Hello! On Thu, Jun 16, 2005 at 08:57:31PM +0200, Henning Brauer wrote: >[...]
>I have been flying to Montreal on May 7th, basically just after my >return from RIPE-50 at Stockholm. Matt (msf) picked me up downtown, and >Ryan arrived a few hours later, bringing Fernando Gont with him. >We stayed at Matt's for a few days, doing some random hacking, and Ryan >and me, siting in front of one screen, finally got started on the >pf interface abstraction code cleanup, which was a prerequisite for >making use of the interface groups stuff I hacked a year ago. I can't >point out enough how important it was that we could sit down together, >staring at one screen, to get started on that. Yeah, pair programming sometimes is *very* helpful. Experienced that with a friend of mine who happens to be a co-worker too. >I continued to work on >that for the following days. We didn't miss out the city of Montreal >either of course - we did have a lot of fun, no doubt. Cool that there also was a good balance between work and fun. >[...] >There was a (not so surprising) surprise waiting for me - a shiny new >laptop, an IBM X40. Many thanks again to those who made that possible >(and yes, I will finally handle donations.html for the donors when I am >back, promised). Heh. >[...] >could not see his. Bob and me had humppa as introduction to our talks >tho, which the audience appreciated :) Humppa as intro for talks? I'm not sure how I should try to imagine how that works. >[...] >We did go for a dayhike during the hackathon of course, forming two >groups of 5 people each for a hard hike and one big group for an easier >one. Theo, Ryan, Reyk, Uwe and me went up Mount St. Piran, starting at >Lake Louise, after going over some other Mountain (forgot the name), >elevation delta about 900m. It was fun. So you have to love hiking if you're an OpenBSD hacker? But then I guess there's much really cool landscape, and less overcrowded comapred to Europe, over there in Canada. >pval & me escaped for a (fantastic) mountain bike ride on the last day >before we started tearing things down. ... or sports in general... >[...] >There, at Ryan's place in Vancouver, I stayed until today. We enjoyed >Vancouver, went for another 2.5-day hike to Emma Lake (and on), near >Powell River, went up Grouse Grind near Vanouver (930m elevation delta on >3km :)) and used the time to talk about future openbsd work, designing >cool stuff and of course hacking. >Many Thanks to the people who made this trip possible, where Ryan is >the first to name - we had a wonderful time. >So now the airplane is about to reach Europe - I enjoyed this long trip >very very much. I'll be back :) :-) Kind regards, Hannah.
