It was pretty dark outside yesterday and I couldn't take any photos of the social event. But when being in the bathroom I met DJ Submerge of Gentoo and he kindly let me take a photo of his back to show you, that tw.o got the cooler shirts! ;)

DJ Submerge really is a DJ, he will be at the turntables this evening at the huge university party. This party is every year on the last day of LinuxTag. Sadly I didn't know, must be a really fun party with some thousand people there. Have to remember that!

So, there it is - last day of LinuxTag, time to leave came way faster than I thought.

Social event yesterday was great! That was the bunch of geeks hanging around. No wonder johann__ and his folks weren't there, they are definately not cool enough for such a party! ;)
We had a lengthy talk with a WINE guy and we will meet later on, so that he can explain me in detail about WINE/Cedega, etc.

With the guys of "Team Gentoo" I had some chat about Drobbins, the founder of Gentoo, going to Microsoft and some Gentoo-specifics. That was pretty interesting, especially to hear, that even they fear #emerge --depclean. ;)

The Drobbins story is very interesting. Everybody seems to be very ok with it. Yesterday I asked very carefully: "May I ask your hatequestion the first? Why did Drobbins go to Microsoft?" - "Naa, it's no hatequestion..." I was slightly surprised by this attitude and decided to try it with other people, too. So today I told what I asked the Gentoo people at the Mayflower booth and I couldn't end my sentence. They immediately kicked in: "Hey, that's normal! What would you do? You got a wife and children and then you get such a job offer! It doesn't change anything! Gentoo will stay free and Microsoft closed!"

But the best of this whole thing is to see how Open and Free FOSS-people are!

As you can see from the heading, I'm bloggin' at Sun right now.

The Social Event starts in two hours, so I now have to plan, if I go to the hotel to have a shower or not... I wanted to, but - hmmm, I don't feel like walking this long way right now (though DevJersey absorbed a lot of sweat today) and you can go in to the event in an hour, so perhaps I skip the shower and go there directly... let's see..

Official LinuxTag is again over for today. I hope you all had fun with 'todays edition'!

Just checked my e-mail and saw that my fellowship has been activated! :)

So now you can reach me through the FSFE mail adress, too. It's redirected to my foss@....

He had a talk about "TYPO3: Project and Principles" and later on was signing his book and talking to his fans. It was really nice to see the people go away with a huge smile in their face! :)

And, hey, be honest: he really looks like a snowboarder, doesn't he? ;)

I saw him in the cafeteria later. He was just silently skiing around with his backpack and a LinuxTag-paperbag and went to talk to the organizer of LinuxTag. Seems like a pretty silent and nice guy.

Although I heard today that Rasmus Lerdorf is supposed to be the coolest Open Source Dev with company interests around him. I sadly didn't hear his talk yesterday morning and also I didn't get the LAMP Area party yesterday evening - I think, that would have been a good opportunity to meet interesting people.