Bytes Of Binary

 Epilogue  GNOME Asia 2024 was held in Red Hat BLR office. This edition was staffed mostly by Red Hat employees and GNOME foundation members. The rendition had a nice split of Fedora, GNOME dev and Ubuntu talks. This event was a result of months on planning across multiple Timezones , seeing this come to fruition is a dream come true. Day 0 I touchdown 72hrs before the event. To helpout with last minute plannings and logistical arrangements. I was in touch with Samyak Jain (event owner) and Justin Flory (Fedora Community Arch) who had listed down the items that were still getting delivered at the office. This part of any event is hectic and support from GNOME staff was desired. Sudhir Dharanendraiah (Senior Manager @ Red Hat Core Platforms) being a Bangaluru native; led the facilities co-ordination efforts with Gowda (Red Hat India Facility Maganer). Sudhir is one of prime people who did a lot of the heavy lifting behind the curtains. Day 1 The GNOME foundation has a specific ...

Epilogue Flock is the annual event for Fedora and this years marks 8yrs of me attending. Flock has taught me so much over the years and this year was just little it special. The direction Fedora Project takes from this moment on will be significant. The contributor base it amasses, might feel overwhelmed and debate the value to cost ratio but this all is part of much bigger picture. The change(s) will help the project to have leaner, meaner and lighter infra workload. The decent increase in the quality of life of contributor and smoother contributor convergence (in-sync) with rest of Open Source life! The prep I flew in from Kolkata,India (CCU). I will spare you folks the 40hrs of madness and travel shenanigans.  This time a lot was on my mind, from the redhat side of things .. the impending change in org structure. Fedora Project is actively trying to find another git forge replacement and sunset pagure and bugzilla. Konflux-ci is on the rise and that will be a change to the buil...