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  61 % Author information.
  62 \author[Michael Tremer]{Michael Tremer}
  63 \institute{IPFire Project}
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  65 % The title of the presentation.
  66 \title{A look into the past and future}
  67 \subtitle{What happened in the last two years and where are we headed?}
  68
  69 \date{September 20\textsuperscript{th}, 2014}
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  86 \begin{document}
  87         \maketitle
  88
  89         %\section*{Outline}
  90         %\frame{\tableofcontents}
  91
  92         \section{Introduction}
  93
  94         \begin{frame}
  95                 \slug{The IPFire project was founded in 2005}
  96         \end{frame}
  97
  98         \begin{frame}
  99                 \slug{On November 8th, 2007, IPFire 2.0 was released}
 100         \end{frame}
 101
 102         \begin{frame}
 103                 \slug{Since then, 82 Core Updates and
 104                         eight ``major'' versions have been released}
 105         \end{frame}
 106
 107         \begin{frame}
 108                 \slug{IPFire has become a stable and secure firewall distribution
 109                         with bleeding-edge features and a broad user base all over the world}
 110         \end{frame}
 111
 112         \begin{frame}
 113                 \slug{It is giving access to the Internet for thousands of students
 114                         in universities; and it is doing the same for only one user with
 115                         exactly the same code base}
 116         \end{frame}
 117
 118         \begin{frame}
 119                 \slug{It is not just a router or firewall; \\
 120                         it is versatile, robust, and easy to manage}
 121         \end{frame}
 122
 123         \begin{frame}
 124                 \slug{IPFire is Open Source software \\ and free to use for everybody}
 125         \end{frame}
 126
 127         \begin{frame}
 128                 Unless stated otherwise, the shown data was collected from the
 129                 commits in the IPFire 2.x main repository (master branch) and
 130                 the Core Updates released since the last two years.
 131         \end{frame}
 132
 133         \section{Release history}
 134
 135         \subsection{Updates}
 136
 137         \begin{frame}
 138                 %\frametitle{Core Updates}
 139
 140                 \slug{Two major releases, 20 Core Updates \\ in the past two years}
 141                 \pause
 142
 143                 \vspace*{\fill}
 144                 \begin{center}
 145                         \begin{itemize}
 146                                 \item IPFire 2.11 Core Update 62 to IPFire 2.15 Core Update 82
 147                                 \pause
 148                                 \item Averages every five weeks (used to be every four weeks)
 149                                 \pause
 150                                 \item Security updates
 151                                         \begin{itemize}
 152                                                 \item Four major security issues (1 kernel, 1 strongswan, 2 openssl)
 153                                                 \item Three minor security issues (apache, strongswan, openvpn)
 154                                         \end{itemize}
 155                                         \pause
 156                                 \item Most of the users are running on a recent release
 157                         \end{itemize}
 158                 \end{center}
 159         \end{frame}
 160
 161         \section{User Base}
 162
 163         \subsection{fireinfo}
 164
 165         \begin{frame}
 166                 \frametitle{fireinfo}
 167
 168                 \begin{itemize}
 169                         \item A little bit more over ten thousand users send their hardware profile
 170                         \item We assume that these profiles are representative for all users
 171                 \end{itemize}
 172         \end{frame}
 173
 174         \subsection{Country statistics}
 175
 176         \begin{frame}
 177                 %\frametitle{Countries}
 178
 179                 \slug{IPFire is running in 165 countries}
 180                 \pause
 181
 182                 \slug{...and most popular in Europe}
 183                 \pause
 184
 185                 \begin{center}
 186                         \vspace*{\fill}
 187                         {
 188                                 \footnotesize
 189                                 48\% Germany, 8\% United States of America, 5\% Austria, 4\% Switzerland,
 190                                 3\% France, 3\% Italy, 2\% Russia, 2\% Indonesia, 1.6\% Canada,
 191                                 1.6\% Great Britain, 1.4\% South Africa, 1.4\% Australia, 1.3\% Poland,
 192                                 1.3\% Brasil
 193                         }
 194                         \vspace*{\fill}
 195
 196                         \url{http://fireinfo.ipfire.org/stats/geo}
 197                 \end{center}
 198         \end{frame}
 199
 200         \begin{frame}
 201                 %\frametitle{Countries}
 202
 203                 These statistics become very interesting when compared to the number
 204                 of citizens of the countries
 205                 \pause
 206
 207                 \begin{itemize}
 208                         \item Where are China (0.4\%) and India (0.68\%)?
 209                 \end{itemize}
 210                 \pause
 211
 212                 Possible explanations:
 213                 \begin{itemize}
 214                         \item English and German support forum
 215                         \item Good coverage of IPFire in German IT magazines
 216                                 (c't, Linux Magazine, Linux User)
 217                         \item Some nationalities are more security-aware (``paranoid'')
 218                 \end{itemize}
 219         \end{frame}
 220
 221         \section{Development Statistics}
 222         \begin{frame}
 223                 %\frametitle{Development Statistics}
 224
 225                 \slug{2801 commits in the main repository}
 226                 \pause
 227
 228                 \slug{A release branch (\texttt{master}), a development branch (\texttt{next}),
 229                         and several feature branches}
 230         \end{frame}
 231
 232         %% git shortlog --since="2 years ago" | grep -E "^[A-Za-z0-9]"
 233         \begin{frame}
 234                 %\frametitle{Contributors}
 235                 %\pause
 236
 237                 \begin{center}
 238                         \slug{27 code contributors}
 239                         \pause
 240
 241                         \vspace*{\fill}
 242                         {
 243                                 \footnotesize
 244                                 1084 Michael Tremer,
 245                                 844 Arne Fitzenreiter,
 246                                 564 Alexander Marx,
 247                                 78 Stefan Schantl,
 248                                 57 Alf Høgemark,
 249                                 51 Erik Kapfer,
 250                                 21 Timo Eissler,
 251                                 16 Jan Paul Tücking,
 252                                 16 Jörn-Ingo Weigert,
 253                                 17 Daniel Weismüller,
 254                                 13 Ben Schweikert,
 255                                 12 Ersan Yildirim,
 256                                 3 Jan Lentfer,
 257                                 3 Dominik Hassler,
 258                                 3 Dirk Wagner,
 259                                 3 Hans Horsten,
 260                                 2 Bernhard Bittner,
 261                                 2 Bernhard Bitsch,
 262                                 1 Thomas Ebert,
 263                                 1 Stefan Ferstl,
 264                                 1 Stefan Ernst,
 265                                 1 Logan Schmidt,
 266                                 1 Kim Wölfel,
 267                                 1 Kay-Michael Köhler,
 268                                 1 Julian McConnell,
 269                                 1 Jan Behrens,
 270                                 1 Axel Gembe
 271                         }
 272                         \pause
 273
 274                         \vspace*{\fill}
 275                         Three Core Developers, Eight Community Developers, 15 one-time contributors
 276                 \end{center}
 277         \end{frame}
 278
 279
 280         \section{Funding}
 281
 282         \begin{frame}
 283                 %\frametitle{Funding}
 284
 285                 \slug{
 286                         The IPFire project is funded only by donations \\
 287                         and the work of volunteers
 288                 }
 289         \end{frame}
 290
 291         \begin{frame}
 292                 %\frametitle{Company funding}
 293
 294                 \slug{Company funding}
 295
 296                 \begin{center}
 297                         \begin{itemize}
 298                                 \item The only companies who provide constant support are
 299                                         Lightning Wire Labs and TX-Team
 300                                         \begin{itemize}
 301                                                 \item From selling hardware appliances and support
 302                                                 \item Very few development work
 303                                         \end{itemize}
 304                                 \item Unfortunately we do not receive donations from other
 305                                         companies selling hardware appliances to their customers
 306                                         \begin{itemize}
 307                                                 \item In fact, companies don't donate much at all
 308                                                         (regardless if they use IPFire or make revenue of it)
 309                                                 \item They mostly support wishes on the wishlist
 310                                         \end{itemize}
 311                         \end{itemize}
 312                 \end{center}
 313         \end{frame}
 314
 315         \begin{frame}
 316                 \slug{Home users donate smaller donations, but more often}
 317
 318                 \begin{center}
 319                         Not at all related to the usage statistics
 320                 \end{center}
 321         \end{frame}
 322
 323         \begin{frame}
 324                 %\frametitle{Where are we?}
 325
 326                 \slug{Where are we?}
 327
 328                 \begin{center}
 329                         \begin{itemize}
 330                                 \item The developers don't need to fund the project with their
 331                                         own money \\ - which is good :)
 332                                 \pause
 333                                 \item The basic expenses are paid:
 334                                 \begin{itemize}
 335                                         \item Hosting
 336                                         \item Parts of this summit
 337                                 \end{itemize}
 338                                 \pause
 339                                 \item but we can do so much more...
 340                         \end{itemize}
 341                 \end{center}
 342                 \pause
 343
 344                 \slug{If every IPFire user would give us one Euro per month,
 345                         we don't need to worry about funding - at all.}
 346         \end{frame}
 347
 348         \subsection{What do we need money for?}
 349
 350         \begin{frame}
 351                 %\frametitle{What do we need money for?}
 352
 353                 \slug{Maintaining the distribution}
 354
 355                 \begin{center}
 356                         ... which takes hours per week and is almost invisible work.
 357                         This is where the Core Updates that fix your bugs and security
 358                         fixes come from.
 359                 \end{center}
 360         \end{frame}
 361
 362         \begin{frame}
 363                 %\frametitle{What do we need money for?}
 364
 365                 \slug{Hosting}
 366
 367                 \begin{center}
 368                         We are currently running two big machines in two different data
 369                         centers. Rack space for one of them is donated.
 370                 \end{center}
 371         \end{frame}
 372
 373         \begin{frame}
 374                 \begin{center}
 375                         development hardware, build machines, improving documentation,
 376                         hiring a community manager, doing a developer/user summit twice a year,
 377                         redesigning our web appearance, updating our way outdated forum
 378                         and wiki softwares, maintaining and enhancing the project infrastructure:
 379                         account system, get more statistics out of fireinfo;
 380                         represent the project on fairs \& exhibitions, make people aware of
 381                         the project and increase the number of users, do translations
 382                 \end{center}
 383         \end{frame}
 384
 385         \subsection{Wishlist}
 386
 387         \begin{frame}
 388                 %\frametitle{Crowdfunding: Wishlist}
 389
 390                 \slug{Crowd funding}
 391
 392                 \begin{center}
 393                         \begin{itemize}
 394                                 \item Works for collecting money for exciting features:
 395                                 \begin{itemize}
 396                                         \item tor
 397                                         \item Microsoft Windows Active Directory proxy authentication
 398                                 \end{itemize}
 399                                 \item Does not work for funding the essentials
 400                         \end{itemize}
 401                 \end{center}
 402         \end{frame}
 403
 404
 405         \section{Features}
 406
 407         \begin{frame}
 408                 \slug{Feature hightlights from the past two years...}
 409         \end{frame}
 410
 411         \subsection{grsecurity}
 412
 413         \begin{frame}
 414                 \slug{grsecurity}
 415                 \pause
 416
 417                 \begin{center}
 418                         IPFire is the only free distribution that comes with grsecurity
 419                         enabled by default - even on ARM
 420                 \end{center}
 421         \end{frame}
 422
 423         \subsection{Bufferbloat}
 424
 425         \begin{frame}
 426                 \slug{Bufferbloat}
 427
 428                 \begin{center}
 429                         \includegraphics[height=.8\textheight]{res/bufferbloat}
 430                 \end{center}
 431         \end{frame}
 432
 433         \subsection{New Firewall GUI}
 434
 435         \begin{frame}
 436                 \slug{New Firewall GUI}
 437         \end{frame}
 438
 439         \subsection{Cryptography}
 440
 441         \begin{frame}
 442                 \slug{We have been improved cryptography in IPFire \\ on many levels...}
 443         \end{frame}
 444
 445         \begin{frame}
 446                 \slug{We increased default RSA key sizes at all places}
 447         \end{frame}
 448
 449         \begin{frame}
 450                 \slug{IPsec VPNs with Elliptic Curves}
 451
 452                 \begin{center}
 453                         NIST and Brainpool
 454                 \end{center}
 455         \end{frame}
 456
 457         \begin{frame}
 458                 \slug{Alternative ciphers for OpenVPN and IPsec, because we don't
 459                         know who we can trust any more}
 460         \end{frame}
 461
 462         \begin{frame}
 463                 \slug{Entropy}
 464
 465                 \begin{center}
 466                         The IPFire system uses hardware random number generators and mixes
 467                         the output of them into the system's entropy pool.
 468                 \end{center}
 469         \end{frame}
 470
 471         \subsubsection{DNSSEC}
 472
 473         \begin{frame}
 474                 \slug{DNSSEC}
 475         \end{frame}
 476
 477         \subsection{ARM}
 478
 479         \begin{frame}
 480                 \slug{We have an ARM version of IPFire}
 481
 482                 \begin{center}
 483                         Only 3\% of all IPFire machines are running on ARM
 484                 \end{center}
 485         \end{frame}
 486
 487         \subsection{DDNS}
 488
 489         \begin{frame}
 490                 \slug{DDNS}
 491         \end{frame}
 492
 493         \subsection{Miscellaneous}
 494
 495         \begin{frame}
 496                 \slug{
 497                         less installation images,
 498                         Wireless on RED,
 499                         DNS forwarding GUI,
 500                         tor,
 501                         5 GHz wireless access points with radar detection,
 502                         OpenVPN per-client configuration,
 503                         new user interface style,
 504                         LTE/3G modem status page,
 505                         faster squidclamav
 506                 }
 507         \end{frame}
 508
 509         \section*{The End}
 510
 511         \begin{frame}
 512                 \slug{Questions?}
 513
 514                 \begin{center}
 515                         \texttt{michael.tremer@ipfire.org}
 516                 \end{center}
 517         \end{frame}
 518 \end{document}