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title: "State of the Union"
description: "Paulus speaks about the origin of Home Assistant and where we're heading."
date: 2018-11-16 00:01:00
date_formatted: "November 16, 2018"
author: Paulus Schoutsen
author_twitter: balloob
categories: Video
og_image: /images/blog/2018-11-state-of-the-union/share-the-love.jpg
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Last Wednesday, November 14, we had a meetup in Amsterdam hosted by <a href='https://www.ing.nl'>ING</a>. Over 80 Home Assistant enthusiasts gathered to hear me, Paulus Schoutsen, the founder of Home Assistant, speak. I talked about how Home Assistant got started, what makes Home Assistant so successful (community!) and what we're working towards.

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Special thanks to:

 - Jeroen Joosse for the initiative and organizing
 - Erik-Jan Riemers for co-organizing and making it this big
 - ING for hosting the event
 - Franck Nijhof for providing the Hass.io demos
 - Klaas Schoute for providing the TensorFlow demos
 - Frank Kuiper for editing the presentation video

More photos after the click.

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  <img src='/images/blog/2018-11-state-of-the-union/chatter.jpg' alt='Crowd talking Home Assistant'>
  Crowd talking Home Assistant
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  <img src='/images/blog/2018-11-state-of-the-union/frenck-hassio.jpg' alt='Frenck showing all the ins and outs of Hass.io'>
  Frenck showing all the ins and outs of Hass.io
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  <img src='/images/blog/2018-11-state-of-the-union/zwave-table.jpg' alt='The Z-Wave table'>
  The Z-Wave table
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  <img src='/images/blog/2018-11-state-of-the-union/presentation-selfie.jpg' alt='Presentation selfie!'>
  Presentation selfie!
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