Attending and Speaking at GNOME.Asia 2017 Summit

Post Syndicated from Lennart Poettering original https://0pointer.net/blog/attending-and-speaking-at-gnomeasia-2017-summit.html

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.