[NYCBSDCon] (no subject)

[Bill Totman]

On Oct 25, 2013, at 8:54, George Rosamond <george at ceetonetechnology.com> wrote:

> Isaac (.ike) Levy:
>> On Oct 23, 2013, at 2:34 PM, Mark Saad <mark.saad at ymail.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> -- 
>>> All
>>> See below , should we ping Alfred and see if he is up for talking about this at the con ? 
>>> ---
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> On Oct 23, 2013, at 1:35 PM, Alfred Perlstein <
>>> alfred at freebsd.org
>>>> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> Hello !
>>>> 
>>>> At the November 7, 2013 devsummit I will giving a workshop/talk that will be a hands on walkthrough of how we manage our FreeBSD changes.
>>>> 
>>>> The talk will cover:
>>>> 1) A discussion at very high level on how git works that will include a hands-on portion where we examine some of the git meta data.
>>>> We will cover how branches are made.  How remote branches are handled.
>>>> The goal of this portion of the talk is to dispel much of the magic and worry when doing things with git.
>>>> 
>>>> 2) How to take FreeNAS and migrate it to a newer version of FreeBSD.
>>>> We will cover the "git rebase" command.
>>>> The goal is to show how relatively easy it is move your code onto a newer version of FreeBSD.
>>>> 
>>>> 3) Using github and your account.
>>>> We will cover "forking" on github and pushing the resulting work to your personal repository.  We will then make some trivial changes to our custom version of FreeBSD/FreeNAS.
>>>> The goal is to show how easy it is to get an external developer access to your code with minimal administrative overhead.
>>>> 
>>>> 4) QA
>>>> Floor will be open to git questions.  It is not guaranteed that all answers will be known, but we will give it a shot.
>>>> 
>>>> For this workshop the following preparation is asked:
>>>> 1) Perform a "git clone
>>> https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd.git
>>> " (note this can take about an hour and 1GB of space) onto a disk with decent access time.  (no usb keys please).
>>>> 2) Create yourself a github account and write down the password.
>>>> 3) Setup an ssh key with github.
>>>> 
>>>> The talk goes for about 1:30.  Looking forward to seeing you all.
>>>> 
>>>> -Alfred Perlstein
>>>> VP Software Engineering, iXsystems.
>>>> _________________________________
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>> 
>> 
>> I'd love to see Alfred Perlstein speak, yet I can't figure out if the talk is relevant for the con or not.
>> 
>> Could be excellent, could be too tangental.
>> 
>> What do folks here think?
> 
> So I think it would certainly be useful and relevant, but not sure
> there's anything "special" about running git with the BSDs.  We aren't
> aiming to just run tutorials for devs and sysadmins on general skills.
> 
> If there was something unique or particularly advantageous, it would
> make sense IMHO.  But I don't see it, from my angle.
> 
> g
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Seems like a vender pitch - move your product to FreeBSD. Not that that's not interesting (to me).

Couldn't it also be viewed as an advocacy talk? Along the lines of: this is one point/way to convince your boss to move to (Free)BSD?

-bt