BSCan 2012 - Trip report

Salve a tutti,
come forse saprete ad Ottawa in Canada nei giorni dal 9 al 12 Maggio
si è tenuto il BSDCan 2012.
Credo il più grande evento a livello internazionale per il mondo BSD.
Il nostro grande amico Massimiliano Stucchi si era promesso di fare un report
dell'evento allegando tanto di foto dei cinque (si avete letto bene
cinque) italiani presenti
alla manifestazione e di condividerlo sulle mailing list del GUFI.
Visto che il report tarda ad arrivare nel frattempo spero non vi dispiaccia se
vi mando il mio di report, visto che sono stato molto fortunato a
poter essere presente di persona.

Se avete domande sarò felice di rispondervi.

--
Gianni


TRIP REPORT

First of all a huge thank you to the FreeBSD foundation. Without your help
I couldn't have afford the travel. I was very happy to use my paid vacation
days to attend the developer summit and BSDCan 2012.
I arrived in Ottawa at 8th of May in the evening and went to
Royal Oak where I met a lot of FreeBSD developers, they are
very nice and smart guys. We had a good time together.
The first day I attended the ports working group at developer summit.
It was nice to see that we aren't so far to have an external toolchain
to build ports and the new packing system looks very good and
promising. There were very good ideas for a new infrastructure of ports
system. In the evening I joined the vendor summit. It was amazing to discover
how many things vendors demand to have into FreeBSD. There is a lot of
interest about the project, especially for ZFS, DTrace and kernel internals.
The second day I joined the virtualization group. That was something
new to me and helped me to discover a new world with a lot of
challenging problems to solve.
In the evening we had reports from the other groups and then a
brainstorming session for the upcoming FreeBSD 10 version.
The first day of BSDCan I followed the talk of Kirk McKusick about
locking in the FreeBSD kernel. The topic is too hard and complex to be
understood inside a talk but Kirk gave a very clean overview of how
things work in general. Then I went to MRT 256 room where some FreeBSD
developers gave an overview of their current work on the project.
The last day was spent attending some talks in the morning and the
closing session in the evening.
After dinner we usually met at hacking lounge a room at ground floor
of "90 University" residence to hack around together. That was a great
time for me. I had the opportunity to talk in person with the other
developers and show them the project I am working on. I received feedback
and different point of views that helped me to better understand how
I can improve things.
I had the opportunity to work with Attilio Rao to make a detailed and
concrete plan to get things done. Florian Smeets offered his help to
test and benchmark the changes when they will be ready.
In the end it was a great experience to me, very inspiring. I really hope
I'll be able to return back next year.

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