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<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE events PUBLIC "-//FreeBSD//DTD FreeBSD XML Database for Events//EN"
"http://www.FreeBSD.org/XML/www/share/sgml/events.dtd">
<!--
Events which might be interesting for FreeBSD users.
Please sort the events by start date.
-->
<events>
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<event id="bsdcan-2007">
<name>BSDCan 2007</name>
<url>http://www.bsdcan.org/</url>
<startdate>
<year>2007</year>
<month>5</month>
<day>11</day>
</startdate>
<enddate>
<year>2007</year>
<month>5</month>
<day>12</day>
</enddate>
<location>
<country>Canada</country>
<city>Ottawa</city>
<site>University of Ottawa</site>
</location>
<description>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
invites contributions from both free software developers and those
from commercial vendors.</description>
</event>
<event id="asiabsdcon-2007">
<name>AsiaBSDCon 2007</name>
<url>http://asiabsdcon.org/</url>
<startdate>
<year>2007</year>
<month>3</month>
<day>8</day>
</startdate>
<enddate>
<year>2007</year>
<month>3</month>
<day>11</day>
</enddate>
<location>
<country>Japan</country>
<city>Tokyo</city>
<site>University of Tokyo</site>
</location>
<description>AsiaBSDCon is a conference for users and developers on BSD
based systems. The conference is for anyone developing, deploying and
using systems based on FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, DragonFlyBSD, Darwin
and MacOS X. AsiaBSDCon is a technical conference and aims to collect
the best technical papers and presentations available to ensure that
the latest developments in our open source community are shared with
the widest possible audience.</description>
</event>
<event id="lisa-2007">
<name>LISA '06</name>
<url>http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa06/</url>
<startdate>
<year>2006</year>
<month>12</month>
<day>3</day>
</startdate>
<enddate>
<year>2006</year>
<month>12</month>
<day>8</day>
</enddate>
<location>
<country>U.S.A</country>
<city>Washington, D.C.</city>
</location>
<description>The annual LISA conference is the meeting place of choice
for system, network, database, storage, security, and all other
computer-related administrators. Administrators of all specialties
and levels of expertise meet at LISA to exchange ideas, sharpen old
skills, learn new techniques, debate current issues, and meet
colleagues and friends. A BSD booth will be available in the
exhibit hall.</description>
</event>
<event id="eurobsdcon-2006">
<name>EuroBSDCon 2006</name>
<url>http://www.eurobsdcon.org/</url>
<startdate>
<year>2006</year>
<month>11</month>
<day>10</day>
</startdate>
<enddate>
<year>2006</year>
<month>11</month>
<day>12</day>
</enddate>
<location>
<country>Italy</country>
<city>Milan</city>
</location>
<description>The fifth annual European BSD Conference. It is
oriented to developers and users of all BSD flavors, including
FreeBSD of course.</description>
</event>
<event id="nycbsdcon-2006">
<name>NYCBSDCon 2006</name>
<url>http://www.nycbsdcon.org/</url>
<startdate>
<year>2006</year>
<month>10</month>
<day>28</day>
</startdate>
<enddate>
<year>2006</year>
<month>10</month>
<day>29</day>
</enddate>
<location>
<country>U.S.A</country>
<city>New York City</city>
<site>Davis Auditorium, Columbia University</site>
</location>
<description>Continuing on the success of last year, the New York City
BSD Conference (NYCBSDCon) is the main technical conference on the
East Coast for the BSD community to get together to share and gain
knowledge, to network with like-minded people, and to have fun.
This event is organized by members of the New York City *BSD Users
Group (NYC*BUG).</description>
</event>
<event id="cimm-2006">
<name>CIMM 2006</name>
<url>http://www.ing.unal.edu.co/eventos/cimm2006/</url>
<startdate>
<year>2006</year>
<month>9</month>
<day>20</day>
</startdate>
<enddate>
<year>2006</year>
<month>9</month>
<day>22</day>
</enddate>
<location>
<country>Colombia</country>
<city>Bogota</city>
<site>Universidad Nacional de Colombia</site>
</location>
<description>Every two (sometimes three) years the leading Colombian
Mechanical Engineering Universities organize a congress. This
year the congress will become an international event and will
feature an article about free Mechanical Engineering applications
recently ported to FreeBSD. Note: the scheduled FreeBSD talk has
been canceled but the related paper is available <a
href="http://people.freebsd.org/~blackend/misc/CIMM2006-FreeBSD.pdf">here</a>.</description>
</event>
<event id="linuxtageinessen-2006">
<name>come2linux - Linuxtage in Essen</name>
<url>http://www.com2linux.de/</url>
<startdate>
<year>2006</year>
<month>9</month>
<day>9</day>
</startdate>
<enddate>
<year>2006</year>
<month>9</month>
<day>10</day>
</enddate>
<location>
<country>Germany</country>
<city>Essen</city>
<site>Universit&#228;t Duisburg-Essen, Glas-Pavilion</site>
<address>Universit&#228;tsstra&#223;e 2</address>
</location>
<description>Linuxtage in Essen is a two day event on Linux and
Free Software in general. There will be workshops, talks, a
theme park and room for various projects to present themselves.
FreeBSD will be present with a booth as well as several talks.
</description>
</event>
<event id="froscon-2006">
<name>FrOSCon 2006</name>
<url>http://www.froscon.org/</url>
<startdate>
<year>2006</year>
<month>6</month>
<day>24</day>
</startdate>
<enddate>
<year>2006</year>
<month>6</month>
<day>25</day>
</enddate>
<location>
<country>Germany</country>
<city>Sankt Augustin</city>
<site>Fachhochschule Bonn-Rhein-Sieg</site>
<address>Grantham-Allee 20</address>
</location>
<description>FrOSCon is a two day conference on Free Software
and Open Source, taking place in Sankt Augustin near the cities
of Bonn and Cologne. The conference revolves around a rich schedule
of talks, highlighting current topics in Free Software and Open Source,
including an introductory talk about FreeBSD.</description>
</event>
<event id="mckusick-ucb-fall-2006">
<name>FreeBSD Kernel Short Course at UC Berkeley Extension</name>
<url>http://www.unex.berkeley.edu/cat/course692.html</url>
<startdate>
<year>2006</year>
<month>6</month>
<day>19</day>
</startdate>
<enddate>
<year>2006</year>
<month>6</month>
<day>23</day>
</enddate>
<location>
<country>United States</country>
<city>Berkeley</city>
<site>University of California</site>
</location>
<description>The ``Using the FreeBSD Open-Source Operating
System'' course will be taught June 19-23, 2006 as part of the
University of California at Berkeley Summer Engineering Program.
You can get more information or sign up for the
class at: <a
href="http://www.unex.berkeley.edu/cat/course692.html">http://www.unex.berkeley.edu/cat/course692.html</a>.</description>
</event>
<event id="usenix-2006">
<name>2006 USENIX Annual Technical Conference</name>
<url>http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix06/</url>
<startdate>
<year>2006</year>
<month>5</month>
<day>30</day>
</startdate>
<enddate>
<year>2006</year>
<month>6</month>
<day>3</day>
</enddate>
<location>
<country>USA</country>
<state>Massachusetts</state>
<city>Boston</city>
</location>
<description>The 2006 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.</description>
</event>
<event id="sane-2006">
<name>SANE 2006</name>
<url>http://www.sane.nl/</url>
<startdate>
<year>2006</year>
<month>5</month>
<day>15</day>
</startdate>
<enddate>
<year>2006</year>
<month>5</month>
<day>19</day>
</enddate>
<location>
<country>The Netherlands</country>
<city>Delft</city>
<site>Aula Congresscentre</site>
</location>
<description>The SANE conference program is filled with the latest
developments in system administration, network engineering,
security and open source software. Several prominent FreeBSD
team members will be speaking and FreeBSD related papers will be
presented.</description>
</event>
<event id="bsdcan-2006">
<name>BSDCan 2006</name>
<url>http://www.bsdcan.org/</url>
<startdate>
<year>2006</year>
<month>5</month>
<day>12</day>
</startdate>
<enddate>
<year>2006</year>
<month>5</month>
<day>13</day>
</enddate>
<location>
<country>Canada</country>
<city>Ottawa</city>
<site>University of Ottawa</site>
</location>
<description>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
invites contributions from both free software developers and those
from commercial vendors.</description>
</event>
<event id="linuxtag-2006">
<name>LinuxTag 2006</name>
<url>http://www.linuxtag.org/2006/en/</url>
<startdate>
<year>2006</year>
<month>5</month>
<day>3</day>
</startdate>
<enddate>
<year>2006</year>
<month>5</month>
<day>6</day>
</enddate>
<location>
<country>Germany</country>
<city>Wiesbaden</city>
<site>Rhein-Main-Hallen</site>
</location>
<description>LinuxTag is Europe's largest event about Free Software,
Linux and Open Source. This year there will be the traditional
FreeBSD-Booth, some BSD-Talks and maybe BSD-Tutorials. For more
information, please see <a
href="http://www.AllBSD.de/events/linuxtag/">http://www.AllBSD.de/events/linuxtag/</a>.
</description>
</event>
<event id="ukuug-lisa-2006">
<name>UKUUG LISA/Spring Conference 2006</name>
<url>http://www.ukuug.org/events/spring2006/</url>
<startdate>
<year>2006</year>
<month>3</month>
<day>22</day>
</startdate>
<enddate>
<year>2006</year>
<month>3</month>
<day>23</day>
</enddate>
<location>
<country>UK</country>
<city>Durham</city>
<site>University of Durham</site>
</location>
<description>UKUUG's annual Large Installation Systems Administration
(LISA) conference will take place in the historic city of Durham on
Wednesday 22nd and Thursday 23rd March 2006. This conference is a
must-attend event for system and network administrators. As well as
the technical talks, the conference provides a friendly environment
for members to meet, learn, and enjoy lively debate on a host of
subjects. This year, a series of talks on the BSD family of operating
systems is also planned to run alongside the main systems
administration stream.</description>
</event>
<event id="cebit-2006">
<name>CeBIT 2006</name>
<url>http://www.cebit.de/homepage_e?x=1</url>
<startdate>
<year>2006</year>
<month>3</month>
<day>9</day>
</startdate>
<enddate>
<year>2006</year>
<month>3</month>
<day>15</day>
</enddate>
<location>
<country>Germany</country>
<city>Hannover</city>
<site>Messegel&#228;nde</site>
</location>
<description>CeBIT is a large trade fair in Germany. FreeBSD will be
present with a booth inside the LinuxPark (hall 5, booth E 56) from
March 12-15. For more information, please see <a
href="http://www.AllBSD.de/events/cebit/">http://www.AllBSD.de/events/cebit/</a>.
</description>
</event>
<event id="linuxforum-2006">
<name>LinuxForum 2006</name>
<url>http://linuxforum.dk/2006/</url>
<startdate>
<year>2006</year>
<month>3</month>
<day>3</day>
</startdate>
<enddate>
<year>2006</year>
<month>3</month>
<day>4</day>
</enddate>
<location>
<country>Denmark</country>
<city>Copenhagen</city>
<site>Kunstakademiets Arkitektskole</site>
<address>Philip de Langes All&#233;</address>
</location>
<description>Annual Danish Open Source conference. The Danish BSD
user group <a href="http://www.bsd-dk.dk">BSD-DK</a> will present
the BSDs. Also, a series of BSD related talks is scheduled.
</description>
</event>
<event id="fosdem-2006">
<name>Fosdem 2006</name>
<url>http://www.fosdem.org/</url>
<startdate>
<year>2006</year>
<month>2</month>
<day>25</day>
</startdate>
<enddate>
<year>2006</year>
<month>2</month>
<day>26</day>
</enddate>
<location>
<country>Belgium</country>
<city>Brussels</city>
<site>Universite Libre de Bruxelles</site>
<address>Avenue Franklin D. Roosevelt 50</address>
</location>
<description>A 2 day event to promote the widespread use of Free
and Open Source software. Several BSD developers, including
FreeBSD developers, will be present and give a series of
talks.</description>
</event>
<event id="mckusick-adv-spring-2006">
<name>FreeBSD Kernel Code Reading Evening Course</name>
<url>http://www.mckusick.com/courses/adveveclass.html</url>
<startdate>
<year>2006</year>
<month>2</month>
<day>22</day>
</startdate>
<enddate>
<year>2006</year>
<month>6</month>
<day>13</day>
</enddate>
<location>
<country>U.S.A.</country>
<state>California</state>
<city>Berkeley</city>
</location>
<description>The ``FreeBSD Kernel Internals: An Intensive Code
Walkthrough'' course will be taught during the Spring of 2006. The
class will be held at the historic Hillside Club at 2286 Cedar
Street, Berkeley, CA 94709 just three blocks north of the Berkeley
campus once per week from 6:30PM to 9:45PM starting Wednesday February
22nd and finishing Tuesday June 13th. You can get more
information or sign up for the class at <a
href="http://www.mckusick.com/courses/adveveclass.html">http://www.mckusick.com/courses/adveveclass.html</a>.</description>
</event>
<event id="fsatc-2006">
<name>FreeBSD System Administration Training Course</name>
<url>http://www.pugetsoundtechnology.com/training/freebsd/</url>
<startdate>
<year>2006</year>
<month>2</month>
<day>7</day>
</startdate>
<enddate>
<year>2006</year>
<month>2</month>
<day>10</day>
</enddate>
<location>
<country>U.S.A.</country>
<state>Texas</state>
<city>Fort Worth</city>
</location>
<description>Four-day hands-on class taught by BSD developer and
advocate, Jeremy C. Reed, covers essential FreeBSD and Unix
administration skills, including beginning Mail, BIND, and Apache
administration.</description>
</event>
<event id="guficon-6">
<name>GUFICon #6</name>
<url>http://www.gufi.org/guficon/</url>
<startdate>
<year>2005</year>
<month>12</month>
<day>3</day>
</startdate>
<enddate>
<year>2005</year>
<month>12</month>
<day>4</day>
</enddate>
<location>
<country>Italy</country>
<city>Perugia</city>
</location>
<description>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.</description>
</event>
<event id="eurobsdcon-2005">
<name>EuroBSDCon 2005</name>
<url>http://2005.eurobsdcon.org/</url>
<startdate>
<year>2005</year>
<month>11</month>
<day>25</day>
</startdate>
<enddate>
<year>2005</year>
<month>11</month>
<day>27</day>
</enddate>
<location>
<country>Switzerland</country>
<city>Basel</city>
<site>University of Basel</site>
</location>
<description>The fourth annual European BSD Conference. It is
oriented to developers and users of all BSD flavors, including
FreeBSD of course.</description>
</event>
<event id="usenix-baysug-2005">
<name>USENIX Bay Area Super User Group Meeting (BaySUG '05)</name>
<url>http://www.usenix.org/events/baysug05/</url>
<startdate>
<year>2005</year>
<month>11</month>
<day>12</day>
</startdate>
<enddate>
<year>2005</year>
<month>11</month>
<day>12</day>
</enddate>
<location>
<country>U.S.A.</country>
<city>Mountain View, CA</city>
<site>Computer History Museum</site>
</location>
<description>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 <a href="mailto:murray@FreeBSD.org">Murray
Stokely</a> if you are interested in discussing and promoting
FreeBSD at the event.</description>
</event>
<event id="freebsd-korea-2005">
<name>Korean FreeBSD users group Conference 2005</name>
<url>http://seminar.freebsdcity.org</url>
<startdate>
<year>2005</year>
<month>10</month>
<day>29</day>
</startdate>
<enddate>
<year>2005</year>
<month>10</month>
<day>29</day>
</enddate>
<location>
<country>Korea</country>
<city>Seoul</city>
<site>HP Korea Conference Room 20th floor</site>
</location>
<description>A Conference for Everyone Who is interested in
FreeBSD in Korea.</description>
</event>
<event id="euro-oscon-2005">
<name>O'Reilly European Open Source Convention</name>
<url>http://conferences.oreillynet.com/eurooscon/</url>
<startdate>
<year>2005</year>
<month>10</month>
<day>17</day>
</startdate>
<enddate>
<year>2005</year>
<month>10</month>
<day>20</day>
</enddate>
<location>
<country>The Netherlands</country>
<city>Amsterdam</city>
<site>NH Grand Hotel Krasnapolsky</site>
</location>
<description>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.</description>
</event>
<event id="nycbsdcon-2005">
<name>New York City BSD Conference (NYCBSDCon)</name>
<url>http://www.nycbsdcon.org</url>
<startdate>
<year>2005</year>
<month>9</month>
<day>17</day>
</startdate>
<enddate>
<year>2005</year>
<month>9</month>
<day>17</day>
</enddate>
<location>
<country>U.S.A.</country>
<city>New York City</city>
<site>Columbia University</site>
</location>
<description>New York City BSD Conference (NYCBSDCon) is a one day
technical conference hosted by the New York City <a
href="http://www.nycbug.org">*BSD User Group</a>. The all day
conference will include a variety of speakers representing the
BSD projects and the open source community.</description>
</event>
<event id="oscon-2005">
<name>O'Reilly Open Source Conference 2005</name>
<url>http://conferences.oreillynet.com/os2005/</url>
<startdate>
<year>2005</year>
<month>8</month>
<day>1</day>
</startdate>
<enddate>
<year>2005</year>
<month>8</month>
<day>5</day>
</enddate>
<location>
<country>U.S.A.</country>
<city>Portland, Oregon</city>
<site>Oregon Convention Center</site>
</location>
<description>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 <a
href="http://www.offmyserver.com/cgi-bin/store/news/oscon_080505.html">here</a>.
</description>
</event>
<event id="bsdcon-japan-2005">
<name>BSDCon Japan 2005</name>
<url>http://bsdcon.jp/</url>
<startdate>
<year>2005</year>
<month>7</month>
<day>23</day>
</startdate>
<enddate>
<year>2005</year>
<month>7</month>
<day>23</day>
</enddate>
<location>
<country>Japan</country>
<city>Nagoya</city>
<site>NADYA PARK</site>
</location>
<description>BSD Conference Japan 2005, the fourth conference
concerning *BSD in Japan, will be held in Nagoya
on July 23th, 2005.</description>
</event>
<event id="linuxtag-2005">
<name>Linuxtag 2005</name>
<url>http://www.linuxtag.org/2005/</url>
<startdate>
<year>2005</year>
<month>6</month>
<day>22</day>
</startdate>
<enddate>
<year>2005</year>
<month>6</month>
<day>25</day>
</enddate>
<location>
<country>Germany</country>
<city>Karlsruhe</city>
<site>Kongresszentrum</site>
</location>
<description>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.</description>
</event>
<event id="meetbsd-2005">
<name>MeetBSD 2005</name>
<url>http://2005.meetbsd.org/</url>
<startdate>
<year>2005</year>
<month>6</month>
<day>17</day>
</startdate>
<enddate>
<year>2005</year>
<month>6</month>
<day>19</day>
</enddate>
<location>
<country>Poland</country>
<city>Krak&#243;w</city>
<site>Hotel Chopin</site>
</location>
<description>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.</description>
</event>
<event id="bsdcan-2005">
<name>BSDCan 2005</name>
<url>http://www.bsdcan.org/</url>
<startdate>
<year>2005</year>
<month>5</month>
<day>13</day>
</startdate>
<enddate>
<year>2005</year>
<month>5</month>
<day>14</day>
</enddate>
<location>
<country>Canada</country>
<city>Ottawa</city>
<site>University of Ottawa</site>
</location>
<description>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.</description>
</event>
<event id="osf-russia-2005">
<name>Open Source Forum Russia 2005</name>
<url>http://www.opensource-forum.ru/</url>
<startdate>
<year>2005</year>
<month>4</month>
<day>27</day>
</startdate>
<enddate>
<year>2005</year>
<month>4</month>
<day>29</day>
</enddate>
<location>
<country>Russia</country>
<city>Moscow</city>
<site>Radisson SAS Hotel</site>
</location>
<description>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. <a
href="mailto:murray@FreeBSD.org">Murray Stokely</a> will present
on the subject of FreeBSD Release Engineering and the Business
Case for BSD.</description>
</event>
<event id="usenix-2005">
<name>2005 USENIX Annual Technical Conference</name>
<url>http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix05/</url>
<startdate>
<year>2005</year>
<month>4</month>
<day>10</day>
</startdate>
<enddate>
<year>2005</year>
<month>4</month>
<day>15</day>
</enddate>
<location>
<country>USA</country>
<state>California</state>
<city>Anaheim</city>
</location>
<description>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.</description>
</event>
<event id="linuxforum-2005">
<name>LinuxForum 2005</name>
<url>http://www.linuxforum.dk/</url>
<startdate>
<year>2005</year>
<month>3</month>
<day>4</day>
</startdate>
<enddate>
<year>2005</year>
<month>3</month>
<day>5</day>
</enddate>
<location>
<country>Denmark</country>
<city>Copenhagen</city>
<site>Kunstakademiets Arkitektskole</site>
<address>Philip de Langes All&#233;</address>
</location>
<description>Annual Danish Open Source conference. The Danish BSD
user group <a href="http://www.bsd-dk.dk">BSD-DK</a> will present
the BSD's.</description>
</event>
<event id="fosdem-2005">
<name>Fosdem 2005</name>
<url>http://www.fosdem.org/</url>
<startdate>
<year>2005</year>
<month>2</month>
<day>26</day>
</startdate>
<enddate>
<year>2005</year>
<month>2</month>
<day>27</day>
</enddate>
<location>
<country>Belgium</country>
<city>Brussels</city>
<site>Universite Libre de Bruxelles</site>
<address>Avenue Franklin D. Roosevelt 50</address>
</location>
<description>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.</description>
</event>
<event id="ffg-2005">
<name>GUUG-Fr&#252;hjahrsfachgespr&#228;ch 2005</name>
<url>http://www.guug.de/veranstaltungen/ffg2005/index.html</url>
<startdate>
<year>2005</year>
<month>2</month>
<day>22</day>
</startdate>
<enddate>
<year>2005</year>
<month>2</month>
<day>25</day>
</enddate>
<location>
<country>Germany</country>
<city>Munich</city>
<site>Munich University of Applied Sciences</site>
</location>
<description>
The Fr&#252;hjahrsfachgespr&#228;ch 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 &lt;dinoex@FreeBSD.org&gt;.
</description>
</event>
<event id="scale-2005">
<name>SCALE: Southern California Linux Expo 2005</name>
<url>http://www.socallinuxexpo.org/</url>
<startdate>
<year>2005</year>
<month>2</month>
<day>12</day>
</startdate>
<enddate>
<year>2005</year>
<month>2</month>
<day>13</day>
</enddate>
<location>
<country>USA</country>
<state>California</state>
<city>Los Angeles</city>
<site>Los Angeles Convention Center</site>
</location>
<description>The third Southern California Linux Expo will have
an <a href="http://www.socallinuxexpo.org/exhibitions/freebsd.php">
exhibition booth</a> on FreeBSD. A computer will be available
and CDROMs provided by <a href="www.freebsdmall.com/">FreeBSD Mall</a>
will be handed out.</description>
</event>
<event id="ccc-21">
<name>21. Chaos Communication Congress</name>
<url>http://www.ccc.de/congress/2004/</url>
<startdate>
<year>2004</year>
<month>12</month>
<day>27</day>
</startdate>
<enddate>
<year>2004</year>
<month>12</month>
<day>29</day>
</enddate>
<location>
<country>Germany</country>
<city>Berlin</city>
<site>Berliner Congress Center</site>
<address>Alexanderplatz 2</address>
</location>
<description>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 <a
href="mailto:brueffer@FreeBSD.org">Christian Brueffer</a>.
</description>
</event>
<event id="enderunix-04">
<name>Free Software Development and the FreeBSD Operating System</name>
<url>http://www.enderunix.org/events/metu2004</url>
<startdate>
<year>2004</year>
<month>12</month>
<day>10</day>
</startdate>
<enddate>
<year>2004</year>
<month>12</month>
<day>10</day>
</enddate>
<location>
<country>Turkey</country>
<city>Ankara</city>
<site>ODTU Culture and Congress Center</site>
<address>Saloon D</address>
</location>
<description>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.</description>
</event>
<event id="eurobsdcon-2004">
<name>EuroBSDCon 2004</name>
<url>http://2004.eurobsdcon.org/</url>
<startdate>
<year>2004</year>
<month>10</month>
<day>29</day>
</startdate>
<enddate>
<year>2004</year>
<month>10</month>
<day>31</day>
</enddate>
<location>
<country>Germany</country>
<city>Karlsruhe</city>
<site>Queens Hotel Karlsruhe</site>
</location>
<description>The third annual European BSD Conference. It is
oriented to developers and users of all BSD flavors, including
FreeBSD of course.</description>
</event>
<event id="bsdcon-japan-2004">
<name>BSDCon Japan 2004</name>
<url>http://bsdcon.jp/</url>
<startdate>
<year>2004</year>
<month>10</month>
<day>23</day>
</startdate>
<enddate>
<year>2004</year>
<month>10</month>
<day>23</day>
</enddate>
<location>
<country>Japan</country>
<city>Osaka</city>
<site>Business Innovation Center Osaka</site>
</location>
<description>BSD Conference Japan 2004, the third conference
concerning *BSD in Japan, will be held in Osaka on October 23th, 2004.
Furthermore, <a href="http://k-of.jp/">Kansai Open Source 2004</a>
and <a href="http://kessen.k-of.jp/">Kansai Community Contest</a>
will be held in the same place also.</description>
</event>
<event id="systems-2004">
<name>Systems 2004</name>
<url>http://www.systems.de/</url>
<startdate>
<year>2004</year>
<month>10</month>
<day>18</day>
</startdate>
<enddate>
<year>2004</year>
<month>10</month>
<day>22</day>
</enddate>
<location>
<country>Germany</country>
<city>Munich</city>
<site>New Munich Trade Fair Centre</site>
</location>
<description>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 <a href="mailto:dan@deam.org">Daniel Ettle</a>.
</description>
</event>
<event id="guficon5">
<name>Italian FreeBSD User Group (GUFI) Conference 2004</name>
<url>http://www.gufi.org/guficon5/</url>
<startdate>
<year>2004</year>
<month>10</month>
<day>2</day>
</startdate>
<enddate>
<year>2004</year>
<month>10</month>
<day>3</day>
</enddate>
<location>
<country>Italy</country>
<city>Milan</city>
</location>
<description>The Italian FreeBSD User Group (GUFI) Conference.
Information available (in Italian) from the conference
website.</description>
</event>
<event id="auug2004">
<name>The AUUG'2004 Annual Conference</name>
<url>http://www.auug.org.au/events/2004/auug2004/</url>
<startdate>
<year>2004</year>
<month>9</month>
<day>1</day>
</startdate>
<enddate>
<year>2004</year>
<month>9</month>
<day>3</day>
</enddate>
<location>
<country>Australia</country>
<city>Melbourne</city>
</location>
<description>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.</description>
</event>
<event id="sucon-2004">
<name>2nd Swiss Unix Conference</name>
<url>http://www.sucon.ch/</url>
<startdate>
<year>2004</year>
<month>9</month>
<day>2</day>
</startdate>
<enddate>
<year>2004</year>
<month>9</month>
<day>4</day>
</enddate>
<location>
<country>Switzerland</country>
<city>Z&#252;rich</city>
</location>
<description>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
<a href="mailto:josef@FreeBSD.org">Josef El-Rayes</a>.</description>
</event>
<event id="linuxexpocn-2004">
<name>Linux Expo Shanghai</name>
<url>http://www.linuxexposhanghai.com/</url>
<startdate>
<year>2004</year>
<month>9</month>
<day>9</day>
</startdate>
<enddate>
<year>2004</year>
<month>9</month>
<day>10</day>
</enddate>
<location>
<country>China</country>
<city>Shanghai</city>
</location>
<description>Linux Expo Shanghai is the biggest Linux/Open Source
conference in Shanghai this summer. <a
href="mailto:murray@FreeBSD.org">Murray Stokely</a> and members
of the <a href="http://www.freebsdchina.org">FreeBSD China</a>
group will have a booth there both days.</description>
<link type="photos">
<name>Photos by Murray Stokely, Yarshure, and Hylu (FreeBSD China)</name>
<url>http://www.stokely.org/20040910-shanghai-linuxexpo/</url>
</link>
<link type="other">
<name>Slides from Murray Stokely's talk</name>
<url>http://people.FreeBSD.org/~murray/</url>
</link>
</event>
<event id="usenix-2004">
<name>2004 USENIX Annual Technical Conference</name>
<url>http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix04/</url>
<startdate>
<year>2004</year>
<month>6</month>
<day>27</day>
</startdate>
<enddate>
<year>2004</year>
<month>7</month>
<day>2</day>
</enddate>
<location>
<country>USA</country>
<state>Massachusetts</state>
<city>Boston</city>
</location>
<description>The 2004 USENIX ATC will have <a
href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix04/freenix.html">FREENIX</a>
and general refereed paper session, along with new <a
href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix04/usebsd.html">UseBSD</a>
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.</description>
<link type="photos">
<name>Photos by Matt Dillon</name>
<url>http://apollo.backplane.com/USENIX2004/</url>
</link>
</event>
<event id="linuxtag04">
<name>Linuxtag 2004</name>
<url>http://www.linuxtag.org/2004/</url>
<startdate>
<year>2004</year>
<month>6</month>
<day>23</day>
</startdate>
<enddate>
<year>2004</year>
<month>6</month>
<day>26</day>
</enddate>
<location>
<country>Germany</country>
<city>Karlsruhe</city>
<site>Kongresszentrum</site>
</location>
<description>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.</description>
</event>
<event id="linuxwochen04">
<name>Linuxwochen Wien</name>
<url>http://www.linuxwochen.at</url>
<startdate>
<year>2004</year>
<month>5</month>
<day>26</day>
</startdate>
<enddate>
<year>2004</year>
<month>5</month>
<day>29</day>
</enddate>
<location>
<country>Austria</country>
<city>Vienna</city>
<site>Museumsquartier, A-1070 Wien Museumsplatz 1</site>
</location>
<description>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 <a href="mailto:josef@FreeBSD.org">Josef El-Rayes</a>.
If you like to help out take a look at the
<a href="http://roadtrip.daemon.li/index.pl?LinuxWochen">
FreeBSD Booth's Wiki</a>.
</description>
</event>
<event id="bsdcan-2004">
<name>BSDCan</name>
<url>http://www.bsdcan.org/</url>
<startdate>
<year>2004</year>
<month>5</month>
<day>13</day>
</startdate>
<enddate>
<year>2004</year>
<month>5</month>
<day>15</day>
</enddate>
<location>
<country>Canada</country>
<city>Ottawa</city>
<site>University of Ottawa</site>
</location>
<description>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.</description>
</event>
<event id="asia-bsdcon-2004">
<name>Asia BSDCon 2004</name>
<url>http://www.asiabsdcon.org/</url>
<startdate>
<year>2004</year>
<month>3</month>
<day>12</day>
</startdate>
<enddate>
<year>2004</year>
<month>3</month>
<day>15</day>
</enddate>
<location>
<country>Taiwan</country>
<city>Taipei</city>
<site>Academica Sinica</site>
</location>
<description>The first BSDCon held in Asia, and sponsored by <a
href="http://www.usenix.org/">USENIX Association</a>. Two days
of tutorials will precede two days of technical sessions and a
vendor exhibit.</description>
</event>
<event id="linuxforum-2004">
<name>LinuxForum 2004</name>
<url>http://www.linuxforum.dk/</url>
<startdate>
<year>2004</year>
<month>3</month>
<day>5</day>
</startdate>
<enddate>
<year>2004</year>
<month>3</month>
<day>6</day>
</enddate>
<location>
<country>Denmark</country>
<city>Copenhagen</city>
<site>Symbion</site>
<address>Fruebjergvej 3</address>
</location>
<description>Annual Danish Open Source conference. The Danish BSD
user group <a href="http://www.bsd-dk.dk">BSD-DK</a> will present
the BSD's.</description>
</event>
<event id="fosdem-2004">
<name>Fosdem 2004</name>
<url>http://www.fosdem.org/</url>
<startdate>
<year>2004</year>
<month>2</month>
<day>21</day>
</startdate>
<enddate>
<year>2004</year>
<month>2</month>
<day>22</day>
</enddate>
<location>
<country>Belgium</country>
<city>Brussels</city>
<site>Universite Libre de Bruxelles</site>
<address>Avenue Franklin D. Roosevelt 50</address>
</location>
<description>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.</description>
</event>
<event id="linuxexpofr-2004">
<name>Solutions Linux 2004</name>
<url>http://www.linuxsolutions.fr/</url>
<startdate>
<year>2004</year>
<month>2</month>
<day>3</day>
</startdate>
<enddate>
<year>2004</year>
<month>2</month>
<day>5</day>
</enddate>
<location>
<country>France</country>
<city>Paris</city>
<site>CNIT</site>
<address>La Defense</address>
</location>
<description>A 3 day event to promote GNU/Linux and Open Source software.
<a href="http://www.FreeBSD-fr.ORG">French FreeBSD User Group</a>
will be present in the Association Village to promote FreeBSD
of course !</description>
</event>
<event id="ccc-20">
<name>20. Chaos Communication Congress</name>
<url>http://www.ccc.de/congress/2003/</url>
<startdate>
<year>2003</year>
<month>12</month>
<day>27</day>
</startdate>
<enddate>
<year>2003</year>
<month>12</month>
<day>29</day>
</enddate>
<location>
<country>Germany</country>
<city>Berlin</city>
<site>Berliner Congress Center</site>
<address>Alexanderplatz 2</address>
</location>
<description>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 <a
href="mailto:brueffer@FreeBSD.org">Christian Brueffer</a>.
</description>
<link type="photos">
<name>Photos by Josef El-Rayes</name>
<url>http://gallery.daemon.li/20c3/</url>
</link>
</event>
<event id="bsdcon-brasil-2003">
<name>BSDCon Brasil</name>
<url>http://bsdcon.myfreebsd.com.br/</url>
<startdate>
<year>2003</year>
<month>12</month>
<day>6</day>
</startdate>
<enddate>
<year>2003</year>
<month>12</month>
<day>7</day>
</enddate>
<location>
<country>Brazil</country>
<city>Rio de Janeiro</city>
</location>
<description>This is the first edition of BSDCon Brasil. BSDCon
Brasil is being promoted and organized by a pool of corporations
connected with the BSD community. There will be two intensive days
of workshops, presentations and mini-tutorials related to BSD at
large.</description>
</event>
<event id="bsdlinuxday-2003">
<name>BSD/Linux Day</name>
<url>http://www.jus.or.jp/events/bsd-linux-day/</url>
<startdate>
<year>2003</year>
<month>12</month>
<day>2</day>
</startdate>
<enddate>
<year>2003</year>
<month>12</month>
<day>2</day>
</enddate>
<location>
<country>Japan</country>
<city>Yokohama</city>
</location>
<description>During the InternetWeek 2003 Conference, which takes
place in Yokohama, between December 2nd and 5th, there will be a
BSD/Linux Day, organized by the Japan Unix Society.</description>
</event>
<event id="sf10yearparty">
<name>FreeBSD 10 Year Anniversary Party</name>
<url>http://www.offmyserver.com/cgi-bin/store/rsvp.html</url>
<startdate>
<year>2003</year>
<month>11</month>
<day>24</day>
</startdate>
<enddate>
<year>2003</year>
<month>11</month>
<day>24</day>
</enddate>
<location>
<country>U.S.A.</country>
<city>San Francisco</city>
<site>DNA Lounge</site>
<address>www.dnalounge.com</address>
</location>
<description>Join us Monday November 24th to celebrate 10 years of
FreeBSD! Please RSVP <a
href="http://www.offmyserver.com/cgi-bin/store/rsvp.html">here</a>
so we can order enough food and drink for everyone.</description>
<link type="photos">
<name>Photos by Matt Dillon</name>
<url>http://apollo.backplane.com/pics.bsdparty/</url>
</link>
</event>
<event id="scale-2003">
<name>SCALE: Southern California Linux Expo 2003</name>
<url>http://www.socallinuxexpo.com/</url>
<startdate>
<year>2003</year>
<month>11</month>
<day>22</day>
</startdate>
<enddate>
<year>2003</year>
<month>11</month>
<day>22</day>
</enddate>
<location>
<country>USA</country>
<state>California</state>
<city>Los Angeles</city>
<site>Los Angeles Convention Center</site>
</location>
<description>The Second Annual Southern California Linux Expo.
FreeBSD will be present and handing out promotional
material.</description>
</event>
<event id="linuxday-5">
<name>5. Linuxday Vorarlberg</name>
<url>http://www.linuxday.at/</url>
<startdate>
<year>2003</year>
<month>11</month>
<day>15</day>
</startdate>
<enddate>
<year>2003</year>
<month>11</month>
<day>15</day>
</enddate>
<location>
<country>Austria</country>
<city>Dornbirn</city>
<site>HTL Dornbirn</site>
<address>H&#246;chsterstrasse 73</address>
</location>
<description>The Linuxday in Vorarlberg is an event where
people from opensource projects present their efforts to
the community. Entrance is free of charge. There will also be
a talk about FreeBSD.</description>
</event>
<event id="bsdcon-japan-2003">
<name>BSDCon Japan 2003</name>
<url>http://bsdcon.jp/</url>
<startdate>
<year>2003</year>
<month>10</month>
<day>18</day>
</startdate>
<enddate>
<year>2003</year>
<month>10</month>
<day>18</day>
</enddate>
<location>
<country>Japan</country>
<city>Tokyo</city>
<site>BIZ Shinjuku</site>
</location>
<description>BSD Conference Japan 2003, the second conference
concerning *BSD in Japan, was held in Tokyo on October 18th, 2003.
There were about 170 attendees. It had two parallel
sessions (general and technical), and
four technical papers and twelve work-in-progress style talks
were presented during the conference.</description>
</event>
<event id="linux-kongress-03">
<name>Linux-Kongress 2003</name>
<url>http://www.linux-kongress.org/2003/</url>
<startdate>
<year>2003</year>
<month>10</month>
<day>14</day>
</startdate>
<enddate>
<year>2003</year>
<month>10</month>
<day>16</day>
</enddate>
<location>
<country>Germany</country>
<city>Saarbr&#252;cken</city>
<site>University of the Saarland</site>
</location>
<description>FreeBSD will be present with a booth at the Linux-Kongress,
probably Europe's best known Linux developer conference. We will
answer questions, show you the system and sell some FreeBSD
merchandising.</description>
</event>
<event id="bsdcon-03">
<name>BSDCon '03</name>
<url>http://www.usenix.org/events/bsdcon03/</url>
<startdate>
<year>2003</year>
<month>9</month>
<day>8</day>
</startdate>
<enddate>
<year>2003</year>
<month>9</month>
<day>12</day>
</enddate>
<location>
<country>USA</country>
<state>California</state>
<city>San Mateo</city>
</location>
<description>For the fourth time, the main BSD Event, BSDCon is
happening. Two days of tutorials will precede two and a half
days of technical sessions. An opportunity for people of all
experience levels to learn from BSD experts, professionals with
real world experience, and industry leaders.</description>
<link type="notes">
<name>FreeBSD Developer Summit notes</name>
<url type="freebsd-website">/events/2003/bsdcon-devsummit.html</url>
</link>
<link type="other">
<name>Unofficial BSDCon US 2003 Wiki</name>
<url>http://bsdcon.kwiki.org/</url>
</link>
<link type="photos">
<name>BSDCon 2003 Photos by Matt Dillon</name>
<url>http://apollo.backplane.com/BSDCON2003/</url>
</link>
</event>
</events>