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My experience at OSCon 2014 in Portland, Oregon was nothing short of interesting. It was my first tradeshow experience, but it went surprisingly well on the first day. Upon our arrival, we had a short opening reception that lasted about an hour. Many people actually...
[fusion_text]This past weekend, Ken and Dru went to Charlotte, NC for this year’s Southeast Linuxfest. An estimated 500 people were in attendance throughout the conference, which took place from Friday morning until Sunday afternoon. Ken reported that the booth was...
This past weekend, Dru Lavigne and Josh Smith went to Austin, TX for this year’s annual Texas Linux Fest. Afterwards, they generously took the time to give us a recap of the event. TXLF went very well for the FreeBSD booth! Our table was one of the most popular...
Craig Rodrigues, iXsystems’ Software Engineer, had a very productive time at BSDCan. In addition to several talks, Craig also worked with other attendees on continuous integration and testing in FreeBSD. On May 15, Craig led the working group “Continuous Testing with...
This year I arrived at BSDCan a day late due to issues in Chicago. However, upon arrival I hit the Royal Oak and chatted up the OpenBSD guys that are always there. They showed me how well ‘suspend’ and ‘resume’ worked on their laptops. © Ollivier Robert I was able to...
As always, BSDCan is a jam-packed week full of opportunities to network and work with other FreeBSD committers and users in person. © Ollivier Robert For some of us, the week began on Monday when most of the FreeBSD Foundation board of directors met for two days to...
Bellingham, we meet again! Last weekend, the iXsystems team attended the 15th annual Linuxfest Northwest conference where we staffed a booth on behalf of the FreeBSD Foundation. A record-breaking 1600 attendees showed up this year. The conference itself was very...
It’s been a while since we showcased some of our behind-the-scenes efforts, so here’s a quick update on what certain members of iXsystems have been working on for the FreeBSD community. Craig Rodrigues recently published a status update in the latest FreeBSD quarterly...
The inaugural Great Wide Open conference was held in downtown Atlanta. This well organized conference had over 600 attendees and 6 presentation tracks over 2 days. Most of the attendees were local to Atlanta which speaks to the breadth of the IT talent in the Atlanta...
This year’s AsiaBSDCon was a historic event. Hiroki Sato, organizer of the conference, announced that there were 139 people, including 30 speakers in attendance, and the keynotes were standing room only. This was the largest AsiaBSDCon conference since he started...
