## Bitreich End Year Meeting 2020
Bitreich End Year Meeting 2020
What we did this year and what is coming.
by Christoph Lohmann <
[email protected]>
## What Have We Achieved?
* First see my talk from bitreichcon 2020
*
gopher://bitreich.org/0/con/2020/rec/state-of-bitreich.md
## Bitreich Member Statistics
* Members: 13 (up from 10)
* Katolaz
* biniar
* adc
Welcome!
* Council: 5
## IRC
Our IRC is always active, due to all members contributing.
* Thank you!
We use memes every day.
15:47:10 @__20h__ | annna, how many memes do you know?
15:47:10 annna | I know 0x1000|(1<<10)|0x200|0x100|0x40|(1<<5)|0x8|0x1 memes:
|
gopher://adamsgaard.dk/0/pub/memecount
* Many new features in annna.
* horoscope, tech hype, memes, ...
Over the year new channels were created:
#bitreich-it for Italiano (not IT)
#bitreich-tv for the Television
#bitreich-meme for new memes
## Meme Development (0/1)
annna meme count (total on 2020-12-29: 5968)
6000 +-------------------------------------------------------------------+
| + + + + + MMM |
| MM |
5000 |-+ MMM +-|
| MMM |
| MMM |
4000 |-+ MM +-|
| MM |
| MMM |
3000 |-+ MMM +-|
| MMM |
| MM |
2000 |-+ MM +-|
| MM |
| MM |
1000 |-+ MMM +-|
| MMMMM |
| + MMMMMMMMMMMMMMM*M*MM + + + |
0 +-------------------------------------------------------------------+
2018-12 2019-04 2019-08 2019-12 2020-04 2020-08 2020-12 2021-04
## Meme Development (1/1)
+----- statistics (2020-09-24) ------+
| number of images: 3047 |
| number of movies: 1422 |
| average movie length: 109.4 s |
| total image viewing time: 4.2 h |
| (assuming 5 s per image) |
| total movie length: 43.2 h |
+------------------------------------+
## Project Development (0/3)
40 repositories are now hosted on bitreich.
* gramscii is now a bitreich project.
* git://bitreich.org/gramscii
* Thanks KatolaZ!
* xml2tsv is now a bitreich project.
* git://bitreich.org/xml2tsv
* Thanks KatolaZ!
* Bitreich code style project is now there.
* git://bitreich.org/bitreich-style
* geomyidae
* now with TLS support
* speed upgrades
* version release is waiting for a recreated 20h
## Project Development (1/3)
* catpoint
* overhaul with signage support
* many speed improvements
* reed-alert had many new releases
* new packages in distributions
* a community is growing here
* (unofficial): sfeed
* Evil_Bob did great development on sfeed and makes
our everyday news experience better. Thanks!
## Project Development (2/3)
* Bitreich TV is now active
*
gopher://bitreich.org/1/tv
* Thanks adc!
* Gopher Lawn has been overhauled
* better scripts
* easier contribution
* more flexible category system
* maintainer badge available
* maintainer instruction video available
* Bitreich Radio now available over gopher
* it was too simple to be true
* Bitreich University opened and offers a degree:
*
gopher://bitreich.org/1/university
* A meme degree!
## Project Development (3/3)
* Friendless social network.
* You do not have friends? Join us.
*
gopher://bitreich.org/1/friendless
* New World Order support in annna.
* Try to find the chips. :D
* Need to masturbate?
*
gopher://bitreich.org/1/bithub
* You feel special?
* Join the Bitreich Snowmen programme with no benefits.
*
gopher://bitreich.org/1/snowmen
* You fail at university?
* Get some ECTS credits for free.
*
gopher://bitreich.org/1/iddt
## Gopher Support News
* After members of bitreich pushed gopher into mpv, vlc and ffmpeg,
parazyd pushed gopher support into curl(1)!
_Applause_
* Geomyidae now has super TLS support.
* hurl(1) already had TLS support.
* People on the mailinglist slowly accept our TLS approach.
## Bitreichcon 2020 (0/1)
* First see my talk at bitreichcon 2020 for a summary
*
gopher://bitreich.org/0/con/2020/rec/closing.md
* The plan to hold the conference in Amsterdam failed due to SARS-CoV-2.
* But Bitreich was prepared ...
* All of our conference system worked completely online forever.
* Many other projects adopted full online conferences, which is
now a norm.
* Bitreich is the technology leader.
## Bitreichcon 2020 (1/1)
* Speakers: 5
* Thanks to all of them!
* Talks: 14
* All kind of topics.
* Maximum slide viewers: 22
* Maximum radio listeners: 22
* No video stream. Users with low bandwidth were not discriminated.
* We had an ad contest an all contributors won a price.
* Thanks!
* Party with DJ Slav!
* It was much fun.
## Bitreichcon 2021
* All plans depend on how countries react to to the covid-19 pandemic.
* I would like to have in-person meetings.
* Noone will be put to risk until the situation is safe.
* Timeplan:
* Decide until Feb 2021 go online or offline.
* No conference fees.
* Bring your joke!
## What Did Not Go As Expected
* Geomyidae was not released.
* Many projects have received no love.
* ... insert covid-19 excuse ...
* But we did many other things to keep the feeling good.
## Planned Events
* Nothing is planned so far.
* Anyone planned something?
## Future Plans For Bitreich
* Keep the fun in the project.
* Keep the professionalism in the project.
* Keep brcon as a community gathering running.
* New situation, we will adapt! Simplicity can easily adapt!
* React to technical changes and write simple solutions for our
world for them.
What are your plans for bitreich?
## Thanks!
Thank you for listening!
I wish everyone a happy, healthy and successful year 2021!
Please discuss further and make plans. Every contribution is a contribution.
Yours,
20h
Senior Community Leader (SCL)
