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1.236 jose 17: <h2><font color="#e00000">Events</font></h2>
18: OpenBSD developers, users and sponsors attend trade shows and conferences,
19: give papers, and organize "Birds Of a Feather" (BOF) sessions.
20: This is an opportunity to find out more about OpenBSD or just meet
1.165 ian 21: like-minded people.
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1.78 louis 39: <h2>Future events:</h2>
1.132 louis 40:
1.772 cnst 41: <h3>2009</h3>
42: <ul>
43:
1.805 claudio 44: <li><strong><a name="openexpo2009zh"></a>
45: <a href="http://openexpo.ch/openexpo-2009-winterthur/">OpenExpo 2009 Winterthur</a></strong>,
1.806 benoit 46: Sep 23 - 24, 2009, Zurich/Winterthur, Switzerland.<br>
1.805 claudio 47: <p>
48:
1.715 jdixon 49: </ul>
1.772 cnst 50:
1.727 wvdputte 51: <p>
1.719 wvdputte 52: <hr>
53:
54: <h2>Past events:</h2>
55:
1.783 sthen 56: <h3>2009</h3>
57: <ul>
1.795 cnst 58:
1.811 otto 59: <li><strong><a name="eurobsdcon2009"></a>
60: <a href="http://2009.eurobsdcon.org/">EuroBSDCon 2009</a></strong>,
61: Sep 17 - 19, 2009, Cambridge, UK.<br>
62: Henning Brauer gave a talk on performance improvements in the network stack.<br>
63: Otto Moerbeek gave a talk about
64: <a href="papers/eurobsdcon2009/otto-malloc.pdf>
65: the new malloc</a>.<br>
66: Ted Unangst gave a talk about using kqueue.<br>
1.812 ! otto 67: Peter N. M. Hansteen gave a tutorial on building networks with PF.<br>
1.811 otto 68: <p>
69:
1.807 sthen 70: <li><strong><a name="slackathon2009"></a>
71: <a href="http://www.slackathon.se">Slackathon 2009</a></strong>,
72: Aug 15 2009, Stockholm, Sweden. <br>
1.808 ariane 73: Ariane van der Steldt gave a presentation about
74: <a href="papers/f2k9-pmemrange/">
75: OpenBSD Physical Memory Management</a>.<br>
1.809 claudio 76: Claudio Jeker gave a short introduction about his work on
77: <a href="papers/f2k9-vrf/">
78: Network Stack Virtualization</a>.<br>
1.807 sthen 79: <p>
80:
81: <li><strong><a name="openkyiv2009"></a>
82: <a href="http://www.uaoug.org.ua/openkyiv/2009/">OpenKyiv 2009</a></strong>,
83: Aug 1 2009, Kyiv, Ukraine.<br>
84: <p>
85:
1.802 matthieu 86: <li><strong><a name="bsddayarg2009"></a>
87: <a href="http://www.bsdday.com.ar/">BSDday Argentina 2009</a></strong>,
88: May 29 - 30, 2009, Buenos Aires, Argentina.<br>
89: <p>
90:
1.800 cnst 91: <li><strong><a name="bsdcan2009"></a>
92: <a href="http://www.bsdcan.org/2009/">BSDCan 2009</a></strong>,
93: May 6 - 9, 2009, Ottawa, Canada.<br>
1.803 jdixon 94: Peter N. M. Hansteen gave a tutorial on building networks with PF.<br>
95: Constantine A. Murenin gave a talk on quiet computing and fan control.<br>
96: Gordon Willem Klok gave a talk on processor power management.
1.800 cnst 97: <p>
98:
1.797 mk 99: <li><strong><a name="fossaalborg2009"></a>
100: <a href="http://www.foss-aalborg.dk/">FOSS Aalborg 2009</a></strong>,
101: Mar 24, 2009, Aalborg, Denmark.<br>
1.798 henning 102: Henning Brauer and Sven Dehmlow gave a
103: <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/aalborg2009/">presentation</a>
104: about secure programming.
1.797 mk 105: <p>
106:
1.796 fkr 107: <li><strong><a name="chemnitz2009"></a>
108: <a href="http://chemnitzer.linux-tage.de/2009/info/">Chemnitzer Linux-Tage 2009</a></strong>,
109: Mar 14 - 15, 2009, Chemnitz, Germany.<br>
110: There was an OpenBSD booth run by Bernd Ahlers, Holger Mauermann and Felix Kronlage.<br>
111: <p>
112:
1.795 cnst 113: <li><strong><a name="asiabsdcon2009"></a>
114: <a href="http://2009.asiabsdcon.org/">AsiaBSDCon 2009</a></strong>,
115: Mar 12 - 15, 2009, Tokyo, Japan.<br>
116: Theo de Raadt gave a plenary talk about
117: <a href="papers/asiabsdcon2009-release_engineering">
118: The OpenBSD release process: A success story</a>.<br>
119: Claudio Jeker presented a paper about
120: <a href="papers/asiabsdcon2009-bgpd.pdf">
121: OpenBGPD - bringing full views to OpenBSD since 2004</a>.
122: Presentation
123: <a href="papers/asiabsdcon2009-bgpd">
124: slides</a> are also available.<br>
125: Constantine A. Murenin presented a paper about
126: <a href="papers/asiabsdcon2009-sensors-paper.pdf">OpenBSD Hardware Sensors Framework</a>.
127: Presentation <a href="papers/asiabsdcon2009-sensors-slides.pdf">slides</a> are also available.<br>
128: David Gwynne presented a paper about
129: <a>Active-Active Firewall Cluster Support in OpenBSD</a>.<br>
130: Kristaps Dzonsons presented a paper about
131: <a>Deprecating groff for BSD manual display</a>.<br>
132: There was an active work-in-progress session, chaired by Mark T. Uemura.
133: <p>
1.783 sthen 134:
1.789 xsa 135: <li><strong><a name="Brussels2009"></a>
136: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/2009/">FOSDEM Brussels 2009</a></strong>,
137: Feb 7 - 8, 2009, Brussels, Belgium.<br>
138: There was an OpenBSD/OpenSSH booth and <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/2009/schedule/devroom/bsdpostgresql">a Dev room</a>.
139: On Saturday we had our traditional BSD dinner.
140: <p>
141:
1.783 sthen 142: <li><strong><a name='dcbsdcon2009'></a>
143: <a href="http://www.dcbsdcon.org/">DCBSDCon 2009</a></strong>,
144: Feb 5 - 6, 2009, Washington, D.C., USA.<br>
1.786 jdixon 145: Henning Brauer gave a talk about
146: <a href='http://bulabula.org/papers/dcbsdcon2009/'>
147: Performance Tuning in the OpenBSD Network Stack and PF</a>.<br>
148: Ted Unangst presented
149: <a href='http://www.dcbsdcon.org/speakers/slides/unangst_dcbsdcon2009.pdf'>
150: OpenBSD versus SMP, Threading and Concurrency</a>.<br>
151: Marco Peereboom introduced the
152: <a href='http://www.dcbsdcon.org/speakers/slides/peereboom_dcbsdcon2009.pdf'>
153: Epitome suite</a>.<br>
154: Kurt Miller gave his talk about
155: <a href='http://www.dcbsdcon.org/speakers/slides/miller_dcbsdcon2009.pdf'>
156: Implementing PIE on OpenBSD</a>.<br>
157: There was an OpenBSD booth, run by Bret Lambert.
1.783 sthen 158: <p>
159:
160: </ul>
161:
1.740 saad 162: <h3>2008</h3>
163: <ul>
1.764 mbalmer 164:
1.781 krw 165: <li><strong><a name=25c3></a>
166: <a href="http://events.ccc.de/congress/2008/">25th Chaos Communication Congress
167: (25C3)</a></strong>,
168: Dec 27 - 30, 2008, Berlin, Germany.<br>
169: The 25C3 slogan was "Nothing to Hide".
170: <p>
171:
1.778 krw 172: <li><strong><a name="opencon2008"></a>
173: <a href="http://www.opencon.org/">OpenCON 2008</a></strong>,
174: Nov 29 - 30, Venice, Italy.<br>
175: OpenBSD users and developers gave two days worth of OpenBSD talks and
1.779 krw 176: attended a big OpenBSD party on the saturday night.<br>
177: Ken Westerback gave a talk on
178: <a href='papers/opencon08-openbsdfoundation/index.html'>
179: The OpenBSD Foundation</a>.<br>
180: Ken Westerback gave a talk on
181: <a href='papers/opencon08-installscripts/index.html'>
182: OpenBSD's Install Scripts</a>.<br>
1.778 krw 183: <p>
184:
1.775 sthen 185: <li><strong><a name="ukuugpf2008london"></a>
186: <a href="http://www.ukuug.org/events/pftutorial/">UKUUG Full-day PF tutorial</a></strong>,
187: Nov 26 2008, London, UK.<br>
188: The UKUUG hosted a full-day PF tutorial by Peter Hansteen (Book of PF author),
189: at the Caesar Room, Imperial Hotel, London.
190: <p>
191:
192: <li><strong><a name="t-dose2008"></a>
193: <a href="http://www.t-dose.org/">T-DOSE 2008</a></strong>,
194: Oct 25 - 26, 2008, Eindhoven, The Netherlands.<br>
195: Technical Dutch Open Source Event.<br>
196: Developers were present as well as an OpenBSD booth,
197: run by the usual suspects.
198: <p>
199:
1.770 sthen 200: <li><strong><a name="eurobsdcon2008"></a>
1.772 cnst 201: <a href="http://2008.eurobsdcon.org/">EuroBSDCon 2008</a></strong>,
202: Oct 16 - 19, 2008, Strasbourg, France.<br>
203: Peter N. M. Hansteen gave a tutorial on building networks with PF.<br>
204: Matthieu Herrb gave a talk on input handling in wscons and X.Org.<br>
1.773 cnst 205: Constantine A. Murenin gave a talk on <a href='papers/eurobsdcon2008-sensors.pdf'>the sensors framework</a>.<br>
1.772 cnst 206: There was an OpenBSD booth, run by the usual suspects.
1.770 sthen 207: <p>
208:
209: <li><strong><a name="nycbsdcon2008"></a>
210: <a href="http://www.nycbsdcon.org/2008/">NYCBSDCon 2008</a></strong>,
211: Oct 11 - 12, 2008, New York, New York.<br>
1.774 kurt 212: Jason Dixon gave a talk called
213: <a href='http://talks.dixongroup.net/nycbsdcon2008/'>
214: BSD versus GPL</a>.<br>
215: Anders Magnusson gave a talk on the
216: <a href='papers/magnusson_pcc.pdf'>design of PCC</a>.<br>
217: Kurt Miller gave a talk on
218: <a href='papers/nycbsdcon08-pie/'>implementing PIE</a>.<br>
219: Michael Shalayeff gave a talk on porting PCC to new architectures.<br>
220: Jason L Wright gave a talk called
221: <a href='papers/wright_hardware-wrong.pdf'>When Hardware Is Wrong, or
222: "They can Fix It In Software"</a>.<br>
223: Audio for the talks is available
224: <a href='http://www.fetissov.org/public/nycbsdcon08/'>here</a>.<br>
225: There was an OpenBSD booth, run by Ray Lai and Okan Demirmen.<br>
1.770 sthen 226: <p>
227:
228: <li><strong><a name="opensourcedays2008"></a>
229: <a href="http://www.opensourcedays.org/2008/">Open Source Days
230: 2008</a></strong>,
231: Oct 3 - 4, 2008, Copenhagen, Denmark.<br>
232: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth.
233: <p>
234:
235: <li><strong><a name="openexpo2008zh"></a>
236: <a href="http://openexpo.org/en/">OpenExpo 2008</a></strong>,
237: Sep 23 - 24, 2008, Zurich/Winterthur, Switzerland.<br>
238: There was an OpenBSD table, run by Stephan A. Rickauer.
239: <p>
240:
1.768 sthen 241: <li><strong><a name="Slackathon 2008"></a>
242: <a href="http://www.slackathon.se:2008/index_en.html">Slackathon 2008</a></strong>,
243: Sep 13, 2008, Stockholm, Sweden.<br>
244: Swedish annual OpenBSD conference.
245: <p>
246:
247: <li><strong><a name="froscon2008"></a>
248: <a href="http://www.froscon.de">FrOSCon 2008</a></strong>,
249: Aug 23 - 24, 2008, Bonn/Rhein-Sieg, Germany.<br>
250: There was an OpenBSD booth, run by the usual suspects.
251: <p>
252:
253: <li><strong><a name="OpenKyiv 2008"></a>
254: <a href="http://uaoug.org.ua/openkyiv/">OpenKyiv 2008</a></strong>,
255: Aug 2, 2008, Kyiv, Ukraine.<br>
1.787 mikeb 256: Mike Belopuhov gave a talk called
257: <a href='papers/openkyiv08-mikeb.pdf'>OpenBSD Kernel Architecture,
258: Network Stack</a>.<br>
1.768 sthen 259: There was plenty of OpenBSD activity including a
260: <a href="https://register.bsdcertification.org/register/events/openkyiv-2008">BSD certification</a> exam.
261: <p>
262:
1.764 mbalmer 263: <li><strong><a name="lsm2008"></a>
264: <a href="http://www.rmll.info">Libre Software Meeting 2008</a></strong>,
265: Jul 1 - 5, 2008, Mont de Marsan, France.<br>
266: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth.
267: <p>
268:
269: <li><strong><a name="jdlbe2008"></a>
270: <a href="http://journeesdulibre.bxlug.be/">Journées du Libre à Bruxelles 2008</a></strong>,
271: Jun 6 - 7, 2008, Sint-Gillis, Belgium.<br>
272: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth.
273: <p>
274:
275: <li><strong><a name="linuxtag2008"></a>
276: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.org/2008/en/">LinuxTag 2008</a></strong>,
277: May 28 - 31, 2008, Berlin, Germany.<br>
278: There was plenty of OpenBSD activity (talks & booth).
279: <p>
280:
1.761 merdely 281: <li><strong><a name="linuxdays2008"></a>
282: <a href="http://www.linuxdays.ch/">LinuxDays 2008</a></strong>,
283: May 21 - 22, 2008, Geneva, Switzerland.<br>
1.764 mbalmer 284: Julien Mabillard gave a presentation about OpenBSD and
285: failover/load-balancing features. There was also an OpenBSD booth.
1.761 merdely 286: <p>
287:
1.760 matthieu 288: <li><strong><a name="bsdcan2008"></a>
289: <a href="http://www.bsdcan.org/2008/">BSDCan 2008</a></strong>,
290: May 14 - 17, 2008, Ottawa, Canada.<br>
291: Several OpenBSD developers were there.<br>
1.762 cnst 292: Constantine A. Murenin gave an <a href="papers/bsdcan08-sensors.pdf">
293: overview of the sensors framework</a>,
1.760 matthieu 294: Matthieu Herrb talked about the <a href="papers/bsdcan08-xorg.pdf">
295: upcoming X.org plans</a> and
296: Ian Darwin gave a presentation about OpenMoko.<br>
297: John Pertalion and Oscar Knight presented a case-study of
298: their OpenVPN on OpenBSD deployment.
299: <p>
300:
301: <li><strong><a name="vj08"></a>
302: <a href="http://www.nluug.nl/events/vj08">NLUUG spring conference
303: 2008</a></strong>,
304: May 15, 2008, Ede, Netherlands.<br>
305: There has been an OpenBSD booth.
306: <p>
307:
308: <li><strong><a name="confidence2008"></a>
309: <a href="http://2008.confidence.org.pl/">Confidence 2008</a></strong>,
310: May 16 - 17, 2008, Krakow, Poland.<br>
311: Felix has given a presentation and there was a OpenBSD booth.
312: <p>
313:
1.759 johan 314: <li><strong><a name="DORSCLUC2008"></a>
315: <a href="http://www.open.hr/dc2008/en/">DORS / CLUC 2008</a></strong>,
316: Apr 16 - Apr 18, 2008, Zagreb, Croatia.<br>
317: 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>
318: <p>
319:
320: <li><strong><a name="jtic2008"></a>
321: <a href="http://www.iesmirabent.com/jornadas/index2.html">I Jornadas
322: Tecnológicas Ciudad de Isla Cristina</a></strong>,
323: Apr 3 - 4, 2008, Huelva, Spain.<br>
324: Igor Sobrado gave a talk on OpenBSD and related free software projects.<br>
325: <p>
326:
327: <li><strong><a name="ukuugspring2008"></a>
328: <a href="http://spring2008.ukuug.org/">UKUUG Spring 2008</a></strong>,
329: Mar 31 - Apr 2, 2008, Birmingham, UK.<br>
330: 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>
331: <p>
332:
1.756 claudio 333: <li><strong><a name="asiabsdcon2008"></a>
334: <a href="http://2008.asiabsdcon.org/">AsiaBSDCon 2008</a></strong>,
1.772 cnst 335: Mar 27 - 30, 2008, Tokyo, Japan.<br>
1.757 claudio 336: Claudio Jeker gave a talk on <a href="/papers/asiabsdcon08-network/">OpenBSD Network Stack Internals</a>.<br>
1.756 claudio 337: <p>
338:
1.749 wvdputte 339: <li><strong><a name="openexpo2008"></a>
340: <a href="http://openexpo.org/en/">OpenExpo 2008</a></strong>,
341: Mar 12 - 13, 2008, Bern, Switzerland.<br>
342: There was an OpenBSD table, run by Stephan A. Rickauer.<br>
343: <p>
344:
345: <li><strong><a name="chemnitz2008"></a>
346: <a href="http://chemnitzer.linux-tage.de/2008/info/">Chemnitzer Linux-Tage 2008</a></strong>,
347: Mar 1 - 2, 2008, Chemnitz, Germany.<br>
348: There was an OpenBSD table, run by Philipp.<br>
349: <p>
1.740 saad 350:
1.743 wvdputte 351: <li><strong><a name="Brussels2008"></a>
352: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/2008/">FOSDEM Brussels 2008</a></strong>,
353: Feb 23 - 24, 2008, Brussels, Belgium.<br>
354: There was an OpenBSD/OpenSSH booth and <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/2008/schedule/devroom/bsdpostgresql">a Dev room</a>.
355: There was also an exam for <a href="http://www.bsdcertification.org/">BSD
356: certification</a>.<br>
357: On Saturday we had our traditional BSD dinner.
358: <p>
359:
1.742 merdely 360: <li><strong><a name="scale6x"></a>
361: <a href="http://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale6x/">Southern California Linux
362: Expo 6x</a></strong>,
363: Feb 8 - 10, 2008, Los Angeles, California, USA.<br>
364: There was an OpenBSD booth run by Darrin Chandler with live
365: demonstrations and CDs for sale.
366: <p>
367:
1.740 saad 368: <li><strong><a name="Paris2008"></a>
369: <a href="http://www.solutionslinux.fr/fr/index.php">Solutions Linux
370: 2008</a></strong>,
371: Jan 29 - 31, 2008, Paris, France.<br>
372: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth with Marc Espie, Antoine
373: Jacoutot, Gilles Chehade, Charles Longeau, Landry Breuil, Saad Kadhi,
1.741 saad 374: Wim and others. [<a href="http://saad.docisland.org/pictures/sl2008/"
375: >pictures</a>]
1.740 saad 376: <p>
377:
378: </ul>
379:
1.588 espie 380: <h3>2007</h3>
381: <ul>
1.603 fkr 382:
1.731 wvdputte 383: <li><strong><a name=24c3></a>
384: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/2007/">24C3 Chaos Communication Congress in
385: Berlin</a></strong>,
386: December 27 - 30, 2007, Berlin, Germany.<br>
387: The motto was Volldampf voraus! (literally Full Steam Ahead).
388: <p>
389:
1.726 merdely 390: <li><strong><a name="capbug200712"></a>
391: <a href="http://capbug.org/">Capital Area BSD User Group</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 392: Dec 17, 2007, Columbia, Maryland, USA.<br>
1.726 merdely 393: Michael Erdely presented <a href="papers/capbug200712/index.html">OpenBSD
394: Ports Tutorial: Advanced Topics</a>.
395: [<a href="http://talks.metabug.org/20071218_capbug_640x480.mp4">slides
396: w/audio</a>]
397: <p>
398:
1.721 jsg 399: <li><strong><a name="opencon2007"></a>
1.734 tobias 400: <a href="http://www.opencon.org/">OpenCON 2007</a></strong>,
1.721 jsg 401: Nov 30 - Dec 2, 2007, Venice, Italy.<br>
402: OpenCON is the only conference dedicated solely to OpenBSD.
403: This edition was composed of one "tutorial day" and two days of conference.
404: Three days entirely dedicated to OpenBSD with a lot of developers and users.
1.722 jsg 405: Talks by OpenBSD developers were:
406: <p>
407: <ul>
408: <li>Jonathan Gray: <a href="papers/opencon07-complex/index.html">
409: Why are modern operating systems so complicated?</a>
1.724 jasper 410: <li>Mark Kettenis: <a href="papers/opencon07-sparc64.pdf">
411: OpenBSD/sparc64</a>.
1.723 jasper 412: <li>Reiner Jung and Jasper Lievisse Adriaanse: <a href="papers/opencon07-gnome.pdf">
1.724 jasper 413: Gnome as OpenBSD desktop solution</a>.
1.725 bernd 414: <li>Bernd Ahlers: <a href="papers/opencon07-portstutorial/index.html">
415: OpenBSD Ports Tutorial</a>.
1.744 claudio 416: <li>Claudio Jeker: <a href="papers/opencon07-ospf6d">
417: OSPF v3 - OSPF for IPv6</a>.
1.722 jsg 418: </ul>
1.721 jsg 419: <p>
420:
1.716 wvdputte 421: <li><strong><a name="dulug2007"></a>
1.719 wvdputte 422: <a href="http://www.dulug.de/">Duisburger Linux User Group</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 423: Nov 17, 2007, Duisburg, Germany.<br>
1.738 tobias 424: Richard Verwayen gave a workshop on installing OpenBSD,
1.727 wvdputte 425: [<a href="http://www.dulug.de/cgi-bin/dcms.cgi?action=lit-17.11.07">pictures</a>].
1.716 wvdputte 426: <p>
427:
428: <li><strong><a name="essen2007"></a>
429: <a href="http://www.come2linux.org/psp/">Come 2 Linux 2007 Essen</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 430: Nov 10 - 11, 2007, Essen, Germany.<br>
431: The *BSD projects had an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth.
1.716 wvdputte 432: <p>
433:
434: <li><strong><a name="nluug2007"></a>
435: <a href="http://www.nluug25.nl/en/index.php">NLUUG 25th anniversary</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 436: Nov 7, 2007, Amsterdam, Netherlands.<br>
1.716 wvdputte 437: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth with Wim, Otto, Floor and Kevin.
438: <p>
1.658 reyk 439:
1.714 jasper 440: <li><strong><a name="amsterdam2007"></a>
1.741 saad 441: <a
442: href="http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20071017100734&mode=expanded&count=20">Amsterdam user meeting Cafe De Deugniet</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 443: Nov 2, 2007, Amsterdam, Netherlands.<br>
1.741 saad 444: Informal OpenBSD user meeting in Amsterdam, more info on Undeadly.org.
445: [<a href="http://brobding.mine.nu/Brobding.mine.nu/Albums/Pages/OpenBSD_4.2.html">pictures</a>]
1.714 jasper 446: <p>
447:
1.713 wvdputte 448: <li><strong><a name="uaoug2007"></a>
1.738 tobias 449: <a href="http://www.uaoug.org.ua/en/index.html">Ukrainian OpenBSD Users Group meeting</a></strong>,
1.713 wvdputte 450: Nov 1, 2007, Kyiv, Ukraine<br>
1.738 tobias 451: Sergey Prysiazhnyi, community co-ordinator, gave a talk about Driver
452: Architecture and OpenBSD using in Embedded Systems.
1.713 wvdputte 453: <a href= "http://www.atmnis.com/~apelsin/uaoug/u2k7_v3.0/talk/">[slides]</a>
454: <a href= "http://www.atmnis.com/~apelsin/uaoug/u2k7_v3.0/">[pictures]</a>
455: <a href= "http://www.atmnis.com/~apelsin/uaoug/u2k7_v3.0/video/talk.mp4">[video]</a>
456: <p>
457:
1.712 sthen 458: <li><strong><a name="cossfest2007"></a>
459: <a href="http://www.cossfest.ca/">COSSFEST 2007</a></strong>,
460: Oct 27, 2007, Calgary, Alberta,<br>
461: There was an OpenBSD booth present with 4.2 CDs.
462: <p>
463:
464: <li><strong><a name="systems2007"></a>
465: <a href="http://www.systems.de/">Systems</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 466: Oct 23 - 26, 2007, Munich, Germany.<br>
1.712 sthen 467: The *BSD projects had an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth in Halle B2 110-2, run by
468: DaN, Nikolay Sturm, Marco Pfatschbacher and some other volunteers.
469: <p>
470:
471: <li><strong><a name="bsdcontr2007"></a>
1.734 tobias 472: <a href="http://www.bsdcontr.org/">BSDConTR 2007</a></strong>,
1.712 sthen 473: Oct 19 - 20, 2007, Rectorate of Marmara University, SultanAhmet, Istanbul,
474: Turkey.<br>
475: First Turkish Conference on BSD Systems.<br>
476: Marc Balmer talked about his work on support for radio clocks in
477: OpenBSD.<br>
478: Gökhan Alkan gave a talk "Spam protection with OpenBSD and PF".<br>
479: Huzeyfe Önal gave a talk "Advanced Security solutions in OpenBSD".
480: <br>
481: <p>
482:
1.708 aanriot 483: <li><strong><a name=aldil2007></a>
484: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/">Les Journées Du Logiciel Libre
485: 2007</a></strong>,
486: Oct 19 - 20, 2007, Lyon, France.<br>
487: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Damien Bergamini and
488: Alexandre Anriot with the help of Thierry Thomas.
489: <p>
490:
1.705 pvalchev 491: <li><strong><a name=rp2007></a>
492: <a href="http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference/2007/">Reflections/Projections
493: 2007</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 494: Oct 12 - 14, 2007, Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA.<br>
1.705 pvalchev 495: Peter Valchev gave a talk titled <a href="papers/rp2007-slides.pdf">
496: Using OpenBSD Security Features to Find Software Bugs</a>.
497: <p>
498:
499: <li><strong><a name=auug2007></a>
500: <a href="http://new.auug.org.au/AUUG2007">AUUG 2007</a></strong>,
501: Oct 13 - 14, 2007, Melbourne, Australia.<br>
502: Reyk Floeter talked about load balancing and TCP-relaying with hoststated.
503: There were developers, users, and an OpenBSD booth present.
504: <p>
505:
506: <li><strong><a name="t-dose2007"></a>
507: <a href="http://www.t-dose.org/">T-DOSE 2007</a></strong>,
508: Oct 13 - 14, 2007, Eindhoven, The Netherlands.<br>
1.727 wvdputte 509: Technical Dutch Open Source Event.<br>
1.705 pvalchev 510: There were developers present as well as an OpenBSD booth,
511: run by the usual suspects.
512: <p>
513:
1.689 claudio 514: <li><strong><a name="openexpo2007"></a>
515: <a href="http://www.openexpo.ch/">OpenExpo 2007</a></strong>,
1.734 tobias 516: Sep 19 - 20, 2007, Zurich, Switzerland.<br>
1.689 claudio 517: There were developers present as well as an OpenBSD booth,
1.738 tobias 518: run by the usual suspects. Stephan A. Rickauer gave a talk
519: "OpenBSD and Linux: Insights into a migration project at the Institute of
1.689 claudio 520: Neuroinformatics, ETH Zurich".<br>
521: <p>
522:
1.686 mbalmer 523: <li><strong><a name="eurobsdcon2007"></a>
524: <a href="http://2007.eurobsdcon.org/">EuroBSDCon 2007</a></strong>,
525: Sep 14 - 15, 2007, Copenhagen, Denmark.<br>
526: Marc Balmer gave a talk <a href="papers/eurobsdcon07/mbalmer-radio_clocks.pdf">
527: Support for Radio Clocks in OpenBSD</a>.<br>
1.702 pyr 528: Pierre-Yves Ritschard gave a talk <a href="papers/eurobsdcon07/pyr-loadbalancing">Load Balancing in OpenBSD Using hoststated</a>.<br>
1.688 claudio 529: Claudio Jeker gave a talk <a href="papers/eurobsdcon07/claudio-routing">
530: Using OpenBSD as Routing Platform</a>.<br>
1.686 mbalmer 531: Peter Hansteen offered "A Packet Filter Tutorial" on the tutorial day.<br>
532: There was an OpenBSD booth, run by the usual suspects.
533: <p>
534:
1.685 bernd 535: <li><strong><a name="linuxdayskiel2007"></a>
536: <a href="http://www.kieler-linuxtage.de">Kieler Linux und Open Source Tage</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 537: Sep 07 - 08, 2007, Kiel, Germany.<br>
1.685 bernd 538: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Bernd.
539: <p>
540:
1.686 mbalmer 541: <li><strong><a name="xds2007"></a>
542: <a href="http://www.x.org/wiki/Events/XDS2007">X.Org Developers' Summit 2007</a></strong>,
543: Sep 10 - 12, 2007, Cambridge, UK.<br>
544: Matthieu Herrb and Marc Balmer attended the 3-day summit to make sure the
545: *BSD point of view was well represented.
546: <p>
547:
1.684 bernd 548: <li><strong><a name="froscon2007"></a>
549: <a href="http://www.froscon.de">FrOSCon 2007</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 550: Aug 25 - 26, 2007, Bonn/Rhein-Sieg, Germany.<br>
1.684 bernd 551: There was an OpenBSD booth, run by the usual suspects.
552: <p>
553:
1.682 bernd 554: <li><strong><a name="summercamp2007"></a>
1.734 tobias 555: <a href="http://events.ccc.de/camp/2007">Chaos Communication Camp
556: 2007</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 557: Aug 8 - 12, 2007, Finowfurt, Germany.<br>
1.682 bernd 558: This open air event had a big OpenBSD village with all the usual suspects.
559: <p>
560:
1.680 aanriot 561: <li><strong><a name="lsm2007"></a>
562: <a href="http://www.rmll.info">Libre Software Meeting 2007</a></strong>,
563: Jul 10 - 14, 2007, Amiens, France.<br>
1.681 aanriot 564: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Wim, Matthieu and
565: Alexandre with the help of Serge and Christelle.
1.680 aanriot 566: <p>
567:
1.675 mbalmer 568: <li><strong><a name=Slackathon2007></a>
1.734 tobias 569: <a href="http://www.slackathon.se/">Slackathon 2007</a></strong>,
1.675 mbalmer 570: June 16, 2007, Stockholm, Sweden.<br>
1.738 tobias 571: Yet another round of fund raising for OpenBSD/SSH and general *BSD meeting
1.675 mbalmer 572: that took place in Stockholm.
573: <p>
574:
575: <li><strong><a name="linuxtag2007"></a>
1.734 tobias 576: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.org/2007/en/">LinuxTag 2007</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 577: May 30 - Jun 2, 2007, Berlin, Germany.<br>
1.675 mbalmer 578: There were presentations by OpenBSD developers and an OpenBSD booth,
1.738 tobias 579: run by the usual suspects, and Stephan A. Rickauer held Peter Hansteen's PF
580: tutorial as well as the talk
1.677 wvdputte 581: <a href="http://www.ini.unizh.ch/~stephan/talks/LinuxTag07.pdf">
1.738 tobias 582: "OpenBSD and Linux: Insights into a migration project at the Institute of
1.677 wvdputte 583: Neuroinformatics, ETH Zurich"</a>.
1.675 mbalmer 584: <p>
585:
1.674 martin 586: <li><strong><a name=LinuxwochenVienna2007></a>
1.734 tobias 587: <a href="http://www.linuxwochen.at/2007/Wien">Linuxwochen Vienna
588: 2007</a></strong>,
1.674 martin 589: May 31 - Jun 2, 2007, Vienna, Austria.<br>
590: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth run by Martin Reindl, Robert Peichaer
591: and Teemu Schaabl.
592: <p>
593:
1.671 aanriot 594: <li><strong><a name=cuug2007></a>
595: <a href="http://www.cuug.ab.ca/">Calgary Unix Users Group</a></strong>,
596: May 29, 2007, downtown Library, basement meeting room, Calgary, Alberta.<br>
1.688 claudio 597: <a href="papers/cuug07-claudio/">Claudio Jeker</a>,
598: <a href="papers/cuug2007/">David Gwynne, Henning Brauer</a>,
1.673 mbalmer 599: Reyk Flöter, Matthieu Herrb, Marc Balmer, and Bob Beck discussed recent and
600: future networking changes in OpenBSD, as well as Xenocara, support for
601: radio clocks in OpenBSD, and Spam Reduction with OpenBSD spamd and greylisting.
1.672 henning 602: Some other OpenBSD developers attended to provide international colour.
1.671 aanriot 603: <p>
604:
1.670 ray 605: <li><strong><a name="bsdcan2007"></a>
606: <a href="http://www.bsdcan.org/2007/">BSDCan 2007</a></strong>,
607: May 16 - 19, 2007, Ottawa, Canada.<br>
608: Several OpenBSD developers were there.<br>
609: Peter Hansteen gave a "Packet filtering for fun and profit" tutorial and
610: presented a "Fighting malware and spam with free tools" talk.<br>
611: Ray Lai presented OpenCVS/OpenRCS and
612: discussed why a secure CVS implementation is needed.
613: <a href="papers/bsdcan07-cvs/">Slides</a> are available.<br>
614: Jason Dixon gave the closing session of BSDCan 2007.
615: <p>
616:
1.669 fkr 617: <li><strong><a name="confidence2007"></a>
618: <a href="http://2007.confidence.org.pl/">Confidence 2007</a></strong>,
619: May 12 - 13, 2007, Krakow, Poland.<br>
620: Felix, Henning and Wim gave presentations and ran the OpenBSD booth.
621: <p>
622:
1.666 michele 623: <li><strong><a name="obsdm2"></a>
1.734 tobias 624: <a href="http://www.openbeer.it/?open=obsdm2">OpenBSD Meeting V.2</a></strong>,
1.666 michele 625: May 12, 2007, Verona, Italy.<br>
626: Another event organized by the OpenBEER team with italian OpenBSD related talks.
627: Michele presented a talk about the OpenBSD network stack.
628: <p>
629:
630: <li><strong><a name="nluug2007"></a>
631: <a href="http://www.nluug.nl/events/vj07/index.html">NLUUG Voorjaarsconferentie
632: 2007</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 633: May 10, 2007, Ede, Netherlands.<br>
1.666 michele 634: There was a
635: <a href="http://www.nluug.nl/events/vj07/abstracts/ab.html?id=2">presentation</a>
1.738 tobias 636: by Anil Madhavapeddy and an OpenBSD booth, run by the usual
1.666 michele 637: suspects.
638: <p>
639:
1.665 mbalmer 640: <li><strong><a name="coimbra2007"></a>
641: <a href="http://www.openbsd-pt.com/eventos/coimbra07/index-en.html">Portuguese OpenBSD Usergroup Meeting</a></strong>,
642: May 5 - 6, 2007, Coimbra, Portugal.<br>
643: 7th Meeting of the Portuguese OpenBSD Usergroup.<br>
644: Marc Balmer gave a talk "Ensuring Quality in OpenBSD Without a Formal Process".<br>
645: Rui Reis gave a presentation "The Honeynet.PT project".<br>
1.667 pedro 646: Michael Shalayeff gave a talk "Asynchronous I/O".<br>
647: Also present was Pedro Martelletto.
1.665 mbalmer 648: <p>
649:
1.658 reyk 650: <li><strong><a name=decix6th></a>
651: <a href="http://www.de-cix.org/">DE-CIX 6th Technical Meeting</a></strong>,
652: Apr 19, 2007, Schloss Kransberg, near Usingen, Germany.<br>
653: Henning Brauer and Reyk Flöter talked at the 6th technical
654: meeting of the Deutsche Commercial Internet Exchange (DE-CIX).
655: Henning gave an update on OpenBGPD and Reyk about the latest
656: network-related changes since OpenBSD 4.1. They also talked about
657: the status of test OpenBGPD route server running at the DE-CIX.
658: <p>
659:
1.738 tobias 660: <li><strong><a name="litol07"></a>
1.651 fkr 661: <a href="http://www.lit-ol.de/">2. Linux-Informationstag Oldenburg</a></strong>,
1.738 tobias 662: Apr 14 - 15, 2007, Oldenburg, Germany.<br>
663: Small Open-Source event. Of course there was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth run by
1.659 fkr 664: Bernd, Felix and Tobias Stoeckmann. Felix gave a talk about the current state
665: of OpenBSD development titled <a href="papers/litol07/">OpenBSD - Past, Present and Future</a>.
1.738 tobias 666: <p>
1.650 deraadt 667:
668: <li><strong><a name="fisl8"></a>
669: <a href="http://fisl.softwarelivre.org/8.0/www/?q=en">fisl8.0</a></strong>,
1.734 tobias 670: Apr 12 - 14, 2007, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil.<br>
1.650 deraadt 671: This was a fairly large conference in South America. Theo de Raadt
672: presented a talk about <a href="papers/brhard2007/">Hardware Documentation</a>.
1.738 tobias 673: <p>
1.650 deraadt 674:
1.645 ray 675: <li><strong><a name="nycbug2007-cvs"></a>
676: <a href="http://nycbug.org/">NYC*BUG April 2007</a></strong>,
677: Apr 4, 2007, NYC, USA.<br>
678: Ray Lai (ray@) gave a
679: <a href="http://www.nycbug.org/index.php?NAV=Home;SUBM=10104">talk</a>
680: on OpenCVS.
1.648 ray 681: <a href="papers/nycbug07-cvs/">Slides</a> and
682: <a href="http://www.fetissov.org/public/nycbug/nycbug-04-04-07.mp3">audio</a>
683: are available.
1.645 ray 684: <p>
685:
1.638 grunk 686: <li><strong><a name="elite2007"></a>
687: <a href="http://www.erlug.de/?q=node/323">5. Erlanger Linuxtage</a></strong>,
688: Mar 24 - 25, 2007, Erlangen, Germany.<br>
689: There was an OpenBSD/OpenSSH booth, run by Alexander von Gernler (grunk@).
690: He also gave a talk called
1.639 grunk 691: <a href="papers/elite2007/elite2007-openbsd.pdf">
1.638 grunk 692: "Sichere Systeme mit OpenBSD" (german)</a>.
693: <p>
694:
1.635 tom 695: <li><strong><a name="ukuug2007"></a>
696: <a href="http://www.ukuug.org/events/spring2007/">UKUUG Spring 2007 Conference</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 697: Mar 19 - 21, 2007, Manchester, United Kingdom.<br>
1.635 tom 698: Tom Cosgrove gave a presentation about "Third-Party Applications on OpenBSD"
699: at the annual spring meeting of the
700: <a href="http://www.ukuug.org/">UK's Unix and Open Systems User Group</a>.
701: <p>
702:
1.627 mcbride 703: <li><strong><a name="asiabsdcon2007"></a>
704: <a href="http://www.asiabsdcon.org/">AsiaBSDCon 2007</a></strong>,
705: Mar 8 - 11, 2007, Tokyo, Japan.<br>
1.631 mbalmer 706: Marc Balmer presented a paper <a href="papers/radio-clocks-asiabsdcon07.pdf">Supporting Radio Clocks in OpenBSD</a>. Presentation
707: <a href="papers/asiabsdcon07-radioclocks/index.html">slides</a> are also
708: available.<br>
1.627 mcbride 709: 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 710: Mathieu Sauve-Frankel gave a talk <a href="papers/asiabsdcon07-ipsec/index.html">Recent Improvements in OpenBSD's IPSec Support</a>.<br>
711: Damien Miller presented a paper <a href="papers/openssh-measures-asiabsdcon2007.pdf">Security measures in OpenSSH</a>. Presentation
1.628 djm 712: <a href="papers/openssh-measures-asiabsdcon2007-slides.pdf">slides</a> are
713: also available.<br>
1.627 mcbride 714: 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".
715: <p>
716:
1.622 fkr 717: <li><strong><a name="linuxforum2007"></a>
718: <a href="http://www.linuxforum.dk/2007/">LinuxForum 2007</a></strong>,
719: Mar 2 - 3, 2007, Copenhagen, Denmark.<br>
1.738 tobias 720: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth run by Wim, Bernd and Michael in the
721: <a href="http://img.ba-net.org/LinuxForum2007/">best of circumstances</a>.
722: Felix gave a talk titled
1.622 fkr 723: <a href="papers/linuxforum07/index.html">OpenBSD - Past, Present and Future</a>.
724: <p>
725:
1.619 wvdputte 726: <li><strong><a name=Brussels2007></a>
727: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/2007/">FOSDEM Brussels 2007</a></strong>,
728: Feb 24 - 25, 2007, Brussels, Belgium.<br>
1.727 wvdputte 729: There was an OpenBSD/OpenSSH booth with Matthieu, Marc, Mickey, Saad
1.619 wvdputte 730: and Wim. On Saturday we had our traditional BSD dinner.<br>
731: Matthieu gave a <a href="papers/fosdem07-xenocara.pdf">
732: talk on Xenocara</a> in the X.Org devroom.
733: <p>
1.616 wvdputte 734:
735: <li><strong><a name="kiberpipa2007"></a>
736: <a href="http://pot.kiberpipa.org">Kiberpipa open sessions</a></strong>,
737: February 20, 2007, Ljubljana, Slovenia.<br>
738: On that edition of weekly "Open sessions" meetings
739: <a href="http://www.kerberos.si">Mitja Muzenic</a> gave a
740: <a href="http://pot.kiberpipa.org/?p=39">talk</a> on OpenBSD.
1.619 wvdputte 741: <a href="http://www.kerberos.si/papers/Kiberpipa07/">Slides</a> (in Slovenian),
742: <a href="http://video.kiberpipa.org/media/POT_OpenBSD">video</a> (in Slovenian),
1.616 wvdputte 743: and <a href="http://gallery.kerberos.si/kiberpipa07/">photos</a> are available.
744: <p>
745:
746: </ul>
747:
1.445 martin 748: <h3>2006</h3>
1.236 jose 749: <ul>
1.537 deraadt 750:
1.588 espie 751: <li><strong><a name="23c3"></a>
1.577 mbalmer 752: <a href="https://events.ccc.de/congress/2006/">23C3 Chaos Communication Congress in
753: Berlin</a></strong>,
754: December 27 - 30, 2006, Berlin, Germany.<br>
1.597 mbalmer 755: Who can you trust? Well, us. OpenBSD was there, of course, for our annual
1.595 reyk 756: closing event. fkr, grunk, jsg, mbalmer, mickey, sturm, uwe, martin,
1.598 bernd 757: henning, moritz, bernd and wvdputte were there
1.597 mbalmer 758: there to chat with attendees and discuss OpenBSD stuff. It was - as usual -
759: a great end-of-the-year event. See you in Berlin again end of 2007.
1.577 mbalmer 760: <p>
761:
1.594 mbalmer 762: <li><strong><a name="moscow2006"></a>
763: <a href="https://kd85.com/">Moscow OpenBSD user meeting</a></strong>,
764: December 8 - 9, 2006, Moscow, Russia.<br>
1.633 tom 765: For details, please email <a href="mailto:grange@opensd.org">Grange</a>
1.594 mbalmer 766: <p>
767:
1.515 tom 768: <li><strong><a name="opencon2006"></a>
769: <a href="http://www.opencon.org/">OpenCON 2006</a></strong>,
1.734 tobias 770: 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 771: OpenCON is the only conference dedicated solely to OpenBSD.
1.587 deraadt 772: 135 people were registered for the event, but since it was a completely open event is likely that
773: even more people just walked in.
1.577 mbalmer 774: Most talks were by OpenBSD developers, but there was also an impressive
1.568 mbalmer 775: number of our developers just attending the conference. Talks by OpenBSD
1.577 mbalmer 776: developers were:
1.568 mbalmer 777: <p>
1.535 deraadt 778: <ul>
1.581 claudio 779: <li>Claudio Jeker: <a href="papers/opencon06-network/index.html">
780: Network stack changes in OpenBSD</a>
1.580 deraadt 781: <li>Marc Balmer: <a href="papers/opencon06-nmea/index.html">
782: Support for Time Signal Station Receivers and GPS in OpenBSD</a>
1.601 fkr 783: <li>Felix Kronlage: <a href="papers/opencon06-umts/index.html">Redundancy or mobile deployment with 3G technology</a>
1.584 jsg 784: <li>Jonathan Gray: <a href="papers/opencon06-drivers/index.html">
785: Driver architecture and implementation in OpenBSD</a>
1.543 mbalmer 786: <li>Gordon Klok: <i>Processor Power Management</i>
1.596 dlg 787: <li>David Gwynne: <a href="papers/opencon06-culture.pdf">The OpenBSD
788: Culture</a> and he also filled in for Marco's
789: <a href="papers/opencon06-bio.pdf">Bio and Sensors in OpenBSD</a> talk.
1.582 michele 790: <li>Michele Marchetto: <a href="papers/opencon06-ripd/index.html">
791: OpenRIPD</a>
1.574 mbalmer 792: <li>Reyk Floeter: <i>IPsec demystified</i>
1.580 deraadt 793: <li>Theo de Raadt: <a href="papers/opencon06-docs">
794: Why hardware documentation matters so much and why it is so hard to get</a>
1.535 deraadt 795: </ul>
1.502 mbalmer 796: <p>
1.577 mbalmer 797: Also present were jcs, krw, mglocker, robert, wvdputte, martin, grunk,
798: dhartmei, aanriot, sturm, and bernd. Of course there was an OpenBSD booth
799: run by the usual suspects and you could buy our CD-ROMS, the audio CD and other
1.568 mbalmer 800: stuff.
801: <p>
1.502 mbalmer 802:
1.575 reyk 803: <li><strong><a name=opensourcetag2006></a>
804: <a href="http://www.opensourcetag.de/2006/">OpenSourceTag 2006</a></strong>,
805: Nov 30, 2006, Hannover, Germany.<br>
806: Reyk gave a <a href="http://www.opensourcetag.de/2006/agenda/">talk</a> about OpenBSD
807: as a reference project for secure software.
808: <p>
809:
1.583 henning 810: <li><strong><a name=epf2006></a>
811: <a href="http://www.peering-forum.eu/2006/">European Peering Forum 2006</a></strong>,
812: Nov 29 - 30, 2006, Frankfurt, Germany.<br>
813: The European Peering Forum in Frankfurt was hosted by the 3 big european
814: peering points DE-CIX, AMSIX and LINX, bringing network operators together.
815: Henning was talking about OpenBGPD,
816: <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/epf2006/">slides</a> are available.
817: <p>
818:
1.565 krw 819: <li><strong><a name=conisli2006></a>
820: <a href="http://conisli.org/">CONISLI 2006</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 821: Nov 3 - 5, 2006, São Paulo, Brazil.<br>
1.565 krw 822: 4th edition of São Paulo's International Free Software Congress.
1.687 jolan 823: Ken Westerback and Pedro Martelletto gave a talk.
1.565 krw 824: <p>
825:
1.559 jason 826: <li><strong><a name=nycbsdcon2006></a>
827: <a href="http://nycbsdcon.org/">NYCBSDCon 2006</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 828: Oct 28 - 29, 2006, New York City, USA.<br>
1.559 jason 829: NYCBSDCon is the main conference on the East Coast for the
830: BSD community to get together to share and gain knowledge,
1.562 jason 831: to network with like minded people. Several developers
1.563 jason 832: spoke, more were on hand:
1.559 jason 833: <ul>
834: <li>Marco Peereboom: <a href="papers/bio.pdf">bio and sensors in OpenBSD</a>
1.563 jason 835: [<a href="http://www.fetissov.org/public/nycbsdcon06/1.6.mp3">audio</a>]
1.605 jason 836: <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 837: <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>]
838: <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 839: <li>Ray Lai: <i>First time booth bunny</i>
840: </ul>
841: <p>
842:
1.556 fgsch 843: <li><strong><a name=linuxworlduk2006></a>
844: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.co.uk/">LinuxWorld Expo UK 2006</a></strong>,
845: Oct 25 - 26, 2006, Olympia, London, UK.<br>
1.738 tobias 846: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Wim, Tom, Peter, Federico and
1.558 wvdputte 847: Pedro La Peu.
1.556 fgsch 848: <p>
849:
1.589 aanriot 850: <li><strong><a name=cuug2006oct></a>
851: <a href="http://www.cuug.ab.ca/">Calgary Unix Users Group</a></strong>,
852: Oct 24, 2006, downtown Library, basement meeting room, Calgary, Alberta.<br>
853: Theo de Raadt gave a talk regarding the increasing demand for
854: vendors to open up their documentation.
855: <p>
856:
1.553 grunk 857: <li><strong><a name="systems2006"></a>
858: <a href="http://www.systems.de/">Systems</a></strong>,
1.734 tobias 859: Oct 23 - 27, 2006, Munich, Germany.<br>
1.553 grunk 860: The *BSD projects were located at A3.542.
861: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
862: Wilhelm Bühler, DaN, Nikolay Sturm, Marco Pfatschbacher,
863: and some other volunteers.
864: <p>
865:
1.550 henning 866: <li><strong><a name=hacklu2006></a>
867: <a href="http://www.hack.lu/">hack.lu 2006</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 868: Oct 19 - 21, 2006, Luxembourg/Kirchberg, Luxembourg.<br>
1.550 henning 869: Henning Brauer gave a well received talk about OpenBGPD.
870: <p>
871:
1.547 aanriot 872: <li><strong><a name=aldil2006></a>
873: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/">Les Journées Du Logiciel Libre
874: 2006</a></strong>,
875: Oct 13 - 14, 2006, Lyon, France.<br>
876: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Miod Vallat and Alexandre
877: Anriot with the help of Thierry Thomas and Damien Bergamini.
878: <p>
879:
1.546 mcbride 880: <li><strong><a name=auug2006></a>
881: <a href="http://new.auug.org.au/">AUUG 2006</a></strong>,
882: Oct 10 - 13, 2006, Melbourne, Australia.<br>
883: Ryan Mcbride presented a full-day tutorial entitled
1.738 tobias 884: "Advanced PF Rulesets" as well as two additional talks
1.546 mcbride 885: <a href="papers/auug2006/pf_evolution/">PF evolution</a>
1.738 tobias 886: and
1.546 mcbride 887: <a href="papers/auug2006/network_randomness/">Network stack randomness in OpenBSD</a>.
888: <p>
889:
1.532 wvdputte 890: <li><strong><a name=eurooscon2006></a>
1.734 tobias 891: <a href="http://conferences.oreillynet.com/euos2006/">O'Reilly Euro OSCON
892: 2006</a></strong>,
1.532 wvdputte 893: Sep 20, 2006, Brussels, Belgium.<br>
894: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth.
895: <p>
896:
1.528 wvdputte 897: <li><strong><a name=come2linux2006></a>
898: <a href="http://www.come2linux.org/psp/">Come 2 Linux 2006</a></strong>,
899: Sep 9 - 10, 2006, Duisburg-Essen, Germany.<br>
900: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth.
901: <p>
902:
1.525 wvdputte 903: <li><strong><a name=ChaosdaysDarmstadt2006></a>
1.734 tobias 904: <a href="http://mrmcd101b.metarheinmain.de/index.html">mrmcd101b -
905: MetaRheinMainChaosDays Darmstadt 2006</a></strong>,
1.525 wvdputte 906: Sep 1 - 3, 2006, Darmstadt, Germany.<br>
907: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth.
908: <p>
909:
1.521 fkr 910: <li><strong><a name=LinuxWorldExpoSF2006></a>
1.734 tobias 911: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/live/12/events/12SFO06A/conference/tracksessions/Security/QMONYA04ROFR">LinuxWorld Expo San Francisco 2006</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 912: Aug 16, 2006, San Francisco, USA.<br>
1.521 fkr 913: Ted Unangst spoke about OpenBSD as part of a security panel.
914: <p>
915:
1.518 tedu 916: <li><strong><a name=coimbra2006></a>
917: <a href="http://www.openbsd-pt.com/eventos/coimbra06/">Portuguese OpenBSD Usergroup Meeting</a></strong>,
918: Jul 22 - 23, 2006, Coimbra, Portugal.<br>
919: 6th Meeting of the Portuguese OpenBSD Usergroup. Marc Balmer gave a talk
920: "NMEA 0183 and Time Signal Station Receiver Support in OpenBSD".
921: <p>
922:
923: <li><strong><a name=akqit2006></a>
1.738 tobias 924: <a href="http://www.akqit.ch/w3/DE/actual.html">Arbeitskreis für Qualität in der Informationstechnologie (Working Group for Quality in IT)</a></strong>,
1.734 tobias 925: Jul 20, 2006, University of Basel, Computer Science Department, Room 205, Bernoullistr. 16, 17:30 - 18:30, Basel, Switzerland.<br>
1.590 mbalmer 926: Marc Balmer gave a talk in german "<a href="papers/akqit06/index.html">Ensuring
927: Quality in the Development of the Free Operating System OpenBSD</a>".
1.518 tedu 928: <p>
1.475 deraadt 929:
1.510 wvdputte 930: <li><strong><a name="lsm2006"></a>
931: <a href="http://www.rmll.info">Libre Software Meeting 2006</a></strong>,
932: Jul 4 - 8, 2006, Vandoeuvre-les-nancy, France.<br>
1.681 aanriot 933: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Wim, Matthieu and
934: Alexandre with the help of Serge and Christelle.
1.510 wvdputte 935: <p>
936:
1.508 wvdputte 937: <li><strong><a name=FrOSCon></a>
938: <a href="http://www.froscon.de/">
939: FrOSCon 2006 - Free and Open Source Software Conference</a></strong>,
940: Jun 24 - 25, 2006, Bonn/Rhein-Sieg, Germany.<br>
1.738 tobias 941: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth run by Wim, Waldemar, Manuel and
1.508 wvdputte 942: Tim Kornau.
943: <p>
944:
1.507 mbalmer 945: <li><strong><a name=LinuxwochenLinz2006></a>
1.734 tobias 946: <a href="http://www.linuxwochen.at/2006/Linz">Linuxwochen Linz
947: 2006</a></strong>,
1.507 mbalmer 948: June 15, 2006, Linz, Austria.<br>
1.727 wvdputte 949: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth run by Wim and the usual suspects.
1.507 mbalmer 950: <p>
951:
1.506 deraadt 952: <li><strong><a name=lugverona2006></a>
1.734 tobias 953: <a href="http://www.di.univr.it/dol/main?ent=iniziativa&id=857&lang=it">LUGVR@UNIVR</a></strong>,
1.506 deraadt 954: Jun 9, 2006, Verona University, Borgo Roma, Italy.<br>
955: Florin Iamandi of <a href="https://www.verona.linux.it">LUG Verona</a>
956: gave a talk
957: (<a href="http://todome.net/docs/obsd_carp/en">English</a> and
958: <a href="http://todome.net/docs/obsd_carp/it">Italian</a>)
959: and live demonstration on redundant failover
960: OpenBSD firewalls. He explained why OpenBSD solves many problems that
961: had previously been the dominion of expensive commercial solutions.
962: Attendees learned about OpenBSD's hard stance and successful fight against
963: bad licences and uncooperating vendors and manufacturers.
964: <p>
965:
1.502 mbalmer 966: <li><strong><a name=Slackathon2006></a>
1.734 tobias 967: <a href="http://slackathon2006.unix.se">Slackathon 2006</a></strong>,
1.502 mbalmer 968: Jun 3, 2006, Stockholm, Sweden.<br>
969: A fundraiser for OpenBSD/SSH held at the Stockholm University. Free
1.505 ian 970: entrance and all donations went straight to the project. Several
1.502 mbalmer 971: developers were talking about OpenBSD here, as well as some hands-on
972: workshops took place with both old and new hardware.
973: <p>
974:
1.500 deraadt 975: <li><strong><a name=cuug2006></a>
976: <a href="http://www.cuug.ab.ca/">Calgary Unix Users Group</a></strong>,
977: Jun 1, 2006, SAIT Campus, Calgary, Alberta.<br>
1.504 miod 978: Bob Beck and Reyk Floeter discussed recent and future networking
979: changes in OpenBSD. Some other OpenBSD developers attended to provide
1.500 deraadt 980: international colour, and there were tshirts, CDs, and posters on hand.
981: CUUG made a substantial contribution to OpenBSD at this event as well.
982: <p>
983:
1.589 aanriot 984: <li><strong><a name=LinuxwochenVienna2006></a>
1.734 tobias 985: <a href="http://www.linuxwochen.at/2006/Wien">Linuxwochen Vienna
986: 2006</a></strong>,
1.589 aanriot 987: May 31 - Jun 2, 2006, Vienna, Austria.<br>
988: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth run by Wim and the usual suspects.
989: <p>
990:
1.585 aanriot 991: <li><strong><a name=plug060519></a>
1.734 tobias 992: <a href="http://www.plugfr.org/">Provence Linux User Group</a></strong>,
1.586 aanriot 993: May 19, 2006, Marseille, France.<br>
1.585 aanriot 994: Alexandre Anriot spoke about the deployment of wireless networks with
1.586 aanriot 995: OpenBSD during a meeting of the PLUG.
1.585 aanriot 996: <p>
997:
1.491 bernd 998: <li><strong><a name="SANE2006"></a>
999: <a href="http://www.sane.nl/sane2006/">SANE 2006</a></strong>,
1000: May 15 - 19, 2006, Delft, The Netherlands.<br>
1001: Peter N. M. Hansteen gave a
1002: <a href="http://www.sane.nl/sane2006/program/abstract.php?eventid=35">
1003: PF tutorial</a>.
1004: <p>
1005:
1.490 reyk 1006: <li><strong><a name=bsdcan2006></a> <a
1007: href="http://www.bsdcan.org/2006/">BSDCan 2006</a></strong>,
1008: May 12 - 13, 2006, Ottawa, Canada.<br>
1009: David Gwynne gave a talk about hardware monitoring with bio and
1010: sensors in OpenBSD (<a href="papers/bsdcan06-biosensors.pdf">slides</a>)
1011: and Reyk Flöter talked about the latest
1012: wireless support and the incredible plans for the future
1013: (<a href="papers/bsdcan06-wlan/index.html">slides</a>), and
1014: Peter Hansteen gave a PF tutorial. A number of OpenBSD hackers
1015: attended the conference as well, like Bob Beck and Mathieu Sauve-Frankel.
1016: <p>
1017:
1.489 bernd 1018: <li><strong><a name="linuxdays2006"></a>
1.738 tobias 1019: <a href="http://www.linuxdays.ch">Linuxdays 2006</a></strong>,
1.489 bernd 1020: May 8 - 12, 2006, Geneva, Switzerland.<br>
1021: Julien Mabillard, a long-time Geneva OpenBSD user, gave a talk to present
1022: the overall system and its great features.
1023: <p>
1024:
1.592 claudio 1025: <li><strong><a name="idepes2006"></a>
1.589 aanriot 1026: <a href="http://www.idepes.org.br/openbsd/">IDEPES 2006</a></strong>,
1027: May 6, 2006, São Paulo, Brazil.<br>
1028: First event in Brazil totally dedicated to OpenBSD.
1029: <p>
1030:
1.592 claudio 1031: <li><strong><a name="LinuxTag2006"></a>
1.484 mbalmer 1032: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.org/2006/">LinuxTag 2006</a></strong>,
1033: May 3 - 6, 2006, Wiesbaden, Germany.<br>
1034: OpenBSD was very present at this years Linuxtag:
1035: <ul>
1036: <li>On friday morning, Claudio and Marc moderated a panel discussion
1037: "BLOBS sind das Krebsgeschwür freier Software" (Blobs are the
1.485 mbalmer 1038: cancer of free software) that was well attended. Unfortunately no one
1.484 mbalmer 1039: in favour of Blobs attended, although we asked almost all Linux
1040: distributions...
1041: <li>After lunch, Marc Balmer started the afternoon with a talk "OpenBSD
1042: as a Strategic Platform for the Basle Public Schools", outlining how and
1.485 mbalmer 1043: why the Basle Public school system uses OpenBSD for most of its
1.484 mbalmer 1044: infrastructure.
1.592 claudio 1045: <li>The next OpenBSD specific talk was by Claudio Jeker,
1046: <a href="papers/linuxtag06-network/">"Routing with OpenBSD using
1047: OpenOSPFD and OpenBGPD"</a> where he showed various routing setups and
1048: how full redundancy can be achieved.
1049: [<a href="papers/linuxtag06-network.pdf">paper</a>]
1.484 mbalmer 1050: <li>Later, Marc Balmer gave a talk "Decoding Time Signal Stations using
1051: OpenBSD" and explained the recent addition of timedelta sensors and the
1052: first implementation of such, udcf(4).
1053: </ul>
1054: <br>
1055: All talks where very well received and OpenBSD filled four hours of the
1.485 mbalmer 1056: Linuxtag program. We thank Wilhelm Bühler, chair of the BSD-Track
1.484 mbalmer 1057: at Linuxtag, for the superb and professional organization.
1058: <br>
1059: Of course, there was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth run by Wim and the
1060: usual suspects.
1061: <p>
1062:
1.486 mickey 1063: <li><strong><a name=NYCBUG2006-05></a>
1064: <a href="http://nycbug.org/index.php?NAV=Home&SUBM=83">NYCBUG Monthly meeting</a></strong>,
1065: May 3, 2006, NYC, USA.<br>
1066: Mickey gave a talk
1.564 jason 1067: (<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 1068: about PAE work for OpenBSD/i386.<br>
1069: Mischa Diehm gave a talk about implementing VPN using OpenBSD.
1070: <p>
1071:
1.484 mbalmer 1072: <li><strong><a name=tokyo2006></a>
1073: <a href="http://www.tokyopc.org/index.php/weblog/">Tokyo PC Users Group</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 1074: May 2, 2006, Tokyo, Japan.<br>
1.484 mbalmer 1075: Theo presented his <a href="papers/ven05-deraadt">"Exploit Mitigation Techniques"</a>
1076: talk. There is a
1077: <a href="http://www.tokyopc.org/faxmessage/index.html#about">map to the location</a>.
1078: <p>
1079:
1.478 mbalmer 1080: <li><strong><a name=SambaEXPerience2006></a>
1081: <a href="http://www.sambaxp.org/">Samba eXPerience 2006</a></strong>,
1082: April 24 - 26, 2006, Göttingen, Germany.<br>
1083: Marc Balmer gave a talk "Providing Fully Automated Fileserver Services
1084: for Public Schools using LDAP Integrated SAMBA on OpenBSD" that was very
1085: well received.
1086: <br>
1087: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth run by Wim and Marc and Felix Kronlage
1088: and we could draw a lot of attention.
1089: <p>
1090:
1.479 deraadt 1091: <li><strong><a name=DORSCLUC2006></a>
1092: <a href="http://www.open.hr/dc2006/"> DORS / CLUC 2006</a></strong>,
1.734 tobias 1093: April 19 - 21, 2006, Zagreb, Croatia.<br>
1.479 deraadt 1094: <a href="http://www.kerberos.si">Mitja Muzenic</a> gave a
1.480 mbalmer 1095: <a href="http://www.kerberos.si/papers/DORS06/index.html">
1096: "Introduction to OpenBSD"</a> talk. Conference
1097: <a href="http://www.open.hr/dc2006/program.php">program</a> (in croatian
1.479 deraadt 1098: only).
1099: <p>
1100:
1.475 deraadt 1101: <li><strong><a name=linuxworld2006></a>
1.734 tobias 1102: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/live/12/events/12BOS06A/"
1103: >LinuxWorld/OpenSolutions World 2006</a></strong>,
1.475 deraadt 1104: April 3 - 6, 2006, Boston, USA.<br>
1105: Jason Dixon presented
1.738 tobias 1106: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/live/12/events/12BOS06A/conference/tracksessions/Security/QMONYA04Q1DK">Secure Network Architectures with OpenBSD</a>,
1.475 deraadt 1107: a talk on OpenBSD that outlines the various technologies that make
1108: it a leader of secure networking platforms.
1109: <br>
1110: He spent time around the exposition BSD booth with giveaways
1111: and early release OpenBSD 3.9 CDs.
1112: <p>
1113:
1114: <li><strong><a name=cansecwest06></a>
1115: <a href="http://www.cansecwest.com">Cansecwest/core06</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 1116: April 3 - 7, 2006, Vancouver, Canada.<br>
1.475 deraadt 1117: A rather interesting OpenBSD-related talk happened at this event, regarding
1118: using SMI interrupts to break out of X into kernel mode.
1119: <br>
1120: Some OpenBSD developers attended. Some early OpenBSD 3.9 items went
1121: on sale.
1122: <p>
1123:
1.469 tom 1124: <li><strong><a name=ukuug2006></a>
1125: <a href="http://www.ukuug.org/events/spring2006/">UKUUG Spring Conference 2006</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 1126: Mar 22 - 23, 2006, Durham, United Kingdom.<br>
1.469 tom 1127: Reyk Flöter gave a talk about the latest wireless support in
1128: OpenBSD at the annual spring meeting of the
1129: <a href="http://www.ukuug.org/">UK's Unix and Open Systems User Group</a>.
1130: Peter N. M. Hansteen
1131: gave a PF tutorial, Tom Cosgrove presented "Exploit
1132: Mitigation Techniques" and Constantine Murenin gave a
1133: presentation on "Hardware temperature monitoring device
1134: drivers for OpenBSD".
1135: These were all part of a new, well-attended, BSD stream at the event.
1136: <p>
1137:
1.459 henning 1138: <li><strong><a name=Copenhagen2006></a>
1139: <a href="http://www.linuxforum.dk/2006/en/">LinuxForum 2006</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 1140: Mar 3 - 4, 2006, Copenhagen, Denmark.<br>
1.738 tobias 1141: Wim gave Felix Kronlage's talk about OpenBSD Mobile Use (wifi, UMTS,
1.459 henning 1142: GPRS, phones and the like) with some demo setups.
1143: Henning Brauer gave a very well received talk about OpenBGPD,
1144: <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/linuxforum2006/">slides</a> are available.
1145: <p>
1146:
1.457 wvdputte 1147: <li><strong><a name=Brussels2006></a>
1148: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/2006/">FOSDEM Brussels 2006</a></strong>,
1149: Feb 25 - 26, 2006, Brussels, Belgium.<br>
1.738 tobias 1150: An OpenBSD/OpenSSH booth was present, run by the usual gang of suspects:
1.458 xsa 1151: Alexandre, Dimitar, Matthieu, Mbalmer, Nikolay, Otto, Reyk, Saad, Thierry, Uwe, Wim, and
1.457 wvdputte 1152: Xsa. Reyk gave a talk about Wifi with OpenBSD and there was our traditional
1.738 tobias 1153: BSD dinner. More details and
1.457 wvdputte 1154: <a href="http://saad.docisland.org/pictures/fosdem2006/index.html">pictures</a>
1.458 xsa 1155: on <a href="http://saad.docisland.org/blog/files/archive-12.html#unique-entry-id-40">Saad's blog</a>.
1.457 wvdputte 1156: <p>
1157:
1158: <li><strong><a name=Vegas2006></a>
1159: <a href="http://kd85.com/vegas2006.html">Merciful briefings 2006</a></strong>,
1160: Feb 15, 2006, Las Vegas, USA - Feb 17, 2006, San Diego, USA - Feb 18, 2006, Phoenix, USA.<br>
1161: While traveling the US, Wim met with a bunch of OpenBSD users in Las Vegas,
1.738 tobias 1162: San Diego and Phoenix. With many thanks to the members of PhxBUG - Phoenix BSD
1.457 wvdputte 1163: User Group, more specificly Darrin Chandler, for organising the little
1164: details and Jacob for road trip directions.
1165: <p>
1.455 grunk 1166:
1.456 henning 1167: <li><strong><a name=nanog36></a>
1168: <a href="http://www.nanog.org/">NANOG 36</a></strong>,
1169: Feb 12 - 15, 2006, Dallas, USA.<br>
1170: Henning Brauer and Bernhard Kroenung of DE-CIX talked about OpenBGPD and
1171: OpenBGPD at DE-CIX, <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/nanog36/">slides</a>
1172: are available. Henning talked again at the tools BOF
1173: (<a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/nanog36-bof/">slides</a>).
1174: Both talks were very well received by the audience.
1175: Kenjiro Cho was there too, talking about IPv6 issues.
1176: <p>
1177:
1.455 grunk 1178: <li><strong><a name="Paris2006"></a>
1.734 tobias 1179: <a href="http://www.solutionslinux.fr/fr/index.php">Solutions Linux
1180: 2006</a></strong>,
1.455 grunk 1181: Jan 31 - Feb 2, 2006, Paris, France.<br>
1182: There was an OpenBSD booth run by Marc Espie, Miod Vallat, Saad Kadhi and
1183: Wim with help from Guillaume Arcas and Christophe Plasschaert.
1184: <p>
1185: </ul>
1186:
1.296 mcbride 1187: <h3>2005</h3>
1.240 espie 1188:
1189: <ul>
1.337 deraadt 1190:
1.445 martin 1191: <li><strong><a name=22c3></a>
1192: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/2005/">22C3 Chaos Communication Congress in
1193: Berlin</a></strong>,
1194: December 27 - 30, 2005, Berlin, Germany.<br>
1195: Many OpenBSD developers and users met for a Xmas break in a unique setting.
1196: <p>
1197:
1.585 aanriot 1198: <li><strong><a name=plug051216></a>
1.734 tobias 1199: <a href="http://www.plugfr.org/">Provence Linux User Group</a></strong>,
1.586 aanriot 1200: December 16, 2005, Marseille, France.<br>
1201: Alexandre Anriot spoke about OpenSSH during a meeting of the PLUG.
1.585 aanriot 1202: <p>
1203:
1.435 matthieu 1204: <li><strong><a name=eurobsdcon2005></a>
1205: <a href="http://2005.eurobsdcon.org/">EuroBSDCon 2005</a></strong>,
1206: Nov 25 - 27, 2005, Basel, Switzerland.<br>
1207: The 4th edition of the european conference for BSD systems has been a
1208: great success. More than 225 people from 27 countries attended the
1.438 deraadt 1209: event.
1.444 grunk 1210: The program included a
1211: <a href="http://www.eurobsdcon.org/tutorials-reyk.php">tutorial by Reyk about
1.437 niallo 1212: OpenBSD-based Wireless Networks</a> and the following talks
1213: <ul>
1.438 deraadt 1214: <li>Henning Brauer with Wilhelm Bühler "Signal Handlers"
1215: <li>Ryan McBride "Network Stack Randomness"
1.439 matthieu 1216: <li><a href="papers/eurobsd2005/herrb-hopf.pdf">Matthieu Herrb and Matthias Hopf "New Evolutions in the X Window System"</a>
1.440 claudio 1217: <li><a href="papers/eurobsd2005/claudio/">Claudio Jeker "The Design and Implementation of OpenOSPFD"</a>
1.439 matthieu 1218: <li><a href="papers/eurobsd2005/niallo-uwe/">Niall O'Higgins & Uwe Stuehler "Embedded OpenBSD"</a>
1.443 deraadt 1219: <li><a href="papers/eurobsd2005/tedu-rthreads.pdf">Ted Unangst "rthreads: A New Thread Implementation for OpenBSD"</a>
1.437 niallo 1220: </ul>
1.438 deraadt 1221: <p>
1.435 matthieu 1222: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
1223: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
1224: <p>
1225:
1.434 bernd 1226: <li><strong><a name=linuxworldexpogermany2005></a>
1227: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.de/">Linux World Expo Germany</a></strong>,
1228: Nov 15 - 17, 2005, Frankfurt, Germany.<br>
1229: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
1230: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a> and Bernd.
1231: <p>
1232:
1.441 niallo 1233: <li><strong><a name="pacsec05"></a>
1234: <a href="http://www.pacsec.jp/">PacSec/core 05 conference</a></strong>,
1235: Nov 15 - 16, 2005, Tokyo, Japan.<br>
1236: Sean Comeau presented a talk called
1237: <a href="http://www.openbsd-support.com/jp/en/htm/mgp/pacsec05/index.html">
1238: Open Source Secure Wireless Networks in a Windows World</a>
1239: <a href="http://www.pacsec.jp/core05/psj05-scomeau-en.pdf">[PDF]</a>.
1240: The solution he presents uses IPsec to protect traffic between the
1241: wireless clients and access points. Authentication is done using OpenSSH
1242: (authpf), a process made transparent and user-friendly by a few small
1243: scripts.
1244: <p>
1245:
1.424 mbalmer 1246: <li><strong><a name=opencon2005></a>
1247: <a href="http://www.opencon.org/">OpenCON 2005</a></strong>,
1248: Nov 4 - 6, 2005, San Servolo Island, Venice, Italy.<br>
1.427 deraadt 1249: The only unique conference entirely dedicated to OpenBSD, held in the totally
1250: crazy environment of San Servolo island: an old insane asylum turned into a
1251: university about 20 years ago, about 10 minutes boat ride from Venice.
1.429 deraadt 1252: In the days leading up to this, about 12 OpenBSD developers arrived early
1.427 deraadt 1253: for a Ports mini-hackathon. During the conference a few developers gave
1.433 deraadt 1254: talks, including
1255: <ul>
1256: <li><a href="papers/ven05-pvalchev">Peter Valchev "OpenBSD Hackathon report"</a>
1257: <li><a href="papers/ven05-espie">Marc Espie "OpenBSD ports and packages"</a>
1258: <li><a href="papers/ven05-henning">Henning Brauer "OpenBSD networking update"</a>
1259: <li><a href="papers/ven05-niallo-uwe/slides.pdf">Uwe Stuehler, Niall O'Higgins "Porting OpenBSD"</a>
1260: <li><a href="papers/ven05-deraadt">Theo de Raadt "Exploit Mitigation Techniques (updated to include random malloc and mmap)"</a>
1261: </ul>
1.424 mbalmer 1262: <p>
1263:
1264: <li><strong><a name=systems2005></a>
1.738 tobias 1265: <a href="http://www.systems.de/">Systems</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 1266: Oct 24 - 28, 2005, Munich, Germany.<br>
1.425 mbalmer 1267: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
1.424 mbalmer 1268: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
1269: <p>
1270:
1.418 djm 1271: <li><strong><a name=auug2005></a>
1272: <a href="http://www.auug.org.au/events/2005/auug2005/">AUUG 2005</a></strong>,
1273: October 16 - 21, 2005, Sydney, Australia.<br>
1.738 tobias 1274: Mark Uemura presented a tutorial on setting up CARP/PF, a demonstration of
1275: stateful failover with CARP and pfsync and a talk on wireless security in
1.418 djm 1276: a corporate environment using authpf and isakmpd. Peter Hansteen gave a
1277: <a href="http://www.bgnett.no/~peter/pf/">Firewalling with PF</a> tutorial.
1.420 deraadt 1278: Damien Miller presented on the approach to
1279: <a href="papers/auug2005-portability">secure software portability used
1280: by portable OpenSSH</a>, Reyk Flöter gave a talk on the current state of wireless
1.418 djm 1281: support in OpenBSD and David Purdue introduced OpenBSD's spamd tarpit.
1282: Most of the Australian OpenBSD developers and many users were present.
1283: <p>
1284:
1.415 aanriot 1285: <li><strong><a name=aldil2005></a>
1286: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/">Les Journées Du Logiciel Libre
1287: 2005</a></strong>,
1288: Oct 14 - 15, 2005, Lyon, France.<br>
1289: There was OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Alexandre Anriot with the
1290: help of Thierry Thomas.
1291: <p>
1292:
1.420 deraadt 1293: <li><strong><a name=cafeconf2005></a>
1294: <a href="http://www.cafeconf.org/">CaFeConf 2005,
1295: 4tas Jornadas Abiertas de GNU/Linux y Software Libre</a></strong>,
1.734 tobias 1296: Oct 13 - 15, 2005, Buenos Aires, Argentina.<br>
1.420 deraadt 1297: CaFeConf 2005 is the anual event of CaFeLUG - Free Software Users
1298: Group of Capital Federal, Argentina. This year the event featured
1299: 116 presentations consisting of talks, tutorials, and workshops. The
1300: event was also broadcasted on the Internet. Entrance was free, but
1301: registration was mandatory.<br>
1302: Fernando Gont gave a talk on
1.444 grunk 1303: <a href="http://www.cafeconf.org/modules/myconference/viewspeech.php?sid=147&cid=20">
1.420 deraadt 1304: ICMP attacks against TCP</a>,
1305: in which he gave an overview of the attacks, the possible
1306: counter-measures, and the politics of vulnerabilities, and a talk on
1.444 grunk 1307: <a href="http://www.cafeconf.org/modules/myconference/viewspeech.php?sid=173&cid=20">
1.420 deraadt 1308: Fixing the vulnerability of the Path-MTU Discovery mechanism</a>,
1309: in which explained how OpenBSD fixed the vulnerability of the PMTUD
1310: mechanism.
1311: <p>
1312:
1.414 bernd 1313: <li><strong><a name=linuxkongress2005></a>
1.738 tobias 1314: <a href="http://www.linux-kongress.org/">12th International Linux System
1.414 bernd 1315: Technology Conference</a></strong>,
1316: Oct 11 - 14, 2005, University of Hamburg, Germany.<br>
1317: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth.
1318: <p>
1319:
1320: <li><strong><a name=linuxworlduk2005></a>
1321: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.co.uk/">LinuxWorld Expo UK 2005</a></strong>,
1322: Oct 5 - 6, 2005, Olympia, London, UK.<br>
1323: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth.
1324: <p>
1325:
1.410 wvdputte 1326: <li><strong><a name=opensourcetag2005></a>
1.575 reyk 1327: <a href="http://www.opensourcetag.de/2005/">OpenSourceTag 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 1328: Sep 27, 2005, Hannover, Germany.<br>
1.444 grunk 1329: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth and Reyk gave a
1.575 reyk 1330: <a href="http://www.opensourcetag.de/2005/agenda/">talk</a> about IT security.
1.410 wvdputte 1331: <p>
1332:
1333: <li><strong><a name="gubuginstallfest2005"></a>
1.738 tobias 1334: <a href="http://gubug.org/meetings.php">Greater Utah BSD Group
1.410 wvdputte 1335: Installfest 2005</a></strong>,
1336: Sep 24, 2005, Sandy, UT, USA.<br/>
1.444 grunk 1337: <a href="http://www.gubug.org/">The Greater Utah BSD User Group</a> organised
1.410 wvdputte 1338: their first annual BSD Installfest, sponsored by Utah ISP ArosNet.
1339: There were handouts, CD-ROMs, technical presentations, and
1340: fun, plus a chance to get OpenBSD or a related open source BSD operating system
1341: installed on your computer.
1342: Admission was free (computers not included in cost of admission).
1.419 djm 1343: Featured speakers included Dan Langille, organizer of BSDCan.
1.410 wvdputte 1344: <p>
1345:
1.404 wvdputte 1346: <li><strong><a name="NYCBSDCon2005"></a>
1347: <a href="http://nycbsdcon.org/">New York City BSD Conference 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 1348: Sep 17, 2005, NYC, USA.<br>
1.404 wvdputte 1349: NYCBSDCon was a one day technical conference hosted by the New York
1350: City *BSD User Group and was held at Columbia University.
1.406 saad 1351: The all day conference included a variety of speakers representing the
1.404 wvdputte 1352: BSD projects and the open source community.<br>
1353: NYCBSDCon was organized by NYC*BUG, a technical user group that formed in
1354: December 2003. Besides their regular monthly meetings at the Soho Apple
1355: Store, NYC*BUG has done fundraising for the BSD projects and contributed a
1356: number of useful online applications such as BSDTracker and dmesgd.<br>
1357: Additional sponsors included USENIX, New York Internet and SRA America.
1358: <p>
1359:
1360: <li><strong><a name=opensaar2005></a>
1361: <a href="http://www.opensaar.de/">OpenSaar 2005</a></strong>,
1362: Sep 13 - 14, 2005, Saarbrücken, Germany.<br>
1.727 wvdputte 1363: An OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth was present.
1.404 wvdputte 1364: <p>
1365:
1.403 henning 1366: <li><strong><a name=decix160905></a> <a
1367: href="http://www.de-cix.org/">DE-CIX Technical Meeting</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 1368: Sep 16, 2005, Schloss Kransberg, near Usingen, Germany.<br>
1.403 henning 1369: Henning Brauer, Reyk Flöter and Maxim Salomon had been invited to the
1370: technical meeting of the Deutsche Commercial Internet Exchange (DE-CIX) again.
1371: Henning gave an update on OpenBGPD, Reyk talked about a route server project
1372: using OpenBGPD at DE-CIX, and Maxim explained why the CCC sponsors us doing so.
1373: There was a very positive discussion afterwards.
1374: <a href="http://unduli.bsws.de/papers/decix2005-2/">Slides</a> are available.
1375: <p>
1376:
1.388 tom 1377: <li><strong><a name="ukuug2005"></a>
1378: <a href="http://www.ukuug.org/events/linux2005/">UKUUG Linux Technical
1379: Conference 2005</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 1380: Aug 4 - 7, 2005, University of Wales, Swansea, UK.<br>
1.388 tom 1381: Tom Cosgrove gave Theo's presentation about Exploit Mitigation Techniques.
1382: <p>
1383:
1.385 mickey 1384: <li><strong><a name=wth2005></a>
1.390 deraadt 1385: <a href="http://www.whatthehack.org/">What the Hack 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 1386: Jul 28 - 31, 2005, Den Bosch, The Netherlands.<br>
1.385 mickey 1387: As every 4 years, Wim organized the
1388: <a href="http://eurobsd.org/2005-WhatTheHack/">BSD village</a> at this huge
1.389 tom 1389: open air event. There were some talks, Reyk spoke about
1390: <a href="http://program.whatthehack.org/event/6.en.html">WLAN in OpenBSD</a>,
1.385 mickey 1391: and an excellent
1392: <a href="ftp://ftp.nyc.openbsd.org/pub/news/wth-radio-humppa.mp3">Humppa show</a> (35MB MP3) was performed on the SubEther radio.
1393: If you want to see what happened previously, check
1394: <a href="http://eurobsd.org/hal2001/">http://eurobsd.org/hal2001/</a>
1395: and <a href="http://www.eurobsd.org/SummerCamp2003/">http://www.eurobsd.org/SummerCamp2003/</a>.
1396: <p>
1397:
1.382 pedro 1398: <li><strong><a name=coimbra2005></a>
1.474 pedro 1399: <a href="http://www.openbsd-pt.com/eventos/coimbra05/">Portuguese OpenBSD Usergroup Meeting</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 1400: Jul 23 - 24, 2005, Coimbra, Portugal.<br>
1.538 pedro 1401: 5th Meeting of the Portuguese OpenBSD Usergroup. Pedro Martelletto gave a talk.
1.382 pedro 1402: <p>
1403:
1.378 aanriot 1404: <li><strong><a name="lsm2005"></a>
1405: <a href="http://2005.rencontresmondiales.org/sections/index_html/switchLanguage/en">Libre Software Meeting 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 1406: Jul 5 - 9, 2005, Dijon, France.<br>
1.379 aanriot 1407: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Wim and the usual
1408: suspects, with the help of Serge Basterot. It was a nice place to meet
1409: some of our French, German and Swiss developers, including Marc Balmer,
1410: Alexandre Anriot, Matthieu Herrb and Reyk Floeter.
1.378 aanriot 1411: <p>
1412:
1.375 grunk 1413: <li><strong><a name=LinuxTag2005></a>
1414: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.org">LinuxTag 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 1415: Jun 22 - 25, 2005, Karlsruhe, Germany.<br>
1.738 tobias 1416: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth ran by Wim, Christian Weisgerber,
1.375 grunk 1417: Marc Balmer, Wilhelm Buehler, Robert Nagy, Bernd Ahlers and Phil Schulz.
1418: <p>
1419:
1.374 grunk 1420: <li><strong><a name="uofa-cc2005"></a>
1421: <a href="http://www.ualberta.ca/CC2005"> University of Alberta, Campus
1.410 wvdputte 1422: Computing 2005</a></strong>, Jun 21, 2005, Edmonton, Canada.<br>
1.374 grunk 1423: Ryan McBride spoke about OpenBSD's packet filter, PF, with CARP and
1424: failover examples. Local color and examples at the U of A shown by Bob
1425: Beck. Bob Beck spoke about PF and Spamd, as well as several other
1426: OpenBSD using and related talks at this event, which primarily focuses
1427: on activities centered at the University of Alberta.
1428: <p>
1429:
1.371 deraadt 1430: <li><strong><a name=uemera2005></a>
1431: <a href="http://www.tokyopc.net">Tokyo PC Users Group</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 1432: Jun 2, 2005, Tokyo Union Church in Omotesando, Tokyo, Japan.<br>
1.371 deraadt 1433: Mark T. Uemura spoke to Japan's largest English speaking
1434: personal computer club. The talk was entitled
1435: <a href="http://www.openbsd-support.com/jp/en/htm/mgp/index.shtml">
1436: "Open Source in a Windows World"</a>.
1437: He demonstrated how companies can easily
1438: integrate Open Source, with an emphasis on OpenBSD, into their IT
1439: infrastructure to enhance security, scalability and stability,
1440: significantly reduce IT expenditures, free up computing infrastructure
1441: and move away from commercial lock-in. This talk is based on changes
1442: implemented at PricewaterhouseCoopers in Japan.
1443: <p>
1444:
1.366 martin 1445: <li><strong><a name=LinuxwochenVienna2005></a>
1446: <a href="http://www.linuxwochen.at/">Linuxwochen Vienna 2005</a></strong>,
1447: May 24 - 27, 2005, Vienna, Austria.<br>
1448: The Linuxwochen 2005 tour stopped in the MuseumsQuartier, Vienna.
1449: Wim Vandeputte and Reinhard Sammer were running an OpenBSD booth selling
1450: CDs and shirts.
1451: <p>
1452:
1.365 mcbride 1453: <li><strong><a name=cuug2005></a>
1454: <a href="http://www.cuug.ab.ca/">Calgary Unix Users Group</a></strong>,
1455: May 24, 2005, Calgary, Canada.<br>
1456: Ryan McBride spoke about OpenBSD's packet filter, PF.
1457: A broad overview of PF's features were presented, with special attention
1458: paid to newer and more unique features and how these can be used together
1459: effectively for DoS mitigation, high availability, and load balancing.
1460: <br>
1461: Approximately 60 OpenBSD developers attended to heckle and participate
1462: in a free-for-all question period after the talk.
1463: <p>
1464:
1.362 reyk 1465: <li><strong><a name=bsdcan2005></a>
1466: <a href="http://www.bsdcan.org/2005/">BSDCan 2005</a></strong>,
1467: May 13 - 14, 2005, Ottawa, Canada.<br>
1468: A number of OpenBSD developers presented: Bob Beck on
1469: Spam Reduction with PF and Spamd, Henning Brauer on OpenBGPD,
1470: Ryan McBride on Network Stack Randomness and Reyk Flöter
1471: on WLAN in OpenBSD and the free ath(4) HAL. The
1472: <a href="papers/bsdcan05-spamd/">Spamd</a> and
1473: <a href="papers/bsdcan05-wlan/">WLAN</a> slides are available.
1474: Mathieu Sauve-Frankel has been there in attendance as well.
1475: <p>
1476:
1.358 mcbride 1477: <li><strong><a name=csw2005></a>
1478: <a href="http://www.cansecwest.com/">cansecwest/core05</a></strong>,
1.734 tobias 1479: May 4 - 6, 2005, Vancouver, Canada.<br>
1.358 mcbride 1480: Hiroaki Etoh spoke about propolice; Theo de Raadt and a number of other
1481: developers were there to sell CDs and make a nuisance of themselves.
1482: <p>
1483:
1.357 henning 1484: <li><strong><a name=ripe50></a>
1485: <a href="http://www.ripe.net/ripe/meetings/ripe-50/">RIPE 50</a></strong>,
1.734 tobias 1486: May 2 - 6, 2005, Stockholm, Sweden.<br>
1.357 henning 1487: RIPE NCC invited Henning to talk about OpenBGPD.
1488: There were over 350 attendees to the conference, and most of them attended
1489: henning's talk, which got very very positive feedback.
1490: <p>
1491:
1.384 tom 1492: <li><strong><a name=libreast2005></a>
1.356 espie 1493: <a href="http://idile.org/libreast/">Libr'east 2005</a></strong>,
1.734 tobias 1494: Apr 22 - 24, Marne La Vallée, near Paris, France.<br>
1.356 espie 1495: There was an OpenBSD booth (Wim + Miod + Marc)
1496: Marc Espie did talk about recent OpenBSD advances, and his ports and
1497: packages work in front of about 30 people.
1498: <p>
1499:
1.353 henning 1500: <li><strong><a name=decix150405></a> <a
1501: href="http://www.de-cix.org/">DE-CIX Technical Meeting</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 1502: Apr 15, 2005, near Usingen, Germany.<br>
1.353 henning 1503: Henning Brauer and Reyk Flöter had been invited to the technical
1504: meeting of the Deutsche Commercial Internet Exchange (DE-CIX). Henning
1505: presented his talk on OpenBGPD, about 60 people, mostly operators from
1506: the big ISPs peering at DECIX, were in attendance.
1.354 reyk 1507: Reyk, Maxim Salomon and Tim Kornau spoke on Wireless Network Security.
1.353 henning 1508: <p>
1509:
1.352 henning 1510: <li><strong><a name=nuug140405></a>
1511: <a href="http://www.nuug.no/aktiviteter/20050414-pf-brannmur/">Firewalling with PF at NUUG</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 1512: Apr 14, 2005, Oslo, Norway.<br>
1.352 henning 1513: Peter N. M. Hansteen gave a firewalling with PF talk - which hopefully
1514: gave you some ideas about how to control your network traffic the
1515: way you want - keeping some things outside your network, directing
1516: traffic to specified hosts or services, and of course, giving spammers
1517: a hard time. The talk was in Norwegian, with <a
1518: href="http://www.bgnett.no/~peter/pf/no/foils/">foils</a> and <a
1519: href="http://www.bgnett.no/~peter/pf/no/">manuscript</a> (English <a
1520: href="http://www.bgnett.no/~peter/pf/en/foils/">foils</a> and <a
1521: href="http://www.bgnett.no/~peter/pf/en/">manuscript</a> too)
1522: available if you couldn't make it there.
1523: <p>
1524:
1.589 aanriot 1525:
1526: <li><strong><a name=fhwedel130405></a>
1527: <a href="http://www.fh-wedel.de/">FH Wedel invited talk</a></strong>,
1528: Apr 13, 2005, 17:00, Hörsaal 5, FH Wedel, Hamburg, Germany.<br>
1529: Henning Brauer spoke on OpenBGPD. More than 40 people were in attendance.
1530: <p>
1531:
1.350 marius 1532: <li><strong><a name=usenix2005></a>
1533: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix05/">Usenix Annual
1.410 wvdputte 1534: Technical Conference</a></strong>, Apr 10-15, 2005, Anaheim,
1.350 marius 1535: California, USA.<br> Marius Eriksen gave the OpenBSD update at the BSD
1536: super BoF. The update was well received and people were quite
1537: sympathetic towards the ongoing efforts of the OpenBSD project to
1538: ensure the free redistribution rights for firmware. People were also
1539: excited about the new Open* tools (OpenBGPD, OpenNTPD, OpenCVS) and it
1.351 marius 1540: would not be surprising to see more of these imported into other BSDs.
1.350 marius 1541: <p>
1542:
1.585 aanriot 1543: <li><strong><a name=plug050408></a>
1.734 tobias 1544: <a href="http://www.plugfr.org/">Provence Linux User Group</a></strong>,
1.586 aanriot 1545: April 8, 2005, Marseille, France.<br>
1.585 aanriot 1546: Alexandre Anriot spoke about OpenBSD and some associated projects
1.586 aanriot 1547: (OpenBGPD etc.) during a meeting of the PLUG.
1.585 aanriot 1548: The <a href="papers/plug080405">slides</a> (in French) are available.
1.344 martin 1549: <p>
1550:
1.337 deraadt 1551: <li><strong><a name=bcs2005></a>
1552: <a href="http://www.bellua.com/bcs2005/asia05.index.html">Bellua Cyber Security Asia 2005</a></strong>,
1.734 tobias 1553: Mar 21 - 24, 2005, Jakarta, Indonesia.<br>
1.337 deraadt 1554: Ryan McBride presented an overview of PF which
1555: discussed how its advanced features work together in some important
1.338 deraadt 1556: applications and compared PF with the other major commercial and open
1.337 deraadt 1557: source firewalls.
1558: <p>
1559:
1.317 henning 1560: <li><strong><a name=nui_maynooth2005></a>
1561: <a href="http://www.minds.nuim.ie/events">NUI Maynooth lectures</a></strong>,
1562: Mar 4, 2005, Department of Computer Science, NUI Maynooth, Dublin, Ireland.<br>
1.318 henning 1563: Ryan McBride presented talks about PF and about
1.326 mcbride 1564: <a href="papers/dublin05-nr">randomization in the OpenBSD network layer.</a><br>
1.318 henning 1565: Theo and Henning were in attendance because someone had to heckle.
1.317 henning 1566: <p>
1567:
1.312 deraadt 1568: <li><strong><a name=trinity2005></a>
1569: <a href="http://www.netsoc.tcd.ie/events/0405/openbsd.php">Trinity lecture</a></strong>,
1570: Mar 3, 2005, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.<br>
1.320 deraadt 1571: Theo de Raadt presented his talk about
1572: <a href="papers/auug04">Exploit Mitigation Techniques</a>.
1.312 deraadt 1573: <p>
1574:
1.319 saad 1575: <li><strong><a name=ShefLUG2005></a>
1576: <a href="http://www.sheflug.co.uk/seminar/tiki-index.php?page=Sheffield%20Open%20Source%20Seminar">ShefLUG2005</a></strong>,
1577: Mar 2, 2005, Sheffield, UK.<br>
1578: Jacek Artymiak gave a talk about installing OpenBSD on Soekris hardware.
1579: <p>
1580:
1.310 mickey 1581: <li><strong><a name=NYCBUG2005-03></a>
1.375 grunk 1582: <a href="http://nycbug.org/index.php?NAV=Home&SUBM=83">NYCBUG Monthly meeting</a></strong>,
1.310 mickey 1583: Mar 2, 2005, NYC, USA.<br>
1.322 deraadt 1584: Mickey gave a talk
1.325 mickey 1585: (<a href="papers/nyc2005">slides</a> and
1.564 jason 1586: <a href="http://www.fetissov.org/public/nycbug/nycbug-03-02-05.mp3">10.5MB audio</a>)
1.321 mickey 1587: about <a href="hppa.html">porting OpenBSD</a>
1.313 martin 1588: to the <a href="http://www.openpa.net">HP PA-RISC</a> platform.
1.310 mickey 1589: <p>
1.312 deraadt 1590:
1.308 deraadt 1591: <li><strong><a name=Netsoc2005></a>
1592: <a href="http://netsoc.ucd.ie/events/openbsd/">Netsoc lectures</a></strong>,
1593: Mar 2, 2005, UCD, Dublin, Ireland.<br>
1594: Theo de Raadt, Henning Brauer, and Ryan McBride gave a series of
1.320 deraadt 1595: talks. Topics included
1596: <a href="papers/auug04">exploit mitigation techniques</a>,
1.326 mcbride 1597: <a href="papers/dublin05-nr">introducing network randomness to increase security</a>,
1598: OpenBGPD, and pf.
1599: Almost 200 people came to this event.
1.308 deraadt 1600: <p>
1601:
1.304 saad 1602: <li><strong><a name=Brussels2005></a>
1603: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/2005/">FOSDEM Brussels 2005</a></strong>,
1604: Feb 26 - 27, 2005, Brussels, Belgium.<br>
1605: An OpenBSD/OpenSSH booth was present, ran by the usual gang of suspects.
1606: Support for <a href="mailto:wim@kd85.com">Wim Vandeputte</a> this time were
1.307 otto 1607: (among many others), Saad Kadhi, Henning Brauer, Thierry Deval, Otto Moerbeek,
1.304 saad 1608: Xavier Santolaria, Martin Reindl, Reyk Flöter, Hans-Jörg
1.360 db 1609: Höxer, Nikolay Sturm, Marc Balmer, Claudio Jeker, Joris Vink,
1610: Olivier Cherrier, David Berghoff,
1.316 mbalmer 1611: Alexander von Gernler, Uwe Stuehler, and Felix Kronlage from OpenDarwin.<br>
1.304 saad 1612: There was a separate OpenBSD track, featuring Henning Brauer (about
1613: signal handlers and OpenNTPD), Reyk Flöter (about wireless cards in
1614: OpenBSD), and the author of the OpenBSD PF book, Jacek Artymiak (about
1.375 grunk 1615: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pf">pf(4)</a>, of course).<br>
1.304 saad 1616: At the conference's Free Software Foundation Event, Theo de Raadt was
1617: awarded the Free Software Award 2004 for his efforts to make Firmware for
1618: wireless hardware and other devices freely available.
1619: <p>
1.301 saad 1620: <li><strong><a name=UKUUG05></a>
1621: <a href="http://www.ukuug.org/events/winter2005/">UKUUG LISA/Winter Conference</a></strong>,
1622: Feb 24 - 25, 2005, Birmingham, UK.<br>
1623: Henning Brauer spoke on OpenBGPD, OpenNTPD and Signal Handlers.
1624: <p>
1625: <li><strong><a name=FFG2005></a>
1626: <a href="http://www.guug.de/veranstaltungen/ffg2005/">GUUG FFG 2005</a></strong>,
1627: Feb 22 - 25, 2005, Munich, Germany.<br>
1628: Reyk Flöter talked about the latest wireless support in
1629: OpenBSD at the annual spring meeting of the <a href="http://www.guug.de/">German Unix User Group</a>.
1630: <p>
1.293 saad 1631: <li><strong><a name=Paris2005></a>
1632: <a href="http://www.solutionslinux.fr/fr/index.php">Solutions Linux 2005</a></strong>,
1633: Feb 1 - 3, 2005, Paris, France.<br>
1634: An OpenBSD booth as well as an OpenSSH booth were present. These booths
1635: were run by Marc Espie, Miod Vallat, Saad Kadhi and Wim with help from
1636: Guillaume Arcas and Christophe Plasschaert, two members of the OpenBSD
1.294 saad 1637: french translation team.<br>
1638: Marc Espie and Saad Kadhi gave a talk about the OpenBSD project with a
1639: special focus on the ports collection and Packet Filter. The <a
1640: href="papers/sl2005/index.html">slides</a> (in French) are
1641: available.<br>
1642: During the event, several demonstrations of <a
1.293 saad 1643: href="http://soekris.kd85.com/">Soekris</a> machines running OpenBSD
1644: were given by Saad Kadhi and Wim.
1645: <p>
1.296 mcbride 1646: </ul>
1.293 saad 1647:
1.296 mcbride 1648: <h3>2004</h3>
1649:
1650: <ul>
1.287 henning 1651: <li><strong><a name=21C3></a>
1652: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/2004/">21C3 - Chaos Communication Congress</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 1653: Dec 27 - 29, 2004, Berlin, Germany.<br>
1.287 henning 1654: "The Usual Suspects" were there and ran the BSD corner, including
1655: <a href="mailto:wim@kd85.com">Wim</a>,
1656: Henning Brauer, Marc Balmer, Martin Reindl, Moritz Jodeit, Felix Kronlage,
1.315 nick 1657: Uwe Stuehler, Konrad Foerstner, Bernd Ahlers, and Alexander von Gernler.<br>
1.287 henning 1658: Henning gave a talk about OpenBGPD and OpenNTPD
1659: (<a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/21c3/">slides</a>).<br>
1660: The WiFi backbone ran on OpenBSD powered
1661: <a href="http://soekris.kd85.com">Soekris</a> machines as access points,
1662: work done by Reyk Flöter, Tim Kornau and others.
1663: This installation was a very successful test of the new
1.290 henning 1664: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ath">ath(4)</a>
1.287 henning 1665: driver.
1666: <p>
1.248 deraadt 1667:
1.286 kevlo 1668: <li><strong><a name=icos2004></a>
1.417 kevlo 1669: <a href="http://2004.icos.org.tw/">ICOS 2004</a></strong>,
1.286 kevlo 1670: Dec 18 - 19, 2004, Taipei, Taiwan.<br>
1671: Kevin Lo gave a presentation.
1672: <p>
1673:
1.285 deraadt 1674: <li><strong><a name=syscan2004></a>
1675: <a href="http://www.syscan.org/">SyScAN 2004</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 1676: Dec 16 - 17, 2004, Singapore, Singapore.<br>
1.285 deraadt 1677: Theo de Raadt presented his talk about
1678: <a href="papers/auug04">Exploit Mitigation Techniques</a>.
1679: <p>
1680:
1.283 saad 1681: <li><strong><a name=sur200412></a>
1682: <a href="http://www.ossir.org/sur/calendrier/index.shtml">SUR Group Meeting, December 2004</a></strong>,
1683: Dec 14, 2004, Paris, France.<br>
1684: Saad Kadhi gave a talk about OpenBSD and security during the monthly
1685: meeting of the
1686: <a href="http://www.ossir.org/sur/index.shtml">SUR</a> Group (Sécurité
1687: Unix et Réseaux), a french user group focusing on security and Unix. The
1.284 xsa 1688: <a href="papers/surgroup200412/index.html">slides</a> (in French) are available.
1.283 saad 1689: <p>
1690:
1.282 henning 1691: <li><strong><a name=opencon2004></a>
1692: <a href="http://www.opencon.org/">OpenCon 2004</a></strong>,
1693: Dec 10 - 12, 2004, Venice, Italy.<br>
1694: OpenBSD meeting in Northern Italy. Henning gave 3 talks in
1695: two days, on bgpd
1696: (<a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/opencon04/bgpd/">slides</a>),
1697: ntpd
1698: (<a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/opencon04/ntpd/">slides</a>)
1699: and signal handlers
1700: (<a href="papers/opencon04/">slides</a>).
1701: Wim ran a booth, and Marc Balmer was there as well.
1702: <p>
1703:
1.275 deraadt 1704: <li><strong><a name=UofA></a>
1705: <a href="http://www.ualberta.ca/">U of A Seminar</a></strong>,
1706: Nov 17 - 18, 2004, Edmonton Alberta.<br>
1707: Theo de Raadt presented a talk at an open seminar at the
1708: <a href="http://www.ualberta.ca/">University of Alberta</a>, in
1709: Room B-02 of the
1710: <a href="http://www.campusmap.ualberta.ca/map_bldg.cfm?bldg_id=42">
1711: Computing Sciences Center</a>.
1712: Talk went from 2 PM to nearly 5PM with more than 100 people attending
1713: from the University and industry, followed by beer nearby.
1714: The talk was also given the following day at the
1715: <a href="http://www.cips.ca/">CIPS Security SIG</a> luncheon.
1716: <p>
1717:
1.271 henning 1718: <li><strong><a name=EuroBSDCon2004></a>
1719: <a href="http://2004.eurobsdcon.org/">EuroBSD Con</a></strong>,
1720: Oct 29 - 31, 2004, Karlsruhe, Germany.<br>
1.272 henning 1721: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
1722: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
1.271 henning 1723: Henning gave a talk
1.375 grunk 1724: about <a href="http://2004.eurobsdcon.org/talks.html?&tx_ptspeechupload_pi1[showUid]=44&cHash=ec015b0552">bgpd</a>,
1.272 henning 1725: <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/euroBSDCon2004/">slides</a> are available.
1.271 henning 1726: <p>
1727:
1728: <li><strong><a name=LinuxWorldExpoGermany2004></a>
1729: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.de/">Linux World Expo</a></strong>,
1730: Oct 26 - 28, 2004, Frankfurt, Germany.<br>
1.272 henning 1731: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
1732: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
1.271 henning 1733: <p>
1734:
1.276 deraadt 1735: <li><strong><a name=cuug2004></a>
1.270 deraadt 1736: <a href="http://www.cuug.ab.ca/">Calgary Unix Users's Group</a></strong>,
1737: Oct 26, 2004, Calgary, Canada.<br>
1738: Theo presented the talk that he has recently given in Australia and
1739: Malaysia to the "Home Crowd".
1740: <p>
1741:
1742: <li><strong><a name=aldil2004></a>
1.753 wvdputte 1743: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/">Les Journées Du Logiciel Libre 2004</a></strong>,
1.269 krw 1744: Oct 22 - 23, 2004, Lyon, France.<br>
1.381 aanriot 1745: There was OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Miod Vallat with the help of
1.415 aanriot 1746: Alexandre Anriot and Thierry Thomas.
1.269 krw 1747: <p>
1748:
1749: <li><strong><a name=systems2004></a>
1.738 tobias 1750: <a href="http://www.systems.de/">Systems</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 1751: Oct 18 - 22, 2004, Munich, Germany.<br>
1.269 krw 1752: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
1753: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
1754: <p>
1755:
1.268 krw 1756: <li><strong><a name=linuxexpo2004oct></a>
1.738 tobias 1757: <a href="http://www.linuxexpo.org.uk/">Linux Expo</a></strong>,
1.268 krw 1758: Oct 6 - 7, 2004, London, UK.<br>
1759: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
1760: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
1761: <p>
1762:
1.375 grunk 1763: <li><strong><a name=hitb2004></a>
1.268 krw 1764: <a href="http://conference.hackinthebox.org">Hack in the Box Security Conference 2004</a></strong>,
1765: Oct 4 - 7, 2004, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.<br>
1766: Theo de Raadt presented an updated version of his
1767: "Exploit Mitigation Techniques" talk.
1768: <p>
1769:
1770: <li><strong><a name=SANE2004></a>
1771: <a href="http://www.nluug.nl/events/sane2004/bazaar.html">SANE 2004</a></strong>
1.410 wvdputte 1772: , Sep 29, 2004, Amsterdam, Netherlands.<br>
1.268 krw 1773: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
1774: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
1775: <p>
1776:
1.265 wvdputte 1777: <li><strong><a name=LinuxKongress2004></a>
1778: <a href="http://www.linux-kongress.org/2004">Linux Kongress 2004</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 1779: Sep 7 - 10, 2004, Erlangen, Germany.<br>
1.265 wvdputte 1780: From their website: "Linux-Kongress is still the premier event for European
1781: developers and one of the most important in the world. Each year hundreds of
1782: hard core Linux enthusiasts from all over the world gather for this important
1783: event."
1784: <br>
1785: Although this was a Linux developers' conference, we were able to
1786: install a regular OpenBSD booth there, as known from other events.
1787: It was run by <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim Vandeputte</a>,
1788: <a href="mailto:grunk@pestilenz.org">Alexander von Gernler</a> and other
1789: geeks from the Erlangen-Nuremberg area.
1790: <br>
1791: There also was a BSD dinner at Friday evening.
1792: <p>
1793:
1.262 henning 1794: <li><strong><a name=Sucon2004></a>
1795: <a href="http://www.suug.ch/sucon/04/">SUCON 2004</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 1796: Sep 2 - 4, 2004, Zurich, Switzerland.<br>
1.262 henning 1797: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth. Very nice conference.
1798: Henning's slides from his talks about
1799: <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/sucon04/bgpd">bgpd</a> and
1800: <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/sucon04/ntpd">ntpd</a>
1801: are available.
1802: <p>
1803:
1.261 deraadt 1804: <li><strong><a name=auug2004></a>
1.738 tobias 1805: <a href="http://www.auug.org.au/events/2004/auug2004/">AUUG 2004</a></strong>,
1.261 deraadt 1806: Aug 29 - Sep 3, 2004, Melbourne, Australia.<br>
1807: Theo de Raadt presented a half-day tutorial on privilege seperation and a
1808: newly extended version of the
1809: <a href="papers/auug04">Exploit Mitigation Techniques</a> talk.<br>
1810: For more information, see this
1811: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;517187222;fp;16;fpid;0">
1812: ComputerWorld article</a>.
1813: <p>
1814:
1815:
1.680 aanriot 1816: <li><strong><a name=lsm2004></a>
1.257 saad 1817: <a href="http://lsm.abul.org">Libre Software Meeting</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 1818: Jul 6 - 10, 2004, Bordeaux, France.<br>
1.257 saad 1819: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
1820: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim Vandeputte</a>.
1821: <p>
1822:
1823: <li><strong><a name=LinuxTag2004></a>
1.738 tobias 1824: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.org">LinuxTag 2004</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 1825: Jun 23 - 26, 2004, Karlsruhe, Germany.<br>
1.257 saad 1826: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
1827: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim Vandeputte</a>.
1828: <p>
1829:
1.254 xsa 1830: <li><strong><a name=LinuxwochenVienna2004></a>
1.255 xsa 1831: <a href="http://www.linuxwochen.at/">Linuxwochen Vienna 2004</a></strong>,
1.254 xsa 1832: May 26 - 29, 2004, Vienna, Austria.<br>
1833: The Linuxwochen 2004 tour stopped in the MuseumsQuartier, Vienna.
1834: Wim Vandeputte and Reinhard Sammer ran the OpenBSD booth. Michael Bauer
1835: and Teemu Schaabl from the <a href="http://www.cngw.org/">CNGW</a> gave
1836: a basic talk about pf.
1837: <p>
1838:
1.248 deraadt 1839: <li><strong><a name=BSDCan2004></a>
1.303 mcbride 1840: <a href="http://www.bsdcan.org/2004/">BSDCan 2004</a></strong>,
1.248 deraadt 1841: May 13 - 16, 2004, Ottawa, Canada.<br>
1842: BSDCan was held at the University of Ottawa. Ryan McBride gave a talk
1.302 mcbride 1843: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/papers/bsdcan04-pf/index.html">about newer features in pf</a>,
1844: focusing on the redundancy provided by CARP and pfsync.
1845: Theo de Raadt presented a revised version of his talk on
1.248 deraadt 1846: <a href="papers/bsdcan04">Exploit Mitigation Techniques</a>.
1847: <p>
1848:
1.247 canacar 1849: <li><strong><a name="LOSFAnkara2004"></a>
1850: <a href="http://senlik.linux.org.tr">3rd Linux and Open Source Festival</a></strong>,
1851: May 13 - 16, 2004, Ankara, Turkey.<br>
1852: Can E. Acar and Berk D. Demir talked about the OpenBSD Project. The
1853: philosophy, project goals, system features and recent proactive
1854: security features were introduced. CARP, patents, recent Apache &
1855: XFree86 licensing issues and effects of NDAs in open source
1856: projects were discussed.<br>
1857: You can view the
1.720 canacar 1858: <a href="http://purl.org/net/bddemir/talk/2004/LOYS-OpenBSD-cea-bdd.pdf">
1.247 canacar 1859: slides in PDF format</a> the
1.720 canacar 1860: <a href="http://purl.org/net/bddemir/talk/2004/LOYS-OpenBSD-cea-bdd.tex">
1.247 canacar 1861: LaTeX source</a> is also available (they are
1862: <a href="http://www.eee.metu.edu.tr/~canacar/slides/">mirrored</a>, as well).
1863: <p>
1864:
1.242 henning 1865: <li><strong><a name=Brussels2004></a>
1866: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/">FOSDEM Brussels 2004</a></strong>,
1867: Feb 21 - 22, 2004, Brussels, Belgium.<br>
1.243 henning 1868: An OpenBSD/OpenSSH booth was present, run by Wim Vandeputte.
1869: Several developers (including Henning Brauer, Xavier Santolaria, Thierry Deval,
1870: Philipp Bühler, Otto Moerbeek and Saad Kadhi) showed up.
1871: Wim and Alexander von Gernler gave "lightning talks" about Soekris
1872: and systrace
1.263 saad 1873: (<a href="http://pestilenz.org/~grunk/vortraege/2004/FOSDEM/systrace.pdf">slides</a>), respectively.
1.243 henning 1874: Henning got a slot in the main track to talk about the new bgpd
1875: (<a href="http://www.2suck.net/papers/fosdem2004/">slides</a>).
1876: On Saturday evening, the traditional OpenBSD dinner took place.
1.242 henning 1877: <p>
1878:
1.240 espie 1879: <li><strong><a name=Paris2004></a>
1880: <a href="http://www.linuxsolutions.fr/">Linux Expo Paris 2004</a></strong>,
1881: Feb 3 - 5, 2004, Paris, France.<br>
1882: An OpenBSD booth as well as an OpenSSH booth were present, thanks to
1883: <a href="mailto:saad@docisland.org">Saad Kadhi</a> and
1884: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
1885: <p>
1886:
1887: <li><strong><a name="LWE04"></a>
1888: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/linuxworldny/V40/index.cvn">LinuxWorld
1889: Conference and Expo</a></strong>, Jan 20 - 23, 2004, New York, NY, USA.<br>
1.738 tobias 1890: <a href="mailto:wes@openlysecure.org">Wes Sonnenreich</a> and others
1891: have established a BSD user group in NYC and held a BSD BoF at the
1892: Jacob Javits Center on January 22nd at 5:45pm, Room 1E15.
1.240 espie 1893: <p>
1894: </ul>
1895:
1.188 henning 1896: <h3>2003</h3>
1.236 jose 1897:
1898: <ul>
1.232 jose 1899: <li><strong><a name=20c3></a>
1900: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/2003/">20th Chaos Communication Congress 2003</a></strong>,
1901: Dec 27 - 29, 2003, Berlin, Germany.<br>
1902: OpenBSD was represented by a booth, ran by
1903: <a href= "mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>, and supported by Henning and
1.236 jose 1904: Alexander von Gernler. Alexander also gave a
1.260 saad 1905: <a href="http://pestilenz.org/~grunk/vortraege/2003/20C3/openbsd.pdf">talk</a>
1.232 jose 1906: introducing the project and the OS (in German).
1.236 jose 1907: <p>
1.232 jose 1908:
1.228 jose 1909: <li><strong><a name=brazil2003></a>
1.236 jose 1910: <a href="http://bsdcon.myfreebsd.com.br">1st BSDCon Brazil</a></strong>,
1.734 tobias 1911: Dec 6 - 7, 2003, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.<br>
1.228 jose 1912: This was the first BSDCon Brazil, and of course OpenBSD was present.
1.236 jose 1913: Douglas Santos spoke on advocacy and about some of the technical aspects
1914: of OpenBSD. Eduardo A. Alvarenga gave a presentation about firewalling
1.228 jose 1915: with OpenBSD PF.
1916: <p>
1917:
1918: <li><strong><a name=ankara03></a>
1.720 canacar 1919: <a href="http://seminer.linux.org.tr">Turkish Linux Users Association</a></strong>,
1.228 jose 1920: Dec 4, 2003, Ankara, Turkey.<br>
1.720 canacar 1921: Can E. Acar and Berk D. Demir gave a mammoth 4 hour presentation on OpenBSD.
1.228 jose 1922: The first part was a broad introduction to the OpenBSD philosophy, the
1.236 jose 1923: project goals, and system features. After a break, in the second part they
1924: talked about the exploit mitigation techniques employed in OpenBSD. This
1925: part was aimed at techies and is almost a complete Turkish translation of
1926: the talk Theo recently gave in Japan. You can view the
1.720 canacar 1927: <a href="http://purl.org/net/bddemir/talk/2003/LS-OpenBSD-cea-bdd.pdf">
1.236 jose 1928: slides in PDF format </a>
1929: (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 1930: <p>
1931:
1.227 jose 1932: <li><strong><a name=Luxembourg2003></a>
1933: <a href="http://www.linuxday.lu/">Linuxday Luxembourg 2003</a></strong>,
1934: Nov 6 - 8, 2003, Luxembourg, Luxembourg.<br>
1935: Booths were present, organized by <a href= "mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
1936: <p>
1937:
1938: <li><strong><a name=Pacsec2003></a>
1939: <a href="http://pacsec.jp/">Pacsec 2003</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 1940: Nov 6 - 7, 2003, Tokyo, Japan.<br>
1.236 jose 1941: Three OpenBSD developers presented on various topics. Theo de Raadt
1.227 jose 1942: gave a presentation on Exploit Mitigation Techniques
1.236 jose 1943: <a href="papers/pacsec03/e/index.html">(English)</a>
1944: <a href="papers/pacsec03/j/index.html">(Japanese)</a>, Jun-ichiro
1.227 jose 1945: itojun Hagino presented material covering
1.236 jose 1946: <a href="http://www.itojun.org/paper/itojun-200311-pacsec-jp/">
1.241 david 1947: IPv6 security considerations</a>, and Jose Nazario discussed advances
1.227 jose 1948: in Internet worm defenses.
1949: <p>
1950:
1.224 miod 1951: <li><strong><a name=Lyon2003></a>
1952: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/agenda/journees/2003/">Les V<sup>èmes</sup> Journées du Libre 2003</a></strong>,
1953: Oct 31 - Nov 1, 2003, Lyon, France.<br>
1954: Miod Vallat gave a talk about the recent security efforts deployed in OpenBSD,
1955: as well as generic security concepts (slides, in bad French, are available in
1956: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/agenda/journees/2003/vallat/miod.mgp">mgp
1957: format</a>). As usual, Wim ran an OpenBSD booth featuring the new 3.4 release,
1958: as well as <a href="http://soekris.kd85.com">Soekris</a> hardware running
1959: OpenBSD.
1960: <p>
1961:
1962: <li><strong><a name=Saarbrucken2003></a>
1963: <a href="http://www.linux-kongress.org/2003/index.html">Linux Kongress Saarbrücken 2003</a></strong>,
1964: Oct 14 - 16, 2003, Saarbrücken, Germany.<br>
1965: An OpenBSD booth was present, starring Wim again.
1966: <p>
1967:
1968: <li><strong><a name=London2003></a>
1969: <a href="http://www.linuxexpo.org.uk/">Linux Expo London 2003</a></strong>,
1970: Oct 8 - 9, 2003, London, UK.<br>
1971: An OpenBSD booth was present, starring Wim as usual.
1972: <p>
1973:
1.219 jose 1974: <li><strong><a name=bsdcon2003></a>
1975: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/bsdcon03/">BSDCon '03</a></strong>,
1976: Sep 8 - 12, 2003, San Mateo, California.<br>
1.236 jose 1977: OpenBSD was represented in the BSD Status Report, and David Rosenthal
1.219 jose 1978: gave a talk on an OpenBSD based security appliance.
1979: <p>
1980:
1.218 jose 1981: <li><strong><a name=sucon2003></a>
1982: <a href="http://www.sucon.ch/">SUCON '03</a></strong>,
1.734 tobias 1983: Sep 5, 2003, Zurich, Switzerland.<br>
1.236 jose 1984: Daniel Hartmeier talked about PF, and <a
1.218 jose 1985: href="http://open.bsdcow.net/events/sucon2003/">pictures are available</a>.
1986: <p>
1987:
1.214 henning 1988: <li><strong><a name=camp2003></a>
1989: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/camp/">Chaos Communication Camp 2003</a></strong>,
1.733 tobias 1990: Aug 7 - 10, 2003, in <a href="http://www.paulshof.de/body-mehr.html">a field</a> near Berlin, Germany.<br>
1.214 henning 1991: There was a huge OpenBSD village. Several OpenBSD developers have been there.
1992: <p>
1993:
1.213 jose 1994: <li><strong><a name=sec2003></a>
1995: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/sec03/">Usenix Security</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1996: Aug 4 - 8, 2003, Washington, DC, USA.<br>
1.236 jose 1997: Niels Provos presented two papers on security advances originally
1.213 jose 1998: developed for OpenBSD, including the OpenSSH privsep feature and systrace.
1999: Several OpenBSD developers were there.
2000: <p>
2001:
1.211 jose 2002: <li><strong><a name=linuxtag2003></a>
2003: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.org/2003/en/index.html">LinuxTag 2003</a></strong>,
1.733 tobias 2004: Jul 10 - 13, 2003, Karlsruhe Convention Center, Germany.<br>
1.211 jose 2005: Both OpenBSD and OpenSSH had booths in the main exhibit.
2006: <p>
2007:
2008: <li><strong><a name=lsm2003></a>
2009: <a href="http://libresoftwaremeeting.org/">Libre Software Meeting 2003</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 2010: Jul 9 - 12, 2003, Metz, France.<br>
1.212 matthieu 2011: Matthieu Herrb gave <a href="papers/xf86-sec.pdf">a talk about XFree86 security</a>. There was
1.211 jose 2012: also an OpenBSD booth with developers.
2013: <p>
2014:
1.209 wvdputte 2015: <li><strong><a name=lud2003></a>
1.733 tobias 2016: <a href="http://www.linuxuserexpo.com/">Linux User & Developer Expo 2003</a></strong>,
2017: Jun 24 - 26, 2003, at the NEC in Birmingham, UK.<br>
1.209 wvdputte 2018: There was an OpenBSD booth with developers.
2019: <p>
1.195 deraadt 2020:
1.202 jason 2021: <li><strong><a name=usenix2003></a>
1.236 jose 2022: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix03/">Usenix Annual Technical
1.216 jose 2023: Conference</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 2024: Jun 9 - 14, 2003, San Antonio, Texas, USA.<br>
1.202 jason 2025: A few OpenBSD developers were there and one paper was presented:
2026: <ul>
1.216 jose 2027: <li>The Design of the OpenBSD Cryptographic Framework<br>
1.202 jason 2028: <a href="events.html#usenix2003">Usenix 2003</a>, by
1.236 jose 2029: Angelos D. Keromytis,
2030: Jason L. Wright, and
1.205 deraadt 2031: Theo de Raadt.<br>
1.202 jason 2032: <a href="papers/ocf.pdf">paper</a>.
2033: </ul>
2034: <p>
2035:
1.216 jose 2036: <li><strong>
2037: <a href="http://www.webb.it/">Webbit 2003</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 2038: May 9 - 11, 2003, Padova, Italy.<br>
1.203 jason 2039: Giacomo Cariello and Wim Vandeputte attended, and several OpenBSD
1.741 saad 2040: <a href="http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20030503101052">related talks</a> were given.
1.203 jason 2041: <p>
2042:
1.216 jose 2043: <li><strong>
2044: <a href="http://cansecwest.com/">CanSecWest 03</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 2045: Apr 9 - 11, 2003, Vancouver, Canada.<br>
1.195 deraadt 2046: Theo spoke about killing buffer overflows using ProPolice and the new W^X technology,
1.196 matthieu 2047: available as a <a href="papers/csw03.mgp">magicpoint file</a>.
1.195 deraadt 2048: <p>
2049:
1.216 jose 2050: <li><strong>
2051: <a href="http://www.cebit.de/">CeBIT 2003</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 2052: Mar 14, 2003, Hannover, Germany.<br>
1.236 jose 2053: 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 2054: gave a talk on OpenBSD and OpenSSH. <a href="papers/cebit2003.tgz">slides</a> are available.
1.194 henning 2055: <p>
2056:
1.216 jose 2057: <li><strong>
2058: <a href="http://www.linuxforum.dk/2003/english/">LinuxForum 2003</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 2059: Mar 1, 2003, Copenhagen, Denmark.<br>
1.236 jose 2060: Daniel spoke about PF (slides in <a href="papers/linuxforum2k3.tar.gz">mgp</a>,
2061: <a href="http://www.benzedrine.cx/linuxforum/">HTML</a>).
1.191 dhartmei 2062: It was a small but cozy conference, jointly held by Danish Linux and BSD
2063: user groups.
2064: <p>
2065:
1.236 jose 2066: <li><strong>
2067: <a href="http://www.cuug.ab.ca">CUUG - The Calgary Unix Users
1.216 jose 2068: Group</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 2069: Feb 25, 2003, 18:00 MST, Calgary, Canada.<br>
1.190 miod 2070: OpenBSD lead developer Theo de Raadt spoke about some of the recent
2071: changes in OpenBSD that are leading the way to the complete elimination of
2072: "buffer overflow" security risks and attacks.
2073: <p>
2074:
1.216 jose 2075: <li><strong>
2076: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/">FOSDEM 2003</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 2077: Feb 8 - 9, 2003, Brussels, Belgium.<br>
1.236 jose 2078: Henning and Philipp gave a talk on -current PF developments
1.196 matthieu 2079: (<a href="papers/fosdem2k3-pf.mgp">slides</a>)
1.187 henning 2080: and on Saturday evening, there was an OpenBSD dinner for those interested.
2081: <p>
2082:
1.216 jose 2083: <li><strong>
2084: <a href="http://linuxsolutions.fr/FR/home/index.php?site=default">Linux Solutions</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 2085: Feb 4 - 6, 2003, CNIT - Paris La Défense, France.<br>
1.185 miod 2086: There was an OpenBSD booth with several OpenBSD developers, as well as 3.2 OpenBSD
1.413 grunk 2087: CD sets and T-shirts.
1.185 miod 2088: <p>
1.236 jose 2089: </ul>
1.185 miod 2090:
1.161 millert 2091: <h3>2002</h3>
1.236 jose 2092:
2093: <ul>
2094: <li><strong>
2095: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/2002/">19c3: the 19th CCC
1.216 jose 2096: Congress</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 2097: Dec 27 - 29, 2002, Berlin, Germany.<br>
1.236 jose 2098: There was a huge <a href="http://www.eurobsd.org/19c3">reserved space</a> for
2099: OpenBSD users and developers, a couple of -current test systems and for those
1.413 grunk 2100: curious, a first look at the 3.2 OpenBSD T-shirts.
1.184 wvdputte 2101: <p>
1.177 jason 2102:
1.216 jose 2103: <li><strong>
2104: <a href="http://2002.eurobsdcon.org/">BSDCon Europe 2002</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 2105: Nov 15 - 17, 2002, Amsterdam, Netherlands.<br>
1.181 henning 2106: OpenBSD people were there;
1.236 jose 2107: Philipp Bühler and Henning Brauer spoke about
1.182 ian 2108: <a href="papers/tuning-openbsd.ps">
2109: network performance tuning on OpenBSD</a>,
1.236 jose 2110: and Ian Darwin presented a
1.182 ian 2111: <a href="papers/eurobsd-firewalls-2002.pdf">
2112: tutorial on OpenBSD servers/firewalls</a>.
1.179 pb 2113: <p>
1.178 pb 2114:
1.216 jose 2115: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2116: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa02/">LISA '02: 16th Systems
1.216 jose 2117: Administration Conference</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 2118: Nov 3 - 8, 2002, Philadelphia, USA.<br>
1.177 jason 2119: Mickey and Jason manned the booth at the vendor expo (the only BSD
2120: represented) and sold <a href="32.html">3.2</a> CDs, and Jason gave a BoF
2121: session on <a href="32.html">3.2</a> and future.
2122: <p>
2123:
1.216 jose 2124: <li><strong>
1.264 djm 2125: <a href="http://www.auug.org.au/events/2002/auug2002/">Australian Unix Users
2126: Group Winter Conference</a></strong>,
1.733 tobias 2127: Sep 1 - 6, 2002, Melbourne, Australia.<br>
1.738 tobias 2128: Damien Miller presented a tutorial on the
2129: <a href="papers/auug2002-ssh/index.html">SSH protocol</a> and
1.264 djm 2130: <a href="papers/auug2002-ssh.ps">OpenSSH tips and tricks</a>.
2131: <p>
2132:
2133: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 2134: <a href="http://lsm.abul.org">The 3rd Libre Software Meeting</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 2135: Jul 9 - 13, 2002, Bordeaux, France.<br>
1.172 miod 2136: Several OpenBSD developers and users were attending the meeting, and
2137: Niels Provos presented his
2138: <a href="http://www.citi.umich.edu/u/provos/systrace">systrace</a>
2139: system call policy management tool.
1.174 nick 2140: <p>
1.172 miod 2141:
1.216 jose 2142: <li><strong>
2143: <a href="http://www.Webb.it">Webb.it 02</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 2144: Jul 5 - 7, 2002, Padova, Italy.<br>
1.171 ian 2145: OpenBSD developers had a booth selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
2146: <p>
2147:
1.216 jose 2148: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2149: <a href="http://www.softwarelivre.rs.gov.br/forum">The Annual International
1.216 jose 2150: Free Software Forum</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 2151: May 2 - 4, 2002, Porto Alegre-RS, Brazil.<br>
1.236 jose 2152: Mainly a Linux/GNU event, but this year the BSD Operating Systems
2153: had a chance to prove their value.
1.169 horacio 2154: Edson Brandi spoke on FreeBSD, Diego Linke
1.236 jose 2155: on NetBSD, and Ricardo Nascimento Ferreira on OpenBSD.
1.169 horacio 2156: <p>
1.168 miod 2157:
1.216 jose 2158: <li><strong>
2159: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/bsdcon02/">BSDCON 2002</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 2160: Feb 11 - 14, 2002, San Francisco, California, USA.<br>
1.161 millert 2161: Todd Miller gave an update on current OpenBSD status and participated in a
1.162 millert 2162: BSD panel discussion. The <a href="slides/bsdcon_2002/index.html">slides</a>
2163: are available.
1.161 millert 2164: <p>
2165:
1.216 jose 2166: <li><strong>
2167: <a href="http://www.linuxexpoparis.com">Linux expo Paris 2002</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 2168: Jan 30 - Feb 1, 2002, Paris, France.<br>
1.163 miod 2169: The french Linux Expo 2002 was quite small and as usual the OpenBSD booth ended
2170: up with others on the expo's side. On the first day, almost all the merchandise
2171: was sold, and we have even sold older versions (2.9) the following days to
2172: people who wouldn't leave without a cd set in their hands...
2173: <p>
2174:
1.216 jose 2175: <li><strong>
2176: <a href="http://musess.mcmaster.ca/">MUSESS 2002</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 2177: Jan 25 - 26, 2002, McMaster University, Ontario, Canada.<br>
1.164 millert 2178: Louis Bertrand gave a presentation on OpenBSD titled
2179: <strong>Fix The Bugs, Secure The System</strong>.
2180: The <a href="slides/musess_2002/index.html">slides</a> are available.
2181: <p>
1.236 jose 2182: </ul>
1.164 millert 2183:
1.152 jakob 2184: <h3>2001</h3>
2185:
1.236 jose 2186: <ul>
1.216 jose 2187: <li><strong>
2188: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa01/">USENIX LISA 2001</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 2189: Dec 2 - 7, 2001, San Diego, California, USA.<br>
1.160 jufi 2190: Niels Provos gave a presentation, and there's been a booth selling
1.413 grunk 2191: T-shirts and 3.0 CDs.
1.160 jufi 2192: <p>
2193:
1.216 jose 2194: <li><strong>
2195: <a href="http://www.ietf.org/meetings/IETF-52.html">52nd IETF</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 2196: Dec 9 - 14, 2001, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA.<br>
1.160 jufi 2197: Angelos, Itojun & Jakob were there.
2198: <p>
2199:
1.158 deraadt 2200: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2201: <a href="http://www.disc2000.unam.mx/disc/index-ing.html">DISC
1.216 jose 2202: 2001</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 2203: Nov 26 - 29, 2001, Mexico City, Mexico.<br>
1.158 deraadt 2204: Once again, Theo de Raadt explained the security auditing process and
2205: subsequent secure configuration choices made in OpenBSD, in a talk
2206: entitled "Updated thoughts on writing a secure Operating System".
2207: <p>
2208:
1.216 jose 2209: <li><strong>
2210: <a href="http://www.linux.org.hk">LinuxCafe</a></strong>,
1.734 tobias 2211: Sep 15, 2001, Hong Kong, China.<br>
1.156 provos 2212: Shell Hung gave an introduction for BSD and demonstration of OpenBSD to HKLUG.
2213: <p>
2214:
1.201 deraadt 2215: <li><strong>VPN Bakeoff</strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 2216: Aug 13 - 18, 2001, Finland.<br>
1.156 provos 2217: Jakob and Itojun were there.
2218: <p>
1.158 deraadt 2219:
1.150 wvdputte 2220: <li><strong>
1.215 nick 2221: <a href="http://www.hal2001.org">HAL 2001</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 2222: Aug 10 - 12, 2001, Twente, Netherlands.<br>
1.153 jufi 2223: Quite a lot of developers were there, we even had our own tent.
2224: Niels, Rees and Dugsong held talks, more info on the main website
2225: for HAL2001. And of course T-Shirts and CDROMs were sold.
1.150 wvdputte 2226: <p>
1.137 aaron 2227:
2228: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2229: <a href="http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon/">O'Reilly Open Source
1.216 jose 2230: Conference</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 2231: Jul 23 - 27, 2001, San Diego, California, USA.<br>
1.148 brian 2232: OpenBSD had a booth selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
2233: Ian Darwin presented his "Firewalls and Secure Internet Servers
2234: with OpenBSD" tutorial.
2235: <p>
2236:
2237: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 2238: <a href="http://www.defcon.org">DEF CON Nine</a></strong>,
1.734 tobias 2239: Jul 13 - 15, 2001, Las Vegas, USA.<br>
1.148 brian 2240: OpenBSD developers and users make it a point to attend every year,
2241: and had a table selling CD's, shirts, etc.
2242: <p>
2243:
2244: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2245: <a href="http://www.sek.co.kr/sek2001/sek_html/main.htm">Software
1.216 jose 2246: Exhibition of Korea</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 2247: Jun 26 - 29, 2001, Seoul, Korea.<br>
1.146 krw 2248: urisecure/NDS sponsored an OpenBSD booth with CD's, posters,
2249: and a live demo of OpenBSD's IPSEC hardware acceleration.
2250: <p>
2251:
2252: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2253: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix01/">2001 USENIX Annual
1.216 jose 2254: Technical Conference</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 2255: Jun 25 - 30, 2001, Boston, USA.<br>
1.146 krw 2256: OpenBSD developers were there, selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
2257: <p>
2258:
2259: <li><strong>
1.143 dugsong 2260: <a href="http://www.olymfair.org/eng/workshop.htm">Information
1.201 deraadt 2261: Security OlymFair</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 2262: May 16 - 18, 2001, Seoul, Korea.<br>
1.143 dugsong 2263: Dug Song gave a detailed introduction to OpenBSD to the Korean
2264: security community.
2265: <p>
2266:
2267: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2268: <a href="http://www.osdem.org/">2001 Open Source and Free Software
1.216 jose 2269: Developers' Meeting</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 2270: Feb 3 - 4, 2001, Brussels, Belgium.<br>
1.137 aaron 2271: There was an OpenBSD booth with some loose talks made.
2272: <p>
2273:
2274: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 2275: <a href="http://www.linuxexpoparis.com/">2001 Linux Expo</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 2276: Feb 1 - 2, 2001, Paris, France.<br>
1.236 jose 2277: There was an OpenBSD booth in the 'F' area.
1.137 aaron 2278: <p>
1.236 jose 2279: </ul>
1.137 aaron 2280:
1.132 louis 2281: <h3>2000</h3>
2282:
1.236 jose 2283: <ul>
1.132 louis 2284: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2285: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa2000/">LISA 2000, USENIX
1.216 jose 2286: Systems Administration Conference</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 2287: Dec 3 - 8, 2000, New Orleans, USA.<br>
1.134 jufi 2288: Wim Vandeputte and other volunteers have been running a sales table with
2289: shirts, posters and the brand new 2.8 CDs.
2290: <p>
2291:
2292: <li><strong>
1.215 nick 2293: <a href="http://www.disc2000.unam.mx/disc/index-ing.html">DISC 2000</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 2294: Nov 26 - Dec 1, 2000, Mexico City, Mexico.<br>
1.133 deraadt 2295: Theo de Raadt explained the security auditing process and subsequent secure
2296: configuration choices made in OpenBSD, in a talk entitled "Secure by Default".
2297: Over the next few days, he also participated in two panels with various security
2298: experts who had flown in from around the world. Following this, Theo climbed
1.151 jsyn 2299: one of the largest volcanoes, called Malinche.
1.133 deraadt 2300: <p>
2301:
2302: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2303: <a href="http://www.nluug.nl/events/nj2000">NLUUG Najaarsconferentie
1.216 jose 2304: 2000</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 2305: Nov 9, 2000, Ede, Netherlands.<br>
1.236 jose 2306: There was an OpenBSD booth where people dropped by for information or to
1.413 grunk 2307: get their T-shirts, polos, caps and 2.7 CDs.
1.13 deraadt 2308: <p>
1.4 millert 2309:
1.132 louis 2310: <li><strong><a name=ipsec2000></a>
1.236 jose 2311: <a href="http://www.upperside.fr/baipsecy2k.htm">IPsec 2000 Global
1.216 jose 2312: Summit</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 2313: Oct 24 - 27, 2000, Paris La Defense, France.<br>
1.159 miod 2314: Niels Provos ended the conference by speaking about the IPsec architecture
1.132 louis 2315: in OpenBSD. The talk was well received and many people were very interested
2316: about our cryptographic hardware acceleration.
2317:
2318: <ul>
1.236 jose 2319: <li>The IPsec Architecture in OpenBSD<br>
1.215 nick 2320: <a href="#ipsec2000">IPsec 2000 Global Summit</a> by Niels Provos.<br>
1.132 louis 2321: <a href="papers/ipsec-slides.ps">slides</a>.
2322: </ul>
1.4 millert 2323: <p>
1.132 louis 2324:
1.7 deraadt 2325: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 2326: <a href="http://ApacheCon.Com/2000/EU/">ApacheCon Europa 2000</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 2327: Oct 23 - 25, 2000, London, UK.<br>
1.132 louis 2328: There was an OpenBSD booth where people could drop by for information and
2329: a chat with the local OpenBSD personnel. We also had the essentials for
1.413 grunk 2330: your wardrobe (T-shirts, polos, caps), for your hardware (2.7 CDs) and for your
1.132 louis 2331: mind (drinks afterwards).
2332: <p>
2333:
1.216 jose 2334: <li><strong>
2335: <a href="http://www.bsdcon.com/">BSD Con 2000</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 2336: Oct 18 - 20, 2000, Monterey, CA, USA.<br>
1.132 louis 2337: David Terrell ran an OpenBSD booth selling T-shirts and CDs and answering
2338: questions.
1.32 deraadt 2339: <p>
1.1 deraadt 2340:
1.132 louis 2341: <li><strong><a name=opensource2000></a>
1.236 jose 2342: <a href="http://www.opensource-forum.com/konferens">The Open Source
1.216 jose 2343: Revolution</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 2344: Oct 5, 2000, Stockholm, Sweden.<br>
1.133 deraadt 2345: Theo de Raadt spoke about how user expectations for security out of the box
2346: have changed over the last years.
1.1 deraadt 2347: <p>
2348:
1.132 louis 2349: <li><strong><a name=sec2000></a>
1.216 jose 2350: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/sec2000/">Usenix Security</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 2351: Aug 14 - 17, 2000, Denver, Colorado, USA.<br>
1.132 louis 2352: Some OpenBSD developers were there and one paper was presented:
2353: <ul>
1.236 jose 2354: <li>Encrypting Virtual Memory<br>
1.132 louis 2355: <a href="#sec2000">Usenix Security 2000</a>
1.205 deraadt 2356: by Niels Provos.<br>
1.132 louis 2357: <a href="papers/swapencrypt.ps">paper</a> and
2358: <a href="papers/swapencrypt-slides.ps">slides</a>.
2359: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 2360: <p>
1.132 louis 2361:
1.10 provos 2362: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 2363: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-8-post.html">Defcon 2000</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 2364: Jul 28 - 30, 2000, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.<br>
1.236 jose 2365: Kjell Wooding (our IPF maintainer), James Phillips from the
1.132 louis 2366: <a href="http://www.deadly.org">OpenBSD Journal</a>, and Theo de Raadt
1.413 grunk 2367: had a table and were selling OpenBSD CDROMs, T-shirts, and posters on
1.132 louis 2368: Friday and Saturday. Hordes of people visited our table and we at the
2369: end we were completely sold out of CDROMS and shirts (allowing us to go
2370: check out Hoover Dam's hardhat tour on Sunday and leave the madness behind).
2371: <br>
2372: We were completely amazed at the people who stopped by our table, to say
2373: that they were relying on OpenBSD.
2374: <p>
1.32 deraadt 2375:
1.132 louis 2376: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2377: <a href="http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon2000/">O'Reilly Open Source
1.216 jose 2378: Conference 2000</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 2379: Jul 17 - 20, 2000, Monterey, California, USA.<br>
1.216 jose 2380: Ian Darwin presented a <a href="papers/oreilly2000/">tutorial</a> on
1.132 louis 2381: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/w/bsd_tutorials.html">
2382: Secure Internet Servers/Firewalls with OpenBSD</a>, and bravely
2383: manned the OpenBSD booth for the remainder of the show.
2384: Kjell Wooding took part in a panel discussion on the Future of the BSDs,
2385: and spoke about
2386: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/w/bsd_presentations.html">
1.241 david 2387: Secure By Default.</a> Both sessions were well attended, and at least
1.132 louis 2388: one Linux sysadmin was seen racing for a keyboard, scared look in his eyes,
1.236 jose 2389: after the security talk.
1.3 provos 2390: <p>
1.132 louis 2391:
1.6 deraadt 2392: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 2393: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.de/2000/english/">LinuxTag 2000</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 2394: Jun 29 - Jul 2, 2000, Stuttgart, Germany.<br>
1.132 louis 2395: There was a BSD booth where we had the first <a href="27.html">OpenBSD 2.7 CDs</a> for Europe
2396: and the new blue stitchwork <a href="tshirts.html#11">Blowfish Polo</a> shirt.
2397: <br>
2398: Christian Weisgerber gave a
2399: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.de/2000/english/conference/talks.php3?ID=3">talk
2400: on BSD</a>.
1.32 deraadt 2401: <p>
1.1 deraadt 2402:
1.216 jose 2403: <li><strong><a name=usenix2000></a>
1.236 jose 2404: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix2000/">Usenix Annual Technical
1.216 jose 2405: Conference.</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 2406: Jun 18 - 23, 2000, San Diego, California, USA.<br>
1.132 louis 2407: Almost 20 OpenBSD developers showed up for the 25th anniversary of Usenix.
2408: We had a vendor booth, as well as a number of papers being presented.
2409: Conference attendees had the opportunity to test drive the new release,
2410: OpenBSD 2.7, on the 30 workstations in the terminal room. For the first
2411: time ever, the terminal room and wavelan networks also had a IPv6 connection,
1.147 jason 2412: and some users even discovered so by themselves.
1.132 louis 2413: Theo also held a BoF on the Wednesday evening, after which the developers
2414: had almost too much singing in foreign languages with the help of helium.
2415: <ul>
2416:
2417: <li>Implementing Internet Key Exchange, IKE.<br>
2418: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
1.216 jose 2419: by Angelos D. Keromytis, Niklas Hallqvist.<br>
1.132 louis 2420: <a href="papers/ikepaper.ps">paper</a> and
2421: <a href="papers/ikeslides.ps">slides</a>.
2422:
2423: <li>Transparent Network Security Policy Enforcement.<br>
2424: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
1.216 jose 2425: by Angelos D. Keromytis, Jason L. Wright.<br>
1.132 louis 2426: <a href="papers/bridgepaper.ps">paper</a> and
2427: <a href="papers/bridgeslides.ps">slides</a>.
1.2 deraadt 2428:
1.132 louis 2429: <li>Safety Checking of Kernel Extensions.<br>
2430: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
1.205 deraadt 2431: by Craig Metz.
1.132 louis 2432: </ul>
1.2 deraadt 2433: <p>
2434:
1.132 louis 2435: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2436: <a href="http://www.manlug.mcc.ac.uk/calendar.html">OpenBSD: The Open
1.216 jose 2437: Source Secure Operating System</a></strong>,
1.734 tobias 2438: Jun 17, 2000, 14:00, Manchester, UK.<br>
1.132 louis 2439: Sam Smith gave a rundown of features coming in OpenBSD 2.7 and
2440: OpenSSH 2.1. His <a href="http://www.manlug.mcc.ac.uk/20000617/">slides</a>
2441: are available from the user group's site.
1.1 deraadt 2442: <p>
1.2 deraadt 2443:
1.132 louis 2444: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 2445: <a href="reprints/crypto2000.html">OpenBSD Crypto 2000 conference</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 2446: Jun 15 - 20, 2000, Calgary, AB, Canada.<br>
1.132 louis 2447: Repeating the tradition of a similar meeting held last year, many
2448: OpenBSD developers from around the world converged on Calgary
2449: for a weekend long hack-and-drink session. As before, the event
2450: was invitation only. Many significant things got done, including
2451: ipv6 + ipsec running over hardware crypto devices.
1.1 deraadt 2452: <p>
1.11 jkatz 2453:
1.17 deraadt 2454: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 2455: <a href="http://www.converge2000.com">CONVERGENCE 2000</a></strong>,
1.734 tobias 2456: May 18, 2000, Convention Centre, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.<br>
1.132 louis 2457: Theo de Raadt participated in a panel discussion about the pros and cons
2458: of using Open Source software in various business environments. The local
2459: users also handed out OpenSSH and OpenBSD posters, and were absolutely
2460: surprised and amazed by the number of Calgary companies quietly using
2461: OpenBSD.
1.21 pattonme 2462: <p>
1.17 deraadt 2463:
1.23 niklas 2464: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 2465: <a href="http://www.cansecwest.com/">CanSecWest</a></strong>,
1.734 tobias 2466: May 10 - 12, 2000, Robson Conference Centre, Vancouver, BC, Canada.<br>
1.132 louis 2467: Theo de Raadt spoke about why programmers keep making the same stupid mistakes,
2468: what types of efforts might improve this, and how this all relates to auditing
1.375 grunk 2469: efforts.
2470: Rain Forest Puppy, Ron Gula (Network Security Wizards), Ken Williams (E&Y),
1.216 jose 2471: Marty Roesch (snort/HiverWorld), and Fyodor (nmap) were among the other speakers
1.132 louis 2472: at this event. (On a personal note: at this conference Theo realized that three
2473: leading Network Intrusion Detection System companies use OpenBSD as their
2474: base operating system: Hiverworld, Network Security Wizards, and NFR).
1.32 deraadt 2475: <p>
1.25 deraadt 2476:
1.132 louis 2477: <li><strong>
2478: <a href="http://www.zdevents.com/comdex/spring2000/">Linux Business Expo /
1.201 deraadt 2479: COMDEX Spring 2000</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 2480: Apr 19, 2000, Chicago, IL, USA.<br>
1.216 jose 2481: Louis Bertrand represented OpenBSD at a BSD BOF with FreeBSD/BDSI,
1.132 louis 2482: NetBSD and Apple (Darwin is BSD-derived). The BOF was attended by about
2483: 75 people, many of whom were new to *BSD. It was an opportunity to
2484: explore future cooperation among the various BSD groups and companies.
1.25 deraadt 2485: <p>
1.23 niklas 2486:
1.31 deraadt 2487: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2488: <a href="http://www.nordu.org/NordU2000/">NordU 2000 -- The second
1.216 jose 2489: EurOpen/USENIX Conference</a></strong>,
1.734 tobias 2490: Feb 8 - 11, 2000, Malmo, Sweden.<br>
1.140 jufi 2491: About 15 OpenBSD team members attended.
1.132 louis 2492: OpenBSD CDs and shirts were sold at a booth donated by the conference.<br>
2493: As well, Theo de Raadt gave an invited talk on Wednesday morning
2494: about why software quality/security suffers, and what we can do to
2495: improve it.
1.32 deraadt 2496: <p>
1.31 deraadt 2497:
1.201 deraadt 2498: <li><strong>BSD BOF session, LinuxWorld Expo</strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 2499: Feb 3, 2000, New York, USA.<br>
1.132 louis 2500: Representatives from OpenBSD, BSDi, and FreeBSD hosted a
2501: "Birds Of a Feather" session at the <a
2502: href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/">New York LinuxWorld Expo</a>.<br>
2503: There were installation CD-ROMs, free food, and even free Daemon Horns!
1.33 niklas 2504: <p>
1.236 jose 2505: </ul>
1.33 niklas 2506:
1.132 louis 2507: <h3>1999</h3>
1.36 niklas 2508:
1.236 jose 2509: <ul>
1.216 jose 2510: <li><strong>The Bazaar</strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 2511: Dec 14 - 16, 1999, New York, New York, USA.<br>
1.132 louis 2512: Wes Sonnenreich and Tom Yates presented a tutorial on building
1.216 jose 2513: firewalls with OpenBSD. BoF of open source BSDs took place.
1.413 grunk 2514: 2.6 release CDROMs and T-shirts were sold.
1.132 louis 2515: Emphatic interest has been shown by representatives from press, international
2516: government and military institutions.
1.45 jason 2517: <p>
2518:
1.216 jose 2519: <li><strong><a name=lisa99></a>
1.236 jose 2520: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa99/">13th Systems Administration
1.216 jose 2521: Conference (LISA 99)</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 2522: Nov 7 - 12, 1999, Seattle, Washington, USA.<br>
1.132 louis 2523: Bob Beck presented a paper about the U of A's nifty OpenBSD based
2524: solution to the problem of public Ethernet jacks in the technical sessions
2525: starting at 11:00 AM on the 11th.<br>
2526: There were many other OpenBSD
2527: people at this conference as well, as well as a booth selling CDROMs and
1.413 grunk 2528: T-shirts. His paper is available at:
1.132 louis 2529:
2530: <ul>
2531: <li>Dealing with Public Ethernet Jacks-Switches, Gateways, and Authentication.<br>
1.236 jose 2532: <a href="events.html#lisa99">LISA 1999</a>,
1.206 david 2533: by Bob Beck.<br>
1.236 jose 2534: <a href="papers/authgw-paper.ps">paper</a> and
2535: <a href="papers/authgw-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 2536: </ul>
2537: <p>
2538:
2539: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 2540: IP-dagarna 1999</strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 2541: Oct 27 - 28, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden.<br>
1.132 louis 2542: Håkan Olsson & Jakob Schlyter spoke at the DNSSEC session on the 27th.
2543: <p>
2544:
2545: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2546: <a href="http://www.opensource-forum.com/konferens/">Linux & Open Source
1.216 jose 2547: Software '99</a></strong>,
2548: Oct 21, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)<br>
1.132 louis 2549: Niklas Hallqvist spoke on the topic of how to use
1.236 jose 2550: <a
1.375 grunk 2551: href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4">IPsec</a> for securing communications.
1.132 louis 2552: <p>
2553:
2554: <li><strong>
1.705 pvalchev 2555: <a href="http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference/1999">Reflections/Projections
1.216 jose 2556: 1999</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 2557: Oct 8 - 10, 1999, Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA.<br>
1.132 louis 2558: Theo de Raadt spoke at 10:00am on the 9th. Other OpenBSD
2559: developers from the east coast attended as well.
2560: <p>
2561:
1.236 jose 2562: <li><strong><a name="ipsec99"></a>
1.216 jose 2563: IPsec Interoperability tests</strong>,
2564: Sep 27 - 30, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)<br>
1.236 jose 2565: A dozen vendors, among them OpenBSD, tested more than 15
1.375 grunk 2566: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4">IPsec</a>
1.132 louis 2567: products, both gateways and hosts, for interoperability. The tests
2568: were successful as far as general IPsec and pre-shared key
2569: authentication went, OpenBSD interoperated with everyone, but due to
2570: time constraints we never got to test the certificate support
2571: appropriately. The results were presented later that fall at a
2572: conference in Stockholm.
2573: <p>
2574:
2575: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2576: <a href="http://www.auug.org.au/winter/auug99">AUUG'99</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 2577: Sep 8 - 11, 1999, Melbourne, Australia.<br>
1.132 louis 2578: Theo de Raadt gave two talks on "quality of software" related issues
2579: and participated on a panel about how open source projects are
2580: coordinated.
2581: <p>
2582:
2583: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2584: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/sec99/index.html">Usenix
1.216 jose 2585: Security</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 2586: Aug 23 - 26, 1999, Washington, DC, USA.<br>
1.132 louis 2587: Many OpenBSD people from the east coast showed up and sold CDs and
2588: shirts. It was pretty clear from discussions that many people were
2589: very aware of OpenBSD, and that OpenBSD was being used in very
2590: significant security roles.
2591: <p>
2592:
2593: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2594: <a href="http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/99jul/index.html">45th IETF
1.216 jose 2595: meeting</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 2596: Jul 12 - 16, 1999, Oslo, Norway.<br>
1.132 louis 2597: A number of OpenBSD team members from all over the world were at this
2598: conference. In addition to attending the IPsec and DNS working groups (among
2599: others) we did IPsec/IKE interoperability testing together with
1.166 miod 2600: the Japanese KAME project. Also, Angelos D. Keromytis did a presentation on
1.132 louis 2601: his work with keynote and isakmpd in OpenBSD.
2602: <p>
1.45 jason 2603:
1.132 louis 2604: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2605: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-6.html">Defcon 6.0</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 2606: Jul 9 - 11, 1999, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.<br>
1.132 louis 2607: At this conference, the OpenBSD team sold 100 or so 2.5 release CDROMs
1.413 grunk 2608: and a TON of T-shirts.
1.46 deraadt 2609: <p>
1.132 louis 2610:
1.236 jose 2611: <li><strong><a name="usenix99"></a>
2612: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix99/index.html">
1.216 jose 2613: Usenix Annual Technical Conference</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 2614: Jun 6 - 11, 1999, Monterey, California, USA.<br>
1.106 jufi 2615: The <a href="http://www.usenix.org">USENIX Association</a>
1.46 deraadt 2616: provided The OpenBSD Project with a grant to underwrite the production
1.106 jufi 2617: of CDs of OpenBSD 2.5. (We distributed the
2618: release for free to attendees of the USENIX Annual Conference in
1.46 deraadt 2619: June.)
1.132 louis 2620: <br>
1.46 deraadt 2621: Usenix team members were involved in the authoring and
1.132 louis 2622: presentation of 4 OpenBSD-related papers:
2623:
1.375 grunk 2624: <a name="anoncvs_paper"></a>
1.46 deraadt 2625: <ul>
1.66 deraadt 2626: <li>Opening the Source Repository with Anonymous CVS.<br>
1.236 jose 2627: <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216 jose 2628: by Charles D. Cranor, Theo de Raadt.<br>
1.236 jose 2629: <a href="papers/anoncvs-paper.ps">paper</a> and
2630: <a href="papers/anoncvs-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 2631: <br>
1.66 deraadt 2632: <li>A Future-Adaptable Password Scheme.<br>
1.236 jose 2633: <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216 jose 2634: by Niels Provos, David Mazieres.<br>
1.236 jose 2635: <a href="papers/bcrypt-paper.ps">paper</a> and
2636: <a href="papers/bcrypt-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 2637: <br>
1.66 deraadt 2638: <li>Cryptography in OpenBSD: An Overview.<br>
1.236 jose 2639: <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216 jose 2640: by Theo de Raadt, Niklas Hallqvist, Artur Grabowski,
2641: Angelos D. Keromytis, Niels Provos.<br>
1.236 jose 2642: <a href="papers/crypt-paper.ps">paper</a> and
2643: <a href="papers/crypt-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 2644: <br>
1.66 deraadt 2645: <li>strlcpy and strlcat -- consistent, safe, string copy and concatenation.<br>
1.236 jose 2646: <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216 jose 2647: by Todd C. Miller, Theo de Raadt.<br>
1.236 jose 2648: <a href="papers/strlcpy-paper.ps">paper</a> and
2649: <a href="papers/strlcpy-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 2650: </ul>
1.66 deraadt 2651: <p>
1.46 deraadt 2652:
1.51 deraadt 2653: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2654: <a href="http://www.linuxexpo.org">5th Annual Linux Expo</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 2655: May 18 - 22, 1999, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA.<br>
1.132 louis 2656: Some OpenBSD team members were at this conference selling OpenBSD 2.5 CDs,
2657: OpenBSE T-shirts, as well as Blowfish T-shirts, which sold out very quickly
2658: at a table donated by the Expo. OpenBSD was the only BSD represented at the
2659: vendor exposition, and we had good chance to present a secure alternative
2660: to Linux.
1.51 deraadt 2661: <p>
2662:
1.53 jakob 2663: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2664: <a href="http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/99mar/index.html">44th IETF
1.216 jose 2665: meeting</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 2666: Mar 15 - 19, 1999, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.<br>
1.132 louis 2667: Some OpenBSD team members were at this conference, in particular our
2668: IPSEC developers.
1.53 jakob 2669: <p>
2670:
1.132 louis 2671: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2672: <a href="http://www.europen.se/NordU99">NordU99 -- The first
1.216 jose 2673: EurOpen/USENIX Conference</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 2674: Feb 9 - 12, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden.<br>
1.132 louis 2675: A couple of OpenBSD team members were there and some of the swedish user
2676: society as well. OpenBSD CDs were sold at a booth and at the end of a
2677: security talk, the project got applauded for its continuous strive of auditing
2678: security sensitive parts of the system.
1.59 deraadt 2679: <p>
1.236 jose 2680: </ul>
1.59 deraadt 2681:
1.132 louis 2682: <h3>1998</h3>
1.59 deraadt 2683:
1.236 jose 2684: <ul>
1.132 louis 2685: <li><strong><a name=ipsec98></a>
1.690 nick 2686: IPsec/VPN Interoperability tests & seminar</strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 2687: Dec 14, 1998, Stockholm, Sweden.<br>
1.132 louis 2688: OpenBSD was represented as one of about a dozen
1.375 grunk 2689: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4">IPsec</a>
1.132 louis 2690: implementations who were tested for interoperability. The tests were
2691: successful, both for the technology in general, and for OpenBSD in
2692: specific. We managed to communicate encrypted with every vendor present,
2693: and to negotiate keys via IKE with everyone capable.
1.70 deraadt 2694: <p>
2695:
1.236 jose 2696: <li><strong><a name="lisaboston-98"></a>
1.690 nick 2697: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa98">LISA '98: 12th Systems Administration
1.216 jose 2698: Conference</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 2699: Dec 6 - 11, 1998, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.<br>
1.132 louis 2700: More than 10 OpenBSD team members showed up. By far, OpenBSD was the
2701: largest representative group from free software at the conference.
2702: Usenix gave us a table in the vendor area where we sold 2.4 CDROMs,
1.413 grunk 2703: 2.3 "wire-frame" T-shirts, and the new 2.4 embroidered
2704: "Because security matters..." T-shirts, polos, and sweaters.
1.132 louis 2705: An OpenBSD BOF was held one evening, led by Theo de Raadt.
2706: A PalmPilot schedule loader was at the membership booth, powered by OpenBSD.
2707: <br>
1.690 nick 2708: The terminal room ran OpenBSD 2.4 on 45 machines. Obviously trust in OpenBSD
2709: had increased since many people, normally wary of security problems of open
1.132 louis 2710: terminal rooms, were seen using the machines.
1.72 ho 2711: <p>
2712:
1.73 deraadt 2713: <li><strong>
1.690 nick 2714: <a href="http://www.disc.unam.mx/eventos_anteriores/disc98/">DISC - Seguridad en
1.217 jose 2715: Cómputo 98</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 2716: Nov 2 - 7, 1998, Mexico City, Mexico.<br>
1.132 louis 2717: Theo de Raadt gave a talk about security auditing, sponsored by
1.236 jose 2718: <a href="http://www.core-sdi.com">CORE SDI S.A.</a>, an Argentine
1.132 louis 2719: security auditing company who strongly believes in the future
1.236 jose 2720: of OpenBSD. (<a href="papers/mexico98-slides.ps">Slides are available</a>).
1.131 jufi 2721: <p>
1.73 deraadt 2722:
1.236 jose 2723: <li><strong>IP-dagarna</strong>,
1.734 tobias 2724: Oct 29 - 30, 1998, Stockholm, Sweden.<br>
1.132 louis 2725: At this conference, entirely devoted to IP, Niklas Hallqvist from the
2726: OpenBSD team held a talk on the IKE (a.k.a ISAKMP/Oakley) key management
2727: protocol and experiences from the implementation of <strong>isakmpd</strong>,
2728: an IKE implementation funded by Ericsson Radio Systems and developed
2729: primarily for the OpenBSD IPSEC stack.
1.79 deraadt 2730: <p>
1.73 deraadt 2731:
1.690 nick 2732: <li><strong>NCEE '98</strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 2733: Oct 9 - 10, 1998, Auburn, Maine, USA.<br>
1.132 louis 2734: An extensive after-action report was sent to advocacy@openbsd.org. While
1.151 jsyn 2735: sales of shirts and CDROMs left much to be desired, we did have good
1.132 louis 2736: opportunities to further project visibility and highlight its strengths.
1.80 deraadt 2737: <p>
2738:
1.93 louis 2739: <li><strong>
1.690 nick 2740: <a href="http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference/1998/">Reflections/Projections
1.216 jose 2741: 1998</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 2742: Oct 2 - 4, 1998, Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA.<br>
1.132 louis 2743: Theo de Raadt spoke in a panel about Open/Free software with Eric
2744: Raymond and others.
1.93 louis 2745: <p>
2746:
1.216 jose 2747: <li><strong>
1.690 nick 2748: <a href="http://press.oreilly.com/pub/pr/797">O'Reilly and
1.236 jose 2749: Associates Open Source Developer Days</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 2750: Aug 21, 1998, San Jose, California, USA.<br>
1.132 louis 2751: OpenBSD team members were on-hand to discuss OpenBSD's role among the
1.413 grunk 2752: other free software projects available. They also sold some CDs and T-shirts.
1.96 deraadt 2753: <p>
2754:
1.236 jose 2755: <li><strong><a name="defcon98"></a>
1.690 nick 2756: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-6/defcon-6.html">Defcon 6.0</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 2757: Jul 31 - Aug 2, 1998, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.<br>
1.132 louis 2758: The router to the outside world was an OpenBSD 2.3 box. It was involved
2759: in a "capture the flag" competition in which an entire room of crackers
2760: attempted to break into it and machines running other operating systems.
2761: The OpenBSD box was not broken into.
2762: <br>
2763: Almost 100 OpenBSD 2.3 CDROMs were sold (we ran out again). The primates
1.236 jose 2764: at <a href="http://www.monkey.org">monkey.org</a> brought 2.3
1.413 grunk 2765: "wire-frame" OpenBSD T-shirts to the conference and sold almost
1.132 louis 2766: 200 of them. The proceeds from the sales were donated to the OpenBSD project.
1.96 deraadt 2767: <p>
1.94 deraadt 2768:
1.690 nick 2769: <li><strong><a href="http://www.blackhat.com/html/bh-usa-98/bh2-index.html">BlackHat Sessions</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 2770: Jul 29 - 30, 1998, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.<br>
1.132 louis 2771: Theo de Raadt presented a talk entitled
2772: "Auditing software for security" about the OpenBSD security auditing
2773: team's process and the lessons the team learned. The talk concentrated
2774: on how our process fixes bugs -- not just holes -- since one never knows
2775: when 5 bugs will act together to become a hole.
1.99 deraadt 2776: <p>
2777:
1.236 jose 2778: <li><strong><a name="usenix-neworleans"></a>
2779: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/usenix98/index.html">Usenix Annual Technical Conference</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 2780: Jun 15 - 19, 1998, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.<br>
1.132 louis 2781: At Usenix 1998 there was a strong OpenBSD presence both in the Freenix
2782: and normal tracks. Theo did a general talk about what the OpenBSD
2783: project offers. Angelos held a panel about IPSEC (which is quite an
2784: OpenBSD topic since IPSEC development at that time was so much further
2785: ahead in OpenBSD than anywhere else).
2786: <br>
2787: The terminal room PCs ran OpenBSD 2.3. We sold many CDROMs. The
1.413 grunk 2788: first style of OpenBSD T-shirt also sold quite well.
1.101 wvdputte 2789: <p>
2790:
1.105 wvdputte 2791: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2792: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/sec98/index.html">Usenix Security</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 2793: Jan 26 - 29, 1998, San Antonio, Texas, USA.<br>
1.132 louis 2794: At this conference, Theo presented an evening talk which basically
2795: turned into a list of fixed security problems and cautionary tales about
2796: subsystems in which future problems may be encountered
1.236 jose 2797: (<a href="papers/security98-slides.ps">slides available</a>).
1.105 wvdputte 2798: <br>
1.132 louis 2799: The terminal room PCs ran OpenBSD 2.2.
2800: <p>
1.236 jose 2801: </ul>
1.105 wvdputte 2802:
1.132 louis 2803: <h3>1997</h3>
1.107 deraadt 2804:
1.236 jose 2805: <ul>
1.113 deraadt 2806: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2807: <a href="http://www.hip97.nl">HIP</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 2808: Aug, 1997, Almere, Netherlands.<br>
1.236 jose 2809: Niels held a
1.690 nick 2810: <a href="http://www.citi.umich.edu/u/provos/papers/hip97-tcpip.html">talk</a>
1.132 louis 2811: about the problems of unencrypted TCP/IP connections, offering IPSEC as
2812: possible solution.
1.113 deraadt 2813: <p>
1.132 louis 2814:
1.236 jose 2815: <li><strong>HOPE</strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 2816: Aug, 1997, New York, New York, USA.<br>
1.166 miod 2817: The terminal room consisted primarily of DECstations running
1.690 nick 2818: OpenBSD 2.1. Once again, the <a href="http://www.lopht.com/">L0phT</a>
1.132 louis 2819: people had very good things to say about our security.
1.113 deraadt 2820: <p>
1.105 wvdputte 2821:
1.236 jose 2822: <li><strong><a name="defcon5"></a>
1.690 nick 2823: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-5/defcon-5.html">Defcon V</a></strong>,
1.727 wvdputte 2824: Jul 11 - 13, 1997, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.<br>
1.132 louis 2825: At this conference, the OpenBSD team sold 100 or so 2.1 release CDROMs.
2826: <br>
2827: Since this is the primary security conference, many speakers said very
1.140 jufi 2828: good things about our stance on security... particularly people like
1.690 nick 2829: <a href="http://www.lopht.com">the L0phT</a>.
1.118 deraadt 2830: <p>
2831:
1.125 deraadt 2832: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2833: <a
2834: href="http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/ana97/index.html">Usenix Annual Technical Conference</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 2835: Jan 6 - 10, 1997, Anaheim, California, USA.<br>
1.690 nick 2836: Theo de Raadt held a BOF ("Birds Of a Feather", i.e. a meeting of people
1.132 louis 2837: interested in the same thing) about OpenBSD.
1.236 jose 2838: </ul>
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