Thanks OLF Organization⌗

Special thanks to President of the OLF Organization Beth Eicher, Vice President Warner Moore, Chairman Vance Kochenderfer and the rest of the volunteer organizers for making the event warm and welcoming, and keynote speakers Amber Graner, and John ‘Mad Dog’ Hall spoke to being inclusive of all humans in our technology communities

Jupiter Broadcasting Faces and Handles⌗

15 or probably more like 10 people from the JB audience met at North Market, a food Court containing “Ohio’s best independent merchants, farmers, and makers”. which had everything from Vegan to Ramen to Pizza to BBQ Joined by

• Nev
• the beav
• retromat
• losten
• ScorchedMuffin
• Jonathon_Bowman
  all from the Matrix chat
• and Carl George from RedHat/CentOS … Somehow I forgot to mention Carl George on the show. Anyways he’s from RedHat how could I forget. All the RedHatters were inspiring. It was fun talking to Joshua Preston during the conference as well!

Speakers⌗

• Listener Jonathon Bowman started off the fest with a great talk about automating tasks with Python
• Joshua Preston from Red Hat taught me a lot about Kubernetes I mean Ansibel Idk why I said Kubernetes
• Tim Quinlan from F5s NGINX talked about setting up reverse proxies
• We had a few Linux Authors in the house: Ben Cotton from Fedora and David Both who has written many books over his 25 years in Linux
• Amber Graner gave the first keynote about how EVERY user is someone’s technical guru and how to be more inclusive of all types of technical people into our communities
• John Maddog Hall gave a talk titled United We Stand that hit me in the feels
• Check the schedule to review the talks from the conference

Raffle⌗

Raffled off many goodies including 2 Pi 400s and 16 Pi Picos

Freedom and Beer! Thanks Sponsors!⌗

Free Coffee, Local Beers and Tacos sponsored by CIQ Open Logic and The Linux Foundation plus I got a picture with a life-size R2D2 from a neighboring “galaxy fest” going on at the same time

Mixed Excitement for Value-for-Value⌗

There was mixed excitement for value-for-value but most of the hesitation seemed to be conflating Bitcoin with the other Crypto-currencies.

Community⌗

There’s a grand sense of community between all of the large and small businesses and all individuals who attended the event.

• Check out my Coverage on Jupiter Broadcasting’s Linux Unplugged #487

Hallway Track⌗

Bumping elbows with everyone in the hallway track alone is well worth the all-night drive back to St Louis for anyone who’s on the fense next year.