XTech

Last week I was at the XTech conference in Amsterdam. That was a good experience. I met a lot of the people in the Mozilla community in person for the first time. IRC, IM, e-mail, etc. are good tools and a good way to communicate, but meeting people in person still beats it (luckily :-) ).

I also saw a good deal of interesting talks. All the talks I went to were between “ok” and “pretty good”. With one exception though. As opposed to glazou. I think Paoli’s talk was immensely boring. He said a few interesting things, but the rest was a MS sales pitch. Not what I had expected from a closing keynote.

glazou has put pictures of a lot of the Mozilla people, including me, in his blog post btw. Thanks for that Daniel!

I had a couple of days of touristing before the conference, and I must say that Amsterdam is a very nice city (pictures here). I loved all the small old canalhouses, the canals, narrow streets, etc. There’s also restaurants and cafees by the hundreds. Nice ambience and “walking-friendly”. I can recommend taking a couple of days off to see the city. I look forward to going back.