There is a really cool monitoring conference held each year in Germany. Called the “Open Source Monitoring Conference” (OSMC) it is put on by Netways, one of the maintainers of the Icinga project, but they welcome other projects such as OpenNMS and Zabbix.

It is a lot of fun, and usually Jeff and I fight over who gets to go. This year David won (he was in Germany for other reasons) and they now have his talk available for viewing:

It’s an overview of what we have been up to and where we are going with the Project. Check it out.

Speaking of conferences and travel, next week I plan to be in Helsinki, Tallinn, Riga and Brussels. I’ll be in Riga for the Open Tech conference and hope to spent some time with my Zabbix friends, and I’ll be in Brussels for FOSDEM where OpenNMS will have a booth. It’s my first time at either conference, and if you happen to be in the area drop me a note and perhaps we can meet up.