Lars Weiler

Crap! The Shower-Gel in my rucksack opened during a journey and the soap poured over my CD-booklet. Unfortunately I had my collection of German Gentoo-CDs in it. Now, some of the artwork is defaced, but you still can imagine how it looked like…

Today I visited the small Linux-Congress come2linux in Essen. Other than last year the organizers moved the date from December to September and moved the place to the university in Essen. So the problem was, you have to take a walk of 300m from the exhibition-hall to the lecture-rooms...

Anyway, I was glad to meet a lot of the Ruhrpott-Gentoo-folks (and developers) there again. Some I didn't met for quite a long now, as I don't have the time any more for the monthly Gentoo User Meetings in Oberhausen. It's everytime a pleasure to have a talk with ian, dertobi123, stkn and our other supporters.

During my walk around I wanted to make a short stop at the CACert table. As I'm an assurer who can assign 35 points I was forced to assure 10 people who stood at the table... But now I'm again one of the top 100 assurers :-)

And I had a long talk at the Free Software Foundation Europe table as I met Rainer there. Funny enough, together with me he is one of the founders of the CCC meeting in Düsseldorf in 1999. We met in his basement the first year. Now he organises the FSFE-tables on fairs and takes care for the office in Düsseldorf. Another nice talk at that table I had with Werner Koch. We didn't met for a long time, but know each other since 1999. Of course we talked about the current situation of cdrtools and all tries during the last years to implement either a library or a similar tool for CD-burning. Let's see how the cdrkit will develop during the next months.

At the end, I have two dates for the German community:

• September 29th: Meeting of the Gentoo Cologne Community (I need to confirm that we can use the CCC Clubroom again) We'll shift this into October as we are currently short in our favourite beverages ;-)
• November: LinuxWorld Conference & Expo, also in Cologne; the yearly meeting of the Gentoo e.V. will be there as well. If you need a bed, message me.