[LUNI] Ohio Linuxfest 2006

[Brandon Benson]

sorry for mike's punk'd formatting.  he brought it on himself by making it
all pretty. ^^

On 10/2/06, Tom 'spot' Callaway <tcallawa at redhat.com> wrote:
>
> 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
> --
> Tom "spot" Callaway || Red Hat || Fedora || Aurora || GPG ID: 93054260
>
> "We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. We must remember always
> that accusation is not proof and that conviction depends upon evidence
> and due process of law. We will not walk in fear, one of another. We
> will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason, if we dig deep in
> our history and our doctrine, and remember that we are not descended
> from fearful men -- not from men who feared to write, to speak, to
> associate and to defend causes that were, for the moment, unpopular."
> -- Edward R. Murrow, March 9, 1954
>
> --
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Hello gents,

It seemed to me, after thinking on the subject for a few days, not to
mention the drive from ohio (fork(|-) I-74, right in its closed-off ear :)
that the linux-festival of ohio had not two, but three main paths of
lectures.  There was the 'uber-technical' or so mike thought... there was
the 'uber-evangelical'-or so i thought... , and there was the methodology by
which one may gain acceptance for FOSS within a technical organization (an
integration on the other two paths... think Calculus).

  Then there was Jeff Waugh... whose non-technical antics would have been
terribly amusing were it not for his utter disrespect of just those users
targeted by Ubuntu.  He could be classified under the third lecture path,
except he was an ass, thereby excluding him from membership.

I believe that all three of these paths were brought together by maddog
Hall's wonderful speech.  Each of his examples showed the dynamic
integration we, as developers/users/lovers, go through, and why the stresses
it causes are worthwhile to the entire community.  He integrated the
geo-political issues with the local issues solved using the methodology
employed by linux.  After a day of tech, it was a lovely experience to hear
his stories and ponder their meaning for us, and for the world.

If anyone can find any interviews of him (wikipedia has 4, but im sure the
world has more), it would be worth your while to take a look.



There was no debian at OLF, and it saddened me.

The only cool suit was from slolaris. it made me happy to see FOSS
surviving, and growing in the corp (cool thin client laptop... i want one).

and yes. the NetBSD guy was indeed, an ass.  And I should know, for I am
also an ass. and we all know that assholes can smell assholes.

--
Brandon Benson
Open Source Systems Administrator
Chicago Mercantile Exchange
(they paid my way! i think... :)
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