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. Also check out our other events-related pages. May 23-26, 2012, Berlin, Germany. LinuxTag 2012 opens its doors from May 23 to May 26, 2012, at the Berlin Expo Center under the Funkturm in Berlin, Germany. The event features talks about Open Source and there will be a NetBSD booth on the exhibition fair where you can get advocacy material, talk to users and developers or buy NetBSD T-Shirts. See the Linuxtag homepage for more information. Jun. 16, 2012, Sapporo Business Innovation Center, Sapporo, Japan At the Open Source Conference 2012 Hokkaido , there will be a NetBSD booth staffed by members of the Japan NetBSD Users' Group and NoBUG with many hpc{ mips, sh, arm } . Aug. 3-4, 2012, KYOTO RESEARCH PARK, Kyoto, Japan At the Open Source Conference 2012 Kansai@Kyoto , there will be a NetBSD booth staffed by members of the Japan NetBSD Users' Group and Kansai *BSD Users Group . There will be a gadgets demonstration ( hpcmips, hpcsh, hpcarm ). Oct. 18-21, 2012, Warsaw, Poland EuroBSDcon is the European annual technical conference gathering users and developers working on and with 4.4BSD based operating systems family and related projects. EuroBSDcon gives the exceptional opportunity to learn about latest news from the BSD world, witness contemporary deployment case studies, and meet personally other users and companies using BSD oriented technologies. EuroBSDcon is also a boiler plate for ideas, discussions and information exchange, which often turn into programming projects. The conference has always attracted active programmers, administrators and aspiring students, as well as IT companies at large, which found the conference a convenient and quality training option for its staff. We firmly believe that high profile education is vital to the future of technology, and hence greatly welcome students and young people to this regular meeting. May 11-12, 2012, Ottawa, Canada. BSDCan 2011 was held on 13-14 May 2011 at the University of Ottawa. It was preceded by two days of tutorials on 11-12 May 2011. BSDCan 2012 is a BSD conference held in Ottawa, Canada, 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. BSDCan 2012 will be held on 11-12 May 2012 at University of Ottawa, and will be preceded by two days of Tutorials on 9-10 May 2012. There will be related events (of a social nature, for the most part) on the day before and after the conference. May. 12, 2012, Nagoya International Center, Nagoya, Japan At the Open Source Conference 2012 Nagoya , there was a NetBSD booth staffed by members of the Japan NetBSD Users' Group and Nagoya *BSD Users' Group (NBUG). There was a gadget demonstration BSD booth ( Twitter time line on NetBSD/dreamcast visual memory, zaurus, WZERO3, Enjoy NetBSD on EeePC NetBook with OpenOffice and Mikutter, mikutter mug and seal ) and NBUG BOF. more detail on togetter. The Central European BSD-Day will take place at the University of Applied Sciences in Vienna, Austria, on saturday, may 5th. Apr. 21, 2012, Iwate, Japan At the Open Source Conference 2012 Iwate , there was a NetBSD booth staffed by members of the Japan NetBSD Users' Group with many { XM6i, hpcarm, hpcmips, zaurus, hpcsh } gadget demonstrations. Mar 22-25, 2012, Tokyo University of Science,Tokyo, Japan AsiaBSDCon was a conference for users and developers on BSD based systems. The conference was for anyone developing, deploying and using systems based on FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, DragonFly BSD, Darwin, and MacOS X. AsiaBSDCon was a technical conference and aimed 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. Mar. 24, 2012, Ehime, Japan At the Open Source Conference 2012 Ehime , there was a NetBSD booth staffed by members of the Japan NetBSD Users' Group with NetBSD/x68k by isaki@, XM6i by isaki@, NetBSD port history by tsutsui@, zaurus and WZERO3, evbarm and shark, XM6i, XM6i on mac, gadget demonstrations [ustream live archive]. Mar. 17-18, 2012, Chemnitz, Germany The "Chemnitz Linux Days" was a conference that deals with Linux, but also with free and open source software in general. Being an event vor novices and experts as well, there were a NetBSD booth and related talks. See the website for more information. Mar. 16-17, 2012, Tokyo, Japan At the Open Source Conference 2012 Tokyo/Spring, there was be a NetBSD booth staffed by members of the Japan NetBSD Users' Group with teokure live image(NetBSD5.1.2/i386,amd64+Firefox+mikutter), WZero3 live image(NetBSD6.0BETA/hpcarm), Zaurus live image(NetBSD6.0BETA/zaurus), Translate NetBSD man with po4a, Jornada680, Jornada720, Zaurus 760,860, WZero3 with pkgsrc/net/mikutter, OpenBlocks, ZBOXNANO-VD01, Lemote yeeloong 8089b evbmips64, mikutter seal, NetBSD gadget demonstrations. Feb. 11, 2012, Oita, Japan At the Open Source Conference 2012 Oita, there was a NetBSD booth, staffed by members of the Japan NetBSD Users' Group with hpcsh { Persona 30, Jornada 680, Jornada 690}, hpcarm { Jornada 720, WS007SH, WS011SH}, hpcmips { MCR520, Z50}, zaurus { SLC-860+mikutter}, i386 { aspire one}, x68k { XM6i, XM6i}, amd64 {pen tablet with NetBSD, teokure live image }, Xnp2, NetBSD/mikutter seal gadget demonstrations and brand new NetBSD 5.1.2 presentation. Feb. 4-5, 2012, Brussels, Belgium FOSDEM is the biggest free and non-commercial event organized by and for the community. Its goal is to provide Free and Open Source developers a place to meet. No registration necessary. There was a NetBSD booth and a special developers room reserved for BSD licensed operating systems and their talks. Please see the announcement for details. Dec. 3, 2011, CHIKUSHI JOGAKUEN, Fukuoka, Japan At the Open Source Conference 2011 Fukuoka , there was a NetBSD booth staffed by members of the Japan NetBSD Users' Group with many hpc{ mips, sh(Jornada 680), arm(WZERO3) } gadgets demonstration and Xen4 live USB -teokure- memory. Nov. 19-20, 2011, MEISEI UNIVERSITY, Tokyo, Japan At the Open Source Conference 2011 Tokyo/Fall , there was a NetBSD booth staffed by members of the Japan NetBSD Users' Group with many gadget demonstrations { Teokure-Live Image amd64 (Thinkpad X201, X61), acorn26 (BBC A3000), hpcarm (WS003SH, WS007SH, WS011SH, WS020SH, Jornada 710), hpcmips (IBM Z50, MobileGear 530) , hpcsh (Persona HPW30PA), i386 (Acer Aspire One with pkgsrc/net/mikutter), X68k (XM6i), zaurus (SL-C700[NEW], SL-C750, SL-C1000, SL-C3200), } and BSD BOF (Ustream Recorded ). Nov. 12, 2011, MATSUE TERRSA, Shimane, Japan At the Open Source Conference 2011 Shimane , there was a NetBSD booth staffed by members of the Japan NetBSD Users' Group with many gadget demonstrations ( hpcarm, hpcmips, hpcsh ). Nov. 11-12, 2011, Asia and Pacific Trade Center ITM Building, Osaka, Japan At the Kansai OpenSource 2011, there were two BSD booths staffed by members of the Japan NetBSD Users' Group and Kansai *BSD Users Group. with many gadget demonstrations { dreamcast with fishing contoller, Hewlett-Packard 9000/700, Luna-II, hpcarm and WZero3, hpcmips, hpcsh, pf firewall demonstration with OpenBSD/landisk(USL-5Px2) } and BSDBOF (Why enigmatic machines by tsutsui, pkgsrc by obache, [Ustream Recorded]). More reports on Togetter. Nov. 5, 2011, Slovak University of Technology, Bratislava, Slovakia The purpose of this one-day event is to gather Central European developers of today's open-source BSD systems, popularize their work, and provide an interface for real-life communication. There are no formalities, no papers, and no registration or participation fee, however the invited developers are encouraged to give a talk on their favorite BSD-related topic, then have a beer with the other folks around :-) The language of this event is English, and the goal is to motivate potential future developers and users, especially undergraduate university students to work with BSD systems. There is an additional schedule for participants and their guests on the day prior to (November 4th) and after (November 6th) the main event. For more information please visit the website . Nov. 5, 2011, Buenos Aires City, Argentina BSDday Argentina is a conference for users, sysadmins and developers of BSD software and based systems. The conference is for anyone developing, deploying and using systems based on FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, DragonFlyBSD and others *BSD. BSDday Argentina 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. For more information please visit the website . Oct. 6-9, 2011, Maarssen, Netherlands EuroBSDcon is the European technical conference for people working on and with 4.4BSD based operating systems and related projects. EuroBSDcon 2011 is the 10th EuroBSDcon and will take place in (in the center of) The Netherlands 6 - 9 October 2011 at Meeting Plaza, Maarssen, The Netherlands. For more information please visit the website . Oct. 1, 2011, Prefectual University of Hiroshima , Hiroshima, Japan At the Open Source Conference 2011 Hiroshima , there was a NetBSD booth staffed by members of the Japan NetBSD Users' Group with many gadgets demonstration ( NetBSD/x68k ( X68030+Neptune-X+NE2000, X68030+Nereid, X68060(X68030+060turbo)), XM6i X68030 Emulator on (NetBSD/i386, Mac OS X), WZero 3 (WS011SH), Zaurus (SL-C1000)) and XM6i presentation by isaki@, "Teokure Live Image" and mikutter presentation by tsutsui, event summary. Sep. 10, 2011, Okinawa Convention Center , Okinawa, Japan At the Open Source Conference 2011 Okinawa , there was a NetBSD booth staffed by members of the Japan NetBSD Users' Group with many gadgets demonstration ( hpcarm, hpcmips, hpcsh ) and PCBSD9.0 presentation by Jun YAMASHIRO. Sep. 3, 2011, University of Aizu , Fukushima, Japan At the Open Source Small Conference 2011 Aizu , there was a NetBSD booth staffed by members of the Japan NetBSD Users' Group with many gadgets demonstration ( hpcarm, hpcmips, hpcsh ). Aug. 20, 2011, Nagoya International Center, Nagoya, Japan At the Open Source Conference 2011 Nagoya , there was a NetBSD booth staffed by members of the Japan NetBSD Users' Group and Nagoya *BSD Users' Group. There was a gadget demonstration ( Presentation Software using only wscons with Dreamcast Fishing Controller, hpcmips, hpcsh, hpcarm, Amiga 1200, SONY NEWS 3460, Geiger counter ). Aug. 10 - 15, 2011, 15th NetBSD Hackathon The 15th NetBSD hackathon focused on documentation. Please see the Wiki page at the URL mentioned above for details and progress. Jul. 15-16, 2011, KYOTO RESEARCH PARK, Kyoto, Japan At the Open Source Conference 2011 Kansai@Kyoto , there was a NetBSD booth staffed by members of the Japan NetBSD Users' Group and Kansai *BSD Users Group . There was a gadgets demonstration ( Sun3/80, SONY NEWS NWS-1750, OMRON LUNA SX-9100/DT, Workstation book colab., SHARP WZERO3, 4 BSD variants (NetBSD, FreeBSD, OpenBSD and DragonFly BSD) on NetBSD/xen, Wsdisplay Presentation tool on NetBSD/hpcmips, USL5P+OpenBSD4.9, Compiling process Visualizer like teen spirit called Captain Nadeshiko, Some like a BSD Statue Joystick driven by Gainer+Squeak ) and NetBSD/m68k will never die! presentation and commit by tsutsui. Jul 9, 2011, VLSI Design and Education Center University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan See Japan NetBSD Users Group 13th annual Meeting and BoF 2011 for meeting information. NetBSD BOF with 36 attendances and 153 ustream clients: pkgsrc updates by obache, jp.NetBSD.org servers by mef,NetBSD/Psion netBook by kiyohara, AC Tap with USB controlled power meter by Kubota, Power consumption and bcbench by jun, Capture Power consumption meter with OpenCV by mita@FreeBSD, Build Facebook page for Japan NetBSD Users' Group, 6.0 - here today by soda, PGP keysign party by soda. Jun. 11, 2011, Sapporo Business Innovation Center, Sapporo, Japan At the Open Source Conference 2011 Hokkaido , there was a NetBSD booth staffed by members of the Japan NetBSD Users' Group and NoBUG with BeagleBoard, MSP430 LaunchPad, JMBadgeBoard, Processing on NetBSD and many hpc{ mips, sh, arm } . May 21, 2011, Tohoku Computer College, Sendai, Japan At the Open Source Conference 2011 Sendai , there was a NetBSD booth staffed by members of the Japan NetBSD Users' Group with many hpc{ mips, sh, arm and WZero3(WS011SH) } gadgets demonstration. May 13-14, 2011, Ottawa, Canada. BSDCan 2011 was held on 13-14 May 2011 at the University of Ottawa. It was preceded by two days of tutorials on 11-12 May 2011. Apr. 16, 2011, Kobe Industrial Promotion Center, Kobe, Japan At the Open Source Conference 2011 Kansai@Kobe , there was a NetBSD booth staffed by members of the Japan NetBSD Users' Group with ATARI TT030 + EtherNEC , and NetBSD bus_space API presentation by tsutsui, contao presentation by taca, and ATARI TT030, SHARP X68030, cobalt, hpcmips, hpcsh, hpcarm, zaurus gadgets demonstration. Mar 19-20, 2011, Tokyo University of Science,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. Mar. 19, 2011, i-ness, Oita, Japan At the Open Source Conference 2011 Oita , there was a NetBSD booth staffed by members of the Japan NetBSD Users' Group with many hpc{ mips, sh, arm } gadgets demonstrations. Mar. 4-5, 2011, Wasseda University,Nishiwaseda Campus, Tokyo, Japan At the Open Source Conference 2011 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. 5-6, 2011, FOSDEM, Brussels, Belgium At the FOSDEM 2011 Conference, there was a joint BSD booth staffed by NetBSD and FreeBSD developers and users. Marc Balmer (mbalmer@) gave a talk "Lua in BSD" in the BSD devroom Feb. 5, 2011, Sunport Hall Takamatsu, Kagawa, Japan At the Open Source Conference 2011 Kagawa, there was a NetBSD booth staffed by members of the Japan NetBSD Users' Group with many hp{ hp300, hpcmips, hpcsh, hpcarm } gadgets demonstration and NetBSD/hp300 and wscons presentation by tsutsui (Event driven Commit Log). Dec. 11, 2010, Fukuoka Institute of Technology, Fukuoka, Japan At the Open Source Conference 2010 Fukuoka , there was a NetBSD booth staffed by members of the Japan NetBSD Users' Group with many hpc{ mips, sh, arm } gadgets demonstration. November 26-27, 2010, Sophia-Antipolis, France. NetBSD was present for the 2nd time at the Journées Méditéranéennes du Logiciel Libre. Friday afternoon was generally more enterprise oriented, while Saturday was more end-users focused. Nov 27, 2010, MATSUE TERRSA, Shimane, Japan At the Open Source Conference 2010 Shimane , there was a NetBSD booth staffed by members of the Japan NetBSD Users' Group. There was gadget demonstrations ( hpcarm, hpcmips, hpcsh ). November 12-14, 2010, Cooper Union, New York, NY, USA The New York City BSD Conference (NYCBSDCon) is the main technical conference on the US East Coast for the BSD community to get together to share and gain knowledge, to network with like-minded people, and to have fun. This event was organized by members of the New York City *BSD Users Group (NYC*BUG). Nov. 5-6, 2010, Asia and Pacific Trade Center ITC Building, Osaka, Japan At the Kansai OpenSource 2010, there were three BSD booths staffed by members of the Japan NetBSD Users' Group , Kansai *BSD Users Group and NAKAMURA Kazushi with NEC Express5800(arc) , 64bit 20years {NEC Express5800(amd64), SONY NEWS NWS-5000(newsmips), Sun Ultra60(sun4u), Sun Ultra10(sun4u), HP ML115(amd64)} , Xen Dom0 on NetBSD and DomU (NetBSD, OpenBSD, DragonflyBSD), OpenBSD/landisk(Firewall Redundancy with CARP and pfsync), OpenBSD/zaurus, WZero3(hpcarm), hpcmips, hpcsh, hpcarm, NetBSD straps gadgets demonstration and BSDBOF (soda-san got Japanese OSS Contributor Award, so let me introduce raiders of the lost ARC tech and talkin' bout a revolution with soda-san by tsutsui) Oct. 23, 2010, Niigata University, Niigata, Japan At the Open Source Conference 2010 Niigata , there was a BSD booth staffed by members of the Japan NetBSD Users' Group and Echigo BSD Users Group . There was a gadgets demonstration ( hpcarm, hpcmips, hpcsh and FuguIta - OpenBSD LiveCD with 1seg tuner. ). Oct. 8-10, 2010, Karlsruhe, Germany EuroBSDcon 2010, the european technical conference for people working on and with 4.4BSD based operating systems, was held on Oct 8-10th 2010 in Karlsruhe, Germany. The two day conference program (October 9 - 10) was preceeded by a tutorial day (Oct 8). For more information please visit the website . Oct. 2, 2010, Okinawa Convention Center , Okinawa, Japan At the Open Source Conference 2010 Okinawa , there was a NetBSD booth staffed by members of the Japan NetBSD Users' Group with many gadgets demonstration ( hpcarm, hpcmips, hpcsh ). Sep. 10-11, 2010, MEISEI UNIVERSITY, Tokyo, Japan At the Open Source Conference 2010 Tokyo/Fall , there was a NetBSD booth staffed by members of the Japan NetBSD Users' Group with many hpc{ mips, sh, arm } gadgets demonstration and NetBSD/x68k on XM6i X68000 emulator. Aug. 7, 2010, Nagoya City University, Nagoya, Japan At the Open Source Conference 2010 Nagoya , there was a NetBSD booth staffed by members of the Japan NetBSD Users' Group and Nagoya *BSD Users' Group. There were gadget demonstrations ( hpcarm, hpcmips, hpcsh ). Jul. 9-10, 2010, Kyoto Computer Gakuin, Kyoto, Japan At the Open Source Conference 2010 Kansai , there was a NetBSD booth staffed by members of the Japan NetBSD Users' Group and Kansai *BSD Users Group . There were gadgets demonstration ( hpcarm, hpcmips, hpcsh, ). Jul 3, 2010, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan See this page for meeting information. NetBSD BOF with 44 attendances and 55 ustream clients: OpenBlockS600 by kiyohara, STAR81xx/91xx by Ryo SHIMIZU, NetBSD goes POSIX.1-2008 and C1X by tnozaki, YUREX by noztos, AsiaBSDCon by hrs, pkgsrc updates by obache. Jun. 26, 2010, Sapporo Business Innovation Center, Sapporo, Japan At the Open Source Conference 2010 Hokkaido , there was a NetBSD booth staffed by members of the Japan NetBSD Users' Group and NoBUG with NetBSD/evbarm on Armadillo-9 + VT220J, NetBSD/sparc on Sparcstation IPX, NetBSD/i386 on ThinkPad X200s (VMWarePlayer) and ThinkPad X24, FreeNAS on ThinkPad X200s (VMWarePlayer), NetBSD/landisk on USL-5P, NetBSD/evbppc on kuro-box, NetBSD/evbmips-el on BBR-4MG, and many hpc{ mips, sh, arm,WZero3 with AM/FM Radio } June 9-12, 2010, Berlin, Germany LinuxTag 2010, one of Europe's largest Open Source Expo, took place from June 9th through 12th, 2010, in Berlin, Germany. The NetBSD Project was being represented by volunteers in a shared BSD booth. If you are interested in helping out at the NetBSD booth or have any questions, please contact Thomas Kaepernick (mast_1(at)gmx.net). May. 28 -30, 2010, Departement Informatik, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland May. 22, 2010, Tohoku Computer College, Sendai, Japan At the Open Source Conference 2010 Sendai , there was a NetBSD booth staffed by members of the Japan NetBSD Users' Group with many hpc{ mips, sh, arm and WZero3(WS011SH) } gadgets demonstration. May 15-16, 2010, Rennes, France. NetBSD was present for the 2nd time at the Rencontres Bretonnes du Logiciel Libre May 13-14, 2010, Ottawa, Canada. BSDCan 2010 was held on 13-14 May 2010 at the University of Ottawa, and was preceded by two days of tutorials on 11-12 May 2010. Mar 11-14, 2010, Tokyo University of Science,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. A NetBSD BOF was held on March 12, 2010 14:00-16:30 Mar. 13, 2010, Kobe Industrial Promotion Center, Kobe, Japan At the Open Source Conference 2010 Kansai@Kobe , there was a NetBSD booth staffed by members of the Japan NetBSD Users' Group with ATARI TT030 + SMC_TT (Demonstration animation GIF for TT030) , cobalt, many hpc{ mips, sh, arm } gadgets demonstration. Feb. 26-27, 2010, MEISEI UNIVERSITY, Tokyo, Japan At the Open Source Conference 2010 Tokyo/Spring , there was a NetBSD booth staffed by members of the Japan NetBSD Users' Group with tadpole(sparc) and many hpc{ mips, sh, arm } gadgets demonstration. Feb. 19-22, 2010, Hackathon The February 2010 Hackathon was focusing on closing as many bugs and PRs as possible. Feb. 6-7, 2010, FOSDEM, Brussels, Belgium At the FOSDEM 2010 Conference , there was a joint BSD booth staffed by NetBSD and FreeBSD developers and users. Marc Balmer (mbalmer@) gave a talk Because the License Matters: BSD as the Foundation for Commercial Point of Sale Applications in the BSD devroom. Jan. 23, 2010, i-ness, Oita, Japan At the Open Source Conference 2010 Oita , there was be a NetBSD booth staffed by members of the Japan NetBSD Users' Group with many hpc{ mips, sh, arm } gadgets demonstrations. Dec. 5, 2009, Kyushu Sangyo University, Fukuoka, Japan At the Open Source Conference 2009 Fukuoka , there was a NetBSD booth staffed by members of the Japan NetBSD Users' Group with many hpc{ mips, sh, arm } gadgets demonstration. Nov. 14, 2009, Kochi City Culture-Plaze Cul-Port., Kochi, Japan At the Open Source Conference 2009 Kochi , there was a NetBSD booth staffed by members of the Japan NetBSD Users' Group with hpcmips, hpcsh, gadgets demonstration. Nov. 7-8, 2009, Saalbau, Bottrop, Germany A new event in the middle of Europe with a huge audience and an impressive list of exhibitors. NetBSD had a booth as well as the other major BSDs. For more information about OpenRheinRuhr visit the website . Nov. 6-7, 2009, Asia and Pacific Trade Center ITC Building, Osaka, Japan At the Kansai OpenSource 2009, there was a NetBSD booth staffed by members of the Japan NetBSD Users' Group and Kansai *BSD Users Group with IIJ SEIL/X1(evbmips64), IIJ SEIL/B1(evbarm), NSLU2(evbarm), dreamcast+ISA bus+IDE DiskDrive extension, tadpole(sparc), USL-5P+USB LCD(landisk), Link Station(sandpoint), MacLC475upgrade(mac68k), hpcmips, hpcsh, hpcarm, BSD daemon statue gadgets demonstration and BSDBOF (EuroBSDCon2009 report by msaitoh). Oct. 30-31, 2009, Nihon Kogakuin College 12th build., Tokyo, Japan At the Open Source Conference 2009 Tokyo/Fall , there was a NetBSD booth staffed by members of the Japan NetBSD Users' Group with USB-LCD driver for NetBSD on USL-5P and LS-S250L, hpcmips, hpcsh, hpcarm, tadpole GX3:sparc gadgets demonstration and BSD BOF. Sep. 26, 2009, Okinawa Convention Center , Okinawa, Japan At the Open Source Conference 2009 Okinawa , there was a NetBSD booth staffed by members of the Japan NetBSD Users' Group . There was gadgets demonstration ( hpcarm, hpcmips, hpcsh ). Sep. 18-20, 2009, University of Cambridge, England.. EuroBSDcon 2009, the european technical conference for people working on and with 4.4BSD based operating systems, was held on Sept 19-20th 2009 at the University of Cambridge, England. One day of Tutorials preceded the conference on Sept 18th. For more information about EuroBSDCon 2009 visit the website . Aug. 22, 2009, Nagoya City University, Nagoya, Japan At the Open Source Conference 2009 Nagoya , there was a NetBSD booth staffed by members of the Japan NetBSD Users' Group and Nagoya *BSD Users' Group. There were gadget demonstrations ( hpcarm, hpcmips, hpcsh ). Aug. 1, 2009, Niigata University of International and Information Studies, Niigata, Japan At the Open Source Conference 2009 Niigata , there was a NetBSD booth staffed by members of the Japan NetBSD Users' Group and Echigo BSD Users Group . There was gadgets demonstration ( hpcarm, hpcmips, hpcsh and FuguIta - OpenBSD LiveCD with 1seg tuner. ). Jul. 10-11, 2009, Kyoto Computer Gakuin, Kyoto, Japan At the Open Source Conference 2009 Kansai , there was a NetBSD booth staffed by members of the Japan NetBSD Users' Group and Kansai *BSD Users Group . There was gadgets power consumption demonstration ( Atari TT030, BeBox (stop at bootloader:need S3 Video Card) , MSI Wind Notebook and VAIO Type P, cobalt QUBE2 and Cache RAQ2 with Zope, gumstix music player sings OpenBSD song, hpcarm, hpcmips, hpcsh, Linkstation:sandpoint, OpenBSD/zaurus, DragonFlyBSD with hammer, SGI O2, IBM PReP, CPU Load average x 16 LED Meterboard with libFT245, bc benchmark time x electricity consumption = energy efficiency graph with all BSD machines. ). Jul 4, 2009, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan See this page for meeting information. BOF with 39 attendances: pkgsrc updates, workarounds for VAIO Type P, AsiaBSDCon reports, eXecute In Place (XIP), gumstix, IA64 , SheevaPlug, USB Wireless LAN drivers, NetBSD - Now, 6.0 and Future, PGP key sign party. Jul. 1-2, 2009, Tokyo International Forum, Tokyo, Japan At the Open Source World 2009 , there was a NetBSD booth staffed by members of the Japan NetBSD Users' Group . There was gadgets power consumption demonstration ( hpcarm, hpcmips, hpcsh ) and tadpole GX3:sparc. June 24-27 2009, Berlin, Germany The annual LinuxTag conference took place from 24th until 27th of June 2009 at the Berlin fairground under the radio tower. NetBSD was sharing a booth with the other BSD systems at the exhibition. Jun. 20, 2009, Sapporo Business Innovation Center, Sapporo, Japan At the Open Source Conference 2009 Hokkaido , there was a NetBSD booth staffed by members of the Japan NetBSD Users' Group and Northern land BSD Users Group with many hpc{ mips, sh, arm } , NetBSD/evbmips on BBR-4MG, Twitter ticker monitor on 78K0 board via USB Serial, NetBSD/evbarm on Armadillo-9 with VT-220J, NetBSD/sparc on SparcStation Classic, NetBSD/evbarm on BeagleBoard (working in progress,not boot yet). May 16, 2009, MATSUE TERRSA, Shimane, Japan At the Open Source Conference 2009 Shimane , there was a NetBSD booth staffed by members of the Japan NetBSD Users' Group. There were gadget demonstrations ( SONY VAIO type P, RaQ2:cobalt, Armadillo9:evbarm, hpcarm, hpcmips, hpcsh ). May 8-9, 2009, Ottawa, Canada. BSDCan 2009 was held on 8-9 May 2009 at the University of Ottawa, and was preceded by two days of tutorials on 6-7 May 2009. March 3-8, 2009, Hannover, Germany The NetBSD project had a joint booth with the FreeBSD project at CeBIT, the large b2b trade fair held in Hannover, Germany. Mar 12-15, 2009, Tokyo University of Science,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. Antti Kantee:Environmental Independance:BSD Kernel TCP/IP in Userspace (Report), and NetBSD BoF was held on Mar 13,2009 17:30-19:00. AsiaBSDCon 2009 papers and presentations are available. Feb 20-22, 2009, Los Angeles, CA The NetBSD project was represented by &a.kml; and &a.david; at SCALE 7x, the 7th annual Southern California Linux Expo, which took place February 20-22, 2009 at The Westin Los Angeles Airport, Los Angeles, California. Feb. 20-21, 2009, Japan Electronics College, Tokyo, Japan At the Open Source Conference 2009 Tokyo/Spring , there was a NetBSD booth staffed by members of the Japan NetBSD Users' Group with VAIO type P with NetBSD, tadpole GX3:sparc and many hpc{ mips, sh, arm } gadgets demonstration. NetBSD was present at FOSDEM on Feb 7-8 2009 in Brussels, Belgium. FOSDEM is a free and non-commercial event organised by the community for the community. Feb. 5-6, 2009, Washington, D.C. For information, visit . Jan. 24, 2009, Tohoku Computer College, Sendai, Japan At the Open Source Conference 2009 Sendai , there was a NetBSD booth staffed by members of the Japan NetBSD Users' Group with many hpc{ mips, sh, arm } gadgets demonstration. Dec. 13, 2008, Humanities and Social Sciences Center,Fukuoka University, Fukuoka, Japan At the Open Source Conference 2008 Fukuoka , there was a NetBSD booth staffed by members of the Japan NetBSD Users' Group with many hpc{ mips, sh, arm } gadgets and USB Camera demonstration. Nov. 29, 2008, Okinawa Industory Support Center, Okinawa, Japan At the Open Source Conference 2008 Okinawa , there was a NetBSD booth staffed by members of the Japan NetBSD Users' Group with many hpc{ mips, sh, arm } gadgets demonstration. Nov. 15-16, 2008, Mountain View, California For information, visit . Nov. 7-8, 2008, Asia and Pacific Trade Center ITC Building, Osaka, Japan At the Kansai OpenSource 2008, there was a NetBSD booth staffed by members of the Japan NetBSD Users' Group and Kansai *BSD Users Group with tadpole GX3:sparc, Linkstation:sandpoint, PCBSD on Xen, hpcmips, hpcsh, hpcarm, LC475, OpenBSD/zaurus, DragonFlyBSD, Servo motor realtime control via USB audio gadgets demonstration and BSDBOF. Oct. 18-19, 2008, Strasbourg, France EuroBSDcon 2008, the european technical conference for people working on and with 4.4BSD based operating systems, was held on October 18-19th 2008 at the University of Strasbourg in France. Two days of Tutorials preceded the conference on Oct. 16-17th. For more information about EuroBSDCon 2008 visit the website . Oct 10, 2008, Columbia University, NY, NY, USA A NetBSD developer's summit was held on Friday, October 10th, 2008. The event was sponsored by and leads up to that year's NYCBSDCon and took place at Columbia University on the island of Manhattan in New York City, NY, USA. The event was open to the public. Oct 11-12, 2008, Columbia University, NY, NY, USA The third BSD Conference organized by the NYC BSD User Group took place in New York City on October 11th and 12th, 2008. More information about NYCBSDCon 2008 is available at . Coinciding with the conference was the 12th NetBSD Hackathon being held. Oct. 3-4, 2008, Ota City Industrial Plaza, Tokyo, Japan At the Open Source Conference 2008 Tokyo/Fall , there was a NetBSD booth staffed by members of the Japan NetBSD Users' Group with tadpole GX3:sparc, LinkStation:sandpoint, PCBSD on Xen, hpcmips, hpcsh, hpcarm gadgets demonstration and BSD BOF(OpenBSD,NetBSD, 76th IETF Hiroshima, Itojun Service Award ). Sep. 12-13, 2008, MATSUE TERRSA , Shimane, Japan At the Open Source Conference 2008 Shimane , there was a NetBSD booth staffed by members of the Japan NetBSD Users' Group. There were gadget demonstrations ( dynabook/SS:amd64, Armadillo9:evbarm, HP712/80:hp700, hpcarm, hpcmips, hpcsh, SL-C3200:zaurus, LaVie/G:OpenSolaris, and chumby ). Aug. 9, 2008, Nagoya City University, Nagoya, Japan At the Open Source Conference 2008 Nagoya , there was a NetBSD booth staffed by members of the Japan NetBSD Users' Group and Nagoya *BSD Users' Group. There were gadget demonstrations ( RaQ2:cobalt, hpcarm, hpcmips, hpcsh, HP712/80:hp700, OpenBSD/zaurus, Speecys Robot: NetBSD/sh3, samtk ). Jul. 18-19, 2008, Kyoto Computer Gakuin, Kyoto, Japan At the Open Source Conference 2008 Kansai , there was a NetBSD booth staffed by members of the Japan NetBSD Users' Group . There were gadgets power consumption demonstration ( hpcarm, hpcmips, hpcsh, alpha, SGI O2 ), Miku Hatsune paper doll with Six servo moters controlled by USB audio, libFT245 with USB, BeBox, Squeak on hpcmips, OneSeg TV recording with hpcmips, bc benchmark time x electricity consumption = energy efficiency graph with all BSD machines. Jul 5, 2008, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan BOF with 52 attendances: NetBSD/sparc64 SMP, NetBSD/BBR-4MG evbmips(ADM5120), NetBSD/DLX - CPU implementation on FPGA, OpenRoads - Open Robot Operation And Design Specification, AsiaBSDCon2009, pkgsrc update, KURO-BOX/PRO MB88F5182, Toolchain and "mknative", EeePC, NetBSD - Now, 5.0 and Future, PGP key sign party. Jun. 28, 2008, Sapporo Business Innovation Center, Sapporo, Japan At the Open Source Conference 2008 Hokkaido , there was a NetBSD booth staffed by members of the Japan NetBSD Users' Group with many hpc{ mips, sh, arm } gadgets demonstration, VT-220J, USL-5P with 3 one-seg TV tuners, NetBSD/BBR-4MG . Jun 13-15, 2008, Technical University of Berlin The fifth annual pkgsrcCon convened 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. More information about pkgsrcCon 2008 is available at . 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. For more information about BSDCan 2008 visit . Apr 19-20, 2008, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain For more information about BSDCon Barcelona '08 visit . 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, NetBSD/Playstation3, USB OneSeg TV tuner (DUS-01). 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 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. 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 arm NetBSD/i386 on Asus EeePC } gadgets demonstration and Speecys Robots. Feb 23-24, 2008, Brussels, Belgium NetBSD has had 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 was manned by Thomas Reisky doppelhertz@bsdgroup.de. Feb. 9-10, 2007, Los Angeles, USA The NetBSD project was represented by &a.kml; and &a.david; at SCALE 6x, the 6th annual Southern California Linux Expo, which took place February 9-10, 2008 at The Westin Los Angeles Airport, Los Angeles, California. Dec. 8, 2007, ASC BUILD., Fukuoka, Japan At the Open Source Conference 2007 Fukuoka , there was a NetBSD booth staffed by members of the Japan NetBSD Users' Group with many hpc{ mips, sh, arm } gadgets demonstration. Nov. 17, 2007, Okiden Fureai Hall, Okinawa, Japan At the Open Source Conference 2007 Okinawa , there was a NetBSD booth staffed by members of the Japan NetBSD Users' Group with many hpc{ mips, sh, arm } gadgets demonstration. November 10-11th 2007, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany NetBSD was present at come2linux, the Linux-days Essen 2007. There was a joint BSD booth, the NetBSD part was manned by Stefan Klose, Julian Suschlik and Karsten Kruse. 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. 27, 2007, NIIGATA TERRSA, Niigata, Japan At the Open Source Conference 2007 Niigata , there was a NetBSD booth staffed by members of the Japan NetBSD Users' Group with many hpc{ mips, sh, arm } gadgets demonstration. NetBSD was 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. Oct. 19-20, 2007, Sultanahmet Campus Marmara University, Istanbul, Turkey BSDConTR was the first conference on BSD systems in Turkey. The conference was 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. More information on BSDConTR at The Brandenburg Linux-Infotag was held on Oct 20th 2007 at the FH Brandenburg, Germany. The NetBSD project was represented with an own booth, and Stefan Schumacher was there to answer questions. For more information, see the event's homepage. 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. 14-15, 2007, Copenhagen, Denmark The sixth annual European BSD Conference, EuroBSDCon 2007, was held on September 14-15th 2007 at Symbion Science Park in Copenhagen, Denmark. Two days of Tutorials preceeded the Conference on Sep 12-13th. For more information about EuroBSDCon 2007 visit the website . The Chaos Communications Camp is the summer event of the Chaos Computer Club. It was held from August 8th to 12th at the Airport Museum Finowfurt near Berlin, Germany. See the event's homepage for more information. 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. 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 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. 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. LinuxTag 2007 opened its doors from May 30 to June 2, 2007 at the Berlin Expo Center under the Funkturm in Berlin, Germany. The event featured many talks about Open Source, Linux and there was a full BSD-track at the BSD-Day this year, too. Besides the talks there was a large exhibition fair, and the NetBSD project was among the BSD projects, which had a joint booth. BSD talks included Hubert Feyrer's NetBSD status report. See the Linuxtag homepage for more information. 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. That year, BSDCan 2007 was held on 18-19 May 2007 at University of Ottawa, and was preceded by two days of Tutorials on 16-17 May 2007. For more information about BSDCan 2007 visit . 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 . 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. 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 and Speecys Robots. 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 . Mar. 3-4, 2007, Chemnitz NetBSD will have a booth and related talks at the Chemnitzer Linux-Tage (linux days) in Chemnitz, Germany. See for more information. If you want to help out manning the booth, please contact Hubert Feyrer hubertf@NetBSD.org for further details. 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 and . The German language article can be found at: . Ignatios also posted his slides (german language!). 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 . 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 &a.kml; and &a.jschauma;. 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. 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. NetBSD will run another hackathon, primarily dedicated to get -current ready for the 4.0 re-branch. See the Hackathon page for details. NetBSD will be present as part of the OpenSource community at the LinuxDay in Dornbirn, Austria, on November 18th. Please contact Raphael Langerhorst raphael@raphael.g-system.at if you have any questions or want to help out. 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. 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. 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. 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 hubertf@NetBSD.org. A report on the event is available here. Sep. 30, 2006, Columbus, Ohio, USA There will be a NetBSD booth at the 2006 Ohio Linuxfest Conference and Expo. Contact &a.jrf; jrf@NetBSD.org if you have any questions or want to help out at the booth. A report of the event can be found here. 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 menuhin@web.de, 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. 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 hubertf@NetBSD.org if you have any questions or want to help out at the booth. &a.hubertf; wrote a short report about the event. 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. 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 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. Asia BSD Con 2007 Call for Participation , George Neville-Neil / FreeBSD Project FreeBSD: Suspend and Resume Circumstances, for Panasonic Let's Note CF-R4, Norikatsu Shigemura / Ensure Technology Ltd. BSD Usergroup activity: Echigo BSD Users Group , T.Tamura@EBUG XCAST - Explicit Multi-Unicast See program for details. The BoF was broadcasted via RealVideo (238 clients), xcast (6 clients) , IRC (49 clients). 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 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 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 dennis@eperm.net. 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 &a.jkunz; will demonstrate 2.11BSD on a PDP-11/73 and do some general NetBSD advocacy. If you're interested, please contact &a.jkunz; and/or visit the URL above. 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. 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 . 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>. 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. 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. 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. 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. &a.peter; (peter) and &a.ghen; (ghen) will advocate the NetBSD project on this event. Hope to see you too! Update: &a.ghen; posted a review of the event. 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 &a.kml; (kml@NetBSD.org) if you would like to help. A report from Kevin Lahey is available. 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. 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. 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. 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 . 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 Please contact Daniel Ettle (dan at deam dot org) to help at the booth, especially showing NetBSD! 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. 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. 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. 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 mishka@NetBSD.org. See also his post on netbsd-advocacy. 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 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. 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. 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 &a.riz; riz@NetBSD.org. One of the main attractions here was the NetBSD Toaster, engineered by Technologic Systems. See &a.riz;'s report for more details. 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. 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. 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. with 250 attendances and 17 user groups. 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 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. *BSD Document Internationalization A Robot that runs on NetBSD Live performance BSD Usergroup activity in Japan XCAST - Explicit Multi-Unicast 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 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 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 for details. 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.) 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 for details. 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 . 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. 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: Chemnitzer Linux-Tage 2005 Day 0 and 1 Chemnitzer Linux-Tage 2005 Day 2 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: GUUG Spring Talk, Day 1 GUUG Spring Talk, Day 2 GUUG Spring Talk, Day 3 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 &a.kml; (kml@NetBSD.org). You can find an account of his experience here and here; a picture of the NetBSD booth also was prominently displayed . 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 (cube@cubidou.net). 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. 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. 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 for more information on the exhibition. October 23, 2004, Osaka Sangyo Souzoukan, Japan October 22-October 23, 2004, Osaka Sangyo Souzoukan, Japan 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. 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. 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. 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 regional-sfba@NetBSD.org. Jul. 24, 2004, Sapporo Business Innovation Center, Sapporo, Japan At the Get into OpenSource Hokkaido 2004 (GODo2004), there was a NetBSD booth staffed by members of the Japan NetBSD Users' Group and NoBUG with NetBSD/i386+IPv6 XCAST on VAIO GT, and many hpc{ mips, sh, arm } Jun 30, 2004, Makuhari-Messe, Chiba, Japan, 18:30-20:00 JST BOF information Contact Jun Ebihara jun@NetBSD.org for more information. 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. 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 hubertf@NetBSD.org if you are interested in helping out. May 22, 2004, National Olympics Memorial Youth Center, Tokyo, Japan See this page for meeting information. 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 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. 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. 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. 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. 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: ``Cryptographic applications under NetBSD'' by Stefan Schumacher ``Introduction to NetBSD'' by Karl Uwe Lockhoff ``Software Installation under NetBSD, Linux & Solaris using pkgsrc'' by Hubert Feyrer Please see the website for details. Photos are available at this website, more photos can be found on the Linux-Tag website. February 3-5, 2004, Paris, France NetBSD was represented with a booth at the Solutions Linux 2004 conference and expo in Paris, France. 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. 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. 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. December 2, 2003, Pacifico Yokohama, Japan http://www.jus.or.jp/events/bsd-linux-day/ 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. October 31-November 1, 2003, Osaka Sangyo Souzoukan, Japan October 18, 2003, BIZ SHINJUKU, Japan 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. 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. August 7-10, 2003, near Berlin, Germany (Old Europe). A lot of photos are available online, as well as some slides. 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. 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. July 2, 2003, Makuhari-Messe, Chiba, Japan, 18:30-20:00 JST http://www.interop.jp/ Call for Presentation: contact Jun Ebihara jun@NetBSD.org. Jun 28, 2003, National Olympics Memorial Youth Center , Tokyo, Japan June 7-8, 2003, Nagoya, Japan http://tokai.opensource.jp/tsudoi/2003/ 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 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 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 ed@bsdcon.it. 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. 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 bsieker@freenet.de for information regarding representation of NetBSD at the event. 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. 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. 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. 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: NetBSD - eine Einführung [mp3] NetBSD 1.6 - Neuigkeiten und Einsatz im Embedded-Umfeld [mp3] Der Regensburger Marathon-Cluster - eine Video-Rendering-Anwendung mit NetBSD [mp3] 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. 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/. 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 LinuxWorld, a short review and a handful of pictures are available online. December 17th to 29th, Berlin, Germany The NetBSD Project will be present at the 19th Chaos Communication Congress (19c3) in Berlin, Germany, from December 27th to 29th. December 10-12, 2002, Seattle, Washington, USA area Puget Sound Technology is teaching a hands-on class covering the fundamentals of NetBSD system administration. December 16-20, 2002, Pacifico Yokohama, Japan Japan NetBSD Users' Group will organize a BSD BoF on December 18th, 18:00(JST) at this years Internet Week. The BoF was broadcasted via RealVideo (179 clients)/xcast (3 clients)/IRC. See http://www.nic.ad.jp/iw2002/bof/bof04.htm for details. November 24, 2002, Nuremberg, Germany This years KNF Congress is under the motto "Linux in allen Lebenslagen???, ... und andere Fragen im Internet" ("Linux in all aspects of life??? ... and other questions on the Internet"). There will not only be Linux-oriented talks, but also a bit of talk about NetBSD, so this might be interesting for anyone in the area of Nuremberg/Germany. There will be a talk about NetBSD/dreamcast, a NetBSD booth and also some NetBSD-related prices in the Tombola. The congress will take place Sunday Nov 24th, 10-18h at the Gemeinschaftshaus Langwasser, Glogauer Str. 50, 90473 Nuremberg, Germany. See http://www.franken.de/kongress/index.html for more information. November 23, 2002, tsudahall Tokyo, Japan with 172 attendances. November 15-17, 2002, Amsterdam, Netherlands http://2002.eurobsdcon.org/. ``Rumors, Gossips and Facts'' are available online thanks to Hubert Feyrer. November 3-8, 2002, Philadelphia, PA http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa02/ November 2, 2002, Guildford, UK The Surrey and Sussex Acorn User Group RISC OS South-East Show, held in Guildford Technical College. October 1-3, 2002, Luxembourg The NetBSD Project was present at the Luxembourgh Linuxdays, an Open Source and Free Software Conference and Expo held in, well, Luxembourg. Hubert Feyrer gave talks on NetBSD and a video rendering cluster done with NetBSD. A report was sent to the netbsd-advocacy list, pictures and more information are available from Hubert's website. September 4-6, 2002, Cologne, Germany The NetBSD Project will be present at Linux-Kongress 2002, the 9th International Linux System Technology Conference, held at the Physics Institutes of the University of Cologne, Germany. A report and pictures of the BSD-booth is available online. August 5-9, 2002, San Francisco, CA http://www.usenix.org/events/sec02/ July 22, 2002 NetBSD 1.5.3, a patch release improving stability, fixing bugs in, addressing security issues in, and adding some features to NetBSD 1.5.2, has been released with support for 20 architectures. More information is available in the 1.5.3 release announcement. July 3, 2002, Chiba, Japan http://www.interop.jp/syutten/report.html http://www.jp.freebsd.org/event/N+I2002_BOF/ , BSD security update - BIND, OpenSSH. June 9-14, 2002, Montery Conference Center Monterey, California, USA http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix02/. Slides of Christos Zoulas' presentation are available here. June 8-9, 2002, Nagoya, Japan June 6-9, 2002, Karlsruhe, Germany Linuxtag had a BSD booth. A report is available. May 18-19, 2002, Wakefield, UK http://www.wrocc.org.uk/show/2002/ May 18, 2002, T-Zone Minami, Akihabara, Tokyo, Japan http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/announce/meeting4.html The Japan NetBSD Users' Group had their annual meeting with 60 attendances, and a NetBSD BoF with 95 attendances, 210 clients via RealVideo. Talking about Zoularis, LCD System Status monitor, devsw again, presentation with less, citrus, ACPI, jp.netbsd servers, Upcoming 1.6 and current, sourceforge.jp, xcast6. May 2-4, 2002, Porto Alegre- RS, Brazil The Annual International Free Software Forum will take place on this May 2th, 3th and 4th in Porto Alegre- RS , Brazil. Mainly in event about Linux Gnu's solutions, this year The BSD's Operating Systems will have a chance to prove their value. The Session's Speakers are Edson Brandi (FreeBSD), Diego Linke (NetBSD) and Ricardo Nascimento Ferreira (OpenBSD) and they will focus in the general aspects of the systems: history, license, goods and bads, technical characteristics and philosophy. March 9-10, 2002, TU Chemnitz, Chemnitz, Germany www.tu-chemnitz.de/linux/tag/lt4/ Presentations included "Migration to IPv6" mentioning NetBSD as example, "*BSD - Alternative to Linux" presenting BSDs and "BIND9 - Let's talk IPv6". There was also a (Net)BSD booth manned by Andre Nicklas, Hubert Feyrer, Karl Uwe Lockhoff. A detailed report is available. February 27-March 1, 2002, Ruhr-Uni Bochum, Bochum, Germany http://www.guug.de/veranstaltungen/ffg2002/index.html Presentations given during the spring meeting of the German Unix User Group (GUUG) included a report about NetBSD in 2002 and details about Rapid Deployment of IPv6 with 6to4, which covered NetBSD (among others). February 11-14, 2002, Cathedral Hill Hotel, San Francisco, California, USA http://www.usenix.org/events/bsdcon02/cfp/ December 3-7, 2001, Yokohama, Japan http://internetweek.jp/ At Internet Week 2001, there was a BSD BOF on December 6th. Additionally, December 7th was BSD/Linux Day. There was a BSD BoF session on Dec 7 with 197 attendances, 392 clients via RealVideo G2 broadcasting,IRC chatting. Talking about The BSD System on 1FDD, Special talk and Presentation [Perry E. Metzger/Warner Losh], IPv6 DNS transfer Club,Catch up FreeBSD current,talking about free software community, BSD users group meeting via IPv6 XCAST. On Dec 8, there was a BSD/Linux Day session talking about BSD, Linux, Mail User Agents, Mail Transfer, Office Suite, Emulation. November 9-11, 2001, Thistle Hotel, Brighton, UK http://www.bsdconeurope.org/ October 20-21, 2001, Berkshire, England http://www.riscos2001.com/ NetBSD had a stand at the RISC OS 2001 Show. There was various NetBSD boxes on display and NetBSD 1.5.2 CDs for sale. September 13, 2001 NetBSD 1.5.2, a patch release improving stability, fixing bugs in, and adding some features to NetBSD 1.5.1, was released with support for 21 architectures. More information is available in the 1.5.2 release announcement. August 26-30, 2001, San Francisco, CA http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/ The NetBSD Project had a booth at the LinuxWorld Conference & Expo from August 28-30, 2001. Jason Thorpe has written a short summary about the NetBSD booth at LinuxWorld. Also at the booth was the debut of NetBSD running on a Playstation 2 from Japan. July 11, 2001 NetBSD 1.5.1, a patch release improving stability, fixing bugs in, and adding some features to NetBSD 1.5, was released with support for 21 architectures. More information is available in the 1.5.1 release announcement. June 30, 2001, ASCII Corporation, Tokyo, Japan http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/announce/meeting3.html The Japan NetBSD Users' Group had their annual meeting with 52 attendances, and a NetBSD BoF with 102 attendances, 275 clients via RealVideo G2 broadcasting. Talking about jp.NetBSD.org servers, NetBSD status updates after USENIX2001,Korea NetBSD User Group, www.NetBSD.org Logo, Chiba-BUG, Making plan for NetBSD Book in Japan, XCAST on NetBSD, The New Block/Character Device Switch Configration Framework, Life in PEACE, wdc MD driver for DC IDE-HD Interface on NetBSD/dreamcast, Get into Zoularis, PS2Linux for NetBSD, and special guest talking with Antti Kantee from Finland. Japan NetBSD Users' Group will have a special meeting on 54th IETF Yokohama, Japan. June 25-30, 2001, Boston, MA http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix01/ NetBSD was well represented at Usenix 2001, and we would like to thank everyone involved in the BSD BoF and the NetBSD booth. The NetBSD Project had a presentation at the BSD BoF which was headed by NetBSD Core Group members Christos Zoulas and Luke Mewburn. A list of highlights is available in Chuck Toporek's "Greetings from the BSD Super BoF" article. The slides from this talk are available at events/usenix2001/. Luke Mewburn was also a part of the scripting technical session; his presentation was entitled, "The Design and Implementation of the NetBSD rc.d System". In Ellen Siever's "Usenix Technical Session Wrap-Up" article, she talks briefly about Luke's presentation. Luke's paper can be found at the Usenix 2001 web site, in both HTML and PDF formats, under FREENIX Track Refereed Papers (requires USENIX membership). The paper may also be found in PDF format at Luke's own web site. Again, a thank you to all involved. June 9-10, 2001, Nagoya, Japan On June 9-10th, 2001, several Bof about open source community in japan were held.100+150 persons attended in person. June 7 2001, Chiba, Japan http://www.interop.jp/ On June 7th, 2001, a BSD BoF was held as one of the night sessions at NetWorld+Interop Tokyo. Over 300 people attended in person, 50-100 people attended over IRC (volunteers typed the discussions to a couple of IRC channels), and 828 clients watched the discussion over RealVideo transmission. Jun-ichiro itojun Hagino wrote up a summary of the BSD BoF at NetWorld+Interop Tokyo. May 19-20, 2001, Wakefield, UK There was a NetBSD stand at the Wakefield Acorn / RiscOS show. The Wakefield show was more of an ARM biased show, so there was a NetBSD/arm26 and NetBSD/arm32 slant to the NetBSD stand. The stand featured machines running NetBSD, and CD-ROMS of the NetBSD system with some additional pre-built packages and a copy of the NetBSD web site on them. Also at the show Chris Gilbert gave a talk about NetBSD. April 2-5, 2001, Chicago, IL http://www.comdex.com/ NetBSD had a booth at Comdex Spring 2001. A short summary of NetBSD at Comdex Spring is available. Expenses for this event were underwritten by The NetBSD Mission. February 10-11, 2001, Tokyo, Japan Japan NetBSD Users' Group had a booth with SONY NEWS,Sun Ultra1,DEC VAX station,Sega DreamCast,Mac SE/30, Sharp X68030,Mac G4Qube,iBook,NEC MobileGearII, PEACE and umidi/utoro demo with 7000 attendances. Held a Presentation & a tutorial about NetBSD by jun@NetBSD.org. [ Reports on jp.NetBSD.org] January 30-February 2, 2001, New York City, USA http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/ The NetBSD Project shared a stand with Wasabi Systems at LinuxWorld Expo 2001. The stand had a variety of different platforms running NetBSD, 1.5 CDs, and other swag. December 18-21, 2000, Osaka, Japan http://www.nic.ad.jp/iw2000/ There was a BSD BoF session on Dec 19 with 160 attendances, 94 clients via RealVideo G2 broadcasting,60 IRC realtime broadcasting clients. Talking about The BSD System on 1FDD, USB maniacs from across the BSD magazine editorial room, announce from BSDi Japan Office, Users groups in JP[NoBUG, OFUG, S*BUG, K*bug, NBUG, JNUG, L*BUG], little red Daemon-kun from The Open Source Toys Project, BSD goods present time,and more thinking about BSD activity in Japan. December 6, 2000 NetBSD 1.5, the eighth major release of NetBSD, was announced to the public. December 3-8, 2000, New Orleans, LA http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa2000/ November 25, 2000 NetBSD 1.4.3, a patch release improving stability and fixing bugs in NetBSD-1.4, was announced to the public. November 13-17 2000, Las Vegas, NV http://www.comdex.com/ The NetBSD Project had a booth at Comdex Fall 2000. We demonstrated a full desktop system running on a Macintosh G4 cube, as well as other sundry bits. The cube also appeared on German 3Sat Neues. Expenses for this event were underwritten by LinuxMall and The NetBSD Mission. October 30-November 1 2000, Toronto, Ontario, Canada http://www.linuxexpocanada.com/ The NetBSD Project had a booth at displaying NetBSD i386 and mac68k - T-shirts and 1.4.2 CDs were available. The i386 machine was running an automated demo which will soon be available in pkgsrc. Expenses for this event were underwritten by The NetBSD Mission and David Maxwell. October 21-22 2000, Epsom, England http://www.armclub.org.uk/shows/riscos/ A group of NetBSD enthusiasts were one of the exhibitors at RISC OS 2000. They had CD's, leaflets, and a mixture of hardware running NetBSD on display. David Brownlee wrote up a report about the NetBSD stand at RISC OS 2000. October 14-20 2000, Monterey, CA http://www.bsdcon.org/ NetBSD had a table at this event, and there were a couple of talks spotlighting NetBSD. Erik Berls cyber@NetBSD.org and Luke Mewburn lukem@NetBSD.org gave a talk entitled "NetBSD: Platform for the Future". Slides are available at . Also, Jun-ichiro itojun Hagino gave a talk on NetBSD 1.5. A transcript is available at . October 12-14 2000, Atlanta, GA http://www.linuxshowcase.org/ The NetBSD Project ran a booth at this event, showcasing NetBSD on non-PC platforms (primarily the Mac G4 cube). Some unfortunate bugs were fixed onsite. Expenses for this event were underwritten by The NetBSD Mission. August 14-17 2000, San Jose, CA http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/ There was a BSD BoF session on Wednesday August 16th. In the September 2000 issue, Daemon News published an article on the BSD presence at LinuxWorld 2000. July 17-20, 2000, Monterey, CA http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon2000/ NetBSD had a table at the O'Reilly Open Source Software Convention 2000. Also, there was a session called the "Future of the BSDs", presented by a group that included Charles Hannum from NetBSD. Expenses for this event were underwritten by The NetBSD Mission. July 12-14 2000, Toronto, Ontario, Canada The NetBSD Project had a booth at Comdex Canada 2000 at which T-shirts and 1.4.2 CDs were available. There are some photos of the screen, showing the bktr display, NetBSD developers David Maxwell (left) and D'Arcy Cain (right), and helpers Carol Cain, and Robert Waters. We also have pictures of another User Friendly visitor. Expenses for this event were underwritten by LinuxMall, The NetBSD Mission and David Maxwell. July 1 2000, Tokyo Japan http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/announce/meeting2.html The Japan NetBSD Users' Group had their annual meeting, and a NetBSD BoF followed. June 29-July 2 2000, Stuttgart, Germany http://www.linuxtag.org/2000/english/ A group of *BSD enthusiasts organized a *BSD booth at LinuxTag 2000, which, among many other things, included a variety of boxes showcasing NetBSD. Christian Weisgerber has written a summary about his experiences at LinuxTag 2000, as one both manning the *BSD booth and giving a talk. June 21-22 2000, San Diego, CA http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix2000/ NetBSD had a presence at the Usenix Annual Technical Conference in 2000. Most notably, Charles Hannum gave a talk about NetBSD, William Studenmund gave a technical session on DMFS (Data Migration File System) for NetBSD, Chuck Silvers gave a technical session on UBC (an efficient United I/O and Memory Caching Subsystem for NetBSD), and Jun-ichiro Hagino gave a technical session on mbuf changes in KAME/*BSD IPv6 support. There was also a BSD BoF which included people kicking around beach balls emblazoned with "NetBSD support: it's not hot air anymore" in reference to the launch of Wasabi Systems. Expenses for this event were underwritten by The Usenix Association and The NetBSD Mission. June 14-16 2000, Cologne, Germany http://www.guug.de/ NetBSD was represented at the spring meeting of the German Unix User Group. Ignatios Souvatzis gave a presentation about experiences with IPv6 using NetBSD. June 8 2000, Chiba, Japan http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/ml/admin-ja/200005/msg00015.html A joint *BSD users group BOF was held. Jordan Hubbard and Warner Losh (of FreeBSD) joined and gave us a talk. BOF session covering various *BSD followed. April 17-20 2000, Chicago, IL http://www.comdex.com/ Expenses for this event were underwritten by LinuxMall and The NetBSD Mission. April 10-12 2000, Montreal, Quebec, Canada http://www.linuxexpocanada.com/ The NetBSD Project had a booth displaying NetBSD i386, hpcmips, and mmeye at this event in Montreal, Canada. T-shirts, 1.4.1, 1.4.2, and snapshot CDs were available. Expenses for this event were underwritten by The NetBSD Mission. March 29, 2000, Munich, Germany http://www.decus.de/ Ignatios Souvatzis talked about NetBSD news and experiences with IPv6 on NetBSD at the DECUS Munich Symposium in Bonn. March 19, 2000 NetBSD 1.4.2, a patch release improving stability and fixing bugs in NetBSD-1.4, was announced to the public. February 1-3 2000, Paris, France http://www.linuxexpoparis.com/ There was a BSD BoF at the New York Linuxworld on Thursday, February 3rd. Expenses for this event were underwritten by The NetBSD Mission. December 18 1999, Yokohama, Japan http://www.nic.ad.jp/iw99/ There was a BSD BoF session on Dec 18. December 14-16 1999, New York City, NY The NetBSD Project had two kiosks at "The Bazaar" in New York City at the Javits Center. We demoed NetBSD on several hardware platforms, and provided live video from the show floor via a Brains, Inc. mmEye video server. Expenses for this event were underwritten by The NetBSD Mission. November 15-19 1999, Las Vegas, NV http://www.comdex.com/ The NetBSD Project had a booth at Comdex Fall 1999. We had 1.4.1 CD sets, sample CDs, demo machines, and a few surprises. Expenses for this event were underwritten by LinuxMall and The NetBSD Mission. November 12-13, 1999, Akihabara, Tokyo Japan NetBSD Users' Group ran a booth at Open Source Matsuri'99 in Akihabara ("Matsuri" is Japanese word for "Festival"). We had demo machines and short Presentation with NetBSD/hpcmips. October 14-16, 1999, Atlanta, GA http://www.linuxshowcase.org/1999/ The NetBSD Project ran a booth at the Atlanta Linux Showcase. 1.4.1 CD sets and T-shirts were on sale. Expenses for this event were underwritten by The NetBSD Mission. October 9-10, 1999 August 26, 1999 NetBSD 1.4.1, a patch release improving stability and fixing bugs in NetBSD-1.4, was announced to the public. July 16-17, 1999, Berlin, Germany Patrick M. Hausen talked about FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD at the Free Software Projects panel of the Wizards of OS conference. June 26-27, 1999, Kaiserslautern, Germany http://www.linuxtag.org/1999/ The NetBSD Project attended LinuxTag '99 in Kaiserslautern, Germany. We exhibited a NetBSD/arm32 system running on a DNARD, and demonstrated the package system. June 6-11, 1999, Monterey, CA http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix99/ The NetBSD foundation attended the USENIX Annual Technical Conference in Monterey, CA. There was a Birds of a Feather session on Tuesday 8, 8pm - 10pm, and an exhibition booth featuring many different platforms. There is also a full report available. March 16-19, 1999, Germany http://www.guug.de/ During the spring meeting of the German Unix User Group (GUUG), NetBSD was mentioned in two talks held by Dr. Alexandre Wennmacher. The first described security through file flags and the second was about checkpointing in userspace. At the *BSD BoF, Hubert Feyrer explained the changes made in the Packages System to what was taken from FreeBSD, Christoph Badura answered general NetBSD questions. May 12, 1999 NetBSD 1.4, the seventh major release of NetBSD, was announced to the public. December 23, 1998 NetBSD 1.3.3, a patch release improving stability and fixing bugs in NetBSD-1.3, was announced to the public. August 21, 1998, San Jose, CA The NetBSD Project was proud to be a partner with O'Reilly and Associates for its Open Source Developer Day, held at the Fairmont Hotel in San Jose, CA. June 15-19, 1998, New Orleans, LA FREENIX, the freely redistributable software track, was held at Usenix. FREENIX was intended to be a showcase for the latest developments and interesting applications in freely redistributable software including NetBSD, FreeBSD, Linux, OpenBSD, GNU and Samba. May 29, 1998 NetBSD 1.3.2, a patch release improving stability and fixing bugs in NetBSD-1.3, was announced to the public. April 25-26, 1998, Germany The Amiga1 user group held another MTT. March 9, 1998 NetBSD 1.3.1, a patch release improving stability and fixing bugs in NetBSD-1.3, was released. January 4, 1998 NetBSD-1.3, the sixth major release of NetBSD, was announced to the public. May 20, 1997 NetBSD 1.2.1, a patch release improving stability and fixing bugs in NetBSD-1.2, was announced to the public. April 19-20, 1997, Germany A NetBSD-1.2.1/Amiga preview, running on a DraCo and (after installing it live over ARCnet) on an Amiga 3000, was presented by Jürgen Schmitz and Ignatios Souvatzis at the MTT '97. April 17, 1997, Bonn, Germany Ignatios Souvatzis presented a talk about NetBSD on Digital Hardware at the DECUS Munich Symposium in Bonn. January 14, 1997, Anaheim, CA NetBSD hosted a Birds of a Feather at the Usenix conference which was held in Anaheim California. Christos Zoulas spoke about the current state, goals and future directions of the project, while Paul Kranenburg, Aaron Brown and Chris Demetriou answered questions about the sparc and the alpha ports respectively.