Why should you host your OSS project at the Open Source Lab
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There are a lot of free hosting providers out there for open source projects, but not many offer the flexibility and support that the Open Source Lab has. Our hosting ranges from shared web hosting to fully managed servers to just smart hands support. We're here to help expand the open source community to the next level.
Description
The OSU Open Source Lab is a leader in OSS project hosting and has helped several large projects grow and expand over the years. Many projects could benefit from getting hosting from the OSL but they many not know or realize what we can do for them. This proposal will cover some of the best practices we follow and how we can help OSS projects. It will also cover how we can help your OSS project with hosting.
Some of the topics I will cover will be:
- Overall process for getting hosting
- Common challenges we face
- Cover the OSS ecosystem we help maintain
- Examples of how we help projects with their hosting
- Student involvement
- How you can help us
- Reasons your project may not be a good fit at the OSL
Tags
Open Source, hosting, open source lab, osl
Speaker
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Lance Albertson
OSU Open Source Lab- Website: http://www.lancealbertson.com/
- Blog: http://www.lancealbertson.com/
- Twitter: ramereth
- Identi.ca: ramereth
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Biography
Lance is the Lead Systems Administrator/Architect for the Oregon State University Open Source Lab (OSL) and a Gentoo Linux Developer. He joined the Gentoo Linux project in 2003 and have been involved in managing their infrastructure and maintaining about a dozen or so packages in portage. Lance manages all of the hosting activities that the OSL provides for the open source community including projects such as Kernel.org, Drupal, Apache Software Foundation, and many many more. Lance has been at the OSL since 2007.
Previously Lance was a UNIX Administrator for the Enterprise Server Technologies group at Kansas State University helping maintain campus email along with other various tasks. Previous to that, he worked with his dad near Hiawatha, Kansas on the family farm growing corn and soybeans.
In his free time he helps organize the Corvallis Beer and Blog and plays trumpet in a local jazz group The Infallible Collective.
Sessions
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- Title: Layers of Caching: Key to scaling your website
- Track: Chemistry
- Room: Hawthorne
- Time: 1:45 – 2:30pm
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Excerpt:
Caching is essential to ensuring that your website will survive a large spike in traffic. With so many different forms of caching, how are you supposed to know what works and why you should use it? The key is layering your site with several forms of caching.
- Speakers: Lance Albertson, Narayan Newton