Last week, all Zabbixers and their families have gathered together in a non-work environment to spend a nice weekend, participating in the 3rd Zabbix Summer Sport Games. 🙂
Yesterday, on January 23rd, Zabbix SIA received a special award from the Latvian Open Technology Association (LATA) in the nomination for “The most remarkable open technology solution for business” in the private sector.
Some might recall that back in 2011 we dug into old logfiles and produced a 5 year graph of Zabbix user count in the #zabbix IRC channel. At the same time, monitoring at a higher rate – hourly – was set up, and data collection started. Now that it’s been 2 years since that graph, let’s take a look at the new graph, how the user count has changed in two years and how Zabbix copes with a 7 year graph.
To be known, accepted and demanded in the different corners of the world is of course a big honor and the pride of every developing and dynamic company. However, to become recognized by the company’s home country and to be named “the best”, that’s what makes you really proud of who you are and what you are doing, as we all know – the most honest critique and valuation of the things you do comes from the closest people. 🙂
On October 31st we introduced to our truly beloved Facebook followers an autumn contest, called “Zabbix Explorer”. During one month, until November 28th, the most enthusiastic, nimble, persistent and passionate Zabbix fans were competing with each other in order to win the title of ”Zabbix Explorer 2012”! 🙂
83 in total of enthusiastic, smart and savvy nerds were fighting hard to get the first place in Zabbix Facebook quiz “Zabbix Nerd Spring 2012”. 6 sets of questions and 23 answer options have been evaluated, studied and passed, and finally on the 7th of July, 2012, Zabbix followers on Facebook, all quiz participants and our true fans have found out the two lucky winners of “Zabbix Nerd” quiz. 
Last weekend Zabbix team went to one of the animal welfare charities who are looking after abandoned dogs and cats, PatversmeLv in Riga, Latvia. The charity is accepting any help from people, so we decided to give it a maximum.
Our day began with choosing the right animal food and it was quite hard to be honest, because we wanted to bring as much as possible, but also wanted it to be tasty for them. After an hour of choosing we finally got what we wanted and went to the charity shelter.
Japan IT Week is the largest IT exhibition in Asia. Every year over 1400 companies join this event to present their products to the IT industry, to share their business knowledge and to gain new business opportunities. By now the last day of Japan IT Week is over and we want to share with you our experience of participating in this great event.
Zabbix team participated in the Latvian Big Cleanup Day 2012 on Saturday, April 21.