Conference

Next week from 20-22 April 2026 Engage takes place in Ghent (Belgium).

On the weekend of 27–29 March 2026, I had the opportunity to attend the Chemnitz Linux Days for the third time. This year it felt like coming home, and I enjoyed every second — meeting friends, attending sessions, and talking to like-minded people. Around 3,800 visitors attended the conference over the two days.

This weekend I attended FrOSCon, an open source event in St. Augustin / Bonn, Germany. On Saturday around lunch time there was a new visitor record of 1200. I don’t know how many more came in the afternoon and on Sunday.

I attended Chemnitz Linux Days 2025 from Friday, March 21st to Sunday, March 23rd. It was my second time at the event, and I enjoyed it even more than last year. This time, approximately 3,500 people attended in person, with up to 250 parallel viewers joining the live streaming of lectures. You can find more details in the official blog post.

This year marked my inaugural attendance at the Chemnitz Linux Days. The experience was fantastic, and I had the pleasure of connecting with numerous intriguing individuals. Chemnitz Linux Days stands out as one of the premier events in the Linux and open-source community. With 3,200 attendees this year, participants had the opportunity to engage with a diverse array of topics through 94 talks and hands-on workshops.

Last week I attended FrOSCon[https://froscon.org], a yearly conference about Free and Open-Source software, organized by the computer science department of the University of Applied Sciences Bonn-Rhein-Sieg.

This year, Engage took place at the Felix Meritis in Amsterdam. The Engage board (Hilde, Theo and Kris) did a great job and made this very special conference a great success.

The annual conference of DNUG took place in Constance from 22nd to 23rd of June 2022. I attended the HCL Connections Roadmap session given by Rene Schimmer and David Strachan. They showed the updates for version 8 and beyond.

This week I attended the DNUG Connections Day 2020 in Munich. First of all I need to thank the organization team which did a really good job (Thanks Andreas , Martti and Lara ). During the short breaks we had great conversations with parts of the HCL Developer team and other attendees. Update I completely forgot to mention Jörg Rafflenbeul ! He was responsible for beer steins, a great glass of quits jar, photos, videos and a ton more. Sorry Joerg and thank you!

:icons: font Since thursday the gpn19 (Gulasch Programmiernacht) is taking place in Karlsruhe at ZKM. I’m happy that I got the chance to give two talks: Documentation with any editor Automate your Infrastructure Deployment

This week starts with Admincamp in Gelsenkirchen. Thanks Rudi Knegt and team for this awesome event! The conference or lets name it camp was real fun. In the end I did three sessions and a workshop. You can find download links to all slides and used files in this article or on https://stoeps.de/speaking/2018/. I learned and heared a lot of interesting stuff around IBM Notes, IBM Connections and Sametime. You can get most of the session slides through the Admincamp agenda.

Today I attended Froscon 13 in St. Augustin. Froscon is one or the biggest event around Opensource in Germany. Thanks again to organizers sponsors of this awesome event, it was a pleisure to be here and have the chance to give a talk. The slides for my session “Documentation with any editor” can be found at https://gitlab.com/stoeps/froscon18-presentation/blob/master/froscon13-documentationwithanyeditor.pdf.

This time Social Connections is hosted in Vienna. The austrian capital is a great place to meet new and old friends. I love the city and the awesome dialect, to listen and practise a little bit, start with the lovely video about the only word you really need to survive in Vienna.

This year I attended IBM Connect in San Francisco. In my eyes it was a great event and I enjoyed it very much. Some announcements are very important for the future and evolution of the IBM portfolio:

Since the IBM Connect pages does not show all presentation, I uploaded mine to slideshare.