FLOSS UK's annual Spring conference. This is the UK's only conference aimed specifically at systems and network administrators. It attracts a large number of professionals from sites of all shapes and sizes. As well as the technical talks, the conference provides a friendly environment for delegates to meet, learn, and enjoy lively debate on a host of subjects.

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Wednesday, 16th March 2016

Lethaby Room Voysey Room
08:00

Reception and Coffee

08:00
09:00

Welcome

09:00
09:10

Keynote

Mandi Walls

09:10
10:10

Getting The Maximum Out Of Systemd

Julien Pivotto

When Applications Make Promises

Thom May

10:10
11:00

Coffee Break

11:00
11:30

Logical Replication In PostgreSQL

Petr Jelinek

Configuration Management With Ansible And Git

Paul Waring

11:30
12:30

OpenNMS And Cassandra – A Marriage Made In Heaven?

Dr Craig Gallen

Ansible Virtual Machine Bootstrapper

Toshaan Bharvani

12:30
13:00

Lunch

13:00
14:00

Tuning Linux For Your Database

Colin Charles

#Monitoringsucks To #Monitoringlove

Kris Buytaert

14:00
15:00

Nftables

Richard Melville

Icinga2 In The Middle Of Your Toolstack

Bernd Erk

15:00
15:50

Coffee Break

15:50
16:20

Writing Books (The Easy Bit)

Dave Cross

Perl CLI For Fun And Profit

Tom Bloor

16:20
17:00

Lightning Talks

17:00
18:00

Drinks Reception

18:00
19:00

Conference Dinner

19:00

Thursday, 17th March 2016

Lethaby Room Voysey Room
08:30

Reception and Coffee

08:30
09:30

Admonitor – simple server monitoring

Andrew Beverley

‎Developing Your Brand – From A Job Seeker , Business To Sole Contractor/Consultant‎

Rick Deller

09:30
10:10

Multiple Choice: Open Source DNS Servers

Jan­Piet Mens

Is Configuration Management Still Relevant In A Containerised World?

Stephen Grier

10:10
11:00

Coffee Break

11:00
11:30

MariaDB/MySQL Security Essentials

Colin Charles

Architecture Automation, One Alligator At Once

Matt S. Trout

11:30
12:30

Open Source, A Job And An Adventure

Dawn Foster

An IoT Style Heating Control System

Ben Dooks

12:30
13:20

Lunch and Birds of a Feather

13:20
15:10

Coffee Break

15:10
15:40

Data Revolution Catalyst

Lameck Amugongo

15:40
16:30

Prize Giving and Close

16:30