Presented by

  • Lance Albertson

    Lance Albertson

    Lance Albertson is the Director for the Oregon State University Open Source Lab (OSUOSL) and has been involved with many open source projects since 2003. The OSUOSL provides hosting for more than 160 projects, including those of worldwide leaders like Debian Linux, the Linux Foundation and AlmaLinux. The most active organization of its kind, the OSUOSL offers world-class hosting services, professional software development and on-the-ground training for promising students interested in open source management and programming. Since joining the OSUOSL in 2007, Lance has managed all of the hosting activities that the OSL provides for nearly 160 high-profile open source projects. He was promoted to Director in early 2013 after being the Lead Systems Administration and Architect since 2007.

  • Pono Takamori

    Pono Takamori

    Daniel Pono Takamori is the Community Organizer at Software Freedom Conservancy. He's been involved in FOSS for almost 20 years and worked for non-profit FOSS organizations for over a decade. While not at his computer he likes to play go, cook vegetables and ride his bike.

Abstract

The OSU Open Source Lab is a free vendor-neutral colocation hosting facility that provides a variety of hosting services for FOSS projects from around the world since 2003. This session will cover the current status of what the lab has been up to and other new services we’re planning on releasing soon. Some of the interesting technologies we’ve been working with include OpenStack, OpenPOWER, ARM64, RISC-V, Ceph storage and Chef to name a few. If you’ve ever wondered about all the services we provide and what we do, this is the session for you. We’ve been improving our services quite a bit and also have been expanding on a few other fronts as well. In addition, we’ll cover how we hire and mentor students who work at the lab and where they end up after graduating. In addition, we’ll cover some other ways we try and mentor other students beyond those who work at the lab.