Gentoo UK 2006
Gentoo UK 2006
More speakers and attending developers will be added as we confirm attendance.
Hanni is the CEO / Technical Director of Ainkaboot, a company specialising in high performance computing, making heavy use of Gentoo Linux.
Hanni is also the founder of the Kaboot Linux Distribution, a Live CD/USB operating system based around Gentoo Linux.
Andrew is a long time Linux/Unix user and advocate, and is currently based in Sydney. Andrew is the managing director for Operational Dynamics, a consultancy helping clients worldwide with crisis management. Andrew has extensive experience as a Unix/Linux sysadmin and Java developer and is the maintainer of the java-gnome project, the Java bindings around GNOME and GTK.
Andrew will be discussing the pratices for good large scale deployments and how, contrary to common belief, Gentoo is perfect for the enterprise environment.
People tend to focus on the extreme customizability of Gentoo and in so doing think only about the desktop. We'll talk a bit about the big problems, and how, once you understand what's really at stake, Gentoo can be an excellent choice.
And, just because it always gets a cheer, Andrew will conclude with some of the highlights of his "What Debian can learn from the successes of Gentoo Linux" talk, but with a twist: "what Gentoo needs to do to not get caught by the traps that caught Debian as they scaled up."
Daniel is a member of Gentoo's User Relations project, which aims to build better bridges between the user community and the developer community. In this talk, Daniel will describe some of the problems with the contribution flow amongst and between these two communities, and will make comparisons to the workings of other large software communities. The session will also include a discussion on how the current situation can be improved.
Outside of User Relations, Daniel also maintains Gentoo's main kernel package (gentoo-sources) and spends time hacking on Linux and GNOME.
Tim is the operational lead of Gentoo's Release Engineering team, and is also actively involved in the kernel herd, developer relations, and Gentoo Security.
Tim will be giving a talk about Gentoo's Release Engineering project, which will provide insight into the process of generating Gentoo's release media and other activities.
Jonathan is a Global Moderator for the resourceful Gentoo Forums. He also spends time helping with the forum code.
Danny is the operational lead of Gentoo's AMD64 architecture project. As well as testing/keywording various applications, Danny coordinates with Gentoo's Release Engineering team to ensure that each release runs smoothly on AMD64. Danny is travelling from Germany for the event.
Wernfried is a Gentoo Forums moderator. Wernfried is travelling from Austria to the event.
Stuart is the lead of Gentoo's Web Applications project. Stuart is the original author of Gentoo's promising webapp-config tool, and spends time maintaining Gentoo's PHP and Apache packages.
Marc lends a hand maintaining various multimedia packages, mostly video applications and libraries. Marc resides in Germany, but is spending a few days in London over the event weekend.
Herbie is a developer within the Gentoo/AMD64 architecture team. He helps maintain the 32-bit compatibility libraries and assists in testing and keywording packages for amd64-based systems.
Tom is the main administrator of the prestigious Gentoo Forums. Tom also spends time maintaining some of Gentoo's PHP packages.
Roy is the lead wizard behind Gentoo's high-quality networking scripts (/etc/init.d/net.eth0 and friends): wired, wireless, VPN, PPP, and everything else. Roy also contributes to other areas of the baselayout package.
David is an architecture tester (AT) for the x86 architecture, responsible for measuring the stability of various packages in Portage on x86, and assisting in getting them keyworded appropriately. David is also currently sponsored by Google's Summer of Code programme to develop a QA tool for Gentoo's ebuild tree, based on a previous project named qualudis.
John leads Gentoo's kernel project. John also acts as the middle-man between the kernel and hardened projects, being the maintainer of Gentoo's kernel package for servers, hardened-sources.
It's difficult to sum up Bryan's areas of contribution in just a couple of sentences. Bryan is a lead of Gentoo's Developer Relations project, but is also involved with the Alpha, IA64, and x86 architecture projects. Additionally, he maintains some Python-related packages and helps with Gentoo's bugday efforts. Bryan is travelling from Denmark for this event.
Thomas assists with the maintenance of various python modules, and is also involved in the printing and DVB areas.
Tobias is a member of Gentoo's HPPA architecture project, where he takes care of constructing releases of new install media for HPPA. Tobias is also a member of Gentoo's PPC architecture team. Tobias is travelling from Germany for this event.
Tony maintains various packages all over Gentoo's package tree, mostly in the instant messaging, audio and base system areas. Tony is also an upstream developer for Audacious, a neat little media player.