Sun, 24 Jul 2005
Back from Stuttgart
So on Saturday, after sleeping in and hanging out in front of the tent for some time we decided to skip breakfast and go right for lunch. We chose a thai-chinese place and had a very good (and abundant!) lunch. After that we decided to go to the zoo which turned out to be a really good idea. The rest of the day was spent wandering through the zoo, looking at all kinds of animals, a funny shimpanse, a sneaky elephant and having little contests who first spots the leaf green triple spotted double striped poison dart frog (... and his fellow tiny creatures) in the terrarium. We stayed until the Zoo closed. Still totally stuffed from our lunch we decided to also skip dinner and went back into town to have a drink and wander the nightly streets of Stuttgart making fun of designer furniture and discussing movies (I shall remain silent concerning some people's weird movie taste, but ... *seriously* ... Flash Dance?!). After finishing our round (and some ice cream) we went back to the camping site and kept talking about this and that until the first among us fell asleep.
Sunday featured sleeping in even longer, a small improvised breakfast and The Unbelievable Packing of XTaran's car. I was really surprised, but it is indeed possible to fit a huge tent, three big bags, a camping table, a camping chair, a toolbox, three laptops plus accessories, a computer, a projector, even more hardware, two poster carzons and the $%&*§*# box into XTarans car! There was even some space left to sit :) Granted it took us some time and several tries but we made it and I ended up on the back seat in a nice and cosy nest made out of sleeping bags, XTaran's parka and other stuff. (Of course I fell asleep pretty soon. It was really just too comfortable.)
After leaving the exibition stuff with codebreaker we then went on to Frankfurt, were the guys accompanied me to the train and then went on. There was some delay "due to police investigations" (People, this is the decade of Terror Lunacy. PLEASE stay with your luggage!) but we are now approaching Fulda and I hope to be home at about midnight.
In the meantime, time for some conclusions:
At first I wasn't to sure whether going all the way down to Stuttgart just for these few days would be worth the hassle, but it definitely was! ApacheCon was a really nice event, and we were able to answer a few questions, maybe even convince some people of running Debian and generally show some presence, which I think was a good thing to do, since a lot of people there were also system administrators and we brought Debian back into their minds. Moreover I had a great time. XTaran and Tolimar are two fabulous guys to hang out with and made me laugh all the time. Also, apprently thanks to something called the "Debian Effect", we had really nice weather most of the time, so all in all I had five great days, was with lovely people and did something for Debian. ...
What else could you ask for? :)
Posted at: 22:16 in /english/debian/events/apacheCon
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