Fedora Nest 2020

 August 10, 2020

This year Flock did not happen due to COVID-19, and in its place, Fedora Nest happened. After many events I’ve seen going virtual in the last few months, I was skeptical. I was yet to see an acceptable online platform to run events. I was wrong on the platform. Fedora Nest used Hopin, which is by far the best platform for events I’ve seen so far. Don’t get your expectations too high, though, because when I say the best one I’ve seen so far, only means that it is usable, and it does not mean in any way that is on par of real conferences.

Why I switched to systemd-resolved

 April 15, 2020

Yesterday, a controversial proposal got posted in the Fedora Devel mailing list: enable systemd-resolved by default. I see this change favorably since I already enabled it a few weeks ago, and I find it a very sensible option.

First, I have to admit that I see systemd and its mission of standardizing the core of the Linux user-space very favorably. At the current level of evolution of Linux, over time, this standardization and consistency will pay off much more than other alternatives. Therefore, I see the introduction of systemd-resolved positively and as an excellent way to abstract many DNS-related problems the rest of the applications.

DevConf 2020

 January 27, 2020 -  Brno, CZ

As it happened at other times in my life, I managed to be present at DevConf. DevConf is one of the best conferences that I attend. The reasons are many and varied, starting from the location that I find relatively stress-free. Another reason is the fact that there are many different kinds of sessions, and many sessions are not overcrowded, so it is relatively simple to participate in any session you would like to.

DevConf 2017

 January 29, 2017 -  Brno, CZ

I think this is a special moment of the year, where in less than two weeks is possible to meet a huge amount of Open Source contributors in person. Obviously you will need to take few flights, but it’s definitely worth.

DevConf this year was great. I’ve been able to assist to a huge amount of talks (more than 20) and the majority of which were very interesting.

As always in conferences, there are themes heavily discussed and other completely absent. This year at DevConf (like in many others conferences) containers are a very big topic. The other big topic (related, but different) was Modularization, an approach Fedora is trying to

Fedora, from a community to an Operating system

 October 27, 2016 -  Milano, IT

FLOCK 2016

 August 7, 2016 -  Kraków, PL

This year, I have been able to go to Flock :). Flock location this year was Krakov (Poland). Since my flight arrival time was very close to Mailga’s one, I waited him at the airport and then we went together to the Flock location. This has proven to be a good idea, since we had the time to speak about some important topics around the Italian Community. We then arrived to the Flock location, were we discovered a problem with the rooms booking, but that got resolved in a quick way by Bexelbie.

A year managing the Italian Fedora Community

 August 2, 2016 -  Kraków, PL

AWS at the command line

 February 29, 2016

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the biggest public cloud provider and has released a set of tools to help out sysadmins and developers for integrating with their infrastructure.

The three tools we are going to discuss in this article are three of AWS’s most-used and well-known tools:

• botocore: Low-level Python library
• boto3: High level Python library
• awscli: Command-line interface written in Python

All those tools are currently available in Fedora (22+) and EPEL (7).

DevConf - day 4

 February 8, 2016 -  Brno, CZ

My last day at Brno has come, and I took the bus to Wien Airport, where I later got a plane to Milan.

Overall, this was a very nice experience. I’ve met a lot of very interesting people and a lot of people I already knew but only by their IRC and FAS name. It’s always nice to be able to give faces to the names you always read.

I really look forward for the next Fedora Event that probably it will be Flock 2016 for me.

DevConf - day 3

 February 7, 2016 -  Brno, CZ

Today there were a lot of Fedora talks and sadly I was not able to see them all since there were two Fedora tracks.

The most interesting talk I’ve assisted today was probably the Denise Dumas and Matthew Miller one about Fedora.

Being the last day of the conference, it ended earlier so we (EMEA Ambassadors) were able to gather and meet to work a little bit on the 2017 budget. This was still pending because this year we were not able to meet at the usual FAD designed to make decisions for the Ambassadors budget.