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Post FOSDEM 2007 thoughts (do I know you ?)
Mar 26th
Some of us attended this years FOSDEM in Brussels (thanks to Dimitry it was *really*, *really* great).
We (at least the ones attending) got to know each other a bit better (I even got to know some pre Gentoo devs .. yeah, you), and some time after FOSDEM (I think it was ~3 days afterwards), Petteri (betelgeuse) asked me why people all of the sudden start to call him with his first name on IRC.
I think the cause for that is just seeing each other for some time (like 2 days in a row), talking to the other(s) in person makes you feel closer to him/her (you hopefully know what I mean 
). Or maybe that’s just me.
After FOSDEM the virtual bonds changed, I started to call quite some people by their first name as did others.
FOSDEM 2007 #4 (abstract)
Feb 26th
The last three days have been quite amazing, I’m still stunned by all these impressions (basically meeting all those people you usually know though IRC), how nice people can be if they want (yeah dad, I’m talking about you 
)
Although I was pretty sad about leaving so early (I think, if I’m going to attend next year, I’m going by train and starting on Monday morning so I got one night more in Brussels), I’m also quite happy to be home again, as I was pretty phreaked (haha, self-pun intended) by all those people.
The Booth was fine from my POV, but it looks like users already requested some stuff already on the forums, which we hopefully will have next year/the next event (Christel or even Chris – get the event kits sorted out and prepared – pretty please with sugar on top ).
The talks in the DevRoom where great (at least the ones I attended) – most of them were well prepared (hi Christel ) and the company I had for these three days (all the senior devs around – especially vapier, wolf31o2, kingtaco, pylon and some of the former ones – hey Mr. “I want SeJo’s HumpGang on the picture” 
) and of course our youngins (that’s Peter, Alexander and Robert).