To make it short: FrOSCon 2008 was as expected - fantastic. :)
I'll try to summarize the best things during the last weekend in following.
The PHP Usergroup Dortmund arrived on Friday evening at Thomas' place, who invited us for Papaya ;) Cocktails. We had a quite funny evening and stayed at Thomas' and Bastians home to be at FrOSCon early on Saturday morning. Thanks for the cocktails and accommodation, guys!
The start of FrOSCon was absolutely fluent and problem less. We reveived our auditorium through the VIP entrance and got started with our talks immediately. The room even had a rear exit to the courtyard, where the drinking fountain was placed later that day. All talks on that day were well crowded. Sebastians OOP talk and Johannes' (PHP 5.3) were even so packed, that several people stood in the gangway.
The Saturday highlight for me personally was the keynote by Andrew S. Tanenbaum. I bet every computer science student in the world has heard about this guy and most open source people probably have, too. Andrew wrote some of the most famous books on operating systems: Modern Operating Systems, Operating System Design and Implementation, Distributed Systems. Principles and Paradims. Andrew presented the new version 3 of his educational, micro kernel, operating system Minix. I felt a bit like honored to listen to that talk and did not expect him to be such a great speaker. If the FrOSCon people put it online, I'd definitely recommend watching the recording.
A nice side effect of seeing Andrew was, that my copy of Modern Operating Systems now has a personal signature. :)
Saturday evening was extremly funny, but the Kölsch-Flatrate was extremly dangerous. ;) Therefore I was quite a bit borked on Sunday, but since I did not have to give any sessions, that was ok.
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