Cassidy James BlaedeExcellent write-up of #GUADEC, with insight on the hybrid in-person/remote/satellite format. As someone who attended remotely, I was happy to be included—and I think the satellite location on another continent should be a permanent inclusion.
#GUADEC2022 https://dylanmc.ca//-/blog/2022/08/10/guadec-2022/
GUADEC 2022 - Dylan McCall
I spent a week at GUADEC 2022 in Guadalajara, Mexico. It was an excellent conference, with some good talks, good people, and a delightful hallway track. I think everyone was excited to see each other in person after so long, and for many attendees, this was closer to home than GUADEC has ever been. For this event, I was sponsored by the GNOME Foundation, so many thanks to them as well as my employer the Endless OS Foundation for both encouraging me to submit a talk and for giving me the opportunity to take off and drink tequila for the week. For me, the big themes this GUADEC were information resilience, scaling our community, and how these topics fit together. Introductions Stepping into the Guadalajara Connectory for the first time, I couldn’t help but feel a little out of place. Everyone was incredibly welcoming, but this was still my first GUADEC, and my first real in-person event with the desktop Linux community in ages. So, I was happy to come across Jona Azizaj and Justin Flory’s series of thoughtful and inviting workshops on Wednesday morning. These were Icebreakers & Community Social, followed by Unconscious bias & imposter syndrome workshop. They eased my anxiety enough that I wandered off and missed the follow-up (Exploring privilege dynamics workshop), but it looked like a cool session. It was a brilliant idea to put these kinds of sessions right at the start…
Dylan McCall
GNOME
Manuel Quiñones
GNOME Brasil