The Open Source Lab’s Cody Holliday recently competed on a team with five other students at the Department of Energy Cyber Defense Competition. Despite that this was their first time competing, they ranked first place in the regional competition, and fourth place nationally! Read more about the competition. If you would like to read about his experience, click here!
Way to go Cody!
CoreOS is a San Francisco based company that focuses on developing software for container management. Alex Polvi, the CEO of CoreOS and OSL alumnus, recently sold CoreOS to RedHat for $250 million. Congratulations, Alex! img src
The OSU Experience Site has published an online article about our students! In it they talk about the services we provide, our positive impact on the lives of our student workers, and the industries we work with.
About a decade ago, I was becoming disenchanted with my time in the computer industry. It wasn’t bad, it just wasn’t me anymore. After some serious soul searching, I decided to turn my hobby into my next career – but I knew that I needed formal education and training. After some careful research, I narrowed down my choices to two: UC Davis and Oregon State University. Both schools have top-tier records in my new field but it was the Open Source Lab that tipped the balance. After moving to Oregon I haven’t once looked back. | After establishing residency and completing my associate degrees (all three) at PCC, I finally moved to Corvallis. I sent Lance my resume in February of 2013 and was hired the following month as a student software developer. The staff was welcoming and the students were amazing and inspirational. I felt like I was right where I needed to be. I was surprised at how much pleasure I took from mentoring so I got involved with Google’s Summer of Code program which was a great experience. I even grew so attached to one of my projects that I still support it long after it transitioned to another lab. Yay PGD! | But all good things must come to an end. After finishing my undergrad work, I went on an internship and came back to start graduate school. I suspected then that I wouldn’t be able to have my cake and eat it too and that I would have to cut back on my commitments once my research got started, and my time at the OSL would probably be the first to go. This suspicion was reinforced after my daughter was born last January and again by the financial situation about which we all know. I decided to wait to resign until after the summer in case I was needed to help with the transition and now the summer is over. I want to thank all the students with whom I have worked at the OSL. You’re what makes the lab what it is: a finishing school for the finest students at Oregon State. I am proud to have worked with you as you launch your careers and I firmly believe that you will continue making the world a better place.
At the OSL we use Packer to build our images, because of the reproducible and easy work-flow it allows. We can create an entire operating system image based off a Linux distribution without any interaction! With this we are looking to add much more complete and automated testing.
To help with this we have decided to create a GitHub repository called Packer Templates. This is what the OSL will be using to generate OpenStack operating system images that many of our hosted projects use. We have been hard at work making this a reality for around 2 months and counting, and we still have a lot of work to do!
Service(s) affected All VMs running on our production Ganeti cluster will need to be non-live migrated to their secondary nodes (i.e. shutdown and start is required). We expect the outages for each VM to be short (under 5 minutes each). To see a list of VMs that are affected and when please see this page. We will ensure the VMs are pingable after the reboot, but you may want to check that services started properly for any services we don’t already monitor.
As of September 1, the OSL has concluded its first ever crowdfunding campaign. With the support of our donors and the larger open source community, we managed to raise $7,140 to support our students here at the lab in compensating them for their work and enriching their experience through events such as Beaver Barcamp and other conferences.
We are so very thankful for the support of our partners and friends. If you would like to donate to the OSL, visit our donation page or our OSU Foundation page to make a direct donation. And follow us on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram to hear about more fundraising opportunities we hold in the future.
Since its creation in 2002, the Open Source Lab (OSL) has been a beacon of innovation, experiential learning, and hosting at Oregon State University and beyond. As Director, I’ve had the pleasure of watching the lab and its employees grow over the years and I’m so grateful to have been given such an opportunity. I want to express why the OSL is important not only to the open source community, but to our larger academic institution and its students.
In July 2017, the OSL began providing virtual machine and database for hosting the demo service of polr. The project itself simplifies long and complicated urls. It was started by a high school student back in 2014 who has since volunteered on the Fedora Infrastructure team. For more information, visit the project website.
In July 2017, the OSL began providing virtual machine and database for hosting the demo service of polr. The project itself simplifies long and complicated urls. It was started by a high school student back in 2014 who has since volunteered on the Fedora Infrastructure team. For more information, visit the project website.
