Just a quick post to encourage any of my three readers who are also VMWare users to vote for my presentation that I submitted during the Call for Papers.
Entitled “5390 Monitoring VMWare with OpenNMS” my goal is to show off all of the cool stuff coming in 1.12 for integrating with vSphere and getting all that crunchy VMWare goodness into OpenNMS.
Vote early and often, and I approved this message.
Hot on the heels of last year’s amazing Ohio Linuxfest, we at The OpenNMS Group are excited to be able to bring the musical stylings of MC Frontalot to this year’s Southeast Linuxfest to be held 7-9 June in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Front has been confirmed to perform Saturday night, and I want to stress that this will be his only Carolinas appearance on June 8th. So if you are jonesing to see the man who coined the term “nerdcore rap” up close and personal, be sure to save the date and register for the conference. I repeat, there will only be one place to see MC Frontalot on June 8th, and that will be at SELF.
Hope to see you there, and bring some ducats for the merch table so he can buy food.
The OpenNMS Group will be represented at the Berlin Buzzwords conference in June.
Eric Evans, our master of all things cloud, large scale distributed systems, cloud, big data and cloud stuff (it is a “buzzwords” conference, is it not?) will be presenting a talk called Cassandra By Example.
If you are going to be in the area, be sure to track him down and say “Hallo”.
The OpenNMS Foundation gang has put up a large number of videos from this year’s OpenNMS Users Conference – more than 16 hours worth of OpenNMS goodness.
Check out the popular talk on OpenNMS and Drools-based event correlation:
or how to fail with OpenNMS:
or watch Tobi Oetiker give an introduction to RRDtool:
Hats of to the team for getting these up and putting on a great conference.
Now that I’ve had some sleep, I wanted to make a few last comments on the Users Conference.
I think the Foundation did a wonderful job with their first conference. All of the feedback I got was positive, with a lot of long time attendees thinking this was the best one yet. I think what made it work was the vibe that this was “user driven”. Heck, even the location for meals, Café Chaos, is student run and managed, and they also handled the catering.
It was a little hard to say goodbye to old friends and new, but many had lives to get back to and trains to catch. Those of us left ended up at the Wiesenmühle beer garden, the traditional ending to the conference. I was extremely happy to see that Dunkel was still in season.
A tradition I didn’t want to repeat was the excessive schnapps consumption of last year, but it just wouldn’t be right without one or two.
Of course, David (pictured on the right) accidentally overrode my order with the waitress for “zehn” (10) glasses and managed to count two more people at our table than were actually there. Thus he and Markus (pictured left) ended up with the two left over shots (Markus since he missed all the “fun” last year).
I had an early flight so managed to leave while feeling very happy and content. It is a shame I have to wait until next year to see everyone again.
Speaking of next year, we are looking for a venue. The team would like to move the conference around Europe. We need a place with two conference/class rooms, a place for everyone to gather and eat, and enough hotel rooms to accomodate everyone. Good public transportation and proximity to an airport are also important. If you know of one, be sure to drop a note to the Foundation folks.
I’ll leave you with this picture. I’m not sure how I managed to take it, actually. It’s supposed to be of a glass of Schwarzer Hahn beer, but I think it turned out pretty cool.
