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GNOME Asia 2015

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I've just arrived back from GNOME Asia and it's time to blog about the experience there. The trip to Jakarta was relatively uneventful. An early train to Sydney started the day followed by the trip to Singapore. A tight connection (1 hour) combined with switching terminals made life a little interesting. The fact that one of the Changi terminal connection AirTrain's was out of service meant we were bussed across the tarmac. Then to find the gate and the aeroplane, and the short trip to Jakarta. After landing in Jakarta, I was meant to meet up with a local Indonesian, however different terminal exit points meant that we missed each other and a phone call was necessary on another local's mobile phone. After meeting there was a bus trip followed by a KRL (train) trip followed by a ride on a Ojek (motorcycle) which made for an interesting trip to my sleeping quarters. A local meal was followed swiftly by some horizontal time. Some early breakfast consisting of