Bert blogt

hi all!

long time no seen
(on this blog at least)
so, what have I done the last week?

I went to Linux-tag in Berlin as a fedora representative. I did some booth work (#), and was planning on attending some English talks, because my German is… … ehm, not good but I didn’t make it to the talks, I visited the other booths, and socialised with other people in stead. friday was the first day of fudcon, the Fedora users and developers conference. I was the first time I visited fudcon, but I think it was really interesting!
at the first day we did some hacking, we chilled a bit, and we worked on the presentations for the barcamp.
friday was also fudbar, a fedora event in the ‘en passant’, a restaurant in Berlin, were we could enjoy free pizza’s, and meet up with other FOSS people.

Saturday was barcamp day!
I was planning on giving a talk about the fedora ambassadors project, but I changed the subject (wel, max did) to the event box.
after a quick introduction on what the ambassadors project is to some red hat folks that wanted to join this project, we talked with some other (very important) emea ambassadors about our own eventbox, and we made some decisions about it. so I think there will come a fedora-emea event box!
this night I went eating with the Yaakov, Max and some of the Germans in a steakhouse. I thought it was quite expensive, but the steak was great.
afther our meal, we moved to C-base, were the Ubuntu people had there bbq.

Sunday was the hackfest day,
I worked a bit on my own project (devpoint), Jeroen, Chitlesh, and I had a talk about the spin process, and yeah, we chilled a bit
in the evening we went to some traditional place in Berlin, were we had a good (traditional?) mael, and some decent beer!
I am used to Belgian beer, and well… this was the first beer I had in Berlin that I could compare to Belgian beer.

Monday I had a breakfast at the hotel, and went toghetter with Jesse to the airport. after I checked in, and went to security blablabla, I took a place near to the security.. there I saw a funny thing, some girl had to open her hand luggage because when they scanned the luggage, they saw a strange object.. so she had to take that out, and guess, it was a vibrator! her parents were not amused, and she was totally embarrassed!

that was so cool to watch

so, I can say that I had a great time, I am really happy that I was there

you can find the pictures here: (#). you can copy them, and use them, I wouldn’t bother about the facebook license

yesterday I heard for the first time about brucon (#) (thx to inode0).

Because it looks like a really interesting conference, I think it would be cool to be there with some other fedora people. If there are enough Fedora people, I will also try to set up a booth there. please note that I am not yet sure if a booth will be possible, the organisation asked me to join them in their next crew meeting. When a booth would be possible, maybe we could share one with the CentOS team.

If you are planning to come, please check this page (#) on the Fedora wiki

as some people already know, I’m going to linuxtag @ berlin. I’ll leave already on Tuesday 23june, and come back to my beloved Belgium (hehe) on Monday 29june. I’ve set up a scheme for the sessions that I will follow.

day 1: wednesday
11:00-12:00 -> openJDK [saal4]
12:00-13:00 -> clustered CIFS for everybody [saal 1]
15:00-16:00 -> successfully working with kernel development process [saal 4]
16:00-18:00 -> fedora booth attendance

day 2: thursday
10:00-12:00 -> fedora booth attendance
12:00-13:00 -> synchronizing a openLDAP with active directory [saal 1]
14:00-16:00 -> fedora booth attendance
16:00-17:00 -> linux resource management and contrainers [saal4]
17:00-18:00 -> weblogin made easy with openID [saal1]

day3: friday
10:30-11:00 -> the linux defenders: stop the trools, protect linux, further inovation [saal 5]
11:00-12:00 -> the open cloud: open source and cloud computing converge [saal 3]
12:00-12:30 -> zimory: a marketplace for cloud computing [saal 3]
15:00-16:00 -> from company creation to co-creation
16:00-17:00 -> refactoring in PHP while going open source [saal 3]

day4: saturday
10:00-11:00 -> open source Xen Hypervisor Comunity [saal 1]
12:00-14:00 -> fedora booth attendance
15:00-16:00 -> security [marshall haus 1]
16:00-16:30 -> highy available virtual infrastructures based on Xen [saal 1]
16:30-17:00 -> the challenge of guest migration [saal 1]
18:00-18:30 -> barcamp wrapup
+some FUDcon stuff

day 5: sunday
FUDcon stuff

I’ll also give a barcamp about the fedora-ambassadors project, and and a hackfest on SOAS, but I don’t know yet when I have to give them…

I’m staying at the Holliday Inn hotel, toghetter with the other fedora people I will schare my room with Loupgaroublond, so that must be fun ^^

See you there!