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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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1.78      louis      23: <hr>
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1.741     saad       32:     <a href="LINK">EVENT NAME</a></strong>,
1.727     wvdputte   33:     Month Day - Day, Year, Location.<br>
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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:
1.790     fkr        49: <li><strong><a name="chemnitz2009"></a>
                     50: <a href="http://chemnitzer.linux-tage.de/2009/info/">Chemnitzer Linux-Tage 2009</a></strong>,
                     51: Mar 14 - 15, 2009, Chemnitz, Germany.<br>
                     52: There will be an OpenBSD booth. Potential helpers and booth slaves
                     53: please mail bernd@ or fkr@.<br>
                     54: <p>
                     55:
1.788     mk         56: <li><strong><a name="fossaalborg2009"></a>
                     57: <a href="http://www.foss-aalborg.dk/">FOSS Aalborg 2009</a></strong>,
                     58: Mar 24, 2009, Aalborg, Denmark.<br>
                     59: Henning Brauer and Sven Dehmlow will give a presentation about secure
                     60: programming.
                     61: <p>
                     62:
1.772     cnst       63: <li><strong><a name="bsdcan2009"></a>
                     64: <a href="http://www.bsdcan.org/2009/">BSDCan 2009</a></strong>,
1.776     jdixon     65: May 6 - 9, 2009, Ottawa, Canada.<br>
1.772     cnst       66: <p>
                     67:
1.791   ! jj         68: <li><strong><a name="bsddayarg2009"></a>
        !            69: <a href="http://www.bsdday.com.ar/">BSDday Argentina 2009</a></strong>,
        !            70: May 29 - 30, 2009, Buenos Aires, Argentina.<br>
        !            71: <p>
        !            72:
1.772     cnst       73: <li><strong><a name="eurobsdcon2009"></a>
                     74: <a href="http://2009.eurobsdcon.org/">EuroBSDCon 2009</a></strong>,
                     75: Sep 17 - 19, 2009, Cambridge, UK.<br>
                     76: <p>
                     77:
1.715     jdixon     78: </ul>
1.772     cnst       79:
1.727     wvdputte   80: <p>
1.719     wvdputte   81: <hr>
                     82:
                     83: <h2>Past events:</h2>
                     84:
1.783     sthen      85: <h3>2009</h3>
                     86: <ul>
                     87:
1.789     xsa        88: <li><strong><a name="Brussels2009"></a>
                     89: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/2009/">FOSDEM Brussels 2009</a></strong>,
                     90: Feb 7 - 8, 2009, Brussels, Belgium.<br>
                     91: There was an OpenBSD/OpenSSH booth and <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/2009/schedule/devroom/bsdpostgresql">a Dev room</a>.
                     92: On Saturday we had our traditional BSD dinner.
                     93: <p>
                     94:
1.783     sthen      95: <li><strong><a name='dcbsdcon2009'></a>
                     96: <a href="http://www.dcbsdcon.org/">DCBSDCon 2009</a></strong>,
                     97: Feb 5 - 6, 2009, Washington, D.C., USA.<br>
1.786     jdixon     98: Henning Brauer gave a talk about
                     99: <a href='http://bulabula.org/papers/dcbsdcon2009/'>
                    100: Performance Tuning in the OpenBSD Network Stack and PF</a>.<br>
                    101: Ted Unangst presented
                    102: <a href='http://www.dcbsdcon.org/speakers/slides/unangst_dcbsdcon2009.pdf'>
                    103: OpenBSD versus SMP, Threading and Concurrency</a>.<br>
                    104: Marco Peereboom introduced the
                    105: <a href='http://www.dcbsdcon.org/speakers/slides/peereboom_dcbsdcon2009.pdf'>
                    106: Epitome suite</a>.<br>
                    107: Kurt Miller gave his talk about
                    108: <a href='http://www.dcbsdcon.org/speakers/slides/miller_dcbsdcon2009.pdf'>
                    109: Implementing PIE on OpenBSD</a>.<br>
                    110: There was an OpenBSD booth, run by Bret Lambert.
1.783     sthen     111: <p>
                    112:
                    113: </ul>
                    114:
1.740     saad      115: <h3>2008</h3>
                    116: <ul>
1.764     mbalmer   117:
1.781     krw       118: <li><strong><a name=25c3></a>
                    119: <a href="http://events.ccc.de/congress/2008/">25th Chaos Communication Congress
                    120: (25C3)</a></strong>,
                    121: Dec 27 - 30, 2008, Berlin, Germany.<br>
                    122: The 25C3 slogan was "Nothing to Hide".
                    123: <p>
                    124:
1.778     krw       125: <li><strong><a name="opencon2008"></a>
                    126: <a href="http://www.opencon.org/">OpenCON 2008</a></strong>,
                    127: Nov 29 - 30, Venice, Italy.<br>
                    128: OpenBSD users and developers gave two days worth of OpenBSD talks and
1.779     krw       129: attended a big OpenBSD party on the saturday night.<br>
                    130: Ken Westerback gave a talk on
                    131: <a href='papers/opencon08-openbsdfoundation/index.html'>
                    132: The OpenBSD Foundation</a>.<br>
                    133: Ken Westerback gave a talk on
                    134: <a href='papers/opencon08-installscripts/index.html'>
                    135: OpenBSD's Install Scripts</a>.<br>
1.778     krw       136: <p>
                    137:
1.775     sthen     138: <li><strong><a name="ukuugpf2008london"></a>
                    139: <a href="http://www.ukuug.org/events/pftutorial/">UKUUG Full-day PF tutorial</a></strong>,
                    140: Nov 26 2008, London, UK.<br>
                    141: The UKUUG hosted a full-day PF tutorial by Peter Hansteen (Book of PF author),
                    142: at the Caesar Room, Imperial Hotel, London.
                    143: <p>
                    144:
                    145: <li><strong><a name="t-dose2008"></a>
                    146: <a href="http://www.t-dose.org/">T-DOSE 2008</a></strong>,
                    147: Oct 25 - 26, 2008, Eindhoven, The Netherlands.<br>
                    148: Technical Dutch Open Source Event.<br>
                    149: Developers were present as well as an OpenBSD booth,
                    150: run by the usual suspects.
                    151: <p>
                    152:
1.770     sthen     153: <li><strong><a name="eurobsdcon2008"></a>
1.772     cnst      154: <a href="http://2008.eurobsdcon.org/">EuroBSDCon 2008</a></strong>,
                    155: Oct 16 - 19, 2008, Strasbourg, France.<br>
                    156: Peter N. M. Hansteen gave a tutorial on building networks with PF.<br>
                    157: Matthieu Herrb gave a talk on input handling in wscons and X.Org.<br>
1.773     cnst      158: Constantine A. Murenin gave a talk on <a href='papers/eurobsdcon2008-sensors.pdf'>the sensors framework</a>.<br>
1.772     cnst      159: There was an OpenBSD booth, run by the usual suspects.
1.770     sthen     160: <p>
                    161:
                    162: <li><strong><a name="nycbsdcon2008"></a>
                    163: <a href="http://www.nycbsdcon.org/2008/">NYCBSDCon 2008</a></strong>,
                    164: Oct 11 - 12, 2008, New York, New York.<br>
1.774     kurt      165: Jason Dixon gave a talk called
                    166: <a href='http://talks.dixongroup.net/nycbsdcon2008/'>
                    167: BSD versus GPL</a>.<br>
                    168: Anders Magnusson gave a talk on the
                    169: <a href='papers/magnusson_pcc.pdf'>design of PCC</a>.<br>
                    170: Kurt Miller gave a talk on
                    171: <a href='papers/nycbsdcon08-pie/'>implementing PIE</a>.<br>
                    172: Michael Shalayeff gave a talk on porting PCC to new architectures.<br>
                    173: Jason L Wright gave a talk called
                    174: <a href='papers/wright_hardware-wrong.pdf'>When Hardware Is Wrong, or
                    175: "They can Fix It In Software"</a>.<br>
                    176: Audio for the talks is available
                    177: <a href='http://www.fetissov.org/public/nycbsdcon08/'>here</a>.<br>
                    178: There was an OpenBSD booth, run by Ray Lai and Okan Demirmen.<br>
1.770     sthen     179: <p>
                    180:
                    181: <li><strong><a name="opensourcedays2008"></a>
                    182: <a href="http://www.opensourcedays.org/2008/">Open Source Days
                    183: 2008</a></strong>,
                    184: Oct 3 - 4, 2008, Copenhagen, Denmark.<br>
                    185: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth.
                    186: <p>
                    187:
                    188: <li><strong><a name="openexpo2008zh"></a>
                    189: <a href="http://openexpo.org/en/">OpenExpo 2008</a></strong>,
                    190: Sep 23 - 24, 2008, Zurich/Winterthur, Switzerland.<br>
                    191: There was an OpenBSD table, run by Stephan A. Rickauer.
                    192: <p>
                    193:
1.768     sthen     194: <li><strong><a name="Slackathon 2008"></a>
                    195: <a href="http://www.slackathon.se:2008/index_en.html">Slackathon 2008</a></strong>,
                    196: Sep 13, 2008, Stockholm, Sweden.<br>
                    197: Swedish annual OpenBSD conference.
                    198: <p>
                    199:
                    200: <li><strong><a name="froscon2008"></a>
                    201: <a href="http://www.froscon.de">FrOSCon 2008</a></strong>,
                    202: Aug 23 - 24, 2008, Bonn/Rhein-Sieg, Germany.<br>
                    203: There was an OpenBSD booth, run by the usual suspects.
                    204: <p>
                    205:
                    206: <li><strong><a name="OpenKyiv 2008"></a>
                    207: <a href="http://uaoug.org.ua/openkyiv/">OpenKyiv 2008</a></strong>,
                    208: Aug 2, 2008, Kyiv, Ukraine.<br>
1.787     mikeb     209: Mike Belopuhov gave a talk called
                    210: <a href='papers/openkyiv08-mikeb.pdf'>OpenBSD Kernel Architecture,
                    211: Network Stack</a>.<br>
1.768     sthen     212: There was plenty of OpenBSD activity including a
                    213: <a href="https://register.bsdcertification.org/register/events/openkyiv-2008">BSD certification</a> exam.
                    214: <p>
                    215:
1.764     mbalmer   216: <li><strong><a name="lsm2008"></a>
                    217: <a href="http://www.rmll.info">Libre Software Meeting 2008</a></strong>,
                    218: Jul 1 - 5, 2008, Mont de Marsan, France.<br>
                    219: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth.
                    220: <p>
                    221:
                    222: <li><strong><a name="jdlbe2008"></a>
                    223: <a href="http://journeesdulibre.bxlug.be/">Journ&eacute;es du Libre &agrave; Bruxelles 2008</a></strong>,
                    224: Jun 6 - 7, 2008, Sint-Gillis, Belgium.<br>
                    225: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth.
                    226: <p>
                    227:
                    228: <li><strong><a name="linuxtag2008"></a>
                    229: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.org/2008/en/">LinuxTag 2008</a></strong>,
                    230: May 28 - 31, 2008, Berlin, Germany.<br>
                    231: There was plenty of OpenBSD activity (talks &amp; booth).
                    232: <p>
                    233:
1.761     merdely   234: <li><strong><a name="linuxdays2008"></a>
                    235: <a href="http://www.linuxdays.ch/">LinuxDays 2008</a></strong>,
                    236: May 21 - 22, 2008, Geneva, Switzerland.<br>
1.764     mbalmer   237: Julien Mabillard gave a presentation about OpenBSD and
                    238: failover/load-balancing features. There was also an OpenBSD booth.
1.761     merdely   239: <p>
                    240:
1.760     matthieu  241: <li><strong><a name="bsdcan2008"></a>
                    242: <a href="http://www.bsdcan.org/2008/">BSDCan 2008</a></strong>,
                    243: May 14 - 17, 2008, Ottawa, Canada.<br>
                    244: Several OpenBSD developers were there.<br>
1.762     cnst      245: Constantine A. Murenin gave an <a href="papers/bsdcan08-sensors.pdf">
                    246: overview of the sensors framework</a>,
1.760     matthieu  247: Matthieu Herrb  talked about the <a href="papers/bsdcan08-xorg.pdf">
                    248: upcoming X.org plans</a> and
                    249: Ian Darwin gave a presentation about OpenMoko.<br>
                    250: John Pertalion and Oscar Knight presented a case-study of
                    251: their OpenVPN on OpenBSD deployment.
                    252: <p>
                    253:
                    254: <li><strong><a name="vj08"></a>
                    255: <a href="http://www.nluug.nl/events/vj08">NLUUG spring conference
                    256: 2008</a></strong>,
                    257: May 15, 2008, Ede, Netherlands.<br>
                    258: There has been an OpenBSD booth.
                    259: <p>
                    260:
                    261: <li><strong><a name="confidence2008"></a>
                    262: <a href="http://2008.confidence.org.pl/">Confidence 2008</a></strong>,
                    263: May 16 - 17, 2008, Krakow, Poland.<br>
                    264: Felix has given a presentation and there was a OpenBSD booth.
                    265: <p>
                    266:
1.759     johan     267: <li><strong><a name="DORSCLUC2008"></a>
                    268: <a href="http://www.open.hr/dc2008/en/">DORS / CLUC 2008</a></strong>,
                    269: Apr 16 - Apr 18, 2008, Zagreb, Croatia.<br>
                    270: 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>
                    271: <p>
                    272:
                    273: <li><strong><a name="jtic2008"></a>
                    274: <a href="http://www.iesmirabent.com/jornadas/index2.html">I Jornadas
                    275: Tecnol&oacute;gicas Ciudad de Isla Cristina</a></strong>,
                    276: Apr 3 - 4, 2008, Huelva, Spain.<br>
                    277: Igor Sobrado gave a talk on OpenBSD and related free software projects.<br>
                    278: <p>
                    279:
                    280: <li><strong><a name="ukuugspring2008"></a>
                    281: <a href="http://spring2008.ukuug.org/">UKUUG Spring 2008</a></strong>,
                    282: Mar 31 - Apr 2, 2008, Birmingham, UK.<br>
                    283: 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>
                    284: <p>
                    285:
1.756     claudio   286: <li><strong><a name="asiabsdcon2008"></a>
                    287: <a href="http://2008.asiabsdcon.org/">AsiaBSDCon 2008</a></strong>,
1.772     cnst      288: Mar 27 - 30, 2008, Tokyo, Japan.<br>
1.757     claudio   289: Claudio Jeker gave a talk on <a href="/papers/asiabsdcon08-network/">OpenBSD Network Stack Internals</a>.<br>
1.756     claudio   290: <p>
                    291:
1.749     wvdputte  292: <li><strong><a name="openexpo2008"></a>
                    293: <a href="http://openexpo.org/en/">OpenExpo 2008</a></strong>,
                    294: Mar 12 - 13, 2008, Bern, Switzerland.<br>
                    295: There was an OpenBSD table, run by Stephan A. Rickauer.<br>
                    296: <p>
                    297:
                    298: <li><strong><a name="chemnitz2008"></a>
                    299: <a href="http://chemnitzer.linux-tage.de/2008/info/">Chemnitzer Linux-Tage 2008</a></strong>,
                    300: Mar 1 - 2, 2008, Chemnitz, Germany.<br>
                    301: There was an OpenBSD table, run by Philipp.<br>
                    302: <p>
1.740     saad      303:
1.743     wvdputte  304: <li><strong><a name="Brussels2008"></a>
                    305: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/2008/">FOSDEM Brussels 2008</a></strong>,
                    306: Feb 23 - 24, 2008, Brussels, Belgium.<br>
                    307: There was an OpenBSD/OpenSSH booth and <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/2008/schedule/devroom/bsdpostgresql">a Dev room</a>.
                    308: There was also an exam for <a href="http://www.bsdcertification.org/">BSD
                    309: certification</a>.<br>
                    310: On Saturday we had our traditional BSD dinner.
                    311: <p>
                    312:
1.742     merdely   313: <li><strong><a name="scale6x"></a>
                    314: <a href="http://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale6x/">Southern California Linux
                    315: Expo 6x</a></strong>,
                    316: Feb 8 - 10, 2008, Los Angeles, California, USA.<br>
                    317: There was an OpenBSD booth run by Darrin Chandler with live
                    318: demonstrations and CDs for sale.
                    319: <p>
                    320:
1.740     saad      321: <li><strong><a name="Paris2008"></a>
                    322: <a href="http://www.solutionslinux.fr/fr/index.php">Solutions Linux
                    323: 2008</a></strong>,
                    324: Jan 29 - 31, 2008, Paris, France.<br>
                    325: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth with Marc Espie, Antoine
                    326: Jacoutot, Gilles Chehade, Charles Longeau, Landry Breuil, Saad Kadhi,
1.741     saad      327: Wim and others. [<a href="http://saad.docisland.org/pictures/sl2008/"
                    328: >pictures</a>]
1.740     saad      329: <p>
                    330:
                    331: </ul>
                    332:
1.588     espie     333: <h3>2007</h3>
                    334: <ul>
1.603     fkr       335:
1.731     wvdputte  336: <li><strong><a name=24c3></a>
                    337: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/2007/">24C3 Chaos Communication Congress in
                    338: Berlin</a></strong>,
                    339: December 27 - 30, 2007, Berlin, Germany.<br>
                    340: The motto was Volldampf voraus! (literally Full Steam Ahead).
                    341: <p>
                    342:
1.726     merdely   343: <li><strong><a name="capbug200712"></a>
                    344: <a href="http://capbug.org/">Capital Area BSD User Group</a></strong>,
1.727     wvdputte  345: Dec 17, 2007, Columbia, Maryland, USA.<br>
1.726     merdely   346: Michael Erdely presented <a href="papers/capbug200712/index.html">OpenBSD
                    347: Ports Tutorial: Advanced Topics</a>.
                    348: [<a href="http://talks.metabug.org/20071218_capbug_640x480.mp4">slides
                    349: w/audio</a>]
                    350: <p>
                    351:
1.721     jsg       352: <li><strong><a name="opencon2007"></a>
1.734     tobias    353: <a href="http://www.opencon.org/">OpenCON 2007</a></strong>,
1.721     jsg       354: Nov 30 - Dec 2, 2007, Venice, Italy.<br>
                    355: OpenCON is the only conference dedicated solely to OpenBSD.
                    356: This edition was composed of one "tutorial day" and two days of conference.
                    357: Three days entirely dedicated to OpenBSD with a lot of developers and users.
1.722     jsg       358: Talks by OpenBSD developers were:
                    359: <p>
                    360:  <ul>
                    361:  <li>Jonathan Gray: <a href="papers/opencon07-complex/index.html">
                    362:      Why are modern operating systems so complicated?</a>
1.724     jasper    363:  <li>Mark Kettenis: <a href="papers/opencon07-sparc64.pdf">
                    364:      OpenBSD/sparc64</a>.
1.723     jasper    365:  <li>Reiner Jung and Jasper Lievisse Adriaanse: <a href="papers/opencon07-gnome.pdf">
1.724     jasper    366:      Gnome as OpenBSD desktop solution</a>.
1.725     bernd     367:  <li>Bernd Ahlers: <a href="papers/opencon07-portstutorial/index.html">
                    368:      OpenBSD Ports Tutorial</a>.
1.744     claudio   369:  <li>Claudio Jeker: <a href="papers/opencon07-ospf6d">
                    370:      OSPF v3 - OSPF for IPv6</a>.
1.722     jsg       371:  </ul>
1.721     jsg       372: <p>
                    373:
1.716     wvdputte  374: <li><strong><a name="dulug2007"></a>
1.719     wvdputte  375: <a href="http://www.dulug.de/">Duisburger Linux User Group</a></strong>,
1.727     wvdputte  376: Nov 17, 2007, Duisburg, Germany.<br>
1.738     tobias    377: Richard Verwayen gave a workshop on installing OpenBSD,
1.727     wvdputte  378: [<a href="http://www.dulug.de/cgi-bin/dcms.cgi?action=lit-17.11.07">pictures</a>].
1.716     wvdputte  379: <p>
                    380:
                    381: <li><strong><a name="essen2007"></a>
                    382: <a href="http://www.come2linux.org/psp/">Come 2 Linux 2007 Essen</a></strong>,
1.727     wvdputte  383: Nov 10 - 11, 2007, Essen, Germany.<br>
                    384: The *BSD projects had an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth.
1.716     wvdputte  385: <p>
                    386:
                    387: <li><strong><a name="nluug2007"></a>
                    388: <a href="http://www.nluug25.nl/en/index.php">NLUUG 25th anniversary</a></strong>,
1.727     wvdputte  389: Nov 7, 2007, Amsterdam, Netherlands.<br>
1.716     wvdputte  390: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth with Wim, Otto, Floor and Kevin.
                    391: <p>
1.658     reyk      392:
1.714     jasper    393: <li><strong><a name="amsterdam2007"></a>
1.741     saad      394: <a
                    395: 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  396: Nov 2, 2007, Amsterdam, Netherlands.<br>
1.741     saad      397: Informal OpenBSD user meeting in Amsterdam, more info on Undeadly.org.
                    398: [<a href="http://brobding.mine.nu/Brobding.mine.nu/Albums/Pages/OpenBSD_4.2.html">pictures</a>]
1.714     jasper    399: <p>
                    400:
1.713     wvdputte  401: <li><strong><a name="uaoug2007"></a>
1.738     tobias    402: <a href="http://www.uaoug.org.ua/en/index.html">Ukrainian OpenBSD Users Group  meeting</a></strong>,
1.713     wvdputte  403: Nov 1, 2007, Kyiv, Ukraine<br>
1.738     tobias    404: Sergey Prysiazhnyi, community co-ordinator, gave a talk about Driver
                    405: Architecture and OpenBSD using in Embedded Systems.
1.713     wvdputte  406: <a href= "http://www.atmnis.com/~apelsin/uaoug/u2k7_v3.0/talk/">[slides]</a>
                    407: <a href= "http://www.atmnis.com/~apelsin/uaoug/u2k7_v3.0/">[pictures]</a>
                    408: <a href= "http://www.atmnis.com/~apelsin/uaoug/u2k7_v3.0/video/talk.mp4">[video]</a>
                    409: <p>
                    410:
1.712     sthen     411: <li><strong><a name="cossfest2007"></a>
                    412: <a href="http://www.cossfest.ca/">COSSFEST 2007</a></strong>,
                    413: Oct 27, 2007, Calgary, Alberta,<br>
                    414: There was an OpenBSD booth present with 4.2 CDs.
                    415: <p>
                    416:
                    417: <li><strong><a name="systems2007"></a>
                    418: <a href="http://www.systems.de/">Systems</a></strong>,
1.727     wvdputte  419: Oct 23 - 26, 2007, Munich, Germany.<br>
1.712     sthen     420: The *BSD projects had an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth in Halle B2 110-2, run by
                    421: DaN, Nikolay Sturm, Marco Pfatschbacher and some other volunteers.
                    422: <p>
                    423:
                    424: <li><strong><a name="bsdcontr2007"></a>
1.734     tobias    425: <a href="http://www.bsdcontr.org/">BSDConTR 2007</a></strong>,
1.712     sthen     426: Oct 19 - 20, 2007, Rectorate of Marmara University, SultanAhmet, Istanbul,
                    427: Turkey.<br>
                    428: First Turkish Conference on BSD Systems.<br>
                    429: Marc Balmer talked about his work on support for radio clocks in
                    430: OpenBSD.<br>
                    431: G&ouml;khan Alkan gave a talk "Spam protection with OpenBSD and PF".<br>
                    432: Huzeyfe &Ouml;nal gave a talk "Advanced Security solutions in OpenBSD".
                    433: <br>
                    434: <p>
                    435:
1.708     aanriot   436: <li><strong><a name=aldil2007></a>
                    437: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/">Les Journ&eacute;es Du Logiciel Libre
                    438: 2007</a></strong>,
                    439: Oct 19 - 20, 2007, Lyon, France.<br>
                    440: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Damien Bergamini and
                    441: Alexandre Anriot with the help of Thierry Thomas.
                    442: <p>
                    443:
1.705     pvalchev  444: <li><strong><a name=rp2007></a>
                    445: <a href="http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference/2007/">Reflections/Projections
                    446: 2007</a></strong>,
1.727     wvdputte  447: Oct 12 - 14, 2007, Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA.<br>
1.705     pvalchev  448: Peter Valchev gave a talk titled <a href="papers/rp2007-slides.pdf">
                    449: Using OpenBSD Security Features to Find Software Bugs</a>.
                    450: <p>
                    451:
                    452: <li><strong><a name=auug2007></a>
                    453: <a href="http://new.auug.org.au/AUUG2007">AUUG 2007</a></strong>,
                    454: Oct 13 - 14, 2007, Melbourne, Australia.<br>
                    455: Reyk Floeter talked about load balancing and TCP-relaying with hoststated.
                    456: There were developers, users, and an OpenBSD booth present.
                    457: <p>
                    458:
                    459: <li><strong><a name="t-dose2007"></a>
                    460: <a href="http://www.t-dose.org/">T-DOSE 2007</a></strong>,
                    461: Oct 13 - 14, 2007, Eindhoven, The Netherlands.<br>
1.727     wvdputte  462: Technical Dutch Open Source Event.<br>
1.705     pvalchev  463: There were developers present as well as an OpenBSD booth,
                    464: run by the usual suspects.
                    465: <p>
                    466:
1.689     claudio   467: <li><strong><a name="openexpo2007"></a>
                    468: <a href="http://www.openexpo.ch/">OpenExpo 2007</a></strong>,
1.734     tobias    469: Sep 19 - 20, 2007, Zurich, Switzerland.<br>
1.689     claudio   470: There were developers present as well as an OpenBSD booth,
1.738     tobias    471: run by the usual suspects.  Stephan A. Rickauer gave a talk
                    472: "OpenBSD and Linux: Insights into a migration project at the Institute of
1.689     claudio   473: Neuroinformatics, ETH Zurich".<br>
                    474: <p>
                    475:
1.686     mbalmer   476: <li><strong><a name="eurobsdcon2007"></a>
                    477: <a href="http://2007.eurobsdcon.org/">EuroBSDCon 2007</a></strong>,
                    478: Sep 14 - 15, 2007, Copenhagen, Denmark.<br>
                    479: Marc Balmer gave a talk <a href="papers/eurobsdcon07/mbalmer-radio_clocks.pdf">
                    480: Support for Radio Clocks in OpenBSD</a>.<br>
1.702     pyr       481: Pierre-Yves Ritschard gave a talk <a href="papers/eurobsdcon07/pyr-loadbalancing">Load Balancing in OpenBSD Using hoststated</a>.<br>
1.688     claudio   482: Claudio Jeker gave a talk <a href="papers/eurobsdcon07/claudio-routing">
                    483: Using OpenBSD as Routing Platform</a>.<br>
1.686     mbalmer   484: Peter Hansteen offered "A Packet Filter Tutorial" on the tutorial day.<br>
                    485: There was an OpenBSD booth, run by the usual suspects.
                    486: <p>
                    487:
1.685     bernd     488: <li><strong><a name="linuxdayskiel2007"></a>
                    489: <a href="http://www.kieler-linuxtage.de">Kieler Linux und Open Source Tage</a></strong>,
1.727     wvdputte  490: Sep 07 - 08, 2007, Kiel, Germany.<br>
1.685     bernd     491: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Bernd.
                    492: <p>
                    493:
1.686     mbalmer   494: <li><strong><a name="xds2007"></a>
                    495: <a href="http://www.x.org/wiki/Events/XDS2007">X.Org Developers' Summit 2007</a></strong>,
                    496: Sep 10 - 12, 2007, Cambridge, UK.<br>
                    497: Matthieu Herrb and Marc Balmer attended the 3-day summit to make sure the
                    498: *BSD point of view was well represented.
                    499: <p>
                    500:
1.684     bernd     501: <li><strong><a name="froscon2007"></a>
                    502: <a href="http://www.froscon.de">FrOSCon 2007</a></strong>,
1.727     wvdputte  503: Aug 25 - 26, 2007, Bonn/Rhein-Sieg, Germany.<br>
1.684     bernd     504: There was an OpenBSD booth, run by the usual suspects.
                    505: <p>
                    506:
1.682     bernd     507: <li><strong><a name="summercamp2007"></a>
1.734     tobias    508: <a href="http://events.ccc.de/camp/2007">Chaos Communication Camp
                    509: 2007</a></strong>,
1.727     wvdputte  510: Aug 8 - 12, 2007, Finowfurt, Germany.<br>
1.682     bernd     511: This open air event had a big OpenBSD village with all the usual suspects.
                    512: <p>
                    513:
1.680     aanriot   514: <li><strong><a name="lsm2007"></a>
                    515: <a href="http://www.rmll.info">Libre Software Meeting 2007</a></strong>,
                    516: Jul 10 - 14, 2007, Amiens, France.<br>
1.681     aanriot   517: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Wim, Matthieu and
                    518: Alexandre with the help of Serge and Christelle.
1.680     aanriot   519: <p>
                    520:
1.675     mbalmer   521: <li><strong><a name=Slackathon2007></a>
1.734     tobias    522: <a href="http://www.slackathon.se/">Slackathon 2007</a></strong>,
1.675     mbalmer   523: June 16, 2007, Stockholm, Sweden.<br>
1.738     tobias    524: Yet another round of fund raising for OpenBSD/SSH and general *BSD meeting
1.675     mbalmer   525: that took place in Stockholm.
                    526: <p>
                    527:
                    528: <li><strong><a name="linuxtag2007"></a>
1.734     tobias    529: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.org/2007/en/">LinuxTag 2007</a></strong>,
1.727     wvdputte  530: May 30 - Jun 2, 2007, Berlin, Germany.<br>
1.675     mbalmer   531: There were presentations by OpenBSD developers and an OpenBSD booth,
1.738     tobias    532: run by the usual suspects, and Stephan A. Rickauer held Peter Hansteen's PF
                    533: tutorial as well as the talk
1.677     wvdputte  534: <a href="http://www.ini.unizh.ch/~stephan/talks/LinuxTag07.pdf">
1.738     tobias    535: "OpenBSD and Linux: Insights into a migration project at the Institute of
1.677     wvdputte  536: Neuroinformatics, ETH Zurich"</a>.
1.675     mbalmer   537: <p>
                    538:
1.674     martin    539: <li><strong><a name=LinuxwochenVienna2007></a>
1.734     tobias    540: <a href="http://www.linuxwochen.at/2007/Wien">Linuxwochen Vienna
                    541: 2007</a></strong>,
1.674     martin    542: May 31 - Jun 2, 2007, Vienna, Austria.<br>
                    543: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth run by Martin Reindl, Robert Peichaer
                    544: and Teemu Schaabl.
                    545: <p>
                    546:
1.671     aanriot   547: <li><strong><a name=cuug2007></a>
                    548: <a href="http://www.cuug.ab.ca/">Calgary Unix Users Group</a></strong>,
                    549: May 29, 2007, downtown Library, basement meeting room, Calgary, Alberta.<br>
1.688     claudio   550: <a href="papers/cuug07-claudio/">Claudio Jeker</a>,
                    551: <a href="papers/cuug2007/">David Gwynne, Henning Brauer</a>,
1.673     mbalmer   552: Reyk Fl&ouml;ter, Matthieu Herrb, Marc Balmer, and Bob Beck discussed recent and
                    553: future networking changes in OpenBSD, as well as Xenocara, support for
                    554: radio clocks in OpenBSD, and Spam Reduction with OpenBSD spamd and greylisting.
1.672     henning   555: Some other OpenBSD developers attended to provide international colour.
1.671     aanriot   556: <p>
                    557:
1.670     ray       558: <li><strong><a name="bsdcan2007"></a>
                    559: <a href="http://www.bsdcan.org/2007/">BSDCan 2007</a></strong>,
                    560: May 16 - 19, 2007, Ottawa, Canada.<br>
                    561: Several OpenBSD developers were there.<br>
                    562: Peter Hansteen gave a "Packet filtering for fun and profit" tutorial and
                    563: presented a "Fighting malware and spam with free tools" talk.<br>
                    564: Ray Lai presented OpenCVS/OpenRCS and
                    565: discussed why a secure CVS implementation is needed.
                    566: <a href="papers/bsdcan07-cvs/">Slides</a> are available.<br>
                    567: Jason Dixon gave the closing session of BSDCan 2007.
                    568: <p>
                    569:
1.669     fkr       570: <li><strong><a name="confidence2007"></a>
                    571: <a href="http://2007.confidence.org.pl/">Confidence 2007</a></strong>,
                    572: May 12 - 13, 2007, Krakow, Poland.<br>
                    573: Felix, Henning and Wim gave presentations and ran the OpenBSD booth.
                    574: <p>
                    575:
1.666     michele   576: <li><strong><a name="obsdm2"></a>
1.734     tobias    577: <a href="http://www.openbeer.it/?open=obsdm2">OpenBSD Meeting V.2</a></strong>,
1.666     michele   578: May 12, 2007, Verona, Italy.<br>
                    579: Another event organized by the OpenBEER team with italian OpenBSD related talks.
                    580: Michele presented a talk about the OpenBSD network stack.
                    581: <p>
                    582:
                    583: <li><strong><a name="nluug2007"></a>
                    584: <a href="http://www.nluug.nl/events/vj07/index.html">NLUUG Voorjaarsconferentie
                    585: 2007</a></strong>,
1.727     wvdputte  586: May 10, 2007, Ede, Netherlands.<br>
1.666     michele   587: There was a
                    588: <a href="http://www.nluug.nl/events/vj07/abstracts/ab.html?id=2">presentation</a>
1.738     tobias    589: by Anil Madhavapeddy and an OpenBSD booth, run by the usual
1.666     michele   590: suspects.
                    591: <p>
                    592:
1.665     mbalmer   593: <li><strong><a name="coimbra2007"></a>
                    594: <a href="http://www.openbsd-pt.com/eventos/coimbra07/index-en.html">Portuguese OpenBSD Usergroup Meeting</a></strong>,
                    595: May 5 - 6, 2007, Coimbra, Portugal.<br>
                    596: 7th Meeting of the Portuguese OpenBSD Usergroup.<br>
                    597: Marc Balmer gave a talk "Ensuring Quality in OpenBSD Without a Formal Process".<br>
                    598: Rui Reis gave a presentation "The Honeynet.PT project".<br>
1.667     pedro     599: Michael Shalayeff gave a talk "Asynchronous I/O".<br>
                    600: Also present was Pedro Martelletto.
1.665     mbalmer   601: <p>
                    602:
1.658     reyk      603: <li><strong><a name=decix6th></a>
                    604: <a href="http://www.de-cix.org/">DE-CIX 6th Technical Meeting</a></strong>,
                    605: Apr 19, 2007, Schloss Kransberg, near Usingen, Germany.<br>
                    606: Henning Brauer and Reyk Fl&ouml;ter talked at the 6th technical
                    607: meeting of the Deutsche Commercial Internet Exchange (DE-CIX).
                    608: Henning gave an update on OpenBGPD and Reyk about the latest
                    609: network-related changes since OpenBSD 4.1. They also talked about
                    610: the status of test OpenBGPD route server running at the DE-CIX.
                    611: <p>
                    612:
1.738     tobias    613: <li><strong><a name="litol07"></a>
1.651     fkr       614: <a href="http://www.lit-ol.de/">2. Linux-Informationstag Oldenburg</a></strong>,
1.738     tobias    615: Apr 14 - 15, 2007, Oldenburg, Germany.<br>
                    616: Small Open-Source event. Of course there was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth run by
1.659     fkr       617: Bernd, Felix and Tobias Stoeckmann. Felix gave a talk about the current state
                    618: of OpenBSD development titled <a href="papers/litol07/">OpenBSD - Past, Present and Future</a>.
1.738     tobias    619: <p>
1.650     deraadt   620:
                    621: <li><strong><a name="fisl8"></a>
                    622: <a href="http://fisl.softwarelivre.org/8.0/www/?q=en">fisl8.0</a></strong>,
1.734     tobias    623: Apr 12 - 14, 2007, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil.<br>
1.650     deraadt   624: This was a fairly large conference in South America.  Theo de Raadt
                    625: presented a talk about <a href="papers/brhard2007/">Hardware Documentation</a>.
1.738     tobias    626: <p>
1.650     deraadt   627:
1.645     ray       628: <li><strong><a name="nycbug2007-cvs"></a>
                    629: <a href="http://nycbug.org/">NYC*BUG April 2007</a></strong>,
                    630: Apr 4, 2007, NYC, USA.<br>
                    631: Ray Lai (ray@) gave a
                    632: <a href="http://www.nycbug.org/index.php?NAV=Home;SUBM=10104">talk</a>
                    633: on OpenCVS.
1.648     ray       634: <a href="papers/nycbug07-cvs/">Slides</a> and
                    635: <a href="http://www.fetissov.org/public/nycbug/nycbug-04-04-07.mp3">audio</a>
                    636: are available.
1.645     ray       637: <p>
                    638:
1.638     grunk     639: <li><strong><a name="elite2007"></a>
                    640: <a href="http://www.erlug.de/?q=node/323">5. Erlanger Linuxtage</a></strong>,
                    641: Mar 24 - 25, 2007, Erlangen, Germany.<br>
                    642: There was an OpenBSD/OpenSSH booth, run by Alexander von Gernler (grunk@).
                    643: He also gave a talk called
1.639     grunk     644: <a href="papers/elite2007/elite2007-openbsd.pdf">
1.638     grunk     645: "Sichere Systeme mit OpenBSD" (german)</a>.
                    646: <p>
                    647:
1.635     tom       648: <li><strong><a name="ukuug2007"></a>
                    649: <a href="http://www.ukuug.org/events/spring2007/">UKUUG Spring 2007 Conference</a></strong>,
1.727     wvdputte  650: Mar 19 - 21, 2007, Manchester, United Kingdom.<br>
1.635     tom       651: Tom Cosgrove gave a presentation about "Third-Party Applications on OpenBSD"
                    652: at the annual spring meeting of the
                    653: <a href="http://www.ukuug.org/">UK's Unix and Open Systems User Group</a>.
                    654: <p>
                    655:
1.627     mcbride   656: <li><strong><a name="asiabsdcon2007"></a>
                    657: <a href="http://www.asiabsdcon.org/">AsiaBSDCon 2007</a></strong>,
                    658: Mar 8 - 11, 2007, Tokyo, Japan.<br>
1.631     mbalmer   659: Marc Balmer presented a paper <a href="papers/radio-clocks-asiabsdcon07.pdf">Supporting Radio Clocks in OpenBSD</a>. Presentation
                    660: <a href="papers/asiabsdcon07-radioclocks/index.html">slides</a> are also
                    661: available.<br>
1.627     mcbride   662: 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   663: Mathieu Sauve-Frankel gave a talk <a href="papers/asiabsdcon07-ipsec/index.html">Recent Improvements in OpenBSD's IPSec Support</a>.<br>
                    664: Damien Miller presented a paper <a href="papers/openssh-measures-asiabsdcon2007.pdf">Security measures in OpenSSH</a>. Presentation
1.628     djm       665: <a href="papers/openssh-measures-asiabsdcon2007-slides.pdf">slides</a> are
                    666: also available.<br>
1.627     mcbride   667: 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".
                    668: <p>
                    669:
1.622     fkr       670: <li><strong><a name="linuxforum2007"></a>
                    671: <a href="http://www.linuxforum.dk/2007/">LinuxForum 2007</a></strong>,
                    672: Mar 2 - 3, 2007, Copenhagen, Denmark.<br>
1.738     tobias    673: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth run by Wim, Bernd and Michael in the
                    674: <a href="http://img.ba-net.org/LinuxForum2007/">best of circumstances</a>.
                    675: Felix gave a talk titled
1.622     fkr       676: <a href="papers/linuxforum07/index.html">OpenBSD - Past, Present and Future</a>.
                    677: <p>
                    678:
1.619     wvdputte  679: <li><strong><a name=Brussels2007></a>
                    680: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/2007/">FOSDEM Brussels 2007</a></strong>,
                    681: Feb 24 - 25, 2007, Brussels, Belgium.<br>
1.727     wvdputte  682: There was an OpenBSD/OpenSSH booth with Matthieu, Marc, Mickey, Saad
1.619     wvdputte  683: and Wim. On Saturday we had our traditional BSD dinner.<br>
                    684: Matthieu gave a <a href="papers/fosdem07-xenocara.pdf">
                    685: talk on Xenocara</a> in the X.Org devroom.
                    686: <p>
1.616     wvdputte  687:
                    688: <li><strong><a name="kiberpipa2007"></a>
                    689: <a href="http://pot.kiberpipa.org">Kiberpipa open sessions</a></strong>,
                    690: February 20, 2007, Ljubljana, Slovenia.<br>
                    691: On that edition of weekly "Open sessions" meetings
                    692: <a href="http://www.kerberos.si">Mitja Muzenic</a> gave a
                    693: <a href="http://pot.kiberpipa.org/?p=39">talk</a> on OpenBSD.
1.619     wvdputte  694: <a href="http://www.kerberos.si/papers/Kiberpipa07/">Slides</a> (in Slovenian),
                    695: <a href="http://video.kiberpipa.org/media/POT_OpenBSD">video</a> (in Slovenian),
1.616     wvdputte  696: and <a href="http://gallery.kerberos.si/kiberpipa07/">photos</a> are available.
                    697: <p>
                    698:
                    699: </ul>
                    700:
1.445     martin    701: <h3>2006</h3>
1.236     jose      702: <ul>
1.537     deraadt   703:
1.588     espie     704: <li><strong><a name="23c3"></a>
1.577     mbalmer   705: <a href="https://events.ccc.de/congress/2006/">23C3 Chaos Communication Congress in
                    706: Berlin</a></strong>,
                    707: December 27 - 30, 2006, Berlin, Germany.<br>
1.597     mbalmer   708: Who can you trust? Well, us. OpenBSD was there, of course, for our annual
1.595     reyk      709: closing event.  fkr, grunk, jsg, mbalmer, mickey, sturm, uwe, martin,
1.598     bernd     710: henning, moritz, bernd and wvdputte were there
1.597     mbalmer   711: there to chat with attendees and discuss OpenBSD stuff.  It was - as usual -
                    712: a great end-of-the-year event.  See you in Berlin again end of 2007.
1.577     mbalmer   713: <p>
                    714:
1.594     mbalmer   715: <li><strong><a name="moscow2006"></a>
                    716: <a href="https://kd85.com/">Moscow OpenBSD user meeting</a></strong>,
                    717: December 8 - 9, 2006, Moscow, Russia.<br>
1.633     tom       718: For details, please email <a href="mailto:grange@opensd.org">Grange</a>
1.594     mbalmer   719: <p>
                    720:
1.515     tom       721: <li><strong><a name="opencon2006"></a>
                    722: <a href="http://www.opencon.org/">OpenCON 2006</a></strong>,
1.734     tobias    723: 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   724: OpenCON is the only conference dedicated solely to OpenBSD.
1.587     deraadt   725: 135 people were registered for the event, but since it was a completely open event is likely that
                    726: even more people just walked in.
1.577     mbalmer   727: Most talks were by OpenBSD developers, but there was also an impressive
1.568     mbalmer   728: number of our developers just attending the conference.  Talks by OpenBSD
1.577     mbalmer   729: developers were:
1.568     mbalmer   730: <p>
1.535     deraadt   731:  <ul>
1.581     claudio   732:  <li>Claudio Jeker: <a href="papers/opencon06-network/index.html">
                    733:      Network stack changes in OpenBSD</a>
1.580     deraadt   734:  <li>Marc Balmer: <a href="papers/opencon06-nmea/index.html">
                    735:      Support for Time Signal Station Receivers and GPS in OpenBSD</a>
1.601     fkr       736:  <li>Felix Kronlage: <a href="papers/opencon06-umts/index.html">Redundancy or mobile deployment with 3G technology</a>
1.584     jsg       737:  <li>Jonathan Gray: <a href="papers/opencon06-drivers/index.html">
                    738:      Driver architecture and implementation in OpenBSD</a>
1.543     mbalmer   739:  <li>Gordon Klok: <i>Processor Power Management</i>
1.596     dlg       740:  <li>David Gwynne: <a href="papers/opencon06-culture.pdf">The OpenBSD
                    741:      Culture</a> and he also filled in for Marco's
                    742:      <a href="papers/opencon06-bio.pdf">Bio and Sensors in OpenBSD</a> talk.
1.582     michele   743:  <li>Michele Marchetto: <a href="papers/opencon06-ripd/index.html">
                    744:      OpenRIPD</a>
1.574     mbalmer   745:  <li>Reyk Floeter: <i>IPsec demystified</i>
1.580     deraadt   746:  <li>Theo de Raadt: <a href="papers/opencon06-docs">
                    747:     Why hardware documentation matters so much and why it is so hard to get</a>
1.535     deraadt   748:  </ul>
1.502     mbalmer   749: <p>
1.577     mbalmer   750: Also present were jcs, krw, mglocker, robert, wvdputte, martin, grunk,
                    751: dhartmei, aanriot, sturm, and bernd.  Of course there was an OpenBSD booth
                    752: run by the usual suspects and you could buy our CD-ROMS, the audio CD and other
1.568     mbalmer   753: stuff.
                    754: <p>
1.502     mbalmer   755:
1.575     reyk      756: <li><strong><a name=opensourcetag2006></a>
                    757: <a href="http://www.opensourcetag.de/2006/">OpenSourceTag 2006</a></strong>,
                    758: Nov 30, 2006, Hannover, Germany.<br>
                    759: Reyk gave a <a href="http://www.opensourcetag.de/2006/agenda/">talk</a> about OpenBSD
                    760: as a reference project for secure software.
                    761: <p>
                    762:
1.583     henning   763: <li><strong><a name=epf2006></a>
                    764: <a href="http://www.peering-forum.eu/2006/">European Peering Forum 2006</a></strong>,
                    765: Nov 29 - 30, 2006, Frankfurt, Germany.<br>
                    766: The European Peering Forum in Frankfurt was hosted by the 3 big european
                    767: peering points DE-CIX, AMSIX and LINX, bringing network operators together.
                    768: Henning was talking about OpenBGPD,
                    769: <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/epf2006/">slides</a> are available.
                    770: <p>
                    771:
1.565     krw       772: <li><strong><a name=conisli2006></a>
                    773: <a href="http://conisli.org/">CONISLI 2006</a></strong>,
1.727     wvdputte  774: Nov 3 - 5, 2006, S&atilde;o Paulo, Brazil.<br>
1.565     krw       775: 4th edition of S&atilde;o Paulo's International Free Software Congress.
1.687     jolan     776: Ken Westerback and Pedro Martelletto gave a talk.
1.565     krw       777: <p>
                    778:
1.559     jason     779: <li><strong><a name=nycbsdcon2006></a>
                    780: <a href="http://nycbsdcon.org/">NYCBSDCon 2006</a></strong>,
1.727     wvdputte  781: Oct 28 - 29, 2006, New York City, USA.<br>
1.559     jason     782: NYCBSDCon is the main conference on the East Coast for the
                    783: BSD community to get together to share and gain knowledge,
1.562     jason     784: to network with like minded people.  Several developers
1.563     jason     785: spoke, more were on hand:
1.559     jason     786:  <ul>
                    787:   <li>Marco Peereboom: <a href="papers/bio.pdf">bio and sensors in OpenBSD</a>
1.563     jason     788:    [<a href="http://www.fetissov.org/public/nycbsdcon06/1.6.mp3">audio</a>]
1.605     jason     789:   <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     790:   <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>]
                    791:   <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     792:   <li>Ray Lai: <i>First time booth bunny</i>
                    793:  </ul>
                    794: <p>
                    795:
1.556     fgsch     796: <li><strong><a name=linuxworlduk2006></a>
                    797: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.co.uk/">LinuxWorld Expo UK 2006</a></strong>,
                    798: Oct 25 - 26, 2006, Olympia, London, UK.<br>
1.738     tobias    799: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Wim, Tom, Peter, Federico and
1.558     wvdputte  800: Pedro La Peu.
1.556     fgsch     801: <p>
                    802:
1.589     aanriot   803: <li><strong><a name=cuug2006oct></a>
                    804: <a href="http://www.cuug.ab.ca/">Calgary Unix Users Group</a></strong>,
                    805: Oct 24, 2006, downtown Library, basement meeting room, Calgary, Alberta.<br>
                    806: Theo de Raadt gave a talk regarding the increasing demand for
                    807: vendors to open up their documentation.
                    808: <p>
                    809:
1.553     grunk     810: <li><strong><a name="systems2006"></a>
                    811: <a href="http://www.systems.de/">Systems</a></strong>,
1.734     tobias    812: Oct 23 - 27, 2006, Munich, Germany.<br>
1.553     grunk     813: The *BSD projects were located at A3.542.
                    814: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
                    815: Wilhelm B&uuml;hler, DaN, Nikolay Sturm, Marco Pfatschbacher,
                    816: and some other volunteers.
                    817: <p>
                    818:
1.550     henning   819: <li><strong><a name=hacklu2006></a>
                    820: <a href="http://www.hack.lu/">hack.lu 2006</a></strong>,
1.727     wvdputte  821: Oct 19 - 21, 2006, Luxembourg/Kirchberg, Luxembourg.<br>
1.550     henning   822: Henning Brauer gave a well received talk about OpenBGPD.
                    823: <p>
                    824:
1.547     aanriot   825: <li><strong><a name=aldil2006></a>
                    826: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/">Les Journ&eacute;es Du Logiciel Libre
                    827: 2006</a></strong>,
                    828: Oct 13 - 14, 2006, Lyon, France.<br>
                    829: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Miod Vallat and Alexandre
                    830: Anriot with the help of Thierry Thomas and Damien Bergamini.
                    831: <p>
                    832:
1.546     mcbride   833: <li><strong><a name=auug2006></a>
                    834: <a href="http://new.auug.org.au/">AUUG 2006</a></strong>,
                    835: Oct 10 - 13, 2006, Melbourne, Australia.<br>
                    836: Ryan Mcbride presented a full-day tutorial entitled
1.738     tobias    837: "Advanced PF Rulesets" as well as two additional talks
1.546     mcbride   838: <a href="papers/auug2006/pf_evolution/">PF evolution</a>
1.738     tobias    839: and
1.546     mcbride   840: <a href="papers/auug2006/network_randomness/">Network stack randomness in OpenBSD</a>.
                    841: <p>
                    842:
1.532     wvdputte  843: <li><strong><a name=eurooscon2006></a>
1.734     tobias    844: <a href="http://conferences.oreillynet.com/euos2006/">O'Reilly Euro OSCON
                    845: 2006</a></strong>,
1.532     wvdputte  846: Sep 20, 2006, Brussels, Belgium.<br>
                    847: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth.
                    848: <p>
                    849:
1.528     wvdputte  850: <li><strong><a name=come2linux2006></a>
                    851: <a href="http://www.come2linux.org/psp/">Come 2 Linux 2006</a></strong>,
                    852: Sep 9 - 10, 2006, Duisburg-Essen, Germany.<br>
                    853: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth.
                    854: <p>
                    855:
1.525     wvdputte  856: <li><strong><a name=ChaosdaysDarmstadt2006></a>
1.734     tobias    857: <a href="http://mrmcd101b.metarheinmain.de/index.html">mrmcd101b -
                    858: MetaRheinMainChaosDays Darmstadt 2006</a></strong>,
1.525     wvdputte  859: Sep 1 - 3, 2006, Darmstadt, Germany.<br>
                    860: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth.
                    861: <p>
                    862:
1.521     fkr       863: <li><strong><a name=LinuxWorldExpoSF2006></a>
1.734     tobias    864: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/live/12/events/12SFO06A/conference/tracksessions/Security/QMONYA04ROFR">LinuxWorld Expo San Francisco 2006</a></strong>,
1.727     wvdputte  865: Aug 16, 2006, San Francisco, USA.<br>
1.521     fkr       866: Ted Unangst spoke about OpenBSD as part of a security panel.
                    867: <p>
                    868:
1.518     tedu      869: <li><strong><a name=coimbra2006></a>
                    870: <a href="http://www.openbsd-pt.com/eventos/coimbra06/">Portuguese OpenBSD Usergroup Meeting</a></strong>,
                    871: Jul 22 - 23, 2006, Coimbra, Portugal.<br>
                    872: 6th Meeting of the Portuguese OpenBSD Usergroup.  Marc Balmer gave a talk
                    873: "NMEA 0183 and Time Signal Station Receiver Support in OpenBSD".
                    874: <p>
                    875:
                    876: <li><strong><a name=akqit2006></a>
1.738     tobias    877: <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    878: Jul 20, 2006, University of Basel, Computer Science Department, Room 205, Bernoullistr. 16, 17:30 - 18:30, Basel, Switzerland.<br>
1.590     mbalmer   879: Marc Balmer gave a talk in german "<a href="papers/akqit06/index.html">Ensuring
                    880: Quality in the Development of the Free Operating System OpenBSD</a>".
1.518     tedu      881: <p>
1.475     deraadt   882:
1.510     wvdputte  883: <li><strong><a name="lsm2006"></a>
                    884: <a href="http://www.rmll.info">Libre Software Meeting 2006</a></strong>,
                    885: Jul 4 - 8, 2006, Vandoeuvre-les-nancy, France.<br>
1.681     aanriot   886: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Wim, Matthieu and
                    887: Alexandre with the help of Serge and Christelle.
1.510     wvdputte  888: <p>
                    889:
1.508     wvdputte  890: <li><strong><a name=FrOSCon></a>
                    891: <a href="http://www.froscon.de/">
                    892: FrOSCon 2006 - Free and Open Source Software Conference</a></strong>,
                    893: Jun 24 - 25, 2006, Bonn/Rhein-Sieg, Germany.<br>
1.738     tobias    894: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth run by Wim, Waldemar, Manuel and
1.508     wvdputte  895: Tim Kornau.
                    896: <p>
                    897:
1.507     mbalmer   898: <li><strong><a name=LinuxwochenLinz2006></a>
1.734     tobias    899: <a href="http://www.linuxwochen.at/2006/Linz">Linuxwochen Linz
                    900: 2006</a></strong>,
1.507     mbalmer   901: June 15, 2006, Linz, Austria.<br>
1.727     wvdputte  902: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth run by Wim and the usual suspects.
1.507     mbalmer   903: <p>
                    904:
1.506     deraadt   905: <li><strong><a name=lugverona2006></a>
1.734     tobias    906: <a href="http://www.di.univr.it/dol/main?ent=iniziativa&amp;id=857&amp;lang=it">LUGVR@UNIVR</a></strong>,
1.506     deraadt   907: Jun 9, 2006, Verona University, Borgo Roma, Italy.<br>
                    908: Florin Iamandi of <a href="https://www.verona.linux.it">LUG Verona</a>
                    909: gave a talk
                    910: (<a href="http://todome.net/docs/obsd_carp/en">English</a> and
                    911: <a href="http://todome.net/docs/obsd_carp/it">Italian</a>)
                    912: and live demonstration on redundant failover
                    913: OpenBSD firewalls. He explained why OpenBSD solves many problems that
                    914: had previously been the dominion of expensive commercial solutions.
                    915: Attendees learned about OpenBSD's hard stance and successful fight against
                    916: bad licences and uncooperating vendors and manufacturers.
                    917: <p>
                    918:
1.502     mbalmer   919: <li><strong><a name=Slackathon2006></a>
1.734     tobias    920: <a href="http://slackathon2006.unix.se">Slackathon 2006</a></strong>,
1.502     mbalmer   921: Jun 3, 2006, Stockholm, Sweden.<br>
                    922: A fundraiser for OpenBSD/SSH held at the Stockholm University. Free
1.505     ian       923: entrance and all donations went straight to the project. Several
1.502     mbalmer   924: developers were talking about OpenBSD here, as well as some hands-on
                    925: workshops took place with both old and new hardware.
                    926: <p>
                    927:
1.500     deraadt   928: <li><strong><a name=cuug2006></a>
                    929: <a href="http://www.cuug.ab.ca/">Calgary Unix Users Group</a></strong>,
                    930: Jun 1, 2006, SAIT Campus, Calgary, Alberta.<br>
1.504     miod      931: Bob Beck and Reyk Floeter discussed recent and future networking
                    932: changes in OpenBSD.  Some other OpenBSD developers attended to provide
1.500     deraadt   933: international colour, and there were tshirts, CDs, and posters on hand.
                    934: CUUG made a substantial contribution to OpenBSD at this event as well.
                    935: <p>
                    936:
1.589     aanriot   937: <li><strong><a name=LinuxwochenVienna2006></a>
1.734     tobias    938: <a href="http://www.linuxwochen.at/2006/Wien">Linuxwochen Vienna
                    939: 2006</a></strong>,
1.589     aanriot   940: May 31 - Jun 2, 2006, Vienna, Austria.<br>
                    941: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth run by Wim and the usual suspects.
                    942: <p>
                    943:
1.585     aanriot   944: <li><strong><a name=plug060519></a>
1.734     tobias    945: <a href="http://www.plugfr.org/">Provence Linux User Group</a></strong>,
1.586     aanriot   946: May 19, 2006, Marseille, France.<br>
1.585     aanriot   947: Alexandre Anriot spoke about the deployment of wireless networks with
1.586     aanriot   948: OpenBSD during a meeting of the PLUG.
1.585     aanriot   949: <p>
                    950:
1.491     bernd     951: <li><strong><a name="SANE2006"></a>
                    952: <a href="http://www.sane.nl/sane2006/">SANE 2006</a></strong>,
                    953: May 15 - 19, 2006, Delft, The Netherlands.<br>
                    954: Peter N. M. Hansteen gave a
                    955: <a href="http://www.sane.nl/sane2006/program/abstract.php?eventid=35">
                    956: PF tutorial</a>.
                    957: <p>
                    958:
1.490     reyk      959: <li><strong><a name=bsdcan2006></a> <a
                    960: href="http://www.bsdcan.org/2006/">BSDCan 2006</a></strong>,
                    961: May 12 - 13, 2006, Ottawa, Canada.<br>
                    962: David Gwynne gave a talk about hardware monitoring with bio and
                    963: sensors in OpenBSD (<a href="papers/bsdcan06-biosensors.pdf">slides</a>)
                    964: and Reyk Fl&ouml;ter talked about the latest
                    965: wireless support and the incredible plans for the future
                    966: (<a href="papers/bsdcan06-wlan/index.html">slides</a>), and
                    967: Peter Hansteen gave a PF tutorial. A number of OpenBSD hackers
                    968: attended the conference as well, like Bob Beck and Mathieu Sauve-Frankel.
                    969: <p>
                    970:
1.489     bernd     971: <li><strong><a name="linuxdays2006"></a>
1.738     tobias    972: <a href="http://www.linuxdays.ch">Linuxdays 2006</a></strong>,
1.489     bernd     973: May 8 - 12, 2006, Geneva, Switzerland.<br>
                    974: Julien Mabillard, a long-time Geneva OpenBSD user, gave a talk to present
                    975: the overall system and its great features.
                    976: <p>
                    977:
1.592     claudio   978: <li><strong><a name="idepes2006"></a>
1.589     aanriot   979: <a href="http://www.idepes.org.br/openbsd/">IDEPES 2006</a></strong>,
                    980: May 6, 2006, S&atilde;o Paulo, Brazil.<br>
                    981: First event in Brazil totally dedicated to OpenBSD.
                    982: <p>
                    983:
1.592     claudio   984: <li><strong><a name="LinuxTag2006"></a>
1.484     mbalmer   985: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.org/2006/">LinuxTag 2006</a></strong>,
                    986: May 3 - 6, 2006, Wiesbaden, Germany.<br>
                    987: OpenBSD was very present at this years Linuxtag:
                    988: <ul>
                    989: <li>On friday morning, Claudio and Marc moderated a panel discussion
                    990: "BLOBS sind das Krebsgeschw&uuml;r freier Software" (Blobs are the
1.485     mbalmer   991: cancer of free software) that was well attended.  Unfortunately no one
1.484     mbalmer   992: in favour of Blobs attended, although we asked almost all Linux
                    993: distributions...
                    994: <li>After lunch, Marc Balmer started the afternoon with a talk "OpenBSD
                    995: as a Strategic Platform for the Basle Public Schools", outlining how and
1.485     mbalmer   996: why the Basle Public school system uses OpenBSD for most of its
1.484     mbalmer   997: infrastructure.
1.592     claudio   998: <li>The next OpenBSD specific talk was by Claudio Jeker,
                    999: <a href="papers/linuxtag06-network/">"Routing with OpenBSD using
                   1000: OpenOSPFD and OpenBGPD"</a> where he showed various routing setups and
                   1001: how full redundancy can be achieved.
                   1002: [<a href="papers/linuxtag06-network.pdf">paper</a>]
1.484     mbalmer  1003: <li>Later, Marc Balmer gave a talk "Decoding Time Signal Stations using
                   1004: OpenBSD" and explained the recent addition of timedelta sensors and the
                   1005: first implementation of such, udcf(4).
                   1006: </ul>
                   1007: <br>
                   1008: All talks where very well received and OpenBSD filled four hours of the
1.485     mbalmer  1009: Linuxtag program.  We thank Wilhelm B&uuml;hler,  chair of the BSD-Track
1.484     mbalmer  1010: at Linuxtag, for the superb and professional organization.
                   1011: <br>
                   1012: Of course, there was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth run by Wim and the
                   1013: usual suspects.
                   1014: <p>
                   1015:
1.486     mickey   1016: <li><strong><a name=NYCBUG2006-05></a>
                   1017: <a href="http://nycbug.org/index.php?NAV=Home&amp;SUBM=83">NYCBUG Monthly meeting</a></strong>,
                   1018: May 3, 2006, NYC, USA.<br>
                   1019: Mickey gave a talk
1.564     jason    1020: (<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   1021: about PAE work for OpenBSD/i386.<br>
                   1022: Mischa Diehm gave a talk about implementing VPN using OpenBSD.
                   1023: <p>
                   1024:
1.484     mbalmer  1025: <li><strong><a name=tokyo2006></a>
                   1026: <a href="http://www.tokyopc.org/index.php/weblog/">Tokyo PC Users Group</a></strong>,
1.727     wvdputte 1027: May 2, 2006, Tokyo, Japan.<br>
1.484     mbalmer  1028: Theo presented his <a href="papers/ven05-deraadt">"Exploit Mitigation Techniques"</a>
                   1029: talk.  There is a
                   1030: <a href="http://www.tokyopc.org/faxmessage/index.html#about">map to the location</a>.
                   1031: <p>
                   1032:
1.478     mbalmer  1033: <li><strong><a name=SambaEXPerience2006></a>
                   1034: <a href="http://www.sambaxp.org/">Samba eXPerience 2006</a></strong>,
                   1035: April 24 - 26, 2006, G&ouml;ttingen, Germany.<br>
                   1036: Marc Balmer gave a talk "Providing Fully Automated Fileserver Services
                   1037: for Public Schools using LDAP Integrated SAMBA on OpenBSD" that was very
                   1038: well received.
                   1039: <br>
                   1040: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth run by Wim and Marc and Felix Kronlage
                   1041: and we could draw a lot of attention.
                   1042: <p>
                   1043:
1.479     deraadt  1044: <li><strong><a name=DORSCLUC2006></a>
                   1045: <a href="http://www.open.hr/dc2006/"> DORS / CLUC 2006</a></strong>,
1.734     tobias   1046: April 19 - 21, 2006, Zagreb, Croatia.<br>
1.479     deraadt  1047: <a href="http://www.kerberos.si">Mitja Muzenic</a> gave a
1.480     mbalmer  1048: <a href="http://www.kerberos.si/papers/DORS06/index.html">
                   1049: "Introduction to OpenBSD"</a> talk. Conference
                   1050: <a href="http://www.open.hr/dc2006/program.php">program</a> (in croatian
1.479     deraadt  1051: only).
                   1052: <p>
                   1053:
1.475     deraadt  1054: <li><strong><a name=linuxworld2006></a>
1.734     tobias   1055: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/live/12/events/12BOS06A/"
                   1056: >LinuxWorld/OpenSolutions World 2006</a></strong>,
1.475     deraadt  1057: April 3 - 6, 2006, Boston, USA.<br>
                   1058: Jason Dixon presented
1.738     tobias   1059: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/live/12/events/12BOS06A/conference/tracksessions/Security/QMONYA04Q1DK">Secure Network Architectures with OpenBSD</a>,
1.475     deraadt  1060: a talk on OpenBSD that outlines the various technologies that make
                   1061: it a leader of secure networking platforms.
                   1062: <br>
                   1063: He spent time around the exposition BSD booth with giveaways
                   1064: and early release OpenBSD 3.9 CDs.
                   1065: <p>
                   1066:
                   1067: <li><strong><a name=cansecwest06></a>
                   1068: <a href="http://www.cansecwest.com">Cansecwest/core06</a></strong>,
1.727     wvdputte 1069: April 3 - 7, 2006, Vancouver, Canada.<br>
1.475     deraadt  1070: A rather interesting OpenBSD-related talk happened at this event, regarding
                   1071: using SMI interrupts to break out of X into kernel mode.
                   1072: <br>
                   1073: Some OpenBSD developers attended.  Some early OpenBSD 3.9 items went
                   1074: on sale.
                   1075: <p>
                   1076:
1.469     tom      1077: <li><strong><a name=ukuug2006></a>
                   1078: <a href="http://www.ukuug.org/events/spring2006/">UKUUG Spring Conference 2006</a></strong>,
1.727     wvdputte 1079: Mar 22 - 23, 2006, Durham, United Kingdom.<br>
1.469     tom      1080: Reyk Fl&ouml;ter gave a talk about the latest wireless support in
                   1081: OpenBSD at the annual spring meeting of the
                   1082: <a href="http://www.ukuug.org/">UK's Unix and Open Systems User Group</a>.
                   1083: Peter N. M. Hansteen
                   1084: gave a PF tutorial, Tom Cosgrove presented "Exploit
                   1085: Mitigation Techniques" and Constantine Murenin gave a
                   1086: presentation on "Hardware temperature monitoring device
                   1087: drivers for OpenBSD".
                   1088: These were all part of a new, well-attended, BSD stream at the event.
                   1089: <p>
                   1090:
1.459     henning  1091: <li><strong><a name=Copenhagen2006></a>
                   1092: <a href="http://www.linuxforum.dk/2006/en/">LinuxForum 2006</a></strong>,
1.727     wvdputte 1093: Mar 3 - 4, 2006, Copenhagen, Denmark.<br>
1.738     tobias   1094: Wim gave Felix Kronlage's talk about OpenBSD Mobile Use (wifi, UMTS,
1.459     henning  1095: GPRS, phones and the like) with some demo setups.
                   1096: Henning Brauer gave a very well received talk about OpenBGPD,
                   1097: <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/linuxforum2006/">slides</a> are available.
                   1098: <p>
                   1099:
1.457     wvdputte 1100: <li><strong><a name=Brussels2006></a>
                   1101: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/2006/">FOSDEM Brussels 2006</a></strong>,
                   1102: Feb 25 - 26, 2006, Brussels, Belgium.<br>
1.738     tobias   1103: An OpenBSD/OpenSSH booth was present, run by the usual gang of suspects:
1.458     xsa      1104: Alexandre, Dimitar, Matthieu, Mbalmer, Nikolay, Otto, Reyk, Saad, Thierry, Uwe, Wim, and
1.457     wvdputte 1105: Xsa. Reyk gave a talk about Wifi with OpenBSD and there was our traditional
1.738     tobias   1106: BSD dinner. More details and
1.457     wvdputte 1107: <a href="http://saad.docisland.org/pictures/fosdem2006/index.html">pictures</a>
1.458     xsa      1108: on <a href="http://saad.docisland.org/blog/files/archive-12.html#unique-entry-id-40">Saad's blog</a>.
1.457     wvdputte 1109: <p>
                   1110:
                   1111: <li><strong><a name=Vegas2006></a>
                   1112: <a href="http://kd85.com/vegas2006.html">Merciful briefings 2006</a></strong>,
                   1113: Feb 15, 2006, Las Vegas, USA - Feb 17, 2006, San Diego, USA - Feb 18, 2006, Phoenix, USA.<br>
                   1114: While traveling the US, Wim met with a bunch of OpenBSD users in Las Vegas,
1.738     tobias   1115: San Diego and Phoenix. With many thanks to the members of PhxBUG - Phoenix BSD
1.457     wvdputte 1116: User Group, more specificly Darrin Chandler, for organising the little
                   1117: details and Jacob for road trip directions.
                   1118: <p>
1.455     grunk    1119:
1.456     henning  1120: <li><strong><a name=nanog36></a>
                   1121: <a href="http://www.nanog.org/">NANOG 36</a></strong>,
                   1122: Feb 12 - 15, 2006, Dallas, USA.<br>
                   1123: Henning Brauer and Bernhard Kroenung of DE-CIX talked about OpenBGPD and
                   1124: OpenBGPD at DE-CIX, <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/nanog36/">slides</a>
                   1125: are available. Henning talked again at the tools BOF
                   1126: (<a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/nanog36-bof/">slides</a>).
                   1127: Both talks were very well received by the audience.
                   1128: Kenjiro Cho was there too, talking about IPv6 issues.
                   1129: <p>
                   1130:
1.455     grunk    1131: <li><strong><a name="Paris2006"></a>
1.734     tobias   1132: <a href="http://www.solutionslinux.fr/fr/index.php">Solutions Linux
                   1133: 2006</a></strong>,
1.455     grunk    1134: Jan 31 - Feb 2, 2006, Paris, France.<br>
                   1135: There was an OpenBSD booth run by Marc Espie, Miod Vallat, Saad Kadhi and
                   1136: Wim with help from Guillaume Arcas and Christophe Plasschaert.
                   1137: <p>
                   1138: </ul>
                   1139:
1.296     mcbride  1140: <h3>2005</h3>
1.240     espie    1141:
                   1142: <ul>
1.337     deraadt  1143:
1.445     martin   1144: <li><strong><a name=22c3></a>
                   1145: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/2005/">22C3 Chaos Communication Congress in
                   1146: Berlin</a></strong>,
                   1147: December 27 - 30, 2005, Berlin, Germany.<br>
                   1148: Many OpenBSD developers and users met for a Xmas break in a unique setting.
                   1149: <p>
                   1150:
1.585     aanriot  1151: <li><strong><a name=plug051216></a>
1.734     tobias   1152: <a href="http://www.plugfr.org/">Provence Linux User Group</a></strong>,
1.586     aanriot  1153: December 16, 2005, Marseille, France.<br>
                   1154: Alexandre Anriot spoke about OpenSSH during a meeting of the PLUG.
1.585     aanriot  1155: <p>
                   1156:
1.435     matthieu 1157: <li><strong><a name=eurobsdcon2005></a>
                   1158: <a href="http://2005.eurobsdcon.org/">EuroBSDCon 2005</a></strong>,
                   1159: Nov 25 - 27, 2005, Basel, Switzerland.<br>
                   1160: The 4th edition of the european conference for BSD systems has been a
                   1161: great success. More than 225 people from 27 countries attended the
1.438     deraadt  1162: event.
1.444     grunk    1163: The program included a
                   1164: <a href="http://www.eurobsdcon.org/tutorials-reyk.php">tutorial by Reyk about
1.437     niallo   1165: OpenBSD-based Wireless Networks</a> and the following talks
                   1166: <ul>
1.438     deraadt  1167: <li>Henning Brauer with Wilhelm B&uuml;hler "Signal Handlers"
                   1168: <li>Ryan McBride "Network Stack Randomness"
1.439     matthieu 1169: <li><a href="papers/eurobsd2005/herrb-hopf.pdf">Matthieu Herrb and Matthias Hopf "New Evolutions in the X Window System"</a>
1.440     claudio  1170: <li><a href="papers/eurobsd2005/claudio/">Claudio Jeker "The Design and Implementation of OpenOSPFD"</a>
1.439     matthieu 1171: <li><a href="papers/eurobsd2005/niallo-uwe/">Niall O'Higgins &amp; Uwe Stuehler "Embedded OpenBSD"</a>
1.443     deraadt  1172: <li><a href="papers/eurobsd2005/tedu-rthreads.pdf">Ted Unangst "rthreads: A New Thread Implementation for OpenBSD"</a>
1.437     niallo   1173: </ul>
1.438     deraadt  1174: <p>
1.435     matthieu 1175: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
                   1176: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
                   1177: <p>
                   1178:
1.434     bernd    1179: <li><strong><a name=linuxworldexpogermany2005></a>
                   1180: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.de/">Linux World Expo Germany</a></strong>,
                   1181: Nov 15 - 17, 2005, Frankfurt, Germany.<br>
                   1182: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
                   1183: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a> and Bernd.
                   1184: <p>
                   1185:
1.441     niallo   1186: <li><strong><a name="pacsec05"></a>
                   1187: <a href="http://www.pacsec.jp/">PacSec/core 05 conference</a></strong>,
                   1188: Nov 15 - 16, 2005, Tokyo, Japan.<br>
                   1189: Sean Comeau presented a talk called
                   1190: <a href="http://www.openbsd-support.com/jp/en/htm/mgp/pacsec05/index.html">
                   1191: Open Source Secure Wireless Networks in a Windows World</a>
                   1192: <a href="http://www.pacsec.jp/core05/psj05-scomeau-en.pdf">[PDF]</a>.
                   1193: The solution he presents uses IPsec to protect traffic between the
                   1194: wireless clients and access points. Authentication is done using OpenSSH
                   1195: (authpf), a process made transparent and user-friendly by a few small
                   1196: scripts.
                   1197: <p>
                   1198:
1.424     mbalmer  1199: <li><strong><a name=opencon2005></a>
                   1200: <a href="http://www.opencon.org/">OpenCON 2005</a></strong>,
                   1201: Nov 4 - 6, 2005, San Servolo Island, Venice, Italy.<br>
1.427     deraadt  1202: The only unique conference entirely dedicated to OpenBSD, held in the totally
                   1203: crazy environment of San Servolo island: an old insane asylum turned into a
                   1204: university about 20 years ago, about 10 minutes boat ride from Venice.
1.429     deraadt  1205: In the days leading up to this, about 12 OpenBSD developers arrived early
1.427     deraadt  1206: for a Ports mini-hackathon.  During the conference a few developers gave
1.433     deraadt  1207: talks, including
                   1208: <ul>
                   1209: <li><a href="papers/ven05-pvalchev">Peter Valchev "OpenBSD Hackathon report"</a>
                   1210: <li><a href="papers/ven05-espie">Marc Espie "OpenBSD ports and packages"</a>
                   1211: <li><a href="papers/ven05-henning">Henning Brauer "OpenBSD networking update"</a>
                   1212: <li><a href="papers/ven05-niallo-uwe/slides.pdf">Uwe Stuehler, Niall O'Higgins "Porting OpenBSD"</a>
                   1213: <li><a href="papers/ven05-deraadt">Theo de Raadt "Exploit Mitigation Techniques (updated to include random malloc and mmap)"</a>
                   1214: </ul>
1.424     mbalmer  1215: <p>
                   1216:
                   1217: <li><strong><a name=systems2005></a>
1.738     tobias   1218: <a href="http://www.systems.de/">Systems</a></strong>,
1.727     wvdputte 1219: Oct 24 - 28, 2005, Munich, Germany.<br>
1.425     mbalmer  1220: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
1.424     mbalmer  1221: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
                   1222: <p>
                   1223:
1.418     djm      1224: <li><strong><a name=auug2005></a>
                   1225: <a href="http://www.auug.org.au/events/2005/auug2005/">AUUG 2005</a></strong>,
                   1226: October 16 - 21, 2005, Sydney, Australia.<br>
1.738     tobias   1227: Mark Uemura presented a tutorial on setting up CARP/PF, a demonstration of
                   1228: stateful failover with CARP and pfsync and a talk on wireless security in
1.418     djm      1229: a corporate environment using authpf and isakmpd.  Peter Hansteen gave a
                   1230: <a href="http://www.bgnett.no/~peter/pf/">Firewalling with PF</a> tutorial.
1.420     deraadt  1231: Damien Miller presented on the approach to
                   1232: <a href="papers/auug2005-portability">secure software portability used
                   1233: by portable OpenSSH</a>, Reyk Flöter gave a talk on the current state of wireless
1.418     djm      1234: support in OpenBSD and David Purdue introduced OpenBSD's spamd tarpit.
                   1235: Most of the Australian OpenBSD developers and many users were present.
                   1236: <p>
                   1237:
1.415     aanriot  1238: <li><strong><a name=aldil2005></a>
                   1239: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/">Les Journ&eacute;es Du Logiciel Libre
                   1240: 2005</a></strong>,
                   1241: Oct 14 - 15, 2005, Lyon, France.<br>
                   1242: There was OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Alexandre Anriot with the
                   1243: help of Thierry Thomas.
                   1244: <p>
                   1245:
1.420     deraadt  1246: <li><strong><a name=cafeconf2005></a>
                   1247: <a href="http://www.cafeconf.org/">CaFeConf 2005,
                   1248: 4tas Jornadas Abiertas de GNU/Linux y Software Libre</a></strong>,
1.734     tobias   1249: Oct 13 - 15, 2005, Buenos Aires, Argentina.<br>
1.420     deraadt  1250: CaFeConf 2005 is the anual event of CaFeLUG - Free Software Users
                   1251: Group of Capital Federal, Argentina. This year the event featured
                   1252: 116 presentations consisting of talks, tutorials, and workshops. The
                   1253: event was also broadcasted on the Internet. Entrance was free, but
                   1254: registration was mandatory.<br>
                   1255: Fernando Gont gave a talk on
1.444     grunk    1256: <a href="http://www.cafeconf.org/modules/myconference/viewspeech.php?sid=147&amp;cid=20">
1.420     deraadt  1257: ICMP attacks against TCP</a>,
                   1258: in which he gave an overview of the attacks, the possible
                   1259: counter-measures, and the politics of vulnerabilities, and a talk on
1.444     grunk    1260: <a href="http://www.cafeconf.org/modules/myconference/viewspeech.php?sid=173&amp;cid=20">
1.420     deraadt  1261: Fixing the vulnerability of the Path-MTU Discovery mechanism</a>,
                   1262: in which explained how OpenBSD fixed the vulnerability of the PMTUD
                   1263: mechanism.
                   1264: <p>
                   1265:
1.414     bernd    1266: <li><strong><a name=linuxkongress2005></a>
1.738     tobias   1267: <a href="http://www.linux-kongress.org/">12th International Linux System
1.414     bernd    1268: Technology Conference</a></strong>,
                   1269: Oct 11 - 14, 2005, University of Hamburg, Germany.<br>
                   1270: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth.
                   1271: <p>
                   1272:
                   1273: <li><strong><a name=linuxworlduk2005></a>
                   1274: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.co.uk/">LinuxWorld Expo UK 2005</a></strong>,
                   1275: Oct 5 - 6, 2005, Olympia, London, UK.<br>
                   1276: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth.
                   1277: <p>
                   1278:
1.410     wvdputte 1279: <li><strong><a name=opensourcetag2005></a>
1.575     reyk     1280: <a href="http://www.opensourcetag.de/2005/">OpenSourceTag 2005</a></strong>,
1.410     wvdputte 1281: Sep 27, 2005, Hannover, Germany.<br>
1.444     grunk    1282: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth and Reyk gave a
1.575     reyk     1283: <a href="http://www.opensourcetag.de/2005/agenda/">talk</a> about IT security.
1.410     wvdputte 1284: <p>
                   1285:
                   1286: <li><strong><a name="gubuginstallfest2005"></a>
1.738     tobias   1287: <a href="http://gubug.org/meetings.php">Greater Utah BSD Group
1.410     wvdputte 1288: Installfest 2005</a></strong>,
                   1289: Sep 24, 2005, Sandy, UT, USA.<br/>
1.444     grunk    1290: <a href="http://www.gubug.org/">The Greater Utah BSD User Group</a> organised
1.410     wvdputte 1291: their first annual BSD Installfest, sponsored by Utah ISP ArosNet.
                   1292: There were handouts, CD-ROMs, technical presentations, and
                   1293: fun, plus a chance to get OpenBSD or a related open source BSD operating system
                   1294: installed on your computer.
                   1295: Admission was free (computers not included in cost of admission).
1.419     djm      1296: Featured speakers included Dan Langille, organizer of BSDCan.
1.410     wvdputte 1297: <p>
                   1298:
1.404     wvdputte 1299: <li><strong><a name="NYCBSDCon2005"></a>
                   1300: <a href="http://nycbsdcon.org/">New York City BSD Conference 2005</a></strong>,
1.410     wvdputte 1301: Sep 17, 2005, NYC, USA.<br>
1.404     wvdputte 1302: NYCBSDCon was a one day technical conference hosted by the New York
                   1303: City *BSD User Group and was held at Columbia University.
1.406     saad     1304: The all day conference included a variety of speakers representing the
1.404     wvdputte 1305: BSD projects and the open source community.<br>
                   1306: NYCBSDCon was organized by NYC*BUG, a technical user group that formed in
                   1307: December 2003. Besides their regular monthly meetings at the Soho Apple
                   1308: Store, NYC*BUG has done fundraising for the BSD projects and contributed a
                   1309: number of useful online applications such as BSDTracker and dmesgd.<br>
                   1310: Additional sponsors included USENIX, New York Internet and SRA America.
                   1311: <p>
                   1312:
                   1313: <li><strong><a name=opensaar2005></a>
                   1314: <a href="http://www.opensaar.de/">OpenSaar 2005</a></strong>,
                   1315: Sep 13 - 14, 2005, Saarbr&uuml;cken, Germany.<br>
1.727     wvdputte 1316: An OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth was present.
1.404     wvdputte 1317: <p>
                   1318:
1.403     henning  1319: <li><strong><a name=decix160905></a> <a
                   1320: href="http://www.de-cix.org/">DE-CIX Technical Meeting</a></strong>,
1.410     wvdputte 1321: Sep 16, 2005, Schloss Kransberg, near Usingen, Germany.<br>
1.403     henning  1322: Henning Brauer, Reyk Fl&ouml;ter and Maxim Salomon had been invited to the
                   1323: technical meeting of the Deutsche Commercial Internet Exchange (DE-CIX) again.
                   1324: Henning gave an update on OpenBGPD, Reyk talked about a route server project
                   1325: using OpenBGPD at DE-CIX, and Maxim explained why the CCC sponsors us doing so.
                   1326: There was a very positive discussion afterwards.
                   1327: <a href="http://unduli.bsws.de/papers/decix2005-2/">Slides</a> are available.
                   1328: <p>
                   1329:
1.388     tom      1330: <li><strong><a name="ukuug2005"></a>
                   1331: <a href="http://www.ukuug.org/events/linux2005/">UKUUG Linux Technical
                   1332: Conference 2005</a></strong>,
1.727     wvdputte 1333: Aug 4 - 7, 2005, University of Wales, Swansea, UK.<br>
1.388     tom      1334: Tom Cosgrove gave Theo's presentation about Exploit Mitigation Techniques.
                   1335: <p>
                   1336:
1.385     mickey   1337: <li><strong><a name=wth2005></a>
1.390     deraadt  1338: <a href="http://www.whatthehack.org/">What the Hack 2005</a></strong>,
1.410     wvdputte 1339: Jul 28 - 31, 2005, Den Bosch, The Netherlands.<br>
1.385     mickey   1340: As every 4 years, Wim organized the
                   1341: <a href="http://eurobsd.org/2005-WhatTheHack/">BSD village</a> at this huge
1.389     tom      1342: open air event. There were some talks, Reyk spoke about
                   1343: <a href="http://program.whatthehack.org/event/6.en.html">WLAN in OpenBSD</a>,
1.385     mickey   1344: and an excellent
                   1345: <a href="ftp://ftp.nyc.openbsd.org/pub/news/wth-radio-humppa.mp3">Humppa show</a> (35MB MP3) was performed on the SubEther radio.
                   1346: If you want to see what happened previously, check
                   1347: <a href="http://eurobsd.org/hal2001/">http://eurobsd.org/hal2001/</a>
                   1348: and <a href="http://www.eurobsd.org/SummerCamp2003/">http://www.eurobsd.org/SummerCamp2003/</a>.
                   1349: <p>
                   1350:
1.382     pedro    1351: <li><strong><a name=coimbra2005></a>
1.474     pedro    1352: <a href="http://www.openbsd-pt.com/eventos/coimbra05/">Portuguese OpenBSD Usergroup Meeting</a></strong>,
1.410     wvdputte 1353: Jul 23 - 24, 2005, Coimbra, Portugal.<br>
1.538     pedro    1354: 5th Meeting of the Portuguese OpenBSD Usergroup. Pedro Martelletto gave a talk.
1.382     pedro    1355: <p>
                   1356:
1.378     aanriot  1357: <li><strong><a name="lsm2005"></a>
                   1358: <a href="http://2005.rencontresmondiales.org/sections/index_html/switchLanguage/en">Libre Software Meeting 2005</a></strong>,
1.410     wvdputte 1359: Jul 5 - 9, 2005, Dijon, France.<br>
1.379     aanriot  1360: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Wim and the usual
                   1361: suspects, with the help of Serge Basterot. It was a nice place to meet
                   1362: some of our French, German and Swiss developers, including Marc Balmer,
                   1363: Alexandre Anriot, Matthieu Herrb and Reyk Floeter.
1.378     aanriot  1364: <p>
                   1365:
1.375     grunk    1366: <li><strong><a name=LinuxTag2005></a>
                   1367: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.org">LinuxTag 2005</a></strong>,
1.410     wvdputte 1368: Jun 22 - 25, 2005, Karlsruhe, Germany.<br>
1.738     tobias   1369: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth ran by Wim, Christian Weisgerber,
1.375     grunk    1370: Marc Balmer, Wilhelm Buehler, Robert Nagy, Bernd Ahlers and Phil Schulz.
                   1371: <p>
                   1372:
1.374     grunk    1373: <li><strong><a name="uofa-cc2005"></a>
                   1374: <a href="http://www.ualberta.ca/CC2005"> University of Alberta, Campus
1.410     wvdputte 1375: Computing 2005</a></strong>, Jun 21, 2005, Edmonton, Canada.<br>
1.374     grunk    1376: Ryan McBride spoke about OpenBSD's packet filter, PF, with CARP and
                   1377: failover examples. Local color and examples at the U of A shown by Bob
                   1378: Beck. Bob Beck spoke about PF and Spamd, as well as several other
                   1379: OpenBSD using and related talks at this event, which primarily focuses
                   1380: on activities centered at the University of Alberta.
                   1381: <p>
                   1382:
1.371     deraadt  1383: <li><strong><a name=uemera2005></a>
                   1384: <a href="http://www.tokyopc.net">Tokyo PC Users Group</a></strong>,
1.410     wvdputte 1385: Jun 2, 2005, Tokyo Union Church in Omotesando, Tokyo, Japan.<br>
1.371     deraadt  1386: Mark T. Uemura spoke to Japan's largest English speaking
                   1387: personal computer club.  The talk was entitled
                   1388: <a href="http://www.openbsd-support.com/jp/en/htm/mgp/index.shtml">
                   1389: "Open Source in a Windows World"</a>.
                   1390: He demonstrated how companies can easily
                   1391: integrate Open Source, with an emphasis on OpenBSD, into their IT
                   1392: infrastructure to enhance security, scalability and stability,
                   1393: significantly reduce IT expenditures, free up computing infrastructure
                   1394: and move away from commercial lock-in.  This talk is based on changes
                   1395: implemented at PricewaterhouseCoopers in Japan.
                   1396: <p>
                   1397:
1.366     martin   1398: <li><strong><a name=LinuxwochenVienna2005></a>
                   1399: <a href="http://www.linuxwochen.at/">Linuxwochen Vienna 2005</a></strong>,
                   1400: May 24 - 27, 2005, Vienna, Austria.<br>
                   1401: The Linuxwochen 2005 tour stopped in the MuseumsQuartier, Vienna.
                   1402: Wim Vandeputte and Reinhard Sammer were running an OpenBSD booth selling
                   1403: CDs and shirts.
                   1404: <p>
                   1405:
1.365     mcbride  1406: <li><strong><a name=cuug2005></a>
                   1407: <a href="http://www.cuug.ab.ca/">Calgary Unix Users Group</a></strong>,
                   1408: May 24, 2005, Calgary, Canada.<br>
                   1409: Ryan McBride spoke about OpenBSD's packet filter, PF.
                   1410: A broad overview of PF's features were presented, with special attention
                   1411: paid to newer and more unique features and how these can be used together
                   1412: effectively for DoS mitigation, high availability, and load balancing.
                   1413: <br>
                   1414: Approximately 60 OpenBSD developers attended to heckle and participate
                   1415: in a free-for-all question period after the talk.
                   1416: <p>
                   1417:
1.362     reyk     1418: <li><strong><a name=bsdcan2005></a>
                   1419: <a href="http://www.bsdcan.org/2005/">BSDCan 2005</a></strong>,
                   1420: May 13 - 14, 2005, Ottawa, Canada.<br>
                   1421: A number of OpenBSD developers presented: Bob Beck on
                   1422: Spam Reduction with PF and Spamd, Henning Brauer on OpenBGPD,
                   1423: Ryan McBride on Network Stack Randomness and Reyk Fl&ouml;ter
                   1424: on WLAN in OpenBSD and the free ath(4) HAL. The
                   1425: <a href="papers/bsdcan05-spamd/">Spamd</a> and
                   1426: <a href="papers/bsdcan05-wlan/">WLAN</a> slides are available.
                   1427: Mathieu Sauve-Frankel has been there in attendance as well.
                   1428: <p>
                   1429:
1.358     mcbride  1430: <li><strong><a name=csw2005></a>
                   1431: <a href="http://www.cansecwest.com/">cansecwest/core05</a></strong>,
1.734     tobias   1432: May 4 - 6, 2005, Vancouver, Canada.<br>
1.358     mcbride  1433: Hiroaki Etoh spoke about propolice; Theo de Raadt and a number of other
                   1434: developers were there to sell CDs and make a nuisance of themselves.
                   1435: <p>
                   1436:
1.357     henning  1437: <li><strong><a name=ripe50></a>
                   1438: <a href="http://www.ripe.net/ripe/meetings/ripe-50/">RIPE 50</a></strong>,
1.734     tobias   1439: May 2 - 6, 2005, Stockholm, Sweden.<br>
1.357     henning  1440: RIPE NCC invited Henning to talk about OpenBGPD.
                   1441: There were over 350 attendees to the conference, and most of them attended
                   1442: henning's talk, which got very very positive feedback.
                   1443: <p>
                   1444:
1.384     tom      1445: <li><strong><a name=libreast2005></a>
1.356     espie    1446: <a href="http://idile.org/libreast/">Libr'east 2005</a></strong>,
1.734     tobias   1447: Apr 22 - 24, Marne La Vallée, near Paris, France.<br>
1.356     espie    1448: There was an OpenBSD booth (Wim + Miod + Marc)
                   1449: Marc Espie did talk about recent OpenBSD advances, and his ports and
                   1450: packages work in front of about 30 people.
                   1451: <p>
                   1452:
1.353     henning  1453: <li><strong><a name=decix150405></a> <a
                   1454: href="http://www.de-cix.org/">DE-CIX Technical Meeting</a></strong>,
1.410     wvdputte 1455: Apr 15, 2005, near Usingen, Germany.<br>
1.353     henning  1456: Henning Brauer and Reyk Fl&ouml;ter had been invited to the technical
                   1457: meeting of the Deutsche Commercial Internet Exchange (DE-CIX). Henning
                   1458: presented his talk on OpenBGPD, about 60 people, mostly operators from
                   1459: the big ISPs peering at DECIX, were in attendance.
1.354     reyk     1460: Reyk, Maxim Salomon and Tim Kornau spoke on Wireless Network Security.
1.353     henning  1461: <p>
                   1462:
1.352     henning  1463: <li><strong><a name=nuug140405></a>
                   1464: <a href="http://www.nuug.no/aktiviteter/20050414-pf-brannmur/">Firewalling with PF at NUUG</a></strong>,
1.410     wvdputte 1465: Apr 14, 2005, Oslo, Norway.<br>
1.352     henning  1466: Peter N. M. Hansteen gave a firewalling with PF talk - which hopefully
                   1467: gave you some ideas about how to control your network traffic the
                   1468: way you want - keeping some things outside your network, directing
                   1469: traffic to specified hosts or services, and of course, giving spammers
                   1470: a hard time. The talk was in Norwegian, with <a
                   1471: href="http://www.bgnett.no/~peter/pf/no/foils/">foils</a> and <a
                   1472: href="http://www.bgnett.no/~peter/pf/no/">manuscript</a> (English <a
                   1473: href="http://www.bgnett.no/~peter/pf/en/foils/">foils</a> and <a
                   1474: href="http://www.bgnett.no/~peter/pf/en/">manuscript</a> too)
                   1475: available if you couldn't make it there.
                   1476: <p>
                   1477:
1.589     aanriot  1478:
                   1479: <li><strong><a name=fhwedel130405></a>
                   1480: <a href="http://www.fh-wedel.de/">FH Wedel invited talk</a></strong>,
                   1481: Apr 13, 2005, 17:00, H&ouml;rsaal 5, FH Wedel, Hamburg, Germany.<br>
                   1482: Henning Brauer spoke on OpenBGPD. More than 40 people were in attendance.
                   1483: <p>
                   1484:
1.350     marius   1485: <li><strong><a name=usenix2005></a>
                   1486: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix05/">Usenix Annual
1.410     wvdputte 1487: Technical Conference</a></strong>, Apr 10-15, 2005, Anaheim,
1.350     marius   1488: California, USA.<br> Marius Eriksen gave the OpenBSD update at the BSD
                   1489: super BoF.  The update was well received and people were quite
                   1490: sympathetic towards the ongoing efforts of the OpenBSD project to
                   1491: ensure the free redistribution rights for firmware.  People were also
                   1492: excited about the new Open* tools (OpenBGPD, OpenNTPD, OpenCVS) and it
1.351     marius   1493: would not be surprising to see more of these imported into other BSDs.
1.350     marius   1494: <p>
                   1495:
1.585     aanriot  1496: <li><strong><a name=plug050408></a>
1.734     tobias   1497: <a href="http://www.plugfr.org/">Provence Linux User Group</a></strong>,
1.586     aanriot  1498: April 8, 2005, Marseille, France.<br>
1.585     aanriot  1499: Alexandre Anriot spoke about OpenBSD and some associated projects
1.586     aanriot  1500: (OpenBGPD etc.) during a meeting of the PLUG.
1.585     aanriot  1501: The <a href="papers/plug080405">slides</a> (in French) are available.
1.344     martin   1502: <p>
                   1503:
1.337     deraadt  1504: <li><strong><a name=bcs2005></a>
                   1505: <a href="http://www.bellua.com/bcs2005/asia05.index.html">Bellua Cyber Security Asia 2005</a></strong>,
1.734     tobias   1506: Mar 21 - 24, 2005, Jakarta, Indonesia.<br>
1.337     deraadt  1507: Ryan McBride presented an overview of PF which
                   1508: discussed how its advanced features work together in some important
1.338     deraadt  1509: applications and compared PF with the other major commercial and open
1.337     deraadt  1510: source firewalls.
                   1511: <p>
                   1512:
1.317     henning  1513: <li><strong><a name=nui_maynooth2005></a>
                   1514: <a href="http://www.minds.nuim.ie/events">NUI Maynooth lectures</a></strong>,
                   1515: Mar 4, 2005, Department of Computer Science, NUI Maynooth, Dublin, Ireland.<br>
1.318     henning  1516: Ryan McBride presented talks about PF and about
1.326     mcbride  1517: <a href="papers/dublin05-nr">randomization in the OpenBSD network layer.</a><br>
1.318     henning  1518: Theo and Henning were in attendance because someone had to heckle.
1.317     henning  1519: <p>
                   1520:
1.312     deraadt  1521: <li><strong><a name=trinity2005></a>
                   1522: <a href="http://www.netsoc.tcd.ie/events/0405/openbsd.php">Trinity lecture</a></strong>,
                   1523: Mar 3, 2005, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.<br>
1.320     deraadt  1524: Theo de Raadt presented his talk about
                   1525: <a href="papers/auug04">Exploit Mitigation Techniques</a>.
1.312     deraadt  1526: <p>
                   1527:
1.319     saad     1528: <li><strong><a name=ShefLUG2005></a>
                   1529: <a href="http://www.sheflug.co.uk/seminar/tiki-index.php?page=Sheffield%20Open%20Source%20Seminar">ShefLUG2005</a></strong>,
                   1530: Mar 2, 2005, Sheffield, UK.<br>
                   1531: Jacek Artymiak gave a talk about installing OpenBSD on Soekris hardware.
                   1532: <p>
                   1533:
1.310     mickey   1534: <li><strong><a name=NYCBUG2005-03></a>
1.375     grunk    1535: <a href="http://nycbug.org/index.php?NAV=Home&amp;SUBM=83">NYCBUG Monthly meeting</a></strong>,
1.310     mickey   1536: Mar 2, 2005, NYC, USA.<br>
1.322     deraadt  1537: Mickey gave a talk
1.325     mickey   1538: (<a href="papers/nyc2005">slides</a> and
1.564     jason    1539: <a href="http://www.fetissov.org/public/nycbug/nycbug-03-02-05.mp3">10.5MB audio</a>)
1.321     mickey   1540: about <a href="hppa.html">porting OpenBSD</a>
1.313     martin   1541: to the <a href="http://www.openpa.net">HP PA-RISC</a> platform.
1.310     mickey   1542: <p>
1.312     deraadt  1543:
1.308     deraadt  1544: <li><strong><a name=Netsoc2005></a>
                   1545: <a href="http://netsoc.ucd.ie/events/openbsd/">Netsoc lectures</a></strong>,
                   1546: Mar 2, 2005, UCD, Dublin, Ireland.<br>
                   1547: Theo de Raadt, Henning Brauer, and Ryan McBride gave a series of
1.320     deraadt  1548: talks. Topics included
                   1549: <a href="papers/auug04">exploit mitigation techniques</a>,
1.326     mcbride  1550: <a href="papers/dublin05-nr">introducing network randomness to increase security</a>,
                   1551: OpenBGPD, and pf.
                   1552: Almost 200 people came to this event.
1.308     deraadt  1553: <p>
                   1554:
1.304     saad     1555: <li><strong><a name=Brussels2005></a>
                   1556: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/2005/">FOSDEM Brussels 2005</a></strong>,
                   1557: Feb 26 - 27, 2005, Brussels, Belgium.<br>
                   1558: An OpenBSD/OpenSSH booth was present, ran by the usual gang of suspects.
                   1559: Support for <a href="mailto:wim@kd85.com">Wim Vandeputte</a> this time were
1.307     otto     1560: (among many others), Saad Kadhi, Henning Brauer, Thierry Deval, Otto Moerbeek,
1.304     saad     1561: Xavier Santolaria, Martin Reindl, Reyk Fl&ouml;ter, Hans-J&ouml;rg
1.360     db       1562: H&ouml;xer, Nikolay Sturm, Marc Balmer, Claudio Jeker, Joris Vink,
                   1563: Olivier Cherrier, David Berghoff,
1.316     mbalmer  1564: Alexander von Gernler, Uwe Stuehler, and Felix Kronlage from OpenDarwin.<br>
1.304     saad     1565: There was a separate OpenBSD track, featuring Henning Brauer (about
                   1566: signal handlers and OpenNTPD), Reyk Fl&ouml;ter (about wireless cards in
                   1567: OpenBSD), and the author of the OpenBSD PF book, Jacek Artymiak (about
1.375     grunk    1568: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pf">pf(4)</a>, of course).<br>
1.304     saad     1569: At the conference's Free Software Foundation Event, Theo de Raadt was
                   1570: awarded the Free Software Award 2004 for his efforts to make Firmware for
                   1571: wireless hardware and other devices freely available.
                   1572: <p>
1.301     saad     1573: <li><strong><a name=UKUUG05></a>
                   1574: <a href="http://www.ukuug.org/events/winter2005/">UKUUG LISA/Winter Conference</a></strong>,
                   1575: Feb 24 - 25, 2005, Birmingham, UK.<br>
                   1576: Henning Brauer spoke on OpenBGPD, OpenNTPD and Signal Handlers.
                   1577: <p>
                   1578: <li><strong><a name=FFG2005></a>
                   1579: <a href="http://www.guug.de/veranstaltungen/ffg2005/">GUUG FFG 2005</a></strong>,
                   1580: Feb 22 - 25, 2005, Munich, Germany.<br>
                   1581: Reyk Fl&ouml;ter talked about the latest wireless support in
                   1582: OpenBSD at the annual spring meeting of the <a href="http://www.guug.de/">German Unix User Group</a>.
                   1583: <p>
1.293     saad     1584: <li><strong><a name=Paris2005></a>
                   1585: <a href="http://www.solutionslinux.fr/fr/index.php">Solutions Linux 2005</a></strong>,
                   1586: Feb 1 - 3, 2005, Paris, France.<br>
                   1587: An OpenBSD booth as well as an OpenSSH booth were present. These booths
                   1588: were run by Marc Espie, Miod Vallat, Saad Kadhi and Wim with help from
                   1589: Guillaume Arcas and Christophe Plasschaert, two members of the OpenBSD
1.294     saad     1590: french translation team.<br>
                   1591: Marc Espie and Saad Kadhi gave a talk about the OpenBSD project with a
                   1592: special focus on the ports collection and Packet Filter. The <a
                   1593: href="papers/sl2005/index.html">slides</a> (in French) are
                   1594: available.<br>
                   1595: During the event, several demonstrations of <a
1.293     saad     1596: href="http://soekris.kd85.com/">Soekris</a> machines running OpenBSD
                   1597: were given by Saad Kadhi and Wim.
                   1598: <p>
1.296     mcbride  1599: </ul>
1.293     saad     1600:
1.296     mcbride  1601: <h3>2004</h3>
                   1602:
                   1603: <ul>
1.287     henning  1604: <li><strong><a name=21C3></a>
                   1605: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/2004/">21C3 - Chaos Communication Congress</a></strong>,
1.727     wvdputte 1606: Dec 27 - 29, 2004, Berlin, Germany.<br>
1.287     henning  1607: &quot;The Usual Suspects&quot; were there and ran the BSD corner, including
                   1608: <a href="mailto:wim@kd85.com">Wim</a>,
                   1609: Henning Brauer, Marc Balmer, Martin Reindl, Moritz Jodeit, Felix Kronlage,
1.315     nick     1610: Uwe Stuehler, Konrad Foerstner, Bernd Ahlers, and Alexander von Gernler.<br>
1.287     henning  1611: Henning gave a talk about OpenBGPD and OpenNTPD
                   1612: (<a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/21c3/">slides</a>).<br>
                   1613: The WiFi backbone ran on OpenBSD powered
                   1614: <a href="http://soekris.kd85.com">Soekris</a> machines as access points,
                   1615: work done by Reyk Fl&ouml;ter, Tim Kornau and others.
                   1616: This installation was a very successful test of the new
1.290     henning  1617: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ath">ath(4)</a>
1.287     henning  1618: driver.
                   1619: <p>
1.248     deraadt  1620:
1.286     kevlo    1621: <li><strong><a name=icos2004></a>
1.417     kevlo    1622: <a href="http://2004.icos.org.tw/">ICOS 2004</a></strong>,
1.286     kevlo    1623: Dec 18 - 19, 2004, Taipei, Taiwan.<br>
                   1624: Kevin Lo gave a presentation.
                   1625: <p>
                   1626:
1.285     deraadt  1627: <li><strong><a name=syscan2004></a>
                   1628: <a href="http://www.syscan.org/">SyScAN 2004</a></strong>,
1.727     wvdputte 1629: Dec 16 - 17, 2004, Singapore, Singapore.<br>
1.285     deraadt  1630: Theo de Raadt presented his talk about
                   1631: <a href="papers/auug04">Exploit Mitigation Techniques</a>.
                   1632: <p>
                   1633:
1.283     saad     1634: <li><strong><a name=sur200412></a>
                   1635: <a href="http://www.ossir.org/sur/calendrier/index.shtml">SUR Group Meeting, December 2004</a></strong>,
                   1636: Dec 14, 2004, Paris, France.<br>
                   1637: Saad Kadhi gave a talk about OpenBSD and security during the monthly
                   1638: meeting of the
                   1639: <a href="http://www.ossir.org/sur/index.shtml">SUR</a> Group (Sécurité
                   1640: Unix et Réseaux), a french user group focusing on security and Unix. The
1.284     xsa      1641: <a href="papers/surgroup200412/index.html">slides</a> (in French) are available.
1.283     saad     1642: <p>
                   1643:
1.282     henning  1644: <li><strong><a name=opencon2004></a>
                   1645: <a href="http://www.opencon.org/">OpenCon 2004</a></strong>,
                   1646: Dec 10 - 12, 2004, Venice, Italy.<br>
                   1647: OpenBSD meeting in Northern Italy. Henning gave 3 talks in
                   1648: two days, on bgpd
                   1649: (<a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/opencon04/bgpd/">slides</a>),
                   1650: ntpd
                   1651: (<a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/opencon04/ntpd/">slides</a>)
                   1652: and signal handlers
                   1653: (<a href="papers/opencon04/">slides</a>).
                   1654: Wim ran a booth, and Marc Balmer was there as well.
                   1655: <p>
                   1656:
1.275     deraadt  1657: <li><strong><a name=UofA></a>
                   1658: <a href="http://www.ualberta.ca/">U of A Seminar</a></strong>,
                   1659: Nov 17 - 18, 2004, Edmonton Alberta.<br>
                   1660: Theo de Raadt presented a talk at an open seminar at the
                   1661: <a href="http://www.ualberta.ca/">University of Alberta</a>, in
                   1662: Room B-02 of the
                   1663: <a href="http://www.campusmap.ualberta.ca/map_bldg.cfm?bldg_id=42">
                   1664: Computing Sciences Center</a>.
                   1665: Talk went from 2 PM to nearly 5PM with more than 100 people attending
                   1666: from the University and industry, followed by beer nearby.
                   1667: The talk was also given the following day at the
                   1668: <a href="http://www.cips.ca/">CIPS Security SIG</a> luncheon.
                   1669: <p>
                   1670:
1.271     henning  1671: <li><strong><a name=EuroBSDCon2004></a>
                   1672: <a href="http://2004.eurobsdcon.org/">EuroBSD Con</a></strong>,
                   1673: Oct 29 - 31, 2004, Karlsruhe, Germany.<br>
1.272     henning  1674: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
                   1675: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
1.271     henning  1676: Henning gave a talk
1.375     grunk    1677: about <a href="http://2004.eurobsdcon.org/talks.html?&amp;tx_ptspeechupload_pi1[showUid]=44&amp;cHash=ec015b0552">bgpd</a>,
1.272     henning  1678: <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/euroBSDCon2004/">slides</a> are available.
1.271     henning  1679: <p>
                   1680:
                   1681: <li><strong><a name=LinuxWorldExpoGermany2004></a>
                   1682: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.de/">Linux World Expo</a></strong>,
                   1683: Oct 26 - 28, 2004, Frankfurt, Germany.<br>
1.272     henning  1684: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
                   1685: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
1.271     henning  1686: <p>
                   1687:
1.276     deraadt  1688: <li><strong><a name=cuug2004></a>
1.270     deraadt  1689: <a href="http://www.cuug.ab.ca/">Calgary Unix Users's Group</a></strong>,
                   1690: Oct 26, 2004, Calgary, Canada.<br>
                   1691: Theo presented the talk that he has recently given in Australia and
                   1692: Malaysia to the "Home Crowd".
                   1693: <p>
                   1694:
                   1695: <li><strong><a name=aldil2004></a>
1.753     wvdputte 1696: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/">Les Journ&eacute;es Du Logiciel Libre 2004</a></strong>,
1.269     krw      1697: Oct 22 - 23, 2004, Lyon, France.<br>
1.381     aanriot  1698: There was OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Miod Vallat with the help of
1.415     aanriot  1699: Alexandre Anriot and Thierry Thomas.
1.269     krw      1700: <p>
                   1701:
                   1702: <li><strong><a name=systems2004></a>
1.738     tobias   1703: <a href="http://www.systems.de/">Systems</a></strong>,
1.727     wvdputte 1704: Oct 18 - 22, 2004, Munich, Germany.<br>
1.269     krw      1705: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
                   1706: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
                   1707: <p>
                   1708:
1.268     krw      1709: <li><strong><a name=linuxexpo2004oct></a>
1.738     tobias   1710: <a href="http://www.linuxexpo.org.uk/">Linux Expo</a></strong>,
1.268     krw      1711: Oct 6 - 7, 2004, London, UK.<br>
                   1712: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
                   1713: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
                   1714: <p>
                   1715:
1.375     grunk    1716: <li><strong><a name=hitb2004></a>
1.268     krw      1717: <a href="http://conference.hackinthebox.org">Hack in the Box Security Conference 2004</a></strong>,
                   1718: Oct 4 - 7, 2004, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.<br>
                   1719: Theo de Raadt presented an updated version of his
                   1720: "Exploit Mitigation Techniques" talk.
                   1721: <p>
                   1722:
                   1723: <li><strong><a name=SANE2004></a>
                   1724: <a href="http://www.nluug.nl/events/sane2004/bazaar.html">SANE 2004</a></strong>
1.410     wvdputte 1725: , Sep 29, 2004, Amsterdam, Netherlands.<br>
1.268     krw      1726: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
                   1727: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
                   1728: <p>
                   1729:
1.265     wvdputte 1730: <li><strong><a name=LinuxKongress2004></a>
                   1731: <a href="http://www.linux-kongress.org/2004">Linux Kongress 2004</a></strong>,
1.410     wvdputte 1732: Sep 7 - 10, 2004, Erlangen, Germany.<br>
1.265     wvdputte 1733: From their website: "Linux-Kongress is still the premier event for European
                   1734: developers and one of the most important in the world. Each year hundreds of
                   1735: hard core Linux enthusiasts from all over the world gather for this important
                   1736: event."
                   1737: <br>
                   1738: Although this was a Linux developers' conference, we were able to
                   1739: install a regular OpenBSD booth there, as known from other events.
                   1740: It was run by <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim Vandeputte</a>,
                   1741: <a href="mailto:grunk@pestilenz.org">Alexander von Gernler</a> and other
                   1742: geeks from the Erlangen-Nuremberg area.
                   1743: <br>
                   1744: There also was a BSD dinner at Friday evening.
                   1745: <p>
                   1746:
1.262     henning  1747: <li><strong><a name=Sucon2004></a>
                   1748: <a href="http://www.suug.ch/sucon/04/">SUCON 2004</a></strong>,
1.410     wvdputte 1749: Sep 2 - 4, 2004, Zurich, Switzerland.<br>
1.262     henning  1750: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth. Very nice conference.
                   1751: Henning's slides from his talks about
                   1752: <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/sucon04/bgpd">bgpd</a> and
                   1753: <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/sucon04/ntpd">ntpd</a>
                   1754: are available.
                   1755: <p>
                   1756:
1.261     deraadt  1757: <li><strong><a name=auug2004></a>
1.738     tobias   1758: <a href="http://www.auug.org.au/events/2004/auug2004/">AUUG 2004</a></strong>,
1.261     deraadt  1759: Aug 29 - Sep 3, 2004, Melbourne, Australia.<br>
                   1760: Theo de Raadt presented a half-day tutorial on privilege seperation and a
                   1761: newly extended version of the
                   1762: <a href="papers/auug04">Exploit Mitigation Techniques</a> talk.<br>
                   1763: For more information, see this
                   1764: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;517187222;fp;16;fpid;0">
                   1765: ComputerWorld article</a>.
                   1766: <p>
                   1767:
                   1768:
1.680     aanriot  1769: <li><strong><a name=lsm2004></a>
1.257     saad     1770: <a href="http://lsm.abul.org">Libre Software Meeting</a></strong>,
1.410     wvdputte 1771: Jul 6 - 10, 2004, Bordeaux, France.<br>
1.257     saad     1772: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
                   1773: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim Vandeputte</a>.
                   1774: <p>
                   1775:
                   1776: <li><strong><a name=LinuxTag2004></a>
1.738     tobias   1777: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.org">LinuxTag 2004</a></strong>,
1.410     wvdputte 1778: Jun 23 - 26, 2004, Karlsruhe, Germany.<br>
1.257     saad     1779: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
                   1780: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim Vandeputte</a>.
                   1781: <p>
                   1782:
1.254     xsa      1783: <li><strong><a name=LinuxwochenVienna2004></a>
1.255     xsa      1784: <a href="http://www.linuxwochen.at/">Linuxwochen Vienna 2004</a></strong>,
1.254     xsa      1785: May 26 - 29, 2004, Vienna, Austria.<br>
                   1786: The Linuxwochen 2004 tour stopped in the MuseumsQuartier, Vienna.
                   1787: Wim Vandeputte and Reinhard Sammer ran the OpenBSD booth. Michael Bauer
                   1788: and Teemu Schaabl from the <a href="http://www.cngw.org/">CNGW</a> gave
                   1789: a basic talk about pf.
                   1790: <p>
                   1791:
1.248     deraadt  1792: <li><strong><a name=BSDCan2004></a>
1.303     mcbride  1793: <a href="http://www.bsdcan.org/2004/">BSDCan 2004</a></strong>,
1.248     deraadt  1794: May 13 - 16, 2004, Ottawa, Canada.<br>
                   1795: BSDCan was held at the University of Ottawa.  Ryan McBride gave a talk
1.302     mcbride  1796: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/papers/bsdcan04-pf/index.html">about newer features in pf</a>,
                   1797: focusing on the redundancy provided by CARP and pfsync.
                   1798: Theo de Raadt presented a revised version of his talk on
1.248     deraadt  1799: <a href="papers/bsdcan04">Exploit Mitigation Techniques</a>.
                   1800: <p>
                   1801:
1.247     canacar  1802: <li><strong><a name="LOSFAnkara2004"></a>
                   1803: <a href="http://senlik.linux.org.tr">3rd Linux and Open Source Festival</a></strong>,
                   1804: May 13 - 16, 2004, Ankara, Turkey.<br>
                   1805: Can E. Acar and Berk D. Demir talked about the OpenBSD Project. The
                   1806: philosophy, project goals, system features and recent proactive
                   1807: security features were introduced. CARP, patents, recent Apache &amp;
                   1808: XFree86 licensing issues and effects of NDAs in open source
                   1809: projects were discussed.<br>
                   1810: You can view the
1.720     canacar  1811: <a href="http://purl.org/net/bddemir/talk/2004/LOYS-OpenBSD-cea-bdd.pdf">
1.247     canacar  1812: slides in PDF format</a> the
1.720     canacar  1813: <a href="http://purl.org/net/bddemir/talk/2004/LOYS-OpenBSD-cea-bdd.tex">
1.247     canacar  1814: LaTeX source</a> is also available (they are
                   1815: <a href="http://www.eee.metu.edu.tr/~canacar/slides/">mirrored</a>, as well).
                   1816: <p>
                   1817:
1.242     henning  1818: <li><strong><a name=Brussels2004></a>
                   1819: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/">FOSDEM Brussels 2004</a></strong>,
                   1820: Feb 21 - 22, 2004, Brussels, Belgium.<br>
1.243     henning  1821: An OpenBSD/OpenSSH booth was present, run by Wim Vandeputte.
                   1822: Several developers (including Henning Brauer, Xavier Santolaria, Thierry Deval,
                   1823: Philipp B&uuml;hler, Otto Moerbeek and Saad Kadhi) showed up.
                   1824: Wim and Alexander von Gernler gave &quot;lightning talks&quot; about Soekris
                   1825: and systrace
1.263     saad     1826: (<a href="http://pestilenz.org/~grunk/vortraege/2004/FOSDEM/systrace.pdf">slides</a>), respectively.
1.243     henning  1827: Henning got a slot in the main track to talk about the new bgpd
                   1828: (<a href="http://www.2suck.net/papers/fosdem2004/">slides</a>).
                   1829: On Saturday evening, the traditional OpenBSD dinner took place.
1.242     henning  1830: <p>
                   1831:
1.240     espie    1832: <li><strong><a name=Paris2004></a>
                   1833: <a href="http://www.linuxsolutions.fr/">Linux Expo Paris 2004</a></strong>,
                   1834: Feb 3 - 5, 2004, Paris, France.<br>
                   1835: An OpenBSD booth as well as an OpenSSH booth were present, thanks to
                   1836: <a href="mailto:saad@docisland.org">Saad Kadhi</a> and
                   1837: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
                   1838: <p>
                   1839:
                   1840: <li><strong><a name="LWE04"></a>
                   1841: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/linuxworldny/V40/index.cvn">LinuxWorld
                   1842: Conference and Expo</a></strong>, Jan 20 - 23, 2004, New York, NY, USA.<br>
1.738     tobias   1843: <a href="mailto:wes@openlysecure.org">Wes Sonnenreich</a> and others
                   1844: have established a BSD user group in NYC and held a BSD BoF at the
                   1845: Jacob Javits Center on January 22nd at 5:45pm, Room 1E15.
1.240     espie    1846: <p>
                   1847: </ul>
                   1848:
1.188     henning  1849: <h3>2003</h3>
1.236     jose     1850:
                   1851: <ul>
1.232     jose     1852: <li><strong><a name=20c3></a>
                   1853: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/2003/">20th Chaos Communication Congress 2003</a></strong>,
                   1854: Dec 27 - 29, 2003, Berlin, Germany.<br>
                   1855: OpenBSD was represented by a booth, ran by
                   1856: <a href= "mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>, and supported by Henning and
1.236     jose     1857: Alexander von Gernler. Alexander also gave a
1.260     saad     1858: <a href="http://pestilenz.org/~grunk/vortraege/2003/20C3/openbsd.pdf">talk</a>
1.232     jose     1859: introducing the project and the OS (in German).
1.236     jose     1860: <p>
1.232     jose     1861:
1.228     jose     1862: <li><strong><a name=brazil2003></a>
1.236     jose     1863: <a href="http://bsdcon.myfreebsd.com.br">1st BSDCon Brazil</a></strong>,
1.734     tobias   1864: Dec 6 - 7, 2003, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.<br>
1.228     jose     1865: This was the first BSDCon Brazil, and of course OpenBSD was present.
1.236     jose     1866: Douglas Santos spoke on advocacy and about some of the technical aspects
                   1867: of OpenBSD. Eduardo A. Alvarenga gave a presentation about firewalling
1.228     jose     1868: with OpenBSD PF.
                   1869: <p>
                   1870:
                   1871: <li><strong><a name=ankara03></a>
1.720     canacar  1872: <a href="http://seminer.linux.org.tr">Turkish Linux Users Association</a></strong>,
1.228     jose     1873: Dec 4, 2003, Ankara, Turkey.<br>
1.720     canacar  1874: Can E. Acar and Berk D. Demir gave a mammoth 4 hour presentation on OpenBSD.
1.228     jose     1875: The first part was a broad introduction to the OpenBSD philosophy, the
1.236     jose     1876: project goals, and system features. After a break, in the second part they
                   1877: talked about the exploit mitigation techniques employed in OpenBSD. This
                   1878: part was aimed at techies and is almost a complete Turkish translation of
                   1879: the talk Theo recently gave in Japan. You can view the
1.720     canacar  1880: <a href="http://purl.org/net/bddemir/talk/2003/LS-OpenBSD-cea-bdd.pdf">
1.236     jose     1881: slides in PDF format </a>
                   1882: (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     1883: <p>
                   1884:
1.227     jose     1885: <li><strong><a name=Luxembourg2003></a>
                   1886: <a href="http://www.linuxday.lu/">Linuxday Luxembourg 2003</a></strong>,
                   1887: Nov 6 - 8, 2003, Luxembourg, Luxembourg.<br>
                   1888: Booths were present, organized by <a href= "mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
                   1889: <p>
                   1890:
                   1891: <li><strong><a name=Pacsec2003></a>
                   1892: <a href="http://pacsec.jp/">Pacsec 2003</a></strong>,
1.410     wvdputte 1893: Nov 6 - 7, 2003, Tokyo, Japan.<br>
1.236     jose     1894: Three OpenBSD developers presented on various topics. Theo de Raadt
1.227     jose     1895: gave a presentation on Exploit Mitigation Techniques
1.236     jose     1896: <a href="papers/pacsec03/e/index.html">(English)</a>
                   1897: <a href="papers/pacsec03/j/index.html">(Japanese)</a>, Jun-ichiro
1.227     jose     1898: itojun Hagino presented material covering
1.236     jose     1899: <a href="http://www.itojun.org/paper/itojun-200311-pacsec-jp/">
1.241     david    1900: IPv6 security considerations</a>, and Jose Nazario discussed advances
1.227     jose     1901: in Internet worm defenses.
                   1902: <p>
                   1903:
1.224     miod     1904: <li><strong><a name=Lyon2003></a>
                   1905: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/agenda/journees/2003/">Les V<sup>&egrave;mes</sup> Journ&eacute;es du Libre 2003</a></strong>,
                   1906: Oct 31 - Nov 1, 2003, Lyon, France.<br>
                   1907: Miod Vallat gave a talk about the recent security efforts deployed in OpenBSD,
                   1908: as well as generic security concepts (slides, in bad French, are available in
                   1909: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/agenda/journees/2003/vallat/miod.mgp">mgp
                   1910: format</a>). As usual, Wim ran an OpenBSD booth featuring the new 3.4 release,
                   1911: as well as <a href="http://soekris.kd85.com">Soekris</a> hardware running
                   1912: OpenBSD.
                   1913: <p>
                   1914:
                   1915: <li><strong><a name=Saarbrucken2003></a>
                   1916: <a href="http://www.linux-kongress.org/2003/index.html">Linux Kongress Saarbr&uuml;cken 2003</a></strong>,
                   1917: Oct 14 - 16, 2003, Saarbr&uuml;cken, Germany.<br>
                   1918: An OpenBSD booth was present, starring Wim again.
                   1919: <p>
                   1920:
                   1921: <li><strong><a name=London2003></a>
                   1922: <a href="http://www.linuxexpo.org.uk/">Linux Expo London 2003</a></strong>,
                   1923: Oct 8 - 9, 2003, London, UK.<br>
                   1924: An OpenBSD booth was present, starring Wim as usual.
                   1925: <p>
                   1926:
1.219     jose     1927: <li><strong><a name=bsdcon2003></a>
                   1928: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/bsdcon03/">BSDCon '03</a></strong>,
                   1929: Sep 8 - 12, 2003, San Mateo, California.<br>
1.236     jose     1930: OpenBSD was represented in the BSD Status Report, and David Rosenthal
1.219     jose     1931: gave a talk on an OpenBSD based security appliance.
                   1932: <p>
                   1933:
1.218     jose     1934: <li><strong><a name=sucon2003></a>
                   1935: <a href="http://www.sucon.ch/">SUCON '03</a></strong>,
1.734     tobias   1936: Sep 5, 2003, Zurich, Switzerland.<br>
1.236     jose     1937: Daniel Hartmeier talked about PF, and <a
1.218     jose     1938: href="http://open.bsdcow.net/events/sucon2003/">pictures are available</a>.
                   1939: <p>
                   1940:
1.214     henning  1941: <li><strong><a name=camp2003></a>
                   1942: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/camp/">Chaos Communication Camp 2003</a></strong>,
1.733     tobias   1943: Aug 7 - 10, 2003, in <a href="http://www.paulshof.de/body-mehr.html">a field</a> near Berlin, Germany.<br>
1.214     henning  1944: There was a huge OpenBSD village. Several OpenBSD developers have been there.
                   1945: <p>
                   1946:
1.213     jose     1947: <li><strong><a name=sec2003></a>
                   1948: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/sec03/">Usenix Security</a></strong>,
1.216     jose     1949: Aug 4 - 8, 2003, Washington, DC, USA.<br>
1.236     jose     1950: Niels Provos presented two papers on security advances originally
1.213     jose     1951: developed for OpenBSD, including the OpenSSH privsep feature and systrace.
                   1952: Several OpenBSD developers were there.
                   1953: <p>
                   1954:
1.211     jose     1955: <li><strong><a name=linuxtag2003></a>
                   1956: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.org/2003/en/index.html">LinuxTag 2003</a></strong>,
1.733     tobias   1957: Jul 10 - 13, 2003, Karlsruhe Convention Center, Germany.<br>
1.211     jose     1958: Both OpenBSD and OpenSSH had booths in the main exhibit.
                   1959: <p>
                   1960:
                   1961: <li><strong><a name=lsm2003></a>
                   1962: <a href="http://libresoftwaremeeting.org/">Libre Software Meeting 2003</a></strong>,
1.727     wvdputte 1963: Jul 9 - 12, 2003, Metz, France.<br>
1.212     matthieu 1964: Matthieu Herrb gave <a href="papers/xf86-sec.pdf">a talk about XFree86 security</a>. There was
1.211     jose     1965: also an OpenBSD booth with developers.
                   1966: <p>
                   1967:
1.209     wvdputte 1968: <li><strong><a name=lud2003></a>
1.733     tobias   1969: <a href="http://www.linuxuserexpo.com/">Linux User &amp; Developer Expo 2003</a></strong>,
                   1970: Jun 24 - 26, 2003, at the NEC in Birmingham, UK.<br>
1.209     wvdputte 1971: There was an OpenBSD booth with developers.
                   1972: <p>
1.195     deraadt  1973:
1.202     jason    1974: <li><strong><a name=usenix2003></a>
1.236     jose     1975: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix03/">Usenix Annual Technical
1.216     jose     1976: Conference</a></strong>,
1.727     wvdputte 1977: Jun 9 - 14, 2003, San Antonio, Texas, USA.<br>
1.202     jason    1978: A few OpenBSD developers were there and one paper was presented:
                   1979: <ul>
1.216     jose     1980: <li>The Design of the OpenBSD Cryptographic Framework<br>
1.202     jason    1981:     <a href="events.html#usenix2003">Usenix 2003</a>, by
1.236     jose     1982:     Angelos D. Keromytis,
                   1983:     Jason L. Wright, and
1.205     deraadt  1984:     Theo de Raadt.<br>
1.202     jason    1985:     <a href="papers/ocf.pdf">paper</a>.
                   1986: </ul>
                   1987: <p>
                   1988:
1.216     jose     1989: <li><strong>
                   1990: <a href="http://www.webb.it/">Webbit 2003</a></strong>,
1.727     wvdputte 1991: May 9 - 11, 2003, Padova, Italy.<br>
1.203     jason    1992: Giacomo Cariello and Wim Vandeputte attended, and several OpenBSD
1.741     saad     1993: <a href="http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&amp;sid=20030503101052">related talks</a> were given.
1.203     jason    1994: <p>
                   1995:
1.216     jose     1996: <li><strong>
                   1997: <a href="http://cansecwest.com/">CanSecWest 03</a></strong>,
1.727     wvdputte 1998: Apr 9 - 11, 2003, Vancouver, Canada.<br>
1.195     deraadt  1999: Theo spoke about killing buffer overflows using ProPolice and the new W^X technology,
1.196     matthieu 2000: available as a <a href="papers/csw03.mgp">magicpoint file</a>.
1.195     deraadt  2001: <p>
                   2002:
1.216     jose     2003: <li><strong>
                   2004: <a href="http://www.cebit.de/">CeBIT 2003</a></strong>,
1.727     wvdputte 2005: Mar 14, 2003, Hannover, Germany.<br>
1.236     jose     2006: 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 2007: gave a talk on OpenBSD and OpenSSH. <a href="papers/cebit2003.tgz">slides</a> are available.
1.194     henning  2008: <p>
                   2009:
1.216     jose     2010: <li><strong>
                   2011: <a href="http://www.linuxforum.dk/2003/english/">LinuxForum 2003</a></strong>,
1.727     wvdputte 2012: Mar 1, 2003, Copenhagen, Denmark.<br>
1.236     jose     2013: Daniel spoke about PF (slides in <a href="papers/linuxforum2k3.tar.gz">mgp</a>,
                   2014: <a href="http://www.benzedrine.cx/linuxforum/">HTML</a>).
1.191     dhartmei 2015: It was a small but cozy conference, jointly held by Danish Linux and BSD
                   2016: user groups.
                   2017: <p>
                   2018:
1.236     jose     2019: <li><strong>
                   2020: <a href="http://www.cuug.ab.ca">CUUG - The Calgary Unix Users
1.216     jose     2021: Group</a></strong>,
1.727     wvdputte 2022: Feb 25, 2003, 18:00 MST, Calgary, Canada.<br>
1.190     miod     2023: OpenBSD lead developer Theo de Raadt spoke about some of the recent
                   2024: changes in OpenBSD that are leading the way to the complete elimination of
                   2025: "buffer overflow" security risks and attacks.
                   2026: <p>
                   2027:
1.216     jose     2028: <li><strong>
                   2029: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/">FOSDEM 2003</a></strong>,
1.727     wvdputte 2030: Feb 8 - 9, 2003, Brussels, Belgium.<br>
1.236     jose     2031: Henning and Philipp gave a talk on -current PF developments
1.196     matthieu 2032: (<a href="papers/fosdem2k3-pf.mgp">slides</a>)
1.187     henning  2033: and on Saturday evening, there was an OpenBSD dinner for those interested.
                   2034: <p>
                   2035:
1.216     jose     2036: <li><strong>
                   2037: <a href="http://linuxsolutions.fr/FR/home/index.php?site=default">Linux Solutions</a></strong>,
1.727     wvdputte 2038: Feb 4 - 6, 2003, CNIT - Paris La Défense, France.<br>
1.185     miod     2039: There was an OpenBSD booth with several OpenBSD developers, as well as 3.2 OpenBSD
1.413     grunk    2040: CD sets and T-shirts.
1.185     miod     2041: <p>
1.236     jose     2042: </ul>
1.185     miod     2043:
1.161     millert  2044: <h3>2002</h3>
1.236     jose     2045:
                   2046: <ul>
                   2047: <li><strong>
                   2048: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/2002/">19c3: the 19th CCC
1.216     jose     2049: Congress</a></strong>,
1.727     wvdputte 2050: Dec 27 - 29, 2002, Berlin, Germany.<br>
1.236     jose     2051: There was a huge <a href="http://www.eurobsd.org/19c3">reserved space</a> for
                   2052: OpenBSD users and developers, a couple of -current test systems and for those
1.413     grunk    2053: curious, a first look at the 3.2 OpenBSD T-shirts.
1.184     wvdputte 2054: <p>
1.177     jason    2055:
1.216     jose     2056: <li><strong>
                   2057: <a href="http://2002.eurobsdcon.org/">BSDCon Europe 2002</a></strong>,
1.727     wvdputte 2058: Nov 15 - 17, 2002, Amsterdam, Netherlands.<br>
1.181     henning  2059: OpenBSD people were there;
1.236     jose     2060: Philipp B&uuml;hler and Henning Brauer spoke about
1.182     ian      2061: <a href="papers/tuning-openbsd.ps">
                   2062: network performance tuning on OpenBSD</a>,
1.236     jose     2063: and Ian Darwin presented a
1.182     ian      2064: <a href="papers/eurobsd-firewalls-2002.pdf">
                   2065: tutorial on OpenBSD servers/firewalls</a>.
1.179     pb       2066: <p>
1.178     pb       2067:
1.216     jose     2068: <li><strong>
1.236     jose     2069: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa02/">LISA '02: 16th Systems
1.216     jose     2070: Administration Conference</a></strong>,
1.727     wvdputte 2071: Nov 3 - 8, 2002, Philadelphia, USA.<br>
1.177     jason    2072: Mickey and Jason manned the booth at the vendor expo (the only BSD
                   2073: represented) and sold <a href="32.html">3.2</a> CDs, and Jason gave a BoF
                   2074: session on <a href="32.html">3.2</a> and future.
                   2075: <p>
                   2076:
1.216     jose     2077: <li><strong>
1.264     djm      2078: <a href="http://www.auug.org.au/events/2002/auug2002/">Australian Unix Users
                   2079: Group Winter Conference</a></strong>,
1.733     tobias   2080: Sep 1 - 6, 2002, Melbourne, Australia.<br>
1.738     tobias   2081: Damien Miller presented a tutorial on the
                   2082: <a href="papers/auug2002-ssh/index.html">SSH protocol</a> and
1.264     djm      2083: <a href="papers/auug2002-ssh.ps">OpenSSH tips and tricks</a>.
                   2084: <p>
                   2085:
                   2086: <li><strong>
1.216     jose     2087: <a href="http://lsm.abul.org">The 3rd Libre Software Meeting</a></strong>,
1.727     wvdputte 2088: Jul 9 - 13, 2002, Bordeaux, France.<br>
1.172     miod     2089: Several OpenBSD developers and users were attending the meeting, and
                   2090: Niels Provos presented his
                   2091: <a href="http://www.citi.umich.edu/u/provos/systrace">systrace</a>
                   2092: system call policy management tool.
1.174     nick     2093: <p>
1.172     miod     2094:
1.216     jose     2095: <li><strong>
                   2096: <a href="http://www.Webb.it">Webb.it 02</a></strong>,
1.727     wvdputte 2097: Jul 5 - 7, 2002, Padova, Italy.<br>
1.171     ian      2098: OpenBSD developers had a booth selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
                   2099: <p>
                   2100:
1.216     jose     2101: <li><strong>
1.236     jose     2102: <a href="http://www.softwarelivre.rs.gov.br/forum">The Annual International
1.216     jose     2103: Free Software Forum</a></strong>,
1.727     wvdputte 2104: May 2 - 4, 2002, Porto Alegre-RS, Brazil.<br>
1.236     jose     2105: Mainly a Linux/GNU event, but this year the BSD Operating Systems
                   2106: had a chance to prove their value.
1.169     horacio  2107: Edson Brandi spoke on FreeBSD, Diego Linke
1.236     jose     2108: on NetBSD, and Ricardo Nascimento Ferreira on OpenBSD.
1.169     horacio  2109: <p>
1.168     miod     2110:
1.216     jose     2111: <li><strong>
                   2112: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/bsdcon02/">BSDCON 2002</a></strong>,
1.727     wvdputte 2113: Feb 11 - 14, 2002, San Francisco, California, USA.<br>
1.161     millert  2114: Todd Miller gave an update on current OpenBSD status and participated in a
1.162     millert  2115: BSD panel discussion.  The <a href="slides/bsdcon_2002/index.html">slides</a>
                   2116: are available.
1.161     millert  2117: <p>
                   2118:
1.216     jose     2119: <li><strong>
                   2120: <a href="http://www.linuxexpoparis.com">Linux expo Paris 2002</a></strong>,
1.727     wvdputte 2121: Jan 30 - Feb 1, 2002, Paris, France.<br>
1.163     miod     2122: The french Linux Expo 2002 was quite small and as usual the OpenBSD booth ended
                   2123: up with others on the expo's side.  On the first day, almost all the merchandise
                   2124: was sold, and we have even sold older versions (2.9) the following days to
                   2125: people who wouldn't leave without a cd set in their hands...
                   2126: <p>
                   2127:
1.216     jose     2128: <li><strong>
                   2129: <a href="http://musess.mcmaster.ca/">MUSESS 2002</a></strong>,
1.727     wvdputte 2130: Jan 25 - 26, 2002, McMaster University, Ontario, Canada.<br>
1.164     millert  2131: Louis Bertrand gave a presentation on OpenBSD titled
                   2132: <strong>Fix The Bugs, Secure The System</strong>.
                   2133: The <a href="slides/musess_2002/index.html">slides</a> are available.
                   2134: <p>
1.236     jose     2135: </ul>
1.164     millert  2136:
1.152     jakob    2137: <h3>2001</h3>
                   2138:
1.236     jose     2139: <ul>
1.216     jose     2140: <li><strong>
                   2141: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa01/">USENIX LISA 2001</a></strong>,
1.727     wvdputte 2142: Dec 2 - 7, 2001, San Diego, California, USA.<br>
1.160     jufi     2143: Niels Provos gave a presentation, and there's been a booth selling
1.413     grunk    2144: T-shirts and 3.0 CDs.
1.160     jufi     2145: <p>
                   2146:
1.216     jose     2147: <li><strong>
                   2148: <a href="http://www.ietf.org/meetings/IETF-52.html">52nd IETF</a></strong>,
1.727     wvdputte 2149: Dec 9 - 14, 2001, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA.<br>
1.160     jufi     2150: Angelos, Itojun &amp; Jakob were there.
                   2151: <p>
                   2152:
1.158     deraadt  2153: <li><strong>
1.236     jose     2154: <a href="http://www.disc2000.unam.mx/disc/index-ing.html">DISC
1.216     jose     2155: 2001</a></strong>,
1.727     wvdputte 2156: Nov 26 - 29, 2001, Mexico City, Mexico.<br>
1.158     deraadt  2157: Once again, Theo de Raadt explained the security auditing process and
                   2158: subsequent secure configuration choices made in OpenBSD, in a talk
                   2159: entitled "Updated thoughts on writing a secure Operating System".
                   2160: <p>
                   2161:
1.216     jose     2162: <li><strong>
                   2163: <a href="http://www.linux.org.hk">LinuxCafe</a></strong>,
1.734     tobias   2164: Sep 15, 2001, Hong Kong, China.<br>
1.156     provos   2165: Shell Hung gave an introduction for BSD and demonstration of OpenBSD to HKLUG.
                   2166: <p>
                   2167:
1.201     deraadt  2168: <li><strong>VPN Bakeoff</strong>,
1.727     wvdputte 2169: Aug 13 - 18, 2001, Finland.<br>
1.156     provos   2170: Jakob and Itojun were there.
                   2171: <p>
1.158     deraadt  2172:
1.150     wvdputte 2173: <li><strong>
1.215     nick     2174: <a href="http://www.hal2001.org">HAL 2001</a></strong>,
1.727     wvdputte 2175: Aug 10 - 12, 2001, Twente, Netherlands.<br>
1.153     jufi     2176: Quite a lot of developers were there, we even had our own tent.
                   2177: Niels, Rees and Dugsong held talks, more info on the main website
                   2178: for HAL2001. And of course T-Shirts and CDROMs were sold.
1.150     wvdputte 2179: <p>
1.137     aaron    2180:
                   2181: <li><strong>
1.236     jose     2182: <a href="http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon/">O'Reilly Open Source
1.216     jose     2183: Conference</a></strong>,
1.727     wvdputte 2184: Jul 23 - 27, 2001, San Diego, California, USA.<br>
1.148     brian    2185: OpenBSD had a booth selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
                   2186: Ian Darwin presented his "Firewalls and Secure Internet Servers
                   2187: with OpenBSD" tutorial.
                   2188: <p>
                   2189:
                   2190: <li><strong>
1.201     deraadt  2191: <a href="http://www.defcon.org">DEF CON Nine</a></strong>,
1.734     tobias   2192: Jul 13 - 15, 2001, Las Vegas, USA.<br>
1.148     brian    2193: OpenBSD developers and users make it a point to attend every year,
                   2194: and had a table selling CD's, shirts, etc.
                   2195: <p>
                   2196:
                   2197: <li><strong>
1.236     jose     2198: <a href="http://www.sek.co.kr/sek2001/sek_html/main.htm">Software
1.216     jose     2199: Exhibition of Korea</a></strong>,
1.727     wvdputte 2200: Jun 26 - 29, 2001, Seoul, Korea.<br>
1.146     krw      2201: urisecure/NDS sponsored an OpenBSD booth with CD's, posters,
                   2202: and a live demo of OpenBSD's IPSEC hardware acceleration.
                   2203: <p>
                   2204:
                   2205: <li><strong>
1.236     jose     2206: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix01/">2001 USENIX Annual
1.216     jose     2207: Technical Conference</a></strong>,
1.727     wvdputte 2208: Jun 25 - 30, 2001, Boston, USA.<br>
1.146     krw      2209: OpenBSD developers were there, selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
                   2210: <p>
                   2211:
                   2212: <li><strong>
1.143     dugsong  2213: <a href="http://www.olymfair.org/eng/workshop.htm">Information
1.201     deraadt  2214: Security OlymFair</a></strong>,
1.727     wvdputte 2215: May 16 - 18, 2001, Seoul, Korea.<br>
1.143     dugsong  2216: Dug Song gave a detailed introduction to OpenBSD to the Korean
                   2217: security community.
                   2218: <p>
                   2219:
                   2220: <li><strong>
1.236     jose     2221: <a href="http://www.osdem.org/">2001 Open Source and Free Software
1.216     jose     2222: Developers' Meeting</a></strong>,
1.727     wvdputte 2223: Feb 3 - 4, 2001, Brussels, Belgium.<br>
1.137     aaron    2224: There was an OpenBSD booth with some loose talks made.
                   2225: <p>
                   2226:
                   2227: <li><strong>
1.201     deraadt  2228: <a href="http://www.linuxexpoparis.com/">2001 Linux Expo</a></strong>,
1.727     wvdputte 2229: Feb 1 - 2, 2001, Paris, France.<br>
1.236     jose     2230: There was an OpenBSD booth in the 'F' area.
1.137     aaron    2231: <p>
1.236     jose     2232: </ul>
1.137     aaron    2233:
1.132     louis    2234: <h3>2000</h3>
                   2235:
1.236     jose     2236: <ul>
1.132     louis    2237: <li><strong>
1.236     jose     2238: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa2000/">LISA 2000, USENIX
1.216     jose     2239: Systems Administration Conference</a></strong>,
1.727     wvdputte 2240: Dec 3 - 8, 2000, New Orleans, USA.<br>
1.134     jufi     2241: Wim Vandeputte and other volunteers have been running a sales table with
                   2242: shirts, posters and the brand new 2.8 CDs.
                   2243: <p>
                   2244:
                   2245: <li><strong>
1.215     nick     2246: <a href="http://www.disc2000.unam.mx/disc/index-ing.html">DISC 2000</a></strong>,
1.727     wvdputte 2247: Nov 26 - Dec 1, 2000, Mexico City, Mexico.<br>
1.133     deraadt  2248: Theo de Raadt explained the security auditing process and subsequent secure
                   2249: configuration choices made in OpenBSD, in a talk entitled "Secure by Default".
                   2250: Over the next few days, he also participated in two panels with various security
                   2251: experts who had flown in from around the world.  Following this, Theo climbed
1.151     jsyn     2252: one of the largest volcanoes, called Malinche.
1.133     deraadt  2253: <p>
                   2254:
                   2255: <li><strong>
1.236     jose     2256: <a href="http://www.nluug.nl/events/nj2000">NLUUG Najaarsconferentie
1.216     jose     2257: 2000</a></strong>,
1.727     wvdputte 2258: Nov 9, 2000, Ede, Netherlands.<br>
1.236     jose     2259: There was an OpenBSD booth where people dropped by for information or to
1.413     grunk    2260: get their T-shirts, polos, caps and 2.7 CDs.
1.13      deraadt  2261: <p>
1.4       millert  2262:
1.132     louis    2263: <li><strong><a name=ipsec2000></a>
1.236     jose     2264: <a href="http://www.upperside.fr/baipsecy2k.htm">IPsec 2000 Global
1.216     jose     2265: Summit</a></strong>,
1.727     wvdputte 2266: Oct 24 - 27, 2000, Paris La Defense, France.<br>
1.159     miod     2267: Niels Provos ended the conference by speaking about the IPsec architecture
1.132     louis    2268: in OpenBSD. The talk was well received and many people were very interested
                   2269: about our cryptographic hardware acceleration.
                   2270:
                   2271: <ul>
1.236     jose     2272: <li>The IPsec Architecture in OpenBSD<br>
1.215     nick     2273:     <a href="#ipsec2000">IPsec 2000 Global Summit</a> by Niels Provos.<br>
1.132     louis    2274:     <a href="papers/ipsec-slides.ps">slides</a>.
                   2275: </ul>
1.4       millert  2276: <p>
1.132     louis    2277:
1.7       deraadt  2278: <li><strong>
1.201     deraadt  2279: <a href="http://ApacheCon.Com/2000/EU/">ApacheCon Europa 2000</a></strong>,
1.727     wvdputte 2280: Oct 23 - 25, 2000, London, UK.<br>
1.132     louis    2281: There was an OpenBSD booth where people could drop by for information and
                   2282: a chat with the local OpenBSD personnel. We also had the essentials for
1.413     grunk    2283: your wardrobe (T-shirts, polos, caps), for your hardware (2.7 CDs) and for your
1.132     louis    2284: mind (drinks afterwards).
                   2285: <p>
                   2286:
1.216     jose     2287: <li><strong>
                   2288: <a href="http://www.bsdcon.com/">BSD Con 2000</a></strong>,
1.727     wvdputte 2289: Oct 18 - 20, 2000, Monterey, CA, USA.<br>
1.132     louis    2290: David Terrell ran an OpenBSD booth selling T-shirts and CDs and answering
                   2291: questions.
1.32      deraadt  2292: <p>
1.1       deraadt  2293:
1.132     louis    2294: <li><strong><a name=opensource2000></a>
1.236     jose     2295: <a href="http://www.opensource-forum.com/konferens">The Open Source
1.216     jose     2296: Revolution</a></strong>,
1.727     wvdputte 2297: Oct 5, 2000, Stockholm, Sweden.<br>
1.133     deraadt  2298: Theo de Raadt spoke about how user expectations for security out of the box
                   2299: have changed over the last years.
1.1       deraadt  2300: <p>
                   2301:
1.132     louis    2302: <li><strong><a name=sec2000></a>
1.216     jose     2303: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/sec2000/">Usenix Security</a></strong>,
1.727     wvdputte 2304: Aug 14 - 17, 2000, Denver, Colorado, USA.<br>
1.132     louis    2305: Some OpenBSD developers were there and one paper was presented:
                   2306: <ul>
1.236     jose     2307: <li>Encrypting Virtual Memory<br>
1.132     louis    2308:     <a href="#sec2000">Usenix Security 2000</a>
1.205     deraadt  2309:     by Niels Provos.<br>
1.132     louis    2310:     <a href="papers/swapencrypt.ps">paper</a> and
                   2311:     <a href="papers/swapencrypt-slides.ps">slides</a>.
                   2312: </ul>
1.1       deraadt  2313: <p>
1.132     louis    2314:
1.10      provos   2315: <li><strong>
1.201     deraadt  2316: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-8-post.html">Defcon 2000</a></strong>,
1.727     wvdputte 2317: Jul 28 - 30, 2000, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.<br>
1.236     jose     2318: Kjell Wooding (our IPF maintainer), James Phillips from the
1.132     louis    2319: <a href="http://www.deadly.org">OpenBSD Journal</a>, and Theo de Raadt
1.413     grunk    2320: had a table and were selling OpenBSD CDROMs, T-shirts, and posters on
1.132     louis    2321: Friday and Saturday.  Hordes of people visited our table and we at the
                   2322: end we were completely sold out of CDROMS and shirts (allowing us to go
                   2323: check out Hoover Dam's hardhat tour on Sunday and leave the madness behind).
                   2324: <br>
                   2325: We were completely amazed at the people who stopped by our table, to say
                   2326: that they were relying on OpenBSD.
                   2327: <p>
1.32      deraadt  2328:
1.132     louis    2329: <li><strong>
1.236     jose     2330: <a href="http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon2000/">O'Reilly Open Source
1.216     jose     2331: Conference 2000</a></strong>,
1.727     wvdputte 2332: Jul 17 - 20, 2000, Monterey, California, USA.<br>
1.216     jose     2333: Ian Darwin presented a <a href="papers/oreilly2000/">tutorial</a> on
1.132     louis    2334: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/w/bsd_tutorials.html">
                   2335: Secure Internet Servers/Firewalls with OpenBSD</a>, and bravely
                   2336: manned the OpenBSD booth for the remainder of the show.
                   2337: Kjell Wooding took part in a panel discussion on the Future of the BSDs,
                   2338: and spoke about
                   2339: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/w/bsd_presentations.html">
1.241     david    2340: Secure By Default.</a> Both sessions were well attended, and at least
1.132     louis    2341: one Linux sysadmin was seen racing for a keyboard, scared look in his eyes,
1.236     jose     2342: after the security talk.
1.3       provos   2343: <p>
1.132     louis    2344:
1.6       deraadt  2345: <li><strong>
1.201     deraadt  2346: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.de/2000/english/">LinuxTag 2000</a></strong>,
1.727     wvdputte 2347: Jun 29 - Jul 2, 2000, Stuttgart, Germany.<br>
1.132     louis    2348: There was a BSD booth where we had the first <a href="27.html">OpenBSD 2.7 CDs</a> for Europe
                   2349: and the new blue stitchwork <a href="tshirts.html#11">Blowfish Polo</a> shirt.
                   2350: <br>
                   2351: Christian Weisgerber gave a
                   2352: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.de/2000/english/conference/talks.php3?ID=3">talk
                   2353: on BSD</a>.
1.32      deraadt  2354: <p>
1.1       deraadt  2355:
1.216     jose     2356: <li><strong><a name=usenix2000></a>
1.236     jose     2357: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix2000/">Usenix Annual Technical
1.216     jose     2358: Conference.</a></strong>,
1.727     wvdputte 2359: Jun 18 - 23, 2000, San Diego, California, USA.<br>
1.132     louis    2360: Almost 20 OpenBSD developers showed up for the 25th anniversary of Usenix.
                   2361: We had a vendor booth, as well as a number of papers being presented.
                   2362: Conference attendees had the opportunity to test drive the new release,
                   2363: OpenBSD 2.7, on the 30 workstations in the terminal room.  For the first
                   2364: time ever, the terminal room and wavelan networks also had a IPv6 connection,
1.147     jason    2365: and some users even discovered so by themselves.
1.132     louis    2366: Theo also held a BoF on the Wednesday evening, after which the developers
                   2367: had almost too much singing in foreign languages with the help of helium.
                   2368: <ul>
                   2369:
                   2370: <li>Implementing Internet Key Exchange, IKE.<br>
                   2371:     <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
1.216     jose     2372:     by Angelos D. Keromytis, Niklas Hallqvist.<br>
1.132     louis    2373:     <a href="papers/ikepaper.ps">paper</a> and
                   2374:     <a href="papers/ikeslides.ps">slides</a>.
                   2375:
                   2376: <li>Transparent Network Security Policy Enforcement.<br>
                   2377:     <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
1.216     jose     2378:     by Angelos D. Keromytis, Jason L. Wright.<br>
1.132     louis    2379:     <a href="papers/bridgepaper.ps">paper</a> and
                   2380:     <a href="papers/bridgeslides.ps">slides</a>.
1.2       deraadt  2381:
1.132     louis    2382: <li>Safety Checking of Kernel Extensions.<br>
                   2383:     <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
1.205     deraadt  2384:     by Craig Metz.
1.132     louis    2385: </ul>
1.2       deraadt  2386: <p>
                   2387:
1.132     louis    2388: <li><strong>
1.236     jose     2389: <a href="http://www.manlug.mcc.ac.uk/calendar.html">OpenBSD: The Open
1.216     jose     2390: Source Secure Operating System</a></strong>,
1.734     tobias   2391: Jun 17, 2000, 14:00, Manchester, UK.<br>
1.132     louis    2392: Sam Smith gave a rundown of features coming in OpenBSD 2.7 and
                   2393: OpenSSH 2.1. His <a href="http://www.manlug.mcc.ac.uk/20000617/">slides</a>
                   2394: are available from the user group's site.
1.1       deraadt  2395: <p>
1.2       deraadt  2396:
1.132     louis    2397: <li><strong>
1.216     jose     2398: <a href="reprints/crypto2000.html">OpenBSD Crypto 2000 conference</a></strong>,
1.727     wvdputte 2399: Jun 15 - 20, 2000, Calgary, AB, Canada.<br>
1.132     louis    2400: Repeating the tradition of a similar meeting held last year, many
                   2401: OpenBSD developers from around the world converged on Calgary
                   2402: for a weekend long hack-and-drink session.  As before, the event
                   2403: was invitation only.  Many significant things got done, including
                   2404: ipv6 + ipsec running over hardware crypto devices.
1.1       deraadt  2405: <p>
1.11      jkatz    2406:
1.17      deraadt  2407: <li><strong>
1.201     deraadt  2408: <a href="http://www.converge2000.com">CONVERGENCE 2000</a></strong>,
1.734     tobias   2409: May 18, 2000, Convention Centre, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.<br>
1.132     louis    2410: Theo de Raadt participated in a panel discussion about the pros and cons
                   2411: of using Open Source software in various business environments.  The local
                   2412: users also handed out OpenSSH and OpenBSD posters, and were absolutely
                   2413: surprised and amazed by the number of Calgary companies quietly using
                   2414: OpenBSD.
1.21      pattonme 2415: <p>
1.17      deraadt  2416:
1.23      niklas   2417: <li><strong>
1.216     jose     2418: <a href="http://www.cansecwest.com/">CanSecWest</a></strong>,
1.734     tobias   2419: May 10 - 12, 2000, Robson Conference Centre, Vancouver, BC, Canada.<br>
1.132     louis    2420: Theo de Raadt spoke about why programmers keep making the same stupid mistakes,
                   2421: what types of efforts might improve this, and how this all relates to auditing
1.375     grunk    2422: efforts.
                   2423: Rain Forest Puppy, Ron Gula (Network Security Wizards), Ken Williams (E&amp;Y),
1.216     jose     2424: Marty Roesch (snort/HiverWorld), and Fyodor (nmap) were among the other speakers
1.132     louis    2425: at this event.  (On a personal note: at this conference Theo realized that three
                   2426: leading Network Intrusion Detection System companies use OpenBSD as their
                   2427: base operating system: Hiverworld, Network Security Wizards, and NFR).
1.32      deraadt  2428: <p>
1.25      deraadt  2429:
1.132     louis    2430: <li><strong>
                   2431: <a href="http://www.zdevents.com/comdex/spring2000/">Linux Business Expo /
1.201     deraadt  2432: COMDEX Spring 2000</a></strong>,
1.727     wvdputte 2433: Apr 19, 2000, Chicago, IL, USA.<br>
1.216     jose     2434: Louis Bertrand represented OpenBSD at a BSD BOF with FreeBSD/BDSI,
1.132     louis    2435: NetBSD and Apple (Darwin is BSD-derived). The BOF was attended by about
                   2436: 75 people, many of whom were new to *BSD. It was an opportunity to
                   2437: explore future cooperation among the various BSD groups and companies.
1.25      deraadt  2438: <p>
1.23      niklas   2439:
1.31      deraadt  2440: <li><strong>
1.236     jose     2441: <a href="http://www.nordu.org/NordU2000/">NordU 2000 -- The second
1.216     jose     2442: EurOpen/USENIX Conference</a></strong>,
1.734     tobias   2443: Feb 8 - 11, 2000, Malmo, Sweden.<br>
1.140     jufi     2444: About 15 OpenBSD team members attended.
1.132     louis    2445: OpenBSD CDs and shirts were sold at a booth donated by the conference.<br>
                   2446: As well, Theo de Raadt gave an invited talk on Wednesday morning
                   2447: about why software quality/security suffers, and what we can do to
                   2448: improve it.
1.32      deraadt  2449: <p>
1.31      deraadt  2450:
1.201     deraadt  2451: <li><strong>BSD BOF session, LinuxWorld Expo</strong>,
1.727     wvdputte 2452: Feb 3, 2000, New York, USA.<br>
1.132     louis    2453: Representatives from OpenBSD, BSDi, and FreeBSD hosted a
                   2454: &quot;Birds Of a Feather&quot; session at the <a
                   2455: href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/">New York LinuxWorld Expo</a>.<br>
                   2456: There were installation CD-ROMs, free food, and even free Daemon Horns!
1.33      niklas   2457: <p>
1.236     jose     2458: </ul>
1.33      niklas   2459:
1.132     louis    2460: <h3>1999</h3>
1.36      niklas   2461:
1.236     jose     2462: <ul>
1.216     jose     2463: <li><strong>The Bazaar</strong>,
1.727     wvdputte 2464: Dec 14 - 16, 1999, New York, New York, USA.<br>
1.132     louis    2465: Wes Sonnenreich and Tom Yates presented a tutorial on building
1.216     jose     2466: firewalls with OpenBSD. BoF of open source BSDs took place.
1.413     grunk    2467: 2.6 release CDROMs and T-shirts were sold.
1.132     louis    2468: Emphatic interest has been shown by representatives from press, international
                   2469: government and military institutions.
1.45      jason    2470: <p>
                   2471:
1.216     jose     2472: <li><strong><a name=lisa99></a>
1.236     jose     2473: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa99/">13th Systems Administration
1.216     jose     2474: Conference (LISA 99)</a></strong>,
1.727     wvdputte 2475: Nov 7 - 12, 1999, Seattle, Washington, USA.<br>
1.132     louis    2476: Bob Beck presented a paper about the U of A's nifty OpenBSD based
                   2477: solution to the problem of public Ethernet jacks in the technical sessions
                   2478: starting at 11:00 AM on the 11th.<br>
                   2479: There were many other OpenBSD
                   2480: people at this conference as well, as well as a booth selling CDROMs and
1.413     grunk    2481: T-shirts.  His paper is available at:
1.132     louis    2482:
                   2483: <ul>
                   2484: <li>Dealing with Public Ethernet Jacks-Switches, Gateways, and Authentication.<br>
1.236     jose     2485:     <a href="events.html#lisa99">LISA 1999</a>,
1.206     david    2486:     by Bob Beck.<br>
1.236     jose     2487:     <a href="papers/authgw-paper.ps">paper</a> and
                   2488:     <a href="papers/authgw-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132     louis    2489: </ul>
                   2490: <p>
                   2491:
                   2492: <li><strong>
1.201     deraadt  2493: IP-dagarna 1999</strong>,
1.727     wvdputte 2494: Oct 27 - 28, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden.<br>
1.132     louis    2495: H&aring;kan Olsson &amp; Jakob Schlyter spoke at the DNSSEC session on the 27th.
                   2496: <p>
                   2497:
                   2498: <li><strong>
1.236     jose     2499: <a href="http://www.opensource-forum.com/konferens/">Linux &amp; Open Source
1.216     jose     2500: Software '99</a></strong>,
                   2501: Oct 21, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)<br>
1.132     louis    2502: Niklas Hallqvist spoke on the topic of how to use
1.236     jose     2503: <a
1.375     grunk    2504: href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&amp;sektion=4">IPsec</a> for securing communications.
1.132     louis    2505: <p>
                   2506:
                   2507: <li><strong>
1.705     pvalchev 2508: <a href="http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference/1999">Reflections/Projections
1.216     jose     2509: 1999</a></strong>,
1.727     wvdputte 2510: Oct 8 - 10, 1999, Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA.<br>
1.132     louis    2511: Theo de Raadt spoke at 10:00am on the 9th.  Other OpenBSD
                   2512: developers from the east coast attended as well.
                   2513: <p>
                   2514:
1.236     jose     2515: <li><strong><a name="ipsec99"></a>
1.216     jose     2516: IPsec Interoperability tests</strong>,
                   2517: Sep 27 - 30, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)<br>
1.236     jose     2518: A dozen vendors, among them OpenBSD, tested more than 15
1.375     grunk    2519: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&amp;sektion=4">IPsec</a>
1.132     louis    2520: products, both gateways and hosts, for interoperability.  The tests
                   2521: were successful as far as general IPsec and pre-shared key
                   2522: authentication went, OpenBSD interoperated with everyone, but due to
                   2523: time constraints we never got to test the certificate support
                   2524: appropriately.  The results were presented later that fall at a
                   2525: conference in Stockholm.
                   2526: <p>
                   2527:
                   2528: <li><strong>
1.236     jose     2529: <a href="http://www.auug.org.au/winter/auug99">AUUG'99</a></strong>,
1.727     wvdputte 2530: Sep 8 - 11, 1999, Melbourne, Australia.<br>
1.132     louis    2531: Theo de Raadt gave two talks on "quality of software" related issues
                   2532: and participated on a panel about how open source projects are
                   2533: coordinated.
                   2534: <p>
                   2535:
                   2536: <li><strong>
1.236     jose     2537: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/sec99/index.html">Usenix
1.216     jose     2538: Security</a></strong>,
1.727     wvdputte 2539: Aug 23 - 26, 1999, Washington, DC, USA.<br>
1.132     louis    2540: Many OpenBSD people from the east coast showed up and sold CDs and
                   2541: shirts.  It was pretty clear from discussions that many people were
                   2542: very aware of OpenBSD, and that OpenBSD was being used in very
                   2543: significant security roles.
                   2544: <p>
                   2545:
                   2546: <li><strong>
1.236     jose     2547: <a href="http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/99jul/index.html">45th IETF
1.216     jose     2548: meeting</a></strong>,
1.727     wvdputte 2549: Jul 12 - 16, 1999, Oslo, Norway.<br>
1.132     louis    2550: A number of OpenBSD team members from all over the world were at this
                   2551: conference. In addition to attending the IPsec and DNS working groups (among
                   2552: others) we did IPsec/IKE interoperability testing together with
1.166     miod     2553: the Japanese KAME project. Also, Angelos D. Keromytis did a presentation on
1.132     louis    2554: his work with keynote and isakmpd in OpenBSD.
                   2555: <p>
1.45      jason    2556:
1.132     louis    2557: <li><strong>
1.236     jose     2558: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-6.html">Defcon 6.0</a></strong>,
1.727     wvdputte 2559: Jul 9 - 11, 1999, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.<br>
1.132     louis    2560: At this conference, the OpenBSD team sold 100 or so 2.5 release CDROMs
1.413     grunk    2561: and a TON of T-shirts.
1.46      deraadt  2562: <p>
1.132     louis    2563:
1.236     jose     2564: <li><strong><a name="usenix99"></a>
                   2565: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix99/index.html">
1.216     jose     2566: Usenix Annual Technical Conference</a></strong>,
1.727     wvdputte 2567: Jun 6 - 11, 1999, Monterey, California, USA.<br>
1.106     jufi     2568: The <a href="http://www.usenix.org">USENIX Association</a>
1.46      deraadt  2569: provided The OpenBSD Project with a grant to underwrite the production
1.106     jufi     2570: of CDs of OpenBSD 2.5.  (We distributed the
                   2571: release for free to attendees of the USENIX Annual Conference in
1.46      deraadt  2572: June.)
1.132     louis    2573: <br>
1.46      deraadt  2574: Usenix team members were involved in the authoring and
1.132     louis    2575: presentation of 4 OpenBSD-related papers:
                   2576:
1.375     grunk    2577: <a name="anoncvs_paper"></a>
1.46      deraadt  2578: <ul>
1.66      deraadt  2579: <li>Opening the Source Repository with Anonymous CVS.<br>
1.236     jose     2580:     <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216     jose     2581:     by Charles D. Cranor, Theo de Raadt.<br>
1.236     jose     2582:     <a href="papers/anoncvs-paper.ps">paper</a> and
                   2583:     <a href="papers/anoncvs-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132     louis    2584: <br>
1.66      deraadt  2585: <li>A Future-Adaptable Password Scheme.<br>
1.236     jose     2586:     <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216     jose     2587:     by Niels Provos, David Mazieres.<br>
1.236     jose     2588:     <a href="papers/bcrypt-paper.ps">paper</a> and
                   2589:     <a href="papers/bcrypt-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132     louis    2590: <br>
1.66      deraadt  2591: <li>Cryptography in OpenBSD: An Overview.<br>
1.236     jose     2592:     <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216     jose     2593:     by Theo de Raadt, Niklas Hallqvist, Artur Grabowski,
                   2594:     Angelos D. Keromytis, Niels Provos.<br>
1.236     jose     2595:     <a href="papers/crypt-paper.ps">paper</a> and
                   2596:     <a href="papers/crypt-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132     louis    2597: <br>
1.66      deraadt  2598: <li>strlcpy and strlcat -- consistent, safe, string copy and concatenation.<br>
1.236     jose     2599:     <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216     jose     2600:     by Todd C. Miller, Theo de Raadt.<br>
1.236     jose     2601:     <a href="papers/strlcpy-paper.ps">paper</a> and
                   2602:     <a href="papers/strlcpy-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132     louis    2603: </ul>
1.66      deraadt  2604: <p>
1.46      deraadt  2605:
1.51      deraadt  2606: <li><strong>
1.236     jose     2607: <a href="http://www.linuxexpo.org">5th Annual Linux Expo</a></strong>,
1.727     wvdputte 2608: May 18 - 22, 1999, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA.<br>
1.132     louis    2609: Some OpenBSD team members were at this conference selling OpenBSD 2.5 CDs,
                   2610: OpenBSE T-shirts, as well as Blowfish T-shirts, which sold out very quickly
                   2611: at a table donated by the Expo.  OpenBSD was the only BSD represented at the
                   2612: vendor exposition, and we had good chance to present a secure alternative
                   2613: to Linux.
1.51      deraadt  2614: <p>
                   2615:
1.53      jakob    2616: <li><strong>
1.236     jose     2617: <a href="http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/99mar/index.html">44th IETF
1.216     jose     2618: meeting</a></strong>,
1.727     wvdputte 2619: Mar 15 - 19, 1999, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.<br>
1.132     louis    2620: Some OpenBSD team members were at this conference, in particular our
                   2621: IPSEC developers.
1.53      jakob    2622: <p>
                   2623:
1.132     louis    2624: <li><strong>
1.236     jose     2625: <a href="http://www.europen.se/NordU99">NordU99 -- The first
1.216     jose     2626: EurOpen/USENIX Conference</a></strong>,
1.727     wvdputte 2627: Feb 9 - 12, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden.<br>
1.132     louis    2628: A couple of OpenBSD team members were there and some of the swedish user
                   2629: society as well.  OpenBSD CDs were sold at a booth and at the end of a
                   2630: security talk, the project got applauded for its continuous strive of auditing
                   2631: security sensitive parts of the system.
1.59      deraadt  2632: <p>
1.236     jose     2633: </ul>
1.59      deraadt  2634:
1.132     louis    2635: <h3>1998</h3>
1.59      deraadt  2636:
1.236     jose     2637: <ul>
1.132     louis    2638: <li><strong><a name=ipsec98></a>
1.690     nick     2639: IPsec/VPN Interoperability tests &amp; seminar</strong>,
1.727     wvdputte 2640: Dec 14, 1998, Stockholm, Sweden.<br>
1.132     louis    2641: OpenBSD was represented as one of about a dozen
1.375     grunk    2642: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&amp;sektion=4">IPsec</a>
1.132     louis    2643: implementations who were tested for interoperability.  The tests were
                   2644: successful, both for the technology in general, and for OpenBSD in
                   2645: specific.  We managed to communicate encrypted with every vendor present,
                   2646: and to negotiate keys via IKE with everyone capable.
1.70      deraadt  2647: <p>
                   2648:
1.236     jose     2649: <li><strong><a name="lisaboston-98"></a>
1.690     nick     2650: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa98">LISA '98: 12th Systems Administration
1.216     jose     2651: Conference</a></strong>,
1.727     wvdputte 2652: Dec 6 - 11, 1998, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.<br>
1.132     louis    2653: More than 10 OpenBSD team members showed up.  By far, OpenBSD was the
                   2654: largest representative group from free software at the conference.
                   2655: Usenix gave us a table in the vendor area where we sold 2.4 CDROMs,
1.413     grunk    2656: 2.3 "wire-frame" T-shirts, and the new 2.4 embroidered
                   2657: "Because security matters..." T-shirts, polos, and sweaters.
1.132     louis    2658: An OpenBSD BOF was held one evening, led by Theo de Raadt.
                   2659: A PalmPilot schedule loader was at the membership booth, powered by OpenBSD.
                   2660: <br>
1.690     nick     2661: The terminal room ran OpenBSD 2.4 on 45 machines. Obviously trust in OpenBSD
                   2662: had increased since many people, normally wary of security problems of open
1.132     louis    2663: terminal rooms, were seen using the machines.
1.72      ho       2664: <p>
                   2665:
1.73      deraadt  2666: <li><strong>
1.690     nick     2667: <a href="http://www.disc.unam.mx/eventos_anteriores/disc98/">DISC - Seguridad en
1.217     jose     2668: C&oacute;mputo 98</a></strong>,
1.727     wvdputte 2669: Nov 2 - 7, 1998, Mexico City, Mexico.<br>
1.132     louis    2670: Theo de Raadt gave a talk about security auditing, sponsored by
1.236     jose     2671: <a href="http://www.core-sdi.com">CORE SDI S.A.</a>, an Argentine
1.132     louis    2672: security auditing company who strongly believes in the future
1.236     jose     2673: of OpenBSD. (<a href="papers/mexico98-slides.ps">Slides are available</a>).
1.131     jufi     2674: <p>
1.73      deraadt  2675:
1.236     jose     2676: <li><strong>IP-dagarna</strong>,
1.734     tobias   2677: Oct 29 - 30, 1998, Stockholm, Sweden.<br>
1.132     louis    2678: At this conference, entirely devoted to IP, Niklas Hallqvist from the
                   2679: OpenBSD team held a talk on the IKE (a.k.a ISAKMP/Oakley) key management
                   2680: protocol and experiences from the implementation of <strong>isakmpd</strong>,
                   2681: an IKE implementation funded by Ericsson Radio Systems and developed
                   2682: primarily for the OpenBSD IPSEC stack.
1.79      deraadt  2683: <p>
1.73      deraadt  2684:
1.690     nick     2685: <li><strong>NCEE '98</strong>,
1.727     wvdputte 2686: Oct 9 - 10, 1998, Auburn, Maine, USA.<br>
1.132     louis    2687: An extensive after-action report was sent to advocacy@openbsd.org. While
1.151     jsyn     2688: sales of shirts and CDROMs left much to be desired, we did have good
1.132     louis    2689: opportunities to further project visibility and highlight its strengths.
1.80      deraadt  2690: <p>
                   2691:
1.93      louis    2692: <li><strong>
1.690     nick     2693: <a href="http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference/1998/">Reflections/Projections
1.216     jose     2694: 1998</a></strong>,
1.727     wvdputte 2695: Oct 2 - 4, 1998, Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA.<br>
1.132     louis    2696: Theo de Raadt spoke in a panel about Open/Free software with Eric
                   2697: Raymond and others.
1.93      louis    2698: <p>
                   2699:
1.216     jose     2700: <li><strong>
1.690     nick     2701: <a href="http://press.oreilly.com/pub/pr/797">O'Reilly and
1.236     jose     2702: Associates Open Source Developer Days</a></strong>,
1.727     wvdputte 2703: Aug 21, 1998, San Jose, California, USA.<br>
1.132     louis    2704: OpenBSD team members were on-hand to discuss OpenBSD's role among the
1.413     grunk    2705: other free software projects available. They also sold some CDs and T-shirts.
1.96      deraadt  2706: <p>
                   2707:
1.236     jose     2708: <li><strong><a name="defcon98"></a>
1.690     nick     2709: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-6/defcon-6.html">Defcon 6.0</a></strong>,
1.727     wvdputte 2710: Jul 31 - Aug 2, 1998, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.<br>
1.132     louis    2711: The router to the outside world was an OpenBSD 2.3 box.  It was involved
                   2712: in a "capture the flag" competition in which an entire room of crackers
                   2713: attempted to break into it and machines running other operating systems.
                   2714: The OpenBSD box was not broken into.
                   2715: <br>
                   2716: Almost 100 OpenBSD 2.3 CDROMs were sold (we ran out again).  The primates
1.236     jose     2717: at <a href="http://www.monkey.org">monkey.org</a> brought 2.3
1.413     grunk    2718: &quot;wire-frame&quot; OpenBSD T-shirts to the conference and sold almost
1.132     louis    2719: 200 of them.  The proceeds from the sales were donated to the OpenBSD project.
1.96      deraadt  2720: <p>
1.94      deraadt  2721:
1.690     nick     2722: <li><strong><a href="http://www.blackhat.com/html/bh-usa-98/bh2-index.html">BlackHat Sessions</a></strong>,
1.727     wvdputte 2723: Jul 29 - 30, 1998, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.<br>
1.132     louis    2724: Theo de Raadt presented a talk entitled
                   2725: "Auditing software for security" about the OpenBSD security auditing
                   2726: team's process and the lessons the team learned.  The talk concentrated
                   2727: on how our process fixes bugs -- not just holes -- since one never knows
                   2728: when 5 bugs will act together to become a hole.
1.99      deraadt  2729: <p>
                   2730:
1.236     jose     2731: <li><strong><a name="usenix-neworleans"></a>
                   2732: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/usenix98/index.html">Usenix Annual Technical Conference</a></strong>,
1.727     wvdputte 2733: Jun 15 - 19, 1998, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.<br>
1.132     louis    2734: At Usenix 1998 there was a strong OpenBSD presence both in the Freenix
                   2735: and normal tracks.  Theo did a general talk about what the OpenBSD
                   2736: project offers.  Angelos held a panel about IPSEC (which is quite an
                   2737: OpenBSD topic since IPSEC development at that time was so much further
                   2738: ahead in OpenBSD than anywhere else).
                   2739: <br>
                   2740: The terminal room PCs ran OpenBSD 2.3.  We sold many CDROMs.  The
1.413     grunk    2741: first style of OpenBSD T-shirt also sold quite well.
1.101     wvdputte 2742: <p>
                   2743:
1.105     wvdputte 2744: <li><strong>
1.236     jose     2745: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/sec98/index.html">Usenix Security</a></strong>,
1.727     wvdputte 2746: Jan 26 - 29, 1998, San Antonio, Texas, USA.<br>
1.132     louis    2747: At this conference, Theo presented an evening talk which basically
                   2748: turned into a list of fixed security problems and cautionary tales about
                   2749: subsystems in which future problems may be encountered
1.236     jose     2750: (<a href="papers/security98-slides.ps">slides available</a>).
1.105     wvdputte 2751: <br>
1.132     louis    2752: The terminal room PCs ran OpenBSD 2.2.
                   2753: <p>
1.236     jose     2754: </ul>
1.105     wvdputte 2755:
1.132     louis    2756: <h3>1997</h3>
1.107     deraadt  2757:
1.236     jose     2758: <ul>
1.113     deraadt  2759: <li><strong>
1.236     jose     2760: <a href="http://www.hip97.nl">HIP</a></strong>,
1.727     wvdputte 2761: Aug, 1997, Almere, Netherlands.<br>
1.236     jose     2762: Niels held a
1.690     nick     2763: <a href="http://www.citi.umich.edu/u/provos/papers/hip97-tcpip.html">talk</a>
1.132     louis    2764: about the problems of unencrypted TCP/IP connections, offering IPSEC as
                   2765: possible solution.
1.113     deraadt  2766: <p>
1.132     louis    2767:
1.236     jose     2768: <li><strong>HOPE</strong>,
1.727     wvdputte 2769: Aug, 1997, New York, New York, USA.<br>
1.166     miod     2770: The terminal room consisted primarily of DECstations running
1.690     nick     2771: OpenBSD 2.1.  Once again, the <a href="http://www.lopht.com/">L0phT</a>
1.132     louis    2772: people had very good things to say about our security.
1.113     deraadt  2773: <p>
1.105     wvdputte 2774:
1.236     jose     2775: <li><strong><a name="defcon5"></a>
1.690     nick     2776: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-5/defcon-5.html">Defcon V</a></strong>,
1.727     wvdputte 2777: Jul 11 - 13, 1997, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.<br>
1.132     louis    2778: At this conference, the OpenBSD team sold 100 or so 2.1 release CDROMs.
                   2779: <br>
                   2780: Since this is the primary security conference, many speakers said very
1.140     jufi     2781: good things about our stance on security... particularly people like
1.690     nick     2782: <a href="http://www.lopht.com">the L0phT</a>.
1.118     deraadt  2783: <p>
                   2784:
1.125     deraadt  2785: <li><strong>
1.236     jose     2786: <a
                   2787: href="http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/ana97/index.html">Usenix Annual Technical Conference</a></strong>,
1.216     jose     2788: Jan  6 - 10, 1997, Anaheim, California, USA.<br>
1.690     nick     2789: Theo de Raadt held a BOF ("Birds Of a Feather", i.e. a meeting of people
1.132     louis    2790: interested in the same thing) about OpenBSD.
1.236     jose     2791: </ul>
1.125     deraadt  2792:
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