hala,

before leaving MTL i wanted to send a few comments on pd'conv :

first, many thanks to :

 * my excellent friend Naveen Goswamy, that we forgot
    to credit in our performance for it was a last-minute collaboration

 * darsha and the organization for making efforts to getting us to canada
    and the unforgetable experience of waking up to the sound of the

chipmunks ( anybody has a chipmunk patch ? )

now, the few remarks you expect, wouldn't be funny without a bit of critics, ain't it?

  * i want to unthank the U.S. authorities for not letting any non-western

white people change of flight on their sacred ground without getting a visa : to spend 4 hours in the sacred JFK, any south american needs to pay for a visa which means a 100 dollars racket organized mafia. i also unthank them for checking me 2 hours WHEN I DIDN'T EVEN WANT TO ENTER THE US! Any civilized country has a zone for transit as it should be defined in international agreements and rules, the retarded americans don't.

   * i'm not sure the SAT was the right place to organize all working

sessions i feel they just felt invaded and it was hard to get an internet connection and a cool place to work ( also the bar was closed during working sessions ) in fact, i didn't feel like i would like to stay long in the SAT. also, i don't think they are very open-source and was they presented was not.

about the next pd conv, i don't feel like organizing anything, sorry, but as a well known fact, barcelona has a good pd community ( http://stream.r23.cc/etc/puredata.html ) and is mainly supported by :

    * universidad Pompeu Fabra ( where GG teaches PD )
    * Le Hangar : a real open-source media lab, run by Pedro Soler and Lluis

Gomez * some hacklabs like 'La Fibra', 'Kernel Panic', ... that can host hacking sessions ( without time limit and open bar )

well, i might speak of this when i get back there, saludos, sevy