LinuxFest Northwest 2012

Bellingham, WA April 28th & 29th

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Proposed Sessions

There is still time to submit a session, Due date is March 1st 2011 at 7pm PST!

Session Speaker(s)
Accessibility: It's about you! bryen

Open Source provides some great solutions for users in almost every demographic, and accessibility (a11y) is no exception.  Find out what tools are available, how GNOME is a major player in...

Building RPMs for enterprise deployments

In this presentation, Red Hat's Thomas Cameron will cover the basics of creating RPMs for enterprise deployments.

Comics with Krita

Krita is an application for image creation and image manipulation. It supports focus on painting, illustration, concept art and other creative work. Krita provides an OpenGL-based canvas in...

Customizing Linux for the Classroom

An introduction to SUSE Studio for Educators and their system support staff, demonstrating how to build a custom Linux distribution for a particular subject as well as deploying and customizing...

DIY Man in the Middle for Security and Privacy

Learn to eavesdrop on your own devices for fun and profit! For most of us our lives continue to be inundated with an increasing number of devices.

Enterprise Systems Management with Spacewalk

The Fedora Project's Spacewalk is a powerful, flexible systems management solution for deploying, managing, monitoring, and redeploying Fedora, Red Hat Enterprise Linux and related distribution-...

Get Cloudy!

It's 2012 and your data is accessible from everywhere. The downside of that is that you don't know where it is, nor control it. The ownCloud project aims to change that and has developed an easy...

Git Deep - A deep dive into using Git, an open source VCS

This two hour talk will be a deep dive into using git.  We'll start with the basics, led by example, and move on to more interesting and advanced usage topics.  All topics will be accompanied by...

Gnome 3 on it's own merit.

Gnome 3 has taken alot of criticisim from the FOSS community. However, I think alot of people haven't embraced Gnome 3 and taken it on it's own merit. Many comparisons are made with that of Ubuntu...

High Availability Clustering with Linux

Red Hat’s Thomas Cameron will demonstrate high-availability application services and clustered filesystems available in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and other RPM based distributions.

Introduction to drupal

Drupal is one of the leading open source web frameworks in existance. Being used with thousands of sites, it makes up over 1% of all websites in the world.

kismet BOF

Let's get together and see what kismet pulls out of the air during LINUXFEST :)

 

Linux Made Easy

During this 2 hour session learn how to install and get on the internet using MINT Linux.

MINT is a new easy to use distribution and you will learn how to install, configure updates

Monitoring What Matters

"Is it Running Now? Good!" Too often the scope of monitoring is "the server returns 200" or "a string is present" but this is usually a small part of what our web applications do.

MySQL Overview

Do you have a MySQL backed web application? I will start with a quick rundown on MySQL and then we can discuss ways to keep your site going in the face performance and scaling issues. Bring your...

openSUSE--It's not just a distro!

When people see the name "openSUSE" they think of a great distro known for its stability and innovation.  But the openSUSE Project is more than just a distro, its a community and a philosophy that...

ownCloud - Your Cloud, Your Data, Your Way!

It can be a challenge to manage your data across all of your devices and many of today's traditional solutions require you to give up your privacy to a company.

Plasma Active and the new Spark Tablet

Plasma Active is the newest member of the KDE Plasma Workspace family.

Repairing a Hacked Drupal Website

I started using Drupal because it was more secure than many other CMS options. This confidence made me complacent and in our world that made my websites an easy target. The damage to the websites...

Security Enhanced Linux for Mere Mortals

While Security-Enhanced Linux (SELinux) is an incredibly powerful tool for securing Linux servers, it has historically had a reputation for being difficult to configure. As a result many system...

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