Spring is teeming full of events this year. With boundless energy, iXsystems looks ahead to the lineup of spring tradeshows. Starting with April, we will have schwag at BSD Day in Naples, Italy, then have representation from several members of the iXsystems team at NAB, Write the Docs, and Linuxfest Northwest. In May, we’ll check out Interop, reunite with some old friends at BSDCan, and then head back south to Texas Linuxfest. We look forward to seeing familiar faces everywhere we go!
Central Europe BSD Day April 6
The purpose of this one-day event is to gather Central European developers of today’s open-source BSD systems, popularize their work, and provide an interface for real-life communication. There are no formalities, no papers, and no registration or participation fees; however, invited developers are encouraged to give a talk on their favorite BSD-related topic. The goal is to encourage potential future developers and users, especially undergraduate university students, to work with BSD systems. The event will take place at the Institute of Biostructures and Bioimaging in Naples, Italy. The BSD Certification exam will be hosted in the morning during the event.
http://www.bsdday.eu
Write the Docs April 8-9
Write the Docs is a two-day conference based in Portland, Oregon, which focuses on documentation systems, tech writing theory, and information delivery. Writing and maintaining documentation involves a multidisciplinary community of technical writers, designers, typesetters, developers, support teams, marketers, and many others. This conference creates a time and a place for this community of documentarians to share information, discuss ideas, and work together to improve the art and science of documentation. Dru Lavigne, our very own FreeBSD, FreeNAS, and PC-BSD documentarian, will be there to represent iXsystems and the BSD community.
http://conf.writethedocs.org
NAB SHOW April 6-11
The NAB Show in Las Vegas is the world’s largest event on filmed entertainment and the development, management and delivery of content across all mediums. From creation to consumption, the NAB Show provides an active forum for the solutions that transcend traditional broadcasting, and embraces innovative content delivery to users.
We will send Peter Allen and Matt Finney to this show to promote our TrueNAS storage solution line, and to provide information on how TrueNAS can simplify the media workflow.
http://www.nabshow.com
LinuxFest Northwest April 27-28
LinuxFest Northwest is an annual event organized by the Bellingham Linux Users Group as well as volunteers from NorthWest U.S. open source user groups. It is traditionally hosted at the Bellingham Technical College campus and features Linux and open source experts who share their experience and enthusiasm with a wide audience.
Our marketing team will be present on Saturday and Sunday to pass out schwag, PC-BSD DVDs, and FreeNAS CDs and answer questions regarding the software. James Nixon, iXsystems’ Webmaster, will also give a talk on “Rock Solid WebDev with PC-BSD and FreeNAS”. If you’re in the area, be sure to stop by and say hello.
http://linuxfestnorthwest.org
Interop Las Vegas May 7–9
Interop is an independently organized conference and exhibition designed to empower IT professionals with the information to make smart business decisions. The conference offers a diverse combination of educational content, a dynamic exhibition of technology providers, and peer networking to IT professionals across all industries. As the sole large-scale independent IT event brand, Interop offers live and online events that uniquely bring together IT decision makers, IT vendors, systems integrators, and IT press and analysts in an interactive forum. iXsystems’ Product Manager, Andrew Madrid, will attend this show.
http://www.interop.com/lasvegas
BSDCan May 17–18
This BSD conference in Ottawa, Canada, has quickly established itself as THE technical conference for people working on and with 4.4BSD based operating systems and related projects. The organizers have found a fantastic formula that appeals to a wide range of people from extreme novices to advanced developers.
Our team returns with a BSD table and platinum sponsorship for BSDCan 2013. Matt Olander, Alfred Perlstein, and several other iX team members will be at the conference to hand out daemon horns, FreeBSD goodies, and the usual software demos. Kris Moore will give a talk on Automating the Deployment of FreeBSD & PC-BSD systems, so be sure to check that out.
http://www.bsdcan.org/2013
Texas Linuxfest May 31 – June 1
The Texas Linux Festival (TXLF) is sponsored by the Linux Expo of Southern California, Inc. and will be held in Austin this year. TXLF’s mission is to provide educational opportunities on open source software such as GNU/Linux, various BSD OSes, and applications like LibreOffice and Firefox. The show is comprised of technical seminars, expo booths, commercial software and hardware vendors, and local non-profit groups (for example, Linux Users Groups), product displays, live demonstrations, and software tutorials.
Dru and Kris will attend this show. Be sure to stop by the FreeBSD booth, as they will most likely be passing out goodies.
http://2013.texaslinuxfest.org
Lisa Liang
Marketing Assistant
