Archive for September, 2006

back home…

This comes a little late but anyways, last two weeks have been quite hectic
with Debian i18n worksession in Extremadura, Spain, OOoConf2006 – Lyon, France & Freedel’06

In short its been something like this:

5th: Depart for Paris CDG from Delhi
6th:

  • 6:30am: Arrive at Paris CDG, Terminal 2F
  • 7am: Move to 2A, look out for Friedel
  • 10:30am: Depart for Madrid
  • 12:30pm: Arrive at Madrid Barajas T1
  • 1pm: Move to T4 where everyone arriving is to gather.
  • 2pm: All arrived leave for sightseeing in city, dumping baggage at Javier’s home.
  • 6:30pm: Back to Javier’s home, collect baggage & move to aeropuerto T4.
  • 8pm: Depart for Casar de Cáceres in bus.
  • 12am: Arrive at Creofonte building in Casar de Cáceres
  • 1am: Have pizzas, get into rooms & sleep!

7th:

  • get up late, miss breakfast :(
  • 10am: Day 1 begins
  • Introductory talks & preliminary discussions
  • 1pm: Lunch
  • 3pm: Talks on related topics
  • 9pm: Dinner

8th

  • 8:30am – Breakfast at Churreria ( churros with hot chocolate/coffee/orange juice)
  • 10am-1pm – Discussion sessions
  • 1pm Lunch
  • 3pm – More discussions
  • 9pm Dinner
  • 11pm – Wine & Cheese party!!

9th

  • 7am – Early morning village tour!
  • 8:30am – Breakfast at Churreria (churros with hot chocolate/coffee/orange juice)
  • 10am – Discussion sessions
  • 1pm – Lunch
  • 3pm – Conclusion meeting
  • 6pm – Keysigning party
  • 9pm – Dinner
  • 10pm – i18n planning meet

10th

  • 3am – Alfie, Felipe, Gintas and Kenshi take taxi to the airport.
  • 6:30am – Rest depart to Madrid Airport by bus.
  • 11am – Arrive at airport, goodbyes & split…:(
  • 4pm – Me & Jamil depart to Paris Orly
  • 6:30pm – Arrive at Paris Orly, wait till 10:30 for Christian to arrive from Madrid.
  • 10:30pm – Leave for bubulle’s home.
  • 11pm – A small halt at Castle of Versailles, on way to Maurepas

11th

  • 10am – Leave for Lyon (450kms) in bubulle’s car.
  • 3pm – Arrive at INSA, Lyon venue of OOoConf
  • 5pm – NLC meet
  • 7pm – Leave for St Entienne (bubulle’s mom’s place for night halt)

12th

  • 9am – back to Lyon at INSA.
  • OOoConf talks…
  • 7pm – Party by Lyon Mayor in Lyon Town Hall
  • 9pm – Sightseeing around in Lyon centre
  • 11pm – Get back to St Entienne

13th

  • 10am – Back to Lyon
  • 10:15 – Talk by Karunakar, Javier, Jamil on South, SE & East asia OOo L10n efforts
  • ..More talks…& taking OOoConf mugshots
  • 5pm – Conference closing session
  • 6pm – Head back for Paris
  • 11pm – Arrive home

14th

  • 7am – Leave for Paris tour de Eiffel
  • 9am – Arrive at Champ de Mars near Eiffel tower
  • 10am – At level 2 on Eiffel tower
  • 11am – At level 3 on tower..
  • 12pm – Get down & run for metro..change 2 trains in process till Orly
  • 12:40pm – Arrive at Orly Sud by Orlyval
  • 2pm – Depart for Madrid
  • 4pm – Arrive in Madrid T1, get boarding passes, take metro to Javier’s place
  • 6pm – Some roaming around in downtown…
  • 9pm – Dinner

15th

  • 5:30am – Get back to Barajas T1
  • 7am – Flight to Paris CDG
  • 9:30am – Arrive Paris CDG 2D, run to 2A
  • 10:30am – Get onto flight to Delhi!
  • Kill time watching Geowatch, planes passing by!! & peeping, clicking over Black sea & Caspian sea!
  • 10:30pm – Arrive in Delhi, get back home & sleep!!

16th - To JNU for Freedel.., evening party a OldMonks place!
17th - Freedel Day 2..

Phew!!

Photos too come soon after I have sorted through the 1600+ pics..

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OOoConf video stream

From http://ooocon-arnes.kiberpipa.org/

“Welcome to the Kiberpipa@OOoCon06 media team website. As last year, we will be doing full media coverage of the conference, including live streams from all the lectures, full video archive and some interviews. We are in the final stage of setting up the infrastructure, which will be a continuation of last years page with new design. You can check testing streams at our streaming server, kindly provided by an anonymous frenchman. ;) If you want your blog to be included in this years planet, please send email to ooocon@kiberpipa.org Feel free to post comments on our work, problems with the site or videos, etc., on the same email address…”

atm attending Pavel Janik’s talk on doing OOo builds… after this will run to Dwayne Bailey to get a “I build OpenOffice..” t-shirt.. who is giving talk in next hall on Pootle/wordforge

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@ OOoConf, Lyon

at the moment in NLC meet at OOoConf.. in a nice university setting in Lyon… we reached Lyon around 3pm, driving 5 hours from Paris , abt 450kms… straight to the venue..  staying at Christian’s mom’s place some 50kms nearby!!… missing the NLC boat party… since it will be too late to get back home.  maybe tomorrow could sneak some time to see the city, travel in the trams… the university has a tramway!.

Just learnt about Wizards of OS meet in Berlin (14-16 Sept!)… would have been good to attend but too late now, as i return back on 15th.. in  a rather weird route -  Lyon-Paris (13th), Paris-Madrid (14th), Madrid-Paris-Delhi (15th)!!!

Anyways there is Freedel back home ;-)

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in paris again!

i am now back in paris (orly), waiting for Christian Perrier, who is to arrive at 10:30pm… finishing of the time remaining in wifi account!…

Extremadura meet was very fruitful & hectic.. report, photos …etc later… now on to OOoConf2006 in Lyon tomorrow.. myself, Christian, Jamil will be attending with Javier Sola joining..

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spain trip

So finally after few hours of anxiety & waiting.. finally on way to Spain for Debian i18n worksession held in Casar de Caceres, Extremadura province in spain from 7th – 9th.. after which will be going for OOoConf2006 in Lyon, France from 11th – 13th..

at the moment in CDG Paris on a 10eu/hr connection!!!  Flight to Madrid in 2hrs..

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