$FreeBSD$
GUFICon #6
http://www.gufi.org/guficon/
2005
12
3
2005
12
4
Italy
Perugia
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.
EuroBSDCon 2005
http://2005.eurobsdcon.org/
2005
11
25
2005
11
27
Switzerland
Basel
University of Basel
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)
http://www.usenix.org/events/baysug05/
2005
11
12
2005
11
12
USA
Mountain View, CA
Computer History Museum
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.
Korean FreeBSD users group Conference 2005
http://seminar.freebsdcity.org
2005
10
29
2005
10
29
Korea
Seoul
HP Korea Conference Room 20th floor
A Conference for Everyone Who is interested in
FreeBSD in Korea.
O'Reilly European Open Source Convention
http://conferences.oreillynet.com/eurooscon/
2005
10
17
2005
10
20
The Netherlands
Amsterdam
NH Grand Hotel Krasnapolsky
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.
New York City BSD Conference (NYCBSDCon)
http://www.nycbsdcon.org/2005/
2005
9
17
2005
9
17
USA
New York City
Columbia University
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.
O'Reilly Open Source Conference 2005
http://conferences.oreillynet.com/os2005/
2005
8
1
2005
8
5
USA
Portland, Oregon
Oregon Convention Center
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.
BSDCon Japan 2005
http://bsdcon.jp/
2005
7
23
2005
7
23
Japan
Nagoya
NADYA PARK
BSD Conference Japan 2005, the fourth conference
concerning *BSD in Japan, will be held in Nagoya
on July 23th, 2005.
Linuxtag 2005
http://www.linuxtag.org/2005/
2005
6
22
2005
6
25
Germany
Karlsruhe
Kongresszentrum
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
http://2005.meetbsd.org/
2005
6
17
2005
6
19
Poland
Kraków
Hotel Chopin
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.
BSDCan 2005
http://www.bsdcan.org/
2005
5
13
2005
5
14
Canada
Ottawa
University of Ottawa
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.
Open Source Forum Russia 2005
http://www.opensource-forum.ru/
2005
4
27
2005
4
29
Russia
Moscow
Radisson SAS Hotel
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
http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix05/
2005
4
10
2005
4
15
USA
California
Anaheim
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.
LinuxForum 2005
http://www.linuxforum.dk/
2005
3
4
2005
3
5
Denmark
Copenhagen
Kunstakademiets Arkitektskole
Philip de Langes Allé
Annual Danish Open Source conference. The Danish BSD
user group BSD-DK will present
the BSD's.
Fosdem 2005
http://www.fosdem.org/
2005
2
26
2005
2
27
Belgium
Brussels
Universite Libre de Bruxelles
Avenue Franklin D. Roosevelt 50
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
http://www.guug.de/veranstaltungen/ffg2005/index.html
2005
2
22
2005
2
25
Germany
Munich
Munich University of Applied Sciences
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
http://www.socallinuxexpo.org/
2005
2
12
2005
2
13
USA
California
Los Angeles
Los Angeles Convention Center
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.