I spent Monday to Friday in Vienna, visiting some friends from school. Quite a few people I know moved to Vienna after finishing high school (or later), so I thought I'd go there for a few days to meet up with some of them.
On Monday evening, I gave a talk at Debienna, the Debian group in Vienna. I started with one of my presentations about quality issues in free software, but given that we were a small and informal group we often interrupted the presentation for discussions. During these discussions the generic issues I mentioned were applied to Debian and we discussed a number of problems in Debian and what we could do about them. I think it was quite interesting, although it stretched the talk quite a bit and some people were getting restless towards the end. This was also the first talk I gave in German. I originally planned to give it in English but then thought I'd try to do it in German. It went pretty well, although I couldn't think of a number of words on the spot and just used English words instead. (Not counting technical terms, obviously, which I didn't even try to translate.)
On Tuesday and Wednesday, I mostly stayed in bed working on my laptop. This was, after all, only a pseudo-holiday and I had plenty of work to do. On Wednesday evening, Veronika (the friend I was staying with), maks (Maximilian Attems) and I went to B72 to see a concert by Das Bo. There was also a DJ from Waxos who was great. Das Bo was pretty good too, although he talked too much crap between songs.
On Thursday, Veronika and I went shopping and I bought lots of new clothes. Friday morning, just before leaving, I met with Stefan Holek to do an interview about release management in Plone for my research. He raised a number of really interesting issues.