There are quite a few North American BSD conferences now (BSDCan, NYCBSDCon, MeetBSD, vBSDcon) but BSDCan has been around for the longest and is the largest of

There are quite a few North American BSD conferences now (BSDCan, NYCBSDCon, MeetBSD, vBSDcon) but BSDCan has been around for the longest and is the largest of them -- last year we had 40 main talks, plus 6 BoFs, 5 short public talks from the FreeBSD vendor summit, and 4 tutorials. vBSDCon had somewhere around a dozen talks in total, I think. Also, Ottawa is a great place to visit in June. I wouldn't want to visit in the winter, but the May/June weather is very pleasant.