LinuxCon + CloudOpen + ContainerCon NA 2015: Full Schedule

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11:00am PDT

OpenStack Swift-based Cloud-Object Storage Performance Analysis - Khoa Huynh, IBM

With massive scalability to support billions of data objects, object storage is a very critical component of any cloud platform. In this presentation, we will first provide an overview of an OpenStack Swift-based cloud object storage. We will then discuss several performance issues that we encountered and the performance analysis work that gave us a better understanding of its performance characteristics in the cloud environment. In particular, we will look at throughput, end-to-end response times, and overhead at each layer of the Swift stack in the cloud environment. We will conclude with our findings to date and some open issues that need further investigation.

Speakers

Khoa Huynh

IBM Senior Technical Staff Member (STSM), IBM

Dr. Khoa Huynh has over 30 years of experience in product and cloud service development, testing, performance analysis, and customer support. Khoa joined IBM in 1989 where he first worked on OS/2 and Linux operating systems, and is currently an IBM Senior Technical Staff Member (STSM... Read More →

Monday August 17, 2015 11:00am - 11:50am PDT
Aspen

CloudOpen Experience Level - Any Wildcard

12:00pm PDT

How Open Source is Driving DevOps Innovation - Gordon Haff, Red Hat

It’s no coincidence that all the interest around DevOps today comes at a time when open source technologies and processes are so dominant in cloud computing, data storage and analysis, and--increasingly--in networking. Innovations in Linux and other projects, including containers, configuration management, and continuous integration, are what make DevOps workflows and portable application deployments possible. But it’s also the result of open source culture, practices, and the tools supporting those practices that have made iterative development and collaboration such a powerful model for creating great software in communities. And now, they’re also providing a template for how to develop and operate applications internally within enterprises. In this session, we will discuss how open source tools and practices can be applied to create effective DevOps workflows and practices.

Speakers

Gordon Haff

Technology Advocate, Red Hat

Gordon Haff is Technology Advocate at Red Hat where he works on market insights; writes about tech, trends, and their business impact; and is a frequent speaker at customer and industry events. Among the topics he works on are edge, AI, quantum, cloud-native platforms, and next-generation... Read More →

Monday August 17, 2015 12:00pm - 12:50pm PDT
Aspen

CloudOpen Experience Level - Intermediate Wildcard

12:00pm PDT

Anatomy of a Container: Namespaces, cgroups & Some Filesystem Magic - Jerome Petazzoni, Docker

Containers are everywhere. But what exactly is a container? What are they made from? What's the difference between LXC, butts-nspawn, Docker, and the other container systems out there? And why should we bother about specific filesystems?

In this talk, Jérôme will show the individual roles and behaviors of the components making up a container: namespaces, control groups, and copy-on-write systems. Then, he will use them to assemble a container from scratch, and highlight the differences (and likelinesses) with existing container systems.

Speakers

Jérôme Petazzoni

Tinkerer Extraordinaire, Tiny Shell Script LLC

Jérôme was part of the team that built and launched Docker. He worked there for 7 years. These days he teaches Kubernetes at Enix, a French Cloud Native shop. When he's not busy with computers, he collects musical instruments. He can arguably play the theme of Zelda on a dozen of... Read More →

Monday August 17, 2015 12:00pm - 12:50pm PDT
Grand Ballroom D

ContainerCon Experience Level - Intermediate Wildcard

12:00pm PDT

How to Thoroughly Insult and Offend People in Your Open Source Communities, or “Your #$%@ $%@&ing Sucks and I $%@&ing Hate It' - Gina Likins, Red Hat

The tone and tenor of community conversations is a large part of whether a community succeeds, yet that’s a hard concept to model and understand. We’ll use the “Defcon Insult Scale for CONversations", or DIScon, which ranks responses from mildly insulting to abusive, to examine and classify key signifiers of uncivil behavior. Moving on, we'll tackle more subtle forms of riling folks up (ways you can assume ignorance, belittle people, and/or just be condescending).

Once we’ve examined “high DIScon” situations, we’ll talk about why they make for unpleasant communities, and why that’s bad. At this point it’s not uncommon for a host of objections to be raised, so we'll "debunk" some of those together.

Finally, we'll look at steps we can take to reduce the “DIScon level” of our communities and why that's critical for FOSS's survival.

Speakers

Gina Likins

University Outreach, Open Source & Standards, Red Hat

Gina Likins has been working in internet strategy for more than 20 years, participating in online communities for nearly 25, and working in open source for more than three. She's passionate about finding ways to help our open source communities thrive and be more welcoming for everyone... Read More →

Monday August 17, 2015 12:00pm - 12:50pm PDT
Ballard

Experience Level - Any LinuxCon Wildcard

2:20pm PDT

Deploying OpenDaylight - Daniel Farrell, Red Hat

Docker, Vagrant, Puppet, Ansible, RPMs - oh my!

Quite a few new ways to deploy OpenDaylight were developed during the Lithium release cycle. This talk will guide you through the options, providing a technical overview and examples of each.

The speaker, Daniel Farrell, created most of the deployment options mentioned above. He’s also supporting OPNFV’s major OpenDaylight+OpenStack deployment effort from the upstream OpenDaylight side.

Speakers

Daniel Farrell

Software Engineer, Red Hat

Daniel Farrell is a Software Engineer on Red Hat’s SDN Team, where he contributes to upstream ODL and OPNFV. He has been involved in SDN since it emerged from Stanford, including early OpenFlow and OpenStack work. He’s now an active committer on ODL’s Integration Team. During... Read More →

Monday August 17, 2015 2:20pm - 3:10pm PDT
Issaquah

CloudOpen Wildcard Experience Level - Intermediate

2:20pm PDT

Why Be a Rock Star Developer When You Can Be Willie Nelson - Rikki Endsley, Red Hat

Are you sick of seeing job listings calling for "rock star developers"? What does that even mean? Developers who get the glory, while the band, agent, road crew, and sound engineers do the work? Instead of being a one-hit wonder who crashes and burns by 27, look to Willie Nelson for inspiration. Willie's 60+ years in the music business offer plenty of lessons developers can apply to their own careers. Attend this fun talk to see how collaborating with a diverse mix of people, learning new skills, choosing the best tool for the job (and then improving on it), contributing to a range of communities, and not being afraid to fail have benefited Willie's career. The talk will be fun, but the lessons are practical for developers--and people who work with them--of all experience levels.

Speakers

Rikki Endsley

Writer, Red Hat

Rikki Endsley is the community manager for opensource.com. In the past, she worked as a community evangelist on the Open Source and Standards team at Red Hat; freelance tech journalist; community manager for the USENIX Association; associate publisher of Linux Pro Magazine, ADMIN... Read More →

Monday August 17, 2015 2:20pm - 3:10pm PDT
Ballard

Wildcard LinuxCon Experience Level - Any

2:20pm PDT

Ally Skills Workshop - hosted by Valerie Aurora, Ada Initiative (Sign-up Required)

REGISTER HERE:

The Ally Skills Workshop teaches men simple, everyday ways to support women in their workplaces and communities. Participants learn techniques that work at the office, at conferences, and online. The skills we teach are relevant everywhere, including skills particularly relevant to open technology and culture communities. At the end of the workshop, participants will feel more confident in speaking up to support women, be more aware of the challenges facing women in their workplaces and communities, and have closer relationships with the other participants.

Participants of all genders are welcome! The workshop works best with about 20-30% women, so we encourage everyone who is interested to apply. For more information on the Ally Skills Workshop, click here: http://adainitiative.org/what-we-do/workshops-and-training/

Speakers

Valerie Aurora

Executive Director, The Ada Initiative

Valerie Aurora is the Executive Director and co-founder of the Ada Initiative, a non-profit dedicated to promoting women in open tech/culture. In addition to leading the development and adoption of conference anti-harassment policies, Aurora created and teaches the Ada Initiative... Read More →

Monday August 17, 2015 2:20pm - 5:20pm PDT
Virginia

Experience Level - Any Wildcard

3:20pm PDT

Failing to Prepare - Why Higher Education Programs Need Open Source - Tom Callaway, Red Hat

Failing to prepare - Our day to day life is increasingly reliant upon Linux and Open Source, but the vast majority of college students are unaware of open source technologies, methodologies, and tools. In this presentation, Tom Callaway will discuss the problem of how higher education fails to prepare their students for an Open Source workplace (and world), why it is critical that we take steps to incorporate it into their CS and Engineering curriculums, and how some schools are already ahead of the curve.

Speakers

Tom Callaway

University Outreach Lead, Red Hat

The Fedora Project is a community of people working together to build a free and open source software platform and to collaborate on and share user-focused solutions built on that platform. Or, in plain English, we make an operating system and we make it easy for you do useful stuff... Read More →

Monday August 17, 2015 3:20pm - 4:10pm PDT
Ballard

Wildcard LinuxCon Experience Level - Any

4:20pm PDT

Containerizing your Desktop - Jessica Frazelle

As a Docker Core Team member, I use Docker daily. This includes running Docker on my laptop (which is a Debian host). I containerize various desktop apps and try to run everything in containers. This would be a pretty obscure in nature talk. Most people only think of containers as production apps, but you can actually run most applications and GUIs even in containers by bind mounting the X11 socket. A lot of operating systems are coming to form with "running everything in containers" like project atomic and ubuntu core. This would be an interesting look on the fact you could actually use one of those distros for your desktop by containerizing GUIs. If you can run it on your normal distro you can containerize it, and this talk will prove that.
Most recently I put steam (OpenGL) in a container to play video games.

Speakers

Jessica Frazelle

Software Engineer, Google

Jess Frazelle is a Software Engineer at Google. She was previously a Software Engineer at Docker. Jess Frazelle has served as a Maintainer of Docker, Contributor to Runc and Golang as well as other projects. Jess Frazelle is working on making containers more secure. She loves all... Read More →

Monday August 17, 2015 4:20pm - 5:10pm PDT
Grand Ballroom B

ContainerCon Experience Level - Advanced Wildcard

10:30am PDT

How to Contribute to Large Open Source Projects - Arnaud Porterie, Docker & Jerome Petazzoni, Docker

Contributing to a large open source project can seem daunting at first; but fear not! You too can join thousands of successful contributors. First, you don't have to be an expert in Golang, Python, or C, to contribute to Docker, OpenStack, or the Linux Kernel. Many projects also need help with documentation, translation, testing, triaging issues, and more. Very often, just going through bug reports to reproduce them and confirm "this also happens on my setup, with version XYZ" is extremely helpful.

If you decide to take the leap and propose a change (be it code or documentation), each open source project has different contribution guidelines and workflows.

In this talk, Arnaud and Jérôme will explain some of those workflows, how maintainers review your patches, and highlight the details that make your changes more likely to be merged into the project.

Speakers

Jérôme Petazzoni

Tinkerer Extraordinaire, Tiny Shell Script LLC

Arnaud Porterie

Senior Engineering Manager, Docker

Tuesday August 18, 2015 10:30am - 11:20am PDT
Willow B

Experience Level - Any LinuxCon Wildcard

11:30am PDT

Taking Containers to the Next Level - James Bottomley, Odin

Although container technology has been around for nearly two decades, it is only recently that the virtualization properties that provide very different use cases from traditional hypervisors are being explored. One of the interesting things about containers is that they are not all or nothing, like hypervisors, but may have each subsystem virtualization separately applied. There has been quite a bit of work in the past year to bring granular container virtualization directly to applications via libcontainer and its extensions (instead of via an orchestration system). This talk will explore exactly what properties applications can expect to gain directly from container technology (things like multi tenancy, configuration update/rollback, memory constraints, and advanced networking) and what the nature of cloud applications might become in future as this trend evolves.

Speakers

James Bottomley

Distinguished Engineer, IBM

James Bottomley is a Distinguished Engineer at IBM Research where he works on Cloud and Container technology. He is also Linux Kernel maintainer of the SCSI subsystem. He has been a Director on the Board of the Linux Foundation and Chair of its Technical Advisory Board. He went to... Read More →

Tuesday August 18, 2015 11:30am - 12:20pm PDT
Grand Ballroom D

ContainerCon Experience Level - Intermediate Wildcard

11:30am PDT

Teaching Linux Kernel Programming - Andrzej Pietrasiewicz, Samsung

The shortage of kernel programmers is a well known problem. Kernel Rookie Guide, parts I-III and IV (in preparation) is a series of internal trainings conceived and successfully realized at Samsung R&D Institute Poland by a regular engineer. As well as telling the success story Andrzej shares his experience from preparing and conducting about thirty training instances. What is the scope and how the material is distributed over the parts? How people like it? How much time does it take to prepare a training and run it? How many workshops should accompany it? What personal characteristics should the instructor have? How to provide uniform workshop environment? How many lines of code do the attendees need to write and how much time they need? How to balance the number of trainings conducted against regular project duties? Is it worth it?
Answers, a bunch of statistics and more are provided.

Speakers

Andrzej Pietrasiewicz

Consultant Senior Software Engineer, Collabora

Andrzej Pietrasiewicz graduated from Warsaw University of Technology, Faculty of Electronics and Information Technology, Warsaw, Poland in 2002. From then on he had been developing systems in C++ for over 5 years. Then for 3 years, he had been involved in various smaller projects... Read More →

Tuesday August 18, 2015 11:30am - 12:20pm PDT
Ballard

Wildcard LinuxCon Experience Level - Any

2:00pm PDT

A Silver Bullet Cure to an Open Source Movement Ailment - Mark Gisi, Wind River Systems

The ability to share source code seamlessly is “The Force” behind the Open Source Movement. The license is the single most important infrastructural component that enables frictionless sharing. By definition, there is only one thing that makes software, open source. The License. It enables code to be exchanged freely, eliminating the need to seek permission each time code is used or shared. When licensing terms are ambiguous or missing, rights to share evaporate, and the source code ceases to be open source. One of the growing threats to the movement is the lack of clear licensing terms in a vast collection of source code causing the movement to hemorrhage code unnecessarily. We present a solution (the silver bullet), employed by successful projects, that stops the hemorrhaging while simultaneously enabling contributors to obtain greater recognition. May the Source be with you!

The work covered in this presentation was prepared by the speaker Mark Gisi, and Sameer Ahmed, who is a Member of Technical Staff at Wind River Systems. He has developed various system applications including supporting SPDX.

Speakers

Mark Gisi

Director, Open Source, Wind River

Mark Gisi, Director of Open Source Programs at Wind River Systems, is manager of the open source program office responsible for open source adoption; risk mitigation; community engagement and innovation acceleration. Mark is also a lead contributor to the Hyperledger Software Parts... Read More →

Tuesday August 18, 2015 2:00pm - 2:50pm PDT
Diamond

Experience Level - Any LinuxCon Wildcard

2:00pm PDT

We Need An Uber For The Datacenter - Kenneth Hui, Platform9

Scale-out distributed applications are being created today, not only within web-scale companies, but increasingly within more traditional enterprises. However, our current datacenter technologies are not well-suited to run these applications. Matching resources, such as CPU and RAM with applications, is still a manual and error prone process. What we need are tools to automate the management of datacenter resources, similar to how Uber has automated and revolutionized the taxi industry with their software.

In this session, we will look at what Uber can teach us about how to better manage our datacenters. We will also look at how Apache Mesos, which came out of Twitter, is the ideal tool for implementing these lessons and giving every company the ability to create the datacenter of the future today. This will include a deep dive into the Mesos architecture.

Speakers

Kenneth Hui

Director of Technical Marketing, Platform9, Platform9

I am the Director of Technical Marketing and Partner Alliances at Platform9, where we are enabling customers to be successful through our SaaS managed private cloud solution. My passion is to help IT deliver value through collaboration, automation, and cloud computing. I am an... Read More →

Tuesday August 18, 2015 2:00pm - 2:50pm PDT
Cedar

Experience Level - Beginner LinuxCon Wildcard

3:00pm PDT

Let's Encrypt: A Certificate Authority to Encrypt the Entire Web - Seth Schoen, Let's Encrypt

Let's Encrypt is a new certificate authority that is being launched by the EFF in collaboration with Mozilla, Cisco, Akamai and a team at the University of Michigan. Let's Encrypt will issue certificates for free, using a new automated protocol called ACME for verification of domain control and issuance. This talk will describe the features of the CA and clients at launch, explore the security challenges inherent in building such a system, and discuss its effect on the security of the CA marketplace as a whole. We hope Let's Encrypt will help to enable a Web that uses HTTPS by default.

Speakers

Seth Schoen

Senior Staff Technologist, Electronic Frontier Foundation

Seth Schoen has worked at EFF over a decade, creating the Staff Technologist position and helping other technologists understand the civil liberties implications of their work, EFF staff better understand technology related to EFF's legal work, and the public understand what products... Read More →

Tuesday August 18, 2015 3:00pm - 3:50pm PDT
Grand Ballroom C

Experience Level - Any LinuxCon Wildcard

4:00pm PDT

Virtualization & Cloud Developer Panel - Paolo Bonzini, Red Hat; Glauber Costa; Jérôme Petazzoni, Docker; Stefano Stabellini, Citrix; Russell Bryant, Red Hat (Moderator)

This panel will bring together core developers in various areas of cloud and virtualization, including: the maintainer of KVM, one of the maintainers of the Xen hypervisor, a lead developer of OSv (the open source operating system designed for the cloud), and a lead developer of Docker.

The moderator of the panel is also a cloud developer, namely a developer for OpenStack.

Moderators

Russell Bryant

Distinguished Engineer, Red Hat

Russell is a Distinguished Engineer in Service Delivery, leading SD's adoption of OVN across our managed services. Russell also has a long history with OVN, having helped create the project back in 2015 and leading the planning for product teams to take over ownership of OVN by 2... Read More →

Speakers

Paolo Bonzini

Distinguished Engineer, Red Hat, Inc.

Paolo is a Distinguished Engineer at Red Hat and the upstream maintainer for both KVM and various subsystems in QEMU. As a contributor to QEMU, through the years, he has worked on various parts of the project architecture, including the threading architecture, the test frameworks... Read More →

Glauber Costa

Glauber Costa is one of the early engineers responsible for OSv. Hepreviously worked with IBM and Red Hat, contributing for the Xen and KVM hypervisors and other Linux topics in general. More recently he was with Parallels, where he was a Lead Engineer in their Linux Containers e... Read More →

Jérôme Petazzoni

Tinkerer Extraordinaire, Tiny Shell Script LLC

Stefano Stabellini

Stefano Stabellini is a Principal Software Engineer at Citrix, workingon the Open Source Xen Project team. He has been working on Xen since2007, focusing on several different projects, spanning from Qemu to Xen and the Linux kernel. He co-created libxenlight in November 2009 and two... Read More →

Tuesday August 18, 2015 4:00pm - 4:50pm PDT
Grand Ballroom A

CloudOpen Experience Level - Beginner Wildcard

4:00pm PDT

Open Platforms for Federated Futures - Ryan Jarvinen, Red Hat

Learn how to design applications that allow users to reclaim control of their data, and define their own terms of service, by leveraging various open standards of the web.

We’ll discuss open standards for identity, authorization, and data sharing, while exploring the underlying architectures of several existing federated network applications.

This talk covers several new protocols for federated communication (pump.io, diaspora, tent.io, gnu social) and evaluates the major tradeoffs that one may encounter when designing and using these systems.

Speakers

Ryan Jarvinen

Developer Advocate, Red Hat

Ryan Jarvinen is a Developer Advocate and Open Source Evangelist focusing on improving developer experience in the container community. He lives in Oakland, California and is passionate about open source, open standards, open government, and digital rights. You can reach him as "RyanJ... Read More →

Open Platforms for Federated Futures Linuxcon2015 pdf

Tuesday August 18, 2015 4:00pm - 4:50pm PDT
Issaquah

CloudOpen Experience Level - Intermediate Wildcard

4:00pm PDT

Connecting Vision to Action in a Community Project - Matthew Miller, Red Hat

Your mission may be "World Domination for Free Software", but your day-to-day activities are writing code, building websites, creating documentation, or talking and promoting. How can you know that one is really going to lead to the other? How can you show others, when you want to attract their contributions (whether time, money, or anything else)? How do you demonstrate that the resources you put in have a real effect?

This presentation will cover the basic concepts of a program logic model, and how using one can help your project answer these questions. Examples will be drawn from the Fedora Project, but will be of general interest to anyone thinking about planning and strategy. Because Fedora is community driven, this will be particularly relevant to others interested in applying these ideas to grassroots, democratic and meritocratic projects.

Speakers

Matthew Miller

Fedora Project Leader, Red Hat

Tuesday August 18, 2015 4:00pm - 4:50pm PDT
Ballard

Wildcard LinuxCon Experience Level - Any

10:25am PDT

Kernel Internship Report (Outreachy) - Elena Ufimtseva, Oracle; Lidza Louina, Oracle; Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk, Oracle; Karen Sandler, Software Freedom Conservancy; Jes Sorensen; Lisa Nguyen, Linaro; Greg Kroah-Hartman, Linux Foundation; Julia Lawall, Inria

Come learn about the great work our kernel interns have accomplished! Outreachy (formerly OPW) provides a 3-month paid internship for women, trans men, genderqueer people, and all Ascend Project participants to work on an open source project.

This panel will present the program and this year's projects, as well as discussions with interns from 2013 who continue to work in open source. Elena Ufimtseva worked on vNUMA for XenProject, and now works for Oracle on the XenProject PVH guest model. Lidza Louina worked on staging drivers, and now works on the kernel for Oracle. Lisa Nguyen worked on the Xen block system, and now works on power management for Linaro. Greg KH will provide perspective on being a mentor.

The Linux kernel Outreachy coordinator, Julia Lawall, will provide more info on how mentors can get involved with Outreachy, and how companies can sponsor Outreachy interns.

Moderators

Julia Lawall

Senior Researcher, Inria

Julia Lawall is a Senior Research Scientist at Inria. Her research is at the intersection of programming languages and operating systems. She develops the tool Coccinelle and has over 2000 patches in the Linux kernel based on this work.

Speakers

Greg Kroah-Hartman

Biography coming soon.

Lidza Louina

Associate Linux Kernel Engineer, Oracle

I'm a kernel engineer at Oracle. I got into the kernel thru the Outreachy (formerly Outreach Program for Women).

Lisa Nguyen

Software Engineer, Linaro

Lisa Nguyen has been working for Linaro since November 2013 as a tester for the Power Management Working Group. Her primary focus is on maintaining the PMWG board farm and setting up CI loops for automated benchmarking on Linux and Android kernels to collect power measurements for... Read More →

Karen Sandler

Karen M. Sandler is Executive Director of the Software Freedom Conservancy, the nonprofit home of dozens of essential free software projects. She is known for her advocacy for free and open source software, particularly in relation to the software on medical devices. She was previously... Read More →

Jes Sorensen

Principal Software Engineer, Red Hat

Elena Ufimtseva

Software Engineer, Oracle

I am a former OPW intern of 2013 program and my project was vNUMA work for Xen hypervisor. After OPW I realized that I like to continue to contribute to Xen Project and Linux kernel. I had given a talk at 2013 LinuxCon in Europe and at Xen Project summit of the same year about my... Read More →

Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk

Software Director, Oracle

Konrad Wilk is a Software Director at Oracle. His group's mission is to make Linux and Xen Project virtualization better and faster. As part of this work, Konrad has been the maintainer of the Xen Project subsystem in Linux kernel, Xen Project maintainer and had been the Release Manager... Read More →

Wednesday August 19, 2015 10:25am - 11:15am PDT
Ballard

Experience Level - Any LinuxCon Wildcard

11:25am PDT

Zero-Footprint Guest Memory Introspection with Xen - Mihai Donțu, BitDefender

Mihai's presentation details a practical approach to memory introspection of virtual machines running on the Xen hypervisor with no in-guest footprint. Making use of the mem-event API, with a number of improvements, enables the proper tracking of guest OS activity. This opens the door for several immediate applications, including: rootkit detection and prevention, detection and action on several categories of malware, and event source information for low-level, post-event forensics and correlation based on real event data during events.

Speakers

Shaun Donaldson

Directory of Strategic Alliances, Bitdefender

Mihai Donțu, Chief Linux Officer at Bitdefender, is currently involved in furthering the integration of Bitdefender hypervisor-based memory introspection technology with Xen. Mr. Dontu has presented within his home country of Romania and overseas. He concentrates on connecting with... Read More →

Wednesday August 19, 2015 11:25am - 12:15pm PDT
Issaquah

CloudOpen Wildcard Experience Level - Advanced

11:25am PDT

Internet Archive: Universal Access. Open APIs - VM Brasseur, Internet Archive & Alexis Rossi, Internet Archive

With tens of millions of items in its collections, Internet Archive is one of the largest libraries in the world. It provides free and open access to all of its materials to anyone with an internet connection, making it a treasure trove for researchers, historians, and curious individuals.

Of course, having a collection that large doesn’t help anyone if it’s difficult to access. To help with this, Internet Archive has released a number of open APIs and tools to allow people to upload and download items, as well as data mine the metadata for the entire collection.

In this session we will:

* Give you a tour of Internet Archive and its collections
* Introduce you to the APIs and tools you can use to access and contribute to the Archive
* Show examples of how other people and institutions are using the Archive

Speakers

VM (Vicky) Brasseur

Open source consultant, Freelance

VM (ak Vicky) spent most of her 20 years in the tech industry leading software development departments and teams, and providing technical management and leadership consulting for small and medium businesses. Now she leverages nearly 30 years of free and open source software experience... Read More →

Alexis Rossi

Alexis is the Director of Web and Collections at Internet Archive.

Wednesday August 19, 2015 11:25am - 12:15pm PDT
Ballard

Experience Level - Beginner LinuxCon Wildcard

2:00pm PDT

Network Analysis: People and Open Source Communities - Dawn Foster

The real magic in any community comes from the people. Dawn will show you tools and techniques for performing network analysis to look at the people in your community along with the relationships between them. Why settle for boring numbers and line charts to describe your community when you can do cool visualizations that show how people connect within your open source community?

This talk will cover
* Principles of network analysis.
* Using tools like CVSAnalY, mlstats and others to pull data from your community and store it in a database.
* Running basic queries to extract the data needed for network analysis.
* Demonstrate techniques for doing network analysis.
* Show examples of visualizations.

The goal is for people to walk away with some basic techniques and tools that they can use to begin doing network analysis of their own and to make their metrics awesome.

Speakers

Dawn Foster

Director of Open Source Community Strategy, VMware

Dawn is the Director of Open Source Community Strategy at VMware within the Open Source Program Office. She has 20+ years of experience at companies like Intel and Puppet with expertise in community building, strategy, open source software, metrics, and more. She is passionate about... Read More →

Wednesday August 19, 2015 2:00pm - 2:50pm PDT
Ballard

Wildcard LinuxCon Experience Level - Any

3:00pm PDT

SCST, a SCSI Target Framework - Bart Van Assche, SanDisk

SCST is an advanced SCSI target software stack for Linux systems. The SCST software allows to transform a commodity server into a high-end Storage Area Network (SAN). SCST supports multiple SCSI protocols (iSCSI, FC, FCoE, SRP, iSER, ...), multiple local storage interfaces (SCSI pass-through, block I/O and file I/O) and also storage drivers implemented in user-space via the scst_user driver. It is the basis of several other open source projects, e.g. Openfiler and Enterprise Storage OS. During this talk it will be explained why this project is useful, how to use it and which new features have been added recently. Additionally, more information will be provided about support in SCST for scsi-mq and also about the initiative to evolve towards a single Linux SCSI target stack.

Speakers

Bart Van Assche

Technologist, Western Digital

Bart Van Assche obtained a Ph.D. in distributed computing. He works for Western Digital on improving support for their products in the Linux kernel. Bart is the maintainer of the SRP initiator driver in the Linux kernel and is an active contributor to the Linux block layer, the Linux... Read More →

Wednesday August 19, 2015 3:00pm - 3:50pm PDT
Ballard

Wildcard LinuxCon Experience Level - Intermediate

4:00pm PDT

The Bare-Metal Hypervisor as a Platform for Innovation - Russell Pavlicek, Citrix

For many tasks, the choice between a Type 1 (bare metal) or Type 2 (hosted) hypervisor is a matter of task-based performance or even personal taste.

However, there is a growing breed of solutions which specifically leverage the architecture of a bare metal hypervisor to address new concepts. These tasks range from embedded applications to new types of cloud-hosted software appliances. All leverage the lightweight nature and securability of a Type 1 hypervisor, and most are fostered by the Xen Project ecosystem.

We will review a number real efforts underway including:

-Xen Automotive: crafting an embedded automotive infotainment system
-Realtime virtualization: facilitating realtime processing
-ARM-based hypervisor: new applications, from servers to cell phones, on the ARM architecture
-Unikernel systems: creating highly-dense farms of ultra-small & secure cloud appliances

Speakers

Russell Pavlicek

Xen Project Evangelist, Citrix

Currently employed by Citrix as the Evangelist for Xen Project, Russell has spent two decades evangelizing Open Source. He has over 150 pieces published, including columns for Infoworld and Processor magazines and one book. He has spoken at over 75 Open Source conferences, including... Read More →

Wednesday August 19, 2015 4:00pm - 4:50pm PDT
Issaquah

CloudOpen Wildcard Experience Level - Any

4:00pm PDT

MySQL Security in a Cloudy World - Dave Stokes, Oracle

MySQL is the most popular database on the web and part of the LAMP stack. But security can be a hit or miss affair with passwords kept in dot files or Bash variables, and other passwords in configuration files. Plus the default MySQL authentication system is, to be nice, a little too promiscuous. This session will cover the five major vulnerability points of a MySQL installation, how to buttress them against attack or stupidity, and how recent changes in the server product line provide 'secure by default' installation. In this era of containerized or virtualized database instances, it is too easy to leave holes open for attackers. So come learn how to secure your MySQL instances is this fast paced, funny session.

Speakers

Dave Stokes

MySQL Community Manager, Oracle

Dave Stokes is a MySQL Community Manager for Oracle Corporation and travels extensively to promote MySQL, speaking over thirty times each year for the past several years. He is also the author of MySQL & JSON - A Practical Programming Guide which is a guide for those wishing to take... Read More →

Wednesday August 19, 2015 4:00pm - 4:50pm PDT
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Wildcard LinuxCon Experience Level - Intermediate