Another fantastic edition of FOSDEM is now finished. Many thanks to the organisers for another great job!

Amazingly, the Welcome talk managed to top off last year's FOSDEM dance, this time by making the audience contribute the music. I hope they do it again next year, it was kind of …

   

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I will be attending FOSDEM again this year (weather and airline strikes permitting -- fingers crossed!). I'm also hoping to drop by the Gnome meetup on Saturday night and say hi to a few familiar faces.

Very much looking forward to it!

Eek! Looking through my old drafts I can't believe I forgot to post this. I was waiting for the LWN link to become available to all -- but I guess it's never too late to share the awesome.

Article: GUADEC: Banshee project reaches out for contributors (LWN)

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Last Tuesday I attended a talk/workshop organised by IrishDev.com about StormMQ and the Advanced Message Queuing Protocol (AMQP) standard that's cooking up. I was very impressed by how polished and well prepared the presentation was, very enjoyable. Showing "time slices" beside each topic from the beginning, giving a …

Last Thursday I happily attended TEDx Dublin 4.0 at the Science Gallery. I thought it was a bit too computer sciency slanted (I really enjoyed the 3rd edition, with talks on physical product design, or shark slime, and other very interesting things I would never have thought about otherwise …