Red Hat Summit / FudCon10 Boston – Day 3
Last Updated on Thursday, 26 June 2008 01:03 Written by Brian Friday, 20 June 2008 04:02
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.
Red Hat Summit / FudCon10 Boston – Day 2
Last Updated on Thursday, 19 June 2008 10:07 Written by Brian Thursday, 19 June 2008 09:45
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.
Red Hat Summit / FudCon10 Boston
Last Updated on Wednesday, 18 June 2008 06:38 Written by Brian Monday, 16 June 2008 03:27
So I am getting everything ready to leave tomorrow to attend the Red Hat Summit (which is my first time) and a portion of the FudCon10 in Boston. I am really looking forward to these events and will be posting regularly throughout the event now that I finally put a blog up, bear with me on the theme for now (there are sections that dont display correctly) I am going to be fixing it as soon as I get the time to work on it.
Stay tuned for more to come.
