Another fantastic edition of FOSDEM is now finished. Many thanks to the organisers for another great job!

Amazingly, the Welcome talk managed to top off last year's FOSDEM dance, this time by making the audience contribute the music. I hope they do it again next year, it was kind of …

As FOSDEM (woohoo \o/) draws closer and the likelihood of spending a lot of time in the airport doesn't change, I thought it was time to find out how to use my N900 as a modem or for "tethering" as I'm told the proper word is.

Some background:

• my laptop …

I thought before I started this course, "oh, it's the third time I do this, it's all old hat, I'll just have a general recap blog post rather than weekly ones" but heh, as long as I keep learning and questions and topics to ponder come up, I'll keep writing …

   

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I will be attending FOSDEM again this year (weather and airline strikes permitting -- fingers crossed!). I'm also hoping to drop by the Gnome meetup on Saturday night and say hi to a few familiar faces.

Very much looking forward to it!

Post-session #1 thoughts (from Monday's scribbles):

• Note to self: Re-read carefully the lesson's content beforehand, to remember it all. Knowing what's "print" and what's a variable like the back of your hand doesn't mean you remember how to explain them to someone encountering the concepts for the first time. Very …