@bsdcan 2025 Info:
Tutorials: June 11-12, 2025
Conference: June 13-14, 2025
full list of talks here:
https://indico.bsdcan.org/event/5/contributions/#
North Americas biggest *BSD Event.
3 rooms, 2 days, Zero filler. Plus we have tutorials, Shawarma, and a fun auction at the end.
BSDCan is in Ottawa, with tutorials June 11-12, 2025, talks & BOFs June 13-14, 2025
Registration is open - https://www.bsdcan.org/2025/registration.html
Also see https://blog.bsdcan.org/2025/03/18/bsdcan-2025-talks-tutorials-and-registration/ for descriptions and tips, contributions: https://indico.bsdcan.org/event/5/contributions/
BSDCan is in Ottawa, with tutorials June 11-12, 2025, talks & BOFs June 13-14, 2025
Registration is open - https://www.bsdcan.org/2025/registration.html
Also see https://blog.bsdcan.org/2025/03/18/bsdcan-2025-talks-tutorials-and-registration/ for descriptions and tips
We have all had a question about Beastie, come to this talk and get the definitive answer!
OpenBSD Folks,
@bsdcan 2025 has talks for you !
A distributed filesystem for OpenBSD · BSDCan Indico
As it approaches, the excitement for the upcoming #BSDCan keeps growing. It'll be my first time in Canada, and therefore my first time at BSDCan, and it will be a great opportunity to meet people I couldn't meet at #EuroBSDCon in Dublin. In the meantime, the next EuroBSDCon is also getting closer. All in all, when I look at the coming months, I feel an overwhelming sense of positivity and enthusiasm!
@bsdcan 2025 Info:
Tutorials: June 11-12, 2025
Conference: June 13-14, 2025
Full list of talks here:
https://indico.bsdcan.org/event/5/contributions/#
North Americas biggest *BSD Event.
3 rooms, 2 days, Zero filler. Plus we have tutorials, Shawarma, and a fun auction at the end.
#bsdcan
BSDCan 2025 is in Ottawa, with tutorials June 11-12, 2025, talks June 13-14, 2025
Registration is open - https://www.bsdcan.org/2025/registration.html
Also see https://blog.bsdcan.org/2025/03/18/bsdcan-2025-talks-tutorials-and-registration/ for descriptions and tips
Registration for BSDCan 2025 is open!
Tutorials Jun 11-12
Talks & BOFs Jun 13-14,
See https://blog.bsdcan.org/blog/ and register at https://www.bsdcan.org/2025/registration.html
Alas, I won’t be at #BSDCan this year.
Travelling is a big financial and mental cost. I overspent last year on BSDCan and AsiaBSDCon and so missed the #OpenZFS Dev Summit. So I’m saving both to make sure I can get there this year.
It’s unclear if I will make it though. Managing an anxiety disorder is about finding the stable and predictable paths through the world. The USA seems uninterested in stable and predictable right now, and I don’t yet know if I can overcome it, or if I even want to.
The #BSDCan 2025 Talks:
• ELF Nightmares: GOTs, PLTs, and Relocations Oh My – John Baldwin
• Adventures in porting a Wayland Compositor to NetBSD and OpenBSD – Jeff Frasca
• Why (and how) we’re migrating many of our servers from Linux to the BSDs – Stefano Marinelli
• Hardware-accelerated program tracing on FreeBSD – Bojan Novković
• Improvements to FreeBSD KASAN – Zhuo Ying Jiang Li
• The NetBSD Packet Filter(NPF) – Emmanuel Nyarko
• A History of the BSD Daemon – Marshall Kirk McKusick
• Effective Bug Reports, Code Change Requests, and Conference Proposals – Michael Dexter
• Controlled credentials transitions without privileges: mac_do(4), mdo(1) and setcred(2) – Olivier Certner
• A packet’s journey through pf – Kristof Provost
• Enhancing Unix Education through Chaos Engineering and Gamification using FreeBSD – Benedict Reuschling
• A distributed filesystem for OpenBSD – Rob Keizer
• ZFS Direct IO Benchmarking Pitfalls – Mateusz Piotrowski
• Flipping Bits: Memory Errors in the Machine – Taylor Campbell
• ABI stability in FreeBSD – ShengYi Hung
• The state of 3d-printing from OpenBSD – Andrew Hewus Fresh
• Approaches to Create FreeBSD Based Commercial Desktop Operating System – Alvin Chen
• Confidential Computing with OpenBSD — The Next Step – Hans-Jörg Höxer
• Migrating BSDCan structure and infrastructure – Adam Thompson
• Running a root DNS server on FreeBSD — from Alpha to Now – Daniel Mahoney
• Vox FreeBSD: How sound(4) works – Christos Margiolis
• An embedded “dev kit” for EndBASIC with NetBSD – Julio Merino
• Sleep on FreeBSD: A bedtime story about S0ix – Aymeric Wibo
• Sandbox Your Program Using FreeBSD’s Capsicum – Jake Freeland
• porch(1): it’s not what you expect(1) – Kyle Evans
• Automating My FreeBSD Lab: From Setup to Daily Use with Ansible & Salt – Roller Angel
Will you be at #BSDCan? Do you run a one-person EU company?
Please look me up there. I'd like to interrogate you--uh, "have a conversation."
I say as someone whose friends are mostly American, and who has worked there and loved the country: I’m glad more conferences are shifting to Canada. I *badly* wish VCF would.
(Thankfully #bsdcan was always hosted in the land of moose)!
Folks have asked, so:
I will not be selling books at #bsdcan 2025.
Registration is open for #bsdcan, program published - see the blog post at https://blog.bsdcan.org/2025/03/18/bsdcan-2025-talks-tutorials-and-registration/ for details, or go to https://bsdcan.org (direct to registration link: https://indico.bsdcan.org/event/5/registrations/8/) #bsd #unix #openbsd #freebsd #netbsd #development #devops #sysadmin #freesoftware #libresoftware
Alright #BSD fans, for a business management person like me who has been running (and contributing to) GNOME on Linux for 20 years, but knows next to nothing about BSD other than "It seems like even more of a niche than Linux, sounds like Asian-Dad-level Hard Mode™…", should I attend #BSDCan out of the blue? Is it a trap? 
Now that it's official, I can announce it - although I may have dropped a few hints earlier! 
My talk "Why (and how) we’re migrating many of our servers from Linux to the BSDs" has been accepted, and I’ll be honored to present it in June at BSDCan in Ottawa.
The joy of meeting BSD friends in person again (and those I haven’t had the chance to meet live yet) will be immense, and the honor of sharing my story in Canada is truly beyond measure, especially considering the level of other talks and all the people attending.
Of course, I’ll be bringing various BSD Cafe gadgets with me!
For more information, here’s @mwl 's post with further details: https://blog.bsdcan.org/2025/03/18/bsdcan-2025-talks-tutorials-and-registration/
