FEDIDEVS

If you were in the #FOSDEM SocialWeb BOF session on Sunday, please let me know if you have any video, audio, or photos of my talk.

I foolishly forgot to record it myself 🙃

🆕 blog! “Presenting ActivityBot at FOSDEM”

Because I'm an optimist, I submitted a few talks to FOSDEM in the hope one might be accepted. Because I'm lucky, I got two speaking slots. Because I'm an idiot, I decided to do both talks. On the same day. An hour apart. On opposite ends of the venue.

Fool!

My first talk was at the Social Web Birds-of-a-Feather session.…

👀 Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/02/presenting-activitybot-at-fosdem/
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#ActivityPub #fosdem #presentation

🆕 blog! “Review: Voviggol Finger Ring Presentation Clicker”
★★★★⯪

I was packing for FOSDEM when I suddenly realised that I'd lost my clicker. Disaster!

Here's a shortlist of what I need in a presentation remote:

Ring style to fit on my finger
USB-C
Works on Linux
Frickin' lazor beams!

The only one I could find which matched all that was this Voviggol…

👀 Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/02/review-voviggol-finger-ring-presentation-clicker/
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#fosdem #gadget #review

Awww! Some lovely #FOSDEM feedback. Thanks all 🥰

🆕 blog! “Talking Contact Tracing at FOSDEM”

I was delighted to be invited to speak at FOSDEM. And I was not at all intimidated to be speaking on the cavernous Janson stage. The audience were lovely, asked interesting questions, and - most importantly - laughed in all the right places 😅.

Regular readers will recognise this as being an up…

👀 Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/02/talking-contact-tracing-at-fosdem/
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#conference #covid19 #fosdem #nhsx #OpenSource #presentation

🆕 blog! “FOSDEM - The Good Parts and the Not-So-Good Parts”

I'm just back from my first ever FOSDEM - a megaconference dedicated to Free and Open Source technology and culture. It was epic. I'm still ruminating on the experience, but here are my first impressions of what did and didn't work.

The Good Bits

Really, it is a dozen conferences squeezed into one. Over …

👀 Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/02/fosdem-the-good-parts-and-the-not-so-good-parts/
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#conference #fosdem

Really enjoyed #FOSDEM - my first ever!

But there's a bit of me which wants to talk about some of the snags without sounding like a whinger.
And without accidentally volunteering to fix them all 😄

After hearing people at #FOSDEM talking about @dillo I decided to give it a go.

Fascinating to see which bits of my websites do and don't work with it.

Good beer and good company!
#fosdem
Drinking: Stouterik
By: Brasserie de la Senne
At: Hacker Space Brussels #HSBXL
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#untappd

Exhausted from my first #FOSDEM.
Huge thanks to everyone who said "hi" - and special thanks to those folk who let me fanboi at them 🤭
Right, time for a cheeky beer - once I figure out the Metro.