It’s been a few weeks after I got back from GUADEC 2018, which was hosted in Almeria, Spain. And I finally manage to find some time to write this blog.
First Impression
It’s my first time to Spain. And my first impression is that it’s hot here. I arrived at Malaga Airport around 13:30. The moment I stepped out of the airport, I thought: WOW, this is as hot as Beijing. But it turns out Almeria is a lot better. Cheers!
After around 20-hour flight(4-hour layover at CDG), I felt very tired. And another 3.5-hour bus was waiting for me. Unexpectedly, the scenary along the coastline kept me awake all the time. It IS very beautiful. And it’s definitely worthwhile flying to Malaga and take the bus to Almeria.
Talks
Talks I enjoyed are:
- GTK4 Lighting Talks – It’s good the know how things are going in GTK+4, and I’m looking forward to using it.
- GNOME Foundation: Looking into the Future – GNOME is expanding! Existing things are ahead!
- Migrating from JHBuild to BuildStream – I’m been using jhbuild since I started to contribute to GNOME (in 2014). It’s done its job well, but sometimes it’s painful to use as well. I tried BuildStream a few months ago, it was good except that applications built using it doesn’t have access to your local filesystem(sandboxed in another word). It makes Logs basically useless, and I’m still using the old-fashion JHBuild.
- Intern and Newcomer Lighting Talks – It’s always good to see new contributors in GUADEC. And hope they stay contributing to GNOME after GSoC.
BOF
I participated gitlab CI/CD BOF and Settings BOF. Settings BOF was really productive. We has lots discussions and came up some TODOs. I’ll start working on cleaning up codes in network panel to separate UI code and backend code interacting with NM.
Social Events
Various social events make GUADEC my favourite conference. Castle tour and Flamenco show were my top 2 picks. Emm, wait. Beach party make it to top 3 as well. I enjoyed it a lot, although I can’t swim. It definitely encourages me to learn to swim.
Here are some photos
In the end, I’d like to thank GNOME Foundation for sponsoring my trip and my employer SUSE for sponsoring my time.
