FOSDEM. Day 2
26 Feb 2006 05:21 PM / Filed in: I.T.
After 6 hours of excellent sleep, I woke up to the World with the joyful and playful tone of Thierry Deval's children. These little guys are affable. Thierry's daughter reminds me a lot of my own.
After a good breakfast, we drove to ULB (Université Libre de Bruxelles) where the FOSDEM is held and we arrived around 12:15PM. Too late to see Xavier Santolaria who left for his hockey game 15 minutes earlier. So no shot of the pimp coder of fuxor.pl this year (no it's not in the OpenBSD tree, If it was, cvs.openbsd.org would have been subject to erratic network disruptions).
For those of you who have been to France but not to Belgium, note that pain au chocolat is called couque there. And for all the time I've been going to Belgium, couques taste slightly better. They might have either good baking schools, some unnamed chemical component added to the food or both. Whatever it is, I really like this kind of food.
Anyways, Sunday was far more productive than Saturday or so it seems. We had many visitors but we could cope with them while keeping working. Maybe it's due to the excellent stability of the Internet connection. Wim showed up some Soekris boxes as well as some prototypes that needed some hardware hacking (with a saw) to assemble correctly. And Reyk Flöter gave a talk on OpenBSD and WLANs. He mentioned the problems our FreeBSD neighbors had with their Atheros-based AP. He didn't understand why they didn't import his fixes into their tree.
Then it was about time to leave. Matthieu Herrb and Marc Balmer left earlier. Uwe Stühler, Reyk, Alexandre Anriot and me followed an hour or so later. We left the booth in the good hands of Wim and Nikolay Sturm.
I've taken close-ups of the developers and the finger^Whardware hacking skills of Wim.
Overall, it was nice to hang on with the gang and talk with the visitors, some of whom are FOSDEM regulars. Once more, I didn't have the motivation to go to the talks I hoped to see. So next year, I won't get a look at the schedule. That'll spare me some useless key pressing to fill my calendar.
Updated to add:
It seems I have a bit wrong on the couque side. According to Xavier Santolaria:
xsa: btw saad, "couques" != "pain au chocolat", "couques" is a generic meaning for such stuffs, coz you can have "couque a la creme", or "couque au raisin", etc... so it'd be "couque au chocolat" ;)
Thanks Xavier!
After a good breakfast, we drove to ULB (Université Libre de Bruxelles) where the FOSDEM is held and we arrived around 12:15PM. Too late to see Xavier Santolaria who left for his hockey game 15 minutes earlier. So no shot of the pimp coder of fuxor.pl this year (no it's not in the OpenBSD tree, If it was, cvs.openbsd.org would have been subject to erratic network disruptions).
For those of you who have been to France but not to Belgium, note that pain au chocolat is called couque there. And for all the time I've been going to Belgium, couques taste slightly better. They might have either good baking schools, some unnamed chemical component added to the food or both. Whatever it is, I really like this kind of food.
Then it was about time to leave. Matthieu Herrb and Marc Balmer left earlier. Uwe Stühler, Reyk, Alexandre Anriot and me followed an hour or so later. We left the booth in the good hands of Wim and Nikolay Sturm.
Overall, it was nice to hang on with the gang and talk with the visitors, some of whom are FOSDEM regulars. Once more, I didn't have the motivation to go to the talks I hoped to see. So next year, I won't get a look at the schedule. That'll spare me some useless key pressing to fill my calendar.
Updated to add:
It seems I have a bit wrong on the couque side. According to Xavier Santolaria:
xsa: btw saad, "couques" != "pain au chocolat", "couques" is a generic meaning for such stuffs, coz you can have "couque a la creme", or "couque au raisin", etc... so it'd be "couque au chocolat" ;)
Thanks Xavier!