FreeBSD Developer Summit, September, 2025
This page describes the September 2025 FreeBSD Developer Summit, colocated with EuroBSDCon 2025, which takes place in Zagreb, Croatia from September 24 to 25, 2025. This is a by-invitation event.
Registration
Registration is a two step process:
1) you must register for the Devsummit at the EuroBSDcon page and pay the devsummit fee to attend.
2) FreeBSD committers add themselves to this wiki page below. 👇🏻
Guests
Non-committers that want to attend he Devsummit must be sponsored by a committer. Guests need to also register and pay using the EuroBSDcon registration system by adding the Devsummit (see above). Afterwards, their sponsoring committer also adds them to this wiki page.
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Note: Paying for the devsummit only allows entry to the devsummit. Other activities and the main conference must be paid separately and are not included in the devsummit fee.
Travel
See the EuroBSDcon Travel website for an overview. Trip planning pages like https://rome2rio.com/ (no endorsement or affiliation) may also help finding your way to the event.
Zagreb has a couple hotels available at various price ranges located around the venue within walking distance.
LiveStream
Day 1: https://youtube.com/live/c2E4H1HphIU?feature=share
Day 2: https://youtube.com/live/ipEg4KHcvZA?feature=share
Commit Tag
If you are committing changes during the Event and are on site, use the following tag in your commit messages:
Event: EuroBSDcon Devsummit 2025
Schedule
This year, we will have an extra day, either before or after the two days of the devsummit. This page covers only the devsummit part. Details about what, where, and when will be announced as soon as we know about them. Plan your travels accordingly to arrive earlier in the week of EuroBSDcon to be able to attend all these events.
The FreeBSD developer summit takes place as part of the EuroBSDCon event. Many developers will arrive on the night before and meet for dinner and drinks before things kick off. Most developers will stay on through EuroBSDCon to give and attend talks or tutorials. 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.
Detailed Schedule will be updated as the event approaches. Check back for details.
Devsummit Day 1, Sept. 24, 2025
When |
What |
09:30 |
🚶♂️➡️Arrival & Check-in |
10:00 |
Opening Session, Introductions 2025_Devsummit_Day1.pdf |
10:45 |
Learnings from the FreeBSD Enterprise Working Group |
11:30 |
100+ Days of pkgbase in Production |
12:00 |
Lunch Break |
13:00 |
Upstreaming CHERI support notes |
14:00 |
Accessibility Handbook |
14:30 |
Break |
15:00 |
FreeBSD Foundation Technology Update |
16:00 |
Ports Licensing Framework |
16:45 |
Continuous Integration |
17:30 |
🚶♀️End of DevSummit Day 1 |
18:00 |
Dinner (self-organized) |
Devsummit Day 2, Sept. 25, 2025
When |
What |
10:30 |
🚶♂️➡️Arrival & Start of Day 2 2025_Devsummit_Day2.pdf |
11:00 |
🩺Clinic Game |
12:00 |
Break |
12:20 |
Developer Workflows |
13:30 |
Lunch break |
14:30 |
Core Team: Personal Perspective |
15:30 |
Break |
16:00 |
In person open session on Enterprise WG |
16:15 |
libzfs Integration - |
16:45 |
Lightning Talks (Bootloader Question, etc.) |
17:15 |
Long Conversations |
18:00 |
🚶♀️End of DevSummit Day 2 |
18:30 |
Dinner (self-organized) |
Talks / Sessions
Please add your talk topics here. We'll put it on the schedule based on availabilty. Please test whether your laptop works with the projector early. For a two-monitor setup, you can try the mons port.
Title |
Speaker |
Description |
Slides, Notes |
Developer Workflows |
Various |
Developers demonstrate the tools, techniques, tips and tricks that make them productive working on FreeBSD's src, ports, and doc. |
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Learnings from the FreeBSD Enterprise Working Group |
Greg Wallace |
Covers the purpose and motivation for forming the group, the process, participants (not by name except with permission but by types), roadblocks and learnings (e.g. how third party industry dependencies can result in "Lock out"), a status report and areas of continued focus. |
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Upstreaming CHERI support |
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The Clinic Game |
We'll have two teams compete in a friendly competition - interactive, fun, educational. We'll see what all of this has to do with development work at the end. |
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Ports Licensing Framework |
The ports licensing framework and how we can move forward |
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CI |
Depending on availability either of us are looking into presenting something on current status of CI |
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Accessibility Handbook |
Overview of assistive technologies for visual accessibility available in the FreeBSD base system and the Ports Collection. |
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Long conversations |
Various attendees |
Long conversations is a new format for a conference. Two people begin a conversation on stage. After 10 minutes one of the two is replaced by a new person and the conversation continues, and every 10 minutes the other person is swapped out. (Each speaker converses for 20 minutes.) No moderation, just timekeeping. Talk about what you like. |
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Foundation Technology Update |
Update on Foundation-funded projects |
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100+ Days of pkgbase in Production |
SvenRuediger, Lukas Engelhardt |
We would like to initiate an open discussion about the advantages and challenges of migrating from freebsd-update to pkgbase we experienced from an administrator’s perspective. |
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Core Team: Personal Perspective |
A personal perspective from a core team member about what it's like to be on the core team. |
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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.
Developer Attendees
Please register for the conference on https://2025.eurobsdcon.org/registration.html and buy the appropriate FreeBSD devsummit tickets.
(Please keep alphanumerically sorted by login)
Name |
FreeBSD.org login |
Arrival Date |
Departure Date |
Hotel |
Notes |
0mp |
2025-09-23 |
2025-09-29 |
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asiciliano |
2025-09-23 |
2025-09-29 |
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bcr |
2025/09/23 |
2025/09/29 |
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bnovkov |
Local |
Local |
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br |
2025/09/24 |
2025/09/29 |
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brd |
2025/09/23 |
2025/09/29 |
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brooks |
2025/09/23 |
2025/09/29 |
Speaker |
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bofh |
2025/09/23 |
2025/09/29 |
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bz |
2025-09-24 |
2025-09-29 |
Speaker |
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dch |
2025-09-23 |
2025-09-29 |
Speaker |
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decke |
2025/09/22 |
2025/09/29 |
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dsl |
2025/09/22 |
2025/09/29 |
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emaste |
2025/09/22 |
2025/09/29 |
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fuz |
2025/09/24 |
2025/09/29 |
Speaker |
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glebius |
2025/09/23 |
2025/09/29 |
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hrs |
2025/09/22 |
2025/09/29 |
Speaker |
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igoro |
2025/09/23 |
2025/09/29 |
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jfree |
2025/09/23 |
2025/09/29 |
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jhb |
2025/09/23 |
2025/09/29 |
Speaker |
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kp |
2025/09/23 |
2025/09/29 |
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markj |
2025/09/23 |
2025/10/01 |
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oh |
2025/09/23 |
2025/09/29 |
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olce |
2025/09/24 |
2025/09/29 |
Speaker |
(Arriving on the 09/23 late.) |
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rene |
2025/09/21 |
2025/09/29 |
Speaker |
If not doing conference duties |
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rodrigo |
2025/09/23 |
2025/09/29 |
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thierry |
2025/09/23 |
2025/09/29 |
Zonar Zagreb |
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vishwin |
2025/09/23 |
2025/09/29 |
Speaker |
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obiwac |
Sometime before 2025/09/23 |
2025/09/29 |
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Guest Attendees
(Please keep alphabetically sorted by last name)
Name |
Host |
Affiliation |
Arrival Date |
Departure Date |
Hotel |
Notes |
Jan Bramkamp |
fuz |
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2025-09-24 |
2025-09-29 |
Speaker |
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Vanja Cvelbar |
bcr |
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2025/09/24 |
2025/09/28 |
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Mathias Eggers |
bcr |
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Harald Eilertsen |
emaste |
FreeBSD Foundation contract |
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Lukas Engelhardt |
bcr |
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Patrick M. Hausen |
bcr |
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Andreas Kirchner |
bcr |
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rodrigo |
BSDCafe |
2025/09/25 |
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Will only attend the 25 |
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Kristen Nielsen |
obiwac |
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Eirik Øverby |
bcr |
Entersekt (Modirum) |
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Tommi Pernilä |
bcr |
Entersekt (Modirum) |
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Polarian |
allanjude |
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2025-09-22 |
2025-09-29 |
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bcr |
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2025/09/23 |
2025/09/29 |
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Guido van Rooij |
rene |
FreeBSD dinosaur |
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speaker |
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Greg Wallace |
bcr |
Enterprise WG |
2025/09/23 |
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oh |
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2025/09/23 |
2025/09/30 |
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Marko Vlaić |
bnovkov |
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Local |
Local |
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Karlo Miličević |
bnovkov |
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Local |
Local |
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fuz |
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2025-09-24 |
2025-09-29 |
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David Paskevics |
fuz |
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2025-09-24 |
2025-09-29 |
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Information on Prior Developer Summits
Information on prior Developer Summits is available from the DevSummit page.
Meal Requirements
Requirement |
Qty |
Vegetarian |
0 |
Vegan |
0 |
Diet drinks |
0 |
Meat |
0 |
Kosher |
0 |
Halal |
0 |
White Meat/Fish/Veg |
0 |
Dairy-free |
0 |
Fish/seafood-free |
0 |
Nut-free |
0 |
Gluten-free |
0 |
Low cholesterol |
0 |
Low sodium |
0 |
Feel free to add any missing ones.
IRC Channel
An IRC channel is available for contacting other attendees - #devsummit on EFnet.
Matrix room
A Matrix room is available for contacting other attendees - #devsummit
Pictures