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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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    <cvs:keyword xmlns:cvs="http://www.FreeBSD.org/XML/CVS">
      $FreeBSD$
    </cvs:keyword>

  <event id="guficon-6">
    <name>GUFICon #6</name>
    <url>http://www.gufi.org/guficon/</url>
    <startdate>
      <year>2005</year>
      <month>12</month>
      <day>3</day>
    </startdate>
    <enddate>
      <year>2005</year>
      <month>12</month>
      <day>4</day>
    </enddate>
    <location>
      <country code="IT">Italy</country>
      <city>Perugia</city>
    </location>

    <description>The Italian FreeBSD users group (G.U.F.I. - Gruppo
      Utenti FreeBSD Italia) is proud to announce the 6th annual
      GUFICon.  It will be held in Perugia, Italy on December 3-4,
      2005.  As always, GUFICon is free and open to all.  Members of
      the Italian FreeBSD community as well as special international
      guests such as Greg Lehey and George Georgalis will present on
      many technical themes.  See the website for more information and
      free registration.</description>
  </event>

  <event id="eurobsdcon-2005">
    <name>EuroBSDCon 2005</name>
    <url>http://2005.eurobsdcon.org/</url>
    <startdate>
      <year>2005</year>
      <month>11</month>
      <day>25</day>
    </startdate>
    <enddate>
      <year>2005</year>
      <month>11</month>
      <day>27</day>
    </enddate>
    <location>
      <country code="CH">Switzerland</country>
      <city>Basel</city>
      <site>University of Basel</site>
    </location>
    <description>The fourth annual European BSD Conference.  It is
      oriented to developers and users of all BSD flavors, including
      FreeBSD of course.</description>
  </event>

  <event id="usenix-baysug-2005">
    <name>USENIX Bay Area Super User Group Meeting (BaySUG '05)</name>
    <url>http://www.usenix.org/events/baysug05/</url>
    <startdate>
      <year>2005</year>
      <month>11</month>
      <day>12</day>
    </startdate>
    <enddate>
      <year>2005</year>
      <month>11</month>
      <day>12</day>
    </enddate>
    <location>
      <country code="US">USA</country>
      <city>Mountain View, CA</city>
      <site>Computer History Museum</site>
    </location>

    <description>Join USENIX and BayLISA for the first Bay Area Super
      User Group Meeting (BaySUG '05) followed by a reception hosted
      by Google.  We're looking for more FreeBSD representation.
      Please contact <a href="mailto:murray@FreeBSD.org">Murray
      Stokely</a> if you are interested in discussing and promoting
      FreeBSD at the event.</description>

  </event>

  <event id="freebsd-korea-2005">
    <name>Korean FreeBSD users group Conference 2005</name>
    <url>http://seminar.freebsdcity.org</url>
    <startdate>
      <year>2005</year>
      <month>10</month>
      <day>29</day>
    </startdate>
    <enddate>
      <year>2005</year>
      <month>10</month>
      <day>29</day>
    </enddate>
    <location>
      <country code="KR">Korea</country>
      <city>Seoul</city>
      <site>HP Korea Conference Room 20th floor</site>
    </location>
    <description>A Conference for Everyone Who is interested in
    FreeBSD in Korea.</description>
  </event>

  <event id="euro-oscon-2005">
    <name>O'Reilly European Open Source Convention</name>
    <url>http://conferences.oreillynet.com/eurooscon/</url>
    <startdate>
      <year>2005</year>
      <month>10</month>
      <day>17</day>
    </startdate>
    <enddate>
      <year>2005</year>
      <month>10</month>
      <day>20</day>
    </enddate>
    <location>
      <country code="NL">The Netherlands</country>
      <city>Amsterdam</city>
      <site>NH Grand Hotel Krasnapolsky</site>
    </location>

    <description>The popular O'Reilly Open Source Conference is coming
      to Europe in October.  There will be FreeBSD related talks, BoF
      sessions, and opportunities for general advocacy.</description>

  </event>

  <event id="nycbsdcon-2005">
    <name>New York City BSD Conference (NYCBSDCon)</name>
    <url>http://www.nycbsdcon.org/2005/</url>
    <startdate>
      <year>2005</year>
      <month>9</month>
      <day>17</day>
    </startdate>
    <enddate>
      <year>2005</year>
      <month>9</month>
      <day>17</day>
    </enddate>
    <location>
      <country code="US">USA</country>
      <city>New York City</city>
      <site>Columbia University</site>
    </location>

    <description>New York City BSD Conference (NYCBSDCon) is a one day
      technical conference hosted by the New York City <a
      href="http://www.nycbug.org">*BSD User Group</a>.  The all day
      conference will include a variety of speakers representing the
      BSD projects and the open source community.</description>
  </event>

  <event id="oscon-2005">
    <name>O'Reilly Open Source Conference 2005</name>
    <url>http://conferences.oreillynet.com/os2005/</url>
    <startdate>
      <year>2005</year>
      <month>8</month>
      <day>1</day>
    </startdate>
    <enddate>
      <year>2005</year>
      <month>8</month>
      <day>5</day>
    </enddate>
    <location>
      <country code="US">USA</country>
      <city>Portland, Oregon</city>
      <site>Oregon Convention Center</site>
    </location>

    <description>The annual O'Reilly Open Source Conference had a
      larger BSD presence this year.  Matt Olander, Dru Lavigne, and
      others helped spread the word about FreeBSD.  A press release
      about the advocacy effort is available <a
      href="http://www.offmyserver.com/cgi-bin/store/news/oscon_080505.html">here</a>.
    </description>
  </event>

  <event id="bsdcon-japan-2005">
    <name>BSDCon Japan 2005</name>
    <url>http://bsdcon.jp/</url>
    <startdate>
      <year>2005</year>
      <month>7</month>
      <day>23</day>
    </startdate>
    <enddate>
      <year>2005</year>
      <month>7</month>
      <day>23</day>
    </enddate>
    <location>
      <country code="JP">Japan</country>
      <city>Nagoya</city>
      <site>NADYA PARK</site>
    </location>
    <description>BSD Conference Japan 2005, the fourth conference
      concerning *BSD in Japan, will be held in Nagoya
      on July 23th, 2005.</description>
  </event>

  <event id="linuxtag-2005">
    <name>Linuxtag 2005</name>
    <url>http://www.linuxtag.org/2005/</url>
    <startdate>
      <year>2005</year>
      <month>6</month>
      <day>22</day>
    </startdate>
    <enddate>
      <year>2005</year>
      <month>6</month>
      <day>25</day>
    </enddate>
    <location>
      <country code="DE">Germany</country>
      <city>Karlsruhe</city>
      <site>Kongresszentrum</site>
    </location>
    <description>The Linuxtag is one of Europe's biggest Linux and Open Source
      related tradeshows and conferences. As in previous years, FreeBSD will be
      present with a booth.</description>
  </event>

  <event id="meetbsd-2005">
    <name>MeetBSD 2005</name>
    <url>http://2005.meetbsd.org/</url>
    <startdate>
      <year>2005</year>
      <month>6</month>
      <day>17</day>
    </startdate>
    <enddate>
      <year>2005</year>
      <month>6</month>
      <day>19</day>
    </enddate>
    <location>
      <country code="PL">Poland</country>
      <city>Krak&#243;w</city>
      <site>Hotel Chopin</site>
    </location>
    <description>The second annual MeetBSD conference will be held in
      Poland to bring together BSD experts from around Europe.
      Poul-Henning Kamp and others will be presenting on FreeBSD
      topics.</description>
  </event>

  <event id="bsdcan-2005">
    <name>BSDCan 2005</name>
    <url>http://www.bsdcan.org/</url>
    <startdate>
      <year>2005</year>
      <month>5</month>
      <day>13</day>
    </startdate>
    <enddate>
      <year>2005</year>
      <month>5</month>
      <day>14</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
      invite contribution from both free software developers and those
      from commercial vendors.</description>
  </event>

  <event id="osf-russia-2005">
    <name>Open Source Forum Russia 2005</name>
    <url>http://www.opensource-forum.ru/</url>
    <startdate>
      <year>2005</year>
      <month>4</month>
      <day>27</day>
    </startdate>
    <enddate>
      <year>2005</year>
      <month>4</month>
      <day>29</day>
    </enddate>
    <location>
      <country code="RU">Russia</country>
      <city>Moscow</city>
      <site>Radisson SAS Hotel</site>
    </location>

    <description>Open Source Forum Russia is the first conference and
      exhibition which will bring together Russian, American and
      European leaders of the OS industry, customers interested in
      using reliable and efficient Linux-based technologies and IT
      companies which intend developing business on the base of Open
      Source.  <a
      href="mailto:murray@FreeBSD.org">Murray Stokely</a> will present
      on the subject of FreeBSD Release Engineering and the Business
      Case for BSD.</description>
  </event>

  <event id="usenix-2005">
    <name>2005 USENIX Annual Technical Conference</name>
    <url>http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix05/</url>
    <startdate>
      <year>2005</year>
      <month>4</month>
      <day>10</day>
    </startdate>
    <enddate>
      <year>2005</year>
      <month>4</month>
      <day>15</day>
    </enddate>
    <location>
      <country code="US">USA</country>
      <state>California</state>
      <city>Anaheim</city>
    </location>
    <description>The 2005 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="linuxforum-2005">
    <name>LinuxForum 2005</name>
    <url>http://www.linuxforum.dk/</url>
    <startdate>
      <year>2005</year>
      <month>3</month>
      <day>4</day>
    </startdate>
    <enddate>
      <year>2005</year>
      <month>3</month>
      <day>5</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 BSD's.</description>
  </event>

  <event id="fosdem-2005">
    <name>Fosdem 2005</name>
    <url>http://www.fosdem.org/</url>
    <startdate>
      <year>2005</year>
      <month>2</month>
      <day>26</day>
    </startdate>
    <enddate>
      <year>2005</year>
      <month>2</month>
      <day>27</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. Among the projects present at the event
      will be Mozilla, KDE and, of course, FreeBSD.</description>
  </event>

  <event id="ffg-2005">
    <name>GUUG-Fr&#252;hjahrsfachgespr&#228;ch 2005</name>
    <url>http://www.guug.de/veranstaltungen/ffg2005/index.html</url>
    <startdate>
      <year>2005</year>
      <month>2</month>
      <day>22</day>
    </startdate>
    <enddate>
      <year>2005</year>
      <month>2</month>
      <day>25</day>
    </enddate>
    <location>
      <country code="DE">Germany</country>
      <city>Munich</city>
      <site>Munich University of Applied Sciences</site>
    </location>
    <description>
      The Fr&#252;hjahrsfachgespr&#228;ch is an annual event on
      practical Linux/UNIX topics.  Most of the talks are in
      german, among them a talk about FreeBSD Filesystem Snapshots
      by Dirk Meyer &lt;dinoex@FreeBSD.org&gt;.
    </description>
  </event>

  <event id="scale-2005">
    <name>SCALE: Southern California Linux Expo 2005</name>
    <url>http://www.socallinuxexpo.org/</url>
    <startdate>
      <year>2005</year>
      <month>2</month>
      <day>12</day>
    </startdate>
    <enddate>
      <year>2005</year>
      <month>2</month>
      <day>13</day>
    </enddate>
    <location>
      <country code="US">USA</country>
      <state>California</state>
      <city>Los Angeles</city>
      <site>Los Angeles Convention Center</site>
    </location>
    <description>The third Southern California Linux Expo will have
      an <a href="http://www.socallinuxexpo.org/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>