OpenVAS Developer Conference #2 (July 9-12 2009)

The second OpenVAS developer conference takes again place in Osnabrück, Germany. This page summarizes the current state of planning.

Attention: User's Workshop planned: Workshop on OpenVAS administration and deployment on the day prior to the conference: July 8th 2009. Costs will be reasonable and the money spend to cover travel costs for students and other private OpenVAS developers. Please express your serious interest to openvas-devcon@intevation.de.

Agenda:

This is a collection of thoughts discussed on the mailing list openvas-discuss. Please involve yourself there to express your ideas or needs.

A major goal is derive a master plan for the next 12-24 month of development.

* review the past 2 years of progress
* plan future features
o Walkthrough of all the pending CR's
* discuss core designs (towards OpenVAS 3.0)
o OIDs: final layout and assignment procedure
o how to get rid of the opevas-plugins module
o replace the current internationalization concepts in nasl/server with a solution by standard technologies
o OVAL with OpenVAS
* discuss how to extend NVT coverage
* discuss whether and how to retire NVTs
* discuss professional services and how they relate to project
* meet the members of the OpenVAS mailing lists in real life and have a beer (or other beverages)

Place:

Intevation GmbH kindly hosts the developer conference at their offices:
Neuer Graben 17
49074 Osnabrück
Germany

Note for attendies of the DevCon1: Intevation moved to new offices in 2008 which are around 5 minutes walking distance from the ones where DevCon1 took place.

Accomodation:

Intevation will take care of hotel reservations. Please include your preferences with the expression of interest for attending.

How to attend:

Please let us know on the openvas-discuss mailing list or directly to openvas-devcon@intevation.de whether you like to attend.

Event page: http://www.openvas.org/openvas-devcon2.html