Lightning struck twice in Boston last week. First, a major transformer blew in downtown Boston taking out the power and then in a series of rapid fire lightning talks at the OpenShift Community Day event hosted in conjunction with the Red Hat Summit. While we like to ensure that each OpenShift Origin Community day is unique; last week's Boston event proved to be exceptional. We had many of the Red Hat engineers in town for the Summit and managed to corral a number of them into participating in the Community day.
Overnight, the major power outage wrecked havoc on the downtown core and we awoke to glow sticks and generators humming at the Sheraton. We gamely setup for the event in the dark, with white boards at the ready - but drew a sigh of relief when the power returned at 11:00 am just 30 minutes before registration was due to start. So in honor of the surge of power, we decided to run a series of "lightning talks" which turned out to be a great way to kick off the hack-a-thon and social hour.
Videos From the Lightning Talks:
- Matt Hicks, Director of Engineering for OpenShift took on Getting your OpenShift Cartridges "Certified"
- Nate Aune, Founder of Appsembler spoke about his current project building One-Click Open Source app deployment on OpenShift
- Brian Harrington of Red Hat Consulting gave a talk on doing Configuration Management using Augeas with OpenShift
- OpenShift Origin Community Day Lightning Talk on Setting Up OpenShift with Thor by Mark Lamourine
- Grant Shipley, Lead Cloud Evangelist for OpenShift put a call out for help on his latest mission Building out Documentation for OpenShift Origin
As always, the Boston community day started off with an overview of the OpenShift Origin Project and it's community, and includes deep dives on internals, our SELinux security and our extensible cartridge framework {all of the slide are here}. With the power outage causing traffic delays, we kept our fingers crossed that all the speakers would make it in on time for their sessions and we were happy to see Dan Walsh cross the room just in time for his SELinux and PaaS talk. The highlight (for me) was getting to meet Jhon Honce in person and hear his talk on Best Practices and Tips for extending OpenShift with V2 Cartridges.
Be sure and join us for our upcoming OpenShift Origin events:
- July 27th - OpenShift Origin Community Day (Mountain View, CA)
- Sept 22nd - OpenShift Origin Community Day (Prague, Czech Republic)
For more information on OpenShift Origin, check out the new OpenShift Origin product page on OpenShift.com or visit the OpenShift Origin Github repository home page!
