[[!meta title="Back from Debconf7" ]]
[[!meta date="2007-06-24 18:38:19" ]]
[[!tag webconverger Debian]]
- Rain! Damn weather. Though London is just as bad.
- Took 5 hours from Teviot to my place in London by air. I’ll probably go by train next time I visit Scotland. Though the views from the aeroplane window in seat 1A coming in from the west to LCY were AMAZING. I saw Picadilly, the gerkin, my house in E3 4QJ and other spectacular stuff.
- Got a bit of work done in DebCamp, not so much in DebConf. Though I attended quite a few BoFs and what-not
- Made new friends and it was great to see some old ones! The Debian community is a friendly bunch.
- I’ll miss the Indian food at the mosque. I won’t miss the cafeteria, except for the nice staff
- My room mates were all super cool. No loud snorers except myself. Phew! The hostel and staff were good too.
- I learnt a couple of vim tricks. Fixing the default way it auto completes with the elusive “wildmode” option .vimrc
- I switched with `chsh` to zsh-beta. .zshrc. Hopefully shared history with screen will work behave now.
- I discovered some Iceweasel bookmark tricks for use with the debian BTS
- I learnt my external USB2 drive is just as fast as the internal one with hdparm speed testing
- I learnt more about distributed SCM with git and bzr. I’ll probably try and learn both.
- Night venue was cool. Adjoining Forest cafe was funny.
- Edinburgh is a pleasant city.
- Was cool to demo Webconverger at DebianDay and tell people about it. I’ve received some good feedback and with Debian live improving like it is, it will only get better.
- I can’t believe the last 2 weeks went so quickly. There is a lot more to say, though I’ll keep this blog entry short.
- My talk about how Debian travels around the world in high or low OGG quality. Otherwise see the slides with FullerScreen.
- Last but not least, thanks to the organisers. You’re awesome!
