Open Source Adventures

Aah, la douce France…

Yesterday I spent one day in Paris at The Linux Solutions, Open Source &
Free Software Exhibition for Business, Administrations and Communities. It
was an interesting fair, but not as much as the ones I’ve gotten used to in
Germany (and the Netherlands). It was like half a FOSDEM and half a LinuxWorld.

Funny thing happened though. I met Frank-Thomas Drews from Xandros, Inc. again. The first time we met
was by accident on the bus in Nürnberg.
Apparently, we both know Thomas Uhl, and both like
him as a business partner. Who knows, maybe we get to do some business with Xandros in the future. That’d be great!

After the fair, I went for a drink with an old friend of mine, Céline
Jérusalem. I was really wonderful to meet her again after more than
three years. Céline and I followed the same Athens
course in Trondheim, back in 2003.

And it cannot be said enough: France has a won-der-ful food culture. Even in
some small, random food stand in the underground, they serve freshly baked
croissants with chocolate. Hmmm….