Marketing Small OpenSource Projects: Packaging

Background Packaging is one of those nagging problems that has buggered me for years. When do you create your own RPM or DEB package? Of course the answer is, it depends. I have found two distinct use cases which have Basics I don’t think the use cases for this tool have been identified in this

Deep Dive: Rebasing vs. Backporting

Background Impetus Recently, I saw a discussion was started, asking about the importance of the operating system on the LinkedIn OpenStack group: Ubuntu can overtake Red Hat in private clouds because the OS doesn’t really matter I found the conversation wildly interesting because several people expressed reasons for why they think the operating system does

Michigan Red Hat Enterprise User Group (May 8th)

Are you a programmer, architect, or systems administrator that leverages Open Source, Red Hat technology in a business critical environment? Do you wish that you could go to Red Hat Summit, but can’t find budget for travel? Then, this local user group is for you.

Red Hat Summit 2013 (April 14th-17th)

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. Next year, it will be in San Francisco.   Events Red Hat Summit  

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