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      $FreeBSD$
    </cvs:keyword>

  <event id="ccc-21">
    <name>21. Chaos Communication Congress</name>
    <url>http://www.ccc.de/congress/2004/</url>
    <startdate>
      <year>2004</year>
      <month>12</month>
      <day>27</day>
    </startdate>
    <enddate>
      <year>2004</year>
      <month>12</month>
      <day>29</day>
    </enddate>
    <location>
      <country code="DE">Germany</country>
      <city>Berlin</city>
      <site>Berliner Congress Center</site>
      <address>Alexanderplatz 2</address>
    </location>
    <description>The Chaos Communication Congress is a three-day
      conference on technology, society and utopia.  FreeBSD will
      be present with a booth.  If you are interested in helping
      out, please contact <a
      href="mailto:brueffer@FreeBSD.org">Christian Brueffer</a>.
    </description>
  </event>

  <event id="enderunix-04">
    <name>Free Software Development and the FreeBSD Operating System</name>
    <url>http://www.enderunix.org/events/metu2004</url>
    <startdate>
      <year>2004</year>
      <month>12</month>
      <day>10</day>
    </startdate>
    <enddate>
      <year>2004</year>
      <month>12</month>
      <day>10</day>
    </enddate>
    <location>
      <country code="TR">Turkey</country>
      <city>Ankara</city>
      <site>ODTU Culture and Congress Center</site>
      <address>Saloon D</address>
    </location>

    <description>This conference is organized with the cooperation of
      the EnderUNIX Software Development Team and the Middle East
      Technical University Computer Center.  The conference will be a
      one-day event and the official language for the conference is
      Turkish.  For more information and a schedule of talks, please
      see the website.</description>
  </event>

  <event id="eurobsdcon-2004">
    <name>EuroBSDCon 2004</name>
    <url>http://2004.eurobsdcon.org/</url>
    <startdate>
      <year>2004</year>
      <month>10</month>
      <day>29</day>
    </startdate>
    <enddate>
      <year>2004</year>
      <month>10</month>
      <day>31</day>
    </enddate>
    <location>
      <country code="DE">Germany</country>
      <city>Karlsruhe</city>
      <site>Queens Hotel Karlsruhe</site>
    </location>
    <description>The third annual European BSD Conference.  It is
      oriented to developers and users of all BSD flavors, including
      FreeBSD of course.</description>
  </event>

  <event id="bsdcon-japan-2004">
    <name>BSDCon Japan 2004</name>
    <url>http://bsdcon.jp/</url>
    <startdate>
      <year>2004</year>
      <month>10</month>
      <day>23</day>
    </startdate>
    <enddate>
      <year>2004</year>
      <month>10</month>
      <day>23</day>
    </enddate>
    <location>
      <country code="JP">Japan</country>
      <city>Osaka</city>
      <site>Business Innovation Center Osaka</site>
    </location>
    <description>BSD Conference Japan 2004, the third conference
      concerning *BSD in Japan, will be held in Osaka on October 23th, 2004.
      Furthermore, <a href="http://k-of.jp/">Kansai Open Source 2004</a>
      and <a href="http://kessen.k-of.jp/">Kansai Community Contest</a>
      will be held in the same place also.</description>
  </event>

  <event id="systems-2004">
    <name>Systems 2004</name>
    <url>http://www.systems.de/</url>
    <startdate>
      <year>2004</year>
      <month>10</month>
      <day>18</day>
    </startdate>
    <enddate>
      <year>2004</year>
      <month>10</month>
      <day>22</day>
    </enddate>
    <location>
      <country code="DE">Germany</country>
      <city>Munich</city>
      <site>New Munich Trade Fair Centre</site>
    </location>
    <description>Systems is a trade fair for IT, media and communications.
      There will be a combined BSD booth.  If you are interested in helping,
      please contact <a href="mailto:dan@deam.org">Daniel Ettle</a>.
    </description>
  </event>

  <event id="guficon5">
    <name>Italian FreeBSD User Group (GUFI) Conference 2004</name>
    <url>http://www.gufi.org/guficon5/</url>
    <startdate>
      <year>2004</year>
      <month>10</month>
      <day>2</day>
    </startdate>
    <enddate>
      <year>2004</year>
      <month>10</month>
      <day>3</day>
    </enddate>
    <location>
      <country code="IT">Italy</country>
      <city>Milan</city>
    </location>
    <description>The Italian FreeBSD User Group (GUFI) Conference.
      Information available (in Italian) from the conference
      website.</description>
  </event>

  <event id="auug2004">
    <name>The AUUG'2004 Annual Conference</name>
    <url>http://www.auug.org.au/events/2004/auug2004/</url>
    <startdate>
      <year>2004</year>
      <month>9</month>
      <day>1</day>
    </startdate>
    <enddate>
      <year>2004</year>
      <month>9</month>
      <day>3</day>
    </enddate>
    <location>
      <country code="AU">Australia</country>
      <city>Melbourne</city>
    </location>
    <description>AUUG'2004 is the annual technical conference of AUUG,
      the Australian UNIX and Open Systems User Group.  The conference
      will emphasise issues of identity and authentication on the Internet,
      along with issues of computer security and anonymity.</description>
  </event>

  <event id="sucon-2004">
    <name>2nd Swiss Unix Conference</name>
    <url>http://www.sucon.ch/</url>
    <startdate>
      <year>2004</year>
      <month>9</month>
      <day>2</day>
    </startdate>
    <enddate>
      <year>2004</year>
      <month>9</month>
      <day>4</day>
    </enddate>
    <location>
      <country code="CH">Switzerland</country>
      <city>Z&#252;rich</city>
    </location>
    <description>SUCON is an emerging conference focused on topics
      related to the Unix operating system. Our goal is to bring
      together developers, system administrators and users in the
      field of Unix to foster projects, ideas and the knowledge of
      every individual. There will also be some speeches related to
      FreeBSD.  If you want to join the FreeBSD booth, contact
      <a href="mailto:josef@FreeBSD.org">Josef El-Rayes</a>.</description>
  </event>

  <event id="linuxexpocn-2004">
    <name>Linux Expo Shanghai</name>
    <url>http://www.linuxexposhanghai.com/</url>
    <startdate>
      <year>2004</year>
      <month>9</month>
      <day>9</day>
    </startdate>
    <enddate>
      <year>2004</year>
      <month>9</month>
      <day>10</day>
    </enddate>
    <location>
      <country code="CN">China</country>
      <city>Shanghai</city>
    </location>

    <description>Linux Expo Shanghai is the biggest Linux/Open Source
      conference in Shanghai this summer.  <a
      href="mailto:murray@FreeBSD.org">Murray Stokely</a> and members
      of the <a href="http://www.freebsdchina.org">FreeBSD China</a>
      group will have a booth there both days.</description>

    <link type="photos">
      <name>Photos by Murray Stokely, Yarshure, and Hylu (FreeBSD China)</name>
      <url>http://www.stokely.org/20040910-shanghai-linuxexpo/</url>
    </link>

    <link type="other">
      <name>Slides from Murray Stokely's talk</name>
      <url>http://people.FreeBSD.org/~murray/</url>
    </link>

  </event>

  <event id="usenix-2004">
    <name>2004 USENIX Annual Technical Conference</name>
    <url>http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix04/</url>
    <startdate>
      <year>2004</year>
      <month>6</month>
      <day>27</day>
    </startdate>
    <enddate>
      <year>2004</year>
      <month>7</month>
      <day>2</day>
    </enddate>
    <location>
      <country code="US">USA</country>
      <state>Massachusetts</state>
      <city>Boston</city>
    </location>
    <description>The 2004 USENIX ATC will have <a
      href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix04/freenix.html">FREENIX</a>
      and general refereed paper session, along with new <a
      href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix04/usebsd.html">UseBSD</a>
      Special Interest Group Sessions.  There will not be a separate
      Usenix-sponsored BSDCon in the U.S. in 2004, so this is THE big
      conference of the year for BSD enthusiasts in the
      U.S.</description>

    <link type="photos">
      <name>Photos by Matt Dillon</name>
      <url>http://apollo.backplane.com/USENIX2004/</url>
    </link>
  </event>

  <event id="linuxtag04">
    <name>Linuxtag 2004</name>
    <url>http://www.linuxtag.org/2004/</url>
    <startdate>
      <year>2004</year>
      <month>6</month>
      <day>23</day>
    </startdate>
    <enddate>
      <year>2004</year>
      <month>6</month>
      <day>26</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="linuxwochen04">
    <name>Linuxwochen Wien</name>
    <url>http://www.linuxwochen.at</url>
    <startdate>
      <year>2004</year>
      <month>5</month>
      <day>26</day>
    </startdate>
    <enddate>
      <year>2004</year>
      <month>5</month>
      <day>29</day>
    </enddate>
    <location>
      <country code="AT">Austria</country>
      <city>Vienna</city>
      <site>Museumsquartier, A-1070 Wien Museumsplatz 1</site>
    </location>
    <description>Linuxwochen is an annual roadshow of open source
      conferences, which take place in all major cities in Austria.
      Vienna is the biggest event.  There will be a FreeBSD speech and
      a booth by <a href="mailto:josef@FreeBSD.org">Josef El-Rayes</a>.
    </description>
  </event>

  <event id="bsdcan-2004">
    <name>BSDCan</name>
    <url>http://www.bsdcan.org/</url>
    <startdate>
      <year>2004</year>
      <month>5</month>
      <day>13</day>
    </startdate>
    <enddate>
      <year>2004</year>
      <month>5</month>
      <day>15</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="asia-bsdcon-2004">
    <name>Asia BSDCon 2004</name>
    <url>http://www.asiabsdcon.org/</url>
    <startdate>
      <year>2004</year>
      <month>3</month>
      <day>12</day>
    </startdate>
    <enddate>
      <year>2004</year>
      <month>3</month>
      <day>15</day>
    </enddate>
    <location>
      <country code="TW">Taiwan (ROC)</country>
      <city>Taipei</city>
      <site>Academica Sinica</site>
    </location>
    <description>The first BSDCon held in Asia, and sponsored by <a
      href="http://www.usenix.org/">USENIX Association</a>. Two days
      of tutorials will precede two days of technical sessions and a
      vendor exhibit.</description>
  </event>

  <event id="linuxforum-2004">
    <name>LinuxForum 2004</name>
    <url>http://www.linuxforum.dk/</url>
    <startdate>
      <year>2004</year>
      <month>3</month>
      <day>5</day>
    </startdate>
    <enddate>
      <year>2004</year>
      <month>3</month>
      <day>6</day>
    </enddate>
    <location>
      <country code="DK">Denmark</country>
      <city>Copenhagen</city>
      <site>Symbion</site>
      <address>Fruebjergvej 3</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-2004">
    <name>Fosdem 2004</name>
    <url>http://www.fosdem.org/</url>
    <startdate>
      <year>2004</year>
      <month>2</month>
      <day>21</day>
    </startdate>
    <enddate>
      <year>2004</year>
      <month>2</month>
      <day>22</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="linuxexpofr-2004">
    <name>Solutions Linux 2004</name>
    <url>http://www.linuxsolutions.fr/</url>
    <startdate>
      <year>2004</year>
      <month>2</month>
      <day>3</day>
    </startdate>
    <enddate>
      <year>2004</year>
      <month>2</month>
      <day>5</day>
    </enddate>
    <location>
      <country code="FR">France</country>
      <city>Paris</city>
      <site>CNIT</site>
      <address>La Defense</address>
    </location>
    <description>A 3 day event to promote GNU/Linux and Open Source software.
	<a href="http://www.FreeBSD-fr.ORG">French FreeBSD User Group</a>
	will be present in the Association Village to promote FreeBSD
	of course !</description>
  </event>
</events>