Talks & Publications

Talks I’ve given and articles I’ve written for other publications.

If you’re interested in what I’m proposing (or what wasn’t accepted) and want to learn more about CFPs, see Proposals & rejections.

2026

• systemd-sysext in Production: What We Learned Extending /usr Without a Package Manager
  Talk, June 2026, DevConf.CZ

• Flatcar Linux 101: A Hands-Free Server OS
  Talk, March 2026, Installfest.cz

• You Don’t Need Kubernetes: Side Projects on One Linux Server
  Talk, March 2026, Installfest.cz

2025

• Building Bridges: Microsoft’s Participation in the Fedora Linux Community
  Article, December 2025, Microsoft Tech Community

• Bring Wood for the Fire
  Talk, November 2025, OpenAlt 2025

• Project Membership
  Article, October 2025, duckalignment.academy

2024

• What Does Red Hat Want?
  Talk, August 2024, Flock 2024

2023

• What Does Red Hat Want?
  Talk, August 2023, Flock 2023

2022

• How Linux Became the Enterprise’s Bedrock
  Article, June 2022, TheChannelCo Computing

• The CentOS Project Changes: And How It’s Better for Production Kernels
  Talk, May 2022, Lund Linux Con

2021

• Look Up, Not Down When Commercializing Free Open Source
  Talk, November 2021, SFScon

2019

• How to encrypt files with gocryptfs on Linux
  Article, August 2019, opensource.com

• Sending custom emails with Python
  Article, August 2019, opensource.com

• Check your password security with Have I Been Pwned? and pass
  Article, June 2019, opensource.com

• Contributors are Empowered When They Know the Process
  Article, May 2019, community.redhat.com

• How to manage multiple SSH keys
  Article, April 2019, opensource.com

• How to import your existing SSH keys into your GPG key
  Article, April 2019, opensource.com

• How to enable SSH access using a GPG key for authentication
  Article, April 2019, opensource.com

2018

• What’s Your Best Advice for Attracting New Contributors?
  Article, April 2018, community.redhat.com

2017

• The Secret to Keeping Your Community Strong for Decades
  Talk, November 2017, SFScon

• Building Applications Doesn’t Mean Writing It All From Scratch
  Talk, May 2017, OSCAL 2017

• Community Managers Sit Everywhere. Should They?
  Article, April 2017, community.redhat.com

• Onboarding New Contributors in the Fedora Project
  Article, April 2017, community.redhat.com

• Fedora Goes to FOSDEM
  Article, February 2017, community.redhat.com

2016

• What’s New in Fedora 25 Beta
  Talk, October 2016, FUDCon LATAM 2016

• Hackfest: Fedora Docs Learn and Hack
  Talk, August 2016, Flock 2016

• Bringing Developers into the Flock
  Talk, August 2016, Flock 2016

• Atomic Developer Bundle: Containerized Development Made Easy
  Talk, February 2016, DevConf.cz 2016

• Nulecule: Packaging, Distributing & Deploying Container Applications the Cloud Way
  Talk, February 2016, CfgMgmtCamp EU 2016

• Atomic Developer Bundle: Containerized Development Made Easy
  Talk, January 2016, CentOS Dojo Brussels 2016

2015

• Getting to DevOps with Docker
  Talk, October 2015, DevStars.cz

• A Containers-Eye View of LinuxCon EU
  Article, October 2015, community.redhat.com

• Project Atomic or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Containers
  Article, October 2015, linux.com