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<event id="meetbsd-2007">
<name>MeetBSD 2007</name>
<url>http://2007.meetbsd.org/en/</url>
<startdate>
<year>2007</year>
<month>11</month>
<day>17</day>
</startdate>
<enddate>
<year>2007</year>
<month>11</month>
<day>18</day>
</enddate>
<location>
<country code="PL">Poland</country>
<city>Warsaw</city>
<site>Centrum Konferencyjno-Kongresowe PWSBiA</site>
</location>
<description>The fourth annual MeetBSD conference will be held in
Poland to bring together BSD experts from around Europe.
Several FreeBSD developers will be presenting on FreeBSD
topics.</description>
</event>
<event id="linuxtageinessen-2007">
<name>come2linux - LinuxTage in Essen</name>
<url>http://www.come2linux.org/psp/</url>
<startdate>
<year>2007</year>
<month>11</month>
<day>10</day>
</startdate>
<enddate>
<year>2007</year>
<month>11</month>
<day>11</day>
</enddate>
<location>
<country code="DE">Germany</country>
<city>Essen</city>
<site>Universität Duisburg-Essen, Glas-Pavilion</site>
</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 as well as nearly all other BSDs (OpenBSD,
NetBSD, DesktopBSD, PC-BSD, MirBSD) will be present with a booth
as well as several talks and installation workshops held by the
new project www.BSDInstall.de.</description>
</event>
<event id="coscup-2007">
<name>COSCUP 2007 - Conference for Open Source Coders, Users and Promoters</name>
<url>http://coscup.org/2007/</url>
<startdate>
<year>2007</year>
<month>11</month>
<day>3</day>
</startdate>
<enddate>
<year>2007</year>
<month>11</month>
<day>4</day>
</enddate>
<location>
<country code="TW">Taiwan (ROC)</country>
<city>Taipei</city>
<site>Techonology Building 2F, National Science Council</site>
</location>
<description>COSCUP 2007 is a joint conference of ICOS (International
Conference on Open Source), to make the open source carnival more
exciting. The mostly change of COSCUP in 2007 is, the conference is
co-organized by all local communities in Taiwan, we hope to enlarge the
participation of local communities during such kind of cooperation. Just
like the spirit of COSCUP, in this conference, you can be both attendee
and promoter, and also involve the operation of the conference.
The major topics in COSCUP 2007 including web-based platform and embedded
system due to the popularity of Web 2.0 and OLPC; the Chinese session,
Lightning Talk and System session are the most interesting topics for
years. There will be some presentations and talks about FreeBSD.
The program is attractive just like before, we invite not only big ones
in the community but also developers of non-famous local OSS projects,
to get more people involved and make OSS more brilliant in Taiwan.</description>
</event>
<event id="systems-2007">
<name>Systems 2007</name>
<url>http://www.systems-world.de/id/58547/</url>
<startdate>
<year>2007</year>
<month>10</month>
<day>23</day>
</startdate>
<enddate>
<year>2007</year>
<month>10</month>
<day>27</day>
</enddate>
<location>
<country code="DE">Germany</country>
<city>Munich</city>
<site>Messe München</site>
</location>
<description>Systems is a four day IT fair with more than 50000
visitors and 1200 exhibitors. FreeBSD will have a booth as well
as the other majour BSDs and will try to repeat the great succes
in 2006. There will be an Open Source conference with workshops,
talks and a theme park for various projects.</description>
</event>
<event id="bsdcontr-2007">
<name>BSDConTR 2007</name>
<url>http://www.bsdcontr.org/</url>
<startdate>
<year>2007</year>
<month>10</month>
<day>19</day>
</startdate>
<enddate>
<year>2007</year>
<month>10</month>
<day>20</day>
</enddate>
<location>
<country code="TR">Turkey</country>
<city>Istanbul</city>
<site>Sultanahmet Campus Marmara University</site>
</location>
<description>BSDConTR is the first conference on BSD systems in
Turkey. The conference is organized in full cooperation with the
EnderUNIX Software Development Team, which is largely known for its
ongoing support for BSD systems in Turkey and its open source
projects, and Marmara University. Join the developers, users, BSD
system admins and companies in Istanbul to share experiences and
knowledge about BSD Systems.</description>
</event>
<event id="forum-software-libre">
<name>I Fórum Software Livre</name>
<url>http://www.softwarelivre.com.pt/index.php</url>
<startdate>
<year>2007</year>
<month>10</month>
<day>12</day>
</startdate>
<enddate>
<year>2007</year>
<month>10</month>
<day>13</day>
</enddate>
<location>
<country code="PT">Portugal</country>
<city>Lisbon</city>
<site>Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa</site>
</location>
<description>I Fórum Software Livre is a two day conference on
Free Software and Open Source, taking place in Lisbon. There
will be some presentations and talks about
FreeBSD.</description>
</event>
<event id="building-os-community-freebsd-ucbe-2007">
<name>Course: Building and Running an Open Source Community</name>
<url>http://www.unex.berkeley.edu/cat/course1557.html</url>
<startdate>
<year>2007</year>
<month>10</month>
<day>3</day>
</startdate>
<enddate>
<year>2007</year>
<month>10</month>
<day>3</day>
</enddate>
<location>
<country code="US">USA</country>
<city>San Francisco</city>
<site>UC Extension San Francisco: Room 216, South of Market Center</site>
</location>
<description>The BSD community started at UC Berkeley in the late
1970's. Through the 1980's, the BSD software was developed and
released from Berkeley. In 1992, Berkeley made its final
release, 4.4BSD-Lite, an open-source version of BSD. Since that
time, independent development has continued by the FreeBSD,
NetBSD, OpenBSD, Darwin, and Dragonfly projects. This talk
traces the history and structure of the BSD community from its
start as a small group of paid staff at Berkeley up through the
thousands of volunteer developers that make up the FreeBSD
Project of today. It describes how the development structure set
up at Berkeley was expanded to create a self-organizing project
that supports an ever growing and changing group of developers
around the world.</description>
</event>
<event id="kernel-internals-ucbe-2007">
<name>Course: FreeBSD Kernel Internals</name>
<url>http://www.unex.berkeley.edu/cat/course927.html</url>
<startdate>
<year>2007</year>
<month>9</month>
<day>29</day>
</startdate>
<enddate>
<year>2007</year>
<month>11</month>
<day>3</day>
</enddate>
<location>
<country code="US">USA</country>
<city>Berkeley</city>
<site>UC Extension Berkeley: Room 211, Golden Bear Building</site>
</location>
<description>This course will provide a firm background in the
FreeBSD kernel. The course will cover basic kernel services,
process structure, the FreeBSD jail facility for hosting virtual
machines, scheduling, signal handling, and virtual and physical
memory management. The kernel I/O structure will be described
showing how I/O is multiplexed, special devices are handled,
character processing is performed, and the buffer pool is
managed. The implementation of the filesystem and its
capabilities, including soft updates and snapshots, will be
described. The filesystem interface will then be described to
show how it can be used to support multiple filesystem types
such as Sun Microsystem's Network File System (NFS). The course
will also cover the FreeBSD socket-based network architecture,
layering, and implementation. Socket communications primitives
and internal layering will be discussed, with emphasis on the
interfaces between layers; the TCP/IP implementation will be
used as an example. A discussion of routing issues will be
included. Other system-related topics include performance
measurement, system tuning, and security issues. The
presentations will emphasize code organization, data structure
navigation, and algorithms. It will not cover machine-specific
parts of the system, such as device drivers.
Saturdays September 29, October 6 and 27, and
November 3, 2007; 9:00AM to 5:30PM Sept. 29 to Nov. 3: Sat., 9
am-5:30 pm (no meetings Oct. 13 and Oct. 20).</description>
</event>
<event id="bsd-narrative-history-ucbe-2007">
<name>Course: A Narrative History of BSD</name>
<url>http://www.unex.berkeley.edu/cat/course1556.html</url>
<startdate>
<year>2007</year>
<month>9</month>
<day>26</day>
</startdate>
<enddate>
<year>2007</year>
<month>9</month>
<day>26</day>
</enddate>
<location>
<country code="US">USA</country>
<city>San Francisco</city>
<site>UC Extension San Francisco: Room 216, South of Market Center</site>
</location>
<description>Learn the history of the BSD (Berkeley Software
Distributions) from one of its key developers, who brings the
history to life, complete with anecdotes and footnotes to the
historical narrative. The BSD community began at the UC Berkeley
in the late 1970s. You'll hear about the triumphs and defeats of
the project and its releases during its heyday in the 1980s. The
Berkeley era concludes with the tumultuous lawsuit, ultimately
settled in Berkeley's favor, which allowed the final release in
1992 of 4.4BSD-Lite, an open-source version of BSD. The talk
includes a brief commentary on the FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD,
Darwin, and Dragonfly projects that took their genesis from the
release of 4.4BSD-Lite.</description>
</event>
<event id="openexpo-2007">
<name>OpenExpo 2007</name>
<url>http://www.openexpo.ch/</url>
<startdate>
<year>2007</year>
<month>9</month>
<day>19</day>
</startdate>
<enddate>
<year>2007</year>
<month>9</month>
<day>20</day>
</enddate>
<location>
<country code="CH">Switzerland</country>
<city>Zurich</city>
<site>Event550 Hall</site>
</location>
<description>The goal of OpenExpo is the promotion of Open Source
software in the business environment. Among many others, there
will be a FreeBSD booth.</description>
</event>
<event id="eurobsdcon-2007">
<name>EuroBSDCon 2007</name>
<url>http://2007.eurobsdcon.org/</url>
<startdate>
<year>2007</year>
<month>9</month>
<day>14</day>
</startdate>
<enddate>
<year>2007</year>
<month>9</month>
<day>15</day>
</enddate>
<location>
<country code="DK">Denmark</country>
<city>Copenhagen</city>
<site>Symbion Science Park</site>
</location>
<description>The sixth annual European BSD Conference. It is
oriented to developers and users of all BSD flavors, including
FreeBSD of course. A variety of full and half-day tutorials will
precede the conference.</description>
</event>
<event id="froscon-2007">
<name>FrOSCon 2007</name>
<url>http://www.froscon.org/</url>
<startdate>
<year>2007</year>
<month>8</month>
<day>25</day>
</startdate>
<enddate>
<year>2007</year>
<month>8</month>
<day>26</day>
</enddate>
<location>
<country code="DE">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.</description>
</event>
<event id="cosin-2007">
<name>CoSin 2007</name>
<url>http://www.ccc.de/calendar/2007/cosin?language=en</url>
<startdate>
<year>2007</year>
<month>7</month>
<day>6</day>
</startdate>
<enddate>
<year>2007</year>
<month>7</month>
<day>8</day>
</enddate>
<location>
<country code="CH">Switzerland</country>
<city>Aargau</city>
<site>Kulturzentrum Bremgarten (KuZeB)</site>
</location>
<description>CoSin is a three day conference on Open Source and
various other topics taking place in the Kulturzentrum
Bremgarten near Zurich. There will be a FreeBSD booth as well
as other BSDs.</description>
</event>
<event id="ltpact-2007">
<name>LT Pact 2007</name>
<url>http://www.ltpact.com</url>
<startdate>
<year>2007</year>
<month>6</month>
<day>20</day>
</startdate>
<enddate>
<year>2007</year>
<month>6</month>
<day>22</day>
</enddate>
<location>
<country code="US">USA</country>
<state>Nevada</state>
<city>Las Vegas</city>
</location>
<description>LT Pact is a two day web hosting conference in Las
Vegas, Nevada being presented by Layered Technologies. The conference
features talks and panels that focus on web hosting and technologies
in use by large hosting companies. There will be a FreeBSD lab
session during the conference and plenty of FreeBSD gear.
</description>
</event>
<event id="linuxtag-2007">
<name>LinuxTag 2007</name>
<url>http://www.linuxtag.org/2007/en/</url>
<startdate>
<year>2007</year>
<month>5</month>
<day>30</day>
</startdate>
<enddate>
<year>2007</year>
<month>6</month>
<day>2</day>
</enddate>
<location>
<country code="DE">Germany</country>
<city>Berlin</city>
<site>Messe Berlin</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 and several BSD talks.
</description>
</event>
<event id="bsdcan-2007">
<name>BSDCan 2007</name>
<url>http://www.bsdcan.org/</url>
<startdate>
<year>2007</year>
<month>5</month>
<day>18</day>
</startdate>
<enddate>
<year>2007</year>
<month>5</month>
<day>19</day>
</enddate>
<location>
<country code="CA">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="unix-linux-day-zweibruecken-2007">
<name>Unix and Linux Day 2007</name>
<url>http://www.unix-and-linux-day.de/index.html</url>
<startdate>
<year>2007</year>
<month>5</month>
<day>5</day>
</startdate>
<enddate>
<year>2007</year>
<month>5</month>
<day>5</day>
</enddate>
<location>
<country code="DE">Germany</country>
<city>Zweibrücken</city>
<site>FH Kaiserslautern, Site Zweibrücken</site>
</location>
<description>Among others, there will be a talk about FreeBSD by
Alexander Leidinger.</description>
</event>
<event id="augsburger-linuxinfotag-2007">
<name>Augsburger Linux-Infotag 2007</name>
<url>http://www.luga.de/Aktionen/LIT-2007/</url>
<startdate>
<year>2007</year>
<month>3</month>
<day>24</day>
</startdate>
<enddate>
<year>2007</year>
<month>3</month>
<day>24</day>
</enddate>
<location>
<country code="DE">Germany</country>
<city>Augsburg</city>
<site>FH Augsburg</site>
</location>
<description>The Augsburger Linux-Infotag offers two parallel tracks
of talks to show the capabilities of free and open source software.
There will be several talks about FreeBSD as well as a FreeBSD
booth.</description>
</event>
<event id="asiabsdcon-2007">
<name>AsiaBSDCon 2007</name>
<url>http://2007.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 code="JP">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="linuxtage-chemnitz-2007">
<name>Linuxtage Chemnitz 2007</name>
<url>http://chemnitzer.linux-tage.de/2007/info/</url>
<startdate>
<year>2007</year>
<month>3</month>
<day>3</day>
</startdate>
<enddate>
<year>2007</year>
<month>3</month>
<day>4</day>
</enddate>
<location>
<country code="DE">Germany</country>
<city>Chemnitz</city>
<site>Technical University Chemnitz</site>
</location>
<description>Linuxtage Chemnitz is a two day event on Linux and Free
Software in general. There will be workshops, talks and room for various
projects to present themselves. FreeBSD will be present with a booth as
well as several talks.</description>
</event>
<event id="fosdem-2007">
<name>FOSDEM 2007</name>
<url>http://www.fosdem.org/2007/</url>
<startdate>
<year>2007</year>
<month>2</month>
<day>24</day>
</startdate>
<enddate>
<year>2007</year>
<month>2</month>
<day>25</day>
</enddate>
<location>
<country code="BE">Belgium</country>
<city>Brussels</city>
<site>Universite Libre de Bruxelles</site>
</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.</description>
</event>
<event id="scale-2007">
<name>SCALE: Southern California Linux Expo 2007</name>
<url>http://www.socallinuxexpo.org/</url>
<startdate>
<year>2007</year>
<month>2</month>
<day>10</day>
</startdate>
<enddate>
<year>2007</year>
<month>2</month>
<day>11</day>
</enddate>
<location>
<country code="US">USA</country>
<state>California</state>
<city>Los Angeles</city>
<site>The Westin Los Angeles Airport</site>
</location>
<description>The fifth Southern California Linux Expo will have
an <a href="http://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale5x/exhibitions/freebsd.php">
exhibition booth</a> on FreeBSD. A computer will be available
and CDROMs provided by <a href="http://www.freebsdmall.com/">FreeBSD Mall</a>
will be handed out.</description>
</event>
</events>
