The Southeast Michigan BSD User Group meets monthly for presentations, discussions, socializing, and networking. Local BSD folks involved include BSD author Michael W Lucas and OpenBSD alumni Nick Holland.

AS OF AUGUST 2021, SEMIBUG IS MEETING ONLINE VIA JITSI.

WE'RE STILL IN PANDEMIC. STAY HOME. WASH YOUR HANDS. GET YOUR VAX AND WEAR A MASK.

Time and Location: Jitsi, to be announced

MEETINGS AND PRESENTATIONS: Here's our next few months of presentations. Presentations are not recorded at this time. See the history page for old meetings.

SemiBUG has a shared Google Calendar of meetings and a Twitter account, @semibug_ (note the trailing underscore).

2021

• Covid Intermission Ends
• 22 August: Peter Hansteen, "Recent and not so recent changes in OpenBSD that make life better"- special day, 1300 Detroit time (EDT)
• 28 September: Lightning Talks
• 19 October: Dante Catalfamo, Emacs
• 16 November: Deb Goodkin, FreeBSD Foundation President
• 21 December: discussion and lightning talks

2022

• 18 January: Allan Jude, ZedFS (slides)
• 15 February: Susan Hurst, the Left Side of Monday (Get her book) (Slides)
• 15 March: Backus-Naur
• 19 April: Justin Sherril, installing and running DragonFly BSD
• 17 May: Jason Tubnor, desktop FreeBSD (slides)
• 21 June: Michael W Lucas, OpenSSH at Scale (Get Networking for System Administrators)
• 19 July: Robert Citek, Jupyter Notebooks (Jupyter on OpenBSD revised Apr 27, 2023. Covers OpenBSD 7.3) (Robert's Jupyter Github page)
• 16 August: Lightning talks and presentation on Dump and Restore for OpenBSD and Linux (slides)
• 25 September: PF, Peter Hansteen at 1:00 PM, Detroit, MI time. (Get The Book of PF) (slides)
• 18 October: David Maxwell, Growing a career with BSD and Security (slides)
• 15 November: Susan Hurst on setting up an SQL database (slides)(scripts)
• 20 December: Nick Holland on a backup script.(Link for the Backup Script Talk)

2023

• 17 January: Nick Holland will give a talk on shell scripting.(Slides)
• 21 February: Moin Rahman, a FreeBSD contributor, will give us a talk on how to make a Port for FreeBSD(Slides)
• 21 March: Emily Pillmore, CTO of the Haskell foundation, will give a talk on the Haskell programming language. (Video Recording)
• 18 April: Michael Lucas will talk about his new book OpenBSD Mastery: Filesystems
• 16 May: Nick Holland will give a talk on how to use OpenBSD's CARP (Common Address Redundancy Protocol)(Slides)
• 20 June: W. Curtiss Preston, the author of Unix Backup and Recovery, will give a talk on backing up computer data.
• 18 July: Jon "Maddog" Hall will give a presentaion on The Linux Professional Institute. LPI also covers a BSD cert.
• 15 August: iXsystems will give a presentation on TrueNas.
• 19 September: Carl Perry, of riscv.org, will give a talk on RISC Architecture.
• 22 October: Tristram Oaten, a developer, will give a short talk on the RUST language.
• 21 November: Nick Holland will give a presentation on shell scripting.

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