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!