The date for the second edition of LOAD has been set :
LOAD 2011 : 16 and 17 April 2011
More information will follow..
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LOAD is over , at least the first edition has ended. It was a blast, it was local , at least for some of us , it was sometimes in depth, sometimes the right level of overview.
We want to thank every speaker, and every attendee for being here. We hope you had a nice stay in Wilrijk, and you learned a lot of interesting things during the event itself.
We would also like to thank our different sponsors , Inuits, Bacula ,Netlog , Opscode, IT Partners and Fedora for financial support, JustEat.be for the Pizza Logistics , O'Reilly for the books , Krimson for the Drupal theming, Multihost for the domain and ZeroPoint IT for the logo
A special word of thanks must go to Don Bosco werken én leren, where we could host the event , a school that offers parttime education.
They work with students between 17 and 20 years old and allow them to go to school one week and go out for work the other week.
We learned from the director, Johan Jacquemin, that he has one big passion: getting the best out of people. And an event like LOAD fits in this vision, because interested students and teachers were enabled to learn new stuff, and people. It also enables to strengthen the students in their interest field, and according to Johan is that one of the most important parts of education to get the students as far as possible. People like to work with things they are interested in. It is quite the challenge for the school to work with students from foreign countries, problem situations and really interested people. But with a good policy the school succeeds in getting a good attitude from most students, as well as from their parents, wich is important too. According to Johan , working is a habit, just as not working. That's also the reason he works at a Don Bosco school.
Later this week we'll be posting links to all available presentations, pictures and blogposts
about Linux Open Administration Days, so please send us links !
On Saturday there will be a pizza event! But we need to make sure we don't order to much pizza ;-)
Therefore we will have a list available. If you want to enjoy some pizza, don't forget to add your name to the list before 2pm.
With 3 days left till Linux Open Administration days we've got another goodie for our visitors .
Josette over at O'Reilly GMT
threw in a couple of O'Reilly books to be handed out at the Conference. So we'll be having a raffle !
At the conference you will fine a box where you can deposit your businesscards and we'll have an innocent hand pick 6 cards from that box who will get an O'Reilly Book , Note that you'll have to be present during the raffle which will take place in the main roo
m after the last talk on saturday evening. That's around 17u45 , just before the Pizza Party
O'Reilly also threw in a 35% discount code when purchasing online on oreilly.com using the UK shopping card. This promo code will be available until end of July. The discount count code will be made available at the conference !
Linux Open Administration Days are getting closer.
We've made some other changes to the schedule, it looks like Load will be the first european conference that will host talks from both Chefs and Puppetmasters.
So if you are into configuration management make sure you don't mis this unique event.
Keep watching our schedule for last minute changes !
We would also like to than Just Eat helping us out organizing the Pizza Party !
We've also added a poll to the site to get an idea of how many of you will show up.. , and will stay for the Pizza Party !
The initial schedule for LOAD is online and can be found here or by using the schedule button in the navigation
Keep in mind that it's still possible that some minor changes can be made..
Loadays is about one month away .. time to announce the initial batch of speakers.
Our list of confirmed speakers today includes:
- Matthias Rechenburg on openQRM
- Jochen Maes on Djagios
- Gratien D'haese on REAR
- Toshaan Bharvani on Living with SELinux
- Frederic Descamps on Daily maintenance of big databases
- Jeroen van Meeuwen on Configuration Management
- Tom De Cooman on Open Source Monitoring Tools
- Kris Buytaert on MySQL High Availability
- And many more!
We are waiting for more speakers to confirm their presence.
Keep watching this space for new talks and more detailed information on the presentations.
You are invited to submit a proposal to participate in the 2010 Linux Open Administration Days in Wilrijk, Belgium on April 10th-11th.
The Linux Open Administration days 2010 will be the first edition of a new conference focusing on Linux and Open Administration, we are trying to fill a gap for System Engineers and Administrators using Open Source technologies.
We are looking for presentations that will be of interrest for the above mentioned group, such as Automatic Deployments, Virtualization, Clustering, Configuration Management , Systems Monitoring , Groupware installations, Datacenter Management Frameworks, Linux Distributions, Filesystems, and so on ...
We are seeking submissions for Presentations, Tutorials and Open Spaces.
Presentations are 45 minute presentations of technical content, tutorials will be 2 hour sessions teaching the audience how to use a technology from the ground up and open Spaces are sessions where the crowd will discuss a problem or idea in group.
We would ask you to prepare a short description of your proposed presentation so we can review it together with a small Biography which we can post on the event's website if your presentation is accepted.
We are accepting proposals as of now till March 22nd, 2010
Please mail : cfp_at_loadays_dot_org
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