Earlier this week it was time for GitOps Days again. The third time now and the event has grown quite a bit since we started. Born out of the desire to bring GitOps practitioners together during pandemic times initially, this time we had a proper CFP and the outcome was just great: lots of participation from a very diverse crowd of experts - we had panels, case studies, technical deep dives, comparisons of different solutions and more....
GitOps Days are over now - what a blast I had. Even though it was long hours, it was so much fun supporting the event: such a friendly and engaged audience (loads of great questions and discussion on Slack), excellent - very experienced and fun speakers, and a super well-organised team! Thanks everyone who made these two days as special as they were! 💓 It has happened before: people were picking a DJ name for me....
What a brilliant day 1 of GitOps Days it was. Weeks of hard work from a great team went into this, as was quite apparent. Minor glitches, some last minute shuffling of speakers, but apart from that very very seamless. (You can still sign up and get links to the recordings.) I had a bit of an unusual role: I was DJing at an online event. Some questions online were about the setup and why I wasn’t changing records during playing (well spotted!...
I’ve been slacking a bit when it comes to DJing land picked it up this year again. Some of my mixtapes are on a part of my blog that’s not syndicated, but I set up a page with all the posts. I just posted a new one today. If you have no plans tonight and you’re in Berlin, come to the GNOME3 Launch Lounge (Facebook event page) in c-base tonight. I’ll be playing there as well....
Earlier today I went to a goodbye party of a friend who’s going to Australia for a few months. Great things that happened: Party was outdoors, a few DJs played, great atmosphere, 100+ people at peak times Some of my awesome office mates were there, my sister too The police showed up and instead of shutting the party down, they told us where it was “OK” to have the party We moved all the equipment, the generator, drinks and everything else to the new place, which was nearby, everybody helped I played a 4 hour Drum’n’Bass set, which I (and others) were very happy with, they even collected money for the DJ - glad it was dark, so nobody could see if I was blushing I watched the sunrise by the riverside while the party was still going on I drove home on my bicycle A few guys stopped me to take a picture of them and as a thanks offered me their last beer Oh how I love this city!...
We have two heroes of Free Culture who will have their pieces of art released on the Ubuntu 10.04 LTS CDs. Without further ado let me present you the two winners of this cycle’s Ubuntu Free Culture Showcase and what they have to say about themselves, their work and Ubuntu: Audio: Colin Ross - Frustration Blues Colin Ross I’ve been playing music since my dad started training me in classical piano at 5, and I’ve been making a living playing music–sometimes just barely–since I was a teenager....
As part of the Ubuntu community we’re quite used to the concept of sharing our work with others. Not just because we’re all good and selfless people but because we deeply believe that by actively making the fruits of our labour available to others we make the world more diverse and interesting, solve problems and generally make it a better place. There luckily today are countless and successful examples of this and Ubuntu fits perfectly into this world of sharing....
You’re involved in Free Culture? You want to get your music, video or picture out to millions of people? Check out the Ubuntu Free Culture Showcase! Every Ubuntu Karmic CD might include your piece of art. Participate! :-)
I blogged about my funny audio problems before. In the end I got the Ubuntu-related problems figured out, but still I got weird noise in the recordings; the recording process even picked up radio. Some friends told me that their guitar amplifiers in some cases picked up radio too, others thought I was kidding. You could imagine: Drum’n’Bass mixtapes with radio announcements and classical music in them would suck slightly. :-)...
Some people might have realised the lack of new mixtapes in my blog already. The good news: I still like music, I still like Drum’n’Bass and I still like DJing. The bad news: recording got more difficult. Up until now I used a small python I script I wrote to record the mixtapes. It basically just wrapped around gst-launch-0.10 pulsesrc ! queue ! audioconvert ! vorbisenc ! oggmux ! filesink location=<somefile>...
I’ve not been asking the Lazy web a lot yet, but I hope to get some good recommendations here. I’m looking for “Balkan Beats” music on vinyl. Inspired by the legendary Bucovina and Balkanbeats parties and compilations, I’ve been looking for that kind of music for a bit longer now. I already have: Balkanbeats, Part 3 Shantel, Disko Partizani Shantel, Bucovina EP Shantel, Bucovina Vol. 2 EP Let me know if you found more....
It seems that my mixtapes turn up very early in the results when you’re searching for “drum’n’bass mixtapes”. I just hope the listeners are as happy as the page rank suggest. :-)
I was very excited to see Jono finally announce Severed Fifth (digg it). He had mentioned the idea to me before and I’ll be sure to check regularly into what’s happening in the project. I listened to the .ogg announcement and besides Jono’s sexy narrator voice I realised that the part about how culture evolves and how we need to be free to be creative reminded me a lot of the Amen Break documentary....
I’ll play in Berlin’s L.U.X. again on Friday. I look forward to it quite much and the line-up looks quite promising. Seems I was wrong about one thing…
Since Matthias ‘doko’ Klose and my brother have been good at leaking the story, here my few words on it. Michal, the organiser of the “Cargo Cult” parties in Berlin’s L.U.X. called me some days before my birthday party and told me who’d be around on that night, as he’d be on vacation and told me gigglingly, that they had chosen a “birthday DJ name” for me. Of course I asked what the name was… all he said was “You’ll find out soon enough....