Now is the time, and this is the place…

ApacheCon is well underway by now, and it’s been a most exciting twenty-four hours getting up to here. By early yesterday evening, several attendees were in the pub, watching the soccer, and Colm was tearing his hair out over the various connectivity ‘issues’

The available planners adjourned to my house at about seven, and we had a lovely barbeque – thanks for your help Dad! I was elected a member of the Con(ference)Com(mittee), which I’m very excited about – I love organising, and I’ve had great fun helping out with the planning for this conference. The conversation flowed until late in the evening, when we headed back to the hotel.

First order of business then was to try and get some sort of connectivity into the rooms we needed to use today, which was partially successful – Ken has some some photos that tell the story better than I can, and many thanks are due to the night manager, who arranged pots of hot chocolate, and plates of biscuits, just as we were all about to die of tiredness

I was too tired to have a bath – I’d just have fallen asleep in it – but I fully intend to use it over the next few days… The joys of living in a hotel!

This morning was a fairly early one, with connectivity still having to be arranged. Unfortunately, despite being on the ConCom, I somehow wasn’t registered, but a spare badge and a felt-tip pen were found, and I got my XL conference t-shirt… Next item on the agenda was to schedule a Women@Apache BoF

After a trip through the crawlspace above the ballroom, we decided to run our own cable… I gathered some volunteers, and we set off There’s now a nice run of cable through Anabel’s nightclub, up stairs, around doors, and in to the appropriate router in the hackathon room. My hair was duct-taped at one stage, but other than that, everything’s gone well

In between, there’s been some documenting and some socialising, and lots of running around after power strips, extension cords, and other sundries. I think it may be time for a nap (although ok, maybe the place needs to be renegotiated)!