Hello everyone who was at the conference! Thank you all.
After arriving back home I found out that the vegan green dinner I left earlier for was not Saturday but will be today. On listening to a meditation to let go of the conflict that I left earlier than I needed to in order to be at the vegan green dinner and thus missing the closing ceremony needlessly I fell asleep and woke up somewhat around 1:45 in the night. I bet that means that I had lots of experiences, impressions and information to process! Now I miss the experience already. I appreciate how I somehow feel connected also to all the people I did not talk to, even tough at some time I may have intended to do so. Verbal communication is just a tiny fraction of communication going on between beings enjoying the human experience. At the beginning I had difficulty processing all the new impressions and experiences to the point I found that I took in more than I was able to process in time and almost shut down. But later on I enjoyed the conference experience more and more, while being more careful to take times for myself, and also thought about the advantage of sleeping at the venue without having to care to get back to my sleeping place by public transport and S-trains only going every hour in the later evening. On the other hand sleeping outside in a luxurious guest room provided some time and space for myself and processing what I experienced. One of the most important take aways from the conference for me is what happened several times as I learned to know people I know from mailing lists in real life. There have been several of occurences where I found that face to face the interaction between me and the other was much more friendly than on the mailing list or in a bug report and I thought: Wow, with this guy who I thought is tough and harsh I can have such a friendly conversation face to face. It helped me a long way to let go of quite some judgements I kept onto and blocked quite some of my energy in. I now understand more deeply what it means to assume good intentions. Even if I do not agree with some decisions or ways people handle things I now during the DebConf I got the clear sense that they do it the way they do it with best intentions. Thank you. As a goal I take out of this is to go greater lengths to contribute keeping discussions in mailing lists constructive and friendly even when experiencing strong differences in oppinions or point of views. As a model for this I will use what I found in Plasma/KDE mailing lists so far. I can´t explain why or how yet, but there people somehow manage to keep a constructive tone much more consistently than what I experienced in Debian mailing lists. I am not sure yet whether I attend to Cape Town. Traveling long distances is quite a challenge to me personally. But I challenged myself to go to this DebConf as well and I am very glad I did. Thank you, -- Martin _______________________________________________ Debconf-discuss mailing list Debconf-discuss@lists.debconf.org http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-discuss
