The conference is over, and it's time to return to the mundane. It was a good time - formal talks, social activity and lots of idea exchanges. Actually a very good time. If I was independently wealthy, I'd probably spend most of my time attending conferences. I hear BSDCan 2010 will be on for next year, so at the very least I have that to look forward to.
I did not attend any of the highly technical presentations, as I'm effectively a BSD newbie (well, I used it for years in the 80's), but I don't really have much experience with the modern versions. That is a task for this year. I have the iso images, vmware, enough physical machines to brown out the neighborhood and time to learn.
I've been lurking for ages and not really gotten involved except at the periphery, so it's time to jump in and help out. I guess I should play up my strengths first and get involved on the sysadmin side and see where that leads me. Could be fun, might be more work, but I will not know until I get started. Cat and Leslie's talk on open source involvement was enough to get the desire woken up, so it's time to see if I can contribute something other than the occasional blog post.
Not too much to say beyond that. I spent a lot more time talking with the attendees than I normally do, so I never managed to take my plethora of photos. I think I only have 13 that were even worth posting and some of them are a little out of focus. Next year I'll do better.
It appears that I only blog here around BSDCan. I'll have to do something about that someday.
As of Monday, it's back to freelance consulting. I've left the corporate world behind again and I am going back into the trenches. It was a good year and a bit, but the security work never managed to be the real focus of the job.
Enough of that noise. BSDCan 2009 - a little smaller this year, might be something to do with the economic downturn or whatever buzzword meets your requirement for defining the rather "interesting" situation we all find ourselves in these days.
Today was the second day of tutorials, and official registration day for the conference. Dan managed to do an excellent job again of getting this set up and running, I don't know where he finds the time.
I managed to attend Michael Lucas' netflow session and it was very informative. I could have used the info about 3 months ago - better late than never.
Tomorrow should be a full day and there are lots of sessions. Even if you don't attend, the list of events is pretty impressive. Check it out at http://www.bsdcan.org
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