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Tim Kientzle | 1 Apr 2009 04:03
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Summer of Code Deadline Approaching...

Students interested in participating in
Google's Summer of Code---whether with the
FreeBSD project or not---should file their
applications as soon as possible.

Remember that the Summer of Code website
<http://socghop.appspot.com/> allows you to
revise your proposal until the April 3
deadline; submitting your idea now allows the
FreeBSD mentors to give you feedback that you
can use to improve your proposal. You can
also discuss Summer of Code ideas and
suggestions on the freebsd-hackers <at> freebsd.org
mailing list.

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Deb Goodkin | 6 Apr 2009 23:57
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Deadline Approaching for Travel Grant Applications for BSDCan 2009

This is a reminder that the deadline for submitting travel grant 
applications for BSDCan 2009 is April 9, 2009. If you already submitted 
an application, you will be receiving our decision soon.

The FreeBSD Foundation will be providing a limited number of travel
grants to individuals requesting assistance. Please fill out and submit
the Travel Grant Request Application at
http://www.freebsdfoundation.org/documents/TravelRequestForm.pdf by
April 9, 2009 to apply for this grant.

How it works:

This program is open to FreeBSD developers of all sorts (kernel hackers,
documentation authors, bugbusters, system administrators, etc).  In some
cases we are also able to fund non-developers, such as active community
members and FreeBSD advocates.

(1) You request funding based on a realistic and economical estimate of
travel costs (economy airfare, trainfare, ...), accommodations
(conference hotel and sharing a room), and registration or tutorial
fees.  If there are other sponsors willing to cover costs, such as your
employer or the conference, we prefer you talk to them first, as our
budget is limited.  We are happy to split costs with you or another
sponsor, such as just covering airfare or board.

If you are a speaker at the conference, we expect the conference to
cover your travel costs, and will most likely not approve your direct
request to us.

(2) We review your application and if approved, authorize you to seek
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Lionel Garth Jones | 15 Apr 2009 19:25
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USENIX '09 Registration Now Open

We're pleased to invite you to attend the 2009 USENIX Annual Technical
Conference. This year we're offering 6 days of training and a
3-day conference program filled with the latest systems research,
security breakthroughs, and practical approaches to the questions and
problems you wrestle with. You'll also have many opportunities to chat
with peers who share your concerns and interests.

http://www.usenix.org/usenix09/proga

Training: Sunday-Friday, June 14-19, 2009
The 6-day training program at USENIX '09 provides in-depth
and immediately useful training on the latest techniques,
effective tools, and best strategies to help you
stay competitive. Take a full series or individual classes covering:

* Solaris: Debugging, administration, and DTrace taught by James Mauro,
Peter Baer Galvin, and Marc Staveley

* Virtualization: Xen Hypervisor, VMware ESX 3i, and security taught by
Phil Cox, Wenjin Hu, Zach Shepherd, and Dan Anderson

* Plus classes on cloud computing by Milind Bhandarkar, system
administration by David N. Blank-Edelman, and more

Find out more at http://www.usenix.org/usenix09/training/

Technical Sessions: Wednesday-Friday, June 17-19, 2009
The technical program begins with the Keynote Address, "Where Does the
Power Go in High-Scale Data Centers?" by James Hamilton, VP &
Distinguished Engineer, Amazon Web Services, and continues with an
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FreeBSD Security Advisories | 22 Apr 2009 16:19
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FreeBSD Security Advisory FreeBSD-SA-09:08.openssl


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FreeBSD-SA-09:08.openssl                                    Security Advisory
                                                          The FreeBSD Project

Topic:          Remotely exploitable crash in OpenSSL

Category:       contrib
Module:         openssl
Announced:      2009-04-22
Affects:        All supported versions of FreeBSD.
Corrected:      2009-04-22 14:07:14 UTC (RELENG_7, 7.2-PRERELEASE)
                2009-04-22 14:07:14 UTC (RELENG_7_2, 7.2-RC2)
                2009-04-22 14:07:14 UTC (RELENG_7_1, 7.1-RELEASE-p5)
                2009-04-22 14:07:14 UTC (RELENG_7_0, 7.0-RELEASE-p12)
                2009-04-22 14:07:14 UTC (RELENG_6, 6.4-STABLE)
                2009-04-22 14:07:14 UTC (RELENG_6_4, 6.4-RELEASE-p4)
                2009-04-22 14:07:14 UTC (RELENG_6_3, 6.3-RELEASE-p10)
CVE Name:       CVE-2009-0590

For general information regarding FreeBSD Security Advisories,
including descriptions of the fields above, security branches, and the
following sections, please visit <URL:http://security.FreeBSD.org/>.

I.   Background

FreeBSD includes software from the OpenSSL Project.  The OpenSSL Project is
a collaborative effort to develop a robust, commercial-grade, full-featured
Open Source toolkit implementing the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL v2/v3)
and Transport Layer Security (TLS v1) protocols as well as a full-strength
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FreeBSD Security Advisories | 22 Apr 2009 16:19
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FreeBSD Security Advisory FreeBSD-SA-09:07.libc


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FreeBSD-SA-09:07.libc                                       Security Advisory
                                                          The FreeBSD Project

Topic:          Information leak in db(3)

Category:       core
Module:         libc
Announced:      2009-04-22
Credits:        Jaakko Heinonen, Xin LI
Affects:        All supported versions of FreeBSD.
Corrected:      2009-04-11 15:19:26 UTC (RELENG_7, 7.2-PRERELEASE)
                2009-04-22 14:07:14 UTC (RELENG_7_1, 7.1-RELEASE-p5)
                2009-04-22 14:07:14 UTC (RELENG_7_0, 7.0-RELEASE-p12)
                2009-04-11 15:21:11 UTC (RELENG_6, 6.4-STABLE)
                2009-04-22 14:07:14 UTC (RELENG_6_4, 6.4-RELEASE-p4)
                2009-04-22 14:07:14 UTC (RELENG_6_3, 6.3-RELEASE-p10)

For general information regarding FreeBSD Security Advisories,
including descriptions of the fields above, security branches, and the
following sections, please visit <URL:http://security.FreeBSD.org/>.

I.   Background

FreeBSD's C library (libc) contains code for creating and accessing
Berkeley DB 1.85 database files.  Such databases are used extensively
in FreeBSD; for example, the system password files (/etc/passwd and
/etc/master.passwd) are normally accessed via their database files
(/etc/pwd.db and /etc/spwd.db).
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Deb Goodkin | 22 Apr 2009 16:09
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Foundation Project Announcement

Dear FreeBSD Community,

The FreeBSD Foundation is pleased to announce one of the projects from 
our accepted project proposals!

Rui Paulo will be implementing the forthcoming IEEE 802.11s wireless 
mesh standard for FreeBSD. Wireless mesh networks are expected to become 
widespread as routers and network appliances deploy them, allowing 
wireless networks to be built and extended dynamically. Support for the 
standard will allow FreeBSD consumers to take advantage of this new 
technology.

"As well as end-users, FreeBSD-based product vendors will benefit from 
access to mesh networking technology in building future versions of 
their products," said Robert Watson, president of the FreeBSD Foundation.

"I am thrilled to be bringing such an exciting and technically advanced 
feature to the FreeBSD operating system," said FreeBSD Developer Rui 
Paulo.  The project will be completed by July 2009.

Sincerely,

The FreeBSD Foundation

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FreeBSD SoC Admin Team | 25 Apr 2009 23:53
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20 Student Projects Funded by GSoC

The FreeBSD Project is happy to announce the funding of 20
student projects this summer as part of the Google Summer of
Code 2009.  This is our fifth year participating in GSoC. In
the Summer of Code, open source projects such as FreeBSD
invite students to propose summer projects.  Over the summer
students work with mentors to complete their projects.
Students who successfully complete the program receive
$4500(US) and the project receives $500.  For more information
about the summer of code, please visit:
http://code.google.com/soc/.

Students will work on a wide array of projects
in the kernel, userspace, and the ports collection.  We are
excited to see many new participants as well as several
returning students.  We thank Google for this opportunity
to improve FreeBSD and expand our developer community.

The full list of projects and descriptions can be found at
http://socghop.appspot.com/org/home/google/gsoc2009/freebsd
and a list of projects can be found below.

For more information on these projects see student
posts to hackers <at> , check out the wiki project list
(http://wiki.freebsd.org/SummerOfCode2009Projects) or join
the soc-status mailing list were students will be posting
periodic status reports.

Please make our our students fell welcome.  We encourage
interested parties to keep up with student progress and to
feel free to offer appropriate assistance through out the summer.
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