Endless ♥ GNOME at GUADEC 2023
In July, my employer Endless sponsored and attended the annual GNOME conference, GUADEC, in Rīga, Latvia. Endless has a long history of supporting and collaborating within the GNOME open source project, and it was great to support GUADEC again this year as the platinum sponsor of the event.
Our support of GUADEC and GNOME is more than just a sponsorship, though; we showed up and participated all week to present and plan for our continued contributions to GNOME. The conference is designed around a one-day advisory board meeting, a few days of talks, and a few days of working sessions.
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António Fernandes: My second (full) GUADEC
Back to GUADEC
Four years after my first attendance of GUADEC, in Thessaloniki, I was fortunate enough to once again attend, in-person, the main GNOME conference, which was hosted this year in the enchanting city of Riga.
These were four long years! Alright, I’ve watched the online editions of 2020 and 2021, but that doesn’t count. Honorary mention to the Berlin “mini-GUADEC” in 2022, which was de facto a satellite venue and which I was very glad to attend in-person. It did have some of the GUADEC spirit and that was where I first met a lot of faces who I was very happy to see again this year.
Travelling from the diametrically opposite corner of Europe, and constrained by the number of PTO days I could to allocate, I couldn’t avoid air travel, but I’ve at least managed to replace one airplane connection with a high speed train travel.