The Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD) is a free open source version of the Unix operating system which evolved at the University of Berkeley starting from 1975, and it is based on AT&T's Unix Sixth Edition (V6). The name BSD is now used collectively for the modern descendants of these distributions. Most notable among these today is perhaps the major open source BSDs (FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD) which have themselves spawned a number of children. They are targeted at an array of systems for different purposes and are common in government facilities, universities and in commercial use. A number of commercial operating systems are also partly or wholly based on BSD or its descendants, including Apple Computer's Mac OS X.

This year Beastie joins Tux on his tour in Vienna in May: another “DanuBSDCon” is coming to gather Central-European BSD people to meet! The event features several BSD developers and enthusiasts to tell about their work, communicate with their fellows and reach their potential future partners. As usual, there are no formalities, papers, registration or participation fee, however the invited folks are encouraged to give a brief talk about their favorite BSD-related topic. The goal is to motivate everybody, especially university students to work with BSD systems.

There are also a poster, banner, and an animated banner to advertise the event.

Social link: Facebook

THE EVENT HAS PASSED. THANK YOU FOR COMING! SEE YOU NEXT YEAR!

PREPARATION OF ARCHIVES IS IN PROGRESS. CHECK REGULARLY FOR UPDATES.

Date:
Saturday, 5 May 2012

Location:
Room HS 1.04A
University of Applied Sciences Technikum Wien
Höchstädtplatz 5
AT-1200 Vienna
Austria

Language:
English

Cost:
Entry is free

The following organizations and partners have contributed to the event so far. Thank you for your for sponsorship and help very much!

• allBSD.de Projekt (Germany)
• Azedo IT Consulting & Services KG. (Austria)
• BSD Europe (The Netherlands)
• BSD Magazine (Poland)
• BSD Perimeter, LLC. (United States)
• BSD Stammtisch (Austria)
• The FreeBSD Foundation (United States)
• FreeBSDMall, Inc. (United States)
• iXsystems, Inc. (United States)
• Linuxwochen Österreich (Austria)
• The Hungarian BSD Association (Hungary)
• VX Solutions, s. r. o. (Slovakia)
• Bernhard Fröhlich (Austria)

The following developers have accepted our invitation and they wbill very likely to be present at the event.

The format is technically a mixture of a cross-project developer summit and a workshop. We have invited developers working with BSD from different organizations, we have some dinners together, and dedicate various sessions to each of the topics based on the interests of the attending developers. The format of these sessions is quite flexible: they may include presentations or demonstration of results, or even public discussions with developers involved, or a mix of all of these.

We have two different schedules: one for the participants and their guests and one for the public part of the summit. The former is mostly about the summit in general, while the latter is the interest of casual visitors of the BSD-Day.

We have the room HS 1.04A reserved at the University of Applied Sciences for the event. It will be available all day. The BSDA exam will be in room EDV 2.07. Note that Adam Hamsík's talk was canceled (unfortunately) on the day of the event.

We have the following talks for the day.

Each session slot is 45 minutes long.

For preparing the slides, there is a template added to the page that you can use. It contains a LaTeX source file that you can modify to create PDF-based slides for the session. It uses the Beamer class which is an easy-to-use extension to LaTeX for making presentations. Then pdfLaTeX can be used for compiling the sources to produce the desired PDF file.

$ pdflatex my-presentation.latex

A few rule-of-thumbs when creating slides:

• Try to make things legible, use large fonts.
• Have title and closing.
• Use less text, you do not have to include everything on the slides. (Prepare and) Do a demonstration if needed.
• You have only 45 minutes, having 45 or less slides (in addition to title and closing) is usually fine.
• Sometimes images can tell more than pure text.
• Leave a few minutes for questions.

Vienna (German: Wien, Austro-Bavarian: Wean, Hungarian: Bécs) is the capital of the Republic of Austria. It is by far the largest city in Austria (with population of 1.7 millions), as well as its cultural, economic, and political center. As the former home of the Habsburg court and its various empires, the city still has the trappings of the imperial capital it once was, and the historic city centre is inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List.

Read more about Vienna...

Some useful links to prepare your trip and get familiar with the city:

• Getting in to Vienna
• Getting around in Vienna

Take the any train to Vienna (they all have the same stops) and hop off at Traisengasse.

IMPORTANT: Buy a ticket for two zones as the airport is out of the “central zone”. It is often seen that tourists had to pay a fee, since they do not know that. The easiest way to buy a ticket is go to an automaton, switch it to English and choose Select Destinations, and then type traisengasse.

Take any train to Vienna. You will probably arrive at Wien Westbahnhof. Just take the subway U6 in direction Floridsdorf, and hopp off at Dresdner Strasse.

When coming from the East, take the motorway A4 towards Vienna. When coming from the West, take the motorway A1 towards Vienna.

Take Line S1 / S2 from Praterstern to Traisengasse. Take Tram 2 from Traisengasse / Dresdner Strasse to Höchstädtplatz.

The cheapest ticket is a day ticket. When you are with a group, you can share an 8-Day Ticket, just validate it once for every person. With any of these tickets you can take any public transportation in Vienna an do not need to care about any more.

Online event map

If you plan to stay in Vienna on Friday and Saturday night, we can then recommend you the following places to book a room.

• ETAP HOTEL Wien Messe
• Suite Novotel Wien Messe
• ibis Wien Messe
• Hotel Capricorno
• Hostel & Guesthouse Kaiser 23
• A&O Wien Stadthalle
• Hostel Hütteldorf

The BSD Certification Group (BSDCG) is pleased to offer the BSDA certification exam to our visitors.

The exam will take place at the event in room EDV 2.07 between 14:00 and 16:00.

It will be paper-based and in English. Exam information is available from the Certification page. Candidates should be proficient in the BSDA Certification Requirements and the Command Reference, both of which are available for free download from this page of the website.

Participants need to register for the exam in advance. Choose "BSD-Day Europe" as the location and pay for the exam. The price is USD 75 (~EUR 50) and payable through Paypal or credit card.

The BSD Certification Group (BSDCG) is a non-profit organization committed to creating and maintaining a global certification standard for system administration on BSD-based operating systems. The BSDCG works with the BSD and sysadmin communities in order to provide a practical and relevant certification.

The BSDA certification is designed to be an entry-level certification on BSD UNIX systems administration. The successful BSDA candidate is able to complete common administrative and troubleshooting tasks and has a good understanding of general BSD Unix and networking principles.

If you have questions, comments, or you just feel that something is missing from here, please contact me.

See you at the BSD-Day!