Plans for 2010

I don't intend to write much about my just announced pregnancy over on the thoughts/geeky side of my weblog, but there are a couple of geek implications, assuming all goes well:

• it's unlikely in the extreme that I will make it to OSDC 2009 in Brisbane in November (it's very close to the deadline when airlines will stop letting me fly, in addition to discomfort and so on); and
• it's completely impossible that either Andrew or I will make it to linux.conf.au 2010 in Wellington in January.

I'll not be especially available for additional volunteer tasks in 2009, since I will be trying to finish my PhD work with a small human trapped in my abdomen.

For Andrew's other 2009 and 2010 availability check with him, I can't see that I'll be volunteering to travel before at least April 2010 and that might depend on someone donating a nanny to accompany me.

I am cut about lca2010, especially considering the effort I'm sinking into it. I really hoped that wouldn't happen, but it's turned out to have the worst possible timing. If a generous donor offers to fly, say, 20 of the speakers to Sydney afterwards and re-stage the conference for the sole benefit of me, I will not say no.

Syndicated 2009-06-17 03:00:13 from puzzling dot org: thoughts