Participant list now up to 70 people :-)

@egreg cool! We are starting, with wipet, at midnight

@egreg I'd like to ask you, would you mind coming with me for a trip on Friday? I ought to visit Jindřichův Hradec and I could take you with me in the car. We could also visit Tábor on the way, for instance. Both are nice historical towns :)

Does anybody know whether parking is available at the Welcome Hotel even for people who don't sleep there?

I just arrived in Frankfurt. Waiting for the bus to Darmstadt.

@StefanKottwitz cool

@yo' Which hotel do you have? Is it so far away?

@StefanKottwitz Not the train?

@StefanKottwitz Hornung. It's not far, but I'll arrive early in the morning. I dunno if they let me park there immediately.

@JosephWright Maybe there's no air condition in regional trains. I hope the bus got one.

@JosephWright The bus shall take 30 min and leaves in 10

@StefanKottwitz Ah: does it go from the airport?

(I've never been to Frankfurt or Darmstadt before)

@JosephWright Right from the airport, terminal 1, yes

@JosephWright and it offers free WiFi according to the plan

... optimizing traveling to have a minimum of WiFi connection loss time ...

@StefanKottwitz OK, I might look for that later

@JosephWright terminal 1 station 14, but also stopping terminal 2

@JosephWright link: bus info

@JosephWright I go there, see you later

WiFi works, air condition is fine, bus nearly empty, got a nice table in the bus

I wish I were there. /sob

@PauloCereda I know :-(

@yo' /cries

Now I'm in my hotel. Nice and clean, walking distance to conference, free WiFi, air condition, 39 Euro per night.

@StefanKottwitz which one is it?

@yo' Ibis budget, Kasinostr. next to Rheinstr. I assume 500 m straight to the conference

@StefanKottwitz ah cool. I've got another cheap one.

Please, think of me and wipet during the night, we'll be driving all night long.

@yo' I keep my fingers crossed!

@StefanKottwitz Thanks!

@StefanKottwitz Nice

@yo' Kola na sběrnici jít dokola a dokola!

Waiting for boarding at Birmingham

@JosephWright Don't tell me a German airline has delays problems! :)

@PauloCereda No

@PauloCereda I've never been to Birmingham airport before so I thought it was best to allow a couple of hours for security, etc.

@JosephWright The British and Germans talking about punctuality. <3

@JosephWright Ah indeed. We usually arrive at least two hours before flights.

@PauloCereda LOL

So @Joseph is waiting at Bringhurst typographic airport. :)

@yo' Please do not sing this, or wipet will murder you. :)

@JosephWright LOL the 2nd

@PauloCereda I was laughing at the translation

@yo' You probably know it's a famous children song, right? :)

@PauloCereda ummm no?

@yo' ooh hold on

@PauloCereda Famous in English, I guess. My kids can sing it.

but I suppose the translation source was "the wheels on bus go round and round" or alike

@yo' Exact wording. :)

@StefanKottwitz In English indeed. Never heard this as a kid in Brazil.

Tom and Petr are talking about TeX, talking about TeX, talking about TeX.
Tom and Petr are talking about TeX all through the town.

<3

@PauloCereda "bus" was translated as a "PC bus", "go" as "walk" :-)

@PauloCereda Ah, the mighty Peppa Pig

@JosephWright grrr

@PauloCereda One is driving so that the other one can sleep. Tom and Petr are talking about Tex all through the town.

I was looking for a version with an English chap trying to take a double decker, but it seems this version was removed from YouTube. :)

@yo' :)

It's like when I found London bridge is falling down featuring... Tower brigde. :)

@JosephWright: on a serious note, if the conference happens to be broadcasted live, could you ping us? I'd love to watch the keynotes.

@PauloCereda Sure

And if so, could we send questions too? :)

@PauloCereda Certainly plan to keep the room up-to-date as far as possible

@JosephWright Nice. :)

Something like live commentary. :)

@StefanKottwitz Have you met anyone else at the conference yet?

@JosephWright: speaking of which, how about pinning this chatroom in the main site with some announcement? It might be an interesting feature. :)

Or maybe other chatroom with read-only status.

@PauloCereda I've pinned this room in the main room, but I don't think I can for the site

@PauloCereda I guess I could add a community event

@JosephWright Great idea!

@PauloCereda Refresh the main page

@JosephWright Outside? :-o

@JosephWright Awesome, thank you!

@JosephWright Not yet, I thing about going to the opening gathering at 7pm

Hmm, gate has been opening 'in 5m' for about 15 minutes now!

@JosephWright Wibbily wobbly timey wimey thingy. :) You should've known this, you are the Doctor too. :)

@PauloCereda Indeed

@PauloCereda Going to go and take a look in a second

No, still not announced

Finally have an open gate but clearly going to be later than I hoped :-(

I thought I was over my jet lag, but evidently not... just woken up from an unplanned nap here.

I'm on my way to the "informal opening gathering" at LaLucha just down the street now.

If you're in Darmstadt and reading this, get your butt off the computer and join us! :-)

@PaulGessler Still in Birmingham (UK)

@PaulGessler hm :-)

@StefanKottwitz Thanks for the bus tip: just got on it (after a flight delay of 45 mins)

@DavidCarlisle Productive day?

@PaulGessler Still in Prague, leaving in 90 minutes

Where are you we were wondering if you would show up now?

@DavidCarlisle Who? Me?

@DavidCarlisle On the bus coming from the airport, if you mean me

@DavidCarlisle See earlier 'What is going on with my flight?' messages

Seems the station is a bit of a walk from the town

@JosephWright 15 minutes maybe

@yo' 25 according to Google

anyways, going offline, I'll rest for some 30 minutes, get a shower and then get ready for the ride.

@yo' Take care

@JosephWright really? Ah yes, I forgot my hotel is half-way :-)

@JosephWright Thanks, I truly wish all'll be fine

@DavidCarlisle I'll see if the trams are still running when I get off the bus, but it will still be ~11 before I reach the hotel :-(

That said, I think we are nearly in Darmstadt

Very weird having wifi on a bus

@JosephWright you are on the AirLiner, yes? It was a nice ride; my first time on an Autobahn. Too bad I wasn't driving. :-)

@PaulGessler Yes: now at HBF

Missed some roads due to peculiar road signs in Germany; the first one carrying the name Darmstadt had the 33 km tag on it.

@yo' I'll be delighted, provided there's some beer available.