For the first time, I actually attended the OKFestival. I didn’t get to attend many sessions, but the conversations I’ve had are spectacular.
The first surprise was meeting malev. A couple of years ago, we both worked together on the Ubuntu project. Now, he’s an Open News Fellow and I work at Open Knowledge. The FOSS world is truely small 🙂
I finally got to meet Christie! I’ve heard of Christie since right before she started at Mozilla, when I first heard of Open Source Bridge, and later she started at Mozilla Webdev, where I was closely involved back then.
Georg came over to say hi on Tuesday. When I realized that he was in Uganda for the Mozfest East Africa, I introduced him to Ketty who was also there, leading to an interesting conversation and great connection.
George Sattler works for XVT solutions in Australia and is our partner. He is fairly certain that I don’t sleep 😉 We’ve been having conversations over email for quite a long time and it was great to meet George in person.
It’s been a long time since I’ve met Adam Green, the editor of Public Domain Review. It was nice catching up with him. Also, Joris! I hadn’t seen him since he moved on from OKF 🙂
I haven’t met Riju since he’s moved to Delhi and I met him in Berlin! Totally random and great running into him 🙂
The last I met Kaustubh was at Pranesh’s farewell party in October (?). We had a good time catching up.
Folks from local groups across OKF. As a part-time system, I talk to most of the OKF community folks at some point through RT. Additionally, I was going around asking feedback for the sysadmin team. It was great for me to put a face to names and I suspect vice versa as well.
The usual suspects who were great to meet, are of course, my lovely teammates. It’s nice to meet in person, grab a drink, and talk.
Congratulations again to Bea, Megan, Lou, and Naomi for making OKFestival happen!
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