Traveling to Mountain View…!
So, somehow I didn’t really spent any time blogging for the last couple of weeks. Sorry about that! I’ll try my best to blog a bit more in the upcoming weeks.
I left Nuremberg this morning, and right now I’m sitting on the train to Goettingen, to attend my grandmothers 90th birthday and seeing family and relatives. Later today, I’ll journey on to Frankfurt. My flight leaves FRA on Friday morning, and it would just be to risky to go to Frankfurt in the morning (well, and I didn’t really feel like getting up at 4:00 in the morning ;)) — so staying at a hotel close to the airport solves that problem. Given planes are on time, I’ll be in San Francisco by noon (local time). The plan is to get on the BART first and then take CalTrain to Mountain View. I’ll stay in the Bay Area until Sunday night, to catch my flight to Washington DC, where I’ll meet meet with some old friends.
Oh, I didn’t tell you why I’m going to Mountain View yet. This is the story: As we have successfully participated in Google Summer of Code with openSUSE, Google has invited two representatives per participating organization to attend the so called Google Summer of Code Mentor Summit. For openSUSE, Stanislav Brabec and myself are attending.
The GSoC Mentor Summits main theme will be evaluating this years Summer of Code and talking about how to improve SoC in the future. It’s also meant to be a forum for an open dialog between different Open Source projects and Google. All in all, I guess this will be an awesome event!