Dear Tosh,
I am Toshaan Bharvani, I already volunteered to help at FOSDEM 2009. I am "new" to CentOS, about 1.5 years, before that Fedora for about 3 years, one year between distro's so about 5 years of experience with Linux. I see there are some slots available for FOSDEM 2009. Some possible presentations I could give : (a) CentOS USB Install: howto => busy with an automated script (b) CentOS on desktops/mini ITX/netbooks => in line with Dag's : CentOS on the desktop (tips and tricks to survive) (c) RPM packaging for CentOS => I am trying to help with rpmforge, nevertheless have just started I have started my own blog (www.toshaan.be) where I will be adding some, hopefully relevant, information about Linux and CentOS.
Regards, Toshaan.
Ok, cool. Is your 'draft' already available somewhere ?
CentOS on the Desktop : http://www.toshaan.be/publications/FOSDEM2009-CentOS_on_the_Desktop.pdf Any comments or suggestions are welcome.
You wrote:
'Possibility to get paid support from upstream or elsewhere'
If you mean Red Hat with 'upstream' this is not true as they do not (yet) offer support contracts for CentOS environments.
Best Regards Marcus