Common Voice at Linux Day 2020

dag7+ifyourenotallmpleaseremovethis@protonmail.com (Dag) — Tue, 27 Oct 2020 18:23:01 +0100

Finally the day has come: Linux Day 2020! I could imagine a lot of people who gathers and…haha, nice joke!

This time, Linux Day 2020 has been strange: first of all because it wasn’t attended in presence but online, and every talk has been recorded.

On one hand this thing is so useful: to have something recorded is always a good idea, especially when we talk about small projects where, very often, the documentation about that project doesn’t exist or it is poor.

On the other hand we have missed an important part: human interactions and the possibility to meet new and old friends, face to face, in general.

However, I am not here to talk about this, I want to talk about my experience: although I had recorded and uploaded my talk last minute, knowing that I wouldn’t had any problem regarding audio or video, I was really nervous during the video projection and I was doubtful if all the people would have understood the message or not.

I didn’t had one hundred people (I counted one hundred) face-to-face, but in that moment I needed to be most clear possible to make sure that everybody would have understand.

Luckily, the video has been broadcasted without problems and the talk has ended before my time slot: two people seemed to be really interested in this project (Common Voice) that asked me a couple of questions.

Send me an email in case something it is not clear!

By the way I forget to say what was the talk about: Common Voice - We Want Your Voice! a wonderful project by Mozilla available at commonvoice.mozilla.org

Everything is in italian, slides here, video here:

Ciao!

Terni Maker Faire 2019

dag7+ifyourenotallmpleaseremovethis@protonmail.com (Dag) — Sat, 30 Mar 2019 20:00:55 +0000

30th March 2019.

An important date to me: the first event where I was physically present in Mozilla Italia Community!

I took part at Terni Maker Festival, an innovation and technology festival, as a speaker with Simone, on Mozilla IoT.

After a long (not really) trip in a Trenitalia vagon (Trenitalia is an Italian railway company) with some random British English people I never met before but they made me laugh, the day started with me receiving the official Firefox T-Shirt.

Wow, it’s geeky! It’s awesome!

The hacklab was fulfilled with people, mostly kids but even young guys, and it was a pleasure to talk with some of them and explain to them what else Mozilla does.

Despite kids, who have stolen all of our super-cool gadgets including some pins, we stocked up stickers and leaflets and our stand at this point looked like a battlefield!

The day still hasn’t got over! It’s 3 p.m. and…oh! It’s my turn! My first talk!

We started effectively at 3.30 p.m. due to the issue related to the network connection and because not many people came, we decided to wait a little bit (that’s not actually true, the problem it was the demo!)

It was exciting, I don’t talk often about this thing with a lot of people, but thanks to Simone and the power of the sticker we have not only spoken about Mozilla IoT but even explained what is Common Voice, another Mozilla project which you should definitely give a try

Once the talk got over, we have back to our desk to say goodbye each other and to produce a small daily report (other than talking obviously).

Some people demonstrate us which the subjects were cool while we were doing the talk but even when we were at the desk, and asked us many details on the Mozilla Browser and on Common Voice. Personally, I enjoyed so much in answering their questions!

Some of them joined the official Mozilla Italia Telegram channel: this demonstrates which maybe Telegram was used in the past for limited public but today it is used not only from us but from many other people too!

See you soon!

Mozilla on Dag's home

Common Voice at Linux Day 2020

Terni Maker Faire 2019