Back from GUADEC 2012

I was back home last week after GUADEC in A Coruña, and a week’s vacation after that.

Another post-GUADEC wrap-up. And I’m still processing the many amounts of information,
ideas and discussions in my head. A few things worth sharing:

First it’s the best planned GUADEC in modern history, everything worked properly, thanks for the organizers.

About the talk, the keynote on first day is ‘The Tor Project’ which I never heard it before, I feel it’s very useful in China, :), cause we have GFW,
and I talked with Jacob in ‘Welcome Cocktail Party’ about let the NetworkManager support the tor project, it’s a good idea and I’ll find some time to dig it.

Another interesting talk ‘GNOME online accounts: for users and hackers’  triggers me that we should add support for weibo which is very famous ‘twitter’ in China.

‘How to fix a font’ on 3rd day is very fresh for me, and I ask Willis an font issue which I met in work why Acroread font display unnormal,
but unfortunly not got the solution, 🙂

Another touching talk was the History of GNOME talk given by Jonathan Blandford, Federico Mena Quintero and Dave Mason on last day.
They told the story of the early days of GNOME, and got much applause when showing some dead contributors, it’s really moving.

There are so many topics which I enjoyed, I don’t want to describe each one in here, in short I learned a lot of top-edge technology, such as the GNOME OS, Wayland, openShift and gnome-box.

And in this year GUADEC, I applied an volunteers to be a Session Chairman, it’s a great experience for myself.

It’s very happy to take part in Football and basketball match, and knew a lot of good team player.

After the main conference days, the BoFs were up. The one I attended was the GNOME OS session.

Here I met some old friends and also new one, I’ll share some picture below.
Also you can find more pictures from here .

 

At last, a very big thanks to the GNOME Foundation and SUSE for sponsoring my trip.

Back from GNOME.Asia 2012


I participated the GNOME.Asia 2012 in HongKong last week, so now I should take advantage of the memory still fresh to make a summary. It’s a very exited experience in GNOME Asia 2012 in HongKong.

My two topics got approved in this conference, and I really learned a lot from preparation.
1) Local GNOME Users Group experience — Beijing and Taiwan (Bin Li, China and ChunHung Huang, Taiwan) (English), pdf file.
2) Open Build Service (Bin Li, China) (English), pdf file.

At this conference I met a lot of developer in Asia. The topic which I like most is from
Fred Chien (Taiwan) talked about some cool work with JaveScript in GNOME.

And also I met some foreigner, Aleksander,and JF, which I met them in Desktop Summit 2011.
Aleksander Morgado which is from Spain introduce ModemManager now supporting 4G/LTE.
JF which from Canada share the PiTiVi to us.

You can find a lot of topics from our Beijing GNOME User Group.
Weiwu Zhang,Tong Hui, FanJun Kong, Ms Liansu Yu, Ms Eleanor Chen

We have a video clip to show BJGUG in Gnome Asia 2012.

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5cOd8KGX4c&w=560&h=315]

You can find the detail from http://2012.gnome.asia/schedule/

A little pity is that there are not so many people here, I hope next year more and more people could know and enjoy GNOME.Asia if it’s in Beijing.

At last I’ll share some pictures from GNOME Asia and thanks for the sponsorship from GNOME foundation and SUSE.
   

You can find more pictures in http://www.flickr.com/groups/1958066@N20/ .


[Talk about the OBS]

[Introduce Beijing GNOME User Group]

[Max with BJGUG]

[Group photo in close day]
GNOME Asia 2012