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Hallway talks

Monday started with the Community Council meeting.
We spent a major portion of the time on the topics decision making and raising the voice - especially in case of controversy. I took the action item to review the existing descriptions (project guidelines, Community Council charter, Engineering Steering Committee page, ...) and make responsibilities and escalation paths more clear.

One of the most interesting part of the conference is spontaneous talks on the hallway. It's fun to see the long-term contributors again. And it is always interesting to chat face-to-face for the first time with people you know only from mailing lists or IRC.

The nearby bistro should install wireless access to the internet. It would definitely be even more inviting for conference attendees. Extempore dragging people aside for a serious conversation might not be successful - even if all are participant joined with a good intent.
But it's a prefect place to relax and have easygoing conversations.

In the evening a ship tour showed us the beauty of Lyon experienced from Rhône and Savone. The dinner could have been a bit more palatable, but people couldn't escape. We had some fun over a wine and enjoyed the boat trip.

Posted at 04:22PM Sep 12, 2006 by Stefan Taxhet in OpenOffice.org  | 

The day before

Sunday afternoon Cedric guided us on a trip through the city.

And we heard that the team Kiberpipa is taking care of the media coverage again.

During a stop in a cafe I continued to ask OpenOffice.org contributors for the most important obstacles to enter our project as a developer. I first run this quiz with Kai. Kai happily picked this up and interviewed Jürgen

and several other developers later during dinner.

Feel free to contact us, if you would like to let raise your top inhibitor with us.

Posted at 11:29AM Sep 12, 2006 by Stefan Taxhet in OpenOffice.org  | 

Gulls everywhere

If want to see gulls you see them everywhere:

For me the train station at the airport Lyon-Saint Exupéry was a perfect welcome to OOoCon 2006.

After a half hour bus ride we changed to the tram T1 going to our hotel.
We spent Saturday evening in the old town of Lyon to recover from the walk.

Posted at 09:32AM Sep 12, 2006 by Stefan Taxhet in OpenOffice.org  |