EuroBSDCon 2006, the European BSD Conference

Announcement and Call For Papers

Historically, Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD) was one of the first reimplementation of the UNIX AT&T platform and it later became one of the key components of the Open Source movement. BSD has been the base for many different operating systems, most notably FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, Darwin, and DragonFlyBSD, which are extensively used in many different areas like embedded applications, workstations and large Internet servers.

The 5th European BSD conference is the 2006 event held in European continent where developers can meet, share new ideas and show off the progress of their work. It is also a great place for business players to get in touch with the BSD products and the people behind them.

The conference comprises one day (Nov 10th) dedicated to tutorials and two days (Nov 11-12th) for technical sessions.

Call For Tutorials

In the first day different tutorial sessions will be held focusing on real-world scenarios and problem-solving. Tutorials will be conducted by speakers with a significative experience in their topics.

If you're interested in presenting a tutorial, please contact the Program Committee at pc@eurobsdcon.org

Call For Papers

The subsequent days will be dedicated to technical speeches about BSD related topics. Authors are invited to submit original and innovative papers about the applications, architecture, implementation, performance and security of BSD-derived operating systems. Topics of interests include but are not limited to:

Deployment and development of embedded BSD applications
System architecture and engineering
Network related development
Secure and safe coding techniques
Performance scalability issues
Porting to new/unsupported platforms
Operational and economical aspects

Abstacts should be sent to papers@eurobsdcon.org before Midnight CET on July 31st, 2006. Abstracts should be at most 20 lines long in simple text format, with a small bio of the author(s) attached.

Accepted proposals should send complete papers before October 15th, 2006 and give the organizers the permission to publish them in the proceedings of the conference. Final papers should be around 12 pages long, and may include pictures and diagrams.

Schedule

July 31st: Proposals due by midnight, CET.

August 15th: Accepted authors are informed.

August 20th: Schedule is out, registration is open

October 15th: Camera-ready papers due