NetBSD Events

This is an incomplete list of NetBSD related events. If you know about some public event that fits and would like it to be listed here, contact us.

Also check out our other events-related pages.

Future Events

Past Events

Future Events

Mar 2006 - Chemnitzer Linux-Tage 2006 (top)

March 4-5th 2006, Chemnitz, Germany

NetBSD will have a booth at the Chemnitzer Linux-Tage, one of the largest Linux Cons in Germany.

Additionally, several NetBSD presentations and a workshop will be held:

For further information contact Stefan Schumacher <stefan (at) net-tex.de>.

Mar 2006 - CeBIT 2006 (top)

March 9-15 2006, Hannover, Germany

The NetBSD project will have a booth at CeBIT, the large b2b-tradefair in Hannover, Germany, from March 12-15. The booth will be in Hall 5, number E 56 and will showcase NetBSD and Xen.

Mar 2006 - Open Source Conference 2006 Tokyo/Spring (top)

Mar. 17-18, 2006, Tokyo, Japan

At the Open Source Conference 2006 Tokyo/Spring, there will be a NetBSD booth staffed by members of the Japan NetBSD Users' Group with many hpc{ mips, sh, arm } gadgets demonstration.

Mar 2006 - GUUG spring talk (top)

March 21-24th 2006, Osnabrück, Germany

German Unix User Group “Frühjahrsfachgespärch” (spring talk) will be passed during 21.-24.3.2006 in the University of Osnabrück.

There will be at least one NetBSD-related talk, on backup strategies. Interested parties are welcome to coordinate any BOF sessions or booth activities with Stefan Schumacher, see his posting on regional-de.

Apr 2006 - LinuxWorld-Boston 2006 (top)

April 3-6, 2006, Boston, MA, USA

This year the first of two LinuxWorld Conferences & Expo is going to take place in Boston, MA, USA at the beginning of April. The NetBSD Project might be represented with a [shared] booth there - if you are interested in helping out, please contact Brian Asemi (asemisldkfj at gmail.com).

Apr 2006 - Japan NetBSD Users' Group meeting & NetBSD BOF (top)

Apr 16, 2006, National Olympics Memorial Youth Center, Tokyo, Japan

See this page for meeting information.

May 2006 - LinuxTag 2006 (top)

May 3-6 2006, Wiesbaden, Germany

NetBSD will have a boot at LinuxTag 2006. There will also be BSD talks and tutorials.

May 2006 - pkgsrcCon 2006 (top)

May 5-7, Paris, France

The third pkgsrc conference will be held on May 5-7, 2006 in Paris, France. Universite Paris 7 - Denis Diderot is graciously hosting the conference on their campus.

pkgsrcCon is a technical conference for people working on the NetBSD Packages Collection (pkgsrc), focusing on existing technologies, research projects, and works-in-progress in pkgsrc infrastructure. Developers, contributors, and users are all welcome to attend, and to share an excellent opportunity to gather and to discuss ideas face-to-face on how to improve pkgsrc.

For more information, including how to register, and how to submit a presentation proposal, please visit http://www.pkgsrcCon.org/.

May 2006 - BSDCan 2006 (top)

May 12-13 2006, Ottawa, Canada

In just two years, BSDCan, a BSD conference held in Ottawa, 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.

This year, BSDCan 2006 will be will be held on May 12-13 2006 at University of Ottawa, and some other related events will be passed during May 10-14th.

Watch out for the NetBSD people on BSDCan 2006!

Jun 2006 - Interop 2006 Tokyo BSD BOF (top)

Jun 5-9 , 2006, Makuhari-Messe, Chiba, Japan, 18:30-20:00 JST

Interop 2006 Tokyo BSD BOF will held in Interop 2006 Tokyo.

Past Events

Feb 2006 - FOSDEM 2006 (top)

February 25/26th 2006, Brussels, Belgium

The sixth Free and Open source Software Developers' European Meeting is a 2 days event, organized by volunteers, to promote the widespread use of Free and Open Source software. Taking place in the beautiful city of Brussels, Belgium FOSDEM meetings are recognised as the best Free and Open Source events in Europe.

Peter Postma () and Geert Hendrickx () will advocate the NetBSD project on this event. Hope to see you too!

Update: Geert Hendrickx posted a review of the event.

Feb 2006 - SCALE 4x (top)

February 11-12th 2006, Los Angeles, California

SCALE 4x, the 4th annual Southern California Linux Expo, will take place February 11-12, 2006, at The Westin Los Angeles Airport, Los Angeles, California. The NetBSD Project will have a booth at this event; please contact Kevin Lahey () if you would like to help.

A report from Kevin Lahey is available.

Dec 2005 - 22nd Chaos Communication Congress (22C3) (top)

December 27-30th 2005, Berlin, Germany

The 22nd Chaos Communication Congress (22C3) is a four-day conference on technology, society and utopia. The Congress offers lectures and workshops on a multitude of topics including (but not limited to) information technology, IT-security, internet, cryptography and generally a critical-creative attitude towards technology and the discussion about the effects of technological advances on society.

Nov 2005 - OpenSource Conference 2005 Okinawa (top)

November 19, 2005, Okiden Fureai Hall,Japan

At the OpenSource Conference 2005 Okinawa , there will be a NetBSD booth staffed by members of the Japan NetBSD Users' Group with many hpc{ mips, sh, arm } gadgets demonstration.

Nov 2005 - EuroBSDCon 2005 (top)

November 25th-27th 2005, Switzerland

EuroBSDCon 2005 will be held at the University of Basel, Switzerland on November 25th to 27th 2005. Check the website for official program, conference venue and registration. present.

Oct 2005 - Linux-Info-Tag Dresden 2005 (top)

October 29, 2005, Dresden, Germany

The “Linux-Info-Tag Dresden 2005” will take place on October 29th, 2005, in Dresden, Germany. There will be a NetBSD booth presenting NetBSD to the public and showing its abilities on demo computers. Furthermore, there will be a lecture entitled “Introduction to NetBSD” by Karl Uwe Lockhoff.

For further information contact Stefan Schumacher (stefan [at] net-tex [dot] de) and see the website of the event at http://www.linux-info-tag.de/.

Oct 2005 - Systems 2005 (top)

October 24th-28th, 2005, Munich, Germany

There will be a BSD booth at the Systems computer show in Munich, Germany from October 24th to 28th 2005, where the BSD Projects (among others) will be presented.

People willing to help are welcome. It's also fine that you have only on one or more days time to participate at the Booth. There is also a sponsor which provides food and drinks during the event!

For more Information see http://www.systems.de/

Please contact Daniel Ettle (dan at deam dot org) to help at the booth, especially showing NetBSD!

Oct 2005 - KANSAI-OPENSOURCE-2005 (top)

October 28-October 29, 2005, Osaka Sangyo Souzoukan, Japan

At the KANSAI OpenSource 2005 there was a NetBSD booth staffed by members of the Japan NetBSD Users' Group with many hpc{ mips, sh, arm } gadgets demonstration, and DreamCast with ISA BUS Expander, NEC EWS4800 with NetBSD, IO-DATA USL-5P (NetBSD/landisk).

At the *BSD Meeting in Kansai 2005, There was a BoF about Secure Programing, embeded-NetBSD developers' Network, Devices and more about BSD, driven by Kansai *BSD Users Group.

Sep 2005 - Open Source Conference 2005 Fall (top)

Sep. 17, 2005, Tokyo, Japan

At the Open Source Conference 2005 Fall there was a NetBSD booth staffed by members of the Japan NetBSD Users' Group with many hpc{ mips, sh, arm } gadgets demonstration.

Sep 2005 - NYC BSD Con 2005 (top)

September 17th 2005, New York City, NY, USA

The NYC BSD User Group organized the first NYC BSD Conference, a one day technical conference for developers, systems administrators and end-users of the BSD operating systems and related open source projects. Please see the conference website for details.

Sep 2005 - Computer-Bank-Office 2005 (top)

September 7th-10th 2005, Odessa, Ukraine

The NetBSD Project will be presented at 10th annual international exhibition of information technologies, Computer-Bank-Office 2005, which will take place at Expocentre of Odessa Marine Terminal. All talks about NetBSD and pkgsrc systems are scheduled for Sep 8th. Anyone interested in support for and preparation of this event, please contact Mike M. Volokhov . See also his post on netbsd-advocacy.

Sep 2005 - Portuguese NetBSD Users's Group meeting (top)

September 10th 2005, Lisboa, Portugal

The Portuguese NetBSD User Group second meeting will be held at Parque das Nações (Vasco da Gama). Please see the group page for more information.

Aug 2005 - Japan NetBSD Users' Group meeting & NetBSD BOF (top)

Aug 27, 2005, National Olympics Memorial Youth Center, Tokyo, Japan

See this page for meeting information.

A presentation about the changes on the NetBSD audio framework is also available.

Aug 2005 - BSDDAY São Paulo (top)

August 13th, 2005, São Paulo, Brazil

The first BSDDAY in São Paulo, Brazil took place on August 13th, 2005. Presentations regarding the main BSD derivatives including, of course, NetBSD were given. Since the event is also meant to promote charity, the entrance fee was 2 Kilograms of non-perishable food, which were donated to a non-governmental organization.

Aug 2005 - LinuxWorld Conference & Expo 2005 (top)

August 9-11th, 2005, San Francisco, California, USA

LinuxWorld Conference & Expo 2005 was held in San Francisco, California, USA from August 9th to 11th 2005. NetBSD had a booth in the ".org Pavilion", organized by Jeff Rizzo . One of the main attractions here was the NetBSD Toaster, engineered by Technologic Systems. See Jeff Rizzo's report for more details.

Jul 2005 - BSD at “What the Hack” outdoor hacker conference (top)

July 28 - 31, 2005, Liempde, near Den Bosch, The Netherlands

What The Hack is an outdoor hacker conference/event taking place on a large event-campground in the south of The Netherlands from 28 until 31 July 2005. There will be a BSD village with at least three members of the NetBSD Project present. For more details about the *BSD presence see Daniel Ettle's message to the netbsd-advocacy mailinglist.

Jul 2005 - BSD-CONFERENCE-JAPAN 2005 (top)

July 23, 2005, NADYA Park Nagoya, Japan

http://www.bsdcon.jp/ with 80 attendences. There had be a BSD booth staffed by members of the Nagoya *BSD Users' Group. See more Reports.

Jul 2005 - Open Source Conference 2005 in Hokkaido (top)

Jul. 9, 2005, Sapporo, Japan

At the Open Source Conference 2005 DO there had be a NetBSD booth staffed by members of the Japan NetBSD Users' Group. http://www.ospn.jp/osc2005-do/ with 250 attendences and 17 user groups.

Jun 2005 - MeetBSD 2005 (top)

June 17-19th, 2005, Kraków, Poland

MeetBSD 2005 will be held in Kraków, Poland, from June 17th to 19th 2005. Check the website for the official program conference venue and registration.

Jun 2005 - Interop 2005 Tokyo BSD BOF (top)

Jun 9, 2005, Makuhari-Messe, Chiba, Japan, 18:30-20:00 JST

Interop 2005 Tokyo BSD BOF was held in Interop 2005 Tokyo with 130 attendences. BOF01. Room 302.

See program for details.

The BoF was broadcasted via RealVideo (277 clients)/xcast (4 clients include Univ. of Science Malaysia, Nagoya University, and Nagoya *BSD Users' Group)/ IRC (55 clients,BSD-BOF-LOG,BSD-BOF-QA).

May 2005 - BSDCan2005 (top)

May 13th - May 14th, Ottawa, Canada

BSDCan 2005 was held on May 13-14 2005 at University of Ottawa. There were related events on the 12th and the 15th (of a social nature, for the most part).

May 2005 - pkgsrcCon 2005 (top)

May 6th - May 8th 2005, Prague, Czech Republic

pkgsrcCon 2005 was held in Prague, Czech Republic from May 6th until May 8th 2005. pkgsrcCon is a technical conference for people working on the NetBSD Packages Collection (pkgsrc), focusing on existing technologies, research projects, and works-in-progress in pkgsrc infrastructure. Developers, contributors, and users are all welcome to attend. You can view the slides for this event here.

See http://www.pkgsrcCon.org/2005/ for details.

Apr 2005 - Linux Fest Northwest 2005 (top)

LinuxFest Northwest is an annual conference providing many free lectures and booths covering the open source Unix community. The free event was held April 30th in Bellingham, Washington, USA. Lectures covering BSD topics and a BSD advocacy booth were available for the fourth year. Around 1000 people attended the past two years.

More information is at http://linuxnorthwest.org/. (If you can volunteer to help with NetBSD advocacy at LinuxFest, please see this email.)

Apr 2005 - 2005 USENIX Annual Technical Conference (top)

April 10-15, 2005, Anaheim, California, USA

USENIX is a place to present groundbreaking research and cutting-edge practices in a wide variety of technologies and environments. The 2005 program included additional tutorials, more security breakthroughs, and sessions devoted to Linux and Open Source Software. Join the community of programmers, developers, and systems professionals in sharing solutions and fresh ideas.

See http://www.usenix.org/usenix05/ for details.

Mar 2005 - Open Source Conference 2005 (top)

Mar. 25-26, 2005, Tokyo, Japan

At the Open Source Conference 2005 there was a NetBSD booth staffed by members of the Japan NetBSD Users' Group. For more details see http://www.ospn.jp/osc2005/.

Mar 2005 - CeBIT 2005 (top)

March 10-16, 2005, Hannover, Germany

The NetBSD Project was presented at the CeBIT 2005 trade show. A few pictures are available at this URL.

Mar 2005 - Chemnitzer Linux-Tage 2005 (top)

NetBSD was present Mar 5th/6th 2005 in Chemnitz, Germany. We had a fine NetBSD booth at the Chemnitz Linuxdays Mar 5th/6th 2005, with lots of fun going on. Please check Hubert Feyrer's BLOG for all the details:

Feb 2005 - Spring Talks of the German Unix User Group (top)

Feb 22nd to 25th 2005 in Munich, Germany. For some details on the event itself and some rumours & gossips see Hubert Feyrer's BLOG entries:

Feb 2005 - Southern California Linux Expo (top)

Feb 12th -13th, 2005, Los Angeles, California

NetBSD had a booth at the Southern California Linux Expo at the LA Convention Center. NetBSD's presence in booth #34 was organized by Kevin Lahey (). You can find an account of his experience here and here; a picture of the NetBSD booth also was prominently displayed http://www.socallinuxexpo.org/images/pictures/scale3x_day1_6.jpg.

Feb 2005 - Solutions Linux 2005 (top)

Feb. 1-3, 2005, Paris, France

NetBSD will have a booth at Solutions Linux 2005. We will be presenting both NetBSD and pkgsrc on various hardware and software platforms, while selling CDs and other merchandise. If you want to help, you can contact Quentin Garnier ().

Dec 2004 - 21st Chaos Communication Congress (21c3) (top)

Dec. 27 - 29, 2004, Berlin, Germany

There will be a NetBSD booth at this year's 21st Chaos Communications Congress, and you're welcome to drop by for hacking, drinking, fun and entertainment, giving talks, promoting NetBSD and your working areas, help man the NetBSD booth, etc. Please contact Stefan Schumacher (stefan [at] net-tex [dot] de) if you're interested in helping out. There are some notes on the event available.

Oct 2004 - EuroBSDCon 2004 (top)

Oct. 29 - 31, 2004, Karlsruhe, Germany

EuroBSDCon 2004 took place in Karlsruhe, Germany. Check the website for official program, conference venue and registration. A schedule of the talks shows that there were a number of NetBSD developers present.

A brief report from the conference is available here. A longer review was published in the USENIX ;login: magazine.

Oct 2004 - Systems 2004 (top)

Oct. 18 - 22, 2004, Munich, Germany

There will be a 40m² BSD booth at the Systems computer show in Munich, Germany from October 18th to 22nd 2004, where the NetBSD project (among others) will be presented. People willing to help are welcome; Daniel Ettle (dan at deam org) will act as a point of contact. See http://www.systems.de/ for more information on the exhibition.

Oct 2004 - BSD-CONFERENCE-JAPAN 2004 (top)

October 23, 2004, Osaka Sangyo Souzoukan, Japan

http://www.bsdcon.jp/

Oct 2004 - KANSAI-OPENSOURCE-2004 (top)

October 22-October 23, 2004, Osaka Sangyo Souzoukan, Japan

http://k-of.jp/

Sep 2004 - Open Source Conference 2004 (top)

Sep. 4, 2004, Tokyo, Japan

At the Open Source Conference 2004 there was a NetBSD booth staffed by members of the Japan NetBSD Users' Group. For more details see http://osc.ospn.jp/.

Sep 2004 - Swiss Unix Conference 2004 (top)

Sep. 2 - 4, 2004, Zurich, Switzerland

SUCON '04, the 2nd Swiss Unix Conference, will take place in Zurich, Switzerland. The NetBSD Project was represented by Hubert Feyrer, who will gave a presentation at this conference.

Aug 2004 - NetBSD System Administration training (top)

August 10 - 13, 2004, Seattle, Washington, USA

Puget Sound Technology is teaching a hands-on class covering the fundamentals of NetBSD system administration. Visit http://www.pugetsoun dtechnology.com/training/netbsd/ for details.

Aug 2004 - LinuxWorld 2004 (top)

Aug. 2 - 5, 2004, San Francisco, CA, USA

LinuxWorld Conference and Expo is going to take place in San Francisco, CA, USA at the beginning of August. The NetBSD Project might be represented with a booth there - if you are interested in helping out, please contact .

Jun 2004 - NetWorld+Interop 2004 Tokyo BSD BOF (top)

Jun 30, 2004, Makuhari-Messe, Chiba, Japan, 18:30-20:00 JST

http://www.interop.jp/

BOF information

Contact Jun Ebihara for more information.

Jun 2004 - USENIX 2004 (top)

June 27 - July 2, 2004, Boston, MA, USA

USENIX '04, the USENIX Annual Technical Conference is going to take place in Boston, MA, USA at the end of June. The NetBSD Project will be represented by Alistair Crooks, who gives a talk on The NetBSD Update System, as well as Christos Zoulas, who will report on NetBSD during The State of the BSD Projects, and finally by a number of NetBSD developers who will be attending the conference.

Jun 2004 - Linuxtag 2004 (top)

June 23 - 26, 2004, Karlsruhe, Germany

Linuxtag 2004 is going to take place in Karlsruhe, Germany. The NetBSD Project will be represented with a booth - please contact if you are interested in helping out.

May 2004 - Japan NetBSD Users' Group meeting & NetBSD BOF (top)

May 22, 2004, National Olympics Memorial Youth Center, Tokyo, Japan

See this page for meeting information.

May 2004 - BSDCan 2004 (top)

May 13-16, 2004, Ottawa, Canada

The first BSDCan was a tremendous success. With attendence matching BSDCon, and lower fees and accommodation costs, this looks likely to become a popular annual conference. BSD developer Speakers and attendees were numerous. BSDMall had NetBSD paraphanalia available for sale. See also the BSDCan Website, and some photos from Daemonnews.

May 2004 - LinuxChix-Br II National Meeting (top)

May 1-2, 2004 Sao Paulo, Brazil

At the LinuxChix-Br National Meeting there will be a presentation about pkgsrc and a NetBSD booth staffed by members of NetBSD-BR.

Apr 2004 - pkgsrcCon 2004 (top)

April 30 - May 2, 2004, Vienna, Austria

pkgsrcCon is a technical conference for people working at the NetBSD Packages Collection (pkgsrc), focusing on existing technologies, research projects, and works-in-progress in pkgsrc infrastructure. For more information, including slides of the talks, please visit http://www.pkgsrcCon.org/2004/, and see Hubert Feyrer's report in the DaemonNews Ezine.

Apr 2004 - Linuxfest Northwest 2004 (top)

April 17, 2004, Bellingham, Washington, USA

LFNW is a showcase for what Northwest Linux users are doing with open source software. Over 50 short (1 hour) presentations will be given throughout the day. Among them will be introductions to BSD and pkgsrc. There will be a BSD booth, occupied by two NetBSD developers and other BSD enthusiasts. Admission is free. Please see http://www.linuxnorthwest.org/ and this message to the netbsd-news mailinglist for more information.

Mar 2004 - GUUG Frühjahrsfachgespräch (top)

March 9-12, 2004, Bochum, Germany

The NetBSD Project will in all likeliness be represented at this year's GUUG Frühjahrsfachgespräche, a yearly congress for everybody interested in Unix(-like) Systems and System Administration organized by the German Unix User Group.

Mar 2004 - Chemnitzer Linux-Tag 2004 (top)

March 6-7, 2004, Chemnitz, Germany

NetBSD was represented with a booth at the Chemnitzer Linux-Tag 2004 in Chemnitz, Germany. In addition, there were three presentations:

Please see the website for details. Photos are available at this website, more photos can be found on the Linux-Tag website.

Feb 2004 - Solutions Linux 2004 (top)

February 3-5, 2004, Paris, France

NetBSD was represented with a booth at the Solutions Linux 2004 conference and expo in Paris, France.

Jan 2004 - LinuxWorld 2004 (top)

January 20-23, 2004, New York, New York

The LinuxWorld Conference and Expo 2004 took place in the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center in New York City from January 20-23, 2004. While the NetBSD Project did not have their own booth this year, we were able to hand out some flyers and sell a few shirts through the BSDMall booth. See the report from the local user group (NYCBUG) for details.

Dec 2003 - 20th Chaos Communication Congress (20c3) (top)

December 27th to 29th, 2003, Berlin, Germany

The NetBSD Project was represented at the 20th Chaos Communication Congress (20c3) in Berlin, Germany, from December 27th to 29th. See Hubert Feyrer's report for Details. If you're interested in the Blinkenlights project, one of 20c3's main attractions, you will find Lubomir Sedlacik's post to the netbsd-advocacy MailingList useful.

Dec 2003 - BSDCon Brasil 2003 (top)

December 6 and 7, 2003, Instituto Militar de Engenharia (military institute of engineering - IME), Rio de Janeiro, Brasil

See http://bsdcon.myfreebsd.com.br for details.

Dec 2003 - BSD-Linux-Day 2003 (top)

December 2, 2003, Pacifico Yokohama, Japan

http://www.jus.or.jp/events/bsd-linux-day/

Nov 2003 - NetBSD System Administration training (top)

November 18-21, 2003, Seattle, Washington area

Puget Sound Technology is teaching a hands-on class covering the fundamentals of NetBSD system administration. See http://www.pugetsoundtechnology.com/training/netbsd/ for details.

Oct 2003 - KANSAI-OPENSOURCE+FREEWARE-2003 (top)

October 31-November 1, 2003, Osaka Sangyo Souzoukan, Japan

http://k-of.jp/

Oct 2003 - BSD-CONFERENCE-JAPAN 2003 (top)

October 18, 2003, BIZ SHINJUKU, Japan

http://www.bsdcon.jp/

Oct 2003 - Linux-Kongress 2003 (top)

October 14-16, 2003, Saarbrücken, Germany

NetBSD will be present at the Linux-Kongress in Saarbrücken, Germany, an event mostly attended by Linux developers. Presenting NetBSD in this environment will give an interesting chance to compare open source operating systems on a highly skilled level. There will be a joint booth by all BSD projects offering CDs, DVDs, t-shirts and other devotionalia. See this page for more information.

Sep 2003 - BSDCon 2003 (top)

September 8-12, 2003, Marriott Hotel,San Mateo, California, USA

Meet the movers and shakers of the BSD community, and learn how you can use BSD as part of your enterprise-grade solutions. For details, see http://www.usenix.org/events/bsdcon03/cfp/. Contact name, address, phone, fax and/or e-mail: Conference Department, 510-528-8649, conference@usenix.org. A report is available online.

Aug 2003 - Chaos Communication Camp 2003 (top)

August 7-10, 2003, near Berlin, Germany (Old Europe).

A lot of photos are available online, as well as some slides.

Jul 2003 - Linuxtag Karlsruhe, Germany (top)

July 10-13, Karlsruhe, Germany

The NetBSD Project was present at the Linuxtag Karlsruhe 2003, Germany from July 10ths to 13th in a booth together with other BSD-related projects.

The booth was organized by Hubert Feyrer, Bernd Sieker and Jaromir Dolecek. See the full report for details and pictures.

Jul 2003 - Libre Software Meeting in Metz (top)

July 9-12, 2003, Metz, France http://www.rencontresmondiales.org/

The NetBSD Project was represented at the LSM 2003 by Emmanuel Dreyfus and Gilbert Fernandes. A report of the meeting as well as some pictures are available online.

Jul 2003 - NetWorld+Interop 2003 Tokyo BSD BOF (top)

July 2, 2003, Makuhari-Messe, Chiba, Japan, 18:30-20:00 JST

http://www.interop.jp/

Call for Presentation: contact Jun Ebihara .

Jun 2003 - Japan NetBSD Users' Group meeting & NetBSD BOF (top)

Jun 28, 2003, National Olympics Memorial Youth Center , Tokyo, Japan

Jun 2003 - Open Source Meeting 2003 in Nagoya University (top)

June 7-8, 2003, Nagoya, Japan

http://tokai.opensource.jp/tsudoi/2003/

Jun 2003 - 2003 USENIX Annual Technical Conference (top)

June 9-14, 2003, San Antonio, Texas, USA

A six-day, multiple-track event which includes tutorials, technical sessions composed of refereed papers, invited talks, and Birds-of-a-Feather sessions. There will be a Super BSD BOF Session. For details, see http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix03/. Contact name, address, phone, fax and/or e-mail: Conference Department, 510-528-8649, conference@usenix.org

Slides of Chris Demetriou's presentation are available here.

May 2003 - BSDay 2003 (top)

May 21, 2003, Warszawa-Miedzeszyn, Poland

AVET Information and Network Security are holding the BSDay 2003 conference on May 21, 2003, the first event of its kind in Poland. See the web site for more information.

May 2003 - BSDCon.it (top)

May 9-11, 2003, Padova, Italy

As part of Webbit '03, BSDCon.it will be held from May 9th to may 11th in Padova, Italy. People interested in giving a talk on NetBSD should contact .

Apr 2003 - DECUS Munich Symposium 2003 (top)

April 8th-10th, 2003, Bonn, Germany (updated)

There was a presentation about porting NetBSD to old hardware, and the different emulating systems that allow old software to run on new hardware, again with NetBSD as the host OS, and one about eletronic voting, using the procedure for the election of the NetBSD Board of Directors as an in-depth example.

Apr 2003 - Magdeburg Linuxtag (top)

April 5th, 2003, Magdeburg, Germany

There was a NetBSD booth and presentation at the Magdeburg Linuxtag in Magdeburg, Germany on April 5th 2003 at the University of Magdeburg, Germany. See http://www.mdlug.de/ for more information. Contact Bernd Sieker for information regarding representation of NetBSD at the event.

Mar 2003 - NetBSD is ten years young and still going strong! (top)

Several parties are being held in cities around the world to celebrate the tenth birthday of The NetBSD Project, March 21, 2003. Check out the Events Gallery for more information.

Mar 2003 - CeBIT 2003 (top)

March 12-19, 2003, Hannover, Germany

The CeBIT 2003, the most widely known ICT trade fair world-wide, took place in Hannover, Germany from March 12-19, 2003. The NetBSD Project had a booth on Wednesday the 12th, and Thursday 13th, and there was a 30 minute presentation of the NetBSD Project. Bernd Sieker and Jaromir Dolocek manned the booth, see their report.

Mar 2003 - NetBSD System Administration training (top)

March 4-6, 2003, Phoenix, Arizona, USA area

Puget Sound Technology is teaching a hands-on class covering the fundamentals of NetBSD system administration. See http://www.pugetsoundtechnology.com/training/netbsd/ for details.

Mar 2003 - Chemnitzer Linux-Tag (top)

March 1, 2003, Chemnitz, Germany

NetBSD was represented with a booth at the Chemnitzer Linux-Tag (CLT5). A summary of the events including several pictures is available online at http://www.feyrer.de/NetBSD/clt5.html. Presentations, including mp3s of the talks (in German!) areavailable from:

Feb 2003 - Solutions Linux (top)

February 4-6, 2003, CNIT - Paris La Defense, France.

The Solutions Linux conference and expo (formerly known as the Linux Expo Paris) held a NetBSD booth run by the GCU-Squad and the French NetBSD Users Group. A report is available online.

Jan 2003 - Ottawa Open Source Weekend (top)

January 25th, 26th, 2003, Ottawa, Canada

On 2003 January 25 and 26, a coalition of computer professionals, students, and volunteers will host an Open Source Weekend in Ottawa, Canada. The events will be spread across the city and throughout the weekend to showcase the dynamic world of open source software. The major activities will be the:

For details, please see http://www.osw.ca/.

Jan 2003 - LinuxWorld 2003 (top)

January 21-24, 2003, New York, New York

The LinuxWorld Conference and Expo 2003 takes place in the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center in New York City from January 21-24, 2003. See the website for more details and a free registration for the expo. The NetBSD Project had a booth at LinuxWorld, a short review and a handful of pictures are available online.

Dec 2002 - 19th Chaos Communication Congress (19c3) (top)

December 17th to 29th, Berlin, Germany

The NetBSD Project will be present at the 19th Chaos Communication Congress (19c3) in Berlin, Germany, from December 27th to 29th.

Dec 2002 - NetBSD System Administration training (top)

December 10-12, 2002, Seattle, Washington, USA area

Puget Sound Technology is teaching a hands-on class covering the fundamentals of NetBSD system administration.

Dec 2002 - Internet Week 2002 (top)

December 16-20, 2002, Pacifico Yokohama, Japan

Japan NetBSD Users' Group will organize a BSD BoF on December 18th, 18:00(JST) at this years Internet Week. The BoF was broadcasted via RealVideo (179 clients)/xcast (3 clients)/IRC. See http://www.nic.ad.jp/iw2002/bof/bof04.htm for details.

Nov 2002 - KNF Congress 2002 (top)

November 24, 2002, Nuremberg, Germany

This years KNF Congress is under the motto "Linux in allen Lebenslagen???, ... und andere Fragen im Internet" ("Linux in all aspects of life??? ... and other questions on the Internet"). There will not only be Linux-oriented talks, but also a bit of talk about NetBSD, so this might be interesting for anyone in the area of Nuremberg/Germany. There will be a talk about NetBSD/dreamcast, a NetBSD booth and also some NetBSD-related prices in the Tombola.

The congress will take place Sunday Nov 24th, 10-18h at the Gemeinschaftshaus Langwasser, Glogauer Str. 50, 90473 Nuremberg, Germany. See http://www.franken.de/kongress/index.html for more information.

Nov 2002 - BSD Conference Japan (top)

November 23, 2002, tsudahall Tokyo, Japan

http://www.bsdcon.jp/ with 172 attendences.

Nov 2002 - BSDCon Europe 2002 (top)

November 15-17, 2002, Amsterdam, Netherlands

http://2002.eurobsdcon.org/. ``Rumors, Gossips and Facts'' are available online thanks to Hubert Feyrer.

Nov 2002 - LISA '02 (top)

November 3-8, 2002, Philadelphia, PA

http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa02/

Nov 2002 - RISC OS S.E. Show (top)

November 2, 2002, Guildford, UK

The Surrey and Sussex Acorn User Group RISC OS South-East Show, held in Guildford Technical College.

Oct 2002 - Linuxdays 2002 (top)

October 1-3, 2002, Luxembourg

The NetBSD Project was present at the Luxembourgh Linuxdays, an Open Source and Free Software Conference and Expo held in, well, Luxembourg. Hubert Feyrer gave talks on NetBSD and a video rendering cluster done with NetBSD. A report was sent to the netbsd-advocacy list, pictures and more information are available from Hubert's website.

Sep 2002 - Linux-Kongress 2002 (top)

September 4-6, 2002, Cologne, Germany

The NetBSD Project will be present at Linux-Kongress 2002, the 9th International Linux System Technology Conference, held at the Physics Institutes of the University of Cologne, Germany. A report and pictures of the BSD-booth is available online.

Aug 2002 - 11th USENIX Security Symposium (top)

August 5-9, 2002, San Francisco, CA

http://www.usenix.org/events/sec02/

Jul 2002 - NetBSD 1.5.3 release (top)

July 22, 2002

NetBSD 1.5.3, a patch release improving stability, fixing bugs in, addressing security issues in, and adding some features to NetBSD 1.5.2, has been released with support for 20 architectures. More information is available in the 1.5.3 release announcement.

Jul 2002 - NetWorld+Interop 2002 Tokyo BSD BOF (top)

July 3, 2002, Chiba, Japan

http://www.interop.jp/syutten/report.html

http://www.jp.freebsd.org/event/N+I2002_BOF/ , BSD security update - BIND, OpenSSH.

Jun 2002 - USENIX Annual Technical Conference (top)

June 9-14, 2002, Montery Conference Center Monterey, California, USA

http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix02/. Slides of Christos Zoulas' presentation are available here.

Jun 2002 - Open Source Meeting 2002 in Nagoya University (top)

June 8-9, 2002, Nagoya, Japan

http://tokai.opensource.jp/

Jun 2002 - Linuxtag 2002 in Karlsruhe (top)

June 6-9, 2002, Karlsruhe, Germany

Linuxtag had a BSD booth. A report is available.

May 2002 - Wakefield 2002, The Acorn RISC OS Show (top)

May 18-19, 2002, Wakefield, UK

http://www.wrocc.org.uk/show/2002/

May 2002 - Japan NetBSD Users' Group meeting (top)

May 18, 2002, T-Zone Minami, Akihabara, Tokyo, Japan

http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/announce/meeting4.html

The Japan NetBSD Users' Group had their annual meeting with 60 attendences, and a NetBSD BoF with 95 attendences,210 clients via RealVideo. Talking about Zoularis, LCD System Status monitor, devsw again, presentation with less, citrus, ACPI, jp.netbsd servers, Upcoming 1.6 and current, sourceforge.jp, xcast6.

May 2002 - Annual International Free Software Forum (top)

May 2-4, 2002, Porto Alegre- RS, Brazil

The Annual International Free Software Forum will take place on this May 2th, 3th and 4th in Porto Alegre- RS , Brazil. Mainly in event about Linux Gnu's solutions, this year The BSD's Operating Systems will have a chance to prove their value.

The Session's Speakers are Edson Brandi (FreeBSD), Diego Linke (NetBSD) and Ricardo Nascimento Ferreira (OpenBSD) and they will focus in the general aspects of the systems: history, license, goods and bads, technical characteristics and philosophy.

Mar 2002 - 4th Chemnitz Linuxday 2002 (top)

March 9-10, 2002, TU Chemnitz, Chemnitz, Germany

www.tu-chemnitz.de/linux/tag/lt4/

Presentations included "Migration to IPv6" mentioning NetBSD as example, "*BSD - Alternative to Linux" presenting BSDs and "BIND9 - Let's talk IPv6". There was also a (Net)BSD booth manned by Andre Nicklas, Hubert Feyrer, Karl Uwe Lockhoff. A detailed report is available.

Feb 2002 - GUUG Frühjahrsfachgespräch 2002 (top)

February 27-March 1, 2002, Ruhr-Uni Bochum, Bochum, Germany

http://www.guug.de/veranstaltungen/ffg2002/index.html

Presentations given during the spring meeting of the German Unix User Group (GUUG) included a report about NetBSD in 2002 and details about Rapid Deployment of IPv6 with 6to4, which covered NetBSD (among others).

Feb 2002 - BSDCon 2002 (top)

February 11-14, 2002, Cathedral Hill Hotel, San Francisco, California, USA

http://www.usenix.org/events/bsdcon02/cfp/

Dec 2001 - Internet Week 2001 (top)

December 3-7, 2001, Yokohama, Japan

http://internetweek.jp/

At Internet Week 2001, there was a BSD BOF on December 6th. Additionally, December 7th was BSD/Linux Day.

There was a BSD BoF session on Dec 7 with 197 attendances,392 clients via RealVideo G2 broadcasting,IRC chatting. Talking about The BSD System on 1FDD, Special talk and Presentation [Perry E. Metzger/Warner Losh], IPv6 DNS transfer Club,Catch up FreeBSD current,talking about free software community, BSD users group meeting via IPv6 XCAST.

On Dec 8, there was a BSD/Linux Day session talking about BSD, Linux, Mail User Agents, Mail Tranfer, Office Suite, Emulation.

Nov 2001 - BSDCon Europe 2001 (top)

November 9-11, 2001, Thistle Hotel, Brighton, UK

http://www.bsdconeurope.org/

Oct 2001 - RISC OS 2001 Show (top)

October 20-21, 2001, Berkshire, England

http://www.riscos2001.com/

NetBSD had a stand at the RISC OS 2001 Show. There was various NetBSD boxes on display and NetBSD 1.5.2 CDs for sale.

Sep 2001 - NetBSD 1.5.2 release (top)

September 13, 2001

NetBSD 1.5.2, a patch release improving stability, fixing bugs in, and adding some features to NetBSD 1.5.1, was released with support for 21 architectures. More information is available in the 1.5.2 release announcement.

Aug 2001 - LinuxWorld Expo (top)

August 26-30, 2001, San Francisco, CA

http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/

The NetBSD Project had a booth at the LinuxWorld Conference & Expo from August 28-30, 2001. Jason Thorpe has written a short summary about the NetBSD booth at LinuxWorld. Also at the booth was the debut of NetBSD running on a Playstation 2 from Japan.

Jul 2001 - NetBSD 1.5.1 release (top)

July 11, 2001

NetBSD 1.5.1, a patch release improving stability, fixing bugs in, and adding some features to NetBSD 1.5, was released with support for 21 architectures. More information is available in the 1.5.1 release announcement.

Jun 2001 - Japan NetBSD Users' Group meeting (top)

June 30, 2001, ASCII Corporation, Tokyo, Japan

http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/announce/meeting3.html

The Japan NetBSD Users' Group had their annual meeting with 52 attendences, and a NetBSD BoF with 102 attendences,275 clients via RealVideo G2 broadcasting.

Talking about jp.NetBSD.org servers, NetBSD status updates after USENIX2001,Korea NetBSD User Group, www.NetBSD.org Logo, Chiba-BUG, Making plan for NetBSD Book in Japan, XCAST on NetBSD, The New Block/Character Device Switch Configration Framework, Life in PEACE, wdc MD driver for DC IDE-HD Interface on NetBSD/dreamcast, Get into Zoularis, PS2Linux for NetBSD, and special guest talking with Antti Kantee from Finland. Japan NetBSD Users' Group will have a special meeting on 54th IETF Yokohama, Japan.

Jun 2001 - USENIX Annual Technical Conference (top)

June 25-30, 2001, Boston, MA

http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix01/

NetBSD was well represented at Usenix 2001, and we would like to thank everyone involved in the BSD BoF and the NetBSD booth.

The NetBSD Project had a presentation at the BSD BoF which was headed by NetBSD Core Group members Christos Zoulas and Luke Mewburn. A list of highlights is available in Chuck Toporek's "Greetings from the BSD Super BoF" article. The slides from this talk are available at events/usenix2001/.

Luke Mewburn was also a part of the scripting technical session; his presentation was entitled, "The Design and Implementation of the NetBSD rc.d System". In Ellen Siever's "Usenix Technical Session Wrap-Up" article, she talks briefly about Luke's presentation. Luke's paper can be found at the Usenix 2001 web site, in both HTML and PDF formats, under FREENIX Track Refereed Papers (requires USENIX membership). The paper may also be found in PDF format at Luke's own web site.

Again, a thank you to all involved.

Jun 2001 - Open Source Meeting 2001 in Nagoya University (top)

June 9-10, 2001, Nagoya, Japan

http://tokai.opensource.jp/tsudoi/2001/

On June 9-10th, 2001, several Bof about open source community in japan were held.100+150 persons attended in person.

Jun 2001 - NetWorld+Interop Tokyo, BSD BoF (top)

June 7 2001, Chiba, Japan

http://www.interop.jp/

On June 7th, 2001, a BSD BoF was held as one of the night sessions at NetWorld+Interop Tokyo. Over 300 people attended in person, 50-100 people attended over IRC (volunteers typed the discussions to a couple of IRC channels), and 828 clients watched the discussion over RealVideo transmission. Jun-ichiro itojun Hagino wrote up a summary of the BSD BoF at NetWorld+Interop Tokyo.

May 2001 - Wakefield 2001 (top)

May 19-20, 2001, Wakefield, UK

There was a NetBSD stand at the Wakefield Acorn / RiscOS show. The Wakefield show was more of an ARM biased show, so there was a NetBSD/arm26 and NetBSD/arm32 slant to the NetBSD stand. The stand featured machines running NetBSD, and CD-ROMS of the NetBSD system with some additional pre-built packages and a copy of the NetBSD web site on them. Also at the show Chris Gilbert gave a talk about NetBSD.

Apr 2001 - Comdex Spring 2001 (top)

April 2-5, 2001, Chicago, IL

http://www.comdex.com/

NetBSD had a booth at Comdex Spring 2001. A short summary of NetBSD at Comdex Spring is available.

Expenses for this event were underwritten by The NetBSD Mission.

Feb 2001 - Open Source Matsuri 2001 in Akihabara (top)

February 10-11, 2001, Tokyo, Japan

Japan NetBSD Users' Group had a booth with SONY NEWS,Sun Ultra1,DEC VAX station,Sega DreamCast,Mac SE/30, Sharp X68030,Mac G4Qube,iBook,NEC MobileGearII, PEACE and umidi/utoro demo with 7000 attendances.Held a Presentation & a tutorial about NetBSD by jun@NetBSD.org. [ Reports on jp.NetBSD.org]

Jan 2001 - LinuxWorld Expo 2001 (top)

January 30-February 2, 2001, New York City, USA

http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/

The NetBSD Project shared a stand with Wasabi Systems at LinuxWorld Expo 2001. The stand had a variety of different platforms running NetBSD, 1.5 CDs, and other swag.

Dec 2000 - Internet Week 2000 (top)

December 18-21, 2000, Osaka, Japan

http://www.nic.ad.jp/iw2000/

There was a BSD BoF session on Dec 19 with 160 attendances,94 clients via RealVideo G2 broadcasting,60 IRC realtime broadcasting clients. Talking about The BSD System on 1FDD, USB maniacs from across the BSD magazine editorial room, announce from BSDi Japan Office, Users groups in JP[NoBUG, OFUG, S*BUG, K*bug, NBUG, JNUG, L*BUG], little red Daemon-kun from The Open Source Toys Project, BSD goods present time,and more thinking about BSD activity in Japan.

Dec 2000 - NetBSD 1.5 release (top)

December 6, 2000

NetBSD 1.5, the eighth major release of NetBSD, was announced to the public.

Dec 2000 - Usenix Systems Administration Conference (LISA) (top)

December 3-8, 2000, New Orleans, LA

http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa2000/

Nov 2000 - NetBSD 1.4.3 release (top)

November 25, 2000

NetBSD 1.4.3, a patch release improving stability and fixing bugs in NetBSD-1.4, was announced to the public.

Nov 2000 - Comdex Fall 2000 (top)

November 13-17 2000, Las Vegas, NV

http://www.comdex.com/

The NetBSD Project had a booth at Comdex Fall 2000. We demonstrated a full desktop system running on a Macintosh G4 cube, as well as other sundry bits. The cube also appeared on German 3Sat Neues.

Expenses for this event were underwritten by LinuxMall and The NetBSD Mission.

Oct 2000 - Linux Expo Toronto 2000 (top)

October 30-November 1 2000, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

http://www.linuxexpocanada.com/

The NetBSD Project had a booth at displaying NetBSD i386 and mac68k - T-shirts and 1.4.2 CDs were available. The i386 machine was running an automated demo which will soon be available in pkgsrc.

Expenses for this event were underwritten by The NetBSD Mission and David Maxwell.

Oct 2000 - RISC OS 2000 (top)

October 21-22 2000, Epsom, England

http://www.armclub.org.uk/shows/riscos/

A group of NetBSD enthusiasts were one of the exhibitors at RISC OS 2000. They had CD's, leaflets, and a mixture of hardware running NetBSD on display. David Brownlee wrote up a report about the NetBSD stand at RISC OS 2000.

Oct 2000 - BSDCon 2000 (top)

October 14-20 2000, Monterey, CA

http://www.bsdcon.org/

NetBSD had a table at this event, and there were a couple of talks spotlighting NetBSD.

Erik Berls and Luke Mewburn gave a talk entitled "NetBSD: Platform for the Future". Slides are available at http://www.mewburn.net/luke/talks/bsdcon-2000/.

Also, Jun-ichiro itojun Hagino gave a talk on NetBSD 1.5. A transcript is available at ftp://ftp.itojun.org/pub/paper/itojun-bsdcon2000-netbsd15.ps.gz.

Oct 2000 - Atlanta Linux Showcase (top)

October 12-14 2000, Atlanta, GA

http://www.linuxshowcase.org/

The NetBSD Project ran a booth at this event, showcasing NetBSD on non-PC platforms (primarily the Mac G4 cube). Some unfortunate bugs were fixed onsite.

Expenses for this event were underwritten by The NetBSD Mission.

Aug 2000 - LinuxWorld Conference & Expo (top)

August 14-17 2000, San Jose, CA

http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/

There was a BSD BoF session on Wednesday August 16th. In the September 2000 issue, Daemon News published an article on the BSD presence at LinuxWorld 2000.

Jul 2000 - O'Reilly Open Source Software Convention 2000 (top)

July 17-20, 2000, Monterey, CA

http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon2000/

NetBSD had a table at the O'Reilly Open Source Software Convention 2000. Also, there was a session called the "Future of the BSDs", presented by a group that included Charles Hannum from NetBSD.

Expenses for this event were underwritten by The NetBSD Mission.

Jul 2000 - Comdex Canada 2000 (top)

July 12-14 2000, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

The NetBSD Project had a booth at Comdex Canada 2000 at which T-shirts and 1.4.2 CDs were available. There are some photos of the screen, showing the bktr display, NetBSD developers David Maxwell (left) and D'Arcy Cain (right), and helpers Carol Cain, and Robert Waters. We also have pictures of another User Friendly visitor.

Expenses for this event were underwritten by LinuxMall, The NetBSD Mission and David Maxwell.

Jul 2000 - Japan NetBSD Users' Group meeting (top)

July 1 2000, Tokyo Japan

http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/JNUG/announce/meeting2.html

The Japan NetBSD Users' Group had their annual meeting, and a NetBSD BoF followed.

Jun 2000 - LinuxTag 2000 (top)

June 29-July 2 2000, Stuttgart, Germany

http://www.linuxtag.org/2000/english/

A group of *BSD enthusiasts organized a *BSD booth at LinuxTag 2000, which, among many other things, included a variety of boxes showcasing NetBSD. Christian Weisgerber has written a summary about his experiences at LinuxTag 2000, as one both manning the *BSD booth and giving a talk.

Jun 2000 - Usenix Annual Technical Conference (top)

June 21-22 2000, San Diego, CA

http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix2000/

NetBSD had a presence at the Usenix Annual Technical Conference in 2000. Most notably, Charles Hannum gave a talk about NetBSD, William Studenmund gave a technical session on DMFS (Data Migration File System) for NetBSD, Chuck Silvers gave a technical session on UBC (an efficient United I/O and Memory Caching Subsystem for NetBSD), and Jun-ichiro Hagino gave a technical session on mbuf changes in KAME/*BSD IPv6 support. There was also a BSD BoF which included people kicking around beach balls emblazoned with "NetBSD support: it's not hot air anymore" in reference to the launch of Wasabi Systems.

Expenses for this event were underwritten by The Usenix Association and The NetBSD Mission.

Jun 2000 - German Unix User Group spring '00 meeting (top)

June 14-16 2000, Cologne, Germany

http://www.guug.de/

NetBSD was represented at the spring meeting of the German Unix User Group. Ignatios Souvatzis gave a presentation about experiences with IPv6 using NetBSD.

Jun 2000 - NetWorld+Interop Tokyo (top)

June 8 2000, Chiba, Japan

http://www.jp.NetBSD.org/ja/JP/ml/admin-ja/200005/msg00015.html

A joint *BSD users group BOF was held. Jordan Hubbard and Warner Losh (of FreeBSD) joined and gave us a talk. BOF session covering various *BSD followed.

Apr 2000 - Comdex Spring 2000 (top)

April 17-20 2000, Chicago, IL

http://www.comdex.com/

Expenses for this event were underwritten by LinuxMall and The NetBSD Mission.

Apr 2000 - Linux Expo (top)

April 10-12 2000, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

http://www.linuxexpocanada.com/

The NetBSD Project had a booth displaying NetBSD i386, hpcmips, and mmeye at this event in Montreal, Canada. T-shirts, 1.4.1, 1.4.2, and snapshot CDs were available.

Expenses for this event were underwritten by The NetBSD Mission.

Mar 2000 - DECUS Munich (top)

March 29, 2000, Munich, Germany

http://www.decus.de/

Ignatios Souvatzis talked about NetBSD news and experiences with IPv6 on NetBSD at the DECUS Munich Symposium in Bonn.

Mar 2000 - NetBSD 1.4.2 release (top)

March 19, 2000

NetBSD 1.4.2, a patch release improving stability and fixing bugs in NetBSD-1.4, was announced to the public.

Feb 2000 - Linux Expo (top)

February 1-3 2000, Paris, France

http://www.linuxexpoparis.com/

There was a BSD BoF at the New York Linuxworld on Thursday, February 3rd.

Expenses for this event were underwritten by The NetBSD Mission.

Dec 1999 - Internet Week 1999 (top)

December 18 1999, Yokohama, Japan

http://www.nic.ad.jp/iw99/

There was a BSD BoF session on Dec 18.

Dec 1999 - The Bazaar (top)

December 14-16 1999, New York City, NY

The NetBSD Project had two kiosks at "The Bazaar" in New York City at the Javits Center. We demoed NetBSD on several hardware platforms, and provided live video from the show floor via a Brains, Inc. mmEye video server.

Expenses for this event were underwritten by The NetBSD Mission.

Nov 1999 - Comdex Fall 1999 (top)

November 15-19 1999, Las Vegas, NV

http://www.comdex.com/

The NetBSD Project had a booth at Comdex Fall 1999. We had 1.4.1 CD sets, sample CDs, demo machines, and a few surprises.

Expenses for this event were underwritten by LinuxMall and The NetBSD Mission.

Nov 1999 - Open Source Matsuri99 in Akihabara (top)

November 12-13, 1999, Akihabara, Tokyo

Japan NetBSD Users' Group ran a booth at Open Source Matsuri'99 in Akihabara ("Matsuri" is Japanese word for "Festival"). We had demo machines and short Presentation with NetBSD/hpcmips.

Oct 1999 - Atlanta Linux Showcase 1999 (top)

October 14-16, 1999, Atlanta, GA

http://www.linuxshowcase.org/1999/

The NetBSD Project ran a booth at the Atlanta Linux Showcase. 1.4.1 CD sets and T-shirts were on sale.

Expenses for this event were underwritten by The NetBSD Mission.

Oct 1999 - BSD Social Event in Berlin (top)

October 9-10, 1999

Aug 1999 - NetBSD 1.4.1 release (top)

August 26, 1999

NetBSD 1.4.1, a patch release improving stability and fixing bugs in NetBSD-1.4, was announced to the public.

Jul 1999 - Wizards of OS #1 (top)

July 16-17, 1999, Berlin, Germany

Patrick M. Hausen talked about FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD at the Free Software Projects panel of the Wizards of OS conference.

Jun 1999 - LinuxTag '99 (top)

June 26-27, 1999, Kaiserslautern, Germany

http://www.linuxtag.org/1999/

The NetBSD Project attended LinuxTag '99 in Kaiserslautern, Germany. We exhibited a NetBSD/arm32 system running on a DNARD, and demonstrated the package system.

Jun 1999 - Usenix '99 (top)

June 6-11, 1999, Monterey, CA

http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix99/

The NetBSD foundation attended the USENIX Annual Technical Conference in Monterey, CA. There was a Birds of a Feather session on Tuesday 8, 8pm - 10pm, and an exhibition booth featuring many different platforms. There is also a full report available.

Mar 1999 - German Unix User Group spring '99 meeting (top)

March 16-19, 1999, Germany

http://www.guug.de/

During the spring meeting of the German Unix User Group (GUUG), NetBSD was mentioned in two talks held by Dr. Alexandre Wennmacher. The first described security through file flags and the second was about checkpointing in userspace.

At the *BSD BoF, Hubert Feyrer explained the changes made in the Packages System to what was taken from FreeBSD, Christoph Badura answered general NetBSD questions.

May 1999 - NetBSD 1.4 release (top)

May 12, 1999

NetBSD 1.4, the seventh major release of NetBSD, was announced to the public.

Dec 1998 - NetBSD 1.3.3 release (top)

December 23, 1998

NetBSD 1.3.3, a patch release improving stability and fixing bugs in NetBSD-1.3, was announced to the public.

Aug 1998 - Open Source Developer Day (top)

August 21, 1998, San Jose, CA

The NetBSD Project was proud to be a partner with O'Reilly and Associates for its Open Source Developer Day, held at the Fairmont Hotel in San Jose, CA.

Jun 1998 - Usenix freenix track (top)

June 15-19, 1998, New Orleans, LA

FREENIX, the freely redistributable software track, was held at Usenix. FREENIX was intended to be a showcase for the latest developments and interesting applications in freely redistributable software including NetBSD, FreeBSD, Linux, OpenBSD, GNU and Samba.

May 1998 - NetBSD 1.3.2 release (top)

May 29, 1998

NetBSD 1.3.2, a patch release improving stability and fixing bugs in NetBSD-1.3, was announced to the public.

Apr 1998 - MTT '98 "Magic Days Trier" (top)

April 25-26, 1998, Germany

The Amiga1 user group held another MTT.

Mar 1998 - NetBSD 1.3.1 release (top)

March 9, 1998

NetBSD 1.3.1, a patch release improving stability and fixing bugs in NetBSD-1.3, was released.

Jan 1998 - NetBSD 1.3 release (top)

January 4, 1998

NetBSD-1.3, the sixth major release of NetBSD, was announced to the public.

May 1997 - NetBSD 1.2.1 release (top)

May 20, 1997

NetBSD 1.2.1, a patch release improving stability and fixing bugs in NetBSD-1.2, was announced to the public.

Apr 1997 - MTT '97 "Magic Days Trier" (top)

April 19-20, 1997, Germany

A NetBSD-1.2.1/Amiga preview, running on a DraCo and (after installing it live over ARCnet) on an Amiga 3000, was presented by Jürgen Schmitz and Ignatios Souvatzis at the MTT '97.

Apr 1997 - DECUS Munich (top)

April 17, 1997, Bonn, Germany

Ignatios Souvatzis presented a talk about NetBSD on Digital Hardware at the DECUS Munich Symposium in Bonn.

Jan 1997 - Anaheim Usenix Birds of a Feather (top)

January 14, 1997, Anaheim, CA

NetBSD hosted a Birds of a Feather at the Usenix conference which was held in Anaheim California. Christos Zoulas spoke about the current state, goals and future directions of the project, while Paul Kranenburg, Aaron Brown and Chris Demetriou answered questions about the sparc and the alpha ports respectively.

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