OSCon Day 2
2005-08-05 07:50 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mdlbearThe prize for the most useful talk of the day was split between "The State of Free JVMs" (all of which have converged on GNU Classpath as the class library, which makes it easy) and "Going Open Source: a Case Study". The latter was about a company's switch from providing an expensive, proprietary, enterprise web-application framework (Laszlo), to making the infrastructure open source and selling expensive, proprietary, enterprise-level applications based on it. They're still selling to the same people (managers); the difference is that now they don't have the IT department's programmers fighting them and grumbling about having to learn yet another obscure proprietary development environment.
Also noteworthy were the Perl "Lightning talks" (the best was one that illustrated various design patterns, programming languages, operating systems, etc. with juggling patterns), and "Running With Scissors" (Jeff Waugh, about various bleeding-edge developments in Gnome, Ubuntu, and so on, with special mention of the GTK-based [drool]Nokia 770[/drool]).
As things were breaking up and I was starting to think about dinner I ran into Aahz (who is epsilon away from inking a contract for a Python book), so we headed off to Chinatown. Got back just in time for the Embedded Linux BOF session, which immediately headed off to the Kells Irish Pub. Had a pint of "Fat Tire" -- one of several local brews on tap. Then the live but excessively-amplified music started, so those of us with old but still-functional eardrums took our leave. Back at the convention center (good timing) I got the call from![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
cflute to arrange a rendezvous for dinner Friday night. Ended the evening at a party on the top floor of the Red Lion (in the Windows Room, which was renamed the Linux room for the occasion). They had Glenfiddich. Crashed around midnight, a tired but well-lubricated bear.
Also noteworthy were the Perl "Lightning talks" (the best was one that illustrated various design patterns, programming languages, operating systems, etc. with juggling patterns), and "Running With Scissors" (Jeff Waugh, about various bleeding-edge developments in Gnome, Ubuntu, and so on, with special mention of the GTK-based [drool]Nokia 770[/drool]).
As things were breaking up and I was starting to think about dinner I ran into Aahz (who is epsilon away from inking a contract for a Python book), so we headed off to Chinatown. Got back just in time for the Embedded Linux BOF session, which immediately headed off to the Kells Irish Pub. Had a pint of "Fat Tire" -- one of several local brews on tap. Then the live but excessively-amplified music started, so those of us with old but still-functional eardrums took our leave. Back at the convention center (good timing) I got the call from
cflute to arrange a rendezvous for dinner Friday night. Ended the evening at a party on the top floor of the Red Lion (in the Windows Room, which was renamed the Linux room for the occasion). They had Glenfiddich. Crashed around midnight, a tired but well-lubricated bear.