I got home from FOSTEL 2007 a few hours ago. I was there to represent Gobby and to spread the word about Openismus a bit.
I met a couple of interesting people there like Philip van Hoof, the author of the Tinymail framework, Robert McQueen from the Telepathy project and Jochen Topf who pointed me to the OpenStreetMap project (and who is also living in Karlsruhe, by the way). There was also a lot of VoIP and Telephony stuff I do not know much about and I did not understand that much, but it was nevertheless pretty interesting and fun. I really enjoyed Sean Egan's talk on XMPP, too.
Things I want to keep in mind for the next conference:
- Do not pronounce Gobby in a way so that people might understand Kopete.
- When doing a five minute talk, only prepare for about four minutes, because it will eventually take longer. Apropos lightning talk, the slides of my Gobby Status talk are here. OpenOffice messed the headers up when exporting to PDF, but I don't want to fiddle around with that at the moment. Also expect a blog entry about that topic in the near future.
Last but not least, I want to thank Dave Neary (and probably OpenWengo) for providing me free accommodation and for the dinner Wednesday night. Perhaps we meet again next year.
