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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
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!
Pictures from all previous (and the next, when it is completed) are here.
/* drunk... fix later */
Garg
Garg
Alumnus, Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters
Quiet fool, you've stumbled onto the secret of Microsoft's productivity! Although I must admit it doesn't do much for the quality of the code.... - BillG
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.
Since day one. I got into drinking habit when I had my 16 birthday - now I drink and have a party every weekend just like everybody (="normal" people) else. It is possible to write killer code while being under the influence of alcohol, I've seen it done many many times. In fact, all of the greatest Amiga demos were coded by drunken coders at copyparties.
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
Through much experience I have learned that drinking and coding work very well together. That is until the next morning when you can't figure why it won't make any more, why there are lots of strange debugging printfs such as 1 pint, 2, pints, 3 pints, floor, and why the hell it doesn't do what its supposed to.
No matter what it looks like, there isn't a
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.
So true.. RED SECTOR's legendary megademo was coded by dead drunk coders (read the scrollertexts!), SCOOPEX's Mental Hangover was coded by Slayer, who was also dead drunk yet he managed to program real-time stencil vectors (line vectors filled with materials, like wood or metal) for the first time in the whole world. Very tricky and complicated mathematical stuff, but obviously it can be done under the heavy influence of alcohol. Besides, those coders coded using ASSEMBLY language!
Can not imagin a better way to spend a week !
http://www.intellipool.se/ - Intellipool Network Monitor
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
And good guinness is like nectar. Not that cold, thin, bitter piss they sell everywhere else. Pulling a pint of porter is a fucking art - soft pints, half and half, the barrel under the counter so it's at room temp... Fuck it lads, I'm off to Nelly's. Anybody coming?
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.
So serious? FUN! FUN! THAT'S WHAT LIFE IS ALL ABOUT! We try to have fun, meet great people, enjoy their company and actually LIVE this life 100%! Why don't you too try to enjoy yourself once in a while! Be serious then when you need to be serious (when you are about to die).
#!/usr/local/bin/python
./drunk.py
import time
def BEER(Pinths, sharttime, endshime):
return "DRUNK"
if __name__ == "__main__":
print BEER(12,time.time()-(60*60), time.time())
%
DRUNK
%
Wow my Program ish sho C00l! It tellsh me shwen imsh drushk
If something is so important that you feel the need to post it on the internet... It probably isn't that important.
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?
IMHO the nicest of the three is Murphys.
Guinness isn't particularly great and is made by an international drinks conglomerate who have a nearly total monopoly on the Irish market. It is for this reason that every pub serves the same shit brands for too much money. You won't even see Beamish or Murphys on sale unless you're close to Cork.
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...
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
Real beers, as most real beer drinkers know, are not available much further than 50-odd miles away form the place where they were brewed.
Where I lived the Theakstons brewery was about 15 minutes drive away, and for a long time after it was bought by corporate goat piss purveyors Scottish and Newcastle, local pubs were still getting the traditional wooden barreled stuff from the brewery up the road, while the rest of the nation/world was getting aluminium barrels of goats piss. I wondered why more people didn't drink Theakstons in the UK until I tasted the stuff that they all got.
So, the moral of the story is to say, don't believe that any beer you get that isn't brewed up the road will be real beer. And of course just because it is brewed up the road, doesn't mean it is either - think Newcastle Brown for Newcastle folk, which is nothing to what it used to be. Thanks to S&N breweries for that too.
Check this, this and this out...
Try NetBSD... safe,straightforward,useful.
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.
You don't actually know very much about Ireland do you?
Try NetBSD... safe,straightforward,useful.
england is where they might rather have unchilled or warm beer.
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
Popular misconception: The British drink their beer warm.
It's not warm in the normal "warm water" sense of the word merely less cold than beer which is deliberately chilled using artifical refrigeration.
Most beers are brewed to completion at the brewery, then pasteurised to remove all the bugs and then chilled so they don't go bad and distributed. British "real ale" is shipped before the brewing process has been completed and it is finished off in the beer cellar of the pub - you can't chill beer that is still brewing. Thus, the taste of a pint of beer in England depends almost as much on the skill of the pub owner as it does on the brand of beer.
Cynics might claim that you don't need to chill British beer because it tastes good enough not to have to anaesthetise your taste buds.
All I want is a secure system where it's easy to do anything I want. Is that too much to ask ~~ Randall Munroe
You can get Beamish and Murphys in many pubs in Belfast, although Beamish is at it's best in Cork.
Man Needs God Like Birds Need Helicopters
Más é do thoil é - Please Go raibh maith agat - Thank You Sláinte - Cheers
I was in Doolin on Good Friday this year. The only day of the year the pubs are closed!!!!
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
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
http://www.seanbaby.com/stupid/sarcasm.htm
It's been shown that sarcasm is not actually funny.
Hands in my pocket
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
Don't you know it.
Now, whose got that eight ball???
I don't read or respond to AC posts
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.
Wha'?? Beer is served icy-cold. If you're not happy with that, you can even get Guinness extra-cold on tap. Warm beer tends to remind me of British local ales (which are excellent, BTW).
bunch of savages
Whatever .. - ever been to Ireland or do you just get your info from Quiet Man re-runs?
That's Murphy's, you moron! Jesus ....
Alison
"It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education." - Albert Einstein
Aon - one
Dó - two
Trí - three
Ceathar - four
Cúig - five
Sé - six
Seacht - seven
Naoí - nine
Deich - ten
If you're ordering more than ten - yee-harr! :-) Note that you use a different terms for counting people in Irish.
BTW - there's Linux in the Gaeltacht. I know of the Gaeilge GNU/Linux localisation project. Also, there's this company, which I helped set up. They produce Linux-based network devices for small business. Some of the source-code comments are in Irish ... 8-)
Alison
"It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education." - Albert Einstein
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 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!
This explains many things about Linux and the Linux community that I hadn't previously understood.
Craic is an Anglo-Irish term meaning good conversation, good company, good times etc.
Happily, Ireland has a craic habit, but no crack habit.
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.
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