I've been pretty busy lately, albeit behind the corners, which leads to a lower activity within the free software communities that I'm active in. Still, I'm not planning any exit, on the contrary. Lots of ideas are just waiting for some free time to engage. So what are the challenges that have been taking up my time?

One of them is that I recently moved. And with moving comes a lot of work in getting the place into a good shape and getting settled. Today I finished the last job that I wanted to finish in my appartment in a short amount of time, so that's one thing off my TODO list.

Another one is that I started an intensive master-after-master programme with the subject of Enterprise Architecture. This not only takes up quite some ex-cathedra time, but also additional hours of studying (and for the moment also exams). But I'm really satisfied that I can take up this course, as I've been wandering around in the world of enterprise architecture for some time now and want to grow even further in this field.

But that's not all. One of my side activities has been blooming a lot, and I recently reached the 200th server that I'm administering (although I think this number will reduce to about 120 as I'm helping one organization with handing over management of their 80+ systems to their own IT staff). Together with some friends (who also have non-profit customers' IT infrastructure management as their side-business) we're now looking at consolidating our approach to system administration (and engineering).

I'm also looking at investing time and resources in a start-up, depending on the business plan and required efforts. But more information on this later when things are more clear :-)