• Belgian beer tastes really good
• Belgian beer is also pretty strong
• My french is good enough to understand these people
• My french is not good enough to talk to them tho
• Looking up where you need to go before actually trying to go there avoids paying a cap to go to a place you just have been to by train
• Belgian fries are good
• Most people there seems to think I am french and speak french to me instead of dutch/fleemish, which would be easier for me to understand actually
• Booking a Hotel with easyjet works pretty well
• Peeps in Brussels like old music from the 60s, 70s and early 80s - even heard it in a Kebap place..
• printing the plane confirmation email also helps me to remember when the flight actually is
• talking to people face to face from time to time helps a lot
• I should print (private) business cards
• Four stars for a hotel actually mean a lot in Brussels
• There is a free (as in sex) NextStep/OpenStep (Objective-C) Compiler by the Gnu-Project. It is called “GnuStep” and the people working on it are trying to become Apple Obj-c compatible asap.
• A lot of projects give away shirts for small donations, but no one gives pants….
• People write the same software again just because they don’‘t like (know?) the language it is written in
• If you want to have a FOSDEM Shirt in your size: arrive early! (same applies for certain Debian, Ubuntu and Firefox Shirts…)
• Brussel looks great at night
• FOSDEM is AWESOME
• Totally! - Stupid joke.