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1.236 jose 17: <h2><font color="#e00000">Events</font></h2>
18: OpenBSD developers, users and sponsors attend trade shows and conferences,
19: give papers, and organize "Birds Of a Feather" (BOF) sessions.
20: This is an opportunity to find out more about OpenBSD or just meet
1.165 ian 21: like-minded people.
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32: <a href=LINK>EVENT NAME</a></strong>,
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1.78 louis 39: <h2>Future events:</h2>
1.132 louis 40:
1.715 jdixon 41: <h3>2008</h3>
42:
43: <ul>
44: <p>
1.716 wvdputte 45: <li><strong><a name="Paris2008"></a>
1.734 tobias 46: <a href="http://www.solutionslinux.fr/fr/index.php">Solutions Linux
47: 2008</a></strong>,
1.716 wvdputte 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:
1.736 ! merdely 53: <li><strong><a name="scale6x"></a>
! 54: <a href="http://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale6x/">Southern California Linux
! 55: Expo 6x</a></strong>,
! 56: Feb 8 - 10, 2008, Los Angeles, California, USA.<br>
! 57: There will be an OpenBSD booth run by Darrin Chandler with live
! 58: demonstrations and CDs for sale.
! 59: <p>
! 60:
1.727 wvdputte 61: <li><strong><a name=Brussels2008></a>
62: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/2008/">FOSDEM Brussels 2008</a></strong>,
63: Feb 23 - 24, 2008, Brussels, Belgium.<br>
64: There will be an OpenBSD/OpenSSH booth and a Dev room, so we are still
1.731 wvdputte 65: looking for speakers. Please <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">mail Wim</a>.
66: There is also an exam for <a href=http://www.bsdcertification.org/>BSD
67: certification</a>.<br>
1.727 wvdputte 68: On Saturday we will have our traditional BSD dinner.
1.718 wvdputte 69: <p>
1.727 wvdputte 70:
1.718 wvdputte 71: <li><strong><a name="vj08"></a>
1.734 tobias 72: <a href="http://www.nluug.nl/events/vj08">NLUUG spring conference
73: 2008</a></strong>,
1.718 wvdputte 74: May 15, 2008, Ede, Netherlands.<br>
1.727 wvdputte 75: There will be an OpenBSD booth. As this years topic is security, we should
76: have at least one <a href= http://www.nluug.nl/events/vj08/CfP-NL.html>talk</a>
77: submitted.
78: <p>
79:
80: <li><strong><a name="linuxtag2008"></a>
1.734 tobias 81: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.org/2008/en/">LinuxTag 2008</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 82: May 28 - 31, 2008, Berlin, Germany.<br>
1.733 tobias 83: There will be plenty of OpenBSD activity (talks & booth).
1.718 wvdputte 84: <p>
85:
1.727 wvdputte 86: <li><strong><a name="lsm2008"></a>
87: <a href="http://www.rmll.info">Libre Software Meeting 2008</a></strong>,
1.730 miod 88: Jul 1 - 5, 2008, Mont de Marsan, France.<br>
1.727 wvdputte 89: There will be an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth.
90: <p>
91:
92: <li><strong><a name="froscon2008"></a>
93: <a href="http://www.froscon.de">FrOSCon 2008</a></strong>,
94: Aug 23 - 24, 2008, Bonn/Rhein-Sieg, Germany.<br>
95: There will be an OpenBSD booth, run by the usual suspects.
96: <p>
97:
1.731 wvdputte 98: <li><strong><a name="opensourcedays2008"></a>
1.734 tobias 99: <a href="http://www.opensourcedays.org/2008/">Open Source Days
100: 2008</a></strong>,
1.731 wvdputte 101: Oct 3 - 4, 2008, Copenhagen, Denmark.<br>
102: There will be an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth.
103: <p>
104:
1.727 wvdputte 105: <li><strong><a name="t-dose2008"></a>
106: <a href="http://www.t-dose.org/">T-DOSE 2008</a></strong>,
107: Oct ? - ?, 2008, Eindhoven, The Netherlands.<br>
108: Technical Dutch Open Source Event.<br>
109: There will be developers present as well as an OpenBSD booth,
110: run by the usual suspects.
111: <p>
112:
1.732 wvdputte 113: <li><strong><a name=linuxworlduk2008></a>
114: <a href="http://www.confabb.com/conferences/53504-linuxworld-expo-uk">LinuxWorld Expo UK 2008</a></strong>,
115: <!--http://www.linuxworldexpo.co.uk/-->
116: Oct ? - ?, 2008, Olympia, London, UK.<br>
117: <p>
118:
1.727 wvdputte 119: <li><strong><a name="eurobsdcon2008"></a>
120: <a href="http://www.eurobsdcon.org/">EuroBSDCon 2008</a></strong>,
1.734 tobias 121: Nov, 2008, France.<br>
1.727 wvdputte 122: <p>
123:
124: <li><strong><a name="opencon2008"></a>
1.734 tobias 125: <a href="http://www.opencon.org/">OpenCON 2008</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 126: First weekend of Dec, 2008.<br>
127: <p>
128:
129: <li><strong><a name=25c3></a>
130: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/">25C3 Chaos Communication Congress in
131: Berlin</a></strong>,
132: End of December, 2008, Berlin, Germany.<br>
1.715 jdixon 133: </ul>
1.727 wvdputte 134: <p>
1.719 wvdputte 135: <hr>
136:
137: <h2>Past events:</h2>
138:
1.588 espie 139: <h3>2007</h3>
140: <ul>
1.603 fkr 141:
1.731 wvdputte 142: <li><strong><a name=24c3></a>
143: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/2007/">24C3 Chaos Communication Congress in
144: Berlin</a></strong>,
145: December 27 - 30, 2007, Berlin, Germany.<br>
146: The motto was Volldampf voraus! (literally Full Steam Ahead).
147: <p>
148:
1.726 merdely 149: <li><strong><a name="capbug200712"></a>
150: <a href="http://capbug.org/">Capital Area BSD User Group</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 151: Dec 17, 2007, Columbia, Maryland, USA.<br>
1.726 merdely 152: Michael Erdely presented <a href="papers/capbug200712/index.html">OpenBSD
153: Ports Tutorial: Advanced Topics</a>.
154: [<a href="http://talks.metabug.org/20071218_capbug_640x480.mp4">slides
155: w/audio</a>]
156: <p>
157:
1.721 jsg 158: <li><strong><a name="opencon2007"></a>
1.734 tobias 159: <a href="http://www.opencon.org/">OpenCON 2007</a></strong>,
1.721 jsg 160: Nov 30 - Dec 2, 2007, Venice, Italy.<br>
161: OpenCON is the only conference dedicated solely to OpenBSD.
162: This edition was composed of one "tutorial day" and two days of conference.
163: Three days entirely dedicated to OpenBSD with a lot of developers and users.
1.722 jsg 164: Talks by OpenBSD developers were:
165: <p>
166: <ul>
167: <li>Jonathan Gray: <a href="papers/opencon07-complex/index.html">
168: Why are modern operating systems so complicated?</a>
1.724 jasper 169: <li>Mark Kettenis: <a href="papers/opencon07-sparc64.pdf">
170: OpenBSD/sparc64</a>.
1.723 jasper 171: <li>Reiner Jung and Jasper Lievisse Adriaanse: <a href="papers/opencon07-gnome.pdf">
1.724 jasper 172: Gnome as OpenBSD desktop solution</a>.
1.725 bernd 173: <li>Bernd Ahlers: <a href="papers/opencon07-portstutorial/index.html">
174: OpenBSD Ports Tutorial</a>.
1.722 jsg 175: </ul>
1.721 jsg 176: <p>
177:
1.716 wvdputte 178: <li><strong><a name="dulug2007"></a>
1.719 wvdputte 179: <a href="http://www.dulug.de/">Duisburger Linux User Group</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 180: Nov 17, 2007, Duisburg, Germany.<br>
1.719 wvdputte 181: Richard Verwayen gave a workshop on installing OpenBSD,
1.727 wvdputte 182: [<a href="http://www.dulug.de/cgi-bin/dcms.cgi?action=lit-17.11.07">pictures</a>].
1.716 wvdputte 183: <p>
184:
185: <li><strong><a name="essen2007"></a>
186: <a href="http://www.come2linux.org/psp/">Come 2 Linux 2007 Essen</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 187: Nov 10 - 11, 2007, Essen, Germany.<br>
188: The *BSD projects had an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth.
1.716 wvdputte 189: <p>
190:
191: <li><strong><a name="nluug2007"></a>
192: <a href="http://www.nluug25.nl/en/index.php">NLUUG 25th anniversary</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 193: Nov 7, 2007, Amsterdam, Netherlands.<br>
1.716 wvdputte 194: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth with Wim, Otto, Floor and Kevin.
195: <p>
1.658 reyk 196:
1.714 jasper 197: <li><strong><a name="amsterdam2007"></a>
198: <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 199: Nov 2, 2007, Amsterdam, Netherlands.<br>
1.728 wvdputte 200: Informal OpenBSD user meeting in Amsterdam, more info on Undeadly.org. [<a href=
201: http://brobding.mine.nu/Brobding.mine.nu/Albums/Pages/OpenBSD_4.2.html>pictures
202: </a>]
1.714 jasper 203: <p>
204:
1.713 wvdputte 205: <li><strong><a name="uaoug2007"></a>
206: <a href="http://www.uaoug.org.ua/en/index.html">Ukrainian OpenBSD Users Group meeting</a></strong>,
207: Nov 1, 2007, Kyiv, Ukraine<br>
208: Sergey Prysiazhnyi, community co-ordinator, gave a talk about Driver
209: Architecture and OpenBSD using in Embedded Systems.
210: <a href= "http://www.atmnis.com/~apelsin/uaoug/u2k7_v3.0/talk/">[slides]</a>
211: <a href= "http://www.atmnis.com/~apelsin/uaoug/u2k7_v3.0/">[pictures]</a>
212: <a href= "http://www.atmnis.com/~apelsin/uaoug/u2k7_v3.0/video/talk.mp4">[video]</a>
213: <p>
214:
1.712 sthen 215: <li><strong><a name="cossfest2007"></a>
216: <a href="http://www.cossfest.ca/">COSSFEST 2007</a></strong>,
217: Oct 27, 2007, Calgary, Alberta,<br>
218: There was an OpenBSD booth present with 4.2 CDs.
219: <p>
220:
221: <li><strong><a name="systems2007"></a>
222: <a href="http://www.systems.de/">Systems</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 223: Oct 23 - 26, 2007, Munich, Germany.<br>
1.712 sthen 224: The *BSD projects had an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth in Halle B2 110-2, run by
225: DaN, Nikolay Sturm, Marco Pfatschbacher and some other volunteers.
226: <p>
227:
228: <li><strong><a name="bsdcontr2007"></a>
1.734 tobias 229: <a href="http://www.bsdcontr.org/">BSDConTR 2007</a></strong>,
1.712 sthen 230: Oct 19 - 20, 2007, Rectorate of Marmara University, SultanAhmet, Istanbul,
231: Turkey.<br>
232: First Turkish Conference on BSD Systems.<br>
233: Marc Balmer talked about his work on support for radio clocks in
234: OpenBSD.<br>
235: Gökhan Alkan gave a talk "Spam protection with OpenBSD and PF".<br>
236: Huzeyfe Önal gave a talk "Advanced Security solutions in OpenBSD".
237: <br>
238: <p>
239:
1.708 aanriot 240: <li><strong><a name=aldil2007></a>
241: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/">Les Journées Du Logiciel Libre
242: 2007</a></strong>,
243: Oct 19 - 20, 2007, Lyon, France.<br>
244: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Damien Bergamini and
245: Alexandre Anriot with the help of Thierry Thomas.
246: <p>
247:
1.705 pvalchev 248: <li><strong><a name=rp2007></a>
249: <a href="http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference/2007/">Reflections/Projections
250: 2007</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 251: Oct 12 - 14, 2007, Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA.<br>
1.705 pvalchev 252: Peter Valchev gave a talk titled <a href="papers/rp2007-slides.pdf">
253: Using OpenBSD Security Features to Find Software Bugs</a>.
254: <p>
255:
256: <li><strong><a name=auug2007></a>
257: <a href="http://new.auug.org.au/AUUG2007">AUUG 2007</a></strong>,
258: Oct 13 - 14, 2007, Melbourne, Australia.<br>
259: Reyk Floeter talked about load balancing and TCP-relaying with hoststated.
260: There were developers, users, and an OpenBSD booth present.
261: <p>
262:
263: <li><strong><a name="t-dose2007"></a>
264: <a href="http://www.t-dose.org/">T-DOSE 2007</a></strong>,
265: Oct 13 - 14, 2007, Eindhoven, The Netherlands.<br>
1.727 wvdputte 266: Technical Dutch Open Source Event.<br>
1.705 pvalchev 267: There were developers present as well as an OpenBSD booth,
268: run by the usual suspects.
269: <p>
270:
1.689 claudio 271: <li><strong><a name="openexpo2007"></a>
272: <a href="http://www.openexpo.ch/">OpenExpo 2007</a></strong>,
1.734 tobias 273: Sep 19 - 20, 2007, Zurich, Switzerland.<br>
1.689 claudio 274: There were developers present as well as an OpenBSD booth,
275: run by the usual suspects. Stephan A. Rickauer gave a talk
276: "OpenBSD and Linux: Insights into a migration project at the Institute of
277: Neuroinformatics, ETH Zurich".<br>
278: <p>
279:
1.686 mbalmer 280: <li><strong><a name="eurobsdcon2007"></a>
281: <a href="http://2007.eurobsdcon.org/">EuroBSDCon 2007</a></strong>,
282: Sep 14 - 15, 2007, Copenhagen, Denmark.<br>
283: Marc Balmer gave a talk <a href="papers/eurobsdcon07/mbalmer-radio_clocks.pdf">
284: Support for Radio Clocks in OpenBSD</a>.<br>
1.702 pyr 285: Pierre-Yves Ritschard gave a talk <a href="papers/eurobsdcon07/pyr-loadbalancing">Load Balancing in OpenBSD Using hoststated</a>.<br>
1.688 claudio 286: Claudio Jeker gave a talk <a href="papers/eurobsdcon07/claudio-routing">
287: Using OpenBSD as Routing Platform</a>.<br>
1.686 mbalmer 288: Peter Hansteen offered "A Packet Filter Tutorial" on the tutorial day.<br>
289: There was an OpenBSD booth, run by the usual suspects.
290: <p>
291:
1.685 bernd 292: <li><strong><a name="linuxdayskiel2007"></a>
293: <a href="http://www.kieler-linuxtage.de">Kieler Linux und Open Source Tage</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 294: Sep 07 - 08, 2007, Kiel, Germany.<br>
1.685 bernd 295: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Bernd.
296: <p>
297:
1.686 mbalmer 298: <li><strong><a name="xds2007"></a>
299: <a href="http://www.x.org/wiki/Events/XDS2007">X.Org Developers' Summit 2007</a></strong>,
300: Sep 10 - 12, 2007, Cambridge, UK.<br>
301: Matthieu Herrb and Marc Balmer attended the 3-day summit to make sure the
302: *BSD point of view was well represented.
303: <p>
304:
1.684 bernd 305: <li><strong><a name="froscon2007"></a>
306: <a href="http://www.froscon.de">FrOSCon 2007</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 307: Aug 25 - 26, 2007, Bonn/Rhein-Sieg, Germany.<br>
1.684 bernd 308: There was an OpenBSD booth, run by the usual suspects.
309: <p>
310:
1.682 bernd 311: <li><strong><a name="summercamp2007"></a>
1.734 tobias 312: <a href="http://events.ccc.de/camp/2007">Chaos Communication Camp
313: 2007</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 314: Aug 8 - 12, 2007, Finowfurt, Germany.<br>
1.682 bernd 315: This open air event had a big OpenBSD village with all the usual suspects.
316: <p>
317:
1.680 aanriot 318: <li><strong><a name="lsm2007"></a>
319: <a href="http://www.rmll.info">Libre Software Meeting 2007</a></strong>,
320: Jul 10 - 14, 2007, Amiens, France.<br>
1.681 aanriot 321: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Wim, Matthieu and
322: Alexandre with the help of Serge and Christelle.
1.680 aanriot 323: <p>
324:
1.675 mbalmer 325: <li><strong><a name=Slackathon2007></a>
1.734 tobias 326: <a href="http://www.slackathon.se/">Slackathon 2007</a></strong>,
1.675 mbalmer 327: June 16, 2007, Stockholm, Sweden.<br>
328: Yet another round of fund raising for OpenBSD/SSH and general *BSD meeting
329: that took place in Stockholm.
330: <p>
331:
332: <li><strong><a name="linuxtag2007"></a>
1.734 tobias 333: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.org/2007/en/">LinuxTag 2007</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 334: May 30 - Jun 2, 2007, Berlin, Germany.<br>
1.675 mbalmer 335: There were presentations by OpenBSD developers and an OpenBSD booth,
1.677 wvdputte 336: run by the usual suspects, and Stephan A. Rickauer held Peter Hansteen's PF
337: tutorial as well as the talk
338: <a href="http://www.ini.unizh.ch/~stephan/talks/LinuxTag07.pdf">
339: "OpenBSD and Linux: Insights into a migration project at the Institute of
340: Neuroinformatics, ETH Zurich"</a>.
1.675 mbalmer 341: <p>
342:
1.674 martin 343: <li><strong><a name=LinuxwochenVienna2007></a>
1.734 tobias 344: <a href="http://www.linuxwochen.at/2007/Wien">Linuxwochen Vienna
345: 2007</a></strong>,
1.674 martin 346: May 31 - Jun 2, 2007, Vienna, Austria.<br>
347: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth run by Martin Reindl, Robert Peichaer
348: and Teemu Schaabl.
349: <p>
350:
1.671 aanriot 351: <li><strong><a name=cuug2007></a>
352: <a href="http://www.cuug.ab.ca/">Calgary Unix Users Group</a></strong>,
353: May 29, 2007, downtown Library, basement meeting room, Calgary, Alberta.<br>
1.688 claudio 354: <a href="papers/cuug07-claudio/">Claudio Jeker</a>,
355: <a href="papers/cuug2007/">David Gwynne, Henning Brauer</a>,
1.673 mbalmer 356: Reyk Flöter, Matthieu Herrb, Marc Balmer, and Bob Beck discussed recent and
357: future networking changes in OpenBSD, as well as Xenocara, support for
358: radio clocks in OpenBSD, and Spam Reduction with OpenBSD spamd and greylisting.
1.672 henning 359: Some other OpenBSD developers attended to provide international colour.
1.671 aanriot 360: <p>
361:
1.670 ray 362: <li><strong><a name="bsdcan2007"></a>
363: <a href="http://www.bsdcan.org/2007/">BSDCan 2007</a></strong>,
364: May 16 - 19, 2007, Ottawa, Canada.<br>
365: Several OpenBSD developers were there.<br>
366: Peter Hansteen gave a "Packet filtering for fun and profit" tutorial and
367: presented a "Fighting malware and spam with free tools" talk.<br>
368: Ray Lai presented OpenCVS/OpenRCS and
369: discussed why a secure CVS implementation is needed.
370: <a href="papers/bsdcan07-cvs/">Slides</a> are available.<br>
371: Jason Dixon gave the closing session of BSDCan 2007.
372: <p>
373:
1.669 fkr 374: <li><strong><a name="confidence2007"></a>
375: <a href="http://2007.confidence.org.pl/">Confidence 2007</a></strong>,
376: May 12 - 13, 2007, Krakow, Poland.<br>
377: Felix, Henning and Wim gave presentations and ran the OpenBSD booth.
378: <p>
379:
1.666 michele 380: <li><strong><a name="obsdm2"></a>
1.734 tobias 381: <a href="http://www.openbeer.it/?open=obsdm2">OpenBSD Meeting V.2</a></strong>,
1.666 michele 382: May 12, 2007, Verona, Italy.<br>
383: Another event organized by the OpenBEER team with italian OpenBSD related talks.
384: Michele presented a talk about the OpenBSD network stack.
385: <p>
386:
387: <li><strong><a name="nluug2007"></a>
388: <a href="http://www.nluug.nl/events/vj07/index.html">NLUUG Voorjaarsconferentie
389: 2007</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 390: May 10, 2007, Ede, Netherlands.<br>
1.666 michele 391: There was a
392: <a href="http://www.nluug.nl/events/vj07/abstracts/ab.html?id=2">presentation</a>
393: by Anil Madhavapeddy and an OpenBSD booth, run by the usual
394: suspects.
395: <p>
396:
1.665 mbalmer 397: <li><strong><a name="coimbra2007"></a>
398: <a href="http://www.openbsd-pt.com/eventos/coimbra07/index-en.html">Portuguese OpenBSD Usergroup Meeting</a></strong>,
399: May 5 - 6, 2007, Coimbra, Portugal.<br>
400: 7th Meeting of the Portuguese OpenBSD Usergroup.<br>
401: Marc Balmer gave a talk "Ensuring Quality in OpenBSD Without a Formal Process".<br>
402: Rui Reis gave a presentation "The Honeynet.PT project".<br>
1.667 pedro 403: Michael Shalayeff gave a talk "Asynchronous I/O".<br>
404: Also present was Pedro Martelletto.
1.665 mbalmer 405: <p>
406:
1.658 reyk 407: <li><strong><a name=decix6th></a>
408: <a href="http://www.de-cix.org/">DE-CIX 6th Technical Meeting</a></strong>,
409: Apr 19, 2007, Schloss Kransberg, near Usingen, Germany.<br>
410: Henning Brauer and Reyk Flöter talked at the 6th technical
411: meeting of the Deutsche Commercial Internet Exchange (DE-CIX).
412: Henning gave an update on OpenBGPD and Reyk about the latest
413: network-related changes since OpenBSD 4.1. They also talked about
414: the status of test OpenBGPD route server running at the DE-CIX.
415: <p>
416:
1.651 fkr 417: <li><strong><a name="litol07"></a>
418: <a href="http://www.lit-ol.de/">2. Linux-Informationstag Oldenburg</a></strong>,
419: Apr 14 - 15, 2007, Oldenburg, Germany.<br>
420: Small Open-Source event. Of course there was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth run by
1.659 fkr 421: Bernd, Felix and Tobias Stoeckmann. Felix gave a talk about the current state
422: of OpenBSD development titled <a href="papers/litol07/">OpenBSD - Past, Present and Future</a>.
1.651 fkr 423: <p>
1.650 deraadt 424:
425: <li><strong><a name="fisl8"></a>
426: <a href="http://fisl.softwarelivre.org/8.0/www/?q=en">fisl8.0</a></strong>,
1.734 tobias 427: Apr 12 - 14, 2007, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil.<br>
1.650 deraadt 428: This was a fairly large conference in South America. Theo de Raadt
429: presented a talk about <a href="papers/brhard2007/">Hardware Documentation</a>.
430: <p>
431:
1.645 ray 432: <li><strong><a name="nycbug2007-cvs"></a>
433: <a href="http://nycbug.org/">NYC*BUG April 2007</a></strong>,
434: Apr 4, 2007, NYC, USA.<br>
435: Ray Lai (ray@) gave a
436: <a href="http://www.nycbug.org/index.php?NAV=Home;SUBM=10104">talk</a>
437: on OpenCVS.
1.648 ray 438: <a href="papers/nycbug07-cvs/">Slides</a> and
439: <a href="http://www.fetissov.org/public/nycbug/nycbug-04-04-07.mp3">audio</a>
440: are available.
1.645 ray 441: <p>
442:
1.638 grunk 443: <li><strong><a name="elite2007"></a>
444: <a href="http://www.erlug.de/?q=node/323">5. Erlanger Linuxtage</a></strong>,
445: Mar 24 - 25, 2007, Erlangen, Germany.<br>
446: There was an OpenBSD/OpenSSH booth, run by Alexander von Gernler (grunk@).
447: He also gave a talk called
1.639 grunk 448: <a href="papers/elite2007/elite2007-openbsd.pdf">
1.638 grunk 449: "Sichere Systeme mit OpenBSD" (german)</a>.
450: <p>
451:
1.635 tom 452: <li><strong><a name="ukuug2007"></a>
453: <a href="http://www.ukuug.org/events/spring2007/">UKUUG Spring 2007 Conference</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 454: Mar 19 - 21, 2007, Manchester, United Kingdom.<br>
1.635 tom 455: Tom Cosgrove gave a presentation about "Third-Party Applications on OpenBSD"
456: at the annual spring meeting of the
457: <a href="http://www.ukuug.org/">UK's Unix and Open Systems User Group</a>.
458: <p>
459:
1.627 mcbride 460: <li><strong><a name="asiabsdcon2007"></a>
461: <a href="http://www.asiabsdcon.org/">AsiaBSDCon 2007</a></strong>,
462: Mar 8 - 11, 2007, Tokyo, Japan.<br>
1.631 mbalmer 463: Marc Balmer presented a paper <a href="papers/radio-clocks-asiabsdcon07.pdf">Supporting Radio Clocks in OpenBSD</a>. Presentation
464: <a href="papers/asiabsdcon07-radioclocks/index.html">slides</a> are also
465: available.<br>
1.627 mcbride 466: 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 467: Mathieu Sauve-Frankel gave a talk <a href="papers/asiabsdcon07-ipsec/index.html">Recent Improvements in OpenBSD's IPSec Support</a>.<br>
468: Damien Miller presented a paper <a href="papers/openssh-measures-asiabsdcon2007.pdf">Security measures in OpenSSH</a>. Presentation
1.628 djm 469: <a href="papers/openssh-measures-asiabsdcon2007-slides.pdf">slides</a> are
470: also available.<br>
1.627 mcbride 471: 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".
472: <p>
473:
1.622 fkr 474: <li><strong><a name="linuxforum2007"></a>
475: <a href="http://www.linuxforum.dk/2007/">LinuxForum 2007</a></strong>,
476: Mar 2 - 3, 2007, Copenhagen, Denmark.<br>
1.623 wvdputte 477: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth run by Wim, Bernd and Michael in the
1.633 tom 478: <a href="http://img.ba-net.org/LinuxForum2007/">best of circumstances</a>.
1.622 fkr 479: Felix gave a talk titled
480: <a href="papers/linuxforum07/index.html">OpenBSD - Past, Present and Future</a>.
481: <p>
482:
1.619 wvdputte 483: <li><strong><a name=Brussels2007></a>
484: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/2007/">FOSDEM Brussels 2007</a></strong>,
485: Feb 24 - 25, 2007, Brussels, Belgium.<br>
1.727 wvdputte 486: There was an OpenBSD/OpenSSH booth with Matthieu, Marc, Mickey, Saad
1.619 wvdputte 487: and Wim. On Saturday we had our traditional BSD dinner.<br>
488: Matthieu gave a <a href="papers/fosdem07-xenocara.pdf">
489: talk on Xenocara</a> in the X.Org devroom.
490: <p>
1.616 wvdputte 491:
492: <li><strong><a name="kiberpipa2007"></a>
493: <a href="http://pot.kiberpipa.org">Kiberpipa open sessions</a></strong>,
494: February 20, 2007, Ljubljana, Slovenia.<br>
495: On that edition of weekly "Open sessions" meetings
496: <a href="http://www.kerberos.si">Mitja Muzenic</a> gave a
497: <a href="http://pot.kiberpipa.org/?p=39">talk</a> on OpenBSD.
1.619 wvdputte 498: <a href="http://www.kerberos.si/papers/Kiberpipa07/">Slides</a> (in Slovenian),
499: <a href="http://video.kiberpipa.org/media/POT_OpenBSD">video</a> (in Slovenian),
1.616 wvdputte 500: and <a href="http://gallery.kerberos.si/kiberpipa07/">photos</a> are available.
501: <p>
502:
503: </ul>
504:
1.445 martin 505: <h3>2006</h3>
1.236 jose 506: <ul>
1.537 deraadt 507:
1.588 espie 508: <li><strong><a name="23c3"></a>
1.577 mbalmer 509: <a href="https://events.ccc.de/congress/2006/">23C3 Chaos Communication Congress in
510: Berlin</a></strong>,
511: December 27 - 30, 2006, Berlin, Germany.<br>
1.597 mbalmer 512: Who can you trust? Well, us. OpenBSD was there, of course, for our annual
1.595 reyk 513: closing event. fkr, grunk, jsg, mbalmer, mickey, sturm, uwe, martin,
1.598 bernd 514: henning, moritz, bernd and wvdputte were there
1.597 mbalmer 515: there to chat with attendees and discuss OpenBSD stuff. It was - as usual -
516: a great end-of-the-year event. See you in Berlin again end of 2007.
1.577 mbalmer 517: <p>
518:
1.594 mbalmer 519: <li><strong><a name="moscow2006"></a>
520: <a href="https://kd85.com/">Moscow OpenBSD user meeting</a></strong>,
521: December 8 - 9, 2006, Moscow, Russia.<br>
1.633 tom 522: For details, please email <a href="mailto:grange@opensd.org">Grange</a>
1.594 mbalmer 523: <p>
524:
1.515 tom 525: <li><strong><a name="opencon2006"></a>
526: <a href="http://www.opencon.org/">OpenCON 2006</a></strong>,
1.734 tobias 527: 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 528: OpenCON is the only conference dedicated solely to OpenBSD.
1.587 deraadt 529: 135 people were registered for the event, but since it was a completely open event is likely that
530: even more people just walked in.
1.577 mbalmer 531: Most talks were by OpenBSD developers, but there was also an impressive
1.568 mbalmer 532: number of our developers just attending the conference. Talks by OpenBSD
1.577 mbalmer 533: developers were:
1.568 mbalmer 534: <p>
1.535 deraadt 535: <ul>
1.581 claudio 536: <li>Claudio Jeker: <a href="papers/opencon06-network/index.html">
537: Network stack changes in OpenBSD</a>
1.580 deraadt 538: <li>Marc Balmer: <a href="papers/opencon06-nmea/index.html">
539: Support for Time Signal Station Receivers and GPS in OpenBSD</a>
1.601 fkr 540: <li>Felix Kronlage: <a href="papers/opencon06-umts/index.html">Redundancy or mobile deployment with 3G technology</a>
1.584 jsg 541: <li>Jonathan Gray: <a href="papers/opencon06-drivers/index.html">
542: Driver architecture and implementation in OpenBSD</a>
1.543 mbalmer 543: <li>Gordon Klok: <i>Processor Power Management</i>
1.596 dlg 544: <li>David Gwynne: <a href="papers/opencon06-culture.pdf">The OpenBSD
545: Culture</a> and he also filled in for Marco's
546: <a href="papers/opencon06-bio.pdf">Bio and Sensors in OpenBSD</a> talk.
1.582 michele 547: <li>Michele Marchetto: <a href="papers/opencon06-ripd/index.html">
548: OpenRIPD</a>
1.574 mbalmer 549: <li>Reyk Floeter: <i>IPsec demystified</i>
1.580 deraadt 550: <li>Theo de Raadt: <a href="papers/opencon06-docs">
551: Why hardware documentation matters so much and why it is so hard to get</a>
1.535 deraadt 552: </ul>
1.502 mbalmer 553: <p>
1.577 mbalmer 554: Also present were jcs, krw, mglocker, robert, wvdputte, martin, grunk,
555: dhartmei, aanriot, sturm, and bernd. Of course there was an OpenBSD booth
556: run by the usual suspects and you could buy our CD-ROMS, the audio CD and other
1.568 mbalmer 557: stuff.
558: <p>
1.502 mbalmer 559:
1.575 reyk 560: <li><strong><a name=opensourcetag2006></a>
561: <a href="http://www.opensourcetag.de/2006/">OpenSourceTag 2006</a></strong>,
562: Nov 30, 2006, Hannover, Germany.<br>
563: Reyk gave a <a href="http://www.opensourcetag.de/2006/agenda/">talk</a> about OpenBSD
564: as a reference project for secure software.
565: <p>
566:
1.583 henning 567: <li><strong><a name=epf2006></a>
568: <a href="http://www.peering-forum.eu/2006/">European Peering Forum 2006</a></strong>,
569: Nov 29 - 30, 2006, Frankfurt, Germany.<br>
570: The European Peering Forum in Frankfurt was hosted by the 3 big european
571: peering points DE-CIX, AMSIX and LINX, bringing network operators together.
572: Henning was talking about OpenBGPD,
573: <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/epf2006/">slides</a> are available.
574: <p>
575:
1.565 krw 576: <li><strong><a name=conisli2006></a>
577: <a href="http://conisli.org/">CONISLI 2006</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 578: Nov 3 - 5, 2006, São Paulo, Brazil.<br>
1.565 krw 579: 4th edition of São Paulo's International Free Software Congress.
1.687 jolan 580: Ken Westerback and Pedro Martelletto gave a talk.
1.565 krw 581: <p>
582:
1.559 jason 583: <li><strong><a name=nycbsdcon2006></a>
584: <a href="http://nycbsdcon.org/">NYCBSDCon 2006</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 585: Oct 28 - 29, 2006, New York City, USA.<br>
1.559 jason 586: NYCBSDCon is the main conference on the East Coast for the
587: BSD community to get together to share and gain knowledge,
1.562 jason 588: to network with like minded people. Several developers
1.563 jason 589: spoke, more were on hand:
1.559 jason 590: <ul>
591: <li>Marco Peereboom: <a href="papers/bio.pdf">bio and sensors in OpenBSD</a>
1.563 jason 592: [<a href="http://www.fetissov.org/public/nycbsdcon06/1.6.mp3">audio</a>]
1.605 jason 593: <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 594: <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>]
595: <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 596: <li>Ray Lai: <i>First time booth bunny</i>
597: </ul>
598: <p>
599:
1.556 fgsch 600: <li><strong><a name=linuxworlduk2006></a>
601: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.co.uk/">LinuxWorld Expo UK 2006</a></strong>,
602: Oct 25 - 26, 2006, Olympia, London, UK.<br>
1.558 wvdputte 603: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Wim, Tom, Peter, Federico and
604: Pedro La Peu.
1.556 fgsch 605: <p>
606:
1.589 aanriot 607: <li><strong><a name=cuug2006oct></a>
608: <a href="http://www.cuug.ab.ca/">Calgary Unix Users Group</a></strong>,
609: Oct 24, 2006, downtown Library, basement meeting room, Calgary, Alberta.<br>
610: Theo de Raadt gave a talk regarding the increasing demand for
611: vendors to open up their documentation.
612: <p>
613:
1.553 grunk 614: <li><strong><a name="systems2006"></a>
615: <a href="http://www.systems.de/">Systems</a></strong>,
1.734 tobias 616: Oct 23 - 27, 2006, Munich, Germany.<br>
1.553 grunk 617: The *BSD projects were located at A3.542.
618: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
619: Wilhelm Bühler, DaN, Nikolay Sturm, Marco Pfatschbacher,
620: and some other volunteers.
621: <p>
622:
1.550 henning 623: <li><strong><a name=hacklu2006></a>
624: <a href="http://www.hack.lu/">hack.lu 2006</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 625: Oct 19 - 21, 2006, Luxembourg/Kirchberg, Luxembourg.<br>
1.550 henning 626: Henning Brauer gave a well received talk about OpenBGPD.
627: <p>
628:
1.547 aanriot 629: <li><strong><a name=aldil2006></a>
630: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/">Les Journées Du Logiciel Libre
631: 2006</a></strong>,
632: Oct 13 - 14, 2006, Lyon, France.<br>
633: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Miod Vallat and Alexandre
634: Anriot with the help of Thierry Thomas and Damien Bergamini.
635: <p>
636:
1.546 mcbride 637: <li><strong><a name=auug2006></a>
638: <a href="http://new.auug.org.au/">AUUG 2006</a></strong>,
639: Oct 10 - 13, 2006, Melbourne, Australia.<br>
640: Ryan Mcbride presented a full-day tutorial entitled
641: "Advanced PF Rulesets" as well as two additional talks
642: <a href="papers/auug2006/pf_evolution/">PF evolution</a>
643: and
644: <a href="papers/auug2006/network_randomness/">Network stack randomness in OpenBSD</a>.
645: <p>
646:
1.532 wvdputte 647: <li><strong><a name=eurooscon2006></a>
1.734 tobias 648: <a href="http://conferences.oreillynet.com/euos2006/">O'Reilly Euro OSCON
649: 2006</a></strong>,
1.532 wvdputte 650: Sep 20, 2006, Brussels, Belgium.<br>
651: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth.
652: <p>
653:
1.528 wvdputte 654: <li><strong><a name=come2linux2006></a>
655: <a href="http://www.come2linux.org/psp/">Come 2 Linux 2006</a></strong>,
656: Sep 9 - 10, 2006, Duisburg-Essen, Germany.<br>
657: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth.
658: <p>
659:
1.525 wvdputte 660: <li><strong><a name=ChaosdaysDarmstadt2006></a>
1.734 tobias 661: <a href="http://mrmcd101b.metarheinmain.de/index.html">mrmcd101b -
662: MetaRheinMainChaosDays Darmstadt 2006</a></strong>,
1.525 wvdputte 663: Sep 1 - 3, 2006, Darmstadt, Germany.<br>
664: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth.
665: <p>
666:
1.521 fkr 667: <li><strong><a name=LinuxWorldExpoSF2006></a>
1.734 tobias 668: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/live/12/events/12SFO06A/conference/tracksessions/Security/QMONYA04ROFR">LinuxWorld Expo San Francisco 2006</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 669: Aug 16, 2006, San Francisco, USA.<br>
1.521 fkr 670: Ted Unangst spoke about OpenBSD as part of a security panel.
671: <p>
672:
1.518 tedu 673: <li><strong><a name=coimbra2006></a>
674: <a href="http://www.openbsd-pt.com/eventos/coimbra06/">Portuguese OpenBSD Usergroup Meeting</a></strong>,
675: Jul 22 - 23, 2006, Coimbra, Portugal.<br>
676: 6th Meeting of the Portuguese OpenBSD Usergroup. Marc Balmer gave a talk
677: "NMEA 0183 and Time Signal Station Receiver Support in OpenBSD".
678: <p>
679:
680: <li><strong><a name=akqit2006></a>
681: <a href="http://www.akqit.ch/w3/DE/actual.html">Arbeitskreis für Qualität in der Informationstechnologie (Working Group for Quality in IT)</a></strong>,
1.734 tobias 682: Jul 20, 2006, University of Basel, Computer Science Department, Room 205, Bernoullistr. 16, 17:30 - 18:30, Basel, Switzerland.<br>
1.590 mbalmer 683: Marc Balmer gave a talk in german "<a href="papers/akqit06/index.html">Ensuring
684: Quality in the Development of the Free Operating System OpenBSD</a>".
1.518 tedu 685: <p>
1.475 deraadt 686:
1.510 wvdputte 687: <li><strong><a name="lsm2006"></a>
688: <a href="http://www.rmll.info">Libre Software Meeting 2006</a></strong>,
689: Jul 4 - 8, 2006, Vandoeuvre-les-nancy, France.<br>
1.681 aanriot 690: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Wim, Matthieu and
691: Alexandre with the help of Serge and Christelle.
1.510 wvdputte 692: <p>
693:
1.508 wvdputte 694: <li><strong><a name=FrOSCon></a>
695: <a href="http://www.froscon.de/">
696: FrOSCon 2006 - Free and Open Source Software Conference</a></strong>,
697: Jun 24 - 25, 2006, Bonn/Rhein-Sieg, Germany.<br>
1.518 tedu 698: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth run by Wim, Waldemar, Manuel and
1.508 wvdputte 699: Tim Kornau.
700: <p>
701:
1.507 mbalmer 702: <li><strong><a name=LinuxwochenLinz2006></a>
1.734 tobias 703: <a href="http://www.linuxwochen.at/2006/Linz">Linuxwochen Linz
704: 2006</a></strong>,
1.507 mbalmer 705: June 15, 2006, Linz, Austria.<br>
1.727 wvdputte 706: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth run by Wim and the usual suspects.
1.507 mbalmer 707: <p>
708:
1.506 deraadt 709: <li><strong><a name=lugverona2006></a>
1.734 tobias 710: <a href="http://www.di.univr.it/dol/main?ent=iniziativa&id=857&lang=it">LUGVR@UNIVR</a></strong>,
1.506 deraadt 711: Jun 9, 2006, Verona University, Borgo Roma, Italy.<br>
712: Florin Iamandi of <a href="https://www.verona.linux.it">LUG Verona</a>
713: gave a talk
714: (<a href="http://todome.net/docs/obsd_carp/en">English</a> and
715: <a href="http://todome.net/docs/obsd_carp/it">Italian</a>)
716: and live demonstration on redundant failover
717: OpenBSD firewalls. He explained why OpenBSD solves many problems that
718: had previously been the dominion of expensive commercial solutions.
719: Attendees learned about OpenBSD's hard stance and successful fight against
720: bad licences and uncooperating vendors and manufacturers.
721: <p>
722:
1.502 mbalmer 723: <li><strong><a name=Slackathon2006></a>
1.734 tobias 724: <a href="http://slackathon2006.unix.se">Slackathon 2006</a></strong>,
1.502 mbalmer 725: Jun 3, 2006, Stockholm, Sweden.<br>
726: A fundraiser for OpenBSD/SSH held at the Stockholm University. Free
1.505 ian 727: entrance and all donations went straight to the project. Several
1.502 mbalmer 728: developers were talking about OpenBSD here, as well as some hands-on
729: workshops took place with both old and new hardware.
730: <p>
731:
1.500 deraadt 732: <li><strong><a name=cuug2006></a>
733: <a href="http://www.cuug.ab.ca/">Calgary Unix Users Group</a></strong>,
734: Jun 1, 2006, SAIT Campus, Calgary, Alberta.<br>
1.504 miod 735: Bob Beck and Reyk Floeter discussed recent and future networking
736: changes in OpenBSD. Some other OpenBSD developers attended to provide
1.500 deraadt 737: international colour, and there were tshirts, CDs, and posters on hand.
738: CUUG made a substantial contribution to OpenBSD at this event as well.
739: <p>
740:
1.589 aanriot 741: <li><strong><a name=LinuxwochenVienna2006></a>
1.734 tobias 742: <a href="http://www.linuxwochen.at/2006/Wien">Linuxwochen Vienna
743: 2006</a></strong>,
1.589 aanriot 744: May 31 - Jun 2, 2006, Vienna, Austria.<br>
745: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth run by Wim and the usual suspects.
746: <p>
747:
1.585 aanriot 748: <li><strong><a name=plug060519></a>
1.734 tobias 749: <a href="http://www.plugfr.org/">Provence Linux User Group</a></strong>,
1.586 aanriot 750: May 19, 2006, Marseille, France.<br>
1.585 aanriot 751: Alexandre Anriot spoke about the deployment of wireless networks with
1.586 aanriot 752: OpenBSD during a meeting of the PLUG.
1.585 aanriot 753: <p>
754:
1.491 bernd 755: <li><strong><a name="SANE2006"></a>
756: <a href="http://www.sane.nl/sane2006/">SANE 2006</a></strong>,
757: May 15 - 19, 2006, Delft, The Netherlands.<br>
758: Peter N. M. Hansteen gave a
759: <a href="http://www.sane.nl/sane2006/program/abstract.php?eventid=35">
760: PF tutorial</a>.
761: <p>
762:
1.490 reyk 763: <li><strong><a name=bsdcan2006></a> <a
764: href="http://www.bsdcan.org/2006/">BSDCan 2006</a></strong>,
765: May 12 - 13, 2006, Ottawa, Canada.<br>
766: David Gwynne gave a talk about hardware monitoring with bio and
767: sensors in OpenBSD (<a href="papers/bsdcan06-biosensors.pdf">slides</a>)
768: and Reyk Flöter talked about the latest
769: wireless support and the incredible plans for the future
770: (<a href="papers/bsdcan06-wlan/index.html">slides</a>), and
771: Peter Hansteen gave a PF tutorial. A number of OpenBSD hackers
772: attended the conference as well, like Bob Beck and Mathieu Sauve-Frankel.
773: <p>
774:
1.489 bernd 775: <li><strong><a name="linuxdays2006"></a>
776: <a href="http://www.linuxdays.ch">Linuxdays 2006</a></strong>,
777: May 8 - 12, 2006, Geneva, Switzerland.<br>
778: Julien Mabillard, a long-time Geneva OpenBSD user, gave a talk to present
779: the overall system and its great features.
780: <p>
781:
1.592 claudio 782: <li><strong><a name="idepes2006"></a>
1.589 aanriot 783: <a href="http://www.idepes.org.br/openbsd/">IDEPES 2006</a></strong>,
784: May 6, 2006, São Paulo, Brazil.<br>
785: First event in Brazil totally dedicated to OpenBSD.
786: <p>
787:
1.592 claudio 788: <li><strong><a name="LinuxTag2006"></a>
1.484 mbalmer 789: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.org/2006/">LinuxTag 2006</a></strong>,
790: May 3 - 6, 2006, Wiesbaden, Germany.<br>
791: OpenBSD was very present at this years Linuxtag:
792: <ul>
793: <li>On friday morning, Claudio and Marc moderated a panel discussion
794: "BLOBS sind das Krebsgeschwür freier Software" (Blobs are the
1.485 mbalmer 795: cancer of free software) that was well attended. Unfortunately no one
1.484 mbalmer 796: in favour of Blobs attended, although we asked almost all Linux
797: distributions...
798: <li>After lunch, Marc Balmer started the afternoon with a talk "OpenBSD
799: as a Strategic Platform for the Basle Public Schools", outlining how and
1.485 mbalmer 800: why the Basle Public school system uses OpenBSD for most of its
1.484 mbalmer 801: infrastructure.
1.592 claudio 802: <li>The next OpenBSD specific talk was by Claudio Jeker,
803: <a href="papers/linuxtag06-network/">"Routing with OpenBSD using
804: OpenOSPFD and OpenBGPD"</a> where he showed various routing setups and
805: how full redundancy can be achieved.
806: [<a href="papers/linuxtag06-network.pdf">paper</a>]
1.484 mbalmer 807: <li>Later, Marc Balmer gave a talk "Decoding Time Signal Stations using
808: OpenBSD" and explained the recent addition of timedelta sensors and the
809: first implementation of such, udcf(4).
810: </ul>
811: <br>
812: All talks where very well received and OpenBSD filled four hours of the
1.485 mbalmer 813: Linuxtag program. We thank Wilhelm Bühler, chair of the BSD-Track
1.484 mbalmer 814: at Linuxtag, for the superb and professional organization.
815: <br>
816: Of course, there was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth run by Wim and the
817: usual suspects.
818: <p>
819:
1.486 mickey 820: <li><strong><a name=NYCBUG2006-05></a>
821: <a href="http://nycbug.org/index.php?NAV=Home&SUBM=83">NYCBUG Monthly meeting</a></strong>,
822: May 3, 2006, NYC, USA.<br>
823: Mickey gave a talk
1.564 jason 824: (<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 825: about PAE work for OpenBSD/i386.<br>
826: Mischa Diehm gave a talk about implementing VPN using OpenBSD.
827: <p>
828:
1.484 mbalmer 829: <li><strong><a name=tokyo2006></a>
830: <a href="http://www.tokyopc.org/index.php/weblog/">Tokyo PC Users Group</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 831: May 2, 2006, Tokyo, Japan.<br>
1.484 mbalmer 832: Theo presented his <a href="papers/ven05-deraadt">"Exploit Mitigation Techniques"</a>
833: talk. There is a
834: <a href="http://www.tokyopc.org/faxmessage/index.html#about">map to the location</a>.
835: <p>
836:
1.478 mbalmer 837: <li><strong><a name=SambaEXPerience2006></a>
838: <a href="http://www.sambaxp.org/">Samba eXPerience 2006</a></strong>,
839: April 24 - 26, 2006, Göttingen, Germany.<br>
840: Marc Balmer gave a talk "Providing Fully Automated Fileserver Services
841: for Public Schools using LDAP Integrated SAMBA on OpenBSD" that was very
842: well received.
843: <br>
844: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth run by Wim and Marc and Felix Kronlage
845: and we could draw a lot of attention.
846: <p>
847:
1.479 deraadt 848: <li><strong><a name=DORSCLUC2006></a>
849: <a href="http://www.open.hr/dc2006/"> DORS / CLUC 2006</a></strong>,
1.734 tobias 850: April 19 - 21, 2006, Zagreb, Croatia.<br>
1.479 deraadt 851: <a href="http://www.kerberos.si">Mitja Muzenic</a> gave a
1.480 mbalmer 852: <a href="http://www.kerberos.si/papers/DORS06/index.html">
853: "Introduction to OpenBSD"</a> talk. Conference
854: <a href="http://www.open.hr/dc2006/program.php">program</a> (in croatian
1.479 deraadt 855: only).
856: <p>
857:
1.475 deraadt 858: <li><strong><a name=linuxworld2006></a>
1.734 tobias 859: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/live/12/events/12BOS06A/"
860: >LinuxWorld/OpenSolutions World 2006</a></strong>,
1.475 deraadt 861: April 3 - 6, 2006, Boston, USA.<br>
862: Jason Dixon presented
863: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/live/12/events/12BOS06A/conference/tracksessions/Security/QMONYA04Q1DK">Secure Network Architectures with OpenBSD</a>,
864: a talk on OpenBSD that outlines the various technologies that make
865: it a leader of secure networking platforms.
866: <br>
867: He spent time around the exposition BSD booth with giveaways
868: and early release OpenBSD 3.9 CDs.
869: <p>
870:
871: <li><strong><a name=cansecwest06></a>
872: <a href="http://www.cansecwest.com">Cansecwest/core06</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 873: April 3 - 7, 2006, Vancouver, Canada.<br>
1.475 deraadt 874: A rather interesting OpenBSD-related talk happened at this event, regarding
875: using SMI interrupts to break out of X into kernel mode.
876: <br>
877: Some OpenBSD developers attended. Some early OpenBSD 3.9 items went
878: on sale.
879: <p>
880:
1.469 tom 881: <li><strong><a name=ukuug2006></a>
882: <a href="http://www.ukuug.org/events/spring2006/">UKUUG Spring Conference 2006</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 883: Mar 22 - 23, 2006, Durham, United Kingdom.<br>
1.469 tom 884: Reyk Flöter gave a talk about the latest wireless support in
885: OpenBSD at the annual spring meeting of the
886: <a href="http://www.ukuug.org/">UK's Unix and Open Systems User Group</a>.
887: Peter N. M. Hansteen
888: gave a PF tutorial, Tom Cosgrove presented "Exploit
889: Mitigation Techniques" and Constantine Murenin gave a
890: presentation on "Hardware temperature monitoring device
891: drivers for OpenBSD".
892: These were all part of a new, well-attended, BSD stream at the event.
893: <p>
894:
1.459 henning 895: <li><strong><a name=Copenhagen2006></a>
896: <a href="http://www.linuxforum.dk/2006/en/">LinuxForum 2006</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 897: Mar 3 - 4, 2006, Copenhagen, Denmark.<br>
1.459 henning 898: Wim gave Felix Kronlage's talk about OpenBSD Mobile Use (wifi, UMTS,
899: GPRS, phones and the like) with some demo setups.
900: Henning Brauer gave a very well received talk about OpenBGPD,
901: <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/linuxforum2006/">slides</a> are available.
902: <p>
903:
1.457 wvdputte 904: <li><strong><a name=Brussels2006></a>
905: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/2006/">FOSDEM Brussels 2006</a></strong>,
906: Feb 25 - 26, 2006, Brussels, Belgium.<br>
907: An OpenBSD/OpenSSH booth was present, run by the usual gang of suspects:
1.458 xsa 908: Alexandre, Dimitar, Matthieu, Mbalmer, Nikolay, Otto, Reyk, Saad, Thierry, Uwe, Wim, and
1.457 wvdputte 909: Xsa. Reyk gave a talk about Wifi with OpenBSD and there was our traditional
910: BSD dinner. More details and
911: <a href="http://saad.docisland.org/pictures/fosdem2006/index.html">pictures</a>
1.458 xsa 912: on <a href="http://saad.docisland.org/blog/files/archive-12.html#unique-entry-id-40">Saad's blog</a>.
1.457 wvdputte 913: <p>
914:
915: <li><strong><a name=Vegas2006></a>
916: <a href="http://kd85.com/vegas2006.html">Merciful briefings 2006</a></strong>,
917: Feb 15, 2006, Las Vegas, USA - Feb 17, 2006, San Diego, USA - Feb 18, 2006, Phoenix, USA.<br>
918: While traveling the US, Wim met with a bunch of OpenBSD users in Las Vegas,
919: San Diego and Phoenix. With many thanks to the members of PhxBUG - Phoenix BSD
920: User Group, more specificly Darrin Chandler, for organising the little
921: details and Jacob for road trip directions.
922: <p>
1.455 grunk 923:
1.456 henning 924: <li><strong><a name=nanog36></a>
925: <a href="http://www.nanog.org/">NANOG 36</a></strong>,
926: Feb 12 - 15, 2006, Dallas, USA.<br>
927: Henning Brauer and Bernhard Kroenung of DE-CIX talked about OpenBGPD and
928: OpenBGPD at DE-CIX, <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/nanog36/">slides</a>
929: are available. Henning talked again at the tools BOF
930: (<a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/nanog36-bof/">slides</a>).
931: Both talks were very well received by the audience.
932: Kenjiro Cho was there too, talking about IPv6 issues.
933: <p>
934:
1.455 grunk 935: <li><strong><a name="Paris2006"></a>
1.734 tobias 936: <a href="http://www.solutionslinux.fr/fr/index.php">Solutions Linux
937: 2006</a></strong>,
1.455 grunk 938: Jan 31 - Feb 2, 2006, Paris, France.<br>
939: There was an OpenBSD booth run by Marc Espie, Miod Vallat, Saad Kadhi and
940: Wim with help from Guillaume Arcas and Christophe Plasschaert.
941: <p>
942: </ul>
943:
1.296 mcbride 944: <h3>2005</h3>
1.240 espie 945:
946: <ul>
1.337 deraadt 947:
1.445 martin 948: <li><strong><a name=22c3></a>
949: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/2005/">22C3 Chaos Communication Congress in
950: Berlin</a></strong>,
951: December 27 - 30, 2005, Berlin, Germany.<br>
952: Many OpenBSD developers and users met for a Xmas break in a unique setting.
953: <p>
954:
1.585 aanriot 955: <li><strong><a name=plug051216></a>
1.734 tobias 956: <a href="http://www.plugfr.org/">Provence Linux User Group</a></strong>,
1.586 aanriot 957: December 16, 2005, Marseille, France.<br>
958: Alexandre Anriot spoke about OpenSSH during a meeting of the PLUG.
1.585 aanriot 959: <p>
960:
1.435 matthieu 961: <li><strong><a name=eurobsdcon2005></a>
962: <a href="http://2005.eurobsdcon.org/">EuroBSDCon 2005</a></strong>,
963: Nov 25 - 27, 2005, Basel, Switzerland.<br>
964: The 4th edition of the european conference for BSD systems has been a
965: great success. More than 225 people from 27 countries attended the
1.438 deraadt 966: event.
1.444 grunk 967: The program included a
968: <a href="http://www.eurobsdcon.org/tutorials-reyk.php">tutorial by Reyk about
1.437 niallo 969: OpenBSD-based Wireless Networks</a> and the following talks
970: <ul>
1.438 deraadt 971: <li>Henning Brauer with Wilhelm Bühler "Signal Handlers"
972: <li>Ryan McBride "Network Stack Randomness"
1.439 matthieu 973: <li><a href="papers/eurobsd2005/herrb-hopf.pdf">Matthieu Herrb and Matthias Hopf "New Evolutions in the X Window System"</a>
1.440 claudio 974: <li><a href="papers/eurobsd2005/claudio/">Claudio Jeker "The Design and Implementation of OpenOSPFD"</a>
1.439 matthieu 975: <li><a href="papers/eurobsd2005/niallo-uwe/">Niall O'Higgins & Uwe Stuehler "Embedded OpenBSD"</a>
1.443 deraadt 976: <li><a href="papers/eurobsd2005/tedu-rthreads.pdf">Ted Unangst "rthreads: A New Thread Implementation for OpenBSD"</a>
1.437 niallo 977: </ul>
1.438 deraadt 978: <p>
1.435 matthieu 979: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
980: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
981: <p>
982:
1.434 bernd 983: <li><strong><a name=linuxworldexpogermany2005></a>
984: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.de/">Linux World Expo Germany</a></strong>,
985: Nov 15 - 17, 2005, Frankfurt, Germany.<br>
986: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
987: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a> and Bernd.
988: <p>
989:
1.441 niallo 990: <li><strong><a name="pacsec05"></a>
991: <a href="http://www.pacsec.jp/">PacSec/core 05 conference</a></strong>,
992: Nov 15 - 16, 2005, Tokyo, Japan.<br>
993: Sean Comeau presented a talk called
994: <a href="http://www.openbsd-support.com/jp/en/htm/mgp/pacsec05/index.html">
995: Open Source Secure Wireless Networks in a Windows World</a>
996: <a href="http://www.pacsec.jp/core05/psj05-scomeau-en.pdf">[PDF]</a>.
997: The solution he presents uses IPsec to protect traffic between the
998: wireless clients and access points. Authentication is done using OpenSSH
999: (authpf), a process made transparent and user-friendly by a few small
1000: scripts.
1001: <p>
1002:
1.424 mbalmer 1003: <li><strong><a name=opencon2005></a>
1004: <a href="http://www.opencon.org/">OpenCON 2005</a></strong>,
1005: Nov 4 - 6, 2005, San Servolo Island, Venice, Italy.<br>
1.427 deraadt 1006: The only unique conference entirely dedicated to OpenBSD, held in the totally
1007: crazy environment of San Servolo island: an old insane asylum turned into a
1008: university about 20 years ago, about 10 minutes boat ride from Venice.
1.429 deraadt 1009: In the days leading up to this, about 12 OpenBSD developers arrived early
1.427 deraadt 1010: for a Ports mini-hackathon. During the conference a few developers gave
1.433 deraadt 1011: talks, including
1012: <ul>
1013: <li><a href="papers/ven05-pvalchev">Peter Valchev "OpenBSD Hackathon report"</a>
1014: <li><a href="papers/ven05-espie">Marc Espie "OpenBSD ports and packages"</a>
1015: <li><a href="papers/ven05-henning">Henning Brauer "OpenBSD networking update"</a>
1016: <li><a href="papers/ven05-niallo-uwe/slides.pdf">Uwe Stuehler, Niall O'Higgins "Porting OpenBSD"</a>
1017: <li><a href="papers/ven05-deraadt">Theo de Raadt "Exploit Mitigation Techniques (updated to include random malloc and mmap)"</a>
1018: </ul>
1.424 mbalmer 1019: <p>
1020:
1021: <li><strong><a name=systems2005></a>
1022: <a href="http://www.systems.de/">Systems</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 1023: Oct 24 - 28, 2005, Munich, Germany.<br>
1.425 mbalmer 1024: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
1.424 mbalmer 1025: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
1026: <p>
1027:
1.418 djm 1028: <li><strong><a name=auug2005></a>
1029: <a href="http://www.auug.org.au/events/2005/auug2005/">AUUG 2005</a></strong>,
1030: October 16 - 21, 2005, Sydney, Australia.<br>
1031: Mark Uemura presented a tutorial on setting up CARP/PF, a demonstration of
1032: stateful failover with CARP and pfsync and a talk on wireless security in
1033: a corporate environment using authpf and isakmpd. Peter Hansteen gave a
1034: <a href="http://www.bgnett.no/~peter/pf/">Firewalling with PF</a> tutorial.
1.420 deraadt 1035: Damien Miller presented on the approach to
1036: <a href="papers/auug2005-portability">secure software portability used
1037: by portable OpenSSH</a>, Reyk Flöter gave a talk on the current state of wireless
1.418 djm 1038: support in OpenBSD and David Purdue introduced OpenBSD's spamd tarpit.
1039: Most of the Australian OpenBSD developers and many users were present.
1040: <p>
1041:
1.415 aanriot 1042: <li><strong><a name=aldil2005></a>
1043: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/">Les Journées Du Logiciel Libre
1044: 2005</a></strong>,
1045: Oct 14 - 15, 2005, Lyon, France.<br>
1046: There was OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Alexandre Anriot with the
1047: help of Thierry Thomas.
1048: <p>
1049:
1.420 deraadt 1050: <li><strong><a name=cafeconf2005></a>
1051: <a href="http://www.cafeconf.org/">CaFeConf 2005,
1052: 4tas Jornadas Abiertas de GNU/Linux y Software Libre</a></strong>,
1.734 tobias 1053: Oct 13 - 15, 2005, Buenos Aires, Argentina.<br>
1.420 deraadt 1054: CaFeConf 2005 is the anual event of CaFeLUG - Free Software Users
1055: Group of Capital Federal, Argentina. This year the event featured
1056: 116 presentations consisting of talks, tutorials, and workshops. The
1057: event was also broadcasted on the Internet. Entrance was free, but
1058: registration was mandatory.<br>
1059: Fernando Gont gave a talk on
1.444 grunk 1060: <a href="http://www.cafeconf.org/modules/myconference/viewspeech.php?sid=147&cid=20">
1.420 deraadt 1061: ICMP attacks against TCP</a>,
1062: in which he gave an overview of the attacks, the possible
1063: counter-measures, and the politics of vulnerabilities, and a talk on
1.444 grunk 1064: <a href="http://www.cafeconf.org/modules/myconference/viewspeech.php?sid=173&cid=20">
1.420 deraadt 1065: Fixing the vulnerability of the Path-MTU Discovery mechanism</a>,
1066: in which explained how OpenBSD fixed the vulnerability of the PMTUD
1067: mechanism.
1068: <p>
1069:
1.414 bernd 1070: <li><strong><a name=linuxkongress2005></a>
1071: <a href="http://www.linux-kongress.org/">12th International Linux System
1072: Technology Conference</a></strong>,
1073: Oct 11 - 14, 2005, University of Hamburg, Germany.<br>
1074: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth.
1075: <p>
1076:
1077: <li><strong><a name=linuxworlduk2005></a>
1078: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.co.uk/">LinuxWorld Expo UK 2005</a></strong>,
1079: Oct 5 - 6, 2005, Olympia, London, UK.<br>
1080: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth.
1081: <p>
1082:
1.410 wvdputte 1083: <li><strong><a name=opensourcetag2005></a>
1.575 reyk 1084: <a href="http://www.opensourcetag.de/2005/">OpenSourceTag 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 1085: Sep 27, 2005, Hannover, Germany.<br>
1.444 grunk 1086: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth and Reyk gave a
1.575 reyk 1087: <a href="http://www.opensourcetag.de/2005/agenda/">talk</a> about IT security.
1.410 wvdputte 1088: <p>
1089:
1090: <li><strong><a name="gubuginstallfest2005"></a>
1091: <a href="http://gubug.org/meetings.php">Greater Utah BSD Group
1092: Installfest 2005</a></strong>,
1093: Sep 24, 2005, Sandy, UT, USA.<br/>
1.444 grunk 1094: <a href="http://www.gubug.org/">The Greater Utah BSD User Group</a> organised
1.410 wvdputte 1095: their first annual BSD Installfest, sponsored by Utah ISP ArosNet.
1096: There were handouts, CD-ROMs, technical presentations, and
1097: fun, plus a chance to get OpenBSD or a related open source BSD operating system
1098: installed on your computer.
1099: Admission was free (computers not included in cost of admission).
1.419 djm 1100: Featured speakers included Dan Langille, organizer of BSDCan.
1.410 wvdputte 1101: <p>
1102:
1.404 wvdputte 1103: <li><strong><a name="NYCBSDCon2005"></a>
1104: <a href="http://nycbsdcon.org/">New York City BSD Conference 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 1105: Sep 17, 2005, NYC, USA.<br>
1.404 wvdputte 1106: NYCBSDCon was a one day technical conference hosted by the New York
1107: City *BSD User Group and was held at Columbia University.
1.406 saad 1108: The all day conference included a variety of speakers representing the
1.404 wvdputte 1109: BSD projects and the open source community.<br>
1110: NYCBSDCon was organized by NYC*BUG, a technical user group that formed in
1111: December 2003. Besides their regular monthly meetings at the Soho Apple
1112: Store, NYC*BUG has done fundraising for the BSD projects and contributed a
1113: number of useful online applications such as BSDTracker and dmesgd.<br>
1114: Additional sponsors included USENIX, New York Internet and SRA America.
1115: <p>
1116:
1117: <li><strong><a name=opensaar2005></a>
1118: <a href="http://www.opensaar.de/">OpenSaar 2005</a></strong>,
1119: Sep 13 - 14, 2005, Saarbrücken, Germany.<br>
1.727 wvdputte 1120: An OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth was present.
1.404 wvdputte 1121: <p>
1122:
1.403 henning 1123: <li><strong><a name=decix160905></a> <a
1124: href="http://www.de-cix.org/">DE-CIX Technical Meeting</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 1125: Sep 16, 2005, Schloss Kransberg, near Usingen, Germany.<br>
1.403 henning 1126: Henning Brauer, Reyk Flöter and Maxim Salomon had been invited to the
1127: technical meeting of the Deutsche Commercial Internet Exchange (DE-CIX) again.
1128: Henning gave an update on OpenBGPD, Reyk talked about a route server project
1129: using OpenBGPD at DE-CIX, and Maxim explained why the CCC sponsors us doing so.
1130: There was a very positive discussion afterwards.
1131: <a href="http://unduli.bsws.de/papers/decix2005-2/">Slides</a> are available.
1132: <p>
1133:
1.388 tom 1134: <li><strong><a name="ukuug2005"></a>
1135: <a href="http://www.ukuug.org/events/linux2005/">UKUUG Linux Technical
1136: Conference 2005</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 1137: Aug 4 - 7, 2005, University of Wales, Swansea, UK.<br>
1.388 tom 1138: Tom Cosgrove gave Theo's presentation about Exploit Mitigation Techniques.
1139: <p>
1140:
1.385 mickey 1141: <li><strong><a name=wth2005></a>
1.390 deraadt 1142: <a href="http://www.whatthehack.org/">What the Hack 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 1143: Jul 28 - 31, 2005, Den Bosch, The Netherlands.<br>
1.385 mickey 1144: As every 4 years, Wim organized the
1145: <a href="http://eurobsd.org/2005-WhatTheHack/">BSD village</a> at this huge
1.389 tom 1146: open air event. There were some talks, Reyk spoke about
1147: <a href="http://program.whatthehack.org/event/6.en.html">WLAN in OpenBSD</a>,
1.385 mickey 1148: and an excellent
1149: <a href="ftp://ftp.nyc.openbsd.org/pub/news/wth-radio-humppa.mp3">Humppa show</a> (35MB MP3) was performed on the SubEther radio.
1150: If you want to see what happened previously, check
1151: <a href="http://eurobsd.org/hal2001/">http://eurobsd.org/hal2001/</a>
1152: and <a href="http://www.eurobsd.org/SummerCamp2003/">http://www.eurobsd.org/SummerCamp2003/</a>.
1153: <p>
1154:
1.382 pedro 1155: <li><strong><a name=coimbra2005></a>
1.474 pedro 1156: <a href="http://www.openbsd-pt.com/eventos/coimbra05/">Portuguese OpenBSD Usergroup Meeting</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 1157: Jul 23 - 24, 2005, Coimbra, Portugal.<br>
1.538 pedro 1158: 5th Meeting of the Portuguese OpenBSD Usergroup. Pedro Martelletto gave a talk.
1.382 pedro 1159: <p>
1160:
1.378 aanriot 1161: <li><strong><a name="lsm2005"></a>
1162: <a href="http://2005.rencontresmondiales.org/sections/index_html/switchLanguage/en">Libre Software Meeting 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 1163: Jul 5 - 9, 2005, Dijon, France.<br>
1.379 aanriot 1164: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Wim and the usual
1165: suspects, with the help of Serge Basterot. It was a nice place to meet
1166: some of our French, German and Swiss developers, including Marc Balmer,
1167: Alexandre Anriot, Matthieu Herrb and Reyk Floeter.
1.378 aanriot 1168: <p>
1169:
1.375 grunk 1170: <li><strong><a name=LinuxTag2005></a>
1171: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.org">LinuxTag 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 1172: Jun 22 - 25, 2005, Karlsruhe, Germany.<br>
1.375 grunk 1173: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth ran by Wim, Christian Weisgerber,
1174: Marc Balmer, Wilhelm Buehler, Robert Nagy, Bernd Ahlers and Phil Schulz.
1175: <p>
1176:
1.374 grunk 1177: <li><strong><a name="uofa-cc2005"></a>
1178: <a href="http://www.ualberta.ca/CC2005"> University of Alberta, Campus
1.410 wvdputte 1179: Computing 2005</a></strong>, Jun 21, 2005, Edmonton, Canada.<br>
1.374 grunk 1180: Ryan McBride spoke about OpenBSD's packet filter, PF, with CARP and
1181: failover examples. Local color and examples at the U of A shown by Bob
1182: Beck. Bob Beck spoke about PF and Spamd, as well as several other
1183: OpenBSD using and related talks at this event, which primarily focuses
1184: on activities centered at the University of Alberta.
1185: <p>
1186:
1.371 deraadt 1187: <li><strong><a name=uemera2005></a>
1188: <a href="http://www.tokyopc.net">Tokyo PC Users Group</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 1189: Jun 2, 2005, Tokyo Union Church in Omotesando, Tokyo, Japan.<br>
1.371 deraadt 1190: Mark T. Uemura spoke to Japan's largest English speaking
1191: personal computer club. The talk was entitled
1192: <a href="http://www.openbsd-support.com/jp/en/htm/mgp/index.shtml">
1193: "Open Source in a Windows World"</a>.
1194: He demonstrated how companies can easily
1195: integrate Open Source, with an emphasis on OpenBSD, into their IT
1196: infrastructure to enhance security, scalability and stability,
1197: significantly reduce IT expenditures, free up computing infrastructure
1198: and move away from commercial lock-in. This talk is based on changes
1199: implemented at PricewaterhouseCoopers in Japan.
1200: <p>
1201:
1.366 martin 1202: <li><strong><a name=LinuxwochenVienna2005></a>
1203: <a href="http://www.linuxwochen.at/">Linuxwochen Vienna 2005</a></strong>,
1204: May 24 - 27, 2005, Vienna, Austria.<br>
1205: The Linuxwochen 2005 tour stopped in the MuseumsQuartier, Vienna.
1206: Wim Vandeputte and Reinhard Sammer were running an OpenBSD booth selling
1207: CDs and shirts.
1208: <p>
1209:
1.365 mcbride 1210: <li><strong><a name=cuug2005></a>
1211: <a href="http://www.cuug.ab.ca/">Calgary Unix Users Group</a></strong>,
1212: May 24, 2005, Calgary, Canada.<br>
1213: Ryan McBride spoke about OpenBSD's packet filter, PF.
1214: A broad overview of PF's features were presented, with special attention
1215: paid to newer and more unique features and how these can be used together
1216: effectively for DoS mitigation, high availability, and load balancing.
1217: <br>
1218: Approximately 60 OpenBSD developers attended to heckle and participate
1219: in a free-for-all question period after the talk.
1220: <p>
1221:
1.362 reyk 1222: <li><strong><a name=bsdcan2005></a>
1223: <a href="http://www.bsdcan.org/2005/">BSDCan 2005</a></strong>,
1224: May 13 - 14, 2005, Ottawa, Canada.<br>
1225: A number of OpenBSD developers presented: Bob Beck on
1226: Spam Reduction with PF and Spamd, Henning Brauer on OpenBGPD,
1227: Ryan McBride on Network Stack Randomness and Reyk Flöter
1228: on WLAN in OpenBSD and the free ath(4) HAL. The
1229: <a href="papers/bsdcan05-spamd/">Spamd</a> and
1230: <a href="papers/bsdcan05-wlan/">WLAN</a> slides are available.
1231: Mathieu Sauve-Frankel has been there in attendance as well.
1232: <p>
1233:
1.358 mcbride 1234: <li><strong><a name=csw2005></a>
1235: <a href="http://www.cansecwest.com/">cansecwest/core05</a></strong>,
1.734 tobias 1236: May 4 - 6, 2005, Vancouver, Canada.<br>
1.358 mcbride 1237: Hiroaki Etoh spoke about propolice; Theo de Raadt and a number of other
1238: developers were there to sell CDs and make a nuisance of themselves.
1239: <p>
1240:
1.357 henning 1241: <li><strong><a name=ripe50></a>
1242: <a href="http://www.ripe.net/ripe/meetings/ripe-50/">RIPE 50</a></strong>,
1.734 tobias 1243: May 2 - 6, 2005, Stockholm, Sweden.<br>
1.357 henning 1244: RIPE NCC invited Henning to talk about OpenBGPD.
1245: There were over 350 attendees to the conference, and most of them attended
1246: henning's talk, which got very very positive feedback.
1247: <p>
1248:
1.384 tom 1249: <li><strong><a name=libreast2005></a>
1.356 espie 1250: <a href="http://idile.org/libreast/">Libr'east 2005</a></strong>,
1.734 tobias 1251: Apr 22 - 24, Marne La Vallée, near Paris, France.<br>
1.356 espie 1252: There was an OpenBSD booth (Wim + Miod + Marc)
1253: Marc Espie did talk about recent OpenBSD advances, and his ports and
1254: packages work in front of about 30 people.
1255: <p>
1256:
1.353 henning 1257: <li><strong><a name=decix150405></a> <a
1258: href="http://www.de-cix.org/">DE-CIX Technical Meeting</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 1259: Apr 15, 2005, near Usingen, Germany.<br>
1.353 henning 1260: Henning Brauer and Reyk Flöter had been invited to the technical
1261: meeting of the Deutsche Commercial Internet Exchange (DE-CIX). Henning
1262: presented his talk on OpenBGPD, about 60 people, mostly operators from
1263: the big ISPs peering at DECIX, were in attendance.
1.354 reyk 1264: Reyk, Maxim Salomon and Tim Kornau spoke on Wireless Network Security.
1.353 henning 1265: <p>
1266:
1.352 henning 1267: <li><strong><a name=nuug140405></a>
1268: <a href="http://www.nuug.no/aktiviteter/20050414-pf-brannmur/">Firewalling with PF at NUUG</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 1269: Apr 14, 2005, Oslo, Norway.<br>
1.352 henning 1270: Peter N. M. Hansteen gave a firewalling with PF talk - which hopefully
1271: gave you some ideas about how to control your network traffic the
1272: way you want - keeping some things outside your network, directing
1273: traffic to specified hosts or services, and of course, giving spammers
1274: a hard time. The talk was in Norwegian, with <a
1275: href="http://www.bgnett.no/~peter/pf/no/foils/">foils</a> and <a
1276: href="http://www.bgnett.no/~peter/pf/no/">manuscript</a> (English <a
1277: href="http://www.bgnett.no/~peter/pf/en/foils/">foils</a> and <a
1278: href="http://www.bgnett.no/~peter/pf/en/">manuscript</a> too)
1279: available if you couldn't make it there.
1280: <p>
1281:
1.589 aanriot 1282:
1283: <li><strong><a name=fhwedel130405></a>
1284: <a href="http://www.fh-wedel.de/">FH Wedel invited talk</a></strong>,
1285: Apr 13, 2005, 17:00, Hörsaal 5, FH Wedel, Hamburg, Germany.<br>
1286: Henning Brauer spoke on OpenBGPD. More than 40 people were in attendance.
1287: <p>
1288:
1.350 marius 1289: <li><strong><a name=usenix2005></a>
1290: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix05/">Usenix Annual
1.410 wvdputte 1291: Technical Conference</a></strong>, Apr 10-15, 2005, Anaheim,
1.350 marius 1292: California, USA.<br> Marius Eriksen gave the OpenBSD update at the BSD
1293: super BoF. The update was well received and people were quite
1294: sympathetic towards the ongoing efforts of the OpenBSD project to
1295: ensure the free redistribution rights for firmware. People were also
1296: excited about the new Open* tools (OpenBGPD, OpenNTPD, OpenCVS) and it
1.351 marius 1297: would not be surprising to see more of these imported into other BSDs.
1.350 marius 1298: <p>
1299:
1.585 aanriot 1300: <li><strong><a name=plug050408></a>
1.734 tobias 1301: <a href="http://www.plugfr.org/">Provence Linux User Group</a></strong>,
1.586 aanriot 1302: April 8, 2005, Marseille, France.<br>
1.585 aanriot 1303: Alexandre Anriot spoke about OpenBSD and some associated projects
1.586 aanriot 1304: (OpenBGPD etc.) during a meeting of the PLUG.
1.585 aanriot 1305: The <a href="papers/plug080405">slides</a> (in French) are available.
1.344 martin 1306: <p>
1307:
1.337 deraadt 1308: <li><strong><a name=bcs2005></a>
1309: <a href="http://www.bellua.com/bcs2005/asia05.index.html">Bellua Cyber Security Asia 2005</a></strong>,
1.734 tobias 1310: Mar 21 - 24, 2005, Jakarta, Indonesia.<br>
1.337 deraadt 1311: Ryan McBride presented an overview of PF which
1312: discussed how its advanced features work together in some important
1.338 deraadt 1313: applications and compared PF with the other major commercial and open
1.337 deraadt 1314: source firewalls.
1315: <p>
1316:
1.317 henning 1317: <li><strong><a name=nui_maynooth2005></a>
1318: <a href="http://www.minds.nuim.ie/events">NUI Maynooth lectures</a></strong>,
1319: Mar 4, 2005, Department of Computer Science, NUI Maynooth, Dublin, Ireland.<br>
1.318 henning 1320: Ryan McBride presented talks about PF and about
1.326 mcbride 1321: <a href="papers/dublin05-nr">randomization in the OpenBSD network layer.</a><br>
1.318 henning 1322: Theo and Henning were in attendance because someone had to heckle.
1.317 henning 1323: <p>
1324:
1.312 deraadt 1325: <li><strong><a name=trinity2005></a>
1326: <a href="http://www.netsoc.tcd.ie/events/0405/openbsd.php">Trinity lecture</a></strong>,
1327: Mar 3, 2005, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.<br>
1.320 deraadt 1328: Theo de Raadt presented his talk about
1329: <a href="papers/auug04">Exploit Mitigation Techniques</a>.
1.312 deraadt 1330: <p>
1331:
1.319 saad 1332: <li><strong><a name=ShefLUG2005></a>
1333: <a href="http://www.sheflug.co.uk/seminar/tiki-index.php?page=Sheffield%20Open%20Source%20Seminar">ShefLUG2005</a></strong>,
1334: Mar 2, 2005, Sheffield, UK.<br>
1335: Jacek Artymiak gave a talk about installing OpenBSD on Soekris hardware.
1336: <p>
1337:
1.310 mickey 1338: <li><strong><a name=NYCBUG2005-03></a>
1.375 grunk 1339: <a href="http://nycbug.org/index.php?NAV=Home&SUBM=83">NYCBUG Monthly meeting</a></strong>,
1.310 mickey 1340: Mar 2, 2005, NYC, USA.<br>
1.322 deraadt 1341: Mickey gave a talk
1.325 mickey 1342: (<a href="papers/nyc2005">slides</a> and
1.564 jason 1343: <a href="http://www.fetissov.org/public/nycbug/nycbug-03-02-05.mp3">10.5MB audio</a>)
1.321 mickey 1344: about <a href="hppa.html">porting OpenBSD</a>
1.313 martin 1345: to the <a href="http://www.openpa.net">HP PA-RISC</a> platform.
1.310 mickey 1346: <p>
1.312 deraadt 1347:
1.308 deraadt 1348: <li><strong><a name=Netsoc2005></a>
1349: <a href="http://netsoc.ucd.ie/events/openbsd/">Netsoc lectures</a></strong>,
1350: Mar 2, 2005, UCD, Dublin, Ireland.<br>
1351: Theo de Raadt, Henning Brauer, and Ryan McBride gave a series of
1.320 deraadt 1352: talks. Topics included
1353: <a href="papers/auug04">exploit mitigation techniques</a>,
1.326 mcbride 1354: <a href="papers/dublin05-nr">introducing network randomness to increase security</a>,
1355: OpenBGPD, and pf.
1356: Almost 200 people came to this event.
1.308 deraadt 1357: <p>
1358:
1.304 saad 1359: <li><strong><a name=Brussels2005></a>
1360: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/2005/">FOSDEM Brussels 2005</a></strong>,
1361: Feb 26 - 27, 2005, Brussels, Belgium.<br>
1362: An OpenBSD/OpenSSH booth was present, ran by the usual gang of suspects.
1363: Support for <a href="mailto:wim@kd85.com">Wim Vandeputte</a> this time were
1.307 otto 1364: (among many others), Saad Kadhi, Henning Brauer, Thierry Deval, Otto Moerbeek,
1.304 saad 1365: Xavier Santolaria, Martin Reindl, Reyk Flöter, Hans-Jörg
1.360 db 1366: Höxer, Nikolay Sturm, Marc Balmer, Claudio Jeker, Joris Vink,
1367: Olivier Cherrier, David Berghoff,
1.316 mbalmer 1368: Alexander von Gernler, Uwe Stuehler, and Felix Kronlage from OpenDarwin.<br>
1.304 saad 1369: There was a separate OpenBSD track, featuring Henning Brauer (about
1370: signal handlers and OpenNTPD), Reyk Flöter (about wireless cards in
1371: OpenBSD), and the author of the OpenBSD PF book, Jacek Artymiak (about
1.375 grunk 1372: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pf">pf(4)</a>, of course).<br>
1.304 saad 1373: At the conference's Free Software Foundation Event, Theo de Raadt was
1374: awarded the Free Software Award 2004 for his efforts to make Firmware for
1375: wireless hardware and other devices freely available.
1376: <p>
1.301 saad 1377: <li><strong><a name=UKUUG05></a>
1378: <a href="http://www.ukuug.org/events/winter2005/">UKUUG LISA/Winter Conference</a></strong>,
1379: Feb 24 - 25, 2005, Birmingham, UK.<br>
1380: Henning Brauer spoke on OpenBGPD, OpenNTPD and Signal Handlers.
1381: <p>
1382: <li><strong><a name=FFG2005></a>
1383: <a href="http://www.guug.de/veranstaltungen/ffg2005/">GUUG FFG 2005</a></strong>,
1384: Feb 22 - 25, 2005, Munich, Germany.<br>
1385: Reyk Flöter talked about the latest wireless support in
1386: OpenBSD at the annual spring meeting of the <a href="http://www.guug.de/">German Unix User Group</a>.
1387: <p>
1.293 saad 1388: <li><strong><a name=Paris2005></a>
1389: <a href="http://www.solutionslinux.fr/fr/index.php">Solutions Linux 2005</a></strong>,
1390: Feb 1 - 3, 2005, Paris, France.<br>
1391: An OpenBSD booth as well as an OpenSSH booth were present. These booths
1392: were run by Marc Espie, Miod Vallat, Saad Kadhi and Wim with help from
1393: Guillaume Arcas and Christophe Plasschaert, two members of the OpenBSD
1.294 saad 1394: french translation team.<br>
1395: Marc Espie and Saad Kadhi gave a talk about the OpenBSD project with a
1396: special focus on the ports collection and Packet Filter. The <a
1397: href="papers/sl2005/index.html">slides</a> (in French) are
1398: available.<br>
1399: During the event, several demonstrations of <a
1.293 saad 1400: href="http://soekris.kd85.com/">Soekris</a> machines running OpenBSD
1401: were given by Saad Kadhi and Wim.
1402: <p>
1.296 mcbride 1403: </ul>
1.293 saad 1404:
1.296 mcbride 1405: <h3>2004</h3>
1406:
1407: <ul>
1.287 henning 1408: <li><strong><a name=21C3></a>
1409: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/2004/">21C3 - Chaos Communication Congress</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 1410: Dec 27 - 29, 2004, Berlin, Germany.<br>
1.287 henning 1411: "The Usual Suspects" were there and ran the BSD corner, including
1412: <a href="mailto:wim@kd85.com">Wim</a>,
1413: Henning Brauer, Marc Balmer, Martin Reindl, Moritz Jodeit, Felix Kronlage,
1.315 nick 1414: Uwe Stuehler, Konrad Foerstner, Bernd Ahlers, and Alexander von Gernler.<br>
1.287 henning 1415: Henning gave a talk about OpenBGPD and OpenNTPD
1416: (<a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/21c3/">slides</a>).<br>
1417: The WiFi backbone ran on OpenBSD powered
1418: <a href="http://soekris.kd85.com">Soekris</a> machines as access points,
1419: work done by Reyk Flöter, Tim Kornau and others.
1420: This installation was a very successful test of the new
1.290 henning 1421: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ath">ath(4)</a>
1.287 henning 1422: driver.
1423: <p>
1.248 deraadt 1424:
1.286 kevlo 1425: <li><strong><a name=icos2004></a>
1.417 kevlo 1426: <a href="http://2004.icos.org.tw/">ICOS 2004</a></strong>,
1.286 kevlo 1427: Dec 18 - 19, 2004, Taipei, Taiwan.<br>
1428: Kevin Lo gave a presentation.
1429: <p>
1430:
1.285 deraadt 1431: <li><strong><a name=syscan2004></a>
1432: <a href="http://www.syscan.org/">SyScAN 2004</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 1433: Dec 16 - 17, 2004, Singapore, Singapore.<br>
1.285 deraadt 1434: Theo de Raadt presented his talk about
1435: <a href="papers/auug04">Exploit Mitigation Techniques</a>.
1436: <p>
1437:
1.283 saad 1438: <li><strong><a name=sur200412></a>
1439: <a href="http://www.ossir.org/sur/calendrier/index.shtml">SUR Group Meeting, December 2004</a></strong>,
1440: Dec 14, 2004, Paris, France.<br>
1441: Saad Kadhi gave a talk about OpenBSD and security during the monthly
1442: meeting of the
1443: <a href="http://www.ossir.org/sur/index.shtml">SUR</a> Group (Sécurité
1444: Unix et Réseaux), a french user group focusing on security and Unix. The
1.284 xsa 1445: <a href="papers/surgroup200412/index.html">slides</a> (in French) are available.
1.283 saad 1446: <p>
1447:
1.282 henning 1448: <li><strong><a name=opencon2004></a>
1449: <a href="http://www.opencon.org/">OpenCon 2004</a></strong>,
1450: Dec 10 - 12, 2004, Venice, Italy.<br>
1451: OpenBSD meeting in Northern Italy. Henning gave 3 talks in
1452: two days, on bgpd
1453: (<a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/opencon04/bgpd/">slides</a>),
1454: ntpd
1455: (<a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/opencon04/ntpd/">slides</a>)
1456: and signal handlers
1457: (<a href="papers/opencon04/">slides</a>).
1458: Wim ran a booth, and Marc Balmer was there as well.
1459: <p>
1460:
1.275 deraadt 1461: <li><strong><a name=UofA></a>
1462: <a href="http://www.ualberta.ca/">U of A Seminar</a></strong>,
1463: Nov 17 - 18, 2004, Edmonton Alberta.<br>
1464: Theo de Raadt presented a talk at an open seminar at the
1465: <a href="http://www.ualberta.ca/">University of Alberta</a>, in
1466: Room B-02 of the
1467: <a href="http://www.campusmap.ualberta.ca/map_bldg.cfm?bldg_id=42">
1468: Computing Sciences Center</a>.
1469: Talk went from 2 PM to nearly 5PM with more than 100 people attending
1470: from the University and industry, followed by beer nearby.
1471: The talk was also given the following day at the
1472: <a href="http://www.cips.ca/">CIPS Security SIG</a> luncheon.
1473: <p>
1474:
1.271 henning 1475: <li><strong><a name=EuroBSDCon2004></a>
1476: <a href="http://2004.eurobsdcon.org/">EuroBSD Con</a></strong>,
1477: Oct 29 - 31, 2004, Karlsruhe, Germany.<br>
1.272 henning 1478: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
1479: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
1.271 henning 1480: Henning gave a talk
1.375 grunk 1481: about <a href="http://2004.eurobsdcon.org/talks.html?&tx_ptspeechupload_pi1[showUid]=44&cHash=ec015b0552">bgpd</a>,
1.272 henning 1482: <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/euroBSDCon2004/">slides</a> are available.
1.271 henning 1483: <p>
1484:
1485: <li><strong><a name=LinuxWorldExpoGermany2004></a>
1486: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.de/">Linux World Expo</a></strong>,
1487: Oct 26 - 28, 2004, Frankfurt, Germany.<br>
1.272 henning 1488: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
1489: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
1.271 henning 1490: <p>
1491:
1.276 deraadt 1492: <li><strong><a name=cuug2004></a>
1.270 deraadt 1493: <a href="http://www.cuug.ab.ca/">Calgary Unix Users's Group</a></strong>,
1494: Oct 26, 2004, Calgary, Canada.<br>
1495: Theo presented the talk that he has recently given in Australia and
1496: Malaysia to the "Home Crowd".
1497: <p>
1498:
1499: <li><strong><a name=aldil2004></a>
1.269 krw 1500: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/">Les Journées Du Logiciel Libre 2004</a></strong>,
1501: Oct 22 - 23, 2004, Lyon, France.<br>
1.381 aanriot 1502: There was OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Miod Vallat with the help of
1.415 aanriot 1503: Alexandre Anriot and Thierry Thomas.
1.269 krw 1504: <p>
1505:
1506: <li><strong><a name=systems2004></a>
1507: <a href="http://www.systems.de/">Systems</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 1508: Oct 18 - 22, 2004, Munich, Germany.<br>
1.269 krw 1509: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
1510: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
1511: <p>
1512:
1.268 krw 1513: <li><strong><a name=linuxexpo2004oct></a>
1514: <a href="http://www.linuxexpo.org.uk/">Linux Expo</a></strong>,
1515: Oct 6 - 7, 2004, London, UK.<br>
1516: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
1517: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
1518: <p>
1519:
1.375 grunk 1520: <li><strong><a name=hitb2004></a>
1.268 krw 1521: <a href="http://conference.hackinthebox.org">Hack in the Box Security Conference 2004</a></strong>,
1522: Oct 4 - 7, 2004, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.<br>
1523: Theo de Raadt presented an updated version of his
1524: "Exploit Mitigation Techniques" talk.
1525: <p>
1526:
1527: <li><strong><a name=SANE2004></a>
1528: <a href="http://www.nluug.nl/events/sane2004/bazaar.html">SANE 2004</a></strong>
1.410 wvdputte 1529: , Sep 29, 2004, Amsterdam, Netherlands.<br>
1.268 krw 1530: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
1531: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
1532: <p>
1533:
1.265 wvdputte 1534: <li><strong><a name=LinuxKongress2004></a>
1535: <a href="http://www.linux-kongress.org/2004">Linux Kongress 2004</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 1536: Sep 7 - 10, 2004, Erlangen, Germany.<br>
1.265 wvdputte 1537: From their website: "Linux-Kongress is still the premier event for European
1538: developers and one of the most important in the world. Each year hundreds of
1539: hard core Linux enthusiasts from all over the world gather for this important
1540: event."
1541: <br>
1542: Although this was a Linux developers' conference, we were able to
1543: install a regular OpenBSD booth there, as known from other events.
1544: It was run by <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim Vandeputte</a>,
1545: <a href="mailto:grunk@pestilenz.org">Alexander von Gernler</a> and other
1546: geeks from the Erlangen-Nuremberg area.
1547: <br>
1548: There also was a BSD dinner at Friday evening.
1549: <p>
1550:
1.262 henning 1551: <li><strong><a name=Sucon2004></a>
1552: <a href="http://www.suug.ch/sucon/04/">SUCON 2004</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 1553: Sep 2 - 4, 2004, Zurich, Switzerland.<br>
1.262 henning 1554: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth. Very nice conference.
1555: Henning's slides from his talks about
1556: <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/sucon04/bgpd">bgpd</a> and
1557: <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/sucon04/ntpd">ntpd</a>
1558: are available.
1559: <p>
1560:
1.261 deraadt 1561: <li><strong><a name=auug2004></a>
1.266 jolan 1562: <a href="http://www.auug.org.au/events/2004/auug2004/">AUUG 2004</a></strong>,
1.261 deraadt 1563: Aug 29 - Sep 3, 2004, Melbourne, Australia.<br>
1564: Theo de Raadt presented a half-day tutorial on privilege seperation and a
1565: newly extended version of the
1566: <a href="papers/auug04">Exploit Mitigation Techniques</a> talk.<br>
1567: For more information, see this
1568: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;517187222;fp;16;fpid;0">
1569: ComputerWorld article</a>.
1570: <p>
1571:
1572:
1.680 aanriot 1573: <li><strong><a name=lsm2004></a>
1.257 saad 1574: <a href="http://lsm.abul.org">Libre Software Meeting</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 1575: Jul 6 - 10, 2004, Bordeaux, France.<br>
1.257 saad 1576: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
1577: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim Vandeputte</a>.
1578: <p>
1579:
1580: <li><strong><a name=LinuxTag2004></a>
1581: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.org">LinuxTag 2004</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 1582: Jun 23 - 26, 2004, Karlsruhe, Germany.<br>
1.257 saad 1583: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
1584: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim Vandeputte</a>.
1585: <p>
1586:
1.254 xsa 1587: <li><strong><a name=LinuxwochenVienna2004></a>
1.255 xsa 1588: <a href="http://www.linuxwochen.at/">Linuxwochen Vienna 2004</a></strong>,
1.254 xsa 1589: May 26 - 29, 2004, Vienna, Austria.<br>
1590: The Linuxwochen 2004 tour stopped in the MuseumsQuartier, Vienna.
1591: Wim Vandeputte and Reinhard Sammer ran the OpenBSD booth. Michael Bauer
1592: and Teemu Schaabl from the <a href="http://www.cngw.org/">CNGW</a> gave
1593: a basic talk about pf.
1594: <p>
1595:
1.248 deraadt 1596: <li><strong><a name=BSDCan2004></a>
1.303 mcbride 1597: <a href="http://www.bsdcan.org/2004/">BSDCan 2004</a></strong>,
1.248 deraadt 1598: May 13 - 16, 2004, Ottawa, Canada.<br>
1599: BSDCan was held at the University of Ottawa. Ryan McBride gave a talk
1.302 mcbride 1600: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/papers/bsdcan04-pf/index.html">about newer features in pf</a>,
1601: focusing on the redundancy provided by CARP and pfsync.
1602: Theo de Raadt presented a revised version of his talk on
1.248 deraadt 1603: <a href="papers/bsdcan04">Exploit Mitigation Techniques</a>.
1604: <p>
1605:
1.247 canacar 1606: <li><strong><a name="LOSFAnkara2004"></a>
1607: <a href="http://senlik.linux.org.tr">3rd Linux and Open Source Festival</a></strong>,
1608: May 13 - 16, 2004, Ankara, Turkey.<br>
1609: Can E. Acar and Berk D. Demir talked about the OpenBSD Project. The
1610: philosophy, project goals, system features and recent proactive
1611: security features were introduced. CARP, patents, recent Apache &
1612: XFree86 licensing issues and effects of NDAs in open source
1613: projects were discussed.<br>
1614: You can view the
1.720 canacar 1615: <a href="http://purl.org/net/bddemir/talk/2004/LOYS-OpenBSD-cea-bdd.pdf">
1.247 canacar 1616: slides in PDF format</a> the
1.720 canacar 1617: <a href="http://purl.org/net/bddemir/talk/2004/LOYS-OpenBSD-cea-bdd.tex">
1.247 canacar 1618: LaTeX source</a> is also available (they are
1619: <a href="http://www.eee.metu.edu.tr/~canacar/slides/">mirrored</a>, as well).
1620: <p>
1621:
1.242 henning 1622: <li><strong><a name=Brussels2004></a>
1623: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/">FOSDEM Brussels 2004</a></strong>,
1624: Feb 21 - 22, 2004, Brussels, Belgium.<br>
1.243 henning 1625: An OpenBSD/OpenSSH booth was present, run by Wim Vandeputte.
1626: Several developers (including Henning Brauer, Xavier Santolaria, Thierry Deval,
1627: Philipp Bühler, Otto Moerbeek and Saad Kadhi) showed up.
1628: Wim and Alexander von Gernler gave "lightning talks" about Soekris
1629: and systrace
1.263 saad 1630: (<a href="http://pestilenz.org/~grunk/vortraege/2004/FOSDEM/systrace.pdf">slides</a>), respectively.
1.243 henning 1631: Henning got a slot in the main track to talk about the new bgpd
1632: (<a href="http://www.2suck.net/papers/fosdem2004/">slides</a>).
1633: On Saturday evening, the traditional OpenBSD dinner took place.
1.242 henning 1634: <p>
1635:
1.240 espie 1636: <li><strong><a name=Paris2004></a>
1637: <a href="http://www.linuxsolutions.fr/">Linux Expo Paris 2004</a></strong>,
1638: Feb 3 - 5, 2004, Paris, France.<br>
1639: An OpenBSD booth as well as an OpenSSH booth were present, thanks to
1640: <a href="mailto:saad@docisland.org">Saad Kadhi</a> and
1641: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
1642: <p>
1643:
1644: <li><strong><a name="LWE04"></a>
1645: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/linuxworldny/V40/index.cvn">LinuxWorld
1646: Conference and Expo</a></strong>, Jan 20 - 23, 2004, New York, NY, USA.<br>
1.397 grunk 1647: <a href="mailto:wes@openlysecure.org">Wes Sonnenreich</a> and others
1.240 espie 1648: have established a BSD user group in NYC and held a BSD BoF at the
1649: Jacob Javits Center on January 22nd at 5:45pm, Room 1E15.
1650: <p>
1651: </ul>
1652:
1.188 henning 1653: <h3>2003</h3>
1.236 jose 1654:
1655: <ul>
1.232 jose 1656: <li><strong><a name=20c3></a>
1657: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/2003/">20th Chaos Communication Congress 2003</a></strong>,
1658: Dec 27 - 29, 2003, Berlin, Germany.<br>
1659: OpenBSD was represented by a booth, ran by
1660: <a href= "mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>, and supported by Henning and
1.236 jose 1661: Alexander von Gernler. Alexander also gave a
1.260 saad 1662: <a href="http://pestilenz.org/~grunk/vortraege/2003/20C3/openbsd.pdf">talk</a>
1.232 jose 1663: introducing the project and the OS (in German).
1.236 jose 1664: <p>
1.232 jose 1665:
1.228 jose 1666: <li><strong><a name=brazil2003></a>
1.236 jose 1667: <a href="http://bsdcon.myfreebsd.com.br">1st BSDCon Brazil</a></strong>,
1.734 tobias 1668: Dec 6 - 7, 2003, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.<br>
1.228 jose 1669: This was the first BSDCon Brazil, and of course OpenBSD was present.
1.236 jose 1670: Douglas Santos spoke on advocacy and about some of the technical aspects
1671: of OpenBSD. Eduardo A. Alvarenga gave a presentation about firewalling
1.228 jose 1672: with OpenBSD PF.
1673: <p>
1674:
1675: <li><strong><a name=ankara03></a>
1.720 canacar 1676: <a href="http://seminer.linux.org.tr">Turkish Linux Users Association</a></strong>,
1.228 jose 1677: Dec 4, 2003, Ankara, Turkey.<br>
1.720 canacar 1678: Can E. Acar and Berk D. Demir gave a mammoth 4 hour presentation on OpenBSD.
1.228 jose 1679: The first part was a broad introduction to the OpenBSD philosophy, the
1.236 jose 1680: project goals, and system features. After a break, in the second part they
1681: talked about the exploit mitigation techniques employed in OpenBSD. This
1682: part was aimed at techies and is almost a complete Turkish translation of
1683: the talk Theo recently gave in Japan. You can view the
1.720 canacar 1684: <a href="http://purl.org/net/bddemir/talk/2003/LS-OpenBSD-cea-bdd.pdf">
1.236 jose 1685: slides in PDF format </a>
1686: (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 1687: <p>
1688:
1.227 jose 1689: <li><strong><a name=Luxembourg2003></a>
1690: <a href="http://www.linuxday.lu/">Linuxday Luxembourg 2003</a></strong>,
1691: Nov 6 - 8, 2003, Luxembourg, Luxembourg.<br>
1692: Booths were present, organized by <a href= "mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
1693: <p>
1694:
1695: <li><strong><a name=Pacsec2003></a>
1696: <a href="http://pacsec.jp/">Pacsec 2003</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 1697: Nov 6 - 7, 2003, Tokyo, Japan.<br>
1.236 jose 1698: Three OpenBSD developers presented on various topics. Theo de Raadt
1.227 jose 1699: gave a presentation on Exploit Mitigation Techniques
1.236 jose 1700: <a href="papers/pacsec03/e/index.html">(English)</a>
1701: <a href="papers/pacsec03/j/index.html">(Japanese)</a>, Jun-ichiro
1.227 jose 1702: itojun Hagino presented material covering
1.236 jose 1703: <a href="http://www.itojun.org/paper/itojun-200311-pacsec-jp/">
1.241 david 1704: IPv6 security considerations</a>, and Jose Nazario discussed advances
1.227 jose 1705: in Internet worm defenses.
1706: <p>
1707:
1.224 miod 1708: <li><strong><a name=Lyon2003></a>
1709: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/agenda/journees/2003/">Les V<sup>èmes</sup> Journées du Libre 2003</a></strong>,
1710: Oct 31 - Nov 1, 2003, Lyon, France.<br>
1711: Miod Vallat gave a talk about the recent security efforts deployed in OpenBSD,
1712: as well as generic security concepts (slides, in bad French, are available in
1713: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/agenda/journees/2003/vallat/miod.mgp">mgp
1714: format</a>). As usual, Wim ran an OpenBSD booth featuring the new 3.4 release,
1715: as well as <a href="http://soekris.kd85.com">Soekris</a> hardware running
1716: OpenBSD.
1717: <p>
1718:
1719: <li><strong><a name=Saarbrucken2003></a>
1720: <a href="http://www.linux-kongress.org/2003/index.html">Linux Kongress Saarbrücken 2003</a></strong>,
1721: Oct 14 - 16, 2003, Saarbrücken, Germany.<br>
1722: An OpenBSD booth was present, starring Wim again.
1723: <p>
1724:
1725: <li><strong><a name=London2003></a>
1726: <a href="http://www.linuxexpo.org.uk/">Linux Expo London 2003</a></strong>,
1727: Oct 8 - 9, 2003, London, UK.<br>
1728: An OpenBSD booth was present, starring Wim as usual.
1729: <p>
1730:
1.219 jose 1731: <li><strong><a name=bsdcon2003></a>
1732: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/bsdcon03/">BSDCon '03</a></strong>,
1733: Sep 8 - 12, 2003, San Mateo, California.<br>
1.236 jose 1734: OpenBSD was represented in the BSD Status Report, and David Rosenthal
1.219 jose 1735: gave a talk on an OpenBSD based security appliance.
1736: <p>
1737:
1.218 jose 1738: <li><strong><a name=sucon2003></a>
1739: <a href="http://www.sucon.ch/">SUCON '03</a></strong>,
1.734 tobias 1740: Sep 5, 2003, Zurich, Switzerland.<br>
1.236 jose 1741: Daniel Hartmeier talked about PF, and <a
1.218 jose 1742: href="http://open.bsdcow.net/events/sucon2003/">pictures are available</a>.
1743: <p>
1744:
1.214 henning 1745: <li><strong><a name=camp2003></a>
1746: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/camp/">Chaos Communication Camp 2003</a></strong>,
1.733 tobias 1747: Aug 7 - 10, 2003, in <a href="http://www.paulshof.de/body-mehr.html">a field</a> near Berlin, Germany.<br>
1.214 henning 1748: There was a huge OpenBSD village. Several OpenBSD developers have been there.
1749: <p>
1750:
1.213 jose 1751: <li><strong><a name=sec2003></a>
1752: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/sec03/">Usenix Security</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1753: Aug 4 - 8, 2003, Washington, DC, USA.<br>
1.236 jose 1754: Niels Provos presented two papers on security advances originally
1.213 jose 1755: developed for OpenBSD, including the OpenSSH privsep feature and systrace.
1756: Several OpenBSD developers were there.
1757: <p>
1758:
1.211 jose 1759: <li><strong><a name=linuxtag2003></a>
1760: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.org/2003/en/index.html">LinuxTag 2003</a></strong>,
1.733 tobias 1761: Jul 10 - 13, 2003, Karlsruhe Convention Center, Germany.<br>
1.211 jose 1762: Both OpenBSD and OpenSSH had booths in the main exhibit.
1763: <p>
1764:
1765: <li><strong><a name=lsm2003></a>
1766: <a href="http://libresoftwaremeeting.org/">Libre Software Meeting 2003</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 1767: Jul 9 - 12, 2003, Metz, France.<br>
1.212 matthieu 1768: Matthieu Herrb gave <a href="papers/xf86-sec.pdf">a talk about XFree86 security</a>. There was
1.211 jose 1769: also an OpenBSD booth with developers.
1770: <p>
1771:
1.209 wvdputte 1772: <li><strong><a name=lud2003></a>
1.733 tobias 1773: <a href="http://www.linuxuserexpo.com/">Linux User & Developer Expo 2003</a></strong>,
1774: Jun 24 - 26, 2003, at the NEC in Birmingham, UK.<br>
1.209 wvdputte 1775: There was an OpenBSD booth with developers.
1776: <p>
1.195 deraadt 1777:
1.202 jason 1778: <li><strong><a name=usenix2003></a>
1.236 jose 1779: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix03/">Usenix Annual Technical
1.216 jose 1780: Conference</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 1781: Jun 9 - 14, 2003, San Antonio, Texas, USA.<br>
1.202 jason 1782: A few OpenBSD developers were there and one paper was presented:
1783: <ul>
1.216 jose 1784: <li>The Design of the OpenBSD Cryptographic Framework<br>
1.202 jason 1785: <a href="events.html#usenix2003">Usenix 2003</a>, by
1.236 jose 1786: Angelos D. Keromytis,
1787: Jason L. Wright, and
1.205 deraadt 1788: Theo de Raadt.<br>
1.202 jason 1789: <a href="papers/ocf.pdf">paper</a>.
1790: </ul>
1791: <p>
1792:
1.216 jose 1793: <li><strong>
1794: <a href="http://www.webb.it/">Webbit 2003</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 1795: May 9 - 11, 2003, Padova, Italy.<br>
1.203 jason 1796: Giacomo Cariello and Wim Vandeputte attended, and several OpenBSD
1.661 martynas 1797: <a href="http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20030503101052">related talks</a> were given.
1.203 jason 1798: <p>
1799:
1.216 jose 1800: <li><strong>
1801: <a href="http://cansecwest.com/">CanSecWest 03</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 1802: Apr 9 - 11, 2003, Vancouver, Canada.<br>
1.195 deraadt 1803: Theo spoke about killing buffer overflows using ProPolice and the new W^X technology,
1.196 matthieu 1804: available as a <a href="papers/csw03.mgp">magicpoint file</a>.
1.195 deraadt 1805: <p>
1806:
1.216 jose 1807: <li><strong>
1808: <a href="http://www.cebit.de/">CeBIT 2003</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 1809: Mar 14, 2003, Hannover, Germany.<br>
1.236 jose 1810: 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 1811: gave a talk on OpenBSD and OpenSSH. <a href="papers/cebit2003.tgz">slides</a> are available.
1.194 henning 1812: <p>
1813:
1.216 jose 1814: <li><strong>
1815: <a href="http://www.linuxforum.dk/2003/english/">LinuxForum 2003</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 1816: Mar 1, 2003, Copenhagen, Denmark.<br>
1.236 jose 1817: Daniel spoke about PF (slides in <a href="papers/linuxforum2k3.tar.gz">mgp</a>,
1818: <a href="http://www.benzedrine.cx/linuxforum/">HTML</a>).
1.191 dhartmei 1819: It was a small but cozy conference, jointly held by Danish Linux and BSD
1820: user groups.
1821: <p>
1822:
1.236 jose 1823: <li><strong>
1824: <a href="http://www.cuug.ab.ca">CUUG - The Calgary Unix Users
1.216 jose 1825: Group</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 1826: Feb 25, 2003, 18:00 MST, Calgary, Canada.<br>
1.190 miod 1827: OpenBSD lead developer Theo de Raadt spoke about some of the recent
1828: changes in OpenBSD that are leading the way to the complete elimination of
1829: "buffer overflow" security risks and attacks.
1830: <p>
1831:
1.216 jose 1832: <li><strong>
1833: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/">FOSDEM 2003</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 1834: Feb 8 - 9, 2003, Brussels, Belgium.<br>
1.236 jose 1835: Henning and Philipp gave a talk on -current PF developments
1.196 matthieu 1836: (<a href="papers/fosdem2k3-pf.mgp">slides</a>)
1.187 henning 1837: and on Saturday evening, there was an OpenBSD dinner for those interested.
1838: <p>
1839:
1.216 jose 1840: <li><strong>
1841: <a href="http://linuxsolutions.fr/FR/home/index.php?site=default">Linux Solutions</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 1842: Feb 4 - 6, 2003, CNIT - Paris La Défense, France.<br>
1.185 miod 1843: There was an OpenBSD booth with several OpenBSD developers, as well as 3.2 OpenBSD
1.413 grunk 1844: CD sets and T-shirts.
1.185 miod 1845: <p>
1.236 jose 1846: </ul>
1.185 miod 1847:
1.161 millert 1848: <h3>2002</h3>
1.236 jose 1849:
1850: <ul>
1851: <li><strong>
1852: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/2002/">19c3: the 19th CCC
1.216 jose 1853: Congress</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 1854: Dec 27 - 29, 2002, Berlin, Germany.<br>
1.236 jose 1855: There was a huge <a href="http://www.eurobsd.org/19c3">reserved space</a> for
1856: OpenBSD users and developers, a couple of -current test systems and for those
1.413 grunk 1857: curious, a first look at the 3.2 OpenBSD T-shirts.
1.184 wvdputte 1858: <p>
1.177 jason 1859:
1.216 jose 1860: <li><strong>
1861: <a href="http://2002.eurobsdcon.org/">BSDCon Europe 2002</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 1862: Nov 15 - 17, 2002, Amsterdam, Netherlands.<br>
1.181 henning 1863: OpenBSD people were there;
1.236 jose 1864: Philipp Bühler and Henning Brauer spoke about
1.182 ian 1865: <a href="papers/tuning-openbsd.ps">
1866: network performance tuning on OpenBSD</a>,
1.236 jose 1867: and Ian Darwin presented a
1.182 ian 1868: <a href="papers/eurobsd-firewalls-2002.pdf">
1869: tutorial on OpenBSD servers/firewalls</a>.
1.179 pb 1870: <p>
1.178 pb 1871:
1.216 jose 1872: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1873: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa02/">LISA '02: 16th Systems
1.216 jose 1874: Administration Conference</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 1875: Nov 3 - 8, 2002, Philadelphia, USA.<br>
1.177 jason 1876: Mickey and Jason manned the booth at the vendor expo (the only BSD
1877: represented) and sold <a href="32.html">3.2</a> CDs, and Jason gave a BoF
1878: session on <a href="32.html">3.2</a> and future.
1879: <p>
1880:
1.216 jose 1881: <li><strong>
1.264 djm 1882: <a href="http://www.auug.org.au/events/2002/auug2002/">Australian Unix Users
1883: Group Winter Conference</a></strong>,
1.733 tobias 1884: Sep 1 - 6, 2002, Melbourne, Australia.<br>
1.264 djm 1885: Damien Miller presented a tutorial on the
1886: <a href="papers/auug2002-ssh/index.html">SSH protocol</a> and
1887: <a href="papers/auug2002-ssh.ps">OpenSSH tips and tricks</a>.
1888: <p>
1889:
1890: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 1891: <a href="http://lsm.abul.org">The 3rd Libre Software Meeting</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 1892: Jul 9 - 13, 2002, Bordeaux, France.<br>
1.172 miod 1893: Several OpenBSD developers and users were attending the meeting, and
1894: Niels Provos presented his
1895: <a href="http://www.citi.umich.edu/u/provos/systrace">systrace</a>
1896: system call policy management tool.
1.174 nick 1897: <p>
1.172 miod 1898:
1.216 jose 1899: <li><strong>
1900: <a href="http://www.Webb.it">Webb.it 02</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 1901: Jul 5 - 7, 2002, Padova, Italy.<br>
1.171 ian 1902: OpenBSD developers had a booth selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
1903: <p>
1904:
1.216 jose 1905: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1906: <a href="http://www.softwarelivre.rs.gov.br/forum">The Annual International
1.216 jose 1907: Free Software Forum</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 1908: May 2 - 4, 2002, Porto Alegre-RS, Brazil.<br>
1.236 jose 1909: Mainly a Linux/GNU event, but this year the BSD Operating Systems
1910: had a chance to prove their value.
1.169 horacio 1911: Edson Brandi spoke on FreeBSD, Diego Linke
1.236 jose 1912: on NetBSD, and Ricardo Nascimento Ferreira on OpenBSD.
1.169 horacio 1913: <p>
1.168 miod 1914:
1.216 jose 1915: <li><strong>
1916: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/bsdcon02/">BSDCON 2002</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 1917: Feb 11 - 14, 2002, San Francisco, California, USA.<br>
1.161 millert 1918: Todd Miller gave an update on current OpenBSD status and participated in a
1.162 millert 1919: BSD panel discussion. The <a href="slides/bsdcon_2002/index.html">slides</a>
1920: are available.
1.161 millert 1921: <p>
1922:
1.216 jose 1923: <li><strong>
1924: <a href="http://www.linuxexpoparis.com">Linux expo Paris 2002</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 1925: Jan 30 - Feb 1, 2002, Paris, France.<br>
1.163 miod 1926: The french Linux Expo 2002 was quite small and as usual the OpenBSD booth ended
1927: up with others on the expo's side. On the first day, almost all the merchandise
1928: was sold, and we have even sold older versions (2.9) the following days to
1929: people who wouldn't leave without a cd set in their hands...
1930: <p>
1931:
1.216 jose 1932: <li><strong>
1933: <a href="http://musess.mcmaster.ca/">MUSESS 2002</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 1934: Jan 25 - 26, 2002, McMaster University, Ontario, Canada.<br>
1.164 millert 1935: Louis Bertrand gave a presentation on OpenBSD titled
1936: <strong>Fix The Bugs, Secure The System</strong>.
1937: The <a href="slides/musess_2002/index.html">slides</a> are available.
1938: <p>
1.236 jose 1939: </ul>
1.164 millert 1940:
1.152 jakob 1941: <h3>2001</h3>
1942:
1.236 jose 1943: <ul>
1.216 jose 1944: <li><strong>
1945: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa01/">USENIX LISA 2001</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 1946: Dec 2 - 7, 2001, San Diego, California, USA.<br>
1.160 jufi 1947: Niels Provos gave a presentation, and there's been a booth selling
1.413 grunk 1948: T-shirts and 3.0 CDs.
1.160 jufi 1949: <p>
1950:
1.216 jose 1951: <li><strong>
1952: <a href="http://www.ietf.org/meetings/IETF-52.html">52nd IETF</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 1953: Dec 9 - 14, 2001, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA.<br>
1.160 jufi 1954: Angelos, Itojun & Jakob were there.
1955: <p>
1956:
1.158 deraadt 1957: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1958: <a href="http://www.disc2000.unam.mx/disc/index-ing.html">DISC
1.216 jose 1959: 2001</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 1960: Nov 26 - 29, 2001, Mexico City, Mexico.<br>
1.158 deraadt 1961: Once again, Theo de Raadt explained the security auditing process and
1962: subsequent secure configuration choices made in OpenBSD, in a talk
1963: entitled "Updated thoughts on writing a secure Operating System".
1964: <p>
1965:
1.216 jose 1966: <li><strong>
1967: <a href="http://www.linux.org.hk">LinuxCafe</a></strong>,
1.734 tobias 1968: Sep 15, 2001, Hong Kong, China.<br>
1.156 provos 1969: Shell Hung gave an introduction for BSD and demonstration of OpenBSD to HKLUG.
1970: <p>
1971:
1.201 deraadt 1972: <li><strong>VPN Bakeoff</strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 1973: Aug 13 - 18, 2001, Finland.<br>
1.156 provos 1974: Jakob and Itojun were there.
1975: <p>
1.158 deraadt 1976:
1.150 wvdputte 1977: <li><strong>
1.215 nick 1978: <a href="http://www.hal2001.org">HAL 2001</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 1979: Aug 10 - 12, 2001, Twente, Netherlands.<br>
1.153 jufi 1980: Quite a lot of developers were there, we even had our own tent.
1981: Niels, Rees and Dugsong held talks, more info on the main website
1982: for HAL2001. And of course T-Shirts and CDROMs were sold.
1.150 wvdputte 1983: <p>
1.137 aaron 1984:
1985: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1986: <a href="http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon/">O'Reilly Open Source
1.216 jose 1987: Conference</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 1988: Jul 23 - 27, 2001, San Diego, California, USA.<br>
1.148 brian 1989: OpenBSD had a booth selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
1990: Ian Darwin presented his "Firewalls and Secure Internet Servers
1991: with OpenBSD" tutorial.
1992: <p>
1993:
1994: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 1995: <a href="http://www.defcon.org">DEF CON Nine</a></strong>,
1.734 tobias 1996: Jul 13 - 15, 2001, Las Vegas, USA.<br>
1.148 brian 1997: OpenBSD developers and users make it a point to attend every year,
1998: and had a table selling CD's, shirts, etc.
1999: <p>
2000:
2001: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2002: <a href="http://www.sek.co.kr/sek2001/sek_html/main.htm">Software
1.216 jose 2003: Exhibition of Korea</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 2004: Jun 26 - 29, 2001, Seoul, Korea.<br>
1.146 krw 2005: urisecure/NDS sponsored an OpenBSD booth with CD's, posters,
2006: and a live demo of OpenBSD's IPSEC hardware acceleration.
2007: <p>
2008:
2009: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2010: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix01/">2001 USENIX Annual
1.216 jose 2011: Technical Conference</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 2012: Jun 25 - 30, 2001, Boston, USA.<br>
1.146 krw 2013: OpenBSD developers were there, selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
2014: <p>
2015:
2016: <li><strong>
1.143 dugsong 2017: <a href="http://www.olymfair.org/eng/workshop.htm">Information
1.201 deraadt 2018: Security OlymFair</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 2019: May 16 - 18, 2001, Seoul, Korea.<br>
1.143 dugsong 2020: Dug Song gave a detailed introduction to OpenBSD to the Korean
2021: security community.
2022: <p>
2023:
2024: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2025: <a href="http://www.osdem.org/">2001 Open Source and Free Software
1.216 jose 2026: Developers' Meeting</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 2027: Feb 3 - 4, 2001, Brussels, Belgium.<br>
1.137 aaron 2028: There was an OpenBSD booth with some loose talks made.
2029: <p>
2030:
2031: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 2032: <a href="http://www.linuxexpoparis.com/">2001 Linux Expo</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 2033: Feb 1 - 2, 2001, Paris, France.<br>
1.236 jose 2034: There was an OpenBSD booth in the 'F' area.
1.137 aaron 2035: <p>
1.236 jose 2036: </ul>
1.137 aaron 2037:
1.132 louis 2038: <h3>2000</h3>
2039:
1.236 jose 2040: <ul>
1.132 louis 2041: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2042: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa2000/">LISA 2000, USENIX
1.216 jose 2043: Systems Administration Conference</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 2044: Dec 3 - 8, 2000, New Orleans, USA.<br>
1.134 jufi 2045: Wim Vandeputte and other volunteers have been running a sales table with
2046: shirts, posters and the brand new 2.8 CDs.
2047: <p>
2048:
2049: <li><strong>
1.215 nick 2050: <a href="http://www.disc2000.unam.mx/disc/index-ing.html">DISC 2000</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 2051: Nov 26 - Dec 1, 2000, Mexico City, Mexico.<br>
1.133 deraadt 2052: Theo de Raadt explained the security auditing process and subsequent secure
2053: configuration choices made in OpenBSD, in a talk entitled "Secure by Default".
2054: Over the next few days, he also participated in two panels with various security
2055: experts who had flown in from around the world. Following this, Theo climbed
1.151 jsyn 2056: one of the largest volcanoes, called Malinche.
1.133 deraadt 2057: <p>
2058:
2059: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2060: <a href="http://www.nluug.nl/events/nj2000">NLUUG Najaarsconferentie
1.216 jose 2061: 2000</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 2062: Nov 9, 2000, Ede, Netherlands.<br>
1.236 jose 2063: There was an OpenBSD booth where people dropped by for information or to
1.413 grunk 2064: get their T-shirts, polos, caps and 2.7 CDs.
1.13 deraadt 2065: <p>
1.4 millert 2066:
1.132 louis 2067: <li><strong><a name=ipsec2000></a>
1.236 jose 2068: <a href="http://www.upperside.fr/baipsecy2k.htm">IPsec 2000 Global
1.216 jose 2069: Summit</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 2070: Oct 24 - 27, 2000, Paris La Defense, France.<br>
1.159 miod 2071: Niels Provos ended the conference by speaking about the IPsec architecture
1.132 louis 2072: in OpenBSD. The talk was well received and many people were very interested
2073: about our cryptographic hardware acceleration.
2074:
2075: <ul>
1.236 jose 2076: <li>The IPsec Architecture in OpenBSD<br>
1.215 nick 2077: <a href="#ipsec2000">IPsec 2000 Global Summit</a> by Niels Provos.<br>
1.132 louis 2078: <a href="papers/ipsec-slides.ps">slides</a>.
2079: </ul>
1.4 millert 2080: <p>
1.132 louis 2081:
1.7 deraadt 2082: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 2083: <a href="http://ApacheCon.Com/2000/EU/">ApacheCon Europa 2000</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 2084: Oct 23 - 25, 2000, London, UK.<br>
1.132 louis 2085: There was an OpenBSD booth where people could drop by for information and
2086: a chat with the local OpenBSD personnel. We also had the essentials for
1.413 grunk 2087: your wardrobe (T-shirts, polos, caps), for your hardware (2.7 CDs) and for your
1.132 louis 2088: mind (drinks afterwards).
2089: <p>
2090:
1.216 jose 2091: <li><strong>
2092: <a href="http://www.bsdcon.com/">BSD Con 2000</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 2093: Oct 18 - 20, 2000, Monterey, CA, USA.<br>
1.132 louis 2094: David Terrell ran an OpenBSD booth selling T-shirts and CDs and answering
2095: questions.
1.32 deraadt 2096: <p>
1.1 deraadt 2097:
1.132 louis 2098: <li><strong><a name=opensource2000></a>
1.236 jose 2099: <a href="http://www.opensource-forum.com/konferens">The Open Source
1.216 jose 2100: Revolution</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 2101: Oct 5, 2000, Stockholm, Sweden.<br>
1.133 deraadt 2102: Theo de Raadt spoke about how user expectations for security out of the box
2103: have changed over the last years.
1.1 deraadt 2104: <p>
2105:
1.132 louis 2106: <li><strong><a name=sec2000></a>
1.216 jose 2107: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/sec2000/">Usenix Security</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 2108: Aug 14 - 17, 2000, Denver, Colorado, USA.<br>
1.132 louis 2109: Some OpenBSD developers were there and one paper was presented:
2110: <ul>
1.236 jose 2111: <li>Encrypting Virtual Memory<br>
1.132 louis 2112: <a href="#sec2000">Usenix Security 2000</a>
1.205 deraadt 2113: by Niels Provos.<br>
1.132 louis 2114: <a href="papers/swapencrypt.ps">paper</a> and
2115: <a href="papers/swapencrypt-slides.ps">slides</a>.
2116: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 2117: <p>
1.132 louis 2118:
1.10 provos 2119: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 2120: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-8-post.html">Defcon 2000</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 2121: Jul 28 - 30, 2000, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.<br>
1.236 jose 2122: Kjell Wooding (our IPF maintainer), James Phillips from the
1.132 louis 2123: <a href="http://www.deadly.org">OpenBSD Journal</a>, and Theo de Raadt
1.413 grunk 2124: had a table and were selling OpenBSD CDROMs, T-shirts, and posters on
1.132 louis 2125: Friday and Saturday. Hordes of people visited our table and we at the
2126: end we were completely sold out of CDROMS and shirts (allowing us to go
2127: check out Hoover Dam's hardhat tour on Sunday and leave the madness behind).
2128: <br>
2129: We were completely amazed at the people who stopped by our table, to say
2130: that they were relying on OpenBSD.
2131: <p>
1.32 deraadt 2132:
1.132 louis 2133: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2134: <a href="http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon2000/">O'Reilly Open Source
1.216 jose 2135: Conference 2000</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 2136: Jul 17 - 20, 2000, Monterey, California, USA.<br>
1.216 jose 2137: Ian Darwin presented a <a href="papers/oreilly2000/">tutorial</a> on
1.132 louis 2138: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/w/bsd_tutorials.html">
2139: Secure Internet Servers/Firewalls with OpenBSD</a>, and bravely
2140: manned the OpenBSD booth for the remainder of the show.
2141: Kjell Wooding took part in a panel discussion on the Future of the BSDs,
2142: and spoke about
2143: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/w/bsd_presentations.html">
1.241 david 2144: Secure By Default.</a> Both sessions were well attended, and at least
1.132 louis 2145: one Linux sysadmin was seen racing for a keyboard, scared look in his eyes,
1.236 jose 2146: after the security talk.
1.3 provos 2147: <p>
1.132 louis 2148:
1.6 deraadt 2149: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 2150: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.de/2000/english/">LinuxTag 2000</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 2151: Jun 29 - Jul 2, 2000, Stuttgart, Germany.<br>
1.132 louis 2152: There was a BSD booth where we had the first <a href="27.html">OpenBSD 2.7 CDs</a> for Europe
2153: and the new blue stitchwork <a href="tshirts.html#11">Blowfish Polo</a> shirt.
2154: <br>
2155: Christian Weisgerber gave a
2156: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.de/2000/english/conference/talks.php3?ID=3">talk
2157: on BSD</a>.
1.32 deraadt 2158: <p>
1.1 deraadt 2159:
1.216 jose 2160: <li><strong><a name=usenix2000></a>
1.236 jose 2161: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix2000/">Usenix Annual Technical
1.216 jose 2162: Conference.</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 2163: Jun 18 - 23, 2000, San Diego, California, USA.<br>
1.132 louis 2164: Almost 20 OpenBSD developers showed up for the 25th anniversary of Usenix.
2165: We had a vendor booth, as well as a number of papers being presented.
2166: Conference attendees had the opportunity to test drive the new release,
2167: OpenBSD 2.7, on the 30 workstations in the terminal room. For the first
2168: time ever, the terminal room and wavelan networks also had a IPv6 connection,
1.147 jason 2169: and some users even discovered so by themselves.
1.132 louis 2170: Theo also held a BoF on the Wednesday evening, after which the developers
2171: had almost too much singing in foreign languages with the help of helium.
2172: <ul>
2173:
2174: <li>Implementing Internet Key Exchange, IKE.<br>
2175: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
1.216 jose 2176: by Angelos D. Keromytis, Niklas Hallqvist.<br>
1.132 louis 2177: <a href="papers/ikepaper.ps">paper</a> and
2178: <a href="papers/ikeslides.ps">slides</a>.
2179:
2180: <li>Transparent Network Security Policy Enforcement.<br>
2181: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
1.216 jose 2182: by Angelos D. Keromytis, Jason L. Wright.<br>
1.132 louis 2183: <a href="papers/bridgepaper.ps">paper</a> and
2184: <a href="papers/bridgeslides.ps">slides</a>.
1.2 deraadt 2185:
1.132 louis 2186: <li>Safety Checking of Kernel Extensions.<br>
2187: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
1.205 deraadt 2188: by Craig Metz.
1.132 louis 2189: </ul>
1.2 deraadt 2190: <p>
2191:
1.132 louis 2192: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2193: <a href="http://www.manlug.mcc.ac.uk/calendar.html">OpenBSD: The Open
1.216 jose 2194: Source Secure Operating System</a></strong>,
1.734 tobias 2195: Jun 17, 2000, 14:00, Manchester, UK.<br>
1.132 louis 2196: Sam Smith gave a rundown of features coming in OpenBSD 2.7 and
2197: OpenSSH 2.1. His <a href="http://www.manlug.mcc.ac.uk/20000617/">slides</a>
2198: are available from the user group's site.
1.1 deraadt 2199: <p>
1.2 deraadt 2200:
1.132 louis 2201: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 2202: <a href="reprints/crypto2000.html">OpenBSD Crypto 2000 conference</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 2203: Jun 15 - 20, 2000, Calgary, AB, Canada.<br>
1.132 louis 2204: Repeating the tradition of a similar meeting held last year, many
2205: OpenBSD developers from around the world converged on Calgary
2206: for a weekend long hack-and-drink session. As before, the event
2207: was invitation only. Many significant things got done, including
2208: ipv6 + ipsec running over hardware crypto devices.
1.1 deraadt 2209: <p>
1.11 jkatz 2210:
1.17 deraadt 2211: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 2212: <a href="http://www.converge2000.com">CONVERGENCE 2000</a></strong>,
1.734 tobias 2213: May 18, 2000, Convention Centre, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.<br>
1.132 louis 2214: Theo de Raadt participated in a panel discussion about the pros and cons
2215: of using Open Source software in various business environments. The local
2216: users also handed out OpenSSH and OpenBSD posters, and were absolutely
2217: surprised and amazed by the number of Calgary companies quietly using
2218: OpenBSD.
1.21 pattonme 2219: <p>
1.17 deraadt 2220:
1.23 niklas 2221: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 2222: <a href="http://www.cansecwest.com/">CanSecWest</a></strong>,
1.734 tobias 2223: May 10 - 12, 2000, Robson Conference Centre, Vancouver, BC, Canada.<br>
1.132 louis 2224: Theo de Raadt spoke about why programmers keep making the same stupid mistakes,
2225: what types of efforts might improve this, and how this all relates to auditing
1.375 grunk 2226: efforts.
2227: Rain Forest Puppy, Ron Gula (Network Security Wizards), Ken Williams (E&Y),
1.216 jose 2228: Marty Roesch (snort/HiverWorld), and Fyodor (nmap) were among the other speakers
1.132 louis 2229: at this event. (On a personal note: at this conference Theo realized that three
2230: leading Network Intrusion Detection System companies use OpenBSD as their
2231: base operating system: Hiverworld, Network Security Wizards, and NFR).
1.32 deraadt 2232: <p>
1.25 deraadt 2233:
1.132 louis 2234: <li><strong>
2235: <a href="http://www.zdevents.com/comdex/spring2000/">Linux Business Expo /
1.201 deraadt 2236: COMDEX Spring 2000</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 2237: Apr 19, 2000, Chicago, IL, USA.<br>
1.216 jose 2238: Louis Bertrand represented OpenBSD at a BSD BOF with FreeBSD/BDSI,
1.132 louis 2239: NetBSD and Apple (Darwin is BSD-derived). The BOF was attended by about
2240: 75 people, many of whom were new to *BSD. It was an opportunity to
2241: explore future cooperation among the various BSD groups and companies.
1.25 deraadt 2242: <p>
1.23 niklas 2243:
1.31 deraadt 2244: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2245: <a href="http://www.nordu.org/NordU2000/">NordU 2000 -- The second
1.216 jose 2246: EurOpen/USENIX Conference</a></strong>,
1.734 tobias 2247: Feb 8 - 11, 2000, Malmo, Sweden.<br>
1.140 jufi 2248: About 15 OpenBSD team members attended.
1.132 louis 2249: OpenBSD CDs and shirts were sold at a booth donated by the conference.<br>
2250: As well, Theo de Raadt gave an invited talk on Wednesday morning
2251: about why software quality/security suffers, and what we can do to
2252: improve it.
1.32 deraadt 2253: <p>
1.31 deraadt 2254:
1.201 deraadt 2255: <li><strong>BSD BOF session, LinuxWorld Expo</strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 2256: Feb 3, 2000, New York, USA.<br>
1.132 louis 2257: Representatives from OpenBSD, BSDi, and FreeBSD hosted a
2258: "Birds Of a Feather" session at the <a
2259: href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/">New York LinuxWorld Expo</a>.<br>
2260: There were installation CD-ROMs, free food, and even free Daemon Horns!
1.33 niklas 2261: <p>
1.236 jose 2262: </ul>
1.33 niklas 2263:
1.132 louis 2264: <h3>1999</h3>
1.36 niklas 2265:
1.236 jose 2266: <ul>
1.216 jose 2267: <li><strong>The Bazaar</strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 2268: Dec 14 - 16, 1999, New York, New York, USA.<br>
1.132 louis 2269: Wes Sonnenreich and Tom Yates presented a tutorial on building
1.216 jose 2270: firewalls with OpenBSD. BoF of open source BSDs took place.
1.413 grunk 2271: 2.6 release CDROMs and T-shirts were sold.
1.132 louis 2272: Emphatic interest has been shown by representatives from press, international
2273: government and military institutions.
1.45 jason 2274: <p>
2275:
1.216 jose 2276: <li><strong><a name=lisa99></a>
1.236 jose 2277: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa99/">13th Systems Administration
1.216 jose 2278: Conference (LISA 99)</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 2279: Nov 7 - 12, 1999, Seattle, Washington, USA.<br>
1.132 louis 2280: Bob Beck presented a paper about the U of A's nifty OpenBSD based
2281: solution to the problem of public Ethernet jacks in the technical sessions
2282: starting at 11:00 AM on the 11th.<br>
2283: There were many other OpenBSD
2284: people at this conference as well, as well as a booth selling CDROMs and
1.413 grunk 2285: T-shirts. His paper is available at:
1.132 louis 2286:
2287: <ul>
2288: <li>Dealing with Public Ethernet Jacks-Switches, Gateways, and Authentication.<br>
1.236 jose 2289: <a href="events.html#lisa99">LISA 1999</a>,
1.206 david 2290: by Bob Beck.<br>
1.236 jose 2291: <a href="papers/authgw-paper.ps">paper</a> and
2292: <a href="papers/authgw-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 2293: </ul>
2294: <p>
2295:
2296: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 2297: IP-dagarna 1999</strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 2298: Oct 27 - 28, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden.<br>
1.132 louis 2299: Håkan Olsson & Jakob Schlyter spoke at the DNSSEC session on the 27th.
2300: <p>
2301:
2302: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2303: <a href="http://www.opensource-forum.com/konferens/">Linux & Open Source
1.216 jose 2304: Software '99</a></strong>,
2305: Oct 21, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)<br>
1.132 louis 2306: Niklas Hallqvist spoke on the topic of how to use
1.236 jose 2307: <a
1.375 grunk 2308: href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4">IPsec</a> for securing communications.
1.132 louis 2309: <p>
2310:
2311: <li><strong>
1.705 pvalchev 2312: <a href="http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference/1999">Reflections/Projections
1.216 jose 2313: 1999</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 2314: Oct 8 - 10, 1999, Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA.<br>
1.132 louis 2315: Theo de Raadt spoke at 10:00am on the 9th. Other OpenBSD
2316: developers from the east coast attended as well.
2317: <p>
2318:
1.236 jose 2319: <li><strong><a name="ipsec99"></a>
1.216 jose 2320: IPsec Interoperability tests</strong>,
2321: Sep 27 - 30, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)<br>
1.236 jose 2322: A dozen vendors, among them OpenBSD, tested more than 15
1.375 grunk 2323: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4">IPsec</a>
1.132 louis 2324: products, both gateways and hosts, for interoperability. The tests
2325: were successful as far as general IPsec and pre-shared key
2326: authentication went, OpenBSD interoperated with everyone, but due to
2327: time constraints we never got to test the certificate support
2328: appropriately. The results were presented later that fall at a
2329: conference in Stockholm.
2330: <p>
2331:
2332: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2333: <a href="http://www.auug.org.au/winter/auug99">AUUG'99</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 2334: Sep 8 - 11, 1999, Melbourne, Australia.<br>
1.132 louis 2335: Theo de Raadt gave two talks on "quality of software" related issues
2336: and participated on a panel about how open source projects are
2337: coordinated.
2338: <p>
2339:
2340: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2341: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/sec99/index.html">Usenix
1.216 jose 2342: Security</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 2343: Aug 23 - 26, 1999, Washington, DC, USA.<br>
1.132 louis 2344: Many OpenBSD people from the east coast showed up and sold CDs and
2345: shirts. It was pretty clear from discussions that many people were
2346: very aware of OpenBSD, and that OpenBSD was being used in very
2347: significant security roles.
2348: <p>
2349:
2350: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2351: <a href="http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/99jul/index.html">45th IETF
1.216 jose 2352: meeting</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 2353: Jul 12 - 16, 1999, Oslo, Norway.<br>
1.132 louis 2354: A number of OpenBSD team members from all over the world were at this
2355: conference. In addition to attending the IPsec and DNS working groups (among
2356: others) we did IPsec/IKE interoperability testing together with
1.166 miod 2357: the Japanese KAME project. Also, Angelos D. Keromytis did a presentation on
1.132 louis 2358: his work with keynote and isakmpd in OpenBSD.
2359: <p>
1.45 jason 2360:
1.132 louis 2361: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2362: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-6.html">Defcon 6.0</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 2363: Jul 9 - 11, 1999, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.<br>
1.132 louis 2364: At this conference, the OpenBSD team sold 100 or so 2.5 release CDROMs
1.413 grunk 2365: and a TON of T-shirts.
1.46 deraadt 2366: <p>
1.132 louis 2367:
1.236 jose 2368: <li><strong><a name="usenix99"></a>
2369: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix99/index.html">
1.216 jose 2370: Usenix Annual Technical Conference</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 2371: Jun 6 - 11, 1999, Monterey, California, USA.<br>
1.106 jufi 2372: The <a href="http://www.usenix.org">USENIX Association</a>
1.46 deraadt 2373: provided The OpenBSD Project with a grant to underwrite the production
1.106 jufi 2374: of CDs of OpenBSD 2.5. (We distributed the
2375: release for free to attendees of the USENIX Annual Conference in
1.46 deraadt 2376: June.)
1.132 louis 2377: <br>
1.46 deraadt 2378: Usenix team members were involved in the authoring and
1.132 louis 2379: presentation of 4 OpenBSD-related papers:
2380:
1.375 grunk 2381: <a name="anoncvs_paper"></a>
1.46 deraadt 2382: <ul>
1.66 deraadt 2383: <li>Opening the Source Repository with Anonymous CVS.<br>
1.236 jose 2384: <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216 jose 2385: by Charles D. Cranor, Theo de Raadt.<br>
1.236 jose 2386: <a href="papers/anoncvs-paper.ps">paper</a> and
2387: <a href="papers/anoncvs-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 2388: <br>
1.66 deraadt 2389: <li>A Future-Adaptable Password Scheme.<br>
1.236 jose 2390: <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216 jose 2391: by Niels Provos, David Mazieres.<br>
1.236 jose 2392: <a href="papers/bcrypt-paper.ps">paper</a> and
2393: <a href="papers/bcrypt-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 2394: <br>
1.66 deraadt 2395: <li>Cryptography in OpenBSD: An Overview.<br>
1.236 jose 2396: <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216 jose 2397: by Theo de Raadt, Niklas Hallqvist, Artur Grabowski,
2398: Angelos D. Keromytis, Niels Provos.<br>
1.236 jose 2399: <a href="papers/crypt-paper.ps">paper</a> and
2400: <a href="papers/crypt-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 2401: <br>
1.66 deraadt 2402: <li>strlcpy and strlcat -- consistent, safe, string copy and concatenation.<br>
1.236 jose 2403: <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216 jose 2404: by Todd C. Miller, Theo de Raadt.<br>
1.236 jose 2405: <a href="papers/strlcpy-paper.ps">paper</a> and
2406: <a href="papers/strlcpy-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 2407: </ul>
1.66 deraadt 2408: <p>
1.46 deraadt 2409:
1.51 deraadt 2410: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2411: <a href="http://www.linuxexpo.org">5th Annual Linux Expo</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 2412: May 18 - 22, 1999, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA.<br>
1.132 louis 2413: Some OpenBSD team members were at this conference selling OpenBSD 2.5 CDs,
2414: OpenBSE T-shirts, as well as Blowfish T-shirts, which sold out very quickly
2415: at a table donated by the Expo. OpenBSD was the only BSD represented at the
2416: vendor exposition, and we had good chance to present a secure alternative
2417: to Linux.
1.51 deraadt 2418: <p>
2419:
1.53 jakob 2420: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2421: <a href="http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/99mar/index.html">44th IETF
1.216 jose 2422: meeting</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 2423: Mar 15 - 19, 1999, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.<br>
1.132 louis 2424: Some OpenBSD team members were at this conference, in particular our
2425: IPSEC developers.
1.53 jakob 2426: <p>
2427:
1.132 louis 2428: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2429: <a href="http://www.europen.se/NordU99">NordU99 -- The first
1.216 jose 2430: EurOpen/USENIX Conference</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 2431: Feb 9 - 12, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden.<br>
1.132 louis 2432: A couple of OpenBSD team members were there and some of the swedish user
2433: society as well. OpenBSD CDs were sold at a booth and at the end of a
2434: security talk, the project got applauded for its continuous strive of auditing
2435: security sensitive parts of the system.
1.59 deraadt 2436: <p>
1.236 jose 2437: </ul>
1.59 deraadt 2438:
1.132 louis 2439: <h3>1998</h3>
1.59 deraadt 2440:
1.236 jose 2441: <ul>
1.132 louis 2442: <li><strong><a name=ipsec98></a>
1.690 nick 2443: IPsec/VPN Interoperability tests & seminar</strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 2444: Dec 14, 1998, Stockholm, Sweden.<br>
1.132 louis 2445: OpenBSD was represented as one of about a dozen
1.375 grunk 2446: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4">IPsec</a>
1.132 louis 2447: implementations who were tested for interoperability. The tests were
2448: successful, both for the technology in general, and for OpenBSD in
2449: specific. We managed to communicate encrypted with every vendor present,
2450: and to negotiate keys via IKE with everyone capable.
1.70 deraadt 2451: <p>
2452:
1.236 jose 2453: <li><strong><a name="lisaboston-98"></a>
1.690 nick 2454: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa98">LISA '98: 12th Systems Administration
1.216 jose 2455: Conference</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 2456: Dec 6 - 11, 1998, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.<br>
1.132 louis 2457: More than 10 OpenBSD team members showed up. By far, OpenBSD was the
2458: largest representative group from free software at the conference.
2459: Usenix gave us a table in the vendor area where we sold 2.4 CDROMs,
1.413 grunk 2460: 2.3 "wire-frame" T-shirts, and the new 2.4 embroidered
2461: "Because security matters..." T-shirts, polos, and sweaters.
1.132 louis 2462: An OpenBSD BOF was held one evening, led by Theo de Raadt.
2463: A PalmPilot schedule loader was at the membership booth, powered by OpenBSD.
2464: <br>
1.690 nick 2465: The terminal room ran OpenBSD 2.4 on 45 machines. Obviously trust in OpenBSD
2466: had increased since many people, normally wary of security problems of open
1.132 louis 2467: terminal rooms, were seen using the machines.
1.72 ho 2468: <p>
2469:
1.73 deraadt 2470: <li><strong>
1.690 nick 2471: <a href="http://www.disc.unam.mx/eventos_anteriores/disc98/">DISC - Seguridad en
1.217 jose 2472: Cómputo 98</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 2473: Nov 2 - 7, 1998, Mexico City, Mexico.<br>
1.132 louis 2474: Theo de Raadt gave a talk about security auditing, sponsored by
1.236 jose 2475: <a href="http://www.core-sdi.com">CORE SDI S.A.</a>, an Argentine
1.132 louis 2476: security auditing company who strongly believes in the future
1.236 jose 2477: of OpenBSD. (<a href="papers/mexico98-slides.ps">Slides are available</a>).
1.131 jufi 2478: <p>
1.73 deraadt 2479:
1.236 jose 2480: <li><strong>IP-dagarna</strong>,
1.734 tobias 2481: Oct 29 - 30, 1998, Stockholm, Sweden.<br>
1.132 louis 2482: At this conference, entirely devoted to IP, Niklas Hallqvist from the
2483: OpenBSD team held a talk on the IKE (a.k.a ISAKMP/Oakley) key management
2484: protocol and experiences from the implementation of <strong>isakmpd</strong>,
2485: an IKE implementation funded by Ericsson Radio Systems and developed
2486: primarily for the OpenBSD IPSEC stack.
1.79 deraadt 2487: <p>
1.73 deraadt 2488:
1.690 nick 2489: <li><strong>NCEE '98</strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 2490: Oct 9 - 10, 1998, Auburn, Maine, USA.<br>
1.132 louis 2491: An extensive after-action report was sent to advocacy@openbsd.org. While
1.151 jsyn 2492: sales of shirts and CDROMs left much to be desired, we did have good
1.132 louis 2493: opportunities to further project visibility and highlight its strengths.
1.80 deraadt 2494: <p>
2495:
1.93 louis 2496: <li><strong>
1.690 nick 2497: <a href="http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference/1998/">Reflections/Projections
1.216 jose 2498: 1998</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 2499: Oct 2 - 4, 1998, Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA.<br>
1.132 louis 2500: Theo de Raadt spoke in a panel about Open/Free software with Eric
2501: Raymond and others.
1.93 louis 2502: <p>
2503:
1.216 jose 2504: <li><strong>
1.690 nick 2505: <a href="http://press.oreilly.com/pub/pr/797">O'Reilly and
1.236 jose 2506: Associates Open Source Developer Days</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 2507: Aug 21, 1998, San Jose, California, USA.<br>
1.132 louis 2508: OpenBSD team members were on-hand to discuss OpenBSD's role among the
1.413 grunk 2509: other free software projects available. They also sold some CDs and T-shirts.
1.96 deraadt 2510: <p>
2511:
1.236 jose 2512: <li><strong><a name="defcon98"></a>
1.690 nick 2513: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-6/defcon-6.html">Defcon 6.0</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 2514: Jul 31 - Aug 2, 1998, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.<br>
1.132 louis 2515: The router to the outside world was an OpenBSD 2.3 box. It was involved
2516: in a "capture the flag" competition in which an entire room of crackers
2517: attempted to break into it and machines running other operating systems.
2518: The OpenBSD box was not broken into.
2519: <br>
2520: Almost 100 OpenBSD 2.3 CDROMs were sold (we ran out again). The primates
1.236 jose 2521: at <a href="http://www.monkey.org">monkey.org</a> brought 2.3
1.413 grunk 2522: "wire-frame" OpenBSD T-shirts to the conference and sold almost
1.132 louis 2523: 200 of them. The proceeds from the sales were donated to the OpenBSD project.
1.96 deraadt 2524: <p>
1.94 deraadt 2525:
1.690 nick 2526: <li><strong><a href="http://www.blackhat.com/html/bh-usa-98/bh2-index.html">BlackHat Sessions</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 2527: Jul 29 - 30, 1998, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.<br>
1.132 louis 2528: Theo de Raadt presented a talk entitled
2529: "Auditing software for security" about the OpenBSD security auditing
2530: team's process and the lessons the team learned. The talk concentrated
2531: on how our process fixes bugs -- not just holes -- since one never knows
2532: when 5 bugs will act together to become a hole.
1.99 deraadt 2533: <p>
2534:
1.236 jose 2535: <li><strong><a name="usenix-neworleans"></a>
2536: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/usenix98/index.html">Usenix Annual Technical Conference</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 2537: Jun 15 - 19, 1998, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.<br>
1.132 louis 2538: At Usenix 1998 there was a strong OpenBSD presence both in the Freenix
2539: and normal tracks. Theo did a general talk about what the OpenBSD
2540: project offers. Angelos held a panel about IPSEC (which is quite an
2541: OpenBSD topic since IPSEC development at that time was so much further
2542: ahead in OpenBSD than anywhere else).
2543: <br>
2544: The terminal room PCs ran OpenBSD 2.3. We sold many CDROMs. The
1.413 grunk 2545: first style of OpenBSD T-shirt also sold quite well.
1.101 wvdputte 2546: <p>
2547:
1.105 wvdputte 2548: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2549: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/sec98/index.html">Usenix Security</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 2550: Jan 26 - 29, 1998, San Antonio, Texas, USA.<br>
1.132 louis 2551: At this conference, Theo presented an evening talk which basically
2552: turned into a list of fixed security problems and cautionary tales about
2553: subsystems in which future problems may be encountered
1.236 jose 2554: (<a href="papers/security98-slides.ps">slides available</a>).
1.105 wvdputte 2555: <br>
1.132 louis 2556: The terminal room PCs ran OpenBSD 2.2.
2557: <p>
1.236 jose 2558: </ul>
1.105 wvdputte 2559:
1.132 louis 2560: <h3>1997</h3>
1.107 deraadt 2561:
1.236 jose 2562: <ul>
1.113 deraadt 2563: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2564: <a href="http://www.hip97.nl">HIP</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 2565: Aug, 1997, Almere, Netherlands.<br>
1.236 jose 2566: Niels held a
1.690 nick 2567: <a href="http://www.citi.umich.edu/u/provos/papers/hip97-tcpip.html">talk</a>
1.132 louis 2568: about the problems of unencrypted TCP/IP connections, offering IPSEC as
2569: possible solution.
1.113 deraadt 2570: <p>
1.132 louis 2571:
1.236 jose 2572: <li><strong>HOPE</strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 2573: Aug, 1997, New York, New York, USA.<br>
1.166 miod 2574: The terminal room consisted primarily of DECstations running
1.690 nick 2575: OpenBSD 2.1. Once again, the <a href="http://www.lopht.com/">L0phT</a>
1.132 louis 2576: people had very good things to say about our security.
1.113 deraadt 2577: <p>
1.105 wvdputte 2578:
1.236 jose 2579: <li><strong><a name="defcon5"></a>
1.690 nick 2580: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-5/defcon-5.html">Defcon V</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 2581: Jul 11 - 13, 1997, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.<br>
1.132 louis 2582: At this conference, the OpenBSD team sold 100 or so 2.1 release CDROMs.
2583: <br>
2584: Since this is the primary security conference, many speakers said very
1.140 jufi 2585: good things about our stance on security... particularly people like
1.690 nick 2586: <a href="http://www.lopht.com">the L0phT</a>.
1.118 deraadt 2587: <p>
2588:
1.125 deraadt 2589: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2590: <a
2591: href="http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/ana97/index.html">Usenix Annual Technical Conference</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 2592: Jan 6 - 10, 1997, Anaheim, California, USA.<br>
1.690 nick 2593: Theo de Raadt held a BOF ("Birds Of a Feather", i.e. a meeting of people
1.132 louis 2594: interested in the same thing) about OpenBSD.
1.236 jose 2595: </ul>
1.125 deraadt 2596:
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