LinuxCon North America 2012 | Co-Located Events

We are pleased to offer the following co-located events in conjunction with LinuxCon North America 2012. All events will take place at the Sheraton San Diego Hotel & Marina in San Diego, CA. Please check back for additions to this page.

Xen Summit 2012
Monday, August 27 - Tuesday, August 28

XenSummit is the leading annual technical conference for Xen® developers and users in North America. The conference provides a much needed collaboration and education space for the Xen® community. Launched in 2006, XenSummit brings together a cross-section of the leading players in the Xen® community, innovative and timely content and a wide variety of opportunities for attendee collaboration.

GStreamer Conference 2012
Monday, August 27 - Tuesday, August 28

Back for its 3rd year, GStreamer Conference is for anyone interested in open source multimedia. If you are a hobbyist or a student interested in the field of multimedia, or working for a company using or looking to use GStreamer in their products, then this is the perfect event for you to network at and learn more about the latest technological breakthroughs in and around GStreamer. The talks will target both developers and managers alike.

12th Annual Linux Kernel Summit
Monday, August 27- Wednesday, August 29

The Linux Kernel Summit brings together the world's leading core kernel developers to discuss the state of the existing kernel and plan the next development cycle. This two day conference is invitation-only and focuses on development and innovation through sessions and workshops that encourage interaction and discussion between kernel developers and industry leaders.

Gluster Workshop
Tuesday, August 28

GlusterFS is an open source, distributed file system capable of scaling to several petabytes (actually, 72 brontobytes!) and handling thousands of clients. In this workshop, attendees will learn about the Gluster project's history, roadmap and architecture. Presentations will include a deep dive into the latest release of GlusterFS, GlusterFS from the Systems Administrator's perspective, Gluster FS as a development platform and managing your Gluster instances.

Presented by Red Hat, this workshop will take place from 9:00am-5:00pm on Tuesday, August 28th and is complimentary to attend. Register now - this workshop is limited to 50 people.

oVirt Workshop
Tuesday, August 28

The oVirt Project is an open virtualization project for anyone who cares about Linux-based KVM virtualization. Providing a feature-rich server virtualization management system with advanced capabilities for hosts and guests, including high availability, live migration, storage management, system scheduler, and more. By open we mean open source & open governance, done right. During this workshop you’ll learn about the technical background and direction of the oVirt project. You’ll meet the developers, and have an opportunity to see and dive into the code right away. The workshop is open to all who want to use, get involved with, or learn about the comprehensive open virtualization management platform, oVirt. The sessions cover the technical projects details, governance, getting involved, usage, and much more. If you have any interest in an Open Virtualization Management platform, this workshop is for you! 

Presented by Red Hat, this workshop will take place from 9:00am-5:00pm on Tuesday, August 28th and is complimentary to attend. Register now - this workshop is limited to 50 people.

Opscode Chef Workshop
Tuesday, August 28

The Opscode Chef Workshop is a hands on training class for getting familiar with Chef for performing common automation tasks. In this workshop, we will cover:

• Set up a local workstation with Chef and connect to a Chef Server.
• Use Chef to automate installation of a Nagios server as a real world example.
• Automate other common system tasks with Chef, including:
• User management and sudo permissions
  
  • NTP, including a local NTP server
  • SMTP relaying with postfix

Each exercise will be instructor-led, and introduce new Chef concepts along the way. We'll cover the Anatomy of a Chef Run, Chef's Authentication Cycle, how to build roles, manipulate configuration through data in attributes, use Chef's search API for dynamic configuration, and more.

General Requirements

• Students must be familiar with basic to intermediate Unix/Linux system administration topics including the following:
• Command-line familiarity with Unix/Linux shells
• System resource concepts like package, service and user management
• Key-based authentication (e.g., RSA/SSH)
• Version control systems (e.g., Git, Mercurial, Subversion)
• Knowledge of cloud computing or virtualization concepts such as API-driven compute is helpful

 Students should have basic working knowledge with at least one third generation programming language such as Perl, Python, PHP or Ruby.

• Basic data structures (string, numbers, array, hash or language equivalents)
• Conditionals (if/unless, case/switch)
• Loops (for/foreach, while, or language equivalents)
  

Workstation Requirements
Attendees should bring a wifi-enabled laptop to the workshop. Install non-Chef software before the workshop starts.

• SSH/SCP (OpenSSH, puTTY/WinSCP or equivalent)
• Programer's text editor (Vi/Vim, Emacs, TextMate or equivalent)
  

The following operating systems have been tested as workstation systems with the hands on exercises:

• Ubuntu 10.04, 12.04
• Fedora 16
• Mac OS X 10.7.3
• Windows 7

Other platforms and platform versions may work without modification. Please contact Joshua Timberman at  This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it  with workstation questions.

SPDX Introduction and Working Group Meeting
Tuesday, August 28

The Software Package Data Exchange® (SPDX™) specification is a standard format for communicating the components, licenses and copyrights associated with a software package.  SPDX helps facilitate adoption and compliance with free and open source software licenses by standardizing the way license information is shared across the software supply chain.

SPDX will hold a working group meeting from 1-6pm Tuesday, August 28. The timeslot from 1-2pm is reserved for meet and greet and a brief introduction to the SPDX standard followed by a working session for the technical, business, and legal team members from 2-6pm. Participation in the working session is open to all and new members are welcome!

Linux Plumbers Conference
Wednesday, August 29 - Friday, August 31

The Linux Plumbers Conference is a forum for communication and problem-solving for system-wide issues that cross project boundaries. This community event includes both invited guests as well as open registration, gathering 300 stakeholders, decision makers and developers. 

Linux Security Summit
Thursday, August 30 - Friday, August 31

The Linux Security Summit (LSS) is a technical forum for collaboration between Linux developers, researchers, and end users. Its primary aim is to foster community efforts in analyzing and solving Linux security challenges.

The format of the summit will be:

• Refereed presentations
• Short talks
• Roundtable discussions
• Breakout development sessions