April 13, 2016
Yesterday, Let’s Encrypt moved from beta to GA.
During the beta phase, which started last September, more than 1.7 million certificates were issued.
I think this is a crucial step for the project and overall for the Internet as well.
Until now, the only way to obtain a valid TLS certificate was to pay a CA.
This artificial constraint made no sense since the CAs were forcing users to buy an insurance policy that made no sense (and often, it was completely worthless).
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March 1, 2016
A couple of weeks ago, I took the Linux Foundation Certified System Administrator exam.
One interesting thing about this exam is that the participant decides which flavor and version of Linux he wants to use for the test.
The reality is that the Linux flavor changes very little on the tasks, but it puts the test-taker in a more comfortable situation due to the OS familiarity.
Overall I think the exam is pretty straightforward both in the way questions are formed and solving them.
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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).
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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.
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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.
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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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