John posted some old pics from ALS, and that prompted me to dig this out of the depths of my svn attic:

This chat in the hotel lobby, or one like it, which also involved some developers from one of the BSDs, and at least one real Debian old timer, (Mike Neuffer?), is where we first discussed adding build dependencies to packages in Debian. It's stuck in my mind as one of the more interesting, and ultimately productive, late-might hacker talks I've participated in.