Just want to give you a heads-up on this years EuroBSDcon 2013 from September 26-27 (Thu+Fri tutorials) and 28-29 (Sat+Sun main conference) in St. Julian's on Malta.
If you have an interest in OpenSource BSD this is the place to be. All talks are strictly technical and non-commercial, absolutely no sales pitches. The entire conference is run like SWINOG on a non- profit basis. About 220 people have already registered.
This year we have 42 truly excellent talks and 11 in-depth tutorial sessions. To give you a glimpse we have a number of high-profile people giving talks and keynotes:
Mr. Nginx, Igor Sysoev, about Architecture and upcoming developments Mr. Varnish, Poul-Henning Kamp, about high-performance http offloading Mr. Global Top100, Eric Pickup, about Nginx+Redis+PHP+NodeJS powering a global top100 site Mr. Netflix, Scott Long and Alistair Crooks, about video CDN doing 30% of the US traffic Mr. PostgreSQL, Magnus Hagander, about upcoming features and performance in 9.3 Mr. ZFS, Matthew Ahrens, about upcoming features and performance improvements Mr. Cisco Datacenter, Landon Noll, keynote about security and its application to systems Mr. Flash, Warner Losh, about the evolution of super high speed flash storage Mr. 40+Gbit, Navdeep Parhar, about the FreeBSD network stack and driver interface Mr. 700k+IOPS, Alexander Motin, about SATA, SAS, SSD, CAM block storage Mr. ARM 64bit servers, Andrew Wafaa, about the upcoming 64bit ARM server cores Mr. NFSv4, Moritz Willers, about very large scale NFS enterprise deployments Mr. OpenBSD, Theo de Raadt, keynote about solving Y2038 before it is too late again
and many more: http://2013.eurobsdcon.org/eurobsdcon-2013/talks/
Meet your favorite major project core developer and talk to him directly!
Full day and half day tutorials include:
Advanced BGP and OSPF Routing (Claudio Jeker), Mastering advanced SSH and DNSSEC (Michael W. Lucas), pfSense Firewall (Chris Buechler, Ermal Luci), Firewalls with pf (Peter Hansteen), High available Storage (Jeroen van Nieuwenhuizen), Deploying IPv6 and Setting up OSS VoIP PBX (Massimiliano Stucchi), Design and Implementation of the BSD Kernel (Dr. Kirk McKusick)
and many more: http://2013.eurobsdcon.org/eurobsdcon-2013/tutorials/
I hope I could interest you to attend the conference. Make sure to register soon before the early-bird special expires on 1. September:
http://2013.eurobsdcon.org/eurobsdcon-2013/registration/
Flights from Zurich to Malta and back are about CHF 450 (Thu-Mon or Web-Mon). A large number of hotels is available nearby from EUR20 to EUR200/night.
Partners are welcome too and we have organized a guided tour of the islands.
See you on Malta!