Submissions for the EuroBSDCon 2026 Paul Schenkeveld Travel Grant closes on the 1st of February.
When you know someone who can use the support please let them know!
https://github.com/curl/curl/pull/20312
There, now you know.
@bagder the AI talk at #EuroBSDcon was hilarious, though. But I'm sure you'll always have something to talk about. Hope, this will calm BS submissions down a bit.
Submissions for the EuroBSDCon 2026 Paul Schenkeveld Travel Grant closes on the 1st of February.
When you know someone who can use the support please let them know!
Our latest EuroBSDCon trip report from Leah Budzicka highlights continued interest in FreeBSD among newer and younger developers. Leah discovered the Foundation’s travel grant opportunity on Mastodon, attended the conference through Foundation support, and shared their experience with the broader community.
Read Leah’s report here:
https://freebsdfoundation.org/blog/2025-eurobsdcon-trip-report-leah-budzicka/
If you’re new to FreeBSD, we welcome you to explore the Project. What questions do you have about getting involved?
Our latest EuroBSDCon trip report from Leah Budzicka highlights continued interest in FreeBSD among newer and younger developers. Leah discovered the Foundation’s travel grant opportunity on Mastodon, attended the conference through Foundation support, and shared their experience with the broader community.
Read Leah’s report here:
https://freebsdfoundation.org/blog/2025-eurobsdcon-trip-report-leah-budzicka/
If you’re new to FreeBSD, we welcome you to explore the Project. What questions do you have about getting involved?
@dexter It's a mix of the three factors you mentioned.
But in both: the talks and the hallway track something I enjoyed is seeing the incredible setups many had on their machine and their skill in doing amazing things at lighting speed they showed. In my circles I'm considered very good with Unix but I know that I'm still far from mastery. Observing people at the #EuroBSDCon showed me part of the way towards it.
@stefano Looking forward to your article.
This year, at my my first #EuroBSDCon, I learned more in two relaxed days of conference than I could have done in 100 hours on the average IT training courses. Not only because of talks but even in all the stimulating conversations I had and by observing expert #Unix people working.
@emilianosandri @stefano I have heard variations on that comment for years.
I’m curious what factors are most educational?
The questions answered?
The talk content?
The hallway track content?
Something else?
@dexter It's a mix of the three factors you mentioned.
But in both: the talks and the hallway track something I enjoyed is seeing the incredible setups many had on their machine and their skill in doing amazing things at lighting speed they showed. In my circles I'm considered very good with Unix but I know that I'm still far from mastery. Observing people at the #EuroBSDCon showed me part of the way towards it.
I'm still writing my 'memoirs' of EuroBSDCon 2025. It's difficult to move forward because the emotions are strong. Computer science has always been my passion, and being among fantastic people like those I meet at the BSD Conferences is always something incredible. And, like all impactful experiences, you often need a little time to avoid sounding like those TV hucksters who are just trying to sell or convince.
Because true, genuine feelings deserve the right importance, in a world increasingly made up of appearances.
@stefano Looking forward to your article.
This year, at my my first #EuroBSDCon, I learned more in two relaxed days of conference than I could have done in 100 hours on the average IT training courses. Not only because of talks but even in all the stimulating conversations I had and by observing expert #Unix people working.
I'm still writing my 'memoirs' of EuroBSDCon 2025. It's difficult to move forward because the emotions are strong. Computer science has always been my passion, and being among fantastic people like those I meet at the BSD Conferences is always something incredible. And, like all impactful experiences, you often need a little time to avoid sounding like those TV hucksters who are just trying to sell or convince.
Because true, genuine feelings deserve the right importance, in a world increasingly made up of appearances.
RE: https://mastodon.social/@pitrh/115509098143295810
The BSD conferences are magical. The atmosphere is friendly. It's a family - a good one - with different views but a common goal: making great things, making smart choices in a positive environment.
#RunBSD #FreeBSD #NetBSD #OpenBSD #EuroBSDCon #BSDCan #AsiaBSDCon
RE: https://mastodon.social/@pitrh/115509098143295810
The BSD conferences are magical. The atmosphere is friendly. It's a family - a good one - with different views but a common goal: making great things, making smart choices in a positive environment.
#RunBSD #FreeBSD #NetBSD #OpenBSD #EuroBSDCon #BSDCan #AsiaBSDCon
I am kinda planning the upcoming months and the next year.
Any conferences you think I should put on my radar? Would love to speak more about decomputing/active luddism and tech.
@tante Maybe we could try for a #EuroBSDcon keynote again?
Oh?
OH?
Russia could lose Koenigsberg over its fetish over Ukraine?
I confess I have only spent about 30 minutes there seated on an airBaltic plane en route to #EuroBSDcon on a literal airstrip but… yeah. I can see that.
Don't be a fool (like I was) when it comes to #jails on #FreeBSD. I ignored them despite using FreeBSD for decades, because I had no problem that could not be solved w/o them and thought "why learn yet another technology I barely need".
But it's not only about solving problems. It gives you a super lightweight and fast tool to test things (and trashing 🗑️ them with zfs destroy) without cluttering your configs or interfering with production services.
E.g. I hesitated to run a webserver for publishing content because I didn't want a publicly accessible Apache on my mail relays, nor on my Nextcloud instance at home.
With jails, the MX is left unmodified. If I feel like it I could move it to a different system just using tar or cpio or zfs send.
All I needed to accomplish that was a few shell scripts to initially generate a jail template and, of course, the invaluable book "FreeBSD Mastery: Jails" of @mwl .
What motivated me to get started? All the
speakers at #EuroBSDCon showing what incredible things they do with Jails. Especially >>IMUNES: A Network Emulation and Simulation Tool Built on FreeBSD<<.
If you want to watch the IMUNES talk you can find the link on my jailed webserver 😉 here https://pub.v32bis.cc/eurobsdcon.html
Don't be a fool (like I was) when it comes to #jails on #FreeBSD. I ignored them despite using FreeBSD for decades, because I had no problem that could not be solved w/o them and thought "why learn yet another technology I barely need".
But it's not only about solving problems. It gives you a super lightweight and fast tool to test things (and trashing 🗑️ them with zfs destroy) without cluttering your configs or interfering with production services.
E.g. I hesitated to run a webserver for publishing content because I didn't want a publicly accessible Apache on my mail relays, nor on my Nextcloud instance at home.
With jails, the MX is left unmodified. If I feel like it I could move it to a different system just using tar or cpio or zfs send.
All I needed to accomplish that was a few shell scripts to initially generate a jail template and, of course, the invaluable book "FreeBSD Mastery: Jails" of @mwl .
What motivated me to get started? All the
speakers at #EuroBSDCon showing what incredible things they do with Jails. Especially >>IMUNES: A Network Emulation and Simulation Tool Built on FreeBSD<<.
If you want to watch the IMUNES talk you can find the link on my jailed webserver 😉 here https://pub.v32bis.cc/eurobsdcon.html
I updated the #EuroBSDCon 2025 video index:
- all talks now have a description link
- computed human readable times from seconds
