Keynoting linuxdan.si: Great Food, Mild Discomfit & a Castle
LinuX dan Slovenia was held in Ljubljana castle (which, as one might guess, overlooks Ljubljana from a hill called Castle Hill.)
Conference organizers: Want to improve the next conference that you host? Hold it in a castle - everything is more interesting in a large stone building that has arrow slits. Also, when if the wireless doesn't work as expected, at least you will have a decent excuse.
Anyhow, I arrived early in the day, presented my keynote, interviewed with local journalist Damjan Franz Lu from NeDeljski (the major daily in Slovenia) for a feature on LinuX dan, ate some rather excellent food during the breaks and then left early to get back to my network access at the hotel.
I was interested in the content of the conference, but all of the sessions other than mine were presented in Slovene. It was a bit discomfiting to be unable to participate. I did chat with a few people afterwards, but - in general - people seemed a bit shy to engage me in English.
In the evening, I had a excellent dinner with some of the folks from housing.si (who organized the event.)
Despite my lack of Slovene, it was still a great event - many thanks to Mitja and the housing.si team for the invitation.
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February 3rd, 2008 at 19:13
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