Amarok @ Opensourcedays.dk

This Friday and Saturday I attended the "new" danish open source conference Opensourcedays.dk. It is not really new, as it is actually a continuation of the Linuxforum.dk conference that has been happening fr the last 10 years, but it has changed its name and venue.

I had been invited to give a talk about Amarok 2, and we has an Amarok booth on Saturday, which is the community day ( Friday is more business oriented ). To help me man the both, Dan ( Leinir ) had come in from Aalborg, and Teo and his girlfriend Stephanie had flown in all the way from Croatia. I had invited everyone to crash at my place for a few days, so my apartment has been quite full over the weekend

My talk went well, and was fairly well visited, even though it was in one of the smaller rooms. A video should be available on their site at some point.

Unfortunately, all the community project booths was located on the second floor, and it was my impression that not that many people actually made their way up there, which was kind of disappointing, but never the less, we had some very interested visitors come ask us a lot of questions.

The following picture shows Teo and Dan busy explaining the intricacies of Amarok 2 to a few visitors:


The venue itself, the IT University of Copenhagen, is quite an interesting building, as can be seen in the following picture:


A final thing of note, and I am not really sure why this is, is that every conference in Denmark apparently have to have a model racetrack for people to play with. This one was no exception ( in fact, there were 2):


All in all it was a nice conference and I hope to return next year, even though I hope we can have our booth in the main floor instead of the second floor balcony, as that would likely attract more visitors. Also, it could have been fun to bring Mike