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1.236 jose 17: <h2><font color="#e00000">Events</font></h2>
18: OpenBSD developers, users and sponsors attend trade shows and conferences,
19: give papers, and organize "Birds Of a Feather" (BOF) sessions.
20: This is an opportunity to find out more about OpenBSD or just meet
1.165 ian 21: like-minded people.
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1.741 saad 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:
1.741 saad 43: <p>
1.715 jdixon 44: <ul>
1.746 wvdputte 45: <li><strong><a name="asiabsdcon2008"></a>
1.745 claudio 46: <a href="http://2008.asiabsdcon.org/">AsiaBSDCon 2008</a></strong>,
47: Mar 27 - 30, 2008, Tokio, Japan.<br>
48: Claudio Jeker will give a talk on OpenBSD Network Stack Internals.<br>
49: <p>
50:
1.749 wvdputte 51: <li><strong><a name="ukuugspring2008"></a>
52: <a href="http://spring2008.ukuug.org/">UKUUG Spring 2008</a></strong>,
1.751 tobias 53: Mar 31 - Apr 2, 2008, Birmingham, UK.<br>
1.749 wvdputte 54: Peter Hansteen will give a full day <a href="http://spring2008.ukuug.org/talk_abstracts.html#pf_tutorial">PF tutorial</a> and a <a href="http://spring2008.ukuug.org/talk_abstracts.html#6">fighting malware and spam</a> talk. There will be an OpenBSD booth, manned by Peter.<br>
55: <p>
56:
1.752 ! wvdputte 57: <li><strong><a name="jtic2008"></a>
! 58: <a href="http://www.iesmirabent.com/jornadas/index2.html">I Jornadas
! 59: Tecnológicas Ciudad de Isla Cristina</a></strong>,
! 60: Apr 3 - 4, Huelva, Spain.<br>
! 61: Igor Sobrado will give a talk on OpenBSD and related free software
! 62: projects.<br>
! 63: <p>
! 64:
1.750 wvdputte 65: <li><strong><a name="DORSCLUC2008"></a>
66: <a href="http://www.open.hr/dc2008/en/">DORS / CLUC 2008</a></strong>,
1.751 tobias 67: Apr 16 - Apr 18, 2008, Zagreb, Croatia.<br>
1.750 wvdputte 68: There will be an OpenBSD booth and a talk on OpenBSD 4.3 by Wim.<br>
69: <p>
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
1.741 saad 76: have at least one <a href="http://www.nluug.nl/events/vj08/CfP-NL.html">talk</a>
1.738 tobias 77: submitted.
1.727 wvdputte 78: <p>
79:
1.743 wvdputte 80: <li><strong><a name="confidence2008"></a>
81: <a href="http://2008.confidence.org.pl/">Confidence 2008</a></strong>,
82: May 16 - 17, 2008, Krakow, Poland.<br>
83: Felix is giving a presentation and there will be a OpenBSD booth.
84: <p>
85:
1.727 wvdputte 86: <li><strong><a name="linuxtag2008"></a>
1.734 tobias 87: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.org/2008/en/">LinuxTag 2008</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 88: May 28 - 31, 2008, Berlin, Germany.<br>
1.733 tobias 89: There will be plenty of OpenBSD activity (talks & booth).
1.718 wvdputte 90: <p>
91:
1.727 wvdputte 92: <li><strong><a name="lsm2008"></a>
93: <a href="http://www.rmll.info">Libre Software Meeting 2008</a></strong>,
1.730 miod 94: Jul 1 - 5, 2008, Mont de Marsan, France.<br>
1.727 wvdputte 95: There will be an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth.
96: <p>
97:
98: <li><strong><a name="froscon2008"></a>
99: <a href="http://www.froscon.de">FrOSCon 2008</a></strong>,
100: Aug 23 - 24, 2008, Bonn/Rhein-Sieg, Germany.<br>
101: There will be an OpenBSD booth, run by the usual suspects.
102: <p>
103:
1.731 wvdputte 104: <li><strong><a name="opensourcedays2008"></a>
1.734 tobias 105: <a href="http://www.opensourcedays.org/2008/">Open Source Days
106: 2008</a></strong>,
1.731 wvdputte 107: Oct 3 - 4, 2008, Copenhagen, Denmark.<br>
108: There will be an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth.
109: <p>
110:
1.739 okan 111: <li><strong><a name="nycbsdcon2008"></a>
112: <a href="http://www.nycbsdcon.org/2008/">NYCBSDCon 2008</a></strong>,
113: Oct 11 - 12, 2008, New York, New York.<br>
114: <p>
115:
1.743 wvdputte 116: <li><strong><a name="eurobsdcon2008"></a>
117: <a href="http://www.eurobsdcon.org/">EuroBSDCon 2008</a></strong>,
1.747 matthieu 118: Oct 18 - 19, 2008, Strasbourg, France.<br>
1.743 wvdputte 119: <p>
120:
1.727 wvdputte 121: <li><strong><a name="t-dose2008"></a>
122: <a href="http://www.t-dose.org/">T-DOSE 2008</a></strong>,
1.743 wvdputte 123: Oct 25 - 26, 2008, Eindhoven, The Netherlands.<br>
1.727 wvdputte 124: Technical Dutch Open Source Event.<br>
125: There will be developers present as well as an OpenBSD booth,
126: run by the usual suspects.
127: <p>
128:
1.732 wvdputte 129: <li><strong><a name=linuxworlduk2008></a>
130: <a href="http://www.confabb.com/conferences/53504-linuxworld-expo-uk">LinuxWorld Expo UK 2008</a></strong>,
131: <!--http://www.linuxworldexpo.co.uk/-->
132: Oct ? - ?, 2008, Olympia, London, UK.<br>
133: <p>
134:
1.727 wvdputte 135: <li><strong><a name="opencon2008"></a>
1.734 tobias 136: <a href="http://www.opencon.org/">OpenCON 2008</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 137: First weekend of Dec, 2008.<br>
138: <p>
139:
140: <li><strong><a name=25c3></a>
141: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/">25C3 Chaos Communication Congress in
142: Berlin</a></strong>,
143: End of December, 2008, Berlin, Germany.<br>
1.715 jdixon 144: </ul>
1.727 wvdputte 145: <p>
1.719 wvdputte 146: <hr>
147:
148: <h2>Past events:</h2>
149:
1.740 saad 150: <h3>2008</h3>
151: <ul>
1.749 wvdputte 152: <li><strong><a name="openexpo2008"></a>
153: <a href="http://openexpo.org/en/">OpenExpo 2008</a></strong>,
154: Mar 12 - 13, 2008, Bern, Switzerland.<br>
155: There was an OpenBSD table, run by Stephan A. Rickauer.<br>
156: <p>
157:
158: <li><strong><a name="chemnitz2008"></a>
159: <a href="http://chemnitzer.linux-tage.de/2008/info/">Chemnitzer Linux-Tage 2008</a></strong>,
160: Mar 1 - 2, 2008, Chemnitz, Germany.<br>
161: There was an OpenBSD table, run by Philipp.<br>
162: <p>
1.740 saad 163:
1.743 wvdputte 164: <li><strong><a name="Brussels2008"></a>
165: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/2008/">FOSDEM Brussels 2008</a></strong>,
166: Feb 23 - 24, 2008, Brussels, Belgium.<br>
167: There was an OpenBSD/OpenSSH booth and <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/2008/schedule/devroom/bsdpostgresql">a Dev room</a>.
168: There was also an exam for <a href="http://www.bsdcertification.org/">BSD
169: certification</a>.<br>
170: On Saturday we had our traditional BSD dinner.
171: <p>
172:
1.742 merdely 173: <li><strong><a name="scale6x"></a>
174: <a href="http://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale6x/">Southern California Linux
175: Expo 6x</a></strong>,
176: Feb 8 - 10, 2008, Los Angeles, California, USA.<br>
177: There was an OpenBSD booth run by Darrin Chandler with live
178: demonstrations and CDs for sale.
179: <p>
180:
1.740 saad 181: <li><strong><a name="Paris2008"></a>
182: <a href="http://www.solutionslinux.fr/fr/index.php">Solutions Linux
183: 2008</a></strong>,
184: Jan 29 - 31, 2008, Paris, France.<br>
185: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth with Marc Espie, Antoine
186: Jacoutot, Gilles Chehade, Charles Longeau, Landry Breuil, Saad Kadhi,
1.741 saad 187: Wim and others. [<a href="http://saad.docisland.org/pictures/sl2008/"
188: >pictures</a>]
1.740 saad 189: <p>
190:
191: </ul>
192:
1.588 espie 193: <h3>2007</h3>
194: <ul>
1.603 fkr 195:
1.731 wvdputte 196: <li><strong><a name=24c3></a>
197: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/2007/">24C3 Chaos Communication Congress in
198: Berlin</a></strong>,
199: December 27 - 30, 2007, Berlin, Germany.<br>
200: The motto was Volldampf voraus! (literally Full Steam Ahead).
201: <p>
202:
1.726 merdely 203: <li><strong><a name="capbug200712"></a>
204: <a href="http://capbug.org/">Capital Area BSD User Group</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 205: Dec 17, 2007, Columbia, Maryland, USA.<br>
1.726 merdely 206: Michael Erdely presented <a href="papers/capbug200712/index.html">OpenBSD
207: Ports Tutorial: Advanced Topics</a>.
208: [<a href="http://talks.metabug.org/20071218_capbug_640x480.mp4">slides
209: w/audio</a>]
210: <p>
211:
1.721 jsg 212: <li><strong><a name="opencon2007"></a>
1.734 tobias 213: <a href="http://www.opencon.org/">OpenCON 2007</a></strong>,
1.721 jsg 214: Nov 30 - Dec 2, 2007, Venice, Italy.<br>
215: OpenCON is the only conference dedicated solely to OpenBSD.
216: This edition was composed of one "tutorial day" and two days of conference.
217: Three days entirely dedicated to OpenBSD with a lot of developers and users.
1.722 jsg 218: Talks by OpenBSD developers were:
219: <p>
220: <ul>
221: <li>Jonathan Gray: <a href="papers/opencon07-complex/index.html">
222: Why are modern operating systems so complicated?</a>
1.724 jasper 223: <li>Mark Kettenis: <a href="papers/opencon07-sparc64.pdf">
224: OpenBSD/sparc64</a>.
1.723 jasper 225: <li>Reiner Jung and Jasper Lievisse Adriaanse: <a href="papers/opencon07-gnome.pdf">
1.724 jasper 226: Gnome as OpenBSD desktop solution</a>.
1.725 bernd 227: <li>Bernd Ahlers: <a href="papers/opencon07-portstutorial/index.html">
228: OpenBSD Ports Tutorial</a>.
1.744 claudio 229: <li>Claudio Jeker: <a href="papers/opencon07-ospf6d">
230: OSPF v3 - OSPF for IPv6</a>.
1.722 jsg 231: </ul>
1.721 jsg 232: <p>
233:
1.716 wvdputte 234: <li><strong><a name="dulug2007"></a>
1.719 wvdputte 235: <a href="http://www.dulug.de/">Duisburger Linux User Group</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 236: Nov 17, 2007, Duisburg, Germany.<br>
1.738 tobias 237: Richard Verwayen gave a workshop on installing OpenBSD,
1.727 wvdputte 238: [<a href="http://www.dulug.de/cgi-bin/dcms.cgi?action=lit-17.11.07">pictures</a>].
1.716 wvdputte 239: <p>
240:
241: <li><strong><a name="essen2007"></a>
242: <a href="http://www.come2linux.org/psp/">Come 2 Linux 2007 Essen</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 243: Nov 10 - 11, 2007, Essen, Germany.<br>
244: The *BSD projects had an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth.
1.716 wvdputte 245: <p>
246:
247: <li><strong><a name="nluug2007"></a>
248: <a href="http://www.nluug25.nl/en/index.php">NLUUG 25th anniversary</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 249: Nov 7, 2007, Amsterdam, Netherlands.<br>
1.716 wvdputte 250: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth with Wim, Otto, Floor and Kevin.
251: <p>
1.658 reyk 252:
1.714 jasper 253: <li><strong><a name="amsterdam2007"></a>
1.741 saad 254: <a
255: href="http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20071017100734&mode=expanded&count=20">Amsterdam user meeting Cafe De Deugniet</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 256: Nov 2, 2007, Amsterdam, Netherlands.<br>
1.741 saad 257: Informal OpenBSD user meeting in Amsterdam, more info on Undeadly.org.
258: [<a href="http://brobding.mine.nu/Brobding.mine.nu/Albums/Pages/OpenBSD_4.2.html">pictures</a>]
1.714 jasper 259: <p>
260:
1.713 wvdputte 261: <li><strong><a name="uaoug2007"></a>
1.738 tobias 262: <a href="http://www.uaoug.org.ua/en/index.html">Ukrainian OpenBSD Users Group meeting</a></strong>,
1.713 wvdputte 263: Nov 1, 2007, Kyiv, Ukraine<br>
1.738 tobias 264: Sergey Prysiazhnyi, community co-ordinator, gave a talk about Driver
265: Architecture and OpenBSD using in Embedded Systems.
1.713 wvdputte 266: <a href= "http://www.atmnis.com/~apelsin/uaoug/u2k7_v3.0/talk/">[slides]</a>
267: <a href= "http://www.atmnis.com/~apelsin/uaoug/u2k7_v3.0/">[pictures]</a>
268: <a href= "http://www.atmnis.com/~apelsin/uaoug/u2k7_v3.0/video/talk.mp4">[video]</a>
269: <p>
270:
1.712 sthen 271: <li><strong><a name="cossfest2007"></a>
272: <a href="http://www.cossfest.ca/">COSSFEST 2007</a></strong>,
273: Oct 27, 2007, Calgary, Alberta,<br>
274: There was an OpenBSD booth present with 4.2 CDs.
275: <p>
276:
277: <li><strong><a name="systems2007"></a>
278: <a href="http://www.systems.de/">Systems</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 279: Oct 23 - 26, 2007, Munich, Germany.<br>
1.712 sthen 280: The *BSD projects had an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth in Halle B2 110-2, run by
281: DaN, Nikolay Sturm, Marco Pfatschbacher and some other volunteers.
282: <p>
283:
284: <li><strong><a name="bsdcontr2007"></a>
1.734 tobias 285: <a href="http://www.bsdcontr.org/">BSDConTR 2007</a></strong>,
1.712 sthen 286: Oct 19 - 20, 2007, Rectorate of Marmara University, SultanAhmet, Istanbul,
287: Turkey.<br>
288: First Turkish Conference on BSD Systems.<br>
289: Marc Balmer talked about his work on support for radio clocks in
290: OpenBSD.<br>
291: Gökhan Alkan gave a talk "Spam protection with OpenBSD and PF".<br>
292: Huzeyfe Önal gave a talk "Advanced Security solutions in OpenBSD".
293: <br>
294: <p>
295:
1.708 aanriot 296: <li><strong><a name=aldil2007></a>
297: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/">Les Journées Du Logiciel Libre
298: 2007</a></strong>,
299: Oct 19 - 20, 2007, Lyon, France.<br>
300: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Damien Bergamini and
301: Alexandre Anriot with the help of Thierry Thomas.
302: <p>
303:
1.705 pvalchev 304: <li><strong><a name=rp2007></a>
305: <a href="http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference/2007/">Reflections/Projections
306: 2007</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 307: Oct 12 - 14, 2007, Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA.<br>
1.705 pvalchev 308: Peter Valchev gave a talk titled <a href="papers/rp2007-slides.pdf">
309: Using OpenBSD Security Features to Find Software Bugs</a>.
310: <p>
311:
312: <li><strong><a name=auug2007></a>
313: <a href="http://new.auug.org.au/AUUG2007">AUUG 2007</a></strong>,
314: Oct 13 - 14, 2007, Melbourne, Australia.<br>
315: Reyk Floeter talked about load balancing and TCP-relaying with hoststated.
316: There were developers, users, and an OpenBSD booth present.
317: <p>
318:
319: <li><strong><a name="t-dose2007"></a>
320: <a href="http://www.t-dose.org/">T-DOSE 2007</a></strong>,
321: Oct 13 - 14, 2007, Eindhoven, The Netherlands.<br>
1.727 wvdputte 322: Technical Dutch Open Source Event.<br>
1.705 pvalchev 323: There were developers present as well as an OpenBSD booth,
324: run by the usual suspects.
325: <p>
326:
1.689 claudio 327: <li><strong><a name="openexpo2007"></a>
328: <a href="http://www.openexpo.ch/">OpenExpo 2007</a></strong>,
1.734 tobias 329: Sep 19 - 20, 2007, Zurich, Switzerland.<br>
1.689 claudio 330: There were developers present as well as an OpenBSD booth,
1.738 tobias 331: run by the usual suspects. Stephan A. Rickauer gave a talk
332: "OpenBSD and Linux: Insights into a migration project at the Institute of
1.689 claudio 333: Neuroinformatics, ETH Zurich".<br>
334: <p>
335:
1.686 mbalmer 336: <li><strong><a name="eurobsdcon2007"></a>
337: <a href="http://2007.eurobsdcon.org/">EuroBSDCon 2007</a></strong>,
338: Sep 14 - 15, 2007, Copenhagen, Denmark.<br>
339: Marc Balmer gave a talk <a href="papers/eurobsdcon07/mbalmer-radio_clocks.pdf">
340: Support for Radio Clocks in OpenBSD</a>.<br>
1.702 pyr 341: Pierre-Yves Ritschard gave a talk <a href="papers/eurobsdcon07/pyr-loadbalancing">Load Balancing in OpenBSD Using hoststated</a>.<br>
1.688 claudio 342: Claudio Jeker gave a talk <a href="papers/eurobsdcon07/claudio-routing">
343: Using OpenBSD as Routing Platform</a>.<br>
1.686 mbalmer 344: Peter Hansteen offered "A Packet Filter Tutorial" on the tutorial day.<br>
345: There was an OpenBSD booth, run by the usual suspects.
346: <p>
347:
1.685 bernd 348: <li><strong><a name="linuxdayskiel2007"></a>
349: <a href="http://www.kieler-linuxtage.de">Kieler Linux und Open Source Tage</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 350: Sep 07 - 08, 2007, Kiel, Germany.<br>
1.685 bernd 351: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Bernd.
352: <p>
353:
1.686 mbalmer 354: <li><strong><a name="xds2007"></a>
355: <a href="http://www.x.org/wiki/Events/XDS2007">X.Org Developers' Summit 2007</a></strong>,
356: Sep 10 - 12, 2007, Cambridge, UK.<br>
357: Matthieu Herrb and Marc Balmer attended the 3-day summit to make sure the
358: *BSD point of view was well represented.
359: <p>
360:
1.684 bernd 361: <li><strong><a name="froscon2007"></a>
362: <a href="http://www.froscon.de">FrOSCon 2007</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 363: Aug 25 - 26, 2007, Bonn/Rhein-Sieg, Germany.<br>
1.684 bernd 364: There was an OpenBSD booth, run by the usual suspects.
365: <p>
366:
1.682 bernd 367: <li><strong><a name="summercamp2007"></a>
1.734 tobias 368: <a href="http://events.ccc.de/camp/2007">Chaos Communication Camp
369: 2007</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 370: Aug 8 - 12, 2007, Finowfurt, Germany.<br>
1.682 bernd 371: This open air event had a big OpenBSD village with all the usual suspects.
372: <p>
373:
1.680 aanriot 374: <li><strong><a name="lsm2007"></a>
375: <a href="http://www.rmll.info">Libre Software Meeting 2007</a></strong>,
376: Jul 10 - 14, 2007, Amiens, France.<br>
1.681 aanriot 377: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Wim, Matthieu and
378: Alexandre with the help of Serge and Christelle.
1.680 aanriot 379: <p>
380:
1.675 mbalmer 381: <li><strong><a name=Slackathon2007></a>
1.734 tobias 382: <a href="http://www.slackathon.se/">Slackathon 2007</a></strong>,
1.675 mbalmer 383: June 16, 2007, Stockholm, Sweden.<br>
1.738 tobias 384: Yet another round of fund raising for OpenBSD/SSH and general *BSD meeting
1.675 mbalmer 385: that took place in Stockholm.
386: <p>
387:
388: <li><strong><a name="linuxtag2007"></a>
1.734 tobias 389: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.org/2007/en/">LinuxTag 2007</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 390: May 30 - Jun 2, 2007, Berlin, Germany.<br>
1.675 mbalmer 391: There were presentations by OpenBSD developers and an OpenBSD booth,
1.738 tobias 392: run by the usual suspects, and Stephan A. Rickauer held Peter Hansteen's PF
393: tutorial as well as the talk
1.677 wvdputte 394: <a href="http://www.ini.unizh.ch/~stephan/talks/LinuxTag07.pdf">
1.738 tobias 395: "OpenBSD and Linux: Insights into a migration project at the Institute of
1.677 wvdputte 396: Neuroinformatics, ETH Zurich"</a>.
1.675 mbalmer 397: <p>
398:
1.674 martin 399: <li><strong><a name=LinuxwochenVienna2007></a>
1.734 tobias 400: <a href="http://www.linuxwochen.at/2007/Wien">Linuxwochen Vienna
401: 2007</a></strong>,
1.674 martin 402: May 31 - Jun 2, 2007, Vienna, Austria.<br>
403: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth run by Martin Reindl, Robert Peichaer
404: and Teemu Schaabl.
405: <p>
406:
1.671 aanriot 407: <li><strong><a name=cuug2007></a>
408: <a href="http://www.cuug.ab.ca/">Calgary Unix Users Group</a></strong>,
409: May 29, 2007, downtown Library, basement meeting room, Calgary, Alberta.<br>
1.688 claudio 410: <a href="papers/cuug07-claudio/">Claudio Jeker</a>,
411: <a href="papers/cuug2007/">David Gwynne, Henning Brauer</a>,
1.673 mbalmer 412: Reyk Flöter, Matthieu Herrb, Marc Balmer, and Bob Beck discussed recent and
413: future networking changes in OpenBSD, as well as Xenocara, support for
414: radio clocks in OpenBSD, and Spam Reduction with OpenBSD spamd and greylisting.
1.672 henning 415: Some other OpenBSD developers attended to provide international colour.
1.671 aanriot 416: <p>
417:
1.670 ray 418: <li><strong><a name="bsdcan2007"></a>
419: <a href="http://www.bsdcan.org/2007/">BSDCan 2007</a></strong>,
420: May 16 - 19, 2007, Ottawa, Canada.<br>
421: Several OpenBSD developers were there.<br>
422: Peter Hansteen gave a "Packet filtering for fun and profit" tutorial and
423: presented a "Fighting malware and spam with free tools" talk.<br>
424: Ray Lai presented OpenCVS/OpenRCS and
425: discussed why a secure CVS implementation is needed.
426: <a href="papers/bsdcan07-cvs/">Slides</a> are available.<br>
427: Jason Dixon gave the closing session of BSDCan 2007.
428: <p>
429:
1.669 fkr 430: <li><strong><a name="confidence2007"></a>
431: <a href="http://2007.confidence.org.pl/">Confidence 2007</a></strong>,
432: May 12 - 13, 2007, Krakow, Poland.<br>
433: Felix, Henning and Wim gave presentations and ran the OpenBSD booth.
434: <p>
435:
1.666 michele 436: <li><strong><a name="obsdm2"></a>
1.734 tobias 437: <a href="http://www.openbeer.it/?open=obsdm2">OpenBSD Meeting V.2</a></strong>,
1.666 michele 438: May 12, 2007, Verona, Italy.<br>
439: Another event organized by the OpenBEER team with italian OpenBSD related talks.
440: Michele presented a talk about the OpenBSD network stack.
441: <p>
442:
443: <li><strong><a name="nluug2007"></a>
444: <a href="http://www.nluug.nl/events/vj07/index.html">NLUUG Voorjaarsconferentie
445: 2007</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 446: May 10, 2007, Ede, Netherlands.<br>
1.666 michele 447: There was a
448: <a href="http://www.nluug.nl/events/vj07/abstracts/ab.html?id=2">presentation</a>
1.738 tobias 449: by Anil Madhavapeddy and an OpenBSD booth, run by the usual
1.666 michele 450: suspects.
451: <p>
452:
1.665 mbalmer 453: <li><strong><a name="coimbra2007"></a>
454: <a href="http://www.openbsd-pt.com/eventos/coimbra07/index-en.html">Portuguese OpenBSD Usergroup Meeting</a></strong>,
455: May 5 - 6, 2007, Coimbra, Portugal.<br>
456: 7th Meeting of the Portuguese OpenBSD Usergroup.<br>
457: Marc Balmer gave a talk "Ensuring Quality in OpenBSD Without a Formal Process".<br>
458: Rui Reis gave a presentation "The Honeynet.PT project".<br>
1.667 pedro 459: Michael Shalayeff gave a talk "Asynchronous I/O".<br>
460: Also present was Pedro Martelletto.
1.665 mbalmer 461: <p>
462:
1.658 reyk 463: <li><strong><a name=decix6th></a>
464: <a href="http://www.de-cix.org/">DE-CIX 6th Technical Meeting</a></strong>,
465: Apr 19, 2007, Schloss Kransberg, near Usingen, Germany.<br>
466: Henning Brauer and Reyk Flöter talked at the 6th technical
467: meeting of the Deutsche Commercial Internet Exchange (DE-CIX).
468: Henning gave an update on OpenBGPD and Reyk about the latest
469: network-related changes since OpenBSD 4.1. They also talked about
470: the status of test OpenBGPD route server running at the DE-CIX.
471: <p>
472:
1.738 tobias 473: <li><strong><a name="litol07"></a>
1.651 fkr 474: <a href="http://www.lit-ol.de/">2. Linux-Informationstag Oldenburg</a></strong>,
1.738 tobias 475: Apr 14 - 15, 2007, Oldenburg, Germany.<br>
476: Small Open-Source event. Of course there was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth run by
1.659 fkr 477: Bernd, Felix and Tobias Stoeckmann. Felix gave a talk about the current state
478: of OpenBSD development titled <a href="papers/litol07/">OpenBSD - Past, Present and Future</a>.
1.738 tobias 479: <p>
1.650 deraadt 480:
481: <li><strong><a name="fisl8"></a>
482: <a href="http://fisl.softwarelivre.org/8.0/www/?q=en">fisl8.0</a></strong>,
1.734 tobias 483: Apr 12 - 14, 2007, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil.<br>
1.650 deraadt 484: This was a fairly large conference in South America. Theo de Raadt
485: presented a talk about <a href="papers/brhard2007/">Hardware Documentation</a>.
1.738 tobias 486: <p>
1.650 deraadt 487:
1.645 ray 488: <li><strong><a name="nycbug2007-cvs"></a>
489: <a href="http://nycbug.org/">NYC*BUG April 2007</a></strong>,
490: Apr 4, 2007, NYC, USA.<br>
491: Ray Lai (ray@) gave a
492: <a href="http://www.nycbug.org/index.php?NAV=Home;SUBM=10104">talk</a>
493: on OpenCVS.
1.648 ray 494: <a href="papers/nycbug07-cvs/">Slides</a> and
495: <a href="http://www.fetissov.org/public/nycbug/nycbug-04-04-07.mp3">audio</a>
496: are available.
1.645 ray 497: <p>
498:
1.638 grunk 499: <li><strong><a name="elite2007"></a>
500: <a href="http://www.erlug.de/?q=node/323">5. Erlanger Linuxtage</a></strong>,
501: Mar 24 - 25, 2007, Erlangen, Germany.<br>
502: There was an OpenBSD/OpenSSH booth, run by Alexander von Gernler (grunk@).
503: He also gave a talk called
1.639 grunk 504: <a href="papers/elite2007/elite2007-openbsd.pdf">
1.638 grunk 505: "Sichere Systeme mit OpenBSD" (german)</a>.
506: <p>
507:
1.635 tom 508: <li><strong><a name="ukuug2007"></a>
509: <a href="http://www.ukuug.org/events/spring2007/">UKUUG Spring 2007 Conference</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 510: Mar 19 - 21, 2007, Manchester, United Kingdom.<br>
1.635 tom 511: Tom Cosgrove gave a presentation about "Third-Party Applications on OpenBSD"
512: at the annual spring meeting of the
513: <a href="http://www.ukuug.org/">UK's Unix and Open Systems User Group</a>.
514: <p>
515:
1.627 mcbride 516: <li><strong><a name="asiabsdcon2007"></a>
517: <a href="http://www.asiabsdcon.org/">AsiaBSDCon 2007</a></strong>,
518: Mar 8 - 11, 2007, Tokyo, Japan.<br>
1.631 mbalmer 519: Marc Balmer presented a paper <a href="papers/radio-clocks-asiabsdcon07.pdf">Supporting Radio Clocks in OpenBSD</a>. Presentation
520: <a href="papers/asiabsdcon07-radioclocks/index.html">slides</a> are also
521: available.<br>
1.627 mcbride 522: 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 523: Mathieu Sauve-Frankel gave a talk <a href="papers/asiabsdcon07-ipsec/index.html">Recent Improvements in OpenBSD's IPSec Support</a>.<br>
524: Damien Miller presented a paper <a href="papers/openssh-measures-asiabsdcon2007.pdf">Security measures in OpenSSH</a>. Presentation
1.628 djm 525: <a href="papers/openssh-measures-asiabsdcon2007-slides.pdf">slides</a> are
526: also available.<br>
1.627 mcbride 527: 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".
528: <p>
529:
1.622 fkr 530: <li><strong><a name="linuxforum2007"></a>
531: <a href="http://www.linuxforum.dk/2007/">LinuxForum 2007</a></strong>,
532: Mar 2 - 3, 2007, Copenhagen, Denmark.<br>
1.738 tobias 533: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth run by Wim, Bernd and Michael in the
534: <a href="http://img.ba-net.org/LinuxForum2007/">best of circumstances</a>.
535: Felix gave a talk titled
1.622 fkr 536: <a href="papers/linuxforum07/index.html">OpenBSD - Past, Present and Future</a>.
537: <p>
538:
1.619 wvdputte 539: <li><strong><a name=Brussels2007></a>
540: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/2007/">FOSDEM Brussels 2007</a></strong>,
541: Feb 24 - 25, 2007, Brussels, Belgium.<br>
1.727 wvdputte 542: There was an OpenBSD/OpenSSH booth with Matthieu, Marc, Mickey, Saad
1.619 wvdputte 543: and Wim. On Saturday we had our traditional BSD dinner.<br>
544: Matthieu gave a <a href="papers/fosdem07-xenocara.pdf">
545: talk on Xenocara</a> in the X.Org devroom.
546: <p>
1.616 wvdputte 547:
548: <li><strong><a name="kiberpipa2007"></a>
549: <a href="http://pot.kiberpipa.org">Kiberpipa open sessions</a></strong>,
550: February 20, 2007, Ljubljana, Slovenia.<br>
551: On that edition of weekly "Open sessions" meetings
552: <a href="http://www.kerberos.si">Mitja Muzenic</a> gave a
553: <a href="http://pot.kiberpipa.org/?p=39">talk</a> on OpenBSD.
1.619 wvdputte 554: <a href="http://www.kerberos.si/papers/Kiberpipa07/">Slides</a> (in Slovenian),
555: <a href="http://video.kiberpipa.org/media/POT_OpenBSD">video</a> (in Slovenian),
1.616 wvdputte 556: and <a href="http://gallery.kerberos.si/kiberpipa07/">photos</a> are available.
557: <p>
558:
559: </ul>
560:
1.445 martin 561: <h3>2006</h3>
1.236 jose 562: <ul>
1.537 deraadt 563:
1.588 espie 564: <li><strong><a name="23c3"></a>
1.577 mbalmer 565: <a href="https://events.ccc.de/congress/2006/">23C3 Chaos Communication Congress in
566: Berlin</a></strong>,
567: December 27 - 30, 2006, Berlin, Germany.<br>
1.597 mbalmer 568: Who can you trust? Well, us. OpenBSD was there, of course, for our annual
1.595 reyk 569: closing event. fkr, grunk, jsg, mbalmer, mickey, sturm, uwe, martin,
1.598 bernd 570: henning, moritz, bernd and wvdputte were there
1.597 mbalmer 571: there to chat with attendees and discuss OpenBSD stuff. It was - as usual -
572: a great end-of-the-year event. See you in Berlin again end of 2007.
1.577 mbalmer 573: <p>
574:
1.594 mbalmer 575: <li><strong><a name="moscow2006"></a>
576: <a href="https://kd85.com/">Moscow OpenBSD user meeting</a></strong>,
577: December 8 - 9, 2006, Moscow, Russia.<br>
1.633 tom 578: For details, please email <a href="mailto:grange@opensd.org">Grange</a>
1.594 mbalmer 579: <p>
580:
1.515 tom 581: <li><strong><a name="opencon2006"></a>
582: <a href="http://www.opencon.org/">OpenCON 2006</a></strong>,
1.734 tobias 583: 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 584: OpenCON is the only conference dedicated solely to OpenBSD.
1.587 deraadt 585: 135 people were registered for the event, but since it was a completely open event is likely that
586: even more people just walked in.
1.577 mbalmer 587: Most talks were by OpenBSD developers, but there was also an impressive
1.568 mbalmer 588: number of our developers just attending the conference. Talks by OpenBSD
1.577 mbalmer 589: developers were:
1.568 mbalmer 590: <p>
1.535 deraadt 591: <ul>
1.581 claudio 592: <li>Claudio Jeker: <a href="papers/opencon06-network/index.html">
593: Network stack changes in OpenBSD</a>
1.580 deraadt 594: <li>Marc Balmer: <a href="papers/opencon06-nmea/index.html">
595: Support for Time Signal Station Receivers and GPS in OpenBSD</a>
1.601 fkr 596: <li>Felix Kronlage: <a href="papers/opencon06-umts/index.html">Redundancy or mobile deployment with 3G technology</a>
1.584 jsg 597: <li>Jonathan Gray: <a href="papers/opencon06-drivers/index.html">
598: Driver architecture and implementation in OpenBSD</a>
1.543 mbalmer 599: <li>Gordon Klok: <i>Processor Power Management</i>
1.596 dlg 600: <li>David Gwynne: <a href="papers/opencon06-culture.pdf">The OpenBSD
601: Culture</a> and he also filled in for Marco's
602: <a href="papers/opencon06-bio.pdf">Bio and Sensors in OpenBSD</a> talk.
1.582 michele 603: <li>Michele Marchetto: <a href="papers/opencon06-ripd/index.html">
604: OpenRIPD</a>
1.574 mbalmer 605: <li>Reyk Floeter: <i>IPsec demystified</i>
1.580 deraadt 606: <li>Theo de Raadt: <a href="papers/opencon06-docs">
607: Why hardware documentation matters so much and why it is so hard to get</a>
1.535 deraadt 608: </ul>
1.502 mbalmer 609: <p>
1.577 mbalmer 610: Also present were jcs, krw, mglocker, robert, wvdputte, martin, grunk,
611: dhartmei, aanriot, sturm, and bernd. Of course there was an OpenBSD booth
612: run by the usual suspects and you could buy our CD-ROMS, the audio CD and other
1.568 mbalmer 613: stuff.
614: <p>
1.502 mbalmer 615:
1.575 reyk 616: <li><strong><a name=opensourcetag2006></a>
617: <a href="http://www.opensourcetag.de/2006/">OpenSourceTag 2006</a></strong>,
618: Nov 30, 2006, Hannover, Germany.<br>
619: Reyk gave a <a href="http://www.opensourcetag.de/2006/agenda/">talk</a> about OpenBSD
620: as a reference project for secure software.
621: <p>
622:
1.583 henning 623: <li><strong><a name=epf2006></a>
624: <a href="http://www.peering-forum.eu/2006/">European Peering Forum 2006</a></strong>,
625: Nov 29 - 30, 2006, Frankfurt, Germany.<br>
626: The European Peering Forum in Frankfurt was hosted by the 3 big european
627: peering points DE-CIX, AMSIX and LINX, bringing network operators together.
628: Henning was talking about OpenBGPD,
629: <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/epf2006/">slides</a> are available.
630: <p>
631:
1.565 krw 632: <li><strong><a name=conisli2006></a>
633: <a href="http://conisli.org/">CONISLI 2006</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 634: Nov 3 - 5, 2006, São Paulo, Brazil.<br>
1.565 krw 635: 4th edition of São Paulo's International Free Software Congress.
1.687 jolan 636: Ken Westerback and Pedro Martelletto gave a talk.
1.565 krw 637: <p>
638:
1.559 jason 639: <li><strong><a name=nycbsdcon2006></a>
640: <a href="http://nycbsdcon.org/">NYCBSDCon 2006</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 641: Oct 28 - 29, 2006, New York City, USA.<br>
1.559 jason 642: NYCBSDCon is the main conference on the East Coast for the
643: BSD community to get together to share and gain knowledge,
1.562 jason 644: to network with like minded people. Several developers
1.563 jason 645: spoke, more were on hand:
1.559 jason 646: <ul>
647: <li>Marco Peereboom: <a href="papers/bio.pdf">bio and sensors in OpenBSD</a>
1.563 jason 648: [<a href="http://www.fetissov.org/public/nycbsdcon06/1.6.mp3">audio</a>]
1.605 jason 649: <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 650: <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>]
651: <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 652: <li>Ray Lai: <i>First time booth bunny</i>
653: </ul>
654: <p>
655:
1.556 fgsch 656: <li><strong><a name=linuxworlduk2006></a>
657: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.co.uk/">LinuxWorld Expo UK 2006</a></strong>,
658: Oct 25 - 26, 2006, Olympia, London, UK.<br>
1.738 tobias 659: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Wim, Tom, Peter, Federico and
1.558 wvdputte 660: Pedro La Peu.
1.556 fgsch 661: <p>
662:
1.589 aanriot 663: <li><strong><a name=cuug2006oct></a>
664: <a href="http://www.cuug.ab.ca/">Calgary Unix Users Group</a></strong>,
665: Oct 24, 2006, downtown Library, basement meeting room, Calgary, Alberta.<br>
666: Theo de Raadt gave a talk regarding the increasing demand for
667: vendors to open up their documentation.
668: <p>
669:
1.553 grunk 670: <li><strong><a name="systems2006"></a>
671: <a href="http://www.systems.de/">Systems</a></strong>,
1.734 tobias 672: Oct 23 - 27, 2006, Munich, Germany.<br>
1.553 grunk 673: The *BSD projects were located at A3.542.
674: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
675: Wilhelm Bühler, DaN, Nikolay Sturm, Marco Pfatschbacher,
676: and some other volunteers.
677: <p>
678:
1.550 henning 679: <li><strong><a name=hacklu2006></a>
680: <a href="http://www.hack.lu/">hack.lu 2006</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 681: Oct 19 - 21, 2006, Luxembourg/Kirchberg, Luxembourg.<br>
1.550 henning 682: Henning Brauer gave a well received talk about OpenBGPD.
683: <p>
684:
1.547 aanriot 685: <li><strong><a name=aldil2006></a>
686: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/">Les Journées Du Logiciel Libre
687: 2006</a></strong>,
688: Oct 13 - 14, 2006, Lyon, France.<br>
689: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Miod Vallat and Alexandre
690: Anriot with the help of Thierry Thomas and Damien Bergamini.
691: <p>
692:
1.546 mcbride 693: <li><strong><a name=auug2006></a>
694: <a href="http://new.auug.org.au/">AUUG 2006</a></strong>,
695: Oct 10 - 13, 2006, Melbourne, Australia.<br>
696: Ryan Mcbride presented a full-day tutorial entitled
1.738 tobias 697: "Advanced PF Rulesets" as well as two additional talks
1.546 mcbride 698: <a href="papers/auug2006/pf_evolution/">PF evolution</a>
1.738 tobias 699: and
1.546 mcbride 700: <a href="papers/auug2006/network_randomness/">Network stack randomness in OpenBSD</a>.
701: <p>
702:
1.532 wvdputte 703: <li><strong><a name=eurooscon2006></a>
1.734 tobias 704: <a href="http://conferences.oreillynet.com/euos2006/">O'Reilly Euro OSCON
705: 2006</a></strong>,
1.532 wvdputte 706: Sep 20, 2006, Brussels, Belgium.<br>
707: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth.
708: <p>
709:
1.528 wvdputte 710: <li><strong><a name=come2linux2006></a>
711: <a href="http://www.come2linux.org/psp/">Come 2 Linux 2006</a></strong>,
712: Sep 9 - 10, 2006, Duisburg-Essen, Germany.<br>
713: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth.
714: <p>
715:
1.525 wvdputte 716: <li><strong><a name=ChaosdaysDarmstadt2006></a>
1.734 tobias 717: <a href="http://mrmcd101b.metarheinmain.de/index.html">mrmcd101b -
718: MetaRheinMainChaosDays Darmstadt 2006</a></strong>,
1.525 wvdputte 719: Sep 1 - 3, 2006, Darmstadt, Germany.<br>
720: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth.
721: <p>
722:
1.521 fkr 723: <li><strong><a name=LinuxWorldExpoSF2006></a>
1.734 tobias 724: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/live/12/events/12SFO06A/conference/tracksessions/Security/QMONYA04ROFR">LinuxWorld Expo San Francisco 2006</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 725: Aug 16, 2006, San Francisco, USA.<br>
1.521 fkr 726: Ted Unangst spoke about OpenBSD as part of a security panel.
727: <p>
728:
1.518 tedu 729: <li><strong><a name=coimbra2006></a>
730: <a href="http://www.openbsd-pt.com/eventos/coimbra06/">Portuguese OpenBSD Usergroup Meeting</a></strong>,
731: Jul 22 - 23, 2006, Coimbra, Portugal.<br>
732: 6th Meeting of the Portuguese OpenBSD Usergroup. Marc Balmer gave a talk
733: "NMEA 0183 and Time Signal Station Receiver Support in OpenBSD".
734: <p>
735:
736: <li><strong><a name=akqit2006></a>
1.738 tobias 737: <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 738: Jul 20, 2006, University of Basel, Computer Science Department, Room 205, Bernoullistr. 16, 17:30 - 18:30, Basel, Switzerland.<br>
1.590 mbalmer 739: Marc Balmer gave a talk in german "<a href="papers/akqit06/index.html">Ensuring
740: Quality in the Development of the Free Operating System OpenBSD</a>".
1.518 tedu 741: <p>
1.475 deraadt 742:
1.510 wvdputte 743: <li><strong><a name="lsm2006"></a>
744: <a href="http://www.rmll.info">Libre Software Meeting 2006</a></strong>,
745: Jul 4 - 8, 2006, Vandoeuvre-les-nancy, France.<br>
1.681 aanriot 746: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Wim, Matthieu and
747: Alexandre with the help of Serge and Christelle.
1.510 wvdputte 748: <p>
749:
1.508 wvdputte 750: <li><strong><a name=FrOSCon></a>
751: <a href="http://www.froscon.de/">
752: FrOSCon 2006 - Free and Open Source Software Conference</a></strong>,
753: Jun 24 - 25, 2006, Bonn/Rhein-Sieg, Germany.<br>
1.738 tobias 754: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth run by Wim, Waldemar, Manuel and
1.508 wvdputte 755: Tim Kornau.
756: <p>
757:
1.507 mbalmer 758: <li><strong><a name=LinuxwochenLinz2006></a>
1.734 tobias 759: <a href="http://www.linuxwochen.at/2006/Linz">Linuxwochen Linz
760: 2006</a></strong>,
1.507 mbalmer 761: June 15, 2006, Linz, Austria.<br>
1.727 wvdputte 762: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth run by Wim and the usual suspects.
1.507 mbalmer 763: <p>
764:
1.506 deraadt 765: <li><strong><a name=lugverona2006></a>
1.734 tobias 766: <a href="http://www.di.univr.it/dol/main?ent=iniziativa&id=857&lang=it">LUGVR@UNIVR</a></strong>,
1.506 deraadt 767: Jun 9, 2006, Verona University, Borgo Roma, Italy.<br>
768: Florin Iamandi of <a href="https://www.verona.linux.it">LUG Verona</a>
769: gave a talk
770: (<a href="http://todome.net/docs/obsd_carp/en">English</a> and
771: <a href="http://todome.net/docs/obsd_carp/it">Italian</a>)
772: and live demonstration on redundant failover
773: OpenBSD firewalls. He explained why OpenBSD solves many problems that
774: had previously been the dominion of expensive commercial solutions.
775: Attendees learned about OpenBSD's hard stance and successful fight against
776: bad licences and uncooperating vendors and manufacturers.
777: <p>
778:
1.502 mbalmer 779: <li><strong><a name=Slackathon2006></a>
1.734 tobias 780: <a href="http://slackathon2006.unix.se">Slackathon 2006</a></strong>,
1.502 mbalmer 781: Jun 3, 2006, Stockholm, Sweden.<br>
782: A fundraiser for OpenBSD/SSH held at the Stockholm University. Free
1.505 ian 783: entrance and all donations went straight to the project. Several
1.502 mbalmer 784: developers were talking about OpenBSD here, as well as some hands-on
785: workshops took place with both old and new hardware.
786: <p>
787:
1.500 deraadt 788: <li><strong><a name=cuug2006></a>
789: <a href="http://www.cuug.ab.ca/">Calgary Unix Users Group</a></strong>,
790: Jun 1, 2006, SAIT Campus, Calgary, Alberta.<br>
1.504 miod 791: Bob Beck and Reyk Floeter discussed recent and future networking
792: changes in OpenBSD. Some other OpenBSD developers attended to provide
1.500 deraadt 793: international colour, and there were tshirts, CDs, and posters on hand.
794: CUUG made a substantial contribution to OpenBSD at this event as well.
795: <p>
796:
1.589 aanriot 797: <li><strong><a name=LinuxwochenVienna2006></a>
1.734 tobias 798: <a href="http://www.linuxwochen.at/2006/Wien">Linuxwochen Vienna
799: 2006</a></strong>,
1.589 aanriot 800: May 31 - Jun 2, 2006, Vienna, Austria.<br>
801: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth run by Wim and the usual suspects.
802: <p>
803:
1.585 aanriot 804: <li><strong><a name=plug060519></a>
1.734 tobias 805: <a href="http://www.plugfr.org/">Provence Linux User Group</a></strong>,
1.586 aanriot 806: May 19, 2006, Marseille, France.<br>
1.585 aanriot 807: Alexandre Anriot spoke about the deployment of wireless networks with
1.586 aanriot 808: OpenBSD during a meeting of the PLUG.
1.585 aanriot 809: <p>
810:
1.491 bernd 811: <li><strong><a name="SANE2006"></a>
812: <a href="http://www.sane.nl/sane2006/">SANE 2006</a></strong>,
813: May 15 - 19, 2006, Delft, The Netherlands.<br>
814: Peter N. M. Hansteen gave a
815: <a href="http://www.sane.nl/sane2006/program/abstract.php?eventid=35">
816: PF tutorial</a>.
817: <p>
818:
1.490 reyk 819: <li><strong><a name=bsdcan2006></a> <a
820: href="http://www.bsdcan.org/2006/">BSDCan 2006</a></strong>,
821: May 12 - 13, 2006, Ottawa, Canada.<br>
822: David Gwynne gave a talk about hardware monitoring with bio and
823: sensors in OpenBSD (<a href="papers/bsdcan06-biosensors.pdf">slides</a>)
824: and Reyk Flöter talked about the latest
825: wireless support and the incredible plans for the future
826: (<a href="papers/bsdcan06-wlan/index.html">slides</a>), and
827: Peter Hansteen gave a PF tutorial. A number of OpenBSD hackers
828: attended the conference as well, like Bob Beck and Mathieu Sauve-Frankel.
829: <p>
830:
1.489 bernd 831: <li><strong><a name="linuxdays2006"></a>
1.738 tobias 832: <a href="http://www.linuxdays.ch">Linuxdays 2006</a></strong>,
1.489 bernd 833: May 8 - 12, 2006, Geneva, Switzerland.<br>
834: Julien Mabillard, a long-time Geneva OpenBSD user, gave a talk to present
835: the overall system and its great features.
836: <p>
837:
1.592 claudio 838: <li><strong><a name="idepes2006"></a>
1.589 aanriot 839: <a href="http://www.idepes.org.br/openbsd/">IDEPES 2006</a></strong>,
840: May 6, 2006, São Paulo, Brazil.<br>
841: First event in Brazil totally dedicated to OpenBSD.
842: <p>
843:
1.592 claudio 844: <li><strong><a name="LinuxTag2006"></a>
1.484 mbalmer 845: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.org/2006/">LinuxTag 2006</a></strong>,
846: May 3 - 6, 2006, Wiesbaden, Germany.<br>
847: OpenBSD was very present at this years Linuxtag:
848: <ul>
849: <li>On friday morning, Claudio and Marc moderated a panel discussion
850: "BLOBS sind das Krebsgeschwür freier Software" (Blobs are the
1.485 mbalmer 851: cancer of free software) that was well attended. Unfortunately no one
1.484 mbalmer 852: in favour of Blobs attended, although we asked almost all Linux
853: distributions...
854: <li>After lunch, Marc Balmer started the afternoon with a talk "OpenBSD
855: as a Strategic Platform for the Basle Public Schools", outlining how and
1.485 mbalmer 856: why the Basle Public school system uses OpenBSD for most of its
1.484 mbalmer 857: infrastructure.
1.592 claudio 858: <li>The next OpenBSD specific talk was by Claudio Jeker,
859: <a href="papers/linuxtag06-network/">"Routing with OpenBSD using
860: OpenOSPFD and OpenBGPD"</a> where he showed various routing setups and
861: how full redundancy can be achieved.
862: [<a href="papers/linuxtag06-network.pdf">paper</a>]
1.484 mbalmer 863: <li>Later, Marc Balmer gave a talk "Decoding Time Signal Stations using
864: OpenBSD" and explained the recent addition of timedelta sensors and the
865: first implementation of such, udcf(4).
866: </ul>
867: <br>
868: All talks where very well received and OpenBSD filled four hours of the
1.485 mbalmer 869: Linuxtag program. We thank Wilhelm Bühler, chair of the BSD-Track
1.484 mbalmer 870: at Linuxtag, for the superb and professional organization.
871: <br>
872: Of course, there was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth run by Wim and the
873: usual suspects.
874: <p>
875:
1.486 mickey 876: <li><strong><a name=NYCBUG2006-05></a>
877: <a href="http://nycbug.org/index.php?NAV=Home&SUBM=83">NYCBUG Monthly meeting</a></strong>,
878: May 3, 2006, NYC, USA.<br>
879: Mickey gave a talk
1.564 jason 880: (<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 881: about PAE work for OpenBSD/i386.<br>
882: Mischa Diehm gave a talk about implementing VPN using OpenBSD.
883: <p>
884:
1.484 mbalmer 885: <li><strong><a name=tokyo2006></a>
886: <a href="http://www.tokyopc.org/index.php/weblog/">Tokyo PC Users Group</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 887: May 2, 2006, Tokyo, Japan.<br>
1.484 mbalmer 888: Theo presented his <a href="papers/ven05-deraadt">"Exploit Mitigation Techniques"</a>
889: talk. There is a
890: <a href="http://www.tokyopc.org/faxmessage/index.html#about">map to the location</a>.
891: <p>
892:
1.478 mbalmer 893: <li><strong><a name=SambaEXPerience2006></a>
894: <a href="http://www.sambaxp.org/">Samba eXPerience 2006</a></strong>,
895: April 24 - 26, 2006, Göttingen, Germany.<br>
896: Marc Balmer gave a talk "Providing Fully Automated Fileserver Services
897: for Public Schools using LDAP Integrated SAMBA on OpenBSD" that was very
898: well received.
899: <br>
900: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth run by Wim and Marc and Felix Kronlage
901: and we could draw a lot of attention.
902: <p>
903:
1.479 deraadt 904: <li><strong><a name=DORSCLUC2006></a>
905: <a href="http://www.open.hr/dc2006/"> DORS / CLUC 2006</a></strong>,
1.734 tobias 906: April 19 - 21, 2006, Zagreb, Croatia.<br>
1.479 deraadt 907: <a href="http://www.kerberos.si">Mitja Muzenic</a> gave a
1.480 mbalmer 908: <a href="http://www.kerberos.si/papers/DORS06/index.html">
909: "Introduction to OpenBSD"</a> talk. Conference
910: <a href="http://www.open.hr/dc2006/program.php">program</a> (in croatian
1.479 deraadt 911: only).
912: <p>
913:
1.475 deraadt 914: <li><strong><a name=linuxworld2006></a>
1.734 tobias 915: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/live/12/events/12BOS06A/"
916: >LinuxWorld/OpenSolutions World 2006</a></strong>,
1.475 deraadt 917: April 3 - 6, 2006, Boston, USA.<br>
918: Jason Dixon presented
1.738 tobias 919: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/live/12/events/12BOS06A/conference/tracksessions/Security/QMONYA04Q1DK">Secure Network Architectures with OpenBSD</a>,
1.475 deraadt 920: a talk on OpenBSD that outlines the various technologies that make
921: it a leader of secure networking platforms.
922: <br>
923: He spent time around the exposition BSD booth with giveaways
924: and early release OpenBSD 3.9 CDs.
925: <p>
926:
927: <li><strong><a name=cansecwest06></a>
928: <a href="http://www.cansecwest.com">Cansecwest/core06</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 929: April 3 - 7, 2006, Vancouver, Canada.<br>
1.475 deraadt 930: A rather interesting OpenBSD-related talk happened at this event, regarding
931: using SMI interrupts to break out of X into kernel mode.
932: <br>
933: Some OpenBSD developers attended. Some early OpenBSD 3.9 items went
934: on sale.
935: <p>
936:
1.469 tom 937: <li><strong><a name=ukuug2006></a>
938: <a href="http://www.ukuug.org/events/spring2006/">UKUUG Spring Conference 2006</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 939: Mar 22 - 23, 2006, Durham, United Kingdom.<br>
1.469 tom 940: Reyk Flöter gave a talk about the latest wireless support in
941: OpenBSD at the annual spring meeting of the
942: <a href="http://www.ukuug.org/">UK's Unix and Open Systems User Group</a>.
943: Peter N. M. Hansteen
944: gave a PF tutorial, Tom Cosgrove presented "Exploit
945: Mitigation Techniques" and Constantine Murenin gave a
946: presentation on "Hardware temperature monitoring device
947: drivers for OpenBSD".
948: These were all part of a new, well-attended, BSD stream at the event.
949: <p>
950:
1.459 henning 951: <li><strong><a name=Copenhagen2006></a>
952: <a href="http://www.linuxforum.dk/2006/en/">LinuxForum 2006</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 953: Mar 3 - 4, 2006, Copenhagen, Denmark.<br>
1.738 tobias 954: Wim gave Felix Kronlage's talk about OpenBSD Mobile Use (wifi, UMTS,
1.459 henning 955: GPRS, phones and the like) with some demo setups.
956: Henning Brauer gave a very well received talk about OpenBGPD,
957: <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/linuxforum2006/">slides</a> are available.
958: <p>
959:
1.457 wvdputte 960: <li><strong><a name=Brussels2006></a>
961: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/2006/">FOSDEM Brussels 2006</a></strong>,
962: Feb 25 - 26, 2006, Brussels, Belgium.<br>
1.738 tobias 963: An OpenBSD/OpenSSH booth was present, run by the usual gang of suspects:
1.458 xsa 964: Alexandre, Dimitar, Matthieu, Mbalmer, Nikolay, Otto, Reyk, Saad, Thierry, Uwe, Wim, and
1.457 wvdputte 965: Xsa. Reyk gave a talk about Wifi with OpenBSD and there was our traditional
1.738 tobias 966: BSD dinner. More details and
1.457 wvdputte 967: <a href="http://saad.docisland.org/pictures/fosdem2006/index.html">pictures</a>
1.458 xsa 968: on <a href="http://saad.docisland.org/blog/files/archive-12.html#unique-entry-id-40">Saad's blog</a>.
1.457 wvdputte 969: <p>
970:
971: <li><strong><a name=Vegas2006></a>
972: <a href="http://kd85.com/vegas2006.html">Merciful briefings 2006</a></strong>,
973: Feb 15, 2006, Las Vegas, USA - Feb 17, 2006, San Diego, USA - Feb 18, 2006, Phoenix, USA.<br>
974: While traveling the US, Wim met with a bunch of OpenBSD users in Las Vegas,
1.738 tobias 975: San Diego and Phoenix. With many thanks to the members of PhxBUG - Phoenix BSD
1.457 wvdputte 976: User Group, more specificly Darrin Chandler, for organising the little
977: details and Jacob for road trip directions.
978: <p>
1.455 grunk 979:
1.456 henning 980: <li><strong><a name=nanog36></a>
981: <a href="http://www.nanog.org/">NANOG 36</a></strong>,
982: Feb 12 - 15, 2006, Dallas, USA.<br>
983: Henning Brauer and Bernhard Kroenung of DE-CIX talked about OpenBGPD and
984: OpenBGPD at DE-CIX, <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/nanog36/">slides</a>
985: are available. Henning talked again at the tools BOF
986: (<a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/nanog36-bof/">slides</a>).
987: Both talks were very well received by the audience.
988: Kenjiro Cho was there too, talking about IPv6 issues.
989: <p>
990:
1.455 grunk 991: <li><strong><a name="Paris2006"></a>
1.734 tobias 992: <a href="http://www.solutionslinux.fr/fr/index.php">Solutions Linux
993: 2006</a></strong>,
1.455 grunk 994: Jan 31 - Feb 2, 2006, Paris, France.<br>
995: There was an OpenBSD booth run by Marc Espie, Miod Vallat, Saad Kadhi and
996: Wim with help from Guillaume Arcas and Christophe Plasschaert.
997: <p>
998: </ul>
999:
1.296 mcbride 1000: <h3>2005</h3>
1.240 espie 1001:
1002: <ul>
1.337 deraadt 1003:
1.445 martin 1004: <li><strong><a name=22c3></a>
1005: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/2005/">22C3 Chaos Communication Congress in
1006: Berlin</a></strong>,
1007: December 27 - 30, 2005, Berlin, Germany.<br>
1008: Many OpenBSD developers and users met for a Xmas break in a unique setting.
1009: <p>
1010:
1.585 aanriot 1011: <li><strong><a name=plug051216></a>
1.734 tobias 1012: <a href="http://www.plugfr.org/">Provence Linux User Group</a></strong>,
1.586 aanriot 1013: December 16, 2005, Marseille, France.<br>
1014: Alexandre Anriot spoke about OpenSSH during a meeting of the PLUG.
1.585 aanriot 1015: <p>
1016:
1.435 matthieu 1017: <li><strong><a name=eurobsdcon2005></a>
1018: <a href="http://2005.eurobsdcon.org/">EuroBSDCon 2005</a></strong>,
1019: Nov 25 - 27, 2005, Basel, Switzerland.<br>
1020: The 4th edition of the european conference for BSD systems has been a
1021: great success. More than 225 people from 27 countries attended the
1.438 deraadt 1022: event.
1.444 grunk 1023: The program included a
1024: <a href="http://www.eurobsdcon.org/tutorials-reyk.php">tutorial by Reyk about
1.437 niallo 1025: OpenBSD-based Wireless Networks</a> and the following talks
1026: <ul>
1.438 deraadt 1027: <li>Henning Brauer with Wilhelm Bühler "Signal Handlers"
1028: <li>Ryan McBride "Network Stack Randomness"
1.439 matthieu 1029: <li><a href="papers/eurobsd2005/herrb-hopf.pdf">Matthieu Herrb and Matthias Hopf "New Evolutions in the X Window System"</a>
1.440 claudio 1030: <li><a href="papers/eurobsd2005/claudio/">Claudio Jeker "The Design and Implementation of OpenOSPFD"</a>
1.439 matthieu 1031: <li><a href="papers/eurobsd2005/niallo-uwe/">Niall O'Higgins & Uwe Stuehler "Embedded OpenBSD"</a>
1.443 deraadt 1032: <li><a href="papers/eurobsd2005/tedu-rthreads.pdf">Ted Unangst "rthreads: A New Thread Implementation for OpenBSD"</a>
1.437 niallo 1033: </ul>
1.438 deraadt 1034: <p>
1.435 matthieu 1035: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
1036: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
1037: <p>
1038:
1.434 bernd 1039: <li><strong><a name=linuxworldexpogermany2005></a>
1040: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.de/">Linux World Expo Germany</a></strong>,
1041: Nov 15 - 17, 2005, Frankfurt, Germany.<br>
1042: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
1043: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a> and Bernd.
1044: <p>
1045:
1.441 niallo 1046: <li><strong><a name="pacsec05"></a>
1047: <a href="http://www.pacsec.jp/">PacSec/core 05 conference</a></strong>,
1048: Nov 15 - 16, 2005, Tokyo, Japan.<br>
1049: Sean Comeau presented a talk called
1050: <a href="http://www.openbsd-support.com/jp/en/htm/mgp/pacsec05/index.html">
1051: Open Source Secure Wireless Networks in a Windows World</a>
1052: <a href="http://www.pacsec.jp/core05/psj05-scomeau-en.pdf">[PDF]</a>.
1053: The solution he presents uses IPsec to protect traffic between the
1054: wireless clients and access points. Authentication is done using OpenSSH
1055: (authpf), a process made transparent and user-friendly by a few small
1056: scripts.
1057: <p>
1058:
1.424 mbalmer 1059: <li><strong><a name=opencon2005></a>
1060: <a href="http://www.opencon.org/">OpenCON 2005</a></strong>,
1061: Nov 4 - 6, 2005, San Servolo Island, Venice, Italy.<br>
1.427 deraadt 1062: The only unique conference entirely dedicated to OpenBSD, held in the totally
1063: crazy environment of San Servolo island: an old insane asylum turned into a
1064: university about 20 years ago, about 10 minutes boat ride from Venice.
1.429 deraadt 1065: In the days leading up to this, about 12 OpenBSD developers arrived early
1.427 deraadt 1066: for a Ports mini-hackathon. During the conference a few developers gave
1.433 deraadt 1067: talks, including
1068: <ul>
1069: <li><a href="papers/ven05-pvalchev">Peter Valchev "OpenBSD Hackathon report"</a>
1070: <li><a href="papers/ven05-espie">Marc Espie "OpenBSD ports and packages"</a>
1071: <li><a href="papers/ven05-henning">Henning Brauer "OpenBSD networking update"</a>
1072: <li><a href="papers/ven05-niallo-uwe/slides.pdf">Uwe Stuehler, Niall O'Higgins "Porting OpenBSD"</a>
1073: <li><a href="papers/ven05-deraadt">Theo de Raadt "Exploit Mitigation Techniques (updated to include random malloc and mmap)"</a>
1074: </ul>
1.424 mbalmer 1075: <p>
1076:
1077: <li><strong><a name=systems2005></a>
1.738 tobias 1078: <a href="http://www.systems.de/">Systems</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 1079: Oct 24 - 28, 2005, Munich, Germany.<br>
1.425 mbalmer 1080: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
1.424 mbalmer 1081: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
1082: <p>
1083:
1.418 djm 1084: <li><strong><a name=auug2005></a>
1085: <a href="http://www.auug.org.au/events/2005/auug2005/">AUUG 2005</a></strong>,
1086: October 16 - 21, 2005, Sydney, Australia.<br>
1.738 tobias 1087: Mark Uemura presented a tutorial on setting up CARP/PF, a demonstration of
1088: stateful failover with CARP and pfsync and a talk on wireless security in
1.418 djm 1089: a corporate environment using authpf and isakmpd. Peter Hansteen gave a
1090: <a href="http://www.bgnett.no/~peter/pf/">Firewalling with PF</a> tutorial.
1.420 deraadt 1091: Damien Miller presented on the approach to
1092: <a href="papers/auug2005-portability">secure software portability used
1093: by portable OpenSSH</a>, Reyk Flöter gave a talk on the current state of wireless
1.418 djm 1094: support in OpenBSD and David Purdue introduced OpenBSD's spamd tarpit.
1095: Most of the Australian OpenBSD developers and many users were present.
1096: <p>
1097:
1.415 aanriot 1098: <li><strong><a name=aldil2005></a>
1099: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/">Les Journées Du Logiciel Libre
1100: 2005</a></strong>,
1101: Oct 14 - 15, 2005, Lyon, France.<br>
1102: There was OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Alexandre Anriot with the
1103: help of Thierry Thomas.
1104: <p>
1105:
1.420 deraadt 1106: <li><strong><a name=cafeconf2005></a>
1107: <a href="http://www.cafeconf.org/">CaFeConf 2005,
1108: 4tas Jornadas Abiertas de GNU/Linux y Software Libre</a></strong>,
1.734 tobias 1109: Oct 13 - 15, 2005, Buenos Aires, Argentina.<br>
1.420 deraadt 1110: CaFeConf 2005 is the anual event of CaFeLUG - Free Software Users
1111: Group of Capital Federal, Argentina. This year the event featured
1112: 116 presentations consisting of talks, tutorials, and workshops. The
1113: event was also broadcasted on the Internet. Entrance was free, but
1114: registration was mandatory.<br>
1115: Fernando Gont gave a talk on
1.444 grunk 1116: <a href="http://www.cafeconf.org/modules/myconference/viewspeech.php?sid=147&cid=20">
1.420 deraadt 1117: ICMP attacks against TCP</a>,
1118: in which he gave an overview of the attacks, the possible
1119: counter-measures, and the politics of vulnerabilities, and a talk on
1.444 grunk 1120: <a href="http://www.cafeconf.org/modules/myconference/viewspeech.php?sid=173&cid=20">
1.420 deraadt 1121: Fixing the vulnerability of the Path-MTU Discovery mechanism</a>,
1122: in which explained how OpenBSD fixed the vulnerability of the PMTUD
1123: mechanism.
1124: <p>
1125:
1.414 bernd 1126: <li><strong><a name=linuxkongress2005></a>
1.738 tobias 1127: <a href="http://www.linux-kongress.org/">12th International Linux System
1.414 bernd 1128: Technology Conference</a></strong>,
1129: Oct 11 - 14, 2005, University of Hamburg, Germany.<br>
1130: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth.
1131: <p>
1132:
1133: <li><strong><a name=linuxworlduk2005></a>
1134: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.co.uk/">LinuxWorld Expo UK 2005</a></strong>,
1135: Oct 5 - 6, 2005, Olympia, London, UK.<br>
1136: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth.
1137: <p>
1138:
1.410 wvdputte 1139: <li><strong><a name=opensourcetag2005></a>
1.575 reyk 1140: <a href="http://www.opensourcetag.de/2005/">OpenSourceTag 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 1141: Sep 27, 2005, Hannover, Germany.<br>
1.444 grunk 1142: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth and Reyk gave a
1.575 reyk 1143: <a href="http://www.opensourcetag.de/2005/agenda/">talk</a> about IT security.
1.410 wvdputte 1144: <p>
1145:
1146: <li><strong><a name="gubuginstallfest2005"></a>
1.738 tobias 1147: <a href="http://gubug.org/meetings.php">Greater Utah BSD Group
1.410 wvdputte 1148: Installfest 2005</a></strong>,
1149: Sep 24, 2005, Sandy, UT, USA.<br/>
1.444 grunk 1150: <a href="http://www.gubug.org/">The Greater Utah BSD User Group</a> organised
1.410 wvdputte 1151: their first annual BSD Installfest, sponsored by Utah ISP ArosNet.
1152: There were handouts, CD-ROMs, technical presentations, and
1153: fun, plus a chance to get OpenBSD or a related open source BSD operating system
1154: installed on your computer.
1155: Admission was free (computers not included in cost of admission).
1.419 djm 1156: Featured speakers included Dan Langille, organizer of BSDCan.
1.410 wvdputte 1157: <p>
1158:
1.404 wvdputte 1159: <li><strong><a name="NYCBSDCon2005"></a>
1160: <a href="http://nycbsdcon.org/">New York City BSD Conference 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 1161: Sep 17, 2005, NYC, USA.<br>
1.404 wvdputte 1162: NYCBSDCon was a one day technical conference hosted by the New York
1163: City *BSD User Group and was held at Columbia University.
1.406 saad 1164: The all day conference included a variety of speakers representing the
1.404 wvdputte 1165: BSD projects and the open source community.<br>
1166: NYCBSDCon was organized by NYC*BUG, a technical user group that formed in
1167: December 2003. Besides their regular monthly meetings at the Soho Apple
1168: Store, NYC*BUG has done fundraising for the BSD projects and contributed a
1169: number of useful online applications such as BSDTracker and dmesgd.<br>
1170: Additional sponsors included USENIX, New York Internet and SRA America.
1171: <p>
1172:
1173: <li><strong><a name=opensaar2005></a>
1174: <a href="http://www.opensaar.de/">OpenSaar 2005</a></strong>,
1175: Sep 13 - 14, 2005, Saarbrücken, Germany.<br>
1.727 wvdputte 1176: An OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth was present.
1.404 wvdputte 1177: <p>
1178:
1.403 henning 1179: <li><strong><a name=decix160905></a> <a
1180: href="http://www.de-cix.org/">DE-CIX Technical Meeting</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 1181: Sep 16, 2005, Schloss Kransberg, near Usingen, Germany.<br>
1.403 henning 1182: Henning Brauer, Reyk Flöter and Maxim Salomon had been invited to the
1183: technical meeting of the Deutsche Commercial Internet Exchange (DE-CIX) again.
1184: Henning gave an update on OpenBGPD, Reyk talked about a route server project
1185: using OpenBGPD at DE-CIX, and Maxim explained why the CCC sponsors us doing so.
1186: There was a very positive discussion afterwards.
1187: <a href="http://unduli.bsws.de/papers/decix2005-2/">Slides</a> are available.
1188: <p>
1189:
1.388 tom 1190: <li><strong><a name="ukuug2005"></a>
1191: <a href="http://www.ukuug.org/events/linux2005/">UKUUG Linux Technical
1192: Conference 2005</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 1193: Aug 4 - 7, 2005, University of Wales, Swansea, UK.<br>
1.388 tom 1194: Tom Cosgrove gave Theo's presentation about Exploit Mitigation Techniques.
1195: <p>
1196:
1.385 mickey 1197: <li><strong><a name=wth2005></a>
1.390 deraadt 1198: <a href="http://www.whatthehack.org/">What the Hack 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 1199: Jul 28 - 31, 2005, Den Bosch, The Netherlands.<br>
1.385 mickey 1200: As every 4 years, Wim organized the
1201: <a href="http://eurobsd.org/2005-WhatTheHack/">BSD village</a> at this huge
1.389 tom 1202: open air event. There were some talks, Reyk spoke about
1203: <a href="http://program.whatthehack.org/event/6.en.html">WLAN in OpenBSD</a>,
1.385 mickey 1204: and an excellent
1205: <a href="ftp://ftp.nyc.openbsd.org/pub/news/wth-radio-humppa.mp3">Humppa show</a> (35MB MP3) was performed on the SubEther radio.
1206: If you want to see what happened previously, check
1207: <a href="http://eurobsd.org/hal2001/">http://eurobsd.org/hal2001/</a>
1208: and <a href="http://www.eurobsd.org/SummerCamp2003/">http://www.eurobsd.org/SummerCamp2003/</a>.
1209: <p>
1210:
1.382 pedro 1211: <li><strong><a name=coimbra2005></a>
1.474 pedro 1212: <a href="http://www.openbsd-pt.com/eventos/coimbra05/">Portuguese OpenBSD Usergroup Meeting</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 1213: Jul 23 - 24, 2005, Coimbra, Portugal.<br>
1.538 pedro 1214: 5th Meeting of the Portuguese OpenBSD Usergroup. Pedro Martelletto gave a talk.
1.382 pedro 1215: <p>
1216:
1.378 aanriot 1217: <li><strong><a name="lsm2005"></a>
1218: <a href="http://2005.rencontresmondiales.org/sections/index_html/switchLanguage/en">Libre Software Meeting 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 1219: Jul 5 - 9, 2005, Dijon, France.<br>
1.379 aanriot 1220: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Wim and the usual
1221: suspects, with the help of Serge Basterot. It was a nice place to meet
1222: some of our French, German and Swiss developers, including Marc Balmer,
1223: Alexandre Anriot, Matthieu Herrb and Reyk Floeter.
1.378 aanriot 1224: <p>
1225:
1.375 grunk 1226: <li><strong><a name=LinuxTag2005></a>
1227: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.org">LinuxTag 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 1228: Jun 22 - 25, 2005, Karlsruhe, Germany.<br>
1.738 tobias 1229: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth ran by Wim, Christian Weisgerber,
1.375 grunk 1230: Marc Balmer, Wilhelm Buehler, Robert Nagy, Bernd Ahlers and Phil Schulz.
1231: <p>
1232:
1.374 grunk 1233: <li><strong><a name="uofa-cc2005"></a>
1234: <a href="http://www.ualberta.ca/CC2005"> University of Alberta, Campus
1.410 wvdputte 1235: Computing 2005</a></strong>, Jun 21, 2005, Edmonton, Canada.<br>
1.374 grunk 1236: Ryan McBride spoke about OpenBSD's packet filter, PF, with CARP and
1237: failover examples. Local color and examples at the U of A shown by Bob
1238: Beck. Bob Beck spoke about PF and Spamd, as well as several other
1239: OpenBSD using and related talks at this event, which primarily focuses
1240: on activities centered at the University of Alberta.
1241: <p>
1242:
1.371 deraadt 1243: <li><strong><a name=uemera2005></a>
1244: <a href="http://www.tokyopc.net">Tokyo PC Users Group</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 1245: Jun 2, 2005, Tokyo Union Church in Omotesando, Tokyo, Japan.<br>
1.371 deraadt 1246: Mark T. Uemura spoke to Japan's largest English speaking
1247: personal computer club. The talk was entitled
1248: <a href="http://www.openbsd-support.com/jp/en/htm/mgp/index.shtml">
1249: "Open Source in a Windows World"</a>.
1250: He demonstrated how companies can easily
1251: integrate Open Source, with an emphasis on OpenBSD, into their IT
1252: infrastructure to enhance security, scalability and stability,
1253: significantly reduce IT expenditures, free up computing infrastructure
1254: and move away from commercial lock-in. This talk is based on changes
1255: implemented at PricewaterhouseCoopers in Japan.
1256: <p>
1257:
1.366 martin 1258: <li><strong><a name=LinuxwochenVienna2005></a>
1259: <a href="http://www.linuxwochen.at/">Linuxwochen Vienna 2005</a></strong>,
1260: May 24 - 27, 2005, Vienna, Austria.<br>
1261: The Linuxwochen 2005 tour stopped in the MuseumsQuartier, Vienna.
1262: Wim Vandeputte and Reinhard Sammer were running an OpenBSD booth selling
1263: CDs and shirts.
1264: <p>
1265:
1.365 mcbride 1266: <li><strong><a name=cuug2005></a>
1267: <a href="http://www.cuug.ab.ca/">Calgary Unix Users Group</a></strong>,
1268: May 24, 2005, Calgary, Canada.<br>
1269: Ryan McBride spoke about OpenBSD's packet filter, PF.
1270: A broad overview of PF's features were presented, with special attention
1271: paid to newer and more unique features and how these can be used together
1272: effectively for DoS mitigation, high availability, and load balancing.
1273: <br>
1274: Approximately 60 OpenBSD developers attended to heckle and participate
1275: in a free-for-all question period after the talk.
1276: <p>
1277:
1.362 reyk 1278: <li><strong><a name=bsdcan2005></a>
1279: <a href="http://www.bsdcan.org/2005/">BSDCan 2005</a></strong>,
1280: May 13 - 14, 2005, Ottawa, Canada.<br>
1281: A number of OpenBSD developers presented: Bob Beck on
1282: Spam Reduction with PF and Spamd, Henning Brauer on OpenBGPD,
1283: Ryan McBride on Network Stack Randomness and Reyk Flöter
1284: on WLAN in OpenBSD and the free ath(4) HAL. The
1285: <a href="papers/bsdcan05-spamd/">Spamd</a> and
1286: <a href="papers/bsdcan05-wlan/">WLAN</a> slides are available.
1287: Mathieu Sauve-Frankel has been there in attendance as well.
1288: <p>
1289:
1.358 mcbride 1290: <li><strong><a name=csw2005></a>
1291: <a href="http://www.cansecwest.com/">cansecwest/core05</a></strong>,
1.734 tobias 1292: May 4 - 6, 2005, Vancouver, Canada.<br>
1.358 mcbride 1293: Hiroaki Etoh spoke about propolice; Theo de Raadt and a number of other
1294: developers were there to sell CDs and make a nuisance of themselves.
1295: <p>
1296:
1.357 henning 1297: <li><strong><a name=ripe50></a>
1298: <a href="http://www.ripe.net/ripe/meetings/ripe-50/">RIPE 50</a></strong>,
1.734 tobias 1299: May 2 - 6, 2005, Stockholm, Sweden.<br>
1.357 henning 1300: RIPE NCC invited Henning to talk about OpenBGPD.
1301: There were over 350 attendees to the conference, and most of them attended
1302: henning's talk, which got very very positive feedback.
1303: <p>
1304:
1.384 tom 1305: <li><strong><a name=libreast2005></a>
1.356 espie 1306: <a href="http://idile.org/libreast/">Libr'east 2005</a></strong>,
1.734 tobias 1307: Apr 22 - 24, Marne La Vallée, near Paris, France.<br>
1.356 espie 1308: There was an OpenBSD booth (Wim + Miod + Marc)
1309: Marc Espie did talk about recent OpenBSD advances, and his ports and
1310: packages work in front of about 30 people.
1311: <p>
1312:
1.353 henning 1313: <li><strong><a name=decix150405></a> <a
1314: href="http://www.de-cix.org/">DE-CIX Technical Meeting</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 1315: Apr 15, 2005, near Usingen, Germany.<br>
1.353 henning 1316: Henning Brauer and Reyk Flöter had been invited to the technical
1317: meeting of the Deutsche Commercial Internet Exchange (DE-CIX). Henning
1318: presented his talk on OpenBGPD, about 60 people, mostly operators from
1319: the big ISPs peering at DECIX, were in attendance.
1.354 reyk 1320: Reyk, Maxim Salomon and Tim Kornau spoke on Wireless Network Security.
1.353 henning 1321: <p>
1322:
1.352 henning 1323: <li><strong><a name=nuug140405></a>
1324: <a href="http://www.nuug.no/aktiviteter/20050414-pf-brannmur/">Firewalling with PF at NUUG</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 1325: Apr 14, 2005, Oslo, Norway.<br>
1.352 henning 1326: Peter N. M. Hansteen gave a firewalling with PF talk - which hopefully
1327: gave you some ideas about how to control your network traffic the
1328: way you want - keeping some things outside your network, directing
1329: traffic to specified hosts or services, and of course, giving spammers
1330: a hard time. The talk was in Norwegian, with <a
1331: href="http://www.bgnett.no/~peter/pf/no/foils/">foils</a> and <a
1332: href="http://www.bgnett.no/~peter/pf/no/">manuscript</a> (English <a
1333: href="http://www.bgnett.no/~peter/pf/en/foils/">foils</a> and <a
1334: href="http://www.bgnett.no/~peter/pf/en/">manuscript</a> too)
1335: available if you couldn't make it there.
1336: <p>
1337:
1.589 aanriot 1338:
1339: <li><strong><a name=fhwedel130405></a>
1340: <a href="http://www.fh-wedel.de/">FH Wedel invited talk</a></strong>,
1341: Apr 13, 2005, 17:00, Hörsaal 5, FH Wedel, Hamburg, Germany.<br>
1342: Henning Brauer spoke on OpenBGPD. More than 40 people were in attendance.
1343: <p>
1344:
1.350 marius 1345: <li><strong><a name=usenix2005></a>
1346: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix05/">Usenix Annual
1.410 wvdputte 1347: Technical Conference</a></strong>, Apr 10-15, 2005, Anaheim,
1.350 marius 1348: California, USA.<br> Marius Eriksen gave the OpenBSD update at the BSD
1349: super BoF. The update was well received and people were quite
1350: sympathetic towards the ongoing efforts of the OpenBSD project to
1351: ensure the free redistribution rights for firmware. People were also
1352: excited about the new Open* tools (OpenBGPD, OpenNTPD, OpenCVS) and it
1.351 marius 1353: would not be surprising to see more of these imported into other BSDs.
1.350 marius 1354: <p>
1355:
1.585 aanriot 1356: <li><strong><a name=plug050408></a>
1.734 tobias 1357: <a href="http://www.plugfr.org/">Provence Linux User Group</a></strong>,
1.586 aanriot 1358: April 8, 2005, Marseille, France.<br>
1.585 aanriot 1359: Alexandre Anriot spoke about OpenBSD and some associated projects
1.586 aanriot 1360: (OpenBGPD etc.) during a meeting of the PLUG.
1.585 aanriot 1361: The <a href="papers/plug080405">slides</a> (in French) are available.
1.344 martin 1362: <p>
1363:
1.337 deraadt 1364: <li><strong><a name=bcs2005></a>
1365: <a href="http://www.bellua.com/bcs2005/asia05.index.html">Bellua Cyber Security Asia 2005</a></strong>,
1.734 tobias 1366: Mar 21 - 24, 2005, Jakarta, Indonesia.<br>
1.337 deraadt 1367: Ryan McBride presented an overview of PF which
1368: discussed how its advanced features work together in some important
1.338 deraadt 1369: applications and compared PF with the other major commercial and open
1.337 deraadt 1370: source firewalls.
1371: <p>
1372:
1.317 henning 1373: <li><strong><a name=nui_maynooth2005></a>
1374: <a href="http://www.minds.nuim.ie/events">NUI Maynooth lectures</a></strong>,
1375: Mar 4, 2005, Department of Computer Science, NUI Maynooth, Dublin, Ireland.<br>
1.318 henning 1376: Ryan McBride presented talks about PF and about
1.326 mcbride 1377: <a href="papers/dublin05-nr">randomization in the OpenBSD network layer.</a><br>
1.318 henning 1378: Theo and Henning were in attendance because someone had to heckle.
1.317 henning 1379: <p>
1380:
1.312 deraadt 1381: <li><strong><a name=trinity2005></a>
1382: <a href="http://www.netsoc.tcd.ie/events/0405/openbsd.php">Trinity lecture</a></strong>,
1383: Mar 3, 2005, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.<br>
1.320 deraadt 1384: Theo de Raadt presented his talk about
1385: <a href="papers/auug04">Exploit Mitigation Techniques</a>.
1.312 deraadt 1386: <p>
1387:
1.319 saad 1388: <li><strong><a name=ShefLUG2005></a>
1389: <a href="http://www.sheflug.co.uk/seminar/tiki-index.php?page=Sheffield%20Open%20Source%20Seminar">ShefLUG2005</a></strong>,
1390: Mar 2, 2005, Sheffield, UK.<br>
1391: Jacek Artymiak gave a talk about installing OpenBSD on Soekris hardware.
1392: <p>
1393:
1.310 mickey 1394: <li><strong><a name=NYCBUG2005-03></a>
1.375 grunk 1395: <a href="http://nycbug.org/index.php?NAV=Home&SUBM=83">NYCBUG Monthly meeting</a></strong>,
1.310 mickey 1396: Mar 2, 2005, NYC, USA.<br>
1.322 deraadt 1397: Mickey gave a talk
1.325 mickey 1398: (<a href="papers/nyc2005">slides</a> and
1.564 jason 1399: <a href="http://www.fetissov.org/public/nycbug/nycbug-03-02-05.mp3">10.5MB audio</a>)
1.321 mickey 1400: about <a href="hppa.html">porting OpenBSD</a>
1.313 martin 1401: to the <a href="http://www.openpa.net">HP PA-RISC</a> platform.
1.310 mickey 1402: <p>
1.312 deraadt 1403:
1.308 deraadt 1404: <li><strong><a name=Netsoc2005></a>
1405: <a href="http://netsoc.ucd.ie/events/openbsd/">Netsoc lectures</a></strong>,
1406: Mar 2, 2005, UCD, Dublin, Ireland.<br>
1407: Theo de Raadt, Henning Brauer, and Ryan McBride gave a series of
1.320 deraadt 1408: talks. Topics included
1409: <a href="papers/auug04">exploit mitigation techniques</a>,
1.326 mcbride 1410: <a href="papers/dublin05-nr">introducing network randomness to increase security</a>,
1411: OpenBGPD, and pf.
1412: Almost 200 people came to this event.
1.308 deraadt 1413: <p>
1414:
1.304 saad 1415: <li><strong><a name=Brussels2005></a>
1416: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/2005/">FOSDEM Brussels 2005</a></strong>,
1417: Feb 26 - 27, 2005, Brussels, Belgium.<br>
1418: An OpenBSD/OpenSSH booth was present, ran by the usual gang of suspects.
1419: Support for <a href="mailto:wim@kd85.com">Wim Vandeputte</a> this time were
1.307 otto 1420: (among many others), Saad Kadhi, Henning Brauer, Thierry Deval, Otto Moerbeek,
1.304 saad 1421: Xavier Santolaria, Martin Reindl, Reyk Flöter, Hans-Jörg
1.360 db 1422: Höxer, Nikolay Sturm, Marc Balmer, Claudio Jeker, Joris Vink,
1423: Olivier Cherrier, David Berghoff,
1.316 mbalmer 1424: Alexander von Gernler, Uwe Stuehler, and Felix Kronlage from OpenDarwin.<br>
1.304 saad 1425: There was a separate OpenBSD track, featuring Henning Brauer (about
1426: signal handlers and OpenNTPD), Reyk Flöter (about wireless cards in
1427: OpenBSD), and the author of the OpenBSD PF book, Jacek Artymiak (about
1.375 grunk 1428: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pf">pf(4)</a>, of course).<br>
1.304 saad 1429: At the conference's Free Software Foundation Event, Theo de Raadt was
1430: awarded the Free Software Award 2004 for his efforts to make Firmware for
1431: wireless hardware and other devices freely available.
1432: <p>
1.301 saad 1433: <li><strong><a name=UKUUG05></a>
1434: <a href="http://www.ukuug.org/events/winter2005/">UKUUG LISA/Winter Conference</a></strong>,
1435: Feb 24 - 25, 2005, Birmingham, UK.<br>
1436: Henning Brauer spoke on OpenBGPD, OpenNTPD and Signal Handlers.
1437: <p>
1438: <li><strong><a name=FFG2005></a>
1439: <a href="http://www.guug.de/veranstaltungen/ffg2005/">GUUG FFG 2005</a></strong>,
1440: Feb 22 - 25, 2005, Munich, Germany.<br>
1441: Reyk Flöter talked about the latest wireless support in
1442: OpenBSD at the annual spring meeting of the <a href="http://www.guug.de/">German Unix User Group</a>.
1443: <p>
1.293 saad 1444: <li><strong><a name=Paris2005></a>
1445: <a href="http://www.solutionslinux.fr/fr/index.php">Solutions Linux 2005</a></strong>,
1446: Feb 1 - 3, 2005, Paris, France.<br>
1447: An OpenBSD booth as well as an OpenSSH booth were present. These booths
1448: were run by Marc Espie, Miod Vallat, Saad Kadhi and Wim with help from
1449: Guillaume Arcas and Christophe Plasschaert, two members of the OpenBSD
1.294 saad 1450: french translation team.<br>
1451: Marc Espie and Saad Kadhi gave a talk about the OpenBSD project with a
1452: special focus on the ports collection and Packet Filter. The <a
1453: href="papers/sl2005/index.html">slides</a> (in French) are
1454: available.<br>
1455: During the event, several demonstrations of <a
1.293 saad 1456: href="http://soekris.kd85.com/">Soekris</a> machines running OpenBSD
1457: were given by Saad Kadhi and Wim.
1458: <p>
1.296 mcbride 1459: </ul>
1.293 saad 1460:
1.296 mcbride 1461: <h3>2004</h3>
1462:
1463: <ul>
1.287 henning 1464: <li><strong><a name=21C3></a>
1465: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/2004/">21C3 - Chaos Communication Congress</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 1466: Dec 27 - 29, 2004, Berlin, Germany.<br>
1.287 henning 1467: "The Usual Suspects" were there and ran the BSD corner, including
1468: <a href="mailto:wim@kd85.com">Wim</a>,
1469: Henning Brauer, Marc Balmer, Martin Reindl, Moritz Jodeit, Felix Kronlage,
1.315 nick 1470: Uwe Stuehler, Konrad Foerstner, Bernd Ahlers, and Alexander von Gernler.<br>
1.287 henning 1471: Henning gave a talk about OpenBGPD and OpenNTPD
1472: (<a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/21c3/">slides</a>).<br>
1473: The WiFi backbone ran on OpenBSD powered
1474: <a href="http://soekris.kd85.com">Soekris</a> machines as access points,
1475: work done by Reyk Flöter, Tim Kornau and others.
1476: This installation was a very successful test of the new
1.290 henning 1477: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ath">ath(4)</a>
1.287 henning 1478: driver.
1479: <p>
1.248 deraadt 1480:
1.286 kevlo 1481: <li><strong><a name=icos2004></a>
1.417 kevlo 1482: <a href="http://2004.icos.org.tw/">ICOS 2004</a></strong>,
1.286 kevlo 1483: Dec 18 - 19, 2004, Taipei, Taiwan.<br>
1484: Kevin Lo gave a presentation.
1485: <p>
1486:
1.285 deraadt 1487: <li><strong><a name=syscan2004></a>
1488: <a href="http://www.syscan.org/">SyScAN 2004</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 1489: Dec 16 - 17, 2004, Singapore, Singapore.<br>
1.285 deraadt 1490: Theo de Raadt presented his talk about
1491: <a href="papers/auug04">Exploit Mitigation Techniques</a>.
1492: <p>
1493:
1.283 saad 1494: <li><strong><a name=sur200412></a>
1495: <a href="http://www.ossir.org/sur/calendrier/index.shtml">SUR Group Meeting, December 2004</a></strong>,
1496: Dec 14, 2004, Paris, France.<br>
1497: Saad Kadhi gave a talk about OpenBSD and security during the monthly
1498: meeting of the
1499: <a href="http://www.ossir.org/sur/index.shtml">SUR</a> Group (Sécurité
1500: Unix et Réseaux), a french user group focusing on security and Unix. The
1.284 xsa 1501: <a href="papers/surgroup200412/index.html">slides</a> (in French) are available.
1.283 saad 1502: <p>
1503:
1.282 henning 1504: <li><strong><a name=opencon2004></a>
1505: <a href="http://www.opencon.org/">OpenCon 2004</a></strong>,
1506: Dec 10 - 12, 2004, Venice, Italy.<br>
1507: OpenBSD meeting in Northern Italy. Henning gave 3 talks in
1508: two days, on bgpd
1509: (<a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/opencon04/bgpd/">slides</a>),
1510: ntpd
1511: (<a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/opencon04/ntpd/">slides</a>)
1512: and signal handlers
1513: (<a href="papers/opencon04/">slides</a>).
1514: Wim ran a booth, and Marc Balmer was there as well.
1515: <p>
1516:
1.275 deraadt 1517: <li><strong><a name=UofA></a>
1518: <a href="http://www.ualberta.ca/">U of A Seminar</a></strong>,
1519: Nov 17 - 18, 2004, Edmonton Alberta.<br>
1520: Theo de Raadt presented a talk at an open seminar at the
1521: <a href="http://www.ualberta.ca/">University of Alberta</a>, in
1522: Room B-02 of the
1523: <a href="http://www.campusmap.ualberta.ca/map_bldg.cfm?bldg_id=42">
1524: Computing Sciences Center</a>.
1525: Talk went from 2 PM to nearly 5PM with more than 100 people attending
1526: from the University and industry, followed by beer nearby.
1527: The talk was also given the following day at the
1528: <a href="http://www.cips.ca/">CIPS Security SIG</a> luncheon.
1529: <p>
1530:
1.271 henning 1531: <li><strong><a name=EuroBSDCon2004></a>
1532: <a href="http://2004.eurobsdcon.org/">EuroBSD Con</a></strong>,
1533: Oct 29 - 31, 2004, Karlsruhe, Germany.<br>
1.272 henning 1534: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
1535: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
1.271 henning 1536: Henning gave a talk
1.375 grunk 1537: about <a href="http://2004.eurobsdcon.org/talks.html?&tx_ptspeechupload_pi1[showUid]=44&cHash=ec015b0552">bgpd</a>,
1.272 henning 1538: <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/euroBSDCon2004/">slides</a> are available.
1.271 henning 1539: <p>
1540:
1541: <li><strong><a name=LinuxWorldExpoGermany2004></a>
1542: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.de/">Linux World Expo</a></strong>,
1543: Oct 26 - 28, 2004, Frankfurt, Germany.<br>
1.272 henning 1544: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
1545: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
1.271 henning 1546: <p>
1547:
1.276 deraadt 1548: <li><strong><a name=cuug2004></a>
1.270 deraadt 1549: <a href="http://www.cuug.ab.ca/">Calgary Unix Users's Group</a></strong>,
1550: Oct 26, 2004, Calgary, Canada.<br>
1551: Theo presented the talk that he has recently given in Australia and
1552: Malaysia to the "Home Crowd".
1553: <p>
1554:
1555: <li><strong><a name=aldil2004></a>
1.269 krw 1556: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/">Les Journées Du Logiciel Libre 2004</a></strong>,
1557: Oct 22 - 23, 2004, Lyon, France.<br>
1.381 aanriot 1558: There was OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Miod Vallat with the help of
1.415 aanriot 1559: Alexandre Anriot and Thierry Thomas.
1.269 krw 1560: <p>
1561:
1562: <li><strong><a name=systems2004></a>
1.738 tobias 1563: <a href="http://www.systems.de/">Systems</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 1564: Oct 18 - 22, 2004, Munich, Germany.<br>
1.269 krw 1565: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
1566: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
1567: <p>
1568:
1.268 krw 1569: <li><strong><a name=linuxexpo2004oct></a>
1.738 tobias 1570: <a href="http://www.linuxexpo.org.uk/">Linux Expo</a></strong>,
1.268 krw 1571: Oct 6 - 7, 2004, London, UK.<br>
1572: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
1573: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
1574: <p>
1575:
1.375 grunk 1576: <li><strong><a name=hitb2004></a>
1.268 krw 1577: <a href="http://conference.hackinthebox.org">Hack in the Box Security Conference 2004</a></strong>,
1578: Oct 4 - 7, 2004, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.<br>
1579: Theo de Raadt presented an updated version of his
1580: "Exploit Mitigation Techniques" talk.
1581: <p>
1582:
1583: <li><strong><a name=SANE2004></a>
1584: <a href="http://www.nluug.nl/events/sane2004/bazaar.html">SANE 2004</a></strong>
1.410 wvdputte 1585: , Sep 29, 2004, Amsterdam, Netherlands.<br>
1.268 krw 1586: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
1587: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
1588: <p>
1589:
1.265 wvdputte 1590: <li><strong><a name=LinuxKongress2004></a>
1591: <a href="http://www.linux-kongress.org/2004">Linux Kongress 2004</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 1592: Sep 7 - 10, 2004, Erlangen, Germany.<br>
1.265 wvdputte 1593: From their website: "Linux-Kongress is still the premier event for European
1594: developers and one of the most important in the world. Each year hundreds of
1595: hard core Linux enthusiasts from all over the world gather for this important
1596: event."
1597: <br>
1598: Although this was a Linux developers' conference, we were able to
1599: install a regular OpenBSD booth there, as known from other events.
1600: It was run by <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim Vandeputte</a>,
1601: <a href="mailto:grunk@pestilenz.org">Alexander von Gernler</a> and other
1602: geeks from the Erlangen-Nuremberg area.
1603: <br>
1604: There also was a BSD dinner at Friday evening.
1605: <p>
1606:
1.262 henning 1607: <li><strong><a name=Sucon2004></a>
1608: <a href="http://www.suug.ch/sucon/04/">SUCON 2004</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 1609: Sep 2 - 4, 2004, Zurich, Switzerland.<br>
1.262 henning 1610: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth. Very nice conference.
1611: Henning's slides from his talks about
1612: <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/sucon04/bgpd">bgpd</a> and
1613: <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/sucon04/ntpd">ntpd</a>
1614: are available.
1615: <p>
1616:
1.261 deraadt 1617: <li><strong><a name=auug2004></a>
1.738 tobias 1618: <a href="http://www.auug.org.au/events/2004/auug2004/">AUUG 2004</a></strong>,
1.261 deraadt 1619: Aug 29 - Sep 3, 2004, Melbourne, Australia.<br>
1620: Theo de Raadt presented a half-day tutorial on privilege seperation and a
1621: newly extended version of the
1622: <a href="papers/auug04">Exploit Mitigation Techniques</a> talk.<br>
1623: For more information, see this
1624: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;517187222;fp;16;fpid;0">
1625: ComputerWorld article</a>.
1626: <p>
1627:
1628:
1.680 aanriot 1629: <li><strong><a name=lsm2004></a>
1.257 saad 1630: <a href="http://lsm.abul.org">Libre Software Meeting</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 1631: Jul 6 - 10, 2004, Bordeaux, France.<br>
1.257 saad 1632: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
1633: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim Vandeputte</a>.
1634: <p>
1635:
1636: <li><strong><a name=LinuxTag2004></a>
1.738 tobias 1637: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.org">LinuxTag 2004</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 1638: Jun 23 - 26, 2004, Karlsruhe, Germany.<br>
1.257 saad 1639: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
1640: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim Vandeputte</a>.
1641: <p>
1642:
1.254 xsa 1643: <li><strong><a name=LinuxwochenVienna2004></a>
1.255 xsa 1644: <a href="http://www.linuxwochen.at/">Linuxwochen Vienna 2004</a></strong>,
1.254 xsa 1645: May 26 - 29, 2004, Vienna, Austria.<br>
1646: The Linuxwochen 2004 tour stopped in the MuseumsQuartier, Vienna.
1647: Wim Vandeputte and Reinhard Sammer ran the OpenBSD booth. Michael Bauer
1648: and Teemu Schaabl from the <a href="http://www.cngw.org/">CNGW</a> gave
1649: a basic talk about pf.
1650: <p>
1651:
1.248 deraadt 1652: <li><strong><a name=BSDCan2004></a>
1.303 mcbride 1653: <a href="http://www.bsdcan.org/2004/">BSDCan 2004</a></strong>,
1.248 deraadt 1654: May 13 - 16, 2004, Ottawa, Canada.<br>
1655: BSDCan was held at the University of Ottawa. Ryan McBride gave a talk
1.302 mcbride 1656: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/papers/bsdcan04-pf/index.html">about newer features in pf</a>,
1657: focusing on the redundancy provided by CARP and pfsync.
1658: Theo de Raadt presented a revised version of his talk on
1.248 deraadt 1659: <a href="papers/bsdcan04">Exploit Mitigation Techniques</a>.
1660: <p>
1661:
1.247 canacar 1662: <li><strong><a name="LOSFAnkara2004"></a>
1663: <a href="http://senlik.linux.org.tr">3rd Linux and Open Source Festival</a></strong>,
1664: May 13 - 16, 2004, Ankara, Turkey.<br>
1665: Can E. Acar and Berk D. Demir talked about the OpenBSD Project. The
1666: philosophy, project goals, system features and recent proactive
1667: security features were introduced. CARP, patents, recent Apache &
1668: XFree86 licensing issues and effects of NDAs in open source
1669: projects were discussed.<br>
1670: You can view the
1.720 canacar 1671: <a href="http://purl.org/net/bddemir/talk/2004/LOYS-OpenBSD-cea-bdd.pdf">
1.247 canacar 1672: slides in PDF format</a> the
1.720 canacar 1673: <a href="http://purl.org/net/bddemir/talk/2004/LOYS-OpenBSD-cea-bdd.tex">
1.247 canacar 1674: LaTeX source</a> is also available (they are
1675: <a href="http://www.eee.metu.edu.tr/~canacar/slides/">mirrored</a>, as well).
1676: <p>
1677:
1.242 henning 1678: <li><strong><a name=Brussels2004></a>
1679: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/">FOSDEM Brussels 2004</a></strong>,
1680: Feb 21 - 22, 2004, Brussels, Belgium.<br>
1.243 henning 1681: An OpenBSD/OpenSSH booth was present, run by Wim Vandeputte.
1682: Several developers (including Henning Brauer, Xavier Santolaria, Thierry Deval,
1683: Philipp Bühler, Otto Moerbeek and Saad Kadhi) showed up.
1684: Wim and Alexander von Gernler gave "lightning talks" about Soekris
1685: and systrace
1.263 saad 1686: (<a href="http://pestilenz.org/~grunk/vortraege/2004/FOSDEM/systrace.pdf">slides</a>), respectively.
1.243 henning 1687: Henning got a slot in the main track to talk about the new bgpd
1688: (<a href="http://www.2suck.net/papers/fosdem2004/">slides</a>).
1689: On Saturday evening, the traditional OpenBSD dinner took place.
1.242 henning 1690: <p>
1691:
1.240 espie 1692: <li><strong><a name=Paris2004></a>
1693: <a href="http://www.linuxsolutions.fr/">Linux Expo Paris 2004</a></strong>,
1694: Feb 3 - 5, 2004, Paris, France.<br>
1695: An OpenBSD booth as well as an OpenSSH booth were present, thanks to
1696: <a href="mailto:saad@docisland.org">Saad Kadhi</a> and
1697: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
1698: <p>
1699:
1700: <li><strong><a name="LWE04"></a>
1701: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/linuxworldny/V40/index.cvn">LinuxWorld
1702: Conference and Expo</a></strong>, Jan 20 - 23, 2004, New York, NY, USA.<br>
1.738 tobias 1703: <a href="mailto:wes@openlysecure.org">Wes Sonnenreich</a> and others
1704: have established a BSD user group in NYC and held a BSD BoF at the
1705: Jacob Javits Center on January 22nd at 5:45pm, Room 1E15.
1.240 espie 1706: <p>
1707: </ul>
1708:
1.188 henning 1709: <h3>2003</h3>
1.236 jose 1710:
1711: <ul>
1.232 jose 1712: <li><strong><a name=20c3></a>
1713: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/2003/">20th Chaos Communication Congress 2003</a></strong>,
1714: Dec 27 - 29, 2003, Berlin, Germany.<br>
1715: OpenBSD was represented by a booth, ran by
1716: <a href= "mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>, and supported by Henning and
1.236 jose 1717: Alexander von Gernler. Alexander also gave a
1.260 saad 1718: <a href="http://pestilenz.org/~grunk/vortraege/2003/20C3/openbsd.pdf">talk</a>
1.232 jose 1719: introducing the project and the OS (in German).
1.236 jose 1720: <p>
1.232 jose 1721:
1.228 jose 1722: <li><strong><a name=brazil2003></a>
1.236 jose 1723: <a href="http://bsdcon.myfreebsd.com.br">1st BSDCon Brazil</a></strong>,
1.734 tobias 1724: Dec 6 - 7, 2003, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.<br>
1.228 jose 1725: This was the first BSDCon Brazil, and of course OpenBSD was present.
1.236 jose 1726: Douglas Santos spoke on advocacy and about some of the technical aspects
1727: of OpenBSD. Eduardo A. Alvarenga gave a presentation about firewalling
1.228 jose 1728: with OpenBSD PF.
1729: <p>
1730:
1731: <li><strong><a name=ankara03></a>
1.720 canacar 1732: <a href="http://seminer.linux.org.tr">Turkish Linux Users Association</a></strong>,
1.228 jose 1733: Dec 4, 2003, Ankara, Turkey.<br>
1.720 canacar 1734: Can E. Acar and Berk D. Demir gave a mammoth 4 hour presentation on OpenBSD.
1.228 jose 1735: The first part was a broad introduction to the OpenBSD philosophy, the
1.236 jose 1736: project goals, and system features. After a break, in the second part they
1737: talked about the exploit mitigation techniques employed in OpenBSD. This
1738: part was aimed at techies and is almost a complete Turkish translation of
1739: the talk Theo recently gave in Japan. You can view the
1.720 canacar 1740: <a href="http://purl.org/net/bddemir/talk/2003/LS-OpenBSD-cea-bdd.pdf">
1.236 jose 1741: slides in PDF format </a>
1742: (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 1743: <p>
1744:
1.227 jose 1745: <li><strong><a name=Luxembourg2003></a>
1746: <a href="http://www.linuxday.lu/">Linuxday Luxembourg 2003</a></strong>,
1747: Nov 6 - 8, 2003, Luxembourg, Luxembourg.<br>
1748: Booths were present, organized by <a href= "mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
1749: <p>
1750:
1751: <li><strong><a name=Pacsec2003></a>
1752: <a href="http://pacsec.jp/">Pacsec 2003</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 1753: Nov 6 - 7, 2003, Tokyo, Japan.<br>
1.236 jose 1754: Three OpenBSD developers presented on various topics. Theo de Raadt
1.227 jose 1755: gave a presentation on Exploit Mitigation Techniques
1.236 jose 1756: <a href="papers/pacsec03/e/index.html">(English)</a>
1757: <a href="papers/pacsec03/j/index.html">(Japanese)</a>, Jun-ichiro
1.227 jose 1758: itojun Hagino presented material covering
1.236 jose 1759: <a href="http://www.itojun.org/paper/itojun-200311-pacsec-jp/">
1.241 david 1760: IPv6 security considerations</a>, and Jose Nazario discussed advances
1.227 jose 1761: in Internet worm defenses.
1762: <p>
1763:
1.224 miod 1764: <li><strong><a name=Lyon2003></a>
1765: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/agenda/journees/2003/">Les V<sup>èmes</sup> Journées du Libre 2003</a></strong>,
1766: Oct 31 - Nov 1, 2003, Lyon, France.<br>
1767: Miod Vallat gave a talk about the recent security efforts deployed in OpenBSD,
1768: as well as generic security concepts (slides, in bad French, are available in
1769: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/agenda/journees/2003/vallat/miod.mgp">mgp
1770: format</a>). As usual, Wim ran an OpenBSD booth featuring the new 3.4 release,
1771: as well as <a href="http://soekris.kd85.com">Soekris</a> hardware running
1772: OpenBSD.
1773: <p>
1774:
1775: <li><strong><a name=Saarbrucken2003></a>
1776: <a href="http://www.linux-kongress.org/2003/index.html">Linux Kongress Saarbrücken 2003</a></strong>,
1777: Oct 14 - 16, 2003, Saarbrücken, Germany.<br>
1778: An OpenBSD booth was present, starring Wim again.
1779: <p>
1780:
1781: <li><strong><a name=London2003></a>
1782: <a href="http://www.linuxexpo.org.uk/">Linux Expo London 2003</a></strong>,
1783: Oct 8 - 9, 2003, London, UK.<br>
1784: An OpenBSD booth was present, starring Wim as usual.
1785: <p>
1786:
1.219 jose 1787: <li><strong><a name=bsdcon2003></a>
1788: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/bsdcon03/">BSDCon '03</a></strong>,
1789: Sep 8 - 12, 2003, San Mateo, California.<br>
1.236 jose 1790: OpenBSD was represented in the BSD Status Report, and David Rosenthal
1.219 jose 1791: gave a talk on an OpenBSD based security appliance.
1792: <p>
1793:
1.218 jose 1794: <li><strong><a name=sucon2003></a>
1795: <a href="http://www.sucon.ch/">SUCON '03</a></strong>,
1.734 tobias 1796: Sep 5, 2003, Zurich, Switzerland.<br>
1.236 jose 1797: Daniel Hartmeier talked about PF, and <a
1.218 jose 1798: href="http://open.bsdcow.net/events/sucon2003/">pictures are available</a>.
1799: <p>
1800:
1.214 henning 1801: <li><strong><a name=camp2003></a>
1802: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/camp/">Chaos Communication Camp 2003</a></strong>,
1.733 tobias 1803: Aug 7 - 10, 2003, in <a href="http://www.paulshof.de/body-mehr.html">a field</a> near Berlin, Germany.<br>
1.214 henning 1804: There was a huge OpenBSD village. Several OpenBSD developers have been there.
1805: <p>
1806:
1.213 jose 1807: <li><strong><a name=sec2003></a>
1808: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/sec03/">Usenix Security</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1809: Aug 4 - 8, 2003, Washington, DC, USA.<br>
1.236 jose 1810: Niels Provos presented two papers on security advances originally
1.213 jose 1811: developed for OpenBSD, including the OpenSSH privsep feature and systrace.
1812: Several OpenBSD developers were there.
1813: <p>
1814:
1.211 jose 1815: <li><strong><a name=linuxtag2003></a>
1816: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.org/2003/en/index.html">LinuxTag 2003</a></strong>,
1.733 tobias 1817: Jul 10 - 13, 2003, Karlsruhe Convention Center, Germany.<br>
1.211 jose 1818: Both OpenBSD and OpenSSH had booths in the main exhibit.
1819: <p>
1820:
1821: <li><strong><a name=lsm2003></a>
1822: <a href="http://libresoftwaremeeting.org/">Libre Software Meeting 2003</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 1823: Jul 9 - 12, 2003, Metz, France.<br>
1.212 matthieu 1824: Matthieu Herrb gave <a href="papers/xf86-sec.pdf">a talk about XFree86 security</a>. There was
1.211 jose 1825: also an OpenBSD booth with developers.
1826: <p>
1827:
1.209 wvdputte 1828: <li><strong><a name=lud2003></a>
1.733 tobias 1829: <a href="http://www.linuxuserexpo.com/">Linux User & Developer Expo 2003</a></strong>,
1830: Jun 24 - 26, 2003, at the NEC in Birmingham, UK.<br>
1.209 wvdputte 1831: There was an OpenBSD booth with developers.
1832: <p>
1.195 deraadt 1833:
1.202 jason 1834: <li><strong><a name=usenix2003></a>
1.236 jose 1835: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix03/">Usenix Annual Technical
1.216 jose 1836: Conference</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 1837: Jun 9 - 14, 2003, San Antonio, Texas, USA.<br>
1.202 jason 1838: A few OpenBSD developers were there and one paper was presented:
1839: <ul>
1.216 jose 1840: <li>The Design of the OpenBSD Cryptographic Framework<br>
1.202 jason 1841: <a href="events.html#usenix2003">Usenix 2003</a>, by
1.236 jose 1842: Angelos D. Keromytis,
1843: Jason L. Wright, and
1.205 deraadt 1844: Theo de Raadt.<br>
1.202 jason 1845: <a href="papers/ocf.pdf">paper</a>.
1846: </ul>
1847: <p>
1848:
1.216 jose 1849: <li><strong>
1850: <a href="http://www.webb.it/">Webbit 2003</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 1851: May 9 - 11, 2003, Padova, Italy.<br>
1.203 jason 1852: Giacomo Cariello and Wim Vandeputte attended, and several OpenBSD
1.741 saad 1853: <a href="http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20030503101052">related talks</a> were given.
1.203 jason 1854: <p>
1855:
1.216 jose 1856: <li><strong>
1857: <a href="http://cansecwest.com/">CanSecWest 03</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 1858: Apr 9 - 11, 2003, Vancouver, Canada.<br>
1.195 deraadt 1859: Theo spoke about killing buffer overflows using ProPolice and the new W^X technology,
1.196 matthieu 1860: available as a <a href="papers/csw03.mgp">magicpoint file</a>.
1.195 deraadt 1861: <p>
1862:
1.216 jose 1863: <li><strong>
1864: <a href="http://www.cebit.de/">CeBIT 2003</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 1865: Mar 14, 2003, Hannover, Germany.<br>
1.236 jose 1866: 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 1867: gave a talk on OpenBSD and OpenSSH. <a href="papers/cebit2003.tgz">slides</a> are available.
1.194 henning 1868: <p>
1869:
1.216 jose 1870: <li><strong>
1871: <a href="http://www.linuxforum.dk/2003/english/">LinuxForum 2003</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 1872: Mar 1, 2003, Copenhagen, Denmark.<br>
1.236 jose 1873: Daniel spoke about PF (slides in <a href="papers/linuxforum2k3.tar.gz">mgp</a>,
1874: <a href="http://www.benzedrine.cx/linuxforum/">HTML</a>).
1.191 dhartmei 1875: It was a small but cozy conference, jointly held by Danish Linux and BSD
1876: user groups.
1877: <p>
1878:
1.236 jose 1879: <li><strong>
1880: <a href="http://www.cuug.ab.ca">CUUG - The Calgary Unix Users
1.216 jose 1881: Group</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 1882: Feb 25, 2003, 18:00 MST, Calgary, Canada.<br>
1.190 miod 1883: OpenBSD lead developer Theo de Raadt spoke about some of the recent
1884: changes in OpenBSD that are leading the way to the complete elimination of
1885: "buffer overflow" security risks and attacks.
1886: <p>
1887:
1.216 jose 1888: <li><strong>
1889: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/">FOSDEM 2003</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 1890: Feb 8 - 9, 2003, Brussels, Belgium.<br>
1.236 jose 1891: Henning and Philipp gave a talk on -current PF developments
1.196 matthieu 1892: (<a href="papers/fosdem2k3-pf.mgp">slides</a>)
1.187 henning 1893: and on Saturday evening, there was an OpenBSD dinner for those interested.
1894: <p>
1895:
1.216 jose 1896: <li><strong>
1897: <a href="http://linuxsolutions.fr/FR/home/index.php?site=default">Linux Solutions</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 1898: Feb 4 - 6, 2003, CNIT - Paris La Défense, France.<br>
1.185 miod 1899: There was an OpenBSD booth with several OpenBSD developers, as well as 3.2 OpenBSD
1.413 grunk 1900: CD sets and T-shirts.
1.185 miod 1901: <p>
1.236 jose 1902: </ul>
1.185 miod 1903:
1.161 millert 1904: <h3>2002</h3>
1.236 jose 1905:
1906: <ul>
1907: <li><strong>
1908: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/2002/">19c3: the 19th CCC
1.216 jose 1909: Congress</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 1910: Dec 27 - 29, 2002, Berlin, Germany.<br>
1.236 jose 1911: There was a huge <a href="http://www.eurobsd.org/19c3">reserved space</a> for
1912: OpenBSD users and developers, a couple of -current test systems and for those
1.413 grunk 1913: curious, a first look at the 3.2 OpenBSD T-shirts.
1.184 wvdputte 1914: <p>
1.177 jason 1915:
1.216 jose 1916: <li><strong>
1917: <a href="http://2002.eurobsdcon.org/">BSDCon Europe 2002</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 1918: Nov 15 - 17, 2002, Amsterdam, Netherlands.<br>
1.181 henning 1919: OpenBSD people were there;
1.236 jose 1920: Philipp Bühler and Henning Brauer spoke about
1.182 ian 1921: <a href="papers/tuning-openbsd.ps">
1922: network performance tuning on OpenBSD</a>,
1.236 jose 1923: and Ian Darwin presented a
1.182 ian 1924: <a href="papers/eurobsd-firewalls-2002.pdf">
1925: tutorial on OpenBSD servers/firewalls</a>.
1.179 pb 1926: <p>
1.178 pb 1927:
1.216 jose 1928: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1929: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa02/">LISA '02: 16th Systems
1.216 jose 1930: Administration Conference</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 1931: Nov 3 - 8, 2002, Philadelphia, USA.<br>
1.177 jason 1932: Mickey and Jason manned the booth at the vendor expo (the only BSD
1933: represented) and sold <a href="32.html">3.2</a> CDs, and Jason gave a BoF
1934: session on <a href="32.html">3.2</a> and future.
1935: <p>
1936:
1.216 jose 1937: <li><strong>
1.264 djm 1938: <a href="http://www.auug.org.au/events/2002/auug2002/">Australian Unix Users
1939: Group Winter Conference</a></strong>,
1.733 tobias 1940: Sep 1 - 6, 2002, Melbourne, Australia.<br>
1.738 tobias 1941: Damien Miller presented a tutorial on the
1942: <a href="papers/auug2002-ssh/index.html">SSH protocol</a> and
1.264 djm 1943: <a href="papers/auug2002-ssh.ps">OpenSSH tips and tricks</a>.
1944: <p>
1945:
1946: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 1947: <a href="http://lsm.abul.org">The 3rd Libre Software Meeting</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 1948: Jul 9 - 13, 2002, Bordeaux, France.<br>
1.172 miod 1949: Several OpenBSD developers and users were attending the meeting, and
1950: Niels Provos presented his
1951: <a href="http://www.citi.umich.edu/u/provos/systrace">systrace</a>
1952: system call policy management tool.
1.174 nick 1953: <p>
1.172 miod 1954:
1.216 jose 1955: <li><strong>
1956: <a href="http://www.Webb.it">Webb.it 02</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 1957: Jul 5 - 7, 2002, Padova, Italy.<br>
1.171 ian 1958: OpenBSD developers had a booth selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
1959: <p>
1960:
1.216 jose 1961: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1962: <a href="http://www.softwarelivre.rs.gov.br/forum">The Annual International
1.216 jose 1963: Free Software Forum</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 1964: May 2 - 4, 2002, Porto Alegre-RS, Brazil.<br>
1.236 jose 1965: Mainly a Linux/GNU event, but this year the BSD Operating Systems
1966: had a chance to prove their value.
1.169 horacio 1967: Edson Brandi spoke on FreeBSD, Diego Linke
1.236 jose 1968: on NetBSD, and Ricardo Nascimento Ferreira on OpenBSD.
1.169 horacio 1969: <p>
1.168 miod 1970:
1.216 jose 1971: <li><strong>
1972: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/bsdcon02/">BSDCON 2002</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 1973: Feb 11 - 14, 2002, San Francisco, California, USA.<br>
1.161 millert 1974: Todd Miller gave an update on current OpenBSD status and participated in a
1.162 millert 1975: BSD panel discussion. The <a href="slides/bsdcon_2002/index.html">slides</a>
1976: are available.
1.161 millert 1977: <p>
1978:
1.216 jose 1979: <li><strong>
1980: <a href="http://www.linuxexpoparis.com">Linux expo Paris 2002</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 1981: Jan 30 - Feb 1, 2002, Paris, France.<br>
1.163 miod 1982: The french Linux Expo 2002 was quite small and as usual the OpenBSD booth ended
1983: up with others on the expo's side. On the first day, almost all the merchandise
1984: was sold, and we have even sold older versions (2.9) the following days to
1985: people who wouldn't leave without a cd set in their hands...
1986: <p>
1987:
1.216 jose 1988: <li><strong>
1989: <a href="http://musess.mcmaster.ca/">MUSESS 2002</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 1990: Jan 25 - 26, 2002, McMaster University, Ontario, Canada.<br>
1.164 millert 1991: Louis Bertrand gave a presentation on OpenBSD titled
1992: <strong>Fix The Bugs, Secure The System</strong>.
1993: The <a href="slides/musess_2002/index.html">slides</a> are available.
1994: <p>
1.236 jose 1995: </ul>
1.164 millert 1996:
1.152 jakob 1997: <h3>2001</h3>
1998:
1.236 jose 1999: <ul>
1.216 jose 2000: <li><strong>
2001: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa01/">USENIX LISA 2001</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 2002: Dec 2 - 7, 2001, San Diego, California, USA.<br>
1.160 jufi 2003: Niels Provos gave a presentation, and there's been a booth selling
1.413 grunk 2004: T-shirts and 3.0 CDs.
1.160 jufi 2005: <p>
2006:
1.216 jose 2007: <li><strong>
2008: <a href="http://www.ietf.org/meetings/IETF-52.html">52nd IETF</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 2009: Dec 9 - 14, 2001, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA.<br>
1.160 jufi 2010: Angelos, Itojun & Jakob were there.
2011: <p>
2012:
1.158 deraadt 2013: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2014: <a href="http://www.disc2000.unam.mx/disc/index-ing.html">DISC
1.216 jose 2015: 2001</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 2016: Nov 26 - 29, 2001, Mexico City, Mexico.<br>
1.158 deraadt 2017: Once again, Theo de Raadt explained the security auditing process and
2018: subsequent secure configuration choices made in OpenBSD, in a talk
2019: entitled "Updated thoughts on writing a secure Operating System".
2020: <p>
2021:
1.216 jose 2022: <li><strong>
2023: <a href="http://www.linux.org.hk">LinuxCafe</a></strong>,
1.734 tobias 2024: Sep 15, 2001, Hong Kong, China.<br>
1.156 provos 2025: Shell Hung gave an introduction for BSD and demonstration of OpenBSD to HKLUG.
2026: <p>
2027:
1.201 deraadt 2028: <li><strong>VPN Bakeoff</strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 2029: Aug 13 - 18, 2001, Finland.<br>
1.156 provos 2030: Jakob and Itojun were there.
2031: <p>
1.158 deraadt 2032:
1.150 wvdputte 2033: <li><strong>
1.215 nick 2034: <a href="http://www.hal2001.org">HAL 2001</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 2035: Aug 10 - 12, 2001, Twente, Netherlands.<br>
1.153 jufi 2036: Quite a lot of developers were there, we even had our own tent.
2037: Niels, Rees and Dugsong held talks, more info on the main website
2038: for HAL2001. And of course T-Shirts and CDROMs were sold.
1.150 wvdputte 2039: <p>
1.137 aaron 2040:
2041: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2042: <a href="http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon/">O'Reilly Open Source
1.216 jose 2043: Conference</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 2044: Jul 23 - 27, 2001, San Diego, California, USA.<br>
1.148 brian 2045: OpenBSD had a booth selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
2046: Ian Darwin presented his "Firewalls and Secure Internet Servers
2047: with OpenBSD" tutorial.
2048: <p>
2049:
2050: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 2051: <a href="http://www.defcon.org">DEF CON Nine</a></strong>,
1.734 tobias 2052: Jul 13 - 15, 2001, Las Vegas, USA.<br>
1.148 brian 2053: OpenBSD developers and users make it a point to attend every year,
2054: and had a table selling CD's, shirts, etc.
2055: <p>
2056:
2057: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2058: <a href="http://www.sek.co.kr/sek2001/sek_html/main.htm">Software
1.216 jose 2059: Exhibition of Korea</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 2060: Jun 26 - 29, 2001, Seoul, Korea.<br>
1.146 krw 2061: urisecure/NDS sponsored an OpenBSD booth with CD's, posters,
2062: and a live demo of OpenBSD's IPSEC hardware acceleration.
2063: <p>
2064:
2065: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2066: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix01/">2001 USENIX Annual
1.216 jose 2067: Technical Conference</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 2068: Jun 25 - 30, 2001, Boston, USA.<br>
1.146 krw 2069: OpenBSD developers were there, selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
2070: <p>
2071:
2072: <li><strong>
1.143 dugsong 2073: <a href="http://www.olymfair.org/eng/workshop.htm">Information
1.201 deraadt 2074: Security OlymFair</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 2075: May 16 - 18, 2001, Seoul, Korea.<br>
1.143 dugsong 2076: Dug Song gave a detailed introduction to OpenBSD to the Korean
2077: security community.
2078: <p>
2079:
2080: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2081: <a href="http://www.osdem.org/">2001 Open Source and Free Software
1.216 jose 2082: Developers' Meeting</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 2083: Feb 3 - 4, 2001, Brussels, Belgium.<br>
1.137 aaron 2084: There was an OpenBSD booth with some loose talks made.
2085: <p>
2086:
2087: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 2088: <a href="http://www.linuxexpoparis.com/">2001 Linux Expo</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 2089: Feb 1 - 2, 2001, Paris, France.<br>
1.236 jose 2090: There was an OpenBSD booth in the 'F' area.
1.137 aaron 2091: <p>
1.236 jose 2092: </ul>
1.137 aaron 2093:
1.132 louis 2094: <h3>2000</h3>
2095:
1.236 jose 2096: <ul>
1.132 louis 2097: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2098: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa2000/">LISA 2000, USENIX
1.216 jose 2099: Systems Administration Conference</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 2100: Dec 3 - 8, 2000, New Orleans, USA.<br>
1.134 jufi 2101: Wim Vandeputte and other volunteers have been running a sales table with
2102: shirts, posters and the brand new 2.8 CDs.
2103: <p>
2104:
2105: <li><strong>
1.215 nick 2106: <a href="http://www.disc2000.unam.mx/disc/index-ing.html">DISC 2000</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 2107: Nov 26 - Dec 1, 2000, Mexico City, Mexico.<br>
1.133 deraadt 2108: Theo de Raadt explained the security auditing process and subsequent secure
2109: configuration choices made in OpenBSD, in a talk entitled "Secure by Default".
2110: Over the next few days, he also participated in two panels with various security
2111: experts who had flown in from around the world. Following this, Theo climbed
1.151 jsyn 2112: one of the largest volcanoes, called Malinche.
1.133 deraadt 2113: <p>
2114:
2115: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2116: <a href="http://www.nluug.nl/events/nj2000">NLUUG Najaarsconferentie
1.216 jose 2117: 2000</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 2118: Nov 9, 2000, Ede, Netherlands.<br>
1.236 jose 2119: There was an OpenBSD booth where people dropped by for information or to
1.413 grunk 2120: get their T-shirts, polos, caps and 2.7 CDs.
1.13 deraadt 2121: <p>
1.4 millert 2122:
1.132 louis 2123: <li><strong><a name=ipsec2000></a>
1.236 jose 2124: <a href="http://www.upperside.fr/baipsecy2k.htm">IPsec 2000 Global
1.216 jose 2125: Summit</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 2126: Oct 24 - 27, 2000, Paris La Defense, France.<br>
1.159 miod 2127: Niels Provos ended the conference by speaking about the IPsec architecture
1.132 louis 2128: in OpenBSD. The talk was well received and many people were very interested
2129: about our cryptographic hardware acceleration.
2130:
2131: <ul>
1.236 jose 2132: <li>The IPsec Architecture in OpenBSD<br>
1.215 nick 2133: <a href="#ipsec2000">IPsec 2000 Global Summit</a> by Niels Provos.<br>
1.132 louis 2134: <a href="papers/ipsec-slides.ps">slides</a>.
2135: </ul>
1.4 millert 2136: <p>
1.132 louis 2137:
1.7 deraadt 2138: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 2139: <a href="http://ApacheCon.Com/2000/EU/">ApacheCon Europa 2000</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 2140: Oct 23 - 25, 2000, London, UK.<br>
1.132 louis 2141: There was an OpenBSD booth where people could drop by for information and
2142: a chat with the local OpenBSD personnel. We also had the essentials for
1.413 grunk 2143: your wardrobe (T-shirts, polos, caps), for your hardware (2.7 CDs) and for your
1.132 louis 2144: mind (drinks afterwards).
2145: <p>
2146:
1.216 jose 2147: <li><strong>
2148: <a href="http://www.bsdcon.com/">BSD Con 2000</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 2149: Oct 18 - 20, 2000, Monterey, CA, USA.<br>
1.132 louis 2150: David Terrell ran an OpenBSD booth selling T-shirts and CDs and answering
2151: questions.
1.32 deraadt 2152: <p>
1.1 deraadt 2153:
1.132 louis 2154: <li><strong><a name=opensource2000></a>
1.236 jose 2155: <a href="http://www.opensource-forum.com/konferens">The Open Source
1.216 jose 2156: Revolution</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 2157: Oct 5, 2000, Stockholm, Sweden.<br>
1.133 deraadt 2158: Theo de Raadt spoke about how user expectations for security out of the box
2159: have changed over the last years.
1.1 deraadt 2160: <p>
2161:
1.132 louis 2162: <li><strong><a name=sec2000></a>
1.216 jose 2163: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/sec2000/">Usenix Security</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 2164: Aug 14 - 17, 2000, Denver, Colorado, USA.<br>
1.132 louis 2165: Some OpenBSD developers were there and one paper was presented:
2166: <ul>
1.236 jose 2167: <li>Encrypting Virtual Memory<br>
1.132 louis 2168: <a href="#sec2000">Usenix Security 2000</a>
1.205 deraadt 2169: by Niels Provos.<br>
1.132 louis 2170: <a href="papers/swapencrypt.ps">paper</a> and
2171: <a href="papers/swapencrypt-slides.ps">slides</a>.
2172: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 2173: <p>
1.132 louis 2174:
1.10 provos 2175: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 2176: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-8-post.html">Defcon 2000</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 2177: Jul 28 - 30, 2000, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.<br>
1.236 jose 2178: Kjell Wooding (our IPF maintainer), James Phillips from the
1.132 louis 2179: <a href="http://www.deadly.org">OpenBSD Journal</a>, and Theo de Raadt
1.413 grunk 2180: had a table and were selling OpenBSD CDROMs, T-shirts, and posters on
1.132 louis 2181: Friday and Saturday. Hordes of people visited our table and we at the
2182: end we were completely sold out of CDROMS and shirts (allowing us to go
2183: check out Hoover Dam's hardhat tour on Sunday and leave the madness behind).
2184: <br>
2185: We were completely amazed at the people who stopped by our table, to say
2186: that they were relying on OpenBSD.
2187: <p>
1.32 deraadt 2188:
1.132 louis 2189: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2190: <a href="http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon2000/">O'Reilly Open Source
1.216 jose 2191: Conference 2000</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 2192: Jul 17 - 20, 2000, Monterey, California, USA.<br>
1.216 jose 2193: Ian Darwin presented a <a href="papers/oreilly2000/">tutorial</a> on
1.132 louis 2194: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/w/bsd_tutorials.html">
2195: Secure Internet Servers/Firewalls with OpenBSD</a>, and bravely
2196: manned the OpenBSD booth for the remainder of the show.
2197: Kjell Wooding took part in a panel discussion on the Future of the BSDs,
2198: and spoke about
2199: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/w/bsd_presentations.html">
1.241 david 2200: Secure By Default.</a> Both sessions were well attended, and at least
1.132 louis 2201: one Linux sysadmin was seen racing for a keyboard, scared look in his eyes,
1.236 jose 2202: after the security talk.
1.3 provos 2203: <p>
1.132 louis 2204:
1.6 deraadt 2205: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 2206: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.de/2000/english/">LinuxTag 2000</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 2207: Jun 29 - Jul 2, 2000, Stuttgart, Germany.<br>
1.132 louis 2208: There was a BSD booth where we had the first <a href="27.html">OpenBSD 2.7 CDs</a> for Europe
2209: and the new blue stitchwork <a href="tshirts.html#11">Blowfish Polo</a> shirt.
2210: <br>
2211: Christian Weisgerber gave a
2212: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.de/2000/english/conference/talks.php3?ID=3">talk
2213: on BSD</a>.
1.32 deraadt 2214: <p>
1.1 deraadt 2215:
1.216 jose 2216: <li><strong><a name=usenix2000></a>
1.236 jose 2217: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix2000/">Usenix Annual Technical
1.216 jose 2218: Conference.</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 2219: Jun 18 - 23, 2000, San Diego, California, USA.<br>
1.132 louis 2220: Almost 20 OpenBSD developers showed up for the 25th anniversary of Usenix.
2221: We had a vendor booth, as well as a number of papers being presented.
2222: Conference attendees had the opportunity to test drive the new release,
2223: OpenBSD 2.7, on the 30 workstations in the terminal room. For the first
2224: time ever, the terminal room and wavelan networks also had a IPv6 connection,
1.147 jason 2225: and some users even discovered so by themselves.
1.132 louis 2226: Theo also held a BoF on the Wednesday evening, after which the developers
2227: had almost too much singing in foreign languages with the help of helium.
2228: <ul>
2229:
2230: <li>Implementing Internet Key Exchange, IKE.<br>
2231: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
1.216 jose 2232: by Angelos D. Keromytis, Niklas Hallqvist.<br>
1.132 louis 2233: <a href="papers/ikepaper.ps">paper</a> and
2234: <a href="papers/ikeslides.ps">slides</a>.
2235:
2236: <li>Transparent Network Security Policy Enforcement.<br>
2237: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
1.216 jose 2238: by Angelos D. Keromytis, Jason L. Wright.<br>
1.132 louis 2239: <a href="papers/bridgepaper.ps">paper</a> and
2240: <a href="papers/bridgeslides.ps">slides</a>.
1.2 deraadt 2241:
1.132 louis 2242: <li>Safety Checking of Kernel Extensions.<br>
2243: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
1.205 deraadt 2244: by Craig Metz.
1.132 louis 2245: </ul>
1.2 deraadt 2246: <p>
2247:
1.132 louis 2248: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2249: <a href="http://www.manlug.mcc.ac.uk/calendar.html">OpenBSD: The Open
1.216 jose 2250: Source Secure Operating System</a></strong>,
1.734 tobias 2251: Jun 17, 2000, 14:00, Manchester, UK.<br>
1.132 louis 2252: Sam Smith gave a rundown of features coming in OpenBSD 2.7 and
2253: OpenSSH 2.1. His <a href="http://www.manlug.mcc.ac.uk/20000617/">slides</a>
2254: are available from the user group's site.
1.1 deraadt 2255: <p>
1.2 deraadt 2256:
1.132 louis 2257: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 2258: <a href="reprints/crypto2000.html">OpenBSD Crypto 2000 conference</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 2259: Jun 15 - 20, 2000, Calgary, AB, Canada.<br>
1.132 louis 2260: Repeating the tradition of a similar meeting held last year, many
2261: OpenBSD developers from around the world converged on Calgary
2262: for a weekend long hack-and-drink session. As before, the event
2263: was invitation only. Many significant things got done, including
2264: ipv6 + ipsec running over hardware crypto devices.
1.1 deraadt 2265: <p>
1.11 jkatz 2266:
1.17 deraadt 2267: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 2268: <a href="http://www.converge2000.com">CONVERGENCE 2000</a></strong>,
1.734 tobias 2269: May 18, 2000, Convention Centre, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.<br>
1.132 louis 2270: Theo de Raadt participated in a panel discussion about the pros and cons
2271: of using Open Source software in various business environments. The local
2272: users also handed out OpenSSH and OpenBSD posters, and were absolutely
2273: surprised and amazed by the number of Calgary companies quietly using
2274: OpenBSD.
1.21 pattonme 2275: <p>
1.17 deraadt 2276:
1.23 niklas 2277: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 2278: <a href="http://www.cansecwest.com/">CanSecWest</a></strong>,
1.734 tobias 2279: May 10 - 12, 2000, Robson Conference Centre, Vancouver, BC, Canada.<br>
1.132 louis 2280: Theo de Raadt spoke about why programmers keep making the same stupid mistakes,
2281: what types of efforts might improve this, and how this all relates to auditing
1.375 grunk 2282: efforts.
2283: Rain Forest Puppy, Ron Gula (Network Security Wizards), Ken Williams (E&Y),
1.216 jose 2284: Marty Roesch (snort/HiverWorld), and Fyodor (nmap) were among the other speakers
1.132 louis 2285: at this event. (On a personal note: at this conference Theo realized that three
2286: leading Network Intrusion Detection System companies use OpenBSD as their
2287: base operating system: Hiverworld, Network Security Wizards, and NFR).
1.32 deraadt 2288: <p>
1.25 deraadt 2289:
1.132 louis 2290: <li><strong>
2291: <a href="http://www.zdevents.com/comdex/spring2000/">Linux Business Expo /
1.201 deraadt 2292: COMDEX Spring 2000</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 2293: Apr 19, 2000, Chicago, IL, USA.<br>
1.216 jose 2294: Louis Bertrand represented OpenBSD at a BSD BOF with FreeBSD/BDSI,
1.132 louis 2295: NetBSD and Apple (Darwin is BSD-derived). The BOF was attended by about
2296: 75 people, many of whom were new to *BSD. It was an opportunity to
2297: explore future cooperation among the various BSD groups and companies.
1.25 deraadt 2298: <p>
1.23 niklas 2299:
1.31 deraadt 2300: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2301: <a href="http://www.nordu.org/NordU2000/">NordU 2000 -- The second
1.216 jose 2302: EurOpen/USENIX Conference</a></strong>,
1.734 tobias 2303: Feb 8 - 11, 2000, Malmo, Sweden.<br>
1.140 jufi 2304: About 15 OpenBSD team members attended.
1.132 louis 2305: OpenBSD CDs and shirts were sold at a booth donated by the conference.<br>
2306: As well, Theo de Raadt gave an invited talk on Wednesday morning
2307: about why software quality/security suffers, and what we can do to
2308: improve it.
1.32 deraadt 2309: <p>
1.31 deraadt 2310:
1.201 deraadt 2311: <li><strong>BSD BOF session, LinuxWorld Expo</strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 2312: Feb 3, 2000, New York, USA.<br>
1.132 louis 2313: Representatives from OpenBSD, BSDi, and FreeBSD hosted a
2314: "Birds Of a Feather" session at the <a
2315: href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/">New York LinuxWorld Expo</a>.<br>
2316: There were installation CD-ROMs, free food, and even free Daemon Horns!
1.33 niklas 2317: <p>
1.236 jose 2318: </ul>
1.33 niklas 2319:
1.132 louis 2320: <h3>1999</h3>
1.36 niklas 2321:
1.236 jose 2322: <ul>
1.216 jose 2323: <li><strong>The Bazaar</strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 2324: Dec 14 - 16, 1999, New York, New York, USA.<br>
1.132 louis 2325: Wes Sonnenreich and Tom Yates presented a tutorial on building
1.216 jose 2326: firewalls with OpenBSD. BoF of open source BSDs took place.
1.413 grunk 2327: 2.6 release CDROMs and T-shirts were sold.
1.132 louis 2328: Emphatic interest has been shown by representatives from press, international
2329: government and military institutions.
1.45 jason 2330: <p>
2331:
1.216 jose 2332: <li><strong><a name=lisa99></a>
1.236 jose 2333: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa99/">13th Systems Administration
1.216 jose 2334: Conference (LISA 99)</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 2335: Nov 7 - 12, 1999, Seattle, Washington, USA.<br>
1.132 louis 2336: Bob Beck presented a paper about the U of A's nifty OpenBSD based
2337: solution to the problem of public Ethernet jacks in the technical sessions
2338: starting at 11:00 AM on the 11th.<br>
2339: There were many other OpenBSD
2340: people at this conference as well, as well as a booth selling CDROMs and
1.413 grunk 2341: T-shirts. His paper is available at:
1.132 louis 2342:
2343: <ul>
2344: <li>Dealing with Public Ethernet Jacks-Switches, Gateways, and Authentication.<br>
1.236 jose 2345: <a href="events.html#lisa99">LISA 1999</a>,
1.206 david 2346: by Bob Beck.<br>
1.236 jose 2347: <a href="papers/authgw-paper.ps">paper</a> and
2348: <a href="papers/authgw-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 2349: </ul>
2350: <p>
2351:
2352: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 2353: IP-dagarna 1999</strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 2354: Oct 27 - 28, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden.<br>
1.132 louis 2355: Håkan Olsson & Jakob Schlyter spoke at the DNSSEC session on the 27th.
2356: <p>
2357:
2358: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2359: <a href="http://www.opensource-forum.com/konferens/">Linux & Open Source
1.216 jose 2360: Software '99</a></strong>,
2361: Oct 21, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)<br>
1.132 louis 2362: Niklas Hallqvist spoke on the topic of how to use
1.236 jose 2363: <a
1.375 grunk 2364: href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4">IPsec</a> for securing communications.
1.132 louis 2365: <p>
2366:
2367: <li><strong>
1.705 pvalchev 2368: <a href="http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference/1999">Reflections/Projections
1.216 jose 2369: 1999</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 2370: Oct 8 - 10, 1999, Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA.<br>
1.132 louis 2371: Theo de Raadt spoke at 10:00am on the 9th. Other OpenBSD
2372: developers from the east coast attended as well.
2373: <p>
2374:
1.236 jose 2375: <li><strong><a name="ipsec99"></a>
1.216 jose 2376: IPsec Interoperability tests</strong>,
2377: Sep 27 - 30, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)<br>
1.236 jose 2378: A dozen vendors, among them OpenBSD, tested more than 15
1.375 grunk 2379: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4">IPsec</a>
1.132 louis 2380: products, both gateways and hosts, for interoperability. The tests
2381: were successful as far as general IPsec and pre-shared key
2382: authentication went, OpenBSD interoperated with everyone, but due to
2383: time constraints we never got to test the certificate support
2384: appropriately. The results were presented later that fall at a
2385: conference in Stockholm.
2386: <p>
2387:
2388: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2389: <a href="http://www.auug.org.au/winter/auug99">AUUG'99</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 2390: Sep 8 - 11, 1999, Melbourne, Australia.<br>
1.132 louis 2391: Theo de Raadt gave two talks on "quality of software" related issues
2392: and participated on a panel about how open source projects are
2393: coordinated.
2394: <p>
2395:
2396: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2397: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/sec99/index.html">Usenix
1.216 jose 2398: Security</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 2399: Aug 23 - 26, 1999, Washington, DC, USA.<br>
1.132 louis 2400: Many OpenBSD people from the east coast showed up and sold CDs and
2401: shirts. It was pretty clear from discussions that many people were
2402: very aware of OpenBSD, and that OpenBSD was being used in very
2403: significant security roles.
2404: <p>
2405:
2406: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2407: <a href="http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/99jul/index.html">45th IETF
1.216 jose 2408: meeting</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 2409: Jul 12 - 16, 1999, Oslo, Norway.<br>
1.132 louis 2410: A number of OpenBSD team members from all over the world were at this
2411: conference. In addition to attending the IPsec and DNS working groups (among
2412: others) we did IPsec/IKE interoperability testing together with
1.166 miod 2413: the Japanese KAME project. Also, Angelos D. Keromytis did a presentation on
1.132 louis 2414: his work with keynote and isakmpd in OpenBSD.
2415: <p>
1.45 jason 2416:
1.132 louis 2417: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2418: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-6.html">Defcon 6.0</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 2419: Jul 9 - 11, 1999, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.<br>
1.132 louis 2420: At this conference, the OpenBSD team sold 100 or so 2.5 release CDROMs
1.413 grunk 2421: and a TON of T-shirts.
1.46 deraadt 2422: <p>
1.132 louis 2423:
1.236 jose 2424: <li><strong><a name="usenix99"></a>
2425: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix99/index.html">
1.216 jose 2426: Usenix Annual Technical Conference</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 2427: Jun 6 - 11, 1999, Monterey, California, USA.<br>
1.106 jufi 2428: The <a href="http://www.usenix.org">USENIX Association</a>
1.46 deraadt 2429: provided The OpenBSD Project with a grant to underwrite the production
1.106 jufi 2430: of CDs of OpenBSD 2.5. (We distributed the
2431: release for free to attendees of the USENIX Annual Conference in
1.46 deraadt 2432: June.)
1.132 louis 2433: <br>
1.46 deraadt 2434: Usenix team members were involved in the authoring and
1.132 louis 2435: presentation of 4 OpenBSD-related papers:
2436:
1.375 grunk 2437: <a name="anoncvs_paper"></a>
1.46 deraadt 2438: <ul>
1.66 deraadt 2439: <li>Opening the Source Repository with Anonymous CVS.<br>
1.236 jose 2440: <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216 jose 2441: by Charles D. Cranor, Theo de Raadt.<br>
1.236 jose 2442: <a href="papers/anoncvs-paper.ps">paper</a> and
2443: <a href="papers/anoncvs-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 2444: <br>
1.66 deraadt 2445: <li>A Future-Adaptable Password Scheme.<br>
1.236 jose 2446: <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216 jose 2447: by Niels Provos, David Mazieres.<br>
1.236 jose 2448: <a href="papers/bcrypt-paper.ps">paper</a> and
2449: <a href="papers/bcrypt-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 2450: <br>
1.66 deraadt 2451: <li>Cryptography in OpenBSD: An Overview.<br>
1.236 jose 2452: <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216 jose 2453: by Theo de Raadt, Niklas Hallqvist, Artur Grabowski,
2454: Angelos D. Keromytis, Niels Provos.<br>
1.236 jose 2455: <a href="papers/crypt-paper.ps">paper</a> and
2456: <a href="papers/crypt-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 2457: <br>
1.66 deraadt 2458: <li>strlcpy and strlcat -- consistent, safe, string copy and concatenation.<br>
1.236 jose 2459: <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216 jose 2460: by Todd C. Miller, Theo de Raadt.<br>
1.236 jose 2461: <a href="papers/strlcpy-paper.ps">paper</a> and
2462: <a href="papers/strlcpy-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 2463: </ul>
1.66 deraadt 2464: <p>
1.46 deraadt 2465:
1.51 deraadt 2466: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2467: <a href="http://www.linuxexpo.org">5th Annual Linux Expo</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 2468: May 18 - 22, 1999, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA.<br>
1.132 louis 2469: Some OpenBSD team members were at this conference selling OpenBSD 2.5 CDs,
2470: OpenBSE T-shirts, as well as Blowfish T-shirts, which sold out very quickly
2471: at a table donated by the Expo. OpenBSD was the only BSD represented at the
2472: vendor exposition, and we had good chance to present a secure alternative
2473: to Linux.
1.51 deraadt 2474: <p>
2475:
1.53 jakob 2476: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2477: <a href="http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/99mar/index.html">44th IETF
1.216 jose 2478: meeting</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 2479: Mar 15 - 19, 1999, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.<br>
1.132 louis 2480: Some OpenBSD team members were at this conference, in particular our
2481: IPSEC developers.
1.53 jakob 2482: <p>
2483:
1.132 louis 2484: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2485: <a href="http://www.europen.se/NordU99">NordU99 -- The first
1.216 jose 2486: EurOpen/USENIX Conference</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 2487: Feb 9 - 12, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden.<br>
1.132 louis 2488: A couple of OpenBSD team members were there and some of the swedish user
2489: society as well. OpenBSD CDs were sold at a booth and at the end of a
2490: security talk, the project got applauded for its continuous strive of auditing
2491: security sensitive parts of the system.
1.59 deraadt 2492: <p>
1.236 jose 2493: </ul>
1.59 deraadt 2494:
1.132 louis 2495: <h3>1998</h3>
1.59 deraadt 2496:
1.236 jose 2497: <ul>
1.132 louis 2498: <li><strong><a name=ipsec98></a>
1.690 nick 2499: IPsec/VPN Interoperability tests & seminar</strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 2500: Dec 14, 1998, Stockholm, Sweden.<br>
1.132 louis 2501: OpenBSD was represented as one of about a dozen
1.375 grunk 2502: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4">IPsec</a>
1.132 louis 2503: implementations who were tested for interoperability. The tests were
2504: successful, both for the technology in general, and for OpenBSD in
2505: specific. We managed to communicate encrypted with every vendor present,
2506: and to negotiate keys via IKE with everyone capable.
1.70 deraadt 2507: <p>
2508:
1.236 jose 2509: <li><strong><a name="lisaboston-98"></a>
1.690 nick 2510: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa98">LISA '98: 12th Systems Administration
1.216 jose 2511: Conference</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 2512: Dec 6 - 11, 1998, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.<br>
1.132 louis 2513: More than 10 OpenBSD team members showed up. By far, OpenBSD was the
2514: largest representative group from free software at the conference.
2515: Usenix gave us a table in the vendor area where we sold 2.4 CDROMs,
1.413 grunk 2516: 2.3 "wire-frame" T-shirts, and the new 2.4 embroidered
2517: "Because security matters..." T-shirts, polos, and sweaters.
1.132 louis 2518: An OpenBSD BOF was held one evening, led by Theo de Raadt.
2519: A PalmPilot schedule loader was at the membership booth, powered by OpenBSD.
2520: <br>
1.690 nick 2521: The terminal room ran OpenBSD 2.4 on 45 machines. Obviously trust in OpenBSD
2522: had increased since many people, normally wary of security problems of open
1.132 louis 2523: terminal rooms, were seen using the machines.
1.72 ho 2524: <p>
2525:
1.73 deraadt 2526: <li><strong>
1.690 nick 2527: <a href="http://www.disc.unam.mx/eventos_anteriores/disc98/">DISC - Seguridad en
1.217 jose 2528: Cómputo 98</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 2529: Nov 2 - 7, 1998, Mexico City, Mexico.<br>
1.132 louis 2530: Theo de Raadt gave a talk about security auditing, sponsored by
1.236 jose 2531: <a href="http://www.core-sdi.com">CORE SDI S.A.</a>, an Argentine
1.132 louis 2532: security auditing company who strongly believes in the future
1.236 jose 2533: of OpenBSD. (<a href="papers/mexico98-slides.ps">Slides are available</a>).
1.131 jufi 2534: <p>
1.73 deraadt 2535:
1.236 jose 2536: <li><strong>IP-dagarna</strong>,
1.734 tobias 2537: Oct 29 - 30, 1998, Stockholm, Sweden.<br>
1.132 louis 2538: At this conference, entirely devoted to IP, Niklas Hallqvist from the
2539: OpenBSD team held a talk on the IKE (a.k.a ISAKMP/Oakley) key management
2540: protocol and experiences from the implementation of <strong>isakmpd</strong>,
2541: an IKE implementation funded by Ericsson Radio Systems and developed
2542: primarily for the OpenBSD IPSEC stack.
1.79 deraadt 2543: <p>
1.73 deraadt 2544:
1.690 nick 2545: <li><strong>NCEE '98</strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 2546: Oct 9 - 10, 1998, Auburn, Maine, USA.<br>
1.132 louis 2547: An extensive after-action report was sent to advocacy@openbsd.org. While
1.151 jsyn 2548: sales of shirts and CDROMs left much to be desired, we did have good
1.132 louis 2549: opportunities to further project visibility and highlight its strengths.
1.80 deraadt 2550: <p>
2551:
1.93 louis 2552: <li><strong>
1.690 nick 2553: <a href="http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference/1998/">Reflections/Projections
1.216 jose 2554: 1998</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 2555: Oct 2 - 4, 1998, Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA.<br>
1.132 louis 2556: Theo de Raadt spoke in a panel about Open/Free software with Eric
2557: Raymond and others.
1.93 louis 2558: <p>
2559:
1.216 jose 2560: <li><strong>
1.690 nick 2561: <a href="http://press.oreilly.com/pub/pr/797">O'Reilly and
1.236 jose 2562: Associates Open Source Developer Days</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 2563: Aug 21, 1998, San Jose, California, USA.<br>
1.132 louis 2564: OpenBSD team members were on-hand to discuss OpenBSD's role among the
1.413 grunk 2565: other free software projects available. They also sold some CDs and T-shirts.
1.96 deraadt 2566: <p>
2567:
1.236 jose 2568: <li><strong><a name="defcon98"></a>
1.690 nick 2569: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-6/defcon-6.html">Defcon 6.0</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 2570: Jul 31 - Aug 2, 1998, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.<br>
1.132 louis 2571: The router to the outside world was an OpenBSD 2.3 box. It was involved
2572: in a "capture the flag" competition in which an entire room of crackers
2573: attempted to break into it and machines running other operating systems.
2574: The OpenBSD box was not broken into.
2575: <br>
2576: Almost 100 OpenBSD 2.3 CDROMs were sold (we ran out again). The primates
1.236 jose 2577: at <a href="http://www.monkey.org">monkey.org</a> brought 2.3
1.413 grunk 2578: "wire-frame" OpenBSD T-shirts to the conference and sold almost
1.132 louis 2579: 200 of them. The proceeds from the sales were donated to the OpenBSD project.
1.96 deraadt 2580: <p>
1.94 deraadt 2581:
1.690 nick 2582: <li><strong><a href="http://www.blackhat.com/html/bh-usa-98/bh2-index.html">BlackHat Sessions</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 2583: Jul 29 - 30, 1998, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.<br>
1.132 louis 2584: Theo de Raadt presented a talk entitled
2585: "Auditing software for security" about the OpenBSD security auditing
2586: team's process and the lessons the team learned. The talk concentrated
2587: on how our process fixes bugs -- not just holes -- since one never knows
2588: when 5 bugs will act together to become a hole.
1.99 deraadt 2589: <p>
2590:
1.236 jose 2591: <li><strong><a name="usenix-neworleans"></a>
2592: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/usenix98/index.html">Usenix Annual Technical Conference</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 2593: Jun 15 - 19, 1998, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.<br>
1.132 louis 2594: At Usenix 1998 there was a strong OpenBSD presence both in the Freenix
2595: and normal tracks. Theo did a general talk about what the OpenBSD
2596: project offers. Angelos held a panel about IPSEC (which is quite an
2597: OpenBSD topic since IPSEC development at that time was so much further
2598: ahead in OpenBSD than anywhere else).
2599: <br>
2600: The terminal room PCs ran OpenBSD 2.3. We sold many CDROMs. The
1.413 grunk 2601: first style of OpenBSD T-shirt also sold quite well.
1.101 wvdputte 2602: <p>
2603:
1.105 wvdputte 2604: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2605: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/sec98/index.html">Usenix Security</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 2606: Jan 26 - 29, 1998, San Antonio, Texas, USA.<br>
1.132 louis 2607: At this conference, Theo presented an evening talk which basically
2608: turned into a list of fixed security problems and cautionary tales about
2609: subsystems in which future problems may be encountered
1.236 jose 2610: (<a href="papers/security98-slides.ps">slides available</a>).
1.105 wvdputte 2611: <br>
1.132 louis 2612: The terminal room PCs ran OpenBSD 2.2.
2613: <p>
1.236 jose 2614: </ul>
1.105 wvdputte 2615:
1.132 louis 2616: <h3>1997</h3>
1.107 deraadt 2617:
1.236 jose 2618: <ul>
1.113 deraadt 2619: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2620: <a href="http://www.hip97.nl">HIP</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 2621: Aug, 1997, Almere, Netherlands.<br>
1.236 jose 2622: Niels held a
1.690 nick 2623: <a href="http://www.citi.umich.edu/u/provos/papers/hip97-tcpip.html">talk</a>
1.132 louis 2624: about the problems of unencrypted TCP/IP connections, offering IPSEC as
2625: possible solution.
1.113 deraadt 2626: <p>
1.132 louis 2627:
1.236 jose 2628: <li><strong>HOPE</strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 2629: Aug, 1997, New York, New York, USA.<br>
1.166 miod 2630: The terminal room consisted primarily of DECstations running
1.690 nick 2631: OpenBSD 2.1. Once again, the <a href="http://www.lopht.com/">L0phT</a>
1.132 louis 2632: people had very good things to say about our security.
1.113 deraadt 2633: <p>
1.105 wvdputte 2634:
1.236 jose 2635: <li><strong><a name="defcon5"></a>
1.690 nick 2636: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-5/defcon-5.html">Defcon V</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 2637: Jul 11 - 13, 1997, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.<br>
1.132 louis 2638: At this conference, the OpenBSD team sold 100 or so 2.1 release CDROMs.
2639: <br>
2640: Since this is the primary security conference, many speakers said very
1.140 jufi 2641: good things about our stance on security... particularly people like
1.690 nick 2642: <a href="http://www.lopht.com">the L0phT</a>.
1.118 deraadt 2643: <p>
2644:
1.125 deraadt 2645: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2646: <a
2647: href="http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/ana97/index.html">Usenix Annual Technical Conference</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 2648: Jan 6 - 10, 1997, Anaheim, California, USA.<br>
1.690 nick 2649: Theo de Raadt held a BOF ("Birds Of a Feather", i.e. a meeting of people
1.132 louis 2650: interested in the same thing) about OpenBSD.
1.236 jose 2651: </ul>
1.125 deraadt 2652:
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