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FOSDEM 2011: Sunday

Posted on January 13, 2012 by Andrew

In advance of FOSDEM 2012, I’m publishing previous years’ notes. Here’s 2011 day two: Sunday. Barebox Reason for attending this talk: to understand more of the technical details behind fast boot of Linux devices, which will be an important factor … Continue reading →

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FOSDEM 2011: Saturday

Posted on January 11, 2012 by Andrew

In advance of FOSDEM 2012, I’m publishing previous years’ notes. Here’s 2011 day one: Saturday. FOSDEM is the Free and Open Source Software Developers’ European Meeting, an annual free event hosted in Brussels and entirely organised and run by volunteers. … Continue reading →

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FOSDEM 2010

Posted on January 10, 2012 by Andrew

Although I’ve been a regular at FOSDEM for a few years now, I’ve been rather poor in ensuring my notes got onto this blog. In advance of FOSDEM 2012, I’m publishing previous years’ notes. Here’s 2010. The Free and Open … Continue reading →

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Open letter to ExCel London

Posted on October 18, 2011 by Andrew

Following my frustration at the DroidCon venue having no cycle facilities (tweet tweet), I was pleased to see that ExCel London (host of Nokia World 2011) do in theory have secure bike parking. It took a while to find this … Continue reading →

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Droidcon London 2011

Posted on October 5, 2011 by Andrew

I’m off to #droidconuk tomorrow and Friday, for a couple of days of Android immersion. Should be a useful benchmark for the adoption rate of Android by developers … looking forward to some interesting discussions. If you’re there, come say … Continue reading →

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TransferSummit 2011

Posted on September 12, 2011 by Andrew

I think Transfer Summit is fast becoming my favourite conference. It’s like a happy mashup of IWMWs of yore (and even had Brian Kelly attending this year – it was great to catch up with him!) and ApacheCon. The mix … Continue reading →

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FOSDEM 2011

Posted on February 4, 2011 by Andrew

In a few hours I’ll be hopping on the Eurostar to Brussels… This year the schedule is as good as ever, and I already have the usual dilemma of which talks to attend. I’ve managed to narrow it down to … Continue reading →

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Unstoppable forces and immovable objects

Posted on August 9, 2010 by Andrew

It’s been a busy few weeks, so I’m a bit behind on writing up events. At the end of July I was in Cambridge for another of the Open Source and Software SIG meetings. This time the theme was “Open … Continue reading →

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LinuxTag and WIPJam

Posted on June 23, 2010 by Andrew

(This post originally appeared on the LiMo Foundation blog) A couple of weeks ago I went to Berlin for the annual LinuxTag event and to participate in the WIPJam running on the first day. This was my first visit to … Continue reading →

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UDS Maverick

Posted on May 13, 2010 by Andrew

I’m here at the Maverick Ubuntu Developer Summit for a couple of days. It’s been a great experience so far, and the quality of the discussion has been outstanding. I’m primarily here to listen in on the Ubuntu on ARM … Continue reading →

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