Deb Goodkin

Now in its 30th year, the FreeBSD Open Source Operating System is one of the oldest, largest, and most successful open source projects, with a long history of innovation. It is a free Unix-like operating system descended from Research Unix via the Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD), also known as “Berkeley Unix.” Known for its reliability, stability, and advanced networking and performance, FreeBSD also provides an opportunity to dive into the workings of a complete operating system as well as the chance to collaborate with a welcoming and inclusive community in a flat development model. In this track, we would like to begin with a brief “Introduction to FreeBSD” presentation followed by a hands-on, getting started workshop. The workshop portion will cover setting up FreeBSD with a desktop environment and how to get a web browser installed. Next, we’ll walk through the FreeBSD Jail system for managing separate FreeBSD environments within an existing FreeBSD install that allows folks to isolate programs from one another. The goal of the workshop is for everyone to leave with their own FreeBSD virtual machine that they can continue to learn on/develop on.

Other people: Drew Gurkowski

The FreeBSD Foundation has been supporting the FreeBSD Project and community for 20 years! In this talk, I'm going to share a little history of FreeBSD and the Foundation, how the Project works, and why you should get involved. I'll continue to share how the Foundation has been advocating for FreeBSD around the world, and what you can do to help bring on new users and contributors. Finally, I'll cover significant projects we are supporting to keep FreeBSD relevant, stable, and secure.

FreeBSD is 25 years old! Learn the history of FreeBSD, why its use is increasing, and why you should use and/or contribute to FreeBSD!

The FreeBSD Foundation was founded in 2000, initially to own the FreeBSD trademarks and intellectual property. Over the past 17 years, we’ve grown from being run by 3 volunteer board members, to a team of 9 staff members, and 8 volunteer board members. My presentation will cover a little bit of our history, what’s our purpose, the key areas we focus on and why, and how we are making this a better world, by supporting FreeBSD, the community, and the overall open source ecosystem.

The purpose of my talk is to tell the BSD community about the work we are doing, and what we can do to help them. I will address the key areas we focus on and highlight the work we did in 2017, and why it was important to keeping FreeBSD relevant and innovative. I will have a Q&A session at the end, so attendees can ask questions about the Foundation, and what they'd like to see us working on in 2018. This will be a good opportunity to have a face-to-face dialogue with community members we don't normally get to talk to in person.