Terence Eden (25)
🆕 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
Is it worth bringing business cards to #FOSDEM?
If so, should I take regular cards, ones with NFC chips, or something else?
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 😄
🆕 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
🆕 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! “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
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 )
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
Woo! Hope to see loads of you at #FOSDEM in a few weeks 🙂
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.