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Boston Summit
Just booked my flight for Boston Summit today. It's quite cheap, but I hope that I can get some money back from GNOME Foundation.

Home again
I'm in Munich again for about one week. After that I will have to learn for university. The test will be in mid-September which will give me about 6 weeks; should be enough, hopefully. Murray and I will meet up in Munich tomorrow. There's lots of things which have to be discussed about GNOME Deutschland e.V..

GNOME2.11/Ubuntu
Ubuntu (Breezy) is still broken regarding X. I really hope that someone will fix it soon. Otherwise, GNOME 2.11/2.12 looks promising. It's been running without any crashes (err, some random crashes *g*) since its early developer versions. I really like quality software.

Long time no blogging. I'm lazy, everybody knows. Besides, blogging takes lots of time, first because I have to think of something I want to write down. The second thing is, that my English could be better *g* Well, right now, there's not much to think about it, because there's so much to talk about what has happened the last 2 months. First, there's GUADEC which was a huuuuuuge success. I was quite worried the days before GUADEC, because communication could have been better (we're working on it). In the end our local helpers did a great job in making GUADEC rock! Thanks to all of them. I really love you :-) GUADEC was quite busy, I was mostly on my feets heading from one to another room. I wanted to make sure, that everything was in place. I met new people and this paid off; I'm quite happy...Everyone seemed to be happy. That's good... I volunteered to help out for next year's GUADEC again. It's been hard work, but enjoyable. I just want to make sure, that we'll do better in some areas.

I'm also very happy seeing that GNOME Deutschland e.V. is finally working. Our guys seem to be very excited about it. I think they've finally seen, what we're trying to do and that it will be for their own good :-) Currently, we're trying to get new sponsors like HP or Nokia (and others). The organisation of events has been much improved, mainly because of our superb wiki and our open mailinglists. Daniel Nümm is doing a great job designing logo's for CD's T-Shirts, etc. With the help of Andreas Müller we're now able to provide unique GNOME (Live)CD's for each event (and even more). Julius Bloch has done a nice job organizing LinuxTag. Murray also did a great job in motivating our guys. Thanks to all of you!

The next bigger shows will be Systems in Munich and LWE in Frankfurt. I hope that we'll again have lots of Ubuntu CD's and our own GNOPPIX ones. With the help of Mako Hill and Andreas Müller, this should be possible. We even might have our own unique Poloshirts; Andreas and I are on this. It'll work out :-) Maybe we'll already have our new HP laptops there, who knows. Anyway, I think we're well organized now, though we can do better in some areas. That's not bad, with the help of our members this can be solved.

Let's rock!

OK...as promised, I took some photos:

Looking out of my window in the morning

I like that :-)

...snow...finally (pictures coming soon)!

Originally, I wanted to post this as a diary entry. I just didn't pay attention. Advogato is so bad usability-wise...I feel quite bad now... :-(

Vacation

I'm going on vacation today. My suitecase isn't packed yet but it'll soon.

Have a nice time! See you in 15 days.
14 days without blogging...

I am just lazy and I really have so much time at the moment. Enough said..

Vacation

As I already said, I'll be on vacation soon which makes me happy. It's so cold/boring here and the best thing is to get away :-)
At the time I'm writing this (11.00 in the morning) it's 27C hot where I'm going to. Compared to 12C in Munich this sounds much better.

Job/Studies

Two days ago I filed an application for studying to the "Technische Uni" Dresden. I'm quite late because the application deadline ends today. Hopefully, I'm lucky; those universities in Munich have really become stupid (they reject you just because they think that you won't be successful at all -- bad days!).
If Dresden won't work out, I'll either try to work in the US or somewhere here in Germany. I'm really low on money and a company for which I was working for, still owes me a lot!

LWE

I try to be there...

Visited Countries

It seems to be quite common, to post a map of visited countries. Voila, for your viewing pleasure:

World Map

In exactly 18 days I'll be in Turkey again, although, I've been there 6 weeks ago. I just like the country... :-)

9 Sep 2004 (updated 9 Sep 2004 at 15:38 UTC) »

First quarter of 2004

Nothing interesting happened in January and February. I booked our holidays in Turkey (just because Natalie didn't like to pay around 700 € for a flight to the US). On February 15th we went swimming, that's Natalie's Birthday.

On March 9th my grandmother died at the age of 81. To the day, I haven't seen her for 2.5 years. I should have visited her, but you never know what might happen and unfortunately, she died 3 months after the stroke.

On the day of my birthday (March 26th), Natalie and I went to the cinema in the evening (I had to work on the day, so there's just the evening). We watched "Lost in Translation" IIRC. Funny movie...Two days later we went swimming again (same location, just because it's cool there and -- well -- *cough* cheap).

9 Sep 2004 (updated 9 Sep 2004 at 15:39 UTC) »

What a waste of time/space. I was just trying gnome-blog here. Works fine so far. :-)

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