From owner-freebsd-announce@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jul 13 13:18:44 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: announce@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4B22A106566C for ; Mon, 13 Jul 2009 13:18:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rwatson@FreeBSD.org) Received: from cyrus.watson.org (cyrus.watson.org [65.122.17.42]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 289008FC12 for ; Mon, 13 Jul 2009 13:18:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rwatson@FreeBSD.org) Received: from fledge.watson.org (fledge.watson.org [65.122.17.41]) by cyrus.watson.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id D153246B6C for ; Mon, 13 Jul 2009 09:18:43 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2009 14:18:43 +0100 (BST) From: Robert Watson X-X-Sender: robert@fledge.watson.org To: announce@FreeBSD.org Message-ID: User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (BSF 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Mailman-Approved-At: Mon, 13 Jul 2009 13:24:04 +0000 Cc: Subject: [FreeBSD-Announce] Announcing EuroBSCon 2009 X-BeenThere: freebsd-announce@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Project Announcements \[moderated\]" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2009 13:18:44 -0000 EuroBSDcon 2009 Friday 18th - Sunday 20th September, University of Cambridge, UK A day of tutorials followed by 2 days of conference talks covering a wide variety of BSD related topics. This is the European BSD Community's annual event to meet, share and interact across the projects and between friends. This year's line up features... * ISC and *BSD * OpenBSD malloc * How FreeBSD finds oil * NetBSD's LVM * faster packets in OpenBSD * Wireless Mesh networks * Kirk McKusick's FreeBSD Guide * and more, The full talk list and schedule: http://2009.euroBSDcon.org Discounted Early Bird registration runs until 2nd September. Book your place now at http://2009.euroBSDcon.org Final programme may be subject to alteration. EuroBSDcon is a not for profit event open to everyone so please help spread the word online and offline. Thanks for reading! If you're interested to read this far, you can sign up for future announcements about EuroBSDcons by sending an email to eurobsdcon-announce-subscribe@lists.ukuug.org . Your address will only be used to contact you about European BSD events. EuroBSDcon 2009 : September 18-20th, Cambridge, England. http://www.ukuug.org/events/eurobsdcon2009/ EuroBSDcon is grateful to our sponsors; Premier Sponsor iXsystems.com, and The FreeBSD Foundation, NetApp and Google. From owner-freebsd-announce@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jul 17 19:41:17 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-announce@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 48FF71065672 for ; Fri, 17 Jul 2009 19:41:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from deb@freebsdfoundation.org) Received: from aslan.scsiguy.com (mail.scsiguy.com [70.89.174.89]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1236C8FC08 for ; Fri, 17 Jul 2009 19:41:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from deb@freebsdfoundation.org) Received: from [192.168.16.103] (c-75-71-72-123.hsd1.co.comcast.net [75.71.72.123]) (authenticated bits=0) by aslan.scsiguy.com (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id n6HJfF2v013539 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Fri, 17 Jul 2009 13:41:16 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from deb@freebsdfoundation.org) Message-ID: <4A60D3CC.2090302@freebsdfoundation.org> Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2009 13:41:00 -0600 From: Deb Goodkin User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.22 (Windows/20090605) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-announce@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailman-Approved-At: Fri, 17 Jul 2009 20:20:23 +0000 Subject: [FreeBSD-Announce] Foundation Project Announcement X-BeenThere: freebsd-announce@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Project Announcements \[moderated\]" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2009 19:41:17 -0000 Dear FreeBSD Community, The FreeBSD Foundation is pleased to announce another funded project! Ed Schouten has been awarded a grant to write a new console driver for the FreeBSD project. We are excited to support Ed in providing a more efficient and user friendly console driver. This project will allow Ed to add an additional abstraction layer to the kernel. This new layer, the terminal layer will be a layer that sits between the TTY layer, the kernel console (cngetc, cnputc) and the actual console driver. Right now we have a terminal emulator (libteken) that is part of Syscons. This terminal emulator will be moved into this terminal layer. The advantage of having such a layer, is that the console driver itself does not have to care about any TTY semantics, streams of bytes, processing escape sequences, etc. It will just receive a set of character drawing, filling and copying actions. This should also make it easier to implement Unicode. "During this project I'm going to continue the work I did with the TTY layer, by developing a new console driver for the FreeBSD kernel," said Ed Schouten, FreeBSD Developer. "By moving towards a graphics mode console driver, it will be much easier to make the boot process look nice on desktop systems (i.e. PC-BSD). It will also make it possible to support the industry-standard Unicode character sets by default." This project will be completed by the end of December. Sincerely, The FreeBSD Foundation