{"id":715,"date":"2017-01-20T10:18:04","date_gmt":"2017-01-20T09:18:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelins.se\/johan\/blog\/?p=715"},"modified":"2017-01-20T10:18:04","modified_gmt":"2017-01-20T09:18:04","slug":"building-communities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelins.se\/johan\/blog\/2017\/01\/building-communities\/","title":{"rendered":"Building communities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As some of you might know I&#8217;ve been involved in the <a href=\"http:\/\/foss-gbg.se\/\">foss-gbg<\/a> group for a long while (more than 3 years now). Last year I helped starting the <a href=\"http:\/\/foss-north.se\/\">foss-north<\/a> conference, which is really about taking what foss-gbg is and turning it into something bigger. We had a great turn-up &#8211; over 100 guests and ten great speakers.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-709\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thelins.se\/johan\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/PANO_20160526_0924461-300x103.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"103\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thelins.se\/johan\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/PANO_20160526_0924461-300x103.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thelins.se\/johan\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/PANO_20160526_0924461-768x265.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.thelins.se\/johan\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/PANO_20160526_0924461-1024x353.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This week, I finally got time to start pushing forward with this year&#8217;s edition of foss-north. It will be held on <strong>April 26<\/strong> in Gothenburg and it is a great opportunity to visit Sweden and Gothenburg and mingle with the FOSS community. We&#8217;ve already confirmed Lydia\u00a0Pintscher and Lennart Poettering as speakers. If you want to speak the <a href=\"http:\/\/foss-north.se\/call-for-papers.html\">call for paper<\/a> has just opened and will run until March 12. Tickets sales will open shortly too, as well as the call for sponsors.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/foss-north.se\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-716\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thelins.se\/johan\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/banner-date-956-300x151.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"151\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thelins.se\/johan\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/banner-date-956-300x151.png 300w, https:\/\/www.thelins.se\/johan\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/banner-date-956-768x386.png 768w, https:\/\/www.thelins.se\/johan\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/banner-date-956.png 956w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>By a random chance I got involved in the organization of yet another group this week. The C++ meetup community in Gothenburg has been inactive for almost a year, so a group of people decided to pick up the ball and try to get something running. We&#8217;ve renamed the group to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.meetup.com\/gbgcpp\/\">gbgcpp<\/a> and the next (our first) meeting will be held January 26, and then we will take it from there. Hopefully this can turn into something fun!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As some of you might know I&#8217;ve been involved in the foss-gbg group for a long while (more than 3 years now). Last year I helped starting the foss-north conference, which is really about taking what foss-gbg is and turning it into something bigger. We had a great turn-up &#8211; over 100 guests and ten &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelins.se\/johan\/blog\/2017\/01\/building-communities\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Building communities<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,11,3,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-foss-gbg","category-kde","category-kde4","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelins.se\/johan\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelins.se\/johan\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelins.se\/johan\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelins.se\/johan\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelins.se\/johan\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=715"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelins.se\/johan\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":717,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelins.se\/johan\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715\/revisions\/717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelins.se\/johan\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelins.se\/johan\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelins.se\/johan\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}