Dear Readers,
time is running and it’s running so fast, that we have to remind you of two Call for Papers and Early Birds already! Open Source Backup Conference and Open Source Monitoring Conference are waiting for you to join them as speakers. And both are providing discounted tickets for early attendee registrations.
But let’s take one thing at a time!
Open Source Backup Conference on Bareos (OSB Conf)
Call for Papers: until June 6th 2015
Early Bird: until June 6th 2015
This conference is of course all about the important things you need to know, if you like to play it save. The Open Source Backup Conference on Bareos (former known as “Bacula Conference”) annually offers a whole lot of presentations about Open Source Backup (as you might have already guessed). Of course you can also meet nice people there who share your passion for a nice and well done backup.
The English speaking conference will take place in Cologne from September 29th to 30th and is organized by us and our wonderful partner dassIT.
If you like to apply as a speaker, this is the place you are looking for.
If you are more interested in taking part as an attendee, you have to register here.
Open Source Monitoring Conference (OSMC)
Call for Papers: until June 30th 2015
Early Bird: until June 30th 2015
Of course you already know one of the most beautiful conferences about open source monitoring! If not, you just have to visit us in Nuremberg for this year’s celebrations of the 10th anniversary of Open Source Monitoring conference!
Every year we welcome guests from all over the world to give them two fully packed days of interesting talks about one of our favorite topics: Open Source Monitoring Software – especially Icinga! On top of that, we offer workshops as an add-on. This year, we will also provide participation in a Hackathon for the very first time. So you can stretch your visit in our hometown from November 16th to 19th, if you like to.
If you like to apply as a speaker, this is the place you are looking for.
If you are more interested in taking part as an attendee, you have to register here.
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Last Tickets for Puppet Camp Berlin available!
We were sold out with gold packages at OSDC as quick as a wink this time and I don’t see no reason, why we shouldn’t be sold out as fast as that with the Puppet Camp. So just to remind you: AT THE MOMENT there are tickets of all categories available but that could change literally every minute!
So if you’re clever, you will book your ticket really quick.
Just have a look at this phantastic program with speakers from CERN, Puppet Labs or Server Density if you still need something to convince you.
OSDC 2015: Last tickets available! Or: How to worry like a pro
If you are still waiting to buy your ticket to this year’s OSDC – for whatever reason – you should now start having sleepless 
nights because the strictly limited tickets might sell out any day now.
You can skip the following paragraph, if having a sleepless night is not an option for you.
To give you some pro tips from somebody who really is an expert in insomnia: the perfect preparation for having a sleepless night is to start the day with panic-fueled running in circles thinking about all the catastrophes that will happen, if you don’t get your ticket yet. You should then pick one catastrophic scenario and start to embellish it in the most horrific way possible. Once this scenario has manifested as the only possible way things just have to evolve in the near future, you can spend the rest of the day worrying about all the possible ways people you love could die, because you haven’t bought your ticket in time. Like for example how your company will go bust, because you missed all the up to date information at OSDC that you will definitely need to do your job right and how that will mean, that you and all your colleagues will lose their jobs and then die slowly and painfully of hunger. By afternoon, you should be in a kind of paralysis already, laying in fetal position under your desk. In this stage of self-deprecation, you really can’t do anything wrong anymore – just go with the flow and worry even more until you finally – it should be morning again by then – come to the conclusion, that the world would be a better place, if you had never been born at all.
So this is the best possible preparation for having the worst sleepless night ever. But there are of course alternatives!
Like for example buying your ticket yet. You can, if you like to draw the process out a bit, have a look at the program first and read all about speakers like Nigel Kersten (Puppet Labs), Mitchell Hashimoto (Vagrant) or Kelsey Hightower (CoreOS). You could then toy with the notion of booking one of the workshops or maybe joining the Puppet Camp. But you can of course book your ticket right away too – just to make sure, that we are not sold out until you finally made a decision.
CeBIT 2015: Team Icinga in Hannover
Vom 16. bis 20. März werden einige unserer Kollegen als Teil des Icinga-Teams bei der CeBIT sein. Wer jetzt schon weiß, dass er auf jeden Fall alle Neuigkeiten rund um Icinga, Icinga 2 und Icinga Web 2 aus erster Hand erfahren will, der sollte sich schleunigst mit einem Terminwunsch bei uns anmelden.
Einen klugen Lageplan gibt’s da auch zum Download.
Und wer jetzt denkt „Lageplan? Ich brauch doch keinen Lageplan! Als echter Trapper kann ich mich selbstverständlich anhand der Wuchsrichtung des Moses auf den Bäumen auf dem Messegelände orientieren!“ dem sei trotzdem noch als kleiner Hinweis mitgegeben, dass er nach Halle 6 Stand H16 (110) Ausschau halten soll.
Nicht nur für alte Trapper, die sich mit Jagdmesser zwischen den Zähnen, durch das hannoveranische Unterholz zum Messegelände kämpfen und unterwegs selbsterlegte Biber zu puscheligen Fellmützen verarbeiten, gibt es hier auch Freikarten.
Und nu?
Jagdflinte geschultert und ab durch den Mecklenheider Forst zur Messe Hannover!
Puppet Camp Duesseldorf: you’re bloody late!
Yes, you are bloody late and I warned you – two times… in German though, but if you really loved me, you would have learned German.
But, because I’m not a barbarian, I will warn you once again in the language of Sherlock Holmes, Queen Mary and Johnny Rotten: YOU HAVE TO REGISTER FOR PUPPET CAMP DUESSELDORF N O W !!!
The thing is, that we will have the Puppet Camp on October 16th, which is pretty soon I guess for some reason without even looking at my calendar… and Luke Kanies, and a lot of other pretty awesome speakers will be there…
And just because we love you all so much (especially myself of course) we will give you the tickets for a bargain with 25% off. Even a former B-list celebrity who is living in a cardboard box under a bridge could afford the ticket now!
The ony thing you need to know to get the discount is how to read the post behind this link and how to fill in the code PuppetCampCheers! In the “additional notes” field if you register… and you should do this NOW, because the tickets are strictly limited, my friends! 🙂
