In January/February around FOMS 2008 and linux.conf.au I traveled to Singapore, Hong Kong and Australia, together with two fellow hackers, Kay and David. It took a while until I found the time to go through and sort all the photos I made on this trip. But finally I am done, and I am not going to spare you a few shots.

       

           
           

That was Singapore. The next destination on the trip was Australia, more specifically Great Ocean Road and the Northern Territory.

           
         

               
             

And on we went, for Hong Kong.

       

     

In March I attended the BOSSA Conference in Brazil and visited Recife and Olinda.

             

               

That's all for now.

That's the colonial Pátio de São Pedro in Recife's Santo Antônio quarter.

Yepp, pretty well known view.

That's the beach of the Summerville Resort near Porto de Galinhas, Brazil, where the best Free Software conference in existence took place in 2008: INDT's BOSSA Conference. Oh boy, if you don't believe how good it was, just watch their video.

FOSS.in was one of the best conferences I have ever been to, and a lot of fun. The organization was flawless and I can only heartily recommend everyone to send in a presentation proposal for next year's iteration. I certainly hope the commitee is going to accept my proposals next year again. Especially the food was gorgeous.

I will spare you the usual conference photos, you can find a lot of those on flickr. However, what I will not spare you are a couple of photos I shot in Bangalore, Srirangapatna and Mysore.

       

             

           

Sometimes, rain can be quite beautiful.

  

I took these during my stay at Montreal after OLS 2007. Which reminds me: don't miss my talks at foss.in 2007, linux.conf.au 2008 and FOMS 2008. I'll be speaking about Avahi, PulseAudio and practical real-time programming in userspace.