Sebastian Bergmann

I am back from my trip to this year's LinuxTag. In the past I stayed for the entire week but this time around I could only stay for one-and-a-half days.

On Thursday I woke up at 3:00 AM and could not sleep anymore. At 7:12 AM I took an ICE 3 train to Karlsruhe where I arrived at 8:59 AM. About fifteen minutes later I signed in at the venue and, after a first stroll through the exhibition area, said "Hello!" to my peers at the LAMP Area and Gentoo Linux booths.

At 1:00 PM Kristian Köhntopp opened the Serendipity Birds of a Feather session with a presentation. I had to leave this session early to get set up in time for my "PHP 5 - Ein Jahr danach" presentation that I gave as part of the "LAMP Day" in the Practical Linux Forum.

After attending the "10 Years Anniversary of PHP and MySQL: A Retrospect" panel (with Rasmus Lerdorf, Michael Widenius, and Zak Greant), Kristian and I left the venue at about 6:00 PM for his place where both Garvin Hicking and I slept.

When I posted the "An Orgy in Chocolate" recipe for a Death by Chocolate like cake Kristian was one of the people who complained that I did not take pictures. To thank him for offering me a place to sleep I brought him a cake. Pictures (before Kristian ate the cake :-) are here.

At 7:00 PM I followed an invitation from O'Reilly Germany to a dinner called "O'Reilly Radar". At about 9:00 PM I headed back home to Kristian's place where we had the rest of the cake and discussed various stuff until well after midnight.

After a breakfast I left Kristian's place on Friday at about 11:00 AM for the LinuxTag venue before I took the train back home at 3:00 PM.

I just finished my presentation "PHP 5 - Ein Jahr danach" ("PHP 5 - The Year After") here at LinuxTag in Karlsruhe, Germany. The presentation was part of the "LAMP Day" organized by the LAMP Area.

The slides I used for the presentation can be found here.

There will be a LAMP Area again at this year's LinuxTag, which will take place in Karlsruhe, Germany from June 22 to June 25.

June 23 will be the "LAMP Day": a full day of presentations covering the state of the world that is Apache, MySQL, and PHP.

I will give a presentation titled "PHP 5 - Ein Jahr danach" which will give an overview of software packages that were ported from Java to PHP 5 in the year after the release of PHP 5: PHPUnit2, Phing, Creole, and Propel.

Following Derick's example I am posting this list of venues that I will attend in the months to come:

• Linux/UNIX Usergroup Sankt Augustin in Bonn, Germany on February, 24th,
  
• Free and Open Source Developers European Meeting (FOSDEM) in Brussels, Belgium on February, 26th,
  
• PHP Usergroup Köln/Bonn in Köln, Germany on March, 4th,
  
• Linux/UNIX Usergroup Sankt Augustin in Bonn, Germany on March, 10th,
  
• CeBIT and the Heise CeBIT Party in Hannover, Germany on March, 11th,
  
• International PHP Conference 2005 - Spring Edition on May 3rd and 4th in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
  

Although the PHP Usergroup Köln/Bonn meets up every month I am mentioning its March meeting specifically above because that meeting is special. We (the usergroup) have been invited by O'Reilly Germany to their offices where we will have a couple of sessions (I will present PHPUnit, for instance) over a bowl of soup.

I will also be at LinuxTag in June in Karlsruhe, Germany and maybe at the GNOME User and Developer European Conference (GUADEC) in May in Stuttgart, Germany.