Confidence 2007 Flashback
Tyrel from SitesCollide did an Interview with me during Confidence 2007. Here is a direct link to the mp3.
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Review of Confidence 2007
It was my first time at the Confidence Conference. I was invited a long time ago and asked to give a talk. Confidence takes place in Krakow, Poland. I flew there from Hamburg on thursday, May 9th. On purpose I flew there a bit early, to have time to walk around in Krakow on friday. Andrzej, one of the organizers of Confidence, picked me up at the airport. The organizers booked an apartment right downtown at market square. It was an awesome idea to have an appartment right there, instead of staying at the conference hotel. First evening we went out for food and drinks with some of the other speakers. Of course the organizers introduced us to the nice vodka poland has :). We went to a Jazz Bar and once the band was done playing, one of the other speakers went up to the drummer and started talking to him. Before we knew it, we heard a short, but very nice drum solo played by one of the speakers of confidence. Dinis Cruz is one of the brains behind OWASP.Throughout the conference Dinis and I had various very interesting discussions. Dinis gave a talk on ASP.NET Security. Since I usually avoid Windows territory, it was a very interesting talk indeed. Dinis has fair clue about Security Design, Handling security issues and the associated politics with it. As I said, lots of interesting talks we had.
Friday was spent mostly with walking around and meeting with people I knew from previous conferences.
Saturday the conference started, it was a tad chaotic, yet it was obvious that the organizers put lots of effort into this their conference. The agenda had quite a few interesting items on it. One of the talks that I reallly did not want to miss, was the talk on VoIP Security by Shawn Merdinger. However, it seemed that Shawn was missing in action. Turned out, someone gave him a tad too much of the goooood polish vodka :)
The talk was moved to sunday, right after my talk. Sadly, I had to give an interview after my talk so I missed it :/
Wim gave a talk about OpenBSD deployed on Soekris, it was entitled “Calorie restricted OpenBSD”.
My talk was on “Secure Roaming for the modern Roadwarrior”. For some reasons, I was not really able to focus on my talk (too much of the polish vodka too?), yet the people seemed to have liked it. I’ve put the slides online.
All in all Confidence is a very nice conference to attend, the organizers are trying to move it to be more international, speaker- and attendee-wise.
I’m very much looking forward to Confidence 2008, I will definitly be there.
Conferences
Two weeks ago the Linux-Informationstag Oldenburg happened here. Despite the really good weather, lots of people came, visited the booths and attended the talks. On Saturday I gave a talk about “OpenBSD - Past, Present and Future”. Basically this was the same talk I gave at LinuxForum 2007. The crowd really liked it and I was amazed that everyone in the audience knew what OpenBSD was. For the talk, I translated the slides from LinuxForum (and had to correct them numerous time, thanks to Tobias Stoeckmann who kept finding grammar and spelling mistakes in them). The slides are available here.
The next upcoming conference is Confidence 2007 in Krakow, Poland. Of course I will be giving a talk, as well as a tutorial/workshop on deploying and using OpenBSD on Soekris appliances.
I’ve never been to Krakow, so I am really looking forward to this.
slides from talk at LinuxForum 2007
The slides from my talk OpenBSD - Past, Present and Future at LinuxForum 2007 are available here.
Linuxforum 2007
This year’s Linuxforum will happen on March, 2nd and 3rd in Copenhagen, Denmark. I’ve been told that this is a fantastic conference to attend. I was supposed to give a talk last year, that Wim had to substitute for me, as I had too much work to deal with.
However, this year I will there and will give a talk with the title OpenBSD - Past, Present and Future. So, come and see me!
slides from my opencon talk
finally I unslacked and put the slides from my OpenCON 2006 talk online. Subject of my talk was ‘3G Technology and OpenBSD’. The slides can be found here. OpenCON is a very nice conference completly dedicated to OpenBSD. The conference takes place in Venice and is organized by the cool guys from the OpenBEER OpenBSD usergroup. Make sure to put OpenCON 2007 on your agenda, it is definitly worth the trip, especially since this is one of the conferences with a high percentage of OpenBSD developers, quite few of them giving talks, just check out the OpenCON 2006 list of talks on the events.html page from OpenBSD: events.html.
Confidence 2007
I’ve been invited to speak at the third Edition of the Conference Confidence 2007 which happens on May 12th and 13th 2007 in Krakow, Poland. Am not yet sure, what topic I will cover, but as the deadline
for the papers approaches, I’ll get going on that soon.
