Attention people in Southern California! KDE is coming to town (to set up a booth a SCaLE21x).
Come visit us at @socallinuxexpo at the Pasadena Convention Center, enjoy some talks, meet KDE contributors, marvel at our technological... er... marvels, and have a good time!
The coolest #scale21x booth award -- and most genius donation method -- goes to NUCC (National Upcycled Computing Collective).
They took this soda machine and transformed it into a massive server from reclaimed and refurbished server racks. They even wrote a whole thing to do the transactions.
You stick dollar bills in, select which "flavor" you want, and it pops out a shell for you to access all weekend from the show.
I've had time to reflect on my experience at #scale21x and my takeaway is: I sincerely miss being "plugged in" to the #Linux community 24/7.
Tracking the amazing developments. Interviewing maintainers. Watching the joy as people discover all the cool corners of a distro they're trying for the 1st time. Having a platform like Forbes and YouTube to broadly share this stuff.
At SCaLE many people told me they miss @Linux4Everyone. I miss it too.
#SCaLE21x, it's almost time to say goodbye, but it's been a blast. Thank you everyone who came by our booth to share your stories, heard @linuxflower talk about Thunderbird for Android, and made our first time here a great one. 🐧 💙
"Don't let someone on Mastodon tell you you can't" is a generally-applicable statement from @vwbusguy — he said it in the context of running rpm-ostree, but I think it's generally a good idea 😁 #scale21x
I am so happy with how my talk came out! I suspected we had a lot of knitters in the SCALE audience and it was great to meet all of you and talk about fiber arts and electronics.