Netway's Nagios Conference in Nuremberg

Netways hosted the first ever Nagios conference in Nuremberg last week. Since I have a dual role of also being the project lead for Nagios Plugins, I was invited to give two talks:

• The Past, Present and Future of the Nagios Plugins
• The Open Source Playground Etiquette

I think they were well received - I even had a feedback of Bessonders gefallen haben mir die beiden Vorträge von Ton Voon ;-) by Lars Sörensen which translates to I liked exceptionally the speeches of Ton Voon!

It was also the first time I had met Ethan Galstad, so we had lots to chat about. It was great meeting his fianceé, Mary.

There were lots of names at the conference that I recognised from the mailing lists, so it was gratifying and humbling to meet so many of you. To all of you that said Hello, I say Vielen dank.

All the Netways team really looked after me, but especially Julian, Peter, and Karolina (who was the "Hostess with the most-ess"). Thanks for making me feel so welcome.

I've been thinking about what a large contribution Netways make to the Nagios community, with their NagiosExchange, NagiosGrapher and, of course, this conference. Altinity compete with Netways on various levels, but when we get together to make the Nagios community better, it benefits everyone, so I applaud their participation.

By the way, I had two main questions that people asked me:

• Is it really true you only met Ethan today? - yup! We never even spoke on the phone before!


• Did you really control your presentation using your mobile phone? - yup. I'm a Keynote fan, and using Salling's remote control via Bluetooth on my Sony Ericsson K750i, I can control the presentation remotely. Some people thought I was going to take a call during my talk!

My personal photos can be found here.

Update: The slides for the presentations at the conference have been published by Netways. You have to select the talk you want here: http://www.netways.de/de/nagios_konferenz/archiv_2006/programm/ablauf/

Comments

[Cailin Coilleach]

Yeah, the NagKon was awesome :) I enjoyed it a lot..

I'm still pushing to get those Tinderboxen for the NagPlug project up and running too. So, hopefully sometime soon, I'll get in touch with you about that.

Finally, I have to agree with you that Salling Clicker rules. I've got it setup for my phone as well. The moment I saw you holding your cell phone I knew exactly what you were doing :D

Cheers!

Thomas

[Cailin Coilleach]

What the hey?!

I was going through your pics and I thought you'd made a mistake with the first one.. I was thinking "Why did he label a picture of -my- back as being his first meeting with Ethan?!"...

Then I noticed you two in the background :D

[tonvoon]

Hi Cailin,

I'm sorry, but I can't quite remember what you look like. The photo with the back of your head only gives me a small clue :) .

Let me know about your tinderbox build box. That really seems to have caught the imagination as we're starting to see more build logs come in. Funnily enough, it kind of proves that linux support is good in the plugins, but not for HP or Solaris. I'll blog about this again soon.

I don't have the full Salling Clicker - is it worth it? The Keynote remote was sufficient for what I needed. It was funny how many people were interested in that. I should use Linux more, but I have to admit to being a tart if there's sufficient "wow" in using a Mac.

Ton

[Cailin Coilleach]

Oh come on, why would you -have- to use Linux? IMHO, Mac OS X is dandy and I wouldn't go without it one day! UNIX + great usability FTW...

And... What I look like? Long pony tail, glasses, beard... The Dutchy, who works for Snow.