ATIX @ FOSDEM 2019

Source: Dimitar Danailov

For those, who love open source, there is the first weekend in February, where the Free and Open source Software Developers‘ European Meeting (FOSDEM) in Brussels takes place. Again, this year it offered a good opportunity, to get to know the people behind out most loved open source projects. Furthermore, the number of visitors showed that the community is ever growing and the open source community is by far not a niche.

Once there, you could decide, whether to go to one of the main tracks, one of the many more specialized devrooms or stands. This way you had a great opportunity to get to know the persons behind your favorite projects.As an example the teams behind foreman and pulp -were present and happy to have a chat with you. or example Austin Macdonald told about the latest changes of Pulp3. So you could further talk to him about the latest changes or feature requests. Right at the next corner were major distributions present like, Debian, openSuse, CentOS, Fedora and Gentoo. Close-by were also further stands of Gitlab, python and many more. .

Source: CentOS

Whether you went to the main tracks or to the devrooms, you noticed the major crowd puller were talks about Kubernetes and Ansible. Whereas the first one is a great container orchestration, the latter one is a great tool for configuration management and automation. In the Virtualization and IaaS devroom was kcli

As an example of interests, represented by the main tracks, the topics of Database, Storage Hardware and privacy were on focus. For the devrooms there were a lot different topics for many groups of interest. Container, Infra-Management, Software defined storage, Virtualization and IaaS, as well as python, were just a selection of the devrooms‘ topic and were well visited.

Source: Heise Online

If you needed refreshments, food trucks with waffles and other treats were present, too. Any time you could talk to many different people or join there conversation. After all, this is a great place to meet people and exchange ideas.

If you are still hungry fore more, close-by in Gent is the Config Management Camp, where talks are held by the ATIX crew and you can get hands-on practice with different configuration management tools and other projects.