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The twelfth annual OpenZFS Developer Summit and first annual OpenZFS User Summit will be an in-person event held in Portland, Oregon, USA Oct 26-29 (Sat-Tue), 2024

After missing BSDCan 2024, we are happy to report a Groff spotting @EuroBSDCon hallway track.

Funding request for *BSD Community AV conference streaming. We are collecting to help keep our rental bill for @EuroBSDCon lower and to produce better videos for the *BSD Community.

Details here: https://lists.nycbug.org/pipermail/talk/2024-August/018737.html

@EuroBSDCon is coming up quickly. If you are interested in supporting us this link should help:

https://freebsdfoundation.org/donate/

If you would like to contribute to our efforts, donations can be made to the FreeBSD Foundation with the memo "Community AV Team".

Thank you!

#runbsd

Upcoming EuroBSDCon talk: Why (and how) we're migrating many of our servers from Linux to the BSDs by Stefano Marinelli

A few years ago, we decided to migrate many of our servers (and many of those of our clients) from Linux to the BSDs - FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD - depending on the specific services. In this presentation, I will discuss the reasons behind our decision, the technical and organizational challenges we faced, the tangible benefits we have experienced, and why we believe this migration is successful. I will provide specific examples and real-life case studies. In an increasingly complex world, relying on simple, stable, and secure solutions is becoming more and more important, and the BSDs can make a significant contribution in this direction.

[!](https://events.eurobsdcon.org/2024/speaker/7R8HVF/)

Stefano Marinelli

Tickets are still available and this talk will be streamed and recorded for later release.

For all the completists out there, may I offer the complete BSDCan 2024 playlist:

EuroBSDcon 2023 Toobnix playlist

Did you know the good people of the SDF run a Peertube instance? As we come to the last few BSDCan videos being uploaded we plan to have the BSDCan completist playlist available on both YouTube and Peertube:

BSDCan 2024 Peertube Playlist link:

https://toobnix.org/w/p/cnQ1NJHwU9SXVW63Q8z212

YouTube Playlist:

https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLeF8ZihVdpFfct_WnzwObWtj4y9qH3H7X

Enjoy. @bsdcan @SDF@social.sdf.org

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/25009117

> Sorry to intrude. There's no BSD memes community.

BSDCan Playlist

The State of Email, By: Michael W. Lucas\ 2024-07-10 @ 18:45 EDT (22:45 UTC) - NYU Tandon Engineering Building (new), 370 Jay St, 7th Floor kitchen area, Brooklyn (directly across Jay St from National Grid office). Closest subway exits in order are Jay St - MetroTech Station (A, C, R, & F Trains) Borough Hall (4 & 5 Trains).\ Notice: You should RSVP for this meeting at rsvp AT lists.nycbug.org by July 9th.You should receive an auto response email. Your email address is sufficient verification for entry.\ \ "It's impossible to run your own email!" Not quite. But you must do it carefully and correctly. This talk discusses the current state of email, with a focus on the small independent server operator. What do you need to run your own mail? How can you use protocols like DKIM and DMARC without wrecking your ability to communicate with the outside world?\ \ Based on Lucas' book "Run Your Own Mail Server." The first chapter is online\ \ Offsite Participation: We plan to stream MWL Zoom call via NYC\*BUG Website. Q\&A will be via IRC on Libera.chat channel #nycbug - Please preface your questions with '\[Q]'\ \ Michael W. Lucas' name may ring a bell for some in the BSD community. He's writt en several shelves of books. But for anyone who has seen him speak in public during Ante COVID days, it was clear they are mere transcriptions of his rambling presentations. For this NYC\*BUG meeting, he is unlikely to edit out any of his expected corny jokes we endure during his conference presentations.\ \ More likely, you know his name from his grotesque horror fiction. In the same way his technical books are just transcriptions of his presentations, his fictional horror is just a simple reflection of someone who lives in a haunted house filled with (pet) rats in Detroit.\ \ \ More Info:\ <https://www.nycbug.org/index?action=view&id=10698>

There are still sponsorship opportunities for BSDCan and going forward with the *BSD conferences. We are building out our AV offerings to help reduce future AV rental expenses.

We're less than two weeks out from BSDCan! Read our latest update here: https://blog.bsdcan.org/2024/ We could use some help with registration, so please volunteer if you're interested in stuffing bags and getting to know other volunteers and the conference team.

Let's talk about the first half of the conference: Tutorial Days ​ This is some of the most affordable professional training out there and we're grateful for the talented presenters who have offered their services to the community. We hope you'll check one or two of these sessions out if you're attending in person!

If you get in early, Tuesday evening before the these tutorial days start there will be an informal meetup, the famed "Goat BOF," at Father and Sons (fnsottawa.com) where you can get a bite and say hello.

For our first tutorial day on Wednesday, you can sign up to learn the basics of BGP with Max Stucchi, and dig deeply into the routing protocol that makes the internet work! (indico.bsdcan.org/event/1/cont…) Or join Tom Smyth to learn about managing OpenBSD networks with NSH, a command-line interface for network appliances. (indico.bsdcan.org/event/1/cont…)

Thursday's tutorials include the conference classic introduction to PF by @pitrh, Max and Tom (indico.bsdcan.org/event/1/cont…) and our con chair @mwl will present half day tutorials about TLS (indico.bsdcan.org/event/1/cont…) and the hottest of topics: running your own mail server (indico.bsdcan.org/event/1/cont…).

At 5pm on Thursday, after the last tutorials, head on over to the 90 University residence hall and step through the lobby and into the hacker lounge, where we will be handing out registration badges and packets to earlybirds. At 6pm there will be a brief informational Newcomer's Session you don't want to miss, and we hope after that point that con regulars will group up to help take first-time attendees out to see the town! This room will stay open later into the evening so you can hack or visit with friends. Or hack with friends!

. . ​ Not registered yet? Sign up now! https://indico.bsdcan.org/event/1/registrations/

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