FOSDEM 2007 (Free and Open Source Developer's European Meeting)

Single Point of Contact: DagWieers

• pre-FOSDEM will be held on friday 23th February 2007 in Brussels

• FOSDEM 2007 is on saturday 24th and sunday 25th February 2007 in Brussels

• CentOS will have a dedicated booth and share a developers roomwith Fedora

• Fedora has a wiki page about their Fedora FOSDEM preparations

Pictures from FOSDEM 2007 and presentation slides

• If you want to see Fosdem pictures here they are (more to come) : http://www.arrfab.net/pics/view_album.php?set_albumName=Fosdem2007

• Fabian's talk about the belgian EID card: eid-card-centos-fosdem07.pdf

• Ralph's CentOS introductory talk: fosdem2007.tar.gz

• Lance's talk about CentOS Infrastructure and Roadmap Lance-fosdem.pdf

• Frederik's presentation about OpenVZ on CentOS openvz-centos.pdf

• Dag's presentation about RPMforge CentOS/RHEL RPM packages fosdem-2007-rpmforge.pdf

Schedule

A Google Calendar schedule is available from here. [XML] [ICAL] [HTML]

It contains both the deadlines, the events and the presentation schedules (preliminary).

IRC Meeting in #centos-social on 2007-01-14

• We need people to man the booth
  • Until now: See below (people Attending)

• Q&A instead of a talk.

  • Need to moderate that and have some answers/questions (PreFosdemMeeting? See below)

• Booth material: Posters, Flyer and so on.

  • Posters: LanceDavis?

  • Flyer: DanielDeKok, RalphAngenendt (and needs to be discussed inside the CentOS team beforehand)

    • How many?
    • Color Laser or real printing?
  • Stickers? Mugs? Marketing material? See below.
  • Run a machine with dogtail and CentOS 5(beta). Who can do that in python?

To do

What needs to be done before FOSDEM?

• Get flyers printed. DanielDeKok is willing to work on a flyer and cover the printing costs. The cost of printing 2500 full-color, double-sided flyers on glossy A6 paper, is 65 Euro.

  • The flyer will be discussed and improved in an Open Source fashion.
  • Source format should be SVG and work with inkscape.

  • Please look at the existing OpenVZ flyers, very professional and complete (thick paper, one color print, bordered sections, useful as a guide when explaining the what and why)

  • Todo:

    • Discuss, improve and rewrite the flyer text.

    • Make the flyer layout, and discuss it on a public list.
• Cool, but professional CentOS-team shirts with logo/name printed on the shirt (reusable for other events)

• A few posters need to be designed so LanceDavis can print them and bring them. These are used for both the booth and the developers room.

• FabianArrotin will be able to bring some systems to show off CentOS, can be used for presentations as well (Fabian's manager agrees on that idea)

• See with LanceDavis what marketing material we can sell (laptop-stickers, DVD boxes, t-shirts, ...) LinuxWorld teached me that some people really would like to buy stuff to help the project. (instead of donating)

• ...

To bring

What do we need to bring to FOSDEM?

Please put your name behind each item if you're bringing it.

• UK conversion plugs
  • It would be nice if we had a few convertors from Euro-plugs to UK-plugs and extension-chords for UK systems. So people can easily plug into the existing plugs instead of having to mess around everytime to join the devroom.

• Computer system for booth (FabianArrotin)

• Big LCD widescreen for booth (FrederikKaputa)

  • Need to check the X configuration in advance for this to work

• Computer system for presentations (FabianArrotin)

• Flyers (DanielDeKok)

• Posters (LanceDavis?)

• <Add stuff here>

Goals

What do we want to achieve/show at FOSDEM?

• Explain the importance of an Enterprise Linux distribution (What is it, why use it, who should use it ?)
• Explain what CentOS exactly is (Rebuild of RHEL, additional packages and community support)
• Explain how we are different from other Enterprise distributions
• Show how all other distributions relate (bleeding/edge vs enterprise, length of support, market share, ...)

Participants

Who's willing to help ?

• DagWieers

• DanielDeKok

• FabianArrotin (volunteer for the booth)

• FrederikKaputa

• KaranbirSingh

• RalphAngenendt

• AndreasRogge (dyson on IRC)

• ChrisGeldenhuis (volunteer for the booth)

Hardware Insurance

Like last year, FOSDEM will provide hardware insurance (free of cost for people manning the booth and the devroom) for all the hardware you bring.

The insurance is restricted for CentOS presenters and people manning the booth.

For every device you bring along and that you want to be covered by their insurance, you must send us the following data:

• vendor/model
• the name and email address of the owner
• the type of device (notebook, network switch, PDA, ...)
• the vendor and name of the device (e.g. Dell Latitude D800)
• serial number or other unique identifier that is visible on the device
• estimation of its current value, in EUR

FOSDEM will only cover the hardware for which they have received the information above *before Mon 19 February*. Please send this information to DagWieers as soon as possible.

Presentations

Looks like the Fosdem site has a page for this at http://www.fosdem.org/2007/schedule/tracks/centosfedora what do we need to do in order to get the talks etc listed there ?

Add your topic and name to this list. If you're interested to help, join one of the topics.

Title: CentOS introduction

• Presenter: RalphAngenendt

  • Photo:

  • URLs: http://lestighaniker.de

  • Abstract speaker: Ralph Angenendt is presently working as a system and network administrator at the Bayerischer Rundfunk in Munich, Germany and has been a member of the CentOS team since fall 2006.
  • Biography: Ralph Angenendt has been working with unix and linux systems since 1996 and working as a system administrator in that field since 1998. Since 2002 he is working as an administrator for the Bayerischer Rundfunk in Munich, Germany. Fields of work are automated system installation and configuration with kickstart and cfengine and securing the infrastructure. Another part of his work is the administration of the e-mail system at his work place. Ralph Angenendt was mostly responsible for the migration to CentOS for his employer.
• Presentation:
  • Duration: 30-45 minutes
  • Abstract presentation: What is CentOS? Where did it come from? Who is responsible for it? And who needs an enterprise distribution anyhow?
  • Description: CentOS is an enterprise class linux distribution with a strong, fast growing active community behind it. This talk will give an overview of the distribution and the people behind it. After a short "historical" overview this talk will center on the available CentOS versions, and give an overview of what is in the distribution. This talk is also trying to explain in which fields an enterprise class distribution might be useful for the user or the administrator. Showing the places where the community is doing work at the moment and a brief introduction of the technical aspects behind CentOS will top off this talk.

• Slides from my presentation: fosdem2007.tar.gz

Title: OpenVZ virtualization on CentOS

• Presenter: FrederikKaputa

  • Photo:

  • URLs: (personal, website, blog)
  • Abstract speaker:
  • Biography: Frederik started working with Linux since 1996 with the early Slackware releases. He began working in 2000 as an independent consultant for Open Source monitoring and system management solutions. Currently he's working with OpenVZ as the main virtualization solution for the company's CentOS servers.
• Presentation:
  • Duration: 30 minutes
  • Abstract presentation: As server consolidation becomes more and more important in the IT workplace, virtualization becomes more and more important. OpenVZ is operating system-level virtualization technology that can deliver this virtualization need on CentOS. This presentation will layout the major differences between OpenVZ and other better known virtualization solutions like Xen, KVM, Qemu, VMWare, ...
  • Description:

Title: Contributing to CentOS

• Presenter: KaranbirSingh

  • Photo:

  • URLs: ( http://www.karan.org/blog/ )

  • Abstract speaker:
  • Biography:
• Presentation:
  • Duration: 30 minutes
  • Abstract presentation: With an ever increasing number of installations, more and more people from the community want to get involved with the project in either a personal role or as an organisation helping out. My talk will focus on how such people can join the CentOS effort and what kind of areas we need the most help with.
  • Description:

Title: CentOS infrastructure and roadmap

• Presenter: LanceDavis

  • Photo:

  • URLs: (personal, website, blog)
  • Abstract speaker: CentOS project leader and one of the founders.

  • Biography: Lance has been involved with producing RedHat clones since about RH5 days, when he first started producing CheepLinux releases. He was also the owner of Definite Linux - a UK version of RedHat released in 1999. Lance runs uklinux.net ISP as well as Cheeplinux selling cds pcs etc. In a prior life was a C programmer and now uses mainly perl for system administration. Acts as a consultant to web hosting companies and manages day to day operations of CentOS.

• Presentation:
  • Duration: 30 minutes
  • Abstract presentation: Presentation of CentOS infrastructure and roadmap.
  • Description: CentOS has 30 servers, 150 mirrors, millions of users. My talk will describe how we manage the infrastructure and also what the plans are for the future of the CentOS project.

Title: How to use the Belgian eID card under CentOS Linux

• Presenter: FabianArrotin

  • Photo:

  • URL : http://www.arrfab.net

  • Abstract speaker: Fabian Arrotin is a CentOS user / forum moderator.

  • Biography: Fabian Arrotin is working as a consultant for IBS T&S, an IBM business partner company. He works so mainly in mixed environment (IBM iSeries, Linux and Windows platforms) and is also an IBM instructor. He felt in love with the Linux community and tries to help this community (notably CentOS) when possible.

  • Presentation download : fosdem slides in pdf format

• Presentation:
  • Duration: 30 minutes
  • Abstract presentation: Explanations about and How to use the belgian eID card under CentOS Linux

  • Description: The Belgian government decided some years ago to release newer identity cards for Belgian citizens in an electronic format (eID cards). What can we do with these cards on CentOS Linux ? This little presentation will cover first an introduction about the eID card and possible eID readers available on the market. Which software is needed to recognize the card/reader and how to use it with opensource programs like Firefox and Thunderbird to authenticate (in a web session) or sign (a mail) with the certificates sitting on the card. URL : http://www.eid.belgium.be

Title: RPM packaging ...

• Presenter: JeffJohnson

  • Photo:

  • URLs: http://wraptastic.org

  • Abstract speaker: Aging unix geek and practicing RPM therapist.
  • Biography: Jeff Johnson has written most of the current RPM implementation.
• Presentation:
  • Duration: 30-45 minutes
  • Abstract presentation: Increasingly, managing collections of package metadata is more important than building packages. This presentation proposes several possible implementations in RPM development that may simplify creating collections
  • Description: Several RPM development topics will be discussed:
    1. using easily extracted XML or YAML markup to represent metadata in *.rpm packages.
    2. generating Provides: dependencies during install, not during build.
    3. adding user-definable extensible tags to rpm metadata.
    4. automating package scriptlet actions through rule based triggers.

Title: RPMforge - Enterprise Linux packaging for CentOS and RHEL

• Presenter: DagWieers

• Presentation:
  • Duration: 30-45 minutes
  • Abstract presentation: RPMforge's past, presence and future all-in-one presentation
  • Description:

RPMforge is a 3rd party repository of RPM packages that finds it roots in individual packaging projects from FreshRPMS (Matthias Saou), Dag Wieers and Dries Verachtert.

A lot of things happened since the very first RPM packages were made against Red Hat Linux and where RPMforge stands today. The advent of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, the replacement of Red Hat Linux by Fedora Linux, the availability of RHEL clones, Fedora Extras and the present dominance of CentOS changed how 3rd party repositories worked and interfaced with communities.

This presentation will give an historical overview of how RPMforge came to be, where it is today and where we are heading to. For current RPMforge users we will touch the subject on how you can contribute and discuss ways to accelerate development.

RPMforge RPM packages for CentOS and RHEL

Shirts

Shirts that were ordered for the people attending the fosdem :

Color will be 'Navy blue' for everybody. Price is 22.5 euros/shirt and has to be paid at the fosdem to Fabian

Here is the logo that will appear on the shirt (this is a sample and i tooked Ralph's name because it's the longer one ...) :

• DagWieers 1 shirt (include full name, not nick, size L) + 2 volunteer shirts (not name, not nick, size L and XL)

• RalphAngenendt 1 shirt (include full name, not nick, size XL-XXL )

• FrederikKaputa 1 shirt (include full name, not nick, size L)

• KaranbirSingh 1 shirt (include full name, not nick, size XL)

• FabianArrotin 1 shirt (include full name, not nick, size L)

• AndreasRogge 1 shirt (include full name, not nick, size XL)

• LanceDavis 1 shirt (name Lance, not nick, XL)

• JeffJohnson 1 shirt (not name, nick jbj, XL)

• ChrisGeldenhuis 2 shirts (include full name, not nick, size XXL-XXXL)