FOSDEM 2006 in retrospect
So, after getting back from FOSDEM on Sunday night (without much delay at the airport, by the way) I was extremely tired (and somehow this tiredness didn’t completely go away yet) in the first place, but at the same time very happy and enthusiastic about having had the chance to participate at FOSDEM. In a nutshell: It was an exceptionally event and it was so much fun to meet all the community people in real life! We had some nice presentations, including the first public demo of the openSUSE build service in the openSUSE DevRoom and a lot of interesting conversations at our stall. Next time we will have to bring some UMTS/GPRS cards to be able to actually use the internet for a demo — we could have thought about that earlier. In any way, I’ll definitely try to be there next year ;)
As I write this, I’m still watching some of the recordings of the main tracks, that I couldn’t attend unfortunately. Be sure to check out this and this to get the videos. Some of them are really entertaining and of course instructive — but hey, why did you guys had to choose XviD for video compression? Anyway, we are still working on post-processing our own recordings of the openSUSE DevRoom talks — this will hopefully get finished within the next days. Many thanks to Jürgen for taking care of this!
If you are really impatient, I’d recommend reading the FOSDEM 2006 page on the openSUSE wiki, which already features our slides! In addition to that we have collected some photos that various (mostly SUSE) people have taken at FOSDEM on a special openSUSE.org subdomain, which I won’t disclose here and now ;) Many thanks for Marcus Meissner for collecting, sorting and arranging this gallery. [Hint: You might want to play around with some names to guess the URL as the pictures are online already.] In short: Those slides, pictures and of course the audio & video recordings will probably be announced within the next couple of days — stay tuned!
Oh, today I had an appointment with my orthodontist to finally get rid of most of the brackets (4 of them are still left for some final optimization) that have been bugging me for the last two years. Hurray ;)
That’s it for today — I’ll be mostly offline until next Monday, as I’m in Göttingen for some free time compensation.