I had the privilege of speaking at this years FrOSCon (23rd - 24th August) and this being the first time I speak there and indeed the first time I venture into Germany, I was very excited about the whole thing.

Since this was also my first time at a non commercial conference (yes I've never been to fosdem and friends, very sad indeed ) I wasn't really sure what to expect - especially if everything would run smoothly, how professional things would be and so on and so forth, this all spews from the fact that I have been involved in setting up large scale LAN parties and I've seen all sorts of breakdown and failures and was kinda expecting something similar to happen at FrOSCon; maybe I was being too pessimistic, given my old experiences of having people doing these kind of things for free.