2024 Schedule

All times are in the U.S. Eastern time zone and subject to change. Activities will be in meeting rooms on the 1st floor of the Hyatt Regency Columbus, the same level as the main lobby.

Linux Professional Institute iconPlease help yourself to coffee throughout the conference provided by the sponsorship of the Linux Professional Institute.

Friday, November 15

8:30 Check-in Opens
Room Hayes and Youtube (Early Penguins) Garfield Harding
9:00 Getting Started with Kubeflow

OLFI ticket required

LPIC-1 Boot Camp

OLFI ticket required

10:00
11:00
12:00 Break
13:00 The World’s Most Advanced Transparently Functioning Computer – Marc Abel
14:00 My Amateur Radio Journey – Mike Kwiatkowski
15:00 Disaster Recovery in Distributed Systems – Mahak Shah, Akaash Vishal Hazarika
16:00 Building a Machine Learning Model to Recognize Thai Characters – Terry Howald
17:00 Keynote: Without Fear: You Don’t Need Permission to Contribute to Your Own Destiny – Amber Graner

NetKnights logoOur Happy Hour sponsored by NetKnights starts at 18:00 in the McKinley room. Visit our exhibitors in the Expo area while enjoying light refreshments and drinks!

Room Hayes Garfield Harding
19:00 Birds of a Feather: Old Farts Swapping Stories from Earlier Days…New Farts also Welcome! – Jon “maddog” Hall Birds of a Feather: The Fedora and CentOS Ecosystems – Shaun McCance Birds of a Feather: Hardware Reverse Engineering 101 – Douglas Habian
20:00 Birds of a Feather: Cloud Engineering – Jon Daniel Birds of a Feather: Learn Python With Your Face – Catherine Devlin Birds of a Feather: Mastodon and the Fediverse – murph
21:00 Birds of a Feather: Hacker Public Radio – Lyle and Thaj Birds of a Feather: Level Up Your New SDF.org Account – deejoe Birds of a Feather: Neovim! – Jack Trusler

Saturday, November 16

8:00 Check-in Opens
Room Hayes and Youtube Garfield (Open Source Solutions Stage) Harding
9:00 Keynote: Lessons Learned from Reporting 100+ FOSS Bugs – Ben Kallus
10:00 Embracing Patterns: Automation by Design – Brad Krumme FOG Deployment: Open-Source Imaging in Action – Sinclair Community College Time Management for Sysadmins

OLFI ticket required

11:00 Ardour, the Garageband of Linux: Elevating Ardour with Lua – Justin Ehrlichman AlmaLinux is Free: No Drama, Just Linux – Jonathan Wright
12:00 Break Break
13:00 The Making of a Team: Character and Actions – Donald Vosburg Rocky Linux is My $HOME – Maxine Hayes
14:00 A Brief Introduction to tmux – Bob Murphy Reverse Engineer an Enterprise Linux Kernel to Git Tree – Jonathan Maple Power Editing with Vi

OLFI ticket required

15:00 Loving the Leap: From Engineering to Management – Ethan Hussong From Proprietary to Open-Source Observability – Justin Paul
16:00 Modern VM Orchestration with KubeVirt on Kubernetes – Anthony Navarro The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: Using WebAuthn and Passkeys – Cornelius Kölbel
17:00 Optimize your AI Cloud Infra: A Hardware Perspective – Liang Yan Old Dogs Learn New Tricks: Moving an Application to Containers – Donald Vosburg
18:00 Keynote: The JOY of Free Software: It Should be Fun to Fish – Jon “maddog” Hall
19:00 Closing Remarks

The afterparty will be in the McKinley room starting around 19:30 after the closing remarks.