AsiaBSDCon 2014 Videos Posted (6 years of BSDConferences on YouTube)

Sato-san has once created a playlist of videos from AsiaBSDCon. There were 20 videos from the conference held March 15-16, 2014 and papers can be found here. Congrats to the organizers for running another successful conference in Tokyo. A full list of videos is included below. Six years ago when I first created this channel videos longer than 10 minutes couldn't normally be uploaded to YouTube and we had to create a special partner channel for the content. It is great to see how the availability of technical video content about FreeBSD has grown in the last six years.

• Matthew Ahrens, OpenZFS ensures the continued excellence of ZFS on FreeBSD, Linux, and illumos
• Eric Allman, Bambi Meets Godzilla: They Elope - Open Source Meets the Commercial World
• Scott Long, Modifying the FreeBSD kernel Netflix streaming servers
• Dr. Marshall Kirk McKusick, An Overview of Security in the FreeBSD Kernel
• Luba Tang, Bold, fast optimizing linker for BSD (P1A, AsiaBSDCon 2014)
• David Chisnall, The Future of LLVM in the FreeBSD Toolchain (P2A, AsiaBSDCon 2014)
• Kris Moore, Snapshots, Replication, and Boot Environments (P3A, AsiaBSDCon 2014
• Dru Lavigne, ZFS for the Masses: Management Tools Provided by the PC BSD and FreeNAS Projects (P4A)
• John Hixson, Introduction to FreeNAS development (P5A, AsiaBSDCon 2014)
• Peter Grehan, Nested Paging in Bhyve (P6A, AsiaBSDCon 2014)
• Zbigniew Bodek, Transparent Superpages for FreeBSD on ARM (P8A, AsiaBSDCon 2014)
• Martin Matuška , Deploying FreeBSD systems with Foreman and mfsBSD (P7A, AsiaBSDCon 2014)
• James P. Brown, Analysys of BSD Associate Exam Results (P10A, AsiaBSDCon 2014)
• Michael Dexter, Visualizing Unix: Graphing bhyve, ZFS and PF with Graphite (P1B, AsiaBSDCon 2014)
• Mindaugas Rasiukevicius, NPF - progress and perspective (P2B, AsiaBSDCon 2014)
• Luigi Rizzo, Netmap as a core networking technology (P3B, AsiaBSDCon 2014)
• Reyk Floeter, VXLAN(4) and Cloud based networking with OpenBSD (P5B, AsiaBSDCon 2014)
• Masanobu Saitoh, Developing CPE Routers based on NetBSD: Fifteen Years of SEIL (P6B)
• Pierre Pronchery, Guillaume Lasmayous, Carve your NetBSD (P8B, AsiaBSDCon 2014)
• Jos Jansen, Adapting OSX to the enterprise (P9B, AsiaBSDCon 2014)

AsiaBSDCon 2013 Videos Posted to YouTube

Sato-san has created a playlist of 15 videos from AsiaBSDCon 2013. Congrats to the organizers for running another successful conference in Tokyo. Some of the FreeBSD-related videos are listed below:

• John Hixson: FreeNAS Plugins everything you ever wanted to know (P1A, AsiaBSDCon 2013)
• Kris Moore: Automating the deployment of FreeBSD & PC BSD systems (P3A, AsiaBSDCon 2013)
• Davide Italiano: Calloutng: a new infrastructure for timer facilities in the FreeBSD kernel (P6A)
• Michael Dexter: Hands on bhyve, the BSD Hypervisor (P4A, AsiaBSDCon 2013)
• Takuya ASADA: Implements BIOS emulation support for BHyVe: A BSD Hypervisor (P5A, AsiaBSDCon 2013)

There were also quite a few OpenBSD talks this year. I had a great time at AsiaBSDCon several years back and hope to make it back again some day.

AsiaBSDCon 2010 Videos

The videos from AsiaBSDCon 2010 are now available on the BSD Conferences YouTube channel. The full list of 17 AsiaBSDCon videos includes:

• George Neville-Neil: Hardware Performance Monitoring Counters on non-X86 Architectures
  
• Massimiliano Stucchi: BSD in the routing industry
  
• Marco Peereboom: Softraid: OpenBSD's virtual HBA, with benefits
  
• Brooks Davis: Porting HPC Tools to FreeBSD
  
• Marco Peereboom: Epitome2: dedup for the masses
  
• Rui Paulo: Wireless Mesh Networks under FreeBSD
  
• Constantine A. Murenin: Quiet Computing with BSD
  
• Ryan McBride: What's wrong with PF
  
• Takuya ASADA: SMP Implementation for OpenBSD/sgi
  
• Antti Kantee: Rump Device Drivers: Shine On You Kernel Diamond
  
• Simon Perreault: Ecdysis: Open-Source DNS64 and NAT64
  
• Paul Schenkeveld: Minimizing service windows on servers using NanoBSD + ZFS + jails
  
• Peter Losher: Closing the DNS Security Loop with DNSSEC
  
• Claudio Jeker: vscsi(4) and iscsid -- iSCSI initiator the OpenBSD way
  
• Ana Kukec: Native SeND kernel API for *BSD
  
• Alexandre Ratchov: OpenBSD audio & MIDI framework for music and desktop applications
  
• Kris Moore: PC-SYSINSTALL - A new system installer backend for PC-BSD and FreeBSD
  

Thanks Hiroki Sato and the other organizers of AsiaBSDCon for running a successful conference and uploading these videos. Some of these videos were previously available on ustream but are not currently accessible there. The YouTube channel provides automatic machine generated captions in ~50 languages, fast streaming, and a total of over 90 videos from conferences over the past ~3 years.

Improved Conference Captions from Amazon Mechanical Turk

Just wanted to send a quick note that three of the popular videos from the BSD Conferences YouTube channel have been updated with human-edited English language caption files. These offer a significant improvement over the machine generated captions I wrote about last month.

The following videos have been updated:

• PC-BSD, Matt Olander, AsiaBSDCon 2008 (transcript text)
  
• FreeBSD Kernel Internals, Dr. Marshall Kirk McKusick (transcript text)
  
• A Narrative History of BSD, Dr. Kirk McKusick (transcript text)
  

I've also posted three simple captions text files which provide the times and text in a very simple ascii format in case anyone wants to provide a diff to improve any remaining mistakes in the captions.

The transcriptions were done with the help of the industrious workers behind Amazon Mechanical Turk. The three transcripts above, representing at least 6 person hours of work, but easily twice that much time, were completed for less than $50 by leveraging the timing information from free machine generated captions and mechanical turk for the editing. This is less than 1/10th of the cost of a commercial transcription service.

What is the quality of these captions in other languages when automatically translated with YouTube? Are there any other videos for which captions would particularly be useful?

AsiaBSDCon is coming up in March, and I hope to have things streamlined by then such that videos with both Japanese and English captions can be added to the channel shortly after the conference.

Remaining AsiaBSDCon 2009 Videos Posted

The remaining 9 videos from AsiaBSDCon 2009 have been posted. The new videos include talks by Theo de Raadt, Eric Allman, Kris Moore, Mohamad Fauzie, Brooks Davis, Atillio Rao, A. Kantee, and the Works In Progress Sessions.

• AsiaBSDCon 2009:The OpenBSD Release Process: A Success Story, Theo de Raadt
  
• AsiaBSDCon 2009: Internet Mail — Past, Present, and (a bit of) the Future, Eric Allman
  
• Kris Moore: PC-BSD - Making FreeBSD on the Desktop a reality
  
• Mohamad Dikshie Fauzie: FreeBSD and SOI-Asia Project
  
• Isolating Cluster Users for Performance and Predictability, Brooks Davis
  
• A. Rao: The Locking Infrastructure in the FreeBSD kernel #2
  
• A. Rao: The Locking Infrastructure in the FreeBSD kernel #1
  
• A. Kantee: Environmental Independence: BSD Kernel TCP/IP
  
• Work-in-Progress Session in AsiaBSDCon 2009
  

Thanks again to Hiroki Sato for posting the videos and organizing 3 consecutive years of successful AsiaBSDCons. Sato-san has also created two separate YouTube playlists for the AsiaBSDCon 2008 and AsiaBSDCon 2009 videos. These playlists make it easier to find the newest videos from among the 66 videos now in the BSDConferences YouTube channel.

First AsiaBSDCon 2009 Videos Posted

Thanks to Hidetoshi Shimokawa and Hiroki Sato, we now have 7 videos from the recent AsiaBSDCon 2009 in Tokyo, with more on the way:

• A. Zakharchenko, Mail system for distributed network


• K. Dzonsons, Deprecating groff for BSD manual display


• D. Gwynne, Active-Active Firewall Cluster Support in OpenBSD


• R. Jaworowski, FreeBSD on hi-perf. multi-core embedded PPC


• M. Warner Losh, An Overview of FreeBSD/mips, AsiaBSDCon2009


• Constantine A. Murenin, OpenBSD Hardware Sensors Framework


• Philip Paeps, Crypto Acceleration on FreeBSD, AsiaBSDCon2009

This makes 57 videos in the BSDConferences YouTube channel. We now have over 1,000 subscribers to the channel. Kudos to both the DCBSDCon and AsiaBSDCon organizers for getting the videos processed and uploaded shortly after the respective conferences when interest is highest. The videos from AsiaBSDCon 2008 were also made available earlier this year.

All Videos from AsiaBSDCon 2008 Posted

Thanks to Hiroki Sato, we have finished uploading all remaining videos from last year's AsiaBSDCon conference. The new videos are especially appreciated because they include some NetBSD and OpenBSD videos which have previously been under represented in the bsdconferences channel and it is nice to encourage cross-fertilization of ideas (including to more general open source conferences).

• Sleeping Beauty - NetBSD on Modern Laptops, Jörg Sonnenb


• OpenBSD Network Stack Internals, Claudio Jeker


• Keynote: Hideki Sunahara - 25 years with BSD


• A Portable iSCSI Initiator, Alistair Crooks


• Logical Resource Isolation in the NetBSD Kernel, Kristaps Džonsons


• BSD Implementations of XCAST6, Yuji Imai


• Tracking FreeBSD in a Commercial Setting M. Warner Losh

These videos are in addition to the 6 other FreeBSD videos already posted from AsiaBSDCon 2008 as announced here and here.

A Brief History of the BSD Fast Filesystem

Two new videos are available from AsiaBSDCon 2008, including :

* A Brief History of the BSD Fast Filesystem, Kirk McKusick.
* Using FreeBSD to Promote Open Source Development Methods, Brooks Davis

It has been less than two months since I posted Dr. Kirk McKusick's Kernel Internals video and the popularity of this video has been stunning. The 11,000 views in less than 2 months makes it by far the most popular video in the bsdconferences channel.

Videos from AsiaBSDCon 2008

Thanks to Hiroki Sato we have a number of interesting FreeBSD videos available now from AsiaBSDCon 2008.

• Reducing Lock Contention in a Multi-Core System, Randall Stewart
  
• ISC and *BSD at the Core of the Internet: Keynote, Peter Losher
  
• PC-BSD, Matt Olander
  
• GEOM: In Infrastructure We Trust, Pawel Jakub Dawidek
  

Additional videos from this and other conferences are on the way. I realize it was nearly a year ago but we are just now starting to improve our processes for recording and publishing lectures at BSD conferences and should be much more timely in the future.

Open CFPs for USENIX, OSCon, and BSD Conferences

Just a quick note to point out that there are calls for papers for at least 3 BSD conferences, O'Reilly OSCon, and USENIX open at the moment. The first up is AsiaBSDCon. The official Call for Papers period has just ended but if you missed the deadline and need a little more time, the organizers will still consider talks. The USENIX CFP notes that submissions are due January 9 and may take the form of full papers up to 14 pages, or short papers of at most 6 pages. BSDCan and EuroBSDCon are also accepting submissions for 2009.

I'm a big fan of the BSD conferences, but I think its really important to also present work at some of the broader open-source and academic systems conferences.

New Channel on YouTube for BSD Technical Content

Thanks to help from the Open Source Program Office at Google I was able to setup a new channel for technical BSD content without the 10 minute limit for uploaded videos. This allows us to upload high quality full hour-long videos of talks and tutorials from BSD Conferences. I've added the first four videos that Julian Elisher taped from the MeetBSD 2008 conference we recently held in Mountain View. You can view these videos at www.youtube.com/bsdconferences.

Back in April I posted here about my desire to see our video content from technical conferences available on YouTube to reach a broader audience. At the time I was impressed that we had over 10,000 views for the FreeBSD vs Linux TechTV clip, but in 8 months that number of views has reached nearly 30,000. We would be hard pressed to reach that many people by hosting the videos with the FreeBSD web site. Hosting on YouTube also brings the advantage of having clips from these videos show up in the search results for related queries, which you may be able to see with a query such as [freebsd linux techtv], and which will presumably soon be visible with queries like [freebsd clustering meetbsd].

If anyone has additional video content from previous BSD conferences that they would like to upload please let me know. I'd particularly like to see some of the talks from recent BSDCan, AsiaBSDCon, and EuroBSDCon that I missed. Thanks again to Julian for video taping so much of this content.

I leave you with Brooks Davis on Isolating Cluster Jobs for Performance and Predictability :



- Murray

Summer of Code Update

We've been tentatively allocated 20 students this year to work on FreeBSD as part of the Google Summer of Code. The winning students will be announced on Monday April 21, 2008. In the mean time two successful students from last year's Summer of Code, Dongmei Liu and Zhou Zhouyi have written up a report of their recent trip to AsiaBSDCon 2008. The trip report is available on Google's Open Source Blog.