This year in addition to our usual CFP, we're also having something we've named a Call For Exposes (CFE). The NYCBSDCon Exposés will be demonstrations of BSD-based projects from developers and implementers.vBSDCon with Reyk Floeter (reyk@) and Henning Brauer (henning@)
As of now, I can tell you that I'm the one in charge of organizing the exposés and I'll be doing one. I'll be bringing Yeeloong and Octeon machines so attendees can get a first-hand look at the different OpenBSD/MIPS platforms and a chance to play with the hardware.
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At BSDcan 2013 in Ottawa earlier this year, Michael Dexter got Reyk and myself together with Vincent Miller of Verisign, who was in the process of organizing vBSDcon. He asked us wether we could give a pf run-through presentation at vBSDcon. We quickly agreed on a way that makes it comfortable for Reyk and me. We flew over to IAD, the Washington D.C. international airport in Dulles, VA, where the conference was held. We found an amazingly well organized conference. Even though this was the first vBSDcon, it was obvious the team had experience in organizing events like that. Our talk [link to slides] was very well received, the audience was great, and I had a lot of fun on stage giving it with Reyk.NYCBSDCon 2014 Date Change - Can't Compete With The Superb Owl
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FOSDEM 2014 will take place on 1-2 February, 2014, in Brussels, Belgium. Just like in the last years, there will be both a BSD booth and a developer's room (on Saturday).
The topics of the devroom include all BSD operating systems. Every talk is welcome, from internal hacker discussion to real-world examples and presentations about new and shiny features. The default duration for talks will be 45 minutes including discussion. Feel free to ask if you want to have a longer or a shorter slot.
If you already submitted a talk last time, please note that the procedure is slightly different.
The FreeBSD Foundation is sponsoring a new FreeBSD Journal publication
that's about to begin publishing bi-monthly issues concerning BSD.
The OpenBSD
project is one of the more interesting, though perhaps most overlooked,
members of the BSD family. The OpenBSD operating system is probably
best known for its impressive security record (only two remote security
holes have been found in the default configuration in over a decade),
but the project offers other important features. One is that OpenBSD
comes with high quality and detailed documentation. In fact, the manual
pages and website documentation are perhaps some of the best available
in the open source world. Another great feature is the correctness, the
clean implementation of OpenBSD. The operating system avoids clutter,
avoids mess, avoids bugs of all sorts. This means that the core of
OpenBSD is stable, secure and it is uncomplicated. These characteristics
make OpenBSD a good operating system for web servers, file servers,
routers and firewalls. In the past I tended to refer to OpenBSD in the
context of server or network equipment, a less-flashy yet important
realm. With the arrival of OpenBSD 5.4 I would like to examine how
OpenBSD holds up in the role of a desktop solution.