Nethserver proposal for distribution devroom

[Alessio Fattorini]

Hi guys,
as Tias suggested me, I'm asking if you have yet a single slot for my 
talk, already submitted on lightning talks.
I past below Tias's email and a briefly description.
Have I to switch my submission on distribution devroom?
I'm waiting for you answer :-)
Alessio

On 07/12/2014 15:35, Tias Guns wrote:
> Hey Alessio,
>
> You might want to consider contacting the distributions devroom, that
> could be a good fit and they might have room for more than a 15m slot
> for you.
> https://lists.fosdem.org/pipermail/fosdem/2014-October/002047.html
>
> (don't hesitate to contact them even if their deadline is already
> officialy over).
>
>
> Kind regards,
> Tias

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http://www.nethserver.org

Submission notes:
I hope other people and communities will join NethServer Project because 
joining our community is a great way to interact with other users, ask 
questions to sysadmin and developer professionals, increase awareness of 
the work that you are doing, improve your skills, or give back. The aim 
is to have widespread, innovative, robust and well tested product

Abstract:
What’s NethServer? An operating system designed for small offices and 
medium enterprises, based on CentOS/RHEL, the widespread and popular 
server distribution, with some extra packages, particularly a powerful 
and extensible web interface that simplifies common administration tasks.
NethServer is focusing on maintainability, extensibility and standard 
compliance with CentOS. It’s designed for the sysadmin who appreciates 
the effectiveness of a user interface which saves time compared to 
configuration file modification and for users who want to approach 
CentOS without having Linux skills.

Full Description:
Administering a Linux OS like CentOS requires you to break down an high 
knowledge barrier to obtain a comprehensive solution. Consider this 
example: a system administrator needs to create a CentOS-based mail 
server on a VM or cloud instance. The administrator installs CentOS, 
along with: Postfix, Cyrus IMAP (or Dovecot), SpamAssassin, ClamAV (from 
EPEL), OpenSSL for user certificates. He pulls it all together with 
OpenLDAP for user and group management. Now all that needs to be done is 
configuring all those open source packages into a cohesive mail 
solution. When that's done, he breakouts the OpenSSL documentation to 
figure out all the security certificate jargon.

NethServer does all this stuff with some clicks and minimal configuration.

What’s NethServer? An operating system designed for small offices and 
medium enterprises, based on CentOS/RHEL, the widespread and popular 
server distribution, with some extra packages, particularly a powerful 
and extensible web interface that simplifies common administration tasks.
NethServer is focusing on maintainability, extensibility and standard 
compliance with CentOS. It’s designed for the sysadmin who appreciates 
the effectiveness of a user interface which saves time compared to 
configuration file modification and for users who want to approach 
CentOS without having Linux skills.

NethServer architecture explicitly supports developers by making it easy 
to install and integrate additional software. We quickly added some 
pre-configured modules, installable with a “single click”, for example: 
LAMP framework,  Caching + filtering web proxy with SSL filter (Squid), 
Groupware (SOGo), Bandwidth Monitor (ntopng),  Mail Server with Antispam 
and Antivirus (Postifx + Spamassassin + Clamav + Amavis), VPN (OpenVPN 
and IPsec/L2TP), Firewall (Shorewall), Intrusion detection (Snort), 
ownCloud.


NethServer is an open source project, all the sources are under the GPL, 
all the documentation is under CC and everyone can access the bug 
tracker and join the project.
So far it has been designed and supported almost entirely by a company 
called Nethesis (an Italian IT company of Linux enthusiasts, committed 
to FOSS since 2003) but now we hope other people and communities will 
join (see our community channels to get in touch with us and contribute 
http://www.nethserver.org/community/)
The aim is to have a widespread, innovative, robust and well tested product.


-- 
Alessio Fattorini - @ale_fattorini
Nethesis srl - Pesaro (Italy)