Day 1. Arrival. LinuxTag. FUDPub.
So there I went. Having celebrated a friends birthday the night before, I was rather tired when taking the train to Berlin. In the end, I arrived there at 10:30 am. After checking in at the hotel, I met Mathieu Bridon. Actually, that was a pretty good accident, as we two were wandering through the city of Berlin then, trying to find a way to the trade fair. In the end, we arrived at hall 7. Later, than originally expected, but we arrived.
It was great to meet all the Sugar folks - some of them I had already met a FOSDEM - again and so I spent most of the time at the Sugar booth. Later this evening, we all went to FUDPub, an event happening at en passent. Mo has some more coverage here... errr? Here!
Day 2. talks, talks and still more talks.
After a rather short night, back to LinuxTag again. Went there with Thorsten Leemhuis and some other folks. Attended Paul's keynote at FUDCon and moved after spending some time with the Fedora people on to more talks. Greg was giving an impressive talk on education and open source. Basically, there's still a lot of work to be done to spread open education. Better get started now. In the evening, Simon gave a talk showcasing Sugar, its concepts and features. He did an awesome job introducing Sugar itself, even to new users.
That night, we all went to a BBQ at c-base hosted by the Ubuntu folks. Just sitting there, talking and enjoying the time was great. We had a bunch of ideas, which were to be discussed deeply the next day.
Day 3. Hackfest. Departure.
10:00 am meeting at FUDCon. Some people were late, some weren't. We went searching a room and finally got one. And so there were Fedora and Sugar folks and the same room, discussing how to improve Sugar.
In the end, it was a very productive meeting: we set the course for the upcoming Sugar and Sugar on a Stick releases - great work everyone! :) More information to follow soonish. Eventually, in the evening, some of us went having dinner together, before I took the train back home.
Did I already say it was awesome? It was. Looking forward to meeting all of you again. For now on IRC. Then later in real life.
Wow, old posts bubbling up. I remember reading about this from afar (I was in DC for the NECC/ISTE conference and getting my education geekhood on there, keeping up with Sugar happenings in IRC then) - it seems much longer than 6 months ago, now.