FOSDEM report, part two - maybe the last the one? ;) March 12, 2007
Posted by Tobias Scherbaum in : Gentoo , trackbackA little bit late and mostly because of that somehow short. The reasons for this late second part of my FOSDEM report are kinda personal …
On Saturday I spent most of the morning and early afternoon at our booth, talking to other devs, IRCing, and so on - well, of course we were also talking to some visitors ;) On early afternoon GMsoft arrived at the booth, carrying his HPPA C3600 with him. Hey, I had some RAM for him in my backpack, which we immediately plugged into the box and hey, little surprise - it just worked! Around ~14 o’clock we could hijack our devroom and as we were some of the early people in there we got some nice seats in the front. Yeah!
Getting a VGA-cable was kinda hard, as we learned. Neither the King of Tacos nor any of the other people had or could organize one. Finally SeJo got us an VGA-cable and Bryan could (somehow still in time!) start the first of this two presentations about the Gentoo Hardened project and securing systems in general. While Bryan held his second talk about SELinux I took an LPI Exam (getting there was a nice trip throughout the whole university …), afterwards I went back to the devrooom and attended the other talks. With Wolfram and Lars (and Matti? can’t remember *cough* …) we went back to the youth hostel after FOSDEM closed its doors and before joining the other people at the restaurant “Roma” for our saturday-evening-all-together-dinner. The dinner was quite nice, but somehow I thought we would’ve the dinner at a more “traditional” restaurant. Besides the dinner being somehow “unexpected” it was a very nice evening :)
Sunday morning started earlier than the Saturday one, I had another LPI exam at 10 o’clock for which I had to be at the ULB some time in advance. Also Danny (who was sharing a room with Lars and me) had his Paludis talk at the same time, so we all had good reasons to be at the university on time. After taking the LPI exam I spent the whole sunday at our developers room, sitting there, IRCing, talking to other people and of course listening to the talks ;) On about ~16:30 we had to leave the ULB to reach our train back home at Brussels Midi (which is also Brussels South and Brussels Agglo - I guess I won’t understand that a one train-station has three different names …).
Being at FOSDEM now for the second time (2004 we only were 10-15 Gentoo people) my conclusion is definitively very affirmative - I met lots of people I only knew from IRC or mailing lists until FOSDEM, we signed some GPG-keys, we had joy, we had fun and of course some beer :) See you again next year at FOSDEM 2008 in Brussels!
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