My mind apparently short-circuited due to jet lag – I was fully convinced that my flight from Riga to London was leaving at 19:45, soI arrived to the airport well in advance – at 18:00. Only then I found out that the actual flight that I had the ticket for was scheduled at 11:20. Doh! [...]
May 21st & 22nd. The last days of Debconf went under the banner of a “hug day” – everyone was encouraged to hug everyone else for whatever reason or for no reason at all. Gunnar was group hugged several times. Number of people declined rapidly during the Sunday and very little people were left there [...]
May 20th. The day started with an important meeting that was aimed at getting our priorities straight for the Google Summer of Code (SoC) program. Many good and some not so good applications have been proposed to Debian by students from all around the world. Now it was the time for Debian to choose the [...]
May 19th. Fallback from the dinner and Ted’s expulsion hanged over the morning of this day, but by the lunchtime it was mostly forgotten and people moved on to more interesting topics. … for example, Sponge Bob! I mean I18N, of course. A big discussion about the future of Debian’s I18N infrastructure was the highliht [...]
May 18th. The fifth day of Debconf6 started for me with a very detailed overview of the debian installer. I have already been quite familiar with the system, but did not really know how to debug the debian-installer system, which was a good part of today’s presentation. Many were still tired from yesterday’s evening’s “testing” [...]
The next day after the main group photo we decided to try and make something that is more funny and more sunny, so we decided to try to make a group photo in the pool. The event was completely voluntary and meant more for fun. At first we tried to create a shape of the [...]
After a bit of stress, sweat and tears (only from the rain) the annual Debconf official group photo has been created. Enjoy. PS. Later there will be a post about how the photo was created and other events that happened today, and maybe tomorrow there will be another Debconf group photo – a smaller, but [...]
May 17th. Just before the daytrip an idea to go for a breakfast came, so at around 8:30 a small group went off to the local market in search for some food. We were seated by a counter and the food was prepared on a large coal heated metal sheet just in front of us. [...]
May 16th. In the morning I was kind of lazy and watched the talks via the webcast which worked very nice. I was even able to give some comments via IRC feedback. Very nice experience. One good idea popped up in the IRC there – it would also be useful to have an audio only [...]
I have no idea how Debconf7 organizers will top this dinner. It was extremely wonderfully exciting and everyone had a great blast! More about it tomorrow when my nerves calm down from the experience.
