From announce at lists.nycbug.org Wed Jan 2 09:12:08 2013 From: announce at lists.nycbug.org (NYC*BUG Announcements) Date: Wed, 02 Jan 2013 09:12:08 -0500 Subject: [announce] NYC*BUG Upcoming for 2013 Message-ID: Tonight's meeting has been postponed to next week, January 9th. There will be *no* meeting tonight, January 2nd. Eitan Adler on "What's New with FreeBSD?" at Suspenders at 645 PM. Next month will be John Baldwin on SMPng on February 7th. From announce at lists.nycbug.org Mon Jan 7 08:52:45 2013 From: announce at lists.nycbug.org (NYC*BUG Announcements) Date: Mon, 07 Jan 2013 08:52:45 -0500 Subject: [announce] NYC*BUG This Week Message-ID: NYC*BUG January 9th: Eitan Adler on "What's New with FreeBSD?" NYC*BUG February 7th: John Baldwin on SMPng BSDCan Call for Papers Open until January 19th *** January 9 2013 @ 18:45 - Location: Suspenders http://www.nycbug.org/?action=locations#suspenders What's New with FreeBSD, Eitan Adler This will be an open-ended Q&A-style talk covering some new of recent enhancements to FreeBSD as well some of the experimental upcoming changes. By the end of the talk you should have heard about one FreeBSD technology you hadn't heard of before. About the speaker: Eitan is a third year student at SUNY Binghamton studying Computer Science. He has been using FreeBSD since 6.2. He is a src, ports, and doc developer and is part of the BugBusting team. * * * BSDCan 2013 will be held 17-18 May, 2013 in Ottawa at the University of Ottawa. It will be preceded by two days of tutorials on 15-16 May. NOTE: This will be Fri/Sat with tutorials on Wed/Thu. We are now accepting proposals for talks. You have until January 19th. See the schedule below. 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. 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. 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 2012 Proposal acceptance begins 19 Jan 2013 Proposal acceptance ends 19 Feb 2013 Confirmation of accepted proposals See also Instructions for submitting a proposal to BSDCan 2013 are available from: From announce at lists.nycbug.org Wed Jan 9 10:10:05 2013 From: announce at lists.nycbug.org (NYC*BUG Announcements) Date: Wed, 09 Jan 2013 10:10:05 -0500 Subject: [announce] NYC*BUG Tonight Message-ID: NYC*BUG January 9th: Eitan Adler on "What's New with FreeBSD?" NYC*BUG February 7th: John Baldwin on SMPng BSDCan Call for Papers Open until January 19th Recertify your BSDA Certification *** January 9 2013 @ 18:45 - Location: Suspenders http://www.nycbug.org/?action=locations#suspenders What's New with FreeBSD, Eitan Adler This will be an open-ended Q&A-style talk covering some new of recent enhancements to FreeBSD as well some of the experimental upcoming changes. By the end of the talk you should have heard about one FreeBSD technology you hadn't heard of before. About the speaker: Eitan is a third year student at SUNY Binghamton studying Computer Science. He has been using FreeBSD since 6.2. He is a src, ports, and doc developer and is part of the BugBusting team. * * * BSDCan 2013 will be held 17-18 May, 2013 in Ottawa at the University of Ottawa. It will be preceded by two days of tutorials on 15-16 May. NOTE: This will be Fri/Sat with tutorials on Wed/Thu. We are now accepting proposals for talks. You have until January 19th. See the schedule below. 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. 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. 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 2012 Proposal acceptance begins 19 Jan 2013 Proposal acceptance ends 19 Feb 2013 Confirmation of accepted proposals See also Instructions for submitting a proposal to BSDCan 2013 are available from: * * * Is time almost up on your BSDA Certification? Check out how to update your certification http://www.bsdcertification.org/news/bsda-recertification-requirements-published From announce at lists.nycbug.org Fri Jan 11 13:13:49 2013 From: announce at lists.nycbug.org (NYC*BUG Announcements) Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2013 13:13:49 -0500 Subject: [announce] Jan 17: Special Meeting with Kirk McKusick Message-ID: Kirk McKusick, one of the original Berkeley Unix developers who continues to play an enormous role in the BSD community, will be speaking at a special meeting on Thursday, January 17th at 45 E 20th Street in Manhattan at the offices of Axial Market. The event starts at 630 PM. This is not an official NYC*BUG event, but for anyone who knows who Kirk is, you should know that the opportunity should not be missed. We strongly recommend RSVPing at either http://thefreebsdproject.eventbrite.com/ or by emailing matt(dot)story (at) axialmarket(dot)com.