$FreeBSD$ 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.