God^WEris, I'm really, really tired. All the conferencing is taking its toll. Yesterday night, we went to the official conference dinner, and it was just really excellent. They first served us drinks and various things on plates like salami, cheese and some sea food. And after an hour, when we were half full, we finally sat down to properly start the dinner. There were 4 glasses and 6 pieces of cutlery — I felt quite overwhelmed. ;) The food was absolutely great; the only strange thing was something which can probably best described as garlic milk; quite a strange taste. We arrived back in the hotel at 2am, and the panel discussion about the future of open source (the vision from the gurus) in which I participated started at 9am; ouch. The session was quite good, I think. Bdale Garbee (HP), Danese Cooper (Sun), Miguel de Icaza (Novell) and myself each talked for about 10 minutes and then we answered questions from the audience. The group was fairly full, and I estimate there were about 300 people. I really enjoyed the session as I kind of like public talking. Afterwards, some people asked me for a photo or autograph, and I was interviewed. Everything was a bit hectic since I had to leave for the airport at 1.35 and I still had to say goodbye to everyone. I really enjoyed my stay in Spain; it was good to meet all the people there! I hope I'll be back soon. Hasta luego!
Unfortunately, I had to leave Spain and the Open Source World Conference to fly to Brussels for FOSDEM. Some of the Skolelinux people were on the same flight, and we made our way from the airport to the city (no more being picked up from the airport and getting transported there again, like in Spain :/). I headed to the pub in which the FOSDEM people met, and eventually various people turned up. I got to see weasel (the puppet master), Ben Affleck^W^WMichi Banck and others. After leaving the pub, we went to Mind.be where we are staying (thanks to Peter and p2). It's a shame that this building is (apparently) going to be torn down — I wonder where we are going to sleep next year. In any case, I was able to catch up with email in the last few hours and now I really have to go to bed; I know I won't get enough sleep since Tim O'Reilly's talk starts at 10.30 and it's after 3am already; I just hope weasel is not going to snore too loudly (like he did at DebConf in Oslo).