I've just returned from a speaking engagement at Northeastern University here in Boston MA., USA. This was for the ACM students, Association of Computing Machinery.
Even though it was midterms time, we had a good 30 students show up for the talk. I started with a quick history of Linux and GNU and a brief outline of what makes a Linux distribution. I then went on to compare and contrast some of today's popular Linux distributions, going over package management, init systems, governance models, commercial/community aspects, etc... I then went further in detail as to what makes up Fedora, and why I feel that Fedora is a very strong project to contribute to.
After that I did about 30 minutes of question and answer. Many good questions were asked, such as what is RH/Fedora's relationship with CentOS, how do we compete with Ubuntu, what return on RH's investment in Fedora is there, how does the Fedora work make it's way into RHEL, what is RHEL's release model, and a few other things.
All in all I think it was a very good engagement. The students were very knowledgeable and interested. Many expressed interest in getting more information, and potentially interning or otherwise contributing to Fedora. Every student picked up a Live CD of Fedora 8 as well.
I hope to do more things with Northeastern in the future. They have a very cool program and some very neat students. Linux is slowly making it's way into their infrastructure, mostly led by student efforts.
On Wed, 27 Feb 2008, Jesse Keating wrote:
I've just returned from a speaking engagement at Northeastern University here in Boston MA., USA. This was for the ACM students, Association of Computing Machinery.
Even though it was midterms time, we had a good 30 students show up for the talk. I started with a quick history of Linux and GNU and a brief outline of what makes a Linux distribution. I then went on to compare and contrast some of today's popular Linux distributions, going over package management, init systems, governance models, commercial/community aspects, etc... I then went further in detail as to what makes up Fedora, and why I feel that Fedora is a very strong project to contribute to.
After that I did about 30 minutes of question and answer. Many good questions were asked, such as what is RH/Fedora's relationship with CentOS, how do we compete with Ubuntu, what return on RH's investment in Fedora is there, how does the Fedora work make it's way into RHEL, what is RHEL's release model, and a few other things.
All in all I think it was a very good engagement. The students were very knowledgeable and interested. Many expressed interest in getting more information, and potentially interning or otherwise contributing to Fedora. Every student picked up a Live CD of Fedora 8 as well.
I hope to do more things with Northeastern in the future. They have a very cool program and some very neat students. Linux is slowly making it's way into their infrastructure, mostly led by student efforts.
Sounds like a great event, Jesse. Sounds like a really good "intro to linux and open source with a fedora focus". Did you have slides? If so, could you make them available.
Thanks for writing this up -- I really like the fact that we're getting more Event Report activity on this list.
I haven't checked Fedora Planet in the last while, but maybe you could post there too, if you haven't already?
Thanks, Max
On Wed, 27 Feb 2008 19:47:20 -0500 (EST) Max Spevack mspevack@redhat.com wrote:
Sounds like a great event, Jesse. Sounds like a really good "intro to linux and open source with a fedora focus". Did you have slides? If so, could you make them available.
I did not do slides. I loathe slides, so I try and do without them, and let the audience take me where they want to go. I could post the framework notes I had though, not much meat just points that I wanted to get to if time allowed.
Thanks for writing this up -- I really like the fact that we're getting more Event Report activity on this list.
Yeah, this is been a missing piece and I'm glad others were doing it which guilted me into doing it.
I haven't checked Fedora Planet in the last while, but maybe you could post there too, if you haven't already?
I will echo it there too, thanks for the prod!
2008/2/28 Jesse Keating jkeating@redhat.com:
I did not do slides. I loathe slides, so I try and do without them, and let the audience take me where they want to go. I could post the framework notes I had though, not much meat just points that I wanted to get to if time allowed.
Is there video of the presentation maybe? I'd like to "learn" how to do these - yes, I realize it's not rocket science, but structure and flow are everything, and where I tend to fall flat on my face :)
On Thu, 28 Feb 2008 10:15:11 -0500 "Jon Stanley" jonstanley@gmail.com wrote:
Is there video of the presentation maybe? I'd like to "learn" how to do these - yes, I realize it's not rocket science, but structure and flow are everything, and where I tend to fall flat on my face :)
Yes, actually there was somebody videoing the talk. I'm trying to get a copy of that now.
2008/2/28 Jesse Keating jkeating@redhat.com:
On Thu, 28 Feb 2008 10:15:11 -0500 "Jon Stanley" jonstanley@gmail.com wrote:
Is there video of the presentation maybe? I'd like to "learn" how to do these - yes, I realize it's not rocket science, but structure and flow are everything, and where I tend to fall flat on my face :)
Yes, actually there was somebody videoing the talk. I'm trying to get a copy of that now.
Any chance that video getting shared somewhere online soon? I have a workshop and talk about fedora and any help would be greatly appreciated.
Valent.
On Fri, 2008-03-07 at 23:35 +0100, Valent Turkovic wrote:
Any chance that video getting shared somewhere online soon? I have a workshop and talk about fedora and any help would be greatly appreciated.
I'm still waiting :/
2008/3/7 Jesse Keating jkeating@redhat.com:
I'm still waiting :/
In the meantime can you share the outline that you used?
On Fri, 2008-03-07 at 19:15 -0500, Jon Stanley wrote:
2008/3/7 Jesse Keating jkeating@redhat.com:
I'm still waiting :/
In the meantime can you share the outline that you used?
What makes a Linux Distribution? Based on Linux kernel Linus Torvalds 1991 Replacement for MINIX GNU Software 1984 Needed a kernel, bam, we have GNU/Linux POSIX, a history Portable Operating System Interface Started around 1985 Define an API for Unix operating system LSB Based on POSIX Extended for Linux specifics FHS Defines layout for files/directories on Linux Classes of Distributions Package Management RPM .deb Other Init System SysVinit BSDinit Upstart Completely Community Debian Individuals, Debian Developers Commercial RHEL Red Hat, based on Fedora, subscription model SLES Novell, loosely based on OpenSuSE, subscription model Commercially backed Community Fedora Individuals and paid (RH) developers. Elected && assigned project board / elected committees. OpenSuSE Paid (Novell) developers, community testers / repos. Assigned teams mostly? Ubuntu Paid (Canonical) developers for main/restricted, community for univers/multiverse. What sets Fedora apart? Only truly open commercially backed Community distro OpenSuSE - Can't commit to packages, do builds, etc... Ubuntu - Only employees can commit to core packages, do builds, etc... Fedora allows any contributor to commit to packages, do builds, join groups, govern, etc... Fedora Infrastructure, more than just a distribution, open source Central account system, gpg key, ssl cert Build system (why a "Service" isn't really needed) Project hosting Translation Services Direct pipeline to users/developers/testers
2008/3/8 Jesse Keating jkeating@redhat.com:
On Fri, 2008-03-07 at 19:15 -0500, Jon Stanley wrote:
2008/3/7 Jesse Keating jkeating@redhat.com:
I'm still waiting :/
In the meantime can you share the outline that you used?
Thank you Jesse for your outlines - they helped me greatly in preparing my speech. Any news about the video?
Cheers, Valent.
2008/3/27 Jesse Keating jkeating@redhat.com:
On Thu, 2008-03-27 at 13:34 +0100, Valent Turkovic wrote:
Thank you Jesse for your outlines - they helped me greatly in preparing my speech. Any news about the video?
Unfortunately I'm still waiting :(
Would pinging them help?
Valent.
On Thu, 2008-03-27 at 21:49 +0100, Valent Turkovic wrote:
2008/3/27 Jesse Keating jkeating@redhat.com:
On Thu, 2008-03-27 at 13:34 +0100, Valent Turkovic wrote:
Thank you Jesse for your outlines - they helped me greatly in preparing my speech. Any news about the video?
Unfortunately I'm still waiting :(
Would pinging them help?
Valent.
I got a thank you card from them recently and they noted they are still working on getting the video uploaded.
On Thu, 2008-02-28 at 10:26 -0500, Jesse Keating wrote:
Yes, actually there was somebody videoing the talk. I'm trying to get a copy of that now.
Finally got the video!
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3244837865617736871&hl=en
2008/3/29 Jesse Keating jkeating@redhat.com:
On Thu, 2008-02-28 at 10:26 -0500, Jesse Keating wrote:
Yes, actually there was somebody videoing the talk. I'm trying to get a copy of that now.
Finally got the video!
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3244837865617736871&hl=en
Nice talk Jesse, I enjoyed listening and watching very much.
John
2008/3/29 Jesse Keating jkeating@redhat.com:
On Thu, 2008-02-28 at 10:26 -0500, Jesse Keating wrote:
Yes, actually there was somebody videoing the talk. I'm trying to get a copy of that now.
Finally got the video!
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3244837865617736871&hl=en
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Great talk! Thank you very much.
Valent.
On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 4:15 PM, Jon Stanley jonstanley@gmail.com wrote:
2008/2/28 Jesse Keating jkeating@redhat.com:
I did not do slides. I loathe slides, so I try and do without them, and let the audience take me where they want to go. I could post the framework notes I had though, not much meat just points that I wanted to get to if time allowed.
Is there video of the presentation maybe? I'd like to "learn" how to do these - yes, I realize it's not rocket science, but structure and flow are everything, and where I tend to fall flat on my face :)
Yes! This would be really helpful also for me and other ambassadors who are likely to do (or attempt to) similar talks.
Cheers, Valent.
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