All Things Open - Day 1

Opening day of All Things Open.    Good to see lots of IBMers and make new connections.   Being part of the event has given me a unique view of who is attending.   My favorite question in line is if we have women's shirts.    While the answer is no, it is great to be asked and great to see how hard ATO works to bring in high quality women presenters.  Next year they need to consider me!!!

Keynotes

• Jeffrey Hammond of Forrester gave a State of the Union for Open source.   Name dropped a lot including IBM Softlayer. 
• Dwight Merriman of MangoDB and Double Click -  "Things have changed a lot.  You can see it especially when you are old like me."   Likes the term Modern Application
  (Note to self: Get ready for post-modern programming just like art and fashion!).  

Admin Track 

• Elizabeth Joseph - HP - Open Source Systems Administration
  Great talk from a person in the middle of administration on OpenStack.   Great list of tools and advice from real life experience.    (Note to self: Augument Elizabeth's charts with details on what each product does: http://princessleia.com/presentations/ATO-opensource_sysadmin.pdf )
  
• Wes Morgan - IBM - The Gurobox Project: Open Source Troubleshooting Tools
  Great speaker.  Kept the crowd entertained even before the session started.   Likeable from the start.  Talked about Network Analysis, Directory search, web analysis, vms, mobile services, cloud services, load testers.
  MFR provides standard deviation for the network connectivity.   Wireshark is very popular in the room.   Apache Directory Studio is one of his favorite tools.   (Note to self: Look up Android-x86. )

Keynote:

• [Note here Bob Geolas], CEO, Research Triangle Park - Forget Live, Work and Play. The Future is Dream, Believe and Create
• Gail Roper, CIO @ City of Raleigh NC & Jason Hibbets, Director @ OpenSource.com - How Raleigh Became an Open Source City

Admin Tracks

• Jim Salter - Cloud in a bottle: Enterprise Virtualization Features and Reliability on a Microbusiness budget http://openoid.net/presentations
  Take the best of "Enterprise" : Predictability, Minimal Downtime, Rapid recovery.
  Test your backups, Automated Monitoring to assure it works (including snapshots\backups)
  Nagios, Linux Kernal Machine, KVM Management suite (very good for generic hardware), OpenZFS Filesystems (snapshots), NAgios and OpenVPN -- Watch the watcher
• Tony UcedaVelez - Application Security on a Dime: A Practical Guide to Using Functional Open Source Tools to Test, Validate, Harden, Code, Systems and Even People 

Trending and Hardware Track 

• Saving the World with Open Source and Science -Dr. Marcus Hanwell "Publishing Research without data is simply advertising, Not Science." (missed reference)  Very enjoyable talk on how science should be more transparent in their data and tools.   

Closing Keynote 

• Doug Cutting, Cloudera  - Impact of Technology on Society 

And now for something completely different:
(Gabrielle Cilmi, Sweet About Me)