Category: German Conspiracy

come2linux in Essen

Today I visited the small Linux-Congress come2linux in Essen. Other than last year the organizers moved the date from December to September and moved the place to the university in Essen. So the problem was, you have to take a walk of 300m from the exhibition-hall to the lecture-rooms…

Anyway, I was glad to meet a lot of the Ruhrpott-Gentoo-folks (and developers) there again. Some I didn’t met for quite a long now, as I don’t have the time any more for the monthly Gentoo User Meetings in Oberhausen. It’s everytime a pleasure to have a talk with ian, dertobi123, stkn and our other supporters.

During my walk around I wanted to make a short stop at the CACert table. As I’m an assurer who can assign 35 points I was forced to assure 10 people who stood at the table… But now I’m again one of the top 100 assurers 🙂

And I had a long talk at the Free Software Foundation Europe table as I met Rainer there. Funny enough, together with me he is one of the founders of the CCC meeting in D

Friday: Hacking Contest

Tomorrow, the CIPHER2 contest takes place again. This is a Capture-the-Flag like Challenges in Informatics: Programming, Hosting and ExploRing, organised by the university RWTH Aachen.

Last year I visited the team in Aachen with the fellow devs dertobi123, pYrania and bonsaikitten. We got a nice introduction to the game and I thought, one day I will take part as well.

But things changed and since March I’m mentoring a group of students in the subject “Computer- and Networksecurity” at my university of applied sciences in Krefeld. I told them about CIPHER and they founded a group that will enter the contest. And I’m their

You can not hide as a Gentoo dev

As I wrote in my previous post, I attended the FrOSCon last weekend. For a first-time-event it went very well and even the number of about 300 visitors is acceptable.

I had a lot of discussions at my CCC-table, especially about politics and the lost of our privacy. But there were also several people who remember me as a Gentoo developer only. They thought I would show Gentoo there, but wondered about the CCC-stuff on the table