OLF 2013 Talking Points

• 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