FOSDEM 2009

Single Point of Contact: FabianArrotin

Event Information

• FOSDEM 2009 is on saturday 7th and sunday 8th February 2009 in Brussels.

• CentOS will have a dedicated booth and a devroom (confirmed : shared with Fedora people like usual).

• Pictures available here

Goals

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, ...)

Participants

Who is willing to help at FOSDEM 2009 ? Add yourself to the list below:

• AndreasRogge (booth/speaker)

• DagWieers (speaker)

• FabianArrotin (booth/speaker/organisation)

• GeerdDietgerHoffmann (booth/speaker)

• ToshaanBharvani (booth/speaker)

• FoadDerkaoui (booth)

• RalphAngenendt (both)

• JeffJohnson (long time RPM lead developer)

Needed information

Be aware of the deadline: 10/01/2009

Please put your speaker information on your personal page. Including: Real name, Bio abstract, Bio, Picture, Contact information, Links (website, blog, ...)

For each session taking place in the devroom, we need the following information:

• Name(s) of the speaker(s)
• Short title
• Abstract (1-2 paragraphs)
• Optionally a longer description
• Links to project website, blogs, articles, etc...

Presentations

Title: Enterprise Linux Competitive Landscape

• Presenter: DagWieers

• Presentation:
  • Duration: 30-45 minutes
  • Abstract presentation: ...
  • Description: ...

• Slides from my presentation: yourslides.tar.gz

Title: Introduction to CentOS

• Presenter: FabianArrotin

• Presentation:
  • Duration: 30-45 minutes
  • Abstract presentation: The reasons why you need an enterprise Linux distro
  • Description: What is the CentOS project ? From where is it coming and where is it going ? Wanted to be involved ? What's cooking actually in the CentOS kitchen ? Let's have an interactive talk about that (and more).

• Slides from my presentation:centos-introduction.pdf

Title: Large CentOS LDAP Deployments

• Presenter: GeerdDietgerHoffmann

  • Photo:

  • URLs: http://www.ribalba.com

  • Abstract speaker: Hoffmann Geerd-Dietger is a final year student at Bournemouth, he is involved in many Open Source project.

  • Biography: Hoffmann Geerd-Dietger's publications can be found under http://www.ribalba.de/papers

• Presentation:
  • Duration: 30-45 minutes
  • Abstract presentation: How to support a huge number of users on a huge number of machines resulting in millions of user accounts.
  • Description: ...

  • Slides from my presentation: didi.pdf

Title: SELinux under CentOS

• Presenter: RalphAngenendt

• Presentation:
  • Duration: 30-45 minutes
  • Abstract: drwxr-x--x is still the normal means of security under linux, giving access rights to data to users, groups and anyone else. This method isn't very flexible, so access rights are either given for larger groups of people or the administrator is tearing out his hair because he is lost in a maze of user, file and directory structures, which make working more than complex, but don't make the system more secure. Enter SELinux, a security infrastructure which is integrated into the kernel and promises to make securing your system more flexible.
  • Description: SELinux is a security framework which is included in the kernel of the Linux operating system. Under SELinux files don't only have the normal access rights or ACLs, but also have a context. You as a user or a program have to be able to use that context to get access - even if normal access rights would allow you to change the file. This talk gives a short overview of SELinux and talks about the tools in CentOS 5 (and Fedora) which enable you to change the behaviour of SELinux. In the second part we will secure a small daemon with the tools we learned about in part 1.

Title: CentOS on the Desktop

• Presenter: ToshaanBharvani

  • URLs: http://www.toshaan.be

• Presentation:
  • Duration: 30-45 minutes
  • Abstract presentation: Why CentOS is a preferred choice on the desktops in the enterprise or even at home.

• Slides from my presentation: http://www.toshaan.be/publications/FOSDEM2009-CentOS_on_the_Desktop.pdf

Title: Poor Man's SAN w/ CentOS and gPXE

• Presenter: AndreasRogge

• Presentation:
  • Duration: 20-30 minutes
  • Abstract presentation: How to boot from an iSCSI LUN?
  • Description: CentOS can be installed onto an iSCSI LUN and you can boot from it if your hardware supports it. Usually that means you need an iSCSI HBA or at least some fancy Firmware extensions. However, it can also be done on standard-hardware by exploiting PXE.

  • Project URL: http://etherboot.org/

• Slides from my presentation: centos-poorsan.odp centos-poorsan.pdf

Saturday evening dinner

Like last year we would like to organize a common dinner for all CentOS participants (and people willing to join us)

Here are the details : restaurant De Klimop, Martelarplein 5 - 3000 Leuven. (http://www.deklimopleuven.be)

And here is the list of attendants :

• FabianArrotin

• DriesVerachtert

• Jeff Johnson
• Mariya Isayeva

• RalphAngenendt

• ToshaanBharvani

• GeerdDietgerHoffmann (Maybe)

• DagWieers

• Brenda De Blander
• Isabelle Marien
• Joost Damad
• Foad Derkaoui

• AndreasRogge

• Sarah Fischer

For Spouses or partners

Spouses/partners: enjoy a guided tour of Brussels while your favorite geek attends FOSDEM !

This year, FOSDEM hires professional guides to offer a guided tours of Brussels for the spouses or partners. If he or she would like to accompany you, and is not interested in the FOSDEM conference, this will make the stay worthwhile. Brussels is a city with a rich historical past, and a cosmopolitan present.

The tours will take place both afternoons of the conference. The first one will give an introduction of the heart of Brussels, and the other one will cover different views of the city, and make sure you're back well on time.

The guides are from the organization Brukselbinnenstebuiten.

Please register : http://fosdem.org/2009/node/157