Ohio LinuxFest 2017, which takes place September 29-30 in Columbus, Ohio, will feature an entire track of programming on cyber security, as well as five other tracks of Linux-related programming. For a schedule of programs, visit the schedule page.

The OpenAFS Guardians are happy to announce the availability of the second prerelease candidate of OpenAFS 1.8.0.

In "You really should know what the Andrew File System is," a recent article for Network World, News Editor Bob Brown concludes that "AFS is indeed worth knowing about as a foundational technology that paved the way for widely used cloud computing techniques and applications."

Karen M. Sandler, executive director of the Software Freedom Conservancy, and Tarus Balog founder and CEO of The OpenNMS Group, will be keynote speakers at Ohio LinuxFest 2017, which will take place September 29-30 in Columbus, Ohio.

In their sixth episode of our “I Am A Mainframer Interview Series,” Jeffrey Frey, of the Open Mainframe Project, interviews Sine Nomine engineer Neale Ferguson. A full recording of the interview as well as a transcript is available on the Open Mainframe Project website.

These presentations are from the April 2016, September 2016, and March 2017 meetings of the Hillgang Group, a Washington DC area mainframe user group.

Congratulations to the Open AFS creators  Mahadev Satyanarayanan, Michael L. Kazar, Robert N. Sidebotham,  David A. Nichols, Michael J. West, John H. Howard, Alfred Z. Spector and Sherri M. Nichols, recipients of the ACM Software System Award  for developing the Andrew File System (AFS).

Warner Moore reports that Ohio LinuxFest 2017 will take place September 29 and 30, 2017 at the Hyatt Regency in Columbus, Ohio.

The 2017 VM Workshop is only a dozen weeks away:

·         June 22 – 24, 2017

·         The Ohio State University in Columbus

·         Only $100 ($130 after April 30)

Register soon!

Sine Nomine Associates is proud that our in-house team, led by Michael Meffie, has contributed to the new OpenAFS Major release OpenAFS 1.8.0 Alpha. You can find information on the release and the distribution at http://openafs.org/.