[plug] Ben's Conf Comments

[Kai]

You didn't get to see Ian Oi in the Linux and Open Source in Government 
conference ? I refer to this article:

Open source preferment bills could cripple local providers
http://www.itnews.com.au/storycontent.asp?ID=10&Art_ID=17864

Ben Jensz wrote:

> 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