Terence Eden (25)
Hey gang. In one week's time, I'll be taking to the Janson stage at #FOSDEM to talk about how #OpenSource helped the UK's Covid tracing app.
I'd love to see you all there. It's a big room, so please bring a friend!
Open Source Nerds Assemble!
The deadline to submit a CfP for State of Open is *this weekend*.
State of Open is in London on 4 and 5 February, 2025 - right after #FOSDEM.
We're looking for interesting speakers on all topics to do with open source, open data, open hardware, funding, AI etc.
Submit a proposal at https://sessionize.com/state-of-open-con-2025/
🆕 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
Paraphrasing "Take your alt text, run it through an AI image generator. Does it even vaguely match your image? If not, it is bad alt text!"
(A not entirely unserious proposition by @mgifford )
🆕 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
I also have an intimidatingly large room to fill.
So if you'd like to see a guy with a beard who *isn't* a billionaire talking about embedding a culture of Open Source, please come along 😄
🆕 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
Good point about AI. Having a bot answer support requests is pretty good for users and excellent for financials.
But it prevents a community from developing.
People drive-by for an answer and never get embedded into community discussions.
#fosdem
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 🙃