If you have an interest in BSD OpenSource then EuroBSDcon 2013 is the place to be, to learn, to listen, to meet and to greet . All talks and tutorials are strictly technical and non-commercial in nature. Absolutely no sales pitches. About 220 people have already registered up to now.

This year we have 42 truly excellent exciting talks and 11 in-depth tutorial sessions. To give you a glimpse we have a number of high-profile people giving talks and keynotes:

• Mr. Nginx, Igor Sysoev, about Nginx architecture and upcoming developments
• Mr. Varnish, Poul-Henning Kamp, about Varnish high-performance http offloading
• Mr. Global Top100, Eric Pickup, about Nginx+Redis+PHP+NodeJS powering a global top100 site
• Mr. Netflix, Scott Long and Alistair Crooks, about how the Netflix video CDN does 30% of the US traffic from BSD servers
• Mr. PostgreSQL, Magnus Hagander, about upcoming features and performance in PostgreSQL 9.3
• Mr. ZFS, Matthew Ahrens, about upcoming ZFS features and performance improvements
• Mr. Cisco Datacenter, Landon Noll, with a keynote about security and its application to systems
• Mr. Flash, Warner Losh, about the evolution of super high speed flash storage
• Mr. 40+Gbit, Navdeep Parhar, about the performance of the FreeBSD network stack and driver interface
• Mr. 700k+IOPS, Alexander Motin, about tomorrows SATA, SAS, SSD, CAM block storage
• Mr. ARM 64bit servers, Andrew Wafaa, about the upcoming 64bit ARM server cores
• Mr. NFSv4, Moritz Willers, about very large scale NFS enterprise deployments
• Mr. OpenBSD, Theo de Raadt, keynote about solving Y2038 before it is too late again
• and many more: http://2013.eurobsdcon.org/eurobsdcon-2013/talks/

Meet your favorite major project core developer and talk to him/her directly!

Full day and half day tutorials include:

Advanced BGP and OSPF Routing (Claudio Jeker), Mastering advanced SSH and DNSSEC (Michael W. Lucas), pfSense Firewall (Chris Buechler, Ermal Luci), Firewalls with pf (Peter Hansteen), High available Storage (Jeroen van Nieuwenhuizen), Deploying IPv6 and Setting up OSS VoIP PBX (Massimiliano Stucchi), Design and Implementation of the BSD Kernel (Dr. Kirk McKusick), …, and many more: http://2013.eurobsdcon.org/eurobsdcon-2013/tutorials/

We hope you to attend the EuroBSDcon 2013 conference. Make sure to register before the early-bird special expires on Sunday, 1st of September:

Register NOW: http://2013.eurobsdcon.org/eurobsdcon-2013/registration/

A large number of hotels is available nearby from EUR20 to EUR200/night.

Your partners and family are welcome too and we have organized a guided tour of the islands.

See you on Malta!

yours truly,

André Oppermann (OC Chair)
Noel Beck
Paul Schenkevelt
and the EuroBSDcon Team

Keynotes

Y2038: Going long-long on time_t to cope with 2,147,483,647+1 by Theo de Raadt

Security Lesson Takeaways Through the Ages by Landon Curt Noll

Track #1

Modernizing and Improving the Buffer Cache and VFS Midlayer in OpenBSD by Bob Beck

SCSI Multipathing in OpenBSD by David Gwynne

SATA, SAS, SSD, CAM: The Block Storage Subsystem in FreeBSD by Alexander Motin

FLASH: High Speed and High IOP Data Storage Options by Warner Losh

Open ZFS: Upcoming Features and Performance Enhancements with illumos and FreeBSD joining Forces by Matthew Ahrens and Martin Matuska

Deploying Secure NFS v3/v4 in a Large Enterprise by Moritz Willers

Automated Deployment of FreeBSD/PCBSD Systems by Kris Moore

Nginx: Architecture, Performance and Future Enhancements by Igor Sysoev

Varnish Cache: High-Performance Reverse HTTP Server Offloading by Poul-Henning Kamp

The new LAMP: Powering a Global Top100 Site with Varnish, Nginx, Redis, PHP, and NodeJS by Eric Pickup

Running the Netflix Video CDN on FreeBSD and Handling 30% of all US Internet Traffic by Alistair Crooks

Relayd: Improved High Availability Load-balancing and Connection Proxying by Reyk Floeter

Mitigating and Isolating DDoS at Layer7 using Global Server Load Balancing with gdnsd on FreeBSD by Allan Jude

Realtime Distribution of Anti-SPAM Black and White Lists using BGP by Peter Hessler

Track #2

PostgeSQL 9.3: Upcoming Features by Magnus Hagander

From Bsdtar to Tarsnap Building an Online Backup Service by Colin Percival

Bacula: The Networked Backup Open Source Solution by Dan Langille

NPF: NetBSD Packet Filter Design, Features, Performance, and Latest Developments by Mindaugas Rasiukevicius

Firewalling and Security in an IPv6 World by Massimiliano Stucchi

Kuya: Automated Software Testing Framework on NetBSD by Julio Merino

ESO Extremely Large Telescope: Real Time Control for Adaptive Optics with FreeBSD by Poul-Henning Kamp

Zero-Copy Socket Splicing in the OpenBSD Kernel by Alexander Bluhm

Netmap: The Fast Network Packet I/O Framework by Luigi Rizzo

Traffic Deep Inspection: Realtime Traffic Analysis at 20Gbit/s using Netmap on FreeBSD by Fabrizio Invernizzi

The Surprising Complexity of TCP/IP Checksums by Henning Brauer

Reaching 40Gbit/s and beyond with the FreeBSD Network Stack and Driver Interface by Navdeep Parhar

Extending the FreeBSD Kernel to Netflix Video CDN Scale by Scott Long

Highly Parallel, lock-less, user-space TCP/IP Stack based on FreeBSD by Michael Dubiel

Track #3

Towards a BSD Licensed and GPL-free Toolchain for NetBSD by Jörg Sonnenberger

Towards modern IAA Facilities in UNIX: Redesigning Identity, Authentication and Authorization by Dag-Erling Smorgrav

ASR: New Asynchronous DNS Resolver Implementation for OpenBSD by Eric Faurot

Packages on FreeBSD: Back to the Present by Baptiste Daroussin

Ports and Packages in OpenBSD: Refactoring an Existing Tool Base by Marc Espie

Porting Modern KDE4 to OpenBSD: A Success Story by Vadim Zhukov

Porting Firefox to BSD: How to Keep Up with Fast Moving Projects and Upstream Patches by Landry Breuil

Introducing the 64bit ARMv8 Architecture by Andrew Wafaa

NetBSD on Marvell Armada XP System on a Chip by Zbigniew Bodek

Porting FreeBSD/ARM to new SoC’s and Boards by Andrew Turner

Porting NetBSD to the AVR32 Architecture by Tomás Nino Kehoe and Leandro Santi

Virtualization on Intel Itanium by Klaus Brandstätter

FreeBSD BHyve Hypervisor hosting Other Systems by Peter Grehan

Security Infrastructure in the FreeBSD Kernel by Kirk McKusick

Track #4

Saturday only: FreeBSD Developer Summit Presentations by various presenters will be announced shortly before the conference begins.

Registration

The full conference fee is only EUR 215 per person, for individuals only EUR 190 and students only EUR 120 respectively, for the two full talk days including lunches, coffee breaks with snacks and the social event beach BBQ on Saturday evening. You can attend any talks and tracks you want.

For women in technology we have a free entrance and travel grant program in  cooperation with Google to improve diversity.  Interested women can apply at the Women in Tech Conference and Travel Grants EMEA site and make a note during EuroBSDcon 2013 registration.

More details and schedule on the Talks and Speakers: EuroBSDcon 2013 Presentations, Talks and Speakers.

Register for the EuroBSDcon 2013 conference: EuroBSDcon 2013 Registration.

Secure your seat and register NOW!

Social Events, Partners and Family

Attendees are encouraged to bring their partners and family along for an extended weekend.  A side program is organized.  The location Malta has a rich history, sunny and warm weather, great scuba diving sites, nice beaches, and is well worth a visit.  The social event on Saturday evening is a beach BBQ where partners and family are equally welcome. For more information see the EuroBSDcon social events and side program page.

Sponsors

We want to thank the EuroBSDcon 2013 sponsors again for making this conference possible: The FreeBSD Foundation (platinum), Google Inc. (platinum), Netflix Inc. (gold), HOB GmbH & Co. KG (silver), iXsystems Inc. (silver), BSDeurope.eu (silver), CloudSigma AG (silver), The NetBSD Foundation (bronze), PC Engines GmbH (bronze), Snow B.V. (bronze), Madison Gurkha B.V. (bronze), Esdenera Networks GmbH (bronze).

Press

Please bring EuroBSDcon 2013 to the attention of the online and hard-copy IT and Open Source media outlets in your country by writing them and forwarding links this announcement. Please add EuroBSDcon 2013 to any appropriate events calendar in your country, company or university you have access to.

You receive this email because you have indicated previously that you want to be informed about EuroBSDcon news and updates.

Tutorials

Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Kernel (2 days, Thu-Fri) by Dr. Kirk McKusick

pf: Building the Network you Need with pf Packet Filter (1 day, Thu) by Peter N. M. Hansteen

pfSense: Securing your Network in Depth with the Open Source Firewall and VPN Server System(1 day, Fri) by Chris Buechler and Ermal Luci

IPv6: Deploying and Managing Networks and Services (1 day, Thu) by Massimiliano Stucchi and Philip Paeps

SSH: Mastering Advanced Features and Efficient Usage in Small and Large Environments (half day, Fri) by Michael W. Lucas

DNSSEC: Mastering DNS Security (with BIND) (half day, Fri) by Michael W. Lucas

VoIP: Setting Up and Configuring Asterisk Soft-PBX on BSD (half day, Fri) by Massiniliano Stucchi

FreeBSD: Storage Setup Options with Filesystems, Partitioning, Boot Loaders, and Installers (half day, Thu) by Paul Schenkeveld

HAST: Highly Available Storage on FreeBSD (half day, Thu) by Jeroen van Nieuwenhuizen

BGP, OSPF: Advanced Network Routing with OpenOSPFD and OpenBGPD (half day, Fri) by Claudio Jeker

Prime Numbers: Breaking the Record (half day, Fri) by Dr. Landon Curt Noll

Registration

The in-depth tutorials fee for two full days is only EUR 360 per person, for individuals only EUR 320 and students EUR 180 respectively, including lunches and coffee breaks with snacks.  One day and half-day fees are available as well, please see the registration page. You can mix and match the tutorials as long as they are not overlapping.

For women in technology we have a free entrance and travel grant program in  cooperation with Google to improve diversity.  Interested women can apply at the Women in Tech Conference and Travel Grants EMEA site and make a note during EuroBSDcon 2013 registration.

More details and a schedule on the Tutorials and Tutors: EuroBSDcon 2013 Tutorial Sessions.

Registration for the Tutorials and the conference: EuroBSDcon 2013 Registration.

Make sure to secure your seat and register NOW!

Social Events, Partners and Family

Attendees are encouraged to bring their partners and family along for an extended weekend.  A side program is organized.  The location Malta has a rich history, sunny and warm weather, great scuba diving sites, nice beaches, and is well worth a visit.  The social event on Saturday evening is a beach BBQ where partners and family are equally welcome. For more information see the EuroBSDcon social events and side program page.

Sponsors

We want to thank the EuroBSDcon 2013 sponsors again for making this conference possible: The FreeBSD Foundation (platinum), Google Inc. (platinum), Netflix Inc. (gold), HOB GmbH & Co. KG (silver), iXsystems Inc. (silver), BSDeurope.eu (silver), CloudSigma AG (silver), The NetBSD Foundation (bronze), PC Engines GmbH (bronze), Snow B.V. (bronze), Madison Gurkha B.V. (bronze), Esdenera Networks GmbH (bronze).

Press

Please bring EuroBSDcon 2013 to the attention of the online and hard-copy IT and Open Source media outlets in your country by writing them and forwarding links this announcement. Please add EuroBSDcon 2013 to any appropriate events calendar in your country, company or university you have access to.

You receive this email because you have indicated previously that you want to be informed about EuroBSDcon news and updates.

To capture the momentum the organization committee is working hard to extend the conference to 3 parallel main tracks for a total of 42 talks and 10 tutorials at EuroBSDcon 2013.  Further, a smaller fourth DevSummit track is planned for Saturday as well.  The program committee is currently evaluating and selecting the most compelling topics, speakers, and tutorials from the 75 submitted proposals.

Every EuroBSDcon 2013 attendee can be sure to receive more than their fair share of comprehensive and in-depth presentations on all matters in BSD related operating system and application software.

For women in technology we are launching an attendee travel grant program in  cooperation with Google to improve diversity.  Interested women can apply during the registration process.

Attendees are encouraged to bring their partners and family along for an extended weekend.  A side program is organized.  The location Malta has a rich history, sunny and warm weather, great scuba diving sites, nice beaches, and is well worth a visit.  The social event on Saturday evening is a beach BBQ where partners and family are equally welcome.

This exciting expansion however takes the conference budget to the limits and requires careful and tight management by the organization and program committees.

We want to thank the EuroBSDcon 2013 sponsors again for making this conference possible: Google Inc. (platinum), The FreeBSD Foundation (gold), Netflix Inc. (gold), HOB GmbH & Co. KG (silver), iXsystems Inc. (silver), BSDeurope.eu (silver), The NetBSD Foundation (bronze), PC Engines GmbH (bronze), Snow B.V. (bronze).

Additional sponsoring opportunity inquiries are welcome.

The final and confirmed list of talks, tutorials and speakers is expected to be announced on Tuesday, June 18 2013 together with the opening of the attendee registration for the conference.

EuroBSDcon 2013 takes place on Saturday and Sunday September 28-29 2013 with the tutorials on Thursday and Friday September 26-27 2013 in St. Julian’s, Malta.  For more information see http://www.eurobsdcon.org.

You receive this email because you have indicated previously that you want to be informed about EuroBSDcon news and updates.

EuroBSDcon is the European technical conference for users and developers of BSD-based systems. The conference will take place Thursday, September 26 through Sunday, September 29 at the Hilton in St. Julian’s, Malta (tutorials on Thursday and Friday, talks on Saturday and Sunday).

Call for Talk and Presentation Proposals (CFP)

The EuroBSDcon program committee is inviting BSD developers and users to submit innovative and original talk proposals not previously presented at other European conferences. Topics of interest to the conference include, but are not limited to applications, architecture, implementation, performance and security of BSD-based operating systems, as well as topics concerning the economic or organizational aspects of BSD use. Presentations are expected to be 45 minutes and are to be delivered in English.

This year the EuroBSDcon welcomes you to Malta

• 26 & 27th of September  2013; Tutorials
• 28 & 29th of September 2013; Conference

Call for proposals (both tutorial and conference) has started (and will run until 25.may.2013). Registration will open in June 2013.