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*** 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
 
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** Professional trainers from leading technology firms (e.g. Red Hat, Cloudera, Linux Institute)
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** Professional trainers from leading technology firms (e.g. Red Hat, PuppetLabs, CFEngine, EnterpriseDB, Best Practical)
 
** Lowest cost for this high-level training.
 
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** Linux Basics, LPI Cram session all day training
 
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** Linux basic training
 
** Linux basic training
 
** LibreOffice
 
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** Linux Desktop Environments
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** Linux Gaming
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** Profit!
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Revision as of 11:14, 26 July 2013

  • 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 2012
    • Professional trainers from leading technology firms (e.g. Red Hat, PuppetLabs, CFEngine, EnterpriseDB, Best Practical)
    • Lowest cost for this high-level training.
    • RT, Puppet, PostgreSQL, all day training
    • SELinux, vim editor, cfengine & vagrant, RPM building - Half-day training
    • Linux Basics, LPI Cram session all day training
  • Newbie Training Track 2013
    • Linux basic training
    • LibreOffice
    • ???
    • Profit!
  • Career Track
  • Regular tracks
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