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Linux Beer Hike Goes to Ireland
The Linux Beer Hike Hits Ireland
Doolin, Ireland -- 23 July 2002 -- "Linuxbierwanderung," (also known as The Linux Beer Hike - LBW for short) will take place this year in the village of Doolin, August 24-31, 2002, on the west coast of Ireland. Now in its fourth year, LBW has travelled to Bavaria in Germany, the Lake District in England and the Ardennes in Belgium.
Upwards of 100 people have attended LBWs in the past, and even with above average rainfall in Ireland this year, no one is disheartened. The Russell Community Centre located near the Cliffs of Moher, has been confirmed as the base of operations for the event and where the weather is lacking, the fast connectivity and interplay of technological ideas (not to mention the "special recipe" brew being cooked up to commemorate the occasion) should more than compensate.
Funded by a small voluntary donation from each hiker, The Linux Beer Hike is a week-long, international summer event in which Linux users from around the world get together, exchange ideas, hack Linux, drink beer, take in a little local scenery and have a lot of fun. It is a great way for Linux users who correspond all year long via e-mail, to meet one another face-to-face. It is also a chance to work on Linux far into the night, compute with abandon, and conceive of the utterly cool. "It's the ultimate Linux users holiday" says Willem Konynenberg, a former organiser.
Planned events:
* technical seminars
* caving, golf, touring local castles and other sights
* having a pint in the local pub and listening to traditional Irish music
There is an active mailing list and information on how to join The Linux Beer Hike can be found on the main web page: http://www.lbw2002.draiocht.net.
Will the beer be free?
None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
But the craic's great and the pubs are fine :-))
You're out when that happens where I come from!
Irish music, pints, 24 hours a day.
Who has time for Linux?
668: Neighbour of the Beast
'owzat then?
Just don't mention your preferences of brand of beer or Christianity and you'll do fine.
I'll drink to that! Please be sure to take digital camera with you so that we, who can not participate can enjoy it too. It's fun to look at pictures of a lot of drunken penguins :)
It's once again one of those long german words, which will sound very, very funny, when spoken by a foreigner. Like "Fahrvergnügen". If I had some money left, I would go there, but it's all spent on an iBook. Hmm, that's not running Linux... So, I will announce an upcoming event for 2003. The "Apfelbierwanderung" or Apple Beer Hike. Look out. Maybe I can get some apple beer in Belgium, they already make some tasty cherry beer.
And in Doolin as well. Still, it's a lovely village, but sounds like the organisers have been conned by the Irish governments _comittment_ to being a global internet hub but sadly the implemenation is non-existent.
Sorry, couldn't resist...
You: I have to go to a conference on dynamic fluid-driven next generation systems. Its called the "LBW" which means "Leading Business through Webvolution".
Boss: What benefits will we see ?
You: Our servers will run quicker (note to self: disable SMP on the servers before I go), we'll be better prepared for Webservices (note to self: install the Apache Webservices stuff, ask someone in the pub which one to use). And of course we will be seen as leaders within this technical and business community
Boss: If its business why are you going ?
You: Remember at my last appraisal where you said I didn't understand the business drivers, I've learnt from your behaviour (Note: Vendor paid for Golf days) and think this would help me develop as you wanted me to.
Boss: How much is it
You: I've got a complimentary ticket, I just need the expenses signed off (Note: Can I pay for the admin in beer?)
Boss: How come its compilmentary ?
You: Because of the articles I've been writing on Webvolution (Note: Slashdot log counts doesn't it?)
Boss: Oh, wow, I'll set a limit of (Note to self from Boss: Umm I'd blow 2k in a week, so..) £500.
You: (Note to self: Ryanair, car hire, hotels, beer.. thats too little) Sure and I'll book the hotel via the department (Note: Therefore it will be on the massive budget sheet with all of your jollies)
But remember to buy some naff toys and claim they are vendor gifts.
An Eye for an Eye will make the whole world blind - Gandhi
Combination of U2 and Beer beats Linux and other computer related stuff hands down!
Since when have geeks become big drinkers? I'd imagine after half a pint they'd be off their tits and singing 'Danny boy'.
Pictures from all previous (and the next, when it is completed) are here.
Personally, I try to avoid mind altering substances except maybe once a month. I could understand some folks enjoying a few stimulants here and there. Caffeine, cocaine, and amphetamine are all great additions to a productive day of slaving over some code. God created such substances for one reason and one reason alone, to make boring and tedious work more interesting.
But, why in gods name would anyone drink alcohol and try to do anything productive is beyond me. I am sure there will be quite a few folks proclaiming the virtues of drinking while coding, but fuck... You know this party is going to be a bunch of geeks getting hammered, slurring away about how great linux is and a few laptops will probably get toasted by the errant pint of Guiness.
They should have had some fine brit DJ come over to make the party really crazy. Hell, it could have been the site of the next tranceport release.
I don't read or respond to AC posts
and rounders is what the girls play here in England instead of Cricket
/* drunk... fix later */
Garg
Garg
Alumnus, Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters
Rugby for great-wet-lettuces. I mean really, padding? Oh you great bunch of cry babies!
PFY! Junket alert! Print off a couple of selections from the bosses' porn archive in case we need bargaining leverage!
sigs are for suckers
There once was a time in my life that after going to the pub I wouldn't be coding, but going to the strippers with the rest of the boys.
You lot have corrupted me.
Go to the bar at 6 on a Thursday, tell myself i'll get back and study. don't get back till 4, drunk as sh1t, take the physics test at 8, drunk as hell. we had a retake option on it, but the deal was we had to show up and take that test to be able to retake it. quite an interesting time.
my point is, how hard is it to hack at linux while drunk? not just buzzing, but total on your ass, falling down, peeing in the streets, public intoxication. ...cause i'd like to try it!
the west coast of Ireland to enjoy the fast bandwidth
Huh? The community centre has a single basic rate ISDN line, so max they'll have a 128kbps connection to the outside world. DSL? Not anytime soon. The LBW isn't about bandwidth, its about the beer, the exercise, and Linux.
But assuming they install some 10/100 hubs in the centre, then locally they'll have a nice little LAN party.
the AC
Hemos is like...sci-fi fans;he thinks technology is cool, but he hasn't bothered to understand the science it's based on
Never thought I'd see an event that combined 4 of my interests like that: Linux, beer, hiking and Ireland.
-Karl
Guiness - nitrokeg muck
Murphys - ditto
Caffreys - ditto - created by Bass as a fake Irish beer, sold to Interbrew along with the rest of Bass brewing and now presumably owned by Coors, dropped any marketing pretence at being Irish in the UK, about as Irish as my arse
etc. etc.
Ireland is so not the place for cask fermented, properly brewed beer.
As in craic cocaine?
No such thing as pints of 'local ale' in Ireland - a) because people don't drink ale there, mainly stout, and b) because there are pretty much no small breweries or 'brew pubs'. With very few exceptions, all the beer you'll find is brewed in Dublin or Cork.
Pints of local ale are drunk in England.
Ok, so this is the stupidest thing I've ever heard of. You guy constantly rag on Microsoft for producing crappy code but then you promote a "drunk coding" party to improve Linux? What a bunch of hypocrites.
Or were you simply dropped on your head a lot as a child?
Really. I mean, God forbid the Irish brew actual Irish, cask fermented, properly brewed beer and, shock!, don't sell it world-wide as some sort of fake pish-water.
Anything not in your imediate world view must fake, is that it? I bet your a [l|L]ibertarian, too, arn't you?
Can not imagin a better way to spend a week !
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Ahh...the Great British Beer Festival is on from August 6th to 10th, and then we have this.
August is a fine month...
Igor Presnyakov stole my hat
After hiking around the rim of the Grand Canyon and Bryce, I drank lemonade by the quart and water by the gallon. I'd say the last thing you want after a long hike is a pint. Even Guinness! Unless, of course, the "Hiking" part of the excursion is "Hiking" to the local pub...
My Other Computer Is A Data General Nova III.
Well done.
By the way, you don't happen to be American by any chance? Its just that I'm doing some research into sarcasm...
nice warm beer. bunch of savages. can anyone explain to me why if in ireland the guinness/beamish/murphey's is served warm that every imported widget can in the us has explicit instructions written on it to refrigerate for 3 hours before serving?
Anyone coming the beer hike better realise this. The only saving grace as far as visitors are concerned is there are several "free" ISPs, i.e. no subscription, you just pay for the phone call.
You know :-), to quite literally millions of people, the LBW is the Lutheran Book of Worship.
I guess that means the Linux Beer Hikers should drink boldly!
"We reject as false the choice between our safety and our ideals." --The American President (20.1.2009)
> so to use it as an example of American arrogance is as inaccurate as it is tedious
Humour Deficit Disorder?
I have taken two trips to Ireland, and both time have stayed for a couple nights in Doolin. This is GREAT... check out my Cliffs of Moher page for pics and info about the cliffs just outside Doolin.
When in Doolin go to McDermotts!!! It is THE BEST pub in Doolin, and maybe all of Ireland. They have the absolute best trad music I have ever heard. I have links to maps and info about McDermotts on the above link
Oh yea, Linux rules too!! I would love to see a penguin hiking up the cliffs...
This is a dream come true. Had I known earlier, I probably would have arranged to meet this crew of Linux lushes.
geek n performer who performs morbid or disgusting acts, as biting off the head of a live chicken
Ok. Let me get this straight. Linux is the goddess. Linux programmers/worshippers live for hacking and games. Now, tell me again why there are so blockbuster Linux games?
MadDad32
thats northern ireland you're thinking of.
believe it or not, no-one in the
republic really gives too much of
a shit about religion.
the crazy shit goes on up north.
Actualy, you'll have to mention your brand of beer as walking in to a Bar and say in I'll have a beer/pint please will be followed by some one asking of what...
... which might not be a good thing to say ...
and as for the Christianity brand(tm) as long as you arn't a shite about it no one else will be.
reminds me of a Grrl from canada last year who informed me that she hated catholics
most people wont ask you, so it's not likly to come up.
it's a non-issue.
They "don't care" because the government enforces the religion for them.
I any case, I hope they're not offering free guns as well.
You don't actually know very much about Ireland do you?
Try NetBSD... safe,straightforward,useful.
Don't forget that this isn't far from the gaeltacht -
ta me ag foghlaim gaeilge - I'm learning Irish
nil gaeilge agam - I don't speak Irish
deag pionta guinness - ten pints of guinness
go rabh maith agat - thank you
Pronunciation will be easier when you've had those ten pints - they'll correct you as you go. Anyone else got some useful phrases?
reminds me of a Grrl from canada last year who informed me that she hated catholics ... which might not be a good thing to say ...
It's a pretty stupid thing in general. I love people who make generalizations based on religion. All Catholics molest children, all Muslims are terrorists, all Jews are money-grubbing, etc.
I time it perfectly: Study in Germany for 8 weeks that coincide with the Linuxbierwanderung and maybe pick up a little German (or two) while I'm there...
...Then they move it to Ireland. Why, oh, why did my ancestors migrate to America?!
if(!toilet_paper) roll.replace(new roll);
You may have a look at the source - i.e. the boiler, pipes etc, if you ask at the local brewery :)
But since the Irish beer is of excellent quality there is no need to debug it anyway.
And furthermore who wants to add features to beer??
duck
Title says it all. Wireless web surfing at a variety of cannabis-filled coffee shops, a stroll through the Red Light District with a digital camera, ripping DVDs with titles like "Heisse Schulemaedchen mit Ezel 5", and hacking the kernel 'till dawn. "Dude... an in-kernel pr0n viewer seemed like such a good idea at the time..."
And I'm sure that the lack of sleep, combined with excessive drinking will make for more high-quality Linux code.
Where the hell did that myth come from, Ireland is the most backward country in Europe when it comes to decent bandwidth with the fools who control such things holding back decent internet access for the masses through stupidity, laziness and ineptitude, Eircom are you listening!!!!!
A Very Bitter and Angry home user
must be loads of fun at parties.
I was in Doolin on Good Friday this year. The only day of the year the pubs are closed!!!!
As they say in Ireland "If you're going there, I wouldn't start from here".
Is that Time Cube crap for real ? that's a joke page right ? Wow. I'm stunned. must recover ... need coffee, stat.
Is it really a good idea to have Linux contributions coming from exhausted, sleep deprived, beer addled coders?
It is by the juice of the coffee bean that thoughts acquire speed, the teeth acquire stains. The stains become a warning
Bandwidth is anything but big, unless you have massive amounts of cash to spend, while other European countries have had even ISDN for years for cheaper then what it costs to hook up a 56k modem. :(
If one thing comes out of this I hope it is that /. can show how bad it is here in net terms and force a change.
You can learn more at the IrelandOffline website.
I read the header and I thought that this would be a fun thing to do!
But I've been thinking lately about how big the world is, and what I should do, and where I should go.
Graduation's looming.
And I realized how lame this all sounds. They're going to get drunk and then program. Think about it. They're going to "Enjoy the bandwidth" - what does that mean, really? They're going to LOVE lower ping times, and LOVE the fact that things download SLIGHTLY FASTER.
My friends, we truly are an insular community of fools.
--R
Too bad the Linux Beer Hike isn't coming to Seattle, or I could serve up some homebrew Doppelbock Beer. At least the label is appropriate.
http://www.nwlink.com/~kaf/doppelbock_small.jpg
That sounds like bollocks, pal. Having lived both in Ireland and the US, I know that in Ireland nobody gives a damn what religion you happen to have, if any. Not so in the US - somebody always seems to be touting their particular brand of Trvth(tm) .....
Alison
"It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education." - Albert Einstein
man, if i'd only known about this i would have rescheduled my trip!
seriously, ireland is an awesome place for this... the best hiking and beer you'll ever find, plus friendly friendly people.
p.s. the accent is really good out west... they say they talk so fast 'cause there's so much to say! be sure to ask for directions before going anywhere, well worth it.
Tetris rules.
A simular type of group (beer, fun and exercise) is the Hash House Harriers. They call themselves "a drinking club with a running problem." They can be found in just about every city worldwide and always welcome visitors. A good introduction can be found at half mind. I've always been able to find a hash in any city I go to and it beats going back to the hotel and atching CNN.
I thought you meant for they're raising the price of beer.
Hate to say it, but Doolin is a fucking hole.
It's basically just a long road with some shops, guest houses and two or three pubs, and that's it, and the only reason it exists is as a place to stay for people who want to visit the Cliffs of Moher. Oh, and the tapwater is brown. Bring cash, cause there isn't an ATM for a couple of miles.
Have fun (snicker).
And in this case it appears you don't grok in fullness the spelling of grok.
PS - when you spell it as 'grock' you make Mike Smith cry
and wished i could participate... now considering doolin is but a hop, skip and a jump from gaillimh and my girlfriend wants some sefood chowder there i think i may be elected - please note post was posted mainly for warm-fuzzy-selfish reasons
Satan, oscillate my metallic sonatas.
Well, she probably hated Guinness as well, so who cares about her!
I think the computers deserve some beer too! ;)
Let's refill our PC water cooling systems with a
lovely Murphy's or Beamish!!! (the latter tastes
quite similar to destilled water anyway
greetings from Cork, Ireland,
Max G.
This explains many things about Linux and the Linux community that I hadn't previously understood.
I visited Ireland last summer and I had a wonderful experience. Doolin was one of the best places...
I arrived by car late at night (10 pm) because I wanted to get the ferry to Aran Islands next morning (more on this later). However, I had not booked any room and found no free place in Doolin.
A kind man from the Aille River Hostel helped me: he got into my car and drove me through Doolin, looking for free accomodations. He spent more than an hour with me and at the end he offered me to sleep at the Aille River Hostel in the hall room (the hostel was full). He even asked another guy in the hostel to lend me a sleeping bag (I did not have any) and I slept on a bench in the hall.
Next morning I took the ferry to the biggest Aran Island, where I rented a bike and visited the island. I slept at Meinistir House, a very nice hostel in the island (I had booked it in advance), from the window of my room I could see the ocean...
Next morning I got back to Doolin and had an excellent lunch at O'Connors Pub, where I ate a wonderful Guinness stew (maybe the best stew I had in Ireland).
Then, I visited the Cliffs of Moher - they are wonderful, I'm sure you can find lots of information about them in the Web.
In short: if you can, go to Doolin. That was easily the best part of my journey in Ireland.
Excellent people, excellent scenery and excellent food - what else do you need?
Oh yes beer, well you can find it too...
I've been to Doolin (years ago) and can honestly say say it was one of the coolest weekends of my life. [If you've ever seen the movie Ryan's Daughter, it was filned there.]
Be sure to take the morning boat across to the small island of Inishsheer (phonetically - can't remember the Irish spelling). If you're lucky, dolphins will swim alongside the boat. Check out the beach - you'd swear it was right out of a caribbean travel catalogue (the Gulf Stream ends at Ireland - there are actually Palm trees in some parts!). Right near it is an ancient church sunk into th hill. There was also a small cottage/restaurant flying a pirate flag. Totally organic. Fish caught hours before. Only a little salt added. Incredible. How food used to taste, I guess.
Two main pubs in town. O'Conner's and Murphy's. The former has the better food, and the latter had better music. Can't really go wrong - so check them both out!
The music. Pubs have "musicians' corner" where you can sit and start playing if you have talent. Whoever shows up: guitar, singer, fiddle - whatever. They may never have met, but they all know common songs and add their own twists to it. Sometime the whole whole pub will just stop talking and listen - knowing that that combination will never happen again. Magic.
Crawling back to my B&B, I looked to my right:
A full moon was silhouetting a castle.
Fscking incredible.
Rory.
Beta only seems to work for Google. Such a shame.
In Northanger Abbey we are told that Catherine Morland preferred baseball to books.
Well, you don't have beer for free in Czech Republic, but:
;-)
1) it is close to germany
2) it is fairly populated, with decent tourist path marking
3) and the most importantly:
one dollar (or euro) == 3beers
so I hope the next Linux Beer Wanderung will come to Czech Republic
Cuba++ let's make ++ better
You are right, but you forgot to mention the most important thing. Be proud: some czech beer might be the best beer in the world. Pilsner Urquell, Budweiser (Yes, there's _beer_ called budweiser too), the small brands... Americans get drunk from czech beer by simply looking at it, it is a special feature.
ACK