An overview of the development and release models of Fedora and Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), and the win-win benefits of this process to customers and community alike. This talk will also discuss how these models differ and complement each other in the cases of Fedora, RHEL, and CentOS. He ...

There are many statistical analyses that can be applied to free software projects to help gain insight into the people involved your community, areas that are growing quickly, and groups that are struggling, as well as visualizing your user base. Most of these can be automated fairly simply, but many ...

Lucene is an ultra high-performance, full-text search engine library written entirely in Java which contains many features. It is a technology suitable for nearly any application that requires full-text search, especially cross-platform applications. This discussion will provide an introduction to Lucene, what it can accompish, when and when not to ...

Come talk about Hibernate Search and the problems it solves with Lucene

OpenOffice.org is a full office productivity suite containing word processing, spreadsheet, presentation, drawing, and database applications. Join us for this session as we highlight and demonstrate the latest innovative features, collaborative capabilities, and interoperability opportunities that are available today and in the near future. Those who use OpenOffice will find ...

Keep your kids or employees from accessing undesirable web content. We'll configure a dd-wrt Linux-based router, combined with another server, to do content filtering on all web traffic on your home or office network. The configuration demonstrated is for a transparent proxy, which requires no configuration on the client computers. ...

Many people/organizations appreciate simplicity when hosting virtual servers in the cloud. However, when those servers go down, or become inaccessible the simple explanation is not enough. If you are deploying virtual servers or just thinking about it you may want spend some additional time looking at ways you can make ...