DragonFly BSD Digest » Conventions

vBSDCon website up

Justin Sherrill — Sat, 18 May 2013 20:56:20 +0000

vBSDCon, the newest BSD conference, happening in October and in Virginia, has a new website. (via)

BSDCan 2013: more BSDTalk, more streaming

Justin Sherrill — Sat, 18 May 2013 17:12:56 +0000

There’s another BSDTalk episode up already, because Will Backman’s at BSDCan 2013 and talking to Scott Long, Alistair Crooks, and David Discher, about NetFlix. Apparently there’s streaming video available now from the convention, and some people’s presentation slides have shown up.

BSDTalk 225: Kris Moore and PC-BSD

Justin Sherrill — Fri, 17 May 2013 17:47:20 +0000

BSDTalk 225 has 12 minutes of conversation with Kris Moore about PC-BSD, recorded at BSDCan 2013, which is going on right now.

Lounging around documentation

Justin Sherrill — Fri, 19 Apr 2013 20:09:00 +0000

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.

New conference: vBSDCon

Justin Sherrill — Thu, 18 Apr 2013 01:43:43 +0000

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.

International Space Apps Challenge this weekend

Justin Sherrill — Tue, 16 Apr 2013 02:19:06 +0000

NASA’s International Space Apps Challenge is this weekend, 4/20/2013. Fancy as it sounds, it’s really a single-day hackathon around open software and hardware, with the problems to fix coming from NASA and therefore probably very unique. It’s happening in a bunch of places around the world, but there’s one right here in my town.

Cons and more cons

Justin Sherrill — Fri, 29 Mar 2013 04:13:28 +0000

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.

What’s happening at pkgsrcCon 2013

Justin Sherrill — Sat, 09 Mar 2013 16:58:21 +0000

The 2013 version of pkgsrcCon is happening in a few weeks in Berlin, Germany. As announced, the presentation list is up. If you can’t make it to Berlin, there will potentially be video recordings of the event.

Early morning distraction

Justin Sherrill — Thu, 07 Mar 2013 13:58:28 +0000

Perhaps it’s not early morning where you are, but: if you go to Google’s 2013 Google I/O site, clicking on the I and O in particular patterns take you to various easter eggs. (see after break for spoilers).

ascii     OIIIIIII

becon     IOOIOOOO

bowling   OIIIOIOI

burger    OOIIIOOI

cat       IIIOOIII

eightbit  OIOIOOII

pong      IOOOOOOI

rocket    OIOOOIOI

simone    IIOIOOII

song      IIOIIOII

space     OOIOIOIO

synth     IOOOIOOO

I haven’t found anything not on this list I’m copying and pasting in, but I haven’t been trying very long.

The simplest web server

Justin Sherrill — Wed, 06 Mar 2013 04:45:55 +0000

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!

FOSDEM slides

Justin Sherrill — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 02:05:38 +0000

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 this weekend

Justin Sherrill — Fri, 01 Feb 2013 21:51:30 +0000

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 proposals

Justin Sherrill — Sun, 06 Jan 2013 02:01:42 +0000

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.

BSDDay 2013 in Europe

Justin Sherrill — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 14:37:23 +0000

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.)

EuroBSDCon 2012 videos are out

Justin Sherrill — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 02:51:59 +0000

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

pkgsrccon 2013: March 23rd, Berlin

Justin Sherrill — Thu, 03 Jan 2013 02:34:30 +0000

Will you be near Berlin, Germany, in March? The pkgsrccon 2013 technical conference will be held there. Julian Djamil Fagir posted details about the event. The conference is free; you pay for your food and drink. If you’re interested in presenting, you need to contact them before March 8th.

BSDCan 2013 Call for Papers

Justin Sherrill — Sun, 16 Dec 2012 01:41:05 +0000

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.

Holiday party in NYC for most anyone

Justin Sherrill — Thu, 29 Nov 2012 00:37:05 +0000

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.

How to run a conference

Justin Sherrill — Fri, 23 Nov 2012 01:44:29 +0000

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.

Chaos Communication Congress and DragonFly

Justin Sherrill — Sat, 03 Nov 2012 19:09:50 +0000

Every year, the Chaos Communication Congress tends to gather at least a few DragonFly-using people, and this year is no different. The event is being held in a much larger arena this year, in Hamburg, Germany, so there’s a good chance a DragonFly ‘assembly‘ could be held. Speak up on the users@ mailing list, or EFNet #dragonflybsd, if you’re going too. It’s happening on the last few days of this year, December 27th through 31st.