Starting off this year’s Red Hat Summit was a triplet of keynotes: a Red Hat leader (CEO Jim Whitehurst), a Red Hat partner (Jim Stallings of IBM), and an open culture visionary (Dr. John Halmaka, CIO of Harvard Medical School.) This ordering of keynotes is representative of how the Red Hat commmunity is structured–a balance between enterprise and open communities, with Red Hat in the lead. (These keynotes will be available in their entirety from the Red Hat Summit page.) » Read more
We’ve scoured the web for all the latest dish on the Red Hat Summit. Here’s a few tidbits from the first day (and before):
In the news:
From our own press corps:
Other voices:
Whether or not you’re here in Boston with us at the Summit, you can follow along with Red Hat Magazine.
We’ll be posting updates here about what’s going on, and links to other Summit bloggers. If you’re blogging from the Summit, send us an email at rhm-summit@redhat.com with a link to your posts.
Here’s a little sneak preview of some of the educational sessions at this year’s Summit. And who better to outline their talks than the speakers themselves? In this first installment, Rik van Riel talks about computing speed; Fedora developer (and Red Hat engineer) Bill Nottingham outlines his thoughts on the most recent Fedora release; and Tom Callaway sums up his plans to speak about the simplest ways to use RPM. Want more? Come see us at the Summit, and check out the full schedule.
With two weeks to go before this year’s Red Hat Summit, preparations are in full swing here at Red Hat Magazine. Several members of our team are getting packed for Boston, and we’re all getting ready for the Summit content that will soon be coming our way.
And that leads us to a question for you. What would you like to see?
There’s no way for us to catch every session and talk that happens–there’s simply too many–but we do try to bring back as much as we can. Summit sessions cover eight tracks and over a hundred topics, from open source legal issues to Linux deployment to partner tech talks. Whether we bring back audio, video, or just slide decks and author articles, we hope to show you just what makes our yearly conference so special.
Take a look at our track and keynotes listing, and then a deeper dive into the full Summit session schedule. Which talks would you like to see? Which speakers interest you most?
We polled our staff and compiled a short list of what we’d like to see:
1. Joel Cohen keynote (read our interview with Cohen, a producer for The Simpsons)
2. Red Hat Enterprise Linux Kernel Performance Optimization - Part I (session talk by John Shakshober and Larry Woodman)
3. Why Computers Are Getting Slower (And What We Can Do About It) (session talk by Rik Van Riel)
4. Fedora 9 Overview and Demonstration (session talk by Bill Nottingham)
5. The Virtualization Toolbox. Open Source Solutions for Managing Virtual Environments (session talk by Dan Berrange and Rich Jones)
6. Managing Red Hat Enterprise Linux in a Virtual World with RHN Satellite (session talk by Todd Sanders and Cliff Perry)
7. Dynamic Grid Computing With MRG & Amazon EC2 (session talk by Bryan Che)
Agree? Disagree? Tell us what you would like to see. Leave a comment below. (Or, if you’re too shy, send us a private note.)
We’ll tally up your requests and use them to help us decide what to film.
Joel Cohen is an Emmy award-winning writer and associate producer of The Simpsons. He’s also a keynote speaker at the Red Hat Summit this June. Enjoy this sneak preview of Joel, and then join us in Boston to hear more from him about The Simpsons and keeping innovation alive for 420 episodes over two decades.
The Simpsons has been on for 20 years now. What does the team do to keep creativity alive for that long?
I look forward to talking about this more at the Summit, but basically it is a lot of brainstorming, building on ideas, constantly pushing ourselves to find new, previously un-mined veins for stories and jokes, and shamelessly ripping off other people’s ideas (somehow this last one is the easiest).
How did you wander from a career in sales to writing for The Simpsons and other shows and movies?
A question my parents have asked me repeatedly, although when they ask, they are more sneering and judgmental.
This will be my last post from JavaOne this year–I’m headed back home. But that doesn’t mean that the rest of the JBoss crew is. They’re here through Friday to bring you more packed mini-sessions at the Pavilion booth and a few more technical sessions.
Here’s the schedule for the rest of the week and another personal recommendation. » Read more
Gavin King’s packed Web Beans technical session
Monday’s CommunityOne crowd was manageable and pretty much what I expected. Tuesday’s crowd was larger, but I walked straight into the technical sessions without a problem. This morning I stepped outside for a few minutes, and when I came back in, there was a line stretching across the entire large hallway and down an adjacent narrow one. Then I realized that was the line I wanted to be in.
At the end of that long (but quickly moving) line, Gavin King from JBoss spoke to a standing-room-only crowd about the basics of Web Beans. The presentation included a lot of example code, stepping everyone through binding types, deployment types, producer methods, and more.
If you’re interested in hearing Gavin yourself, we have a video interview of him talking about Web Beans. » Read more
