FOSDEM - video recordings online
February 14th, 2010
As published in the FOSDEM blog the video recordings are available online - at least for the main track and the lightning talks. Happy video watching!
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FOSDEM 2010 - part 3
February 10th, 2010
Sunday started in Janson with Andrian Bowyer’s talk on RepRap machines, that is devices that can be used as manufacturing devices and are able to replicate themselves. After that I went over to the Mono dev room to listen to Miguel de Icaza on Mono Edge. A great talk on the history of Mono, the way the community interacts with Microsoft, the C# language itself and special features only available in Mono.
After this talk we went over to Janson for Andrew Tanenbaum’s talk on Minix. We knew quite a bit of the talk already from Froscon two years ago, however Andrew is an awesome speaker, so it’s always fun to catch up on the news on Minix.
The scalability talk started with an introduction to Hadoop by myself and continued with a talk on the facebook infrastructure by David Recordon. According to feedback I got after the talk, laughing with Thilo helped quite a bit to get myself calm. Before the talk I received one very good recommendation of one of the audio guys: Imagine you are giving the talk to one of your best friends - and forget about the microphone. Though I had way more slides than minutes to talk, we had enough time for the Q&A session after the talk. I started the talk by learning more about the audience - however this time not by handing the microphone to those listening (room too large) - I just asked them “have you heard about Hadoop?” - half of the audience. Are you Hadoop users: one quarter maybe. How large are your clusters? - 10 to 100 nodes mostly. Have you heard of Zookeeper? - some, Hive - some more, Pig - a few, Lucene - a lot, Solr - a little less, Mahout - maybe 5, Mahout users: 1.
Turns out the Mahout user in the audience was Olivier: It’s so nice to meet people you know are active on the mailing lists for real and have a chat with them. Hope to see you more often on the lists - and meet you face to face again.
I used the chance to announce the Berlin Buzzwords 2010, a two day event on search and scalability buzzwords like cloud computing, Hadoop, Lucene, NoSQL and more. It takes place on June 7th and 8th in the center of Berlin. Follow this blog for further information. Judging from the input I got after the announcement there is quite some need for such a conference in Europe.
The slides of my talk are soon to be available online.
After my talk I could stay in Janson: A talk on the Facebook infrastructure (not only the Hadoop side of things) followed. After that I met Lars George at the NoSQL dev room - unfortunately I did not manage to actually talk to Steven Noels, who organised the room.
The afternoon was reserved for Greg Kroah-Hartman on how to “Write and submit your first Linux Kernel Patch” - my personal conclusion: git is really awesome. I really, really need to find a few spare minutes to learn how to effectively use it.
In the evening we met with Pieter Hintjens for dinner - and to finalize an awesome weekend in Brussels and a great 10th anniversary FOSDEM. A huge Thank You to all volunteers and organisers of FOSDEM - you did a great job this year putting together an awesome schedule, you did a fantastic job making the now pretty huge event (with 306 talks and about 5000 hackers attending) run smoothly. Even the wireless was working from minute one. See you again at FOSDEM 2011.
FOSDEM 2010 - part 2
February 9th, 2010
The event itself featured 306 talks - so pretty hard to choose what to watch on two days. This time, not only the main tracks were awesome, but also several dev rooms featured very interesting talks by well known FOSS developers.
Saturday started with a FOSDEM birthday dance done by all attendees. The first keynote speaker Brooks Davis explained his experiences promoting open source methods at a large company. After that Richard Clayton gave an amazing talk on the evil on the internet. He explained not only how phishing works on a technical level but also included an explanation of the economics behind these attacks, explained how the money flow from victims to attackers works.
On the afternoon Bernard Li gave an introduction to the cluster monitoring tool Ganglia. Directly after that Lindsay Holmwood gave an overview of the monitoring and notification tools flapjack and cucumber-nagios.
The evening was filled with the speakers dinner. Thanks for the organisers for providing that. We had a really nice evening together with some of the organisers, Andrew Tanenbaum and Elena Reshetova at our table.
FOSDEM visitor seems to like my baby
February 9th, 2010
FOSDEM 2010 - part 1
February 8th, 2010
Four years ago I was working in Saarbrücken. From there it is a very short ride over to FOSDEM (little more than 300km). So I decided - hey, why not stay there for a weekend. I found a very nice Brussels bed and breakfast hotel called Rovignon - featuring not only comfortable rooms at reasonable prizes but also cats in the house.
Back then, I barely knew anyone at the conference. However the lineup of speakers including St Peter from XMPP and Georg Greve from FSFE was impressive.
As a result it became a loved tradition of Thilo and myself to drive over to Brussels, attend FOSDEM and watch great talks. Over time there were more and more familiar faces, e.g. at the FSFE booth, among the Debian people…
Last weekend I had an awesome time in Brussels at FOSDEM for the fourth time in a row. I am honoured to have been invited by the FOSDEM organisers for a main track talk on Hadoop in the scalability slot (in Janson…).
We arrived on Friday afternoon, however being awefully tired we unfortunately could not join the Friday evening beer event (though, as I am not drinking beer, I would probably have missed quite a bit of the fun).
Apache Hadoop at FOSDEM 2010
December 11th, 2009
Though the official schedule is not yet online: I will be giving an introductory talk about Apache Hadoop at next year’s FOSDEM (Free and Open Source Developer European Meeting) in Brussles. This will be the 10th birthday of the event - looking forward to a fun event, meeting other free and open source software developers from all over Europe.
If you are a Apache Hadoop developer and would like me to include some particular topic in the talk - please feel free to contact me. If you are an Apache Hadoop user and would like to learn more on the project, please come to the talk and ask questions. If you are an Apache Hadoop Newbie - feel free to join us.
In addition there will be a NoSQL Dev Room at FOSDEM as well. The call for presentations is up already. So if you are doing fun stuff with CouchDB, HBase and friends or are a developer of these projects - submit a talk and join us in early-February in Brussles. Read more…