Conferences Ahead

written by Mickey on 2006-09-22

I enjoy going to conferences. When I was younger, I really loathed travelling. Now that I am much more open minded, I'm having fun seeing other towns and countries and meeting people from all over the planet.

Currently I'm looking forward to attending two important conferences next month:

1. OEDEM'06 (Open Embedded Developers European Meeting) in Berlin -- it's the first (of hopefully an annual series) conference about the BitBake Task Executor and the OpenEmbedded MetaData Repository, both in combination enabling to build Embedded Linux Distributions from scratch. Since I'm the co-founder of this project I have the honor to host a couple of sessions. I'm especially happy to meet the OE developer and OpenZaurus maintainer Marcin 'Hrw' Juszkiewicz for the first time.
2. Trolltech Dev'Days'06 in Munich -- a developer conference with a lot of interesting sessions about Qt, Qtopia, and related products. Despite my ambivalent relationship to the Trolltech Brisbane developer group, I'm glad for the opportunity of attending a conference with an advanced technical program -- especially because Opie veteran Holger 'Zecke' Freyther will join me.

Nearby... since I need to work during travelling, I have just ordered a Lenovo Thinkpad X60s -- crossing fingers that it will arrive before the first conference is due.