Thanks a bunch for that PM Benson ! I had managed to miss that thread altogether...

I'm flattered that I'm still on Quim's list of "rock stars" despite having being very discreet over here since early this year... mostly out of work overload, sadly. Things have been pretty hectic lately and I've kind of burn out.

I still visit ITT daily at least, but due to the sustained high level of activity I barely skim through the new posts to keep in touch and get an idea of what's happening. It's a kind of self-inflicted torture though, because I see a lot of great stuff go by with no time or energy left to try it out... haven't even flashed Diablo yet, let alone all that's coming in from qwerty12 or Qole or others... KDE, debian, Android, rotation, specialty kernels and whatnot. Sigh...

Although living almost net door I haven't been to Germany in quite a while, and never to Berlin, so I'd really love to grab the chance and be on another planet for a while. Obviously I'll have to confirm that with my job schedule first though... and family :-)

Also, as many here, I do wonder what sort of a contribution I could make there. After all I'm not a Linux hacker, nor a prolific porter, not even a real coder... just a user with a really big mouth (and not quite the biggest either :-)

I do have a small idea however, so if all the other problems clear up all the way to Berlin, that wouldn't be a showstopper.

Anyway, whatever happens, many thanks to Quim for the offer (and for organizing the whole shebang, which must be quite some task :-), and to you for the heads-up !

fpp