a new FOSS event in Belgium?

Dec 02, 2009 I ICT-related, fedora.

Today I heard Vincent ranting about FOSDEM. As a system administrator he couldn’t find any cool rooms that fits his interests.

So I had an idea: if there isn’t any event in belgium that promotes open source tools for sys admin, why not create one? Vincent and Kris were enthusiastic about it, but I think we need more people.

We are still in concept-mode, so we don’t know yet where or when it will take place (although we know that it will be in Belgium ;-) ). We also want to make it FOSDEM style, but of course we don’t expect 1000people ;-)

so if you want to join us, please leave a reply on this blog post, or send an e-mail to: biertie   _AT_   fedoraproject   _DOT_   org.

9 responses so far, say something?

  1. Javache Says:

    Ik denk dat dit zeker iets is waar Zeus aan mee wil werken. Je laat maar iets weten ;)

    Dec 02, 2009, 23:11
  2. Paul Cobbaut Says:

    As a sysadmin I’ve seen some interesting talks about selinux, lvm, upstart and ext4 at fosdem. But it is indeed aimed more at developers.

    Dec 02, 2009, 01:31
  3. Mel Chua Says:

    Dave Nalley and Pascal Calarco are good folks to ask about this; they’re both US-based but know of or have been to open-source-ish sysadmin conferences near them, and those kinds of events might be a good template for what you’re trying to set up.

    Dec 02, 2009, 07:20
  4. martijn Says:

    I’d love to see a more sysadmin-oriented event in Flanders. Heck, if it’s not too far, and fits my schedule I might even offer some help.

    Dec 02, 2009, 11:06
  5. Pascal Bleser Says:

    There are a lot of distributions present this year, holding a “distro miniconf”. We will normally have a main track about monitoring.

    What do you see as “more sysadmin oriented” ?

    “patches are welcome” ;-)

    Dec 02, 2009, 18:58
  6. florisla Says:

    There *are* already sysadmin-oriented conferences: http://www.profoss.eu/index.php/main/Events

    Dec 02, 2009, 16:06
  7. Kris Buytaert Says:

    This might be the opportunity to start a BarcampESM in Europe :)

    Dec 02, 2009, 11:30
  8. Kris Buytaert Says:

    @florisla
    And now the correct link plz ?

    Dec 02, 2009, 11:30
  9. florisla Says:

    @Kris, I don’t know a better link than that?

    Dec 02, 2009, 14:10

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