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OpenInfra Summit 2022 – Class reunion of our community

Eduard Itrich, Felix Kronlage-Dammers June 23, 2022

Two weeks after this year’s OpenInfra Summit in Berlin we are still overwhelmed by the impressions of those three days at the Berlin Conference Center (bcc). With our reference implementation being built upon OpenStack the OpenInfra Summit is the major conference for us - obviously we brought our share of talks and contributions to the table as well.

A multitude of great speakers and the overall welcoming and motivating atmosphere made this event unique. Many thanks to the whole OpenInfra Foundation team who made this summit possible and to FNTECH for the successful organization of the event. You rock! 🤘

All of the talks at the Summit were recorded and are published. Within the SCS community we assembled a list of talks that we thought were really great.

Contributions and talk from the SCS communtiy

The first day started with keynotes and we were thrilled that PStS Dr. Brantner from the Federal Ministry of economic affairs and climate action shared her thoughts. Eduard had the chance to present our views on Digital sovereignty and why open infrastructure matters. The subject of digital sovereignty is important - as such Eduard was assigned another slot on day two.

Kurt and Felix presented the Open Operations concept - maybe this will become the fifth open paradigm? The talk was well received and sparked discussions around the hallway track. There was a forum session on Day three together with the folks from Operate First on Open Operations which featured a packed room. We will move this subject further and spark more discussions and actions within our community.

The learnings and building blocks from our Special Interest Group Monitoring were presented by Felix and Mathias in their talk on Observability in OpenStack.

Further sessions and recordings worth seeing

Open Infra Summit 2022 Gallery
Open Infra Summit 2022 Gallery
Open Infra Summit 2022 Gallery
Open Infra Summit 2022 Gallery
Open Infra Summit 2022 Gallery
Open Infra Summit 2022 Gallery
Open Infra Summit 2022 Gallery
Open Infra Summit 2022 Gallery
Open Infra Summit 2022 Gallery

About the authors

Eduard Itrich
After graduating from university, Eduard was part of a software development team and responsible for the release management of a Linux enterprise distribution. Following up his two-year parental leave, during which he orchestrated his twin daughters rather than continuous deployment pipelines, he became the head of digitalization and IT of the medium-sized town Bühl in southwestern Germany. From 2021 until 2023, Eduard empowered the Sovereign Cloud Stack community as Open Source Community Manager and enjoyed learning from a inspiring team and fellows.
Felix Kronlage-Dammers
Felix has been building (open source) IT Infrastructure since the late 90s - during high school he helped build and run an ISP specialized in providing UUCP over ssh. Between then and now felix has always been active in various open source development communities (from DarwinPorts, OpenDarwin to OpenBSD and nowadays the Sovereign Cloud Stack). His interests range from monitoring and observability over infrastructure-as-code to building and scaling communities and companies. A technician at heart he enjoys enabling others to do awesome stuff. He is part of the extended board of the OSBA and describes himself as an unix/open source nerd. If not working, doing OSS for fun and (non-)profit or spending time with his family, he is usually found on a road bike.