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Tonight I hosted a #TasLUG meetup in #Hobart, which is the first meeting we’ve have in over 5 years ( yes pre covid times ). 18 amazing people headed out to enjoy some networking with like minded people, to listen to myself and @kgoetz give some talk summaries from #EO2025, and share some pizza and drinks. It was great to see some younger people (high schoolers) coming along and joining in too. My cup is feeling full tonight.

I keep thinking about @everythingopen.
It was a conference where I met wise elders of tech both hardware and software, and new entrants into the field, but also guardians of knowledge (librarians, museum peeps), rebels and rabble rousers, creative artists (paper, yarn, paint, pixel, words), politicians, data scientists. People looking and building things smaller by orders of magnitude than a human hair, people looking out into the vast distance of space.
I met dreamers and thinkers and everywhere there was the atmosphere of collaboration, community, and a desire for us to sustainably look after each other, our shared knowledge, and the planet we are lucky enough to exist on.

And it seems so much more than where it started: as a conference for technologists.

Leaving Adelaide today, home after #EO2025. Things not in my plans when I arrived a week ago: direct booting #FreeBSD on the QEMU microvm profile.

(don't be fooled, long way to go yet, but finally some progress after hours of exploration and dead-ends).

I feel like this might be relevant to the interests of some of my #EverythingOpen peeps^… 👀

“Twelve Dudes and a Hype Tunnel: Scenes from the ‘Super Bowl for #Excel Nerds’”
 
 
Side note: It’s fascinating to me how (some)† nerds / geeks recapitulate the structures of hierarchy, dominance, & status from which they were often‡ excluded when younger. The reasons that this happens are left as an exercise for the reader.

#EO2025
#RelevantToYourInterests  
 
 
^ aside from the proprietary spreadsheet app in use, ofc. 💁‍♀️

† not all, ofc., but a *lot*

‡ but not always, obv.

It was good to be at a bigger Australian tech conference again. A good distraction. I have missed it. I last went to LCA 2017 and OSDC 2015 (Both Hobart). This feels like a much broader scope of talks, and even the less technical talks I enjoyed a lot and were quite relevant. But I still enjoy a good tech talk. Open libraries, communities, standards, hardware and software and Linux.
Lots of things to take back to @hobarthackerspace and co.
I did miss talks about open source games and game engines. But I immerse myself in that anyway.
All going well my main job might pay for the ticket again..
I'll be in Adelaide/Tarntanya for 2 more days to check stuff out including the Adelaide Makerspace.
Thanks to the volunteers, I hope there is another, I might be there.