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“BSD: No Hype Required.”
The Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD) is a free open source version of the Unix operating system which evolved at the University of Berkeley starting from 1975, and it is based on AT&T's Unix Sixth Edition (V6). The name BSD is now used collectively for the modern descendants of these distributions. Most notable among these today is perhaps the major open source BSDs (FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD) which have themselves spawned a number of children. They are targeted at an array of systems for different purposes and are common in government facilities, universities and in commercial use. A number of commercial operating systems are also partly or wholly based on BSD or its descendants, including Apple Computer's Mac OS X.
The purpose of this one-day event is to gather Central European developers of today's open-source BSD systems, popularize their work, and provide an interface for real-life communication. There are no formalities, no papers, and no registration or participation fee, however the invited developers are encouraged to give a talk on their favorite BSD-related topic, then have a beer with the other folks around :) The language of this event is English, and the goal is to motivate potential future developers and users, especially undergraduate university students to work with BSD systems.
This year's BSD-Day will be held in Budapest, Hungary at Eötvös Loránd University, Faculty of Informatics on November 20, 2010.
Social links: Facebook, Upcoming
There is also a poster that can be used for advertising the event.
(This page is being updated continuously.)
Participants
Developers
The list of invited developers is as follows.
| Developer | As Known As | Focus | Arr | Dep | Accomodation | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Roman Divacky | rdivacky@FreeBSD | Clang/LLVM | 19 | 21 | +1 | |
| Ian Dowse | iedowse@FreeBSD | software bugs | 18 | 27 | Professor's Guest House | |
| Bernhard Fröhlich | decke@FreeBSD | VirtualBox, HTPC | 19 | 21 | Grazer BSD Stammtisch | |
| Daniel Gerzo | danger@FreeBSD | Docs | 20 | 20/21 | +2 | |
| Adam Hamsik | haad@NetBSD | LVM/ZFS | 19 | 21 | arrives around noon on 20th | |
| Ádám Hóka | ahoka@NetBSD | JFFS2-like flash FS | ? | ? | Gödöllő | |
| Johann Kois | jkois@FreeBSD | Docs | 19 | 21 | Grazer BSD Stammtisch | |
| Mark Linimon | linimon@FreeBSD | ports/bugbusting | 16 | 21 | ||
| Martin Matuška | mm@FreeBSD | mfsBSD/ZFS | 19 | 21 | +1 | |
| Zoltán Nagy | zoltan@NetBSD | booting over HTTP | - | - | local | |
| Gábor Páli | pgj@FreeBSD | host | - | - | local | |
| Ion-Mihai Tetcu | itetcu@FreeBSD | ports, QA, … | 19 9a.m. | 21 19pm. |
Guests
| Host | Guest | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Bernhard Fröhlich | Armin Pirkovitsch | Grazer BSD Stammtisch |
| Bernhard Fröhlich | Michael Ranner | Grazer BSD Stammtisch |
| Ádám Hóka | Tamás Tóth | University of Szeged |
| Gábor Páli | Róbert Kitlei | Eötvös Loránd University |
| Gábor Páli | Gábor Légrádi | Hungarian BSD Association |
| Gábor Páli | János Mohácsi | Hungarian BSD Association |
| Gábor Páli | Andor Pénzes | UnixLab |
| Gábor Páli | Csaba S. Varga | Hungarian BSD Association (no dinner) |
| Gábor Páli | Gábor Zahemszky | Hungarian BSD Association |
| Daniel Gerzo | Martin Baumann | Slovak University of Technology |
| Daniel Gerzo | Adam Stevko | Slovak University of Technology |
Schedule
The format is technically a mixture of a cross-project developer summit and a workshop. We have invited developers working with BSD from different organizations, we have some dinners together, and dedicate various sessions to each of the topics based on the interests of the attending developers. The format of these sessions is quite flexible: they may include presentations or demonstration of results, or even public discussions with developers involved, or a mix of all of these.
We have two different schedules: one for the participants and their guests and one for the public part of the summit. The former is mostly about the summit in general, while the latter is the interest of casual visitors of the BSD-Day.
Participants' Schedule
| Date | Morning 08:00–12:00 | Lunch 12:00–13:00 | Afternoon 13:00 –16:00 | Late Afternoon 16:00–18:00 | Evening 18:00–21:00 | … |
| Friday 19 November 2010 | participants arrive | dinner at Tranzit Art Café from 19:00 | hacking lounge at Tranzit Art Café (until 23:00) | |||
| Saturday 20 November 2010 | BSD-Day@2010 (ELTE) | lunch (ELTE) | BSD-Day@2010 (ELTE) | BSD-Dinner@2010 at Trófea Grill from 19:00 | hacking lounge at Trófea Grill (until 24:00) | |
| Sunday 21 November 2010 | Budapest trip from 10:00 | participants depart | ||||
Public Schedule (draft)
Do not forget to ask a question at the session if you are curious about something. The best question will be awarded by the session leader at each talk.
| Time | D-0.803 |
|---|---|
| 09:00-10:00 | check-in |
| 10:00-10:30 | Welcome, introductions |
| 10:30-11:00 | Daniel Gerzo (FreeBSD): How the FreeBSD Project Works |
| 11:00-11:30 | Ian Dowse (FreeBSD): Software Bugs |
| 11:30-12:00 | Bernhard Fröhlich (FreeBSD): Third-party Virtualization & FreeBSD as Home Theater PC (live forum) |
| 12:00-13:00 | lunch break |
| 13:00-13:30 | Minutes of the Hungarian BSD Association (live forum with a special event included, in Hungarian) |
| 13:30-14:00 | Tamás Tóth (University of Szeged), Ádám Hóka (NetBSD): A JFFS2-like Flash File System for NetBSD |
| 14:00-14:30 | Martin Matuška (FreeBSD): ZFS and FreeBSD |
| 14:30-15:00 | Adam Hamsik (NetBSD): BSD-Licensed libdevmapper Library |
| 15:00-15:15 | break |
| 15:15-15:45 | Roman Divacky (FreeBSD): Clang/LLVM in the Base System |
| 15:45:16:15 | Ion-Mihai Tetcu, Mark Linimon (FreeBSD): Managing the Ports Collection |
| 16:15-16:45 | Zoltán Nagy (NetBSD): Booting over HTTP (Google Summer of Code 2010) |
| 16:45-17:00 | Closing session |
We have reserved room D-0.803 (Szabó József) at Eötvös Loránd University, Faculty of Informatics for the event, it is available all day, including the toilets nearby in the building.
For Participants
Sessions
Each session slot is 30 minutes long, where you may use a beamer (send slides). If you have special requests regarding your session, please do not forget to notify the organizers in advance.
Note to Leaders
If you are in trouble with preparing your slides, you may use the template attached to the page. It contains a LaTeX source file that you can modify to create PDF-based slides for the session. It uses the Beamer class which is an easy-to-use extension to LaTeX for making presentations. Then pdfLaTeX can be used for compiling the sources to produce the desired PDF file.
$ pdflatex my-presentation.latex
A few rule-of-thumbs when creating slides:
- Try to make things legible, use large fonts.
- Have title and closing.
- Use less text, you do not have to include everything on the slides. (Prepare and) Do a demonstration if needed.
- You have only 20 minutes, having 20 or less slides (in addition to title and closing) is usually fine.
- Sometimes images can tell more than pure text.
- Leave a few minutes for questions.
Catering
There are a lunch, drinks, and snacks arranged for the summit around the Eötvös Loránd University. The breakfast and the lunch will be on-site at ELTE in room D-1.817. During the breakfast and lunch the following drinks are available. (Breakfast and lunch costs are covered by the organizers.)
- Juice in different flavors
- Soda in different flavors
- Black coffee (with milk)
- Mineral water (soda, tap)
Breakfast
A breakfast will be served from 09:00 to 10:00.
Lunch
A lunch will be served from 12:00 to 13:00. The list of the compiled menu is as follows.
- Mini sandwiches in different flavors (cheese, ham, salami, camambert with grape)
- Salads (Shopska salad, vitamin salad with yoghurt topping)
- Dessert (fresh fruit, mini Gerbaud cakes)
Dinners
We have a welcome dinner arranged for the participants at Tranzit Art Café from 19:00 on Friday, and there is a closing dinner at Trófea Grill Újbuda from 19:00 on Saturday. The latter will be served in smorgasbord style and paid by the organizers as a gratis. Every developer (and their guests) is invited!
For Visitors
Registration
As a visitor, you can register yourself for the event by filling in a registration form. Here you will need to specify an email address (among other things) so you will be able to receive further information on the event as it approaches. For the first 100 registered visitors it will also include priority in seat reservation and a tiny gift.
Workshop Booklet
There can be also found an A5 format booklet for the event here. For the sake of cost efficiency, we do not provide this booklet at the event, but it may be used by the visitors. It needs to be printed in A4 format two-side and folded into two then attached in the middle.
Wireless Network Access
There will be a University wireless network available dedicated for the event with SSID of “bsdday2010” from 09:00 to 17:00. The password for the network will be published at the event.
Accommodation
If you decide to stay in Budapest on Friday and Saturday night, we can recommend you the following places to book a room. All of them are close to the site of the conference, so you can reach it quickly. The prices are around 50 EUR per night, depending on the time of booking.
Location
Coordinates
Maps
Sponsors
The following organizations have confirmed their support. Thank you for your for sponsorship!
- Eötvös Loránd University, Department of Programming Languages and Compilers
- Eötvös Loránd University, Faculty of Informatics
- The Hungarian BSD Association
- The FreeBSD Mall
- Daniel Seuffert (allBSD.de Project)
Contact
If you have questions, comments, or you just feel that something is missing from here, please contact me.
See you at the BSD-Day!
