I'm preparing to travel to Bangalore for FOSS.IN, which is happening next week from the 25th to the 29th of November.

It's looking very much like the deeply developer-focused event the organizers were hoping for. On the schedule is a mix of technical talks and workout sessions. I'll be involved in the Kernel Quality Improvement Workout headed up ( Read more... )

Recently, I've been busy getting the initial cut of sVirt out, and am currently processing community feedback before issuing an update. The basic idea behind sVirt is to apply MAC label security (SELinux, Smack etc.) to Linux-based virtualization schemes such as KVM, allowing the existing OS-level security mechanisms to be re-used for process- ( Read more... )

It seems that foss.in this year is undertaking a major change in its focus-away from the traditional general conference and toward a developer-oriented working event.

Atul Chitnis today posted a detailed rationale, which has also been summarized by Sankarshan. It seems that inspiration was drawn from the recent Plumbers Conf, and also the strong ( Read more... )