I've got an invitation to the Open Source World Conference in Málaga, Spain for mid-February, to take part in a workgroup on Debian-based distributions and some related meetings, and the Junta de Andalucía is paying for my travel and accommodation. Cool! I was almost going to turn down the invitation on the grounds of lack of time until I noticed that it was paid-for (not something I expected at all - it's the first time that's happened to me), at which point I realized I really couldn't say no. Spain's weather stands a good chance of being better than here, and my only visit to Spain until now was to Mallorca.

( Thoughts for the conference (geeky, Debian) )