I woke up this morning, when my alarm clock rang, saw(or at least thought) that toggg is still there, fell back into bed and then slept until about 12 o'clock. Well, toggg was gone and I did the same.

It's unbelievably hot here, coming into the Internet Cafe was a real relief, but before that I had to buy something to drink from the kiosk outside. Internet Cafe is much more crowded today, I have to sit at a machine that's standing in the sun shining through the glass roof. btw. if anybody wants to have one of those machines - they will be sold after LinuxTag. Really nice little blue boxes, approximately the size of a bible, diskless, fanless, 512 MB - 359 Euros, but there's just 5 of them. Of the much more interesting ones will be sold 15 - they got three network-cards integrated. Apart from that 20 black Videosefen V7 L17 AB TFTs for 199 and keyboards and mice.

So, I'm really late, having missed the first half of the second day of LinuxTag. My plan was to check out all the booths today - let's see how far I will get...

... and perhaps I'll meet toggg somewhere. ;)

Congress center inner courtyard

At least we were there

Do you think they sell tw.o Gear here?

Do you want to bet, that this would have been our booth?

So Linuxtag is over no pictures yet... :(

But we talked to the accessibility guy - Ansgar Hein from anatom5, a media agency, that provides the mentioned accessibility ranking.

And from now on this site is also reachable as

http://amette.webhop.info

The DynDNS domains for WebHops are all shi#....

If anyone knows a similar service with better domain-names, comment here please!

Our part of OSCOM Tag 2005 looked like this:

• a talk about a specific CMS (I won't say which one, because it wasn't allowed to talk about specific CMSs) named Mam...
• toggg talking Text_Wiki
• a talk about accessibility from some CMS-accessibility-rating-institution (recalling names is not my best side today)

To make a long story short: everything failed and toggg still made them listen interested.
At first there was no WLAN accessible, so no slides to show, no presentation to do, no nothing. What to do? Go warwalking with the organizers Laptop. Copying over toggg's blog page to the computer, running back to the meeting-room, hearing that the Wiki would have been good to have, too (how should I know - I thought without being able to edit it, it is worthless) and then enjoy for five minutes how Mr. toggg infotains the people in the room without having anything to show.

The talk of the guy afterwards was perhaps even slightly better - he was really dedicated(I new, that enganged was the wrong word, sorry! ;) )! Made me think of Mobile-Tiki and the whole accessiblity story. I think, when my bro finalizes the tableless layout, we are looking pretty good.

Pictures have been taken, but for some dumb reason I can't send my MMS as email, so I'll have to wait for my girlfriend to come home from university, so that she can upload the pictures for me - hopefully that will be today during internetcafe open-times.

I'll go check back to the exhibition building now. Have to look at O'Reilly, that is perhaps my booth of the day! :)

So, toggg and I met in Mannheim on the train. From there it was only about 20 min to Karlsruhe, which is actually a pretty nice city. Actually it is even pretty beautiful as long as you don't get near to our hotel... ;)
Nevertheless it is only about 25 min. to the exhibition and if you have a map you are able to take the scenic route and as I already told, that's nice! :)

Organization looks pretty nice, although we were sent three times to another desk (ok, one time it was our fault) and to get to the toilet burns a lot of calories, but apart from that it is really chilly here. Exhibition and Congress are pretty much seperated from another, read: two different buildings. The whole congresscenter itself has a somehow ancient touch and makes sitting on the place between the two buildings especially relaxing.

The exhibition itself made me recall CeBit more than some geek-meeting. It's not overwhelming, but still packed with loud presentations and huge company posters. Although - damn, can't recall his name and toggg searches the room for the talk - anyways, a PEAR-guy (half finn by the way :D ) told us that this year here are much more Open Source projects. UPDATE: His name is aaron

FOSS Projects are packed in the back corner and PEAR for example is in the LAMP area, with just a desk and a Laptop - but actually that was really cool! :)

Internet Cafe has approximately 30 places and isn't too crowded at the moment. Hopefully that'll stay this way.

So, I'll go after toggg now....

Hmm, make a Tracker item: get Popcorn at IBM!