Friday, March 23rd, 2007 by Marcin Juszkiewicz
In February I was at FOSDEM. As OpenEmbedded project had a booth there I took ProGear machine to show x86 machine running Ångström distribution. When I returned to home I had over 400 mails in inbox (result of few days without reading mail).
Week ago I was at Pingwinaria. This time I took laptop from Ania. It was Toshiba with 15.4″ screen and MS Windows installed… So big, heavy and without Linux. But I was able to read mails so only ~200 mails was left to read after conference.
After that I decided that this is a time to buy laptop for own usage. It will be used only for conferences or other trips so it does not have to be powerful but small and light. Few guys from #oe, #openmoko suggested IBM ThinkPad X31/X32, one suggested PowerBook with G4 cpu. So now I am looking for cheap, used X31 or X32 (with WiFi, Bluetooth not required but would be nice). Contact me if you have one to sell for good price.
Why not something faster? I was thinking about buying AMD Turion X2 or Intel Core2 Duo to have machine powerful enough to do OpenEmbedded builds but I have quite fast 64bit desktop now which also work as build box so no need for fast portable machine. And such beast would not be small…
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Sunday, February 25th, 2007 by Marcin Juszkiewicz
FOSDEM 2007 is ending now. This was my first one and I enjoyed it. I met so many people, which I know from IRC, that I can not even list them :)
Lot of interesting devices we had on OpenEmbedded booth including:
- Neo1973 phone (OpenMoko powered) prototypes
- Trolltech Greenphone (which got donated by Trolltech)
- Skeye.pad brought by Kernel concepts
- Skeye.integral (also brought by KC)
- Motorola A780 phone with GPE^2
- Ipaq 5xxx running OpenZaurus (unofficial image)
First day took more of my attention then second because I spend more time on OE booth answering lot of of questions from users, other developers, giving informations about OE, what software is running on Neo1973 phone (and showing same software on my Progear webpad)… I also managed to view some talks. At the end of a day I was so tired that I get to the bed and slept whole night.
Second day was a bit other. I had more talks on a list, there was GnuPG keysigning party too. One of talks was Lorn Potter talk about Qtopia which was too boring. The funny moment was when I get back to the booth one time and was asked by someone who I do not met before (he was Michael Dominic Kostrzewa (one of Maemo developers)) “Do you have Nokia770 device?” After my negative answer I got brand new Nokia770 device (it is charging now). So probably soon new device will join Angström world :)
Tomorrow we will have small OE discussion session and return to homes.
Next year I will be here for 100% :)
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Saturday, January 27th, 2007 by Marcin Juszkiewicz
As many of you know I am living in Poznań, Poland. This city has about 600 000 citizens but I will call it ”village”. Why?
We have international airport here (IATA: POZ, ICAO: EPPO) but this is emigration airport rather then travel — most of flights are to Ireland or England which are popular countries for those with emigrate to get better paid job. So if you want to flight to other part of Europe you have to use train/bus/car or other way of transport to get to other airport.
In February I go to Brussels, Belgium to participate in FOSDEM conference. After checking prices and times I chosen to get WizzAir from Warsaw, Poland to Charleroi and then train to Brussels. So it looks like I will go out from home at 12-13 in Friday to be in hotel on 23:30 probably… Return trip is not fun too..
I checked other possibilities. Train to Berlin, flight looks a bit better, also more expensive but return trip suxx too. Looks like next year I will go though London or other city which is reachable from Poznań…
Summary:
- Poznań 13:35 -> Warsaw 16:40 (Express train)
- public transport to airport
- Warsaw 19:20 -> Charleroi 21:20
- Charleroi airport -> Charleroi train -> Brussels
– or Charleroi airport 22:30 -> Brussels directly
- fast shower at hotel
- FOSDEM beer party
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