Hi all, some of you have probably already noticed the announce in [1], the 2021 edition of the HAProxyConf will take place on November 16-17 as a "virtual event" (I personally prefer to say "online" as "virtual" always makes me feel that I'm losing something important).
For sure we'll all miss the ability to chat around a beer or at a restaurant, but on the other hand it opens a great opportunity to welcome among our speakers some who possibly don't want to travel half of the world for 2 days. And while the 2019 edition was awesome and the talks of great quality, we can't deny that speakers and attendees mostly came from North America and Western Europe, and I would be very surprised if there weren't other very interesting use cases with different challenges in other regions. As such, I encourage all those who think their use case is somewhat unique, or who figured a great way to optimize their infrastructure or their work and who want to share it with others and get their feedback, to consider submitting a proposal. All the details for the submissions are in [2], and the deadline for submissions is June 25th. Please note that just like 2 years ago, you don't need to send the presentation now, it's just a quick summary of what you'd like to present and why you think it could interest others. The talks will be 20-25mn so they won't require an extreme amount of preparation, and this time excuses such as "it's too far", "I'll be jet-lagged", "I don't fly" or "I don't have the time to punch a 2-days hole in my schedule" won't stand :-) The full details are in [3] below. If you're looking for an idea of something to present, you can have a look at suggestions in [1], but my personal advice would be to just open your haproxy.cfg, look at it for a while and remember what problem you solved with these strange few lines you've added to work around a big outage, a DDoS, fix a bogus application, smoothly integrate two mutually incompatible components, or save money by reducing the number of servers. And think again about last time you said "when I have some time to kill I'll need to document this, because it's a great trick that can serve others". Now you have the opportunity to do it, don't miss it! Willy -- [1] https://www.haproxy.com/blog/haproxyconf-2021-call-for-papers/ [2] https://www.haproxyconf.com/call-for-papers/ [3] https://www.haproxyconf.com/
