[plug] CommIT Day 2, summary

[Bret Busby]

On Sun, 19 Sep 2004, Leon Brooks wrote:

> 
> ORGANISATION
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~
> 
> Being the second expo ever held there, we saw considerable 
> disorganisation. For example, Day 2 was supposed to end at 4:30PM, but 
> when I pinged a guard about it at 4:45PM, he told me that they were 
> tossing up between 17:30 and 18:00. All of the guards and expo staff 
> got CDs.
> 

And, at 1630, most stands were packed up/packing up.

The Free Industry Passes said on the bottom of them, that the opening 
hours were 1000-1800, both days.

> 
> INTERESTING STANDS
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> 
<snip>
> 
> One conference stream out of 3 was on Open Source, and Fearless (SLPWA) 
> Leader Jeremy Malcolm was a featured speaker. Open Source was very much 
> the buzzword of the day at many stands.
> 

Unfortunately, on printing the conference program at 100% size, due to 
the page layout, the open source stream got cut off.

> 
> One stand was throwing images onto frosted glass from projectors. It 
> seemed to need a fairly hunky projector to do a 1x0.6m piece of glass. 
> They also had little wireless push-on-the-glass real-estate displays, 
> where you could touch any of the property cards all over the window and 
> be shown a video clip of the place.
> 

I don't know whether that was the stand, but CDC from TAFE had an 
interesting display, which was about electricsheep.org, an Internet 
open source organisation where people across the Internet contribute to 
a screensaver system on a distributed basis, like SETI analysis of sound 
signals.

One thing that was interesting, was that the two banners for the Open 
Source display, that had the Department of Industry and Resources logo 
and name on them, had the name of that government department misspelt, 
with the word "Resources", spelt "Recourses". Apparently no-one else 
found that (maybe people don't read signs :) ), and, the woman at the 
DOIR stand told me that no-one else had mentioned that.

-- 
Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
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