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A huge thank you to everyone who provided #conference feedback on our #survey for #EverythingOpen #EO2025.

This information is invaluable for continual improvement of the event.

Here, we've recapped some conference highlights and unpacked findings from the survey - openly and transparently - as planning for #EO2026 scales up.

Learn more
https://2025.everythingopen.au/news/thats-a-wrap-for-everything-open-2025/

I keep thinking about @everythingopen.
It was a conference where I met wise elders of tech both hardware and software, and new entrants into the field, but also guardians of knowledge (librarians, museum peeps), rebels and rabble rousers, creative artists (paper, yarn, paint, pixel, words), politicians, data scientists. People looking and building things smaller by orders of magnitude than a human hair, people looking out into the vast distance of space.
I met dreamers and thinkers and everywhere there was the atmosphere of collaboration, community, and a desire for us to sustainably look after each other, our shared knowledge, and the planet we are lucky enough to exist on.

And it seems so much more than where it started: as a conference for technologists.

got my Quirkey chording keyboard built and working! Now to learn how to type on it, hopefully before my hands get too bad for using a normal keyboard!

Thanks to the Everything Open conference for introducing me to it :)

https://www.printables.com/model/704535
https://github.com/VikOlliver/Quirkey/

Our #nissan #leaf #ev roadtrip adventure (journeying to #adelaide for #everythingopen ) finished today and we are back home in Tasmania .
What a trip!

I think the headline stats are:
- drove through three states (#tasmania, #victoria , and #southaustralia )
- total distance of our trip was just over 2200 km
- drew approximately 390 kWh of power, 17 stops to recharge
- spent approximately $200 on charging

Also on this trip, our car turned 10,000 km old!

There are learnings and other thoughts to come out of a trip like this, they are going to be considered separately.

The whole week in Adelaide at #EverythingOpen I've been telling people to find the Gargan Death Carrot.

Now that I am stocked up on sleep and more or less have a social-able brain again — this year’s #EverythingOpen was great! Thanks to the organisers and volunteers that made it all happen :D

Some thoughts about some of the talks I saw:
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I don't have Conf Flu - I tested - but I am so exhausted. Heat + much Peopling + not used to Peopling anymore = shock to system

Sticky notes. A pile. Leftover from my session at #everythingopen

A HUGE thank you to all the organisers and volunteers of @everythingopen - a wonderful conference made possible by your efforts
#EverythingOpen #eo2025

It’s been a long time since i’ve seen such a good “holy fuck what is that” double-take as my bag full of electronics prototypes goes through the x-ray. They didn’t seem to care about the liter of water at all. #EverythingOpen

“A lot of this [space telemetry analysis] is done in python. Python is really good for data analysis, obviously”. #everythingopen #MotherOfAllNonSequiturs

#everythingopen folks i must fly away after next talk so if you want a hug or a duel, find me at afternoon tea!

Peter Chubb’s talk on home networks at #EverythingOpen is worth looking up if you missed it even if just for the last ten minutes, which covers “how to bequeath your digital assets”

Up now at #EverythingOpen #EO2025 is @caitelatte@cloudisland.nz where they're taking us through how to build and repair empathy through signs, observation and influence.

hey #EverythingOpen folks, @vmbrasseur’s book "Business Success with #OpenSource" is now available for pre-order in hard copy (already available as an ebook)

details in her toot - https://social.vmbrasseur.com/@vmbrasseur/113867674531613017

go order / buy if this is #RelevantToYourInterests

Some great tips on tools for designing and debugging hardware and firmware from Maksim @maks Lin at #everythingopen

Oh!
Oh.
Oh
The feels when one learns one’s talk submission has been accepted.

@silverblue #EverythingOpen

Fantastic first talk from @silverblue where they talk about the psychological journey of going from idea to talk submission to Speaker.

Slides and transcript (press P) for my 2025 #EverythingOpen presentation on Open Source voice interfaces are at https://christopher.biggs.id.au/presentations/open-source-voice-eo2025/

A previous presentation that goes a little deeper into intent handling is at https://christopher.biggs.id.au/presentations/spellcasting-eo-202404/

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