When people sign up for Configuration Management Camp, we ask them what community room they are mostly interested in.
We ask this question because we have rooms in different sizes and we don’t want to put communities with 20 people showing interest in a 120 seat room and we don’t want to put a community with 200 people in a 60 seat room.
But it also gives us to opportunity to build some very interesting graph over the potential evolution of the communities.
and with that almost a full week of side events.
For those who don’t know FOSDEM, (where have you been hiding for the past 13 years ? ) Fosdem is the annual Free and Open Source Developers European meeting. If you are into open source , you just can’t mis this event where thousands of likeminded people will meet.
And if 2 days of FOSDEM madness isn’t enough people organise events around it.
Yesterday @beaker posted his ideas on the #devops movement …
Apparently we haven’t been stressing enough on the fact that it isn’t just about Devs and Ops,
So let me repeat it’s not just about Devs and Ops, it’s about breaking silo’s , about being good at our jobs, about getting conversation started, about talking to different stakeholders in the processes . We are absolutely trying to include all groups, not exclude some.
So about 4 monts ago there was the crazy idea to start a new FOSS event in Belgium targeted at sysadmins.
What started out as an event for local people to meet local people with some local speakers actually ended up being a small local event with some top international speakers on onfiguration mananagement and system administration mixed with a bunch of good local ones !
I had the honour to open the conference with an extremely short version of the Devops talk I gave earlier last year.. extremely short as I knew that over the course of the weekend the topic would reoccur a lot.
When I tell people that the concept of copying VM’s around as frequently done in the VMWare world is one of the most stupid ideas on this planet, I get the weirdest looks.
In my world it is, I want my infrastructure to be reproducible , I want to be able to throw any machine in my infrastructure out of the 10th floor of a building and be up and running again in no time. If I spread a bunch of VM copies around who knows what kind of life they start leading. Some will get upgrades, some won’t ..
If I get an image from someone, how did he get there ? Nobody knows ..