FreeBSD Developer Summit, June, 2016
This page describes the June 2016 FreeBSD Developer Summit, colocated with BSDCan 2016, which took place in Ottawa, Canada. This was a by-invitation event. FreeBSD committers were welcome to register themselves using this wiki; non-committers must be sponsored by a committer to attend. Attendees must also attend BSDCan 2016 in order to access all devsummit activities.
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Sponsors
Our annual BSDCan developer summit would not be possible without the generous support of sponsors.
Gold Sponsors
The FreeBSD Foundation covers several expenses including rooms for the event. In addition, the FreeBSD Foundation also covers travel expenses for several attendees. You can help support the FreeBSD Foundation by donating.
Silver Sponsors
T-Shirt Sponsor
Dinner Sponsor
BSDCan
BSDCan provides logistical support, including organizing rooms for the event and for developers to stay in. BSDCan also covers board and travel for BSDCan speakers. FreeBSD developers can help support the summit by speaking at BSDCan. You can also help support BSDCan and the developer summit by encouraging people to attend the conference, and especially to attend tutorials.
IRC
Many of the developer summit attendees hang out on #devsummit on EFnet during the summit (as well as BSDCan itself).
Schedule
The FreeBSD developer summit will take place on the 8th and 9th of June on the same days as the BSDCan tutorials (sorry!). Many developers will arrive on the night of the 7th and meet for dinner and drinks before things kick off. Most developers will stay on through BSDCan to give and attend talks. It is an excellent conference--a good FreeBSD developer showing has countless benefits, not least the opportunity to tell the world what we're doing.
You may be interested in this helpful map of UoO and its immediate vicinity as well as this map of the UoO campus.
Schedule
Day |
Morning |
Lunch |
Afternoon |
Dinner |
Evening |
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Tue 7th |
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Dinner and drinks at the Royal Oak |
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Wed 8th |
Presentations |
Sandwiches |
Working Groups |
Dinner |
Hacker Lounge |
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Thu 9th |
Working Groups |
Sandwiches |
Working Groups |
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Hacker Lounge |
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Fri 10th BSDCan |
BSDCan |
Hacker Lounge |
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Sat 11th BSDCan |
BSDCan |
Hacker Lounge |
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Sun 12th BSDCan |
Breakfast |
followed by tourist things |
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Detailed Schedule
Working group sessions will be held on Wednesday and Thursday. A two-day hackathon covering various projects will be held in parallel on Wednesday and Thursday. Additional short talks will be given during a FreeBSD Developers' Summit track at BSDCan on Friday, June 10th. The events in this track will be part of BSDCan and require a BSDCan registration. All rooms other than the hacking lounge will have AV equipment.
The Desmarais Building (DMS) is located northwest of the Residence building on Laurier Avenue.
Please arrive by 8:45am for the morning sessions so that we can get started around 9:00am. Attendees will be able to pick up badges and T-shirts from 8:00am to 9:00am at DMS 1160 on Wednesday and Thursday.
The hackathon sessions will be held in room L140 in the Residence Hall. During the evenings this room will become the hacker lounge for general hanging.
The dinner on Wednesday evening will also be in this room.
Note: In order to attend a working group meeting you MUST contact the working group organizer and be approved to attend. The goal is to keep each working group small and focused.
Lunch will be served in DMS 1160 on both Wednesday and Thursday.
June 8th (Wednesday)
Location |
DMS 1160 |
DMS 1130 |
DMS 1140 |
L140 |
Track |
General |
User Interaction |
Kernel |
Hackathon |
08:00-09:00 |
Setup / Badges |
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09:00-09:30 |
Opening |
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09:30-10:30 |
FreeBSD in Microsoft Azure |
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10:30-11:00 |
Break |
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11:00-12:00 |
Intel QuickAssist Driver - Overview and FreeBSD port |
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12:00-13:00 |
Lunch |
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13:00-14:30 |
Hackathon |
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14:30-15:00 |
Break |
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15:00-16:00 |
Hackathon |
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16:00-18:00 |
Free Time |
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18:00-20:00 |
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Dinner |
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June 9th (Thursday)
Location |
DMS 1160 |
DMS 1130 |
DMS 1140 |
L140 |
Track |
General |
User Interaction |
Kernel |
Hackathon |
08:00-09:00 |
Setup / Breakfast / Badges |
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09:00-10:30 |
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10:30-11:00 |
Break |
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11:00-12:00 |
Vendor Summit |
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12:00-13:15 |
Lunch |
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13:15-13:30 |
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Group Photo |
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13:30-15:00 |
General Hacking |
Hackathon |
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15:00-15:30 |
Break |
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15:30-16:30 |
General Hacking |
Hackathon |
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June 10th (Friday)
Location |
DMS 1130 |
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10:00-10:30 |
TBA |
TBA |
10:30-11:00 |
TBA |
TBA |
11:00-11:15 |
Break |
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11:15-11:45 |
pNFS Server for FreeBSD |
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11:45-12:15 |
FreeBSD/RISC-V |
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12:15-13:30 |
Lunch |
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13:30-14:00 |
jobd |
Mark Heily |
14:00-14:30 |
TBA |
TBA |
14:30-14:45 |
Break |
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14:45-15:15 |
Filter Drivers in FreeBSD |
Raviprakash Darbha |
15:15-15:45 |
Concurrency Kit |
Samy Al Bahra |
15:45-16:00 |
Break |
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Working Groups
These sessions are intended to get developers with common areas of interest or specific projects in mind together for collaboration and hacking. They might involve prepared presentations, structured code reading, or a notebook-assisted whiteboard session. Advance preparation for such events is critical so everyone comes to the table with the right reading done so you can get to the meat of the matter.
Topic Session |
Session Leader |
Description |
Discuss documentation issues we face and plan for the upcoming year. |
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Hacking and debugging of the hwpmc(4) driver |
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TCP and other transport layer discussions |
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General Hacking |
N/A |
This session will be used for impromptu discussions and breakouts inspired by the vendor summit and 11.0/12.0 discussions earlier in the day. |
Hackathon Topics
The bottom floor lounge in the residence hall will be used as a general hacking space on both Wednesday and Thursday. Attendees are welcome to head to this room at any time during the summit. Attendees can add entries to the table below to coordinate working on a specific topic.
Topic |
Day / Time |
Who |
Fix scaling of physical memory based tunables (see bug 208068) |
TBD |
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FreeBSD on the RPI3 |
TBD |
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Compiler/Linker bugs/complaints |
TBD |
Talk Descriptions
Just high level ideas. Tell us about your latest project, brainstorm on solutions to a hard problem, train us to use a new tool, make observations about a FreeBSD development process and how to improve it, tell us how your company uses FreeBSD, or coordinate activities. Please do not duplicate a talk that you are giving at BSDCan. Each talk will be given a thirty minute slot.
Talk |
Speaker |
Description |
Filter Drivers in FreeBSD |
Raviprakash Darbha |
Using filter drivers for error injection for disks. |
jobd |
Mark Heily |
Introducing jobd and the job framework |
pNFS Server for FreeBSD |
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Attendees
In order to attend, you must register in advance; this allows us to size rooms, order food, and provide beverages. We appreciate your cooperation in letting us know your plans well in advance of the event. Non-committers must be sponsored by a committer in order to attend. Due to increased attendance in recent years, companies are limited to one non-committer unless permission is explicitly granted by the organizers. Registration will close on May 7, 2016.
Registration is open
Developer Attendees
(Please keep sorted alphabetically by last name.)
Developer |
Login |
8th |
9th |
BSDCan 10th |
BSDCan 11th |
Meal Requests |
Notes |
tabthorpe |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
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mahrens |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
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jonathan |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
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will |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
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mat |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
Some mild allergies, on raw fruits and vegetables |
June 7, 16:13 CDG → AC881 → YYZ → AC456 → YOW; Dep. June 12 22:40 YOW → AC888 → LHR → BA314 → CDG |
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gavin |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
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Staying in Rideau |
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jhb |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
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gjb |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
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glebius |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
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wblock |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
Vegetarian, dairy okay |
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db |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
Vegetarian, dairy okay |
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garga |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
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Arrive June 7, 9:37am - UA860 (GRU → IAD) UA6191 (IAD → YOW); Dep. June 12, 1:57pm - UA4315 |
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br |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
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ngie |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
Pescatarian (vegetarian; dairy/eggs: ok) |
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bapt |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
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brd |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
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brooks |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
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pjd |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
Meat |
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bdrewery |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
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gallatin |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
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sjg |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
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gibbs |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
Vegetarian |
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jamie |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
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daichi |
yes |
yes |
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jhibbits |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
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lwhsu |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
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davide |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
Vegetarian (ok dairy/eggs) |
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markj |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
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erj |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
Sugar-free drinks |
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allanjude |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
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kan |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
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Arr 8, 10:12 AC 444; Dep. 12, 05:45, AC 473 |
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pkelsey |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
Vegetarian |
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dvl |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
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dru |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
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scottl |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
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jtl |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
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imp |
yes |
yes |
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wma |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
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emaste |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
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mckusick |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
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Arr. 6, 21:28, UA 5751; Dep. 12, 10:20 UA 5732 |
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ken |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
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Arr. 7, 15:39, UA 4351; Dep. 12, 10:20 UA 5732 |
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kmoore |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
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mav |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
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gnn |
no |
yes |
yes |
yes |
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Teaching a Tutorial the on the 8th |
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philip |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
Vegetarian |
Arr. 7, 12:05, AC839 |
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hiren |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
Vegetarian |
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np |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
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cperciva |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
Sugar-free drinks |
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kp |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
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Arr. 5, 17:13, AC458 (last hop); Dep. Dep. 12, 17:00, AC838 |
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dfr |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
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bcr |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
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Arr. 6, 18:41, LH478, LH6692; Dep. 12, 16:00, LH6673, LH471 |
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benno |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
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June 7 SEA -> AC540, AC456 -> YOW; June 12 YOW -> AC455, AC541 -> SEA |
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roberto |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
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June 7, 17:09 CDG -> AC871, AC8955 -> YOW; Dep. June 12 18:25 YOW -> AC7586, AC870 -> CDG |
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hrs |
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matthew |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
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Arr. 6, 17:50 LHR -> YOW AC889; Dep 12, 22:40 YOW -> LHR AC888 |
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hselasky |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
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sobomax |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
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DavidCSomayajulu |
davidcs |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
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loos |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
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brnrd |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
No cheese |
AMS AC825,AC462 YOW Arr 5, 19:13, Dep 12, 20:25 YOW AC463,AC824 AMS |
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zi |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
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Arr. 6, 14:03. Dep. 12, 10:18 |
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rrs |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
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rstone |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
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gordon |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
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andrew |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
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Arr. 6, 18:35 WS368, Dep. 12, 14:00 WS3465 |
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manu |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
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vangyzen |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
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Layover YYZ June 7 4:48 to 7:00 PM; Arr YOW 8:00 PM |
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peter |
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swills |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
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oshogbo |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
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zeising |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
Vegetarian, dairy and eggs ok |
Arr. 5, 16:55, ViaRail 635; Dep 14, 14:00 ViaRail 26 |
Guest Attendees
Please keep this list alphabetized by attendee last name.
Guest |
Affiliation |
Developer Host |
8th |
9th |
BSDCan 10th |
BSDCan 11th |
Meal Requests |
Notes |
Edicarla Andrade |
Laboratorio de Inovacao Tecnologica - LIT/IFCE |
loos |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
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Samy Al Bahra |
Backtrace I/O |
will |
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Ori Bernstein |
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jhb |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
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Kevin Bowling |
LimeLight Networks |
hiren |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
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David Bright |
Dell |
vangyzen |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
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Chris Buechler |
ESF |
garga |
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Chris Busick |
NetApp |
gnn |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
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Sean Chittenden |
HashiCorp |
jhb |
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Chris Christiansen |
LimeLight Networks |
sbruno |
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Evan Cramer |
EMC Isilon |
benno |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
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Dexuan Cui |
Microsoft |
jhb |
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RaviPrakash Darbha |
Juniper |
jhb |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
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Anne Dickison |
FreeBSD Foundation |
dru |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
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Steven Douglas |
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dru |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
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Jason Eggleston |
LimeLight Networks |
hiren |
yes |
yes |
no |
no |
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Sam Fourman |
iXsystems |
kmoore |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
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Ash Gokhale |
iXsystems |
kmoore |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
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Deb Goodkin |
FreeBSD Foundation |
jhb |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
Vegan |
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Rod Grimes |
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dvl |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
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Gavin Greene |
EMC Isilon |
benno |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
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John Hixson |
iXsystems |
jhb |
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Rafael Espindola |
Sony |
davide |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
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Matt Joras |
EMC Isilon |
benno |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
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Mark Heily |
relaunchd |
dru |
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Brian Kidney |
Memorial University |
jonathan |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
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Steve Kiernan |
Juniper |
sjg |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
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Ayaka Koshibe |
ON.Lab |
gavin |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
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Gebi Liang |
Microsoft |
jhb |
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Kylie Liang |
Microsoft |
jhb |
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Reid Linnemann |
Spectra Logic |
ken |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
Sugar-free drinks |
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Jeremiah Lott |
Avere Systems |
jhb |
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Michael Lucas |
Tilted Windmill Press |
jhb |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
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David Maxwell |
InfoSec Global |
allanjude |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
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Johannes Meixner |
Fractal Cells |
brnrd |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
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AC 839 06JUN FRA-YOW 10:00-12:05 |
Joseph Mingrone |
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swills |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
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Tim Moore |
iX |
dru |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
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Matt Olander |
iXsystems |
jhb |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
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Derek Orpen |
InfoSec Global |
allanjude |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
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John Partridge |
Dell |
vangyzen |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
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Anudeep Paturi |
NetApp |
gnn |
no |
yes |
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Mike Peterson |
Netflix |
jhb |
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Emily Pettigrew |
EMC Isilon |
benno |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
Vegetarian |
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Lee Prokowich |
EMC Isilon |
benno |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
Vegan |
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Danny Ryan |
EMC Isilon |
benno |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
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George Rosamond |
NYC*BUG |
jhb |
afternoon |
yes |
yes |
yes |
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Yoshifumi SASAKI |
ONGS Inc. |
daichi |
yes |
yes |
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Brandon Schneider |
iocage |
jhb |
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Michael Shirk |
Daemon Security |
gnn |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
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Massimiliano Stucchi |
RIPE NCC |
jhb |
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Arun Thomas |
BAE Systems |
jhb |
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Trent Thompson |
iXsystems |
kmoore |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
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Fiona Trahe |
Intel |
jhb |
yes |
maybe |
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Andy Wafaa |
ARM |
jhb |
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Shawn Webb |
HardenedBSD |
allanjude |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
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Nigel Williams |
Swinburne University |
hiren |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
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George Wilson |
Delphix |
mahrens |
yes |
yes |
? |
? |
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Jason Wolfe |
LimeLight Networks |
hiren |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
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Pavel Zakharov |
Delphix |
mahrens |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
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Vinicius Zavam |
BSDCon Brazil |
loos |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
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Meal Requests
Please note any meal requests above in the relevant attendee list in addition to this table.
Request |
Qty |
Vegetarian |
10 |
Non-meat, like fish |
0 |
Diabetic-friendly drinks (e.g. diet soda) |
3 |
Vegan |
2 |
Non-dairy |
0 |
Travel Information
As this event is colocated with BSDCan 2016, all information on the BSDCan web page applies. Here are some suggestions that may make planning easier:
Arrival date |
7th June 2016 |
Departure date |
12th June 2016 |
Travel method |
If traveling from outside Ottawa, fly into Ottawa's international airport (YOW), possibly transferring in Toronto (YYZ). Air Canada partners with United Airlines, and has direct flights from many US cities and London Heathrow (LHR) as well as Frankfurt (FRA) into Ottawa. |
Visas |
Many attendees will be able to use the Visa Waiver program, but check before traveling. If you need a formal invitation letter (never hurts), let us know. |
Where to stay |
Stay in the university residence halls, or if you really want a hotel, Les Suites. The university residence has two-person suites with private bedrooms but a shared bathroom and kitchenette, and is both clean and comfortable, as well as on-site for the summit. |
Extra rooms to share at the university residence halls
Remember that you must separately register for BSDCan (even if you are a BSDCan speaker); visit the BSDCan web page for details.
To/from Ottawa International
Public transport
Bus line 97 from Airport to Bayshore & Bells Corners. Runs about 3 times per hour. Bus-stop is right in front of the Airport building at the far right.
Bus-stop Campus is temporarily closed for road-works, you'll have to use the uOttawa/Laurier stop at the Bus Station.
Tickets: can be bought at the "Info" desk in the Airport building, to the left of the entrances. You'll need 2 tickets for a single ride (unconfirmed). Usually tickets are bought in a pack of 6. Tickets are CAD 1.60 each.
Mobile 3G/4G SIM cards
Rideau Centre is a short walk from the University of Ottawa Campus. There's a large number of shops (brand shops and and independent) where you can get a SIM Card. In general you'll have to pay for the SIM-card separately (ca. 10CAD) plus the plan you want.
At the WirelessWave, I managed to talk the lady into giving me the SIM for free with a Fido 150MB plan for 10CAD. YMMV...
Information on Prior Developer Summits
Information on prior Developer Summits is available from the DevSummit page.
Photos
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