OLS 2006 - Day 6
I woke up at about 10. Took a shower, packed up and checked out. Just as last year, I decided to take my camera and wonder around Ottawa taking photos of interesting looking things. Well, the center of Ottawa is small. By about 14:00, I was kind of bored. So I decided to go back to the hotel and waste some more time. In front of the hotel, I noticed the shuttle to the airport. I asked the guy how frequently he was going, but he misunderstood me and told me how long it takes to get to the airport instead. He then asked if I was going. Since I didn’t have anything better to do, I told him that I’d just grab my bags.
We got to the airport at 14:36. So it took 15 minutes to get there from the hotel. Not bad. Then, I however realized that there wasn’t much to do at the airport. I sat down on one of the benches. Not even 10 minutes later, Movement poped up out of nowhere. We chatted about how exciting flying is. His flight back to .uk was with a layover in Atlanta - not fun. Around 15:10 he left because he was about to check in. I decided that the terminal couldn’t be any more boring, so I checked in as well. During the chat, I decided to take a photo of him. This year that’s the only OLS photo of a person! All the other photos are of Ottawa. I’ll put it up in few days, when I dig it up.
Good thing I checked in :) When I got the the terminal, I sat down near the first outlet I saw. I was about half way though the boot sequence when I notice about 7 other OLS attendees not far from me. They included Mike Halcrow, Val Henson, and some other people some of which seemed familiar, but who’s names I did not know. We chatted. Mike actually showed me a leak in the FiST templates as well as Unionfs. We chatted, until most of them left because their plane was ready. I and some other dude moved to another cluster of chairs with some more OLS attendees which appeared as we were chatting. There we had an interesting discussion about Australian politics. Some really odd things happen there. :) Some time later, they all headed to their plane (yeah, my flight was at 18:00, and I got to the airport at 14:36…). Few clusters of chairs away, I noticed Dave Jones. I decided to walk up, and ask him if he thinks there were enough changes to the bug tracking issue he was talking about in his keynote last year. He thinks that there were some, but most of them were minor. He was really hoping someone would make some automatic bug-report moving tool which automatically moved kernel bugs from say the Red Hat bugzilla to the kernel.org bugzilla.
Then they called my flight. It was the same type of a plane as on my way to Ottawa - made by Bombardier - a small jet. The flight itself was uneventful and everything went well and on time. One thing that I found interesting was the fact that the US customs people are in Ottawa and not in New York.
When I got home, I just fell asleep. :)