FreeBSD Past Events

Past Events:

November 2014

• MeetBSD California 2014, Western Digital Campus, San Jose, United States
  01 - 02 November, 2014
  MeetBSD 2014 uses a mixed unConference format featuring both scheduled talks and community-driven events such as birds-of-a-feather meetings, lightning talks, and speed geeking sessions.

October 2014

• X Developer's Conference 2014, LaBRI, Université de Bordeaux 1, Bordeaux, France
  08 - 10 October, 2014
  XDC is the annual conference where people working on the FOSS graphics stack meet. Talks cover projects status, work-in-progress, proposals for change, and so on. Like many similar conferences, this is a great opportunity for developers and users to talk face to face. For the first time in a long time, FreeBSD will be present and give a talk about the status of the graphics stack. The main goal is to re-establish communication with upstream, which tends to get Linux-centric these days.

September 2014

• EuroBSDCon 2014, InterExpo Congress Center, Sofia, Bulgaria
  25 - 28 September, 2014
  EuroBSDcon is the premier European conference on the open source BSD operating systems attracting about 250 highly skilled engineering professionals, software developers, computer science students and professors, and users from all over Europe and other parts of the world. The goal of EuroBSDcon is to exchange knowledge about the BSD operating systems, facilitate coordination and cooperation among users and developers. The dates for EuroBSDCon 2014 in Sofia have been set to September 25-26th for tutorials and September 27-28th for the main conference.

August 2014

• BSDday, University of Buenos Aires' Faculty of natural and exact sciences, Buenos Aires, Argentina
  09 - 09 August, 2014
  BSDday Argentina is a conference for users, sysadmins and developers of BSD software and based systems. The conference is for anyone developing, deploying and using systems based on FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, DragonFlyBSD and others *BSD. BSDday Argentina is a technical conference and aims to collect the best technical papers and presentations available to ensure that the latest developments in our open source community are shared with the widest possible audience.

July 2014

• BSDCam 2014, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
  09 - 12 July, 2014
  The Cambridge FreeBSD Developers Summit is an annual invite-only event focused on bringing together developers and vendors to discuss and build the future of the FreeBSD project. This years topics will include the desired feature set of FreeBSD 11, implementing the new release strategy for the 9 and 10 branches, packaging the base system, and building the infrastructure and tools to attract more embedded vendors to FreeBSD.

May 2014

• BSDCan 2014, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada
  14 - 17 May, 2014
  BSDCan is a technical conference for people working on and with BSD operating systems and related projects. It is a developers conference with a strong focus on emerging technologies, research projects, and works in progress. It also features Userland infrastructure projects and invites contributions from both free software developers and those from commercial vendors. Features tracks on System Administration, Security, Hacking and Embedded. Followed immediately by PGCon at the same location.

March 2014

• AsiaBSDCon 2014, Tokyo University of Science, Tokyo, Japan
  13 - 16 March, 2014
  AsiaBSDCon is a conference for users and developers on BSD based systems. The conference is for anyone developing, deploying and using systems based on FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, DragonFlyBSD, Darwin and MacOS X. AsiaBSDCon is a technical conference and aims to collect the best technical papers and presentations available to ensure that the latest developments in our open source community are shared with the widest possible audience.

• bhyvecon 2014, SAKURA Internet Research Center, Tokyo, Japan
  12 - 12 March, 2014
  See the bhyve hypervisor in action and ask a core bhyve developer your technical questions.

February 2014

• NYCBSDCon 2014, Suspender Bar & Restaurant, Manhattan, New York City, United States
  08 - 08 February, 2014
  A day-long event with a theme of "The BSDs in Production." With increased focus on the critical roles the BSDs do and can play in infrastructures, NYCBSDCon promises to be an important event for the technical community in the New York metropolitan area. Hosted by the New York City *BSD User Group.

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