The FreeBSD Diary

New York City BSD Conference (NYCBSDCon), a one day technical conference hosted by the New York City *BSD User Group, will be held on Saturday, September 17th at Columbia University.

Speakers and topics are now set for NYCBSDCon 2005 to be held at Columbia University in Manhattan on September 17th 2005.

The speaker list is impressive. Scheduled speakers and topics includes:

• Jason Dixon will speak on "Failover Firewalls with OpenBSD and CARP"
• Jeffrey Hsu of DragonFlyBSD will cover the "History, Goals, Objectives, and Structure of DragonFlyBSD"
• Dru Lavigne will provide an update on BSD Certification.org
• Michael Lucas will speak on "Network Management Tools to Make your Boss your Willing Slave"
• Marshall Kirk McKusick will address "Enhancements to the Fast Filesystem to Support Multi-Terabyte Storage Systems"
• Bruce Momjian will enchant attendees with "PostgreSQL in BSD Land"
• Phillip Moore will cover "Practical Enterprise Scalability: Case Studies of Infrastructure Software Deployed in Production"

Already registered attendees include dozens of developers, systems administrators and end-users of the BSD operating systems. Besides the well-known speakers at the event, NYCBSDCon 2005 will also be an excellent opporunity for networking with others in the BSD community.

NYCBSDCon registration is open online until September 10th at www.nycbsdcon.org.

Registration by September 10th is only $20, payable during the morning of the conference. Onsite registration is $40. As the conference fee is quite low, only cash will be accepted.

A light continental breakfast will be provided throughout the morning, while snacks and beverages will be available during the afternoon.

After the conference concludes at around 5:30 pm, attendees will meet at the West End bar, in a back room reserved for the conference, just across Broadway from Columbia University. The after-party is sponsored by OrgCom, the entity that held last year's New York Technical Community Holiday Party.

Sponsors, besides the hosting technical user group NYC*BUG, include USENIX and New York Internet.