Events: Devconf.cz, FOSDEM, GTK Hackfest, CHAOSS EU 2019 and LCA
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Devconf.cz 2019 trip report
I’ve just got back from my Devconf.cz 2019 trip, after spending a few days after the conference in Red Hat’s Brno office with other Fedora QA team members, then a few days visiting family.
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Adrien Plazas: FOSDEM and GTK Hackfest 2019
This year was my second time at FOSDEM and it was both exhausting and a lot of fun!
I went from Montpellier to Brussels in TGV, via the direct line connecting the two cities. I love high speed trains, they are comfy, you can bring lots of baggage, you are not probed, you can see the countryside, they typically connect the center of cities, and they even have Wi-Fi and power plugs! Thanks to that, I have been able to bring the booth box that was sitting at my house since Capitole du Libre 2018 for free!
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FOSDEM 2019 and CHAOSS EU 2019 report
FOSDEM is over and it is time to recap.
Last year I decided to take a break and did not attend to the event. This year I was really looking forward to attend.
I will start by thanking Codethink Ltd for sponsoring my trip. It is always a pleasure to work in a company that supports their employees in attending to Open Source community events. Codethink sponsored FOSDEM once again by the way.
It has not been the easiest edition for me because I have been sick the past days and was not fully recovered. The cold weather didn’t help so I decided to stay away from late nights and Trappist beers. It was hard to go to bed at a decent time every night and miss some night gatherings like the KDE and GNOME ones or the FOSDEM party on Friday at Delirium Cafe.
On February 1st I attended to the CHAOSScon EU conference. I liked it. It was well organised and I could have several interesting conversations about what to measure and why when it comes to Open Source communities. I attended to most of the talks and I participated in one of the workshops. I think I can add some value in the GMD working group. Let’s see if I have the time to contribute. It would be fun.
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Changing the world with better documentation
Rory Aronson started his 2019 linux.conf.au keynote with a statement that gardening just isn't his passion; an early attempt degenerated into a weed-choked mess when he couldn't be bothered to keep it up. But he turned out to be passionate indeed about building a machine that would do the gardening for him. That led to the FarmBot project, a successful exercise in the creation of open hardware, open software, and an open business. A big part of that success, it turns out, lies in the project's documentation.
A few years after his garden went to seed, Aronson was taking an organic agriculture class when he stumbled across a piece of advanced industrial agricultural equipment. It was a tractor attachment that contained an array of cameras, one for each of a dozen or so rows of plants. The device can distinguish lettuce plants from weeds; it uses that information to automatically till the weeds under the soil. It can also selectively spray materials as needed. This was, he thought, a piece of cool technology, but he found himself wondering why there was no version of it for his backyard.
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