[TriLUG-announce] August 13th: Mark McCahill on Linux Containers for Learning

[Matthew Frazier]

Topic: Linux Containers for Learning
Presenter: Mark McCahill
When: Thursday, August 13, 2015 - 7:00pm to 9:00pm
Where: Bandwidth, Venture III, 900 Main Campus Dr, Raleigh, NC 27606
Parking: Venture Center Deck, adjacent to Venture III on Venture Center
Way (visitor spaces are unrestricted after 5pm)
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Synopsis

Duke University provides access to a wide variety of Linux applications, 
for student projects, teaching, and research. Besides provisioning 
hundreds of traditional Linux VM's each semester, Duke is taking
advantage of emerging container technologies to host applications.

This presentation will explore a few of the technologies and tools Duke 
has used for application delivery, including the 350 Ubuntu containers 
running on Docker that host R and RStudio for statistics courses, and
the 
noVNC/OpenBox solution used to embed X Windows applications in users'
Web browsers. (Source code for some of this technology will be available
on GitHub.) It will also discuss more generally the strategy and the 
tradeoffs involved in providing virtualized applications - especially
when you have to give sudo access to students.

Speaker Bio

Mark McCahill works at Duke University's Office of Information
Technology, as an architect for e-learning and collaborative systems.
He was involved in the development and popularization of early
Internet technologies - most notably at the University of Minnesota,
where he led the team that developed Gopher. He is also interested in
virtual worlds, developing the GopherVR system for organizing
Gopher information spatially, and serving  as an architect of the
Croquet project.
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See you there,
Matthew Frazier
PR Officer, Triangle Linux Users Group
https://www.trilug.org/