OLF 2013 Talking Points

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  • Keynoters
    • Kirk McKusick
      • President of the USENIX Association from 1990 to 1992 and again from 2002 to 2004 (is not still on board!)
      • On the editorial board of ACM Queue Magazine
      • Started with BSD by virtue of the fact that he shared an office at Berkeley with Bill Joy, who in essence spearheaded the beginnings of the BSD system
      • Helped design the original Berkeley Fast File System (FFS)
      • Implemented soft updates, an alternative approach to maintaining disk integrity after a crash or power outage, in FFS, and a revised version of UFS known as "UFS2"
      • Primarily responsible for creating the complementary features of filesystem snapshots and background fsck (file system check and repair)
    • Robyn Bergeron
      • Fedora Project Leader = "ultimately accountable for everything that happens within Fedora"
      • Fedora Program Manager = scheduling and feature wrangling
      • Involved with Fedora since 2009
      • Organized 2011 North American FUDCon
      • Previously Marketing Team Leader, Cloud SIG Wrangler, and Ambassador
    • Mark Spencer
      • Original author of the GTK+-based instant messaging client Gaim (which has since been renamed to Pidgin)
      • Original author of the L2TP daemon l2tpd
      • Original author of the Cheops Network User Interface
      • The creator of Asterisk, a Linux-based open-sourced PBX in software
      • The founder, chairman and CTO of Digium, an open-source telecommunications supplier most notable for its development and sponsorship of Asterisk
    • Jon "maddog" Hall
      • Executive Director of Linux International
      • Project Caua
      • Author of "Linux for Dummies"
      • Worked with Linus Torvalds since 1994
  • OLFI 2013
    • Professional trainers from leading technology firms (e.g. Red Hat, PuppetLabs, CFEngine, EnterpriseDB, Best Practical)
    • Lowest cost for this high-level training.
    • Request Tracker (RT)all day training - Ticketing, help desk, network operations, change management, bug tracking and more
    • Puppet all day training - Automating IT system administration
    • PostgreSQL all day training - The open source relational database that can replace Oracle
    • Half-day training:
      • SELinux
      • vim editor
      • cfengine & vagrant - Configuration management and provisioning virtual machines
      • RPM building
    • LPI Cram session all day training - learn what you need to take the basic LPIC 101 and 102 tests
      • Tests available on Sunday for additional cost (needs separate registration)
    • Linux Basics all day training - learn to install Linux with a hands on class
      • Discounted price (only $250)
      • Smaller class for more personalized help
      • Laptops for training provided, available for purchase after class at low price


  • Newbie Training Track 2013
    • Linux basic training
    • LibreOffice
    • ???
    • Profit!
      • You've never even seen South Park, have you??
  • Career Track - All day Saturday
  • Regular tracks - Friday and Saturday
    • See below for Early Penguins
    • Talks range from topics you want to hear to names you know who can talk about anything
    • We value knowledge of subject over experience speaking - everyone has to start somewhere!
    • Knowns: Catherine Devlin (Python), Jono Bacon (Ubuntu), Klaatu (Video editing), Jorge Castro (Juju & Ubuntu), Dru Lavigne (ZFS), DoorToDoorGeek (Podcasting), ???
    • Topics: IPv6, CopyLeft, Amateur Radio, Xen, MySQL, encryption, music software, MongoDB, Raspberry Pi, ARM, and more
  • Open Source Solutions Stage - All day Saturday
    • Our sponsors will talk about the latest thing they're working on and what's got their interest today


  • Certification Exams - Sunday
  • Diversity in Open Source Workshop - Sunday
  • Dinner with the Keynotes
    • Confirmed as of 8/17: maddog and Kirk McKusick
    • Be one of only 30 people to have dinner with FOSS notables
    • Be prepared for tales of Way Back When
  • BOF sessions - Friday night, sign up in advance, first come, first served
    • Place to get together and talk with people who have the same niche interest as you
    • Way to share information, brainstorm solutions to problems, or just meet others
  • Saturday Party
    • Three Legged Mare (same venue as 2012), 9pm to Midnight (really, until close)
    • Low cost of $5 is given right back to you, with a ticket that will buy you one of a variety of beers, house wines or well drinks
    • Free munchies provided
    • Regular menu available at normal cost
      • Irish pub; they have an amazing scotch menu as well as tasty food
  • Early Penguins
    • Open to all with a basic registration
    • Get a sampling of talks like the ones that will be available on Saturday
    • Wide variety of topics
    • Ends with maddog's keynote
  • UbuCon
    • Open to all with a basic registration
    • Ubuntu users? developers? Torturers? Bueller? (waiting on info)
    • Talks by Ubuntu people
    • Not run by Canonical but by the Common Folks
    • Film at 11
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