From: Michael Tremer <michael.tremer@ipfire.org>
Date: Sun, 7 Sep 2014 21:47:52 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: 2014 - A look into the past and future
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2014 - A look into the past and future
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+% Author information.
+\author[Michael Tremer]{Michael Tremer}
+\institute{IPFire Project}
+
+% The title of the presentation.
+\title{A look into the past and future}
+\subtitle{What happened in the last two years and where are we headed?}
+
+\date{September 20\textsuperscript{th}, 2014}
+
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+
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+    \includegraphics[width=\textwidth]{#1}}}
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+	\vspace*{\fill}
+
+	\begin{center}
+		\LARGE #1
+	\end{center}
+
+	\vspace*{\fill}
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+
+\begin{document}
+	\maketitle
+
+	%\section*{Outline}
+	%\frame{\tableofcontents}
+
+	\section{Introduction}
+
+	\begin{frame}
+		\slug{The IPFire project was founded in 2005}
+	\end{frame}
+
+	\begin{frame}
+		\slug{On November 8th, 2007, IPFire 2.0 was released}
+	\end{frame}
+
+	\begin{frame}
+		\slug{Since then, 82 Core Updates and
+			eight ``major'' versions have been released}
+	\end{frame}
+
+	\begin{frame}
+		\slug{IPFire has become a stable and secure firewall distribution
+			with bleeding-edge features and a broad user base all over the world}
+	\end{frame}
+
+	\begin{frame}
+		\slug{It is giving access to the Internet for thousands of students
+			in universities; and it is doing the same for only one user with
+			exactly the same code base}
+	\end{frame}
+
+	\begin{frame}
+		\slug{It is not just a router or firewall; \\
+			it is versatile, robust, and easy to manage}
+	\end{frame}
+
+	\begin{frame}
+		\slug{IPFire is Open Source software \\ and free to use for everybody}
+	\end{frame}
+
+	\begin{frame}
+		Unless stated otherwise, the shown data was collected from the
+		commits in the IPFire 2.x main repository (master branch) and
+		the Core Updates released since the last two years.
+	\end{frame}
+
+	\section{Release history}
+
+	\subsection{Updates}
+
+	\begin{frame}
+		%\frametitle{Core Updates}
+
+		\slug{Two major releases, 20 Core Updates \\ in the past two years}
+		\pause
+
+		\vspace*{\fill}
+		\begin{center}
+			\begin{itemize}
+				\item IPFire 2.11 Core Update 62 to IPFire 2.15 Core Update 82
+				\pause
+				\item Averages every five weeks (used to be every four weeks)
+				\pause
+				\item Security updates
+					\begin{itemize}
+						\item Four major security issues (1 kernel, 1 strongswan, 2 openssl)
+						\item Three minor security issues (apache, strongswan, openvpn)
+					\end{itemize}
+					\pause
+				\item Most of the users are running on a recent release
+			\end{itemize}
+		\end{center}
+	\end{frame}
+
+	\section{User Base}
+
+	\subsection{fireinfo}
+
+	\begin{frame}
+		\frametitle{fireinfo}
+
+		\begin{itemize}
+			\item A little bit more over ten thousand users send their hardware profile
+			\item We assume that these profiles are representative for all users
+		\end{itemize}
+	\end{frame}
+
+	\subsection{Country statistics}
+
+	\begin{frame}
+		%\frametitle{Countries}
+
+		\slug{IPFire is running in 165 countries}
+		\pause
+
+		\slug{...and most popular in Europe}
+		\pause
+
+		\begin{center}
+			\vspace*{\fill}
+			{
+				\footnotesize
+				48\% Germany, 8\% United States of America, 5\% Austria, 4\% Switzerland,
+				3\% France, 3\% Italy, 2\% Russia, 2\% Indonesia, 1.6\% Canada,
+				1.6\% Great Britain, 1.4\% South Africa, 1.4\% Australia, 1.3\% Poland,
+				1.3\% Brasil
+			}
+			\vspace*{\fill}
+
+			\url{http://fireinfo.ipfire.org/stats/geo}
+		\end{center}
+	\end{frame}
+
+	\begin{frame}
+		%\frametitle{Countries}
+
+		These statistics become very interesting when compared to the number
+		of citizens of the countries
+		\pause
+
+		\begin{itemize}
+			\item Where are China (0.4\%) and India (0.68\%)?
+		\end{itemize}
+		\pause
+
+		Possible explanations:
+		\begin{itemize}
+			\item English and German support forum
+			\item Good coverage of IPFire in German IT magazines
+				(c't, Linux Magazine, Linux User)
+			\item Some nationalities are more security-aware (``paranoid'')
+		\end{itemize}
+	\end{frame}
+
+	\section{Development Statistics}
+	\begin{frame}
+		%\frametitle{Development Statistics}
+
+		\slug{2801 commits in the main repository}
+		\pause
+
+		\slug{A release branch (\texttt{master}), a development branch (\texttt{next}),
+			and several feature branches}
+	\end{frame}
+
+	%% git shortlog --since="2 years ago" | grep -E "^[A-Za-z0-9]"
+	\begin{frame}
+		%\frametitle{Contributors}
+		%\pause
+
+		\begin{center}
+			\slug{27 code contributors}
+			\pause
+
+			\vspace*{\fill}
+			{
+				\footnotesize
+				1084 Michael Tremer,
+				844 Arne Fitzenreiter,
+				564 Alexander Marx,
+				78 Stefan Schantl,
+				57 Alf Høgemark,
+				51 Erik Kapfer,
+				21 Timo Eissler,
+				16 Jan Paul Tücking,
+				16 Jörn-Ingo Weigert,
+				17 Daniel Weismüller,
+				13 Ben Schweikert,
+				12 Ersan Yildirim,
+				3 Jan Lentfer,
+				3 Dominik Hassler,
+				3 Dirk Wagner,
+				3 Hans Horsten,
+				2 Bernhard Bittner,
+				2 Bernhard Bitsch,
+				1 Thomas Ebert,
+				1 Stefan Ferstl,
+				1 Stefan Ernst,
+				1 Logan Schmidt,
+				1 Kim Wölfel,
+				1 Kay-Michael Köhler,
+				1 Julian McConnell,
+				1 Jan Behrens,
+				1 Axel Gembe
+			}
+			\pause
+
+			\vspace*{\fill}
+			Three Core Developers, Eight Community Developers, 15 one-time contributors
+		\end{center}
+	\end{frame}
+
+
+	\section{Funding}
+
+	\begin{frame}
+		%\frametitle{Funding}
+
+		\slug{
+			The IPFire project is funded only by donations \\
+			and the work of volunteers
+		}
+	\end{frame}
+
+	\begin{frame}
+		%\frametitle{Company funding}
+
+		\slug{Company funding}
+
+		\begin{center}
+			\begin{itemize}
+				\item The only companies who provide constant support are
+					Lightning Wire Labs and TX-Team
+					\begin{itemize}
+						\item From selling hardware appliances and support
+						\item Very few development work
+					\end{itemize}
+				\item Unfortunately we do not receive donations from other
+					companies selling hardware appliances to their customers
+					\begin{itemize}
+						\item In fact, companies don't donate much at all
+							(regardless if they use IPFire or make revenue of it)
+						\item They mostly support wishes on the wishlist
+					\end{itemize}
+			\end{itemize}
+		\end{center}
+	\end{frame}
+
+	\begin{frame}
+		\slug{Home users donate smaller donations, but more often}
+
+		\begin{center}
+			Not at all related to the usage statistics
+		\end{center}
+	\end{frame}
+
+	\begin{frame}
+		%\frametitle{Where are we?}
+
+		\slug{Where are we?}
+
+		\begin{center}
+			\begin{itemize}
+				\item The developers don't need to fund the project with their
+					own money \\ - which is good :)
+				\pause
+				\item The basic expenses are paid:
+				\begin{itemize}
+					\item Hosting
+					\item Parts of this summit
+				\end{itemize}
+				\pause
+				\item but we can do so much more...
+			\end{itemize}
+		\end{center}
+		\pause
+
+		\slug{If every IPFire user would give us one Euro per month,
+			we don't need to worry about funding - at all.}
+	\end{frame}
+
+	\subsection{What do we need money for?}
+
+	\begin{frame}
+		%\frametitle{What do we need money for?}
+
+		\slug{Maintaining the distribution}
+
+		\begin{center}
+			... which takes hours per week and is almost invisible work.
+			This is where the Core Updates that fix your bugs and security
+			fixes come from.
+		\end{center}
+	\end{frame}
+
+	\begin{frame}
+		%\frametitle{What do we need money for?}
+
+		\slug{Hosting}
+
+		\begin{center}
+			We are currently running two big machines in two different data
+			centers. Rack space for one of them is donated.
+		\end{center}
+	\end{frame}
+
+	\begin{frame}
+		\begin{center}
+			development hardware, build machines, improving documentation,
+			hiring a community manager, doing a developer/user summit twice a year,
+			redesigning our web appearance, updating our way outdated forum
+			and wiki softwares, maintaining and enhancing the project infrastructure:
+			account system, get more statistics out of fireinfo;
+			represent the project on fairs \& exhibitions, make people aware of
+			the project and increase the number of users, do translations
+		\end{center}
+	\end{frame}
+
+	\subsection{Wishlist}
+
+	\begin{frame}
+		%\frametitle{Crowdfunding: Wishlist}
+
+		\slug{Crowd funding}
+
+		\begin{center}
+			\begin{itemize}
+				\item Works for collecting money for exciting features:
+				\begin{itemize}
+					\item tor
+					\item Microsoft Windows Active Directory proxy authentication
+				\end{itemize}
+				\item Does not work for funding the essentials
+			\end{itemize}
+		\end{center}
+	\end{frame}
+
+
+	\section{Features}
+
+	\begin{frame}
+		\slug{Feature hightlights from the past two years...}
+	\end{frame}
+
+	\subsection{grsecurity}
+
+	\begin{frame}
+		\slug{grsecurity}
+		\pause
+
+		\begin{center}
+			IPFire is the only free distribution that comes with grsecurity
+			enabled by default - even on ARM
+		\end{center}
+	\end{frame}
+
+	\subsection{Bufferbloat}
+
+	\begin{frame}
+		\slug{Bufferbloat}
+
+		\begin{center}
+			\includegraphics[height=.8\textheight]{res/bufferbloat}
+		\end{center}
+	\end{frame}
+
+	\subsection{New Firewall GUI}
+
+	\begin{frame}
+		\slug{New Firewall GUI}
+	\end{frame}
+
+	\subsection{Cryptography}
+
+	\begin{frame}
+		\slug{We have been improved cryptography in IPFire \\ on many levels...}
+	\end{frame}
+
+	\begin{frame}
+		\slug{We increased default RSA key sizes at all places}
+	\end{frame}
+
+	\begin{frame}
+		\slug{IPsec VPNs with Elliptic Curves}
+
+		\begin{center}
+			NIST and Brainpool
+		\end{center}
+	\end{frame}
+
+	\begin{frame}
+		\slug{Alternative ciphers for OpenVPN and IPsec, because we don't
+			know who we can trust any more}
+	\end{frame}
+
+	\begin{frame}
+		\slug{Entropy}
+
+		\begin{center}
+			The IPFire system uses hardware random number generators and mixes
+			the output of them into the system's entropy pool.
+		\end{center}
+	\end{frame}
+
+	\subsubsection{DNSSEC}
+
+	\begin{frame}
+		\slug{DNSSEC}
+	\end{frame}
+
+	\subsection{ARM}
+
+	\begin{frame}
+		\slug{We have an ARM version of IPFire}
+
+		\begin{center}
+			Only 3\% of all IPFire machines are running on ARM
+		\end{center}
+	\end{frame}
+
+	\subsection{DDNS}
+
+	\begin{frame}
+		\slug{DDNS}
+	\end{frame}
+
+	\subsection{Miscellaneous}
+
+	\begin{frame}
+		\slug{
+			less installation images,
+			Wireless on RED,
+			DNS forwarding GUI,
+			tor,
+			5 GHz wireless access points with radar detection,
+			OpenVPN per-client configuration,
+			new user interface style,
+			LTE/3G modem status page,
+			faster squidclamav
+		}
+	\end{frame}
+
+	\section*{The End}
+
+	\begin{frame}
+		\slug{Questions?}
+
+		\begin{center}
+			\texttt{michael.tremer@ipfire.org}
+		\end{center}
+	\end{frame}
+\end{document}
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 PDFLATEX="pdflatex"
 
 TALKS="2012_-_Introduction_to_the_Pakfire_Build_Service"
+TALKS="${TALKS} 2014_-_A_look_into_the_past_and_future"
 
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 	(
 		pushd "${talk}"
+		[ "main.tex" -nt "main.pdf" ] || exit 0
+
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 			cat "main.pdf" > "../${talk}.pdf"
 		fi