This year at the VM Workshop Kurt Acker became a Knight of VM. 

Kurt had the following to say about becoming a Knight: 

The Flexible AFS Backup System (FABS) is a suite of tools and daemons
for managing backups for an AFS cell. FABS does not directly backup data
to long-term storage, but acts as a bridge between AFS and an existing
plain-file backup system. This approach allows FABS to integrate AFS
data into existing backup infrastructure regardless of backup software,
and avoids using vendor-specific APIs. FABS is freely available under a
permissive free software license, and commercial support is available

We enjoyed the company of the professionals at the 2022 OpenAFS workshop this year.

The 2022 workshop presentations will be available on this on the AFS Technologies Website.

Join us on June 12 - 14, 2023 for the 2023 AFS Technologies Workshop. 

Call for Presentations Deadline: April 18, 2023

The 2022 AFS Technologies Workshop will be a three day Virtual Workshops held from 10:00am to 4: 00 pm Eastern time on June 14, 15, and 16, 2022. For more information visit https://workshop.openafs.org/afsbpw22/.

According to the workshop website:

The VM Workshop committee is happy to announce that the 2022 VM Workshop will be an in person event at Binghamton University. The Workshop will take place June 16-18 2022. For more information please visit http://vmworkshop.org/.

AlmaLinux is a CentOS alternative. In this beta, Sine Nomine Associates contributed a new addition to their family: s390x.

Neale Ferguson, SNA's Principal Engineer, has been testing it over the last couple of weeks and reports "it's been solid". Version 8 is still under development. 

To read more visit here. 

 

We are excited to congratulate Kurt Acker and Neale Ferguson on being chosen as IBM Champions for the second year in a row!

IBM Champions are selected from among technology experts in order to share their knowledge. From the program website:

Sine Nomine Associates, Inc., proudly announces that our CEO, Dr. E. Margarete Ziemer, has been selected as a finalist for the Washington D.C. region 23rd annual Women in Technology Leadership Award in the entrepreneur category. From her humble beginnings in East Germany, and after the Wall was brought down, she moved to the USA in 1992 to chase the American dream. There, she earned a MA in Austin and her Ph.D. at Princeton.

OpenAFS 1.8.8.1 is the next release in the current stable series of OpenAFS releases for UNIX/Linux systems. It adds support for current Linux mainline kernels (5.14, 5.15 and likely the upcoming 5.16), improves support for FreeBSD 12, and allows Solaris builds using Studio 12.6. Systems not requiring any of those changes can continue to use the 1.8.8 release. Read More at: https://www.openafs.org/

Sine Nomine Associates, Inc., a leader in open-source development and support, is pleased to announce a joint effort of Sine Nomine Associates, IBM, Microsoft, and RedHat, as well as the .NET and Mono open-source communities, who, together, have now made .NET 6.0 available for IBM Z and LinuxONE™.