BIRDS-OF-A-FEATHER SESSIONS (BOFS)

Birds-of-a-Feather sessions (BoFs) are informal gatherings organized by attendees interested in a particular topic. BoFs are open to the general public. Register onsite at the dates and times listed here. NOTE: If you have already registered for the conference, you do not need to register for the open sessions.

To schedule a BoF and to see the latest schedule, check out the BoF boards in the registration area.

BoF Schedule (Current as of July 1, 2004)

Monday, June 28
ROOM	# of Seats	7:00–8:00 p.m.	8:00–9:00 p.m.	9:00–10:00 p.m.	10:00–11:00 p.m.	11:00 p.m.–12:00 a.m.
Salon A/B	75	CAcert BoF		ROOM NOT AVAILABLE
Salon C/D	75	GAWK—GNU Awk Arnold Robbins, Pioneer Consulting Ltd., the GAWK Maintainer
Salon E	300	ROOM NOT AVAILABLE	Panel: SCO and the Challenge for Open Source		ROOM NOT AVAILABLE
Salon F	300	SAGE			ROOM NOT AVAILABLE
Harvard	75	An Update on Standards—A Look at What's Happening in the World of Formal Standards: POSIX, C, and the LBS. An IOS Standard Linux? A POSIX Conformant Linux? The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly Nick Stoughton, USENIX Standard Liaison
Simmons	65
Suffolk	60
Wellesley	65
Tuesday, June 29
ROOM	# of Seats	7:00–8:00 p.m.	8:00–9:00 p.m.	9:00–10:00 p.m.	10:00–11:00 p.m.	11:00 p.m.–12:00 a.m.
Salon A/B	75	Locking Down Enterprise KDE & KDE 3.3.3 Preview for Administrators Ian Reinhart Geiser, KDE Developer
Salon C/D	75	Sendmail BoF Sender Authentication Murray Kucherawy & Eric Allman
Salon E	300	ROOM NOT AVAILABLE	History of UNIX Marshall Kirk McKusick and Peter H. Salus		ROOM NOT AVAILABLE
Salon F	300				ROOM NOT AVAILABLE
Harvard	75	Linux on Opteron Best Practices Discussion Quentin Fennessy	LinuxBIOS BOF Ron Minnich, Los Alamos National Lab
Simmons	65	Switching to Open Source from Windows Sonny Davis
Suffolk	60	Red Hat Enterprise and Fedora Users Joshua Jensen
Wellesley	65	End to End Performance Monitoring Do You Feel the Users' Pain? Nora Davis
Wednesday, June 30
ROOM	# of Seats	7:00–8:00 p.m.	8:00–9:00 p.m.	9:00–10:00 p.m.	10:00–11:00 p.m.	11:00 p.m.–12:00 a.m.
Salon A/B	75	Discussing the FlightGear Flight Simulator Alexander Perry, Developer		Log File Analysis What Tools Do You Use? Are They Good Enough? If There Could Be a New Tool, What Would You Want from It? (An Open Discussion)
Salon C/D	75		Wireless (Community) BoF Rudi VanDrunen, Wireless Leiden, The Netherlands	Solaris Community BoF - with Dtrace Kernel Engineers (Brian Cantril, Mike Shapiro, Adam Levinthal) - and Peter Baer Galvin Free Beer, Beverages, & Giveaways Eric Boutilier and Alan Duboff, Solaris x86 Engineering, Sun Microsystems
Harvard	75	Red Hat Clustering: Using Open Source to Build High Availability, Data Sharing Clusters with Red Hat GFS and Cluster Suite Matthew O'Keefe, Red Hat	Plan 9 BoF Ron Minnich, Los Alamos National Labs
Simmons	65	Q & A with the Free Software Foundation Bradley Kuhn, Executive Director, Free Software Foundation	Port Knocking Intro to PK PK: Obscurity or Security PK: Towards a Robust Implementation PK: Personal Experience Martin Krzywinski, Genome Sciences Centre
Suffolk	60		Open Source PBX - The Flexible and Cheap Alternative (Asterisk, Linux) Peter Svenson, Wayfinder Systems AB
Wellesley	65		LGBT & Friends	AFS A Free Distributed Secure Filesystem Moose
Thursday, July 1
ROOM	# of Seats	7:00–8:00 p.m.	8:00–9:00 p.m.	9:00–10:00 p.m.	10:00–11:00 p.m.	11:00 p.m.–12:00 a.m.
Salon A/B	75	Debian GNU/Linux Bring Your GPG Fingerprints Alex Perry, User/Administrator	PGP Keysigning
Salon C/D	75		CAcert.org Open Discussion on Security - Policies - Web of Trust - Servicing Companies - Association Rules & Policies - Finances - Security Root Certificates - Chicken and Egg Problems with Security - Open Source Security
Salon E	300	Super Linux Users Group Meeting		Linux BoF Theodore Ts'o and Jon "maddog" Hall		ROOM NOT AVAILABLE
Salon F	300	ROOM NOT AVAILABLE
Harvard	75		The Linux from Scratch Project Bruce Dubbs, linuxfromscratch.org
Simmons	65		freedesktop.org Keith Packard
Suffolk	60
Wellesley	65		An Exchange of Personal Views Regarding the Role of Government, If Any, in IT Richard Lamb (a geek trying to understand policy), US State Department

CAcert BoF
Monday, June 28, 2004, 7:00 p.m.–9:00 p.m., Salon A/B

PKI found a new voice in nonprofit, "Community-Based" Certificate Authority CAcert.org. The premise? Digital certificates—server, client, code-signing. Free. Thanks to NLnet's generosity, the entire Board is coming to USENIX '04 to meet users, distribute certificates, and talk security. First 65,000 people who visit their info table win free SSL certificates! Come to the BoF followed by the CAcert open Board meeting from 9:00 p.m. to 12:00 midnight.

Super Linux Users Group Meeting
Thursday, July 1, 2004, 7:00 p.m.–9:00 p.m., Salon E

Jeff Hawkins (Vice President of Novell's Linux Business Office) will be discussing Novell's strategies and plans with Linux, and Miguel de Icaza will be discussing his latest project, Mono, with its goals and current status. Miguel will also discuss the future of GNOME and the desktop.