Lance Albertson
Lance Albertson
OSU Open Source Lab- Website: http://www.lancealbertson.com/
- Blog: http://www.lancealbertson.com/
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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.
Open Source Bridge 2010
Sessions for this user
* Creating a low-cost clustered virtualization environment using Ganeti
Creating a redundant yet scalable virtualization environment is often difficult and expensive. Ganeti is an open source project which offers many solutions to simplify a clustered virtual machine environment while enabling you to use low cost hardware. This session will walk through Ganeti covering its basic design goals/features, installation architecture, and production implementation.
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Chemistry |
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Proposals for this user
* Interacting with a group of servers in real-time with MCollective
Today we have tools like cfengine, puppet, and chef to help automate server deployment, configuration, and maintenance. However, its been difficult to interact with those same servers in real-time. MCollective is a framework which allows you to interact with small to very large clusters of servers in real-time. This session will cover its features, common uses, and extending its functionality.
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Cooking | 03/24/2010 04:26PM |
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Open Source Bridge 2009
Sessions for this user
* Layers of Caching: Key to scaling your website
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.
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Chemistry |
| Lance Albertson, Narayan Newton | |
Proposals for this user
* Building a customized infrastructure with Gentoo
Gentoo is an excellent meta-distribution which offers you complete control over how you can build your infrastructure. However in this raw form managing such an infrastructure can be cumbersome if not time consuming. Customizations can run from building an entirely hardened system from the kernel up to the user space applications, to building a minimal system for your needs. Gentoo goes beyond compiler and use flags and takes your infrastructure to the next level.
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Cooking | 03/31/2009 10:33AM |
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* Why should you host your OSS project at the Open Source Lab
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.
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Cooking | 04/10/2009 02:35PM |
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