Ruby is cool

I've been to FOSDEM last weekend. FOSDEM is a great thing; many informal meetings take place, but there are also talks about lots of free software projects, both on and off the record. This year, I didn't have the FOSDEM feeling I had on previous occasions. That probably has a lot to do with the fact that on previous occasions, I was merely an attendant; while this time, I helped organize the Debian presence. Not that there's anything wrong with that. On the contrary; I felt more involved and thus had a lot more fun. I wouldn't mind doing this again, in fact...

OTOH, organizing stuff has a drawback. There were lots of talks, but I couldn't go to many of them; in fact, I only saw one talk on the official schedule in full, being, the Ruby talk on sunday evening, 16:00-17:00. Like I said, Ruby is cool -- at least, that's the impression I got from that talk.

Before that time, however, on Sunday Morning, there were the Debian talks. Fabbione did a talk about the apache packages, Tbm did one about the archive tools, and I did one about buildd. People seemed to find them interesting, so that's a good thing.

What was less nice is the fact that right now, my laptop is doing even worse than it was doing before, now. At first, the monitor went black; now, the system hangs after it's been running for -say- 30 minutes or so. Which sucks, basically. In fact, I'm at the office now, and am typing this on my m68k mac (which happens to be a buildd machine, and will get a fixed IP address here this afternoon), using lynx, instead of my usual friend, the fully-featured logjam. Oh well. At least I have something to work on now, which is less than I could say during the weekend; if not for the fact that I did handle my buildd logs, it probably looked as if I had vanished this weekend.

Which is true. More or less.