Day One

Started the morning at the Debian Miniconf, with Jon Oxer opening up and Bdale giving us the "State of the Ntion" talk, suggesting that Debian needs something better than SPI and should consider the Foundation model used elsewhere. Bdale also talked about scaling problems in Debian - the number of developers increased, but so has the packages. Add in the multiplier effect of platforms and there's a problem. At least insome people's minds. The other thing that surprised me is the almost anti-Ubuntu feeling amongst many Debian developers.

Lunch was at the Pickle along with Bdale and hangers on. General technology chat.

After lunch was keithp's talk on Twin at the Embedded Miniconf. Very interesting talk. Eye Candy crack in 100k. I should play with an ARM processor device sometime again soon. Afterwards sat thru Russell Coker's NSA SELinux stuff - still not convinced it's not a too overcomplicated solution.

By this stage my brain hurt and I decided to do a dry run of my talk for Friday. That went well, althuogh I just realised I've got one more diagram to draw still. Perhaps on Wednesday :-)

Nighttime saw a bunch of us go into Civic to some pub. Nice chatting to some New Zealanders - next year's organisation is coming along well.

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Photos pulled

Pulled my lca2005 photos from the web - my webserver was flattened by the load.

Once I remember how to resize a directory full of photos, I'll put them back.

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Loser

Random Loser who decided to rip off linux.conf.au by swindling a student ticket when not a student, and bragging about it on their blog.

Loser.

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