<div dir="ltr"><div>Hi *,</div><div><br></div><div>Short recap of the cfgmgmtcamp in Ghent that was taking place until just now: The event is a pretty good idea since almost everybody that attended had been previously at FOSDEM (where the config management devroom as well as Go, JS and Python devrooms where packed to their limit, wasn't able to get in during both days) and Ghent is just a beautiful city. The whole event is free (there's even free food and drinks) the venue is sufficiently large enough. Most of the prominent developers of automation and testing software (i.e. puppet, chef, cfengine, ansible, saltstack) were actually present. As were docker people and the vagrant/packer guy. We had an interesting conversation with one of the digital ocean guys this afternoon. </div>
<div><br></div><div>I primarily followed puppet and chef stuff (all things TDD where possible), keynotes and a short introduction to ansible. The cfgmgmtcamp guys told me that sildes will be available on their website (or lanyrd - not sure): <a href="http://cfgmgmtcamp.eu/">http://cfgmgmtcamp.eu/</a></div>
<div><br></div><div>I feel that's a pretty productive meeting with a lot of Ops people from large web companies present. Thus I hope there will be a continuation of this event next year after FOSDEM (and possibly a lot more attendees since word usually spreads quickly). So in comparison: this free, short event was far more interesting and substantial than puppetconf (which some of the attendees agreed to have been a complete bullshit conference, besides some small exceptions, as I told the list back in august). If you're planning to attend a similar conference, think about coming to FOSDEM and cfgmgmtcamp next year. It's free, it's fun and a lot more useful than a 600 USD conference where you won't be able to network with people due to hordes of cloud people screaming buzzwords at the top of their lungs - yea. I tend to exaggerate.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Digital Ocean seems to be desperately looking for engineers if any of you is looking for a new occupation :P</div><div><br></div><div>I've given a short 20mins introduction to environment modules for non-HPC people (i.e. FOSS developers) at FOSDEM that might be of interest for some of you: http:// <a href="http://www.slideshare.net/a_z_e_t/how-to-save-the-environmentfosdem14hpcdevroom">www.slideshare.net/a_z_e_t/how-to-save-the-environmentfosdem14hpcdevroom</a></div>
<div><br></div><div>Aaron</div><div><br></div></div>