So FrOSCon is over, everone is tired — especially after
last night’s social events (500l of fine German beer sponsored by O’Reilly). For me it’s the 7th
night in one go ‘doing event’, so I’m becoming a bit tired. It was great though, played dirty games
with “Saint Hermann” (\sh, evidence), took care that Jutta can get drunk (she doesn’t like beer, other than beer,
there were only softdrinks, but we managed to get a bottle of Vodka from the nearby store), teamed
up with the Xorg guys, the Debian guys and a couple of others — all in all well done. A big thanks
to the people who organised it and helped to make it a smooth, relaxed, interesting and productive
event: You guys did great work, I’d love to attend again next year.
My talk yesterday went very well and it was followed up by interesting discussions. Today, I’ve
discussed a couple of the non-developing contributors issues with an employee of MySQL AB, Lenz
Grimmer and that was pretty interesting and reassured me that there’s more people around that think
it’s important to reach out of the geek world.
Tonight, we went out to eat with some guys
from the OpenSuse team, the duck I had was good, the espresso
sucked badly, the discussions were interesting and it was fun.
My eye starts to recover, parts begin to turn brown. It looks like shit, but doesn’t ache. I
rather look like shit than feel like it, so that’s fine with me. Tomorrow, I’ll travel back to the
Netherlands, after one week one the road for the sake of the Free Desktop. I’m starting to getting
used to travelling a lot, and I very much enjoy the opportunity to meet all those nice, smart and
interesting people.
When we went to the conference venue yesterday morning, I was pretty lucky to take a nice photo
of a cornflower, enjoy!