[LUNI] Ohio Linuxfest 2006

[Tom 'spot' Callaway]

On Mon, 2006-10-02 at 16:09 -0700, Michael wrote:
> 
> 
> Ohio
> Linuxfest
> 2006 
> Columbus,
> Ohio - 
> Oct 1, 2006
> by Michael 
> 
> 
> http://ohiolinux.org/ 
> In case anyone is
> interested, here are my
> pictures from the Ohio
> Linuxfest 2006. It was
> my first year
> attending, so I didn't
> really know what to
> expect. I was thinking
> it would be similar to
> Linuxworld in San
> Francisco (which I
> attended earlier this
> year), but I was wrong.
> It was a much smaller
> show, but it felt more
> authentic. The speakers
> were informative and
> insightful, but the
> booths on the main
> floor were a little
> sparsely populated. I
> did have some good
> conversations (mainly
> with the GNOME, Fedora,
> FreeGeek and KDE guy),
> but most of them were
> either full of
> corporate speak, or
> lame-ness (NetBSD guy
> I'm looking at you!).
> 
> Who else went? If so,
> any thoughts?
> 

It was definitely a more user oriented event, more of a Con and not a
trade show like LinuxWorld. These sorts of events used to be very
widespread, but now they are few and far between (they're expensive,
very difficult to coordinate). I had a great time, talked to a lot of
good people. I always hope that maddog's talk is going to be something
new and exciting, but he's a good speaker if you've never seen his
material before. For a single-day show, this is one of the best that
I've been involved with in a long time.

~spot
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