Hillgang, the Washington DC DCVM and Linux Users’ Group, has announced its upcoming meeting to be held virtually November 4, 2021 from 10am to 3pm EST. Among those presenting will be Sine Nomine Associates engineer Kurt Acker. For more information please visit https://www.vm.ibm.com/events/HILL1121.PDF

Sine Nomine Associates Principle Engineer Michael Meffie reports that his team has created a collection for OpenAFS Ansible.

According to the Ansible Collection website (https://galaxy.ansible.com/openafs_contrib/openafs):

The OpenAFS Ansible Collection offers roles, modules, and example playbooks to deploy OpenAFS clients and/or servers with Ansible.

We are proud to announce that BRUNS-PAK has been selected to receive our Sine Nomine Associates, Inc. 2021 Digital Engineering Excellence Award. As an industry-leading firm that focuses on enterprise digital transformation and the innovative vendors that support it, Sine Nomine Associates interacts with numerous thought leaders in the enterprise IT marketplace. We provide 3D conceptual art and simulations of advanced technology spaces for our partners.

Sine Nomine Associates, Inc., a leader in Open Source development and support, is pleased to announce a new gold level partnership with the AlmaLinux OS Foundation.

We are looking forward to working with the AlmaLinux community and continuing our commitment to help grow Open Source ecosystems. 

The OpenAFS Release Team is pleased to announce the availability of OpenAFS version 1.8.8 for UNIX/Linux. Source files can be accessed via the web at:

http://www.openafs.org/release/1.8.8/

or via AFS at:

UNIX: /afs/grand.central.org/software/openafs/1.8.8/
UNC: \\afs\grand.central.org\software\openafs\1.8.8\

Many of the speakers from the 2021 virtual edition of the VM Workshop, held June 10-11, 2021, have kindly provided their presentation materials in electronic format so attendees may download them for reference. 

The presentations can be found on the VM Workshop website http://www.vmworkshop.org/2021pres.shtml. All files are available in PDF format.

Due to continued strict COVID-19 guidelines at The Ohio State University, the committee has cancelled the in-person 2021 VM Workshop. In its place, they are planning a multi-day virtual Workshop and will provide more information regarding dates and content as it develops.

For those of you who have already registered, you may request a refund or keep your registration in place for next year's Workshop.