OpenSource World will be hosting a day for the community on Tuesday, August 11, 2009!
If you're a system administrator, IT manager or developer using open source, come to the Moscone Center a day early to share notes, discuss code, learn from your peers and work on the projects that matter to you.
The community day at OpenSource World will feature FOSSDevCamp, organized by Gareth Greenway, and Linux/Microsoft Interoperability Day, organized by Gerald Carter.
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FOSSDevCamp: Bring your toughest real-world problems.
FOSSDevCamp brings together developers from leading open-source projects and open-source-using system administrators and IT managers. Demanding users will be able to present issues they may be having as well as make feature requests in person rather than online. Prior to the event a wiki system will be put in place to allow potential attendees to indicate that they will be attending and what their goals for the event are. This would also allow non-developers to prepare their bugs and feature requests ahead of time based on what projects will be represented.
The day would begin with a welcome message, followed by some time to allow attendees to present bugs and feature request for the projects in attendance, in a lightning talk format. Bugs and feature requests will be recorded, then distributed to representatives from the relevant projects. Following the lightning sessions, developers would be given the opportunity to break into groups to tackle pre-determined tasks or those from the lightening session.
For more information check out the schedule here, wiki coming soon.
FOSSDevCamp organizer: Gareth J. Greenaway
Greenaway founded a small regional conference called "LUG Fest", which became part of the Southern California Linux Expo (SCALE), which he also co-founded. He lives in Southern California and works as a system administrator in Santa Monica.
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Linux/Microsoft Interoperability Day
One part of the system administrator's job is both necessary daily routine and mysterious black art: connecting Microsoft systems to your open source ones. In this community day, participants will blast aside the shadows of FUD, inflated claims, and complexity, and learn to make Microsoft Windows and open source play nicely -- from simple, fast file sharing up to a standards-based single sign-on environment.
Interoperability Day brings in both leading software developers and the sysadmins and CIOs who are making interoperability happen.
* Directory server strategies for reliable mixed environments on a budget
* Samba security, configuration, and performance tuning for Windows Vista and Windows 7 clients
* Relax, it works out of the box: useful tools you already have on any up-to-date Linux.
* Real-world Q&A: bring your toughest interoperability problem.
For more information check out the wiki here.
Community day organizer: Gerald Carter
Gerald Carter has been a member of the Samba Development Team since 1998. He has been developing, writing about, and teaching on Open Source since the late 90's. He authored "LDAP System Administration" and the third edition of "Using Samba" for O'Reilly Publishing. Currently Gerald is employed by Likewise Software as a Samba and Open Source developer.