From announce-nycbug at lists.nycbug.org  Wed Mar  2 01:19:30 2005
From: announce-nycbug at lists.nycbug.org (announce-nycbug at lists.nycbug.org)
Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2005 01:19:30 -0500
Subject: [Announce-nycbug] OpenBSD on PA-RISC, Hack-a-thon, t-shirts
Message-ID: <20050302061930.GC19813@metm.org>

NYCBUG Monthly Meeting 
Wednesday, March 2nd

6 pm, Soho Apple Store at 103 Prince Street

Michael "Mickey" Shalayeff will talk about the hppa port of OpenBSD 
which he maintains. He maintains many of the applications which run on 
this peculiar platform and will provide some insight to the inquisitive 
as to what this combo can do.

Mickey has contributed heavily to the CARP project which has become 
such a success. It is hard to find some code which Michael has not at 
least influenced in OpenBSD. He seems to be dextrous on any hardware 
platform and is equally well versed in PCI as he is SCSI. Mickey is 
readily available on the message lists and is always happy to help 
impart some of his vast networking knowledge to beggars and sysadmins 
with a smile (;

You can read more about OpenBSD on PA-RISC at 
http://openbsd.org/hppa.html

*	*	*	*	*

NYC*BUG tshirts will also be in.  We will be selling them for $15.  
Each has the NYC*BUG logo on the left front breast, and a customized 
dmesg trailing down the back of the shirt.  Anyone who donates $50 or 
more to the OpenBSD Hackathon Fundraiser will receive a tshirt for 
free.

These tshirts are hot.  And supporting the OpenBSD Hackathon 
Fundraiser, which is responsible for so many innovations in *BSD Land 
and beyond, is hotter.

*	*	*	*	*

BSDCan will be held in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada on May 13-14th, 2005.  
You can get more information at http://www.bsdcan.org/2005/.  Last year 
was the first, and a good number of NYC*BUG members attended.  It was a 
brilliant conference and many are looking forward to this years.



From announce-nycbug at lists.nycbug.org  Fri Mar  4 23:11:27 2005
From: announce-nycbug at lists.nycbug.org (announce-nycbug at lists.nycbug.org)
Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2005 23:11:27 -0500
Subject: [Announce-nycbug] a BSDCan mailing list
Message-ID: <e60300506267e39671764d31d35328ac@sddi.net>

A new list has been created for those interested or planning on 
attending BSDCan in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada from May 13 to 14, 2005.

You can subscribe here:
http://lists.nycbug.org/mailman/listinfo/bsdcan

BSDCan was attended last year by 6 or so NYC*BUG members.  This year's 
event is sure to be another great time with talks covering a wide 
variety of technical topics.  Additionally, without doubt this year's 
attendees will find excellent informal discussions and contacts.

Registration is not yet opened for the conference, but it's very 
reasonably priced.  And Canada is one place where the US dollar is 
actually strong.

This is the place to discuss travel and housing arrangements, etc.  If 
you have space in your car, or want to know about the quality of pizza 
in Ottawa, this is the place to post it.

Fo more information about BSDCan, please see www.BSDCan.org



From announce-nycbug at lists.nycbug.org  Wed Mar  9 21:03:04 2005
From: announce-nycbug at lists.nycbug.org (announce-nycbug at lists.nycbug.org)
Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2005 21:03:04 -0500
Subject: [Announce-nycbug] Fwd: BSDCan 2005 - pricing
Message-ID: <9698123af10abd5a0250572fdbd500ac@sddi.net>



Begin forwarded message:

> From: "Dan Langille" <dan at langille.org>
> Date: March 9, 2005 8:59:37 PM EST
> To: announce at lists.bsdcan.org
> Subject: BSDCan 2005 - pricing
>
>
> Hello folks,
>
> The BSDCan 2005 prices have been set.
>
>    <http://www.bsdcan.org/2005/registration.php>
>
> Registration will open very soon (on or before 11 March 2005).
>
> I hope you're starting making your travel arrangements!
>
> See you at BSDCan 2005!
>
> -- 
> Dan Langille : http://www.langille.org/
> BSDCan - The Technical BSD Conference - http://www.bsdcan.org/
>
>
> To unsubscribe: send mail to <majordomo at lists.bsdcan.org>
> with "unsubscribe announce" in the body of the message
>
>



From announce-nycbug at lists.nycbug.org  Tue Mar 15 17:32:45 2005
From: announce-nycbug at lists.nycbug.org (announce-nycbug at lists.nycbug.org)
Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2005 17:32:45 -0500
Subject: [Announce-nycbug] BSD Certification effort
Message-ID: <e257c5f98d204e6b2e8ca7445875ab82@sddi.net>

A number of NYC*BUG members are active in an effort to create a BSD 
Certification.

The effort went public this morning, and we are currently hosting the 
list associated with it.

Here's the official press release:

March 15, 2005

BSD Certification Group Takes Initiative

Today, the BSD Certification Group officially announces their website 
and
group focused in the creation of BSD certification. The public website 
is
at http://www.bsdcertification.org/.

A number of BSD developers, systems administrators and advocates have 
come together to begin the first steps in the creation of a standard 
BSD certification. Today marks the official launch of their public 
website at http://www.bsdcertification.org/.

The BSDs, including FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD and DragonflyBSD, are 
mature operating systems based on the original Unix developed at 
University of Berkeley, California.  BSD powers global Internet service 
provider infrastructures, and BSD userland applications are familiar to 
those running Apple's OS X operating system.  BSD tools like OpenSSH 
are used to securely access remote systems, and many TCP/IP stacks are 
derived from BSD.

"While some may feel that a BSD certification would just replicate the
problems that other certifications have created, namely lack of 
experience
masked by a piece of paper, the committee is convinced that with the
proper preparation and testing criteria, a tiered BSD certification 
process can demonstrate real-world proficiency as well as provide a 
goal for those just beginning their systems and network administration 
career," said Dru Lavigne, networking and Unix instructor and the chair 
for the group.

The BSD Certification Group looks to bring together the BSD projects, 
important vendors, educational institutions and beyond to work to make 
this project a success.

The group invites all who are interested to subscribe to the public BSD 
certification mailing list at 
http://lists.nycbug.org/mailman/listinfo/bsdcert.



From announce-nycbug at lists.nycbug.org  Sat Mar 26 12:33:45 2005
From: announce-nycbug at lists.nycbug.org (announce-nycbug at lists.nycbug.org)
Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2005 12:33:45 -0500
Subject: [Announce-nycbug] Gmane list archives
Message-ID: <49eb70cff270c8c8e8934ae8eb7ba6e7@sddi.net>

The New York City *BSD User Group's talk list has been added to Gmane 
(gmane.org).

Archives will be added in the next day or so.  All posts going forward 
will be added.

Gmane is a wonderful utility that allows mailing lists to be accessed 
in a variety of ways, including in various web page formats, as NNTP 
news and as RSS feeds.

So if you want to keep abreast of NYC*BUG's talk list, without the 
extra mail traffic in your mail client or adding more filters, we 
recommend you check out Gmane.

http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.org.user-groups.bsd.nycbug

George



From announce-nycbug at lists.nycbug.org  Thu Mar 31 12:34:13 2005
From: announce-nycbug at lists.nycbug.org (announce-nycbug at lists.nycbug.org)
Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2005 12:34:13 -0500
Subject: [Announce-NYCBUG] Fwd: BSDCan 2005 - on campus accommodation
Message-ID: <be00a08e8f4a98a53c1f2ea09bbec6ff@sddi.net>

BSDCan announcement. . .

Begin forwarded message:

> From: "Dan Langille" <dan at langille.org>
> Date: May 12, 2005 11:41:52 PM EDT
> To: announce at lists.bsdcan.org
> Subject: BSDCan 2005 - on campus accommodation
>
>
> Hello folks,
>
> ACCOMMODATION
>
> We more information, as yet unconfirmed, regarding on-campus
> accommodation.  Apparently, they are not taking bookings until the
> 29th. This isn't ideal, but it's better than the previous reports of
> overbooking.  My recommendation: keep trying.
>
> The rate for Les Suites has been corrected.  We were given incorrect
> information and regret any inconvenience this will cause.
>
> See <http://www.bsdcan.org/2005/travel.php> for details.
>
>
> TRAVEL:
>
> I hope you have confirmed your travel plans by now.  Book early to
> get cheaper prices.  If you need a travel visa, I hope you've applied
> for it already.  Please don't leave it to the last minute.
>
> We already have 16 people coming from Europe.  That's an impressive
> number considering the conference is still 7 weeks away.
>
>
> PRESENTATIONS:
>
> We have traded two Friday talks.  "DocBook Slides, XSLT, and XSL-FO"
> will now be at 10 AM and "Keeping FreeBSD Up-To-Date" will now be at
> 11:30 AM.
>
> Are you wondering about this secret new feature to be revealed at
> BSDCan?  I know details, but I'm not telling anyone anything.  But I
> can say that I'm quite excited about it, and look forward to using it
> once it become available.  I have no doubts that it will soon be
> implemented in various operating systems.
>
> Nor can I tell you anything about Colin Percival's talk about a new
> security issue.  I can't tell you anything about this either.  That's
> because I don't know anything about it.  Details will be released
> closer to the conference.
>
>    <http://www.bsdcan.org/2005/presentations.php>
>
>
> VENUE:
>
> BSDCan 2005 will be held at University of Ottawa, the same place as
> last year, but in a new building.  The School of Information
> Technology and Engineering (SITE) is the University of Ottawa's
> centre for research and teaching in all areas related to computing,
> computers and communications.  This is a most appropriate location
> for BSDCan.  The building is amazing.  We will be using three large
> lecture halls and there is a large lobby between two of them.  A
> large glass atrium goes along one whole side of this building.  It's
> a great location!
>
>    <http://www.site.uottawa.ca/welcome.shtml>
>
> See you at BSDCan 2005!
>
> -- 
> Dan Langille : http://www.langille.org/
> BSDCan - The Technical BSD Conference - http://www.bsdcan.org/
>
>
> To unsubscribe: send mail to <majordomo at lists.bsdcan.org>
> with "unsubscribe announce" in the body of the message
>
>