[plug] Ben's Conf Comments (was: Cameron's Conf Comments - Monday 12th)

[Ben Jensz]

If ya like :)

If I get a spare moment next week after the conference, I may do a bit 
of a proper write up that you can put onto Linmagau (but you may need to 
bug me about that :P).

Today so far, it started off with a Keynote address by Jon Hall entitled 
"Programmers are from Mars, Managers/Users are from Uranus".  He put it 
forth pretty well and it was rather enjoyable.  After that I went to a 
session by Jeremy Malcom called "Could SCO vs IBM happen to you", he 
pretty well explained the various legal issues that programmers have to 
think about and address when working on open source projects (both 
commercially and in their spare time), it was a rather good session also :)

Graeme Merral from AOL|7 explained the setup of basically the AOL/7 
content sites and how they ended up with the setup they did (pretty much 
all OSS).  Oh and for those interested, Home and Away and Tonight 
Tonight are their most popular sites.  Amusingly enough their largest 
ever spike in accesses was after one of those "Soup Diet" reports on 
Today Tonight :P.

After that I went to the Corporate Linux Evangelism talk by Con 
Zymaris.  He put forth some good points and things to think about when 
trying to get management in particular to look at Linux seriously.  It 
definitely gave me a few ideas to think about.

The last session I haven't been to as all of the talks in that slot are 
pretty much heavy programming related type topics, which would go 
straight over my head (as I'm not a programmer).  Going to head back 
down to the Uni in 10-15 mins for the "Works in Progress" presentations 
and then the LA AGM after that.


/ Ben


Kimberly Shelt wrote:

>Hey Ben :)
>Good to hear it is going well..
>great report.. thanks..
>
>Are you ok for me to put this on
>
>a) the plug site :)
>b) the linmagau site :)
>
>sadly it seems most people are too busy to let us know what is
>happening over at the conf for the most part :(
>
>Perhaps they are doing what you are.. telling their local lug
>all the goss.. which is great.. just I cant be on or read
>all the lists to grab info from :(
>
>K
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