Post GUADEC

This year GUADEC was in Birmingham, UK, the GUADEC itself was great, I managed to meet a lot of people and friends, and do a lot of hacking on pymsn and telepathy-butterfly. What I didn’t really enjoy was the considerable amount of security cameras in the UK … that just drives me nut, how can people there be able to live with the fact that they are constantly being spied on ? And of course I have asked few people from UK, and the general answer I got is that it is needed for security …

The other thing that I didn’t really enjoy, was the amount of questions I got asked at the airport ! It seems to be perfectly alright nowadays to harass people holding an arabic name, having a dark skin and wearing a black beard with a load of questions and treat them as potentially bad people.

Anyway, enough bashing, I am now looking forward for the next guadec in Istanbul, that one for sure will be in an interesting place