It took me a while but now I can gave you some stats from GUADEC 2018, following past year Sam’s example.

They are very rough but I hope informative.

• Attendees: 207 (and about 215 registered), two less than 2017.
• 9 days: 2 days boards meetings, 3 for conferences and 4 for BoFs and workshops.
• 44 talks and videos.
• 35 BoFs and workshops.
• 3 great parties, including the flamenco show by «la Chinelita and group».
• About economics just to say it was very successful. Thanks a lot to our sponsors and donnors. And special kudos to the sponsoring team for such impresive job.
• The medium age was 32.7, from the 143 persons who provided their age. Minimum age was 15 and maxium 61.
• The Spanish attendants were 43, 20.8% of the total. Significative presence from the UK with 20%.
• The maximum of persons per day hosted at Civitas residence where 75. I would have expected a bigger number but some factors affected: GUADEC dates were in high season with a particular peak because some local events (at some point there were not a single room available in Almería city), other was a coincidence with a university summer course and finally many people tried to book at Civitas very late.

The attendees who filled they country of residence, by country:

The GUADEC occupancy at Civitas were:

Thanks Benjamin Berg for helping to collect the data.

Thank you all for visiting us in Almería. Don’t forget to come back :-)

PD: post edited at 2018/11/15 adding details of residence occupancy.

In a previous entry I put the data I’ve collected about Wacom digitizer tablets. Collecting the data took to me more time I really wished. But now I’m happy to publish an exhaustive list thanks to Carlos Garnacho:

As a reference these are the standards DIN sizes comparable with those models:

The source of this data is directly from the Wacom driver and is extracted with this C program Carlos provided:

/* Build with:
 *   gcc -o wacomfoo `pkg-config --libs --cflags libwacom` wacomfoo.c
 */
 
#define IN_TO_MM 25.4
 
#include <libwacom/libwacom.h>
 
int
main (int argc, char *argv[])
{
  const WacomDeviceDatabase *db;
  WacomDevice **devices;
  int i;
 
  db = libwacom_database_new ();
  devices = libwacom_list_devices_from_database (db, NULL);
  printf ("| model | active area size mm | active area size in | \n");
  printf ("|:--------- |:--------- |:--------- | \n");

  for (i = 0; devices[i] != NULL; i++)
    {
      if (libwacom_get_width (devices[i]) == 0)
        continue;
      printf ("| %s | %.f ✕ %.f mm | %.f ✕ %.f in | \n",
              libwacom_get_name (devices[i]),
              (double) libwacom_get_width (devices[i]) * IN_TO_MM,
              (double) libwacom_get_height (devices[i]) * IN_TO_MM,
              (double) libwacom_get_width (devices[i]),
              (double) libwacom_get_height (devices[i]));
    }
  return 0;
}

PD: Fixed the correct value for milimeters per inch.

For some reasons I’ve been looking for second hand Wacom graphic tablets. To me has been annoying to find out which size is for each model. So I’m writing here the list of the models I gathered.

The reason for looking only for Wacoms is because these days seem to be very well supported in Linux, at least the old models you can get second hand.

As a reference these are the standards DIN sizes comparable with those models:

If you find any typo or want to add other models feel free to comment.

PD: This post has been obsoleted by a new entry.