First version of ALE logo looked like this. Pretty good, hmm?
ALE19 Mascot should look like a seagull, not a pinguin!
During almost 5 months, the ALE19 website had a submenu "Travel by Plain" instead of, well... you know, that thing called Airplane, shorten, Plane. Only 5 days before ALE start, Silvana warned the team after receiving our ALE19 newsletter.
10 minutes before the zoom connection with Alistair Cockburn, on the 22nd of August, he told he was inviting 2 more guesses. Sónia and Eduardo purchased in a rush the zoom payed version, so that the connection won't be time limited.
While Alistair was talking, the 10 minutes left warning appeared: instead of purchased the Pro version, Sónia and Eduardo purchased a Zoom Room, so the connection ended before Alistair finished his words. We had to reconnect.
ALE 19 Fun Facts
At the first face-to-face meeting of some of the organizers at the Espinho beach, both Eduardo and Mike was wearing a green shirt, so Ricardo called them lettuces.
At that time, a funny Lidl commercial was very popular, relating lettuces from Lidl as a symbol of extreme courage because there is no perspective of tomorrow.
And that's how the ALE19 Org Team lemma was born: "I'm a Lidl lettuce!"
There is a lettuce draw at each ALE19 board! Will you play "Where's Lettuce Wally" version?
All the 10 organizers have different names without a single repetition, which is highly unlikely, because of so many people with common names like João or Pedro for the boys, Ana or Maria for the girls: Ângela, Diana, Eduardo, Hugo, Inês, Letícia, Mike, Ricardo, Sofia, Sónia.
In several Team Meetings, Mike actually had problems with his mic.