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It's that time of the year when Ottawa is hotter than here. Last year, at BSDCan, the weather was perfect. I'm still sad that I can't make it this year, but there's always next year. If you can, go. You won't regret it!#BSDCan #RunBSD

Announcing #BSDCan 2026 Travel GrantsDeadline: Friday the 19th!To encourage and enable more first-time and returning attendees at BSDCan 2026, this year’s travel grant is a free room for up to five nights in a shared-bathroom private suite at the 90U residences.Full details:https://blog.bsdcan.org/2026/05/14/announcing-bsdcan-2026-travel-grants#FreeBSD #NetBSD #OpenBSD

What happens when you write to /dev/null ? You can find out by attending this talk given by Martin Vahlensieck at BSDCan 2026.Registration: https://www.bsdcan.org/2026/registration.htmlScedule: https://www.bsdcan.org/2026/timetable/timetable-all.html#BSD #OpenSource #BSDCan

Worried about time? BSDCan early registration ends April 30th! Worried about network time? Henning Brauer is giving the talk: OpenNTPD - 20 years and a few milliseconds later at BSDCan 2026:OpenNTPD hit the OpenBSD CVS in late 2004. Now, 20 years and a few milliseconds later, it's time to look back, how it was received, and what changed.We'll briefly look at the world 20 years wrt having systems' clocks synchronized (or not), the design of OpenNTPD and how it fundamentally differed from everything around back then, and how it was - intentionally or not - misunderstood by some with very little knowledge but a lot of opinion, and how FUD from 20 years ago is still around. We'll cover what changed in OpenNTPD after it went public, and what changed in OpenBSD to increase accuracy substantially. We'll also cover the later added constraint feature to further defend against getting fed incorrect time.#OpenNTPD #bsdcan #openbsd #cvs #time

For anyone planning to go to BSDCan 2026, please remember early registration period ends this Thursday April 30th. Early registration comes with free ticket to the Saturday reception. Don't miss out! Register today!https://www.bsdcan.org/2026/registration.html#main#bsdcan #runbsd

Would you like to get more out of bsddialog(3)?BSDCan has a tutorial for that:Introduction to TUI Programming using bsddialog with Benedict ReuschlingThursday 2026-06-18: 13:00 - 16:00Shell scripts have a bad reputation when it comes to usability and eye candy. Modern users find a blinking cursor on a a black screen leaves a lot to be desired when having to interact with a shell script. In this tutorial, we will create shell scripts that look like a GUI application: with buttons to press, input fields, select boxes and animated progress bars. These so called TUI (text user interfaces) programs still use shell script functionality as the backend, but are lightweight enough to not introduce too much overhead. Users will appreciate the ease of use of your shell scripts and you can rely on them to give you the data and visualizations you to need. At the same time, the TUI application is not difficult to learn and implement into existing scripts.More info:https://www.bsdcan.org/2026/timetable/timetable-Introduction-to-TUI.html#unix #tui #shellscript #runbsd #bsdcan

The great #BSDCan is just around the corner.Unfortunately, I won't be able to attend, this year.But if you can - I'd warmly suggest to do it!https://my-notes.dragas.net/2025/06/17/where-have-you-been-for-the-last-20-years/

@philvuchetich , you bring up a good point and a problem we have solved at other conferences. For OpenZFS Portland 2025 myself, @dexter and additional AV volunteers put together a very smooth solution and had very happy Europeans and an Aussie fully participating to the point that it felt like they were in the room with us. We had break out sessions led by an offsite person and it was all very effective. It also takes lots of management,setup time, hardware, and effort however. While I am not at all opposed to the idea of streaming the tutorial(s), we would Need to have a full (er)AV team onsite days earlier than we have already have planned and purchased tickets for and we would certainly need additional hardware. Especially since we are supporting 2 Dev Summits @bsdcan this year: @FreeBSDFoundation and @netbsd @oxyhyxo @pitrh #runbsd #netbsd #freebsd