FreeBSD Vendor Summit, 2-3 November 2017

This page describes the November 2017 FreeBSD Bay Area Vendor Summit.

Attendees must register by October 13, 2017. Developers with write access to the Wiki may register themselves below. Those without write access should email devsummit@freebsd.org to be added to the attendee list.

There is a fee of US $75 to attend the summit, to be submitted on the FreeBSD Foundation's Summit Registration site.

Netflix is pleased to host a reception on the evening of Nov 2 at 6pm, following the conclusion of the meeting sessions. The reception will be held on-campus, adjacent to the Vendor Summit meeting area. All summit attendees are encouraged to join us, and all attendees are welcome to bring one guest as part of their registration fee. In the sign up below, please indicate if you will be attending the reception and if you will be bringing a non-attendee guest.

The FreeBSD vendor summit takes place on the 2nd and 3rd of November 2017.

This schedule may be adjusted during the summit to allow for discussion and collaboration.

Time Topic Leader / Speaker / Notes
8:00 - 9:00 Doors Open
9:00 - 9:30 Setup and Badges
9:30 - 10:00 Introductions Everyone
10:00 - 10:30 OpenZFS update Allan Jude
10:30 - 11:00 Architectures / Power8/9 Port Kevin Bowling
11:00 - 11:15 Break
11:15 - 11:45 Intel NICs and drivers Jeb Cramer
12:00 - 13:00 Lunch
13:00 - 14:00 Foundation & Intel Programs Update Deb Goodkin, Scott Lamons
14:00 - 14:30 Bhyve Peter Grehan
14:30 - 15:00 mbuf changes for TLS & sendfile Drew Gallatin
15:00 - 15:30 Coffee break
15:30 - 16:00 Arm update Andrew Wafaa
16:00 - 16:15 Signed boot components Simon Gerraty
16:15 - 17:00 FreeBSD Foundation Projects Ed Maste
17:00 - 17:30 Break and Mingle
17:30 - Reception (Dinner and drink reception hosted by Netflix, guests welcome)
Time Topic Leader / Speaker
8:00 - 9:00 Doors Open
9:30 - 10:00 Storage Innovation for Application Needs Jun Liu
10:00 - 10:30 iflib Matt Macy
10:30 - 11:00 Chelsio Sean Conlon
11:00 - 11:30 Cavium Octeon TX, ThunderX2
11:30 - 12:00 Cavium LiquidIO
12:00 - 13:00 Lunch
13:00 - 14:45 NUMA Jeff Roberson (Remote)
14:45 - 15:15 Coffee break
15:15 - 16:00 TCP Round Table Kevin Bowling
16:00 - 17:00 12.0 Project Planning
Topic Speaker / Session Leader Notes

Hotel suggestions include:

Group Rates These hotels offer a special discounted rate for summit attendees:

Other Hotels

The Netflix campus is located at:

121 Albright Way Building E Los Gatos, CA 95032

Parking is available on site, shown in the map below.

There are bike racks scattered around campus, as well.

Signs will direct attendees to the check in area in between Buildings D and E.

Map to Netflix in Los Gatos

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.

Please keep sorted by FreeBSD login

Name FreeBSD.org login Arrival Date Departure Date Hotel Notes Reception Reception Guest
AdrianChadd adrian Yes
AllanJude allanjude 2017-10-31 2017-11-04 DoubleTree Yes
DavidWolfskill dhw local Yes Ms Lynette Dowling
EdMaste emaste DoubleTree Yes
EricJoyner erj 2017-11-02 2017-11-03 DoubleTree Yes
DrewGallatin gallatin 2017-10-31 2017-11-03 DoubleTree Yes
GlebSmirnoff glebius local Yes
PeterGrehan grehan local Yes
JohnBaldwin jhb DoubleTree Yes
KevinBowling kbowling Yes
MattMacy kmacy 2017-10-31 Yes
LandonFuller landonf 2017-11-01 2017-11-04 Yes Rebecca Bratburd
KirkMcKusick mckusick 2017-11-01 2017-11-02 DoubleTree Yes
MarkPeek mp local Yes
NavdeepParhar np local Yes
DavidOBrien obrien 2017-11-02 2017-11-03 local Yes
PeterWemm peter local Yes
PawelJakubDawidek pjd local No
RaviPokala rpokala Yes
SeanBruno sbruno YES
ScottLong scottl Yes
SeanChittenden seanc 2017-11-02 2017-11-03 Yes
SimonGerraty sjg yes
PatrickKelsey pkelsey Yes
Name Affiliation Host Arrival Date Departure Date Hotel Notes Reception Reception Guest
Bill Moore BitMover kbowling yes
Dan Morrill IBM kbowling yes
DebGoodkin FreeBSD Foundation emaste 2017-11-01 2017-11-04 DoubleTree
Jake Roersma LimeLight Networks kbowling tentative yes
Jason Eggleston LimeLight Networks kbowling yes
Jeb Cramer Intel Corporation erj 2017-11-02 2017-11-03 DoubleTree yes
Jeffrey Pieper Intel Corporation erj 2017-11-02 2017-11-03 DoubleTree yes
Larry McVoy BitMover kbowling yes
Sam Montoya QCM Technologies kbowling yes
Michael Berman TidalScale grehan
Leon Dang TidalScale grehan yes
Aditi Nataraj TidalScale grehan yes
Jeff Radick TidalScale grehan
Matthew Finlay Mellanox scottl yes
Meny Yossefi Mellanox gallatin yes
Michael Drapkin QCM Technologies kbowling yes
Sean Conlon Chelsio Communications kbowling
Scott Lamons FreeBSD Foundation emaste 2017-11-01 2017-11-03 DoubleTree yes
Prasad V Kanneganti Cavium emaste Local Local yes
Steve Jacobson Citrix emaste Local Local yes
Mike Peterson Netflix scottl
Mani Subramanian Groupon seanc
Sam Gwydir Joyent seanc
Diptanu Choudhury seanc
James Nugent Joyent seanc
Matt Olander iX Systems seanc
David Discher iX Systems seanc
Andrew Wafaa Arm emaste 2017-11-01 2017-11-04 Crowne Plaza, Milpitas yes
Saravanan Dhakshinamurthy Citrix emaste Local Local
Michael Usher UCSC allanjude Local Local yes
Mark Ward NYI emaste Thurs only no
Wayne Scott BitMover kbowling yes
Glenn Weinberg Intel scottl yes
Lohith Bellad emaste no
Bob Dugan Chelsio Communications np local yes
Samantha Clarke Seagate seanc Thurs/Fri yes
Jun Liu Seagate seanc Thurs/Fri yes

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

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