From announce at lists.nycbug.org Tue Dec 5 22:08:00 2017 From: announce at lists.nycbug.org (NYC*BUG Announcements) Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2017 03:08:00 +0000 Subject: [announce] Wednesday, Dec 6 get-together Message-ID: A good number of new and old faces will be assembling at Suspenders at 108 Greenwich Street in downtown Manhattan on December 6th around 7 PM. It will be a great opportunity to catch-up with everyone, and discuss plans for 2018. From announce at lists.nycbug.org Thu Dec 7 16:34:00 2017 From: announce at lists.nycbug.org (NYC*BUG Announcements) Date: Thu, 07 Dec 2017 21:34:00 +0000 Subject: [announce] BSDCan 2018 CFP Open Message-ID: Dan writes. . . BSDCan 2018 will be held 8-9 (Fri-Sat) June, 2017 in Ottawa, at the University of Ottawa. It will be preceded by two days of tutorials on 6-7 June (Wed-Thu). Also: do not miss out on the Goat BOF on Tuesday 5 June. We are now accepting proposals for talks. The talks should be designed with a very strong technical content bias. Proposals of a business development or marketing nature are not appropriate for this venue. See http://www.bsdcan.org/2018/ If you are doing something interesting with a BSD operating system, please submit a proposal. Whether you are developing a very complex system using BSD as the foundation, or helping others and have a story to tell about how BSD played a role, we want to hear about your experience. People using BSD as a platform for research are also encouraged to submit a proposal. Possible topics include: * How we manage a giant installation with respect to handling spam. * and/or sysadmin. * and/or networking. * Cool new stuff in BSD * Tell us about your project which runs on BSD * other topics (see next paragraph) >From the BSDCan website, the Archives section will allow you to review the wide variety of past BSDCan presentations as further examples. Both users and developers are encouraged to share their experiences. The schedule is: 1 Dec 2017 Proposal acceptance begins 19 Jan 2018 Proposal acceptance ends 19 Feb 2018 Confirmation of accepted proposals See also http://www.bsdcan.org/2018/papers.php Instructions for submitting a proposal to BSDCan 2018 are available from: http://www.bsdcan.org/2018/submissions.php -- Dan Langille - BSDCan / PGCon dan at langille.org From announce at lists.nycbug.org Fri Dec 29 10:20:00 2017 From: announce at lists.nycbug.org (NYC*BUG Announcements) Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2017 15:20:00 +0000 Subject: [announce] NYC*BUG: Jan 3 on OpenBSD Porting and more Message-ID: Upcoming NYC*BUG meetings plus Bryan Cantril speaking at Jane Street Jan 18. There is a February 7 meeting sorted out about Reproducible Builds, but is not yet posted on the web site. The CFP for BSDCan 2018 is open. ***** Wednesday, January 3 OpenBSD Porting Workshop. Learn how to make ports!, Brian Callahan 18:45, LMHQ, 150 Broadway, 20th Floor, Manhattan Writing ports is a crucial aspect of *BSD development. There is a lot of software out in the world, and ports and packages make all our lives much easier. All the non-base software you use passed through the fingers of a porter. Making your own ports is an easy and fun way to make your first contributions to a *BSD project. Is there some piece of software you just can't live without? Do you have some software of your own that you would like to have readily available to *BSD users? Just interested in learning about ports and package management? This is the workshop for you! No experience necessary to participate. All set up, including an OpenBSD virtual machine, will be available for participants. We will be creating our own first ports for the OpenBSD project. This workshop will be a step-by-step from identifying the software you want to port through and including the final port ready for submission. By the end of the workshop, you will have submitted a new port to the OpenBSD ports@ mailing list! Speaker Bio Brian is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Science & Technology Studies at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, NY. He is an OpenBSD developer, mostly working on ports. ***** We generally do not post non-NYC*BUG/BSD events, but we'll make an exception for this Jan 18, 2018 The Hurricane's Butterfly: Debugging Pathologically Performing Systems Speaker: Bryan Cantrill 18:15, Downtown Manhattan Abstract Despite significant advances in tooling over the past two decades, performance debugging?finding and rectifying those limiters to systems performance?remains a singular challenge in our production systems. This challenge persists in part because of a butterfly effect in complicated systems: small but ill-behaving components can have an outsized effect on the performance of a system in aggregate. This talk will explore this challenge, including why simple problems can cause non-linear performance effects, how they can remain so elusive and what we can do to better debug them. Registration As space is limited and building security requires visitor registration, please register for this talk here. (https://goo.gl/forms/uL3ME5T1UfGiexG22) We'll send you full location details when you register. https://www.janestreet.com/tech-talks/hurricanes-butterfly/ Speaker bio Bryan Cantrill is CTO at Joyent, where since 2010 he has had responsibility for Joyent's SmartOS, Triton and Manta technologies. Previously a Distinguished Engineer at Sun Microsystems, Bryan led the team that designed and implemented DTrace, a facility for dynamic instrumentation of production systems that won the Wall Street Journal?s top Technology Innovation Award in 2006. He received the ScB magna cum laude with honors in Computer Science from Brown University. From announce at lists.nycbug.org Sat Dec 30 00:14:00 2017 From: announce at lists.nycbug.org (NYC*BUG Announcements) Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2017 05:14:00 +0000 Subject: [announce] passing-the-hat for the BSD projects Message-ID: For the next few meetings, NYC*BUG will be doing a collection for each of the BSD projects. Since our beginnings, we have contributed to a variety of fundraising efforts for the BSD projects. Most significantly, the profits from each of our conferences has been divided up between the BSD projects. We have done a number of other activities for monetary donations, besides connecting developers to hardware. For the January meeting, the collection will go to OpenBSD, followed by NetBSD in February, with FreeBSD and DragonFly BSD to follow. There is no obligation to contribute, but even small donations aggregated can matter. Of course we don't have a credit card machine, but cash or checks made out to the respective BSD project (in this case "the OpenBSD Foundation") are welcome. If you want to use a credit card, won't be attending the meeting, or just prefer to donate directly, these links provide the relevant information: https://www.dragonflybsd.org/donations/ https://www.freebsdfoundation.org/donate/ https://www.netbsd.org/donations/ https://www.openbsd.org/donations.html