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Thanks to Kirk McKusick, I'm happy to announce two new fully edited high quality videos from BSDCan 2011 in the BSD Conferences YouTube channel. I've also created a new playlist for the BSDCan 2011 videos.

The first talk is "Superpages in FreeBSD" by McKusick, and it describes the addition of superpage support to the FreeBSD 8 kernel on the Intel

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Last week, Luigi Rizzo visited Google and gave a talk on high-speed networking with Netmap.



This was Luigi's second talk at Google and the third talk about FreeBSD in the Google Tech Talks YouTube channel. We also have more than 100 videos available in the BSD Conferences channel.

As in previous years, Google held a "Mentor Summit" to bring together representatives from the open source organizations that participated in the Google Summer of Code to share experiences of what worked, what didn't, and generally learn from each other about shepherding students through the program. The mentor summit is always run Unconference-style and it is a great opportunity

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As in previous years, Google held a "Mentor Summit" to bring together representatives from the open source organizations that participated in the Google Summer of Code to share experiences of what worked, what didn't, and generally learn from each other about shepherding students through the program. The mentor summit is always run Unconference-style and it is a great opportunity

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As in previous years, I've posted a summary of FreeBSD Project participation in Google Summer of Code on the Google Open Source Blog.

By my count we have now mentored at least 117 students on FreeBSD development through this program. As in previous years it was tough to identify a few student projects to highlight given how much

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As in previous years, I've posted a summary of FreeBSD Project participation in Google Summer of Code on the Google Open Source Blog.

By my count we have now mentored at least 117 students on FreeBSD development through this program. As in previous years it was tough to identify a few student projects to highlight given how much

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A coworker of mine, Kirk Russell, just posted an excellent summary of BSDCan through the years on the Google Open Source Blog.

I wasn't able to make it to BSDCan this year due to family commitments, but I did make it to another open source conference later this summer that I also wrote about on Google's open source

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A coworker of mine, Kirk Russell, just posted an excellent summary of BSDCan through the years on the Google Open Source Blog.

I wasn't able to make it to BSDCan this year due to family commitments, but I did make it to another open source conference later this summer that I also wrote about on Google's open source

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Dr. Kirk McKusick has produced a high quality recording of his talk on Journaled Soft-Updates at BSDCan 2010. This is the 92nd BSD conference video in the BSD Conferences YouTube channel.

Dr. Kirk McKusick has produced a high quality recording of his talk on Journaled Soft-Updates at BSDCan 2010. This is the 92nd BSD conference video in the BSD Conferences YouTube channel.

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
  

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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
  

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Long time FreeBSD developer Luigi Rizzo from the University of Pisa came to Google last week to visit with Sam Leffler and me, and he agreed to give a talk about some of his work on link emulation and packet scheduling.



This marks the second FreeBSD video in the Google Tech Talks channel in addition to the 70+ videos in

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Long time FreeBSD developer Luigi Rizzo from the University of Pisa came to Google last week to visit with Sam Leffler and me, and he agreed to give a talk about some of his work on link emulation and packet scheduling.



This marks the second FreeBSD video in the Google Tech Talks channel in addition to the 70+ videos in

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After my initial experiments last month, I applied to the FreeBSD Foundation for funds to pay for additional human editing of the YouTube machine generated transcripts. The screenshot on the left shows an example HIT (Human Intelligence Task) available on Amazon Mechanical Turk.

The task description on the left is based on a template I created with three variables:

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After my initial experiments last month, I applied to the FreeBSD Foundation for funds to pay for additional human editing of the YouTube machine generated transcripts. The screenshot on the left shows an example HIT (Human Intelligence Task) available on Amazon Mechanical Turk.

The task description on the left is based on a template I created with three variables:

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