Introducing the FMA Internals Co-op

As of today, Saturday the 13^th of June 2015, Mick Glover and I are proud to present the FMA Internals Co-op. A co-operation between a seasoned Citrix veteran and an established community blogger and Citrix enthusiast. Which is sort of a unique combination as far as we know.

Before anything else, let’s start with a short introduction first. Mick has an impressive resume with almost 20 years in IT of which he spend the last 10 years at Citrix. He worked as an escalation engineer for 3 years before joining the ww readiness team back in 2009. He is an SME in XenDesktop, App Orchestration and UPM. He is also the author of the XD Tipster blog series over at blogs.citrix.com and is know on Twitter as @XDTipster.

As for me, well, hopefully you guys know me already, reading my blog posts and all :) And if not, please check out my ‘About me’ section here at basvankaam.com, it will tell you all you need to know plus extra’s.

So what is this FMA Internals thing you are talking about?

Although it is a relatively small announcement, it holds great potential as far as we are concerned. And besides that it keeps us on our toes, it’s good fun and our contribution to the community!

Together we will work on an extended series of FMA related blog posts and presentations. We will try to co-host when and wherever possible, but we are also realistic and know that this will probably be limited to once or twice a year. And that’s ok.

However, the blog series is another story. Interconnected as we are nowadays it’s easy to exchange thoughts, have a look at each other’s work, share experiences, potential interesting topics and who knows what we come up with, we might surprise you.

We don’t have an exact schedule in mind but we are planning on doing one FMA Internals related article per month, or 10 to 12 annually on average. Ranging from short announcements to detailed reviews, we got you covered. You’ll find them on basvankaam.com, Mick’s own personal blog (coming shortly) and the citrix.com\blogs website. Look for our logo.

If you have any questions and/or ideas/requests with regards to our Co-op let us know, feel free to contribute and drop us a line.

Go here to find our combined work on basvankaam.com, together with a list of FMA related articles that I had already written prior to our Co-op announcement. Enjoy!

Thanks.

Bas & Mick.

Bas van Kaam

Field CTO EMEA by day, author by night @ Nerdio

Father of three, EMEA Field CTO @ Nerdio, Author of the book Van de Basis tot aan Meester in de Cloud, Co-author of the book Project Byte-Sized and Yuthor of the book: Inside Citrix – The FlexCast Management Architecture, over 500 blog posts and multiple (ultimate) cheat sheets/e-books. Public speaker, sport enthusiast­­­­­­­­: above-average runner, 3 x burpee-mile finisher and a former semiprofessional snooker player. IT community participant and initiator of the AVD User group Community world wide.