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so, what started as an event for the local – Belgian – Linux sys admins ended up as a -small- event with some top notch international speakers and visitors from all over Europe. I met some people from Austria, UK, France, Germany, … .

Thanks to Robert Keersse we had a great location – Don Bosco Werken en Leren – with great catering for the visitors as well as for the speakers and crew.

On Saturday Kris Buytaert opened the conference with a short talk about devops. After the opening talk we were proud to have the first European talk about CHEF by Joshua Timberman. You can view a list of all our talks here. On Saturday evening, we had a book raffle where we handed out O’Reilly books. To conclude our evening at the event location we had some free pizza and beer. The perfect combination for a geeky weekend! We finished our evening at a bar in Wilrijk.

On Sunday there was one talk that needed to be cancelled, Pieter Colpaert couldn’t make it because of a train crash. I had an open space about ‘Linux and education’ and learned a lot about the differences between colleges in Europe and the US. But we all have still a long way to go.

We had a lot of positive comments, so there will probably be a second version of Load.

I still want to thank the crew, all speakers and the visitors for making this all happen!

Yes, tomorrow is the first day of a new Linux event geared towards system administrators. As most of you probably already know, the name of this event is: Linux Open Administration Days , or load.

I think load has a good schedule, and everybody will be able to find a talk or tutorial that fits his or her interests.

But load is more than 2 days of interesting talks and tutorials alone! On Saturday evening there will be a social event, where everybody can have a chat with each other, while having a beer and a slice of pizza. Just before the social event, we will draw 6 O’Reilly books between the visitors. Don’t forget your business cards if you’re interested in a book (or if you want to meet new people).

I hope to see you all there!

Some may already know, but the load schedule is online, and we have a pretty loaded schedule!

It promises to be a great weekend for the linux system administrator, with talks from people like Kris Buytaert, Thomas Herve, Jeroen van Meeuwen (European rhce of the year 2008) and many more! We also have some nice tutorials scheduled, and there will be room for some chit chat. You won’t get bored, that’s for sure!

On Saturday evening, we will have a social event at ‘T Spant, about 500 meters from the events location. I hope to see you all there!

hi sys admins!

We changed the deadline for the call for papers. You have now one week extra to think about a talk you want to give during LOAD . We want to see your papers before march 23.

hope to see you there!

We are searching for some graphical talents that want to show off with a nice logo!
We had a meeting today about the FOSS event for system administrators, and we came up wit the name ‘LOAD’, or: Linux Open Administration Days.

anyway, we need a logo now.. So, if you’re an expert, and you want to have eternal respect from us, create a logo!

You can send the logo to biertie at fedoraproject dot org. the deadline is 28december. I hope you guys can come up with something nice!

* if you win this competition, we want the svg file too.