I just returned from the Ubucon 2007 in Krefeld. I have to say it was an awesome event. Seeing so many Linux users in one place is always fun.

Alex (a friend of mine) and I arrived in Krefeld around 10:20, after searching our way through the city to the “Hochschule Niederrhein” (where Ubucon took place) we arrived at 10:40 to the keynote, followed by a talk about the Ubuntu Community at 11:00. At 13:00 I went to Sven Guckes’ talk about thin clients and terminal systems, he finsihed early so there was time to take a small lunch at the cafeteria.

I skipped the next talk and went to a talk by Christopher Denter and Mathias Baran about Ubuntu in IRC at 14:00. Thanks to the really good WLAN connection we had a little bit fun in IRC during the talk.

That talk was followed by Michael Vogt’s presentation about Ubuntu development, which was one of really interesting (and informative) talks during the convention.

And finally one of the highlights of convention: The talk about Compiz (Fusion) by Nick Bauermeister (aka forlong) at 16:00. Sometimes improvisation is just the best way to go. I really enjoyed that talk, Nick really tried to explain things to the not always technical skilled audience. I think he also did the longest talk during the submit, at least he was still talking when I left the convention at 18:00 to catch my train.

One of the other highlights might also have been the flying roboter (aka. UFO) , I could not join that presentation since it overlapped with Nick’s talk.

I will add some photos to this post, when I get them.

Here are some photo streams if you are interested.

Photos from Sven Guckes

Photos from  Richard Verwayen