Le blog d'Emmanuel

I was able to go to Flock this year, once again. This year, Flock was set at Prague and, luckily, the flight there was easier than last year's flight to Rochester. From the airport, it was easy to get to the Vienna House hotel where Flock was taking place. In the lobby, I met Peter Boy, my fellow Server SIG member, who had arrived 2 minutes before I did.

After checking in and taking a short rest, we met again at the hotel's restaurent and, over dinner, discussed the outline of our talk and what slides we would show during it. The next day was the first day of Flock and, in the morning, we got to witness the FPL exchange between Matthew Miller and Jef Spaleta, the FESCO Q&A and other talks. I choose not to have lunch and spent the time creating the slides for our talk. After lunch, I went back to the conferences, got to see the end of Peter's talk on Documentation and showed him the slides. We went through our talk, deciding who would take the lead on each section. Once we had that pinned down, I uploaded the presentation to the schedule and went on to attend more talks.

On Friday, I had a short chat with Jef Spaleta, the new Fedora Project Leader, during breakfast and then went to the Anaconda talk. Peter and I then did our Server talk, which I felt went pretty well. We then retreated to a staff room where we had a discussion about Cockpit with Stephen Gallagher and Aleksandra Fedorova.

In the afternoon, I just followed the talks. I bumped into Neal Gompa, who had a prototype of Framework's Laptop 12 and he let me handle it for a few minutes. The evening was Flock's social event and we went on a boat cruise, which made for an excellant opportunity to take a few photos.

Saturday was more of the same. I went to the talks in the morning and, early in the afternoon, left for the airport to catch my flight, which was uneventful all the way back to Paris.