NC*SA Meeting - TONIGHT! - An overview of IBM's Linux Technology Center

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The next meeting of the North Carolina System Administrators will be Monday,
June 14, 2004, at 7pm.  Details about the meeting and directions are
provided in this note.  We hope to see you there! 
 
       	Topic: An overview of IBM's Linux Technology Center
    		Speaker: Frank Novak, IBM
       	7:00 p.m., Monday, June 14, 2004
 
            Dreyfus Auditorium
 		Research Triangle Institute
            Research Triangle Park, NC
 
 
Abstract: 
As Linux [ and Open Source] becomes better and better, it is being embraced
in a wider variety of places, both in the breadth of deployment within an
enterprise, as well as its continued growth globally, typically replacing
proprietary technologies, similar to the spread of the internet and other
Open Standards based efforts.  Linux is becoming the reference platform of
the internet; driven by a global, talented pool of skills around Open
Source.   

IBM has been an active supporter and member of the Linux effort for over
five years. At the heart of the Linux efforts at IBM is the IBM Linux
Technology Center (LTC).  The LTC is world-wide development team inside of
IBM working as peers within the Linux community. Our goal is to actively
accelerate the growth of Linux as an enterprise operating system while
simultaneously helping IBM brands exploit Linux for market growth. We aim
not to control the direction of Linux, but to work as peers within the
shared vision of the Linux community leadership and participate in setting
Linux design and development direction.  The LTC currently has programmers
involved in many Linux projects including scalability, serviceability, OS
security, network security, networking, file systems, volume management,
performance, directory services, standards, documentation, accessibility,
test, security certification, systems management, cluster management, high
availability, storage & I/O, PowerPC support, power management, reliability,
internationalization, and other projects required to make Linux a fully
mature UNIX ready for mission critical workloads.  After a brief overview of
Linux at IBM, and the LTC efforts in general,  the presentation will cover a
number of topical areas, including some of the enterprise enhancements
appearing in 2.6 based distributions.  

Bio:  Frank Novak started his career at IBM at the IBM TJ Watson Research
Center in Yorktown, NY.  Frank was part of the team that prototyped the
original IBM ThinkPad ( the 700T - a tablet computer) and worked with the
product team to bring the prototype to market.  He was co-inventor on
several patents related to hardware and software design for power management
on this system.  He was a core member of the team that developed a variety
of infrared communication subsystems.  Frank worked on a variety of the
basic protocols for Ir communication, including the IrDA specifications,
where he was primary or secondary author on the base protocols, as well as
major contributor to the implementation of the drivers for a variety of
operating systems.  Frank has been involved with Linux since the mid 1990s,
where he used Linux as a tool, development platform, and place to tinker.
Frank joined the IBM Personal Systems Group (aka IBM PC company) in the
cross brand architecture and technology group.  Frank was part of the
initial core team that helped drive Linux acceptance within IBM.  During the
mainstreaming of Linux at IBM, Frank has held numerous roles in development
, worked with external partners, as well as a stint in marketing.   Frank is
currently an architect in the IBM Linux Technology Center, where he
continues to work extensively with the legal, development, and business
teams on Open Source and Linux issues.   

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Our meetings are free and open to anyone with an interest in the topic
of the evening and/or system administration.  We will be providing
food and drink for the evening. If you have any questions please
contact the Steering Committee at:

  ncsa-steer at ncsysadmin.org

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Directions to Research Triangle Institute:

Directions to Research Triangle Institute
See also a map to the meeting place.

>From I-40 west of RTP (e.g. Chapel Hill):

Get onto I-40 heading east. Follow I-40 to the NC-147 - 
Durham Freeway -
North (towards Durham). Stay in right lane. Shift right as soon as
possible after merging with traffic coming off I-40 westbound.

Exit to the right at the next exit (Cornwallis Road). At top 
of exit, turn
to the left. (If you turn right and cross over the bridge, 
you are going
the wrong direction.) After turning left onto Cornwallis, shift
immediately to the right lane. Take the second right onto 
East Institute
Drive. Take the second right off of East Institute Drive. Dreyfus
Laboratory will be the first building on your right. Use the 
parking lot
in front of the Lab and enter at the main entrance.

>From I-40 east of RTP (e.g. Raleigh):

Get onto I-40 heading west. Follow I-40 to the NC-147 - 
Durham Freeway -
North (towards Durham). Shift to rightmost lane as soon as 
possible Exit
to the right at the next exit (Cornwallis Road). At top of 
exit, turn to
the left. (If you turn right and cross over the bridge, you 
are going the
wrong direction.) After turning left onto Cornwallis, shift 
immediately to
the right lane. Take the second right onto East Institute 
Drive. Take the
second right off of East Institute Drive. Dreyfus Laboratory 
will be the
first building on your right. Use the parking lot in front of 
the Lab and
enter at the main entrance.

>From north of RTP (e.g. Durham):

Get onto NC-147 - Durham Freeway - south. Exit at the Cornwallis Road
exit. At the top of the exit, turn left to cross over the 
bridge. After
turning left onto Cornwallis, shift immediately to the right 
lane. Take
the second right onto East Institute Drive. Take the second 
right off of
East Institute Drive. Dreyfus Laboratory will be the first building on
your right. Use the parking lot in front of the Lab and enter 
at the main
entrance.

A map of RTI is available at http://www.rti.org/images/campus.gif

Enter through the glass doors at the front; all of the doors 
except one
will be locked, but one will be open for our access.  Walk through the
lobby, go straight out the glass doors, across the patio, and straight
into Dreyfus Auditorium.














































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