July 2007 Archives
OSCON
More OSCON coverage:
Interesting article from Switzerland:
Ubuntu Live
Mark Hall covers Ubuntu Live:
Ubuntu is revered among Linux devotees as a desktop operating system.
RailsConf Europe
DHH blogs about the last week of earlybird registration:
OSCON
Got to love this headline:
Symas Corporation proclaims O’Reilly’s OSCon 2007 A Success!
Great “slice of life” take on OSCON:
This is a fun take on the hectic schedule of life at a conference:
This is a good article on happenings at OSCON:
TOC
A nice mention of the TOC 2007 conference:
Ubuntu Live
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My last session of OSCON yesterday was Danese Cooper’s “The Art of Community” panel talk with Karl Fogel, Jimmy Wales, Dawn Foster, Sulamita Garcia, Whurley, and Brian Behlendorf. This year Danese asked community oriented questions and let the various panel members jump in to answer the questions. Blogging panel presentations can be tricky since the exchanges between the panel members and even the audience fly back and for quite fast. I tried to capture the best questions and the best responses, but I’m not even going to claim that my coverage is anywhere near complete.
It’s always nice to have the local media attend one of our conferences, here’s an article that resulted
from Mike Rogoway’s visit to OSCON:
With Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales in Portland to speak at OSCON on Friday
This is a really nice article from Michael Calore on Linux in schools:
Ubuntu Live
Another comprehensive blog from Matt:
I was fortunate to keynote this year’s Ubuntu Live conference.
OSCON
More coverage for Microsoft’s news:
Ubuntu Live
Computerworld at Ubuntu covers the roll outs expected from Canonical over the next year:
It plans to bolster server software, offer regular ‘enterprise releases’
Computerworld covers Ubuntu, specifically Canonical’s roll out plans for the year:
OSCON
Always happy to Darryl Taft at an O’Reilly conference, here’s what he had to say about Microsft at OSCON:
Another fine article on OSCON news from Matt Asay:
News Release: Kysoh Announces Beta of Gadgets Manager Transforming Tux Droid in a Real Smart Companion
News from sponsor/exhibitor Kysoh:
O’Reilly Open Source Convention, Portland, OR, JULY 25, 2007 - OSCON seems to be impossible to circumvent for the young company Kysoh. After having revealed Tux Droid, the smart companion for Geeks at OSCON 2006, Kysoh is proud to return this year to present Tux Droid Gadget Manager. Commercialized in March 2007, Tux Droid quickly became very popular in Europe. He made the cover of magazines in France, Germany and Italy. Tux is now really alive!
Microsoft comments on open source with at OSCON:
Microsoft had some news while at OSCON:
After today’s excellent OSCON keynote speeches I attended Adam Keys “People Hacks” presentation. Adam started with the disclaimer that the goal of this talk was not to manipulate people, but rather how you can change your behavior to foster improved communication when working with groups of people. Adam suggests using People Hacks for advocacy and for gel’ling teams to work more effectively.
Week has begin to file stories on OSCON 2007. Here is the first of many:
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Multi conference sponsors ActiveState had the following news from OSCON today:
Big news from industry giant Intel had news here at OSCON:
Yesterday at OSCON I attended Mitchell Baker’s “Mozilla Firefox and the Internet as an Open Platform” presentation in which she talked about Mozilla’s mission to ensure that the Internet stays open and healthy. She outlined the two ends of the spectrum of what the Internet could turn into in the next few years. On one end you have the Nirvana vision:
More news, this time from sponsor Ingres:
This is a very insightful article covering the Executive Briefing:
Here is a link to the pod cast of an interview between
Today, the main sessions of OSCON kicked off and after the keynotes I attended Josh Berkus’ talk entitled “Performance Whack-a-mole“. Since MusicBrainz relies on Postgres for its database back-end and I’ve had to deal with database performance issues, I’m keenly interested to learn the tricks of the trade. And since Josh is one of the key guys behind Postgres, this talk was getting the tips straight from the horse’s mouth.
If you’re wanting to follow up to see who won the awards, here is where you’ll need to look:





