Conventions – Page 23 – DragonFly BSD Digest

2010/11/06

Lazy Reading: Clouds, cookies, bugs, more

A catch-up week.

Ivan Voras askes for the ‘anti-cloud‘, a true decentralization of resources instead of the cloud-as-a-central-service-from-one-company, which is what it’s becoming now.
How not to design a protocol, about HTTP cookies. (via) I’ve heard from far more people worried about cookies and the need to clear or block them, than, say, people who realize the risks that programs like Firesheep expose. Such is life.
Will be needed: a SSH VPN. (via) Did I link this already?
‘radek’ sends along news of Giant DragonFlies. Not the most scientific of articles, but a fun thought.
sshd, given actual form.
Dru Lavigne’s got a nice summary of MeetBSD, complete with pictures, audio, and video. More conferences should be covered this completely, and quickly.

2010/11/05

BSDTalk: PC-BSD, Kris Moore

BSDTalk has a brand new interview from the just-finished MeetBSD, talking about PC-BSD 9 with Kris Moore. (18 minutes)

2010/10/31

NYCBSDCon early registration extended

The early bird registration (a cheap $95) for NYCBSDCon has been extended an extra week to match how long they ran it previous years. November 7th, it goes to $125 and walk-in will be $145.

2010/10/21

Conventions conventions conventions!

Hasso Tepper helpfully forwarded announcements for the Call for Papers for both EuroBSDCon 2011 and AsiaBSDCon 2011.

Also, there’s probably going to be DragonFly people at 27C3, and I know there’s going to be some at NYCBSDCon 2010. The early registration discount for NYCBSDCon only lasts about 10 more days, so jump on it while you can; it’s crazy cheap.

2010/10/082010/10/06

NYCBSDCon 2010: who’s going?

I’m going. Venkatesh Srinivas is going. Who else is interested? (See the site.)

2010/09/29

BSDTalk 198: MeetBSD Cali 2010

BSDTalk 198 has 12 minutes of conversation with Matt Olander and James T. Nixon, about MeetBSD. (which is November 5th and 6th.)

2010/09/01

BSD Certification Professional requirements out

The Professional Certification requirements are now published. (via) The tests happen at various conventions around the world, so plan ahead and you should be able to find one near you.

2010/08/23

London BSD meetup

Sevan Janiyan sent along news of a London *BSD meetup happening on August 26th, at The Cleveland Arms in Bayswater, starting at 7 PM.

Of course, you already knew because you watch the BSDEvents feed, don’t you? Well, you should.

2010/08/22

Messylaneous: books, conventions, videos, conventions

Link dumps just so I can get caught up.

Michael Lucas was interviewed about his new Network Flow Analysis (previously reviewed) book, in two parts. Also, he’s speaking at NYCBSDCon, this November 12th-14th.
Dru Lavigne gave a talk on “Getting Started in an Open Source Community“. (via) In other video news, MeetBSD 2010 videos are available now.
Random Google searches turned up a DragonFly installation video on Via hardware.
Back to convention items: Kirk Russell has a short BSDCan recap. (via)
Also, cluster ssh.
Stathis Kamperis updated DragonFly’s One True Awk. (Huh. Brian Kernighan’s not at Bell Labs anymore.)

2010/08/09

Places to go, exams to take

Dru Lavigne has listed conventions she’ll be at over the next few months, so if you feel like taking a BSDA exam or just plain helping out at a BSD booth, check the list.

2010/07/17

New pkgsrc Hackathon planned

There’s an online hackathon (the 14th!) planned for July 30th through August 2nd for pkgsrc (and probably some NetBSD material too) at FreeNode/#netbsd-code on IRC. Aleksej Saushev’s post has more details. At least it’s cheap to attend!

2010/07/17

BSD-Day 2010 in Hungary

November 20th, 2010 is the date for BSD-Day, in Budapest. Gabor Pali has a note out inviting developer to attend and give talks. There’s more details on a FreeBSD wiki page.

2010/07/16

More mandoc madness

Undeadly has an article up about recent work on mandoc in a mini-hackathon. It’s mentioned in context with OpenBSD in the article, but mandoc is also present in DragonFly, and is a potential groff replacement. (And I think groff is the last item in base requiring C++? I may be wrong.) Plus, as I’ve said before, I like mandoc’s output. It would be nice to use that for our online man pages, for instance.

2010/07/012010/07/01

NYCBSDCon call for papers

NYCBSDCon, happening November 12-14th, in New York City, at Cooper Union, has a call for papers out. (via here and also George) They’re due by the end of July.

2010/06/21

NYCBSDCon date set

November 12-14th, in New York City, at Cooper Union.

2010/06/17

BSDTalk 192: pf, Henning Brauer and Peter Hansteen

There’s a new BSDTalk podcast up, again from BSDCan 2010. This one interviews Henning Brauer and Peter Hansteen about pf, for 20 minutes.

2010/06/16

EuroBSDCon 2010 call for papers

EuroBSDCon 2010 is happening October 8th-10th in Karlsruhe, Germany. (I’ll let you guess the year.) The Call for Papers is out now. The website lists it as “Call for Speakers“, but you have to write an abstract so I suppose that’s close enough. (via lots of places)

2010/05/17

BSD meetup in London

Sevan Janiyan passed along a note: there’s a *BSD meetup at the Barrowboy and Banker pub
by London Bridge, in London, the 27th of May. I’d love to attend, both because it’s BSD and because it’s a pub. That pesky Atlantic gets in the way.

2010/05/162010/05/17

BSDCan 2010 videos online

FOSSLC has videos of the presentations from the recent BSDCan. (via) I’m listening to Will Backman’s keynote right now about the BSD community based on his BSDTalk work.

Update: Dru has a list of videos and pictures.

2010/05/122010/05/12

BSD Events link added

Have I managed to forget all this time to add Dru Lavigne’s excellent BSD Events Twitter feed to my link list on the Digest? Yes, I did – fixed.