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<div class="banner-info"><span class="banner-when">February 1-2, 2024</span><span class="banner-dash"> — </span><span class="banner-where">Brussels, Belgium</span></div>
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<p class="lead">CentOS Connect is the contributor conference for CentOS, focusing
on CentOS Stream, Special Interest Groups, and the entire Enterprise Linux ecosystem.
CentOS Connect at FOSDEM happens February 1-2, 2024, as part of the
<a href="https://fosdem.org/">FOSDEM</a> Fringe.</p>
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<h2>Register</h2>
<p>CentOS Connect is a free event, but we strongly encourage registration to
help us ensure we have enough space and catering for everyone. Your registration
includes two days of presentations and meetups, lunch on both days, and access
to our birthday party.</p>
<ul><li><a href="https://ti.to/centos/centos-connect-2024/with/connect-in-person">Register for in person</a></li></ul>
<p>We will also live stream the event, and make every effort to include online
participants. The live stream will be public, but registering allows us to
keep you updated.</p>
<ul><li><a href="https://ti.to/centos/centos-connect-2024/with/connect-online">Register for online</a></li></ul>
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<h2>Venue</h2>
<p>CentOS Connect 2024 will be held at the <a href="https://www.radissonhotels.com/en-us/hotels/radisson-collection-grand-place-brussels?cid=a:se+b:gmb+c:emea+i:local+e:rco+d:ukirwe+h:BEBRUROY">Radisson
Collection Hotel, Grand Place Brussels</a> in the Royal room.
We have a room block available which includes breakfast.</p>
<ul><li><b>IMPORTANT: Use the code CENTOS24.</b><ul>
<li>Book your room on the <a href="https://www.radissonhotels.com/en-us/hotels/radisson-collection-grand-place-brussels?facilitatorId=RHGSEM&cid=a:ps+b:ggl+c:emea+i:brand+e:rco+d:ukirwe+r:brt+f:en-US+g:ho+h:BEBRUROY+v:cf&gclid=EAIaIQobChMI_KKw78L09AIVmal3Ch27tQWsEAAYASAAEgKb-fD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds">Radisson website</a>.</li>
<li>Under “Selected rates”, select “Promotional code”, then enter the code “CENTOS24”.
You must enter the code “CENTOS24” to get our room block.</li>
<li>Our room block is available from January 31 thru February 5.
Any dates outside the room block will have to be booked separately.</li>
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<h2>Schedule</h2>
<p>All times are UTC+1, Brussels local time.</p>
<div class="schedule">
<h3>Thursday meetups</h3>
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<th>Time</th>
<th>Brussels</th>
<th>Stockholm</th>
<th>Copenhagen</th>
<th>Oslo</th>
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<td>9:00</td>
<td><a href="#integration-meetup">CentOS Integration SIG Meetup</a></td>
<td><a href="#hyperscale-meetup">Hyperscale SIG meetup</a></td>
<td>Packaging Workshop</td>
<td><a href="#rocky-meetup">Rocky Linux Release Engineering - Meetup and Planning</a></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>11:00</td>
<td><a href="#cloud-meetup">CentOS Cloud SIG Meetup</a></td>
<td><a href="#altimages-meetup">Alternative Images SIG meetup</a></td>
<td><a href="#packaging-meetup">Packagers Meetup: Share your experience with packaging RPMs</a></td>
<td>Speaker ready room</td>
</tr>
</table>
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<div class="schedule">
<h3>Thursday sessions</h3>
<table>
<tr>
<th>Time</th>
<th>Title</th>
<th>Presenter</th>
</tr>
<tr class="break">
<td>13:00</td>
<td>Lunch</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>14:00</td>
<td><a href="#altimages">Alternative Image SIG - Let's Talk About It</a></td>
<td class="who"><a href="#dawson"><img src="dawson.jpg">Troy Dawson</a></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>14:30</td>
<td><a href="#automotive">CentOS Automotive SIG update</a></td>
<td class="who"><a href="#curtin"><img src="curtin.jpg">Eric Curtin</a>
<a href="#chibon"><!--<img src="chibon.jpg">-->Pierre-Yves Chibon</a></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>15:00</td>
<td><a href="#integration">CentOS Integration SIG: current state and future plans</a></td>
<td class="who"><a href="#fedorova"><!--<img src="fedorova.jpg">-->Aleksandra Fedorova</a></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>15:30</td>
<td><a href="#hyperscale">Hyperscale SIG update</a></td>
<td class="who"><a href="#cavalca"><!--<img src="cavalca.jpg">-->Davide Cavalca</a>
<a href="#gompa"><img src="gompa.jpg">Neal Gompa</a></td>
</tr>
<tr class="break">
<td>16:00</td>
<td>Break</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>16:15</td>
<td><a href="#promodocs">Promo SIG and Docs SIG Updates</a></td>
<td class="who"><a href="#mccance"><img src="mccance.jpg">Shaun McCance</a></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>16:30</td>
<td><a href="#epel-state">State of EPEL</a></td>
<td class="who"><a href="#dawson"><img src="dawson.jpg">Troy Dawson</a></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>16:55</td>
<td><a href="#epel10">EPEL 10 Overview</a></td>
<td class="who"><a href="#george"><img src="george.jpg">Carl George</a></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>17:20</td>
<td>Board Panel</td>
<td>CentOS Board</td>
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<h3>Thursday evening</h3>
<table>
<tr>
<th>Start</th>
<th>End</th>
<th>Title</th>
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<tr>
<td>20:00</td>
<td>22:00</td>
<td>Reception: Join us for drinks and cake as we celebrate 20 years of CentOS.
Location to be announced.</td>
</table>
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<div class="schedule">
<h3>Friday sessions</h3>
<table>
<tr>
<th>Time</th>
<th>Title</th>
<th>Presenter</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>9:00</td>
<td>To Be Announced</td>
<td>To Be Announced</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>9:30</td>
<td><a href="#packit">Briging the Gap: Packit automation for CentOS and upstream projects</a></td>
<td class="who"><a href="#lachman"><img src="lachman.jpg">František Lachman</a></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>10:00</td>
<td><a href="#secrets">Open Secrets of CentOS Stream</a></td>
<td class="who"><a href="#dawson"><img src="dawson.jpg">Troy Dawson</a></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>10:30</td>
<td><a href="#selfabolition">The self-abolition of Enterprise Linux Distributions</a></td>
<td class="who"><a href="#cermak"><img src="cermak.jpg">Dan Čermák</a></td>
</tr>
<tr class="break">
<td>11:00</td>
<td>Break</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>11:15</td>
<td><a href="#cloudsig">Cloud SIG Update</a></td>
<td class="who"><a href="#capitao"><!--<img src="capitao.jpg">-->Joel Capitao</a>
<a href="#glombek"><img src="glombek.jpg">Christian Glombek</a></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>11:45</td>
<td><a href="#rdo-okd">OpenStack RDO deployment on Community Distribution of Kubernetes (OKD)</a></td>
<td class="who"><a href="#kula"><img src="kula.jpg">Karolina Kula</a>
<a href="#capitao"><!--<img src="capitao.jpg">-->Joel Capitao</a>
<a href="#moralejo"><img src="moralejo.jpg">Alfredo Moralejo Alonso</a></td>
</tr>
<tr class="break">
<td>12:45</td>
<td>Lunch</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>13:45</td>
<td><a href="#mkosi">Building And Utilizing Purpose-Built GNU/Linux Distribution Images Using Mkosi</a></td>
<td class="who"><a href="#dhar"><img src="dhar.jpg">Akashdeep Dhar</a></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>14:15</td>
<td><a href="#mkosi-hyperscale">Testing the CentOS Hyperscale systemd backport with mkosi</a></td>
<td class="who"><a href="#demeyer"><img src="demeyer.jpg">Daan De Meyer</a></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>14:45</td>
<td><a href="#sigs-kernel">How SIGs can facilitate contributions to the CentOS Stream kernel</a></td>
<td class="who"><a href="#bonzini"><img src="bonzini.jpg">Paolo Bonzini</a></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>15:15</td>
<td><a href="#almalinux">AlmaLinux: How we automated testing without inventing the wheel and instead improving it</a></td>
<td class="who"><a href="#mammadli"><img src="mammadli.jpg">Elkhan Mammadli</a></td>
</tr>
<tr class="break">
<td>15:45</td>
<td>Break</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>16:00</td>
<td><a href="#freeipa">Discuss your identity: how FreeIPA helps running CentOS community infrastructure</a></td>
<td class="who"><a href="#bokovoy"><img src="bokovoy.jpg">Alexander Bokovoy</a></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>16:30</td>
<td><a href="#ansible">Ansible usage in CentOS Infra</a></td>
<td class="who"><a href="#arrotin"><img src="arrotin.jpg">Fabian Arrotin</a></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>17:00</td>
<td><a href="#foreman">Provisioning hosts with Foreman</a></td>
<td class="who"><a href="#shtein"><!--<img src="shtein.jpg">-->Shimon Shtein</a></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>17:30</td>
<td><a href="#poi">Using PoI Tracker for Enterprise Linux preparedness and to audit your dependencies</a></td>
<td class="who"><a href="#lind"><img src="lind.jpg">Michel Lind</a></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>18:00</td>
<td>Closing Remarks</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
</table>
</div>
<div class="schedule">
<h3>Saturday and Sunday (FOSDEM)</h3>
<p>Going to FOSDEM? Of course you are. Come see us Saturday and Sunday at
<a href="https://fosdem.org/2024/stands/">our stand in the AW building</a>.
Then join us for more great talks in the
<a href="https://fosdem.org/2024/schedule/track/distributions/">Distributions Devroom</a>
on Sunday.</p>
</div>
<div class="schedule">
<h3>Monday</h3>
<p>We're hosting a web+docs hackfest on Monday, February 5.
You're welcome to join and help us improve the website and docs.
<a href="https://gitlab.com/CentOS/promo/centos-events/-/issues/13">Let us know you're coming</a>.</p>
</div>
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<h2>Speakers</h2>
<div class="speaker" id="arrotin">
<div class="speakerimg"><img src="arrotin.jpg"></div>
<div class="speakertxt">
<h3>Fabian Arrotin</h3>
<p>hybrid clown @ centos infra</p>
<div class="speakerlinks">
<a href="https://accounts.centos.org/user/arrfab/"><i class="fa-solid fa-user"></i></a>
<a href="https://fosstodon.org/@arrfab"><i class="fa-brands fa-mastodon"></i></a>
</div>
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<div class="speaker" id="bokovoy">
<div class="speakerimg"><img src="bokovoy.jpg"></div>
<div class="speakertxt">
<h3>Alexander Bokovoy</h3>
<p>Sr. Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat, working on security and
identity management. Actively participates in FreeIPA, SSSD, Samba,
and many other free software projects targeting open source enterprise
environments.</p>
<div class="speakerlinks">
<a href="https://accounts.centos.org/user/abbra/"><i class="fa-solid fa-user"></i></a>
</div>
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<div class="speaker" id="bonzini">
<div class="speakerimg"><img src="bonzini.jpg"></div>
<div class="speakertxt">
<h3>Paolo Bonzini</h3>
<p>Paolo is a long time contributor to FOSS and also a distinguished engineer
at Red Hat. He works on the virtualization team and contributes both upstream
(as the maintainer of KVM and of several subsystems in QEMU) and to CentOS
Stream.</p>
<div class="speakerlinks">
<a href="https://accounts.centos.org/user/bonzini/"><i class="fa-solid fa-user"></i></a>
</div>
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<div class="speaker" id="cavalca">
<div class="speakerimg"><!--<img src="cavalca.jpg">--></div>
<div class="speakertxt">
<h3>Davide Cavalca</h3>
<p>Davide is one of the founding members of the Hyperscale SIG, which he
currently co-chairs, and also serves as a director on the CentOS Board.
In his day job, Davide is a Production Engineer on the Linux Userspace
team at Meta, which is responsible for the CentOS deployment on the
production fleet.</p>
<div class="speakerlinks">
<a href="https://accounts.centos.org/user/dcavalca/"><i class="fa-solid fa-user"></i></a>
<a href="https://www.threads.net/@dcavalca"><i class="fa-brands fa-threads"></i></a>
</div>
</div>
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<div class="speaker" id="cermak">
<div class="speakerimg"><img src="cermak.jpg"></div>
<div class="speakertxt">
<h3>Dan Čermák</h3>
<p>Dan is building container images, creating developer tools and
sometimes works on QA at SUSE, which he joined after working as
an embedded firmware developer. Originally he started out as a
theoretical astrophysicist, but after becoming a contributor to
various Open Source projects, he finally made this his full time
job at SUSE.</p>
<div class="speakerlinks">
<a href="https://accounts.centos.org/user/defolos/"><i class="fa-solid fa-user"></i></a>
<a href="https://dancermak.name/"><i class="fa-solid fa-globe"></i></a>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="speaker" id="curtin">
<div class="speakerimg"><img src="curtin.jpg"></div>
<div class="speakertxt">
<h3>Eric Curtin</h3>
<p>Red Hat Engineer working in CentOS Automotive SIG</p>
<div class="speakerlinks">
<a href="https://accounts.centos.org/user/ecurtin/"><i class="fa-solid fa-user"></i></a>
<a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/@ecurtin"><i class="fa-brands fa-mastodon"></i></a>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="speaker" id="dawson">
<div class="speakerimg"><img src="dawson.jpg"></div>
<div class="speakertxt">
<h3>Troy Dawson</h3>
<p>Troy works on the Emerging RHEL and CentOS Stream teams at Red Hat.
He is the Chair for the CentOS Alternative Images SIG and the EPEL
Steering committee. He loves Penguins, Hawaiian Shirts, Penguins
on Hawaiian Shirts and making Linux distributions.</p>
<div class="speakerlinks">
<a href="https://accounts.centos.org/user/tdawson/"><i class="fa-solid fa-user"></i></a>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="speaker" id="demeyer">
<div class="speakerimg"><img src="demeyer.jpg"></div>
<div class="speakertxt">
<h3>Daan De Meyer</h3>
<p>Systemd and mkosi maintainer. Member of the Linux Userspace team @ Meta.</p>
<div class="speakerlinks">
<a href="https://accounts.centos.org/user/daandemeyer/"><i class="fa-solid fa-user"></i></a>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="speaker" id="dhar">
<div class="speakerimg"><img src="dhar.jpg"></div>
<div class="speakertext">
<h3>Akashdeep Dhar</h3>
<p>Akashdeep Dhar is a Software Engineer in the Red Hat Community
Platform Engineering team and an Elected Representative in Fedora
Council. He works primarily in developing and maintaining applications
on Fedora Infrastructure and likes to selfhost services in his homelab.</p>
<div class="speakerlinks">
<a href="https://accounts.centos.org/user/t0xic0der/"><i class="fa-solid fa-user"></i></a>
<a href="https://apexaltruism.net/"><i class="fa-solid fa-globe"></i></a>
<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/gridhead/"><i class="fa-brands fa-linkedin"></i></a>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="speaker" id="fedorova">
<div class="speakerimg"><!--<img src="fedorova.jpg">--></div>
<div class="speakertxt">
<h3>Aleksandra Fedorova</h3>
<p>Aleksandra is a longtime Fedora contributor and a former Fedora Council
member. She is a Senior Principal Engineer in Red Hat involved in CentOS
Stream and RHEL bootstrap initiatives, Fedora ELN and other topics
related to the Continuous Integration of RHEL and CentOS.</p>
<div class="speakerlinks">
<a href="https://accounts.centos.org/user/bookwar/"><i class="fa-solid fa-user"></i></a>
<a href="https://fosstodon.org/@bookwar"><i class="fa-brands fa-mastodon"></i></a>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="speaker" id="george">
<div class="speakerimg"><img src="george.jpg"></div>
<div class="speakertxt">
<h3>Carl George</h3>
<p>Carl George is the EPEL team lead in the Community Platform Engineering (CPE)
group at Red Hat. He is active in the EPEL, Fedora, and CentOS communities.</p>
<div class="speakerlinks">
<a href="https://accounts.centos.org/user/carlwgeorge/"><i class="fa-solid fa-user"></i></a>
<a href="https://fosstodon.org/@carlwgeorge"><i class="fa-brands fa-mastodon"></i></a>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="speaker" id="glombek">
<div class="speakerimg"><img src="glombek.jpg"></div>
<div class="speakertxt">
<h3>Christian Glombek</h3>
<p>Senior Software Engineer at Red Hat; OKD Maintainer; Gnome, Fedora & CentOS Contributor</p>
<div class="speakerlinks">
<a href="https://accounts.centos.org/user/lorbus/"><i class="fa-solid fa-user"></i></a>
<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/christianglombek/"><i class="fa-brands fa-linkedin"></i></a>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="speaker" id="gompa">
<div class="speakerimg"><img src="gompa.jpg"></div>
<div class="speakertxt">
<h3>Neal Gompa</h3>
<p>Neal is a developer and contributor in Fedora; CentOS; Mageia; and openSUSE,
focusing primarily on the base Linux system components, such as package and
software management, as well as the Linux desktop. He's a big believer in
"upstream first", which has led him all over the open source world.</p>
<div class="speakerlinks">
<a href="https://accounts.centos.org/user/ngompa/"><i class="fa-solid fa-user"></i></a>
<a href="https://fosstodon.org/@Conan_Kudo"><i class="fa-brands fa-mastodon"></i></a>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="speaker" id="hanlon">
<div class="speakerimg"><img src="hanlon.jpg"></div>
<div class="speakertxt">
<h3>Neil Hanlon</h3>
<p>I love Open Source, Linux, and building cool things with great people. I am
currently employed by CIQ where I help lead the Open Source Program Office and
work to enable the needs of the communities like Rocky Linux, OpenELA, Warewulf,
Apptainer, and more, in part through my role as the Infrastructure Team Lead for
the Rocky Enterprise Software Foundation--an organization I have been part of
since its inception. I maintain Rocky Linux as part of the Core SIG responsible
for the entire operating system build and release process. In addition, I am a
contributor to OpenInfra projects like OpenStack-Ansible and Kolla, CentOS and
its SIGs, Fedora, Fedora EPEL, and many more.</p>
<div class="speakerlinks">
<a href="https://accounts.centos.org/user/neil/"><i class="fa-solid fa-user"></i></a>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="speaker" id="kula">
<div class="speakerimg"><img src="kula.jpg"></div>
<div class="speakertxt">
<h3>Karolina Kula</h3>
<p>An open source enthusiast who is contributing to the upstream RDO
project in Red Hat (for not so very long time). Interested in
security, Internet privacy and devopsing. Artist afterwork.</p>
<div class="speakerlinks">
<a href="https://accounts.centos.org/user/karolinku/"><i class="fa-solid fa-user"></i></a>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="speaker" id="lachman">
<div class="speakerimg"><img src="lachman.jpg"></div>
<div class="speakertxt">
<h3>František Lachman</h3>
<p>Senior Software Engineer and Packit Product Owner at Red Hat. Occasional
teacher at Masaryk University, Brno CZ. Instructor of scout leaders. Python
and non-formal education enthusiast.</p>
<div class="speakerlinks">
<a href="https://accounts.centos.org/user/lachmanfrantisek/"><i class="fa-solid fa-user"></i></a>
<a href="https://fosstodon.org/@packit"><i class="fa-brands fa-mastodon"></i></a>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="speaker" id="lind">
<div class="speakerimg"><img src="lind.jpg"></div>
<div class="speakertxt">
<h3>Michel Lind</h3>
<p>Michel Lind (né Salim) is a long-term Fedora contributor who more
recently also contribute to EPEL and the Hyperscale SIG. In his day job,
Michel is a Production Engineer on the Linux Userspace team at Meta,
which is responsible for the CentOS deployment on the production fleet.</p>
<div class="speakerlinks">
<a href="https://accounts.centos.org/user/salimma/"><i class="fa-solid fa-user"></i></a>
<a href="https://keyoxide.org/5dce2e7e9c3b1cffd335c1d78b229d2f7ccc04f2"><i class="fa-solid fa-globe"></i></a>
<a href="https://hachyderm.io/@michelin"><i class="fa-brands fa-mastodon"></i></a>
<a href="https://www.threads.net/@michel.a.lind"><i class="fa-brands fa-threads"></i></a>
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</div>
</div>
<div class="speaker" id="mammadli">
<div class="speakerimg"><img src="mammadli.jpg"></div>
<div class="speakertxt">
<h3>Elkhan Mammadli</h3>
<p>Elkhan is a FLOSS enthusiast and contributor who maintains the cloud, container,
live media and WSL images, automates testing of ISOs and projects like ELevate
and AlmaLinux Deploy at AlmaLinux OS Foundation. He works as a Cloud Engineer
at CloudLinux.</p>
<div class="speakerlinks">
<a href="https://accounts.centos.org/user/elkhan/"><i class="fa-solid fa-user"></i></a>
<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/elkhanmammadli/"><i class="fa-brands fa-linkedin"></i></a>
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</div>
</div>
<div class="speaker" id="mccance">
<div class="speakerimg"><img src="mccance.jpg"></div>
<div class="speakertxt">
<h3>Shaun McCance</h3>
<p>Shaun is the Community Architect for the CentOS project, taking care of the
non-technical bits to keep the project running. He's the chair of the Promo
SIG and co-chair of the Docs SIG. When not working on CentOS, he likes to
pretend he still works on GNOME.</p>
<div class="speakerlinks">
<a href="https://accounts.centos.org/user/shaunm/"><i class="fa-solid fa-user"></i></a>
<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/shaunmccance/"><i class="fa-brands fa-linkedin"></i></a>
<a href="https://fosstodon.org/@shaunm"><i class="fa-brands fa-mastodon"></i></a>
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</div>
</div>
<div class="speaker" id="moralejo">
<div class="speakerimg"><img src="moralejo.jpg"></div>
<div class="speakertxt">
<h3>Alfredo Moralejo Alonso</h3>
<p>Alfredo Moralejo is a long-time IT infrastructure specialist with proven
experience in the adoption of OpenSource technologies in the enterprise.
In the last few years he has been working as Principal Software Engineer
in the OpenStack ecosystem mainly maintaining the RDO community distribution.</p>
<div class="speakerlinks">
<a href="https://accounts.centos.org/user/amoralejo/"><i class="fa-solid fa-user"></i></a>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="speaker" id="samalik">
<div class="speakerimg"><img src="samalik.jpg"></div>
<div class="speakertxt">
<h3>Adam Samalik</h3>
<p>Adam is a principal software engineer with Red Hat mostly contributing
to Fedora ELN, CentOS Stream, and RHEL.</p>
<div class="speakerlinks">
<a href="https://accounts.centos.org/user/asamalik/"><i class="fa-solid fa-user"></i></a>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="speaker" id="sella">
<div class="speakerimg"><img src="sella.jpg"></div>
<div class="speakertxt">
<h3>Nicola Sella</h3>
<p>Nicola is a free software enthusiast. He is a software engineer working
at Red Hat. Part of the RPM software management team, developing and
maintaining DNF and DNF5.</p>
<div class="speakerlinks">
<a href="https://accounts.centos.org/user/nsella/"><i class="fa-solid fa-user"></i></a>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</section>
<section id="sessions">
<h2>Sessions</h2>
<div class="session" id="hyperscale">
<h3>Hyperscale SIG update</h3>
<p class="who"><a href="#cavalca"><!--<img src="cavalca.jpg">-->Davide Cavalca</a>
<a href="#gompa"><img src="gompa.jpg">Neal Gompa</a></p>
<p>Update on what the Hyperscale SIG has been working on, what deliverables are
available and how to use them, and what's coming up next.</p>
</div>
<div class="session" id="epel-state">
<h3>State of EPEL</h3>
<p class="who"><a href="#dawson"><img src="dawson.jpg">Troy Dawson</a></p>
<p>Troy Dawson, the EPEL Steering Committee chair, presents the State of EPEL.
What has EPEL done, what it's currently working on, and what to expect in
the future.</p>
</div>
<div class="session" id="epel10">
<h3>EPEL 10 Overview</h3>
<p class="who"><a href="#george"><img src="george.jpg">Carl George</a></p>
<p>Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux (EPEL) is a yum repository of community
maintained packages for use on CentOS Stream and Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL).
In EPEL 9, package maintainers were able to build against CentOS Stream 9 early
to have packages ready before the RHEL 9.0 launch. For EPEL 10, the EPEL Steering
Committee is planning on expanding that strategy to all minor versions of RHEL 10.
Attend this talk to learn more about this initiative and the progress towards it
so far.</p>
</div>
<div class="session" id="almalinux">
<h3>AlmaLinux: How we automated testing without inventing the wheel and instead improving it</h3>
<p class="who"><a href="#mammadli"><img src="mammadli.jpg">Elkhan Mammadli</a></p>
<p>As the AlmaLinux OS Foundation, we take the testing seriously while pioneering
on the speed of the delivery. When you have multiple major versions with the
support of multiple architecutes, testing of a GNU/Linux distribution can be
exhausting. One of the phase on our journey of testing was the automation. We
will talk about the openQA and Testinfra as the technologies choice of us, the
challenges we faced while adopting them and how we handled them with contributing
back to upstream and Enterprise Linux ecosystem.</p>
</div>
<div class="session" id="packit">
<h3>Briging the Gap: Packit automation for CentOS and upstream projects</h3>
<p class="who"><a href="#lachman"><img src="lachman.jpg">František Lachman</a></p>
<p>Are you a package maintainer striving for a seamless integration with upstream
projects? Are you an upstream project developer aiming to ensure your software
functions flawlessly on CentOS Stream? Look no further – Packit is your solution!</p>
<p>Since the beginning of CentOS Stream, Packit has allowed developers to execute
CentOS Stream RPM builds directly from their upstream changes. But that's just
the beginning – delve into the possibilities of running tmt-based tests on a
pristine virtual machine with the newly-built RPMs installed. This approach
enables you to identify and address potential issues as they are introduced
to the codebase, ensuring robust and reliable software when the new code
reaches the user.</p>
<p>More and more projects are using Packit to automatically synchronise upstream
releases to Fedora. And we are pleased to announce that the very same is now
available for CentOS Stream as well!</p>
<p>In this talk, we will guide you through the functionalities Packit brings
to the table specifically tailored for CentOS Stream. Discover how you can
effortlessly enhance collaboration between upstream projects and CentOS
Stream, fostering a more efficient and reliable development process.</p>
</div>
<div class="session" id="altimages">
<h3>Alternative Image SIG - Let's Talk About It</h3>
<p class="who"><a href="#dawson"><img src="dawson.jpg">Troy Dawson</a></p>
<p>An update on the CentOS Alternative Images SIG. What are our goals. What
progress have we made. What do we see in the near, and far future.</p>
</div>
<div class="session" id="freeipa">
<h3>Discuss your identity: how FreeIPA helps running CentOS community infrastructure</h3>
<p class="who"><a href="#bokovoy"><img src="bokovoy.jpg">Alexander Bokovoy</a></p>
<p>It is time to gather a feedback!</p>
<p>CentOS Stream upstream and downstream communities rely on infrastructure bits
provided by FreeIPA project. Fedora uses FreeIPA since 2017, providing the shared
infrastructure together with the CentOS project.</p>
<p>FreeIPA team would like to hear a community feedback! At this session let us dive
into what is working and what could be improved in CentOS community's usage of
FreeIPA.</p>
</div>
<div class="session" id="secrets">
<h3>Open Secrets of CentOS Stream</h3>
<p class="who"><a href="#dawson"><img src="dawson.jpg">Troy Dawson</a></p>
<p>CentOS Stream has a goal of being as open as possible. Even though it has
been around for several years, many people think it is still keeping secrets.
Join Troy, from the CentOS Stream team at Red Hat, as he works through the
whole development workflow, showing how everything is hidden in plain site.</p>
</div>
<div class="session" id="promodocs">
<h3>Promo SIG and Docs SIG Updates</h3>
<p class="who"><a href="#mccance"><img src="mccance.jpg">Shaun McCance</a></p>
<p>Did you know we have SIGs for Promo and Docs? The Promo SIG has been recently
revitalized, while Docs has finally been officially recognized as a SIG. This
talk will showcase the work being done in both SIGs, and show you how you can
get involved. Spoiler: we're having a working day on Monday after FOSDEM, and
you're invited!</p>
</div>
<div class="session" id="ansible">
<h3>Ansible usage in CentOS Infra</h3>
<p class="who"><a href="#arrotin"><img src="arrotin.jpg">Fabian Arrotin</a></p>
<p>CentOS Infrastructure is heavily relying on Ansible for automation. Let's
summarize how we use it, where to find the roles, describe the modular
approach with multiple inventories (why and how) and how we maintain these.
Also how we use ARA to browse the ansible logs/reports.</p>
</div>
<div class="session" id="mkosi">
<h3>Building And Utilizing Purpose-Built GNU/Linux Distribution Images Using Mkosi</h3>
<p class="who"><a href="#dhar"><img src="dhar.jpg">Akashdeep Dhar</a></p>
<p>Mkosi is a tool in the Systemd software suite, facilitating the creation of
customized distribution images for various Linux bases like Fedora, Debian,
Ubuntu, Arch, Red Hat, Rocky, Alma, Gentoo, etc. It supports multiple system
architectures and deployment methods, offering finer control than alternatives
like Cloud-init and Ignition, using an INI-styled format for configuration.</p>
</div>
<div class="session" id="sigs-kernel">
<h3>How SIGs can facilitate contributions to the CentOS Stream kernel</h3>
<p class="who"><a href="#bonzini"><img src="bonzini.jpg">Paolo Bonzini</a></p>
<p>The CentOS Stream kernel receives backports for thousands of upstream
commits every month. In this talk, I will show how CentOS SIGs can be
used to help testing and tracking future contributions to CentOS Stream,
helping to structure them into multiple merge requests for the CentOS
Stream kernel project on GitLab. The content of this talk are based on
the experience gained when developing a TDX-enabled kernel variant within
the Virtualization SIG.</p>
</div>
<div class="session" id="selfabolition">
<h3>The self-abolition of Enterprise Linux Distributions</h3>
<p class="who"><a href="#cermak"><img src="cermak.jpg">Dan Čermák</a></p>
<p>Enterprise Linux Distributions have been caught in a downward spiral
for the past decade. The distributions have been steadily reducing
their package sets, as it becomes increasingly difficult to maintain
packages in a faster moving ecosystem. This in turn renders enterprise
distributions less desirable as a deployment or a development target
and especially as a workstation. There is a growing realization that
the current release cadence and package maintenance workflow become
less suitable for the world where workloads are run as containers
based on non-enterprise distributions.</p>
<p>What is the way out of this? How can enterprise vendors solve the
problem to remain relevant in a cloud native world? Will a more
modular distribution be the solution? Or perhaps the container
ecosystem, where everything is containerized, is the answer?</p>
</div>
<div class="session" id="mkosi-hyperscale">
<h3>Testing the CentOS Hyperscale systemd backport with mkosi</h3>
<p class="who"><a href="#demeyer"><img src="demeyer.jpg">Daan De Meyer</a></p>
<p>The CentOS Hyperscale SIG maintains a backport of the latest systemd.
This talk will discuss how we use mkosi to test this backport. mkosi is
the image building sister project of systemd
(<a href="https://github.com/systemd/mkosi">https://github.com/systemd/mkosi</a>).
We'll start with a brief introduction to mkosi before moving on to discussing
how we use it to test the backport. This involves locally building the systemd
rpm locally from the systemd and Hyperscale systemd rpm sources within mkosi,
building initrd and system images including the newly build systemd rpms and
finally booting the resulting image with qemu. If there's time left, we'll
also discuss the SELinux policy module we maintain for the systemd backport.</p>
<p>My previous talk on mkosi at ASG:
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6EelcbjbUa8">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6EelcbjbUa8</a></p>
</div>
<div class="session" id="poi">
<h3>Using PoI Tracker for Enterprise Linux preparedness and to audit your dependencies</h3>
<p class="who"><a href="#lind"><img src="lind.jpg">Michel Lind</a></p>
<p>PoI Tracker is a tool intended to improve organizations' readiness to adopt
the next major Enterprise Linux release, and also make it easier to track the
packages they need - especially those community-maintained in the Extra Packages
for Enterprise Linux repository as well as projects such as the Hyperscale SIG
- and the dependency graph of these packages. This talk will cover both the
rationale, the development of the tool itself, and some of its use cases.</p>
<p>In addition, having this information about not only the leaf packages organizations
care about but also their dependencies, PoI tracker can be used to analyze the health
of these dependencies (e.g. surfacing dependencies that have major unfixed bugs, have
only a single maintainer) as well as their criticality (e.g. surfacing packages that
it turns out is used by many leaf packages) - organizations can then hopefully use
this information to invest resources in this (e.g. helping with packaging, contributing
code fixes, or funding the development)</p>
</div>
<div class="session" id="rdo-okd">
<h3>OpenStack RDO deployment on Community Distribution of Kubernetes (OKD)</h3>
<p class="who"><a href="#kula"><img src="kula.jpg">Karolina Kula</a>
<a href="#capitao"><!--<img src="capitao.jpg">-->Joel Capitao</a>
<a href="#moralejo"><img src="moralejo.jpg">Alfredo Moralejo Alonso</a></p>
<p>During the last year a new mechanism to deploy OpenStack has been created
in the OpenStack Kubernetes Operators project
(<a href="https://github.com/openstack-k8s-operators/">https://github.com/openstack-k8s-operators/</a>).
In this session we are going to share update about our ongoing work on
adopting this project for testing and deploying RDO repositories. We will
provide a high level overview of the architecture and concepts behind this
model and also share some ideas about CI usage and community-friendly way
of deploy full stack RDO.</p>
</div>
<div class="session" id="automotive">
<h3>CentOS Automotive SIG update</h3>
<p class="who"><a href="#curtin"><img src="curtin.jpg">Eric Curtin</a>
<a href="#chibon"><!--<img src="chibon.jpg">-->Pierre-Yves Chibon</a></p>
<p>It's going to be similar to the
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P2oX-oHUbRA">CentOS Connect talk at flock</a>,
but with new content with updated information.</p>
<p>We will speak about newer projects such as initoverlayfs, maybe our work
with Texas Instruments.</p>
<p>In the new year, we will meet with Red Hat Automotive people internally
and the CentOS Automotive SIG community externally to decide what content
we present.</p>
</div>
<div class="session" id="integration">
<h3>CentOS Integration SIG: current state and future plans</h3>
<p class="who"><a href="#fedorova"><!--<img src="fedorova.jpg">-->Aleksandra Fedorova</a></p>
<p>In this talk I would like to introduce the CentOS Integration SIG.</p>
<p>We will discuss our current work, plans and possibilities how you can join
and use the</p>
<p>We will discuss the current work and the possibilities how the SIG can
help you integrate CentOS Stream in your infrastructure or develop your
own projects on top of it.</p>
</div>
<div class="session" id="foreman">
<h3>Provisioning hosts with Foreman</h3>
<p class="who"><a href="#shtein"><!--<img src="shtein.jpg">-->Shimon Shtein</a></p>
<p>I would like to introduce the Foreman project that deals with provisioning,
configuration management and configuration monitoring aspects of datacenter
management. This project allows to manage systems no matter the deployment
architecture: physical, virtual or on-cloud. It allows a single pane of glass
for most management aspects of the infrastructure.</p>
</div>
<div class="session" id="cloudsig">
<h3>Cloud SIG Update</h3>
<p class="who"><a href="#capitao"><!--<img src="capitao.jpg">-->Joel Capitao</a>
<a href="#glombek"><img src="glombek.jpg">Christian Glombek</a></p>
<p>Please come join the chairs of the CentOS Cloud SiG as they provide a review
of the SiG over the past year and where the SiG is going in the next. This
review will include information on both RDO and SCOS as the two leading
components of the SiG but will also provide information how you and your
cloud related project can be a part.</p>
</div>
</section>
<section id="meetups">
<h2>Meetups</h2>
<div class="session" id="hyperscale-meetup">
<h3>Hyperscale SIG meetup</h3>
<p class="who"><a href="#cavalca"><!--<img src="cavalca.jpg">-->Davide Cavalca</a>
<a href="#gompa"><img src="gompa.jpg">Neal Gompa</a></p>
<p>In-person meetup for the CentOS <a href="https://sigs.centos.org/hyperscale">Hyperscale SIG</a>.
The meetup is open to everybody interested -- you don't have to be a member
of the SIG to attend, and we'd welcome participation from anyone interested
in this space.</p>
</div>
<div class="session" id="altimages-meetup">
<h3>Alternative Images SIG meetup</h3>
<p class="who"><a href="#gompa"><img src="gompa.jpg">Neal Gompa</a>
<a href="#dawson"><img src="dawson.jpg">Troy Dawson</a></p>
<p>Meetup for face-to-face meeting and roadmap for the next year of Alternative
Images. Primary focus on looking forward to CentOS Stream 10.</p>
</div>
<div class="session" id="packaging-meetup">
<h3>Packagers Meetup: Share your experience with packaging RPMs</h3>
<p class="who"><a href="#sella"><img src="sella.jpg">Nicola Sella</a></p>
<p>Are you an RPM packager? Do you work with packages downstream? Do you
have experience with automation and build systems, or are you just
learning how to approach this world?</p>
<p>Whether you work with Fedora, CentOS, Enterprise solutions or other RPM
environments, join me to discuss the state of packaging in the domain of
RPM-based distributions. This will be an opportunity to connect with
people involved in the creation, delivery, and maintenance of packages
in different distributions.</p>
<p>Both beginners and experienced packagers will be able to introduce
themselves, share their experiences with different RPM systems, and
learn from each other. There is no set plan or schedule. Everybody is
welcome, and we will have an open discussion. Bring a topic or question
you would like to discuss and meet the people that work behind the spec
files.</p>
</div>
<div class="session" id="integration-meetup">
<h3>CentOS Integration SIG Meetup</h3>
<p class="who"><a href="#fedorova"><!--<img src="fedorova.jpg">-->Aleksandra Fedorova</a>
<a href="#samalik"><img src="samalik.jpg">Adam Samalik</a></p>
<p>CentOS Integration SIG is a relatively new addition to the CentOS Special
Interest Groups family, focused on making it easier to react on updates in
the CentOS Stream and integrate third-party CI services to provide feedback
and test results on changes.</p>
<p>This is the first meetup for the group and our main goals would be to learn
about each others use-cases and brainstorm the work items.</p>
<p>The highlight of this year will be the introduction of the TMT tool to manage
CentOS compose tests, see
<a href="https://gitlab.com/CentOS/Integration/compose-tests">the MVP</a>.
But everyone is welcome to bring new questions and ideas to the table.</p>
</div>
<div class="session" id="rocky-meetup">
<h3>Rocky Linux Release Engineering - Meetup and Planning</h3>
<p class="who"><a href="#hanlon"><img src="hanlon.jpg">Neil Hanlon</a></p>
<p>Join members of the Rocky Linux Release Engineering team as we work to plan
the road ahead for Peridot, the build system built specifically to enable
Rocky Linux and its Special Interest Groups (SIGs). This meetup offers a
platform for the Peridot developers and release engineering teams, as well
as other interested parties to come together to analyze, plan, organize,
and pave the way for a more efficient and streamlined release process for
the core Operating System and SIGs. All are welcome to join this conversation
regardless of your familiarity with Peridot or the Rocky Linux project!</p>
</div>
<div class="session" id="cloud-meetup">
<h3>CentOS Cloud SIG Meetup</h3>
<p class="who"><a href="#glombek"><img src="glombek.jpg">Christian Glombek</a></p>
<p>Let's talk about the CentOS Cloud SIG, OKD, OpenShift, ,Kubernetes, Operators,
RDO, bootc and more!</p>
</div>
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<h2>Code of Conduct</h2>
<p>CentOS is committed to providing an inclusive and harassment-free experience
for participants at all of our events. All participants, whether in-person or
virtual, are expected to follow the
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To report violations or for any concerns, contact the Community Architect
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