FOSDEM crowd

After 2 days of sparse sleep, beer events and running everywhere trying to see as much conferences as possible (when are we going to get cloning facility for that sort of thing ?) it was already time to pack all the bought goodies and take the train back to France.

Overall, as a first time, I must say FOSDEM was fantastic. Congrats to the organization people as I’m sure it must give headaches to run something of this scale.

Talks were all interesting and we got to socialize with really nice people. What a shame we were so tight on schedule that we had to leave before the end on Sunday (which mean we didn’t see Leslie GSoC talk, *snif*).

Funnily, when at first Manuel and I thought we were going to be the only ones of our school present at the event, in the end we : slept at a past student’s place, met a bunch more at the beer event and even found conferences given by UTBM folks (including one of our teacher). The world sure is small.

I also finally met super Andreia (Winforms fame) and super Alp (Managed D-Bus fame, btw spread the hype) though rather quickly unfortunately (a food/drink/hack session next time folks ?).

Since I’m probably one of the worst photographer ever, you can take a look at Manuel’s photo stream for the usual pretty pixel set (Reflex aren’t only for showing off apparently ).

Thanks to the change of school semester at my school, I’m going to have a break in February of almost 4 weeks during which we are supposed to participate to some activities chosen among a list.

The cool thing is that I managed to make « contributing to Mono » one of those activities. Thus, I will have 4 weeks to work on Mono and integrating SoC’s ParallelFx work into the mainline tree with the blessing of my school. Yay !

FOSDEM

There are also a bunch of other nice things I will be able to do this February. Going to FOSDEM is one of those (I took the train tickets this afternoon) which mean I can now wear the pretty badge too :

Unless we have trains problems on the way, we should be there for the Fosdem’s Beer Event too, so if you want to discuss Mono, ParallelFx or whatever around an (excellent) Belgian beer be sure to come by .

Prologin

Finally, I was qualified to go into the semi-finals of Prologin, the French algorithmic contest for young people, this year again. It will be a good occasion to see old faces.

For the first time there are also proposing C# as a qualification language. Hopefully, it will mean no on-the-fly C++ learning for me this time .

PS: a great thing should happen tomorrow.

PS²: note to myself, « don’t lose your time again with software integrists »