{"id":10046,"date":"2025-10-31T11:59:42","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T10:59:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.credativ.de\/blog\/credativ-inside\/open-source-virtualization-gathering-december-2025\/"},"modified":"2026-03-03T11:09:20","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T10:09:20","slug":"open-source-virtualization-gathering-december-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.credativ.de\/en\/blog\/news\/open-source-virtualization-gathering-december-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Source Virtualization Gathering December 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This December, we are launching the very first <strong>Open Source Virtualization Meeting<\/strong>, also known as the Open Source Virtualization Gathering!<br\/>Join us for an evening of open exchange on virtualization with technologies such as KVM, Proxmox, and XCP-ng.<\/p>\n\n<!--more-->\n\n<p>The meeting on 11 December 2025 will take place at the premises of credativ GmbH in M\u00f6nchengladbach:<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-nowrap is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-6c531013 wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.credativ.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/highres_530469076-1-1024x576.jpeg\" alt=\"Aerial view of the credativ Office, venue of the Open Source Virtualization Gathering\" class=\"wp-image-10043\" style=\"width:449px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.credativ.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/highres_530469076-1-1024x576.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.credativ.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/highres_530469076-1-300x169.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.credativ.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/highres_530469076-1-768x432.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.credativ.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/highres_530469076-1-1536x864.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/www.credativ.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/highres_530469076-1-2048x1152.jpeg 2048w, https:\/\/www.credativ.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/highres_530469076-1-600x337.jpeg 600w, https:\/\/www.credativ.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/highres_530469076-1-180x101.jpeg 180w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-yoast-seo-local-address\"><div id=\"wpseo_location-\" class=\"wpseo-location\"><h3><span class=\"wpseo-business-name\">credativ\u00ae<\/span><\/h3><div class=\"wpseo-address-wrapper\"><div class=\"street-address\">Hennes-Weisweiler-Allee 23<\/div><span class=\"postal-code\">41179<\/span><span class=\"locality\"> M\u00f6nchengladbach<\/span>, <span  class=\"region\">Deutschland<\/span><\/div><span class=\"wpseo-phone\">Phone: <a href=\"tel:+4921619174200\" class=\"tel\"><span>+4921619174200<\/span><\/a><\/span><br\/><span class=\"wpseo-phone2nd\">Secondary phone: <a href=\"tel:08002733284\" class=\"tel\">08002733284<\/a><\/span><br\/><span class=\"wpseo-email\">Email: <a href=\"mailto:inf&#111;&#064;c&#114;ed&#097;ti&#118;&#046;d&#101;\">in&#102;o&#64;c&#114;ed&#97;&#116;&#105;&#118;&#46;de<\/a><\/span><br\/><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<div style=\"height:53px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-agenda\">Agenda:<\/h2>\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>5:00 PM Opening<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Talks:\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Ronald Otto, Managing Director of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tuxis.nl\/de\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Tuxis B.V.<\/a> &#8220;Enterprise-Ready? How Users Deploy Proxmox VE and Ceph&#8221; (Lecture in English) <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Florian Paul Azim Hoberg (credativ) &#8220;Proxmox VE as a virtualization engine for <a href=\"http:\/\/boxybsd.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">BoxyBSD<\/a>&#8220;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>TBA<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Discussion and Networking <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Closing <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Relocation \/ Extension to the restaurant on the ground floor (self-payment)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p>We will cover the drinks during the first part. Afterwards, those who wish to do so can join us for dinner and further drinks at the Italian restaurant <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lacottoneria.de\/\">La Cottoneria<\/a> (at your own expense). The presentations will be held at least partially in English.   Of course, everyone is free to join in the discussion. <\/p>\n\n<p>This marks the beginning of a new series of community-driven meetings \u2013 help shape it from the start! If you are interested in giving a presentation, please contact us. We will periodically host such events with exciting presentations, and we hope that an Open Source Virtualization regulars&#8217; table might develop from this. We already had a kind of pilot with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.credativ.de\/en\/en\/blog\/credativ-inside\/postgresql-user-group-visits-credativ-in-moenchengladbach\/\">PostgreSQL NRW Meetup<\/a> \u2013 thanks again to the PostgreSQL User Group NRW.<br\/>Registration for this first event is handled via Meetup.com. If you wish to participate, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.meetup.com\/monchengladbach-oss-virtualization-gathering\/events\/311284475\/?utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=share-btn_savedevents_share_modal&amp;utm_source=link&amp;utm_version=v2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">please click the &#8220;Attend&#8221; button on meetup.com<\/a>.    <\/p>\n\n<p><strong>Please note:<\/strong> Unfortunately, the Meetup.com platform, which we have chosen for organization, is known for pushing new users toward a subscription (Meetup+) and unnecessarily complicating the registration process. A subscription is not required, and participation in our event is, of course, free of charge. You can skip the partially private questions asked by Meetup. We do not collect this data, nor do we have any access to it.    We only require a name and, if applicable, an email address. <\/p>\n\n<p>We will be looking for an alternative booking tool for the further <a href=\"https:\/\/www.credativ.de\/en\/contact\/events\/\">event series<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This December, we are launching the very first Open Source Virtualization Meeting, also known as the Open Source Virtualization Gathering!Join us for an evening of open exchange on virtualization with technologies such as KVM, Proxmox, and XCP-ng.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":10045,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_improvement_type_select":"improve_an_existing","_thumb_yes_seoaic":false,"_frame_yes_seoaic":false,"seoaic_generate_description":"","seoaic_improve_instructions_prompt":"","seoaic_rollback_content_improvement":"","seoaic_idea_thumbnail_generator":"","thumbnail_generated":false,"thumbnail_generate_prompt":"","seoaic_article_description":"","seoaic_article_subtitles":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,3],"tags":[1785,1761],"class_list":{"0":"post-10046","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"hentry","7":"category-credativ-inside","9":"tag-event-en","10":"tag-open-source-en"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.5 (Yoast SEO v27.5) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Open Source Virtualization Gathering December 2025 - credativ\u00ae<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Join the first Open Source Virtualization Gathering and experience exciting discussions about KVM and Proxmox.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.credativ.de\/en\/blog\/news\/open-source-virtualization-gathering-december-2025\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Open Source Virtualization Gathering December 2025\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Join the first Open Source Virtualization Gathering and experience exciting discussions about KVM and Proxmox.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.credativ.de\/en\/blog\/news\/open-source-virtualization-gathering-december-2025\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"credativ\u00ae\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/credativDE\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-10-31T10:59:42+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2026-03-03T10:09:20+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.credativ.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/highres_530469076-1-1024x576.jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Peter Dreuw\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Join us for the first Open Source Virtualization Gathering in M\u00f6nchengladbach! 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