The FOSSASIA Summit started today!
I was looking forward to some of the talks today, and I also got to meet many people.
I liked these two talks the best:
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How Grafana Labs builds and sustains communities by Richard Hartmann: Particularly insightful as I have first-hand experience in building open source communities. I also got to meet and talk to Richard afterward about prioritizing community even when you want to monetize with your paid products.
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What the AI revolution means for Open Source, Open Tech and Open Societies by Frank Karlitschek: The talk presented an interesting way to evaluate AI models by their “open source-ness.” The talk also showed examples of AI models open to different levels.

Lifelong Learning Institute, Singapore - 13th April 2023
We also had the best food and beer, like you always do in Singapore.
I’m always surprised by what the open source umbrella brings to conferences. Today I met someone working at an organization that facilitates projects that build open hardware for science, like open source microscopes.
I also felt like the conference had a good representation of people from different parts of the world. It also feels like the correct size. It is big enough to bring a lot of ideas under a roof but small enough to make it easy to meet new people without being overwhelmed.
Tomorrow I will spend most of my time meeting people and working on my talk for Saturday.