I’ve created an appimage here for the various admin tools modules I’ve been working on. I wrote a previous blog article about this, but I lost some history when I borked my wordpress database and didn’t have a backup.

Akhirnya perhelatan ini selesai. Berlokasi di Fakultas Teknik, Universitas Udayana Bali, 4-6 Oktober 2019. Saya berkesempatan berkontribusi sebagai panitia remote. Iya remote. Acara di Pulau Bali, tetapi panitianya di Blok M.

Hari 0, Jumat

Saya mendarat ke Bali, Jumat dini hari dengan Air Asia. Sepertinya merupakan penerbangan terakhir AA dari JKT ke DPS. Keluar gate, kemudian pesan gojek ke Nirmala Hotel. Lanjut bersih-bersih dan tidur. Saya termasuk tim yang telat sampe Bali. Kukuh dan Rifki sudah dari hari Rabu beredar di Denpasar

Jumat pagi, start pukul 7 pagi, saya beredar ke kampus. Briefing volunteer sebentar. Kemudian memastikan acara kuliah umum pagi lancar, meski ada kendala sedikit. Menghitung jumlah konsumsi Sabtu dan Minggu, menu konsumsi Jumat siang dan makan malam, transfer-transfer. Hari Jumat punya beberapa agenda, pagi kuliah umum, siang community meeting dan makan malam bersama di Pantai Jimbaran.

Konferensi kali ini menghadirkan 53 pembicara, 22 dari luar negeri, 31 dari indonesia. 180 peserta, 11 luar negeri, 40 volunteer, 15 panitia. Cukup banyak. Dan bocorannya ada 91 proposal yang masuk namun hanya 52 proposal yang diterima.

Setelah selesai briefing dengan volunteer, Kukuh dan saya bergeser ke Pizza Hut memesan 2 pizza sedang, sekalian menjemput Ish Sookun dan Xabier Arbulu. Lanjut menuju GoWork park 23. Meeting dihadiri perwakilan beberapa negara, board member dan direktur opensuse.

Meeting dibuka dengan makan besar sejak pukul 13.30. Selanjutnya merapatkan beberapa isu yang sedang hangat dan beberapa saran untuk beberapa hal. Meeting ditutup pukul 16.30. Beberapa catatan meeting bisa diakses di milis.

Pukul 16.30 kita bergeser ke New Furama Jimbaran Bali untuk dinner di pantai sambil menikmati sunset dengan menu seafood sembari ombrolan-obrolan singkat. Saya cuma ikut hingga pukul set 8 malam. Kemudian bergeser ke kampus dengan Kukuh. Karena ada beberapa bagian yang butuh rundingan Kukuh dan saya.

Sampai di kampus, saya berbagi tugas dengan Kukuh. Kukuh mengatur rundown, gladiresik. Saya menuju persiapan daftar ulang peserta besok pagi, mengatur lokasi daftar ulang, pembagian kaos, kemudian lanjut sweeping lokasi makan dan snack dari lantai 4 hingga turun ke bawah. Breafing lagi dan croscek persiapan pameran dan tim video. Pukul 11 malam saya balik ke hotel.

Hari 1, Sabtu

Pukul 7 saya sudah di kampus, sembari menyusun pembagian kaos. Pukul set 8 breafing panitia, kemudian saya bergeser ke pendaftaran peserta, ngurus sesuai abjad. Setelah peserta aman, saya bergeser ke lantai 4. Ternyata acara agak molor kemudian memutuskan untuk menghapus beberapa slot agar jadwal tetap tepat waktu.

Jam 9 acara kita mulai. Pembukaan diawali dengan Tarian Sekar Jagad, kemudian menyanyikan lagu Indonesia Raya. Sambutan dari Civitas Akademis. Lanjut keynote speaker Simon Lee dan Dr. Axel Braun dari board openSUSE dan Keynote dari Simplify 8 Inc – Attila Pinter. Sesi keynote ditutup dengan foto bareng dan rehat kopi. Setelah itu saya ikut beberapa kelas hingga jeda makan siang.

Saya berkesempatan hadir di kelas workshop Ibu Sunny “We are openSUSE Asia Community”. Workshop ini membahas hal menarik bagi saya. Bagaimana kegiatan rutin di masih-masing negara, Bagaimana panitia Asia menyiapkan Summit, persiapan apa yang dilakukan dalam tenggat waktu tertentu.

Jam 4 saya dapat bagian pembagian doorprize, Linksys untuk yang install opensuse. Acara hari pertama selesai, breafing volunter, beberapa masukan dari tim, hitung-hitung baju, lanjut makan malam speaker, panitia dan volunteer di Resto Mak Jo. Semua undangan yang hadir saya minta duduk random dengan volunteer, biar jadi obrolan baru. Beberapa volunter masih sungkan diawal, dengan modal bahasa improvisasi, cukuplah :D. Pukul set 10 saya bergeser pulang, dan istirahat.

Hari 2, Minggu

Hari kedua lebih santai, kepala saya jg udah mulai selow. Pagi breafing jam set 8, sekalian pembagian kaos untuk volunteer. Saya masuk ke aula dan didaulat jadi MC dadakan dengan bahasa ingris pas pas an :D.

Setelah pembukaan, saya mempersilahkan Kukuh menyampaikan laporan panitia dengan pernak pernik serunya. Lanjut 2 keynote dan foto bersama lagi.

Lanjut rehat kopi, kelas kemudian makan siang. Setelah makan siang, saya lanjut ngisi kelas workshop saya. Kemudian selang seling menyambangi kelas-kelas lain.

Hari kedua, spesial yang punya panggung adalah Volunteer. 40 orang tangguh dengan berbagai karakter latar belakang, namun berhasil memberikan yang terbaik. Saya ucapkan tabik buat tim ini.

Hari 3, Senin, One Day Tour

Peserta yang ikut ada 28 orang dengan 2 bis sedang. Rute yang kita lalui adalah Bali Paragon Hotel Jimbaran, kemudian ke Kopi Alas Harum. Menyicip kopi luwak. Saya memilih memesan teh kayu manis. Kemudian berlanjut mengunjungi tegalan sawah.

Dari sini, kita bergeser ke Mongkey Forest. Sampai di Mongkey forest, disambut oleh kawan Pak Edwin, sebagai pemilik dan pengelola. Kita diantar langsung untuk mengelilingi kawasan ini. Jelang pukul 1 kita sudah selesai, kemudian bergeser ke selatan menuju Hotel Paragon. Namun mampir sebentar di Mesjid Raya Sanur untuk Zuhuran. Sampe di Paragon hotel, kita pickup Max Lin dan 2 kawan lagi.

Lanjut menuju Pura Uluwatu. Sampe Uluwatu pukul 4 sore. Dan sudah ada kawan yang menunggu di loket tiket. Lanjut memakai sarung dan seledang. Saya sempet berfoto bareng kawan-kawan pengembang blankon sebagai tonggak rilis BlankOn Uluwatu.

Ada kejadian lucu di Pura Uluwatu ketika sedang menunggu tiket tari kecak. Karena kecapean kita duduk-duduk di undakan, eh malah disamperin monyet. Tapi secara reflek saya langsung berdiri. Namun tak semua beruntung, Cak Didiet telat bangun, dan kepalanya kena toyor monyet. wkwkwk. Kemudian monyetnya meloncat ke Hatochan sambil nyomot kacamatanya. Yak korban kacamata remuk kena gigitan monyet. Tipsnya sih kalo disamperin monyet, segera berdiri. Monyetnya akan kabur dengan sendirinya.

Pukul 5 kita kumpul lagi untuk pembagian tiket Tari Kecak. Pukul 5.15 kita bergeser ke lokasi kecak. Menemukan spot bagus, sembari menunggu mulai dan menikmati matahari kembali ke peraduan. Pukul 6 sore prosesi dimulai. Sembari membantu translasi. Namun sayang, saya tidak sampai selesai, pukul setengah 7 lewat, saya undur pamit, mengurus pengantaran bus untuk Simons dan Dhenandi yang harus pulang dengan penerbangan jam 10 malam. Setelah tektokan selesai, bus berangkat. Saya memutuskan menunggu di bis hingga tarian selesai dan peserta tour balik ke bus.

Lanjut balik, dengan rute padat merayap. Pukul 8 kita sampe di Jimbaran. Dan bus 1 lagi juga sudah sampai bandara. Selesai mengantar di Paragon, bus lanjut mampir ke Zurry Express dan kembali ke garasi. Setelah itu Pak Edwin, Shinji dan saya lanjut mencari pengganjal perut. Menemukan sate madura, memesan 3 porsi, sate ayam dan kambing. Tak lama Hatochan datang bersama rombongan Kukuh dan Ari. Makan lah kita serombongan. Setelah mencarikan 2 buah jus kelapa muda untuk Takeyama, kita bergeser pulang ke hotel. Saya masih harus packing-packing kotak.

Hari 4, Selasa

Pagi, bungkus-bungkus kotak 5 buah, lanjut mengantar kotak ke Kramat Djati Paket di Renon. Lanjut melipir ke Kuta, Krisna, makan siang lagi bareng Pak Edwin dan Ari, sebagai rombongan terakhir balik dari Bali.

Pesawat saya pukul 7 malam. Sekitar pukul 11 malam saya akhirnya sampai di kostan. Cukup. Waktunya istirahat.

Estu

It’s been my sixth GNOME Asia Summit that I attend. My first time was in Beijing, at Beihang University. Then every year I help to organize and collaborate with local organizer. I only skipped not attending when it was in Chongqing.

After last year, me and Sammy Fung become Leader/Co-Leader of Asia Committee. Asia Committee is not formal department or suborganization in GNOME Foundation. It contained few people who active at promoting GNOME in Asia. Mostly from people who become local organizer and people who always attend in several years. And personally I knew and meet them in few conference. Probably I will ask board to make this Asia Committee to become formal one.

This conference held in Gresik City, East Java. This city is supporting city for Surabaya (capital of East Java province). It’s small city with growing community right now. One of community is Gresik Dev who become local organizer. FOSS generaly and GNOME in specialy is not recognized by common people. This point of view that lead me to ask Gresik Dev to promoting FOSS and GNOME. Local organizer contain Gresik Dev Community and student from UISI and UMG (both of them the most popural university in Gresik).

This conference, I helping local organizer as steering committee (consultant). One of my reason to proactive in this event is I was born in this city near four decades ago. Probably they see me as dictator because I wanna make this conference as good as possible with limited resource.

I’m driving my car to go to Gresik City. It’s near 800 km from Bogor (city which I live). I arrived on Wednesday afternoon. In Thursday I helping to pickup few speaker from airport. One of my duty is to manage transportation for foreigner from airport to hotel, hotel to venue, vice versa. Since also me that know most of foreigner speaker. So on Friday my duty is become driver and introduce several speaker to each other.

Friday is workshop day, mostly I spent my time to chit chat with all speaker that already arrive and introduce to each other, also make sure tomorrow everything is going well. In this day, I know theres few newcomers that also become speaker. Mostly they got nervous because first time experience. So little bit lack on preparing and predicting the audience. At night we have welcome party and I have long talk with Gaurav and Andre Klapper.

Saturday is first day of conference. I see many participant that not familiar with GNOME but they willing to join this conference. Also I realized that long time bonded friends who often going to GNOME Asia Summit is me, Bin Li and Andre Klapper. English is become little bit problem because this not native language. But the master of ceremony is doing their job amazingly. The person who in charge of slide and projector need to use GNOME and Linux more often.

This first day, me and several friends who able to understand Pegon (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pegon_script) planning to have BoF to make this characters working in GNOME/Linux. You can join at https://gitlab.com/aksaranusantara.

Sunday, I meet best friends from Tatalogam Company who become one of sponsor, also they have keynote. I also have keynote at the end of event. Also we have nice dramatic and funny closing. Many doorprize given to participant. I see many participant enjoy the conference and have selfie/wefie at photo’s booth for uploading to their instagram. It’s also good for marketing.

Anyway, big applause  to desaign team who manage everything that need design/art. And good job for local organizer. Thank you to all speaker that spent time joining this conference and share your knowledge. Thank you to all participant for attending and help promoting GNOME. Big thanks to GNOME Foundation who sponsored my travel!

From closing this conference, it’s meaning I’m become Leader of Asia Committee because Sammy Fung stepdown for personal matters. Any one willing to help me?

See you at Next GNOME Asia Summit 2020!

 

Fixing a Rock Candy Gamepad for the PS3 (or Linux). So easy, even an 8 year old can do it.

Actually, this journey begins in 2015. I attending Indonesia Linux Conference, that’s the first time I meet people from openSUSE Indonesia. Mr. Edwin Zakaria. I remember, he gave me Alex the Gecko T-Shirt from Babacucu.com. My first openSUSE T-shirt.

After attending the conference. I also invited to KPLI (Kelompok Pengguna Linux Indonesia: it’s like Indonesian Linux Users) meeting at Gucci, Tegal with my boss, Pak Vavai. It’s an honor for me. Because I remember, I was a kid who never knew about a community before.

I talk with strangers I’ve never met before. Also, a person who I only knew from the internet (facebook groups). In fact, they are so kind, they are free to ask and answer my question.

So, i decided to join the community. Trying to contribute more to the openSUSE Indonesia forum, cause I’m an openSUSE user. Until 2016 openSUSE Asia Summit 2016 was announced that will be held in Yogyakarta. I proposed to be a Volunteer. Cause i think if you only use Linux it’s not enough. You have to give back to Open Source Project. If i can’t give a code. At least i have to try to help openSUSE Indonesia to make this event have a lot of fun.

And until now, i still active in the community. This year, i got a responsibility being a local team in openSUSE Asia Summit 2019, Bali. This is my story about how i and the team (openSUSE Indonesia) manage the conference remotely. hope you enjoy to read!

One Year Preparation

After openSUSE Asia Summit 2018. Indonesia was chosen as a host for openSUSE Asia Summit 2019, Bali. It’s an honor to being a landlord for this event, again. So, we from openSUSE Asia and Indonesia did a meeting, online or offline.

For Local Teams, we usually talk online using Telegram Group and meet each other every month in Depok. But, near the event. We meet every week in Blok M Jakarta.

openSUSE Asia Summit 2019 Local team has a different location around the “Nusantara”.

And for Asian Team, we talk to each other using Slack monthly. We usually make an appointment on Tuesday night. We talk about the progress of sponsorship, CFP, Logo competition, and many others.

Excellent Proudly Become a Sponsor for openSUSE Asia Summit 2019

My Company that i working on (PT Excellent Infotama Kreasindo) also become a sponsor for this event. My boss is a former of openSUSE Indonesia Chairman (2007). Which is Mr. Masim Vavai Sugianto. Actually, he wants to come to the event, but suddenly, his mom passed away ahead of the summit.

It’s really sad. I have to go to a summit with some of the tears. Because i have a good relationship with my boss and his family.

My company quite often to sponsoring for Open Source events such as openSUSE Asia Summit 2016, LibreOffice Conference Indonesia in 2017. And this year, Excellent become a custom sponsor for openSUSE Asia Summit 2019.(https://events.opensuse.org/conferences/summitasia19).

Thanks for the help, boss!

If you want to know further about our company, feel free to visit: https://www.excellent.co.id.

D-day openSUSE Asia Summit 2019

I arrived in Bali on Wednesday, Oct 3th. D-3 at the conference. I meet the volunteer on Thursday, we introduce each other. But, they already know because came from the same organization at the University. Seriously, they are really nice and humble. And the best volunteer I’ve ever met.

I met Adji M Nur, he is the coordinator for the University

Before this event, we only talk to each other using Telegram Group, but they have a fast response and willingly to help us even we never meet face to face.

We have many uncompleted tasks, such as preparing for the venue, goody bag, gate, and many more. So, we have to maximize the time to make this event running well.

Seriously, this is the superb volunteer. They already have many experiences handling similar events. So, they know what to do. I just said, “i need this, can you provide?”. They always answer. “Sure, we can“.

And I also really appreciated the volunteer. Some of them want to attend Hindunese Ceremony. The name is “Tooth Filling”. It’s their friend’s ceremony. But they canceled that because they said they have a responsibility to make this event successful. It’s awesome!

I can remember all the names of Volunteers also the face. They have a big soul for helping people. Really, I’m grateful and very nice to meet them.

So, after preparing the venue. We are ready to rock on the summit…

Actually, i have a long story for this summit. I will write it soon. See you in the next article!

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I met Edwin and Ary earlier this year at the openSUSE Conference in Nuremberg. They invited me to come to the openSUSE Asia Summit happening in Bali. I wasn't sure that I would be able to attend it. But then, around June I saw a tweet reminding about the deadline for the Call for Proposal for the openSUSE Asia Summit and I thought maybe I should give it a try.

I submitted a workshop proposal on MicroOS and a lightning talk proposal to the openSUSE Asia CFP team. Both were accepted and I couldn't be happier. It gave me the chance to meet friends from the openSUSE community again, learn and share more.

We do not have direct flights to Indonesia. I traveled through Air Mauritius to Kuala Lumpur and then Malaysia Arlines to Denpasar, Bali. I spent almost 24 hours traveling before reaching my hotel in Jimbaran. I was totally knackered when I arrived but the enthusiasm of being there for the summit was stronger than anything.

I booked a taxi through Traveloka ahead of my arrival in Bali. It was recommended by Edwin. When I compared other taxi fares I felt glad I booked it online. I also bought a SIM card on my way to the hotel with a 6GB data package. I knew we'd all communicate mostly on Telegram, just as we did for oSC 2019. My hotel WiFi connection wasn't great but I was impressed by the 4G coverage of my mobile Internet provider, XL Axiata. Mobile connectivity was extremely helpful as I would rely on GoJek car-hailing for the next few days.

Food?

The only thing bugging me was about finding vegetarian food. McDonald's, Pizza Hut and KFC were just a few minutes walk from my hotel and along the way there were a few restaurants as well. But those were Seafood restaurants and I felt weird to go there and ask for veggies.

Unlike in Mauritius and Germany, McDonald's and KFC do not offer the vegetarian or vegan burger. I only found two vegetarian pizza options at Pizza Hut, the Veggie Garden and Cheese Deluxe. There might have been some veggie options in the Chinese restaurants but I didn't venture. I visited a supermarket and found that they were selling stuffed croissant. However, there was no clear indication whether they contain tuna, chicken or simply cheese.

Finally, I was saved from the food dilemma by the folks from the openSUSE Asia community. Estu & Ary made sure that there was a vegetarian option during the summit or whenever we went out along with the speakers. I got to eat things other than pizza :) like tofu, tempe, vegetable chop suoy etc.

The summit kicked-off on Saturday 5 October at the Information Technology Department, Faculty of Engineering, Udayana University. There were around 40 or so students who volunteered to help run the summit. Some of the volunteers were from other institutions.

Two students hosted the event with information provided in Indonesian and English. They greeted the attendees and requested everyone to stand for a prayer. Then there was a traditional Balinese dance performance.

After the dance performance attendees were once again requested to stand up and this time for the Indonesian national anthem.

Om Swastiastu

A representative of the university read the keynote speech. He greeted the room by saying "Om Swasti Astu" and then greeted in Arabic, followed by his speech in English.

Indonesia is a Muslim majority country with the Bali province being the only exception whereby Hindus are majority. However, there reigns a peaceful harmony between the two, as far as I could see. There is a mutual respect towards each others rituals and practices.

After the keynote speech, openSUSE Board member Axel Braun did a presentation on the project stats and updates. He then invited the new openSUSE Board Chairman, Gerald Pfeifer on stage.

Gerald impressed the room with his down to earth style as he stressed on the importance of good communication. He also played a video message of the SUSE CEO, Melissa Di Donato who re-affirmed SUSE's commitment to the openSUSE Project.

Then, openSUSE Board member Simon Lees spoke about the future legal structure of the project and the motivation behind. He mentioned the current proposal of registering the project as a foundation and the project name change vote that should run from 10 - 31 Oct 2019.

We had a group photo and then the tea/coffee/snacks break.

Outside the room there were sponsors stands and the conference information desk. But most people gathered to take pictures at the openSUSE backdrop. I took a picture with the Geeko & Gerald.

The organizers conducted some interviews which they showed in a video compilation at the end of the day. Presentations and workshops were happening simultaneously and one could easily find the room numbers from events.o.o and then follow instructions provided by the summit volunteers.

I attended the Kubic presentation by Max Huang in the main hall. In fact, I got the chance to comment on the difference between Tumbleweed & Kubic during the Q&A session.

I even attended some presentations that were in Indonesian, like the Aksara Hanacaraka Bali and Ceph presentations.

Day 1 Highlight

openSUSE MicroOS Workshop

My workshop on Managing Pods & Containers was scheduled for the second day of the summit in the afternoon. I spoke about containers obviously but unlike the usual workshops teaching how to spin containers we peeked inside of containers instead to see what they are made of. The aim of the workshop was to educate attendees on Linux namespaces and how they create the isolated environment that enable us to have a distinct Linux instance within another. Then we could delve further into the topic of containers and understand how resources are shared within a pod. That would help a newbie to containers fast-track into the world of Kubernetes. The latter can be intimidating to people new to the idea of containerization with abstractions such as pod, service and deployment.

My friend @IshSookun give workshop about @openSUSE MicroOS in #oSAS19 pic.twitter.com/VAQdhHh49J

— medwinz (@medwinz) October 6, 2019

openSUSE MicroOS is perfect to start experimenting with containers and pods, then exporting those pods to Kubic (the Kubernetes distribution of openSUSE).

On the second day of the summit I also attended several other presentations, like the talk on the future of the desktop by Neil McGovern, Executive Director of the GNOME foundation, the auto-deployment of Ceph with Rook on Kubic by Saputro Aryulianto and openSUSE deployment on Linode using Terraform by Muhammad Dhenandi Putra.

The last item on day 2 was lightning talks. I had five minutes max to talk about the subject that I had submitted. I wanted to explain the election process within the openSUSE community, like the software used, planning by the Election Committee etc. Then, I also highlighted that for one to be able to vote in any openSUSE election or run as candidate for the board, the person needs to be an openSUSE member.

@IshSookun talks about the three steps someone needs to take to become an @openSUSE member. Just click on it - https://t.co/YQqJFISd4N pic.twitter.com/pYHw6TMUjw

— openSUSE Linux (@openSUSE) October 6, 2019

Becoming an openSUSE member requires a few steps, three to be precise. That's it, I completed the talk within the five minutes and invited the forty or so summit volunteers to apply for openSUSE membership.

Venue for openSUSE Asia Summit 2020?

openSUSE Asia Summit 2020 will be held at the Manav Rachna Institute of Research & Studies, Faridabab, Haryana, India. I'm looking forward to that and hopefully if all is good perhaps I will attend with more friends from Mauritius.

Day 2 Highlight

After the summit, the next day, the organizers planned a Bali tour which was awesome. I will blog about the places we visited in separate posts.

FOSSCOMM (Free and Open Source Software Communities Meeting) is a Greek conference aiming at free-software and open-source enthusiasts, developers, and communities. This year was held at Lamia from October 11 to October 13.

It is a tradition for me to attend this conference. Usually, I have presentations and of course, booths to inform the attendees about the projects I represent.

This year the structure of the conference was kind of different. Usually, the conference starts on Friday with a "beer event". Now it started with registration and a presentation. Personally, I made my plan to leave Thessaloniki by bus. It took me about 4 hours on the road. So when I arrived, I went to my hotel and then waited for Pantelis to go to University and set up our booths.

ALERT: Long projects presentation...

Our goal was to put the stickers and leaflets on the right area. This year we had plenty of projects at our booths. We met a lot of friends at Nextcloud conference and we asked them for brochures and stickers. So this year our basic projects were Nextcloud and openSUSE (we had table cloths). We had stickers from GNOME (I had couple of T-Shirts from GUADEC just in case someone wanted to buy one). Since openSUSE sponsorts GNU Health, I was there to inform students about it (it was great opportunity since the department organizing was Bioinformatics department). We had brochures, stickers, chocolate and pencils from ONLYOFFICE, also we had promo material from our friends Turris. We are happy that Free Software Foundation Europe gave us brochures when we were in Berlin, and we were able to inform attendees about the campaigns and the work they are doing for us. We met Collabora guys also and we asked them if they want to promote them, since Collabora and Nextcloud are working together. Finally, our friends from DAVx⁵, gave us their promo material since the program works with Nextcloud so well.

I warned you!!! Well, the first day we met the organizers and the volunteers. I was surprised by the number of volunteers and they're willing to help us (even with setting up the booths). The first day ended with going out to eat something. Thank you, Olga, for introduce us to FRESCO. I used to eat at FRESCO when I was in Barcelona. I guess they're not franchise :-)

Well, Saturday started with registration. We put more swag on the booth (we saw that last night they took almost everything). Personally, I went to meet other projects. I was glad that my friend Julita applied to present what she's doing at the university (Linux on Supercomputers). I was kind of surprised but happy for her that her talk upgraded to Keynote. Glad I met her at GUADEC. Glad also that she had Fedora booth and gave some different aura to the conference. Check out her blogpost about her FOSSCOMM experience .

Glad I met Boris from Tirana. He did a presentation about Nextcloud as a service with Cloud68. Never met before, although I can say that I know many people from Albania and Open Labs.


My presentation was the last one on Saturday, so I had plenty of time to be at the booth and inform anyone about all the above projects. Also, I had the opportunity to attend some talks I wanted to see. Well, my talk was about communities. I described my personal example. I started a little bit about what is a contribution to open source projects. I focused on my example, meaning on end-users that they like the software, they want to contribute but they don't have a clue about programming languages. Personally, I translate and promote (articles, conferences, etc). I met a lot of people (Greece and abroad) that I consider friends. Those friends maybe can help find a job (especially you are an IT). The best part though is when we meet AFK and we have fun.
You can see my presentation file here https://tinyurl.com/fosscomm2019.


After my presentation, there was a party (not because I finished it but because it was on schedule ;-) ). We had pizza and wine. Also, there was music. We left kind of early (I guess) with some FOSS friends and some volunteers. We had a beer at the center.

On Sunday I left Lamia by car with a friendly couple from Thessaloniki. Well, she had a presentation as well (before mine) about "Building digital competency in European small and medium-sized businesses with Free and Open Source Software: Results of the FOSS4SMEs project". I suppose to have another, more interesting talk for the Bioinformatics department (subject: "GNU HEALTH: The fight for our rights to universality and excellence in the Public Health System"), but due to my departure, it was canceled. I asked the organizers the day that the schedule was out to change my talk to Saturday but never got an answer.

Well, I took some videos and I'll upload it on youtube soon. Some volunteers took some pictures and I guess we'll have them soon. When I'll have them all, I'll edit this post.

Finally, I would like to thank Nextcloud for sponsoring my trip to Lamia.

EDIT: Here is the video.

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Der openSUSE.Asia Summit ist eine der großen Veranstaltungen für die openSUSE-Community (d.h. sowohl Beitragende als auch Benutzer) in Asien. Diejenigen, die normalerweise online kommunizieren, können sich aus der ganzen Welt treffen, sich persönlich unterhalten und Spaß haben. Mitglieder der Community teilen ihr aktuelles Wissen, ihre Erfahrungen und lernen FLOSS-Technologien rund um openSUSE. Das openSUSE.Asia Summit 2019 fand vom 5. Oktober bis 6. Oktober 2019 am Information Technology Department, Faculty of Engineering, Udayana University, auf Bali statt.

Highlight-Videos Tag 1 und 2

Weitere Videos mit Vorträgen und Workshops sind auf YouTube verfügbar.