All right, good morning, everyone.
I see a few brave souls live in the audience here who have either recovered from last
night's festivities or didn't bother going to sleep last night and are just joining us
in zombie state.
So thank you for those of you joining us live in person.
Welcome also those of you on the live stream and if you're watching this on the recording,
you probably click the wrong link because this is just the intro talk.
I don't have anything that important to say.
So good morning again, my name is Chris Hennus.
I'm one of the maintainers of the free CAD project joined in my blue shirt glory here
in the back there is Joe Hinchliff, our local Welchman if you see him running at you while
you are on stage run away because that means that your time was well up and he's coming
after you.
So Joe will be the bouncer today.
You'll notice that I am not in fact Seth Hillbrand from the Kekad project who normally
really since 2015 Seth had been running starting out as just an EDM session here at
Fossom and then it evolved into an open hardware and all of that sort of ecosystem related
stuff.
So for 10 years Seth coordinated this thing.
He couldn't attend to this year and decided he'd probably just had enough and was ready
to hand the baton to someone else.
So that's why you're stuck with me and Joe, hopefully for maybe another 10 years and
we'll see.
So we have a lot of really excellent presentations today.
If you've taken a look at this schedule, we have a variety of hardware projects, software
projects, software integration projects, hardware integration projects, it's a really exciting
schedule that I'm really excited to be able to share with you.
Without any further ado then, I'm going to let the clock tick for four minutes, this
five minute that I've stolen from Felix here was really just padding that I was going
to use in case we were running late, but we're not running late.
It's great.
Although, Clement already gave me my five minute warning, so if you have any questions about
this introductory talk, I'd be happy to take them, otherwise we'll get started and feel
it with Felix in four and a half minutes or something along those lines.
So thank you.