------------------------------- Wed May 17 05:58:23 PM EDT 2023 ------------------------------- Transcript of Chat box from BLU meeting, Wed, May 17, 2023 Meeting held online via Jitsi Meet In attendance (23 total): Speaker(s): * Brian Clemens (Project Manager, Rocky Linux) * Gregory Kurtzer (Co-Founder, ROcly Linux and RESF) * Neil Hanlon (Infrastructure Team Lead, RESF) * Krista Burdine (Community Manager, Rocky Linux) * Sherif Nagy (Release Engineer, Rocky Linux) * Chris "Stack" Stackpole (Testing Team Lead, Rocky Linux) * Taylor Goodwill (Infrastructure Team Lead, RESF) * Scott Shinn (Security Team, Rocky Linux) BLU officers: * John Abreau * Jerry Feldman * Bill Ricker Attendees (named): * Arnold Petersen * Brendan Kidwell * Chris Perrault * Daniel Feenberg * Edward Piecewicz * John "maddog" Hall * Paul Jameson * Ron Thibeau * Juozas Kazlauskas Attendees (anonymous): * Curt R * Randy -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sherif Nagy says:totally and works well with EWS "outlook" for server too 18:39 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Brendan Kidwell says:I tried Thunderbird with my corporate Outlook account a while and couldn't get it to work. I'll definitely give Evolution a try. I'm not a happy customer with the Outlook web and Windows clients Brendan Kidwell says:*a while ago. I never had Thunderbird working for me, for Outlook 18:41 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sherif Nagy says:outlook web is so bad that it makes me wanna cry ๐Ÿ˜ƒ 18:41 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Brendan Kidwell says:๐Ÿ‘ 18:41 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- John Abreau says:i used to use thunderbird, but i switched everything to gmail long ago 18:41 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sherif Nagy says:Evolution works out of the box if the org allows it , some of them will close down "non-outlook" application, but hope it is not the case 18:41 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Scott Shinn says:Say: raxicoricofallepatorious 18:41 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- John Abreau says:don't forget its sister planet: Klum. Home of the absorbalof 18:42 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Scott Shinn says:Oh. Absorbalof. I rather like that 18:43 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- John Abreau says:I just started rewatching Doctor Who a couple weeks ago, starting with Chris Eccleston's year. Last episode I watchjed was Boom Town, where the last surviving Slitheen was mayor of Cardiff. 18:45 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Scott Shinn says:Its been so well done 18:48 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Gregory Kurtzer says:Oh, I just watched some of the Silence episodes recently as well. Gregory Kurtzer says:cool, thank you! Gregory Kurtzer says:What is the youtube link? Gregory Kurtzer says:We can share it 18:49 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- John Abreau says:hang on, it'll take a minute to check 18:49 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jerry Feldman says: https://youtube.com/live/3-F6pv0JPDw?feature=share 18:50 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Krista Burdine says:Do y'all want me to share the link in the forum? 18:52 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Scott Shinn says:I shared the YT link to our #general channel on mattermost 18:52 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Gregory Kurtzer says:The stream doesn't seem to be on 19:00 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sherif Nagy says:not working for me either Sherif Nagy says:says upcoming "Waiting for Jerry Feldman" 19:02 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Scott Shinn says:no stream here 19:02 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sherif Nagy says:works now 19:03 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Scott Shinn says:good here 19:03 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Brendan Kidwell says:I confirm I can see the livestream on youtube, connected anonymous 19:04 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Neil Hanlon says:(will be back in a few minutes..) 19:09 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Gregory Kurtzer says:Interesting... STack's video is coming up on the youtube, but not in Jitsi 19:10 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Krista Burdine says:TATER!!! 19:12 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Scott Shinn says:haha 19:12 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- John Abreau says:we were discussing this for BLU back in the late 1990s. I particularly remember a 501(c)3 charitable org was forbidden to deal with politics, but a 501(c)6 trade org was not so limited. 19:30 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jerry Feldman says:That is how we incorporated Boston User Groups 19:32 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Gregory Kurtzer says:PBC? 19:32 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Randy says:Non profit vs not for profitโ€ฆ. 19:33 John Abreau says:I remember a protest in the early days of the web where protesters were supposed to turn their website into white text on a black background for 48 hours. I did this, then the BCS lawyers informed me that I had just violated the rules for 501(c)3 and put the BCS at risk. 19:34 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- John Abreau says:BCS == The Boston Computer Society. 1977-1996 19:35 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jerry Feldman says:Yes, I was on the BCS board at the time. 19:36 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Edward Piecewicz says:@jabr Probably this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_World_Wide_Web_protest (Feb 8-9, 1996) 19:37 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- John "maddog" Hall says:501(c)* is not as simple as "political" vs "non-political" "6" mostly has to do with membership organizations where members receive benefits from the organization (Think Boy Scouts) 19:51 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Gregory Kurtzer says:maddog ++ 19:52 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- John "maddog" Hall says:Do you have any plans to formulate Certifications for people who know how to install and support Rocky Linux? 19:53 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Gregory Kurtzer says:maddog: Yep, I believe Mr. Tyde may have spoken to you about that already. Krista will also be coordinating on that as well. 19:53 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Krista Burdine says:yes, that is in the queue. 19:54 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Neil Hanlon says:John Abreau: link with some explanation from Red Hat https://developers.redhat.com/blog/2021/01/05/building-red-hat-enterprise-linux-9-for-the-x86-64-v2-microarchitecture-level 19:54 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- John "maddog" Hall says:OK, I had not heard anything for a while, so if you need someone to kick LPI, let me know. 19:54 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Gregory Kurtzer says:Haha, awesome, thanks Maddog! 19:55 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- John "maddog" Hall says:Quite a few of you have HPC experience or interest, will this be a primary interest of Rocky? 19:56 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Gregory Kurtzer says:Rocky is a general purpose OS, but to your point, numerous of us are HPC'ers, and as a result, Rocky will surely fit that bill nicely. OpenHPC has already moved to Rocky too. 19:57 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Neil Hanlon says:we've got an HPC Special Interest Group, too! 19:58 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Neil Hanlon says: https://sig-hpc.rocky.page/ 19:58 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sherif Nagy says:meeting tomorrow 9:00 PM UTC and it is public meeting, everyone is welcome to join and provide feedback 19:58 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Gregory Kurtzer says:We've also spoke with several orgs that are really interested in further optimizing Rocky for HPC (think new kernel and user space microarch optimizations). 19:58 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sherif Nagy says:we are still working on the wiki and adding more info 19:58 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- John "maddog" Hall says:Red Hat really shot their foot off in HPC when they implemented per CPU pricing 20:02 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Edward Piecewicz says:Ed here/// Whether Red Hat would cut Fedora loose? 20:02 Thank you. 20:05 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Chris Perrault says:I popped in a little late but thanks for the discussion. I'm newer to Rocky as a distro but work with Redhat daily so it's not new to me really ๐Ÿ˜ƒ 20:05 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sherif Nagy says:Thank you so much for having us 20:07 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- meeting ended at 8:09 pm