{"id":325,"date":"2008-09-28T01:00:55","date_gmt":"2008-09-28T06:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crschmidt.net\/blog\/?p=325"},"modified":"2008-09-28T01:00:55","modified_gmt":"2008-09-28T06:00:55","slug":"arrival-foss4g2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crschmidt.net\/blog\/archives\/325\/arrival-foss4g2008\/","title":{"rendered":"Arrival, FOSS4G2008"},"content":{"rendered":"

Have arrived in Cape Town in preparation for FOSS4G. And the most important part of the trip — the drinking of the beers — is already in full force.<\/p>\n

\"Tim,<\/a><\/p>\n

I’m staying in the Fountains Hotel<\/a>; apparently a good choice, given the number of random FOSS4G passerby we’ve had so far.<\/p>\n

18 hours of flying is a long time, but didn’t go poorly, though I am lacking any clothes until Monday afternoon (so I’ll be kind of stinky for my workshop with Josh on GeoDjango on Monday<\/a>). Made it to the hotel, then headed out to Dinner at Cape To Cuba<\/a>. Was good environment and tasty, for not a bad price. We then went back to the Fountains Hotel and had a couple drinks at the hotel bar. <\/p>\n

I’ve uploaded pictures<\/a> — they’re tagged by day and foss4g2008, so you should be able to see daily shots as I continue to upload them. (I’ve also got a FOSS4G 2008 set<\/a>.) Today we’re doing a trip up Table Mountain — taking the cable car — leaving from Fountains Hotel around 10AM (breakfast at 9:15). <\/p>\n

PSA: If you’re at all interested in GeoDjango, and have more than a passing knowledge of Python, I highly recommend coming to our GeoDjango workshop (and bringing a laptop). It’s gonna be great.<\/p>\n

PSA2: If you’re staying at Fountains, and don’t want to go down to the desk to get an internet voucher, you can still ssh. Just join the wireless network, and ‘ssh $ipaddress’. (If you don’t know your IP address, you can look it up by using ‘dig @72.232.176.58 yourdomain.example.com’.) If you need to get to the web, you can add “-D 4000” to your ssh command — ‘ssh -D 4000 crschmidt.net’ — to set up a SOCKS proxy. Then, in Firefox Preferences -> Advanced -> Network -> Connection, do manual Proxy configuration, and enter ‘localhost’, ‘4000’ as a “SOCKS Host”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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