or Why should conferences have long breaks
In the post about the first day of the conference I explicitly mentioned that the coffee/tea breaks were fairly long. And that was not a complaint – it was a positive observation and “thank you” to the organisers. Why should conferences have long breaks then?
Continue reading The social part of the Zabbix Conference 2016
We covered the main talks during day one and day two of the Zabbix Conference 2016, but there were a few more things that happened in the conference hall at the end of the second day. After the main talks were over, in 5-minute long lightning talks various topics were introduced and briefly covered.
Afterwards, the participants had a chance to ask questions to the Zabbix team. While there is a lot of talking going on off-the-record (conference participants catching a developer, separate sessions for Zabbix partners etc), this was a chance both to raise a topic to be heard by a bigger audience, and find out something if you had not managed to grab a Zabbix team member before.
Continue reading Lightning talks and Q&A at the Zabbix Conference 2016
The second day of the Zabbix conference started with workshops. This was a completely new thing, thus there was limited experience with organising these. There were four workshops in two tracks:
Continue reading Looking back at the Zabbix Conference 2016, day 2
It’s been a few weeks since the Zabbix Conference 2016. If you are considering attending next year, you might want to know – how was it? In one word, great. But that doesn’t tell much, so let’s briefly explore how it went.
The conference started with a talk by Alexei Vladishev, the original author of Zabbix. He shared the improvements in the soon-to-be-released Zabbix 3.2 and the usually-interesting statistics on the conference itself. This year the 3rd biggest number of participants was from the Netherlands, second from France and Russia had the first place. Importantly, he assured all the participants that Zabbix will always be true open source software – also commonly known as Free software.
Continue reading Looking back at the Zabbix Conference 2016, day 1