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We are halfway 2026 already so it is time to think about what you will be doing next February.

Start with blocking your calendar for 1-3 February . As usual we’ll be meeting in Ghent for 3 days of Infrastructure Automation Geekery. It will be a fun mix of 2 days of conference with new and old communities, followed by a day of workshops hackathons and tutorials. You know you can’t mis this.

#devops Conference Season heating up...

My last post has been a while … in that I announced that there would be another event right before FOSDEM … I totally forgot to announce it here but I`m sure that most of you already know. Yes. PuppetCamp Europe is coming back to it’s roots… it’s coming back to the city where we hosted it for the first time on this side of the ocean.. Gent. (that’s 31/1 and 1/2 )

#monitoringlove hackfest

The age of #monitoringsucks is over, we’re now transitioning into a #monitoringlove period.

That however doesn’t mean al the work is done, we still need to do a lot of work and a lot of people are working on a lot of stuff.

Therefore like last year we are opening up our offices again right after Fosdem for a #monitoringlove hackfest

That’s right on february 4 and 5 a bunch of people interrested to fix the problem will be meeting , discussing and hacking stuff together in Antwerp. In short a #monitoringlove hackathon

At Fosdem

  • on Friday evening , apparently having a confirmed reservation in a resto is not enough to actually be welcome at that restaurant.
  • at DrupalDevdays, only 2 laptops were open during our presentation
  • at DrupalDevdays, almost nobody in the room was already using CI
  • at Fosdem , the parking lot is full before 11:30 on a saturday
  • at Fosdem , much less Macs than last years .
  • at Fosdem , way too much rooms are already at full capacity so you need to have 2-3 backup alternatives ..
  • at Fosdem , people expect me to be in certain rooms, at the same time
  • at Fosdem , even with too much rooms already full one still misses a bunch of interresting talks
  • at Fosdem , one doesn’t even realize friends are speaking there too ..
  • at Fosdem , Android is the standard …
  • at Fosdem , you are confronted with the fact you probably forgot more names of people than you remember ;(
  • at Fosdem , you are surrounded by famous open source people, that aren’t even on the schedule
  • at the MySQL Meetup Dinner, Monty brings Salmiakki
  • at Fosdem , you wonder how many other people have survived their 11th edition
  • at Fosdem , you can’t get into any devroom on sunday morning
  • at Fosdem , begging on Twitter to get in to a devroom from the other side of the door works (at least for me :))
  • at Fosdem , netbooks are much less popular as opposed to 2-3 years ago ..
  • after fosdem … you crash ..\

Upcoming 2011 Speaking Engagements

Lenz gave the good example so I`ll follow :)

Next weekend saturday I`ll be giving a talk about devops at StartUp Weekend Brussels, from what I’ve read so far it promises to be an audience that needs the talk,

The week after I`ll be speaking at the DrupalDevDays, again about devops , however this time with a touch of Drupal , giving a devops talk at Devoxx last year to a Java audience learned me that the devops evangelist need to go outside of their usual conference audiences and als talk to the people that are usually in the other silos.

Devops Meetups before Fosdem , 2011 Edition

Just last last year we’ll have a Devops meetup just before Fosdem,
I’ve setup a page for registrations , that way we’ll know how many people to make reservations for.

If possible we’ll go to the same place as last year .. walking distance from the Fosdem Beer event.

Feel free to spread the news !

Fosdem 2010

Fosdem 2010 was my 10th fosdem Edition (including the first OSDEM)
As every year Fosdem suffered even more from it’s own success.

On Friday evening ther was the obligatory Beer event… however as people need to eat to .. the Devops crowd fled the scene

I had made reservations for a 20 something group and with the CentOS crowd joining us (as there was some overlap anyhow) we were 25 when we arrived in the restaurant .

MySQL & Friends Meetup @ Fosdem

Fosdem is coming up again .. It’s going to be the 10th edition already So it’s going to be 2 days and nights of fun, tech and geek stuff

Lenz already posted the announcement , but allow me to recapitulate.

The MySQL & Friends meetup is on saturday evening , we’ll meet around 1900 in front of the under the big tree in front of the AW building…

As with the Devops Meetup you can once again vote for your preferred food

Devops Meetup @ Fosdem

The Devops crowd does not have it’s own devroom at Fosdem but will be meeting on Friday evening for food in a location close to the BeerEvent.

If you want to join us please let us know by voting on your favourite choice of Food. Using this doodle.

There’s already about 15 people that are voting for the food selection ….

Plan is to meet outside of the BeerEvent around 2000 and
then move to a preferred food location.