NUT at FOSDEM 2025
Published on February 4, 2025 by Jim Klimov
The trip to FOSDEM 2025 was great fun, with many interactions, useful lectures and fruitful conversations.
It was insightful to randomly meet at least one person using the project, a few eager to use and asking questions, and sadly quite a few who did not recognize not only "NUT" but also "UPS" key words.
Face-to-face talks to maintainers of Debian, OpenIndiana, Tribblix and systemd, to name a few, provided interesting ideas to evolve OS integration as the systems themselves change. The maintainer of COBOL had some information about the arrangement and hosting of build systems they use (and maybe we might knock on that door too).
And the events hosted by Jenkins (we do a lot of it in the NUT CI farm, created and popularized the Jenkins-dynamatrix solution, and co-maintain some plugins), as well as by OpenCollective themselves, were not only fun but also work - netWORKing and sharing knowledge and ideas on these organizational fronts as well.
Thinking about expanding the presence (maybe submit to deliver some talk, make stickers, etc.) in the future. A table/stand is probably too big an ask, but this year many tables were time-shared by different projects, so that is also an option.
One lesson learned: while the custom printed hoodie had a lot of different information, with all bits used in discussions with different audiences, the lack of clear project name and URL on the front side was sorely missed. There was more info on the back side, but it meant carrying the heavy backpack on one shoulder for the whole weekend so that would be visible. People actually photographed the front during our talks as a sort of a business card, but may have a hard time finding the key words in the imagery.
Jim Klimov
It was insightful to randomly meet at least one person using the project, a few eager to use and asking questions, and sadly quite a few who did not recognize not only "NUT" but also "UPS" key words.
Face-to-face talks to maintainers of Debian, OpenIndiana, Tribblix and systemd, to name a few, provided interesting ideas to evolve OS integration as the systems themselves change. The maintainer of COBOL had some information about the arrangement and hosting of build systems they use (and maybe we might knock on that door too).
And the events hosted by Jenkins (we do a lot of it in the NUT CI farm, created and popularized the Jenkins-dynamatrix solution, and co-maintain some plugins), as well as by OpenCollective themselves, were not only fun but also work - netWORKing and sharing knowledge and ideas on these organizational fronts as well.
Thinking about expanding the presence (maybe submit to deliver some talk, make stickers, etc.) in the future. A table/stand is probably too big an ask, but this year many tables were time-shared by different projects, so that is also an option.
One lesson learned: while the custom printed hoodie had a lot of different information, with all bits used in discussions with different audiences, the lack of clear project name and URL on the front side was sorely missed. There was more info on the back side, but it meant carrying the heavy backpack on one shoulder for the whole weekend so that would be visible. People actually photographed the front during our talks as a sort of a business card, but may have a hard time finding the key words in the imagery.
Jim Klimov