Linuxdays in Vienna 2007: done
Linuxdays in vienna were fun (as usual). Lessons learnt:
- stfl (Structured Terminal Forms Language/Library) is definitely worth a look (thanks for the great talk and the nice discussions at the grml booth, clifford!)
- thanks to the inclusion of grml-x in rocklinux now zsh will become part of rocklinux (yeah!)
- the filter language feature of the upcoming newsbeuter release 0.5 (newsbeuter is the best available console based rss reader) looks rocking – killfile!!1! (thanks to andi for implementing this cool feature)
- using zsh-mime-setup might result in unwanted behaviour
- the catalyst web framework seems to rock (thanks, koki and tom!)
- I should take a closer look at template toolkit as well (thanks again, koki)
- even though I’m not a perl monkey attending to YAPC::Europe 2007 in Vienna (Yet Another Perl Conference) would be cool (meeting people like Larry Wall, Damian Conway, Audrey Tang and Mark Jason Dominus)
I was responsible for the booth of grml (Linux live-cd for sysadmins and texttool users) as well as for the ones of Debian and Debienna (Debian in vienna) – especially in the first two days, until Markus and Kira joined.
Regarding the grml booth: It was once more amazing to see how many people already know and use grml. I had the pleasure to meet people from a professional data rescue organization who use grml in their daily business. Not to forget to mention all the people who let me know how often grml managed to save their lif^Wdata. Oh, and some nice ideas were brought to my attention and are now part of the todo list for grml.
Very geeky was the 13 year old boy who visited our booth and when asking him whether he knows how to work on the console (he was staring at our grml-CDs with shining eyes) he replied: "YES, of couuuuurse!" 8-) I couldn’t resist in giving him a grml-CD. Oh, and we were running out of grml-CDs earlier than expected. Thanks to my girlfriend – who can even explain the difference between grml meilenschwein and grml64 to you now :-) – I had the chance to attend some few talks – besides my own one about grml of course.
I once more didn’t manage it to take just a single picture :-( but I just received a pointer to the linuxdays photogallery of jostusz, thanks Sven.