Saturday July 15, 2006 On to OSCON
After I'm done with LUGRadio Live, I'll be heading to Heathrow to proceed to Portland where I am on at OSCON. I'd tell you anyway, even if I wasn't forced to by the "speaker contract" O'Reilly make me agree to. I like OSCON, after all, and have attended several of them.
That requirement in the agreement (and the fact I was forced to e-sign it) remind me that OSCON is a curious mix of community and commercial, with paid tickets zooming past the $1000 mark (that's 100x LUGRadio Live), throwing the free and almost-free conferences by Debian and GNOME into a whole new light. It's especially interesting that both DebConf and GUADEC will actually pay for community members to attend - that's a big destination for the sponsorships they raise - whereas OSCON doesn't even offer speakers a living allowance.
On the other hand, comparing it with things like LWE and OSBC casts it in a great light - real people do real stuff at OSCON by comparison with those events, and historic things have happened there - for example, OpenOffice.org was launched at OSCON in Monterey in 2000. All the people you'd ever want to meet in open source will be there, and I'm sure the happenings this year will be excellent - don't miss Damien Conway, for example.
The new Sun Open Source Group team will be there in force - Tom Marble has an excellent summary of our activities. If you'll be there, do come over and say hello - I'll be around all week, but especially visible Thursday for an amazingly short keynote (I can hardly draw breath in 15 minutes), a sponsored session and a BOF with the Sun Open Source Group extended team. We'd love to see you there.
Posted by webmink
( Jul 15 2006, 07:03:15 PM PDT )
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I'm with Volker on this one. I'm increasingly treating "has mini-USB as charging method" as a key will-buy condition on gadgets.
Posted by webmink
( Jul 15 2006, 06:17:18 PM PDT )
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