MeetBSD 2018 uses a mixed unConference format featuring both scheduled talks and community-driven events such as birds-of-a-feather meetings, lightning talks, and speed geeking sessions.
The 13th USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI ’18) which will take place October 8–10, 2018, at the Omni La Costa Resort & Spa in Carlsbad, CA. OSDI brings together professionals from academic and industrial backgrounds in what has become a premier forum for discussing the design, implementation, and implications of systems software.
SdNOG is a non-profit group that provides an open forum to be used by any interested member from the Internet Community in Sudan, to exchange technical information and expertise in inter-networking. It is managed and organized by group of volunteers with the aim of capacity building and technology development. SdNOG -5 will include 3 days of technical workshops and 2 days of plenary talks including a FreeBSD Workshop by Foundation Board member Philip Paeps. The Foundation is pleased to be a Supporting Organization.
The Grace Hopper Celebration is the world’s largest gathering of women technologists. It is produced by AnitaB.org and presented in partnership with ACM. GHC 18 will be Sep. 26–28 in Houston, TX.
The FreeBSD Foundation is pleased to be an Association Partner of the SNIA Storage Developer Conference (SDC) 2018. SDC takes place September 24-27, 2018, Santa Clara, CA.
EuroBSDcon is the European annual technical conference gathering users and developers working on and with 4.4BSD (Berkeley Software Distribution) based operating systems family and related projects.
The sixth annual OpenZFS Developer Summit will take place September 10-11, 2018 in San Francisco. As with previous years, the goal of the event is to foster cross-community discussions of OpenZFS work and to make progress on some of the projects that have been proposed. This 2-day event consists of a day of presentations and a 1-day hackathon. The FreeBSD Foundation is pleased to again be a Silver Sponsor.
The 27th USENIX Security Symposium brings together researchers, practitioners, system administrators, system programmers, and others interested in the latest advances in the security and privacy of computer systems and networks.
The 2018 Cambridge FreeBSD DevSummit (BSDCam) will take place August 15-17, 2018, in Cambridge, UK. The event is run “un-conference style” in that we brainstorm the actual session schedule on the first morning, with a focus on interactive topics that reflect the interests and exploit the knowledge of the attendees.
COSCUP is an annual conference held by Taiwanese Open source community participants since 2006. It’s a major force of Free software movement advocacy in Taiwan. The event is often held with talks, sponsor and communities booths, and Birds of a feather.
