Oscon, Day 2
2006-07-27 09:53 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mdlbearSome of the morning keynotes were a little disappointing -- more entertainment than content. The first two were good, though: Simon Phipps on "The Zen of Free" (four koans, the most memorable being that one can stay with a piece of OS software precisely because you have the freedom to leave it), and Gary Lang of Autodesk on OSGeo.org -- open source mapping software.
A good session entitled "The Surprising History of Copyright, and What it Means for Open Source". Started with a 10-minute film of person-in-the-street interviews that made it clear exactly how wrong the average person is about what copyright really is and who benefits from it. It is, and has always been, about protecting the business model of publishers.
Good session on Songbird, a Mozilla-based network media player. Basically Firefox browser technology used to implement a music player instead of a text browser. Has some potential for filk albums.
A couple of good talks by Amy Hoy on the user experience and user interface design. Finished the day with a session of lightning talks on community-building.
Had "dinner" at a party celebrating the release of Apache Geronimo; finger food and a couple of glasses of free wine. Went back to the convention center for the Old Fogey's BOF; I was the oldest one there by at least a decade. Foo. Still in the convention center, because it has a good net connection and the hotel doesn't.
A good session entitled "The Surprising History of Copyright, and What it Means for Open Source". Started with a 10-minute film of person-in-the-street interviews that made it clear exactly how wrong the average person is about what copyright really is and who benefits from it. It is, and has always been, about protecting the business model of publishers.
Good session on Songbird, a Mozilla-based network media player. Basically Firefox browser technology used to implement a music player instead of a text browser. Has some potential for filk albums.
A couple of good talks by Amy Hoy on the user experience and user interface design. Finished the day with a session of lightning talks on community-building.
Had "dinner" at a party celebrating the release of Apache Geronimo; finger food and a couple of glasses of free wine. Went back to the convention center for the Old Fogey's BOF; I was the oldest one there by at least a decade. Foo. Still in the convention center, because it has a good net connection and the hotel doesn't.
