Copenhagen Day 0.5 - Unconference

Our first trip to the conference centre was uneventful, marred only by some confusion around metro tickets. The Bella Center is a squat, round building next to the construction site of the largest (and possibly ugliest?) hotel in Europe. Royal, geeky, atomic and zombified druplicons guided us from the metro to the conference reception area.

We quickly lost interest in the 'unconference' - none of us had access to the training sessions, and the barcamp was single room, seminar style. So we all filed into the codesprint room, where we happily wiled the hours away.

Omar and Sofian both realized their first local laptop Ægir installs - a relatively painless process with the current head. Antoine, meanwhile, finally had the long-awaited conversation with Adrian and began re-re-re-working the DNS layer of Ægir. Also on the Ægir front, Sofian finally had a chance to meet Hadsie in the flesh and will be working on converting him to a contributor to uc_hosting.

We also contributed patch reviews and other work to the Drupal 7 codesprint, and strategized our session attendance. Omar investigated the new Drupal Commons distribution released by Acquia, spurred by some spirited discussion of the company over lunch.

We also had the chance to get up close and personal with a windmill, spend out hard-earned money on unreasonable amounts of swag, and disseminate lots of Koumbit stickers.

Off and on-site, we had quite rich discussion with the folks who are presently working on a redesign for TNI. Omar tells me they are long-time allies and indymedia activists, and its difficult to begrudge them the work.

Copenhagen, DK