BSDCan 2013, which is happening in a few weeks, is going to have a “Documentation Lounge“, which is essentially a docs sprint, but with a much more relaxed-sounding name.  Anyway, it’s a good thing to contribute to.

This is interesting: Verisign is sponsoring a new BSD convention (PDF link) in October, in Dulles, Virginia, USA.  Apparently the use of BSD systems at the company is increasing, and they want to host something for it.  The pkgNG presentation may be very interesting for DragonFly users.  See the announcement.  A new convention to support increased BSD uptake is really a nice surprise.

EuroBSDCon 2013 is being held in Malta at the end of September, and the Call for Papers has just gone out.  BSDCan 2013, which is the tenth BSDCan (!) and happening in May, just opened up registration.  Same for PGCon.

Found by way of a NYCBUG newsletter: sws, a webserver written in sh.  Brett Wynkoop is the author, and as he points out, sws works on any platform with “/bin/sh, dirname, cat, and date”.  The author’s giving a talk at an upcoming NYCBUG meeting – tomorrow!

Remember I mentioned FOSDEM a few days ago?  The X.Org presentation slides are up, and the mostly-about-BSD “The future of X.org on non-Linux systems“ presentation slides are included.

FOSDEM is happening this weekend in Brussels, Belgium.  Among the other talks there, OpenBSD developer Matthieu Herrb will be talking about X.org on non-Linux systems.  That’s I think meaning “BSD”.  (via)

BSDCan 2013 is looking for papers, all due by the 19th.  I mentioned it before, but a reminder went out and Michael W. Lucas wrote up a lengthy explanation of how and why you should present that paper.

Are you anywhere near Italy?  BSD-Day is happening April 6th, 2013, in Naples, Italy, and it would be nice to have some DragonFly representation.  (seen on #dragonflybsd on EFNet.)

As seen on OpenBSD Journal, the videos for EuroBSDCon 2012 are online.  There’s a lot of sessions there, so set aside some time.

BSDCan 2013, which is being held in Ottawa May 17th-18th, has a call for papers out.  You’ve got until January 19th to submit, so just about a month.

NYCBUG is joining up with a whole bunch of other software user groups (Linux, Lisp, Puppet, etc.) for a holiday party on December 11th.  This may not do you much good unless you live within a few hour’s travel, but I like seeing that sort of cross-group get-togethers, with no sponsor other than the desire to talk and drink.

Dan Langille runs BSDCan and PGCon.  He also went to EuroBSDCon and described how he put together these conferences.  The PDF containing his presentation slides makes a good checklist of what you might need for your own event, even if it’s not on the scale of his conventions.

AsiaBSDCon 2013 will be at the Tokyo University of Science, March 14-17.  The call for papers is already out.

Remember how I pointed at BSDEvent’s collection of slides from 3 different BSD conventions?  Well, now’s it is a lot more conventions.  As in multiple years of convention slides.

BSD Events linked to the presentations for FOSDEM 2012, BSD-Day Europe 2012, and BSDCan 2012.  There’s a lot of reading there for you – and even some video.

If you’re going to be near Warsaw, Poland, in late October, you can visit EuroBSDCon.  Registration is open now.

(The logo makes me think of a certain meme.)

NYCBUG has a presentation tomorrow night titled “Bring a Box, Rock Your tmux(1)“, with Matthew Story.  If you’re near the area, it’s worth seeing.

(posted for the benefit of the people who keep telling me “stop using screen and switch to tmux.”)

The presentations from BSDCan 2012 are up in video form.  I was going to link to this in a Lazy Reading post, but there’s a lot of video there.  (via)  Of interest: Intro to DNSSEC and FreeBSD’s new package manager.  Check the list, cause there’s a lot more.

I’ve seen notices in the past 24 hours for 2 different BSD events: BSD-Day, at UAS Technikum Wien in Vienna, Austria on May 5, 2012, and EuroBSDcon 2012, in Warsaw, Poland, October 18-21.  The Call For Proposals is out for EuroBSDcon, for submission by May 20th.

There’s a single day between BSDCan and PGCon, May 13th.  That day will be the 2012 Joint Documentation Summit.  People from BSD projects and Postgres will get together to discuss documentation tools, projects, and so on.  If you are going to either convention, I’d recommend visiting this too.  This sort of cross-project pollination leads to good things.

The deadline for submitting papers for BSDCan has been extended, since the convention’s site suffered some downtime this past weekend.  Submit proposals by tomorrow, the 31st, now.

BSDCan 2012 is happening on the 11th and 12th of May, 2012, with 2 days of tutorials beforehand.  It’s at the University of Ottawa. The call for papers is out.  These are proposals for talks, not academic papers.  The deadline for submissions is Jan 29th, unlike what the site says as of this writing.

As Brooks Davis kindly posted to users@, FOSDEM 2012 will have a “BSD Licensed Operating System Developers Room”.  This has the most value to you if you’ll be near Brussels, February 4th and 5th.

Go, look at the BSDday Argentina 2011 site.  Follow the appropriate link for the languages you understand – it’s a console simulation!  (via)

EuroBSDcon 2011, which is happening in Maarssen, The Netherlands 2011/10/6 to 2011/10/9, is now open for registration.  This is the 10th anniversary!

Audio recordings of the events at BSDCan 2011 are now available, in mp3 form.  If the file names aren’t descriptive enough, you can go through the speaker list and match up.  (found indirectly via Facebook)

The 10th EuroBSDCon is happening in Maarssen, The Netherlands, October 6th through the 9th.  The call for proposals is up until the end of the month.

Dan Langille has announced the BSDCan 2011 schedule/list of events in several places.  There’s some fun stuff in there, like discussion of Sendmail from the guy who (originally) wrote it.  There’s a talk about Roff (it’s that old?)from Kristaps Dzonsons, whose mdocml also happens to just have been committed by Sascha Wilder to DragonFly’s contrib.

NYCBSDCon 2010 was crazy fun.  I hope I can make it to BSDCan…

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.

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.