An informal conversational session with systems administrators experienced in running open source in the data center. What works? What doesn't? Bring your questions, comments, and concerns for
discussion with OSU Open Source Lab's top team.
Your sessions' hosts' experience is drawn from support global projects like Firefox, Apache, Drupal, Gentoo, Ubuntu, OpenOffice and dozens of others as well as OSL's own infracstructure, and their prior experience in government, academic, and open source community.
Greg Lund-Chaix is a developer and project manager at the Oregon State University Open Source Lab (OSU OSL). Greg's current project is the Oregon Virtual School District. The OVSD is a joint project with the Oregon Department of Education to provide digital teaching and learning resources to Oregon public school teachers. Greg is also a mentor and organization administrator for the Google Summer of Code, where he managed the OSL's participation in the mentoring of students learning to participate in the open source community. Prior to joining OSU, Greg spent the previous 12 years as a developer and systems administrator on various distance learning and telecommunications systems for the Oregon Department of Administrative Services.
Lance Albertson is Infrastructure Architect at OSL bringing extensive experience in large scale academic computing environment and Open Source Community involvement. Lance also serves as senior systems administrator for OSL. He comes to the lab from Kansas State University in Manhattan, Kansas where he was responsible for over 30,000 faculty/staff and student email and system accounts as well as serving as the advisor for the Linux Users Group. Lance's involvement in the Open Source Community started in 2003 with the Gentoo Linux distribution. As a leader within the Gentoo Community, Lance has served on the Foundation, has held the position of Operational Manager for the Infrastructure team, and is a developer and maintainer for several core infrastructure packages.
Jeff Sheltren is Infrastructure Manager at OSL. Jeff comes to the Lab from the University of California at Santa Barbara, where he was a Senior Systems Administrator and Programmer for the Computer Science department. In 2003, Jeff began working with the Fedora Legacy Project, and later went on to setup and maintain the build system used to build all Fedora Legacy packages. Jeff was elected to serve as a member of Fedora's Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux (EPEL) Steering Committee in 2007. As a leader of the relatively new EPEL community, Jeff is working to establish EPEL as a valuable resource to Enterprise Linux users in addition to encouraging community participation in the project. He also currently maintains a number of packages for the Fedora Project, as well as being a Mentor for Google's Summer of Code.