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     Events which might be interesting for FreeBSD users.

     Please sort the events by start date, with recent events earlier in the file.
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<events>
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    <cvs:keyword name="freebsd">
      $FreeBSD$
    </cvs:keyword>
  </cvs:keywords>

  <event id="chilebsdcon-2006">
    <name>ChileBSDCon 2006</name>
    <url>http://www.bsd.cl/index.php/BSDCon2006</url>
    <startdate>
      <year>2006</year>
      <month>12</month>
      <day>9</day>
    </startdate>
    <enddate>
      <year>2006</year>
      <month>12</month>
      <day>9</day>
    </enddate>
    <location>
      <country code="CL">Chile</country>
      <city>Santiago</city>
      <site>Universidad Diego Portales</site>
    </location>
    <description>The first BSD related conference in Chile. The objective is
      to join the developers, users, and BSD sysadmins in Chile to share and
      interchange ideas, experiences, and knowledge.  In addition, it aims to
      provide a chance to socialize and construct future links to expand the
      knowledge of the BSD systems. The conference is for anyone developing,
      administrating, and using systems based on FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD,
      DragonFlyBSD, and Darwin as well as MacOS X and Solaris.</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 code="US">USA</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="meetbsd-2006">
    <name>MeetBSD 2006</name>
    <url>http://2006.meetbsd.org/</url>
    <startdate>
      <year>2006</year>
      <month>11</month>
      <day>25</day>
    </startdate>
    <enddate>
      <year>2006</year>
      <month>11</month>
      <day>26</day>
    </enddate>
    <location>
      <country code="PL">Poland</country>
      <city>Warsaw</city>
      <site>Centrum Konferencyjno-Kongresowe PWSBiA</site>
    </location>
    <description>The third 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="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 code="IT">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/2006/</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 code="US">USA</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 code="CO">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 code="DE">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 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,
      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 code="US">USA</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 code="US">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 code="NL">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 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="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 code="DE">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 code="UK">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 code="DE">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 code="DK">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 code="BE">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 code="US">USA</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 code="US">USA</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>
</events>