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OSCON 2007 Trip Report

by anandeep on August 17, 2007

My overall impression was that OSCON was lower key than last year. There seemed to be fewer booths in the Exhibition floor and less palpable excitement in the venue. A lot of people were complaining about the quality of the tutorials and the talks. Or it may just be that this was my second time around attending OSCON and it didn’t have the same quality of excitement for me compared to the very first... more

• Friday, August 17, 2007
• in: Community
• anandeep

Conversations are what it's all about...LinuxWorld OpenSolutions Summit

by anandeep on February 15, 2007

I am writing this from the Big Apple. The Linuxworld Open Solutions Summit is in New York and running from February 13th through February 15th. I questioned the wisdom of holding a conference in February on the East coast rather than the milder shores of the West Coast - since I arrived the middle of a snowstorm after a day's delay caused by flight cancellations. But once I got here the bright... more

• Thursday, February 15, 2007
• in: Community
• anandeep

LinuxWorld Impressions

by MichaelF on August 23, 2006

My first impression about LinuxWorld 2006 was – This is BIIIIG! As I walked down the escalator in the Moscone Center in San Francisco I could see the big flashy banners, the props and the mascots from the vendors. It seemed like just another tradeshow. But how could that be, wasn’t this supposed to be “Linux”-world? ... more

• Wednesday, August 23, 2006
• in: Community
• MichaelF

Learning from OSCON 2006

by jcannon on August 15, 2006

Hank Jenssen and myself attended the OSCON on the 27th and 28th of July. We did not attend the tutorials or the Executive briefing but were there two days of the two and a half days the sessions were in progress. We also attended the keynotes on both days (27th and 28th July). As a strategy, Hank and I discussed the sessions and their subject matter, splitting up to attend different sessions in... more

• Tuesday, August 15, 2006
• in: Community
• jcannon