Name: BSDCan 2024
Start: 2024-05-28T03:00:00-05:00
End: 2024-06-01T23:59:00-05:00
Location: University of Ottawa

BSDCan 2024

from Tuesday, 28 May 2024 (03:00) to Saturday, 1 June 2024 (23:59)

Monday, 27 May 2024
Tuesday, 28 May 2024
17:00 Goat BOF
Goat BOF
17:00 - 21:00
Contributions

17:00 Goat BOF (pre-conference meetup)
Wednesday, 29 May 2024

09:00

09:00 - 16:00
Room: Desmarais 1160
Day 2 - Wednesday Tutorials
Day 2 - Wednesday Tutorials
09:00 - 16:00
Room: Desmarais 1110
Contributions

09:00 BGP 101 - Massimiliano Stucchi (AS58280.net)
Day 2 - Wednesday Tutorials
Day 2 - Wednesday Tutorials
09:00 - 16:00
Room: Desmarais 1120
Contributions

09:00 Managing OpenBSD Networks with NSH - Tom Smyth
17:00 Hacker Lounge
Hacker Lounge
17:00 - 21:59
Room: 90U Residence, Room 140

Goat BOF
Goat BOF
17:00 - 18:00
Thursday, 30 May 2024
09:00 Day 3 - Thursday Tutorials
Day 3 - Thursday Tutorials
09:00 - 16:00
Room: Desmarais 1110
Contributions

09:00 Network Management with the OpenBSD Packet Filter Toolset - Massimiliano Stucchi (AS58280.net) Peter Hansteen Tom Smyth
Day 3 - Thursday Tutorials
Day 3 - Thursday Tutorials
09:00 - 16:00
Room: Desmarais 1120
Contributions

09:00 Run Your Own Email Server - Michael Lucas (BSDCan ConCom)

13:00 TLS Tutorial - Michael Lucas (BSDCan ConCom)
FreeBSD Dev Summit - Second Day
FreeBSD Dev Summit - Second Day
09:00 - 18:00
Room: Desmarais 1160

12:00 Desmarais Lobby
Desmarais Lobby
12:00 - 13:00
Room: Desmarais Lobby

17:00 Early Registration: 90U Hacker Lounge
Early Registration: 90U Hacker Lounge
17:00 - 18:00
Room: U90 Room 140 (Hacker Lounge) Come register ahead of time and meet some of the team! (Groff the BSD Goat should also be in attendance, if you missed the BOF yesterday.) The newcomer's session will gather in this room and we'd love to see conference regulars meet new attendees and help them find friendly guides and a trip out for dinner after the presentation! Guests are also welcome to stay and enjoy the hack lounge into the evening.
18:00 Newcomers Orientation: 90U Hacker Lounge - Michael Lucas (BSDCan ConCom)
Newcomers Orientation: 90U Hacker Lounge
- Michael Lucas (BSDCan ConCom)
18:00 - 18:20
Room: U90 Room 140 (Hacker Lounge) If you have never been to BSDCan before, show up. We'll have a 15-minute talk about how the con works, then introduce you to experienced BSDCan attendees to help you get the most out of your BSDCan experience. Experienced members of all projects are requested to attend, help first-timers feel welcome, meet new people, and guide them through an unfamiliar event. We will also have people from the Family Program in attendance, so bring your spouses to introduce them.
Friday, 31 May 2024

08:00 Registration pickup
Registration pickup
08:00 - 10:00
Room: Desmarais Lobby
09:00 Day 4 - Friday Talks (Talks 1130)
Day 4 - Friday Talks (Talks 1130)
09:00 - 18:00
Room: Desmarais 1130
Contributions

10:00 The Accidental Release Engineer - Colin Percival (Tarsnap Backup Inc.)

11:15 Hot cross builds: cross-compilation in pkgsrc - Taylor Campbell (The NetBSD Foundation)

13:30 NetBSD Subfiles - Elijah Sherwood (Western Washington University) Philip Nelson (Western Washington University)

14:45 Alamosa: A Tiered Disk Block Cache for NetBSD - Kira Ash

16:00 FreeBSD as the backbone of a vaccine/medication refrigerator monitoring system - Phillip Vuchetich (Arxsine Inc.)
09:30 Day 4 - Friday Talks
Day 4 - Friday Talks
09:30 - 19:00
Room: Desmarais 1110
Contributions

09:30 Remote Watching room (Overflow for 1160)

11:15 FreeBSD and Windows Environments - Michael Dexter (Call For Testing)

13:30 Calling the BATMAN: Free Networks on FreeBSD - Aymeric Wibo

14:45 Running your own network using BGP, OSPF and IS-IS on the BSDs - Massimiliano Stucchi (AS58280.net)

16:00 Supporting Business IT and network needs with OpenBSD and NSH - Tom Smyth

17:00 Networking BOF - Ray Percival (Databank)
Day 4 - Friday Talks
Day 4 - Friday Talks
09:30 - 18:00
Room: Desmarais 1120
Contributions

10:00 Why fsync() on OpenZFS can't fail, and what happens when it does - Rob Norris (Klara)

13:30 Supporting FreeBSD in the Field - Allan Jude (Klara Inc.)

14:45 Supporting a development lab with FreeBSD - Chuck Tuffli (FreeBSD)

16:00 Zelta: A Safe and Powerful Approach to ZFS Replication - Daniel Bell (Bell Tower Integration)

17:00 ZFS BoF - Allan Jude (Klara Inc.)
Day 4 - Friday Talks
Day 4 - Friday Talks
09:30 - 17:00
Room: Desmarais 1160
Contributions

09:30 Opening Session

10:00 FreeBSD at 30 Years: Its Secrets to Success - Marshall Kirk McKusick (McKusick Consultancy)

11:15 HardenedBSD 2024 State of the Hardened Union: A Decade of Hardened Bits - Shawn Webb (The HardenedBSD Project / The HardenedBSD Foundation)

13:30 20 Years of NYC*BUG, and Can We Handle 20 More? - George Rosamond (NYC*BUG)

14:45 Why rewrite fw_update(8)? - Andrew Hewus Fresh

16:00 NetBSD on RISC-V - It Finally Runs NetBSD - Dylan Eskew (Western Washington University) Phil Nelson (Western Washington University)
11:00 break - tea and coffee
break - tea and coffee
11:00 - 11:15
Room: Desmarais Lobby

12:15 Lunch - Friday
Lunch - Friday
12:15 - 13:30
Room: Desmarais Lobby

14:30 Break - snacks
Break - snacks
14:30 - 14:45
Room: Desmarais Lobby
Saturday, 1 June 2024

09:00 Registration pickup
Registration pickup
09:00 - 11:00
Room: Desmarais Lobby
10:00 Saturday talks (Talks1110)
Saturday talks (Talks1110)
10:00 - 15:45
Room: Desmarais 1110
Contributions

10:00 The State of Email - Michael Lucas (BSDCan ConCom)

11:15 Address space reservations: Re-thinking address space management for pointer provenance - Brooks Davis (SRI International)

13:30 How to get started hacking NetBSD - Taylor Campbell (The NetBSD Foundation)

14:45 LLDB FreeBSD Kernel Module Improvement - ShengYi Hung (National Taiwan Normal University)
Saturday talks (Talks1120)
Saturday talks (Talks1120)
10:00 - 15:45
Room: Desmarais 1120
Contributions

10:00 Summa Tetraodontidae: Thomas Aquinas Explores OpenBSD's Medieval Orderliness - Corey Stephan (University of St. Thomas (Houston, Texas))

13:30 Towards a Robust FreeBSD-Based Cloud: Porting OpenStack Components - Chih-Hsin Chang Li-Wen Hsu

14:45 quiz: tiny VMs for kernel development - Rob Norris (Klara)
Talks: Room 1130 - Saturday
Talks: Room 1130 - Saturday
10:00 - 16:45
Room: Desmarais 1130
Contributions

10:00 Making NetBSD as a fast(er) booting microvm - Emile Heitor (NetBSD)

11:15 DJ-BSD: DJing and music production in FreeBSD - Charlie Li

13:30 Userland TCP Transport for NVME - John Baldwin (FreeBSD Project)

14:45 Implementing Routing Domains on an OpenBSD workstation for use with WireGuard - Josh Grosse
Day 5 - Saturday Talks
Day 5 - Saturday Talks
10:00 - 18:00
Room: Desmarais 1160
Contributions

10:00 A Journey Into BSD and Standards: BSD and POSIX - Katie McMillan (Government of Canada)

11:15 Contributing to FreeBSD via Github - Warner Losh (Netflix)

13:30 Encouraging and enabling SMEs (small to medium enterprises) to contribute to BSD development - Tom Smyth

14:45 Lightning Talks

16:00 Closing Session
12:15 Day 5 - Hallway Track
Day 5 - Hallway Track
12:15 - 13:30
Room: Desmarais Lobby
18:00 Closing Party - Sens House
Closing Party - Sens House
18:00 - 22:00
Contributions

18:00 Closing Party