Wed, 20 Jul 2005
First day
So, yes, I took the liberty to reproduce the famous Mike Poster. :)
Illiad provided me with a larger version of Mike and I then just scaled up the writing from the .jpg, redid contrast, redid the borders and basically just fixed it up letter by letter. (Yes, it sucked. Big time.)
I brought the poster with me when I went to Stuttgart and put it up at the booth before going to the camping site to meet the other two. I was *really* hard to keep the surprise to myself and I was close to letting it slip several times. But I "kept strong" and I must say, their faces were very much worth the hard times I had had the evening before :-) (Still smiling to myself when I think of it)
In other news: After arriving at Stuttgart, finding the "Haus der Wirtschaft" and completing a little odyssey to finally find the camping site I met up with Tolimar and XTaran. The promised three people tent Tolimar brought turned out be really HUGE! I think we could nicely fit in ourselves plus XTarans car :) We didn't stay up too long this evening since most of us were rather tired and I actually fell asleep within seconds when I lay on my sleeping bag. (I was planning to go to sleep, though actually not *that* soon. Oh well ... )
The Expo is going rather well. We set up a nice (and comfortable) little booth and people are quite interested. Usual stuff mostly: People telling us that they used Debian for years and they think it's cool, people telling us they used to use Debian but stopped for this or that reason, some techical questions, ONE DEBIAN-WOMEN INQUIRY (woohooo!).
Currently it's rather quiet. The talks have started again and most people are busy so we are just sitting at the booth, hacking away, fixing stuff, answering long overdue mail or chatting on irc. If it goes on like that this will be a nice and peaceful conference.
Posted at: 14:49 in /english/debian/events/apacheCon
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