Monday·19·January·2009
Traveling plans for the first half of 2009 //at 16:12 //by abe
Since the time between the years is traditionally family time for me, I never were at the Chaos Communication Congress. So I wasn’t at 25C3 either. All the more I look forward to HAR2009 this summer (13th to 16th of August near Vierhouten in the Netherlands), but also because, for the last three years I always have been in the Netherlands for one week in summer, sailing with friends on the IJsselmeer.
But before HAR2009, there will be a bunch of other events to visit and people to meet in real life:
- I’m looking forward to see @evan, @cemb and many other identicatis in real life at Microblogging Conference ‘09 in Hamburg next week on Friday and Saturday (23rd and 24th of January). Will go there by train.
- Two weeks later there will be FOSDEM in Brussels (7th and 8th of February) where I hopefully will meet Savago from the Amora Project and many other friends from the FOSS community. Will go there either by train or car.
- On 14th and 15th of March, the Chemnitzer Linux-Tage take place. I’ve submitted two talks for beginners and will be there with the usual suspects from Symlink (Venty, dino and P2501 so far). We’ll go there by train.
- Luckily not overlapping with the VCFe this year is the SPEZI at Germersheim near Karlsruhe which takes place on 25th and 26th of April. I plan to go there, maybe by train and Brompton, but nothing yet sure.
- The, one week later over the long weekend around the 1st of May there will be Vintage Computer Festival Europe (VCFe) 10.0 at Munich featuring Raffzahn. Will be there with the usual suspects. I’ll maybe prepare an exhibition (“Debian on dead hardware”, i.e. PowerPC, Sparc, Alpha, etc. or so) or a talk, but not yet sure. Will go there by (vintage) car as usual.
Then there will be the big summer holidays driving around in the middle of Europe with the 2CV and taking part in most likely:
- Sailing with friends from 31st of July to 7th of August,
- HAR2009 one weekend later, and
- FrOSCon at St. Augustin near Bonn another weekend later.
This also means that I’ll probably miss:
- DebConf 9 at Extremadura (Spain) from 16th to 30th of July (can’t get so fast from Spain to neither the Czech Republic nor the Netherlands with the 2CV),
- The 18th International 2CV Meeting at Velebudice, Czech Republic from 28th of July to 2nd of August (overlaps with sailing)-:, and
- Bünzli 18 from 14th to 16th of August at Winterthur, Switzerland (overlaps with HAR2009).
… at least unless one of the other events I plan to visit doesn’t take place as expected or my plans change heavily.
P.S.: Anyone thinks this amount of events justifies a Dopplr account? ;-) Or is there
somewhere a free online service similar to Dopplr, but runs software
under the GNU Affero General Public License like e.g. identi.ca and
many other Laconica instances do for microblogging?
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