SCOPE
- My first time at FOSDEM I decided to attend mainly for configuration management. But first listened to Vangelis Koukis about Ganeti+Archipelago+Ceph. Next tried to get into configuration management, which was packed as many other popular talks (JavaScript, Postgres, ...).
- Université libre de Bruxelles - good reachable from all over Europe by plane, train, bus or car. Be an early bird for parking near university. Opening on Saturday started 10:30, got a parking place in front of H-Building at 08:30. There's also plenty time to get familiar with buildings and rooms - that's quite important to get fast from A to B. Fact: FOSDEM is packed!
Tweets about "#fosdem"
Once in and interested in more than one talks in the same room, please verify:
- food: checked
- water: checked
- loo: checked (that's what I missed, damn!)
- extra oxygene: checked
- hopefully not taller than 1,80m for sitting more than 2 hours: checked (damn again)
PEOPLE
A huge growd of geeks around I've never seen before. Lots of people and speakers not only talking about open source but living open source.
TALKS
High quality talks (as expected) to very specific topics. Attending a talk you're interested in does not mean you get familiar with it. So reducing the number of talks (actually more than 500) would extend time for each single talk which would lead to get more into details. Spending 10mins resolving technical issues significant decreases understanding of a planned 40mins talk.
Less is more! Reduce topics! Don't try to fit open source related universes into 2 days!
THE TEAM
RESPECT! Setting up and runnig such a huge event is hard work. Thanks to all people involved, thanks to infrastructure team keeping WiFi up and running, thanks to all the helping hand behind the scenes. You did a great job!
THE TEAM
RESPECT! Setting up and runnig such a huge event is hard work. Thanks to all people involved, thanks to infrastructure team keeping WiFi up and running, thanks to all the helping hand behind the scenes. You did a great job!
UNANSWERED QUESTIONS
Spending tons of time to open source projects and it's community leaves questions unanswered, how and when to earn money and how to get open source enterprise ready. What are the steps? I assume it's more comfortable to vote for a closed source, paid license model than setting up a solid, reliable infrastructure build on open source tools. Please explain - how to handle this from the scratch orchestrate 100s of tools working properly toghether and keeping them up to date serving best effort to customers?
Next question: How to get paid for, what others are using? Most of enterprise IT are still billed on a monthly/yearly base. You order infrastructure and pay for. That's far away from auto provisioning machines for testing purposes or auto scale on heavy load. How to handle? Which mechanisms have to be implemented? Which structures? How to record usage? How to bill? How to keep an eye on legal issues?
CONCLUSION
Geeks area, which is good. Some more in-depth examples on how implement enterprise open source are appreciated.
