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BSDCan 2012 is over

2012-05-12 | Author scott5

That just about wraps it up for BSDCan 2012. Mark your calendars for BSDCan 2013, May 15-18 I think. I saw it on the screen today, but didn’t write it down. The only events left are social in nature and happen tomorrow. PGCon is next week as well for those who are looking for a good conference on Postgres.

Short summary: Lots of good information. I realized today how woefully ignorant I am with respect to ZFS functionality. Some of the things I saw today were quite inspiring and I will have to convert my web server over to a BSD base. I think it’s time to (re)learn a lot of things I thought I was familiar with.

For the interested, here are a bunch of photos from the conference. All the pictures near the end with Dan holding odd items are from the charity auction. I bid on one of the biking shirts and won. Modeled near the end, not by me 🙂

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BSDCan 2012 starts tomorrow!

2012-05-10 | Author scott5

Well… The conference itself anyway. The two days of tutorials are over, the initial pub night is complete, registration packs have been handed out and people have been seen in conference T-shirts.

There is still time to come out and register. Two full days of conference events as shown below:

Friday:

	MRT 205	MRT 218	MRT 250	MRT 256
09:30		Opening session Welcome to BSDCan 2011 Dan Langille Language used for presentation English Event type Lecture Track Plenary
10:00	An Introduction to Verifiedexec in NetBSD Brett Lymn Language used for presentation English Track Security	BSD Multiplicity An applied survey of BSD multiplicity and virtualization strategies from chroot to BHyVe Michael Dexter Language used for presentation English Event type Lecture Track System Administration	An Overview of Locking in the FreeBSD Kernel Kirk McKusick Language used for presentationEnglish Event typeLecture Track Hacking	Progress in FreeBSD Ports Mark Linimon Language used for presentationEnglish Event type Lecture Track FreeBSD Developers Summit
10:30				Ports Testing Project Steve Wills Language used for presentationEnglish Event type Lecture Track FreeBSD Developers Summit
11:00
11:30	auditdistd – Secure and reliable distribution of audit trail files Pawel Jakub Dawidek Language used for presentation English Track Security	FreeBSD on Microsoft Hyper-v A collaborative effort between Microsoft, NetApp, and Citrix Jason Goldschmidt K.Y. SRINIVASAN Language used for presentation English Event type Lecture Track System Administration	Automated testing of libcurses in NetBSD Brett Lymn Language used for presentationEnglish Event typeLecture Track Hacking	Automated Documentation Proofreading igor: Making Documentation Easier Warren Block Language used for presentationEnglish Event type Lecture Track FreeBSD Developers Summit
12:00				Kernel Debugging Tricks Bjoern A. Zeeb Language used for presentationEnglish Event type Lecture Track FreeBSD Developers Summit
12:30
13:00
13:30	Crowdsourcing security Lessons in open code and bug bounties Colin Percival Language used for presentation English Event type Lecture Track Security	IPv6 Faster, Further, FreeBSD Bjoern A. Zeeb Language used for presentation English Event type Lecture Track System Administration	Bullet Cache A balance between speed and usability Ivan Voras Language used for presentationEnglish Event typeLecture Track Hacking	Google Code-In and FreeBSD Benedict Reuschling Language used for presentationEnglish Event type Lecture Track FreeBSD Developers Summit
14:00				CAM Target Layer Ken Merry Language used for presentationEnglish Event type Lecture Track FreeBSD Developers Summit
14:30
15:00	pfSense 2.1: IPv6 and more Chris Buechler Scott Ullrich Language used for presentation English Event type Lecture Track Security	Intro to DNSSEC Jeremy C. Reed Language used for presentation English Event type Lecture Track System Administration	Fast reboots with kload Russell Cattelan Language used for presentationEnglish Event typeLightning-Talk Track Hacking	802.11 Adrian Chadd Language used for presentationEnglish Event type Lecture Track FreeBSD Developers Summit
15:30				Capsicum Robert Watson Language used for presentationEnglish Event type Lecture Track FreeBSD Developers Summit
16:00
16:30	NetBSD/mips Matt Thomas Language used for presentation English Event type Lecture Track Embedded	FreeBSD Unified Deployment and Configuration Management A practical approach to managing highly heterogeneous installations Andrew Pantyukhin Language used for presentation English Event type Lecture Track System Administration	Virtually-Networked FreeBSD Jails Shawn Webb Language used for presentationEnglish Event typeLecture Track System Administration	FusionIO and FreeBSD Julian Elischer Language used for presentationEnglish Event type Lecture Track FreeBSD Developers Summit
17:00				Work on callout(9) Davide Italiano Language used for presentationEnglish Event type Lecture Track FreeBSD Developers Summit

Saturday:

	MRT 205	MRT 212	MRT 218
10:00	Building a FreeBSD based Virtual Appliance How we built the Razorback appliance Tom Judge Language used for presentationEnglish Event type Lecture Track Hacking	High speed packet I/O: challenges and solutions. The netmap framework for fast packet I/O Luigi Rizzo Language used for presentation English Event type Lecture Track Hacking	Optimizing ZFS for Block Storage Justin T. Gibbs Will Andrews Language used for presentationEnglish Event typeLecture Track System Administration
10:30
11:00
11:30	FreeBSD on Freescale QorIQ Data Path Acceleration Architecture Devices Piotr Zięcik Language used for presentationEnglish Event type Lecture Track Embedded	OpenBSD network stack evolution cksums and a new queueing subsystem Henning Brauer Language used for presentation English Event type Lecture Track Hacking	Overview of Amazon Web Services Randi Harper Language used for presentationEnglish Event typeLecture Track System Administration
12:00
12:30
13:00
13:30	Ethernet Switch Framework Fully utilize your WLAN router Stefan Bethke Language used for presentationEnglish Event type Lecture Track Embedded	Go SCTP! SCTP implemented in the language Go Olivier Van Acker Language used for presentation English Event type Lecture Track Hacking	pkgng Modernising FreeBSD package management Baptiste Daroussin Language used for presentationEnglish Event typeLecture Track System Administration
14:00
14:30
15:00	Recent Advances in IPv6 Security Fernando Gont Language used for presentationEnglish Event type Lecture Track Security		Solaris Boot Environments for FreeBSD reboot into different kernels and worlds Nikolai Lifanov Language used for presentationEnglish Event typeLecture Track System Administration
15:30
16:00			Works in Progress Sessions Short stories from projects around the world Dan Langille Language used for presentationEnglish Event typeLecture Track Hacking
16:30
17:00			Closing session The wrap up Dan Langille Language used for presentationEnglish Event typeLecture Track Plenary
17:30

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[ocbug] And we kick off tomorrow with the first day of tutorials…

2012-05-08 | Author scott5

Just reminding folks that BSDCan is getting underway on Wednesday with the first day of tutorials.

It appears that the mailing list functionality has been restored and we can now post to the list again.

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May Meeting and BSDCan 2012

2012-05-02 | Author scott5

Just a reminder that May 10^th is our next meeting. As this coincides with BSDCan, we will be having our meeting at the Royal Oak on Laurier near the University of Ottawa. This will be a very social meeting, as people from all over will be there as conference attendees. Come out and meet old friends and make a few new ones. Registration for the conference and registration packages handouts will also be happening at the same time.

If you haven’t registered and are interested, there is still time.

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April Meeting 2012

2012-04-11 | Author scott5

Just a reminder that we will be having our monthly meeting on Thursday, April 12. This will be in our usual location. Check the “Meeting Information” link at the top for location details.

Reminder: BSDCan 2012 next month. You can view the BSDCan 2012 schedule. I have five confirmed volunteers for the conference setup so far and will be collecting a name or two more to make sure we have sufficient people.

There is no designated topic for this meeting, so bring yourselves, questions, and a thirst for knowledge and other liquids.

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