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<event id="guficon-6">
<name>GUFICon #6</name>
<url>http://www.gufi.org/guficon/</url>
<startdate>
<year>2005</year>
<month>12</month>
<day>3</day>
</startdate>
<enddate>
<year>2005</year>
<month>12</month>
<day>4</day>
</enddate>
<location>
<country code="IT">Italy</country>
<city>Perugia</city>
</location>
<description>The Italian FreeBSD users group (G.U.F.I. - Gruppo
Utenti FreeBSD Italia) is proud to announce the 6th annual
GUFICon. It will be held in Perugia, Italy on December 3-4,
2005. As always, GUFICon is free and open to all. Members of
the Italian FreeBSD community as well as special international
guests such as Greg Lehey and George Georgalis will present on
many technical themes. See the website for more information and
free registration.</description>
</event>
<event id="eurobsdcon-2005">
<name>EuroBSDCon 2005</name>
<url>http://2005.eurobsdcon.org/</url>
<startdate>
<year>2005</year>
<month>11</month>
<day>25</day>
</startdate>
<enddate>
<year>2005</year>
<month>11</month>
<day>27</day>
</enddate>
<location>
<country code="CH">Switzerland</country>
<city>Basel</city>
<site>University of Basel</site>
</location>
<description>The fourth annual European BSD Conference. It is
oriented to developers and users of all BSD flavors, including
FreeBSD of course.</description>
</event>
<event id="usenix-baysug-2005">
<name>USENIX Bay Area Super User Group Meeting (BaySUG '05)</name>
<url>http://www.usenix.org/events/baysug05/</url>
<startdate>
<year>2005</year>
<month>11</month>
<day>12</day>
</startdate>
<enddate>
<year>2005</year>
<month>11</month>
<day>12</day>
</enddate>
<location>
<country code="US">USA</country>
<city>Mountain View, CA</city>
<site>Computer History Museum</site>
</location>
<description>Join USENIX and BayLISA for the first Bay Area Super
User Group Meeting (BaySUG '05) followed by a reception hosted
by Google. We're looking for more FreeBSD representation.
Please contact <a href="mailto:murray@FreeBSD.org">Murray
Stokely</a> if you are interested in discussing and promoting
FreeBSD at the event.</description>
</event>
<event id="freebsd-korea-2005">
<name>Korean FreeBSD users group Conference 2005</name>
<url>http://seminar.freebsdcity.org</url>
<startdate>
<year>2005</year>
<month>10</month>
<day>29</day>
</startdate>
<enddate>
<year>2005</year>
<month>10</month>
<day>29</day>
</enddate>
<location>
<country code="KR">Korea</country>
<city>Seoul</city>
<site>HP Korea Conference Room 20th floor</site>
</location>
<description>A Conference for Everyone Who is interested in
FreeBSD in Korea.</description>
</event>
<event id="euro-oscon-2005">
<name>O'Reilly European Open Source Convention</name>
<url>http://conferences.oreillynet.com/eurooscon/</url>
<startdate>
<year>2005</year>
<month>10</month>
<day>17</day>
</startdate>
<enddate>
<year>2005</year>
<month>10</month>
<day>20</day>
</enddate>
<location>
<country code="NL">The Netherlands</country>
<city>Amsterdam</city>
<site>NH Grand Hotel Krasnapolsky</site>
</location>
<description>The popular O'Reilly Open Source Conference is coming
to Europe in October. There will be FreeBSD related talks, BoF
sessions, and opportunities for general advocacy.</description>
</event>
<event id="nycbsdcon-2005">
<name>New York City BSD Conference (NYCBSDCon)</name>
<url>http://www.nycbsdcon.org/2005/</url>
<startdate>
<year>2005</year>
<month>9</month>
<day>17</day>
</startdate>
<enddate>
<year>2005</year>
<month>9</month>
<day>17</day>
</enddate>
<location>
<country code="US">USA</country>
<city>New York City</city>
<site>Columbia University</site>
</location>
<description>New York City BSD Conference (NYCBSDCon) is a one day
technical conference hosted by the New York City <a
href="http://www.nycbug.org">*BSD User Group</a>. The all day
conference will include a variety of speakers representing the
BSD projects and the open source community.</description>
</event>
<event id="oscon-2005">
<name>O'Reilly Open Source Conference 2005</name>
<url>http://conferences.oreillynet.com/os2005/</url>
<startdate>
<year>2005</year>
<month>8</month>
<day>1</day>
</startdate>
<enddate>
<year>2005</year>
<month>8</month>
<day>5</day>
</enddate>
<location>
<country code="US">USA</country>
<city>Portland, Oregon</city>
<site>Oregon Convention Center</site>
</location>
<description>The annual O'Reilly Open Source Conference had a
larger BSD presence this year. Matt Olander, Dru Lavigne, and
others helped spread the word about FreeBSD. A press release
about the advocacy effort is available <a
href="http://www.offmyserver.com/cgi-bin/store/news/oscon_080505.html">here</a>.
</description>
</event>
<event id="bsdcon-japan-2005">
<name>BSDCon Japan 2005</name>
<url>http://bsdcon.jp/</url>
<startdate>
<year>2005</year>
<month>7</month>
<day>23</day>
</startdate>
<enddate>
<year>2005</year>
<month>7</month>
<day>23</day>
</enddate>
<location>
<country code="JP">Japan</country>
<city>Nagoya</city>
<site>NADYA PARK</site>
</location>
<description>BSD Conference Japan 2005, the fourth conference
concerning *BSD in Japan, will be held in Nagoya
on July 23th, 2005.</description>
</event>
<event id="linuxtag-2005">
<name>Linuxtag 2005</name>
<url>http://www.linuxtag.org/2005/</url>
<startdate>
<year>2005</year>
<month>6</month>
<day>22</day>
</startdate>
<enddate>
<year>2005</year>
<month>6</month>
<day>25</day>
</enddate>
<location>
<country code="DE">Germany</country>
<city>Karlsruhe</city>
<site>Kongresszentrum</site>
</location>
<description>The Linuxtag is one of Europe's biggest Linux and Open Source
related tradeshows and conferences. As in previous years, FreeBSD will be
present with a booth.</description>
</event>
<event id="meetbsd-2005">
<name>MeetBSD 2005</name>
<url>http://2005.meetbsd.org/</url>
<startdate>
<year>2005</year>
<month>6</month>
<day>17</day>
</startdate>
<enddate>
<year>2005</year>
<month>6</month>
<day>19</day>
</enddate>
<location>
<country code="PL">Poland</country>
<city>Kraków</city>
<site>Hotel Chopin</site>
</location>
<description>The second annual MeetBSD conference will be held in
Poland to bring together BSD experts from around Europe.
Poul-Henning Kamp and others will be presenting on FreeBSD
topics.</description>
</event>
<event id="bsdcan-2005">
<name>BSDCan 2005</name>
<url>http://www.bsdcan.org/</url>
<startdate>
<year>2005</year>
<month>5</month>
<day>13</day>
</startdate>
<enddate>
<year>2005</year>
<month>5</month>
<day>14</day>
</enddate>
<location>
<country code="CA">Canada</country>
<city>Ottawa</city>
<site>University of Ottawa</site>
</location>
<description>BSDCan is a developers conference with a strong focus
on emerging technologies, research projects, and works in
progress. It also features Userland infrastructure projects and
invite contribution from both free software developers and those
from commercial vendors.</description>
</event>
<event id="osf-russia-2005">
<name>Open Source Forum Russia 2005</name>
<url>http://www.opensource-forum.ru/</url>
<startdate>
<year>2005</year>
<month>4</month>
<day>27</day>
</startdate>
<enddate>
<year>2005</year>
<month>4</month>
<day>29</day>
</enddate>
<location>
<country code="RU">Russia</country>
<city>Moscow</city>
<site>Radisson SAS Hotel</site>
</location>
<description>Open Source Forum Russia is the first conference and
exhibition which will bring together Russian, American and
European leaders of the OS industry, customers interested in
using reliable and efficient Linux-based technologies and IT
companies which intend developing business on the base of Open
Source. <a
href="mailto:murray@FreeBSD.org">Murray Stokely</a> will present
on the subject of FreeBSD Release Engineering and the Business
Case for BSD.</description>
</event>
<event id="usenix-2005">
<name>2005 USENIX Annual Technical Conference</name>
<url>http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix05/</url>
<startdate>
<year>2005</year>
<month>4</month>
<day>10</day>
</startdate>
<enddate>
<year>2005</year>
<month>4</month>
<day>15</day>
</enddate>
<location>
<country code="US">USA</country>
<state>California</state>
<city>Anaheim</city>
</location>
<description>The 2005 USENIX ATC will have FREENIX and general
refereed paper sessions. This is THE big conference of the year
for BSD enthusiasts in the U.S.</description>
</event>
<event id="linuxforum-2005">
<name>LinuxForum 2005</name>
<url>http://www.linuxforum.dk/</url>
<startdate>
<year>2005</year>
<month>3</month>
<day>4</day>
</startdate>
<enddate>
<year>2005</year>
<month>3</month>
<day>5</day>
</enddate>
<location>
<country code="DK">Denmark</country>
<city>Copenhagen</city>
<site>Kunstakademiets Arkitektskole</site>
<address>Philip de Langes Allé</address>
</location>
<description>Annual Danish Open Source conference. The Danish BSD
user group <a href="http://www.bsd-dk.dk">BSD-DK</a> will present
the BSD's.</description>
</event>
<event id="fosdem-2005">
<name>Fosdem 2005</name>
<url>http://www.fosdem.org/</url>
<startdate>
<year>2005</year>
<month>2</month>
<day>26</day>
</startdate>
<enddate>
<year>2005</year>
<month>2</month>
<day>27</day>
</enddate>
<location>
<country code="BE">Belgium</country>
<city>Brussels</city>
<site>Universite Libre de Bruxelles</site>
<address>Avenue Franklin D. Roosevelt 50</address>
</location>
<description>A 2 day event to promote the widespread use of Free
and Open Source software. Among the projects present at the event
will be Mozilla, KDE and, of course, FreeBSD.</description>
</event>
<event id="ffg-2005">
<name>GUUG-Frühjahrsfachgespräch 2005</name>
<url>http://www.guug.de/veranstaltungen/ffg2005/index.html</url>
<startdate>
<year>2005</year>
<month>2</month>
<day>22</day>
</startdate>
<enddate>
<year>2005</year>
<month>2</month>
<day>25</day>
</enddate>
<location>
<country code="DE">Germany</country>
<city>Munich</city>
<site>Munich University of Applied Sciences</site>
</location>
<description>
The Frühjahrsfachgespräch is an annual event on
practical Linux/UNIX topics. Most of the talks are in
german, among them a talk about FreeBSD Filesystem Snapshots
by Dirk Meyer <dinoex@FreeBSD.org>.
</description>
</event>
<event id="scale-2005">
<name>SCALE: Southern California Linux Expo 2005</name>
<url>http://www.socallinuxexpo.org/</url>
<startdate>
<year>2005</year>
<month>2</month>
<day>12</day>
</startdate>
<enddate>
<year>2005</year>
<month>2</month>
<day>13</day>
</enddate>
<location>
<country code="US">USA</country>
<state>California</state>
<city>Los Angeles</city>
<site>Los Angeles Convention Center</site>
</location>
<description>The third Southern California Linux Expo will have
an <a href="http://www.socallinuxexpo.org/exhibitions/freebsd.php">
exhibition booth</a> on FreeBSD. A computer will be available
and CDROMs provided by <a href="http://www.freebsdmall.com/">FreeBSD Mall</a>
will be handed out.</description>
</event>
</events>
