6 - 7, 2003, Tokyo, Japan.<br>
1.236 jose 1703: Three OpenBSD developers presented on various topics. Theo de Raadt
1.227 jose 1704: gave a presentation on Exploit Mitigation Techniques
1.236 jose 1705: <a href="papers/pacsec03/e/index.html">(English)</a>
1706: <a href="papers/pacsec03/j/index.html">(Japanese)</a>, Jun-ichiro
1.227 jose 1707: itojun Hagino presented material covering
1.236 jose 1708: <a href="http://www.itojun.org/paper/itojun-200311-pacsec-jp/">
1.241 david 1709: IPv6 security considerations</a>, and Jose Nazario discussed advances
1.227 jose 1710: in Internet worm defenses.
1711: <p>
1712:
1.224 miod 1713: <li><strong><a name=Lyon2003></a>
1714: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/agenda/journees/2003/">Les V<sup>èmes</sup> Journées du Libre 2003</a></strong>,
1715: Oct 31 - Nov 1, 2003, Lyon, France.<br>
1716: Miod Vallat gave a talk about the recent security efforts deployed in OpenBSD,
1717: as well as generic security concepts (slides, in bad French, are available in
1718: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/agenda/journees/2003/vallat/miod.mgp">mgp
1719: format</a>). As usual, Wim ran an OpenBSD booth featuring the new 3.4 release,
1720: as well as <a href="http://soekris.kd85.com">Soekris</a> hardware running
1721: OpenBSD.
1722: <p>
1723:
1724: <li><strong><a name=Saarbrucken2003></a>
1725: <a href="http://www.linux-kongress.org/2003/index.html">Linux Kongress Saarbrücken 2003</a></strong>,
1726: Oct 14 - 16, 2003, Saarbrücken, Germany.<br>
1727: An OpenBSD booth was present, starring Wim again.
1728: <p>
1729:
1730: <li><strong><a name=London2003></a>
1731: <a href="http://www.linuxexpo.org.uk/">Linux Expo London 2003</a></strong>,
1732: Oct 8 - 9, 2003, London, UK.<br>
1733: An OpenBSD booth was present, starring Wim as usual.
1734: <p>
1735:
1.219 jose 1736: <li><strong><a name=bsdcon2003></a>
1737: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/bsdcon03/">BSDCon '03</a></strong>,
1738: Sep 8 - 12, 2003, San Mateo, California.<br>
1.236 jose 1739: OpenBSD was represented in the BSD Status Report, and David Rosenthal
1.219 jose 1740: gave a talk on an OpenBSD based security appliance.
1741: <p>
1742:
1.218 jose 1743: <li><strong><a name=sucon2003></a>
1744: <a href="http://www.sucon.ch/">SUCON '03</a></strong>,
1745: Sep 5, 2003. Zurich, Switzerland.<br>
1.236 jose 1746: Daniel Hartmeier talked about PF, and <a
1.218 jose 1747: href="http://open.bsdcow.net/events/sucon2003/">pictures are available</a>.
1748: <p>
1749:
1.214 henning 1750: <li><strong><a name=camp2003></a>
1751: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/camp/">Chaos Communication Camp 2003</a></strong>,
1.733 ! tobias 1752: Aug 7 - 10, 2003, in <a href="http://www.paulshof.de/body-mehr.html">a field</a> near Berlin, Germany.<br>
1.214 henning 1753: There was a huge OpenBSD village. Several OpenBSD developers have been there.
1754: <p>
1755:
1.213 jose 1756: <li><strong><a name=sec2003></a>
1757: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/sec03/">Usenix Security</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1758: Aug 4 - 8, 2003, Washington, DC, USA.<br>
1.236 jose 1759: Niels Provos presented two papers on security advances originally
1.213 jose 1760: developed for OpenBSD, including the OpenSSH privsep feature and systrace.
1761: Several OpenBSD developers were there.
1762: <p>
1763:
1.211 jose 1764: <li><strong><a name=linuxtag2003></a>
1765: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.org/2003/en/index.html">LinuxTag 2003</a></strong>,
1.733 ! tobias 1766: Jul 10 - 13, 2003, Karlsruhe Convention Center, Germany.<br>
1.211 jose 1767: Both OpenBSD and OpenSSH had booths in the main exhibit.
1768: <p>
1769:
1770: <li><strong><a name=lsm2003></a>
1771: <a href="http://libresoftwaremeeting.org/">Libre Software Meeting 2003</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 1772: Jul 9 - 12, 2003, Metz, France.<br>
1.212 matthieu 1773: Matthieu Herrb gave <a href="papers/xf86-sec.pdf">a talk about XFree86 security</a>. There was
1.211 jose 1774: also an OpenBSD booth with developers.
1775: <p>
1776:
1.209 wvdputte 1777: <li><strong><a name=lud2003></a>
1.733 ! tobias 1778: <a href="http://www.linuxuserexpo.com/">Linux User & Developer Expo 2003</a></strong>,
! 1779: Jun 24 - 26, 2003, at the NEC in Birmingham, UK.<br>
1.209 wvdputte 1780: There was an OpenBSD booth with developers.
1781: <p>
1.195 deraadt 1782:
1.202 jason 1783: <li><strong><a name=usenix2003></a>
1.236 jose 1784: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix03/">Usenix Annual Technical
1.216 jose 1785: Conference</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 1786: Jun 9 - 14, 2003, San Antonio, Texas, USA.<br>
1.202 jason 1787: A few OpenBSD developers were there and one paper was presented:
1788: <ul>
1.216 jose 1789: <li>The Design of the OpenBSD Cryptographic Framework<br>
1.202 jason 1790: <a href="events.html#usenix2003">Usenix 2003</a>, by
1.236 jose 1791: Angelos D. Keromytis,
1792: Jason L. Wright, and
1.205 deraadt 1793: Theo de Raadt.<br>
1.202 jason 1794: <a href="papers/ocf.pdf">paper</a>.
1795: </ul>
1796: <p>
1797:
1.216 jose 1798: <li><strong>
1799: <a href="http://www.webb.it/">Webbit 2003</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 1800: May 9 - 11, 2003, Padova, Italy.<br>
1.203 jason 1801: Giacomo Cariello and Wim Vandeputte attended, and several OpenBSD
1.661 martynas 1802: <a href="http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20030503101052">related talks</a> were given.
1.203 jason 1803: <p>
1804:
1.216 jose 1805: <li><strong>
1806: <a href="http://cansecwest.com/">CanSecWest 03</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 1807: Apr 9 - 11, 2003, Vancouver, Canada.<br>
1.195 deraadt 1808: Theo spoke about killing buffer overflows using ProPolice and the new W^X technology,
1.196 matthieu 1809: available as a <a href="papers/csw03.mgp">magicpoint file</a>.
1.195 deraadt 1810: <p>
1811:
1.216 jose 1812: <li><strong>
1813: <a href="http://www.cebit.de/">CeBIT 2003</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 1814: Mar 14, 2003, Hannover, Germany.<br>
1.236 jose 1815: 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 1816: gave a talk on OpenBSD and OpenSSH. <a href="papers/cebit2003.tgz">slides</a> are available.
1.194 henning 1817: <p>
1818:
1.216 jose 1819: <li><strong>
1820: <a href="http://www.linuxforum.dk/2003/english/">LinuxForum 2003</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 1821: Mar 1, 2003, Copenhagen, Denmark.<br>
1.236 jose 1822: Daniel spoke about PF (slides in <a href="papers/linuxforum2k3.tar.gz">mgp</a>,
1823: <a href="http://www.benzedrine.cx/linuxforum/">HTML</a>).
1.191 dhartmei 1824: It was a small but cozy conference, jointly held by Danish Linux and BSD
1825: user groups.
1826: <p>
1827:
1.236 jose 1828: <li><strong>
1829: <a href="http://www.cuug.ab.ca">CUUG - The Calgary Unix Users
1.216 jose 1830: Group</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 1831: Feb 25, 2003, 18:00 MST, Calgary, Canada.<br>
1.190 miod 1832: OpenBSD lead developer Theo de Raadt spoke about some of the recent
1833: changes in OpenBSD that are leading the way to the complete elimination of
1834: "buffer overflow" security risks and attacks.
1835: <p>
1836:
1.216 jose 1837: <li><strong>
1838: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/">FOSDEM 2003</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 1839: Feb 8 - 9, 2003, Brussels, Belgium.<br>
1.236 jose 1840: Henning and Philipp gave a talk on -current PF developments
1.196 matthieu 1841: (<a href="papers/fosdem2k3-pf.mgp">slides</a>)
1.187 henning 1842: and on Saturday evening, there was an OpenBSD dinner for those interested.
1843: <p>
1844:
1.216 jose 1845: <li><strong>
1846: <a href="http://linuxsolutions.fr/FR/home/index.php?site=default">Linux Solutions</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 1847: Feb 4 - 6, 2003, CNIT - Paris La Défense, France.<br>
1.185 miod 1848: There was an OpenBSD booth with several OpenBSD developers, as well as 3.2 OpenBSD
1.413 grunk 1849: CD sets and T-shirts.
1.185 miod 1850: <p>
1.236 jose 1851: </ul>
1.185 miod 1852:
1.161 millert 1853: <h3>2002</h3>
1.236 jose 1854:
1855: <ul>
1856: <li><strong>
1857: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/2002/">19c3: the 19th CCC
1.216 jose 1858: Congress</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 1859: Dec 27 - 29, 2002, Berlin, Germany.<br>
1.236 jose 1860: There was a huge <a href="http://www.eurobsd.org/19c3">reserved space</a> for
1861: OpenBSD users and developers, a couple of -current test systems and for those
1.413 grunk 1862: curious, a first look at the 3.2 OpenBSD T-shirts.
1.184 wvdputte 1863: <p>
1.177 jason 1864:
1.216 jose 1865: <li><strong>
1866: <a href="http://2002.eurobsdcon.org/">BSDCon Europe 2002</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 1867: Nov 15 - 17, 2002, Amsterdam, Netherlands.<br>
1.181 henning 1868: OpenBSD people were there;
1.236 jose 1869: Philipp Bühler and Henning Brauer spoke about
1.182 ian 1870: <a href="papers/tuning-openbsd.ps">
1871: network performance tuning on OpenBSD</a>,
1.236 jose 1872: and Ian Darwin presented a
1.182 ian 1873: <a href="papers/eurobsd-firewalls-2002.pdf">
1874: tutorial on OpenBSD servers/firewalls</a>.
1.179 pb 1875: <p>
1.178 pb 1876:
1.216 jose 1877: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1878: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa02/">LISA '02: 16th Systems
1.216 jose 1879: Administration Conference</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 1880: Nov 3 - 8, 2002, Philadelphia, USA.<br>
1.177 jason 1881: Mickey and Jason manned the booth at the vendor expo (the only BSD
1882: represented) and sold <a href="32.html">3.2</a> CDs, and Jason gave a BoF
1883: session on <a href="32.html">3.2</a> and future.
1884: <p>
1885:
1.216 jose 1886: <li><strong>
1.264 djm 1887: <a href="http://www.auug.org.au/events/2002/auug2002/">Australian Unix Users
1888: Group Winter Conference</a></strong>,
1.733 ! tobias 1889: Sep 1 - 6, 2002, Melbourne, Australia.<br>
1.264 djm 1890: Damien Miller presented a tutorial on the
1891: <a href="papers/auug2002-ssh/index.html">SSH protocol</a> and
1892: <a href="papers/auug2002-ssh.ps">OpenSSH tips and tricks</a>.
1893: <p>
1894:
1895: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 1896: <a href="http://lsm.abul.org">The 3rd Libre Software Meeting</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 1897: Jul 9 - 13, 2002, Bordeaux, France.<br>
1.172 miod 1898: Several OpenBSD developers and users were attending the meeting, and
1899: Niels Provos presented his
1900: <a href="http://www.citi.umich.edu/u/provos/systrace">systrace</a>
1901: system call policy management tool.
1.174 nick 1902: <p>
1.172 miod 1903:
1.216 jose 1904: <li><strong>
1905: <a href="http://www.Webb.it">Webb.it 02</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 1906: Jul 5 - 7, 2002, Padova, Italy.<br>
1.171 ian 1907: OpenBSD developers had a booth selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
1908: <p>
1909:
1.216 jose 1910: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1911: <a href="http://www.softwarelivre.rs.gov.br/forum">The Annual International
1.216 jose 1912: Free Software Forum</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 1913: May 2 - 4, 2002, Porto Alegre-RS, Brazil.<br>
1.236 jose 1914: Mainly a Linux/GNU event, but this year the BSD Operating Systems
1915: had a chance to prove their value.
1.169 horacio 1916: Edson Brandi spoke on FreeBSD, Diego Linke
1.236 jose 1917: on NetBSD, and Ricardo Nascimento Ferreira on OpenBSD.
1.169 horacio 1918: <p>
1.168 miod 1919:
1.216 jose 1920: <li><strong>
1921: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/bsdcon02/">BSDCON 2002</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 1922: Feb 11 - 14, 2002, San Francisco, California, USA.<br>
1.161 millert 1923: Todd Miller gave an update on current OpenBSD status and participated in a
1.162 millert 1924: BSD panel discussion. The <a href="slides/bsdcon_2002/index.html">slides</a>
1925: are available.
1.161 millert 1926: <p>
1927:
1.216 jose 1928: <li><strong>
1929: <a href="http://www.linuxexpoparis.com">Linux expo Paris 2002</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 1930: Jan 30 - Feb 1, 2002, Paris, France.<br>
1.163 miod 1931: The french Linux Expo 2002 was quite small and as usual the OpenBSD booth ended
1932: up with others on the expo's side. On the first day, almost all the merchandise
1933: was sold, and we have even sold older versions (2.9) the following days to
1934: people who wouldn't leave without a cd set in their hands...
1935: <p>
1936:
1.216 jose 1937: <li><strong>
1938: <a href="http://musess.mcmaster.ca/">MUSESS 2002</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 1939: Jan 25 - 26, 2002, McMaster University, Ontario, Canada.<br>
1.164 millert 1940: Louis Bertrand gave a presentation on OpenBSD titled
1941: <strong>Fix The Bugs, Secure The System</strong>.
1942: The <a href="slides/musess_2002/index.html">slides</a> are available.
1943: <p>
1.236 jose 1944: </ul>
1.164 millert 1945:
1.152 jakob 1946: <h3>2001</h3>
1947:
1.236 jose 1948: <ul>
1.216 jose 1949: <li><strong>
1950: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa01/">USENIX LISA 2001</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 1951: Dec 2 - 7, 2001, San Diego, California, USA.<br>
1.160 jufi 1952: Niels Provos gave a presentation, and there's been a booth selling
1.413 grunk 1953: T-shirts and 3.0 CDs.
1.160 jufi 1954: <p>
1955:
1.216 jose 1956: <li><strong>
1957: <a href="http://www.ietf.org/meetings/IETF-52.html">52nd IETF</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 1958: Dec 9 - 14, 2001, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA.<br>
1.160 jufi 1959: Angelos, Itojun & Jakob were there.
1960: <p>
1961:
1.158 deraadt 1962: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1963: <a href="http://www.disc2000.unam.mx/disc/index-ing.html">DISC
1.216 jose 1964: 2001</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 1965: Nov 26 - 29, 2001, Mexico City, Mexico.<br>
1.158 deraadt 1966: Once again, Theo de Raadt explained the security auditing process and
1967: subsequent secure configuration choices made in OpenBSD, in a talk
1968: entitled "Updated thoughts on writing a secure Operating System".
1969: <p>
1970:
1.216 jose 1971: <li><strong>
1972: <a href="http://www.linux.org.hk">LinuxCafe</a></strong>,
1973: Sep 15, 2001, Hong Kong, China<br>
1.156 provos 1974: Shell Hung gave an introduction for BSD and demonstration of OpenBSD to HKLUG.
1975: <p>
1976:
1.201 deraadt 1977: <li><strong>VPN Bakeoff</strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 1978: Aug 13 - 18, 2001, Finland.<br>
1.156 provos 1979: Jakob and Itojun were there.
1980: <p>
1.158 deraadt 1981:
1.150 wvdputte 1982: <li><strong>
1.215 nick 1983: <a href="http://www.hal2001.org">HAL 2001</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 1984: Aug 10 - 12, 2001, Twente, Netherlands.<br>
1.153 jufi 1985: Quite a lot of developers were there, we even had our own tent.
1986: Niels, Rees and Dugsong held talks, more info on the main website
1987: for HAL2001. And of course T-Shirts and CDROMs were sold.
1.150 wvdputte 1988: <p>
1.137 aaron 1989:
1990: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1991: <a href="http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon/">O'Reilly Open Source
1.216 jose 1992: Conference</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 1993: Jul 23 - 27, 2001, San Diego, California, USA.<br>
1.148 brian 1994: OpenBSD had a booth selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
1995: Ian Darwin presented his "Firewalls and Secure Internet Servers
1996: with OpenBSD" tutorial.
1997: <p>
1998:
1999: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 2000: <a href="http://www.defcon.org">DEF CON Nine</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 2001: Jul 13 - 15, 2001 Las Vegas, USA.<br>
1.148 brian 2002: OpenBSD developers and users make it a point to attend every year,
2003: and had a table selling CD's, shirts, etc.
2004: <p>
2005:
2006: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2007: <a href="http://www.sek.co.kr/sek2001/sek_html/main.htm">Software
1.216 jose 2008: Exhibition of Korea</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 2009: Jun 26 - 29, 2001, Seoul, Korea.<br>
1.146 krw 2010: urisecure/NDS sponsored an OpenBSD booth with CD's, posters,
2011: and a live demo of OpenBSD's IPSEC hardware acceleration.
2012: <p>
2013:
2014: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2015: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix01/">2001 USENIX Annual
1.216 jose 2016: Technical Conference</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 2017: Jun 25 - 30, 2001, Boston, USA.<br>
1.146 krw 2018: OpenBSD developers were there, selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
2019: <p>
2020:
2021: <li><strong>
1.143 dugsong 2022: <a href="http://www.olymfair.org/eng/workshop.htm">Information
1.201 deraadt 2023: Security OlymFair</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 2024: May 16 - 18, 2001, Seoul, Korea.<br>
1.143 dugsong 2025: Dug Song gave a detailed introduction to OpenBSD to the Korean
2026: security community.
2027: <p>
2028:
2029: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2030: <a href="http://www.osdem.org/">2001 Open Source and Free Software
1.216 jose 2031: Developers' Meeting</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 2032: Feb 3 - 4, 2001, Brussels, Belgium.<br>
1.137 aaron 2033: There was an OpenBSD booth with some loose talks made.
2034: <p>
2035:
2036: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 2037: <a href="http://www.linuxexpoparis.com/">2001 Linux Expo</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 2038: Feb 1 - 2, 2001, Paris, France.<br>
1.236 jose 2039: There was an OpenBSD booth in the 'F' area.
1.137 aaron 2040: <p>
1.236 jose 2041: </ul>
1.137 aaron 2042:
1.132 louis 2043: <h3>2000</h3>
2044:
1.236 jose 2045: <ul>
1.132 louis 2046: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2047: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa2000/">LISA 2000, USENIX
1.216 jose 2048: Systems Administration Conference</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 2049: Dec 3 - 8, 2000, New Orleans, USA.<br>
1.134 jufi 2050: Wim Vandeputte and other volunteers have been running a sales table with
2051: shirts, posters and the brand new 2.8 CDs.
2052: <p>
2053:
2054: <li><strong>
1.215 nick 2055: <a href="http://www.disc2000.unam.mx/disc/index-ing.html">DISC 2000</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 2056: Nov 26 - Dec 1, 2000, Mexico City, Mexico.<br>
1.133 deraadt 2057: Theo de Raadt explained the security auditing process and subsequent secure
2058: configuration choices made in OpenBSD, in a talk entitled "Secure by Default".
2059: Over the next few days, he also participated in two panels with various security
2060: experts who had flown in from around the world. Following this, Theo climbed
1.151 jsyn 2061: one of the largest volcanoes, called Malinche.
1.133 deraadt 2062: <p>
2063:
2064: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2065: <a href="http://www.nluug.nl/events/nj2000">NLUUG Najaarsconferentie
1.216 jose 2066: 2000</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 2067: Nov 9, 2000, Ede, Netherlands.<br>
1.236 jose 2068: There was an OpenBSD booth where people dropped by for information or to
1.413 grunk 2069: get their T-shirts, polos, caps and 2.7 CDs.
1.13 deraadt 2070: <p>
1.4 millert 2071:
1.132 louis 2072: <li><strong><a name=ipsec2000></a>
1.236 jose 2073: <a href="http://www.upperside.fr/baipsecy2k.htm">IPsec 2000 Global
1.216 jose 2074: Summit</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 2075: Oct 24 - 27, 2000, Paris La Defense, France.<br>
1.159 miod 2076: Niels Provos ended the conference by speaking about the IPsec architecture
1.132 louis 2077: in OpenBSD. The talk was well received and many people were very interested
2078: about our cryptographic hardware acceleration.
2079:
2080: <ul>
1.236 jose 2081: <li>The IPsec Architecture in OpenBSD<br>
1.215 nick 2082: <a href="#ipsec2000">IPsec 2000 Global Summit</a> by Niels Provos.<br>
1.132 louis 2083: <a href="papers/ipsec-slides.ps">slides</a>.
2084: </ul>
1.4 millert 2085: <p>
1.132 louis 2086:
1.7 deraadt 2087: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 2088: <a href="http://ApacheCon.Com/2000/EU/">ApacheCon Europa 2000</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 2089: Oct 23 - 25, 2000, London, UK.<br>
1.132 louis 2090: There was an OpenBSD booth where people could drop by for information and
2091: a chat with the local OpenBSD personnel. We also had the essentials for
1.413 grunk 2092: your wardrobe (T-shirts, polos, caps), for your hardware (2.7 CDs) and for your
1.132 louis 2093: mind (drinks afterwards).
2094: <p>
2095:
1.216 jose 2096: <li><strong>
2097: <a href="http://www.bsdcon.com/">BSD Con 2000</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 2098: Oct 18 - 20, 2000, Monterey, CA, USA.<br>
1.132 louis 2099: David Terrell ran an OpenBSD booth selling T-shirts and CDs and answering
2100: questions.
1.32 deraadt 2101: <p>
1.1 deraadt 2102:
1.132 louis 2103: <li><strong><a name=opensource2000></a>
1.236 jose 2104: <a href="http://www.opensource-forum.com/konferens">The Open Source
1.216 jose 2105: Revolution</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 2106: Oct 5, 2000, Stockholm, Sweden.<br>
1.133 deraadt 2107: Theo de Raadt spoke about how user expectations for security out of the box
2108: have changed over the last years.
1.1 deraadt 2109: <p>
2110:
1.132 louis 2111: <li><strong><a name=sec2000></a>
1.216 jose 2112: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/sec2000/">Usenix Security</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 2113: Aug 14 - 17, 2000, Denver, Colorado, USA.<br>
1.132 louis 2114: Some OpenBSD developers were there and one paper was presented:
2115: <ul>
1.236 jose 2116: <li>Encrypting Virtual Memory<br>
1.132 louis 2117: <a href="#sec2000">Usenix Security 2000</a>
1.205 deraadt 2118: by Niels Provos.<br>
1.132 louis 2119: <a href="papers/swapencrypt.ps">paper</a> and
2120: <a href="papers/swapencrypt-slides.ps">slides</a>.
2121: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 2122: <p>
1.132 louis 2123:
1.10 provos 2124: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 2125: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-8-post.html">Defcon 2000</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 2126: Jul 28 - 30, 2000, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.<br>
1.236 jose 2127: Kjell Wooding (our IPF maintainer), James Phillips from the
1.132 louis 2128: <a href="http://www.deadly.org">OpenBSD Journal</a>, and Theo de Raadt
1.413 grunk 2129: had a table and were selling OpenBSD CDROMs, T-shirts, and posters on
1.132 louis 2130: Friday and Saturday. Hordes of people visited our table and we at the
2131: end we were completely sold out of CDROMS and shirts (allowing us to go
2132: check out Hoover Dam's hardhat tour on Sunday and leave the madness behind).
2133: <br>
2134: We were completely amazed at the people who stopped by our table, to say
2135: that they were relying on OpenBSD.
2136: <p>
1.32 deraadt 2137:
1.132 louis 2138: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2139: <a href="http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon2000/">O'Reilly Open Source
1.216 jose 2140: Conference 2000</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 2141: Jul 17 - 20, 2000, Monterey, California, USA.<br>
1.216 jose 2142: Ian Darwin presented a <a href="papers/oreilly2000/">tutorial</a> on
1.132 louis 2143: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/w/bsd_tutorials.html">
2144: Secure Internet Servers/Firewalls with OpenBSD</a>, and bravely
2145: manned the OpenBSD booth for the remainder of the show.
2146: Kjell Wooding took part in a panel discussion on the Future of the BSDs,
2147: and spoke about
2148: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/w/bsd_presentations.html">
1.241 david 2149: Secure By Default.</a> Both sessions were well attended, and at least
1.132 louis 2150: one Linux sysadmin was seen racing for a keyboard, scared look in his eyes,
1.236 jose 2151: after the security talk.
1.3 provos 2152: <p>
1.132 louis 2153:
1.6 deraadt 2154: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 2155: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.de/2000/english/">LinuxTag 2000</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 2156: Jun 29 - Jul 2, 2000, Stuttgart, Germany.<br>
1.132 louis 2157: There was a BSD booth where we had the first <a href="27.html">OpenBSD 2.7 CDs</a> for Europe
2158: and the new blue stitchwork <a href="tshirts.html#11">Blowfish Polo</a> shirt.
2159: <br>
2160: Christian Weisgerber gave a
2161: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.de/2000/english/conference/talks.php3?ID=3">talk
2162: on BSD</a>.
1.32 deraadt 2163: <p>
1.1 deraadt 2164:
1.216 jose 2165: <li><strong><a name=usenix2000></a>
1.236 jose 2166: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix2000/">Usenix Annual Technical
1.216 jose 2167: Conference.</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 2168: Jun 18 - 23, 2000, San Diego, California, USA.<br>
1.132 louis 2169: Almost 20 OpenBSD developers showed up for the 25th anniversary of Usenix.
2170: We had a vendor booth, as well as a number of papers being presented.
2171: Conference attendees had the opportunity to test drive the new release,
2172: OpenBSD 2.7, on the 30 workstations in the terminal room. For the first
2173: time ever, the terminal room and wavelan networks also had a IPv6 connection,
1.147 jason 2174: and some users even discovered so by themselves.
1.132 louis 2175: Theo also held a BoF on the Wednesday evening, after which the developers
2176: had almost too much singing in foreign languages with the help of helium.
2177: <ul>
2178:
2179: <li>Implementing Internet Key Exchange, IKE.<br>
2180: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
1.216 jose 2181: by Angelos D. Keromytis, Niklas Hallqvist.<br>
1.132 louis 2182: <a href="papers/ikepaper.ps">paper</a> and
2183: <a href="papers/ikeslides.ps">slides</a>.
2184:
2185: <li>Transparent Network Security Policy Enforcement.<br>
2186: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
1.216 jose 2187: by Angelos D. Keromytis, Jason L. Wright.<br>
1.132 louis 2188: <a href="papers/bridgepaper.ps">paper</a> and
2189: <a href="papers/bridgeslides.ps">slides</a>.
1.2 deraadt 2190:
1.132 louis 2191: <li>Safety Checking of Kernel Extensions.<br>
2192: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
1.205 deraadt 2193: by Craig Metz.
1.132 louis 2194: </ul>
1.2 deraadt 2195: <p>
2196:
1.132 louis 2197: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2198: <a href="http://www.manlug.mcc.ac.uk/calendar.html">OpenBSD: The Open
1.216 jose 2199: Source Secure Operating System</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 2200: Jun 17, 2000, 14:00. Manchester, UK.<br>
1.132 louis 2201: Sam Smith gave a rundown of features coming in OpenBSD 2.7 and
2202: OpenSSH 2.1. His <a href="http://www.manlug.mcc.ac.uk/20000617/">slides</a>
2203: are available from the user group's site.
1.1 deraadt 2204: <p>
1.2 deraadt 2205:
1.132 louis 2206: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 2207: <a href="reprints/crypto2000.html">OpenBSD Crypto 2000 conference</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 2208: Jun 15 - 20, 2000, Calgary, AB, Canada.<br>
1.132 louis 2209: Repeating the tradition of a similar meeting held last year, many
2210: OpenBSD developers from around the world converged on Calgary
2211: for a weekend long hack-and-drink session. As before, the event
2212: was invitation only. Many significant things got done, including
2213: ipv6 + ipsec running over hardware crypto devices.
1.1 deraadt 2214: <p>
1.11 jkatz 2215:
1.17 deraadt 2216: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 2217: <a href="http://www.converge2000.com">CONVERGENCE 2000</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 2218: May 18, 2000. Convention Centre, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.<br>
1.132 louis 2219: Theo de Raadt participated in a panel discussion about the pros and cons
2220: of using Open Source software in various business environments. The local
2221: users also handed out OpenSSH and OpenBSD posters, and were absolutely
2222: surprised and amazed by the number of Calgary companies quietly using
2223: OpenBSD.
1.21 pattonme 2224: <p>
1.17 deraadt 2225:
1.23 niklas 2226: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 2227: <a href="http://www.cansecwest.com/">CanSecWest</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 2228: May 10 - 12, 2000. Robson Conference Centre, Vancouver, BC, Canada.<br>
1.132 louis 2229: Theo de Raadt spoke about why programmers keep making the same stupid mistakes,
2230: what types of efforts might improve this, and how this all relates to auditing
1.375 grunk 2231: efforts.
2232: Rain Forest Puppy, Ron Gula (Network Security Wizards), Ken Williams (E&Y),
1.216 jose 2233: Marty Roesch (snort/HiverWorld), and Fyodor (nmap) were among the other speakers
1.132 louis 2234: at this event. (On a personal note: at this conference Theo realized that three
2235: leading Network Intrusion Detection System companies use OpenBSD as their
2236: base operating system: Hiverworld, Network Security Wizards, and NFR).
1.32 deraadt 2237: <p>
1.25 deraadt 2238:
1.132 louis 2239: <li><strong>
2240: <a href="http://www.zdevents.com/comdex/spring2000/">Linux Business Expo /
1.201 deraadt 2241: COMDEX Spring 2000</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 2242: Apr 19, 2000, Chicago, IL, USA.<br>
1.216 jose 2243: Louis Bertrand represented OpenBSD at a BSD BOF with FreeBSD/BDSI,
1.132 louis 2244: NetBSD and Apple (Darwin is BSD-derived). The BOF was attended by about
2245: 75 people, many of whom were new to *BSD. It was an opportunity to
2246: explore future cooperation among the various BSD groups and companies.
1.25 deraadt 2247: <p>
1.23 niklas 2248:
1.31 deraadt 2249: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2250: <a href="http://www.nordu.org/NordU2000/">NordU 2000 -- The second
1.216 jose 2251: EurOpen/USENIX Conference</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 2252: Feb 8 - 11, 2000. Malmo, Sweden.<br>
1.140 jufi 2253: About 15 OpenBSD team members attended.
1.132 louis 2254: OpenBSD CDs and shirts were sold at a booth donated by the conference.<br>
2255: As well, Theo de Raadt gave an invited talk on Wednesday morning
2256: about why software quality/security suffers, and what we can do to
2257: improve it.
1.32 deraadt 2258: <p>
1.31 deraadt 2259:
1.201 deraadt 2260: <li><strong>BSD BOF session, LinuxWorld Expo</strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 2261: Feb 3, 2000, New York, USA.<br>
1.132 louis 2262: Representatives from OpenBSD, BSDi, and FreeBSD hosted a
2263: "Birds Of a Feather" session at the <a
2264: href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/">New York LinuxWorld Expo</a>.<br>
2265: There were installation CD-ROMs, free food, and even free Daemon Horns!
1.33 niklas 2266: <p>
1.236 jose 2267: </ul>
1.33 niklas 2268:
1.132 louis 2269: <h3>1999</h3>
1.36 niklas 2270:
1.236 jose 2271: <ul>
1.216 jose 2272: <li><strong>The Bazaar</strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 2273: Dec 14 - 16, 1999, New York, New York, USA.<br>
1.132 louis 2274: Wes Sonnenreich and Tom Yates presented a tutorial on building
1.216 jose 2275: firewalls with OpenBSD. BoF of open source BSDs took place.
1.413 grunk 2276: 2.6 release CDROMs and T-shirts were sold.
1.132 louis 2277: Emphatic interest has been shown by representatives from press, international
2278: government and military institutions.
1.45 jason 2279: <p>
2280:
1.216 jose 2281: <li><strong><a name=lisa99></a>
1.236 jose 2282: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa99/">13th Systems Administration
1.216 jose 2283: Conference (LISA 99)</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 2284: Nov 7 - 12, 1999, Seattle, Washington, USA.<br>
1.132 louis 2285: Bob Beck presented a paper about the U of A's nifty OpenBSD based
2286: solution to the problem of public Ethernet jacks in the technical sessions
2287: starting at 11:00 AM on the 11th.<br>
2288: There were many other OpenBSD
2289: people at this conference as well, as well as a booth selling CDROMs and
1.413 grunk 2290: T-shirts. His paper is available at:
1.132 louis 2291:
2292: <ul>
2293: <li>Dealing with Public Ethernet Jacks-Switches, Gateways, and Authentication.<br>
1.236 jose 2294: <a href="events.html#lisa99">LISA 1999</a>,
1.206 david 2295: by Bob Beck.<br>
1.236 jose 2296: <a href="papers/authgw-paper.ps">paper</a> and
2297: <a href="papers/authgw-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 2298: </ul>
2299: <p>
2300:
2301: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 2302: IP-dagarna 1999</strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 2303: Oct 27 - 28, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden.<br>
1.132 louis 2304: Håkan Olsson & Jakob Schlyter spoke at the DNSSEC session on the 27th.
2305: <p>
2306:
2307: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2308: <a href="http://www.opensource-forum.com/konferens/">Linux & Open Source
1.216 jose 2309: Software '99</a></strong>,
2310: Oct 21, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)<br>
1.132 louis 2311: Niklas Hallqvist spoke on the topic of how to use
1.236 jose 2312: <a
1.375 grunk 2313: href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4">IPsec</a> for securing communications.
1.132 louis 2314: <p>
2315:
2316: <li><strong>
1.705 pvalchev 2317: <a href="http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference/1999">Reflections/Projections
1.216 jose 2318: 1999</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 2319: Oct 8 - 10, 1999, Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA.<br>
1.132 louis 2320: Theo de Raadt spoke at 10:00am on the 9th. Other OpenBSD
2321: developers from the east coast attended as well.
2322: <p>
2323:
1.236 jose 2324: <li><strong><a name="ipsec99"></a>
1.216 jose 2325: IPsec Interoperability tests</strong>,
2326: Sep 27 - 30, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)<br>
1.236 jose 2327: A dozen vendors, among them OpenBSD, tested more than 15
1.375 grunk 2328: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4">IPsec</a>
1.132 louis 2329: products, both gateways and hosts, for interoperability. The tests
2330: were successful as far as general IPsec and pre-shared key
2331: authentication went, OpenBSD interoperated with everyone, but due to
2332: time constraints we never got to test the certificate support
2333: appropriately. The results were presented later that fall at a
2334: conference in Stockholm.
2335: <p>
2336:
2337: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2338: <a href="http://www.auug.org.au/winter/auug99">AUUG'99</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 2339: Sep 8 - 11, 1999, Melbourne, Australia.<br>
1.132 louis 2340: Theo de Raadt gave two talks on "quality of software" related issues
2341: and participated on a panel about how open source projects are
2342: coordinated.
2343: <p>
2344:
2345: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2346: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/sec99/index.html">Usenix
1.216 jose 2347: Security</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 2348: Aug 23 - 26, 1999, Washington, DC, USA.<br>
1.132 louis 2349: Many OpenBSD people from the east coast showed up and sold CDs and
2350: shirts. It was pretty clear from discussions that many people were
2351: very aware of OpenBSD, and that OpenBSD was being used in very
2352: significant security roles.
2353: <p>
2354:
2355: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2356: <a href="http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/99jul/index.html">45th IETF
1.216 jose 2357: meeting</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 2358: Jul 12 - 16, 1999, Oslo, Norway.<br>
1.132 louis 2359: A number of OpenBSD team members from all over the world were at this
2360: conference. In addition to attending the IPsec and DNS working groups (among
2361: others) we did IPsec/IKE interoperability testing together with
1.166 miod 2362: the Japanese KAME project. Also, Angelos D. Keromytis did a presentation on
1.132 louis 2363: his work with keynote and isakmpd in OpenBSD.
2364: <p>
1.45 jason 2365:
1.132 louis 2366: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2367: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-6.html">Defcon 6.0</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 2368: Jul 9 - 11, 1999, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.<br>
1.132 louis 2369: At this conference, the OpenBSD team sold 100 or so 2.5 release CDROMs
1.413 grunk 2370: and a TON of T-shirts.
1.46 deraadt 2371: <p>
1.132 louis 2372:
1.236 jose 2373: <li><strong><a name="usenix99"></a>
2374: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix99/index.html">
1.216 jose 2375: Usenix Annual Technical Conference</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 2376: Jun 6 - 11, 1999, Monterey, California, USA.<br>
1.106 jufi 2377: The <a href="http://www.usenix.org">USENIX Association</a>
1.46 deraadt 2378: provided The OpenBSD Project with a grant to underwrite the production
1.106 jufi 2379: of CDs of OpenBSD 2.5. (We distributed the
2380: release for free to attendees of the USENIX Annual Conference in
1.46 deraadt 2381: June.)
1.132 louis 2382: <br>
1.46 deraadt 2383: Usenix team members were involved in the authoring and
1.132 louis 2384: presentation of 4 OpenBSD-related papers:
2385:
1.375 grunk 2386: <a name="anoncvs_paper"></a>
1.46 deraadt 2387: <ul>
1.66 deraadt 2388: <li>Opening the Source Repository with Anonymous CVS.<br>
1.236 jose 2389: <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216 jose 2390: by Charles D. Cranor, Theo de Raadt.<br>
1.236 jose 2391: <a href="papers/anoncvs-paper.ps">paper</a> and
2392: <a href="papers/anoncvs-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 2393: <br>
1.66 deraadt 2394: <li>A Future-Adaptable Password Scheme.<br>
1.236 jose 2395: <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216 jose 2396: by Niels Provos, David Mazieres.<br>
1.236 jose 2397: <a href="papers/bcrypt-paper.ps">paper</a> and
2398: <a href="papers/bcrypt-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 2399: <br>
1.66 deraadt 2400: <li>Cryptography in OpenBSD: An Overview.<br>
1.236 jose 2401: <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216 jose 2402: by Theo de Raadt, Niklas Hallqvist, Artur Grabowski,
2403: Angelos D. Keromytis, Niels Provos.<br>
1.236 jose 2404: <a href="papers/crypt-paper.ps">paper</a> and
2405: <a href="papers/crypt-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 2406: <br>
1.66 deraadt 2407: <li>strlcpy and strlcat -- consistent, safe, string copy and concatenation.<br>
1.236 jose 2408: <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216 jose 2409: by Todd C. Miller, Theo de Raadt.<br>
1.236 jose 2410: <a href="papers/strlcpy-paper.ps">paper</a> and
2411: <a href="papers/strlcpy-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 2412: </ul>
1.66 deraadt 2413: <p>
1.46 deraadt 2414:
1.51 deraadt 2415: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2416: <a href="http://www.linuxexpo.org">5th Annual Linux Expo</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 2417: May 18 - 22, 1999, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA.<br>
1.132 louis 2418: Some OpenBSD team members were at this conference selling OpenBSD 2.5 CDs,
2419: OpenBSE T-shirts, as well as Blowfish T-shirts, which sold out very quickly
2420: at a table donated by the Expo. OpenBSD was the only BSD represented at the
2421: vendor exposition, and we had good chance to present a secure alternative
2422: to Linux.
1.51 deraadt 2423: <p>
2424:
1.53 jakob 2425: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2426: <a href="http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/99mar/index.html">44th IETF
1.216 jose 2427: meeting</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 2428: Mar 15 - 19, 1999, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.<br>
1.132 louis 2429: Some OpenBSD team members were at this conference, in particular our
2430: IPSEC developers.
1.53 jakob 2431: <p>
2432:
1.132 louis 2433: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2434: <a href="http://www.europen.se/NordU99">NordU99 -- The first
1.216 jose 2435: EurOpen/USENIX Conference</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 2436: Feb 9 - 12, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden.<br>
1.132 louis 2437: A couple of OpenBSD team members were there and some of the swedish user
2438: society as well. OpenBSD CDs were sold at a booth and at the end of a
2439: security talk, the project got applauded for its continuous strive of auditing
2440: security sensitive parts of the system.
1.59 deraadt 2441: <p>
1.236 jose 2442: </ul>
1.59 deraadt 2443:
1.132 louis 2444: <h3>1998</h3>
1.59 deraadt 2445:
1.236 jose 2446: <ul>
1.132 louis 2447: <li><strong><a name=ipsec98></a>
1.690 nick 2448: IPsec/VPN Interoperability tests & seminar</strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 2449: Dec 14, 1998, Stockholm, Sweden.<br>
1.132 louis 2450: OpenBSD was represented as one of about a dozen
1.375 grunk 2451: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4">IPsec</a>
1.132 louis 2452: implementations who were tested for interoperability. The tests were
2453: successful, both for the technology in general, and for OpenBSD in
2454: specific. We managed to communicate encrypted with every vendor present,
2455: and to negotiate keys via IKE with everyone capable.
1.70 deraadt 2456: <p>
2457:
1.236 jose 2458: <li><strong><a name="lisaboston-98"></a>
1.690 nick 2459: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa98">LISA '98: 12th Systems Administration
1.216 jose 2460: Conference</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 2461: Dec 6 - 11, 1998, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.<br>
1.132 louis 2462: More than 10 OpenBSD team members showed up. By far, OpenBSD was the
2463: largest representative group from free software at the conference.
2464: Usenix gave us a table in the vendor area where we sold 2.4 CDROMs,
1.413 grunk 2465: 2.3 "wire-frame" T-shirts, and the new 2.4 embroidered
2466: "Because security matters..." T-shirts, polos, and sweaters.
1.132 louis 2467: An OpenBSD BOF was held one evening, led by Theo de Raadt.
2468: A PalmPilot schedule loader was at the membership booth, powered by OpenBSD.
2469: <br>
1.690 nick 2470: The terminal room ran OpenBSD 2.4 on 45 machines. Obviously trust in OpenBSD
2471: had increased since many people, normally wary of security problems of open
1.132 louis 2472: terminal rooms, were seen using the machines.
1.72 ho 2473: <p>
2474:
1.73 deraadt 2475: <li><strong>
1.690 nick 2476: <a href="http://www.disc.unam.mx/eventos_anteriores/disc98/">DISC - Seguridad en
1.217 jose 2477: Cómputo 98</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 2478: Nov 2 - 7, 1998, Mexico City, Mexico.<br>
1.132 louis 2479: Theo de Raadt gave a talk about security auditing, sponsored by
1.236 jose 2480: <a href="http://www.core-sdi.com">CORE SDI S.A.</a>, an Argentine
1.132 louis 2481: security auditing company who strongly believes in the future
1.236 jose 2482: of OpenBSD. (<a href="papers/mexico98-slides.ps">Slides are available</a>).
1.131 jufi 2483: <p>
1.73 deraadt 2484:
1.236 jose 2485: <li><strong>IP-dagarna</strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 2486: Oct 29, 30 1998, Stockholm, Sweden.<br>
1.132 louis 2487: At this conference, entirely devoted to IP, Niklas Hallqvist from the
2488: OpenBSD team held a talk on the IKE (a.k.a ISAKMP/Oakley) key management
2489: protocol and experiences from the implementation of <strong>isakmpd</strong>,
2490: an IKE implementation funded by Ericsson Radio Systems and developed
2491: primarily for the OpenBSD IPSEC stack.
1.79 deraadt 2492: <p>
1.73 deraadt 2493:
1.690 nick 2494: <li><strong>NCEE '98</strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 2495: Oct 9 - 10, 1998, Auburn, Maine, USA.<br>
1.132 louis 2496: An extensive after-action report was sent to advocacy@openbsd.org. While
1.151 jsyn 2497: sales of shirts and CDROMs left much to be desired, we did have good
1.132 louis 2498: opportunities to further project visibility and highlight its strengths.
1.80 deraadt 2499: <p>
2500:
1.93 louis 2501: <li><strong>
1.690 nick 2502: <a href="http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference/1998/">Reflections/Projections
1.216 jose 2503: 1998</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 2504: Oct 2 - 4, 1998, Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA.<br>
1.132 louis 2505: Theo de Raadt spoke in a panel about Open/Free software with Eric
2506: Raymond and others.
1.93 louis 2507: <p>
2508:
1.216 jose 2509: <li><strong>
1.690 nick 2510: <a href="http://press.oreilly.com/pub/pr/797">O'Reilly and
1.236 jose 2511: Associates Open Source Developer Days</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 2512: Aug 21, 1998, San Jose, California, USA.<br>
1.132 louis 2513: OpenBSD team members were on-hand to discuss OpenBSD's role among the
1.413 grunk 2514: other free software projects available. They also sold some CDs and T-shirts.
1.96 deraadt 2515: <p>
2516:
1.236 jose 2517: <li><strong><a name="defcon98"></a>
1.690 nick 2518: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-6/defcon-6.html">Defcon 6.0</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 2519: Jul 31 - Aug 2, 1998, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.<br>
1.132 louis 2520: The router to the outside world was an OpenBSD 2.3 box. It was involved
2521: in a "capture the flag" competition in which an entire room of crackers
2522: attempted to break into it and machines running other operating systems.
2523: The OpenBSD box was not broken into.
2524: <br>
2525: Almost 100 OpenBSD 2.3 CDROMs were sold (we ran out again). The primates
1.236 jose 2526: at <a href="http://www.monkey.org">monkey.org</a> brought 2.3
1.413 grunk 2527: "wire-frame" OpenBSD T-shirts to the conference and sold almost
1.132 louis 2528: 200 of them. The proceeds from the sales were donated to the OpenBSD project.
1.96 deraadt 2529: <p>
1.94 deraadt 2530:
1.690 nick 2531: <li><strong><a href="http://www.blackhat.com/html/bh-usa-98/bh2-index.html">BlackHat Sessions</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 2532: Jul 29 - 30, 1998, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.<br>
1.132 louis 2533: Theo de Raadt presented a talk entitled
2534: "Auditing software for security" about the OpenBSD security auditing
2535: team's process and the lessons the team learned. The talk concentrated
2536: on how our process fixes bugs -- not just holes -- since one never knows
2537: when 5 bugs will act together to become a hole.
1.99 deraadt 2538: <p>
2539:
1.236 jose 2540: <li><strong><a name="usenix-neworleans"></a>
2541: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/usenix98/index.html">Usenix Annual Technical Conference</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 2542: Jun 15 - 19, 1998, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.<br>
1.132 louis 2543: At Usenix 1998 there was a strong OpenBSD presence both in the Freenix
2544: and normal tracks. Theo did a general talk about what the OpenBSD
2545: project offers. Angelos held a panel about IPSEC (which is quite an
2546: OpenBSD topic since IPSEC development at that time was so much further
2547: ahead in OpenBSD than anywhere else).
2548: <br>
2549: The terminal room PCs ran OpenBSD 2.3. We sold many CDROMs. The
1.413 grunk 2550: first style of OpenBSD T-shirt also sold quite well.
1.101 wvdputte 2551: <p>
2552:
1.105 wvdputte 2553: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2554: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/sec98/index.html">Usenix Security</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 2555: Jan 26 - 29, 1998, San Antonio, Texas, USA.<br>
1.132 louis 2556: At this conference, Theo presented an evening talk which basically
2557: turned into a list of fixed security problems and cautionary tales about
2558: subsystems in which future problems may be encountered
1.236 jose 2559: (<a href="papers/security98-slides.ps">slides available</a>).
1.105 wvdputte 2560: <br>
1.132 louis 2561: The terminal room PCs ran OpenBSD 2.2.
2562: <p>
1.236 jose 2563: </ul>
1.105 wvdputte 2564:
1.132 louis 2565: <h3>1997</h3>
1.107 deraadt 2566:
1.236 jose 2567: <ul>
1.113 deraadt 2568: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2569: <a href="http://www.hip97.nl">HIP</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 2570: Aug, 1997, Almere, Netherlands.<br>
1.236 jose 2571: Niels held a
1.690 nick 2572: <a href="http://www.citi.umich.edu/u/provos/papers/hip97-tcpip.html">talk</a>
1.132 louis 2573: about the problems of unencrypted TCP/IP connections, offering IPSEC as
2574: possible solution.
1.113 deraadt 2575: <p>
1.132 louis 2576:
1.236 jose 2577: <li><strong>HOPE</strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 2578: Aug, 1997, New York, New York, USA.<br>
1.166 miod 2579: The terminal room consisted primarily of DECstations running
1.690 nick 2580: OpenBSD 2.1. Once again, the <a href="http://www.lopht.com/">L0phT</a>
1.132 louis 2581: people had very good things to say about our security.
1.113 deraadt 2582: <p>
1.105 wvdputte 2583:
1.236 jose 2584: <li><strong><a name="defcon5"></a>
1.690 nick 2585: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-5/defcon-5.html">Defcon V</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 2586: Jul 11 - 13, 1997, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.<br>
1.132 louis 2587: At this conference, the OpenBSD team sold 100 or so 2.1 release CDROMs.
2588: <br>
2589: Since this is the primary security conference, many speakers said very
1.140 jufi 2590: good things about our stance on security... particularly people like
1.690 nick 2591: <a href="http://www.lopht.com">the L0phT</a>.
1.118 deraadt 2592: <p>
2593:
1.125 deraadt 2594: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2595: <a
2596: href="http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/ana97/index.html">Usenix Annual Technical Conference</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 2597: Jan 6 - 10, 1997, Anaheim, California, USA.<br>
1.690 nick 2598: Theo de Raadt held a BOF ("Birds Of a Feather", i.e. a meeting of people
1.132 louis 2599: interested in the same thing) about OpenBSD.
1.236 jose 2600: </ul>
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