# Ansible Community Day (Berlin 2023) - Trip Reports **URL:** \ **Category:** Social Space\ **Tags:** community, event\ **Created:** [September 21, 2023, 8:34pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-community-day-berlin-2023-trip-reports/1023 "2023-09-21T20:34:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![gwmngilfen](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/gwmngilfen/32/6_2.png) [@gwmngilfen](https://forum.ansible.com/u/gwmngilfen)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2023, 8:34pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-community-day-berlin-2023-trip-reports/1023/1 "2023-09-21T20:34:48Z")
Yesterday’s [Community Day](http://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-community-day-berlin-2023/277) was amazing, but for those of you feeling left out, I figured the least I could do was a trip report (at least until the recordings are finished post-processing 😛) @cybette and I arrived around 8.15am to get set up. [C-Base](https://c-base.org/) is _quite_ an amazing place, easily one of the most iconic venues I’ve been to. It’s large enough for a decent crowd (we had ~60 people during the day) but feels cozy and reassuring, rather than a cold conference venue in a hotel. The C-Base team looked after us exceptionally well, with bar staff keeping us topped up and an tight AV crew ( **5 mic sources** , that’s well prepared!), so the event went smoothly - one of the few times where we haven’t really had to do any running around fixing things at all. Here’s an action shot from my talk in the morning: ![PXL_20230920_071505620_083140](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/original/1X/25fb42a2b1755b7836421d65bae6f36f147fb8a8.jpeg) The [talks](http://forum.ansible.com/pub/acd2023-berlin-agenda) were excellent - I especially enjoyed @dschier’s highly interactive talk on how _not_ to do Ansible, and as a community person it was great to hear @lucab_it’s take on building his own community - but all our speakers were amazing! Forum badges are coming your way next week 😛 The “hallway track” was just as important - we so rarely get a chance to talk together, so I made the most of it that I could, and I couldn’t possibly list all the folks I had interesting discussions with. Some very interesting points came out of that, and I’ll be updating my todo lists when I get home - so if I promised you something and you haven’t heard from me by then, let me know 😉 We were done around 5pm and hung around for some social time - however, sadly my new [Story Stitch](https://www.greencardvoices.org/product/story-stitch-deck/) haven’t arrived yet, so that will have to wait for [Config Management Camp 2024](http://forum.ansible.com/t/config-management-camp/91) in February. We did get taken out for a classic Berlin kebab by a local community member - delicious 🙂 ![PXL_20230920_173823749_045535](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/original/1X/3a5b8fa3b041d08f79752a0c3800e429a702e33d.jpeg) I’m sticking around for the Matrix Summit for the few days, but I know I’ll be sorry to go home at the weekend. Berlin has been awesome, I hope we’ll be back 🛬 🥳 Feel free to add your own thoughts and memories from the event! ---
**Author:** ![lucab\_it](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/lucab_it/32/320_2.png) [@lucab\_it](https://forum.ansible.com/u/lucab_it)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2023, 12:37pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-community-day-berlin-2023-trip-reports/1023/2 "2023-09-22T12:37:59Z")
Thank you for the stage with my talk “From Zero to Hero: How to Build the Ansible Pilot Community” to share my experience in creating a Community and sharing the hustle and bustle of writing Ansible books. Excellent event, Ansible Community Day Berlin 2023! A Memorable Conference with Code, Tech Enthusiasts, and Innovators. ![PXL_20230920_094550921.MP](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/original/1X/ae4749dd2fe4b324167780fdcc275f478c31d65c.jpeg)