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Mon, 08 May 2006

[OSDL-DAM-II] Small timewarp...

Greeting from OSDLs Desctops Architects Meeting II in Mainz, where I'm honoured to represent the Debian Project. Not much to say till now; we just started with an introduction round... but after 40 short introductions of people, I already forgot the first ones.

Personal note: I used to be stationed here in Mainz during my military service so many years ago... Actually: I used the same train station this morning than I did during those days. I nearly went the wrong way to my old barracks... but it was some kind of strange, unfamiliar. E.G. they started to dig an old roman theatre when I was the last time there, now they are nearly finished. Looks impressive... I never saw the beatifull side of Mainz (which might be related to the problem, that I always hated to be here during those days).

Oh, break. I need to go; will blog more interesting stuff later.

Oh, BTW: One bigger point of discuss here are standards, especially LSB and freedesktop.org and what people expect from their next releases. I have just a very general knowledge of them and feel some kind of week about that topic... What do we expect from them?

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Tue, 02 May 2006

I really LOVE it, this happens!

Right now I'm sitting in a train. Again. This morning I traveled from my home near Frankfurt main to Munich, where the office of my employer is. My train was delayed gain by a Personenschaden (translation would be something personal injury; non polite versions of that phrase would be someone kissed a train). I could stay about 3 hours in the office, which means I'll need to do a lot of work tomorrow, so I should be there early in the morning.

But I'm not on my way to my favourite hotel in Munich or to aba (who's a nearly perfect host; his house just misses meals containing meat ;) I'm sitting in a train back to Frankfurt. And I can choose to either take a train back to Munich at 0:30 (or something similar), which will arrive between 05:00 and 06:00 AM (about 2 hours to early), or get up at 5:30 and take the first train back, and be at the office at around 10:00 (about two hours to late).

Either way this won't be a funny night. And that it's my own fault doesn't make me feel any better.

But I'm feeling okay. Because someone just recognized the logos on my notebook and my t-shirt and we had a nice conversation about open source. As you might imagine: I love it, if complete strange person recognize our project :)

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Wed, 26 Apr 2006

[DebConf] Sometimes I like my job

It is for example fun to be one of the first who heard about a new award Debian got, and add it to our website (should be up there soon, thanks again to Cyril Brulebois from the french language team for translating).

The not fun part of my job seems to be to try to write polite mails, asking people for something without stepping on their toes. Well, let's not talk about that; after having spend several hours on writing an other mail I just feld like blow my stack but deleted the stuff I just wrote... so let's go one.

Another not that funny part of my work were the proceedings I just finished. After I lost somehow last years work (I had a very nice system of texing all those papers, creating a big PDF for printing and several small ones for download), I needed to do a complete rewrite, which got complicated by people submitting their papers in neither LaTeX nor plain text as we asked to do. Some could be fixed by some sed magic, but I'm impressed what ugly code some automated conversion tools can create. But that's done, too, and we even had the great idea of adding a credits section for all the volunteers helping to make DebConf become reality. Having that done, I couldn't resist and added a small joke. One of those insiders not everyone will get... Forgive me :)

While talking about jokes: Did anyone noticed our quite new DebConf fortunes section? Feel free to submitt new ones.

Some other news: No, Gustavo, we didn't decided yet where DebConf7 will take place, but one thing is for sure: Since DebConf6 will be in Latin America the next one won't. We have several offers, including (but maybe not limited to, I might have forgot one or the other) Edinburgh, Brixen, somewhere in Greece, Sarajevo and... uhm... some people would like to have one in Germany but don't think we could afford that, so it's quite sure DebConf7 won't be here. But as said, decision has not been made (but it looks like it will be in Europe ;) and currently we don't have the time to think much about that. Let's try to get DebConf6 done first ;)

PS: Civilization has reached me! But they marked the wrong house! It is the one to the south east, the one with the empty parking lot.

PPS: No, this blog entry has no deeper meaning; I just feld like bloging.

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Sun, 16 Apr 2006

But ...

those were the days, when only skilled, UNIX-literate people could use Debian. I don't miss those days.

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Fri, 17 Mar 2006

Let's get a bit productive, shall we?

I always liked those "Bits from the foobar team" mails. So the other people knew that stuff was going on, and that the members of the other teams were doing something. Therefore I just started it with a small mail to -project about event and press stuff.

I hope to post such mails more or less regularly in the future to keep you informed.

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Alexander Tolimar Reichle-Schmehl lives in Tuttlingen / Germany. He works as IT manager (specialized on Unix and SAN/Storage) for an international automotive supplier.

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