Last Thursday I had to present our paper “Sampling in Open Source Software Development: The case for using the Debian GNU/Linux Distribution” at the HICSS 2007 conference. We presented at the mini-track on OSS development, lead by Kevin Crowston and Hala Annabi. Although there were only about 30 people attending the session (which in fact is not bad since there are 16 parallel tracks), I still was quite nervous doing my first academic conference presentation (as you might hear on the low-quality audio record…). Fortunately, Sebastian answered all the tricky questions in the end - among others, one posed by Joel West. Thanks Sebi for your support and also the kind review of the presentation!