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Foreman Birthday Event 2024 – Recap

On Monday, 15.07.2024, I met early with my colleagues Lennart and Matthias to travel to Garching for the Foreman Birthday Event. This year it was again hosted by ATIX at a conference room next to their office, so thanks to all of them for having as there, especially to Bernhard! And also thanks to the community members that joined us! It was a nice mix from the German community with also some international guests from Red Hat, mostly familiar faces but also some new ones. And it is as great to...

Foreman Birthday Event 2023 – Recap

von Dirk Götz

Two years ago I started my recap of the event with "Last week on Thursday we had the Foreman Birthday event and I can proudly say it was a big success." and I can do the same for this one. At the beginning of the year planning for the event started in the background as we discussed in which form we want it to happen. While I was excited for having an in-person event, I quickly realized that travel restrictions and budget would still be a problem for many people, so we agreed on keeping it...

Leap(p) to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9

von Dirk Götz

Ich muss mich direkt für das Wortspiel im Titel entschuldigen, aber es lag so nahe als ich mich für das Thema entschieden hatte, denn ich möchte einen neuen Blick auf Leapp werfen mit dem Upgrades von Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) durchgeführt werden können. Der Blick soll wie gewohnt etwas ausführlicher sein, daher wird Blog-Post als erstes die Frage "Replace or In-Place" aufgreifen, die ähnlich alt ist wie "Henne oder Ei". Als nächstes geht es um den Status des Projekts, bevor ich die...

Recap of the Foreman Birthday event 2021 – It was a great experience

von Dirk Götz

Last week on Thursday we had the Foreman Birthday event and I can proudly say it was a big success. So lets talk about two things in the blogpost, first about the event itself and second about the organization of the event. A Foreman Birthday event traditionally consists of multiple talks including a Q&A and the social part which is a great coming together by beer and pizza and usually there is also some cake involved! For organizing the event we teamed up with ATIX, so we share responsibility...

Foreman’s 12 birthday – we will have a virtual party

von Dirk Götz

Beginning with Foreman's 7th birthday in the year 2016 we are organizing an annual party to celebrate with the awesome community. As we partnered up with ATIX for organizing this event, it was their turn last year and with Covid19 they had the additional challenge to move a social event from meeting in person to online. While they did great, I had high hopes I could return back to normal in this year, but unfortunately also this year we have to stay virtual. Nevertheless I can announce we will...

Foreman’s 10th birthday – The party was a blast

von Dirk Götz

I can still remember when Greg had the idea of celebrating the Foreman's Birthday four years ago and I volunteered to organize the German one. After two editions and with Foreman being covered on the Open Source Camp last year I asked for others to run the party. And with ATIX doing a great job I asked them to team up on this. So we have grown a great community event with the annual Birthday party. This year was different to the ones before because we had such a big support by Red Hat. The new...

Foreman's 8th birthday – How was the party?

von Dirk Götz

As you may remember we gave the Foreman Project another party to celebrate its 8th birthday, so now it is time for a small recap. At 12:30 I welcomed a group of about 20 people for the event coming mostly from Southern Germany, but with Ewoud Kohl van Wijngaarden coming down from the Netherlands we had again at least one international guest. Afterwards we started with the hands-on session. This session was planned as a completely open session, so some discussions and hacking started while...

Foreman wird 7 – Wie war die Party?

von Dirk Götz

Wie sich einige vielleicht erinnern, hatte ich vor ein paar Wochen zur Feier zum 7. Geburtstag des Foreman-Projekt eingeladen. Nun möchte ich den in meinen Augen gelungenen Event Review passieren lassen. Mehr oder weniger pünktlich hat sich ein Teilnehmer-Kreis von 20 Leuten (zu Spitzenzeiten) eingefunden, der auch einige Mitglieder des Foreman-Teams umfasst hat. Besonders erwähnenswert sind hier Greg Sutcliffe, der es sich nicht nehmen lies als Community Manager aus Schottland...