It is time for the quarterly meeting. While there are no topics bubbling to the top, feel free to bring questions, ideas, hardware, etc.
Hopefully you have looked at the schedule for
BSDCan this year. There are quite a few interesting talks scheduled. One such talk, if you ever used Minix, is a talk on a reimplementation of NetBSD using a MicroKernel by Andy Tanenbaum. Check out the schedule and remember that BSDCan is in June this year.
Meetings for 2015 will be in January, April, July and October. If anyone has a great topic and wants to schedule a meeting in between, feel free to send an email to the mailing list and I’m sure we can make it happen.
This is in response to the dwindling number of people who have been attending meetings over the past year and rather than try to get people out every month, I’ll try for once a quarter. If this doesn’t help, I’ll combine the BSD group with another group and see if we get a little more activity that way. Comments are welcome.
It has been a little busy lately and I’ve been away for the past two meeting periods. I’m planning on being at the December meeting at our normal time.
Topics:
- FreeBSD 10.1 is out. Anyone tried it yet?
- If anyone noticed, BSDCan will be in June in 2015
- New model RaspberryPi units have come out, the A+ is quite inexpensive and has a lot of GPIO pins (no network though, unless you want to use a USB network adapter)
- iX Systems (FreeNAS, PC-BSD) was at LISA’14, as well as the FreeBSD foundation.
No meeting this month.
As we discussed last meeting, we are going to see about doing something technical at a different venue. Unfortunately, I didn’t have a chance to get the alternative location booked, so no meeting this month.
Thursday is the second Thursday of the month, so that means it is monthly meeting night.
It has been a quiet summer, so not much to talk about so far.
Topics:
- Upcoming installfest at Jack Purcell Center
- Group future activities, maybe a venue change?