Presentations

Topic: Ubucon

Lubuntu, an official flavour of Ubuntu, is known for its blazing speed and minimalist approach to the Linux Desktop. The team behind the project is actively preparing for its next big LTS release. Join project leader, Simon Quigley, on an exploration of all the exciting new features coming this April.

Audience: Everyone
Topic: BoFs

 In this BoF session, let’s discuss the war stories and solutions we’ve devised running ML on K8s, and learn from each other’s experience. This is an open discussion where folks can share thoughts, ask questions, and learn together.

Jamie Coleman
Audience: Everyone
Topic: FOSS @ HOME

In this session, we will talk about the current state of AI, how it is changing our lives and what tools that leverage this magic are available today that can make us more productive. Mastering the dark arts of automation and knowing what AI is capable of can allow us as developers to spend more time doing other things while making our applications more secure, performant, durable, and maintainable. While this magic is not going to replace us any time soon, it sure can make our lives much easier!

Davide Cavalca
Audience: Everyone

Reproducible Builds (https://reproducible-builds.org) are a way to ensure a verifiable path from source code to binary package. This talk will discuss the ongoing efforts implementing reproducible builds in Fedora, the challenges encountered, the current status and what's coming next.

Topic: NixCon

Unleash the full potential of your user environment with the "Portable Userlands with Home-Manager" workshop. Discover how to use Home-Manager to create reproducible, portable configurations for your applications and tools. Ideal for Nix users who want to personalize and efficiently manage their desktop across multiple systems. For all Nix(OS) users who are not afraid of writing configuration files in Nix language.

Brian Proffitt
Audience: Everyone
Topic: Observability

Without sales leads or conversions, how does a commercial organization measure the gains of participation in a community event? And for community projects, what's the return on investment in running a booth or giving talks at such events? This presentation outlines the challenges of figuring out the ROI of community event participation, and will offers multiple potential solutions Red Hat has been experimenting with to measure impact and gains. 

Cynthia Prieto-Espinoza, Adanelly Chavez, Kimberly Vallejo, Alexa Hernandez
Audience: Everyone

The Intelliplant stands as a testament to collaborative innovation, bringing together the expertise of the mechatronics, sensors, and design teams. This multidisciplinary effort, with each subgroup focusing on specific aspects, allowed an all-girls team to harness peer-conducted research and construct Intelliplants—self-watering plant pots powered by Arduino with real-time monitoring capabilities. This intricate project utilizes an array of components, including Arduino UNO, relay, neopixels, photoresistor, soil moisture sensor, LED matrix, water pump, and power adapter.

Topic: Kwaai Summit

Member Voices, Audience Participation

Matthias Crauwels
Audience: Intermediate
Topic: MySQL

MySQL is famous for running the web. This implies that a lot of connections to will be made from, in most cases, many webservers to a limited number of database servers. We'll discuss how MySQL handles this and how connection pooling can help you optimise this process. We'll also talk about ProxySQL and how this can help to easily implement a connection pool for your MySQL.

Scott Stroz
Audience: Intermediate
Topic: MySQL

Long before 'NoSQL' databases became all the rage, developers stored JSON in relational database tables. With the advent of the JSON data type, developers now have a powerful set of functions to update, retrieve, and filter data based on values stored in a JSON blob. In this session, we discuss storing JSON in our database and how the tools in MySQL can make that task a bit easier.