Adventures in F,O, X, & 0

Susanne and Andrew Ruthven co-ordinated a great event - and did so with an amazing unflappable charm. The Jeremy Allison talk was a beauty and hit Slashdot etc - great "no holds barred stuff", and interesting for a strong stand against Mono being installed by default. I'd be surprised if it doesn't get a fresh burst of attention when the video gets uploaded  in a week or so. Lots of other great talks - the two most interesting being Tridge on defending patent attacks, and the Albany Senior High School story. Through out the conf it because increasing clear to me that puppet is "the way to go" - so I was very happy to get a Spot Prize of " Pulling Strings with Puppet "!

Lots of good stuff here. The keynote yesterday was given by Benjamin Mako Hill. Good guy, and lots of good points but I was suprised that it wasn't "tighter" - and that he allowed himself to be dragged off-stream and into rambling by questions. Andrew Tridgell's talk on teaching FOSS was great, as was Don Christies on the "Public Sector Remix" - great line about IT departments' "learned helplessness"! Nice to meet and talk to Andy Fitzsimon and Brenda Wallace at lunch. Fun to see soldering irons, and frying pans (and a Vic's reprap) added to all the other geekiness at the UStay last night. Looking forward to Jeremy Allison's talk in particular today.