On 12.10.2017 11:33, Heiko Schlittermann via Exim-users wrote:
Hello,
I'm thinking about organizing an Exim Users (Admins) meeting in Germany,
preferrably in Dresden, as I'm living here :) and I can ask a local
training company for donating some space (depending on the number of
people, of course).
Mensch Heiko, was für eine geile und auch mutige Idee!!
I'm in professional IT, but only a hobbyist in managing my personal
server for less than a dozen accounts, but I like to believe I do a lot
better-than-average security and anti-spam (without "traditional" tools,
all mine!)
As I am living in Germany, I could attend spontaneously even without my
employer as sponsor :-/
· What language do you prefer?
Some people my be anglophobe, but we should not have a problem with
that! Of course we _speak_ English and _code_ ANY!
Rincewind could cry for help in a dozen languages, and just cry in 22 more!
· Would you give some talk/presentation/lesson (what about?)?
Perhaps about my way to turn address harvesters as a tool to shoot back
at spam. This is actually a symbiosis with a webserver and would yield
great results if many hosts work together.
> [time]
Jan-Mar (while we [Germans] can use up our last year's holidays ;-) for
us Germans. IMHO foreigners would be better of between spring and
summer, but between German holidays!
[location]
. Where?
. Dresden (East Germany, Capital of Saxony, great nature around,
Saxon/Bohemian Switzerland)
. Berlin (…)
· ???
Someone suggested Heidelberg, which definitely has a great charm both to
Germans and foreigners. Somehow this seems to be THE university - or
better students - town of Germany. I live in Hameln, which has medieval
atmosphere and is home to a famous fairy tale (the rat-catcher, the pied
piper). But the location really only matters if you positively bring
spare time. Besides, we could arrange some off-topic activity to make
use of a nice environment. Dresden and surroundings are really nice and
a home-play for Heiko as our tourist-guide, of course ;-)
Otherwise the most important concern is reachability for foreigners
(intl. airport)
Depending on the audience I can imagine some talks about common Exim
configuration, maybe we can employ one of the Debian Exim maintainers to
get more comfortable with the Debian way of Exim configuration ;),
present solutions, successful integrations, talk about problems, bugs,
features, future development.
I would prefer the user's side. Best practice in short. And then divided
by subjects: general conf, spam (which has a dozen sub-subjects), av,
proper lookups (which still produce 80% of my conf mistakes), variables,
expressions, an hour of Q&A with developers...
Secondary systems/tools: OS, dns, fail2ban, fw, av...
Wizardry with the exim cli
Good Luck Heiko!
And endurance! You will need it.
Cheers
Hardy
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