The reason for being there was the TechWeek from Pengutronix, a company from my area doing a lot linux embedded projects for the industry. I already known some of the people working there privately. While being there I got known to the other ones. I must admit that it is a nice bunch of smart people loving what they are doing. What I actually appreciate a lot is their work to get their patches into mainline, even if it costs a lot of time and money. This is a not-so-common practice in the industry linux embedded world.

While hanging out there and having good talks about git, patch handling and submission workflows I spend most of my time working on geting some of the EZX patches mainline ready. We now have a svn branch that contains patches sitting directly on top of the arm git tree pxa branch. While working on this I also started to submit three one-line fixes upstream to get used to the arm-linux workflow. 2 Are already in the git tree, one is acked and waiting in incoming.

I enjoyed the week. Smart people, good food and hacking on stuff you like. Life could be that easy...

The great guys from the OLPC Deutschland e.V. long-term borrowed up to 70 XO laptops for people which have interesting projects with them.

I asked for one to work on OpenEmbedded integration for it. This divides into two parts:

1. Machine support. This one should not be to hard as it is a x86 device and the first rootfs it ever booted in the AMD labs was build with OE. :) Still it will help me to understand the deeper internals from OpenEmbedded better.

2. Writing recipes for the sugar applications and libraries. Having recipes for them in the OE metadata will make it easy for other distros using OE as their buildsystem to use them and put them in their feeds.

I will be busy with EZX the next two weeks. I plan to work on this afterwards.

Still I'm looking forward to it. This time I hopefully have some time to attend the technically talks. I look at you kernel track. And let Harald de-mystify the security of the micro waves around us.

The relax-strategy also, or better mostly, included to hang out with friends and fellow hackers, chatting, sharing ideas and just having a nice time. The goal was reached.

Some more words about the congress itself. With 4013 it was almost as crowed as last year with 4200 people. Luckily most of the time only the conferences halls were crowed and you were able to get a nice place with power, network and club mate in the rest of the building. That brings me to my last point. The organization of the annual congress has made a huge step forward over the last years. This was my 5th one and I see improvements all over the time.

Only 3% of the talk needed to be cancled. Talks were on time. Streaming of the talks was often working. Places to hang out were nicely prepared. A wide scope of not only programmers, but eletronic geeks, artist, spies, you name it.

Also nice to see is that people engage itself political again.

Thanks for all the fish and hopefully see you next year.