Hi all!
A friend of me, Pieter Colpaert, is one of the core developers on iRail. I don’t know if you all followed the buzz around iRail, but iRail is more alive than ever!
And because they want to get that extra push, they are organizing a hackathon at Whitespace on Friday 17 September from 18h. I won’t be able to make it because of Fudcon, but I want to give them my full support!
More information is available on the Whitespace wiki
In 2 months, September 17 tot 19 to be exact, FUDcon EMEA will take place again.
I’m pretty excited about it because there are some great things on the program! To start with there will be the normal barcamp sessions and hackfest like you are used to from normal fudcons, but as an extra there will be some lightning talks before the hackfests. This way people can attract new people to their hackfest, and introduce small and new project to a broad audience. As always with FUDcons everyone is free to host an own session.. so if you have something cool and/or important to share with the world, just add your session to this list.
If that didn’t convince you yet, maybe the following activities that are planned will:
And if that isn’t good enough, we combine our conference with FrOSCamp, so you can be sure you won’t only see Fedora people, but people from all sorts of projects and cultures..
I’m sure it will rock!
Did I convince you now? go and sign up here.
Hope to see you there 
Next week, I’m going to GUADEC in the Hague, Holland.
something I would like to know before I leave on Tuesday, is there someone who wants to take me back (with a car) to Antwerp or Ghent? That would make things easier for me..
see you there, I’ll be attending sessions from Wednesday.
yesterday I gave a talk at our hackerspace in Ghent about Selinux.
there were quite a lot of people who attended my talk, but as I said there: it is still a ‘beta version’. I want to thank all the people who attended, and who had some valuable feed back on how to improve the presentation.
it was more a technical overview of selinux than a session with practical examples, maybe I should change the presentation a bit, because it was hard to keep everyone awake..
here are my slides:
You can download the presentation here, and is released under BY-NC-SA licence, except for some images.
This is something I found via Dag Wieers. But this is so awesome, I had to write a post about this.
Dag found that Linux is mentioned in the last publication of De Kiekeboes, a flemish comic for children.
apparently he is running RHEL 5 next to Win XP Pro.. I wonder why he still needs Win XP then? But I think you agree this is a small win for Red Hat and Linux as a whole.
Some time ago I bought a server (well, a set of computer parts I put together to what I now call ‘my server’). The hardware specifications are the following:
I know the GPU is ‘a bit’ overkill, but I had this card laying around, so I might as well use it then 
In a series of posts I will try to explain how I configure my server. If any of my readers have good ideas, let me know!
these are the things my server has to do:
feel free to call me stupid, but I would rather have tips or cool information on the things I want to do. I already have some experience with most tools, but maybe the ‘best practices’ are different. I need these tools, and I want to challenge myself.
I’m plannning to hold a workshop on SELinux at hs Ghent, also called 0×20 .
If you are interested in joining us, please fill in the doodle. Note that we prefer to not hold the workshop on a Thursday, but is a possibility.
The workshop will last something between 3 and 4 hours (depending on # questions and interest) and will cover the following topics:
If you want to participate you will need an SELinux capable system you can play around with (I will be using Fedora / CentOS). You are encouraged to use one of previous mentioned systems too. You can install a distro in a virtual machine of course. As an extra we could try to configure SELinux on debian too, but I never tried that before. You can find a howto here.
the slides will be in English, but I can speak Dutch too. it all depends on the audience
I hope to see you all there!
2 days ago I saw a post on Matthew‘s blog about what books he is reading at the moment.
I was wondering if this too could become a Fedora meme? let’s try it!
These are the books I am currently reading:
Books laying around here that I still have to read:
)who’s next?
This was the opening of Devopsdays 2009. Quite a funny clip isn’t it? But what is a devop actually? Kris Buytaert is an expert on the subject, and I found a nice presentation of him explaining the concept:
DevOps is not about operators or developers, it is about how to get things done the right way. DevOps is also about how operators talk to developers, but is not about an operator who becomes a developer and visa versa.
A dev team that follows the DevOps principle, talks to the operators during the development of the applications. What do we need? What can we get? Doing you development on the same machines as the ones the production runs on, is always good. You find the bugs faster, you find other issues faster, and you end up with a better product, while you shorten the development time.
I’m already looking forward to the next devopsdqys in Europe. I just might join them to learn more, and share my own thoughts about the subject.
