so, otto, tedu, matthieu, oga and myself went to eurobsdcon in cambridge. to take the summary ahead, it was a very nice event.
rod came from australia to join us, peter hansteen was there and fred crowson didn't have such a long travel. needless to say there were more people, but this is the crowd we spent the most time with. otto spoke on malloc and has already linked his slides: http://www.openbsd.org/papers/eurobsdcon2009/otto-malloc.pdf tedu got into kqueue and shared that, but hasn't uploaded slides yet. i spoke about performance tuning. this is in principle the same talk i already gave in washington at dcbsdcon, but changed a lot, it is worth looking at it again. http://bulabula.org/papers/2009/eurobsdcon-faster_packets/ I had the big auditorium which was very nicely equipped, the projection size was huge and - a feature i really loved - they had an extra lcd in the front of the stage where you could see the projected picture despite not hiding behind your laptop. after the social event on saturday evening (in a really impressive very old building) at the bar oga was asked to do the OpenBSD update part of the BSD update session. At lunch next day we figured it'd be neat to have slides (because remembering what changed over the last 6 months is neither his nor my strength, to put it nicely), so we checked with sam smith of ukuug who organized this nice event that this was indeed possible. We had an hour to go through 46.html and plus.html and the assorted memories of peter, fred, rod and ourselves. What should I say - we hacked up slides in 25 minutes (for a 9 minute slot), and I believe we did quite well (and that matches the general feedback we got): http://bulabula.org/papers/2009/eurobsdcon-openbsd_update/ oga presented most of it, i took over when it came to networking and continued to the end. we were certainly more entertaining than the freebsd and bsd_t^Wnetbsd guys :) as with previous events some of the freebsd crowd took it a bit too much as freebsdcon - but i believe it was better than on previous occasions. you can change that for future events by submitting openbsd talks (don't be afraid, you don't have to be a developer to speak, "this is how we use OpenBSD"-style talks are fine too) and/or come as attendee to these events. -- Henning Brauer, h...@bsws.de, henn...@openbsd.org BS Web Services, http://bsws.de Full-Service ISP - Secure Hosting, Mail and DNS Services Dedicated Servers, Rootservers, Application Hosting - Hamburg & Amsterdam
