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NetBSD Events

This is an incomplete list of NetBSD related events. If you know about some public event that fits and would like it to be listed here, contact us.

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May 2008 - BSDCan 2008 (top)

May 16-17, 2008, University of Ottawa, Canada

BSDCan is a BSD conference held in Ottawa, for people working on and with 4.4BSD based operating systems and related projects. The organizers have found a formula that appeals to a wide range of people from extreme novices to advanced developers.

This year, BSDCan 2008 will be held on 16-17 May 2008 at University of Ottawa.

For more information about BSDCan 2008 visit http://www.BSDCan.org/2008/.

Jun 2008 - pkgsrcCon 2008 (top)

Jun 13-15, 2008, Technical University of Berlin

The fifth annual pkgsrcCon will convene in Berlin, Germany on June 13 to 15, 2008. pkgsrcCon is a technical conference for people working on the NetBSD Packages Collection (pkgsrc), focusing on existing technologies, research projects, and works-in-progress in pkgsrc infrastructure. Developers, contributors, and users are all welcome to attend.

More information about pkgsrcCon 2008 is available at http://www.pkgsrccon.org/2008/.

Oct 2008 - NYCBSDCon 2008 (top)

Oct 12-13, 2008, Columbia University, NY, NY, USA

The third BSD Conference organized by the NYC BSD User Group takes place in New York City on October 12th and 13th, 2008. See this link for the Call for Papers.

More information about NYCBSDCon 2008 is available at http://www.nycbsdcon.org/2008/.

Past Events

Apr 2008 - BSDCon Barcelona 2008 (top)

Apr 19-20, 2008, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain

For more information about BSDCon Barcelona '08 visit http://bcn.bsdcon.net/.

Apr 2008 - Open Source Conference 2008 Nagaoka (top)

Apr. 12, 2008, Nagaoka University of Technology., Niigata, Japan

At the Open Source Conference 2008 Nagaoka , there was a NetBSD booth staffed by members of the Japan NetBSD Users' Group with many hpc{ mips, sh, arm } gadgets demonstration.

Mar 2008 - Frühjahrsfachgespräch (FFG) of the German Unix User Group (top)

March 11-14, 2008, University of Munich, Germany

The FFG is an annual meeting for professional users of Unix, networking technologies and IT security.

For more information about FFG 2008 visit http://www.guug.de/veranstaltungen/ffg2008/

Mar 2008 - AsiaBSDCon 2008 (top)

Mar 27-30, 2008, Tokyo, Japan

AsiaBSDCon is a conference for users and developers on BSD based systems. The conference is for anyone developing, deploying and using systems based on FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, DragonFly BSD, Darwin, and MacOS X. AsiaBSDCon is a technical conference and aims to collect the best technical papers and presentations available to ensure that the latest developments in our open source community are shared with the widest possible audience. AsiaBSDCon2008 was held with over 170 attendances. [Paper/Slide List, photographs]

NetBSD Discussion: Cherry G.Mathew:NetBSD/ia64, Hiroki Doshita and Masahiko Yasuoka: npppd and pipex, Toshiaki Nozawa Speecys Corp. :NetBSD/Robots, Masao Uebayashi:MIPS N32 ABI support and OCTEON on SEIL/X.

Paper Session (NetBSD-related content): Christoph Badura: Gaols: Implementing Jails Under the kauth Framework, Antti Kantee: Send and Recieve of File System Protocols: Userspace Approach With puffs, Kristaps Džonsons: Logical Resource Isolation in the NetBSD Kernel [detail: mult] , Alistair Crooks: A Portable iSCSI Initiator, Jörg Sonnenberger and Jared D.McNeill: Sleeping Beauty - NetBSD on Modern Laptops [Presentation] .

Mini Talk: M.Warner Losh: FreeBSD/mips, Alistair Crooks: Three roadmaps for NetBSD development through 5.0 and 6.0 - this will cover storage, networking and virtualisation.

Feb 2008 - Open Source Conference 2008 Tokyo/Spring (top)

Feb. 29-Mar. 1, 2008, Japan Electronics College., Tokyo, Japan

At the Open Source Conference 2008 Tokyo/Spring , there was a NetBSD booth staffed by members of the Japan NetBSD Users' Group with many hpc{ mips, sh, arm } gadgets demonstration.

Feb 2008 - FOSDEM 2008 (top)

Feb 23-24, 2008, Brussels, Belgium

NetBSD will have a booth at the FOSDEM on Feb 23-24 2008 in Brussels, Belgium. FOSDEM is a free and non-commercial event organised by the community for the community. The NetBSD booth will be manned by Thomas Reisky , please get in contact with Thomas if you want to help out at the booth or have any questions.

More information on FOSDEM 2008 will be at http://www.fosdem.org/.

Feb 2008 - SCALE 6x (top)

Feb. 9-10, 2007, Los Angeles, USA

The NetBSD project will be represented by Kevin Lahey and David Maxwell at SCALE 6x, the 6th annual Southern California Linux Expo, which takes place February 9-10, 2008 at The Westin Los Angeles Airport, Los Angeles, California.

Dec 2007 - Open Source Conference 2007 Fukuoka (top)

Dec. 8, 2007, ASC BUILD., Fukuoka, Japan

At the Open Source Conference 2007 Fukuoka , there will be a NetBSD booth staffed by members of the Japan NetBSD Users' Group with many hpc{ mips, sh, arm } gadgets demonstration.

Nov 2007 - Open Source Conference 2007 Okinawa (top)

Nov. 17, 2007, Okiden Fureai Hall, Okinawa, Japan

At the Open Source Conference 2007 Okinawa , there will be a NetBSD booth staffed by members of the Japan NetBSD Users' Group with many hpc{ mips, sh, arm } gadgets demonstration.

Nov 2007 - come2linux: Linux-days Essen 2007 (top)

November 10-11th 2007, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany

NetBSD will be present at come2linux, the Linux-days Essen 2007. There will be a joint BSD booth, the NetBSD part will be manned by Stefan Klose, Julian Suschlik and Karsten Kruse. Please contact Mark Weinem for further details.

The event takes place on November 10th and 11th 2007 at the Glaspavillon of the University of Duisburg-Essen. See http://www.come2linux.org for more information.

Nov 2007 - Kansai OpenSource 2007 (top)

Nov. 9-10, 2007, Asia and Pacific Trade Center ITC Building, Osaka, Japan

At the Kansai OpenSource 2007, there was a NetBSD booth staffed by members of the Japan NetBSD Users' Group with Mac LCIII+475 upgrade, iBook with Servo motor realtime control via USB audio, Zaurus C3200, many hpc{ mips, sh, arm } gadgets demonstration.

Oct 2007 - Open Source Conference 2007 Niigata (top)

Oct. 27, 2007, NIIGATA TERRSA, Niigata, Japan

At the Open Source Conference 2007 Niigata , there will be a NetBSD booth staffed by members of the Japan NetBSD Users' Group with many hpc{ mips, sh, arm } gadgets demonstration.

Oct 2007 - Systems Munich (top)

NetBSD will be present at the Open Source Pavillon (hall B2, booth 110-2) at the Systems Computer Fair in Munich, Germany, from October 23rd to 26th. The booth is sponsored and organized by Computer- und Literaturverlag - if you want to join us in manning the booth, please contact Hubert Feyrer .

Oct 2007 - First Turkish Conference on BSD Systems (top)

Oct. 19-20, 2007, Sultanahmet Campus Marmara University, Istanbul, Turkey

BSDConTR is the first conference on BSD systems in Turkey. The conference is organized in full cooperation with EnderUNIX Software Development team , which is largely known as its ongoing support for BSD systems in Turkey, and its open source projects and Marmara University. Conference join the developers, users, BSD system admins and companies in Istanbul to share experiences and knowledge of BSD Systems.

More information on BSDConTR at http://www.bsdcontr.org/

Oct 2007 - Brandenburger Linux-Infotag (top)

The Brandenburg Linux-Infotag will be held on Oct 20th 2007 at the FH Brandenburg, Germany. The NetBSD project will be represented with an own booth, and Stefan Schumacher will be there to answer questions. For more information, see the event's homepage, if you have questions related to NetBSD, you can contact Stefan at .

Oct 2007 - Open Source Conference 2007 Tokyo/Fall (top)

Oct. 5-6, 2007, Ota City Industrial Plaza, Tokyo, Japan

At the Open Source Conference 2007 Tokyo/Fall , there was a NetBSD booth staffed by members of the Japan NetBSD Users' Group with X68030 with Nereid, many hpc{ mips, sh, arm } gadgets demonstration and IPv6 and Security Presentation by itojun.

Sep 2007 - EuroBSDCon 2007 (top)

Sep. 14-15, 2007, Copenhagen, Denmark

The sixth annual European BSD Conference, EuroBSDCon 2007, will be held on September 14-15th 2007 at Symbion Science Park in Copenhagen, Denmark. Two days of Tutorials will precede the Conference on Sep 12-13th.

For more information about EuroBSDCon 2007 visit the website http://2007.EuroBSDCon.org/.

Aug 2007 - Chaos Communications Camp 2007 (top)

The Chaos Communications Camp is the summer event of the Chaos Computer Club. It will be held from August 8th to 12th at the Airport Museum Finowfurt near Berlin, Germany. See the event's homepage for more information.

NetBSD presence is planned for the event, please talk to Jochen Kunz and Stefan Schumacher for further details and organization.

Jul 2007 - Open Source Conference 2007 in Kansai (top)

Jul. 20-21, 2007, Kyoto Computer Gakuin, Kyoto, Japan

At the Open Source Conference 2007 Kansai , there was a NetBSD booth staffed by members of the Japan NetBSD Users' Group and Nagoya *BSD Users' Group. There were gadgets power consumption demonstration ( amd64, alpha, evbarm, hpcarm, hpcmips, hpcsh, news68k, newsmips, sandpoint, sgimips, xen, OpenBSD/zaurus ) and BSD BOF ( Servo motor realtime control via USB audio, Apache Geronimo, NetBSD and Java ).

A report with some photos is available.

Jul 2007 - Chaos Singularity (CoSin) 2007 (top)

Jul. 6-8, 2007, Bremgarten AG, Switzerland

The Chaos Singularity 2007 was an event organized by swiss groups which organizationally or by content are related to the CCC (Chaos Computer Club). This event took place from July 6th to 8th at the cultural center of Bremgarten (KuZeB) in the canton of Aargau, Switzerland.

There was a BSD booth at the CoSin 2007, also representing NetBSD. A report was posted to the regional-de mailing list.

Jul 2007 - Japan NetBSD Users' Group meeting & NetBSD BOF (top)

Jul 7, 2007, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

See this page for meeting information. Talking about ColdFire, MobileIPv6, Type 0 Routing Header issue, update net80211 and Atheros, pkgsrc, NetBSD/playstation3, build status, automake to BSD make converter, NetBSD - Now, 4.0 and Future, PGP key sign party.

Jun 2007 - Open Source Conference 2007 in Hokkaido (top)

Jun. 30, 2007, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan

At the Open Source Conference 2007 Hokkaido , there was a NetBSD booth staffed by members of the Japan NetBSD Users' Group with many hpc{ mips, sh, arm } gadgets demonstration, Internet Radio Player on USL-5P, NetBSD/Armadillo-9.

May 2007 - Linuxtag Berlin (top)

LinuxTag 2007 opens its doors from May 30 to June 2, 2007 at the Berlin Expo Center under the Funkturm in Berlin, Germany. The event features many talks about Open Source, Linux and there will be a full BSD-track at the BSD-Day this year, too. Besides the talks there will be a large exhibition fair, and the NetBSD project will be among the BSD projects, which have a joint booth. BSD talks include Hubert Feyrer's NetBSD status report.

See the Linuxtag homepage for more information.

If you're interested to participate at the NetBSD booth, answering questions etc., please talk to Hubert Feyrer <hubertf@NetBSD.org>.

May 2007 - BSDCan 2007 (top)

May 18-19, 2007, Ottawa, Canada

In just three short years, BSDCan, a BSD conference held in Ottawa, has quickly established itself as the technical conference for people working on and with 4.4BSD based operating systems and related projects. The organizers have found a fantastic formula that appeals to a wide range of people from extreme novices to advanced developers.

This year, BSDCan 2007 will be held on 18-19 May 2007 at University of Ottawa, and will be preceded by two days of Tutorials on 16-17 May 2007.

For more information about BSDCan 2007 visit http://www.BSDCan.org/2007/.

Apr 2007 - pkgsrcCon 2007 (top)

Apr. 27-29, 2007, Barcelona, Spain

The fourth annual pkgsrcCon will convene in Barcelona, Spain on April 27 to 29, 2007. pkgsrcCon is a technical conference for people working on the NetBSD Packages Collection (pkgsrc), focusing on existing technologies, research projects, and works-in-progress in pkgsrc infrastructure. Developers, contributors, and users are all welcome to attend.

More information about pkgsrcCon 2007 is available at http://www.pkgsrccon.org/2007/.

Mar 2007 - Linux-Infotag Augsburg (top)

Mar 24, 2007, Augsburg, Germany

There will be a joint BSD booth at the Linux Infotag in Augsburg, including presence of the NetBSD project. The event offers some small expo space, and two tracks of talks, one with beginners in mind, the other one for advanced users. See the event's homepage for more information.

P.S.: A report is available in this mail.

Mar 2007 - Open Source Conference 2007 Tokyo/Spring (top)

Mar. 16-17, 2007, Tokyo, Japan

At the Open Source Conference 2007 Tokyo/Spring, there will be a NetBSD booth staffed by members of the Japan NetBSD Users' Group with many hpc{ mips, sh, arm } gadgets demonstration.

Mar 2007 - AsiaBSDCon 2007 (top)

Mar. 8-11, 2007, Tokyo, Japan

AsiaBSDCon is a conference for users and developers on BSD based systems. The conference is for anyone developing, deploying and using systems based on FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, DragonFly BSD, Darwin, and MacOS X. AsiaBSDCon is a technical conference and aims to collect the best technical papers and presentations available to ensure that the latest developments in our open source community are shared with the widest possible audience.

Please contact secretary@asiabsdcon.org if you have any questions. The AsiaBSDCon 2007 timetable is available at http://2007.asiabsdcon.org/timetable.html.

Mar 2007 - Chemnitzer Linux-Tage (top)

Mar. 3-4, 2007, Chemnitz

NetBSD will have a booth and related talks at the Chemnitzer Linux-Tage (linux days) in Chemnitz, Germany. See http://chemnitzer.linux-tage.de/2007/ for more information. If you want to help out manning the booth, please contact Hubert Feyrer for further details.

Feb 2007 - GUUG spring talk (top)

Feb. 27-Mar. 2, 2007, Berlin, Germany

The German Unix User Group will have it's annual spring talk (Frühjahrsfachgespräch) in Berlin this year. It will take place February 27-March 2, 2007, at the Freie Universität Berlin. There will be several talks about Unix and Unix-related topics, and one will be held by Stefan Schumacher on how to secure a NetBSD system using Systrace.

More information can be found at http://www.guug.de/veranstaltungen/ffg2007/ and http://www.guug.de/veranstaltungen/ffg2007/abstracts.html#3_7_1. The German language article can be found at: http://net-tex.dnsalias.org/~stefan/nt/netbsd/systrace.html.

Ignatios also posted his slides (german language!).

Feb 2007 - FOSDEM 2007 (top)

Feb 24-25, 2007, Brussels, Belgium

on February 24 and 25, the Free and Open source Software Developers' European Meeting (FOSDEM) takes place again at the Free University of Brussels, Belgium.

There will be a joint *BSD booth with flyers, CD's, T-shirts and other merchandising, and the Xen demo machine (now upgraded to NetBSD 4.0_BETA2 with Xen 3.x). Furthermore there are a lot of interesting talks, development rooms, a key signing event, etcetera. More information is available on http://www.fosdem.org.

Feb 2007 - SCALE 5x (top)

Feb. 10-11, 2007, Los Angeles, USA

SCALE 5x, the 5th annual Southern California Linux Expo, took place February 10-11, 2007, at The Westin Los Angeles Airport, Los Angeles, California. The NetBSD Project had a booth at this event; see the reports by Kevin Lahey and Jan Schaumann.

Dec 2006 - BSDCon Chile 2006 (top)

December 9, 2006, Universidad Diego Portales - Santiago, Chile.

This is the first BSD related conference held in Chile (Latin America). Our main objective is to provide a place for BSD developers, users and Sysadmins to meet in Chile to share and interchange ideas, experiences, knowledge and in addition to socialize to construct future links to expand knowledge of BSD systems.

The conference is for anyone developing, administrating and using systems based on FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, DragonFlyBSD, Darwin, MacOS X and Solaris.

For more information, please visit the website.

Dec 2006 - OpenSource Conference 2006 Okinawa (top)

December 2, 2006, Okinawa Industry Support Center,Japan

At the OpenSource Conference 2006 Okinawa , there will be a NetBSD booth staffed by members of the Japan NetBSD Users' Group with many hpc{ mips, sh, arm } gadgets demonstration.

Nov 2006 - Hackathon (top)

NetBSD will run another hackathon, primarily dedicated to get -current ready for the 4.0 re-branch. See the Hackathon page for details.

Nov 2006 - LinuxDay Dornbirn, Austria (top)

NetBSD will be present as part of the OpenSource community at the LinuxDay in Dornbirn, Austria, on November 18th. Please contact Raphael Langerhorst if you have any questions or want to help out.

Nov 2006 - EuroBSDCon Milan (top)

EuroBSDCon 2006, the European BSD Conference will be held November 10th - 12th 2006 in Milan, Italy. The schedule is up now, and it has quite a bit of NetBSD-related content:

  • Anders "Ragge" Magnusson: How to set an internet2 Landspeed record
  • Jörg Sonnenberger: pkg_install
  • Alistair Crooks: iSCSI - beyond the hype
  • NetBSD Security Enhancements: Elad Efrat
  • Emmanuel Dreyfus: What's new in NetBSD?
  • Brian A. Seklecki: A Scalable Framework for Compact Flash Booting NetBSD Network Appliances
  • Antti Kantee & Johannes Helander: Implementing Lightweight Routing for BSD TCP/IP

Registration is open now. Please see the website for more details!

Oct 2006 - NYCBSDCon 2006 (top)

Oct. 28-29, 2006, New York, NY, USA

Building on last year's success, the New York City *BSD User Group is organizing NYCBSDCon 2006. The schedule shows some speakers talking about NetBSD-related topics.

Oct 2006 - Open Source Conference 2006 Tokyo/Fall (top)

Oct. 28, 2006, Tokyo, Japan

At the Open Source Conference 2006 Tokyo/Fall, there will be a NetBSD booth staffed by members of the Japan NetBSD Users' Group with many hpc{ mips, sh, arm } gadgets demonstration.

Oct 2006 - Systems Munich (top)

NetBSD will be present at the Open Source Pavillon (hall A3, booth A3.542) at the Systems Computer Fair in Munich, Germany, from October 23rd to 27th. The booth is sponsored and organized by Computer- und Literaturverlag - if you want to join us in manning the booth, please contact Hubert Feyrer .

A report on the event is available here.

Sep 2006 - Ohio Linuxfest (top)

Sep. 30, 2006, Columbus, Ohio, USA

There will be a NetBSD booth at the 2006 Ohio Linuxfest Conference and Expo. Contact Jay Fink if you have any questions or want to help out at the booth.

A report of the event can be found here.

Sep 2006 - NetBSD at Linux-days Essen 2006: come2linux (top)

NetBSD will participate in the Linux-days in Essen, dubbed "come2linux". There will be a joint BSD booth, the NetBSD part will be manned by Menuhin Saitov , feel free to contact him about helping out at the booth or if you have any questions. A number of NetBSD CDs, NetBSD t-shirts etc. will be available at the booth, too.

The event takes place on September 9th and 10th 2006 at the Glaspavillon of the University of Duisburg-Essen. See http://www.come2linux.org/ for more information.

A report on the event was posted to the regional-de mailing list.

Sep 2006 - NetBSD at Linux-kongress Nuremberg 2006 (top)

There will be a NetBSD booth at the Linux-Kongress in Nuremberg on September 7th and 8th at the University of Applied Sciences (Fachhochschule) Nuernberg. See http://www.linux-kongress.org/ for more information on the event, and contact Hubert Feyrer if you have any questions or want to help out at the booth.

Hubert Feyrer wrote a short report about the event.

Jul 2006 - Open Source Conference 2006 in Hokkaido (top)

Jul. 15, 2006, Sapporo, Japan

At the Open Source Conference 2006 DO , there will be a NetBSD booth staffed by members of the Japan NetBSD Users' Group with many hpc{ mips, sh, arm } gadgets demonstration.

Jun 2006 - Open Source Conference 2006 in Niigata (top)

Jun. 17, 2006, Niigata, Japan

At the Open Source Conference 2006 Niigata , there was a NetBSD booth staffed by members of the Japan NetBSD Users' Group with many hpc{ mips, sh, arm } gadgets demonstration with 150 attendances.

Jun 2006 - Interop 2006 Tokyo BSD BOF (top)

Jun 8, 2006, Makuhari-Messe, Chiba, Japan, 18:30-20:00 JST

Interop 2006 Tokyo BSD BOF was held in Interop 2006 Tokyo with 129 attendances. BOF03. Room 201.

See program for details.

The BoF was broadcasted via RealVideo (238 clients), xcast (6 clients) , IRC (49 clients).

May 2006 - BSDCan 2006 (top)

May 12-13 2006, Ottawa, Canada

In just two years, BSDCan, a BSD conference held in Ottawa, has quickly established itself as the technical conference for people working on and with 4.4BSD based operating systems and related projects. The organizers have found a fantastic formula that appeals to a wide range of people from extreme novices to advanced developers.

This year, BSDCan 2006 will be will be held on May 12-13 2006 at University of Ottawa, and some other related events will be passed during May 10-14th.

Watch out for the NetBSD people on BSDCan 2006!

May 2006 - pkgsrcCon 2006 (top)

May 5-7, Paris, France

The third pkgsrc conference will be held on May 5-7, 2006 in Paris, France. Universite Paris 7 - Denis Diderot is graciously hosting the conference on their campus.

pkgsrcCon is a technical conference for people working on the NetBSD Packages Collection (pkgsrc), focusing on existing technologies, research projects, and works-in-progress in pkgsrc infrastructure. Developers, contributors, and users are all welcome to attend, and to share an excellent opportunity to gather and to discuss ideas face-to-face on how to improve pkgsrc.

For more information, including how to register, and how to submit a presentation proposal, please visit http://www.pkgsrcCon.org/.

May 2006 - LinuxTag 2006 (top)

May 3-6 2006, Wiesbaden, Germany

NetBSD will have a booth at LinuxTag 2006, visit us at Hall 9, booth number 944. There will also be BSD talks and tutorials.

If you're interested in helping out at the NetBSD booth or have any questions, please contact Dennis Wecker .

Apr 2006 - Vintage Computer Festival Europe (top)

Apr 29th - May 1st, Munich, Germany

The Vintage Computer Festival Europe is taking place from April 29th to May 1st in Munich, Germany. NetBSD's Jochen Kunz will demonstrate 2.11BSD on a PDP-11/73 and do some general NetBSD advocacy. If you're interested, please contact Jochen Kunz and/or visit the URL above.

Apr 2006 - Japan NetBSD Users' Group meeting & NetBSD BOF (top)

Apr 16, 2006, National Olympics Memorial Youth Center, Tokyo, Japan

See this page for meeting information. Talking about NetBSD/pc98, GDB operation on Emacs, NetBSD/dreamcast maracas controller, NetBSD/kurobako, NetBSD/Armadillo, Codeblog.

Apr 2006 - LinuxWorld-Boston 2006 (top)

April 3-6, 2006, Boston, MA, USA

This year the first of two LinuxWorld Conferences & Expo is going to take place in Boston, MA, USA at the beginning of April. The NetBSD Project might be represented with a [shared] booth there - if you are interested in helping out, please contact Brian Asemi (asemisldkfj at gmail.com).

For more information about this event see http://mail-index.NetBSD.org/netbsd-advocacy/2006/04/07/0000.html.

Mar 2006 - Chemnitzer Linux-Tage 2006 (top)

March 4-5th 2006, TU Chemnitz, Chemnitz, Germany

NetBSD will have a booth at the Chemnitzer Linux-Tage, one of the largest Linux Cons in Germany.

Additionally, several NetBSD presentations and a workshop will be held:

  • Karl Uwe Lockhoff: Introduction into Unix, BSD and Co.
  • Stefan Schumacher: Backup and Recovery in a NetBSD environment
  • Dennis Wecker: Verified Exec in NetBSD
  • Matthias Petermann: NetBSD Features
  • Hubert Feyrer: NetBSD example installation in QEmu (Workshop)

For further information contact Stefan Schumacher <stefan (at) net-tex.de>.

Mar 2006 - CeBIT 2006 (top)

March 9-15 2006, Hannover, Germany

The NetBSD project will have a booth at CeBIT, the large b2b-tradefair in Hannover, Germany, from March 12-15. The booth will be in Hall 5, number E 56 and will showcase NetBSD and Xen.

Mar 2006 - Open Source Conference 2006 Tokyo/Spring (top)

Mar. 17-18, 2006, Tokyo, Japan

At the Open Source Conference 2006 Tokyo/Spring, there will be a NetBSD booth staffed by members of the Japan NetBSD Users' Group with many hpc{ mips, sh, arm } gadgets demonstration.

Mar 2006 - GUUG spring talk (top)

March 21-24th 2006, Osnabrück, Germany

German Unix User Group “Frühjahrsfachgespräch” (spring talk) will be passed during 21.-24.3.2006 in the University of Osnabrück.

There will be at least one NetBSD-related talk, on backup strategies. Interested parties are welcome to coordinate any BOF sessions or booth activities with Stefan Schumacher, see his posting on regional-de.

Feb 2006 - FOSDEM 2006 (top)

February 25/26th 2006, Brussels, Belgium

The sixth Free and Open source Software Developers' European Meeting is a 2 days event, organized by volunteers, to promote the widespread use of Free and Open Source software. Taking place in the beautiful city of Brussels, Belgium FOSDEM meetings are recognised as the best Free and Open Source events in Europe.

Peter Postma () and Geert Hendrickx () will advocate the NetBSD project on this event. Hope to see you too!

Update: Geert Hendrickx posted a review of the event.

Feb 2006 - SCALE 4x (top)

February 11-12th 2006, Los Angeles, California

SCALE 4x, the 4th annual Southern California Linux Expo, will take place February 11-12, 2006, at The Westin Los Angeles Airport, Los Angeles, California. The NetBSD Project will have a booth at this event; please contact Kevin Lahey () if you would like to help.

A report from Kevin Lahey is available.

Dec 2005 - 22nd Chaos Communication Congress (22C3) (top)

December 27-30th 2005, Berlin, Germany

The 22nd Chaos Communication Congress (22C3) is a four-day conference on technology, society and utopia. The Congress offers lectures and workshops on a multitude of topics including (but not limited to) information technology, IT-security, internet, cryptography and generally a critical-creative attitude towards technology and the discussion about the effects of technological advances on society.

Nov 2005 - OpenSource Conference 2005 Okinawa (top)

November 19, 2005, Okiden Fureai Hall,Japan

At the OpenSource Conference 2005 Okinawa , there will be a NetBSD booth staffed by members of the Japan NetBSD Users' Group with many hpc{ mips, sh, arm } gadgets demonstration.

Nov 2005 - EuroBSDCon 2005 (top)

November 25th-27th 2005, Switzerland

EuroBSDCon 2005 will be held at the University of Basel, Switzerland on November 25th to 27th 2005. Check the website for official program, conference venue and registration. present.

Oct 2005 - Linux-Info-Tag Dresden 2005 (top)

October 29, 2005, Dresden, Germany

The “Linux-Info-Tag Dresden 2005” will take place on October 29th, 2005, in Dresden, Germany. There will be a NetBSD booth presenting NetBSD to the public and showing its abilities on demo computers. Furthermore, there will be a lecture entitled “Introduction to NetBSD” by Karl Uwe Lockhoff.

For further information contact Stefan Schumacher (stefan [at] net-tex [dot] de) and see the website of the event at http://www.linux-info-tag.de/.

Oct 2005 - Systems 2005 (top)

October 24th-28th, 2005, Munich, Germany

There will be a BSD booth at the Systems computer show in Munich, Germany from October 24th to 28th 2005, where the BSD Projects (among others) will be presented.

People willing to help are welcome. It's also fine that you have only on one or more days time to participate at the Booth. There is also a sponsor which provides food and drinks during the event!

For more Information see http://www.systems.de/

Please contact Daniel Ettle (dan at deam dot org) to help at the booth, especially showing NetBSD!

Oct 2005 - KANSAI-OPENSOURCE-2005 (top)

October 28-October 29, 2005, Osaka Sangyo Souzoukan, Japan

At the KANSAI OpenSource 2005 there was a NetBSD booth staffed by members of the Japan NetBSD Users' Group with many hpc{ mips, sh, arm } gadgets demonstration, and DreamCast with ISA BUS Expander, NEC EWS4800 with NetBSD, IO-DATA USL-5P (NetBSD/landisk).

At the *BSD Meeting in Kansai 2005, There was a BoF about Secure Programing, embeded-NetBSD developers' Network, Devices and more about BSD, driven by Kansai *BSD Users Group.

Sep 2005 - Open Source Conference 2005 Fall (top)

Sep. 17, 2005, Tokyo, Japan

At the Open Source Conference 2005 Fall there was a NetBSD booth staffed by members of the Japan NetBSD Users' Group with many hpc{ mips, sh, arm } gadgets demonstration.

Sep 2005 - NYC BSD Con 2005 (top)

September 17th 2005, New York City, NY, USA

The NYC BSD User Group organized the first NYC BSD Conference, a one day technical conference for developers, systems administrators and end-users of the BSD operating systems and related open source projects. Please see the conference website for details.

Sep 2005 - Computer-Bank-Office 2005 (top)

September 7th-10th 2005, Odessa, Ukraine

The NetBSD Project will be presented at 10th annual international exhibition of information technologies, Computer-Bank-Office 2005, which will take place at Expocentre of Odessa Marine Terminal. All talks about NetBSD and pkgsrc systems are scheduled for Sep 8th. Anyone interested in support for and preparation of this event, please contact Mike M. Volokhov . See also his post on netbsd-advocacy.

Sep 2005 - Portuguese NetBSD Users's Group meeting (top)

September 10th 2005, Lisboa, Portugal

The Portuguese NetBSD User Group second meeting will be held at Parque das Nações (Vasco da Gama). Please see the group page for more information.

Aug 2005 - Japan NetBSD Users' Group meeting & NetBSD BOF (top)

Aug 27, 2005, National Olympics Memorial Youth Center, Tokyo, Japan

See this page for meeting information.

A presentation about the changes on the NetBSD audio framework is also available.

Aug 2005 - BSDDAY São Paulo (top)

August 13th, 2005, São Paulo, Brazil

The first BSDDAY in São Paulo, Brazil took place on August 13th, 2005. Presentations regarding the main BSD derivatives including, of course, NetBSD were given. Since the event is also meant to promote charity, the entrance fee was 2 Kilograms of non-perishable food, which were donated to a non-governmental organization.

Aug 2005 - LinuxWorld Conference & Expo 2005 (top)

August 9-11th, 2005, San Francisco, California, USA

LinuxWorld Conference & Expo 2005 was held in San Francisco, California, USA from August 9th to 11th 2005. NetBSD had a booth in the ".org Pavilion", organized by Jeff Rizzo . One of the main attractions here was the NetBSD Toaster, engineered by Technologic Systems. See Jeff Rizzo's report for more details.

Jul 2005 - BSD at “What the Hack” outdoor hacker conference (top)

July 28 - 31, 2005, Liempde, near Den Bosch, The Netherlands

What The Hack is an outdoor hacker conference/event taking place on a large event-campground in the south of The Netherlands from 28 until 31 July 2005. There will be a BSD village with at least three members of the NetBSD Project present. For more details about the *BSD presence see Daniel Ettle's message to the netbsd-advocacy mailinglist.

Jul 2005 - BSD-CONFERENCE-JAPAN 2005 (top)

July 23, 2005, NADYA Park Nagoya, Japan

http://www.bsdcon.jp/ with 80 attendances. There had be a BSD booth staffed by members of the Nagoya *BSD Users' Group. See more Reports.

Jul 2005 - Open Source Conference 2005 in Hokkaido (top)

Jul. 9, 2005, Sapporo, Japan

At the Open Source Conference 2005 DO there had be a NetBSD booth staffed by members of the Japan NetBSD Users' Group. http://www.ospn.jp/osc2005-do/ with 250 attendances and 17 user groups.

Jun 2005 - MeetBSD 2005 (top)

June 17-19th, 2005, Kraków, Poland

MeetBSD 2005 will be held in Kraków, Poland, from June 17th to 19th 2005. Check the website for the official program conference venue and registration.

Jun 2005 - Interop 2005 Tokyo BSD BOF (top)

Jun 9, 2005, Makuhari-Messe, Chiba, Japan, 18:30-20:00 JST

Interop 2005 Tokyo BSD BOF was held in Interop 2005 Tokyo with 130 attendances. BOF01. Room 302.

See program for details.

The BoF was broadcasted via RealVideo (277 clients)/xcast (4 clients include Univ. of Science Malaysia, Nagoya University, and Nagoya *BSD Users' Group)/ IRC (55 clients,BSD-BOF-LOG,BSD-BOF-QA).

May 2005 - BSDCan2005 (top)

May 13th - May 14th, Ottawa, Canada

BSDCan 2005 was held on May 13-14 2005 at University of Ottawa. There were related events on the 12th and the 15th (of a social nature, for the most part).

May 2005 - pkgsrcCon 2005 (top)

May 6th - May 8th 2005, Prague, Czech Republic

pkgsrcCon 2005 was held in Prague, Czech Republic from May 6th until May 8th 2005. pkgsrcCon is a technical conference for people working on the NetBSD Packages Collection (pkgsrc), focusing on existing technologies, research projects, and works-in-progress in pkgsrc infrastructure. Developers, contributors, and users are all welcome to attend. You can view the slides for this event here.

See http://www.pkgsrcCon.org/2005/ for details.

Apr 2005 - Linux Fest Northwest 2005 (top)

LinuxFest Northwest is an annual conference providing many free lectures and booths covering the open source Unix community. The free event was held April 30th in Bellingham, Washington, USA. Lectures covering BSD topics and a BSD advocacy booth were available for the fourth year. Around 1000 people attended the past two years.

More information is at http://linuxnorthwest.org/. (If you can volunteer to help with NetBSD advocacy at LinuxFest, please see this email.)

Apr 2005 - 2005 USENIX Annual Technical Conference (top)

April 10-15, 2005, Anaheim, California, USA

USENIX is a place to present groundbreaking research and cutting-edge practices in a wide variety of technologies and environments. The 2005 program included additional tutorials, more security breakthroughs, and sessions devoted to Linux and Open Source Software. Join the community of programmers, developers, and systems professionals in sharing solutions and fresh ideas.

See http://www.usenix.org/usenix05/ for details.

Mar 2005 - Open Source Conference 2005 (top)

Mar. 25-26, 2005, Tokyo, Japan

At the Open Source Conference 2005 there was a NetBSD booth staffed by members of the Japan NetBSD Users' Group. For more details see http://www.ospn.jp/osc2005/.

Mar 2005 - CeBIT 2005 (top)

March 10-16, 2005, Hannover, Germany

The NetBSD Project was presented at the CeBIT 2005 trade show. A few pictures are available at this URL.

Mar 2005 - Chemnitzer Linux-Tage 2005 (top)

NetBSD was present Mar 5th/6th 2005 in Chemnitz, Germany. We had a fine NetBSD booth at the Chemnitz Linuxdays Mar 5th/6th 2005, with lots of fun going on. Please check Hubert Feyrer's BLOG for all the details:

Feb 2005 - Spring Talks of the German Unix User Group (top)

Feb 22nd to 25th 2005 in Munich, Germany. For some details on the event itself and some rumours & gossips see Hubert Feyrer's BLOG entries:

Feb 2005 - Southern California Linux Expo (top)

Feb 12th -13th, 2005, Los Angeles, California

NetBSD had a booth at the Southern California Linux Expo at the LA Convention Center. NetBSD's presence in booth #34 was organized by Kevin Lahey (). You can find an account of his experience here and here; a picture of the NetBSD booth also was prominently displayed http://www.socallinuxexpo.org/images/pictures/scale3x_day1_6.jpg.

Feb 2005 - Solutions Linux 2005 (top)

Feb. 1-3, 2005, Paris, France

NetBSD will have a booth at Solutions Linux 2005. We will be presenting both NetBSD and pkgsrc on various hardware and software platforms, while selling CDs and other merchandise. If you want to help, you can contact Quentin Garnier ().

Dec 2004 - 21st Chaos Communication Congress (21c3) (top)

Dec. 27 - 29, 2004, Berlin, Germany

There will be a NetBSD booth at this year's 21st Chaos Communications Congress, and you're welcome to drop by for hacking, drinking, fun and entertainment, giving talks, promoting NetBSD and your working areas, help man the NetBSD booth, etc. Please contact Stefan Schumacher (stefan [at] net-tex [dot] de) if you're interested in helping out. There are some notes on the event available.

Oct 2004 - EuroBSDCon 2004 (top)

Oct. 29 - 31, 2004, Karlsruhe, Germany

EuroBSDCon 2004 took place in Karlsruhe, Germany. Check the website for official program, conference venue and registration. A schedule of the talks shows that there were a number of NetBSD developers present.

A brief report from the conference is available here. A longer review was published in the USENIX ;login: magazine.

Oct 2004 - Systems 2004 (top)

Oct. 18 - 22, 2004, Munich, Germany

There will be a 40m² BSD booth at the Systems computer show in Munich, Germany from October 18th to 22nd 2004, where the NetBSD project (among others) will be presented. People willing to help are welcome; Daniel Ettle (dan at deam org) will act as a point of contact. See http://www.systems.de/ for more information on the exhibition.

Oct 2004 - BSD-CONFERENCE-JAPAN 2004 (top)

October 23, 2004, Osaka Sangyo Souzoukan, Japan

http://www.bsdcon.jp/2004/

Oct 2004 - KANSAI-OPENSOURCE-2004 (top)

October 22-October 23, 2004, Osaka Sangyo Souzoukan, Japan

http://k-of.jp/2004/

Sep 2004 - Open Source Conference 2004 (top)

Sep. 4, 2004, Tokyo, Japan

At the Open Source Conference 2004 there was a NetBSD booth staffed by members of the Japan NetBSD Users' Group.

Sep 2004 - Swiss Unix Conference 2004 (top)

Sep. 2 - 4, 2004, Zurich, Switzerland

SUCON '04, the 2nd Swiss Unix Conference, will take place in Zurich, Switzerland. The NetBSD Project was represented by Hubert Feyrer, who will gave a presentation at this conference.

Aug 2004 - NetBSD System Administration training (top)

August 10 - 13, 2004, Seattle, Washington, USA

Puget Sound Technology is teaching a hands-on class covering the fundamentals of NetBSD system administration. Visit http://www.pugetsoun dtechnology.com/training/netbsd/ for details.

Aug 2004 - LinuxWorld 2004 (top)

Aug. 2 - 5, 2004, San Francisco, CA, USA

LinuxWorld Conference and Expo is going to take place in San Francisco, CA, USA at the beginning of August. The NetBSD Project might be represented with a booth there - if you are interested in helping out, please contact .

Jun 2004 - NetWorld+Interop 2004 Tokyo BSD BOF (top)

Jun 30, 2004, Makuhari-Messe, Chiba, Japan, 18:30-20:00 JST

http://www.interop.jp/2004/

BOF information

Contact Jun Ebihara for more information.

Jun 2004 - USENIX 2004 (top)

June 27 - July 2, 2004, Boston, MA, USA

USENIX '04, the USENIX Annual Technical Conference is going to take place in Boston, MA, USA at the end of June. The NetBSD Project will be represented by Alistair Crooks, who gives a talk on The NetBSD Update System, as well as Christos Zoulas, who will report on NetBSD during The State of the BSD Projects, and finally by a number of NetBSD developers who will be attending the conference.

Jun 2004 - Linuxtag 2004 (top)

June 23 - 26, 2004, Karlsruhe, Germany

Linuxtag 2004 is going to take place in Karlsruhe, Germany. The NetBSD Project will be represented with a booth - please contact if you are interested in helping out.

May 2004 - Japan NetBSD Users' Group meeting & NetBSD BOF (top)

May 22, 2004, National Olympics Memorial Youth Center, Tokyo, Japan

See this page for meeting information.

May 2004 - BSDCan 2004 (top)

May 13-16, 2004, Ottawa, Canada

The first BSDCan was a tremendous success. With attendance matching BSDCon, and lower fees and accommodation costs, this looks likely to become a popular annual conference. BSD developer Speakers and attendees were numerous. BSDMall had NetBSD paraphanalia available for sale. See also the BSDCan Website, and some photos from Daemonnews.

May 2004 - LinuxChix-Br II National Meeting (top)

May 1-2, 2004 Sao Paulo, Brazil

At the LinuxChix-Br National Meeting there will be a presentation about pkgsrc and a NetBSD booth staffed by members of NetBSD-BR.

Apr 2004 - pkgsrcCon 2004 (top)

April 30 - May 2, 2004, Vienna, Austria

pkgsrcCon is a technical conference for people working at the NetBSD Packages Collection (pkgsrc), focusing on existing technologies, research projects, and works-in-progress in pkgsrc infrastructure. For more information, including slides of the talks, please visit http://www.pkgsrcCon.org/2004/, and see Hubert Feyrer's report in the DaemonNews Ezine.

Apr 2004 - Linuxfest Northwest 2004 (top)

April 17, 2004, Bellingham, Washington, USA

LFNW is a showcase for what Northwest Linux users are doing with open source software. Over 50 short (1 hour) presentations will be given throughout the day. Among them will be introductions to BSD and pkgsrc. There will be a BSD booth, occupied by two NetBSD developers and other BSD enthusiasts. Admission is free. Please see http://www.linuxnorthwest.org/ and this message to the netbsd-news mailinglist for more information.

Mar 2004 - GUUG Frühjahrsfachgespräch (top)

March 9-12, 2004, Bochum, Germany

The NetBSD Project will in all likeliness be represented at this year's GUUG Frühjahrsfachgespräche, a yearly congress for everybody interested in Unix(-like) Systems and System Administration organized by the German Unix User Group.

Mar 2004 - Chemnitzer Linux-Tag 2004 (top)

March 6-7, 2004, Chemnitz, Germany

NetBSD was represented with a booth at the Chemnitzer Linux-Tag 2004 in Chemnitz, Germany. In addition, there were three presentations:

Please see the website for details. Photos are available at this website, more photos can be found on the Linux-Tag website.

Feb 2004 - Solutions Linux 2004 (top)

February 3-5, 2004, Paris, France

NetBSD was represented with a booth at the Solutions Linux 2004 conference and expo in Paris, France.

Jan 2004 - LinuxWorld 2004 (top)

January 20-23, 2004, New York, New York

The LinuxWorld Conference and Expo 2004 took place in the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center in New York City from January 20-23, 2004. While the NetBSD Project did not have their own booth this year, we were able to hand out some flyers and sell a few shirts through the BSDMall booth. See the report from the local user group (NYCBUG) for details.

Dec 2003 - 20th Chaos Communication Congress (20c3) (top)

December 27th to 29th, 2003, Berlin, Germany

The NetBSD Project was represented at the 20th Chaos Communication Congress (20c3) in Berlin, Germany, from December 27th to 29th. See Hubert Feyrer's report for Details. If you're interested in the Blinkenlights project, one of 20c3's main attractions, you will find Lubomir Sedlacik's post to the netbsd-advocacy MailingList useful.

Dec 2003 - BSDCon Brasil 2003 (top)

December 6 and 7, 2003, Instituto Militar de Engenharia (military institute of engineering - IME), Rio de Janeiro, Brasil

See http://bsdcon.myfreebsd.com.br for details.

Dec 2003 - BSD-Linux-Day 2003 (top)

December 2, 2003, Pacifico Yokohama, Japan

http://www.jus.or.jp/events/bsd-linux-day/

Nov 2003 - NetBSD System Administration training (top)

November 18-21, 2003, Seattle, Washington area

Puget Sound Technology is teaching a hands-on class covering the fundamentals of NetBSD system administration. See http://www.pugetsoundtechnology.com/training/netbsd/ for details.

Oct 2003 - KANSAI-OPENSOURCE+FREEWARE-2003 (top)

October 31-November 1, 2003, Osaka Sangyo Souzoukan, Japan

http://k-of.jp/2003/

Oct 2003 - BSD-CONFERENCE-JAPAN 2003 (top)

October 18, 2003, BIZ SHINJUKU, Japan

http://www.bsdcon.jp/2003/

Oct 2003 - Linux-Kongress 2003 (top)

October 14-16, 2003, Saarbrücken, Germany

NetBSD will be present at the Linux-Kongress in Saarbrücken, Germany, an event mostly attended by Linux developers. Presenting NetBSD in this environment will give an interesting chance to compare open source operating systems on a highly skilled level. There will be a joint booth by all BSD projects offering CDs, DVDs, t-shirts and other devotionalia. See this page for more information.

Sep 2003 - BSDCon 2003 (top)

September 8-12, 2003, Marriott Hotel,San Mateo, California, USA

Meet the movers and shakers of the BSD community, and learn how you can use BSD as part of your enterprise-grade solutions. For details, see http://www.usenix.org/events/bsdcon03/cfp/. Contact name, address, phone, fax and/or e-mail: Conference Department, 510-528-8649, conference@usenix.org. A report is available online.

Aug 2003 - Chaos Communication Camp 2003 (top)

August 7-10, 2003, near Berlin, Germany (Old Europe).

A lot of photos are available online, as well as some slides.

Jul 2003 - Linuxtag Karlsruhe, Germany (top)

July 10-13, Karlsruhe, Germany

The NetBSD Project was present at the Linuxtag Karlsruhe 2003, Germany from July 10ths to 13th in a booth together with other BSD-related projects.

The booth was organized by Hubert Feyrer, Bernd Sieker and Jaromir Dolecek. See the full report for details and pictures.

Jul 2003 - Libre Software Meeting in Metz (top)

July 9-12, 2003, Metz, France http://www.rencontresmondiales.org/

The NetBSD Project was represented at the LSM 2003 by Emmanuel Dreyfus and Gilbert Fernandes. A report of the meeting as well as some pictures are available online.

Jul 2003 - NetWorld+Interop 2003 Tokyo BSD BOF (top)

July 2, 2003, Makuhari-Messe, Chiba, Japan, 18:30-20:00 JST

http://www.interop.jp/

Call for Presentation: contact Jun Ebihara .

Jun 2003 - Japan NetBSD Users' Group meeting & NetBSD BOF (top)

Jun 28, 2003, National Olympics Memorial Youth Center , Tokyo, Japan

Jun 2003 - Open Source Meeting 2003 in Nagoya University (top)

June 7-8, 2003, Nagoya, Japan

http://tokai.opensource.jp/tsudoi/2003/

Jun 2003 - 2003 USENIX Annual Technical Conference (top)

June 9-14, 2003, San Antonio, Texas, USA

A six-day, multiple-track event which includes tutorials, technical sessions composed of refereed papers, invited talks, and Birds-of-a-Feather sessions. There will be a Super BSD BOF Session. For details, see http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix03/. Contact name, address, phone, fax and/or e-mail: Conference Department, 510-528-8649, conference@usenix.org

Slides of Chris Demetriou's presentation are available here.

May 2003 - BSDay 2003 (top)

May 21, 2003, Warszawa-Miedzeszyn, Poland

AVET Information and Network Security are holding the BSDay 2003 conference on May 21, 2003, the first event of its kind in Poland. See the web site for more information.

May 2003 - BSDCon.it (top)

May 9-11, 2003, Padova, Italy

As part of Webbit '03, BSDCon.it will be held from May 9th to may 11th in Padova, Italy. People interested in giving a talk on NetBSD should contact .

Apr 2003 - DECUS Munich Symposium 2003 (top)

April 8th-10th, 2003, Bonn, Germany (updated)

There was a presentation about porting NetBSD to old hardware, and the different emulating systems that allow old software to run on new hardware, again with NetBSD as the host OS, and one about eletronic voting, using the procedure for the election of the NetBSD Board of Directors as an in-depth example.

Apr 2003 - Magdeburg Linuxtag (top)

April 5th, 2003, Magdeburg, Germany

There was a NetBSD booth and presentation at the Magdeburg Linuxtag in Magdeburg, Germany on April 5th 2003 at the University of Magdeburg, Germany. See http://www.mdlug.de/ for more information. Contact Bernd Sieker for information regarding representation of NetBSD at the event.

Mar 2003 - NetBSD is ten years young and still going strong! (top)

Several parties are being held in cities around the world to celebrate the tenth birthday of The NetBSD Project, March 21, 2003. Check out the Events Gallery for more information.

Mar 2003 - CeBIT 2003 (top)

March 12-19, 2003, Hannover, Germany

The CeBIT 2003, the most widely known ICT trade fair world-wide, took place in Hannover, Germany from March 12-19, 2003. The NetBSD Project had a booth on Wednesday the 12th, and Thursday 13th, and there was a 30 minute presentation of the NetBSD Project. Bernd Sieker and Jaromir Dolocek manned the booth, see their report.

Mar 2003 - NetBSD System Administration training (top)

March 4-6, 2003, Phoenix, Arizona, USA area

Puget Sound Technology is teaching a hands-on class covering the fundamentals of NetBSD system administration. See http://www.pugetsoundtechnology.com/training/netbsd/ for details.

Mar 2003 - Chemnitzer Linux-Tag (top)

March 1, 2003, Chemnitz, Germany

NetBSD was represented with a booth at the Chemnitzer Linux-Tag (CLT5). A summary of the events including several pictures is available online at http://www.feyrer.de/NetBSD/clt5.html. Presentations, including mp3s of the talks (in German!) are available from:

Feb 2003 - Solutions Linux (top)

February 4-6, 2003, CNIT - Paris La Defense, France.

The Solutions Linux conference and expo (formerly known as the Linux Expo Paris) held a NetBSD booth run by the GCU-Squad and the French NetBSD Users Group. A report is available online.

Jan 2003 - Ottawa Open Source Weekend (top)

January 25th, 26th, 2003, Ottawa, Canada

On 2003 January 25 and 26, a coalition of computer professionals, students, and volunteers will host an Open Source Weekend in Ottawa, Canada. The events will be spread across the city and throughout the weekend to showcase the dynamic world of open source software. The major activities will be the:

  • Linuxfest at the University of Ottawa (Sat. Jan. 25th)
  • Linuxfest at Carleton University (Sat. Jan. 25th)
  • The Business of Open Source Software conference. (Sun. Jan. 26th)

For details, please see http://www.osw.ca/.

Jan 2003 - LinuxWorld 2003 (top)

January 21-24, 2003, New York, New York

The LinuxWorld Conference and Expo 2003 takes place in the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center in New York City from January 21-24, 2003. See the website for more details and a free registration for the expo. The NetBSD Project had a booth at Li