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, and still serves on the 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
- Kirk McKusick
- OFLI 2012
- Professional trainers from leading technology firms (e.g. Red Hat, Cloudera, Linux Institute)
- Lowest cost for this high-level training.
- Hadoop, Puppet all day training
- performance tuning, SELinux, advanced shell scripting, vi editor, time management for sysadmins - Half-day training
- Linux Basics, LPI Cram session all day training
- Newbie Training Track 2012
- Linux basic training
- LibreOffice
- Linux Desktop Environments
- Linux Gaming