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===== FreeBSD Developer Summit: Vendor Discussions =====

7 October 2011 (Friday), 12:00 -- 13:00, Room //?//\\ 
Location: Meeting Plaza, Planetenbaan 100, 3606 AK Maarssen, The Netherlands

==== Overview ====

This working group is being organized to talk specifically about vendor relations with %%FreeBSD%%, upstreaming stuff, feature requests, consulting major hardware vendors, etc -- things that are probably most applicable to only %%FreeBSD%% consumers.  Thus we encourage every vendor who builds her products on %%FreeBSD%% to participate and possibly
give a brief presentation on the current status and problems.  This helps to address problems together with %%FreeBSD%% developers in a cooperative fashion.

==== Topics ====

We would like to cover the following topics.  This list is far from complete so if you feel there is something missing that you want to talk about, contact the [[devsummit@freebsd.org|organizers]] to propose.

^ # ^ Topic description ^
| 1 | Tracking %%FreeBSD%% better |
| 2 | Getting changes merged back into %%FreeBSD%% |
| 3 | Responding to internal pressure to switch to Linux |
| 4 | Improving %%FreeBSD%% virtualization support |
| 5 | Relating to hardware vendors |
| 6 | Dealing with ports/packages in products / production |

==== Attendance ====

In order to attend you need to be invited for the [[/DevSummit|developer summit]] as well as by email for the session and be confirmed by the working group
organizers.   Follow the guidelines described on the [[DevSummit/201110|main page]] or what you received by email.  For questions or if in doubt ask
[[devsummit@freebsd.org|us]].

^ # ^ Name ^ Affiliation ^ Topics of Interest ^ Notes ^
| 1 | [[/ChrisBuechler|ChrisBuechler]] | pfSense |  |  |
| 2 | [[/JeroenVanNieuwenhuizen|JeroenVanNieuwenhuizen]] | Snow |  |  |
| 3 | [[/PawelJakubDawidek|PawelJakubDawidek]] | Wheel |  |  |
| 4 | [[/MichaelDexter|MichaelDexter]] | Call for Testing |  |  |
| 5 | [[/RobertWatson|RobertWatson]] | Cambridge Computer Laboratory |  |  |
| 6 | [[/FabienThomas|FabienThomas]] | NETASQ |  |  |
| 7 | [[/YvanVanhullebus|YvanVanhullebus]] | NETASQ |  |  |
| 8 | [[/DamienDeville|DamienDeville]] | NETASQ |  |  |
| 9 | [[/JoshPaetzel|JoshPaetzel]] | iXsystems |  |  |

==== Presentations ====

If you would like to give a short talk at the vendor summit, please e-mail [[devsummit@freebsd.org|us]] so we can add it to the talk table here. Talk slots are about 15 minutes long, including discussions.  <del>**The deadline for talk submissions is 2 October.**</del> **The deadline has passed.**

**Please do NOT add yourself here.** Your name will appear automatically once you received the confirmation email. You need to put your name on the general
[[DevSummit/201110|developer summit]] attendees list though.

^ Title ^ Speaker ^ Notes ^
| pfSense and %%FreeBSD%%-Based Network Security Appliances | [[/ChrisBuechler|ChrisBuechler]] | 12:00 -- 12:15 |
| {{devsummit/201110/vendors/whynotfreebsd.pdf?linkonly|Why We are not Using FreeBSD}} | [[/JeroenVanNieuwenhuizen|JeroenVanNieuwenhuizen]] | 12:15 -- 12:30 |
| %%FreeBSD%% in Research at Cambridge | [[/RobertWatson|RobertWatson]] | 12:30 -- 12:45 |
| NETASQ and BSD: A Success Story | [[/FabienThomas|FabienThomas]], [[/YvanVanhullebus|YvanVanhullebus]] | 12:45 -- 13:00 |

=== Note to Presentors ===

There is a {{devsummit/201110/vendors/slides-template.zip?linkonly|template}} attached to the page for creating presentations.  This template is a skeleton for a suggested talk which should
contain:

  * What the vendor is doing and why.
  * What works really well for the vendor in %%FreeBSD%%.
  * What the vendor wants from %%FreeBSD%%.

It is a %%LaTeX%% source file that you can modify to create PDF slides. It uses the Beamer class which is an easy-to-use extension to %%LaTeX%% for making presentations. You can
easily install it by the following command (as root):

<code>
# pkg_add -r latex-beamer
</code>

This will install **Beamer** and **pdfLaTeX** that can be used for compiling the sources to produce the desired PDF file.

<code>
$ pdflatex my-presentation.latex
</code>