Developer Days

OVAL hosts OVAL Developer Days conferences each year at The MITRE Corporation in Bedford, Massachusetts. The purpose of the event is for the OVAL Community to discuss, in technical detail, the more difficult issues facing the current and future versions of OVAL and to derive solutions that benefit all concerned parties and continue the development of the OVAL Language.

Information about upcoming and/or past conferences is included below:

Upcoming Event

No events currently scheduled. Please contact oval@mitre.org with any comments or concerns.

Past Events

Security Automation Developer Days 2009

This year, the annual OVAL Developer Days conference was incorporated into the first-ever Security Automation Developer Days 2009 conference held June 8-12, 2009 at MITRE in Bedford, Massachusetts, USA. OVAL was a main topic of this event.

OVAL downloads:

OVAL Developer Days 2009 Slides (PDF, 257K)
OVAL Developer Days 2009 Minutes (PDF, 591K)

For all downloads and additional information visit http://msm.mitre.org/participation/devdays.html.

OVAL Developer Days Conference — 2008

OVAL hosted its third Developer Days conference on April 28-29, 2008 at MITRE Corporation in Bedford, Massachusetts, USA. Specific talks included What Goes Into a Major Version, Merging the <affected> Element into the Criteria Section for Version 6, Definitions as the Focal Point, Reusing Content Across External Repositories, Supporting Network Devices, Repository and Reference Implementation Transition, Status of Stand-Alone Objects, Choice Structure, Agility in the OVAL Language, Future of OVAL Compatibility, Regular Expression Syntax, OVAL’s XML Footprint, and What Is Needed in a Remediation Language.

Materials from the event include the following:

Developer Days 2008 Agenda (PDF, 224K)
Developer Days Briefing Slides (ZIP, 4MB)
Developer Days 2008 Invitation (PDF, 93K)
Developer Days Minutes (PDF, 293K)

OVAL Developer Days Conference — 2006

OVAL hosted its second Developer Days conference July 11-12, 2006. Specific talks included A Look at Version 5, OVAL Repository Quality, XCCDF-P, OVAL Compatibility, and FISMA Turning Toward OVAL.

Materials from the event include the following:

Developer Days Meeting Agenda (PDF, 141K)
Developer Days Briefing Slides (ZIP, 591K)
Developer Days Minutes (PDF, 131K)
News & Photos (HTML)

OVAL Developer Days Conference — 2005

OVAL hosted its first-ever Developer Days conference July 18-19, 2005. Topics included OVAL Definitions, OVAL Schemas, OVAL Compatibility, OVAL Interpreter, and Web Services, among others.

Materials from the event include the following:

Developer Days Meeting Agenda (PDF, 117K)
Developer Days Briefing Slides (ZIP, 591K)
Developer Days Minutes (PDF, 119K)
News & Photos (HTML)

Page Last Updated: July 17, 2009