Saturday Night

Up early with local Canberra wildlife chirping away outside the window. Different, nice, but too early.

Off to ANU for the start of the official Ghosts meeting. Lots of chatter and catchup while the inevitable network problems are sorted out. At least this year we didn't have to rely on AJ to bridge wired-to-wireless networking. Stewart showed us why he's not a morning person. We then did the standard Linux Australia thing and got off topic almost straight away but covering issues that needed to be talked about :-)

Did the venue tour of ANU - the site of LCA2005. Nice venue, lots of room, good level of excitment amongst the organising team - which is a good team of mixed skill individuals. They'll do a great job. Took lots of photos.

Lunch at the Purple Pickle was hearty, good discussion with Rusty, AJ, Agent Smith and mbp on IP issues and what we can do about it to make things fair for consumers, IT developers, artists and content owners alike (rather than the current imbalance towards content owners).

Afternoon dragged a bit, but we gained some insights into the exciting things that the Canberra LCA team will spring on the unsuspecting Australian OSS community - I've been sworn to secrecy, so don't even ask, just be here :-)

Evening off to a popular Canberran casual dining place, the Woodstock Steak and Pizza. Yes, it's named after that event, and yes there are gaudy 70's pictures on the walls.

Overall positive and producive day, still more to do tomorrow. Going to be yet another great conf! Can't wait!

tech/linux-australia/lca2005 | 28 Aug 2004 | #