presented by Evan Leibovitch

Panel: Moderator: Evan Leibovitch Kenneth Armstong, Linux Professional Institute (LPI) Donald Corbet, Warren County Career Centre Madjida Garcia, Network Development Group (NDG)

Now used in small projects and critical infrastructure alike, open source developers and community members are under increasing pressure to develop ethical and governance guidelines that ensure both public trust ...

presented by @socialhappiness

Discover how the two open hardware products are manufactured and built.

presented by maddog

Many times in my (over) half-century career in Computer Science I have been asked "Do I have to go to university to get a good job in computers?" The short answer is _*"no", but the longer answer depends *_on what type of job you want and where you want it. This talk will discuss options on how to get a good computer science education, whether it be from a university, self study or ...

presented by Dave Stokes

MySQL 8.0 has a lot of new features and four times a year updates are made available. There is a lot of powerful new features but do you know how to take advantage of hash joins, invisible columns or indexes, dual passwords, JSON document validation, new backup utilities, or new locking options? This session will cover many of the new changes so what you can get more out of your MySQL instances.

presented by Kyle Rankin

Designing security that empowers the user is hard, which is why most security software doesn't. Most security measures do their best to remove control from the user and anchor trust in the hands of the vendor. In addition to being easier, it also makes the customer dependent on the vendor for their security.

Security can (and should) put the user in control, but designing it takes more e...

presented by Gavin

This talk will provide an overview of the tools and technologies needed to create an open-source hardware monitoring system. This system, dubbed MonitorPi, uses off-the-shelf components to create a monitoring system for any computer rack, be it a data center or home closet. In the main body of the talk, I will walk through the hardware and software used. Time permitting, I will also demonstrate...

presented by lufthans

The Fediverse is a collection of decentralized, digital, and social spaces. Decentralization supports options for small groups with local community moderation while allowing worldwide interaction.

Standards like the W3C recommended ActivityPub allows disparate services to interact.

Free Software projects such as Mastodon, PixelFed, PeerTube, Nextcloud and Friendica are helping us decent...

presented by Jens Finkhaeuser

In 2000, Roy Fielding published his dissertation on Representational State Transfer. Fielding had been actively working on the HTTP standards, which were guiding by informal design principles that REST formalizes.

The talk will revisit this architectural style to disambiguate it from how the REST term has become applied since.

Much as software freedoms exist, we need to address "internet ...

presented by Aaron Honeycutt

We will go over the tools that have been provided to make gaming on Linux sometimes even easier then Windows!

presented by somnusfish

It is essential that your hosts continuously install the latest security patches provided by your Operating System vendor, but creating a strategy to safely and reliably coordinate OS updates across a fleet can be challenging. The Bottlerocket operating system offers a few unique features to provide a secure update experience, with safety rails built-in to protect against common updating pitfal...

presented by maddog

This lecture will introduce you to the FreedomBox (freedombox.org) and how to extend it with other features of Debian's distribution of GNU/Linux.

While there are many platforms to run FreedomBox Code, it is recommended that you purchase the Pioneer FreedomBox server from Olimex:

https://www.olimex.com/Products/OLinuXino/Home-Server/open-source-hardware

presented by Dave Stokes

Nobody complains that that database is to fast. But when things get slow, wow do they complain. The two easiest (and most productive) ways to increase query speed are indexes and histograms. But there is a lot of bad/old information and superstition clouding the information on how to add indexes. This talk will cover what your indexing options are (and there are many), how they really work,...

presented by Kyle Rankin

Apps have a bad habit of snitching on their owners. While this is a much bigger problem on Android and iOS, it's still valuable to detect when apps phone home on Linux. Unfortunately most Linux firewall software is designed for servers and focused on inbound connections.

This talk will cover using and tuning OpenSnitch, Linux software that prompts you whenever an app makes outbound conne...

presented by jackfoundation

The beginning of any open source project is always filled with “what-ifs,” particularly with the ambitious goal of being as transparent as possible and putting the OS ownership, Intellectual Property, and the project’s direction into the hands of the community. AlmaLinux has done just that this last year, and continues to move forward in a positive direction while maintaining a stance of “all c...

presented by Sam

Diving into the world of robotics and open-source hardware and software can be daunting but having a fun and clearly defined project to work on can help motivate and provide a scaffold for learning. My own journey started with the desire to combine two of my hobbies: board games and technology. Adapting a favorite board game to be played with actual robots touched on all aspects of development ...