CentOS Connect & FOSDEM 2024¶
(adapted with love from Fedora's event page
About¶
CentOS Connect¶
CentOS Connect is the contributor conference for CentOS, focusing on CentOS Stream, Special Interest Groups, and the entire Enterprise Linux ecosystem. CentOS Connect at FOSDEM happens February 1-2, 2024, as part of the FOSDEM Fringe.
- Website: connect.centos.org
- Location: Raddison Collection Hotel, Grand Place - Royal Room
- 47 Rue du Fossé aux Loups, Brussels,1000,Belgium
- Time Zone: Central European Time (CET), or UTC+1
- Schedule: https://connect.centos.org/
- Rocky Talks / Events: Releng Meetup, see below
- Format: In-person participation only, live-streaming available
FOSDEM 2024¶
FOSDEM is a free event for software developers to meet, share ideas, and collaborate. Every year, thousands of developers of free and open source software from all over the world gather at the event in Brussels. You don't need to register. Just turn up and join in! FOSDEM 2024 will be held on 3-4 February 2024.
- Website: fosdem.org/2024/
- Location: ULB Campus Solbosh, Avenue Franklin D. Roosevelt, 50, 1050 Bruxelles
- Time Zone: Central European Time (CET), or UTC+1
- Schedule: fosdem.org/2024/schedule/
- Rocky Talks / Events: See below
- Format: In-person participation only, live-streaming available
First time at FOSDEM? Read the FOSDEM practical info guide to learn more.
Timing and Location¶
The events are easily reachable by public transportation. For details, see below. If you are afraid of getting lost, the following links might help you:
CentOS Connect - Raddison Collection Hotel, Grand Place (Royal Room)¶
FODSEM 2024 - ULB Campus¶
Hotel¶
Most of the Rocky folks attending are staying in the Marriot Renaissance Brussels Hotel, or the Marriot Executive Apartments, which are directly next door.
This hotel is roughly half way between the Grand Place (city center) and the ULB campus, where the CentOS Connect and FOSDEM events are being held, respectively.
As we're all staying in the same place, we can travel in groups as needed.
Schedule at-a-glance¶
Thursday, 1 February¶
- CentOS Connect Meetups (morning) and presentations (afternoon)
- Arrival time: 08:30 - 09:00
- Rocky Releng Planning & Meetup scheduled
- Begins at 09:00 in Oslo room
- Conference programming: 09:00 - 13:00 (Meetups), 14:00-16:00 (Sessions)
- Evening reception hosted by CentOS celebrating 20 years of CentOS
- Location TBD
Friday, 2 February¶
- CentOS Connect presentations continue
- Arrival time: 08:30 - 09:00
- Arrival time: 08:30
- Conference programming: 09:00 - 18:30
- Rocky Contributor Dinner: 19:30 - ???
- Location TBD
Saturday, 3 February¶
- FOSDEM - ULB Campus
- Arrival Time: 09:30 - 10:30
- Conference programming: 10:30 - 19:00
Sunday, 4 February¶
- FOSDEM - ULB Campus
- Arrival Time: 08:30 - 09:00
- Conference programming: 09:00 - 17:00
Rocky presence¶
If you are a Rocky Contributor or Community member planning on attending FOSDEM or CentOS Connect, we would love for you to add your name to the list and come introduce yourself! Use the comments column to specify your role in the Rocky community.
| No | Name | RAS | Thu, 1 Feb | Fri, 2 Feb | Sat, 3 Feb | Sun, 4 Feb | Travel itinerary | Languages | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Neil Hanlon | neil | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | BOS->IAD->BRU arriving Morning of 30th | en, bad fr | Rocky Infrastructure Lead, RESF Founder |
| 2 | Louis Abel | label | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | x | PHX->IAD->BRU arriving Morning of 29th | en, bad es | Rocky Linux Release Engineering Lead, RESF Founder |
| 3 | Sherif Nagy | sherif | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | DUB->BRU arriving evening of 31st | en, ar, bad de | Rocky Linux Release Engineering member, RESF board member |
| 4 | Krista Burdine | grammaresque | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | DFW->LHR->BRU arriving noonish on Tuesday 30th | en, sp | RESF Community Manager |
| 5 | Antoine Le Morvan | alemorvan | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | RNS->BRU arriving 4PM of 31th | fr, bad en | RESF Member, Documentation Author & Translation Lead |
| 6 | Brian Phan | bphan | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | SFO->IAD->BRU arriving Morning of 31st | en, bad fr | Rocky Community Member |
| 7 | Forrest Burt | fburt | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | PDX->AMS->BRU arriving Morning of 31st | en | Rocky Community Member |
| 8 | Pablo Greco | pgreco | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | EZE->MAD->BRU arriving evening of 29th | en, sp, it | Rocky Linux Release Engineering member, altarch guru |
Speakers / Events¶
| No | Name | Date | Time | Speaker(s) | Location | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rocky Linux Release Engineering - Meetup and Planning | Thursday, 1 February | TBD | Neil Hanlon, Louis Abel | CentOS Connect - Meetups | Join members of the Rocky Linux Release Engineering team as we work to plan the road ahead for Peridot, the build system built specifically to enable Rocky Linux and its Special Interest Groups (SIGs). This meetup offers a platform for the Peridot developers and release engineering teams, as well as other interested parties to come together to analyze, plan, organize, and pave the way for a more efficient and streamlined release process for the core Operating System and SIGs. All are welcome to join this conversation regardless of your familiarity with Peridot or the Rocky Linux project! |
| 2 | Warewulf: an overview, new features, and community updates | Saturday, 3 February | 14:10 - 14:20 | UA2.118 | Brian Phan | Warewulf is a simple, lightweight, stateless cluster provisioning tool. This talk will cover a high-level overview of Warewulf and its features. It will also provide a sneak peak into features coming in version 4.5 such as grub netboot and disk provisioning with Ignition. Finally, we will provide some organizational updates within the project such as formalization of community engagement, establishment of a technical steering group, and how you can get involved in the project today. |
| 3 | Updates and Innovations with the Apptainer Platform | Saturday, 3 February | 14:45 - 14:55 | UA2.118 | Forrest Burt | Apptainer, an open-source containerization software built for HPC and used by over 25,000 computing sites worldwide, entered the Linux Foundation about two years ago. This was accompanied by a rebasing in version and a fresh roadmap of features for the software project moving forward. A significant amount of development has happened both on these features and on methods of utilizing Apptainer itself for greater efficiency in HPC since this changeover. This talk will explain these developments, including new support for fully rootless builds and installs of Apptainer, ways Apptainer now leverages the Linux user namespace for some of its features, innovations in using Apptainers with MPI and fabric adaptors, and the usefulness of ORAS protocol in software supply chain management and its current state of integration with OCI registries. |
Goals & Messaging¶
Stub, fill in - mostly around SIGs and supporting the community in a variety of facets.