Ohio Linuxfest 2019 – Nov 02 2019, Columbus, Ohio

My Schedule

  • 09:00 How Will You Steer Your Open Source Career? Keynote Rikii Endsley
  • 11:00 Delta Ansible: Keeping up With Changes and Deprecations Andrew Cziryak
    • The guy next to me is SNORING!
  • 13:00 Modern Puppet Session Steven Pritchard
    • I walked out of the puppet talk. It was way over my head and things just weren’t making any sense
  • 14:00 An introduction to the Windows to Subsystem for Linux Rehgan Avon
    • This girl has limited exposure to Linux, but seems enthusiastic enough to do an intro to WSL She’s encouraging the audience to participate, so she doesn’t get things wrong and has backup to answer questions
  • 15:00 Getting started with Infrastructure as Code Session Tim Quinlan
  • 16:00 Holistic System Automation with Ansible Tim Quinlan
  • 17:00 Lightning Talks
    • Advocacy
    • Top 10 IT Commandments youtube
    • Pico8
    • Redhat VDO (fs de-duplication)
    • jq
    • patent trolls vs gnome youtube
    • JavaScript vulnerability tester eval-villian
    • lets-encrypt cert transparency
    • Mad Dog rant on Patent Troll youtube
    • burnout avoidance
    • more jq / gron / json/yaml schema
  • 18:00 Keynote Jon “maddog” Hall 50 years of *x, Why is it important, and where do we go from here?

Other observations

  • There are fewer vendors this year. Fewer vendors = less swag 😢
  • Got a free T-Shirt from Linode and signed up for another $50 credit with my hotmail address.
  • Lunch was good (chicken, salmon and Brussels sprouts) but I can’t stop burping salmon
  • registered to win an Oculus from Facebook with my planethawleywood address (Update: didn’t win 😢)
  • This place is crawling with textbook nerds. Pocket protectors, neck beards, and a surprising amount of excess weight. Also, a depressing amount of MacBooks.
  • The after party was nice, but held in a smaller room than it was in 2017. Build-your-own sliders and onion rings. I ate a couple sliders (sans-bun) before heading out early. I did not participate in the raffle, so there was no reason to hang out.
  • All-in-all, it was another good time. I think the lack of sleep I got the night before affected me somewhat, and I also found myself sitting around between talks a couple of times (the speaking rooms were really warm and that combined with a topic I wasn’t really interested in made me sleepier)
  • I did come home with 4 nice shirts!

OLF 2019 Youtube Playlist

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