LISA 2015
Dates/Location
November 8-13th, 2015, in Washington, D.C.
Note that the expo floor (and therefore our booth) is Wednesday from noon to 7pm and Thursday from 10am to 2pm
Event Description
https://www.usenix.org/conference/lisa15
This is basically the premiere conference for systems administration, operations, and large-scale systems engineering.
Event Owners
Fedora Representatives
Matthew Miller — booth duty, possibly helping with birds of a feather.
Corey Sheldon -- booth duty , demos
Event Schedule
https://www.usenix.org/conference/lisa15/program
Ideas/Brainstorming
For this audience, we'll want to cover:
- Fedora Workstation on sysadmin desktops and laptops. (Many people will, however, run a corporate standard build; either RHEL-based or a proprietary OS, due to company policies.)
- Fedora Server — talk about how it can fit in with RHEL and CentOS as part of the whole ecosystem. "Stay ahead of changes" is a good story here.
- Fedora Cloud — same
- Fedora Atomic — I bet containers and container tech will be a big topic
- Possibly work with the Cloud folks for an atomic host demo of Cloud Server / Server installs and intregation
Important Deadlines
For 22 Oct FAMNA meeting:
- More detail on needed funding if any requested from mattdm
Event Budget
Travel likely needed for Matthew Miller Matthew is funding travel from his own (small but non-zero) FPL budget
$50 may be requested for travel for Corey Sheldon (lives in local area)
Note that Red Hat is funding a shared booth for community-sponsored projects. We'll be hanging out with our friends from CentOS, RDO, oVirt, and etc.
Shipping $150 for Event Box and Vertical Banners to event. (Due to event hosting requiring everything to be Delivered on Nov 5th)
Travel Subsidy Requests
$50 possible for gas /bus -- Corey Sheldon
Event Report
will be reported / event report likely to be replaced by blog post on https://linuxmodder.wordpress.com
Event box / banners shipped by Southern_Gentlmen and tracking numbers dispersed to needed staff /parties. --Nov 3
Event Wrap up:
20151112 (prelim. Full report to be amended OR via https://linux-modder.wordpress.com Post Conference Blog post in coming days)
Matthew Miller (mattdm) and Corey Sheldon (corey84|linuxmodder) spent 12 hours across both expo days greeting a mostly veteran user audience, with mentions of 'Fedora meetups' much like the ones Ansible has, also a common theme was the sugar desktop seen on both the OLPC and on the Demo Laptop in the form of Fedora-Live-Soas-x86_64-23-10.iso on a Live USB....
Several Folks seemed to be highly impressed with Cockpit and its functionality for the Server / Deployment Environment
An effort to update the Demo Thinkpad to a F23 Multi feel thru due to time and activity at the booth, the laptop is presently using the F22-Live-*-*-20150629 Updated Spins
20151112-1600hrs --- Banners and Event Box sent off for FossetCon (tracking data below:) GES Tracking Slip (both Banners/E.Box): 4851010
Banners: UPS Tracking #: 1Z 9W2 V65 02 9344 9616
Event Box: UPS Tracking #: 1Z 9W2 V65 02 9132 3044