Open Source Community at tech events
37 write-ups · 20 events · 2023–2026
I collect sessions on open source community life here: foundations, maintainers, contributing and how projects are governed. From AGNTCon and MCPCon to Ansible Community Day and Config Management Camp, the recurring themes are how new projects find their footing and how communities keep contributors involved.
2026
17 Sept 2026 · AGNTCon + MCPCon Europe 2026 · Amsterdam
AGNTCon + MCPCon Europe 2026: All the AnnouncementsComplete roundup of all AGNTCon + MCPCon Europe announcements — MCPA certification, Gates Foundation, Traefik, WSO2, Grape Up, AgentCat, A2A, Envoy.
17 Sept 2026 · AGNTCon + MCPCon Europe 2026 · Amsterdam
AGNTCon + MCPCon Europe 2026 in AmsterdamAGNTCon + MCPCon Europe lands September 17-18, 2026 at RAI Amsterdam. Preview of the agentic AI + MCP conference from the people building the stack.
17 Sept 2026 · AGNTCon + MCPCon Europe 2026 · Amsterdam
AGNTCon + MCPCon Europe 2026 Recap: Agents, MCP, and Production RealityTwo days at RAI Amsterdam. The agentic stack is moving from demos to production — here's what actually works when agents touch real infrastructure.
17 Sept 2026 · AGNTCon + MCPCon Europe 2026 · Amsterdam
AGNTCon + MCPCon 2026: Key TakeawaysAGNTCon + MCPCon 2026 recap: 81% have agents in production, MCP hits 89% adoption, AGENTS.md at 60k repos, and the shift from demos to reliability is real.
17 Sept 2026 · AGNTCon + MCPCon Europe 2026 · Amsterdam
AGNTCon + MCPCon Europe 2026: Two Days of Real Agentic AI at RAI AmsterdamDay 1 of AGNTCon + MCPCon Europe at RAI Amsterdam: 2,000+ attendees, keynotes from MCP co-creator David Soria Parra, and agentic AI production data.
17 Sept 2026 · AGNTCon + MCPCon Europe 2026 · Amsterdam
AGNTCon Day 2: Stateless MCP, Agent Identity, Multi-AgentDay 2 at AGNTCon + MCPCon Europe — stateless MCP in production, agent identity, and multi-agent orchestration.
17 Sept 2026 · AGNTCon + MCPCon Europe 2026 · Amsterdam
People I Met at AGNTCon + MCPCon Europe 2026The builders behind the agentic stack — speakers, panelists, and hosts I met at AGNTCon + MCPCon Europe 2026 in Amsterdam.
11 Sept 2026 · IBC 2026 · Amsterdam
IBC 2026 Innovation Awards: Top ProjectsFrom the Collective Newsroom to the IBC International Honour for Excellence, a look at the 2026 award winners.
8 Sept 2026 · How to Roll Out OpenTelemetry at Scale (Grafana Labs) · Amsterdam
Grafana Labs OTel Amsterdam: Community, Networking, and the People Behind the CodeBeyond the slides: the community connections at the Grafana Labs OpenTelemetry event in Amsterdam — group photos, coffee breaks, and conversations that matter.
8 Sept 2026 · How to Roll Out OpenTelemetry at Scale (Grafana Labs) · Amsterdam
How to Roll Out OpenTelemetry at Scale: Grafana Labs Amsterdam RecapGrafana Labs OpenTelemetry Amsterdam recap: Ted Young on rollouts, Austin Parker on Observability IRL, Hierarchy of Observability.
1 Sept 2026 · End Summer Camp 2026 (ESC {22}) · San Donà di Piave
End Summer Camp 2026: Hacking & Free Software in ItalyMy first End Summer Camp — 7 days of hacking, free software, and DIY at Parco della Scultura in San Donà di Piave, Italy.
26 Aug 2026 · Go Amsterdam meetup · Amsterdam
Go Meetup Amsterdam at JetBrains: Event RecapA recap of the Go Amsterdam meetup at JetBrains, with talks on the select statement, memory debugging, and staying passionate in tech during the AI age.
29 Jul 2026 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Japan 2026 · Yokohama
Community & Takeaways from KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Japan 2026From KubeCon Japan 2026: the growing CNCF platform-engineering community in Japan, hallway-track moments, and how AI helped me discover volcanic eggs.
8 Jun 2026 · RISC-V Summit Europe 2026 · Bologna
One Student One Chip: 18,861 Students Build RISC-V ChipsBOSC's One Student One Chip teaches students to design RISC-V processors from ISA to GDSII tape-out. At RISC-V Summit Europe 2026, 18,861 enrollments revealed.
12 May 2026 · Red Hat Summit 2026 · Atlanta
Summit 2026 Floor Chats: RUGs, Coder, RISC-VShort conversations from the Red Hat Summit 2026 expo floor: Red Hat User Groups, sovereign coding agents, OpenShift DRA, RISC-V, Nagios and open source AI.
11 May 2026 · Red Hat Summit 2026 · Atlanta
Christian Gafner, Adfinis: Digital Sovereignty Meets OpenBao's Open GovernanceChristian Gafner on digital sovereignty, OpenBao's TSC governance, and why Adfinis backs open source secrets management with a 24/7 enterprise SLA.
11 May 2026 · Red Hat Summit 2026 · Atlanta
Shuchi Sharma on Open Source AI's World of Infinite PossibilitiesShuchi Sharma on leading Red Hat's Open Source and AI Program Office, operationalizing open source AI at enterprise scale, and a new foundation in the works.
23 Mar 2026 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2026 · Amsterdam
KubeCon EU 2026: Dutch Kubernetes Podcast and CommunityConnected with the team behind De Nederlandse Kubernetes Podcast and Nate Waddington from CNCF at KubeCon EU 2026 Amsterdam. The ecosystem is built.
23 Mar 2026 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2026 · Amsterdam
People of KubeCon Europe 2026: Hallway InterviewsFifteen short hallway interviews from KubeCon Europe 2026 in Amsterdam: contributors, a co-chair, observability vendors and a cluster in a cat carrier.
21 Mar 2026 · Cloud Native Rejekts EU 2026 · Amsterdam
Cloud Native Rejekts 2026 Amsterdam: MC ExperienceCo-hosting Cloud Native Rejekts 2026 with Julia Hahn — 300+ engineers, deep technical talks, and the best B-side conference before KubeCon.
21 Mar 2026 · Cloud Native Rejekts EU 2026 · Amsterdam
Master of Ceremonies at Cloud Native Rejekts 2026What it takes to MC Cloud Native Rejekts — the 300-person unconference that sets the tone for KubeCon week in Amsterdam.
21 Mar 2026 · Cloud Native Rejekts EU 2026 · Amsterdam
Steve Wade (Platform Fix) at Rejekts 2026: Fewer ToolsTwo hallway interviews from Cloud Native Rejekts 2026 at Miro HQ: Steve Wade on deleting platform complexity, and Rodrigo on Miro's compute platform.
31 Jan 2026 · FOSDEM 2026 · Brussels
FOSDEM 2026: The Devroom Talks I SawSeven FOSDEM 2026 talks from the ULB campus: Fedora on RISC-V, ClickHouse, open source funding, FreeSewing, Linux power saving and pre-silicon upstreaming.
31 Jan 2026 · FOSDEM 2026 · Brussels
People of FOSDEM 2026: Hallway InterviewsShort hallway interviews from FOSDEM 2026 in Brussels: EU funding, the CRA, Weblate, Percona, PostgreSQL, FreeIPA, Foreman, Ansible and RISC-V hardware.
31 Jan 2026 · FOSDEM 2026 · Brussels
FOSDEM 2026: Open Source, RISC-V & Community Energy in...Luca Berton's experience at FOSDEM 2026 in Brussels — connecting with DeepComputing, RISC-V International Foundation, and 8,000+ open source minds.
31 Jan 2026 · Udienza 2026 conference coverage (FOSDEM, KubeCon EU/Japan, AGNTCon + MCPCon, OSS Europe)
Where Udienza Films: Conferences and Media PartnershipsWhere Udienza filmed in 2026: FOSDEM, KubeCon Europe and Japan, AGNTCon + MCPCon and Open Source Summit Europe, and what a media partnership means.
2025
25 Aug 2025 · Open Source Summit Europe 2025 · Amsterdam
Open Source Summit Europe 2025 Amsterdam: RecapThree days at Open Source Summit Europe and ELC 2025 in Amsterdam: agentgateway, DocumentDB, COSSA, RISC-V interviews, Zephyr testing and NIS2 vs CRA.
19 May 2025 · DevOops #8 (with Amsterdam.dev) · Amsterdam
DevOops x Amsterdam.dev 2025: OSPOs and Code ChatDevOops x Amsterdam.dev at Datadog Amsterdam, May 2025: developer experience through OSPOs and InnerSource, then code chat with Candle and Tree-sitter.
2 Apr 2025 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2025 · London
KubeCon London 2025 Interviews: OpenShift to KitOpsTwelve short interviews from the ExCeL London floor: OpenShift Virtualization, Trilio, vCluster, Cloudsmith, Coder, Kubeflow, KitOps, Qodo and the CNCF.
1 Apr 2025 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2025 · London
KubeCon Europe 2025: Highlights with Luca BertonJoin Luca Berton as he takes you inside KubeCon Europe 2025 — from the Kube Train to the keynotes, automation, and AI talks!
3 Feb 2025 · Config Management Camp 2025 · Ghent
Configuration Management Day 2025: Automation, DevOps & IaCFrom Chef to Ansible, hear automation leaders at Configuration Management Camp 2025. Expert interviews on Infrastructure as Code and open source.
3 Feb 2025 · Config Management Camp 2025 · Ghent
CfgMgmtCamp 2025 in Ghent: The Talks I SawMy notes from the CfgMgmtCamp 2025 talks in Ghent: an AI model leaderboard, Chef history, Salt internals, SOPS for Ansible secrets, ARA and tox-ansible.
1 Feb 2025 · FOSDEM 2025 · Brussels
FOSDEM 2025 Brussels: The Devroom Talks I SawThree FOSDEM 2025 devroom talks from the ULB campus: Linux on RISC-V in H.1309, Podcasting 2.0 transcripts, and zero-knowledge queries over credentials.
1 Feb 2025 · FOSDEM 2025 · Brussels
Top Interviews from FOSDEM 2025 by Luca BertonWatch the most popular interviews from FOSDEM 2025, where Luca Berton sits down with open-source innovators shaping the future of tech.
2024
13 Jun 2024 · Dutch Kubernetes / Cloud Native Meetup: Happy Birthday, Kubernetes! · Amsterdam
Kubernetes 10th Birthday Meetup in AmsterdamThe Dutch Kubernetes / Cloud Native meetup celebrated 10 years of Kubernetes at Datadog in Amsterdam: a timeline, a cake, and an RTL platform adoption story.
2023
20 Sept 2023 · Ansible Community Day Berlin 2023 · Berlin
Ansible Community Day Berlin 2023Join Luca Berton as he captures the best moments from Ansible Community Day Berlin 2023 — featuring interviews with Red Hat experts and open source leaders.
16 Jun 2023 · DevConf.cz 2023 · Brno
DevConf.cz 2023 — DevOps, Automation & Ansible HighlightsExplore Luca Berton’s interviews and key moments from DevConf.cz 2023 in Brno — from open source leadership to the future of Ansible and automation.