Stationary Traveller - usa

US: Observations

nospam@example.com (Jelmer Vernooij) — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 17:54:00 +0100

These past few days in the US were a bit of a rollercoaster. Some random observations:

The mentor summit was very nice and well organized (or rather: well disorganized). Lots of awesome people around from a wide variety of projects and nationalities.
"Next Generation VCS" seems to be an alias for git these days in the minds of most people.
I didn't write a single line of code in almost a week, something that is very rare.
Driving an automatic gives you two spare limbs to use for other things. What those other things are, I have yet to figure out.
Is the fact that your kid was student of the month or the fact that you own two cats and a dog really something that belongs on a bumper sticker?
Gas is cheap (compared to Europe). I drove 300 miles on a $30 tank.
The malls in the Bay Area are some of the biggest I've ever seen, but strangely enough they seem to lack both book- and cd-stores.
Visiting Fry's continues to have a significant effect on the contents of my wallet.
It is legal to turn right on a red traffic sign in California unless otherwise indicated. It took me a while to realize this until people repeatedly started honking behind me...
The waiver I had to sign to be able to skydive in California was scary. I can cope with my operating system coming without even the implied warranty of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose, but my parachute?
I stopped pretending to have any regularity in my sleeping habits. 6 AM flights? It seemed like a good idea at the time.

Back from Ca

nospam@example.com (Jelmer Vernooij) — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 22:23:26 +0200

Just got back from my annual trip to California, visiting the Samba team get-together. It was very nice to see everybody again , even though it was a bit short this time. :-(

Canada

I made a short detour before flying into SFO to attend the first few days of the printing summit in Montreal and do some sightseeing. There wasn't really a lot I could contribute - I've never touched drivers or more than the basic printing API's -, but it was good to meet up with people and see what is going on in printing. Mike Sweet (author of CUPS), who was my mentor in the Google Summer of Code last year, was also there and it was nice to finally meet him in person.

California

We used to go to the SNIA CIFS event, but this year we (well, Jeremy and Leslie from Google) organized a somewhat more informal event of our own, all hosted at the Google campus in Mountain View. It was a big success, so hopefully we can repeat it next year (-:

A bunch of us that has been involved in the Summer of Code did a podcast, hosted by the famous (at least to fellow SoC students/mentors) Leslie Hawthorn. It was good fun (-:

Visiting the US

nospam@example.com (Jelmer Vernooij) — Mon, 25 Sep 2006 04:02:15 +0200

The CIFS conference in San Jose, CA, (now part of the Storage Developer Conference) was fun again this year, though a bit short. There were only three speakers, all from the Samba team, though some of the more generic storage networking talks were interesting as well. The plugfest was fun - it was nice to see everybody again. I spent most of my time working on migrating Samba3 to use libndr with Jerry.

From San Jose I flew to New York, where I'm currently spending some time visiting Simo and Luana and sightseeing New York.