linux.conf.au 2008 Ghosts

This weekend was Ghosts Of Conference Past for linux.conf.au 2008 (otherwise known as http://mel8ourne.org/). Friday night after I flew in I had the chance to catch up with a remote team member for my day job - James Cormack. Over dinner at a nice restaurant with James and Kristy, I was well prepared for the hard slog of Ghosts 2007. Saturday morning was meet up with some of the Linux Australia committee, a couple of ghosts, and some of the Melbourne team met together to debrief LCA2007 and to talk about the wonderful things Melbourne has planned for next year! Ghosts went remarkably well, lots of great discussion - seeing the things that LCA2007 learnt, seeing they things they didn't :-( and hearing about a bunch of stuff that I didn't know happened. Well done Seven, you put on a rockin' conference!

The Mel8 team are well advanced, and certainly look on track to again raise the bar. Donna is going to be a good conference organiser. I always enjoy seeing the transition between Ghosts and the conference proper - the organising team just continue to come up great stuff! Except for the long days (and nights) stuck in a office, ghosts is fun because of the people you get to talk to. BTW, thanks to Red Hat for providing the office facility.

Why is there a photo of Sydney and not Melbourne here? Because for the first time we held ghosts in the city of the last conference, rather than in the city of the next conference. We did this to save on travel costs - so that all of the Seven didn't have to travel.

Ghosts ended with flying out back home on the last flight of the night to Adelaide. Goes without saying I was pretty exhausted.

/tech/linux-australia/lca2008 | 04 Mar 2007 | #