My plans for this summer are finally getting together, even though many details still need to be sorted out. Interestingly, the beginning of July is completely packaged while relatively little seems to be happening in August and September. At the end of June, just before term ends, I'll head to Karlsruhe for LinuxTag. From there, I'll be going to my parent's place in Innsbruck to visit friends and family (and have all my regular medical check-ups since I have better health insurance in Austria than in the UK).
My original plan was to stay there for a week before I have to go to Castellón in Spain where I'll be teaching at the Libre Software Summer School. However, I've been talking to some researchers in Italy recently and they invited me to give a talk at the University of Trento. Since it's only a few hours from Innsbruck, I agreed to go there for a day. I was also supposed to be giving a guest lecture on quality management at a free software Master's course in Bologna but we never managed to sort out the details. As it turns out, the day after my talk in Trento would be good for them, so it seems I'll be going there as well.
In a similar fashion, my situation in Spain got a little bit more complicated^Wexciting. Since I have a few days between my lecture in Castellón and my presentation at the First International Conference on Open Source Systems in Genova, Italy, my original plan was to simply stay in Spain for a few days and relax at the beach. However, then I found out that there's a free software conference exactly during that time. And unlike last year, the conference will be hosted directly at the coast. So I'll give a talk there, have a chance to catch up with my Catalan friends and spend the rest of the time at the beach. Bonus! It also seems I'll be able to go to Debian Conference for the last two or three days.
Unfortunately, I have no idea what I'll do from mid July to mid August and from the end of August to the end of September. Maybe I should just stay in Cambridge like I did last year, but for some reason I'm pondering going somewhere else to work with other researchers or something like that. Any exciting offers anyone? :)