July 16-20, 2012
Portland, Oregon

Event

5:30pm Monday, 07/16/2012

Ignite OSCON

Location: Portland Ballroom

Average rating:

(4.43, 30 ratings)

If you had five minutes on stage what would you say? What if you only got 20 slides and they rotated automatically after 15 seconds? Would you pitch a project? Launch a web site? Teach a hack? We’re going to find out when we conduct our third Ignite event at OSCON. Read more.

9:00am Tuesday, 07/17/2012

GlusterFS Tutorial - Part 1: Gluster Overview

Location: E148

Anand Babu (Gluster), John Mark Walker (Gluster)

Average rating:

(3.67, 3 ratings)

GlusterFS is a community produced, open source, distributed file system capable of scaling to several petabytes(actually, 72 brontobytes!) and handling thousands of clients. The morning tutorial will provide attendees with a broad and deep overview of GlusterFS, from history and roadmap to the latest release, v 3.3. Read more.

9:00am Tuesday, 07/17/2012

Build your Own Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), Just like Red Hat's (Sponsored Tutorial)

Location: E142

Mark Atwood (HP Cloud Services), Krishna Raman (Red Hat)

Average rating:

(4.17, 6 ratings)

Here's your chance to learn how to build your own Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS). Come check out this session with Krishna and Mark from the OpenShift team and learn how to install, configure and deploy OpenShift Origin - the open source project that powers the OpenShift service - on your laptop. Read more.

9:00am Tuesday, 07/17/2012

From Datacenter to the Cloud - Featuring Xen and XCP (Sponsored Tutorial)

Location: E141

George Dunlap (Citrix Systems, UK), Steven Maresca (Zentific LLC), Josh West (One.com), Patrick F. Wilbur (PFW Research LLC)

Average rating:

(3.00, 5 ratings)

Do you dream of spinning up ten, twenty, or a thousand virtual machines in an instant? Discover and repair bottlenecks without moving a finger? Dodge the loss of an entire storage array with no-one noticing? This is no sales pitch; during this tutorial, we'll demonstrate how to leverage truly FOSS tools to build a powerful, scalable cloud that easily competes with those proprietary solutions! Read more.

1:30pm Tuesday, 07/17/2012

Gluster FS Tutorial - Part 2: Gluster and Big Data; Gluster for Devs and Sys Admins

Location: E148

Dustin Black (Red Hat), Anand Avati (Red Hat)

Average rating:

(3.33, 3 ratings)

GlusterFS is a community produced, open source, distributed file system capable of scaling to several petabytes(actually, 72 brontobytes!) and handling thousands of clients. The afternoon session of the GlusterFS tutorial will focus on Gluster implementation as a big data solution, development platform and tool for systems administrators. Read more.

1:30pm Tuesday, 07/17/2012

Service Orchestration with Ubuntu in the Cloud (Sponsored Tutorial)

Location: E142

Jorge Castro (Canonical Ltd. / Ubuntu)

Average rating:

(4.50, 4 ratings)

Deploying things at scale can get hard and complicated, wouldn't it be nice if deploying services was as easy as using apt-get? With Ubuntu and juju you can deploy over 80 services to AWS, HP Cloud, OpenStack, or bare metal with really simple commands. This talk will show you what juju is, how it works, and how it can save you time by showing you how to write juju charms. Read more.

1:30pm Tuesday, 07/17/2012

Hacking on Apache CloudStack (Sponsored Tutorial)

Location: E141

Chiradeep Vittal (Citrix Systems)

Average rating:

(3.50, 2 ratings)

Apache CloudStack is an infrastructure-as-a-service platform used to deploy Amazon-style cloud computing environments, in this session developers will learn abou the architecture, plugin framework, and how to get involved in the Apache CloudStack project. Read more.

5:00pm Tuesday, 07/17/2012

Expo Hall Opening Reception (sponsored by Bluehost)

Location: Expo Hall

Average rating:

(4.10, 20 ratings)

Grab a drink and kick off the 14th edition of OSCON by meeting and mingling with exhibitors and fellow attendees. Read more.

6:00pm Tuesday, 07/17/2012

Camp OSCON Attendee Party (sponsored by Microsoft and O'Reilly Media)

Location: Exhibit Hall A

Average rating:

(4.12, 32 ratings)

We're swapping last year's clown shoes for Camp OSCON t-shirts at this year's attendee party. You don't have to worry about sewing in nametags and forget those long bus rides -- just stroll over Exhibit Hall A (next to the Expo Hall). This is the camp you wish your parents had sent you to. You won't want to miss this; trust us. Read more.

6:45pm Tuesday, 07/17/2012

OSCON Couch to Quantified 5K Run/Walk

Location: OCC Lloyd parking lot

Average rating:

(4.79, 14 ratings)

Don't forget to pack your running shoes and your self-tracking tech, because we're hosting the first ever Couch to Quantified 5K fun run at OSCON. Whether you are an avid runner or just starting out, you are invited to join other OSCON attendees Tuesday evening for a run/jog/walk through some of the most scenic and emblematic sites of Portland. Read more.

8:00pm Tuesday, 07/17/2012

Puppet Labs Party

Location: 411 NW Park Ave.

Average rating:

(4.29, 14 ratings)

Join Puppet Labs at their headquarters in the Pearl District. The part is free, as in free beer, food and fun. Two open bars and more! Take the Green or Yellow line (free transit) west to Union Station and walk 2 blocks west to 411 NW Park Ave. Read more.

5:40pm Wednesday, 07/18/2012

Booth Crawl

Location: Expo Hall

Average rating:

(4.31, 13 ratings)

Quench your thirst with vendor-hosted libations and snacks while you check out all the cool stuff in the expo hall. Read more.

7:00pm Wednesday, 07/18/2012

Braintree Party

Location: MacTarnahan Bar Taproom (2730 NW 31st)

We love being at OSCON. And we want to celebrate. So drinks are in order. Because celebration is conducive to meeting interesting people and sharing ideas. Stop by the Tap Room in MacTarnahan Bar. We'll be there from 7-9 and we'll grab you a beer. It's free. It's interesting. It's delicious. Read more.

9:00pm Wednesday, 07/18/2012

OpenStack Party

Location: Spirit of 77 (500 NE MLK Blvd.)

Average rating:

(3.80, 10 ratings)

Please join us to celebrate the OpenStack community's success on its 2nd anniversary during OSCON 2012! We will have food, drinks, bar games and of course, OpenStack limited-edition t-shirts! Read more.

6:00pm Thursday, 07/19/2012

AWS Developer Resources Beer Social (SOLD OUT)

Location: Green Dragon brewpub (928 SE 9th Ave)

Average rating:

(4.00, 2 ratings)

Come meet the Amazon Web Services Developer Resources team at the Green Dragon brewpub (928 SE 9th Ave) on Thursday evening. Drinks and snacks are on us! RSVP required. Read more.

9:00pm Thursday, 07/19/2012

Citrix Open Cloud Poker Party (sponsored by Citrix)

Location: Exhibit Hall E

Average rating:

(4.78, 9 ratings)

Citrix is sponsoring a night of poker, pizza and beer. For one night only, OSCON's Hall E will be transformed into Portland's only poker room complete with professional dealers. Read more.

10:00am Friday, 07/20/2012

Lockpicking Play Room

Location: E141

Average rating:

(4.80, 5 ratings)

Lockpicking is fun for everyone and demystifies simple mechanical puzzles that we all rely on. Join representatives from the local Portland TOOOL (Open Organization Of Lockpickers) group and sharpen your lockpicking skills. Read more.

1:15pm Friday, 07/20/2012

Closing Get-together

Location: Portland Ballroom Foyer

Average rating:

(4.60, 5 ratings)

Take the opportunity to network one last time and exchange contact information with one another. Drinks and snacks provided. Read more.

2:00pm Friday, 07/20/2012

Portland Walking Tours

Location: Meet in MLK Lobby of OCC

Average rating:

(5.00, 2 ratings)

Cap off your trip to Portland with one of Portland's award-winning guided walking tours. Tours will leave from the convention center right after the closing keynotes. Please register in advance. Tickets range from $20-$45 per person depending on the tour. Read more.

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