Troy Dawson

Spikey Hair, Hawaiian Shirts ... with Penguins on them.
Troy currently works for Red Hat on the CentOS Stream and Emerging RHEL teams.
He is the EPEL Steering Committee chair. He is chair of the Centos Alternative Images SIG.
Troy is also on the Fedora KDE SIG dealing largely with KDE in EPEL.


Sessions

08-07
10:30
25min
Fedora Plasma Mobile - Not just for phones
Troy Dawson

Fedora's Plasma Mobile was originally targeted at phones. But it also works great if you want a tablet experience using Linux. Fedora's Plasma Mobile in Fedora 40 is a wonderful mobile interface no matter the size of your screen. Troy Dawson will show how Plasma Mobile looks on a Microsoft Surface Pro, and possibly some other mobile devices.

General
Rocky (Breakout 2)
08-08
12:00
55min
State of EPEL
Carl George, Troy Dawson

The annual State of EPEL presentation. What we have done the past year, what we are currently doing, and what is next. We will be giving an extra emphasis on EPEL 10.

CentOS & Friends
Lenovo (Breakout 1)
08-08
14:00
85min
Bootstrapping CentOS Stream with Fedora ELN
Stephen Gallagher, Troy Dawson

Let's discuss the launch of CentOS Stream 10 development, how Fedora ELN enabled it and where we go next. This will be a two-part event: the first part will be a retrospective to look into what went well and what could be improved. The second part will be planning for the future of EPEL and CentOS Stream 11.

CentOS & Friends
Lenovo (Breakout 1)
08-08
16:00
25min
Stream Alt Images - Let's Talk About It
Troy Dawson

The CentOS Alternative Images SIG has made a lot of progress last year. Troy will go over all the Images we are currently building, what we have planned next, as well as demo some of his favorite images.

CentOS & Friends
Lenovo (Breakout 1)
08-09
14:00
240min
EPEL 10 hackfest
Carl George, Stephen Gallagher, Troy Dawson

EPEL 10 is expected to launch in November or December of this year, a few months after Flock. EPEL 10 will be different than previous versions of EPEL because it will target individual minor versions in order to better integrate with CentOS Stream. There are many things that need work in order to make this vision a reality. During this hackfest, we'll work together on several of these items. This could include work on:

  • koji
  • bodhi
  • mirrormanager
  • ansible playbooks
  • fedpkg
  • mock

If we happen to have most of these pieces working prior to the hackfest, we can pivot our time to adding an initial set of packages to EPEL 10.

CentOS & Friends
Azure (Breakout 3)