Schedule 2020

All times are in the U.S. Eastern time zone.

Thursday, Nov. 5 Friday, Nov. 6 Saturday, Nov. 7
11:30 OLFI classes – Red Hat
Containers (starts at 8:30 by invitation)
11:30 – Warner and Beth Lynn Welcome 11:30 – Warner and Beth Lynn Welcome
11:45
12:00 12:00 – Baremetal RISC-V Renode – Zak Kohler 12:00 – Solving Organizational MFA Challenges – Cornelius Kölbel
12:15
12:30
12:45 12:45 – One Sprint to Drastically Improve Web Accessibility – Robin Clower 12:45 – The Good, the Bad, and the Core Dumps: Open Sourcing Your Community –
Nixie Pixel
13:00
13:15
13:30 13:30 – Delta Ansible: Keeping up with Changes and Deprecations – Andrew Cziryak 13:30 – An open-source documentation workflow loved by both Data Scientists
and Engineers – Colin Dean
13:45
14:00
14:15 14:15 – SSH Tunnels and More – Der Hans: slide deck 14:15 – Improving Your MySQL Queries with Indexes and Histograms – David Stokes
14:30
14:45
15:00 15:00 – FSF Campaigns – Zoë Kooyman, Program Manager; Greg Farough, Campaigns
Manager: slide deck
15:00 – 404 Not Found: How the internet works (or doesn’t) – Patrick Shuff
15:15
15:30
15:45 15:45 – Offensive Security – Evan Miller
16:00 16:00 – UN Sustainable Goals – Dorothy Gordon
16:15
16:30 16:30 – Exploring trade-offs in S3 file systems – Andrew Gaul 16:30 – Custom Caching with NGINX Open Source – Jessica Dooley: slide deck
16:45
17:00
17:15 17:15 – We Don’t Compete on Security – Andrew J Krug and Nathan Case 17:15 – Performance: More than just speed – Jon “Maddog” Hall: slide deck
17:30
17:45 17:45 – Building Open Businesses – Bob Young
18:00 18:00 – Birds of a Feather 18:00 – Nixie Pixel and CS Geek on the Geek Beacon Community
18:15 18:15 – Closing Ceremonies
19:00 19:00 – Beth Lynn’s Movie Streaming Watch Party: Code Rush directed by David
Winton (1999) licensed under the Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 3.0 US license
19:00 – Game Night
20:00
21:00

GeekBeacon will be hosting Game Nights on Friday starting at 19:00, and on Saturday starting at 22:00. Check out their announcement for all the details! This will be hosted on the GeekBeacon Discord (all platforms welcome, no installation required).

There will be a virtual installfest Saturday night – join us on the GeekBeacon Discord! Some folks have reported problems using video/voice via the browser interface, so download and install the app for the best experience.

  1. Join the GeekBeacon Discord server
  2. Sign up/sign in
  3. Click on the spinning cube GeekBeacon logo to access channels
  4. Click on the OLF/Birds of a Feather category if it isn’t already expanded
  5. Click on the #redstar-install channel. When we’re ready, we’ll post instructions there about joining the voice/video channel.