 This will be like kind of 20 years, it's a bit longer, but we had some not so much happening at EuroBSD conferences, so it's more or less 20 years talk and some details about foundation. And I start with the summaries, so after that you can dose off, it's a trivia talk of just some easy statistics, so if you are still in hangover mode, but do not snorble, no, no, it's, it can, when to sleep and it wants your fingerprint, I guess. Talking too much without, thank you. The one credentials. Okay, I start with that already, so I start with the summary, as I said, it's 20 years, so more or less. In total, we had 18 conferences, spawning a total of 15 countries so far, so in the early days we had some rerun of countries, and in total we estimate because we do not have real numbers, but it should be about 3,000 attendees in total over those 20 years. And what I have been able to is count actual talks and tutorials and amazing 577 talks and 105 tutorials given. Most of them are unique besides tutorials which are recurring more or less every year, like, I've seen Kirk somewhere. Oh, sorry. I didn't count it per se, but it was like really, really, really often and it's always very popular, a lot of bookings going into that, and of course Peter's OpenBSDPF tutorial is booked very often. So we start with the beginnings, that's what we do. So the first, BSDCon Europe was the name by then, was found by these lovely people I have never met, at least I think so. I couldn't get the real numbers about attendees, but from looking at the pictures about maybe 100 and not that many talks and tutorials back then, and this was in Brighton, UK, so I was always adding the country flag and the flag of the location, city or area or whatever there is. And I have collected all the mascots being used over time. And moving on to the next year, oh no, sticking with pictures from back then. I mean, it's over 20 years, so the pictures have been way smaller. You do not have like 4K pictures in 2001, but I wanted to point out like these very nice podiums and a good old projector presentation, probably running on 800 to 600 pixels. And what we are not having nowadays, but I think we will bring it back is something like, it was called terminal room, but just like an open hacking space or so, but it's distracting people from going to talks and tutorials, so we have to decide about that. But as you can see, it's a bit too dark on here, like already some Apple stuff in there. So next one was 2002 in the Netherlands in Amsterdam. I started my BSDCon Europe journey there together with Henning. We had a talk about tuning PF, as well as already a blast with over 250 attendees, just a little bit more talks. And back then, the talks were also sent in early, so there could be a decision from the program committee about what was the best paper, because there was really a paper submission. We didn't do that in later years for creating more deadlines and what I will just leave people alone with their actual topic and presentation of that. And this flag is really from Amsterdam. It's not something made up or was amazed about this one. I think it's alcohol related. No, never. So back then, there was the official mascot like in the first year, but here there was also an artwork competition. And this was titled Power Meets Beauty. There are some other versions of that I'm not showing here. If you remember it maybe, it had less white. So the best paper reward was these wooden clocks. I think they're called clocks. Yeah, clocks. With BSD on it, so that was pretty nice, but maybe a bit noisy for boarding the flight. And this is Paul Henning. And it was proven that night that having a beer license on your code can be a bad idea, because everybody took the chance like, oh, you wrote this nice piece of malloc code. And you said, if we ever meet you, here's your free beer. I mean, the beer was free anyway. But so people are running around with 10 beers and Paul Henning was, I think, wasted. Yeah, this is on a ferry boat. So yeah, but anyway, the joke was done. And back then, we had a lot of merchandise from mainly Optomy Steve by Wim. That's not done any longer for personal reasons and other spots. For many years, there was a common thing to see. So in 2003, the conference disappeared, maybe to the moon, whatever. But I found out that there was actually a decision in 2002 that, oh, having a conference every year, that's way too much effort. So skip it. Maybe there was something on the moon, but I cannot disclose this. So in 2004, in Germany, in Karlsruhe, there was a, it was renamed, I don't know if this was really an active decision or it just happened by shortening stuff. And since then, we are running as Eurobies decon. I didn't found information about tutorials. But I cannot believe really that they have been known. And also, there was a conference poster and I was not, I found people, sorry? Yeah, I was, I was finding information that it was there, but I did not find a picture of it. Okay. Okay. Okay, cool. Very nice. Next on Switzerland, again, very good attendees number. And there was also some information about how many countries involved. And it was already at 27. Pretty amazing. But not much else from the archives. So we have archived most of the websites. But not all of them and digging through web archival can be a bit of a pain, too, especially if there are broken PHP setups. How could that happen? We know this guy over there, still some hair, maybe a fake. But I brought it up for the for the other person. But for your privacy reasons, I was using this picture. There's another one with his face, just in really remembrance of mixed key or Michael Shay left who passed away several years ago. Always a super nice person to be with. And this is again, showing Paul Henning. But I will choose this big picture because this was in Switzerland at the university and look at this podium, they have everything would and clock and whatever in nice BSD red. That's pretty cool. But I don't think it was made for the conference, exactly. So in Italy, 2006, like I said, it was the start. First time, Peter was giving the PF tutorial and also very nice to attract more people. It was the first time where there have been a spouses program or track. So for the tourists, the part of the conference, there was some organizing about that. We didn't do that every year, but it should be done. And we are having that on the on the list to make that happen every time. And just aside, so it was the first time south of the Alps, like Europe is a bit bigger than Germany, France and all that. Going on to the next year, in Denmark, couldn't find that much information. It was requesting it and there's still this XXX photo in there. Sorry. And I think from what I have been gathering over the programs, I think this was your first time 2005. Is that correct? Yeah, okay. Very nice. So it's like too many years and he's doing it almost every year. So please have a little applause for Kirk being so persistent. For 2008, I was researching a bit about pictures and the website said from the archive, all the attendees, please upload your pictures to Flickr. So the very young of you might be asking yourself, what's Flickr? Yeah, but it's empty. The trash can has been emptied. And it should be about the first conference where parallel track was to get BSD, A or C certification. I'm not really sure about some is, some are referenced with BSD, A and some C, A and whatever. But this was more or less the first time we did that. And we should bring back that more often. But it's a bit difficult to get certificates, people over there. And then, yeah, it's difficult. Like all the time, if certificates is always a bit a mess. 2009 is one of those. We have a rerun for the same country as before. But this happens if you have just nobody else showing up to make a conference from all of their own, only having more or less the name and some basic outline. At least it was in a different city and location. And the mascot did change there. Like France had only this textual logo. And here we are coming back with BSD. And I think this should be like presenting something about ruddering. You are one of the UK guys. Thank you. Cambridge and the other unspoken city contesting that. So the next rerun was just the next year of Germany again in the same venue and all that. But since it was a successful conference at the previous time done by Patrick, I think. Yeah, sure. So that one had a new mascot as well. And I think from here on, every year we have a new mascot per conference. But the number of talks and tutorials are a bit like always on the same level. So we should have more attractiveness to the conference in following years. And I don't know if this nice buffet was just like trippy outside of here. It wasn't part of the social event. It wasn't mentioned. Do you recall that? And interestingly to me it's like in presenting rooms, you cannot almost no laptops around. So I do not know if that was a policy or so. But usually if there are tables, people are always hacking along instead of listening to what's happening in front of them, like in school. So also again, country wise, but also with a new location in a different city, more or less. This year, in this year it was like becoming apparent that a new group doing a new conference every year in a different country and location is maybe too much of a burden and it changes too much. And there is maybe not enough trust. So the idea about a framing body or what it went to was a foundation. The idea was coming up. It was formed later in the year and I'm coming to some details for the foundation after we are going through all the countries. And since that happened, the first conference in Poland was already done with the help of the foundation. Still average number of talks and since all this part like every conference organizer has to make the same mistakes because they do not have to experience from previous conferences. So then from BSD camp, Dan Langill was jumping in like, okay, I will present what I'm doing every year. So here's the experience. I was trying to share it with the people but so the same problem was tackled from two sides. In the social event, I've seen some pictures about it and I'm not showing them here for, I mean, it's not about legal age problems, but anyway, maybe a different time than 2012. The social event had some kinky parts in Warsaw, so okay. I don't know if we rerun something like that. So the next location in 2013 was obviously something more attractive for, I don't know, which reasons, maybe something with sunshine and beaches and whatever. Suddenly the talks are almost doubled. So I didn't do the scheduling but I think it was like if you have a template for 2024 talks and then you have submissions to no end and you do not want to send people back home and they will never come again. So that's quite a thing. Also with the tutorials, like usually it was four or six and now you have 11, so there was a lot to see. I didn't find the number about how many attendees went there, but I guess it was a blast. 250 around that. And just like a reminder, this is 10 years ago, we have been already talking about the year 2038, maybe a little reminder to bring your project up for this. If you don't know what I'm talking about, look it up. It will be an interesting year, very interesting one, worse than year to take. No winter is going out. Obviously. Yeah, sure. So he was talking about it was planned to go to Switzerland again in 2013, but just for the reason I was already saying like do not rerun the country and then over private connections, it was moved to Malta. And yes, it was very attractive because as a speaker, you get free travel and maybe you are not going that often to Malta over Switzerland. Yeah, okay. So the talk was done by Feud it out because at that time we have been fixing this problem in OpenBSD more or less. And he was saying that there was and there was a follow up private talk in the hallway. That's it for all those listeners on the stream. Come to the conferences if you can only the streams are maybe 50% of the information and the contacts you can gather stuff like this additional hallway discussions it was mentioned between Feud it out and Paul Helling. If I understood that. Yeah, between Theo and Paul Paul Helling. So there's always more things to gather if you are here in person. And that's not only we know. So going on 2014 in Bulgaria, several first things again, like presenting a raffle. I didn't find the details about how to to get or win it. So someone, do you remember details about it? Okay. I don't know. It was only like, oh, we have a nice raffle. Some kinky device. It should have been probably the first three BST Dev Summit running in parallel to the tutorials. And we introduced growth. If you do not know this very cute little goat, it's up there at the registration as meeting it. It is passed between several keepers and he's traveling the world more than we all together more or less. That's really crazy. And this is now reaching year 10. So I'm really surprised this goat holds to still together. It has its own Twitter account. Um, raising his travels or its travels. Is it the first keeper was a German? I yeah. Yes. Yeah. But, uh, but it was bought, born and raised by Benedict. So it's German, Canadian. Let's put it this way. And it's, it was mentioning, I saw going through all the websites of all the years. So it's the first time mentioning that there's a live stream. So it's probably the latest point in time that we started the live stream event as well in Sofia. So that's very nice. And, um, the, the mascots are getting now a bit more, more advanced. I'm going back for that. I think Paul, yeah. Neverlands. It was still pretty basic, but now we are going to have like more local influence, probably local artists doing it nowadays mostly. So Malta has this nice, I think templates, should that be? Or related to them, but it's the Maltese cross, but from what I remember it, there should be some temple, temple of thingies in this as well. And Bulgaria has this, I think Dracula reference, I guess, with the bat. Oh, okay. Nice. Um, coming to 2015 in Stockholm. I had a hiatus from the conference for a while, because not really having any concrete BSD relationship for some years. And also the certification is back for certification. Okay. Not certified typing. Again, a pretty interesting part of how to do a mascot mutant heroes or something. It's really like the arms morphing into more beasties. It's forking, I guess. Today I learned a lot. So going to Serbia, I was in, in 2015, it was like, oh, you are back. You have to make a talk. Better you make a tutorial. No way to make both. Did so. And that's a recommendation I can only do is bring your own laptop if you book a tutorial. It's pretty pointless to have a workshop and you come up there with empty hands and then like, oh, I'm not getting anything provided. Oh, that's okay. But I will just learn from the slides. If the slides are like four slides for four hours, you will not learn that much. So 2017 was in Paris and the attendees number shot up. I don't know. Paris is very expensive, especially for fashion and all this stuff, food and whatever. Probably the only cheap stuff is baguette, but that's because of subsidies. But somehow this location was very, very attractive. So many, many, many people are coming for, let's say, insane prices, especially around hotels. I was like happy like, oh, five days for 500 euros or 400. No, we have five days for 100 euros until I realized it was 400 years a night. Yeah, exactly. So it checked out like, wait, wait, wait a minute. Thank you very much. But it was just across the street. So at least that 2018 have not been able to find that much. But you see that even people are coming from more countries, probably countries surrounding Romania, but a lower attendees number. So we will still try to go to such places, even if they are not so attractive for maybe spouses and whatever, because you see the numbers is we are about 60 percent something, but way more diversity on the country distribution part of things. So we will continue to do that and not only going to the, well, let's say high roller cities. Then we have been in Lillehammer, which was a bit of a remote place. And if we are, and it was expensive for all those into booths, just to give you an idea back then. So pre inflation, it was 10, 11, 12 euros or a pint of beer. And this was the average price, not the overpriced hotel bars or something like that or nightclubs. No nightclubs in Lillehammer is what I know. On the other hand, you get very steep hills and they are still back in for the Olympics did still think it was necessary to build a ramp for, I don't know, they could have done the ramp jumping throughout the little city of Lillehammer. It was steep enough for sure. A lot of talks anyway, really interesting. 37 was very good. And we had a blast of a time over there in isolation. Coming to 2020, well, we all know what happened. So with the situation, there was some forth and back. And we gathered that probably the talks will be really the same for if they are held only online for both conferences. So we did more or less an agreement. I'm jumping that we have an online conference in 2020 and 2021. But the head of organizing more or less was BSD Cannes in 2020. And in 2021, it was the Vienna team because the planned location for 2020 was Vienna already. And so a record number of attendees, so that's easy if nobody has to travel, it's a bit more easy to register for a livestream. Still 25 talks, it was pretty good. And there was no downhill skiing. But the artwork was really cool for that. And streaming was mainly done from Austria. And so there was a little bit of a gathering of hidden people, not so much hidden, but it was not completely online to put it this way. So there have been some speakers and parts of the team gathering in Vienna to make that happen, regardless of all travel restrictions and all of that. So this was a tough one. Because like for everybody, it came without real notice. So I was, for the 2020 part, I was just traveling to Asia BSD Cannes and landed in Tokyo and then I can go back home. And traveling back on the full restrictions wasn't very much a fun too. But I can talk about that all the way side. And 2022, Vienna again, like you applied for it, you pitched for the location that we have to finally do it. No one with the Vienna t-shirts. And you might have, you might have seen it like on the back of 2020, so 2022 it finally happened with a lot of talks again, not that many attendees, because I think partly still some restrictions here and there, depending on the country or the general lack of confidence to go traveling again, maybe. I mean, you can see that some people are from employers, from workplaces or whatever, or the home country. If you have been in this virus territory, I almost said terrorist, terrorist country or virus, and you come back to your home country and then you have to go into isolation for two weeks or something like that. So it wasn't that much a turn off on attendees. And all that have not been coming have missing a lot in parts of having schnitzel and Apfelstrudel. Bad you. And we are not coming back for the next 28 years or something. This brings us for the current conference. So we are in Cumbra and we are not disclosing this number yet. This is later in the day for the closing session with Henning, who will also show the country distribution map. So yet again, please do this one click survey. We are pretty good with talks and pretty blasting that we are back to nine tutorials. It was even 10. But one guy, Roller Angel, had a bike accident and couldn't come. So that's too bad. All the best to him for a speedy recovery. And that concludes the conference's part or conference's details. Anyone has to share one super anecdote about the previous one? We had some already. Okay. So coming back to the foundation, the foundation is more or less like having a big solid outline through all the conferences since Poland 2012. So there is a financial body, a foundation, a stichting under Neverland's laws. We hopefully have more trust with the payments and you do not have to pay whatever 300, 500, 600 euros or whatever your currency at home is into some people you have never seen before and you will probably never see again especially if they run away with all the money. So there's always the foundation, collecting the money and then paying bills for example, speaker travel or these rooms because even universities have learned that doing such stuff can gain for their own pockets. In the early days some stuff like this was for free but that has changed. Providing online infrastructure and experience for streaming stuff so you do not have to reinvent all the thingies over and over again and also we have the contacts for sponsors. So if we are going for a next year's conference in wherever that is, closing session, no I'm not doing that. So they can approach us and they can bring of course their local sponsors but those sponsors like long-term sponsors like Apple or we have the direct contact which can say hey we are running again and they are okay here's the money, run off and do something with it. So you do not have to explain we are this and that guys and they don't know if you are running away so that helps a lot. Also with long-time experience we help the local organizers please avoid these mistakes please think about this and that so they are not making beginner's mistakes and you have a better experience besides that that usually the local organizers are not that much experienced or have no experience with organizing a conference and this also goes for if you have speakers or attendees that need a visa that usually includes something or requires something like a letter of invitation and all that so a foundation or sticking has a bit more of a authority for that and not one guy writing an invitation to another than the visa officer. So go away and the foundation also provides the Paul Schenkelwald travel grant in memories of this very nice guy we are bringing in one attendee every year on our on the on cost of the foundation and if you know one who should be at a euro beastie conference and does not have the means to come over here especially on the money side and talk to us and we will think about it. So 2024 we have been to all these countries and where you see two year numbers obviously we have been there twice and I've been asked when can we go back to Paris or to Netherlands that's a pretty common common spot as well. Let's say most of the gray stuff in here is still potential candidates if we call it Europe maybe that thing big blob over there or not but that's that's how a rectangle works but you can see that we have a lot of Europe over there and gray and all the Balkans and something with a lot of ice and snow and even more insane beer prices that would be the ice stuff it's legally it's France so no it's it's the same with like Jersey that's that's not UK but the Queens or Kings territories I still count that as UK though yeah I mean Caribbean until whatever stuff but that is legally Netherlands too but these little channel islands that are legally not UK but something like Monarch same with Gibraltar so but this is UK anyway um this is my last slide I am at 40 minutes and if you have questions do that later on so please take any trash you see do not say it's not mine it is yours you just have inherited it thank you very much