Day Three

So today is day 3 of the conference. Perhaps I'm getting old or something, but I'm weary already. Today is the official conference opening, with the last 2 days being the "unofficial" miniconfs. Earlier sjh approached me about doing him a favour - and this morning it all came to light - someone had to be Tux.

So despite my best efforts I ended up featuring in the conference opening for the second year in a row, albeit in disguise this time. At least sjh wasn't able to convince me to ride a mountain bike down the stairs while wearing the tux outfit, carrying the Linus cutouts. You just have to draw the line somewhere :-)

So the conference proper was opened by sjh well, and the first of many surprises were announced. Speakers are able to hand out one 1Gb USB memory key device each lecture to whomever they wish. And it appears there are daily prizes of IBM laptops for conference attendees, drawn randomly - you just better mke sure you are in the room when your name is read out - unlike some unfortunates this morning :-(

Tutorials were next and I was stoked to do the kernel hacking one. Unfortunately my laptop wouldn't mount filesystems loop-backed, so I was stuffed as this would be something I'd have to do regularly in the tute. Most disappointed. But at least this meant I could drop into Malcolm's pygtk talk, which looked a pretty good choice as well.

Someone was faking DNS replies today, making life difficult for wireless users. Why they'd do this I can't understand.

The jra quiz show was next - which went down very well. Jeremy is a character. This is something we should do, perhaps over conference dinner, in future years.

Afterwards off to dinner with the Bennett's - both types.

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Photos take 2

After putting up the first days photo on my personal domain and having it flattened, a new solution had to be found.

Thanks to Andrew, conference photos are now available at http://friends.andrew.net.au/mrd. Right now that's only Monday's, but yesterday's and today's should be up soon. The permanent home will still be michaeldavies.org, but only after the conference finishes and interest returns to regular, manageable, levels.

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Day Two

So Day Two (Tuesday) went well. The GNOME.conf.au miniconf went all day, and was pretty cool. Got to hear Luis Villa speak for the first time which was great. Lots of good ideas flowing around, in addition to the usual call for more people to get involved and also to get involved in grass-root evangelism as well.

Much better write-ups here and here.

Tuesday night was the Speakers Dinner. Nice spot, good food and great company. Utterly exhausted and to sleep quickly. Conference proper starts on Wednesday.

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