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CentOS Connect is the contributor conference for CentOS, focusing

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on CentOS Stream, Special Interest Groups, and the entire Enterprise Linux ecosystem.
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CentOS Connect at FOSDEM happens February 1-2, 2024, as part of the
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FOSDEM Fringe.

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Register

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CentOS Connect is a free event, but we strongly encourage registration to

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help us ensure we have enough space and catering for everyone. Your registration
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includes two days of presentations and meetups, lunch on both days, and access
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to our birthday party.

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We will also live stream the event, and make every effort to include online

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participants. The live stream will be public, but registering allows us to
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keep you updated.

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Venue

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CentOS Connect 2024 will be held at the Radisson

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Collection Hotel, Grand Place Brussels in the Royal room.
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We have a room block available which includes breakfast.

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  • IMPORTANT: Use the code CENTOS24.
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  • Book your room on the Radisson website.
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  • Under “Selected rates”, select “Promotional code”, then enter the code “CENTOS24”.
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    You must enter the code “CENTOS24” to get our room block.
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  • Our room block is available from January 31 thru February 5.
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    Any dates outside the room block will have to be booked separately.
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    Speakers

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    Fabian Arrotin

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    hybrid clown @ centos infra

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    Alexander Bokovoy

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    Sr. Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat, working on security and

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            identity management. Actively participates in FreeIPA, SSSD, Samba,
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            and many other free software projects targeting open source enterprise
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            environments.

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    Paolo Bonzini

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    Paolo is a long time contributor to FOSS and also a distinguished engineer

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            at Red Hat. He works on the virtualization team and contributes both upstream
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            (as the maintainer of KVM and of several subsystems in QEMU) and to CentOS
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            Stream.

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    Davide Cavalca

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    Davide is one of the founding members of the Hyperscale SIG, which he

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            currently co-chairs, and also serves as a director on the CentOS Board.
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            In his day job, Davide is a Production Engineer on the Linux Userspace
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            team at Meta, which is responsible for the CentOS deployment on the
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            production fleet.

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    Dan Čermák

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    Dan is building container images, creating developer tools and

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            sometimes works on QA at SUSE, which he joined after working as
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            an embedded firmware developer. Originally he started out as a
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            theoretical astrophysicist, but after becoming a contributor to
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            various Open Source projects, he finally made this his full time
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            job at SUSE.

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    Red Hat Engineer working in CentOS Automotive SIG

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    Troy Dawson

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    Troy works on the Emerging RHEL and CentOS Stream teams at Red Hat.

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            He is the Chair for the CentOS Alternative Images SIG and the EPEL
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    Akashdeep Dhar is a Software Engineer in the Red Hat Community

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            Platform Engineering team and an Elected Representative in Fedora
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            Council. He works primarily in developing and maintaining applications
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            member. She is a Senior Principal Engineer in Red Hat involved in CentOS
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    I love Open Source, Linux, and building cool things with great people. I am

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            since its inception. I maintain Rocky Linux as part of the Core SIG responsible
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            for the entire operating system build and release process. In addition, I am a
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            its SIGs, Fedora, Fedora EPEL, and many more.

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    An open source enthusiast who is contributing to the upstream RDO

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    Senior Software Engineer and Packit Product Owner at Red Hat. Occasional

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            teacher at Masaryk University, Brno CZ. Instructor of scout leaders. Python
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            and non-formal education enthusiast.

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    Michel Lind (né Salim) is a long-term Fedora contributor who more

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            recently also contribute to EPEL and the Hyperscale SIG. In his day job,
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            Michel is a Production Engineer on the Linux Userspace team at Meta,
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    Elkhan is a FLOSS enthusiast and contributor who maintains the cloud, container,

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            live media and WSL images, automates testing of ISOs and projects like ELevate
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            and AlmaLinux Deploy at AlmaLinux OS Foundation. He works as a Cloud Engineer
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            at CloudLinux.

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    Shaun McCance

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    Shaun is the Community Architect for the CentOS project, taking care of the

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            non-technical bits to keep the project running. He's the chair of the Promo
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            SIG and co-chair of the Docs SIG. When not working on CentOS, he likes to
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            pretend he still works on GNOME.

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    Alfredo Moralejo Alonso

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    Alfredo Moralejo is a long-time IT infrastructure specialist with proven

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            experience in the adoption of OpenSource technologies in the enterprise.
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            In the last few years he has been working as Principal Software Engineer
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            in the OpenStack ecosystem mainly maintaining the RDO community distribution.

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    Adam Samalik

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    Adam is a principal software engineer with Red Hat mostly contributing

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    Nicola Sella

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    Nicola is a free software enthusiast. He is a software engineer working

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            at Red Hat. Part of the RPM software management team, developing and
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            maintaining DNF and DNF5.

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    Sessions

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    Hyperscale SIG update

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    Update on what the Hyperscale SIG has been working on, what deliverables are

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          available and how to use them, and what's coming up next.

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    State of EPEL

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    Troy Dawson

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    Troy Dawson, the EPEL Steering Committee chair, presents the State of EPEL.

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          What has EPEL done, what it's currently working on, and what to expect in
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          the future.

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    EPEL 10 Overview

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    Carl George

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    Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux (EPEL) is a yum repository of community

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          maintained packages for use on CentOS Stream and Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL).
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          In EPEL 9, package maintainers were able to build against CentOS Stream 9 early
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          to have packages ready before the RHEL 9.0 launch. For EPEL 10, the EPEL Steering
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          Committee is planning on expanding that strategy to all minor versions of RHEL 10.
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          Attend this talk to learn more about this initiative and the progress towards it
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          so far.

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    AlmaLinux: How we automated testing without inventing the wheel and instead improving it

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    Elkhan Mammadli

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    As the AlmaLinux OS Foundation, we take the testing seriously while pioneering

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          on the speed of the delivery. When you have multiple major versions with the
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          support of multiple architecutes, testing of a GNU/Linux distribution can be
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          exhausting. One of the phase on our journey of testing was the automation. We
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          will talk about the openQA and Testinfra as the technologies choice of us, the
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          challenges we faced while adopting them and how we handled them with contributing
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          back to upstream and Enterprise Linux ecosystem.

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    Briging the Gap: Packit automation for CentOS and upstream projects

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    František Lachman

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    Are you a package maintainer striving for a seamless integration with upstream

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          projects? Are you an upstream project developer aiming to ensure your software
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          functions flawlessly on CentOS Stream? Look no further – Packit is your solution!

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    Since the beginning of CentOS Stream, Packit has allowed developers to execute

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          CentOS Stream RPM builds directly from their upstream changes. But that's just
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          the beginning – delve into the possibilities of running tmt-based tests on a
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          pristine virtual machine with the newly-built RPMs installed. This approach
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          enables you to identify and address potential issues as they are introduced
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          to the codebase, ensuring robust and reliable software when the new code
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          reaches the user.

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    More and more projects are using Packit to automatically synchronise upstream

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          releases to Fedora. And we are pleased to announce that the very same is now
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          available for CentOS Stream as well!

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    In this talk, we will guide you through the functionalities Packit brings

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          to the table specifically tailored for CentOS Stream. Discover how you can
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          effortlessly enhance collaboration between upstream projects and CentOS
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          Stream, fostering a more efficient and reliable development process.

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    Alternative Image SIG - Let's Talk About It

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    Troy Dawson

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    An update on the CentOS Alternative Images SIG. What are our goals. What

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          progress have we made. What do we see in the near, and far future.

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    Discuss your identity: how FreeIPA helps running CentOS community infrastructure

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    Alexander Bokovoy

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    It is time to gather a feedback!

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    CentOS Stream upstream and downstream communities rely on infrastructure bits

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          provided by FreeIPA project. Fedora uses FreeIPA since 2017, providing the shared
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          infrastructure together with the CentOS project.

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    FreeIPA team would like to hear a community feedback! At this session let us dive

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          into what is working and what could be improved in CentOS community's usage of
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          FreeIPA.

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    Open Secrets of CentOS Stream

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    Troy Dawson

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    CentOS Stream has a goal of being as open as possible. Even though it has

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          been around for several years, many people think it is still keeping secrets.
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          Join Troy, from the CentOS Stream team at Red Hat, as he works through the
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          whole development workflow, showing how everything is hidden in plain site.

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    Promo SIG and Docs SIG Updates

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    Shaun McCance

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    Did you know we have SIGs for Promo and Docs? The Promo SIG has been recently

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          revitalized, while Docs has finally been officially recognized as a SIG. This
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          talk will showcase the work being done in both SIGs, and show you how you can
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          get involved. Spoiler: we're having a working day on Monday after FOSDEM, and
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          you're invited!

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    Ansible usage in CentOS Infra

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    Fabian Arrotin

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    CentOS Infrastructure is heavily relying on Ansible for automation. Let's

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          summarize how we use it, where to find the roles, describe the modular
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          approach with multiple inventories (why and how) and how we maintain these.
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          Also how we use ARA to browse the ansible logs/reports.

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    Building And Utilizing Purpose-Built GNU/Linux Distribution Images Using Mkosi

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    Akashdeep Dhar

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    Mkosi is a tool in the Systemd software suite, facilitating the creation of

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          customized distribution images for various Linux bases like Fedora, Debian,
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          Ubuntu, Arch, Red Hat, Rocky, Alma, Gentoo, etc. It supports multiple system
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          architectures and deployment methods, offering finer control than alternatives
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          like Cloud-init and Ignition, using an INI-styled format for configuration.

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    How SIGs can facilitate contributions to the CentOS Stream kernel

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    Paolo Bonzini

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    The CentOS Stream kernel receives backports for thousands of upstream

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          commits every month. In this talk, I will show how CentOS SIGs can be
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          used to help testing and tracking future contributions to CentOS Stream,
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          helping to structure them into multiple merge requests for the CentOS
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          Stream kernel project on GitLab. The content of this talk are based on
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          the experience gained when developing a TDX-enabled kernel variant within
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          the Virtualization SIG.

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    The self-abolition of Enterprise Linux Distributions

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    Dan Čermák

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    Enterprise Linux Distributions have been caught in a downward spiral

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          for the past decade. The distributions have been steadily reducing
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          their package sets, as it becomes increasingly difficult to maintain
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          packages in a faster moving ecosystem. This in turn renders enterprise
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          distributions less desirable as a deployment or a development target
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          and especially as a workstation. There is a growing realization that
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          the current release cadence and package maintenance workflow become
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          less suitable for the world where workloads are run as containers
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          based on non-enterprise distributions.

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    What is the way out of this? How can enterprise vendors solve the

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          problem to remain relevant in a cloud native world? Will a more
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          modular distribution be the solution? Or perhaps the container
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          ecosystem, where everything is containerized, is the answer?

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    Testing the CentOS Hyperscale systemd backport with mkosi

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    Daan De Meyer

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    The CentOS Hyperscale SIG maintains a backport of the latest systemd.

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          This talk will discuss how we use mkosi to test this backport. mkosi is
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          the image building sister project of systemd
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          (https://github.com/systemd/mkosi).
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          We'll start with a brief introduction to mkosi before moving on to discussing
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          how we use it to test the backport. This involves locally building the systemd
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          rpm locally from the systemd and Hyperscale systemd rpm sources within mkosi,
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          building initrd and system images including the newly build systemd rpms and
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          finally booting the resulting image with qemu. If there's time left, we'll
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          also discuss the SELinux policy module we maintain for the systemd backport.

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    My previous talk on mkosi at ASG:

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          https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6EelcbjbUa8

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    Using PoI Tracker for Enterprise Linux preparedness and to audit your dependencies

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    Michel Lind

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    PoI Tracker is a tool intended to improve organizations' readiness to adopt

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          the next major Enterprise Linux release, and also make it easier to track the
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          packages they need - especially those community-maintained in the Extra Packages
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          for Enterprise Linux repository as well as projects such as the Hyperscale SIG
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          - and the dependency graph of these packages. This talk will cover both the
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          rationale, the development of the tool itself, and some of its use cases.

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    In addition, having this information about not only the leaf packages organizations

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          care about but also their dependencies, PoI tracker can be used to analyze the health
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          of these dependencies (e.g. surfacing dependencies that have major unfixed bugs, have
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          only a single maintainer) as well as their criticality (e.g. surfacing packages that
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          it turns out is used by many leaf packages) - organizations can then hopefully use
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          this information to invest resources in this (e.g. helping with packaging, contributing
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          code fixes, or funding the development)

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    OpenStack RDO deployment on Community Distribution of Kubernetes (OKD)

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    Karolina Kula

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          Joel Capitao
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          Alfredo Moralejo Alonso

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    During the last year a new mechanism to deploy OpenStack has been created

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          in the OpenStack Kubernetes Operators project
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          (https://github.com/openstack-k8s-operators/).
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          In this session we are going to share update about our ongoing work on
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          adopting this project for testing and deploying RDO repositories. We will
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          provide a high level overview of the architecture and concepts behind this
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          model and also share some ideas about CI usage and community-friendly way
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          of deploy full stack RDO.

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    CentOS Automotive SIG update

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    Eric Curtin

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          Pierre-Yves Chibon

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    It's going to be similar to the

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          CentOS Connect talk at flock,
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          but with new content with updated information.

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    We will speak about newer projects such as initoverlayfs, maybe our work

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          with Texas Instruments.

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    In the new year, we will meet with Red Hat Automotive people internally

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          and the CentOS Automotive SIG community externally to decide what content
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          we present.

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    CentOS Integration SIG: current state and future plans

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    Aleksandra Fedorova

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    In this talk I would like to introduce the CentOS Integration SIG.

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    We will discuss our current work, plans and possibilities how you can join

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          and use the

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    We will discuss the current work and the possibilities how the SIG can

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          help you integrate CentOS Stream in your infrastructure or develop your
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          own projects on top of it.

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    Provisioning hosts with Foreman

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    Shimon Shtein

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    I would like to introduce the Foreman project that deals with provisioning,

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          configuration management and configuration monitoring aspects of datacenter
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          management. This project allows to manage systems no matter the deployment
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          architecture: physical, virtual or on-cloud. It allows a single pane of glass
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          for most management aspects of the infrastructure.

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    Meetups

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    Hyperscale SIG meetup

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    Davide Cavalca

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          Neal Gompa

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    In-person meetup for the CentOS Hyperscale SIG.

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          The meetup is open to everybody interested -- you don't have to be a member
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          of the SIG to attend, and we'd welcome participation from anyone interested
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          in this space.

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    Alternative Images SIG meetup

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    Neal Gompa

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          Troy Dawson

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    Meetup for face-to-face meeting and roadmap for the next year of Alternative

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          Images. Primary focus on looking forward to CentOS Stream 10.

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    Packagers Meetup: Share your experience with packaging RPMs

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    Nicola Sella

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    Are you an RPM packager? Do you work with packages downstream? Do you

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          have experience with automation and build systems, or are you just
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          learning how to approach this world?

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    Whether you work with Fedora, CentOS, Enterprise solutions or other RPM

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          environments, join me to discuss the state of packaging in the domain of
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          RPM-based distributions. This will be an opportunity to connect with
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          people involved in the creation, delivery, and maintenance of packages
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          in different distributions.

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    Both beginners and experienced packagers will be able to introduce

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          themselves, share their experiences with different RPM systems, and
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          learn from each other. There is no set plan or schedule. Everybody is
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          welcome, and we will have an open discussion. Bring a topic or question
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          you would like to discuss and meet the people that work behind the spec
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          files.

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    CentOS Integration SIG Meetup

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    Aleksandra Fedorova

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          Adam Samalik

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    CentOS Integration SIG is a relatively new addition to the CentOS Special

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          Interest Groups family, focused on making it easier to react on updates in
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          the CentOS Stream and integrate third-party CI services to provide feedback
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          and test results on changes.

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    This is the first meetup for the group and our main goals would be to learn

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          about each others use-cases and brainstorm the work items.

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    The highlight of this year will be the introduction of the TMT tool to manage

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          CentOS compose tests, see
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          the MVP.
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          But everyone is welcome to bring new questions and ideas to the table.

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    Rocky Linux Release Engineering - Meetup and Planning

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    Neil Hanlon

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    Join members of the Rocky Linux Release Engineering team as we work to plan

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          the road ahead for Peridot, the build system built specifically to enable
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          Rocky Linux and its Special Interest Groups (SIGs). This meetup offers a
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          platform for the Peridot developers and release engineering teams, as well
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          as other interested parties to come together to analyze, plan, organize,
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          and pave the way for a more efficient and streamlined release process for
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          the core Operating System and SIGs. All are welcome to join this conversation
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          regardless of your familiarity with Peridot or the Rocky Linux project!

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    CentOS Cloud SIG Meetup

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    Christian Glombek

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    Let's talk about the CentOS Cloud SIG, OKD, OpenShift, ,Kubernetes, Operators,

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          RDO, bootc and more!

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    Sponsors

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    Thanks to our generous sponsors for helping us put on a great event.

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    Interested in sponsoring?
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    Email the Promo SIG.

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    Code of Conduct

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    CentOS is committed to providing an inclusive and harassment-free experience

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    for participants at all of our events. All participants, whether in-person or
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    virtual, are expected to follow the
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    CentOS Code of Conduct. and the
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    Fedora Code of Conduct.

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    To report violations or for any concerns, contact the Community Architect
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    Shaun McCance.

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