I have a vague memory from 2009 IIRC, walking past Alexanderplatz underneath the S-bahn towards the Berlin Congress Center. A somewhat "top-of-the-world-ma!"-moment in retrospect. I think we drove there, the four of us, in my parents Mitsubishi SUV. We had parked the car in a nearby garage. It didn't meet the environmental requirements of the city instituted a year earlier, but no tickets were issued on it.

We slept at The Gym. We saw Assange on stage. My first quad-copter encounter was at that event. I had my first Club Mate. The curry-wurst was good.

The four of us who went there together knew each-other from IRC, but I don't think we met before that. One of us ended up working for Google, one of us ended up co-founding a startup. One of us disappeared, one of us started working for a European network camera manufacturer.

Good times!