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title: "CentOS @ Flock 2023"

title_lead: "August 1, 2023 - August 4, 2023 • Cork, Ireland"

talks:

  - title: "CentOS Alternative Images SIG status report"

    youtube: MDWAiDiI5qA

    speakers:

      - name: Troy Dawson

    desc: |

      The CentOS Alternative Images SIG's goal is to provide Alternative CentOS Stream images.

      I will report how we are doing, and what we have planned next.

  - title: "CentOS Stream and RHEL development in public"

    youtube: BrOYsOvfqig

    speakers:

      - name: Adam Samalik

    desc: |

      
CentOS Stream is where RHEL development happens in public.

      It's also where many SIGs build on top of an enterprise linux platform

      while having the ability to influence its development.

      You can preview content coming to RHEL, test your creations on top of it,

      and also participate!

      
We'll cover how CentOS Stream works and where you can find it.

      We'll compare it to Fedora ELN and how it relates to RHEL,

      and even mention CentOS Stream 10.

  - title: "Rocky Linux: Journey to secureboot"

    youtube: lP4hSI8Fg3A

    speakers:

      - name: Sherif Nagy

    desc: |

      
Secureboot is one of your earliest lines of defence against malware,

      unauthorized code execution during the boot process of the Operating System

      (at least in theory).

      It is advised to always have it enabled and most of modern PC's and servers

      come with secureboot enabled by default.

      
This presentation will be an overview of secureboot and the processes both

      technical and non-technical that Linux distribution has to go through to be

      secureboot enabled / ready.

      I will be talking about my understanding and experience with secureboot,

      how and why Rocky Linux and other Linux distribution are able to boot in

      secureboot environment, how to provide a chain of trust, what are the

      processes involved in getting distribution's shim signed by Microsoft,

      the technical and non-technical that Linux distributions faces during this

      process and the benefits to the end user of having Linux distribution

      supporting and running in secureboot environment.

      
We hope that this presentation will help the GNU/Linux community to

      understand how secureboot works and how Linux distributions are able

      to achieve secureboot.

  - title: "Hyperscale SIG update"      

    youtube: f86L_rcZW4U

    slides: "https://gitlab.com/CentOS/promo/centos-events/-/raw/main/2023-08-flock/hyperscale-sig.pdf"

    speakers:

      - name: Neal Gompa

      - name: Davide Cavalca

    desc: | 

      Update on what the Hyperscale SIG has been working on, what deliverables

      are available and how to use them, and what's coming up next.

  - title: "CentOS Automotive SIG"

    youtube: P2oX-oHUbRA

    speakers:

      - name: Eric Curtin

    desc: |

      A review of what's going on in our CentOS Automotive SIG.

  - title: "KDE in EPEL"

    youtube: IlFtpKTk7Uw

    speakers:

      - name: Troy Dawson

    desc: |

      The KDE Plasma Desktop is in EPEL 8 and 9.

      I will be talking about the current state of KDE in EPEL,

      as well as the future plans for EPEL 8, 9 and 10.

  - title: "Building KubeVirt CI with CentOS Stream"

    youtube: mK48ndRxS9g

    speakers:

      - name: Brian Carey

    desc: |

      
An introductory talk on how KubeVirt uses CentOS Stream as a solid

      base for all of its End-to-End testing. This includes:

      
A quick overview of what KubeVirt is and how the End-to-End tests are currently run

      
How the virtual CentOS Stream based Kubernetes cluster is built and verified

      
Some of the benefits and issues with this approach

      
Bonus: where to find images for CentOS Stream VMs on KubeVirt and how to run them with KubeVirt

  - title: "State of EPEL"

    youtube: woEPqd-ghiY

    speakers:

      - name: Carl George

      - name: Troy Dawson

    desc: |

      The yearly State of EPEL talk.

      Troy Dawson (the EPEL Steering Committee chair) and Carl George (the CPE EPEL team lead),

      will present what EPEL and its community have done in the past year,

      and what we are planning for the future.

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Flock is the Fedora Project's annual contributor-focused conference.

The conference provides a venue for face-to-face meetings and conversations.

CentOS managed a track at Flock 2023.

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