Red Hat Summit, JUDCon, Camel One 2013 (June 10th-14th)

Background The Red Hat Summit is the premier open source technology event to showcase the latest and greatest in cloud computing, platform, virtualization, middleware, storage, and systems management technologies. This year, Red Hat Summit, Camel One, and JUDCon were all located back to back at the Hynes Convention Center. It was a great event. I

Akron Linux User Group (ALUG) April 4th

Background Scott McCarty will present on ovirt, a virtualization manager. I’m sure that Scott will discuss virtualization generally and the features and advantages of various virtualization tools.   Schedule New Era Restaurant, 10 Massilon Rd, Akron Room Opens 6:30pm, Dinner 7-8pm, presentation 8-9pm   Presentation PDF ODP  

Ohio Linux Fest 2013

Background From the organizers: The Ohio LinuxFest will be held on September 13-15, 2013 at the Greater Columbus Convention Center in downtown Columbus, Ohio. Hosting authoritative speakers and a large expo, the Ohio LinuxFest welcomes all Free and Open Source Software professionals, enthusiasts, and everyone interested in learning more about Free and Open Source Software.

PyOhio 2013: Regional Python Conference (July 27th-28th)

PyOhio 2013 is coming up and it’s completely free and in the spirit of Python. I have went to three PyOhio conferences and PyOhio 2013 will be great. It will be at the third floor of the Ohio Union in Columbus. Registration starts at 8:30AM. Open Spaces Lightning Talks Sprints PyCamp Young Coders For those

Software Collections Quickstart

As I discussed in an article entitled Red Enterprise Linux Release Speed, developers sometimes have a problem with how slow Red Hat’s Enterprise Linux releases new versions of software. Well, the good news is, Software Collections are here. Software Collections provide Red Hat Enterprise Linux users with newer versions of programming languages and server daemons

Learning Django with OpenShift

Background The goal of this article is use the OpenShift Platform as a Service (PaaS) as a learning platform for Django. Most of the technical articles out there about running Django on OpenShift assume the user already understands how to administer Django environments and projects. This article is written from the perspective of someone who