Fri, 29 Jul 2011
Slides of my talks
I attached the slides of my talks to penta but they don't seem to show up so here are a couple links:
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Thu, 05 May 2011
Finally finished my registration for DC11
Let's see ...
- Got the application for leave filed and accepted at work
- Registered my talks
- Booked the trip
- Got a working plan for (my day at) DebCamp
- Wrote my abstracts
... I guess I am going to DebConf :D
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Sat, 21 Mar 2009
Chemnitz Linux Days 2009
This is my fourth CLT report and they surely are becoming repetitive! But every good event deserves a good report, so here goes:
Contrary to previous years we already arrived on Friday this year. Since we were also not up for another stint with the gym (Aaah the sissifying effects of marriage!) we booked a room with a nice little guesthouse about 15 bus-minutes from the venue.
The conference was great as ever:
- Speakers, booth personel and visitors were taken very good care of, there was nothing left to be desired
- Organisation was exicellent, no (noticable) technical difficulties, no scheduling problems, a helpful staff member literally every 5 meters
- A broad variety of very well-chosen talks from total beginner's to very sophisticated topics
- Several accompanying social events including the 2nd Night of Free Films
- A broad variety of exhibitors from small to large projects, both commercial and non commercial. CLT manages very well to be a community event that feels fun and almost like a family meeting but at the same time instills a sense of seriousness and respectability
I usually visit the CLT mostly for networking but I also managed to see a few talks. I moderated the session on High Performance and got to see three very nice talks on GPU programing, cluster computing and parallel programming.
This year also featured the first talk
on (the lack of) women in Free Software. Unusually enough this one was
even given by a man. I was quite curious about that talk, which was (how
fitting!) scheduled in direct succession to my own. I am kind of torn on
that topic myself. On one hand women in Free Software is a topic that is
very important to me and deserves any attention it can get. On the other
hand instead of talking about how evenly capable women are in Free Software
I'd rather just demonstrate it, for instance by giving a good Free Software
related talk. And instead of talking about how there should be more women
in Free Software I'd rather just be one and try to encourage others with my
example. The usual quota of female speakers at linux events is somewhere
between 2-4% and I just don't like the idea of having a conference with
n men talking about Free Software and 1 woman talking about
women. I've had these settings before and it just doesn't sit well with me.
Because of this I was quite please to find the topic being tackled by a man
this time.
The talk itself, in my impression, left a few open issues though. It was
rather brief and focussed mainly on stating the usual numbers, asserting
that the Women in FLOSS movement wasn't about affirmative action or
discriminating men and explaining how women feel discriminated by sexist
behaviour and advertising and how objection to such things should not be
mistaken as prudery. It's general advice on how to improve the quota of
women in FLOSS mostly boiled down to the linuxchix slogan "Be Polite. Be
Helpful.". What I missed most was practical advice to projects wishing
to attract more female contributors, such as mentoring programs or
low-threshold entry points. Also I felt that the talk lacked a real
motivation beyond "gender balance is a Good Thing". However, I was glad the
topic finally found its way into the CLT as well and I had a couple of very
interesting discussions afterwards.
Concerning my own talk I was rather satisfied as well. Attendance was - as usually in Chemnitz - very good, according to the organisers I got around 200 people. Since I designed the talk as a collaborative project and its feedback was predominantly good I'll continue developing it with the feedback I got and submit it again to other events. I think the topic is very worthwile and there's still a lot in it. Some people asked for a more collaborative way of contributing their thoughts and ideas so I'll just create a wiki to collect the new ideas. I'll of course announce it here as soon as it's in place. The slides and audio recording (both German) are as usually available from the talks page at CLT or my own talks section.
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Sun, 02 Mar 2008
Chemnitz Linux Days 2008
Seems as if the Chemnitz Linux Days somehow turned out to be the only Linux event I still attend regularly. These days I miss out on most of them, simply because of a total lack of spare time, however, I somehow always make the CLT ... no matter how big the hassle may be! They're just worth it :)
My talk went well, even though I actually got a bit pressed on time this year and had to cut the Q&A part. The (German) slides for my talk are as usually on my talks page.
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Fri, 22 Jun 2007
Hi from DC7
The journey to Edinburgh on Wednesday went pretty well. The only problem I ran into was that after landing at Edinburgh airport we had to wait in the plane for a few more minutes because the airport's doors wouldn't open.
I felt pretty beaten when I finally arrived at the venue and just exchanged a few greetings and took a look around before going to the hostel and finishing my night's sleep. When I got up again it was almost time to go for dinner and then pick up Tolimar who got here on a later plane, since his appclication for travel sponsorship got accepted much earlier. (He's giving a talk and a BoF, so he had a higher priority.)
On Thursday I saw a few talks and attended the debian-women BoF, which I think was very productive and - most importantly - gave us back some of the momentum we'd lost over the last years. We've got a whole lot of plans for new things to do now and I am looking forward to getting to work on them when I get back. The day ended with the DebConf Ceilidh which was pretty fun altough it was quite obvious that geeks may not actually be the best dancers around. Lack of rhythm was easily made up with enthusiasm though and the slight lack of women was also easily compensated. I think that Ceilidh band will remember us. We even contributed a few musicians of our own! Once the Ceilidh was over I pretty much fell right into bed.
Although it's good to be here and meet all the people, only being at DebConf for the last few days generally tends to be rather frustrating. Firstly it's always weird to join a group that has already been together for a while and also DebConf really just isn't something that can be condensed to a few days. I've just about started to get into the flow today (Friday) and tomorrow I'll already be leaving again. Shame.
Anyway, only being here for a bit is still better than not being here at all and I very much hope to have more time next year when we meet in Argentina. For now I'll just enjoy my remaining last day at DebConf and hope for a better time next year.
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Wed, 20 Jun 2007
Off to EDI
It's now shortly before 5am (Argh!) and I'll be leaving home now. If
everything goes as planned this will be my journey:
5:20 - Bus to station
5:43 - Train to Hanover
6:21 - Train to Cologne
9:21 - Train to the Airport (CGN)
10:50 - Plane to EDI
Around noon - Arrival at Teviot.
If I don't show up, something went wrong.
Bye bye for now ... *yawn*
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Sun, 17 Jun 2007
Just when you are about to give up ...
It actually seemed as though I wouldn't be going to DebConf this year. I didn't get to work much the last two months, since I wanted to spend all my time on the near completion of my thesis so I didn't have the money to pay for a flight (or train) to EDI and back myself. Due to that same thesis I also didn't have the time to prepare a talk this year so I was also not a speaker. Since I am also neither a DD nor in NM I was pretty sure I wouldn't be eligible for travel sponsorship this year. And, as expected, I was indeed very far down the queue, so when I still hadn't heard anything about being sponsored until about a week before DebConf was starting I had pretty much given up on the whole thing and resigned to the fact that this year's DebConf would happen without me.
However, on 10 June I had a mail in my Inbox. Subject: "Your travel cost sponsorship request for DebConf7". It seems the DebConf team was able to dig up some more money and do another run on the sponsorship queue. This was three days before I had to get my thesis to the print shop and I wasn't really doing anything else except for frantically going over my proof readers' annotations, doing last minute additions, changes etc. and occasionally lie down for a few hours of rather uneasy sleep. So my first reaction was something along the lines of "What?! Now?! I don't have time for this now! Go away!" and I was pretty close to answering the mail saying "Thank's but that's too short notice. I won't be coming, have fun, see you all next year." Luckily Tolimar prevented this though and actually managed to find a flight for me that not only goes on the actual days that I had originally planned to arrive and leave but that is also not far over my travel sponsorship!
So, long story short, I'll be flying to EDI on Wednesday. It'll only be for the very last few days and I am probably already missing out on lots and lots of stuff, but at least I'll be able to attend for a few days. And in time for debian-women's third birthday! :)
I just hope everything will go well, it seems there's a lot of trouble with flying to DebConf this year, at least judging from what I read on planet and heard on irc.
See you all soon!
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Sun, 11 Mar 2007
Back from CLT 2007
Here's, finally, the conclusion of my report from this year's CLT. It's a bit belated since when I got home from Chemnitz I only had a few hours to sleep and repack until I had to leave for Barcelona. ("Business trip", no blog material. It went well, though.) Anyway, I am back now and finally have the time to finish this and upload my slides and pictures.
The social event was great fun, there was again a really nice buffet and we sat together with some people from team(ix). There was a quiz again, this time the task was to find as many linux commands in a text as possible. We even found a few more than the organisers had expected! :) Everyone got a little chocolate Marx bust as a prize and the first three places got an Uli Stein chocolate keyboard. (Pictures in the gallery)
I spent the biggest part of Sunday at the Debian booth or wandering through the exhibition area. It was a bit more quiet than on Saturday, probably also because of the social event and the Linux-Night that took place at the same time.
The slides for my two talks are now on my talks page, the pictures I took are in the gallery and more pictures can be found at the event's pictures collection.
PS: Dear fli4l guys, your picture is here!
PPS: Thank you, Noel!
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Sat, 03 Mar 2007
Saturday at CLT almost over
Hi from Chemnitz! As expected it's great here. As usual. :) My two talks went really well. They were mostly freely improvised since I was kind of slack regarding their preperation, but I got very positive feedback on both and plan to expand them for future events.
There's still a lot of visitors walking around. The debian booth is well visited with questions in all ranges, babelbox is running merily on the demo machine in rotation with bb, which never ceases to fascinate people. ;)
My saturday was really busy. I walked over here around 8:30, had breakfast and gave my first talk. After a two hour break I gave the other one and ever since then I've been switching from one conversation to the next without pauses. Most of these conversations were with "strangers" who visited my talks and wanted to tell me about projects and ideas of their own, their personal experiences with Linux and Free Software or give further suggestions for my talks. I've really enjoyed these conversations, though they got a bit tiring after a while since for some reason people always catch me when walking somewhere, and so most of these long conversations were held standing and my legs are pudding now.
In a few minutes (hopefully) the social will start and I hope it will be as good as last year. I plan to take things a bit easier tomorrow, visit other peoples booths, take some pictures and maybe even visit a talk or two. The rest of this day will hopefully be spend having some more inspiring conversations, enjoying good food and drink and continuing to try to coax Noel into relinquishing to me his old Debian shirt, that he grew out of. (Small Debian shirts are such a rare and precious good!)
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Fri, 02 Mar 2007
Off to Chemnitz
In about half an hour I'll leave for Chemnitz in order to attend the Chemnitzer Linux-Tage 2007. I am very much looking forward to going there. Ever since the LinuxTag left Karlsruhe, the CLT are my favourite Linux event within Germany. Because of this I registered even two talks this year, one in the beginners section and of course the inevitable social talk. ;-)
They're both new, so this CLT will feature two premieres. Giving new talks basically means that anything is possible. Very high rock and roll factor! New talks always have the highest risc for "accidents" but also they're usually most fun, because there's still some room (or need) for improvisation left. This is probably also why I tend to lose interest in a talk once I've given it a few times. Though, the BOFH one is of course a golden oldie!
PS: Tolimar is a copycat!
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Sun, 28 May 2006
Still jet lagged
Although I've back from DebConf6 for almost a week now, I somehow still suffer from the jet lag. I am rather surprised by this since I usually don't have too many problems with changing my sleeping times and also the jet lag when going from Germany to Mexico was practically neglectable.
However, this one is a real sucker! By now my sleep times are pretty much erratic, I have an almost constant headache and my stomach gives me trouble after each meal. Surprisingly I didn't have any problems with such stuff when I was in Mexico! I was neither sick nor heat struck or dehydrated. In fact I didn't even have so much as a sunburn. But ever since I got back, life has been pretty yargh.
Why am I posting this?- I feel like whining
- I've been almost constantly offline since I got back - let this be an excuse
- I've been pretty grumpy since I got back - let this be an excuse
- My backlog is still lieing idle for the most part - let this be an excuse
- I feel like whining
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Wed, 24 May 2006
Back home from DC6
So, I am back home. After a 24 hour journey we arrived at Tolimar's
place Sunday night, after a journey that sadly was not as nice as the one
to .mx. First we departed about 1/2hr late from Oaxtepec since the
backpack of a fellow traveler was ridden over by a car. Than our taxi
driver charged us 900MXN for the trip to the airport, although we had
agreed on 800 before we left.
Once in the airplane our machine had an
engine problem and could not take off. We waited for about 2.5hrs while the
inside of the plane steadily got hotter and hotter. Due to this we also
missed our connecting flight at Heathrow and were rebooked on a later
flight. Probably due to this Tolimar's luggage didn't make it on the same
flight and had to be delivered to his house on the next day. Once we had
finally reached Frankfurt we went to bed and slept for 16hrs straight. Got
back up at about 5pm today, took the train to Hildesheim and am now finally
home!
No DebConf6 conclusions yet. I am in full EndOfEvent/jet lag mode and feel deader than the frozen chicken (Chicken! Of all things!) I just dug out the icebox of my otherwise totally cleared out fridge. At the moment the predominant feeling is a mixture of "Wow, that was a trip!", profound tiredness and regret about all the things I had planned to do but found no time then.
PS: Bubulle, flattery won't help you. I'll get you for this!
PPS: Time to write postcards. ;)
PPPS: I'm freezing!!
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Sat, 20 May 2006
Materials concerning my talk ...
will be put up on my website sortly. (I.e. as soon as I fixed the typo and replaced the transparent png that f***s up OpenOffice's PDF export IN EVERY SINGLE SLIDE :( I should really start using beamer or magicPoint or something ...)
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DebConf 6 - Random fun stuff There is a couple of things that we have a real abundance of:
- Huge insects that produce an incredible amount of annoying noise
- Cats and baby kittens (aaaaw)
- Chickens, especially chicken legs
- Tamarind flavoured water (tasty)
- VW beetles and VW buses (serving as taxis and normal public transportation buses. Hint: If it's white and turquoise, board it. If not, don't!)
- Epura filtered water bottles (cowards! ;-))
- Thinkpads (all over the place)
- People looking for the server room / info room key
- Real nice fruit, lots of!
- Creative sunburns
- Limes (mostly in halves)
- Straw hats
- Brixen boys
- SUNSHINE
Some more random remarks:
- The group picture has been taken. Why everyone has their mouth open? "Everyone say Tequilaaa"
- Christian: thanks for all the praise! You've always been my favourite pupil ;)
- When I got out of the pool the other day, wearing my really fancy new
bikini (special DebConf purchase), I got a compliment from the pool guard!
He said: "You swim well." :-| - Mucho luurve goes out to Benny!
- Christian, we took a Taxi, but apparently the bus works, too.
- People at home: I've been dropping roughly one safety
precaution per day. I eat whatever looks tasty, drink tap water and have
ice in my other drinks. I only put on sun screen of special occasions (i.e.
day trip), walk barefoot without looking down all the time, and don't check
my bed for scorpions before getting in.
I am still fit as a fiddle!
Seems Mexico isn't such a dangerous place after all. Relax everybody! :) - Mexico: I'll be back. One day. Promised!
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DebConf6 - Formal Dinner
Not much to say about the formal dinner. It was certainly a night to remember. A couple mishaps but also a lot of fun once the excitement had subsided. For more detailed accounts of that evening please refer to Joey Hess' wonderful article. For an account of the following night, or rather its results, please refer to debian-private or this DebConf6 blog post.
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DebConf6 Day Trip
As anticipated things began to run much more smoothly once the
conference had actually kicked off. Which was quite good, since
Wednesday/Thursday were pretty active days with the Day Trip on Wednesday
and the Formal Dinner on Thursday. I had not been to sure whether I should
go on the day trip or just stay home and sleep in for once, go to the pool,
rest a bit and basically do all the other stuff I didn't get around to
since I got here. In the end I did go though, and I am really happy about
it now. At least for me the day trip was a full success! We were picked up
around noon by a fleet of absolutely awesome fifties buses, all
streamlined with loads of chrome, pastel colours, saints icons, playboy
bunny heads and nice comfortable plush seats.
Xochicalco is a pretty
interesting site and our guide gave us a really nice tour of the museum and
the ruins. I didn't really mind the heat since I had put on enough sun
screen and brought long loose fitting cloths and a lot of water. Such
equipped I actually even enjoyed the dry heat and of course the spectacular
site. As usual, I did take pictures and haven't found the time to actually
upload them yet.
After the tour of the ruins we went for a late lunch to some place of which I sadly don't remember the name. The food there was the best I've had through the whole DebConf and it was pretty fun. One of the kitchen ladies wanted to take a picture with me. Don't know why, but it was pretty amusing since the whole kitchen crowd seemed to have immense fun with the whole thing. So, whatever, maybe one day I'll come back and find the picture on a wall. Who knows :)
After finishing our meal we went to Cuernavaca, the capital of Morelos State, which has a large handicraft market. Unfortunately I had taken much more time for the lunch than anticipated so we only had 45 minutes to have a walk and buy some souvenirs. But it was fun anyway. The only drawback of the day was that we had to skip the guided tour in Cuernavaca since we were so late and had to be back to Oaxtepec for dinner. But there is already quite a list of stuff I actually wanted to do when here, so a tour of Cuernavaca goes to the long "One day I'll be back" list.
Summary: Great Day Trip! Well done. Cool buses!! Have to extend that once I am back *sigh*
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Wed, 17 May 2006
DebConf 6 - the first days
DebConf6 has now officially started! So far I sadly haven't seen any talks, since I've been busy with orga stuff (making signs, collecting reimbursement forms, receipts, passport copies etc, speaker training, chasing people for information/keys/cables/...). I hope I'll have more time once things get going.
I've also given two speaker training sessions already, one on Saturday and another one on Sunday evening. They've both been pretty well attended (six to eight people, which is the almost ideal size to have a decent number of opinions but still don't have it take too long for everybody to have a go.) The Sunday evening session was a bit shorter since it was scheduled pretty late (21:30) and most participants (including me) felt tired after a while. I also noticed that I started being rather unconcentrated, so I only did a few more active exercises and skipped the rather dreary pronunciation stuff. I haven't yet received much feedback on the sessions but all attendees seemed to have fun, and there definitely was noticeable improvement in people's speaking skills over the time of the workshop.
It is now Wednesday morning and everyone is getting ready for the day trip. I am really looking forward to it, even though my ankle is still acting up a bit (sprained it last week). I will also take my camera along and hope to finally take a few pictures.
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Sat, 13 May 2006
Arrived in Mexico
It's taken a while, but now I am finally in Oaxtepec and online! The journey was not too bad, pretty long of course, but otherwise fine. The vacational centre in Oaxtepec is a great venue! Tasty food, nice rooms, comfortable hacklab, beautiful surroundings and a laaarge pool. It's really warm here and I am truly enjoying myself. The internet uplink caused some trouble during the first days, which is why I haven't posted earlier, but everything is fixed now and everybody is in good spirits. There are still the usual minor annoyances, but overall we're fine.
Tomorrow the official conference will kick off with the DebianDay. A special day with more general talks aimed at beginners and interested locals. The day after that the actual developer conference will start, featuring talks, workshops, round tables and lots of BoFs.
I am particularly looking forward to tomorrow since it's also the day when maxx arrives, bringing along his old laptop for me to use. I've been without one since I arrived here, since my own one is still broken, and it hasn't exactly been fun being without a laptop. (Not to say it truly sucked!!)
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Mon, 06 Mar 2006
Back from Chemnitz
How it was:
- Great event!
- Superb organisation, everything went smoothly, no problems whatsoever. All our "extra-wishes" were fulfilled within minutes. Wow! Thank you, CLT Orga-Team!
- Really nice food, too. Especially the buffet on Saturday. Wow again. Thank you, too, CLT Catering-Team!
- Met lots of nice people. Many irc nicks now finally have a face.
- Brought my camera but didn't take pictures. Nobse did.
- asciijump is biiiig fun!! (But segfaults in stable.)
- Jonas is now me (or at least carries my name tag).
- This was my first Linux event without a laptop. Pain!
- My talk went well. Lots of good feedback and some good ideas for further improvement.
- Publicly humiliated myself by "solving" a (simple) problem with the demo machine through reboot. Booo!
- To my surprise there wasn't a single linux merchandise vendor. Aaaw :( Good for my finances though. I think the only thing I spent money on this weekend was a bus ticket.
- Such a lot of snow!
- Yay, Vita Cola!
- Tolimar can magically disappear within 9 secs straight.
- See you at CLT 2007
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Mon, 31 Oct 2005
Linux-Info-Tag 2005
We had two copies of Frank Ronneburg's Debian Anwenderhandbuch and I thought it would be a nice idea to give them away in a little contest. Alexander "Tolimar" Schmehl owns a little etch that I asked him to bring along. The idea was, that, in order to promote the name of the next release, people should draw us a picture on the little etch and the best one would win a copy of the book. I'd actually expected to see people fail miserably and in the end crown the funniest try. But I was confuted. Totally!! In fact we had two entries that were so good that we decided to split the first place and give both of them a copy of the book.
Here are (as promised) all contestants:
This entry was taken out of the rating. It was our first entry and was made by Carsten, who was one of the Debian booth people. Of course we know that he could have done much better and only produced this in order to not discourage other contestants.
The third place, personally I don't really agree with the motive but it won a lanyard anyway.
The second place, a rather obvious motive, but well done and a worthy second place. Another lanyard for this gentleman.
The two first place entries: We absolutely couldn't decide between the perfect curves of "Tux" and "A house with garden"'s 1000 little Details. So the first place was splitted and we gave a away both copies of the book.
Congratulations again to all contestants! Well done!
After deciding on the prices I had to hurry to give my talk on user friendly system administration. I had a nice number of people and I think the talk was well received. The (German) slides are now also available online. Please inform me of any usage.
One nice incident was, when after the talk a former system administrator of the Technical University of Dresden approached me and told me that he really liked the talk. He said that he was now retired and really missed talking to the users and helping them when they had trouble with the system. After hearing so many sysads talking about their users like complete idiots, that all seem on a personal quest to annoy their sysads as much as possible, this was a nice change. I sometimes think that the "BOFH-Syndrome" is also a generation problem. But that's a different story ...
After the talks there was a barbecue outside the building, I talked to a lot of people and had quite some fun. Afterwards there was a presentation and movies, a really nice ending for an almost perfect event. (The only problem was, that there had been no Internet access until around noon, but from what I heard it was one of the University's switches that had given up. Apart from that everything worked out perfectly.)
On Sunday we went on a guided tour through Dresden and afterwards to a museum. The museum actually is on Human Biology but there were two special exhibitions, one on evolution and one on games. As expected most of us went for the game exhibition that featured several rooms dedicated to the history of games as well as the different kinds of games that exist (imitation, strategy, gambling, ...). All rooms had games to try yourself and all of us had a lot of fun. (We're such a bunch of kids ;)) After leaving the museum we went for a Pizza (Very tasty! I think, I am developing a weakness for Pizza with Parma and rocket.), which concluded that day.
One last nice incident happened when I was riding home on the train with Tolimar. We asked the guy who'd checked our tickets for a later train connection. His answer: "Oh, did it get too late at the Linuxtag at the Technical University?". Unnecessary to mention that we were most thrilled! Often when talking to "normal people" I get the "what is this all for" feeling, since, how much ever you evangelise, there's such a mass of people who never even heard about the existence of FOSS/Linux. It's these little incidents that are really rewarding!!
Final conclusions:
- Great weekend
- Very good event (Thanks LIT people, you guys rock!! Also a big thank you to our host, Frank, who provided three of us with a place to sleep, really tasty breakfast and also drove us around.)
- Lots of fun
- Lots of interesting people to talk to
- An IXUS II does not work as a USB storage device
- You can do amazing things with an etch a sketch
- Knowing that my talk is being recorded gives me an awkward feeling (I tend to use a lot of "spicy language")
- The rebuilt Frauenkirche looks impressing
- Pizza with Parma and rocket is great!
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