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Day 1 (636) JeroenHeijmans (24)

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Started at the main track with "FOSS in times of war, scarcity, and (adversarial) AI" by @michiel

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Stayed at the main track for "Evolving Git" by Patrick Steinhardt:

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And even more main track, another VCS that still has a warm place in my heart: "Mercurial, 20 years and counting", by Raphaël Gomès and Pierre-Yves David.

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After that a @calyxos related talk by Aysha and @grote about "HSM based signing for AOSP projects".

Fast paced, info dense... hope my doodles are correct (enough) 😅

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Next at I got to take it easy as I'd done my sketches beforehand (per one of the speaker's request). So had time to fully listen to Fabio Giovanazzi and @flypig talk about "NewPipe and SailPipe".

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After that continued for me with a showcase by Effie Mouzeli on Wikipedia's "Bare Metal, OSS, and some Caching".

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Next at second main track, @mikemcquaid gave a "Lessons Learned" recap of what happend around RubyGems past fall.

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Then a ClickHouse-related talk on "Inverted Indexes" by Robert Schulze.

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Bit of Python next at : a talk by @malemburg about "Python, DuckDB, and ETL".

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