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Announcements regarding the Conference will be sent to the announcement mailing list.
9 May 2005 - more updates
In this announcement:
Room Assignments
Schedule Changes
Key Signing
BOF sessions!
ROOM ASSIGNMENTS
The room assignments for the tutorials and the talks have been
finalized. Please refer to the schedule for details. All talks in a
particular track will be in the same room. The room assignments are
also displayed with the details of the talk.
SCHEDULE CHANGES
Isaac Levy has stepped in to take over the Jail Tutorial after the
original tutor was unable to attend. Our thanks to Isaac for this
last minute assistance.
Robert Watson will be doing the BSM Security Event Logging for
FreeBSD talk.
Jacques Vidrine has updated the description for his VuXML talk.
KEY SIGNING
Matthew Wilcox will be coordinating the key signing. Full details
at http://parisc-linux.org/~willy/wot/bsdcan2005/.
If you don't know what a keysigning is, try this URL.
4 May 2005 - schedule changes
Hello folks,
In this announcement:
- Not much time now!
- Registration closes soon
- Plenty of rooms available
- T-shirts
- Schedule change
Not much time now!
==================
Yesterday I realised that it was less than a week before people start
arriving in town for BSDCan. One week from today, the first tutorial
begins.
<http://www.bsdcan.org/2005/tutorials.php>
Registration closes soon
========================
Please note that online registration closes on Tuesday 10 May 2005 at
6PM EST. You can still register in person, but it attracts a CAD$50
premium and you must pay in cash. Payment must be in cash, money
order, travellers cheque, or certified cheque. No credit cards are
accepted for registration at the conference.
<http://www.bsdcan.org/2005/registration.php>
Plenty of rooms available
=========================
I was in touch with the University of Ottawa residence reservations.
They still have plenty of rooms available. It seems that the earlier
panic has disappeared. Perhap bookings for other events have fallen
through. But BSDCan is still going ahead! I recommend staying on
campus for the price and convenience.
<http://www.bsdcan.org/2005/travel.php>
<http://www.uottawa.ca/services/matmgmt/hospitality/summer.html>
T-shirts
========
Don't forget to bring cash with you to buy a t-shirt. They are
printed on high-quality cotton and they will be available in your
size, whatever that is.
Schedule changes
================
We regret to announce that Alexey Zelkin has had to withdraw from the
conference for personal reasons. We are pleased to announce that
D'Arcy J.M. Cain will present a talk titled "Easy Software-
Installation with pkgsrc".
<http://www.bsdcan.org/2005/speaker.php?id=105>
<http://www.bsdcan.org/2005/activity.php?id=75>
Chris Vance will be giving the SEBSD talk.
<http://www.bsdcan.org/2005/speaker.php?id=104>
<http://www.bsdcan.org/2005/activity.php?id=50>
Everything is looking great. You can still register and be part of
BSDCan 2005.
See you at BSDCan.
2 May 2005 - ten days to go!
Hello folks,
In this announcement:
- Ten days to go!
- Social schedule finalized
- Secret new feature slashdot'd
- Have you registered?
Ten days to go!
===============
Ten days from today, everyone will be in the town for BSDCan. The
first major event is registration at the Royal Oak pub. We'll be
there for lunch too, but registration opens at 3:30 PM and continues
until 8 PM. Avoid the crowds on Friday morning and get your
registration pack on Thursday night! If you can't get to the pub,
you can still pick up your pack with the rest of the mob on Friday
morning. Join us for a pint at the Royal Oak!
Social schedule finalized
=========================
The social schedule has been finalised. Please refer to the Social
page and the schedule for full details. In brief, we're going to:
- Hard Rock Cafe on Friday night
- Royal Oak on Saturday for lunch
- Paddy Bollands on Saturday night
Addresses, maps, and times are available on the website. Be there
for the biggest BSD social events of the year.
Secret new feature slashdot'd
=============================
As promised, we released details of the secret new feature on
Thursday. We gave kerneltrap.org an exclusive and they certainly
came through for us. On Friday, the story arrived on Slashdot.
<http://kerneltrap.org/node/5058>
<http://bsd.slashdot.org/bsd/05/04/29/149249.shtml>
<http://www.bsdcan.org/2005/activity.php?id=54>
Next week, expect to see details of the security issue to be
announced on the 12th.
<a href="http://www.bsdcan.org/2005/activity.php?id=65">http://www.bsdcan.org/2005/activity.php?id=65>
Have you registered?
====================
Have you registered? If you haven't registered, please do so now.
You don't want to miss out on BSDCan. Talk to those who attended
last year. They were very happy with the reults. And so were we!
Register now! Don't miss out again this year!
See you at BSDCan!
28 April 2005 - live network backup announcement
*For Immediate Release*
There is little more devastating than failure of your laptop's hard
drive - especially when working away from home base. Now imagine the
ability to automatically maintain complete and up-to-date duplicates of
laptop hard disk drives - even while working remotely around the world.
At BSDCAN 2005, a new Canadian-developed technology will be premiered,
demonstrating the ability to maintain a "live mirror" of critical data
from remotely-connected computer systems. The connection between the
remote laptop (client) and the mirror host (server) is opportunistic -
making use of Internet connectivity when it is available to synchronize
the remote laptop and the mirror host. This facility runs as an
unattended background process without operator intervention.
Developed by a noted NetBSD developer, known as "der Mouse" in the BSD
world, the facility is being released in full source code format to the
public domain - without software license restrictions, and freely
available to all. The premier functionality released runs on the NetBSD
Operating System, and is file system independent. Ports to other
operating systems are expected to occur very quickly.
This live mirroring facility intelligently monitors blocks of the
client's disk drive storage, and any blocks that have changed are sent
to the server across the Internet ... as soon as a connection becomes
available. Data transfers are encrypted, and the bandwidth needed is
surprisingly small - as once the facility is initialized, only
incremental block level differences are needed to maintain the
server-hosted copy. The disk mirroring facility happens automatically -
at airport wireless access points, client-site guest network connections
and anywhere your laptop can find a connection to it's home base.
On May 13-14 at the University of Ottawa will be hosting BSDCAN 2005.
BSDCAN 2005 is a technical conference for developers, users and people
interested in the technology behind today's network connected world.
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FMI:
Live remote disk mirroring facility:
email: der Mouse <mouse@Rodents.Montreal.QC.CA>
BSDCAN 2005:
email: Dan Langille <info@bsdcan.org>
web: http://www.bsdcan.org/2005/
26 April 2005 - Three weeks to go!
In this announcement:
- Three weeks to go!
- SITE venue is great!
- Secret new feature
- Speaker changes
Three weeks to go!
==================
Three weeks from today, the first conference attendees will start
arriving for BSDCan 2005! The FreeBSD Developer Summit starts on
Wednesday May 11 and most of the people attending the summit will be
staying on for the rest of the conference. I know I'm looking
forward to catching up with some people I haven't seen since last
year.
SITE venue is great!
====================
I was at the SITE venue today, talking over the wireless network
support with the University of Ottawa staff. We discussed the
conference, and the locations we wanted to have wireless access.
We'll also have a few hubs so you can plug in should you not have a
wireless card. Remember to bring your extensions cords!
I took some pictures of the building. If I have time, I'll put them
up on the website.
By the way, there is a Tim's in the building, but it will be closed
on Saturday.
Secret New Feature
==================
Watch the news websites for an upcoming announcement about this
secret new feature. It will happen on Thursday. When you read about
it, make sure to spread the news around to everyone you know.
Thanks!
Speaker changes
===============
The Montreal Wireless Group talk will be given by Mina Naguib.
See you at BSDCan!
19 April 2005 - Work In Progress session
This year, BSDCan will be hosting a set of Work-in-Progress (WIP)
sessions, which will offer an opportunity for individuals or groups
to give up to five minute presentations on a on-going project.
Slides are permitted but not obligatory, but pictures are highly
recommended! Typical topics for WIPs might include new open source
software projects, specific works in progress for future releases of
existing projects, student projects, or other new and interesting
things. WIP topics this year may make good conference papers for
next year!
A one hour time slot is available for WIPs, so the number of slots is
limited! Sign up well in advance to be assured a spot. Please e-
mail papers@bsdcan.org to sign up -- send a one or two paragraph
summary of the topic to be presented, and the person(s) presenting
it. Also, please give a time estimate -- typically times will be one
to five minutes. The time limit will be strictly enforced. The WIP e-
mail registration deadline is May 6, after which remaining slots (if
any) may be signed up for in person. Any slides must be provided in
advance, in PDF, Open Office, or Powerpoint format. The WIP session
will be chaired by Robert Watson. The deadline for slides is
midnight Friday 13 May 2005 and they should be sent to
rwatson@FreeBSD.org.
12 April 2005 - Meet The Authors book signing
On Friday 13 May there will be two "Meet the Authors" book signing
sessions. These sessions will be occurring at 11:00AM and 3:00PM in
between the scheduled BSDCan 2005 presentations. The signing sessions
will be taking place in the new SITE building, at the corner of Mann
Avenue and King Edward, across from the Athletic Centre. This is
the same building as the presentations.
These book signing sessions present a rare opportunity to meet with
and talk to experts on a variety of technical topics. Authors present
are Richard Bejtlich (The Tao of Network Security Monitoring: Beyond
Intrusion Detection), Dru Lavigne (BSD Hacks), Michael W. Lucas (Cisco
Routers for the Desperate), Greg Lehey (The Complete FreeBSD), George
V. Neville-Neil and Kirk McKusick (The Design and Implementation of
the FreeBSD Operating System). Many of the authors will be presenting
papers at the conference.
23 March 2005 - on campus accommodation
ACCOMMODATION
We more information, as yet unconfirmed, regarding on-campus
accommodation. Apparently, they are not taking bookings until the
29th. This isn't ideal, but it's better than the previous reports of
overbooking. My recommendation: keep trying.
The rate for Les Suites has been corrected. We were given incorrect
information and regret any inconvenience this will cause.
TRAVEL:
I hope you have confirmed your travel plans by now. Book early to
get cheaper prices. If you need a travel visa, I hope you've applied
for it already. Please don't leave it to the last minute.
We already have 16 people coming from Europe. That's an impressive
number considering the conference is still 7 weeks away.
PRESENTATIONS:
We have traded two Friday talks. "DocBook Slides, XSLT, and XSL-FO"
will now be at 10 AM and "Keeping FreeBSD Up-To-Date" will now be at
11:30 AM.
Are you wondering about this secret new feature to be revealed at
BSDCan? I know details, but I'm not telling anyone anything. But I
can say that I'm quite excited about it, and look forward to using it
once it become available. I have no doubts that it will soon be
implemented in various operating systems.
Nor can I tell you anything about Colin Percival's talk about a new
security issue. I can't tell you anything about this either. That's
because I don't know anything about it. Details will be released
closer to the conference.
VENUE:
BSDCan 2005 will be held at University of Ottawa, the same place as
last year, but in a new building. The School of Information
Technology and Engineering (SITE) is the University of Ottawa's
centre for research and teaching in all areas related to computing,
computers and communications. This is a most appropriate location
for BSDCan. The building is amazing. We will be using three large
lecture halls and there is a large lobby between two of them. A
large glass atrium goes along one whole side of this building. It's
a great location!
See you at BSDCan 2005!
22 March 2005 - on campus accommodation
I've just heard that on-campus accomodation is overbooked for the
conference period. However, if you book and pay 50% of your
accommodation now, you will have a room.
See you at BSDCan 2005!
10 March 2005 - registration opens
Registration for BSDCan 2005 is now open. Please register now.
See you at BSDCan 2005!
9 March 2005 - pricing
The BSDCan 2005 prices have been set.
Registration will open very soon (on or before 11 March 2005).
I hope you're starting making your travel arrangements!
See you at BSDCan 2005!
4 March 2005 - Schedule released
The BSDCan 2005 schedule has been released. Please visit the website
to see the schedule for the talks at BSDCan 2005.
Registration will open on 11 March 2005. Conference prices will have
not been finalized, but they will be similar to 2004.
If you have not already arranged your travel visa, we recommend
starting that process now.
See you at BSDCan 2005!
22 February 2005 - Program announced
Hello folks,
The program has been released. Please visit the website to see the
collection of talks for BSDCan 2005. We have a varied and
interesting line up for your conference enjoyment. We will announce
the schedule at a later date. The conference dates are May 13-14 and
that the tutorials will be in the day or two before the conference.
As previously mentioned, the FreeBSD project will be holding a
developer summit just before BSDCan 2005. We will be providing space
for the developers and look forward to their participation in the
conference.
Conference prices have not been finalized, but they will be similar
to 2004.
We have updated the Travel page with additional information about
visa and contact details for the residence accommodation. We
recommend staying on campus. Prices remain the same as last year.
See you at BSDCan 2005!
9 Jan 2005 - Dates announced
Hello folks,
Welcome to the first BSDCan 2005 announcement of the year.
BSDCan 2005 will be 13-14 May 2005. There will be related events on
the 12th and the 15th (of a social nature, for the most part).
Paper submissions have been steady since the announcement went out in
December. This is a reminder that the closing date for papers is 19
January 2005. If you have an idea for a paper, please let us know.
If you have suggestions for who you would like to hear speak, please
tell us and we'll approach them.
The FreeBSD project will be holding a developer summit just before
BSDCan 2005. We will be providing space for the developers and look
forward to their participation in the conference.
If your project is also interesting in meeting up at BSDCan 2005,
please let us know and we'll see what we can arrange for you.
In our next announcement, we will have updated accommodation costs
and conference pricing. We expect prices to be close to those of
last year.
Regards
2 Dec 2004 - Call for Papers
BSDCan 2004 was an enormously successful grass-roots style
conference. It brought together a great mix of *BSD developers and
users for a nice blend of both developer-centric and user-centric
presentations, food, and activities. Based upon that accomplishment,
planning for the next event began shortly thereafter.
BSDCan 2005 will be held May 13-14, 2005, in Ottawa. We are now
requesting proposals for papers.
The papers should be written with a very strong technical content
bias. Papers and proposals of a business development or marketing
nature are not appropriate for this venue.
The schedule is:
19 Dec 2004 Proposals acceptance begins
19 Jan 2005 Proposals acceptance ends
19 Feb 2005 Confirmation of accepted proposals
19 Mar 2005 Abstracts due
19 Apr 2005 Formatted final papers must arrive no later than this
date
Please submit all proposals to papers@bsdcan.org
NOTE: This is the schedule for formal papers. We are also accepting
submissions for for talks and presentations. If you have a proposal,
please contact us on papers@bsdcan.org.
21 May 2004
The BSDCan 2004 website has been archived to 2004.
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