Yesterday was an interesting day at FOSDEM. I've been working on pyJigdo mostly -in order to get the proposed feature for Fedora 9 done, and while I was doing so I attended talks (mostly in the Fedora/CentOS developers room). After FOSDEM (all work and no play :P), we went to a restaurant by lack of a conference in the Hotel we are staying, and founded Fedora EMEA. Greatly anticipated, now finally done. I've taken some pictures you can view at my Fedora Unity space. Announcements in all the proper places coming up soon.

Today I'll be helping someone with boot problems -I didn't have the correct Re-Spin DVD with me and he promised to come back today, but before I start doing that, I usually browse through my e-mail and then mark everything read, and while I was doing so, my eye catched the message from Max Spevack saying he was aggregating all the blogs and pictures about FOSDEM (I'll add this one), and I came across this blog post on his LiveJournal blog.

I love Filet Americain! I ate it Friday, and I ate it again yesterday. The waiter warned me -he must have learned his lesson last year, but I knew what I was getting ;-)

This second day at FOSDEM (or third actually) I'm going to meet up with z00dax from CentOS and talk/brainstorm a little about Revisor on Enterprise Linux 5 or recomposing and rebuilding in more general terms, and look into the future a little given that he knows a lot more of what is going to happen in EL6 then I do. It promises to be a very useful and educational sit-together for me at least ;-)

Later today Yaakov Nemoy and myself will look into Revisor and the Server/Client model we've been talking about that FUDCon in Raleigh and express some ideas based on the code we've seen so far. The good thing is, this will shape up as we move forward and we do not really have a design set in stone or anything. Just the general goals. We've promised to just get some ideas up on some white-board first, and then discuss which one would fit best for what we need right now, and then look into what would be best in the long-term. I'm sure we're gonna end up with a solid plan.

That's all for now, time for some coffee.

Coming in to Belgium yesterday, I noticed a huge difference with the Netherlands. A pretty important one too. If you don't bring enough cash with you, and you don't have any bank passes of one of the local banks, you'll find yourself unable to pay for a lot of things. If you want to buy a subway ticket, you either need change or an ATM card from one of the local banks. It just wouldn't accept my MasterCard, nor my Maestro card.

Anyway we arrived at the hotel around 14:00, en decided to hit the center and walk around for a while and get some chocolate and a charger for my phone, waiting for the rest of the Fedora Ambassadors and Developers to arrive. Brussels is a beautiful town but I'm amazed with what they did to it. On our way over from Central Station to the real center there's a dozen building sites; every street you walk through seems to have at least one. What are they doing? Other then that, Brussels is still very nice to just walk around and do nothing ;-)

At 18:00-ish, the others arrived and a little later we headed off for dinner. We didn't go to the BeerEvent but we had a good time anyway. There's lots to talk about on the pre-eve of Fedora EMEA, of course, and so we did. It's all going down today...

The booth is set up, a schedule has been made so that we're not swarming our own booth. I'm sitting in the general Hackers room right now as the Fedora Developers room isn't available yet. Check out the new posters, and other pictures More coming up! ;-)

It's... exciting. I've been to events before and I've definitely been to Brussels before -I've even been to events in Brussels. This is the first time I'm going to FOSDEM though, and with everything in place for the Fedora EMEA non-profit organization, I expect it to be a very busy event for all of us. Besides, I'm bringing Revisor with me as well as pyjigdo and a couple of Re-Spins and repositories; let's see how much work one can do in a weekend ;-)