In a few minutes, I’ll be heading to the airport to fly to Portland, OR, for this year’s O’Reilly Open Source Conference. I’m really looking forward to this year, and I hope to be blogging about it regularly. For those not going, but wish they were, check YouTube – the organizers have resolved to post as much video of the sessions as possible.
More Later!
At OSCON last month, I entered the annual HP photo contest with a few entries, one of which used a Make-inspired, door peephole fish-eye lens. Turns out, I won the contest! Now that I’m an award-winning photographer, I plan, er, to take more photographs! I won an HP Photosmart 475 photo printer, which I’m really happy with! Thanks, HP! And O’Reilly for another great conference!. You can see the winning photo on my Flickr photostream, here.
A free minute, and still no post of any substance. *sigh*. I have three blog articles pending, that I’ve been trying to finish and post, and no time to do it. I don’t quite have that same blown-away, I’ve-got-so-much-to-try-when-I-get-home feeling, but this year’s con is certainly keeping me busy. Hopefully more later!
In a few minutes, I’ll be off to Portland, OR, for this year’s O’Reilly Open Source Conference. I was there last year, and it was a great time. I hadn’t been in a few years, so it was interesting to see the changes, and now that I know some of what to expect, I’m really looking forward to this year. I also have the added bonus of travelling with a friend and colleague who hasn’t been to OSCON or Portland before, so I get to do a bit of tour guide. Promises to be a great week! Stay tuned, more here as the week progresses!
This was my second O’Reilly Open Source Conference (the first one was 2001 in San Diego), and it has come a long way in 4 years. This was an amazing experience: great speakers, lots of stuff to see and so, a great location, and information overload. You (well, OK, I – I guess I can’t speak for anyone else) come away with so many great ideas and so many new things you want to try, the problem is finding the time.
I would definitely reccommend this conference, and I’ll be going back next year for sure.
If you want more info, check out the website – they have links to everything that went on, a wiki that had lots of attendees contributing, and you can find most of the presentation there as well. Not to mention all of the blogs that can do the conference so much more justice that I could here…enjoy!