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FUDCon Brno on its way
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Yes! A small window of time to blog about what’s up in Brno!
T-1 FUDCon
- Vienna. Delicious food, museums. Tourist guides neglect to mention that apparently Vienna causes burned-out feet. And a good-night’s sleep didn’t seem to help.
- Travel to Brno by train was pretty cool. Diego found it a bit strange that taking a 1.5-hour train from Vienna can buy beer 700% cheaper. And mind you, some beers in Brno are darn good.
- Next day we’re at the Brno Red Hat office with David. More or less hacked all day long, among discussions with office-locals Marek, Josef and Radek. Some major things accomplished were a good discussion with Diego and Christos from Greece on plans for reusable data validations in Tx and API completion along with the CLI. I went into deep meditation for a few minutes drawing on the blackboard deciding how to handle the merging of all the branches we have around (7 of them?).
- Mexican lunch brought a discussion with the Anaconda team on their localization challenges, and tips on how to debug similar issues. Glad to meet in person a few developers like Nils Philippsen, Lubomir Kundrak who are using Transifex to localize their apps and with whom we had a few good online discussions.
- End of day0, had an International dinner which proved not international enough — no Czech person to help us communicate with the waitresses! Next time I’ll try to be careful for both what I’m saying in CZ and the way I’m waving my hands, as I managed to order a 3-person Greek salad for each person on the table. Oops.
- Learned a lot while walking to the venue of day one about the challenges inherit in the OLPC efforts. Change is difficult, and it’s even a bigger challenge
Hackfest
- Ah, the hackfest. Rough day for me — was on the mobile phone for most of the day with European Parliament members for some urgent issues. Had the chance to work on a few issues on our Damned Lies (@$#) instance, but not much time (and energy) left to do something more important. Looking forward for tomorrow.
Jumping a day later: Tx presentation went pretty well. We were around 20 people from various groups: Developers, translators, project managers. Got some good questions and more energy to get a common instance up and going soon.
Off for the social event now. More updates tomorrow.
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late in the afternoon, Σάββατο 6 Σεπτεμβρίου 2008
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