Gluster Conference at NMAMIT, Nitte on April 11th 2015.

[Humble Chirammal]

Hi All,

We are conducting a Gluster Conference at NMAMIT, Nitte ( Mangalore) on April 11th 2015.

We are expecting Engineering/MCA students and faculties from nearby colleges to attend the conference.

The conference will mainly focus on Open Source Software Defined Storage with GlusterFS as an example. The conference will have a
deep dive into GlusterFS followed by a workshop on GlusterFS Development. The conference will be a great opportunity for the students
and the faculties to interact with Gluster community, and exchanges ideas/thoughts.

Please find the tentative schedule,

Event Schedule:
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Inauguration: 9.30 AM - 10.00 AM
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Keynote Session : Introduction to Opensource
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Speaker         : Niels De Vos
Time            : 10 AM - 10.45 AM
Duration        : 45 mins
This session will give a introduction to Open Source. It will focus on what's, why's and how's
Open Source, the advantages of Open Source and how important open Source has become in
the current software era. The talk will give information on the different tools used to
develop/collaborate/review/maintain/test open source software.

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Tea/Coffee/Snacks Break 15 mins
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Technical Talk  : Software Defined Storage : GlusterFS as an example
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Speaker         : Dan Lambright
Time            : 11 AM - 11.45 AM
Duration        : 45 mins
This talk would cover system storage as whole and different types of storage &
storage protocols. It would emphasis on Software Defined Storage and how disruptive it has
become, with its advantages and how open source software defined storage is the most disruptive,
and hence the most desired. It would showcase of GluterFS as an example for Open Source
Software Defined Storge


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Lightening Talk : Quality of Service in Storage Systems
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Speakers        : Karthik U.S and Sukumar Poojary [1]
Time            : 11.45 AM - 12.15 PM
Duration        : 30 mins

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Lightening Talk : Deduplicaiton in Storage Systems
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Speakers        : Ewen Pinto and Srinivas Billava [1]
Time            : 12.15 PM - 12.45 PM
Duration        : 30 mins


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Lunch Break : 12.45 PM - 1.45 PM
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Technical Talk  : Introduction to GlusterFS(Internals)
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Speaker         : Kaleb Keithley
Time            : 2.00 PM - 3.00 PM
Duration        : 1hr
GlusterFS is an open source, distributed file system capable of scaling to several petabytes
and handling thousands of clients. GlusterFS clusters together storage
building blocks over Infiniband RDMA or TCP/IP interconnect, aggregating disk and memory resources
and managing data in a single global namespace. GlusterFS is based on a stackable user space design
and can deliver exceptional performance for diverse workloads.
This talk will provide an overview of GlusterFS and its features. We will also talk about internal
of GlusterFS.
This will be a prequel session to GlusterFS Development Workshop that follows.

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Tea/Coffee/Snacks Break 15 mins
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Technical Talk  : GlusterFS Development Workshop
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Speaker         : Joseph Elwin Fernandes & Niels De Vos
Time            : 3.15 PM -5.45 PM
Duration        : 2.30 hr
1) GlusterFS Development workflow.
2) Trying out GlusterFS, by adding a new xlator(GlusterFS Module)!
3) Setting up GlusterFS and testing the newly added xlator.
4) Submitting a patch and review process.


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Lightening Talk Speaker:

1) Karthik U.S, Student of MCA (4th Sem), NMAMIT, Nitte, India.

2) Sukumar Poojary, Student of MCA (4th Sem), NMAMIT, Nitte, India.

3) Ewen Pinto, Student of MCA (6th Sem), NMAMIT, Nitte, India.

4) Srinivas Billava, Student of MCA (6th Sem), NMAMIT, Nitte, India.


Please let us know if anyone would like to contribute to the event w.r.t sharing talks/workshop.

-- 
Cheers,
Humble

Senior Software  Engineer
RH India