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Federico Lucifredi (Canonical) Interview - OSCON 2014

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Channel: O'Reilly · 2014 · Science & Technology

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The Ubuntu Server Project Manager at Canonical sits down for an interview at the 2014 O'Reilly Open Source Convention. Watch more from OSCON: http://goo.gl/HlGwvP

In this interview, Lucifredi discusses criticism of OpenStack development, the evolution of Ubuntu servers, and his side project in hardware hacking.

Federico Lucifredi is the maintainer of the man suite, the primary documentation-delivery tool under Linux, a graduate of Boston College and Harvard University, and the Ubuntu Advantage Product Manager at Canonical. As a software engineer-turned-manager at the Novell corporation, Federico was part of the SUSE Linux team for five years, overseeing the update stack of a 150 million dollar maintenance business. Previously, Federico has been a CIO and a network software architect at technology and embedded Linux startups, and he has spent two years teaching in Boston University's graduate and undergraduate programs, while simultaneously consulting for MIT. He is a frequent speaker at user group and conference events, notably the Linux Foundation's LinuxCon, LinuxWorld, the O'Reilly Open Source Convention, and the IMPlanet conferences, where he was a panelist representing the Jabber community. Federico is a recognized expert in computing performance issues, and consults pro-bono with Standard and Poor's clients interested in Free/Open Source Software technical and strategic issues. He participated in the GPL v3 drafting process in the large-corporation panel.

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