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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>
<section id="register">
<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>Speakers</h2>
<div class="speaker" id="arrotin">
<div class="speakerimg"><img src="arrotin.jpg"></div>
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<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>
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<div class="speaker" id="bokovoy">
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<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>
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<div class="speaker" id="cavalca">
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<a href="https://accounts.centos.org/user/tdawson/"><i class="fa-solid fa-user"></i></a>
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<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>
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<a href="https://accounts.centos.org/user/carlwgeorge/"><i class="fa-solid fa-user"></i></a>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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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<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>
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<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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<h3>Adam Samalik</h3>
<p>Adam is a principal software engineer with Red Hat mostly contributing
to Fedora ELN, CentOS Stream, and RHEL.</p>
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<a href="https://accounts.centos.org/user/asamalik/"><i class="fa-solid fa-user"></i></a>
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<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>
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<a href="https://accounts.centos.org/user/nsella/"><i class="fa-solid fa-user"></i></a>
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<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>
</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">Nikola 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>
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<h2>Sponsors</h2>
<p>Thanks to our generous sponsors for helping us put on a great event.
Interested in sponsoring?
Email the <a href="mailto:sig-promo@centosproject.org">Promo SIG</a>.</p>
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<a href="https://fedoraproject.org/"><img src="fedora.svg"></a>
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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
<a href="https://www.centos.org/code-of-conduct/">CentOS Code of Conduct</a>. and the
<a href="https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/">Fedora Code of Conduct</a>.</p>
To report violations or for any concerns, contact the Community Architect
<a href="mailto:shaunm@redhat.com">Shaun McCance</a>.</p>
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