Attending and Speaking at GNOME.Asia 2017 Summit

The GNOME.Asia Summit 2017 organizers invited to me to speak at their conference in Chongqing/China, and it was an excellent event! Here's my brief report:

Because we arrived one day early in Chongqing, my GNOME friends Sri, Matthias, Jonathan, David and I started our journey with an excursion to the Dazu Rock Carvings, a short bus trip from Chongqing, and an excellent (and sometimes quite surprising) sight. I mean, where else can you see a buddha with 1000+ hands, and centuries old, holding a cell Nexus 5 cell phone? Here's proof:

The GNOME.Asia schedule was excellent, with various good talks, including some about Flatpak, Endless OS, rpm-ostree, Blockchains and more. My own talk was about The Path to a Fully Protected GNOME Desktop OS Image (Slides available here). In the hallway track I did my best to advocate casync to whoever was willing to listen, and I think enough were ;-). As we all know attending conferences is at least as much about the hallway track as about the talks, and GNOME.Asia was a fantastic way to meet the Chinese GNOME and Open Source communities.

The day after the conference the organizers of GNOME.Asia organized a Chongqing day trip. A particular highlight was the ubiqutious hot pot, sometimes with the local speciality: fresh pig brain.

Here some random photos from the trip: sights, food, social event and more.

I'd like to thank the GNOME Foundation for funding my trip to GNOME.Asia. And that's all for now. But let me close with an old chinese wisdom:

   The Trials Of A Long Journey Always Feeling, Civilized Travel Pass Reputation.