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2004 USENIX Annual Technical Conference, June 27-July 2, 2004, Boston Marriott Copley Place, Boston, MA
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  BIRDS-OF-A-FEATHER SESSIONS (BOFS)

Birds-of-a-Feather sessions (BoFs) are informal gatherings organized by attendees interested in a particular topic. BoFs are open to the general public. Register onsite at the dates and times listed here. NOTE: If you have already registered for the conference, you do not need to register for the open sessions.

To schedule a BoF and to see the latest schedule, check out the BoF boards in the registration area.

BoF Schedule (Current as of July 1, 2004)

Monday, June 28
ROOM # of Seats 7:00–8:00 p.m. 8:00–9:00 p.m. 9:00–10:00 p.m. 10:00–11:00 p.m. 11:00 p.m.–12:00 a.m.
Salon A/B 75
CAcert BoF ROOM NOT AVAILABLE
Salon C/D 75
GAWK—GNU Awk
Arnold Robbins, Pioneer Consulting Ltd., the GAWK Maintainer
       
Salon E 300
ROOM NOT AVAILABLE Panel: SCO and the Challenge for Open Source ROOM NOT AVAILABLE
Salon F 300
SAGE     ROOM NOT AVAILABLE
Harvard 75
An Update on Standards—A Look at What's Happening in the World of Formal Standards: POSIX, C, and the LBS. An IOS Standard Linux? A POSIX Conformant Linux? The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Nick Stoughton, USENIX Standard Liaison
       
Simmons 65          
Suffolk 60          
Wellesley 65          
Tuesday, June 29
ROOM # of Seats 7:00–8:00 p.m. 8:00–9:00 p.m. 9:00–10:00 p.m. 10:00–11:00 p.m. 11:00 p.m.–12:00 a.m.
Salon A/B 75
Locking Down Enterprise KDE & KDE 3.3.3 Preview for Administrators
Ian Reinhart Geiser, KDE Developer
     
Salon C/D 75
Sendmail BoF
Sender Authentication

Murray Kucherawy & Eric Allman
       
Salon E 300
ROOM NOT AVAILABLE History of UNIX
Marshall Kirk McKusick and Peter H. Salus
ROOM NOT AVAILABLE
Salon F 300
      ROOM NOT AVAILABLE
Harvard 75
Linux on Opteron
Best Practices Discussion

Quentin Fennessy
LinuxBIOS BOF
Ron Minnich, Los Alamos National Lab
   
Simmons 65 Switching to Open Source from Windows
Sonny Davis
       
Suffolk 60 Red Hat Enterprise and Fedora Users
Joshua Jensen
       
Wellesley 65 End to End Performance Monitoring
Do You Feel the Users' Pain?

Nora Davis
     
Wednesday, June 30
ROOM # of Seats 7:00–8:00 p.m. 8:00–9:00 p.m. 9:00–10:00 p.m. 10:00–11:00 p.m. 11:00 p.m.–12:00 a.m.
Salon A/B 75
Discussing the FlightGear Flight Simulator
Alexander Perry, Developer
Log File Analysis
What Tools Do You Use? Are They Good Enough? If There Could Be a New Tool, What Would You Want from It? (An Open Discussion)
   
Salon C/D 75
  Wireless (Community) BoF
Rudi VanDrunen, Wireless Leiden, The Netherlands
Solaris Community BoF
- with Dtrace Kernel Engineers (Brian Cantril, Mike Shapiro, Adam Levinthal)
- and Peter Baer Galvin
Free Beer, Beverages, & Giveaways

Eric Boutilier and Alan Duboff, Solaris x86 Engineering, Sun Microsystems
 
Harvard 75
Red Hat Clustering: Using Open Source to Build High Availability, Data Sharing Clusters with Red Hat GFS and Cluster Suite
Matthew O'Keefe, Red Hat
Plan 9 BoF
Ron Minnich, Los Alamos National Labs
   
Simmons 65 Q & A with the Free Software Foundation
Bradley Kuhn, Executive Director, Free Software Foundation
Port Knocking
Intro to PK
PK: Obscurity or Security
PK: Towards a Robust Implementation
PK: Personal Experience

Martin Krzywinski, Genome Sciences Centre
     
Suffolk 60   Open Source PBX - The Flexible and Cheap Alternative (Asterisk, Linux)
Peter Svenson, Wayfinder Systems AB
     
Wellesley 65   LGBT & Friends AFS
A Free Distributed Secure Filesystem

Moose
   
Thursday, July 1
ROOM # of Seats 7:00–8:00 p.m. 8:00–9:00 p.m. 9:00–10:00 p.m. 10:00–11:00 p.m. 11:00 p.m.–12:00 a.m.
Salon A/B 75
Debian GNU/Linux
Bring Your GPG Fingerprints

Alex Perry, User/Administrator
PGP Keysigning      
Salon C/D 75
  CAcert.org
Open Discussion on Security
- Policies
- Web of Trust
- Servicing Companies
- Association Rules & Policies
- Finances
- Security Root Certificates
- Chicken and Egg Problems with Security
- Open Source Security
   
Salon E 300
Super Linux Users Group Meeting Linux BoF
Theodore Ts'o and Jon "maddog" Hall
ROOM NOT AVAILABLE
Salon F 300
ROOM NOT AVAILABLE
Harvard 75
  The Linux from Scratch Project
Bruce Dubbs, linuxfromscratch.org
     
Simmons 65   freedesktop.org
Keith Packard
     
Suffolk 60          
Wellesley 65   An Exchange of Personal Views Regarding the Role of Government, If Any, in IT
Richard Lamb (a geek trying to understand policy), US State Department
     

CAcert BoF
Monday, June 28, 2004, 7:00 p.m.–9:00 p.m., Salon A/B

PKI found a new voice in nonprofit, "Community-Based" Certificate Authority CAcert.org. The premise? Digital certificates—server, client, code-signing. Free. Thanks to NLnet's generosity, the entire Board is coming to USENIX '04 to meet users, distribute certificates, and talk security. First 65,000 people who visit their info table win free SSL certificates! Come to the BoF followed by the CAcert open Board meeting from 9:00 p.m. to 12:00 midnight.

Super Linux Users Group Meeting
Thursday, July 1, 2004, 7:00 p.m.–9:00 p.m., Salon E

Jeff Hawkins (Vice President of Novell's Linux Business Office) will be discussing Novell's strategies and plans with Linux, and Miguel de Icaza will be discussing his latest project, Mono, with its goals and current status. Miguel will also discuss the future of GNOME and the desktop.
 

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