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It’s been a little over 1,5 years since I joined GitLab as my first all remote company. About half a year ago, I wrote about what I learned in one year at GitLab. In this blog post I will describe my setup how I work because I got several questions about it over the last time. I can also blame dnsmichi who published a similar post about his setup ;-). I can certainly recommend the page about “Considerations for a Productive Home Office or Remote Workspace“ in the GitLab Handbook about All-Remote. ...

One year ago I joined GitLab as a Solution Architect. In this blog post I do not want to focus on my role, my daily work or anything pandemic related. Also, there won’t be a huge focus in regard to all remote working. I rather want to focus on my personal experiences in regard to the work culture. I’ll focus on things which I certainly did not think about before I joined GitLab (or any other company before). ...

Last weekend the very first UbuCon Europe took place in Essen, Germany. It was the second UbuCon where I was the head of the organisation team. But this one was the first international UbuCon, which had a few more challenges compared to a national UbuCon. ;) This blog posts focuses on both: the event itself and some information about the organisation. Thursday The first unofficial day of the UbuCon was Thursday, where some people already arrived from different countries. We were already ten people from five different countries and we visited the Christmas market in Essen, which opened on that day. Gladly we had Nathan Haines with us, so he could translate all the alcoholic drinks from German to English, because I don’t know anything about that. ;) ...

It’s been a while, since my first announcement about UbuCon Europe 2016 which will take place from the 18th to 20th November 2016 in Essen, Germany. That means: Mark your calendars! Check out our travel page on how to get to Essen! And finally: Submit your talks and ideas for talks or workshops! While we were running the UbuCon Germany in the last years, we learned that many speakers picked a talk which were requested by the audience. So be sure to also submit your idea for a talk or workshop, which you would like to hear to idea@ubucon.eu! ...

From the 21st to the 24th the 14th Southern California Linux Expo took place in Pasadena. Since many years, there is also an UbuCon happening. This year was the first time when the newly created “UbuCon Summit” took place. The people who are involved in the international Ubuntu-Community probably heard about the UbuCon Summit. It is the new attempt by Ubuntus Community Team and the community to bring the community back together, after the end of the Ubuntu Developer Summits. The Ubuntu Developer Summits got abandoned in 2012 because it was too expensive. Personally I didn’t have a chance to visit a Ubuntu Developer Summit, mainly because I wasn’t much involved in the international community back then. I couldn’t decline to jump at the chance to attend the UbuCon Summit. ...

2016 will be my favourite „UbuCon-year“. The first UbuCon Summit in Pasadena will take place and at the end of the year the first UbuCon Europe will take place in Essen, Germany from 18th to 20th November. In the latter I’m the head of the organisation team. The UbuCon Summit is just around the corner and I’m really looking forward to attending the event. It’s the first time that I requested money from the Ubuntu Community Donations Fund which got thankfully accepted. The schedule is complete since a few days and there are many interesting talks, including the opening keynote by Mark Shuttleworth. I’m also going to give a talk about the Labdoo Project, which is a humanitarian social network to bring education around the globe. This will be also my first talk at a conference in English ;-). ...

Last weekend the 9th Ubucon in Germany took place in Berlin. It was the first time that I was the head of the organisation team for the vent. After 2012, it was the second time that we were guests at HWTK in the Center of Berlin. It was as always hosted by the ubuntu Deutschland e.V.. Friday Traditionally, the Ubucon begins on a Friday. Personally, I was in Berlin in the early morning, so I had time to see a bit of Berlin. In this case I’ve met SturmFlut for the first time and Riccardo Padovani for the second time. After we visited a couple of things in Berlin, I went to the venue to set up the rooms for the Ubucon. Thankfully we had many people who helped! After (nearly) everything was setup, we went over to the museum “Story of Berlin”. There, we had a really interesting tour through a fallout shelter and the museum. We did learn how they would organise the bunker, if there would be a worst case scenario. In the museum itself, we learned many things about the history of Berlin. We were roughly 20 people in the museum, later on, we moved to the Restaurant called “Route 66” where 40 people came together for the social event. ...

The last weeks and months were very intensive in terms of my Ubuntu activities. I’m not only doing the last preparations of this years Ubucon Germany where I’m the head of the organisation team for the first time, also we successfully ran the first community-driven app developer contest called UbuContest. The contest was initiated by SturmFlut and me, and we thankfully got the support from Daniel Holbach, David Planella and Canonical. Additionally, we had jury where I was part of! ...