Tue, 06 Feb 2007
Second and third day in Luxembourg
Right, back from Luxembourg and here's how the other two days went:
I woke up pretty early on Friday. Damn sportsmen, seems they all jump
out of bed at 6 am, to happily (and noisily) engage in their
respective sports. Horrible. I've never heard so many people be in such
a good mood at such an early hour.
Breakfast was great though!
I spent the rest of the day at the LinuxDays site. It was situated in the ground floor of the Centre de Recherche Public Henri Tudor and consisted of two rooms for talks and workshops and a tiny exhibition area with tables from Lilux, CAcert and a book shop. (Oooh, the temptation!!) It was also possible, to sit in the nearby cafe, which was right next to the exhibition area. Unfortunately LinuxDays.lu don't provide any kind of hacking centre (read: chair + table + power plugs), but the friendly people from CAcert offered me a seat at their booth/table so I could do some work.
My talk went quite good. I didn't feel as comfortable giving it as I usually do, since it weren't my slides. But I still think it went quite well and there were some interesting questions afterwards. There aren't any recordings of the talk, but the slides can as usually be found in the talks section of my homepage.
The third day started as the second one, but this time I stayed in bed and watched the Sendung mit der Maus instead of getting up at such an inappropriately early hour. I had actually planned to travel back to Hildesheim by train, but the very nice guys from quintessenz.at offered me a ride to Mannheim, which made my journey back home a lot more pleasant and also much more comfortable, since I could then take a direct train from Mannheim to Hildesheim.
Concluding, I'd like to thank the organisers of LinuxDays.lu for the really good service! (I've never before been at a Linux Day where speakers were provided with such a lot of stuff. (Free hotel, travel reimbursement, free food AND a book from the book shop! Yay!) It's been really fun, speaking at this event and I can recommend it to anyone. LinuxDays.lu may not be the biggest or most popular Linux Day, but it's a really nice local event and very professionally organised!
PS: So, where are the pictures I promised?
They are in a
directory on my home machine, and this will remain the only place
they're at until I've found a simple script to generate web galleries
(such as album, galrey, jigl, shalbum ...) that manages to generate a
gallery that doesn't use tables but CSS or I found the time to rewrite
or produce an according template for any of these scripts. Grrr.
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