Jeff Sheltren

I've built updated cfengine 2.2.6 packages for el4 and el5. You can find them in the usual spot:
http://sheltren.com/downloads/cfengine/testing/

The same package has been built for Fedora development/rawhide and should be available there soon.

Some bug fixes as well as support for detecting xen hosts/guests is now included. Let me know if you have any problems!

Ubuntu 8.04 was just released. We're having fun watching the bandwidth graphs. See the graph below and try to figure out when they made the release announcement...

I should note that is just the traffic coming out of our FTP server here in Corvallis. We also have two remote FTP mirrors in Chicago and Atlanta which are each pushing ~350Mbit/sec.

Update: Here's an image showing each of our three FTP mirrors and how much traffic they are each pushing.

Yesterday I was up in Portland at the InnoTech conference to give a "lightning talk" on the OSU Open Source Lab. It was a lot of fun to meet a lot of people I've been in contact with on the phone or via email and put a face to a name. There's a great group of people in the Portland area involved with Open Source, and I really need to get up there more often to see some of them!

The lightning talk was interesting but pretty fun and I think it really helped keep things from getting boring. I think the basic idea was borrowed from Ignite who puts on events where people can talk, but the slides are pre-timed so you've got to go pretty fast. In our case, we each had five minutes total, this was for 20 slides for each presenter timed for fifteen seconds for each slide -- we had no control over moving the slides forward or backward. I enjoyed it, although I was trying to cram too much into each slide and was talking very fast the whole time!

Here's a list of the other people that were presenting during the same session:
Nate Angell, The rSmart Group
Jennifer Cloer, Page OnePublic Relations
Stuart Cohen, Collaborative Software Initiative
Selena Deckelmann, PostgreSQL
Bjorn Freeman-Benson, Eclipse Foundation
Brian Jamison, OpenSourcery
Steve Morris, OTBC and Managing Director, OregonStartups.com
Scott Kveton, Vidoop
Brandon Philips, Novell

It was very cool that a number of the other presenters also mentioned the OSUOSL in their talks! We're glad to be making such a large impact. If you are interested in checking out my slides, you can download them here as a PDF.

The session was part of the Open Source Summit at InnoTech, a full day of presentations related to Open Source. Raven Zachary from the 451 Group did a great job at organizing the Open Source part of the conference.

Just before the lightning talks was a panel on "Open Source in the Public Sector". This was led by Deb Bryant, and Greg Lund-Chaix was one of the panelists, both of them are also from the OSUOSL. This was an interesting discussion and the panelists all gave some good examples of how and why they are using Open Source. Greg was talking about his involvement in the Oregon Virtual School District, which is a really exciting partnership with the Oregon Department of Education to provide online courses and course materials at no cost to the teachers.