| 2009-10-21 Back from BeGeistert 021 |
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BeGeistert 021 is over! The last BeGeistert I attended to was the 17... how I missed the atmosphere and the people! It's incredible how little the BeGeistert has changed from my first time in 2003; the most obvious difference is the renovated (read "completely demolished and rebuilt from the bare ground") hostel, which is a nice modern and technological building - like the whole Haiku philosophy - but it lost its "warm and familiar" feeling. This year, thanks to the release of Haiku R1 Alpha1, promised to be very interesting; most of the major contributors to Haiku were present, and it was nice to talk with them and seeing them work, either on their 20 years old IBM Model M or a $300 keyboards). The discussions were seriously interesting as well; I liked a lot the Auckland Layout Manager demo (live from New Zealand), the Distro Guidelines Debugging by Nicholas Blachford, the plans for Haiku R1, and the WiFi stack presentation. As for me, I travelled by plane with both my MacBook and my new MSI Wind U100 Plus; the first was running Haiku in VMWare Fusion, while the second was booting native, and both received some attention. I worked to make my CAD compatible with Haiku again (it was a bit behind from the Mac version). I also helped Mattia Tristo revamping its BeWake screensaver, which we will publish soon. See you soon at the next BeGeistert! |
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