Video | Yves Hanoulle

Our family wishes you warm connections in 2019, with everyone important to you.
We prefer to do this by video. We started this serie of video’s as in 2007, it was impossible to select only a few pictures to create a x-mas card. Yet over the years, it became a great way to look back on our life.
In a world with smartphones where it’s very easy to snap thousands of digital pictures, most people also hardly look back at their pictures.
Creating these video’s has forced me the last ten years to take the time to review all the pictures we took during that year. (I usually start this, by looking back at all the video’s we already created.) I now consider this reviewing sacred. I’m always moved by my luck of having a wonderful partner, healthy kids and a great community supporting me.

Selecting the song gets harder every year, with kids who have now their own musical taste and not only don’t they like their parents style of music, they all like different music.
I think it’s fair to say, we all are happy with this song.

It’s incredible to realize we only live one year in our new house.
Although we still have many features to deliver, we have very fast grown used to our new place.

We have uploaded the video in HD, so you will get the best experience when you watch the video directly on youtube.

Every year at the end I take the time to put a few community projects I’m involved in, in the spotlight.

This year I was most proud of the arduino workshop and it’s book that my 11 year old daughter created.
Already a few years I had the idea for Tips from the trenches, after moving to the new house, I finally could take the time for it. I’m really happy that so many agile friends agreed to help out.
Already a few years I’m leading Coderdojo Gent
In 2007 I started a public calendar for agile conferences (Info can be found at the agile alliance website), this calendar is now maintained by 240 people. And viewed by many more)
Already a few years I’m limiting the conferences I’m going to.
To keep connected with the local and the international community, I use two techniques:
With my Belgium friends I do what I now call, dinner with a not so stranger
My internationals agile friends, when you are in Belgium over the weekend, consider yourself invited to our house.

Hi,

We wish you an exceptional 2016. Just like the last 9 years we want to do this using a self made video about our life in 2015.

During our (Yves & Els) life, our group of friends grew and spread over the whole world.
Although we can’t send a personal mail to each and all of you. We do want to bring a personal message.
Newyear is a moment to make personal connections stronger. For some that is with family, for some with physical close friends. For us it does not matter if you live in our village or in Australia.

2015 was a moving year, for the world and for our little family. Yves tried to fuse his life and work even more. (He does not believe in worklife balance, he loves work life fusion. ) so he took Joppe with him to talk in Kiev, Sofia and even Antwerp.
Joppe exceded everyones expectations.
All three kids continued to go to CoderDojo and gradually took more friends with them.

We finished 2015 by launching our own android game (www.anguis.be)
Anguis started as a summer parent pair programming project from Joppe and Yves. Programming one hour every day during our summer holiday. And it grew into a full blown family project. Bent and Geike turned out to be real good testers. (I wonder if bringing Lisa Crispin and Johanna Rothman to our house a few years ago had anything to do with it 😉 )
And grand father Ignace came up with a new algorithm to generate our own letter frequency.
And just yesterday Joppe’s Godfather Wim had an idea that made the ergonomics and UI a lot better.

Does this give you a desire to anguis? (yes in our family it already became a verb) we hope so.
www.anguis.be to download the game. (The game itself won’t bug you fro a rating, we hate that just like anyone else, yet we do hope you will give us a rating when you like the game.)
Unfortunately we don’t support English yet. Yes it was designed as a real MVP. In a full lean-startup way we will first add more features gradually grow our audience and once we are happy with the game, we will create a version that lets you choose English words.

Meanwhile Yves has his walking desk for 3 years. He already made 15 million steps since December 2012.
All while he works from home on projects like:
– CoderDojo GENT
– CoachRetreat
– Retroflection
– Agile conference calendars
– he co-published 3 books

Joppe limited the hobbies in progress and gave up his music lessons in favour of his basket.
Bent switch from circus to Rugby.
Geike took the musical aspirations from her brother over.
And is Els keeping this family together.

That was our life. We are also interested in yours.

Please share with us, what are you most proud of from your life in 2015?

Yves, Els, Joppe, Bent, Geike
Hanoulle – Ryssen

PS: Every year more people join us in making a video. Will you join us this year?
PPS: The kids might not see all the mails we get as answer, they do regularly look at the videos. so if you want to leave them a message, give it a like or a comment. Thank you

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We wish you warm connections in 2019

Happy New Year 2016

The agile Eastern Europe mindset 2015 – co-presented with Joppe Hanoulle

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