Fosscon 2015 Event recap / follow up

Fosscon 2015   played  host to  several  projects, one of  which was  Fedora,  Mike Depaulo (mikedep333)  and  I (Corey84)  partook in the  event as  Fedora Ambassadors.

Fosscon 2015

Other  participants  included:

•  Linode: A  Developer centric VPS Hosting  Provider
• http://www.linode.com | (855) 454-6633

• SunGard: A consulting firm  for  enterprise entities.
• http://www.sungard.com  
• Looking  for  JS and  barebone  Developers
• send resume to nikita.desai@sungard.com

• CoreDial: A cloud based  PBX | VoIP offered  as a UCaaS  (Unified Communication as a Service)
• http://coredial.com

• DevonIT: A thin client Provider 
• what is  a  thin client and  what it  means to  me: http://www.devonit.com/thin-client-education/how-do-thin-clients-work
• http://www.devonit.com

• Matrix: A WebRTC / cloud based  VoIP / IM solution using   beagleboards and raspberry pis for  clients
• http://matrix.org/

Several  attendees  were  impressed  with  the XO and sugar  support.

Several were also  concerned at  both the  lack of  32  bit  install media on hand ,  and the  path to dropping  32  bit support that  signaled.

Updated Lives (with 4.1.6-200 Kernel) Available

The  community project that  brings you the  updated  Live ISOs  is  proud to  announce the availability of  20150826  (with the 4.1.6-200 Kernel) :

20150826 Lives (Permalink)

These  Lives  include 32 & 64 ISO Downloads and  Torrent Downloads of:

• Fedora 22 Gnome (The default  if you ever downloaded from http://www.getfedora.org/download )

• Fedora 22 KDE 

• Fedora 22 LXDE

• Fedora 22 MATE

• Fedora 22 XFCE

• Fedora 22 SoaS (Sugar on a Stick -- per sugar community request )  Sugar Labs

Side Note  for  Ambassadors:  The  Multi-Boot is  still available  there as well for a short while (great for  Demo Days / conferences -- Next big one is Ohio LinuxFest )  If you  wish to  have a  newer  copy  or  a  specific one  feel free to  contact  Southern_Gentlemen or me  for   details on  creating one.   I  personally  will be  making a  solid effort to  make  updated multi-boots in  lock step with the Lives -- No guarantees  they are  available at  same time tho....

Available today, The Official updated respins, will be ready for download from:


Live Respins (Permalink)

The Folks maintaining the live-respins are all volunteers and use a whitelisted tracker, we kindly ask that you not add additional tracker and instead publicize it on your social media networks and where others may be made aware of it.



All respins are hashed with a sha512sum:


F22-i686-DESK-20150819
F22-i686-KDE-20150819
F22-i686-LXDE-20150819
F22-i686-MATE-20150819
F22-i686-XFCE-20150819
F22-i686-SOAS-20150819
F22-x86_64-DESK-20150819
F22-x86_64-KDE-20150819
F22-x86_64-LXDE-20150819
F22-x86_64-MATE-20150819
F22-x86_64-XFCE-20150819
F22-x86_64-SOAS-20150819

For more info on SoaS, feel free to head to the project site: Fedora SoaS

So what comes in today’s release:
the 4.1.5-200 kernel
all updates as of mirror sync this morning (Aug 18th).
SoaS now part of the Monthly installment

Fosscon 2015 (Pre Conference)

Fosscon 2015:

Free And Open Source Conference 2015, is a 9-5 conference that is STRICTLY about foss projects and initiatives, regardless of language (spoken or coding), Operating System, or most any other common limitation.

Date: Saturday, Aug. 22, 2015

Where: Friends Center, Philadelphia, Pa

Cost: 2 options FREE, donation welcome : Donations include Fosscon Tshirt, Fosscon Hoodie for donations of $25 / $50 respectively.

Schedule:

So what can you expect to see at Fosscon:

Some notable Speakers:
Christopher Wink:
cofounder and Editorial Director of Technical.ly
Talk: How open Source is changing the world.
Paul Snyder:
SunGard, P.h.D.
Talk: Functional Testing For Hard-To-Test Software Using Docker and Wiremock
Chris Norton
Avid Plug (Philly Linux User Group) member
LVM And All its Capabilities in Linux

Full Speaker list: Speaker List

How is linux-modder?

Corey Sheldon, a.k.a linux-modder

My Name is Corey Sheldon, I am a 31 year old USMC Veteran, with my own Small Freelance IT Consultancy and Auto Detailing businesses and a new startup venture (more below and in future posts).  I am a Big  Open mentality person, not just  code and firmware wise but even lifestyle wise.  Life has taught me  that 1) life is too short to strife over such trivial crap, and 2) If you can’t / won’t be happy with yourself and being yourself then you lose all desire / motivation to live.   I personally assist in the admin duties of  several facebook pages /groups,  contribute to several github projects, Charity walks / Foundations, and co maintain the official Fedora torrents with the help of  4 other main players offering a HA / high bandwidth offering  for updated ISOs to the user community and any one else interested in Fedora or Linux in general…

Projects / Groups I am most active in:

Charities / Groups:

Marine Corps Marathon series  (as a course marshall / packet pickup / advocate)

NAMI / Best Buddies (as a Race / Event volunteer and advocate)

On Facebook:

Android Developers group Admin

ROM Flashers Anonymous  (Honorary Group Admin)

Deviant Development  (Long Time Beta Tester / long time Fan / co membership admin )

NAMI | National Association of mental Illnesses (Co Admin)

San Angelo Cell phone swap and sale (Co Admin / part time ad validator)

On Github:

qTox | toxcore | torchat |redphone 

Pviewer

LibreCrypt 

Pithos (pandora native client)

Fedora { Anaconda | blivet |testCloud | fas | infra-(lots)}

On Stackexchange: (most active communities listed)

Android | Apple | SuperUser |ServerFault |Area 51 |Puzzling |Ask Ubuntu | Meta

Personal Venture (Startup with 4 other Co-Founders)

Project SkunkWorks

Project page:  Project SkunkWorks  (Github Page)
Fedora Ambassador, North America


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