Fosdem 101

'Fosdem ain't like any other conference.' "Ahh, such an overrated statement, I thought to myself." I have been attending and organizing events for years now. "I attended PyCon US with 3500+ attendees and organized a conference with 1000+ people; most importantly, I come…

CfgMgmtCamp 2024

Ansible Contributor Summit is one of Ansible's most significant and undoubtedly crucial events, now renamed Ansible Colab. It occurs on the last day of Config Management Camp at Ghent. Traditionally, the conference takes place next Monday to Wednesday after Fosdem. We started from Brussels in the afternoon on…

Fosdem, 2024

"What, a technology conference has a legal and policy track! This is the conference for me to be in. " That was me in 2017. I dreamed of attending Fosdem but could not attend one (even though my talk was selected). 2024 marked my debutante year in Fosdm. Fosdem…

Meeting community at PyCon Italy, 2023

The PyCon Italy, 2023 [https://pycon.it/en] discussion started in PyCon Sweden 2022, when Valerio [https://www.linkedin.com/in/valeriomaggio/] invited me for the keynote. From disbelief (since my talk at PyCon Sweden [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9ea00ykQtE&t=32s] was not good) to believing,…

Keynote in PyCon Italia, 2023

My friend Dr. Brett Canon [https://www.linkedin.com/in/drbrettcannon/?originalSubdomain=ca], CPython Core Dev, once said, "Came for the language and stayed for the community." It is a little different for me. I Came for the community and stayed for the love of it. I joined…

Rootconf Hyderbad, 2019

What is Rootconf? Rootconf is the conference on sysadmins, DevOps, SRE, Network engineers. Rootconf started its journey in 2012 in Bangalore, 2019 was the 7th edition of Rootconf [https://hasgeek.com/rootconf/2018/]. In these years, through all the Rootconfs, there is a community that has developed around Rootconf. Now…

CopyleftConf 2020

A week before Software Freedom Conservancy [https://sfconservancy.org/] had announced the CopyleftConf 2020 [https://2020.copyleftconf.org/]. The conference is going to take place on 3 February 2020, Monday, in Brussels, Belgium. The first edition of CopyleftConf took place in February 2019 [https://2019.copyleftconf.org/]. One can have…

Is PyCon 2018 your first PyCon?

Is PyCon 2018 [https://twitter.com/pycon] your first PyCon? Then you must have had a sleepless night. You must be thinking “I will be lost in the gathering of 3500 people.” There should be a lot of mixed emotions and anticipation. Are you the only one who is thinking…