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There have been quite a few discussions and meetings recently in regards to FAD planning. There has been a lot of good progress and great ideas coming out of these. With time getting close, we are looking at finalizing the Agenda and Schedule for FADNA shortly.

If you are a North American Ambassador I would ask that you take a moment to look at what we have come up with so far and a “tentative” schedule of events located at the FADNA2008 wiki page. If you have anything to add feel free to do so.

This also applies to anyone who wants to, but may not be able to physically attend the event, as we are looking at ways to include and support remote attendees.

Clint Savage (herlo) also created this cool looking badge for FADNA attendees.

Anyone that is interested in registering for the Central Pennsylvania Open Source Conference 2008 can now do so.

The cost is $29. This should be a good event as I have attended previous events held by the Lug that is organizing this event and they know what they are doing and are a very organized and good group of individuals.

Planned attendees from the Fedora Project are GregDeKoenigsberg , KarlieRobinson , and myself

If anyone is planning on flying in for this, I may be able to provide transportation either from the airport (Harrisburg International Airport) or hotel if needed. Just let me know.

Space is limited so register today

Running the Domino server installer on Red Hat platforms.
To successfully install a Domino 8 server using graphical mode on supported Red Hat platforms, I performed the following steps: (Note these steps were performed on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.2 x86_64)

1. Install the seamonkey fedora rpm from http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/seamonkey/releases/1.1.11/contrib/FC_RPMS/seamonkey-1.1.11-1.i386.rpm

or simply download the source rpm from http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/seamonkey/releases/1.1.11/contrib/FC_RPMS/source/seamonkey-1.1.11-1.src.rpm and build it yourself

2. Install the following dependency packages.

#yum install libXp libXmu

3. After the initial install run the following as root

#/usr/bin/xhost local:notes

#su notes
#cd /local/notesdata <– if this is the data path you selected during installation

#/opt/ibm/lotus/bin/server

to complete the install.

I had a couple of issues setting up the Domino 8 server on Linux.

– when installing the server, do not select to create the symbolic link – softlink if you are installing into the default locations.

- I also had the usual problem where x-windows could not display the setup program. The error was

“Please edit your shell’s DISPLAY environment variable to
reflect an unlocked terminal that you would like to launch
the Domino Setup Program”
The fix was to su to root and run the command /usr/X11R6/bin/xhost this sets security to let the machine export the display on it’s own screen
then as the “notes” user run…
DISPLAY=:0.0
export DISPLAY

Once this is done cd to the /local/notesdata directory and run /opt/ibm/lotus/bin/server to start the setup program.

Today I spent most of my time at FudCon where we continued working on Testopia setup and configuration for tomorrows BarCamp, which unfortunately I wont be able to attend as my flight home leaves later today.

My overall thoughts of attending my first Red Hat Summit and my very first Fudcon was it was very well worth the time, I learned alot and got to meet many of the people I have only interacted with via irc. I will be sure to attend next years event as well as look forward to getting to another Fudcon.

Todays KeyNote speakers were Brian Stevens, CTO and Vice President Red Hat Engineering. He spoke about various topics from how Fedora is the foundation to RHEL, where virtualization technology is headed to Red Hat MRG.

Next up was Boyd Davis, Intel General Manager, Server Platforms Group. The topic of discussion was what Intel will be doing in the future and how they are going to get there. Personally I prefer AMD and would have rather seen that topic but overall at least I know what AMD is up against.

Last but surely not least was Joel Cohen, Co-creator of The Simpsons. One might ask what in the world is he doing at a Red Hat Summit? Well it ends up that the animations that are are used in the episodes are rendered using Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Fedora machines. Plus we got to see some clips from The Simpsons episodes which was a real blast!

The following is the list of presentations I attended today, along with a summary of the topic and my thoughts.

“Cobbler: Provisioning for bare metal and virtualization” presented by Michael DeHaan - This topic covered the very cool Cobbler provisioning system as well as what features to expect in the future. Michael is very passionate about Cobbler as you could easily see his excitement while presenting. I have already used Cobbler for blade deployments and I also currently use it for Fedora Rawhide Release Testing (though I will be trying out the use of Snake for “Banshee”) I am looking forward to Cobbler expanding it’s provisioning capabilities to Windows in the future! 2 Thumbs Up!

“oVirt: An Open management framework for virtualized environments” presented by Hugh Brock and Perry Myers. This presentation gave an overview of what oVirt is, what can be done with it and how to do it. It also covered some roadmap features that will be added in the future. I just recently cam across this project about 3 weeks ago while searching for a management interface for RHEL virtual machines. I intend on testing this out to see if it currently fills a void I have as soon as I get the chance. 2 Thumbs Up!

“Fedora Packages for Red Hat Enterprise Linux” presented by Karsten Wade. This presentation covered EPEL which is basically a RHEL repository maintained by Fedora. I already use EPEL for certain systems so I was mainly there to support the project as a member of the Fedora Community. 2 Thumbs Up!

The remaining of the day I spent at the FudCon, where a group of QA Release Testers walked through a  demo of Testopia for making the test cases and reporting much easier that it is currently. More to come on this tomorrow as I will be spending all day at Fudcon and the QA Release Testers will continue to work on getting this ready for Saturdays BarCamp.