So, it has been two days now since the end of LinuxTag 2005. What is the conclusion? First of all: It was worth it! :)

I got to see a lot of Open Source people live for the first time and I have to say, that I'm not disappointed at all!! They are just as nice as you would think and the atmosphere is just astonishingly great!

TikiWiki was promoted pretty well, without having a booth. That's not mainly due to running around with a tw.o-shirt, but more because of having talked to people that didn't know about it. That includes people from: WINE, Zope, Mayflower, credativ, Gentoo, the FSF, Nokia and last but surely not least independent users.
By the way, at Nokia I met two more finns! I forgot to blog that before, but that was cool - gave me the opportunity to speak finish again! :)

Ok, time for this year's awards: ;)

1. LAMP-Area
2. O'Reilly
3. Linux Hotel (not enough chairs, but apart from that.. ;) )

1. Horde (Have you seen?!? Horde can do that and this and it's SO beautifully done!)
2. Microsoft (Some people knew it, but the others ran around and couldn't understand that Windows XP runs Unix in parallel with shared memory)
3. WINE (Well, perhaps this is just my impression, haven't heard much from other people, but I guess they are well known now! ;) )

1. Guantanamo is everywhere ;)
2. tw.o DevJersey
3. Team Gentoo

1. Uwe Bonnes of WINE (just plain cool)
2. Lars Kneschke of eGroupWare (always joking)
3. Aaron Wormus of PEAR (just plain nice)

Bye, bye, LinuxTag 2005

Just like it wouldn't have been enough to change trains five times, one of them didn't arrive at all and I had to take another one, that made one change more necessary. Finally at the last station there was no more train going to lovely Ilmenau. Deutsche Bahn then sponsored cab rides home for everybody. That was a great thing, since like this I didn't have to walk home from the train station.. ;)

LinuxTag will end in about an hour. I have to say goodbye to some people, pack my stuff and find the railway station. I don't think that I will find time to blog again, so I want to say "Bye, bye, Karlsruhe!" now. I hope you all had as much fun as I had! 'till next year! ;)

I heard of this already two days ago, but somehow I was too busy joining them and they had really long waiting lines all the time.
So today I did it and signed up with them. So to have the first thing to upload on my FSFE fellowship-card. ;)
Pretty harsh guys, I guess they can't stand assuring certificates no more.. But nevertheless, the person doing the 'Pre-Check' suddenly was really enthusiastic when I showed him two ID-Cards. "Hey, you're from finland, too? Man, fill out two forms!" :)

Yup, yesterday at the social event we met and today there some guy came standing beside me to smoke. Took me some seconds to realize that it was him, but then we had some funny discussions about Spam/Viruses and e-mail usage in general with the Papaya guy.