BAFUG History

Following is a list of past meetings/events for which we've found specific Web pages. There have been many other meetings. (Hyperlinks within these archived pages are often broken because of relative pathing. Sorry.)

• April 1997: Initial BAFUG meeting, at Internet Alfredo in S.F.
• May 1997: 2nd BAFUG meeting, at Internet Alfredo.
• July 1997: 3rd BAFUG meeting, at Silicon Reef in S.F.
• August 1997: 4th BAFUG meeting, at Silicon Reef.
• September 1997: 5th BAFUG meeting, at Silicon Reef.
• December 1997: 6th BAFUG meeting, at Silicon Reef.
• January 1998: Held at Whistle Communications, in Foster City.
• March 1998: Held at Silicon Reef.
• April 1998 : Held at Silicon Reef.
• May 1998: Paul Vixie on DNS and DNS blocklists, Ian Kallen and Josef Grosch on the upcoming Install-a-thon. Held at Silicon Reef.
• June 1998: Brian Behlendorf on Apache httpd 1.3, Ian Kallen and Josef Grosch on the upcoming Install-a-thon. Held at Silicon Reef.
• August 1998: Open discussion at Silicon Reef.
• February 1999: Windows Refund Day.
• February 1999: Jordan Hubbard on 3.0 release, ELF, plans for IPv6 and other things in 3.x. Joe Grosch and Nicole Harrington on the Install-a-thon. Julian Elischer on Netgraph. Held at Silicon Reef.
• April 1999: Bob Bruce about Walnut Creek CD-ROM and FreeBSD, Josef Grosch on the upcoming Install-a-thon. Held at Silicon Reef.
• August 1999: Install-a-thon.
• September 1999: Install-a-thon.
• January 2000: Install-a-thons.
• February 2000: Install-a-thon.
• April 2000: Open discussion at Whistle Communications, Foster City. Install-a-thon planning.
• May 2000: Open discussion at the Berkeley meeting site (Transbay/UC Computers), Install-a-thon planning.
• May 2000: Panel discussion (Josef Grosch, Nicole Harrington, and Rick Moen) comparing Linux and FreeBSD, Install-a-thon planning. Held at Whistle.
• June 2000: Install-a-thon.
• June 2000: Panel discussion, on tuning your kernel, held at Whistle. Install-a-thon planning.
• January 2001: Introduction to BIND9, held at Whistle. Install-a-thon planning.
• April 2001: Install-a-thon.
• June 2001: Open discussion at the Whistle and Transbay meeting sites. Install-a-thon planning.
• September 2001: Annelise Anderson, on her book FreeBSD: An Open-Source Operating System for Your PC, at Whistle. Open discussion at the Transbay meeting site. Install-a-thon planning.
• October 2001: Open discussion at the Transbay meeting site.
• November 2001: Open discussion at the Whistle and Transbay meeting sites. Install-a-thon planning.
• December 2001: Rich Morin on the Meta Project, the FreeBSD Browser, and the new DOSSIER series of documentation collections, at new meeting site, Peter's Cafe, Millbrae.
• January 2002: Greg Sutter, discussing the decision by Wind River to turn over FreeBSD's copyright and trademark title to FreeBSDmall.com, and what this means to Daemon News. Held at Peter's Cafe.
• June 2002: Open discussion at Peter's Cafe and Transbay.
• July 2002: Josef Grosch on basic setup of DHCP and DNS. Held at Peter's Cafe.
• September 2002: Open discussion at Peter's Cafe.
• November 2002: Open discussion at Peter's Cafe.
• January 2003: Chris Coleman and Greg Sutter on what's been happening at Daemon News, at Peter's Cafe.
• March 2003: Group discussion on the possibility of BAFUG "going into hibernation". It did not. Held at Peter's Cafe.
• June 2003: Tim Kientzle, "Samba: A Practical Introduction". Held at Peter's Cafe.
• July 2003: Paul Fronberg and David Wolfskill lead a discussion of how to install newly released versions 4.8 and 5.1, with particular attention to configuring XFree86 and getting the optimal system settings. Held at Peter's Cafe.
• October 2003: Speakers from Vovida.org spoke about Vovida Open Communication Application Library (VOCAL), an open-source project targeted at facilitating the adoption of VoIP in the marketplace.
• November 2003: Gregory Gilliss spoke on general computer security, and touched on the Community Based Open Source (CBOSS) FreeBSD security initiative. Held at Peter's Cafe.
• December 2003: Ryan Lackey and Tom Sparks on "FreeBSD Routers, Firewalls and Application Proxies". Held at Peter's Cafe.
• January 2004: Matt Dillon on DragonFly BSD. Held at Peter's Cafe.
• May 2004: Vipul Ved Prakash on Vipul's Razor. Held at Peter's Cafe.
• October 2004: Open discussion at Peter's Cafe.
• November 2005: Igor Sviridov and Dmitry Kohmanyuk on FilmLoop, Inc.'s PXE/autoinstall infrastructure, and its novel jail cluster infrastructure.
• December 2005: Julian Elischer on Netgraph in FreeBSD 5.x and Beyond: What's New and Why. First meeting held at IronPort Systems in San Bruno, also changing BAFUG-SF's meeting date from 2nd Thursdays to 1st Wednesdays.
• February 2006: Peter Wemm on the AMD-64 and EMT-64 architectures. How they differ from X86 and how that affects FreeBSD. Also, "Running FreeBSD on the x-64 architectures."
• March 2006: Sam Leffler on WiFi on BSD.
• April 2006: Round-table discussion on "6.1 is out (almost); why go to 6.x, and what's new."
• May 2006: Nate Lawson on ACPI, and Alan Cox on the FreeBSD VM subsystem
• July 2006: Tim Kientzler on "Rewriting tar, and What Came of That"