KW Linuxfest/Speaker List

Current Speaker List

Sean Howard mailto:kwlinuxfest@obscuritus.ca

System Administrator

• The State of Open Social Networks

   From Mastodon to Diaspora and Hubzilla to Friendica open social networks are pretty capable at this point. 
   How do you get out of the closed social network platforms and into the Open Web?	

David Critch mailto:dcritch@gmail.com

Partner Systems Engineer @ Red Hat

• A Brief Introduction to OpenStack

   OpenStack is a popular open source project for building cloud computing environments. In this talk, David will provide a history of the project and components, 
   along with some use cases and a demonstration of deploying an example application stack.

• Getting Started with Automation via Ansible

   In this talk, David will present an introduction to using ansible, the simple yet powerful open source automation engine. 
   The main components of ansible will be discussed along with a demonstration of some real-world examples.

Phil McCracken mailto:pmccracken@gmail.com

Web Developer

• I love compilers

   This is the description	

Steve Ovens mailto:steve.ovens@redhat.com

Sr. OpenShift Consultant

• So What's It Like To Work At Red Hat Anyways?

   I’m not in marketing or recruiting, but we’ll go over some of the common questions about Red Hat and attempt to cut through marketing. 
   If you want to know my honest opinion about working at Red Hat,   come on out!

Khalid Baheyeldin mailto:kb@2bits.com

• Open Source Software for Astronomy

   Khalid will cover several free and open source software solutions for the amateur astronomer, including Planetariums, Observation Planning, Imaging Automation, and more. 
   Will cover features of each     software solution, and how best to use it.

Stephen Michael Kellat mailto:skellat@ubuntu.com

Researcher

• Reviewing Outernet.is: Qualitative Research Update

        An attempt was made to externally evaluate the Outernet satellite data platform as to content rather than signal. 
        This is a follow-up to a CCC talk by Daniel Estévez found at https://media.ccc.de/v/33c3-8399-reverse_engineering_outerne

Mikalai Birukou mailto:mb@3nsoft.com

Developer, Sys Admin, and an official CEO

• Ownership is a pre-requisite for privacy and security. Let’s build digital space that user owns.

   We own our GNU/Linux systems. We don't own our current digital networked spaces. Proper protocols fix this. 
   3NWeb: https://3nweb.org\nSlides with notes: https://3nweb.org/kwlfest-2018.pdf