Recovering from Ubuntu Dapper Release Party
Last night I went to the Berlin Ubuntu 6.06 (Dapper Drake) release party at Danial Holbach’s (dholbach) place. It was nice to meet other ubuntu lovers. I arrived at 8pm and left at ~4:30am. By then the sun was already on the rise and by the time I arrived home it had already become completely light out. I finally woke up at 12:30pm with a sore throat from all the talking I did.
It seems as if Daniel and I share a love for a certian british band from the 80’s and the singer of said band. I met Ellen, a kde usability contributer. I envy her persistence with such a thankless task. I also met Daniel Elstner, co-maintainer of gtkmm as well as a very easy-going and likable guy. Furthermore, Matthias Klose, Nina Feyh and about 20-30 others including a couple people from Frankfurt were there.
So it seems as if the Berlin Ubuntu community is pretty strong. Too bad I’ll be leaving in a few months. Of course, the wonderfull thing about the open source community is that it really doesn’t matter were you are. The community is global.
June 5th, 2006 06:43
I upgraded to Dapper and was pleasantly surprised to find that my system is much more responsive than with Breezy. Firefox seems especially snappier. I really like the new GNOME deskbar applet too.
June 5th, 2006 13:34
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June 9th, 2006 12:48
[...] I’m delighted to see that Chris Wilson stepped up to write about the Release Party we had last week. I only have to add, that I very much enjoyed having ~30 Ubuntu lovers here and partying and chatting about this and that until 6 in the morning. My brother surprised me with his visit as well as Stefan Himpich, an old friend of mine from Frankfurt. [...]