Lucy Wyman

Since Bitcoin was open sourced in 2009 we've been reading about how crytpocurrencies are the new internet. How do cryptocurrencies actually work though? What technologies and principles lie under the hood? This talk will introduce the audience to the blockchain: a linked list used as a distributed ledger to record transactions between parties. We'll cover what a blockchain is, how it works, the cool math and theory that it uses, and discuss some applications of the blockchain beyond just cryptocurrencies.

Puppet probably isn't the first tool you think of when you want to manage your container infrastructure. But when you want to integrate containers into your existing infrastructure, address configuration drift, or model your infrastructure Puppet is the best tool for the job.  This talk will cover the why, what, and how: why you would want to manage CoreOS and Kubernetes with Puppet, what use cases Puppet is most appropriate for, and how to set up an application running in a Kubernets cluster on CoreOS with Puppet.

This talk is for you, the documentarian, developer, student, or community member wondering what you can contribute to open source and how to get started.Lucy Wyman discusses several ways open source projects need your help, what to look for in a project you're contributing to, and some first steps to making your first pull request.

At over 15 million lines of code, it's safe to say the Linux Kernel is a complex behemoth of open source software.  Making modifications to the kernel is well within your reach, though! This talk will explain step by step how to make, test, and debug small modifications to the linux kernel.  We will go over how to use your Shiny New Modified kernel to boot a VM, how to compile the Linux Kernel, and how to debug any issues you may have.

Gifs provide us with a way to express emotions online more effectively than static images or text.  They're particularly useful for humor online. In this lightning talk we'll explore several different types of humor, and how gifs can be used to express that.  I hope for this to be a hilarious tour through classic gifs.