$FreeBSD$ 21. Chaos Communication Congress http://www.ccc.de/congress/2004/ 2004 12 27 2004 12 29 Germany Berlin Berliner Congress Center

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The Chaos Communication Congress is a three-day conference on technology, society and utopia. FreeBSD will be present with a booth. If you are interested in helping out, please contact Christian Brueffer. Free Software Development and the FreeBSD Operating System http://www.enderunix.org/events/metu2004 2004 12 10 2004 12 10 Turkey Ankara ODTU Culture and Congress Center

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This conference is organized with the cooperation of the EnderUNIX Software Development Team and the Middle East Technical University Computer Center. The conference will be a one-day event and the official language for the conference is Turkish. For more information and a schedule of talks, please see the website. EuroBSDCon 2004 http://2004.eurobsdcon.org/ 2004 10 29 2004 10 31 Germany Karlsruhe Queens Hotel Karlsruhe The third annual European BSD Conference. It is oriented to developers and users of all BSD flavors, including FreeBSD of course. BSDCon Japan 2004 http://bsdcon.jp/ 2004 10 23 2004 10 23 Japan Osaka Business Innovation Center Osaka BSD Conference Japan 2004, the third conference concerning *BSD in Japan, will be held in Osaka on October 23th, 2004. Furthermore, Kansai Open Source 2004 and Kansai Community Contest will be held in the same place also. Systems 2004 http://www.systems.de/ 2004 10 18 2004 10 22 Germany Munich New Munich Trade Fair Centre Systems is a trade fair for IT, media and communications. There will be a combined BSD booth. If you are interested in helping, please contact Daniel Ettle. Italian FreeBSD User Group (GUFI) Conference 2004 http://www.gufi.org/guficon5/ 2004 10 2 2004 10 3 Italy Milan The Italian FreeBSD User Group (GUFI) Conference. Information available (in Italian) from the conference website. The AUUG'2004 Annual Conference http://www.auug.org.au/events/2004/auug2004/ 2004 9 1 2004 9 3 Australia Melbourne AUUG'2004 is the annual technical conference of AUUG, the Australian UNIX and Open Systems User Group. The conference will emphasise issues of identity and authentication on the Internet, along with issues of computer security and anonymity. 2nd Swiss Unix Conference http://www.sucon.ch/ 2004 9 2 2004 9 4 Switzerland Zürich SUCON is an emerging conference focused on topics related to the Unix operating system. Our goal is to bring together developers, system administrators and users in the field of Unix to foster projects, ideas and the knowledge of every individual. There will also be some speeches related to FreeBSD. If you want to join the FreeBSD booth, contact Josef El-Rayes. Linux Expo Shanghai http://www.linuxexposhanghai.com/ 2004 9 9 2004 9 10 China Shanghai Linux Expo Shanghai is the biggest Linux/Open Source conference in Shanghai this summer. Murray Stokely and members of the FreeBSD China group will have a booth there both days. Photos by Murray Stokely, Yarshure, and Hylu (FreeBSD China) http://www.stokely.org/20040910-shanghai-linuxexpo/ Slides from Murray Stokely's talk https://people.FreeBSD.org/~murray/ 2004 USENIX Annual Technical Conference http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix04/ 2004 6 27 2004 7 2 USA Massachusetts Boston The 2004 USENIX ATC will have FREENIX and general refereed paper session, along with new UseBSD Special Interest Group Sessions. There will not be a separate Usenix-sponsored BSDCon in the U.S. in 2004, so this is THE big conference of the year for BSD enthusiasts in the U.S. Photos by Matt Dillon http://apollo.backplane.com/USENIX2004/ Linuxtag 2004 http://www.linuxtag.org/2004/ 2004 6 23 2004 6 26 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. Linuxwochen Wien http://www.linuxwochen.at 2004 5 26 2004 5 29 Austria Vienna Museumsquartier, A-1070 Wien Museumsplatz 1 Linuxwochen is an annual roadshow of open source conferences, which take place in all major cities in Austria. Vienna is the biggest event. There will be a FreeBSD speech and a booth by Josef El-Rayes. BSDCan http://www.bsdcan.org/ 2004 5 13 2004 5 15 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. Asia BSDCon 2004 http://www.asiabsdcon.org/ 2004 3 12 2004 3 15 Taiwan (ROC) Taipei Academica Sinica The first BSDCon held in Asia, and sponsored by USENIX Association. Two days of tutorials will precede two days of technical sessions and a vendor exhibit. LinuxForum 2004 http://www.linuxforum.dk/ 2004 3 5 2004 3 6 Denmark Copenhagen Symbion

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Annual Danish Open Source conference. The Danish BSD user group BSD-DK will present the BSD's. Fosdem 2004 http://www.fosdem.org/ 2004 2 21 2004 2 22 Belgium Brussels Universite Libre de Bruxelles

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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. Solutions Linux 2004 http://www.linuxsolutions.fr/ 2004 2 3 2004 2 5 France Paris CNIT

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A 3 day event to promote GNU/Linux and Open Source software. French FreeBSD User Group will be present in the Association Village to promote FreeBSD of course !