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10 things to do in Tempe, Arizona

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Tue, 11/02/2010 - 04:27 — jmeeuwen

You are somewhere in a Sun Belt state in the U.S., and it's nearing the and of January. For some, this sounds like a hopeless situation. For others, it is the opportunity of a lifetime!

Here's 10 things to do in Tempe, Arizona, nearing the end of January, 2011, while FUDCon is taking place.

  1. Bacula Backup and Recovery; Get some insight on the subject and engage a Bacula Systems Certified Trainer on the subject. I'd love to insert a "Tuesdays at noon" type of thing, but we're just not sure when exactly such sessions would be taking place. It's not important either, there's at least 9 other things to do!
  2. Koji Build Systems. Do you use it? Do you use it because you need something happening downstream? Are you a third-party repository enthusiast? Let's get to it, and have at least one session on the build system suite.
  3. Long Term Support (LTS), Extended Lifecycle Support (ELS), or whatever you may want to call an extention on the regularly supported time period of updates coming to a stable Fedora release. I like the latter terminology better. If you're interested in stopping it though, please stay away?
  4. Spins. Custom spins, localized spins, remixes or bluntly put, dwarf forks. How can we make sure all this momentum is harnassed and nurtured up and until the point little projects become proud masters of the universe with our help.
  5. Packaging Guidelines and the Package Review Process. I've had my share, how about you?
  6. Cyrus IMAP; first-hand experience of a) How Fedora Rules the Universe, b) What Upstreams Expect From Distributors and c) How To NOT Behave As A Distributor.
  7. The Ever So Awesome Fedora Cloud. I'm not sure where it's at, but I do think I know a little something about what cloud is all about. It's time to get that first concept implementation for Metadata DNS going, while showing off a complete Open Source stack for Any Company(TM) in a demo-environment with public access of sorts.
  8. Fedora Hosted Groupware. I know Fedora Infrastructure to have looked at Zarafa, not to say I have shamelessly plugged it back in the day. In the interest of full disclosure, I now work for Kolab Systems -another Groupware ISV, this time fully open source and free software.
  9. Puppet. Modules. Modules. Modules. Cross-platform consistency. Approaches. Packaging. Writing modules (why and how)
  10. Beer, meat (that's me), friends, laughs (that's me too!). I can think of very little more I need in life.