FreeBSD Past Events

Past Events:

December 2005

• GUFICon #6, , Perugia, Italy
  03 - 04 December, 2005
  The Italian FreeBSD users group (G.U.F.I. - Gruppo Utenti FreeBSD Italia) is proud to announce the 6th annual GUFICon. It will be held in Perugia, Italy on December 3-4, 2005. As always, GUFICon is free and open to all. Members of the Italian FreeBSD community as well as special international guests such as Greg Lehey and George Georgalis will present on many technical themes. See the website for more information and free registration.

November 2005

• EuroBSDCon 2005, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
  25 - 27 November, 2005
  The fourth annual European BSD Conference. It is oriented to developers and users of all BSD flavors, including FreeBSD of course.

• USENIX Bay Area Super User Group Meeting (BaySUG '05), Computer History Museum, Mountain View, CA, USA
  12 - 12 November, 2005
  Join USENIX and BayLISA for the first Bay Area Super User Group Meeting (BaySUG '05) followed by a reception hosted by Google. We're looking for more FreeBSD representation. Please contact Murray Stokely if you are interested in discussing and promoting FreeBSD at the event.

October 2005

• Korean FreeBSD users group Conference 2005, HP Korea Conference Room 20th floor, Seoul, Korea
  29 - 29 October, 2005
  A Conference for Everyone Who is interested in FreeBSD in Korea.

• O'Reilly European Open Source Convention, NH Grand Hotel Krasnapolsky, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
  17 - 20 October, 2005
  The popular O'Reilly Open Source Conference is coming to Europe in October. There will be FreeBSD related talks, BoF sessions, and opportunities for general advocacy.

September 2005

• New York City BSD Conference (NYCBSDCon), Columbia University, New York City, USA
  17 - 17 September, 2005
  New York City BSD Conference (NYCBSDCon) is a one day technical conference hosted by the New York City *BSD User Group. The all day conference will include a variety of speakers representing the BSD projects and the open source community.

August 2005

• O'Reilly Open Source Conference 2005, Oregon Convention Center, Portland, Oregon, USA
  01 - 05 August, 2005
  The annual O'Reilly Open Source Conference had a larger BSD presence this year. Matt Olander, Dru Lavigne, and others helped spread the word about FreeBSD. A press release about the advocacy effort is available here.

July 2005

• BSDCon Japan 2005, NADYA PARK, Nagoya, Japan
  23 - 23 July, 2005
  BSD Conference Japan 2005, the fourth conference concerning *BSD in Japan, will be held in Nagoya on July 23th, 2005.

June 2005

• Linuxtag 2005, Kongresszentrum, Karlsruhe, Germany
  22 - 25 June, 2005
  The Linuxtag is one of Europe's biggest Linux and Open Source related tradeshows and conferences. As in previous years, FreeBSD will be present with a booth.

• MeetBSD 2005, Hotel Chopin, Kraków, Poland
  17 - 19 June, 2005
  The second annual MeetBSD conference will be held in Poland to bring together BSD experts from around Europe. Poul-Henning Kamp and others will be presenting on FreeBSD topics.

May 2005

• BSDCan 2005, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada
  13 - 14 May, 2005
  BSDCan is a developers conference with a strong focus on emerging technologies, research projects, and works in progress. It also features Userland infrastructure projects and invite contribution from both free software developers and those from commercial vendors.

April 2005

• Open Source Forum Russia 2005, Radisson SAS Hotel, Moscow, Russia
  27 - 29 April, 2005
  Open Source Forum Russia is the first conference and exhibition which will bring together Russian, American and European leaders of the OS industry, customers interested in using reliable and efficient Linux-based technologies and IT companies which intend developing business on the base of Open Source. Murray Stokely will present on the subject of FreeBSD Release Engineering and the Business Case for BSD.

• 2005 USENIX Annual Technical Conference, , Anaheim, USA
  10 - 15 April, 2005
  The 2005 USENIX ATC will have FREENIX and general refereed paper sessions. This is THE big conference of the year for BSD enthusiasts in the U.S.

March 2005

• LinuxForum 2005, Kunstakademiets Arkitektskole, Copenhagen, Denmark
  04 - 05 March, 2005
  Annual Danish Open Source conference. The Danish BSD user group BSD-DK will present the BSD's.

February 2005

• Fosdem 2005, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium
  26 - 27 February, 2005
  A 2 day event to promote the widespread use of Free and Open Source software. Among the projects present at the event will be Mozilla, KDE and, of course, FreeBSD.

• GUUG-Frühjahrsfachgespräch 2005, Munich University of Applied Sciences, Munich, Germany
  22 - 25 February, 2005
  The Frühjahrsfachgespräch is an annual event on practical Linux/UNIX topics. Most of the talks are in german, among them a talk about FreeBSD Filesystem Snapshots by Dirk Meyer "dinoex@FreeBSD.org".

• SCALE: Southern California Linux Expo 2005, Los Angeles Convention Center, Los Angeles, USA
  12 - 13 February, 2005
  The third Southern California Linux Expo will have an exhibition booth on FreeBSD. A computer will be available and CDROMs provided by FreeBSD Mall will be handed out.

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