GUBUG has been invited to participate at the UTOSC ‘09! A booth has been secured and GUBUG representatives will be on-site for the duration of the event to answer questions about the BSD family of operating systems and its derivatives.

Early bird registration has expired, but there is still time to sign up! Please visit http://attend.utosc.com/ to do so.

A GUBUG meeting will be held at 12:30pm on October 8. The tentative topic for this meeting is “What’s New in FreeBSD.” We will also have some free (as in free) BSD goodies to give away at this meeting, so be sure to come!

While a registration and fee are required to attend the rest of the conference, admission to this meeting is free for all GUBUG members.

Immediately following the GUBUG meeting at 1:45pm, a unique opportunity to take the BSDA Certification Exam will be offered. Details about this event are available at http://2009.utosc.com/presentation/142/. Exam participants must register for a BSDCG ID at https://register.bsdcertification.org//register/get-a-bsdcg-id.

The BSDA is currently the certification for BSD administration. Do not miss this opportunity to become BSD certified!

This conference will definitely be a blast. There are some very worthy presentations, keynotes, workshops, and Birds of a Feather sessions scheduled.

Hope to see you all there!

This month, we will be meeting on May 26 at 6:30 PM EDT at OmniTI’s Columbia Office ([Google Maps]). (NOTE: Be sure to go to OmniTI and not SRA/RABA!)

This month Jason will be doing a firewall/networking interactive lab. We will be using OmniTI’s lab machines along with a custom OpenBSD 4.5 Live CD that Jason created to play with VLANs and PF. Jason has been kind enough to make enough CDs so that you can take one home with you.

After, we will adjourn to a local establishment for refreshments.

Note: The meeting starts at 22:30 UTC

Vea la mailing list para mayor información.

See the mailing list page for more information.

This month, we will be meeting on April 28 at 6:30 PM EDT at OmniTI’s Columbia Office ([Google Maps]).

NOTE THE CHANGE IN VENUE!

One of our new members, Devon O’Dell, will be giving an introduction to Plan 9. He will be showing off some of the basics:

(stuff about using rio, mouse chording, editing the terminal buffer, etc). It’d get into plumbing (e.g. RFC:1234 + middle click = you get to read RFC 1234), private namespaces (goodbye $PATH), and importing / exporting the network stack, which will be demonstrated to work both ways using different network stacks.

If time permits, I might get a bit into some of the differences between Plan 9’s implementation of C and its C library as well. (For instance, Plan 9 has polymorphism in structs, and a `typestr’ keyword which allows for operator overloading, among other things).

This sounds interesting. Thanks, Devon.

After the meeting, we’ll find a nearby place to grab some food and drink.

Note: The meeting starts at 22:30 UTC

This month we’ll be meeting on Tuesday, March 31, 6:30pm EDT at SRA/Raba in Columbia, MD (Suite 205).

We’ll discuss using BSD on the desktop (or laptop). Feel free to bring a machine for a demonstration. I will, of course, be demonstrating scrotwm on top of OpenBSD. Like you didn’t already know that.

After the meeting, we’ll head to a nearby watering hole for refreshments.

I have some personal issues that came up this weekend that will be taking all my time this week. Plus school. Plus I have to figure out how to work my job in sometime too.

We’ll try to plan the March 2009 meeting as soon as life calms down in the next week or so.

The Frack Room was set up for gaming, but I’m not sure how much gaming was done in the room. Brad Lhotsky brought donuts and coffee and I’m sure that’s what most people visited the Frack Room for.

The social event was a great meet and greet with free beer for 3 hours.

My favorite talks were Kirk McKusick’s talk about the history of BSD and the OpenBSD talks: Ted’s, Henning’s, Marco’s, and Kurt’s. The Mult project (hi, Kristaps), Brooks’s clustering talk, and Richard’s network monitoring talk were also very interesting.

Everyone that I spoke to at the conference enjoyed themselves very much. I’m proud of the CapBUG members that helped Jason set up and run the conference (along with Dru Lavigne).

Congratulations, Jason, on putting on a fantastic conference.

BeerSD X

Where: Parque Sarmiento (Sports place)
Address: Av Ricardo Balbín 4750 – Saavedra – Buenos Aires DC.
Buses: 21, 28, 29, 41, 67, 71, 93, 110, 117
When: Saturday December 6th, 1 PM (1900 UTC) approx, we meet in the grills for food and beer.
Questions to the list: bug@dc.uba.ar

This month we’ll be meeting on Tuesday, November 18, 6:30pm EST at SRA/Raba in Columbia, MD (Suite 205). Note: this is a change from our normal “last Tuesday of the month” to accommodate the holidays.

We will have a sort of general discussion about PostgreSQL including its license (BSD!), some best practices and possibly some demonstrations.

There will also be updates about DCBSDCon.

After the meeting, we’ll convene for food and drinks at a local establishment.

Jason Dixon posted the Call For Papers announcement: Sorry for the late post here, Jason!

The DCBSDCon conference has opened up a Call for Papers for the 2009 event. Speakers are welcome to submit any topic of interest, although security themes are preferred. This conference leads up to the very popular ShmooCon hacker convention in Washington, D.C. where OpenBSD developers and users are always in attendance.

Main Website: http://www.dcbsdcon.org/
Call For Papers: http://www.dcbsdcon.org/cfp.html

P.S. ShmooCon registration opens Saturday, November 1 at 12pm EDT. If you’re planning to attend both events, make sure you register for their event. Previous attendees know how hard it can be to get tickets.

ShmooCon: http://www.shmoocon.org/registration.html