Mon, 18 Jul 2005
[DebConf] It's done!
If you read this, it means two things: Firstly DebConf-5 ended. Secondly I survived my flight back.
After 3 bigger injuries, 9 days DebCamp, 7 days DebConf, 54 sessions (which went all in all surprisingly well), 150 Hectoliters coffee (and other caffeinated drinks), 250 Hectoliters of beer and 300 Hectoliters of milk (or what fins call milk) and several stars, it's now finished. Time to say thank you!
First thanks goes of course to the organizers of the event from all over the world as well as the local team from Linux-Aktivaattori. You really made DebConf-5 a very special, funy and informative event. Second thanks to the sponsors, who made it all possible.
Last not least a special thanks to all those poor volunteers, running around under the burning sun in their black T-Shirts for providing even more important resources than money: Their time. Doing every jobs that needed to be done, ranging from guiding people in the right direction to cleaning up the dorms. Some of them didn't spared themselves by working more than 20 hours a day - and that for the entire event.
Dear volunteers, if this is still on planet when you awake from your well deserved rest:
YOU
WERE
THE
HEART
OF
DEBCONF!
A
COUPLE
OF
THOUSANDS
THANKS
!
See you 2006 in .mx.
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Sun, 17 Jul 2005
[DebConf] About stars (Part V)
For obviuous reasons I hate a claudy sky. Damn.
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[DebConf] Remarkable, what people can forget:
I'm really impressed what people can loose, while listening to a talk. Of course there was one guy, who lost his wallet. One forget his skates, since he brought a pair of regular shoes and forgot after the talk to change. More remarkable: One person forgot his notebook - didn't thought geeks could do that.
Most remarkable: One forget a pair of sandals (no, he didn't had any skates. He put them of, and forgot later to put them on). I can't understand that: The sun was burning, the asphalt had a zillion degrees... and he didn't noticed he was barefoot?
Of course everything was returned to their respective owners, and even my favourite baseball cap with the swirl (which has still dust in it from three different continents...) was found...
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[DebConf] 5000
YES! I think I did it! If I calculated correctly (and the map is correct), I just jogged 5km! Without a stop! YES!
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Sat, 16 Jul 2005
[DebConf] A mystery uncovered?
Yes, it is true that today I introduced Holger Levsens BoF session Safer Hex in public a bit wrong. It seems that I indeed said "Saver sex" (and couldn't say any more, because the audience burst out laughing...)
Of course Holger choosed the title because of the this nice word game, and of course I got asked, if I did that on purpose.
I hereby try to answer all choosed questions at once:
Indeed I thought about that the evening before that, but actually I decided against it - that's not my standard for jokes ;)
On the other hand... you never know...
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[DebConf] Actually, I was about to write something else...
I was about to write a nice mail to the -events list, how I hate it to be waked at 06:00h by some insane people singing at my front door. Not fair to me, not fair to all the other volunteers and organization people, who need to get up early (and barely got enough sleep the last days...).
But while seeing you guys forming the worst band ever, I deleted my mail accidently while rolling on the floor laughing...
PS: Seeing those guys are feeling even worse than I do, helps a bit, too ;)
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Fri, 15 Jul 2005
[DebConf] One of the worst things to happen
As moderator you successfully shortened the queue at the lunch, come back in time, just to be told that the speaker you are about to introduce is missing.
Not missing as in the "He has been seen in the smoekki and is on his way and will arrive shortly" but as in "nobody knows at all where he is, and he hasn't checked in either". So we were standing here, and wondering what to do.
The speaker of the other session wouldn't like to move to the bigger auditorium, nobody in the audience had any knowledge about topic to do some kind of improvised session. Going home? Hacking a bit? Waiting for a miracle to happen?
Well, you could say that the last things happened, since suddenly Mark Shuttleworth and later Martin Langhoff volunteered to do some ad hoc sessions about distributed version control system and evolution of open source projects (with some smaller sidesteps) and contact with upstream. Both interesting, both were gratefully accepted by the audience (as far as you can use the word "gratefully" with always hacking geeks).
So, thank you!
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[DebConf] This evening, we broke a record!
No, the formal diner wasn't the party with the most people in this room (we missed that by 30 people and are ranking on the second place). And no, we didn't built the highest staple of used beer cups. And no, we weren't the one, who ate the most food (actually there are still left overs). But: …
drum roll
We broke the record for cleaning the place up after the party ended!
Yes, it took us only 45 Minutes to clean up the rest of the party of 300 people! Congratulations to all volunteers!
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Thu, 14 Jul 2005
[DebConf] Enjoying my first talk...
...where I'm just an auditor - neither moderator, nor technician, nor speaker myself. Just sitting and listening.
And even better: Hanna, Dafydd and Moray doing a great job :)
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