Jay Lymon covers OSCON:

This year’s O’Reilly OSCON event in Portland, Oregon had the usual open source conference hallmarks - long, gray Unix beards, Linux-based long hairs, packs of PHP, Perl, Ruby and other programmers, laid-back geek attire consisting of shorts and sandles, open source executives in jackets (ties are not welcome), and free as in ‘free beer’ beer on the exhibit floor.