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iXsystems to Host MeetBSD California 2016 at UC Berkeley

September 6, 2016 By Cao Leave a Comment

Conference to Return to the “Birthplace of BSD” for Its Fifth Installment

SAN JOSE, CA–(Marketwired – September 06, 2016) – iXsystems announced today that the fifth MeetBSD California conference will take place at UC Berkeley’s Clark Kerr campus on November 11-12. As in past years, this year’s MeetBSD California will once again follow a mixed “unConference” format and will feature breakout sessions, discussion groups, and talks from prominent figures in the BSD community.

MeetBSD California is the premier BSD Conference in the San Francisco Bay Area. Since its inception in 2008, MeetBSD California has been held every two years in Silicon Valley, bringing together BSD community members from all over the region and around the world.

Previous settings for MeetBSD California have included the Google and Yahoo! Campuses, Hacker Dojo in Mountain View, and the Western Digital campus in San Jose. The BSD operating system was developed in the early ’90s at this year’s venue, UC Berkeley.

Kirk McKusick, one of the instigators of BSD at Berkeley in the 1980s, says, “I am thrilled to have a BSD Conference return to the campus at which it started. I look forward to catching up on all the latest work going into the BSD systems and especially look forward to the party at the historic Hillside Club on Friday evening.”

“For this fifth installment of the MeetBSD California conference, we’re proud to bring it home to where it all began,” says Matt Olander, Co-Founder and Chief Science Officer of iXsystems. “UC Berkeley provides the perfect backdrop for the accomplishment of BSDrelated development milestones. We’re looking forward to the insightful discussions that will take place at this year’s MeetBSD.”

For more information about MeetBSD or to register to attend, visit MeetBSD.com or email info@meetbsd.com.

2016 BSDCan Trip Reports

July 25, 2016 By Cao Leave a Comment

BSDCan 2016 was held at the University of Ottawa in Ontario on the weekend of June 10-11. The FreeBSD Foundation sponsored several users who have summarized their experiences in the posts below.

2016 heralded my return to BSDCan after a 4 year hiatus. In part, I was inspired to return this year, after I took some holidays in France back in February. I had the distinct pleasure, that weekend, to have supper with just about all the Paris based FreeBSD committers. Plus, I got to meet my first ever mentee, jadawin@, who made a special trip to come visit. Keeping company with these great people for the night reminded me of the great camaraderie I had experienced at the conferences in years gone by, and I wanted to try experience that again. So, I showed up on campus, and everything felt familiar. This was the first good sign! From there, a few familiar faces were revealed, and before too long, it was almost old homecoming for me!

Thomas M. Abthorpe: https://www.freebsdfoundation.org/blog/2016-bsdcan-trip-report-thomas-m-abthorpe/

Trent Thompson: https://www.freebsdfoundation.org/blog/2016-bsdcan-trip-report-trent-thompson/

Li-Wen Hsu: https://www.freebsdfoundation.org/blog/2016-bsdcan-trip-report-li-wen-hsu/

Ruslan Bukin: https://www.freebsdfoundation.org/blog/2016-bsdcan-trip-report-ruslan-bukin/

EuroBSDCon 2016: registration is now open!

July 15, 2016 By Cao Leave a Comment

BSD-2016-mascot-RGB EuroBSDcon 2016 is now open for registration. This annual conference will be held in Belgrade, Serbia from September 22 to 25, 2016.

About

EuroBSDcon is the European annual technical conference gathering users and developers working on and with 4.4BSD (Berkeley Software Distribution) 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.

EuroBSDcon is run under the umbrella of the EuroBSDcon Foundation, a registered non-profit organisation in The Netherlands. You can contact us using the site contact form.

EuroBSDcon 2016 – https://2016.eurobsdcon.org/registration/

Original announcement: http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.os.freebsd.announce/924

Tutorials

BSDCan 2016 Travel Grant Deadline: Monday, May 16

May 13, 2016 By Cao Leave a Comment

freebsd_foundation The FreeBSD Foundation is offering travel grants for those interested in attending BSDCan 2016. The annual conference will be held on June 7-11, 2016 in Ottawa, Ontario. Visit the Foundation’s page to submit your application.

Travel grants are available to FreeBSD developers and advocates who need assistance with travel expenses for attending conferences related to FreeBSD development. Read through the policies and apply here.

BSDCan, a BSD conference held in Ottawa, Canada, 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.

Apply here: https://www.freebsdfoundation.org/blog/bsdcan-2016-travel-grant-deadline-monday-may-16/

BSDCan website: https://www.bsdcan.org/2016/

Presentations by Michael Dexter, Dru Lavigne – LFNW 2016

May 6, 2016 By Cao Leave a Comment

At this year’s LinuxFest Northwest, FreeBSD advocates Michael Dexter and Dru Lavigne gave presentations regarding BSD and various open source topics. LinuxFest Northwest is an annual, community-run, open source tradeshow held at the Bellingham Technical College in Washington. You can view their presentation slides with audio below:

Blog: Larry the BSD Guy’s last column [FossForce]

April 22, 2016 By Cao Leave a Comment

Larry the BSD Guy, also known as the Free Software Guy, is hanging up the jersey to pursue another of his own writing interests. Read his final column from Fossforce, this one featuring LinuxFest NorthWest, an annual open-source trade show held in Bellingham, Washington. Thank you for your contributions to the free and open source community, and we wish you the best in future endeavors.

Larry the BSD Guy

It’s a sad day at the FOSS Force office. Larry Cafiero says goodbye and walks off into the sunset.

This weekend, the Grand Old Man (or Woman — take your pick) of Linux expos in North America takes place in the upper left corner of the United States.

For over a decade and a half, LinuxFest Northwest has flown the flag literally in Microsoft’s backyard, an annual open source event held the last weekend in April in Bellingham, Wash. LFNW features presentations and exhibits on various free and open source topics, as well as Linux distributions and applications. It usually has something for everyone from the novice to the professional.

It has a special place in my heart as well. While I think that SCALE is the best show on the continent for obvious reasons (the SCALE Publicity Team is solely responsible, he says in jest), LFNW is my favorite show to attend, not only because of the history but because of the community vibe the show gives off at an expo that has refused to give in to the creeping corporatism to which other shows have succumbed ….

Read the full column here: http://fossforce.com/2016/04/bsd-linuxfest-northwest/

EuroBSDcon 2016 call for papers

April 15, 2016 By Cao Leave a Comment

BSD-2016-mascot-RGB The organizers of this year’s EuroBSDcon are requesting a call for papers for all presenters. The conference will be held on 22-25 September 2016, in Belgrade, Serbia. Head on over to their website to submit your proposal!

EuroBSDcon 2016: Belgrade, Serbian Republic

EuroBSDcon is the European technical conference for users and developers of BSD-based systems. The conference will take place in Belgrade, Serbia. Tutorials will be held on Thursday and Friday in the main conference hotel, while the shorter talks and papers program is on Saturday and Sunday in ….

The call for Talk and Presentation proposals period will close on Sunday the 8th of May, 2016

EuroBSDcon 2016 call for papers: https://2016.eurobsdcon.org/call-for-papers/

Speaking on BSD: The Waiting Is the Hardest Part

March 4, 2016 By Cao Leave a Comment

larrybsdguy Larry the BSD Guy is back with another blog, this time speaking on his experiences of hosting a BSD talk. With the many similarities between open source operating systems, he speaks on the obstacles faced when presenting a specific subject to the community. Read his full blog at the link below.

The BSD devil resides in a penguin’s DNA.

After answering various calls for presentations to a few upcoming shows, it stands to reason that Tom Petty is right: The waiting is the hardest part.

Because I now use PC-BSD on a daily basis, the idea going forward is to pitch talks about the conversion from one side of the Free/Open Source Software street to the other; the uplifting situations and occasional hurdle such a conversion brings, and to outline the similarities (lots) and differences (few, but relatively significant) between Linux distros and BSD variants.

Full disclosure: No one realizes more than I do how difficult this talk is to compartmentalize among the specific categories that some shows have. This talk can best be described as a verbal Venn diagram showing the overlapping advantages that Linux and BSD provide, and then point out the differences between the two.

Full blog: http://fossforce.com/2016/02/speaking-bsd-waiting-hardest-part/

BSDNow.TV Episode 130: Store all the Things

March 4, 2016 By Cao Leave a Comment

In this BSD Now episode, hosts Allan Jude and Kris Moore discuss Allan’s recent trip to the Storage Summit, located in the Silicon Valley. In addition, they bring the latest ZFS news. Hit play below to tune in:

For the week’s round up of BSD related content: http://www.bsdnow.tv/episodes/2016_02_24-store_all_the_things

Larry – BSD at SCALE 14x

February 6, 2016 By Cao Leave a Comment

larrybsdguy Larry the BSD Guy gives us a summary of his experience at SCALE14x. Check the link below to read the full story.

As I may have mentioned during the SCALE 14x coverage, one of the disadvantages of the glorious burden of working for a great event such as SCALE is that I don’t get out of the media room enough. The fact is, I can’t — herding the cats known as the tech media and processing various social media posts around the event keeps me in the room.

But I do get to go fix things occasionally, and that’s when I make the rounds on the expo floor.

BSD had itself its own row of booths in the expanded expo hall — FreeBSD, the FreeBSD Foundation, and OpenBSD were all neighbors on the exhibit floor. As is common for all the conferences we attend, Dru Lavigne and I — she moreso than me — got to catch up on things, and I took the time to drop in on her “Doc Like and Egyptian” presentation (though, burdened with a radio, I was called away to put out a minor “fire,” rhetorically speaking, in the press room).

Larry the Free Software Guy – http://fossforce.com/2016/01/bsd-scale-14x/