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2008/08/25

FroSCon 2008

As announced I spent the last weekend at the FroSCon 2008, in Siegburg near Bonn. For the first time ever, I had the chance to meet some of the people behind DokuWiki. And it was really great :-) . We spent almost the whole weekend hacking in our own room on the FroScon area. Apart from updates to the XML-RPC backend we had a lively discussion regarding possible implementations of Wiki Farms with DokuWiki and I think there where also some ideas about WYSIWYG floating around. Because we where quite busy, I somehow completely forgot to attend any lectures during the whole weekend though ;-) .

On Saturday evening a social event took place, or in other words, there was beer¹⁾ and barbecue and we had a good time chatting about all kinds of stuff. Sadly I had to leave early on 15:15 on Suday to catch my train back to Munich.

All in all it was a really great experience to meet all those nice people, and it's cool to be able to connect a face and some good memories to an IRC nickname or and email address :-) . I am really looking forward to the next event (maybe the CCC congress in december :-) ).

Of course Andi and Gina blogged about it too!

¹⁾ though the glasses tend to be really small in northern Germany

This blog post was created on 2008/08/25 at 21:02 by Michael Klier.
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1 As previously announced, this weekend marked the first ever DokuWiki meetup at this year's FrOSCon. I arrived at Siegburg/Bonn on Friday at around 19:30 and -- after checking in at my hotel which I btw definitely recommend -- spent the evening eating and chit-chatting in a nice Pizzeria with Andreas Gohr, Michael Klier and Guy Brand.
2008/08/25 22:22

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Great!But who is who?

Douglas

2008/08/26 09:29

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Ouch, I knew I forgot something :-/ .

So, from left to right: Me, Michitux (Michael Hamann), Splitbrain (Andreas Gohr), Chris–S (Christopher Smith), Calliou (Pierre Spring), Foosel (Gina Häußge), Bug^ (Guy Brand).

Michael Klier

2008/08/26 11:01

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I completely agree, these glasses were so small, refueling kölch is a real sport!

bug

2008/08/26 14:35

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Hm, you are aware that this event took place in WESTERN Germany, not northern as you mentioned it? The glasses in Hamburg are a wee bit larger from my experience. And, there is a good reason for having smaller glasses with Kölsch: the glass itself and its structure helps you to drink quite fast. Smaller glasses help getting DokuWiki work done on the sunday *eg*.

Anyways, glad that you enjoyed the event, hope to see you guys next year → 22nd / 23rd of August 2009

Christian Louis

2008/08/26 20:53

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Hehe, well, I live in Munich, so it's just north, at least from my point of view, but you're of course right ;-) .

Michael Klier

2008/08/26 21:23