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Red Hat Summit

nospam@example.com (Josh Bressers) — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 22:19:00 -0400

So I'm back from the Red Hat Summit now. It was a good show. It's always nice to get some face time with customer folks and co-workers.

My talk went quite well, all things considered. The room while small, was full, which is always nice. My voice was a bit rough. The party the night before I spoke was very loud, which meant in order to talk, you had to yell. This left me with a rather weak voice. Good thing I had a microphone.

The most unexpected outcome from my talk I think was listening to customers talk about how annoying all the false positives they get from various security scanners. This is due to us backporting fixes. I plan to investigate this more in the near future, stay tuned.

Dan Walsh showed off some spiffy stuff. I expect he'll have some blog posts soon about his sandbox project.

There was a party at the Museum of Science and Industry on Thursday night. That place is always a pleasure to visit.

Twittering the summit

nospam@example.com (Josh Bressers) — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 21:39:00 -0400

So while I like to waive around my geezer cane, I think it's time to use twitter for the upcoming Red Hat Summit. While I could just write a blog entry every hour, that is annoying to write, and annoying to read. Twitter offers me a special sort of stream-of-conscience-nonsense.

So feel free to play along at home
http://twitter.com/joshbressers

Off to the Red Hat Summit

nospam@example.com (Josh Bressers) — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 11:04:00 -0400

So I'm heading in the general direction of Chicago in a few hours, as the Red Hat Summit starts tomorrow. I'm giving a talk about Red Hat Security Advisories on Thursday at 11:20. As it's right before lunch, I expect most to be daydreaming about tasty treats.

I do always enjoy the summit, it's nice to get some face time with various co-workers, and speak with customers about our security updates. I'm always happy to hear from folks what we're doing well and what we could stand to improve.

If you're going to be at the summit, feel free to find me and pester me about anything security related. I look forward to it.