Off to LWESF

I’m off to Linux World Expo tomorrow where I’ll be talking about high-capacity Linux file server management with Corey Shields.

I’m looking forward to LWE this year as it will be a great chance to catch up with a lot of the folks that we host as well as possibly recruit some more hosting candidates for the OSL.

I’m also hoping to meet with some folks to discuss some issues with community development and growth. Bdale Garbee gave a talk at OSCON last week about Debian and how that community has flourished. However, I see that as good as the community is, it has grown to the point where it almost cannot be managed effectively. From this we have seen off-shoots of other distros such as Gentoo. Of course Red Hat has been seeing the same thing as well. What does it take to successfully grow a community? When the community gets sufficiently large, how do you maintain focus and more importantly keep people and the project on task.

If you’re there and would like to meet up then just drop me a note via email or flag me down on the showroom floor.