Again, I haven't posted in a while, I'm sorry for that. But I have an excuse.

I've been waiting for Fab to put my blog on the outlawpla.net, but I know he's very busy at the moment, and he hasn't gotten around to it yet.

I have about 3 posts waiting in the wings to celebrate my addition, and they're good ones too, but in the mean time you're stuck with this post.

I wanted to alert everyone anyone who reads this blog to OggCamp 10, this year hosted in Liverpool, UK the home of Dan from the Linux Outlaws -- next year I'm hoping it will be in Germany.

It will have been barely 7 months since the last one, at that rate it could almost be biannual. I'll be, of course, going, and with some ingenious planning from Dan, it takes up a bank-holiday weekend.

It starts off late on the Friday with the Rat Hole Radio event on the Friday, which should be amazing. I plan to take that day off work to travel up, either by car or train, and see a friend who is studying in Liverpool University, probably buy him dinner and drinks and see if he wants to see some music.

OggCamp itself takes up the whole weekend, I would be impressed if they can fill a whole two days, I expect the Saturday will be more of an exhibition, like Lug Radio Live 2009 and then an un-conference on the Sunday like OggCamp'09. The Monday, a bank holiday (so no work,) is then to do with as we wish, and I hope that Dan and Fab will record another episode -- although that might be two episodes in two days.

There are possibly plans to take out an entire hotel. It was amazing last year having everyone in one place, but there is nothing concrete yet. It would be nice to at least have a recommended hotel so that we all end up at the same place. If not, I might take the initiative and suggest to people a particular hotel or B&B.

I really intend to help out this year, but I don't want to be crew. I'll help out in getting people interested in the event and offer help and advice where possible -- more esoteric help I guess. It's kind of what I did last year, but I am hoping I'll be less sporadic about it.

I am also anticipating that it will an expensive event, 3 night in a hotel, eating out, drinking beer, donating money, and travel but I know it will be worth it. I am properly earning this year (as opposed to last year where I had only just stopped being a student), but also trying to save, events like this work out as a cheap holiday for me, so it is well worth going, if not just to interact with people who have similar interests to myself.

I'm looking forward to seeing everyone again this year, although I can understand if the people who are very far away will find it difficult to go to the UK twice in a 12 month period.

See you guys in May.