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producir y no poseer,
obrar y no retener,
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Some GNOME / LAS / Wikimedia love
For some time to know I’ve dedicating some more time to Wikimedia related activities. I love to share this time with other opensource communities I’m related to. This post is just to write down a list of items/resources I’ve created related with events in this domain.
Wikidata
If you don’t know about Wikidata probably you’ll look at it because it’ll be the most important linked data corpora in the world. In the future we will use WD as the cornerstone of many applications. Remember you read this here first.
About GUADEC:
About GNOME.Asia:
About LAS 2019:
And about the previous LAS format:
Wikimedia Commons
Wikimedia Commons is my current favorite place to publish pictures with open licensing these days. To me is the ideal place to publish reusable resources with explicit Creative Commons open licensing. And you can contribute with your own media without intermediaries.
About GUADEC:
About GNOME.Asia:
About LAS:
- Category:Libre Application Summit
- Category:Libre Application Summit 2018
- Category:Linux App Summit
- Category:Linux App Summit 2019
Epilogue
As you can check the list is not complete neither all items are fully described. I invite you to complete all the information you want. For Wikidata there are many places where ask help. And for WikiCommons you can help uploading your own pictures. If you have doubts just use current examples as references or ask me directly.
Linux Applications Summit 2019 activity
Here it is a summary about my activities at the past Linux App Summit this month in Barcelona.
My first goal has been spreading the word about the Indico conference management system. This was in part done with a lightning talk. Sadly I couldn’t show my slides but here they are for your convenience. Anyhow they are not particularly relevant.
Also @KristiProgri asked me to help taking pictures of the event. I’m probably the worst photographer in the world and I don’t have special interest in photography as a hobby but for some months I’m trying to take documentary pictures supposedly relevant for the Wikimedia projects. The good thing is seems I’m getting better, specially since I changed to a new smartphone with it’s making magic with my pictures. Y just use a mere Moto G7+ smartphone but it’s making me really happy with the results, exceeding any of my expectations. Just to say I found the standard camera application doesn’t work well for me when photographing moving targets but I’m doing better indeed with the wonderful Open Camera Android opensource application.
I uploaded my pictures to Category:Linux App Summit 2019. Please consider to add yours to the same category.
Related with this I added items to Wikidata too.
Also helped a bit sharing pics in Twitter #LinuxAppSummit:
https://x.com/olea/status/1194583401635991552 https://x.com/olea/status/1194613341269975042 https://x.com/olea/status/1194550203166208005
And finally, I helped the local team with some minor tasks like moving items and so.
I want to congratulate all the organization team and specially the local team for the results and the love they have put in the event. The results have been excellent and this is another strong step for the interweaved relations between opensource development communities sharing very near goals.
My participation at the conference has been sponsored by the GNOME Foundation. Thanks very much for their support.
Congress/Conference organization tasks list draft
Well, when checking my blog looking for references about resources related with conferences organization I’ve found I had any link to this thing I compiled two years ago (!!??). So this post is fixing it.
After organizing a couple national and international conferences I compiled a set of tasks useful as an skeleton for you next conference. The list is not absolutely exhaustive neither strictly formal but it’s complete enough to be, I think, accurate and useful. In its current this task list is published at tree.taiga.io as Congress/Conference organization draft: «a simplified skeleton of a kanban project for the organization of conferences. It’s is specialized in technical and opensource activities based in real experience».
I think the resource is still valid and useful. So feel free to use it and provide feedback.
Now, thinking aloud, and considering my crush with EPF Composer I seriously think I should model the tasks with it as an SPEM method and publish both sources and website. And, hopefully, create tools for creating project drafts in well known tools (Gitlab, Taiga itself, etc). Reach me if you are interested too :-)
Enjoy!