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'''In order to celebrate the 5th birthday of Stendhal (and the 10 1/2 birthday of Arianne) we are going to have a meeting in real life.''' |
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{{Arianne Project Meeting 2010 Navigation}} |
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[[Image:Markus68.JPG|thumb|For more photos see [[Arianne Project Meeting 2010/Photos]]]] |
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It's for anyone who has contributed to Arianne and Stendhal, past and present. The activities will include a day of talks from key speakers from the project (past and present). Also there'll be some social events - dinner and a party. |
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; When : '''Saturday 13th''' and Sunday 14th of March, 2010 |
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; Where : Hannover, Germany |
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To celebrate the '''10th birthday of Arianne and 5th birthday of Stendhal''' we held a conference in Hannover, Germany. |
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Guests attended from across 3 continents; it was truly an international event. |
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The attendees were : |
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I'll be spreading the word on the forum, mail list, and so on - but if anyone is in touch with people from the project (past or present) who may not see the notices, do feel free to tell them. |
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''Hendrik, Markus, Miguel, Kimmo, Katie, Silvio, Marco, Vanessa, Anka, Astrid, Marcus, Daniel, Nadine, Karin, Isabella, Jenny, Simon and Yoriy''. |
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Of course, we'll need to know rough numbers to help plan, and so we'll be asking people to let us know if they will be attending (or might be attending). We will organise the meeting here on these wiki pages. '''<font color="red">Please use [http://stendhal.game-host.org/index.php/?id=content/account/meeting this form] to register and provide some contact data for us</font>'''. Do not put your contact information on this public wiki page. |
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The Arianne team would like to especially thank Professor Loewe, Ms Rottmann and all at the [http://www.fhdw-hannover.de/ FHDW Hannover] for all their help in making this conference a success. Warm thanks go to Karin for bringing us such gorgeous food (and some gorgeous people too, with special guest Baby!) Hendrik and Markus worked really hard with the planning and practical side, so thanks to them. Oh, and don't forget Katie who played the mother and guided the groups safely through Hanover by both picking a hotel and keeping the group day ticket for public transport. And she took lots of notes during the various discussions. |
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In case anyone is wondering why Germany and specifically Hannover was chosen - our developers (past and present) are spread wide across the world, though mostly centred around Europe, and Germany seemed to be a mid point. It's a place where one can get along fine without speaking the native language, English is ok, and there are developers local to there who can assist in organisation. Also Hannover is a central node on the high speed train network, so it should be very much accessible. For example if flights are cheaper to some other North German city, then flight + train may be a good option. |
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Finally we'd like to thank everyone who attended for making this a really special project birthday celebration. |
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==Events== |
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Please see below for ideas and plans, and if you'd like to chat about meetup generally, please feel free, as always to join [http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=arianne #arianne on irc.freenode.net], or if you prefer, the [http://sourceforge.net/projects/arianne/forums/forum/3190/topic/3548639 forum]. |
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===Friday=== |
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On Friday afternoon and evening the first arrivals met for a sight seeing tour of Hannover, then later dinner, discussion and drinks. |
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We started the development discussions early with inspiring ideas flowing fast. |
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===Saturday=== |
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Saturday was a really great day. We were very lucky to have a wonderful room at the Conference facilities of the FHDW, thanks to Professor Loewe and Ms Rottmann. |
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* city Hannover in northern Germany |
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It had everything we needed including internet access, a projector for the talks, whiteboards, and a lot of coffee! |
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* Maps: [http://maps.google.de/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=de&geocode=&q=FHDW,+Hannover,+Germany&sll=51.151786,10.415039&sspn=18.454342,39.506836&ie=UTF8&hq=FHDW,&hnear=Hannover&ll=52.366586,9.774764&spn=0.008752,0.01929&z=16 Google Maps] / [http://www.openstreetmap.de/karte.html?lon=9.77363&lat=52.36711&zoom=16&layers=B00FT OpenStreetmap] |
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More arrivals were greeted. It was so special to meet people that we have become friends with online, in real life. |
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* http://www.fhdw-hannover.de/en/node/34 (needs translation) |
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At midday we started the first session of [[Arianne Project Meeting 2010/Talks|talks]]. Miguel, Hendrik and Katie were Saturday's speakers. For more details on the talks please see here, which has reviews, slides, and videos. |
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The foreign visitors were especially lucky: we were able to sample some real German homebaked food, brought especially by Karin. |
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With a lot of talking and thinking and discussion, the lovely food was really welcome to keep our energy levels high and give us a real |
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taste of German cooking. |
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On Saturday evening we ate at a friendly local restaurant, [http://www.petros-restaurant.de/ Petros]. We continued more discussions, had some fun playing cards, |
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* from Hannover Central Station ("Hauptbahnhof") |
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and then went into Hannover centre. We played some funny Stendhal based drawing games at the next bar! |
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** walk out of the station building at the front side |
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** then down the stairs |
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** follow the road downstairs until the end (there is a supermarket there) |
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** left hand side is the subway station "Kröpcke" |
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** the right most stairs will get you down two levels to the yellow line plattform |
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** take line 6 towards "Messe Ost". |
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** the FHDW is located between the stops "Freundallee" and "Kerstingstraße". (that is the 1st and 2nd stop after the tram reaches daylight) |
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** [http://www.bib.de/img/standorte/Hannover/hannover_2009.jpg Picture of Front Building] |
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** There is a second building behind that (on the right side of that picture). I will tell you in time in which of those two building we will be. |
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===Sunday=== |
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* Public Transport Information in Hannover |
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On Sunday again we were able to use the well equipped room at the FHDW. Kimmo gave a very interesting demonstration on how to use Gimp to create Stendhal graphics. Markus taught us how to write automatic test to ensure the high quality of Stendhal releases before Yoriy gave a talk on his Pied Piper Quest. We ended the official part of the day with a vision of Marauroa's future given by Markus and Hendrik. |
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** [http://www.efa.de/gvh/navigation.jsp?menupos=-1&language=en Webpage] |
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** Unfortunately the English page is mostly German |
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** the yellow box "Express Auskunft" is the interesting one |
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** Ort (City) put in "Hannover" twice |
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** Haltestelle (station name) |
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*** "von" (from) for example "Hauptbahnhof" (Central Station) or "Airport" |
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*** "nach" (destination): "Kerstingstraße" |
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The details of the talks are available at [[Arianne Project Meeting 2010/Talks|talks]]. |
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* Note: The b.i.b. International Collage is in the same building. So if you see a b.i.b. sign, you are right. |
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Afterwards we went for another really nice meal at Petros. Hendrik challenged us with some Java puzzles over dinner. |
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== Agenda == |
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=== Friday Afternoon=== |
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* Some people already arrive on Friday (dune to plane connections for example) |
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* we will meet for afternoon/dinner |
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* a sightseeing tour in Hannover is planned. |
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* or we are just lazy and do some work on Stendhal/Arianne. |
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===Monday=== |
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On Monday the remaining developers met for an intense brain storming session on a Magic system for Stendhal, and other development topics. |
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* Talks during the day: See subpage '''[[Arianne Project Meeting 2010/Talks]]''' |
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The list of discussed topics was really huge by this time! We visited the Sea Life centre in Hannover, then found a net connection and had a coding session, starting work on some of the ideas |
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* We can use a room at the FHDW, Hannover (the private University of Applied Science) |
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discussed at the meeting. We ate some really tasty traditional Southern German food for dinner. |
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* The first people with be at the FHDW at 9:00 o'clock |
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* We will start with the more technical talks targeted at programmers at 12:00 o'clock |
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* More general talks will start at 15:00 o'clock |
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* We need to leave the building at 21:30 as the latest. There are timed movement sensors that will trigger the alarm afterwards. (but don't worry, we have something planned in the section "Night". And of course we can go to the party earlier, too) |
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== Talks == |
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[[Arianne Project Meeting 2010/Talks]] |
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== Development discussions == |
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* Party!!!1 |
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[[Arianne Project Meeting 2010/Development Discussions]] |
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** some nice clubs can be found near the Steintor or in Linden |
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*** [http://www.sansibar-hannover.eu/ Sansibar] |
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*** [http://www.kulturzentrum-faust.de/faust/ Faust] |
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* There is a nice Greek restaurant next door to the FHDW. |
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* Alternatives: ... |
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== Demonstrations == |
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As well as the planned [[Arianne Project Meeting 2010/Talks|talks]], and a lot of [[Arianne Project Meeting 2010/Development Discussions|development discussions]], some demonstrations happened quite spontaneously. Kimmo showed how his redrawn balrog image |
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looked in the master version which is a vector graphics file opened in InkScape. |
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Katie demonstrated an easy way to code quests using pre-written ChatActions and ChatConditions. |
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Silvio described his sound system to the developers, and also demonstrated |
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some artists doing speed drawing with GIMP. We tried out Yoriy's Herald NPC on the test server, and the Pied Piper quest. |
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Kimmo helped Marco tidy up a huge new image he has drawn for some map tiles. |
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== Photos == |
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* Workshops... |
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[[Arianne Project Meeting 2010/Photos]] |
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== Planning == |
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[[Arianne Project Meeting 2010/Planning]] |
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* Emergency phone number for police, emergency doctor, fire-fighters: 112 |
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* Most people speak both German and basic English |
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* Currency: Euro |
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* Time Zone: UTC + 1 hour |
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* Note: If you arrive after 18:00 you should add a line on your hotel reservation about that. |
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* Prices listed already contain taxes and service (so tips in restaurants are much lower than in the US for example) |
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* Germans are generally helpful, but you have to ask for help as they don't like to jump into other people's business without being invited. |
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* http://wikitravel.org/en/Hanover has a lot of information about Hannover, including sleeping locations |
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== German Language == |
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In Germany there is no problem with not speaking German. But if you did want to know some key words: |
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{| class="wikitable" border="0" |
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! English |
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! German |
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|- |
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| Hello |
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| Hallo |
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|- |
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| Thanks |
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| Danke |
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|- |
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| Sorry |
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| Entschuldigung |
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|- |
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| I can't speak German |
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| Ich kann kein Deutsch (sprechen) |
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|- |
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| Please |
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| Bitte |
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|- |
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| Yes / No |
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| Ja / Nein |
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|- |
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| English please? |
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| Englisch bitte? |
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|- |
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| (Can you speak) Spanish? |
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| (Können Sie) Spanisch? |
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|- |
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| central train station |
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| Hauptbahnhof |
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|- |
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| Airport: |
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| Airport / Flughafen |
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|- |
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| I am here to meet developers from an open source project which I work on. It's now 10 years old |
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| Ich bin hier, um Entwickler eines Open-Source-Projekt zu treffen, an dem ich mitarbeite. Es ist jetzt zehn Jahre alt. |
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|} |
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Tip: When someone says 'Danke' or 'Dankeschön', it is nice and correct to say 'Bitte' or 'Bitteschön' in return. It means, roughly, 'you're welcome'. |
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== TODO == |
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* <del>find a room with video projector for the talks during the day and if possible Internet access</del> (done) (Hendrik is trying get one) |
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* Submit a patch for http://www.fhdw-hannover.de/en/node/34 translating that page into English. |
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* Find a way to video record the talks at FDHW or have a webcam sending live streaming |
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