2018 Cambridge DevSummit ('BSDCam')

The 2018 Cambridge DevSummit will take place from 15-17 August 2018. The event will take place over three days including a formal dinner at X College. Notes and slides from the working-group sessions and talks are now largely online.

The event is run "un-conference style" in that we brainstorm the actual session schedule on the first morning, with a focus on interactive topics that reflect the interests and exploit the knowledge of the attendees -- but there's also room for traditional talks, etc. There are plenty of break-out rooms for small groups to meet as they see fit.

Registration

Registration is open, please register yourself and let your FreeBSD friends know

Please register now at https://bsdcam.cl.cam.ac.uk, book your accommodations through the link on your confirmation page and pay through bank transfer or PayPal. The registration fee of £85 covers our expenses in running the developer summit, including meals and one seat at the Devsummit Dinner.

Group Photo

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Schedule

This is a copy of the schedule posted on the BSDCam website. The devsummit is held in the same location as previous years, the William Gates Building, 15 JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge.

Tuesday 14th

Wednesday 15th

Thursday 16th

Friday 17th

FW11

FW26

FW11

FW26

FW11

FW26

9:00am

Registration/Breakfast/Coffee

Breakfast/Coffee

Breakfast/Coffee

10:00am

Welcome/Planning

CPU Security

Patching & deployment

Meetups & hackathon

ARM & Embedded

12:00pm

Lunch

Lunch (group photo)

Lunch

1:00pm

Desktop

Storage & ZFS

Testing & CI

Transport

Package base

Jails & Hypervisors

2:45pm

Coffee

3:15pm

Developer tools, wiki

Toolchain & build

Power Management

Software security

Talks

5:00pm

Break

7:00pm

The Maypole

Pubs/Restaurants

Dinner at Trinity Hall

Pubs/Restaurants

Meals

Your registration fee will cover coffee and light breakfasty snacks prior to the start of the devsummit each day, as well as lunch and afternoon coffee that will be catered at the event. We normally host a Devsummit Dinner on one evening of the summit, and anticipate doing so this year. The cost of that dinner is included in your registration fee, although you will need to pay an extra fee if you will bring a guest with you to dinner (which you are encouraged to do). Other dinners are separately organised at local restaurants, and will be paid for directly by attendees. Further details will be posted closer to the time.

Short Talks

We will have a couple of slots for short talks, to present your current work, brainstorm or ask for feedback on smaller items. Must not overlap with working groups. Please add your talk suggestions here:

Title

Speaker

Description

Slides, Notes

bhyvearm64

Alexandru Elisei

Current status of bhyve on ARM

TBD

Intel SGX

Ruslan Bukin

Introduction to SGX and kernel support

Presented on CPU security section

ARMv8.3 Pointer Auth

Mark Rutland

ARMv8.3 Pointer Authentication

http://events17.linuxfoundation.org/sites/events/files/slides/slides_23.pdf

HWPMC tracing support

Ruslan Bukin

Support for Intel PT and ARM Coresight

FreeBSD/RISC-V

Ruslan Bukin

Status update

Presented on Embedded session

eBBF Update

Hiroki Sato

Booting Faster

Colin Percival

Google Summer of Code

Gavin Atkinson

Working Groups

If you would like to run a working group, please add your name below:

Title

Organiser

Preferred day(s)

Brief description

Transport Protocols

jtl

Thursday afternoon

Work on transport protocols (UDP, TCP, etc.)

Maps

Maps for Churchill College

William Gates Building

Floor plans are available here: Maps of the William Gates Building and surrounding area.

You are specially interested in the 1st floor (EU/UK counting: ground, 1st, 2nd), WGB 1st floor room map

Logistics

Cambridge, UK is located approximately 45 minutes North of London by train, with easy access by bus or train to St. Pancras International - Eurostar (45m rail), London Stansted Airport (40m rail), London Heathrow Airport (LHR - 2h rail), London Gatwick Airport (LGW - 2h rail), Manchester Airport (MIA - 4h rail), London Luton Airport (1h25m bus). European attendees may consider Eurostar or Stansted Airport preferred routes due to short transit time to Cambridge and lower prices. Visitors from the US or elsewhere will likely need to travel into one of London's major international airports, such as Heathrow or Gatwick. With the exception of Luton Airport, rail offers a more convenient but more expensive route to Cambridge than bus.

There is a bus ("The Universal") that travels directly past the railway station going west towards St Catharine's College in the city centre, and then the William Gates Building. The Universal runs every 15 minutes on week days, every 20 minutes on Saturdays, and not at all on Sundays. Universal bus route map, Universal bus timetable. The William Gates Building is the first stop on JJ Thomson Avenue.

Lodging

We are trying to get everyone to stay at Churchill so that we can coordinate hacking lounges and have breakfast together. Churchill is located near the Computer Laboratory, and is about 30 minutes walk from the city centre.

Note: The College will add more rooms as needed, but please book your lodging soon so we have time to grow the room block as needed.

Click here to register and use code: KX45297

Bike Hire and Collection

Cambridge is slightly too large to be convenient to walk everywhere, but small enough to be ideal for a bicycle. If you have a car, please be aware that you will not be able to drive in the city centre and you probably won't want to drive near Cambridge. The roads were designed for horses and have adapted well to bicycles, but not to anything larger.

Rutland Cycling (previously Station Cycles) rents bicycles at a reasonable rate. Please book with them directly. You can probably just turn up and get a bike but it's better to send them an email to make sure that they're not going to be surprised when 30 people turn up at once.

Prepaid SIM Cards

Note for EU/EEA residents: The EU's “Roam like at home” regulation abolished roaming charges for all EU/EEA countries starting 2017-06-15. However, some carriers compensated by adding a flat fee for roaming. Check with your carrier that your plan includes roaming. See also the EU's FAQ on RLAH.

If you need cellular service in the UK, a number of operators sell SIM cards. You can usually buy a SIM card for the Three (3) network from a vending machine at Heathrow Airport for ~£20. You can also often buy them from airport shops such as W.H. Smith. BrooksDavis reports that he uses £2-3/week of data while in Cambridge so if you will be in the UK often enough to keep your account alive, it's often a better deal to not activate the offered data bundle and just use the credit. If you take that option, top-ups can be purchased at most Airport shops and any mobile seller.

Network access

We will hand out "Lapwing tickets" during the opening session; these are preferred to the open WGB access point due to using JANET rather than a commercial DSL line. See http://www.ucs.cam.ac.uk/network/rules for University network access rules (AUP). Plan on bringing an Ethernet cable for possible wired access in your room (depending on accommodation).

Using eduroam (UniOfCam) with tickets on FreeBSD

I am not sure if you need the CA cert but I downloaded it following UCS instructions from: http://www.ucs.cam.ac.uk/mobiledevices/certificate-conversion.html
The main trick was that UCS requires the outer (anonymous) identity to either be your real user name (which you normally do not want) or be empty.
The identity (UniOfCam Ticket-Id) can be supplied with both the three dashes or without, so keeping it in seemed natural.
The main thing pb helped me to find was that the Realm needs to be @wireless.cam.ac.uk:  http://www.ucs.cam.ac.uk/network/other/radius#lapwing-tickets

So here's a wpa_supplicant.conf that (once) worked for me.

network={
      ssid="eduroam"
      key_mgmt=WPA-EAP
      eap=TTLS PEAP
      phase1="peaplabel=0"
      phase2="auth=MSCHAPV2"
      anonymous_identity="@wireless.cam.ac.uk"
      identity="xxx-xxx-xxx@wireless.cam.ac.uk"
      password="xxxxxxxx"
      ca_cert="/tmp/AddTrustExternalCARoot.crt"
}

Note:  in case you previously were using "lapwing" you want to change that, as the system was renamed mid-2014.  /bz

This is what cperciva needed to get eduroam working using his credentials from a Canadian university; allegedly all Canadian universities do eduroam the same way, so this may be useful for members of other Canadian universities:

network={
        ssid="eduroam"
        proto=WPA WPA2
        key_mgmt=WPA-EAP
        eap=PEAP
        group=CCMP TKIP
        identity="cperciva@sfu.ca"
        password="XXXXXXXX"
}

Travel coordination

Note: Some people will be arriving early to get extra hacking/sightseeing/beer drinking in before the Dev Summit officially starts.

You can co-ordinate travel and find people staying in the same place as you here:

Please keep sorted by last name

Name

FreeBSD.org login

Arrival Date

Departure Date

Lodging

Notes

WillAndrews

will

2018-08-12

2018-08-18

Churchill

GavinAtkinson

gavin

2018-08-13 (late)

2018-08-17

Churchill

JohnBaldwin

jhb

2018-08-14

2018-08-25

Churchill (Moller)

RuslanBukin

br

local

local

local

DaveCottlehuber

dch

2018-08-14

2018-08-17

Churchill

BradDavis

brd

2018-08-13

2018-08-18

Churchill

DaichiGoto

daichi

2018-08-14

2018-08-17

Churchill

LiWenHsu

lwhsu

localish

localish

TBD

SevanJaniyan

sevan

localish

localish

home

TomJones

thj

2018-08-14(TBD)

TBD

TBD

AllanJude

allanjude

2018-08-13

2018-08-19

Churchill

JosephKoshy

jkoshy

2018-08-17

2018-08-17

n/a

JonathanLooney

jtl

2018-08-14

2018-08-17

hotel

EdMaste

emaste

localish

2018-08-18

Churchill

EdwardTomaszNapierala

trasz

local

local

local

ColinPercival

cperciva

2018-08-14

2018-08-18

Churchill

In Oxford before, London after

MateuszPiotrowski

0mp

2018-08-14

2018-08-18

~ Harvey Road

KristofProvost

kp

2018-08-14

2018-08-18

Churchill

BenedictReuschling

bcr

2018-08-14

2018-08-18

Churchill

HirokiSato

hrs

2018-08-13

2018-08-18

Churchill

Arr: ZHR-LHR LX326, Dep: LHR-HND NH212

MatthewSeaman

matthew

2018-08-14

2018-08-18

Churchill

DagErlingSmørgrav

des

2018-08-14

2018-08-18

Churchill

RandallStewart

rrs

2018-08-14

2018-08-??

Hilton

MichaelTuexen

tuexen

2018-08-14

2018-08-17

Hilton

AndrewTurner

andrew

local

local

local

EmmanuelVadot

manu

2018-08-14

2018-08-18

Churchill

BenWidawsky

bwidawsk

2018-08-14

2018-08-17

Churchill

KonradWitaszczyk

def

2018-08-14

2018-08-18

Churchill

MariuszZaborski

oshogbo

2018-08-14

2018-08-18

Churchill

BjoernZeeb

bz

local

local

local

might be away

NiclasZeising

zeising

2018-08-14

2018-08-18

Churchull

Vegetarian

Developers are welcome to invite guests to attend the developer summit, subject to their tolerance for ceaseless hours of kernel-hacking, and availability of space at the venue.

Name

Host

Arrival Date

Departure Date

Lodging

Notes

Michal Borysiak

oshogbo

2018-08-14

2018-08-18

Churchill

Tomasz Duda

def

2018-08-14

2018-08-18

Churchill

Deb Goodkin

emaste

Miłosz Kaniewski

def

2018-08-14

2018-08-18

Churchill

Timm Hannon

kp

TBD

TBD

TBD

Marie Helene Kvello-Aune

allanjude

2018-08-13

2018-08-18

Churchill

Arr: Gatwick, around midnight 12/13 aug.

Sabina Munteanu

allanjude

2018-08-14

2018-08-16

TBD

Alexandru Elisei

emaste

Local

Alex has been porting bhyve armv7 to armv8

AkshayJaggi

pfg

2018-08-14

2018-08-18

Churchill

GSoC Alumni and currently Mentor

Jarosław Zurek

oshogbo

2018-08-14

2018-08-18

Churchill

Roberto Fernandez Cueto

bcr

2018-08-14

2018-08-18

Churchill

Mark Rutland

andrew

Local

Local

Home

Piete Brooks

lwhsu

local

local

local

DevSummit/201808 (last edited 2018-10-30T20:35:45+0000 by LiWenHsu)