## Bitreich Counil Meeting 2019

Bitreich Council Meeting 2019

My Report

by Christoph Lohmann <20h@r-36.net>

## What Have We Achieved?

* First see my talk from bitreichcon 2019
	* gopher://bitreich.org/0/con/2019/rec/state-of-bitreich.md

* The IRC was very active, productive and funny.
	* Thanks everyone!

* We had Bitreichcon 2019 with more visitors and viewers than before.

* We work together with Devuan now.

* Our projects are evolving as needed.
	* Our development policy makes them seem stall for a while,
	  but they are simply working.

* annna is evolving and getting more features for the community.
	* 466 memes by 2019-12-30!
	* Propose your meme!

* Suckless is controlled by Bitreich.

* Gopher is evolving even further.

## Bitreich Member Statistics

* Members: 10

* Council: 5

* Not much has changed here.

## IRC

* We have a very active community here.

* Every day something funny happens.

* Memes everywhere.

* Technical discussions about all kind of topics.

* Keep it going!

## Bitreichcon 2019

* First see my talk at bitreichcon 2019 for a summary
	* gopher://bitreich.org/0/con/2019/rec/closing.md

* We had up to 25 listeners for the talks on radio!

* Five people came all the way to my remote home to visit in person.
	* From four different countries: Germany, USA, France, India

* There were presentations by six speakers.
	* Remote presentations from: USA, France, Croatia
	* The more people present, the less I have to present and
	  can organize.

* The IRC was overactive for questions.

## Bitreichcon 2020

* It will happen in cooperation with Dyne or Parazyd, in Amsterdam,
  Netherlands.

* Combined with Devuan conference.

* We have not decided on the month and date yet.
	* Cooperations are slow.

* Timeplan:
	* until Feb 2019
		* have logo ready and the exact date
		* start Call for Papers
		* start Call for Registration

* Amsterdam can be easily reached from everywhere around the world.

* No conference fees.

* Bring your joke!

## What Did Not Go As Expected

* Gopher search is only half done.
	* 20h was too distracted with politics.
		* But there he was successful.

* Grparazyd II did not come out.
	* We need to use the fun moment of FOSDEM for further
	  development.
	* Maybe add it as a principle of open source development:
		* Use the Fun Moment!

## How Do Projects Die?

* Key people have other interested.
	* family, job change, burnout etc.

* The project has no practical usage anymore.
	* Not used every day.

* There is no fun in the project anymore.
	* Bureaucracy and seriousness has taken over.

## How Do Projects Thrive?

* Key people are interested.
	* Activity every now and then.
	* Constant small activity.

* The project solves an important problem in my life.
	* Key people use the project and improve it.

* There is fun and activity in the project.
	* You feel happy to be in contact with the project.

## Introducing Excuses Management

* All serious and boring companies have quality management.
* But quality is not what is needed.
* Happiness and love for something is needed.

* Bitreich now has an excuses management.
	* Everyone should send me their excuses in their life. We will
	  have excuses meeting. There will be an excuses officer.
	* No, fuck this.

## How To Overcome Excuses The Bitreich Way

For everyone next year and in the future:

* When you are using some computer, software or hardware and it is tedious.
	* Your inner feeling of using it is bad and you do not really want to
	  use it.
* Ask yourself, if this could be done more simpler, maybe in some other
  programming language.
* Write the code in a good evening or when you have a really good mood.
* Publish the code on bitreich.
* Make other people happy.

* See Solene, how she made many people happy with drist and reed-alert.
	* Thank you Solene, so much!

## Planned Events

* Bitreich will be at FOSDEM in Brussels, in Feb 2020.

* Bitreich will be at Chemnitzer Linuxtage in Chemnitz, German, Mar 2020

* And there is of course Brcon2020.

* Anyone else is somewhere else and needs help representing?

## Future Plans For Bitreich

* Keep the fun in the project.
	* Basic principle of bitreich.
	* Memecache is now sanitized.
	* My bitreich-fun wiki page is 520 lines long.

* Keep brcon as a community gathering running.
	* This time with support by others.
	* Organisation on more shoulders, so more fun for everyone.

* Implement the proposed Excuses Management (EM)
	* Get members more involved.
	* Noone expects the Bitreich (#spanish) Inquisition!

What are your plans for bitreich?

## Thanks!

Thank you for listening!

I wish everyone a happy and successful year 2020!

Please discuss further and make plans. Every contribution is a contribution.

Yours,

20h
Senior Community Leader (SCL)