After all the great round-ups, nice words, posted pictures and seeing how everybody is getting home safely there really is only some personal memories to add:

• The evening at the VIP lounge of the Irish Pub is going to nest in my memory for a long time. Probably 'cause next year's version of the Silly Australian Joke Session will just extend the experience... A sure thing if we keep on forgetting the ones we heard the year before :-)
• Hackathon this year catched a good wind and brought the ship in the good direction, a lesson learned well for us over-organizers and a assurance that the community will flawlessly just find the best thing to do if you just provide them with the bare essentials: a room to chat, seats, powerplugs, connectivity and some flipcharts. In my personal case the snap return to actual cocoon coding since some time felt really good: Helping out our big italian friend to get the cforms binding to support namespaces (expect the joint work commited in the near future) made me feel useful. The fact that I had set my mind on doing something else just assures some fun for later.
• Another suggestion for next year's hackathon: let it start after lunch to go on until 10pm with the true geek-thing to do: pizza and beer for (walking) dinner! (but only if we can have the ribs on another night of course)
• This year I think the price for the best picture of ghent has to go to Michael (although it isn't holding the drama of last year's winner Yeah one would expect the tourist office starts recruting soon in our community.

It's not as much the people in fact. It's the friends. Thank you all for coming over.

Sigh, less then 48 hours ago, and I already miss it. Just when is next year?