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In one word: AWESOME

Every year I worry that DebConf might not be as good as I hope, or not as good as previous years. Well, I've yet to be let down!

The road trip down to Banja Luka was good fun, even if it took a little longer than planned. We ended up travelling down through Germany on the same Friday as much of the country finished work/school for their summer vacation, so there was a lot of traffic. Meh, we got there in the end.

I made my usual mistake of planning some things to hack on during the DebConf week; by now I should know better... :-) I made a start on one small project, but then got so distracted by so many talks and side meetings with people that it's still waiting. As always, my own personal TODO list picked up huge amounts of extra stuff from those discussions. Catching up with, and socialising with, Debian friends from all over the world was also fun as always!

Lots of highlights of the week for me, both for technical and social reasons:

• Multi-arch is finally with us! Great talk from Steve Langasek, and a very useful meeting afterwards to unpick what work is still needed. Quite a bit, it seems... :-)
• Useful meetings with Otavio to discuss future changes to how debian-installer is going to work, and how the debian-cd and debian-installer teams can work together better on that.
• Catching up with Martin to work out what's needed to get pancutanfinally integrated with our regular CD builds.
• Talking with Jimmy about where to go next for regular debian-live builds on our core CD build machine.
• The ARM BoF, where things have moved on from "why should I care about ARM?" to "when will you have armhf ready for going in the archive?". W00t!
• Doing our own day trip in the cars from the UK. We got to meet some very friendly and helpful local people, plus we found some incredible roads to drive on. Even if not all of them were technically roads yet... :-)
• Playing poker in a real casino for the first time, along with a bunch of friends. Nice atmosphere, and very good fun.

Banja Luka was a lovely place to visit, and a great host city for DebConf. Looking forwards to Managua now!

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Going to DebConf11!

See you in Banja Luka! As mentioned previously, there's a gang of us heading over by car from the UK, which should be great fun. 9 countries in 2 days on the trip down, and an extra one on the way back, just because.

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DebConf road trip 2011

Wouter says he's going to drive to DebConf this year (from Belgium to Bosnia). There's a number of folks from the UK looking to do the same thing, and there's time for more people to join us yet. Maybe we'll see you en route Wouter!

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