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This past Saturday I made the trip out to Rochester for the BarCamp being held there. Much to my surprise it was very FOSS oriented and friendly. I got the chance to meet up with a few fellow Ambassadors / Fedorians : Karlie Robinson ; Charles Profitt ; Luke Macken ; and Remy DeCausemaker.

Karlie held a talk on the OLPC and the 4th Grade Math Project which was ulimately the reason I attended the event and there was quite a bit of interest in the project from BarCampers.

Luke and Remy did a talk on civx.us – an Open Source Public Government Information System

I also attended a talk on OpenStreetMap which I found quite interesting.

Due to a previous commitment I was unable to stay for the entire event but I am plan on and look forward to attending the next event.

Barcamp Day!!!

Below is a run down of the sessions I attended.

State of the Wiki / Docs project presented by Ian Weller and Karsten Wade. – This session went over the needs for wiki in regards to categories, namespaces etc as well as how the community can help out with this. The Docs presentation covered possible CRM solutions that can be used.

SVirt presented by Dan Walsh – This session was very enlightening as I expected it would be. It covered some of the issues of with SELinux using Xen virtualization and how it can be resolved using KVM and SELinux.

Puppet presented by Jeroen Van Meeuwen – This session went over the general concept of puppet as well as some advanced configuration. I personally plan on implementing the use of puppet at a few of my client sites now that I understand it much better.

Fedora Cloud presented by Mike McGrath – This session covered the concept of the cloud being built by Fedora. The whole concept is utilizing ovirt. Currently this is a work in progress but should be ready to deploy shortly.

KVM presented by Sunny Dubey – This session was of particular interest to me as I am currently interested in migrating some of my clients over from Xen virtualization to KVM. The presentation covered real use cases as well as why KVM is a better solution than some other well-known virtualization solutions. One of the big topics discussed was KVM’s lack of a gui interface for management and the importance of having one available as soon as possible. Whether this neede GUI end up being ovirt or another solution we will have to wait and see what if anything the community may come up with.

FUDPub was a fun as expected.

Stay tuned for more tomorrow.

The NA Ambassadors completed the creation of the AmbassadorKits. Those that already requested them before they were available I will be shipping them out on Monday at the latest.

We also spent some time building Media Kits which are now at the registration table and will be stocked with F10 Media.

Discussions in regards to Mentoring new Fedora Project sign-ups as well as focusing on participation and contributors.

A few of us were invited to a “roundtable discussion” which was really cool. I didnt fully realize the impact that the NA Ambassadors work has had throughout the Fedora Project this past year until it was brought up during this discussion and I am sure I speak for all of the NA Ambassadors I am really excited about growing and continuing this for 2009 and beyond.

After dinner a few of us attempted to get a jump on installing Moksha to see if we can utilize it for Event Splash Page.