Gnome Asia Summit 2015: Day 1
Yet another Stories Transmitted. The day 1, the day when the 'real' conference began. Here's the story.
Day 1
The conference began, it took place at Balairung University of Indonesia with welcoming speech from Ahmad Haris and Max Huang, they represent as GNOME and GNOME Asia Local Team. Actually, they given 30 minutes to talk but they just gave a short talk, less than 5 minutes each, this made a schedule changed a little bit and cause a coffee break time came longer than it should be :D (Pssst... Utian set this up, it his idea to make Coffee Break longer :p )
The day 1 opened by Dean of Faculty of Computer Science, Mrs. Mirna Adriani, Dra, B.Sc, PhD and she hit the gong as a symbol that the conference officialy started.
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Mrs. Mirna Adriani and the gong :D - Taken by GNOME Asia Summit 2015 Local Committee –
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The next speech came from Mr. Aidil Chendramata Director of Information Security of Ministry of Communication and Telecommunication of Indonesia. He spoke about information security and benefit of Open Source Software, and also he said that Open Source Software is more secure and safe than Closed Source Software or Proprietary Software because we can take a look at the code, know everything the code is written and we can fix the code also if something wrong on the code. Couldn't agree more, Sir.
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Mr. Aidil and his tablet - Taken by GNOME Asia Summit 2015 Local Committee –
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And we have much speakers at the first day, we have keynote speaker, Mr. Mohammad Anwari with The Architecture of BlankOn Linux (and How GNOME Fits in The Picture), and then we have some Lightning Talks for 5 minutes each speakers.
(I apologize for not to write all the speakers and their topics in here, but you can see the schedule and the slides at here http://2015.gnome.asia/schedule/)
Here's the unique of the event, specially at lightning talks, someone will hit a gong once as BEGIN sign and after 5 minutes he will hit again the gong as END sign.
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Look at Max! he is so excited to hit that gong! - Taken by GNOME Asia Summit 2015 Local Committee –
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Here is the gong crew for the Day 1!
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Max, he did the job with full of energy - Taken by GNOME Asia Summit 2015 Local Committee –
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Kate and her gong :D - Taken by GNOME Asia Summit 2015 Local Committee –
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And the day 1 closed by Photo Session, I mean we are took photo together at the stage.
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Taken by GNOME Asia Summit 2015 Local Committee –
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Side Story
When I was walking at Margonda street trying to find some food for Siska and Umul, I met with Andre Klapper and Olav Vitters and they was looking for some food too, so we, Me and Hadi took them to Rumah Makan Padang, a local restaurant that serve local dishes from Padang. I ask them to try beef rendang with rice and give them a challenge, eat using hand!
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Olav with his kerupuk - Taken by Me, licensed under WTFPL http://www.wtfpl.net/txt/copying/[/caption]
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Andre were suffered with his spicy rendang and sambal :D - Taken by Me, licensed under WTFPL http://www.wtfpl.net/txt/copying/[/caption]
After this idea, I came back to guest house late, then Siska and Umul mad at me at the next day for this :D