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OSCon Day 1
2005-08-04 08:04 amThis hotel room doesn't have a desk, a decent chair, or a network connection, and they closed the convention center at 9. Yeah, I could go back and sit by the door like the guy I saw last night, but instead I'll just sit here and type my post into Emacs and post it in the morning. There's a party out there someplace, but it's at some club which means it'll probably be too loud for these ageing ears.
Somehow people seem to have gotten the idea from my post last night that I was bored. I might have been bored when I sent it, but the convention is anything but boring -- I've been having a blast. OK, maybe I just have a slightly geeky idea of fun. Damian Conway's talk, in particular, was a wonderful tour-de-force. Maybe you had to have been there and been a geek. But I was, and I am.
The expo started today, so we had schwag as well as munchies at the breaks. (They're feeding us -- at well over $1k for a 3-day con, you'd think so! Charbucks coffee, "Danish" for breakfast and boxed sandwitches for lunch, but still...) In the evening there was a "reception" -- tasty finger food, with local beers, wine, etc. Then there was some godawful loud rock band, so even though I wanted to stick around and see whether I'd won the guitar Gibson was holding a drawing for, I bugged out and read LJ instead.
The schwag is pretty good (not even counting the backpack at reg, which came preloaded with a coffeecup, a mini Etch-a-Sketch, and some literature). Fairly heavy on the T-shirts, but Intel's 64MB USB drive (in a little plastic case with cable, lanyard, and keychain) was particularly noteworthy. The little hand-towels from HP are also worth a mention -- somebody's obviously been reading HHGttG. HP and several others had Ubuntu CDs, and there were copies of The Open CD (which also included Ubuntu live) on the flier table. And the fact that Novell was giving out red hats I found deliciously ironic.
( I was going to cut-tag the session summaries, mainly so I could get a jump on my trip report. )
The most enjoyable BOF session was the poorly-advertised jam session; I lucked into it by accident because it had moved from its assigned room into the lobby. It was just four guys sharing a guitar, but good fun until they rolled up the carpet around 10pm. I sang "Desolation--Oh, No" and "Ship of Stone".
Somehow people seem to have gotten the idea from my post last night that I was bored. I might have been bored when I sent it, but the convention is anything but boring -- I've been having a blast. OK, maybe I just have a slightly geeky idea of fun. Damian Conway's talk, in particular, was a wonderful tour-de-force. Maybe you had to have been there and been a geek. But I was, and I am.
The expo started today, so we had schwag as well as munchies at the breaks. (They're feeding us -- at well over $1k for a 3-day con, you'd think so! Charbucks coffee, "Danish" for breakfast and boxed sandwitches for lunch, but still...) In the evening there was a "reception" -- tasty finger food, with local beers, wine, etc. Then there was some godawful loud rock band, so even though I wanted to stick around and see whether I'd won the guitar Gibson was holding a drawing for, I bugged out and read LJ instead.
The schwag is pretty good (not even counting the backpack at reg, which came preloaded with a coffeecup, a mini Etch-a-Sketch, and some literature). Fairly heavy on the T-shirts, but Intel's 64MB USB drive (in a little plastic case with cable, lanyard, and keychain) was particularly noteworthy. The little hand-towels from HP are also worth a mention -- somebody's obviously been reading HHGttG. HP and several others had Ubuntu CDs, and there were copies of The Open CD (which also included Ubuntu live) on the flier table. And the fact that Novell was giving out red hats I found deliciously ironic.
( I was going to cut-tag the session summaries, mainly so I could get a jump on my trip report. )
The most enjoyable BOF session was the poorly-advertised jam session; I lucked into it by accident because it had moved from its assigned room into the lobby. It was just four guys sharing a guitar, but good fun until they rolled up the carpet around 10pm. I sang "Desolation--Oh, No" and "Ship of Stone".