February 15, 2017

From sponsoring events to attending conferences, the Foundation is continuing its mission of advocacy in early 2017. In the next few weeks, members of the Foundation team will be representing the Project and the Foundation at events around the world. 

2017 FreeBSD Storage Summit
February 27, 2017
Santa Clara, CA
Join us in Santa Clara, CA for the 2nd FreeBSD Storage Summit, taking place February 27, 2017. The Summit is co-located with USENIX FAST ’17 and will feature presentations about new developments in FreeBSD’s storage stack and the latest storage trends. Find out more and register today!

USENIX FAST ’17
February 27-March 2, 2017
Santa Clara, CA
Join us in Santa Clara, CA, February 27–March 2, 2017, for the 15th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies. FAST ’17 brings together storage-system researchers and practitioners to explore new directions in the design, implementation, evaluation, and deployment of storage systems.

SCALE 15x
March 2-5, 2017
Pasadena, CA
The 15th Annual Southern California Linux Expo – SCALE 15X – will be held on March 2-5, 2017 at the Pasadena Convention Center in Pasadena, California, near Los Angeles. Featured speakers can be found here. The Foundation will be exhibiting. If you’re interested in attending, please use promo code “BSD” to receive 50%  your registration. 

AsiaBSDCon 2017
March 9-12, 2017
Tokyo, Japan
AsiaBSDCon, a conference for users and developers on BSD based systems, will be held in Tokyo, in 9-12 March, 2017. The conference is for anyone developing, deploying and using systems based on FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, DragonFlyBSD, Darwin and MacOS X. AsiaBSDCon is a technical conference and aims to collect the best technical papers and presentations available to ensure that the latest developments in our open source community are shared with the widest possible audience. Find out more here

If you’re attending one of these events, please stop by and say hello!