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Just say no to cell phones, (stickers seen on a café's window in Amsterdam)

A few random links and thoughts now that I have left Amsterdam:

• Xtech 2006 is over and next edition will take place in Paris ;
• XTech 2006 presentations are now publicly available. Want to know more about layout improvements, Microsummaries, SVG and Canvas, JavaScript 2 and XULRunner? There you go!
• W3C and Mozilla co-hosted the conference, Opera was presenting, along with Nokia, Adobe, and of course Mozilla. One question remains: where the heck was Microsoft?
• Some people were not in Amsterdam, but that does not prevent from working: Bounties to improve ZAP code in Mozilla (from $2,000 to $5,000!);
• Daniel has posted his XTech photos ;
• For those who want to know more about the place where the conference was held, I suggest to visit Dam Square on Wikipedia, along with the Amsterdam article;
• One piece of trivia that may explain why XTech took place in Amsterdam two years in a row. Question: What's the name of the Amsterdam Football team? Answer: ask Wikipedia
• One restaurant to remember: 11, located on the 11th floor of the building where BarCamp Amsterdam II was held (thanks to Andy for the tip, it was really nice). Don't get turned off by the scary corridor totally painted with graffitis, the two huge porn-like posters in the hall and the ugly elevator: the food is actually really good and the view awesome;
• Another nice restaurant, In de Waag (the building was built in 1488, pretty old, even considering the European standards ;-) ;
• My pictures of Amsterdam and XTech 2006 ;
• Gerv finds XTech too expensive. In the comments^[1], Frank Hecker explains the difference between a place where Mozilla meets with other browser people and a place where Mozilla contributors meet. I suggest to leverage XTech next year and have a Mozilla meeting with contributors right after (or before) XTech 2007, so that US-based contributors finally meet with european volunteers.