I've just arrived in Jakarta and am helping out with prepping for Asia Source II. Fortunately things seem really under control here, considering 140 people are about to descend upon us. Jakarta is very hot and sticky, so I'm really looking forward to getting to Sukabumi, where the event is being held, which is in the mountains, and reportedly much cooler.

If you want to read more about Asia Source II, see the wiki thats been set up at http://www.foss-at-work.net/asiasource2/

This is my fifth Source Camp working as a facilitator - and I'm working on the "Open Source Software Migration and Implementation" track. These are by far my favorite training experiences because its 7 days of 3 hour sessions. So you really get to sink your teeth in. One thing that was learned pretty early on in these camps is that the camp is only as good as the participants.

The other piece thats great about the Source Camps is that there's lots of opportunities to get to know people and make friends. I have a number of very close colleagues coming to this camp and I am looking forward to some evenings catching up over beer and having some good laughs. So personally its always a good time and I know I'll walk away with some new friends.

One piece that I'm hoping I can some how change at this camp is somehow finding the other gay people who have come to this. There's usually a session about women working in open source and I've always wondered whether there should be one about queers working on open source issues at the camp. I think I'm waiting for someone to organize it though, cause what I really want is to make friends and not have a bitch session about how hard it is to be gay.

My one regret at Africa Source II was that I met an openly gay woman on the last day and she told me what a hard time she had cause she hadn't met other gay people until meeting me. I felt really bad, but also regreted it because she was from South Africa and seemed really really cool.

Anyways - I've put in my profile that I've worked on queer issues. I've already had one person tell me that its cool I've worked on queer issues and that they are queer. Of course I told them immediately that I was as well. We'll see how it goes. Maybe this will be the way to do it.

Ultimately, I'm looking forward to a really good time!