stephane richard wrote:
Have a good time :-) that goes for everyone that's
going :-)
I want a detailed report in my email ASAP after you guys get back...:-)
For some of us the event started already on Friday, I came to Gothenburg
on Wednesday to meet Mattias and some of the other AcgGBG/AmiGBG people.
On the Friday, a fairly good bunch of people met up to set up tables and
bring in all the equipment. Me and Mattias had made an appointment to
have dinner with the Friedens, and suddenly we were 15 people at the
restaurant. Noone seemed to know just how that happened :-P
On the Saturday, the day started early (I went to bed a bit after 1am,
and was up a bit before 5am), we brought in the rest of the equipment
for the Safir (swedish community site) table, which was next to the
AmigaRulez/OpenOffice.org table. A good bunch of bad things happened all
around the place, but somehow most people (Compusphere being the only
exception, due to an accident with the front window in their car) were
ready for the opening of the doors at 11am. Already at a quarter to 12,
Captain Moo Moo and his beautiful wife passed my table and I said hi. I
gave him a flyer and he said "oh, I was looking for them. Know who I
should speak to", and I pointed to my badge. "Oh, so you ARE the man",
he said :-P
Captain Moo Moo, for those who don't know, is teaching at a college
somewhere in the UK, and he has purchased an AmigaOne for his class.
He's looking for projects, and we're kinda looking for programmers here,
so it kinda goes together nicely :-P
We then managed to have a short meeting with Captain Moo Moo, Joppe from
AmigaRulez ( who is also a teacher in C, but on a university in Sweden),
Hans-Jörg, Thomas, Henning, Rene, Ben Hermans and myself attending. The
two teachers introduced themselves and spoke a bit about how they were
thinking of teaching C the next year, Henning, Rene and myself tried to
explain a bit about how the OpenOffice project is not only about
OpenOffice itself, but that it has a lot of dependencies which are
(almost?) equally important. The Friedens clarified a few points here
and there, and spoke a bit about coding for OS4 in general. Ben Hermans
was eating chicken and drinking beer :-P (no, seriously, he contributed,
but he was after all the only person who don't do C for a living there,
except possibly Captain Moo Moo's wife :-) )
Then we attended a short presentation about IBMs roadmap and some more
in-depth stuff about Cell, I passed out a bit more flyers, and then
suddenly the clock had reached 5PM. We packed up everything and
proceeded to get well and truly drunk. I nearly got there, but the
dinner at the banquet was mexican, and I ate so much I could no longer
swallow beer afterwards. A bit of a bummer, you could say.
Sunday, some of us met up at Liseberg to play some classic (and some
new) pinball machines, some had beer/cider/wine (ok, ok. I admit it. It
was me). After some hours we proceeded to a pub where we had a dinner,
then me and Mattias went home so I don't know if anything else happened.
Today I've basically been travelling, and now I'm at work to fetch my
laptop and send this detailed report to you :-P
PS:
I have some ideas for some things that would help bring in more
programmers. I'll send an extra email some time tonight or tomorrow
morning. It involves work on my part, mostly. If you all will help me
just a little bit :-P
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We'll double-cross that bridge when we get there.