FOSDEM 2013

Single Point of Contact: FabianArrotin

Event Information

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, ...)
Release CentOS-6/Xen-4 stack and installer
Demo Xen as a dom0 on CentOS-6
Demo a couple of Cloud options on CentOS

Who is willing to help at FOSDEM 2012? Add yourself to the list below:

Date	Time	Topic	Presenter
Saturday 2nd	12h30	Bringing Xen to CentOS-6	KaranbirSingh
Saturday 2nd	15h00 - 16h00	Colin Charles from the MariaDB project talking about MariaDB and the ecosystem around it at the CentOS Booth	Colin Charles
Saturday 2nd	Whole Day	Jamie Melis from the OpenNebula project, talking about howto get started with private and hybrid clouds	Jamie Melis
Sunday 3rd	12h30	BuildSys and QA in CentOS using a Private Cloud: OpenNebula	KaranbirSingh
Sunday 3rd	13h00	Raindrops	KaranbirSingh
Sunday 3rd	Whole Day	Tom Ellis from the Eucalyptus project talking about rapid Cloud deployments using Eucalyptus ( and will have DVD's to hand out )	Tom Ellis

Here is a list of things to bring for Fosdem 2013 :

Promo Box : done by AndreasRogge
t-shirts : they will be sent by KaranbirSingh to FabianArrotin so that they'll be in Belgium already
Helium to inflate the balloons : already booked by FabianArrotin (for Friday before Fosdem)
stickers : Already some in the Promo Box but KaranbirSingh will bring lot more
Network switches : for demo we need some network switches. We need to decide which ones to take :
- KB can bring a wireless/ethernet bridge
- Andreas can bring a 100Mb switch
- Fabian can bring a Netgear Gigabit switch (unmanageable/5ports)
lanyards : with included 8GB usb stick -> KB will send or bring those