Hi there!
Welcome to the (slightly delayed) September AlmaLinux newsletter, where we
share the latest AlmaLinux happenings, upcoming events, and more.
Quick notes:
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We now have a Certification SIG that has already launched a hardware
certification program.
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Looking for AlmaLinux Bootc images? We’ve got them!
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Meet Jack and Jun - two of our board members!
Looking for ways to help? Here are a couple of good ones!
The swag shop <https://shop.almalinux.org/> needs a new tender!
Are you someone with organizational chops, and an eye for detail? The
Marketing SIG is looking for someone to help audit what’s there and the
costs for each item, update what we’re offering, and help us come up with
some new designs for our Shop <https://shop.almalinux.org/>! Email benny at
almalinux.org, if you’d like to help out.
Help on the forums!
The traffic to the AlmaLinux forums has nearly doubled in the last 6
months, and that means there are more questions than ever to answer! If you
have a few minutes, use the link lnx.rocks/forumhelp to see all the
currently unanswered threads on the forums and see if you can help your
fellow sysadmins, developers, and DevOps engineers with opinions, answers,
and feedback.
Latest from the AlmaLinux BlogAnnouncing the AlmaLinux Certification SIG
After months of work, we are happy to announce the AlmaLinux Certification
Special Interest Group (SIG)
<https://wiki.almalinux.org/sigs/Certification.html>, along with our Hardware
Certification Program
<http://almalinux.org/certification/hardware-certification/hardware-certific…>!
This SIG has tangible goals and immediate benefits for all users of
AlmaLinux, and tons of ways to get involved. Learn more about the
Certification SIG in this blog post
<https://almalinux.org/blog/2024-09-10-announcing-new-certification-sig/>!
Bringing bootc to AlmaLinux
bootc is a new deployment method that powers Image mode for RHEL
<https://www.redhat.com/en/about/press-releases/red-hat-reimagines-enterpris…>
and HeliumOS <https://www.heliumos.org/>, a new Linux distribution. We are
excited to announce that AlmaLinux now offers bootc images
<https://quay.io/repository/almalinuxorg/almalinux-bootc?tab=tags> for
Intel/AMD(x86_64) and ARM64(AArch4). Read more about this in our blog post
<https://almalinux.org/blog/2024-09-02-bootc-almalinux-heliumos/>.
Meet the board - Jack and Jun
Last year, we launched a Q&A video series
<https://almalinux.org/blog/2024-01-16-video-contributions/> in which we
have community members ask and answer common questions we’re seeing. This
year, we’re starting another video series, this time with the AlmaLinux OS
Foundation board members. Our goal with this new series is to better
introduce our board to the AlmaLinux community. We’ve got blog posts for
our first two, Jack Aboutbol
<https://almalinux.org/blog/2024-09-12-meet-the-board-jack/> and Jun Yoshida
<https://almalinux.org/blog/2024-09-23-meet-the-board-jun/>, on our blog
now!
ELevate Project Updates
There are some new ELevate project updates! Check out this blog post
<https://almalinux.org/blog/2024-09-24-elevate-updates/> or the changelog
<https://wiki.almalinux.org/elevate/Changelog.html> to get the scoop.
Upcoming Events
September was another month that was fairly light with events, though we
just wrapped up with NERDEARLA <https://nerdear.la/>. Here’s what’s coming
up for the rest of the year:
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All things open <http://allthingsopen.org/>, October 27-29 in Raleigh,
North Carolina, US
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Seagl <https://seagl.org/>, November 8-9 in Seattle, Washington, US
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OLF Conference <http://olfconference.org/>, November 15-16, Columbus, OH
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SC (formerly Supercompute) <http://supercomputing.org/>, November 17-22
in Atlanta, Georgia, US
If you see an event missing that you think we should attend, or if you know
of any amazing open source events in Asia, South America, or Africa, let us
know! Our community is growing quickly in those areas, and we’d love a
chance to connect with them!
We’re also looking for volunteers from the AlmaLinux community to help
staff our booths. If you like chatting with folks about Linux and open
source and are local to any of these events (or any others that you think
we should be at) fill out this Google form
<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1cQ0YQiAcRZXPnDqiHak-AXmsjEBz-IQE8s8jbPLykd…>!
We’ll cover your travel and hotel.
Stay up to date and join us!
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Thanks for everything,
benny Vasquez
Chair, Board of Directors @AlmaLinux OS Foundation
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