Sven Guckes

Organizer of the pre-event dinner (Dec26 19-23h) organizer and moderator of the Lightning Talks. "It's all about bringing people together so they can have fun together, doing amazing things in software&hardware."

Background in math&cs, supporter of free software, maintainer of a calendar of FLOSS events, and texttools guy (eg mutt, screen, slrn, vim, zsh).

Doesnt like carrying hardware around. "Give me a machine with a terminal and some ssh client - and i'll do my stuff remotely on the server."

"have a great time together, everybody!" :-)