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 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