[syslog-ng] insider 2014-03: GSoC; Incubator; Conferences;

[Peter Czanik]

Dear syslog-ng users,


This is the 32th issue of the syslog-ng Insider, a monthly newsletter 
that brings you syslog-ng related news.


FEATURED NEWS


Google Summer of Code (GsoC)

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This year the syslog-ng project was accepted to GSoC as a mentoring 
organization. We vould like to thank to the Debian and openSUSE projects 
for vouching for us and openSUSE to let us participate previous years 
under the openSUSE umbrella. We don't know yet the number of students we 
can mentor, but we already have a nice number of project ideas and 
students who expressed interest.

It's not yet too late to browse the ideas page 
_https://github.com/balabit/syslog-ng/wiki/GSoC2014-Idea-&-Project-list_

and
write a project proposal to the syslog-ng mailing list. Contact
information is available at
_https://github.com/balabit/syslog-ng/wiki/GSoC2014_


syslog-ng incubator updates

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The syslog-ng incubator is a collection of tools and modules which are 
not (yet) part of the official repository. Version 0.2.1 was released 
recently with many bugfixes, advanced LUA related features, support for 
FreeBSD and a python script based ElasticSearch destination.

The syslog-ng incubator is available in many ways. First of all, the 
source is available in git at 
_https://github.com/balabit/syslog-ng-incubator_and as a release tgz at 
_http://packages.madhouse-project.org/syslog-ng/incubator/syslog-ng-incubator-0.2.1.tar.xz_

There are also packages for openSUSE and Fedora with riemann support 
available in a subpackage. To use it, visit one of the below web pages 
and add the necessary repositories, which also have syslog-ng 3.5 and 
the riemann C client available.

Fedora: _http://copr.fedoraproject.org/coprs/czanik/syslog-ng35/_

openSUSE: _https://build.opensuse.org/project/show/home:czanik:syslog-ng35_

A FreeBSD port is also work in progress, once ready, it will be 
committed to sysutils/syslog-ng-incubator. Riemann support is not included.



syslog-ng at conferences

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The next confirmed events are:

  *

    Open Source Data Center Conference, 8-10 April, Berlin, Germany:
    _http://www.netways.de/osdc/_, Giving a talk titled "Monitoring with
    syslog-ng, Riemann and Kibana" There will be two developers present,
    so if anyone attends, and has Incubator, Lua, Riemann, etc. related
    questions, we'll be happy to answer.

  *

    Linux Open Admin Days, 5-6 April, Antwerp, Belgium:
    _http://loadays.org/_, Giving a talk titled “Babel Fish for DevOps:
    syslog-ng”. Those, who visited FOSDEM will be familiar with the
    basis of the presentation, but this time with a lot more details and
    configuration examples thanks to the more available time.

  *

    Infosecurity Europe, 29 April - 1 May, London, United Kingdom:
    _http://www.infosec.co.uk/_, Giving a talk titled "Finding method in
    the madness: the challenges of the automatic classification of log
    messages". The talk will be given by Balazs Scheidler (Bazsi) who
    you will also be able to find at the BalaBit booth at the event.

  *

    LinuxTag, 8-10 May, Berlin, Germany: _http://linuxtag.org
    <http://linuxtag.org/>_, Giving a talk titled "Finding method in the
    madness: the challenges of the automatic classification of log
    messages". BalaBit will also be sponsoring the event so you'll be
    able to find us and get T-shirts and talk with our engineers. The
    talk will be a revised version of the talk given a week before at
    Infosecurity Europe.


NEW RELEASES

  *

    syslog-ng incubator 0.2.1:
    _https://github.com/balabit/syslog-ng-incubator/blob/master/NEWS_

  *

    syslog-ng OSE 3.5.4:
    _https://lists.balabit.hu/pipermail/syslog-ng-announce/2014-March/000182.html_

  *

    syslog-ng OSE 3.5.4.1:
    _https://lists.balabit.hu/pipermail/syslog-ng-announce/2014-March/000183.html_

  *

    syslog-ng PE 4.0.7:
    _https://lists.balabit.hu/pipermail/syslog-ng-announce/2014-March/000181.html_


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-- 
Peter Czanik (CzP) <czanik at balabit.hu>
BalaBit IT Security / syslog-ng upstream
http://czanik.blogs.balabit.com/
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