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+# Report from trip to Vietnam
+
+FIXME: this is a draft...
+
+Mid November, 2010, I visited Vietnam.  Here is a report of that trip.
+
+## Background
+
+I was invited to give a talk at the FOSSASIA event in Hồ Chí Minh City,
+and extended the trip to allow for potential spontanious events in the
+area in the following weeks.  I was excited to provide my talk on Debian
+Pure Blends, a topic of interest for some years, but was at the same
+time that I was there as replacement for - not together with, my
+colleague Andreas Tille: I tend to focus on the theorethic/technical
+parts of designing and maintaining Debian Pure Blends whereas Andreas is
+great at getting practical things done and emphasizing usability and the
+user experience.  So we complement each other pretty much and I missed
+him representing his own points of view.
+
+Debian kindly sponsored my travel expenses, and the local organizers
+provided shelter, food and an always positive and enthusiastic
+atmosphere both at the FOSSASIA conference itself and outside the venue
+and privately afterwards.  Thanks to all who helped make this the great
+success that it was!
+
+## Arrival
+
+I took off from Copenhagen, Denmark, and went via FIXME London, UK and
+FIXME Hongkong, China to Vietnam - FIXME hours in all.  Smooth process
+through all airports, and surprisingly good food aboard the flights. :-)
+
+Took some time at arrival to locate the young volunteers picking me up,
+and a funny experience followed:  At home few days before departure I
+was noticed by email to bring a spare, non-SIM-locked GSM phone, and I
+was now given a white envelope containing not only a map of inner city
+and a few advertisement flyers, but also a SIM card for free use
+throughout my stay.  Brilliant idea which I haven't experienced before!
+One of the volunteers cleverly wrote her own phone number on the
+envelope - and that turned out to be a crucial move, because after a
+brief hello a taxi was called for, I got in - and was surprisingly sent
+off on my own!  I had no cash, the driver didn't speak english, and as
+feared he shock his head when I waived a VISA card at him.  I loaded my
+phone, looked in vein for official contact phone numbers inside the
+envelope, and then called the phone number written on the envelope
+explaining my confusion on not knowing where I was headed and not having
+cash to pay. I handed the phone to the driver and they coordinated to
+get me to the right hotel, who then paid the taxi driver with a friendly
+laugh.
+
+## Conference
+
+house, building
+
+exhibition, talks
+
+program
+
+who where when
+
+my talk: listeners, expectations
+
+Women in Open Source - gender discussion
+
+other debian people giving talk about ...
+
+exchange of experience with debian man from asia and from australia?
+
+## Meeting people
+
+After the conference I followed two of the conference organizers, FIXME
+Hong Phuc Hao and Mario Behling and visited their home+office at FIXME.
+I stayed there for a week, helping them improve their local systems to
+better handle future conferences - e.g. improve their clever move of
+handing out a GSM SIM card for all speakers: setup an sms server to
+collect contact info for each SIM and publish on a public web page.
+
+setting up a server: new purposes how to use
+
+University talk w/ Dave Crossland
+
+staying one day at 3D café for interessed people
+
+Ubuntu users
+
+## travelling home
+
+departure from ...
+
+arrival ...
+
+## summary
+
+lesson learned
+
+would travel again or not
+
+hints for other Debian people
+
+co2 footprint ;-)