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This episode gives you the full dose of BSDCan 2017 recap as well as a blog post on conference speaking advice.

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Pre-conference activities: Goat BoF, FreeBSD Foundation Board Meeting, and FreeBSD Journal Editorial Board Meeting

• The FreeBSD Foundation has a new President as Justin Gibbs is busy this year with building a house, so George Neville-Neil took up the task to serve as President, with Justin Gibbs as Secretary. Take a look at the updated Board of Directors.
  
• We also have a new staff member: Scott Lamons joined the Foundation team as senior program manager.

Scott’s work for the Foundation will focus on managing and evangelizing programs for advanced technologies in FreeBSD including preparing project plans, coordinating resources, and facilitating interactions between commercial vendors, the Foundation, and the FreeBSD community.

• The Foundation also planned various future activities, visits of upcoming conferences, and finding new ways to support and engage the community.
• The Foundation now has interns in the form of co-op students from the University of Waterloo, Canada. This is described further in the May 2017 Development Projects Update. Both students (Siva and Charlie) were also the conference, helping out at the Foundation table, demonstrating the tinderbox dashboard. Follow the detailed instructions to build one of your own.
• The Foundation put out a call for Project Proposal Solicitation for 2017. If you think you have a good proposal for work relating to any of the major subsystems or infrastructure for FreeBSD, we’d be happy to review it.

• Don’t miss the deadlines for travel grants to some of the upcoming conferences. You can find the necessary forms and deadlines at the Travel Grant page on the Foundation website.

• Pictures from the Goat BoF can be found on Keltia.net

• Overlapping with the GoatBoF, members of the FreeBSD Journal editorial board met in a conference room in the Novotel to plan the upcoming issues. Topics were found, authors identified, and new content was discussed to appeal to even more readers. Check out the FreeBSD Journal website and subscribe if you like to support the Foundation in that way.

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FreeBSD Devsummit Day 1 & 2

• The first day of the Devsummit began with introductory slides by Gordon Tetlow, who organized the devsummit very well.
• Benno Rice of the FreeBSD core team presented the work done on the new Code of Conduct, which will become effective soon. A round of Q&A followed, with positive feedback from the other devsummit attendees supporting the new CoC.
• After that, Allan Jude joined to talk about the new FreeBSD Community Proposal (FCP) process. Modelled after IETF RFCs, Joyent RFDs, and Python PEP, it is a new way for the project to reach consensus on the design or implementation of new features or processes. The FCP repo contains FCP#0