The conference is taking place at the Volksgarten Diskothek which is located on the grounds of the imperial palace. If I were to walk straight out the front door of the buiding, this is what I would see, that's Europe for ya. I think it's a very odd place to have a conference for an open source content management system, normally it is a dance club, so the talks take place in the dance hall section of the facility. It has that kinda musty bar smell, which oddly brings me back to my days as a bartender.
I'm admittedly a computer nerd but boy howdy am I outta my element here. When you look around the room during a talk it is a sea of laptops (mostly running linux) with half the people coding plone sites while the speaker is presenting. Some guy just took a picture of me writing this post... I think it was because of the Dr. Zaius and Atari stickers on my laptop, but maybe it was because of my dashing good looks.
I was talking to some dude from Vienna during one of the breaks and he said that half of the building was built sometime in the mid 19th century and the other half was built in the 50s.
Computers and nerds where royalty once danced. I guess somehow it makes sense...
...I guess.
Isn't there a cardroom in Vienna? Are you going to try to take on the eurotrash in a little low stakes hold 'em?