Dinner and a walk through a park festival at day 0 of #confconf in #Sofia, #Bulgaria
Just in those photos you see people who made #FOSDEM, #DENOG, #DebConf, #PromCon, #GrafanaCon, #CCC / #38c3, #WHY2025, #IndiaFOSS, #COSCUP, #FOSSASIA, and others happen. And more people will come tomorrow.
We're looking to have a packed agenda over this coming weekend, and I will try and do my best to update this thread with tidbits and information.
Ever wondered how FOSDEM streams and records hundreds of sessions seamlessly? In this session, Vasil Kolev, Gerry Demaret, and Mark Van den Borre reveal the FOSDEM Video Box — the open-source system behind their large-scale event streaming. Learn about its architecture, tools, and how you can apply these lessons to your own events at #FOSSASIASummit2025
Click here https://youtu.be/Si4zT5UjGQ4 to watch on the FOSSASIA YouTube channel
Matrix isn’t just a chat protocol — it’s a platform for rich, interactive experiences! In this session, Kim Brose @HarHarLinks how to enhance Matrix with widgets, bots, and integrations, making your chats more dynamic, productive, and fun at #FOSSASIASummit2025
Click here https://youtu.be/YWHicIx2P7I to watch on the FOSSASIA YouTube channel.
Get the latest on Raspberry Pi updates — including Pico 2, Pi 5, Pi 500, and CM5 — plus real-world use cases and developer tips to power your next project with Masafumi Ohta at #FOSSASIASummit2025
Click here https://youtu.be/2QG-WmXbtn4?si=w95NbgIYJV37aau9 to watch on the FOSSASIA YouTube channel
Get inspired by Nextcloud's success! 
CEO Frank Karlitschek shares insights at #FOSSASIA Summit 2025 on building a sustainable #OpenSource company with 500k+ servers, team in 24 countries, and a vibrant community! 
Join Frank Karlitschek's session "Building a Sustainable Open Source Company" at #FOSSASIASummit2025 to explore proven strategies for growth, sustainability, and revenue models.
Click here https://youtu.be/oiYKOyJKCfA?si=kA-7I370Fytz39Ua to watch on the #FOSSASIA YouTube channel
Here are a few highlights from yesterday at #fossasia
Looking forward to the show today as we have a couple new demos.
Also want to give a shout out to @IzzyOnDroid for being part of every demo BlissLabs gave yesterday without even realizing it. We're going to have to bring some stickers for your project next year
Today KDE is at #FOSSASIA in Bangkok!
Come visit our booth at the True Digital Park West, 111 Sukhumvit Rd, Bang Chak, Phra Khanong, #Bangkok 10260; chat with KDE contributors, try out bleeding edge software and grab some stickers to deck out your computer!
https://www.eventyay.com/e/4c0e0c27
"FOSSASIA is an organization developing Open Source software applications and Open Hardware together with a global community from its base in Asia."
This year their annual summit is in Bankok, Thailand, starting tomorrow. But unless you just happen to be in Bangkok, you can participate remotely. Register here, using their EventYay ticketing platform;
https://eventyay.com/e/4c0e0c27
I wonder if the fediverse will be discussed there?
Slides for my talk at #FOSSASIA (@fossasia) Bangkok this Friday now available, on a little app I made recently called Mending Wall. Or, as Kerouac said, "...the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to [use #GNOME], mad to [use #KDE], mad to [use #Xfce], desirous of [all the desktops] at the same time..." #Linux #FOSS #opensource https://eventyay.com/e/4c0e0c27/session/9809
Happy Holidays from the #FOSSASIA team
Wishing you a joyful holiday season filled with peace, happiness, and wonderful moments with loved ones.
Wish you all the best for 2025!
For those of you that liked the #led #nametag|s at #37c3 --> https://www.berrybase.de/led-name-tag-11x44-pixel-usb 10,90€ + shipping.
Disclaimer: I bought mine at #fossasia which linked to their github (https://github.com/fossasia/led-name-badge-ls32) and in https://github.com/fossasia/led-name-badge-ls32/blob/master/led-badge-11x44.py there's a link to a shop that forwards to this shop above. So I think it's save to assume they are the right name tags.
Edit: They are not the same.
I will be at #37c3 with @fossasia folks. So glad that it's finally in-person again 
Join our hacking sessions and connect with us at the #FOSSASIA Assembly https://events.ccc.de/congress/2023/hub/en/assembly/FOSSASIA/
I'm sure the @fossasia crew are doing their best, but there's lots of UX improvements to be made to remote participation. The combination of the times in the schedule being an hour ahead, sessions starting late, and streams not matching the links I'm clicking on, is making it very difficult for me.
The 2020 ActivityPub conf was online using meet.coop, and the entirety of LibrePlanet 2023 was livestreamed, both using only Free Software. Can I suggest #FOSSAsia ask what was used?
I enjoyed the first 4 hours of the @fossasia livestream yesterday. But after the talk by Takasu Masakazu, the livestream from the Lecture Theatre stopped, and was replaced by a video of the first 4 hours of talks. The other 4 rooms just showed static images, like the Lecture Theatre did before the first session started. The video is still showing in the Lecture Theatre, and the other 4 rooms are saying "this room is unavailable", except for Training Room 2-2.
#TIL, courtesy of a #FOSSAsia session on OpenEuler, that the Institute of Software Chinese Academy of Sciences runs a summer of code style project that...
"... aims to encourage college students to actively participate in the maintenance and development of open source software, promote the vigorous development of open source software communities, and build the open source software supply chain together."
"The SkyWater Open Source PDK on Github is listed as a collaboration between Google and SkyWater Technology Foundry to provide a fully open source PDK and related sources. This so that one can create manufacturable designs at the SkyWater foundry, that target the 130 nm node. Open tools here should mean a far lower cost of entry than is usually the case."
#MayaPosch, 2020
https://hackaday.com/2020/06/25/creating-a-custom-asic-with-the-first-open-source-pdk/
Just watched Annie Mathew's session on increasing diversity in tech at #FOSSAsia . Getting participation from folks from outside the anglophone world (+Europe) might be even more important than getting diverse participation from inside it. That way, we're more likely to re-learn how to include people with a mix of base values, as well as people from a range of identity categories.
