Bird-of-a-Feather Sessions
Wednesday, June 11: 8:00 p.m.-11:00 p.m.
Thursday, June 12: 7:00 p.m.-11:00 p.m.
Friday, June 13: 7:30 p.m.-11:00 p.m.
Lead or attend a BoF! Meet with your peers! Present new work! Don't
miss these special activities designed to maximize the value of your time
at the conference. The always popular evening Birds-of-a-Feather sessions
are very informal gatherings of persons interested in a particular topic.
BoFs may be scheduled during the conference at the registration desk or
in advance by contacting the USENIX Conference Dept. by email
(bofs@usenix.org). BoFs are open
to all attendees. Topics are announced at the conference.
BoF Schedule as of May 29, 2003
Wednesday, June 11
8:00 - 10:00 pm: Sun Community BoF: Solaris 9 OS, x86 Platform Edition, Sascha Ferley and Eric Boutilier
9:30 - 11:00 pm: SAGE BoF, Geoff Halprin
Thursday, June 12
6:30 - 7:30 pm: Annual Meeting with the USENIX Board
7:00 - 8:00 pm: Google BoF |  |
7:00 - 8:00 pm: PGP Keysigning, Jim Vanderveen
8:00 - 9:00 pm: Berkeley DB BoF hosted by Sleepycat
8:00 - 11:00 pm: Super BSD BoF, Kirk McKusick
9:00 - 10:00 pm: Microsoft BoF
Friday, June 13
8:00 - 10:00 pm: Linux at Mach 3.2, Andrew Greenberg
8:00 - 9:30 pm: Linux BoF, Jon "maddog" Hall and Ted Ts'o
Super BSD BoF — Details |
8:00 - 8:30 pm: The NetBSD Project — Chris Demetriou
Celebrating its 10th year of development, NetBSD is the most portable
operating system in the world. It runs on everything from the oldest
VAXes to the latest AMD64 systems, from big-iron servers to embedded
and handheld devices. In this BOF, we'll discuss the last year's
improvements to the NetBSD operating system, and will talk about the
upcoming NetBSD 2.0 release and future plans. We'll also talk about
pkgsrc, the NetBSD Packages Collection, which works with NetBSD and
numerous other operating systems. Finally, we'll discuss The NetBSD
Foundation, the non-profit corporation founded in 1995 to support
NetBSD development.
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8:30 - 9:00 pm: The OpenBSD Project — (Presenter TBD)
The BOF will provide an update on the current status of the
OpenBSD Project.
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9:00 - 9:30 pm: The FreeBSD Project — Robert Watson
Since 1992, the FreeBSD Project has been one of the the open source
community's organizational and technical success stories. In addition
to serving the needs of some of the most well-known players on the
Internet, it has managed to forge some of the most significant and
long-running ties between the commercial world and BSD's open source
contingent. Robert Watson will discuss what lessons have been learned
over the course of the last decade and some of the more recent
developments in the BSD world.
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9:30 - 10:00 pm: BSD/OS and Wind River — Paul Anderson, Wind River Systems
Paul Anderson of Wind River Systems will deliver an overview
of the product roadmap and the status of the preemptible SMP kernel.
He will also offer some thoughts for the BSD community in general.
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10:00 - 10:30 pm: Mass UNIX: Mac OS X & Darwin — Ernest Prabhakar, Open Source Product Manager
Now in its third year, Mac OS X is not just the volume leading desktop
for BSD/UNIX solutions, but also the basis of the high-density XServe
and XRAID server hardware. Come find out what Apple's doing with its
position as BSD standard-bearer, in terms of Open Source activities and
innovative new products.
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10:30 - 11:00 pm: BSD Panel Session moderated by Marshall Kirk McKusick Chris Demetriou (NetBSD), TBD (OpenBSD),
Robert Watson (FreeBSD), Ernest Prabhakar (Darwin),
Paul Anderson (BSD/OS)
Representatives from the BSD groups will answer audience
questions and prognosticate on the future of BSD. This panel
is your opportunity to ask all your BSD interoperability
questions.
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