Lenz Grimmer's random thoughts

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  • Summarizing last year’s achievements and highlights

    A while ago, I concluded my first year in the openATTIC-Team at it-novum. We’ve gone through a lot of changes and I am quite proud of what we’ve achieved so far. In many ways, we’re starting this project and product from scratch, and I’m excited to be able to contribute to this effort with my […]

    2016-09-12
  • signoff.py: A Mercurial hook to automatically add a “Signed-off-by:” tag line below your commit message

    Update 2022-07-27: unfortunately the snippet containing the file was deleted from BitBucket without me being aware of it (thanks to Robert Greener for letting me know). I have not been able to dig up a local backup copy so far, so the file may be gone forever. Sorry about that. The openATTIC project is currently […]

    2015-12-12
  • Configuring a Brother MFC-7460DN Laser Printer/Scanner on Fedora 23 (64-bit)

    Update: the MFC-7460DN printer is now supported via the brlaser open source printer driver by Peter De Wachter. See this post for a much simpler way to configure this printer on Fedora (and other Linux distributions). I’ve always been a fan of Brother, as their devices usually come with decent support for the Linux OS […]

    2015-12-10
  • Conference report: OpenStack Summit 2015 Tokyo, Japan

    I finally got around to write down my impressions and notes from the OpenStack Summit 2015 in Tokyo, Japan. You can find my conference report on the openATTIC blog. Enjoy!

    2015-11-13
  • Blogging on the openATTIC Community Blog

    In case you were wondering why there were so few posts on this blog in the past weeks: since we’ve set up a dedicated blog for openATTIC, a lot of my recent blogging activity has taken place there. You can find all my posts using the Posts by Lenz Grimmer view.

    2015-11-10
  • Video of my German talk “Flexibles Storage Management unter Linux mit OpenATTIC” now on YouTube

    Back in September, I attended the Kieler Linux Tage, to talk (in German) about how to manage storage on Linux using openATTIC. The presentation was recorded and the final result (in 4K) can now be viewed on YouTube. I hope you enjoy it!

    2015-11-10
  • Slides of my German talk “Flexibles Storage Management unter Linux mit OpenATTIC” now on SlideShare

    Last week, I attended the 13. Kieler Open Source und Linux Tage (KieLux) in Kiel, Germany, to give a presentation (in German) about “Flexibles Storage Management unter Linux mit OpenATTIC” . I had an audience of ~25-30 people, a video recording of the session (in 4K!) will be published shortly. I had a great time at […]

    2015-09-21
  • Slides and Video of my talk “The Evolution of Storage on Linux” at FrOSCon 2015

    Last weekend, I gave a presentation titled “The Evolution of Storage on Linux” at this year’s FrOSCon 10 conference (Happy Anniversary!). In case you have missed it, you can find the slides and video recording below. Thanks to the FrOSCon team for having me, it’s always a pleasure to be there! Unfortunately I had some […]

    2015-08-26
  • Creating a Contributor Agreement for Your Project

    Back in the MySQL days, there was a need to have a contributor agreement that made it clear under which terms code contributions to the MySQL code base could be accepted. This was a requirement due to the dual-licensing model of MySQL, under which the software was available both under the GPL and a proprietary […]

    2015-07-16
  • Interview on the it-novum Business Open Source Blog

    My new employer performed a short interview with me about myself, my role in the openATTIC team and my thoughts on Open Source. Hope you enjoy it!

    2015-07-10
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