From announce at lists.nycbug.org Wed Sep 3 10:40:42 2008 From: announce at lists.nycbug.org (NYC*BUG Announcements) Date: Wed, 03 Sep 2008 10:40:42 -0400 Subject: [announce] NYCBUG Tonight Message-ID: <48BEA1EA.3060805@ceetonetechnology.com> September 03, 2008 Organizing NYCBSDCon 2008 6:30pm, Suspenders Restaurant http://www.suspendersbar.com/location.php Organizing NYCBSDCon 2008 This is our last meeting before NYCBSDCon 2008, to be held October 11-12 at Columbia University. At this meeting, we'll cover the organizational details of the conference, focus on publicity, roles for others at the conference, etc. If possible, please photocopy one of these two fliers so others can distribute: http://www.nycbsdcon.org/2008/files/flyer.pdf http://www.nycbsdcon.org/2008/files/flyer_wbeastie.pdf From announce at lists.nycbug.org Fri Sep 5 20:33:14 2008 From: announce at lists.nycbug.org (NYC*BUG Announcements) Date: Fri, 05 Sep 2008 20:33:14 -0400 Subject: [announce] NYCBSDCon 2008 Registration is Open and Speakers/Presentations Up Message-ID: <48C1CFCA.5050500@ceetonetechnology.com> We are proud to announce the release of the speaker's presentations and that registration is now open for NYCBSDCon 2008 at http://www.nycbsdcon.org NYCBSDCon 2008 will be held at Manhattan's Columbia University on October 11 and 12 in New York City. The speaker line-up is an impressive list of developers and systems administrators from all the BSD projects. http://www.nycbsdcon.org/2008/presentations.html We strongly encourage everyone to register as soon as possible at: http://www.nycbsdcon.org/2008/register.html Early registration is $95, and includes not just the meetings, but also breakfast and lunch for both Saturday and Sunday. Walk-ins will be charged $145. With valid current identification, the Columbia University staff, students and faculty rate is $50. Other full-time students can also receive this discounted rate with valid identification. On Friday, October 10th, there will be a NetBSD developers summit. Please contact JSchauma@ that project for additional details. FreeBSD developers will also be gathering outside of the conference. Please contact GNN@ that project for more details. Friday evening, attendees will be gathering at Havanna Central at 2911 Broadway between 113th and 114th streets beginning at 7 pm. That will also be the location for the Saturday night social. The BSD Certification Group will be holding BSDA exams. There will be general Unix review cram sessions over the course of Saturday. There will also be a social gathering on Saturday evening at Havanna Central at 7 pm. Live on-site reporting of the conference happenings will be provided by BSDTalk's Will Blackman. Huge thanks are due to our sponsors for keeping the conference inexpensive and accessible. Current sponsors include New York Internet, DataPipe, Everest Broadband, Datagram, USENIX, iXSystems, Pearson Education and our small business sponsors Loftmail and PC Engines. And finally, thanks to our many media sponsors, who have provided support and publicity for the conference, including Columbia University's Network Security Lab, the BSD Certification Group, BSD Magazine, New York PHP, the Industrial Technology and Assistance Corporation and Gruppo Udenti FreeBSD Italia. Without the assistance of Columbia University's Angelos Keromytis and Matthew Burnside, the conference would not be possible. Any conference profits will be donated to the BSD projects, as done in years past. From announce at lists.nycbug.org Sat Sep 13 21:59:36 2008 From: announce at lists.nycbug.org (NYC*BUG Announcements) Date: Sat, 13 Sep 2008 21:59:36 -0400 Subject: [announce] BSD Certifcation exams at NYCBSDCon 2008 Message-ID: <48CC7008.1090408@ceetonetechnology.com> NYCBSDCon 2008 will be hosting two opportunities to take the BSD Certification exam over the weekend of October 11th and 12th. Register for the exam at www.bsdcertification.org/certification/ The first exam is during lunch on Saturday, October 11th at noon, the second opportunity is at 4:30 pm after the conference concludes on Sunday, October 12th. There will be a number of short review sessions on general topics in "cram session style" conducted by various NYC *BSD User Group members both Saturday and Sunday. Check the conference web site for details at www.nycbsdcon.org. NYC*BUG and NYCBSDCon is proud to continue our strong support of BSD Certification, and we encourage you to register today for the exam. From announce at lists.nycbug.org Mon Sep 22 21:12:13 2008 From: announce at lists.nycbug.org (NYC*BUG Announcements) Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2008 21:12:13 -0400 Subject: [announce] 19 Days Until NYCBSDCon 2008 Message-ID: <48D8426D.1060107@ceetonetechnology.com> NYCBSDCon begins in a few weeks, so make sure you register as soon as possible. http://www.nycbsdcon.org/2008/register.html NYCBSDCon brings together the best and brightest of the BSD communities from the New York area and beyond. The conference costs $95, including breakfast and lunch on both days, in addition to a number of other extras. Full-time students and Columbia University affiliates pay only $50 with valid identification. This year's schedule is impressive: from file systems and the portable C compiler to system and network management, we are thrilled to be able to provide such strong content. A full array of BSD developers and systems administrators are speaking, including Pawel Dawidek, Michael Lucas, Jason Wright and DragonFlyBSD's Matt Dillon. And Jason Dixon looks to top his 2006 presentation on "Is BSD Dying?" with a look at "BSD versus the GPL." While the conference officially begins on Saturday morning, October 11th, attendees will be gathering on Friday night at Havanna Central, just across from Columbia University. More information, including the schedule and transportation options, can be found at http://www.nycbsdcon.org. From announce at lists.nycbug.org Mon Sep 29 11:13:21 2008 From: announce at lists.nycbug.org (NYC*BUG Announcements) Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2008 11:13:21 -0400 Subject: [announce] October NYC*BUG Meeting Cancelled Message-ID: <48E0F091.50408@ceetonetechnology.com> As you may already know, there will be no NYC*BUG meeting this Wednesday, October 1st. All energy is completely focused on building NYCBSDCon 2008. There will be a NYC*BUG meeting on November 5th, and a holiday party in December. Don't forget to register for NYCBSDCon 2008 at: http://www.nycbsdcon.org/2008/register.html We look forward to seeing you at the conference.