{"id":7799,"date":"2018-04-29T18:01:33","date_gmt":"2018-04-30T01:01:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/?p=7799"},"modified":"2018-04-29T18:01:33","modified_gmt":"2018-04-30T01:01:33","slug":"linuxfest-2018-summary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/?p=7799","title":{"rendered":"LinuxFest 2018 Summary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Back home from LinuxFest 2018.\u00a0 Usually I feel a little sad and excited for next time, this time I am glad it is over.<\/p>\n<p>The big reason was that I lost 3 weeks due to three different illnesses.<\/p>\n<p>That was a lot to overcome, too much.<\/p>\n<p>So I felt that I did not give my best effort.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Good<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Presentation itself was good, it was a blessing that it was on Sunday which I usually do not like.<\/li>\n<li>Got to meet some new people in the leadership for Linuxfest, hopefully We can keep this up next year.<\/li>\n<li>Not sure if this is good or bad, there were less cars in the parking lot, easier to park.<\/li>\n<li>Counter to what I felt though, didn&#8217;t feel empty, and my session was full.<\/li>\n<li>Of all the years I did a tutorial\/workshop, I really liked this setup.<\/li>\n<li>And my presentation was NEAR the robotics room.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>The Bad<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Maybe I am getting spoiled, but I really wish we dropped a bit more $$ for the nicer hotel.<\/li>\n<li>I had to descope\/cutback my plans.<\/li>\n<li>The projector was flaky.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>The Ugly<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Totally unprepared for workshop Big reason #1 little content<\/li>\n<li>Reason #2 need to really really consider new network.\u00a0 I am thinking of scrapping what I got and just starting new<\/li>\n<li>This is a big bummer, not sure how I am going to overcome this, but I barely sold anything this year.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I will chill outt, need to focus on other things (also need to downshift)<\/p>\n<p>One thing that came out of LinuxFest was that the Robotics Instructor asked to collab with an IoT at home project.<\/p>\n<p>Couple things to note next year<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The network, really really needs to change.<\/li>\n<li>Content content content content<\/li>\n<li>Maybe not be so ambitious with things to sell.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Finally, kind of semi related (more of a healthy happy lifestyle thing)<\/p>\n<p>I need to get healthier, things seemed heavier, bones were aching, and I thik I would have been better off without ambien.\u00a0 Bringing CPAP was the right choice.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back home from LinuxFest 2018.\u00a0 Usually I feel a little sad and excited for next time, this time I am glad it is over. The big reason was that I lost 3 weeks due to three different illnesses. That was &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/?p=7799\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,11,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arduino","category-technical","category-training"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7799"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7799\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7800,"href":"https:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7799\/revisions\/7800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}