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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 &quot;Birds Of a Feather&quot; (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:
1.772     cnst       41: <h3>2009</h3>
                     42: <ul>
                     43:
                     44: <li><strong><a name="asiabsdcon2009"></a>
                     45: <a href="http://2009.asiabsdcon.org/">AsiaBSDCon 2009</a></strong>,
                     46: Mar 12 - 15, 2009, Tokyo, Japan.<br>
                     47: <p>
                     48:
                     49: <li><strong><a name="bsdcan2009"></a>
                     50: <a href="http://www.bsdcan.org/2009/">BSDCan 2009</a></strong>,
1.776     jdixon     51: May 6 - 9, 2009, Ottawa, Canada.<br>
1.772     cnst       52: <p>
                     53:
                     54: <li><strong><a name="eurobsdcon2009"></a>
                     55: <a href="http://2009.eurobsdcon.org/">EuroBSDCon 2009</a></strong>,
                     56: Sep 17 - 19, 2009, Cambridge, UK.<br>
                     57: <p>
                     58:
1.715     jdixon     59: </ul>
1.772     cnst       60:
1.727     wvdputte   61: <p>
1.719     wvdputte   62: <hr>
                     63:
                     64: <h2>Past events:</h2>
                     65:
1.783     sthen      66: <h3>2009</h3>
                     67: <ul>
                     68:
                     69: <li><strong><a name='dcbsdcon2009'></a>
                     70: <a href="http://www.dcbsdcon.org/">DCBSDCon 2009</a></strong>,
                     71: Feb 5 - 6, 2009, Washington, D.C., USA.<br>
1.786   ! jdixon     72: Henning Brauer gave a talk about
        !            73: <a href='http://bulabula.org/papers/dcbsdcon2009/'>
        !            74: Performance Tuning in the OpenBSD Network Stack and PF</a>.<br>
        !            75: Ted Unangst presented
        !            76: <a href='http://www.dcbsdcon.org/speakers/slides/unangst_dcbsdcon2009.pdf'>
        !            77: OpenBSD versus SMP, Threading and Concurrency</a>.<br>
        !            78: Marco Peereboom introduced the
        !            79: <a href='http://www.dcbsdcon.org/speakers/slides/peereboom_dcbsdcon2009.pdf'>
        !            80: Epitome suite</a>.<br>
        !            81: Kurt Miller gave his talk about
        !            82: <a href='http://www.dcbsdcon.org/speakers/slides/miller_dcbsdcon2009.pdf'>
        !            83: Implementing PIE on OpenBSD</a>.<br>
        !            84: There was an OpenBSD booth, run by Bret Lambert.
1.783     sthen      85: <p>
                     86:
                     87: </ul>
                     88:
1.740     saad       89: <h3>2008</h3>
                     90: <ul>
1.764     mbalmer    91:
1.781     krw        92: <li><strong><a name=25c3></a>
                     93: <a href="http://events.ccc.de/congress/2008/">25th Chaos Communication Congress
                     94: (25C3)</a></strong>,
                     95: Dec 27 - 30, 2008, Berlin, Germany.<br>
                     96: The 25C3 slogan was "Nothing to Hide".
                     97: <p>
                     98:
1.778     krw        99: <li><strong><a name="opencon2008"></a>
                    100: <a href="http://www.opencon.org/">OpenCON 2008</a></strong>,
                    101: Nov 29 - 30, Venice, Italy.<br>
                    102: OpenBSD users and developers gave two days worth of OpenBSD talks and
1.779     krw       103: attended a big OpenBSD party on the saturday night.<br>
                    104: Ken Westerback gave a talk on
                    105: <a href='papers/opencon08-openbsdfoundation/index.html'>
                    106: The OpenBSD Foundation</a>.<br>
                    107: Ken Westerback gave a talk on
                    108: <a href='papers/opencon08-installscripts/index.html'>
                    109: OpenBSD's Install Scripts</a>.<br>
1.778     krw       110: <p>
                    111:
1.775     sthen     112: <li><strong><a name="ukuugpf2008london"></a>
                    113: <a href="http://www.ukuug.org/events/pftutorial/">UKUUG Full-day PF tutorial</a></strong>,
                    114: Nov 26 2008, London, UK.<br>
                    115: The UKUUG hosted a full-day PF tutorial by Peter Hansteen (Book of PF author),
                    116: at the Caesar Room, Imperial Hotel, London.
                    117: <p>
                    118:
                    119: <li><strong><a name="t-dose2008"></a>
                    120: <a href="http://www.t-dose.org/">T-DOSE 2008</a></strong>,
                    121: Oct 25 - 26, 2008, Eindhoven, The Netherlands.<br>
                    122: Technical Dutch Open Source Event.<br>
                    123: Developers were present as well as an OpenBSD booth,
                    124: run by the usual suspects.
                    125: <p>
                    126:
1.770     sthen     127: <li><strong><a name="eurobsdcon2008"></a>
1.772     cnst      128: <a href="http://2008.eurobsdcon.org/">EuroBSDCon 2008</a></strong>,
                    129: Oct 16 - 19, 2008, Strasbourg, France.<br>
                    130: Peter N. M. Hansteen gave a tutorial on building networks with PF.<br>
                    131: Matthieu Herrb gave a talk on input handling in wscons and X.Org.<br>
1.773     cnst      132: Constantine A. Murenin gave a talk on <a href='papers/eurobsdcon2008-sensors.pdf'>the sensors framework</a>.<br>
1.772     cnst      133: There was an OpenBSD booth, run by the usual suspects.
1.770     sthen     134: <p>
                    135:
                    136: <li><strong><a name="nycbsdcon2008"></a>
                    137: <a href="http://www.nycbsdcon.org/2008/">NYCBSDCon 2008</a></strong>,
                    138: Oct 11 - 12, 2008, New York, New York.<br>
1.774     kurt      139: Jason Dixon gave a talk called
                    140: <a href='http://talks.dixongroup.net/nycbsdcon2008/'>
                    141: BSD versus GPL</a>.<br>
                    142: Anders Magnusson gave a talk on the
                    143: <a href='papers/magnusson_pcc.pdf'>design of PCC</a>.<br>
                    144: Kurt Miller gave a talk on
                    145: <a href='papers/nycbsdcon08-pie/'>implementing PIE</a>.<br>
                    146: Michael Shalayeff gave a talk on porting PCC to new architectures.<br>
                    147: Jason L Wright gave a talk called
                    148: <a href='papers/wright_hardware-wrong.pdf'>When Hardware Is Wrong, or
                    149: "They can Fix It In Software"</a>.<br>
                    150: Audio for the talks is available
                    151: <a href='http://www.fetissov.org/public/nycbsdcon08/'>here</a>.<br>
                    152: There was an OpenBSD booth, run by Ray Lai and Okan Demirmen.<br>
1.770     sthen     153: <p>
                    154:
                    155: <li><strong><a name="opensourcedays2008"></a>
                    156: <a href="http://www.opensourcedays.org/2008/">Open Source Days
                    157: 2008</a></strong>,
                    158: Oct 3 - 4, 2008, Copenhagen, Denmark.<br>
                    159: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth.
                    160: <p>
                    161:
                    162: <li><strong><a name="openexpo2008zh"></a>
                    163: <a href="http://openexpo.org/en/">OpenExpo 2008</a></strong>,
                    164: Sep 23 - 24, 2008, Zurich/Winterthur, Switzerland.<br>
                    165: There was an OpenBSD table, run by Stephan A. Rickauer.
                    166: <p>
                    167:
1.768     sthen     168: <li><strong><a name="Slackathon 2008"></a>
                    169: <a href="http://www.slackathon.se:2008/index_en.html">Slackathon 2008</a></strong>,
                    170: Sep 13, 2008, Stockholm, Sweden.<br>
                    171: Swedish annual OpenBSD conference.
                    172: <p>
                    173:
                    174: <li><strong><a name="froscon2008"></a>
                    175: <a href="http://www.froscon.de">FrOSCon 2008</a></strong>,
                    176: Aug 23 - 24, 2008, Bonn/Rhein-Sieg, Germany.<br>
                    177: There was an OpenBSD booth, run by the usual suspects.
                    178: <p>
                    179:
                    180: <li><strong><a name="OpenKyiv 2008"></a>
                    181: <a href="http://uaoug.org.ua/openkyiv/">OpenKyiv 2008</a></strong>,
                    182: Aug 2, 2008, Kyiv, Ukraine.<br>
                    183: There was plenty of OpenBSD activity including a
                    184: <a href="https://register.bsdcertification.org/register/events/openkyiv-2008">BSD certification</a> exam.
                    185: <p>
                    186:
1.764     mbalmer   187: <li><strong><a name="lsm2008"></a>
                    188: <a href="http://www.rmll.info">Libre Software Meeting 2008</a></strong>,
                    189: Jul 1 - 5, 2008, Mont de Marsan, France.<br>
                    190: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth.
                    191: <p>
                    192:
                    193: <li><strong><a name="jdlbe2008"></a>
                    194: <a href="http://journeesdulibre.bxlug.be/">Journ&eacute;es du Libre &agrave; Bruxelles 2008</a></strong>,
                    195: Jun 6 - 7, 2008, Sint-Gillis, Belgium.<br>
                    196: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth.
                    197: <p>
                    198:
                    199: <li><strong><a name="linuxtag2008"></a>
                    200: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.org/2008/en/">LinuxTag 2008</a></strong>,
                    201: May 28 - 31, 2008, Berlin, Germany.<br>
                    202: There was plenty of OpenBSD activity (talks &amp; booth).
                    203: <p>
                    204:
1.761     merdely   205: <li><strong><a name="linuxdays2008"></a>
                    206: <a href="http://www.linuxdays.ch/">LinuxDays 2008</a></strong>,
                    207: May 21 - 22, 2008, Geneva, Switzerland.<br>
1.764     mbalmer   208: Julien Mabillard gave a presentation about OpenBSD and
                    209: failover/load-balancing features. There was also an OpenBSD booth.
1.761     merdely   210: <p>
                    211:
1.760     matthieu  212: <li><strong><a name="bsdcan2008"></a>
                    213: <a href="http://www.bsdcan.org/2008/">BSDCan 2008</a></strong>,
                    214: May 14 - 17, 2008, Ottawa, Canada.<br>
                    215: Several OpenBSD developers were there.<br>
1.762     cnst      216: Constantine A. Murenin gave an <a href="papers/bsdcan08-sensors.pdf">
                    217: overview of the sensors framework</a>,
1.760     matthieu  218: Matthieu Herrb  talked about the <a href="papers/bsdcan08-xorg.pdf">
                    219: upcoming X.org plans</a> and
                    220: Ian Darwin gave a presentation about OpenMoko.<br>
                    221: John Pertalion and Oscar Knight presented a case-study of
                    222: their OpenVPN on OpenBSD deployment.
                    223: <p>
                    224:
                    225: <li><strong><a name="vj08"></a>
                    226: <a href="http://www.nluug.nl/events/vj08">NLUUG spring conference
                    227: 2008</a></strong>,
                    228: May 15, 2008, Ede, Netherlands.<br>
                    229: There has been an OpenBSD booth.
                    230: <p>
                    231:
                    232: <li><strong><a name="confidence2008"></a>
                    233: <a href="http://2008.confidence.org.pl/">Confidence 2008</a></strong>,
                    234: May 16 - 17, 2008, Krakow, Poland.<br>
                    235: Felix has given a presentation and there was a OpenBSD booth.
                    236: <p>
                    237:
1.759     johan     238: <li><strong><a name="DORSCLUC2008"></a>
                    239: <a href="http://www.open.hr/dc2008/en/">DORS / CLUC 2008</a></strong>,
                    240: Apr 16 - Apr 18, 2008, Zagreb, Croatia.<br>
                    241: There was an OpenBSD booth, a talk on OpenBSD 4.3 by Wim and an <a href="http://www.kerberos.si/papers/DORS08">IPsec workshop</a> by Wim and Mitja Muzenic.<br>
                    242: <p>
                    243:
                    244: <li><strong><a name="jtic2008"></a>
                    245: <a href="http://www.iesmirabent.com/jornadas/index2.html">I Jornadas
                    246: Tecnol&oacute;gicas Ciudad de Isla Cristina</a></strong>,
                    247: Apr 3 - 4, 2008, Huelva, Spain.<br>
                    248: Igor Sobrado gave a talk on OpenBSD and related free software projects.<br>
                    249: <p>
                    250:
                    251: <li><strong><a name="ukuugspring2008"></a>
                    252: <a href="http://spring2008.ukuug.org/">UKUUG Spring 2008</a></strong>,
                    253: Mar 31 - Apr 2, 2008, Birmingham, UK.<br>
                    254: Peter Hansteen gave 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 was an OpenBSD booth, manned by Peter.<br>
                    255: <p>
                    256:
1.756     claudio   257: <li><strong><a name="asiabsdcon2008"></a>
                    258: <a href="http://2008.asiabsdcon.org/">AsiaBSDCon 2008</a></strong>,
1.772     cnst      259: Mar 27 - 30, 2008, Tokyo, Japan.<br>
1.757     claudio   260: Claudio Jeker gave a talk on <a href="/papers/asiabsdcon08-network/">OpenBSD Network Stack Internals</a>.<br>
1.756     claudio   261: <p>
                    262:
1.749     wvdputte  263: <li><strong><a name="openexpo2008"></a>
                    264: <a href="http://openexpo.org/en/">OpenExpo 2008</a></strong>,
                    265: Mar 12 - 13, 2008, Bern, Switzerland.<br>
                    266: There was an OpenBSD table, run by Stephan A. Rickauer.<br>
                    267: <p>
                    268:
                    269: <li><strong><a name="chemnitz2008"></a>
                    270: <a href="http://chemnitzer.linux-tage.de/2008/info/">Chemnitzer Linux-Tage 2008</a></strong>,
                    271: Mar 1 - 2, 2008, Chemnitz, Germany.<br>
                    272: There was an OpenBSD table, run by Philipp.<br>
                    273: <p>
1.740     saad      274:
1.743     wvdputte  275: <li><strong><a name="Brussels2008"></a>
                    276: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/2008/">FOSDEM Brussels 2008</a></strong>,
                    277: Feb 23 - 24, 2008, Brussels, Belgium.<br>
                    278: There was an OpenBSD/OpenSSH booth and <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/2008/schedule/devroom/bsdpostgresql">a Dev room</a>.
                    279: There was also an exam for <a href="http://www.bsdcertification.org/">BSD
                    280: certification</a>.<br>
                    281: On Saturday we had our traditional BSD dinner.
                    282: <p>
                    283:
1.742     merdely   284: <li><strong><a name="scale6x"></a>
                    285: <a href="http://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale6x/">Southern California Linux
                    286: Expo 6x</a></strong>,
                    287: Feb 8 - 10, 2008, Los Angeles, California, USA.<br>
                    288: There was an OpenBSD booth run by Darrin Chandler with live
                    289: demonstrations and CDs for sale.
                    290: <p>
                    291:
1.740     saad      292: <li><strong><a name="Paris2008"></a>
                    293: <a href="http://www.solutionslinux.fr/fr/index.php">Solutions Linux
                    294: 2008</a></strong>,
                    295: Jan 29 - 31, 2008, Paris, France.<br>
                    296: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth with Marc Espie, Antoine
                    297: Jacoutot, Gilles Chehade, Charles Longeau, Landry Breuil, Saad Kadhi,
1.741     saad      298: Wim and others. [<a href="http://saad.docisland.org/pictures/sl2008/"
                    299: >pictures</a>]
1.740     saad      300: <p>
                    301:
                    302: </ul>
                    303:
1.588     espie     304: <h3>2007</h3>
                    305: <ul>
1.603     fkr       306:
1.731     wvdputte  307: <li><strong><a name=24c3></a>
                    308: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/2007/">24C3 Chaos Communication Congress in
                    309: Berlin</a></strong>,
                    310: December 27 - 30, 2007, Berlin, Germany.<br>
                    311: The motto was Volldampf voraus! (literally Full Steam Ahead).
                    312: <p>
                    313:
1.726     merdely   314: <li><strong><a name="capbug200712"></a>
                    315: <a href="http://capbug.org/">Capital Area BSD User Group</a></strong>,
1.727     wvdputte  316: Dec 17, 2007, Columbia, Maryland, USA.<br>
1.726     merdely   317: Michael Erdely presented <a href="papers/capbug200712/index.html">OpenBSD
                    318: Ports Tutorial: Advanced Topics</a>.
                    319: [<a href="http://talks.metabug.org/20071218_capbug_640x480.mp4">slides
                    320: w/audio</a>]
                    321: <p>
                    322:
1.721     jsg       323: <li><strong><a name="opencon2007"></a>
1.734     tobias    324: <a href="http://www.opencon.org/">OpenCON 2007</a></strong>,
1.721     jsg       325: Nov 30 - Dec 2, 2007, Venice, Italy.<br>
                    326: OpenCON is the only conference dedicated solely to OpenBSD.
                    327: This edition was composed of one "tutorial day" and two days of conference.
                    328: Three days entirely dedicated to OpenBSD with a lot of developers and users.
1.722     jsg       329: Talks by OpenBSD developers were:
                    330: <p>
                    331:  <ul>
                    332:  <li>Jonathan Gray: <a href="papers/opencon07-complex/index.html">
                    333:      Why are modern operating systems so complicated?</a>
1.724     jasper    334:  <li>Mark Kettenis: <a href="papers/opencon07-sparc64.pdf">
                    335:      OpenBSD/sparc64</a>.
1.723     jasper    336:  <li>Reiner Jung and Jasper Lievisse Adriaanse: <a href="papers/opencon07-gnome.pdf">
1.724     jasper    337:      Gnome as OpenBSD desktop solution</a>.
1.725     bernd     338:  <li>Bernd Ahlers: <a href="papers/opencon07-portstutorial/index.html">
                    339:      OpenBSD Ports Tutorial</a>.
1.744     claudio   340:  <li>Claudio Jeker: <a href="papers/opencon07-ospf6d">
                    341:      OSPF v3 - OSPF for IPv6</a>.
1.722     jsg       342:  </ul>
1.721     jsg       343: <p>
                    344:
1.716     wvdputte  345: <li><strong><a name="dulug2007"></a>
1.719     wvdputte  346: <a href="http://www.dulug.de/">Duisburger Linux User Group</a></strong>,
1.727     wvdputte  347: Nov 17, 2007, Duisburg, Germany.<br>
1.738     tobias    348: Richard Verwayen gave a workshop on installing OpenBSD,
1.727     wvdputte  349: [<a href="http://www.dulug.de/cgi-bin/dcms.cgi?action=lit-17.11.07">pictures</a>].
1.716     wvdputte  350: <p>
                    351:
                    352: <li><strong><a name="essen2007"></a>
                    353: <a href="http://www.come2linux.org/psp/">Come 2 Linux 2007 Essen</a></strong>,
1.727     wvdputte  354: Nov 10 - 11, 2007, Essen, Germany.<br>
                    355: The *BSD projects had an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth.
1.716     wvdputte  356: <p>
                    357:
                    358: <li><strong><a name="nluug2007"></a>
                    359: <a href="http://www.nluug25.nl/en/index.php">NLUUG 25th anniversary</a></strong>,
1.727     wvdputte  360: Nov 7, 2007, Amsterdam, Netherlands.<br>
1.716     wvdputte  361: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth with Wim, Otto, Floor and Kevin.
                    362: <p>
1.658     reyk      363:
1.714     jasper    364: <li><strong><a name="amsterdam2007"></a>
1.741     saad      365: <a
                    366: href="http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&amp;sid=20071017100734&amp;mode=expanded&amp;count=20">Amsterdam user meeting Cafe De Deugniet</a></strong>,
1.727     wvdputte  367: Nov 2, 2007, Amsterdam, Netherlands.<br>
1.741     saad      368: Informal OpenBSD user meeting in Amsterdam, more info on Undeadly.org.
                    369: [<a href="http://brobding.mine.nu/Brobding.mine.nu/Albums/Pages/OpenBSD_4.2.html">pictures</a>]
1.714     jasper    370: <p>
                    371:
1.713     wvdputte  372: <li><strong><a name="uaoug2007"></a>
1.738     tobias    373: <a href="http://www.uaoug.org.ua/en/index.html">Ukrainian OpenBSD Users Group  meeting</a></strong>,
1.713     wvdputte  374: Nov 1, 2007, Kyiv, Ukraine<br>
1.738     tobias    375: Sergey Prysiazhnyi, community co-ordinator, gave a talk about Driver
                    376: Architecture and OpenBSD using in Embedded Systems.
1.713     wvdputte  377: <a href= "http://www.atmnis.com/~apelsin/uaoug/u2k7_v3.0/talk/">[slides]</a>
                    378: <a href= "http://www.atmnis.com/~apelsin/uaoug/u2k7_v3.0/">[pictures]</a>
                    379: <a href= "http://www.atmnis.com/~apelsin/uaoug/u2k7_v3.0/video/talk.mp4">[video]</a>
                    380: <p>
                    381:
1.712     sthen     382: <li><strong><a name="cossfest2007"></a>
                    383: <a href="http://www.cossfest.ca/">COSSFEST 2007</a></strong>,
                    384: Oct 27, 2007, Calgary, Alberta,<br>
                    385: There was an OpenBSD booth present with 4.2 CDs.
                    386: <p>
                    387:
                    388: <li><strong><a name="systems2007"></a>
                    389: <a href="http://www.systems.de/">Systems</a></strong>,
1.727     wvdputte  390: Oct 23 - 26, 2007, Munich, Germany.<br>
1.712     sthen     391: The *BSD projects had an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth in Halle B2 110-2, run by
                    392: DaN, Nikolay Sturm, Marco Pfatschbacher and some other volunteers.
                    393: <p>
                    394:
                    395: <li><strong><a name="bsdcontr2007"></a>
1.734     tobias    396: <a href="http://www.bsdcontr.org/">BSDConTR 2007</a></strong>,
1.712     sthen     397: Oct 19 - 20, 2007, Rectorate of Marmara University, SultanAhmet, Istanbul,
                    398: Turkey.<br>
                    399: First Turkish Conference on BSD Systems.<br>
                    400: Marc Balmer talked about his work on support for radio clocks in
                    401: OpenBSD.<br>
                    402: G&ouml;khan Alkan gave a talk "Spam protection with OpenBSD and PF".<br>
                    403: Huzeyfe &Ouml;nal gave a talk "Advanced Security solutions in OpenBSD".
                    404: <br>
                    405: <p>
                    406:
1.708     aanriot   407: <li><strong><a name=aldil2007></a>
                    408: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/">Les Journ&eacute;es Du Logiciel Libre
                    409: 2007</a></strong>,
                    410: Oct 19 - 20, 2007, Lyon, France.<br>
                    411: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Damien Bergamini and
                    412: Alexandre Anriot with the help of Thierry Thomas.
                    413: <p>
                    414:
1.705     pvalchev  415: <li><strong><a name=rp2007></a>
                    416: <a href="http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference/2007/">Reflections/Projections
                    417: 2007</a></strong>,
1.727     wvdputte  418: Oct 12 - 14, 2007, Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA.<br>
1.705     pvalchev  419: Peter Valchev gave a talk titled <a href="papers/rp2007-slides.pdf">
                    420: Using OpenBSD Security Features to Find Software Bugs</a>.
                    421: <p>
                    422:
                    423: <li><strong><a name=auug2007></a>
                    424: <a href="http://new.auug.org.au/AUUG2007">AUUG 2007</a></strong>,
                    425: Oct 13 - 14, 2007, Melbourne, Australia.<br>
                    426: Reyk Floeter talked about load balancing and TCP-relaying with hoststated.
                    427: There were developers, users, and an OpenBSD booth present.
                    428: <p>
                    429:
                    430: <li><strong><a name="t-dose2007"></a>
                    431: <a href="http://www.t-dose.org/">T-DOSE 2007</a></strong>,
                    432: Oct 13 - 14, 2007, Eindhoven, The Netherlands.<br>
1.727     wvdputte  433: Technical Dutch Open Source Event.<br>
1.705     pvalchev  434: There were developers present as well as an OpenBSD booth,
                    435: run by the usual suspects.
                    436: <p>
                    437:
1.689     claudio   438: <li><strong><a name="openexpo2007"></a>
                    439: <a href="http://www.openexpo.ch/">OpenExpo 2007</a></strong>,
1.734     tobias    440: Sep 19 - 20, 2007, Zurich, Switzerland.<br>
1.689     claudio   441: There were developers present as well as an OpenBSD booth,
1.738     tobias    442: run by the usual suspects.  Stephan A. Rickauer gave a talk
                    443: "OpenBSD and Linux: Insights into a migration project at the Institute of
1.689     claudio   444: Neuroinformatics, ETH Zurich".<br>
                    445: <p>
                    446:
1.686     mbalmer   447: <li><strong><a name="eurobsdcon2007"></a>
                    448: <a href="http://2007.eurobsdcon.org/">EuroBSDCon 2007</a></strong>,
                    449: Sep 14 - 15, 2007, Copenhagen, Denmark.<br>
                    450: Marc Balmer gave a talk <a href="papers/eurobsdcon07/mbalmer-radio_clocks.pdf">
                    451: Support for Radio Clocks in OpenBSD</a>.<br>
1.702     pyr       452: Pierre-Yves Ritschard gave a talk <a href="papers/eurobsdcon07/pyr-loadbalancing">Load Balancing in OpenBSD Using hoststated</a>.<br>
1.688     claudio   453: Claudio Jeker gave a talk <a href="papers/eurobsdcon07/claudio-routing">
                    454: Using OpenBSD as Routing Platform</a>.<br>
1.686     mbalmer   455: Peter Hansteen offered "A Packet Filter Tutorial" on the tutorial day.<br>
                    456: There was an OpenBSD booth, run by the usual suspects.
                    457: <p>
                    458:
1.685     bernd     459: <li><strong><a name="linuxdayskiel2007"></a>
                    460: <a href="http://www.kieler-linuxtage.de">Kieler Linux und Open Source Tage</a></strong>,
1.727     wvdputte  461: Sep 07 - 08, 2007, Kiel, Germany.<br>
1.685     bernd     462: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Bernd.
                    463: <p>
                    464:
1.686     mbalmer   465: <li><strong><a name="xds2007"></a>
                    466: <a href="http://www.x.org/wiki/Events/XDS2007">X.Org Developers' Summit 2007</a></strong>,
                    467: Sep 10 - 12, 2007, Cambridge, UK.<br>
                    468: Matthieu Herrb and Marc Balmer attended the 3-day summit to make sure the
                    469: *BSD point of view was well represented.
                    470: <p>
                    471:
1.684     bernd     472: <li><strong><a name="froscon2007"></a>
                    473: <a href="http://www.froscon.de">FrOSCon 2007</a></strong>,
1.727     wvdputte  474: Aug 25 - 26, 2007, Bonn/Rhein-Sieg, Germany.<br>
1.684     bernd     475: There was an OpenBSD booth, run by the usual suspects.
                    476: <p>
                    477:
1.682     bernd     478: <li><strong><a name="summercamp2007"></a>
1.734     tobias    479: <a href="http://events.ccc.de/camp/2007">Chaos Communication Camp
                    480: 2007</a></strong>,
1.727     wvdputte  481: Aug 8 - 12, 2007, Finowfurt, Germany.<br>
1.682     bernd     482: This open air event had a big OpenBSD village with all the usual suspects.
                    483: <p>
                    484:
1.680     aanriot   485: <li><strong><a name="lsm2007"></a>
                    486: <a href="http://www.rmll.info">Libre Software Meeting 2007</a></strong>,
                    487: Jul 10 - 14, 2007, Amiens, France.<br>
1.681     aanriot   488: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Wim, Matthieu and
                    489: Alexandre with the help of Serge and Christelle.
1.680     aanriot   490: <p>
                    491:
1.675     mbalmer   492: <li><strong><a name=Slackathon2007></a>
1.734     tobias    493: <a href="http://www.slackathon.se/">Slackathon 2007</a></strong>,
1.675     mbalmer   494: June 16, 2007, Stockholm, Sweden.<br>
1.738     tobias    495: Yet another round of fund raising for OpenBSD/SSH and general *BSD meeting
1.675     mbalmer   496: that took place in Stockholm.
                    497: <p>
                    498:
                    499: <li><strong><a name="linuxtag2007"></a>
1.734     tobias    500: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.org/2007/en/">LinuxTag 2007</a></strong>,
1.727     wvdputte  501: May 30 - Jun 2, 2007, Berlin, Germany.<br>
1.675     mbalmer   502: There were presentations by OpenBSD developers and an OpenBSD booth,
1.738     tobias    503: run by the usual suspects, and Stephan A. Rickauer held Peter Hansteen's PF
                    504: tutorial as well as the talk
1.677     wvdputte  505: <a href="http://www.ini.unizh.ch/~stephan/talks/LinuxTag07.pdf">
1.738     tobias    506: "OpenBSD and Linux: Insights into a migration project at the Institute of
1.677     wvdputte  507: Neuroinformatics, ETH Zurich"</a>.
1.675     mbalmer   508: <p>
                    509:
1.674     martin    510: <li><strong><a name=LinuxwochenVienna2007></a>
1.734     tobias    511: <a href="http://www.linuxwochen.at/2007/Wien">Linuxwochen Vienna
                    512: 2007</a></strong>,
1.674     martin    513: May 31 - Jun 2, 2007, Vienna, Austria.<br>
                    514: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth run by Martin Reindl, Robert Peichaer
                    515: and Teemu Schaabl.
                    516: <p>
                    517:
1.671     aanriot   518: <li><strong><a name=cuug2007></a>
                    519: <a href="http://www.cuug.ab.ca/">Calgary Unix Users Group</a></strong>,
                    520: May 29, 2007, downtown Library, basement meeting room, Calgary, Alberta.<br>
1.688     claudio   521: <a href="papers/cuug07-claudio/">Claudio Jeker</a>,
                    522: <a href="papers/cuug2007/">David Gwynne, Henning Brauer</a>,
1.673     mbalmer   523: Reyk Fl&ouml;ter, Matthieu Herrb, Marc Balmer, and Bob Beck discussed recent and
                    524: future networking changes in OpenBSD, as well as Xenocara, support for
                    525: radio clocks in OpenBSD, and Spam Reduction with OpenBSD spamd and greylisting.
1.672     henning   526: Some other OpenBSD developers attended to provide international colour.
1.671     aanriot   527: <p>
                    528:
1.670     ray       529: <li><strong><a name="bsdcan2007"></a>
                    530: <a href="http://www.bsdcan.org/2007/">BSDCan 2007</a></strong>,
                    531: May 16 - 19, 2007, Ottawa, Canada.<br>
                    532: Several OpenBSD developers were there.<br>
                    533: Peter Hansteen gave a "Packet filtering for fun and profit" tutorial and
                    534: presented a "Fighting malware and spam with free tools" talk.<br>
                    535: Ray Lai presented OpenCVS/OpenRCS and
                    536: discussed why a secure CVS implementation is needed.
                    537: <a href="papers/bsdcan07-cvs/">Slides</a> are available.<br>
                    538: Jason Dixon gave the closing session of BSDCan 2007.
                    539: <p>
                    540:
1.669     fkr       541: <li><strong><a name="confidence2007"></a>
                    542: <a href="http://2007.confidence.org.pl/">Confidence 2007</a></strong>,
                    543: May 12 - 13, 2007, Krakow, Poland.<br>
                    544: Felix, Henning and Wim gave presentations and ran the OpenBSD booth.
                    545: <p>
                    546:
1.666     michele   547: <li><strong><a name="obsdm2"></a>
1.734     tobias    548: <a href="http://www.openbeer.it/?open=obsdm2">OpenBSD Meeting V.2</a></strong>,
1.666     michele   549: May 12, 2007, Verona, Italy.<br>
                    550: Another event organized by the OpenBEER team with italian OpenBSD related talks.
                    551: Michele presented a talk about the OpenBSD network stack.
                    552: <p>
                    553:
                    554: <li><strong><a name="nluug2007"></a>
                    555: <a href="http://www.nluug.nl/events/vj07/index.html">NLUUG Voorjaarsconferentie
                    556: 2007</a></strong>,
1.727     wvdputte  557: May 10, 2007, Ede, Netherlands.<br>
1.666     michele   558: There was a
                    559: <a href="http://www.nluug.nl/events/vj07/abstracts/ab.html?id=2">presentation</a>
1.738     tobias    560: by Anil Madhavapeddy and an OpenBSD booth, run by the usual
1.666     michele   561: suspects.
                    562: <p>
                    563:
1.665     mbalmer   564: <li><strong><a name="coimbra2007"></a>
                    565: <a href="http://www.openbsd-pt.com/eventos/coimbra07/index-en.html">Portuguese OpenBSD Usergroup Meeting</a></strong>,
                    566: May 5 - 6, 2007, Coimbra, Portugal.<br>
                    567: 7th Meeting of the Portuguese OpenBSD Usergroup.<br>
                    568: Marc Balmer gave a talk "Ensuring Quality in OpenBSD Without a Formal Process".<br>
                    569: Rui Reis gave a presentation "The Honeynet.PT project".<br>
1.667     pedro     570: Michael Shalayeff gave a talk "Asynchronous I/O".<br>
                    571: Also present was Pedro Martelletto.
1.665     mbalmer   572: <p>
                    573:
1.658     reyk      574: <li><strong><a name=decix6th></a>
                    575: <a href="http://www.de-cix.org/">DE-CIX 6th Technical Meeting</a></strong>,
                    576: Apr 19, 2007, Schloss Kransberg, near Usingen, Germany.<br>
                    577: Henning Brauer and Reyk Fl&ouml;ter talked at the 6th technical
                    578: meeting of the Deutsche Commercial Internet Exchange (DE-CIX).
                    579: Henning gave an update on OpenBGPD and Reyk about the latest
                    580: network-related changes since OpenBSD 4.1. They also talked about
                    581: the status of test OpenBGPD route server running at the DE-CIX.
                    582: <p>
                    583:
1.738     tobias    584: <li><strong><a name="litol07"></a>
1.651     fkr       585: <a href="http://www.lit-ol.de/">2. Linux-Informationstag Oldenburg</a></strong>,
1.738     tobias    586: Apr 14 - 15, 2007, Oldenburg, Germany.<br>
                    587: Small Open-Source event. Of course there was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth run by
1.659     fkr       588: Bernd, Felix and Tobias Stoeckmann. Felix gave a talk about the current state
                    589: of OpenBSD development titled <a href="papers/litol07/">OpenBSD - Past, Present and Future</a>.
1.738     tobias    590: <p>
1.650     deraadt   591:
                    592: <li><strong><a name="fisl8"></a>
                    593: <a href="http://fisl.softwarelivre.org/8.0/www/?q=en">fisl8.0</a></strong>,
1.734     tobias    594: Apr 12 - 14, 2007, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil.<br>
1.650     deraadt   595: This was a fairly large conference in South America.  Theo de Raadt
                    596: presented a talk about <a href="papers/brhard2007/">Hardware Documentation</a>.
1.738     tobias    597: <p>
1.650     deraadt   598:
1.645     ray       599: <li><strong><a name="nycbug2007-cvs"></a>
                    600: <a href="http://nycbug.org/">NYC*BUG April 2007</a></strong>,
                    601: Apr 4, 2007, NYC, USA.<br>
                    602: Ray Lai (ray@) gave a
                    603: <a href="http://www.nycbug.org/index.php?NAV=Home;SUBM=10104">talk</a>
                    604: on OpenCVS.
1.648     ray       605: <a href="papers/nycbug07-cvs/">Slides</a> and
                    606: <a href="http://www.fetissov.org/public/nycbug/nycbug-04-04-07.mp3">audio</a>
                    607: are available.
1.645     ray       608: <p>
                    609:
1.638     grunk     610: <li><strong><a name="elite2007"></a>
                    611: <a href="http://www.erlug.de/?q=node/323">5. Erlanger Linuxtage</a></strong>,
                    612: Mar 24 - 25, 2007, Erlangen, Germany.<br>
                    613: There was an OpenBSD/OpenSSH booth, run by Alexander von Gernler (grunk@).
                    614: He also gave a talk called
1.639     grunk     615: <a href="papers/elite2007/elite2007-openbsd.pdf">
1.638     grunk     616: "Sichere Systeme mit OpenBSD" (german)</a>.
                    617: <p>
                    618:
1.635     tom       619: <li><strong><a name="ukuug2007"></a>
                    620: <a href="http://www.ukuug.org/events/spring2007/">UKUUG Spring 2007 Conference</a></strong>,
1.727     wvdputte  621: Mar 19 - 21, 2007, Manchester, United Kingdom.<br>
1.635     tom       622: Tom Cosgrove gave a presentation about "Third-Party Applications on OpenBSD"
                    623: at the annual spring meeting of the
                    624: <a href="http://www.ukuug.org/">UK's Unix and Open Systems User Group</a>.
                    625: <p>
                    626:
1.627     mcbride   627: <li><strong><a name="asiabsdcon2007"></a>
                    628: <a href="http://www.asiabsdcon.org/">AsiaBSDCon 2007</a></strong>,
                    629: Mar 8 - 11, 2007, Tokyo, Japan.<br>
1.631     mbalmer   630: Marc Balmer presented a paper <a href="papers/radio-clocks-asiabsdcon07.pdf">Supporting Radio Clocks in OpenBSD</a>. Presentation
                    631: <a href="papers/asiabsdcon07-radioclocks/index.html">slides</a> are also
                    632: available.<br>
1.627     mcbride   633: 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   634: Mathieu Sauve-Frankel gave a talk <a href="papers/asiabsdcon07-ipsec/index.html">Recent Improvements in OpenBSD's IPSec Support</a>.<br>
                    635: Damien Miller presented a paper <a href="papers/openssh-measures-asiabsdcon2007.pdf">Security measures in OpenSSH</a>. Presentation
1.628     djm       636: <a href="papers/openssh-measures-asiabsdcon2007-slides.pdf">slides</a> are
                    637: also available.<br>
1.627     mcbride   638: 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".
                    639: <p>
                    640:
1.622     fkr       641: <li><strong><a name="linuxforum2007"></a>
                    642: <a href="http://www.linuxforum.dk/2007/">LinuxForum 2007</a></strong>,
                    643: Mar 2 - 3, 2007, Copenhagen, Denmark.<br>
1.738     tobias    644: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth run by Wim, Bernd and Michael in the
                    645: <a href="http://img.ba-net.org/LinuxForum2007/">best of circumstances</a>.
                    646: Felix gave a talk titled
1.622     fkr       647: <a href="papers/linuxforum07/index.html">OpenBSD - Past, Present and Future</a>.
                    648: <p>
                    649:
1.619     wvdputte  650: <li><strong><a name=Brussels2007></a>
                    651: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/2007/">FOSDEM Brussels 2007</a></strong>,
                    652: Feb 24 - 25, 2007, Brussels, Belgium.<br>
1.727     wvdputte  653: There was an OpenBSD/OpenSSH booth with Matthieu, Marc, Mickey, Saad
1.619     wvdputte  654: and Wim. On Saturday we had our traditional BSD dinner.<br>
                    655: Matthieu gave a <a href="papers/fosdem07-xenocara.pdf">
                    656: talk on Xenocara</a> in the X.Org devroom.
                    657: <p>
1.616     wvdputte  658:
                    659: <li><strong><a name="kiberpipa2007"></a>
                    660: <a href="http://pot.kiberpipa.org">Kiberpipa open sessions</a></strong>,
                    661: February 20, 2007, Ljubljana, Slovenia.<br>
                    662: On that edition of weekly "Open sessions" meetings
                    663: <a href="http://www.kerberos.si">Mitja Muzenic</a> gave a
                    664: <a href="http://pot.kiberpipa.org/?p=39">talk</a> on OpenBSD.
1.619     wvdputte  665: <a href="http://www.kerberos.si/papers/Kiberpipa07/">Slides</a> (in Slovenian),
                    666: <a href="http://video.kiberpipa.org/media/POT_OpenBSD">video</a> (in Slovenian),
1.616     wvdputte  667: and <a href="http://gallery.kerberos.si/kiberpipa07/">photos</a> are available.
                    668: <p>
                    669:
                    670: </ul>
                    671:
1.445     martin    672: <h3>2006</h3>
1.236     jose      673: <ul>
1.537     deraadt   674:
1.588     espie     675: <li><strong><a name="23c3"></a>
1.577     mbalmer   676: <a href="https://events.ccc.de/congress/2006/">23C3 Chaos Communication Congress in
                    677: Berlin</a></strong>,
                    678: December 27 - 30, 2006, Berlin, Germany.<br>
1.597     mbalmer   679: Who can you trust? Well, us. OpenBSD was there, of course, for our annual
1.595     reyk      680: closing event.  fkr, grunk, jsg, mbalmer, mickey, sturm, uwe, martin,
1.598     bernd     681: henning, moritz, bernd and wvdputte were there
1.597     mbalmer   682: there to chat with attendees and discuss OpenBSD stuff.  It was - as usual -
                    683: a great end-of-the-year event.  See you in Berlin again end of 2007.
1.577     mbalmer   684: <p>
                    685:
1.594     mbalmer   686: <li><strong><a name="moscow2006"></a>
                    687: <a href="https://kd85.com/">Moscow OpenBSD user meeting</a></strong>,
                    688: December 8 - 9, 2006, Moscow, Russia.<br>
1.633     tom       689: For details, please email <a href="mailto:grange@opensd.org">Grange</a>
1.594     mbalmer   690: <p>
                    691:
1.515     tom       692: <li><strong><a name="opencon2006"></a>
                    693: <a href="http://www.opencon.org/">OpenCON 2006</a></strong>,
1.734     tobias    694: 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   695: OpenCON is the only conference dedicated solely to OpenBSD.
1.587     deraadt   696: 135 people were registered for the event, but since it was a completely open event is likely that
                    697: even more people just walked in.
1.577     mbalmer   698: Most talks were by OpenBSD developers, but there was also an impressive
1.568     mbalmer   699: number of our developers just attending the conference.  Talks by OpenBSD
1.577     mbalmer   700: developers were:
1.568     mbalmer   701: <p>
1.535     deraadt   702:  <ul>
1.581     claudio   703:  <li>Claudio Jeker: <a href="papers/opencon06-network/index.html">
                    704:      Network stack changes in OpenBSD</a>
1.580     deraadt   705:  <li>Marc Balmer: <a href="papers/opencon06-nmea/index.html">
                    706:      Support for Time Signal Station Receivers and GPS in OpenBSD</a>
1.601     fkr       707:  <li>Felix Kronlage: <a href="papers/opencon06-umts/index.html">Redundancy or mobile deployment with 3G technology</a>
1.584     jsg       708:  <li>Jonathan Gray: <a href="papers/opencon06-drivers/index.html">
                    709:      Driver architecture and implementation in OpenBSD</a>
1.543     mbalmer   710:  <li>Gordon Klok: <i>Processor Power Management</i>
1.596     dlg       711:  <li>David Gwynne: <a href="papers/opencon06-culture.pdf">The OpenBSD
                    712:      Culture</a> and he also filled in for Marco's
                    713:      <a href="papers/opencon06-bio.pdf">Bio and Sensors in OpenBSD</a> talk.
1.582     michele   714:  <li>Michele Marchetto: <a href="papers/opencon06-ripd/index.html">
                    715:      OpenRIPD</a>
1.574     mbalmer   716:  <li>Reyk Floeter: <i>IPsec demystified</i>
1.580     deraadt   717:  <li>Theo de Raadt: <a href="papers/opencon06-docs">
                    718:     Why hardware documentation matters so much and why it is so hard to get</a>
1.535     deraadt   719:  </ul>
1.502     mbalmer   720: <p>
1.577     mbalmer   721: Also present were jcs, krw, mglocker, robert, wvdputte, martin, grunk,
                    722: dhartmei, aanriot, sturm, and bernd.  Of course there was an OpenBSD booth
                    723: run by the usual suspects and you could buy our CD-ROMS, the audio CD and other
1.568     mbalmer   724: stuff.
                    725: <p>
1.502     mbalmer   726:
1.575     reyk      727: <li><strong><a name=opensourcetag2006></a>
                    728: <a href="http://www.opensourcetag.de/2006/">OpenSourceTag 2006</a></strong>,
                    729: Nov 30, 2006, Hannover, Germany.<br>
                    730: Reyk gave a <a href="http://www.opensourcetag.de/2006/agenda/">talk</a> about OpenBSD
                    731: as a reference project for secure software.
                    732: <p>
                    733:
1.583     henning   734: <li><strong><a name=epf2006></a>
                    735: <a href="http://www.peering-forum.eu/2006/">European Peering Forum 2006</a></strong>,
                    736: Nov 29 - 30, 2006, Frankfurt, Germany.<br>
                    737: The European Peering Forum in Frankfurt was hosted by the 3 big european
                    738: peering points DE-CIX, AMSIX and LINX, bringing network operators together.
                    739: Henning was talking about OpenBGPD,
                    740: <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/epf2006/">slides</a> are available.
                    741: <p>
                    742:
1.565     krw       743: <li><strong><a name=conisli2006></a>
                    744: <a href="http://conisli.org/">CONISLI 2006</a></strong>,
1.727     wvdputte  745: Nov 3 - 5, 2006, S&atilde;o Paulo, Brazil.<br>
1.565     krw       746: 4th edition of S&atilde;o Paulo's International Free Software Congress.
1.687     jolan     747: Ken Westerback and Pedro Martelletto gave a talk.
1.565     krw       748: <p>
                    749:
1.559     jason     750: <li><strong><a name=nycbsdcon2006></a>
                    751: <a href="http://nycbsdcon.org/">NYCBSDCon 2006</a></strong>,
1.727     wvdputte  752: Oct 28 - 29, 2006, New York City, USA.<br>
1.559     jason     753: NYCBSDCon is the main conference on the East Coast for the
                    754: BSD community to get together to share and gain knowledge,
1.562     jason     755: to network with like minded people.  Several developers
1.563     jason     756: spoke, more were on hand:
1.559     jason     757:  <ul>
                    758:   <li>Marco Peereboom: <a href="papers/bio.pdf">bio and sensors in OpenBSD</a>
1.563     jason     759:    [<a href="http://www.fetissov.org/public/nycbsdcon06/1.6.mp3">audio</a>]
1.605     jason     760:   <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     761:   <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>]
                    762:   <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     763:   <li>Ray Lai: <i>First time booth bunny</i>
                    764:  </ul>
                    765: <p>
                    766:
1.556     fgsch     767: <li><strong><a name=linuxworlduk2006></a>
                    768: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.co.uk/">LinuxWorld Expo UK 2006</a></strong>,
                    769: Oct 25 - 26, 2006, Olympia, London, UK.<br>
1.738     tobias    770: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Wim, Tom, Peter, Federico and
1.558     wvdputte  771: Pedro La Peu.
1.556     fgsch     772: <p>
                    773:
1.589     aanriot   774: <li><strong><a name=cuug2006oct></a>
                    775: <a href="http://www.cuug.ab.ca/">Calgary Unix Users Group</a></strong>,
                    776: Oct 24, 2006, downtown Library, basement meeting room, Calgary, Alberta.<br>
                    777: Theo de Raadt gave a talk regarding the increasing demand for
                    778: vendors to open up their documentation.
                    779: <p>
                    780:
1.553     grunk     781: <li><strong><a name="systems2006"></a>
                    782: <a href="http://www.systems.de/">Systems</a></strong>,
1.734     tobias    783: Oct 23 - 27, 2006, Munich, Germany.<br>
1.553     grunk     784: The *BSD projects were located at A3.542.
                    785: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
                    786: Wilhelm B&uuml;hler, DaN, Nikolay Sturm, Marco Pfatschbacher,
                    787: and some other volunteers.
                    788: <p>
                    789:
1.550     henning   790: <li><strong><a name=hacklu2006></a>
                    791: <a href="http://www.hack.lu/">hack.lu 2006</a></strong>,
1.727     wvdputte  792: Oct 19 - 21, 2006, Luxembourg/Kirchberg, Luxembourg.<br>
1.550     henning   793: Henning Brauer gave a well received talk about OpenBGPD.
                    794: <p>
                    795:
1.547     aanriot   796: <li><strong><a name=aldil2006></a>
                    797: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/">Les Journ&eacute;es Du Logiciel Libre
                    798: 2006</a></strong>,
                    799: Oct 13 - 14, 2006, Lyon, France.<br>
                    800: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Miod Vallat and Alexandre
                    801: Anriot with the help of Thierry Thomas and Damien Bergamini.
                    802: <p>
                    803:
1.546     mcbride   804: <li><strong><a name=auug2006></a>
                    805: <a href="http://new.auug.org.au/">AUUG 2006</a></strong>,
                    806: Oct 10 - 13, 2006, Melbourne, Australia.<br>
                    807: Ryan Mcbride presented a full-day tutorial entitled
1.738     tobias    808: "Advanced PF Rulesets" as well as two additional talks
1.546     mcbride   809: <a href="papers/auug2006/pf_evolution/">PF evolution</a>
1.738     tobias    810: and
1.546     mcbride   811: <a href="papers/auug2006/network_randomness/">Network stack randomness in OpenBSD</a>.
                    812: <p>
                    813:
1.532     wvdputte  814: <li><strong><a name=eurooscon2006></a>
1.734     tobias    815: <a href="http://conferences.oreillynet.com/euos2006/">O'Reilly Euro OSCON
                    816: 2006</a></strong>,
1.532     wvdputte  817: Sep 20, 2006, Brussels, Belgium.<br>
                    818: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth.
                    819: <p>
                    820:
1.528     wvdputte  821: <li><strong><a name=come2linux2006></a>
                    822: <a href="http://www.come2linux.org/psp/">Come 2 Linux 2006</a></strong>,
                    823: Sep 9 - 10, 2006, Duisburg-Essen, Germany.<br>
                    824: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth.
                    825: <p>
                    826:
1.525     wvdputte  827: <li><strong><a name=ChaosdaysDarmstadt2006></a>
1.734     tobias    828: <a href="http://mrmcd101b.metarheinmain.de/index.html">mrmcd101b -
                    829: MetaRheinMainChaosDays Darmstadt 2006</a></strong>,
1.525     wvdputte  830: Sep 1 - 3, 2006, Darmstadt, Germany.<br>
                    831: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth.
                    832: <p>
                    833:
1.521     fkr       834: <li><strong><a name=LinuxWorldExpoSF2006></a>
1.734     tobias    835: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/live/12/events/12SFO06A/conference/tracksessions/Security/QMONYA04ROFR">LinuxWorld Expo San Francisco 2006</a></strong>,
1.727     wvdputte  836: Aug 16, 2006, San Francisco, USA.<br>
1.521     fkr       837: Ted Unangst spoke about OpenBSD as part of a security panel.
                    838: <p>
                    839:
1.518     tedu      840: <li><strong><a name=coimbra2006></a>
                    841: <a href="http://www.openbsd-pt.com/eventos/coimbra06/">Portuguese OpenBSD Usergroup Meeting</a></strong>,
                    842: Jul 22 - 23, 2006, Coimbra, Portugal.<br>
                    843: 6th Meeting of the Portuguese OpenBSD Usergroup.  Marc Balmer gave a talk
                    844: "NMEA 0183 and Time Signal Station Receiver Support in OpenBSD".
                    845: <p>
                    846:
                    847: <li><strong><a name=akqit2006></a>
1.738     tobias    848: <a href="http://www.akqit.ch/w3/DE/actual.html">Arbeitskreis f&uuml;r Qualit&auml;t in der Informationstechnologie (Working Group for Quality in IT)</a></strong>,
1.734     tobias    849: Jul 20, 2006, University of Basel, Computer Science Department, Room 205, Bernoullistr. 16, 17:30 - 18:30, Basel, Switzerland.<br>
1.590     mbalmer   850: Marc Balmer gave a talk in german "<a href="papers/akqit06/index.html">Ensuring
                    851: Quality in the Development of the Free Operating System OpenBSD</a>".
1.518     tedu      852: <p>
1.475     deraadt   853:
1.510     wvdputte  854: <li><strong><a name="lsm2006"></a>
                    855: <a href="http://www.rmll.info">Libre Software Meeting 2006</a></strong>,
                    856: Jul 4 - 8, 2006, Vandoeuvre-les-nancy, France.<br>
1.681     aanriot   857: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Wim, Matthieu and
                    858: Alexandre with the help of Serge and Christelle.
1.510     wvdputte  859: <p>
                    860:
1.508     wvdputte  861: <li><strong><a name=FrOSCon></a>
                    862: <a href="http://www.froscon.de/">
                    863: FrOSCon 2006 - Free and Open Source Software Conference</a></strong>,
                    864: Jun 24 - 25, 2006, Bonn/Rhein-Sieg, Germany.<br>
1.738     tobias    865: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth run by Wim, Waldemar, Manuel and
1.508     wvdputte  866: Tim Kornau.
                    867: <p>
                    868:
1.507     mbalmer   869: <li><strong><a name=LinuxwochenLinz2006></a>
1.734     tobias    870: <a href="http://www.linuxwochen.at/2006/Linz">Linuxwochen Linz
                    871: 2006</a></strong>,
1.507     mbalmer   872: June 15, 2006, Linz, Austria.<br>
1.727     wvdputte  873: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth run by Wim and the usual suspects.
1.507     mbalmer   874: <p>
                    875:
1.506     deraadt   876: <li><strong><a name=lugverona2006></a>
1.734     tobias    877: <a href="http://www.di.univr.it/dol/main?ent=iniziativa&amp;id=857&amp;lang=it">LUGVR@UNIVR</a></strong>,
1.506     deraadt   878: Jun 9, 2006, Verona University, Borgo Roma, Italy.<br>
                    879: Florin Iamandi of <a href="https://www.verona.linux.it">LUG Verona</a>
                    880: gave a talk
                    881: (<a href="http://todome.net/docs/obsd_carp/en">English</a> and
                    882: <a href="http://todome.net/docs/obsd_carp/it">Italian</a>)
                    883: and live demonstration on redundant failover
                    884: OpenBSD firewalls. He explained why OpenBSD solves many problems that
                    885: had previously been the dominion of expensive commercial solutions.
                    886: Attendees learned about OpenBSD's hard stance and successful fight against
                    887: bad licences and uncooperating vendors and manufacturers.
                    888: <p>
                    889:
1.502     mbalmer   890: <li><strong><a name=Slackathon2006></a>
1.734     tobias    891: <a href="http://slackathon2006.unix.se">Slackathon 2006</a></strong>,
1.502     mbalmer   892: Jun 3, 2006, Stockholm, Sweden.<br>
                    893: A fundraiser for OpenBSD/SSH held at the Stockholm University. Free
1.505     ian       894: entrance and all donations went straight to the project. Several
1.502     mbalmer   895: developers were talking about OpenBSD here, as well as some hands-on
                    896: workshops took place with both old and new hardware.
                    897: <p>
                    898:
1.500     deraadt   899: <li><strong><a name=cuug2006></a>
                    900: <a href="http://www.cuug.ab.ca/">Calgary Unix Users Group</a></strong>,
                    901: Jun 1, 2006, SAIT Campus, Calgary, Alberta.<br>
1.504     miod      902: Bob Beck and Reyk Floeter discussed recent and future networking
                    903: changes in OpenBSD.  Some other OpenBSD developers attended to provide
1.500     deraadt   904: international colour, and there were tshirts, CDs, and posters on hand.
                    905: CUUG made a substantial contribution to OpenBSD at this event as well.
                    906: <p>
                    907:
1.589     aanriot   908: <li><strong><a name=LinuxwochenVienna2006></a>
1.734     tobias    909: <a href="http://www.linuxwochen.at/2006/Wien">Linuxwochen Vienna
                    910: 2006</a></strong>,
1.589     aanriot   911: May 31 - Jun 2, 2006, Vienna, Austria.<br>
                    912: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth run by Wim and the usual suspects.
                    913: <p>
                    914:
1.585     aanriot   915: <li><strong><a name=plug060519></a>
1.734     tobias    916: <a href="http://www.plugfr.org/">Provence Linux User Group</a></strong>,
1.586     aanriot   917: May 19, 2006, Marseille, France.<br>
1.585     aanriot   918: Alexandre Anriot spoke about the deployment of wireless networks with
1.586     aanriot   919: OpenBSD during a meeting of the PLUG.
1.585     aanriot   920: <p>
                    921:
1.491     bernd     922: <li><strong><a name="SANE2006"></a>
                    923: <a href="http://www.sane.nl/sane2006/">SANE 2006</a></strong>,
                    924: May 15 - 19, 2006, Delft, The Netherlands.<br>
                    925: Peter N. M. Hansteen gave a
                    926: <a href="http://www.sane.nl/sane2006/program/abstract.php?eventid=35">
                    927: PF tutorial</a>.
                    928: <p>
                    929:
1.490     reyk      930: <li><strong><a name=bsdcan2006></a> <a
                    931: href="http://www.bsdcan.org/2006/">BSDCan 2006</a></strong>,
                    932: May 12 - 13, 2006, Ottawa, Canada.<br>
                    933: David Gwynne gave a talk about hardware monitoring with bio and
                    934: sensors in OpenBSD (<a href="papers/bsdcan06-biosensors.pdf">slides</a>)
                    935: and Reyk Fl&ouml;ter talked about the latest
                    936: wireless support and the incredible plans for the future
                    937: (<a href="papers/bsdcan06-wlan/index.html">slides</a>), and
                    938: Peter Hansteen gave a PF tutorial. A number of OpenBSD hackers
                    939: attended the conference as well, like Bob Beck and Mathieu Sauve-Frankel.
                    940: <p>
                    941:
1.489     bernd     942: <li><strong><a name="linuxdays2006"></a>
1.738     tobias    943: <a href="http://www.linuxdays.ch">Linuxdays 2006</a></strong>,
1.489     bernd     944: May 8 - 12, 2006, Geneva, Switzerland.<br>
                    945: Julien Mabillard, a long-time Geneva OpenBSD user, gave a talk to present
                    946: the overall system and its great features.
                    947: <p>
                    948:
1.592     claudio   949: <li><strong><a name="idepes2006"></a>
1.589     aanriot   950: <a href="http://www.idepes.org.br/openbsd/">IDEPES 2006</a></strong>,
                    951: May 6, 2006, S&atilde;o Paulo, Brazil.<br>
                    952: First event in Brazil totally dedicated to OpenBSD.
                    953: <p>
                    954:
1.592     claudio   955: <li><strong><a name="LinuxTag2006"></a>
1.484     mbalmer   956: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.org/2006/">LinuxTag 2006</a></strong>,
                    957: May 3 - 6, 2006, Wiesbaden, Germany.<br>
                    958: OpenBSD was very present at this years Linuxtag:
                    959: <ul>
                    960: <li>On friday morning, Claudio and Marc moderated a panel discussion
                    961: "BLOBS sind das Krebsgeschw&uuml;r freier Software" (Blobs are the
1.485     mbalmer   962: cancer of free software) that was well attended.  Unfortunately no one
1.484     mbalmer   963: in favour of Blobs attended, although we asked almost all Linux
                    964: distributions...
                    965: <li>After lunch, Marc Balmer started the afternoon with a talk "OpenBSD
                    966: as a Strategic Platform for the Basle Public Schools", outlining how and
1.485     mbalmer   967: why the Basle Public school system uses OpenBSD for most of its
1.484     mbalmer   968: infrastructure.
1.592     claudio   969: <li>The next OpenBSD specific talk was by Claudio Jeker,
                    970: <a href="papers/linuxtag06-network/">"Routing with OpenBSD using
                    971: OpenOSPFD and OpenBGPD"</a> where he showed various routing setups and
                    972: how full redundancy can be achieved.
                    973: [<a href="papers/linuxtag06-network.pdf">paper</a>]
1.484     mbalmer   974: <li>Later, Marc Balmer gave a talk "Decoding Time Signal Stations using
                    975: OpenBSD" and explained the recent addition of timedelta sensors and the
                    976: first implementation of such, udcf(4).
                    977: </ul>
                    978: <br>
                    979: All talks where very well received and OpenBSD filled four hours of the
1.485     mbalmer   980: Linuxtag program.  We thank Wilhelm B&uuml;hler,  chair of the BSD-Track
1.484     mbalmer   981: at Linuxtag, for the superb and professional organization.
                    982: <br>
                    983: Of course, there was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth run by Wim and the
                    984: usual suspects.
                    985: <p>
                    986:
1.486     mickey    987: <li><strong><a name=NYCBUG2006-05></a>
                    988: <a href="http://nycbug.org/index.php?NAV=Home&amp;SUBM=83">NYCBUG Monthly meeting</a></strong>,
                    989: May 3, 2006, NYC, USA.<br>
                    990: Mickey gave a talk
1.564     jason     991: (<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    992: about PAE work for OpenBSD/i386.<br>
                    993: Mischa Diehm gave a talk about implementing VPN using OpenBSD.
                    994: <p>
                    995:
1.484     mbalmer   996: <li><strong><a name=tokyo2006></a>
                    997: <a href="http://www.tokyopc.org/index.php/weblog/">Tokyo PC Users Group</a></strong>,
1.727     wvdputte  998: May 2, 2006, Tokyo, Japan.<br>
1.484     mbalmer   999: Theo presented his <a href="papers/ven05-deraadt">"Exploit Mitigation Techniques"</a>
                   1000: talk.  There is a
                   1001: <a href="http://www.tokyopc.org/faxmessage/index.html#about">map to the location</a>.
                   1002: <p>
                   1003:
1.478     mbalmer  1004: <li><strong><a name=SambaEXPerience2006></a>
                   1005: <a href="http://www.sambaxp.org/">Samba eXPerience 2006</a></strong>,
                   1006: April 24 - 26, 2006, G&ouml;ttingen, Germany.<br>
                   1007: Marc Balmer gave a talk "Providing Fully Automated Fileserver Services
                   1008: for Public Schools using LDAP Integrated SAMBA on OpenBSD" that was very
                   1009: well received.
                   1010: <br>
                   1011: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth run by Wim and Marc and Felix Kronlage
                   1012: and we could draw a lot of attention.
                   1013: <p>
                   1014:
1.479     deraadt  1015: <li><strong><a name=DORSCLUC2006></a>
                   1016: <a href="http://www.open.hr/dc2006/"> DORS / CLUC 2006</a></strong>,
1.734     tobias   1017: April 19 - 21, 2006, Zagreb, Croatia.<br>
1.479     deraadt  1018: <a href="http://www.kerberos.si">Mitja Muzenic</a> gave a
1.480     mbalmer  1019: <a href="http://www.kerberos.si/papers/DORS06/index.html">
                   1020: "Introduction to OpenBSD"</a> talk. Conference
                   1021: <a href="http://www.open.hr/dc2006/program.php">program</a> (in croatian
1.479     deraadt  1022: only).
                   1023: <p>
                   1024:
1.475     deraadt  1025: <li><strong><a name=linuxworld2006></a>
1.734     tobias   1026: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/live/12/events/12BOS06A/"
                   1027: >LinuxWorld/OpenSolutions World 2006</a></strong>,
1.475     deraadt  1028: April 3 - 6, 2006, Boston, USA.<br>
                   1029: Jason Dixon presented
1.738     tobias   1030: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/live/12/events/12BOS06A/conference/tracksessions/Security/QMONYA04Q1DK">Secure Network Architectures with OpenBSD</a>,
1.475     deraadt  1031: a talk on OpenBSD that outlines the various technologies that make
                   1032: it a leader of secure networking platforms.
                   1033: <br>
                   1034: He spent time around the exposition BSD booth with giveaways
                   1035: and early release OpenBSD 3.9 CDs.
                   1036: <p>
                   1037:
                   1038: <li><strong><a name=cansecwest06></a>
                   1039: <a href="http://www.cansecwest.com">Cansecwest/core06</a></strong>,
1.727     wvdputte 1040: April 3 - 7, 2006, Vancouver, Canada.<br>
1.475     deraadt  1041: A rather interesting OpenBSD-related talk happened at this event, regarding
                   1042: using SMI interrupts to break out of X into kernel mode.
                   1043: <br>
                   1044: Some OpenBSD developers attended.  Some early OpenBSD 3.9 items went
                   1045: on sale.
                   1046: <p>
                   1047:
1.469     tom      1048: <li><strong><a name=ukuug2006></a>
                   1049: <a href="http://www.ukuug.org/events/spring2006/">UKUUG Spring Conference 2006</a></strong>,
1.727     wvdputte 1050: Mar 22 - 23, 2006, Durham, United Kingdom.<br>
1.469     tom      1051: Reyk Fl&ouml;ter gave a talk about the latest wireless support in
                   1052: OpenBSD at the annual spring meeting of the
                   1053: <a href="http://www.ukuug.org/">UK's Unix and Open Systems User Group</a>.
                   1054: Peter N. M. Hansteen
                   1055: gave a PF tutorial, Tom Cosgrove presented "Exploit
                   1056: Mitigation Techniques" and Constantine Murenin gave a
                   1057: presentation on "Hardware temperature monitoring device
                   1058: drivers for OpenBSD".
                   1059: These were all part of a new, well-attended, BSD stream at the event.
                   1060: <p>
                   1061:
1.459     henning  1062: <li><strong><a name=Copenhagen2006></a>
                   1063: <a href="http://www.linuxforum.dk/2006/en/">LinuxForum 2006</a></strong>,
1.727     wvdputte 1064: Mar 3 - 4, 2006, Copenhagen, Denmark.<br>
1.738     tobias   1065: Wim gave Felix Kronlage's talk about OpenBSD Mobile Use (wifi, UMTS,
1.459     henning  1066: GPRS, phones and the like) with some demo setups.
                   1067: Henning Brauer gave a very well received talk about OpenBGPD,
                   1068: <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/linuxforum2006/">slides</a> are available.
                   1069: <p>
                   1070:
1.457     wvdputte 1071: <li><strong><a name=Brussels2006></a>
                   1072: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/2006/">FOSDEM Brussels 2006</a></strong>,
                   1073: Feb 25 - 26, 2006, Brussels, Belgium.<br>
1.738     tobias   1074: An OpenBSD/OpenSSH booth was present, run by the usual gang of suspects:
1.458     xsa      1075: Alexandre, Dimitar, Matthieu, Mbalmer, Nikolay, Otto, Reyk, Saad, Thierry, Uwe, Wim, and
1.457     wvdputte 1076: Xsa. Reyk gave a talk about Wifi with OpenBSD and there was our traditional
1.738     tobias   1077: BSD dinner. More details and
1.457     wvdputte 1078: <a href="http://saad.docisland.org/pictures/fosdem2006/index.html">pictures</a>
1.458     xsa      1079: on <a href="http://saad.docisland.org/blog/files/archive-12.html#unique-entry-id-40">Saad's blog</a>.
1.457     wvdputte 1080: <p>
                   1081:
                   1082: <li><strong><a name=Vegas2006></a>
                   1083: <a href="http://kd85.com/vegas2006.html">Merciful briefings 2006</a></strong>,
                   1084: Feb 15, 2006, Las Vegas, USA - Feb 17, 2006, San Diego, USA - Feb 18, 2006, Phoenix, USA.<br>
                   1085: While traveling the US, Wim met with a bunch of OpenBSD users in Las Vegas,
1.738     tobias   1086: San Diego and Phoenix. With many thanks to the members of PhxBUG - Phoenix BSD
1.457     wvdputte 1087: User Group, more specificly Darrin Chandler, for organising the little
                   1088: details and Jacob for road trip directions.
                   1089: <p>
1.455     grunk    1090:
1.456     henning  1091: <li><strong><a name=nanog36></a>
                   1092: <a href="http://www.nanog.org/">NANOG 36</a></strong>,
                   1093: Feb 12 - 15, 2006, Dallas, USA.<br>
                   1094: Henning Brauer and Bernhard Kroenung of DE-CIX talked about OpenBGPD and
                   1095: OpenBGPD at DE-CIX, <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/nanog36/">slides</a>
                   1096: are available. Henning talked again at the tools BOF
                   1097: (<a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/nanog36-bof/">slides</a>).
                   1098: Both talks were very well received by the audience.
                   1099: Kenjiro Cho was there too, talking about IPv6 issues.
                   1100: <p>
                   1101:
1.455     grunk    1102: <li><strong><a name="Paris2006"></a>
1.734     tobias   1103: <a href="http://www.solutionslinux.fr/fr/index.php">Solutions Linux
                   1104: 2006</a></strong>,
1.455     grunk    1105: Jan 31 - Feb 2, 2006, Paris, France.<br>
                   1106: There was an OpenBSD booth run by Marc Espie, Miod Vallat, Saad Kadhi and
                   1107: Wim with help from Guillaume Arcas and Christophe Plasschaert.
                   1108: <p>
                   1109: </ul>
                   1110:
1.296     mcbride  1111: <h3>2005</h3>
1.240     espie    1112:
                   1113: <ul>
1.337     deraadt  1114:
1.445     martin   1115: <li><strong><a name=22c3></a>
                   1116: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/2005/">22C3 Chaos Communication Congress in
                   1117: Berlin</a></strong>,
                   1118: December 27 - 30, 2005, Berlin, Germany.<br>
                   1119: Many OpenBSD developers and users met for a Xmas break in a unique setting.
                   1120: <p>
                   1121:
1.585     aanriot  1122: <li><strong><a name=plug051216></a>
1.734     tobias   1123: <a href="http://www.plugfr.org/">Provence Linux User Group</a></strong>,
1.586     aanriot  1124: December 16, 2005, Marseille, France.<br>
                   1125: Alexandre Anriot spoke about OpenSSH during a meeting of the PLUG.
1.585     aanriot  1126: <p>
                   1127:
1.435     matthieu 1128: <li><strong><a name=eurobsdcon2005></a>
                   1129: <a href="http://2005.eurobsdcon.org/">EuroBSDCon 2005</a></strong>,
                   1130: Nov 25 - 27, 2005, Basel, Switzerland.<br>
                   1131: The 4th edition of the european conference for BSD systems has been a
                   1132: great success. More than 225 people from 27 countries attended the
1.438     deraadt  1133: event.
1.444     grunk    1134: The program included a
                   1135: <a href="http://www.eurobsdcon.org/tutorials-reyk.php">tutorial by Reyk about
1.437     niallo   1136: OpenBSD-based Wireless Networks</a> and the following talks
                   1137: <ul>
1.438     deraadt  1138: <li>Henning Brauer with Wilhelm B&uuml;hler "Signal Handlers"
                   1139: <li>Ryan McBride "Network Stack Randomness"
1.439     matthieu 1140: <li><a href="papers/eurobsd2005/herrb-hopf.pdf">Matthieu Herrb and Matthias Hopf "New Evolutions in the X Window System"</a>
1.440     claudio  1141: <li><a href="papers/eurobsd2005/claudio/">Claudio Jeker "The Design and Implementation of OpenOSPFD"</a>
1.439     matthieu 1142: <li><a href="papers/eurobsd2005/niallo-uwe/">Niall O'Higgins &amp; Uwe Stuehler "Embedded OpenBSD"</a>
1.443     deraadt  1143: <li><a href="papers/eurobsd2005/tedu-rthreads.pdf">Ted Unangst "rthreads: A New Thread Implementation for OpenBSD"</a>
1.437     niallo   1144: </ul>
1.438     deraadt  1145: <p>
1.435     matthieu 1146: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
                   1147: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
                   1148: <p>
                   1149:
1.434     bernd    1150: <li><strong><a name=linuxworldexpogermany2005></a>
                   1151: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.de/">Linux World Expo Germany</a></strong>,
                   1152: Nov 15 - 17, 2005, Frankfurt, Germany.<br>
                   1153: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
                   1154: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a> and Bernd.
                   1155: <p>
                   1156:
1.441     niallo   1157: <li><strong><a name="pacsec05"></a>
                   1158: <a href="http://www.pacsec.jp/">PacSec/core 05 conference</a></strong>,
                   1159: Nov 15 - 16, 2005, Tokyo, Japan.<br>
                   1160: Sean Comeau presented a talk called
                   1161: <a href="http://www.openbsd-support.com/jp/en/htm/mgp/pacsec05/index.html">
                   1162: Open Source Secure Wireless Networks in a Windows World</a>
                   1163: <a href="http://www.pacsec.jp/core05/psj05-scomeau-en.pdf">[PDF]</a>.
                   1164: The solution he presents uses IPsec to protect traffic between the
                   1165: wireless clients and access points. Authentication is done using OpenSSH
                   1166: (authpf), a process made transparent and user-friendly by a few small
                   1167: scripts.
                   1168: <p>
                   1169:
1.424     mbalmer  1170: <li><strong><a name=opencon2005></a>
                   1171: <a href="http://www.opencon.org/">OpenCON 2005</a></strong>,
                   1172: Nov 4 - 6, 2005, San Servolo Island, Venice, Italy.<br>
1.427     deraadt  1173: The only unique conference entirely dedicated to OpenBSD, held in the totally
                   1174: crazy environment of San Servolo island: an old insane asylum turned into a
                   1175: university about 20 years ago, about 10 minutes boat ride from Venice.
1.429     deraadt  1176: In the days leading up to this, about 12 OpenBSD developers arrived early
1.427     deraadt  1177: for a Ports mini-hackathon.  During the conference a few developers gave
1.433     deraadt  1178: talks, including
                   1179: <ul>
                   1180: <li><a href="papers/ven05-pvalchev">Peter Valchev "OpenBSD Hackathon report"</a>
                   1181: <li><a href="papers/ven05-espie">Marc Espie "OpenBSD ports and packages"</a>
                   1182: <li><a href="papers/ven05-henning">Henning Brauer "OpenBSD networking update"</a>
                   1183: <li><a href="papers/ven05-niallo-uwe/slides.pdf">Uwe Stuehler, Niall O'Higgins "Porting OpenBSD"</a>
                   1184: <li><a href="papers/ven05-deraadt">Theo de Raadt "Exploit Mitigation Techniques (updated to include random malloc and mmap)"</a>
                   1185: </ul>
1.424     mbalmer  1186: <p>
                   1187:
                   1188: <li><strong><a name=systems2005></a>
1.738     tobias   1189: <a href="http://www.systems.de/">Systems</a></strong>,
1.727     wvdputte 1190: Oct 24 - 28, 2005, Munich, Germany.<br>
1.425     mbalmer  1191: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
1.424     mbalmer  1192: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
                   1193: <p>
                   1194:
1.418     djm      1195: <li><strong><a name=auug2005></a>
                   1196: <a href="http://www.auug.org.au/events/2005/auug2005/">AUUG 2005</a></strong>,
                   1197: October 16 - 21, 2005, Sydney, Australia.<br>
1.738     tobias   1198: Mark Uemura presented a tutorial on setting up CARP/PF, a demonstration of
                   1199: stateful failover with CARP and pfsync and a talk on wireless security in
1.418     djm      1200: a corporate environment using authpf and isakmpd.  Peter Hansteen gave a
                   1201: <a href="http://www.bgnett.no/~peter/pf/">Firewalling with PF</a> tutorial.
1.420     deraadt  1202: Damien Miller presented on the approach to
                   1203: <a href="papers/auug2005-portability">secure software portability used
                   1204: by portable OpenSSH</a>, Reyk Flöter gave a talk on the current state of wireless
1.418     djm      1205: support in OpenBSD and David Purdue introduced OpenBSD's spamd tarpit.
                   1206: Most of the Australian OpenBSD developers and many users were present.
                   1207: <p>
                   1208:
1.415     aanriot  1209: <li><strong><a name=aldil2005></a>
                   1210: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/">Les Journ&eacute;es Du Logiciel Libre
                   1211: 2005</a></strong>,
                   1212: Oct 14 - 15, 2005, Lyon, France.<br>
                   1213: There was OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Alexandre Anriot with the
                   1214: help of Thierry Thomas.
                   1215: <p>
                   1216:
1.420     deraadt  1217: <li><strong><a name=cafeconf2005></a>
                   1218: <a href="http://www.cafeconf.org/">CaFeConf 2005,
                   1219: 4tas Jornadas Abiertas de GNU/Linux y Software Libre</a></strong>,
1.734     tobias   1220: Oct 13 - 15, 2005, Buenos Aires, Argentina.<br>
1.420     deraadt  1221: CaFeConf 2005 is the anual event of CaFeLUG - Free Software Users
                   1222: Group of Capital Federal, Argentina. This year the event featured
                   1223: 116 presentations consisting of talks, tutorials, and workshops. The
                   1224: event was also broadcasted on the Internet. Entrance was free, but
                   1225: registration was mandatory.<br>
                   1226: Fernando Gont gave a talk on
1.444     grunk    1227: <a href="http://www.cafeconf.org/modules/myconference/viewspeech.php?sid=147&amp;cid=20">
1.420     deraadt  1228: ICMP attacks against TCP</a>,
                   1229: in which he gave an overview of the attacks, the possible
                   1230: counter-measures, and the politics of vulnerabilities, and a talk on
1.444     grunk    1231: <a href="http://www.cafeconf.org/modules/myconference/viewspeech.php?sid=173&amp;cid=20">
1.420     deraadt  1232: Fixing the vulnerability of the Path-MTU Discovery mechanism</a>,
                   1233: in which explained how OpenBSD fixed the vulnerability of the PMTUD
                   1234: mechanism.
                   1235: <p>
                   1236:
1.414     bernd    1237: <li><strong><a name=linuxkongress2005></a>
1.738     tobias   1238: <a href="http://www.linux-kongress.org/">12th International Linux System
1.414     bernd    1239: Technology Conference</a></strong>,
                   1240: Oct 11 - 14, 2005, University of Hamburg, Germany.<br>
                   1241: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth.
                   1242: <p>
                   1243:
                   1244: <li><strong><a name=linuxworlduk2005></a>
                   1245: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.co.uk/">LinuxWorld Expo UK 2005</a></strong>,
                   1246: Oct 5 - 6, 2005, Olympia, London, UK.<br>
                   1247: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth.
                   1248: <p>
                   1249:
1.410     wvdputte 1250: <li><strong><a name=opensourcetag2005></a>
1.575     reyk     1251: <a href="http://www.opensourcetag.de/2005/">OpenSourceTag 2005</a></strong>,
1.410     wvdputte 1252: Sep 27, 2005, Hannover, Germany.<br>
1.444     grunk    1253: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth and Reyk gave a
1.575     reyk     1254: <a href="http://www.opensourcetag.de/2005/agenda/">talk</a> about IT security.
1.410     wvdputte 1255: <p>
                   1256:
                   1257: <li><strong><a name="gubuginstallfest2005"></a>
1.738     tobias   1258: <a href="http://gubug.org/meetings.php">Greater Utah BSD Group
1.410     wvdputte 1259: Installfest 2005</a></strong>,
                   1260: Sep 24, 2005, Sandy, UT, USA.<br/>
1.444     grunk    1261: <a href="http://www.gubug.org/">The Greater Utah BSD User Group</a> organised
1.410     wvdputte 1262: their first annual BSD Installfest, sponsored by Utah ISP ArosNet.
                   1263: There were handouts, CD-ROMs, technical presentations, and
                   1264: fun, plus a chance to get OpenBSD or a related open source BSD operating system
                   1265: installed on your computer.
                   1266: Admission was free (computers not included in cost of admission).
1.419     djm      1267: Featured speakers included Dan Langille, organizer of BSDCan.
1.410     wvdputte 1268: <p>
                   1269:
1.404     wvdputte 1270: <li><strong><a name="NYCBSDCon2005"></a>
                   1271: <a href="http://nycbsdcon.org/">New York City BSD Conference 2005</a></strong>,
1.410     wvdputte 1272: Sep 17, 2005, NYC, USA.<br>
1.404     wvdputte 1273: NYCBSDCon was a one day technical conference hosted by the New York
                   1274: City *BSD User Group and was held at Columbia University.
1.406     saad     1275: The all day conference included a variety of speakers representing the
1.404     wvdputte 1276: BSD projects and the open source community.<br>
                   1277: NYCBSDCon was organized by NYC*BUG, a technical user group that formed in
                   1278: December 2003. Besides their regular monthly meetings at the Soho Apple
                   1279: Store, NYC*BUG has done fundraising for the BSD projects and contributed a
                   1280: number of useful online applications such as BSDTracker and dmesgd.<br>
                   1281: Additional sponsors included USENIX, New York Internet and SRA America.
                   1282: <p>
                   1283:
                   1284: <li><strong><a name=opensaar2005></a>
                   1285: <a href="http://www.opensaar.de/">OpenSaar 2005</a></strong>,
                   1286: Sep 13 - 14, 2005, Saarbr&uuml;cken, Germany.<br>
1.727     wvdputte 1287: An OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth was present.
1.404     wvdputte 1288: <p>
                   1289:
1.403     henning  1290: <li><strong><a name=decix160905></a> <a
                   1291: href="http://www.de-cix.org/">DE-CIX Technical Meeting</a></strong>,
1.410     wvdputte 1292: Sep 16, 2005, Schloss Kransberg, near Usingen, Germany.<br>
1.403     henning  1293: Henning Brauer, Reyk Fl&ouml;ter and Maxim Salomon had been invited to the
                   1294: technical meeting of the Deutsche Commercial Internet Exchange (DE-CIX) again.
                   1295: Henning gave an update on OpenBGPD, Reyk talked about a route server project
                   1296: using OpenBGPD at DE-CIX, and Maxim explained why the CCC sponsors us doing so.
                   1297: There was a very positive discussion afterwards.
                   1298: <a href="http://unduli.bsws.de/papers/decix2005-2/">Slides</a> are available.
                   1299: <p>
                   1300:
1.388     tom      1301: <li><strong><a name="ukuug2005"></a>
                   1302: <a href="http://www.ukuug.org/events/linux2005/">UKUUG Linux Technical
                   1303: Conference 2005</a></strong>,
1.727     wvdputte 1304: Aug 4 - 7, 2005, University of Wales, Swansea, UK.<br>
1.388     tom      1305: Tom Cosgrove gave Theo's presentation about Exploit Mitigation Techniques.
                   1306: <p>
                   1307:
1.385     mickey   1308: <li><strong><a name=wth2005></a>
1.390     deraadt  1309: <a href="http://www.whatthehack.org/">What the Hack 2005</a></strong>,
1.410     wvdputte 1310: Jul 28 - 31, 2005, Den Bosch, The Netherlands.<br>
1.385     mickey   1311: As every 4 years, Wim organized the
                   1312: <a href="http://eurobsd.org/2005-WhatTheHack/">BSD village</a> at this huge
1.389     tom      1313: open air event. There were some talks, Reyk spoke about
                   1314: <a href="http://program.whatthehack.org/event/6.en.html">WLAN in OpenBSD</a>,
1.385     mickey   1315: and an excellent
                   1316: <a href="ftp://ftp.nyc.openbsd.org/pub/news/wth-radio-humppa.mp3">Humppa show</a> (35MB MP3) was performed on the SubEther radio.
                   1317: If you want to see what happened previously, check
                   1318: <a href="http://eurobsd.org/hal2001/">http://eurobsd.org/hal2001/</a>
                   1319: and <a href="http://www.eurobsd.org/SummerCamp2003/">http://www.eurobsd.org/SummerCamp2003/</a>.
                   1320: <p>
                   1321:
1.382     pedro    1322: <li><strong><a name=coimbra2005></a>
1.474     pedro    1323: <a href="http://www.openbsd-pt.com/eventos/coimbra05/">Portuguese OpenBSD Usergroup Meeting</a></strong>,
1.410     wvdputte 1324: Jul 23 - 24, 2005, Coimbra, Portugal.<br>
1.538     pedro    1325: 5th Meeting of the Portuguese OpenBSD Usergroup. Pedro Martelletto gave a talk.
1.382     pedro    1326: <p>
                   1327:
1.378     aanriot  1328: <li><strong><a name="lsm2005"></a>
                   1329: <a href="http://2005.rencontresmondiales.org/sections/index_html/switchLanguage/en">Libre Software Meeting 2005</a></strong>,
1.410     wvdputte 1330: Jul 5 - 9, 2005, Dijon, France.<br>
1.379     aanriot  1331: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Wim and the usual
                   1332: suspects, with the help of Serge Basterot. It was a nice place to meet
                   1333: some of our French, German and Swiss developers, including Marc Balmer,
                   1334: Alexandre Anriot, Matthieu Herrb and Reyk Floeter.
1.378     aanriot  1335: <p>
                   1336:
1.375     grunk    1337: <li><strong><a name=LinuxTag2005></a>
                   1338: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.org">LinuxTag 2005</a></strong>,
1.410     wvdputte 1339: Jun 22 - 25, 2005, Karlsruhe, Germany.<br>
1.738     tobias   1340: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth ran by Wim, Christian Weisgerber,
1.375     grunk    1341: Marc Balmer, Wilhelm Buehler, Robert Nagy, Bernd Ahlers and Phil Schulz.
                   1342: <p>
                   1343:
1.374     grunk    1344: <li><strong><a name="uofa-cc2005"></a>
                   1345: <a href="http://www.ualberta.ca/CC2005"> University of Alberta, Campus
1.410     wvdputte 1346: Computing 2005</a></strong>, Jun 21, 2005, Edmonton, Canada.<br>
1.374     grunk    1347: Ryan McBride spoke about OpenBSD's packet filter, PF, with CARP and
                   1348: failover examples. Local color and examples at the U of A shown by Bob
                   1349: Beck. Bob Beck spoke about PF and Spamd, as well as several other
                   1350: OpenBSD using and related talks at this event, which primarily focuses
                   1351: on activities centered at the University of Alberta.
                   1352: <p>
                   1353:
1.371     deraadt  1354: <li><strong><a name=uemera2005></a>
                   1355: <a href="http://www.tokyopc.net">Tokyo PC Users Group</a></strong>,
1.410     wvdputte 1356: Jun 2, 2005, Tokyo Union Church in Omotesando, Tokyo, Japan.<br>
1.371     deraadt  1357: Mark T. Uemura spoke to Japan's largest English speaking
                   1358: personal computer club.  The talk was entitled
                   1359: <a href="http://www.openbsd-support.com/jp/en/htm/mgp/index.shtml">
                   1360: "Open Source in a Windows World"</a>.
                   1361: He demonstrated how companies can easily
                   1362: integrate Open Source, with an emphasis on OpenBSD, into their IT
                   1363: infrastructure to enhance security, scalability and stability,
                   1364: significantly reduce IT expenditures, free up computing infrastructure
                   1365: and move away from commercial lock-in.  This talk is based on changes
                   1366: implemented at PricewaterhouseCoopers in Japan.
                   1367: <p>
                   1368:
1.366     martin   1369: <li><strong><a name=LinuxwochenVienna2005></a>
                   1370: <a href="http://www.linuxwochen.at/">Linuxwochen Vienna 2005</a></strong>,
                   1371: May 24 - 27, 2005, Vienna, Austria.<br>
                   1372: The Linuxwochen 2005 tour stopped in the MuseumsQuartier, Vienna.
                   1373: Wim Vandeputte and Reinhard Sammer were running an OpenBSD booth selling
                   1374: CDs and shirts.
                   1375: <p>
                   1376:
1.365     mcbride  1377: <li><strong><a name=cuug2005></a>
                   1378: <a href="http://www.cuug.ab.ca/">Calgary Unix Users Group</a></strong>,
                   1379: May 24, 2005, Calgary, Canada.<br>
                   1380: Ryan McBride spoke about OpenBSD's packet filter, PF.
                   1381: A broad overview of PF's features were presented, with special attention
                   1382: paid to newer and more unique features and how these can be used together
                   1383: effectively for DoS mitigation, high availability, and load balancing.
                   1384: <br>
                   1385: Approximately 60 OpenBSD developers attended to heckle and participate
                   1386: in a free-for-all question period after the talk.
                   1387: <p>
                   1388:
1.362     reyk     1389: <li><strong><a name=bsdcan2005></a>
                   1390: <a href="http://www.bsdcan.org/2005/">BSDCan 2005</a></strong>,
                   1391: May 13 - 14, 2005, Ottawa, Canada.<br>
                   1392: A number of OpenBSD developers presented: Bob Beck on
                   1393: Spam Reduction with PF and Spamd, Henning Brauer on OpenBGPD,
                   1394: Ryan McBride on Network Stack Randomness and Reyk Fl&ouml;ter
                   1395: on WLAN in OpenBSD and the free ath(4) HAL. The
                   1396: <a href="papers/bsdcan05-spamd/">Spamd</a> and
                   1397: <a href="papers/bsdcan05-wlan/">WLAN</a> slides are available.
                   1398: Mathieu Sauve-Frankel has been there in attendance as well.
                   1399: <p>
                   1400:
1.358     mcbride  1401: <li><strong><a name=csw2005></a>
                   1402: <a href="http://www.cansecwest.com/">cansecwest/core05</a></strong>,
1.734     tobias   1403: May 4 - 6, 2005, Vancouver, Canada.<br>
1.358     mcbride  1404: Hiroaki Etoh spoke about propolice; Theo de Raadt and a number of other
                   1405: developers were there to sell CDs and make a nuisance of themselves.
                   1406: <p>
                   1407:
1.357     henning  1408: <li><strong><a name=ripe50></a>
                   1409: <a href="http://www.ripe.net/ripe/meetings/ripe-50/">RIPE 50</a></strong>,
1.734     tobias   1410: May 2 - 6, 2005, Stockholm, Sweden.<br>
1.357     henning  1411: RIPE NCC invited Henning to talk about OpenBGPD.
                   1412: There were over 350 attendees to the conference, and most of them attended
                   1413: henning's talk, which got very very positive feedback.
                   1414: <p>
                   1415:
1.384     tom      1416: <li><strong><a name=libreast2005></a>
1.356     espie    1417: <a href="http://idile.org/libreast/">Libr'east 2005</a></strong>,
1.734     tobias   1418: Apr 22 - 24, Marne La Vallée, near Paris, France.<br>
1.356     espie    1419: There was an OpenBSD booth (Wim + Miod + Marc)
                   1420: Marc Espie did talk about recent OpenBSD advances, and his ports and
                   1421: packages work in front of about 30 people.
                   1422: <p>
                   1423:
1.353     henning  1424: <li><strong><a name=decix150405></a> <a
                   1425: href="http://www.de-cix.org/">DE-CIX Technical Meeting</a></strong>,
1.410     wvdputte 1426: Apr 15, 2005, near Usingen, Germany.<br>
1.353     henning  1427: Henning Brauer and Reyk Fl&ouml;ter had been invited to the technical
                   1428: meeting of the Deutsche Commercial Internet Exchange (DE-CIX). Henning
                   1429: presented his talk on OpenBGPD, about 60 people, mostly operators from
                   1430: the big ISPs peering at DECIX, were in attendance.
1.354     reyk     1431: Reyk, Maxim Salomon and Tim Kornau spoke on Wireless Network Security.
1.353     henning  1432: <p>
                   1433:
1.352     henning  1434: <li><strong><a name=nuug140405></a>
                   1435: <a href="http://www.nuug.no/aktiviteter/20050414-pf-brannmur/">Firewalling with PF at NUUG</a></strong>,
1.410     wvdputte 1436: Apr 14, 2005, Oslo, Norway.<br>
1.352     henning  1437: Peter N. M. Hansteen gave a firewalling with PF talk - which hopefully
                   1438: gave you some ideas about how to control your network traffic the
                   1439: way you want - keeping some things outside your network, directing
                   1440: traffic to specified hosts or services, and of course, giving spammers
                   1441: a hard time. The talk was in Norwegian, with <a
                   1442: href="http://www.bgnett.no/~peter/pf/no/foils/">foils</a> and <a
                   1443: href="http://www.bgnett.no/~peter/pf/no/">manuscript</a> (English <a
                   1444: href="http://www.bgnett.no/~peter/pf/en/foils/">foils</a> and <a
                   1445: href="http://www.bgnett.no/~peter/pf/en/">manuscript</a> too)
                   1446: available if you couldn't make it there.
                   1447: <p>
                   1448:
1.589     aanriot  1449:
                   1450: <li><strong><a name=fhwedel130405></a>
                   1451: <a href="http://www.fh-wedel.de/">FH Wedel invited talk</a></strong>,
                   1452: Apr 13, 2005, 17:00, H&ouml;rsaal 5, FH Wedel, Hamburg, Germany.<br>
                   1453: Henning Brauer spoke on OpenBGPD. More than 40 people were in attendance.
                   1454: <p>
                   1455:
1.350     marius   1456: <li><strong><a name=usenix2005></a>
                   1457: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix05/">Usenix Annual
1.410     wvdputte 1458: Technical Conference</a></strong>, Apr 10-15, 2005, Anaheim,
1.350     marius   1459: California, USA.<br> Marius Eriksen gave the OpenBSD update at the BSD
                   1460: super BoF.  The update was well received and people were quite
                   1461: sympathetic towards the ongoing efforts of the OpenBSD project to
                   1462: ensure the free redistribution rights for firmware.  People were also
                   1463: excited about the new Open* tools (OpenBGPD, OpenNTPD, OpenCVS) and it
1.351     marius   1464: would not be surprising to see more of these imported into other BSDs.
1.350     marius   1465: <p>
                   1466:
1.585     aanriot  1467: <li><strong><a name=plug050408></a>
1.734     tobias   1468: <a href="http://www.plugfr.org/">Provence Linux User Group</a></strong>,
1.586     aanriot  1469: April 8, 2005, Marseille, France.<br>
1.585     aanriot  1470: Alexandre Anriot spoke about OpenBSD and some associated projects
1.586     aanriot  1471: (OpenBGPD etc.) during a meeting of the PLUG.
1.585     aanriot  1472: The <a href="papers/plug080405">slides</a> (in French) are available.
1.344     martin   1473: <p>
                   1474:
1.337     deraadt  1475: <li><strong><a name=bcs2005></a>
                   1476: <a href="http://www.bellua.com/bcs2005/asia05.index.html">Bellua Cyber Security Asia 2005</a></strong>,
1.734     tobias   1477: Mar 21 - 24, 2005, Jakarta, Indonesia.<br>
1.337     deraadt  1478: Ryan McBride presented an overview of PF which
                   1479: discussed how its advanced features work together in some important
1.338     deraadt  1480: applications and compared PF with the other major commercial and open
1.337     deraadt  1481: source firewalls.
                   1482: <p>
                   1483:
1.317     henning  1484: <li><strong><a name=nui_maynooth2005></a>
                   1485: <a href="http://www.minds.nuim.ie/events">NUI Maynooth lectures</a></strong>,
                   1486: Mar 4, 2005, Department of Computer Science, NUI Maynooth, Dublin, Ireland.<br>
1.318     henning  1487: Ryan McBride presented talks about PF and about
1.326     mcbride  1488: <a href="papers/dublin05-nr">randomization in the OpenBSD network layer.</a><br>
1.318     henning  1489: Theo and Henning were in attendance because someone had to heckle.
1.317     henning  1490: <p>
                   1491:
1.312     deraadt  1492: <li><strong><a name=trinity2005></a>
                   1493: <a href="http://www.netsoc.tcd.ie/events/0405/openbsd.php">Trinity lecture</a></strong>,
                   1494: Mar 3, 2005, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.<br>
1.320     deraadt  1495: Theo de Raadt presented his talk about
                   1496: <a href="papers/auug04">Exploit Mitigation Techniques</a>.
1.312     deraadt  1497: <p>
                   1498:
1.319     saad     1499: <li><strong><a name=ShefLUG2005></a>
                   1500: <a href="http://www.sheflug.co.uk/seminar/tiki-index.php?page=Sheffield%20Open%20Source%20Seminar">ShefLUG2005</a></strong>,
                   1501: Mar 2, 2005, Sheffield, UK.<br>
                   1502: Jacek Artymiak gave a talk about installing OpenBSD on Soekris hardware.
                   1503: <p>
                   1504:
1.310     mickey   1505: <li><strong><a name=NYCBUG2005-03></a>
1.375     grunk    1506: <a href="http://nycbug.org/index.php?NAV=Home&amp;SUBM=83">NYCBUG Monthly meeting</a></strong>,
1.310     mickey   1507: Mar 2, 2005, NYC, USA.<br>
1.322     deraadt  1508: Mickey gave a talk
1.325     mickey   1509: (<a href="papers/nyc2005">slides</a> and
1.564     jason    1510: <a href="http://www.fetissov.org/public/nycbug/nycbug-03-02-05.mp3">10.5MB audio</a>)
1.321     mickey   1511: about <a href="hppa.html">porting OpenBSD</a>
1.313     martin   1512: to the <a href="http://www.openpa.net">HP PA-RISC</a> platform.
1.310     mickey   1513: <p>
1.312     deraadt  1514:
1.308     deraadt  1515: <li><strong><a name=Netsoc2005></a>
                   1516: <a href="http://netsoc.ucd.ie/events/openbsd/">Netsoc lectures</a></strong>,
                   1517: Mar 2, 2005, UCD, Dublin, Ireland.<br>
                   1518: Theo de Raadt, Henning Brauer, and Ryan McBride gave a series of
1.320     deraadt  1519: talks. Topics included
                   1520: <a href="papers/auug04">exploit mitigation techniques</a>,
1.326     mcbride  1521: <a href="papers/dublin05-nr">introducing network randomness to increase security</a>,
                   1522: OpenBGPD, and pf.
                   1523: Almost 200 people came to this event.
1.308     deraadt  1524: <p>
                   1525:
1.304     saad     1526: <li><strong><a name=Brussels2005></a>
                   1527: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/2005/">FOSDEM Brussels 2005</a></strong>,
                   1528: Feb 26 - 27, 2005, Brussels, Belgium.<br>
                   1529: An OpenBSD/OpenSSH booth was present, ran by the usual gang of suspects.
                   1530: Support for <a href="mailto:wim@kd85.com">Wim Vandeputte</a> this time were
1.307     otto     1531: (among many others), Saad Kadhi, Henning Brauer, Thierry Deval, Otto Moerbeek,
1.304     saad     1532: Xavier Santolaria, Martin Reindl, Reyk Fl&ouml;ter, Hans-J&ouml;rg
1.360     db       1533: H&ouml;xer, Nikolay Sturm, Marc Balmer, Claudio Jeker, Joris Vink,
                   1534: Olivier Cherrier, David Berghoff,
1.316     mbalmer  1535: Alexander von Gernler, Uwe Stuehler, and Felix Kronlage from OpenDarwin.<br>
1.304     saad     1536: There was a separate OpenBSD track, featuring Henning Brauer (about
                   1537: signal handlers and OpenNTPD), Reyk Fl&ouml;ter (about wireless cards in
                   1538: OpenBSD), and the author of the OpenBSD PF book, Jacek Artymiak (about
1.375     grunk    1539: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pf">pf(4)</a>, of course).<br>
1.304     saad     1540: At the conference's Free Software Foundation Event, Theo de Raadt was
                   1541: awarded the Free Software Award 2004 for his efforts to make Firmware for
                   1542: wireless hardware and other devices freely available.
                   1543: <p>
1.301     saad     1544: <li><strong><a name=UKUUG05></a>
                   1545: <a href="http://www.ukuug.org/events/winter2005/">UKUUG LISA/Winter Conference</a></strong>,
                   1546: Feb 24 - 25, 2005, Birmingham, UK.<br>
                   1547: Henning Brauer spoke on OpenBGPD, OpenNTPD and Signal Handlers.
                   1548: <p>
                   1549: <li><strong><a name=FFG2005></a>
                   1550: <a href="http://www.guug.de/veranstaltungen/ffg2005/">GUUG FFG 2005</a></strong>,
                   1551: Feb 22 - 25, 2005, Munich, Germany.<br>
                   1552: Reyk Fl&ouml;ter talked about the latest wireless support in
                   1553: OpenBSD at the annual spring meeting of the <a href="http://www.guug.de/">German Unix User Group</a>.
                   1554: <p>
1.293     saad     1555: <li><strong><a name=Paris2005></a>
                   1556: <a href="http://www.solutionslinux.fr/fr/index.php">Solutions Linux 2005</a></strong>,
                   1557: Feb 1 - 3, 2005, Paris, France.<br>
                   1558: An OpenBSD booth as well as an OpenSSH booth were present. These booths
                   1559: were run by Marc Espie, Miod Vallat, Saad Kadhi and Wim with help from
                   1560: Guillaume Arcas and Christophe Plasschaert, two members of the OpenBSD
1.294     saad     1561: french translation team.<br>
                   1562: Marc Espie and Saad Kadhi gave a talk about the OpenBSD project with a
                   1563: special focus on the ports collection and Packet Filter. The <a
                   1564: href="papers/sl2005/index.html">slides</a> (in French) are
                   1565: available.<br>
                   1566: During the event, several demonstrations of <a
1.293     saad     1567: href="http://soekris.kd85.com/">Soekris</a> machines running OpenBSD
                   1568: were given by Saad Kadhi and Wim.
                   1569: <p>
1.296     mcbride  1570: </ul>
1.293     saad     1571:
1.296     mcbride  1572: <h3>2004</h3>
                   1573:
                   1574: <ul>
1.287     henning  1575: <li><strong><a name=21C3></a>
                   1576: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/2004/">21C3 - Chaos Communication Congress</a></strong>,
1.727     wvdputte 1577: Dec 27 - 29, 2004, Berlin, Germany.<br>
1.287     henning  1578: &quot;The Usual Suspects&quot; were there and ran the BSD corner, including
                   1579: <a href="mailto:wim@kd85.com">Wim</a>,
                   1580: Henning Brauer, Marc Balmer, Martin Reindl, Moritz Jodeit, Felix Kronlage,
1.315     nick     1581: Uwe Stuehler, Konrad Foerstner, Bernd Ahlers, and Alexander von Gernler.<br>
1.287     henning  1582: Henning gave a talk about OpenBGPD and OpenNTPD
                   1583: (<a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/21c3/">slides</a>).<br>
                   1584: The WiFi backbone ran on OpenBSD powered
                   1585: <a href="http://soekris.kd85.com">Soekris</a> machines as access points,
                   1586: work done by Reyk Fl&ouml;ter, Tim Kornau and others.
                   1587: This installation was a very successful test of the new
1.290     henning  1588: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ath">ath(4)</a>
1.287     henning  1589: driver.
                   1590: <p>
1.248     deraadt  1591:
1.286     kevlo    1592: <li><strong><a name=icos2004></a>
1.417     kevlo    1593: <a href="http://2004.icos.org.tw/">ICOS 2004</a></strong>,
1.286     kevlo    1594: Dec 18 - 19, 2004, Taipei, Taiwan.<br>
                   1595: Kevin Lo gave a presentation.
                   1596: <p>
                   1597:
1.285     deraadt  1598: <li><strong><a name=syscan2004></a>
                   1599: <a href="http://www.syscan.org/">SyScAN 2004</a></strong>,
1.727     wvdputte 1600: Dec 16 - 17, 2004, Singapore, Singapore.<br>
1.285     deraadt  1601: Theo de Raadt presented his talk about
                   1602: <a href="papers/auug04">Exploit Mitigation Techniques</a>.
                   1603: <p>
                   1604:
1.283     saad     1605: <li><strong><a name=sur200412></a>
                   1606: <a href="http://www.ossir.org/sur/calendrier/index.shtml">SUR Group Meeting, December 2004</a></strong>,
                   1607: Dec 14, 2004, Paris, France.<br>
                   1608: Saad Kadhi gave a talk about OpenBSD and security during the monthly
                   1609: meeting of the
                   1610: <a href="http://www.ossir.org/sur/index.shtml">SUR</a> Group (Sécurité
                   1611: Unix et Réseaux), a french user group focusing on security and Unix. The
1.284     xsa      1612: <a href="papers/surgroup200412/index.html">slides</a> (in French) are available.
1.283     saad     1613: <p>
                   1614:
1.282     henning  1615: <li><strong><a name=opencon2004></a>
                   1616: <a href="http://www.opencon.org/">OpenCon 2004</a></strong>,
                   1617: Dec 10 - 12, 2004, Venice, Italy.<br>
                   1618: OpenBSD meeting in Northern Italy. Henning gave 3 talks in
                   1619: two days, on bgpd
                   1620: (<a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/opencon04/bgpd/">slides</a>),
                   1621: ntpd
                   1622: (<a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/opencon04/ntpd/">slides</a>)
                   1623: and signal handlers
                   1624: (<a href="papers/opencon04/">slides</a>).
                   1625: Wim ran a booth, and Marc Balmer was there as well.
                   1626: <p>
                   1627:
1.275     deraadt  1628: <li><strong><a name=UofA></a>
                   1629: <a href="http://www.ualberta.ca/">U of A Seminar</a></strong>,
                   1630: Nov 17 - 18, 2004, Edmonton Alberta.<br>
                   1631: Theo de Raadt presented a talk at an open seminar at the
                   1632: <a href="http://www.ualberta.ca/">University of Alberta</a>, in
                   1633: Room B-02 of the
                   1634: <a href="http://www.campusmap.ualberta.ca/map_bldg.cfm?bldg_id=42">
                   1635: Computing Sciences Center</a>.
                   1636: Talk went from 2 PM to nearly 5PM with more than 100 people attending
                   1637: from the University and industry, followed by beer nearby.
                   1638: The talk was also given the following day at the
                   1639: <a href="http://www.cips.ca/">CIPS Security SIG</a> luncheon.
                   1640: <p>
                   1641:
1.271     henning  1642: <li><strong><a name=EuroBSDCon2004></a>
                   1643: <a href="http://2004.eurobsdcon.org/">EuroBSD Con</a></strong>,
                   1644: Oct 29 - 31, 2004, Karlsruhe, Germany.<br>
1.272     henning  1645: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
                   1646: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
1.271     henning  1647: Henning gave a talk
1.375     grunk    1648: about <a href="http://2004.eurobsdcon.org/talks.html?&amp;tx_ptspeechupload_pi1[showUid]=44&amp;cHash=ec015b0552">bgpd</a>,
1.272     henning  1649: <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/euroBSDCon2004/">slides</a> are available.
1.271     henning  1650: <p>
                   1651:
                   1652: <li><strong><a name=LinuxWorldExpoGermany2004></a>
                   1653: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.de/">Linux World Expo</a></strong>,
                   1654: Oct 26 - 28, 2004, Frankfurt, Germany.<br>
1.272     henning  1655: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
                   1656: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
1.271     henning  1657: <p>
                   1658:
1.276     deraadt  1659: <li><strong><a name=cuug2004></a>
1.270     deraadt  1660: <a href="http://www.cuug.ab.ca/">Calgary Unix Users's Group</a></strong>,
                   1661: Oct 26, 2004, Calgary, Canada.<br>
                   1662: Theo presented the talk that he has recently given in Australia and
                   1663: Malaysia to the "Home Crowd".
                   1664: <p>
                   1665:
                   1666: <li><strong><a name=aldil2004></a>
1.753     wvdputte 1667: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/">Les Journ&eacute;es Du Logiciel Libre 2004</a></strong>,
1.269     krw      1668: Oct 22 - 23, 2004, Lyon, France.<br>
1.381     aanriot  1669: There was OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Miod Vallat with the help of
1.415     aanriot  1670: Alexandre Anriot and Thierry Thomas.
1.269     krw      1671: <p>
                   1672:
                   1673: <li><strong><a name=systems2004></a>
1.738     tobias   1674: <a href="http://www.systems.de/">Systems</a></strong>,
1.727     wvdputte 1675: Oct 18 - 22, 2004, Munich, Germany.<br>
1.269     krw      1676: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
                   1677: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
                   1678: <p>
                   1679:
1.268     krw      1680: <li><strong><a name=linuxexpo2004oct></a>
1.738     tobias   1681: <a href="http://www.linuxexpo.org.uk/">Linux Expo</a></strong>,
1.268     krw      1682: Oct 6 - 7, 2004, London, UK.<br>
                   1683: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
                   1684: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
                   1685: <p>
                   1686:
1.375     grunk    1687: <li><strong><a name=hitb2004></a>
1.268     krw      1688: <a href="http://conference.hackinthebox.org">Hack in the Box Security Conference 2004</a></strong>,
                   1689: Oct 4 - 7, 2004, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.<br>
                   1690: Theo de Raadt presented an updated version of his
                   1691: "Exploit Mitigation Techniques" talk.
                   1692: <p>
                   1693:
                   1694: <li><strong><a name=SANE2004></a>
                   1695: <a href="http://www.nluug.nl/events/sane2004/bazaar.html">SANE 2004</a></strong>
1.410     wvdputte 1696: , Sep 29, 2004, Amsterdam, Netherlands.<br>
1.268     krw      1697: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
                   1698: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
                   1699: <p>
                   1700:
1.265     wvdputte 1701: <li><strong><a name=LinuxKongress2004></a>
                   1702: <a href="http://www.linux-kongress.org/2004">Linux Kongress 2004</a></strong>,
1.410     wvdputte 1703: Sep 7 - 10, 2004, Erlangen, Germany.<br>
1.265     wvdputte 1704: From their website: "Linux-Kongress is still the premier event for European
                   1705: developers and one of the most important in the world. Each year hundreds of
                   1706: hard core Linux enthusiasts from all over the world gather for this important
                   1707: event."
                   1708: <br>
                   1709: Although this was a Linux developers' conference, we were able to
                   1710: install a regular OpenBSD booth there, as known from other events.
                   1711: It was run by <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim Vandeputte</a>,
                   1712: <a href="mailto:grunk@pestilenz.org">Alexander von Gernler</a> and other
                   1713: geeks from the Erlangen-Nuremberg area.
                   1714: <br>
                   1715: There also was a BSD dinner at Friday evening.
                   1716: <p>
                   1717:
1.262     henning  1718: <li><strong><a name=Sucon2004></a>
                   1719: <a href="http://www.suug.ch/sucon/04/">SUCON 2004</a></strong>,
1.410     wvdputte 1720: Sep 2 - 4, 2004, Zurich, Switzerland.<br>
1.262     henning  1721: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth. Very nice conference.
                   1722: Henning's slides from his talks about
                   1723: <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/sucon04/bgpd">bgpd</a> and
                   1724: <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/sucon04/ntpd">ntpd</a>
                   1725: are available.
                   1726: <p>
                   1727:
1.261     deraadt  1728: <li><strong><a name=auug2004></a>
1.738     tobias   1729: <a href="http://www.auug.org.au/events/2004/auug2004/">AUUG 2004</a></strong>,
1.261     deraadt  1730: Aug 29 - Sep 3, 2004, Melbourne, Australia.<br>
                   1731: Theo de Raadt presented a half-day tutorial on privilege seperation and a
                   1732: newly extended version of the
                   1733: <a href="papers/auug04">Exploit Mitigation Techniques</a> talk.<br>
                   1734: For more information, see this
                   1735: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;517187222;fp;16;fpid;0">
                   1736: ComputerWorld article</a>.
                   1737: <p>
                   1738:
                   1739:
1.680     aanriot  1740: <li><strong><a name=lsm2004></a>
1.257     saad     1741: <a href="http://lsm.abul.org">Libre Software Meeting</a></strong>,
1.410     wvdputte 1742: Jul 6 - 10, 2004, Bordeaux, France.<br>
1.257     saad     1743: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
                   1744: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim Vandeputte</a>.
                   1745: <p>
                   1746:
                   1747: <li><strong><a name=LinuxTag2004></a>
1.738     tobias   1748: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.org">LinuxTag 2004</a></strong>,
1.410     wvdputte 1749: Jun 23 - 26, 2004, Karlsruhe, Germany.<br>
1.257     saad     1750: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
                   1751: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim Vandeputte</a>.
                   1752: <p>
                   1753:
1.254     xsa      1754: <li><strong><a name=LinuxwochenVienna2004></a>
1.255     xsa      1755: <a href="http://www.linuxwochen.at/">Linuxwochen Vienna 2004</a></strong>,
1.254     xsa      1756: May 26 - 29, 2004, Vienna, Austria.<br>
                   1757: The Linuxwochen 2004 tour stopped in the MuseumsQuartier, Vienna.
                   1758: Wim Vandeputte and Reinhard Sammer ran the OpenBSD booth. Michael Bauer
                   1759: and Teemu Schaabl from the <a href="http://www.cngw.org/">CNGW</a> gave
                   1760: a basic talk about pf.
                   1761: <p>
                   1762:
1.248     deraadt  1763: <li><strong><a name=BSDCan2004></a>
1.303     mcbride  1764: <a href="http://www.bsdcan.org/2004/">BSDCan 2004</a></strong>,
1.248     deraadt  1765: May 13 - 16, 2004, Ottawa, Canada.<br>
                   1766: BSDCan was held at the University of Ottawa.  Ryan McBride gave a talk
1.302     mcbride  1767: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/papers/bsdcan04-pf/index.html">about newer features in pf</a>,
                   1768: focusing on the redundancy provided by CARP and pfsync.
                   1769: Theo de Raadt presented a revised version of his talk on
1.248     deraadt  1770: <a href="papers/bsdcan04">Exploit Mitigation Techniques</a>.
                   1771: <p>
                   1772:
1.247     canacar  1773: <li><strong><a name="LOSFAnkara2004"></a>
                   1774: <a href="http://senlik.linux.org.tr">3rd Linux and Open Source Festival</a></strong>,
                   1775: May 13 - 16, 2004, Ankara, Turkey.<br>
                   1776: Can E. Acar and Berk D. Demir talked about the OpenBSD Project. The
                   1777: philosophy, project goals, system features and recent proactive
                   1778: security features were introduced. CARP, patents, recent Apache &amp;
                   1779: XFree86 licensing issues and effects of NDAs in open source
                   1780: projects were discussed.<br>
                   1781: You can view the
1.720     canacar  1782: <a href="http://purl.org/net/bddemir/talk/2004/LOYS-OpenBSD-cea-bdd.pdf">
1.247     canacar  1783: slides in PDF format</a> the
1.720     canacar  1784: <a href="http://purl.org/net/bddemir/talk/2004/LOYS-OpenBSD-cea-bdd.tex">
1.247     canacar  1785: LaTeX source</a> is also available (they are
                   1786: <a href="http://www.eee.metu.edu.tr/~canacar/slides/">mirrored</a>, as well).
                   1787: <p>
                   1788:
1.242     henning  1789: <li><strong><a name=Brussels2004></a>
                   1790: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/">FOSDEM Brussels 2004</a></strong>,
                   1791: Feb 21 - 22, 2004, Brussels, Belgium.<br>
1.243     henning  1792: An OpenBSD/OpenSSH booth was present, run by Wim Vandeputte.
                   1793: Several developers (including Henning Brauer, Xavier Santolaria, Thierry Deval,
                   1794: Philipp B&uuml;hler, Otto Moerbeek and Saad Kadhi) showed up.
                   1795: Wim and Alexander von Gernler gave &quot;lightning talks&quot; about Soekris
                   1796: and systrace
1.263     saad     1797: (<a href="http://pestilenz.org/~grunk/vortraege/2004/FOSDEM/systrace.pdf">slides</a>), respectively.
1.243     henning  1798: Henning got a slot in the main track to talk about the new bgpd
                   1799: (<a href="http://www.2suck.net/papers/fosdem2004/">slides</a>).
                   1800: On Saturday evening, the traditional OpenBSD dinner took place.
1.242     henning  1801: <p>
                   1802:
1.240     espie    1803: <li><strong><a name=Paris2004></a>
                   1804: <a href="http://www.linuxsolutions.fr/">Linux Expo Paris 2004</a></strong>,
                   1805: Feb 3 - 5, 2004, Paris, France.<br>
                   1806: An OpenBSD booth as well as an OpenSSH booth were present, thanks to
                   1807: <a href="mailto:saad@docisland.org">Saad Kadhi</a> and
                   1808: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
                   1809: <p>
                   1810:
                   1811: <li><strong><a name="LWE04"></a>
                   1812: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/linuxworldny/V40/index.cvn">LinuxWorld
                   1813: Conference and Expo</a></strong>, Jan 20 - 23, 2004, New York, NY, USA.<br>
1.738     tobias   1814: <a href="mailto:wes@openlysecure.org">Wes Sonnenreich</a> and others
                   1815: have established a BSD user group in NYC and held a BSD BoF at the
                   1816: Jacob Javits Center on January 22nd at 5:45pm, Room 1E15.
1.240     espie    1817: <p>
                   1818: </ul>
                   1819:
1.188     henning  1820: <h3>2003</h3>
1.236     jose     1821:
                   1822: <ul>
1.232     jose     1823: <li><strong><a name=20c3></a>
                   1824: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/2003/">20th Chaos Communication Congress 2003</a></strong>,
                   1825: Dec 27 - 29, 2003, Berlin, Germany.<br>
                   1826: OpenBSD was represented by a booth, ran by
                   1827: <a href= "mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>, and supported by Henning and
1.236     jose     1828: Alexander von Gernler. Alexander also gave a
1.260     saad     1829: <a href="http://pestilenz.org/~grunk/vortraege/2003/20C3/openbsd.pdf">talk</a>
1.232     jose     1830: introducing the project and the OS (in German).
1.236     jose     1831: <p>
1.232     jose     1832:
1.228     jose     1833: <li><strong><a name=brazil2003></a>
1.236     jose     1834: <a href="http://bsdcon.myfreebsd.com.br">1st BSDCon Brazil</a></strong>,
1.734     tobias   1835: Dec 6 - 7, 2003, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.<br>
1.228     jose     1836: This was the first BSDCon Brazil, and of course OpenBSD was present.
1.236     jose     1837: Douglas Santos spoke on advocacy and about some of the technical aspects
                   1838: of OpenBSD. Eduardo A. Alvarenga gave a presentation about firewalling
1.228     jose     1839: with OpenBSD PF.
                   1840: <p>
                   1841:
                   1842: <li><strong><a name=ankara03></a>
1.720     canacar  1843: <a href="http://seminer.linux.org.tr">Turkish Linux Users Association</a></strong>,
1.228     jose     1844: Dec 4, 2003, Ankara, Turkey.<br>
1.720     canacar  1845: Can E. Acar and Berk D. Demir gave a mammoth 4 hour presentation on OpenBSD.
1.228     jose     1846: The first part was a broad introduction to the OpenBSD philosophy, the
1.236     jose     1847: project goals, and system features. After a break, in the second part they
                   1848: talked about the exploit mitigation techniques employed in OpenBSD. This
                   1849: part was aimed at techies and is almost a complete Turkish translation of
                   1850: the talk Theo recently gave in Japan. You can view the
1.720     canacar  1851: <a href="http://purl.org/net/bddemir/talk/2003/LS-OpenBSD-cea-bdd.pdf">
1.236     jose     1852: slides in PDF format </a>
                   1853: (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     1854: <p>
                   1855:
1.227     jose     1856: <li><strong><a name=Luxembourg2003></a>
                   1857: <a href="http://www.linuxday.lu/">Linuxday Luxembourg 2003</a></strong>,
                   1858: Nov 6 - 8, 2003, Luxembourg, Luxembourg.<br>
                   1859: Booths were present, organized by <a href= "mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
                   1860: <p>
                   1861:
                   1862: <li><strong><a name=Pacsec2003></a>
                   1863: <a href="http://pacsec.jp/">Pacsec 2003</a></strong>,
1.410     wvdputte 1864: Nov 6 - 7, 2003, Tokyo, Japan.<br>
1.236     jose     1865: Three OpenBSD developers presented on various topics. Theo de Raadt
1.227     jose     1866: gave a presentation on Exploit Mitigation Techniques
1.236     jose     1867: <a href="papers/pacsec03/e/index.html">(English)</a>
                   1868: <a href="papers/pacsec03/j/index.html">(Japanese)</a>, Jun-ichiro
1.227     jose     1869: itojun Hagino presented material covering
1.236     jose     1870: <a href="http://www.itojun.org/paper/itojun-200311-pacsec-jp/">
1.241     david    1871: IPv6 security considerations</a>, and Jose Nazario discussed advances
1.227     jose     1872: in Internet worm defenses.
                   1873: <p>
                   1874:
1.224     miod     1875: <li><strong><a name=Lyon2003></a>
                   1876: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/agenda/journees/2003/">Les V<sup>&egrave;mes</sup> Journ&eacute;es du Libre 2003</a></strong>,
                   1877: Oct 31 - Nov 1, 2003, Lyon, France.<br>
                   1878: Miod Vallat gave a talk about the recent security efforts deployed in OpenBSD,
                   1879: as well as generic security concepts (slides, in bad French, are available in
                   1880: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/agenda/journees/2003/vallat/miod.mgp">mgp
                   1881: format</a>). As usual, Wim ran an OpenBSD booth featuring the new 3.4 release,
                   1882: as well as <a href="http://soekris.kd85.com">Soekris</a> hardware running
                   1883: OpenBSD.
                   1884: <p>
                   1885:
                   1886: <li><strong><a name=Saarbrucken2003></a>
                   1887: <a href="http://www.linux-kongress.org/2003/index.html">Linux Kongress Saarbr&uuml;cken 2003</a></strong>,
                   1888: Oct 14 - 16, 2003, Saarbr&uuml;cken, Germany.<br>
                   1889: An OpenBSD booth was present, starring Wim again.
                   1890: <p>
                   1891:
                   1892: <li><strong><a name=London2003></a>
                   1893: <a href="http://www.linuxexpo.org.uk/">Linux Expo London 2003</a></strong>,
                   1894: Oct 8 - 9, 2003, London, UK.<br>
                   1895: An OpenBSD booth was present, starring Wim as usual.
                   1896: <p>
                   1897:
1.219     jose     1898: <li><strong><a name=bsdcon2003></a>
                   1899: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/bsdcon03/">BSDCon '03</a></strong>,
                   1900: Sep 8 - 12, 2003, San Mateo, California.<br>
1.236     jose     1901: OpenBSD was represented in the BSD Status Report, and David Rosenthal
1.219     jose     1902: gave a talk on an OpenBSD based security appliance.
                   1903: <p>
                   1904:
1.218     jose     1905: <li><strong><a name=sucon2003></a>
                   1906: <a href="http://www.sucon.ch/">SUCON '03</a></strong>,
1.734     tobias   1907: Sep 5, 2003, Zurich, Switzerland.<br>
1.236     jose     1908: Daniel Hartmeier talked about PF, and <a
1.218     jose     1909: href="http://open.bsdcow.net/events/sucon2003/">pictures are available</a>.
                   1910: <p>
                   1911:
1.214     henning  1912: <li><strong><a name=camp2003></a>
                   1913: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/camp/">Chaos Communication Camp 2003</a></strong>,
1.733     tobias   1914: Aug 7 - 10, 2003, in <a href="http://www.paulshof.de/body-mehr.html">a field</a> near Berlin, Germany.<br>
1.214     henning  1915: There was a huge OpenBSD village. Several OpenBSD developers have been there.
                   1916: <p>
                   1917:
1.213     jose     1918: <li><strong><a name=sec2003></a>
                   1919: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/sec03/">Usenix Security</a></strong>,
1.216     jose     1920: Aug 4 - 8, 2003, Washington, DC, USA.<br>
1.236     jose     1921: Niels Provos presented two papers on security advances originally
1.213     jose     1922: developed for OpenBSD, including the OpenSSH privsep feature and systrace.
                   1923: Several OpenBSD developers were there.
                   1924: <p>
                   1925:
1.211     jose     1926: <li><strong><a name=linuxtag2003></a>
                   1927: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.org/2003/en/index.html">LinuxTag 2003</a></strong>,
1.733     tobias   1928: Jul 10 - 13, 2003, Karlsruhe Convention Center, Germany.<br>
1.211     jose     1929: Both OpenBSD and OpenSSH had booths in the main exhibit.
                   1930: <p>
                   1931:
                   1932: <li><strong><a name=lsm2003></a>
                   1933: <a href="http://libresoftwaremeeting.org/">Libre Software Meeting 2003</a></strong>,
1.727     wvdputte 1934: Jul 9 - 12, 2003, Metz, France.<br>
1.212     matthieu 1935: Matthieu Herrb gave <a href="papers/xf86-sec.pdf">a talk about XFree86 security</a>. There was
1.211     jose     1936: also an OpenBSD booth with developers.
                   1937: <p>
                   1938:
1.209     wvdputte 1939: <li><strong><a name=lud2003></a>
1.733     tobias   1940: <a href="http://www.linuxuserexpo.com/">Linux User &amp; Developer Expo 2003</a></strong>,
                   1941: Jun 24 - 26, 2003, at the NEC in Birmingham, UK.<br>
1.209     wvdputte 1942: There was an OpenBSD booth with developers.
                   1943: <p>
1.195     deraadt  1944:
1.202     jason    1945: <li><strong><a name=usenix2003></a>
1.236     jose     1946: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix03/">Usenix Annual Technical
1.216     jose     1947: Conference</a></strong>,
1.727     wvdputte 1948: Jun 9 - 14, 2003, San Antonio, Texas, USA.<br>
1.202     jason    1949: A few OpenBSD developers were there and one paper was presented:
                   1950: <ul>
1.216     jose     1951: <li>The Design of the OpenBSD Cryptographic Framework<br>
1.202     jason    1952:     <a href="events.html#usenix2003">Usenix 2003</a>, by
1.236     jose     1953:     Angelos D. Keromytis,
                   1954:     Jason L. Wright, and
1.205     deraadt  1955:     Theo de Raadt.<br>
1.202     jason    1956:     <a href="papers/ocf.pdf">paper</a>.
                   1957: </ul>
                   1958: <p>
                   1959:
1.216     jose     1960: <li><strong>
                   1961: <a href="http://www.webb.it/">Webbit 2003</a></strong>,
1.727     wvdputte 1962: May 9 - 11, 2003, Padova, Italy.<br>
1.203     jason    1963: Giacomo Cariello and Wim Vandeputte attended, and several OpenBSD
1.741     saad     1964: <a href="http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&amp;sid=20030503101052">related talks</a> were given.
1.203     jason    1965: <p>
                   1966:
1.216     jose     1967: <li><strong>
                   1968: <a href="http://cansecwest.com/">CanSecWest 03</a></strong>,
1.727     wvdputte 1969: Apr 9 - 11, 2003, Vancouver, Canada.<br>
1.195     deraadt  1970: Theo spoke about killing buffer overflows using ProPolice and the new W^X technology,
1.196     matthieu 1971: available as a <a href="papers/csw03.mgp">magicpoint file</a>.
1.195     deraadt  1972: <p>
                   1973:
1.216     jose     1974: <li><strong>
                   1975: <a href="http://www.cebit.de/">CeBIT 2003</a></strong>,
1.727     wvdputte 1976: Mar 14, 2003, Hannover, Germany.<br>
1.236     jose     1977: 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 1978: gave a talk on OpenBSD and OpenSSH. <a href="papers/cebit2003.tgz">slides</a> are available.
1.194     henning  1979: <p>
                   1980:
1.216     jose     1981: <li><strong>
                   1982: <a href="http://www.linuxforum.dk/2003/english/">LinuxForum 2003</a></strong>,
1.727     wvdputte 1983: Mar 1, 2003, Copenhagen, Denmark.<br>
1.236     jose     1984: Daniel spoke about PF (slides in <a href="papers/linuxforum2k3.tar.gz">mgp</a>,
                   1985: <a href="http://www.benzedrine.cx/linuxforum/">HTML</a>).
1.191     dhartmei 1986: It was a small but cozy conference, jointly held by Danish Linux and BSD
                   1987: user groups.
                   1988: <p>
                   1989:
1.236     jose     1990: <li><strong>
                   1991: <a href="http://www.cuug.ab.ca">CUUG - The Calgary Unix Users
1.216     jose     1992: Group</a></strong>,
1.727     wvdputte 1993: Feb 25, 2003, 18:00 MST, Calgary, Canada.<br>
1.190     miod     1994: OpenBSD lead developer Theo de Raadt spoke about some of the recent
                   1995: changes in OpenBSD that are leading the way to the complete elimination of
                   1996: "buffer overflow" security risks and attacks.
                   1997: <p>
                   1998:
1.216     jose     1999: <li><strong>
                   2000: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/">FOSDEM 2003</a></strong>,
1.727     wvdputte 2001: Feb 8 - 9, 2003, Brussels, Belgium.<br>
1.236     jose     2002: Henning and Philipp gave a talk on -current PF developments
1.196     matthieu 2003: (<a href="papers/fosdem2k3-pf.mgp">slides</a>)
1.187     henning  2004: and on Saturday evening, there was an OpenBSD dinner for those interested.
                   2005: <p>
                   2006:
1.216     jose     2007: <li><strong>
                   2008: <a href="http://linuxsolutions.fr/FR/home/index.php?site=default">Linux Solutions</a></strong>,
1.727     wvdputte 2009: Feb 4 - 6, 2003, CNIT - Paris La Défense, France.<br>
1.185     miod     2010: There was an OpenBSD booth with several OpenBSD developers, as well as 3.2 OpenBSD
1.413     grunk    2011: CD sets and T-shirts.
1.185     miod     2012: <p>
1.236     jose     2013: </ul>
1.185     miod     2014:
1.161     millert  2015: <h3>2002</h3>
1.236     jose     2016:
                   2017: <ul>
                   2018: <li><strong>
                   2019: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/2002/">19c3: the 19th CCC
1.216     jose     2020: Congress</a></strong>,
1.727     wvdputte 2021: Dec 27 - 29, 2002, Berlin, Germany.<br>
1.236     jose     2022: There was a huge <a href="http://www.eurobsd.org/19c3">reserved space</a> for
                   2023: OpenBSD users and developers, a couple of -current test systems and for those
1.413     grunk    2024: curious, a first look at the 3.2 OpenBSD T-shirts.
1.184     wvdputte 2025: <p>
1.177     jason    2026:
1.216     jose     2027: <li><strong>
                   2028: <a href="http://2002.eurobsdcon.org/">BSDCon Europe 2002</a></strong>,
1.727     wvdputte 2029: Nov 15 - 17, 2002, Amsterdam, Netherlands.<br>
1.181     henning  2030: OpenBSD people were there;
1.236     jose     2031: Philipp B&uuml;hler and Henning Brauer spoke about
1.182     ian      2032: <a href="papers/tuning-openbsd.ps">
                   2033: network performance tuning on OpenBSD</a>,
1.236     jose     2034: and Ian Darwin presented a
1.182     ian      2035: <a href="papers/eurobsd-firewalls-2002.pdf">
                   2036: tutorial on OpenBSD servers/firewalls</a>.
1.179     pb       2037: <p>
1.178     pb       2038:
1.216     jose     2039: <li><strong>
1.236     jose     2040: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa02/">LISA '02: 16th Systems
1.216     jose     2041: Administration Conference</a></strong>,
1.727     wvdputte 2042: Nov 3 - 8, 2002, Philadelphia, USA.<br>
1.177     jason    2043: Mickey and Jason manned the booth at the vendor expo (the only BSD
                   2044: represented) and sold <a href="32.html">3.2</a> CDs, and Jason gave a BoF
                   2045: session on <a href="32.html">3.2</a> and future.
                   2046: <p>
                   2047:
1.216     jose     2048: <li><strong>
1.264     djm      2049: <a href="http://www.auug.org.au/events/2002/auug2002/">Australian Unix Users
                   2050: Group Winter Conference</a></strong>,
1.733     tobias   2051: Sep 1 - 6, 2002, Melbourne, Australia.<br>
1.738     tobias   2052: Damien Miller presented a tutorial on the
                   2053: <a href="papers/auug2002-ssh/index.html">SSH protocol</a> and
1.264     djm      2054: <a href="papers/auug2002-ssh.ps">OpenSSH tips and tricks</a>.
                   2055: <p>
                   2056:
                   2057: <li><strong>
1.216     jose     2058: <a href="http://lsm.abul.org">The 3rd Libre Software Meeting</a></strong>,
1.727     wvdputte 2059: Jul 9 - 13, 2002, Bordeaux, France.<br>
1.172     miod     2060: Several OpenBSD developers and users were attending the meeting, and
                   2061: Niels Provos presented his
                   2062: <a href="http://www.citi.umich.edu/u/provos/systrace">systrace</a>
                   2063: system call policy management tool.
1.174     nick     2064: <p>
1.172     miod     2065:
1.216     jose     2066: <li><strong>
                   2067: <a href="http://www.Webb.it">Webb.it 02</a></strong>,
1.727     wvdputte 2068: Jul 5 - 7, 2002, Padova, Italy.<br>
1.171     ian      2069: OpenBSD developers had a booth selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
                   2070: <p>
                   2071:
1.216     jose     2072: <li><strong>
1.236     jose     2073: <a href="http://www.softwarelivre.rs.gov.br/forum">The Annual International
1.216     jose     2074: Free Software Forum</a></strong>,
1.727     wvdputte 2075: May 2 - 4, 2002, Porto Alegre-RS, Brazil.<br>
1.236     jose     2076: Mainly a Linux/GNU event, but this year the BSD Operating Systems
                   2077: had a chance to prove their value.
1.169     horacio  2078: Edson Brandi spoke on FreeBSD, Diego Linke
1.236     jose     2079: on NetBSD, and Ricardo Nascimento Ferreira on OpenBSD.
1.169     horacio  2080: <p>
1.168     miod     2081:
1.216     jose     2082: <li><strong>
                   2083: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/bsdcon02/">BSDCON 2002</a></strong>,
1.727     wvdputte 2084: Feb 11 - 14, 2002, San Francisco, California, USA.<br>
1.161     millert  2085: Todd Miller gave an update on current OpenBSD status and participated in a
1.162     millert  2086: BSD panel discussion.  The <a href="slides/bsdcon_2002/index.html">slides</a>
                   2087: are available.
1.161     millert  2088: <p>
                   2089:
1.216     jose     2090: <li><strong>
                   2091: <a href="http://www.linuxexpoparis.com">Linux expo Paris 2002</a></strong>,
1.727     wvdputte 2092: Jan 30 - Feb 1, 2002, Paris, France.<br>
1.163     miod     2093: The french Linux Expo 2002 was quite small and as usual the OpenBSD booth ended
                   2094: up with others on the expo's side.  On the first day, almost all the merchandise
                   2095: was sold, and we have even sold older versions (2.9) the following days to
                   2096: people who wouldn't leave without a cd set in their hands...
                   2097: <p>
                   2098:
1.216     jose     2099: <li><strong>
                   2100: <a href="http://musess.mcmaster.ca/">MUSESS 2002</a></strong>,
1.727     wvdputte 2101: Jan 25 - 26, 2002, McMaster University, Ontario, Canada.<br>
1.164     millert  2102: Louis Bertrand gave a presentation on OpenBSD titled
                   2103: <strong>Fix The Bugs, Secure The System</strong>.
                   2104: The <a href="slides/musess_2002/index.html">slides</a> are available.
                   2105: <p>
1.236     jose     2106: </ul>
1.164     millert  2107:
1.152     jakob    2108: <h3>2001</h3>
                   2109:
1.236     jose     2110: <ul>
1.216     jose     2111: <li><strong>
                   2112: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa01/">USENIX LISA 2001</a></strong>,
1.727     wvdputte 2113: Dec 2 - 7, 2001, San Diego, California, USA.<br>
1.160     jufi     2114: Niels Provos gave a presentation, and there's been a booth selling
1.413     grunk    2115: T-shirts and 3.0 CDs.
1.160     jufi     2116: <p>
                   2117:
1.216     jose     2118: <li><strong>
                   2119: <a href="http://www.ietf.org/meetings/IETF-52.html">52nd IETF</a></strong>,
1.727     wvdputte 2120: Dec 9 - 14, 2001, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA.<br>
1.160     jufi     2121: Angelos, Itojun &amp; Jakob were there.
                   2122: <p>
                   2123:
1.158     deraadt  2124: <li><strong>
1.236     jose     2125: <a href="http://www.disc2000.unam.mx/disc/index-ing.html">DISC
1.216     jose     2126: 2001</a></strong>,
1.727     wvdputte 2127: Nov 26 - 29, 2001, Mexico City, Mexico.<br>
1.158     deraadt  2128: Once again, Theo de Raadt explained the security auditing process and
                   2129: subsequent secure configuration choices made in OpenBSD, in a talk
                   2130: entitled "Updated thoughts on writing a secure Operating System".
                   2131: <p>
                   2132:
1.216     jose     2133: <li><strong>
                   2134: <a href="http://www.linux.org.hk">LinuxCafe</a></strong>,
1.734     tobias   2135: Sep 15, 2001, Hong Kong, China.<br>
1.156     provos   2136: Shell Hung gave an introduction for BSD and demonstration of OpenBSD to HKLUG.
                   2137: <p>
                   2138:
1.201     deraadt  2139: <li><strong>VPN Bakeoff</strong>,
1.727     wvdputte 2140: Aug 13 - 18, 2001, Finland.<br>
1.156     provos   2141: Jakob and Itojun were there.
                   2142: <p>
1.158     deraadt  2143:
1.150     wvdputte 2144: <li><strong>
1.215     nick     2145: <a href="http://www.hal2001.org">HAL 2001</a></strong>,
1.727     wvdputte 2146: Aug 10 - 12, 2001, Twente, Netherlands.<br>
1.153     jufi     2147: Quite a lot of developers were there, we even had our own tent.
                   2148: Niels, Rees and Dugsong held talks, more info on the main website
                   2149: for HAL2001. And of course T-Shirts and CDROMs were sold.
1.150     wvdputte 2150: <p>
1.137     aaron    2151:
                   2152: <li><strong>
1.236     jose     2153: <a href="http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon/">O'Reilly Open Source
1.216     jose     2154: Conference</a></strong>,
1.727     wvdputte 2155: Jul 23 - 27, 2001, San Diego, California, USA.<br>
1.148     brian    2156: OpenBSD had a booth selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
                   2157: Ian Darwin presented his "Firewalls and Secure Internet Servers
                   2158: with OpenBSD" tutorial.
                   2159: <p>
                   2160:
                   2161: <li><strong>
1.201     deraadt  2162: <a href="http://www.defcon.org">DEF CON Nine</a></strong>,
1.734     tobias   2163: Jul 13 - 15, 2001, Las Vegas, USA.<br>
1.148     brian    2164: OpenBSD developers and users make it a point to attend every year,
                   2165: and had a table selling CD's, shirts, etc.
                   2166: <p>
                   2167:
                   2168: <li><strong>
1.236     jose     2169: <a href="http://www.sek.co.kr/sek2001/sek_html/main.htm">Software
1.216     jose     2170: Exhibition of Korea</a></strong>,
1.727     wvdputte 2171: Jun 26 - 29, 2001, Seoul, Korea.<br>
1.146     krw      2172: urisecure/NDS sponsored an OpenBSD booth with CD's, posters,
                   2173: and a live demo of OpenBSD's IPSEC hardware acceleration.
                   2174: <p>
                   2175:
                   2176: <li><strong>
1.236     jose     2177: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix01/">2001 USENIX Annual
1.216     jose     2178: Technical Conference</a></strong>,
1.727     wvdputte 2179: Jun 25 - 30, 2001, Boston, USA.<br>
1.146     krw      2180: OpenBSD developers were there, selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
                   2181: <p>
                   2182:
                   2183: <li><strong>
1.143     dugsong  2184: <a href="http://www.olymfair.org/eng/workshop.htm">Information
1.201     deraadt  2185: Security OlymFair</a></strong>,
1.727     wvdputte 2186: May 16 - 18, 2001, Seoul, Korea.<br>
1.143     dugsong  2187: Dug Song gave a detailed introduction to OpenBSD to the Korean
                   2188: security community.
                   2189: <p>
                   2190:
                   2191: <li><strong>
1.236     jose     2192: <a href="http://www.osdem.org/">2001 Open Source and Free Software
1.216     jose     2193: Developers' Meeting</a></strong>,
1.727     wvdputte 2194: Feb 3 - 4, 2001, Brussels, Belgium.<br>
1.137     aaron    2195: There was an OpenBSD booth with some loose talks made.
                   2196: <p>
                   2197:
                   2198: <li><strong>
1.201     deraadt  2199: <a href="http://www.linuxexpoparis.com/">2001 Linux Expo</a></strong>,
1.727     wvdputte 2200: Feb 1 - 2, 2001, Paris, France.<br>
1.236     jose     2201: There was an OpenBSD booth in the 'F' area.
1.137     aaron    2202: <p>
1.236     jose     2203: </ul>
1.137     aaron    2204:
1.132     louis    2205: <h3>2000</h3>
                   2206:
1.236     jose     2207: <ul>
1.132     louis    2208: <li><strong>
1.236     jose     2209: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa2000/">LISA 2000, USENIX
1.216     jose     2210: Systems Administration Conference</a></strong>,
1.727     wvdputte 2211: Dec 3 - 8, 2000, New Orleans, USA.<br>
1.134     jufi     2212: Wim Vandeputte and other volunteers have been running a sales table with
                   2213: shirts, posters and the brand new 2.8 CDs.
                   2214: <p>
                   2215:
                   2216: <li><strong>
1.215     nick     2217: <a href="http://www.disc2000.unam.mx/disc/index-ing.html">DISC 2000</a></strong>,
1.727     wvdputte 2218: Nov 26 - Dec 1, 2000, Mexico City, Mexico.<br>
1.133     deraadt  2219: Theo de Raadt explained the security auditing process and subsequent secure
                   2220: configuration choices made in OpenBSD, in a talk entitled "Secure by Default".
                   2221: Over the next few days, he also participated in two panels with various security
                   2222: experts who had flown in from around the world.  Following this, Theo climbed
1.151     jsyn     2223: one of the largest volcanoes, called Malinche.
1.133     deraadt  2224: <p>
                   2225:
                   2226: <li><strong>
1.236     jose     2227: <a href="http://www.nluug.nl/events/nj2000">NLUUG Najaarsconferentie
1.216     jose     2228: 2000</a></strong>,
1.727     wvdputte 2229: Nov 9, 2000, Ede, Netherlands.<br>
1.236     jose     2230: There was an OpenBSD booth where people dropped by for information or to
1.413     grunk    2231: get their T-shirts, polos, caps and 2.7 CDs.
1.13      deraadt  2232: <p>
1.4       millert  2233:
1.132     louis    2234: <li><strong><a name=ipsec2000></a>
1.236     jose     2235: <a href="http://www.upperside.fr/baipsecy2k.htm">IPsec 2000 Global
1.216     jose     2236: Summit</a></strong>,
1.727     wvdputte 2237: Oct 24 - 27, 2000, Paris La Defense, France.<br>
1.159     miod     2238: Niels Provos ended the conference by speaking about the IPsec architecture
1.132     louis    2239: in OpenBSD. The talk was well received and many people were very interested
                   2240: about our cryptographic hardware acceleration.
                   2241:
                   2242: <ul>
1.236     jose     2243: <li>The IPsec Architecture in OpenBSD<br>
1.215     nick     2244:     <a href="#ipsec2000">IPsec 2000 Global Summit</a> by Niels Provos.<br>
1.132     louis    2245:     <a href="papers/ipsec-slides.ps">slides</a>.
                   2246: </ul>
1.4       millert  2247: <p>
1.132     louis    2248:
1.7       deraadt  2249: <li><strong>
1.201     deraadt  2250: <a href="http://ApacheCon.Com/2000/EU/">ApacheCon Europa 2000</a></strong>,
1.727     wvdputte 2251: Oct 23 - 25, 2000, London, UK.<br>
1.132     louis    2252: There was an OpenBSD booth where people could drop by for information and
                   2253: a chat with the local OpenBSD personnel. We also had the essentials for
1.413     grunk    2254: your wardrobe (T-shirts, polos, caps), for your hardware (2.7 CDs) and for your
1.132     louis    2255: mind (drinks afterwards).
                   2256: <p>
                   2257:
1.216     jose     2258: <li><strong>
                   2259: <a href="http://www.bsdcon.com/">BSD Con 2000</a></strong>,
1.727     wvdputte 2260: Oct 18 - 20, 2000, Monterey, CA, USA.<br>
1.132     louis    2261: David Terrell ran an OpenBSD booth selling T-shirts and CDs and answering
                   2262: questions.
1.32      deraadt  2263: <p>
1.1       deraadt  2264:
1.132     louis    2265: <li><strong><a name=opensource2000></a>
1.236     jose     2266: <a href="http://www.opensource-forum.com/konferens">The Open Source
1.216     jose     2267: Revolution</a></strong>,
1.727     wvdputte 2268: Oct 5, 2000, Stockholm, Sweden.<br>
1.133     deraadt  2269: Theo de Raadt spoke about how user expectations for security out of the box
                   2270: have changed over the last years.
1.1       deraadt  2271: <p>
                   2272:
1.132     louis    2273: <li><strong><a name=sec2000></a>
1.216     jose     2274: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/sec2000/">Usenix Security</a></strong>,
1.727     wvdputte 2275: Aug 14 - 17, 2000, Denver, Colorado, USA.<br>
1.132     louis    2276: Some OpenBSD developers were there and one paper was presented:
                   2277: <ul>
1.236     jose     2278: <li>Encrypting Virtual Memory<br>
1.132     louis    2279:     <a href="#sec2000">Usenix Security 2000</a>
1.205     deraadt  2280:     by Niels Provos.<br>
1.132     louis    2281:     <a href="papers/swapencrypt.ps">paper</a> and
                   2282:     <a href="papers/swapencrypt-slides.ps">slides</a>.
                   2283: </ul>
1.1       deraadt  2284: <p>
1.132     louis    2285:
1.10      provos   2286: <li><strong>
1.201     deraadt  2287: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-8-post.html">Defcon 2000</a></strong>,
1.727     wvdputte 2288: Jul 28 - 30, 2000, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.<br>
1.236     jose     2289: Kjell Wooding (our IPF maintainer), James Phillips from the
1.132     louis    2290: <a href="http://www.deadly.org">OpenBSD Journal</a>, and Theo de Raadt
1.413     grunk    2291: had a table and were selling OpenBSD CDROMs, T-shirts, and posters on
1.132     louis    2292: Friday and Saturday.  Hordes of people visited our table and we at the
                   2293: end we were completely sold out of CDROMS and shirts (allowing us to go
                   2294: check out Hoover Dam's hardhat tour on Sunday and leave the madness behind).
                   2295: <br>
                   2296: We were completely amazed at the people who stopped by our table, to say
                   2297: that they were relying on OpenBSD.
                   2298: <p>
1.32      deraadt  2299:
1.132     louis    2300: <li><strong>
1.236     jose     2301: <a href="http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon2000/">O'Reilly Open Source
1.216     jose     2302: Conference 2000</a></strong>,
1.727     wvdputte 2303: Jul 17 - 20, 2000, Monterey, California, USA.<br>
1.216     jose     2304: Ian Darwin presented a <a href="papers/oreilly2000/">tutorial</a> on
1.132     louis    2305: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/w/bsd_tutorials.html">
                   2306: Secure Internet Servers/Firewalls with OpenBSD</a>, and bravely
                   2307: manned the OpenBSD booth for the remainder of the show.
                   2308: Kjell Wooding took part in a panel discussion on the Future of the BSDs,
                   2309: and spoke about
                   2310: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/w/bsd_presentations.html">
1.241     david    2311: Secure By Default.</a> Both sessions were well attended, and at least
1.132     louis    2312: one Linux sysadmin was seen racing for a keyboard, scared look in his eyes,
1.236     jose     2313: after the security talk.
1.3       provos   2314: <p>
1.132     louis    2315:
1.6       deraadt  2316: <li><strong>
1.201     deraadt  2317: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.de/2000/english/">LinuxTag 2000</a></strong>,
1.727     wvdputte 2318: Jun 29 - Jul 2, 2000, Stuttgart, Germany.<br>
1.132     louis    2319: There was a BSD booth where we had the first <a href="27.html">OpenBSD 2.7 CDs</a> for Europe
                   2320: and the new blue stitchwork <a href="tshirts.html#11">Blowfish Polo</a> shirt.
                   2321: <br>
                   2322: Christian Weisgerber gave a
                   2323: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.de/2000/english/conference/talks.php3?ID=3">talk
                   2324: on BSD</a>.
1.32      deraadt  2325: <p>
1.1       deraadt  2326:
1.216     jose     2327: <li><strong><a name=usenix2000></a>
1.236     jose     2328: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix2000/">Usenix Annual Technical
1.216     jose     2329: Conference.</a></strong>,
1.727     wvdputte 2330: Jun 18 - 23, 2000, San Diego, California, USA.<br>
1.132     louis    2331: Almost 20 OpenBSD developers showed up for the 25th anniversary of Usenix.
                   2332: We had a vendor booth, as well as a number of papers being presented.
                   2333: Conference attendees had the opportunity to test drive the new release,
                   2334: OpenBSD 2.7, on the 30 workstations in the terminal room.  For the first
                   2335: time ever, the terminal room and wavelan networks also had a IPv6 connection,
1.147     jason    2336: and some users even discovered so by themselves.
1.132     louis    2337: Theo also held a BoF on the Wednesday evening, after which the developers
                   2338: had almost too much singing in foreign languages with the help of helium.
                   2339: <ul>
                   2340:
                   2341: <li>Implementing Internet Key Exchange, IKE.<br>
                   2342:     <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
1.216     jose     2343:     by Angelos D. Keromytis, Niklas Hallqvist.<br>
1.132     louis    2344:     <a href="papers/ikepaper.ps">paper</a> and
                   2345:     <a href="papers/ikeslides.ps">slides</a>.
                   2346:
                   2347: <li>Transparent Network Security Policy Enforcement.<br>
                   2348:     <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
1.216     jose     2349:     by Angelos D. Keromytis, Jason L. Wright.<br>
1.132     louis    2350:     <a href="papers/bridgepaper.ps">paper</a> and
                   2351:     <a href="papers/bridgeslides.ps">slides</a>.
1.2       deraadt  2352:
1.132     louis    2353: <li>Safety Checking of Kernel Extensions.<br>
                   2354:     <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
1.205     deraadt  2355:     by Craig Metz.
1.132     louis    2356: </ul>
1.2       deraadt  2357: <p>
                   2358:
1.132     louis    2359: <li><strong>
1.236     jose     2360: <a href="http://www.manlug.mcc.ac.uk/calendar.html">OpenBSD: The Open
1.216     jose     2361: Source Secure Operating System</a></strong>,
1.734     tobias   2362: Jun 17, 2000, 14:00, Manchester, UK.<br>
1.132     louis    2363: Sam Smith gave a rundown of features coming in OpenBSD 2.7 and
                   2364: OpenSSH 2.1. His <a href="http://www.manlug.mcc.ac.uk/20000617/">slides</a>
                   2365: are available from the user group's site.
1.1       deraadt  2366: <p>
1.2       deraadt  2367:
1.132     louis    2368: <li><strong>
1.216     jose     2369: <a href="reprints/crypto2000.html">OpenBSD Crypto 2000 conference</a></strong>,
1.727     wvdputte 2370: Jun 15 - 20, 2000, Calgary, AB, Canada.<br>
1.132     louis    2371: Repeating the tradition of a similar meeting held last year, many
                   2372: OpenBSD developers from around the world converged on Calgary
                   2373: for a weekend long hack-and-drink session.  As before, the event
                   2374: was invitation only.  Many significant things got done, including
                   2375: ipv6 + ipsec running over hardware crypto devices.
1.1       deraadt  2376: <p>
1.11      jkatz    2377:
1.17      deraadt  2378: <li><strong>
1.201     deraadt  2379: <a href="http://www.converge2000.com">CONVERGENCE 2000</a></strong>,
1.734     tobias   2380: May 18, 2000, Convention Centre, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.<br>
1.132     louis    2381: Theo de Raadt participated in a panel discussion about the pros and cons
                   2382: of using Open Source software in various business environments.  The local
                   2383: users also handed out OpenSSH and OpenBSD posters, and were absolutely
                   2384: surprised and amazed by the number of Calgary companies quietly using
                   2385: OpenBSD.
1.21      pattonme 2386: <p>
1.17      deraadt  2387:
1.23      niklas   2388: <li><strong>
1.216     jose     2389: <a href="http://www.cansecwest.com/">CanSecWest</a></strong>,
1.734     tobias   2390: May 10 - 12, 2000, Robson Conference Centre, Vancouver, BC, Canada.<br>
1.132     louis    2391: Theo de Raadt spoke about why programmers keep making the same stupid mistakes,
                   2392: what types of efforts might improve this, and how this all relates to auditing
1.375     grunk    2393: efforts.
                   2394: Rain Forest Puppy, Ron Gula (Network Security Wizards), Ken Williams (E&amp;Y),
1.216     jose     2395: Marty Roesch (snort/HiverWorld), and Fyodor (nmap) were among the other speakers
1.132     louis    2396: at this event.  (On a personal note: at this conference Theo realized that three
                   2397: leading Network Intrusion Detection System companies use OpenBSD as their
                   2398: base operating system: Hiverworld, Network Security Wizards, and NFR).
1.32      deraadt  2399: <p>
1.25      deraadt  2400:
1.132     louis    2401: <li><strong>
                   2402: <a href="http://www.zdevents.com/comdex/spring2000/">Linux Business Expo /
1.201     deraadt  2403: COMDEX Spring 2000</a></strong>,
1.727     wvdputte 2404: Apr 19, 2000, Chicago, IL, USA.<br>
1.216     jose     2405: Louis Bertrand represented OpenBSD at a BSD BOF with FreeBSD/BDSI,
1.132     louis    2406: NetBSD and Apple (Darwin is BSD-derived). The BOF was attended by about
                   2407: 75 people, many of whom were new to *BSD. It was an opportunity to
                   2408: explore future cooperation among the various BSD groups and companies.
1.25      deraadt  2409: <p>
1.23      niklas   2410:
1.31      deraadt  2411: <li><strong>
1.236     jose     2412: <a href="http://www.nordu.org/NordU2000/">NordU 2000 -- The second
1.216     jose     2413: EurOpen/USENIX Conference</a></strong>,
1.734     tobias   2414: Feb 8 - 11, 2000, Malmo, Sweden.<br>
1.140     jufi     2415: About 15 OpenBSD team members attended.
1.132     louis    2416: OpenBSD CDs and shirts were sold at a booth donated by the conference.<br>
                   2417: As well, Theo de Raadt gave an invited talk on Wednesday morning
                   2418: about why software quality/security suffers, and what we can do to
                   2419: improve it.
1.32      deraadt  2420: <p>
1.31      deraadt  2421:
1.201     deraadt  2422: <li><strong>BSD BOF session, LinuxWorld Expo</strong>,
1.727     wvdputte 2423: Feb 3, 2000, New York, USA.<br>
1.132     louis    2424: Representatives from OpenBSD, BSDi, and FreeBSD hosted a
                   2425: &quot;Birds Of a Feather&quot; session at the <a
                   2426: href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/">New York LinuxWorld Expo</a>.<br>
                   2427: There were installation CD-ROMs, free food, and even free Daemon Horns!
1.33      niklas   2428: <p>
1.236     jose     2429: </ul>
1.33      niklas   2430:
1.132     louis    2431: <h3>1999</h3>
1.36      niklas   2432:
1.236     jose     2433: <ul>
1.216     jose     2434: <li><strong>The Bazaar</strong>,
1.727     wvdputte 2435: Dec 14 - 16, 1999, New York, New York, USA.<br>
1.132     louis    2436: Wes Sonnenreich and Tom Yates presented a tutorial on building
1.216     jose     2437: firewalls with OpenBSD. BoF of open source BSDs took place.
1.413     grunk    2438: 2.6 release CDROMs and T-shirts were sold.
1.132     louis    2439: Emphatic interest has been shown by representatives from press, international
                   2440: government and military institutions.
1.45      jason    2441: <p>
                   2442:
1.216     jose     2443: <li><strong><a name=lisa99></a>
1.236     jose     2444: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa99/">13th Systems Administration
1.216     jose     2445: Conference (LISA 99)</a></strong>,
1.727     wvdputte 2446: Nov 7 - 12, 1999, Seattle, Washington, USA.<br>
1.132     louis    2447: Bob Beck presented a paper about the U of A's nifty OpenBSD based
                   2448: solution to the problem of public Ethernet jacks in the technical sessions
                   2449: starting at 11:00 AM on the 11th.<br>
                   2450: There were many other OpenBSD
                   2451: people at this conference as well, as well as a booth selling CDROMs and
1.413     grunk    2452: T-shirts.  His paper is available at:
1.132     louis    2453:
                   2454: <ul>
                   2455: <li>Dealing with Public Ethernet Jacks-Switches, Gateways, and Authentication.<br>
1.236     jose     2456:     <a href="events.html#lisa99">LISA 1999</a>,
1.206     david    2457:     by Bob Beck.<br>
1.236     jose     2458:     <a href="papers/authgw-paper.ps">paper</a> and
                   2459:     <a href="papers/authgw-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132     louis    2460: </ul>
                   2461: <p>
                   2462:
                   2463: <li><strong>
1.201     deraadt  2464: IP-dagarna 1999</strong>,
1.727     wvdputte 2465: Oct 27 - 28, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden.<br>
1.132     louis    2466: H&aring;kan Olsson &amp; Jakob Schlyter spoke at the DNSSEC session on the 27th.
                   2467: <p>
                   2468:
                   2469: <li><strong>
1.236     jose     2470: <a href="http://www.opensource-forum.com/konferens/">Linux &amp; Open Source
1.216     jose     2471: Software '99</a></strong>,
                   2472: Oct 21, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)<br>
1.132     louis    2473: Niklas Hallqvist spoke on the topic of how to use
1.236     jose     2474: <a
1.375     grunk    2475: href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&amp;sektion=4">IPsec</a> for securing communications.
1.132     louis    2476: <p>
                   2477:
                   2478: <li><strong>
1.705     pvalchev 2479: <a href="http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference/1999">Reflections/Projections
1.216     jose     2480: 1999</a></strong>,
1.727     wvdputte 2481: Oct 8 - 10, 1999, Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA.<br>
1.132     louis    2482: Theo de Raadt spoke at 10:00am on the 9th.  Other OpenBSD
                   2483: developers from the east coast attended as well.
                   2484: <p>
                   2485:
1.236     jose     2486: <li><strong><a name="ipsec99"></a>
1.216     jose     2487: IPsec Interoperability tests</strong>,
                   2488: Sep 27 - 30, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)<br>
1.236     jose     2489: A dozen vendors, among them OpenBSD, tested more than 15
1.375     grunk    2490: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&amp;sektion=4">IPsec</a>
1.132     louis    2491: products, both gateways and hosts, for interoperability.  The tests
                   2492: were successful as far as general IPsec and pre-shared key
                   2493: authentication went, OpenBSD interoperated with everyone, but due to
                   2494: time constraints we never got to test the certificate support
                   2495: appropriately.  The results were presented later that fall at a
                   2496: conference in Stockholm.
                   2497: <p>
                   2498:
                   2499: <li><strong>
1.236     jose     2500: <a href="http://www.auug.org.au/winter/auug99">AUUG'99</a></strong>,
1.727     wvdputte 2501: Sep 8 - 11, 1999, Melbourne, Australia.<br>
1.132     louis    2502: Theo de Raadt gave two talks on "quality of software" related issues
                   2503: and participated on a panel about how open source projects are
                   2504: coordinated.
                   2505: <p>
                   2506:
                   2507: <li><strong>
1.236     jose     2508: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/sec99/index.html">Usenix
1.216     jose     2509: Security</a></strong>,
1.727     wvdputte 2510: Aug 23 - 26, 1999, Washington, DC, USA.<br>
1.132     louis    2511: Many OpenBSD people from the east coast showed up and sold CDs and
                   2512: shirts.  It was pretty clear from discussions that many people were
                   2513: very aware of OpenBSD, and that OpenBSD was being used in very
                   2514: significant security roles.
                   2515: <p>
                   2516:
                   2517: <li><strong>
1.236     jose     2518: <a href="http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/99jul/index.html">45th IETF
1.216     jose     2519: meeting</a></strong>,
1.727     wvdputte 2520: Jul 12 - 16, 1999, Oslo, Norway.<br>
1.132     louis    2521: A number of OpenBSD team members from all over the world were at this
                   2522: conference. In addition to attending the IPsec and DNS working groups (among
                   2523: others) we did IPsec/IKE interoperability testing together with
1.166     miod     2524: the Japanese KAME project. Also, Angelos D. Keromytis did a presentation on
1.132     louis    2525: his work with keynote and isakmpd in OpenBSD.
                   2526: <p>
1.45      jason    2527:
1.132     louis    2528: <li><strong>
1.236     jose     2529: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-6.html">Defcon 6.0</a></strong>,
1.727     wvdputte 2530: Jul 9 - 11, 1999, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.<br>
1.132     louis    2531: At this conference, the OpenBSD team sold 100 or so 2.5 release CDROMs
1.413     grunk    2532: and a TON of T-shirts.
1.46      deraadt  2533: <p>
1.132     louis    2534:
1.236     jose     2535: <li><strong><a name="usenix99"></a>
                   2536: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix99/index.html">
1.216     jose     2537: Usenix Annual Technical Conference</a></strong>,
1.727     wvdputte 2538: Jun 6 - 11, 1999, Monterey, California, USA.<br>
1.106     jufi     2539: The <a href="http://www.usenix.org">USENIX Association</a>
1.46      deraadt  2540: provided The OpenBSD Project with a grant to underwrite the production
1.106     jufi     2541: of CDs of OpenBSD 2.5.  (We distributed the
                   2542: release for free to attendees of the USENIX Annual Conference in
1.46      deraadt  2543: June.)
1.132     louis    2544: <br>
1.46      deraadt  2545: Usenix team members were involved in the authoring and
1.132     louis    2546: presentation of 4 OpenBSD-related papers:
                   2547:
1.375     grunk    2548: <a name="anoncvs_paper"></a>
1.46      deraadt  2549: <ul>
1.66      deraadt  2550: <li>Opening the Source Repository with Anonymous CVS.<br>
1.236     jose     2551:     <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216     jose     2552:     by Charles D. Cranor, Theo de Raadt.<br>
1.236     jose     2553:     <a href="papers/anoncvs-paper.ps">paper</a> and
                   2554:     <a href="papers/anoncvs-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132     louis    2555: <br>
1.66      deraadt  2556: <li>A Future-Adaptable Password Scheme.<br>
1.236     jose     2557:     <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216     jose     2558:     by Niels Provos, David Mazieres.<br>
1.236     jose     2559:     <a href="papers/bcrypt-paper.ps">paper</a> and
                   2560:     <a href="papers/bcrypt-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132     louis    2561: <br>
1.66      deraadt  2562: <li>Cryptography in OpenBSD: An Overview.<br>
1.236     jose     2563:     <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216     jose     2564:     by Theo de Raadt, Niklas Hallqvist, Artur Grabowski,
                   2565:     Angelos D. Keromytis, Niels Provos.<br>
1.236     jose     2566:     <a href="papers/crypt-paper.ps">paper</a> and
                   2567:     <a href="papers/crypt-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132     louis    2568: <br>
1.66      deraadt  2569: <li>strlcpy and strlcat -- consistent, safe, string copy and concatenation.<br>
1.236     jose     2570:     <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216     jose     2571:     by Todd C. Miller, Theo de Raadt.<br>
1.236     jose     2572:     <a href="papers/strlcpy-paper.ps">paper</a> and
                   2573:     <a href="papers/strlcpy-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132     louis    2574: </ul>
1.66      deraadt  2575: <p>
1.46      deraadt  2576:
1.51      deraadt  2577: <li><strong>
1.236     jose     2578: <a href="http://www.linuxexpo.org">5th Annual Linux Expo</a></strong>,
1.727     wvdputte 2579: May 18 - 22, 1999, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA.<br>
1.132     louis    2580: Some OpenBSD team members were at this conference selling OpenBSD 2.5 CDs,
                   2581: OpenBSE T-shirts, as well as Blowfish T-shirts, which sold out very quickly
                   2582: at a table donated by the Expo.  OpenBSD was the only BSD represented at the
                   2583: vendor exposition, and we had good chance to present a secure alternative
                   2584: to Linux.
1.51      deraadt  2585: <p>
                   2586:
1.53      jakob    2587: <li><strong>
1.236     jose     2588: <a href="http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/99mar/index.html">44th IETF
1.216     jose     2589: meeting</a></strong>,
1.727     wvdputte 2590: Mar 15 - 19, 1999, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.<br>
1.132     louis    2591: Some OpenBSD team members were at this conference, in particular our
                   2592: IPSEC developers.
1.53      jakob    2593: <p>
                   2594:
1.132     louis    2595: <li><strong>
1.236     jose     2596: <a href="http://www.europen.se/NordU99">NordU99 -- The first
1.216     jose     2597: EurOpen/USENIX Conference</a></strong>,
1.727     wvdputte 2598: Feb 9 - 12, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden.<br>
1.132     louis    2599: A couple of OpenBSD team members were there and some of the swedish user
                   2600: society as well.  OpenBSD CDs were sold at a booth and at the end of a
                   2601: security talk, the project got applauded for its continuous strive of auditing
                   2602: security sensitive parts of the system.
1.59      deraadt  2603: <p>
1.236     jose     2604: </ul>
1.59      deraadt  2605:
1.132     louis    2606: <h3>1998</h3>
1.59      deraadt  2607:
1.236     jose     2608: <ul>
1.132     louis    2609: <li><strong><a name=ipsec98></a>
1.690     nick     2610: IPsec/VPN Interoperability tests &amp; seminar</strong>,
1.727     wvdputte 2611: Dec 14, 1998, Stockholm, Sweden.<br>
1.132     louis    2612: OpenBSD was represented as one of about a dozen
1.375     grunk    2613: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&amp;sektion=4">IPsec</a>
1.132     louis    2614: implementations who were tested for interoperability.  The tests were
                   2615: successful, both for the technology in general, and for OpenBSD in
                   2616: specific.  We managed to communicate encrypted with every vendor present,
                   2617: and to negotiate keys via IKE with everyone capable.
1.70      deraadt  2618: <p>
                   2619:
1.236     jose     2620: <li><strong><a name="lisaboston-98"></a>
1.690     nick     2621: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa98">LISA '98: 12th Systems Administration
1.216     jose     2622: Conference</a></strong>,
1.727     wvdputte 2623: Dec 6 - 11, 1998, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.<br>
1.132     louis    2624: More than 10 OpenBSD team members showed up.  By far, OpenBSD was the
                   2625: largest representative group from free software at the conference.
                   2626: Usenix gave us a table in the vendor area where we sold 2.4 CDROMs,
1.413     grunk    2627: 2.3 "wire-frame" T-shirts, and the new 2.4 embroidered
                   2628: "Because security matters..." T-shirts, polos, and sweaters.
1.132     louis    2629: An OpenBSD BOF was held one evening, led by Theo de Raadt.
                   2630: A PalmPilot schedule loader was at the membership booth, powered by OpenBSD.
                   2631: <br>
1.690     nick     2632: The terminal room ran OpenBSD 2.4 on 45 machines. Obviously trust in OpenBSD
                   2633: had increased since many people, normally wary of security problems of open
1.132     louis    2634: terminal rooms, were seen using the machines.
1.72      ho       2635: <p>
                   2636:
1.73      deraadt  2637: <li><strong>
1.690     nick     2638: <a href="http://www.disc.unam.mx/eventos_anteriores/disc98/">DISC - Seguridad en
1.217     jose     2639: C&oacute;mputo 98</a></strong>,
1.727     wvdputte 2640: Nov 2 - 7, 1998, Mexico City, Mexico.<br>
1.132     louis    2641: Theo de Raadt gave a talk about security auditing, sponsored by
1.236     jose     2642: <a href="http://www.core-sdi.com">CORE SDI S.A.</a>, an Argentine
1.132     louis    2643: security auditing company who strongly believes in the future
1.236     jose     2644: of OpenBSD. (<a href="papers/mexico98-slides.ps">Slides are available</a>).
1.131     jufi     2645: <p>
1.73      deraadt  2646:
1.236     jose     2647: <li><strong>IP-dagarna</strong>,
1.734     tobias   2648: Oct 29 - 30, 1998, Stockholm, Sweden.<br>
1.132     louis    2649: At this conference, entirely devoted to IP, Niklas Hallqvist from the
                   2650: OpenBSD team held a talk on the IKE (a.k.a ISAKMP/Oakley) key management
                   2651: protocol and experiences from the implementation of <strong>isakmpd</strong>,
                   2652: an IKE implementation funded by Ericsson Radio Systems and developed
                   2653: primarily for the OpenBSD IPSEC stack.
1.79      deraadt  2654: <p>
1.73      deraadt  2655:
1.690     nick     2656: <li><strong>NCEE '98</strong>,
1.727     wvdputte 2657: Oct 9 - 10, 1998, Auburn, Maine, USA.<br>
1.132     louis    2658: An extensive after-action report was sent to advocacy@openbsd.org. While
1.151     jsyn     2659: sales of shirts and CDROMs left much to be desired, we did have good
1.132     louis    2660: opportunities to further project visibility and highlight its strengths.
1.80      deraadt  2661: <p>
                   2662:
1.93      louis    2663: <li><strong>
1.690     nick     2664: <a href="http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference/1998/">Reflections/Projections
1.216     jose     2665: 1998</a></strong>,
1.727     wvdputte 2666: Oct 2 - 4, 1998, Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA.<br>
1.132     louis    2667: Theo de Raadt spoke in a panel about Open/Free software with Eric
                   2668: Raymond and others.
1.93      louis    2669: <p>
                   2670:
1.216     jose     2671: <li><strong>
1.690     nick     2672: <a href="http://press.oreilly.com/pub/pr/797">O'Reilly and
1.236     jose     2673: Associates Open Source Developer Days</a></strong>,
1.727     wvdputte 2674: Aug 21, 1998, San Jose, California, USA.<br>
1.132     louis    2675: OpenBSD team members were on-hand to discuss OpenBSD's role among the
1.413     grunk    2676: other free software projects available. They also sold some CDs and T-shirts.
1.96      deraadt  2677: <p>
                   2678:
1.236     jose     2679: <li><strong><a name="defcon98"></a>
1.690     nick     2680: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-6/defcon-6.html">Defcon 6.0</a></strong>,
1.727     wvdputte 2681: Jul 31 - Aug 2, 1998, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.<br>
1.132     louis    2682: The router to the outside world was an OpenBSD 2.3 box.  It was involved
                   2683: in a "capture the flag" competition in which an entire room of crackers
                   2684: attempted to break into it and machines running other operating systems.
                   2685: The OpenBSD box was not broken into.
                   2686: <br>
                   2687: Almost 100 OpenBSD 2.3 CDROMs were sold (we ran out again).  The primates
1.236     jose     2688: at <a href="http://www.monkey.org">monkey.org</a> brought 2.3
1.413     grunk    2689: &quot;wire-frame&quot; OpenBSD T-shirts to the conference and sold almost
1.132     louis    2690: 200 of them.  The proceeds from the sales were donated to the OpenBSD project.
1.96      deraadt  2691: <p>
1.94      deraadt  2692:
1.690     nick     2693: <li><strong><a href="http://www.blackhat.com/html/bh-usa-98/bh2-index.html">BlackHat Sessions</a></strong>,
1.727     wvdputte 2694: Jul 29 - 30, 1998, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.<br>
1.132     louis    2695: Theo de Raadt presented a talk entitled
                   2696: "Auditing software for security" about the OpenBSD security auditing
                   2697: team's process and the lessons the team learned.  The talk concentrated
                   2698: on how our process fixes bugs -- not just holes -- since one never knows
                   2699: when 5 bugs will act together to become a hole.
1.99      deraadt  2700: <p>
                   2701:
1.236     jose     2702: <li><strong><a name="usenix-neworleans"></a>
                   2703: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/usenix98/index.html">Usenix Annual Technical Conference</a></strong>,
1.727     wvdputte 2704: Jun 15 - 19, 1998, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.<br>
1.132     louis    2705: At Usenix 1998 there was a strong OpenBSD presence both in the Freenix
                   2706: and normal tracks.  Theo did a general talk about what the OpenBSD
                   2707: project offers.  Angelos held a panel about IPSEC (which is quite an
                   2708: OpenBSD topic since IPSEC development at that time was so much further
                   2709: ahead in OpenBSD than anywhere else).
                   2710: <br>
                   2711: The terminal room PCs ran OpenBSD 2.3.  We sold many CDROMs.  The
1.413     grunk    2712: first style of OpenBSD T-shirt also sold quite well.
1.101     wvdputte 2713: <p>
                   2714:
1.105     wvdputte 2715: <li><strong>
1.236     jose     2716: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/sec98/index.html">Usenix Security</a></strong>,
1.727     wvdputte 2717: Jan 26 - 29, 1998, San Antonio, Texas, USA.<br>
1.132     louis    2718: At this conference, Theo presented an evening talk which basically
                   2719: turned into a list of fixed security problems and cautionary tales about
                   2720: subsystems in which future problems may be encountered
1.236     jose     2721: (<a href="papers/security98-slides.ps">slides available</a>).
1.105     wvdputte 2722: <br>
1.132     louis    2723: The terminal room PCs ran OpenBSD 2.2.
                   2724: <p>
1.236     jose     2725: </ul>
1.105     wvdputte 2726:
1.132     louis    2727: <h3>1997</h3>
1.107     deraadt  2728:
1.236     jose     2729: <ul>
1.113     deraadt  2730: <li><strong>
1.236     jose     2731: <a href="http://www.hip97.nl">HIP</a></strong>,
1.727     wvdputte 2732: Aug, 1997, Almere, Netherlands.<br>
1.236     jose     2733: Niels held a
1.690     nick     2734: <a href="http://www.citi.umich.edu/u/provos/papers/hip97-tcpip.html">talk</a>
1.132     louis    2735: about the problems of unencrypted TCP/IP connections, offering IPSEC as
                   2736: possible solution.
1.113     deraadt  2737: <p>
1.132     louis    2738:
1.236     jose     2739: <li><strong>HOPE</strong>,
1.727     wvdputte 2740: Aug, 1997, New York, New York, USA.<br>
1.166     miod     2741: The terminal room consisted primarily of DECstations running
1.690     nick     2742: OpenBSD 2.1.  Once again, the <a href="http://www.lopht.com/">L0phT</a>
1.132     louis    2743: people had very good things to say about our security.
1.113     deraadt  2744: <p>
1.105     wvdputte 2745:
1.236     jose     2746: <li><strong><a name="defcon5"></a>
1.690     nick     2747: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-5/defcon-5.html">Defcon V</a></strong>,
1.727     wvdputte 2748: Jul 11 - 13, 1997, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.<br>
1.132     louis    2749: At this conference, the OpenBSD team sold 100 or so 2.1 release CDROMs.
                   2750: <br>
                   2751: Since this is the primary security conference, many speakers said very
1.140     jufi     2752: good things about our stance on security... particularly people like
1.690     nick     2753: <a href="http://www.lopht.com">the L0phT</a>.
1.118     deraadt  2754: <p>
                   2755:
1.125     deraadt  2756: <li><strong>
1.236     jose     2757: <a
                   2758: href="http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/ana97/index.html">Usenix Annual Technical Conference</a></strong>,
1.216     jose     2759: Jan  6 - 10, 1997, Anaheim, California, USA.<br>
1.690     nick     2760: Theo de Raadt held a BOF ("Birds Of a Feather", i.e. a meeting of people
1.132     louis    2761: interested in the same thing) about OpenBSD.
1.236     jose     2762: </ul>
1.125     deraadt  2763:
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