From announce at lists.nycbug.org Tue Sep 4 09:45:46 2012 From: announce at lists.nycbug.org (NYC*BUG Announcements) Date: Tue, 04 Sep 2012 09:45:46 -0400 Subject: [announce] NYC*BUG Tomorrow/Wednesday September 5 Message-ID: Summer is officially over, but we're back. A number of announcements to note. * Sept 5 Adrian Chadd on FreeBSD on Embedded Devices * Oct 3 John Baldwin on SMP * Sept 29: Kyiv BSD in the Ukraine * Nov 3 & 4: MeetBSD California 2012 This week's NYC*BUG meeting will feature Adrian Chadd of FreeBSD, passing through from .au. 2012-09-05 @ 18:45 - Location: suspenders "Trying to shoehorn FreeBSD onto embedded devices - why it's not as easy as it could be" Adrian Chadd Adrian has been putting FreeBSD onto some small embedded Atheros MIPS devices for quite some time - with varying levels of success. In this talk he will cover what FreeBSD-embedded looks like today, how small can you get your kernel and userland, where the bloat is, and what challenges lie ahead. About the speaker: Adrian has been tinkering in open source since high school. He now works at Qualcomm Atheros on their internal driver infrastructure. In his spare time, Adrian is working on 802.11n support, maintains the Atheros wifi driver in FreeBSD as well as co-maintains the FreeBSD net80211 stack. Adrian lives in San Jose with no wife, no children, no pets and a rather large collection of embedded devices (most of which run FreeBSD.) * * * When: 29 September of 2012 Where: Kyiv, Ukraine What: KyivBSD'12 29 of September 2012 year, will be a good year for KyivBSD conference. This year, fourth conference in a row will take a place. The main goal of conference - make community grow faster, uptimes longer and users happier. This year there will be discussion about embedding BSD systems, tutorial about poudriere and pkgng, insight into mpd5 and few more tech subjects. And of course open talks, questions and hopefully answers. Since this conference was very well supported by sponsors in previous years, we get attention and some fame (in good meaning of word). This year conference is free-of charge, and free-of-sponsors, but if you would like to, you can pay for a visit and get some goodies for a memory. The talks this years are in Russian, but we are open to foreign visitors too. You can get some information at site(s): http://ru.kyivbsd.org.ua/ http://en.kyivbsd.org.ua/ Or go straight to registration page: http://reg.kyivbsd.org.ua/ * * * MeetBSD California 2012 will be held November 3rd and 4th in Sunnyvale, California (www.meetbsd.com). Registration is open. Note that we are alternating NYCBSDCon with MeetBSD California, and in 2013, it's our turn.