Birds-of-a-Feather Sessions (BoFs)
Do you have a topic that you'd like to discuss with others? The always-popular
evening Birds-of-a-Feather Sessions are very informal gatherings of persons
interested in a particular topic. BoFs are open to all attendees. Topics are
announced at the conference.
BoFs are available on the following evenings of our Conference:
Tuesday, June 8, 6:00pm - 10:00pm
Wednesday*, June 9, 7:00pm - 11:00pm
Thursday, June 10, 6:00pm - 10:00pm
*Please remember that USENIX will hold their reception at the Monterey Bay
Aquarium from 8pm - 10pm on Wednesday.
It is not too late to schedule a BoF session. Contact the USENIX Conference
Office at conference@usenix.org or
telephone 949.588.8649 to make arrangements.
Pre-Scheduled BoFs to Date (as of June 10, 1999)
Tuesday, June 8, 1999
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6:00pm - 7:00pm
Beowulf Transparent Process Migration
Jeff Moyer, Compaq
San Carlos II, Marriott Hotel
MOTSS
Josh Simon, Collective Technologies
Santa Barbara Room, Marriott Hotel
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6:00pm - 8:00pm
Programming ACEnic Drivers and Firmware
Ted Schroeder, Alteon WebSystems
Los Angeles Room, Marriott Hotel
Perl
Tom Christiansen, Author and Lecturer
San Carlos I, Marriott Hotel
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| | 7:00pm - 8:00pm
Web Enable Applications Without Touching Your Code
Rob Currey, GraphOn Corp
Santa Barbara Room, Marriott Hotel
File System Futures
Mark Maybee, Sun Microsystems
San Carlos II, Marriott Hotel
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| | 8:00pm - 9:00pm
Open Meeting with the USENIX Board of Directors
USENIX Board of Directors
San Carlos II, Marriott Hotel
Threads
Bil Lewis, Lambda Computer Science
Los Angeles Room, Marriott Hotel
Distributed File Systems AFS/DFS/CODA
Frank Guarino, JPL
Santa Barbara Room, Marriott Hotel
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| | 8:00pm - 10:00pm
Tcl/Tk
John Ousterhout, Scriptics Corporation
San Carlos I, Marriott Hotel
NetBSD
David Brownlee, The NetBSD Project
San Carlos III, Marriott Hotel
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| | 9:00pm - 10:00pm
Alpha Linux
Eric Bohm, MEDE America
San Carlos II, Marriott Hotel
Free Software: Saving the World and Making Money at the Same Time?
Brock Lynn, Louisiana State University
Los Angeles Room, Marriott Hotel
Arla/AFS and Heimdal/Kerberos
Assar Westerlund, Swedish Institute of Computer Science
Santa Barbara Room, Marriott Hotel
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Wednesday, June 9, 1999
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Open Source: Open for Business?
Annelise Anderson, Stanford University
San Carlos IV, Marriott Hotel
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| | 10:00pm - 11:00pm
International Obfuscated C Code Contest
Landon Curt Noll, IOCC
San Carlos IV, Marriott Hotel
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Thursday, June 10, 1999
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The Internet Software Consortium DHCP Distribution
Ted Lemon, Internet Engines, Inc.
San Carlos I, Marriott Hotel
Update on Standards
Nick Stoughton, USENIX Standard Liaison
Santa Barbara Room, Marriott Hotel
FreeBSD Project
Jordan Hubbard, FreeBSD Project
San Carlos III, Marriott Hotel
SourceXchange: How to Get Paid for Open Source Development
Brian Behlendorf, New Ventures, O'Reilly & Associates
San Carlos IV, Marriott Hotel
LDAP
Branson Matheson, Ferguson Enterprises
Bonsai I, DoubleTree Hotel
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| | 6:00pm - 8:00pm
The Bazaar and Cathedral in Symbiosis
Ron Record, SCO
Co-hosted by the open source development community
San Carlos II, Marriott Hotel
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| | 7:00pm - 8:00pm
SAGE
Peg Schafer, SAGE Executive Committee
San Carlos I, Marriott Hotel
Fifteen Years of Free Software: From Old to GNU
Robert Chassell and Miguel de Icaza, Free Software Foundation
San Carlos IV, Marriott Hotel
The Daemon News, BSD Online Magazine
Chris Coleman, Editor, Daemon News
Bonsai III, DoubleTree Hotel
Secure Linux Distribution
Jon Lasser, Univ. of Maryland, Baltimore County
Los Angeles Room, Marriott Hotel
XFree86 - moving towards version 4.0
Dirk Hohndel, SuSE
San Carlos III, Marriott Hotel
BSDI Update
Mike Karels, Berkeley Software Design, Inc.
Santa Barbara Room, Marriott Hotel
DEBIAN
Steve McIntyre, Allstor Software
Bonsai I, DoubleTree Hotel
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OpenBSD
Theo De Raadt, OpenBSD
San Carlos II, Marriott Hotel
Legends of USENET and IRC
Josh Geller, African Sky Internet
Bonsai III, DoubleTree Hotel
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A History of UNIX at Berkeley
Marshall Kirk McKusick, Author and Lecturer
Serra Grand Ballroom II, Monterey Conference Center
Linux
Linus Torvalds, Transmeta
Jon "maddog" Hall, Linux International
Serra Grand Ballroom I, Monterey Conference Center
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| | 9:00pm - 10:00pm
Bwana Internet
Josh Geller, African Sky Internet
Bonsai III, DoubleTree Hotel
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