1st Greek OSS Developers Workshop

The workshop included both presentations and technical sessions, but due to the unexpectedly large number of participants more weight was placed on the presentations than to the technical sessions; some concurrent workshops were held too. The major focus of the workshop was on internationalization, and specifically localization of OSS applications to the Greek language.

I managed to get stuck with involuntarily presenting two impromptu sessions, one about converting UTF-8-to-characters and the other about the Eclipse IDE, with the former being qualitatively better than the second primarily due to the fact that Eclipse is a too large subject.

All in all it was a very interesting workshop, what meeting new people and the high-level discussions, and it was well worth the effort.

Other things that I found out while I was in Athens:

• The taxi drivers will try to pry you away from the metro, especially if you seem to hessitate and stand still.
• There seems to be an unspoken agreement about behaviour on the automatic escalators in the metro stations: if you stand still you stay on the right side of the escalator and if you are in a hurry and climb the escalator while it moves, you use the left side.
• I've found a new definition of delta-tau (the infinitesimal unit oif time): the time between a streetlight going green and a driver sounding the horn of his car...