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This week, Dave and Gunnar talk about: GSA USDS 18F OMB OSS LOL BBQ & RHEL SSG, RHEL VPAT, KVM, EAP GA, IBM+BRMS.

• Dave gets all Chromebooked up
  • How to Turn a Raspberry Pi into a Google Cloud Print Server
• Gunnar gets all RØDE Podcastered up
• Calling Dr. Clater: Star Trek Axanar and Star Trek Phase II
• Correction: MSFT wasn’t subject to EU data protections, and in fact that’s what the Judge’s decision was about: whether they could comply with the warrant given the nexus of jurisdiction
• GSA and 18F: Open Source First
  • 18F goes open first.
  • GSA follows suit.
  • US Digital Service announced, with Playbook and TechFAR.
    • Bonus Gunnar press hit
• Lessons from the UK’s Govt Digital Service
  • Gunnar’s posts on 18F and USDS
• More transparency made the Fed quieter, more conservative, more worried about how smart it sounds
• Gunnarbait of the week: Microsoft’s Olivier Bloch Explains Microsoft Open Source (Video)
• This Week in Vendor Abandonment: Rackspace bows out commodity IaaS market in favor of ‘managed cloud’
• Lauren’s new Raspberry Pi project’s maiden voyage: Impossible Deceptions, Charles Peachock & Jason Alan Magic on August 23
• Formal ALUG Meeting: Controlling juggling pins with Raspberry Pi – Lauren Egts on September 4
• Dave bait: Docker kicks KVM’s butt in IBM tests
  • Performance Analysis of Docker on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
• RHEL 6.6 Beta is out
  • Includes the SCAP Security Guide!!!
• VPAT for RHEL 7!
• JBoss EAP 6.3 is GA
• Reminder: JBoss BRMS and IBM are the only BRMS worth looking at, per Forrester
• OpenShift now up at UNC
• The copy of the U.S. Constitution that’s installed on every Mac

Cutting Room Floor

• Fold a shirt in 2 seconds
• TBD: A SkyMall catalog of the future
• Philosophy Referee Hand Signals
• Beautiful Open Source Project Sites
• Building a Better Butter Knife