 I'm gonna wear my glasses on my nose like my grandpa cuz I Can't read my nose without him and I can't see you with them aging sucks Hi everybody, welcome to Centres Connect at Flock to Fedora This is the this is the second time we've had a Centres Connect with that with the rebranding Previously we ran Centres dojos And we kind of we went through a kind of a rebranding process, right? We had a new logo and a new event name and we've tried to Try to really focus on on connecting people right with the name From different different projects within the whole enterprise Linux ecosystem and then across all of our SIGs And so it's really good, you know in that respect to be here at flock this time To connect with Flora, which is obviously a very important sister project You know for for CentOS stream for CentOS in general, we wouldn't really be able to exist without without the work of Fedora So we're really happy to be at flock this year We had planned we were kind of looking at trying to do three per year with the big one starting off the year and in Europe at Fosdum and then and then two more but Events this year got weird So this is our this is our second one of the year and and our our our last one of 2023, but we will I guess I haven't booked a room yet, so I can't say we will but we are planning to once again be back at Fosdum on a day before Fosdum event So if you're planning on Fosdum if you're not planning on Fosdum, maybe you should plan on Fosdum But if you are planning You know pencil that in to join us the the Friday before Fosdum Friday Fosdum Saturday Sunday, right? I think and then so the Friday before Fosdum is We're planning to put that together So anyway, I just want to remind everybody obviously it was in Justin's opening of the Code of Conduct that we're all bound by here And you know, we're also at a Fedora conference and friendship is one of the four foundations of Fedora, so you know, let's all be friendly to each other and have an excellent event and In the immortal words of Bill and Ted be excellent to each other We have a lot of good talks today. We've got some talks about Centra stream. We've got some talks About the work in our SIGs About the work that happens in Apple, which is technically a Fedora project, but we love them anyway And also, you know some of the other projects Rocky's talking later. So some of the other projects kind of in the EL ecosystem. So a wide variety of talks. I'm excited to hear today and Oh, and also there is the panel tomorrow, which kind of it's it's listed as being in this track, but we Frankly ran out of like time slots to put something in in today. So I begged Justin for For a slot tomorrow to put that in So make sure if you're interested to to attend that tomorrow I'm not sure which room that's in if it's in here or another or actually that's in the main the big room. I think tomorrow, okay and Let's see if you're doing the social media stuff the the X or the mastodon or Tic-Tac or I don't know my space Make sure you use the social media tags. There's the two on your badge the flock to Fedora and flock Ireland But also If you're here in this room, please use the centOS connect hashtag so that we can see all of your beautiful toots, I guess And there are we have Fedora badges for anyone who does badges There's a badge for for this flock event and there's a QR code for it Somewhere around here as well as throughout the entire venue Oh And then and then well, that's the other one and then we have one that is for centOS connect So if you are here in this room, you can have a centOS connect badge It is the same badge that we used for the one in Fosden We'll do one connect badge per year if you attend any centOS connect you get it So if you already got it in Fosden, it's not a new badge, but if you didn't enjoy your Totally Uncopyable pixels I guess And then just a note to the speakers whoever's here We do have 25 minute time slots. This includes time for questions. So You know, you know your talk and how much time it's going to take so You know, if you want to have time for questions, please fit that into your 25 minutes so that we can have our five minutes to Change over sometimes it can be tricky with, you know, laptop changes and stuff to do it in five minutes And with that, I guess actually Who do I have here? I have a few minutes that I'll kill a little time first I have who do we have here that's speaking today? We can do like really quick Pitches. Yeah, like just like a really quick. What's your talk? And why should people stay in this room and not give up their seat and hear it? So where's our mic? Well, let's pass it around and All right, hey, my name is Adam I work on the CentOS team engineering team and I'll be talking about how CentOS team works About how it relates to CentOS projects and those six and I'll show you everything in the build systems and stuff How things flow so that'll be interesting maybe to learn about 1130 yeah, hi everyone, my name is Brian And I'm coming from the Cupid upstream project and I'll be telling you how we build our CI system on top of CentOS stream and how we use this and What we think of us Okay Alternative images sake get your alternative images here KDE. That's right after this KDE and Apple What have we what are we currently at? What's the future for that and state of Apple with Carl? So you don't get tired of my voice He hasn't listened to this voice You don't want me to talk much I'm hungover Even hungover he has a better voice to me State of Apple that's that's the last I believe we're the last closing glass thing So stay around for the whole and it's always good Our graphs look better than that because they're correct Hi, I'm Davide I'll be talking about the work We've been doing in the CentOS hyperscale SIG to enable CentOS train deployments in large-scale environments Hi, I'm Eric Curtin. I'm gonna give an update on everything going on in our automotive SIG so We develop a CentOS dream-based distribution that's designed to run in running vehicles basically so All the goings on in that SIG I guess Hi, I'm Sharif from Rocky Linux and my talk would be about secure boot and how distribution can achieve to be more secure a Little bit slightly secure using secure boot Awesome. Thanks. I think that's All of the speakers that are in the room at least it's most of our speakers So with that I suppose we'll turn it over. I'll have the pleasure here of introducing for the first of three times Troy Dawson who this time is gonna talk about the alternative images SIG