Wed, 02 Mar 2005
FOSDEM 2005 Survivor
Last weekend I ended up being (just about) well enough to to travel over
to FOSDEM in Brussels. I've done
FOSDEM every year and it's always excellent. The combination of great
talks, friendly atmosphere and getting to meet people you don't see often
enough mixed in with some heavy socialising, good meals and late nights
makes it my favourite event each year.
I was lucky enough to travel over with a rag-tag group of Linux geeks, Perl people, a RedHat employee and a Debian developer... Not exactly a cohesive group but it seemed to work! The trip over was very pleasant and included discussions on file-systems, clustered locking, the rugby and a lot of very bad puns.
It's customary on the Friday night to meet up with the local crowd, any speakers that have already made it over, the rest of the London crew and the Debian party animals in the centre of town for drinks, food, more drinks and then more drinks before waddling back to the hotels. I didn't get to stay out as late as I usually do (not sure why I normally book a hotel with a bed to be honest! :)) but the pub was jumping and the people were great.
Over the next few days I'm going to try and combine my notes with links to the speakers slides and give some details of the talks I attended for those of you that couldn't make it.
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Posted: 2005/03/02 23:43 | /events | Permanent link to this entry | This entry + same date
GLLUG March 12th 2005 Meeting
I've been a
GLLUG member for a good few years now, I've attended
meetings, worked on the stall at the London Linux Expos and even given a
talk at one of the meetings (I'd like to say sorry for that...) but
the March 2005
GLLUG meeting is the first meeting I've organised.
With the able (and essential) assistance of Bruce "way too deep to have a blog or site for people to link to" Richardson we've got a grand total of three speakers and are hosting the meeting at Fotangos offices. Martin Michlmayr, the current Debian project lead will discuss Quality in OpenSource Development, Pete Ryland is going to give an overview of Ubuntu and Bruce Richardson is going to discuss Linux HA systems.
The venue's good, the talks are going to be great and I'm going to be gracious (as host :)) so if you're around in London on that day and like Linux come and say hello. We'll be going for food and beer afterwards...
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Posted: 2005/03/02 23:18 | /events | Permanent link to this entry | This entry + same date
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