February 6, 2016 - Brno, CZ
Today I spent the morning looking at very interesting sessions mainly about containers.
Probably the most interesting talk of the day has been the one by Josh Bressers about security.
In the afternoon I’ve had a very pleasant meeting with the Fedora Internationalization team to see where the various community are and what we can do to improve the current situation.
Later I went to the party, but having misinterpreted the situation, I walked with Patrick and Ralph to their meeting place before going to the right location.
Walking with Patrick and Ralph has been very interesting.
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February 5, 2016 - Brno, CZ
This morning things started in the right way.
My day started with Tim Burke’s talk and it was very interesting.
After that talk, I attended the Adam Miller talk about immutable infrastructures and Daniel Walsh talk about Docker vs Systemd and I enjoyed them all :).
Later on I had a very nice hallway talk with Remy DeCausemaker about local communities and translations, followed by an actual meeting about globalization in Fedora.
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February 4, 2016 - Brno, CZ
Few days past from FOSDEM and I’m at yet another conference!
Today I flew to Wien and then took a train to Brno.
After the hotel check-in I went to the conference location and I had a nice time with the Red Hat people while we were preparing the location for the event.
The majority of the work was already done when I arrived, but few things were still missing (mainly indications to make users life easier like arrows pointing to the rooms, schedules, etc) so I got the opportunity to help :).
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February 1, 2016 - Bruxelles, BE
Today is my last day in Brussels and since my flight back is pretty late in the afternoon I took the occasion to visit a little bit Brussels.
Fun fact is that after 4 days in Brussels for a FLOSS conference, I’ll spend my evening at my local Linux User Group!
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January 31, 2016 - Bruxelles, BE
This morning I’ve assisted to one of the most fun and interesting talk I’ve have ever seen.
I’m talking about the talk of Richard M Stallman on licensing and patents.
I’ve really liked how the talk has been conducted by the speakers and I think the contents were great (you can probably find it available online and if I’ll find a link, I’ll post it).
After Stallman’s talk, I went to listen Langdon White talk Re-thinking Linux Distributions.
I think this was a great talk, and even if I do not agree completely with Langdon, he made very good point and he explained a lot of things that are going on in the Fedora’s modularization effort.
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January 30, 2016 - Bruxelles, BE
After one day at FOSDEM, I’ve to admit that people are not lying when they affirm that FOSDEM is awesome.
It really is.
Today I had the occasion of following multiple very interesting talks.
The only problem I’ve found with the FOSDEM organization is that too often there are multiple very interesting talks at the same time and you have to pick only one (unless you have ubiquity capabilities, but I don’t).
I think one of the most interesting talk of the day - at least for me - was the Lennart Pottering one.
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January 29, 2016 - Bruxelles, BE
For years I wanted to attend some major FLOSS conferences, but I’ve never had the occasion since I’ve always had other things to do in the conferences dates.
This year, due to multiple causes and good planning, I’ve been able to go to FOSDEM :).
One thing that I like to do at all kind of events, but even more in big events, is to volunteer.
Volunteering, in my opinion, gives you big advantages, since you often can find very interesting people.
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January 27, 2016
A couple of weeks ago, I’ve announced the availability of AWS tools for Fedora.
I’m very happy to announce that today they are available in the EPEL7 repository as well.
The Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux (EPEL) repository is an RPM repository managed by the Fedora community that creates, maintains, and manages a high quality set of additional packages for Enterprise Linux, including, but not limited to, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), CentOS, Scientific Linux (SL), and Oracle Linux (OL).
As you can imagine, the 7 stays for the version, so only the version 7.x of the named distributions will allow you to install those packages.
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January 16, 2016
In the last few weeks I’ve worked toward bringing the Amazon Web Services tools in Fedora.
The three AWS tools that are coming in the next few days in Fedora are:
- botocore: a low level Python library to interact with Amazon Web Services APIs
- boto3: a high level Python library to interact with Amazon Web Services APIs
- awscli: a Command Line Interface to interact with Amazon Web Services APIs
Botocore just landed in Fedora updates repositories while boto3 and awscli will be pushed to the updates repository tomorrow or Monday morning.
If you want to see them in the repo even sooner test them and give feedbacks, in this way Bodhi will allow those packages to be pushed to the stable repository if feedbacks are positive.
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December 22, 2015
Innotop is a tool that allows you to control the status of a MySQL/MariaDB database.
It is widely used since it shows the data with an interface very similar to the top one.
Lately it’s development has slowed down, but small changes do come regularly.
The biggest change this time (compared to the 1.10.0-0.2 version) is the addition of a patch that allows innotop to work properly with MariaDB 10.1 and 10.2 that has recently hit the Fedora 24 repositories.
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