This page describes the June 2016 FreeBSD Developer Summit, colocated with BSDCan 2016, which will take place in Ottawa, Canada. This is a by-invitation event. FreeBSD committers will be welcome to register themselves using this wiki; non-committers must be sponsored by a committer to attend. Attendees must also attend BSDCan 2016 in order to access all devsummit activities.

Our annual BSDCan developer summit would not be possible without the generous support of sponsors.

The FreeBSD Foundation covers several expenses including rooms for the event. In addition, the FreeBSD Foundation also covers travel expenses for several attendees. You can help support the FreeBSD Foundation by donating.

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BSDCan provides logistical support, including organizing rooms for the event and for developers to stay in. BSDCan also covers board and travel for BSDCan speakers. FreeBSD developers can help support the summit by speaking at BSDCan. You can also help support BSDCan and the developer summit by encouraging people to attend the conference, and especially to attend tutorials.

Many of the developer summit attendees hang out on #devsummit on EFnet during the summit (as well as BSDCan itself).

The FreeBSD developer summit will take place on the 8th and 9th of June on the same days as the BSDCan tutorials (sorry!). Many developers will arrive on the night of the 7th and meet for dinner and drinks before things kick off. Most developers will stay on through BSDCan to give and attend talks. It is an excellent conference–a good FreeBSD developer showing has countless benefits, not least the opportunity to tell the world what we're doing.

You may be interested in this helpful map of UoO and its immediate vicinity as well as this map of the UoO campus.

Working group sessions will be held on Wednesday and Thursday. A two-day hackathon covering various projects will be held in parallel on Wednesday and Thursday. Additional short talks will be given during a FreeBSD Developers' Summit track at BSDCan on Friday, June 10th. The events in this track will be part of BSDCan and require a BSDCan registration. All rooms other than the hacking lounge will have AV equipment.

The Desmarais Building (DMS) is located northwest of the Residence building on Laurier Avenue.

Please arrive by 8:45am for the morning sessions so that we can get started around 9:00am. Attendees will be able to pick up badges and T-shirts from 8:00am to 9:00am at DMS 1160 on Wednesday and Thursday.

The hackathon sessions will be held in room L140 in the Residence Hall. During the evenings this room will become the hacker lounge for general hanging.

The dinner on Wednesday evening will also be in this room.

Note: In order to attend a working group meeting you MUST contact the working group organizer and be approved to attend. The goal is to keep each working group small and focused.

Lunch will be served in DMS 1160 on both Wednesday and Thursday.

June 8th (Wednesday)

June 9th (Thursday)

June 10th (Friday)

These sessions are intended to get developers with common areas of interest or specific projects in mind together for collaboration and hacking. They might involve prepared presentations, structured code reading, or a notebook-assisted whiteboard session. Advance preparation for such events is critical so everyone comes to the table with the right reading done so you can get to the meat of the matter.

The bottom floor lounge in the residence hall will be used as a general hacking space on both Wednesday and Thursday. Attendees are welcome to head to this room at any time during the summit. Attendees can add entries to the table below to coordinate working on a specific topic.

Just high level ideas. Tell us about your latest project, brainstorm on solutions to a hard problem, train us to use a new tool, make observations about a FreeBSD development process and how to improve it, tell us how your company uses FreeBSD, or coordinate activities. Please do not duplicate a talk that you are giving at BSDCan. Each talk will be given a thirty minute slot.

In order to attend, you must register in advance; this allows us to size rooms, order food, and provide beverages. We appreciate your cooperation in letting us know your plans well in advance of the event. Non-committers must be sponsored by a committer in order to attend. Due to increased attendance in recent years, companies are limited to one non-committer unless permission is explicitly granted by the organizers. Registration will close on May 7, 2016.

Registration is open

(Please keep sorted alphabetically by last name.)

Please keep this list alphabetized by attendee last name.

Please note any meal requests above in the relevant attendee list in addition to this table.

As this event is colocated with BSDCan 2016, all information on the BSDCan web page applies. Here are some suggestions that may make planning easier:

Extra rooms to share at the university residence halls

Remember that you must separately register for BSDCan (even if you are a BSDCan speaker); visit the BSDCan web page for details.

Bus line 97 from Airport to Bayshore & Bells Corners. Runs about 3 times per hour. Bus-stop is right in front of the Airport building at the far right.

Bus-stop Campus is temporarily closed for road-works, you'll have to use the uOttawa/Laurier stop at the Bus Station.

Tickets: can be bought at the “Info” desk in the Airport building, to the left of the entrances. You'll need 2 tickets for a single ride (unconfirmed). Usually tickets are bought in a pack of 6. Tickets are CAD 1.60 each.

Rideau Centre is a short walk from the University of Ottawa Campus. There's a large number of shops (brand shops and and independent) where you can get a SIM Card. In general you'll have to pay for the SIM-card separately (ca. 10CAD) plus the plan you want.

At the WirelessWave, I managed to talk the lady into giving me the SIM for free with a Fido 150MB plan for 10CAD. YMMV…

Information on prior Developer Summits is available from the DevSummit page.

Add your photos (or link to galleries of photos) here.

Pictures by OllivierRobert Pictures by DianeBruce DevSummit Group Photos

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