Conference

Software Freedom Day. For more info, see: www.softwarefreedomday.org

Linux and Open Source Grassroots Festival in Bellingham, WA

Jared Bogert and Jon Tomaszewski from Red Hat will be giving a presentation at Montana State University Bozeman. Off campus folks are welcome to attend although you may have to pay for parking. Location: Strand Union Building (SUB), room 233

The topics include:

• Some background on KVM - the native hypervisor in the Linux kernel
• An overview of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (RHEV) including RHEV for Servers and RHEV for Desktops
• A live demo of RHEV
• A feature and price comparison with their competition
• Some background information on open source
• A heads up on the upcoming Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Here's an additional blurb they sent:

It's no secret that virtualization provides many benefits and although many organizations realize the advantages, virtualization currently represents only about 20 percent of enterprise workloads. Windows servers may be part of your physical server landscape, but may not be the best choice for your core virtualization platform. The two hour presentation and demonstration will focus on the overall factors organizations should consider when starting or expanding their virtualization initiatives, including hypervisor selection, management tools, expansion planning and specifically review the new developments from open source market leader Red Hat -- representing Red Hat will be Jon Tomaszewski, Public Sector Solution Architect and Jared Bogert, Public Sector Manager.

I believe they will have some Red Hat swag to give away too. They have given me the ok to video the presentation so I hope to have it online shortly after.

If anyone has any questions, needs directions, or parking information, feel free to email me: dowdle@montanalinux.org

Scott Dowdle hopes to go to the Utah Open Source Conference 2009 in Salt Lake City and have an OpenVZ booth as well as do an presentation on OpenVZ.

Hey all,

We are hosting another Meet-up in Missoula this week at Ruby's Inn. Friday at 6 - Main topic this month is MySQL - and building InnoDB databases with MySQL Workbench, QueryBrowser, and MySQL Admin (GUI tools)

Everyone is welcome/invited -- please share with your coder friends.
Link to calendar / event:
http://www.meetup.com/Montana-Programmers/calendar/10260927/

Linuxfest Northwest 2009 - Bellingham, Washington - 10th Anniversary

Linuxfest Northwest 2009 - Bellingham, Washington - 10th Anniversary

Missoula BarCamp 2009, our second annual technology, non-profit, and arts unconference will happen on Saturday April 18 from noon to 5pm at MonTEC (1121 E. Broadway, Missoula, MT).

WHEN: Saturday April 18
WHERE: MonTEC
COST: $8 early, $15 after Apr 11

Registration Required! Do it early and save money. Lunch is included.

http://missoulabarcamp.org/

Scott Dowdle will be representing the OpenVZ Project as a guest on The Linux Link Tech Show.

Join us for IRC gatherings in #ubuntu-montana and #techshow

For those that want to stream it live, it should be available at 6:30PM MST from the following URLs which your favorite media player should like:

• http://stream.tllts.org:8000/tllts
• http://www.binrev.com:8000/main
• http://media.sysop.ca:8000/techshow
• http://wdsmn.com:8000/techshow
• http://audio.fatwallet.com:8000/tllts
• http://setbit.com:8000/tllts

"Each year, Bellingham Technical College generously hosts Linuxfest Northwest."