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.

The Slashdot Effect

After 8 months, 66 videos uploaded, and 141,676 views, the BSD Conferences YouTube Channel was slashdotted for the first time last week. Specifically, Theo's OpenBSD Release Engineering talk was linked from this slashdot post. Views of the video spiked to nearly 8,000 a day after the Slashdot post, which dwarfs the previous highs of around 1,500 videos a day after I posted about Kirk McKusick's FreeBSD Kernel Internals lecture.

I think this is an excellent reminder of the power that forums like Slashdot still have in directing traffic among those seeking technical content online. I would encourage anyone interested in seeing more BSD related content online to install browser bookmarklets, toolbars, or other shortcuts to more easily share and promote FreeBSD content on Digg, Del.icio.us, Slashdot, etc..

Videos from DCBSDCon Posted

Thanks to Jason Dixon and Will Backman, the first 8 videos from the first DCBSDCon are now available in the BSDConferences YouTube channel. The audio quality for these is better than many of the previous conference videos because Jason was able to sync the audio with a direct recording from the podium taken by Will. These videos were also made with pure open source tools such as avidemux, mplayer/mencoder and audacity. More information will be coming soon to the VideoProductionAndPublishing wiki.

In the mean time, enjoy these technical presentations from DCBSDCon 2009:

• Ken Caruso, Using BSD in SchmooCon Labs
  
• Robert Luciani, M:N Threading in DragonFly BSD
  
• Kurt Miller, Implementing pie on OpenBSD
  
• Isolating Cluster Jobs for Performance and Predictability, Brooks Davis
  
• Epitome, Marco Peereboom
  
• Process Isolation for NetBSD and OpenBSD, Kristaps Dzonson
  
• OpenBSD vs SMP, Threading, and Concurrency, Ted Unangst
  
• A Narrative History of BSD, Dr. Kirk McKusick