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The twelfth annual OpenZFS Developer Summit and first annual OpenZFS User Summit will be an in-person event held in Portland, Oregon, USA Oct 26-29 (Sat-Tue), 2024

After missing BSDCan 2024, we are happy to report a Groff spotting @EuroBSDCon hallway track.

Still in development, but certainly a step in the right direction. Seems a perfect runabout vehicle to get you to public transportation and to get groceries on the way home. Hopefully wider adoption can bring the price down. It would also function as a grid connected battery as mentioned in this "Living on Earth " segment. https://loe.org/shows/shows.html?programID=24-P13-00035

Funding request for *BSD Community AV conference streaming. We are collecting to help keep our rental bill for @EuroBSDCon lower and to produce better videos for the *BSD Community.

Details here: https://lists.nycbug.org/pipermail/talk/2024-August/018737.html

@EuroBSDCon is coming up quickly. If you are interested in supporting us this link should help:

https://freebsdfoundation.org/donate/

If you would like to contribute to our efforts, donations can be made to the FreeBSD Foundation with the memo "Community AV Team".

Thank you!

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Upcoming EuroBSDCon OpenBSD talk Confidential Computing with OpenBSD by Hans-Jörg Höxer

Confidential computing is a family of techniques to enhance security
and confidentiality for data in use. One technical approach is strong
isolation for virtual machines.

AMDs Secure Encrypted Virtualization (SEV) offers several feature sets
for isolation of guest virtual machines from an non-trusted host hypervisor
and operating system. These feature sets include memory encryption,
encryption of guest state including CPU registers and an attestation
framework.

In this talk we will explore some of the AMD SEV feature sets. We will
describe how to use them to run OpenBSD as both

• a confidential guest VM and
• a host hypervisor providing a confidential execution environment.

Topics covered are CPU feature detection, low level kernel initialization,
memory management, virtio(4) device drivers and the virtual machine
daemon vmd(8).

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Tickets are still available and this talk will be streamed and recorded for later release.

Upcoming EuroBSDCon talk: Why (and how) we're migrating many of our servers from Linux to the BSDs by Stefano Marinelli

A few years ago, we decided to migrate many of our servers (and many of those of our clients) from Linux to the BSDs - FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD - depending on the specific services. In this presentation, I will discuss the reasons behind our decision, the technical and organizational challenges we faced, the tangible benefits we have experienced, and why we believe this migration is successful. I will provide specific examples and real-life case studies. In an increasingly complex world, relying on simple, stable, and secure solutions is becoming more and more important, and the BSDs can make a significant contribution in this direction.

Stefano Marinelli

Tickets are still available and this talk will be streamed and recorded for later release.

Upcoming EuroBSDCan talk: Building a wind speed logger in NetBSD with GPIO by Nicola Mingotti

(https://events.eurobsdcon.org/2024/talk/7RKDFU.ics)09-21, 13:45–14:30 (Europe/Dublin), Foyer A **

We will see how to set up a small ARM computer (RPi3B+ or BeagleBone Black) to be a remote data logger for wind speed. We will be using gpioctl(8) and gpioirq(4) to collect data. The main objective of the talk is to show how to use gpios to interact with the world that lives outside the computer.

Nicola Mingotti (https://events.eurobsdcon.org/2024/speaker/UYB88T/)

Tickets are still available and this talk will be streamed and recorded for later release.

Upcoming EuroBSDCon NetBSD talk: Flipping Bits: Memory Errors in the Machine By Taylor R Campbell

(https://events.eurobsdcon.org/2024/talk/EHTVPK.ics)09-21, 11:45–12:30 (Europe/Dublin), Foyer A **

We've all heard stories of the dreaded cosmic ray angrily flipping bits
in your RAM. But how much does it matter, really? And, more
importantly, how do you tell?

This talk will cover an overview of hardware architecture around
detecting and correcting memory errors, software support for handling
them and other types of hardware errors, and stories of memory errors
in the real world.

And, if the stars align, perhaps we'll have a live demo.

Taylor R Campbell (https://events.eurobsdcon.org/2024/speaker/ENKTTF/)

EuroBSDCon tickets are still available and it will be streamed and recorded for later release.

For all the completists out there, may I offer the complete BSDCan 2024 playlist:

EuroBSDcon 2023 Toobnix playlist

Did you know the good people of the SDF run a Peertube instance? As we come to the last few BSDCan videos being uploaded we plan to have the BSDCan completist playlist available on both YouTube and Peertube:

BSDCan 2024 Peertube Playlist link:

https://toobnix.org/w/p/cnQ1NJHwU9SXVW63Q8z212

YouTube Playlist:

https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLeF8ZihVdpFfct_WnzwObWtj4y9qH3H7X

Enjoy. @bsdcan @[email protected]